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Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking
eldavojohn writes "A formal complaint was filed in California (caged PDF) last week by John Lindstein naming David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology International as defendants. Lindstein claims that for sixteen years (from age 8) he was forced to work as a slave at Gold Base, a secret CoS site run by Golden Era Productions with 'razor wire, security guard patrols, surveillance posts, and three roll calls each day.' The pay was $50 a week. The allegations include 'Violations of wage and hour laws as well as unfair/illegal business practices actionable under California B&P 17200 Et. Seq.' and a complaint under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. Members of the group Anonymous praised the summons."
Slaves aren't paid, last I checked. Did he file a 1099?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
First the Catholics with child rape, now the Scientologists with slavery and human trafficking.
Any wagers on which one true religion will be busted next?
Blar.
Its called audit method R2-45. Two .45 cal slugs to the chest will release the thetans inhabiting even the most infected person.
I think the headline is wrong...they usually charge people for services, not vice versa! wtf?
Sounds like grad school to me...
Ha. Ha. It's funny because it's true.
I read it like that in the voice of the character from Family Guy. It gave me a good laugh.
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...you are now officially a religion.
Great new book on Evolution: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
He's two letters away from Rick Roll.
Have you ever put a square mustache on El Ron? It'll shock the thetans right out of you.
Geez, Tom, no need to take it personally.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
You could question the order of these two events.
Well... it's better than vista.
I actually read the first half of Dianetics during a stint in a county jail, and quite a bit of it made sense.
Engrams, IIRC, are things that have happened to people during their childhood and are repressed to the point that they are damaging. A lot of what goes on in the "auditing" (again, IIRC) is equivalent to regressive hypno-therapy. Breaking down those walls could possibly open people up to entirely new aspects of life, and worlds of possibility.
Of course once the walls are broken down, they lay on the sci-fi-churchy-brainwashing-crapola. That is where I stopped reading.
When wikileaks first got famous in relation to Scientology, I grabbed copies of every available piece of CoS literature that I could download. Upon skimming through it I found there are some methods that seem quite useful as tools for training salespeople.
There are protocols where people train one another, for example one shouts obscenities at the other person nonstop for hours on end, and then the roles reverse and the training continues. Imagine how valuable this could be to salespeople, to make them immune to criticism and unafraid of verbal confrontation.
There are some good bits in the CoS materials, don't dismiss it out of hand.
The cult part of it is crap though. :)
And here is one for you, CoS - L. Ron Hubbard was a drunken pedophile who wishes he could lick the sweat out of my asscrack. Your religion is a cult, and your cult is worthless. Get a life, losers.
Word.
I had no idea Rick Ross went after the CoS when not rapping.
Photos.
One of the more amusing bullshit-internet-debate tactics is the classic "my opponent is a plant!" This is obviously false to all readers, as plants are unable to type.
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