2016-08-08, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Our thanks to Artoo45, who procured the newest Impact magazine and let us know what was in it. We love Impact, the official publication of the
International Association of Scientologists, because it reveals who has been lavished with praise for increasing their donations and propping up Scientology in its latter days.
Now, normally we're most interested in the issue of Impact that comes out early in the year, because it shows us who was celebrated at the IAS
Patrons Ball held in October, usually at
Saint Hill Manor in
East Grinstead,
England. This is the year's really big party for Scientology's whales (our word for the biggest donors) and even
Tom Cruise is known to show up wearing his
Freedom Medal of Valor as a special prize for the wealthy folks who turn over truly prodigious sums.
But there's also an IAS Patron's Ball held in honor of
Maiden Voyage, the set of summer events that commemorate the
1988 launching of Scientology's private cruise ship, the
Freewinds. So this most recent issue of Impact shows us the richies who made the scene on the Freewinds somewhere in the Caribbean.