Digging through the internets reveals this interesting tale, allegedly penned by Hubbard himself:

Sara, my sweetheart, is young, beautiful, desirable. We are very gay companions. I please her physically until she weeps about any separation. I want her always. But I am 13 years older than she. She is heavily sexed. My libido is so low I hardly admire her naked.

I mean to be constant to her. I love her very much. But to live with her I must regain my sexual powers, my stimulus.

I must cease to take hormones. I must rebuild my feeling of excitement about things sexual.

I have a very bad masturbatory history. I was taught when I was 11 and, despite guilt, fear of insanity, etc. etc. I persisted. At a physical examination at a Y when I was about 13, the examiner and the people with him called me out of the line because my testicles hung low and cautioned me about what would happen if I kept on masturbating. This “discovery” was a bad shock to me.

This is from the website of Gerry “Fucking Asshole” Armstrong.

Radar Online, who gave featured article coverage to the Feb 10th protests in their recent April dead tree edition, has been doing a diligent task in following up on the fallout.

A Church spokesperson recently denied that “lawyers” were visiting the members of the Guy Fawkes-masked Thetan-addled Church antagonists. But Radar has discovered several incidents in which representatives of law firms have delivered some form of legal letters to suspected Anons, often at their homes. Get that? The “lawyers” from the firms are not themselves hand-delivering the letters, making the Scientology spokesperson’s claim technically right, though practically a lie.

Glad to see Radar isn’t falling for the cult’s bullshit and actually outing the deception. Moar here.

From a LiveNews opinion piece entitled Scientology is not a cult:

One of the main accusations levelled against the Church is brainwashing. But if brainwashing means changing people for the better permanently – even in ways they might not yet understand – surely that’s a good thing. Isn’t that what we do to children every day?

And if removing people from their families if they only have psychically toxic relationships with them is bad then we have a very warped view of how people should live their lives. After all you can choose your friends, but not your family.

The Church is also picked on because of its opposition to psychiatry. But all it hopes to do is show that an industry that specialises in prescribing people anti-depressants an other medications without solving underlying issues like previous life or past life traumas is - pardon the pun - crazy.

Some Anonymous fell for it, calling the author a cult mouthpiece, but some Scientologists fell for it as well and praised the author for telling it like it is.

I never thought I’d see the day.

A Fox News panel program distributed the Whole Track Sec Check to its panel, they openly referred to it on-air, and openly mocked the whole thing.

So much entheta for OSA to clean up!

7chan.org posts the following, re the Wired Article slamming Anonymous:

Hello, and welcome to our treehouse.

I would just like to discuss this nasty business about a terrible raid on a forum for the poor people who suffer from epilepsy. What happened there was terrible, and we feel deeply sorry for those affected.

Users of this site did not actually attack those individuals. The Church of Scientology posted numerous threads across many *chan sites, and then informed people that Anonymous had been attacking victims of epilepsy. They did this under their “fair game” policy, to ruin the public opinion of Anonymous, to lessen the effect of their lawful protests against their virulent organization.

I must say, it is disgusting that the CoS is willing to drag innocent people down with them, in an attempt to save themselves. How could anyone be a willing participant in their terrible organization?

Sadly, none of our staff were online at the time of the thread’s posting, so we were unable to take it down.

We are truly and deeply sorry for what happened to these innocent people,
Thank you for your time spent reading this apology,
The Administration and Staff of 7chan.org

Feel free to email us at the above address or address us on our IRC server, and we will be happy to address any of your concerns regarding this terrible incident.

See 7chan.org for moar.

Ex-Scientologist Tom Weeks has posted his account of being lured into Scientology, his time spent inside, and his eventual escape.

While discussing the abilities of Scientologist and who had gone past the state of clear and were working on becoming clear as spiritually beings, called Operating Thetans (O.T for short) , Ron pointed one of them out to me. A red haired, older and confident women walked past the desk and onto her business.

“She’s wearing glasses,” I observed.

“What do you mean,” asked Ron.

“Well in Dianetics, it says that a clear doesn’t need glasses because they have perfect eyesight.”

Ron explained that the clears didn’t have perfect eyesight due to causes rooted in previous lives and Dianetics didn’t treat previous lives. These root causes took much time and effort to track down and treat. In fact, Scientology was used to treat them, rather than Dianetics. As a result, very few clears had perfect eyesight.

In retrospect, I had made a critical observation and Ron had given a wholly unsatisfactory response. Hubbard had made the claim that an attribute of the state of clear was perfect eyesight. Yet clears didn’t have perfect eyesight. Therefore the claim was false. I didn’t pick up on it. Had I been more sophisticated I would have seen right then and there that Dianetics didn’t work as promised and might have even extrapolated that Scientology probably didn’t work either.

I just lacked sophistication and critical thinking skills for sure and maybe I was so caught up in wanting the claims to be true that I lost any objectivity that I did have. Excited as I was on the prospects of Scientology, I didn’t want a little inconsistency to stop me from benefitting from this wonderful new discovery.

Give it a read and pass the link on.

Via digg, it seems the Republican Party of Texas has figured out the cult is a business. It has proposed a resolution that the cult is not worthy of religious status and should pay taxes like any other business entity.

It begins!

I sent Wired an email with regards to their latest attack by Senior Editor Kevin Poulson on Anonymous. (more…)

It’s Over Nine Thousand noticed something interesting about the leaked movie The Profit, a movie banned in the United States by the Church of Scientology: many of the IP addresses seeding the torrent are owned by the cult.

One cannot help but speculate on reasons why Scientology computers seem to be downloading a movie they’ve successfully blocked from distribution. IP harvesting, perhaps? Given that all other interested parties have denied the movie has been leaked by them, the word “honeypot” springs to mind.

Anonymous persons from Vancouver report that they suspect they’re being followed in a manner that is consistent with Scientology’s Fair Game policy. They report that in a bookstore

a familiar looking man with a pockmarked face and greasy receding hair, walked up and took our photo, Smiled and said hi and then walked away. We confronted him and he spewed quite a few excuses and was very evasive and suspicious in his answers and even the tone he spoke in. Now since we asked him to delete the photos of his phone he said he had already. But now we got curious. We followed them through a superstore, they didnt look at anything, just walked very slowly, obviously trying to lose us.

Read the full report here.