Nearly six months after actor Danny Masterson was convicted of sexually assaulting two fellow members of the Church of Scientology, lawyers for his victims filed a document that contained a stunning new allegation against the faith.
Submitted in a downtown Los Angeles court as part of a years-old civil lawsuit against Scientology, the document referenced a purported effort by the church to “derail” the criminal proceedings against Masterson.
“Defendants and their agents engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at one of the prosecutors assigned to Defendant Masterson’s trial,” the declaration from civil attorney Simon Leen read. “That prosecutor’s home and car windows were broken, the prosecutor’s home electronics were tampered with, and Defendants’ agents surveilled the prosecutor.”
I saw a thing recently where there were dozens of police officers at some scientology gathering where the municipality had explicitly stated that there were to be 0 tax dollars spent on the event.
We need to fucking obliterate protections religions have. They are only used as loopholes for nefarious gains today.
Tax every church. Watch them burn.
You can just hire cops to be private security, no tax dollars necessary. The neat part is that even if they aren’t acting in an official capacity, they can still use police resources (like squad cars), wear police uniforms, and they’re still police (with all the same privileges, lack of liability, and license to murder).
The filmer was active in their municipality and was calling sergeants out by name.
Lemme guess: Clearwater, FL?
Good, they’re public servants. Their identities should be clear for all to.see.
They also use police funds by claiming it as overtime.
Since Scientology has so much money, why does their headquarters look like a cheap Florida motel next to the interstate that just got a fresh paint job after the police had a shootout with a barricaded meth head?
From that angle, sure. But on Wikipedia it shows how massive it is.
Purposely not linking to the official “church” website, but it has a picture of it from the air, and lit up at night… It’s pretty impressive.IDK but it gets really creepy if you look at how much of Clearwater, FL they own. Their main building down there is right by city hall and the police dept, so it makes you wonder if they own those too.
I also wonder if they go around fuckin’ with people in FL who they see as their enemies. Because it could be legal to shoot them if they were attacking you or threatening to do so.
Because no one with class or taste will work with them.
Because it’s being spent to derail the criminal proceedings through a campaign of harassment and intimidation duh.
They oddly tried to hire me at one point in the past, couldn’t agree on money so I walked away but if you look at their real estate portfolio, especially their restoration of heritage buildings… it’s honestly very impressive. They have some beautiful buildings they’ve restored at enormous expense.
They’re pretty creepy though, very controlling over their adherence to processes and way too slow to pay their bills.
The US has Scientology, Japan has the moonies, South Korea has just straight up cults. Are there any other examples of religions with asymmetrically vast and subtle clandestine power over a country?
The assassination of Shinzo Abe must have been the most successful assassination ever. In North America the assassin would have been called crazy, insane, non sensical, etc. And their reasoning for the assassination ignored. In Japan they did a full investigation and essentially said the killer was right to be angry, and they blamed it on the moonies, which will hopefully help to bring the end of that cult
Christianity.
“Defendants and their agents engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at one of the prosecutors assigned to Defendant Masterson’s trial,” the declaration from civil attorney Simon Leen read. “That prosecutor’s home and car windows were broken, the prosecutor’s home electronics were tampered with, and Defendants’ agents surveilled the prosecutor.”
This is incredibly horrible. I feel so bad for the victims, the prosecutor (!), and all their family. I’ll be paying attention to developments and I hope justice is served against the cultists.
Why even bother with the last part of the headline? Would anyone assume Scientology was just like ‘BUSTED!! Haha- yeah we do that shit.’
I wonder if it’s to reduce the risk of a lawsuit by including the rebuttal?
