L. Ron Hubbard and Frankie Howerd in South Africa 1960

A couple of days ago someone put this up on youtube, it looks like a family holiday travelling from Cape Town to Durban. At a hotel at 6:11 in the video you can see L. Ron Hubbard. I found it very un-nerving, as he looked just like that when I first met him as a little girl at St. Hill in the 60s. What appears even more remarkable is the shot leaves him, someone jumps in a pool and then moves on to Frankie Howerd, yes, that Frankie Howerd, the comedian, and then he's wearing a bra. Frankie Howerd is on a bill board later in the film footage. The whole thing is rather bizarre...see for yourself...

Update: I have just watched part 1, Lance is the child and his parents were appearing in a variety show, presumably the Frankie Howerd one. Interesting! As an adult, Lance was in a UK pop band called Prima Donna.

Lance's parents in a performance on stage, very funny for it's time...

Sex, Secrets and Franke Howerd in '50s Television Forum

Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd - What a Carry On

Titter ye not: Frankie Howerd had a dark side - Telegraph

Notice the references to LSD therapy.

What a carry on, indeed!

 

Is Russian Scientology getting PR in before the ban deadline?

Church of Scientology of Moscow Celebrates 22nd Anniversary of Its ...

PR Newswire (press release)-16 Mar 2016

Scientologists look back on 22 years of service and look forward to the future at the celebration of the Church of Scientology of Moscow's official ...

 

Moscow court bans Church of Scientology over 'irreligious ...
International-RT-23 Nov 2015

 

 

Scientology’s Darkest Secrets Revealed By President’s Ex-Wife Karen de la Carriere

This is worth watching for so many reasons, I'll let you figure out the reasons for yourself...

Seems I was right, Karen de la Carriere. :)

This Is Scientology Working...

The man behind the plan, you focus me between a  60 year old sext telephonist and gay porn, really? How funny that is and apparently there were not any comments on facebook. No comments at all....But we'll have a big shout out to Pete Griffiths...on my blog there were 53 hits from this amazing statement of mine, three of whom I lead there personally...What a waste of time...

BrianTellsStories

Ruthless - A tell all about Scientology's leader from his own Father

Scientology Leader David Miscavige's Estranged Father to Publish Tell All in May

Scientology Children and the "Problems of Work"

Arthur Lefler has completed the Problems Of Work book course at Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida.

Ask yourself this, why would a young child, what is he 9/10? be doing a course on the "Problems of Work"?

Reblogged from here - Continue reading John Travolta and his ancient galactic friends celebrate Scientology’s holiest day of year

Today’s Sunday Times in London contains an excerpt of Lawrence Wright’s epic book, Going Clear, but also this interview of its UK publisher, Humfrey Hunter…

The one-man publisher taking on Goliath

Oliver Thring

Over the years the Church of Scientology has become known as an enthusiastic and tenacious litigant with expensive lawyers on speed-dial.

That reputation seems to have delayed the publication of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright’s devastating exposé of the organisation, by three years in this country.

The book had originally been slated for publication here in 2013 by Transworld, an offshoot of the then publishing giant Random House, whose Knopf division had printed it in America the same year. But shortly before the text was due to be released in Britain, Transworld abruptly pulled it from its schedules after taking “legal advice”.

However, a change in the libel laws later that year saw the introduction of a “publication on a matter of public interest”, a reinvigorated defence against an accusation of defamation.
“That change emboldened me to publish,” says Humfrey Hunter, the owner (and sole employee) of Silvertail Books, who has brought Going Clear to the British market along with several other books prepared to criticise scientology.

“I reasoned that in PR terms it would be counterproductive for a multibillion-dollar organisation like the Church of Scientology to pursue a small publisher like us.”
At least a decade of critical media coverage and multiple allegations of human rights abuses at its premises have, it is claimed, severely reduced the church’s ability to attract new adherents. (The organisation strenuously denies the claims of abuse.)

Hunter believes that today the church is in a “parlous” state. “Its membership is down to, at most, 40,000 people worldwide. I probably sell more books about scientology than there are scientologists in Britain. The conveyer belt of defectors — the No  2, 3 and 4 in the organisation have all left in recent years — has done it serious damage,” he says.

Critics point out that the church has had only two leaders: its founder, L Ron Hubbard, and David Miscavige, who is said to have seized power from Hubbard’s anointed disciples in 1986. “The church is effectively his,” says Hunter. “It’s not democratic and he answers to no one.”

Some of scientology’s alleged disregard for human rights could still be occurring, he believes. “Scientologists believe that a baby possesses an adult soul, so no age is too young to separate children from their parents. That, to me, is inhuman and it is still going on today, including in Britain,” says Hunter.

However, the organisation’s colossal wealth — its property portfolio alone is estimated to be worth $1.5bn (£1bn) — gives it huge potential power. Those defectors wishing for its imminent collapse are likely to be disappointed.

Whilst I don't wholly endorse Lawrence Wright's book, (I have my own copy) I do endorse what Humfrey Hunter says here, bolded -this is still going on today, and yes, right here in Britain.

“Scientologists believe that a baby possesses an adult soul, so no age is too young to separate children from their parents. That, to me, is inhuman and it is still going on today, including in Britain,” says Hunter.

 

 

Squeeze my cans...

Squeeze My Cans show about Scientology coming to Los Angeles! 6/10 - 6/26/16