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Scientologists 'targeting' schoolchildren

The New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting Year 6... more

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Scientology Purported To Have Committed Criminal Acts

Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has said he will consider calls for a... more

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Church of Scientology accused of torture and forced abortions

Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, has voiced “concerns” over the Church... more

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Church of Scientology faces allegations of torture, sexual abuse, assault....

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Flagship Scientology churches in France found guilty of fraud

Two French branches of the controversial Church of Scientology founded by Sci-Fi... more

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Scientologists convicted of fraud

A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of... more

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Scientologist Church convicted of fraud by French court

Paris, France — the Church of Scientology and six of its members were convicted of... more

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Director Paul Haggis Quits Scientology Over 'Gay Bashing'

Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis quit the Church of Scientology in protest this week... more

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Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology

After 35 years as a member of the Church of Scientology, Paul Haggis is calling it... more

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Hollywood director Paul Haggis quits Scientology over gay marriage opposition

Oscar winning director Paul Haggis, has left the Church of Scientology after 35 years... more

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Vanguard New Season - Preview Part.1

Eccovi il primo dei due video Web di lancio della nuova stagione Vanguard. In onda dal... more

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The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

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Abbiamo sentito parlare di Scientology perché personaggi famosi come Tom Cruise e John Travolta ne fanno parte. Abbiamo visto i testi nelle librerie e a qualcuno sarà capitato di avere in mano un volantino che promuove corsi per potenziare la mente, lo spirito e trovare la felicità. Sono solo alcuni aspetti del movimento religioso nato negli Stati Uniti dalle ricerche di Ron Hubbard. Ma cos’è Scientology? Tra entusiasmi e polemiche, c’è chi dedica la propria vita alla chiesa e chi a contrastarla. Scientology è un movimento religioso nato negli Stati Uniti nel 1954. Oggi ha migliaia di chiese in 124 Paesi del mondo. In Italia si è diffusa nel 1974 e attualmente ci sono almeno 20 chiese e centri collegati, circa un centinaio di missioni su tutto il territorio, soprattutto nel centro-nord.
Nel mondo i fedeli sarebbero 10 milioni. In Italia è stato fatto un censimento dalla chiesa nel 2007. Contando solo i membri attivi, ci sarebbero almeno 10.000 fedeli, il dato, per altro, sarebbe in crescita. Scientology negli Stati Uniti è stata riconosciuta come chiesa nel 1993 e per questo gode dell’esenzione fiscale e di altri vantaggi. Per il governo tedesco la Chiesa di Scientology in Germania può operare solo come organizzazione. In Francia è stata processata per truffa, associazione a delinquere e uso illecito della farmacia, e rischia di finire fuori legge. Anche in Spagna ci sono state importanti controversie e, in linea con la politica di tolleranza del governo, è stata richiesta la legittima iscrizione della chiesa nel Registro degli Enti Religiosi. In Grecia ne è stata ordinata la chiusura mentre in Italia lo stato riconosce la religiosità del movimento ma non lo status di chiesa (quindi non beneficia dell'8 per 1000).
Scientology è da sempre molto criticata, i medici denunciano i rischi di pratiche psicologiche affidate a non professionisti,
Spesso familiari e associazioni accusano Scientology di circuire i propri membri ed esercitare un eccessivo controllo sulla loro vita, sull'emotività, sui rapporti personali e, non ultimi, sui loro soldi.
Scientology attrae anche molti personaggi famosi, soprattutto a Hollywood. Tra le lotte più importanti del movimento c’è quella contro la droga, col finanziamento di centri Narconon. Diffusi in tutto il mondo, in Italia ci sono dagli 8 ai 12 centri. La percentuale di successo dichiarata dalla struttura è del 75% vi operano esclusivamente scientologi e il principio è che ogni droga rimane nei grassi di chi lo ha assunta, se non ci si purifica con le saune questa può tornare in circolo nel corpo anche dopo 20 anni. Altra campagna fondamentale quella contro gli abusi della psichiatria nel campo della salute mentale, quella a favore dei diritti dell’uomo e l’aiuto ai paesi poveri.
Scientology ha pessimi rapporti sia con gli apostati che con i media. Sostiene infatti di essere perseguitata dai media che si limiterebbero ad accusarla e denigrarla. Dopo alcuni tentativi di dialogo con stampa e tv ha deciso di tutelare la propria comunità ritenendo che le campagne diffamatorie mettano a rischio i fedeli. In alcuni casi, sicuramente c’è stata scarsa professionalità nel trattare l’argomento ma bisogna riconoscere che su alcuni aspetti le inchieste giornalistiche non partivano da alcun pregiudizio. In particolare sono stati indagati il lato economico, i costi dei servizi offerti, la loro scientificità ed efficacia, il finanziamento alle chiese, la segretezza di alcune informazioni, la scarsa trasparenza riguardo al numero di iscritti e alla gestione dei fondi.
Laddove non arriva l’informazione si rischia di dare adito a molti dubbi. E’ vero che ci sono migliaia di membri per ogni fuoriuscito, una maggiore disponibilità al dialogo offrirebbe l’opportunità di far luce su molte zone d’ombra ma anche di sfatare alcuni falsi miti.
Una delle risposte date a chi ha sollevato delle perplessità è che “milioni di persone non possono sbagliare". La storia ha spesso dimostrato il contrario.Abbiamo sentito parlare di Scientology perché personaggi famosi come Tom Cruise e... more

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Avril Lavigne encourages Scientology

I don’t know what’s wrong with Avril Lavigne or way is she so upset with the rest... more

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Scientology troubles for Will and Jada

WILL SMITH and his wife JADA PINKETT SMITH have reportedly parted company with the... more

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Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Still A Scary, Insane Psychopath

Many of them are being reported by the SPT as feeling more secure in coming out now that high ranking defectors – the ones previously interviewed by the paper – are telling their story. One of the more frightening parts:

(Steve) Hall joined the church marketing unit in 1987, which brought him into more frequent contact with Miscavige, who holds the title Chairman of the Board, or COB. Hall said it was a shock the first time he saw Miscavige attack an executive, Ray Mithoff. The second time was like something out of a cartoon. Hall says Miscavige came up behind two seated executives – Marc Yager and Guillaume Lesevre – grabbed their heads and banged them together. Then he ground them against each other. Lesevre had blood coming out of his ear.

This story corroborates earlier reports, though surely, you can look at any of this stuff with a healthy amount of skepticism: a newspaper has a great scoop on a story, because they’re located within immediate proximity of it. The SPT has a long history with Scientology, and has always been coming up with this stuff. But Scientology seems to take the SPT’s claims very, very seriously, and each time, their denials of their articles get more vehement, which, of course, the paper runs in full.

The Church of Scientology provided 25 affidavits and declarations from current and former church executives and staffers who uniformly describe David Miscavige as a kind, compassionate, inspiring leader who never has been violent or abusive, physically or mentally. Yael Lustgarten’s statement was typical. “In all the times I have worked with Mr. Miscavige or seen him working with others, I have never known him to be furious, mad, pissed off, much less hit, punch, kick, slap, choke, push, or inflict any form of abuse,” wrote Lustgarten, who left the church staff in 2004 after 18 years. “I never witnessed that, ever.”

So, essentially, the conflict with reporting on Scientology boils down to: ex-members talking, and the Church of Scientology trotting out denials and members who talk about what a gem Miscavige is.

Maybe if there was video or audio of this kind of thing, somewhere – a definitive audio/visual presentation of Miscavage’s insanity – like so many of the other internal videos Scientology’s tried to keep under wraps, stories like this one:

Miscavige punished top staffers Norman Starkey and Greg Wilhere, ordering them to camp out in tents for days in a high, open area of the mountainside base, near the Bonnie View mansion built for Hubbard. They were assigned hard labor and forced to shower with a garden hose.

This one:

As many as 400 staffers were summoned to the mess hall, where a small group of staffers were given special seats of dishonor. Church executives would introduce them with scorching assessments of their recent performance. “They had to get up one at a time into a microphone and confess their crimes,” said Jeff Hawkins, who left the Sea Org in 2005. The crowd screamed and jeered.

And this one:

Miscavige drew close. “We’re standing there sort of at attention. He looks at me, he looks at Rinder. He looks at me, he looks back at Rinder. And then suddenly, with violence, he flashed his arms up and grabbed Mike Rinder’s head and body-slammed his head into the cherry wood cabinets. “He lifted Mike Rinder nearly off of his feet and smashed his head into the wall, and he banged his head into the wall three times, just BANG, BANG, BANG!”Many of them are being reported by the SPT as feeling more secure in coming out now... more

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Scientology admits violence in management, blames "Kingpin" as more speak out

Scientology admits violence in management, blames "Kingpin" as more speak... more

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Hitler can't get a ticket to Michael Jackson's memorial service

Yet another parody of the bunker rant in "Downfall."

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Scientology leader 'physically attacked staff'

The leader of the controversial Church of Scientology routinely physically attacked members of his management team, according to former executives, a Florida newspaper has reported.

Defectors from the controversial organisation who spoke to the St Petersburg Times told the paper that David Miscavige was "constantly denigrating and beating on people". Mike Rinder, the church's spokesman for decades, said he was attacked by Miscavige some 50 times.

"It was random and whimsical," he told the St Petersburg Times. "It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment."

Rinder and Marty Rathburn were the two highest-ranking executives to leave the church. Rathburn said he saw Rinder "get beat up at least a dozen times just in those last four years … some of them were pretty gruesome".

Church officials denied the allegations and told the St Petersburg Times that Miscavige had never hit a church staffer.

Tom De Vocht, who oversaw the church's spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, estimated that from 2003 to 2005, he saw Miscavige strike staffers as many as 100 times.

"If it wasn't the answer he wanted to hear, he'd lose it," De Vocht told the paper. "If it was contrary to how he thought, he'd lose it. If he found it to be smart aleck, or it was a better answer than he had, he would lose it."

Amy Scobee, who helped create the group's celebrity network, said she saw many attacks, including an incident when Miscavige choked Rinder until his face turned purple.

Rathburn, Rinder and De Vocht admitted in the St Petersburg Times that they hit others. Rathburn claimed a number of the attacks he carried out were on Miscavige's orders, while De Vocht said he "punched a couple of guys" out of a "survival instinct. If I don't attack I'm going to be attacked," he said.

The defectors also alleged that there was a system of "ecclesiastical justice" that included publicly confessing sins and crimes to a group of peers, and being ordered to jump into a pool fully clothed.

But some of the incidents allegedly seen by the defectors were denied by the people they identified as witnesses. The Church of Scientology said the defectors had all failed within the organisation and were "ethically suspect".

The St Petersburg Times reported that it first asked for an interview with Miscavige on 13 May but was told he was not available for interview before July. When it published the story, part of a three-part series about Scientology, Miscavige wrote to the paper and said he had "uncontrovertible proof that your sources are lying. I am at a loss to comprehend how the St Petersburg Times can publish a story about me and the religion I lead without accepting the offer to speak with me."The leader of the controversial Church of Scientology routinely physically attacked... more

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