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At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun
Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church.
By Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen
Times Staff Writers
December 18, 2005
GILMAN HOT SPRINGS ? Nearly 30 years ago, the Church of Scientology bought a dilapidated and bankrupt resort here and turned the erstwhile haven for Hollywood moguls and starlets into a retreat for L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion.
Today, the out-of-the-way 500-acre compound near Hemet has quietly grown into one of Scientology's major bases of operation, with thriving video and recording studios, elaborate offices and a multimillion-dollar mansion that former members say was built for the eventual return of "LRH," who died in 1986.
Like the previous owners, the church also has used the property as a sanctuary for its own stable of stars. It is here, ex-members say, that Hollywood's most bankable actor, Tom Cruise, was assiduously courted for the cause by Scientology's most powerful leader, David Miscavige.
Scientology has long recruited Hollywood luminaries. But the close friendship of these two men for nearly 20 years and their mutual devotion to Hubbard help explain Cruise's transformation from just another celebrity adherent into the public face of the church.
The bond between the star and his spiritual leader was evident last year when the two traded effusive words and crisp salutes at a Scientology gala in England. Calling Cruise "the most dedicated Scientologist I know," Miscavige presented him with the church's first Freedom Medal of Valor.
"Thank you for your trust, thank you for your confidence in me," Cruise replied, according to Scientology's Impact magazine. "I have never met a more competent, a more intelligent, a more tolerant, a more compassionate being outside of what I have experienced from LRH. And I've met the leaders of leaders. I've met them all."
Founded in 1954, Scientology is a religion without a deity. It teaches that "spiritual release and freedom" from life's problems can be achieved through one-on-one counseling called auditing, during which members' responses are monitored on an "e-meter," similar to a polygraph. This process, along with a series of training courses, can cost Scientologists many tens of thousands of dollars.
As Scientology's highest-ranking figure, Miscavige, 45, has found in Cruise, 43, not just a fervent and famous believer but an effective messenger whose passion the church has harnessed to help fuel its worldwide growth.
"Across 90 nations, 5,000 people hear his word of Scientology ? every hour," International Scientology News proclaimed last year. "Every minute of every hour someone reaches for LRH technology ... simply because they know Tom Cruise is a Scientologist."
Cruise and Miscavige declined requests for interviews.
A Scientology spokesman, Mike Rinder, called them the "best of friends," men who've achieved great success through "their force of personality and their drive to excel."
At the same time that Cruise's increasingly vocal advocacy of Scientology has drawn attention to his faith, it has collided with his career. While promoting "War of the Worlds" this year, the film's director, Steven Spielberg, grew concerned that Cruise was talking too little about the movie and too much about Scientology and his wide-eyed-in-love fiancee, Katie Holmes, who turns 27 today.
Their romance generated even more buzz when Holmes was seen in the nearly constant company of Jessica Rodriguez, who is from a prominent family of Scientologists. Holmes, who said after becoming engaged to Cruise that she was embracing Scientology, described Rodriguez as a close friend, though she was widely seen as a church-appointed companion.
Unlike Holmes' embrace of the church, Cruise's is not new. Long before he sprang onto Oprah's couch, jabbed an accusing finger at Matt Lauer and blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, Cruise undertook intensive Scientology study and counseling at the church's compound, according to current and former Scientologists.
The vast majority of Scientologists train at the church's better-known facilities, including those in Hollywood and Clearwater, Fla. Cruise also has trained at those locations, but for much of his studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he headed to Gilman Hot Springs.
He stayed for weeks at a time, arriving by car or helicopter, according to ex-Scientologists who saw him there on repeated occasions. The former resort, 90 miles east of Los Angeles, was an ideal place for Cruise to get out of the spotlight while focusing on his Scientology training, ex-members say.
Described by ex-members as the church's international nerve center, the property is largely concealed from outsiders by tall hedges and high walls. The complex's barbed-wired perimeter and driveways are monitored by video cameras, and motion sensors are placed around the property to detect intruders, ex-members say. Some also remember a perch high in the hills, dubbed "Eagle," where staffers with telescopes jotted down license plate numbers of any vehicle that lingered too long near the compound.
Behind the compound's guarded gates, Cruise had a personal supervisor to oversee his studies in a private course room, ex-members say. He was unique among celebrities in the amount of time he spent at the base. Others visited, they said, but only Cruise took up temporary residence.
"I was there for eight years and nobody stayed long at all, except for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman during that period," said Bruce Hines, who clashed with Miscavige and left Scientology in 2001 after three decades in the group.
He said he once provided spiritual counseling to the actress before she and Cruise divorced. Kidman, who had taken Scientology courses, has largely remained silent about the group in recent years.
While at the complex, Cruise stayed in a renovated bungalow near a golf course on the property.
"It was sort of like an upscale country place," said Karen Schless Pressley, a former Scientology "image officer," whose duties included interior design and creating military-style uniforms for Scientology staffers.
While hardly palatial, the guest digs where Cruise stayed were luxurious compared with the drab apartments in Hemet, where Schless Pressley and hundreds of other base staffers lived, with few amenities and almost no privacy.
She said she and her ex-husband shared a two-bedroom unit with another couple and were not allowed to make personal phone calls. Schless Pressley said she left the church because of what she alleged were invasions of members' privacy and other deprivations? a claim church officials say is unfounded.
At the same time, she and other former members say, Miscavige was seeing to Cruise's every need, assigning a special staff to prepare his meals, do his laundry and handle a variety of other tasks, some of which required around-the-clock work.
Maureen Bolstad, who was at the base for 17 years and left after a falling-out with the church, recalled a rainy night 15 years ago when a couple of dozen Scientologists scrambled to deal with "an all-hands situation" that kept them working through dawn. The emergency, she said: planting a meadow of wildflowers for Cruise to romp through with his new love, Kidman.
"We were told that we needed to plant a field and that it was to help Tom impress Nicole," said Bolstad, who said she spent the night pulling up sod so the ground could be seeded in the morning.
The flowers eventually bloomed, Bolstad said, "but for some mysterious reason it wasn't considered acceptable by Mr. Miscavige. So the project was rejected and they redid it."
Other ex-members say it wasn't the only time that Miscavige put them to work to please Cruise.
Miscavige, a firearms enthusiast, introduced Cruise to skeet shooting at the compound, according to an ex-member who said the actor was so grateful that he sent an automated clay-pigeon launcher to replace an older, hand-pulled model. With Cruise due to return in a few days, Miscavige again ordered all hands on deck, this time to renovate the base's skeet range, the ex-member said.
Dozens worked around the clock for three days "just so Tom Cruise would be impressed," the ex-member said.
Rinder, head of Scientology International's Office of Special Affairs, said such accounts were fabricated by "apostates," members who had abandoned the religion.
He said he knew nothing about the skeet range incident. The wildflower planting never occurred and might be a confused version of repairs done after a 1990 mudslide, he said, adding that he couldn't account for ex-members' detailed recollections, including those of Bolstad, whom he specifically described as not credible.
"I don't know exactly how to explain every one of these bizarro stories that you hear," he said.
Rinder also disputed the contention by numerous ex-members that Cruise's stays at the facility were exceptional, saying that many celebrity Scientologists had stayed there.
Cruise has made no extended visits to the complex since the early 1990s and has done 95% of his religious training elsewhere, Rinder said. Miscavige, he said, spends only a fraction of his time there and divides the rest of his time among offices in Los Angeles, Clearwater and Britain. He also stays aboard the Freewinds, Scientology's 440-foot ship based in Curacao in the Caribbean, Rinder said.
However, voter registration records list the Gilman Hot Springs complex as Miscavige's residence since the early 1990s and as recently as the 2004 general election. Rinder said the church leader simply had not updated his registration. Miscavige's wife, father, stepmother and siblings also have resided at the complex, according to voting records and interviews.
The base has changed significantly in the years since Cruise spent long days in intensive training, from which he would occasionally take time out to ride dirt bikes or go sky diving with Miscavige, ex-members said.
For years, the property has been home to Golden Era Productions, where Scientologists work around the clock producing videos, audio recordings and e-meters, to be sold to church members. Rinder said nearly all of the members at Golden Era have signed billion-year contracts to serve the church.
Since 1998, the church has poured at least $45 million into expanding the facility and has bought dozens of nearby homes and vacant lots, public records show. The additions include an $18.5-million, 45,000-square-foot management building with a wing of offices for Miscavige.
The most striking building is a mansion that sits on a hill ? uninhabited. Dubbed "Bonnie View," ex-members say, it was built for the church founder, who died in secrecy on a ranch near San Luis Obispo amid a federal tax investigation that was dropped after his death. The mansion has a lap pool and a movie theater and was completed in 2000 at a cost of nearly $9.4 million, property records show.
"It's high-end beautiful but not ostentatious," decorated with Craftsman furniture, and draperies and other items that were designed to be changed with the seasons, Schless Pressley said.
Former members say they were told the mansion was built for Hubbard's return.
"The whole theory of that house was that before Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige told us, Hubbard told him he was going to come back and make himself visible within 13 years," Schless Pressley said.
The mansion, Rinder said, is merely a museum that contains most of Hubbard's belongings.
"It's preserved because the life of L. Ron Hubbard is extremely important to Scientologists," he said.
Miscavige, who spent his teenage years as one of Hubbard's cadre of young aides, rose to the head of Scientology after the founder's death. Little known outside the organization, Miscavige in the early 1990s succeeded in gaining tax-exempt status for the church after he and another Scientology official personally approached the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to negotiate a settlement.
As chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center, which holds the lucrative rights to the Scientology and Dianetics trademarks, he is the church's ultimate authority ? and is treated as such.
Miscavige's living quarters and offices in renovated bungalows were modest compared with Bonnie View but reflected his taste for the best of the best, including state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment, said ex-members who viewed the accommodations.
"He's about five-seven and everything was built in proportion to his body size," Schless Pressley said. "And everything was the best. You know how everybody has a pen cup on his desk? His pen cup had about 20 Montblanc pens in it."
Shelly Britt, who joined Scientology at 17, said she was at the base for nearly 20 years before leaving the church in 2002. She said she worked directly with Miscavige much of that time. She recalled a Beverly Hills tailor visiting to measure Miscavige for his suits, and said moldings of his feet were taken and sent to London for custom-made shoes.
"His lifestyle so far exceeds anyone else's. He had his own personal staff to handle his food and his room and his clothes and his ironing and his dogs," she said. "His uniforms were specially tailored and he had, like, Egyptian cotton shirts, special pants, special shoes, special everything. And it was all of the highest quality."
Although Hines, Britt and other ex-members describe Miscavige as extremely demanding of those under his command, they say he treated Cruise "like a king." Among other things, Britt said, Miscavige and his wife attended the star's 1990 wedding to Kidman in Colorado and then followed up with frequent gifts.
"They don't do that for every celebrity," she said. "I remember one time I had to go pick up one of those big fancy picnic baskets and china and silver and take it out to Burbank to Tom's pilot. I even took pictures of it so Dave and his wife could see I took it out to the plane."
Rinder said that Cruise was treated no differently from other members and that his highly public support of Scientology came straight from his heart.
"It's a reflection of his own decisions and personal conviction," Rinder said.
The church's belief in the power of celebrity to promote Scientology dates to its earliest days when, in 1955, the church issued "Project Celebrity," a call to arms for Scientologists to recruit show business "quarry" such as Walt Disney, Liberace and Greta Garbo to help expand the religion's reach.
Although the church failed to enlist those famous figures, it has been successful in attracting many others in addition to Cruise, including John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer, Jenna Elfman, Beck and Chick Corea.
More than any other celebrity, Cruise has helped fuel the growth of the church, which claims a worldwide membership of 10 million and in the last two years has opened major centers in South Africa, Russia, Britain and Venezuela. Cruise joined Miscavige last year for the opening of a church in Madrid.
In his own spiritual life, Cruise has continued to climb the "Bridge to Total Freedom," Scientology's path to enlightenment. International Scientology News, a church magazine, reported last year that the actor had embarked on one of the highest levels of training, "OT VII" ? for Operating Thetan VII.
At these higher levels ? and at a potential cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars ? Scientologists learn Hubbard's secret theory of human suffering, which he traces to a galactic battle waged 75 million years ago by an evil tyrant named Xenu.
According to court documents made public by The Times in the 1980s, Hubbard espoused the belief that Xenu captured the souls, or thetans, of enemies and electronically implanted false concepts in them to keep them confused about his dirty work. The goal of these advanced courses is to become aware of the trauma and free of its effects.
At Cruise's high level of training, ex-members say, devotees also are charged with actively spreading the organization's less secretive beliefs and advancing its crusades, including Hubbard's deep disdain for psychiatry, a profession that once dismissed his teachings as quackery.
"When you hear Tom Cruise talking about psychiatrists and drugs," said one prominent former Scientologist who knows Cruise, "you are hearing from the grave the voice of L. Ron Hubbard speaking."
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December 18, 2005
From Mysterious Property Buyer to Community Presence
By Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen, Times Staff Writers
When a mysterious buyer expressed interest in the old, bankrupt Gilman Hot Springs resort in 1978, Richard J. Hoag thought it might be a group of expatriates from Rhodesia. Others whispered that maybe the Mafia or the Moonies were moving onto the 500-acre property near Hemet.
Only much later did anyone learn that the buyer ? which paid $2.78 million and went by the names Scottish Highland Quietude Society and Western States Scientific Assn. ? was really the Church of Scientology.
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"I think they really didn't want people to know because it was controversial," said Hoag, a real estate agent and lawyer.
Mike Rinder, a Scientology spokesman, said the sellers would have inflated the price if they had known the church was the buyer.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard discovered the property, nestled against the San Jacinto Mountains, while scouting film locations that looked like Scotland, Rinder said. Hubbard lived there for a short time before dropping from sight in 1980, six years before his death.
In the years since then, as the complex has grown into a major Scientology base of operations and a thriving audio and video production facility, the church has reached out to the community.
It has hosted Chamber of Commerce mixers, invited the local high school band to use its recording studio and held annual Bass-a-Thon fishing tournaments for kids. It also has reached out to politicians and public officials in the area, including Tim Chavez, a local fire captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Chavez said his crew had been on the receiving end of the church's goodwill each year, with someone from the group showing up with holiday dinners. Last year's Thanksgiving basket brimmed with roast turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy ? and beluga caviar.
"It was unbelievable," Chavez said. "We ate for a week."
Although Rinder said the church's expansion was nearly complete except for a planned television station, some local residents think that the church's community efforts are merely part of Scientology's way of making friends to smooth the way for future growth.
Beginning in the late 1990s, the church bought dozens of nearby homes and vacant lots through one of its entities, Building Management Services, according to property records.
"They'll take that whole mountain, I'm sure," said Margie Butner, one of the sellers. "They'll bulldoze all those houses and build another big complex."
Gloria Knox and her husband, Ray, both in their 80s, sold their home but were told they could stay in the neighborhood as long as they wished. The church moved them to a house down the street and rents it to them at a nominal rate, she said.
"At first I said no, but then they took us down to this house and I loved it, I just loved it," she said. "They wouldn't even let us pack and unpack. They couldn't have been nicer."
Although grateful for the Scientologists' generosity, Chavez said church members also benefited from his department's expertise. Starting in the late 1980s, young men from the compound would show up at the fire station on nights and weekends, diligently combing through workbooks and energetically participating in firefighting exercises. As each set of sessions ended, Chavez said, they would drop out and be replaced by a new group of would-be volunteers. This went on for years, but none stayed long enough to serve.
Chavez said it finally occurred to him that the Scientologists had used the training to establish their own crew on the base when he learned they had bought a firetruck.
"I think they pimped us for training for quite a while," he said.
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Where is Hemet?
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Your Thoughts
Is Tom Cruise being unfairly criticized for expressing his Scientology beliefs?
Yes 48.8% (2712 responses)
No 31.7% (1762 responses)
Neither 19.5% Does not concern me.
(1085 responses)
Total Responses 5,559
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On 2005-12-18 07:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Your Thoughts
Is Tom Cruise being unfairly criticized for expressing his Scientology beliefs?
Yes 48.8% (2712 responses)
No 31.7% (1762 responses)
Neither 19.5% Does not concern me.
(1085 responses)
Total Responses 5,559 "
WTF! He should be criticized MORE for spouting his insne beliefs. People like him have an overwhelming influence on people, that's why scientologists go after them. He needs to be responsible in what he says, or expect LOADS of criticism. I will never take him or his movies seriously again, fucking psycho.
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For years, the property has been home to Golden Era Productions, where Scientologists work around the clock producing videos, audio recordings and e-meters, to be sold to church members. Rinder said nearly all of the members at Golden Era have signed billion-year contracts to serve the church.
LOL! Don't think a billion years is overdoing it, eh? The lawyers must have laughed their asses off.
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WTF! He should be criticized MORE for spouting his insne beliefs.
Remember, there are a lot of Deborah's out there,
who think this is a real church. Nothing logical
will change their minds ...
Go to this link:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-s ... 21004748=1 (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story?coll=la-home-headlines&vote21004748=1)
Then scan the right column to register your vote.
You will see the voting field.
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When reading these types of articles
I am always surprised that working
clams are living in such dull residences.
If the pseudo church is a business venture
that trains people to be more successful
why doesn't that reflect on internal working
members quality of life?
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The church's belief in the power of celebrity to promote Scientology dates to its earliest days when, in 1955, the church issued "Project Celebrity," a call to arms for Scientologists to recruit show business "quarry" such as Walt Disney, Liberace and Greta Garbo to help expand the religion's reach.
Although the church failed to enlist those famous figures, it has been successful in attracting many others in addition to Cruise, including John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer, Jenna Elfman, Beck and Chick Corea.
More than any other celebrity, Cruise has helped fuel the growth of the church, which claims a worldwide membership of 10 million and in the last two years has opened major centers in South Africa, Russia, Britain and Venezuela. Cruise joined Miscavige last year for the opening of a church in Madrid.
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In his own spiritual life, Cruise has continued to climb the "Bridge to Total Freedom," Scientology's path to enlightenment. International Scientology News, a church magazine, reported last year that the actor had embarked on one of the highest levels of training, "OT VII" ? for Operating Thetan VII.
At these higher levels ? and at a potential cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars ? Scientologists learn Hubbard's secret theory of human suffering, which he traces to a galactic battle waged 75 million years ago by an evil tyrant named Xenu.
According to court documents made public by The Times in the 1980s, Hubbard espoused the belief that Xenu captured the souls, or thetans, of enemies and electronically implanted false concepts in them to keep them confused about his dirty work. The goal of these advanced courses is to become aware of the trauma and free of its effects.
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At Cruise's high level of training, ex-members say, devotees also are charged with actively spreading the organization's less secretive beliefs and advancing its crusades, including Hubbard's deep disdain for psychiatry, a profession that once dismissed his teachings as quackery.
"When you hear Tom Cruise talking about psychiatrists and drugs," said one prominent former Scientologist who knows Cruise, "you are hearing from the grave the voice of L. Ron Hubbard speaking."
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I read Ron L Hubbards unauthorized biography today, which is posted online. A very disturbing read. This is not a religion, it's the culmination of a sick individual's life goal. His idea he sparked eventually overtook him and the church won, and he's dead. What a legacy to leave... I'm sure Hubbard is laughing in his grave at his sadistic joke on humanity called scientologists.
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investigate michael allgood cedu charlatan and cascade school con man who manipulated sheriff's in whitmore not to help molested teens who ran away . place sold and allgood is in hiding with former cult member who is wanted for embezzlement and is trying to say she is too sick to go to jail . danielle ogby was a partner in the racket of cascade that involved conning wealthy naive jewish teens parents into turning their sociopaths over to him. many are so delusional they think that allgood is always right.
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I have not read that.
Some say that he was Schizophrenic?
I don't know.
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****Remember, there are a lot of Deborah's out there, who think this is a real church. Nothing logical will change their minds ...
Fuck you Paul. Stop misrepresenting me. Stop stalking me. You're a sick man.
You're terrified of the 'scientology cult' but are too ignorant to realize you're steeped in one of the largest and most influental, hurtful, brainwashing cults going.
Apparently your drugs are inhibiting your ability to comprehend, as I stated in conversation that the GOVERNMENT considers them a legitimate church. And guess what, I am not the government, unfortunately.
If you can't post a link to prove your lame-ass comment, then I expect a public apology, you slimy, creepy, wimp.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?So ... =9&start=0 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?Sort=&topic=10711&forum=9&start=0)
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =20#123002 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=10711&forum=9&start=20#123002)
Deborah
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Paul's back? .... uh oh... :eek:
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He never left. Just hurls his shit anonymously now, regularly posting lengthy articles on Scientology and hallucinating that it pisses me off. He's a very sick and potentially dangerous man.
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New L.A. Museum Targets Psychiatry as an 'Industry of Death'
12/19/2005 9:01:00 AM
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To: National Desk
Contact: Marla Filidei of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 323-467-4242
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With public distrust of psychiatry ever-increasing-and government agency drug warnings at an all time high-Scientology's psychiatric watchdog shows it's much worse than you think.
Community and government leaders from across the globe were joined by ardent celebrity supporters Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Danny Masterson, Giovanni Ribisi, Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman, Catherine Bell and Marisol Nichols at the grand opening of a new state of the art museum Psychiatry an Industry of Death.
Created by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the museum featured 14 documentaries with statements from a number of health professionals and other experts, as well as from victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from electroshock and involuntary commitment to political torture, psychosurgery and the devastating effects of psychotropic drugs.
Stating that "no adult should be victimized by drugs or treatments that are not cures, and no government should support harm in guise of help," a member of Western Australian parliament, Martin Whitely, sounded the call for "all those with common sense and a passion for human rights" to stand behind CCHR to "make the truth about psychiatric abuses widely known and bring about the reforms that are so badly needed."
Joining the Australian lawmaker and more than 2,300 in attendance were Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer, Jeffrey Schaler, psychologist and professor American University and Liberty Committee Executive Director Kent Snyder.
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death addresses the reasons why there are a growing number of people speaking out against psychiatry and its recently debunked theory of the "chemical imbalance."
Jan Eastgate, president of CCHR International stated, "There have been 18 psychiatric drug warnings issued in the last year alone, which link suicide, hostility, worsening depression, mania, hallucinations and death to psychiatric drugs that reap $80 billion dollars a year-an abuse CCHR has persistently exposed for three decades."
A sampling of current statistics shown in the new museum include:
-- Psychiatrists using electroshock, drugs and other barbaric means to torture political dissidents.
-- 17 million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs which can cause suicide, hostility, violence, mania and drug dependence.
-- Internationally, 100,000 people die in mental institutions each year at the hands of psychiatrists; whose mistreatment, drugging and neglect of patients are rampant.
-- Annually, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people with their use of electroshock-460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain. Three-quarters of electroshock victims are women.
-- If electroshock doesn't kill women, they could be one of the 250,000 that psychiatrists and psychologists have raped. Studies show that between 10 and 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients; 1 in 20 victims is most likely to be a minor.
The museum's opening marks an expansion of CCHR as the premiere international psychiatric watchdog.
For more information contact Marla Filidei at 323-467-4242 or visit http://www.cchr.org (http://www.cchr.org)
http://www.usnewswire.com/ (http://www.usnewswire.com/)
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A sampling of current statistics shown in the new museum include:
-- Psychiatrists using electroshock, drugs and other barbaric means to torture political dissidents.
-- 17 million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs which can cause suicide, hostility, violence, mania and drug dependence.
-- Internationally, 100,000 people die in mental institutions each year at the hands of psychiatrists; whose mistreatment, drugging and neglect of patients are rampant.
-- Annually, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people with their use of electroshock-460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain. Three-quarters of electroshock victims are women.
-- If electroshock doesn't kill women, they could be one of the 250,000 that psychiatrists and psychologists have raped. Studies show that between 10 and 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients; 1 in 20 victims is most likely to be a minor.
NOW THAT IS SOME FUCKING IMPRESSIVE CULT RIGHT THERE. I'M SURE YOU'RE VERY PROUD PAULEY BOY.
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December 20, 2005
latimes.com : Opinion : Letters
Re "At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun," Dec. 18
Tom Cruise interviewed with Matt Lauer and courageously stood up against the psychiatric megalith that is ruining the lives, education and freedom of American children through enforced drugging and meaningless "diagnoses."
After he brought attention to the issue, psychiatric prescriptions for children dropped by 20% and the Food and Drug Administration came out with warnings on numerous psychiatric "wonder drugs" that were linked to child suicides and violence.
Your article's attentions to the minutiae of Scientology leader David Miscavige's lifestyle and his friendship with Cruise are only a tribute to their success. And yes, we are both Scientologists for more than 30 years and proud of it.
DEBBY FLEMING
MYLES MELLOR
Lake View Terrace
In this wonderful country of ours, people are free to be as nutty as they wish as long as they don't hurt anyone else. If someone wants to form a group that believes in some ultra-nutty sci-fi story about the origins of life, more power to him.
But to grant that group tax-exempt status because it uses the word "church" in its name while some of its members live in ultra-luxury is just plain criminal.
KAREN SNIDER
Encino
It is astounding to me that there are those who won't even begin to accept the idea that there might be a God (a belief which is free, by the way), yet will spend tens of thousands of dollars to swallow the "secret theory of human suffering," which, if your article is correct, hangs on an intergalactic battle and a tyrant named Xenu.
PHYLLIS JOHNSON
Santa Monica
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I just want to know if light therapy will help me... :???: :???:
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On 2005-12-19 20:36:00, Anonymous wrote:
"A sampling of current statistics shown in the new museum include:
-- Psychiatrists using electroshock, drugs and other barbaric means to torture political dissidents.
-- 17 million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs which can cause suicide, hostility, violence, mania and drug dependence.
-- Internationally, 100,000 people die in mental institutions each year at the hands of psychiatrists; whose mistreatment, drugging and neglect of patients are rampant.
-- Annually, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people with their use of electroshock-460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain. Three-quarters of electroshock victims are women.
-- If electroshock doesn't kill women, they could be one of the 250,000 that psychiatrists and psychologists have raped. Studies show that between 10 and 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients; 1 in 20 victims is most likely to be a minor.
This is in print, it must be true.
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On 2005-12-21 07:41:00, Anonymous wrote:
This is in print, it must be true."
Not only is in print but it is on a website,
on the internet, so it is definately true :scared: