Undoubtedly, my list is missing other notable works, for which I apologize. Ruined lives. "[8][9] Sweeney notes that the case has been derided by the Church of Scientology as it believes it was based upon discredited evidence. “Messiah or Madman” (Bent Corydon, 1987); “A Piece of Blue Sky” (John Atack, 1990); “Testimony: The Autobiography of Margery Wakefield” (1996). To me, Scientology seemed more of a surreal lifestyle for the privileged than a kind of belief system. Scientology Lyrics: Welcome to the Scientology of hip hop / Where you must sign a life long contract as well / Welcome (Maybach Music) / You're so … Scientology and Me is a television documentary first broadcast on 14 May 2007 as part of the BBC's Panorama series. (Photo by Church of Scientology via Getty Images), She's now lobbying hard to be selected by Biden as his running mate for the upcoming election. In this regard Scientology is an improvement over any earlier practice in terms of what it can actually do to help man. It bears closer scrutiny. With a peak of 4.9 million viewers in the UK, the episode garnered the highest ratings for Panorama since September the previous year. 1:25. You may opt-out by. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed... Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. In her tweet on Saturday, Bass also tried to extinguish her Scientology problem by maintaining that in her 2010 speech she “spoke to what I think all of us believe in—respect for one another’s views, to treat all people with respect, and to fight oppression wherever we find it. It almost worked: by impersonating Cooper, Scientologists got her indicted in 1973 for threatening to bomb the church. (Bass might be interested in that topic, considering that during the 1990s—a time when she ran the L.A. social justice group—she worked hard addressing the city’s drug and gang-violence epidemic. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. That series was huge news, only in part because of the church’s harassment of Joel Sappell and Bob Welkos, who spent five years probing the church before they penned the articles. You cannot assert what you're saying!" Documents the FBI seized in those raids also showed that Scientologists had infiltrated, burglarized and wiretapped more than 100 private and government agencies in attempts to block their investigations. If your ever in the Times Square area you should come through for a visit. And Bass surely must know that responsible media outlets would never have published or aired their pre-2010 exposés of the church without having “first-hand accounts.” Bass’s position is a bit like saying, “I didn’t know Charlie Manson was a bad guy; I thought he was a strong family man.” Everything the congresswoman needed to learn about the church was a matter of public record, always a mere fingertip press away, and she should have known it. Among them: Don Larson, who served as the church’s $25-per-week “finance ethics officer.” In that role, Larson claimed he alone brought nearly 300 recalcitrant Scientologists to “Rehabilitation Project Forces” at church centers around the world over a period of 14 months, until his own detention and departure in 1983. Hubbard initially developed a set of ideas which he represented as a form of therapy, called Dianetics. In a speech in 2010, Biden VP candidate Karen Bass praised the Scientology cult and its diabolical ... [+] founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Remini has previously voiced her frustrations to me about the rape allegations against the actor—and prominent Scientologist—Danny Masterson, including how … John Travolta is seen crediting the longevity of his career and demise of other people's careers as due to the influence or lack of influence of Dianetics. A large photo of the late L. Ron Hubbard is on display. With Jeremy Vine, Kevin Hurley, John Travolta, Sharon. Bass was right about one thing: Scientology founder Hubbard’s words were “exciting.” Here’s a small sampling of his written doctrines and policies from the 1960s and 70s, which staffers were required to follow—then and always: “The only way you can control people is to lie to them....Scientologists are trained to lie and never defend, always attack (and generate money)....MAKE MONEY. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business or a new religious movement. Scientology Ruthlessly Harassed Reporters (including Me) For Decades. [26], Breckenridge, J. Jr. (1994), "Brechenridge Decision – (No. I found an area of agreement in their beliefs...” Indeed, the church has long tried to portray itself as oppressed, even as it does the oppressing. Critical books by former members? Contributing Editor of Investigations, Forbes magazine. I don’t know her views on psychiatry or meds.). "I disagree with the congresswoman's comments on Cuba,” Democrat Donna Shahala, one of the U.S. Congress members representing South Florida (and a former Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton), told Politico in late June. It is still owned by the Church, and, as … X. Please put front group activities in the Scientology Front Groups forum, rather than in … Her Twitter statement about it on Saturday raises even more questions. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology. To find out what Scientology is, check http://www.scientologyreligion.org . "[15] The BBC responded to the clip by releasing on its website the video Sweeney shot to give some context to the argument before the documentary was aired. “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief,” a 2013 book by investigative reporter Larry Wright, as well as a 2015 documentary based on the book by Alex Gibney.). Currently, she serves on several U.S. House committees, including chairing the subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. [10], In describing the affiliated celebrity members of Scientology, the documentary refers to them as an "all-star cast list." Scientology is nothing but a criminal organization. (Hubbard’s words have been in articles, books and news broadcasts for decades.) So people have asked me, “Why is Scientology defending Danny in this suit?” and I have to point out to them, technically they aren’t. You are quoting the second half of the interview, not the first half! [18][19] Sweeney stated that it was a by-product of the "hijacking of the Holocaust" by the Scientology exhibition Psychiatry: An Industry of Death – which was where the outburst occurred – as well as attempts to control his mind. More on that later. She continues to openly lobby to be on Biden’s ticket, despite a video of the 2010 speech which was brought to light recently by the Daily Caller, a right-wing media outlet. So much for “your creed is a universal creed,” as Bass proclaimed. It needs to be asked, and probed. Here's a success story. An “Editor’s Comment” that ran with the 1986 story addressed the subject of first-hand witnesses. Scientologists converge on Stan's house after he is identified as the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. Scientologists. (Photo by Church of Scientology via Getty Images), The church was sadistic in its attempts to intimidate me. And I actually feel much better as a businessman, as a father, as a husband, as a friend.” An 80-page booklet charged that we were “serving an evil hidden agenda.” The ad campaign culminated in a 28-page booklet inserted into the newspaper [briefly excerpted here] that even attacked Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac depression medicine. ], Scientologists are pretty good at brainwashing people. Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer who holds the Guinness World Record for Most Published Works By One … Did they get to Bass? One A-lister locks himself in the closet and refuses to come out after Stan criticizes his "talent." David Miscavige is the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion. "[1][2], The scale of the controversy intensified when the Church of Scientology released a 40-second clip of video footage showing a screaming argument between John Sweeney and Scientologist Tommy Davis over the way in which Sweeney was interviewing critics of Scientology. What Scientology has given me is that I recognize, on a daily basis, that I am a spiritual being. Despite the the Time story and legal case garnering a ton of media attention for well over a decade, plus all the other exposés from other major media outlets prior to 2010, could Bass perhaps have truly not known any of this? Of course, nothing approaches the harassment suffered by brave journalist Paulette Cooper, who wrote a critical book called “The Scandal of Scientology” in 1971. Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam — and aiming for the mainstream.” [It was published in the May 6th editions, but is misdated on Time’s website as June 24th.]. Reachable at rbehar@forbes.com. "[22] Later, he added: "I look like an exploding tomato and shout like a jet engine and every time I see it, it makes me cringe." Read Full Synopsis Cast + Crew Previous Cast Members More Cast Members. The church then took it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to take their case.) Sweeney's outburst toward Tommy Davis prompted John Travolta to lobby British MPs in an attempt to stop the documentary from being aired. in Los Angeles. By now it should be clear that U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, a leading contender for Joe Biden’s VP pick, didn’t know the first thing about Scientology or its founder when she waxed so poetic in 2010, or else she had her reasons for ignoring the truth. (The church lost on summary judgment in federal court in New York, and also lost before an appellate court. ... [+] She's now lobbying hard to be selected by Biden as his running mate for the upcoming election. For Time’s international editions, a sidebar was included with the cover story that was titled “Pushing Beyond the U.S.— Scientology Makes Its Presence Felt in Europe and Canada.” It showed how the church’s minions were wreaking havoc in one country after another (Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Spain)—costing governments considerable effort and money to try and stop them. ], Also troubling, Bass apparently didn’t do that five-minute Google on Saturday, before releasing a brief statement on Twitter that reads, in part: “Since then [her 2010 speech], published first-hand accounts in books, interviews and documentaries have exposed this group. Finally, and this is a real stretch: let’s imagine that Bass didn’t know how bad they were until certain “allegations” (as she calls them) about Scientology emerged after her 2010 speech and 2012 and 2013 proclamations. Religion / 10 Comments John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology, endorsed by some major Hollywood celebrities, but which continues to face the criticism that it is less of a religion and more of a cult. 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This 20th century religion is cloaked in mystery for many. The story was based on court documents and more than 150 interviews conducted over seven months. (He rescinded the proclamation later that month, once he learned who Hubbard really was.) In 2016, following the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, she stated, “The passing of the comandante en jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba.” There is no shortage of elected officials in Florida who are now cringing (or worse) over her proclamation. Again, maybe she was too busy. Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. In 1996, Scientology's late founder got his own street, in Los Angeles. The Church of Scientology focuses on getting Scientologists up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Given the organization’s extensive resources, it stretched into a ten-year legal battle. © 2021 Forbes Media LLC. I could no longer be part of an organization where … [16], Scientologists also later complained of bigotry towards the Church in comments made by Sweeney during interviews with Scientology members. One of the private eyes told the Times that he had taken documents from an IRS conference and sent them to church officials, and created a phony news bureau in Washington to gather information on church critics. Tommy Davis, the international spokesperson for Scientology, did not w… when you purchase a new Edible Arrangements movie-themed Edible Box. The issue has been raised. The programme gained particular controversy before and during filming due to unresolved differences on content and approach between Sweeney's production team and Scientology members. Scientology and Me is a television documentary first broadcast on 14 May 2007 as part of the BBC's Panorama series. In fact, the cult leader's most important words [a sampling is above] have been reported by media outlets for decades. Everyone is now aware of the allegations against Scientology.”. Panorama - Scientology and Me - Tommy Walks Away - BBC One - Duration: 1:25. The church sued and also ran a $3 million daily ad campaign for two weeks in USA Today attacking the articles, as well as Time generally and historically. See Full Cast + Crew for Scientology and Me Features Load More Features Movie Reviews Presented by Rotten Tomatoes. By Carol Kuruvilla. It included numerous “first-hand accounts” from victims—former staff members, insiders, and others. The church is fervently opposed to psychiatry and psychiatric medicine, and works hard to keep mentally-ill members from getting treatment from licensed professionals. That would have been the responsible thing to do, and it demonstrates poor judgment on her part, as well as a disregard for those who may have joined the cult after hearing her speak. (Full bio at mideastdig.com and richardbehar.com) For speaking engagements: Washington Speakers Bureau. [4], Sweeney said of fair gaming: "While making our BBC Panorama film "Scientology and Me" I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a 'bigot' by star Scientologists and been chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers." Scientology is supposed to allow you to ‘think for yourself’ and never compromise your own integrity.” While I sometimes joke about Scientology, I never mock the people who believe in it, and it saddens me to see so much unnecessary nastiness, so many thoughtless asides about brainwashed drones chasing body thetans. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY... [Church critics] may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. L. Ron Hubbard targeted “enemies” of scientology — anyone who disagrees with or criticizes the abusive practices is Fair Game for stalking, harassment and threats. In fact, the cult leader's most important words [a sampling is above] have been reported by media outlets for decades. (e.g. It’s hard to understand not doing a modicum of due diligence to educate oneself before speaking on behalf of any organization. "[7] In the introduction, Sweeney outlines his investigation into the reputation of the Church of Scientology, its affiliated celebrities and its current activities. More than 20 major journalism awards — including George Polk (twice); Overseas Press Club (twice); Gerald Loeb; National Magazine Award; Daniel Pearl; Conscience-In-Media Award — on subjects ranging from terrorism in Pakistan to counterfeiting in China; from corporate wrongdoing on Wall Street to the Russian mob in Siberia. However, during the course of his investigation he soon finds that he has become a target of the Church. "Your creed is a universal creed," said Biden VP contender Karen Bass in a 2010 speech to ... [+] Scientologists. at Davis in reference to an interview Sweeney recorded with Scientology critic Shawn Lonsdale. It boiled down to personal integrity. ), Or maybe she was simply too busy in 2010 and 2012 and 2013 to do a five-minute Google search before using her prestige and influence as an elected official to publicly sanction the group—no doubt helping attract new members into an organization that has been shown to be the antithesis of treating “all people with the respect they are due as human beings.” [Neither the church nor Congresswoman Bass immediately responded to my request for interviews for this story; if they do, I’ll post their responses. (He had gone underground for several years to a ranch outside L.A. until his death, in large part to hide from an IRS criminal probe.) This is serious, and what she is saying doesn’t add up. Paulette also endured 19 lawsuits by the church, but was finally exonerated in 1977 after FBI raids on the church offices in Los Angeles and Washington uncovered documents from the bomb scheme. I am most grateful I am out. Reachable at. Hang on to your family. Perhaps Bass received campaign contributions over the years from Scientologists that inspired her to say something positive about the cult? But, to my knowledge, no elected official who has praised Hubbard and Scientology has ever been as close as Bass is to running for the country’s vice presidency, and, if the 77-year-old Biden wins—a heartbeat away from the presidency itself. A large photo of the late L. Ron Hubbard is on display. But could she not have been aware of a 24-part blockbuster series in 1990 in the Los Angeles Times, her hometown paper? She was born, raised, schooled and—as far as I can tell from her short website biography—has always lived in L.A., one of the two de facto headquarters of Scientology. MAKE MORE MONEY. On March 30, the Tampa Bay Times published an eye-opening story concerning the Church of Scientology’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1986—a quarter-century before Bass’s cut-off date—I wrote a lengthy Forbes magazine exposé called “The Prophet and Profits of Scientology.” It laid out how Hubbard was clearly insane, and how he viciously abused his acolytes—many of whom provided such “first-hand accounts” in sworn court affidavits and in interviews with Forbes. (Also projects for BBC News, CNN, Fast Company, FoxNews.com and PBS.) She also spent nearly a decade as a physician assistant and served as a medical instructor at the University of Southern California. John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology and allegations made by former members and relatives of current members. Are we missing a Scientology Churches location or another place that you know about? And ignorance about Scientology can be very embarrassing. Around the time we published, the church retained at least one private eye, who made bizarre calls to Forbes staffers. One of the church’s main detention centers, known as “The Hole,” was on a 700-acre compound roughly a 90-minute drive from Bass’s current office in L.A., and had been exposed by insiders and written about extensively by journalists for decades. I left the Church of Scientology on 2009-08-07. Located in Brunswick, Maine, the church of Scientology Mission of Brunswick offers introductory services, individual counseling and many Life Improvement Courses. It read: “How credible are they? Some former members claim the Church uses a mind control technique to put opponents at a psychological disadvantage. [6], The documentary was intended as an investigation of the claims of both critics of the Church of Scientology and the Church itself to see if the Church "still deserved its sinister reputation. Since a description of Sweeney losing his temper was included in TV guide listings for the documentary, the BBC already knew about Sweeney's outburst before the YouTube clip was uploaded. After all, as Ted Gunderson, a former head of the FBI's office in [Bass’s] Los Angeles, had told Time: “In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI.". 2009: A multi-part, trailblazing series in the St. Petersburg Times (by Tom Tobin and Joe Childs) that led to many additional stories over the next four years revealing life inside the church. New Lawsuit Seeks To Bring Church Of Scientology Into The Me Too Era. Scientology, however, is unique in that it contains practical means of enabling man to resolve his material concerns and so come to achieve his spiritual aspirations. It took my family showing me books, movies and the internet for me to finally see what I was part of. Scientology Leader David Miscavige's Father on Their Relationship: Part 1 - … Castro’s dying wish, at least according to his brother Raul, was to not be immortalized with statues (and that no streets or buildings should be named after him) to avoid the development of a “cult of personality” in Cuba. This was back when Time was Time (in terms of global influence and readership), and Scientology declared war in response. Lost fortunes, Federal crimes. They were the infamous words Cubans used when surrendering to the whims of a dictator who executed dissenters, destroyed lives and the economy and left this world with blood on his hands....Never once have I heard her [Bass] raise her eloquent activist voice on behalf of the oppressed on the island.”. [11][12] The documentary moves onto an interview in which Sweeney talks with a mother, known as "Sharon,"[13] who had been "disconnected" from her daughter after her daughter had taken a weekend away with other Scientologists and had read several books which she claimed had changed her life. founder, L. Ron Hubbard. [Photo by Michael Montfort/Getty Images.]. [26] Rinder revealed that Sweeney was correct: Scientology was following Sweeney's activities for the 2007 report. You did not hear or record all the interview! As I wrote in another sidebar called “The Scientologists and Me,” at least ten attorneys and six private detectives were unleashed by Scientology and its followers in an effort to threaten, harass and discredit me. The Underground Bunker blog; a 2015 book titled “The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper.”). The church also filed a $416 million libel suit against us. Not likely. Scientology has fought many battles to keep its secrets off the web, now they are using it to attack my investigation into them. Why? [23] As a result, he left the church in 2007. It's what Scientology call a 'disconnect.' MapMuse - Find your place. [22], Former high-ranking Scientologist and spokesperson Mike Rinder claimed David Miscavige was unhappy with the church's handling of the documentary, and punished Rinder by exiling him to the United Kingdom to dig ditches. The Church of Scientology also presented the BBC with a set of 154 breaches of BBC guidelines which they claimed Sweeney and his team broke, though Sandy Smith, the programme's producer, responded that "[t]he head of current affairs, George Entwistle, has viewed all footage complained of and, with the exception of the point when Sweeney shouts, he found nothing that stood outside BBC guidelines. Thousands of Scientologists ... [+] turned turned out for the grand opening. “To me, Scientology is simply a meaning of life. U.S. Rep. Karen Bass speaking during the Democratic National Convention in 2012 in North Carolina. Scientology Infiltrates Society Book sales, stress test tables, attempts to sway politicians, and any of the other sneaky methods scientology uses to insinuate themselves into society, create good PR, or Safe Point. In it, reporter John Sweeney visited the United States to investigate whether the Church of Scientology was becoming more mainstream. Through the decades, the church has duped a number of politicians into being “useful idiots” for their grand designs. Many years later, after he defected from the cult, Marty Rathbun—long one of Scientology’s highest-ranking officials and lead “enforcer”—apologized and told me they’d spent about $25 million on their legal and intelligence-gathering efforts against me and the magazine. Scientology And Me. And she is misleading the public about it right now. The members have no clue. If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace....We’re playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.”. See my detailed write-up on why. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images), 1995: Tony Ortega, editor of the Village Voice, begins a quarter century of investigative stories. “I was responsible for all sorts of Gestapo-type stuff.” In these detention programs, staff members would be coerced into performing hard labor, eating leftovers out of buckets and sleeping on floors. Two detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. In it, reporter John Sweeney visited the United States to investigate whether the Church of Scientology was becoming more mainstream. "To the church, Sharon was a negative influence. Here’s one excerpt, for example: Another first-hand account came from William Franks, a former chairman of the board of the church. Click here to add a place to the map and help make MapMuse even better! (Equally problematic is that, as recently as 2016, Bass was praising another ruthless leader, Fidel Castro—seemingly ignorant, at best, and certainly tone deaf to the issues. If you came here to read about my viewpoints on Scientology, you will find everything from this one page. From his position as Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center (RTC), Mr. Miscavige bears the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the standard and pure application of L. Ron Hubbard’s technologies and Keeping Scientology Working. I'm also the Editor of Mideast Dig, a global, nonprofit investigative media outlet that gets it right about Israel and the entire Middle East — and refuses to pull its punches. 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