Sunland/Tujunga - Members of the Church of Scientology of Pasadena were among hundreds of youths who participated in an Anti-Drug March from Bolton Hall in Tujunga to Sunland Park. With the help of the Sunland Tujunga Rotary Club, and supported by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, students from the Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga and the Delphi Academy in Lake View Terrace organized this walk and a festival to educate teenagers about the dangers of drugs.
“We knew we wanted to do something to tell people about drugs, and at first we thought of just doing talks in different classes at school. That would be good, but we wanted to do something bigger, to help the whole community. That’s how we decided on the walk,” said Krista Baysdorpher from Delphi Academy.
According to Eden Stein, President of the Church of Scientology of Pasadena, “L. Ron Hubbard wrote ‘Research has demonstrated that the single most destructive element present in our current culture is drugs.’ Drugs are a serious problem here in Southern California, and we are committed to helping young people stay out of this trap.”
The statistics on drug use among youth is particularly alarming. From a survey done by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, 50 percent of public school students in the United States have tried an illicit drug by the time they are 17 years old. To do something effective about this, the Foundation published booklets that provide information about the harmful and sometimes deadly consequences of the most popular drugs. During the recent anti-drug march, hundreds of these booklets were distributed, arming youth with the information they need to say “No” to drugs.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Scientology "Ideal Organizations"
Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige presented three new Churches of Scientology this year: in Malmo (Sweden), Nashville and Dallas. What are these "Ideal Organizations"?
Nashville
Each church is dedicated to achieving the Aims of Scientology: “A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.”
Nashville Scientologists carry out their social mission through volunteer work to combat drug abuse and addiction. “We’ve been getting the word out about the dangers of drugs,” said Brian Fesler, the Church’s Director of Public Affairs. “In the past few weeks we’ve passed out thousands of booklets which cover the truth about drugs and the harm they cause.”
The Church also has an active Scientology Volunteer Ministers group, which carries out community service projects and provides emergency response and disaster relief.
The Fall School Building, the Church of Scientology’s new home in Nashville, is an historical landmark. Built in 1898 in a similar style to the legendary Ryman Auditorium, a prominent Nashville landmark erected six years earlier, the 36,000 square foot facility served the area as a public school until 1970. The Church purchased the building in 2007. Many of its original features were preserved, including the hardwood floors, doors and stairwells and eight solid wood pillars capped with iron that support a central three-story atrium.
Dallas
“We are very happy about our move to Irving,” said Dallas Church President Mr. Arlo Ihrig. “This central location makes it possible for us to reach out to more communities and to extend our help across a broader range of demographics in Dallas county and beyond.” The Church of Scientology of Dallas supervises Scientology activities for northern Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The new Church of Scientology of Dallas represents more than four decades of growth of Scientology in Texas since the first Church of Scientology was founded there in 1967.
Malmo, Sweden
The new church not only provides greatly expanded facilities for religious training, services and counseling, it also enables the Church to bring Scientology’s international social reform and betterment programs to the city on a much larger scale.
Resources: Scientology.org and ScientologyToday.org
Nashville
Each church is dedicated to achieving the Aims of Scientology: “A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.”
Nashville Scientologists carry out their social mission through volunteer work to combat drug abuse and addiction. “We’ve been getting the word out about the dangers of drugs,” said Brian Fesler, the Church’s Director of Public Affairs. “In the past few weeks we’ve passed out thousands of booklets which cover the truth about drugs and the harm they cause.”
The Church also has an active Scientology Volunteer Ministers group, which carries out community service projects and provides emergency response and disaster relief.
The Fall School Building, the Church of Scientology’s new home in Nashville, is an historical landmark. Built in 1898 in a similar style to the legendary Ryman Auditorium, a prominent Nashville landmark erected six years earlier, the 36,000 square foot facility served the area as a public school until 1970. The Church purchased the building in 2007. Many of its original features were preserved, including the hardwood floors, doors and stairwells and eight solid wood pillars capped with iron that support a central three-story atrium.
Dallas
“We are very happy about our move to Irving,” said Dallas Church President Mr. Arlo Ihrig. “This central location makes it possible for us to reach out to more communities and to extend our help across a broader range of demographics in Dallas county and beyond.” The Church of Scientology of Dallas supervises Scientology activities for northern Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The new Church of Scientology of Dallas represents more than four decades of growth of Scientology in Texas since the first Church of Scientology was founded there in 1967.
Malmo, Sweden
The new church not only provides greatly expanded facilities for religious training, services and counseling, it also enables the Church to bring Scientology’s international social reform and betterment programs to the city on a much larger scale.
“Our doors are open to everyone,” said the Malmo Church’s president, Stig Andersson. “We want everyone to come in, tour our exhibition or attend an open house and find out for themselves who we are and what we do.”
The new Church of Scientology of Malmö represents four decades of growth in Sweden. A group of students from Lund University founded the first Church of Scientology in Sweden in 1969.
Resources: Scientology.org and ScientologyToday.org
Thursday, January 15, 2009
"This is why Scientology keeps getting stronger: their opposition are idiots."
Jossip reports about the next chapter of Anonymous:
"This is why Scientology keeps getting stronger: their opposition are idiots. Take a look at the 18-year old member of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous who covered himself in vaseline, toenail clippings, and other people's pubes, and then proceeded to run through the halls of the W. 46th St. Scientology center."
I would say, it's worse. Anonymous is an uncontrolled group (nothing wrong with that) that commits hate crimes on a regular basis (a lot is wrong with that!). I saw the NYPD report on the net on what happened yesterday and it's quite serious. Here is a snippet:
On 1/14/09 at approximately 1645 hours, police arrested Mahoud Samed Almahadin, AKA Matt Connor, M/W/19, and charged him with Burglary, along with Criminal Mischief, Aggravated Harassment and Criminal Trespass as hate crimes after he entered the Church of Scientology (227 West 46 Street), within the confines of the MTN Precinct and intentionally damaged property.
Anonymous is done.
"This is why Scientology keeps getting stronger: their opposition are idiots. Take a look at the 18-year old member of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous who covered himself in vaseline, toenail clippings, and other people's pubes, and then proceeded to run through the halls of the W. 46th St. Scientology center."
I would say, it's worse. Anonymous is an uncontrolled group (nothing wrong with that) that commits hate crimes on a regular basis (a lot is wrong with that!). I saw the NYPD report on the net on what happened yesterday and it's quite serious. Here is a snippet:
On 1/14/09 at approximately 1645 hours, police arrested Mahoud Samed Almahadin, AKA Matt Connor, M/W/19, and charged him with Burglary, along with Criminal Mischief, Aggravated Harassment and Criminal Trespass as hate crimes after he entered the Church of Scientology (227 West 46 Street), within the confines of the MTN Precinct and intentionally damaged property.
Anonymous is done.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Comedy Gold: Anonymous, Homosexuals and Scientology
Just this morning I was laughing hard when I saw an old flier of Anonymous. They really try to recruit the LBGT scene for their criminal purposes!
Not short of lies and the usual "free interpretation" of Scientology texts, the flier states: "Homosexuals are Dangerous?!? ... We need your help!". LOL!
Well, what does Scientology say about Scientology and Homosexuality? Here is a great one about that: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_scie.htm
A little teaser:
"We Scientologists read this at the beginning of every Sunday service in every Scientology organization across the world: 'Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all'."
"... What's more, Scientology has the most iron-clad, non-discriminatory policy I've ever come across regarding sexual orientation. Have there been abuses of this policy by people in the church who are ignorant of it, or who were raised in the Midwest? (Sorry, bad joke.) Yes! Of course! I mean, what planet are you living on? But whenever I have personally written reports on policy violations to church management, my reports were acknowledged and the offenders were untimately [sic] corrected. That's more than I can say for our U.S. government's record handling civil rights abuses of gays."
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Gregg Housh in Court
Scientology controversy, found on Youtube: I believe its Gregg Housh, but this clip is quite something!
The criminal organization Anonymous, a collective of cyber-bullies and online terrorists can no longer hide behind their masks. This is the truth about what happened during the court trial of Mr. Greg Housh, a former member of the Boston "Anonymous" cell.
The criminal organization Anonymous, a collective of cyber-bullies and online terrorists can no longer hide behind their masks. This is the truth about what happened during the court trial of Mr. Greg Housh, a former member of the Boston "Anonymous" cell.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Scientology member vs Donald Myers re restraining order
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Friday issued a restraining order against Donald Myers, a member of a cyber-terrorist group known as Anonymous. The order requires Myers to stay at least 50 yards away from a female Scientologist he stalked and harassed. The order also requires Myers to stay away from the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition at the Church of Scientology International building in Hollywood where the victim works, and stay 50 yards away from the woman's home. The restraining order lasts for 3 years unless renewed.
Myers was found to have engaged in acts of harassment against the young woman, after video evidence was submitted to the court showing Myers stalking her, taunting her with sexual slurs, and refusing repeated requests to leave her alone. Myers was also ordered by the court to turn over any firearms in his possession to the police.
This is the second restraining order issued against a member of Anonymous this week. On October 21, a Boston Court ordered self-styled Anonymous leader Gregg Housh to stay 100 yards away from the Boston Church of Scientology. Housh was placed on probation for one year with the threat from the Court that if he violates the restraining order or any other law, he faces a year in prison.
Anonymous has been implicated in numerous criminal acts, including bomb threats, death threats, vandalism and computer crimes which are being investigated by law enforcement.
On October 17, The U.S. Department of Justice filed federal criminal charges against New Jersey Anonymous member Dmitriy Guzner related to the January 2008 attempted destruction of websites owned by the Church of Scientology. Guzner has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges that could send him to prison for ten years.
In November 2007, Anonymous member Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed seven students, a nurse and a teacher at Joleka High School in Finland before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. Prior to these acts Auvinen stated on a website used by Anonymous that he would do this all "in the name of Anonymous." He was immediately encouraged to carry out his threats by other members of the group, who afterwards called him a "hero."
"Law enforcement and the courts are seeing through the false image that the cyber-terrorist group Anonymous tries to portray to the media and are sending a clear message to everyone - if Anonymous breaks the law, Anonymous will suffer the legal consequences" said Karin Pouw of the Church of Scientology International.
She also said that "the Church will never be intimidated by the criminal acts committed by Anonymous members and will continue to work with law enforcement to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice for the protection of the Church and all groups targeted by these terrorists."
Myers was found to have engaged in acts of harassment against the young woman, after video evidence was submitted to the court showing Myers stalking her, taunting her with sexual slurs, and refusing repeated requests to leave her alone. Myers was also ordered by the court to turn over any firearms in his possession to the police.
This is the second restraining order issued against a member of Anonymous this week. On October 21, a Boston Court ordered self-styled Anonymous leader Gregg Housh to stay 100 yards away from the Boston Church of Scientology. Housh was placed on probation for one year with the threat from the Court that if he violates the restraining order or any other law, he faces a year in prison.
Anonymous has been implicated in numerous criminal acts, including bomb threats, death threats, vandalism and computer crimes which are being investigated by law enforcement.
On October 17, The U.S. Department of Justice filed federal criminal charges against New Jersey Anonymous member Dmitriy Guzner related to the January 2008 attempted destruction of websites owned by the Church of Scientology. Guzner has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges that could send him to prison for ten years.
In November 2007, Anonymous member Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed seven students, a nurse and a teacher at Joleka High School in Finland before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. Prior to these acts Auvinen stated on a website used by Anonymous that he would do this all "in the name of Anonymous." He was immediately encouraged to carry out his threats by other members of the group, who afterwards called him a "hero."
"Law enforcement and the courts are seeing through the false image that the cyber-terrorist group Anonymous tries to portray to the media and are sending a clear message to everyone - if Anonymous breaks the law, Anonymous will suffer the legal consequences" said Karin Pouw of the Church of Scientology International.
She also said that "the Church will never be intimidated by the criminal acts committed by Anonymous members and will continue to work with law enforcement to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice for the protection of the Church and all groups targeted by these terrorists."
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Boston Anonymous has to stay away from Scientology
http://www.mass.gov/dasuffolk/docs/10.22.08C.html
SCIENTOLOGY PROTESTER’S CASE CONTINUED WITHOUT FINDING
Oct. 22, 2008
A Boston Municipal Court judge today continued for one year the case against a Woburn man alleged to have disturbed proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year, and will dismiss the case if the defendant abides by certain conditions during that time.
Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year continuance without a finding in the case against GREGG HOUSH (D.O.B. 10/17/76), who had been charged with disturbing an assembly of worship and disturbing the peace.
If Housh stays away from the Back Bay headquarters of the Church of Scientology and its expected new headquarters in Boston’s South End, and if he does not re-offend in any other manner, those charges will be dismissed. If he does not abide by those terms, Housh’s case could be put back on track for trial.
Also in today’s proceedings, Suffolk prosecutors affirmatively moved to dismiss an additional charge of criminal harassment against Housh. After a review of the evidence, prosecutors determined they could not meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt on this charge and could not in good faith move forward with it.
Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have introduced evidence and testimony to show that Housh and others entered the Church of Scientology’s Beacon Street building in a boisterous manner during a March 1 protest, disturbing the proceedings and alarming those inside.
Attorney Michael Dlott represented Housh.
SCIENTOLOGY PROTESTER’S CASE CONTINUED WITHOUT FINDING
Oct. 22, 2008
A Boston Municipal Court judge today continued for one year the case against a Woburn man alleged to have disturbed proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year, and will dismiss the case if the defendant abides by certain conditions during that time.
Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year continuance without a finding in the case against GREGG HOUSH (D.O.B. 10/17/76), who had been charged with disturbing an assembly of worship and disturbing the peace.
If Housh stays away from the Back Bay headquarters of the Church of Scientology and its expected new headquarters in Boston’s South End, and if he does not re-offend in any other manner, those charges will be dismissed. If he does not abide by those terms, Housh’s case could be put back on track for trial.
Also in today’s proceedings, Suffolk prosecutors affirmatively moved to dismiss an additional charge of criminal harassment against Housh. After a review of the evidence, prosecutors determined they could not meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt on this charge and could not in good faith move forward with it.
Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have introduced evidence and testimony to show that Housh and others entered the Church of Scientology’s Beacon Street building in a boisterous manner during a March 1 protest, disturbing the proceedings and alarming those inside.
Attorney Michael Dlott represented Housh.
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