Today Mark Bunker’s XenuTV Youtube account went down again, thanks to yet another false DCMA claim.  This one was by the “American Rights Counsel LLC,” an organization that seems to exist only on YouTube.

XenuTV wasn’t the only victim of these false copyright claims.  Many anons had their own home videos removed.  Some videos not protected by the United States’ DCMA were removed.  One of mine was removed. (more…)

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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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.

From Battle Creek MI this past Saturday:

After the EpicNoseGuy situation, wherein a 15-year-old London boy was threatened with a court summons if he didn’t remove a sign calling Scientology a cult, I posted on Enturbulation that if “cult” is unacceptible in the UK, simply spell it out as “cu*t”.  It got some laughs, and someone named “Scientology is a cult” on alt.religion.scientology even changed their name to “Scientology is a cu*t”.

Then I find out about this.

There’s been another development in what’s becoming a long-running dispute between anti-Scientology protesters and British police, as a 57-year-old man was charged with breach of the peace for displaying a sign that read “Stupid Cu*t” and “Greedy Cu*t” during a protest in Edinburgh at the weekend.

This has bad, good, and great written all over it.  The bad part is that someone was arrested without warning for a fucking sign, regardless of content.  Especially since this one happened to be factual.

The good part is that this arrest caused the news to spread that Scientology is indeed a stupid and greedy cult.  It was published and people across Scotland read the news, generating a sour taste towards the authoritarian cult and their attack poodles in the Edinburgh police.

The great part?  I trolled someone from across the ocean into getting arrested.  I’m kinda proud about that one.

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.

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!

An update on the Philadelphia situation:

Body Thetans, the souls of executed aliens that are attached to our bodies today, is a doctrine in the high levels of Scientology that is denied to the public and to Scientologists who have not reached the appropriate level.

Here is a “Grampa John”, a beloved Scientologist at the Hollywood Centre, confirming his belief in Body Thetans.

Anonymous

Some people allege that there is a doctrine about, let’s say, Body Thetans.

John

Uh-huh.

Anonymous

Um, that it’s not introduced until there has been a whole lot of prior auditing.

John

Correct.

Anonymous

Now is it possible that, because of the [unintelligible], at that point when that’s introduced that people are a little more suggestible and maybe that they’re confusing their imagination with what their perceiving?

John

I’m not quite sure if I understand the question, are you asking should it be– can it be introduced earlier?

Anonymous

No, I’m saying do you think that it is imaginary or real, are there really Body Thetans in peoples’ bodies, have you experienced that it is true?

John

Oh yeah. Absolutely.

Anonymous

So,like in my way of thinking, everyone’s responsible for their own experience, their own body. If you bump your arm and it hurts, it’s probably hurts because you bumped your arm. It doesn’t hurt because there’s an entity in there.  So do you guys generally believe there are entities in your bodies?  [unintelligible]?

John

That is something– everyone has to find out what’s real for them.  But to answer your first question, yes, if you bump your arm or your leg, you’ve bumped your arm or your leg.  Okay?  It’s not something else going on.  There are other things that other entities and things, or mental image pictures that you read about in Dianetics, they have an affect on the being.  They can affect the body or they can affect you.  So those kind of things can occur, but again if it isn’t real, true for you, it’s not true.  You have to find something that’s real to you.