A 26-foot-tall Anubis Statue Installed at Denver International Airport
June 4, 2010 by red
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(CBS) Ever since it was first installed at Denver International Airport, the 32-foot-tall blue “Mustang” has been the talk of the town, but a new addition is sure to get plenty of attention.A crew is installing a seven-ton, 26-foot-tall concrete sculpture of an Egyptian god at the airport. Read more
Lady Ga-Ga, The Queen And What It Really Means
(Paul Powers) The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is definitely true for the first image featuring Queen Elizabeth II and pop music sensation Lady Gaga. Many words are needed in order to explain its veiled meaning but I will try to keep it under a thousand. I would venture to say that upon looking at this picture many people would not be able to recognize both women (either one or the other but not both). That in of itself may help to keep the meaning hidden. The women on the left has been the British Monarch for the last 59 years. The women on the right is currently one of the top pop music singers in the United States and Europe. You could say she is the remake of Madonna in the 21st century. Chances are your local elementary school is playing her songs at your 7th graders dances.
The colors red and black are the two most prominent colors used in Satanism. The third image I found on a website called satanshop.com. It is a pendant featuring the head of the devil inside a pentagram in red on a black background.
There is also a church of Satan headquartered in San Francisco, California. You can also find them on internet (churchofsatan.org). The fourth image is the logo of the Bohemian Club (black owl and red letters) also located in San Francisco, Ca. The Bohemian Club is an elite group of politicians, bankers etc. that perform Satanic rituals at a place known as Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California (fifth image).
Inviting pop stars to the Royal Palace is nothing new to the Queen. In fact, she has gone as far as bestowing knighthood to the likes of Mick Jagger. Jagger is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones who put out an album in 1967 called “Their Satanic Majesties Request” (sixth image).
They also have hit songs such as Sympathy for the Devil and Dancing with Mr. “D”. In addition, Jagger is a member of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis). This is a freemasonic occult organization that was once headed by the self proclaimed “most evil man alive” and “the beast” Aleister Crowley (seventh image). The queen is the supreme governor of the Anglican church in Great Britain by the way. She formally appoints its high ranking church members. Her list of pernicious guests over the last five decades is quite substantial but hopefully you get the picture (pun intended).
So, we now see that Satanism is no way at all confined to bizarre looking people covered with tattoos and body piercings. Yes, there are Wall Street Executives going to work everyday in a $5000 suit and tie who worship the devil. Think of it as a caste system ranging from the richest most powerful people in the world all the way down to a minimum wage dishwasher working in Greenwich Village, New York. For the ultra elite Satanism is generational. So whether the next British king is the queen’s son (Charles) or grandson (William) the House of Windsor along with the House fo Rothschild will continue on with its demonic destruction of not only Great Britain and the United States but the rest of the world.
http://rense.com/general89/gaga.htm
Sexual Debauchery is Instrument of Satanic NWO
(Henry Makow) 
A recent billboard campaign from the designer, Calvin Klein, has caused a stir. The ad features youths engaged in group sex on a couch. The scene depicts a topless girl (I intentionally say girl, not woman) lying on top of a shirtless boy whose head rests on the lap of another shirtless boy. She is kissing the boy that is sitting.. Another shirtless boy lies on the floor in front of the others. The sexual messages that this image transmits are very obvious.
Everyday, the average person is bombarded with sexual images like this. What is striking about the Calvin Klein ad is that it depicts people that are quite young. From many of the comments that I have read on news-blogs, the outraged are in the minority. In fact, most of the comments are directed towards calling the outraged “prudes.” What does this say about a society that defends the sexualization of its youth? Such a society has lost its moral compass.
Of course, this situation has been established incrementally over many years. There has been a long running, concerted, effort to slowly drag western society into a state of depravity. The conspirators often target children and teens because they are at an age where impressions have long lasting consequences. Hitler was well aware that to bring about future realities, one must capture the minds of the young: as he stated in Mein Kampf, “Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.” A new world is exactly what is in the making.
Just when people have become numb to the idea of students putting condoms on bananas in public schools, the conspirators have stepped up their assault on the minds of children. In the U.S., President Obama’s Safe School Czar, Kevin Jennings, is a founding member of a group known as GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network). In April of 2005, GLSEN organized events at high schools across Massachusetts to promote tolerance. In at least one high school, copies of “The Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century”,” which discusses very explicit sex acts along with a directory of gay bars, were distributed to students middle school age and older. http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/black_book/black_book_inside.html
At another conference, GLSEN handed out “fisting kits” along with detailed instructions on how this act is performed.
Currently, GLSEN is promoting a list of books that they recommend schools use to educate students from grades K-12. The stated purpose of these books are to promote tolerance, etc. The children and young teen characters in these books are depicted engaging in various sex acts with other children and adults. Sample excerpts from these books can be found here:
Hiding behind the façade of tolerance education, these N.W.O. conspirators are exposing young minds to sexual depravity. Much of the material deals with objectifying one’s sex partner: random indiscriminate sex, fetishes, sex between children and adults, etc. From these stories, students can conclude that people are no longer potential companions with thoughts and feelings with which one can form a solid lasting relationship; instead, people become sexual objects, pieces of flesh to be used to gratify oneself. Everyone and everything is fair game. Sex is fetish. We are all predators.
The Calvin Klein billboard captures the essence of this state of mind. The girl is an object to be used by the three boys. One gets the sense that if she were not there, the boys would be using each other. But the real shock is in how average people have become immune to the image. This is the result of so called “tolerance” education. What passes for tolerance is really a guise for erasing instincts which distinguish between healthily and sick, good and evil.
There is nothing prudish about decency. There is nothing prudish about wanting to protect your children from sexual images and ideas that they expose them to exploitation and debauchery. Instead of teaching children about “tolerance,” they need to be taught love and respect for other people. They need to be taught that sex without love and respect is, in essence, just beating off with a helper.
http://www.henrymakow.com/_by_jeff_jefferson.html
Project SCANATE: The CIA and the Birth of Remote Viewing
(AC) In 1972, during the height of the Cold War, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) embarked on a project that would last for over 20 years and be run by a number of high-level governmental organizations, including the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and the United States Army. The project was the investigation of parapsychological abilities and the potential of using such abilities in intelligence gathering operations.
Although this was the first time that the CIA would fund any sort of true investigation into psychic abilities, the Agency had been interested in the subject in the past. During Word War II there were rumors of Nazi Germany developing such capabilities. In 1961 the Chief of the Office of Technical Services (OTS) within the Agency contacted Stephen I. Abrams, the head of the Parapsychological Laboratory at Oxford University in England on the question of ESP (Extra-sensory perception). Abrams sent back a report that ESP appeared to exist but could be neither understood or controlled.
After this report little investigation into the world of the psychic was undertaken by the CIA. In the 1970’s, however, interest in the subject was given new life by Drs. Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). They expressed knowledge of Soviet investigations into psychic abilities, including video of a man who could move inanimate objects with his mind. This caught the attention of the CIA and a working relationship between the Agency and SRI in the investigation of psychic abilities began.
Ingo Swann and Remote Viewing
Although SRI would investigate a number of psychic phenomena under the CIA funded project, its central core was the process of remote viewing. Remote viewing involves the process of a subject moving away from its body and observing places and objects distantly removed from the viewer.
A common term among fans of the psychic today, remote viewing was practically unheard of in 1972. In fact, the term was coined by a well-known psychic and artist, Ingo Swann, while working with a project at the American Society of Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York in 1971
Swann and his associates at ASPR wanted to create a concrete definition of a certain array of psychic abilities that would allow for the proper testing of these powers in a scientific setting. From this desire the idea of remote viewing was born. Remote viewing’s accuracy could easily be tested, since one could always observe the location or object being remotely viewed to compare with the subject’s results.
Wanting to further this research, Swann contacted Puthoff at SRI, expressing his interest in the idea. Puthoff agreed to work with Swann. Their relationship began only a few months before the CIA entered the picture as the sponsor for their joint project.
Puthoff, Targ and Swann worked together to more fully develop the remote viewing system, and refined it to a new idea: Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV). The idea behind this was that geographic coordinates would be given to the viewer, who would then use his abilities to view the location. This could then be tested against known maps of the area. Geographic coordinates were seen as the perfect medium to tell the viewer where to look, as it would reveal no clues as to where or what the subject was looking at. They would have to rely completely upon their own abilities.
Original testing between Swann and SRI achieved mixed results (as almost always occurs with any testing of psychic abilities). However the achievements made during testing were considered significant, and it was decided that CRV would become the center of their research into psychic abilities.
Project SCANATE
With the CIA now on board as sponsor (although Swann himself would know the sponsor only as an east coast scientist) with $50,000 support, studies into remote viewing could truly begin. This project became known as Project SCANATE (scanning by coordinate).
In early 1973, a new subject became associated with Project SCANATE. This man’s name was Pat Price. Throughout the investigation of these abilities, Price proved to be the most promising subject, and would ultimately become the focal point of the project.
Initial experiments in this full-fledged project involved the remote viewing of areas within the United States by both Price and Swann. The initial target was a vacation property eastern United States. When given the coordinates of the location, however, both Pat Price and Ingo Swann gave details of a military like facility, which was completely wrong.
However, there was a secret military facility not far from the vacation property. Price’s description in particular seemed to somewhat match this facility, and he was made to view it again. In the second viewing he gave a number of accurate details, including physical layout of the site, the names of some of the projects that had been going on and were going on at the facility as well as the codename for the facility. Not all of his data was accurate, however, including the names of people in the facility and some of the physical details of the site.
Thus, once again results were a mixed bag. The Agency decided to go one step further in the experiments, however. Pat Price would be told to view coordinates within the USSR, at a facility known the CIA as URDF-3 (Unidentified Research and Development Facility-3), which the CIA had knowledge of. Two items in particular would be watched for: a crane and four objects that appeared to be oil derricks. If Price could identify these two objects, it was decided that he could at least see some of what was going on at the site.
Price was given the coordinates, it’s approximate location mapped on a world atlas map and told that it was a Soviet R&D site. Price then proceeded to view the area. While he accurately targeted the crane and described it in some detail, he completely missed the oil derricks.
Despite the failure to reveal the derricks, it was decided to continue the experiment with Price. Price now met with a CIA official for the first time: Dr. Kenneth Kress, an engineer with OTS who had worked intimately on the project. Kress asked Price why he had not seen the derricks. Price responded that they used to be there but had since been dismantled. New reconnaissance of area was done. It was shown that the derricks were in fact still there.
Again, despite this setback experiments continued. Price was then asked to view the interiors of certain embassies of which the CIA had knowledge. Again and again Price provided some exceedingly accurate details combined with a number of errors. Unfortunately during these experiments Pat Price passed away of a heart attack.
The End of Project SCANATE
Throughout this time period of the CIA’s work with SRI on studying paraspychological abilities the project was controversial. Many within the CIA felt it a waste of time and a potential embarrassment to the Agency if it was ever discovered they were wasting taxpayer dollars on the idea. However despite the mixed results the returns seemed significant enough to continue further testing.
With the death of Pat Price, however, a new review of the situation had to be taken. His work had been the most promising, and even then it was not of the greatest use. While it did seem that he might actually possess some sort of psychic ability, the data collected was relatively minor and completely inconsistent.
Because there was no way to determine good data from bad, the intelligence gathered from such remote viewing would be unusable. Remote viewing seemed to be of no operable use, and with the best subject dead there was little reason to continue at all.
Thus CIA involvement in the study of psychic abilities essentially ended with the death of Pat Price. Other agencies would eventually pick it up and the project would continue under one name or another until 1995, when Project Stargate was done away with. Its greatest height came in the 1980’s and in fact gave birth to a private company known as Psi Tech, created by some of the top heads of the project at that time funded by the Army. Psi Tech took some of the technology created under the project with them, and is still in existence today.
Despite 20 years of research and the beliefs of a select few, remote viewing experiments continued to have the same mixed results, with no significant progress being made in the subject. While proponents say that these experiments have shown that there is some reason to believe in parapsychological phenomena, they are so spotty and inconsistent as to serve no practical purpose. It seems unlikely that such projects will begin again any time in the near future.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/24100/project_scanate_the_cia_and_the_birth.html?cat=37
Mitch Horowitz on CBS Sunday Morning shows Bush’s ancestors were involved with occult
November 22, 2009 by red
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The 2009 VMAs: The Occult Mega-Ritual
(VigilantCitizen) From unexpected drama to shocking performances, MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards managed once again to raise eyebrows and get people talking. What most people however missed is the occult meanings encoded into the VMAs. The TV event was in fact a large scale occult ceremony, complete with an initiation, a prayer and even a blood sacrifice. We’ll look at the symbolism that went on during the show. Read more
More Church of Scientology defectors come forward with accounts of abuse
August 3, 2009 by POPEYE
Filed under Featured Stories, Occult
(ST PETE TIMES) They are stepping forward — from Dallas and Denver, Portland, Las Vegas, Montana — talking about what happened, to them and their friends, during their years in the Church of Scientology.
Jackie Wolff wept as she recalled the chaotic night she was ordered to stand at a microphone in the mess hall and confess her “crimes” in front of 300 fellow workers, many jeering and heckling her.
Gary Morehead dredged up his recollection of Scientology leader David Miscavige punishing venerable church leaders by forcing them to live out of tents for days, wash with a garden hose and use an open latrine.
Steve Hall replayed his memory of a meeting when Miscavige grabbed the heads of two church executives and knocked them together. One came away with a bloody ear.
Mark Fisher remembered precisely what he told Miscavige after the punches stopped and Fisher touched his head, looked at his palm and saw blood.
These and other former Scientology staffers are talking now, inspired and emboldened by the raw revelations of four defectors from the church’s executive ranks who broke years of silence in stories published recently by the St. Petersburg Times.
Those behind-the-scenes accounts from Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest officials ever to leave Scientology, were buttressed by detailed revelations of highly placed former managers Amy Scobee and Tom De Vocht.
Now their stories have prompted other former Scientology veterans to go public about physical and mental abuses they say they witnessed and endured.
Some want to support and defend the initial four, whom church representatives labeled as liars attempting a coup. Others say they feel more secure now that Rathbun, Rinder and the others are on the record with their unprecedented accounts of life on the inside.
But fear still prevents many defectors from talking. For every former church staffer willing to speak out, one or two more refused.
Those who talked confirm the earlier defectors’ stories of erratic, dehumanizing treatment and provide a deeper view into the controlling environment in which members of the religious order known as the Sea Org live and work.
Four men joined Rinder, De Vocht and Rathbun in saying: David Miscavige assaulted me.
Church spokesman Tommy Davis said the new defectors’ accounts of physical abuse by Miscavige are “false and categorically denied.”
“It is clear that these new ‘accounts’ were stirred up by your recent articles,” Davis said in a written statement, “and are nothing more than the ranting of anti-Scientologists on the grassy knoll of the Internet corroborating each other.”
The church provided the Times two dozen written declarations from current and former church executives and staffers. Referring to those statements, Davis said: “You have been provided with volumes of evidence to show that your original sources are delusionary, bitter and dishonest; your new sources are more of the same.”
Those new sources are men and women who joined Scientology as children, teenagers or young adults and spent decades laboring to advance the mission envisioned by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Morehead, who drives a tow truck in Portland and spent almost a decade as security chief at the church’s sprawling base outside Los Angeles, described how Miscavige struck a church executive in the chest so hard, “I could hear the hollow thump and see (him) lose his breath from the impacts.”
How does Morehead manage such recall after 15 years?
“It’s just like you remember when you touch a hot stove,” he said. “You’re never going to do it again, right? It hurts, there’s pain …
“Well, it’s as clear and conceptual as that is. I have a hard time remembering my address, but I can certainly remember this. You hold on to this because what the hell could you have done then, and what the hell can you do now?”
A NEW AWARENESS
Like countless college kids in the mid 1970s, Steve Hall was searching for meaning in life. He stumbled across a personality test he picked up a couple of years earlier at a Rolling Stones concert and stuck in a drawer.
He sent it in and got a call. “I asked the girl what Scientology was, and she said it’s a way you can become more aware. … She summed up everything that I wanted at the time.”
Hall got involved with the church to the point that his mother hired a “deprogrammer” from Los Angeles to come to Dallas and get her son out. Hall says he threatened to kill the guy if he ever contacted his mother again.
In the mid 1980s, Hall landed what he imagined would be his dream assignment: A position living and working at the 500-acre “Int” base, east of Los Angeles, home to top church executives and Golden Era Productions, the church’s media and publications division.
But it was no dream.
“There was this incredible atmosphere of people not being in communication. People seemed afraid to speak to each other. … Nobody was laughing for the most part. It was very somber and solemn. … That did not at all seem in keeping with anything I’d ever experienced with Scientology because everywhere else I’d been it was just the reverse. People were laughing and joking.”
Hall joined the church marketing unit in 1987, which brought him into more frequent contact with Miscavige, who holds the title Chairman of the Board, or COB. Hall said it was a shock the first time he saw Miscavige attack an executive, Ray Mithoff. The second time was like something out of a cartoon.
Hall says Miscavige came up behind two seated executives — Marc Yager and Guillaume Lesevre — grabbed their heads and banged them together. Then he ground them against each other. Lesevre had blood coming out of his ear.
Then came the time when Hall and about 20 others were summoned to the Religious Technology Center headquarters. “You don’t get called up to Building 50 because it’s some good news or something fun. It was always like everybody would literally be in terror. You were supposed to sprint from wherever you were up to Building 50, which is way the hell up the hill.”
The group took their seats, the chairs in rows, spaced about 2 to 3 feet apart in all directions. Huffing and puffing, Hall said he worked to keep his breathing under control, so he wouldn’t get singled out.
“You end up waiting a long time. Nobody f—— breathes, no one says anything. It’s dead quiet. You could hear a pin drop. Everybody’s just … waiting. Then finally COB walks in.
“He starts walking amongst us. Never says a word. Just stops and glares at each person. Sometimes he stops and sometimes he doesn’t stop. When he got in front of me he stopped, he looked at me, I looked back at him, careful not to seem to be resisting or whatever.
“He took a step forward. He stopped. He looked back at me again. He backed up, he looked at me even closer. He said, ‘He’s out-ethics. That son of a b—- is out-ethics,’ ” he’s breaking the rules of Scientology.
“Then he walked on, he walked down the aisle, looked at a couple other people, turned to start going down the next aisle right where Marc Yager was sitting on the end. And then suddenly, without warning, he starts slapping the bejesus out of Marc Yager, open-handed.”
There were as many as 10 head slaps. Yager didn’t resist, just put his arms up and took it.
For Hall, the last straw came in November 2003. Hall wrote scripts for Scientology videos and had been assigned to work under Mike Rinder, the church’s chief spokesman. Hall says he had creative differences with Miscavige, which was a problem, because nobody is to question the COB.
Miscavige came by to see an edited video. “He ordered Mike and me stand shoulder to shoulder. … So Rinder and I are pressed up against each other, and right up in front of us is DM … and he says, ‘Play the video.’ “
The video over, Miscavige drew close. “We’re standing there sort of at attention. He looks at me, he looks at Rinder. He looks at me, he looks back at Rinder. And then suddenly, with violence, he flashed his arms up and grabbed Mike Rinder’s head and body-slammed his head into the cherry wood cabinets.
“He lifted Mike Rinder nearly off of his feet and smashed his head into the wall, and he banged his head into the wall three times, just BANG, BANG, BANG!”
A dozen others watched. “But everybody’s afraid to move, because anything you did would be like, ‘Are you making me wrong?’ Don’t make COB wrong. So if you showed any kind of reaction or upset, you would be, ‘making COB wrong.’ “
Miscavige left the room. “Rinder stood there with his hair mussed, his shirttail out and red marks on his face.”
“It so could have been me,” Hall said. “And that was the message I got was that you’re next.”
Rinder said Miscavige abused him so often that his recollections of specific attacks sometimes run together. Asked about Hall’s account, he said, “That happened more than once.”
Though long disillusioned with his life in the Sea Org, Hall said he didn’t want to leave his wife, who was also a staffer. He finally accepted that he had to give up her and everything else.
His last day, church security went through his belongings and confiscated photos of his wife. They videotaped a lawyer posing questions and Hall taking blame for any problems he had with the church. He also promised never to sue the church.
“I had one last goodbye with my wife. … They told me she doesn’t want to go with you and it was her decision, we didn’t influence her in any way. They said you could talk … they led us to rooms.”
In tears, they hugged. “She told me all the rooms were bugged. She whispered all the rooms were bugged and they could probably hear it.”
FOCUS ON EXPANSION
Miscavige, 49, has been intense and demanding since he started working full time for Scientology at age 16 in Clearwater. He quickly proved himself and was handpicked to work at Hubbard’s side, at Scientology’s administrative headquarters in California.
The founder gave his young aide one important assignment after another. Miscavige delivered, building a reputation as a problem solver. He persuaded Hubbard’s wife to resign as head of the church’s troubled intelligence unit, known as the Guardian’s Office.
Hubbard died in 1986 and Miscavige took control, asserting himself over other department heads and church executives. In the early 1990s, he earned admiration throughout the ranks in leading an unyielding effort to win the church a tax exemption from the IRS.
This decade he has pushed church expansion, extending Scientology’s reach into more than 60 countries with a sustained campaign to build new churches, remodel existing facilities, translate Hubbard’s teachings into the languages of target markets and disseminate the church’s community outreach materials worldwide.
Miscavige is deeply admired, church officials say, not only by the thousands of staffers in the Sea Org, but by millions of Scientology parishioners worldwide.
“Any Scientologist of any duration will tell you that the church wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for David Miscavige,” church spokesman Davis said in interviews with the Times in May and June.
Nine new churches opened since 2004. This year, the church will set a record, opening eight more, he said. “It’s just unbelievable what’s happened in the world of Scientology. It’s a renaissance. It’s a revitalization. It’s everything we always dreamed of.”
In his letter to the Times last week, Davis said that as in the first stories, the new defectors are twisting church practices and discipline to make the normal seem “abnormal and abusive. They know this could not be further from the truth.”
CAMPING OUT
Shelly Corrias gave nearly two decades to the dedicated work force known as the Sea Org. She left in 2002.
She remembers the time Miscavige punished top staffers Norman Starkey and Greg Wilhere, ordering them to camp out in tents for days in a high, open area of the mountainside base, near the Bonnie View mansion built for Hubbard. They were assigned hard labor and forced to shower with a garden hose.
Corrias said it was striking to see Starkey — one of Scientology’s elder statesmen, who had worked with Hubbard and served as a trustee of his estate — treated so crudely.
Said Corrias: “How can you take these high executives and send them up to sleep on the ground and they can’t even go to the dining room to eat, their food brought up to them?”
“He particularly picked on Norman,” said Claire Headley, who worked on Miscavige’s staff for eight years before leaving the Sea Org in 2005. She said the leader often tried to take Starkey “off his high horse” and once made him wear a name tag that said “figure head.”
Morehead, the security chief, said Miscavige sent him to town to buy camping gear for another group that faced the tent punishment: Starkey, Yager and Mithoff.
Miscavige made them set up camp at night and came by to shine a flashlight in their eyes, and he recalled the way Miscavige taunted them as they struggled to assemble their gear in the dark:
You guys think you’re so hot? If only the rest of the Sea Org could see you now!
He ordered that a portable toilet be set out in the open, no privacy, Morehead said, and posted guards to watch them round the clock. Nobody protested, they just took their punishment.
Morehead said he told Miscavige that he had turned off the sprinkler system, but the leader told him to turn it back on so a shower would roust them in the morning.
“He was giddy about what was going on with these guys,” Morehead said. “They were just a joke, proving him right. It was acknowledging of the fact that he brought them there because they were just incompetents.”
Two more staffers — Mike Sutter and a woman named Hare O’Hare — later were placed on the same punishment with the three executives. Morehead said O’Hare was not exempt from Miscavige’s order that no one bathe or use the toilet in private.
A CRUEL CONFESSIONAL
As many as 400 staffers were summoned to the mess hall, where a small group of staffers were given special seats of dishonor. Church executives would introduce them with scorching assessments of their recent performance.
“They had to get up one at a time into a microphone and confess their crimes,” said Jeff Hawkins, who left the Sea Org in 2005.
The crowd screamed and jeered.
“They’re out for blood so … you have to make it sound good. Otherwise they’ll just shout you down,” Hawkins said. “I saw people just led away in tears from that treatment.”
Jackie Wolff choked up as she recounted her turn at the microphone late in 2003. She was singled out after taking over the assembly line for E-meters, the lie detector-like devices Scientologists use to pinpoint areas of spiritual distress during counseling.
Wolff’s staff had been cut down to four from about 10 the year before, and E-meter production was down. She didn’t see how she could make up the backlog, but supervisors disagreed. The crowd turned on her, screaming:
Why is this happening?
What are your crimes?
You’re hurting Scientology!
Wolff says she tried to answer:
There are only four of us on the assembly line.
If we speed it up, the quality will suffer.
I just don’t know.
“The feeling of standing up there in front of all these people was very intimidating and very scary,” she said. “It was like your life was on the line. And to me it wasn’t Scientology any more.”
Three months later, Wolff ended her 23-year career in the Sea Org.
RUNNING IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS
There’s a spiritual exercise in Scientology called the “Cause Resurgence Rundown.” You run around a circular track, at your own pace, until you reach a point that “you have a realization that you’re in control of your own body and mind.”
That’s according to Marty Rathbun, a defector who once was one of the top church officials charged with protecting Scientology’s religious practices.
Church founder L. Ron Hubbard described the running procedure in dispatches but it has not been formally made part of the church practice, Rathbun said, which is why some parishioners would not be familiar with it.
It’s supposed to be done at the suggestion of a “case supervisor” in charge of the parishioner’s spiritual counseling, called “auditing.” Rathbun said it’s to be done gradually, the person building endurance at his own pace.
“The whole thing was about getting a thetan (spirit) centered and getting all of his energies straight,” Rathbun said. “Miscavige immediately turned it into a torture.”
Multiple witnesses say the same. As a form of punishment, Sea Org members had to run around a circular dirt track with a pole at the center for hours on end in the desert heat.
“You would be on it anywhere from eight to 12 hours a day,” Morehead said. “For every hundred people that were out there doing the running program, one of them was there because it was part of their actual (spiritual) progress.”
Rinder recalls being sent to the track with others to run until they had a “cognition,” a realization. It was supposed to be about something in their lives — but instead of focusing on themselves, the runners tried to divine what Miscavige wanted to hear so he would end their punishment.
“That was all sort of a joke,” Rinder said. “What cognition are you supposed to have that will now satisfy Dave? … People spent years trying to figure that out.”
FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS
To the three men who previously told the Times that Miscavige attacked them, add four more.
1. Jeff Hawkins
He worked more than 15 years at the base, mostly in marketing and design. His TV spot featuring a rupturing volcano promoted Dianetics, Hubbard’s megaselling book.
Hawkins recalled the day in 2003 when he and a group of senior staffers toured one of Miscavige’s prized construction projects, Building 50, a colossus of buffed metal, chrome and marble.
Leading the pack from room to room, Miscavige was every bit the voluble docent, extolling the unique features.
“I was standing by the door and as he’s walking out and without any warning, he rabbit punches me right in the gut. … Just a quick punch to the stomach, right under the rib cage.”
Another time, a meeting of Hawkins’ marketing team, Miscavige turned angry. “He gets pissed off at me for whatever reason. I was usually the punching bag. And he wails on me and knocks me to the ground.”
“I stand up and he notices my cheek is bleeding. So, he called his assistant (Laurisse Stuckenbrock). He says, ‘Lou,’ and points to my face. She rummages in her purse and gets out a bottle of antiseptic that she carries with her, believe it or not. And she daubs that on my face. So, it’s like she knows the drill. If there is a visible mark, then that’s got to be taken care of.”
Before leaving, Miscavige turned to Hawkins. “He says to me, ‘Do you know why I beat you up?’ “
“I say, ‘No, sir.’ “
“He says, ‘To show you who’s in charge.’ ”
Church executive Amy Scobee previously told the Times about a day she was working in her office cubicle at the edge of a conference room when a Sea Org member landed at her feet, with Miscavige on top of him. It was Hawkins underneath.
Hawkins said dozens of Sea Org members had been summoned to the international management conference room. The leader did not like the latest infomercial script.
“He was reading out sections of it with great sarcasm. And then he started pointing at me and saying, ‘Look at how he looks at me.’ “
Hawkins tried to explain himself, which only got him in deeper.
“You see that disrespect?” he said Miscavige shouted to the group. “You see how he talks to me?”
Miscavige jumped onto the conference table, Hawkins said. “He’s like crouched in the middle of the table, and then he launches himself at me.”
Hawkins fell back off his chair and landed in Scobee’s work cubicle.
Two other defectors who attended the meeting confirmed Hawkins’ account. Two current executives who were there say it didn’t happen.
2. Mark Fisher
Fresh out of Langley High School in suburban Washington, Fisher skipped college for a different adventure: In the mid 1970s, he came to Clearwater to help Scientology settle in its newest frontier. He was 17.
Miscavige, who dropped out of high school the day he turned 16, had come three months earlier.
Fisher and Miscavige bunked with four other recruits on the ninth floor of the Fort Harrison Hotel. Fisher opened his foot locker one day and pulled out his Langley High letter jacket and diploma.
Miscavige told Fisher he probably was the only high school graduate in the group. “He said, ‘What a waste,’ ” Fisher recalled.
Fisher stayed in Clearwater. Miscavige went West, handpicked for Scientology’s esteemed crew serving as the right hand of Hubbard. The bookish Fisher absorbed Hubbard study and training classes, advancing to management as an evaluator of statistics and performance metrics.
By late 1983, Fisher was in California, managing a team of five who provided administrative support to the emerging leader. He also tended to household needs of Miscavige, his wife and their dogs.
Fisher married in 1984. In 1990, his wife was sent to a work detail as punishment for performance issues in the audio-visual facilities.
“I got really upset with it,” Fisher recalled. “I started getting disaffected.”
He hatched a plan: Sneak away and then come slinking back. He would be punished — and get to see his wife.
It didn’t work. He was ordered to dig weeds, far from where his wife toiled.
A second hammer came down. He was stripped of everything he had attained in Scientology — he was an OT7 and a trained auditor. So he rebelled — “I was being really defiant,” he said — and got slapped with more work assignments.
In August 1990, he was up on a scaffold painting the inside of a garage when in came Miscavige, assistants in tow.
Miscavige told Fisher to come down.
“He put his hands around my throat,” Fisher said, and shouted, ” ‘You want to sue Scientology?’ “
Fisher said he collapsed and curled up as Miscavige kicked and punched him and pulled the hair on the back of his head.
Fisher stood, touched the back of his head, showed his bloody palm and told Miscavige: “You notice I did not lay one finger on you.”
That was the end for Fisher. “I didn’t join Scientology to see people get beat up.”
Morehead said he witnessed this, as did defector Marc Headley. But Yager said he was present and, “at no time did Mr. Miscavige strike or otherwise harm Fisher.”
3. Bruce Hines
Hines remembers back to the mid 1990s and the unmistakable sound of Miscavige’s footsteps coming down the hall.
“Where is that m—–f—–?” he heard Miscavige shout.
Hines was in Room 106 of the Del Sol executive offices. A veteran auditor, Hines usually worked at the church’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood. He said he counseled Nicole Kidman and Kirstie Alley.
But counseling the wife of one of Miscavige’s favorite speech writers had not gone well, and Hines had been called back to the base.
Hines braced himself as the footsteps drew near.
Miscavige poked his head in the office, Hines recalled, and said: “There he is.”
Without another word, Hines said, “He hit me in the head. He just hit me in the head, in the side of the head,” an open-handed blow.
“It did sting and it did knock me back. And then he got right up in my face and was kind of yelling at me. Then he walked out. The next thing I knew, I was on the RPF.”
Scientology bills its Rehabilitation Project Force as an opportunity for wayward Sea Org members to find redemption through manual labor. Some defectors say it can be abused.
Hines said he spent three years on the RPF, on a labor crew that cleared land, painted old mobile homes and built sheds at Happy Valley, a church-owned tract about 10 miles from the base.
Finally authorized to return to the base, he reunited with his wife and their son, who was born in 1984, prior to a church ban on children imposed on Sea Org members. It took all of three weeks for him to land back on the RPF. His offense? He didn’t stand up when Miscavige came into a room.
This time was worse. He lived in an 8-by-10-foot shed and slept on concrete. He couldn’t talk to anyone. He was under constant guard. Letters he wrote his wife were read and returned to him. She divorced him while he toiled in isolation.
Looking back at his six years in the RPF, Hines views it as a mind-control technique.
“In the RPF, they try to get you to take responsibility. You are supposed to confront the evil things you did, and deal with those in auditing. You are there because you are evil.”
“And you are there because you were destructive, and you were destructive because you were acting on your evil purposes. And I, the whole time I was in the RPF, I am trying to convince myself that it was me, it was my own fault.”
In 2001, he was sent to work in the church’s offices in New York City. He was on the roof, chipping tar, when the planes hit the World Trade Center. He went to ground zero and volunteered.
By 2003, Hines had lost interest in Scientology. The rich mix of life in New York, he said, “made this whole military lifestyle of the Sea Org seem kind of ludicrous.”
He made his way by bus to Denver, where he had grown up. He finished college in 2006, with a degree in physics, and this summer completed his master’s in electrical engineering.
4. Marc Headley
Headley made movies for Scientology. By the early 2000s, he was named a producer at Golden Era Productions, the church’s umbrella division for its prized audio-visual efforts.
In 2004, Headley led Miscavige on a tour of the A/V area. Miscavige asked about a timetable on a project, and Headley said he made the mistake of answering in a “smart-aleck” tone.
He said Miscavige pushed him against a shelf unit and started punching him. He fell onto a countertop, and Miscavige continued to slug him in the chest.
When it ended, Headley said, senior Sea Org member Greg Wilhere pulled him aside and explained that Miscavige had come from a difficult meeting. Wilhere said in a written statement that Headley’s entire account is “a complete lie.”
A few months later, Headley was on the hot seat again. He had bought and sold equipment and an audit determined $250 was missing. Headley was ordered to the RPF.
The next morning, he sped off in his motor bike and made his way to Kansas City, where his father lived. Weeks later, his wife, Claire, made her break and joined him.
They sued Scientology in January, contending that the wages paid Sea Org members — about $75 a week — violate labor laws.
The church says the lawsuit has no merit. Sea Org members work on a “volunteer basis” and receive weekly stipends. The church covers all living, medical, dental and other expenses, which helps workers focus on their jobs, “without having to worry about paying your bills, cooking dinner, paying property taxes or this and that.”
A CHANGED MAN
Most of the defectors said that the church tried to get them to stay, saying it would be a monumental mistake to give up their chance to reach eternal salvation and warning that life would be awful in the cruel world outside Scientology.
Most started their new lives with little money and few friends. Some still practice Scientology and attribute their job successes to skills the church taught them on interpersonal relationships and how to take responsibility for oneself.
For most, the issue is not the religion but the man leading it.
Russ Williams left the Scientology staff in 2004 after 29 years, most of them at the base. He says he witnessed Miscavige attack Yager, but he minimized it and kept his respect for the leader.
“One time he blew me away,” said Williams, recalling when the leader yelled at him nose-to-nose but returned five minutes later with a pep talk: “I’ve seen you do good work. What happened?”
Sea Org life was always tough, Williams said, but there was an enthusiasm and a feeling of accomplishment that kept people going. Over time, that went away.
“The flavor was gone. It mutated.”
“I think he started out meaning well,” Williams said of Miscavige. “It just got to him. It just got over his grasp and he started falling into this threatening, nasty way of handling people.”
Morehead, the security chief, said the same. He remembers going into town and bowling with Miscavige, and the leader smuggling in food from the burger joint across the street. And Miscavige laughing and taking pictures at Sea Org holiday events — including the time Morehead wore a tutu in the talent show.
But through the years Miscavige grew more intense, and frustrated when Scientology staff couldn’t pull things off the way he wanted.
“There was this guy who once was a good guy,” Morehead said, “who totally turned the church around from what I know L. Ron Hubbard intended it to be.”
Joe Childs can be reached at childs@sptimes.com. Thomas C. Tobin can be reached at tobin@sptimes.com.
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