It’s funny, not perfect for Phoenix as we do protest right in front of the ORG, but a good video nonetheless.
Feb
3
Possible footbullet: So, it’s not religious, at all, not even close, in fact it’s “common sense” and it’s approved to be distributed to the government, however, it’s a beginning book in Dianetics an…
Feb
3
Scientology ‘faces French trial’ The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for “organised fraud”, according to legal sources.The lawyer for one of the plaintiffs behind the case told …
Feb
3
Anonagi, on the whyweprotest forum, wrote:A few weeks ago, I recieved this email on the San Diego Anonymous account. It was from someone who had claimed to just left Scientology, telling me a bit abou…
Feb
3
I know there is a lot of information out there regarding Project Chanology. A long time ago I posted a massive amount of links in a blog, and some of them are gone, and new ones have popped up. With t…
Feb
3
Unmasking Anonymous by Christina Caldwellpublished on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Members of the Internet-hacker group Anonymous are masking themselves to take down what they see as a corrupt …
Feb
3
General Information:http://www.xenu.net/http://www.xenutv.com/http://www.whyweprotest.net/http://youfoundthecard.com/http://exscientologykids.com/http://forums.enturbulation.org/index.phphttp://en.wik…
Dec
5
December 5, 1995 Lisa McPherson was driven to OT 8 Scientologist Dr. David Minkoff instead of to the nearest hospital, or the next nearest, or the next nearest, or the next nearest. She was pronounced dead when she got to New Port Richey hospital where Minkoff was. Could she still be a live if she was instead driven a few blocks to Morton Plant Hospital? We’ll never know.
Lisa was severely dehydrated, had bruises all over her body, and according to the coroner, had bug bites as well. She had been held against her will at the Church of Scientology’s Ft. Harrison Hotel for the last 17 days of her life.
Scientology never faced a criminal court for what they did to Lisa. Her family’s wrongful death civil suit was settled out of court. Her memory and story remain on many web sites on the internet. She will not be forgotten, nor what was done to her.
http://www.lisamcpherson.org
Dec
3
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/7-chit-chat/toadies-keep-cult-going-74122/#post1365600
There’s a great rare book called The False Messiahs, by Jack Gratus. In it he gives the history of some really strange cults throughout history.
One point he made has stuck with me that makes me wish I had the book. It’s the relationship between close followers and cult leaders. At times the followers’ faith may lag, but then the cult leader rises to the occasion and gives a great speech, or maybe performs a miracle to raise the faith of the followers.
At the same time, the cult leader’s faith in himself (or herself) may lag. Maybe he gave a bad interview, or a miraculous healing failed. This is where the toadies come in. THEY prop up the cult leader’s faith! Oh, dear leader, you are unique and wonderful! Think of all the people you have saved/cured/audited! etc. So the leader and the toadies keep the cult going by propping up each other.
Toadies also bring any doubters back into line. If some member’s faith is lagging, the toady rushes in to either shore up their faith or berate them into submission. If it weren’t for the toadies, many more people would leave a cult.
Merriam-Webster gives several synonyms for toady: apple-polisher, bootlicker, brownnoser, fawner, flunky (also flunkey or flunkie), lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant. Yes-man also works. Toadies are generally those close to the cult leader who have been given some degree of power in the group as a reward for their toadyism. They return the favor by actually seeing the emperor’s invisible clothes. They keep the scheme going. Without toadies, what would a cult leader do?
I bring this up merely to point out that toadies must share the blame for what a cult has done. They perpetuate the scam. Without them a cult would collapse.
Nov
30
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/235430
Here is the US Embassy’s method of handling “walkins,” from wikileaks. It may have some relevance in dealing with Scientology defectors.
