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Calling all patsies: Scientology tries desperately to keep its isolated members busy

 How do you keep the members of your totalitarian organization from letting stray thoughts creep in while they’re at home under lockdown? Spam them with a lot of nonsense, that’s how. []

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Raising money in the time of the virus: Scientology will always find a way!

 We’re sure you can all conjure up plenty of things you miss while on lockdown. Restaurants. Movies. Concerts. Hell, just going to the grocery without taking your life in your []

Philly lawyers suing Danny Masterson don’t want Scientology to have their home addresses

[Danny Masterson, Brian Kent, and Marci Hamilton]

Last year, a group of high-profile attorneys based in Philadelphia who had made names for themselves suing or prosecuting on behalf of people who had been victimized by Catholic priests, massage parlors, and even Bill Cosby set their sights on the Church of Scientology. They filed three big lawsuits, []

Even a pandemic can’t stop Scientology from tracking you down, apostate!

 Phil Jones sent along a recorded phone message he received yesterday, as well as this explanation. Thanks, []

City of Inglewood: Brian Statler shouldn’t have resisted arrest and forced us to shoot him dead

[Brian Statler]

The City of Inglewood has answered the lawsuit filed by Brian Statler’s family, and in predictably generic language denies that its police officers did anything wrong when they ventilated the 30-year-old mixed race man on March 27, 2019 at the Church of Scientology’s Inglewood “Ideal []

Tom Cruise on InTouch cover: Another completely oversold Scientology clip job

 For years we’ve pointed out the dishonest tabloid formula that gets used again and again in stories about Scientology: The publication promises a huge bombshell on the cover but when you turn to the story inside, it’s almost always just another clip job with breathless expressions of amazement about how incredible it would be if []

Scientology: Earth is a prison planet and the virus just another fake threat. So study LRH!

 As the pandemic goes on and on, this bizarre video is being promoted to Scientologists that the end of the health crisis (whenever it comes) will be the start of something new and exciting. []

Scientology denied: Watch Clearwater church members calling Mark Bunker a bigot

 On Thursday night, seven prominent Clearwater businessmen spoke to the city council, urging that its newest member, Mark Bunker, not be added to the city’s Downtown Development []

New amended complaint packs a wallop in Miami Scientology child sex assault lawsuit

[Defendant David Miscavige]

Just days before a major showdown hearing was scheduled for April 20 (and was likely to be put back for the pandemic), “Jane Doe” has filed a new amended complaint in her lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader David Miscavige that will upend scheduling in the case. []

Ex-con who says he’s returned L. Ron Hubbard has an indie Scientology revolt on his hands

[Justin Craig]

Two years ago today, we published one of the most remarkable interviews that we’ve ever experienced here at the Bunker, a conversation we had with ex-convict Justin Craig, who had legally changed his name to “Lafayette Ronald Hubbard” in 2017. []