"Dear Thoughtful,

"You know, others have tried all this in the past. Their strategy wasn't right, nor was their overall message and they didn't have websites! You have built a fantastic website and your message... spot on. Without you we'd be screwed, to put it bluntly.

"I bow to your marketing and web skills and just watch the hits meter tick over. I think you are at just about a minimum of a 1,000 clicks a day. Between the websites of you and your like-minded friends, a fantastic amount of interest is being generated.

"But you started the true voice of the middle path, before you there wasn't one. The stuff on the web was HORRIBLE. So us "middle-pathers" are in your debt and that's the truth.

"Somehow the message you intended to portray -- the "I'm pro LRH and Scientology but against the Miscavigology" -- comes across so well. Its an important stable datum for me in these crazy times and I think that is true for a lot of other similar-minded people, the rational guys who managed to keep their sanity and not give in to the urge to hate it all, when so many others went very that route under the stress. I don't blame those guys, most of them are victims of terrible abuse, I just don't like their sites and blogs because they would throw out the baby with the bath water.

"In time, I think many of the more angry victims will be won over. In time they will realize that just because they were brainwashed and abused by David Miscavige doesn't mean it was the tech or LRH that did it. Today, you are actually setting a good example by using Scientology to fix Scientology and blow the whistle on a psychotic dictator.

"So, in case I never said it, THANK YOU!"

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"I just wanted to say that I REALLY like the scientology-cult.com website. The data is really informative and I really appreciate each new posting. I check daily for new things on this website.

"The recent postings from T. PAINE and THOUGHTFUL are excellent. I especially like the posting about WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY REALLY and the posting about FAMILY RIGHTS. I think THOUGHTFUL is spot on for posting the article about what Scientology is really. There are various people who join the bandwagon who are antagonistic to the whole subject. They are free to have their views, but I appreciate the fact that we have an unbiased approach to the whole subject that can differentiate the facts from the opinion and put things into perspective and proper context.

"I myself LOVE SCIENTOLOGY and LRH and hate the fact that COB brings down the whole subject by his actions. So really laying it out for people to see who the right target is in this situation is helpful and needed. People in my immediate life are willing to throw the whole subject in the trash because of the wrongdoings of COB and it’s a damn shame. So I hope these postings might shed some light and get them to see that they don’t need to be haters.

"Thank you to all for putting this website up and taking the time to spread the TRUTH. I am regularly promoting this website to people I know! Keep it coming!"

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"I just read that new site www.scientology-cult.com (a friend sent it to me) and I want to thank you for all that you are doing. I can tell that you, as well as some others I know, are writing the truth finally.

"I agree completely with your goals and purposes and with the information and observations that are laid out in those articles. If you need any help or support I will be happy to help where I can.

"I always thought if regular public Scientologists knew the truth about what DM was doing behind the scenes, they would be outraged and demand his removal. As more and more of his abuses become public knowledge, maybe we can finally get the good works of the Scientology Tech being used more to help people. Afterall, that is why many of us got involved in the first place -- to help people.

"If the image of Scientology were handled, DM removed and the Tech and Policy used properly in a humane way, there is no reason for the Tech to become as big if not bigger than Microsoft. And what a better place this world would be!"

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"To the authors of Scientology-cult.com, thank you. Reading through it all I have gained much better understanding as to why I felt compelled to leave the church recently.
 
"I have no personal encounters with David Miscavige save my appeal to him in writing to help call off the dogs who were preventing me from doing my job. The respond was an instant route to the RPF. Well, my sneaking suspicion about who is nuts is fully confirmed thanks to the good people like yourselves.
 
"I keep asking myself what constructive action could I take to help restore the wealth of Scientology tech and get it back to where it belongs, the people. In your actions I sense an inevitable victory and would hate to be just an onlooker."

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"I left Sea Org in the early 1980s after a botched Ethics handling.  I wrote Heber in 1984 and resigned from the Church after hearing about the "gang bang Sec Checks" that David Miscavige was involved in. It was Black Scientology and I wanted no more association with a group that was being run by a man who would use that on his own staff.
 
"I attended the 19th ACC which Ron ran with the help of Nibs and the Halperns. He gave a lecture about the "Frankenstein Monster Effect" where you build a machine and then put it on automatic. Although he didn't mention Scientology specifically, it was obvious that the theory applied. A little "Frankenstein Monster Effect" from DM was enough for me to realize where this was all headed. So the reports that were written that show he continued to browbeat and bully for 25 more years made me all the happier that I left when I did. Thank you all for helping expose what is going on which is just continuous criminal acts."

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"Reading your site today. All of it resonated. Especially 'Common Sense' where I had a grief charge; the first in 20 years. A good thing. So much suppressed for so long. It was a wonderful Remedy M."

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"Your website was the first one I dared to look at after leaving the SO and it was my springboard to looking. Thank you as my life has truly been different since then." – George

We are a think tank of loyal Scientologists formed around the recognition that Scientology’s problems trace directly to the hidden corruption and criminality of David Miscavige, the self-appointed dictator who subverted Scientology.

Our purpose is to provide transparency to all sides and thereby bring Scientology out of its own Dark Age and into present time where it belongs.

Non-violent, non-corporate and non-commercial, our only pledge is to observe and state what we have observed, do what we can to help and support those abused by Miscavige and bring about a reformation of the subject to its real purpose -- giving people greater freedom in their lives.

Meet the Untouchables

Dozens of us who ran afoul of Miscavige due to his criminal actions resigned in protest. Though virtually everyone tried, It was not possible to correct the Church from within since Miscavige subverted HCO and RTC for his purposes. A knowledge report sent to the correct posts for handling simply went to Miscavige and marked you for trouble. In most cases, those of us who quit lost everything and emerged from the Church penniless, jobless, bereft of friends, family and even our spouses. Miscavige made sure we were stripped bare. No money, no belongings, no 401K, no retirement, no insurance, no place to live. He made it as difficult for us as he could but we came back.

Ironically, having nothing else to lose has become the very source of our strength; that, along with intimate knowledge of David Miscavige's criminal activities. Like the original Untouchables who brought down Al Capone in the early 1930s, we too can't be bought off, blackmailed, threatened or stopped. We are the ones Miscavige could not corrupt, bend or break. We are not attacking Scientology, we seek only transparency to clean up criminality.

Smearing Reputations

Years ago Hubbard pointed out psychiatrists who rape their patients have the perfect alibi should victims go to the police. "She's insane!" David Miscavige uses the same trick. Information gained through Church confessionals is twisted to discredit the person and distributed to their member organizations. More on exactly how Miscavige obtains the "evidence" he uses to discredit whistle blowers may be found here.

Not a coup

One of the old ploys David Miscavige uses is to accuse any whistle blower of engineering a coup. In fact, Chairman Miscavige has already used this a number of times including in response to recent St Pete Times articles. This tactic feels natural to him because he obtained his own position by coup in the early 1980s.

Over the past 2 1/2 decades, David Miscavige has turned Scientology into a criminal organization that emits phony PR to cover up criminality. The world is taking action to expose his criminality and thereby bring reform, not because anyone is staging a coup, but because PEOPLE ARE BEING HARMED! Duh.

Proviso

Because Miscavige's policy calls for the harassment and attack of critics (regardless of the truth) to silence them by any means, the authors of this website have chosen to remain confidential for the moment. However, that also limits what we can disclose to only those facts that will not also reveal our identity. Because of that, most of what we know, the exact time, place, form and event, what was written, what was said and done, has yet to be revealed.

Should the Church take any action to harass, threaten or otherwise persecute us for exercising our freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment, be assured facts will be revealed in far greater detail.

This website has been backed up on multiple servers, and is overseen by multiple administrators.

Written by Thoughtful

I was a highly-positioned staff member of the Church of Scientology for many years and most people would be shocked to discover the extent of my positive contributions. After some 25 years on staff, however, including a span of approximately 20 years in Scientology's international headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, I decided to leave staff due to the unethical practices of David Miscavige, the self-appointed dictator of the Church. Specifically, on four separate occasions Miscavige physically assaulted and violently battered individuals in my presence, sending a strong message that anyone in the room was likely to be next, especially me. Once he picked up a large, heavy glass ashtray and threatened to strike me with it. The standoff lasted about 60 seconds, him fuming, ashtray in hand stating he was going to hit me with it. Me, standing on the other side of the conference table, incredulous, alarmed, having no clue why or even what I had done wrong. Prior to that, he had walked in holding one of my "submissions," a legal-size manila folder about 2" thick with paper, wrapped with strong rubber bands, weighing about as much as a ream of paper, and threw it at me hard. Another time he threw a submission at one of my staff.

Miscavige and Lou Stuckenbrock

Twice in my presence, he ordered his female assistant, Laurisse "Lou" Stuckenbrock (a black belt) to physically strike a junior staff member saying, "Hit him in the face! Go over there right now and punch him in the face. Hit him as hard as you want. Do it! If he moves or resists in any way, it'll be my turn." And he laughed (sadism). Lou did in fact go over to the individual and twice feigned a punch making the victim flinch. Lou was later ordered by Miscavige to divorce her husband, Uwe Stuckenbrock, when he was sent to the RPF or Rehabilitation Project Force. This under Miscavige is not a place for rehabilitation which should take months at most. Miscavige uses it as a "jail" and people are there for five and six years. Uwe was kept there five years, until he died from Multiple Sclerosis in October, 2008. To my knowledge, Lou never even visited him a single time. Today, there is evidence that Lou is having an affair with Miscavige who is now estranged from his wife, Shelly. There are even damning photos from Rebel008.

The four assaults I witnessed where David Miscavige actually attacked someone were against Mike Rinder, Mark Yager, Guillaume Leserve and Ray Mithhoff (four of the highest-ranking officers of the Church of Scientology). In the case of Mike Rinder, he and I were standing shoulder to shoulder when Mike was attacked. Miscavige didn't like a minor edit thnat Mike had made to a video we were working on in early December 2003. Suddenly Miscavige just went off: he lunged, grabbed Mike's head with both hands and bashed his head into solid cherry-wood paneling three times putting his whole body into the effort. Mike has since departed from the Church. Violent physical abuse is just the tip of a dark iceberg.

When the St Petersburg Times came out with stories of assault from four ex-staff including Miscavige's two top lieutenants, Tommy Davis (cursing whack-job mouthpiece for David Miscavige) said none of it was true. To put his words in perspective, little Tommy was never even at Int during those years. So how would he know? Adding insult to injury, Davis also tried to shift the blame onto the witnesses themselves (Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder), saying they were the ones who did the assaulting.

In response, the St Pete Times did another article in which 11 more people came forward and corroborated these and other assaults. Since then, more have come forward, such as this one who also witnessed David Miscavige assaulting Jeff Hawkins. Truth be told, there are many more people still in the wings who for one reason or another have not come forward yet, but they will.

To be clear, this website is not an attack on Scientology. It is an attack on criminality. I use Scientology every day. I'm using it now to bring about a higher level of understanding. There is no justification for crime; that is the philosophic reality that underlies law. Crimes are always unnecessary and highly irrational.

Strangely, in the case of "Chairman" Miscavige, it is not only he who justifies his behavior. Many Scientologists support or at least overlook his actions "whatever they are." Unfortunately, that in itself is gangland mentality. "The boss had to kill Pete. Too bad for Pete." Giving anyone carte blanche to do "whatever" is gross irresponsibility. When group members condone unethical practices, they open the door to group destruction because crimes do not stay hidden. One of the primary objectives of Scientology is to bring people into better communication. Secrets stop that from happening.

It is no generality to say that Scientology’s reputation is a disgrace. According to Gallup poll Scientology is regarded as the world’s number one most disliked religion, ranked below even atheists. And why are opinions statistically so negative?

Unethical practices are what make a religion into a cult. Physical abuse, forced abortions, breaking up families, civil and human rights violations... along with Miscavige's adversarial policy of belligerence toward anyone who refuses to worship him... these are why Scientology is considered a cult. Miscavige proclaimed in 1993 "the war is over." What he did next was create an even bigger and nastier war with non-Scientologists so that today Scientology is the target of a legion of bloggers and websites. Miscavige thinks that's "just the Internet." He even stated recently that he "does not like the Internet." Well, the Internet isn't "just the Internet" it's the world. It's the world in better communication. Scientology’s long-standing reputation as a cult is not just the result of “bigotry and hate” as alleged by the Church (though certainly bigotry and hate exist) but of internal criminality, arrogance and hostility.

Scientology is neither all bad nor all good. Like anything else, Scientology is a mixture of good and bad. If Scientology ceased all criminal practices its reputation would improve drastically. Short of that, no public relations actions, no marketing campaigns, no big buildings are ever going to do anything.

L. Ron Hubbard made it the job of every Scientologist to stamp out unethical practices. But what do you do when the man at the top is corrupt and organization tries to cover it up? If you take action against him, you face potential banishment. Yet many individuals have decided to step forward and do the right thing even though it meant saying goodbye forever to family and friends.

Crimes are impossible to hide forever even when covered up. Therefore every crime enacted by someone in a position of trust strikes at the very heart of the movement. Assault and battery, extortion, unlawful restraint, theft and a host of civil and human rights violations blind the world from seeing anything good in Scientology.

When an organization condones crime, it forfeits integrity and reputation. Assertions to the contrary are perceived as whitewash and mockery. There is no criticism here of Scientology’s beliefs. People are entitled to believe what they want. The only thing we condemn is criminality.

This website is an independent effort written by individuals who have experienced the best and the worst of Scientology. The point is not to sit in judgment, it is to bring insight. Most people know nothing about Scientology. Some are familiar with one side or the other. Few know both sides really well. Critics don’t really understand the good of Scientology. Scientologists don’t understand the bad.

Read on. You will learn a lot.

Written by Thoughtful

If you've ever made a negative comment about Scientology to a Scientologist you may have noticed it makes them quite angry. Here's why.

Scientologists are in the position of having benefited greatly from the good parts of Scientology and they naturally want to share a good thing. But when they try, they end up sabotaged by their own leadership -- David Miscavige -- the man who has done the most to create Scientology's cult image. Scientologists who try to "spread the news" get hit by the cult-image backlash that Miscavige has created. As a Scientologist, I can tell you it is infuriating to be in that position. There is so much potential good in Scientology, but it is impossible to tell anyone about it because the organization has been transformed into a cult (and people don't trust cults).

It is possible for one man to utterly derail, subvert and destroy a group. Take Germany for example. Add Hitler and the result is ruin and death. Similarly with Scientology. Scientology isn't natively a evil cult. It has been made that way by a dictator who took over the organization in the early 1980s. David Miscavige has done for Scientology what many other dictators in the past have done for their groups. The real problem isn't Scientology, it is a money-motivated power-mad and genuinely suppressive dictatorship that has taken over and created an intensely negative public image through the commission of continual illegal acts and through his enforcement of destructive policy.

Written by Thoughtful