http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCGP-0545EU
Scientology killed Susan Meister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n00etFcVo4
Inside a Cult Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3y7W1W4V4&feature=related
Inside a Cult Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKG52VQ0F0&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Beghe
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Jason Beghe (born March 12, 1960) is an American film and television actor and critic of Scientology. As a young man he attended the Collegiate School in New York City, where he became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny. Beghe is married and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Beghe starred in the 1988 George A. Romero film Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear, playing a quadriplegic in a performance that was positively received. He appeared as a police officer in the film Thelma & Louise, and played Demi Moore's love interest in G.I. Jane. Beghe starred opposite Moira Kelly in the television series To Have & to Hold, and has had recurring roles on Picket Fences, Melrose Place, Chicago Hope, American Dreams and Cane, as well as parts on numerous other television programs.
He began taking Scientology courses in 1994, and later appeared in a Church of Scientology advertising campaign and in promotional videos. According to Beghe, Church of Scientology head David Miscavige referred to him as "the poster boy for Scientology". Beghe left Scientology in 2007 and began publicly speaking out about his experiences within the church in April 2008. An on camera interview with Beghe about his experiences in Scientology conducted by Xenu TV founder and journalist Mark Bunker was published to the video site YouTube and later Vimeo. Marina Hyde of The Guardian newspaper called Beghe a Scientology celebrity whistleblower for his actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstie_Alley
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Scientology
Alley was raised Methodist but is now a member of the Church of Scientology. At the time she became a Scientologist, Alley admitted to having had a cocaine addiction and went through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program,[14] to end her dependency.[15] She has continued her Scientology training and, as of 2007, had attained the level of OT VII (Operating Thetan level 7).[16]
In May 2000, she purchased, for $1.5 million, the former home of fellow Scientologist Lisa Marie Presley, a 5,200 sq ft (480 m2) waterfront mansion in Clearwater, Florida, the spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology. In 2007, Alley gave $5 million to the Church of Scientology.[17]
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20133731,00.html
Excerpt: Actor Parker Stevenson has acknowledged religion played a part in his 1997 split from Kirstie Alley. ("It doesn't help. I'm an Episcopalian, she's a Scientologist. It's different," he told PEOPLE in 1999.) Scientology was brought up in the divorce proceedings of church member Lisa Marie Presley and former Jehovah's Witness Michael Jackson. And in his 1997 divorce actor Tom Berenger claimed his Scientologist wife Lisa's religious beliefs had been a factor in the breakup of their marriage. (The Clearwater, Fla.-based Church of Scientology declined to comment on the Cruise-Kidman split, but responded through a spokesman that the church "regards the family as the building block of any society and marriage as an essential component of family life.")
http://www.gossiprocks.com/tom-berenger (I just watched a movie a few days ago w/Tom Selleck and Mimi Rogers, Tom Cruise's ex.) ...cal
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Berenger has two children by his first wife, Barbara Wilson, to whom he was married between 1976 and 1984: Allison (born in 1977) and Patrick (born in 1979). He has three daughters by second wife Lisa Williams (to whom he was married between 1986 and 1997): Chelsea (born 1986), Chloe (born 1988) and Shiloh Rory (b.1993), and one daughter, Scout (born 1998), by current wife Patricia Alvaran to whom he's been married since 1998.
Tom Berenger had a brief period from 1987รข€“1989 when he discovered The Church of Scientology. Star, Sun, and other tabloids devoted significant coverage to Berenger parading around with Tom Cruise and other notable "Toms" of Scientology. Berenger was quoted as saying "Once we convert Tom Selleck, the trio of Toms will bring true uplifting to the masses of The States".Whilst married to Lisa Williams, who was and remains a Scientologist, Tom began an affair with his current wife. Tom used Lisa's dedication to Scientology as an excuse for the affair with Trish and therefore Tom Berenger denounced Scientology and is no longer connected to the Church.
http://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Stone-Cold-Tom-Selleck/dp/B0009FU0ZQ
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Tom Selleck, Mimi Rogers, Viola Davis, and the rest the cast do an excellent job in this made for TV movie based on the Robert Parker book. This story of a New England sheriff, Chief Jesse Stone, trying to catch a cold calculating serial killer is well crafted.
http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/celebrities/katie-holmes.html
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Has Katie Holmes signed a "Lisa clause" release?
Scientology requires all participants to sign a release form in which they promise never to sue Scientology and specifically permits Scientology staff to hold them in isolation, with no contact with family or friends, for as long as the staffer determines is necessary. The release is sometimes called "the Lisa clause" because Scientology began requiring it in the aftermath of Lisa McPherson's death in Scientology's custody.
As of June 2005, I have not seen any reports about whether Holmes has signed a release, but the release is typically required of all participants in Scientology services, so it's likely that she has.
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Personal life
Davis is the son of real estate investor William Davis and film actress and Scientologist Anne Archer.[1][11] He has a half-brother, Jeffrey Tucker Jastrow.[1]
Davis was raised as a Christian Scientist, but after taking two courses at Celebrity Centre, he converted to Scientology at age of 17.[10] In 1990, Davis was accepted at Columbia University. He attended college for a semester, but dropped out to join the Sea Org.[10]
Davis is a friend of actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise,[34] and a former friend of actor Jason Beghe, who left the church in 2007.[35] He is independently wealthy as his family obtained success in the real estate business, and told Rolling Stone: "I have enough money to never work a day in my life."[2] In 2009, Davis was a resident of Scientology's campus in Gilman Hot Springs, California, which also contains Scientology's organization Golden Era Productions.[4]
He is married to Jessica Feshbach, a fellow spokesperson for Church of Scientology.[10]
http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-news/9-celebrities-who-hated-scientology-before-it-was-cool/ (I watched the 3 videos that worked and one of em was over 2 hours but I needed to watch it. Steven Colbert's video was cool and South Park, good. Jason Beghe's was too long but now that I'm thru, I'm glad I watched it, it gave me more things to think about Scientology. Now I wanna do a bit of research on Steve Allen's son.) ...cal
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/brad-greys-scientology-scare.php
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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM
http://www.xenu-directory.net/mirrors/www.whyaretheydead.net/susan_meister/index.html
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http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/brad-greys-scientology-scare.php
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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM
When Viacom kingpin Sumner Redstone cited Tom Cruise's personal conduct as the reason for killing his production deal with Paramount, the 83-year-old mogul's candor rocked Hollywood. But Radar has learned Redstone may have let Cruise off easy, particularly in light of allegations the actor dispatched goons from the Church of Scientology to intimidate Redstone's studio chieftan, Brad Grey.
According to a high-ranking media executive, Paramount Pictures honcho Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3. Grey, who had recently joined the studio, entered the talks determined to make Cruise accept a smaller share of the gross revenues than he had from the first two installments in the franchise. (For those films, the actor reportedly took home an unheard-of 30 percent of the total revenue.) Leaving the office one night, the diminutive Grey, walking to his car in the Paramount lot, suddenly found himself surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor, according to the source.
According to a high-ranking media executive, Paramount Pictures honcho Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3. Grey, who had recently joined the studio, entered the talks determined to make Cruise accept a smaller share of the gross revenues than he had from the first two installments in the franchise. (For those films, the actor reportedly took home an unheard-of 30 percent of the total revenue.) Leaving the office one night, the diminutive Grey, walking to his car in the Paramount lot, suddenly found himself surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor, according to the source.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/mirrors/www.whyaretheydead.net/susan_meister/index.html
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Chapter 18 of Bare-Faced Messiah
By Russell Miller
At around this time, another young woman began causing problems for the Commodore. Susan Meister, a twenty-three-year-old from Colorado, had joined the crew of the Apollo in February 1971, having been introduced to Scientology by friends while she was working in San Francisco. When she arrived on the ship she was a typically eager and optimistic convert and wrote home frequently, urging her family to 'get into' Scientology.
http://cgi.amazing.com/scientology/apollo-voyage.html
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As things got more and more desperate, Hubbard sent a message to the US Guardian's Office head (DGUS), ordering that a land base be established as there were no places left for the Apollo to go. Hubbard said he was running out of time. The DGUS dispatched an assistant from his office in California to Florida and under the business name of Southern Land Development Corporation arranged the transfer of the Sea Org to a "Land Base".
The 'Voyage of the Damned' was over, but the on-shore migration ushered in another chapter in the sorry history of the Sea Org, for Hubbard had created another disastrous "Shore Story" which was not believed by the locals.
The Sea Org established itself as "The United Churches" and pretended to be an ecumenical organization until their cover was blown sky high by Hubbard's indiscreet appearances around their operations. The locals also could not figure out why uniformed, armed guards were protecting a church. The repercussions from these Hubbardian blunders are still being dealt with by the organization in Florida. For a long time Hubbard ordered that the patently false Shore Story be adhered to. Eventually they had to change the shore story.
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/celebcrit.html
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As things got more and more desperate, Hubbard sent a message to the US Guardian's Office head (DGUS), ordering that a land base be established as there were no places left for the Apollo to go. Hubbard said he was running out of time. The DGUS dispatched an assistant from his office in California to Florida and under the business name of Southern Land Development Corporation arranged the transfer of the Sea Org to a "Land Base".
The 'Voyage of the Damned' was over, but the on-shore migration ushered in another chapter in the sorry history of the Sea Org, for Hubbard had created another disastrous "Shore Story" which was not believed by the locals.
The Sea Org established itself as "The United Churches" and pretended to be an ecumenical organization until their cover was blown sky high by Hubbard's indiscreet appearances around their operations. The locals also could not figure out why uniformed, armed guards were protecting a church. The repercussions from these Hubbardian blunders are still being dealt with by the organization in Florida. For a long time Hubbard ordered that the patently false Shore Story be adhered to. Eventually they had to change the shore story.
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/celebcrit.html
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Celebrity Critics of Scientology - Celebrities against Scientology
[For the purposes of this list, a "celebrity critic" is someone who: a) is to some degree famous or a public figure, and: b) openly, publically, says something that is critical of or jokes and degrades Scientology.]
http://www.holysmoke.org/redux.htm
http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/21suic1.htm
Thursday, May 21, 1998
By JOSEPH MALLIA Alone in a 15th-floor classroom, MIT sophomore Philip C. Gale drew a physics formula on a blackboard showing what happens when a body falls from a great height.
Then he slammed a chair through the classroom window and jumped more than 200 feet to his death, as horrified students watched from a plaza below.
But the blackboard message - and a mysterious tape recording - gave no clues to why the brilliant 19-year-old chose such a dramatic ending two months ago to a life full of promise.
"Because of the public nature of Philip's act, this has been an acute time of introspection," MIT Associate Dean Robert Randolph said.
As evidence emerged that Gale was suffering from depression, students and staff wondered aloud about why the high-pressure school's psychological safety net didn't save him.
And friends raised questions about whether his upbringing in a controversial religion - the "Church" of Scientology - played a part in his suicide.
Gale had quit the "church." Even so, he chose to kill himself on March 13, the "church's" most important annual holiday marking the birthday of the late Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Accepted at MIT at age 15, Gale excelled even on a campus that is a magnet for the world's technological elite.
Heribert Pfaff, 31, became a Scientologist after a brother encountered a sidewalk solicitor who was recruiting students in Munich, Germany. His decision to join, his family members now believe, was a fatal one.
For a decade after surviving a major car accident, Heribert Pfaff had suffered severe seizures that often came in the middle of the night. In 1988 Pfaff traveled from his home in Munich to Clearwater to take courses at the "Church" of Scientology.
Pfaff's brother, Georg, told the Times that Scientologists in Germany promised a cure for his seizures and took Pfaff off medication that had controlled them.
The son of a wealthy German builder, Pfaff checked into Room 758 at the Fort Harrison $cientology Hotel. He had brought about $100,000 to finance his visit, family members say. His wife, Anita, told police she was staying with friends so she wouldn't be awakened by the seizures her husband had been having since he quit taking his medicine.
On Aug. 28, 1988, Pfaff's nude body was found upside down hanging out of his bed. An autopsy determined that a seizure probably caused his death.
Rodney Romano, 21, FELL TO HIS DEATH
Rodney Romano, 21, FELL TO HIS DEATH on Dec. 5, 1986 from the 6th floor of a Los Angeles $cientology org building. His relatives believe he was murdered. A suicide note found on his bed in the org was not in his handwriting, and contained inaccuracies indicating forgery.
"Relatives found the 37-year old Wilhelm Mack hanged in his garage. With older, dried-up blood in his ears, a blind-fold wrapped around his head and a scarf stuffed into his mouth. The reporter Horand Knaup of Freiburg investigated, that this man from the town of Grossbettlingen had spent (within five weeks) 70,000 DM (~US$40,000) for courses, books and vitamin pills to the Stuttgart Scientology Org. Then he started to wake up and demanded his money back. The reporter quoted from Mack's letter to the Org:
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09.15.03
“Cult apologist” Dick Anthony making $3,500 a day in North Carolina?
Psychologist and peripatetic professional “cult apologist” Dick Anthony is on the road again.This time the man who often defends Scientology and considers Rev. Moon’s Unification Church and the Waco Davidians “non traditional religions” is plying his trade in Dixie.
Anthony charges $3,500 per day for his services and is now working for Jane Whaley, the leader of Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF) in Spindale, North Carolina.
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/steve-allen.htm
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Actor Steve Allen's Open Letter to Heber Jentzsch
Scientology
- Open Letter from Steve Allen to Heber Jentzsch, President, Church of Scientology. (As printed in Skeptic Magazine, Volume 5, Number 1, 1997 and keyed-in by Fredric L. Rice.) May 11, 1995. When I ran into uyou at an airport a few weeks ago, there was no opportunity to have a talk, but since I have about 49 seconds free between appointments at this office this morning is occurs to me that you might be interested in an idea that I have suggested to you and other Scientologists before. When I spoke at a convention in the East quite a few months ago, a convention at which a dozen or so Scientologists were in attendance, I said something to them along the following lines.
"If I may make a suggestion to you folks, whatever your purly religious views are, you're entitled to them and they are more or less in the category of not anyone else's business. "But I also suggest that it is not because of those views that your group doesn't have a very good reputation. There are other churches that, in the opinion of non-members, have some truly bizarre beliefs but no one dislikes the individual members as a result of those beliefs. "The Mormons are a perfect example. No non-Mormon on Earth accepts a word of Mormon assertions about the experiences of Joseph Smith, visits with angels, golden plates, etc. But despite that fact the Mormons have a very good social reputation. A number of my personal friends are Mormons and they are for the most part lovely and socially decent people. "But -- again -- the same _cannot_ be said of Scientologists. And if I were you it would occur to me to wonder why. So, to save you a little wondering time, I'll tell you why right now. You have the reputation as just about the worst bullies this side of the National Rifle Association. I've talked this over with some of you and you've said that the terrible harassments and crimes are a thing of the past. that you've learned from your earlier mistakes, etc. That may be true and I certainly hope that it is, not only for your sake but for the sake of everyone else concerned. But to be honest, many people doubt that Scientology has reform itself in this particular regard."As I say, Heber, those couldn't possibly have been my actual words but they do represent the point I was making at the convention. Really shameful harassments, telephone threats, and similar offenses are continuing to be perpetrated by individual Scientologists. Now it is theoretically possible that you personally don't know about the above incidents. It may even be that you have advised your fellow-believers to cease that sort of harassment, either because you are a marvelous fellow and recognize the evil for what it is, or because you've realized -- purly out of the church's self-interest -- that that kind of conduct is precisely the sort of "public relations" which has gotten the Church of Scientology into such a bad odor in the first place. If you are simply being devious and dishonest yourself and are perfectly aware of the kind of harassment which has been for a good many years typical of Scientology's response to perfectly fair criticism, then I don't really know what I have to say to you except to implore you to consider the possibility of reforming yourself individually and then trying to spread the good word to your fellow believers. Hey, maybe you should just walk away from Scientology and go back to the Mormon fold. -- Steve Allen Van Nuys, California. The Skeptics Society Post Office Box 338 Altadena, CA. 91001 skepticmag@aol.com
26/May/00 Note by Fredric L. Rice: Most will recognize Mr. Steve Allen as a well-known actor who may also be widely recognized for having performed outside of comedy in the old "Chock Full of Nuts" coffee commercials which once aired on commercial television. Mr. Steve Allen, however, is also a skeptic, a Humanist, a member of the Intelligencia who offers American social and political commentary, and is an author of numerous books including: '"Dumbth" And 81 ways to make Americans Smarter.' Mr. Allen's office has an E-Mail address which I'll pass along to members of the ARSCC for legitimate contacts if you're interested. This open letter appears to have been written before Mr. Heber Jentzsch and 68 other Scientology officials and fall-guys were arrested in Madrid, Spain, for exactly the type of offenses which Mr. Allen underscores in his open letter. And it appears as though Mr. Allen isn't aware of Heber's history inside of the Scientology organization, or of the way that Heber Jentzsch acquired the mock title of "International President" of the criminal organization. Other than those areas, it does appear as though Mr. Steve Allen is fully up on what Scientology is.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Scientology/ReleaseForms/Introspection.html
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The Lisa McPherson Clause:
Scientology Moving to Secure Its 'Right' to Kill Again (Welcome to LisaClause.org -- for latest updates click here)
Lisa clause or Lisa McPherson clause: an adhesion clause to insulate one party from all damages, including personal injury or death, from known and unknown conduct of commission or omission of the party so released. An "adhesion clause" is a recognized legal term which means "take it or leave it", i.e., that the party signing the agreement has no bargaining power and therefore no alternative but to include the clause in the agreement.
- Scientology killed Lisa McPherson in Clearwater, Florida, on December 5, 1995. She was held against her will for 17 days, denied medical care, and forcibly sedated. When her guards tried to force her to undergo the Introspection Rundown and she refused, she was kept in an isolation lock-down until she died from severe dehydration. Forensic entomologists later identified 110 cockroach feeding sites on her body, and three nationally prominent forensic pathologists opined that the manner of death was "homicide". (The pathologists were Calvin Bandt, M.D. (affidavit), Werner Spitz, M.D. (affidavit), and John Coe, M.D.)
- In 1997, Lisa's estate filed a wrongful death suit against the Church of Scientology. That trial has been postponed six times by Scientology's legal maneuvering, but is now expected to take place in 2004.
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