Editorials › Activism, Andrew Morton, Anonymous, Australia, California, celebrity, Clearwater, David Miscavige, disconnection, Europe, Fair Game policy, Florida, Fort Harrison Hotel, Great Britain, Hemet, Hollywood, Katie Holmes, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, Lisa McPherson, London, Los Angeles, New York, Office of Special Affairs, Paulette Cooper, Police, protest, psychiatry, Sea Org, South Park, Suppressive Person, tax, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Xenu
Published on Tuesday 18th March 2008
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?
Clearwater is prepared for its enemies. It’s a warm, if overcast, Saturday in February, but all the storefronts lining the sidewalks of this sleepy town on […]
Editorials › Andrew Morton, Beck, celebrity, Celebrity Centre, Chick Corea, David Miscavige, death, Europe, Giovanni Ribisi, Great Britain, Hollywood, Isaac Hayes, Jason Lee, Jenna Elfman, John Sweeney, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Katie Holmes, Kelly Preston, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, London, Nancy Cartwright, Nicole Kidman, Office of Special Affairs, Panorama, psychiatry, Sea Org, Suppressive Person, Tom Cruise, Victoria Beckham, Will Smith
Published on Thursday 14th February 2008
I was skimming through High Winds when I came across an article winningly headlined ‘Handling Suppression on the Fourth Dynamic’ (by then I had learnt that the ‘fourth dynamic’ meant the whole of mankind). In a tone of unforgiving militancy, it talked of ‘eradicating SPs’, and crowed about how they had ’shut down’ one particular defector who had criticised the movement. ‘Unemployed and abandoned by his family, this squirrel had schemed to make money by hawking his lies in a book. But the Office of Special Affairs had a court declare his book libellous. He has now been forced into bankruptcy…’