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To get started with this blank [[TiddlyWiki]], you'll need to modify the following tiddlers:
* [[SiteTitle]] & [[SiteSubtitle]]: The title and subtitle of the site, as shown above (after saving, they will also appear in the browser title bar)
* [[MainMenu]]: The menu (usually on the left)
* [[DefaultTiddlers]]: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened
You'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits: <<option txtUserName>>

These [[InterfaceOptions]] for customising [[TiddlyWiki]] are saved in your browser

Your username for signing your edits. Write it as a [[WikiWord]] (eg [[JoeBloggs]])

<<option txtUserName>>
<<option chkSaveBackups>> [[SaveBackups]]
<<option chkAutoSave>> [[AutoSave]]
<<option chkRegExpSearch>> [[RegExpSearch]]
<<option chkCaseSensitiveSearch>> [[CaseSensitiveSearch]]
<<option chkAnimate>> [[EnableAnimations]]

----
Also see [[AdvancedOptions]]

<<importTiddlers>>

 [["A Queer and Pleasant Danger": Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor|http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/kate-bornstein-gender-outlaw-queer-and-pleasant-danger-interview]] May 5, 2012, Nicole Pasulka, [[Mother Jones]]
----
When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world. There was no question. And we knew anyone who was in our way was suppressive and needed to be shattered. Those are their words: shattered.
{{{
{{cite news | first = Nicole | last = Pasulka | title = "A Queer and Pleasant Danger": Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor | url = http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/kate-bornstein-gender-outlaw-queer-and-pleasant-danger-interview | work = Mother Jones | date = 2012-05-05 | accessdate = 2013-01-02 }}
}}}

[img[x|http://www.abcactionnews.com/favicon.ico]] [["Anonymous" takes to the streets to protest Scientology|http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Anonymous-takes-to-the-streets-to-protest/VR_lurJpj02Nowng9Foa4g.cspx]] March 17, 2008, [[WFTS-TV]]
----
On the heels of Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard's birthday, about 75 protestors from the group known as "Anonymous" hit the streets of Clearwater Saturday afternoon, protesting in front of Scientology's Clearwater headquarters, just a few days after a judge rejected the church's petition for a restraining order.
{{{
{{cite news | title = "Anonymous" takes to the streets to protest Scientology | url = http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Anonymous-takes-to-the-streets-to-protest/VR_lurJpj02Nowng9Foa4g.cspx | work = WFTS-TV | date = 2008-03-17 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
}}}

[img[x|http://www.apcmag.com/misc/favicon.ico]] [["Anonymous" threatens to "dismantle" Church of Scientology via internet|http://apcmag.com/7905/anonymous_threatens_to_dismantle_church_of_scientology_via_internet]] January 24, 2008, APC Magazine, [[ninemsn]]
----
A hacking group calling itself "Anonymous" has posted a chilling video on the internet, announcing that it plans to "dismantle" the Church of Scientology.
{{{
{{cite news | title = "Anonymous" threatens to "dismantle" Church of Scientology via internet | url = http://apcmag.com/7905/anonymous_threatens_to_dismantle_church_of_scientology_via_internet | work = APC Magazine | publisher = ninemsn | date = 2008-01-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
}}}

[img[x|http://blogs.laweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [["Anonymous" vs. Scientology: Group Targets "Church" Headquarters|http://www.laweekly.com/2008-03-20/news/8220-anonymous-8221-vs-scientology/]] March 20, 2008, David Ferrell, [[LA Weekly]]
----
IT'S FREAKIN' RARE THAT A GANG of purported Internet hackers can take on an established church and look like the good guys — but, after all, this is Hollywood, and the humongous blue shrine and headquarters on Sunset Boulevard belong to the Church of Scientology.
{{{
{{cite news | first = David | last = Ferrell | title = "Anonymous" vs. Scientology: Group Targets "Church" Headquarters | url = http://www.laweekly.com/2008-03-20/news/8220-anonymous-8221-vs-scientology/ | work = LA Weekly | date = 2008-03-20 | accessdate = 2011-05-25 }}
}}}

 [["Apostate" and "liar" - The Church of Scientology confronts a critic|http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/25/%E2%80%9Capostate%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cliar%E2%80%9D-the-church-of-scientology-confronts-a-critic/]] October 25, 2011, Guy Adams , [[The Independent]]
----
No less than 40 minutes after today's newspaper went to print, the Church of Scientology's public relations department got in touch. They wished to respond to the request I had lodged earlier – seeking comment on reports that its employees had attempted to dig up dirt on the South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (pictured).

In the interests of journalistic fairness, their emailed statement is printed in full below.
{{{
{{cite news | first = Guy Adams | title = "Apostate" and "liar" - The Church of Scientology confronts a critic | url = http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/25/%E2%80%9Capostate%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cliar%E2%80%9D-the-church-of-scientology-confronts-a-critic/ | work = The Independent | date = 2011-10-25 | accessdate = 2012-09-11 }}
}}}

[img[x|http://thephoenix.com/favicon.ico]] [["Battling Scientology" Follow-Up|http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2008/10/24/battling-scientology-follow-up.aspx]] October 24, 2008, Chris Faraone, [[The Phoenix]]
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Depending on whom you ask, Massachusetts-based protest organizer Gregg Housh had a major victory – or a significant loss – in Boston Municipal Court this Wednesday. As reported in The Phoenix this past week in the feature “Battling Scientology,” Housh faced charges of harassment, disturbing the peace, and disturbing religious worship for his involvement with the picket group Anonymous and his actions against the Boston Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.lexpress.fr/favicon.ico]] [["Frapper la Scientologie au porte-monnaie est la seule méthode efficace"|http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/frapper-la-scientologie-au-porte-monnaie-est-la-seule-methode-efficace_767869.html]] June 16, 2009, François Koch, [[L'Express]]
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L'ex-députée PS Catherine Picard, présidente de l'Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu (Unadfi), réagit au réquisitoire du parquet qui demande la dissolution de l'Eglise de Scientologie et quatre millions d'euros d'amende.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [["I just went from hell to Vegas"|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050910&slug=katvegas10]] September 10, 2005, Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times, [[Seattle Times]]
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The Church of Scientology has set up a tent there for volunteer ministers who are giving counseling, massages and anything else the officers might need. Actress Kirstie Alley paid a visit yesterday to the command center to talk to the officers and military personnel.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [["I want my money back" |http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2010/reports/scientology_anderson/]] January 24, 2010, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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On Feb. 27, 2009, long-time Scientology parishioner Larry Anderson met with two church officials, Tommy Davis and Jessica Feshbach, in Burbank, Calif. Anderson, the star of the Scientology film, Orientation, openly recorded their 90-minute conversation. Here are some excerpts:
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 [["Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" by Janet Reitman|http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504367_162-20116062-504367.html]] October 5, 2011, Jeff Glor, Author Talk, [[CBS News]]
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Janet Reitman: The book grew out of a very long magazine story that I wrote for Rolling Stone, also called "Inside Scientology," which took about nine months to produce, largely because the learning curve was so steep. Scientology has its own language, its own codes, its own justice system, its own worldview - and none of these things had ever been well explained in any sort of mainstream, accessible way. That shocked me a little bit, I have to say, and it also offered a challenge, which was to write that sort of book, a really objective, thoroughly researched and documented history and narrative exploration of this subject that so many people have heard of, yet know almost nothing about. 
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [["Remailer" service shut down|http://news.com.com/quotRemailerquot+service+shut+down/2100-1023_3-223825.html]] August 31, 1996, Scrolling Eye, [[CNET]]
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A Finnish operation that allowed people to send anonymous email on the Internet was shut down after accusations it was used for child pornography.
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 [["Somethings terribly wrong there"; says father of woman who died at Narconon Arrowhead|http://mcalesternews.com/breakingnews/x453795015/-Somethings-terribly-wrong-there-says-father-of-woman-who-diedat-Narconon-Arrowhead]] July 21, 2012, Jeanne LeFlore, [[McAlester News-Capital]]
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On Friday morning, Stacy Dawn Murphy, 20, was found dead at Narconon Arrowhead in Candian and her father said he wants answers.

Robert "Murphy" Murphy of Owasso said he needs to know her death won't go unnoticed.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [["Strange Angel": Tracing a short, explosive life|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050227&slug=strangeangel27]] February 27, 2005, Clark Humphrey, Book Review, [[Seattle Times]]
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One striking example of this left brain/right brain duality is John Whiteside Parsons (1915-1952). One of the founding fathers of Los Angeles sci-fi fandom, he was friends with such authors as Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein, and he even lost a girlfriend to pulp writer and future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He was also a devotee of British occultist Alistair Crowley; Parsons' Pasadena mansion regularly hosted black masses and "magickal" group sex rituals.
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 [["They Put Me At Risk" - Xenophon Sues|http://www.sarawakreport.org/2012/05/11878/?utm_source=Sarawak+Report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=da74e21eaf-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN]] May 4, 2012, [[Sarawak Report]]
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The Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has confirmed to Sarawak Report that he fully intends to sue the New Straits Times, despite the newspaper's grovelling apologies yesterday.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [["Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": A Scientology Insider Gives First Full-Length Interview to the Voice|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_john_brousseau_tom_cruise.php?page=all]] July 28, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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In some ways, Brousseau's tale is one of the most remarkable to come out of the secretive organization, and one that parallels so much of Scientology's own development and controversies. 

He and Miscavige were brothers in law. They were both young cameramen working for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard during his movie-making phase. Brousseau was Hubbard's personal chauffeur and helped maintain the cloak of secrecy when Hubbard vanished for good. He watched Miscavige transform Scientology and turn its base into a prison camp. He worked for Tom Cruise, which included serving in the household with Cruise and Katie Holmes. And having worked closely with both Cruise and Miscavige, he has choice things to say about the nature of their relationship.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [["Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": The John Brousseau Story, Part Two|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_john_brousseau_mareka_james.php?page=all]] July 29, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Brousseau helped convey Hubbard's instructions to the church after the aging writer went into seclusion. Brousseau lived for several years under an assumed name as he ran a Mojave Desert ranch in case Hubbard needed to hide there. And after Hubbard's death in 1986, Brousseau served Miscavige at Scientology's Int Base until Miscavige had him sent to a prison program for three years. After his return, Brousseau was surprised when Miscavige restored him to a position in Scientology's most powerful entity, RTC -- which allowed him to do more work for Tom Cruise.

And now we continue with part two....

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[img[x|http://gawker.com/favicon.ico]] [["We are the way to happiness"|http://gawker.com/5002216/we-are-the-way-to-happiness]] January 13, 2008, Nick Denton, [[Gawker]]
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Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, though it's brought threats of a $100m lawsuit, has emboldened other critics of the increasingly rabid Hollywood star. Mark Ebner, the investigative reporter, just emailed us links to some Scientology promotional videos. Morton's central claim is that Cruise, star of movies from Risky Business to Mission Impossible, is the effective number two of the Church of Scientology, the cultish religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard, and subscribed to by other eccentric Hollywood actors such as John Travolta. The videos bear out, at the very least, that Cruise is central to the organization's marketing efforts. In this amazing clip, to a background track of theme from Mission Impossible, Cruise explains how Scientologists are "the authorities on the mind", the only people who can bring peace and unite cultures. Watch it, after the jump, before the scary Scientologists silence us all. 

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[img[x|http://www.glamour.com/favicon.ico]] [["We broke free of Scientology"|http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2008/06/scientology]] June 1, 2008, Shirley Velasquez, [[Glamour Magazine]]
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In September 2006 Kendra Wiseman, 25, was reading an old issue of Glamour when she came across a story by Astra Woodcraft titled "Why I Fled Scientology." Like Astra, Kendra had grown up in the secretive religion and made the agonizing decision to abandon it. She wrote to Astra, thanking her for the story. A year and a half later, Kendra heard another shocker: Jenna Miscavige Hill, the 24-year-old niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, had also left the church. Kendra sent her an e-mail too.
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[img[x|http://www.slashgear.com/favicon.ico]] [[$100m Scientology Super Power Building is jam-packed with odd tech|http://www.slashgear.com/100m-scientology-super-power-building-is-jam-packed-with-odd-tech-17209578/]] January 17, 2012, Chris Davies, [[SlashGear]]
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Scientology is known for being one of the more unusual – and secretive – religions, but we almost feel like signing up ourselves having seen that practitioners at the new Super Power Building will get access to an “infinite pit” and an “oiliness table.” Details of the $100m “Flag Mecca” facility in Clearwater, Florida leaked to?The Village Voice, spilling hints at some of the more esoteric equipment being installed. According to the plans, there'll be everything from a wall made of water to an “Electric Fields Generator.”
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[$12.5 Million Deal With I.R.S. Lifted Cloud Over Scientologists|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7D71331F932A05751C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all]] December 31, 1997, Douglas Frantz, [[New York Times]]
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In addition to the $12.5 million payment, the agreement required the church to create an internal oversight committee of high-level church officials to monitor its compliance with tax laws and report annually to the tax agency for three years, according to a copy of the 76-page settlement agreement.

As part of the settlement, the church agreed to drop its lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service and its officials and to stop helping church members who, along with the church itself, had brought 2,200 lawsuits against the agency and its officials over the years. In exchange, the tax agency stopped its audits of 13 major Scientology organizations, dismissed tax penalties and liens against some church organizations and granted tax-exempt status to 114 Scientology-related entities in the United States.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[$385-million later, a new Clearwater core|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/10/Business/385_million_later__a_.shtml]] September 10, 2007, Mike Donila, Business, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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It's a dramatic turnaround for an area that has been in a free fall since the mid 1970s, when the Church of Scientology arrived and secretly bought downtown's biggest hotel, then started gobbling up properties nearby.

In all, about $385-million in public and private sector investment is pouring into downtown Clearwater. After fits and starts, the city is attracting believers with deep pockets, ones willing to make plays where others - including Clearwater voters - previously saw too much risk.
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[img[x|http://assets.bizjournals.com/favicon.ico]] [[$5M purchase paves way for Helmer building renovation|http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/08/04/story7.html?ana=from_rss]] August 1, 2008, [[Portland Business Journal]]
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The Church of Scientology is out and California-based First Republic Bank is in as a new owner takes control of the historic Helmer building in the heart of downtown Portland. 

The Goodman family, which owns or controls numerous commercial sites in downtown, closed its purchase of the Helmer building at 969 S.W. Broadway on July 25 in a deal worth about $5 million.
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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[$cientology Truth or Dare!|http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/06/21/]] June 21, 2005, Fresh Intelligence, [[Radar Online]]
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Tom Cruise wasn't always so cool. In fact, it's taken him years (and tens of millions of dollars, we hear) to achieve the special brand of inner bliss that allows him to shrug off getting squirted in the face with water on the red carpet. How'd Cruise do it?
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[(2012's) Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 21 & 22|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_top_25_dani_lemberger_john_brousseau.php]] August 19, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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This year, summer has not been languid and lazy. In the wake of the TomKat divorce, media interest in Scientology has never been greater and we've never been busier. But we thought it was time to update our list from last year. This time, we've put a premium on what's happened in the last twelve months, so you might see some of your old favorites drop off the roster. But never fear -- you can always revisit our choices from last year, or the choices of our readers.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[(2012's) Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, Nos. 14-16|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_top_25_tory_christman_dave_touretzky.php]] August 26, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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We're moving Carnegie Mellon University professor Dave Touretzky up in our list this year. Touretzky is known for his many years of gathering and hosting information at his websites that describe Scientology's secret upper-level teachings and other detailed research. But it's Touretzky's dedication to getting out information about Scientology's drug treatment program, Narconon, which is making a big difference this year as the church's rehab centers have become the center of controversy. We've referred to Touretzky's pages often in our stories, and we hope readers use them to come to the understanding that Narconon's issues are longstanding and systemic.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[(2012's) Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, Nos. 17-20|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_top_25_jamie_dewolf_amy_scobee.php]] August 23, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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L. Ron Hubbard's great-grandson moves up a few spots on our list this year after the way his profile has been rising lately. After the TomKat split, DeWolf was asked to make some comments, and an interview he gave to a Bay Area local television station got picked up and went around the world a few times. We'd predicted big things for Jamie, who has a lot of talent and charm, and isn't afraid to speak freely about his great-grandad.
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[img[x|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[£140,000 council chief goes on £5,000 course to protect herself against 'abrasions of the world'|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048330/140-000-council-chief-goes-5-000-course-protect-abrasions-world.html]] August 22, 2008, [[Daily Mail]]
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Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands over the last two years, will attend courses in the Avatar Professional Course to learn how to become 'more likeable'.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[10,000 Scientologists Got This E-Mail Today About "Disconnection," their Church President, and a Mysterious Death|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_heber_jentzsch_karen_de_la_carriere_email.php]] July 9, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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This morning, more than 10,000 Scientologists found an e-mail from Karen de la Carriere in their inboxes, written in jargon that they will understand, and informing them of the controversy surrounding the death of her son Alexander Jentzsch.

As we reported first on Thursday night, de la Carriere learned about the death of her 27-year-old son more than two days after he was found, unresponsive, at the home of his in-laws in Los Angeles. (The manner of his death is still being investigated, but the county coroner says there is no suspicion of foul play.)

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[10-year-old Haitian earthquake survivor dies after fall from roof|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/10-year-old-haitian-earthquake-survivor-dies-after-fall-from-roof/1093988]] May 11, 2010, Rodney Thrash, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In a brief interview with the St. Petersburg Times late Monday, Mike Campbell would not discuss the April 29 fall or provide details about Anais and her siblings. He said he was "bound by the father's wishes to respect their privacy."
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 [[11th Circuit orders counsel off Scientology case|http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2011/07_-_July/11th_Circuit_orders_counsel_off_Scientology_case/]] July 8, 2011, [[Thomson Reuters]]
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Attorney Kennan Dandar wants to represent a woman suing the Church of Scientology over the suicide of her son. The woman wants Dandar to represent her.

So what's the problem? Nothing, a Florida federal court ruled last year, issuing an injunction barring a state court from kicking Dandar off the case. But on Thursday, a federal appeals court found that -- despite worries about limiting the mother's right to choose counsel -- the federal court could not force the state court to let Dandar continue on the case.
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 [[11th Circuit Rescues Fla. Lawyer Caught in Conflicting Rulings, Says He Must Quit Scientology Case|http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/11th_circuit_rescues_fla._lawyer_caught_in_conflicting_rulings_says_he_must/]] July 11, 2011, Martha Neil, [[ABA Journal]]
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But Ken Dandar sued the church again in 2009, leading to an uncomfortable situation: A state court judge told Dandar he had to withdraw as counsel in the federal wrongful death case against the church and threatened to hit him with hefty monetary penalties if he didn't. Meanwhile, the federal judge in the case said he couldn't withdraw, as detailed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post.

Now a federal appeals court has gotten Dandar out of the jam, holding that U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday lacked the power to countermand the order by Pinellas Circuit Judge Robert Beach that Dandar must step down, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[2 Charges Dismissed In Scientology Suit|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DC113EF937A25756C0A960948260]] May 14, 1986, UPI, [[New York Times]]
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A judge has dismissed two key charges in a $25 million fraud suit brought by Larry Wollersheim, a former Scientologist who asserted the church wrecked him emotionally and financially with lies and harassment.
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 [[2 Dead in Last 6 1/2 months at Narconon Arrowhead|http://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/2-dead-last-6-12-months-narconon-arrowhead]] May 5, 2012, Associated Press, [[Public Radio Tulsa]]
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The state medical examiner's office wants to take a deeper look at the deaths of two people at a drug rehabilitation center that uses saunas and vitamins as part of an intensive cleansing regimen.

Last month, 21-year-old Hillary Holten died at the Narconon Arrowhead center at Canadian. Last October, 32-year-old Gabriel Graves died. The rehab facility uses techniques developed by Scientology founder and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and is the training center for Narconon International. Health officials in Quebec closed a Narconon facility last month.
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 [[2 Investigates: Patient death at Georgia Narconon|http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/2-investigates-patient-death-georgia-narconon/nSQwp/]] October 1, 2012, Jodie Fleischer, [[wsbtv]]
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Patrick Desmond's mother describes him as kind-hearted and good-natured, but the former Marine died at 28-years-old, losing a battle against alcoholism. 

Desmond's death in 2008 came as he took part in a worldwide drug treatment program, Narconon, already under fire for other patient deaths and ties to the Church of Scientology. 

Now a Channel 2 investigation is raising questions about the Narconon program and its license in Georgia. 

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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[2 million check, puzzling clues, tangled trails|http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F11F93D5F0C7B8EDDA80894DC484D81]] January 28, 1984, Glenn Fowler, [[New York Times]]
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One morning in the spring of 1982, two young men walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank and presented a check for $2 million. The check was signed by L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the Church of Scientology, who has not been seen ...
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[img[x|http://www.canoe.ca/favicon.ico]] [[200 cruise by Scientology HQ|http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/02/11/4839413-sun.html]] February 11, 2008, Brett Clarkson, [[Toronto Sun]]
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As for most of the other 200 anti-Scientology protesters who gathered outside the religious group's Yonge St. offices yesterday, they did care. Many said they believe that if the controversial religious group learned their identities, it would attempt to keep tabs on them.
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[img[x|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[21 trailer park residents evicted for Church of Scientology golf course|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374584/21-trailer-park-residents-evicted-Church-Scientology-golf-course.html?ito=feeds-newsxml]] April 8, 2011, [[Daily Mail]]
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Residents at a long-established trailer park have been forced to leave in order to make way for an expanded Scientology-owned golf course, it has emerged.

The Sleepy Hollow Trailer Park, in San Jacinto, California, sits next to one of the Church of Scientology's headquarters and has been providing affordable housing for more than 30 years. 

Now all but one of its 21 residents have gone after Business Management Services, which buys properties for the Church of Scientology, bought the land from an investment company. 

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[img[x|http://www.oregonlive.com/favicon.ico]] [[25 years after Rajneeshee commune collapsed, truth spills out -- Part 1 of 5|http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_one_it_was_worse_than_we.html]] April 14, 2011, Les Zaitz, [[The Oregonian]]
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Three months after the aborted Comini plot, the commune collapsed and the Rajneeshees' darkest secrets tumbled out.

Hand-picked teams of Rajneeshees had executed the largest biological terrorism attack in U.S. history, poisoning at least 700 people. They ran the largest illegal wiretapping operation ever uncovered. And their immigration fraud to harbor foreigners remains unrivaled in scope. The revelations brought criminal charges, defections, global manhunts and prison time.

But there was much more.
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[img[x|http://www.metnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[25 Years Later, a High-Profile Superior Court Case Is Still on the Active List|http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/perspectives102805.htm]] October 28, 2005, Roger M. Grace, [[Metropolitan News-Enterprise]]
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A jury trial is slated to start in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday in a case in which an attorney who failed to secure a written representation agreement is seeking to recover the reasonable value of her services.

So far, that probably seems hum drum. What makes this case worthy of note is that the proceeding will take place in Case No. C332027—which was filed on July 28, 1980.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[26th person picks up filing papers|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49915026.html?dids=49915026:49915026&FMT=FT]] January 14, 1987, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Bob Cetti, a technician in the production department at WTSP, Ch. 10, picked up papers Tuesday to run in the March 10 Clearwater elections. Cetti said he is a member of the Church of Scientology and would like to ``get involved in trying to get government out of church affairs.`` He said he will decide soon whether to become an official candidate and what commission seat to run for. Cetti, who lives in downtown Clearwater, was the 26th person to pick up papers to run.

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[img[x|http://www.cbsnews.com/favicon.ico]] [['48 Hours' Questions Role Of Scientology In Murder, Scientologists Question CBS Ethics|http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/11/02/publiceye/entry2144647.shtml]] November 2, 2006, Brian Montopoli, Public Eye, [[CBS News]]
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On Saturday, "48 Hours" ran a story about the 2003 murder of Elli Perkins, a murder that her 28-year-old son Jeremy confessed to committing. Jeremy had been hallucinating and behaving erratically before his mother's death, but his parents, devout Scientologists, resisted giving him psychiatric treatment. As "48 Hours" notes, "[s]ome pro-Scientology materials declare that psychiatrists are not only useless, but evil – their medications nothing but poisons." The Perkins opted to medicate their son primarily with vitamins.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[50 best cult books|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html]] April 25, 2008, Sam Leith and friends, [[The Telegraph]]
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Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health by L Ron Hubbard (1950)
Do you often feel unhappy? Depressed? Ill at ease with others? You will if you read this. Creepy bit of mind-mechanics by the indifferent sci-fi novelist who founded Scientology. TM
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 [[82-year-old German House is under reconstruction|http://www.stltoday.com/business/article_e84b9493-67ac-51f0-9982-dda9439d4347.html]] September 10, 2010, Tim Bryant, [[stltoday]]
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The Church of Scientology, which paid $1.9 million for the building in 2007, is reviving it. After a year of planning, work began this summer to restore the building's main auditorium, a smaller side auditorium and the entrance facing Lafayette.

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[img[x|http://www.abajournal.com/.img/favicon.png]] [[9th Circuit Could OK Big Religious Education Tax Break|http://www.abajournal.com/news/9th_circuit_could_ok_big_religious_education_tax_break/]] February 8, 2008, Martha Neil, [[ABA Journal]]
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Judges on a 9th Circuit panel hearing a New York couple's appeal of an adverse Internal Revenue Service tax ruling this week reportedly appeared sympathetic to the couple's claim that the federal agency isn't treating members of all religious groups fairly concerning charitable deductions for educational expenses.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A battle of beliefs waged in megabytes|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51853616.html?dids=51853616:51853616&FMT=FT]] August 3, 1994, Wayne Garcia, Column One, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Scientologists and their critics are colliding in cyberspace.

The critics started the fight, creating an electronic bulletin board dubbed alt.religion.scientology on the Internet, a worldwide web of computer networks with an audience pushing 25-million.
Kurt Weiland, who heads Scientology's legal and public affairs branch, dismissed much of the Internet traffic as irrelevant and a waste of time. In the next breath, though, he acknowledged that "we asked our law firm to look into what was going on."

A private investigator working for Scientology posed as a journalist to quiz a computer user in Bloomington, Ind., who is believed to have started the anti-Scientology newsgroup.
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 [[A bridge too far|http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=894338&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14]] August 17, 2007, Aviva Lori, [[Haaretz]]
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S. belonged to the Church of Scientology for about six years. "I did a course on how to get people to become Scientologists, how to sell people what they need, at their most vulnerable point. There are special techniques for learning where a person feels that something is screwing him in life, and then you tell him that there is a chance that Scientology can help. But soon the person forgets why he got into it in the first place, such as to be calmer with himself, to make more money, to achieve cosmic identification - all those goals are cast out and the person understands that it's a lot more important to help Scientology develop and to clean the planet."
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[img[x|http://www.december.com/favicon.ico]] [[A Brief History of anon.penet.fi|http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html]] September 1, 1997, Sabine Helmers, [[CMC Magazine]]
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As well as threats from moralists who regard this Finnish remail service to be a dangerous source used to distribute smut, the Church of Scientology would like to pull the plug on this remailer and has called in lawyers to make the names of anonymous critics of Scientology known. In February 1995, the Church of Scientology called in Interpol and Finnish prosecutors in order to find out an144108's real identity.
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 [[A broader look at the organization|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Sciorg.pdf]] March 1, 1998, Jeff Walsh, Inside the Church of Scientology, [[Boston Herald]]
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A case so different from all the others|http://www.sptimes.com/News/061400/TampaBay/A_case_so_different_f.shtml]] June 14, 2000, Howard Troxler, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology now has two distinctions at the hands of Bernie McCabe.

The first is that he chose to prosecute the church (I mean, one of its corporations) in the first place.

The second distinction is that McCabe has dropped the case. There are not many former defendants walking around who get to say, "On second thought, Bernie McCabe let me go."

McCabe's office puts the blame for this turn of events on Medical Examiner Joan Wood. Wood changed her cause of McPherson's death from "undetermined" to "accidental" after the church provided her new evidence.

Not only did Wood change her mind, but according to the state, she was not especially convincing about when, how and why. McCabe's office says she would have been a lousy witness, and so the case was dropped.
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 [[A Challenge to Faith and Catholic Identity-Scientology in view: Archbishop Robert Rivas, O.P.|http://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/a-challenge-to-faith-and-catholic-identity-scientology-in-view-archbishop-robert-rivas-o-p/]] April 11, 2010, dialogueireland, [[Dialog Ireland]]
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Archbishop Rivas' homily addresses three subjects of concern: the current drought in St. Lucia, the aftermath of the earthquakes in Haiti; and the subversion of St. Lucia by Scientology. Dialogue Ireland has received the complete text of the homily, and we print below the concluding section, which deals with Scientology..
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A chronology of major events|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/25879385.html?dids=25879385:25879385&FMT=FT]] February 1, 1998, Scientology in Clearwater: Digging In, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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1975 The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. buys the Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown, and leases it to a secretive group called United Churches of Florida. 1976 The Church of Scientology emerges as the real buyer of the Fort Harrison Hotel. 1977 Scientology files the first of many lawsuits contesting its Pinellas County property tax bill.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A church accounting|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/12/Opinion/A_church_accounting.shtml]] November 12, 2007, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Scientology's shameful past includes a 25-year legal and psychological campaign against the IRS to be recognized as a tax-exempt religion. Scientology tactics included a criminal conspiracy in the 1970s to bug IRS offices, which led to 11 convictions of church members including founder L. Ron Hubbard's wife. Scientology filed dozens of lawsuits against the IRS, hired private investigators to dig up dirt on IRS employees and financed other IRS critics.
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[img[x|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/favicon.ico]] [[A Church's Lethal Contract|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Scientology/ReleaseForms/archive/razor-article-2003.html]] December 1, 2003, David S. Touretzky, [[Razor Magazine]]
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Imagine a church so dangerous, you must sign a release form before you can receive its "spiritual assistance." This assistance might involve holding you against your will for an indefinite period, isolating you from friends and family, and denying you access to appropriate medical care. You will of course be billed for this treatment - assuming you survive it. If not, the release form absolves your caretakers of all responsibility for your suffering and death. Welcome to the Church of Scientology.
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 [[A city falling apart: Wall could tumble at Washington Street and Mass. Ave.|http://www.universalhub.com/2011/city-falling-apart-wall-could-tumble-washington-st]] February 8, 2011, adamg, [[Universal Hub]]
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The property, the former Ivory Bean building, is owned by the Church of Scientology, which has been saying since it bought the building in 2008 along with the neighboring Hotel Alexandra, that it plans to renovate it for use as part of its new Boston headquarters.
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[img[x|http://www.westword.com/favicon.ico]] [[A Click in Time Saves Minds|http://www.westword.com/2001-10-04/news/a-click-in-time-saves-minds/full]] October 4, 2001, Alan Prendergast, Denver Westword News, [[Village Voice Media]]
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According to Lawrence Wollersheim, a founder of the Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, FACTNet has been consigned to a peculiar kind of Internet hell by a "search engine sabotaging tactic" employed by the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[A Couch Tom Cruise Won't Jump On|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/24/AR2005062401866.html]] June 25, 2005, Richard Leiby, [[Washington Post]]
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Okay, should we address him as Dr. Tom Cruise from now on? Or will the Rev. Dr. Cruise suffice?

Whatever: Anybody who watched the actor's performance on NBC's "Today" show yesterday witnessed an unsettling transformation. The movie star, who has long embraced Scientology, launched a full-bore assault on the psychiatric profession, sticking to a script that his church (founded, mind you, by a hack science fiction writer) has been promoting for decades.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A cry for justice|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50726165.html?dids=50726165:50726165&FMT=FT]] March 3, 2000, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Despite a reversal in the autopsy report of Lisa McPherson, the state attorney still has an obligation to prosecute those his office believes to be responsible in her death in a Scientology hotel room.

The tragedy of Lisa McPherson's death in a Scientology hotel room has turned into a sad, convoluted mess that cries out for justice.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[A dose of madness|http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/aug/08/research.highereducation]] August 8, 2002, Johan Jensen, [[Guardian]]
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Mystified by the new wonder drug LSD, the psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West and his colleague at the University of Oklahoma, Chester M Pierce, were looking for a new way to investigate the drug in 1962. They came up with an idea so outlandish it could only happen in the world of experimental psychology.
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[img[x|http://books.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[A E van Vogt|http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,131148,00.html]] February 1, 2000, Steve Holland, [[The Guardian]]
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When, in 1948, The World Of Null-A was published in book form, it was the first SF magazine serial to appear in hardcover from a major publisher (earlier titles had appeared from specialist houses). In France, it was translated by surrealist Boris Vian and created a market for science fiction.

However, van Vogt's interest in disciplines that would focus latent talent led him to dianetics, the memory auditing system developed by fellow SF writer L Ron Hubbard, which became the cornerstone of scientology. Although not interested in the mystical/religious aspects of scientology, van Vogt maintained the Los Angeles Hubbard Dianetic Centre from 1950 until 1961, partly financing the gesture by gathering together and reworking earlier stories into novels.
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[img[x|http://www.watchman.org/favicon.ico]] [[A Hubbard Legacy: Scientology's Punitive Policies|http://www.watchman.org/sci/scientologypunitive.htm]] January 15, 1998, [[Watchman Expositor]]
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Scientology leaders today try to dismiss the church's "bad-boy behavior" as something done without Hubbard's knowledge by rogue Scientologists, and as a thing of the past. It was Hubbard, however, who wrote the policies on which Scientologists, past and present, base their behavior and activities. Regarded as "Scripture," these policies are still in force and continue to perpetuate and govern Scientology's heinous and terroristic activities. 

The following is a partial list of these totalistic mandatory policies or "doctrines" of Scientology (all emphasis is in originals except where noted):
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A leap beyond faith|http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-shermer18feb18,0,5952670.story]] February 18, 2008, Michael Shermer, Opinion, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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And yet this latest turn against the organization founded in 1954 by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard has an air of farcical comedy to it. Why? Why aren't civil rights organizations and anti-hate-speech activists pouncing on these protesters? The reason, I suspect, is that most of us do not consider Scientology a religion, at least not a religion that resembles in the slightest the world's major faiths.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A letter from David Miscavige|http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012140.ece]] June 20, 2009, David Miscavige, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post. You were advised that information would include addressing the extraordinary "admissions" of one of your sources regarding a long-settled legal matter.
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[img[x|http://www.nctimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A magnet for Scientologists, Clearwater comes to terms with its status as a mecca|http://www.nctimes.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_b9b8ab0f-2159-550f-80a1-5594d2a79cd4.html?mode=story]] October 11, 2007, Mitch Stacy, Associated Press, [[North Country Times]]
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"I think there's been a slow shift from a very strong adversarial relationship to a tolerance," says Ron Stuart, who clashed with church officials as an editor of the now-defunct Clearwater Sun in the "70s.
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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[A Method To Cruise's Madness?|http://web.archive.org/web/20070606080742/http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/07/06/a-method-to-cruises-madness.php]] July 6, 2005, Fresh Intelligence, [[Radar Online]]
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From the looks of it, Tom Cruise's televised crackup is actually helping the Church of Scientology's recruitment efforts. Since he declared his eternal love for Katie Holmes in early May, visits to the Church's official website have shot up 263 percent to a peak of 375,000 visitors per day last week, according to site traffic tracker alexa.
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[img[x|http://www.macleans.ca/favicon.ico]] [[A new war over Ritalin|http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20060515_126736_126736]] May 10, 2006, Danylo Hawaleshka, Features, [[Macleans]]
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Scientologists view Hubbard's writings as scripture, which gives what he said in The War a lot of weight. Psychiatry, he wrote, is "a vehicle to undermine and destroy the West!" Hubbard vowed that Scientology will "take over total control of all mental healing in the West." In 1987, the CCHR undertook a major campaign against Ritalin. "There is a war, by Scientology, against psychiatry," Kent says, "and the CCHR is just part of that war."
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[img[x|http://www.salon.com/content/themes/salon/images/favicon.ico]] [[A night of engrams and clears|http://dir.salon.com/story/people/feature/2002/04/03/hubbard/index.html]] April 3, 2002, Sara Kelly, [[Salon]]
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Before the main event, a local "org" leader, looking like a Martha Stewart stunt double, took the stage for a bit of motivational speaking. In a scene straight out of a Leni Riefenstahl film, she led the crowd in a fist-pumping hip-hip-hooraying of an LRH bust and a poster-size photo of the man himself standing alongside a lighted birthday cake. In lock-step harmony, the enthusiastic crew enunciated a hearty "yeah" to each canned pep rally question.
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{{cite news | first = Sara | last = Kelly | title = A night of engrams and clears | url = http://dir.salon.com/story/people/feature/2002/04/03/hubbard/index.html | work = Salon | date = 2002-04-03 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A parent's Desperate Solution - Was raising brain-damaged son too much for a mother to bear?|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50120473.html?dids=50120473:50120473&FMT=FT]] September 27, 1987, David Finkel, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Of suggestions that Ms. Doman's membership in the Church of Scientology, which has a history of trying to intimidate its critics into silence, somehow influences the methods of the Institutes, she says, ``There isn't any relationship whatsoever.``

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[img[x|http://www.theage.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[A peek inside Scientology's sleek new Melbourne base|http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-peek-inside-scientologys-sleek-new-melbourne-base-20110204-1agxo.html]] February 5, 2011, Carol Nader, [[The Age]]
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In another part of the building is the Purification Centre, for what is described as a religious ritual to free one from drugs and toxins in the body's fatty tissues. Those with heart and some other medical conditions are told not to do the program. People pay about $1500 for the purification, which often involves weeks of running on a treadmill and long periods in a sauna. Many vitamins are taken including vitamin A - people start on 5000 international units a day and some can build up to 50,000 a day.

Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton says there is no physiological need for a purification regime, and prolonged use of more than 25,000 international units of vitamin A daily can cause serious side effects.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A place called Gold|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologygold.html]] October 25, 1998, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Seven hundred Scientology workers put in 60-hour weeks to remaster the scratchy tapes on which the late founder once recorded his lectures; translate his words into more than 30 languages; produce Scientology films, tapes, videos, television commercials, magazines and books; and manufacture e-meters, the electronic devices used in the core Scientology counseling practice called "auditing."
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{{cite news | first = Thomas C. | last = Tobin | title = A place called Gold | url = http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologygold.html | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1998-10-25 | accessdate = 2010-11-13 }}
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[img[x|http://www.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html]] November 27, 2005, Richard Leiby, [[Washington Post]]
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From the state that gave us Roswell, the epicenter of UFO lore since 1947, comes a report from an Albuquerque TV station about its discovery of strange landscape markings in the remote desert. They're etched in New Mexico's barren northern reaches, resemble crop circles and are recognizable only from a high altitude.
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 [[A Prisoner Of Scientology Los Angeles|http://www.orato.com/world-affairs/a-prisoner-of-scientology-los-angeles]] March 12, 2008, John Duignan, [[Orato]]
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"I left my Church because I was noticing the hypocrisies between what the Church tells the public versus what it actually does and then tries to hide. I did not wish to remain in a group that breaks up families and does not even trust its own staff to use their hard-earned vacation time and see their families. Living in fear and under threats is not spiritual to me," Ms. Lentsch states. "The administration of the Church of Scientology is an oppressive organization. This is the worst betrayal."

On February 25, Ms. Lentsch issued the Sea Organization an ultimatum: "Have my daughter at home in my living room within two weeks, or I will go to law enforcement and the media."

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A quiet paranoia settles in Clearwater|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17002579.html?FMT=FT&dids=17002579:17002579&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 23, 1997, Mary Jo Melone, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Only some Scientologists are obvious in Clearwater. One shop owner called them The Red People and The Blue People, for the plain uniforms they wear to signify they work for the church. They telegraphed a remarkable fixedness as they passed, alone or in groups, on Friday. They looked straight ahead. Their faces were expressionless. They did not acknowledge one another. They walked briskly. When they approach on foot, one downtown office worker said, you tend to think you"d better get out of the way.
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[img[x|http://www.slate.com/favicon.ico]] [[A reader's guide to Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography|http://www.slate.com/id/2181858/pagenum/all/]] January 11, 2008, Juliet Lapidos, [[Slate Magazine]]
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How dubious is Andrew Morton's long-awaited Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography? Well, the book is not for sale in the United Kingdom, due to that country's libel laws; and it's rumored that Scientology lawyers are already drawing up a suit against Morton's publisher, St. Martin's Press. If you're craving the inside (and blatantly unsubstantiated) scoop on Tom's private life, follow Slate's handy guide straight to the good parts.
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{{cite news | first = Juliet | last = Lapidos | title = A reader's guide to Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2181858/pagenum/all/ | work = Slate Magazine | date = 2008-01-11 | accessdate = 2010-02-21 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nctimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A religion for the 20th century: Scientology|http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/02/08/faith/17_36_322_7_08.txt]] February 7, 2008, RUTH MARVIN WEBSTER, [[North Country Times]]
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First there was the controversy in Germany, which in December declared Scientology unconstitutional and banned it. Then there was the release of Andrew Morton's unauthorized biography of actor Tom Cruise, which coincided with the broadcast of a nine-minute video of Cruise extolling the virtues of the faith, viewed by millions of people around the world before it was pulled from YouTube.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[A Ringing In The Ears|http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,856774,00.html]] May 7, 1951, [[TIME Magazine]]
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In a Los Angeles court, his wife charged L. Ron Hubbard, 40, disciple and founder of dianetics, "the modern science of mental health," with bigamy, cruelty and "systematic torture." He is also a paranoid schizophrenic, she added, and she wants a divorce.
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[img[x|http://www.nysun.com/favicon.ico]] [[A School Case To Watch|http://www.nysun.com/editorials/school-case-to-watch/71023/]] February 8, 2008, Editorial, [[New York Sun]]
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It's always dangerous for a newspaper to predict the outcome of a court case, but at one point, Mr. Gerstein reports, Judge Kim Wardlaw put it this way: "The view of the IRS is it can unconstitutionally violate the Constitution by establishing religion, by treating one religion more favorably than other religions in terms of what is allowed as deductions, and there can never be any judicial review of that?" A hapless lawyer for the IRS tried to argue that's not what she was saying. Snapped two judges from the bench: "That's the bottom line." Added Judge Wardlaw: "This does intrude into the Establishment Clause."
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[img[x|http://www.oregonlive.com/favicon.ico]] [[A Scientology center's guard kills an Oregon man|http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1227587117197250.xml&coll=7]] November 25, 2008, Lori Tobias, [[The Oregonian]]
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A man shot and killed Sunday in front of a Scientology building in Los Angeles was a Florence resident who was on probation for stalking a Lane County judge. Also, he recently had served time in a Florence jail for threatening a tow truck driver.

A security guard shot Mario Majorski, 48, after Majorski threatened guests and another security guard with samurai swords at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, Los Angeles police said.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[A Sci-Fi Faith|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913995,00.html]] April 5, 1976, [[TIME Magazine]]
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The purchaser, it turned out, was the rich, mysterious Church of Scientology, an international cult that for two decades has specialized in a unique form of psychological counseling, often against hysterical opposition. Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest provocation. In February, the Church of Scientology sued Mayor Cazares, then threatened the Clearwater Sun, the St. Petersburg Times and radio station WDCL. "We are not a turn-the-other-cheek religion," Spokesman Arthur Maren told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith.
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[img[x|http://media.philly.com/designimages/favicon.ico]] [[A skeptic, she's willing to give it a try|http://www.philly.com/inquirer/hot_topics/20071005_A_skeptic__shes_willing_to_give_it_a_try.html]] October 5, 2007, Art Carey, [[Philadelphia Inquirer]]
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Among medical professionals calling for further research into what's going on at the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Lisa Gengo is unique.

Since July, Gengo has been visiting the clinic once a week and she plans to go through the detox program herself.
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[img[x|http://media.philly.com/designimages/favicon.ico]] [[A sprite who was sapped of spirit|http://www.philly.com/inquirer/hot_topics/10277822.html]] October 5, 2007, Art Carey, [[Philadelphia Inquirer]]
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For the first three days, her sweat was dark blue. By the second week, it was yellow, black and gray, she says. Her body was also excreting "a lot of glass and fiberglass."

"You can see the blood coming out of your pores," Bettis says. "It feels like little razors going through your skin. A couple of times, the pieces were big enough to see."
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 [[A standup guy?|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_2.html]] April 19, 1996, Dan Kennedy, BU's Scientology Connection, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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To hear Cooley tell it, the Church of Scientology has been the victim of vicious discrimination and misunderstanding.

Yes, church leaders went to prison in the late 1970s, he says, but the current management has purged the organization and cleaned it up.

Yes, Hubbard made "hyperbolic" statements about "fair game" and the purpose of lawsuits, but those were meant to apply to internal church matters only. And besides, the "fair game" policy was revoked a year after it was announced. ("It is in force, and it is used with the same zeal with which it was used when it was first written," asserts Herbert Rosedale, a New York lawyer and president of the American Family Foundation, an organization that studies Scientology and other cults.)

No, Cooley says, the church doesn't practice "mind control," but it certainly does engage in "behavior modification."

"If there were a religion that didn't try to modify behavior, it wouldn't be doing its job," he says.
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{{cite news | first = Dan | last = Kennedy | title = A standup guy? | url = http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_2.html | work = BU's Scientology Connection | publisher = Boston Phoenix | date = 1996-04-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[A tale from Wales|http://www.galesburg.com/lifestyles/x1560861414/A-tale-from-Wales]] May 16, 2010, Annie Zak, [[The Register-Mail]]
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The night ended in Tintagel, a part of Cornwall, England, in a hotel called Camelot Castle. It also, however, seemed to be an unofficial haven for Scientologists. Throughout the night we gazed around at an overabundance of art on the walls as well as various photos of celebrity Scientologists such as Tom Cruise.After browsing every strange nook, the class had its own reading session, where students and professors alike shared stories, poems and raps before collapsing into bed for the night.
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[img[x|http://www.filmstew.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[A Tale of Two Cruises|http://www.filmstew.com/showArticle.aspx?ContentID=16785]] January 6, 2008, [[FilmStew]]
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It was the best of times and the worst of times for actor Tom Cruise this weekend, thanks respectively to the WGA and British author Andrew Morton.
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[img[x|http://www.washblade.com/favicon.ico]] [[A tale of two stories |http://www.washblade.com/2007/12-28/view/editorial/11808.cfm]] December 28, 2007, Kevin Naff, [[Washington Blade]]
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Back in May, I wrote a short blog item for the Blade's web site urging gays to boycott the new “Hairspray” film because the lead role — originated by the inimitable Divine — was being played by John Travolta, the nation's second-most-prominent Scientologist. In the interest of avoiding another round of death threats, let's just say Scientology has a “complicated” history when it comes to its treatment of gays.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A tale of two stories|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16810601.html?dids=16810601:16810601&FMT=FT]] May 10, 1997, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology's version of the circumstances surrounding the death of one of its members always raised more questions than it answered. Now Scientology's top officials cannot even keep their own stories straight, further undermining their credibility. That increases the pressure on Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe to uncover the truth about Lisa McPherson's death.
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 [[A trip down Scientology lane|http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.1374936-1.1374936]] February 13, 2009, Joshua Riehl, [[The Daily Texan]]
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When I saw that the Church of Scientology, a religion started by a best-selling science fiction author, was having an open house, I seized the chance to hear their message.

My partner in crime, Katie, and I were greeted by a pair of Scientologists who asked us if we would like to take a free personality or IQ test. My first test of the semester administered by Scientologists? Why not?
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[img[x|http://www.spiegel.de/favicon.ico]] [[A Victim of Savings Measures: Hamburg to Close Down Scientology Task Force|http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,712323,00.html]] August 17, 2010, [[Spiegel]]
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The city of Hamburg said this week it would suspend the work of its 17-year-old Scientology task force, one of the most vociferous critics of the secretive organization. Leader Ursula Caberta has successfully defended herself in numerous cases brought by Scientologists. However, the city says it will continue to monitor the group.
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[img[x|http://www.salon.com/content/themes/salon/images/favicon.ico]] [[A Web of their own|http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/07/15feature.html]] July 15, 1998, Janelle Brown, [[Salon]]
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But if you want to visit alt.religion.scientology, the Web site of Operation Clambake or just about any page that mentions the word "Xenu," you"re out of luck. In fact, you"d probably be unable to read this article. Because the starter kit that you just used to build your Web site also installed what Scientology critics are calling the "Scieno Sitter": a filtering program, like those used to hide pornography from children, that prevents Scientologists from seeing terms and phrases that the church has decided to block.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[A young man looked for answers, found a 'money-hungry cult'|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1201168.ece]] November 13, 2011, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Culkin trusted his new friends at Scientology's Flag Land Base in Clearwater, so he gave in and told them. 

The six-figure sum got the attention of Flag's "registrars," the religious workers who collect payments for church services and solicit donations for Scientology causes. No matter how much he gave, Culkin said they pestered him almost every day to give more. He ended up spending $330,000 on church services and donations during the year he spent in Scientology. 

Large groups of registrars for the IAS repeatedly approached him, pressing him to give. Another registrar hounded him to spend thousands on counseling. One day, two church staffers from different departments tugged at his arms in a hallway, competing for a donation.

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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Aaron Saxton, Scientology Enforcer, Stops By For a Chat|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/aaron_saxton_au.php]] April 8, 2010, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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It's really no wonder why Xenophon zeroed in on Saxton's story among the many he heard from numerous ex-Scientologists. We wanted to hear, for example, more about the abuse he witnessed of a woman when she freaked out during the teaching of Hubbard's "tech."

"Bettina Lockland was her name. This was in Australia. I was 16 at the time, and I was in charge of security [at an "Advanced Org" or "AO," a sort of diocesan office]. Bettina was doing the famous OTIII."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[ABC News to mirror St. Petersburg Times Scientology investigation on Nightline|http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2009/10/st-petersburg-times-reporter-tom-tobin-to-appear-thursday-in-scientology-investigation-by-abcs-night.html]] October 21, 2009, Eric Deggans, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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According to a spokeswoman for the show, Nightline on Thursday will feature interviews with at least some of the sources featured in the Times' reporting -- former high-ranking Church officials coming forward to publicly reveal controversial stories about Scientology leadership in a way never seen before. The show also features a recently-recorded interview with church spokesman Tommy Davis.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Able medical examiner needed|http://www.sptimes.com/News/062300/Opinion/Able_medical_examiner.shtml]] June 23, 2000, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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She first dramatized her importance by appearing on the TV show Inside Edition. Yet when medical professionals hired by Scientology expressed opposing views, Wood changed significant details on the autopsy, which forced prosecutors to drop the charges. A state attorney memo said Wood was unable "to coherently explain her decision even under benign questioning."
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 [[About 200 Protest Scientology|http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/12/about-200-protest-scientology/]] April 12, 2008, Jamie Pilarczyk, [[Tampa Tribune]]
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The Internet-based group Anonymous held its third protest in about three months Saturday outside the headquarters of the Church of Scientology.

Although it started with about 50 people at 3 p.m., the number swelled to about 200 an hour later. Joshua Nussbaum, 20, an organizer, said the point of Saturday's protest was to focus public attention on what he says is the church's practice of ostracizing loved ones perceived as a threat.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[About 'Flag': Scientology has 67 properties in Clearwater|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/about-flag-scientology-has-67-properties-in-clearwater/1201169#wherethemoneygoes]] November 13, 2011, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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With the hotel as its linchpin, Flag has grown into a patchwork of 67 parcels, mostly downtown, serving as a worldwide center for Scientology counseling. Flag's workforce consists of 1,200 members of the church's religious order, the Sea Organization.

The church's Clearwater land holdings are valued by the county at $89 million, of which $59 million is tax exempt. Facilities not used for religious purposes are taxed.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[About Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/18/Tampabay/About_Scientology.shtml]] July 18, 2004, Scientology's town, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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SCIENTOLOGY POSITIONS Gay marriage

Scientologists recognize marriage as a part of the second of eight dynamics of existence. The second dynamic includes all creative activity, including sex, procreation and child rearing. The Scientology marriage ceremony is traditional and addresses a union between a man and a woman.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/News/32999/Worldandnation/Abroad__Critics_publi.html]] March 29, 1999, Lucy Morgan, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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At one time Scientologists were banned in Australia and forbidden entry to study in England.

Scientology has been shut down in Greece, indicted in Spain, restricted in Russia, rebuffed by Sweden's highest court, expelled from college campuses in Norway, convicted of crimes in Canada and denied status as a charitable organization or a religion in most European countries.
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[img[x|http://media.sacbee.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Accord is green light for church|http://www.sacbee.com/city/story/576878.html]] December 20, 2007, Edgar Sanchez, [[Sacramento Bee]]
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The Ramona building, a 78-year-old former hotel at Sixth and J streets, will be converted into Sacramento headquarters for the Church of Scientology.

Two years after it paid $4.75 million for the downtown Ramona building, the Church of Scientology is about to gain full control of the property.
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[img[x|http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/images/headers/aus-fav.ico]] [[Accused 'butchered' Scientologist family, court told|http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22044493-2702,00.html]] July 9, 2007, AAP, [[The Australian]]
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A SYDNEY woman accused of fatally stabbing her father, sister and injuring her mother was denied psychiatric treatment by her parents who were Scientologists, a court was told today.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Accused family killer was 'denied treatment by Scientologist parents'|http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2122476,00.html]] July 10, 2007, Barbara McMahon, [[The Guardian]]
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A woman accused of killing her father and sister and injuring her mother was denied psychiatric treatment by her parents who were Scientologists, a court heard yesterday.
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[img[x|http://www.reuters.com/resources/images/favicon.ico]] [[Accused NY arms dealers wanted green cards: defense|http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/20/us-usa-arms-trial-idUSN2030760520070620]] June 20, 2007, [[Reuters]]
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Artur Solomonyan, 28, from Armenia, and Christiaan Dewet Spies, 35, from South Africa, was in Manhattan federal court accused, with four others, of agreeing to sell rocket-propelled grenade launchers, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and other weapons acquired in Armenia and Chechnya.
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{{cite news | title = Accused NY arms dealers wanted green cards: defense | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/20/us-usa-arms-trial-idUSN2030760520070620 | work = Reuters | date = 2007-06-20 | accessdate = 2012-12-28 }}
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 [[Activists decry attempt to quash Cruise video|http://www.nhregister.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.content=%2FMAIN_REP%2FArticle%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2F1560470]] February 11, 2008, Abbe Smith, [[New Haven Register]]
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Twenty-five activists gathered across Whalley Avenue from the Church of Scientology Sunday to protest the religion's recent attempts to keep a promotional video featuring actor Tom Cruise under wraps.
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[img[x|http://www.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Actor Cruise backs terror detox|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3621633.stm]] April 13, 2004, Entertainment, [[BBC News]]
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Hollywood star Tom Cruise helped raise $1.2m (£657,000) to provide treatment for firefighters exposed to toxic gases during the 11 September attacks.

The cash raised will help treat around 400 emergency workers at a detox centre on New York's Long Island.

The alternative treatment, outlined in Hubbard's book Clear Body, Clear Mind, uses "exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals" to help rescue workers cleanse their bodies of toxic materials.
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 [[Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology Is 'Brainwashing'|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351426,00.html]] April 16, 2008, Roger Friedman, [[FOX News]]
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He was so successful as a celebrity auditor, he says, that David Miscavige, the head of the sect, referred to him as "the poster boy for Scientology."

But now that Beghe and his wife have left the sect, the actor has concerns. They can be, he says, a vicious and vindictive group. When he asked for money back that he had banked for future study — some $60,000 to $70,000 — it was returned and he was banished.

"Once you ask for refund and repayment, that's what it's called, you're not allowed to take another course or speak to another Scientologist ever again," Beghe says.
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{{cite news | first = Roger | last = Friedman | title = Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology Is 'Brainwashing' | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351426,00.html | work = FOX News | date = 2008-04-16 | accessdate = 2011-01-21 }}
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[img[x|http://www.spiegel.de/favicon.ico]] [[Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology|http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,353577,00.html]] April 27, 2005, [[Spiegel]]
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SPIEGEL: Do you see it as your job to recruit new followers for Scientology?

Cruise: I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

SPIEGEL: That's not correct. Yours is never mentioned among the recognized detox programs. Independent experts warn against it because it is rooted in pseudo science.
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 [[Addiction specialists criticize detoxification program|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/Articles/buffalo-news-2005-02-01-a.html]] February 1, 2005, Mark Sommer, [[Buffalo News]]
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Scientologists place a lot of stock in their church's drug-treatment program.

But three local addiction specialists said documentation presented to support the detoxification program created by church founder L. Ron Hubbard is full of unsubstantiated conclusions, faulty assumptions and poor methodology.
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{{cite news | first = Mark | last = Sommer | title = Addiction specialists criticize detoxification program | url = http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/Articles/buffalo-news-2005-02-01-a.html | work = Buffalo News | date = 2005-02-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.theage.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[After 22 years, church pays damages to ex-member|http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/10/1021002390301.html]] May 11, 2002, Richard Leiby, [[The Age]]
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Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the US Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $US30 million ($A55 million), then dropped to $US2.5 million. But the Church of Scientology never paid - until Thursday, when officials wrote a cheque for more than $8.6 million to end the case, one of the longest-running in Californian history.
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 [[After eight years, Hockley Highlands closes its doors|http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2007/0524/local_news/007.html]] May 24, 2007, Mandi Hargrave, [[Orangeville Citizen]]
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After eight years of financial struggle, not once turning a profit or breaking even, Toronto businessman Murray Goldman has closed the doors to the Hockley Highlands Inn and Conference Centre.
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 [[After spending half of her life in Scientology, she found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ|http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=21407]] August 16, 2005, [[Baptist Press]]
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“Tom Cruise is doing exactly what Scientology leaders want him to do,” Pressley says. “He's a celebrity and considered to be a shaper of public opinion and he makes a good spokesman for the organization. Scientology primarily targets the ‘movers and shakers' in society in order to influence others.”

Such high-profile personalities -– including Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley, actors Kirstie Alley and Patrick Swayze, TV personality Greta Van Susteren and musicians Chick Corea and Isaac Hayes -– “add a degree of respectability that breaks down any resistance listeners may have,” Pressley says.

She knows well of what she speaks. For 17 years -– nearly half of her life -– she was involved with the cult. Nine of those years she served at the group's international headquarters located in a remote part of the California desert outside Palm Springs.
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[img[x|http://www.post-gazette.com/favicon.ico]] [[Aide details phony billings in Wecht case|http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08052/859170-85.stm]] February 21, 2008, Jonathan D. Silver, [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]
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Mr. Wilson spent much of the afternoon showing Ms. Young numerous invoices she sent to Dr. Wecht's private clients -- including Exxon Mobil Corp., the Church of Scientology and a Jewish center in Florida -- that overcharged for airfare, sometimes by more than $1,000.
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[img[x|http://www.al.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ala. woman cites Scientology in suit over job loss|http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/history/history152.html]] June 6, 2008, Associated Press, [[al.com]]
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In a federal suit filed Tuesday, Cortnie L. Beasley claims Dr. Susan Wells required her to read a book by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. Beasley says she's a Baptist.

Wells' office said she had patients Friday was not immediately available for comment.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Alarm in prisons at Scientology drug cures aimed at inmates|http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1642717,00.html]] November 15, 2005, Diane Taylor, Special reports, [[The Guardian]]
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The Prison Service has warned that activists linked to the Church of Scientology are targeting offenders in British jails with unauthorised anti-drug and education programmes. Narconon, the drug detox and rehab programme developed by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, and Criminon, his drugs education and rehab programme, are both being offered to prisoners through correspondence courses. Though officials frown on the programmes, they are unable to stop the practice because they cannot justify tampering with inmates' mail in these circumstances.

Narconcon is also under fire for its drug treatment programmes within the community. The group advocates that cocaine users detox by spending five hours a day in saunas and ingesting large doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of narcotics. But health experts and drug charities have told the Guardian that there is no scientific basis for the programme personally developed by Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/favicon/NS_favicon.ico]] [[Alarm over drug treatment group|http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Alarm-over-drug-treatment-group.2772848.jp]] May 5, 2006, Andrew Picken, [[Edinburgh Evening News]]
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COUNSELLING experts have issued a warning about a drug and alcohol treatment group operating in the Capital, linked to the controversial Church of Scientology.

The group, called Narconon Scotland, is targeting the city's drug and alcohol addicts to join its rehabilitation programme.
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 [[Alarming Allegations Against Scientology Church & School|http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/03/08/34721.htm]] March 8, 2011, Ryan Abbott, [[Courthouse News Service]]
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A 19-year-old man claims his Scientologist parents "ceded custody" of him at the age of 5 to the controversial church, which then entered into a "billion year contract" with him as a minor, forced him to work hundreds of hours a week at a Scientology school for as little $35, denied him an education, and forced him back to work just two days after he lost a finger in a work accident.

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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Alexander Jentzsch, Son of Scientology's President, Memorialized At Sea|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/alexander_jentz.php]] July 14, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Yesterday, Karen de la Carriere memorialized her son, Alexander Jentzsch, who was found dead at a home in Los Angeles on the morning of July 3. He was only 27 years old.

Because the Church of Scientology would not give her access to her son's ashes, Karen had rose petals cast on the Pacific Ocean as other former members of the church and friends took part in a moving ceremony.
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[img[x|http://www.hecklerspray.com/favicon.ico]] [[All Women Hate Tom Cruise: Officialish|http://www.hecklerspray.com/all-women-hate-tom-cruise-officialish/20065601.php]] November 1, 2006, Stuart Heritage, [[Hecklerspray]]
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Allegations against Scientology leader David Miscavige are out there, but all else is normal|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1016927.ece]] July 9, 2009, David DeCamp, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In the Times series, former high-level Scientology executives alleged that the church's worldwide leader, David Miscavige, beat them. They said he repackaged old Scientology texts to pump up revenue. And Marty Rathbun, former top deputy to Miscavige, revealed he destroyed evidence to cover up church staffers' treatment of Lisa McPherson, a Scientology parishioner who died while in the church's care.

Church representatives and lawyers said the accounts of the former executives were untrue. Church officials in Clearwater did not return a request for comment for this story.

Will the revelations change relations between Scientology and the public and their elected officials?
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Allegations won't alter church suit|http://www.sptimes.com/2002/05/03/TampaBay/Allegations_won_t_alt.shtml]] May 3, 2002, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology probably won't be dismissed because of recent allegations of legal misconduct, a judge indicated Thursday.
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[img[x|http://www.wired.com/favicon.ico]] [[alt.scientology.war|http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html]] December 1, 1995, Wendy M. Grossman, Wired 3.12, [[Wired]]
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The story of Scientology versus the Net is not a tale of friendly nethead-to-nethead hostilities like 1993's kittens-in-the-microwave flame war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats. This is mortal combat between two alien cultures - two worlds whose common language masks the gulf between them. A flame war with real guns. A fight that has burst the banks of the Net and into the real world of police, lawyers, and armed search and seizure. Ultimately, however, the drama doesn't matter: the real issues here are the boundaries of free speech and the future of copyright and intellectual property in the face of a technology that can scatter copies across the world in seconds. The Church of Scientology will not be the last organization, controversial or otherwise, that seeks to protect its interests against the Net. Technology doesn't care about the motives of its users.
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[img[x|http://www.salem-news.com/favicon.ico]] [[Amazing Images of Rajneesh Puram, Oregon's 'Bagwan Period'|http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january292010/rajneesh_tk_qm.php]] January 29, 2010, Tim King, [[Salem News]]
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Madp said, "I went to check out a peculiar group of people that formed a commune on a place known as the Muddy Ranch in eastern Oregon."

'Peculiar' as he would later learn, would ultimately be what you would call a mild description, for this group that followed the teachings of a man who investigators later learned, bilked his followers for the most part, out of everything they owned. That might explain the fleet of over twenty Rolls Royce's the Bagwan Rashneesh was said to have particularly cherished.
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[img[x|http://www.wired.com/favicon.ico]] [[Amazon Drops Controversial Book|http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/05/19787]] May 20, 1999, Polly Sprenger, [[Wired]]
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Amazon.com has removed a controversial book from its listings, a book well known for angering the Church of Scientology.

A Piece of Blue Sky, by UK writer Jon Atack, is an exposé of the Scientology movement from its creation in 1959 until the death of founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1986. The book disappeared from Amazon's site only recently.
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[img[x|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Amazon reverses decision on book ban|http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-514702.html]] May 21, 1999, Charles Cooper, [[ZDNet]]
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After absorbing withering criticism for its decision to stop selling a book critical of Scientology, Amazon.com has reversed itself.

The move to withdraw the book, "A Piece of Blue Sky," comes a day after a report published in Wired News triggered a rash of postings on Internet newsgroups.
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Amazon to restore Scientology title|http://news.com.com/2100-1017_3-226171.html]] May 20, 1999, Troy Wolverton, [[CNET]]
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Gray said that defamation issues, like those with A Piece of Blue Sky, happen infrequently.

"Are there going to be issues? Yes," Gray said. "Are they more difficult that issues faced by computer sellers or encryption providers? I think they're far more modest."

Curry said he didn't know who advised Amazon that it was violating the court order by offering A Piece of Blue Sky.

Representatives of the Church of Scientology were unavailable for comment.
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 [[Amazon UK withdraws John Duignan's Scientology exposé 'The Complex' from sale 'for legal reasons'|http://counterknowledge.com/2008/11/church-of-scientology-forces-amazon-uk-to-withdraw-expose-from-sale/]] November 11, 2008, Milo Yiannopoulos, [[Counterknowledge]]
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But, according to The Register, this 318-page exposé of the practises of the Church has been withdrawn from sale by Amazon UK “for legal reasons“. The book was removed from the site on 23 October. Amazon US is reporting that it is “out of stock”.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Amazon.Com To Restore Book Critical Of Scientology|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990522&slug=amazon]] May 22, 1999, [[Seattle Times]]
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Responding to e-mail complaints, Amazon.com says it will restore a book critical of the Scientology movement to its online catalog.

The book, "A Piece of Blue Sky," by British writer Jon Atack, was banned by a British court following a successful 1995 defamation lawsuit against Atack.
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[img[x|http://www.rnzi.com/favicon.ico]] [[American Samoa restates freedom of religion amid scientology campaign|http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=38520]] March 12, 2008, [[Radio New Zealand International]]
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The American Samoan governor, Togiola Tulafono, says the government cannot prohibit the display of Scientology Church billboards.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ammonia is among treatments|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49930991.html?dids=49930991:49930991&FMT=FT]] February 9, 1987, Cynthia Mayer, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Despite its short history, the center already has a small but vocal group of critics. Last August, about 15 members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, clad in T-shirts bearing the message "Psychiatry Kills," protested the clinic at a meeting of health professionals.

"I personally don't think this is a way to treat human beings," says Arthur Krowitz, director of the Tampa Bay chapter of the Scientology-associated group. "Maybe rats or dogs."
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 [[An Open Letter to: Scientologists, Ex-Scientologists, and Critics of the Church of Scientology|http://leavingscientology.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/an-open-letter-from-james-r-lewis/]] January 18, 2011, James R. Lewis, [[Leaving Scientology]]
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This Open Letter is not an apology for anything I have written in the past on Scientology or on the cult controversy. I stand by, and am quite happy with, my body of work up to this point. Rather, in light of new information I have been receiving on the Church of Scientology, there are certain aspects of my scholarship that I would like to clarify and supplement as they bear on the current controversy.
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{{cite news | first = James R. | last = Lewis | title = An Open Letter to: Scientologists, Ex-Scientologists, and Critics of the Church of Scientology | url = http://leavingscientology.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/an-open-letter-from-james-r-lewis/ | work = Leaving Scientology | date = 2011-01-18 | accessdate = 2012-01-19 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[An Ultra-Aggressive Use of Investigators and the Courts|http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/us/an-ultra-aggressive-use-of-investigators-and-the-courts.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm]] March 9, 1997, Douglas Frantz, [[New York Times]]
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For years, Scientology has gone to great lengths to defend itself from critics. Often its defense has involved private investigators working for its lawyers. While the use of private investigators is common in the legal profession, some instances involving the church have been unusual.

Scientology officials said that the investigators operated within the law and that the tactics were necessary to counter attacks made over the years by Internal Revenue Service agents and the press.
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[img[x|http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/images/gam/favicon.ico]] [[An unauthorized Cruise. Let the attacks begin!|http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080115.wmorton15/BNStory/Entertainment/home]] January 15, 2008, Simon Houpt, [[Globe and Mail]]
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Morton's portrait of Cruise can be sharp and damning — he depicts him as cold, calculating, manipulative and one who easily cuts off people after they have outlived their usefulness — but he begins sympathetically, noting that the movie star's childhood was a rough-and-tumble one.
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[img[x|http://www.queerty.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anderson Cooper Is 'The Least Trusted Name In News,' Says Trustworthy Church of Scientology|http://www.queerty.com/anderson-cooper-is-the-least-trusted-name-in-news-says-trustworthy-church-of-scientology-20100713/?utm_source=wordtwit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordtwit#ixzz0tbGZqGNi]] July 13, 2010, [[Queerty]]
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The piece (read it here!) is, plainly, retribution for Cooper's CNN reports about Scientology's nefarious goings-on down there in Clearwater; last year the magazine went after the St. Petersburg Times for similar reporting.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Andretti orders 'Dianetics' logo taken off his car|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51429824.html?dids=51429824:51429824&FMT=FT]] November 27, 1988, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A book logo linked to the Church of Scientology has been removed from the car of racer Mario Andretti, who said he did not want to be associated with the book when he drives in the GTE World Challenge of Tampa.

A logo for the best-selling book, Dianetics, was taken off Andretti's high-performance Porsche on Friday night. But the veteran driver said Saturday he "had nothing to do with (the Dianetics sponsorship) in the first place. It's not something I believe in, so I don't want to make it appear like I'm endorsing it."
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anons Go Unmasked at Latest Scientology Protest|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/05/anonymous_to_sc.php]] Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anons Mark Anniversary of a Scientology Victim's Awful Death|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/12/_the_church_of.php]] December 6, 2008, Candice M. Giove, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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The Church of Scientology was aglow -- three lit-up tree-forms crowned its marquee and three ornamental wreaths hung on its windows. Across the street from their ironically festive West 46th Street headquarters a competing light shone. 

It came from the candles solemnly held by members of Anonymous, the anti-Scientology group, who gathered on the sidewalk to mark the 13th anniversary of the Scientology-related death of Lisa McPherson.
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[img[x|http://www.thestar.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anons plan 'polite' church protest|http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/302118]] February 10, 2008, Murray Whyte, [[Toronto Star]]
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They are anonymous. They are legion. And they are either an elaborate, viral Internet prank played by bored adolescents on a painfully easy target – the much-maligned, star-studded Church of Scientology – or the amalgamation of a vast network of resourceful cyber-activists intent on wobbling the organization permanently.
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[img[x|http://www.csmonitor.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous activists gaining strength online|http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0317/p03s02-ussc.html]] March 17, 2008, Ben Arnoldy, [[Christian Science Monitor]]
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 [[Anonymous Anti-Scientology Viral Video Response to Tom Cruise Rant Inspires Victims|http://www.orato.com/tech-games/anonymous-anti-scientology-viral-video]] February 21, 2008, John Duignan, [[Orato]]
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On the fifth day of February, a video overlaid with a computer-generated voice described a movement that had been watching Scientology since the mid-1990s, and that it had taken note of the human rights abuses, the bribery and corruption of state legislators and lies the Church had used to achieve tax exemption and religious recognition from the IRS in 1993.

The voice went on to describe how the group called Anonymous would systematically dismantle the Church and closed with the chilling statement: "We do not forgive, we do not forget. Expect us."
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[img[x|http://www.news.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology|http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9857666-57.html]] January 24, 2008, Robert Vamosi, Defense in Depth, [[CNET]]
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"Over the years, we have been watching you, your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent, your litigious nature. All of these things have caught our eye. 

"With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed, for the good of your followers, for the good of mankind, and for our own enjoyment. 

"We shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form."
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [['Anonymous' plans mass Scientology protest|http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24070462-5006003,00.html]] July 24, 2008, [[Daily Telegraph]]
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A SHADOWY web-based protest group is apparently planning a global demonstration against Scientology next month, publishing its creepy "training video" the internet.

The group, calling itself Anonymous has already staged demonstrations against Scientology in Australia and around the but now plans an even bigger international event on August 16.
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[img[x|http://www.theregister.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous relaunches fight against Scientology|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/anonymous_versus_scientology/]] August 4, 2008, John Leyden, [[The Register]]
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The Anonymous group is calling for disillusioned former members to return to the fold ahead of a new phase in its battle against the Church of Scientology.

A video posted on YouTube on Friday said it was time for the original founders of the protest movement to return in time for a "shift to more subtle and shocking tactics".
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[img[x|http://www.news.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous steps up its war with Scientology|http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858436-57.html?tag=nefd.pop]] January 25, 2008, Robert Vamosi, Defense in Depth, [[CNET]]
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous Unmasked in Scientology Protests|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/03/anonymous_unmas.php]] March 14, 2008, John DeSio, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Though masks have been a successful tactic in other cities they are useless in New York. On the “Anonymous” protest planning forums Enturbulation.org, the loose-knit collective of activists, hackers and pranksters have gone to great lengths to warn one another that masks are not tolerated in New York. Sure, two people standing together can wear whatever they want. Add a third, and this becomes a crime.

The law dates back to the 19th Century, said Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), and was originally put on the books to thwart highway bandits. In 1999 the NYCLU brought a lawsuit against the Giuliani administration after it denied a parade permit to the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, using the mask law as the excuse.
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[img[x|http://www.thelegality.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous Versus Scientology: Cyber Criminals or Vigilante Justice?|http://www.thelegality.com/archives/22]] February 6, 2008, Matthew A. Schroettnig, [[The Legality]]
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Neither Tom Cruise nor the Church of Scientology is a stranger to media attention, though lately that attention has taken a very different tone. You"ve no doubt read or seen something about Tom Cruise's controversial video, which seems to have cropped up across the media spectrum. You"ve also likely seen the Church of Scientology's (Scientology) cease and desist letter demanding its removal, and the subsequent online declaration of war by a group calling itself "Anonymous," which promises to "systematically dismantle" the Church. The resulting legal and public relations battle has given bloggers and lawyers alike no shortage of entertainment.
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 [[Anonymous Warfare|http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/anonymous_warfare/6720/]] December 18, 2008, Carl Kozlowski, [[Pasadena Weekly]]
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Everything seemed to be going great. Sure, Stein had endured seeing and hearing plenty of critics and outsiders mock and deride her adopted church over the years — saying it was a glorified cult, that it brainwashed its members and made it extremely difficult for members to leave the faith, and that its courses charged members up to tens of thousands of dollars at a time for tuition before revealing that much of its deepest beliefs are rooted in tales of alien earth visits and intergalactic warfare — but they faded away. The church has made special effort to blend into the societal mainstream since 1993, when it finally achieved tax-exempt status as a nonprofit religion after decades of battles with the IRS.

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 [[Anonymous Who? Exactly.|http://chicagoist.com/2008/07/25/anonymous_who_exactly.php]] July 25, 2008, Karl Klockars, [[Chicagoist]]
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They speak in "lolcats" terminology. They use terms like "lulz" and "epic win." They claim that members who have been found out have had their pets killed. They wear "V for Vendetta" Guy Fawkes masks. They are Anonymous, and they're gathering in Millennium Park this weekend for a gathering that's one part protest, one part flash mob, two parts performance art. Who are they really? Who knows. That's the point.
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[img[x|http://www.welt.de/favicon.ico]] [[Anonymous: Minor arrested for calling scientology a "cult"|http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2018184/Minor_arrested_for_calling_scientology_a_cult.html]] May 21, 2008, [[Welt Online]]
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A 15 year old boy has been issued a summons for carrying an anti scientology placard. The boy was taking part in a peaceful May 10 demonstration in London organised by the Anonymous group. Anonymous is responsible for a number of demonstrations and an active internet campaign against the church during recent months. 

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[img[x|http://www.wesh.com/favicon.ico]] [[Another State Bans Little Green Pill Company|http://www.wesh.com/painatthepump/9281750/detail.html]] May 26, 2006, [[WESH Orlando]]
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The Kentucky attorney general has joined the legal fight to put the makers of the little green pill out of business.

Earlier this month, the WESH 2 I-Team first exposed how this pill doesn't work and that it's toxic, despite maker BioPerformance's claims.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anti-Cult Group Must Pay Award -- 'Deprogramming' Case Upheld By Court; Sale Of Group's Name Creates Complication|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990323&slug=2951043]] March 23, 1999, Janet Burkitt, [[Seattle Times]]
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Jason Scott was 18 in 1991 when he was taken from his mother's Bellevue home to an isolated beach house on the Washington coast for five days of religious "deprogramming." He sued the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), and the Supreme Court has now agreed that it must pay up.

But in the case of Cult Awareness Network vs. Scott, Jason Scott is no longer involved. CAN no longer owns its name, and most of the interested parties have nothing to do with Bellevue's Life Tabernacle Church, where it all began.
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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anti-cultists fear Scientology bid|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/18/33/News/brief.html]] April 15, 1999, Enzo Di Matteo, [[NOW Magazine]]
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Last month, a judge ordered the documents, which include confidential correspondence, financial records and membership lists of the original CAN, put up for public sale. Scientology is expected to be the highest bidder.
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 [[Anti-drug campaign under fire |http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6481605/Anti-drug-campaign-under-fire]] February 26, 2012, Kirsty Johnson, [[Dominion Post]]
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Revelations that the drug-free ambassadors were given taxpayer cash to publish drug awareness pamphlets based on Scientology teachings, have also sparked a review by the Department of Internal Affairs.

The group, and its sister organisation Drug Free Aotearoa, received around $10,000 from various Community Organisation Grants Schemes committees during 2011.

Drug education experts say the information in the pamphlets funded by the grants is not based on science, and should not be given government money or disseminated by schools. 
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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[Anti-Scientology Activist Found Dead in Home|http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/02/antiscientology-activist-found-dead-in-home.php]] February 19, 2008, Fresh Intelligence, [[Radar Online]]
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Shawn Lonsdale, a vocal Scientology critic who both directed his own anti-church documentary and appeared in a BBC Panorama documentary titled Scientology And Me, was found dead in his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anti-Scientology Anons Defend Pube Warrior|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/01/anti-scientolog.php]] January 18, 2009, Candice M. Giove, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Others proudly piped up that their pubes also were among the hairs stuck to the Vaseline coated chest of their fellow Anon now known as Agent Pubeit, who was arrested this past Wednesday after he darted through Scientology's Times Square headquarters, rubbing the rather vile cocktail on his skin, which also included toenail clippings, onto some Dianetics books. The Anon was charged with burglary, aggravated harassment and criminal mischief, all as hate crimes.
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 [[Anti-Scientology Group Anonymous Wants You to Wear a Funny Mask this Valentine's Day|http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2009/02/anti-scientology_group_anonymo.php]] February 13, 2009, Caleb Hannan, Pith in the Wind, [[Nashville Scene]]
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Nashville's version of Anonymous, the one-year-old Rick Rollin' Scientology haters, are planning an 11 AM VDay protest and (of course) they'd like you to join them. L. Ron's Plucky Gang of Misfits have had a relatively low-key* presence in Nashvegas for years now, but they'll soon be movin' on up, and out, of their Music Row digs.
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[img[x|http://www.thehoya.com/static/theme/images/favicon.ico]] [[Anti-Scientology Protests Continue in Dupont|http://www.thehoya.com/node/15864]] April 15, 2008, David Krone, The Hoya, [[Georgetown University]]
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Wearing masks, sunglasses, hooded sweatshirts and bandanas, protestors rallied for the third time in three months outside the Church of Scientology in Dupont Circle on Saturday to raise awareness of the church's practices.

Numbering 40 to 50, members of the leaderless online group Anonymous met at Dupont Circle at 11 a.m. and marched up to the red-bricked Founding Church of Scientology on 20th Street. At the same time, Anonymous groups in cities including Philadelphia, Boston and Madison, Wis., held similar protests at local Scientology sites.
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Anti-Scientology site spurs award|http://news.com.com/2110-1025_3-999351.html]] May 1, 2003, Lisa M. Bowman, [[CNET]]
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A critic of the Church of Scientology, Andreas Heldal-Lund, has received a human rights award for maintaining his Web page despite repeated legal attacks from church officials.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [['Apologist' versus 'Alarmist'|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/int/970127/religion.apologist.html]] January 27, 1997, Jordan Bonfante, [[TIME Magazine]]
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There are some points where Enroth and Melton come close to agreement. One is that the cults and new movements display what Enroth calls "a craving for legitimization." They also recognize two factors that have made Europe fertile ground for such groups in recent years: the ever-increasing secularization of European culture, which has left a vacuum for non-traditional spiritual experimentation; and the demise of communism. According to Enroth, here cults have rushed in where established religions once feared to tread.

How harmless/dangerous this growth is has increasingly polarized their argument since 1985, when Enroth and Melton co-wrote Why Cults Succeed and Churches Fail. Recalls Melton, with a smile: "We hoped to sell the book both to those on his side and those on my side. Instead, those on my side didn't buy it because they didn't like him, and those on his side didn't buy it because they didn't like me."
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{{cite news | first = Jordan | last = Bonfante | title = 'Apologist' versus 'Alarmist' | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/int/970127/religion.apologist.html | work = TIME Magazine | date = 1997-01-27 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Appeal heard for Downtown church|http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/06/09/daily4.html]] June 9, 2008, Tom O'Connell, [[New Mexico Business Weekly]]
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Albuquerque's land use hearing officer has 10 days to present his recommendation to the City Council for the special zoning of a church for the Church of Scientology in Downtown. 

In a public appeal of a code compliance official's declaratory ruling on churches in the City Council Committee room this morning, Church of Scientology of New Mexico attorney David Campbell told Land Use Hearing Officer Steven Chavez that the Downtown 2010 Sector Plan is not allowed, per state and federal law, to make a distinction between religious and secular uses.
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{{cite news | first = Tom | last = O'Connell | title = Appeal heard for Downtown church | url = http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/06/09/daily4.html | work = New Mexico Business Weekly | date = 2008-06-09 | accessdate = 2011-03-09 }}
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[img[x|http://www.riverfronttimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Applied Pressure - Should St. Louis County grant tax breaks to Scientology-linked tutoring programs?|http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2005-12-07/news/applied-pressure/]] December 7, 2005, Kristen Hinman, Riverfront Times, [[Village Voice Media]]
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Since purchasing the property in 2001 for $2.9 million, Applied Scholastics has paid just one year's worth of property taxes. Now, the organization owes St. Louis County nearly $350,000 and has until next August to make good on at least some of that debt.

The organization has been fighting to obtain a tax break for more than a year, saying its educational mission led the federal government to grant it a charitable status back in 1972.
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{{cite news | first = Kristen | last = Hinman | title = Applied Pressure - Should St. Louis County grant tax breaks to Scientology-linked tutoring programs? | url = http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2005-12-07/news/applied-pressure/ | work = Riverfront Times | publisher = Village Voice Media | date = 2005-12-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Applied Scientology in Public Schools?|http://www.watchman.org/sci/appliedscientology.htm]] May 1, 1997, Craig Branch, [[The Watchman Expositor]]
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This was not true according to Ruth McKenna, chief deputy superintendent of the California state board. She responded, "It is not appropriate to imply that the department of education or the screening committee has approved the content.... Our concern is that they [ABLE/Scientology] are using us and the process to imply impending approval" (Education Week, op. cit.). 

This appears to be characteristic of Scientology's Applied Scholastics as they also made "unsubstantiated" claims about an earlier foray into California's public schools in the Compton district. Applied Scholastics' promotional material "made claims of remarkable success" but actually the school district officials canceled the programs (Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1990, p. A18).
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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Arizona to extradite Scientology protester to Riverside County|http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_keith09.2641eaa.html]] February 8, 2007, Kenny Klein, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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Henson was arrested Feb. 2 on a fugitive warrant for failing to appear at his sentencing and booked into the Yavapai County Jail, Prescott, Ariz., police Sgt. Ken Morley said Thursday. Jail officials there were unable to immediately confirm he was in custody.

Henson will be brought back to Riverside County within 90 days to face sentencing that also involves three years of probation, Riverside County district attorney spokeswoman Ingrid Wyatt said Thursday.
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{{cite news | first = Kenny | last = Klein | title = Arizona to extradite Scientology protester to Riverside County | url = http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_keith09.2641eaa.html | work = Press-Enterprise | date = 2007-02-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Armenian gets 22 years in arms-trafficking sting|http://www.kwgn.com/pages/landing_national/?Armenian-gets-22-years-in-arms-trafficki=1&blockID=232759&feedID=23]] July 24, 2007, AP, [[KWGN]]
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An Armenian immigrant was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant.

"I should have known better," Artur Solomonyan, 30, told a federal judge before learning his sentence. He said he had been irresponsible but got caught up in the scheme because he thought the informant could get him a green card.

Prosecutors said Solomonyan led a ring that conspired to import shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-tank guided missiles and other weapons without a license. The only weapons actually delivered were a dozen firearms, including a machine gun.

Solomonyan and five co-defendants were convicted in July of charges including arms trafficking and firearms trafficking conspiracy.
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[img[x|http://www.signonsandiego.com/favicon.ico]] [[Armenian immigrant and 5 others convicted of military-weapons charges in FBI sting |http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070724-1316-weaponssmuggling.html]] July 24, 2007, Larry Neumeister, AP, [[San Diego Union-Tribune]]
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An Armenian immigrant accused of plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant was convicted Tuesday along with five co-defendants.
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 [[Armenian immigrant and 5 others convicted of military-weapons charges in FBI sting|Union Tribune]] July 24, 2007, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, [[Union Tribune]]
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An Armenian immigrant accused of plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant was convicted Tuesday along with five co-defendants.

Artur Solomonyan could face up to life in prison on charges including arms trafficking conspiracy, firearms trafficking conspiracy, interstate firearms trafficking and illegal transfer and possession of a machine gun.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Articles and editorial on the church of Scientology|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50374931.html?dids=50374931:50374931&FMT=FT]] January 18, 1989, Bill Daugherty, Letters to the editor, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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As for the Pinellas County tax situation, if this had been honestly researched, Koff would have found that the church of Scientology, in 1981, offered to pay the full amount of tax requested as a gift to the city that year and in years following, as a resolution to the matter.

Ron Schultz refused the gift, apparently less interested in the money than in carrying out some purpose best known perhaps only to himself. In fact, Schultz has taken more than 200 churches in Pinellas County to task over taxes, exemption from which is guaranteed in the Constitution. With Schultz's recent loss at the poll, it is apparent that the churches of Pinellas County, along with a lot of other voters, had had enough of Schultz's brand of property appraisal.
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{{cite news | first = Bill | last = Daugherty | title = Articles and editorial on the church of Scientology | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50374931.html?dids=50374931:50374931&FMT=FT | work = Letters to the editor | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1989-01-18 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[As his bizarre Scientology video is revealed - is Tom Cruise out of control?|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=508683&in_page_id=1773]] January 17, 2008, Alison Boshoff, [[Daily Mail]]
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The crisis has been spearheaded by this week's leaked internet video, showing the star making a bizarre rant in praise of Scientology, on top of the stress caused by the publication of a scandal-drenched biography and his continually misfiring career.
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{{cite news | first = Alison | last = Boshoff | title = As his bizarre Scientology video is revealed - is Tom Cruise out of control? | url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=508683&in_page_id=1773 | work = Daily Mail | date = 2008-01-17 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.seattleweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[As Scientology Expands, So Do Its Naysayers|http://seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/479896]] August 13, 2008, Brian Miller, [[Seattle Weekly]]
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Masked protesters are taking to Seattle streets as the church eyes new facilities downtown and in lower Queen Anne.
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{{cite news | first = Brian | last = Miller | title = As Scientology Expands, So Do Its Naysayers | url = http://seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/479896 | work = Seattle Weekly | date = 2008-08-13 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[As St. Petersburg Times' tough Scientology stories arc across media, some celebrity church members are silent|http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2009/06/as-st-petersburg-times-scientology-stories-arc-across-media-celebrity-church-members-are-silent.html]] June 22, 2009, Eric Deggans, Blog, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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One place I haven't seen the story mentioned: Greta Wire -- the blog maintained by Fox News Channel anchor and Scientologist Greta Van Susteren. Though she has four posts up today, referencing everything from the mysterious voluntary disappearance of South Carolina's governor to a staffer from her show who was whacked by a foul ball at a baseball game, Van Susteren hasn't yet posted an entry on the story, though some of her commenters have referenced it.

(A St. Petersburg Times story in 1998 referenced how low-key Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, can be about their membership in the church.)
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[img[x|http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/favicon.ico]] [[Asbestos Mesothelioma: From the Shop Floor to Hollywood|http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/10607/asbestos-shop-floor-to-hollywood.html]] May 13, 2008, Gordon Gibb, [[Lawyers & Settlements]]
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Passengers aboard a Church of Scientology cruise ship, including actor Tom Cruise, could be forgiven for fearing such an eventuality after potentially coming into contact with blue asbestos earlier this month. The vessel, christened "Freewinds," was said to be under seal at Curacao after asbestos fibers were found. The ship, age forty years, was recently refurbished, and there is suspicion that passengers may have come in contact with asbestos fibers. The ship is used as a floating education center and for VIP parties. Besides Cruise, who is a senior Scientologist, jazz great Chick Corea and singer Lisa Marie Presley were among the celebrities on board.
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{{cite news | first = Gordon | last = Gibb | title = Asbestos Mesothelioma: From the Shop Floor to Hollywood | url = http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/10607/asbestos-shop-floor-to-hollywood.html | work = Lawyers & Settlements | date = 2008-05-13 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[At home: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/News/32999/Worldandnation/At_home__Critics_publ.html]] March 29, 1999, Lucy Morgan, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive.
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 [[Attack on Germany|http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/opinion/l-attack-on-germany-384984.html?scp=1&sq=ABRAHAM%20H.%20FOXMAN%20Scientology&st=cse]] September 23, 1994, Abraham Foxman, Opinion, [[New York Times]]
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Making things worse is the Scientology effort to link the German ban of the group to Nazi persecution of Jews. This is a disgrace and reflects the group's willingness to go to any lengths to take revenge on a Government that has taken action against it.
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{{cite news | first = Abraham | last = Foxman | title = Attack on Germany | url = http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/opinion/l-attack-on-germany-384984.html?scp=1&sq=ABRAHAM%20H.%20FOXMAN%20Scientology&st=cse | work = Opinion | publisher = New York Times | date = 1994-09-23 | accessdate = 2012-08-29 }}
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 [[Attorney: Destin's hands are tied on Narconon|http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/destin-4898-narconon-tied.html]] June 3, 2008, Fraser Sherman, [[Destin Log]]
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Destin can't stop Narconon Gulf Coast from opening a "community residential home" for recovering addicts as long as the home abides by Florida law, the city's land-use attorney says.

"The state has made a decision to encourage the treatment of individuals - in a community homelike setting." Land Use Attorney Scott Shirley told the City Council Monday, and that pre-empts the city's zoning and even homeowner association covenants.

It wasn't what the council wanted to hear.

"If I put myself in the place of a homeowner," Councilor Jim Wood said, "it would bug me a lot that neither my local elected officials or homeowners association could do anything about this."
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[img[x|http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/images/headers/aus-fav.ico]] [[Attractive help and a hasty exit|http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/attractive-help-and-a-hasty-exit/story-e6frg6z6-1111113937615]] July 12, 2007, [[The Australian]]
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For the next 20 minutes the film star was my spiritual shepherd, preaching the teachings of Scientology. I was told the history of Hubbard's religious philosophy and how it could free me of my problems and put me on a path to success and happiness as I ventured through the various stages of enlightenment and understanding of the mind-boggling concept of thetan. 

After the film ended, my chaperone took me on a tour that eventually led to the auditing room, where I was offered a free, one-off session (it usually costs about $US500, or $581) with the E-meter.
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[img[x|http://www.abc.net.au/favicon.ico]] [[Aussie publisher pulls Cruise biography|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/15/2138467.htm]] January 15, 2008, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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Independent publisher Henry Rosenbloom says more and more larger publishing houses are being scared off by possible legal threats.

"There's been a really chilling effect on the publication of current affairs matters, for instance," he said.
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[img[x|http://tvnz.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Aust govt "walking away" from Scientology abuse claims|http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/aust-govt-ignoring-scientology-abuse-3405978]] March 11, 2010, AAP, [[TVNZ]]
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Australia's ruling Labor party and the coalition have been accused of walking away from claims of abuse in the Church of Scientology, by blocking a Senate investigation into the tax-free status of religious groups.

Independent senator Nick Xenophon on Thursday failed to win sufficient support for an inquiry into whether church groups should be subjected to a public benefit test, like that in the UK.
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 [[Australia mulls Scientology probe|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8365606.stm]] November 18, 2009, [[BBC News]]
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The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has said he will consider calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the Church of Scientology.

But he said the evidence must be looked at carefully before proceeding. 

Senator Nick Xenophon launched a scathing attack on Scientology, citing letters from former followers alleging extensive criminal activity.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Australian senator wants Scientology investigated|http://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/australian-senator-wants-scientology-investigated/1052807]] November 19, 2009, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In a speech this week to the Australian Parliament, Independent Sen. Nick Xenophon said he has letters from former members of the church, detailing abuses such as false imprisonment, physical violence and blackmail, according to a report on the Australian Broadcast Co.'s Web site.

"These victims of Scientology claim it is an abusive manipulative and violent organization," he said, according to the Australian network. He said he gave the letters to police and called for a Senate investigation into the religion's tax-exempt status.
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 [[Author goes inside Scientology|http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=5b63ad95-6e86-4211-9b5a-3b94570a1b6e]] January 24, 2008, Bill Brownstein, [[Montreal Gazette]]
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The callers are all in search of insights from Halperin on his incendiary Hollywood Undercover (Random House), for which the Montreal author/filmmaker posed as a gay actor to infiltrate the Church of Scientology, long rumoured to promise a "cure" for homosexuality. The book was just released on Tuesday.
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[img[x|http://www.thetimes.co.za/favicon.ico]] [[Author is cruising for a bruising|http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=674358]] January 8, 2008, [[The Times (South Africa)]]
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Cruise to sue over shock biography
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Author's daughter tells of her weird life|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000901&slug=4040070]] September 1, 2000, Verena Dobnik, Associated Press, [[Seattle Times]]
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According to Margaret Salinger, her father also studied Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science and engaged in a hodgepodge of practices, including drinking urine, sitting in a Reichian "orgone box," speaking in tongues and fasting.
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 [[Autopsy report released on woman who died at Narconon Arrowhead|http://mcalesternews.com/breakingnews/x1400171580/Autopsy-report-released-on-woman-who-died-at-Narconon-Arrowhead]] October 16, 2012, Jeanne LeFlore, [[McAlester News-Capital]]
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Narconon Arrowhead has been the center of an ongoing investigation after the July death of 20-year-old Stacy Murphy which spured a county, state and federal investigation of the three other patient deaths at the facility.

Her death followed the deaths of three others, two of the other deaths along with Murphy's occured in a span of less than a year.

Last October, Gabriel Graves, 31, was found dead in his bed at the facility and then in April, Holten was found dead in her bed at the facility and in July, Murphy was found dead at the facility. In 2009 Kaysie Werninck also died while a patient at the facility.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Avatar draws on wide sources to provide path to self-fulfillment|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/65915108.html?dids=65915108:65915108&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] December 31, 2000, Tim Grant, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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What is Avatar?

It is the brainchild of Harry Palmer, a former Scientologist who developed the course for people who desire a less expensive and shorter path to self-enlightenment than is offered by the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Aversion to crime used to treat sex offenders|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49930978.html?dids=49930978:49930978&FMT=FT]] February 9, 1987, Cynthia Mayer, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"Behavioral modification is treating people as if they were trainable animals," says Arthur Krowitz of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology. "It totally goes against the spiritual nature of human beings."

The Gainesville inmates don't see it that way.

"I'm the one locked up, so I must be wrong," says Ben, the child molester.


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[img[x|http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/favicon.ico]] [[Backbreaker: A half-kilo of blow, machine-gun blasts, and a millionaire chiropractor. Does this make sense?|http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/content/printVersion/556488]] July 10, 2008, Thomas Francis,
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The company was Goroway's creation, but it owed a debt to Dr. David Singer, a chiropractor who had long run his own seminar series. Goroway became a client of Singer's around 1991. He paid careful attention not just to the business concepts Singer preached but to Singer's delivery, his magnetic presence.

Those seminars, it turned out, had also become a kind of recruiting tool for Singer, a devotee of the Church of Scientology, the controversial self-help system maligned as a cult by critics. Boulis was enamored of Singer too and followed him into Scientology. Goroway would later note that Boulis "chipped away" at him until finally, around 1999, as he was getting Practice Mechanix off the ground, he joined the church.

By 2001, Practice Mechanix was using telemarketers and junk faxes to reach chiropractors. At its peak, Goroway claimed the company had 125 employees, a 34-seat telemarketing house in Pittsburgh, and $650,000 in operating expenses per month. Much of its success came from concepts of business organization that Goroway learned through Scientology, he would later say.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Backers defend anti-drug program / School board is told the science is sound|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/23/BAGRI7AHPQ1.DTL]] June 23, 2004, Heather Knight, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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But after stories in The Chronicle raised questions about the science behind the teachings and the presence of religious concepts in classroom lectures, school district officials ordered the program to revise part of its curriculum by this Thursday or be kicked out of the district.

Specifically, the district has disputed three Narconon claims: that all drugs are poisons, that drugs are stored in fat for years and may cause cravings for more drugs, and that alcohol is "made of dead rotted food." In addition, The Chronicle stories cited several doctors who disputed the Narconon claims that drugs wreak havoc until they are sweated out.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Bad publicity 'helps Scientology recruitment'|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/05/wscientol105.xml]] February 5, 2008, Tom Chivers, [[Telegraph]]
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The Church of Scientology, the subject of a barrage of negative headlines in the last few weeks, is claiming that there really is no such thing as bad publicity.
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 [[Bankrupt 'widow' of Saudi king seeks £12m from prince|http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bankrupt-widow-of-saudi-king-seeks-16312m-from-prince-1793981.html]] September 27, 2009, Michael Gillard, [[The Independent]]
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Mrs Harb, a scientologist, has warned the Saudi royals that if there is no settlement to her liking she will write a book. This would breach a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2001 when King Fahd paid £5m for her unpublished manuscript and a property in Beirut. "I'm going to keep stirring it until they give me the money - at least £50m," she promised.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Banner plane used to mark death of a Scientologist|http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/06/Northpinellas/Banner_plane_used_to_.shtml]] December 6, 2006, Staff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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He said he wants to "keep her memory alive and to let people know that Clearwater has a little blight, something in the downtown that they shouldn't ignore. Lisa's death is just an example of the things that are happening with Scientology." Church spokesman Ben Shaw said he didn't see the banner and declined comment, saying, "It's over."
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 [[Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible|http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2621]] May 29, 2009, Christopher Dawson, [[ZDNet]]
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So Wikipedia has banned all Church of Scientology IP addresses “in an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits,” according to the Register and several other outlets. So what's with the title from one of the rare educators who actually thinks Wikipedia has a lot of value?
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Baring his soul a risky business for Cruise|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10333389]] June 30, 2005, Reuters, [[New Zealand Herald]]
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In a testy exchange on the Today show, Cruise called psychiatry a "pseudo-science" and told co-host Matt Lauer: "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."

Cruise's behaviour has ignited speculation he might damage his image and undermine the success of his movies.
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[img[x|http://www.pagesix.com/files/favicon.ico]] [[Bart Simpson Actress Gives $10 Million to Scientology|http://www.pagesix.com/story/bart+simpson+actress+gives+10+million+scientology]] January 30, 2008, Richard Johnson, [[PageSix]]
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Longtime Scientologist Nancy Cartwright — best known as the voice of Bart Simpson — last year gave the church $10 million to help spread the word of founder L. Ron Hubbard into other galaxies.

It was all part of Scientology's Global Salvage effort, which aims to “de-aberrate” Earth — meaning to rid mankind of psychology ills and other “aberrant” behavior.

Surprisingly, Nancy, 50, forked over twice as much as the Scientology's most prominent member, Tom Cruise, who only gave $5 million in an installment plan.
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 [[Based on a True Story: TV Movie Portrays Dark Side of Scientology|http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,675298,00.html]] February 2, 2010, Martin U. Müller, [[Spiegel Online]]
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The 89-minute film tells the story of a man who stumbles into Scientology and ends up fighting for custody of his child. The plot also includes a trip to a sort of disciplinary camp which is part of the organization's European headquarters, as well as the man's wife's sudden disappearance to a center in Florida and his daughter being sent to a secret boarding school.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Baseless gossip|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17004503.html?FMT=FT&dids=17004503:17004503&FMTS=ABS:FT]] March 2, 1997, Julie Baier Dahlstrom, Letters, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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I guess all it takes is a few hours in downtown Clearwater for Mary Jo Melone to sense the mood of the town. Or, more likely, to try and cast her own paranoia and unfounded fears on readers by writing an irresponsible column.

Although I am not a Scientologist, I work in downtown Clearwater alongside many Scientologists and patronize the local restaurants every day. I have had many open debates about Scientology at the local cafes without getting any "frosty looks" from church members, and there has been no pressure by Scientologist co-workers to "convert" me.

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[img[x|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/favicon.ico]] [[Battle sites in the Web war|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a09.html]] March 4, 1998, Joseph Mallia, Inside the Church of Scientology, [[Boston Herald]]
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Internet sites for Scientology and its on-line opponents: To read about, or join the discussion on Scientology, use DejaNews or another Usenet search engine, and type: alt.religion.scientology
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[img[x|http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico]] [[Battle with Scientology sparks Schwarzenegger pardon request|http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_6322465]] July 7, 2007, AP, [[San Jose Mercury News]]
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SACRAMENTO—A former Silicon Valley computer consultant whose decade-long fight with the Church of Scientology led to his ruin is asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to free him from a Riverside County jail.

Keith Henson's crusade against the church brought him a misdemeanor conviction for interfering with the rights of others to practice their religion. The 64-year-old Californian is now two months into a six-month jail sentence for the crime.
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [['Battlefield Earth' Sequel Conisdered|http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=114399&page=1]] October 18, 2000, [[ABC News]]
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“The bottom line is that I feel really good about it. Here I was taking big chances, breaking a new genre,” said Travolta. “I am so thrilled, believe it or not, at the outcome, because I didn't believe I could get it done,” an upbeat Travolta told journalists this week, adding that critics have a history of disliking sci-fi movies. Asked whether there would be a Battlefield 2, he said, “Sure. Yeah.” Let's hope for an alien intervention before the film's release.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [['Battlefield Earth': Film Dogged by Links to Scientology Founder|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E3DC1F38F932A25756C0A9669C8B63]] May 11, 2000, Rick Lyman, [[New York Times]]
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The makers of the film and its distributors maintain that "Battlefield Earth" has nothing whatever to do with the Church of Scientology and that it is intended to be nothing more than a big summer adventure, devoid of subterfuge.

But several anticult Web sites have posted warnings about the film in recent months that contain numerous charges. For example Cultwatch and Factnet say that the film carries subliminal messages meant to lure people into Scientology, that the film was secretly financed by Scientology, and that Scientology plans recruiting efforts to coincide with the movie's release.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Battlefield Earth: Still Making the World Safe From Scientology Nearly 12 Years Later|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/03/scientology_battlefield_earth_kim_coates.php]] March 21, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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And, as mentioned in the comments, here is Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder talking about David Miscavige's obsession with the movie behind the scenes. (They're being filmed fishing from Marty's backyard in Ingleside on the Bay, Texas by Rinder's lovely girlfriend, Christie Collbran.)

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Battlefield of dreams|http://www.sptimes.com/News/051200/news_pf/Floridian/Battlefield_of_dreams.shtml]] May 12, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In December 1980, two months after completing Battlefield Earth, Hubbard informed his followers: "I was a bit disgusted with the way the psychologists and brain surgeons mess people up so I wrote a fiction story based in part on the consequences that could occur if the shrinks continued to do it."

Scientologists view psychiatry and psychology as abusive and misguided because both fields, they argue, regard people as "animals" and not "spiritual beings." Doctors in the field are referred to derisively as "Psyches."

The parallel is clear in Battlefield Earth, where Psychlos (read "psyches") refer to their human prey as animals.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Battlefield Tilden|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16810869.html?FMT=FT&dids=16810869:16810869&FMTS=ABS:FT]] May 11, 1997, Mike Wilson, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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This was the deal: The people of Tilden could have their park, complete with an ice-skating pond, wildflower meadow and baseball field. All they had to do was name it after Hubbard and post his moral precepts on markers along the Way To Happiness Trail, one every 190 feet.

All this might have happened if Marcie Sextro hadn't picked up her copy of the Tilden Citizen and seen the picture of the groundbreaking.
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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Battlefield Travolta|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/18/49/News/feature2.html]] August 5, 1999, Enzo Di Matteo, [[NOW Magazine]]
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It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about its application for charitable status.

But positive PR may be coming to a theatre near you. Screen star John Travolta, Scientology's most famous promoter, has embarked on a film adaptation of Battlefield Earth, the doomsday sci-fi thriller penned by the church's messianic founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://thephoenix.com/favicon.ico]] [[Battling Scientology|http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/69998-Battling-Scientology/]] October 23, 2008, Chris Faraone, [[The Phoenix]]
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In a world wracked with uncertainty, there is at least one thing you can bet on: pick a fight with the Church of Scientology (CoS), and its leaders will fight back — always with vigor, often with a vengeance, and sometimes with litigation that can be long and costly.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[BBC denies 'death threat' in Scientology row|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/nbbc113.xml]] May 14, 2007, Stephen Adams, [[Telegraph]]
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Today Sandy Smith, the Panorama editor, hit back at claims that the BBC had orchestrated a demonstration against the Scientologists while filming the documentary.

He said: "Their DVD contains two grossly defamatory claims about us - one, that we staged a demonstration against Scientology and two, that a terrorist death threat was made.

"It is absolutely outrageous to suggest that the BBC would organise a demonstration - why would we?"

He claimed that the Scientologists wrote the script for the DVD in a "curious way" but that it "clearly implied that a terrorist death threat was made".
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[img[x|http://media.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[BBC Trust expresses concern over Panorama|http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/15/broadcasting.bbc1]] June 15, 2007, Leigh Holmwood, [[MediaGuardian.co.uk]]
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A BBC Trust spokeswoman said: "As part of his routine monthly report, the director general has briefed the trust on the performance of Panorama most months since its move to Monday evenings, including the reaction to some particularly high-profile editions.

"Panorama is the BBC's flagship current affairs programme and the trustees welcome these updates. The Trust has not asked for an investigation into Panorama or raised concerns with the BBC executive regarding its journalism.
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[img[x|http://www.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[BBC v Scientology: A YouTube Story Starring John Sweeney|http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/05/bbc_v_scientology_a_youtube_st_1.html]] May 25, 2007, Emil Steiner, OFF/beat blog, [[Washington Post]]
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While the verdict may still be out as to whether Scientology is a brainwashing cult or not, after a recent run-in with the BBC, two things are abundantly clear: Scientologists can't stand being called cult members, and they have the power to drive even seasoned journalists absolutely insane.
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[img[x|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Be Wary, Be Wary, the 10th of February: "A" for Anonymous Wants to Kick Scientology's "S"|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chez-pazienza/be-wary-be-wary-the-10t_b_84558.html]] February 1, 2008, Chez Pazienza, Blog, [[Huffington Post]]
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Let me start off by paraphrasing a popular disclaimer: I'm not "Anonymous," nor am I affiliated with the mysterious internet group in any way.
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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Beck learning to be a loser|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/19/23/Ent/music.html]] February 3, 2000, Tim Perlich, [[NOW Magazine]]
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But it was just getting interesting! For all anyone knows, Beck might be a second-generation Scientologist. There's only one sure way to find out.

Have you ever taken any Scientology courses yourself?

"No comment," Beck quickly snaps back, bringing the interview to a halt.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Beck's show tonight will benefit Scientology-affiliated charity|http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/03/surprise-becks.html]] March 11, 2009, Margaret Wappler, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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There's been a touch of Internet controversy today about Beck's somewhat-impromptu show at the Echo tonight, first started by blogger Sketchytown, then picked up by the LA Weekly's West Coast Sound blog. Both blogs raised a flag about a charity cited on the show's promotional material, Educating Children International, which, according to the promo poster, will get the "net proceeds" of the show priced at a cool $35. 

Nothing was mentioned about any connections with Scientology, and the website for the charity turns up an error message. So what's the official word from the Church of Scientology? Is Educating Children International a charity working with Beck's known (and controversial) path of spirituality?

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[img[x|http://www.foxnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Beghe Begging for His Scientology Records|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353041,00.html]] April 29, 2008, Roger Friedman, Celebrity Gossip, [[FOX News]]
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On Monday night, Beghe — whom this column told you all about in his exit from Scientology after nearly 14 years — posted a message on a public forum at OperationClambake.com. He wants returned to him the mountains of folders, files and tapes that were compiled about him by the sect. So far, they've refused.
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[img[x|http://img.iht.com/favicon.ico]] [[Behind Facade of Harmony, Nations Are Far Apart on Some Basic Issues|http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/12/09/sus.t.php]] December 9, 1997, John Dornberg, [[International Herald Tribune]]
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Some of them are tempests in teapots. The most ludicrous is tacit State Department backing of the claim that Bonn is discriminating against the Church of Scientology, and the recent House International Relations Committee draft resolution calling on the White House to censure Bonn for its stance on Scientology. It was only when the House as a whole voted against the measure that the air cleared.
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[img[x|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/favicon.ico]] [[Belgian prosecutor recommends classifying Church of Scientology as criminal|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/09/belgian-prosecutor-recommends.php]] September 4, 2007, Alexis Unkovic, Paper Chas, [[JURIST]]
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Belgian prosecutor Jean-Claude Van Espen said Tuesday that the Church of Scientology should be classified as a criminal organization after completing a 10-year investigation into the church's activities.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Belgium builds case against Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/04/Worldandnation/Belgium_builds_case_a.shtml]] November 4, 2007, Susan Taylor Martin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In 1997 a former member of the Church of Scientology, unhappy with courses she had taken, tried to get a refund of 700,000 Belgian francs - about $17,000. Authorities began looking into the church's finances and interviewing people. 

Now, 10 years and 76 cartons of documents later, prosecutors say the evidence points to one conclusion: The Church of Scientology in Belgium is a "criminal organization" that has used fraud and extortion to separate members from their money.

"I always say that you are innocent until proven guilty, but we really have enough elements and statements that we can prosecute them for a number of crimes and misdemeanors," says Lieve Pellens, a spokesperson for Belgium's Office of the Federal Prosecutor.
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[img[x|http://www.smh.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Belgium charges Scientologists with extortion|http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/belgium-charges-scientologists-with-extortion/2007/09/05/1188783277713.html]] September 5, 2007, Reuters, [[Sydney Morning Herald]]
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Belgian prosecutors today accused the Church of Scientology of extortion, fraud and other crimes and sought to bring it and key members to trial.

Federal prosecutors said they were charging the church in Belgium, its European office in Brussels and 12 members with offences including the illegal practice of medicine and breaches of commercial practices.

Prosecutors were also considering whether the church should be considered a criminal organisation after an investigation prompted by complaints 10 years ago.
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[img[x|http://www.brusselsjournal.com/favicon.ico]] [[Belgium Clamps Down on Scientology Church|http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2404]] September 4, 2007, Paul Belien, [[Brussels Journal]]
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The Belgian authorities have indicted the Belgian chapter of the Church of Scientology, the European headquarters of the Church, as well as 12 of its leading members. According to the office of Public Prosecutor Jean-Claude Van Espen Scientology is a criminal organization which has committed several crimes including extortion, fraud, violations of the trade law, violations of the privacy law and the illegal practice of medicine.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Belgium: Scientology Faces Criminal Charges|http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/world/europe/05briefs-scientology.html?_r=2]] September 5, 2007, AP, [[New York Times]]
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A Belgian prosecutor recommended that the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology stand trial on charges of fraud and extortion, after a 10-year investigation.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Belief called irrelevant in death|http://www.sptimes.com/News/120799/TampaBay/Belief_called_irrelev.shtml]] December 7, 1999, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In addition to constitutional arguments, the document filed Monday was rife with new details about the case.

It accused high-ranking church staffers in Clearwater of misleading and lying to police investigators and later to the public through statements that sanitized the "nightmarish" details of McPherson's demise at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel. She was held there for 17 days while experiencing a severe mental breakdown. She died Dec. 5, 1995, of a blood clot in her left lung.

One staffer, according to the document, later acknowledged lying to police to protect himself and the church.
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 [[Below the belt, without remorse|http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/891873.html]] August 11, 2007, Naama Lanski, [[Haaretz]]
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Scientology was also integrated into the firm's work, when an organizational consultant who draws on the doctrine was hired to work with the staff, and job candidates were given tests based on Scientology. "Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote many courses on advertising, public relations and marketing, and when I read them I saw they matched what I had learned in practice, my beliefs," Morell relates. Tzur finds this the appropriate time to leave the conference room we are sitting in so he can attend to prior commitments.
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{{cite news | first = Naama | last = Lanski | title = Below the belt, without remorse | url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/891873.html | work = Haaretz | date = 2007-08-11 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Bend dentist asks court to review $348,000 penalty for Scientology training|http://www.oregonlive.com/money/index.ssf/2012/11/bend_denist_asks_court_to_review_348000_penalty_for_scientology_training.html]] November 19, 2012, Molly Young, [[The Oregonian]]
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A Bend dentist has asked the Oregon Court of Appeals to review a $348,000 penalty stemming from allegations that he required employees to attend a Scientology-related training session.

The Bureau of Labor and Industries imposed the fine in September to settle charges of religious discrimination at Dr. Andrew W. Engel's practice, Awe Dental Spa.
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{{cite news | first = Molly | last = Young | title = Bend dentist asks court to review $348,000 penalty for Scientology training | url = http://www.oregonlive.com/money/index.ssf/2012/11/bend_denist_asks_court_to_review_348000_penalty_for_scientology_training.html | work = The Oregonian  | date = 2012-11-19 | accessdate = 2013-04-23 }}
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 [[Bend dentist denies charges, will fight $350K penalty|http://www.ktvz.com/news/Bend-dentist-denies-charges-will-fight-350K-penalty/-/413192/16863926/-/ejuoxd/-/index.html]] October 4, 2012, Matt McDonald, [[KTVZ]]
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Oregon Labor and Industries Commissioner Brad Avakian said Thursday he has ordered Engel and his dental practice to pay nearly $350,000 in damages to the former employee who fled her job when ordered to attend a three-day Scientology-affiliated symposium or be fired.

Engel, whose Bend practice is AWE Dental Spa, issued a brief statement Friday through Portland attorney Michael Gordon, who said they will appeal the state labor commissioner's decision to the Oregon Court of Appeals:
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 [[Bend dentist fined nearly $348,000 for required Scientology-based training, BOLI announces|http://www.oregonlive.com/money/index.ssf/2012/10/bend_dentist_fined_nearly_3480.html]] October 4, 2012, Molly Young, [[The Oregonian]]
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A phone message at Engel's practice said he was out until Monday. He gained his dental license in Oregon in 1998. State Board of Dentistry records show the body has never taken disciplinary action against Engel.

Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian said the penalty will cover the woman's lost wages and damages as well as moving expenses and emotional distress.

Employees should feel "secure from an employer's pressure to do something that conflicts with their religious beliefs," he said in a written statement.
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{{cite news | first = Molly | last = Young | title = Bend dentist fined nearly $348,000 for required Scientology-based training, BOLI announces | url = http://www.oregonlive.com/money/index.ssf/2012/10/bend_dentist_fined_nearly_3480.html | work = The Oregonian | date = 2012-10-04 | accessdate = 2013-04-23 }}
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Benji the Binman wins back £77,500|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1388275/Benji-the-Binman-wins-back-77500.html]] March 20, 2002, Tom Leonard, [[The Telegraph]]
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BENJAMIN PELL, better known as Benji the Binman, yesterday won back £77,500 that he had paid John Mappin, a descendant of the Mappin & Webb jewellery dynasty, after he promised to make a "Hollywood blockbuster" about Mr Pell's life.

Mr Pell, known for rooting through dustbins for revealing documents about the rich and famous, sued Mr Mappin in the High Court for fraudulent misrepresentation after discovering that the "well-connected Hollywood film-maker" Mr Mappin had recruited was a hairdresser.
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 [[Beware religious frauds|http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/opinion/local_story_153162631.html]] June 2, 2009, Editorials, [[Muskogee Phoenix]]
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Religious freedom certainly should allow citizens to believe what they want about spirituality and the afterlife. But religious openness should not be an avenue for some churches and individuals to bilk its followers. Religious status should involve more than filing a 501(c)3 form with the Internal Revenue Service.
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[img[x|http://www1.nmha.org/favicon.ico]] [[Beware Scientologists Claiming To Be Mental Health Professionals|http://web.archive.org/web/20060925232203/http://www.nmha.org/newsroom/system/news.vw.cfm?do=vw&rid=341]] September 17, 2001, [[National Mental Health Association]]
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The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) today is warning the public and media to beware of representatives of the Church of Scientology who are claiming to be mental health professionals assisting individuals in New York City.
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Big Brother and your browser|http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-990697.html]] March 3, 2003, Declan McCullagh, Perspectives, [[CNET]]
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What appears to be the first case of this sort arose in 1996, when the Cult Awareness Network -- which warned of the dangers of unconventional religions -- was sued into oblivion by the Church of Scientology. A bankruptcy court judge placed the group's assets including cultawarenessnetwork.org up for auction -- and the winning bidder was -- you guessed it -- Scientology.
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{{cite news | first = Declan | last = McCullagh | title = Big Brother and your browser | url = http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-990697.html | work = Perspectives | publisher = CNET | date = 2003-03-03 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Big, round and mysterious|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/30/Northpinellas/Big__round_and_myster.shtml]] November 30, 2007, Mike Donila, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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CLEARWATER -- City officials hoped to stir civic pride with their $10-million makeover of Cleveland Street.

But so far they"ve got confusion.

As in, just what the heck are those 12 giant concrete spheres doing in the medians?
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[img[x|http://observer.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Binman Benji sues jewellery empire heir|http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/may/06/conalwalsh.theobserver]] May 6, 2001, Conal Walsh, [[The Observer]]
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He is best known for rummaging through the dustbins of the rich and famous. But Benjamin Pell has betrayed an appetite for Hollywood glory in a bizarre legal action launched against John Mappin, an heir to the Mappin and Webb jewellery empire.
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{{cite news | first = Conal | last = Walsh | title = Binman Benji sues jewellery empire heir | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/may/06/conalwalsh.theobserver | work = The Observer | date = 2001-05-06 | accessdate = 2010-07-10 }}
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 [[Blockbuster Scientology Lawsuit: Investigators Claim They Were Paid Millions To Spy On David Miscavige Rival|http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/09/scientology-sued-private-investigators-hired-spy-david-miscavige-rival]] September 23, 2012, [[Radar Online]]
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Two private investigators are suing Scientology for breach of contract, alleging they were hired to spy on the Church's rivals and then let go even though they'd been promised their jobs were permanent.

In the case being heard in San Patricio County, Texas, the investigators, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold, say they were paid about $500,000 each year since 1988 to keep watch on Pat Broeker, The Dallas Morning News is reporting.

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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[Blog Update: Preview of Upcoming Interview with Former Scientology Member|http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10023624]] March 17, 2009, Nathan Baca, [[KESQ.com]]
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We are starting with the second push of our News Channel 3 investigation "Scientology vs. Anonymous" Thursday night at 11 on KESQ.

Wednesday night, we will have the first half of our interview with former Scientology marketing director Jeff Hawkins. We will have the second half of Hawkins' interview Thursday night at 11.
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 [[Body found on beach had shotgun blast to the head|http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2008/01/12/publicsafety/dpt-suicide11.txt]] January 11, 2008, Daniel Tedford, [[Daily Pilot]]
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The apparent suicide occurred near a neighborhood heavily populated by drug and alcohol rehabilitation homes. Investigators said, however, that Russell was not a client at any, police said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Body is found in Clearwater Harbor|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51337591.html?dids=51337591:51337591&FMT=FT]] July 1, 1988, Mike Jackson, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The body was found about 10 a.m. floating face-down along the shore off Victoria Drive near Main Street, Dunedin police said.

The body probably had been in the water about eight hours, said Dunedin Police Sgt. G. M. Hollis. The man apparently drowned, Hollis said, and no foul play was suspected. The medical examiner's office planned an autopsy and had not determined the cause of death Thursday.
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[img[x|http://www.dallasnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bogus Scientology pamphlets irk Leppert|http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/101207dnmetpamphlets.2cc31a1.html]] October 12, 2007, Rudolph Bush, [[Dallas Morning News]]
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No, Mayor Tom Leppert hasn't made the leap from public servant to spiritual healer.

And despite the claims of a booklet that landed on his desk at City Hall this week, he isn't endorsing The Way to Happiness.

The booklet, so titled and featuring the writings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was sent to the mayor's office complete with the city of Dallas seal and a ringing endorsement purportedly from Mr. Leppert.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [['Boheme' sold; plan unclear|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51699236.html?dids=51699236:51699236&FMT=FT]] August 22, 1986, Mark Albright, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Officials from Commodore Cruise Lines, the owners of the 11,800-ton ship that has cruised the Caribbean for two decades, said they do not know if the ship would continue sailing out of St. Petersburg.

"We don't even know who the new owners are," said Bob Gerity, Commodore's marketing director, who was to make the announcement this afternoon. "We were just notified by the owners in Finland that the ship has been sold and that, for now, they wish their name not be known."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [['Boheme': Ship's departure from St. Petersburg to leave disappointment in its wake|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51700312.html?dids=51700312:51700312&FMT=FT]] August 23, 1986, David Olinger, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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City officials learned Thursday afternoon that the Boheme had been sold. Travel agents who had booked passengers on future cruises got even less advance notice. They were told Friday that someone had acquired one of Commodore Cruise Line's two ships.

Bob Garrity, Commodore's marketing director, attributed the suddenness of the sale to an offer the Boheme's Finnish owners "couldn't refuse." The buyer has not been identified.
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{{cite news | first = David | last = Olinger | title = 'Boheme': Ship's departure from St. Petersburg to leave disappointment in its wake | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51700312.html?dids=51700312:51700312&FMT=FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1986-08-23 | accessdate = 2011-06-18 }}
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[img[x|http://www.tbo.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bomb Squad Detonates Package Outside Scientology Building|http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/13/132142/tampa-helps-st-pete-scientology-site-bomb-scare/]] March 13, 2008, Stephen Thompson, [[Tampa Tribune]]
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On the birthday of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, church officials reported a bomb threat and had a bomb squad detonate a suspicious package outside their downtown building.

A security guard at the Life Improvement Center, 336 1st Avenue N., called police about 12:30 p.m. and reported finding a suitcase in an alley behind the building. He told police he had not seen the suitcase when he checked the alley earlier, according to a news release from the St. Petersburg Police Department.

Scientology officials were already on guard for suspicious packages, spokesman Pat Harney said, because the church has received several phone and Internet threats recently. Today's message implied that a bomb had been sent to one of the local Scientology buildings, he said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Book spells out rationale for church's 'spy system'|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=15]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The book, researched, edited and published by the U.S. Ministerial Conference of Scientology Ministers, is entitled: The American Inquisition— U.S. Government Agency Harassment, Religious Persecution and Abuse of Power.

And this is the introduction:

"Since the inception of the Scientology religious movement more than a quarter of a century ago, government agencies together with vested interest pressure groups have attempted through both overt and covert means to suppress the Church's spiritual practice and expansion.
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[img[x|http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/np.ico]] [[Booklet sent to Winnipeg Mayor's office insinuates politician endorses Scientology|http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=5ba291c3-d797-4ef6-b021-465df15be868]] October 31, 2007, [[National Post]]
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A religious booklet sent to his office makes it seem that Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz officially endorses the musings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://www.smh.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Bookshops won't stock Tom's tale|http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/bookshops-wont-stock-toms-tale/2008/01/12/1199988643651.html]] January 13, 2008, Angela Cuming, [[Sydney Morning Herald]]
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Australian book retailers have bowed to pressure from the Church of Scientology and will not stock a biography on Tom Cruise by British writer Andrew Morton.
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Bowfinger|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=111565]] January 15, 2000, Russell Baillie, [[New Zealand Herald]]
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When the rest of Chubby's cast start confronting Ramsey on the street with lines about aliens, it cracks his fragile mental state a little more and sends him running for extra sessions at his self-help guru's MindHead, a broad though frequently hilarious parody of Hollywood's flirtation with scientology, with Terence Stamp as its high priest.
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 [[Boxer Johnny Tapia Goes Home From Drug Rehab Center|http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/aptapia08-11-07.htm]] August 11, 2007, Associated Press, [[Albuquerque Journal]]
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State District Judge Kenneth Martinez agreed to let Tapia leave Friday after he completed his stay at the Second Chance treatment project, an inpatient program with roots in Scientology. The judge placed Tapia in the community custody program, which requires him to wear an ankle monitor.
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 [[Brained|http://web.archive.org/web/20010228175431/www.newtimesla.com/issues/2000-12-21/feature.html/printable_page]] December 21, 2000, Ron Russell, [[New Times Los Angeles]]
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The ostrich eggs should have been a tip-off. But Raul Lopez wasn't worried, even though he had paid $30,000 for two of them. The eggs were going to make him rich. After all, his lawyer, Brent Jones, whom he trusted more than his own mother, had convinced him. Jones came highly regarded as a member of the Church of Scientology, the Los Angeles-based church in which Lopez had invested his hope of getting cured of irreversible brain trauma resulting from an auto accident. Never mind that medical experts had concluded that little could be done about his nervous tremor and inability to reason and interact with others the way he did before a big-rig crossed the center line of a Ventura County highway and slammed head-on into his pickup truck in 1985. Without exception, doctors advised him to adapt to his limitations and move on with his life.
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[img[x|http://www.ynetnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Brainwash summer camp|http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3437443,00.html]] August 14, 2007, Bat-Hen Epstein Elias, [[Ynet]]
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They run summer camps for children and teach them all about love, modesty, and safe sex. They even hand out awards. Yet, it turns out that behind the volunteers of the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East stands the disputed Scientology sect. Association members insist they are not missionaries. "Our aim is to teach values," they say. The surprised parents are not convinced. "How come they run such activities without even asking us?"
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 [[Brainwashed! Scholars of cults accuse each other of bad faith |http://web.archive.org/web/20001203192600/http://linguafranca.com/9812/allen.html]] December 1, 1998, Charlotte Allen, [[Lingua Franca]]
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After years of intimate encounters with a variety of religious groups, one recurrent phenomenon stood out. "I saw people going through a very peculiar experience," Zablocki recalls. "They would lose weight and withdraw. You couldn't have a conversation with them–they seemed to be in a different world."

At first Zablocki believed that the troubled cult members he talked to were experiencing spiritual crises–"the dark night of the soul, like Saint Teresa or Saint John of the Cross." But after reading Robert Lifton's Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961) and Edgar Schein's Coercive Persuasion (1961), famous studies of the mind control and "reeducation" practiced by the Chinese on, among other groups, American prisoners of war captured in the Korean conflict, Zablocki embraced another explanation: brainwashing. Lifton's and Schein's theories of prisoner brainwashing–a process that entailed sensory deprivation, the extraction of confessions, and complete control of the prisoners' environment as a means of manipulating them to share their captors' outlook and do their captors' will–struck him as an apt description of the behavior he'd observed among the theoretically voluntary members of religious groups. From group to group, Zablocki's subjects had reported undergoing rituals more reminiscent of a prison camp than of your average Sunday school: They were deprived of sleep; they were asked to write confessions; they were told their confessions were not adequate.
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[img[x|http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/favicon.ico]] [[Brash Johnson fires from hip in Legislature|http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/110040]] February 27, 2008, Mary K. Reinhart, [[East Valley Tribune]]
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She's on the board of the Church of Scientology's Citizens Commission on Human Rights and has sponsored bills on its behalf to limit use of psychiatric medications, though at least one of her children has struggled with drug and mental health problems and another was an alcoholic.
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[img[x|http://www.nydailynews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bravest taking the Cruise cure|http://web.archive.org/web/20031216055606/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/145576p-128631c.html]] December 13, 2003, Greg Gittrich, Special Report, [[NY Daily News]]
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But the Fire Department has no use for Downtown Medical and its disputed detoxification program.

FDNY officials are concerned that many of the 120 firefighters who sought help at the clinic stopped using inhalers and medications prescribed by department doctors.

Fire officials also say the department has no proof that the clinic's regimen of moderate exercise, vitamins and saunas removes toxins from the body.

"Our doctors went down there and checked it out," said Deputy Commissioner Frank Gribbon. "Their opinion was this was not a detoxification program. We don't endorse it."
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[img[x|http://defamer.com/favicon.ico]] [[Breaking: Secret Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video Finally Hits Web; Proves He Is Even Crazier Than We Ever Imagined|http://defamer.com/344781/tom-cruise-scientology-video-chock+full-of-acronyms-thinly-veiled-threats-and-unprovoked-laughter]] January 14, 2008, Seth, [[Defamer]]
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In lieu of Golden Globes awards speeches, our East Coasted sibling site posted a memorable video package, via Hollywood Interrupted, fêting messianic Scientology mouthpiece Tom Cruise as he accepted their 2005 Freedom Medal of Valor. Like most of Scientology's sacred babblings, the text was never meant to reach outside eyes; the video quickly disappeared from YouTube, soon to shake off from the temporary effects of the tranquilizing serum plunged into its neck and find itself buried alive beneath a patch of carefully attended petunias on the grounds of Gilman Hot Springs HQ.
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[img[x|http://www.post-gazette.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bridge to Total Freedom a lifetime commitment|http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05205/542900.stm]] July 24, 2005, Alana Semuels, [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]
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Some say it's the only true way toward a happier existence. Others label it a new religion that soon will be accepted in society, like the Mormon Church. And then there are the people who call it a cult.

Scientology has been called many things in its half century of existence, and even now, it is a controversial organization.
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{{cite news | first = Alana | last = Semuels | coauthors = Linn, Virginia | title = Bridge to Total Freedom a lifetime commitment | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05205/542900.stm | work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date = 2005-07-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Brief: Rehab Center Tries To Garner Support: Letters Sent To State Legislators|http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2104788/]] January 1, 2009, [[Albuquerque Journal]]
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Joy Westrum, president of the soon-to-be evicted Second Chance rehabilitation program, is trying to drum up legislative support to save her program. 

On Wednesday, Westrum sent out an e-mail to several state senators and representatives asking them to "encourage the mayor and the city of Albuquerque to do everything possible to resolve any legitimate concerns regarding the lease with Second Chance" for the old West Side jail building.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Britain denies Scientologists status as charitable group|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991209&slug=3000389]] December 9, 1999, [[Seattle Times]]
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Government officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status today, saying it does not provide any public services.

Scientologists said they would appeal the decision, announced by the Charity Commission, which regulates charities.

The commission said the church did not meet the essential test for charitable status - "that of conferring public benefit."
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{{cite news | title = Britain denies Scientologists status as charitable group | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991209&slug=3000389 | work = Seattle Times | date = 1999-12-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://network.nationalpost.com/np/favicon.ico]] [[Britain's censorship of a Scientology protest sign: A defeat for free expression|http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/05/26/the-post-editorial-board-on-britain-s-censorship-of-a-scientology-protest-sign-a-defeat-for-free-expression.aspx]] May 26, 2008, Marni Soupcoff, Editorial, [[National Post]]
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If protest materials can be confiscated, then not much is left of the right to protest against Scientology. It read "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult." The lad was, by his account, warned "within five minutes of arriving" by police on the scene that his sign was unlikely to be permitted because it contained the word "cult." Shortly thereafter, a policewoman read him a section (introduced in 1994) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act:
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{{cite news | first = Marni | last = Soupcoff | title = Britain's censorship of a Scientology protest sign: A defeat for free expression | url = http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/05/26/the-post-editorial-board-on-britain-s-censorship-of-a-scientology-protest-sign-a-defeat-for-free-expression.aspx | work = Editorial | publisher = National Post | date = 2008-05-26 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[BRITISH AUTHOR'S ON 'CRUISE' PATROL|http://www.nypost.com/seven/12182007/gossip/cindy/british_authors_on_cruise_patrol_745766.htm]] December 18, 2007, Cindy Adams, Gossip, [[New York Post]]
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A Tom Cruise bio is about to drop upon us. St. Martin's Press is thrilled. Tom Cruise is maybe less thrilled. The thing is unauthorized. Also possibly unwanted and unappreciated. In fact, its title is "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography."
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{{cite news | first = Cindy | last = Adams | title = BRITISH AUTHOR'S ON 'CRUISE' PATROL | url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/12182007/gossip/cindy/british_authors_on_cruise_patrol_745766.htm | work = Gossip | publisher = New York Post | date = 2007-12-18 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/23/2750746.htm]] November 23, 2009, Emma Rodgers, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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Thirty-year-old Edward McBride killed himself in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park in February 2007.

Mr McBride had been a member of the Church of Scientology for about two years and had paid $25,000 for various courses.

A coroner's inquiry into his death heard evidence that members of the church had contacted him 19 times in the days before his death about completing an "audit".
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{{cite news | first = Emma | last = Rodgers | title = Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide | url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/23/2750746.htm | work = ABC News (Australia) | date = 2009-11-23 | accessdate = 2011-06-04 }}
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Brussels puts squatters over Scientologists|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/29/wbrussels29.xml]] October 30, 2006, Justin Stares, [[Daily Telegraph]]
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To the annoyance of the church's senior officials, a newly purchased three-storey property earmarked to become their Brussels HQ has been invaded by squatters.

But their anger with the illegal lodgers is nothing compared to their beef with the Brussels authorities, who have declared the church persona non grata and say they will not enforce eviction orders.
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{{cite news | first = Justin | last = Stares | title = Brussels puts squatters over Scientologists | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/29/wbrussels29.xml | work = Daily Telegraph | date = 2006-10-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Building boom expands lodgings for Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/News/081401/NorthPinellas/Building_boom_expands.shtml]] August 14, 2001, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The church now has 565 hotel rooms in and near downtown Clearwater. In a typical week, about 1,300 visiting Scientologists from around the world lodge there while receiving spiritual counseling and training.

The newest expansions at the Sandcastle retreat and the Osceola Inn are part of a construction boom that marks Scientology's fastest period of growth in Clearwater since it arrived in 1975. Construction continues on the massive $50-million Flag Building downtown slated to open in March 2003.
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{{cite news | first = Deborah | last = O'Neil | title = Building boom expands lodgings for Scientology | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/081401/NorthPinellas/Building_boom_expands.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2001-08-14 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.christianitytoday.com/favicon.ico]] [[Building Scientopolis|http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/september4/7.90.html]] September 4, 2000, Jody Veenker, [[Christianity Today]]
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How Scientology remade Clearwater, Florida—and what local Christians learned in the process.
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{{cite news | first = Jody | last = Veenker | coauthors = Rabey, Steve | title = Building Scientopolis | url = http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/september4/7.90.html | work = Christianity Today | date = 2000-09-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Burglaries and Lies Paved a Path to Prison|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientologysidec062490,0,7034344.story]] June 24, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Snow White began in 1973 as an effort by Scientology through Freedom of Information proceedings to purge government files of what Hubbard thought was false information being circulated worldwide to discredit him and the church. But the operation soon mushroomed into a massive criminal conspiracy, executed by the church's legal and investigative arm, the Guardian Office.
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{{cite news | first = Robert W. | last = Welkos | coauthors = Sappell, Joel | title = Burglaries and Lies Paved a Path to Prison | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientologysidec062490,0,7034344.story | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1990-06-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[BU's Scientology Connection - Dan Kennedy's Response|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/RESPONSE.html]] May 3, 1996, Dan Kennedy, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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It is simply untrue to state that I did not bother to contact a Church of Scientology representative. I conducted a one-and-a-half-hour interview with Earle Cooley, a leading lawyer for the church -- and, based on his past statements, a member.
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{{cite news | first = Dan | last = Kennedy | title = BU's Scientology Connection - Dan Kennedy's Response | url = http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/RESPONSE.html | work = Boston Phoenix | date = 1996-05-03 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[BU's Scientology Connection - More Responses|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/LETTER2.html]] June 7, 1996, Letters, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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 [[BU's Scientology Connection - Scientology's Response|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/LETTER.html]] May 3, 1996, Beth Akiyama, Letter, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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In "BU's Scientology Connection" (News, April 19), Dan Kennedy tried to make an issue out of Scientology by questioning whether Mr. Earle Cooley, an attorney who has represented the Church of Scientology and is also a Boston University trustee, is a Scientologist. Next, Kennedy will be inquiring whether the president of IBM is a Catholic or demanding how many New York judges are Muslims.
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{{cite news | first = Beth | last = Akiyama | title = BU's Scientology Connection - Scientology's Response | url = http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/LETTER.html | work = Letter | publisher = Boston Phoenix | date = 1996-05-03 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[BU's Scientology Connection -- Scientology's Tangled Web|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/TANGLED_WEB.html]] April 19, 1996, Dan Kennedy, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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 [[BU's Scientology Connection -- the Secrets of Scientology|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SECRETS.html]] April 19, 1996, Dan Kennedy, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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{{cite news | first = Dan | last = Kennedy | title = BU's Scientology Connection -- the Secrets of Scientology | url = http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SECRETS.html | work = Boston Phoenix | date = 1996-04-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bush vetoes Scientology bill|http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/26/State/Bush_vetoes_Scientolo.shtml]] May 26, 2005, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The bill was backed by the Church of Scientology and sponsored by Rep. Gus Barreiro, R-Miami Beach and Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa.
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{{cite news | title = Bush vetoes Scientology bill | url = http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/26/State/Bush_vetoes_Scientolo.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2005-05-26 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Bush's Call to Church Groups To Get Untraditional Replies|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEFD81F30F933A15751C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all]] February 20, 2001, Laurie Goodstein, [[New York Times]]
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In an interview with The New York Times during the campaign, Mr. Bush was asked if, for example, he would approve of government financing for a Church of Scientology antidrug program. He answered: "I have a problem with the teachings of Scientology being viewed on the same par as Judaism or Christianity. That just happens to be a personal point of view. But I am interested in results. I am not focused on the process."
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{{cite news | first = Laurie | last = Goodstein | title = Bush's Call to Church Groups To Get Untraditional Replies | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEFD81F30F933A15751C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work = New York Times | date = 2001-02-20 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Businessman says he will purchase the Gray Moss Inn|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50092663.html?dids=50092663:50092663&FMT=FT]] August 8, 1987, Tony Doris, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Gray Moss Inn is across the street from the Fort Harrison Hotel, the headquarters of the Church of Scientology.

Scientologists and senior citizens were among the residents evacuated when city inspectors found 138 violations of building and fire codes at the Gray Moss Inn in September 1985. Officials finally cleared the building for occupancy last December after violations were corrected.

Seiflein said he is a Scientologist but is not buying the hotel for the church. In fact, he was unsuccessful in trying to rent rooms to the church, he said. ``They said they only wanted a real nice place.``

Scientology spokesman Richard Haworth also said the Scientologists have no part in the purchase agreement.
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{{cite news | first = Tony | last = Doris | title = Businessman says he will purchase the Gray Moss Inn | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50092663.html?dids=50092663:50092663&FMT=FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1987-08-08 | accessdate = 2011-10-02 }}
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 [[Buying God: Tough to Get a Refund on Salvation|http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/devil-details/buying-god-tough-to-get-a-refund-on-salvation/1473/]] March 1, 2010, Kathy Kristof, [[CBS Moneywatch]]
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But the reason they are at war is an economic one. Anderson said that he prepaid for about $120,000 of religious services that he never received and doesn't want. He wants his donations back.

Scientology actually has two written refund policies. If you pay for a service and are dissatisfied, you can request a refund within 90 days. These refunds would be discretionary (presumably like they are at Macy's, when it appears that you wore the prom dress and spilled soda on it, before claiming it didn't fit).

But if you prepay for services and don't receive them, you are supposed to be able to claim a refund at any time, Anderson said.
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{{cite news | first = Kathy | last = Kristof | title = Buying God: Tough to Get a Refund on Salvation | url = http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/devil-details/buying-god-tough-to-get-a-refund-on-salvation/1473/ | work = CBS Moneywatch | date = 2010-03-01 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://www.metnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[C.A. Rejects Attorney’s Lien Claim in Scientology Case|http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/schl120806.htm]] December 8, 2006, Kenneth Ofgang, [[Metropolitan News-Enterprise]]
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The Court of Appeal for this district has rejected an attorney's claim to a portion of the millions of dollars recovered by a former Scientologist in the decades-long suit over what he said were coercive tactics by the church. 

Div. Two Wednesday affirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert L. Hess' ruling invalidating Leta Schlosser's attorney fee lien against Lawrence D. Wollersheim's $8.7 million recovery from the Church of Scientology and its affiliated organizations.
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{{cite news | first = Kenneth | last = Ofgang | title = C.A. Rejects Attorney’s Lien Claim in Scientology Case | url = http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/schl120806.htm | work = Metropolitan News-Enterprise | date = 2006-12-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination?|http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=96c0449e-b546-4035-9d70-eea82c8b7753&sponsor=]] August 16, 2008, Steve Faguy, [[Montreal Gazette]]
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In February, anti-Scientology activists in Montreal joined others around the world in the organization's first simultaneous masked protest, which now take place monthly - including today at 11 a.m. in Lafontaine Park.

Last month, a video from a local Anonymous protest was posted on YouTube. In it, a Montreal woman claims that minions from the Church of Scientology began a campaign of harassment and got her fired from her new job. The Gazette spoke to this woman, known online as "Anonymiss," about her assertions against Scientology. She agreed to an interview only on the condition that her real name not be used.
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{{cite news | first = Steve | last = Faguy | title = Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination? | url = http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=96c0449e-b546-4035-9d70-eea82c8b7753&sponsor= | work = Montreal Gazette | date = 2008-08-16 | accessdate = 2009-12-29 }}
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[img[x|archive.dailycal.org/images/favicon.ico]] [[Campus Speaker Criticized by Ex-Devotees|http://archive.dailycal.org/article/11416/campus_speaker_criticized_by_ex-devotees]] April 30, 2003, Martin Ricard, [[Daily California]]
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A controversial religious leader will speak at Zellerbach Hall tonight, despite objections from former followers who claim he leads a cult. 

Former members allege Prem Rawat, head of Elan Vital, Inc., hides a checkered past and is using the event to recruit new members. 

"He's coming to Berkeley doing an introductory program, which means he's trying to recruit more people," said former follower Joe Whalen, who lives in San Francisco.

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{{cite news | first = Martin | last = Ricard | title = Campus Speaker Criticized by Ex-Devotees | url = http://archive.dailycal.org/article/11416/campus_speaker_criticized_by_ex-devotees | work = Daily California | date = 2003-04-30 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://www.canoe.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Canucks offer prayer to Yoda|http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/Canadiana/2003/05/14/pf-86721.html]] May 14, 2003, Sarah Green, [[cnews]]
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Some 20,000 Canadians named Jedi -- made famous by Star Wars -- as their religion, according to census data. 

This echoes a result of the 2001 British census where 390,000 residents claimed to follow the Jedi faith after a massive Internet campaign. 

Those who worshipped at less conventional altars included 9,575 who cited Wicca as their religion; 1,135 Rastafarians; and 1,525 who follow Scientology, made famous by celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Meanwhile, 4.8 million Canadians, including 770,850 Torontonians, claimed to follow no religion in 2001, compared with 3.3 million a decade earlier.
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{{cite news | first = Sarah | last = Green | title = Canucks offer prayer to Yoda | url = http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/Canadiana/2003/05/14/pf-86721.html | work = cnews | date = 2003-05-14 | accessdate = 2011-06-23 }}
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[img[x|http://www.wired.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cast Your Vote On The Wikipedia Editing Wall Of Shame|http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/cast-your-vote-.html]] August 15, 2007, Scott Gilbertson, Blogs, [[Wired]]
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Threat Level is running a poll where you can track and vote on the most shameful and/or disturbing Wikipedia edits found with Virgil Griffith's new Wikipedia search tool. For those that missed the story, Griffith created a tool that unmasks the anonymous edits made to Wikipedia pages.
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{{cite news | first = Scott | last = Gilbertson | title = Cast Your Vote On The Wikipedia Editing Wall Of Shame | url = http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/cast-your-vote-.html | work = Blogs | publisher = Wired | date = 2007-08-15 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.wired.com/favicon.ico]] [[Caught in the Crossfire|http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.11/updata.html]] November 1, 1996, Wendy M. Grossman, [[Wired]]
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The debate is familiar: are Internet posters who quote published material engaging in free speech or have they purloined copyrighted intellectual property? In the battle between the Church of Scientology (COS) and the Net, the shrapnel's still flying. As long ago as May 1995, posters on alt.religion.scientology were betting that California Nethead Grady Ward would be the next Church target. On March 21, 1996, those predictions were borne out: the COS filed a lawsuit accusing Ward of anonymously posting a series of texts under the moniker "Scamizdat" - documents containing secrets normally seen by Scientologists only after years of expensive study. The Church also obtained a preliminary injunction, forcing Ward to cease any activity that would violate COS copyright of the materials."
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{{cite news | first = Wendy M. | last = Grossman | title = Caught in the Crossfire | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.11/updata.html | work = Wired | date = 1996-11-01 | accessdate = 2010-11-14 }}
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 [[Celeb Church Opens In York|http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1994162.0.celeb_church_opens_in_york.php]] January 25, 2007, [[York Press]]
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The Church of Scientology Mission of York has opened at Matmer House in Hull Road - one of 14 Scientology "churches" now open in the UK.
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 [[Celebration Turns Deadly at FrontSight Firearms Training|http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6752130]] July 5, 2007, Colleen McCarty, Las Vegas Now, [[KLAS]]
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A Fourth of July celebration at a weapons training facility near Pahrump ended with the death of a young father.
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 [[Celebrities lead charge against Scientology|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/scientology-cruise-haggis-us-australia]] November 1, 2009, Peter Beaumont, [[The Observer]]
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The occasion was a memorial service for Scientology's top legal adviser for a quarter of a century, Earle Cooley. The controversial head of Scientology worldwide, David Miscavige, delivered the eulogy, thanking his late friend for his contribution to the neo-religion during his career, much of which was spent pursuing journalists and former members who spoke out against it.

Miscavige may since have wondered privately what Cooley would have made of the events of last week. Scientology, founded in 1953 by the late science fiction pulp novelist, serial fantasist and inveterate self-publicist L Ron Hubbard, is under fire again across the globe, following years of struggle to be recognised - with some success - as a legitimate church.

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{{cite news | first = Peter | last = Beaumont | coauthors = O'Loughlin, Toni; Harris, Paul | title = Celebrities lead charge against Scientology | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/scientology-cruise-haggis-us-australia | work = The Observer | date = 2009-11-01 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Celebrity Scientologists Tell Congress Germany Persecutes Them|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2523922&date=19970214]] February 14, 1997, Laura Myers, Associated Press, [[Seattle Times]]
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The celebrities claim businesses, schools and festivals are turning away Scientologists. 

The Germany Embassy called the criticism exaggerated and objected to attempts by the Hollywood community to compare the discrimination to the Nazi persecution of Jews - something 34 celebrities who are not Scientologists did last month in a full-page ad in the International Herald Tribune.
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{{cite news | first = Laura | last = Myers | title = Celebrity Scientologists Tell Congress Germany Persecutes Them | url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2523922&date=19970214 | work = Associated Press | publisher = Seattle Times | date = 1997-02-14 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Celebrity Scientologists Weigh in on the Church's Real Estate Program|http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celebrity-scientologists-weigh-churchs-real-213625]] July 20, 2011, Daniel Miller, [[Hollywood Reporter]]
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Nancy Cartwright, Danny Masterson and Erika Christensen praise the Church of Scientology for its stewardship of historic Hollywood real estate.

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[img[x|http://i.cmpnet.com/CME/pt/favicon.ico]] [[Celebrity Triggers Tumult Over Psychiatric Care: Did the News Media Make Things Worse?|http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=171201499]] September 1, 2005, Michael Jonathan Grinfeld, [[Psychiatric Times]]
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In an effort to achieve balanced reporting, journalists will often treat medical reporting like political reporting, where the sides are clearly demarcated, Oransky said. "Medical reporting needs to be based, obviously, on solid critical thinking and great reporting. You will see the fringes of science and medicine because, for whatever reason, journalists are not able to distinguish between an either mainstream or prevailing opinion and not."

That may account for appearances by Julian Whitaker, M.D., a California physician trained in orthopedics, who promotes and markets a regimen of diet, exercise and nutrients for a variety of serious health issues. Whitaker acknowledges on his Web site that he's a practitioner of "alternative medicine," who's taken "the road less traveled." On both CNN and Fox News prime-time evening programs, Whitaker, representing the Scientology-sponsored Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, denied that mental illness had any basis other than the whim of psychiatrists.
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{{cite news | first = Michael Jonathan | last = Grinfeld | title = Celebrity Triggers Tumult Over Psychiatric Care: Did the News Media Make Things Worse? | url = http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=171201499 | work = Psychiatric Times | date = 2005-09-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Center seeks waiver on infant care|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49925941.html?dids=49925941:49925941&FMT=FT]] January 29, 1987, Rachel L. Jones, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The county prohibits parents from putting children younger than 2 years in day-care centers, although the children can be placed in licensed homes.

Martha Skelton, director of Clearwater's Community Pride Child Care Center, and supporters hope to circumvent that law. She notes that the licensing board has given permission to four groups to provide infant day care in centers rather than homes: the Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens, the Upper Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens, the Church of Scientology and Happy Workers Day Nursery and Nursery School.
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{{cite news | first = Rachel L. | last = Jones | title = Center seeks waiver on infant care | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49925941.html?dids=49925941:49925941&FMT=FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1987-01-29 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Changed Lives; Religious Leader Takes His Calling to Ground Zero|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E4DF103BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63]] September 20, 2001, Amy Waldman, [[New York Times]]
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AMID faces gray with grief and grime, theirs are fresh, even smiling. Among blackened uniforms and sooty equipment, their yellow T-shirts are bright buoys. They are clean.

At any time, well over 100 volunteer ministers from the Church of Scientology mill around the remains of the World Trade Center. On the day of the attack, they took in food to workers. Since then, they have taken the mind-altering techniques developed by the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Changing strategy: Scientology now steps right up to controversy|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51441692.html?FMT=FT]] December 23, 1988, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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After years of sparring with the townsfolk and veiling itself in secrecy, the Church of Scientology has succeeded in turning Clearwater into its spiritual mecca. Scientologists quietly run teen nightclubs, schools, day-care centers, management consulting firms and other businesses, records and interviews show.

Now the strategy of the organization, longtime observers say, is to confront controversy, gain converts and make money - lots of it. Scientology's Clearwater operation brings in $1.5-million to $2-million a week, say church watchers who include Clearwater police, former Scientology security chief Richard Azneran and former Scientologist-turned-author Bent Corydon.

Fee schedules show how the dollars add up: 12 1/2 hours of basic Scientology counseling in Clearwater costs $8,000, not counting meals and accommodations.

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[img[x|http://www.radionetherlands.nl/assets/favicon.ico]] [[Charges against Scientology in Belgium|http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/bel070906]] September 6, 2007, Dave McGuire, [[Radio Netherlands]]
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After a ten-year investigation, Belgian prosecutors have charged twelve members of the Church of Scientology. The accusations include fraud, extortion, illegal practice of medicine, and infringement of privacy law, among others. The decision opens the way for Scientology to be considered a criminal organization.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charges Dropped in Scientologist's Death|http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/17/local/me-41831]] June 17, 2000, Larry B. Stammer, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Florida prosecutors have dropped felony charges against the Church of Scientology in connection with the widely publicized death of a church member in Clearwater, Fla.

State prosecutor Bernie McCabe said his office could not prove its case in the 1995 death of church member Lisa McPherson, 36.
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charges in deprogramming|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1986/8601050512.asp]] March 4, 1986, Jack Hopkins, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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The family members of a 30-year-old White Center woman were charged yesterday with locking her up against her will after spending three days trying to deprogram her from the Church of Scientology.
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{{cite news | first = Jack | last = Hopkins | title = Charges in deprogramming | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1986/8601050512.asp | work = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date = 1986-03-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charges will not be filed in Scientology protest|http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/2009/04/charges-will-not-be-filed-in-s.html]] April 24, 2009, John Asbury, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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The Riverside County district attorney's office will not pursue criminal charges against two protesters cited for trespassing at the Scientology compound outside San Jacinto.

Prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to file charges after Mark Bunker and Douglas Owens were arrested and released Feb. 24 for blocking the driveway of Golden Era Studios on Gilman Springs Road.

The two men were part of a small protest that formed after the Riverside County Board of Supervisors proposed a no picketing ordinance prohibiting protestors from within 30 feet of any residences.
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 [[Charisma, Crowd Psychology and Altered States of Consciousness|http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/faculty/lindholm/ASCCharisma.html]] September 1, 1992, Charles Lindholm, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, [[Springer Netherlands]]
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Abstract This paper argues that an interpretive meaning-centered analysis is not adequate for understanding collective behavior that is outside the range of calculating rationality. Alternative approaches to collective irrational action are drawn from the work of Weber and Durkheim, as well as from the crowd psychologists Le Bon and Tarde. These approaches are then illustrated in a short analysis of the trajectories and recruitment techniques of two contemporary American religious annunciations: est and Scientology, and the findings applied to the general social formation.
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Lindholm | title = Charisma, Crowd Psychology and Altered States of Consciousness | url = http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/faculty/lindholm/ASCCharisma.html | work = Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | publisher = Springer Netherlands | date = 1992-09-01 | accessdate = 2010-08-02 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sfweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charitable Front: Mysterious organizations in the Bay Area profess to be advocating for liberal causes. In truth, they appear to be part of a secretive group with a bizarre radical past.|http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/1778016]] December 9, 2009, Matt Smith, [[SF Weekly]]
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In his experience, leaders of the Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals seemed more concerned about getting him to attend Marxist indoctrination sessions and using his work on the farmworker litigation case to recruit new volunteers and members than about actually succeeding with the suit: "The organization itself was more of a hindrance than a help." Palik split with the group in 2002.

According to ex-members Whitnack and Fahlberg, professionals such as doctors and lawyers are to NatlFed what movie stars are to Scientology. They're recruited to lend authority to the group, but aren't necessarily informed of its core revolutionary mission, and are not required to endure the isolation and other privations of full-time members.
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charity accused of $280,000 fraud|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1986/8601020661.asp]] January 23, 1986, John McCoy, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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Northwest Commodity Exchange and similar warehouse banks have been supported in court briefs and elsewhere by the Church of Scientology, which objects to what it calls IRS harassment of its religious affairs.

Uchida said they spoke in three or four elementary schools, using anti- drug teaching principles advocated by Narconon, a Scientologist drug counseling group.
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{{cite news | first = John | last = McCoy | title = Charity accused of $280,000 fraud | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1986/8601020661.asp | work = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date = 1986-01-23 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Charter School Bid Draws Scrutiny|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/24/local/me-15895]] July 24, 1997, Duke Helfand, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A proposed charter school in the east San Fernando Valley is receiving close scrutiny from Los Angeles Unified School District officials who are concerned about the organizer's ties to the Church of Scientology and are questioning whether church teachings would appear in the new public school.

Advocates of the Northwest Charter School acknowledge that they want to employ teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, but say his system emphasizes common-sense strategies appropriate for a public school setting and children of any religion.
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{{cite news | first = Duke | last = Helfand | title = Charter School Bid Draws Scrutiny | url = http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/24/local/me-15895 | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1997-07-24 | accessdate = 2010-08-02 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048134.ece]] October 31, 2009, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Mike Rinder, the church's former intelligence chief, said his department sometimes tracked runaways by getting into their credit card or bank accounts. 

The account numbers came from Morehead, whose guards opened every piece of mail at the base, logging staff financial information as they went. Morehead said Sea Org members were told their personal correspondence was examined for security reasons. He said they were not told this included financial information. 

"Except for the upper, upper executives, there wasn't a base staff member who I didn't have a bank account number on, a credit card number, social security number and date of birth, phone numbers, you name it, I had it all,'' Morehead said.
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{{cite news | first = Joe | last = Childs | coauthors = Tobin, Thomas C. | title = Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back | url = http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048134.ece | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2009-10-31 | accessdate = 2010-08-02 }}
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[img[x|http://www.newyorker.com/favicon.ico]] [[Château Scientology|http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/14/080114fa_fact_goodyear?printable=true]] January 14, 2008, Dana Goodyear, Letter from California, [[New Yorker]]
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The dozens of local buildings owned by the Church, many of them historically significant and now prominently marked with posters advertising “Dianetics” or with the eight-pointed cross that serves as one of Scientology's symbols, have entered the landscape of iconic L.A. architecture as a visually stimulating mash of old Hollywood and seventies-style art direction and signage. At Celebrity Centre, where a large yellow sign affixed to a south-facing roof overlooking the 101 Freeway announces the building and its owner, this juxtaposition is especially acute. Diane Kanner, an architectural historian who specializes in twentieth-century Los Angeles, calls the building Château Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.chicagotribune.com/favicon.ico]] [[Chicago dentist settles suit over religion, sex bias|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/1626200871.html?dids=1626200871:1626200871&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT]] January 14, 2009, James P Miller, [[Chicago Tribune]]
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The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a civil lawsuit against James L. Orrington in September 2007, asserting he had discriminated against 18 female employees by subjecting them to sexual propositions and comments, and by requiring workers "to engage in Scientology religious practices and learn about Scientology as conditions of their employment."
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 [[Chicago Dentist to Pay $462,500 to Settle EEOC Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit|http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-13-09.html]] January 13, 2009, [[U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]
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A Chicago dental practice will pay $462,500 to settle a class sexual and religious harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC alleged that James L. Orrington, D.M.D., Ltd. discriminated against 18 employees by subjecting them to sexual harassment, including sexual propositions, comments and touching; forcing them to engage in Scientology religious practices and learn about Scientology as conditions of their employment; and/or retaliating against employees who complained about the sexual or religious harassment. The lawsuit, which was filed September 20, 2007, was assigned to Judge Robert Dow of the Northern District of Illinois and captioned EEOC et al. v. James L. Orrington D.M.D., Ltd., 07 C 5317. The consent decree resolving the case was entered by the court this morning.

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 [[Chicago dentist to settle forced Scientology, harassment case|http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/13/business/chi-dentist-sexual-harassment-jan13]] January 13, 2009, James P Miller, [[Chicago Tribune]]
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A Chicago dentist has agreed to pay $462,500 to settle federal allegations that he violated U.S. discrimination laws by sexually harassing workers and by forcing employees who wanted to keep their jobs to submit to indoctrination in the tenets of Scientology.

The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a civil lawsuit against James L. Orrington in September 2007, asserting he had discriminated against 18 employees by subjecting them to sexual propositions, comments and improper touching. The suit also alleged that Orrington violated federal law by requiring workers “to engage in Scientology religious practices and learn about Scientology as conditions of their employment.”

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Chief Klein's balance isn't an act|http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/01/Northpinellas/Chief_Klein_s_balance.shtml]] January 1, 2006, Jacob H. Fries, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"I have no regrets, nor do I have any reservations about the cases that we investigated," Klein said. "The recurring theme, when we had legitimate evidence of a crime, was that ultimately the victim or victims would disappear or restitution was made and prosecutions did not happen."
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 [[Chief Sid Klein retires after 29 years|http://www.tbnweekly.com/pubs/clearwater_beacon/content_articles/021710_clw-01.txt]] February 17, 2010, Alexandra Caldwell, [[Clearwater Beacon]]
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The only regret Klein said he has is the outcome of the Lisa McPherson case, where the 36-year-old died in 1995 and led to the criminal investigation of the Church of Scientology. The church was not found guilty, but Klein was not satisfied with that outcome.

"Lisa McPherson did not receive justice, and it will always bug me because I felt like it was something that was left undone," Klein said. "I can't change that now, but the facts speak for themselves, and people will have to judge that in history."

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Chiropractors seeking advice find Scientology-influenced seminars|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50162617.html?dids=50162617:50162617&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] November 29, 1987, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Before he was through, though, he would pay $18,000 to the Church of Scientology and, he says, suffer the "money-hungry rapaciousness" of the cult-like sect. When he "opened my eyes and demanded the money back," he says, "it took us five, six months and we had to hire an attorney to get it back."
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[img[x|http://www.rnzi.com/favicon.ico]] [[Christians march in Samoa against scientology|http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=35556]] October 4, 2007, [[Radio New Zealand International]]
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Hundreds of Christian believers in Samoa from Pentecostal churches and ministries have marched in protest against the government's support of the Scientology religion.

They marched to the front of the government building in Apia where Scientology tents have been put up as the main venue for its disaster training and seminars over the next two weeks.
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 [[Christians unfazed by Scientology threats|http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=124&id=25494&t=Christians+unfazed+by+Scientology+threats]] January 14, 2010, CNA, [[Spero News]]
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In Italy, the pre-Christmas release of the book "The Courage to Speak Out - Stories of ex-Scientologists" was met with a promise from the National Church of Scientology of Italy to bring legal action against the author and "whomever has assisted her." A spokeswoman for the book's publisher told CNA that, as of yet, no such action has been taken against them.

"The Courage to Speak Out" includes stories from 14 ex-members of the Church of Scientology. It is the second volume from Maria Pia Gardini that relates first-hand perspectives from inside this church. The first edition, titled "My Years in Scientology," was based on her own time as a member.
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 [[Chronicles of L. Ronia|http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0901/038.html]] August 7, 2008, Allison Fass, [[Forbes Magazine]]
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Before L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics in 1950 and founded Scientology two years later he penned adventure, mystery and sci-fi stories for pulp magazines. Now, Galaxy Press, a for-profit publisher that is owned by the Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles, is releasing those "Stories from the Golden Age" in a series of 80 paperback books -- accompanied by a $1.9 million marketing blitz aimed partly at middle-schoolers.
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 [[Church anger at 'cult' space|http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_method=full%26objectid=14177182%26siteid=50002-name_page.html]] April 24, 2004, James Cartledge, Evening Mail, [[Birmingham Post]]
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Church leaders and council bosses were locked in a row today after a group branded "little more than a cult" was allowed to take over prominent public space.

The Diocese of Birmingham attacked the city council's decision to let the Church of Scientology launch its volunteer ministers' centre in Centenary Square.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Church attacks new French anti-cult law|http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,335332,00.html]] June 23, 2000, Jon Henley, [[The Guardian]]
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The French parliament yesterday adopted Europe's toughest anti-sect legislation yet, creating a controversial new crime of "mental manipulation" punishable by a maximum fine of £50,000 and five years imprisonment.

The move was applauded by Alain Vivien, head of a government committee that has identified 173 dangerous quasi-religious groups in France, but was denounced by both the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church as fascist, anti-democratic and in breach of basic human rights laws.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church behavior?|http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/Opinion/Church_behavior.shtml]] May 26, 2001, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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But again and again, stories surface that set Scientology apart. Not only does it have a penchant for secrecy, it will spend virtually unlimited time and money on pursuing, setting up and bringing down its critics.

That's not like any church we know.
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 [[Church bid to gag critics|http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/church-bid-to-gag-critics/story-e6frf7jo-1225775351107?from=public_rss]] September 17, 2009, Ben Butler, [[Herald Sun]]
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THE celebrity-studded Church of Scientology in Australia wants negative media reports about the controversial religion outlawed. 

Scientology, which boasts members including Tom Cruise, said it wanted a law "to prevent the dissemination of anti-religious propaganda in the media, which is based on unfounded hearsay and either known or reasonably known to be untruthful".

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church can see some records|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17004067.html?FMT=FT&dids=17004067:17004067&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 28, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In a ruling that has both sides of a court case claiming victory, a judge will allow the Church of Scientology to examine some records from the autopsy of one of its members.

The records will be opened today to the church and the public. They concern Lisa McPherson, a 36-year-old Scientologist who entered the church's downtown Clearwater retreat a healthy woman and died 17 days later, on Dec. 5, 1995.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church critic trailed, arrested|http://www.sptimes.com/News/051901/NorthPinellas/Church_critic_trailed.shtml]] May 19, 2001, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Depositions in the case taken earlier this week show private investigators hired by Church of Scientology lawyers watched, videotaped and trailed Prince virtually every day for at least four months, following him "almost wherever you can think of in the area," said Brian Raftery, the private investigator.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church entered Clearwater on path of deceit|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=7]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A MIDDLE-AGED man in a green jump suit appeared in mid-November to say that he, Sorel Allen, was "director of membership and public affairs" for United Churches of Florida. He said the buildings would be leased to United Churches, a new organization organized by laymen interested in the religious truths of all denominations, and he said this ecumenical group would hold meetings and seminars for persons of all faiths, and everything would be very open.

But Kenneth Seidenberg, an attorney for Jack Tar Hotels, told the St. Petersburg Times on Dec. 5 that the sale of the Fort Harrison was "one of the strangest transactions we've ever dealt in." Southern Land Sales wouldn't even give Jack Tar its telephone number, he said.
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Stafford | title = Church entered Clearwater on path of deceit | url = http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=7 | work = Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1980-01-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Church faces new claims of child sex abuse and neglect|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10646411&pnum=0]] May 21, 2010, Greg Ansley, [[New Zealand Herald]]
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Further allegations against the Church of Scientology, including claims of child sex abuse and neglect, have renewed calls for an inquiry into the organisation and its operations in Australia.

The allegations, accusing the church of cover-ups and the mistreatment of children in a toxic environment, follow earlier, alarming investigations and a failed bid for a Senate probe.

Among those making the new allegations is the daughter of the president of the church in Australia, and police are investigating a claim a senior official interfered with an investigation into the reported sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church group plans to expand: Scientology courses to be taught in new building|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50517325.html?FMT=FT&dids=50517325:50517325&FMTS=ABS:FT]] July 18, 1989, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology already owns 12 parcels worth more than $21-million in Clearwater. One of those buildings, the Sandcastle Motel, is now undergoing renovations. In September, the church hopes to start construction on the religious services building in conjunction with the renovation, said Bill Daugherty, a Scientology spokesman.

The 25,000-square-foot religious services building will be built on the site of the motel's existing reception building and will house a reception area, classrooms and counseling rooms. Floor space would be increased by 21,500 square feet, according to a site plan filed with the city.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church infiltrated the Clearwater Sun|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=12]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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When the Church of Scientology came silently and secretly into Clearwater near the end of 1975, June came with it.

She took a job at the Clearwater Sun and when, on Jan. 28,1976 a Scientology spokesman announced that the church was the new owner of the Fort Harrison Hotel, she was already bustin" out all over.

But a church document — one of several recently released by a federal court in Washington that detail her activities — show that the Guardians were worried about her
future.

Jimmy Mulligan, the commodore staff guardian assistant for information, wrote Dick Weigand, deputy guardian for information U.S., that a private investigator "gave info to the DEA last November implicating June Byrne (one of our AMA plants) in drug dealing; and causing her to be wanted for questioning by the DEA."
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Stafford | title = Church infiltrated the Clearwater Sun | url = http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=12 | work = Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1980-01-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/favicon.ico]] [[Church keys programs to recruit blacks|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a04.html]] March 2, 1998, Joseph Mallia, Inside the Church of Scientology, [[Boston Herald]]
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Although local Scientologists deny that the World Literacy Crusade is directed by the Church of Scientology, anyone who uses L. Ron Hubbard's name, or his trademarked Study Technology techniques, is strictly controlled by licensing contracts with Scientology groups in Los Angeles, in particular the Religious Technology Center, according to Young and church materials obtained by the Herald.

The World Literacy Crusade's independence from Scientology is a "fiction," Young said.
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{{cite news | first = Joseph | last = Mallia | title = Church keys programs to recruit blacks | url = http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a04.html | work = Inside the Church of Scientology | publisher = Boston Herald | date = 1998-03-02 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church loads up for one last fight|http://www.sptimes.com/News/120901/NorthPinellas/Church_loads_up_for_o.shtml]] December 9, 2001, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Six years after Lisa McPherson died, one lawyer delves through sheaves of Scientology challenges to pursue a wrongful-death suit.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Markets Its Gospel With High-Pressure Sales|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062590,0,7966802,full.story]] June 25, 1990, Joel Sappell, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The organization uses sophisticated sales tactics to sell a seemingly endless progression of expensive courses, each serving as a prerequisite for the next. Known collectively as "The Bridge," the courses promise salvation, higher intelligence, superhuman powers and even possible survival from nuclear fallout -- for those who can pay.
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{{cite news | first = Joel | last = Sappell | coauthors = Welkos, Robert W. | title = Church Markets Its Gospel With High-Pressure Sales | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062590,0,7966802,full.story | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1990-06-25 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church member's death now called accident|http://www.sptimes.com/News/022300/TampaBay/Church_member_s_death.shtml]] February 23, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Medical examiner Joan Wood now is calling the 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson an "accident," a change that is causing prosecutors to rethink their case against the Church of Scientology.

Wood's original ruling called the manner of death "undetermined."

Scientology's top executives, clearly pleased Tuesday, called the switch "extremely significant and a huge development that dramatically affects the state's case."
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{{cite news | first = Thomas C. | last = Tobin | title = Church member's death now called accident | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/022300/TampaBay/Church_member_s_death.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2000-02-23 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church moves to defend itself against 'attackers|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=6]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology has a persecution complex.

It apparently was born with it.

The church was founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. A biographical sketch supplied by the church states that Hubbard devised the basic doctrine of his religion while recovering from World War II injuries in a naval hospital.
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Stafford | title = Church moves to defend itself against 'attackers | url = http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=6 | work = Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1980-01-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.watchman.org/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology - A Religious Mafia?|http://www.watchman.org/sci/scientologymafia.htm]] January 1, 1998, Craig Branch, [[Watchman Expositor]]
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Controversy continues to rage around Scientology, due mostly to the totalitarian and abusive nature of its practices. The evolution and history of Scientology raises serious and fundamental questions about freedoms and protections of religion and even what or who defines a religion. Scientology is an anomaly on even a diverse religious landscape. It does, in fact, involve religious belief (in what most outsiders would regard as science fiction). But that belief appears to have been built chiefly as a cover for exploitive commercial operations.
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{{cite news | first = Craig | last = Branch | title = Church of Scientology - A Religious Mafia? | url = http://www.watchman.org/sci/scientologymafia.htm | work = Watchman Expositor | date = 1998-01-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://graphic.christianpost.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Abused 'Volunteers' With 72-Hour Shifts and $10 a Week|http://global.christianpost.com/news/church-of-scientology-abused-volunteers-with-72-hour-shifts-and-10-a-week-55755/]] September 16, 2011, Luiza Oleszczuk, [[Christian Post]]
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The Church of Scientology has violated Australian law by making its employees work up to 72 hours without a break for as little as $10 a week, the Fair Work Ombudsman stated Friday after an 18-month probe.

The ruling came despite the fact that the Scientologists attempted to label some workers as “volunteers” rather than “employees.”
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{{cite news | first = Luiza | last = Oleszczuk | title = Church of Scientology Abused 'Volunteers' With 72-Hour Shifts and $10 a Week | url = http://global.christianpost.com/news/church-of-scientology-abused-volunteers-with-72-hour-shifts-and-10-a-week-55755/ | work = Christian Post | date = 2011-09-16 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://media2.myfoxla.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Accused of Abuse|http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/church-of-scientology-accused-of-abuse-20100212]] February 12, 2010, Susan Hirasuna, [[KTTV FOX]]
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The Church of Scientology is coming under fire from six former members. They claim they were mentally and physically abused and forced to work around the clock.

Susan Hirasuna was live at the Scientology headquarters in Hollywood and has the latest in this video report.
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[img[x|http://www.abc.net.au/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology accused of covering up sexual abuse|http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2904389.htm]] May 20, 2010, Timothy McDonald, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was sexually abused by her stepfather Robert Kerr over several years when she was a child. 

Her mother Phoebe didn't want to seek outside help, and instead took Carmen to see their chaplain within the church. 

CARMEN RAINER: They told me that it was my fault because I'd been bad in a past life. I'd probably done something bad in a past life so I pulled it in. 

TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was told to hide her story by a senior church member.

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{{cite news | first = Timothy | last = McDonald | title = Church of Scientology accused of covering up sexual abuse | url = http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2904389.htm | work = ABC News (Australia) | date = 2010-05-20 | accessdate = 2010-08-01 }}
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[img[x|http://www.uniondemocrat.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology asks for rezone to care for history|http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2008071893100/News/Local-News/Church-of-Scientology-asks-for-rezone-to-care-for-history]] July 18, 2008, Walk Cook, [[The Union Democrat]]
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Though the archive is closed to the public and even most church members, McNairn offered to give committee members a tour while she was in town for the weekend. Committee members declined, but expressed interest in a tour at a later date. 

McNairn didn't elaborate on the workings of the archive, but, according to published reports from 1997, the church constructed an underground tunnel and chamber in the area at the site of the former Lady Washington Mine. 

Planning documents filed with the county at the time called for a 15-foot-wide, 250-foot-long-tunnel. The first 98 feet from the entrance were improved, with a 10.5-foot domed ceiling. At the end of the 98 feet, documents showed a 10-foot-long storage room, with the rest of the tunnel unimproved.

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[img[x|http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology banned from shopping centre|http://www.birminghammail.net/2008/07/16/church-of-scientology-banned-from-shopping-centre-97319-21350467/]] July 16, 2008, Edward Chadwick, [[Birmingham Mail]]
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Church leaders understood to be from Birmingham set up a stall at Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Centre after making a booking under the name Dianetics, the church's main theory.

Bosses ordered preachers to pack up and leave after angry parents said their children had been invited to take part in “stress tests” and then lectured about the religion.

“We had complaints that kids had been invited to take part in a stress test and were then being asked questions about religion,” said operations manager Colin Quinton.
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{{cite news | first = Edward | last = Chadwick | title = Church of Scientology banned from shopping centre | url = http://www.birminghammail.net/2008/07/16/church-of-scientology-banned-from-shopping-centre-97319-21350467/ | work = Birmingham Mail | date = 2008-07-16 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://media.kansascity.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology brings its anti-psychiatry exhibit to Kansas Capitol|http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/460215.html]] January 24, 2008, David Klepper, [[Kansas City Star]]
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The exhibit, which opens today and runs through Monday, is hardly subtle. Its title: "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death."

It's a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group formed by members of the Church of Scientology. The exhibit was last on display in the Missouri Capitol and before that in St. Louis.
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{{cite news | first = David | last = Klepper | title = Church of Scientology brings its anti-psychiatry exhibit to Kansas Capitol | url = http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/460215.html | work = Kansas City Star | date = 2008-01-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.macleans.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology builds new headquarters in Ontario|http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/15/church-of-scientology-builds-new-headquarters-in-ontario/]] March 15, 2011, [[Macleans]]
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The Church of Scientology is planning to build its national headquarters in a former resort near Orangeville, just outside of Toronto. The church is planning a significant overhaul of the Hockley Highlands Inn and Conference Centre in Mono, which sits on more than 80 hectares of land and will allow Scientologists to establish a campus with five buildings totaling 160,000 square feet.
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 [[Church of Scientology Buys 64,000 Square Feet in La Mesa for $9.3M|http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=43417628.8484721.1633554.57929602.5889841.051&aID2=125649]] May 27, 2008, [[San Diego Business Journal]]
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The San Diego chapter of the controversial Church of Scientology is moving its focus to La Mesa with the May 21 purchase of a Coleman College campus at 7380 Parkway Drive.

The Church of Scientology's San Diego offices are located at 1330 Fourth Ave. between A and Ash streets.

The church purchased the new site for $9.3 million. The two buildings, which are 53,400 square feet and 11,000 square feet, will be used as an educational campus, said the broker on the deal, Vince Provenzano with Commercial Properties.
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[img[x|http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology buys a bigger home in Nashville on Nashville City Paper|http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=61143]] June 30, 2008, Richard Lawson, [[Nashville City Paper]]
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Late last Thursday, the church purchased the Fall School Business Center along Eighth Avenue South for $6 million. 

The property reportedly will become the new home of the church's Celebrity Centre Nashville, which currently sits in a small house along Music Row. 

The Fall School site has roughly 36,000-square-feet of space.
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[img[x|http://en.afrik.com/images/favicon.gif]] [[Church of Scientology buys castle in Jo'burg|http://en.afrik.com/article12926.html]] March 24, 2008, Panapress, [[Afrik.com]]
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The Church of Scientology has acquired the famous Johannesburg landmark, the Kyalami Castle, to be the home of its new advanced spiritual retreat.
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[img[x|http://www.bizjournals.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology buys Falls School Business Center|http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2008/06/23/daily61.html]] June 27, 2008, [[Nashville Business Journal]]
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The Church of Scientology Religious Trust has bought the Fall School Business Center on 8th Avenue. 

The Scientology trust purchased the executive suit building at 1130 8th Ave. S. along with adjacent properties at 1112 and 1114 8th Ave. S. for $6 million from Fall School Associates June 26, according to records and the Davidson County Register of Deeds.
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[img[x|http://www.theherald.co.za/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology buys historic CBD building in PE|http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n24_30012008.htm]] January 30, 2008, The Herald, [[AVUSA Media]]
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The building has been bought by the Church of Scientology, which wants to turn it into its regional headquarters, for about R8-million.

Recently approved by the commissioner of revenue as a public benefit organisation, and also tax- exempted, the church has also recently acquired new property in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.
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[img[x|http://www.observer.com/misc/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Buys More Harlem Property|http://www.observer.com/2007/church-scientology-buys-more-property-125th-street]] August 6, 2007, Mark Wellborn, The Real Estate, [[New York Observer]]
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In 2003, the Scientologists acquired 220 East 125th Street for $3.45 million. They're currently building a 33,000-square-foot church on that property and will build a new community center on the more recent acquisitions, according to Karin Pouw, a public affairs representative for the church.
{{{
{{cite news | first = Mark | last = Wellborn | title = Church of Scientology Buys More Harlem Property | url = http://www.observer.com/2007/church-scientology-buys-more-property-125th-street | work = The Real Estate | publisher = New York Observer | date = 2007-08-06 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.costar.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Buys One Griswold|http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=D869FBC5D3515AB08A06C5D9F6EEBAEE]] December 24, 2007, Afunu Ali, [[CoStar Group]]
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Raymond James Financial Services sold One Griswold St. in Detroit, MI, to the Church of Scientology for $3.5 million, or approximately $70 per square foot.
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[img[x|http://www.costar.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Buys Philadelphia Tower|http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=D03641CAEFCCF77C9A7B28D083579FC4]] July 18, 2007, Nan Eckman, [[CoStar Group]]
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The Church of Scientology of Pennsylvania purchased the 15-story Cunningham Building and an adjacent storefront retail building in Philadelphia for $7.85 million, or $131 per square foot.
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[img[x|http://media.philly.com/designimages/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology buys site in Center City|http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/20070701_Church_of_Scientology_buys_site_in_Center_City.html]] July 1, 2007, Michael Klein, [[Philadelphia Inquirer]]
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The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street - across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.
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[img[x|http://www.bizjournals.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology buys Stevens Building|http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/01/07/daily28.html]] January 9, 2008, [[Portland Business Journal]]
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After a years-long search for a building to call its own, The Church of Scientology of Portland has acquired the historic Stevens Building in an all-cash deal for $5.38 million.
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 [[Church of Scientology Cancels Auction|http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-Cancels-Auction.html]] November 30, 2008, Marc Pallisco, [[Real Estate Source]]
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PROSPECTIVE purchasers and commercial real estate agents were left standing at the altar again this week, after the Church of Scientology abandoned the sale of its city headquarters, just hours before a scheduled auction.

The Church blamed planning delays, and other issues concerning the development of its new headquarters, as the reason it cannot vacate its 4-level Melbourne home of almost 30 years.
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{{cite news | first = Marc | last = Pallisco | title = Church of Scientology Cancels Auction | url = http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-Cancels-Auction.html | work = Real Estate Source | date = 2008-11-30 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://edition.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology charged in member's death |http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/14/scientology.response/index.html]] November 14, 1998, [[CNN]]
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The Church of Scientology was charged by Florida prosecutors Friday in the death of a member.

The State Attorney's office in Pinellas County filed the felony charges after a lengthy investigation into the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology charged in member's death|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/111398/scientology1115.html]] November 13, 1998, Associated Press, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A prosecutor charged the Church of Scientology on Friday with two felonies in the death of a member whose family claims she became severely dehydrated after being held against her will for 17 days.

Lisa McPherson, 36, died in December 1995. She had been under the 24-hour care of church members at the Fort Harrison Hotel, Scientology's international retreat in downtown Clearwater.
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 [[Church of Scientology Close to Selling Russell Street Building|http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-Close-to-Selling-Russell-Street-Building.html]] August 2, 2008, Marc Pallisco, [[Real Estate Source]]
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The Church of Scientology is close to selling its Russell Street headquarters, as it prepares to leave the CBD.

Sources say the church will reap about $8 million for the four-level heritage building, on the corner of Flinders Lane. It paid $720,000 in 1980.

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 [[Church of Scientology convicted of fraud|http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/church-of-scientology-convicted-of-fraud/article1339793/]] October 27, 2009, Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Associated Press, [[Globe and Mail]]
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The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used "commercial harassment" against recruits. The group was fined $600,000 and the library $200,000. Four of the leaders were given suspended sentences of between 10 months and two years. The other two were given fines. 

The court did not order the Church of Scientology to shut down, ruling it would be likely to continue its activities anyway "outside any legal framework."
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[img[x|http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology deal funds blow|http://www.birminghammail.net/2008/06/26/church-of-scientology-deal-funds-blow-97319-21154394/]] June 26, 2008, Edward Chadwick, [[Birmingham Mail]]
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THE Church of Scientology today admitted it has not yet done a deal to buy the Grade II listed Birmingham building which it plans to turn in to its Midlands headquarters.

The organisation hopes to part with £4.25 million to snap up Moseley's plush Pitmaston building on leafy Moor Green Lane, but says it must raise more funds before moving in.
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 [[Church of Scientology defied coroner on suicide|http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/church-of-scientology-defied-coroner-on-suicide/story-e6frg6oo-1225790240374]] October 23, 2009, Sarah Elks, [[The Australian]]
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THE Church of Scientology refused to provide records demanded by a coroner investigating the death of a soldier who committed suicide two days after finishing one of the church's intensive courses. 

It emerged yesterday that the American headquarters of the church instructed its Australian branch to send the soldier's "audit file" to the US -- which is outside the coroner's jurisdiction -- before warrants were issued.

Edward Alexander McBride was found electrocuted and hanged at an Energex substation at Everton Park, in Brisbane, on February 7, 2007. The soldier, who was based at Brisbane's Enoggera Barracks, was on leave from the army at the time and had been doing Scientology courses almost full-time for about a month.

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 [[Church of Scientology denies abuse cover-up|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/21/2906243.htm]] May 21, 2010, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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Police are investigating claims Jan Eastgate told both mother and daughter to lie to police and community services about the abuse.

The Church of Scientology is vigorously denying accusations a senior figure in the organisation tried to cover up the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Sydney.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology denies stabbed man 'a recruiter'|http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048072-2,00.html]] July 10, 2007, Fiona Connolly, Daily Telegraph, [[News.com.au]]
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THE Church of Scientology last night denied the Sydney man who was allegedly stabbed to death by his psychotic daughter after refusing her psychiatric drugs was a top recruiter for the church.
A man with the same name as the dead father is listed on the Church of Scientology's "Honour Roll" in the 2002 Impact magazine which glorifies members worldwide for their efforts in "signing more than 20 members to the church" or for donating $US20,000 ($23,200) or more.
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{{cite news | first = Fiona | last = Connolly | title = Church of Scientology denies stabbed man 'a recruiter' | url = http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048072-2,00.html | work = Daily Telegraph | publisher = News.com.au | date = 2007-07-10 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://llnw.static.cbslocal.com/Themes/CBS/KYW/img/favicon.ico]] [[Church Of Scientology Eyes Bucks Co. Property|http://cbs3.com/topstories/Church.Of.Scientology.2.818304.html]] September 15, 2008, Lesley Van Arsdall, [[CBS Broadcasting]]
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A religion with several famous members is hoping to turn a Bucks County building into its new home, but some people living nearby are becoming a little weary of their new neighbor.
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 [[Church of Scientology faces criminal fraud charges in France|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/09/church-of-scientology-faces-criminal.php]] September 8, 2008, Joe Shaulis, Paper Chase, [[Jurist]]
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A French judge on Monday ordered the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology (ASES - Celebrity Centre) to appear before the Paris Magistrates Court to face criminal charges. ASES has been unsuccessfully prosecuted in French courts before, and it along with an affiliated bookstore and seven church members must now defend against charges of organized fraud and the illegal practice of pharmacy. Prosecutors had asked the judge to drop the case, which originated in 1998 with a complaint from a woman who had spent about 200,000 francs ($42,600 US) on classes, books, medication and an electrometer after Scientologists stopped her on a Paris street and offered her a free personality test. Another individual and a French pharmacists' association later became involved in the case. AFP has more. Le Monde has local coverage, in French.

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 [[Church of Scientology falsely accuses internet group 'Anonymous' of 2007 school shooting|http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/2008-10-20:Church_of_Scientology_falsely_accuses_internet_group_%27Anonymous%27_of_2007_school_shooting]] October 20, 2008, [[Wikinews]]
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Wikinews has learned that the Church of Scientology has begun to falsely accuse the internet protest group Anonymous of a 2007 school shooting in Finland.

The Church, on October 18, 2008 accused Anonymous of being involved in the November 2007 shooting at Jokela High School, in which a man named Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed nine people, including himself.
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[img[x|http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology fighting fire with fire|http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/209599/church_scientology_fighting_fire_fire/]] March 20, 2008, Andrew Hendry, [[PC World]]
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If you cant beat them, join them. The Church of Scientology has enabled video on its Web site in an effort to further disseminate its religious message, a month after a widely publicized online campaign sought to discredit and "dismantle" the controversial religion.
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[img[x|http://www.sfweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Of Scientology Hires Journalists To Investigate Critical Newspaper Coverage|http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/02/church_of_scientology_hires_jo.php]] February 22, 2010, Lauren Smiley, [[SF Weekly]]
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The Washington Post presented the latest evidence today that journalists are hard-up for jobs and cash: Three respected investigative reporters have sold their services to the Church of Scientology to pick apart the St. Petersburg Times' series of scathing investigative stories in 2009 about the church detractors call a criminal cult.

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[img[x|http://technorati.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Hires Journalists To Investigate Journalists|http://technorati.com/blogging/article/church-of-scientology-hires-journalists-to/]] March 1, 2010, Dawn Olsen, [[Technorati]]
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Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis stated Scientology plans additional investigative inquires into what they perceive as "naked bias" by the SPTimes, but refused to say if they would make the most recent report public. 

Again, SPT's Neil Brown doesn't seem phased, "I counted up something like six or seven journalists the church has hired to look into the St. Petersburg Times," Brown says. "I've just got two looking into the Church of Scientology."
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{{cite news | first = Dawn | last = Olsen | title = Church of Scientology Hires Journalists To Investigate Journalists | url = http://technorati.com/blogging/article/church-of-scientology-hires-journalists-to/ | work = Technorati | date = 2010-03-01 | accessdate = 2011-10-29 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Of Scientology Hits Critics Where They Live|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2580409&date=19971228]] December 28, 1997, David O'Reilly, Knight-Ridder, [[Seattle Times]]
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John Carmichael, president of the New York office of the Church of Scientology and its regional spokesman, acknowledged that Scientologists had posted the flier in Keller's apartment house.

"We would have sent one to you (The Inquirer) too, if we thought it was newsworthy," Carmichael said. "We are eager to get the message out."
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{{cite news | first = David | last = O'Reilly | title = Church Of Scientology Hits Critics Where They Live | url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2580409&date=19971228 | work = Knight-Ridder | publisher = Seattle Times | date = 1997-12-28 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.memphisflyer.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology House in Memphis For Sale|http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A36999]] December 7, 2007, Business Buzz, [[Memphis Flyer]]
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Here's a real bargain for those of you looking for a nice homey place in Central Gardens: The Church of Scientology is offering to sell its Memphis headquarters at 1440 Central for a mere $895,000.
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 [[Church of Scientology in Printers Row stories|http://www.chicagojournal.com/Blogs/Near-Loop-Wire/12-01-2009/Church_of_Scientology_in_Printers_Row_stories]] December 1, 2009, Micah Maidenberg, [[Chicago Journal]]
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The Tribune published a story on Sunday that reported the Church of Scientology expects to open their new Illinois headquarters in Printers Row, in the restored Artcraft Building at 650 S. Clark, next year. Here are a few of Chicago Journal's past stories about the project, from oldest to most recent:

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology investigation gets worldwide response|http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012324.ece]] June 22, 2009, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology is a hot topic any day on the Internet. But now the blogosphere has lit up with comments about the St. Petersburg Times' special report on Scientology leader David Miscavige and the details revealed by two key figures in Scientology's powerful inner circle, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest-ranking executives to leave the church. Here are some of the latest comments and posts from other media sources.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Is Sued for $1 Billion|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D81F3EF931A35752C0A961948260]] January 2, 1987, AP, [[New York Times]]
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The suit, filed Wednesday by Lawrence Levy, a lawyer, contends that church officials or their representatives committed fraud and breached fiduciary duties. It says information obtained in purportedly confidential ""auditing"" sessions with a lie detector-like device was used ""for purposes of blackmail and extortion.""
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Loses $39 Million in Fraud Lawsuit|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE7D6123BF93BA25756C0A963948260]] May 18, 1985, AP, [[New York Times]]
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A jury today awarded $39 million to a woman who says the Church of Scientology defrauded her with claims it would improve her eyesight and make her more intelligent.

The Multnomah Circuit Court jury, after a 10-week trial and two and a half days of deliberations, found that the church defrauded the woman, Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who had been a church member for nine months.
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[img[x|http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology loses fight against former member|http://www.cnn.com/US/Newsbriefs/9509/9-13/index.html]] September 13, 1995, Briefs, [[CNN]]
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A former member and critic of the Church of Scientology should be getting his research on Scientology back from the church. A federal judge Tuesday ordered the church to return the files that another judge had ordered seized.
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 [[Church of Scientology magazine seeks to hire reporters in South Texas|http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/]] July 9, 2011, Mark Collette, [[Corpus Christi Caller-Times]]
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Lynch authored a 2009 article in Freedom Magazine titled "An Outsider's View of Scientology in Clearwater." Clearwater is home to the Flag, a religious retreat the church likens to Mecca.

Lynch's article criticized the St. Petersburg Times investigation for a lack of fairness and objectivity, and pointed out how Scientologists have helped the community of Clearwater economically and socially.

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[img[x|http://www.dispatch.com/live/export-content/sites/dispatch/images/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology needs bigger building - Officials want city to rezone former Time Warner site|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/29/scientology.ART_ART_03-29-08_B3_KK9PEHS.html?sid=101]] March 29, 2008, Meredith Heagney, [[Columbus Dispatch]]
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The Church of Scientology plans to move into a former Time Warner building on Dublin Road on the Northwest Side, near Grandview Heights.

The church has to move out of its Downtown headquarters, 30 N. High St., because there isn't enough room, said the Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York.
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[img[x|http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/usat16x16.png]] [[Church of Scientology pays $8.6M in legal dispute|http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/11/scientology.htm]] May 11, 2002, AP, [[USA Today]]
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The Church of Scientology has agreed to pay a former member more than $8.6 million to resolve a lawsuit filed nearly 22 years ago.

In his 1980 lawsuit, Lawrence Wollersheim accused the church of causing him to develop bipolar disorder and to contemplate suicide. A jury in 1986 awarded him $30 million, an amount reduced on appeal to $2.5 million and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1994.
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[img[x|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a12.html]] March 19, 1998, Jim MacLaughlin, Inside the Church of Scientology, [[Boston Herald]]
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The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life.

The Rev. Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, confirmed that the church's Los Angeles law firm hired the private investigative firm to look into the personal life of reporter Joseph Mallia, who wrote the series.
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{{cite news | first = Jim | last = MacLaughlin | coauthors = Gully, Andrew | title = Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment | url = http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a12.html | work = Inside the Church of Scientology | publisher = Boston Herald | date = 1998-03-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://edition.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology protects secrets on the Internet|http://www.cnn.com/US/9508/scientology/index.html]] August 26, 1995, [[CNN]]
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Two weeks ago, Arnie Lerma's home office was raided by U.S. Marshal's accompanied by lawyers and officials from the Church of Scientology. While the marshal's stood by, Lermas' computer was dismantled and carried away.
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 [[Church of Scientology registers protest over New Yorker story|http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/09/01/church-of-scientology-registers-protest-over-new-yorker-story/]] September 1, 2011, [[National Post]]
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Anyone who thought the Church of Scientology would take the high road in response to a critical New Yorker story probably didn't read said story very closely.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology responds to St. Petersburg Times series|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1201167.ece]] November 13, 2011, Karin Pouw, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Blah blah blah blah... Super Power "cathedral", lol!
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology responds: Parishioners donate 'because they enthusiastically support their chosen faith'|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1202000.ece]] November 20, 2011, Karin Pouw, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"Contrary to the St. Petersburg Times' mischaracterizations, parishioners donate to the church because they enthusiastically support their chosen faith," spokeswoman Karin Pouw said.

"They continue to do so because those donations fund programs that parishioners are proud to support: The opening of new Ideal Scientology Churches throughout the world, and the implementation of global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs."

Those parishioners, in the thousands, far outweigh the "handful of disaffected apostates" who spoke to the Times, the church said.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology response|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/church-of-scientology-response/1102039]] June 13, 2010, Tommy Davis, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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That said, the Church does not advocate abortion to church staff or parishioners. Anyone claiming to have done so on behalf of the Church, or alleging they did so in conformance with some alleged policy (written or "unwritten") is either lying or did so in contravention of the Church's view on the matter. At no time has any church staff member been "forced" to obtain an abortion. . . . 

Individuals who join the Sea Org and later determine they want to have child­ren, may then leave the Sea Org. They receive assistance from the Church, including immediate prenatal care, medical care, financial assistance. . . . 

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology runs afoul of widely accepted best practices for fundraising|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1201998.ece]] November 20, 2011, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Dozens of former Scientology parishioners told the St. Petersburg Times that they donated five- and six-figure sums to Scientology churches but were never given a financial report. They said the same held true for the IAS. Former church staffers said they didn't see reports either.

Scientology insists that its churches and the IAS give members "considerable details" about how donations are spent. Spokeswoman Karin Pouw said this information is "broadly communicated through the church's own publications, including Impact magazine and International Scientology News."

A review of Scientology magazines found large amounts of positive information about the church and its affiliates, but no financial reporting.
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[img[x|http://www.theregister.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology seeks 'ban' against HIV+ protesters|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/scientology_protester_ban/]] January 15, 2009, John Leyden, [[The Register]]
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Lawyers acting for Scientology are allegedly using medical information about two protesters picketing a Scientology facility near Hemet, California in an attempt to prevent the duo's attendance at further demos. The two protesters Angry Gay Pope and Happy Smurf, a former Scientologist, are contesting the legal action, which would prevent them protesting at the important facility (known internally as Gold Base). The pair, both openly gay, have the representation of attorney Graham Berry.
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 [[Church of Scientology set to open The Super Power Building|http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/313147]] October 21, 2011, JohnThomas Didymus, [[Digital Journal]]
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The grand opening of the Church of Scientology's brand new The Super Power Building is expected very soon. The 12-storey building, which took more than 13 years to build, and cost about $90 million, is located in Clearwater, Florida.

The Sun reports an elaborate arrangement of security and secrecy surrounding the imposing building with nearly 900 rooms. The windows are blacked out, cameras monitors are installed at entrances with security guards on duty 24 hours.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Of Scientology Settles Dispute With Internet Provider|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960805&slug=2342768]] August 5, 1996, [[Seattle Times]]
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The Church of Scientology has settled a copyright dispute with an Internet provider that many in the computer industry worried would restrict freedom of expression in cyberspace.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology settles suit with PR firm|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51847739.html?dids=51847739:51847739&FMT=FT]] July 7, 1994, Wayne Garcia, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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On the verge of a trial, the Church of Scientology has settled a $40-million federal lawsuit against its former publicity agent, Hill & Knowlton, and foe Eli Lilly and Co. for an undisclosed sum of money.

No one involved in the litigation, however, is discussing the terms of the agreement, which was completed last week.

"All parties acknowledged that they are pleased that the case has been settled," said a statement from the Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles.

The agreement requires confidentiality, said Kurt Weiland, a director of the Church of Scientology International and head of its Office of Special Affairs.
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[img[x|http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology should not get rate break says Birmingham councillor|http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/church-of-scientology-should-not-get-rate-146340]] January 12, 2011, Jasbir Authi, [[Birmingham Mail]]
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Councillor Martin Mullaney (Lib Dem Moseley, Kings Heath) requested that this allowance is reviewed at a full cabinet meeting.

He said: "We are reviewing which organisations we give the 80 per cent discretionary rate relief to.

"Normally it's charities or religious groups and as it's been pointed out by various local residents in Moseley, that Birmingham is one of the few local authorities that give 80 per cent reductions to the Church of Scientology. They are not recognised by the Inland Revenue as a church or religious group."
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Statement to ABC News|http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4720823&page=1]] April 24, 2008, Church of Scientology, [[ABC News]]
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The Church of Scientology made it clear from its first contacts with "Nightline" that it would not publicly discuss the ecclesiastical circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Mrs. Hill from Church staff, regardless of the nature of her allegations.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology sues property appraiser|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51435968.html?dids=51435968:51435968&FMT=FT]] December 10, 1988, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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For the seventh year in a row, the Church of Scientology has sued Pinellas County Property Appraiser Ronald J. Schultz over his assessments of church-owned property.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, the church contends that ``Scientology is a bona fide religion`` and should therefore be granted tax-exempt status.
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[img[x|http://news.google.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology to be tried in France for fraud: legal source|http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jO7I_aHMOG_9KpWzjV9RmfofhJQQ]] September 8, 2008, AFP, [[Google]]
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The Church of Scientology will be tried in a French court for "organised fraud," legal sources said Monday.
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 [[Church of Scientology to reveal £6m plans for Birmingham mansion|http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/11/07/church-of-scientology-to-reveal-6million-plans-for-birmingham-headquarters-65233-32179397/]] November 7, 2012, Jon Griffin, [[Birmingham Post]]
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The secretive Church of Scientology is to finally lift the lid on its £6 million plans for a listed mansion in Birmingham – seven years after targeting new headquarters in the city.

The American church, whose followers include Tom Cruise and John Travolta, is sending a representative to brief residents in a public consultation on the restoration of the former Pitmaston building in Moor Green Lane, Moseley.

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 [[Church of Scientology to Sell City Headquarters|http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-to-Sell-City-Headquarters.html]] October 27, 2008, Marc Pallisco, [[Real Estate Source]]
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The on again - off again campaign to sell the Church of Scientology Melbourne headquarters at 42 Russell Street is on again, and it's public.

Colliers International's Matthew Stagg and Pat Burke will auction the Church's outgoing headquarters, on the north-east corner of Flinders Lane next month.
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{{cite news | first = Marc | last = Pallisco | title = Church of Scientology to Sell City Headquarters | url = http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-to-Sell-City-Headquarters.html | work = Real Estate Source | date = 2008-10-27 | accessdate = 2011-02-21 }}
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 [[Church of Scientology to Sell Melbourne CBD Headquarters|http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/Church-of-Scientology-to-Sell-Melbourne-CBD-Headquarters.html]] July 25, 2008, Marc Pallisco, [[Real Estate Source]]
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The Church of Scientology says it is considering proposals to sell its headquarters in the central business district, in its move to the suburbs.

The controversial religious denomination can expect to make about $8 million in today's market for the historic four-level building, on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane.


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 [[Church of Scientology told to drop Churchill images|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6907914.ece]] November 8, 2009, Stuart MacDonald, [[The Sunday Times]]
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The family of Winston Churchill has asked the Church of Scientology to stop using images of the former prime minister in its recruitment literature.

The controversial religious organisation has been circulating promotional material to recruit staff in the UK which includes photographs of Churchill along with quotes from some of his most famous speeches.
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 [[Church of Scientology 'toxic' for children|http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/church-of-scientology-toxic-for-children/story-e6frg6nf-1225868419294]] May 19, 2010, Lanai Vasek, [[The Australian]]
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Scarlett Hanna, whose mother Vicki Dunstan is the president of the Church of Scientology in Australia, said she wanted the church to "take accountability" and apologise to those who were victims of its abuse.

In an interview with the ABC's Lateline, aired last night, Ms Hanna alleged children, including herself, who were born to members of the sea org -- Scientology's elite unit -- were deprived of contact with their parents, given a lack of medical attention and forced to live in cramped conditions. "It was an incredibly lonely childhood." Ms Hanna said.
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 [[Church Of Scientology Wants Downtown Location|http://www.koat.com/news/14928395/detail.html]] December 27, 2007, [[KOAT Albuquerque]]
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The Church of Scientology has applied for a permit to use the Gizmo building near Fourth and Central.

The building will include a high-end cafe, reading room and theater.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology Wins $3 Million Ruling|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/09/19/MN80780.DTL]] September 19, 1998, Maria Alicia Gaura, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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A federal judge in San Jose has awarded the Church of Scientology a $3 million judgment against a persistent critic of the church who published portions of the group's secret scriptures on the Internet.

But defendant Grady Ward will not have to pay the full fine as long as he refrains from further publications of Scientology secrets and pays the church $200 per month for the rest of his life, according to settlement papers released yesterday.

[Major factual errors in this story]
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{{cite news | first = Maria Alicia | last = Gaura | title = Church of Scientology Wins $3 Million Ruling | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/09/19/MN80780.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 1998-09-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://daily.stanford.edu/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology: It's kind of like Enron, only it actually makes money|http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/8/churchOfScientologyItsKindOfLikeEnronOnlyItActuallyMakesMoney]] April 8, 2005, Intermission, [[Stanford Daily]]
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That sounded like a semi-reasonable starting point (hey, at least they accept evolution), so I decided to investigate the Church a bit further and live a day in the life of a Scientologist. The German and Belgian governments' characterizations of the Church as a “totalitarian cult” and the group's storied history of domestic tax evasion only further peaked my interest.
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{{cite news | title = Church of Scientology: It's kind of like Enron, only it actually makes money | url = http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/8/churchOfScientologyItsKindOfLikeEnronOnlyItActuallyMakesMoney | work = Intermission | publisher = Stanford Daily | date = 2005-04-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church of Scientology: No kids allowed|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/church-of-scientology-no-kids-allowed/1101759]] June 13, 2010, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A St. Petersburg Times investigation found their experiences were not unique. More than a dozen women said the culture in the Sea Org pushed them or women they knew to have abortions, in many cases, abortions they did not want. 

Some said colleagues and supervisors pressured them to abort their pregnancies and remain productive workers without the distraction of raising children. Terminating a pregnancy and staying on the job affirmed one's commitment to the all-important work of saving the planet.

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 [[Church of stars set for city|http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=15763031%26siteid=50002-name_page.html]] July 21, 2005, Jon Griffin, Evening Mail, [[Birmingham Mail]]
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Former diocesan spokesman Arun Arora said at the time that the Church, founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, was "as much a religion as a dog is a vegetable".

He said Scientology was regarded by many as "little more than a cult" and had been refused recognition as a religion by the UK Charity Commissioners.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church pays those it reviled|http://www.sptimes.com/News/031101/NorthPinellas/Church_pays_those_it_.shtml]] March 11, 2001, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Every day, off-duty Clearwater police officers provide security for the Church of Scientology, which was investigated by police for 18 years but now is putting thousands of dollars in officers' pockets.
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{{cite news | first = Deborah | last = O'Neil | title = Church pays those it reviled | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/031101/NorthPinellas/Church_pays_those_it_.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2001-03-11 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church played dirty tricks on Cazares|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=9]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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WHAT HAPPENED then was described by government attorneys in a "Sentencing Memorandum" to U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey in Washington earlier this month as he prepared to sentence the nine Scientologists.

"Shortly thereafter," the memorandum said, "defendant Hermann ordered Mr. Meisner to carry out an operation on Mayor Cazares during his Washington trip — that operation was to involve a fake hit-and-run accident. Defendant Sharon Thomas was to be the main participant in that operation. She was to meet Mayor Cazares, drive him around town, and at a predetermined location stage a hit-and-run accident with Mr. Meisner as the "victim."
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Stafford | title = Church played dirty tricks on Cazares | url = http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=9 | work = Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1980-01-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.cbc.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Church recruitment in park draws fire|http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2004/09/29/ed_church20040929.html]] September 29, 2004, [[CBC News]]
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A church group is recruiting members in a downtown park, but some are concerned about the religious tent being set up on city property.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church requests that trial be moved|http://www.sptimes.com/2003/05/23/Tampabay/Church_requests_that_.shtml]] May 23, 2003, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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CLEARWATER - Earlier this spring, as the Church of Scientology prepared for its biggest trial in recent history, professional researchers combed Tyrone Square Mall asking Pinellas residents what they thought of the church.

"A cult," said person after person.

"Scam," said one. "Crooks," said another.

The researchers, hired by the church, questioned 300 people. Their findings were grim: Four out of five had unfavorable things to say about Scientology.

The church concluded that the negative opinions Pinellas residents hold toward Scientology are so deep and widespread, it could not get a fair trial here.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church scores round in death suit|http://www.sptimes.com/News/062201/TampaBay/Church_scores_round_i.shtml]] June 22, 2001, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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ST. PETERSBURG -- The Church of Scientology won a partial victory Thursday when a judge dismissed one of four counts in a 4-year-old wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of Lisa McPherson.

In one of his final acts overseeing the case, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Frank Quesada dismissed the count alleging that McPherson was falsely imprisoned.
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{{cite news | first = Robert | last = Farley | title = Church scores round in death suit | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/062201/TampaBay/Church_scores_round_i.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2001-06-22 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Scriptures Get High-Tech Protection|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientologysided062490,0,7493097.story]] June 24, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Scientology is determined that the words of L. Ron Hubbard shall live forever.

Using state-of-the art technology, the movement has spent more than $15 million to protect Hubbard's original writings, tape-recorded lectures and filmed treatises from natural and man-made calamities, including nuclear holocaust.
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{{cite news | first = Robert W. | last = Welkos | coauthors = Sappell, Joel | title = Church Scriptures Get High-Tech Protection | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientologysided062490,0,7493097.story | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1990-06-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church Seeks Influence in Schools, Business, Science|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062790,0,884315,full.story]] June 27, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Today, Scientology executives insist that the organization is law-abiding, that the offenders have been purged and that the church has now entered an era in which harmony has replaced hostility.

But as the movement attempts to broaden its reach, evidence is mounting that Hubbard's devotees are engaging in practices that, while not unlawful, have begun to stir memories of its troubled past.
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{{cite news | first = Robert W. | last = Welkos | coauthors = Sappell, Joel | title = Church Seeks Influence in Schools, Business, Science | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062790,0,884315,full.story | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1990-06-27 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church settlement brings relief|http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/06/Northpinellas/Church_settlement_bri.shtml]] June 6, 2004, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Some view the settlement as the latest example of the Church of Scientology wearing down a legal opponent with a barrage of litigation. Others see it as the church buying its way out of an embarrassing trial sure to be documented by international media.

Court transcripts also show a judge bent on resolving a case that had taxed the Pinellas judiciary.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church settles suit after 22 years / Ex-Scientologist who won judgment collects $8.6 million|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/10/MN125578.DTL]] May 10, 2002, Richard Leiby, Washington Post, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide.

Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $30 million, then dropped to $2.5 million.

But the Church of Scientology never paid -- until Thursday, when officials wrote a check for more than $8.6 million to end the case, one of the longest- running in California history.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church spokesman says Times report is unfair|http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/Church_spokesman_says.shtml]] June 25, 2006, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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When the Times told officials at the Church of Scientology in Clearwater about plans to write a story about its suppressive person and disconnection policies, Scientology spokesman Ben Shaw aggressively sought to refute the story and persuade the newspaper not to tell it.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church sues medical examiner|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16997614.html?dids=16997614:16997614&FMT=FT]] January 29, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Joan Wood has poisoned its reputation by speaking publicly about the unexplained death of a church member.

The lawsuit argues that when Wood recently spoke with reporters about the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson she waived any right to keep her records on the case closed.
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 [[Church takes case to Strasbourg|http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2003/10/14/26254.html]] October 14, 2003, [[PRIMA News Agency]]
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Moscow, RUSSIA. Representatives of the Church of Scientology in Nizhnekamsk have brought a case at the European Court of Human Rights against the Ministry of Justice in Tatarstan, which has refused to register their church.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church targets lawsuit attorney|http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/29/TampaBay/Church_targets_lawsui.shtml]] April 29, 2002, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology is rolling out an aggressive set of legal maneuvers aimed at wiping out one of its biggest headaches: the lawsuit blaming the church for the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson.

The church is zeroing in on Tampa attorney Ken Dandar, who in representing McPherson's family has mustered an unrelenting challenge costing the church millions and fueling unending bad publicity.
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[img[x|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/img/favicon.ico]] [['Church' that yearns for respectability|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1975105.ece]] June 23, 2007, Dominic Kennedy, [[The Times]]
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Scientology is trying to transform its image from that of a shadowy cult

A copy of the latest Cosreci accounts filed at Companies House shows an annual income of £10 million and nonproperty assets of £10.8 million including £6.7 million cash. The main Hubbard-influenced charity is Narconon, which claims to provide therapy and education against drug abuse. It has an annual income of £520,000. The Greenfields School, which promotes Hubbard's teachings for pupils aged 1 to 19, has £2.4 million assets and an annual turnover of £1 million.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church tried to infiltrate Pinellas police agencies|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=13]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"The main point is that at that time — April 1976 — the communications center is going "all civilian." In other words they are going to relieve the uniformed policemen of those clerical duties so that they can get onto production posts, and staff the communications center with all civilians. At present, it's about half and half. The civilians by my observation are all lovely young ladies —100 percent foxes.

"I THINK this is an excellent opportunity for us and I would like to see us represented in that communications center." Information was the lifeblood of the Guardians' covert operations against those whom they perceived to be enemies of Scientology, information they could use to defame and discredit the enemies. The St. Petersburg Police Department became an enemy about mid-February of 1976.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church tutors embrace methods|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Hillsborough/Church_tutors_embrace.shtml]] May 20, 2007, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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An East Tampa pastor stands united with Hubbard's study technology program.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church wants judge removed in McPherson case|http://www.sptimes.com/News/030300/TampaBay/Church_wants_judge_re.shtml]] March 3, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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LARGO -- The Church of Scientology says it fears Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Brandt C. Downey III cannot be impartial and is asking that he remove himself from presiding in the Lisa McPherson case.

In a motion filed late Thursday, Scientology asserts that several of Downey's former law partners were active in anti-Scientology efforts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, after the church's controversial arrival in Clearwater.
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[img[x|http://www.canoe.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Church was Sun-burned|http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2007/10/28/4612417.html]] October 28, 2007, Alan Shanoff, [[Canoe]]
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The Church of Scientology sued the Sun and Bono. Three or four times in short order, as I recall. Some Scientologist managed to intercept a letter sent by Bonokoski to a colleague in a Florida paper. Bono sued the Church for this invasion of privacy.

The Sun files on Scientology disappeared. It was feared a Scientologist had taken the file. Years later I learned a Scientologist got a job at my law firm and took copies of documents from my files at night -- the young lady pleaded guilty to theft, but I digress.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church withdraws venue change request|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/346009901.html?dids=346009901:346009901&FMT=FT]] June 11, 2003, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The church is defending itself in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the estate of former Scientologist Lisa McPherson, who died in 1995 after being cared for by church staffers.

The motion for a change of venue came in a related matter, a countersuit against the McPherson estate and its attorney, Ken Dandar. The church alleges that Dandar improperly attempted to add Scientology leader David Miscavige as a defendant in the wrongful- death suit.

Luke Lirot, another attorney for the McPherson estate, seized on Baird's letter as justification for the case to be reassigned to a new judge in St. Petersburg.
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[img[x|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/favicon.ico]] [[Church, enemies wage war on Internet battlefield|http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a07.html]] March 4, 1998, Joseph Mallia, Inside the Church of Scientology, [[Boston Herald]]
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His online name was Rogue Agent and his scathing attacks against the Church of Scientology ripped through the Internet.Shielded behind an anonymous account at Northeastern University, he continued to anger and embarrass the church with messages that millions could read online.
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church-based social-service plan draws religious opposition|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/god21.shtml]] February 21, 2001, Laura Meckler, Associated Press, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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Religious groups are voicing other concerns as well, including government infringement on churches' freedom. Others worry about government funding of religious groups outside the mainstream, such as the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Churches' tax-exempt status being scrutinized|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50096162.html?dids=50096162:50096162&FMT=FT]] August 14, 1987, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Craig blamed Schultz's attitude on the property appraiser's long-running battle with the Church of Scientology in Clearwater. Each year since 1982, the Scientologists have sought an exemption and Schultz has denied it.

Schultz said Craig's statement is partly true.

"The Church of Scientology of California Inc. was the first instance in my term of office where I found an institution calling itself a church that the courts agreed was not a not-for-profit institution," he said. After that 1981 case, he said, "I instituted subjecting all corporations to that scrutiny."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church's complaints take buses off road|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/120998/Church_s_complaints_t.html]] December 9, 1998, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The ads were purchased by church critics and were to be on buses Saturday through Monday as part of a weekend-long protest against Scientology.

Each of the 11 ads carried a different message. Among them: "Think for Yourself. Quit Scientology," "Find out why so many people oppose Dianetics and Scientology" and "Why does Scientology lie to its members?"
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church's drug program flunks S.F. test / Panel of experts finds Scientology's Narconon lectures outdated, inaccurate|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/02/BAGN292LAC1.DTL]] October 2, 2004, Nanette Asimov, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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The medical experts minced no words in their harsh assessment of Narconon. A local Scientologist who provides the Narconon lectures has made presentations to students of all ages in San Francisco schools since 1991. At least 34 city schools have hosted the lecturer since 2000.

"One of our reviewers opined that "this (curriculum) reads like a high school science paper pieced together from the Internet, and not very well at that," " Heilig wrote Bascom. "Another wrote that "my comments will be brief, as this proposal hardly merits detailed analysis." Another stated, "As a parent, I would not want my child to participate in this kind of "education." "
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 [[Church's interest a concern - Neighbors object to Scientologists' offer to buy 1912 building|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/09/BAGSVHL5KI1.DTL]] March 9, 2006, Charlie Goodyear, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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"I have no problem with the idea of Scientology on its own," said Egan, "but their method of proselytizing -- it's as bad as the Hare Krishnas at the airport, or worse." 

A little over two years ago, the church moved into and restored a building at the foot of North Beach on Montgomery Street. Apparent expansion plans have led it to inquire with City College, owner of the nearby Colombo Building at Columbus Avenue and Washington Street, about a possible purchase.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Church's leading foes split bitterly|http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/20/TampaBay/Church_s_leading_foes.shtml]] April 20, 2002, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Outside the courtroom a group of Scientology critics, some of whom Minton once supported financially and counted as allies, was ready to be called to the witness stand to counter Minton's accusations and support Dandar. 

The hearing clearly touched off a storm of emotion among those who count themselves as critics of the church. Minton's close friend, Stacy Brooks, sat in the audience, red-eyed and exhausted.
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[img[x|http://www.theregister.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cisco exec backs Hubbardist courses|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/cisco_exec_backs_hubbardist_courses/]] May 11, 2001, John Leyden, [[The Register]]
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A senior Cisco official has lent her name to an article which praises training methods based on the teachings of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard.

In a publication called Government Technology Cisco's training manager for Worldwide Manufacturing, Peg Maddocks, enthusiastically backs Hubbardist training methods.
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[img[x|http://www.dnronline.com/favicon.ico]] [[City Dentist Gets Fine, Probation|http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=12103&CHID=1]] September 12, 2007, David Reynolds, [[Daily News Record]]
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When asked about their training, McClung and Matthews said most seminars they went to while working for Biery related to Scientology. McClung said she went to one training seminar in anesthesia.

Jeff Swingholm, 54, a registered nurse anesthetist who has worked with anesthesia for 30 years, said that during his employment in 2002 and 2003, he told assistants they weren't qualified to give medicines.

“I was very concerned,” he said. “They didn't even know they should be concerned.”

Swingholm also described morning “huddles” where employees discussed financial goals like earning $20,000 for the day or signing up 100 new patients. Employees who met the goals would be rewarded with movie tickets or massages, he testified. Swingholm said he didn't participate in the huddles but overheard the discussions.
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[img[x|http://washingtontimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[City ill at ease with sect|http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070920/CULTURE/109200036/1015]] September 20, 2007, Mitch Stacy, [[Washington Times]]
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Sure, says Mayor Frank Hibbard. It can be a little unsettling sometimes — throngs of Scientologists wandering Clearwater's streets in their blue or khaki trousers and crisp dress shirts.

Sometimes, it makes the neighbors a bit uneasy. "When you come to downtown, no one likes being a minority," Mr. Hibbard said.
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[City proclamation sparks L. Ron Hubbub|http://www.nypost.com/seven/04182007/news/regionalnews/city_proclamation_sparks_l__ron_hubbub_regionalnews_david_seifman.htm]] April 18, 2007, David Seifman, [[New York Post]]
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In a move that has outraged some officials, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been honored by the City Council ahead of tomorrow night's Manhattan fund-raiser for a controversial 9/11 detox program, The Post has learned.
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 [[City terminates Second Chance's lease|http://kob.com/article/stories/S720666.shtml?cat=500]] December 26, 2008, Associated Press, [[KOB New Mexico]]
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The mayor says he will terminate the lease of drug rehabilitation center Second Chance after the facility's own records showed it had housed violent inmates.

Mayor Martin Chavez said Friday the center violated terms of its lease with the city by housing inmates charged with violent crimes.

Second Chance President Joy Westrum didn't return calls seeking comment.
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 [[City threatens to revoke rehab center's lease|http://kob.com/article/stories/S718669.shtml?cat=516]] December 23, 2008, [[KOB New Mexico]]
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A drug rehab facility for inmates on Albuquerque's West Side is at risk of being shut down by the city.

The Second Chance Center has less than 24 hours to give officials proof that it is following their lease agreement. The rules say Second Chance can only house inmates in need of drug rehabilitation.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Classes for defendants have ties to church|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16998459.html?FMT=FT&dids=16998459:16998459&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 2, 1997, Craig Pittman, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"I was assured it was secular," Rushing said. "I was assured it doesn't teach religion and it wasn't a Church of Scientology publication."

The course is run by an organization called Criminon, which a recent issue of the Scientology publication Freedom defined as an "independent and non-religious" organization that is "strongly supported by the Church of Scientology" - another fact Eggleston said nobody mentioned, either in court or in class.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Clear thinking|http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/17/science.research]] February 17, 2005, Mark Pilkington, Far out, [[The Guardian]]
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Since a 1963 US food and drug administration edict, Scientology can no longer refer to E-meters as having any medical use: they are now "religious artifacts" that continue to play a central role in scientological practice. The latest Mark VII Quantum model looks like two tin cans wired up to a Smart Car dashboard but, like its predecessors, it is integral to the process of becoming "clear" or "free from negative thoughts and emotions".
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater asks to join Supreme Court case|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51230366.html?dids=51230366:51230366&FMT=FT]] January 6, 1988, Diane Steinle, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In that case, an organization called Abortion Right Mobilization Inc. wants the tax-exempt status of the U.S. Catholic Conference withdrawn because of the church's political stance on abortion.

The organization attempted to get financial information from the conference. When the conference refused to supply it, the case wound up in the courts. The trial court and the appeals court found that the Catholic Conference had to turn over the information, but the church group has appealed to the Supreme Court.

Clearwater is interested in the outcome of the case because it is now defending its 1983 charitable solicitations ordinance in court. The ordinance requires financial disclosure by any religious or charitable organization that solicits funds in Clearwater, including the Church of Scientology, which has an international headquarters here.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater business owner focused on growth amid gloom|http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article937269.ece]] December 14, 2008, Jeff Harrington, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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L. Ron Hubbard watches over Gendusa's office. 

Actually, two photos of the Scientology founder hang on her walls amid marketing awards and splashy pastel artwork. Located in downtown Clearwater near Scientology's headquarters, PostcardMania was developed based in part on Hubbard's business strategems. Shelved behind Gendusa's desk is a multivolume set depicting Hubbard's business management technology. 

PostcardMania is a member of WISE, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, and up to a third of its employees are Scientologists. However, Gendusa isn't counting on any Scientology business network to ride out the recession. Those contacts, she said, account for only a small fraction of revenues. To grow the business anywhere near her 50 percent goal, she's counting on other strategies.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater changes foreseen from ruling|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51776301.html?dids=51776301:51776301&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+14%2C+1993&author=NED+SEATON%3BWAYNE+GARCIA&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=1.1.1&desc=Clearwater+changes+foreseen+from+ruling]] October 14, 1993, Ned Seaton, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The city has not received property taxes from Scientology during the 11-year battle over whether the group's property should be tax exempt, and any tax money the city would have gotten would have been an unexpected bonus, said Finance Director Dan Deignan.

But Deignan figures that if the IRS decision had gone the other way, the city would have been in line for nearly $2-million in back taxes on the more than 11 Scientology-owned properties, valued at $25.4-million.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater council right to leave Scientology protests alone|http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article506348.ece]] May 15, 2008, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The protests in Clearwater have been peaceful, without a single arrest, but they do look a bit bizarre. The protesters wear masks or bandannas to cover their faces because they believe the Church of Scientology will target them if they are recognizable. It is not an idle fear, since in the past the church has been accused of using private investigators to follow critics or contacting their employers.

Downtown Clearwater merchants who signed the petition told the St. Petersburg Times that the protests are keeping away customers and the masked protesters look scary to children. The Church of Scientology also has objected to the tenor of the protests, accusing Anonymous of using hate speech — signs carried by protesters often refer to Scientology as a cult or a scam — and claiming that Anonymous members have phoned in death threats to the church and attacked the church's computer systems.

However, Clearwater police have closely monitored the Anonymous protests, and they have seen no reason to arrest or cite the protesters.
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[img[x|http://www.tbo.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater Hopes Rallies Don't Run Visitors Off|http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/15/me-clearwater-hopes-rallies-dont-run-visitors-off/]] March 15, 2008, Carlos Moncada, [[Tampa Tribune]]
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There's no question the city's movers and shakers want to bring more people to their struggling downtown core.

But masked protesters carrying signs and clogging sidewalks, possibly disrupting commerce and keeping some visitors away?

That's what's on tap today when the group Anonymous steps out from the shadows of the Internet to hold a second round of protests against the Church of Scientology.

"I don't think it helps, but obviously people have the right to protest as long as it's peaceful and they're not infringing on someone else's rights," Mayor Frank Hibbard said. "We won't allow that to happen, either."

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[img[x|http://www.transworldnews.com/favicon1.ico]] [[Clearwater judge sends members of drug rehab to the 19th annual Say No To Drugs Holiday Classic Running Race|http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=34940&cat=10]] February 4, 2008, [[TransWorldNews]]
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When Clearwater Criminal Judge Dee Anna Farnell called the Say No To Drugs Holiday Classic 5K/10K co-race director Chris Alexander for complimentary entries for members of the St. Petersburg Goodwill Treatment Facility, the answer was a resounding yes.
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[img[x|http://www.baynews9.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater man at odds with Church of Scientology|http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2006/7/18/169499.html?title=Clearwater%20man%20at%20odds%20with%20Church%20of%20Scientology]] July 18, 2006, Bay News 9, [[Bright House Networks]]
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater man killed in car-truck crash at busy intersection|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50084782.html?dids=50084782:50084782&FMT=FT]] July 25, 1987, Amelia Davis, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Alain Priouzeau, who police said was in his mid-20s, was flown by helicopter to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg and died an hour and a half later of head injuries, police said.

Police said Priouzeau lived at 210 S Fort Harrison Ave. in Clearwater, headquarters for the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater man's father vanishes at airport|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51301763.html?dids=51301763:51301763&FMT=FT]] April 30, 1988, Terrence Tomalin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Paul Kennison said his father, a retired mechanical engineer, modified his walker with wheels and hand brakes rather than be confined to a wheelchair. "He may be handicapped," Paul Kennison said, "but he has a sound mind."

Paul Kennison, of 901 Jasmine Way in Clearwater, has been teaching at the True School in Clearwater, which bases its curriculum on the teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

He said he will continue to trace his father's steps.

"I know I'm going to find him," Kennison said. "I am not going to go home until I do."

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater merchants upset over anti-Scientology protests|http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article503671.ece]] May 14, 2008, Mike Donila, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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About three dozen downtown business owners are upset with a group of anti-Scientology protesters and want the City Council to do something about them. 

But city leaders Tuesday said there's little they can do. 

"Suspending the First Amendment is something we shouldn't spend a whole lot of time on," Councilman Paul Gibson said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater motorists grimaced at traffic snarl|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51277256.html?dids=51277256:51277256&FMT=FT]] March 9, 1988, Rachel L. Jones, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The intersection of Fort Harrison and Pierce Street was probably the most treacherous in the whole tangled snarl, Crawford said.

A cement mixer pouring concrete curbs in front of the Church of Scientology building at 21 N Fort Harrison Ave. blocked one of the two southbound lanes. So drivers looking for alternate routes to Clearwater Beach off Drew and Cleveland streets poured onto that road, creating a jam in all directions.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater opts for discreet honors for library donors|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/41213949.html?dids=41213949:41213949&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] May 8, 1999, Anita Kumar, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology was not mentioned at the televised meeting, but commissioners have said they are uncomfortable with the church being named in a visible way on the library's walls.

They voted unanimously to accept money from anyone but to recognize donors only discreetly on a small plaque instead of naming rooms or areas after large contributors.
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 [[Clearwater police Chief Sid Klein announces retirement|http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/13/131416/clearwater-police-chief-sid-klein-announces-retire/news/]] August 13, 2009, [[Suncoast News]]
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Meanwhile, Klein's stance toward the Church of Scientology softened over time, according to a 2001 Tribune story.

For years, Klein's department collected criminal intelligence on the church, mostly based on complaints regarding refunds sought by disgruntled members.

The often-strained relationship between Klein and the church reached its nadir with Lisa McPherson, a church member who died in December 1995 after a 17-day stay in the church's Fort Harrison Hotel. The church was leveled with criminal charges, which were later dropped.

But Scientologists went after Klein, accusing him of Gestapo tactics, suggesting he was associated with organized crime. And in 1997, Scientology supporters picketed the police station.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater school uses Scientologist's methods - 1,000 residents receive pamphlets from True School|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50104853.html?dids=50104853:50104853&FMT=FT]] August 29, 1987, Kathy Subko, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A school that bases its curriculum on the teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has opened in the former Skycrest Christian School.

The True School recently moved to the Skycrest buildings at 1835 Drew St. from its previous location at 611 S Greenwood Ave., south of downtown.

A sign at the entrance to the campus describes it as a private, non-denominational school, open to students from preschool to high school age.

Sherry Payson, spokeswoman for the school, said about 90 students are currently attending.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater Sun alum says City Desk clerk was a spy for Scientology|http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2008/08/clearwater-sun.html]] August 4, 2008, Eric Deggans, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A particular standout is the essay crafted by Mike Pride, a well-regarded, recently-retired editor of the Concord Monitor, who worked at the Sun through the '60s and '70s. He writes that the newspaper didn't learn for years that the reason Scientologists seemed to know so much about their efforts to investigate them, is because a clerk at the paper was a spy for the church.
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{{cite news | first = Eric | last = Deggans | title = Clearwater Sun alum says City Desk clerk was a spy for Scientology | url = http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2008/08/clearwater-sun.html | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2008-08-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater to see changes|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51785851.html?dids=51785851:51785851&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] October 28, 1993, David Dahl, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Even before the IRS granted tax-exempt status to the church this month, the organization planned considerable renovations to Scientology housing and office space. Scientology spokesman Richard Haworth has said the church has no immediate plans to purchase additional downtown Clearwater properties.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clearwater wants to join case before Supreme Court|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49836080.html?dids=49836080:49836080&FMT=FT]] January 1, 1988, Diane Steinle, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The organization attempted to get financial information from the conference. When the conference refused to supply it, the case wound up in the courts. The trial court and the appeals court found that the Catholic Conference had to turn over the information, but the church group has appealed to the Supreme Court.

Clearwater is interested in the outcome of the case because it is now defending its 1983 charitable solicitations ordinance in court. The ordinance requires financial disclosure by any religious or charitable organization that solicits funds in Clearwater, including the Church of Scientology, which has international headquarters here.

The Scientologists and several other religious groups filed lawsuits challenging the ordinance on constitutional grounds.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Climbing The Bridge: A journey to "Operating Thetan"|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1062094.ece]] December 31, 2009, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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People practice Scientology by moving up the "Grade Chart," officially known as the "Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates." It outlines a series of steps one must take in sequence to reach the highest levels of awareness. The progression also is referred to as "the Bridge," short for "the Bridge to Total Freedom."
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{{cite news | first = Joe | last = Childs | coauthors = Tobin, Thomas C. | title = Climbing The Bridge: A journey to "Operating Thetan" | url = http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1062094.ece | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2009-12-31 | accessdate = 2009-12-31 }}
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[img[x|http://media.philly.com/designimages/favicon.ico]] [[Clinic's results make 9/11 responders believe|http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20071007_Clinics_results_make_9_11_responders_believe.html]] October 7, 2007, Art Carey, [[Philadelphia Inquirer]]
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The validity of the program should be verified by an independent, disinterested party, Brick adds. "As a scientist, I like to see data. To the best of my knowledge, no one has clearly demonstrated a causal relationship between the treatment and the outcome."

The mainstream medical establishment looks askance at the Hubbard detox program. Over the years, some doctors and scientists have denounced it as unsound and dangerous. Critics say the program is based on physiological fallacies and is unsubstantiated by science and credible studies.
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{{cite news | first = Art | last = Carey | title = Clinic's results make 9/11 responders believe | url = http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20071007_Clinics_results_make_9_11_responders_believe.html | work = Philadelphia Inquirer | date = 2007-10-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Clinton Didn't Try to Color Travolta's Acting, Berger Says|http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/16/news/mn-19830]] February 16, 1998, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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President Clinton's national security advisor dismissed suggestions that the administration got involved in the Church of Scientology's disputes with Germany to influence Scientologist John Travolta's film portrayal of a Clintonesque president.

“The only thing I was trying to get was an autograph for one of my kids, but other than that I had no ulterior motive,” Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger said Sunday, discussing his White House meeting last year with a Church of Scientology delegation, including Travolta.
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{{cite news | title = Clinton Didn't Try to Color Travolta's Acting, Berger Says | url = http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/16/news/mn-19830 | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1998-02-16 | accessdate = 2010-09-05 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cloning a copy of previous hoax?|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030101&slug=clone01]] January 1, 2003, Rick Weiss, Washington Post, [[Seattle Times]]
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Indeed, when representatives of the Raelians, an extraterrestrial-worshipping religious group, announced last week that they had created the world's first human clone, their claim was itself a clone of a similar claim made a quarter-century ago that proved to be a hoax.

It took three months in 1978 for researchers to pick apart the science behind that purported achievement, and three years before a court definitively declared the claim fraudulent.


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{{cite news | first = Rick | last = Weiss | title = Cloning a copy of previous hoax? | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030101&slug=clone01 | work = Washington Post | publisher = Seattle Times | date = 2003-01-01 | accessdate = 2010-11-07 }}
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Close Encounters of the Scientology Kind|http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=910479&page=1]] July 1, 2005, Jonann Brady, [[ABC News]]
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We had seen the Scientologists offering "free stress tests" in the middle of the Times Square subway station. In the name of research and curiosity, we decided to take them up on the offer, approaching discreetly and separately.
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{{cite news | first = Jonann | last = Brady | coauthors = Palazzolo, Rose | title = Close Encounters of the Scientology Kind | url = http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=910479&page=1 | work = ABC News | date = 2005-07-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://blogs.abcnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Closing Arguments: Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status|http://blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2009/10/closing-arguments-scientologys-taxexempt-status.html#]] October 23, 2009, Nightline, [[ABC News]]
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Over two days, we've examined allegations against the leader of the Scientology church; the relationship between the church and its celebrity members; and a belief system many critics consider bizarre. 

The church vehemently denies any wrongdoing -- and defends itself as a religion.

So tonight we ask: Should Scientology continue to enjoy tax exempt status as an organized religion? 
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{{cite news | title = Closing Arguments: Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status | url = http://blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2009/10/closing-arguments-scientologys-taxexempt-status.html# | work = Nightline | publisher = ABC News | date = 2009-10-23 | accessdate = 2011-06-23 }}
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 [[CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Explores the Church of Scientology's Leadership|http://www.newsonnews.net/cnn/2282-cnn-s-anderson-cooper-360-explores-the-church-of-scientology-s-leadership.html]] March 23, 2010, News on News, [[CNN]]
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In a special series beginning Monday, March 29th, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° takes a close and revealing look at the leadership of the worldwide church of Scientology. The week-long series, Scientology: A History of Violence, will examine allegations that Scientology leader David Miscavige has for years beaten, kicked and choked top members of the church. These are allegations the church aggressively denies, saying violence from inside came from those making the claim.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Co-Founder of EarthLink Is Accused of Investor Fraud|http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/02/business/fi-58222]] May 2, 2001, Myron Levin, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Investors are accusing Reed E. Slatkin, a co-founder of the giant Internet service provider EarthLink Inc., of operating a Ponzi scheme that may have resulted in the loss of least $35 million of their funds.

Slatkin–a Santa Barbara socialite and venture capitalist–also is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his financial activities, which allegedly included a day-trading operation that promised annual returns of up to 60%.
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{{cite news | first = Myron | last = Levin | coauthors = Weston, Liz Pulliam | title = Co-Founder of EarthLink Is Accused of Investor Fraud | url = http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/02/business/fi-58222 | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 2001-05-02 | accessdate = 2010-02-15 }}
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 [[Columbus Volunteer's Heart's In New York|http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd01&DOCNUM=49875]] November 15, 2001, Lornet Turnbull, [[Columbus Dispatch]]
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Via and the other Scientologists get food donated by area restaurants. An arrangement with the church allows him to stay free in a New York hotel.

As time has passed, the volunteers have fallen into a routine -- traveling New York neighborhoods and trolling the subway.

"I talked to a lady in the subway in Brooklyn as I was passing out booklets there. She was grieving -- not for anyone she lost Sept. 11 but just over the situation in her life," Via said.
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{{cite news | first = Lornet | last = Turnbull | title = Columbus Volunteer's Heart's In New York | url = http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd01&DOCNUM=49875 | work = Columbus Dispatch | date = 2001-11-15 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation / Peacemaking conference is held near Seattle|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/05/01/MN88385.DTL]] May 1, 2000, Don Lattin, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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Fighting in the cult wars may have reached a peak three years ago, when lawyers and other individuals linked to the Church of Scientology, one of the nation's most controversial and powerful new religious movements, sued the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy.

The network, which had been one of the most outspoken anti-cult groups, eventually had its name, files and hotline taken over in a campaign dominated by members of the Church of Scientology.
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{{cite news | first = Don | last = Lattin | title = Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation / Peacemaking conference is held near Seattle | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/05/01/MN88385.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2000-05-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Common sense prevails|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/EDGD56N5D71.DTL]] June 20, 2004, Editorial, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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After 13 years, Narconon, funded and staffed by the Church of Scientology, is being accused of using misleading and inaccurate information -- "rresponsible . . . pseudoscience" is what a host of medical experts are calling it.
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{{cite news | author = Editorial | title = Common sense prevails | url = http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/EDGD56N5D71.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2004-06-20 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Concerns over church of Scientology|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/europe/23966.stm]] November 6, 1997, Jane Little, Despatches: Europe, [[BBC News]]
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A federal court in Berlin has failed to reach a verdict on the legal status of a scientology group. The federal administrative court referred the case back to a regional court. The ruling was expected to give guidance on whether the German government has legal justification for its clampdown on scientology.
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{{cite news | first = Jane | last = Little | title = Concerns over church of Scientology | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/europe/23966.stm | work = Despatches: Europe | publisher = BBC News | date = 1997-11-06 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.ft.com/favicon.ico]] [[Confusion over Scientology|http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7815f1e4-c633-11dc-8378-0000779fd2ac.html]] January 19, 2008, Christopher Caldwell, [[Financial Times]]
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Scientology "devotes vast resources to squelching its critics", Time magazine wrote in 1991 - and this was before Scientology sued Time Warner for $416m over the article in which that passage appeared. In 2001, the US Supreme Court, in refusing to revisit Scientology's failed suit against Time Warner, cited a 1984 California Superior Court case that found: "The Church or its minions is fully capable of intimidation or other physical or psychological abuse if it suits their ends. The record is replete with evidence of such abuse."
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{{cite news | first = Christopher | last = Caldwell | title = Confusion over Scientology | url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7815f1e4-c633-11dc-8378-0000779fd2ac.html | work = Financial Times | date = 2008-01-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Connecticut Avenue Draws Residents to Nearby Area|http://media.www.thehilltoponline.com/media/storage/paper590/news/2007/10/30/Campus/Connecticut.Avenue.Draws.Residents.To.Nearby.Area-3064971.shtml]] October 30, 2007, Brittan Moncrease, The Hilltop, [[Howard University]]
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The Founding Church of Scientology sits just blocks from the Dupont Circle metro station. Tony Bokas, a member of the Scientology Church and Maryland resident, described the area as an essential spot in the District that attracts a huge number of politicians.

"Important people come by all the time with police squads guarding them," he said.
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{{cite news | first = Brittan | last = Moncrease | title = Connecticut Avenue Draws Residents to Nearby Area | url = http://media.www.thehilltoponline.com/media/storage/paper590/news/2007/10/30/Campus/Connecticut.Avenue.Draws.Residents.To.Nearby.Area-3064971.shtml | work = The Hilltop | publisher = Howard University | date = 2007-10-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Controversial church slams protestors|http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/596/55/]] May 29, 2008, [[Dublin People]]
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A NORTHSIDE Scientologist has defended his religion and criticised those who have held continual protests outside the Church of Scientology in recent months.
An opposition group called ‘Anonymous' has demonstrated outside the centre, which is located on Middle Abbey Street, once a month since the start of the year.
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[img[x|http://www.spiegel.de/favicon.ico]] [[Controversial Cult: German Parties Reject Bid to Ban Scientology|http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,498836,00.html]] August 8, 2007, Spiegel Online, [[Spiegel]]
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Senior politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition have rejected calls for a ban on the Scientology cult. A legal bid to outlaw it would fail because authorities haven't had time to build a proper case against the organization, they say.
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Controversial Tom Cruise biography kept off NZ shelves|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10486955]] January 15, 2008, [[NZ Herald]]
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Tom Cruise an Unauthorised Biography will not be distributed in New Zealand by the publisher MacMillan.
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[img[x|http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/icons/toifavicon.ico]] [[Cops learn to mind their P's and Q's-Bangalore-Cities|http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Cops_learn_to_mind_their_Ps_and_Qs/articleshow/2719608.cms]] January 22, 2008, [[Times of India]]
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Los Angeles-based India Scientology Goodwill Tour organized the workshop to make police interactions more effective and people-friendly.
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[img[x|http://www.salon.com/content/themes/salon/images/favicon.ico]] [[Copyright -- or wrong?|http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/07/22/scientology/index.html]] July 22, 1999, Janelle Brown, [[Salon]]
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In June, the Church of Scientology subpoenaed AT&T Corp., invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to demand that it reveal the identity of a WorldNet subscriber who was posting excerpts from "Introduction to Scientology Ethics" on alt.religion.scientology under the pseudonym "Safe." Faced with the law, AT&T quickly ponied up the user information, an act that Steele says "the fourth amendment protects against -- it's a misuse of the civil justice system for companies to be [defeating] anonymous speech."
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{{cite news | first = Janelle | last = Brown | title = Copyright -- or wrong? | url = http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/07/22/scientology/index.html | work = Salon | date = 1999-07-22 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Corrections|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/30/MNGFEC0FBE1.DTL]] March 30, 2005, Clarification, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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A story in Sunday's Chronicle about the California Medical Association adopting a resolution supporting schools that have dropped "factually inaccurate approaches" to anti-drug instruction should have more fully explained how the organization arrived at its decision.
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{{cite news | title = Corrections | url = http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/30/MNGFEC0FBE1.DTL | work = Clarification | publisher = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2005-03-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Costly Strategy Continues to Turn Out Bestsellers|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062890,1,737186,full.story]] June 28, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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In some cases, sales of Hubbard's books apparently got an extra boost from Scientology followers and employees of the publishing firm. Showing up at major book outlets like B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, they purchased armloads of Hubbard's works, according to former employees.
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{{cite news | first = Robert W. | last = Welkos | coauthors = Sappell, Joel | title = Costly Strategy Continues to Turn Out Bestsellers | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062890,1,737186,full.story | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1990-06-28 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Council doesn't support closing Gilman Springs Road|http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_E_egilman04.466ff19.html]] September 3, 2009, Gail Wesson, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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The San Jacinto City Council voted unanimously Thursday to go on record opposing any future proposal to close Gilman Springs Road where it bisects the Church of Scientology's Golden Era Productions property.
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{{cite news | first = Gail | last = Wesson | title = Council doesn't support closing Gilman Springs Road | url = http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_E_egilman04.466ff19.html | work = Press-Enterprise | date = 2009-09-03 | accessdate = 2010-04-18 }}
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Councillor starts Scientology row|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4446572.stm]] November 17, 2005, [[BBC News]]
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A councillor in East Sussex has asked for Scientologists in his town to be stopped from working for the council.

Councillor Michael Murphy has had his proposal seconded by councillor Paul Scott, but other members of Crowborough Town Council have raised objections.

He suggests the council "refrains from using the voluntary services of the Scientologists until a full investigation has been carried out".
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Councilman parties with H'Wood Scientology set|http://www.nypost.com/seven/08082007/news/regionalnews/councilman_parties_with_hwood_scientology_set_regionalnews_david_seifman___hall_bureau_chief.htm]] August 8, 2007, David Seifman, [[New York Post]]
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City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said he paid his own way Saturday to the glitzy Hollywood event celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center.
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{{cite news | first = David | last = Seifman | title = Councilman parties with H'Wood Scientology set | url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/08082007/news/regionalnews/councilman_parties_with_hwood_scientology_set_regionalnews_david_seifman___hall_bureau_chief.htm | work = New York Post | date = 2007-08-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Couple Lose Bid for Tax Refund Tied to Tuition|http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/30/local/me-taxes30]] January 30, 2002, Henry Weinstein, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The couple had contended that 55% of the tuition payments–the portion of the school day devoted to religious education–represented charitable contributions to a tax-exempt religious organization.

Michael and Marla Sklar also maintained that they were entitled to the refund because the Internal Revenue Service since 1993 has permitted members of the Church of Scientology to obtain deductions for “auditing,” the process Scientology adherents use for spiritual self-examination.

In essence, three judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that two wrongs don't make a right, upholding a ruling of a U.S. Tax Court judge denying the refund.
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{{cite news | first = Henry | last = Weinstein | title = Couple Lose Bid for Tax Refund Tied to Tuition | url = http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/30/local/me-taxes30 | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 2002-01-30 | accessdate = 2010-10-24 }}
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Couple Loses Challenge on Blood Test Law|http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2426992]] September 12, 2006, Kevin O'Hanlon, AP, [[ABC News]]
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A federal judge has refused to throw out Nebraska's one-of-a-kind newborn blood screening law. Ray and Louise Spiering of Saunders County filed a lawsuit challenging the law in 2004, arguing that the mandatory blood test would violate a tenet of their religious beliefs as members of the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court again rebuffs Scientology's lawsuit|http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/article416511.ece]] March 13, 2008, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology was told again Thursday it could not have a court order restraining Anonymous protesters this weekend, largely because the church's foe is as elusive as thin air.

But in its zeal to identify those who threatened the church, Scientology misfired, according to one woman who says she got fingered just because she works at Starbucks, near the church's headquarters.
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{{cite news | first = Robert | last = Farley | title = Court again rebuffs Scientology's lawsuit | url = http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/article416511.ece | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2008-03-13 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court agrees to review private club bias|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50128283.html?dids=50128283:50128283&FMT=FT]] October 6, 1987, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Rejected the Church of Scientology's attempt to revive a 9-year-old lawsuit against the FBI and other government agencies accused of harassing the religious group. The justices let stand a ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which dismissed the suit because the group had failed to abide by the rules of litigation.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court Ends $1-Billion Suit Alleging Scientology Fraud|http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-24/local/me-10335_1_church-members]] July 24, 1988, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A Los Angles Superior Court judge Friday dismissed a $1-billion class-action lawsuit filed by former members of the Church of Scientology accusing its late founder of stealing money from the organization and threatening critics.

Judge Barnet Cooperman ruled that the plaintiffs failed to successfully back up their allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary responsibility.

The suit was filed in January, 1987, by six former Scientologists and the organization Freedom for All in Religion, which claims to represent as many as 400 former church followers.

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[img[x|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol//img/favicon.ico]] [[Court fight looms as Germany seeks to outlaw Scientologists|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3022202.ece]] December 9, 2007, Imre Karacs, [[The Sunday Times]]
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The Church of Scientology vowed yesterday to invoke America's help in its battle against the German government, which declared it unconstitutional last week in the first step towards an outright ban.

Sabine Weber, president of the church in Berlin, said the organisation would drag the German government through the courts and expected to win, with support from the US State Department.
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{{cite news | first = Imre | last = Karacs | title = Court fight looms as Germany seeks to outlaw Scientologists | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3022202.ece | work = The Sunday Times | date = 2007-12-09 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court Lets Newspaper Keep Scientology Texts|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2139173&date=19950831]] August 31, 1995, Charles W. Hall, Washington Post, [[Seattle Times]]
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A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., yesterday permitted The Washington Post to retain a copy of Church of Scientology texts and to use the texts in its news reporting, saying the paper's news-gathering rights far outweigh claims that the documents are protected by copyright and trade secrecy laws.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court narrows Miranda ruling|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49925496.html?dids=49925496:49925496&FMT=FT]] January 28, 1987, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The court will decide to what extent tax-return information must be made available to the public. The case pits the Church of Scientology of California against the Internal Revenue Service.

The controversy began in May 1979 when the church filed a Freedom of Information request with the Internal Revenue Service seeking records relating to the church, the religion of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The church wanted to use the tax data in an unrelated tax court case. The IRS refused to turn over most of the files.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court Oks Anti-Cult Jury Award|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980828&slug=2768907]] August 28, 1998, Bob Egelko, [[Seattle Times]]
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SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has reaffirmed $1.09 million in damages against an anti-cult organization for its role in trying to "deprogram" a Washington state teenager, despite a warning from seven judges that free speech was under attack.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied reconsideration Wednesday of a panel's 2-1 decision in April upholding damages against the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). Without announcing the exact vote, the court said a request for a rehearing had failed to gain a majority among its 21 active judges.
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 [[Court orders Agape cult bank records, strips tax exemption|http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/court-orders-agape-cult-bank-records-strips-tax-exemption/story-e6frea83-1225956806905]] November 20, 2010, Sean Fewster, [[The Advertiser]]
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AGAPE Ministries has been stripped of its legal status as a religion, lost its tax exemption and will be sued by the Federal Government for a decade of unpaid debt. 

The District Court yesterday gave the nation's banks 72 hours to hand over all records concerning alleged cult leader Rocco Leo, his wife, his closest confidants and the two-state empire he controls.

The Advertiser has learnt those records are essential to the Australian Taxation Office's efforts to calculate the former church's total debt, which could exceed $1 million.

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[img[x|http://blog.oregonlive.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court plans to concider Scientology shootings|http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/11/stories_about_the_scientology.html]] March 20, 1998, David R. Anderson, [[The Oregonian]]
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Psychologists chosen by the state and Godeka's defense agreed that Godeka suffers from schizophrenia, Chipman said. For about the past 15 years, Godeka has heard voices and thought he is controlled by other people and that ideas are being planted in his mind.

That was the case on Sept. 25, 1996, when Godeka walked into the Scientology center at 709 S.W. Salmon St. Police said he went into the center's reception area with a red can of gasoline and shot a woman at the lobby desk. The gunshot paralyzed her from the waist down. Godeka also is accused of shooting two men who went to the woman's aid in the center. A third man discovered he had been wounded about an hour after the incident. All four survived the shooting. Godeka held a fifth person hostage before police talked him into surrendering.

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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court rejects blacks' racial-profiling plea|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/40997_scotus02.shtml]] October 2, 2001, Gina Holland, AP, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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In other actions yesterday, the Supreme Court took these actions:
* Refused to reinstate a Church of Scientology libel case over an award-winning Time magazine article portraying the religion as a greedy cult.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court rules police can search trash on curb|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51316238.html?dids=51316238:51316238&FMT=FT]] May 17, 1988, Al Kamen, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Let stand rulings that denied the Church of Scientology of California federal tax-exempt status for three years. The court turned away arguments that, among other things, stripping the church of its tax exemption for the years 1970-72, ``threatens the rights of all churches to proselytize through the sale of religious literature.

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[img[x|http://www.dw-world.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court Rules Surveillance of Scientology Legal|http://www.dw-world.com/dw/article/0,2144,3123791,00.html]] February 12, 2008, [[Deutsche Welle]]
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A German court has deemed that the country's government is within its rights to watch over the Church of Scientology. But the debate over whether Scientology is a sect or a genuine religion is sure to continue.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court ruling could affect local Scientology case|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50087694.html?dids=50087694:50087694&FMT=FT]] July 30, 1987, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A decision earlier this week in California over the tax-exempt status of the Church of Scientology could have ramifications for the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization here, county officials say.

Tuesday, a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld revocation of the tax-exempt status of the Church of Scientology of California.

The California church did not view the decision as a defeat, however, because the court also noted in its decision that the Church of Scientology is a bona fide religious organization.

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 [[Court sides with Scientology|http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_762f6168-f4cd-5ad6-bbf2-cdce0b228e83.html]] August 7, 2010, Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times, [[STLtoday]]
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The Church of Scientology won an important victory in federal court this week when a judge dismissed two lawsuits that accused the church of labor law violations, human trafficking and forced abortions.

Claire and Marc Headley, who left Scientology in 2005, said the church controlled them with threats of harsh punishment and other tactics that prevented them from leaving the Sea Organization, Scientology's religious order.

But U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer ruled Thursday that the Sea Org is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court strikes down murder law Series: News of Canada|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50165170.html?dids=50165170:50165170&FMT=FT]] December 4, 1987, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A Federal Court justice has dismissed a Danish company's attempt to stop the Canadian publication of a biography of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. In a 10-page written decision Wednesday, Justice Bud Cullen rejected an application by New Era Publications of Copenhagen for an injunction to prevent Toronto-based Key Porter Books Ltd. from publishing Barefaced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. New Era is planning an authorized biography and paid $100,000 to Hubbard's estate for the rights, company lawyer Ken McKay told the court. But Cullen said the company failed to prove it owned the rights to Hubbard's materials and agreed with the Key Porter lawyers it waited too long to go to court.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court tangle gave Scientology its first 'martyrs'|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=16]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"THE UNITED STATES initiated the investigation which resulted in the instant indictment in view of the brazen, systematic and persistent burglaries of the United States Government offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, Calif. over an extended period of at least some two years. Additionally, the United States was confronted with the pervasive conduct of the defendants in this case in thwarting a federal grand jury investigation by harboring a fugitive, in effect forcefully kidnapping a witness who had decided to surrender to the federal authorities, submitting false evidence to the grand jury, destroying other evidence which might have been of valuable aid to its investigation, preparing a cover up story, and encouraging and drilling a crucial witness to give false testimony under oath to that grand jury.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Court Upholds Damages In Kirkland Teen's Anti-Cult Case|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980410&slug=2744445]] April 10, 1998, Bob Egelko, AP, [[Seattle Times]]
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SAN FRANCISCO - A $1.09 million damage award against an anti-cult organization for its role in trying to "deprogram" a Washington teenager at his mother's request was upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court.

There was evidence to support a jury's finding that a volunteer was acting on behalf of the Cult Awareness Network when she referred the mother, Kathy Tonkin of Kirkland, to deprogrammer Rick Ross, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its 2-1 ruling.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Courting the Power Brokers|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062790a,0,3614832.story]] June 27, 1990, Joel Sappell, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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"We need to be able to approach the right people in order to get things done," wrote Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, in the newspaper Scientology Today. "We need to to find out how to reach key people in the media, in government, in the control points of society, the people who run things."
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[img[x|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[CPS gives Scientologists same legal protection as mainstream religions|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160263/CPS-gives-Scientologists-legal-protection-mainstream-religions.html]] March 7, 2009, James Millbank, [[Daily Mail]]
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It means that any alleged offenders who 'abuse' or 'threaten' the Church of Scientology can be charged under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006.

It is understood the decision was made this month after the Police Diversity Directorate asked the CPS to clarify its position on the organisation.

It follows the arrest last summer of a 15-year-old boy for calling Scientology a 'dangerous cult' during a demonstration outside the Church's £23million headquarters in London.

[Needs confirmation.]
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [['Crash' director cuts ties with Scientology, citing church's gay marriage stand|http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/crash-director-cuts-ties-with-scientology-citing-churchs-gay-marriage-stand.html]] October 26, 2009, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A well-known Hollywood director has severed ties with the Church of Scientology, citing in part the church's support for Proposition 8, the ballot measure last year that banned same-sex marriage in California.

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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [['Crash' Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/crash_director.php]] October 25, 2009, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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In the letter, written to Scientology's current national spokesman, Tommy Davis, 'Crash' director Paul Haggis explains why he is leaving Scientology after 35 years.

Long known for his humanitarian efforts and strong support for civil liberties, Haggis says he was stunned when the San Diego branch of Scientology publicly supported Proposition 8, the state amendment that took away marriage rights for California gay couples.

Haggis goes on to list other factors -- he was shocked when Davis claimed in an interview with John Roberts on CNN that Scientology did not support the practice of "disconnection." Haggis knew that Davis was lying. He himself was asked to "disconnect" from the parents of his wife, Deborah Rennard, who had left Scientology.

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[img[x|http://llnw.static.cbslocal.com/Themes/CBS/KCBS/img/favicon.ico]] [['Crash' Director Paul Haggis Quits Scientology Over Gay Marriage Stance|http://cbs2.com/entertainment/paul.haggis.scientology.2.1272342.html]] October 26, 2009, Associated Press, [[CBS News]]
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Haggis also said he was "shocked" that the Church of Scientology was publicly denying that it adheres to a policy of disconnection — of severing ties with a friend or family member who's antagonistic toward Scientology. Haggis said that his wife, Deborah Rennard, was given precisely those orders and didn't speak to her parents for more than a year.

Davis again disagreed with Haggis and said the church doesn't mandate disconnection with anybody and that it was an entirely "self-determined decision."

"The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others," Haggis wrote. "I have to believe that if they knew what I now know, they too would be horrified."
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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Critic Sprung|http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=127837&archive=20,41,2001]] June 14, 2001, Enzo Di Matteo, [[NOW Magazine]]
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Keith Henson, the scientology foe arrested at gunpoint in an Oakville parking lot a couple weeks ago, has been released from jail by the same adjudicator who only last week determined that he posed a flight risk.Henson, who says he's been receiving threats and is afraid to return to the U.S., has also been deemed eligible to apply for refugee status here.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Critics Say IRS Ethics Problems Reduced|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1296978&date=19910729]] July 29, 1991, AP, [[Seattle Times]]
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Two years after embarrassing allegations of misconduct and abuse of power by several of its managers, the Internal Revenue Service is getting good marks for improving its ethical climate.

"Substantial progress has been made," says Rep. Douglas Barnard, D-Ga., whose House Government Operations subcommittee has been investigating the IRS for three years.

Even the National Coalition of IRS Whistleblowers, a Church of Scientology offshoot that dogs the agency's every move, offers a grudging commendation for positive strides to clean up the problem.
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[img[x|http://www.nydailynews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Critics: Scientologists' Va. trip a time to prey|http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/r_m/2007/04/18/2007-04-18_critics_scientologists_va_trip_a_time_to.html]] April 18, 2007, George Rush, [[NY Daily News]]
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The Church of Scientology has dispatched "ministers" to provide "grief counseling" for shell-shocked youth at Virginia Tech - but critics suspect the sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students.
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Crui$e is 'detox' of de town|http://www.nypost.com/seven/04202007/news/nationalnews/cruie_is_detox_of_de_town_nationalnews_david_seifman__city_hall_bureau_chief.htm]] April 20, 2007, David Seifman, [[New York Post]]
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Cruise vigorously defended the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, despite criticism that it offers nothing more than medical hocus-pocus.

The program, based on principles developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has provided more than 780 emergency workers suffering 9/11-related health problems with free treatment, which includes heavy doses of vitamins and hours in a sauna.
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Crui$ing for cash|http://www.nypost.com/seven/04192007/news/regionalnews/cruiing_for_cash_regionalnews_.htm]] April 19, 2007, AP and Post Wire Services, [[New York Post]]
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Cruise's program - which had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds - hasn't been endorsed by the Fire or Police departments and has been described by some experts as little more than medical mumbo-jumbo.

"This is just hocus-pocus," Dr. Bob Hoffman of the New York City Poison Control Center told The Post in 2004. "For some people, sitting in a hot environment can be very dangerous."
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[img[x|http://edition.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise & Scientology|http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/19/acd.01.html]] July 19, 2007, Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360°, [[CNN]]
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Cruise was planning to shoot scenes at the site, until the German government decided it would be inappropriate to film at what is now a memorial and sacred ground to many.

But the decision had more to do with Scientology than anything sacred. Cruise is a member of the church of Scientology. And having him play Stauffenberg didn't fly in Germany.

One official put it this way. "It would not be a good signal if an ambassador of this psycho sect that has extremist character and no concern for basic human rights, shoots a movie in a place like that."

It's not against the law to practice Scientology in Germany. Still, the government won't call it a religion. Germany views Scientology as a sect, whose chief purpose is to make money off people.
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[img[x|http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/favicon/NS_favicon.ico]] [[Cruise apology to Shields|http://news.scotsman.com/tomcruise/Cruise-apology-to-Shields.2807537.jp]] September 3, 2006, Christopher Claire, [[The Scotsman]]
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TOM Cruise has apologised to Brooke Shields for publicly criticising her for using anti-depressants.
The 41-year-old actress said she had received the apology in person on Thursday. 

"He came over to my house, and he gave me a heartfelt apology," Shields said during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise attacked in shock bio|http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013553-5001021,00.html]] January 6, 2008, [[Daily Telegraph]]
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TOM Cruise has been slammed in a new unauthorised biography which claims his daughter Suri was sired by the head of the Church of Scientology and Cruise himself has become second in command.
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise backs anti-drug Scientologists|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3351513&title=Cruise%20backs%20anti%20drug%20Scientologists]] April 9, 2003, [[New Zealand Herald]]
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Hollywood film star Tom Cruise has donated $1500 to an Auckland youth drug programme sponsored by the Church of Scientology.

Cruise sent the cheque and a letter after hearing about the work of the Drug-Free Ambassadors group, which encourages young people to adopt a drug-free lifestyle.
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise biographer: 'He breathes his religion'-|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22648664/#storyContinued]] January 14, 2008, Books, [[MSNBC]]
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In advance of his live TODAY show appearance that day, Morton took some time to answer questions from TODAYshow.com readers.
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[img[x|http://www.usatoday.com/_common/_images/usat16x16.png]] [[Cruise biographer: Star has Tinseltown scared|http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-01-14-cruise-side_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip]] January 14, 2008, Bob Minzesheimer, [[USA Today]]
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"Most people in Hollywood are scared of talking publicly and candidly about Tom Cruise," Morton says. "They know that he and the church (of Scientology) are extremely litigious and can be quite intimidating."

Still, Morton says, he conducted about 130 interviews — off and on the record — during the past two years. Most of those named in the book knew Cruise before he rose to stardom. Others have broken with the Church of Scientology.

But, Morton says, his other sources include people "who I would have to say didn't speak to me, but, of course, they have."
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[img[x|http://www.upi.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise biography could prompt dispute|http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/01/06/cruise_biography_could_prompt_dispute/2105/]] January 6, 2008, [[UPI]]
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A biography of Tom Cruise due out this month may prompt a dispute between its author and the U.S. actor, a report said Sunday.

The New York Post reported that based on the book's stance toward Cruise's Scientology beliefs and romantic life, the actor may take offense at author Andrew Morton's work.
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[img[x|http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise biography 'sick stuff'|http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/cruise-biography-sick-stuff/2008/01/08/1199554609527.html]] January 8, 2008, Michelle Nichols, [[Brisbane Times]]
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A lawyer for Tom Cruise today attacked an unauthorised biography of the US star, calling it "outrageous, sick stuff," even as US publisher St Martin's Press defended the book.
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{{cite news | first = Michelle | last = Nichols | title = Cruise biography 'sick stuff' | url = http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/cruise-biography-sick-stuff/2008/01/08/1199554609527.html | work = Brisbane Times | date = 2008-01-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-29 }}
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[img[x|http://www.upi.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise camp considering $100M lawsuit|http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/01/08/cruise_camp_considering_100m_lawsuit/5018/]] January 8, 2008, [[UPI]]
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Cruise's lawyers and the Church of Scientology are pondering suing Morton and the book's publisher, St. Martin's Press, for the staggering sum, the New York Daily News reported.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise camp rips upcoming biography as 'tired old lies'|http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-cruise8jan08,0,6520400.story]] January 8, 2008, Reuters, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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"His book is a rehash of tired old lies about Tom and his religion, some new grotesque lies, like the sick comparison of his child to 'Rosemary's Baby' and the nutty assertion that he's the No. 2 head of the Church of Scientology," said Cruise's longtime lawyer, Bert Fields.
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{{cite news | title = Cruise camp rips upcoming biography as 'tired old lies' | url = http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-cruise8jan08,0,6520400.story | work = Reuters | publisher = Los Angeles Times | date = 2008-01-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.cbsnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Charity Aids WTC Workers|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/entertainment/main611988.shtml]] April 15, 2004, Lloyd de Vries, [[CBS News]]
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An organization co-founded by actor Tom Cruise has raised $1.2 million to expand a treatment program for rescue workers exposed to potentially hazardous materials after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project said it has treated more than 200 workers who say they were suffering effects from breathing the air filled with smoke, dust and debris after the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the trade center.
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{{cite news | first = Lloyd | last = de Vries | title = Cruise Charity Aids WTC Workers | url = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/entertainment/main611988.shtml | work = CBS News | date = 2004-04-15 | accessdate = 2010-02-28 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [['Cruise Control' Pol: It Helped Me|http://www.nypost.com/seven/04072007/news/regionalnews/cruise_control__pol__it_helped_me_regionalnews_david_seifman__city_hall_bureau_chief.htm]] April 7, 2007, David Seifman, [[New York Post]]
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The Post reported yesterday that Monserrate is one of the hosts of an April 19 fund-raiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, where Cruise is appearing, and where tickets are going for as much as $100,000 for a table of eight.
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{{cite news | first = David | last = Seifman | title = 'Cruise Control' Pol: It Helped Me | url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/04072007/news/regionalnews/cruise_control__pol__it_helped_me_regionalnews_david_seifman__city_hall_bureau_chief.htm | work = New York Post | date = 2007-04-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise credits Scientology for his success|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7968809/]] May 24, 2005, Access Hollywood, [[MSNBC]]
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Tom Cruise is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education Literacy Project, known as H.E.L.P., a community-based literacy and mentoring project providing one-on-one tutoring for students and their families at no cost.
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[img[x|http://www.cbc.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise dumps sister for veteran publicist|http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/11/08/cruise_publicity_051105.html]] November 8, 2005, [[CBC]]
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After a tough year of negative media exposure, Tom Cruise has dumped his sister as his main publicity representative.
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{{cite news | title = Cruise dumps sister for veteran publicist | url = http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/11/08/cruise_publicity_051105.html | work = CBC | date = 2005-11-08 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Film Gets German OK|http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1662534,00.html]] September 17, 2007, Stephanie Kirchner, [[TIME Magazine]]
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The flap erupted in June, after the Defense Ministry announced that it was going to bar filming at the Bendler Block. A key reason behind the decision, according to officials at the time, was Cruise's affiliation with Scientology. In Germany, where the government provides assistance to organized religions, a 1995 court ruling determined that Scientology was a cult "masquerading as a religion to make money." Moreover, the film's subject is close to the hearts of many in the German military. Cruise is playing Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a square-jawed young Prussian colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, but who was executed after his plot failed. Von Stauffenberg was resurrected as a resistance hero to many who rejected the war and its legacy.
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{{cite news | first = Stephanie | last = Kirchner | title = Cruise Film Gets German OK | url = http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1662534,00.html | work = TIME Magazine | date = 2007-09-17 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.independent.co.uk/favicon.gif]] [[Cruise is second most powerful Scientologist, Morton book claims|http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3315033.ece]] January 7, 2008, David Langton, [[The Independent]]
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According to Morton's book, Mr Miscavige even joined Cruise on honeymoon in the Maldives after his wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006. Cruise denies each of the claims, and Scientology lawyers are believed to be drawing up a lawsuit seeking £50m in compensation from Morton's publishers, St Martin's Press, based in New York.
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{{cite news | first = David | last = Langton | title = Cruise is second most powerful Scientologist, Morton book claims | url = http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3315033.ece | work = The Independent | date = 2008-01-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise lobbies over Scientology|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1791617.stm]] January 30, 2002, [[BBC News]]
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Cruise has long been an outspoken advocate of the religion and wanted to lend his weight to seeing it recognised in Germany.

He met with US ambassador Dan Coats while in the country promoting his new movie Vanilla Sky with co-star and girlfriend Penelope Cruz.
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[img[x|http://www.earthtimes.org/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise lost his appeal for women|http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10067.html]] November 1, 2006, Emma Price, [[Earthtimes]]
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Behind every successful man is a woman. But this time, there's a woman behind successful Hollywood star Tom Cruise's sacking from Paramount Pictures, the woman being the studio's head honcho Sumner Redstone's wife Paula.
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[img[x|http://img2.timeinc.net/people/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Opens 2nd Scientology Detox Center|http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,649658,00.html]] June 10, 2004, Stephen M. Silverman, [[People]]
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The first center, which was opened two years ago in Manhattan and has reportedly treated 400 people to date, was funded, in part, by L. Ron Hubbard's controversial Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a high-profile member.

The alternative treatment, outlined in Hubbard's book Clear Body, Clear Mind, utilizes a regime of "exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals" to cleanse rescue workers' bodies of toxins.
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{{cite news | first = Stephen M. | last = Silverman | title = Cruise Opens 2nd Scientology Detox Center | url = http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,649658,00.html | work = People | date = 2004-06-10 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[CRUISE POP-PING MAD OVER BIZARRE SURI SIRE TALE|http://www.nypost.com/seven/01082008/entertainment/cruise_pop_ping_mad_over_bizarre_suri_si_930324.htm]] January 8, 2008, Cynthia R. Fagen, [[New York Post]]
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"He's very angry," lawyer pal Burt Fields said after speaking with Cruise about the soon-to-be-released bio.
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[img[x|http://www.abc.net.au/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise raises millions to detox rescue workers|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2004/04/13/1086171.htm]] April 13, 2004, AFP, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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Cruise, 41, pitched in to help raise cash for the alternative treatment for rescuers suffering debilitating effects from toxic exposure in the recovery and clean-up effort following the 2001 attacks in New York.
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[img[x|http://www.koat.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Says He Was Joking About Eating Placenta|http://www.koat.com/entertainment/8802165/detail.html]] April 18, 2006, [[KOAT Albuquerque]]
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For those of you who took Tom Cruise seriously when he said he was going to eat Katie Holmes' placenta, there's been a clarification.

He was joking.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise scientology video leaked|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7191355.stm]] January 16, 2008, [[BBC News]]
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A four-year-old video of Tom Cruise talking about his Scientology beliefs has been leaked onto the internet. 

Cruise is shown discussing how he wants to spread the message of Scientology, saying: "You're in the playing field or out of the arena".

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[img[x|http://www.cbsnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Thinks Scientology Can Save 9/11 Responders|http://wcbstv.com/seenon/local_story_109173829.html]] April 20, 2007, Hazel Sanchez, [[CBS News]]
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Some call it a cult concoction while silver screen celebrity Tom Cruise swears by it -- a Scientology program called the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project.

City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said the program worked for him.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise to detox NY|http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,21590052-5005368,00.html]] April 19, 2007, Daily Telegraph, [[PerthNow]]
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SCIENTOLOGY fanatic Tom Cruise is in New York to solicit more cash for his controversial venture to "detox" the heroes of September 11.
Cruise, 44, will appear at a private gala on Manhattan's West 18th Street tonight to raise funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise Wins Support of NY Emergency Workers With Fundraiser|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=15637]] April 20, 2007, Daily Dish / Gossip, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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Despite Mayor Bloomberg's denouncement of the program as "not science" on Wednesday, those present at the fundraiser were clearly happy to give their approval to the project, which saw Cruise personally thank guests for their attendance.
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[img[x|http://www.foxnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise, Travolta: Rolling Stone Gathers Moss|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186648,00.html]] March 2, 2006, Roger Friedman, Celebrity Gossip, [[FOX News]]
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The new issue of Rolling Stone should drive a permanent wedge between Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner.

Writer Janet Reitman spent nine months reporting and writing a 13,000 word piece on Scientology, the mysterious religion with which both movie stars are famously associated.

Reitman peels back Scientology layer by layer, meticulously interviewing everyone and anyone, and draws unsurprising conclusions: that to believe in this religion means also subscribing to a belief in aliens, for one thing. And by aliens I mean creatures from other planets and galaxies.
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[img[x|http://www.eyeweekly.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise-ing the Scientology connection|http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_08.19.99/columns/feelings.php]] August 19, 1999, Bruce LaBruce, [[Eye Weekly]]
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Homosexuality, of course, is discouraged, while marriage and family -- or at least the appearance of such -- are de rigueur. Some have even maintained that Scientology attempts to cure members of their homosexuality. Enter Tom Cruise. The celebrity Scientologist contingent is well-known -- John Travolta, Anne Archer, Jenna Elfman and Kirstie Alley are the A-list members, but have you heard about the alleged involvement of William Burroughs, Patrick Swayze, Gordon Lightfoot, Mikhail Baryshnikhov and Ginger Spice?
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[img[x|http://today.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruise's camp bashes Morton, unauthorized bio|http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22538821/]] January 7, 2008, Courtney Hazlett, Today Show, [[MSNBC]]
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Representatives for Tom Cruise wasted no time in speaking out against Andrew Morton's new book “Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography,” saying that even though Cruise has been “a top star for 25 years, (Morton) never spoke to Cruise's business partners, directors, studio executives, friends or family, and the list can go on.”
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[CRUISES'S CLINIC OK|http://www.nypost.com/seven/06122007/news/columnists/cruisess_clinic_ok_columnists_steve_dunleavy.htm?page=0]] June 12, 2007, Steve Dunleavy, [[New York Post]]
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Woodworth, the program president, said 930 people have signed up since 2002; 800 have completed the course. Fourhundred were firefighters - about 80 cops, the rest city workers who were first responders.

Woodworth said there has been an 86 percent success rate, varying from those who were totally cured of toxicity, to those whose health improved.
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cruisin' Harlem|http://www.nypost.com/seven/08172007/news/regionalnews/cruisin_harlem_regionalnews_kaili_mcdonnough_and_leonard_greene.htm]] August 17, 2007, Kaili McDonnough, [[New York Post]]
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The Church of Scientology, known for its celebrity devotees, is making a big push to expand its empire along 125th Street, purchasing three properties there last week, and planning a major recruitment drive in the neighborhood.

The Rev. John Carmichael, president of the church in New York, declined to give details about the purchase, but reports put the total sales price at $10.2 million.
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[img[x|http://www.christianitytoday.com/favicon.ico]] [[CT Classic: Scientology: Religion or Racket?|http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/septemberweb-only/54.0.html]] November 7, 1969, Joseph Martin Hopkins, Reprint, [[Christianity Today]]
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After a hurried interview with Miss Anne Ursprung, top executive of the Founding Church, I managed an extension of time by driving her and fellow staff member Esther Mangold to the airport to pick up a couple of Scientologists, Leon and Mitch, who were arriving from New York. As we returned to the city, I asked if it were true that many hippies are interested in Scientology.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [['Cult Buster' Acquitted In Abduction|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940119&slug=1890492]] January 19, 1994, [[Seattle Times]]
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Cult buster" Rick Ross shouted for joy yesterday after a Grays Harbor Superior Court jury acquitted him of unlawfully imprisoning an 18-year-old Bellevue man to deprogram him of his religious beliefs.

The jury deliberated just two hours
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cult church censured on drug ads|http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,922770,00.html]] March 27, 2003, Stephen Bates, [[Guardian Unlimited]]
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A Church of Scientology advert claiming that its programmes had "salvaged" 250,000 people from drug abuse has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority as unproved, following a complaint by the Church of England.

A Church of England spokesman said: "The truth is Scientology makes claims for their dangerous cult which they can neither prove nor substantiate. Drug users trying to kick the habit are vulnerable. This makes them perfect prey for cults."
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cult classic|http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4023865,00.html]] May 31, 2000, Duncan Campbell, [[Guardian Unlimited]]
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Does John Travolta's Battlefield Earth contain subliminal messages recruiting Scientologists? Amid a flurry of bizarre claims and counterclaims, only one thing is certain: it is one of the worst movies ever made.
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 [[Cult Cornered (Again)|http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=eye_tv&issue=1272]] October 1, 2010, [[Private Eye]]
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"YOU suck cock on Hollywood Boulevard." This is the word of the Church of Scientology, according to its former spokesman Mike Rinder, spilling the beans in John Sweeney's BBC film this week. He was citing a text message from the office of the leader, David Miscavige, best man at Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes.

It was one of many bizarre obscenities quoted by Rinder who, after half a century inside the church, now says that it is a cult. 
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [['Cult Deprogrammer' On Trial|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940113&slug=1889503]] January 13, 1994, [[Seattle Times]]
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A self-styled "cult deprogrammer" imprisoned a suburban Seattle teen for five days "to attack his religious beliefs," a prosecutor said as the Arizona man's trial got under way.
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 [[Cult followings|http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=1aeeb770-14d7-4e76-8af5-7198c6a680a6&sponsor=]] May 17, 2008, Leonard Stern, [[Ottawa Citizen]]
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No, this is not about the dispute between the Falun Gong and the Canadian Tulip Festival. It's about an incident at Seattle's Fremont Market. As the U.S. journalist Dan Savage tells it, shoppers at the popular outdoor market were surprised to discover a booth sponsored by the Church of Scientology. The Scientologists obtained the booth "under the pretense of being ordinary 'booksellers'," according to a market spokesman.

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[img[x|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cult forces Google to remove critical links|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2107088,00.htm]] March 21, 2002, Matt Loney, [[ZDNet]]
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Google was accused on Wednesday of effectively removing a Web site that is critical of the Scientology cult from the Web, after it told the site that it was deleting links from its search engine.
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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[Cult Friction|http://web.archive.org/web/20080822080112/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/03/scientology_anonymous_protests_tom_cruise_01.php]] March 17, 2008, John Cook, [[Radar Online]]
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After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?
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[img[x|http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/images/gam/favicon.ico]] [[Cult harassment, spying in Canada documented|http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/canada/canada3.html]] January 23, 1980, John Marshall, [[Globe and Mail]]
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As reported in the accompanying instalment in a series of accounts of the U.S. court proceedings, 35 Scientologists were alleged to have participated in conspiracies to steal government documents and to obstruct justice. Besides the nine sentenced to jail, 23 people were named as unindicted co-conspirators. Three others have been indicted and investigations are continuing in various parts of the United States by state and federal agencies. 

Canadian activities have included the planting of spies with agencies and individuals considered to be barriers to the progress of the wealthy world-wide organization. It recently announced it had purchased $3.5-million worth of property in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.
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[img[x|http://www.scotsman.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cult or cure?|http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=782292007]] May 20, 2007, Holly Marney, Opinion, [[Scotsman]]
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Labelled a cult by its critics, defended as a bona fide religion by devotees, it is never far from the headlines, though it is generally viewed from these shores as another American oddity.

But Scientology does have a foothold in Britain, claiming up to 7,000 members in Scotland alone. And the strange world of Scientology, which believes aliens visited Earth millions of years ago, was exposed last week by a Panorama documentary.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cult or religion: What's the difference?|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/392396.stm]] July 13, 1999, e-cyclopedia, [[BBC News]]
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The term "cult", says the Cult Information Centre in London, applies to a group which demonstrates five different qualities (see fact box).

Scientologists are by no means averse to suing when the faintest scent of defamation is in the air. And the centre does not say that the church is a cult.
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[img[x|http://www.tes.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Cult Watch|http://www.tes.co.uk/2483496]] December 14, 2007, Lynne Wallis, [[TES Magazine]]
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This year, it was discovered Narconon, the Scientology-linked group, has been invited into British schools to lecture pupils on drugs, and the organisation's outpost in East Grinstead – known as the Effective Education centre – attempts to coach mainstream teachers in some of the precepts of Scientology, which advocates a form of self-help invented by its founder L. Ron Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cults are now taking aim at elderly victims|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50100694.html?dids=50100694:50100694&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] August 22, 1987, Diane Salvatore, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"The best way is to make cults obey the existing law, or to catch them breaking it," says Peter Georgiades, chairman of the American Bar Association's Subcommittee on Cult-Related Litigation. Many cults give law-enforcement agencies plenty of material to work with. Groups have been prosecuted in the past for myriad offenses: tax evasion; breaking zoning laws; mail fraud; keeping children out of school; stockpiling weapons (purportedly in preparation for Armageddon); drug trafficking; kidnapping; rape; child abuse; medical neglect; prostitution; extortion, and immigration abuses. In one case the crime was murder.

Some cult members have chosen to seek retribution through civil suits. Earlier this year, more than 500 people filed a $1-billion class-action suit against the Church of Scientology, the group founde by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, charging that confessions they made in private were being used to coerce them and extort money from them.
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[img[x|http://www.boston.com/favicon.ico]] [[Curiously, an outpost of Scientology|http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/08/14/curiously_an_outpost_of_scientology/?page=full]] August 14, 2005, Johnny Diaz, [[Boston Globe]]
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"Scientology conjures up such negative images that it looks suspicious," said Setta, who appeared on National Public Radio's "On Point" program on WBUR last month to talk about the religion. "If the Episcopal Church had a tutoring program in Dorchester, no one would worry about it. The assumption is that they [Scientologists] are doing something for an ulterior motive, that there is something sinister. That's a problem for them."
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[img[x|http://arts.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Curtain goes up on Scientology|http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1333958,00.html]] October 22, 2004, Dan Glaister, [[Guardian Unlimited]]
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A similar formula has prevailed in LA: don't give the production the oxygen of publicity. But behind the scenes the wheels of organised religion were spinning. As soon as the Church got wind of an LA Times piece on the production, several editors on the paper received calls from the guardians of L Ron's flame urging them to pull the article. Nothing unusual about that, as any entertainment PR will tell you. But things took a more sinister turn when the phone calls started.

"The parents of one of the kids in the cast were called by members of the entertainment industry that were Scientologists," says Timbers. "They were told that if they were to continue with the show that it might be bad for their future career."
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Cyberspace is also subject to copyright law, judge rules|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960120&slug=2309789]] January 20, 1996, [[Seattle Times]]
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A federal judge ruled yesterday that an Arlington, Va., man violated copyright laws when he dumped sacred texts of the Church of Scientology onto the Internet, saying words enjoy legal protection even in cyberspace.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said there was such compelling evidence of copyright violation that she found no need to send the case involving Arnaldo Lerma, 45, to a jury.
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 [[Dade's Barreiro fired from juvenile justice post|http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/857950.html]] January 17, 2009, Steve Bousquet, [[Miami Herald]]
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Gus Barreiro, a crusader for kids and former Miami-Dade lawmaker who helped bring down a fellow legislator in a high-profile race case, has been unexpectedly fired from the Department of Juvenile Justice.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daily Briefing - Upcoming|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971024&slug=2568178]] October 24, 1997, [[Seattle Times]]
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The Church of Scientology is planning its biggest demonstration in Germany on Monday in protest at what it says is discrimination against religious minorities here. The organization's Germany spokesman said half those on the march through Berlin were expected to be from abroad, but it was not certain whether film stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta would be there. Germany does not recognize Scientology as a religion and sees it as a business that exploits its members for financial gain.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daily Briefing - Update |http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971106&slug=2570718]] November 6, 1997, [[Seattle Times]]
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German federal judges refused today to rule on whether the Church of Scientology is a religion, ordering a lower court to focus on whether the group is a nonprofit venture or a money-making business. The Baden-Wuerttemberg case already has been bounced several times from court to court - reflecting the sensitive nature of Scientology's position here.

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daily Briefing - Update|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970607&slug=2543289]] June 7, 1997, [[Seattle Times]]
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The German government decided yesterday to put the Church of Scientology under nationwide surveillance by counterintelligence agents because it contends the church is a threat to democracy, Interior Minister Manfred Kanther said. He refused to say exactly how the church's 30,000 German members would be monitored.

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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[Daniel Mantalvo, Scientology Defector, Jailed in LA|http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/09/scientology-defector-reportedly-jailed-in-la/]] October 9, 2010, Nate Jones, [[TIME NewsFeed]]
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NewsFeed generally believes that all religions are valid and that we should treat all of them with respect and all that liberal-arts jazz. But this story gives us the creeps.

The latest scandal from the Church of Scientology is the tale of 19-year-old Daniel Montalvo, who allegedly ran from the Church and found himself in jail for his efforts.

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[img[x|http://blogs.laweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daniel Montalvo Defects From Scientology, Gets Arrested By Los Angeles Sheriff's Department|http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/daniel-montalvo-scientology/]] October 8, 2010, Dennis Romero, [[LA Weekly]]
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A strange and twisted tale emerged from blogland this week -- the story of a Scientology refugee who was reportedly talked into returning to the organization, grilled by a church lawyer and subsequently arrested.

Nineteen-year-old Daniel Montalvo, a lifelong member of the church's core group, Sea Org, was released from jail Thursday in lieu of $20,000 bail. What did he do? That's a question we haven't been able to answer. Update: It's been answered, after the jump.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daniel Montalvo Hits Scientology With Stunning Child Labor Lawsuits|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/03/daniel_montalvo_1.php]] March 5, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Today, Daniel turns 20 years old. Yesterday, he filed two stunning lawsuits against Scientology with the help of attorney S. Christopher "Kit" Winter.

Winter helped Montalvo avoid the grand reaching that tends to characterize lawsuits against Scientology, and instead kept his complaints laser-focused on damning charges about how children are used by the church in troubling ways.

Specifically, Montalvo's lawsuits paint a picture of a child who was essentially abandoned by his two Scientologist parents to the organization, was signed to a billion-year contract at only 6 years of age, and through his teens was forced to work up to 100 hours a week with only the barest schooling, and for wretched pay (about $35 a week).
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daniel Montalvo, 19, Leaves Scientology, Which Convinces LA Sheriff to Jail Him For It|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/10/daniel_montalvo.php]] October 8, 2010, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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An amazing story is hitting the Internet today of 19-year-old Daniel Montalvo, a lifelong Scientologist who decided to leave the wacky cabal, only to find himself arrested by LA sheriff's deputies and facing prison time for it.
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[img[x|http://blogs.laweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daniel Montalvo's Scientology Lawsuit Claims False Imprisonment, Child Labor Violations, Lack of Education While Growing Up in L.A.-Based Org|http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/03/daniel_montalvo_scientology_1.php]] March 11, 2011, Dennis Romero, [[LA Weekly]]
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Now a young man who says he escaped from a Scientology workplace in the city of Commerce after growing up in the church has made some bombshell claims -- including disregard for child welfare laws, failure to report child neglect to authorities, false imprisonment and violation of labor laws -- in a pair of suits filed in L.A. against Scientology and the publisher of its L. Ron Hubbard books.


Montalvo was 19 when he made a break for it last year with the help of a Scientology defector. He ended up in Florida. When he tried to contact his parents, however, a Scientologist allegedly talked him into returning to L.A.

While in L.A., the suit claims, Montalvo was falsely imprisoned.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Daughter, Granddaughter Guilty Of Woman's Murder|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1301446&date=19910823]] August 23, 1991, Julie Emery, [[Seattle Times]]
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The daughter and granddaughter gave separate statements to police telling how they had chopped up 50 capsules of Dilantin, an anti-seizure medicine, then mixed it in clam chowder and fed it to Van Sickle Nov. 17 in the family home in Rainier Valley.

But when she was still alive the next day, they put a pillow over her face and suffocated her. After a 20-minute struggle, Van Sickle died.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[David Miscavige Speaks ...|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologyquotes.html]] October 25, 1998, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In six hours of interviews, Miscavige discussed and defended the organization he has led since age 26.

About why Scientology hasn't been more open:
“Number one, when you are under siege -- and there have been periods when we have been under siege -- of course you have a tendency to just clam up and reach in.”
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 [[David Miscavige's niece talks of Scientology's disconnection|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i1EuvuL1U]] February 5, 2008, [[YouTube]]
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David Miscavige's own niece now speaks out about disconnection.
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[img[x|http://www.scmagazineus.com/favicon.ico]] [[DDoS hack attack targets Church of Scientology|http://www.scmagazineus.com/DDoS-hack-attack-targets-Church-of-Scientology/article/104588/]] January 25, 2008, Dan Kaplan, [[SC Magazine]]
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Disruptions against the Church of Scientology's official website continued today after a hacker group this week announced intentions to shut down the controversial organization.

“We shall proceed to expel you from the internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form,” a YouTube video posted by the hacker group, “Anonymous,” said.
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[img[x|http://deceiver.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dear Tom: You're Not Helping|http://deceiver.com/2008/01/15/dear-tom-youre-not-helping/]] January 15, 2008, Simon Scowl, [[Deceiver]]
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And there's no proof that sweating out toxins actually works, especially the kinds of toxins released on 9/11. Plus sitting in a hot sauna for hours on end can actually be dangerous to these already-sick people, due to dehydration and heat stroke.

Pushing junk science to exploit the brave men and women who put their lives on the line during a national crisis… Thanks for the help, Tom.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Death in slow motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology|http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012234.ece]] June 22, 2009, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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At a ceremony at the Fort Harrison Hotel in September 1995, Lisa McPherson was designated "clear," meaning that through Scientology counseling, she had rid herself of all interference from troubling memories buried in her subconscious. Two months later she had a nervous breakdown. After 17 days in Scientology's care, she was dead.
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[img[x|http://www.chicagoreader.com/favicon.ico]] [[Death of a Scientologist|http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/death-of-a-scientologist/Content?oid=909370]] August 15, 2002, Tori Marlan, [[Chicago Reader]]
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While the shock and grief of his son's suicide were still fresh, Bob Bashaw read back through their decades-long correspondence, looking in particular for references to Scientology. "I wanted to see what there was here I missed," he says. His son Greg had been a member of the Church of Scientology for more than 20 years. During that time other relatives, fearing he belonged to a cult, had voiced concerns. But Bob supported his son's choice, because he believed people should be free to practice their religion without getting hassled about it -- and because he couldn't find a good enough reason not to. That changed in November 

2000, when suddenly, he says, Greg broke into "a hundred pieces." He'd recently lost his job in advertising. And now, Greg told his father, his church had excommunicated him. Seven months later, more than $50,000 in debt, he ended his life on the shoulder of a Michigan road, leaving behind a wife of 20 years and a teenage son, to whom he'd written a brief, unemotional note.
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Death Of Scientology Critic 'Does Appear To Be Suicide'|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23238739/]] February 19, 2008, Carlos Moncada, [[MSNBC]]
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CLEARWATER - A Church of Scientology critic was found dead over the weekend in what police are calling a suicide.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[Debbie Cook -- Exiled by Scientology?|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/scientology_debbie_cook_exile.php]] June 20, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Tampa Bay Times journalists Joe Childs and Tom Tobin have done it again, surprising us with yet another gem of reporting on the Church of Scientology.

This time, they learned from a man named Jon Donley, who worked as a media consultant for Debbie Cook, that she and her husband, Wayne Baumgarten, are leaving San Antonio this week for a new home on the French island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[DEBBIE COOK COUNTERSUES SCIENTOLOGY: We Have Her Counterclaim, and the Church's Legal Salvos|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/debbie_cook_countersues_scientology.php]] February 29, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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 [[Debbie Cook, Former Scientology Executive, Blasts Church Leadership In Email (VIDEO)|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/debbie-cook-former-scientology-leader-church-greedy_n_1183919.html]] January 4, 2012, Ileana Llorens, [[Huffington Post]]
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Debbie Cook, a former executive with the Church of Scientology has revealed she believes the church has become greedy and corrupt under the leadership of David Miscavige. 

Cook, who worked at the church's Sea Org group in Clearwater, Fla., sent an email containing criticisms of the church's management to about 12,000 Scientologists on New Year's Day, according to the Village Voice, which first broke the story. 

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 [[Debunking a movement / Scientollywood|http://web.archive.org/web/20050806235055/www.pasadenaweekly.com/features/feature/feature.html]] August 5, 2005, Carl Kozlowski, [[Pasadena Weekly]]
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Exposing some of the unsavory claims that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other celebrities would rather you didn't know about Scientology
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Defections, court fights test Scientology|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/01/national/a100041S26.DTL&feed=rss.news_nation]] November 1, 2009, Eric Gorski, Associated Press, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season.

Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press week for the embattled institution founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

But for former Scientologists and scholars of the movement, the setbacks pose a greater challenge coming on the heels of defections of top-level Scientologists who lifted a veil of secrecy on the organization and alleged a culture of violence and control under Hubbard's successor, David Miscavige.

"With any organization, the loss of a substantial number of your most experienced people and chaos at the upper levels is problematic," said David Bromley, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who studies new religious movements and has written on Scientology. "There are PR implications, the possibility of legal actions ... That dwarfs the other things."

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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Defectors Recount Lives of Hard Work, Punishment|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062690,0,425562,full.story]] June 26, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Scientology, she said, "promises you euphoria but ends up taking your body, heart, mind, soul and family. . . . We were so brainwashed to believe that what we were doing was good for mankind that we were willing to put up with the worst conditions."

Over the years, defecting Scientologists have come forward with similar accounts of how their lives and personalities were upended after they joined the church's huge staff. They say the organization promised spiritual liberation but delivered subjugation.

In interviews and public records, former staffers have said they were alienated from society, stripped of familiar beliefs, punished for aberrant behavior, rewarded for conformity and worked beyond exhaustion to meet ever-escalating productivity quotas.
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 [[Defence Force 'bullies' cleared over suicide|http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26229541-12377,00.html]] October 28, 2009, Australian Associated Press, [[The Australian]]
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Mr Lock also found that Mr McBride's intention to take his own life "was not reasonably foreseeable" by the Church of Scientology, which the private had recently joined.

The coroner said the church's psychological audit file of Mr McBride, which was not produced during this inquest, may have been able to shed some light on what caused his mental state to deteriorate prior to his death.

An ADF commission of inquiry will begin this month to investigate issues arising from Mr McBride's death.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Defining the Theology|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientologysidea062490,0,7631220,full.story]] June 24, 1990, Joel Sappell, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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What is Scientology?

Not even the vast majority of Scientologists can fully answer the question. In the Church of Scientology, there is no one book that comprehensively sets forth the religion's beliefs in the fashion of, say, the Bible or the Koran.

Rather, Scientology's theology is scattered among the voluminous writings and tape-recorded discourses of the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the religion in the early 1950s.
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 [[Delve into Dianetics|http://www.dailytrojan.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=08b6024e-8ae1-435c-a074-652be57f8ab2]] September 13, 2005, Tony Chiorazzi, [[Daily Trojan]]
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The visionary, sometimes controversial world of scientology is alive in L.A.
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[img[x|http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/favicon.ico]] [[Demolish Scientology!|http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2008/02/demolish_scientology.php]] February 1, 2008, Matt Davis, [[Portland Mercury]]
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Anonymous goes back to the terrorists that filled the Boston harbor with tea; the negros that refused to be seated in the back of the bus. We are the worthless that stormed the Bastille then decapitated an empress, and communists that brought down the iron curtain. 
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[img[x|http://www.boston.com/favicon.ico]] [[Demolition brings Church of Scientology closer to building new Boston HQ|http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/south_end/2011/04/with_the_demolition_of_the_ivo.html]] April 12, 2011, Cara Bayles, [[Boston Globe]]
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Demolition began last week on the old Ivory Bean House on Washington Street. After the building began shedding bricks in February, the city's Inspectional Services Department ordered the Bean's owner, the Church of Scientology, to demolish the structure.

As far as the church is concerned, it had gotten what it had wanted since it purchased the building in 2008.
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 [[Demolition Imminent for Unstable Washington Street Building - South End, MA Patch|http://southend.patch.com/articles/demolishion-immenent-for-unstable-washington-street-building]] March 18, 2011, Alix Roy, [[South End Patch]]
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A historic Washington Street building owned by the Church of Scientology is expected to be demolished next week after bricks fell from the structure last month, prompting the city to cordon off the area in the interest of public safety.

According to Attorney Marc LaCasse, the Church has hired a demolition contractor and is expecting work to begin within a week's time. A demolition permit application was pending with the city's Inspectional Services Department as of Wednesday, LaCasse said via email.
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[img[x|http://chicagoist.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dental Hygiene|http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/26/dental_hygiene.php]] September 26, 2007, Margaret Lyons, [[Chicagoist]]
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. James Orrington, DDS, alleging religious and sexual harassment. The suit, filed on behalf of ten employees — 9 women and 1 man? 10 women? — claims the South Side dentist required employees to recite passages from Scientology literature before he"d give them their checks.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[Departure in Dianetics|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,821638,00.html]] September 3, 1951, [[TIME Magazine]]
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The cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, "Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his "science of the mind" could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering the standard fate of the cult: one of its earliest adherents has broken away and is accusing Hubbard of having strayed from the true faith.
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Deprogrammer charged in Eastside case|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1993/9307040042.asp]] July 3, 1993, Gordy Holt, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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As outlined in an affidavit filed by Grays Harbor Deputy Prosecutor Joseph F. Wheeler, Scott told police his mother, then known as Kathy Tonkin, that Ross and three other men held him for four days in an Ocean Shores condominium while attacking his religious beliefs.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [['Deprogrammer' Taken To Court -- Bellevue Man Claims Kidnap, Coercion|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950921&slug=2142801]] September 21, 1995, Thomas W. Haines, [[Seattle Times]]
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The case has become the latest to debate the role of religious deprogramming, which often involves holding people against their will while trying to convince them to disavow their religious beliefs.

The players in this trial are familiar adversaries. On one side is Scott's attorney, Kendrick Moxon, long-time legal counsel to the Church of Scientology, who has litigated several cases against the Cult Awareness Network. Scott's legal connection to the Church of Scientology is unclear.

Moxon and a spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology say the Cult Awareness Network, and deprogrammers like Ross, kidnap people in religious groups and force them to quit.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [['Deprogrammer' Trial Gets Under Way -- Man Allegedly Kept Victim In Motel Room For Several Days Against His Will|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940112&slug=1889361]] January 12, 1994, Nancy Montgomery, [[Seattle Times]]
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An Arizona "deprogrammer" who consulted with federal authorities last year on Waco's Branch Davidians, went on trial today in Grays Harbor Superior Court on charges of the unlawful imprisonment of an 18-year-old man whose mother wanted him out of a Bellevue fundamentalist church.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Deprogrammers Plead Not Guilty To Holding A Bellevue Teenager 5 Days, Against His Will|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1716415&date=19930817&query=Scientology]] August 17, 1993, AP, [[Seattle Times]]
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Three Arizona men have pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful imprisonment filed in a 1991 attempt to "deprogram" a teenager whose mother was concerned about his affiliation with a Bellevue church.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Detox center seeks wider acceptance|http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/30/NorthPinellas/Detox_center_seeks_wi.shtml]] March 30, 2003, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The director of the new Clearwater Narconon, Cheryl Alderman, a Clearwater resident and a longtime Scientologist, sank $100,000 of her own money into the venture and opened it quietly 10 months ago.

She obtained a license from the state's Department of Children and Families to operate as an outpatient detox center. The program got a boost from Clearwater Mayor Brian Aungst, who issued a proclamation for "Narconon Day."
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[img[x|http://media.philly.com/designimages/favicon.ico]] [[Detox program|http://www.philly.com/inquirer/hot_topics/10277612.html]] October 5, 2007, Art Carey, [[Philadelphia Inquirer]]
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Overview
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Developer needs cash to finish Fenway resort renovation in Dunedin|http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/developer-needs-cash-to-finish-fenway-resort-renovation-in-dunedin/1060087]] December 20, 2009, Drew Harwell, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Rahdert and Hollingsworth, a former vice president of the now-defunct Triangle Development, met in 2005 when Triangle paid Rahdert $6.5 million for 2 acres of his family's land on the Clearwater waterfront. Two Triangle partners, both Scientologists, sold the land to the Church of Scientology when their plans for an upscale condo development failed. The land remains vacant.

Hollingsworth, a Scientologist for more than 30 years who has publicly criticized press coverage of the church, has helped with the Fenway's redevelopment since Rahdert's purchase, attending site visits, meeting with city staff and seeking condo buyers and financiers.
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[img[x|http://www.independent.co.uk/favicon.gif]] [[Devotees mix with doubters at Scientology ceremony|http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1919355.ece]] October 23, 2006, Terry Kirby, [[The Independent]]
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There cannot have been many such occasions when Chief Superintendent Hurley has been greeted with such enthusiastic whooping from an audience, his image simultaneously magnified on huge screens.

Under massive red banners hanging from the front of the building and proclaiming DIANETICS - the underlying creed of the church - and SCIENTOLOGY, the officer was wildly applauded when he praised the "positive" work of its members in their anti-drugs work and their assistance in the wake of last year's 7 July bombings.
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[img[x|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Diana author names Tom Cruise as 'World Number Two in Scientology'|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=506359&in_page_id=1773&ct=5]] January 7, 2008, James Tapper, [[Daily Mail]]
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Andrew Morton's unauthorised biography claims Scientology has taken over the 45-year-old actor's life, with its officials selecting many of the staff at his Hollywood mansion.

The biographer of Princess Diana alleges Cruise is consulted by Scientology leader David Miscavige on "every aspect of planning and policy" and is tailoring his career to fit the aims of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dianetics logo emblazons race cars|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51429383.html?dids=51429383:51429383&FMT=FT]] November 26, 1988, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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"Dianetics," it says, splashed seven times in bold logos on each of the two yellow race cars - one to be driven by veteran racer Mario Andretti. Dianetics is the name of a best-selling self-help book by the late L. Ron Hubbard and published by Bridge Publications of Los Angeles. Dianetics is also the "science" of freeing deep-seated psychological problems that is the basis of the Church of Scientology, a group founded by Hubbard.

And Dianetics - the logo, the book and the philosophy - is inseparable from Scientology, say former sect members.

So what's this have to do with race cars?


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[img[x|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Did Tom Cruise's Cronies Skew A Parade Mag Poll In His Favor?|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/18/did-tom-cruises-cronies-_n_19325.html]] April 18, 2006, New York Post, [[Huffington Post]]
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TOM Cruise's cronies seem to have put a lot of effort into skewing a Parade magazine poll in his favor. Parade.com recently asked online readers whether they thought Cruise was responsible for his disastrous public relations year or if it was the media's fault. A shocking 84 percent of respondents blamed the press. But Parade publicist Alexis Collado tells us: "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of the 18,000-plus votes) that came in were cast from only 10 computers!
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Discrimination against Scientology|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16422828.html?FMT=FT&dids=16422828:16422828&FMTS=ABS:FT]] January 4, 1997, Heber Jentzsch, Letters, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Times' Dec. 22 article, Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past, left out nearly everything relevant to the campaign of discrimination against Scientologists in Germany, everything that would have conveyed the complete and true picture of the deplorable situation in Germany.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dispute over tax status goes to court|http://www.antisectes.net/sp-times-scientology-special-report-pulitzer-price.pdf#page=5]] January 9, 1980, Charles Stafford, Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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SCIENTOLOGY HAS been in and out of federal courts and in again in battles with IRS over its tax-exempt status. It has even resorted to illegal tactics, placing an agent in IRS headquarters where he stole thousands of documents concerning the church.

The battle is fought at every level of government. Since coming to Clearwater, the church has been locked in a fight with Pinellas County officials over whether it must pay property taxes on the Fort Harrison Hotel, the old Bank of Clearwater building, and other property it has bought in the county.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[District Scrambles to Ensure Human Rights Event Is Religion-Free|http://articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/01/local/me-jordan1]] October 1, 2005, Joel Rubin, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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State and Los Angeles Unified School District officials have confronted Scientology before. Last year, the district issued a warning to campuses after more than a dozen schools used a drug prevention program that bases its ideas partly on Scientology research and teachings. In February, a state investigation concluded that the program, called Narconon, failed to “reflect accurate, widely accepted medical and scientific evidence.”

In the latest instance, Shuttleworth agreed to remove the church's name from the event's promotional material and said she and church officials had never meant to conceal Scientology's involvement.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Distrust in Clearwater -- A special report.; Death of a Scientologist Heightens Suspicions in a Florida Town|http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/01/us/distrust-clearwater-special-report-death-scientologist-heightens-suspicions.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm]] December 1, 1997, Douglas Frantz, [[New York Times]]
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She was taken to a nearby hospital for a psychiatric examination, but several Scientologists arrived and explained that their religion opposes psychiatry. Ms. McPherson asked to leave and, against medical advice, she was released into the care of the Scientologists.

Seventeen days later, after being kept under 24-hour watch at a Scientology-owned hotel in downtown Clearwater, Ms. McPherson was dead. By church accounts, she had spit out food, banged violently on the walls of her room and hallucinated. The county medical examiner said Ms. McPherson was deprived of water for at least her last 5 to 10 days and died of a blood clot brought on by severe dehydration.
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 [[DIY rubbish collectors help council clean up area|http://icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600eastgrinstead/content_objectid=13109493_method=full_siteid=50101_headline=-DIY-rubbish-collectors-help-council-clean-up-area-name_page.html]] June 25, 2003, [[icSurreyOnline]]
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The clean-up operation was organised by the East Grinstead Scientology Volunteer Minister Group, assisted by residents and town clerk Chris Rolley, who made several journeys to the tip to dispose of the rubbish.
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[img[x|http://images.chillingeffects.org/favicon.ico]] [[DMCA "Repeat Infringers": Scientology Critic’s Account Reinstated after Counter-Notification -- |http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=605]] June 6, 2008, Wendy Seltzer, [[Chilling Effects Clearinghouse]]
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The Scientology critic known as “Wise Beard Man” returned to YouTube this week after successfully filing counter-notifications to copyright claims that had earlier been made against his account. The takedown and delayed return illuminate another of the lesser-known shoals of the DMCA safe harbor, the 512(i)(1)(A) “repeat infringers” consideration.
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 [[Doc suspended for prescribing Valium|http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2178956&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6]] August 5, 2001, AP, [[The Trentonian]]
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A doctor was suspended for a year for improperly prescribing Valium to unlicensed Church of Scientology workers caring for a church member who had suffered a mental breakdown.

Dr. David I. Minkoff, 53, of Clearwater, Fla., also a Scientologist, will lose his medical license for a year and will be required to practice under probation for two more years, the Board of Medicine ruled Friday. He was fined $10,000.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Doctor in Lisa McPherson case suspended|http://www.sptimes.com/News/080401/TampaBay/Doctor_in_Lisa_McPher.shtml]] August 4, 2001, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Florida's Board of Medicine has sternly sanctioned Clearwater physician David I. Minkoff, finding he improperly prescribed medicine for a patient he had never seen -- Scientologist Lisa McPherson.

Minkoff, also a Scientologist, prescribed Valium and the muscle relaxant chloral hydrate at the behest of unlicensed Church of Scientology staffers who were trying to nurse McPherson, 36, through a severe mental breakdown.

When they failed after 17 days of isolating her, Minkoff was recruited again. This time, he pronounced McPherson dead.
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{{cite news | first = Thomas C. | last = Tobin | coauthors = Ulferts, Alisa | title = Doctor in Lisa McPherson case suspended | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/080401/TampaBay/Doctor_in_Lisa_McPher.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2001-08-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Doctor settles his part of wrongful death suit|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/91598/Doctor_settles_his_pa.html]] September 15, 1998, Lucy Morgan, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A Clearwater doctor who declared Scientologist Lisa McPherson dead when she arrived at a New Port Richey hospital in December 1995 has paid her estate $100,000 to settle his portion of a wrongful death suit McPherson's family filed against the Church of Scientology and others.

James Felman, the Tampa lawyer who represents Dr. David Minkoff, said two medical malpractice insurance companies paid the entire amount.
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{{cite news | first = Lucy | last = Morgan | title = Doctor settles his part of wrongful death suit | url = http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/91598/Doctor_settles_his_pa.html | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1998-09-15 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Doctors back schools dropping flawed antidrug program|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/BAGTRBVGME1.DTL]] March 27, 2005, Nanette Asimov, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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The California Medical Association has declared unanimous support for school districts that have dropped Narconon and other "factually inaccurate approaches" to antidrug instruction from their classrooms, and will urge the American Medical Association to do the same.
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{{cite news | first = Nanette | last = Asimov | title = Doctors back schools dropping flawed antidrug program | url = http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/BAGTRBVGME1.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2005-03-27 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Doctors paid by church give defense|http://www.sptimes.com/News/030700/TampaBay/Doctors_paid_by_churc.shtml]] March 7, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Their primary conclusion: McPherson, 36, died suddenly and unpredictably of a blood clot in her left lung that originated from a knee bruise she suffered in a minor auto accident 17 days earlier.

"This is Forensic Pathology 101," said Baden, once part of O.J. Simpson's "dream team" defense. "This is not complicated."
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{{cite news | first = Thomas C. | last = Tobin | title = Doctors paid by church give defense | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/030700/TampaBay/Doctors_paid_by_churc.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2000-03-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[Does Germany Have Something Against These Guys?|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985883,00.html]] February 10, 1997, Bruce W. Nelan, [[TIME Magazine]]
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John Travolta and Tom Cruise may be just pop-culture icons to you and me, but in Germany their faith in the preachings of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism. Now Germany's stern attitudes are raising something of an international ruckus, fueled in equal parts by the assertive Church of Scientology, Hollywood luminaries and a U.S. government caught with conflicting objectives.
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{{cite news | first = Bruce W. | last = Nelan | coauthors = Bonfante, Jordan; van Voorst, Bruce | title = Does Germany Have Something Against These Guys? | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985883,00.html | work = TIME Magazine | date = 1997-02-10 | accessdate = 2010-02-21 }}
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[img[x|http://gawker.com/favicon.ico]] [[Don't Be Glib: Anderson Cooper's War on Scientology|http://gawker.com/346532/anderson-coopers-war-on-scientology]] January 18, 2008, Pareene, [[Gawker]]
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Last night Anderson Cooper, CNN's prettiest anchor, investigated that infamous video of Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist. His correspondent talked to a former member of the church and took us deep into the world of strange symbols and acronyms and claims made by America's favorite tiny grinning superstar actor. Then Cooper replayed a contentious interview with Scientology's head Inquisitor into the crimes of Psychology. Cooper even called the religion a fraud based on pseudo-science (or at least pointed out that that is a "criticism leveled against Scientology"). What's Anderson's beef with LRH?
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{{cite news | author = Pareene | title = Don't Be Glib: Anderson Cooper's War on Scientology | url = http://gawker.com/346532/anderson-coopers-war-on-scientology | work = Gawker | date = 2008-01-18 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nypost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Don't be tricked by $ci-Fi Tom-Foolery|http://www.nypost.com/seven/04202007/news/columnists/dont_be_tricked_by_ci_fi_tom_foolery_columnists_kyle_smith.htm]] April 20, 2007, Kyle Smith, [[New York Post]]
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LAST night another religious wack job came to attack Ground Zero: Tom bin Cruise.

The warden of the Katie Holmes Correctional Facility zoomed in to do a "benefit" for his Scientology group, the "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project." Only Cruise would hold a benefit for himself.
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{{cite news | first = Kyle | last = Smith | title = Don't be tricked by $ci-Fi Tom-Foolery | url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/04202007/news/columnists/dont_be_tricked_by_ci_fi_tom_foolery_columnists_kyle_smith.htm | work = New York Post | date = 2007-04-20 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Dossiers found in Italy Scientology raid|http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/20/Dossiers-found-in-Italy-Scientology-raid/UPI-47571274400755/]] May 20, 2010, [[UPI]]
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Italian police who raided a Scientology chapter said they found what appeared to be extensive files on law-enforcement officials and former members.

The documents were in a locked room of the Scientology chapter in Turin and were said to contain information on the subjects' health, politics and sexual habits, the ANSA news agency said Thursday.
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 [['Dossiers on enemies' found in Italian Scientology raid|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/21/scientology_italy_raid/]] May 21, 2010, John Leyden, [[The Register]]
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Italian police reportedly unearthed hidden dossiers on 'enemies' during a raid on Church of Scientology offices in Turin.

The files, apparently discovered behind locked doors in a basement office, allegedly contained personal information on judges, police officers and journalists identified as hostile to the Church.

Details on former Church members who have turned against Scientology were also reportedly recovered from handwritten files and computer records seized following a nine-hour search of the premises. No arrests took place, UPI adds.
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{{cite news | first = John | last = Leyden | title = 'Dossiers on enemies' found in Italian Scientology raid | url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/21/scientology_italy_raid/ | work = The Register | date = 2010-05-21 | accessdate = 2011-08-10 }}
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[img[x|http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Double Crossed|http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-12-23/news/double-crossed/full]] December 23, 1999, Tony Ortega, Phoenix New Times, [[Village Voice Media]]
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The Church of Scientology has a reputation for ruthlessly going after its enemies. Robert Cipriano claims Scientologists rewarded him for helping them do just that. Now he's turned on them.
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{{cite news | first = Tony | last = Ortega | title = Double Crossed | url = http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-12-23/news/double-crossed/full | work = Phoenix New Times | publisher = Village Voice Media | date = 1999-12-23 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dozens of groups operate under auspices of Church of Scientology|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51440809.html?dids=51440809:51440809&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] December 22, 1988, Stephen Koff, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Operating under auspices of the Church of Scientology are dozens of groups, many of them separate legal entities. Untangling Scientology's lines of organizations can be difficult; even the sect's own charts that have been used in court cases are complex. Here are some of Scientology's organizations.
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{{cite news | first = Stephen | last = Koff | title = Dozens of groups operate under auspices of Church of Scientology | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51440809.html?dids=51440809:51440809&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1988-12-22 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.boston.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church|http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/11/dozens_of_masked_protesters_blast_scientology_church/]] February 11, 2008, John S. Forrester, [[Boston Globe]]
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A group of more than 50 masked protesters gathered yesterday outside of the Church of Scientology of Boston headquarters on Beacon Street to demonstrate against the policies of the church. Protesters said the event was part of a worldwide demonstration against the church by Anonymous, an informal Internet-based group.
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{{cite news | first = John S. | last = John S. | title = Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church | url = http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/11/dozens_of_masked_protesters_blast_scientology_church/ | work = Boston Globe | date = 2008-02-11 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dr. Cruise says don't touch the meds|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/people/225601_people25.html]] May 25, 2005, People in the News, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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While the focus of Tom Cruise news is his romance with young actress Katie Holmes as well as his upcoming movies -- "War of the Worlds" and "Mission Impossible III" -- the actor took time out of his busy schedule to blast Brooke Shields for taking Paxil.
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{{cite news | title = Dr. Cruise says don't touch the meds | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/people/225601_people25.html | work = People in the News | publisher = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date = 2005-05-25 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Dredging of port could net $377,500 during first year, federal study says|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51697053.html?dids=51697053:51697053&FMT=FT]] August 16, 1986, Jane Meinhardt, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Water depth at the port is about 22 feet, with the depth in some entrance-channel areas as shallow as 20 feet. The depths create a narrow margin of safety for the Boheme, the only cruise ship sailing from the port. The 450-foot vessel draws 20 feet when fully loaded.

Port revenue from cruise business totaled $138,000 last year, the first year of the Boheme's operation. This includes fees charged for each passenger, docking and water. The vessel offers seven-day cruises.
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{{cite news | first = Jane | last = Meinhardt | title = Dredging of port could net $377,500 during first year, federal study says | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51697053.html?dids=51697053:51697053&FMT=FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1986-08-16 | accessdate = 2011-08-10 }}
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 [[Drivers angered at signs|http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/8998981804543180798]] January 24, 2007, Peter Reuell, [[MetroWest Daily News]]
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A group of demonstrators yesterday angered passersby, prompting them to shout out car windows and make obscene gestures at the sign holders, who demanded a list of medications taken by young murder suspect John Odgren.

The group said its goal was to educate the community about the dangers of psychiatric drugs, but most said the demonstration five days after the death of Lincoln-Sudbury freshman James Alenson was ill-timed and inappropriate.
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{{cite news | first = Peter | last = Reuell | title = Drivers angered at signs | url = http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/8998981804543180798 | work = MetroWest Daily News | date = 2007-01-24 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Drug for hyperactive children draws new fire|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1988/8801290911.asp]] October 27, 1988, Tom Paulson, [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
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Carl Hager, director of the Seattle branch of a national group called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, said the problem is that psychiatrists need to find reasons for prescribing drugs to support their livelihood.

People wearing T-shirts emblazoned with "psychiatry kills" unfurled banners around town denouncing psychiatry. Many of them handed out brochures claiming psychiatrists are "making drug addicts out of America's school children." 

Hager said the practitioners of Scientology adhere to the idea that there is no such thing as mental illness.
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{{cite news | first = Tom | last = Paulson | title = Drug for hyperactive children draws new fire | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1988/8801290911.asp | work = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date = 1988-10-27 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/favicon/NS_favicon.ico]] [[Drug treatment group warning|http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Drug-treatment-group-warning.2772712.jp]] May 21, 2008, [[Edinburgh Evening News]]
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Narconon Scotland has leafleted homes in the city, but the leaflets do not mention the quasi-religious group, despite using the principles of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to treat addicts. 

Tom Wood, chairman of the Edinburgh Drug and Alcohol Action Team, said: "We know of this group, but we would only ever encourage people to attend credible counselling groups."
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[img[x|http://www.theregister.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Dutch AG upholds decision in Scientology case|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/dutch_isp_scientology/]] March 21, 2005, Jan Libbenga, [[The Register]]
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Dutch Attorney-General DWF Verkade has now published an 82 page opinion to the Dutch Supreme Court, in which he upholds the decision that free speech can trump copyright. "Although copyright resides under Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights and can therefore be regarded as a human right, this does not exempt copyright from being balanced against the right to freedom of information," Verkade concludes. It is expected that the Supreme Court will adhere to his advice.
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{{cite news | first = Jan | last = Libbenga | title = Dutch AG upholds decision in Scientology case | url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/dutch_isp_scientology/ | work = The Register | date = 2005-03-21 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Earle Cooley is chairman of BU's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets.|http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_1.html]] April 19, 1996, Dan Kennedy, BU's Scientology Connection, [[Boston Phoenix]]
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It was last August 12, a Saturday morning, and Earle Cooley did not seem happy.

Cooley was among several lawyers for the Church of Scientology who, accompanied by federal agents, had just raided the Arlington, Virginia, home of Arnaldo Lerma, a former church member who"d become a harsh critic. The lawyers took quite a haul: Lerma's computer, disks, a scanner, and other materials they thought he may have used to post secret, copyrighted Scientology documents on the Internet.

The success of the operation, though, was not reflected in Cooley's demeanor. "When he was sitting on my couch at the beginning of the raid, he did not look pleased," says Lerma. "He knew there was going to be trouble."

For one thing, as soon as the raid began, Lerma called two friends to have them videotape the proceedings. For another, Lerma told Cooley that he"d just been named to the board of FACTNet, a Golden, Colorado-based anti-cult organization with the legal resources to defend its members.
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{{cite news | first = Dan | last = Kennedy | title = Earle Cooley is chairman of BU's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets. | url = http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_1.html | work = BU's Scientology Connection | publisher = Boston Phoenix | date = 1996-04-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://badgerherald.com/i/favicon.ico]] [[Earth to Xenu: Let Scientology implode|http://badgerherald.com/oped/2008/01/29/earth_to_xenu_let_sc.php]] January 29, 2008, Charles Lim, OpEd, [[The Badger Herald]]
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The church's actions have not gone unnoticed. In what is a fantastic example of empowerment the Internet gives to the common user, a grassroots movement of various Internet communities has banded together to attack, dismantle and ultimately destroy the institution. Calling themselves Anonymous, these vigilantes are a collection of various message board communities previously concerned with less noble feats such as raiding virtual online hotels, harassing the furry-fetish community and creating internet memes.
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{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Lim | title = Earth to Xenu: Let Scientology implode | url = http://badgerherald.com/oped/2008/01/29/earth_to_xenu_let_sc.php | work = OpEd | publisher = The Badger Herald | date = 2008-01-29 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://film.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Earth under threat again as Travolta hints at sci-fi sequel|http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Exclusive/0,,384911,00.html]] October 19, 2000, [[Guardian Unlimited]]
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Defending the scientology-inspired film to journalists this week, he said: "The bottom line is that I feel really good about it. Here I was taking big chances, breaking a new genre… I am so thrilled, believe it or not, at the outcome because I didn't believe I could get it done."" Asked whether there would be a "Battlefield 2" he said: "Sure.Yeah."
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[img[x|http://www.metroactive.com/favicon.ico]] [[EarthLink & Scientology|http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.19.98/scientology-9811.html]] March 19, 1998, Michael Learmonth, Metroactive, [[Metro Newspapers]]
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EarthLink says the Scientology preaching of its founder has no bearing on the Internet service company, but not everyone on the Net is convinced
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[img[x|http://www.thestandard.com/favicon.ico]] [[EarthLink Connects|http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,436,00.html]] May 28, 1998, Michelle V. Rafter, [[TheStandard.com]]
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The Southern California Internet Service Provider has defied conventional wisdom just by surviving. Now Dayton and Betty are betting the company on a $180 million deal with Sprint.
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{{cite news | first = Michelle V. | last = Rafter | title = EarthLink Connects | url = http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,436,00.html | work = TheStandard.com | date = 1998-05-28 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[EarthLink's global odyssey|http://www.news.com/2009-1033-888081.html]] April 25, 2002, John Borland, [[CNET]]
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In 1993, Sky Dayton was "pulling his hair out" trying to get online -- so he bought 10 modems and set up his own Internet service provider, named EarthLink a year later.
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{{cite news | first = John | last = Borland | title = EarthLink's global odyssey | url = http://www.news.com/2009-1033-888081.html | work = CNET | date = 2002-04-25 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Eastside Journal -- Glad It's Over|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940121&slug=1890837]] January 21, 1994, Nancy Montgomery, [[Seattle Times]]
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Glad it's over: Kathy Tonkin, formerly of Kirkland, who hired a cult "deprogrammer" to get her 18-year-old son out of a Bellevue church, will probably not be charged with any crimes following this week's acquittal of the deprogrammer on unlawful-imprisonment charges.

"The victim does not want us to charge his mother," said Joe Wheeler, deputy Grays Harbor County prosecutor. "In a week or so, we'll sit down and figure out whether to do so."
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{{cite news | first = Nancy | last = Montgomery | title = Eastside Journal -- Glad It's Over | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940121&slug=1890837 | work = Seattle Times | date = 1994-01-21 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[e-book version of Cruise biography could lead to legal action in Australia|http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1348734124;fp;2;fpid;1]] January 16, 2008, Andrew Hendry, [[PC World]]
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The publishers and author of the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography could be sued under Australian defamation laws if anyone in Australia read it online in the form of an e-book.
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{{cite news | first = Andrew | last = Hendry | title = e-book version of Cruise biography could lead to legal action in Australia | url = http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1348734124;fp;2;fpid;1 | work = PC World | date = 2008-01-16 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.cyberpresse.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Église de scientologie: un autre coup dur|http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/societe/201003/20/01-4262724-eglise-de-scientologie-un-autre-coup-dur.php]] March 21, 2010, Marc Allard, [[Le Soleil]]
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Avortements forcés, voies de fait, emprisonnement, torture, abus sexuels, malversations, chantage: l'Église de scientologie a été accusée d'avoir commis tous ces crimes ces derniers mois, alors que les dénonciations d'ex-scientologues se multipliaient dans le monde.
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{{cite news | first = Marc | last = Allard | title = Église de scientologie: un autre coup dur | url = http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/societe/201003/20/01-4262724-eglise-de-scientologie-un-autre-coup-dur.php | work = Le Soleil | date = 2010-03-21 | accessdate = 2012-03-21 }}
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[img[x|http://www.hrwf.net/img/icon.jpg]] [[Egypt jails two Scientologists|http://www.hrwf.net/religiousfreedom/news/egypt2002.HTM]] March 5, 2002, UPI, [[Human Rights Without Frontiers]]
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They are also suspected of intending to spread the doctrine "with the aim of spreading riots." The Church of Scientology has denied the charges.

"They were not official representatives of the Church of Scientology," said Goodman. "They were representing the Italian branch of New Era Publications, which publishes the works of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology."

Goodman said Massarwa and Ahmad were in Egypt to promote Hubbard's book "Dianetics," which she said does not promote any religion or discuss the subject of religion. She also stressed that the Egyptian censorship authorities had authorized the book's entry into the country.
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{{cite news | title = Egypt jails two Scientologists | url = http://www.hrwf.net/religiousfreedom/news/egypt2002.HTM | work = UPI | publisher = Human Rights Without Frontiers | date = 2002-03-05 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.abc.net.au/favicon.ico]] [[Elfman slams Scientology critics|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/30/2405829.htm]] October 30, 2008, AAP, [[ABC News (Australia)]]
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"If someone starts talking to me negatively about something they've never actually studied that actual text of, I don't really admire them very much because it shows they don't have much integrity, so I just kind of ignore them," Elfman told AAP in Sydney.

"I'm not going to listen to gossip and hearsay about something that's affected my life so tremendously in such a tremendously positive way."
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{{cite news | title = Elfman slams Scientology critics | url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/30/2405829.htm | work = AAP | publisher = ABC News (Australia) | date = 2008-10-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Elvis' daughter gets married|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51389887.html?dids=51389887:51389887&FMT=FT]] October 6, 1988, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Lisa Marie Presley, the 20-year-old daughter of Elvis, has wed a musician she dated for three years, her publicist said Wednesday.

Lisa Marie wed Danny Keough, 23, this week in a private ceremony at the Hollywood headquarters of the Church of Scientology, said the publicist, Paul Bloch.

``In attendance were the mother of the bride, actress Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, family and a few close friends,`` said Bloch, who represents the mother and daughter.
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[img[x|http://www.observer.com/misc/favicon.ico]] [[Employee Accuses Real Estate Firm Of Turning on Scientology E-Meter|http://www.observer.com/1997/employee-accuses-real-estate-firm-turning-scientology-e-meter]] September 28, 1997, Dylan Foley, [[New York Observer]]
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According to Ms. Schwartz's E.E.O.C. complaint, Mr. Feldman's advocacy didn't stop with mandatory night classes. In 1993, she alleges, Mr. Feldman scheduled mandatory five-hour Scientology seminars at the office. In some seminars, Mr. Schwartz said, she was forced to read church literature and demonstrate what she had learned by using clay figures and other props: "People would be rolling their eyes while they were doing this, and the teacher would go, 'Ooh, very good,'" she said.

Mr. Feldman's alleged activities provoked a strong response from Diana Featherstone, a former vice president of administration for Mr. Feldman. In an affidavit filed with Ms. Schwartz's complaint, Ms. Featherstone said she told Mr. Feldman that the church's management training was "very religious and cultlike in nature." She says she was disturbed enough to resist an order to write a memorandum saying that the courses were mandatory.

According to Ms. Featherstone, Mr. Feldman went into a rage and wrote the memo himself. Ms. Featherstone said she began looking for another job, only to be fired when another employee discovered her résumé in the computer system. According to Ms. Featherstone, the employee was an enthusiastic promoter of the mandatory Scientology classes and soon after became vice president for administration.
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[img[x|http://www.ecanadanow.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[EPA a bunch of liars says Tom Cruise|http://www.ecanadanow.com/news/entertainment/epa-a-bunch-of-liars-says-tom-cruise-20080118.html]] January 18, 2008, [[eCanadaNow.com]]
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Tom Cruise has branded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) liars for saying the air was clean after 9/11.

The 'Mission Impossible' star has revealed how, as a Scientologist, he recognised there was a problem and provided rescue workers in the aftermath of the New York terrorist attack with detoxification therapy based upon the works of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard.
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[img[x|http://www.cbc.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Episode 23 - Leaving Scientology|http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/interview/2011/02/18/episode-23--/]] February 18, 2011, Day 6, [[CBC Radio]]
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When Canadian film director and writer Paul Haggis ended his 34-year relationship with the Church of Scientology he wrote a letter to Tommy Davis, church's spokesman. 

Haggis had a number of issues with the church including its position on gay marriage. His resignation from the church was a big deal because he was one of its highest profile members.

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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ethnic cleansing the poor in New Orleans|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-09-29/news_story5.php]] September 29, 2005, Naomi Klein, [[NOW Magazine]]
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Outside the 2,000-bed temporary shelter in Baton Rouge's River Center, a Church of Scientology band is performing a version of Bill Withers's classic Use Me – a refreshingly honest choice. "If it feels this good getting used," the Scientology singer belts out, "just keep on using me until you use me up." Ten-year-old Nyler, lying face down on a massage table, has pretty much the same attitude. She's not quite sure why the nice lady in the yellow Scientology Volunteer Minister T-shirt wants to rub her back, but "it feels so good," she tells me, so who really cares?
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[img[x|http://www.post-gazette.com/favicon.ico]] [[Events occur more quickly on the Net|http://www.post-gazette.com/interact/20020425radin3.asp]] April 25, 2002, David Radin, [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]
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According to the church, Operation Clambake is infringing on the church's copyrighted material, and that by linking to Operation Clambake, Google is aiding the copyright infringement as defined by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

So, in a flurry of activity, Google has removed the link to stay within the bounds of the law, devised a plan to deal with similar issues in the future then replaced the links in the search engine.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Examiner lied, Scientology lawyer says|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17004206.html?FMT=FT&dids=17004206:17004206&FMTS=ABS:FT]] March 1, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Church of Scientology is again criticizing medical examiner Joan Wood, accusing her of lying and reaching conclusions "off the top of her head."

The accusations came Friday after the court-ordered release of some of Wood's files in the case of Lisa McPherson, a 36-year-old Scientologist who died in 1995 after a 17-day stay in the church's downtown Clearwater retreat.

The files include photos of what Wood says are likely cockroach bites on McPherson's right wrist and hand.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Examiner, Scientologists differ on death|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16996624.html?FMT=FT&dids=16996624:16996624&FMTS=ABS:FT]] January 23, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Laboratory tests indicate that a 36-year-old member of the Church of Scientology went without fluids for five to 10 days and was unconscious for up to two days before her unexplained death in 1995.

Those conclusions by Joan Wood, the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner, are at odds with the Church of Scientology's version of how Lisa McPherson died after spending 17 days in the organization's downtown Clearwater retreat.
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Exclusive excerpt: New Tom Cruise biography|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22613285/]] January 15, 2008, [[MSNBC]]
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 [[Exclusive: Honey Loon|http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=honey-loon-&method=full&objectid=18123351&siteid=94762-name_page.html]] November 20, 2006, Graham Brough, [[Mirror.co.uk]]
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TOM Cruise yesterday took his best man on honeymoon with him and new wife Katie Holmes after their lavish but bizarre wedding in Italy.

The 44-year-old star was allegedly spotted hopping on a private jet to the Maldives with senior Scientologist David Miscavige, 46, as other boozed-up guests headed for the US.
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 [[Exclusive: Scientology 'Straight'ening Closeted Actors For Years, Says Author|http://gawker.com/347539/exclusive-scientology-straightening-closeted-actors-for-years-says-author]] January 22, 2008, MollyF, [[Gawker]]
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But on to the actual celeb scoop. After a 1991 article in Time came out claiming John Travolta was being held hostage in the church, scared that by defecting, they'd reveal everything he'd confessed to them about his homosexuality, he announced his engagement to Kelly Preston two days later. 17 years later, he's still a proud card-carrying member. 

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 [[Exclusive: Weird Science|http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15766200&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=weird-science--name_page.html]] July 22, 2005, Laurie Hanna, [[Mirror.co.uk]]
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IT'S the belief system which actor Tom Cruise says has changed his life and made him a better man.

But the controversial Church of Scientology was criticised last week after claims it was preying on people caught up in the London bombings.

Packs of yellow-shirted believers arrived at the scenes of carnage, offering "spiritual healing" to distraught relatives - and £3 booklets titled How To Improve Conditions In Life.

And yesterday 200 "volunteer ministers" were sent out across the capital to talk to people after the latest alerts.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Exempted, not vindicated|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51798446.html?dids=51798446:51798446&FMT=FT]] November 21, 1993, Editorial, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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David Miscavige, chairman of the board for Scientology's "Religious Technology Center," said recently that the IRS decision to grant his corporate empire a tax exemption was "a major victory for us." He added: "We were under siege. . . . Now we've been vindicated."

His smugness aside, the business of Scientology, which is to sell vulnerable people counseling services at rates up to $800 an hour, was not vindicated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. It was merely exempted from taxation.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Explosive claims on Cruise baby|http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23014932-5012974,00.html]] January 7, 2008, Paul Kent, [[Herald Sun]]
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Biographer Andrew Morton also claims Cruise's former wife, Nicole Kidman, fears the release of tapes made with Scientologists revealing intimate sexual details.

Cruise has strongly denied the claims and has already instructed lawyers to draw up a $110 million lawsuit against the book's publisher, St Martin's Press.
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{{cite news | first = Paul | last = Kent | title = Explosive claims on Cruise baby | url = http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23014932-5012974,00.html | work = Herald Sun | date = 2008-01-07 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.foxnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Explosive New Tom Cruise Biography Slams Scientology|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320519,00.html]] January 6, 2008, Celebrity Gossip , [[FOX News]]
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Claims that Tom Cruise is the second-in-command of the Church of Scientology and that some scientologists believe his daughter Suri is the product of a sperm donation from Scientology's late founder L. Ron Hubbard are among the explosive charges author Andrew Morton alleges in his new book, "Tom Cruise, An Unauthorized Biography," London's Daily Mail reported Sunday.
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[img[x|http://www.eyeweekly.com/images/favicon.ico]] [[Expose Sick Kids' experiment|http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.30.92/news/cit0130.php]] January 30, 1992, Paul Palango, [[Eye Weekly]]
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"It is clear now that I was a guinea pig for a psychosurgery experiment," Parker said.

But having the Church of Scientology's fingerprints on his case is not going to win him friends anywhere.

"They showed me the way and I'm grateful to them. But they're kind of weird. I'm a John Lennon, I don't believe in nothing except me."
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{{cite news | first = Paul | last = Palango | title = Expose Sick Kids' experiment | url = http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.30.92/news/cit0130.php | work = Eye Weekly | date = 1992-01-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/favicon.ico]] [[Exposed: guess who has been polishing their Wikipedia entries?|http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article2264150.ece]] August 15, 2007, Rhys Blakely, [[The Times]]
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A computer linked to the Church of Scientology's network was used to delete references to links between it and a group dubbed the “Cult Awareness Network”.
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[img[x|http://www.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientologist Collects $8.7 Million In 22-Year-Old Case|http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A63143-2002May9]] May 10, 2002, Richard Leiby, [[Washington Post]]
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Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $30 million, then dropped to $2.5 million.

But the Church of Scientology never paid -- until yesterday, when officials wrote a check for more than $8.6 million to end the case, one of the longest-running in California history.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientologist had evidence destroyed|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009369000_apusscientologydeath.html]] June 22, 2009, St. Petersburg Times, [[Seattle Times]]
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A former high-ranking Scientology official who handled the case of a mentally ill member who died under church care ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence to cover up missteps, a newspaper reported Monday.

The ex-official and church defector, Marty Rathbun, had for years insisted the church did nothing wrong in handling the case of Lisa McPherson's death on Dec. 5, 1995. But he recently told the St. Petersburg Times the church botched the woman's case from the start.
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 [[Ex-Scientologist sues the cult for loss of girlfriend and business|http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exscientologist-sues-the-cult-for-loss-of-girlfriend-and-business-1825557.html]] November 22, 2009, Adam Luck, [[The Independent]]
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A businessman is suing the Church of Scientology for hundreds of thousands of pounds, claiming that he lost his girlfriend and business after she became indoctrinated by the controversial self-styled church.
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{{cite news | first = Adam | last = Luck | title = Ex-Scientologist sues the cult for loss of girlfriend and business | url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exscientologist-sues-the-cult-for-loss-of-girlfriend-and-business-1825557.html | work = The Independent | date = 2009-11-22 | accessdate = 2012-11-29 }}
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[img[x|http://blogs.ocweekly.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientologist to Garden Grove Mayor: Do Your Research Before the Grip-n-Grin|http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/06/ex-scientologist_to_garden_gro.php]] June 18, 2012, Josh Dulaney, [[OC Weekly]]
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Politicos beware: if you're ever caught glad-handing the Church of Scientology, one of its former members will pay you a visit at a public meeting and give you the verbal version of "Scientology for Dummies." 

Paulien Lombard, the former Scientologist who used to spy for church, is continuing her relentless campaign to spread the word about the abuses she says members of the organization suffer at the hands of their leaders. Her latest tour stop was at a Garden Grove City Council meeting.

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 [[Ex-Scientologist to return home to France after kidnapping ordeal|http://www.ttc.org/200803011247.m21clmx06964.htm]] March 1, 2008, AFP, [[Tocqueville Connection]]
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Martine Boublil, who was found half naked on a mattress infested with insects and worms in a room full of rubbish on January 21, is still recovering in hospital from the ordeal but will return to France "sometime next week," the spokesman told AFP from the northern Sardinian town of Nuoro.
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{{cite news | title = Ex-Scientologist to return home to France after kidnapping ordeal | url = http://www.ttc.org/200803011247.m21clmx06964.htm | work = AFP | publisher = Tocqueville Connection | date = 2008-03-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientologists Protest Goodwill Games Sponsor|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1061263&date=19900316]] March 16, 1990, Associated Press, [[Seattle Times]]
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A group of ex-Scientologists is spearheading a protest campaign against the Olympic-style Goodwill Games over a corporate sponsor affiliated with the controversial Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.catholic.org/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientologists Speak Out at LA Press Conference|http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=35423]] February 15, 2010, Randy Sly, [[Catholic Online]]
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The airwaves of Los Angeles were buzzing with accounts of Scientology abuses last Friday after ex-staffers held a news conference in Hollywood. This event and a weekend filled with activities called a Megaraid marked the second anniversary of Project Chanology, a global protest against Scientology by an internet-based group called Anonymous.

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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientology celebs recall swingin' 70s|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/19/20/News/brief.html]] January 13, 2000, Enzo Di Matteo, [[NOW Magazine]]
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Those of you out there who remember the 70s will be happy to know that Mike Argue, former Scientologist and head of the band Chester, recently received a SOCAN classic award for the 100,000th airplay of his ditty You Make My Life A Little Bit Brighter.

It all got Argue reminiscing about his days in Scientology, when the church's "celebrity centre" attracted a boatload of notables, including a number of performing artists who went on to fame and fortune.
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Ex-Scientology Kids Share Their Stories|http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4702271]] April 24, 2008, Lisa Fletcher, [[ABC News]]
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Miscavige says Scientology can offer its followers greater ability in all areas of life, rid people of negativity, and make them "clear."

But some former members of the Sea Organization, or Sea Org (Scientology's version of clergy -- the group of people who essentially run the church), including a niece of Miscavige, see another side to the religion. They spoke to "Nightline" about how they became increasingly disillusioned with the Church of Scientology, until they decided it was time to leave.
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{{cite news | first = Lisa | last = Fletcher | coauthors = Nelson, Ethan; Burbank, Maggie | title = Ex-Scientology Kids Share Their Stories | url = http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4702271 | work = ABC News | date = 2008-04-24 | accessdate = 2011-03-24 }}
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Extortion Case Plea Denied|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E3DA1739F934A2575AC0A967948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fE%2fExtortion%20and%20Blackmail]] September 17, 1981, UPI, [[New York Times]]
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has refused to reconsider the convictions of Elizabeth Eagleton Weigand and her attorney, Stephen E. Poludniak, on charges of trying to extort $220,000 from Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, Democrat of Missouri, who is Mrs. Weigand's uncle.
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[img[x|http://www.upi.com/favicon.ico]] [[Extremists infiltrating German government|http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/14/extremists_infiltrating_german_government/3727/]] May 14, 2008, [[UPI]]
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The constitutional protection office monitors fringe groups, including terrorist groups and the Scientology organization. A report from 2006 says there are 6,000 left-wing groups in Germany who may use political violence.

The report on extremists goes public Thursday.
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[img[x|http://www.economist.com/favicon.ico]] [[Fair game|http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10609174]] January 31, 2008, [[Economist]]
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Now Scientology is under attack from a group of internet activists known only as Anonymous. Organised from a Wikipedia-style website (editable by anyone) and through anonymous internet chat rooms, “Project Chanology”, as the initiative is known, presents no easy target for Scientology's lawyers.
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 [[Fair Game For Scientology|http://torontoist.com/2008/04/fair_game_for_scientology.php]] April 13, 2008, Todd Aalgaard, [[Torontoist]]
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While past demonstrations have painted the fight against Scientology in somewhat broad strokes, Saturday's rally was considerably more pointed in its focus. Subtly Rickrolling whatever Scientology faithful remained in the building, one placard in particular cleverly summed up Anonymous' theme of the day: Scientologists: your families are never gonna give you up.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Faith-Based Welfare Puzzles Televangelist / He fears public funding of cults|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/02/22/MN3416.DTL]] February 22, 2001, Don Lattin, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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The TV preacher also fears the Church of Scientology will use Bush's faith- based welfare reform plan to expand its Narconon drug treatment program.

He said Moon's church uses "brainwashing techniques" on recruits, while the Church of Scientology is "accused of all sorts of underhanded tactics."
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{{cite news | first = Don | last = Lattin | title = Faith-Based Welfare Puzzles Televangelist / He fears public funding of cults | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/02/22/MN3416.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2001-02-22 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.boston.com/favicon.ico]] [[Falling bricks on Washington St. raise questions about other distressed buildings|http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/south_end/2011/02/falling_bricks_on_washington_s.html]] February 10, 2011, Cara Bayles, [[Boston Globe]]
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The building is boarded up, and much of it has been vacant for over 20 years. It became so rundown that it was taken over by the city in a receivership case in 2005, a rare last-resort measure that the city reserves for buildings that appear abandoned by property owners who are behind on their taxes. It was eventually bought by the Church of Scientology in 2008.
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 [[False faiths have 'their own dictionary'|http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=26778]] November 7, 2007, Keith Collier, [[Baptist Press]]
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Watchman Fellowship materials housed at Southwestern's library, in addition to the organization's Fellowship's voluminous collection of books, includes files, periodicals and other media that provide original materials produced by groups such as the Church of Scientology, the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
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[img[x|http://uk.reuters.com/resources/images/favicon.ico]] [[Famed short-seller Feshbach liquidating fund|http://www.reuters.com/article/etfNews/idUSN1936700920080619]] June 19, 2008, Dane Hamilton, [[Reuters]]
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During the 1980s, Feshbach and his two brothers, Kurt and Joe, built up a $1 billion Feshbach Brothers investment fund that specialized in short selling -- or betting on stock declines -- winning him praise and vilification on Wall Street.

Feshbach Brothers generated rich returns over 30 percent from 1982 to 1990, but later suffered a reversal of fortunes and liquidated in 1992.
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{{cite news | first = Dane | last = Hamilton | title = Famed short-seller Feshbach liquidating fund | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/etfNews/idUSN1936700920080619 | work = Reuters | date = 2008-06-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.monstersandcritics.com/favicon.ico]] [[Family feud in Scientology's upper ranks exposes more oddities|http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1390185.php/Family_feud_in_Scientologys_upper_ranks_exposes_more_oddities]] February 6, 2008, [[Monsters and Critics]]
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According to the Page Six report, Jenna now says she is being harassed by the "church."

"The church has contacted several of my friends, telling them that I am smearing the church and I am going to be declared a suppressive person and asking my friends if they would disconnect from me and, in at least one case, insisting that they do," Jenna told reporter Philip Recchia for Page Six.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Family sues Scientology in '95 death of woman|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17001852.html?FMT=FT&dids=17001852:17001852&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 20, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The lawsuit claims McPherson received Scientology treatments that "were carried out by medically untrained and unlicensed personnel."

The lawsuit was filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court by Tampa lawyer Ken Dandar, an attorney representing McPherson's estate. It promises to seek "substantial" punitive and compensatory damages against the church.
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{{cite news | first = Thomas C. | last = Tobin | title = Family sues Scientology in '95 death of woman | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17001852.html?FMT=FT&dids=17001852:17001852&FMTS=ABS:FT | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1997-02-20 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[FCAT scores at Pinellas charter school that used Scientology 'study tech' are among lowest in Tampa Bay|http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/testing/fcat-scores-at-pinellas-charter-school-that-used-scientology-study-tech/1232114]] May 26, 2012, Drew Harwell, [[Tampa Bay Times]]
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She said Hubbard's "study technology" would enlighten children and help save the school. But grades from Florida's standardized FCAT test released Thursday show that, in one year under Islam's management, Life Force students' education suffered. 

Life Force's third- and fourth-graders scored the lowest or second-lowest passing rates in math, reading and writing of more than 300 elementary schools across Tampa Bay. 

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[FDLE analyzing Barreiro's state computer|http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2009/01/fdle-analyzing.html]] January 27, 2009, The Buzz, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirms it is analyzing the computer hard drive of a state-owned laptop used by Gus Barreiro, a former high-ranking official in the Department of Juvenile Justice who was fired Jan. 16. FDLE spokeswoman Kristen Perezluha said the laptop arrived at the agency's offices Monday and is being reviewed by computer experts.
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 [[FDLE looking at hard drive of ex-state worker|http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/875461.html]] January 28, 2009, [[Miami Herald]]
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is analyzing the hard drive of a state-owned laptop computer used by Gus Barreiro, a former high-ranking official in the Department of Juvenile Justice who was fired Jan. 16.

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[img[x|http://www.foxnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[FDNY Hierarchy Furious With Tom Cruise Over Scientology Detox for 9/11 Workers|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266967,00.html]] April 19, 2007, Roger Friedman, Entertainment, [[FOX News]]
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Tom Cruise comes to New York on Thursday night, hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Scientology. He's doing it under the guise of a detox program for members of the New York Fire Department who participated in the 9/11 clean-up.

There's only problem: No one from the hierarchy of the FDNY endorses this program. The people I've talked to are furious with Cruise, and want the rank and file of firemen in New York to stay away from it.
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{{cite news | first = Roger | last = Friedman | title = FDNY Hierarchy Furious With Tom Cruise Over Scientology Detox for 9/11 Workers | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266967,00.html | work = Entertainment | publisher = FOX News | date = 2007-04-19 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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 [[Fed judge to state judge: Butt out of Scientology case|http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/sep/28/fed-judge-state-judge-butt-out-scientology-case/news-breaking/]] September 28, 2010, Elaine Silvestrini, [[Tampa Tribune]]
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In a rare clash between courts, a federal judge today said he will order a state judge not to interfere with a lawyer's handling of a federal case involving the Church of Scientology.

A visibly irritated U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday granted a motion by lawyer Kennan Dandar, who is representing the estate of Kyle Thomas Brennan in a wrongful death suit against the church.
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{{cite news | first = Elaine | last = Silvestrini | title = Fed judge to state judge: Butt out of Scientology case | url = http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/sep/28/fed-judge-state-judge-butt-out-scientology-case/news-breaking/ | work = Tampa Tribune | date = 2010-09-28 | accessdate = 2011-07-14 }}
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[img[x|http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/favicon.ico]] [[Federal center takes bomb threat precautions|www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20080313/NEWS01/303130048/UPDATED-Federal-Center-takes-bomb-threat-precautions]] March 14, 2008, [[Battle Creek Enquirer]]
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Police were notified today about the threat and members of the Battle Creek Police Department Bomb Squad, using a Michigan State Police dog trained to detect explosives, inspected both buildings but did not find anything.

MacNevin said Wednesday afternoon the Federal Center would "continue some things during the time they are appropriate and that relates to the information we receive," but he would not be specific.

Several people who claimed to be either members of Anonymous or agree with their views told the Enquirer the group is non-violent and they believe the threats were made by the church.

"I think it is a fake threat by the Scientologists to discredit their critics," said Tony Meman, 27, of Lansing.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Federal court hearing ends impasse between judges|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/federal-court-hearing-ends-impasse-between-judges/1127830]] October 13, 2010, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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An unusual impasse between two area judges came to a close after a hearing Tuesday in federal court.

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday clarified an order he issued last week, saying he never meant for it to stop Pinellas Senior Circuit Judge Robert E. Beach from withdrawing from a case involving the Church of Scientology.

Merryday said he issued the order only to prevent Beach from fining and suspending attorney Ken Dandar, who Beach determined had defied him.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Federal judge suspends state judgment against lawyer in dispute with Scientology|http://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/federal-judge-suspends-state-judgment-against-lawyer-in-dispute-with/1119444]] September 4, 2010, Craig Pittman, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Merryday got Potter and Dandar to agree to stop all proceedings in state court — including the church collecting the $130,000 judgment — until both sides can present Merryday with full briefings and oral arguments.

However, Senior Circuit Judge Robert Beach, who found Dandar in contempt and levied the $130,000 judgment, said he isn't sure such an agreement can really halt what he's done. In fact, Beach said, he believes only a state appeals court could overturn his decision, not a federal judge.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Federal judge tells Pinellas judge to back off in Scientology lawsuit|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/federal-judge-tells-pinellas-judge-to-back-off-in-scientology-lawsuit/1124793]] September 29, 2010, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A federal judge has ordered a Pinellas judge and the Church of Scientology to halt their efforts to severely punish Ken Dandar, a Tampa lawyer who is taking the church to court for the second time in his career.

The action Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday involves Pinellas Judge Robert Beach, who has said he intends to impose a $130,000 fine on Dandar and possibly suspend his license to practice law.
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 [[Few details released on body|http://www.thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2007/11/16/news/07nbody.txt]] November 17, 2007, Charles Hand, [[Valley Chronicle]]
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No cause of death has been determined.

It was found south of Gilman Springs Road approximately a half mile east of Highway 79, or Sanderson Avenue, which puts it just to the west of the Scientology complex.
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 [[Few Followers of Guru Vote|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE6DE1139F93AA35752C1A962948260]] November 9, 1984, UPI, [[New York Times]]
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Only 239 of 7,000 disciples of an Indian guru and homeless people living at his commune voted Tuesday, failing to carry out a threatened attempt to takeover a rural county government. But a spokesman for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru, indicated the commune might challenge election results.
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[img[x|http://www.smh.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Fighting dirty against a cultbuster|http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fighting-dirty-against-a-cultbuster-20100226-p958.html]] February 27, 2010, Tim Elliott, [[Sydney Morning Herald]]
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What wasn't known at the time, but can now be revealed, was that the woman making the allegations belonged to Kenja, a self-empowerment group that many consider to be a cult, against which Mutch had been speaking out in Parliament for some time.

Though the allegations were ultimately dismissed, they changed the course of Mutch's life, and, together with testimony from former Kenja members, provide a chilling insight into the extraordinary lengths to which the group will go to defend itself.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Files destroyed in Scientology case|http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,271249,00.html]] September 9, 1999, Jon Henley, [[The Guardian]]
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The Marseille documents - including financial statements and profiles of Scientology members - were destroyed last August, supposedly as part of a clear-out of the court's archives, but the loss was revealed only this week. The files related to an investigation opened in 1990 against seven Scientology leaders in Marseille and Nice who are due to stand trial later this month accused of fraud and illegally posing as doctors.

Jean-Michel Pesenti, a lawyer representing a former Scientologist who brought the case, said: "At the very least, this is suspicious. It's too much of a coincidence.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Filing delay granted to estate of Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49938917.html?dids=49938917:49938917&FMT=FT]] February 21, 1987, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A judge has granted a two-month delay to the estate of the late Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in filing documents detailing his wealth. Hubbard, also known for his science-fiction writings, died 13 months ago on his Creston ranch of natural causes. His will was filed last February, setting up a trust fund for his wife and four of his five children. The will cut off one child from any inheritance and left most of his money to the church in Los Angeles. An inventory of Hubbard's personal property not listed in the will had been scheduled to be filed Wednesday in San Luis Obispo County, but Superior Court Judge Warren C. Conklin granted the delay. A similar delay had been granted in December.
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[Film magnate's wife 'threatened boycott of Cruise movies'|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=200&objectid=10398264]] August 27, 2006, John Hiscock, [[NZ Herald]]
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Reports are circulating that the star so angered Paula Fortunato, wife of Sumner Redstone, boss of the studio's parent company, that she told her husband she was "boycotting Cruise's product for ever".
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 [[Film studio chief ended Tom Cruise deal when his wife started to hate star's antics|http://news.scotsman.com/tomcruise/Film-studio-chief-ended-Tom.2823223.jp]] November 1, 2006, [[The Scotsman]]
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THE man who ended the actor Tom Cruise's 14-year-relationship with Paramount Pictures has admitted he was influenced by his wife, because she and "women everywhere" had started to hate the star.

Sumner Redstone, 83, the head of Viacom, stunned Hollywood this year when he revealed that the studio would sever its ties with the actor's production company, accusing him of "creative suicide" with his outlandish behaviour.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Finding Stress, and Some Friction|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/nyregion/29scientology.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&position=]] March 29, 2005, Andy Newman, [[New York Times]]
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Last night, however, the Scientologists experienced a high-stress event themselves. Plainclothes detectives determined that the books were being sold, not given in exchange for donations, in violation of New York City Transit rules against unlicensed vending, said Paul J. Browne, the deputy commissioner for public information for the Police Department.

The detectives issued six people $50 summonses and ejected them from the Times Square station, Mr. Browne said.

"There had been an agreement that they could stay there as long as they did not get in people's way, and did not sell the material," Mr. Browne said. "They did not live up to the agreement."
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 [[Fire at Brisbane's Church of Scientology|http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/fire-at-brisbanes-church-of-scientology-20110518-1erwl.html]] May 18, 2011, Marissa Calligeros, [[Brisbane Times]]
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Firefighters were called to a fire at Brisbane's Church of Scientology in the city's inner-south this morning.

It is understood a discarded cigarette sparked the fire in a pile of rubbish in the courtyard of the church about 2am.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Fire at Church of Scientology in Annerley|http://www.news.com.au/fire-at-church-of-scientology-in-annerley/story-e6freoof-1226057957238]] May 18, 2011, Anna Chisholm, [[The Courier-Mail]]
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A FIRE broke out at The Church of Scientology of Brisbane at Annerley overnight. 

Emergency services said material in a courtyard caught fire and affected a couple of air-conditioning units.

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 [[Fire damages Scientology building in Clearwater|http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2011/may/14/fire-damages-scientology-building-in-clearwater-ar-207469/]] May 14, 2011, [[Tampa Bay Online]]
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An electrical fire caused an estimated $700,000 in damage today to a Clearwater building owned by the Church of Scientology, officials said.

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 [[Firefighters have or will complete Travolta detoxification program|http://www.ocala.com/article/20100726/articles/7261005?p=all&tc=pgall]] July 26, 2010, Lee Ferinden, [[Ocala Star-Banner]]
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Toxins are stored in the body's fatty tissue, where they are excreted by sweating, explained Dr. George Yu, a surgeon and professor at George Washington University who champions detoxification.

But the treatment has critics who contend it is unproven and lacks necessary medical research. Dr. Frank Fraunfelter, medical director for city and county fire departments, has many reservations.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Fireworks display planned in Clearwater|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49835907.html?dids=49835907:49835907&FMT=FT]] January 1, 1988, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A holiday fireworks show sponsored by the Church of Scientology will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The fireworks can be seen from the foot of Drew Street and along the downtown waterfront in Clearwater, said spokesman Richard Haworth. The public is invited.

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 [[First Person Testimony: Beware - Religious Tsunami to hit Sri Lanka soon|http://www.asiantribune.com/oldsite/show_news.php?id=14523]] May 24, 2005, Christian Eckert, [[Asian Tribune]]
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It was Lalith, who knew their right intention. He explained to me; by marrying a Sri Lankan widow, they are eligible to stay in Sri Lanka with a resident visa. This gives them the legal freedom to build up their sinister operations from a private house, with out getting exposed to the public. 

Similar things happened, when Scientology stepped in to Germany. Marriage brought them German citizenship. They cannot be expelled easily. The German Govt. had a tough time with them fighting legal battles to finally ban them. 

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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus|http://web.archive.org/web/20070423050014/http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/04/virginia-tech-scientology-shooting-massacre.php]] April 20, 2007, Mark Ebner, Fresh Intelligence, [[Radar Online]]
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On Friday, Weaver told Radar, "Yesterday they just walked around campus without being obtrusive, but today they set up a bright yellow tent about 100 yards from the memorial."

The tent, similar to the ones celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise routinely pitches on movie sets, is situated near another tent where victims' memorial boards are on display, so when aggrieved students come to pay their respects, they get accosted by the culties. "It's sick," says Weaver. "They can leave and take the media with them."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Five doctors agree with examiner in Scientology death|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17005810.html?dids=17005810:17005810&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] March 9, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Five pathologists say it is clear from key lab results that Lisa McPherson was severely dehydrated when she died after a 17-day stay at a Church of Scientology retreat.

The Times interviewed the doctors after the much-publicized disagreement between the church and Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Joan Wood over how McPherson died. None of the doctors were previously familiar with the case.

While many of their conclusions echo what Wood has said about McPherson's death, most of the doctors said they needed more information before they could say, as Wood did, that McPherson was unconscious for up to 48 hours before her death and did not have liquids for five to 10 days.

Two of the doctors questioned the Church of Scientology's statement that McPherson "suddenly took ill" and its suggestion that a staph infection was a major factor in her death.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Florida Drops Charges Against Scientology in 1995 Death|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=940CE3DE153EF930A25755C0A9669C8B63]] June 13, 2000, Douglas Frantz, [[New York Times]]
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Criminal charges against the Church of Scientology in the death of a church member who was under the organization's care were dropped yesterday because Florida prosecutors said they could no longer prove the accusations.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Foe of Scientology plans move to area|http://www.sptimes.com/News/111699/NorthPinellas/Foe_of_Scientology_pl.shtml]] November 16, 1999, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Clearwater lawyer Denis de Vlaming told Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Thomas E. Penick Jr. that Minton has purchased a building next to the Clearwater Bank Building on Cleveland Street, one of Scientology's signature properties downtown. Later, de Vlaming clarified, saying Minton will not be closing on the building for a few weeks.
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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Foes of picketing ordinance put spotlight on Riverside County supervisor|http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_supes25.3a7c4c5.html]] February 24, 2009, Julia Glick, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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Opponents of proposed picketing restrictions supported by the Church of Scientology raised questions Tuesday about Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone's relationship with the church's lawyer, Samuel Alhadeff.

Stone has pushed supervisors for months to approve an ordinance that would limit protests targeting residences in unincorporated Riverside County, including dormitories at the church's compound near Hemet. Alhadeff has championed the ordinance on behalf of the church at several meetings. 
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[img[x|http://www.westword.com/favicon.ico]] [[Follow That Story: Eighty-Six Million Dimes|http://www.westword.com/2002-05-16/news/follow-that-story/full]] May 16, 2002, Alan Prendergast, Denver Westword News, [[Village Voice Media]]
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A 22-year legal battle came to an abrupt end last week when the Church of Scientology paid $8.67 million to one of its harshest critics: a former member who claimed the church had harassed him for years and driven him "to the brink of insanity."
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[img[x|http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Follow-ups: Shamed in Spain|http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/16/71535/index.htm]] January 16, 1989, Jeremy Main, Fortune Magazine, [[CNN]]
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Jentzsch had hardly settled into a conclave of church members in Madrid when the Spanish police put the cuffs on him and jailed him and ten others. Jentzsch was held for about three weeks without being charged and was then released. But he has been told not to leave the country until investigations are complete.
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{{cite news | first = Jeremy | last = Main | title = Follow-ups: Shamed in Spain | url = http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/16/71535/index.htm | work = Fortune Magazine | publisher = CNN | date = 1989-01-16 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://online.wsj.com/favicon.ico]] [[For Bulk E-Mailer, Pestering Millions Offers Path to Profit|http://www.alanluber.com/storiesnolongeronweb/WSJ_com%20-%20For%20Bulk%20E-Mailer,%20Pestering%20Millions%20Offers%20Path%20to%20Profit.htm]] November 13, 2002, Mylene Mangalindan, [[Wall Street Journal]]
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Ms. Betterly's messages joined the roughly two billion other unsolicited commercial e-mails that hit in-boxes around the world every day. The company she runs from her home, Data Resource Consulting Inc., sends out as many as 60 million such messages a month. That puts the 41-year-old single mother in the most hated breed on the Internet. She sends spam.
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{{cite news | first = Mylene | last = Mangalindan | title = For Bulk E-Mailer, Pestering Millions Offers Path to Profit | url = http://www.alanluber.com/storiesnolongeronweb/WSJ_com%20-%20For%20Bulk%20E-Mailer,%20Pestering%20Millions%20Offers%20Path%20to%20Profit.htm | work = Wall Street Journal | date = 2002-11-13 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[For some Scientologists, pilgrimage has been fatal|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/23570056.html?dids=23570056:23570056&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] December 7, 1997, Lucy Morgan, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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From around the world, they come to Clearwater, looking for answers.

Week after week, they are drawn to the Church of Scientology, seeking to improve or rebuild their lives.

But for a few of these pilgrims, the search has ended in death.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[For the disadvantaged and against Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/30/Northpinellas/For_the_disadvantaged.shtml]] September 30, 2006, Mike Donila, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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CLEARWATER - Former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a civil rights advocate, champion of the disadvantaged and archenemy of the Church of Scientology, died Friday (Sept. 29, 2006). He was 86.

As a politician, Mr. Cazares led the local Democratic Party and won public office at a time when few Hispanics even lived in Pinellas County.

As a community activist, he worked to help the poor and build bridges across racial lines in Clearwater during the early years of integration.

But after the Church of Scientology came to town in late 1975, Mr. Cazares became an outspoken critic. That led Scientologists to hatch plans to smear him with sex allegations and a phony hit-and-run accident.
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{{cite news | first = Mike | last = Donila | coauthors = Farley, Robert | title = For the disadvantaged and against Scientology | url = http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/30/Northpinellas/For_the_disadvantaged.shtml | work = St. Petersburg Times | date = 2006-09-30 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[For Those Who Were There, Jonestown's A Part Of Each Day|http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2784066&date=19981118&query=Scientology]] November 18, 1998, Tim Reiterman, Los Angeles Times, [[Seattle Times]]
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On the 10th anniversary of Jonestown, she asked me to speak to a network gathering in Portland. Those days, the Church of Scientology was protesting against the anti-cult group. Now the network has been bankrupted by lawsuits, and a Scientologist has purchased the name of the church's old nemesis.

Patricia does not think the lessons of Jonestown have sunk in, not even after Waco and Heaven's Gate. "I don't think politicians are any more aware now (of cults) or care to do anything because it's not an easy or expedient issue," she said. "I don't think young people even know what Jonestown was."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[For Times, an obsession trumps facts|http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/for-times-an-obsession-trumps-facts/1051100]] November 12, 2009, Pat Harney, Letter to Editors, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Once again, the Times turns a deaf ear to any voices save those of a handful of disaffected former Scientologists — people who have admitted lying, suborning perjury and obstructing justice — because their falsehoods support the Times' compulsive and unreasonable views about Scientology. Indeed, the Times' recent coverage, which is the basis for Sunday's editorial, merely regurgitates stale and unfounded allegations from as long as 20 years ago.
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[For tsunami survivors, a touch of Scientology|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6878931/]] January 28, 2005, Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, [[MSNBC]]
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Meyers is healing the survivors, he says, employing the techniques he has learned from Scientology. More precisely, he is helping them heal themselves, eradicating pain waves and allowing energy waves to flow, clearing pathways for nerves to run errands of anatomical necessity, liberating the spirit to align with the body as described in the confident prose of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology and the applied practices known as Dianetics.
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{{cite news | first = Peter S. | last = Goodman | title = For tsunami survivors, a touch of Scientology | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6878931/ | work = Washington Post | publisher = MSNBC | date = 2005-01-28 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/images/gam/favicon.ico]] [[For Xenu's sake, hear your kooky co-worker out|http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070724.l-damage24/BNStory/lifeFamily/home]] July 24, 2007, David Eddie, [[Globe and Mail]]
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Clearwater mayor dead at 86|http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/29/Tampabay/Former_Clearwater_may.shtml]] September 29, 2006, Mike Donila, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a civil rights advocate, champion of the disadvantaged and arch-enemy of the Church of Scientology, died Friday (Sept. 29, 2006). He was 86.
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Executive Speaks Out Against Scientology|http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/executive-speaks-scientology-15303904]] January 6, 2012, [[ABC News]]
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Controversial following faces harsh criticism from a former high-ranking member.
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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Home of L. Ron Hubbard to be Used as Scientology History Museum|http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=10358294]] May 13, 2009, Nathan Baca, Part 11, [[KESQ.com]]
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The Church of Scientology purchased a multi-million dollar estate in the La Quinta Cove. They reportedly plan to use it as a museum and spiritual retreat center.

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard once lived at that estate in the 1970s. Now, former Scientologists are coming forward to say they were abused there by the church and they fear it could happen to others.
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 [[Former league star slams 'violent' Scientology|http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/former-league-star-slams-violent-scientology/story-e6frg6nf-1226144069372]] September 23, 2011, Joe Kelly, [[The Australian]]
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A FORMER rugby league star has attacked the head of the church of Scientology, David Miscavige, describing him as a "violent man" who sent him to a re-education camp for 2 1/2-years where he was paid as little as $2 a week and stripped of his passport. 

Chris Guider was a former hooker for the St George rugby league team, but left the sport at 24 after being encouraged to devote more time to the church.
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[img[x|http://www.mysanantonio.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former mayor takes on Scientology|http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/bulverde/article/Former-mayor-takes-on-Scientology-3351795.php]] February 22, 2012, Eric J. Weilbacher, [[San Antonio Express-News]]
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The church was seeking a gag order on the couple for speaking about their experience in the church, as well as for speaking about Scientology in general.

“I think they believed they could simply get a gag order,” Jeffrey said. “I think they were surprised when she got an attorney.”

There is now a stay in the trial, and no further date set for it to continue.

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{{cite news | first = Eric J. | last = Weilbacher | title = Former mayor takes on Scientology | url = http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/bulverde/article/Former-mayor-takes-on-Scientology-3351795.php | work = San Antonio Express-News | date = 2012-02-22 | accessdate = 2013-01-05 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former medical examiner Joan Wood dies|http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/former-medical-examiner-joan-wood-dies/1182478]] July 30, 2011, Andrew Meacham, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Dr. Joan Wood once enjoyed prominence and prestige as a medical sleuth like the heroes of the mystery books she read.

As the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner for 18 years, she conducted more than 5,600 autopsies and testified in hundreds of murder trials.

But the case she will be remembered for most is the one she botched: the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson.
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[img[x|http://www.thestar.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Orangeville-area resort to become Scientology headquarters|http://www.thestar.com/news/article/954048--former-orangeville-area-resort-to-become-scientology-headquarters]] March 15, 2011, Dan Robson, [[Toronto Star]]
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Hidden behind a thick wall of trees atop the Niagara Escarpment just north of Toronto, the Church of Scientology is building a massive retreat where believers will "journey through the advanced realms" of their faith.

The facility, which includes more than 80 hectares and five buildings that total around 160,000 square feet, will serve as Scientology's national headquarters when it opens next year.
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 [[Former President of Narconon Oklahoma Now Calls It "Watered-Down Version of Introductory Scientology"|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_lucas_catton_narconon.php]] August 18, 2012, Tony Ortega, [[Village Voice]]
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Catton became president of the facility in 2002. And he says he became aware that Gary Smith, the center's executive director, and other officials were very worried: in the time since Narconon had received the 1992 exemption, the law had changed, and if the state took a hard look at its certification, the place might not stay open, Catton says. He explains that when the state accepted the CARF approval, the state did so only to certify the initial part of Narconon's four-part program of treatment.

"They were worried that they had to get their entire program certified by the state, or get the law changed, or they would not be allowed to operate at all," he told me.

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 [[Former resident faces extradition over Scientology clash|http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/padn/2007-5-20-pa-keith-henson]] May 20, 2007, Kristina Peterson, [[Palo Alto Daily News]]
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Around 1998, he began to frequently picket outside the Palo Alto Church of Scientology. In turn, church members occasionally went to his home over the next two years to stage their own pickets in front, Amber Henson said. "When I had parties, my friends would have to walk past the picket lines to get to our house," said Henson, now 24 and a pre-school teacher in Los Angeles. 

Lucas remembers those days, and how church members also picketed the Purple Yogi software company in Sunnyvale where she worked, and followed her and her daughter around. "They carried signs saying my husband was a bigot," she said.

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 [[Former Scientologist accuses the church of 'forcing her to have an abortion, false imprisonment, sleep deprivation, brainwashing|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174904/Former-Scientologist-accuses-church-forcing-abortion-false-imprisonment-sleep-deprivation-brainwashing-harsh-punishments-explosive-lawsuit.html]] July 17, 2012, Rachel Quigley, [[Daily Mail]]
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The document, obtained by RadarOnline, says that during the time Ms DeCrescenzo lived and worked at the church's facilities in Los Angeles, she was forced to work seven days a week, at a total of 100 hours for less than minimum wage.

She was forced to marry at 16 and when she was 17, the documents claim, she fell pregnant and was told to have an abortion. If she did not, the church threatened she would lose her job, her house and her husband.

If she did lose her job, the church were then going to charge Ms DeCrescenzo a 'Freeloader Debt' to the tune of $120,000, according to the documents.
A 'Freeloader Debt' is money owed for on-the-job training and services which members are said to owe the church if they leave before their 'billion-year contract' expires. 

Ms DeCrescenzo signed hers when she was just 12 years old. 

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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientologist Recounts Imprisoning Atmosphere at Int Base|http://www.kesq.com/news/22426831/detail.html]] March 18, 2009, Nathan Baca, Part 6, [[KESQ.com]]
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His account of what goes on behind these fences is one of religious punishment and imprisonment.

"Within that Hemet compound, they work 100 hour weeks, seven days a week. They have no breaks. They have no vacations of any kind. They work around the clock. They have no private time. They're paid around 40 cents an hour and they're subjected to all kinds of punishments and abuse. If they do things that are wrong or if they don't toe the line, they have to run around the buildings, sometimes for miles in their street shoes, they get thrown in the lake out there which is pretty cold this time of year. And, if they refuse to come around and toe the line and be good members, they can go to these rehabilitation camps that they have in Los Angeles and in Clearwater which are virtual prisons and people have been there for years. They don't go outside. They don't see anybody. They are paid maybe 10 cents an hour for hard manual labor. They make furniture for the churches."
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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientologist Recounts 'Torturous' Past Inside the Church|http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10104936]] March 31, 2009, Nathan Baca, Part 9, [[KESQ.com]]
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The Church of Scientology believes one woman, Maureen Bolstad, is one of the worst people in the world. She is one of a few to be declared a "suppressive person."

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard declared so-called "suppressive" people "cannot be granted the rights ordinarily accorded rational beings." Her crime? Talking to the media about the church.

Bolstad was recruited into the Church of Scientology at age 16. She was told she'd get an education, and the chance to see the world.

Twenty-six years later, Bolstad walks down Gilman Springs Road near Hemet where Scientology's world headquarters is located. She walks with a sense of fear.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientologist shares familiar tale of force-feeding|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/120598/Former_Scientologist_.html]] December 5, 1998, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A former Scientologist from Denmark said Friday that he helped force bread, fruit and liquids into the throat of an unconscious woman as part of an effort help her recover from a mental breakdown. 

Karsten Lorenzen's detailed account at a news conference held by a group of Scientology critics resembles the experience of Lisa McPherson, as documented by state investigators and Clearwater police. McPherson was the 36-year-old Scientologist whose 1995 death has resulted in criminal charges of abuse and practicing medicine without a license against the Church of Scientology in Clearwater. 
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 [[Former Scientologist Suing The Church For Allegedly Forcing Her To Have An Abortion|http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/07/former-scientologist-suing-allegedly-forcing-abortion-false-imprisonment]] July 17, 2012, Jen Heger, [[Radar Online]]
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According to the court documents, Laura Ann claims that she was recruited by the church "at the tender age of nine while living in New Mexcio and moved away from her family to live and work in Defendants' facilities in California when she was a mere twelve years old." However, when she began working for the church several years later, the documents allege, "once Plaintiff began living at Defendants' facilities, Defendants severely restricted Plaintiff's access to the outside world. Plaintiff had limited and restricted access to email, telephone, the internet, or uncensored television. Defendants also opened, read, and censored all mail."
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 [[Former Scientologist Testifies She Was Locked Up, Beaten, Tortured By Church Members|http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/former-scientologist-testifies-abuse-church-members]] February 16, 2012, [[Radar Online]]
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In shocking court testimony a former Scientologist said she was locked up, beaten and tortured by the religion's senior members in a desert compound in California.

Debbie Cook, 50, was once a senior executive in Scientology who left the church in 2007, and she claimed on the stand that she was held against her will for 45 days in an ant-infested trailer.

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 [[Former Scientologists Claim Abuse|http://www.losfelizledger.com/2010/03/former-scientologists-claim-abuse/]] March 4, 2010, Ian Lovett, [[Los Feliz Ledger]]
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"In a lot of cases, those who escape are intimidated and harassed so much they wouldn't dare speak to the media about what goes on," Headley said. "Finally, in the past year, more and more people have had enough courage to say what happened to them. They're not afraid to back down from intimidation."

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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientologists Claim Coerced Abortions, Child Labor Inside Church|http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10114227]] April 1, 2009, Nathan Baca, Part 10, [[KESQ.com]]
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"I was actually one of the older ones at 17. There were 13-year-olds, 12-year-olds," Bolstad recollects. "There was just one kid, 12-years-old that was given an executive responsibility doing something. He had a complete nervous breakdown." 

This is how Maureen spent her teenage years: making videos for the church. Looking at her social security tax forms, she says nobody ever told her about minimum wage. 

"I was taught to lie too. I got a worker's comp claim form. They ask you how many hours do you work a week. And I was told to put 40 hours."
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientologists Level Accusations|http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/scientology/scientologists-level-accusations/story?id=8792417]] October 23, 2009, Martin Bashir, [[ABC News]]
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Some call it a manipulative cult. Others say it's a well-established religion that helps people reach their potential. 

Since its inception in the 1950s, the Church of Scientology has rarely been far from controversy. And now the Church is under attack again. Former senior insiders claim the Church's current leader, David Miscavige, has created and encouraged a climate of violence within senior staff and was frequently violent himself. 

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 [[Former Scientology chief claims church 'brainwashed Tom Cruise's children and turned them against Nicole Kidman'|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2172677/Former-Scientology-chief-claims-church-brainwashed-Tom-Cruises-children-turned-Nicole-Kidman.html]] July 12, 2012, Sara Nathan, [[Daily Mail]]
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Mr Rathbun also insisted that the Church of Scientology closely monitors the communication of high profile members and orders members to sever ties with suppressive people, particularly those who are critical of the church.

He said: ‘That person could be your son, it could be your daughter, it could be your father, it could be your mother. It doesn't matter.'

Speaking about the Cruise children, he said: ‘They were being steered toward and indoctrinated toward coming to the conclusion that Nicole was a suppressive person.
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 [[Former Scientology executive claims abusive treatment from church leader; Church denies her claims|http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8545654]] February 15, 2012, Marc Brown, [[ABC News]]
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Debbie Cook, a former Scientology executive, is being sued for breach of contract for criticizing the church in an email after she signed an agreement promising to remain silent. Last week, she took the stand in a San Antonio courthouse and testified about what she said happened on the property near Hemet in trailers she called "The Hole." 

"There's a place called 'The Hole,' the windows were barred, the one entrance was guarded by security 24 hours a day," she said on the witness stand. 

For 17 years, Cook was Captain of the church's Flag Service Organization, which is Scientology's spiritual Mecca in Clearwater, Fla. 

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 [[Former Scientology executive, church settle lawsuits out of court|http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8636809]] April 26, 2012, [[ABC News]]
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Dueling lawsuits filed by the Church of Scientology and one of its highest-ranking former executives have been settled out of court. 

Debbie Cook had testified in a Texas court that she witnessed church leader David Miscavige physically punch another Scientology executive in the face at the church's international headquarters in Riverside County.

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 [[Former Scientology film crew member describes surveillance activities in Ingleside on the Bay|http://www.caller.com/news/2011/aug/06/former-scientology-film-crew-member-describes-in/]] August 6, 2011, Mark Collette, [[Corpus Christi Caller-Times]]
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"He had like a control station, like a war room," Leahy said. "Laptops, GPS's, paperwork. He's on the phone saying I need to order 55 more Squirrel Busters hats. He was constantly on the phone to people in Los Angeles."

In the room, Leahy grew increasingly worried with what he saw. He wondered why he had been allowed into this inner circle. But he tried to stay calm and buddy up to the group. He asked Statter about the overall goal.

"Dave flat-out said our goal is to make Marty's life a living hell," Leahy said. "That's a quote. He never said 'stalk,' but he said make Marty's life a living hell with every means possible of impeding his everyday living, and make it so miserable for him and his neighbors that his neighbors will want him to move."

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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientology film production employees allege labor violations|http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_weblawsuit26.2f7dc3f.html]] March 25, 2009, Michael Perrault, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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Two former employees who worked more than a decade at the Church of Scientology's Golden Era Productions enclave near Hemet have filed lawsuits alleging the church violated federal and state labor laws and engaged in human trafficking.

Church of Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis called the lawsuits "utterly meritless," noting that hundreds of staff would boast about working conditions at the nearly 700-acre compound in Gilman Hot Springs.

"Working conditions at Gold Base are nothing short of spectacular," Davis said.
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 [[Former Scientology insider blasts church as greedy|http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/prominent-scientology-leader-blasts-church-as-greedy/1]] January 3, 2012, Douglas Stanglin, [[USA Today]]
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It is particularly striking that the internal criticism came from a prominent leader and not from a disgruntled defector of the highly secretive church, the newspaper notes.

In her e-mail, Cook said the church is hoarding "well in excess of a billion dollars" yet continues to press members aggressively to contribute more, using intimidation tactics including threats that their "spiriitual progress" will be slowed, The Times reports.

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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientology insiders describe a world of closers, prospects, crushing quotas and coercion|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1201166.ece]] November 13, 2011, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Hy Levy lived in terror of what would happen if he didn't make his number, a weekly sales target of $200,000. The money was due every Thursday by 2 p.m. 

No excuses. 

Often when he failed, his bosses exiled him to the kitchen to scrub pots. Sometimes they made him eat only beans and rice for a week. They publicly humiliated him, calling him a loser, a saboteur. They got in his face, screaming, swearing. You soulless bastard! 

He said they used profanity a lot where he worked: the Church of Scientology. 

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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientology leader guilty of fraud in France|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991115&slug=2995428]] November 15, 1999, [[Seattle Times]]
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A French court found five members of the Church of Scientology guilty of fraud today, a setback for the group's efforts to become recognized in France as a religion, not a sect.

A court in the southern city of Marseille gave regional Scientology leader Xavier Delamare a two-year sentence. He will not go to jail, however, because the court suspended 18 months of the sentence and credited him with six months for time he served in 1990. He also was fined $1,700.
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[img[x|http://www.bnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Former Scientology Marketing Staffer Speaks Out After Leaving 'Cult'|http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10005315/former-scientology-marketing-chief-speaks-out-after-leaving-cult/]] January 22, 2010, Jim Edwards, [[BNET]]
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A former senior writer in the Church of Scientology's "Central Marketing Unit" has left the organization to join a dissident group of independent Scientologists. A rambling account of Steve Hall's life inside Scientology's headquarters can be found on Rediscover Scientology, the dissident group's web site.
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 [[Former Scientology Member Claims Sexual And Physical Abuse Occurs Within The Church|http://www.inquisitr.com/272201/former-scientology-member-claims-sexual-and-physical-abuse-occurs-within-the-church-video/]] July 9, 2012, Tara Dodrill, [[The Inquisitr]]
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Woodcraft moved from the United Kingfom to Florida with her family as a young teen and was enrolled in a "church backed" school, according to her Daily Mail interview. She claims to have seen her mother only once a week and was told to stop calling her "mom" and to start calling her "sir." Woodcraft also reports that children at the Sea Org branch of the Church of Scientology were kept in a "filthy compound" adorned in "old, torn clothes" and frequently had head lice.
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 [[Former scientology member claims she was held aboard a ship for 12 years|http://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/former-scientology-member-claims-she-was-held-aboard-a-ship-for-12-years-2949512.html]] November 30, 2011, Jonathan Pearlman, [[independent.ie]]
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Valeska Paris, an Australian resident, said she was forced onto the ship by the Church's leader, David Miscavige, when she was 17 after her mother tried to dissociate her from the organisation. 

Ms Paris, who was born in Switzerland, moved to the UK at age six, where she was placed in the church's youth wing, the cadet org. At 14, she joined the church's elite Sea Organisation and signed a contract which bound her for a billion years. 

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 [[Former scientology member 'held against will aboard cruise ship'|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8923123/Former-scientology-member-held-against-will-aboard-cruise-ship.html]] February 24, 2012, Jonathan Pearlman, [[The Telegraph]]
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However, Ms Paris's claims were backed up by a former senior executive on the Freewinds, Ramana Dienes-Browning. 

"She made it very clear she did not want to be there," she claimed. "She had been sent to the ship so as not to be in contact with one of her parents and that is not what she wanted. She was very, very distressed." 

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 [[Former Scientology official arrested in Ingleside on the Bay|http://www.caller.com/news/2011/sep/19/former-scientology-official-arrested-in-on-the/]] September 19, 2011, Mark Collette, [[Corpus Christi Caller-Times]]
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Moore filed a report with the San Patricio County Sheriff's Office. Chief Deputy Oscar Rivera said his deputy didn't arrest Rathbun immediately because the deputy didn't witness the altercation. Moore then took his complaint to Judge Yolanda Guerrero, the justice of the peace in Sinton, on Sept. 8, six days after the incident.

Rathbun was in jail for about four hours Friday before Guerrero came to arraign him and set bail at $1,000, Rathbun said.

Guerrero said Monday she had not been familiar with Rathbun's background or the activities of the Squirrel Busters in Ingleside on the Bay.

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 [[Former top Scientology officer accuses leader of turning group into money-making machine|http://www.vegassportsbetting.com/2012/01/05/former-top-scientology-officer-accuses-leader-of-turning-group-into-money-making-machine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-top-scientology-officer-accuses-leader-of-turning-group-into-money-m]] January 5, 2012, Guillermo J.P., [[Vegas Sports Betting]]
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A leading Scientologist is attempting to spark a revolt against chief David Miscavige, who has led the organization since the death of L. Ron Hubbard 26 years ago.

Miscavige has ignored the teaching of L. Ron Hubbard and turned Scientology into a fundraising machine that bleeds wealthy members dry to construct lavish buildings and stockpile more than $1 billion in cash, Debra Cook wrote in an email to more than 12,000 current and former Scientologists. Cook was a top-ranking Scientology executive for decades before leaving the organization's payroll to start an Internet firm in 2008.

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 [[Former winery to become rehab centre|http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/news/former-winery-to-become-rehab-centre/990863/]] April 3, 2008, Lin Ferguson, [[Wanganui Chronicle]]
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Wanganui Prisoners' Rehabilitation (Pars) manager Steve Treloar said yesterday that even though the centre was still very much in the planning stage they (the Wanganui Bible Chapel, a Brethren group) hoped to have it up and running within two years.

The former winery, part of the Holly Lodge complex in Papaiti Road, has several outbuildings including a former restaurant and some large sheds, he said.

The original historic Holly Lodge homestead was moved. The rehabiliation programe follows Scientology's Narconon programme established by church founder L Ron Hubbard more than 40 years ago for drug addicts in Arizona State Prisons.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Foundation Funds Provide Assist to Celebrated Teacher Escalante|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062790b,0,3680369.story]] June 27, 1990, Robert W. Welkos, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The Scientology movement's Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education has befriended one of America's most celebrated teachers, Jaime Escalante of Garfield High School.

Escalante is the East Los Angeles teacher profiled in the hit 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," which chronicled his success in teaching advanced calculus to barrio students.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Four key Scientologists|http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/19/Tampabay/Four_key_Scientologis.shtml]] July 19, 2004, Scientology's town, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Ben Shaw, Bennetta Slaughter, Mary Story, Elias Jafif
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[img[x|http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Four shot at Oregon Scientology center|http://edition.cnn.com/US/9609/25/briefs.pm/index.html]] September 25, 1996, AP, [[CNN]]
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The suspect, identified as Kenya native Jairus Godeka, 38, surrendered after walking out of the church's Portland Celebrity Center with a female hostage whom he released unharmed. Godeka was promptly arrested, and firefighters quickly doused the flames.
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[img[x|http://www.nydailynews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Fox's axed man blames Scientologists|http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/14/2009-06-14_foxs_axed_man_blames_scientologists.html]] June 13, 2009, Rush & Molloy, [[Daily News]]
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Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the entertainment journo is expected to charge in a wrongful termination lawsuit this week.

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[img[x|http://www.uni-marburg.de/favicon.ico]] [[Framing Effects in the Coverage of Scientology versus Germany: Some Thoughts on the Role of Press and Scholars|http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/2001/articles/schoen2001.pdf]] January 1, 2001, Brigitte Schön, [[Marburg Journal of Religion]]
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"Scientology might be one weird religion, but the German reaction to it is weirder still - not to mention disturbing." This is how Richard Cohen of the Washington Post describes the controversy of Scientology vs. Germany, and he adds, "[...] the treatment of Scientologists is both inexplicable and troubling." The inexplicable or rather as yet unexplained could usually be expected to raise the attention of scholars, especially if there is a troubling thrill to it. However, German scholars have mostly preferred to remain silent on the issue, and the few who spoke out published in German, but not in English.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[France arms itself with legal weapon to fight sects|http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,499586,00.html]] June 1, 2001, Jon Henley, [[The Guardian]]
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France has become the first country in the world to introduce specific legislation aimed at controlling the activities of cults. The objective is to combat the 175-odd movements of a quasi-religious nature considered a danger to society.

The Scientology movement and the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon immediately denounced the bill - endorsed almost unanimously on Wednesday by national assembly deputies - as anti-democratic and in breach of human rights laws. Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders have expressed disquiet.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[France puts Scientology sect on trial|http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,653557,00.html]] February 21, 2002, Jon Henley, [[Guardian Unlimited]]
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France's bitter 10-year legal battle with the Church of Scientology will reach a critical stage today when a Paris court will for the first time hear charges against the organisation itself rather than individual members.

The case, which could well decide the movement's future in France, is the first since the adoption there last year of tough anti-cult legislation that allows the dissolution of suspected sects found guilty of common offences.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[France recommends dissolving Scientologists|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/635793.stm]] February 8, 2000, [[BBC News]]
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A government committee in France has recommended dissolving the Church of Scientology there, on the grounds that its activities threaten public order.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[France urged to ban Scientology|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/635986.stm]] February 8, 2000, [[BBC News]]
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A government committee in France has recommended dissolving the Church of Scientology there, on the grounds that its activities threatens public order.

A report submitted to the Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, described the church as a "totalitarian" sect that kept files containing personal information on its members.
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[img[x|http://www.tnr.com/tnricon.ico]] [[Fred Thompson Channels L. Ron Hubbard|http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070910&s=bartlett091007]] September 6, 2007, Bruce Bartlett, [[The New Republic]]
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But, when you mention any hint of the nexus between Scientology and the nrst -- as I did briefly in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed -- you"ll be denounced by FairTax supporters as a smear artist. This retort, however, is simply evidence that these FairTax supporters don't know the history of their own proposal. That's too bad. Perhaps if they understood its origins in Scientology, they might have a greater appreciation for its inherent flaws.
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 [[Free Speech Attacked Scientology Attempts to Stop Peaceful Protest|http://www.orato.com/world-affairs/free-speech-attacked]] March 12, 2008, John Duignan, [[Orato]]
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Amid allegations of human rights abuse and facing the second major protest in five weeks, the Church of Scientology is resorting to a familiar tactic: punitive lawsuits.

A prominent Scientologist, apparently acting on behalf of Church of Scientology, has filed for a restraining order against a nameless, faceless group of peaceful protesters.

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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Free speech feels Net copyright chill|http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-963122.html]] October 24, 2002, Lisa M. Bowman, [[CNET]]
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Last month, the Church of Scientology sent a letter to the Internet Archive, persuading the site to pull down archived pages that were critical of the church's beliefs.
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[img[x|http://www.nowtoronto.com/favicon.ico]] [[Freedom Flames Out on the 'Net|http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/15/44/News/feature.html]] July 4, 1996, Colman Jones, [[NOW Magazine]]
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What he and hundreds of others logging onto the group are experiencing is a "spam," in which someone posts dozens or even hundreds of messages to the same newsgroup, or the same message to different newsgroups. But this is no ordinary spam. Little does he realize it at the time, but Newman has just witnessed the start of what some are calling the biggest traffic jam in the history of the Net. 

For weeks afterwards, this popular computer bulletin board is swamped daily by a mountain of pro-Scientology articles (nearly 28,000 at last count), posted by automatic computer programs in an apparent attempt to drown out criticism of the church. 

Newman and other critics of Scientology suspect the culprit is the church itself. For their part, representatives of the church say they have no idea who's behind it, but they certainly don't appear to object to what's going on.
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[img[x|http://slog.thestranger.com/favicon.ico]] [[Fremont Market: The Bat Shit Crazy Category Is Open|http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/fremont_market_was_the_bat_shit_crazy_ca]] May 5, 2008, Dan Savage, Slog, [[The Stranger]]
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Hm. If vendors fall into categories—categories that can be closed (Asian imports) or limited (healing services)—can we infer from the presence of the Scientologists that the Fremont Market has a religious organization/crazy-ass cult vendor category? And if Scientologists are allowed to peddle their peculiar brand of religious inanity at the Fremont Market, then one presumes that the Southern Baptists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses and Jews for Jesus are allowed to as well.
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[img[x|http://edition.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[French court convicts Church of Scientology of fraud|http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/27/france.scientology.fraud/index.html]] October 27, 2009, [[CNN]]
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A three-judge panel at the Correctional Court in Paris convicted the church and six of its members of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the church, as prosecutors had asked.

The court also fined the members as much as 400,000 euros ($595,000) each and sentenced them to as much as two years in prison, though the sentences were suspended.

The decision follows a three-week trial in May and June, during which two plaintiffs said they were defrauded by the organization, which is classified as a sect in France.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Court Cuts Sentence of a Scientology Church Leader|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/29/news/mn-17322]] July 29, 1997, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A French appeals court reduced the sentence Monday for a Church of Scientology leader convicted of involuntary homicide in the suicide of a member.

The case centered on the March 1988 suicide of Patrice Vic, 31, who jumped out a window.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Protest Supports Scientology|http://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/28/local/me-43564]] October 28, 2000, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Thousands joined actress Kirstie Alley and singer Isaac Hayes in a protest against the French government attitudes toward the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology.

After the rally in the city center, the international group of protesters moved elsewhere for a day of speeches and concerts.
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[img[x|http://www.javno.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Scientologists Arrested in Italy|http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=116530]] January 21, 2008, AFP, [[Javno]]
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Three French members of the Church of Scientology, suspected of holding a fourth person against their will, were arrested Monday in Nuoro, Sardinia, a local police spokesman told AFP. "The three people belong to the Church of Scientology, whereas the person being held was probably not a member," Fabrizio Mustaro, of the Nuoro Prefecture on the Mediterranean island, told AFP.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[French scientologists guilty of fraud|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/521345.stm]] November 15, 1999, [[BBC News]]
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A court in the French city of Marseilles has found five members of the Church of Scientology guilty on fraud charges over courses offered by the organisation.

The former leader of the church in southern France, Xavier Delamare, was sentenced to two years in jail, including 18 months suspended, and fined 16,000 dollars for manipulating people into giving money to the church.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Scientologists Sentenced in Fraud|http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/20/local/me-35637]] November 20, 1999, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A former French Scientology official has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraud, along with four other Scientologists who received suspended sentences of six months to two years.

Xavier Delamare, former head of Scientology's branch in the southern French city of Marseille, was sentenced Monday in connection with a 10-year-old case in which he was found guilty of operating sham “purification” courses between 1987 and 1990.
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[img[x|http://www.jsonline.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Scientology Case Barred|http://www2.jsonline.com/news/intl/ap/jul02/ap-france-scientol073002.asp]] July 30, 2002, Associated Press, [[Journal Sentinel]]
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A Paris judge has ruled that a 13-year-old case against the Church of Scientology alleging fraud and illegal practice of medicine cannot go to trial because the statute of limitations has expired, a judicial official said Tuesday.

Judge Colette Bismuth-Sauron ruled Friday that there was a lack of progress in the investigation and rejected the case on procedural grounds, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The criminal probe into 16 leaders of the church was opened in 1989 after a criminal complaint was filed by a former Scientologist, Juan Esteban Cordero. He accused the group of "progressive mental conditioning" that led him to spend more than $167,000 on Scientology-related courses.

However, in 1998, hundreds of documents that were to be used as evidence in the case disappeared from the Justice Ministry.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[French Urge Nations to Stop Sects' Growth|http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/12/local/me-63582]] February 12, 2000, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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In a report issued Monday, the French government called on nations worldwide to stop the growth of religious sects, and criticized the United States for offering too much religious freedom to “cults.”
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 [[Fresh controversy for scientologists in files|http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1445646.fresh_controversy_for_scientologists_in_files/]] June 4, 2007, [[The Argus]]
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Newly released Government papers have mired the Church of Scientology's Sussex headquarters in fresh controversy.

Files from the National Archives at Kew include a confidential report produced by the then Department of Health and Social Security in 1977 for Home Secretary Merlyn Rees stating the church was a "considerable evil".

It was written as the Government prepared to defend itself against a number of writs filed by the church relating to a 1968 statement announcing a ban on foreigners entering Britain to work or study at the church.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Friends, thetans, countrymen|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/09/sm_scientology.xml]] September 9, 2007, Seven, [[Daily Telegraph]]
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But there are dissenters too. Students have left Katselas's school, the Beverly Hills Playhouse, because of the unspoken pressure they felt to join the Church of Scientology, the controversial religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. Nobody ever told them to join, but they could not ignore how many of their classmates and teachers were Scientologists. Or the fact that Milton Katselas, the master himself, credits Hubbard for much of his success. And the assorted weirdness: one of Katselas's students has a day job at the Scientology Celebrity Centre, where Tom Cruise and John Travolta study, and one zealous television star left the Playhouse because she said she believed that Katselas wasn't committed enough to Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.scotsman.com/favicon.ico]] [[Fringe faces the wrath of L Ron|http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=946692007]] June 17, 2007, Marc Horne, [[The Scotsman]]
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STAND by for the Fringe's first sect scandal. The world's biggest arts jamboree is facing a boycott over a scathing parody of the Church of Scientology.

A musical about the controversial religious sect will premiere in Edinburgh during the event in August. Drama group Collapsible Theatre is staging Xenu Is Loose! - a satirical science-fiction production poking fun at the doctrines of the organisation, which has a host of celebrity adherents, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

But the spoof drama has provoked an angry response from Scientologists, which has urged people to stay away, and is considering what action to take against the play.
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[img[x|http://www.christianitytoday.com/favicon.ico]] [[From Clear to Christ|http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/september4/9.94.html]] September 4, 2000, Jody Veenker, [[Christianity Today]]
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Brian Haney labored to give his life fulfillment in many ways. The 37-year-old entrepreneur had been through two marriages, built a $100 million corporation, and attained the coveted state of "clear" as a Scientologist, meaning he had achieved the high level of freedom, personal control, and independence Scientology promises its followers. But none of these triumphs allayed his spiritual emptiness and dissatisfaction.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[From Mysterious Property Buyer to Community Presence|http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientologyside18dec18,0,1982451.story]] December 18, 2005, Claire Hoffman, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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When a mysterious buyer expressed interest in the old, bankrupt Gilman Hot Springs resort in 1978, Richard J. Hoag thought it might be a group of expatriates from Rhodesia. Others whispered that maybe the Mafia or the Moonies were moving onto the 500-acre property near Hemet.

Only much later did anyone learn that the buyer — which paid $2.78 million and went by the names Scottish Highland Quietude Society and Western States Scientific Assn. — was really the Church of Scientology.
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 [[From Science to Scientology: Church of Scientology transforming old museum into new headquarters|http://politicsinminnesota.com/blog/2010/04/from-science-to-scientology-church-of-scientology-transforming-old-museum-into-new-headquarters/]] April 7, 2010, Bill Clements, [[Politics in Minnesota]]
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The Church of Scientology has ambitious plans for growing in the Twin Cities area, hoping to double or even triple the number of Twin Cities adherents in the next five years.

As part of those plans, Scientology members dug deep and came up with $3 million to convert the old Science Museum of Minnesota, 505 N. Wabasha St., into a new regional headquarters.
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[img[x|http://www.post-gazette.com/favicon.ico]] [[From the outside, looking in|http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05205/542899-85.stm]] July 24, 2005, Alana Semuels, [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]
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Some of the things Chuck Beatty says he's done over the past 30 years sound like scenes from a science fiction movie.

Signing over a billion years of his current and future lives to service. Hiding from German news helicopters flying over the California camp where he lived. Spending more than six years doing hard labor under constant monitoring by his peers.

But Beatty, 53, now of Carnegie, says he was just one of the many faithful members of the Sea Organization, an intense division of the Church of Scientology. In 2004, Beatty left behind the life that had enveloped him for nearly three decades and moved to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles to assist other people interested in leaving, since he knows how difficult it is.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[From the Publisher|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974934,00.html]] February 24, 1992, Elizabeth P. Valk, [[TIME Magazine]]
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Less than two months into 1992, well before the opening of the main season for journalistic awards, and we have already bagged a big one. The American Society of Journalists and Authors has selected associate editor Richard Behar for its Conscience in Media Award, in recognition of his expose of the Church of Scientology in the May 6, 1991, issue. The award, honoring "those who have ^ demonstrated singular commitment to the highest principles of journalism at notable personal cost or sacrifice," has been conferred only seven times previously in the 17 years it has existed. Needless to say, we are delighted and proud.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Full pews and prayers for peace|http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,,578422,00.html]] October 22, 2001, Stephen Bates, Special reports, [[The Guardian]]
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While the churches have had no difficulty condemning the bombings of New York and Washington - they all did that except, briefly, the Church of Scientology which bizarrely put out a press release commending them until it spotted its mistake - moving on to the next step has been more problematic.
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 [[Funding sought for meth cops' health regimen|http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8332814]] February 22, 2008, Nate Carlisle, [[Salt Lake Tribune]]
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Detoxification program is touted by officers, but legislator is asking for scientific proof it works
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 [[Gaiman tells children the truth|http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0509/1224246175178.html]] May 9, 2009, Donald Clarke, [[Irish Times]]
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Now a sprightly 48, Gaiman was raised in Hampshire by his mother, a pharmacist, and a father who – read into this what you may – was one of the top men in the British wing of Scientology. In the early 1980s, he toyed with journalism and managed to get a few stories published in fantasy magazines. His dad, unconvinced that the boy was going to make a living, made a few half-hearted attempts to secure him a proper job.

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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police|http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1953996,00.html]] November 22, 2006, Sandra Laville, Special reports, [[The Guardian]]
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The Church of Scientology appears to be involved in an effort to woo officers from the City of London police - an unlikely partnership perhaps, but one that seems to be blossoming. Details of how more than 20 officers, from constables to chief superintendents, have been invited to a series of engagements by the scientologists over the last 15 months have been revealed by a freedom of information inquiry by the Guardian.
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[img[x|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12583654]] May 2, 2006, Jeannette Walls, Gossip, [[MSNBC]]
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The actress and talk-show host has done two segments on her Air America radio show “Majority Report,” heaping praise on the controversial New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Although the Detoxification Project has been heralded by some Sept. 11 first responders, it has also been blasted by the chief medical officer for the New York Fire Department after its validity was questioned by a number of health-care workers.
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 [[Gather News and Bust the Union|http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/gather-news-and-bust-the-union-some-lively-suggestions-for-the-sun-times-media-group-from-a-lively-former-employee/Content?oid=1205418]] October 1, 2009, Michael Miner , [[Chicago Reader]]
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Lynch has been e-mailing me a lot lately. Like my anonymous savant and lots of commenters on my blog, he has plenty to say about the Sun-Times Media Group, which is bankrupt and on the brink of oblivion but might be saved if its unionized employees—Newspaper Guild members in particular—agree to tear up their contracts and accept the draconian terms of financier James Tyree. If they don't, says Tyree, his investment group's $25 million bid for the STMG's newspapers and other assets will be taken off the table.
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 [['Geek war' predicted|http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2008/01/26/4795134-sun.html]] January 26, 2008, Nicki Thomas, Edmonton Sun, [[Sun Media]]
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On Monday, a group of hackers and activists calling themselves "Anonymous," posted a video message on YouTube addressed to the leaders of the Church of Scientology, accusing them of "campaigns of misinformation" and "suppression of dissent."
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[German Bias Against Scientologists Claimed|http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/12/local/me-religbriefs12.1]] October 12, 2002, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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Some local authorities and private firms in Germany use “sect filters” focused on the U.S.-based Church of Scientology in hiring and contracting, the annual report from the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[German city won't hire Scientologists|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17001876.html?FMT=FT&dids=17001876:17001876&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 20, 1997, In Brief, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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BONN - The city of Stuttgart said Wednesday it was taking measures to combat Scientology that will put it at the forefront of efforts in Germany to limit the influence of the organization.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[German court undecided over Scientology|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/europe/24256.stm]] November 6, 1997, Janet Barrie, Despatches: Europe, [[BBC News]]
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In Berlin, a federal court has failed to reach a verdict on the legal status of a Scientology group in a case that has wider implications for the status of the Church of Scientology within Germany. The German government refused to recognise Scientology as a church believing it to be a potentially dangerous cult that exploits its members for financial gain.
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[img[x|http://www.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[German ministers say Scientology unconstitutional|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120700776.html]] December 7, 2007, Louis Charbonneau, Reuters, [[Washington Post]]
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German federal and state interior ministers declared the Church of Scientology unconstitutional on Friday, opening the door for a possible ban on the organization.

Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and 16 state interior chiefs agreed "that we do not consider Scientology an organization that is compatible with the constitution," Ehrhart Koerting, Berlin's interior minister and chairman of a ministers' conference in Berlin, told reporters.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[German ministers try to ban Scientology|http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2224328,00.html]] December 8, 2007, Kate Connolly, Special reports, [[The Guardian]]
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Germany paved the way yesterday for a ban on the Church of Scientology, with federal and regional ministers declaring that the US-based organisation contravened the constitution and posed a danger to democratic order.

In a sharp escalation of a decade-long row, German officials asked the domestic intelligence agency to gather evidence that could be used in support of a legal move to secure a ban.
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[img[x|http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/images/gam/favicon.ico]] [[German officials want Church of Scientology banned in the country|http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071207.wscientology1207/BNStory/International/home]] December 7, 2007, Associated Press, [[Globe and Mail]]
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Top German officials announced Friday that they will seek to outlaw the U.S.-based Church of Scientology.

The announcement came after a two-day conference of interior ministers of Germany's 16 states well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

Berlin Interior Minister Erhart Koerting, who presided over the two-day conference, told reporters that Scientology is an organization that is not compatible with the German constitution.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[German panel brings concerns on Scientology to Washington|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/26842282.html?dids=26842282:26842282&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 28, 1998, Jack R. Payton, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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So from Monday through Friday, the Germans met with members of Congress, officials at the State Department, scholars, religious leaders and opinion makers. The plan is for the commission to report back to parliament by early summer, recommending legislation to deal with what they call "so-called sects and psychological groups."

Schatzle said the commission's U.S. visit and its investigations in Germany had given it a much deeper understanding of what Scientology is about.

"We've seen the two faces of Scientology," she said. `We've seen the sunny and open face presented by the celebrities, but we've also seen the dark face, the people who are victims of extortion and fraud."
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[German party expels three for being Scientologists|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19961219&slug=2365874]] December 19, 1996, [[Seattle Times]]
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl's governing Christian Democratic Union party expelled three members today because they belong to the Church of Scientology.

The German government claims Scientology is largely a money-making organization with some traits of organized crime. The U.S.-based church, which claims 30,000 members in Germany, accused German officials of persecution.


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[img[x|http://img.iht.com/favicon.ico]] [[German Party Replies To Scientology Backers|http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/01/15/scient.t.php]] January 15, 1997, John Schmid, [[International Herald Tribune]]
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FRANKFURT: Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Party on Tuesday issued an indignant response to a group of prominent American entertainment industry figures who compared Germany's assaults on Jews under Hitler to its current stance toward Scientologists.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[German police told to target Scientologists|http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1884932,00.html]] October 1, 2006, Samuel Loewenberg, Special reports, [[The Observer]]
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The government has told internal security forces to step up their scrutiny of the movement, claiming that the Scientologists, which they label a cult, are seeking to take advantage of Germany's ailing education system as a means to recruit children. It has prompted US embassy officials to lobby the German government on the sect's behalf.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[German Scientologists Rally|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/16768.stm]] October 27, 1997, [[BBC News]]
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About two-thousand members of the Scientology movement have protested in the German capital, Berlin, against what they described as discrimination against religious minorities in Germany.

Correspondents say the protest drew far fewer people than had been expected.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[German states to curb spying on Church of Scientology|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20011216&slug=wdig16]] December 16, 2001, [[Seattle Times]]
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German states plan to end their surveillance of the Church of Scientology after a Berlin court ordered intelligence agencies to stop using spies to monitor the organization, a German magazine reported yesterday.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[German visitor takes on Scientology|http://www.sptimes.com/News/072600/NorthPinellas/German_visitor_takes_.shtml]] July 26, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Ursula Caberta, who heads a government office in Hamburg that works to curb Scientology in Germany, said Tuesday at a downtown news conference that Scientology is viewed in her country as "a new kind of political extremism." She also alleged that church officials have exaggerated hardships of Scientologists caused by her office and used fraud in an orchestrated effort to persuade U.S. lawmakers to impose sanctions against Germany.
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[img[x|http://www.chieftain.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germans, Scientologists face uptight impasse|http://www.chieftain.com/life/1198913436/4]] December 29, 2007, Stan Nelson, [[Pueblo Chieftain]]
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In the end, the government of Germany is unlikely to give Scientology the bum's rush it so dearly wishes to.
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Germany 1, Scientology 0|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/27/germany.features11]] June 27, 2007, Emine Saner, [[The Guardian]]
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The German government has banned the makers of a film about a failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler from shooting in the country because its lead is Tom Cruise. And Cruise, as he has ensured everyone knows, is a Scientologist. "[The ban] is a good thing," says Antje Blumenthal, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician who has campaigned against Scientology in Germany. "I don't like that whenever Tom Cruise is written about, it always says he is a Scientologist. I am concerned it could encourage young people to join."
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[img[x|http://www.christianpost.com/images/cp_fav.ico]] [[Germany Acts to Legally Ban Scientology|http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071210/30428_Germany_Acts_to_Legally_Ban_Scientology.htm]] December 10, 2007, Ethan Cole, [[Christian Post]]
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The homeland of legendary church reformer Martin Luther said over the weekend it will seek to ban the Church of Scientology – an organization considered to be in conflict with Germany's constitution.
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Germany apologises to Switzerland for spying on Scientologists|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/76287.stm]] March 9, 1998, [[BBC News]]
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Germany has apologized to Switzerland following the arrest of a German official who's suspected of spying on the Church of Scientology there.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany assails Scientology for comparing itself with Jews|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19961018&slug=2354847]] October 18, 1996, [[Seattle Times]]
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Germany said today the U.S.-based Church of Scientology was insulting millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust by leveling "totally absurd" charges that Bonn uses Nazi tactics against the church's followers.

An anti-German Scientology advertisement in The New York Times yesterday compared contemporary German attitudes toward the religious organization with the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
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[img[x|http://www.scotsman.com/template/group/images/favicon/SCOT_favicon.ico]] [[Germany attacks Scientology|http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=3588746]] December 10, 2007, Louis Charbonneau, [[The Scotsman]]
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Mr Schaeuble and the country's 16 state interior ministers have declared Scientology unconstitutional.

And in a newspaper interview, he said: "Scientology is working in Germany to secure political power and influence. Fundamental rights, including human rights like the right to equal treatment, are limited or abrogated. The democratic system is rejected."
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[img[x|http://news.bbc.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Germany moves to ban Scientology |http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7133867.stm]] December 8, 2007, [[BBC News]]
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Germany's federal and state interior ministers have declared the Church of Scientology unconstitutional, clearing the way for a possible ban.

The ministers have asked Germany's domestic intelligence agency to examine whether the Church's legal status as an association could be challenged.

Scientology is not recognised as a religion in Germany.
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[img[x|http://edition.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany moves to ban Scientology|http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/07/germany.scientology.ap/index.html]] December 7, 2007, Associated Press, [[CNN]]
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Germany's top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation's constitution and will seek to ban the organization.
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[img[x|http://www.spiegel.de/favicon.ico]] [[Germany Prepares to Ban Scientology|http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,522052,00.html]] December 7, 2007, [[Spiegel]]
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Germany's interior ministers announced on Friday that they considered Scientology to be unconstitutional and said they would seek to ban the organization.
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[img[x|http://news.monstersandcritics.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany to step up Scientology surveillance|http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1379378.php/Germany_to_step_up_Scientology_surveillance]] December 7, 2007, dpa, [[Monsters and Critics]]
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German interior ministers said Friday they would step up police surveillance of Scientology, the US creed which was established by a science-fiction writer and is accused by German officials of extracting money from its adherents.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany Vs. Scientology -- Group Goes To Court To Seek Status As A Religion, Not Business |http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2568859&date=19971028]] October 28, 1997, AP, [[Seattle Times]]
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The Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology won a legal battle in July when a court in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital, Stuttgart, ruled that Scientology was a religious society, not a business as many critics argue. The state is seeking to overturn the decision in the Berlin court.

The court case could be the first to clarify Scientology's status in Germany, where the government has taken steps to outlaw the group. Scientology says its members suffer discrimination, including banning its members from membership in political parties and putting the group under surveillance as a threat to democracy, a step toward seeking an official ban.
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[img[x|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany Vs. Scientology -- Group Goes To Court To Seek Status As A Religion, Not Business|http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971028&slug=2568859]] October 28, 1997, [[Seattle Times]]
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A day after thousands of Scientologists demanded religious freedom in Germany, the Church of Scientology was trying to convince a German court today that it is a religion.

A favorable decision by Germany's highest administrative court would entitle the group to benefits such as tax-exempt status and the freedom to recruit followers.

The Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology won a legal battle in July when a court in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital, Stuttgart, ruled that Scientology was a religious society, not a business as many critics argue. The state is seeking to overturn the decision in the Berlin court.
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[img[x|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/favicon.ico]] [[Germany working to ban 'unconstitutional' Scientology|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/12/germany-working-to-ban-unconstitutional.php]] December 8, 2007, Bernard Hibbitts, Paper Chase, [[JURIST]]
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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his 16 regional counterparts have consider Scientology [church website] "an organization that is not compatible with the constitution", and will work to ban it in Germany, Schäuble said at the end of a two-day ministerial meeting Friday.
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[img[x|http://www.upi.com/favicon.ico]] [[Germany: Scientology a security threat?|http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2007/08/08/germany_scientology_a_security_threat/6194/]] August 8, 2007, Emerging Threats - Briefing, [[UPI]]
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Scientology is not a religious community but an "extremist grouping" that needs to be banned, said Udo Nagel, the interior minister of the northern German state of Hamburg. According to Nagel, Germany's Interior Ministry in Berlin is currently probing whether a ban of Scientology would hold up in court.
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[img[x|http://img.timeinc.net/time/favicon.ico]] [[Germany's Battle Against Scientology|http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1695514,00.html]] December 17, 2007, Andrew Purvis, [[TIME Magazine]]
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The interior ministers of Germany's 16 states have launched an investigation into the activities of the Church of Scientology, hoping to assemble the evidence to support banning the U.S.-based organization from operating in Germany. But skeptics question whether such a move is politically and legally tenable — or wise.
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[img[x|http://www.dw-world.de/favicon.ico]] [[Germany's Interior Ministers Label Scientology Unconstitutional|http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2993985,00.html?maca=en-bonn-691-rdf]] December 7, 2007, [[Deutsche Welle]]
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The interior ministers of the nation's 16 states as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble "consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution," Berlin Interior Minister Erhart Körting told reporters after a two-day meeting of the officials, on Friday, Dec. 7.

Körting said Germany's domestic intelligence agencies would collect material that could possibly serve as the basis for a ban of the sect. Federal Interior Minister Schäuble said there was not yet enough information to justify a ban.
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[img[x|http://www.salon.com/content/themes/salon/images/favicon.ico]] [[Getting Clear at BU?|http://www.salon.com/media/media960515.html]] May 15, 1996, Dan Kennedy, Media Circus, [[Salon]]
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Earle Cooley, the chairman of Boston University's board of trustees, wants you to know that he believes in freedom of expression.

Never mind that the gruff, avuncular 64-year-old, one of Boston's top trial attorneys, has played a leading role in the Church of Scientology's efforts to use copyright law to keep secret church documents off the Internet.

Although the church has won some significant courtroom victories, critics, legal observers, and even judges criticize the zeal with which it has pursued its goals.

For instance, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, in throwing out a copyright-infringement suit against the Washington Post late last year, called it "reprehensible" that church lawyers -- including Cooley -- would go after the newspaper for running a 46-word excerpt that was clearly covered by fair-use provisions. The church's aim, Brinkema wrote, was "the stifling of criticism and dissent of the religious practices of Scientology and the destruction of its opponents."

In an interview with the Washington Post in 1985, Cooley said that he was a Scientologist. His current relationship with the church is unclear. He now refuses to discuss whether or not he's a member, calling it a "vicious question."
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Giant 'Super Power' building in Clearwater takes a pause, yet millions keep flowing in|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1202006.ece]] November 20, 2011, Joe Childs, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Always mysterious since coming to Clearwater under a fake name in 1975, the church became all the more inscrutable as its big building just sat there, finished on the outside, raw inside.

But unknown to those wondering about the delay was the whirl of activity just across the street.

In an office off the mezzanine in the church's Fort Harrison Hotel, a savvy team of fundraisers was raking in millions.

The Super Power project has been a bonanza for the Church of Scientology. Far from a financial burden, it has been a money magnet, a powerful come-on for L. Ron Hubbard's master vision.
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[img[x|http://www.slate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Go Home, Tom Cruise! Why does Germany hate Scientologists?|http://www.slate.com/id/2171218/fr/podcast/]] July 26, 2007, Michelle Tsai, Explainer, [[Slate Magazine]]
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Some German officials believe Scientology's ideology is rooted in a kind of political extremism—a bit of a sensitive area for Germany since World War II. They also argue that Scientology is not a religion but a business, since local churches operate like franchises of the main organization.
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[img[x|http://blog.oregonlive.com/favicon.ico]] [[Godeka's odd actions trace back to 1987|http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/11/stories_about_the_scientology.html#2]] October 4, 1996, Phil Manzano, [[The Oregonian]]
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Jairus C. Godeka conversed freely with the television set. He would laugh aloud for no reason. He said the FBI was watching him and bugging his telephone. He heard voices that commented incessantly on his behavior. 

Godeka spun out these and more suspicions and fears during a 1987 interview at a Northeast Portland mental health clinic. But never once did he mention what was to become a grinding obsession - the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Goodwill plan meets opposition|http://www.sptimes.com/2007/12/16/Northpinellas/Goodwill_plan_meets_o.shtml]] December 16, 2007, Lorri Helfand, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The church wants to sell the site, which it bought more than 25 years ago, to consolidate operations in its downtown Clearwater properties, said Scientology spokeswoman Pat Harney.

About 200 church families who lived at the U.S. 19 property, a former Quality Inn in unincorporated Pinellas County, have relocated to Sherwood Gardens, which the church bought in 1999.
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[img[x|http://www.linuxjournal.com/favicon.ico]] [[Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public|http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5997]] April 12, 2002, Don Marti, [[Linux Journal]]
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In an apparent response to criticism of its handling of a threatening letter from a Church of Scientology lawyer, the popular search engine Google has begun to make so-called "takedown" letters public. DMCA-censored pages are now two clicks and a cut-and-paste away from the regular search results.

The full text of two new letters to Google, dated April 9 and 10, already appears on the free speech site chillingeffects.org. "I think it's great that they're calling attention to the way the takedown provision can be used to compromise their search results," said Wendy Seltzer, Fellow of Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and co-founder of chillngeffects.org.
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[img[x|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Google excludes controversial sites|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2124386,00.htm]] October 24, 2002, Declan McCullagh, CNet, [[ZDNet]]
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Google was criticised in March for bowing to a demand from the Church of Scientology to delete critical sites from its index. In a response that won praise, Google replied by pledging to report future legal threats to the ChillingEffects.org site run by law school clinics.
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[img[x|http://www.cnet.com/favicon.ico]] [[Google pulls anti-Scientology links|http://www.news.com/2100-1023-865936.html]] March 21, 2002, Matt Loney, [[CNET]]
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Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine.
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[img[x|http://www.cbc.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Google removes anti-Scientology Web links|http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2002/03/22/xenugoogle020322.html]] March 22, 2002, [[CBC News]]
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The Google search engine has delisted some Web pages that are critical of the Church of Scientology. Google said it had no choice because the church had threatened legal action if the Web sites stayed listed on Google.

Free speech advocates said the law the church used to get the pages removed, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is too powerful and may infringe on freedom of speech.

The delisted Web pages are on Operation Clambake, a Web site that opposes the methods of the Church of Scientology and its efforts to silence the church's critics on the Web.
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 [[Govt money for Scientology's drug programme|http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/6443289/Govt-money-for-Scientologys-drug-programme]] February 19, 2012, Kristy Johnson, [[Stuff.co.nz]]
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Advice offered in the pamphlets is based on research by Scientology's controversial founder, LRon Hubbard, who did not believe in medical drugs or psychiatry but instead in purging oneself of painful experiences to gain immortality. 

Ross Bell, executive director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, warned that the group's information was flawed pseudo-science and could prove harmful to youth. 

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 [[Grants and Awards|http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Sep/30/ln/hawaii709300359.html]] September 30, 2007, [[Honolulu Advertiser]]
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Friends of Hawai"i Charities Inc. recently awarded $10,000 to Narconon Hawai"i. The grant will be used for the Narconon Hawaii New Life Detoxification Program.
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 [[Greatest place on earth|http://www.chicagojournal.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=3414&SectionID=5&SubSectionID=5&S=1]] September 12, 2007, Hunter Clauss, [[Chicago Journal]]
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South Loop residents will soon have a new neighbor-the Church of Scientology.

The church's new flagship center of Chicago will move next summer into the former Artcraft Building, 650 S. Clark, and become the hub of Scientology-related activities and social services.

"It's going to be a beacon of life," said Allyne Rosenthal, president of the Church of Scientology of Illinois.
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[img[x|http://gawker.com/favicon.ico]] [[Greta Van Susteren Bays For Blood Of Anderson Cooper|http://i.gawker.com/5022410/greta-van-susteren-bays-for-blood-of-anderson-cooper]] July 7, 2008, Ryan Tate, [[Gawker]]
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As a member of two vindictive cults — Fox News and Scientology — cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren is an absolute pro at channeling rage. Witness the blog post she typed up on the 4th of July holiday. The executive producer of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last week called Susteren's On The Record "not a news program. It's missing-person of the day."
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[img[x|http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/radaronline_favicon.gif]] [[Ground Control To Major Tom|http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/06/01/index.php]] June 1, 2005, Fresh Intelligence, [[Radar Online]]
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But we hear at least one person is enjoying the spectacle. Inside sources say Kingsley is so amused by DeVette's many missteps that she's been using them as object lessons for her junior publicists on how to ruin a well-choreographed career.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Group called Anonymous protests Scientology policies in Clearwater|http://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/article419054.ece]] March 15, 2008, Robert Farley, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Timed to coincide with Scientology's celebration of founder L. Ron Hubbard's birthday, it was the second major protest in Clearwater by a loose-knit Internet activist group that goes by the name Anonymous.
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[img[x|http://www.sfgate.com/favicon.ico]] [[Group censured for using Newsom's image in pro-Scientology booklet|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/13/MN0JSP2R7.DTL]] October 13, 2007, Cecilia M. Vega, [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
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After a box full of the booklets was delivered to Newsom's City Hall office this week, the city attorney's office promptly sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Southern California group distributing them, saying it was violating city and state laws by using the city seal and the mayor's endorsement without consent.
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{{cite news | first = Cecilia M. | last = Vega | title = Group censured for using Newsom's image in pro-Scientology booklet | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/13/MN0JSP2R7.DTL | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2007-10-13 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico]] [[Group that once criticized Scientologists now owned by one|http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/19/scientology/index.html]] December 19, 1996, Dan Knapp, [[CNN]]
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But last month, after 20 years of operation, the Cult Awareness Network closed its doors, forced into bankruptcy after losing a costly lawsuit to the church of Scientology.

Now the phones are ringing again -- but this time there's a good chance they"ll be answered by a Scientologist.
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[img[x|http://www.koat.com/favicon.ico]] [[Group threatens legal battle against Battlefield Earth|http://www.koat.com/entertainment/140741/detail.html]] August 17, 2000, [[KOAT Albuquerque]]
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In a statement, FactNet charged that Scientology "has placed subliminal messages in the BattleField Earth film master to surreptitiously recruit new members from the movie audience," that it secretly financed the film, that it will use the film to recruit new members and that it has otherwise been involved in the development, production and promotion of the film.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Guard fatally shoots man with swords at Scientology building|http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-scientology24-2008nov24,0,6552577.story]] November 24, 2008, Harriet Ryan, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A security guard at the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood today shot and killed a man wielding two samurai swords, police said.

Police detained the guard for questioning but said a surveillance tape at the facility backed his claim that he fired his gun to protect himself and two colleagues.
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 [[Guard Will Not Be Charged For Scientology Shooting|http://cbs2.com/local/Scientology.Shooting.2.879662.html]] December 4, 2008, Associated Press, [[CBS Broadcasting]]
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Investigators quickly determined after the Nov. 23 shooting that the guard had acted in the defense of himself and others, and Wednesday prosecutors said they agree. 

Mario Majorski, a 48-year-old former Scientologist from Oregon, had threatened the church for years before he pulled up in front of the Scientology Celebrity Centre in a convertible, pulled out one sword then another and was killed by the security guard, a 64-year-old retired Seal Beach police officer. 

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[img[x|www.knbc.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology|http://www.knbc.com/news/15132220/detail.html]] January 25, 2008, [[KNBC Los Angeles]]
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Hackers declare war on Scientologists amid claims of heavy-handed Cruise control|http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/04/news]] February 4, 2008, Patrick Barkham, [[The Guardian]]
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The hackers were infuriated by the removal from YouTube last month of a Scientologists' video clip featuring Tom Cruise. They have alleged that Scientologists forced YouTube to remove the embarrassing footage, in which the actor hailed the religion as "a blast".
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{{cite news | first = Patrick | last = Barkham | title = Hackers declare war on Scientologists amid claims of heavy-handed Cruise control | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/04/news | work = The Guardian | date = 2008-02-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.foxnews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hackers Declare War on Scientology|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325586,00.html]] January 25, 2008, Jonathan Richards, [[FOX News]]
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A shadowy Internet group has succeeded in taking down a Scientology Web site after effectively declaring war on the church and calling for it to be destroyed.

The group, which goes by the name of Anonymous, is a disparate collection of hackers and activists.

It called for a wave of attacks against Scientology after accusing the church of "campaigns of misinformation" and "suppression of dissent."
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{{cite news | first = Jonathan | last = Richards | title = Hackers Declare War on Scientology | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325586,00.html | work = FOX News | date = 2008-01-25 | accessdate = 2011-10-07 }}
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[img[x|http://images.pcworld.com/shared/graphics/favicon.ico]] [[Hackers Hit Scientology With Online Attack|http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141839/article.html]] January 26, 2008, Robert McMillan, [[PC World]]
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A group of hackers calling itself "Anonymous" has hit the Church of Scientology's Web site with an online attack.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[Hackers wage web war on Scientologists|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3356210/Hackers-wage-web-war-on-Scientologists.html]] February 4, 2008, [[Telegraph]]
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However, in the last few weeks it has scored a couple of big successes, first by carrying out a denial of service attack on the Church of Scientology's international website, causing it to crash, and a sustained campaign of "Google bombing" - manipulating the way the internet search engine works - to ensure that the Church of Scientology is returned as the first hit whenever anyone enters the search string "dangerous cult".
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{{cite news | title = Hackers wage web war on Scientologists | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3356210/Hackers-wage-web-war-on-Scientologists.html | work = Telegraph | date = 2008-02-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Haitian earthquake survivor's death was an accident, Clearwater police say|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/haitian-earthquake-survivors-death-was-an-accident-clearwater-police-say/1097928]] May 27, 2010, Rodney Thrash, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The death of a 10-year-old Haitian earthquake survivor who recently fell off the roof of her Scientologist sponsor's home has been ruled an accident, a two-week investigation by Clearwater police detectives has found.
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 [[Hallock's sells city building Business plans to relocate locally|http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=10194936&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8]] September 20, 2003, Steve Higgins, [[New Haven Register]]
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The Church of Scientology bought the 35,000-square-foot building for $1.5 million.

Carol Yingling, a church minister, said the church plans to move its Connecticut headquarters into the building. The current headquarters is in 9,000 square feet of leased space just down the street.

"We are really busting out at the seams," she said. "I'm looking forward to having a place to hold community meetings."

Yingling said the move will allow the church to potentially quadruple its staff of 35.
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{{cite news | first = Steve | last = Higgins | title = Hallock's sells city building Business plans to relocate locally | url = http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=10194936&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8 | work = New Haven Register | date = 2003-09-20 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.allheadlinenews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hamburg Official Proposes Ban On Scientology In Germany|http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009352845]] December 4, 2007, Vittorio Hernandez, [[AHN]]
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Hamburg's Interior Minister Udo Nagel wants a national ban in Germany on Scientology, which claims many high-profile adherents, including Hollywood actor Tom Cruise. Nagel's opposition to Scientology is premised on his view of the religion as a commercial enterprise and an anti-constitutional body with aggressive tactics.
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{{cite news | first = Vittorio | last = Hernandez | title = Hamburg Official Proposes Ban On Scientology In Germany | url = http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009352845 | work = AHN | date = 2007-12-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Harbor drowning victim may have been Swiss|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51341399.html?dids=51341399:51341399&FMT=FT]] July 12, 1988, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Clearwater police Lt. Jack Dowling said Peter Ernst Frei, a Swiss citizen, was reported missing to Clearwater police on June 29 by a church acquaintance.

The description of Frei and his clothing matches that of the drowning victim, Dowling said.

Dowling said Frei arrived in Clearwater on June 8 to take classes at the Church of Scientology. He was last seen a day or two before he was reported missing, Dowling said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hardball: When Scientology goes to court, it likes to play rough -- very rough.|http://www.sptimes.com/News/32899/TampaBay/Hardball.html]] January 28, 1998, Lucy Morgan, Special Report, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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In a 14-month, worldwide survey, the St. Petersburg Times has documented a consistent pattern of church officials relentlessly pursuing its critics in legal actions that some charge are designed as much to harass as to achieve legal victory. In one year alone, the Times has found, Scientology spent more than $30-million on legal and professional fees.

From critics outside the church to former members who sue for fraud and abuse, when Scientology goes to court, most often it is with lawyers and legal papers that can overwhelm less wealthy opponents. In France, England, Sweden and Germany, the pattern is similar: sue the critics, sue the government and sometimes overwhelm the judges. Whenever necessary, use private investigators to probe your opponents' weaknesses and exploit them.
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{{cite news | first = Lucy | last = Morgan | title = Hardball: When Scientology goes to court, it likes to play rough -- very rough. | url = http://www.sptimes.com/News/32899/TampaBay/Hardball.html | work = Special Report | publisher = St. Petersburg Times | date = 1998-01-28 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://media.washingtonpost.com/favicon.ico]] [[Harmonic Conversion?|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600992.html]] August 4, 1994, Richard Leiby, [[Washington Post]]
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Lisa Marie Presley, the King's only daughter and heir, has been a Scientologist since childhood; her mother, Priscilla, is said to have joined the church about a year after Elvis' death. Lisa Marie was married to a prominent Scientologist, Danny Keough, but quickly and quietly dissolved that union to marry Jackson in the Dominican Republic in May. Keough's younger brother, Thomas - also a Scientologist - was an official witness of the Jackson-Presley nuptials. The Church of Scientology International issued a statement this week wishing the newlyweds "the very best for a joyful future."
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{{cite news | first = Richard | last = Leiby | title = Harmonic Conversion? | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600992.html | work = Washington Post | date = 1994-08-04 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.baynews9.com/favicon.ico]] [[He said, they said|http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2006/7/10/168101.html?title=He%20said,%20they%20said]] July 10, 2006, Bay News 9, [[Bright House Networks]]
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A man filming a documentary outside the Church of Scientology in Clearwater says he was attacked by a man claiming to be a Scientologist.
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[img[x|http://www.3dsyndication.com/favicon.ico]] [[Heard of aliens, now meet the Thetans|http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1150995]] February 15, 2008, Anjali Thomas, [[Daily News & Analysis]]
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Over the years, Priya, who owns and runs a leadership training company, and Bunty, have been travelling to the country's main Scientology centre in New Delhi on their quest for knowledge. But this will change as Mumbai will soon get its very own Scientology centre. 

“We're still looking for a location and we need to recruit and train people who can run it,” said Scientologist Thomas Goeldentiz, who was recently in Mumbai. "We should be ready by early next year."
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 [[Helping spread the word|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/Articles/buffalo-news-2005-02-01.html]] February 1, 2005, Mark Sommer, [[Buffalo News]]
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When the Church of Scientology held a splashy grand opening in Buffalo in November 2003, local Scientologists urged Mayor Anthony M. Masiello to declare "Church of Scientology of Buffalo Day."
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{{cite news | first = Mark | last = Sommer | title = Helping spread the word | url = http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/Articles/buffalo-news-2005-02-01.html | work = Buffalo News | date = 2005-02-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.pe.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hemet and San Jacinto briefs 11/7|http://www.pe.com/localnews/hemet/stories/PE_News_Local_H_hbriefs07.3e7d932.html]] November 6, 2007, Jessica Logan, [[Press-Enterprise]]
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Body of woman found by hikers

The body of a woman was found by two hikers at about 10 a.m. Tuesday dumped about 100 feet from Gilman Springs Road.
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[img[x|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol//img/favicon.ico]] [[Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article696205.ece]] March 26, 2006, Andrew Sullivan, [[The Sunday Times]]
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We have a new cartoon-blasphemy scandal. No, it's not Islamists burning down Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in Pakistan because a few Danish cartoonists had the gall to draw the prophet Muhammad. Now it's Scientology versus the popular and hilarious cartoon television programme South Park. And the Scientologists, like the Islamists before them, are winning.
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{{cite news | first = Andrew | last = Andrew | title = Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article696205.ece | work = The Sunday Times | date = 2006-03-26 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[High Hopes for Faith-Based Prisons|http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1550733]] January 27, 2006, Vicki Mabrey, [[ABC News]]
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In December 2003, Gov. Jeb Bush converted the medium-security Lawtey Correctional Institution into the nation's first entirely faith-based prison. At Lawtey, 28 different religions are represented -- Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Wicca, Scientology.
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{{cite news | first = Vicki | last = Mabrey | coauthors = Rosenberg, Sarah | title = High Hopes for Faith-Based Prisons | url = http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1550733 | work = ABC News | date = 2006-01-27 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[High profile couple never pairs church and state|http://www.sptimes.com/Floridian/121398/High_profile_couple_n.html]] December 13, 1998, Mary Jacoby, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Van Susteren and Coale are Scientologists. But unlike members of established religions, whose own beliefs might seem improbable if they weren't so widely held, these part-time Clearwater residents are not exactly eager to draw attention to this fact.

"Washington is an extremely conservative place. Anything that starts to go out of the ordinary in one's personal life doesn't make it," said Coale, dressed in a green knit vest and red-striped tie. Van Susteren declined comment.
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[img[x|http://www.kesq.com/favicon.ico]] [[High-Ranking Scientology Official Explains 'Anonymous' Booklet, Videotaped Arrest|http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=9990429&nav=menu191_1_1]] March 11, 2009, Nathan Baca, Part 4, [[KESQ.com]]
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Davis serves as the Church's spokesman. During the visit, we showed him video shot by members of "Anonymous" as they were being accosted and arrested by guards hired by the Church at the Scientology grounds in Hemet. Davis contends that the protestors arrested assaulted the guards.
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[img[x|http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/favicon.ico]] [[Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1993 CanLII 1348 (ON C.A.)|http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/1993/1993canlii1348/1993canlii1348.html]] November 19, 1993,
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hired pathologists take church's side|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50818355.html?dids=50818355:50818355&FMT=FT]] March 7, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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A former member of O.J. Simpson's "dream team" defense says Lisa McPherson's death was accidental, caused by a blood clot.

As prosecutors consider whether to proceed with criminal charges in the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson, the Church of Scientology on Monday presented two nationally known pathologists who said they have scientific evidence that the 1995 death was accidental.
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[img[x|http://assets.bizjournals.com/favicon.ico]] [[Historic nature of Fall School justifies $6 million price tag, Scientologists say|http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2008/06/30/daily2.html]] June 30, 2008, [[Nashville Business Journal]]
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The Church of Scientology Religious Trust purchased the executive suit building at 1130 Eighth Ave. S. along with adjacent properties at 1112 and 1114 Eighth Ave. S. for $6 million from Fall School Associates June 26, according to records and the Davidson County Register of Deeds.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Historic Santa Ana Building Is for Sale|http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/13/local/me-masonic13]] April 13, 2006, Jennifer Delson, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The developer who bought up and then rebuilt much of Santa Ana's downtown is negotiating to sell one of his prized historic buildings to the Church of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/sites/escapistmagazine/favicon.ico]] [[Hit Them Where They Live|http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_177/5510-Hit-Them-Where-They-Live]] November 25, 2008, Steven Croop, [[The Escapist]]
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So, how in the world did a secluded online community, widely considered to be a bunch of social misfits and outcasts with little vested interests beyond expanding their collections of violent fetish porn, become a potent, organized activist group that has protested against the Church of Scientology since January in an operation called "Project Chanology"?

For one thing, they're not quite so homogeneously pathetic at all. "The hundreds of people I have met at various Anonymous raids have all been great people from many walks of life," says Mark Bunker, the Producer of xenutv.com, who has been fighting the Church since 1999. "Many of them are young, but not all of them. I've met students, doctors, lawyers, people from law enforcement and so many other fields taking to the streets, wearing the masks and speaking out because they believe it's the right thing to do."
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[img[x|http://www.nydailynews.com/favicon.ico]] [[Homophobia Claims Dog Scientology|http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2005/04/04/2005-04-04_homophobia_claims_dog_scientology.html]] April 4, 2005, Rush & Molloy, Gossip, [[NY Daily News]]
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John Travolta and Tom Cruise have forcefully denied allegations that they turned to Scientology to "cure" them of their supposedly gay urges. But critics continue to claim the religion is rife with homophobia. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in his 1950 best seller, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," that gays were "sexual perverts" and "very ill physically." That apparently went for Hubbard's son, Quentin, who was said to have been confused about his own sexual orientation. "[Ron] thought Quentin was an embarrassment," Laurel Sullivan, Hubbard's former PR officer, told the Los Angeles Times.
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 [[Hot politics: the women of washington d.c.|http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/1118]] November 10, 2007, Dan Wohl, Opinion, [[Daily Cardinal]]
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If you sense a tinge of the otherworldly in those alluring green eyes of hers, you are probably right: Rep. Bono has met twice with representatives of the Church of Scientology since coming to Capitol Hill. The Church's headquarters are in her district, and their records show she has taken several classes with them. Also, someone really needs to rescue her and her alienlike beauty from who she's currently going out with: another congressman named Rep. Cornelius McGillicuddy IV, R-Fla. Seriously. Look it up.
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[img[x|http://www.memphisflyer.com/favicon.ico]] [[House (of Worship) For Sale|http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A37364]] December 19, 2007, Bianca Phillips, [[Memphis Flyer]]
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A "For Sale" sign has taken the place of the stone "Church of Scientology" sign that once graced the building's front lawn. The mansion has been on the market for about two months, according to ReMax realtor Dean Graves.

"We're exploring moving farther east," said David Slaughter, who holds the local charter issued by Los Angeles' Church of Scientology headquarters. "Having to drive all the way in from Collierville has become a situation for a lot of our parishioners."
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[How English Heritage snubbed the Scientologist founder L Ron Hubbard|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6677898/How-English-Heritage-snubbed-the-Scientologist-founder-L-Ron-Hubbard.html]] November 29, 2009, Jasper Copping , [[The Telegraph]]
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L Ron Hubbard has joined the likes of Wallis Simpson, Eric Morecambe, Marc Bolan and Keith Moon after an application for a coveted blue plaque was rejected by English Heritage.

The government agency, which runs the scheme, rejected the application by supporters of the founder of Scientology after its blue plaques panel decided that it was unconvinced about Mr Hubbard's "reputation".
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[img[x|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/favicon.ico]] [[How Europeans fight xenophobia in cyberspace|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=3004968]] November 19, 2002, Chris Barton, [[New Zealand Herald]]
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But, strangely, you"ll find it darn hard to find the anti-scientology site Xenu.net, using a "scientology" search under google.com. That's ever since Google took down a large number of references to Xenu after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology. Which goes to show that even in the US, rights to free speech can be compromised by intellectual property laws and censor ideas in much the same way as the Council of Europe's new protocol.
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 [[How many members do they really have?|http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=29766]] December 1, 2006, David V. Barrett , [[Church Times]]
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Another trap the media fall into is taking Scientology's claim of ten million members worldwide at face value. Membership figures are notoriously problematic. Are Church of England members everyone who has been baptised into it? Or all those who say they are C of E, meaning they're not anything else? Or Christmas or Easter communicants? So what about the 120,000 members Scientology are claiming in Britain?
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[How much oddity can one town take?|http://www.sptimes.com/News/020600/TampaBay/How_much_oddity_can_o.shtml]] February 6, 2000, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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His in-your-face strategy comes across as extraordinarily bold to locals who have come to know Scientology as a church that does not turn the other cheek. To them, it is a bit like whacking a bee hive then waiting around to be swarmed.

Minton has become one more curiosity in a downtown trying to shed its unconventional image as Scientology's mecca, where hundreds in uniform crowd the streets and are shuttled around in converted city buses.

But the added spectacle of Minton vs. the Scientologists couldn't come at a worse time for city officials who are courting out-of-town developers and dreaming of a new downtown waterfront, just two blocks west of Watterson.
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[img[x|http://www.villagevoice.com/favicon.ico]] [[How Not to Protest Scientology|http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/01/how_not_to_prot.php]] January 15, 2009, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, [[Village Voice]]
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Mahoud Samed Almahadin (a/k/a Matt Connor) apparently thought it might be a smart way to protest L. Ron Hubbard's wacky cabal by slathering himself in vaseline, toenail clippings, and pubic hair clippings, and then entering the Scientology building on W. 46th Street and rubbing himself on everything in sight.
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[img[x|http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[How Personal Is Too Personal for a Star Like Tom Cruise?|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/movies/02crui.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]] June 2, 2005, Sharon Waxman, [[New York Times]]
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While promoting that film over the last several weeks, Mr. Cruise engaged in an increasingly public discussion of his religion, Scientology. Then he set tongues wagging in Hollywood and elsewhere with an hourlong appearance on the May 23 "Oprah" show, during which he jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend, the actress Katie Holmes. 

Many Hollywood stars are involved with the Church of Scientology, and there is nothing particularly unusual about trumpeting a new love. But some executives at Paramount and DreamWorks have voiced concern that fans were becoming distracted from the movie, which cost some $130 million to produce.

"You can have so much attention on a particular issue that maybe the movie doesn't get as much attention as it might," Marvin Levy, a spokesman for Mr. Spielberg, a partner in DreamWorks, said of the show. "It's the topic of conversation, for many reasons."
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[img[x|http://www.guardian.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[How Scientologists pressurise publishers|http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/04/religion-scientology-books]] December 4, 2008, David V Barrett, [[The Guardian]]
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Over and over again, critical publications have been blocked

Last week we learned that Amazon.co.uk has bowed to pressure to stop selling a book by a former senior Irish Scientologist. The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (Merlin Publishing, Dublin) describes John Duignan's 21 years in the religion, not all of it a happy tale. According to Amazon, "Unfortunately, we have had to withdraw The Complex by John Duignan in the UK because we received a specific allegation that a passage in the book is defamatory regarding an individual named in the book". Other bookshops are also thought to have been warned not to stock the book. And everyone who has ever encountered the Church of Scientology sighs and says, "Here we go again." 

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[img[x|http://abcnews.go.com/favicon.ico]] [[How Scientology Attracts Celebrities|http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/scientology/scientology-attracts-celebrities/story?id=8871475]] October 24, 2009, Martin Bashir, Nightline, [[ABC News]]
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Amy Scobee was a member of Scientology for 27 years. She was a Church executive who helped expand Scientology's outreach to celebrities. She spoke with "Nightline."

Nightline: ...Presbyterian Church doesn't have a wing that emphasizes reaching celebrities ...Why do you think there was this emphasis on celebrity?

Scobee: ...One of the purposes of Celebrity Centre is to make celebrities walking success stories of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[How Scientology got to Bob Minton|http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048113.ece]] November 2, 2009, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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This and other accounts illustrate how far Scientology was willing to go to stop Minton, who, in a stunning reversal five years later, ended up testifying in court on the church's behalf.

That part of the story begins with David Lubow, the same private investigator the church used just a few years earlier to infiltrate a group of Scientologists in Las Vegas.

Rathbun and Rinder said they turned to Lubow in the late 1990s to look into Minton's financial affairs overseas. Lubow deployed to the capitals of Europe, dropping aliases and recruiting helpers to make Minton think he was being investigated by multiple agents, Rathbun said.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[How Scientology turned its biggest critic|http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/TampaBay/How_Scientology_turne.shtml]] July 7, 2002, Deborah O'Neil, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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Minton and Scientology had engaged in an acrimonious public battle for years, spending millions on mutual destruction.

Now they were talking truce. It wasn't long before Minton had become Scientology's star witness.
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[img[x|http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics|http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381539-details/How%20the%20Church%20of%20Scientology%20found%20its%20way%20into%20British%20politics/article.do]] January 12, 2007, [[Evening Standard]]
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The controversial Scientology sect was accused of trying to inflitrate British politics last night after it emerged that they paid thousands of pounds to both the Labour and Tory parties.
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[img[x|http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/favicon.ico]] [[How to "Clear" a Word|http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2008/04/how_to_clear_a_word.php]] April 8, 2008, Ned Lannamann, [[Portland Mercury]]
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Oobleck!
Thneed!
Sneetches!

Are there any Scientologists reading Blogtown right now? Because if there are, they will need to STOP and find out what those words mean before proceeding. According to scientologyhandbook.org, a reader must always “clear” a word, or gain a full understanding of its meaning, before continuing—otherwise, the misunderstanding will linger and cause chaos in the cosmos.
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[img[x|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/favicon.ico]] [[How Tom Cruise lost his mojo|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7907015/How-Tom-Cruise-lost-his-mojo.html]] July 26, 2010, Tom Teodorczuk, [[The Telegraph]]
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Cruise has subsequently gone out of his way to atone for each of these undignified episodes. He went back on Oprah's couch and stayed calm; he apologised to Lauer for his ‘arrogance'; he mended fences with Shields to the extent that she attended his wedding to Holmes in 2006. 

But building bridges with his disaffected fan base – especially his female audience – has not been so easy. According to the E-poll Market Research agency, his favourability percentage has dropped among the American public to 37 per cent from 64 per cent in 2004.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard Adherent's School Bid on Hold|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/18/local/me-33584]] September 18, 1997, Duke Helfand, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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A proposal for a charter school featuring the teaching methods of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been withdrawn by its primary sponsor for personal reasons, according to her supporters.

Linda Smith, a veteran special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and 16-year Church of Scientology member, had hoped to open the Northwest Charter School in the San Fernando Valley this fall. But she has postponed the plans while she cares for an ill family member, said Steve Hayes, an attorney who has been working with Smith on the committee planning the school.
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 [[Hubbard Center closed up in Samara|http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5395]] November 20, 2008, [[Interfax]]
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The Samara city court has banned work of Dianetics Center as its staff-members worked without license and practiced hypnotherapy and Ron Hubbard teaching. 

The Samara Region Prosecutor?s Office reported that staff-members of the Dianetics Center lectured at seminars and courses on dianetics and scientology without having special licenses.
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 [[Hubbard completely losing his mind|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1v7K5CsT4]] June 25, 2008, weareanonymous4, [[YouTube]]
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This is from the Class 7 Lectures series where Hubbard completely loses his marbles and continues to rant and rave while the students laugh at him.
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 [[Hubbard in the House -- the State House!|http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/9585]] January 21, 2008, Jason Noble, Prime Buzz, [[Kansas City Star]]
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The rotunda, though, is jumping. A group called the Citizen Commission on Human Rights has packed the central space with no fewer than eight flat-panel TVs and 185 feet of six-foot-tall, full-color displays, all of them blasting the practice of psychiatry.

The exhibit's title captures its subtlety: “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.”
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[img[x|http://s.ytimg.com/yt/favicon-vflZlzSbU.ico]] [[Hubbard loses his shit|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9reLONOJ7U&eurl=http://forums.whyweprotest.net/123-leaks-legal/hubbard-loses-his-shit-27164/]] August 24, 2008, DatsumJB, [[YouTube]]
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A fair-use excerpt from the Class VIII Auditor lecture series (Tape 11) to demonstrate the thesis that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology cult and domestic terrorist group, was an angry and disturbed man.
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[img[x|http://www.sundayherald.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard Love|http://www.sundayherald.com/search/display.var.1200747.0.hubbard_love.php]] February 17, 2007, Barry Didcock, [[Sunday Herald]]
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In an effort to sift fact from fiction, I've come to the Church of Scientology's massive new London HQ to talk to three of its leading British members - about their beliefs, primarily, but also about their reaction to the various controversies that swirl around this curious institution. Do they really believe in aliens? Why do they venerate Hubbard to the extent that he is mythologised and his achievements (to my eyes at least) embellished? Do they accept that free speech allows me the right to mock or is mild scepticism all I am allowed? And what's behind the hatred of psychiatry?
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[img[x|http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/images/gam/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard still gave orders, records show|http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/canada/canada5.html]] January 24, 1980, John Marshall, [[Globe and Mail]]
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L. Ron Hubbard, the former science fiction writer who publicly resigned in 1966 from leadership of the Church of Scientology, continued to give orders to its leaders into 1977, a Washington court has been told. 

Evidence obtained in 1977 in raids on U.S. offices of the cult by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed there was a detailed program to cover up Mr. Hubbard's involvement in the leadership of Scientology.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard Teachings in Public Classrooms|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/27/local/me-16845]] July 27, 1997, Duke Helfand, Special Report, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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As the Los Angeles Board of Education grapples with whether to approve a new charter school that would feature the teaching methods of L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of the Church of Scientology, a handful of district teachers say they have been using those techniques for years and keep copies of Hubbard's works in their classrooms.

The controversy over the use of Hubbard's methods–known as Applied Scholastics–has prompted district officials to undertake a review of policies on religion in public schools and to seek an opinion from the state Department of Education on the legality of using the materials.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard Textbooks Have State Approval|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/29/local/me-17433]] July 29, 1997, Duke Helfand, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The state education department has given preliminary approval to statewide use of school textbooks inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard that already are at the center of a controversy in Los Angeles schools.

Five books based on Hubbard's education ideas are expected to be placed on a list of supplementary texts that schools across the state can purchase–possibly as soon as September, an education official said Monday.
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard Texts Approved for School Use|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/29/local/me-17431]] July 29, 1997, Duke Helfand, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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The state education department has given preliminary approval to statewide use of school textbooks inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard that already are at the center of a controversy in Los Angeles schools.

Five books based on Hubbard's education ideas are expected to be placed on a list of supplementary texts that schools across the state can purchase–possibly as soon as September, an education official said Monday.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard was longtime opponent of psychiatry|http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/17002211.html?FMT=FT&dids=17002211:17002211&FMTS=ABS:FT]] February 21, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The roots of Scientology's opposition to psychiatry date to 1950, one month after Hubbard published Dianetics, a self-help book that provided the basis for the Scientology religion, which Hubbard launched in 1954.

According to Scientology literature, psychiatrists "on government payrolls" were calling Dianetics a hoax even though they hadn't read it. The church contends these critics were concerned that psychiatrists would lose millions of dollars in government money when people realized that Dianetics could solve their mental and emotional problems "for only the price of a book."
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[img[x|http://www.latimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard-Inspired Textbooks Rejected|http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/23/news/mn-35379]] September 23, 1997, Duke Helfand, [[Los Angeles Times]]
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State education officials on Monday rejected the latest version of a series of textbooks inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, saying the books failed to properly depict disabled people and minorities.

The publisher, Bridge Publications, is seeking to have five books based on Hubbard's educational ideas approved for use in California public classrooms as supplemental texts.
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[img[x|http://www.news.com.au/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard's Scientology 'built on nonsense'|http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22001905-5007146,00.html]] July 2, 2007, Jill Singer, [[Herald Sun]]
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Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology is built on nonsense from whoa to go.

Hubbard lied about his university qualifications. Thrice married, he posed as an expert on marital success.

In 1964, an inquiry in Victoria found that Scientology presented a grave threat to family and home life.

"As well as causing financial hardship, it engenders dissension, suspicion and mistrust among members of the family," said the inquiry. "Scientology has caused many family estrangements."

As for Hubbard, the inquiry said he built a crazy and dangerous edifice based on a smattering of knowledge in various sciences.

Essentially, Scientology is big business masquerading as religion and we all have reason to question it.
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[img[x|http://www.sptimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hubbard's teachings guide treatment of mental illness|http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/111498/Hubbard_s_teachings_g.html]] November 14, 1998, Thomas C. Tobin, Scientology Charged, [[St. Petersburg Times]]
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The Scientologists who watched her for the next 17 days relied on the teachings of their late founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who scorned psychiatry and wrote that any apprentice of his mental health practices "knows more and can do more about the mind than any psychiatrist."
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[img[x|http://en.epochtimes.com/favicon.ico]] [[Human Rights Torch Relay Coming to California|http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-12-15/62986.html]] December 15, 2007, Joshua Philipp, [[Epoch Times]]
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Also speaking at the event was David A. Meyer, member of the International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance, and President of San Diego's Church of Scientology. Meyer addressed some of the backdoor crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that have directly affected the rest of the world.
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[img[x|http://www.catholic.org/favicon.ico]] [[Human Trafficking Lawsuits Filed Against the Church of Scientology|http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=40637]] March 12, 2011, Randy Sly, [[Catholic Online]]
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Long working hours, low pay and lack of education for a minor among charges

Two suits, one against the Church of Scientology and another against their publishing division, Bridge Publications, were filed in California Superior Court on behalf of a nineteen year-old former member of Scientology and Sea Org. Daniel Montalvo was raised in the Church of Scientology. The lawsuit seeks both punitive and compensatory damages.The young man signed a "billion year contract" at the age of six.
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 [[Hundreds hold anti-Scientologist rally in Moscow|http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=4439]] March 24, 2008, [[Interfax]]
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"Not so long ago, an organization emerged in the vicinity of our university whose main goal is to get MGTU students to join it. The name of that organization is the Church of Scientology of Ron Hubbard. In other words, it is a sect that is day after day trying to brainwash us in order to get hold of our money and our knowledge," the Rossiya Molodaya leader Maxim Mishchenko told the rally.
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[img[x|http://www.westword.com/favicon.ico]] [[Hunting rabbits, serving spam: The net under siege|http://www.westword.com/1995-10-04/news/hunting-rabbits-serving-spam-the-net-under-siege/full]] October 4, 1995, Alan Prendergast, Denver Westword News, [[Village Voice Media]]
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Always controversial, in recent months a.r.s. has become the primary battleground in cyberspace in the dispute over Scientology's Advanced Technology documents -- and a test of the Internet's vaunted ability