Anonymous on More4 News, 12 June 2008 from United Chanology News on Vimeo.

Via Enturbulation, anonymous1312 posts:

Stu was arrested at home this morning for assulting Sandra on June 3rd I have been told by his flat mate. As is typical in such situations we have not been able to contact him and the police will not tell us what is happening or when he will get out.

We believe we know how the assult charge arose however we do not wish to give anything away at this stage.

They have seized all of his video equipment and tapes etc.

To my knowledge this is the first example of hard fairgaming since the protests began in Feb, a testiment to just how much of thorn in Co$’s side Stu was becoming. I would expect Stu would want the protests to go on without him.

Anyone who was in contact with Stu related to either this weekend or this evening (timing eh?) please PM me for updates and I will try to take up any slack. Unfortunately I will not be able to respond to PMs until after 6pm.

I can also be reached on the cult watch number: 0785-3016084.

I appreciate their may be some well wishers. By the time I will be able to pass on your wishes Stu will be back with us. I have no further information at this time.

Plymouth and other anons who were intending to come this weekend, please make an extra effort, we cannot be seen to back off. Rather we need to be extra vigilant with respect to the law and ensure we do not put a foot wrong.

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY THREATENING CALLS TO THE ORG. Stu would not want this as he saw them as victims too.

It starts with Dr. Drew telling Playboy Magazine that Tom Cruise is in a cult.  Gawker picks up the rest:

Cruise’s high-powered attorney, Bert Fields, a frequent client of convicted wiretapper and racketeer Anthony Pellicano, called Pinsky an “unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety,” adding, “The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

Way to go.  I wonder when Dr. Drew’s page on RFW will go up.

Here’s a page on DM. This part’s by Jesse Prince:

In the security check Dave made sure he told me about the trips to the casinoes, the heavy drinking and the women he and Pat had enjoyed together. Dave freely confessed his sins and Pat Broeker”s sins as well. He said if he was going to go down, he was going to make sure Pat Broeker went down as well. He was very critical of Pat, saying he had a long history of alcohol abuse and recklessly spending LRH’s money. Of course, the person who received the report of Dave”s sec check was Pat Broeker. So it didn”t surprise me a bit when Dave and Pat suddenly became best buddies again. I seriously doubt that anything but reports full of glowing praise for Dave ever went to LRH. In retrospect I realize both Pat Broeker and David Miscavige had an interest in keeping the status quo with LRH, since both of them had dreams of one day being the new dictator of Scientology once the current Ding Dong king was dead.

Late last month, I posted about a student in Vancouver who posted on his blog about the Orwellian-named Youth For Human Rights, a Scientology front group, being allowed to give a presentation at his school. This attempt at infiltration has now turned into an epic PR flap. From The Vancouver Sun:

A Vancouver principal said his school was uninformed when it invited a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology to speak to a student assembly last month about human rights.

John Bevacqua, of St. Patrick regional secondary school, said he hadn’t been aware that Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is part of the Scientology movement until it was brought to his attention by a staff member shortly after the group finished its presentation.

“It was very unfortunate that they were not as forthcoming as they needed to be,” he said of YHRI. “It was a lesson learned.” The group was invited into the school on the recommendation of students who had heard representatives speak at a conference and were impressed with the message. The students gained the support of teacher sponsors, who vouched for the group and extended the invitation, Bevacqua said….

Susan Kerr, a Scientologist and Vancouver spokeswoman for YHRI, said the group was formed several years ago to educate young people about human rights, and its connection to the Church of Scientology is irrelevant.

“This has nothing to do with the church proselytizing,” Kerr said in an interview.”It’s just about human rights.”

Gerry Armstrong, former Scientologist who knew L. Ron Hubbard personally, commented on this story on alt.religion.scientology:

Susan Kerr is the cult’s “Human Rights Director” in Vancouver. As the Scientology v. Armstrong case shows, she is *contracted* in fact to suppress and destroy basic human rights. And not just mine, but the human rights of anyone who would act in concert with me, which is anyone who would associate with me….

During the first protest at the Vancouver org this year, February 10, the Scientologists brought out and held up a Youth for Human Rights International banner as a response to the protesters and to promote themselves as human rights supporters to the public.
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Using the YHRI banner for that purpose was probably a screwup because YHRI tries to separate itself from the “church,” as the Vancouver Sun article, and Ms. Kerr demonstrate. Scientology has not used the banner in the 3 subsequent protests.

EDIT: The reporter of this event has a blog.  In after Terryeo!

Direct copypasta:

When Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986 his movement was reviled as a ruthless, mind-bending cult. Twenty years on it is a different story. Since 1993, when it won tax-exempt status as a religion in the U.S., the movement’s influence there has grown steadily.

Top-dollar lobbying and the glamour of celebrity members have blinded many American politicians to Scientology’s dark side. And this is despite a string of convictions against Scientologists in other countries for manslaughter, espionage, libel and fraud. These cases show how the movement’s ruthless hard-sell tactics have driven some members to mental collapse and even suicide; how its own private intelligence agency spies on its enemies; and how it still uses legal harassment in a bid to destroy its critics. All of this was sanctioned in Hubbard’s own writings.

Where the politicians have failed however, a new, grass-roots resistance movement is successfully challenging the Scientology behemoth. An international campaign by Internet activists has exposed many of the movement’s darkest secrets and scotched the myth that Scientology is an unbeatable litigation machine. It is this online activism that is getting the message out about Scientology. And the message is that the movement’s slightly wacky image conceals a ruthless, authoritarian ideology combining deceptive recruitment, relentless hard-sell and intense indoctrination.

This book, the first international exposé of Scientology in 18 years, paints a disturbing picture of the movement. It is the fruit of more than a decade’s research by journalist Jonny Jacobsen.

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