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			<description>Religion? Cult? Fact? Fiction? Discover the incredible story of the subversion of Scientology: how David Miscavige turned Scientology into a cult; revealed by former high-ranking Scientology officials speaking out to blow the whistle on secret blackmail, abuse, embezzlement, extortion, human trafficking, forced abortions, and more.</description>
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			<title>Christie King Collbran Videos</title>
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<br /><br />More on about Christie King Collbran <a title="More on Christie King Collbran here" href="/christie-king-collbran-and-cathy-grenbaum.html">here</a><br />More resignation letters from defectors <a title="More resignation letters from Church of Scientology defectors" href="/declarations-of-independence.html">here</a><br />]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Misha Priv</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;"><em>An 18-year veteran Sea Org member, Misha Priv was in charge of translations throughout all pioneer areas. He ran massive evolutions involving 1,200 people worldwide and worked personally with David Miscavige for many years. He was one of the hardest-working, most sincere, and also funniest people I knew at the Int base. A Scientologist since 1987, today Misha is an independent Scientologist who lives in the San Francisco area and is co-auditing up the Bridge outside of the Church of Scientology. These videos were shot by Indie Scientologist, Tatiana Baklanova, Scientology's first Sea Org member in Russia. Visit her website at http://freezone-tech.info - Thoughtful (Steve Hall)</em></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><em><br /></em></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Part I</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Part 2</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Part 3</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">7e-EEq-2wgY&amp;feature</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">Part 4</div>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dan Koon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;"><em>Dan Koon played the part of Joe Howard in the Professional TRs film, the film LRH personally created to set the visual standard for auditors worldwide. In that regard he is perhaps one of the greatest human treasures of Scientology. Dan was coached on his TRs by LRH himself and worked under LRH's direction. I first met Dan in the summer of 1984 when I went to the Int base for the first time. We became the best of friends in later years, and worked in marketing as writers in 2002. Dan left mid the great exodus of veteral Sea Org members from the Int base one Sunday morning in late 2003. About a month later, I made it known that I was going to leave. Today, almost the entire power structure of Scientology has left the Church due to the abuses and insanity of the man at the top: David Miscavige. </em><em>These videos were shot by Indie Scientologist, Tatiana Baklanova,  Scientology's first Sea Org member in Russia. Visit her website at  http://freezone-tech.info</em><em> - Thoughtful (Steve Hall)</em></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><em><br /></em></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">Part I</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Part 2</div>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Marta L. Willson</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to let you know I’ve sent personalized versions my “opt-out” notice, below, to the Scientologists I’m currently in touch with and to the Mission and Orgs that consider me a part of their field.  I’m also sending a copy to the MAA at KSW.com, in case there’s a count being kept.<br /><br />I don’t have any expectations or grand delusions about this having any effect, other than for my own health and well being.  Up until recently I was of the mindset that any kind of a public announcement from me, regarding leaving the Church of Scientology, would be of so little consequence that it wasn’t worth doing.  Why risk creating any ill effects when no positive effects could come from it – such a tiny pebble tossed in the water that any ripples created wouldn’t even be seen, let alone felt.<br /><br />See, I was just a member, just a parishioner.  Not a celebrity nor a big status donor.  Not a business owner, nor influential in any large circles of Scientologists, either public or staff, or non-Scn VIPs.  Haven’t witnessed any crimes or illegal malfeasance the CoS leadership would want me silenced about.  Not a creative writer, nor public speaker, who might be sought out by media.  Apparently, I am not in a position to be of any significance to the CoS.  Just a parishioner.  No threat = No value to CoS. <br /><br />There’s also no reason for anyone in the church to come try to keep me because I don’t command a big income, commissions, bonuses.  I haven’t received any inheritances nor been given any large monetary gifts that I’m “withholding”.  I’m in the latter part of my “income earning years”, and what $$ of any size I did have, I’ve already donated to the IAS, the local Ideal Org campaign, and paid for auditing or the purchase of shiny new replacements of books and lectures. I’m the “common-man” work-a-day gal.  As an ex-Sea Org member I’m not eligible to join staff and I don’t live close enough to the local Org to be a prime volunteer candidate.  Church loses nothing, based on its current values.  No potential big bucks or cheap labor = No value to CoS.<br /><br />I’m fortunate not to have any family left in the CoS and nobody where I work gives three figs about Scientology, one way or the other.  Although, I’m sure there will be some Scientologist friends and acquaintances that will choose to keep my “enturbulation” off their lines by disconnecting, the whole reason for sending this notice out is to get the BS behemoth’s enturbulation off <em>my</em> lines.  I’m disconnecting from them.  What a HOOT!  Quit calling, quit emailing, quit sending print mailers in epic proportions, and quit coming to my door.<br /><br />I step away with my values intact <em>and</em> I keep my eternity.  Life is Good.<br /><br />Thanks to you and the other bloggers, commentators, ex’s, non’s, and anon’s – it’s quite the little intervention and rehab gig you’ve got going!  <br /><br />Marta L. Willson<br />
<h3><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>OPT OUT COMMUNICATION:</strong></span></h3>
I’m sending you this email, not with the intent to create upset, but out of respect for our past relationship.  I don’t want you to be blind-sided hearing it from someone else.  And so that you can take whatever action you think is needed as a result of the information.  I’m writing to let you know firsthand that I am leaving the Church of Scientology.  I have been a Scientologist since 1969, completed through grade VA on public lines, and solo-audited to Clear and OT as a Sea Org member and executive – prior to 1980.  I have had personal gains in Scientology that words just can’t do justice.  But, it is my experiences and observations over the past eight years that bring me to this decision.<br /><br />I’ve always been a steadfast supporter of LRH and the Scientology philosophy, so I didn’t arrive at the decision quickly or easily.  Yes, there are an abundance of reasons for my decision, but I won’t go into them here.  Suffice to say, that my personal values and (in my opinion) the fundamentals of the Scientology philosophy, do not align with the current operations and practices of the Church as it is currently organized and managed.  What I see is that the Church is producing far more BS and self-promotion than any other product or service, and is leaving as a by-product a wake of toxic bad news and ill repute the half-life of which is anybody’s guess.<br /><br />Until there is significant reform in the Church’s organizational structure, management style, and operational practices – I’m opting out.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br />Marta L Willson]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Debbie Cook - 45 Days in the Hole</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p><img style="margin-left: 10px; float: right;" alt="hands-bar" src="/images/stories/symbolic/hands-bar.jpg" height="219" width="300" />The level of sadism DM had sunk to since my departure after four days  into the Hole in Feb 2004 are enough to boggle any civilized mind. Not  only did all of International Management (CMO INT and Exec Strata),  and then CO FSO, but also the by-then holed CO FCB (Kirsti Wilhere), and  President CSI (Heber Jenzscth – yes, the 75 year old plus several  decade face of Scientology) were subjected to these inhumanities.</p>
<p>In the middle of summer 2007, when local temperature regularly rises  well above 110 degrees, DM ordered the electricity in the Hole to be cut  off for many days at a time.  DM also ordered that the penniless Hole  prisoners pay for their own food. What they paid for was, as one  survivor described it,  ”slop” or like “gruel” Oliver Twist style.  For  breakfast it was only oatmeal, and all other meals were slop. Everybody  had to wait in line and pay before eating. There were more than one  hundred people there.</p>
<p>The same Korean brainwashing technique of physically forcing Holers  to give confessions to the group were still going on daily; a practice  DM instituted in 1998, and intensified in late 2003. Remember again,  this is mid 2007.</p>
<p>In order to add insult to injury, DM had U Haul trucks pull up  outside, and U Haul boxes brought in to let all participants know he was  serious with his threats, “I’m going offload all of you.” I am sure  most would gladly have been offloaded, but after several years of mind  torture they no doubt understood there was no way out.</p>
<p>On many occasions the Holee’s were ordered to run a few hundred yards  to the Cine Conference room where DM held court during event  preparations.  He would interrupt whatever he was doing to go out to the  front lawn where the Holees had to stand for high volume toastings and  severe degradation adjustments. They had to stand at attention for  receipt of long, profanity laced dress downs of some or all of them  depending on his mood.</p>
<p>One day DM announced to the assembled in the Hole that Marc Yager  (one time CO CMO INT/WDC Chairman) and Guillaume Lesevre (one time ED  INT) were homosexual and were engaged in a gay relationship. To those  who have read my full blog and Scientology-cult.com you’d know that by  that time, DM had been alleging this to the entire crew for ten years.   But, for Debbie, Kristie (exCO FCB) and Heber, it was news.</p>
<p>Debbie was there when DM announced that Tom Cruise would come the  next day to “punch you guys out” if the one hundred Holee’s failed to  get a confession out of Guillaume and Marc.</p>
<p>When DM left Jenny Linsen Devocht, Angie Blankenship, and Lisa  Schroer (who were DM’s pets at the time, sort of in charge of the Hole  while being Holed themselves) decided that the Holees collectively will  “give some people some black eyes before Tom has to.”  Russ Bellin (once  CO CST) lead the charge of the bigger and stronger men in the hole who  began the beat downs of Yager, Guillaume and Ray Mithoff (once Snr CS  INT). The crew battered Marc, Guillaume and Ray. In the psychotic frenzy  even Norman Starkey and Heber sustained some collateral damage.   Debbie  managed not to participate in the carnage.</p>
<p>When DM returned for a report, Lisa Schroer (who remained a DM pet  throughout given her position as CO of  Gold, that handles the only  product he gives a damn about, Events)  in her inimitable fashion,  started embellishing the forced confessions allegedly gotten from  Guillaume and Yager while under legally recognized conditions of  torture. Lisa dutifully reported that Guillaume and Yager had in fact  confessed to having a homosexual relationship.</p>
<p>Debbie tried to correct the report, interjecting that they never  really confessed as Lisa was reporting. DM shut her up in a heartbeat.  Once DM left, Lisa Schroer , who was a little more in charge of the Hole  at the time than Jenny and Angie, briefed the Holees what a treasonous  “bitch”  Debbie was for “defending” Marc and Guillaume. She was accused  of being “mutual out ruds” for having sided with the victims of  torture.  That included loud accusations from Lisa, Angie and Jenny that  Debbie “must be a lesbo.”</p>
<p>For the next twelve hours Debbie was made to stand in a large garbage  can and face one hundred people screaming at her demanding a confession  as to her “homosexual tendancies”.  While this was going on water was  poured over her head.  Signs were put around Debbie’s neck, one marked  in magic marker “LESBO” while this torture proceeded.  Debbie was  repeatedly slapped across the face by other women in the room during the  interrogation. Debbie never did break.  And fittingly she was rewarded  with what turned out to be a break in another sense of the word.</p>
<p>When I confirmed all of these facts with multiple sources, I knew  without a doubt there was no turning back for me.</p>
<p>I well remember the purpose of the Sea Org.</p>
<p><em>Written by Marty Rathbun</em></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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