Tony Ortega | The Underground Bunker

Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

Scientology’s founder: ‘WE are going UP while the world is coming down!’

[Hubbard in 1973, hiding out in Queens, NY. (Photo by Jim Dincalci)]

In a time of crisis, Scientologists are naturally turning to the words of the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, looking for some way to make sense of […]

Is the pandemic right out of the Bible? Maybe we ought to, you know, read this thing

Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? And with preachers from one end of the globe to the other squawking that the coronavirus is right out of the Bible and that we should all be preparing for the end of the world, and with many of us bored […]

Scientology’s bizarre response to the pandemic: Handing out sketchy cleaning products

Didn’t Scientology learn its lesson with its balloon debacle? […]

The million-dollar donors keeping Scientology flush, New Year’s 2020 edition

As we promised on Monday, we have for you today the greater whales who were celebrated at a special New Year’s “Patron’s Ball” in Beverly Hills, another opportunity for Scientology to celebrate its biggest […]

The Right shifts from ‘it’s a real crisis’ to ‘let grandpa die for the economy’ almost overnight

[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this article: Texas Lt. Gov.: Grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy]

Over the weekend the discourse on the Right coldly shifted from “Yes, we finally agree this is pretty serious” to “Y’know, the elderly […]

Scientology leader David Miscavige calls the pandemic ‘planetary bullbait’ in epic briefing

[He’s not happy]

Over the last two weeks, Scientologists have been called in for a special briefing about the coronavirus pandemic and David Miscavige’s response to it. Scientology has been very careful not to allow this briefing to leak out to the public, telling Scientologists that they must come down to see it in […]

The wealthy donors keeping Scientology in business, New Year’s 2020 edition

Over the last few days we’ve been looking at Scientology’s schizophrenic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, and our comments section has been doing a great job keeping up on all of the coronavirus news, including late-breaking stuff like the yellow-jacketed Volunteer Minister idiots in Kansas City endangering the public while pretending to be helping […]

Scientology tries to rah-rah its way through the pandemic while endangering its members

[Dianetics happiness, posted Friday by Scientology]

Scientology continues to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak this week. The Black Scientologists Convention has been rescheduled and it’s safe to assume all events on the Freewinds have been suspended. […]

Scientology and the coronavirus: Keeping the orgs open as ‘essential services’

[L. Ron Hubbard and COVID-19: Illustration by Observer]

On Monday, we told you that Scientology’s holiest event on the calendar, L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday gala in Florida, was canceled over coronavirus fears.

Then on Wednesday, we reported that Scientologists were being called in to be given a new “briefing” which was actually platitudes from a lecture […]

Brian Statler’s daughter joins lawsuit over his police shooting death at Scientology church

[Brian Statler]

An amended complaint has been filed in the federal civil rights and excessive force lawsuit over the March 27, 2019 police shooting death of Brian Statler at the Inglewood Church of Scientology, and it contains a […]

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