The head bridge queens at Scientology can try to shut Leah Remini up by threatening to cover her in cronut batter before siccing Kirstie Alley on her ass, but it’s never ever going to work. Right after we all found out that Leah Remini quit Scientology after spending over 20 years drinking the barley-flavored Kool-Aid, she burped out a vague statement of words and then her sister Nicole pulled up Xenu’s skirt by spilling some of Scientology’s secrets. But Leah wasn’t done there. At the 15th annual DesignCare event in Malibu on Saturday, People asked Leah Remini about her decision to quit the crazy and she said that they can take away her friends and her season tickets to John Travolta’s after-church drag show in the Scientology bathhouse (that’s probably the hardest thing to lose, honestly), but they can’t take away her voice!
“We stand united, my family and I, and I think that says a lot about who we are, and what we’re about. I believe that people should be able to question things. I believe that people should value family, and value friendships, and hold those things sacrosanct. That for me, that’s what I’m about. It wouldn’t matter what it was, simply because no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to. It doesn’t matter, it could be anything. I thought about the family being broken up for some other cause, and I’m not about to shut up.”
I know it’s hard to believe that Leah Remini is just figuring out now that David Miscarriage will shove an E-meter can down your throat if you even think about asking him where in the desert is the underground pod prison where his wife is being held against her will, but let me remind your ass that they probably implanted a chip into Leah’s brain a long time ago. The chip in Leah’s brain probably broke and her thoughts were released back to her when she stared at John Travolta’s Sharpie hair for way too long and realized that she can’t be a member of a church who condones a grown man wearing a beaver’s shaved ass on his head. It’s that simple.
And I bet Tommy Girl farted out a black cloud of rage when he found out that Leah used the word “sacrosanct.” “Sacrosanct” totally sounds like a Tommy Girl Word™.
Actress Leah Remini gives clues about Scientology split
Co-hosts Julie Chen (L) and Leah Remini joke during the CBS, Showtime and the CW Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 28, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
NEW YORK |
(Reuters) - U.S. actress Leah Remini has offered clues about why she left the Church of Scientology, telling People magazine no one is going to tell her how to think or who she can talk to.
Up until now the actress known for her role in the CBS comedy "King of Queens" gave little explanation for her split after three decades with the church that lists actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise among its members.
In a statement this month after the New York Post newspaper broke the story, Remini, 43, thanked fans and colleagues for their support but did not mention the Church of Scientology.
She told People magazine at an event in California on Saturday how important family is and being able to speak openly.
"I believe that people should value family, and value friendships, and hold those things sacrosanct. That for me, that's what I'm about," the magazine said on its website.
"It wouldn't matter what it was, simply because no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to."
In its story earlier this month the New York Post said the actress left the church, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, after "being subjected to years of 'interrogations' and 'thought modification' for questioning leader David Miscavige's rule."
Miscavige succeeded Hubbard as leader of the church in 1987.
Representatives for neither Remini nor the Church of Scientology immediately responded to requests for comment.
Followers of Scientology believe humans are immortal beings whose experience extends beyond one lifetime. Critics of the church describe it as a cult that harasses people who try and quit, a criticism the movement rejects.
Remini told People that she is not alone and that she is still close to her family.
"We stand united, my family and I, and I think that says a lot about who we are, and what we're about," she added.
(Editing by Mary Milliken and Andrew Hay)
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Leah Remini speaks out about Scientology split
It wouldn't matter what it was, simply because no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to.
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CelebrityJust days after Woman’s Day revealed exclusively that the Church of Scientology had tried to “cure” Ricky Martin of his homosexuality, King Of Queens star Leah Remini has broken her silence about her split from the controversial religion.
A devout Scientologist for three decades, Leah, 43, severed all ties with the church earlier this month. The New York Post reports that Leah’s split from the church was a result of a clash between the star and church leader, David Miscavige.
Now the actress vows she won’t be silenced. “I believe that people should be able to question things. I believe that people should value family, and value friendships, and hold those things sacrosanct,” Leah told People magazine.
“That for me, that's what I'm about. It wouldn't matter what it was, simply because no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to."
A source told the Post that Leah was “interrogated” and “blacklisted”, and that the church put her through a “thought modification” program for five years.
The Church of Scientology teaches that humans are immortal beings who require spiritual and psychological rehabilitation to realise their cosmic abilities. It has a large celebrity following including Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.
Related video: Mornings: Leaving the church of scientology.
A devout Scientologist for three decades, Leah, 43, severed all ties with the church earlier this month. The New York Post reports that Leah’s split from the church was a result of a clash between the star and church leader, David Miscavige.
Now the actress vows she won’t be silenced. “I believe that people should be able to question things. I believe that people should value family, and value friendships, and hold those things sacrosanct,” Leah told People magazine.
“That for me, that's what I'm about. It wouldn't matter what it was, simply because no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to."
A source told the Post that Leah was “interrogated” and “blacklisted”, and that the church put her through a “thought modification” program for five years.
The Church of Scientology teaches that humans are immortal beings who require spiritual and psychological rehabilitation to realise their cosmic abilities. It has a large celebrity following including Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.
Related video: Mornings: Leaving the church of scientology.
The Scientology Wikipedia whitewash continues: Operation Snow White II? Is Tony Ortega a reliable source? Are Scientologists ashamed of their affiliation?
“Money, money, money!!!! Gimme, gimme, gimme!”
First, we’d like to once again salute our comrade-in-arms Black Rob, truly an unstoppable, relentless thorn in the side of Hubbardian Kool Aid drinkers the world over:
Grant Cardone, New OT VIII completion, demonstrating his supreme OT ability to spot & shatter suppression. [Source:https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/i-have-a-thetan-who-does-things-to-my-mirror-and-its-annoying-what-should-i-do.105033/page-43]
We’ve got to hand it to Black Rob & the other folks at WWP — we always knew there were some nutcases in Scientology, but we never knew just how nutty Scilons can get.
We’re not talking about aliens, UFOs, insectoid Fifth Invader Forces (was Hubbard reading “Starship Troopers” when he came up with that garbage?), sexually deviant Marcabian psychs, etc or any of that crazy ass bullshit. We’re talking about the day-to-day weirdness of ordinary Scientologists.
You almost never see journalists, tabloid or otherwise, cover that sort of thing. They love to regurgitate the OT III Xenu story with lots of mentions of the words “aliens” (usually with pictures of the stereotypical “greys”) & “UFOs”, but that’s usually as far it goes. This type of coverage has the reverse effect on cult members, by vindicating what Miscarriage & cult management claim about the outside world: that it’s dominated by SPs & the global media is in the hands of the psychs who are determined to spread “black PR” about Scientology & L. Ron Hubbard. Replace “SPs” & “psychs” with “Jews” and you can understand how dangerous & insidious this type of thinking is.
We’ve even encountered news articles that claim Scientology involves the worship of “dead alien souls” (a Scientological oxymoron) and other variants of this theme — even Fraser Kee Scott, when he first got into Scientology sincerely thought that Scientology involved the worship of Xenu , based on an article he read in some tabloid. Maybe his brain was totally fried after all the LSD & meth, but it took quite an effort to convince him that Scientology has nothing to do with worship & that there isn’t any “Xenu” or anything like that. Of course, the Xenu myth does exist in Scientology, but anyone who knows anything about the cult knows that Xenu is just an incidental character, and since Scientology is actually about “returning to native state” (becoming a god-like being), there is no worship, though it can be argued that LRH is in a sense “worshipped” — all those hip-hip-hoorays while clapping facing a portrait of LRH is a form of worship — Scientology is nothing short of a personality cult elevated to the status of religion, not dissimilar to the North Korean political cult which is officially the state religion there.
That’s where the real news lies — not in talk of aliens & UFOs, but in how Scientologists idolise Hubbard as an all-powerful, all-knowing universal saviour & how their lives are dominated by superstitious absurdities cloaked in the guise of a “science”. Black Rob & others on WWP have been revealing these insanities better than anyone else anywhere by treading into areas that most journalists couldn’t possibly venture even if they wanted to. Very few in the past have come close to unveiling these insanities — Bent Corydon & Arnie Lerma were probably among the first who really tore the veil down & revealed the insanities inherent in the Scilon culture.
Considering just how fucked in the head most Scientologists are given all that data, we’ve gotta say that legit critical reporters like Tobin & Childs of the Tampa Bay Times & Tony Ortega are extremely, extremely tame & fair in their coverage.
Which brings us to this question: is Tony Ortega a bona fide journalist & a reliable source? For those just tuning in, we recently reported that Scilon “cleaner” Brook Zimmatore has been called into action by a few high level Kool Aid drinkers to “cleanse” the Web of negative references & “slanderous, defamatory” material, which includes Wikipedia articles about them, and of course blogs like ours. Zimmatore has actually been directing such efforts for some time now — we don’t know how these type of PR firms operate or if it’s even possible for them to get negative material taken down from the Web, but we’ve noticed that with quite a few Scilons, there are barely any references to their Scientology affiliations & activism except for a very few critical websites, including Ortega’s Underground Bunker.
Gottfried Helnwein has probably been the most successful at this strategy, when back in the 90s he orchestrated a successful campaign in Germany to quash any attempt by journalists to connect him to Scientology — he even went so far as to publicly denounce Scientology in very harsh terms (“Scientology is shit!” — actual Helnwein quote) & came up with a sob story that he had only a very minimal involvement with Scientology years ago & that he dumped the cult long ago. He also concocted a vast conspiracy story claiming that Scientology & allied elements of the German media were out to destroy him. He did all of this with the secret approval of cult management.
While other German Scientologists were literally being fed to the wolves by the cult, which never bothered to even lift a finger to help them, Helnwein was condemning & ridiculing Scientology with Miscavige’s personal approval. German journalist Peter Reichelt has written an entire book about this scandal & it’s a must read.
So all of this brings us now to Tony Ortega. We don’t know much details about his history other than that he’s been a journalist for years, mostly with alternative weeklies & then some years ago he became the editor in chief of the Village Voice, where he also ran a daily blog about Scientology that he continues today in an independent blog called the Underground Bunker.
From everything we’ve ever read about Tony, no one in the news media have ever questioned his journalistic credentials or anything like that. So from where we stand, Tony is a legitimate journalist and the Village Voice blog & Underground Bunker are as reliable as any other journalistic blogs like the Huffington Post, NY Times blog, Washington Post blog, etc. In fact, when it comes to Scientology, we’ve encountered fewer errors in Tony’s reporting than in the NY Times & Washington Post blogs. Some of his posts do carry a bit of a tabloid slant & the occasional speculation now & then, but for the most part he takes a serious tone on most matters related to Scientology & he’s cultivated enough reliable sources within the cult to carve out a unique position in contrast to most other journalists who bother to report on the cult. Over time he’s also taken a more balanced tone, so much so that we can tell you that his blog is one of the most visited, if not *the* most visited entheta website by active Scilons in good standing who have the nerve to even bother reading “entheta”, against cult rules. Yes, the last year and a half or has been extremely busy for Ethics Officer/MAAs.
But apparently there are a few people on Wikipedia, some of them even administrators (!!!), who don’t consider Tony Ortega to be a reliable source per Wikipedia regulations, and attempting to whitewash articles of prominent Scilons like Michael Doven, Grant Cardone, Kerri Kasem, and many others of any Scientology and other negative references. Yes, for whatever reason, these people, while they are among the most zealous & dedicated Scilons, apparently consider Scientology to be such a black stain that they want it kept off their articles.
We don’t know enough about Wikipedia regulations, but we do know how to spot a whitewash when it’s happening. Ironically, this is kind of similar to Operation Snow White in the 70s when the cult infiltrated dozens of government agencies in the US & other countries to get rid of any negative or critical data on Scientology in those agencies. Scientology has been in the whitewash business ever since then, trying to cleanse Usenet of any critical voices (even attempting to delete the Scientology newsgroup), and of course there was the situation with the Tom Cruise video on YouTube which sparked Project Chanology. There are many other examples.
They tried for years to wash Wikipedia articles of all critical & negative data until all IPs originating from Scientology servers were banned en masse. It was apparently a huge flap. So the cult has apparently been utilising a different whitewash strategy, which also may or may not involve Wikipedia administrators. We only recently discovered this “special project” when Grant Cardone made a lot of noise recently at CC Int voicing his frustrations about his Wikipedia article.
What’s even more surprising is that Michael Doven’s article literally has no reference at all to Scientology when we checked it recently. We don’t know about any of you, but Doven is such a high level figure & zealous advocate for the cult that it seems ridiculous for his article not to have any mention of Scientology. FFS, the man was literally ordered by David Miscavige personally to confront Marty Rathbun face to face! Think about it!
If the cult can get away with whitewashing articles on the likes of Grant Cardone & Michael Doven (both personal stooges of Miscarriage), then that’s very sad. If Wikipedia allows for this kind of whitewashing, we hope at least the Wikimedia Foundation is not receiving any public funds or grants, because that’s just bullshit. Just the fact that there are Wikipedia administrators allowing for this whitewash should be cause for concern to the public & especially those who donate to keep Wikipedia functioning.
We hope this isn’t the case & that sanity & reason will hold up on Wikipedia to disallow this whitewashing — Scientologists who’ve got Wikipedia articles on them shouldn’t have the right to keep the fact of their affiliation hidden from the public. And we’re of the mind that until a notable or prominent Scientologist has publicly confirmed dumping the cult & disavowing Scientology, or there is verifiable evidence to prove this in the absence of a public confirmation, that they should be considered members in good standing.
So we hope that Wikipedia can maintain it’s objectivity & accept Tony Ortega as a legitimate, acceptable source — to do otherwise scores a victory for the cult & threatens the credibility of Wikipedia & it’s attempt to maintain a neutral point of view.
Lastly, while we were catching up with the comments going back a few posts, we noticed a couple of people suggesting we put up a donation button & start accepting donations. We appreciate that a lot, but we really can’t.
We don’t care that some exes hate our guts & consider us not credible or think we’re OSA plants or whatever other bullshit they can come up with. They’ve every right to believe whatever the hell they want to believe. More power to them. But if we started accepting donations, these people would go batshit insane & who knows what people like that are capable of or what they would attempt to do. Obviously this blog appears to be quite polarising & we struck a few nerves here & there.
We don’t see that as a bad thing — if anything, it demonstrates that we’re doing something right. Otherwise, if we were completely full of shit, no one would bother to attack us or question our credibility.
So we’ll never ask for or expect any donations — when we’re blown for good, maybe we’ll write a book and make a few bucks that way. 
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Video: Tom Cruise helms and grinds on the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72
There mustn’t be many famous Hollywood actors that can get you a greater return from a media and publicity stunt and the kiwi America’s Cup challenger got probably one of the most famous of them, Tom Cruise, to grind and helm after their victory with Luna Rossa. One wonders though who and how much paid Cruise for his visit to the Emirates Team New Zealand base in San Francisco and subsequent ride on the boat. However, there isn’t any doubt it is the best publicity the America’s Cup could get.
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