Tony Ortega has given us another enjoyable read into everyone’s favourite criminal cult.  This time, it focuses on its latest (apparent) convert, Will Smith.

Besides talking pure nonsense to a bewildered Smiley for several minutes, Smith used a very strange phrase about halfway through the clip. He talked about “feeling like you’re at effect,” which means…well, frankly, this Hubbard jargon means anything you want it to mean, so what the hell.

“I’ve been giving him the benefit of the doubt,” [Mark] Bunker says about Smith. “But how do you absorb ‘being at effect’ without taking courses? I suppose it’s possible he picked it up from his equally certain, equally high-strung pal Tom Cruise. But it’s not an ordinary buzzword out here in the wog [non-Scientology] world.” To Bunker, the clip is evidence that Smith has been taking Scientology courses for some time, and has absorbed the Hubbard way of thinking.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Attorney Graham Berry who has been retained by some Anonymous in DC to help bring down the cult, has posted the following tl;dr to Enturbulation.org.  Here are some snippets: (more…)

Torontoist reports:

With greater dialogue, Project Chanology hopes to defuse some of the arguably propagandist rhetoric leveled against them by Scientology’s escalating PR efforts. “If you go in there right now,” said another Anon, pointing to the org’s rarely-open door, “they have a stack of flyers on their desks saying we are evil, evil people. They’ve been on Bloor walking up and down [the street] with them.” Anons, meanwhile, have reduced the scale of their demonstrations lately—with the exception of yesterday’s presence at Pride [PDF]—to more effectively engage the public. Sidewalk drawings state the names of those allegedly victimized by Fair Game practices, while an arrow-shaped sign points into the org’s lobby with a monosyllabic message: “CULT.”

An hour later, we followed up on that earlier request for an interview. As staff members we’d talked to had since changed shifts, a gentleman in a red Dianetics shirt—reportedly a member of the local org’s Office of Special Affairs—welcomed us. After our introduction, a knowing expression flashed across the man’s face, and we were guided back toward the entrance.

“Have a nice day,” he said, holding the door. Then he locked it in our faces.