Lisa Marie Presley Shuns Scientology to Raise Money for Real Causes
Clark trial set Nov. 16
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 1955
Publisher: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
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Clark trial set Nov. 16
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 1955
Publisher: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
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Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science,
will go on trial Nov. 16 in superior court on a charge of practicing
medicine without a license.
Clark, 1811 N. First Ave., appeared yesterday before Superior Judge Fred L. Hyder and pleaded innocent to the charge.
He
was arrested early this month after a police woman and a secretary in
the office of County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr., charged they paid
him $55 for treatment of non-existent ailments.
Harry
Stewart, attorney for Clark, was granted 20 days in which to file
motions attacking the complaint lodged against Clark by Charles C.
Stidham, chief deputy criminal court attorney.
Stewart
said Clark is both a minister and a practitioner in the Church of
American Science. He practices scientology, which is basically the
application of mental health, the attorney added.
Stewart said he would attack the complaint on the grounds it is an invasion of the constitutional freedom of religion.
Scientologists issue writ
Date: Saturday, 21 September 1968
Publisher: The Times (UK)
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Date: Saturday, 21 September 1968
Publisher: The Times (UK)
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The scientologists have issued a writ against a senior Sussex
police officer and another against Mr. Peter Hordern, M.P. for Horsham.
Mr.
David Gaiman, aged 35, chief spokesman at the scientologists'
international headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex, said today: "The
writs have been issued but not yet served.
"One, is
against Chief-inspector Robert Marshall, of the East Grinstead police
division, for unlawful imprisonment of Evert Doeve, aged 42, a Dutch
citizen. Mr. Doeve, a minister in the Church of Scientology, spent some
three hours under arrest after he was told by East Grinstead Magistrates
to leave the country within seven days last month.
"We
appealed and three judges in the Divisional Court ruled that the
magistrates had overstepped their powers. The writ against Mr. Hordern
is for libel."
Sect members mount campaign against author
Date: Sunday, 21 September 1986
Publisher: The Sunday Times (UK)
Author: Stephen Castle
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Date: Sunday, 21 September 1986
Publisher: The Sunday Times (UK)
Author: Stephen Castle
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SUPPORTERS of the Church of Scientology have unleashed a
campaign of harassment and intimidation against the author and
publishers of a book which is highly critical of the cult.
The
author, Stewart Lamont, has been inundated with threatening letters and
telephone calls from members of the sect, both before and since the
publication of his book "Religion Inc" this summer.
On one
occasion Mr Lamont's neighbours were questioned about his private life
by callers posing as future employers. Although it was never proved that
the Church of Scientology was behind the incident, Mr Lamont now
regards it as "too coincidental to be true."
Last week the
South African distributors of his book were contacted by a man claiming
to be a legal representative of the cult who told them they were in
breach of a worldwide legal action by handling it [?]
POWERFUL FIGURES
Speaking
from his home in Glasgow, Mr Lamont said last night: "As a journalist I
have written a number of fairly controversial articles, but I have
never been subjected to anything like this. I really cannot see what
this type of nonsense will achieve."
Mr Lamont began the
project with the co-operation of the Scientologists who granted him
access to some of their most senior and powerful figures.
The
relationship was soured when Mr Lamont refused to hand over a copy of
the manuscript to the Scientologists before publication. Lawyers acting
for the Scientologists claim Mr Lamont agreed to submit the book for
review by Church representatives before going to press — a charge which
the author strenuously denies.
In the months leading up to
publication, Mr Lamont received numerous telephone calls from
Scientologists, many appealing to him to hand over [?]
[?] sonal visit from the Church's international vice-president.
The
publishers, Harrap, have also received numerous letters and telephone
calls, many threatening legal action. Mr Eric Dobby, their managing
director, who personally received around 15 telephone calls, said:
"The
whole thing has been an attempt to intimidate, with the intention of
frightening us from publishing the book."
When it
appeared in June the book contained many extremely unfavourable
judgments on Scientology, which it describes as a religion "without
morality," and "self-seeking, paranoid and vindictive."
Within
hours of the book appearing in East Grinstead, the British base of the
Church of Scientology, all copies had been bought by one man. This was
interpreted by the publishers as another crude attempt to prevent the
public reading the work.
Church of Scientology spokesman, Mr Peter Mansell said [?]
[?]
publication when it became apparent that Mr Lamont was going to break
his agreement with us. But they were purely legal steps, taken through
our solicitors."
Mr Mansell added: "Lamont's book has been a flop in its first two months of publication and contains no new data.
"The
suggestion that we have gone to any unusual lengths to prevent its
publication is just an attempt by Lamont to use Fleet Street to peddle
free advertising for a failing business venture."
Doctor advised Scientology cure for depression [17 Aug. 1986]
Date: Sunday, 21 September 1986
Publisher: The Sunday Times (UK)
Author: Mazher Mahmood
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Date: Sunday, 21 September 1986
Publisher: The Sunday Times (UK)
Author: Mazher Mahmood
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TWO West Country doctors have been channeling patients to the controversial Church of Scientology cult.
A
Sunday Times Investigation has revealed that Dr Edward Hamlyn and his
wife, Dr Dorothy West, who run a surgery in Ivybridge, Devon, are
members of the Church of Scientology and both act as local recruiting
agents for the cult. They refer patients to Plymouth Scientology centre
for a commission.
Scientology is the money-spinning
brainchild of the late Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, an unsuccessful postwar
science fiction writer who found fame with his book. Dianetics: The
Modern Science Of Mental Health.
There have been
allegations over the last decade that the cult is responsible for
brainwashing victims and for dividing families. Two years ago a British
judge, Justice Latey, said Scientology was "corrupt, immoral, sinister
and dangerous" and described Hubbard as "obnoxious, a charlatan, like
Hitler".
Both Hamlyn and West specialise in allergy
complaints. They are among 40 doctors recommended by the London-based
Action Against Allergies group, which said it had no knowledge of Hamlyn
or West's links with Scientology.
Last week a Sunday
Times reporter visited Hamlyn at his mansion-cum-surgery set in 10 acres
of Devon countryside, complaining of a recurring stress rash.
Hamlyn,
60, who qualified as a doctor at Bristol in 1944, conducted a 15-minute
consultation, during which the reporter was asked to fill in a
questionnaire about his general health and asked series of questions
about his personal circumstances and the incidence of the rash.
Hamlyn,
who also works one day a week from another surgery in Plymouth,
diagnosed depression and prescribed a stringent two-week diet
supplemented by vitamin pills, "to find out if you have any food
allergies".
Hamlyn completed the consultation by
recommending that he "read a book about the mind". Reaching into a
cardboard box beneath his desk containing over 50 copies of Hubbard's
Dianetics book, he added: "This is a study of mental health. It's the
real McCoy. It's the bible on the mind."
Hamlyn charged
£20 for the consultation and £3.50 for the book. He also recommended a
course at the Dianetic centre in Plymouth. He wrote down the address of
the centre.
The address in Ebrington Street, Plymouth, is
the Church of Scientology's office where potential recruits are first
invited to complete a free 200-question personality test. If the result
of the test shows the candidate to be depressed, insecure, and unstable
Scientology treatment is recommended.
There, after being
asked to take the test, the reporter was told he had failed miserably.
"Your mind is at the moment unstable, you're very depressed and
nervous," Chris Whittam, director of the Plymouth Church of
Scientologists, said.
Hamlyn and West are well known to
the local Scientology group. Both have been on prolonged courses at East
Grinstead in Sussex, the British headquarters of the cult and regularly
refer patients to the local Scientology group for a commission.
Whittam
said: "Dr Hamlyn sends about one patient here a month. There are two or
three doctors who send patients here. Dr West is another who sends
people here. If they think it's not medical or if it's depression they
send people here."
As a cure for depression Whittam
recommended a drastic course of "auditing" — 25 hours of aggressive
one-to-one sessions with a staff member designed to break resistence to
traditional values.
It would also be essential to attend a
three-day basic course about scientology. Each stage of the programme
seems incomplete without the next one and the fee soon mounts. The cost
quoted for the initial sessions was £345. Whittam said 10% of this fee
would go to Hamlyn as commission. The price for extensive package
courses can be as high as £6,000.
Whittam said: "You
don't have to pay Dr Hamlyn for this. You just pay him for your sessions
with him. We pay him 10% of this fee as his commission."
When
the reporter phoned Hamlyn back to express surprise at the course he
had recommended Hamlyn said: "Dianetics is a part of Scientology. By
joining Scientology you will do the wisest thing you'll ever do in your
life."
Action Against Allergies (AAA) is a charity set up
to promote medical research into allergic conditions. When a reporter
originally rang the charity. Amelia Nathan-Hill, its chairman, suggested
that he made an appointment for a private consultation with either
Hamlyn or West, using the charity as an introductory reference.
Later when Nathan-Hill was told about the doctors' connection with the cult she said she was "shocked and disturbed".
The
charity has received more than 300,000 letters, asking for help with
allergies since it was set up in 1978.
She said hundreds of inquiries
from the Devon area had been referred to Hamlyn and West.
She
said: "We are certainly not connected with this cult in any way. We
have in the past had complaints about a doctor in Manchester who was
passing patients to the local Scientology group, but as soon as we found
out we wiped his name from our list. After what you have told me we
shall strike both the doctors off the list."
Scientology has 6m members worldwide and 200,000 in Britain. It has an annual turnover of about £2m in Britain.
When
confronted at his home Hamlyn refused to comment and slammed the door.
His wife then came out and attacked The Sunday Times photographer,
breaking his flash unit.
A spokesman for Cultists
Anonymous, which monitors the activities of the Scientologists, said:
"Doctors are credible professional people and extremely valuable
recruits for Scientology. We have evidence of a case where a girl left
her family and joined the Scientologists through AAA and Dr Hamlyn."
Later
a Scientology spokesman said: "Whatever Dr Hamlyn may be doing down in
Plymouth pales by comparison with what Cultists Anonymous are doing. I
don't actually think Dr Hamlyn is doing anything illegal or unethical."
Additional research by Wendy Robbins.
[Picture / Caption: Depressed, insecure, unstable? The scientology office in Plymouth has expensive answers]
Copyright (C) The Sunday Times, 1986
note: this is the same Bill Yaude that tried to get Tory to get the SPs off the internet.
