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Our longtime readers know that we’ve watched for years (at least as far back as 2013) as ‘Princess Joy Villa’ went from Scientology Celebrity Centre wannabe to Make America Great Again icon, Congressional maybe-candidate, and then fell from political grace almost as quickly as she arrived. Continue reading Jokes aside, has Scientology ‘Clear’ Joy Villa managed to ‘safepoint’ the White House?
 [MV Freewinds]With the opening of additional ‘Ideal Orgs’ in recent years Scientology claims to be experiencing rapid expansion. They have expanded their facilities at Advanced Orgs in Copenhagen and Sydney, and opened a new AO in South Africa. If this expansion in buildings is being met by an expansion in membership they should consider adding to the fleet to provide space for all the new members who want to experience the distraction-free environment offered on their cruise ship, the Freewinds. Continue reading Is it time for Scientology to replace its cruise ship? If so, we’ve done the shopping.

This photo was posted very publicly on Facebook by the Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ in Sacramento, with the following caption: Continue reading Scientology’s targeting of children is only getting more blatant as the church struggles
 [Kenneth Kramer]We’ve told you about Kenneth Kramer before. He’s a Scientologist and private investigator who operates PsychSearch.net, part of Scientology’s “psych busting” activities aimed at utterly destroying the psychiatric profession so it can be replaced by L. Ron Hubbard’s mental health ideas. Continue reading Scientology front group claims it fed an anti-psychiatry story to the L.A. Times
 [The FDA raid of Scientology in 1963]The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays an outsized role in Scientology’s roster of villains. On January 4, 1963, five US Federal Marshals, accompanied by an FDA inspector and an officer of the Washington, DC police department, raided the downtown row house of the Washington Scientology org, as well as two other Scientology facilities in Maryland. The raiders seized three truckloads of books and papers and around a hundred E-meters. Newspaper reporters were there to witness it. The following day’s press showed photographs of grim-faced US Marshals carrying out piles of books and E-meters. Continue reading Scientology and the FDA: The conspiracy that never was
 [Sunny and her grandparents]“Wait, mom, you want me to do what now?” I asked her. She was sitting across from me, pen and paper at hand. I had been under 24 hours watch for three months. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was about to be let free. It was May 2004. Continue reading When Scientology has you dividing up funerals because family never really matters

I wanted to give Scientology the benefit of the doubt. A little while ago I went by the Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Ideal Org to see how things were going. It was during a weekday and was pretty dead at the time. I did a little write up on it and Tony posted it on the Bunker. Continue reading To be fair, we went by a Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ on its biggest day of the week
 [The would-be super city]Poor David Miscavige. As if he doesn’t already have enough problems with declining membership, horrible press, and all those nagging questions about banishing his wife to a small mountain compound. Continue reading David Miscavige misses out on $30 billion building project proposed by Scientologists
 [Flag Land Base, Clearwater]Today we have the story of a Scientologist in a tough situation. We’ll call her Grace. She’s going through a divorce, she has untreated medical problems, and has come to Clearwater to turn things around for her. Instead they have kicked her out. She’s desperate and asking her friends in Scientology for help, but none is coming. Continue reading How Scientology treats a member in real need strains the notion of the word ‘church’
 [Brendan Tighe, talking Scientology with Megyn Kelly]On Thursday, Brendan Tighe posted a remarkable glimpse about the crazy situations Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy puts people into. Namely, that because Brendan has left Scientology and its Sea Org and he went public with his experiences on Megyn Kelly’s show, his mother, still a loyal Sea Org member, has cut off all ties to him. Continue reading Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy plays out in unbelievable scenes in a Florida hospital
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