Bonnie Woods. What a HERO ! My respect and admiration abounds

[Karen#1]

On a recent visit to England for Jon Atack's wedding, I spent a fabulous time with Bonnie Woods and her husband Richard.

Bonnie Woods is sassy and feisty and takes no deception, manipulation and tomfoolery from anyone, leave alone a notorious CULT.

Her final outcome was one of a kind. She had the cult grovel with an explicit apology in London High Court for their 6 year contentious battle.

This is her story~~
Bonnie Woods was a Sea Org member for 1 year in the 1980s. She is an American from Ohio. In 1982 she and Richard her husband who is a Brit moved to East Grinstead, a small sussex community 1 hour train ride from London

The years rolled forward and Bonnie, in 1992 publicly criticized the SCN cult. She attended a small demonstration in East Grinstead.
Who knew ? Who cared ?

The cult went Balllistic

B-A-L-L-I-S-T-I-C

The cult tracked down and interviewed every single connection Bonnie ever had. Neighbors, friends, relatives, acquaintances, former employers etc etc. Then the cult printed up 27,000 flyers with her picture and wrote up a scathing attack that Bonnie was a RELIGIOUS TERRORIST, a bigot etc etc. 27,000 flyers were distributed to every connection Bonnie ever had.

It was WAR.

Bonnie sued SCN and three of its members for libel.

SCN cult counter sued.
Bonnie's lawyer Beverly was so intimidated by cult thuggery that she quit.

Bonnie valiantly decided to represent herself.
The Judges had empathy, Bonnie was not trained in British law.
Bonnie tells a hilarious tale of a Judge who walked to the bench and said 'HMmmmm. Scientology. Scientology where have I heard the word "Scientology ?"
Ah yes ! I read Judge Breckenridge's ruling * (see comments)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonnie and Richard had by now declared bankruptcy and the Liberty Council observed the court case.

The Liberty Council is the equivalent of American Civil Liberties Union.
The Liberty Council promptly got Allen and Overy to take on the case pro bono.

Allen and Overy is arguably one of the largest Law firms in the world, retained by Governments, gigantic financial institutions with some 5000 staff in numerous countries (see Linkedin)

In the arguments back and forth the SEKRIT SEKRIT exorcism OT levels came up and in a clever move, Bonnie and her team demanded the OT levels be placed in open court as evidence.

SCN cult promptly withdrew after 6 years of battle. But Bonnie wanted more. She wanted a full apology and retraction of their slander.

The cult and other 3 defendants admitted the allegations about Bonnie were untrue an apologized with humility.

The Law firm took it further. They made the cult sign off that they could not (going into the future) sue Bonnie again and would never repeat such libelous statements. The cult obeyed.
Bonnie is willing to help anyone in litigation with the cult with their tactics, fair game and unconscionable conduct. The cult does not change, they do today what they have always done.
You can reach Bonnie and Richard here ~~ (also on whatsapp etc....email me)
[email protected]

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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What a great and happy ending to the cult's thuggery.

It parallels the trajectory of other notable legal victories against Scientology and their sociopathic Fair Game terrorism against innocent people and whistleblowers. The first that come to mind are. . .

• The ages old and hard fought WOLLERSHEIM case, where the OT III materials came more vividly into public view and the cult had "OTs" manning the courthouse and the public records access to prevent the public from getting copies of or viewing the Xenu materials.
• The recent filing in the lawsuit vs. Scientology mega-donor OT VIII Dr. Berg and his nutritional company for compelling their participation in Scientology as part of their employment duties. The motion was to admit into evidence the "OT VIII STUDENT BRIEFING" materials where Hubbard discloses some very alarming aspects of the Scientology religion, such as it's anti-Christian nature and assertion that Hubbard is the anti-Christ. No more rhetorical games, the cult's own materials being used to prove their religious fanaticism and bigotry vs. other mainstream religions.
• The infamous Debbie Cook lawsuit, where she was sued to death after being terrorized and fair gamed, based on her alleged violation of coerced confidentiality contracts. In her first appearance in that case where the cult was industriously trying to shatter what little remained of her freedom, health and welfare, Cook was placed on the witness stand by her own counsel and asked about the cruel and sadistic imprisonment and tortures that she was forced to endure from Miscavige and his elite management shock troops. The cult instantly folded and settled, but not by allowing Cook to owe fewer millions to them. It settled THEIR OWN lawsuit by paying her millions to stop talking!

These types of dramatic turnarounds are why the cult has almost entirely stopped suing people the last couple decades. They are fearful that Miscavige will be force into court to testify under oath and even more terrorized that their despicable and reputation ruining human rights crimes/abuses and crazed beliefs will surface where the general public can discover them.

It seems that there is a meaningful trend and trajectory wherein Scientology's "enemies" are using Scientology's Fair Game treachery against itself--a sort of legalistic ju-jitsu where the cult's force is turned against itself.

Typically a courtroom venue is not an easy place to put the "religion" of Scientology on trial (due to separation of church and state constitutional protections), but as with all evolutionary adaptations, brilliant lawyers going up against the billion dollar cult industrial complex seem to be learning where the weakest structural points are; and that's where they place the explosive charges to weaken the foundation and trigger a "shattering" demolition.

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[Karen#1]

The High court Judge in London mused on how had previously heard the word SCIENTOLOGY.
He had read :

Judge Breckenridge's ruling :
#2. Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr, Church of Scientology of California v. Gerry Armstrong, June 1984…
In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil-rights, the organization over the years with its “Fair Game” doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. He has been referred to during this trial as a “genius,” a “revered person,” a man who was “viewed by his followers with awe.” Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Judge Breckenridge's ruling : "In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil-rights, the organization over the years with its “Fair Game” doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. . ."

Hubbard had an unshakable "tone 40 certainty" that his public relations technology worked 100% of the time.

However, the above opinion by Judge Breckenridge is, in fact, an answer to a 100% standard survey question:

"AFTER YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH SCIENTOLOGY WHAT
DO YOU THINK ABOUT LRH AND THE ORGANIZATION?"
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Jeez, what went wrong? I thought Scientology was the only game in the universe where everyone wins.

Why is Judge Breckenridge not having major wins?

Oh well, we don't really have to be worried about that. Because, the Judge must be NCG or DB or PTS or an RSing SP or some other really bad Scientological letters.

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[TheSneakster]

The infamous Debbie Cook lawsuit ( ... ) It settled THEIR OWN lawsuit by paying her millions to stop talking!

Excuse me, but nobody in the critic world actually knows the details of the settlement between CSI (?) and Debbie Cook. It is not even known as a true fact whether or not she received any sort of payment at all from C of S.

Tony Ortega said the settlement details were unavailable on April 24, 2012:

I just confirmed this with Debbie’s attorney, Ray Jeffrey, who tells me he really can’t say anything else about the terms of the settlement

“The matter is settled. That’s the full extent of it,” he says.

She already had a nondisclosure agreement with the C of S in exchange for USD $50,000. Having violated this with her famous New Years' Eve letter to the C of S membership, the C of S sued for breach of the agreement:

On January 27, the church sued Cook and her husband Wayne Baumgarten, revealing that they had each been paid $50,000 and signed non-disclosure agreements when they left the church’s employ. The church alleged that by sending out the New Year’s e-mail, they violated those agreements by disparaging the church.

Any claims made about the Cooks receiving additional financial compensation (beyond the USD $50,000 each upon leaving the C of S staff) as part of that settlement are nothing but made-up critic fantasies and speculation.

 

[Karen#1]

Addendum ~~

Bonnie won $200,000 from the cult in 1999 money along with the very public apology

which would be more like $350,000 in today's money (guesstimate)

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Excuse me, but nobody in the critic world actually knows the details of the settlement between CSI (?) and Debbie Cook. It is not even known as a true fact whether or not she received any sort of payment at all from C of S.

Tony Ortega said the settlement details were unavailable on April 24, 2012:

She already had a nondisclosure agreement with the C of S in exchange for USD $50,000. Having violated this with her famous New Years' Eve letter to the C of S membership, the C of S sued for breach of the agreement:

Any claims made about the Cooks receiving additional financial compensation (beyond the USD $50,000 each upon leaving the C of S staff) as part of that settlement are nothing but made-up critic fantasies and speculation.

You missed the entire point.

Of course the precise amount the cult paid Cook to stop whistleblowing hasn't been published--because that is the nature of a confidential settlement. Try clay demoing the term "hush money".

The point of my post was not the amount Scientology paid her. The point was that she brought the cult to its knees in one day--after the cult sued her to death. The cult surrendered after her first few hours of sworn testimony, which was not only humiliating for Scientology, it was also a devastating combination of public relations body blows and knockout punches to the jaw. The cult caved in and surrendered. Instead of Cook having to pay them, they paid her.

Cook did not stipulate to a settlement where she agreed to never talk about Scientology again and also never associate with any Scientology critics the rest of her life--for no money. LOL.

Again, the exact amount the cult paid her is not the point. The point is that the vexatious litigant cult who originated the lawsuit suddenly "rabbited" and "blew" and instantly begged the defendant to settle as soon as said credible eyewitness began reeling off COS/COB's crimes and luridly horrific human rights abuses in open court!

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[Karen#1]

You missed the entire point.



Again, the exact amount the cult paid her is not the point. The point is that the vexatious litigant cult who originated the lawsuit suddenly "rabbited" and "blew" and instantly begged the defendant to settle as soon as said credible eyewitness began reeling off COS/COB's crimes and luridly horrific human rights abuses in open court!

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Now if only Debbie had DEMANDED an apology with affirmations they could NEVER sue her again. a la Bonnie Woods.

Got to hook up some law firms with other law firms

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

Now if only Debbie had DEMANDED an apology with affirmations they could NEVER sue her again. a la Bonnie Woods.

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Good point, but I'd be more than surprised if Debbie Cook's brilliant counsel did not have all those sort of waivers covered in great detail in the settlement agreement that was executed. Naturally, both parties would thereby be released from any past, present and future legal liabilities if they did not breach the stipulated terms and conditions and performance requirements arising out of the settlement agreement.

Of course, if there was some OTHER event unrelated to the settlement (e.g. if Cook threw flash-bang grenades and stink bombs into an auditorium where COB was receiving a standing ovation for unprecedented 4th dynamic wins), that would still be actionable. LOL.

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[lotus]

This settlement is very enlightening on how to get to DM and COS jugular and to be left alone…

You find a way to have OT materials to be submitted and read in court and they become terrified that they will loose parishioner’s income…

THAT as always been WHAT they do not want to appear in the court room…
Unless the judge does not want to hear entheta , regarding the sacred religious scriptures ..lol

 

[Karen#1]

Back in the day when Alt.religion.scientology was the #1 site for exposing Scientology, Martin Poulter was a frequent poster, I am told.
Mark Plummer posted this on Outer Banks:


On 8 June 1999, Martin L Poulter posted to a.r.s.:
Today in the High Court, Scientology *totally capitulated* in the libel case brought by ex-member Bonnie Woods, settling for the following conditions:
* A profuse apology was read out in open court by Scientology's counsel, officially acknowledging that hurtful statements made about Bonnie were untrue.
* "Substantial damages", apparently in six figures, have been paid to Bonnie from Scientology's account. Bonnie's bankruptcy is now discharged, so she gets to keep all the money.
* Scientology has accepted an injunction which prevents them from repeating the libels. If they mount another hate campaign against
Bonnie, they face prison and large financial penalties.
This represents a complete victory for Bonnie Woods in a case was has been going for six years. Informal estimates are that Scientology has spent 5 million fighting the case. Three counter-claims brought by Scientology were dismissed with prejudice last year.
This result is thanks to Bonnie's pro bono representation by the major City law firm Allen and Overy.
At 10.30 this morning, Bonnie, her husband Richard, her legal team, and many friends and well-wishers gathered in the High Court to hear the apology in an extremely brief session. The text of the session is being typed up and will be posted separately. As we came out of the court, Scn spokesman Graeme Wilson distributed a press release which does not mention the apology and damages and clearly implies that Bonnie has apologised to Scientology (this will also be posted separately). Outside the court, Bonnie was met by a crowd of TV and press journalists and happily posed for the cameras with her husband and her cute baby grand- daughter. There is already an article about the settlement in today's Daily Express.
Ron Lawley stated that the case would not have come this far if it had not been for the internet. Several netizens have sent encouragement and financial help and Allen and Overy's involvement was a result of Dave Bird referring the case to the Libety panel.
Bonnie and Richard now plan to take a long holiday, the first they have had in a long time. The legal fight with scientology is still ongoing, though, in that Narconon have an outstanding libel suit against them and just last week a scientologist filed suit against Bonnie for false imprisonment. (Anyone who has knows the Woods and has visited their house knows how absurd this allegation is.)
Bonnie sends her love and thanks to all who have supported her.
More details on this case, including media coverage, will be posted to:
https://www.demon.co.uk/castle/woods.html
Celebrate, everyone! This is a total victory!


--
MARTIN L POULTER: Postgraduate, skeptic, webmaster and censorship-hater researching philosophy of belief and inductive logic at Bristol Uni., England

 

[ILove2Lurk]

Excuse me, but nobody in the critic world actually knows the details of the settlement between CSI (?) and Debbie Cook. It is not even known as a true fact whether or not she received any sort of payment at all from C of S.

Pardonnez-moi monsieur, but a year traveling abroad and staying in nice resort areas
(I've seen all the photos from the trip when they were still online), then arriving home
and purchasing two homes doesn't come cheap. A $50,000 settlement won't cover it.
I checked into publicly available county real estate records for my data, LOL.

But not gonna dox any further.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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--snipped--
"As we came out of the court, Scn spokesman Graeme Wilson distributed a press release which does not mention the apology and damages and clearly implies that Bonnie has apologised to Scientology"

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Holy Hubbardian Hoaxery!

Hip-Hip Hip-ocrisy!

If anyone can find that press release, it would immediately be awarded HALL OF FAME honors (and win a handsome 7 foot bowling trophy) over on the "Top Super-Stupid Moments In Scientology" thread. LOL

A very brief Google search didn't find the indicated Graeme Green press release, but did locate the following decades-old article, posting and reference material (LINK HERE):

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From: ptsc <[email protected]>​

Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology​

Subject: Scientology Crime Cult forced to Grovel and Apologize for Lies and Libels​

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:32:55 -0500​

Organization: ARS: Perhaps The Most Malignant Newsgroup on Usenet​

Message-ID: <[email protected]>​

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Scientology Apologises to Bonnie Woods​

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June 8, 1999​

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1993 W. No. 2079​

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE​

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION​

B E T W E E N​

BONNIE LOUISE WOODS - Plaintiff​

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(1) SHEILA CHALEFF​

(2) GRAHAM WILSON​

(3) CATHY SPROULE​

(4) CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COLLEGE INC. - Defendants​

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STATEMENT IN OPEN COURT​

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Plaintiff's Counsel:​

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The Plaintiff in this action for libel is Bonnie Woods. Mrs Woods is an American​

by birth who now lives in East Grinstead. During the 1970s and early 1980s, when​

she was living in the USA, Mrs Woods became a member of the Church of​

Scientology and completed a number of higher-level courses. In 1982 Mrs Woods​

left the Church of Scientology and in 1985 she moved to England with her​

husband, Richard Woods.​

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In 1991, Bonnie Woods converted to Christianity. Some time later she and her​

husband began to provide information, operate a call line and offer advice about​

Scientology to families and friends of members of the Church of Scientology.​

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Mrs Woods also publicly criticised the Church of Scientology and spoke to the​

media about her experiences as a member of the organisation. Several times she​

attended vigils outside the Church of Scientology bookshop in East Grinstead and​

handed out a document which was very critical of the Church of Scientology.​

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As a result of her activities, in June 1993 the Fourth Defendant (which is​

Church of Scientology Religious Education College Incorporated, the body​

responsible for the propagation and practice of Scientology in the United​

Kingdom) produced a leaflet showing a photograph of Mrs Woods above the words​

"Hate Campaigner Comes to Town". A group of Scientologists put the leaflet​

through the letter boxes of those living on the Woods' road and handed it out to​

members of the public on East Grinstead High Street during one of their vigils.​

The leaflet described Mrs Woods as a "hate campaigner", that is, someone​

motivated by hatred and religious intolerance, and as a "deprogrammer" who tried​

to force people away from their chosen faith. It also cast doubt on the​

sincerity of her claims to be a born-again Christian.​

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As the defendants now accept, the allegations in the leaflet about Mrs Woods​

were untrue. Bonnie Woods does not hate any religion and would not take any step​

to force people away from their chosen religion or encourage others to do so.​

While the Woods have on occasion met with Scientologists and their families at​

the request of their families and discussed the Church of Scientology with them,​

the Woods have not put pressure on them or the Church of Scientology to prevent​

them continuing in Scientology. Mrs Woods is sincere in her Christian faith.​

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The publication of the allegations to her friends and neighbours in the local​

community was deeply distressing to Mrs Woods. In order to clear her name, in​

December 1993 Mrs Woods sued Church of Scientology Religious Education College​

Incorporated and the individual members who had published the leaflet for libel.​

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The Defendants have now acknowledge that the allegations about Mrs Woods were​

untrue. They are here by their Counsel today to withdraw them and to apologise​

to the Plaintiff. They have agreed to pay Mrs Woods a substantial amount of​

money in respect of her claim for damages for libel, and to undertake to the​

Court that they will no longer make these untrue accusations against her.​

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Defendant's Counsel:​

On behalf of the Church of Scientology and all the Defendants I wish to​

associate myself with all that has been said by counsel for the Plaintiff. The​

Defendants regret that when responding to Mrs Woods' criticisms of the Church of​

Scientology they went too far in attributing to her conduct and motives which​

they now accept were not correct. Through me they apologise to Mrs Woods and​

undertake (in the terms of the draft Order before Your Lordship) not to make any​

such allegations again.​

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Plaintiff's Counsel:​

In those circumstances, the Plaintiff is vindicated and content to let the​

matter rest. I ask for leave to withdraw the record.​

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[HelluvaHoax!]

Pardonnez-moi monsieur, but a year traveling abroad and staying in nice resort areas
(I've seen all the photos from the trip when they were still online), then arriving home
and purchasing two homes doesn't come cheap. A $50,000 settlement won't cover it.
I checked into publicly available county real estate records for my data, LOL.

But not gonna dox any further.

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Thanks for leaving behind a friendly trail of breadcrumbs through the dark forest—for anyone to follow if they are really curious about how much Cook-Cash was paid out when she turned in her chips and left the cult casino.

You'll have to forgive TheSneakster, because he is ever-diligently offering up Hubbard's on-policy "snarling defense" of anyone he imagines to be a fellow "warrior" from the world of "INDIE" Scientology. In that matter, while Debbie Cook was a GOLD MEDAL WINNER in the Olympics of Whistleblowing, there is another very curious factor that is never really discussed. I will mention that oddity in a moment, but not as any kind of criticism of Cook's heroic efforts to expose the lies, fraud and treachery of the Church of Scientology.

I am speaking of course about Cook's infamous New Years Eve letter (a de facto "Knowledge Report") that was bulk e-mailed out to 12,000 Scientologists. At that time per various sources (LINK) Debbie considered herself to be a Scientologist in good standing. However, in the real world she was not in good standing at all. The COS was madly preparing to ambush her with Fair Game attacks and a crushing lawsuit to make sure she ended up bankrupt, "utterly destroyed" and worse.

What Cook really was (the moment she pushed "SEND" to her 12,000 Scientology friends and former Flag customers) was an "INDEPENDENT" Scientologist. She had suppressively squirreled and seditiously strayed away from Ron Hubbard's sacred "Church" of Scientology. But her letter made it perfectly clear that she was dreaming of helping Scientology and Scientologists to get back "ON SOURCE" and standardly follow all of Hubbard's deranged orders, policies, codes, creeds and fraudulently crazed pieces of tech that would give mankind "total freedom" and "eternity" and miraculously magical powers too!

Cook was (unknowingly at that time) a hard core INDIE Scientologist who wanted to Clear the planet, Salvage this Sector and do all the other delusional things that Scientologists believe they are accomplishing.

Hey, we all were Scientologists at one time so this is not an "invalidation" of Cook. It's simply a fact that at the time she wrote the letter she was in full escape mode from Scientology's sociopathic leader Miscavige--yet running at full speed back into the toxic gravitational madness of Scientology's sociopathic founder Hubbard.

Cook (at that time) was on a "routing form" out of COS hell and into the bizarre purgatory of "Indie Scientology". Hey, they are still trying to get to Heaven ("OT") but none of the stragglers in that shellshocked world has yet figured out that Hubbard is the psychotic 1.1 SP implanter that he has forever been warning everyone about.

None of this casts any dark shadows on Cook. Everyone leaving Scientology requires as much time as it takes to fully escape that toxic gravitational orbit. Debbie Cook made her prison break and successfully escaped solitary confinement. But she never (at that time) made it to the other side of the towering prison walls. Some people take many years to decompress and figure it out. The "prison wardens" within the COS made sure that Debbie cannot fully escape their cruel world because her settlement forbids any association with Scientology critics/whistleblowers. Thus, she cannot do simple things like hang out on ex-Scientology and whistleblower websites like "THE UNDERGROUND BUNKER" and "MIKE RINDER" and "ESMB". Those kind of websites and people could have helped her decompress and figure out what Scientology really is and who L. Ron Hubbard really was.

I wonder if today, in August of 2022, Debbie has had enough time to quietly visit all the "SP" websites on the internet that a Scientologist and Indie Scientologist typically tries to avoid. She is an intelligent and talented person and although I don't know her personally and never met her, I kind of imagine that by now she has long since dumped her "INDIE" Scientology dreams in the trash cans right next to the dumpster marked Miscavige.

I wish all COS Scientologists and INDIE Scientologists a pleasant journey out of their state of Ron-Reverie, as long as it takes.

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[Karen#1]

In conversation with Bonnie, she was talking about thew East Grinstead Scientologists that would demonstrate outside her home
but that didn't phase her.

The blood hound that the cult set on Bonnie and Richard was the infamous Gene Ingram who violated a lot of Private Investigator rules
and was more of an activist than a PI.

When I told Bonnie he had retired to Mexico where he runs a BAR, she could hardly believe his look now.

For Scientology’s most infamous dirty trickster, retirement has a happy ending | The Underground Bunker

tonyortega.org

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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The blood hound that the cult set on Bonnie and Richard was the infamous Gene Ingram who violated a lot of Private Investigator rules and was more of an activist than a PI. When I told Bonnie he had retired to Mexico where he runs a BAR, she could hardly believe his look now.

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LOL, yeah Ingram's now got a kinda
Liberace-Meets-Bob-Barker thing going. . .

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[Karen#1]

Both sides distributed pamphlets.
The LIES which the cult admitted to in their apology confessed that they had "manufactured" a tissue of LIES.
Note: Bonnie had done the "OT levels" and was formerly Director of Processing of ASHO (American Saint Hill Organization) Los Angeles. She was a Class IV auditor.


What the Scientologists Don’t Tell You - a pamphlet by Bonnie Woods


Bonnie and Richard endured seven years of litigation for handing out this leaflet, which proved effective in closing down both the East Grinstead Dianetic Book Shop and the Chichester Scientology Mission, when street recruiters were tagged by local Christians who handed the leaflet to everyone approached by the recruiter. Eventually, the Scientologists withdrew their case, apologized in in the London High Court, paid £55,000 in damages, the costs of the action and made an undertaking that Richard and Bonnie can say whatever they like based upon the voluminous documents used in court discovery.

THE PAMPHLET

What the Scientologists Don’t Tell You

According to Scientology's secret 'scripture', 75 million years ago, galactic Prince Xenu enslaved the populations of 76 planets, flew them to Earth and "clustered" their souls together by dropping them into volcanoes with hydrogen bombs. If this sounds like the work of a science-fiction writer, it is, but it is sold as cold, hard fact, in sworn secrecy, and for tens of thousands of dollars by the self-styled "Church" of Scientology.

Traditionally, the term "Church" meant a Christian group, but Scientologists have long been taught that Christ was a "hypnotic implant" – a hallucination - from the time of Prince Xenu. According to the secret doctrine of "Operating Thetan Section Three," we are all superclusters of these souls or "body thetans".

Dianetics and Scientology were created by pulp-fiction writer Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Before publishing his first textbook, in 1950, Hubbard boasted that the easiest way to make millions was to start a religion. Hubbard's fortune at his death, in 1986, amounted to almost $650 million, all of it derived from Scientology and Dianetics, which openly use "hard sell" techniques to extract cash from followers.

Hubbard was deeply involved with the practice of Aleister Crowley's "Sex Magick." In 1946, he participated in rituals aimed at incarnating the goddess Babalon, the anti-Christian force of the biblical Book of Revelation. Soon after, he wrote in one of his journals "men are my slaves."

The "Church" of Scientology was incorporated secretly by Hubbard in 1953, following a letter, where he talked about the "religion angle." Scientology probably became a "religion" in the USA to avoid further investigation by the American Medical Association into Hubbard's many far-fetched claims of cure. These include the preposterous claims that Scientology will cure cancer, leukemia and blindness.

Ronald Hubbard dismissed all other therapies and religious systems, saying that only he had made any significant discovery in the field of the mind and spirit, in "50,000 years." Scientologists are forbidden to use any other therapy system, most especially psychiatry, which Hubbard claimed was a conspiracy to enslave and destroy us all.

Hubbard made numerous false claims about his life. He was not, in fact, a nuclear physicist, an explorer, nor a war hero. His claims to have studied with mystics in China, Tibet and India are entirely false. He was asked to leave a civil engineering degree course for deficiency of scholarship, failed his molecular physics course, and his only visits to the mystic East were on two brief teenage holidays to China.

Hubbard told many contradictory stories about his life, his exploits growing larger with each passing year. In an autobiography published shortly after World War Two, Hubbard admitted that his "war wound" was a fall down a ship's ladder, rather than the machine bullet wounds he would later claim.

Hubbard claimed to have "broken broncos" at the age of three and a half, and been a "blood brother" of the Blackfoot People at the age of four (a claim made retroactively "true" by a Scientologist Blackfoot, after Hubbard's death).

Although Scientologists campaign against drug abuse, through a group called Narconon, Hubbard was a self-confessed barbiturate addict, who experimented freely with drugs, even publicly recommending the use of amphetamines ("speed"). He smoked over a hundred cigarettes a day, unable to break the habit, despite the claims of his drug rehab group.

Scientologists undertake hundreds of hours of "counselling," at times paying more than $500 per hour. The "counselling" consists of different forms of hypnosis - techniques of repetition, fixation and mimicry - which all actually heighten suggestibility, and undermine the critical faculties. Indeed, in a 1955 letter, Hubbard offered his "brainwashing" techniques to the FBI.

While being promised that through Scientology individuals will regain their "self-determinism," Scientology actually leads to unquestioning acceptance of Hubbard's belief system and the erosion of independent thought and of compassion. To complete the elaborate and lengthy steps of Hubbard's "Bridge to Total Freedom" takes years and costs in the region of $500,000. Some Scientologists have lost their homes and businesses, to pay for increasingly expensive courses.

With the secret "Upper Levels," Scientologists seek to achieve supernatural powers. Several thousand former Scientologists who have taken these courses can attest that the techniques are completely ineffective, leading only to a progressive dissociation from reality and sometimes delusions of such powers. It is many years since James Randi offered a million dollars to anyone who could reliably demonstrate a supernatural ability. Despite much boasting, no Scientologist has succeeded in this challenge.


With the secret "OT 3" material, Hubbard exploited the traditional belief in demon possession, and induced multiple personality disorder in his followers. It is not surprising that many Scientologists have either committed suicide or ended up in psychiatric hospitals.

Often, recruitment into Scientology begins with a personality test. The "Oxford Capacity Analysis" was written by a former merchant seaman, unschooled in psychology. The 200-question test has no connection with Oxford University, and demands extensive personal information. The Scientologists have a long history of using material supposedly received in confidence to harass former members.
Scientology staff members work very long hours for very little pay (often 90 hours per week for less than $30). Scientology is governed by the Sea Organization, members of which wear pretend naval uniforms, including campaign ribbons. Often, they are allowed to see their children for only an hour, once every two weeks. The children are brought up in the "Cadet Organisation," where they are taught absolute obedience to Scientology. Many women claim to have been subjected to harsh and relentless persuasion by cult officials, until they terminated their pregnancies.
When their production statistics sag, Sea Organization members are put onto a diet of rice and beans, sometimes for months on end. Miscreants are moved to "pigs berthing." If this punishment fails, the offender is put into the "Rehabilitation Project Force" or RPF. Membership of the RPF labor camp often lasts for several years. "RPFers" eat table scraps, sleep even shorter hours than the rest of the staff, may not speak unless spoken to, work long hours at menial tasks – such as toilet cleaning – must obey all orders without question or hesitation, and spend five hours a day confessing the "evil purposes" of their supposed previous incarnations and their "crimes" against Hubbard or Scientology. The RPF is a testimony to the mind control techniques of Scientology. It is based upon the thought-reform camps of Mao's China.

Scientologists have been involved in many criminal activities. Eleven, including Hubbard's wife Mary Sue, were imprisoned in the US for infiltrating government agencies and stealing files, including Interpol files on terrorism. During the course of these activities Scientologists bugged and burgled government offices, around the world. Mary Sue Hubbard signed a full confession of more than 200 pages.

Scientology is well known for its tireless campaigns against critics. For instance, Hubbard ordered that cartoonist Berry be ruined for simply mentioning Scientology in a single cartoon. According to the private investigator who ran the campaign for Scientology, $150,000 was spent on following Sunday Times journalist Russell Miller. Author Paulette Cooper was framed for a bomb threat by Scientology. Defector Pat Broeker was tailed by PIs for 24 years, at a cost of over $10 million to Patrons of Scientology.

Scientology frequently splits up families. This stems from "disconnection," where Scientologists are forbidden to speak to anyone critical of Scientology. Scientology also forbids membership to homosexuals. Former members often take years, and even decades, to recover from the highly invasive techniques of Scientology. Most are unaware that their critical and emotional faculties have been interfered with, with powerful hypnotic techniques, so fail to seek help.

Please join our protest and write to your Congressional Representative to ask for an investigation into Scientology.

Published by Richard Woods

 

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Both sides distributed pamphlets.
The LIES which the cult admitted to in their apology confessed that they had "manufactured" a tissue of LIES.
Note: Bonnie had done the "OT levels" and was formerly Director of Processing of ASHO (American Saint Hill Organization) Los Angeles. She was a Class IV auditor.


What the Scientologists Don’t Tell You - a pamphlet by Bonnie Woods


Bonnie and Richard endured seven years of litigation for handing out this leaflet, which proved effective in closing down both the East Grinstead Dianetic Book Shop and the Chichester Scientology Mission, when street recruiters were tagged by local Christians who handed the leaflet to everyone approached by the recruiter. Eventually, the Scientologists withdrew their case, apologized in in the London High Court, paid £55,000 in damages, the costs of the action and made an undertaking that Richard and Bonnie can say whatever they like based upon the voluminous documents used in court discovery.

THE PAMPHLET

What the Scientologists Don’t Tell You

According to Scientology's secret 'scripture', 75 million years ago, galactic Prince Xenu enslaved the populations of 76 planets, flew them to Earth and "clustered" their souls together by dropping them into volcanoes with hydrogen bombs. If this sounds like the work of a science-fiction writer, it is, but it is sold as cold, hard fact, in sworn secrecy, and for tens of thousands of dollars by the self-styled "Church" of Scientology.

Traditionally, the term "Church" meant a Christian group, but Scientologists have long been taught that Christ was a "hypnotic implant" – a hallucination - from the time of Prince Xenu. According to the secret doctrine of "Operating Thetan Section Three," we are all superclusters of these souls or "body thetans".

Dianetics and Scientology were created by pulp-fiction writer Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Before publishing his first textbook, in 1950, Hubbard boasted that the easiest way to make millions was to start a religion. Hubbard's fortune at his death, in 1986, amounted to almost $650 million, all of it derived from Scientology and Dianetics, which openly use "hard sell" techniques to extract cash from followers.

Hubbard was deeply involved with the practice of Aleister Crowley's "Sex Magick." In 1946, he participated in rituals aimed at incarnating the goddess Babalon, the anti-Christian force of the biblical Book of Revelation. Soon after, he wrote in one of his journals "men are my slaves."

The "Church" of Scientology was incorporated secretly by Hubbard in 1953, following a letter, where he talked about the "religion angle." Scientology probably became a "religion" in the USA to avoid further investigation by the American Medical Association into Hubbard's many far-fetched claims of cure. These include the preposterous claims that Scientology will cure cancer, leukemia and blindness.

Ronald Hubbard dismissed all other therapies and religious systems, saying that only he had made any significant discovery in the field of the mind and spirit, in "50,000 years." Scientologists are forbidden to use any other therapy system, most especially psychiatry, which Hubbard claimed was a conspiracy to enslave and destroy us all.

Hubbard made numerous false claims about his life. He was not, in fact, a nuclear physicist, an explorer, nor a war hero. His claims to have studied with mystics in China, Tibet and India are entirely false. He was asked to leave a civil engineering degree course for deficiency of scholarship, failed his molecular physics course, and his only visits to the mystic East were on two brief teenage holidays to China.

Hubbard told many contradictory stories about his life, his exploits growing larger with each passing year. In an autobiography published shortly after World War Two, Hubbard admitted that his "war wound" was a fall down a ship's ladder, rather than the machine bullet wounds he would later claim.

Hubbard claimed to have "broken broncos" at the age of three and a half, and been a "blood brother" of the Blackfoot People at the age of four (a claim made retroactively "true" by a Scientologist Blackfoot, after Hubbard's death).

Although Scientologists campaign against drug abuse, through a group called Narconon, Hubbard was a self-confessed barbiturate addict, who experimented freely with drugs, even publicly recommending the use of amphetamines ("speed"). He smoked over a hundred cigarettes a day, unable to break the habit, despite the claims of his drug rehab group.

Scientologists undertake hundreds of hours of "counselling," at times paying more than $500 per hour. The "counselling" consists of different forms of hypnosis - techniques of repetition, fixation and mimicry - which all actually heighten suggestibility, and undermine the critical faculties. Indeed, in a 1955 letter, Hubbard offered his "brainwashing" techniques to the FBI.

While being promised that through Scientology individuals will regain their "self-determinism," Scientology actually leads to unquestioning acceptance of Hubbard's belief system and the erosion of independent thought and of compassion. To complete the elaborate and lengthy steps of Hubbard's "Bridge to Total Freedom" takes years and costs in the region of $500,000. Some Scientologists have lost their homes and businesses, to pay for increasingly expensive courses.

With the secret "Upper Levels," Scientologists seek to achieve supernatural powers. Several thousand former Scientologists who have taken these courses can attest that the techniques are completely ineffective, leading only to a progressive dissociation from reality and sometimes delusions of such powers. It is many years since James Randi offered a million dollars to anyone who could reliably demonstrate a supernatural ability. Despite much boasting, no Scientologist has succeeded in this challenge.


With the secret "OT 3" material, Hubbard exploited the traditional belief in demon possession, and induced multiple personality disorder in his followers. It is not surprising that many Scientologists have either committed suicide or ended up in psychiatric hospitals.

Often, recruitment into Scientology begins with a personality test. The "Oxford Capacity Analysis" was written by a former merchant seaman, unschooled in psychology. The 200-question test has no connection with Oxford University, and demands extensive personal information. The Scientologists have a long history of using material supposedly received in confidence to harass former members.
Scientology staff members work very long hours for very little pay (often 90 hours per week for less than $30). Scientology is governed by the Sea Organization, members of which wear pretend naval uniforms, including campaign ribbons. Often, they are allowed to see their children for only an hour, once every two weeks. The children are brought up in the "Cadet Organisation," where they are taught absolute obedience to Scientology. Many women claim to have been subjected to harsh and relentless persuasion by cult officials, until they terminated their pregnancies.
When their production statistics sag, Sea Organization members are put onto a diet of rice and beans, sometimes for months on end. Miscreants are moved to "pigs berthing." If this punishment fails, the offender is put into the "Rehabilitation Project Force" or RPF. Membership of the RPF labor camp often lasts for several years. "RPFers" eat table scraps, sleep even shorter hours than the rest of the staff, may not speak unless spoken to, work long hours at menial tasks – such as toilet cleaning – must obey all orders without question or hesitation, and spend five hours a day confessing the "evil purposes" of their supposed previous incarnations and their "crimes" against Hubbard or Scientology. The RPF is a testimony to the mind control techniques of Scientology. It is based upon the thought-reform camps of Mao's China.

Scientologists have been involved in many criminal activities. Eleven, including Hubbard's wife Mary Sue, were imprisoned in the US for infiltrating government agencies and stealing files, including Interpol files on terrorism. During the course of these activities Scientologists bugged and burgled government offices, around the world. Mary Sue Hubbard signed a full confession of more than 200 pages.

Scientology is well known for its tireless campaigns against critics. For instance, Hubbard ordered that cartoonist Berry be ruined for simply mentioning Scientology in a single cartoon. According to the private investigator who ran the campaign for Scientology, $150,000 was spent on following Sunday Times journalist Russell Miller. Author Paulette Cooper was framed for a bomb threat by Scientology. Defector Pat Broeker was tailed by PIs for 24 years, at a cost of over $10 million to Patrons of Scientology.

Scientology frequently splits up families. This stems from "disconnection," where Scientologists are forbidden to speak to anyone critical of Scientology. Scientology also forbids membership to homosexuals. Former members often take years, and even decades, to recover from the highly invasive techniques of Scientology. Most are unaware that their critical and emotional faculties have been interfered with, with powerful hypnotic techniques, so fail to seek help.

Please join our protest and write to your Congressional Representative to ask for an investigation into Scientology.

Published by Richard Woods

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A remarkably condensed and devastating debunking of the cult!

It's hard (and fun) to imagine what a nightmare that pamphlet must have caused to Scientology management, especially since (if I understand it right) a copy was being handed to people on the street that a local org and mission was trying to disseminate to, body route and recruit. So many hard core and alarming facts were condensed into that pamphlet that it must have scared wogs half to death and quickly cured any curiosity they might have had about becoming a mark within Hubbard's hoax.

I was not familiar with that story of Scientology maniacally FAIR GAMING the celebrated and beloved cartoonist JIm Berry.

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(Link to Jerry Armstrong's website):​

Back in December last year, I wrote about Scientology’s “Operation Funny Bone,” which executed Hubbard’s 1977 order to “disenfranchise” cartoonist Jim Berry for an innocuous cartoon in which Berry merely mentioned Scientology. Dozens if not hundreds of Scientologists – organization executives, staff members and non-staff covert operatives – were marshaled for this intelligence and black propaganda conspiracy and operation to ruin Berry’s career. Berry’s career was almost certainly saved by the FBI’s July 1977 raid of the Scientology cult’s intelligence bureaus in Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C. The raid caused Hubbard, who was then hiding out in La Quinta, California, to flee and to hide out even more secretively in Sparks, Nevada. The raid also derailed certain intel ops such as Funny Bone that Scientology had in operation at the time, because the cult’s resources were consumed with the overarching threat of exposure of the whole sordid and criminal Fair Game war the cultists had been waging for years, against the government, media, charitable organizations and private individuals, like Berry. In fact, Operation Funny Bone documents were among the few documents made public following the raid, out of the mountain of documents detailing covert criminal ops to destroy people’s careers and lives that the FBI seized in the raid.​

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Jim,​

Greetings! I'm a long-term reader of yours, and a critic of the church of scientology. In going through some recently uncovered documents about scientology, I discovered some documents concerning yourself.​

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In 1977, you did a cartoon captioned, "I was into EST, Primal Therapy, Yoga, Scientology, Hare Krishna, Transcendental Meditation — Now I'm into money!"​

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In response to this cartoon, L. Ron Hubbard ordered his followers within the church of scientology to harass you in an attempt to cost you your syndication. Some of the text of that original order:​

INFORMATION: Jim Berry has 1.1ed [sic] Scientology in attached cartoon: It is desired that this fellow no longer has a sindicated [sic] publication.​

MAJOR TARGET: To cause Jim Berry to lose his sindicated publication so that he can no longer SP Scientology.​

PRIMARY TARGETS: All US B1 Secs are on Post Operating.​

The worthwhile purpose of this action is to remove JB from his position of power, so that he cannot attack the C of S.​

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The "operation" of getting you removed from your syndication was called "Operation Funny Bone." The church of scientology then implemented investigations into your background, into your employers, political leanings, finances, and much more. The operation was uncovered during FBI raids of scientology offices in the very late 1970s, although no charges were ever brought for this particular incident.​

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I was more than curious to find a copy of Berry's 1977 cartoon, to see what exactly drove the cult into its Fair Game frenzy of suing and trying to "destroy utterly" a man's life, based on a single humorous cartoon. Well, it's hard to imagine any cartoon that could have driven the "the world's most ethical people" into a pathologically hate-filled and destructive rage—but (unbelievably) here it is:

"I was into EST, Primal Therapy, Yoga, Scientology,
Hare Krishna, Transcendental Meditation — NOW I'm
into money!" ​

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