Tomorrow December 9 in Scientology history

The Sea Org is a paramilitary with uniforms, ranks, and 18th century medieval punishments. Why does a so-called religion need a uniformed paramilitary that hires PI's, spies on people, and engages in the psycho-terrorism of Fair Game? Why is Scientology so paranoid about their dark secrets that they try to kidnap and recover escaping Sea Org members?

Tags: Fair Game, Quicky, Sea Org

More scientology bubble delusion. Hey guys, just a couple of things for you to consider. All the orgs in the LA area are ideal (and there are more of them than anywhere on earth) — how are you doing clearing the LA area? If you made a total of 100 Clears in the last year between all the LA area orgs it would be VERY surprising. And certainly nowhere close to 1,000. At that rate, you're not even going to clear 3 blocks around each org this century.

Tags: APA, Buffalo, Clear, DEA, Florida, Harlem, Ideal Mission, OT, Quicky, USA

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Tags: Audio, Critic, Quicky, Scientology: A to Xenu

Rod Keller has the scoop on David Miscavige's first real expansion in three decades... Scientology leader David Miscavige will ring in the new year under African skies having accomplished something for the first time since he assumed power 31 years ago. The long awaited Advanced Org & Saint Hill for Africa will open on January 1, 2019. Unlike orgs such as New York, Berlin or Tokyo, an Advanced Org is staffed entirely by Sea Org members serving their billion-year contracts. Under L. Ron Hubbard Scientology established five such AOs which are responsible for delivering the OT levels to public Scientologists who travel from all the regular "Class V" orgs. They are AOLA (Advanced Org Los Angeles); Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida; Saint Hill in East Grinstead, England; AOSH Europe in Copenhagen; and AOSH ANZO in Sydney (which was moved to a new location by Miscavige). Add to that list the new AOSH AF at the Kyalami Castle in Midrand, Gauteng Province in South Africa. As we previously reported it is a wacky fantasy castle built in 1992 and purchased by Scientology in 2008. The ten years since have been spent raising funds for renovations and now the work is complete. It's the most important event in Scientology since the opening of the Super Power building in 2013 and everybody wants to attend the festivities.

Tags: 1992, 2008, 2013, Advanced Org, Africa, AOLA, AOSH ANZO, AOSH Europe, Australia, Berlin, Castle Kyalami, Class V, Clearwater, Copenhagen, David Miscavige, East Grinstead, England, Europe, Flag Land Base, Florida, Gaye Corbett, Ideal Org, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New Year's Eve, New York, OT, Quicky, Rod Keller, Saint Hill, Sea Org, South Africa, Super Power, Sydney, Tampa, Tokyo

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Tags: David Miscavige, Facebook, Quicky, Robert Almblad, Twitter

A school linked to the controversial Church of Scientology is selling off its netball court and grounds for a million-dollar sum. The Yarralinda Primary School and Early Learning Centre in Mooroolbark has been plagued by financial woes and previously came under fire for using government funding to pay off debts. The school recently carved off 1960sq m of its school grounds, including its netball court, and put the site on the market with approved plans and permits for four single-level homes.

Tags: Applied Scholastics, Melbourne, Yarralinda School

Theetie-Weetie is one of the many negative terms Scientology use to label a person. Such people appear bubbly and upbeat, happy and cheerful, and without a care in the world. Behind the façade, though, is a person scared of life. Ron Hubbard defined Theetie-Weetie as: 1. Slang from England, meaning "sweetness and light" (but they can't face mest or any outness. Cannot go deeper into the bank than a thought. (LRH Def Notes) 2. He operates in a totally psychotic way while being totally serene. The valence is all the way up at tone 40 and the pc is all the way down at minus eight (SP Spec 2, 6105C12). The Lowest Common Denominator

Tags: England, Ethics, Galactic Confederacy, L. Ron Hubbard, Sea Org, Terra Cognita, Theetie-Weetie, Wall of Fire, Xenu

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Tags: Audio, Critic, Quicky, Scientology: A to Xenu

In case you didn't notice it, we were actually pretty gobsmacked by a photo that we showed you last week. That photo provided the first hard evidence of something we'd been hearing for quite some time — that the richest Scientologists in the world, Bob and Trish Duggan, were splitting up. For years, the Duggans have been Scientology's biggest donors, and we looked forward to seeing the giant trophy they were given each October at a celebration of Scientology's biggest benefactors, and to see what funny "status" was invented for them. In 2016, they were named "Invictus" for what we estimated was $80 million to $90 million in giving just to the International Association of Scientologists, which doesn't count the additional millions they've given for Scientology building projects around the world. But this year, Scientology leader David Miscavige gave out another "Invictus" trophy, but only for Trish and her kids. Bob was not in the photo.

Tags: 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, Africa, Belleair, Bob Duggan, California, Chad Essley, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Europe, Facebook, Florida, Forbes, France, Gold Meritorious, International Association of Scientologists, Mahkam Zanganeh, Pharmacyclics, Platinum Meritorious, Pulse Biosciences, Silicon Valley, Strasbourg, Trish Duggan

We first heard from Marie Bilheimer more than a year ago. Like so many other former members of the Church of Scientology, she wanted to communicate with us even though she wasn't ready to go public with her story. We understood. Marie's is one of the more disturbing tales that we've heard, and we told her we'd be here when she decided she wanted our readers to hear what she'd been through. We're hearing from a lot of people now that Leah Remini is changing the public understanding of Scientology in a big way with her A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath. And one of the people we heard from was Marie. Emboldened by Leah's show, she's decided it's time to come forward. And we'll just say, you should brace yourself.

Tags: 1977, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, A&E, Aaron Poulin, Advanced Org, AOLA, Big Blue, Bridge to Total Freedom, Cadet Org, California, Canada, Carroll-Rees Academy, Cedars of Lebanon, Celebrity Centre, Christie Hotel, Clear, Clearwater, Commodore's Messenger Organization, David Miscavige, Death, Disconnection, Divona Tyrrell, Edmonton, E-meter, Estates Project Force, Ex-Scientology Kids, Facebook, Flag Land Base, Flag Liaison Office, Florida, Freeloader Debt, Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Guaranty Building, Hollywood Inn, Huntington Beach, Johnny Lewis, June Rees, Kirby Carroll, Kirsten Caetano, Las Vegas, Leah Remini, Lewis Carroll Academy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Marie Bilheimer, Michael Lewis, Michael Rees, Mike Rinder, Nichola Kyle-Carroll, Nora Crest, Oakland, Office of Special Affairs, OSA Int, OT, PAC Base, Pasadena, Potential Trouble Source, Purification Rundown, Ron Tyrrell, San Francisco, Sarah Symcox, Scientology and the Aftermath, Sea Org, Sec Check, Silver Lake, Student Hat, Suicide, Suppressive Person, The Hole, WhyWeProtest, WISE, World Institute of Scientology Enterprises

Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being

An Arcadia woman is suing her former employer, alleging she was fired for refusing to participate in mandatory on-the-job Scientology classes. Annie R. Lee's lawsuit against Pasadena-based Lusida Rubber Products Inc. and two company executives, Wayne Chin and William Johonnesson, alleges wrongful termination, religious discrimination, failure to prevent religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Lee seeks unspecified damages and an injunction enjoining Lusida from requiring employees to take Scientology lessons. Chin said today he may have a comment later after he reviews the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Tags: Los Angeles Superior Court, Lusida Rubber Products, Religious harassment, Wayne Chin, William Johonnesson

We have a juicy document for you today, courtesy of our friend and dogged researcher, R.M. Seibert. You knew that the FBI investigated and raided Scientology in 1977, and Lawrence Wright revealed in his 2011 New Yorker article that the FBI investigated Scientology for human trafficking in 2009-2010. But here's what we didn't know until now — the FBI also investigated Scientology in the late 1980s for the bizarre underground vault it was digging in the New Mexico desert. We've written several times about the most secret of Scientology's many secretive entities, the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST), which was formed in 1982, two years after Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard went into permanent hiding.

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There are no public to reg and no situation causes a greater state of terror on the mighty Sea Org flagship. Hitting an iceberg would cause less fear and panic Apparently even the tiny number of OT VII completions (5-10 per week) are not showing up at the Freewinds for OT VIII. So, how are they planning to solve their dilemma? By announcing they are inventing some service to convince people they should go to the Moneywinds to get "debugged" on going onto OT VIII.

Tags: Fair Game, Freewinds, Maiden Voyage, OT VII, OT VIII, Quicky, Sea Org

This is from the 21 December issue of People magazine feature 25 most intriguing people of the year. The text is a little fuzzy, here is what it says: The actress revealed why she left the Church of Scientology in her book Troublemaker detailing why she questioned the bahvior of church officials and became disillusioned with fellow follower Tom Cruise. Remini, 45, told People leaving was "like a rebirth", I've been given a second chance at life."

Tags: Leah Remini, Quicky, Tom Cruise

On Monday night, former Scientology "Sea Org" worker Marc Headley brought a Danish documentary crew to Gilman Springs Road -- a road that runs through the compound. According to Headley, a recent mudslide destroyed part of a fence that runs along the facility that keeps the public out and members in, The Undergound Bunker reports. Just as the segment was underway, Headley says a group of Scientologists ambushed him and the film crew. He managed to pull out his iPhone and film three videos roughly two minutes in length each. The clips show Headley arguing with a woman who refutes Headley's claims that members are imprisoned on the compound.

Tags: Barry Van Sickle, Blown for Good, Catherine Fraser, Corpus Christi, Gilman Springs Road, Int Base, Jefferson Hawkins, Karin Pouw, Kevin Caetano, Kevin McEnery, LAX, Marc Headley, Marty Rathbun, Old Gilman House, Robert Dam, Sea Org

Just a few weeks ago, former Scientology executive Mark "Marty" Rathbun found himself confronted by three high-ranking church officials who ambushed him at a gate in the Los Angeles International Airport while carrying cameras and speaking bizarrely. The video Rathbun shot of the encounter got a lot of attention in the press as it captured the strange way Scientology has of dealing with former members. And now it's happened again. Last night, former Scientology "Sea Org" worker Marc Headley accompanied a television crew from Denmark as it surveyed the flood damage at Scientology's secretive International Base east of Los Angeles. Headley tells us that a mudslide which had closed Gilman Springs Road (the road that bifurcates the 500 acre compound) has wiped out a whole section of the fence that not only keeps the public out of the facility, but also is intended to keep Scientologists at the base from getting out.

Tags: 1990, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, Amber O'Sullivan, Blown for Good, Catherine Fraser, Claire Headley, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Denmark, Eve Laws, Florida, Gilman Springs Road, Golden Era, Golden Era Productions, Guardian's Office, Int Base, Jefferson Hawkins, Jon Stumbke, Jorgen Larsson, Karen de la Carriere, Kevin Caetano, Kevin McEnery, LAX, Los Angeles, Marc Headley, Marty Rathbun, Old Gilman House, OT, Paul Sarkany, Religious Technology Center, Robert Dam, Scientology executive, Sea Org, Squirrel Busters, Tom Cruise, UK, Village Voice

Well, this should be interesting. The largest scientology community on earth is getting going early on the hard sell to show up to see the David Miscavige show live. I hope someone in LA will sacrifice themselves for 3 hours of pain so we get a report on the attendance and activities. It will be VERY telling how full the Shrine is. If they cannot round up 6300 people from all over California, including all the Sea Org staff and all those ideal orgs, it would be a VERY poor show. In fact, according to the hype, they are coming from all over the world. I guess they ALREADY know they cannot get 6300 people together in LA from the largest scientology third dynamic on earth!(r).

Tags: AOLA, ASHO, Author Services Inc, California, CCHR, David Miscavige, Glendale, Hollywood, Los Angeles, New Year's Eve, OCA, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Sec Check, Shrine Auditorium, TIME

According to affidavits recently filed by fifteen ex-Scientologists, church members allege that Cruise has profited for years from a system under which parishioners have been ordered to complete projects for the superstar. From home renovations to auto repair and personal assistant tasks, these Scientologists claim in court papers that they were told to do any number of things to keep the Church's most prominent member happy. The affidavits were filed on December 3 as part of Monique Rathbun's lawsuit against the church and its leader, David Miscavige.

Tags: 2004, Amy Scobee, Beverly Hills, Celebrity Centre, Colorado, Copyright, David Miscavige, Florida, Former Scientologists, Hollywood, Jenna Miscavige Hill, John Brousseau, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Marty Rathbun, Monique Rathbun, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Telluride, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, Village Voice

The disintegration of the Radical Church in South Africa is rolling forward at a rapid clip. The Sea Org Missionaires sent to try and regain control of the train that left the station are doing their best imitation of kamikaze pilots as they head straight down and vertical in a spectacular suicide mission. Not only did they arrive with a bang and declare 18 prominent OTs and field Opinion Leaders (including the biggest supporters of the Ideal Orgs in South Africa) they are now conducting a witch hunt "Comm Ev" that is soliciting rumors and "declaring" the next round of those who are not in agreement with their gestapo tactics. This is a failed mission floundering around in a scene that is far worse than what they expected to find. It's a suicide mission if ever there was one.... And that brings us to Ryan Hogarth.

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Laura DeCrescenzo (center) with Marc and Claire Headley as word emerged that Scientology's motion for summary judgment had been defeated The Church of Scientology has already demonstrated that it will go to extraordinary lengths to fight and derail the lawsuit filed in 2009 by former Sea Org member Laura DeCrescenzo. Just to contest an order to turn over evidence in the lawsuit, for example, Scientology filed multiple appeals — even petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court — but was ultimately forced to fork over the 18,000 pages of documentation which bolstered Laura's case that she was manipulated as a child worker of the church, including being compelled to have an abortion at 17. With that evidence in hand, Laura won a huge victory in October when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian denied Scientology's motion for summary judgment. Finally, after four years, Laura's case was headed for trial. But now, Scientology, perhaps predictably, has attempted to throw up a new set of hurdles to prevent Laura's evidence from being heard by a jury. And one of those hurdles is truly stunning.

Tags: 2009, 2014, 2015, Abortion, California, CCHR, Christie Collbran, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, Deposition, Facebook, First Amendment, Judge Ronald Sohigian, Laura DeCrescenzo, Los Angeles Superior Court, Quicky, Scott Pilutik, Sea Org, US Supreme Court

David Miscavige and his advisors experiencing the disconnect between their view of how a psychiatric exam feels versus how most of us feel when we talk to a psychiatrist. Fetch... the COMFY CHAIR! And if that doesn't work, the CUSHIONS! Two major news items today. First, both sides filed their trial schedule in the Laura DiCrescenzo case. Of course, Laura's side has a fairly straightforward schedule, but the cult has a byzantine process involving multiple mini-trials, with two weeks spent in the first such just arguing about First Amendment issues. And of course, while Miscavige's fingerprints are mostly absent from this document, he still managed to get into the text a demand that Laura be forced to undergo a psychiatric exam as part of the case. It's straight out of Monty Python. The second major news item is the SP declaration of long-time staff member Ryan Hogarth from the South African branch of the cult, causing the African Scientology blog to speculate that the entire South African community could easily secede from the cult as the Haifa, Israel mission did.

Tags: 2012, Africa, Cockroach, David Miscavige, First Amendment, Haifa, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Israel, Jeff Pomerantz, Jim Bakker, Kirstie Alley, Marc Headley, Marty Rathbun, Mary McConnell, Mike Rinder, Narconon Arrowhead, Office of Special Affairs, Quicky, Religious worker, Ryan Hogarth, South Africa, Super Power, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, WhyWeProtest

(USE UK PROXY TO UNBLOCK THIS VIDEO! https://uk.proxfree.com/permalink.php...) SFAnon remembers Lisa McPherson. Foundation Scientologist "Mom" proves once again that Scientologists are drilled to laugh whenever Lisa McPherson is mentioned. LOVE and best wishes to all the Scientologists still inside. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of...

Tags: Lisa McPherson, Quicky, San Francisco, UK

Thanks to everyone who participated in the past lives survey, and for the wonderful detail and discussions. Here is a follow up survey on the subject of 'between lives.' 1. If you are one of the approximately 1/4 of responders who noted there are implant stations awaiting us after death, please answer the following:

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Just saw the news that Jenni Rivera, the Mexican-American singer from Los Angeles, is missing after her plane lost contact with air traffic controllers in Mexico. (The latest news is that wreckage of the plane was found, and there were no survivors. This is really sad news.) A decade ago, when we were writing for a newspaper in LA that doesn't exist anymore, New Times LA, we had the privilege of getting to know the Rivera family, in particular Jenni, who was already a huge star among the Latino population there but completely unknown by the mainstream media. We wanted to share with you the wonderful young woman we got to know at the end of 2001.

Tags: 1984, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, Los Angeles, Lynwood, Mexico, New Times Los Angeles, Quicky

Once again our tipsters have come through for us this week, and we have another diverting set of Scientology fundraising mailers for our Sunday Funnies. We're counting on our formidable commenting community to analyze, synthesize, and deconstruct these latest dispatches from David Miscavige's leaky barge of a church. Is there a common theme running through them? We'll let you decide.

Tags: 2000, Chicago, David Miscavige, Hollywood Boulevard, Ideal Org, Los Angeles, OT VIII, Quicky, Scientology staff, Sunday Funnies, Youth for Human Rights International

Episode 5 of the Ricky Gervais sitcom "Life's Too Short" starring Warwick Davies.

Tags: Quicky, Ricky Gervais, Warwick Davies

I have written before about Miscavige's disdain for and patent attempts to pander to African Americans in a bid to make his Human Trafficking operations "hip": Clear African Americans Convention Funeral for a Friend - (see essay attached The Church of Scientology is Dead.)

Tags: 2003, Africa, Clear, David Miscavige, Harlem, Inglewood, International Association of Scientologists, Los Angeles, Nation of Islam, Quicky

On November 18, we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of copies of L. Ron Hubbard's previously unpublished "Orders of the Day," which he gave to crew members as he sailed the Mediterranean. Our documents cover the period from 1968 to 1971, and this time we're looking at what was happening the week of December 4 through 10 during those years. After the jump, LRH names the evil entity that is trying to sabotage Scientology... 1968

Tags: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 2000, Advanced Org, ANZO, Apollo, Class VI, Clear, Dianetics, Grade IV, Janet Guilford, L. Ron Hubbard, Mediterranean, Operating Thetan, Orders of the Day, OT, OT VII, Perth, Politician, Quicky, Review, Sea Org, SMERSH, Spain, Western Australia, Wogs

Scientology Pageant was first performed off Broadway seven years ago, but this will be its Florida premiere, right in the back yard of Scientology's spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. When Kyle Jarrow, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the show, heard it was being done in the Tampa Bay area, the irony was not lost on him. "Wow!" Jarrow told the St. Petersburg Times when the production was announced in November. "Clearwater is almost ground zero for Scientology. That's sure to be extra controversial."

Tags: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, Clearwater, Critic, Dianetics, E-meter, Florida, Jesus Christ, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa, Tom Cruise, Xenu

On Tuesday night thirty Seattle area Independents gathered for an evening of high-toned cameraderie. On Wednesday afternoon we stopped by the local Idle Org to see how we compared in number and relative tone. Here's the raw data:

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Date of Broadast: 9 December 2009 Bryan Seymour, of Australias TODAY TONIGHT programme, investigates how the countrys GREEN PARTY is supporting Senator Nick Xenophons proposal for an Official Senate Enquiry into Scientology and the inappropriate education given at Scientology Schools. Rather than adhering to state-approved education methods, Scientology Schools use the unsuitable and unacceptable teachings of Scientology founder, L Ron Hubbard. These inappropriate methods are known as Applied Scholastics or Study Tech within the cult.

Tags: Applied Scholastics, Australia, Bryan Seymour, L. Ron Hubbard, Nick Xenophon, Quicky, Study Tech

Judith Richmond, 41, who was suffering from bi-polar disorder, also known as manic depression, had become obsessed with scientology, and a belief that metal was poisoning her daughter Millie and the whole planet. Mrs Richmond, who had provided flowers for the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the rock band Pink Floyd, believed her daughter's condition was due to metal poisoning and not to cerebral palsy.

Tags: Jude Richmond, Suicide

In his experience, leaders of the Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals seemed more concerned about getting him to attend Marxist indoctrination sessions and using his work on the farmworker litigation case to recruit new volunteers and members than about actually succeeding with the suit: "The organization itself was more of a hindrance than a help." Palik split with the group in 2002. According to ex-members Whitnack and Fahlberg, professionals such as doctors and lawyers are to NatlFed what movie stars are to Scientology. They're recruited to lend authority to the group, but aren't necessarily informed of its core revolutionary mission, and are not required to endure the isolation and other privations of full-time members.

Mrs Richmond, whose customers included the Queen Mother, had suffered a mental breakdown and become obsessed with Scientology. She also developed a theory that her daughter's illness was caused by an allergy to metallic objects, and began administering experimental treatments.

Tags: BBC, Jude Richmond, Mental breakdown, Murder, New Zealand, Richmond, Suicide, UK

Concerned that a proposed anti-picketing ordinance might be too restrictive – and that it did not address the issue that inspired it – the Board of Supervisors Tuesday backed away from the measure, but indicated it may be brought back in different form. "I don't agree we should abandon this completely, but I want us as united on this as possible," said Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone, who sponsored the measure.

Tags: AnonOrange, Anonymous, Bob Buster, Int Base, Jeff Stone, Riverside County, Roy Wilson

A divided Riverside County Board of Supervisors is expected today to approve an ordinance to restrict residential picketing. Supervisor Jeff Stone's proposed measure would confine "targeted picketing" to no closer than 300 feet of a person's residence. The "time, place and manner" restriction, which would apply to residents living in unincorporated communities, is necessary in light of recent protests at a religious compound, according to Stone. His chief of staff, Verne Lauritzen, identified members of the Church of Scientology in San Jacinto as inspiration for the ordinance.

Tags: Bob Buster, Jeff Stone, Riverside County, Sam Alhadeff, Verne Lauritzen

The Church of Scientology vowed yesterday to invoke America's help in its battle against the German government, which declared it unconstitutional last week in the first step towards an outright ban. Sabine Weber, president of the church in Berlin, said the organisation would drag the German government through the courts and expected to win, with support from the US State Department.

Tags: Germany, Jeannette Schweitzer, Sabine Weber, Wilfried Handl

The centre used to be a shabby shop offering free personality tests. But Scientology has revamped it, and now it's bright and welcoming, as if to forestall the accusation that they might be a secretive cult. A smiling man in a suit smiled at me and invited me to watch a video. "Then I"ll explain some more," he smiled. Did I mention he was smiling? Space aliens notwithstanding, new age kookiness isn't the problem here. The more I explore self-help, the more tolerant I become of those who believe in angels and spirit guides: they're well-meaning, mostly, and if I happen not to share their metaphors for understanding life, so be it. But Scientologists claim to be scientific. (There's a clue in the name.)

Tags: Life Improvement Centre, London, UK

A civil wrongful-death lawsuit, itself now almost 5 years old, alleges church workers let McPherson die Dec. 5, 1995, in the Fort Harrison Hotel, where she spent the last 17 days of her life being cared for by fellow Scientologists. The lawsuit contends that church staffers allowed McPherson, 36, to become so dehydrated she was too weak even to stop cockroaches from biting her. As it did in the criminal case, Scientology has committed exhaustive resources to defending itself, assembling a squadron of top-notch lawyers and nationally known scientists. Observers say the aggressive legal strategy is designed to outlast the opponent, Ken Dandar, a Tampa lawyer representing McPherson's estate. "They are going to and have worked Dandar to a near-death experience," said longtime Clearwater attorney Denis deVlaming, who has represented some of Scientology's harshest critics.

Tags: 1995, 1997, Ben Shaw, Catholic, Clearwater, Cockroach, Dallas, Denis deVlaming, England, Florida, Inside Edition, Joan Wood, Judge Frank Quesada, Judge James Moody, Judge Robert Beach, Judge Susan Schaeffer, Kendrick Moxon, Legal, Lisa McPherson, Lisa McPherson Trust, Patricia Greenway, Pinellas County, Robert Minton, Sandy Weinberg, Tampa, Texas

Government officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status today, saying it does not provide any public services. Scientologists said they would appeal the decision, announced by the Charity Commission, which regulates charities. The commission said the church did not meet the essential test for charitable status - "that of conferring public benefit."

Tags: Graeme Wilson, UK, UK Charity Commission

LONDON (AP) _ Government officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status on Thursday, saying it does not provide any public services. Scientologists said they would appeal the decision, announced by the Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales. The commission said the church did not meet the essential test for charitable status _ "that of conferring public benefit." It said Scientology activities "were private in nature and in the benefit they delivered."

Tags: Buddhist, Charitable, Charity, England, Europe, Germany, Graeme Wilson, Mormon, Quicky, Wales

LONDON (AP) _ Government officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status on Thursday, saying it does not provide any public services. Scientologists said they would appeal the decision, announced by the Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales. The commission said the church did not meet the essential test for charitable status _ "that of conferring public benefit." It said Scientology activities "were private in nature and in the benefit they delivered."

Tags: Buddhist, Charitable, Charity, England, Europe, Germany, Graeme Wilson, Mormon, Quicky, Wales

The ads were purchased by church critics and were to be on buses Saturday through Monday as part of a weekend-long protest against Scientology. Each of the 11 ads carried a different message. Among them: "Think for Yourself. Quit Scientology," "Find out why so many people oppose Dianetics and Scientology" and "Why does Scientology lie to its members?" Scientology representatives began phoning the homes of transit and Clearwater city officials after the buses began rolling Saturday morning. The church argued that the ads violated a state law regarding published material that "tends to expose any individual or any religious group to hatred, contempt, ridicule or (abusive language)."

Tags: 1995, Alan Zimmet, Bob Clark, Calvin Harris, Clearwater, Dianetics, Florida Attorney General, Fort Harrison, Frank Oliver, Lisa McPherson, Marty Rathbun, Mary Story, Miami, Pam Akin, Paul Johnson, Pinellas County, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, Roger Sweeney, Tampa

Some of them are tempests in teapots. The most ludicrous is tacit State Department backing of the claim that Bonn is discriminating against the Church of Scientology, and the recent House International Relations Committee draft resolution calling on the White House to censure Bonn for its stance on Scientology. It was only when the House as a whole voted against the measure that the air cleared.

Tags: Bill Clinton, Germany, Helmut Kohl, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, US State Department