scientology & celebrities

I just got this GINORMOUS box of books from Bridge Publications! There are at least 20 different books on Scientology in there. They are seriously wasting Will Smith and Tom Cruise's money by sending all of these books to libraries that are in all likelihood just going to pitch them.

S.O.P. with outfits like that -- they figure any publicity = good publicity. But Jack Chick probably gets better results with less expenditure.

Well, he at least knows the length of a religious craziness tome to keep people's attention all the way through. (24 tiny pages w/pictures vs 1000+ pages of lord knows what)

haha

"HOLY DICK /i/ IS DOWN! IT'S ON MOTHERFUCKERS! BRING BACK /i/ HALP HALP!"

retaliation?

http://donkeyscientology.ytmnd.com/

Bart gives http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23136785-5001026,00.html1m to Scientology (and gets an award in return)

Oops...try this instead...

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23136785-5001026,00.html

More info here...
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Nancy_Bart_Simpson_Cartwright_Gives_10_Million_to_Scientology/5057516

Including the news thatr Kirstie Alley gave them $5m. She still got some money in the bank then?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/02/protesters-asse.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/images/2008/02/10/img_0098.jpg

Melbourne protest was pretty well attended.

why are they all in disguise?

Co$ is not kind to those who criticize it

what exactly could the church do to them?

"If there will be a long-term threat, you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black PR campaign to destroy the person's repute and to discredit them so thoroughly that they will be ostracized." — L. Ron Hubbard, 30 May 1974, "Confidential - PR Series 24 - Handling Hostile Contacts/Dead Agenting"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology)

Yeah stalking, harrasment, all kinds of crazy shit. I have friends who've had it happen.

what exactly could the church do to them?

-- Ste, Monday, 11 February 2008 10:01 (23 minutes ago) Link

http://www.whyaretheydead.net/room771.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/02/protesters-asse.html

haha i saw this going on yesterday! i shouted "we love you xenu!!!" out the passenger side window.

What a frigging stupid, asinine cult. Boiling a guy alive in a bathtub? Damn.

I know this is huge but it's worth it:
http://pics.livejournal.com/7chanlawlz/pic/000062p1

so gonna happen

wow scientology's enemies are so formidable. they must be SCARED.

nice to see some 4channers getting out of the house for a little while

UK teen summoned to court for using the word "cult" to refer to Scientology.

"A policewoman later read him section five of the Public Order Act and "strongly advised" him to remove the sign. The section prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting."

That's illegal in the UK???????

you know whats fun about scientology? the rich people.

The City of London police came under fire two years ago when it emerged that more than 20 officers, ranging from constable to chief superintendent, had accepted gifts worth thousands of pounds from the Church of Scientology.

see!

I'm shocked you can get arrested just for saying something insulting in the UK. Sounds like 1984

Well it's a blatant misuse of the law - I'm fairly sure the law was introduced to prevent incitement to racial hatred and the like. But yeah you can be arrested/fined for swearing in public, which is total bullshit.

The poor Scientologists apparently believed that the use of the word cult was "threatening", and hence invoked the Public Order Act. But yes, a flagrant misuse of the law.

Steven Poole has a good take on it all here:
http://unspeak.net/cult/

If you live in France, you can call “Scientology” a cult or secte with impunity, because that is how it is defined in law. And as a point of fact, the “Church” of “Scientology” is not a religion under UK law either.

Yes, this is astonishing. Especially as there is another demo vs. the cult in Tottenham Court road where the same banners don't seem to get the same reaction. Different police force though, this was the City of London and that's the Met (iirc).

And one doesn't want to get all conspiracist or anything but there is this..
Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police

At the lavish ceremony, Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley, the fourth most senior officer in the force, praised the scientologists for the support they had provided after the July 7 attacks

Oh, sorry didn't see Poo's post upthread. So yeah, what he said...

By "support" I suppose the City of London Police meant "attempts to take advantage of bomb victims", yes?

praised the scientologists for the support they had provided after the July 7 attacks

Yes, I remember that, they were out on the streets in force helping to drum up membership for their ridiculous cu1t Londoners to cope with the stress induced by the terrorist attacks. I remember, there was a FAP and, on the way there, and I noticed them.

But yeah you can be arrested/fined for swearing in public,

Actually you've always been able to be arrested for swearing in public, or even just shouting - behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace - in fact the met have used this to arrest two men kissing in public. They have plenty of laws at their disposal!

I was thinking of that case when 2 kids were sitting on a bench talking to each other and a policewomen overheard one of them swearing, just in conversation with his friend, not even shouting, and gave him an on-the-spot fine. Fucking ridiculous.

There was some fellow on the tube a couple of years ago who suggested that the metal detectors were...erm...not up to scratch, and got an £80 fine on the spot. That's the British Transport Police though (I presume), they can be especially touchy.

Excuse me for criticizing the laws of another sovereign nation, but that's ridiculous. I'd either be broke or spending life in prison. I think " behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace" can often lead to positive things. MLK Jr anyone?

They shot him

I think you missed the point.

Seems the City of police were being over-zealous.

Anyways, yeah Bill the "behaviour likely to lead blahblahblah" is a pretty catch-all offence.

Oh it just sounds like SOP whenever someone rich wants to silence a critic. Hit them with a nuisance lawsuit that costs $30k to deal with before it gets dropped.

Raj Persaud brought down by Scientologists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/24/raj-persaud-psychiatry-maudsley

Well brought down by his copying of other peoples work obviously.

THE OBSCENE BRASS DOG

Scientology is just mostly common sense ppls.

Duh, if you don't b3l33v3 then you're just hung up on a failed R6 rundown.

banned from Wikipedia lolz

Derek P. May 29th, 2009 4:45 pm ET

Obama supporters have also manipulated Wikipedia. However, unlike Scientology, they are evenly distributed throughout the US. Anyone they don’t like, they ban. They are able to do this because there is a sadistic subculture in Wikipedia. Kids vote for each other to become “administrators” who can ban anyone and unbanning often only occurs if the original administrator agrees (Wikipedia policy). Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It is worse than twitter

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