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“Let’s go back to this problem and see if there isn’t a little bit more to be known then about an individual who will not exteriorize. We’ve got the DEI cycle — desire, enforce, inhibit. At first he desired to mobilize MEST, and then MEST began to enforce its mobilization upon him, and then he started to inhibit it. We will find this for instance between a man and a woman who are ill-matched sexually. We will find a woman who is tremendously demanding sexually, may at first attract some fellow who is fairly normal, and there will be a period there when he is perfectly willing to satisfy her. This passes rapidly into a period of where he begins to believe it is being enforced upon him, and this will pass rapidly into his refusal. And so you’ve got desire, enforce, inhibit. And he will not only inhibit his sexual outflow toward her, he will simply start inhibiting it toward all women. He does it by classes, non-specific. And so we find him then becoming sexually impotent in ratio to the amount of sexual performance which has been demanded of him. Rather sad thing, isn’t it?” — L. Ron Hubbard, January 20, 1954

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“Div IV did not put any rat guards on our lines and now a rat has been seen aboard. What does it matter to make up super duper rat guards if you don’t use them!!” — Capt. Mary Sue Hubbard, January 20, 1970

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“Finally I am here! It’s a great feeling, being verified and acknowledged as Clear. God knows how long and how many sleepless nights I’ve suffered from the uncertainty and invalidations of it. Words cannot describe the millions of things going through my mind right now. I’m just grateful that I’m where I am right now. The future is brighter than ever!”

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1997: Jeff Jacobsen reported having lunch with two Scientologists this week, who tried to persuade him to take down the Lisa McPherson web page and to stop the upcoming picket in Clearwater to protest her death. “To sum up, it seemed that they basically wanted a few things from me; 1) don’t mention the OT stuff next time I’m interviewed, 2) tone down my web page, 3) dump the Lisa McPherson page, and 4) stop organizing pickets of the church. #4 was the most interesting to me. They tried to imply that my calls to picket are dangerous because unstable people might join the picket and shoot someone or do something harmful. Their proof of this theory was a big stack of a.r.s. posts from names I don’t recall saying things like ‘bring a gun to your local picket and shoot up the place’, and ‘henri’s’ post stating ‘bomb your local Church of Scientology.’ I protested that there could be nuts on both sides and that us picketers are in just as much danger from crazy people as the Scientologists. I also reminded them that my demonstration page has always promoted a peaceful, non-violent picket, and I even quote Gandhi and Vaclav Havel. But they didn’t seem moved by these arguments.”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks

“Clear Cognition: You mocked up your reactive mind. OT8 Cognition: You mocked up the Space Opera, your past lives and your BT infestation. The trigger for the OT8 cognition is the line ‘the Pilot says: I’m mocking this up.’ The desired End Phenomena is ‘Now that I know what I am not, I am ready to find out what I am’.”

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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 20.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed to March 2.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Trial scheduled for May 20 in Los Angeles

Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court denied Dec 11.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Dec 17: Feshbachs sign court judgment obliging them to pay entire $3.674 million tax debt, plus interest from Nov 19.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.

Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.

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The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.

After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.

An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.

Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!

Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?

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THE WHOLE TRACK

[ONE year ago] Scientology staffers react to Xenu, and hit up the ‘Reckless Ben’ team to work for eternity
[TWO years ago] Scientology uses celebrities and police as props — military veterans, it’s your turn!
[THREE years ago] Garcias decry Scientology kangaroo ‘arbitration’ and ask judge to reinstate fraud lawsuit
[FOUR years ago] What Scientology can tell us about a 20th of January like no other
[FIVE years ago] The Church of Scientology of Latter-Day Dolts: Video evidence of the fall
[SIX years ago] Scientology’s first ‘Clear’: L. Ron Hubbard intended to return as his daughter Diana’s son
[SEVEN years ago] Tales from Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre: A new film, and a new death
[EIGHT years ago] Sunday Funnies: Scientology Says It Bought a SUPER BOWL Ad!
[NINE years ago] Scientology on the High Seas: The Littlest Sailors!

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Scientology disconnection, a reminder

Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,187 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,691 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,211 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,231 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,122 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,429 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,297 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,071 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,875 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,191 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,757 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,676 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,844 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,425 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,686 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,724 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,437 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,962 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 317 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,492 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 6,043 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,192 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,512 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,367 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,486 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,842 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,145 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,251 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,653 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,525 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,108 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,603 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,857 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,966 days.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 20, 2021 at 07:00

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Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.

The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2020 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2020), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)

Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ

Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…

Check your whale level at our dedicated page for status updates, or join us at the Underground Bunker’s Facebook discussion group for more frivolity.

Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele

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Published on January 20, 2021 04:00

QAnon patriots are observing National Popcorn Day eagerly waiting for the arrests to begin!

Some links to Q-related items today…

It's 24 hours before Biden's inauguration and there's a sizeable chunk of the US population out there that is convinced Trump will invoke the insurrection act tomorrow, arrest Biden and the rest of the deep state, and overturn the election outcome with the help of the military. pic.twitter.com/rzf7RNqijA
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— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) January 19, 2021

Telegram update:

Some anons dance with who brung them (pictures one and, unfortunately, two); others are coming into sharp, sudden contact with reality (pic 3); and a mildly interesting poll (final results match screenshot almost exactly, with roughly 23K replies). pic.twitter.com/PKUH7LIYYH

— The Q Origins Project (@QOrigins) January 19, 2021

January 19 is National Popcorn Day, and for QAnon it has special meaning, apparently.

When something doesn’t make sense, just assume you’re watching someone wearing a mask!

Struggling to understand what the QAnon movement is? We recommend Travis View’s excellent recent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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THE LOWDOWN is our blog for news, the QAnon phenomenon, and other subjects not related to our coverage of the Church of Scientology. If it’s our Scientology coverage you’re looking for, please use this bookmark for our latest stories.

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Danny Masterson accusers want emergency halt on ‘religious arbitration’ to protect rape case

[Chrissie Bixler doesn’t want to run into Masterson in ‘arbitration’]

Tomorrow, Danny Masterson is scheduled, once again, to be arraigned on three counts of forcible rape that have him facing 45 years to life in prison. And for that reason, say his alleged victims, they have asked for an emergency hearing to take place, also tomorrow, so they can ask to have the harassment lawsuit they filed against the That ’70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology put on ice.

If they have to wait any longer for their lawsuit to be put on hold, they say, Scientology’s plan to put them through “religious arbitration” could compromise the criminal case against Masterson.

Masterson himself made a motion to halt discovery in regards only to himself, and that motion is scheduled to be heard on January 29. But his accusers argue that the case cannot be frozen for only one person — it should be put on hold for everyone, and immediately.

We know this lawsuit is a bit of a tangle, and especially now after Judge Steven Kleifield’s decision to grant Scientology’s motion to force four of the five plaintiffs into Scientology arbitration. But we’ll try to explain the current situation for those just joining us.

Chrissie Carnell Bixler and two women going by the names Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 went to the LAPD in 2016 with allegations that they had been raped by Danny Masterson in incidents between 2001 and 2003. All three of the women had been members of the Church of Scientology at the time, as is Masterson. A fourth woman, Bobette Riales, joined the investigation in 2017, but she had never been a Scientologist. The LAPD turned over the investigation to the LA District Attorney’s office for prosecution in April 2017, and by 2018 we reported that the managers in that office had signed off on charging Masterson under California’s strict “One Strike Law” carrying a potential life sentence. But well into 2019 the women had still not heard anything about criminal charges from then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey, and so they decided to take matters into their own hands.

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In August 2019, Bixler, her husband rock singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Bobette Riales, and the two Jane Does filed a civil lawsuit against Masterson, the Church of Scientology, and its leader David Miscavige. They were not suing over the rape allegations. They were suing over the harassment they allege they’d been put through by the church and Masterson since they came forward to the police. Their allegations included pets being poisoned and Bobette’s house being set on fire, and the church and Masterson denied that they had anything to do with it.

Then, on June 16, DA Jackie Lacey finally acted, and charged Masterson with three counts of forcible rape. (The three victims he’s accused of raping are Chrissie Carnell Bixler and the two Jane Does.) Masterson attempted to have the charges thrown out with a couple of expensive court motions, but those motions were denied and after several delays his arraignment is now scheduled to take place tomorrow morning. Additionally, the women were put under the shield of a protective order that prevents Masterson from contacting them and also forced him to turn in his firearms collection while he awaits trial.

Meanwhile, in the civil lawsuit Scientology filed motions to compel the former Scientologists — Chrissie, Cedric, and the two Jane Does — to stay the lawsuit and take their grievances to “religious arbitration” as they had agreed to in contracts they had signed years earlier while they were members of the church. (Scientology’s brand of arbitration does not involve an independent arbitrator. It features three arbitrators who have to be members of the church in good standing and are prevented by Scientology policy from being fair to ex-members like these women who are considered excommunicated, or declared “suppressive persons.” And in Scientology there is no higher crime than turning in a church member to law enforcement or taking a church member to court, as these women have done.)

On December 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions, ruling that Chrissie, Cedric, and the two Jane Does are obliged to go through religious arbitration, denying them the right to trial. He also decided that Masterson himself could take part in the arbitration if he wanted to.

And that’s where the problem lies. With the much more important criminal prosecution threatening to put Masterson in prison, the women simply cannot allow an arbitration to go on which might elicit testimony from either side that could end up compromising the criminal case. And besides, the women are under the protective order in the criminal case, and an arbitration that would put Masterson in the same room with the women would be a violation of that protective order.

In order to protect the Plaintiffs from any additional harm or harassment by Masterson or his agents (including the Scientology defendants in this case), the Honorable Miguel Espinoza entered a Criminal Protective Order that precludes Defendant Masterson from having any contact with Plaintiffs Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 either directly or through a third party. If religious arbitration were to proceed while the criminal matter and Judge Espinoza’s Order are still pending, it would violate same. Plaintiffs have additional state constitutional rights under Marsy’s law that would be violated as well if religious arbitration occurred during the pendency of the criminal matter.

The only arbitration that the Church of Scientology has done in its 67-year existence involved a California couple, Luis and Rocio Garcia, who went through it after their 2013 fraud lawsuit against the church was similarly derailed by a motion to compel arbitration. The Garcias were not allowed to have an attorney with them, no recordings were allowed, no transcript was produced, and most of the documentary evidence the Garcias brought with them was not allowed to be entered by Scientology’s “International Justice Chief,” Mike Ellis. (The Garcias only went through it so they could then appeal Tampa federal Judge James Whittemore’s ruling that forced them into it. They’ve been waiting more than two years now for the Eleventh Circuit to make a ruling on that appeal.)

While the Garcias might have been willing to put themselves through that, the women suing Danny Masterson can’t afford to because it would put their rights in jeopardy, they say:

If this Court does not stay these matters, it will needlessly strip plaintiffs of any protection against both the perpetrator of the crimes against them, and the defendants who harassed them, contrary to California law. They would be forced to appear, without their attorneys present and without any reasonable conditions to protect them, to disclose confidential information and be interviewed and subject to questioning, harassment and intimidation before a committee of Scientologists (which, by defendants own admission, could include defendant Masterson ) who, by mandate, must treat the plaintiffs as enemies of Scientology. This would clearly violate plaintiffs’ constitutional protections…

According to additional documents filed with the motion, Chrissie Carnell Bixler’s attorney Bobby Thompson has been trying for several days to get this emergency hearing scheduled. Now, it’s planned for tomorrow morning at 8:30 am at Los Angeles Superior Court at the exact same time that in another building of the same court Danny Masterson is scheduled to be arraigned on his criminal charges. (He won’t be there, but his defense attorneys Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum will be.) We’ll do our best to keep an eye on both situations at the same time.

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Leah Remini podcast: Kate Bornstein

During our five years as editor in chief of the Village Voice, we wrote a lot about Scientology, but only for the website, not the paper version of the newspaper itself. The only time we deviated from that path was on May 2, 2012, when we decided to splash Kate Bornstein and her amazing voyage from L. Ron Hubbard’s first mate to renowned New York City trans performance artist on the front page. As our readers know, Kate has been a big part of the Underground Bunker ever since. And now she’s joined Leah and Mike for their latest podcast episode, which you can listen to right here…

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“You find many a girl — various stresses in the war you notice this: Some girl who was very much in love with some young man, and he got knocked off, something like that, and right away she becomes a lawyer — begins to talk in a rather husky voice. If you watch her a while longer, the next thing you know, she’s liable to start smoking cigars. You know? And in order to exteriorize her, you’d have to exteriorize her out of the body of a young man before you could exteriorize her out of the body she’s in. Now she doesn’t want to be in the body she’s in, so she’s not really in the body she’s in, and you just don’t have a dog’s chance of exteriorizing her out of that body. You say, ‘Be three feet back of your head.’ She’s not in it. So the whole command misses. You see that?” — L. Ron Hubbard, January 19, 1956

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“1969 was the year of Out-Ethics. In 1970 I trust all SO members will wear their ethics hats. Every SO member has one. Every time we ease up or drop Ethics we get horrible problems and stats. It can be plotted on the Int GI. Fact is Ethics is madly out on the planet. Definition of some Earth wog leaders — somebody who is trying to get even with everybody else. Definition of psychiatry: the government’s method of getting even with the insane.” — The Commodore, January 19, 1970

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“When you interweave your spiritual essence with too many other thetans, you are establishing too many anchor points on that Dynamic. When one does this, it makes it more difficult to once again find and re-unite with one’s true ‘soul-mate’ lifetime after lifetime. If ‘soul-mates’ mutually refrain from promiscuity prior to re-uniting, they find each other again and again, lifetime to lifetime. The indicator is this, trust your own knowingness as to whether you have a long term relationship with the person or not – and if not, do not get involved with them, especially sexually.”

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1996: From Biased Journalism, a report on the film plans of actor John Travolta. “Word is that Scientologist superstar John Travolta is pushing Miramar Productions to do Revolt in The Stars, a story directly based on OT III. Miramar HATES the script. And thinks the movie will DIE on the vine, so to speak. Travolta is pushing Miramar to do the movie as part of his contract renegotiations, so it is difficult for them to say no.”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks

“OT 7 is just sitting in a room talking to yourself and seeing if the needle reacts. You’d think after a couple of years of doing that they would just say ‘fuck it!’ and tell the case supervisor ‘The belfry is bat-free’.”

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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 20.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed to March 2.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Trial scheduled for May 20 in Los Angeles

Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court denied Dec 11.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Dec 17: Feshbachs sign court judgment obliging them to pay entire $3.674 million tax debt, plus interest from Nov 19.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.

Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.

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The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.

After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.

An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.

Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!

Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?

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THE WHOLE TRACK

[ONE year ago] Georgia puts legislator who promotes Scientology anti-psych efforts on mental health panel
[TWO years ago] New Sea Org escapee says that Scientology still forcing abortions, decade after practice exposed
[THREE years ago] More Scientology news is here: You won’t believe how fast this planet is being cleared!
[FOUR years ago] Scientology in hot water again for cutting down trees without permission
[FIVE years ago] When the feds tracked down L. Ron Hubbard’s boast about getting rich by creating a religion
[SIX years ago] Earache my eye: A Scientology official’s excuses why he can’t fly for deposition in fraud suit
[SEVEN years ago] Sunday Funnies: For the second year in a row, Scientology will have an ad in the Super Bowl
[EIGHT years ago] We Told You Jamie DeWolf Would Blow Up!
[NINE years ago] Scientology Spokeswoman Who Disconnected From Her Father Criticizes Scientology Victim Who Didn’t

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Scientology disconnection, a reminder

Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,186 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,690 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,210 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,230 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,121 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,428 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,296 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,070 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,874 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,190 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,756 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,675 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,843 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,424 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,685 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,723 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,436 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,961 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 316 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,491 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 6,042 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,191 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,511 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,366 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,485 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,841 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,144 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,250 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,652 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,524 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,107 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,602 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,856 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,965 days.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 19, 2021 at 07:00

E-mail tips to tonyo94 AT gmail DOT com or follow us on Twitter. We also post updates at our Facebook author page. After every new story we send out an alert to our e-mail list and our FB page.

Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.

The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2020 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2020), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)

Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ

Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…

Check your whale level at our dedicated page for status updates, or join us at the Underground Bunker’s Facebook discussion group for more frivolity.

Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele

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Published on January 19, 2021 04:00

The Capitol riot from the asteroid perspective: Prepare for POTUS to get his revenge!

Some links to Q-related items today…

Oh shit, everything makes sense now.

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At Telegram, there’s drama as a stalwart goes to ground.

POTUS has had it rough, but he’s about to unleash the storm!

Meanwhile, a new piece at the New York Times and a new thread on Twitter try to help explain what’s going on back at planet Earth. (Both are clickable.)

By far one of the cruelest legacies of Trump’s term is that once he became aware of this phenomenon, he did not tell his followers it was fake and instead encouraged it with winks and dog whistles. It ruined the inner lives, social lives, and families of his own most loyal fans. https://t.co/4iz2j36Crd

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 18, 2021

1. Was making a QAnon reading list for a journalist friend of mine, and thought the rest of you might find it useful as well – especially this week. Enjoy.

— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) January 18, 2021

Struggling to understand what the QAnon movement is? We recommend Travis View’s excellent recent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 17, 2021 at 9:20

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Published on January 18, 2021 06:10

Scientology nostalgia: Never-before-seen photos from a 2001 celebrity wankfest

Hey, we’re going to have a little fun today. We recently managed to get our hands on some photos from a 2001 event that may represent an apotheosis for celebrity-driven Scientology. And for that reason, we think it’s worth revisiting.

The event was the opening of a new Scientology mission in San Francisco, and it took place on September 29, 2001, yes, just a couple of weeks after the terrorist attacks that changed our world entirely.

On September 11, Scientology leader David Miscavige reacted to the attacks by issuing Inspector General Network Bulletin No. 44, titled “Wake-Up Call,” which would become a refrain he would use over and over at subsequent events.

It is time to get busy. Very busy. Every Scientologist. Everywhere.
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The terrorist attacks of this day demonstrate the destruction a small minority of suppressive persons can wreak. If nothing else, it also demonstrates why our mission is so vital and why speed in accomplishing our aims is of paramount importance.

Bluntly, we are the only people of Earth who can reverse the decline, and we do not have an endless amount of time to pull it off. Every sector of Scientology activity plays a vital role that must be fulfilled.

Two weeks later that spirit was certainly on display in San Francisco when an impressive array of Scientology celebrities showed up for the grand opening of a new mission that had been sponsored by actress Jenna Elfman.

Tom Cruise was there, and so were John Travolta, Kelly Preston, and Kirstie Alley. And you probably have seen this shot from the opening with these most famous of Scientology’s celebrity ornaments…

Also on hand were Juliette Lewis, Catherine Bell, Danny and Christopher Masterson, Linsey Bartilson, and Jennifer Aspen.

And Tommy Davis was there.

We’ve obtained a few casual snapshots taken that day, and it reminds us how powerful Scientology once was in Hollywood, and how confident they were about the opening of a new mission. Today, Miscavige is fortunate if anyone more renowned than a local police chief shows up at one of his ribbon cuttings. But here, soak up that 2001 atmosphere.

Tommy Davis and Kelly Preston…

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Tommy and Catherine Bell…

Bell and Masterson…

Danny and his brother Christopher…

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Jenna with her husband Bodhi, and Travolta behind them…

The whole crew on stage…

Oh, and then there was this little fellow, who is so rarely caught in unposed photos…

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The new facility was called the SoMa Mission because it was in the South of Market district in San Francisco. But just weeks later, the church put the building up for sale.

“Well, Scientologists tend to be optimists. We believe that you make your own life,” said Scientology spokesman Jeff Quiros.

One person who was there that day who did not turn up in the photos we received?

Shelly Miscavige.

Perhaps someone else has a photo of her from that day in San Francisco?

And speaking of Shelly, today happens to be her 60th birthday.

Will they have cake and candles for her at the CST compound at Twin Peaks today?

Here’s a short film we made about her a couple of years ago, and in case you missed it on Christmas Day, our annual tribute to what we know about her disappearance.

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Leigh at the Capitol

In a previous story, we posted videos that Scientologist anti-vaxx anti-mask attorney Leigh Dundas had shot just outside the US Capitol on January 6, screeching “Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!” at Capitol police.

But now video has been found that appears to show Dundas up near the doors of the Capitol itself. Is that why she’s been so quiet on Facebook, going silent after January 7?

Hey look, she made it by the Capitol doors. @TonyOrtega94 pic.twitter.com/Rs73IBihmI

— Cineaste_C (@Cineaste_C) January 18, 2021

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“The technology we have, without any thought at all we can make the sane saner and the insane sane, and the breakthrough which exists here technically is so strong that it actually cuts though the normal protective mechanisms of the mind, wham, wham. And that the use of this material by any but a well organized, well disciplined group would be very fatal, quite lethal. And therefore we’re in the peculiar position now of not being able to export all the technology we have, because the areas into which we would export it, and the orgs into which we export it are insufficiently organized to be able to handle and control it.” — L. Ron Hubbard, January 18, 1971

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“‘CHILDREN’: By FO No. 301 a Condition of non-existence is assigned to any member of the ships company that obstructs a child from doing his or her work, deprives the child of his possessions or his job. This applies to all cadets and Middies as well.” — The Commodore, January 18, 1971

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“The ‘heaviness’ of the world’s problems and issues is held simply by the intentions of a few beings with which others are in agreement through ignorance and apathy driven by past experiences and little education in the realities of life. So how can we change this? Reality is agreement. The more agreement there is the more real something becomes. The MEST universe, for example, has more agreement than you can throw a stick at and it is certainly persisting and is more real to most people than their own beingness. The current agreement for the future for this planet is not of the best. It currently lies in irresponsibility and not-is-ness. The reality of an individual’s beingness is being buried in the enforced reality of MEST.”

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2002: The Evening Standard published an article on Scientology celebrity John Travolta. “His new film, Domestic Disturbance, racked up a reasonable $44 million in the US last year, while Swordfish, which he terms now ‘an anti-terrorism movie,’ fared even better with a whisker under $70 million. He dropped his fee to $10 million for the roundly panned Battlefield Earth, adapted from a novel by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. Ask him if there’s a film he regrets making and one might hope he’d cite the latter. But not a bit of it. The endlessly upbeat Travolta says he ‘loved it.’ He claims the film ‘made 100 million bucks,’ though its US run made only $21.5 million. ‘And it was the first Hubbard film to make it to the screen. He’s a great science fiction writer. There’s still the second part of the same book we might do.'”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks

“I’ve already exteriorized three times today…without coffee!”

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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 20.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed to March 2.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Trial scheduled for May 20 in Los Angeles

Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court denied Dec 11.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Dec 17: Feshbachs sign court judgment obliging them to pay entire $3.674 million tax debt, plus interest from Nov 19.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.

Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.

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The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.

After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.

An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.

Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!

Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?

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THE WHOLE TRACK

[ONE year ago] Narconon whistleblower Lucas Catton puts out a new memoir about his Scientology nightmare
[TWO years ago] Filmmakers tell us why they decided to help Scientology with its new TV network
[THREE years ago] A new chapter for one of the best Scientology books of all time? Yes, and we have it!
[FOUR years ago] Leah Remini has changed Scientology forever — which episode was your favorite?
[FIVE years ago] Stalked in New Orleans cemetery: Scientology’s secretive defectors getting more open
[SIX years ago] VIDEO LEAK: See former Scientology official Marty Rathbun interrogated under oath
[SEVEN years ago] Jon Atack on Scientology’s fundamental feature: the thousand-yard stare
[EIGHT years ago] Blogging Dianetics, Part 3: The Meaning of Life!
[NINE years ago] Scientology’s Goons: Intimidating a 71-Year-Old Missouri Grandmother

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Scientology disconnection, a reminder

Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,185 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,689 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,209 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,229 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,120 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,427 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,295 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,069 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,873 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,189 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,755 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,674 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,842 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,423 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,684 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,722 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,435 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,960 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 315 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,490 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 6,041 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,190 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,510 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,365 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,484 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,840 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,143 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,249 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,651 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,523 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,106 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,601 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,855 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,964 days.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 18, 2021 at 07:00

E-mail tips to tonyo94 AT gmail DOT com or follow us on Twitter. We also post updates at our Facebook author page. After every new story we send out an alert to our e-mail list and our FB page.

Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.

The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2020 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2020), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)

Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ

Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…

Check your whale level at our dedicated page for status updates, or join us at the Underground Bunker’s Facebook discussion group for more frivolity.

Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele

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Published on January 18, 2021 04:00

The yoga crowd and QAnon: It’s not just preppers and proud boys going conspiratorial

Some links to Q-related items today…

Cosmopolitan has a fun story about the New Age, Millennial, QAnon convergence.

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And some chatter along those lines…

And Q folks are preparing for the biggest week yet…

Will their brains melt when Joe is sworn in?

For QAnon followers like this, seeimg Biden get sworn in on January 20th is going to melt their brains into a bubbling pile of goo. pic.twitter.com/A5f1bP5Dhs

— Travis View (@travis_view) January 16, 2021

And in the meantime, no word from Q since early December.

Struggling to understand what the QAnon movement is? We recommend Travis View’s excellent recent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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THE LOWDOWN is our blog for news, the QAnon phenomenon, and other subjects not related to our coverage of the Church of Scientology. If it’s our Scientology coverage you’re looking for, please use this bookmark for our latest stories.

Posted by Tony Ortega on January 17, 2021 at 9:20

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Published on January 17, 2021 06:19

Portlanders, did you receive Scientology’s love letter?

We noted in a previous story that a remark on social media indicated Scientology was making a big play in Portland.

Seeing in this summer’s unrest an opportunity, Scientology decided to mail a copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s 1980 pamphlet, The Way to Happiness, to everyone in the city.

Did you receive a copy?

We were sent a photo of one such package that a reader found in the mail….

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Here’s what the letter says:

Dear fellow Portlander,

This copy of The Way to Happiness is a gift to you and your family from The Way to Happiness, Portland Chapter. The intention is to help us all cope with these trying times for Portland and for our country.

We all share the desire for safe communities to live in, work in and to raise our children in. The message of The Way to Happiness is simple yet powerful. It instills common-sense values that are the foundation of our culture.

Our purpose with this gift to you and to many other Portlanders is to see our city and our community be happier and focused on what makes Portland a city we all love: a city where its people are important, where good relationships amongst people are what matters and where people treat each other with decency and dignity.

We can live together with peace and understanding in our beloved Portland.

The Way to Happiness may be the first nonreligious moral code based wholly on common sense. It has been translated into 117 languages and 120 million copies have been passed out around the world.

We hope that you find the universal precepts of The Way to Happiness helpful to you and your friends and family.

It was sent to you because your survival is important to us.

That last line is worded so strangely, and if you didn’t know that “survival” is an important concept in Dianetics, Scientology’s ur-text, you might find it a creepy final line.

Sort of like, “Nice life you have there in Portland. Shame if anything happened to it.”

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The letter is signed by some The Way to Happiness shills and local chiropractors and such.

The first name listed is Jerry Perez de Tagle, who features in Scientology promotional videos that boast about duping police in the Philippines to sit through The Way to Happiness seminars…

Nowhere on the pamphlet or in the letter or anywhere else in the package can you find the word “Scientology.” Only that the author is L. Ron Hubbard.

We’ll remind our newer readers what we’ve said in the past about why the church suddenly came up with The Way to Happiness when it did, in 1980, and why it hands them out today…

In 1980, Scientology was in big trouble. A 1977 FBI raid had resulted in 11 top Scientology officials being convicted of conspiracy as documents and testimony proved that the church had engaged in a years-long infiltration of the US and other governments, and had broken into sensitive offices and stole documents by the yard.

News of the raid and the subsequent prosecutions had put Scientology on front pages for a couple of years, founder L. Ron Hubbard had been named an unindicted co-conspirator, and his wife was filing appeals in order to delay going to prison.

Scientology had a major public relations problem which was compounded by the fact that few people knew what Scientology was or what Scientologists believed. To address that issue, Hubbard that year put out a slim volume called “The Way to Happiness,” a collection of anodyne moral precepts stolen from other religious traditions.

For example, the golden rule (Do unto others…) became Precept 19: “Try Not To Do Things To Others That You Would Not Like Them to Do To You.”

And “Thou Shall Not Kill” became Precept 8: “Do Not Murder.”

Scientology was actually an expensive system of past-life therapy intended to restore godlike powers to beings who had lived for 76 trillion years, but Scientologists are trained not to say a word about that. Instead, they hand out copies of “The Way to Happiness” pamphlet and pretend that its familiar-sounding slogans have something to do with Scientology’s actual practices and aims. (It doesn’t.) They’ve been handing them out in countless numbers in the forty years since.

No doubt, when things get back to normal and Scientology starts having events again, church leader David Miscavige will be boasting about the newest “crusade” in Portland, where Scientology made such an important stand in its history.

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Where’s Leigh?

On Tuesday we marveled at the performance that Scientology’s rising anti-vaxx anti-mask star, attorney Leigh Dundas, put on at the US Capitol riot on January 6.

Leigh has always been a pretty rabid speaker, and we’ve featured her remarkable rants at public meetings in Orange County, where she’s led a crusade against Covid protocols.

But she outdid herself at the Capitol, where she showed that she can also be a QAnon lightning rod.

“Traitor, traitor, traitor!” she screeched at the Capitol police in one video. And the day before, she had told a crowd, “We would be well within our rights to take any alleged American who acted in a turncoat fashion and sold us out and committed treason, we would be well within our rights and take them out back and shoot them or hang them.”

Well, yesterday, without identifying Leigh as a Scientologist attorney fronting a sneaky Scientology front group that agitates against vaccinations, the Washington Post revealed that it had talked to an estranged friend who had turned Leigh in to the FBI.

Dundas’s former friend said she initially felt some hesitation about contacting the FBI. But Dundas’s words erased “all of the great things we did together and the wonderful things she did for me,” she said. “What she said about killing people…she was talking about me.”

We noticed that Leigh had stopped posting to her Facebook page on January 7, the day after the riot. And now we can’t see her Facebook page at all. (We may be blocked.)

And otherwise, we haven’t seen anything from her at all in recent days. (A video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday showing Leigh speaking at a rally, which popped up in the comments section here at the Bunker, was actually shot in December.)

We also communicated with the former friend who tipped off the FBI, and they agreed that Leigh appears to be lying low.

If you happen to see her pop up online, please let us know.

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“This is what? [Audience: 17th.] The what? [17th.] Of what month? [January.] 17th of January. What year? [AD 12.] AD 12. And where are we? [Saint Hill.] Huh? [Saint Hill.] Yeah, I know, but what planet? [Earth.] Earth. OK. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you very much for orienting me. I’ve been flying about here and haven’t had much time to look up.” — L. Ron Hubbard, January 17, 1962

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“The ship is doing much better and starting to pull up its socks. Therefore the general condition is raised to EMERGENCY…When the ship was injured against the dock it is interesting that the 1st Mate had been goofed up in Qual previously. These names are then associated with the decline of the ship condition by being in charge of the areas: DIANE McDONALD, OTTO ROOS, PHIL QUIRINO, NATE JESSUP, BILL HOWEY, through to greater or lesser degree neglect of duty…When we didn’t push the real targets, the ship wound up on my plate and the crew got caught in the resulting storm. Certain VITAL actions had to be COMPLETED before we could operate or sail. Lots of small actions were done but the big ones got no heavy push and so left us actually inoperational. We are now doing much better and the new mate line up is functioning very well especially with 2nd Deputy Captain Eltringham on the job!” — The Commodore (1969)

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“Anyone who knows me knows I’m a rebel; no one tells me what to do. Not even L Ron Hubbard. But I’m smart enough to know who winners are and who losers are. I know that I applied LRH Management tech inside Scientology Organizations and then outside Scientology Orgs and it always worked better than anything else I read or tried. Why re-invent the wheel? The wheel is already there and abundantly available. So when I find someone telling me to ‘look elsewhere’ or ‘try other things,’ I know this person is a loser because this person never applied the tech like we did to boom Scientology, like we did. Yes, in the wrong hands, Scientology Management and the Sea Org can become suppressive/oppressive groups in themselves. But like anything that is run by suppressives it itself becomes suppressive. Just like in the hands of psychotics, assault weapons can kill a lot of people, but in the hands of sane people, they do not kill. We can boom Scientology again. It is very easy and I am willing to help anyone who wants to see Scientology grow.”

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2001: The Marin Independent Journal reported that a California court has found Gerry Armstrong in contempt for speaking out against Scientology. “Marin Superior Court Judge Vernon Smith ruled that Armstrong, a former Scientology archivist, violated an earlier settlement agreement that he stop criticizing the church and discussing the experiences he had within the organization. Smith also issued an arrest warrant for Armstrong, who did not attend yesterday’s court hearing. Reached at his home in British Columbia, Armstrong said he intentionally stayed away from court for fear he would be thrown in jail. Armstrong said he also has no intention of curbing his criticism, which most often takes the form of writings he posts in Internet discussion groups. ‘This is about freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, the whole gamut. I will fight this to the ends of the Earth.'”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks

“From what I’ve seen and read, status is very competitive and important in public Scientology. Except, instead of cars and homes and jewelry it’s Monty Python Roman titles, bowling trophies and dime store certificates.”

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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 20.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed to March 2.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Trial scheduled for May 20 in Los Angeles

Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court denied Dec 11.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Dec 17: Feshbachs sign court judgment obliging them to pay entire $3.674 million tax debt, plus interest from Nov 19.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.

Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.

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The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.

After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.

An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.

Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!

Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?

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THE WHOLE TRACK

[ONE year ago] VALERIE HANEY’S OPPOSITION TO ARBITRATION: A strong no to Scientology’s legal gambit
[TWO years ago] Danny Masterson’s attorneys pounce on A&E’s plans for resurrecting an ‘Aftermath’ episode
[THREE years ago] The new Freedom magazine is here, and Scientology has never looked better!
[FOUR years ago] Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: L. Ron Hubbard’s stolen valor, and Leah’s tearful goodbye
[FIVE years ago] How Scientology hooks public officials on its addictive anti-drug front
[SIX years ago] L. Ron Hubbard fisticuffs! Scientology secrets unearthed in a new government disclosure
[SEVEN years ago] ‘The Factors’: Another video the Church of Scientology would rather you not watch
[EIGHT years ago] Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear: We Don’t Think Scientology Is Going to Like This Book Much
[NINE years ago] Scientology’s Infinite Pit and Water Wall — More Crazy Rooms in the Super Power Building!

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Scientology disconnection, a reminder

Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,184 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,688 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,208 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,228 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,119 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,426 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,294 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,068 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,872 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,188 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,754 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,673 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,841 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,422 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,683 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,721 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,434 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,959 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 314 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,489 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 6,040 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,189 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,509 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,364 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,483 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,839 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,142 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,248 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,650 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,522 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,105 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,600 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,854 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,963 days.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 17, 2021 at 07:00

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Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.

The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2020 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2020), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)

Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ

Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…

Check your whale level at our dedicated page for status updates, or join us at the Underground Bunker’s Facebook discussion group for more frivolity.

Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele

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Published on January 17, 2021 04:00

The Lindell moment: Q Anon believers hope the MyPillow guy sways Trump for martial law

Some links to Q-related items today…

A Washington Post photographer’s hi-res shot of notes held by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell at the White House shows that nutty Q Anon ideas are being brought to the president in the final days of his term.

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At the martial law meeting, MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell pitched Trump on data from "Hammer and Scorecard" — the bonkers conspiracy theory alleging that an evil supercomputer stole the election. https://t.co/LOzaDmSOHO

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 16, 2021

MyPillow guy's recent schedule:

1/5: Share 8kun document openly calling for war (@oneunderscore__ )

1/6: Run ads during Trump rally that morphed into deadly insurrection

1/15: Visit WH holding notes w/ apparent reference to "Insurrection Act," "martial law" (@jabinbotsford) pic.twitter.com/BKs5xhsdXm

— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) January 15, 2021

Some QAnon influencers have begun praising Mike Lindell's memo that appeared to call for Trump invoking martial law/using the military — something QAnon supporters had been calling/hoping for. https://t.co/7JaHInJRgX https://t.co/RF7BX2hXHl pic.twitter.com/yJS5z8PBTl

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) January 15, 2021

We’re all still coming to grips with how big this thing is…

And Twitter will have its hands full stemming the tide…

Oh wait, the Rapture’s happening Wednesday too?

Trust the plan!

Will this week initiate the Big Letdown?

Struggling to understand what the QAnon movement is? We recommend Travis View’s excellent recent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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THE LOWDOWN is our blog for news, the QAnon phenomenon, and other subjects not related to our coverage of the Church of Scientology. If it’s our Scientology coverage you’re looking for, please use this bookmark for our latest stories.

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Published on January 16, 2021 06:36

More proof that governments are aware of how Scientology abuses its own members

[Attila Péterfalvi, still on the case in Hungary]

In 2017 Chris Owen wrote a story for the Bunker about the efforts by Hungary’s government to investigate Scientology’s abuse of the information its members are required to hand over.

“The Hungarian Data Protection Commissioner, Dr. Attila Péterfalvi, has issued a scathing 129-page report faulting Scientology on many aspects of the way it handles personal data. Like his counterparts in other European Union states, he is charged with enforcing the data protection regulations that have been enacted by the EU and transposed into the national laws of each of its 28 member states,” Chris wrote.

And now we’ve heard again from Péter Bonyai, who told us recently about a new book by a recent Scientology defector, Diana Dudas. It turns out that Péterfalvi, the crusading Hungarian minister who has tangled repeatedly with Scientology, has written a foreword to Diana’s book.

He made it available to us, and we thought you’d like to see it. We’ve written at length about the way Scientology requires members to turn over private information that another organization would never ask for — their entire sexual histories, for example, if they want to sign a billion-year contract and join the Sea Org. If there’s any organization on earth that is abusing the private data of its clients, it’s the Church of Scientology.

Let us know what you think about Péterfalvi’s statement, and how Scientology’s use of private data might become an issue in the U.S. as well.

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FOREWORD

The private Scientology story of Diana Dudas shows what happened to her during her life. In many respects her story confims the reports I myself have come across time and time again during my official investigations into Scientology.

There are few cases that have accompanied me through my career as much as data processing by the Church of Scientology of Hungary. I first learnt about their data processing being in gross breach of privacy and the protection of personal data in my capacity as data protection commissioner, having received complaints from data subjects as early as 2004. The subject matter of the joint investigation conducted with the deputy general ombudsman in 2005 was the equipment that is reminiscent of a lie detector (“the use of the religious object assists the auditor and a preclear in finding the areas of spiritual pain and suffering”) and the practices used in processing the answers given to the questions by people who were asking for help (with special regard to sexual and other perversions), replies on other questionnaires, and related personal and sensitive data. The findings of the investigation gave rise to particular concern. Moreover, the Church even questioned whether I had the authority to investigate their data processing as data protection commissioner. In relation to cases like this, one always has to bear in mind that the freedom of religion is a fundamental constitutional right in Hungary, which includes the free and autonomous operation of churches. Nevertheless, the fundamental constitutional right to the protection of personal data must be respected by every data controller, including religious organizations, and the supervisory authority designated in the constitution has the right, as well as the obligation, to monitor this.

In 2006, the Church launched a public data request-lawsuit against me and requested the disclosure of the expert opinion on the e-meter issued by the Criminal Department of the National Office of Investigation. In the absence of legal grounds, the court rejected the petition; nevertheless, we handed over the expert opinion to the representative of the Church as it had become obvious that the Church was unwilling to accept the recommendations of the data protection commissioner with reference to this litigation.

As president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, I continued to receive severe and serious complaints from citizens affected by this issue, so in 2016 I launched an investigation to clarify how the data obtained from believers, from those using the various services provided by the Church, and from employees was processed. This time, we used the means and methods of the Authority, including onsite inspection and the seizure of documents, folders and IT equipment, to explore what type of personal or sensitive data the data subjects were required to provide (about themselves or even others), and under what circumstances, as well as what would happen to this data subsequently. We came across some incredible cases… Our procedures concluded with decisions imposing data protection fines in two cases, one of which was to the amount of 20 million HUF (which was the maximum amount able to be imposed at the time), because data processing by the Church severely infringed personal data protection rights (in particular, the obligation to provide information in advance, the principle of processing for a specific purpose, the principle of fair data processing, the requirement for data security; they even carried out data processing without any legal basis; moreover, there were data subjects who were minors and they even transferred data abroad).

The clinical psychology expert assigned to the case unambiguously established that the methods applied in the course of “auditing” (said by the Church to be the exploration of spiritual problems and their treatment, as well as personality development) largely induced altered consciousness and so could practically be regarded as hypnotherapy, while the other methods used resulted in the narrowing of consciousness and the social subservience of the patient. There was no professional medical control over their procedures, despite them often being related to diseases and classed as therapy, thus they failed to comply with the professional expectations and requirements of health care in force at any single point.

The Church then attacked these decisions in the court, but the Budapest Tribunal regarded the legal arguments of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information as correct and well-founded. The Church of Scientology is an organisation with headquarters and roots in the U.S., but – as far as I know – one of its objectives is worldwide expansion. I would like to note here that privacy and data protection rights are enforced with a different approach in the U.S. and are managed according to different principles as here in Europe. Our investigations also covered, although not in depth, the problems of transferring personal data abroad, which have stringent and accountable rules in the countries of the European Union.

Summarising the aforementioned, I strongly support the idea of initiating the broadest possible exchange of ideas and experiences about the activities of the Church – from me, strictly in the field of personal data processing – in Hungary as well as in Europe. However, discussion requires resources, including “first-hand experiences” both in Hungarian and in foreign languages. That is why I welcome the fact that the book by Diána Dudás has also been published in English, because this undeniably subjective report provides an occasion for dialogue, for “lifting the veils,” for asking questions and giving answers, which will be useful and constructive for all participants and data subjects.

Budapest, July 10, 2020

Dr. Attila Péterfalvi
President,
Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

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Jon Atack: Leaving TM and Scientology behind

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“Take any given action. Let’s take kissing a girl, just take that as an action. I don’t know whether you’re familiar with this action or not, but — kissing a girl. All right. Now, let’s take a look at the various societies and their various regards of it. And you find out it’d be very interesting. The Marriage Counselors Society of Los Angeles. Of course, this is a very laudable action and therefore you are a very evil man if you don’t kiss a girl. If you’re not the type of man who kisses girls, then you’re an evil man. That’s according to the mores of the marriage counselors. Because of course the more girls that get kissed, the more business they have. Elementary. Elementary. All right. Now, let’s take the Sex Is Evil Society of New York City. The Sex Is Evil Society. All right. Every time you kiss a girl, you see, you are evil. So you’re an evil man because you kiss a girl. Now, you go down to Hollywood, for instance, and kiss a girl, they think you’re crazy. I didn’t mean it as a crack, and so forth. I didn’t mean it as a crack, a derogatory. In the first place, it couldn’t be derogatory because you can always explain cracks about Hollywood on the same basis, ‘It isn’t critical — it isn’t a critical thought because it’s true!’ You hear that?” — L. Ron Hubbard, January 16, 1962

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“The factor of income-outgo is that one must have more income than outgo for an org to live at all. This is the primary thing that EOs and staffs overlook. It is the only thing really that can wipe out an org. ASHO in November ran at less income than outgo (loss of $3,000) which is why there is an effort to combine ASHO and AOLA. In management this factor — the income-outgo ratio — is just something that can’t be ignored as it can destroy an org and is, by experience, the only thing which can. It is also the hardest thing to get across to ECs. One has to increase income to exceed outgo and also decrease outgo so it is less than income — both actions are usually necessary. I doubt there is a more important management datum than this. Or one which is more consistently ignored in orgs.” — The Commodore, January 16, 1970

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“‘KUCDEIOF: know, unknow, curious, desire, enforce, inhibit, none of it, false.’ KUCDEIOF may be and is currently being applied in reverse to install false and substituted stable data and a false and substituted operating basis. The 1st step is to persuade the person by foul means or fair to unknow what they actually know to be true, for example to persuade the person to suspend disbelief, a standard pyramid sales technique. Then it’s generate curiosity and desire followed swiftly by enforce and inhibit. Then the lollipop is taken away at absence of and none of it is applied to ensure a total rejection of the original truth. Finally the false and substituted stable datum and operating basis is installed. At this point whatever it is that the person originally knew to be true and was persuaded to unknow is considered false. In actuality an inversion, reversal, denial and substitution of truth is what takes place. And how on earth do we end up in such a mess in the first place? By unknowing what we actually know to be true.”

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2000: The Baltimore Sun published an article on the opening of the Lisa McPherson Trust. “It’s a modest, two-story office building in a sleepy downtown. But for Bob Minton, it is the field office for nothing less than a war for the heart and soul of this quiet coastal city. ‘We’re going to liberate Clearwater,’ Minton declares. Whether Clearwater needs liberating is open to debate. But after about 25 years of serving, often uneasily, as one of the Church of Scientology’s most important bases in the country, Clearwater finds itself once again drawn into a battle over the controversial group. Minton, 53, is a retired millionaire from New England who has protested and funded lawsuits against the church, which he says is a cult that has destroyed members’ lives and trampled on the civil rights of its opponents. Early this month, he brought his fight to the heart of the church’s Clearwater operations by opening a center here to provide information on the group and provide ‘exit counseling’ for members who want to leave.”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks

“Steve Allen and Johnny Carson hated Scientology.”

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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 20.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed to March 2.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Trial scheduled for May 20 in Los Angeles

Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court denied Dec 11.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 30, Judge Kleifield granted Scientology’s motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Dec 17: Feshbachs sign court judgment obliging them to pay entire $3.674 million tax debt, plus interest from Nov 19.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.

Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.

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The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.

After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.

An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.

Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!

Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?

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THE WHOLE TRACK

[ONE year ago] Lawsuit filed in death of man shot by police at Scientology’s Inglewood ‘Ideal Org’
[TWO years ago] Another elderly victim gets soaked by Scientology, is talking to law enforcement
[THREE years ago] Leah Remini and Mike Rinder cite Scientology interrogations as they support Paul Haggis
[FOUR years ago] What Scientology is telling its members: Things have never been better!
[FIVE years ago] Atack: What I meant when I said Scientologists suffer from arrogance when they leave
[SEVEN years ago] Judge Waldrip grants Monique Rathbun’s discovery request, snubbing Scientology
[EIGHT years ago] TONIGHT: Nancy Many’s Story of Scientology Spying and Interrogation on ID at 10 PM
[NINE years ago] Did You See a Scientology Ad This Weekend?
[TWELVE years ago] Wise Beard Man to Anonymous: Don’t be a Dope

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Scientology disconnection, a reminder

Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,183 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,687 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,207 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,227 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,118 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,425 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,293 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,067 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,871 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,187 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,753 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,672 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,840 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,421 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,682 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,720 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,433 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,958 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 313 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,488 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 6,039 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,188 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,508 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,363 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,482 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,838 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,141 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,247 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,649 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,521 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,104 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,599 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,853 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,962 days.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on January 16, 2021 at 07:00

E-mail tips to tonyo94 AT gmail DOT com or follow us on Twitter. We also post updates at our Facebook author page. After every new story we send out an alert to our e-mail list and our FB page.

Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.

The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2020 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2020), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)

Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ

Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…

Check your whale level at our dedicated page for status updates, or join us at the Underground Bunker’s Facebook discussion group for more frivolity.

Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele

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Published on January 16, 2021 04:00

Q Shaman left threatening note on VP’s desk, bellowed about taking out Congressmen

Some links to Q-related items today…

Q Shaman’s getup was cute and all, but maybe he wasn’t so harmless…

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And said he was on the hunt for politicians…

Meanwhile, everything is falling into place for true Q patriots.

Did we say the other day that the Q plan had gone to Red 5? Are you ready for Secretary Pompeo’s ‘Red 6’?

Yes! Pompeo’s sign is confirmation that…It’s Happening!

Pompeo tweet included the dedication plaque for the Jerusalem Embassy. Note date was May 14, 2018.

There was a particularly interesting drop on May 14, 2018. pic.twitter.com/JfNynF3mnW

— CowboysBack (@CowboysBack) January 14, 2021

Pay close attention, people!

Struggling to understand what the QAnon movement is? We recommend Travis View’s excellent recent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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THE LOWDOWN is our blog for news, the QAnon phenomenon, and other subjects not related to our coverage of the Church of Scientology. If it’s our Scientology coverage you’re looking for, please use this bookmark for our latest stories.

Posted by Tony Ortega on January 14, 2021 at 10:00