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From Blownforgood on WWP.......
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/312-st-petersburg-times-expose/scilon-freedom-magazine-strikes-back-sp-times-50352/
Scilon Freedom Magazine strikes back at SP Times!!
| Blownforgood wrote: | The Scilons have just mailed out an 80 page Freedom Magazine that attacks all of the sources for the first round of SP Times articles exposing the atrocities that occur in Scilonville everyday. It was mailed out to just about everyone on the SP Times mailing list in Florida.
The Scilons did not use the names or pictures of the 4 major sources as that would be a major footbullet as most public Scilons know these people and would not believe the lies that the Scilons are spinning now. They did manage to put some photos in of other people attempting to expose their "crimes." Supposedly going to Germany and meeting with hundreds of elected European officials there about the dangers of the Scilon Organization is now a "crime."
As soon as people start getting it in the mail, I am sure someone can post it up here.
The Scilons are freaking OUT big time. They have spent the last 4 weeks raising funds to get this Freedom Magazine printed and mailed. It has a blow by blow account of what the Scilons tried to tell the SP times and they would "not listen."
They grabbed a whole bunch of people out of the SP hall, got them cleaned up and pictures done. They got a whole bunch of affidavits and declarations drawn up and signed off by people. Most of the male staff members that signed off declarations are the ones that have been beat down by David Miscavige the most!
They even had the ex-wives tell their stories. This was an all out effort on the Scilons to put out this fire. Next time, they will know NOT to use gasoline. Live and learn.
Anyway, get ready for EPIC lulz. The Scilons could not have timed their attention getting magazine better.
More updates to come.
Until next time...
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Coming soon!
I can hardly contain myself. LOL.
Edit:
And, here it is....
| Anonymous wrote: | DOWNLOAD LINK: Freedom Magazine Special Issue August 2009 (25mb .PDF file)
(Alternate link if above goes down: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4POKUQR4 )
Link to the cult's original copy of the freedumb magazine which is now online (smaller 9mb pdf file) re-uploaded to a safe download source.....
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SRZOQFCJ
FRONT COVER
FREEDOM
Investigative Reporting in the Public Interest
Special Report: The Story the S.P. Times Refused to Tell
David Miscavige at the helm of Scientology's explosive growth
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CREATING A NEW ERA OF EXPANSION
DAVID MISCAVIGE: AT THE HELM OF SCIENTOLOGY'S EXPLOSIVE GROWTH
4 The Story They Refused to Tell
6 Cover Story: Creating a New Era of Expansion
11 Charting the Course for Scientology Expansion
13 Meeting the Global Demand for the Scientology Religion
24 Islands of Friendliness: Ideal Orgs Around the World
26 Building for the Future of the Scientology Religion
30 A Renaissance for Scientology
36 Meeting the Demand for Scientology Materials
38 Bringing Scientology to the World: Golden Era Productions, A Statistical Overview
HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS
39 The Church of Scientology's Planetary Social Betterment Campaigns
40 The Truth About Drugs
41 Human Rights
42 The Way to Happiness
43 The Scientology Volunteer Ministers
SPECIAL REPORT
INSIDE THE S.P. TIMES
44 Feature Story: Merchants of Chaos
61 The Critical Omission
63 David Miscavige: The Peacemaker
65 Scientology -- a World Religion
66 "Journalism 101": Trampling on Media Ethics
69 The Brush-Off: Rush to Judgment, Rush to Press
72 Those Who Knew Them Best
76 What Really Happened
78 How to Be an Investigative Reporter at the St. Petersburg Times (it's easy)
79 A Closing Word |
St. Petersburg Times responds.....
Strength in their numbers: More Church of Scientology defectors come forward with accounts of abuse
2nd August 2009
http://tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1023717.ece
More new direct links from SP Times article....
Image front page of SP Times 2nd August 2009
PDF download of front page
Brief bios of more former Scientology member who have come forward
Videos:
Jeff Hawkins
Shelly Corrias
Steve Hall
Gary Morehead
Related story ...
Church of Scientology's response: 'Character assassination' by liars
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1023985.ece
Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath
Gawker 2nd August 09
http://gawker.com/5328446/scientology-leader-david-miscavige-still-a-scary-insane-psychopath
More Ex-Scientology Members Come Foward To Recount David Miscavige’s Felonious Reign Of Terror
Glosslip.com 3rd August 2009
http://glosslip.com/2009/08/03/more-ex-scientology-members-come-foward-to-recount-david-miscaviges-felonious-reign-of-terror/
The battle continues.......
Scientology's ugly truths revealed
SP Times, Editorial. 4th August 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1024459.ece
Snippet....
| Quote: | Scientology calls itself a religion and claims to offer purpose and meaning to its members. Yet for some who worked in the church's militaristic Sea Organization, Scientology provided something different: physical punishment, humiliation, beatings, sleep deprivation, and long and ruinous separation from loved ones.
The stories of 11 former staffers, reported in a St. Petersburg Times special report Sunday, are told with such detail and emotional heft that the church's official denials of abuse ring hollow.
It takes courage to challenge the Church of Scientology, which has long pursued and attempted to destroy its critics. Yet now 15 former Sea Org members have gone on the record with their stories of abuse during years of working at or near the church's top management. Four of those, whose stories were related in the Times' first special report in June, are the highest ranking officials ever to defect from Scientology.
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conclusion:
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As more people who have escaped the grip of the Church of Scientology come forward to tell their stories, the secrecy that has been a hallmark of the church's internal operations is being stripped away. The truth is that this organization abuses people to advance its quest to become a global force, and even the church's ever-present public relations machine cannot put a pretty face on that.
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Scientology admits violence, blames "Kingpin"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00116.htm
This is the anonymous press release.
also here: http://newsblaze.com/story/20090805051816zzzz.nb/topstory.html
More allegations against Scientology leader
Baltimore Sun 6th August 09
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/08/scientology_miscavige_st_peter.html
The Ethiopan Review runs the SP Times story.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/20969
Related story on cult TV ad campaign in Tampa bay area. The SP Times articles get a good mention.
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=31129
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St. Petersburg Times - Letters to the editor. 8th August 09
(responses to the "Strength in their numbers" article, Aug. 2nd)
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/letters/article1025528.ece
Quite a selection of letters.......
Don't overlook the good Scientology does
A handful of naysayers
Bad for business
A path to success
Contrasting reports
It's a lifesaver
A force for justice
Gullible people
Helped to a better life
Vicious response
An effective religion
Return to sender
Taking over
An incomplete story
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St. Petersburg Times reporter Tom Tobin to appear Thursday in Scientology investigation by ABC's Nightline (that's 22nd Oct 09)
http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2009/10/st-petersburg-times-reporter-tom-tobin-to-appear-thursday-in-scientology-investigation-by-abcs-night.html
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| Quote: | St. Petersburg Times reporter Tom Tobin is expected to appear Thursday night in the first of two nights of reports on the Church of Scientology scheduled to air on ABC's late-night news magazine Nightline.
The show plans to explore much of the same ground the Times uncovered in its first three-part series on the Church published in June, The Truth Rundown, outlining tales of violence allegedly perpetrated against high-ranking church officials by leader David Miscavige.
[show them some love, see the above link for more] |
Whilst you're all waiting for that, here's some related history from the ABC Nightline archives (which looks set to repeat itself in so far as it will be an unmitigated disaster for the cult as it cranks up its tired old, and depleated, OSA PR machine):
YouTube - Nightline Interview - Scientology David Miscavige Part 1/9 (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71YVexKN5w
Link: ABCNews | Scientology Leader Gave ABC First-Ever Interview (1992) Transcript
Teaser report:
Former Scientologists Level Accusations
High-Level Members Who Left the Church Say Leader David Miscavige Hit Subordinates; Church Denies Accusations
ABC News 22nd Oct 09
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/scientology/nightline-scientologists-level-accusations/story?id=8888719
| Quote: | Since its inception in the 1950s, the Church of Scientology has rarely been far from controversy. And now some senior insiders who have left the church are leveling disturbing accusations against the current leader, David Miscavige. Marty Rathbun, Amy Scobee, Bruce Hines and Mike Rinder each dedicated more than 20 years to the Church of Scientology, as members of the Sea Organization, or Sea Org, the equivalent of the church's clergy. They tell co-anchor Martin Bashir they left in part because the 49-year-old leader, Miscavige, struck subordinates numerous times and encouraged others to do the same.
In an interview with Bashir, scientology spokesman Tommy Davis vehemently denies that David Miscavige ever hit anyone and says the accusers are lying in an attempt to discredit Miscavige and to justify their own bad behavior within the church, which he says led to their dismissal.
Watch the full story on "Nightline" on Thursday, October 22nd and Friday, October 23rd. Co-anchor Martin Bashir reports.
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Go to this media thread for full coverage and links to the ABC Nightline TV news report & transcripts:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=31482
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Part Three in the major TRUTH RUNDOWN series is published this weekend in the St.Petersburg Times.
(Webbed 31st Oct 09. In Print, Sunday 1st November 2009)
>Large JPG of front page<
> PDF of original front page <
Part 3: Chapter 1
Chased by their church:
When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back
Scientology leaders feared that those who left the church without permission might reveal secrets.
So they went after them.
By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, st.Petersburg Times Staff Writers
Posted: Oct 31, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048134.ece
Video Report: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid47094787001?bclid=47089946001&bctid=47187273001
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| Quote: | For years, the Church of Scientology chased down and brought back staff members who tried to leave.
Ex-staffers describe being pursued by their church and detained, cut off from family and friends and subjected to months of interrogation, humiliation and manual labor.
One said he was locked in a room and guarded around the clock.
Some who did leave said the church spied on them for years.
Others said that, as a condition for leaving, the church cowed them into signing embellished affidavits that could be used to discredit them if they ever spoke out.
The St. Petersburg Times has interviewed former high-ranking Scientology officials who coordinated the intelligence gathering and supervised the retrieval of staff who left, or "blew."
They say the church, led by David Miscavige, wanted to contain the threat that those who left might reveal secrets of life inside Scientology.
Marty Rathbun, a former church official and confidant of Miscavige, said the leader especially targeted those he had edged aside during his rise to the top or anyone he feared might threaten his position or the church if left alone on the outside.
[much more in article link] |
More ex-scientologist's testimony to add to the list.....
"I just want to get on with my life" after Scientology
By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, S.Petersburg Times staff writers
In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/i-just-want-to-get-on-with-my-life-after-scientology/1048131
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| Quote: | Sixteen years later, Betsy Perkins is sobbing as she talks about the day she ran away from Scientology.
• "I thought I was handing in my ticket to eternity," she says.
• Now 56, a graphic artist in Dallas, she says she is going public to offer her own "first-hand account of what happened to a person who was in there." • She spent 17 years in Scientology's work force, the Sea Org, moved by the church's mantra that Scientologists held the future of the planet in their hands.
• She tells of a life filled with intense repetition of Scientology's precepts and "ethics" and a grueling lifestyle where Sea Org members constantly needed to prove their fealty to the church. If your bosses had doubts about your performance or your thoughts, you faced humiliating work and periods of sleep deprivation.
• But when eternal salvation is the reward, Perkins said, you come to believe it is all worth it. Even when she decided she couldn't take it anymore and ran from the Sea Org, she fretted she was doing something terrible.
• "If anybody had come and talked to me, I would have gone (back). I would have gone willingly," she says. "Anybody could have taken me back. Easily ... I was so scared."
• Telling her story to the Times by phone from her office, rattled her. "I am sitting in a conference room and I am shaking now," she said.
• It is a story that began in May 1977.
[much more in article link] |
NEW VIDEOS:
Jackie Wolff
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/wolff.shtml
Joined Scientology: at age 25, in 1980; joined Sea Org in 1982.
Age: 54
Left Sea Org: 2004
Career highlights: Personal steward to Miscavige and his wife, personnel director, supervisor of E-meter assembly line.
Now: Single, marketing director for California construction and grading company.
"We didn't want them to find us. We wanted to just kind of disappear into the woodwork."
Mark Fisher
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/fisher.shtml
Joined Scientology: at 14, in 1973 in Washington, D.C. Joined Sea Org in 1976.
Age: 51
Left Sea Org: September 1990
Career highlights: Statistics analyst, trained evaluators. Became corporate liaison to Miscavige, supervising his household, carrying out special assignments.
Now: Divorced his wife, a Sea Org member, after he left. A loan officer, lives in Las Vegas.
On Lebow: "He was hustling, trying to get loans like the rest of us. ...Before I knew it, he moved into the same apartment complex as us."
Marty Rathbun
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/rathbun.shtml
8 new interview clips added to his existing ones in the Truth Rundown series.
From Scientology's files
St. Petersburg Times staff
In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048132.ece
| Quote: | The church said the Times is relying on sources who, before they left Scientology, admitted in sworn declarations, affidavits and confessions that all responsibility was theirs and they held the church blameless. For every person but one (Sinar Parman), Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis provided documents from church files, including confessions, ethics orders and Suppressive Person declarations
[more in article link] |
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L. Ron Hubbard on 'Leaving and leaves'
St. Petersburg Times staff writer
In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048136.ece
| Quote: | LEAVING AND LEAVES
In the mid 1970s, L. Ron Hubbard ran his church from aboard his ship, the Apollo, sailing from port to port. He handwrote his notes, in red ink for a bulletin, in green ink for a policy letter. He said two things about those who want to leave: don't keep staff who don't want to be there, but don't let them go without "sec checking'' them, to make sure they won't harm themselves or the religion.
[more in article link: quotes Hubbard HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 DECEMBER 1976 "LEAVING AND LEAVES" in full]
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Who's who in this installment
St. Petersburg Times staff writers
In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/whos-who-in-this-installment/1048135
Scientology glossary, lingo, acronyms
St. Petersburg Times staff. In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
Scientology has a language of its own. Here are some terms used in these stories.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048137.ece
Scientology's response
St. Petersburg Times staff . In Print: Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048141.ece
| Quote: | Church spokesman Tommy Davis says the Times' sources admitted they left Scientology because they could not meet the church's strict ethical standards. Now they are lying, he says, and the Times is helping advance their agenda. Here is the Church of Scientology's response to their allegations, submitted as a 10-page letter:
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CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
15 October 2009
VIA HAND DELIVERY
Mr. Joe Childs
Mr. Tom Tobin
St. Petersburg Times
490 First Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
I am in receipt of your letter of 6 October 2009 and the laundry list of "new allegations," your sources are now concocting. Your letter reeks of naked bias.
[... continues in article link....]
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Related Links
Attachment 1: Declaration of Elliot Abelson (PDF)
Attachment 2: Declaration of Kendrick Moxon (PDF)
Attachment 3: Declaration of Kurt Weiland (PDF)
Attachment 4: HCO Bulletin of 31 December 1959
Attachment 5: Document Entitled "Spdeclare" (PDF)
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Other media reports on these articles.....
XenuTV:
http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?p=3817
Deserters’ tales a warning to Scientologist Peaches
Former members’ chilling stories of chases and interrogation are a
warning to Peaches Geldof if she ever tries to leave Scientology
The First Post, 2nd Nov 09
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/55495,people,news,tales-of-church-scientology-apostates-are-a-warning-to-peaches-geldof
Church Of Scientology Chased Down And Brought Back Members Who Tried To Leave (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/church-of-scientology-cha_n_342033.html
Former Scientology members tell of group's efforts to track them down
Florida newspaper exposé reveals allegations of campaign to gather information on high-level defectors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/nov/02/scientology-expose-track-down-former-members
Scientology: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2234312/entry/3/
Scientology And Celebrities A Must Read…
http://www.pynkcelebrity.com/archives/19584
Once Again The St. Petersburg Times Rips Scientology A New One In A Scathing Three Part Series
http://glosslip.com/2009/11/02/once-again-the-st-petesburg-times-rips-scientology-a-new-one-in-a-scathing-three-part-series/
Former Scientology members tell of group's efforts to track them downhttp://new.u.tv/News/Former-Scientology-members-tell-of-groups-efforts-to-track-them-down/dca80335-0734-41a0-ba3f-af6b4d98af3c
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Part 3: Chapter 2 of 3
What happened in Vegas
Some staffers who left the church were spied on.
The story of a group of former Scientologists who were infiltrated for years.
By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers
In Print: Monday, November 2, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048123.ece
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Twenty years later they had become disaffected. Still believers, the sisters and their husbands left the church. They disagreed with the direction Hubbard's successor, David Miscavige, was taking it, and they found him too controlling.
On their own now in Vegas, they processed mortgage applications and lounged around the pool at their apartment complex, the Polo Club.
They didn't know it, but they were being watched.
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How Scientology got to Bob Minton
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048113.ece
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Bob Minton pickets in Clearwater. At the time, Marty Rathbun, identified as a “top Scientology official,’’
said this of Minton: “I worry about this guy because he’s deranged.”
Robert S. Minton seemed to surface out of nowhere in late 1997.
• A retired investment banker and millionaire from New England, he began to show up at anti-Scientology demonstrations in Boston and Clearwater. He gave millions to groups critical of the church.
• He became the money man behind a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of Lisa McPherson, whose unexplained death at Scientology's Clearwater mecca threw the church into crisis.
• Minton quickly became the Church of Scientology's No. 1 nemesis.
• "I felt that the little guys needed some help," he once said. "I'm putting my money where my mouth is."
Much of the church's response to Minton has been documented — the legal onslaught, the skirmishes that sought to bait him, get him in trouble and torpedo his credibility.
Twice he was arrested and charged after minor scuffles with Scientologists while picketing church properties. Once, he fired a shotgun into the air after Scientologists appeared at his New Hampshire farm.
Early on, the church dispatched private investigators to talk to his son, his brother, his wife's family in England, his elderly mother in Florida.
Still, Minton wouldn't go away.
Now former church officials Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder reveal the other tactics they used. ...
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Ex-officer says Scientology policy didn't match directive
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048114.ece
| Quote: | Marty Rathbun said he participated in a criminal act to protect the church against a possible security breach.
Longtime executive Terri Gamboa and her husband, Fernando, abandoned their posts in January 1990, setting off what Rathbun called a "seven-alert fire.''
Terri Gamboa was executive director of Author Services Inc., the independent corporation set up by founder L. Ron Hubbard to control rights to his intellectual properties.
David Miscavige, the leader of the church, wanted to know if she had access to a safe containing Hubbard's estate documents. Had she made off with anything sensitive?
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Who's who in this installment
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048111.ece
The Scientology response
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048115.ece
| Quote: | The church said its leader, David Miscavige, and other church officials did not hire private investigators, church attorneys did. The church directs that its attorneys and their agents follow all laws and regulations and adhere to the highest ethical standards. "If Rathbun and Rinder used PIs to 'abuse poor innocent people,' they are the only ones to blame,'' spokesman Tommy Davis said. The Times submitted written questions to the church about David Lubow and Ferris Khan's involvement with former church staff in Las Vegas. The church responded by discussing church practices but made no mention of Lubow or Khan.
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New article added to ch.2:-
Has Scientology been watching Pat Broeker for two decades?
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048116.ece
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Pat Broeker, in this 35-year-old photo, was named a “loyal officer’’ by L. Ron Hubbard,
the highest rank the church founder bestowed.
Pat Broeker could say what no one else in Scientology could: He outranked David Miscavige.
But he left the church in 1989 and started a new life in Colorado. Still, Miscavige worried about him.
"He (Miscavige) came directly to me,'' Marty Rathbun recalled. "He said, 'Marty, you get on this guy. I want to know every move he makes.' "
Broeker and his wife, Annie, assisted Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in the months before he died in 1986. Hubbard bestowed on each of them the title "loyal officer,'' outranking Captain Miscavige.
Pat Broeker had something else: Hubbard's written research of Scientology's upper levels of counseling and training, completed in his last years. Without the papers, Broeker would be diminished. Rathbun said he and Miscavige came up with a plan. ....
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Other media reporting on these articles:
Gawker:
Tom Cruise's Wedding Cook Exposes Scientology's Scary Retention Practices
http://gawker.com/5394737/tom-cruises-wedding-cook-exposes-scientologys-scary-retention-practices
The Daily Beast:
Scientology Defectors ‘Hunted Down’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/scientology-defectors-lsquohunted-downrsquo/no-escape/
Radar Online:
REPORT: Tom Cruise Wedding Chef "Chased Down" By Scientology
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/11/report-tom-cruise-wedding-chef-chased-down-scientology
Defamer:
Tom Cruise’s Cook Exposes Scientology’s Scary Retention Practices
http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/tom-cruises-cook-exposes-scientologys-scary-retention-practices/
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Part 3: Chapter 3 of 3
>PDF Version of the in-print front page<
>Large cropped JPG image of the in-print frontpage<
Man overboard:
To leave Scientology, Don Jason had to jump off a ship
By Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times staff writer. In Print: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048124.ece
| Quote: | .... That August, a senior officer from a higher division surprised Jason with a reprimand he found absurd. It inflamed the doubts that had nagged him for years about making a career in the church. He'd had enough.
He took off without permission, hid out for six weeks but returned to Clearwater, compelled by feelings of guilt and a desire to leave the church on good terms.
[Photo: Brian Cassella | Special to the Times]Don Jason wanted a new life outside Scientology. He said he asked repeatedly to be let off the church cruise ship. “I was not allowed to leave. I was told to do the program.” He’d had enough of the program, he just wanted out.
He agreed to a program of counseling and manual labor aboard the Freewinds, the church's cruise ship in the Caribbean. He scraped oily sludge off a collection tank under the ship's engines. For a time, his cabin was locked from the outside, and a security camera was trained on his bunk.
He repeatedly asked to leave; the answer was no. Twice, he tried to walk down the gangway. Twice, church guards blocked him.
The church's account of how Jason left the Freewinds says only: "On 21 November 1996, Jason changed his mind and left, ending up in Milwaukee.''
Jason tells it differently.
That afternoon, right after lunch, he disappeared over the bow. .....
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Don Jason's route out of Scientology
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048121.ece
VIDEO:
Don Jason discusses his flight from the Church of Scientology
http://www.tampabay.com/video/?bctid=47665493001
or watch the complete set of Don Jason interview clips:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/jason.shtml
Who's who in this installment
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048125.ece
The Scientology response
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048120.ece
(Full Letter: http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048141.ece )
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^^So, that's the final chapter in the current part of the Truth rundown series.
What's next I wonder?
Somehow I get the feeling there is much more to come and the SP Times is already planning Part 4.
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| Maybe my Scientologist relative will see the St. Pete Times headlines while waiting in line at the supermarket in the Tampa Bay area. Or hear about it on talk radio while driving across the Howard Franklin Bridge. |
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I hope Pat and Annie Broeker are doing well, and most of all, I hope they speak up!!!!!
Do they even know they have been spied on by PIs every day since they left? That's reason enough to come out.
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| Thanks for keeping this thread so up-to-date Sponge! |
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New related article in The Truth Rundown series (Part 4)...
Annie M. Tidman and James A. Logan.
Caught between Scientology and her husband, Annie Tidman chose the church
[note: Tidman = Broeker, previously wife of Pat Broeker]
By Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, Times Staff Writers 14th Nov 2009
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/caught-between-scientology-and-her-husband-annie-tidman-chose-the-church/1048130
| Quote: | The subject of this story, Annie Tidman, denied through her attorney that the following events happened. The attorney would not make Tidman available to be interviewed. This account comes from interviews with her ex-husband and four former Church of Scientology staff members.
The morning of Nov. 17, 1992, Annie Logan left the Church of Scientology's California base without permission.
She took a cab to nearby Ontario International Airport. Her husband, Jim Logan, had prepaid for a ticket to Boston, but the airline couldn't find her name on the passenger list. She called Logan at his parent's house in Nova Scotia, nervous, figuring church staffers were likely in pursuit.
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VIDEO:
>>Marty Rathbun on getting Annie Tidman to get back<<
Scientology response letter from Tommy Davis:(PDF):
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/PDFs/cos/childs_letter.pdf
with attached cult PR...
New Scientology church opens in Washington, D.C. ....
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/PDFs/cos/dc_opening.pdf
New Scientology church opens in Rome.....
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/PDFs/cos/rome.pdf
Letter from Annie Tidman's attorney to the Times:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/PDFs/cos/tidman.pdf
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Ah,so the scientologists would like to rewrite history and erase me out of existance. What a cunning plan!
The original Commadores Messengers were, in no particular order except I was the last in the period 1967-mid 1969.
Suzette Hubbard
Janis Gillham
Claire Popham
Sharone Stainforth( I was the youngest)
Terri Gillham was the Head Messenger, though I do not remember whether or not she actively did a Messenger shift, I think she had other duties of which I am not aware of.
I vaguely remember another young girl joining shortly before I left the ship, however, I had too much going on at that time and cannot remember anything more about the other young recruit.
I am sincerely grateful to L. Ron Hubbards technology for placing me in Non Existance, it would appear I am now interior with no perceptions, Oh god, does that mean I am no longer an SP?
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