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    Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back

    San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)

    Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions

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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    09:49 AM

    In reply to Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back
    I clicked on that damn Freedom link and now I am fucked for the day. This little nugget is priceless:
    In the most offensive gesture of all, the S.P. Times refused to accept an offer of an in-person interview with Mr. David Miscavige, the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion.

    I know they wanted to write that part in all caps I just know it.

    I clicked on the human rights button and no one else should. Ever.

    HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS:
    The Church of Scientology's Planetary Social Betterment Campaigns

    I am going to click:
    PECIAL REPORT INSIDE THE S.P. TIMES:
    Merchants of Chaos

    If I make it out of there I will report my findings #scientology
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    09:42 AM

    In reply to Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back
    If you all were a bit more worldly you would know that the Tampa Bay area is a hotbed of human rights issues. I believe that the UNHRC is also moving their headquarters there. I have heard that Angelina Jolie is going to visit the displaced persons camp there. It is the epicenter and Scientology is all over them. #scientology
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    Image of BunnySkull BunnySkull
    08:20 AM

    In reply to Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back
    They've already attempted to do a hit piece against the St. Pete paper and the reporter/editor who the did the investigative piece on the cult. You can read it in the new "Freedom" mag online and it truly makes your skin crawl. I haven't read such obvious skewed propaganda since Goebbels' "Der Angriff." Only Dr. Goebbel's was far more subtle.
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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    07:47 AM

    In reply to Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back
    For some reason (and tell me if this sounds crazy) I think we should either shoot all the Scientologists into the Sun, or in the back of the head. They're both fairly harsh, but I've got a prejudice against them that makes it feel justified.

    Also, it makes me immensely happy to learn that "Scientologists" isn't recognized as a word by my computer. Thank you either Microsoft or Firefox.
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    09:25 AM

    @senatormayer: into the sun. #scientology
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    09:53 AM

    @It's twue! It's twue!: Should I feel bad for promoting a comment in reply to one of my own mad ravings? #scientology
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    07:08 AM

    In reply to Scientology Seeks Investigative Journalists for a Potential Media Fight-Back
    So, if you are an experienced print journalist your career choices now are:

    1. Wait until you are laid off.

    2. Work for Scientology where they actually beat up their employees.

    That said, this sounds like the perfect job for Alessandra Stanley.

    Corrections? We don't do corrections! Xenu has guided you to write the truth! #scientology
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    I don't know why, but I find the idea of Larry Ellison as a Scientologist to be absolutely delicious. #tomcruise
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    Why on earth would Tom Cruise be interested in moving to SF? I mean, economically, geographically or culturally . . . what of SF could possibly be of interest to Mr. Cruise?

    I just don't see it. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: He wants to be closer to his real posse. Conflicted much?
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    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: It certainly wouldn't be for the boys, that's for dead certain. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    @nostateleftbehind001: @tmp00:

    Bert Fields will be contacting both of you -- shortly. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions

    Scientific proof. #scientology
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    He's invoking Tom Cruise to be physically intimidating? Aren't people on stilts usually present for more humorous occasions? #scientology
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    My high school TC crush is now officially over. #scientology
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    11/08/09

    @missdelite: Heh heh... #scientology
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    The first rule about Scientology Fight Club is that you don't talk about Scientology Fight Club. #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @Novaload: So, the standard OT rules apply, then. #scientology
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    Please put a dead pool up on when people get criminal charges / go to jail for this. #scientology
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    I have a Scientology nugget that might be a bit off-thread, but I don't know where else to put it.

    A couple of years ago, the national mag that employed me had an editorial meeting and decided to task a reporter team to do the research ground work on a future Scientology expose. We started by having lunch at the cafeteria on the premises of the "Scientology Celebrity Centre (sic) International" in Hollywood. When we showed up, the receptionists demanded that we all turn in our driver licenses. They recorded all the data in a log. Our names, home addresses and driver license alpha-numeric codes. So.Fucking.Creepy. #scientology
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/08/09

    @snugbug: BE careful , I don't think there are that many snugbug's in America #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: The hardest part about reading comments is trying to come up with something witty when you have a case of the giggles. Darn you, adiam7. #scientology
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/09/09

    @snugbug: See, this is how it works in scientific investigations. There was this member of our unit, Ft Sill, OK, who was short of cash and long of need, like all of us, so he left a deposit of value with a Lawton service station and then gleefully lit out with a full tank, never expecting to have to pay the bill. But they traced him down with topflight police work.

    The item he left with the station attendant was his ID card.

    This guy is probably with the Scientology racket now. #scientology
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    Tom Cruis is like 5'4 WTF are these morons scared of? Paul Higgins puts them in a very tight spot. He looks like he could live up to anything they reveal AND the revelations will cause more people leaving. I think there will be revelations but it will be more subtle. He is also sure t obe in store for some serious backlash from the Scientology elite. So no movies with the Elfman's #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @adiam7: from the letter to Fields, posted on Rathbun's website- the threat of a Cruise combat on suppressives was accompanied by the additional threat that the "managers" would be bypassed by Cruise if they did not beat them to a pulp. Here is the excerpt from the letter:

    Miscavige informed all of the members of International management that he had been telling Cruise all about how suppressive Yager, Leserve, and Mithoff had been to Miscavige personally. He told the executives that he had told Cruise how all other members of management were suppressive to Miscavige too because they refused to beat Yager, Leserve and Mithoff to pulps in defense of Miscavige’s honor. Miscavige said that Tom, as his best friend and most trusted confidante, had vowed to come to the Hole and personally "beat the living shit" out of Yager, Leserve, and Mithoff if the managers failed to do so themselves. Miscavige said that if they didn’t show evidence that they had acted, they all would be bypassed the next day by Cruise. The tantrum was accompanied by the usual ill-tempered and sadistic threats to the executives detailing what would become of them if Tom had to do "their job." #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @adiam7: Cruise is powerful because he's not just a bankable star but also currently runs a Hollywood studio--United Artists. Albeit a kind of phantom studio. Nevertheless, the position of studio head enhances his stature in Hollywood. F-wad demands respect from countless numbers of actors who wish to be employed. #scientology
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    Image of thingsbehindthesun thingsbehindthesun
    11/08/09

    @adiam7: Why am I reminded of this scene?
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/08/09

    @thingsbehindthesun: DAMNIT adaim7!! You just made me start watching Tropic Thunder again...again.

    I LOVE that movie! #scientology
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    Image of Cheruth Cheruth
    11/08/09

    @snugbug: Its insane but true. I have known a few young hopeful actors to go to scientology events just for the connections. Tom Cruise's UA being the biggest one. #scientology
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    Image of saa saa
    11/08/09

    @snugbug: Usually I separate an actor from his/her personal life, but I can no longer do that with Tom Cruise. When he's in a film or in an interview, all I see is bat-shit crazy creepy loony.

    And dumb. #scientology
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/08/09

    @lil red: Fields broke the law in so many ways on that Pellicano case that this does not surprise me one bit #scientology
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/08/09

    @snugbug: That is true but I think his brand is fucked and has been on a serious decline since the couch incident. More importantly, his movies have sucked. Also, didn't his movie partner leave him recently? If this was the old Tom Cruise AND he was running a studio I would be more worried for Paul . I am more concerned about the closet Scientologist and their impact on Higgins. Not to mention those not as secure as Paul Higgins that Scientology could get to in order to effect Higgins in an adverse way . Finally, that wife of his and the whole disconnections thing are probably going to be an issue. I believe Higgins has trouble ahead of him but not as much as he would have had a few years ago. The defectors, tell-alls, news reports, the pesky internet and best of all Tom Davies have really hurt these nutjobs #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @thingsbehindthesun: I believe that he used the "scorched earth" line for real. #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @FrankenPC: Who wouldn't love that shit. He was probably channeling his supreme leader #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @saa: You see the truth . He cant even "act" anymore , he is that looney that it comes across #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @adiam7: LOL!! So true!! What was that other movie where he channeled his inner self and did really well...(off to IMDB).

    (Back from IMDB). Ahhhh yes..Magnolia. The womanizer Frank Mackey. Perfect role. #scientology
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    11/08/09

    @saa: You mean you didn't buy Tommy Cruise of Syracuse as a one-eyed German aristocrat in Valkyrie? His American accent instantly transported me to Nazi Germany, it really did.. Seriously though, that film was hilariously schizophrenic. Cruise was the only one who spoke American, the British supporting cast spoke the Queen's English and the German supporting cast spoke German-accented English.. Tower of Babel FTW!
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    11/08/09

    @Cheruth: The Beverly Hills Playhouse is also a major Scientology recruiting nexus in L.A. (Kind of a PSA, if any hopeful young actor out there is looking for a way to break into Hollywood and doesn't mind going the Sciento route.) #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @snugbug: Would have been a much better film if the kid from the Pepsodent commercial hadn't wandered in... #scientology
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    Image of ChasityNuggletron ChasityNuggletron
    11/09/09

    @Cheruth: I, too, know quite a few otherwise sane and halfway intelligent struggling actors that go to these scientology events. That's where I preempt their exclusion of me as a potential "SP" and delete them from my Facebook. OTs, your move.
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    11/09/09

    @snugbug: I am troubled that you saw that film. I saw the review and heard his English and I figured he didn't make an effort so why the fuck should I. A German aristocrat from today let alone then would speak the Queen's English, but if that was too much for him then he should have had everyone speak American English an #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @snugbug: That's the guy I was talking about!!!! He is dead, some acting teacher , he recruited like half of their member. He is the one that wrote a book that was not even about acting but his life and where did he get to go ? Oprah. I am telling you they got some shit on her.This was not that long ago, and his appearance made no sense , #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @ChasityNuggletron: The preemptive disconnection. Nice play. #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: I watched it for giggles--and I promise you, it was worth it! I think Tom C gave up even trying accents after that fiasco called "Far and Away" where he attempted "Irish laddie" speak. That being said, I saw "Lions and Lambs" recently--this first, and to date only, film he produced for his studio--and I must admit, he wasn't bad in it. I mean, he only comes in two settings, really--1. huffy, "focused," determined; and 2. "heeeeey, beybeh"-smarmy a-hole but approx. once a decade he pulls it off. #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @saa: What's his background? I know he knows "the history of psychology" or something but what other education does this little drip have?

    I ain't gonna go looking him up on the googles in case somebody searches my history file ... #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: When could he? Seriously. He just lost his best buddy and he stares in the mirror, sighs, flicks eyes left in a Clare Danes take, and that's a rap. #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @snugbug: Like it or not, Days of Thunder had a great opening. You have some of the sense of old guys who know their business going about it. Then in rides the little drip on his Honda and it's time to look for the remote. #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: Just want to mention once it was done well. Maximillian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg. He delivered his opening monologue in German and then there was a transition jump cut and he spoke accented English from there but let on he was still being translated, and all because the double-talk through the translator was becoming tedious. #scientology
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    11/09/09

    @Tremonius: I love that movie and you made little drip happen for me, I am using it today whether it is appropriate or not #scientology
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Scientology Revelations: 'Presentation Drills,' Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise's Audit Sessions
    Can you imagine being in an already flawed "belief system" like Scientology and then getting beat up and beat up by Tom Cruise. It's too surreal for words--and very sickening. #scientology
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