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L'actualité de de la Scientologie - décembre 2011

La scientologie tente de faire son trou dans les prisons (liberation.fr - 31 décembre 2011)

Criminon serait implanté dans 35 pays ! (liberation.fr - 31 décembre 2011)

Russie: interdiction des livres de Ron Hubbard et texte contesté de la secte «Hare Krishna» (20minutes.fr - 28.12.2011)

Anonymous, les pirates masqués du Net (leparisien.fr - 27 décembre 2011)

En Israel une école scientologue a été fermée trois mois après son ouverture (israelnationalnews.com - 21 december 2011)

Protest Shuts Down Scientology Elementary School Mayor shuts down Atid School in Yahud after scientology cult connection exposed (israelnationalnews.com - December 21, 2011)

Scientology Kids: Fully Indoctrinated by 18 (blogs.villagevoice.com - December 20, 2011)

Philippe Seghin, le mayeur de Fontaine-l’Evêque (Be), a dit non aux stands de la scientologie (lanouvellegazette.be - 20.12.11)

Basler Scientology-Hauptsitz verkauft (Mittellandzeitung, December 11, .2011)

Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination (Flag order - 9 may 1973)

Tom Cruise paie des acteurs pour jouer aux fans sur son passage (melty.fr - 7 décembre 2011)

Tom Cruise en Inde: 200 personnes payées pour l'acclamer ! (staragora.com - 8 décembre 2011)

Video: Tom Cruise arrive en Inde en héros ... (staragora.com - 8 décembre 2011)

Melissa Paris, Valeska's Sister, And Her Own Ordeal in Scientology's Cadet and Sea Orgs: Forced to Marry at 16 (The Village Voice / December 1, 2011)

 

La Scientologie drague les détenus français

par Philippe Desmazes

AFP - Publié le 30 décembre 2011
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Des détenus à la prison de Fresnes (Val-de-Marne)

Parmi les activités diverses de l'Eglise de scientologie, on compte un programme de réinsertion des détenus baptisé Criminon. Les prisonniers français, démarchés, ne sont pas toujours avertis que l'organisation, considérée comme une secte par la Commission d'enquête parlementaire sur les sectes de 1995, se cache derrière cette filière.

Un "code moral" qui permettrait d'éliminer la récidive

Criminon revendique une chute drastique du taux de récidive et la réduction de la violence à l'intérieur des prisons où des détenus suivent le programme. L'action de l'association consiste d'abord en une brochure rédigée par le fondateur de la Scientologie, L. Ron Hubbard, présenté comme un "humaniste" par les démarcheurs, intitulée Le Chemin du bonheur.

Les préceptes de ce texte, au nombre de 21, préconisent: "Donnez le bon exemple", "ne volez pas", ou encore "ne faites rien d'illégal". Le Chemin du bonheur représente un "code moral non religieux exclusivement basé sur le bon sens", détaille Gilbert Canali, le président de Criminon France, dans Libération, vendredi 30 décembre. D'après lui, une soixantaine de détenus suivraient des cours par correspondance en France.

Les membres et bénévoles de Criminon écrivent directement aux prisonniers. Comme à Patrice, détenu à Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), qui a signalé ces courriers à l'Observatoire internationale des prisons (OIP): "J'ai passé une petite annonce en précisant que je souhaitais correspondre avec une femme, et (…) on me propose des cours gratuits pour ma réinsertion et mon amélioration personnelle."

Criminon nie les accusations de prosélytisme

"Nous ne poussons pas les détenus à entrer à la Scientologie", affirme toutefois Gilbert Canali. Mais pour Georges Fenech, le président de la Mission interministérielle de lutte et de vigilance contre les dérives sectaires (Miviludes), "le prosélytisme constitue une part de son activité". "Criminon s'attaque à une population vulnérable qui ne peut (…) vérifier qui est derrière cette organisation", affirme-t-il à Libération.

L'OIP souligne que la filière de la Scientologie "démarche aussi dans les lieux fréquentés par les familles de détenus", indique Libération. Et que ces derniers, censés recevoir des informations sur la Scientologie de la part de l'administration pénitentiaire, n'ont pas bénéficié de ces renseignements.

Malgré la réponse négative de Patrice, le détenu de Fresnes, les démarcheurs de Criminon ont insisté. Selon Georges Fenech, "ils veulent convaincre [les prisonniers] de quitter la démarche psy". Car les Scientologues n'aiment pas beaucoup les psychiatres. A commencer par Tom Cruise, véritable ambassadeur de l'organisation, pour qui il s'agit d'une "pseudo science".

Mais les méthodes de Criminon ne sont basées sur aucune étude scientifique, et les résultats avancés ainsi que le nombre de détenus qui suivraient le programme n'ont jamais été vérifiés ni fait l'objet de rapports indépendants.

FTVi

 

La scientologie tente de faire son trou dans les prisons

Par Sonya Faure

http://www.liberation.fr/... - 31 décembre 2011
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Vue du nouveau centre pénitentiaire de Réau, le 13 septembre 2011,
avant son ouverture en octobre. (© AFP Bertrand Guay)

Par l’entremise de l’association Criminon, les disciples de Ron Hubbard se proposent d’aider les détenus. Mais se défendent de tout prosélytisme.

Enquête

C’est d’abord un échange de courriers, au printemps: «Bonjour Patrice, j’ai trouvé votre annonce dans le journal l’Itinérant, et je vous écris pour vous proposer un cours par correspondance gratuit. Il s’appelle le Chemin du bonheur.» La lettre à l'écriture manuscrite est signée «Marie-Hélène», bénévole à l’association Criminon.

Elle dit aussi: «Ce cours, basé sur les travaux de l’humaniste américain Ron Hubbard, comporte 20 leçons.» La correspon- dance a de quoi surprendre Patrice, détenu à Fresnes (Val-de-Marne): «J’ai passé une petite annonce en précisant que je souhaitais correspondre avec une femme et, cette semaine, on me propose des cours gratuits pour ma réinsertion et mon amélioration personnelle, alors que je n’ai rien demandé de tel», s’agace-t-il dans un courrier à l’Observatoire international des prisons (OIP).

Criminon est une association proche de l’Eglise de la scientologie, une «filière», dit la Miviludes, la mission interministérielle qui lutte contre les sectes.«Le prosélytisme constitue une part de son activité. Comme l’association Narconon, qui dit lutter contre la drogue, Criminon s’attaque à une population vulnérable qui ne peut "s’échapper" face aux propositions qui lui sont faites, ni, de sa cellule, vérifier qui est derrière cette organisation», explique Georges Fenech, président de la Miviludes.

Bouillabaisse

Officiellement, l’association prône un programme de lutte contre la délinquance («criminon» comme «non au crime») reposant sur les «travaux» de Hubbard, le fondateur de la Scientologie: «Au début des années 50, Hubbard a été agent spécial à la police de Los Angeles», assure Gilbert Canali, le président de Criminon France, 53 ans, dont vingt-huit dans la Scientologie. Hubbard en a profité pour écrire un «livret», un «code moral non religieux exclusivement basé sur le bon sens», assurent ses partisans: le Chemin du bonheur, également nom de l’association jumelle de Criminon.

Les dépliants du Chemin du bonheur présentent, derrière le «bon sens», une bouillabaisse inepte: «Essayez de traiter les autres comme vous voudriez qu’ils vous traitent»; «Ne soyez pas de mœurs faciles». «C’est d’une niaiserie… s’agace Georges Fenech. L’un des 21 préceptes dit: "Ne faites rien d’illégal." Quand on s’adresse à des gens qui ont été condamnés …»

Gilbert Canali explique le programme: «Les détenus lisent les textes sur les 21 vertus, répondent à des questions de compréhension, puis nous leur demandons de les appliquer. Un détenu nous a par exemple dit qu’il avait coupé les cheveux d’un de ses codétenus. Le gars se rend compte qu’il crée les bons effets autour de lui, qu’il n’est pas qu’une crapule …»

Canali ne cache pas les tentatives de Criminon pour entrer en contact avec les détenus, mais réfute tout prosélytisme: «Nous ne poussons pas les détenus à entrer à la Scientologie.» Il revendique 30 membres actifs, tous bénévoles, et tous scientologues. Une soixantaine de détenus suivraient les cours, «mais ça ne veut pas dire qu’ils vont jusqu’au bout», reconnaît-il.

Mais, la Scientologie ne lâche pas les détenus. Patrice, le prisonnier de Fresnes, a répondu à «Marie-Hélène» qu’il ne voulait rien avoir à faire avec Criminon. Peine perdue, elle le relance, pour «améliorer les conditions de [son] futur». Et joint à sa lettre un coupon de réponse et des «témoignages de détenus ayant terminé le cours».

En France, le programme Criminon, qui existe depuis 1998, a du mal à décoller. Il inquiète malgré tout Georges Fenech: «Avec leurs préceptes incolores et inodores, ils tentent de prendre à l’hameçon cette population carcérale qui a plus qu'ailleurs des problèmes d’ordre psychiatrique. Ils veulent les convaincre de quitter la démarche psy et en faire de parfaits scientologues.» Car la psychiatrie est l’ennemi juré de la Scientologie: «Nous avons quelques récriminations contre les psys … reconnaît Canali. Et, dans les prisons, ils sont surtout là pour donner des tranquillisants.»

«Criminon démarche aussi dans les lieux fréquentés par les familles de détenus, alerte Samuel Gautier, de l’OIP. Fin novembre 2010, un visiteur de prison nous informait avoir été démarché par un membre de Criminon aux portes de la maison d’arrêt d’Angers, alors qu’il attendait l’ouverture des portes pour le parloir.»

L’administration pénitentiaire (qui n’a pas voulu répondre aux questions de Libération) a participé à des réunions avec la Miviludes. Elle est censée remettre aux détenus contactés des documents d’information sur la Scientologie. Voire, si le prosélytisme va trop loin, faire un signalement au parquet. «Les détenus nous ont dit ne pas avoir été informés par l'administration», note Samuel Gautier, de l’OIP.

«déstabilisation»

En mars, le député PS Jean-Jacques Urvoas avait alerté, à l’Assemblée nationale, le ministre de la Justice. Qui lui répondait: «L’administration pénitentiaire a fait le choix de traiter la question du prosélytisme en détention en la restituant dans le cadre plus global de la radicalisation. L’enjeu est de prendre la mesure de toutes les formes de mouvements concertés de déstabilisation des détentions.»

Le but est moins de prévenir les détenus que de lutter, dans une perspective de sécurité, contre «des dérives qui menacent l’équilibre des établissements» - c’est l’islamisme qui est avant tout visé. L’administration est prise entre plusieurs impératifs: respecter la liberté de pensée et de culte, tout en luttant contre le prosélytisme.

En mai, la cour administrative d’appel de Paris a donné tort à l’Etat, qui refusait le statut d’aumônier des prisons aux ministres du culte des Témoins de Jéhovah.

Criminon serait implanté dans 35 pays !

35: c’est le nombre de pays où Criminon serait installé. En France, l’association revendique une présence à Nice, Angers, Vannes et Bordeaux.

Criminon: Ce programme de la Scientologie veut «améliorer les aptitudes» des détenus, leur enseigner à mieux communiquer avec autrui, reconnaître «les personnes antisociales» ou «apprendre à apprendre».

«Chaque personne détenue doit pouvoir satisfaire aux exigences de sa vie religieuse, morale ou spirituelle.»

Article 26 de la loi pénitentiaire de 2009


L'armée suisse manipulée par la scientologie

René Siegrist premier prêtre ordonné par la scientologie à être exempté de l'armée suisse ! (DMF - mai 2005)

 

Scientology Kids: Fully Indoctrinated by 18

By Tony Ortega Tue., Dec. 20 2011

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/12/scientology_kid.php
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On Sunday, we published a disturbing new document which was produced by Scientology recruiters in Australia. It purports to be the testimony of an 18-year-old named Denny Chang, who extols the virtues of Scientology's most hardcore contingent, the Sea Org, and urges other young church members to join.

After talking with experienced former Sea Org members, it's now clear that young Chang, judging by his own words, probably started his career in the elite troop at only 14 or 15 years of age. And now at 18, when his former schoolmates might be heading off to college, Chang is convinced that Scientology provides an answer for everything: "I started to realize that Scientology is really the only way out," he writes.

The mailer Chang appears on was not one of Scientology's advertisements to the general public. It was an e-mail flier sent out to church members -- the Voice regularly obtains such mailers from various Scientology organizations around the US and Australia, and we publish three of them each Sunday morning.

This one was a recruiting notice for the Sea Org, Scientology's elite corps, whose members are required to sign billion-year contracts and serve the church, lifetime after lifetime.

In his testimonial, Chang relates that as he becomes an adult, he's already an experienced Sea Org officer...

I'm 18 years old; I'm already an experienced Professional Course Supervisor and a permanent Class IV auditor. And I'm a Commodore's Messenger Organization staff member.

As we've been reporting lately, recruiting to the Sea Org for very young church members - some as young as ten years old - can be very intense.

Melissa Paris joined the Sea Org at only 15 years of age, and a year later was forced into a marriage she didn't want, she told us in a lengthy interview recently. And if Scientology itself often justifies the way it treats Sea Org members by comparing it to the Jesuits or some other ascetic religious order, the experience of Melissa, her sister Valeska, and many other former Sea Org members we've talked to makes it sound much more like a cheap force of manual labor than anything spiritual. Valeska joined the Sea Org at only 14, and she became suddenly famous last month when her incredible story -- that she was held against her will on Scientology's private cruise ship, the Freewinds, from 1996 to 2007 -- became public. She urged us also to talk to her younger sister Melissa, who labored for the Sea Org in the UK as a teenager.

Melissa told us that she had worked for four years doing manual labor at L. Ron Hubbard's estate in England -- more than half of it while still a child, under 18 -- for a total of about $40.

I asked Melissa to read Denny Chang's testimony and estimate for me how much time it would take for him to reach his current level of experience.

"Years," she responded. "Pro supervisor is 6 months to a year. Class IV auditor is easily a year and that's studying every day -- he said that he did it on his own time. Probably longer. I'd say he's been in since 14-15 years old if not younger."

I also reached out to another woman who joined the Sea Org very young, Ramana Dienes-Browning, and who knew Valeska Paris on the Freewinds. In her own lengthy interview, Ramana told us that she first visited the ship with her mother, and while her mother was taking classes nearby, Ramana was subject to intense recruiting by older Sea Org members. She relented, and joined the Sea Org at only 15 years of age.

"The pressure was so intense. And you have to also remember, I'd been raised to be in awe of Sea Org members, to almost fear them. These were L. Ron Hubbard's messengers," she told us in that interview.

I asked Ramana to give me an estimate of how long Denny Chang has been laboring for the Sea Org.

I would say at least two to three years, possibly closer to four. I cannot see him getting from Pro Metering to having completed his Class IV Internship in under this time, specially since he says he was studying outside of post time. This means two and a half hours per day of study. There are loads of variables but this would be my best estimation. This would mean he joined when he was 15 or 16 and possibly younger.

She added that Denny's enthusiastic testimony was actually "so sad."

I would like to hear from our Australian readers, particularly ex-church members. Does anyone know Denny's family? For Ramana and the Paris sisters, it was extremely difficult to resist Sea Org recruiting when they had grown up in the church, and had known nothing else as Scientology kids. Is that the case in the Chang family?

As we wind down this year -- and next week should be very fun with awards we have to give out -- it is still important to recognize that the stories we've been hearing lately from Valeska and Melissa Paris, from Ramana Dienes-Browning, and from so many others who say they were forced into marriages, forced into abortions, and worked like slave labor while still in their teens, are not stories from the distant past. Scientology still very much wants your impressionable child to do its work at pennies on the hour and with utter dedication to an illusory goal -- the "clearing" of the planet.

 

Fontaine-l’Evêque (Belgique): la scientologie veut un stand au marché

http://www.lanouvellegazette.be/... - 20/12 /2011
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Philippe Seghin a dit non à la scientologie (crédit: D.G.)

Après avoir tenu un stand en plein marché dominical de Charleroi fin novembre, l’église de la scientologie s’est intéressée à celui de Fontaine-l’Evêque. Philippe Seghin, le mayeur, a balayé d’un revers de la main cette initiative.

L’église de la scientologie est décidément bien intéressée par la région carolorégienne. Après avoir déposé ses caisses de livres et de DVD au marché dominical de Charleroi il y a quelques semaines, voilà qu’elle se tourne vers celui de la commune de Fontaine-l’Evêque. Un de ses adeptes a sollicité Philippe Seghin, le bourgmestre, via un mail.

“Il voulait me rencontrer pour m’exposer la philosophie humanitaire et sociale de l’église de scientologie, raconte le mayeur. De plus, il me demandait si c’était possible de tenir un stand au marché public de Fontaine-l’Evêque, pour y vendre des livres et des DVD sur ce mouvement spirituel.”

La réponse du mandataire politique fontainois à cette double demande ? Non, non et encore non. Et, pas question de transiger.

“Je ne veux pas lui ouvrir la porte de notre marché public, assène-t-il. Loin de là. Je ne veux pas que cet organisme fasse du prosélytisme dans ma commune !”

 

Russie: interdiction des livres de Ron Hubbard et texte contesté de la secte «Hare Krishna»

http://www.20minutes.fr/... - 28.12.11
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Un tribunal russe a rejeté ce mardi une action intentée par des procureurs pour faire interdire la Bhagavad-Gita, l'un des principaux textes sacrés de l'hindouisme, en l'inscrivant sur une liste d'ouvrages bannis à l'instar du "Mein Kampf" d'Adolf Hitler. La Russie espère que cette décision dissipera le tollé de protestations provoqué en Inde par les accusations émises par des procureurs de Tomsk, en Sibérie, contre une traduction de la Bhagavad-Gita jugée hostile à d'autres confessions.

Traduction en 1984

Des élus indiens ayant obligé leur parlement à ajourner ses travaux la semaine dernière en exigeant que soient protégés les droits des hindouistes, le chef de la diplomatie indienne avait condamné des poursuites en justice qu'il estimait "de toute évidence absurdes" et soulevé la question auprès de la Russie.

Cherchant à prévenir un incident diplomatique, le ministère russe des Affaires étrangères a souligné que les procureurs n'avaient pas dénoncé le livre sacré en tant que tel mais une préface controversée écrite en 1968 par un fondateur du mouvement Hare Krishna, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, et intitulée (La Bhagavad-Gita) "Telle qu'elle est". Le livre a été traduit du sanskrit en russe en 1984.

Délit passible de sanction

"Je répète que ce n'est pas le livre lui-même qui est en cause, mais sa traduction malheureuse et la préface rédigée par cet auteur", souligne sur le site internet du ministère son porte-parole Alexandre Loukachevitch.

La liste des ouvrages interdits en Russie s'est allongée pour dépasser le millier de textes. On y trouve notamment des écrits publiés par les Témoins de Jehovah, des livres du fondateur de la Scientologie, Ron L. Hubbard, et du théologien islamique turc Saïd Nursi. Une fois un texte interdit, sa possession devient un délit passible de sanction.

— Avec Reuters

 

Anonymous, les pirates masqués du Net

http://www.leparisien.fr/... - 27 décembre 2011
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Francfort (Allemagne), le 15 novembre. Des membres d’Anonymous manifestent contre la puissance
des marchés financiers devant la Banque centrale européenne | (DAPD/THOMAS LOHNES)

Défense du Printemps arabe, intrusion sur le site de l’UMP … Le collectif de hackers, célèbre depuis ses attaques contre la Scientologie, multiplie ses raids informatiques. Radiographie de cette nouvelle forme de contestation.

Le collectif Anonymous promettait une fin d’année «épique». Il n’a pas menti.

Le jour de Noël, Stratfor, une société texane spécialisée dans l’intelligence économique et le renseignement, a été piratée par ce mouvement à la composition extrêmement mouvante qui dit agir au nom de la défense des libertés.

Anonymous a notamment dévoilé la liste secrète des clients de Stratfor, parmi lesquels rien moins que l’armée américaine, la police de New York, des banques comme Goldman Sachs ou JP Morgan et au moins 3 entreprises françaises, Auchan, Accenture et BNP Paribas! Par ailleurs, le groupe assure disposer désormais de plus de 200 gigas d’e-mails ainsi que des coordonnées personnelles et bancaires de plus de 4000 personnes. Anonymous prétend également s’être servi de ces coordonnées bancaires pour réaliser plus de 1 M$ de dons à des ONG, copies d’écrans à l’appui.

Audio: Interview de Nicolas Danet, co-auteur avec Frédéric Bardeau,
de «Anonymous - Peuvent-ils changer le monde ?»

Une idée partagée et non un groupe

Défendant tour à tour l’action de Wikileaks, les révolutionnaires du Printemps arabe, le mouvement des Indignés ou d'Occupy Wall Street, ces pirates de la Toile - dont on ignore le nombre exact - n’hésitent pas à franchir les barrières de la légalité pour dénoncer des injustices et s’en prendre à ceux qu’ils considèrent comme leurs ennemis.

S’ils attirent la sympathie des internautes, qui sont des centaines de milliers à suivre leurs faits et gestes sur les réseaux sociaux, les Anonymous sont dans le viseur des gouvernements et des institutions internationales telles que l’Otan, qui a assimilé au cours de l’été leur action à des «actes de guerre». Plusieurs membres d’Anonymous ont d’ailleurs été arrêtés cet été aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre et en Espagne. Ces arrestations ont mis un coup d’arrêt à leurs opérations, mais, comme ses membres l’affirment, «Anonymous est légion» et surtout «une idée partagée et non un groupe». Ce qui est également sa principale faiblesse.

Faute de ligne directrice, les dissensions au sein du mouvement sont nombreuses, comme à l’occasion de l’attaque contre Stratfor, qui a été dénoncée par certains membres. Par ailleurs, parce que n’importe qui peut se revendiquer d’Anonymous, le mouvement pourrait se faire instrumentaliser. Si la députée et secrétaire nationale UMP au numérique, Laure de La Raudière, «dénonce ce genre de pratiques illégales», elle reconnaît qu’il pose, certes abruptement, la question très sérieuse de la sécurisation des données personnelles sur Internet.

«Les entreprises, notamment françaises, mais aussi les particuliers ne sont pas suffisamment sensibilisés à ces questions. Internet oblige, il faut ouvrir une réflexion sur la responsabilité des entreprises et la sécurisation des données personnelles au niveau international.» La prochaine attaque d’Anonymous accélérera peut-être, cette prise de conscience.


Bibliographie: «Anonymous – Pirates ou altermondialistes numériques ?» (Editions FYP - décembre 2011)

Audio: Interview de Nicolas Danet co-auteur de «Anonymous – Pirates ou altermondialistes numériques ?» (Radio Nova - décembre 2011)

Vidéo: Interview de Frédéric Bardeau, Co-auteur de "Anonymous: peuvent-ils changer le monde ?" (France 24 - 20 déc. 2011)

Commentaire de Frederic Bardeau au sujet de son interview réalisée pour France 24 (whyweprotest - 30 décembre 2011)

 

En Israel une école scientologue a été fermée trois mois après son ouverture

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/... - 21 december 2011

Résumé:

Le maire de Yahud, Yossi Ben-David, a fait fermer cette école scientologue élémentaire au motif de la non-déclaration de ses liens avec la scientologie cette décision fait suite à une  plainte d'un enseignant, père d'un élève, qui a contacté l'association antisectaire Yad l'Achim.

Ce n'est pas la première fois que la scientologie se fait vivement critiquer ou que l'un de ses centres est fermé. La justice a par exemple fermé le centre de Jaffa car il refusait de payer les travaux commandés à un entrepreneur. Quant à l'avocat Gur Finkelstein que la scientologie avait engagé il a été inculpé pour une tentative de meurtre d'un cheikh musulman.

Un avocat d’affaire proche du mouvement scientologue a été arrêté pour tentative d’assassinat (jssnews.com - 20 Sept 2011)


Protest Shuts Down Scientology Elementary School Mayor
shuts down Atid School in Yahud after scientology cult connection exposed.

By Gil Ronen

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/... - 21 december 2011

(detail) Anti-cult poster in Yahud / Yad L'Achim

The new Atid ("Future") private elementary school in Yahud closed its doors this week after the city's mayor, Yossi Ben-David, gave instructions to shut it down. Anti-missionary and cult NGO Yad L'Achim reports that the school, which opened its doors in September, was Israel's first and only school run in accordance with the precepts of the scientology cult.

The schools' scientology connection was not known until recently. Yad L'Achim says that the father of a pupil in the school noticed that a schoolbook his son received was not recognized by the Ministry of Education. The father – who is an educator himself – turned to Yad L'Achim, which found that the book is based upon the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, scientology's founder.

The initial suspicion was strengthened when the NGO discovered that the school's principal is an active member of the scientology cult's Tel Aviv center.

Once this became known, residents of Yahud began holding protests outside the Yahud-Monoson municipality and next to the school. At their request, the mayor convened an urgent meeting on the subject. In the meeting, residents reportedly showed him evidence of a direct connection between the school and a scientology front organization called "The Amuta [non-profit organization – ed.] for Advanced Education in Israel."

Ben-David handed the matter over to the City Rabbi, Rav Shlomo Tuvim, who determined that the school was indeed connected to the scientology cult. Yad L'Achim says that the mayor issued an order shutting down the school this week, after the school's management was unable to provide him with necessary approvals from the Ministry of Education.

 

Basler Scientology-Hauptsitz verkauft

Mittellandzeitung - 11.12.2011
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Die Sekte plant aber, einen neuen Tempel, ein so genanntes Ideal-Org- Gebäude, in Basel zu bauen. Die Veräusserung des Grundstücks am Herrengrabenweg ist abgewickelt: Neuer Besitzer ist die Swiss Immo Trust AG.

Aline Wanner. Nun ist klar, wer der neue Eigentümer des rund tausend Quadratmeter grossen Grundstücks am Herrengrabenweg 56 ist: die Aktiengesellschaft Swiss Immo Trust AG mit Sitz in Kaiseraugst. Die Firma kaufte die Parzelle der SK Basel GmbH ab, deren Geschäftsführer Scientology-Basel-Präsident Patrick Schnidrig ist. Heute befindet sich am Herrengrabenweg der Basler Hauptsitz von Scientology. Die Sekte plant aber, einen neuen Tempel, ein so genanntes Ideal-Org- Gebäude, in Basel zu bauen. Scientology bestätigte, dass sie deshalb in der Region mögliche neue Standorte prüfte. Im Frühjahr kaufte Schnidrig zusammen mit einem Zürcher Scientologen an der Burgfelderstrasse ein rund viertausend Quadratmeter grosses Grundstück, wie Recherchen des «Sonntag» zeigten.

Ein Gebäude dort steht leer, in einem ist der Baukonzern Implenia eingemietet. Schnidrig gibt an, dass der Mietvertrag mit der Scientology-Kirche am Herrengrabenweg vorerst noch weiterlaufe. Bis Ende November wollte die Sekte eigentlich bekannt geben, wie weit die Planung des neuen Tempels in Basel bereits vorangeschritten sei. Schnidrig verweist nun aber auf Ende Jahr: Er hoffe, dass der Entscheid bis dann definitiv gefallen sei.

DIE SWISS IMMO TRUST BESTÄTIGT, dass sie die Parzelle am Herrengrabenweg künftig nicht mehr als Standort für den Scientology-Kirche nutzen will. Das sagt der Verwaltungsrat der Swiss Immo Trust, David Wirz, gegenüber dem «Sonntag». Eine Umnutzung in eine reine Wohnimmobilie sei sinnvoll, da sich das Objekt in einer typischen Wohnzone befinde, schreibt Wirz. Und erklärt weiter: «Im Laufe des nächsten Jahres werden sicher Vorabklärungen in diese Richtung stattfinden.» Falls positiv, werde anschliessend ein Projekt für eine vollständige Sanierung samt Umnutzung zum reinen Wohnbau ausgearbeitet.

DAVID WIRZ GRÜNDETE zusammen mit Rudolf Flösser 2007 die Vorläufer-Firma der Swiss Immo Trust AG; die Rioziom Immobilien GmbH. Flösser trat als Gesellschafter, Wirz als Geschäftsführer auf. Zwei Monate später wurde die Firma in eine Aktiengesellschaft umgewandelt und in Swiss Immo Trust AG umgetauft. Seither tritt Flösser offiziell nicht mehr in Erschei- nung mit der Firma, erhielt aber damals für seine Stammanteile Aktien der Swiss Immo Trust. Wirz räumt aber ein, dass Flösser Kontakte zu Scientology pflegte.

Wie weit diese gingen, sei ihm nicht bekannt. Wirz selbst bestreitet, Scientology anzugehören. Er verneint auch, dass die Swiss Immo Trust AG je Geld an die Scientology-Zentrale überwiesen habe. Auch er persönlich habe nie Geld an die Scientology- Sekte gespendet.

Die Swiss Immo Trust AG tauchte allerdings auf einer vom Magazin «Beobachter» herausgegebenen Liste von Scientology- Firmen auf. In der Vergangenheit machte die Swiss Immo Trust AG mehrmals durch Negativschlagzeilen auf sich aufmer- ksam. 2008 kaufte die Immobilienfirma ein Haus in Oberwil, kündete den Mietern und vermietete die Wohnungen zu sehr hohen Preisen an Fans während der Euro 08, bevor die Wohnungen saniert und als Eigentumswohnungen verkauft wurden. 2010 kaufte die Firma zwei über hundert Jahre alte Häuser am Spalenring 78 und 80, die Mieter erhielten trotz Widerstand die Kündigung. Dort sollen 18 neue Eigentumswohnungen entstehen.

 

 

Celebrities and the Sea Organization

SEA ORGANIZATION

FLAG ORDER 3323

    9 May 1973

CELEBRITIES AND THE SEA ORGANIZATION

Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination. They have comm lines that others do not have and màny medias to get their dissemihation through.

Because of their value as disseminators it is unwise to make them staff members working full time as any other Sea Org member does in an Organization, rather they should be allowed to be the Celebrity they are, utilizing their talent, to get them more and more into the public eye. If these Celebrities want to join the Sea Org they may be awarded the status of HONORARY SEA ORG Members.

This title is not given to just any Celebrity but rather to those who have shown and proved their dedication to the Sea Orge. This title is awarded to those Celebrities, this makes them no less a Sea Org member than any other but it does free the Celebrity up to disseminate broadly.

This award is given after an exam given by Celebrity Center Qual Division on Scientology basics, a certificate is issued to the Celebrity Honorary Sea Org member.

A celebrity Honorary SO Member is a Field Staff Member and as an FSM may have a Lounge set aside for them in Celebrity Center especially for the use of disseminating to people; they may not be given offices or Office space; these Celebrities operate on the commissions they make as an FSM they are naturally not on any SO allowance nor do they live in Sea Org premises.

Obviously as they do not work full time in the Org they do not receive Sea Org member services except by Commission awards.

Celebrities are Valuable, treat them thet way; they cen help put more people on the bridge by use of their abilities and their media, those that become Honorary SO Members have shown their dedication and are Welcomed.

Ext HCO Chief
W/0 Kima Dunleavy
Authorized by AVU
for the BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY

BDCS:CJ:KD:nt

 

 

Tom Cruise paie des acteurs pour jouer aux fans sur son passage

par Ju Perret le 7 décembre 2011

http://www.melty.fr/tom-cruise-paie-des-acteurs-pour-jouer-aux-actu87076.html
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Tom Cruise paie des acteurs pour jouer les fans !

Un journal indien révèle que Tom Cruise paie des acteurs pour simuler l'hystérie sur son passage.

melty.fr te raconte tout sur cette supercherie.

A l'instar d'un président qui invite cordialement les adhérents de son parti à le suivre sur ses déplacements afin de créer une ambiance enthousiaste autour de sa venue, Tom Cruise , l'acteur mondialement connu pour ses rôles dans "Mission Impossible" ou notamment "Top Gun" et pour son appartenance à la scientologie a apparemment adopté une méthode à peu près similaire pour faire de jolies images de ses voyages.

Toutefois, il a opté pour une option bien plus radicale: payer directement des comédiens afin qu'ils fassent semblant de le reconnaître et qu'ils simulent l'hystérie sur son passage.

On aurait pourtant pu penser que Tom Cruise, le mari de la jolie Katie Holmes qui était ravissante lors des MTV VMA 2011, n'avait pas besoin de ce genre de stratagème. Déception.

La supercherie a été démasquée lors de son récent voyage en Inde où il était venu promouvoir le nouveau Mission Impossible 4 produit par J.J.Abrams.

Dès son arrivée, Tom Cruise a été chaudement accueilli par plus de 200 personnes hurlant son nom, la carte postale aurait été idyllique si nous n'avions pas appris par le "First Post India" que les gens présents étaient en fait payés et que beaucoup d'entre eux ne savaient même pas qui diable était Tom Cruise !

L'un d'entre eux raconte: "Je ne sais pas qui il est ou ce qu'il fait. On nous a dit de venir ici à 13h aujourd'hui et d'attendre une star étrangère à la porte de l'aéroport et de crier quand il arrivait. Nous ne savons pas qui c'est. Il y avait aussi un buffet pour nous et nous avons été payés 150 roupies pour ça" .

Que penses-tu des méthodes de Tom Cruise ?

Vous pouvez mettre votre commentaire sur le site de melty.fr

 
Tom Cruise: 200 personnes payées pour l'acclamer !
 
http://www.staragora.com... - 8 décembre 2011
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Tom Cruise parcourt actuellement le monde pour la promotion de son dernier film "Mission Impossible 4". Lors de son passage en Inde, 200 personnes ont acclamé le prophète de la scientologie. Une foule en délire composée de simples figurants ...

Tom Cruise porte actuellement sur ses épaule toute la promotion de "Mission Impossible: Protocole Fantôme".

Parcourant les 4 coins du globe, l'acteur illuminé par la doctrine scientologue extra-terrestre a été acclamé tel un maharaja lors de son arrivée à l'aéroport de Bombay. Le hic, c'est que ce public était une troupe de figurants indiens payés quelques roupies !

Un figurant s'est ainsi confié au site indien First Post : "Tom Kaun ? Je ne sais pas qui c'est ni ce qu'il fait. On nous a dit de venir ici à une heure aujourd'hui et d'attendre qu'un VIP étranger arrive, puis de crier quand on le voyait. Aucun de nous ne connaît Tom. Ils ont dressé un buffet pour nous et on a été payés 150 roupies (un peu moins de trois euros). On fait ça pour des spectacles à la télé et d'autres événements où il doit y avoir une foule".

Reste à savoir si l'acteur a engagé des Intouchables ?

Regardez bien si vous reconnaissez François Cluzet et Omar Sy dans la foule ...

Video: Tom Cruise arrive en Inde en héros ...

En espérant que le dernier opus de la saga "Mission Impossible" puisse permettre au père de Suri Cruise de retrouver son talent. Car en effet, depuis son rôle dans "Vanilla Sky" qui date déjà de 2001 (10 ans déjà !) Tom Cruise s'est perdu en quittant les plateaux de tournages pour s'adonner davantage à la scientologie tout en tournant dans des bides intersidérales atteignant la confédération intergalactique de Xenu qui est l'un des personnages principaux de la doctrine scientologue.

à lire aussi:

Cher et Tom Cruise ont été amants !
http://www.staragora.com/news/cher-et-tom-cruise-ont-ete-amants-au-secours-elle-nous-dit-tout/67459
 
Tom Cruise; le site officiel !
http://www.staragora.com/news/tom-cruise-le-site-officiel/70500
 
Tom Cruise est un tombeur
http://www.staragora.com/news/tom-cruise-est-un-tombeur/108096
 
Tom Cruise ne vaut plus un clou
http://www.staragora.com/news/tom-cruise-ne-vaut-plus-un-clou/112822
 
Pourquoi la carrière de Tom Cruise est en danger
http://www.staragora.com/news/pourquoi-la-carriere-de-tom-cruise-est-en-danger/126176
 

autres articles sur cette star décervelée par la Scientologie

 
Melissa Paris, Valeska's Sister, And Her Own Ordeal in
Scientology's Cadet and Sea Orgs: Forced to Marry at 16
The Village Voice / December 1, 2011

Valeska (left) and Melissa Paris, with Valeska's son Declan

In December of 1996, Melissa Paris was 16 years old, and had been married for a few months to a man she says she was forced to wed. An unpleasant match, the marriage ended when Melissa left him -- and Scientology's hardcore and controlling Sea Org -- two years later.

But that was in the future. In the months after her wedding, she was in a unique position, and she knew it. Her husband, Cyril Helnwein, who was himself a teenaged Sea Org member of about 18, was from a wealthy family. The son of an internationally famous artist (more on that later), Cyril had means. So, when they had returned, after the wedding, to grueling weeks of menial, unpaid labor that she had already endured for two years as an underaged Sea Org member at L. Ron Hubbard's legendary former home in England, Saint Hill Manor, she asked her rich young husband to grant her a wish.

Fly me to a ship. The Freewinds. For our honeymoon.

Melissa asked this, not really out of a romantic notion, but knowing it might be her only chance to see her sister, Valeska, who had just been put aboard the ship against her will.

And so, in December 1996, the Paris sisters were briefly reunited after not seeing or communicating with each other for two years.

It would be another 13 years before they saw each other again.

Last night, I spoke at length with Melissa Paris on the phone. She now lives in Houston with her 10-year-old daughter and a boyfriend she's been seeing for a couple of years. She works as a waitress and bartender, and in January, she's going back to school. On Christmas day she will turn 32. She owns her own home, and as she says, "Life is very good."

Over the last three days, her sister Valeska has become famous on three continents. Sunday night, Australia's ABC network, on its Lateline program, aired a story by Steve Cannane, who explained that in 1996, Valeska, then only 18, was taken -- against her will, she says -- to serve as a Sea Org staffer aboard the Freewinds, and would remain there, a virtual prisoner, for 12 years. We followed up Cannane's story with our own lengthy interview of Valeska, which filled in more about her family history, her time on the Freewinds, and how she finally managed to get off the ship and start a family with former Australian rugby star Chris Guider.

But Valeska urged me to talk to Melissa, telling me that her story alone was not a complete picture.

If Valeska was held against her will on a ship plying the Caribbean, Melissa was a prisoner on land, going four years at Hubbard's famous estate in the UK doing menial, punishing labor, and over the course of those four years, almost all of it as a child, she was paid a total of about $40.

Not $40 a week. $40 in four years, as an underaged teenager working extremely long hours and getting little sleep.

And yet, throughout her ordeal, while her father and brother "disconnected" from her, after her schooling had ended when she was 12 years old and she had run to places like Los Angeles to work as a 14-year-old nanny, knowing no one, she kept one goal in front of her: she would, someday, reunite with her older sister.

Here's how that journey unfolded. As we mentioned Tuesday, Valeska and her sister Melissa were born in Geneva, Switzerland to a man named Jean-Francois Paris and a woman named Ariane Jackson, both Scientologists. In 1983, the couple split and Paris took his daughters, and their younger brother, Raphael, to England, where he signed up for Scientology's Sea Org, the ascetic outfit that requires its workers to sign billion-year contracts with a promise to come back lifetime after lifetime for endless hours and pay of about $50 a week.

While Jean-Francois put on his naval Sea Org outfit, his three children were assigned to something called the Cadet Org, a sort of mini-Sea Org for children, to toughen them up with menial chores and poor living conditions at a rundown manor named Stonelands.

(Janet Reitman has a brief descrition of Claire Headley's experience in the Cadet Org at Stonelands in her new book, Inside Scientology.)

Valeska was 6. Melissa was 4. Raphael had just turned 2. Melissa lived at Stonelands, and was in the Cadet Org, for eight years, until she was 12.

I asked her what a typical day was like, in the summer, when she was 7 or 8 years old.

"We would get up at about 7 o'clock. We'd muster -- we'd all stand in a line, according to divisions. Then we had to breakfast on time, because if you missed it, you didn't eat," she says. "Then some would go to Saint Hill and do their jobs. Others would stay at Stonelands and had to clean the house. There wasn't much free time, maybe an hour or two. When I was younger there had been something called Family Time, an hour or two in the evening when you saw your parents."

Once they took away Family Time, when she was about 6 or 7, her day didn't include seeing her father at all.

"We did study. We studied Scientology. And that was pretty much our day. And weekends weren't any different. Yeah, we didn't live like kids," she says. In an Internet post, she has written at length about governesses who regularly hit the children, and how kids ganged up on each other.

"Did my sister tell you that we had no toilet paper 90 percent of the time in the Cadet Org?" Valeska asked me last night after I had finished my interview with Melissa. "We either had to use pages from books in the library to wipe ourselves or our hands and wipe it on the wall. I know it's gross but it's true. The toilet had shit all over the wall."

"The governesses sucked," Melissa told me. "Probably the meaner they were, that's how they picked them." Years later, Melissa says she was told that Scientology's Cadet Org was disbanded in particular because of reports of the conditions at Stonelands.

Melissa says if she tended to get more bruised than other kids, it was because she would talk back. "I was pretty mouthy," she says, and you get a sense, talking to her, that the hellraiser in her is never far from the surface.

Meanwhile, her father was largely absent, she says. "My father said something to Dominique [one of the worst of the governesses], and that's only when she threw me down the stairs."

With parents not around, it was difficult to get any sympathy. "You're so in Scientology, you really can't go against them. You're adults in smaller bodies," she says, referring to Scientology's belief that we have all lived countless lives, and that if we wear a child's body in a new lifetime, our thetan, or soul, is ancient. In that scenario, they believe, it makes little sense to treat a youngster as anything but a stunted adult.

During the school year, the Paris children went to a private Scientology school, Greenfields. "But even there, we were Stonelands kids. Dirty. We had lice. We got made fun of quite a bit," Melissa says.

Their father, Jean-Francois Paris, was on a Sea Org salary of pennies an hour. So it was her mother, Ariane, and her new husband, Albert Jaquier, who paid for the private school. Jaquier had risen from a junkyard worker to a self-made millionaire, and gave away much of his money to Scientology. And in 1989, when her mother and Jaquier ended their marriage, the private schooling stopped.

"We went to public school after that, in East Grinstead. That sucked," she says. "The church did not have a good reputation in town. And kids would wait for us after school. They'd try to fight us."

I asked Melissa how she finally got out of the Cadet Org in 1992, when she was 12 years old. "I called my grandma in France and got her to book me a ticket to Florida. I called a friend I had made there, Emily Jones, and I asked if I could go live with them."

She was in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology's spiritual headquarters, for two years. Then, at only 14, she went to Los Angeles and became a nanny. Nine months later, she gave that up and returned to England.

Then, in December 1994, she joined the Sea Org. She was only 15 years old. (Her sister, Valeska, had joined even earler, at 14. One girl in her area was a Sea Org member at only 10, Melissa says.) That same month she joined the Sea Org, her former stefpather, Albert Jaquier, died of a heart condition.

I asked her why, at that point, she signed a billion-year contract and promised to work so hard for Scientology.

"They showed me a policy by Hubbard that said the world was coming to an end by 2000. So we had six years to 'clear the planet'," she says. "And I had no family at that point. My dad is an idiot, and he was in Florida. We didn't know anything else. We were born into it. We didn't have any friends outside Scientology. Those were 'wogs'" she says, using the offensive British slang term for dark-skinned people that Hubbard appropriated for his jargon to mean any non-Scientologist. "We didn't have anybody."

She immediately hated the Sea Org. And so, at first, when she heard the news about her mother, she considered it a hopeful sign.

After the death of her former husband, Melissa's mother had tried to get recompense from the church and then had sued and was countersued by Scientology. She then went live on French television to denounce the church.

"I was excited. I thought it was going to be a way for me to get out. The Sea Org was horrible."

But Melissa didn't get away, at least not yet. She was told to disconnect from her mother, who was now considered an apostate, or "suppressive person." Melissa, meanwhile, kept laboring for the church.

"I was in the Sea Org from 1994 to 1998. During that entire time, I was paid about 40 dollars. And I am not making that up," she says. Until December 25, 1997, she was a minor during that entire period, working for no pay.

"We were fed beans and rice. And we got no sleep. When [church leader] David Miscavige came over for an IAS event in 1998, I was assigned MEST work, and I went five days without sleep. We would catch some sleep on the bus from Walsh Manor to Saint Hill," she says, referring to another run down estate where Sea Org members were housed, and the 18th century country house were Scientology in the UK is headquartered. In preparation for the event, she worked like mad. "I was building stuff. Building the stage. Putting up tents. Cleaning. Making stuff." (MEST was Hubbard's acronym for matter, energy, space, and time, and referred to work in the real, physical universe -- usually manual labor -- as opposed to work in the spiritual realm. Melissa also refers to the IAS -- the International Association of Scientologists, a sort of booster club that church members are constantly encouraged to give large sums to.)

I asked her what the lavish event itself was like. "I didn't get to go to the event. I was in trouble." Why? "Because I wanted to leave," she says.

"You got treated like absolute crap by everyone who was senior to you. I can't tell you how many times I got yelled at by someone an inch from my face. And there's nothing you could do. You're demoralized. You're not a person," she says.

At 16, she had started to date a young man named Cyril Helnweing, who was a couple of years older. Then she found herself in the EPF, and her superiors got even more demanding of her.

The Estates Project Force is a sort of boot camp for Sea Org members, and it is something a Sea Org worker can be assigned to do again if they are not performing up to standards.

"I sucked. I don't conform or follow retarded orders," she says.

But she had few alternatives. She was separated from her family, who had their own Sea Org assignments to fulfill. Melissa says she was given an ultimatum: marry Cyril Helnwein, or get kicked out of the Sea Org.

"I was told that the only way I would be able to stay would be if I married him. I'd actually broken up with him right before that and...a high level executive told me that I needed to get back together with him ASAP. I was threatened with being dropped off in the middle of East Grinstead."

Why, I asked, were executives pushing her into the match ?

"The guy's father was pretty famous, and he wanted to marry me."

Gottfried Helnwein

Cyril's father is Gottfried Helnwein, a well-known Viennese-born fine artist who these days splits his time between Ireland and Los Angeles. Known for his early work in hyper-realist watercolors, some of his images are quite familiar to rock fans, who will recognize the album covers for Scorpion and Rammstein that use his art.

Over his career, Helnwein has avoided questions about his status as a Scientologist, but databases show that he's taken courses since at least 1978, and judging by plaques he's received, he's been a major donor.

Despite his wealth, however, his son and daughter-in-law, as Sea Org members, lived a spartan lifestyle.

"At the beginning, we lived in a room with bunk beds," Melissa says.

A few months after their wedding in the summer of 1996, Melissa asked Cyril to take her on a Caribbean honeymoon.

     
Henlwein's cover for Blackout                        Helnwein's cover for Sehnsucht

"Like I said, his family was really wealthy. I asked him if we could go to the Freewinds for our honeymoon, so I could see my sister." In December, they went, and she turned 17 during their week on board.

"The ship was in the 'ABC' islands," she says, referring to the three islands, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, that the ship tends to visit, even to this day.

She knew her trip would be a complete surprise to her sister, who had been moved to the Freewinds in September of that year -- against her will, Valeska says. She believes that church leader David Miscavige had her moved there to make sure she disconnected from her mother and was unable even to communicate with her. ("They took our passports, too," Melissa says, vouching for what Valeska has alleged, that every visitor on the ship gives up his or her passport when they arrive.)

On the ship, Valeska worked as a waitress for her first six years, and was never able to leave the vessel without an escort. And even though her sister had flown so far to see her, during the week Melissa and Cyril were on board, they rarely got to see Valeska.

"She would come at her dinner time. And during the week she got one half-day off." Just one half day, I asked? "Yeah, half a day."

Valeska, 19, and her sister Melissa, 17, said goodbye at the end of the week. They wouldn't see each other again until 2009.

Melissa and Cyril returned to England, but Melissa says she was miserable in her marriage, and in her work. A little more than a year after her trip to the Freewinds, she began planning to leave. She told her superiors that she wanted out, and she convinced her father, who lived in Chicago, to fly her out in May, 1998. She was finally done with the Sea Org.

"I didn't tell Cyril I was leaving," she says. She just left him without saying a word.

She hated Chicago, however, and by January 1999, she was living in Scotland.

In March, she got a strange call from her father. He told her he was disconnecting from her, even though she hadn't yet left Scientology itself.

"Something went off in my head, and I said, 'You know, I'm done'," Melissa says.

She called her Swiss (maternal) grandmother, and went all the way to Switzerland by bus. From her grandmother's house, she called her mother, who was in Florida.

"I hadn't talked to her in years. And my father was trying to scare me into coming back. But I was done. I went to Florida and met up with my mom. I got a job, in telemarketing. I got an apartment. I met my next husband, and got pregnant with Jade," she says.

I asked her what it was like to reunite with her mother, who Scientology had so forcefully told her to cut all ties with three years earlier.

"It was pretty amazing. It was good," she says. "I bought my first house when I was 20. The Office of Special Affairs [Scientology's intelligence and covert operations wing] showed up at my door. I wasn't declared [a suppressive person] yet. They wanted information about my mom. They were watching my house.

"I told them I wasn't a Scientologist anymore. But they told me I still had to disconnect from my mother. I said no. So they declared me. It was 2001," she says.

Her father and brother, who are both still in Scientology, remain disconnected from both of the Paris sisters. Her father, Jean-Francois Paris, works in art in Chicago. Melissa and Valeska both tell me that their younger brother Raphael runs the human resources desk for a Scientology attorney in Los Angeles. When I asked them if it was Kendrick Moxon, they both said yes. I have sent a message to Raphael, hoping that he'll talk to me.

"I haven't spoken to my dad since I was 19," she says. "My daughter Jade is now 10, and she has never seen her grandfather."

In 2004, Melissa moved to Texas. Although her schooling in East Grinstead had stopped when she was 12 years old, she still managed to do well on entrance tests and enrolled at College of the Mainland.

She owns her own home and, she says, after she arrived in Texas, "I just kind of lived."

And then, in 2009, the phone rang.

"I got a call from my sister," Melissa says, still sounding like she can hardly believe it happened. Valeska had finally managed to get away from the Freewinds. "That was probably one of the best moments of my life," Melissa says. In 2007, Valeska had been moved to the RPF in Australia, a kind of prison detail for Scientologists. (The church insists that it's voluntary and members go there for spiritual rejuvenation. Every ex-Scientologist I've talked to describes the RPF as anything but voluntary, a hellish sentence of hard labor and humiliation.)

In the RPF, Valeska managed to meet Chris Guider, the former rugby player. After they both "graduated" from the RPF, they got married and Valeska got pregnant with their son, Declan. Pregnancies for Sea Org women are not allowed, and many former female Sea Org members talk of forced abortions being common. But Valeska and Guider were through with Scientology, and routed out.

"I always knew that my sister would get out. She was smart. My father, no. My brother, no," Melissa says. "I figured Valeska would get pregnant and say no to an abortion, and that's pretty much what happened."

Looking back, she says now that she can hardly believe how conditioned she was to think a certain way because of her upbringing in the church.

"I remember watching people picketing outside Saint Hill, and thinking these people were crazy. We were so brainwashed," she says.

She has now left Scientology, and is not interested in the independent movement of former church members who still find L. Ron Hubbard's ideas useful.

"I'm not an indie. I think it's all a lot of shit," she says.

She and her sister are close again, and their mother is doing well with her own acupuncture clinic in Florida.

When I asked her for one last statement or thought, she said, "Only this, I am proud of my sister."


Autres témoignages de Valeska Guider et de sa sœur Melissa:

Une Genevoise esclave pendant douze ans sur le bâteau de la scientologie (Le Matin - 29 novembre 2011)

Vidéo: Emprisonnée des années durant par la scientologie. Témoignages de Valeska Paris et Ramana Dienes-Browning (abc.net.au - 28 novembre 2011)

Video: An Australian woman has alleged she spent years imprisoned on the Church of Scientology's cruise ship, The Freewinds (abc.net.au - November 28, 2011)

Video: Scientology Cruise Ship Scandal (aca win - 2011.11.29)

Témoignage de Valeska Guider (née Valeska Paris): «La scientologie a détruit ma famille» (scientology-cult.com - 20 Juin 2010)

Testimony of Valeska Guider: «I was violating Church policy by being in comm with my family» (scientology-cult.com - 6.20.10)

Testimony of Melissa Paris. Scientologist Horror Story "Destruction of My Family" (scientology-cult.com- June 13, 2010)

 

 

«Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué» de Russell Miller
 
«Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué» résumé - hml
«Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué» html
«Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué» pdf
«The Bare-Faced Messiah» by Russell Miller pdf - 394 pages - English
 
Ce livre de Russell Miller révèle la face cachée de l'église de scientologie.
On y découvre un Ron Hubbard, malade, mythomane et poursuivi par la justice.
Il est disponible en format pdf ou html. Nous avons également publié une version résumée.
 

Exposing Scientology through streaming video

                             

Ces reportages vidéo dénoncent les dangers de la thérapie de scientologie. La scientologie est une nébuleuse sur laquelle ont enquêté de nombreux journalistes. Il suffit de répondre une fois à un questionnaire pour recevoir des prospectus et des invitations. Au départ elle peut même paraître séduisante mais très rapidement les premières dérives apparaissent.

 

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