This comes from Astra Woodcraft of Ex-Scientology Kids:

Today I found out some very interesting, in-depth and somewhat shocking news in regards the Freewinds.

In early 2008, a contract was made between Scientology and a company out of Miami called Nordica Engineering. This contract was for approximately $18 million and was for the work of completely stripping the Freewinds, and then re-fitting with new furniture, carpets, wiring, etc.

Nordica Engineering brought in approximately 240 workers from Poland who slepts on board the Freewinds in cabins until they were moved to a camp after 1 1/2 months.

Nordica Engineering was given no warning or information in regards blue asbestos or other asbestos panelling on the Freewinds. Apparently, in addition to the blue asbestos which is sparyed on all over the Freewinds, a lot of the panelling on the Freewinds was made with asbestos. A giant container at the dock in Curacao was filled with approximately 70 tons of asbestos, whereabouts now unknown.

The work proceeded until April 2008 when the Freewinds was sealed due to asbestos contamination at the drydock in Curacao.

Nordica Engineering has apparently not been fully paid and is owed upwards of approximately $3.5 million.

A separate company was brought out from Florida to clean up the asbestos at a cost of approximately $2 million. Some of the asbesots was removed, some encapsulated, but apparently there is still loose asbestos on-board.

The ship is now in Aruba (due to Curucao drydock being booked) but will be brough back to drydock in Curacao in November to finish up work and get its DNV certification.

Nordica Engineering appears to have been misled or outright lied to in regards the asbestos situation. There are 240 workers from Poland who have apparently been following the story about the Freewinds online. They are in possession the the affidavit that my dad, Lawrence Wooodcraft wrote back in 2001 in regards the asbestos he saw on the Freewinds in 1987. They have been majorly exposed to this asbestos, sleeping on-board while the work was being done and now they are, from reports, very upset to say the least.

Nordica Engineering is apparently still negotiating with Scientology executives Sue Price and Bob Wright, hoping to receive payment but it seems unlikely.

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Here’s a new video from former CIA Access Agent (and friend to anti-Scientologists) about what he has been able to gather from the Scientologists’ latest shenanigans.

Overpriced, of course, but I’m still impressed.

Why is it after 7 months of protests it’s always the Scientologists getting in trouble with the law and never those evil evil terrorists from the psychiatric hacker group Anonymous?

At the August 17th protest, former OSA enforcer Tommy Gorman was assaulted by a Scientologist.  A cop arrived and arrested the troublesome Scientologist.

If the video is tl;dw for you, skip ahead to 7:15 to hear the officer’s assessment of the situation.  He also mentions an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco is a Scientologist and was suggesting ways to use the law against Tommy.

LATE BREAKING LULZ

The owner of the building of the Las Vegas ideal org was so displeased with the bad PR the monthly protests generated he cancelled the lease and another religious group got the property.  Moar on Enturb.

San Francisco Weekly provides two offerings: Anonymous 101 and Scientology’s Antagonists.

“They are really no different from the Ku Klux Klan in terms of their masks and hatred and their jollies of riding horses around and harassing Scientologists,” church leader Jeff Quiros says.

Police don’t see Anonymous as a threat: “I think they’re really cool,” Sergeant Carl Tennenbaum says. “They’re really cooperative. They have a right to be here.”

Keep postulatin’, Jeffy.

Roger Friedman, Fox News columnist and a friend of Isaac Hayes, writes an article on the late artist that paints a sympathetic picture of a man struggling with personal matters:

In March 2006, news came that Hayes was resigning from “South Park.” On March 20, 2006, I wrote a column called “Chef’s Quitting Controversy,” explaining that Hayes was in no position to have quit anything due to his stroke. But Scientology issued the statement to the press saying Hayes had resigned, and the press just ate it up. No one spoke to Isaac directly, because he couldn’t literally speak. “Chef” was written out of the show.

Isaac’s income stream was severely impaired as a result. Suddenly there were announcements of his touring, and performing. It didn’t seem possible, but word went out that he’d be at BB King’s in New York in January 2007. I went to see him and reported on it here.

The show was abomination. Isaac was plunked down at a keyboard, where he pretended to front his band. He spoke-sang, and his words were halting. He was not the Isaac Hayes of the past.

What was worse was that he barely knew me. He had appeared in my documentary, “Only the Strong Survive,” released in 2003. We knew each other very well. I was actually surprised that his Scientology minder, Christina Kumi Kimball, with whom I had difficult encounters in the past, let me see him backstage at BB King’s. Our meeting was brief, and Isaac said quietly that he did know me. But the light was out in his eyes, and the situation was worrisome.

Roger also asks some interesting questions:

Why, for example, was a stroke survivor on a treadmill by himself? What was his condition? What kind of treatment had he had since the stroke? Members of Scientology are required to sign a form promising they will never seek psychiatric or mental assistance. But stroke rehabilitation involves the help of neurologists and often psychiatrists, not to mention psychotropic drugs — exactly the kind Scientology proselytizes against.

Has Scientology added another name to its ever-expanding list of people pushed into death through psychological manipulation and fraudulent medicine?

A Scientologist caller, Richard, calls into Pat Thurston’s show on KGO radio when Scientology critic Ford Greene.  The Scientologist comes off as the sort of person he intended to not come off as: a cult member who spouts off the party line and rejecting all attempts at answering any questions.

HOST: “There are people who have reached the upper OT levels, who then have left the church of Scientology, and who have exposed the material that they were taught, at least at OT7.  Is that true?”

CALLER: “They’re lies.”

HOST: “Why would they lie?”

CALLER: “Well, they hate Scientology.  You’re promoting hatred.  This is a hate program. If you were talking about Jews, the Nazis–” (you get the point)

Jeff Hawkins, former Int base staffer, tells his tale in print last week.

As he worked his way around the world, doing stints at the church’s Edinburgh and Copenhagen branches, Hawkins was exposed to more and more weirdness. In 1971 he was invited aboard L. Ron Hubbard’s ship, Apollo, where he met the Scientology leader and was given the mission of marketing and disseminating the church to the masses, Hawkins says.

At the time, Hubbard had established his own “photography organization” to promote the church—which Hawkins claims consisted of Hubbard dressing up in a khaki suit, pith helmet, and ascot scarf, and staging bizarre photo shoots on beaches around the world whenever Apollo would dock. Hawkins also alleges that Hubbard was always accompanied by what he called his “messengers”: stunning, provocatively dressed young women.

“He’d establish these sets, somebody would write a script, and L. Ron Hubbard would take these photographs,” says Hawkins. “The whole thing would look terrible. But of course you could never say anything negative about Hubbard’s work.”

Interesting article is interesting, and would not be in print today if Anonymous was failing.  Downstat OSA is downstat.

I’m going to let this statement by Paul Barresi speak for itself:

The freedoms we enjoy in the United States are both a wonderful and a dangerous thing. Scientology represents the latter.

In 1987, Tom Cruise found himself caught up in an eerie citadel, spun around him by one of Scientology’s most loyal member’s [sic], Mimi Rogers, and in my view, he has been nothing more than a puppet on a string ever since.

Contrary to what most think, Cruise does not make a move without the approval of his handler. He can’t wipe his own rear end without first getting permission from those who have control over him. Even his attorney Burt Fields has his hands tied.

Rest assured, the Scientology [organization] makes all decision having to do with Cruise’s personal and professional life.

Short of kidnapping him and deprogramming him, like an addict riddled with cocaine, there is no hope.

Sadly, unless there is some divine intervention, in my opinion, Cruise will be los t in shallow and in misery for the rest of his life.

With regard to my handing the lawsuit documents over to the New York Daily News, I merely wanted to point out that Cruise’s name tacked on to a law suit, gets peoples attention. Fact is, he is not one of the ring leaders. He is nothing more than a “yes man” who does what he is told — period.