Scientology leader David Miscavige physically beat staff, paper says

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Scientology leader physically beat staff, paper says

By John Byrne

Published: June 22, 2009

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/22/leader-of-scientology-repeatedly-abused-staff-article-says/



The leader of the Church of Scientology beat staffers, forced a group of key executives to play musical chairs for their careers and allegedly encouraged purchase of “must have items” to prop up church coffers, according to an article Sunday that’s received little followup treatment by other news outlets.

In addition, the article says that one of the leader’s key lieutenants deliberately helped cover up the circumstances of a follower’s death in 1995.

David Miscavige, the Church’s “tanned,” “chiseled” leader, is portrayed in the report as an intense, pugilistic chief executive of a Church that’s run with the efficiency of a large multinational corporation. Four major former Scientology figures give a detailed account of the inside workings of the Church — which the French government has labeled as a “sect.”

Two former leading figures in the Church described an incident in which Miscavige forced top-ranking Church officials to play musical chairs for their careers. “Prove your devotion, Miscavige told them, by winning at musical chairs. Everyone else — losers, all of you — will be banished to Scientology outposts around the world,” the St. Petersburg Times Joe Childs and Thomas Tobin wrote. “If families are split up, too bad.”

[MineralMan]

1. Pseudo Religion Wackos.

I hope nobody here has fallen for their lies.

[Ian David]

8. Why are you being suppressive and glib? Is your A-1C Triangle misaligned? n/t

[MineralMan]

9. May Xenu find you wanting.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. So much pain

from a "religion" dreamed up by three drunken science fiction writers, two of whom woke up the next morning and forgot about it.

[nuxvomica]

3. Is that photo shopped or are his pupils that small?

Or is he wearing costume contact lenses? Weird.

[Warpy]

4. Yeah, I was wondering if he'd seen a man about a horse, too

In any case, he sounds like your typical sociopath, drunk on what little power he has over other people and willing to use it freely to humiliate everyone around him.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. That's not Photoshopped...he's a real piece of work.

He's a high school dropout who assumed the role of "Smithers" to L Ron Hubbard's "Mr. Burns," and the strategy worked. When Hubbard kicked it, Miscavige had already been running things.

Tom Cruise is one of Miscavige's best friends. He verbalized a fantasy to romp naked with Nicole Kidman through a wheat field (when they were married, naturally)...Miscavige had the church's drones plant a wheat field for that specific purpose.

The story is easily found on the Web for anyone who wants to Google it.

[goclark]

6. I vote for some type of upper pills - he is in space...

[RandomThoughts]

7. I have never been a fan of Scientology

I understand where some of their precepts come from, but it seems they added alot of 'try to make it fit something' to the ideas and added alot of thoughts that come from peoples heads not some good place.

Its possible they may have some good ideas, everyone does, but the examples of secrecy and money and some of the ideas I think are bad.

Everything has some good and some bad, but I avoid Scientology, it just seems to be skewed by some ideas I figured were deceptions.

The thing about the supernatural, in my view, is it needs discernment, it is possible a person gets a really good idea, but the next day when they are in a mood that is not of good, they can get an idea from a really bad place. it seems many religions change to 'whats in it for me' and start getting lots of stuff from the bad spiritual sources.

I have seen this with pastors also, they will have a real desire to do good and help people, then they will let one of their own failings get into their thoughts, and suddenly they think the 'supernatural' guidance they were getting is the same thing, they don't realize it changed when they opened their heart to some bad thing like selfishness or greed.

The most religious or righteous person, if they think in the wrong place, can still say or do some ridiculous or wrong things.


HOWEVER, I get things wrong also, so like with all people God Bless them, and I hope where they are flawed they can improve and improve understanding, as I hope the same for myself.

[Starry Messenger]

10. John Byrne, we hardly knew ye.

I hope that author has round the clock security. :scared:

[sweetpotato]

11. First rule of Fight Club.....

Napoleon complex? He is vertically challenged.

[Kievan Rus]

12. I was just standing here, Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet....