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Dec 9, 2008
County supervisors back away from anti-picketing measure — San Diego Union-Tribune
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San Diego Union-Tribune RIVERSIDE – Concerned that a proposed anti-picketing ordinance might be too restrictive – and that it did not address the issue that inspired it – the Board of Supervisors Tuesday backed away from the measure, but indicated it may be brought back in different form.
“I don't agree we should abandon this completely, but I want us as united on this as possible,” said Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone, who sponsored the measure.
“It's not an attempt to limit the right ...
Nov 19, 2008
Who Are Those Masked Broadway Dancers? — SdBackyard.com (San Diego Union-Tribune)
May 3, 2008
Lead voice of black Muslims in the U.S. teaches inclusion — San Diego Union-Tribune
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Sandi Dolbee Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune At 74, Imam W. Deen Mohammed has carved a reputation for moderation and inclusion as the leading voice of African-American Muslims across the country. A champion of interfaith dialogue, Mohammed has repeatedly encouraged people of faith to focus on what they have in common, has traveled to the Vatican to meet with the pope and was the first Muslim to give the invocation on the floor of the U.S. Senate. But when it comes to the Democratic presidential nomination race, he ...
Oct 13, 2007
S.F. orders Scientology group to stop using Mayor Newsom pic — San Diego Union-Tribune
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San Diego Union-Tribune SAN FRANCISCO — The city of San Francisco has ordered a Scientology group to stop using a picture of Mayor Gavin Newsom on its promotional materials. A group called the Way to Happiness Foundation International sent a box full of booklets to Newsom's City Hall office describing some of Scientology's core principles. The pamphlets came emblazoned with the seal of the city of San Francisco and featured a picture of a smiling Newsom with a fictitious letter from him. The president ...
Jul 24, 2007
Armenian immigrant and 5 others convicted of military-weapons charges in FBI sting — San Diego Union-Tribune
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Larry Neumeister Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune NEW YORK – An Armenian immigrant accused of plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant was convicted Tuesday along with five co-defendants. Artur Solomonyan could face up to life in prison on charges including arms trafficking conspiracy, firearms trafficking conspiracy, interstate firearms trafficking and illegal transfer and possession of a machine gun. The charges accused the men of conspiring from December 2003 to March 2005 to import shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, ...
Mar 18, 2004
Readers' letters [I was absolutely horrified by Ozzie Robert's column this week...] — San Diego Union-Tribune
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San Diego Union-Tribune I was absolutely horrified by Ozzie Robert's column this week, where he profiles a Volunteer Minister from the Scientology organization here in town ("Work and study mark the way," 3/2/04). To portray this group, identified as a destructive cult by scholars and governments, as a positive asset to our community is dangerous. It might encourage others to join. Their 50-year history is replete with horror stories. Anyone can, and should, do a Google search before getting involved. . . . Combinations ...
Mar 2, 2004
Work and study mark the way — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: Related: update from Cathy Mullins
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Ozzie Roberts Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune Cathy Mullins was, for a time, a hippie; a vintage 1960s model of a flower child. She knew all about peace protests and human rights marches. She knew, too, all the key ingredients of turning on, tuning in and dropping out. That's why, at 55, she says, with her characteristic straightforwardness, her generation is largely to blame for some of the greatest problems facing younger ones today. "Drugs," for example, says Mullins, "we glorified them and made it romantic to be ...
Nov 21, 2002
U.S. officials to visit Mexico prison to get look at drug program — San Diego Union-Tribune
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Enrique García Sánchez Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune TIJUANA – About 100 female legislators from the United States will visit the state prison in Ensenada today to see firsthand the results of a program for drug-addicted inmates.
The state began the program, called Segunda Oportunidad, or Second Opportunity, seven years ago, based on the Church of Scientology's prisoner rehabilitation program, called Narconon. It is based on the philosophies of the late L. Ron Hubbard.
According to a recent study conducted by Baja California's state university, recidivism among the prisoners ...
Apr 15, 1990
Critics, government call Scientology business masquerading as religion — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: link
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Mike McIntyre Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune The Church of Scientology's genesis was the 1950 best seller by L. Ron Hubbard, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." Church officials claim there are 7 million Scientologists worldwide, but former members allege there may be fewer than 100,000. The church promotes Scientology as a religion — one not based on the worship of a god but on the belief in "scientific" principles applied to the mind. Hubbard argued in "Dianetics" that inner turmoil springs from subconscious mental images, or ...
Apr 15, 1990
Hubbard hot-author status called illusion — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: scientology-lies.com , link
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Mike McIntyre Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune In 1981, St. Martin's Press was offered a sure thing. L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp writer turned religious leader, had written his first science-fiction novel in more than 30 years. If St. Martin's published it, Hubbard aides promised the firm, subsidiary organizations of Hubbard's Church of Scientology would buy at least 15,000 copies. "Battlefield Earth," priced at $24.95, was released the next year in hardcover, rare for a science-fiction title. Despite mixed reviews, the book quickly sold 120,000 copies — enough ...
Apr 15, 1990
Search for information followed long, winding trail — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: link
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San Diego Union-Tribune The San Diego Union first asked for an interview with Bridge Publications in December 1989. The request was referred to the L. Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations, a Church of Scientology organization in Los Angeles. Several times throughout January, Union reporter Mike McIntyre contacted the L Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations to request an interview with Bridge personnel. Each time, L. Ron Hubbard spokeswoman Sharyn Runyon said that a decision had not been made. Runyon later asked McIntyre to ...
Apr 27, 1989
Narconon-Chilocco drug treatment plant may be part of notorious religious cult — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)
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Robert W. Lobsinger Source:
Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma) NEWKIRK, OK – A proposed drug treatment and rehabilitation center which could be in operation on Indian land at the former Chilocco Indian School north of Newkirk by June 15th may be part of a notorious religious cult. Narconon was approved for a 75-bed facility by the State Health Planning Commission in January of this year as part of The Chilocco Development Authority. The projected cost is $400,000 for renovation and the five Indian tribes involved are projected to receive $16,000,000 ...
Jul 7, 1982
Inside Scientology: Scientology versus the Merchants of Chaos — News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)More: link
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Dennis Wheeler Source:
News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California) Throughout its nearly 30 years of existence, the Church of Scientology has had problems with its image in the media. Newspaper articles have called it a "bizarre brain-washing cult" founded by a former science fiction writer. Television coverage of recent hearings in Clearwater, Florida — home of the Church's U.S. headquarters — emphasized testimony that the group's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, is in hiding and, according to his son, might even be dead. And the Reader's Digest recently printed two controversial ...
Dec 1, 1980
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
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James B. Stewart Source:
The American Lawyer On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
May 30, 1980
L.A. newspaper alleges Scientology plot — San Diego Union-Tribune
Sep 13, 1977
Clergy protests 'spying' upon religious groups — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) One hundred ministers, priests and rabbis in the San Diego area Monday presented a petition to a San Diego newspaper, declaring that "spying or deceitfully obtaining membership in a religious organization is unethical" and violates religious freedom. The petition, launched by the Church of Scientology of San Diego, was prompted by a two-part series on Scientology last month in the San Diego Union by reporter Leigh Fenly. Two Scientologists filed a $10,000 invasion-of-privacy suit in San Diego Superior Court Aug. 9, ...
Aug 14, 1977
[Placeholder for a two-part series which I wish to find] — San Diego Union-Tribune
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Leigh Fenly Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune [Placeholder for a two-part series which I wish to find. This two part series was the subject of a lawsuit, as reported here and here . If you have any information regarding this two-part series, that would be just swell.]
Aug 12, 1977
San Diego paper sued for $10,000 // Church of Scientology members seek to stop articles not yet published — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Los Angeles Times (California) SAN DIEGO — Two Church of Scientology members Thursday sued the San Diego Union for more than $10,000, alleging two articles that have not yet been published were an invasion of privacy. Union Acting Editor Peter Kaye described the lawsuit as "harassment aimed at preventing the paper from printing the stories." He said church leaders had offered to try to stop the lawsuit if the newspaper would kill the articles. The civil suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court by ...
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