From January, after the Tom Cruise video came out but before the protests began.

Saw this reported on ARS:

need help selling books to get onto OTVII
in CLASSIFIED, LA CLASSIFIED and LA - STUFF FOR SALE

Attention all FSM’s or book sellers:
My name is [removed]. I am a supervisor at the Mission of Santa Clarita, run a full time business, am on course and have a 15yr old son. (single parent). I bought about 30 book packages thinking I would have time to sell them and help get people on course at the mission.

However the money was taken off my FLAG account and I realize I don’t have time to sell them. I just found out I am going to able to get on VI and hopefully VII and plan to leave in the next 3 weeks. Some of the packages I bought before the prices went up and I would just like to get the money I paid for them and put it back on my account. Whoever can buy them from me can make a nice profit and help someone get onto OTVII I would really really appreciate it.

She’s being taken for a ride and she doesn’t know it.  This is a victim who’s caught in a theta trap of the cult’s own making.

I’m a little behind the curve in passing this one along, but John Carmichael of the NYC org tried some epic bullbaiting this past weekend:

Before the Phoenix lander left its home planet of Teegeeack to land on Martian tundra, NASA launched a different program: Visions of Mars.

Visions of Mars is a message from our world to future human inhabitants of Mars. It launched on its way to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007 aboard the spacecraft Phoenix. Along with personal messages from leading space visionaries of our time, Visions of Mars includes a priceless collection of Mars literature, and art, and a list of hundreds of thousands of names of space enthusiasts from around the world. The entire collection was encoded on an archival silica-glass mini-DVD provided by The Planetary Society, designed to last hundreds — if not thousands — of years.

“So what?” you might ask. Well, it seems our favourite intergalatic despot after 75 million years decided to use his one legally-permitted phonecall to drop a line to NASA and have his name included on this DVD.

Who knows what Xenu (or someone acting on his behalf) wrote.  It could be the story of a wife-beating, child-abusing drunk.  It could be a description of a very tiny dwarf.  It could even be Xenu’s own story.

Whatever it is, when its recovered, it’ll be related to what will then be a long-forgotten cult.

The National Post in Canada published an oped on the situation with Epic Nose Guy in Lolndon.

On May 10, a teenager protesting peaceably outside the London headquarters of the Church of Scientology had a placard confiscated by London Police, who deemed it criminally “insulting.” Crown prosecutors refused to follow up, which was hailed as a “victory” for free speech.

Some victory. The sign was being wielded by an unidentified minor, who was taking part in the latest of a series of Internetorganized “anonymous” protests.

If protest materials can be confiscated, then not much is left of the right to protest against Scientology.

“Internetorganized” is now a word.

Scientology has had a push to up their stats since the Anonymous uprising began. It seems the “fastest growing religion” on Earth today, with all their “8 million” members, could only muster selling 2,257 copies of Dianetics worldwide. The breakdown:

24-May-2008 11:12 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
INTERNATIONAL TOTAL: 2,257
BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS TOTAL: 748
NEW ERA PUBLICATIONS TOTAL: 1,509

Leading the sales was the European Union with 672 sales; the UK had 235; the Western US had 170; the Eastern US had 104. Rock bottom was Canada at 18 sales nationwide, in a country of 33 million people.

The following orgs sold ZERO copies, with the ones that sting the most in bold: (more…)

More fallout from the cult’s failed investment in the London Police, this time courtesy Caitlin “Get a brain” Moran from the Times Online:

C-word incident makes me cringe with shame

It’s not often that I’m embarrassed to be British. Generally, I think this country rocks - we have tea, Pembrokeshire and Doctor Who - but holy moly, last week we looked like a confederacy of arses. We (our country; my country) issued a summons to a 15-year-old boy for taking part in a peaceful protest against the Church of Scientology. His offence? To hold up a placard that included the word “cult”. Yes, “cult”. Apparently, that’s “threatening, abusive or insulting”. A child with words on a piece of cardboard. In the end, thankfully, the boy was told that he would not be taken to court after all.

Aside from the fact that if we ignored our brains and filtered this story purely through our dumb animal emotions, it felt a bit as if Tom Cruise was about to throw a child in jail - which was obviously quite exciting - you do have to ask, what is happening to this country? Have we turned into a bunch of wet nuns? First, we should be thrilled that we’ve got at least one teenage kid up, fully dressed, philosophically engaged and able to spell. Secondly, I’m embarrassed that all the grown-up liberal countries such as Canada and Denmark are laughing at us.

It’s not from Hubbard, but it’s still priceless. An HCO Ethics Order from 1968:

No staff or current students are to see the film “2001 - A Space Odyssey.” The film produces heavy and unneccessary restimulation.