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Mar 1, 2010
Buying God: Tough to get a refund on salvation — CBS Moneywatch
Oct 30, 2009
Protester sues Church of Scientology / College student says peaceful protest intent led to arrest — WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee)More: Youtube
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dennis Ferrier Source:
WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A college student is suing the Nashville Church of Scientology, a security company and three off-duty Spring Hill police officers for $6 million. Thomas Parker said he was knocked to the ground, handcuffed and arrested, for nothing more than attempting to peacefully protest. The Church of Scientology's grand opening turned into a grand mess when hired security arrested protesters. It would have been a he-said, she-said – except that it was all caught on tape. Parker was on ...
Oct 30, 2009
Protester sues Church of Scientology's Nashville center — The TennesseanMore: tennessean.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Smietana Source:
The Tennessean A Murfreesboro man has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Church of Scientology's Nashville celebrity center claiming that guards hired by the church assaulted him while he was staging a protest. Thomas A. Parker and other members of an anti-Scientology group called Anonymous planned to protest the center's grand opening on April 25. Parker and others were walking down Eighth Avenue South, when two off-duty Spring Hill police officers, hired as security guards by the church, confronted them, the suit ...
Sep 21, 2009
Scientology: The web's first copyright-wielding nemesis — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s):
Julian Dibbell Source:
Wired The Church of Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by pulp science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it's been run by his successor, David Miscavige, since 1987. But for the past year or so the public face of Scientology has been a man named Tommy Davis. Son of Hollywood actress (and longtime Scientologist) Anne Archer, Davis has a stylish mop coif and boyish (not to say Tom Cruise-ish) good looks that have been put before the media's cameras every time ...
May 7, 2009
Laws broken in Scientology church security — WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee)More: xenutv.wordpress.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dennis Ferrier Source:
WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – There are problems with how security for a Nashville Scientology event was handled, and laws appear to have been broken.
In a home video, a group of protesters walk toward the Church of Scientology on the day of the church's grand opening and are stopped by security guards, who knock one protester to the ground and have him arrested for criminal trespass.
The altercation happened 400 yards from the church, on the other side of the street.
Public ...
May 6, 2009
Protesters say they were bullied by police — WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee)More: xenutv.wordpress.com
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dennis Ferrier Source:
WSMV (Nashville, Tennessee) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A protest at the Church of Scientology in Nashville led to pushing, shoving, an arrest and the whole thing was caught on tape.
The tape, protesters said, proves they were assaulted and bullied by security guards for no reason.
A Middle Tennessee State University student doesn't want his name revealed after what happened on April 25 at Nashville's new Church of Scientology on Eighth Avenue. The man is in a group called Anonymous that protests Church of Scientology ...
May 3, 2009
Dissent and scientology are mutually exclusive apparently [comments section is especially informative] — Blorbis
Type: Blog
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Blorbis After publishing this article, supporters of the Church of Scientology sent correspondence to Orbis complaining about what they perceived to be a bias in favor of Anonymous. The fact that they apparently keep such close tabs on media about scientology (Vanderbilt Orbis, after all, isn’t as well-known or as well-distributed as the New York Times) doesn’t do much to further their case that they don’t take… aggressive measures… to silence their critics. In the meantime, the Nashville scientologists have apparently decided ...
Jan 28, 2009
Church of Scientology goes for zoning change // Printers Row residents worry about parking, solicitation — Chicago Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Micah Maidenberg Source:
Chicago Journal Church of Scientology members, Printers Row residents and 2nd Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti tussled Tuesday evening over a church Scientologists want to establish at 650 S. Clark. The group is seeking to change the building's zoning from DX-12, a downtown mixed-use district, to DR-10, a downtown residential classification. The change would allow the church to develop their religious center in the empty building without obtaining a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals, as the current zoning requires. The group ...
Nov 30, 2008
Inside Scientology: a review of John Duignan's The Complex — Counterknowledge.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Damian Thompson Source:
Counterknowledge.com The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of The Church of Scientology by John Duignan with Nicola Tallant, Merlin Publishing, Dublin. The Scientologists have been doing their damnedest to stop the international publication of John Duignan’s memoir The Complex. Following legal representations, it is no longer possible to buy the book, published in Ireland by Merlin, from Amazon.co.uk. That made me curious, so I had a copy sent direct from Dublin. Here’s my review. In places, Duignan – a former ...
Aug 12, 2008
Isaac Hayes was no expert Scientologist — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice As Rob Harvilla, the Voice music editor, pointed out to us yesterday, there was one really awful detail in the news this weekend about the death of the legendary Isaac Hayes - that the 65-year-old singer was found next to a treadmill which was still running. Chilling. Naturally, there's been some speculation in the press about Hayes and his religion, the wacky cabal of L. Ron Hubbard worshippers at Scientology. Hayes was one of Scientology's high-profile celebrity members, which (supposedly) led ...
Aug 11, 2008
Isaac Hayes' History With Scientology — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News My friend, Isaac Hayes, died on Sunday, and his passing leaves many unanswered questions. The great R&B star, actor, DJ, performer and family man, the composer of “Soul Man,” “Hold On I’m Coming” and other hits by Sam Moore and Dave Prater like “When Something Is Wrong with My Baby,” also was a member of the Church of Scientology. Isaac was found dead by his treadmill, but conveniently missing from the wire stories was a significant fact: in January 2006, Isaac ...
Feb 15, 2008
Scientology angers Internet; but Internet strikes back — Virginia Tech
Sep 11, 2007
Penn And Teller Take Bull By The Horns — MTV News
May 26, 2006
Scientologist speaks out — San Diego 6 (XETV-TV)
Apr 5, 2006
Interview with Glen Stollery of ScienTOMogy.info — Wikinews
Mar 26, 2006
Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Sullivan Source:
The Times (UK) We have a new cartoon-blasphemy scandal. No, it’s not Islamists burning down Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in Pakistan because a few Danish cartoonists had the gall to draw the prophet Muhammad. Now it’s Scientology versus the popular and hilarious cartoon television programme South Park. And the Scientologists, like the Islamists before them, are winning. South Park is a potty-mouthed series created by two young iconoclasts, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. It features a group of nine-year-old cardboard cut-out pals whose adventures ...
Mar 22, 2006
What Scientology needs most is to be ridiculed — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Gove Source:
The Times (UK) Isaac Hayes, the wonderfully gifted singer who sang the theme from Shaft, reached No1 with Chocolate Salty Balls in 1999. The song was one of a number that Hayes performed while playing the school Chef in the US cartoon series South Park. Among the other Chef tunes, the Christmas song stands out, with its seductive lyrics, which I believe ran: I’m gonna lay you down by the Yule log I’m gonna love you right Baby, I’m gonna deck your halls And ...
Mar 20, 2006
Chef's Quitting Controversy — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Isaac Hayes did not quit "South Park." My sources say that someone quit it for him. I can tell you that Hayes is in no position to have quit anything. Contrary to news reports, the great writer, singer and musician suffered a stroke on Jan. 17. At the time it was said that he was hospitalized and suffering from exhaustion. It’s also absolutely ridiculous to think that Hayes, who loved playing Chef on "South Park," would suddenly turn against the show ...
Jul 1, 2002
Scientology: Are we Clear on this? // The Wittenburg Door Interview with Tory Bezazian — The Wittenburg Door
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Gersztyn Source:
The Wittenburg Door We don't have to tell YOU about L.Ron Hubbard, his book Dianetics , and the religion it spawned—Scientology. In fact, until just recently, most media outlets WOULDN'T tell you about it given Scientology's well-deserved reputation for litigation. Instead, let us tell you about Tory Bezazian. In 1969 Tory hitchhiked from Chicago to L.A. to become a disciple of Dianetics . She invested untold tens of thousands of hours and dollars in it (the annual price tag for a membership in the International Association ...
Sep 27, 2001
Sympathy for the Devil — New Times Los Angeles
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
New Times Los Angeles Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all. Last year, Church of Scientology operatives received an alarming tip: During the upcoming 2000 MTV Movie Awards scheduled for June 8, a short South Park film parodying Battlefield Earth would feature the character Cartman wiping his ass with a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's sacred text, Dianetics. The tip was erroneous. Cartman would actually be wiping his ass with a Scientology ...
Jun 19, 2001
Parking garage plans fall apart — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Christina Headrick Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) That means plans for a new bus terminal downtown also have crumbled. CLEARWATER — A first-of-its-kind partnership to build a downtown parking garage on top of a new bus terminal was pronounced dead Monday. Negotiations involving the city, the Church of Scientology, Pinellas County and the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority failed to produce a deal to make the project work. Several months of talks ended last week, after one last-ditch effort to save the project. "We really did try," said Assistant ...
Aug 20, 1999
Scientology expansion raises parking question — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) One Clearwater official says the church need not provide parking until its building is nearly complete, but others disagree. CLEARWATER — The foundation has been poured and two towering white cranes reach into the downtown sky. Construction is well under way on a 370,000-square-foot Church of Scientology building that will take two years to build. When it opens, Scientology expects to have doubled its uniformed staff to 2,000. It also projects that the number of Scientology parishioners visiting Clearwater will increase ...
Apr 27, 1989
Narconon-Chilocco drug treatment plant may be part of notorious religious cult — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)
Type: Press
Author(s):
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 ...
Dec 18, 1981
Church of Scientology reorganizing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 26, 1980
Scientologists ask judge to step down from case — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 15 Is Scientology Political? — Tower Publications, Inc.
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