Monday, 29 June 2015
Overboarding- from Karen de La Carriere
Saturday, 27 June 2015
Friday, 26 June 2015
Scientology's Mission in Poole, Dorset - A full accounting
Re: Scientology's Mission In Poole, Dorset, Updated.
Re Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset continued...
Re: Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset.
The final installment of scientology's Mission in Poole, Dorset...
This legal case took three plus years to conclude! In that time scientology were constantly asking for "more information" on anything that was forwarded by TB's and PC's solicitor. They also gave a few "defence" statements from various people at St. Hill and Bournemouth Mission which never seemed to have anything to do with the case!
It was thought that the entirity of scientology's defence case consisted of wasting time so they could find some way of getting the case struck off. It didn't work.......
Another weird thing in this case was that scientology's defence solicitor was also was also one of the defendants in the case due to his involvement in TB's dodgy mortgage. Obviously this is a big "NO" in the legal world, but somehow this solicitor carried on representing the case for a couple of years or more.
In the end PC and TB got their money back from Scientology, although not as much as they should have got considering what they had been through and the increas in cost of houses.(They both had properties before getting into Scientology, and the housing price index during the period of their court cases went up a huge amount).
PC probably spent four plus years involved in the legal struggle. TB spent three plus years doing the same thing. In the end the only real loser was Scientology due to all the extra legal expenses that they had incurred!
The Bournemouth Mission "executives", ie. The Mission Holder (RK) and the Executive Director(DL) were removed from their positions by Sea Org management. This, according to other people I've met up with since, was around '96. So their arguement that the "sun shone out of their arses" wasn't shared by everyone........
Since leaving this cult (and that's the best description for it) I've met up with a few people who were in it at the same time as me, who are now also out. It seems that when we were part of the cult we were all inwardly expressing our serious doubts about it all, but daren't express these doubts because we all thought we would be Suppressive Persons (SP's), if we ever revealed our real feelings.......This is a bit like the tale of " The Emperor's New Clothes".........
A couple of sad stories come to light regarding the Bournemouth Mission after I left. One was the suicide of a guy called Richard Collins. I've used his full name here because Carlton TV's "The Big Story" featured this case in a documentary which is still available on the internet.
Apparently he was hounded for money and couldn't take it anymore, so jumped to his death from Clifton Suspension Bridge.......
Some years after I left I also heard the sad story of CA who was a young lady at the Mission when I first joined. I knew her brother and he told me that she died of breast cancer in, I believe, late 2010. CA was apparently diagnosed with breast cancer, but either due to her "religious beliefs", or due to influence from people in Scientology, she declined treatment for some time. She also declined a lot of the secondary medical treatment which is necessary in cases like this.
Whether CA would have died anyway, I really do not know. What I do know is that in cases like this the medical proffesion will always prompt people to take the approved treatment as soon as possible to maximise the life expectancy of the patient.
I've also heard of another guy who was at the Bournemouth Mission who subsequently joined the Sea Org. Apparently he attempted or was contemplating suicide, after he joined.
Another girl I used to know at the Mission also either self harmed or attempted suicide.
Want more? Read "Why Are They Dead Scientology?". (Available on the internet.........).
While I was at the Mission and at St. Hill I found that everything was always about MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.
The things that went on in Bournemouth to make money were quite incredible.
At St. Hill I used to witness International Association of Scientologists (IAS) representatives literally running after people down the corridors to get more money out of them.......These poor sods had obviously "donated" quite a bit and were now being hounded for more.
Using Scientology's own "statistics" that 20% of the population are Potential Trouble Sources, that leaves 80% of the of the population who are, by scientology's standards, "normal".
If this is the case, why is it I witnessed literally hundreds of people come into, and leave, Bournemouth Mission, leaving only a small handful who are still involved to this day? The number of people who are left DO NOT represent 80% of those who have ever come "on lines". You'll be lucky if the number who are still there even represent ).8% of the numbers who have come on lines!
The same thing applied to St. Hill in my estimation. During the time I was there I used to see loads of people. By the time I left most of them had gone too!
As far as I am aware all the TTC people that I was with at St. Hill are also now out of Scientology.........This is not statistically very good for Scientology, and seems to be completely different to what they say the statistics are! I wonder why?
I wish that all those years ago the Internet was up and running as well as it is now. I also wish that home PC's were as cheap as they are now.
If I'd had Internet access like we have these days there is NO WAY that I would ever have joined Scientology. Doing a simple search on it reveals lots of critical sites which would have said it all for me.
Over the last few years there have been books written by former members who speak very critically about the "church" of Scientology. Many of these authors had been in it for many years, some in high ranking positions.
If you are still "in" but are reading this, then you are probably in serious doubt about the whole thing. Also if you are reading this then you will, by definition, have access to many other critical sites about Scientology, and online books written by former members. READ THEM.
If you are simply "curious" about Scientology, but are still researching then please take note of what I have written, and also DO FULL RESEARCH.
Whatever you do, all I ask is that you don't make the same mistakes that myself and countless others have made.
Take Care.
Note by me: The source has to stay anonymous, however, just a few clicks here and there can reveal who the dodgy solicitor is and more......
Here is an interesting set of articles by Paul Bracchi on Scientology when he worked for The Evening Argus......go to page 8 for yet another victim of The Bournemouth Mission.......
[PDF]Evening Argus - Very large library of worldwide press ...
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Mr. Colombia...
Over this next weekend you will see the final installment of the Bournemouth Mission, and then in a few weeks you will see an eruption...the likes of Dianetics has Never seen before...watch this space...
Photo Of The Day – Scientology Colombia
The opening of the new Ideal Scientology Org in Bogota Colombia is set for July 5th. We’re pretty sure this photo relates to the event, but we don’t know what it shows. It it a license plate? There’s a spring on the left. Our best guess is lighting or camera equipment, but if you know what it is – comment below or drop us a line at SecCheck8@gmail.com
Hello, Mr. Colombia
The opening of the new Ideal Scientology Org in Bogota Colombia is set for July 5th. We’re pretty sure this photo relates to the event, but we don’t know what it shows. It it a license plate? There’s a spring on the left. Our best guess is lighting or camera equipment, but if you know what it is – comment below or drop us a line at SecCheck8@gmail.com
Re: Sec Check Blog: Exposing Scientology Front Groups (and other stuff)
Have Kids Audited As Young As Four, No Older Than Ten – Help LRH Clear This Planet
Susan Rodriguez has been on staff at Scientology’s Riverpark Mission in Sacramento, California for 40 years. “R” stands for “reality factor,” and Susan’s R is very “in” with youth.
How about come get some auditing from this SUPER STAR – another one of my VETERAN staff – logging in at 40 years this year! She is a newly minted GAT 2 CLASS 5!! We would love to see some of you who may not be moving on the Bridge right now come in and get spiffed up and rolled forward onto whatever is next for you! We would LOVE to audit your FRIENDS AND FAMILY! One thing I recently was thinking about is how GREAT it is to start your KIDS out YOUNG getting INTRO AUDITING. All of us staff here who had kids back in the day – began our children on courses and auditing as early as 4 years old – but for sure before 10 years old. And the result of that speaks for itself. Most of them are either staff at an Ideal Org or in the Sea Org or are flourishing and prospering otherwise and well up the Bridge and helping LRH Clear this Planet from their hats in life! So… it matters! Susan is a WIZARD with the young. She has 4 kids, 4 grandkids and 2 great grandkids of her own…so her R is very “in” with youth. She is great with ANY age, of course,…but thought I would point that out. Call me if you want your kid to get some auditing here.
https://seccheck.wordpress.com/2015/...r-this-planet/
Hello, Mr. Colombia
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
This is where I sign out...Let the so called fucking experts deal with it...enough really is enough!!!
Monday, 22 June 2015
Cult Unfollowing...
Scientology followers drop after more scandals
THE Church of Scientology
is self-destructing, with followers turning their backs on the
controversial religion amid a string of damaging revelations, ...
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The Sun newspaper reported today by Grant Rollings that Hana Eltringham/Whitfieid had seen young children locked up for days on one of Hubbard's "training ships", what is failed to be mentioned is who and why? The Sun Newspaper goes on about the five, six and seven year olds, what it fails to express are the 11 and 12 year olds. Either the Sun Newspaper fails to see 11 and 12 year olds as children, just like the scientologists or Hana Eltringham / Whitfield is a bit muddled or is that muzzled in her thinking...Hana Eltringham /Whitfield was just as much an enforcer as Marty Rathbun. The whole article fails to mention this and I personally am not having any of this.
Quote from the paper: " Hana could have left at any time but thought she was engaged in "a life and death endeavor to save the minds of mankind". She adds "Once you are inside that bowl, all you see is the inside of the bowl".
Note from me; " well, that makes everything alright then, doesn't it!"
The Gillham children are never mentioned, funny that, don't you think....
And why was the name of the lady overboarded on the Apollo not named....her name was Julia Salmon.There are people that think it was nothing to be overboarded...it was a degraded and terrifying thing...every single day...I know because I was on the decks...everyday!
Saturday, 20 June 2015
Re: Scientology's Mission In Poole, Dorset, Updated.
Re Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset continued...
Re: Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset.
TB was one of these people that never liked to disappoint others. Hence he was used as a a major source of the mission's income, week after week. He'd try and put his foot down but in the end he was persuaded to part with more money and more money to "save the planet".
Anyway, he ended up agreeing to training at St. Hill. As the money that was used for this training was coming from his Mission account, he should have been public at St. Hill. However, when he arrived he found that he was on the TTC, which was a tougher schedule. Despite his protests at this he was simply told he was on the TTC and that was that.......
Over 10 hours of "study" each day, doing endless hours of TR's and all the other mind numbing stuff involved in scientology "training" finally finished him off.
One day he simply didn't turn up for his course.......
A few years later he told me what had happened. Apparently he couldn't stand the mind fuck anymore, packed his bag at his accomodation, went to East. Grinstead train station, and caught the first available train. It didn't matter where it was going, he just had to get away. He ended up down at Brighton and spent a couple of weeks there in a cheap motel.
Finally the money was running out, so he hired a car, bought a garden hose pipe and some packing tape and drove westwards to the New Forest......
At this point the poor sod had no where to go, hardly any money and thought the only way out was suicide.
He bought some booze and spent a couple of hours in the car drinking, writing a suicide note and reflecting on why his life had screwed up...
Fortunately he finally decided late at night that it was not worth suicide and decided to drive back to Bournemouth. However, a passing police car had other ideas and he was he was arrested for drink driving.
The police found the note and were sympathetic. They even called in a doctor, who in turn called in a psychiatrist, who in turn was seriously considering getting TB sectioned under the mental health act........This completely freaked the guy out as he had spent the last few years learning how evil the "Psychs" were!
To cut a long story short the police contacted the Mission, and the ED and her other half came to the police station. After some time spent there it was decided not to section TB and the next day the Ed returned to bring him back to the Mission. After this he went through the usual ethics conditions, but spent the next few nights locked up in the ED's and her other half's flat! ( By this time the sea org management had not shared the same opinion that Bournemouth Mission "executives" were worthy of free houses etc,...... and so had ordered them to find their own places at their own cost.......)
All this happened in '95' if memory serves me right. TB routed off staff but stayed on as a member of public. By this time I was well and truly out of it all.
TB got himself a job in a nearby company. This was his first step out of scientology. He now had money coming in regularly and had put his foot down regarding the amount of requests he had to pay more money into the Mission.
He still went through a patch of virtually paying all the rent on a housethat he shared with staff members and had a psychotic ED of the Mission telling him that she would make life"difficult" if he didn't pay money in! Finally he moved to a shared house in Poole where a room was secured for him by one of his workmates at the company where he was employed.
Result! Now he was working outside of scientology, and was also living outside of their regime too. His visits to the Mission became less and less.
His final step out of scientology came about in a strange way......
TB had loaned the Deputy Executive Director a few thousand pounds from the eventual sale of his house, which had to be sold because the mortgage was no longer sustainable.
The Deputy Executive Director of the Mission(AC) had married one of the guys who was initially a public member. Herself and PC were due to travell to, I think, Corfu for their honeymoon.
The ED refused to let AC go on her honeymoon until AC had done some vital income stuff for the Mission ( ie; ripp people off). So PC went on his own to Corfu to await his wife. And he waited....... and waited.......and waited........We're talking about days in this instance!
PC must have been seriously doubting scientology himself, because he ended up buying one of the "anti" scientology books in the airport whilst on his travels.......and it made perfect sense........and PC could see the reality of scientology.........
So back in the UK the Mission was receiving phonecalls from an increasingly irate PC to find out what was happening with his wife! In the end he was threatening to do a refund request if she wasn't released. The Ed finally let AC leave for her honeymoon, but only so she could "handle" her husband!
What actually happened is her husband "handled" her, and persuaded her via the book scientology was a pile of shit!
At this point in the narrative, I am definitely a little bit hazy on the order of events.......
I know that at one time AC had to be removed from the Mission quickly, because the UK police were getting very interested in all the illegal goings on, a lot of which she had committed under orders from others. She and PC, accompanied by a sea org member, ended up driving through Europe and over to Denmark( if memory serves me right). This was all done at their own cost of course!
Danish prices are very high. Very high! After some time over there cooped up in a tiny flat, they could no longer afford the rent. The landlord was threatening to call the police (Danish ones this time) and AC and PC ended up coming back to the UK where, I assume, the UK police had lost AC's scent regarding Bournemouth Mission.
Very briefly AC and TB had an agreement about the money that TB had loaned her. Unfortunately at this time AC seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. TB feared the worst and thought his money had gone. Apparently AC was only contactable by the Director of Special Affairs within the Mission, a chap called BD.
As it transpired later on, AC and PC had blown, and PC was going legal to get back a huge amount of money that he had put into the Mission from an inheritance that he had.
OSA were trying to "help" TB get his money back from AC throgh BD at the Mission. On BD's advice, he contracted a solicitor to take legal action against AC. It was thought later on that OSA simply wanted to bankcrupt AC to comprimise her husband's legal action.
Some months went by and finally TB's solicitor received a legal statement from AC, a copy of which went to TB. After reading this statement TB could see that everything AC stated was true, and was wondering why he had taken legal action!
Cutting things short again. TB contacted AC and they met up. She told him all her part of the story since he last saw her. TB decided there and then to walk away from scientology and took up a legal case to retrieve his money through PC's solicitor......
Friday, 19 June 2015
Cult Children beaten and made to live like early christians
From the Times Newspaper Thurseday 17th June 2015...
By Adam Sage, Paris, France.
French police have seized the children of members of a fundamentalist cult in a hamlet in Southern France who were allegedly beaten, forced to pray each day from dawn.
The Twelve Tribes, a Christian sect based at a chateau at Sus in the Pyrenees Atlantiques, claims to emulate a first-century lifestyle.The children have never seen television or the internet. Members believe that youngsters must be caned to keep folly at bay, nd orce them to work, after a morning of prayer, to work for the rest of the day. They also preach that multiculturalism is satanic.
The Sus community produces and sells fruit, vegetables and shoes.
The group was raided on Tuesday. Police placed four children aged between eighteen months and fourteen years into care amid allegations of abuse.
The raid came after a criminal inquiry, which began after a former member of the cult told a prosecutor that beatings had been administered by the community.
The Twelve Tribes communities in France, Germany, and US and elsewhere have long faced accusations of racism and violence. Gene Spriggs, its founder, who came from Tennessee said that Martin Luthor King was evil.
The sect denies the claims, and says that it is misunderstood.
Jean-Christophe Muller, the state prosecutor in Pau, said that 200 police accompanied by doctors went to the groups French base. He said that officers had been tipped off by a former cult member, but were stunned to find a community of about a hundred people cut off from the modern world.
"The children have never seen television or the internet and do not know what football is," he said.
Mr. Muller said gendarmes had arrested the group's leaders, who are suspected of exploiting vulnerable people, child abuse and forcing children to work. Four children from one family have been taken into care by social services after doctors discovered "recent signs of corporal punishment".
The prosecuror added that beatings were part of the "educative methods" of the community, which adheres to the biblical proverb. "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it away."
The Twelve Tribes originated in the US and claims to have communities in nine countries, including Britain, where it's based in Devon.
Comparing the communities to beehives, the website says the children are a "vital part of our life. We not only educate them but we work with them."
The French Interministerial Mission for Vigilance About and the Fight Against Sects said in a report that children got out of bed at 6am and received religious teaching "all morning. In the afternoons, they work with their parents. They don't have the right to play, because toys are the Devil's work." It added that "physical punishments were regulated and graduated".
Georges Fenech, a centre-right MP and former chairman of the anti sect mission, said: "This is a community which lives in autarky, which takes the children out of the school system. I believe that the children are deprived of fundamental rights."
A German television reporter who infiltrated a Twelve Tribes community in Bavaria filmed members beating children with a willow cane in a dark cellar. In six hours, six children received 83 strokes. One boy was hit ten times because he refused to admit to being tired. The documentary was broaadcast in 2013 after social services removed 40 children from the Bavarian community and put them in care.
Note: Whilst The Times newspaper reports about this,they also recently have almost 2 thirds of a page adverts on more than one occasion for celebrity scientologist John Travolta saying "Welcome to my world" for Breitling watches. A picture of John Travolta, sitting in a Directors chair with a NASA aircraft in the background.
About John Travolta it says...
"In the lead role: John Travolta, movie legend and aviation aficionado. Guest star: The legendary North American X-15 that has smashed all speed and altitude records and opened the gateway to space. Production: Breitling, the privileged partner of aviation thanks to its reliable, acurate and innovative instruments - such as the famous Chronomat, the ultimate chronograph. Welcome to a world of legends, feats and performance.
So, The Times newspaper writes about sects and cults in one breath and promotes them in another.
Interesting...to say the least...
After Rathbun caught up to her at Logan Airport in Boston, Annie seemed resigned to her fate -- as Rathbun says, once she spotted him, her shoulders sagged, and any intention she had of continuing on just evaporated. Taking no chances that she might change her mind if she and Rathbun waited for a morning flight, Miscavige had her flown back that same night on John Travolta's private jet, Rathbun says.
Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again.
Yeah, "Welcome to your world" John Travolta.
This is from the Twelve Tribes website from a child that was put in custody because of abuse...it is CULT propaganda...
Monday 23 09th 2013
Dear Madam Chancellor Angela Merkel,
I hope that this letter will be read and considered carefully.
I wanted to write you the day before yesterday. I was totally impressed with your strong statement on television, because you have so well stated that this country needs children's rights and religious freedom. I found you very honorable and admired you very much. I was very glad that you had been elected.
To start with, I want to introduce myself to you. My name is Eva Krumbacher. I am 17 years old and was forced to leave the so-called sect of the twelve tribes through a police raid. This intervention has separated me and the other 39 children and babies at once from our parents. All of us had been used to having a close, loving relationship with our parents. I found this to be a very brutal and aggressive intervention in our private lives. I think you must have heard about this matter.
I love my life there in the community and would never wish for something else, at least not now. I would say that all rights have been revoked, especially of the smaller children. Children have the right to live with their parents if they want it. My little sister, for example, is suffering mental harm through this separation from our parents. I call that child abuse, when children are removed forcibly from their parents. It goes against the will of the child.
Also, there is no freedom of religion, if parents are not allowed to teach their children the way they want it. I was trained by my mom always at home and have not become stupid. The only reason, why I did not obtain a qualified degree is because we were at the time outside the country. I think it's wrong when our training is referred to as poor or bad. That is unfair. I want to get justice and speak for the rights of young children because their human rights (the right to be together with my father and my mother, the right to psychological integrity, right to express my religion) is being trampled upon and not being recognized.
I place great hope in you. I wish that Germany to be a strong country through you, and that through you, we will be granted religious freedom and the freedom to teach children at home, as is that possible in most European countries.
I really hope that this letter will be read seriously and will not inconsiderately be thrown in the trash. I need help and the children need help. I put my hope in you, so that we can return home. Please listen to me .
Greetings and thanks
Eva Krumbacher
Cult propaganda comes in many forms and it is insidious because these kids have more than likely been threatened in more than one shape or form to write this bullshit. I know, COS, I have been there. It happened to me...
When I was aboard the Apollo, and Janis Gillham and I were put into a condition of 'Liability' we had to write a 'formula', that 'formula' was to explain why we were bad and in 'Liability'. Janis went through with flying colous, she grasped it. I, on the other hand did not. I really was a 'Liability' because I would not conform. I would not admit to being a 'Liability', because I was NOT!
Scenario...in Corfu...
"My name is Sharone, what is your's?"
Δεν καταλαβαίνω
Pointing to myself and repeating
"My name is Sharone, what is your's?"
This took about an hour...
Δεν καταλαβαίνω
Finally... His name was Casper...the Ethics cycle was to humiliate me, to establish that I was a "security leak" and I was punished accordingly. Such was the paranoia of L. Ron Hubbard. Unbeknownst to me my Father was a 'security leak' also, because my Grand Mother had gone to The News of the World about 'Disconnection'. A Big NO,NO! ...if you happen to be in a cult, which I was but did not realise it at the time...I was a child.
To be upgraded from ' Liability', I had to write that " I was a security leak" in order to be upgraded out of 'Liability'. The 'FEAR' was that if I did not comply, I would find myself down in the hold on my own. Janis had gone. She was a good scientologist, I was not! My formula was ripped up three times before I saw sence. That in itself taught me a big lesson. These people are fucking NUTS!
Hence my exit out of Scientology at a very young age...
So, what makes children still stay in this abusive relationship...all their family are still there. Mine, what little I had, had gone!
I was on my own regardless...
By Adam Sage, Paris, France.
French police have seized the children of members of a fundamentalist cult in a hamlet in Southern France who were allegedly beaten, forced to pray each day from dawn.
The Twelve Tribes, a Christian sect based at a chateau at Sus in the Pyrenees Atlantiques, claims to emulate a first-century lifestyle.The children have never seen television or the internet. Members believe that youngsters must be caned to keep folly at bay, nd orce them to work, after a morning of prayer, to work for the rest of the day. They also preach that multiculturalism is satanic.
The Sus community produces and sells fruit, vegetables and shoes.
The group was raided on Tuesday. Police placed four children aged between eighteen months and fourteen years into care amid allegations of abuse.
The raid came after a criminal inquiry, which began after a former member of the cult told a prosecutor that beatings had been administered by the community.
The Twelve Tribes communities in France, Germany, and US and elsewhere have long faced accusations of racism and violence. Gene Spriggs, its founder, who came from Tennessee said that Martin Luthor King was evil.
The sect denies the claims, and says that it is misunderstood.
Jean-Christophe Muller, the state prosecutor in Pau, said that 200 police accompanied by doctors went to the groups French base. He said that officers had been tipped off by a former cult member, but were stunned to find a community of about a hundred people cut off from the modern world.
"The children have never seen television or the internet and do not know what football is," he said.
Mr. Muller said gendarmes had arrested the group's leaders, who are suspected of exploiting vulnerable people, child abuse and forcing children to work. Four children from one family have been taken into care by social services after doctors discovered "recent signs of corporal punishment".
The prosecuror added that beatings were part of the "educative methods" of the community, which adheres to the biblical proverb. "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it away."
The Twelve Tribes originated in the US and claims to have communities in nine countries, including Britain, where it's based in Devon.
Comparing the communities to beehives, the website says the children are a "vital part of our life. We not only educate them but we work with them."
The French Interministerial Mission for Vigilance About and the Fight Against Sects said in a report that children got out of bed at 6am and received religious teaching "all morning. In the afternoons, they work with their parents. They don't have the right to play, because toys are the Devil's work." It added that "physical punishments were regulated and graduated".
Georges Fenech, a centre-right MP and former chairman of the anti sect mission, said: "This is a community which lives in autarky, which takes the children out of the school system. I believe that the children are deprived of fundamental rights."
A German television reporter who infiltrated a Twelve Tribes community in Bavaria filmed members beating children with a willow cane in a dark cellar. In six hours, six children received 83 strokes. One boy was hit ten times because he refused to admit to being tired. The documentary was broaadcast in 2013 after social services removed 40 children from the Bavarian community and put them in care.
Note: Whilst The Times newspaper reports about this,they also recently have almost 2 thirds of a page adverts on more than one occasion for celebrity scientologist John Travolta saying "Welcome to my world" for Breitling watches. A picture of John Travolta, sitting in a Directors chair with a NASA aircraft in the background.
About John Travolta it says...
"In the lead role: John Travolta, movie legend and aviation aficionado. Guest star: The legendary North American X-15 that has smashed all speed and altitude records and opened the gateway to space. Production: Breitling, the privileged partner of aviation thanks to its reliable, acurate and innovative instruments - such as the famous Chronomat, the ultimate chronograph. Welcome to a world of legends, feats and performance.
So, The Times newspaper writes about sects and cults in one breath and promotes them in another.
Interesting...to say the least...
After Rathbun caught up to her at Logan Airport in Boston, Annie seemed resigned to her fate -- as Rathbun says, once she spotted him, her shoulders sagged, and any intention she had of continuing on just evaporated. Taking no chances that she might change her mind if she and Rathbun waited for a morning flight, Miscavige had her flown back that same night on John Travolta's private jet, Rathbun says.
Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again.
Yeah, "Welcome to your world" John Travolta.
Death of a Scientologist: Why Annie Broeker, Famous in the ...
'The church has been so beautiful for me': John Travolta ...
This is from the Twelve Tribes website from a child that was put in custody because of abuse...it is CULT propaganda...
An Frau Merkel
Monday 23 09th 2013Dear Madam Chancellor Angela Merkel,
I hope that this letter will be read and considered carefully.
I wanted to write you the day before yesterday. I was totally impressed with your strong statement on television, because you have so well stated that this country needs children's rights and religious freedom. I found you very honorable and admired you very much. I was very glad that you had been elected.
To start with, I want to introduce myself to you. My name is Eva Krumbacher. I am 17 years old and was forced to leave the so-called sect of the twelve tribes through a police raid. This intervention has separated me and the other 39 children and babies at once from our parents. All of us had been used to having a close, loving relationship with our parents. I found this to be a very brutal and aggressive intervention in our private lives. I think you must have heard about this matter.
I love my life there in the community and would never wish for something else, at least not now. I would say that all rights have been revoked, especially of the smaller children. Children have the right to live with their parents if they want it. My little sister, for example, is suffering mental harm through this separation from our parents. I call that child abuse, when children are removed forcibly from their parents. It goes against the will of the child.
Also, there is no freedom of religion, if parents are not allowed to teach their children the way they want it. I was trained by my mom always at home and have not become stupid. The only reason, why I did not obtain a qualified degree is because we were at the time outside the country. I think it's wrong when our training is referred to as poor or bad. That is unfair. I want to get justice and speak for the rights of young children because their human rights (the right to be together with my father and my mother, the right to psychological integrity, right to express my religion) is being trampled upon and not being recognized.
I place great hope in you. I wish that Germany to be a strong country through you, and that through you, we will be granted religious freedom and the freedom to teach children at home, as is that possible in most European countries.
I really hope that this letter will be read seriously and will not inconsiderately be thrown in the trash. I need help and the children need help. I put my hope in you, so that we can return home. Please listen to me .
Greetings and thanks
Eva Krumbacher
The Twelve Tribes | The Official Website of the Twelve ...
In Germany's Twelve Tribes sect, cameras catch 'cold and ...
This is a must watch for anyone that thinks sects and cults can get away with systematic abuse of children. The video is on a loop with many adverts but shows just how cults operate on young defenceless children...
RTL – Wolfram Kuhnigk goes undercover in Germany ...
Cult propaganda comes in many forms and it is insidious because these kids have more than likely been threatened in more than one shape or form to write this bullshit. I know, COS, I have been there. It happened to me...
When I was aboard the Apollo, and Janis Gillham and I were put into a condition of 'Liability' we had to write a 'formula', that 'formula' was to explain why we were bad and in 'Liability'. Janis went through with flying colous, she grasped it. I, on the other hand did not. I really was a 'Liability' because I would not conform. I would not admit to being a 'Liability', because I was NOT!
Scenario...in Corfu...
"My name is Sharone, what is your's?"
Δεν καταλαβαίνω
Pointing to myself and repeating
"My name is Sharone, what is your's?"
This took about an hour...
Δεν καταλαβαίνω
Finally... His name was Casper...the Ethics cycle was to humiliate me, to establish that I was a "security leak" and I was punished accordingly. Such was the paranoia of L. Ron Hubbard. Unbeknownst to me my Father was a 'security leak' also, because my Grand Mother had gone to The News of the World about 'Disconnection'. A Big NO,NO! ...if you happen to be in a cult, which I was but did not realise it at the time...I was a child.
To be upgraded from ' Liability', I had to write that " I was a security leak" in order to be upgraded out of 'Liability'. The 'FEAR' was that if I did not comply, I would find myself down in the hold on my own. Janis had gone. She was a good scientologist, I was not! My formula was ripped up three times before I saw sence. That in itself taught me a big lesson. These people are fucking NUTS!
Hence my exit out of Scientology at a very young age...
So, what makes children still stay in this abusive relationship...all their family are still there. Mine, what little I had, had gone!
I was on my own regardless...
International Cultic Studies Association
- ICSA Annual Conference - Stockholm, Sweden, June 25-27, 2015.
- Meet ICSA Members
From time to time, this column will feature a short profile on an ICSA member.Håkan Järvå, Former Scientologist and now a licensed psychologist inSweden. Editor and co-author of the book Sektsjuka (Cult Illness) and a former lecturer for the psychology department at the University of Gothenburg on the subject of manipulation, influence, and cult illness. He offers psychotherapy to former members of cults and is also employed as a consultant by the help organization for former cult members in Sweden, Hjälpkällan, to train their nationwide network of volunteer workers. He is currently involved in a project aimed at high schools in Sweden together with a professional magician with the purpose of educating and vaccinating teenagers against manipulation.
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Re Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset continued...
Re: Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset.
Other "perks" that the "executives commanded was "spending money" which they simply got from the Treasury Division. This would be used to buy food, fags and anything else they fancied. Basically anything they got in staff pay was simply "spare money", because all their essentials was already catered for.
For the ordinary staff members the story was completely different. They existed quite often below the poverty line because staff pay was so poor. Out of what they did get they had to pay their housing rent and feed and clothe themselves. At one time it was fairly common to have a "house moving party" at around midnight because a landlord had given the staff their marching orders due to non payment of rent.
I remember one staff member who had accumulated about £30,000 in credit card bills and/or loans. This person also had a mortgage to pay for on their property. At the time the staff pay was zero or £5 per week.......
Another person, who was a public member at the time, once came into the Mission to poitely enquire as to why his credit card was debited to the tune of £60,000 without his knowledge. This guy was in the army and quite well paid. The amounts debited on his card were not only done without his knowledge, but he wasn't even in the country at the time as he was away on army business!
Various people ended up receiving Auditor and Case Supervisor training at St. Hill on the TTC ( Tech Training Corps). The TTC'ers from various Missions would lodge at various houses around St. Hill. These were usually owned by public Scientologists who attended St. Hill.
Our rent was supposed to be paid by our respective Missions, but often wasn't or, it would be a "token Payment" and no where near enough. Bournemouth Mission wasn't the only culprit in this, none of the Missions seemed to havethe money to pay their staff's rent. The result was that some unfortunate trainee would be screamed at to find the rent!!
While I was at St. Hill I began to form a relationship with a female on the TTC, my existing relationship was begining to flounder by now as we never had time to see each other.
However, an "upstat"(ie; Big bank Account) member of St. Hill's public also fancied this female and my intervention was causing them a "problem". To cut a long story short I was ordered under threat of a declare to cut all relationships with this female by the "ethics personell" at St. Hill. Just so they could get more money out of their public member. Arseholes.......
One guy I knew from the TTC from my own Mission ws TB, he came to the Mission in '92 I believe. He, unfortunately for him, was fairly wealthy as he had been left an inheritance by his parents. I remember supervising him when he was doing Div Six courses. If there was ever a person who I didn't think was very keen on Scientology, then he was it.The problem is that as he had money the Mission were not going to let him go.
Some years later he told me that was very rarely "winning with Scientology, and only stayed in it because he was the proverbial donkey following the dangling carrot. In other words all his reservations were brushed aside and he'd be told that all his problems would be sorted out after paying for this, that and the other. The poor sod ended up paying in tens, if not over a hundred thousand pounds, if not more.
A couple of times he attempted to get out, but got buttered up by the Registrars and pulled in again. He ended up on staff shortly after joining the Mission, because he was told "it was his only hope" if he stayed in Scientology. Years later he told me he had never felt so low in his whole life than when he was in "that insane cult".
After being persuaded to join staff he rapidly found himself paying all the rent on the house that he'd moved to in Poole. The other staffers who lived there never had enough money to pay anything like their share.
Later on (a couple of years I think), he was persuaded to lend the HAS over £1,000 for rent on the house that she, and other staf member's, lived in. Then he loaned five or six hundred pounds to one of the registrars for outstanding rent on her house, that she, and other staff members, lived in. Needless to say he never got these loans back. I remember him saying in total he was owed around £3,000 by various staff members and never got the money back.
To cut a long story short, TB and anothe guy on staff at the Mission, were persuaded to remortgage their respective homes to raise money to use as a donation to the Mission because it was in financial dire straits. ( I'm talking £150,000 in debt.) God knows how the debt got this high. According to Scientology "policy" debts are impossible to accrue if the policy is followed.......
Anyway, these guys agreed to raising the money, but it was raised using highly irregular, If not downright illegal means. After all, how does someone repay a mortgage of many tens of thousands of pounds when their income is only a few pounds a week.......??!!! The Scenior Registrar was involved in this, so was Scientology's own Solicitor, himself a Scientologist.
Some years later I heard that none of this money ever went to paying any of the Mission debts. What actually happened is that the Mission Holder, RK, used it to further his OT7 level at Flag, Scientology's "mecca" in the USA. Yep, the money was used to pay for his OT7, accomodation, flights, spending money etc......Whether he did this of his own accord, or whether he was "persuaded" to by higher management, I really don't know.
You have to remember that when there's money floating around in the scientology world, all sorts of people representing all sorts of different areas of scientology, are around it like flies around shit. It's like watching a pack of vultures fighting each other over a fresh carcass.
A few years later TB said to me that "If I'd known back then what happened to that money, I'd have got out of that mind fuck right there and then!". Needless to say it was for this reason all this was hushed up........
Monday, 15 June 2015
So, what do the Foo Fighters and Scientology have in common? Nothing!
I was blasted away yesterday because I have doubled my blog readership overnight, and I could not fathom it...it made NO sense...at all...At first I was Inclined to think my blog spot was in a Swedish Newspaper. NO, The East. Grinstead Courier made this possible, and of course with a friend called GOOGLE.When I left for work this morning there were still over 7,000 people in Sweden reading my blog. WOW! Thank You Sweden...ThankYou Foo Fighters and Thank You The East. Grinstead Courier.
I love music, it's what keeps me alive...
And then you get this...Scientology's Sea Org on Brittain's Got Talent...really?
Shelley Ballantyne became involved with the cult religion when she was just seven — and fled from it ten years later.
Yesterday she
told The Sun: “I’m so glad Katie has done what she has. If Suri had
entered Scientology like I did, her whole childhood would have been
ruined.
“I have no happy memories of my childhood. All I had was years of misery.
“You spend
your whole time studying Scientology and working for them. It’s not the
way a child should be brought up, with no laughter or fun. It would have
been horrid for Suri.”
“But they are
banned from having children if they are in Sea Org because you are
supposed to be elite Scientologists and they believe that children are a
distraction.”
Finally, when she was 17, Shelley hatched a plan she believed would get her thrown out.
“So I managed to persuade them to let me visit some of the other Scientology mansions near London.
“They were absolutely furious. They put me through all sorts of weird tests, then eventually they agreed I could leave.
“But I had to
sign an agreement saying I would never talk about my time with them.
They also presented me with a ‘freeloader’ bill, charging me for every
Scientology course I ever had.
People you recruited into it were encouraged to go on
endless courses which cost them thousands.”
Now a single
mother of an 18-month-old son, Shelley said her time with the
Scientologists has ruined her relationship with her father, who she
rarely sees.
She said: “I feel he robbed me of my childhood. I was a perfectly happy little girl and then was thrown into a life of misery.
“I’m so happy
Katie has taken Suri away from Scientology. Tom should be glad too
because Suri could have ended up hating him — like I hate my father.”
Look at this...
I love music, it's what keeps me alive...
Simon Cowell promoting the Sea Org on British TV...show on the ship...Good Luck at the Glastonbury Festival...If you are not booed off the stage, I will be very surprised. You know exactly who I am...because you met me in Hastings...remember me...David Miscavige beats his staff...You didn't believe it!
The Hole (Scientology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well, look, what have we got here...
INFODUMP Jive Aces | Why We Protest | Anonymous Activism Fo
Shelley Ballantyne became involved with the cult religion when she was just seven — and fled from it ten years later.
Yesterday she
told The Sun: “I’m so glad Katie has done what she has. If Suri had
entered Scientology like I did, her whole childhood would have been
ruined.
“I have no happy memories of my childhood. All I had was years of misery.
“You spend
your whole time studying Scientology and working for them. It’s not the
way a child should be brought up, with no laughter or fun. It would have
been horrid for Suri.”
Shelley said teenagers are not encouraged to have boyfriends or girlfriends and friendships with non-Scientologists are banned.
She continued: “Sex before marriage is forbidden. A lot of Scientologist teenagers I knew ended up getting married at 17.
“But they are
banned from having children if they are in Sea Org because you are
supposed to be elite Scientologists and they believe that children are a
distraction.”
Finally, when she was 17, Shelley hatched a plan she believed would get her thrown out.
She said:
“They would not let me go. I thought I was trapped for ever but I knew
there was one thing they would not tolerate — and that was sex before
marriage.
“So I managed to persuade them to let me visit some of the other Scientology mansions near London.
“During the trip I met a non-Scientologist and had sex with him. Then when I got back to my HQ I confessed all.
“They were absolutely furious. They put me through all sorts of weird tests, then eventually they agreed I could leave.
“But I had to
sign an agreement saying I would never talk about my time with them.
They also presented me with a ‘freeloader’ bill, charging me for every
Scientology course I ever had.
“It was about £7,000 but I’ve never paid it. It seemed to me that Scientology was a lot about money.
People you recruited into it were encouraged to go on
endless courses which cost them thousands.”
Now a single
mother of an 18-month-old son, Shelley said her time with the
Scientologists has ruined her relationship with her father, who she
rarely sees.
She said: “I feel he robbed me of my childhood. I was a perfectly happy little girl and then was thrown into a life of misery.
“I’m so happy
Katie has taken Suri away from Scientology. Tom should be glad too
because Suri could have ended up hating him — like I hate my father.”
I Loved my Father too..., but at age 11 he abandoned me at sea with L. Ron Hubbard...and regardless of what your feelings might be...I hated him also, because what he did to me in the name of L. Ron Hubbard is totally wrong.
I just know there is something, that my Father did that has somen bearing, somewhere that is totally BAD...and he did not want me to know. I will find it, shredded or NOT...I will make it a mission to find it. My Father was well up in the establishment of this Organization.
It's why he died saying nothing!
A Lot of people want me to let this go...I will NOT...because I know, there IS a whole lot more to it...there are four people that could speak out, but they won't...Terri Gillham, Janis Gillham and Peter Gillham...and Claire Popham
Not a hope in hell, Scientology...
I bet our congregation is bigger than yours...
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Sunday, 14 June 2015
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Scientology's Sea Org Decending on Glastonbury Festival
According to Sam Satchell of The East. Grinstead Courier, the sea org, in the form of the Jive Aces are decending upon the Glastonbury Festival.
REVEALED: East Grinstead band join The Foo Fighters, Kanye West and The Who on Glastonbury line-up
The yellow-suited Scientologists are the UK's number one jive and swing band, and are renowned for their high-energy music and live shows.
They have been added to the Avalon stage to appear on Saturday, June 27, between 5.15 and 6.15pm.
So if you are handed "Say No to Drugs" pamphlets or "The way to Happiness" booklets, you have NO excuse to not know you are being recruited for scientology. The fastest growing load of bollocks in the world today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk6m6Tb6wJ4
REVEALED: East Grinstead band join The Foo Fighters, Kanye West and The Who on Glastonbury line-up
The yellow-suited Scientologists are the UK's number one jive and swing band, and are renowned for their high-energy music and live shows.
They have been added to the Avalon stage to appear on Saturday, June 27, between 5.15 and 6.15pm.
So if you are handed "Say No to Drugs" pamphlets or "The way to Happiness" booklets, you have NO excuse to not know you are being recruited for scientology. The fastest growing load of bollocks in the world today.
INFODUMP Jive Aces | Why We Protest | Anonymous Activism Fo
Jive Aces: A Scientology Promotion Group - Britain's Got Talen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk6m6Tb6wJ4
Friday, 12 June 2015
What these guys did this day...was awesome...
These young kids broke the mold, they did something that no other could...I personally am eternally grateful to them. These guys were the ones that gave me a platform...which is now 'the apollo series' and I will not stop, because scientology thinks it has the platform....everyone thinks Tom Cruise is a movie star...he's pathetic...he sends goons out to little women to intimidate them. My previous post kind of sums it up...and here is Tom putting ethics in...
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Re: Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset.
Scientology's Bournemouth Mission, Poole, Dorset.
I have a story for you from someone that was at the Bournemouth Mission....it will be done in several parts.
Scientology - My Story and Experiences
This is the story of my Scientology experiences back in the '90's.
Some of it is a little hazy as it all happened a quarter of a century ago, but I am going to tell it in as much detail as possible. Another reason that I cannot always remember exact sequences of events, dates etc...is simply because the whole thing was such a mindf**k that, to me, it was a surreal experience.
You may ask why I am telling this story now, all these years later? The answer to this is I used to know quite a few people in Scientology, and a lot of these people, like me are now well and truly out of it, never to return. I have met up with some of these people at various times in my life. Some of them I am still in contact with now. Naturally enough our conversations often detail our Scientology years, our own experiences of others that we knew.
Despite the fact that Scientology ruined a good part of my life, I actually consider myself to be one of the lucky ones! On and off I have read various message boards on Scientology critical websites. The personal stories that have been posted by some people often portray horrific experiences, particularly by those in the sea org.
As time has gone on, and the number of stories I have read has grown, I have decided to put fingers to key board and tell about my own experiences. There has always been something inside me urging to tell my story. That has now burst out into the open, so here is my story and experiences........
For the purposes of this script you may refer to me as "Xenu's Uncle". Names have been abbreviated to initials, but the events and dates are, to the best of my knowledge, as true as they can be bearing in mind that some of the details have come from other people.
I was first introduced into Scientology in 1990 or '91. I was in the army at the time and met a young lady whilst on leave by the name of EV. I was her partner for a few years. She was working for the scientology mission, at Poole, Dorset, and told me of glowing recommendations for it.
Naturally enough I was invited to come along to the Mission by EV. I found the people to be very friendly and chatty, and I really connected with the aims of scientology.( After all, who wouldn't want a better world with no wars, no insanity and populated by people who did everything right?)
The Executive Director of the Mission was a woman by the name of DL. The Deputy Director of the Mission was another woman by the name of AC. She very soon convinced me to leave the army and join staff. This was a very difficult decision to make as I loved my job and the pay was quite good. However, the usual scientology "hard sell" won me over and I left and I left the army after paying them a large sum of money to clear off early. ( What a mistake that was!)
The Mission Holder was a guy by the name of RK. He had the ability to charm the hind legs off a donkey. Youll be able to out a lot about him by doing an internet search. Most of the staff used to think the sun shone out of RK's arse. Some simply thought he talked out of his arse.......! As it turned out the latter group were correct, but more of this later.
I started off working for the Mission as a Division 6 couse supervisor, someone who took the courses for the public newcomers into scientology. I was also a promo'er during the day when I wasn't on course. The promo'ers used to go out to various towns and distribute thousands of Oxford Capacity Analysis questionares to the public.
These Oxford Capacity Analysis forms were often the first thing that a newcomer to scientology would encounter. They consist of 200 questions, each one answered by 'Yes', 'No' or 'Maybe'. Then they would be marked and the results would supposedly give the " Personality Trait" of the person. I have been informed there Is no perfect way to answer these questionaires. No matter how a person answers the result is always a bad trait which "scientology can help them with".
At this point I should add that before I joined the Mission staff I had misgivings about how much the staff pay was, I was then promised £100 per week, which I thought was a bit low, but could probably manage with.As it turned out the most I ever got was about £50 per week, on a rare couple of weeks it was higher.
The hours at the Mission were long. We'd start at 10am and would be lucky if we finished by midnight. Two in the morning was frequent, with 4 in the mornings not being unheard of......There was always something to do. Once the courses had finished for the day the staff would be writing letters to people on "Central Files". These CF contained details of anyone who had ever bought anything, and the hastily scrawled letters were designed to entice them into the Mission for more "services".
Bournemouth Mission used to make a lot of money. A huge amount of money. At one time the gross income in a week was almost as much as St. Hill made.....The problem was that much of this money was made by rather dubious, if not entirely illegal, means.
AC was a brilliant registrar (for what it's worth). She could get people to empty their bank accounts, re morgage their homes, take out loans for cars, boats, computers etc......and the proceeds would all go the Mission. Don't believe me? Ok, look at "The Big Story" documentary which features AC admitting that this DID happen, after she got out of scientology. People used to be reg'ed to pay in money for services that were FAR in excess of what the Mission could provide. It wasn't uncommon for people to payin "Advbanced Payments" for OT8, when the Mission could only deliver up to "Clear". It didn't matter how the money came in, as long as it came in as quickly as possible, and as much as possible.
The only problem with this is that many people who had paid in a lot of money would wake up to the fact they'd been scammed, usually because inside themselves they weren't happy about departing with all their finances to begin with, despite the persuasion "it was the best investment ever".
The result was that a fair proportion of the income would go out again to pay for all the refund or repayment requests. Many of these had gone legal, because simply asking the Mission "could I have my money back please", did not work. Hence the Treasury Division had filing cabinet drawers full of repayment requests, legal repayment requests and "flappy" repayment requests. These were the ones that had gone more than legal, and things like winding up orders were due to be issued.
So the general state of play would be that people were asset stripped in order to repay previous people who had also been asset stripped!
In the scientology world Bournemouth Mission was an "irregular" part of the scenario because it was run in a manner that seemed to be VERY beneficial to the "executives" who masterminded it.
For example, the "executives" RK and DL, lived in a magnificent rented detached house in Bournemouth. Lovely views, big double garage with electric doors, big lounge, big kitchen etc....It was the sort of house most ordinary mortals could only dream about. In addition the house had a cleaning compnay to clean the inside each week, and the rent on the place included a gardening company to manicure the garden.....
RK and DL lived there with their other halves. RK was living with a woman called JL, now his wife, who was also a scientologist. DL lived with her husband PL who was the Mission's top auditor. In addition one of the Mission'sregistrar's (SP) lived there.
Naturally it didn't end there. The Mission Holder went around in a plush Toyota MR2, and the Ed had a Rover, so did AC.
How was this all paid for? Easy. The Mission Holder had a bank account entitled "Regional Management Account", this was something that, a while after I became staff was pointed out to me via "policy letters", (for what they're worth), was completely illegal by scientology standards.
Anyway this "Regional Management Account" was the Bournemouth executives passport to a cozy little lifestyle. It had cleared funds going into it from the Main Account, therefore any money in it was free to use. And use it they did! The rented house was paid for from it, so was the council tax, utility bills, rent of a state of the art TV and video recorder, an interior cleaning company for upkeep of the house, lease hire charges for the Mission Holder's MR2, and the lease hire charge for the two Rovers.
The house alone was £1,000 per month (remember this was early 90s) The MR2 was £630 or so per month and the two Rovers were around £330 per month each. Add on to this all the other mentioned charges......
To be continued....
I have a story for you from someone that was at the Bournemouth Mission....it will be done in several parts.
Scientology - My Story and Experiences
This is the story of my Scientology experiences back in the '90's.
Some of it is a little hazy as it all happened a quarter of a century ago, but I am going to tell it in as much detail as possible. Another reason that I cannot always remember exact sequences of events, dates etc...is simply because the whole thing was such a mindf**k that, to me, it was a surreal experience.
You may ask why I am telling this story now, all these years later? The answer to this is I used to know quite a few people in Scientology, and a lot of these people, like me are now well and truly out of it, never to return. I have met up with some of these people at various times in my life. Some of them I am still in contact with now. Naturally enough our conversations often detail our Scientology years, our own experiences of others that we knew.
Despite the fact that Scientology ruined a good part of my life, I actually consider myself to be one of the lucky ones! On and off I have read various message boards on Scientology critical websites. The personal stories that have been posted by some people often portray horrific experiences, particularly by those in the sea org.
As time has gone on, and the number of stories I have read has grown, I have decided to put fingers to key board and tell about my own experiences. There has always been something inside me urging to tell my story. That has now burst out into the open, so here is my story and experiences........
For the purposes of this script you may refer to me as "Xenu's Uncle". Names have been abbreviated to initials, but the events and dates are, to the best of my knowledge, as true as they can be bearing in mind that some of the details have come from other people.
I was first introduced into Scientology in 1990 or '91. I was in the army at the time and met a young lady whilst on leave by the name of EV. I was her partner for a few years. She was working for the scientology mission, at Poole, Dorset, and told me of glowing recommendations for it.
Naturally enough I was invited to come along to the Mission by EV. I found the people to be very friendly and chatty, and I really connected with the aims of scientology.( After all, who wouldn't want a better world with no wars, no insanity and populated by people who did everything right?)
The Executive Director of the Mission was a woman by the name of DL. The Deputy Director of the Mission was another woman by the name of AC. She very soon convinced me to leave the army and join staff. This was a very difficult decision to make as I loved my job and the pay was quite good. However, the usual scientology "hard sell" won me over and I left and I left the army after paying them a large sum of money to clear off early. ( What a mistake that was!)
The Mission Holder was a guy by the name of RK. He had the ability to charm the hind legs off a donkey. Youll be able to out a lot about him by doing an internet search. Most of the staff used to think the sun shone out of RK's arse. Some simply thought he talked out of his arse.......! As it turned out the latter group were correct, but more of this later.
I started off working for the Mission as a Division 6 couse supervisor, someone who took the courses for the public newcomers into scientology. I was also a promo'er during the day when I wasn't on course. The promo'ers used to go out to various towns and distribute thousands of Oxford Capacity Analysis questionares to the public.
These Oxford Capacity Analysis forms were often the first thing that a newcomer to scientology would encounter. They consist of 200 questions, each one answered by 'Yes', 'No' or 'Maybe'. Then they would be marked and the results would supposedly give the " Personality Trait" of the person. I have been informed there Is no perfect way to answer these questionaires. No matter how a person answers the result is always a bad trait which "scientology can help them with".
At this point I should add that before I joined the Mission staff I had misgivings about how much the staff pay was, I was then promised £100 per week, which I thought was a bit low, but could probably manage with.As it turned out the most I ever got was about £50 per week, on a rare couple of weeks it was higher.
The hours at the Mission were long. We'd start at 10am and would be lucky if we finished by midnight. Two in the morning was frequent, with 4 in the mornings not being unheard of......There was always something to do. Once the courses had finished for the day the staff would be writing letters to people on "Central Files". These CF contained details of anyone who had ever bought anything, and the hastily scrawled letters were designed to entice them into the Mission for more "services".
Bournemouth Mission used to make a lot of money. A huge amount of money. At one time the gross income in a week was almost as much as St. Hill made.....The problem was that much of this money was made by rather dubious, if not entirely illegal, means.
AC was a brilliant registrar (for what it's worth). She could get people to empty their bank accounts, re morgage their homes, take out loans for cars, boats, computers etc......and the proceeds would all go the Mission. Don't believe me? Ok, look at "The Big Story" documentary which features AC admitting that this DID happen, after she got out of scientology. People used to be reg'ed to pay in money for services that were FAR in excess of what the Mission could provide. It wasn't uncommon for people to payin "Advbanced Payments" for OT8, when the Mission could only deliver up to "Clear". It didn't matter how the money came in, as long as it came in as quickly as possible, and as much as possible.
The only problem with this is that many people who had paid in a lot of money would wake up to the fact they'd been scammed, usually because inside themselves they weren't happy about departing with all their finances to begin with, despite the persuasion "it was the best investment ever".
The result was that a fair proportion of the income would go out again to pay for all the refund or repayment requests. Many of these had gone legal, because simply asking the Mission "could I have my money back please", did not work. Hence the Treasury Division had filing cabinet drawers full of repayment requests, legal repayment requests and "flappy" repayment requests. These were the ones that had gone more than legal, and things like winding up orders were due to be issued.
So the general state of play would be that people were asset stripped in order to repay previous people who had also been asset stripped!
In the scientology world Bournemouth Mission was an "irregular" part of the scenario because it was run in a manner that seemed to be VERY beneficial to the "executives" who masterminded it.
For example, the "executives" RK and DL, lived in a magnificent rented detached house in Bournemouth. Lovely views, big double garage with electric doors, big lounge, big kitchen etc....It was the sort of house most ordinary mortals could only dream about. In addition the house had a cleaning compnay to clean the inside each week, and the rent on the place included a gardening company to manicure the garden.....
RK and DL lived there with their other halves. RK was living with a woman called JL, now his wife, who was also a scientologist. DL lived with her husband PL who was the Mission's top auditor. In addition one of the Mission'sregistrar's (SP) lived there.
Naturally it didn't end there. The Mission Holder went around in a plush Toyota MR2, and the Ed had a Rover, so did AC.
How was this all paid for? Easy. The Mission Holder had a bank account entitled "Regional Management Account", this was something that, a while after I became staff was pointed out to me via "policy letters", (for what they're worth), was completely illegal by scientology standards.
Anyway this "Regional Management Account" was the Bournemouth executives passport to a cozy little lifestyle. It had cleared funds going into it from the Main Account, therefore any money in it was free to use. And use it they did! The rented house was paid for from it, so was the council tax, utility bills, rent of a state of the art TV and video recorder, an interior cleaning company for upkeep of the house, lease hire charges for the Mission Holder's MR2, and the lease hire charge for the two Rovers.
The house alone was £1,000 per month (remember this was early 90s) The MR2 was £630 or so per month and the two Rovers were around £330 per month each. Add on to this all the other mentioned charges......
To be continued....
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