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 Please make sure you saw last night’s big news about the Garcia lawsuit; another judge has denied a Scientology motion in a major lawsuit. Now, on to today’s news…
One of our legal helpers noticed that Florida attorney Ken Dandar — who was recently hit by Scientology with a $1 million state court judgment in a bizarre legal case — has a hearing set in his federal lawsuit which he’s hoping will put the kibosh on the state court result. Confusing? You bet. Continue reading Ken Dandar gets another day in court after his $1 million Scientology judgment
 Luis and Rocio Garcia Federal District Judge James D. Whittemore today issued an order denying a motion by Scientology that would have ended the fraud lawsuit brought last year by former church members Luis and Rocio Garcia, who say they were scammed for hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. The Garcias were longtime members who had been constantly hit up for increasing amounts in donations, and they claim they were lied to about how the money would be used. Today’s order allows the Garcias to file an amended complaint in the lawsuit after dropping three of the five Scientology corporate entities they originally named in the lawsuit. The order also lifts a stay in the case, allowing the Garcias to move forward on discovery, and allowing Judge Whittemore to get back to the question of whether Scientology can force the case into arbitration. Continue reading SCIENTOLOGY DENIED: Federal judge finds that Garcia fraud lawsuit can continue
 We have another “quote video” that normally you can only see inside a Scientology “org.” In this case, it’s an excerpt that is used to entice church members to fork over $125 for a set of lectures that L. Ron Hubbard gave in Johannesburg in 1961.
The South African Anatomy Congress is described this way by Bridge Publications… Continue reading Video Vault: Another dose of L. Ron Hubbard wisdom you aren’t supposed to see
 Last month we told you about Jillian Schlesinger, a young woman who escaped from Scientology’s “Sea Organization” and then, just weeks later, began telling her story for publication. We wondered if that short period between her dash for freedom and speaking out might be a sign of Scientology’s deepening crisis that is driving so many members away.
And now another longtime member has decided to tell his story just weeks after walking away from the church. Continue reading Scientology’s E-meter police, and the horse doctor of LaBelle, Florida
On this special occasion, we’ll allow ourselves a little levity and congratulate Scientology leader David Miscavige on his 54th birthday with a humorous photo-illustration done by our old friend Jeffrey Augustine.
Continue reading Scientology leader David Miscavige turns 54 today — Hip, hip, hooray!
 Back in 2011, when Rupert Murdoch was still paying for his iPad adventure, The Daily, a journalist named Benjamin Carlson did a really fine two-part series on the ultimate Scientology school, “Delphian” in Oregon. We thought it was clever that he referred to the high school as Scientology’s version of “Hogwarts.”
Although The Daily no longer exists, Carlson salvaged his piece on his own website, which you can read here. One of the things he notes is that although everyone in Scientology knows that the school is for the kids of the church’s wealthier members, on paper the school and the church are separate: Continue reading Scientology’s ‘Hogwarts’ doesn’t want you to think it’s connected to Scientology
 We have Chris Shelton’s next video, and we really like the way he traces the origins of Scientology’s notorious retaliation policy of “Fair Game” back to L. Ron Hubbard’s 1959 “Manual of Justice.”
As usual, Chris does an excellent job connecting the dots to illuminate a subject we thought we already knew well. And he’s right, Hubbard’s paranoia of the late 1950s can be seen clearly in the way current Scientology leader David Miscavige subjected his former lieutenant, Marty Rathbun, to years of bizarre surveillance and harassment in the last several years — more than 50 years after Hubbard first began to put these ideas into practice. Continue reading Chris Shelton on the origins of Scientology’s notorious ‘Fair Game’ policy
 It’s that time of the week again, when we share with you the wacky fundraising mailers that the Church of Scientology sends out to its members around the world.
Our longtime readers have seen plenty of appeals for Ideal Org fundraising, and fliers urging Scientologists to hurry up and do their next course. But there are subtle differences in these advertisements, and we can’t help perceiving a distinct sense of panic and desperation as the weeks go by. Scientology is dying, and the forced tone of excitement is getting pretty obvious. Continue reading Scientology Sunday Funnies: More scenes from the End of Days
 We have a couple of really complex and lengthy stories working, but they take a lot of time to put together. In the meantime, we have some strange odds and ends that have been building up here in the Bunker and we thought we’d share some of them.
For example, a couple of weeks ago, we received this e-mail, recreated here in its entirety: “You sell-out!!!!!!! You are not posting anything I wrote, but instead are posting what THEY want you to post. SELL-OUT!!” Continue reading Selling out, and other strange side-effects of Scientology watching
 Our video source came through again this week with another “quote video,” and this one goes way back, enticing you to buy an L. Ron Hubbard lecture from 1953 — Universe Processes Congress!
For only $150 from Bridge Publications, the full lecture series can be yours. As with our previous videos in this series, you normally have to go into a Scientology ‘org’ to see these. Once you hear L. Ron Hubbard discuss his ideas, you’ll get some sense of why Scientology keeps this stuff under wraps. Does that famous charisma of his come through for you? Continue reading Video Vault: The universe is yours to duplicate, Mr. Hubbard!
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Please make sure you saw last night’s big news about the Garcia lawsuit; another judge has denied a Scientology motion in a major lawsuit. Now, on to today’s news… 
