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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/22/scientology-leader-attacked-staff-allegation
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/06/newspaper-series-alleges-physical-violence-by-leaders-of-church-of-scientology.html
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/06/explosive_series_on_scientolog.html
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1012832.ece
It seems like the leader of Scientology, David Miscavige (sounds like miscarriage to me.) seems to likes beat up his parishioners.
A couple of high ranking ‘officers’ of the CoS have turned around and went public with what was going on behind the doors.
• Miscavige beat and incessantly criticized top executives to subjugate them. Those executives in turn used that style of intimidation on other church employees, creating a management culture of physical violence and humiliation.
• Church officials lied and covered up their mistreatment of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist who was detained in a guarded room at church facilities in Clearwater after suffering a mental breakdown. She died after 17 days in the “care” of church staffers, including secretaries, security guards and an unlicensed doctor. One of the defectors, Marty Rathbun, now acknowledges that as police investigators moved in, he destroyed incriminating documents containing details of McPherson’s last days.
This isn’t the crusades, David. This is the 21st century. Church leaders don’t beat up their staff and parishioners. (Unless you’re Catholic, then you get to molest all the boys you can…).
And David isn’t done there…
• Scientologists are punished for infractions and forced to write detailed confessions, sometimes about trumped-up allegations, which are held by the church in so-called “ethics files.” They expect these written confessionals to remain confidential, but the church released the defectors’ files to the Times, apparently caring less about maintaining confidentiality than about undermining the credibility of their detractors.
• The church, which needs vast sums of money to finance its worldwide growth, charges parishioners hundreds of dollars an hour for counseling sessions called “auditing,” more than $13,000 for auditing training, and has repackaged old Scientology texts for resale to members.
It sounds like a shell game wrapped up in a ponzi scheme…
And oh, by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOM CRUISE! Maybe your buddies in the church will give you the next OT level as a b-day present…
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