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Dec 23, 1999
Double Crossed — Phoenix New Times
Nov 28, 1999
John Travolta's alien nation — Washington Post
Nov 10, 1999
Sect loses battle to become a charity // Scientology 'is not a religion' — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James Meek Source:
The Guardian (UK) The controversial Church of Scientology had its application to be recognised as a religion turned down yesterday. After more than three years' deliberation, the Charity Commissioners rejected the organisation's claim saying that it did not qualify because it was not a religion and did not benefit the public. Critics of Scientology portray the organisation as a wacky cult that brainwashes individuals and exists to make money. But adherents say such hostility amounts to religious persecution and that Scientology puts them on ...
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology's revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Sep 6, 1999
Did cult march on wrong hospital? — The Big Issue (Australia)
Type: Press
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The Big Issue (Australia) The CCHR is widely regarded by anti-cult activists as a front group for the Church of Scientology, a religion established by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Hospitals are not usually the targets of demonstrations. Health care is a controversial subject, but community anger is usually centred on funding issues. So the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights' (CCHR) hundred-strong march on the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday 31 July was already unusual. They were protesting the establishment of a ...
Aug 5, 1999
Battlefield Travolta — NOW MagazineMore: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Scientology's biggest star comes to Canada to make a movie that will bring church's values and villains to a theatre near you Members of the Church of Scientology were in Yorkville this past holiday weekend, questionnaires in hand, to collect opinions about the church from passersby. It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about its application for charitable status. But positive PR may be ...
Apr 1, 1999
The Thetans' revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Mar 29, 1999
Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lucy Morgan Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. The spiritual home of the Church of Scientology is in Clearwater, but for many years now its leaders have had worldwide ambitions. But as disciples have carried L. Ron Hubbard's teachings away from America's shore, the reception has been almost universally chilly at best – and at times openly hostile. At one ...
Tag(s):
Anti-psychiatry •
Bankruptcy •
Bonnie Woods •
Canada •
Casey Hill •
Church of Scientology of Toronto •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Death •
Denmark •
Detox •
France •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Germany •
Greece •
Hard sell •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Infiltration •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Italy •
Karin Spaink •
Lawsuit •
Legal •
Lucy Morgan •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Mental illness •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Monique E. Yingling •
Nazi labelling •
Netherlands •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Patrice Vic •
Private investigator(s) •
Purification Rundown ("Purif") •
Recruitment •
Refunds •
Richard Woods •
Russia •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Spain •
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) •
Suicide •
Sweden •
Switzerland •
UK Charity Commission •
United Kingdom (UK) •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) •
Zenon Panoussis
Jan 29, 1999
Cult film — Washington City Paper
Jan 21, 1999
Picket Fencing — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Phoenix New Times In response to the July 24 Post-Gazette news articles "Scientology Comes to Town":
As a 60-year resident of Pittsburgh and a 20-year member of the Church of Scientology, I am compelled to set the record straight on your July 24 articles about Scientology.
The article missed the help the church and its members are extending to millions around the world, including residents of Pennsylvania.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a rude awakening for everyone. For many of us, ...
Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 7 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
Type: TV
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Arts and Entertainment Channel “Operation Clambake” web page VO: The ’90s brought with it a new challenge for the Church of Scientology in the form of the Internet. newspaper article titled “Showdown in Cyberspace”; David Gerard’s web page; web page that says “Why I hate Scientology” GRAHAM BERRY (voice of and on camera): The Internet has been a disaster for Scientology. Netizens, or people who spend a lot of time on the net, have a particular wild west attitude towards the First Amendment. They believe ...
Dec 10, 1998
Scientology wants city's kids — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Quaint Clarkson, tucked away on the westernmost edge of Mississauga, seems as unlikely a place as any to find L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi-writer-turned-icon and founder of the much-vilified Church of Scientology.
But here, just past the picket fences and over the train tracks where the old post office used to be, the portrait that graces Hubbard's opus Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health – sailor cap, face turned upward, blue sky in the background – hangs in the foyer of ...
Dec 6, 1998
The life & death of a Scientologist // After 13 years and thousands of dollars, Lisa McPherson finally went 'Clear.' Then she went insane — Washington PostMore: xenutv.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Washington Post CLEARWATER, Fla. - Dec 6, 1998 - "I am L. Ron Hubbard," the woman on the hotel room bed announced in a robotic voice. "I created time 3 billion years ago." She rambled on and on, every outburst dutifully scribbled down by those assigned to watch her. "I can't confront force . . . I need my auditor . . . I want to take a toothbrush and brush the floor until I have a cognition." The jargon of Scientology was ...
Nov 10, 1998
Scientologists lose a round in copyright fight — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Janelle Brown Source:
Salon The war between Scientology and its online opponents may have no visible end, but victory in the latest skirmish goes to the Net. Last week, a judge dismissed a request from Bridge Publications (one of the countless subsidiaries of the Church of Scientology) for summary judgment against FACTNet, a nonprofit online anti-cult group that Scientology had accused of duplicating its copyrighted material. FACTNet claims that the copyrighted material — church documents by L. Ron Hubbard that reveal secrets Scientology members normally ...
Aug 25, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 3 — FACTnet
Aug 24, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 2 — FACTnet
May 18, 1998
Letter to the editor — Revolver (Australia)
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Revolver (Australia) Dear Revolver, I have known about the McSpotlight site (www.mcspotlight.org - good on ya for mentioning it!!!!) for some time, and must admit that I was a little pissed off when I read a piece on a certain hamburger restaurant in an earlier issue of Revolver. However, maybe you can alert your readership about another group accused of exploiting people (especially the young, the curious, reforming druggies etc) - Scientology. This group was founded by an ex Science Fiction writer (L ...
Mar 4, 1998
Church, enemies wage war on Internet battlefield — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 4, 1998
Sacred teachings not secret anymore — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Feb 24, 1998
Review & Outlook / The Secrets of the Universe — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Feb 13, 1998
Scientology's Star Roster Enhances Image — New York TimesMore: link
Jan 20, 1998
Web not helping Scientology — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
Dec 28, 1997
60 Minutes: The Cult Awareness Network — CBS News
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CBS News Transcript: Descriptions of video in italics. VO=Voiceover of Lesley Stahl. LESLEY STAHL (in studio): There was a time if you were worried about your son or daughter being in a cult, you could get help from a small, non-profit organization called the Cult Awareness Network, or CAN, for 20 years the nation’s best-known resource for information and advice about groups it considered dangerous. Among them was Scientology, a church not known for turning the other cheek. But church officials say Scientology ...
Dec 7, 1997
Scientologists attack police chief in letter — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Sep 1, 1997
Special look at the Church of Scientology [exact date unknown] — Lotus magazine
Jul 29, 1997
L. Ron Elementary -- a parody with a point — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Scott Harris Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The following parody, based on news accounts of semi-secret Scientology teachings, is offered as a cautionary tale as the LAUSD board ponders a proposal to create a 100-student charter school with instruction based on L. Ron Hubbard's teaching methods in the Sunland-Tujunga area: * "Good morning, class!" "GOOD MORNING, MISS DIANETIC! WE'RE ALL IN OUR PLACES WITH BRIGHT SHINY FACES!" "You certainly are! Why, I don't even need Mr. E-Meter's help to measure your galvanic skin response! And you should be ...
May 11, 1997
Battlefield Tilden — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Wilson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TILDEN, NEB. — In a no-stoplight town on the American plain, in a house where the King James Version lies open in the entryway, a woman unfolds her newspaper and begins to read. The headline in the Tilden Citizen announces, "New Park Groundbreaking Ceremony Held." A picture shows 13 people posed shoulder to shoulder, their grins as frozen as the February soil. The mayor, a construction foreman on his afternoon break, has the familiar job of holding the shovel. A banner ...
Mar 25, 1997
The Scientology problem — Wall Street JournalMore: holysmoke.org , link
Type: Press
Source:
Wall Street Journal As no doubt befits a society founded by Pilgrims, America has a long tradition of controversial movements maturing to success, whether Mormons or Christian Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, the latest cult forcing itself to our attention is the Church of Scientology. Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer. He fashioned a creation myth around Xenu, who froze and transported thetan souls to volcanoes in Teegeeack, now earth. The creed holds that humans ...
Mar 9, 1997
Scientology's puzzling journey from tax rebel to tax exempt // Taxes and tactics behind an I.R.S. reversal — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church's recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. For 25 years, I.R.S. agents had branded Scientology a commercial enterprise and refused to give it the tax exemption granted to churches. The refusals had been upheld in every court. But that night the crowd learned of an astonishing turnaround. The I.R.S. had granted tax exemptions to ...
Mar 1, 1997
Phillip Adams: Weird Science — The Weekend Australian
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