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Attorney for Scientology’s drug rehab centers threatens lawyer running anti-Narconon website

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Jonathan Little

Another day, another threat letter.

On Wednesday, we shared with you the latest threat letter Karen de la Carriere received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. Today, we have a salvo from Los Angeles attorney William H. Forman, who represents some Narconon entities, complaining about a website operated by Jonathan Little.

We’ve told you about Little in the past. He’s an attorney in Indianapolis handling several lawsuits against Narconon facilities. He’s just one of several attorneys around the country handling cases involving Scientology’s troubled drug rehab network, with no sign of its troubles subsiding soon.

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Chris Shelton: How Scientologists can use critical thinking to break free

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Chris Shelton has a valuable message for Scientologists of all kinds in his newest video. We thought you’d want to see it.

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Scientology attorney Bert Deixler takes another swing at Karen de la Carriere

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Bert Deixler

In January, Karen de la Carriere shared with us the threat letter she received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. You may remember how over the top it was; Deixler said in the letter that Karen should be “ashamed” for helping a television production company put together a piece about Phil and Willie Jones trying to reconnect with their grown children, Mike and Emily, who are members of Scientology’s Sea Org.

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Trial set in New York on April 7 over Narconon drug rehab hiding connection to Scientology

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In September 2014, we told you about a lawsuit against a Scientology “Narconon” drug rehab facility in Florida that was filed by a New York couple, Heidi and Nathaniel Gore. At that time, the lawsuit had survived a challenge by Narconon’s attorneys, who said it didn’t make sense for the Florida rehab to be sued in a New York court.

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No longer working for Monique Rathbun to sue Scientology, Ray Jeffrey opens up

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Once it became official that Ray Jeffrey and his colleagues — Marc Wiegand, Elliott Cappuccio, and Leslie Hyman — were no longer working for Monique Rathbun in her harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, we called up Ray to see if he’d be interested in an interview. We’re glad to say he accepted. And while he can’t talk specifically about some things regarding his work for Monique and why that relationship ended, we were happy that he opened up as much as he did. Here we go…

 
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Got a war wound? Scientology can help you with that, and more in our social media review

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Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. More recently, Rod has made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to social media. Rod is a chronicler who piece by piece builds a highly detailed assessment of what Scientology is doing around the world, and this is what he found for us this week…

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A Scientology spy comes forward: Now he’s ready for ‘war’ with David Miscavige

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[San Diego Police Lt. Skip Young, left, in 1976.]

 
Skip Young’s involvement in the Church of Scientology’s notorious “Snow White Program” was only a footnote, but it was a memorable one. It was the summer of 1976, and Scientology’s chief Washington DC spy, Michael Meisner, was in hiding after he’d been discovered that June using a fake IRS badge to gain access to a US Attorney’s office while on a mission to pilfer government documents about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

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Monique Rathbun waives a response: Will the TX Supreme Court take up Scientology’s appeal?

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Monique Rathbun has waived her right to respond to the Church of Scientology’s petition to the Texas Supreme Court just a couple of days before the initial deadline for her to respond had arrived.

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Scientology’s ‘personality test’ taken apart like never before, and by a former member

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Chris Shelton has a nice treat for us today. He took a very detailed look at the history and use of Scientology’s “Oxford Capacity Analysis,” the fancy (and fraudulent) name for its famous personality test.

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Ron Miscavige book out in May: ‘Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me’

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Ron Miscavige’s book has a new title and a publication date. What was originally announced as “If He Dies, He Dies” has been renamed “Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me,” and St. Martin’s Press is publishing it on May 3.

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