Swift, your reports on Scientology's galas and general nazi-like meetings are much appreciated! It must have felt completly surreal to be there.

Please do continue to post scans from SCn magazines, propaganda etc. They reveal so much about their "religion". I also enjoy seeing the doctored and touched up photos (the one above with DM is funny, the men in the photo have the lower parts of their body covered so you can't see how far back they are standing - notice that DM is standing just a bit back from the woman and still is only barely the height of the other men). From the looks of the material released in the last few years, DM must have outsourced their picture-enhancment jobs to professional wog firms. It is looking quite snazzy. I'd bet that after the Man-With-No-Head Incident it was all moved to wogs who actually know how to touch up a photo properly.

Well, these violent graphics seem to be part of a new trend. Similar ones were showed at an IAS event at St Hill in octobre, as reported by the Evening Standard.

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ROFLMAO.....ohhh, my stomach hurts. This is too rich. Do you know the rap artists name?

Indeed! - We needed Mark Bunker or Proflex there!


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Glad to see ya back Swift.

Excellent report on the New Year event ala $cn style. Great reading and perspectives....some good chuckles too.


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I'm dee-lighted to see you back. You are funny and informative as ever!

J. Swift ... mucho gracias for the New Years Eve Event report!

More importantly welcome back!!! You have been missed!!!!

I sure hope you do contact the APA ... that in itself would totally rock. This kind of behavior really needs to be pointed out to the world at large. It is frickin' amazing that Scientology gets away with this!

Was Miscaviage the only one presenting ... what about Heber and the gruelly others?

Wonder if the rap artist was Doug E Fresh? Haven't heard is name mentioned in a while? Maybe he learned to keep a low profile?

Welcome back J! Was gone myself for awhile and was pleasantly surprised to see you back posting.

I experienced the events as a public and as part of the SO doing sets up and tear downs. Loved reading your persepective of them and I agree completely. It's the same old thing event after event. The foam stage pieces are simply stored away and taken out and cleaned up by the RPF for the next event.

You'll notice the crews serving food oddly dressed in ill-fitting tux shirts and pants. Shoes can range from dressy to tennis shoes. The reason is that this role is usually given to the EPFer's. The shirts and pants are handed out little regard to sizes. The EPFers are allowed to go into a locked closet where their regular clothes are keeped to remove shoes to use. How many teenagers do you think pack black dress shoes when routing in?

Been missing Cerridwens event write-ups. Thanks for "putting this on your plate."

Can't wait for the next installment.

What would you do if you were at a function at your local Christian Church watching a video and suddenly there are graphics of hand grenades blowing up anti-Christians/non-Christians? Or anti-Christians/non-Christians with nooses round their necks or being machine-gunned down?

Isn't it remarkable that the Scn PR people have not thought this through?

The event featured DM and two other speakers whose names I have forgotten because, well, they were statbots who were fronting for the Cult's notorious front groups. Thier job was to rapid-fire stats at the audience and say that Scientology is great and that the Cult is expanding as fast as Ron's appetite for drugs, booze, and espionage did in the 1950's when he began to make serious money.

The first speaker was a very attractive and sophisticated woman who spoke about the massive successes of Narconon and Criminon. She was an engaging speaker at first but then she got lost in a muddle of stats. Look, let's put our cards on table: It would be hard for anyone to enthuse about Scientology stats as related to drug addicts and criminals for very long before the evil and sorrow of those worlds affected you. I think this woman got lost in stats because that is the only safe place to hide inside of Scientology. Hiding inside of stats allows the execs to ignore the moral depravity of what they are truly doing to people.

I tuned this speaker out because it was revolting to contemplate DM and Scientology profiting from human suffering. Scientology decries the human condition, and yet it profits from the suffering in the world while advocating the violent destruction of psychiatry and hiding LRH's call for a genocide of that 2.5% of the world's population whom Ron determined should be, "Diposed of quietly and without sorrow." Compounding its hypocrisy and violent bent of mind, Scientology gleefully exults in stats about how it profited from the carnage caused by drugs and crime. I tuned out and studied the cameras, consoles, and lighting. Scientology is dark and disturbing when you see it up this close. It is made of people who have been programmed to produce stats no matter what. They are programmed to destroy whatever is between them and their stat.

The second speaker was a gentleman who discussed WISE, ABLE, IHELP, and some other front groups. He was dull. I'm sorry whoever you are, but you were as dull as Listerine.




I hate to compare this speaker to an antiseptic mouthwash, but that is all that comes to mind. His presentation was far less interesting than a discussion of dental plaque and its treatment.

I tuned him out right away and began to study people as they sat in their chairs. A general malaise and lack of free attention units had developed in the crowd and yet no emergency auditors on VM's were on hand to help with the pandemic of boredom in the Shrine.

I could sense that the tone level was at boredom and that people were struggling to go higher on the Tone Scale. And yet... Mr. Dull was droning on about something and could not end the cycle until he had finished his script. It was if as if the audience were all children being forced to eat all of the brocolli on their plate.

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After the speakers had finished, DM came back onstage to promote this year's new release.

You guessed it! It is a DVD re-release of a 1980's Scientology release of LRH's 1966 Rhodesian television interview.



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DM went on at length about how much restoration work this DVD took and showed some before and after shots. DM then said that the color on this restoration was based upon self-portraits LRH had done of himself. DM said that getting color just right on film was important to LRH and so the self-portraits allowed Golden Era to have some registration values for the restoration. DM said that over one million specks of dust were removed from the original and that he knew this because dust specs were a stat on the restoration. Can someone say anal retentive?

DM then dropped what has to be yet another Dan Sherman turd. DM claimed, incredibly, that LRH's knowledge of color and film was so immense that both Kodak and Polariod routinely contacted LRH for advice on color. Yeah right, Dave. Kodak and Polaroid contacted the guy who was shooting this level of work:




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The night ended with us shouting "Hip Hip Hooray" to LRH's photo. This most sacred Scientology ritual works as follows:

1. Everyone stands up as the spotlight shines on Ron's giant photo.



2. DM shouts, "HIP HIP"



3. All hands yell "Hooray!"



This is repeated several times to vgi's, and then the crowd is dismissed and must run the gauntlet of hungry hard-sell regges waiting outside.


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But wait! There's more!

1. DM's biggest ever announcement? It has already been posted on OCMB: Scientology is opening an Ideal Org in Berlin. DM's implication was that Scientology had won its war against the German government by seating an Org in the evil Satanic heart of Germany. I was digusted by the hand grenade, but now I found myself outraged by the naked agression of David Miscavige against the people of Germany. The German government and people should be outraged by Mr. Miscavige's insinuation and hostile remarks towards all of Germany.

2. Need more proof of Miscavige's violent bent?

DM ordered Event Staff to personally hand this brochure to every Scientologist as they departed the Shrine that night. This is the thought DM gave to every Scientologist as they began 2007.



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Thanks for all the pics Swift....after seeing the picture of hubbard at the piano, I could not help but think of Liberace Ron Hubbard...

J. Swift,

It made my day to see that you're back. Great posts! The last event I attended was the announcement of LRH's death. I was no longer a believer at that time but went as a favor to a dear friend (she's still in).

Escaped

I’m loving this ongoing report, thank you J. Swift!

I think anybody not alarmed by the increasingly violent talk coming from DM should be. History shows us that Satanic organizations aiming for world domination always end with the few fanatical devotees that are left holed up (literally or metaphorically) in a bunker. There is no surrender - someone has to go in and get them.

Don’t think this demise too extreme. Hitler once toured Paris as a conquerer. He and his architect spent hours pouring over models of his “ideal capital.” Hitler was obsessed with building the ideal city. Does this sound familiar?

Yet in the back of their minds Satanic forces fully expect to be found out. That’s why there’s always a parallel strategy in play – plan for the ideal situation while making sure the shoe boxes full of cash are stuffed and ready to go.

The analogy between $cientology and the Third Reich is exact. Bent on world domination, planning “ideal” building projects, and yet sooner or later is going to have to be flushed out and eliminated by the rest of humanity on which it has declared war. The best flushing agent is of course the simple truth about the scandal that it is. Whether it ever has to be more than that will depend on whether DM achieves an actualization on the violence he’s mocking up.