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We asked our attorney and webmaster, Scott Pilutik, to help us understand what’s going on with the “First Independent Church of Scientology” and its effort to get a trademark on its name. We reported recently that tax exempt status was granted to FICoS, which is made up of former Church of Scientology members who have broken away from it and want to practice Scientology’s processes independently. But forming a small non-profit is one thing, getting trademark of a name that includes the word “Scientology” is another. Scott helps us understand what’s going on.
Continue reading How a new independent ‘church’ is trying to wrestle away control over the word ‘Scientology’
Our many international readers no doubt understand what an exhausting election season this has been. For nearly two years, the presidential election has torn us apart in ways we’ve never experienced before. The carnage on Facebook alone has been pestilential. We’ve never seen so much end-of-the-world prophesying and cutthroat denunciations, and that’s between friends. Continue reading It’s Election Day, but screw that — Chick Corea is finally superhuman thanks to Scientology!
[Joel Kerns, when he was sheriff of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma]We are so glad this election season is finally almost over. But before you go to the polls tomorrow, we wanted to bring up one local race that has a connection to stories we’ve done in the past. Continue reading On the ballot tomorrow: The former lawman who let Scientology’s drug horror clinic off the hook
 Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on the Internet.
Standing Order #1 is one of the enduring myths of Scientology. In 1961, Hubbard wrote: “Standing Order No.1 ‘All mail addressed to me shall be received by me’.” He added: “I am always willing to help. By my own creed, a being is only as valuable as he can serve others.” Continue reading An enduring myth in Scientology — that L. Ron Hubbard actually read your letters
Our helper is back who dives through obscure newspaper archives in search of forgotten Scientology history. Last time, he found for us a really remarkable 1968 interview of L. Ron Hubbard when a Daily Mail reporter, Peter Smith, tracked him down on his ship in Bizerte, Tunisia. Continue reading Trouble for Scientology in 1966: When the Daily Mail called L. Ron Hubbard’s degrees ‘bogus’
On Monday, we told you that Leah Remini had been stalked while filming her upcoming A&E series on Scientology, which premieres on November 29. She’d also shared with us that her production company had received a lot of aggressive letters from the church, just as other recent shows and documentaries about Scientology have experienced. Continue reading Scientology strikes back at Leah Remini as publicity for her upcoming series explodes
Last night, the A&E network released a trailer for Leah Remini’s upcoming series about Scientology, and wow, does it look great. Continue reading What the first trailer for Leah Remini’s Scientology series tells us about her show
Over the last couple of weeks, several news organizations have written about a John Podesta email published by Wikileaks which suggests that even before US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on February 13, the Hillary Clinton campaign had considered a replacement for him, an African-American attorney named Wallace Jefferson who is a Texas Republican and had been chief justice of the state’s supreme court. Continue reading Hillary Clinton has considered David Miscavige’s appeals lawyer for the US Supreme Court
Leah Remini’s A&E television series about the Church of Scientology premieres on November 29, but it’s been filming for months. And in that time, Leah and her production crew have been subject to the usual reaction from the church itself including threatening letters, surveillance, and in Denver an encounter that was especially memorable. Continue reading Leah Remini reveals that she’s been stalked during production of her new TV series
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