The three hour radio broadcast on the God Discussion radio show last night, revealed an “extremely disturbing” story of the death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan who was denied his anti-depressant medication because of his father's religious beliefs. Kyle was found at his father's apartment, shot in the head with his father's .357 Magnum - - the gun was lying near his body.http://tinyurl.com/audoabp
The hosts and guests examined and discussed how Scientology abhors the use of psychiatric medication and the trail of devastation and death attributed to this cult enforced dogma.
Link to podcast of God Discussion - “Justice for Kyle Brennan”:
Speaking publicly for the first time was Victoria Britton, Kyle’s mom, who shared with radio host Deborah Beeksma about her 20-year-old son's death. Victoria spoke about how Kyle, a non-Scientologist, felt about the Church of Scientology; and how he became a victim of the church's dictatorial "handling" mandate and its well-known war against psychiatry and psychotropic medications. http://www.kylebrennan.com/
Ex-Scientologist Lance Marcor discussed the Scientology "handling" and "disconnection" policies, two of Scientology's most injurious policies. Lance joined Scientology’s “Sea Org”, the unit comprising the church’s most dedicated members in 1978 and left in 2007. His unique experience as a former Scientology insider, qualified him to speak on the show about the organization’s inner workings - - an eye-opener for listeners.
Court Exhibit 1 – Declaration of Lance Marcor:http://tinyurl.com/cets5v4
Dr. Stephen Wiseman, from Vancouver, Canada, spoke about Scientology from a psychiatrist's point of view; and David Love talked about Narconon - how the facility treats illegal drugs and medically approved medications as being one and the same.
Dr. Stephen Wiseman: “Suppressive Person” website: http://tinyurl.com/cu9tpjv
Dr. Wiseman is a proponent of evidence-based medicine, and believes that the fear and mis-information presented by Scientology about psychiatry over the years has perpetuated the stigma against patients and their families and has been very destructive to the cause of rational mental health treatment for all who require it.
Foremost on last night’s broadcast, was Victoria Britton, a grieving mom, who has been seeking the truth about Kyle’s death—and fighting for justice for her son, despite tremendous adversity—since his death in 2006. She believes that Kyle’s story is an important one that must be told. “It can serve as a warning to others. It can save lives” she said.
Victoria filed a lawsuit in 2009 in Tampa federal court on behalf of her son's estate and in September 2012, a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of an aggressively contested wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology and three parishioners after the apparent suicide of Kyle.
Thomas Brennan, told police he found his son dead after returning from work, but many, including Lance Marcor on last night’s show, question whether it was murder?
As per Scientology policy, a church ethics officer then told Thomas Brennan to direct his son to leave the apartment and to "handle'' him according to church policy. Kyle’s father locked his son's Lexapro in the trunk of his car. Kyle Brennan was dead within 24 hours.
The lawsuit, which named Thomas Brennan as one of the defendants, alleged he acted without regard to Kyle's safety and that Brennan wrongfully withdrew medically necessary Lexapro.
Reams of Court documents can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/c6g2m8p
Notable is the following Blog post:
“The rotten foundation of the decision of Judge Merryday to dismiss the case, which has now been affirmed by the appellate judges, is the travesty of the investigation into Kyle's death by Clearwater Police Detective Stephen Bohling with his cover up and massive lying about Kyle's diagnosis and every important aspect of the case.”
“The affair cries out for an independent investigation and re-opening of the case.”
Victoria Britton was welcomed on the first hour of the God Discussion show and expressed her feelings about scientology “practicing medicine without a licence.” Listening to Victoria indeed raised many questions surrounding her son’s death - - dispelling the suicide assumption.
Kyle, making a bank deposit into his savings account prior to his death, does not create an image of “someone with thoughts of suicide” commented Al, a show host.
This horrific ordeal had Victoria commenting she was living a "House of Horrors, without exit doors." The media wrangling “was like a three-ringed circus”, she said.
There was so many absurd contradictions in the lawsuit depositions, that Victoria said although not experiencing any harassment from Scientology, she said “I felt like I had been sucked up in an attic tube and deposited into this very dark, dark underworld that made little or no sense to me - - it’s been a horrific journey, and I don’t have any words…”
The gracious show hosts, Deborah and Al, said before the show, when discussing details, they were fighting tears. “I can’t even imagine”, said Al.
At one hour into the show, Victoria was given the floor and asked listeners: “To the people who may be thinking about leaving Scientology at this moment, or perhaps they’re confused if they should stay or leave, to ask themselves what kind of a belief system - - one that calls itself a church, is going to ask you to deny the strongest instinct and emotions that makes you human, and that is to love and protect your children. And that no organization; especially one that calls itself a church should ever ask a parent to throw their child away or to disconnect from them - - and to think about that and when you do, don’t walk away from this organization, RUN as fast as you can because your life or your child’s life may depend on that.”
In the second half of the broadcast, Dr. Stephen Wiseman discussed how one must remember that “Scientology is the brain-child of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology is a reflection of Hubbard’s personality and own issues. So, it’s quite clear, certainly to my understanding and my reading, that this gentleman, quite likely with a severe narcissistic personality disorder or something quite similar… is a man of paranoia.”
“If there were 50 million Scientologist’s in America right now, it would be a pretty scary place”, said Dr. Wiseman, responding to Lance Marcor’s comment about “L. Ron Hubbard being against democracy and clearing the planet of all people except Scientologists.”
Al jumped in, saying “it’s obvious that the cheese had ‘slidden-off’ of Hubbard’s cracker a long time back.”
Dr. Wiseman expressed how one must be careful in life because “once Scientology gets their hooks into you, it can be too late - - we all have vulnerable moments”, he said.
Referring back to the early 1990’s, Dr. Wiseman tells his story of “walking the streets of Sydney, Australia” and was invited into a church of Scientology for a Personality Test. He was tired after a long flight, and without much thought agreed.
However, after the test, he told the staff person that he “just finished working at a psychiatric hospital and was about to start a residency in psychiatry. Basically, they said we’re not interested - - in other words, get the hell out of our room!” His point was, “we all have moments when we’re vulnerable and we’ll say yes to something, as opposed to saying no.”
In ending the show with comments about how to inform the public and expose Scientology’s destructive practices, the guests concurred that this organization is soon in for a reckoning.
Dr. Stephen Wiseman concluded the show with “I think that if Scientology was a country, it would probably be North Korea - - I do think they’re heading for an ending and it’s going to be an apocalypse ending - - I think it’s going to be pretty grim, with tens of thousands of psychiatrists across the globe who are going to be quite happy about that.”
This God Discussion broadcast was an emotional experience for many, and Victoria Britton was commended by all - - with mention of another show in the near future.
Kyle's mom posted a wonderful tribute in this video description:
"A tribute to my twenty-year-old son, Kyle Brennan, who died tragically on February 17th, 2007 in Clearwater, Florida...It is in the early morning that I often make the journey to where my youngest son now sleeps--beneath the shadow of Monticello Mountain. There--in the day's new beginning--the mountain light is crisper, the birdsongs are clearer, and the dew on the grass is still cool. On my way to the cemetery, I pass the college he once attended, and past Carter's Mountain where Kyle-the little storyteller-once entertained his young classmates. On the empty passenger seat beside me sits a bouquet of wildflowers and red roses. The backyard gardens of his youth now supply the flowers for his final resting place. When I tend to his grave I find myself singing him soft lullabies, the very same I sang him long ago. It is then that I feel the full weight of my loss. Though life seems as constant as the moon and the stars, and sunshine seems but a day away, I now reside in a sadder place. It is a world filled with memories and reminders of what will never be...a world without my Kyle.”
David Edgar Love
click on the link to give some link love to one of the great scientology fighters - David Love
'Suri Cruise had a lucky escape': Niece of Scientology's boss tells of harrowing childhood that led her to try and jump off roof of church's L.A. headquarters
- Jenna Miscavige is the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige
- New book tells of her harrowing upbringing inside the church
- She was forced to join chain gang and quizzed about sex life at the age of 13
- Finally left after being sent to Australia where she first used the internet
- Now runs a support group for others who want to leave Scientology
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The niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige has told of her miserable upbringing inside the church and how she tried to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of its celebrity headquarters in Los Angeles.
Jenna Miscavige, said she was kept away from her parents sometimes for over a year at a time, forced to break rocks on a riverbed and grilled on her sex life at the tender age of 13.
Things got so bad that at the age of 16, when she was stopped from seeing a boyfriend, she climbed out onto the roof of Scientology's celebrity headquarters on Hollywood Boulevard and was ready to jump before church elders frantically pulled her back inside.
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Speaking out: Jenna Miscavige (right) niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige (left) has told how she was driven to try and commit suicide after enduring a miserable childhood inside the church
Drop: Ms Miscavige said she tried to jump off the the roof of Scientology's celebrity headquarters in Los Angeles but was held back by church officials
In her new book Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape, Ms Miscavige tells how she managed to escape the clutches of the church, famous for its celebrity devotees like Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
And she claims Cruise's six-year-old daughter Suri had a lucky escape after her mother Katie Holmes split from the superstar actor.
Ms Miscavige, 29, told the Sun: 'I don't know what will happen to Suri in her relationship with her mother but I know the Scientologists tore my family apart'.
Escape: Ms Miscavige claims Cruise's daughter Suri had a lucky escape after her mother Katie Holmes split from the superstar actor
In her incredible account of growing up inside the church, Mrs Miscavige Hill told how her parents had joined the Sea Orgs, the church's elite inner circle, and worked 14 hour days.
She was brought up in a Scientology Nursery before being sent to a ranch in the Californian desert where her days were spent breaking rocks on a riverbed.
At 13 she was given her first 'audit' in which she was quizzed about her sex life, by elders who demanded to know if she masturbated or had homosexual feelings - the sort of information which she believes they later use to blackmail members.
At the age of 16 she fell in love with a boy, but when church leader discovered they had had sex they hit the roof and tore him away from her to be 'purged' - the event that led her to attempt suicide.
Eventually the church agreed they could marry with the ceremony being held at the celebrity Scientology centre in LA, none of her family attended, there was no honeymoon and the couple were imemediately sent back to work.
Ms Miscavige's parents had left Scientology In 2000, when she was 16 years old, after becoming disillusioned with its practices.
In the five years that followed, she has claimed that - because of the church's policy of 'disconnection' with relatives and friends who do not support the cult - all letters between them were intercepted and she was not allowed to answer the telephone for over a year.
Her book details how she and her husband Dallas, were sent to Australia by the church, in a missionary-style or work-exchange program.
It was there that she reportedly first came into contact with the internet, which, along with television, is banned by the church and began to read negative reports about her uncle.
For Ms Miscavige, a major turning point was when she decided she wanted to become a mother. While married Sea Orgs are allowed to have sex, they are not permitted to have children.
'If you do become pregnant when you're there, you get kicked out,' she told The Huffington Post.
'Or many of my friends were actually coerced into having abortions,' she alleged.
Tell all memoir: 'Beyond Belief, left, will reveal 'strange and disturbing' details about growing up in the church. Ms Miscavige Hill, right has set up a support group to help other Scientologists, current and former
VIDEO: Jenna Miscavige on growing up in scientology community
During those pivotal months, she re-connected with her once-distant parents who coached her through the difficult process of leaving the church.
Though Scientology members accosted both she and her husband when they started talking about leaving, they remained strong and stayed together.
After leaving the church, Ms Miscavige, with Kendra Wiseman and Astra Woodcraft - both also raised in Scientology - founded the website exscientologykids.com.
The site was launched as support group offering 'non-judgmental support for those who are still in Scientology, discussion and debate for those who've already left, and a plethora of easy-to-understand references for the curious'.
Memoirs: Jenna Miscavige Hill, 28, daughter of David's older brother Ron, has been a frequent critic of the Church of Scientology since publicly breaking with it in 2005
Following the public split between the cult's most famous member, Tom Cruise, and wife Katie Holmes, Ms Miscavige Hill spoke out in support of Holmes and the couple's daughter Suri.
'My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive,' she said in a statement released through the Ex-Scientology Kids website.
'I was allowed to see my parents only once a week at best – sometimes not for years.
The site was launched as support group offering 'non-judgmental support for those who are still in Scientology, discussion and debate for those who've already left, and a plethora of easy-to-understand references for the curious'.
The site was launched as support group offering 'non-judgmental support for those who are still in Scientology, discussion and debate for those who've already left, and a plethora of easy-to-understand references for the curious'.
Following the public split between the cult's most famous member, Tom Cruise, and wife Katie Holmes, Ms Miscavige Hill spoke out in support of Holmes and the couple's daughter Suri.
'My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive,' she said in a statement released through the Ex-Scientology Kids website.
'I was allowed to see my parents only once a week at best – sometimes not for years.
'We got a lousy education from unqualified Teachers, forced labor, long hours, forced confessions, being held in rooms not to mention the mental anguish of trying to figure out all of the conflicting information they force upon you as a young child.
'While it is very unlikely that Suri Cruise would have the same upbringing as me (due to her parent's celebrity status), any organization that is capable of mistreating and neglecting the needs of children, regardless of their social status, and which has a long history of breaking up families is no place for an innocent child.
INSIDE THE CONTROVERSIAL 60-YEAR OLD RELIGION
Scientology has been dogged by controversy almost since the day it was created.
The belief was founded in 1952 by L Ron Hubbard who until then had been known for writing pulp and science fiction novels.
Followers believe that inside them are ancient alien beings known as thetans which have lived for thousands of years on other planets and were brought to Earth on a space ship that looks like a Douglas DC-8 plane.
Through a process called Dianetics they make themselves far better people, and even massively boost their IQ.
Such claims however have never been proved and instead Scientology has faced allegations it charges outrageous fees for its services and abuses its followers.
Among the most controversial aspects are 'audits' in which followers have to explain their inner secrets to a superior, including their sex lives.
There have also been reports of bizarre punishments and questions have been raised over what happened to the wife of its current leader David Miscavige, who has reportedly not been seen since 2007.
Those who join the higher order of Scientology, known as Sea Org, pledge their allegiance for one billion years - a vow supposedly made by children as young as 10.
Scientology courts Hollywood stars and famous followers include Tom Cruise and John Travolta but it is very rare that they speak about their beliefs.
Cruise's marriage to Katie Holmes was said to have ended over her refusal to allow their six-year-old daughter Suri to be indoctrinated.
She was also said to be concerned about the child being sent to the Scientology Gold Base in California where members are banned from having children, are paid just $50 a week and can be punished for simply looking at somebody the wrong way.
Scientology was also the basis of the current cinema hit The Master in which a drifter is taken in by the leader of a cult-like group.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279585/Suri-Cruise-lucky-escape-Niece-Scientology-boss-tells-harrowing-childhood-tried-jump-roof-churchs-L-A-headquarters.html#ixzz2LBJVpUz1
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