Courts have no excuse: Scientology’s ‘Fair Game’ harassment tactics were exposed early on

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our helper who dives into old news archives is at it again. This time we have a collection of items demonstrating that Scientology’s harassing ‘Fair Game’ has long been exposed in court cases. There’s really no excuse for judges or media organizations to be unfamiliar with it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Watch out, suckers: Scientology is testing a new come-on!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve wondered if Scientology leader David Miscavige might experiment with a new approach as his organizations struggles to recruit new people. And this week, we think we may have stumbled across it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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VIDEO: Scientology is now targeting your patriotic fervor, pilgrim!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re connoisseurs of #Scientology promotional materials, and we especially enjoy video appeals. We saw several fliers for last night’s event, and we get the idea that this push for an ‘Ideal USA’ was a pretty big deal for church leader David Miscavige. Check out this come-on! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology and ‘dropping the body’: More reactions from our readers

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We continue to receive reactions from readers since Scientology angrily denied that the church encourages ill members to ‘drop the body’ and start new lifetimes. We’ve been hearing from former church members who say that concept is very much a part of Scientology culture. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology may deny it exists, but here’s a recent example of the ‘drop the body assist’

[Be gone, thetan!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Since Scientology reacted to the Whitney Mills wrongful-death lawsuit by denying she was told to ‘drop the body,’ we’ve heard from former members who say the concept is very much a part of the culture. And now, an anecdote from a reader who very recently left the organization. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Swiss authorities charge former Scientology donor, set trial date

[Jailed Scientology donor Ivan Gaspari with church leader David Miscavige]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We previously described a bizarre situation in Switzerland, where a Scientology mega-donor is in jail on accusations by the richest Scientologist donor of all, Trish Duggan. Yesterday we heard from Ivan Gaspari that he has now been charged formally and faces trial in 3 months. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Valeska Paris cites new Supreme Court opinion, asks court to reconsider arbitration ruling

[Valeska is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A Tampa federal judge admitted that he was shocked that existing case law required him to force Valeska Paris’s labor trafficking lawsuit into Scientology ‘arbitration.’ But Valeska’s attorneys say that law has now changed, thanks to the Supreme Court, and they want a do-over. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s latest price list: How much will it cost you to fly, space cadet?

[Joining Dave at Flag is going to cost you]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We want to thank the reader who sent the first #Scientology price list we’ve seen in a while, and it’s from the Flag Land Base in Florida, where Scientologists from around the world come for pricey upper-level stuff they can’t get anywhere else. Ready for some sticker shock? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Why Tom Cruise’s abandonment of Suri for Scientology is even worse than most realize

[Suri made the prom while dad danced in London]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: That Tom Cruise is estranged from his daughter Suri over Scientology is an old tale, and one we were happy to recount for the Sun this weekend. But we were disappointed that the Sun left out perhaps the most important detail. So we thought we’d repeat it here. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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‘Dropping the body’ in Scientology: An example of that instruction from the Sea Org

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve been hearing a lot from readers about the Whitney Mills lawsuit and what Scientology teaches about ‘dropping the body,’ as a thetan moves between lifetimes. We thought you’d want to see this eye-opening example from one of our favorite contributors, Sunny Pereira. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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