What is actually really really REALLY good about this lawsuit, that if they win, it proves fraud, and it will expose the fact that in fact, this is a money grabbing operation, and not a church.
Once this is established, it will be much easier to instigate other types of lawsuits and win them, since it will have been proven this is not a church but a fraudulent organization. So once the fraud has been established, the floodgates are open to other suits like human traficking etc.
I am rooting for this case SO HARD!!!!
If I had money I'd invest in popcorn.
Then Tommy Davis and Jessica Rodriguez took Larry Anderson in a room and tried to bully him into not asking for his money back. (The conversation was recorded and can be found on YouTube.) Bad idea.
. . . <snip standard Veda awesome> . . . (Lower level "Missions" were more relaxed but were also subject to "stat pushes." "Missions" were expected to be productive "feeders" of "public" into "upper Orgs." After the FBI raids of July 1977, and the court ordered revealing of the Commodore's secret "dirty tricks" instructions and plans, the Commodore became aware that some of the top people in the "Missions" had, now, seen some of these previously secret instructions. The Commodore also became preoccupied with the idea that the more successful "Mission holders" had expensive properties and large bank accounts, and felt that these should be his. This, ultimately, resulted in the looting of the "Missions," in the early 1980s, by the Commodore's henchmen. However, in the early 1970s, "Missions" were tolerated as the primary sources of new "public" for Scientology) . . . <snip> . . .
Childs and Tobin with Tampa Bay Times are in:
Couple's lawsuit accuses Church of Scientology of fraud, deception.
Watch the kick-ass video: http://bcove.me/mrsp8dpi More than 8 minutes long.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scient...rch-of-scientology-of-fraud-deception/1271893
They are going to depose David Miscavige, as a first priority. The shit is getting real. More real than Debbie Cook affair.
At this point, I won't be surprised if the Super Power Building will miraculously open tomorrow or by next Thursday. Seriously.
And it's still January. 2013 - off we go!!!
I never knew anyone who was involved in Scientology because it was "fun."
I did. I thought being involved was fun. Had a lot of fun experiences, had a lot of laughs, met a lot of great people, got laid a bunch. And most of the people I hung out with were having a great time because we were mostly on the fringes. We weren't deep in the onion crying our eyes out.
Maybe because having fun and enjoying life was a criteria, it helped me leave earlier than most when I looked at how "unfun" the core of Scientology was, the near Nazi-like mentality of the Sea Org. I asked myself, "what would a world dominated by Scientologists really be like if the Sea Org exemplifies it's highest ideals?"
Maybe "involved" has degrees. Being deeply involved, completely immersed in KSW might have been miserable, but just taking courses and hanging out with others actually was fun.
As a comparison, being involved in the Vietnam war was historically miserable. However, we had a lot of fun. Lots of whores. Lots of drugs. But, there were those other times when it wasn't fun at all.
Another comparison is work environments, where the rules are oppressive but not enforced. You can have a lot of fun in a work environment which has stringent rules when you're ignoring the rules.
What Hubbard wrote and what people did didn't always mesh.
Each of us had different experiences, so each of us defines the Scientology experience differently. It's not my place to tell someone if they had fun or were miserable just because the historical perspective of an event makes certain claims--valid or not. Life is faaaaaarrrrrrrr more complex than that.
Oh my! I've just watched this video and I LOVE that they talk in no uncertain terms about deposing Miscavige. At the very end there is a comment about this and Luis's look at the camera says it all.
Childs and Tobin with Tampa Bay Times are in:
Couple's lawsuit accuses Church of Scientology of fraud, deception.
Watch the kick-ass video: http://bcove.me/mrsp8dpi More than 8 minutes long.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scient...rch-of-scientology-of-fraud-deception/1271893
They are going to depose David Miscavige, as a first priority. The shit is getting real. More real than Debbie Cook affair.
At this point, I won't be surprised if the Super Power Building will miraculously open tomorrow or by next Thursday. Seriously.
And it's still January. 2013 - off we go!!!
Santa Clara, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, in northern California (San Francisco Bay Area) were not in it for the money when I was there 1968-1976 inclusive. Auditing was $25-35 an hour. Most of the auditors were class Vl or Vlll and very good. When I went to LA to go clear in May of 1971, I was warned to look out for the Sea Org cognition. When I had it, and wanted to join Ron and the Sea Org, I just told myself I was crazy for a couple of days, and it went away.
Scientology was fun back then. We had huge parties quite often. On Sundays there were entertainers (singers, comedians, musicians) and talks that pulled huge crowds every Sunday. no crush regging. Probably most of the San Francisco Forty Niners, their ownership, Stanford and San Jose State professors galore, very successful business men and women (Mervin Morris - Mervyn's department stores for instance), NSA, DOD, CIA, SRI people from the remote viewing project, a couple of Heisman Trophy winners, some mafia folk, an astronaut who had walked on the moon (Ed Mitchell), a psychiatrist, several psychologists. The list just goes on. One young class Vlll went on to become a movie and TV star and is now a producer.
It was results that brought all those people together. Dianetics - Book One to start. Lives were changed quickly and for the better.
Actually, I am going to post these, because they are relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgaX-7fTIJw&list=UU90Bj_s1rFPpfW6W4R7jY0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkcBCMWhHU&list=UU90Bj_s1rFPpfW6W4R7jY0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRWJAMZ8A_Y&list=UU90Bj_s1rFPpfW6W4R7jY0Q
Yeah, I read that earlier tonight.
After reading that article, I am wondering how they are going to prove misappropriation of funds in a court of law.