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Dès la page d'accueil, on apprend que la scientologie tentait d'obtenir que cette fille, scientologue depuis 13 ans, fasse entrer son mari dans la secte. Elle n'a obtenu qu'une faible part du remboursement des cours et "services" alors que la scientologie promet de rembourser intégralement les gens insatisfaits !. Source: http://www.whyileftscientology.com/ Why I Left Scientology by Ruth Lorenzen It's been one year now since I left the Church of Scientology (COS). Prior to that was a living hell and the COS is hard at work trying to make the rest of my life a living hell (both personally and professionally). I was a member of the Church of Scientology for 13 years. My "wake up call" began when I was being pressured to turn my husband into a Scientologist — "or else". I learned some more things about the COS and decided to leave. I kept quiet for a while, but since I'm not one to keep my mouth shut, it just wasn't "me" to remain in hiding, pretending to still be a Scientologist while not really being one. I announced privately and in writing to the appropriate department of the Church of Scientology that I had decided to leave and was no longer a Scientologist, in or out of the COS. It took me six months and a lot of hell to get back some of my money (a mere drop in the bucket to what I've spent on Scientology). After they gave me my money, they announced to all the members of Scientology that I was a "suppressive person", printed up a yellow-colored sheet of trumped up lies, and published it on their organization's bulletin board for all to see. Even after several letters from me and my lawyers telling them it was libel and they needed to retract their statements, they still acted like I needed to appeal to them using their own internal system of justice for recourse. Justice? Recourse? It was their own punitive and maliciously applied internal justice policies and procedures that drove me out of the Church of Scientology. I will never return. I desired to remain peacefully working on my profession and be done with this so-called religion, but they don't seem to want to leave me in peace. Therefore, I am writing my story to put the record straight for anyone who wants to read it. If you're considering getting in to Scientology, I would recommend that you do not. There are many resources on the Internet that will corroborate my story as just one in thousands, and not unique at all. If you've been considering getting out of Scientology because of the personal hell you've been going through, I urge you to speak with others about it — to people outside of the Church of Scientology. The Church of Sciento- logy wants you cowering in a dark corner, blubbering with tears, and fearful of doing anything about your condition. I assure you, you are not alone in your inhumane treatment from the powerful and wealthy Church of Scientology. Turn my husband into a Scientologist... or else?After four years of ethics hell, I was "offered" a sec check. For a mere $12,000.00, I could perhaps get a chance at being able to get out from under this ethics hell. So I said yes and paid for it. (Click to see invoice and payment.) I did the sec check (told in more detail in another portion of my story) and afterwards they do a "KR handling". There is no written policy explaining what is a "KR handling" and in fact there is much administrative policy and auditing procedure writings which caution against going back over the overts (misdeeds) told in session. In this KR handling, it was made clear to me that I would have to turn my husband into a Scientologist. What?!?!?! A new step on my endless ethics program? Let me step back a moment. I disseminated to my husband before we got married, or even dated, and I sold him a Dianetics book. I brought him into the local mission, Church of Scientology Mission of Belleair where he signed up for a course and did half of it. The Mission staff messed up in the course room (I won't go into the details for right now) and he also discovered that the staff were "gossiping biddies", telling him private stories about people he knew or talking in the public hallways about other Scientology members behind their backs. He pegged the Church of Scientology Mission of Belleair as a gossip house full of gossiping biddies, and not to be trusted with any private information whatsoever. They messed up royally, showed their true colors, and he never went back. It was as simple as that. So back to the KR handling. The FSO MAA Lili Braun decided that she was going to personally drill me on "the Dissemination Drill" and I was going to somehow turn my husband into a Scientologist. Now I know enough about the Scientology "tech" on the subject of dissemination. I know that when someone has an upset, that needs to be taken care of. You cannot just "advertise" to someone over their upset; you won't get a result. Anyway, I already knew how to disseminate. I'd done the entire "Scientology Dissemination Course" and I knew more procedures in dissemination than just that one "Dissemination Drill". I knew that more drilling on that technique was not going to make one iota of difference in what my husband thought about the Church of Scientology. As far as I was concerned, he could remain a non-Scientologist. He didn't bother me about my involvement; why should I bother him about his non-involvement? Well, I saw that this new project by FSO MAA Lili Braun was just another added step to the endless ethics steps I'd been given over the prior four years. I knew it really didn't matter what was going on with my husband. That wasn't the issue at all. The Church of Scientology had no plans on letting me out of "ethics hell" and continuing in Scientology like the average Joe should be doing. Never. So I never went back. Re-discovering altered Scientology technology and corruptionA few weeks later, I received a phone call from a friend of mine (whom I will call "Abby"). Abby told me that she wanted to disclose something to me because I had been making plans to work with her and her husband (whom I will call "Larry") and she felt they needed to disclose something to me. Abby told me that she and Larry had decided to leave the Church of Scientology. I was stunned. These two people were the last people I could have imagined would leave the Church of Scientology. They'd been in for about 30 years and were field auditors, meaning they made their living doing the Scientology counseling from their home (though not as a church staff member). They had moved to Clearwater from Los Angeles to continue to do their Scientology progress. They had even sold their Clearwater house after just one year to buy a house only 20 miles away when they discovered (after purchasing their Clearwater house using a Scientologist realtor Patricia Gore, who should have known better) that Flag had a "20 mile rule". Flag had decided to enforce an old policy relating to St Hill Manor in England, and required that field auditors operate at least 20 miles away from St. Hill. They forbid anyone to do field auditing within 20 miles of Flag (downtown Clearwater, Florida). My friends were dedicated enough to rip up their home and move just 20 miles away so they could continue their field auditing practice. Now that's dedicated! These people are leaving the Church of Scientology? I needed to find out more. Abby told me about the altered tech being applied and enforced in the Church of Scientology. She elaborated on what had been altered, how it was being enforced as far up as RTC (Religious Technology Corporation, the part of the Church of Scientology whose job it is to ensure that auditing techniques are being applied correctly and true to the writing of L. Ron Hubbard). She elaborated how if you reported this altered tech to RTC, you'd get in trouble. I knew this to be true. I had observed for myself that there were a lot of technical alterations within the Church of Scientology. I'd written them up many times. They were never addressed, never fixed, never changed, and I was never notified that I was right or wrong with my report. I also observed for myself that, as often as not, when I wrote a Knowledge Report, it was I who would get in trouble. For that reason, I quit writing Knowledge Reports unless I considered something to be particularly heinous. What Abby and Larry were telling me about, with regards altered-tech, was not much more than I'd already observed. However, the difference that day was that before I'd only seen one alteration at a time. I would somehow explain it away, or it would be explained away for me. So each alteration discovery was an individual incident, separate from the others, and each explained away. But this day they all came flooding back to me at the same time. All together. In that instant, I saw that the Church of Scientology was too far altered, corrupt at the RTC level and therefore could never be corrected. Larry told me that Abby had had such a rough time with her auditing in the prior year, and how her package of services was all used up. They had already pre-paid for every service to get his wife from her status of "Power Processing completion" up to and onto OTVII (about $100,000), and the entire package had been scuttled and used and frittered away with useless auditing actions. He said his wife was in no better condition, and in fact was in worse condition, than before all the so-called auditing that had been done with her over the prior year. He said he had conducted his own investigation into the matter, without involving his wife (or the Internet). He had written to RTC and to her C/Ses and to Flag and others. The replies he got basically said his wife was a "dog pc" and had withholds and evil intentions. This being unreal to him because of what he knew, he smelled a rat in the Church of Scientology. Larry told me that he did all his research within the means he already had — observations and reports within the Church of Scientology, and further close study of auditing technology procedures. He told me that he did NOT use the internet to investigate the Church of Scientology at this time. The Freezone, an alternative to the Church of ScientologyLarry did discover that there was something called "the Freezone". This is a term used loosely to describe all those practicing Scientology outside of the Church of Scientology. Larry told me that one could do the entire Bridge to Total Freedom in the Freezone, including the OT levels up through OTVIII and the L's Rundowns. Really, I asked? Yes, indeed. He remarked about how the OT levels had been stolen from the Advanced Organization in Denmark in the past; how some ex-Sea Org members had dressed up as Sea Org members, gained access to the confidential OT course materials, and walked out with them. No one stopped them. Realizing I had an opportunity to explore the subject and practice of Scientology without the oppression and barriers I had encountered while in the Church of Scientology, I exclaimed "Where do I sign up! I'm joining you guys!" And at that moment, I had left the Church of Scientology. What Came Before That ?Four years of mental hell without telling me whyIn the fall of 2002, I decided to move back to Clearwater, Florida from my then home in Los Angeles, California. I flew to Clearwater, Florida to go shopping for houses in preparation for the move. In the evenings, after spending my days looking at houses, I went over to Flag to work on "routing in". Routing in means to go through the steps needed to get permission to go to a particular Church of Scientology. About four years previously, in the spring of 1999, I had been doing training at Flag, so I saw no problems with this step. However, I was surprised to hear that the FSO MAA Keller Cheng told me that I was not qualified to go to Flag and she gave me a program to complete to become eligible. She would not tell me why she decided this. Keller Cheng did tell me that it was because of a phone call to OSA. [OSA=Office of Special Affairs, which is the department in Scientology that oversees all intelligence operations, public relations, legal matters, and other allegedly "dirty business". It is the replacement for the old Guardian's Office, which was disbanded in the 1980's along with the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of 11 staff members including Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of L. Ron Hubbard.] Keller Cheng told me that the OSA person had told her that I had an "unhandled ethics situation" back in Los Angeles. However, she added, she was unable to find any mention of it in my ethics folders. I told Keller Cheng that there was a bad ethics mix-up in Los Angeles, but that it had been straightened out and was no longer a situation. She saw that in my ethics folder. I asked Keller Cheng what the problem or incident was about. She couldn't tell me because she didn't know. I asked if the OSA person had "put it in writing", and she said no. I asked for the name of the OSA person and Keller Cheng said she didn't know, it was just the "OSA person" who she had spoken to on the phone. So much for justice, verifying authorization, putting it in writing, if it isn't written it isn't true. None of this mattered to Keller Cheng. I was to be denied admission to Flag and was given an ethics program so that I could perhaps return in the future. Here is a copy of the ethics program I was given. I was allowed to go to a "lesser organization" but I was to be forbidden to attend the local events, which all Scientologists attended. (Note: A lot of people are denied access to events, but no one ever puts that in writing. It is however enforced in person by the security staff.) There's much more I could say to elaborate on this story, and I likely will publish the full story later. In the meantime, suffice it to say that for four years (until I left the Church of Scientology) I was considered a pariah regardless of what I did to try to get back into good graces, and during this entire time I was never told what the problem was, and so I could never remedy it. During these four years, I was called into the FSO Ethics Office numerous times. I was given one program after another, but each one was "not enough" and I would be given another. (Here is another program I was given.) I gave up so many times that maybe it could be said I had left Scientology several times already, but time would pass and I would pick myself back up and try yet again. This time, the leaving is permanent. Harassment and the closing down of my business, iThetaFor five years (1999-2004) I ran an activity called iTheta. This was an email service for Scientologists so they could get in contact with each other. I allowed people to advertise their businesses or services, put out Church of Scientology event information, enquire about services or products or housing in their area, and many other friendly networking information. It was so wildly popular that after two years I had about 1200 members on the service and was swamped with working on iTheta as a volunteer. I worked about 10 hours a day, 7 days a week on this. I realized that I needed to go get a job, but I couldn't keep doing both iTheta and get a job (I tried that, but the members screamed holy hell when I didn't give the same level of service to them in this "free" online activity). I offered the members an option to "vote with their checkbooks" — send me a check for $60 for a one-year membership and after 30 days I'd count the checks to see if it was worth my while to continue servicing iTheta for another year, or shut it down. If I didn't receive enough votes of confidence in the next 30 days, I would shred the checks and close iTheta. Wow! I received over $10,000 in checks. It may not have been anywhere near all the original members, but obviously enough people felt strongly about the value of the service and wanted it continued. And so I continued to run iTheta. I kept an average of about 600 members over the next three years and had two people working for me to help keep iTheta running smoothly. Now comes the nightmare. This was a moderated email list. There were very specific rules. If someone didn't like my rules, or wanted to argue with me about whether their message shouldn't have been rejected by the moderator (who wasn't me, by the way) the angry subscriber would write some hateful Knowledge Report on me (not on the moderator) and would usually embellish their report with just the right amount of alarming information, and would send this to the Church of Scientology's Ethics Department. Now keep in mind that this is a business and shouldn't be reported to a "church", but such is the viewpoint and indoctrination of Scientologists that they tattle on anything. And they use these reports when they are pissed off at you. They don't care the consequences to you, of course. Over time the Church of Scientology received a lot of reports on me — I was a hate monger, I supported the dreaded Bush, I refused to allow someone to post their opposing viewpoints to some posted earlier, I hated doctors, I hated the Church of Scientology, I hated them — whatever someone was pissed off about, they struck me with venom on a piece of paper. What resulted was a long string of "ethics programs" by the Ethics Officer and constantly being dragged in to account for my alleged misdeeds and indiscretions. The Church of Scientology made it so "painful" to continue operating iTheta and made me think that my future happiness and my spiritual eternity was at risk if I continued with iTheta. So I ended my involvement with it. I gave the members to someone else who would continue the operation (as SuperTheta). That person eventually was likewise pressured to stop his involvement and he gave it away to someone else after just two years (to Ray McKay of TheRazzLine.net). Did the Church of Scientology want iTheta (or SuperTheta) or the likes operating on the Internet? No indeed! For a "church" that preaches that communication is everything, they really don't want their members communicating with each other. They pressured me with harassments until it was too painful for me to continue my business. And Lili Braun, you were the worst of the offenders! Although Lili Braun wouldn't tell me that I was "out ethics" to operate iTheta and she wouldn't actually order me to close down iTheta, she made it extremely painful to continue. And when I casually mentioned to her on December 4th 2004 that I was considering closing down iTheta, she pounced. Lili Braun told me to have it done and have a Compliance Report on her desk within an hour. I told her that time frame was impossible, but I could possibly do it by the end of day. Do it, Lili ordered. And so, iTheta was no more. My business was closed down by Lili Braun of the Church of Scientology. $12,000 spent on sec checksI naively thought that stopping the running of iTheta would end the endless string of ethics programs that had been given to me. It did not. In fact, I think the Church of Scientology thought that somehow I might just be at my breaking point — their original plan. I worked for a while with another Scientologist friend, Lisa Kolpek, who helped me do some steps called in Scientology "Lower Conditions". These are steps you do when you've gotten yourself into "ethics trouble" and they are used to help you "change". And change I did. I worked those ethics conditions long and hard and serious and with a lot of effort, creative thought, time, and money. I spent three months on this task. Did that help? Only for a minute. I did change. I felt better. I wrote it up. I submitted it to FSO MAA Lili Braun and she waited a month to respond with her scoff that I hadn't addressed what she wanted addressed. (Hey, Lili! If you had thought to ever tell me what you wanted, you might have gotten it!) I tried it again on the subject of the Church of Scientology. I worked for another three months almost full time on this. I wrote it up and sent it to Lili Braun who didn't have the courtesy to acknowledge receiving it despite several requests (written and phone) over several more months. So I gave up. In August of 2006, Lili Braun phoned me and "offered" me a sec check. "Sec check" is short for "security check" also know as a confessional, Church of Scientology style. This means you're hooked up to an electronic devise which registers some of your thoughts. The Scientology auditor (counselor) uses this electronic device (called an e-meter) to direct your thoughts and dig and find "dirt" for you to "confess". I was told by Lili Braun that I could go to any Church of Scientology to get this sec check done, then she wanted me to return to her afterwards. I first tried to go to Church of Scientology Mission of Belleair because I had money on account there, and they liked me over there. I was told NO by them; that they couldn't do the actions required. This took a month to get this NO answer. Then I tried to go to my FSM who was a field auditor. She told me yes; Lili told me NO. Then I went over to the Church of Scientology of Tampa. I didn't want to go there because there were people on staff who had preconceived notions about me being a piece of dirt. I was told that I needed to "donate" for four intensives (50 hours of confessional counseling at $240 per hour!) at a cost of $12,000 and that I had to pay for this up front whether I used the 50 hours or not. (Note: If you don't use the 50 hours, you don't get your money back.) I tried to go to Church of Scientology of Johannesburg in South Africa where I already had twelve intensives paid for. I was told NO. I tried to get Church of Scientology Mission of Belleair to forward to Tampa Org the $2,264.35 I had on account. I was told NO. In the end, I paid the $12,000 to Tampa Org. I received a sub-par confessional procedure which was at times unbearable, certainly degrading. Oh, I almost forgot… before I started I was threatened by Joe Dagher, the Director of Processing, that if I upset anyone during the procedure (which took over a month) that I would be instantly expelled from the Church of Scientology. Thanks, Joe. Your real compassion for your members and fellow humans shows through and through. SummaryBefore I made my decision to leave (and left) the Church of Scientology, I endured four years of hell, I was forced to give up my business, and was extorted out of yet another $12,000. But if you think these injustices and spiritual harassment were unusual, read my next story about what happened even before these four years. More Ethics NightmaresChurch staff member says "You cannot leave, and you cannot route out" — for six months!In 2001, we had the "9/11" incident. David Miscavige wrote his famous "Wake Up Call" essay, and combined it with a speech during the Auditor's Day Event, urging everyone do his new Volunteer Minister Course by December 31st. He ordered every staff member in every Church of Scientology to do this course... regardless of any excuses. And the staff pressured all the Scientology members to also do the course — in addition to their usual study load. I was in the middle of doing well on the metering course for the first time in five years. I wasn't about to stop for any reason whatsoever. On one fateful Friday evening in November (the 16th), instead of having a graduation ceremony as was usual, the Church of Scientology (ASHO) had a gang-registration to enforce or cajole people into signing up for the Volunteer Minister Course. I politely told everyone that I was mid a course and doing well and wasn't going to stop for anyone. But they persisted. The Director of Training, a young girl of about 15 years whom I respected, asked me if I had seen COB's video. Sure did. I remarked that though COB (David Miscavige) might be her senior and could order her to training, he was not MY senior and could NOT order me to training. After all, I didn't work for the Church of Scientology. This remark was overheard and/or passed on. Andy Cook (the #2 guy at ASHO at that time) confronted me with venom before I left the building. Mr. Cook was visibly upset and shaking and he said some very hateful things to me. He also wrote a Knowledge Report on me and suggested to the MAA that I had "overts or withholds" which should be pulled (found out, whether by my own admission or them getting it out of me). He even insulted me in the report by mentioning that my (then) husband was an "illegal pc" (meaning he was refused all auditing) and that I had never been paid an FSM commission because I obviously had never brought anyone into ASHO, so why was I even in his org. Even though I continued to do well on course and completed more drills and study the next course period, I was dragged off course and ordered to the Ethics office. There, MAA Arthur Milford (a minor child who had never completed his Staff Statuses or any ethics training course) derided me and ordered me to write up my overts and withholds on the spot. I'm going to fast-forward this story. The ensuing upsets caused me to break my wrist, it was put in a cast, I couldn't perform on the metering course so I started the Volunteer Minister Course at the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles anyway, typed my essays with my left hand on a portable typewriter which I brought to the org, my mother in Arizona fell and went into a coma and was in hospice waiting to die, I flew to Arizona to be with my mother and father, my mother died, I continued doing the Volunteer Minister Course study and practice drills while in Arizona, I returned home to Los Angeles on the 30th of December and completed the Volunteer Minister Course by December 31st, 2001, the original desirable date to complete the course. I even got a Volunteer Minister jacket as a prize for finishing the course by Dec 31st! Did completing the VM course get me out of hot water? Not on your banana! I was pursued and harassed by Arthur Milford for the next six months. He wrote letters to my then husband accusing me of being blown, he sent people over to my house to drag me back to the Church of Scientology, and he threatened me with an SP Declare if I refused to come back to course. Keep in mind that my primary org at the time was Los Angeles Day Org and not ASHO. Even after I got the cast off my hand I never returned to ASHO. I tried to "route out" in April 2002 (hoping that would stop the harassments) and got the approval of the Director of Training and the Qualifcations Secretary Anne Bastin, but the D/CO (Deputy Commanding Officer) Andy Cook refused to sign the final step on the routing form and sent Donna Bischoff and Jennifer Welton to my house to collect me. It took intervention by the LRH Host for ASHO Tashania Faust two months later to sort it all out. It took about half an hour, all parties were queried in person (Arthur Milford, the Director of Training, and Andy Cook) and everyone signed the routing form this time. Here is a letter she wrote to my then husband about his situation. It's a sort-of apology to him and mentions her hand in sorting out the ASHO comedy of arbitraries. Six months of hell because Andy Cook had his nose out of joint over a comment about me not taking orders from David Miscavige. ASHO strikes againYou would think everything would be hunky-dory with ASHO now, right? Wrong! Two months later, ASHO MAA Arthur Milford walks into my shop (I was managing Georgettes General Store across the street from the "Big Blue" complex of Churches of Scientology) and hands me an envelope. He had ordered an Ethics Hearing on me (click to view what the paper he handed me). As best I knew, I was not in any ethics trouble at this time and marched over to the AOLA LRH Host's office. And who do you know was sitting in that office... Chase Wilson. Chase had earlier threatened me with the alleged WISE West US Ethics Order mentioned in Arthur Milford's Ethics Hearing announcement, but Chase Wilson had figured out what was wrong with it and supposedly never actually "issued" it (meaning it wasn't made official or distributed). So why would ASHO have a copy of it and was "using it to attack me" again? Chase tried to tell me he had cancelled the order before issuing it. The LRH Host ordered him to correct/handle the matter. Within one hour I had in my hand an apology/correction from Chase Wilson (click here to see Chase's immediate correction for ASHO and the followup correction he wrote a month later). You'll hear more about Chase Wilson's role in the alleged-but-not-officially-issued WISE WUS Ethics Order in the next story. The LRH Host said she would take care of the ASHO Ethics Hearing order, and I never heard about this again. I never went back to ASHO, either. Los Angeles Org withholds auditing for 4 monthsIn late 2000, I signed up for some auditing at Los Angeles Day Org. I was given the run-around for four months without any auditing sessions. (I'd paid them $12,000.00!) I tried to figure out what the delay was. The D of P suggested I write to the C/S; he remarked about some "pain" I had mentioned. I never mentioned any pain, unless it was "mental pain" (anguish). He suggested I write up what I did know to the C/S, and so I did. The C/S Annie Palmer read what I wrote, and wrote a Knowledge Report on me for what I wrote. Disgusting! After the four months had gone by with still an impasse, I finally said (or wrote) to them that if they weren't going to accept me for processing/auditing, that they might as well give me back my money since such "fixed fee donations" (as my $12,000 was termed) was accepted conditionally upon acceptance by the HGC (HGC=Hubbard Guidance Center, that section of a Church of Scientology which does the counselling/auditing). I was in session the very next day. Amazing! And I never discovered what the hold-up was about. Los Angeles Org's C/S requests harsh ethics but continues to have me auditedIn December 2001, my then husband Bernard (Bernie) Littman had his over 10-year-long "illegal pc" status overturned by LA Org C/S Annie Palmer. He was thrilled to no end and shouted from the roof-tops about it. He posted his announcement to iTheta and a week later added some more information along with a notation that if anyone else wanted their illegal pc status looked at, they should contact LA Day Tours Reg, Steve Drabin. Oh, did we all get in trouble for that! I guess no good news goes unpunished. Steve Drabin was pulled in and talked to. He came over to our house and together we drafted a "retraction" per his orders from someone at LA Org. On January 25, 2002 the clarification went out. (Click here to read the Bernie emails and the 'clarification' from Steve Drabin.) We never heard anything more about this, and thought everything was cool. But we were wrong. That spring, I was doing auditing at LA Org. My C/S was Annie Palmer. I didn't think any more about the long ago incident. Later in the fall, I was working with the LA Org Ethics Officer on something. She pulled out a paper she wanted to show me. She used another paper to cover up some of this "letter" she was showing me, but accidentally didn't cover enough of it. I read a paragraph and was stunned. Someone was requesting that I, my husband Bernard Littman, and staff member Steve Drabin get a Committee of Evidence (a very harsh and serious justice action in the Church of Scientology). I demanded to know who wrote this, since the Ethics Officer had accidentally shown me too much (she was attempting to show me something else in the letter). It was Annie Palmer. And the date of the letter was back in the springtime. I asked the Ethics Officer what came of it, and she said that she didn't think it necessary to do a Comm Ev and so nothing came of Annie Palmer's requests. But what about the date? The date was the same time I was getting auditing in the LA Org HGC under C/S Annie Palmer's guidance. C/Ses are supposed to send their pc's to Ethics if they think something is out-ethics. Why would she write such a request to the Ethics Officer without routing me to Ethics? Why continue the auditing? This is a serious breach of Scientology "Standard Technology". I was baffled but filed this incident in my mind under "bizarre behavior, avoid Annie Palmer in the future". (Especially considering the earlier incident with her.) Annie Palmer later showed up in Tampa Florida on staff while I was going there. I made sure I didn't get any auditing there while she was on staff. SummaryWith bizarre applications of L. Ron Hubbard technology including messing up cases and harsh justice penalties for non-out-ethics, you can wonder why I stuck around. I wonder that, too, sometimes. But if you think the above stories of injustice are harsh, wait for this next one! Injustice and ExtortionIn walks Marina Martins, snagging her latest "sucker"My (then) husband Bernie was running an online dictionary store and also selling to some locals. He stocked George's General Store with dictionaries and continued to do so after the name mysteriously changed to Georgettes General Store. These dictionaries were provided on consignment and the store sold them all, but never paid Bernie for them. The bill was up to around $6,000. We approached the manager of the store, Marina Martins, to see what could be done to pay us for these dictionaries. Marina Martins is a Scientology and a silver-tongued devil. Somehow, she convinced me to get involved in her store. I jumped in with both feet. I started to manage her store, straightened out the financial accounts, straightened out the mailbox nightmares, made financing arrangements with all her vendors (all her accounts were delinquent), and basically got the store out of the poor condition it was in, got it stocked, and the people started to pour in. The store's name was Georgettes General Store and it was across the street from AOLA and the entire Church of Scientology campus of buildings in Hollywood. Extortion from the Church of Scientology's WISEA month or two in to this project I received several visits from Chase Wilson and Brenna Bielhart of WISE West US. They kept telling me I had to pay $500.00 for a WISE membership... or else. They were absolutely obnoxious about it, walking in at any time of day unanounced, making demands of money the store didn't have, not listening to reasons why their request was inappropriate, etc. Keep in mind that through all of this, I'm just an employee... the manager. I didn't own the store. One day, Chase Wilson decided he needed the money "today, or else", and came in to the store. I again told him that our income wasn't high enough to spend $500 for a "membership" that would get us nothing in return. Chase Wilson threatened me that if I didn't pay him the $500.00 on the spot, that he woud issue a "WISE Non-member Order" on me and he would post it publicly on all the public bulletin boards on the Scientology campus "and what would THAT do to your stats?" he derided. I told him that was extortion, he said no it was not. I grabbed a dictionary and read him the definition of extortion "the act of extorting, or getting money, etc. by threats, misuse of authority, etc." and extort "to get (money, etc.) from someone by violence, threats, misuse of authority, etc.; exact or wrest (from)". Chase Wilson insisted it was not extortion. He cited that he had the authority to do so. I asked for him to show this to me in writing. Chase Wilson said it was in a Sea Org issue and therefore I couldn't read it (since I wasn't in the Sea Org). I replied that it then didn't apply to me since I was not in the Sea Org. He assured me it did apply. I sent him out of the shop. The owner (Marina Martins) eventually signed up for a WISE membership and Chase Wilson faded away into memory. Unfortunately, Chase Wilson had already written up a WISE Non-member order on me personally, and though he says later it was not officially issued (because the matter was handled by Marina Martins signing up for a WISE membership) the issue had even been printed and was let out and obtained by ASHO, who tried to use it against me. I got all that cleaned up, but not without a lot of effort. Sea Org abuses: Threats of bodily harm & SolicitingI have to make a mention of this. Jeff Mintz, a Sea Org member and a registrar, once came in to the store to argue with me about something. He yelled at me "You need to get your fucking ethics in!", pointing and poking at me. I told him to leave the store. He tried to harass me more. I repeated for him to get out. He grabbed me on both arms and started to push me backwards saying something like "We're going out back to settle this!". My cashier, a non-Scientologist, observed this, approached us, and told Jeff Mintz to "Get your hands off of her." At this point, I spun Jeff around and physically walked him to the door and pushed him out. There were several instances of Church of Scientology staff coming in to the shop to recruit people, solicit them for donations, or solicit our business to do their jobs (such as pass out event tickets or confirm people for events). Please see this report I wrote at the time. It mentions names and actions. In fact, I found several reports where I had to notify Church of Scientology personnel or seniors about COS acts within my shop that were inappropriate to be done "in public" and which reflected badly on the Church of Scientology. Marina Martins steals $30,000 from me, Church of Scientology does nothingDuring the time I was working at Marina's store, I had loaned Marina Martins a lot of money. It happened slowly and without my noticing how deep I'd gotten myself into this. It's sort of like getting into Scientology; you just don't notice how deep or how much in trouble you are for being associated with the group. Marina Martins was using my credit lines to purchase goods for her store. She had been promising that she would open a credit line and pay off my balance. She just didn't seem to make it go right, didn't have the time, or whatever her reason-du-jour was. By the time I wanted to leave as the manager, Marina Martins owed me $30,000. She refused to pay me or try to take out a line of credit at that time. In fact, most of the lines of credit I'd tried to open for the business had erroneously been put into my name. This I only found out after I was in so deep. In fact, this is HOW I got in so deep — there was no original intention to loan Marina the money. These were supposed to be store credit cards. We had a mediation with her on this matter, using the WISE Charter Committee of Los Angeles. Marina Martins wanted to pay me back via the business. But the business hadn't been making any money (it sold a lot of items, but just wasn't making any profit after expenses) so that wasn't an option. She thought I should bear the brunt of the loss. How so, since I didn't own the business? Well I got her to agree to personally pay me half of what was owed on the credit cards. She signed that agreement, then never paid me another penny. In fact, there was another line of credit which was NOT in my name, and the very next day after she signed the mediation agreement, she phoned that company and told them it was my personal credit purchases (an outright lie). I tried to get WISE to enforce the agreement, but they wouldn't do it. Keith Legg, Compliance Officer for LA Charter Committee was useless. The WISE Charter Committee wanted me to pay $175.00/hour to get Marina Martins to comply (click to view Cheri Didear's email). Of course, they forget that in the beginning when they got me to pay in advance for the mediation, they promised me that if there was non-compliance, that actions to get compliance were part of the fixed fee. Their actions were such a comedy of errors that you have to laugh at how unprofessional their "justice" system is. In the end, I lost $30,000, and had another credit card company trying to collect another $10,000 from me. Is that justice? So I started investigating Marina Martins myself. I naively thought that if the Church of Scientology and WISE knew how deep a criminal this Marina Martins really was, they would DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Click to view the one-inch packet of reports I eventually put together. Keep in mind that the COS touts their "ethics technology" as the ne-plus-ultra of justice procedures. As COS member is not allowed to take their disputes to the non-Scientology world. No law suits allowed. No calling the police. Even a letter from an attorney demanding payment of a bill is considered by some to be a suppressive act. You are taught that the COS and WISE can and will handle ANY dispute or ethics problem or injustice. In reality, they never handle anything. But, of course, you don't discover that until it's too late. The crimes and misdeeds of Marina MartinsI want to start this by saying that anything I say about Marina Martins can be proven in a court of law. If anyone objects to me disclosing these crimes and misdeeds, I don't care. The purpose for disclosing this information is so you can laugh at how ridiculously unjust the COS is, despite the truth being disclosed to them. The COS thinks it's the "cat's meow" of justice. It is delusional! Marina Martins stole George's General Store from George. George was getting very old and sort of senile. Marina Martins and another partner of hers started going over to the store and pretended to be the managers. They learned the ropes, used the store proceeds to pay the bills for inventory, and basically "played shop". All the while, they had no permission to be there doing what they were doing. But poor old George had been taken down the street to the local nursing home and who else was going to question them? Marina Martins told me that she discovered that George owed about $100,000 and his shop inventory was sparse and the equipment old. So Marina decided NOT to buy the store (her original intention). Instead, she stopped paying on the lease, causing George to be in default and lose the lease, negotiated with the landlord to sign a new lease for a new store, the landlord gave her everything "lock, stock and barrel". Marina Martins re-opened the store under the name Georgettes General Store LLC. She obtained for free all of George's assets and none of his liabilities. When an old vendor demanded their money from Marina, she feign innocence and said it was a new business that had nothing to do with the old store on the same location. In short, she defrauded George's creditors of about $100,000. During the next five months, Marina Martins was slow to pay most of her vendors and was behind on most of the accounts. During the five months that I was managing the store, I brought all the vendor accounts up to date. After I left, she no longer paid anyone. In fact, five months after I left she wrote a letter to all her creditors inferring that the manager (me) had left with the cash and she couldn't pay them — but would do so in the next 30 days. Note: She hadn't paid them in five months, but who's counting? She never paid anyone else. I had some of the vendors calling me at my home asking for the money. I explained that I had been an employee and no longer worked there; but that's how I got a lot of the information I obtained on her "management" after I left. In the end, Marina Martins closed the store under the guise of "renovations" and blew the area (May 2003). She didn't turn off any of the utilities, she had a sidewalk sale and sold everything including the freezers, the fridges, the equipment, the mailboxes, the cash register... everything! She even sold the coffee machinery which belonged to another company and was only "on loan" to her so she would sell their brand of coffee (which she didn't do, either). When I was talking to a person who told me he'd bought it, I notified him that Marina didn't own the coffee machines and gave him the name and contact of who really owned it. He was pissed at Marina. Welcome to the club! Marina sold the merchandise from all the consignors, including 24 fellow Scientologists, and neither paid them for their goods, nor informed them that she was going to liquidate everything in one weekend on the sidewalk — which would have given them a chance to come and pick up what was left of their merchandise. Marina engaged her minor children to work in the store at times, where they were cashiers and sold cigarettes — a crime in California. She had failed to file for a cigarette selling permit before I came along and did it for her. She failed to file for an Alarm Permit, required by Los Angeles Municipal Code. (A funny side story: About one year after I left her employ, and long after the store had been closed down, I received a phone call from my ex-husband, who had received a phone call from the alarm company notifying us that the alarm was going off. Marina had never cancelled the service nor given them her contact information, even though she kept the store open for about seven to eight months after I left. I told the company I was in Florida and couldn't turn off the alarm, and laughed at them for keeping the service going after not getting paid for almost a year. Doofuses!) Marina Martins made food for resale in the store without obtaining the proper Health Dept permits. She refused to pay overtime pay when it was appropriate and required. She kept her four minor children out of school under the guise of home-schooling them, but she didn't actually school them. She left them to their own devices. She failed to forward withheld IRS taxes and California EFF money that was deducted from her employee's paychecks and did not send them W-2s at the end of the year. (This was for the calendar year before I was employed there. I audited the records, straightened everything out, got her signed up with a payroll service, and started the process of getting the old bill paid off before I left.) Marina failed to pay the corporate taxes or file LLC information returns with the IRS. Marina never filed application forms with the USPS which was required for her to run a mini post office. And Marina failed to change my address with the payroll company so I never received a W-2 at the end of the calendar year, and even though she received a copy of it herself, she refused to forward a copy to me. Marina Martins also lied in 2002 about having a problem with her credit report. She said there was something on it that was incorrect and she was working on it, that it was about $40,000 and it would be cleared up soon. A later (2004) background check I paid for showed that she had an unpaid tax lien on her personal income taxes from 1990 (twelve years prior) in her name in the amount of $40,901.96 (click to view the publicly recorded lien). Marina Martins used several different social security numbers. Marina ordered cell phone service under an alias (Maria Martinez) to start phone service, because she owed them money under her real name and didn't want to pay it. (I was there when she ordered the service and heard her order it. I queried about the odd name and she confessed that she had an unpaid bill with them and didn't have time to argue about it and so was just signing up with a new alias.) Marina Martins got another Scientologist [Name withheld to protect the victim] to purchase for her a brand new huge Ford SUV with all the bells and whistles ($31,500). This was registered in his name, registered in his state (Texas), and was bought with a loan from Ford Credit (also in his name). Marina was supposed to pay him these payments, but she often didn't. The Scientologist who made this arrangement with Marina told me that Marina often didn't pay him and he had to make the over-$500/month payments on "her" car. Since this was really "her car" and she resided in California, she also violated the California laws which require that she register the car in California within 10 days. She kept the car for at least two years with this "arrangement". These are just some of the things I discovered about this lovely lady of silver tongue and shady dealings. For those who come across her in the future, she prefers to operate in the film industry and works mainly as a fundraiser (not surprisingly). Summary(sigh) I was duped by Marina Martins, just like all the other people who got involved with her. But neither WISE nor the Church of Scientology lifted a finger to get Marina Martins to comply with any of her agreements. The Church of Scientology touts that they have the best ethics and justice system in the world. I've never seen that to be true. In fact, they have the best INjustice system in the world. If the COS was so good at justice, then Marina Martins would never have been able to bilk all these people (including myself), or she would have been brought to justice. But they did nothing. WISE is simply a squirrel group, when it comes to application of L. Ron Hubbard administrative technology. It is an extortionist group who simply wants to collect membership money in exchange for nothing. The local WISE Charter Committees are a joke. I've never seen a more lenient group of people whose job it is to get and keep ethics in on the business owner members. Well, that's my story of abuses with the Church of Scientology. These are by no means the complete treatise on all the abuses, but it covers some of the highlights. Now I'll take you forward in time to what happened to me AFTER I made the decision to leave the Church of Scientology. The Madness ContinuesWell, these stories have been some of the abuses that lead up to my decision to leave. What happened after I left? I'll tell you. You can't just "stop going"First, I wanted to just fade into the shadows; just "stop going"; just stop participating. But that wasn't an option. I tried that, and failed. Example in point... Tampa Org's division 6 keeps a stat on "Number of Active Volunteer Ministers". They call you each week to see if you've done anything that would be considered "active" in the field of "volunteer ministering". They can be awfully annoying to collect their stats and add you as "one point" on their weekly statistic. So if you don't tell them YES, they'll keep you on the phone for half an hour helping you try to remember some little thing you might possibly have done where you can say YES to their question. I got annoyed with them one week when they called me three times on a Thursday morning while I was working. I finally told them to take me off their phone list. The staff member, Louise Cournoyer, wrote a report on me. I, in turn, wrote them a polite letter telling them I was busy and would no longer be participating in their "Active VM program" and they should remove me from their list. I got two more reports written on me, one from Judy Fagerman and one from Louise Cournoyer. In other words... you cannot leave. Discovery that it was all a con in the first placeAfter making my decision to leave, I spent a lot of time researching on the Internet. A lot! I read everything I could get my grubby little hands on. I soaked it all up. I joined a few newsgroups, email lists, message boards, etc. I lurked, I read. I read every critic's website I could. There are so many viewpoints out there, and it was actually refreshing to realize that people have such a variety of viewpoints and it's okay. (In the COS your viewpoints have to align with the COS's... or else it's off to Ethics with you!) I was beginning to wonder if Scientology was workable at all, or was just part of a con. I read something by L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. and was fascinated. I obtained a copy of the book "L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman" by Bent Corydon and co-authored by L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. I read the entire book in 3-4 days. At the end of that, I was no longer a Scientologist — not even a Freezoner. Selling off my Scientology itemsWhen in Scientology, you are encouraged and sometimes coerced into buying every book, every lecture, every collector's items, every thing that the Church of Scientology offers for sale. It doesn't matter that you haven't listened to the last ten lecture sets you bought... you MUST purchase the latest one out. As I was reading and researching the subject of Scientology on the Internet, I started to sell off my extensive collection of tape and CD lectures, books and things related to Scientology. I initially just collected up some things I didn't want to keep, and sold those. Each week, I would go back to my bookshelf and pull off more items that I was now willing to sell. In all, I sold the entire collection. The last few items I just gave away to some new Freezone friends. I originally spent probably $20,000 for all the "stuff" I'd bought over the years. How much did I get for all this stuff? About 10 cents on the dollar. If you also have a collection you want to sell, you might try www.sellingscnstuff.com. They were great at helping me sell my stuff. eBay was helpful for fast sales, but you have to be willing to sell for cheap, cheap, cheap. I also tried to sell in other ways, but there are a lot of Scientologists who don't want to buy from you if you sound "disaffected" with the Church of Scientology. They try to "feel you out" to see if it's okay for them to buy from you. Gee, guys, who else would care about buying the stuff? Who else would be selling it? Don't you want a "great deal" on your founder's writings? Some people take the "cut off your nose to spite your face" attitude. Oh well. Culties! Getting some of my money backIn July 2007 I decided I'd had enough "hiding in the corners and pretending I hadn't left" and I wrote a letter to the Church of Scientology asking for the money back that I had on account at various organizations — money I had paid for training or auditing and which I would never again be using. It took six months, a lot of letters and them harassing me, but I finally obtained about $14,000 (a mere drop in the bucket to what I'd spent in Scientology over the prior 13 years!) and they promptly declared me a suppressive person. I'll probably later scan and post some of these letters. The Church of Scientology staff are really idiots. They even wrote me that I couldn't sell my emeter to anyone but the Church of Scientology. Excuse me? I bought it outright and I can sell it whenever I want and to whom I want. I'll probably be publishing some of the letters that the COS wrote to me during the time I was trying to get back my money, and will provide some tips for getting back your money. Getting expelled... after I already leftAfter the Church of Scientology gave me all the checks, they mailed a Suppressive Person Declare to me. It's dated Dec 12th and I received it Dec 29th. Their SP Declare (with cover letter) was so ridiculously elaborated with lies that I wrote Cara Golashesky, the Flag Land Base Justice Chief (the author of the libel) and told her that it was libel, it was malicious and full of lies, and she needed to retract it. Personally, I didn't care THAT she had written it, just that she not distribute it. As far as I was concerned, the Scientologists could think all they wanted about me... but this libel had better not affect my livelihood! [P.S. Per Florida Statute, I am not required to point out to the author of libel specifically what is wrong with the writing. I am only required to notify them five days in advance of filing a lawsuit. The only time I will go through the efforts to PROVE libel... is in a courtroom. There's no other time I would spend on trying to change the mind of a brainwashed cult member.] Cara Golaskesky wrote me back with some ridiculous "shore story" that no Scientologist should be changing their relationship with me just because of the declare. Oh, what poppycock! I had my lawyer elaborate for her in a brilliant letter. (That non-Scientologist attorney saw through all the COS bullshit.) This time, Sara Heller the Legal Director of FSO wrote back some similarly ridiculous suggestions and accusations. Here's some irony for your amusement... In March 2007, I decided to leave the COS. In July 2007, I announced it to the COS with my request for a repayment of my unused advanced payments. Such a request, by COS policy, makes me entirely inelligible for any future services at COS... ever. In December 2007, I was expelled from a "church" I was no longer part of. In February 2008, my lawyer was told to "butt out" because this is an ecclesiastical matter; that I need to appeal to the "church" directly to resolve our conflict. Excuuuuuuuuse me... but I'm not part of the "Church" of Scientology and can never be so again in the future. Anyone else see the obvious paradox? Fair game and continued harassmentThen started a series of most bizarre incidents. A few people have refused to deal with me and refuse to talk with me. Again, I'll be documenting these as they happen, or as I recall them. The next page in my story is my "Hall of Shame" webpage for some of the more bizarre incidents.
Success storyHall of ShameThe purpose of this page is to shame those Scientologists or Scientology operatives who have attempted to harass me or who have been absolutely idiotic with regards to their blindly following ridiculous Church of Scientology policies. This webpage also represents a record of Scientology's attempts at "Fair Game" towards me. Enjoy the show.
"You can't talk with your wife anymore!" orders Mike HamblyAlthough I quit going to the Church of Scientology a year ago when the Ethics Officer told me I was going to have to turn my husband into a Scientologist (meaning he wasn't one), today my husband received a phone call from Mike Hambly of Church of Scientology Mission of Belleair telling him that he could no longer speak with me because I had left the Church of Scientology. Apparently, telling Mike Hambly that he wasn't a Scientologist didn't seem to slow Mike down. Mike proceeded to explain the whole disconnection idea to my husband for the next 10 minutes on the phone and repeatedly said that my husband could no longer talk to me. My husband is such a sweetheart and polite to everyone. I have no idea what he told Mike that conveyed the idea of "Forget it, dude!" but he somehow got off the phone. I was, of course, furious. After calming down I really had to laugh at how the Church of Scientology could be so ridiculous. After all, my husband wasn't a Scientologist a year ago and that was somehow a "problem". Now somehow, after one year of absolutely no participation in the Church of Scientology my husband has somehow "become" a Scientologist? I think not. Mike Hambly... go home, you're working too hard and need some rest. Or better yet, go back to Canada and quit pretending to have a valid reason for a visa to be here. Notes: 02/29/2008 Michael Hambly 727-449-1316 http://www.reliablepromo.com
I tried to give back to Scientologist Winston Kao an item I knew he wanted. His reply to my second attempt at asking him? "Did you not get decleared?" (sic) I guess I gave the item cooties or something. Funny thing is, although he wouldn't take something from ME for FREE, he didn't remove me from his emailing list (and he KNOWS I'm on it). So I guess I can buy something from him? Dunno. Not expecting any purchases at any time soon. Here are a few of his business emails. A bit bizarre, but hey... who knows if this stuff is real or not? #1 #2
Cary Goulston won't buy an LRH item from anyone unless you're "in good standing" with the Church of Scientology Scientologists are forbidden to associate with or communicate with those who are "disaffected" or who are "declared". They are brainwashed into thinking that this is for their own good. I offered for sale some items online. Actually, it was a framed photo of L. Ron Hubbard and two certificate holders. I received a reply from Cary Goulston asking me "Interested to know what the certificates are? Where and when are they from?" Huh? What?!?!? The ad said they were empty frames and the photo showed two empty frames. So I answered "No certs. Just frames." Cary Goulston then asked me "Are you a Scientologist? Were you on staff?" What a stupid question to ask about a $15 item. Did he think I felt like chit-chatting or something? I answered "Irrelevant." His reply? "I guess that means yes and if you are declared I can't do biz and if your (sic) not declared, your (sic) disaffected in which case, I shouldn't do biz with you either. So I guess I am sorry, but I cannot go any further biz wise." Can you spell "Cut off your nose to spite your face"? Personally, I don't care about the measly $15 I asked for these items. I cared enough to offer them to someone who might want them. I guess I'll just throw them in the garbage now. Bye-bye, L. Ron Hubbard! Your followers no longer care about your revered photo, because I gave it "cooties". I guess he didn't figure out who I was, because he sent me an email the next month inviting me to see his band at the local Scientologist hangout.
Scientologist wants building to be seized by eminent domain... because it is uglySara Goldberg, a realtor working for Village Reality of Clearwater, Inc. and married to Church of Scientology of Tampa auditor and OTVIII Sheldon Goldberg, expressed one day in early 2007 at a real estate business meeting at Village Reality that a certain building in downtown Clearwater should be seized using eminent domain... because it was ugly and it was hindering "our" plans for expansion and increase in property values. The property in question is 512 Cleveland St. It is next door to the Clearwater Bank building (owned by the COS) and almost across the street from the Coachman building (owned by COS). The prior tenant of the building was One Stoppe Shoppe (owned by a Scientologist, who moved his shop one block away in 2004). The scuttlebutt amongst the Scientologists is that the owner of #512 is an SP. Could it be "Fair Game" at work here? I expressed my horror to Sara that it was not the proper use of "eminent domain" to seize property because it didn't suit someone; that if the owner chose to leave it vacant and ugly, and they desired to leave it until such time as someone was willing to pay the price she wanted to sell it for, there was NOTHING Sara could do about it; that sitting on a property during a real estate appreciating period was a valid method of investment. Sara disagreed and tried to state her case why it was okay to seize such property, spouting lofty Scientology ideals. I tuned her out. Sara was on the level OTVII at the time. By the way, as of this writing, of all the agents who work for Village Reality of Clearwater, Inc. only one is not a Scientologist. Two would say they were not, but they took courses at the COS and one has encouraged his family to do courses. There was always a lot of "Scientology talk" at those weekly real estate business meetings, which is why I left the company at the time I did. Notes: spring 2007 Sara Goldberg Links to Other Resources or ArticlesExit interviews / Personal stories: The Scientology - Through the Door website has personal stories of people's life in Scientology. It's sort of a collection point for "exit interviews". Altered tech?: This website offers quite a bit of information on it. Very interesting reading. Cult?: This website offers a comprehensive study on the subject of cults in general, with quite a smattering of information about Scientology in particular, and how it fits in amongst the other cults discussed. Demanding your money back from Scientology: This website, available in several languages, is about how you might go about getting your money back from the Church of Scientology. Freezone: The International Freezone Association's website is one place you can go if you're interested in connecting up with a Scientology auditor in the Freezone (outside of the Church of Scientology). Fair game: This website describes the Fair Game policy in detail and has numerous personal stories from ex-Scientologists being "Fair gamed". Disconnection: The Church of Scientology is rabid on this subject. They enforce all current members to discontinue all associations with anyone who has left. This includes family, friends and business associates. The website ScientologyDisconnection.com discusses this aspect and has numerous personal stories of disconnection. Ex-Scientology Kids: The website ExScientologyKids.com was started by Kendra Wiseman (daughter of CCHR leader Bruce Wiseman), Jenna Miscavige Hill (neice of Scientology leader David Miscavige), and Astra Woodcraft (who spent her young life in the Sea Org, and left Scientology for good when the church tried to pressure her to have an abortion). The website is dedicated to kids who grew up in Scientology and either have left or may wish to leave. Scientology corporate relationships: This website is titled "Piercing the corporate veil: the true structure of Scientology". The Ex-Scientologist Message Board (ESMB): A mild message board with a mix of ex-Scientologists and Freezoners. Operation Clambake Message Board (OCMB): A message board for ex-Scientologists, critics, anti-Scientologists. Very few Freezoner types. They also have a website, xenu.net. Lermanet.com: Arnie Lerma's website. Very comprehensive. If you want to know any data from any critic in any time period, it's likely on his website somewhere. Thank god his site has a search engine.
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Un must: "Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué" Ce livre de Russell Miller révèle la face cachée de la scientologie. On y découvre un Ron Hubbard, malade, mythomane et poursuivi par la justice. Il est disponible en format pdf ou html sur notre site. Nous avons également publié une version résumée.
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