Scientology: Fair Game?

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, once defined the religion as being in service of ‘a civilisation 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’.
    Almost 60 years since its foundation, though, Scientology has become a uniquely contentious phenomenon - with many questioning its status as a religion, cult or business, and with a reputation for fiercely defensive, litigious and coercive reactions to criticism. One of the first to feel the Church’s wrath was Paulette Cooper - whose 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, saw her become the target of an elaborate plot which set out to destroy her credibility, frame her and land her with a 15 year prison sentence. Codenamed ‘Miss Lovely’ by Church operatives, Cooper is now the subject of investigative journalist Tony Ortega’s book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.
    Ortega is a long-time chronicler of Scientology, and one of its leading scrutineers. Featured in Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Going Clear, he’s the executive editor of TheLipTV and former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. He visits Melbourne - where the world’s first inquiry into Scientology was held in 1963, and Scientology was first banned in 1965 - for a chat with Steve Cannane, who’s currently writing a book on Scientology’s history in Australia.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 601

  • @DominicoCaro
    @DominicoCaro 5 років тому +84

    A billion year contract with a 12 year old child? WTF.

    • @matthewscott1091
      @matthewscott1091 5 років тому +12

      Dominico Caro Back when they had a children’s Sea Org even younger kids signed “billion year contracts”. Jenna Miscavige (David’s niece) who left Scientology wrote an excellent book that gives you a good idea of how kids & teens are treated in Scientology. Teenagers are still being told to drop out of high school & join the Sea Org (Scientology’s slaves). It’s sick.

    • @libertyresearch-iu4fy
      @libertyresearch-iu4fy 4 роки тому

      Scientology preaches reincarnation, and you get a 21 year hiatus if you die.
      I wonder where L Ron Hubbard is? He died 34 years ago.

    • @xxlukexx08
      @xxlukexx08 4 роки тому +1

      @@libertyresearch-iu4fy he lives in South Park CO

    • @googlegilbertlevinmars322
      @googlegilbertlevinmars322 3 роки тому +2

      Even the contacts I signed in Catholic school were illegal lol, and I was 12.

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 2 роки тому

      @@matthewscott1091 so Ghilsaine maxwell as part of her socialite charity work image in n.y. started up an airy faery organisation about saving the ocean and being a friend of it or whatever. should we be making a connection and if so was her stance pro or con scientology because some of the things her victims are carefully wording are not sexual abuse i don't think.

  • @willknowsright9615
    @willknowsright9615 4 роки тому +327

    I don't have a problem with people believing in something if it makes them better people; I have a problem with people who use religion to abuse people.

    • @tabatha8843
      @tabatha8843 4 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @roberthorsburgh2996
      @roberthorsburgh2996 3 роки тому +13

      scientology is not a religion. even Hubbard admitted it.

    • @TheFirstAtom
      @TheFirstAtom 3 роки тому +12

      Religion has been used to abuse its adherents since its inception. All religions are abusive, whether it’s physical or mental.

    • @jinimurray4090
      @jinimurray4090 3 роки тому +5

      @@TheFirstAtom ---- YES!!!
      WHAT religion did GOD make Adam in GARDEN?
      None?.GOD HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH ADAM
      DO LIKEWISE

    • @photosynthesis69
      @photosynthesis69 3 роки тому

      @@jinimurray4090 checkmate atheists

  • @TheBollysongs
    @TheBollysongs 4 роки тому +117

    I have been down a Scientology wormhole for weeks now and every interview, documentary or story I watch/hear, I learn something new, a new piece of the puzzle of this cult.
    Thank you for raising awareness of this insidious organisation. 🙏🏽

    • @zroysum
      @zroysum 3 роки тому +12

      check out tony ortega's interviews with nikita petrov if you haven't. they get into some stuff I haven't heard of anywhere else

    • @jeoM911
      @jeoM911 2 роки тому +2

      Im you now lol

    • @michael-4k4000
      @michael-4k4000 2 роки тому

      I am a Scientologist and we we sue you for saying anything bad about out religion!

    • @TheBollysongs
      @TheBollysongs 2 роки тому +10

      @@michael-4k4000 awe, my condolences 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @michael-4k4000
      @michael-4k4000 2 роки тому

      @@TheBollysongs don't need that.... Scientology is the only way to infinity

  • @Colin12475
    @Colin12475 2 роки тому +31

    "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write
    that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can
    control anybody is to lie to them."
    -L. Ron Hubbard

    • @peggyg3920
      @peggyg3920 2 роки тому +2

      And, those who are sadistic, will tell the truth and blame it on you for believing

    • @richardw3470
      @richardw3470 2 роки тому +5

      Spoken like a true con man.

    • @SolaGratia.
      @SolaGratia. 2 роки тому +3

      Chilling.

    • @patriciaaznavourian3014
      @patriciaaznavourian3014 2 роки тому +6

      I thought that might have been a quote from Donald Trump!

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 роки тому +6

      @@patriciaaznavourian3014
      hey,
      don't besmirch
      Make America
      Gullible Again!🙃

  • @peggyg3920
    @peggyg3920 2 роки тому +13

    All Cults have one thing in common "NO MERCY'!

  • @jeffmccrea9347
    @jeffmccrea9347 2 роки тому +71

    I lived in Clearwater Florida when Scientology moved into the Fort Harrison Hotel and made it into it's world organizational center. In my opinion, the striking thing about that move was in my entire life, I have never seen a "church" that needed guards with machine guns on the roof overseeing the move.
    I don't know if the newspaper archives of the now defunct Clearwater Sun newspaper are still available but there were photos there. This was around 1974 / 75. Another place to look would be the St. Petersburg Times, now known as The Tampa Bay Times. They may have something in their archives.
    The Mayor of Clearwater, at the time, Gabriel Cazares, was a staunch, vocal critic and had suffered a shitload of harassment where they even went through his trash looking for dirt on him. Not very many non-scientologists, at the time, bought their shit because he was well respected then.

    • @Patricia-vd9xh
      @Patricia-vd9xh 2 роки тому +23

      I grew up in Clearwater, FL and confirm what you say. It was a beautiful town and wonderful place to grow up. We belonged to Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church, right across the street from the Jack Tarr Fort Harrison Hotel where we would sometimes go for lunch after church. Such a nightmare what Scientology did to Clearwater in their determination to take over and control the town. Scientology is such a nightmare and so destructive.

    • @kkerigan1632
      @kkerigan1632 2 роки тому +15

      A cult

    • @jeffmccrea9347
      @jeffmccrea9347 2 роки тому

      @@kkerigan1632 That's what then Mayor Gabriel Cazares tried to tell everybody and almost succeeded until those knotheads at the IRS declared it a "church" which killed his effort with one shot. I wonder how many of that determining body were planted there by scientologists?

    • @AliceNsWonderland
      @AliceNsWonderland Рік тому

      It's important to note, they didn't really care if you bought their stuff anyway. They wouldn't "let" you join there anyway. Clearwater is for practicing Scientologists, NEVER for incoming people to learn and join.

    • @m5sunflower665
      @m5sunflower665 Рік тому +5

      Clearly it is an abusive cult

  • @pierrotreno7429
    @pierrotreno7429 8 років тому +38

    Very good facts provided by Tony Ortega, thank you Tony and Steve Cannane.

  • @donwinslow6967
    @donwinslow6967 8 років тому +69

    Thank you for this excellent interview, as well as the update on the former spokesperson of Scientology. It's unfortunate that Tommy would be sued to death if he were to speak out in public, now that he is out. What Paulette Cooper went through must have been a nightmare. I have great respect and admiration for her, as well as for Tony Ortega, in helping her to tell her story.

  • @peggyg3920
    @peggyg3920 2 роки тому +16

    Everyone, please boycott all Scientology Income opportunities, such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta (who I love), Lisa Marie Presley and any other current members who are selling. The Celebrities are used for big money.

    • @sandralybrand9425
      @sandralybrand9425 2 роки тому +1

      Lisa Marie s son committed suicide in part because of scientology. Lisa Marie basically stuck him into scientology (she was into it big time) he suffered depression for years because of what he had to go through when he was in there. It's telling that she supposedly broke away from the Scientology church right after his death. I haven't heard anything more about it since, so who knows if she really did quit them. Elvis being Christian would've had a fit if he'd known that Pricilla got Lisa involved in Scientology! I see now where some of the millions Lisa inherited went now! She was close to broke and had to sell one of her homes at one point, because of a money crunch. She's fine money wise since Pricilla opened Graceland to the public in 1982.

    • @JH-nj8up
      @JH-nj8up Рік тому

      America would never do that they love their entertainment too much. Tom Cruise is revered by everyone but Nicole and Katie, they ran and never looked back they know what he’s like.

    • @margarethendricks
      @margarethendricks 26 днів тому

      Lisa Marie was killed by a lack of love!

  • @billylyons7212
    @billylyons7212 4 роки тому +37

    I don't get why a religion/cult that claims to wanting to helping humanity treat its followers like slaves or worse?

    • @sabrinabowden-hughes1730
      @sabrinabowden-hughes1730 3 роки тому +10

      Obviously the creator of this cult lied to the followers, and he used them so he could gain wealth!

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому +4

      Ummm read the bible its been going on for centuries

    • @peggyg3920
      @peggyg3920 2 роки тому +5

      The money that should be used to support members, is used for extortion

    • @hellepost1439
      @hellepost1439 2 роки тому

      @@sabrinabowden-hughes1730 👽💸🏦

    • @ChristianOne
      @ChristianOne Рік тому

      The pedophile intentions have to be hidden and cloaked by somethung good to make it all seem about something else, something grand and meaningful. Most would RUN (as they should) from evil if seen for what it is in the bright light of day. They try to hide it in the shaddows of something good. Free-Masons, Jesuits, and others do that too.

  • @divinecode369
    @divinecode369 2 роки тому +16

    Her story should be a movie! Wow!

    • @preciousgem6506
      @preciousgem6506 Рік тому +2

      Agree! From the moment she was born. Maybe after Scientology dies …. Hummm

    • @CR-ce5lf
      @CR-ce5lf Рік тому

      A series!! 2 hours isn’t enough time to tell her story

  • @evansgate
    @evansgate 2 роки тому +11

    Fascinating. I knew of Tony Ortega’s work but this totally captivated me. It’s laughable but it’s scary how insane they are.

  • @joanekins123
    @joanekins123 8 років тому +31

    How can they call themselves a Church?

    • @turnyourwifioffatnight7848
      @turnyourwifioffatnight7848 8 років тому +4

      +joanekins123 They're a group of people who all believe pretty much the same. Which means they can get tax-free status.

    • @phizap
      @phizap 7 років тому +9

      by launching 2400 frivolous lawsuits they brought the irs to their knees !

    • @johnybalohny
      @johnybalohny 7 років тому +12

      joanekins123 ya as someone else touched on, seems like they bullied the IRS for decades, and finally got some blackmail on some leading IRS people. So now they are considered a relion according to the IRS, even though we can all see what comes out of this church - making the leader rich.

    • @sherrielson517
      @sherrielson517 4 роки тому +4

      They need to pay taxes !!!

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому +2

      How can christians ?

  • @tchaikca
    @tchaikca 8 років тому +56

    This was a fantastic interview!! Thanks for making it available.

    • @michael-4k4000
      @michael-4k4000 2 роки тому

      Your welcome. It's all lies honey. The church of Scientologist is the only way to infinity...

    • @hellepost1439
      @hellepost1439 2 роки тому +1

      @@michael-4k4000 👽💸🏦🚩

    • @trevorcole6360
      @trevorcole6360 2 роки тому +1

      @@michael-4k4000 can you tell me about zenu?

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 роки тому +2

      @@trevorcole6360
      for some reason Scientoologists don't like u bringing that up😳🙄🤷🏼

    • @trevorcole6360
      @trevorcole6360 2 роки тому

      @@mindsigh4 i need answers

  • @mattosullivan9687
    @mattosullivan9687 5 років тому +14

    If I was not from the USA I would want to be an Aussie, God bless you

    • @fewfaf4214
      @fewfaf4214 4 роки тому +1

      I sure wouldnt wanna be an Aussie

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому

      They dont want your bible bashing bollocks

    • @ClickKlack43
      @ClickKlack43 2 роки тому

      Me neither. Their gov is as totalitarian now as Scientology, but with the power of the state to boot.

    • @queenslander954
      @queenslander954 Рік тому

      @@fewfaf4214 Yea have a little cry mate , besides you wouldn’t pass the test anyway

    • @fewfaf4214
      @fewfaf4214 Рік тому

      @@queenslander954 yep I could. Go worship the King because your country is too cowardly to separate as the greatest country in the world did.

  • @johnnyblade4351
    @johnnyblade4351 4 роки тому +63

    If you are one of these cultist individuals RUN AWAY !!! DON'T LOOK BACK !!! It's not your fault you have been Hoodwinked. GET HELP NOW

    • @MusicfromMarrs
      @MusicfromMarrs 2 роки тому +9

      Get into Scientology via Tony Ortega and Leah Remini and realize that many truly can't get away that easily. Only the really rich and higher ups get to live off-campus. People have o plot their escape well to leave. Check out information on David Miscavige and his wife Shelley - the latter who hasn't been seen for years. Also David's dad Ron, who escaped Scientology.

    • @sandralybrand9425
      @sandralybrand9425 2 роки тому

      @@MusicfromMarrs You stated what I was about to. It isn't to get away from them, they pretty much keep the people under lock and key,plus they have other scientologists spy on you and report anything unusual that they see or hear. They beat them for no reason at all, so they rule by fear. After they do get out they harass the ones that get out by calling their jobs and spread lies to their neighbors and jobs and sometimes even kidnap them and take them back!

    • @deeesoirscegardner
      @deeesoirscegardner Рік тому +2

      24 years of He'll after 11 years found out I AM GAY . I was beaten without food in the hole for 15 days I'm still in trauma with PSTD and anxiety paranio because they stoll send me hate letters. I did not pay the £11.000 dollars .the original the bastard took was 224.000 i escaped to Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @JH-nj8up
      @JH-nj8up Рік тому +1

      Can’t believe the federal government lets this happen in our country and then let’s them have tax exempt status, our government must be afraid to go after them they have so much money.

  • @gadams47
    @gadams47 5 років тому +11

    Steve, "got the map out". How fascinating that nobody else before would have worked out how far Hubbard would have had to travel on that raft? Sounds like grandstanding to me.

  • @1bcordell
    @1bcordell 4 роки тому +37

    This guy is a great speaker. I could listen to him read the ingredients off a cereal box.

    • @donkeyslayer4661
      @donkeyslayer4661 3 роки тому

      The accent is a bit extreme.

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 роки тому

      @ROFLCOPTERLOL
      except for fact u love black american music,
      singing & hip hop

  • @joycemiller1667
    @joycemiller1667 6 років тому +17

    Re: 40:30, the investigators stop getting their fee if they get discovered, but they also stop getting their fee if the target dies.

  • @doraalarid6526
    @doraalarid6526 Рік тому +4

    The fact that they have an internal justice system should tell those involved or those who are thinking about being involved that it is dangerous.
    I do understand though that those inside are being brainwashed. So sad.

  • @Candigale
    @Candigale 8 років тому +16

    Thanks for sharing Tony!

  • @jimbojet8728
    @jimbojet8728 4 роки тому +32

    The Nazis evolved in the same way this cult is evolving. The language they use is the same, their intimidation tactics are the same and the indoctrination of their children is the same. They will fall and be brought to account in the same way that the Nazis were. I wonder how they are preparing for that day?

    • @photosynthesis69
      @photosynthesis69 3 роки тому +3

      are you suggesting that the church of Scientology will ultimately be destroyed by the Soviet Union when their armies come from the east?

    • @jimbojet8728
      @jimbojet8728 3 роки тому +1

      @@photosynthesis69 the Nazis were destroyed by my father, my uncles and my mother, and all of Britain took them on before Stalin , before America and before the rest of the world. Are you saying that alone, from the beginning Russia beat the Germans? I think not. You speak like an obfuscating Cult follower when you suggest otherwise. Which enemies of mankind have you taken on? The Church of Scientology relies on bullying and fear to keep it’s flock (of sheep) in order. Thankfully they have set up home in America , a country I hope to be strong enough to rid themselves of the dreadfully autonomous Scientology nazi-like gangs. Come on America, police your own country properly, wake up to Scientology and crush them while you still can.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому +1

      @@jimbojet8728 America will not get rid of then they have a constitutional right to be Nazis and abusive

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому +4

      @@jimbojet8728 Its a shame our country has been taken from us !

    • @MoejiiOsmanTV
      @MoejiiOsmanTV 2 роки тому +1

      @@jimbojet8728 the fbi has been keeping them in check for years especially after the documentary "going clear" came out, they have less then 20,000 members worldwide but own large amounts of real estate around the globe hundreds of millions worth, sooner or later they'll crumble

  • @julie_leo_monkey
    @julie_leo_monkey 4 роки тому +24

    I just found this interview, very impressed. If I recall correctly I have a vague recollection in about 1988 or so that this group were interviewing and asking question here in Swanston St Melbourne and was asked to take a personality assessment but it was them. I questioned why and so on and then they left me alone. As per the interview the target audience were university aged people so glad I avoided all of this. By the way Steve and Tony are great and Going Clear was a fascinating documentary.

    • @MoneyStrategiesSOULutions
      @MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Рік тому

      Yes I too was asked in Europe. I thought the woman who asked me was very strange and was skeptical and declined! I was going. Tbank God I didn't go for it!

    • @mandym9249
      @mandym9249 Рік тому +2

      Same happened to me in Martin Place in Sydney about 30 years ago. As clueless as I was about what Scientology was, but thought a free personality test sounded pretty cool! So I went with him to the church building in Sydney, can’t remember which street but I think it was Elizabeth street. I started doing the test and about 5 minutes into it, it dawned on me that they were trying to find out some pretty weird stuff. So I took my pencil and test to the lady behind the desk and said, “no, this isn’t for me. I have people at home who care about me!” And promptly left the building with her calling out “but no, it’s not like that!

    • @Happiness379
      @Happiness379 Рік тому +1

      @@mandym9249 ​ Whoah, that’s weird. What prompted you to shout that your family cares?

  • @thomkatt3385
    @thomkatt3385 Рік тому +3

    great interview. I could have listened to hours and hours.

  • @touraneindanke
    @touraneindanke 4 роки тому +15

    The Netherlands stood up against scientology ?
    💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋 GREAT !
    The smallest country that’s huge in lots of ways.
    NO MORE TAX FREE STATUS FOR ANY RELIGIOUS GROUP should be the next step !!

    • @alext.8456
      @alext.8456 3 роки тому

      For all non-profits

    • @jimbojet8728
      @jimbojet8728 2 роки тому

      Or any religious group! Why should any religion be allowed to raise money and operate tax free? It’s scandalous!

    • @marko7552
      @marko7552 2 роки тому

      they need to stand up against the growing cult of islam too

  • @yomenow2
    @yomenow2 8 років тому +13

    Excellent information!

  • @1gypsy731
    @1gypsy731 2 роки тому +4

    Where is Shelley!

  • @AliceNsWonderland
    @AliceNsWonderland Рік тому +2

    My absolute favorite Scientology fact is that there are more people worldwide that subscribe to the Jedi religion then there are scientologists!

  • @elvinaescobar
    @elvinaescobar 2 роки тому +10

    L. Ron Hubbard and Robert A. Heinlein made a bet in a bar one night either that L. Ron could not create a religion, or to see who could create a religion first. (In the second case, Stranger in a Strange Land is often cited as Heinlein's effort.) Believe it or not

    • @tobylanclos1456
      @tobylanclos1456 Рік тому +2

      The church of all worlds is Heinlein's version. Not big but I run into members occasionally. Perhaps established in st. Louis I don't remember. Stranger in ...... Was a great book until I got to that last "thou art god" and realized it was a repeat of the Jesus story. Haha.
      Now my favorite book of all time is battlefield earth by Hubbard, while Heinlein is my favorite author.

    • @geekdivaherself
      @geekdivaherself Рік тому +1

      I looked into that a while back and I think that there is no evidence to support this and there might even be evidence to disprove it. But it is an old story.
      One of the things that weighs against it being true is that Hubbard wanted the American Psychiatric Association to approve Dianetics as a valid way of treating patients, and they rejected it: rightfully so. He lost his mind and until his death was 100% against any therapies other than Dianetics and Scientology. This makes it seem like he _started out_ to create something more scientific than a religion. Then he needed a tax dodge....

    • @geekdivaherself
      @geekdivaherself Рік тому

      See Aaron Smith-Levin's Growing Up in Scientology channel for balanced discussions and analysis. He just passed 100k!

  • @itsawrapent
    @itsawrapent 4 роки тому +9

    Like what religion has a fair game policy where u attack anyone that doesn’t agree with ur religion... That’s just crazy straight up and down

  • @xanthiamcdermott8500
    @xanthiamcdermott8500 2 роки тому +6

    wonder why Hubbard liked saying criminal so much maybe because he was one

  • @StellaKnights
    @StellaKnights 2 роки тому +7

    The founder was a sci fi writer , honeslty the whole thing is a joke and an exercise in how much crap people will believe

  • @KnitzyKitzy
    @KnitzyKitzy 2 роки тому +2

    No religions should have a tax free status.

  • @rabokarabekian409
    @rabokarabekian409 2 роки тому +2

    “Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
    *Harmless untruths”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

  • @IsaacRainford21
    @IsaacRainford21 3 роки тому +7

    Scientology makes Stratton Oakmont from Wolf Of Wall Street look innocent

  • @Jay9999
    @Jay9999 2 роки тому +7

    When do we get to see Shelley Miscavige?

    • @toniakilman9451
      @toniakilman9451 2 роки тому +2

      When cryogenics can bring a human back to life without crystallization of organs .

    • @jennyrust8334
      @jennyrust8334 2 роки тому +1

      WHERES SHELLEY DAVID? hmmm

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor Рік тому +2

    It's crazy how such a small religion can have so much influence to escape constant violations of the law. Since this video was released, I don't think anything major happened at the institutional level. But it also makes me wonder why not more criminal organizations use the shield of being a religion.

  • @diamoradiaz4287
    @diamoradiaz4287 4 роки тому +10

    Law enforcement authorities are going to have to get educated about psychology of abuse, ans the PTSD diagnosis, because people is not ready to process all the things that happened for so many years of abuse, until a long long time later, for instance they have to have a psychologists to analize the cases along with them.

  • @margyritchie2702
    @margyritchie2702 2 роки тому +3

    Yeah
    My Dad was a real war hero never talked about it. Pearl Harbor then the ge Missouri. James Hourigan CPO 4 bronze stars
    RIP

  • @jimmaloney1121
    @jimmaloney1121 3 роки тому +3

    "If he dies, he dies."
    Who knew David Miscavige was related to Ivan Drago?

  • @scottjernigan597
    @scottjernigan597 Рік тому +2

    Diabetics first few pages is a re worded psychology 101 class book. Some People that don’t know read and they go oh wow this is amazing. Unbelievable

  • @alanobrien4020
    @alanobrien4020 Рік тому +1

    Cults ,churches
    And religion should pay a flat tax every year ,their not a charity

  • @speedrob
    @speedrob 6 років тому +14

    R.L.H as a writer, was a load of shite (can't think of a better description sorry)... I've read some of his fiction and the jedi religion is more believable than any crap he wrote.

    • @pandamandimax
      @pandamandimax 5 років тому +7

      Yep I get so pissed when I see ppl comment he was a "talented" and "amazing" writer. No he wasn't! They haven't actually read his crap or have no taste.

  • @annunciataparchesi1832
    @annunciataparchesi1832 Рік тому +1

    Paulette wrote her autobiography which was published in February this year. What a life!

  • @katee8147
    @katee8147 2 роки тому +3

    Great reporting.

  • @cynthiaseavers1444
    @cynthiaseavers1444 Рік тому +1

    Narcisstic abuse on steroids. It all really makes me angry !!!!!!

  • @meganconn142
    @meganconn142 Рік тому +2

    I thought this was Ted Cruz!! Holy hell they're IDENTICAL. 😲 ❤️ 👍

    • @alanobrien4020
      @alanobrien4020 Рік тому

      I was thinking that aswell

    • @annunciataparchesi1832
      @annunciataparchesi1832 Рік тому

      I'm hatching an imaginary plat to kidnap Ted and replace him with Tony. I can dream, can't I?

  • @1gypsy731
    @1gypsy731 2 роки тому +1

    and control of land and buildings!

  • @inthemomenttomoment
    @inthemomenttomoment 2 роки тому +3

    All religions must be ethical!👁️❤️👣

  • @NotDuncan
    @NotDuncan Рік тому +1

    While I often mark the difference between religion and a cult, I still see no difference between Scientology and the Catholic Church. Both are horrific edifices that have caused terrifying amount of damage to humanity.

  • @joannegrieco8523
    @joannegrieco8523 Рік тому

    OMG! Poor paulette,this is so horrible. It's just a horrible thing to do to anyone ever and it's still considered a Church it's ridiculous

  • @sheilalopez3983
    @sheilalopez3983 2 роки тому +4

    Some people are looking for submarines, some people are looking for Elvis, some people are looking for JFK. Good luck all you searchers, I salute you.
    You would think that they would have better things to do than to harass people. It's called a church, maybe they should do something like, I don't know, maybe pray. Anyway you slice it, scientology is not a good thing to base your life on.

  • @korvgubben274
    @korvgubben274 2 роки тому +3

    And today, August 30, 2022, the tax office rendered its decision: all activities of the Church of Scientology are to be considered beneficial to the public at large

    • @lynnegackstetter2779
      @lynnegackstetter2779 2 роки тому +2

      WTF

    • @korvgubben274
      @korvgubben274 2 роки тому

      @@lynnegackstetter2779 Donations to church of Scientology now tax deductible
      The Tax Authority recognized the Church of Scientology Amsterdam as a public benefit institution (ANBI), the church said in a press

    • @sandralybrand9425
      @sandralybrand9425 2 роки тому +1

      That's Outrageous!

    • @korvgubben274
      @korvgubben274 2 роки тому +1

      @@sandralybrand9425 Full state recognition of Scientology with tax exemption
      HRWF (08.09.2022) - On 30 August 2022, after years of financial investigation, the Church of Scientology was granted the status of Public Benefit entity. It means that from now on its activities must be tax exempted like any other religion or belief system. This includes not only their social activities but also their spiritual counselling and their religious classes

    • @LadyLibertyBella
      @LadyLibertyBella Рік тому

      You should add where in your original post so people know where you’re talking about if just skimming comments. I see you mentioned Amsterdam below but I know lots of people don’t check replies to comments. Thank you for sharing this info. Sadly it seems they will continue to get this across all our countries at this rate.

  • @richardw3470
    @richardw3470 2 роки тому +4

    FL Scientology buildings are filled with people from 'third world countries' doing whatever work they're told to do. Life here is evidently better than in their home countries; their work, food, clothes, etc - which doesn't say much for their homelands based on the horror stories of former members from the USA, Australia and the like. I've wondered if they were brought here to 'work' w/o becoming actual members or were they sold a bill of goods like the M-----s do to not illiterate but not the most modern thinking people (and these get to come to America). They won't talk to people on the street--just get off their bus and go into their building. Sheep.

    • @geekdivaherself
      @geekdivaherself Рік тому

      A video was released recently that showed how they fit 11 people into an incredibly small hotel room that has just one bathroom! The UA-camr See Aaron Smith-Levin discussed his experience in one of those same hotel rooms and explained why it can cost up to a thousand dollars a month to be there and do training and then work in the evenings or weekends!
      See his Growing Up in Scientology channel for balanced discussions and analysis. He just passed 100k! It was on his channel that I found the phrase, "The Aftermath Foundation can help you if you blow," which is more helpful than yelling "Xenu!" at people. Offering something helpful is better than confronting them with things that their training makes them shut down on contact with.
      Especially if people in the Sea Org leave or, in Scientology jargon, blow, they'll just owe even more money to Scientology, and will have difficulties finding a place to live, etc. The Aftermath Foundation can help them with that and a million other small difficulties that they'd run across outside of CoS, which can add up pressure quickly, especially if their family is still in Scientology and considers them suppressive people.
      Aaron's heart-rending story can be seen on Netflix (in the US at least) in the first season either episode three or seven. Their neighbor, who was a fellow Scientologist at that time, was more concerned about how their disconnection (shunning) was going to affect his dog rather than his small children! Sigh.

  • @rosebudame
    @rosebudame Рік тому +1

    Excellent interview!

  • @charliebrownie4158
    @charliebrownie4158 3 місяці тому

    Love the psychological quackery it was called.

  • @visco154
    @visco154 2 роки тому +3

    She is a hero

  • @annabell3385
    @annabell3385 3 роки тому +3

    Doesn't someone still run "Dianetics?" If Hubbard lost rights to the name, who has rights?

  • @emilybsh
    @emilybsh 4 роки тому +7

    If only L Ron Hubbard had had access to Twitter. He could have been president.

    • @carlgriffiths8482
      @carlgriffiths8482 4 роки тому +1

      I totally agree if trump can make it he definitely would have unbelievable

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому +1

      @@carlgriffiths8482 To the rest of the world America made utter fools of themselves

    • @carlgriffiths8482
      @carlgriffiths8482 3 роки тому

      @@gowdsake7103 absolutely mate

    • @mariabunch3541
      @mariabunch3541 3 роки тому +4

      I am an American. What some may not understand is that many of us were not voting for Trump… We were voting against Hillary.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 роки тому

      @@mariabunch3541 Yes I understand that you had 2 horrible choices

  • @ecalose6785
    @ecalose6785 Рік тому +1

    Jason Beghes video at times is hilarious.

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 Рік тому

    Thank you, again.

  • @alinaisac3255
    @alinaisac3255 3 роки тому +3

    So did you ask the question what they think about the Messiah Christ?

  • @lynnegackstetter2779
    @lynnegackstetter2779 2 роки тому +2

    Thought it was Ted Cruz at first

  • @lorensmith8861
    @lorensmith8861 2 роки тому +1

    Circumcision Class Action Lawsuits
    Scientology Fair Game Doctrine
    The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend
    Let's Make a Deal 🙂

  • @PSA3377
    @PSA3377 Рік тому

    That would explain his over compensating personality. Never cared fr him .

  • @josieruiz3946
    @josieruiz3946 2 роки тому +1

    God changes the Heart to be like him bare fruit of the spirit, His spirit first of all God is Love and Just. This is not love just by listening to a Scientology confrontation with a reporter she was scary. Abuse is not a Christian belief it not a secret God said preach the Gospel to the endtime so what sis their beliefs, Jesus said follow me, follow no man! That's the problem following men and not God's word! It's written.

  • @henryfry7742
    @henryfry7742 Рік тому +1

    All I can say is those who deny the Christ are condemned already.

  • @justinludeman8424
    @justinludeman8424 Рік тому

    They must have nefarious intentions, ruled by avarice, otherwise secrecy would not be mandated by the organisation's policymakers.
    Otherwise, if they held the panacea to human woe it would be shared... Church of $cientology indeed.

  • @DadBodSwagGod
    @DadBodSwagGod Рік тому

    Damn, Ron really should've kept that title

  • @michalsoukup1021
    @michalsoukup1021 Рік тому

    As for Hubbard's account of fighting a submarine/fighting magnetical anomaly, that part could conceivably happen. Any submerged submarine in that area would have been hostile and would be engaged. So that decision, AT WORST, is a waste of ammunition. And it would certainly behove USN officers to err on the side of depth charging a suspicious anomaly rather than to conserve depth charges.
    Now claiming without evidence that you sunk two enemy subs. That is downright laughable and should be ridiculed forever more.

  • @joebuphey7310
    @joebuphey7310 Рік тому +3

    Tony resembles Senator Ted Cruz, Ya?

  • @ameluaclair3389
    @ameluaclair3389 Рік тому

    recently mu infatuation with useung ITube as an informational tool.means having learnt more than this particular individual realized would disturb & provoke her mental .internal discussion system.AND therefore as someone whose genetic heritage means my line has been & still is .viewed as expendable by entire countries ask ? how we can continue to allow a religion to target an entire inherited genealogy to be seen as a legal provocation to enable their destruction ?

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor Рік тому

    "as a journalist, I've been trained to be fair, to see both sides" (paraphrased) hahahaha, yes that is what journos are known for. I don't see anything bad from him here but still, the statement is funny.

  • @NewWorldDAO
    @NewWorldDAO Рік тому

    Oh why is Ted Cruz what is Tom Cruise talking about Scientology

  • @anitahargreaves9526
    @anitahargreaves9526 Рік тому

    Prefer mine, to any illuminating, freaky deaky religions.

  • @mg-bi3ck
    @mg-bi3ck 2 роки тому

    RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

  • @bobbycecere1037
    @bobbycecere1037 2 роки тому

    I'm just getting familiar with Scientology. I don't mean paying attention exclusively to the drama. Searching out the horror stories - the scandals.
    Those interest me far less than the philosophy & mechanics. But this is quite important to understand.
    It's a human truth that thier is an ugly side to EVERY human organization. I have yet to come across one, whether it's academic, professional, political or religious. Even journalism belongs on this list.
    The things that people pretend are unique to religious organizations is actually the human condition.
    That being said, I don't like operating in the dark, so i will at some point, make myself familiar with all of this content

    • @Sekte-kultovi
      @Sekte-kultovi Рік тому

      Drama???? Are you sirious?!! They destroying lives of People. Are you nuts or what

    • @bobbycecere1037
      @bobbycecere1037 Рік тому

      @@Sekte-kultovi
      They?
      It does sound like there are rogue sections of the organization that are unethically attacking people.
      I'll give you that. However there is always normal day-to-day people involved with any religion who have nothing to do with any of that.
      Yes you are only focusing on the drama because that's the easiest

    • @Sekte-kultovi
      @Sekte-kultovi Рік тому

      @@bobbycecere1037 you have no idea what you talking about

    • @bobbycecere1037
      @bobbycecere1037 Рік тому

      @@Sekte-kultovi
      K. But do you have any points? Can you refute anything I said?
      I can also say to you that you have no idea what you're talking about but that doesn't mean anything

  • @donnakawana
    @donnakawana 2 роки тому

    Our girl needs the cans to interrogate any new ppl.... Just saying!!! ✌🏼💗😊❣️

  • @AliceNsWonderland
    @AliceNsWonderland Рік тому

    I'd like to know why we don't see new stories of Tom Cruise pulling people out of car wrecks all the time. I'm sure he's driven by them!

  • @DJ_UltraBuba
    @DJ_UltraBuba Рік тому +1

    thinking about how they attract people, well, this is definitely not a homogenous group of people. From what I have gleaned so far watching these yt shows with journalists and ex-members, there may be several distinct groups and each of them gets attracted to scientology by a set of different methods. One set for family members and second (even third) generation, one for celebrities and one for the rest of them. Among the rest of them, like among the celebrities there are ppl with much money but not much time for thinking, so even if smart, they tend to stay on the surface of thinking. These are the cash cows, they don't need so many of them actually.

    • @DJ_UltraBuba
      @DJ_UltraBuba Рік тому

      Maybe I should elaborate this last thing I said. Successful people, those with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of cash ready to be donated are usually the types who are superfocused on whatever work they do, so basically dont have much time for deeper thinking on anything else. Ideal victims for Hubbard&co

  • @kennymacfay8145
    @kennymacfay8145 Рік тому

    Psalms 37:32 TPT
    Evil ones spy on the godly ones, stalking them to find something they could use to accuse them. They’re out for the kill!

  • @loveanimals969
    @loveanimals969 Рік тому +1

    As a Christian, I find it offensive that scientology say it is a religion. It is a cult, and a very dangerous one. Also, it is very worrying that it is allowed to thrive in America. I wonder why?

    • @byteme9718
      @byteme9718 Рік тому

      Christianity starts wars and kills. Look at what happened after 9/11.

    • @loveanimals969
      @loveanimals969 Рік тому

      People are responsible for 9/11 and people! start wars, not Christianity.

    • @byteme9718
      @byteme9718 Рік тому

      @@loveanimals969 Bush minor claimed god spoke to him before he announced the holy war he referred to in his Address to the Nation. The religiously deluded murican public raised their US flags and shouted "f*ck yes!"

    • @loveanimals969
      @loveanimals969 Рік тому

      @@byteme9718 People may involve God in their speech, but they are responsible for their behaviour, not God, or Christianity.
      Christianity is about caring for one another
      and trying to be a good person.
      God is love, not war.
      As for the US, I think they need to acknowledge the problems in their society.
      How many people have been killed because guns are legal? That is just one issue they refuse to deal with.

    • @byteme9718
      @byteme9718 Рік тому

      @@loveanimals969 God is what motivated Bush and the murican people to wage an unjust holy war. If you think "god is love", you've never read the Bible.

  • @anthonymauger9388
    @anthonymauger9388 Рік тому

    some people are easy lead or need something to follow .

  • @korvgubben274
    @korvgubben274 2 роки тому +1

    Scientology obtains full public benefit recognition in the Netherlands

  • @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098
    @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098 5 років тому +3

    7:00 - Does the speaker have a lisp? Kidding, but maybe LRH really is "The Great Thetan" 😈☻😅...?

    • @libertyresearch-iu4fy
      @libertyresearch-iu4fy 4 роки тому +2

      I have always found it extremely ironic, or foreshadowing, that thetan rhymes with Satan.

    • @duderama6750
      @duderama6750 3 роки тому +2

      Ith a thetanic thothiety.

  • @Restrodsworth
    @Restrodsworth Рік тому

    20 seconds in and I’m out 😂

  • @billyhassett2728
    @billyhassett2728 Рік тому

    Diamanté

  • @DJ_UltraBuba
    @DJ_UltraBuba Рік тому

    About statistics. Im sure they have something to justify those "millions" they are talking about. LIke, how many took that initial test. Or people who bought the book. Most of those never subscribed to go on.

  • @henryfry7742
    @henryfry7742 Рік тому +1

    Got news for you Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father of all creation. So nope you are not him reincarnated or any one else reincarnated you get one shot at this world and the only thing that follows you into death is what you choose to believe while here. So be very careful who you belive.

  • @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098
    @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098 5 років тому +2

    40:00 - "If he dies, he dies." Nice title, but might want to get Stallone's permission first ☻ (Rocky IV)...

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 2 роки тому

      i think it was the actress joan collins who said it first when she married a man much younger than herself. 🙂

  • @RiayToons
    @RiayToons 2 роки тому

    When you treat us poorly you will eventually get a Fair Game!
    Treat Scientologists right!!

    • @chadthechad4365
      @chadthechad4365 Рік тому

      Grow a thicker skin. The world see’s how childish you are and that why your “religion” is a joke

  • @margyritchie2702
    @margyritchie2702 2 роки тому

    My kinda place Thug life

  • @Brian-rh3qh
    @Brian-rh3qh 2 роки тому

    Most of this is anecdotal and lacks any evidence. I am very much against Scientology, or any cult, but this is just stories.

  • @shirleylyon6347
    @shirleylyon6347 2 роки тому +8

    My prayer is that people involved in this find the Lord Jesus as their personal savior. According to the bible in the 3rd chapter of john Jesus tells us we must be "born again."

    • @peggyg3920
      @peggyg3920 2 роки тому +2

      Amen The lord is clearly not being silent

    • @ohshitjeffrey3741
      @ohshitjeffrey3741 2 роки тому

      Boo hiss, out of the pan and into the fire

    • @NoMementoMori
      @NoMementoMori 2 роки тому +2

      people wonder "hmm how can any intelligent person belief something so obviously false and join such a dangerous cult"
      And then they proclaim their christianity...

  • @Chillmax
    @Chillmax Рік тому +1

    You announce thbe original owners of the land, I'm out straight away, pathetic virtue signalling!

  • @lynnegackstetter2779
    @lynnegackstetter2779 2 роки тому

    Sorry Tony. Didn't mean to call you the four letter word Cruz

  • @katee8147
    @katee8147 2 роки тому +1

    How dare stupid Ron Hubbard - we are a country of the longest living peoples in the world at over 70 000 years. Named the most symbiotic culture with the environment. Boom Hubturd !

    • @justinludeman8424
      @justinludeman8424 2 роки тому

      Actually it's 65-80,000 years. So you're only about three orders of magnitude wrong which is about 1000x off the mark (i.e., not 70 million years).
      Fellow Aussie here. If you wish to demonstrate we are intelligent people, please actually do THAT.

    • @katee8147
      @katee8147 2 роки тому

      @@justinludeman8424 oops too many zeros - had just broken leg & in hospital on some serious pain killers. No need to be unkind.

  • @jeffez6572
    @jeffez6572 3 роки тому

    Sooooo did they not get their holocaust rings?????🤔

  • @tmngogo
    @tmngogo 2 роки тому

    Alt shift x

  • @pauljaru2698
    @pauljaru2698 2 роки тому +1

    Reincarnation has got to be one of the kookiest ideas ever thought of whether Hindu, Scientologist or other. But Christianity is equally bizarre for their belief in a soul.