Movie Night at Scientology's New York "Org": The Village Voice Gets Proselytized! by Tony Ortega, Village Voice, Aug. 5, 2012, http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... rk_org.php

What a hoot. Andreas Heldal-Lund, founder of Operation Clambake, gets some well-deserved acknowledgment. Tony Ortega is entertained by the only-shown-in-orgs version of the Chill E.B. video. CoS looks silly; maybe those who let Tony and Andreas in will get screamed at for not sensing the deep suppressive personhood of their visitors; they'll Google Tony Ortega, and quit.

Keep reading for the second story, about how the Church of Scientology International National Affairs Office's opening celebration says "call for time and date," presumably to foil picketers. Didn't anyone think that "International National" sounds funny together?

The third story is about an appeal to send more books to libraries, talking about "Her Royal Governor." Tony said: " I'm told that "Her Royal Governor" is a reference to Nancy Cartwright, OT extraordinaire and the voice of Bart Simpson. I hope someone can help us understand how she managed to get saddled with that moniker."

The fourth story: 28,426 individual LRH books and items for sale for $3.5 million on eBay...

The fifth story: A link to a very worthwhile 2000 Mark Bunker video, which features ex-Scientologists "OT VIIs Peter Alexander, Greg and Debra Barnes, and Tory (Christman) Bezazian talking about this thing Scientology that had taken up so much of their lives."

My only comment is that Tony assumed the lady who offered to sell them books was a Sea Org member; that role sounds more like an ordinary staff member.

Advice to the woman who invited Tony and Andreas into the org. Run away, run away from $cientology today! (Acknowledgement to Arnie Lerma.) I can just see David saying, "I don't care if she's not in the sea org. Find out who she is and get her into the RPF today!"

I know the NY Org described in the article all too well -- here my idiotic Scientology “journey” had stared. I took my first basic Scientology course here, and finished reading Dianetics Volume I (I read Volume II in Los Angeles). I became fully involved in Scientology after I graduated from UCLA.

When I was taking my first steps in NY Org, its ALL students were white. Now, according to Tony, almost all students are non-white. I suspect that majority of them are the Farrakhan followers; the Farrakhan Islam branch has a large following in NYC.

Tony and Andreas are the bombs with swag for getting inside of NYC ORG and managing to see the insider vid on Chilli EB. I had tears in my eyes reading their encounter.

As always the comments sections on this blog are well worth reading.

So awesome what they did! Great article and videos. I had never seen that OT VII summit video and found it very informative and direct. Many thanks and kudos to all four for sharing their experiences.

Tony finds a link to the recruiting video "The Story of Book One," and talks to the actor Michael Fairman, who was edited out of the movie that Tony watched in his tour of the NY org.
Also mentioned: Colorado educational officials duped by Applied Scholastics.
Scientology's Recruitment Film: The Version They Don't Want You to See, by Tony Ortega, Village Voice, Aug. 7, 2012 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... airman.php