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Why hasn't Scientology been investigated as a criminal enterprise for epidemic levels of fraud, including against taxpayers, enslaving people, and even infiltrating the government, and preparing for armed fight with the police?
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
As a student of the occult, and an avid Scientology debunker, I'm a little perplexed as to why you would spend paragraphs trying to link Hubbard to Blavatsky when in reality he was influenced far more by Crowley and even explicitly states this on more than one occasion.
I will say, however, in the cases of Going Clear & Leah Remini (both fantastic exposés) I felt that very little was explained about Hubbard's history with the occult. That's a topic that in and of itself can be devoted to an entire feature length documentary IMHO.
originally posted by: zacherystaylor
Blavatsky is just one of many mystics that seem to have been influenced by other advanced intelligence's, One of Hubbard's early followers was from the Theosophy Society. If Aliens ahve been influencing religions for thousands of years this might include the incident at Fatima, Padre Pio's stigmata, Edgar Cayce, Uri Geller, who claims to have received messages from Spectra or something like that and many more.
The tax status of the Church of Scientology in the United States has been the subject of decades of controversy and litigation. Although the Church was initially partially exempted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from paying federal income tax, its two principal entities in the US lost this exemption in 1957 and 1968. This was due to concerns that church funds were being used for the private gain of its founder L. Ron Hubbard (according to the IRS) or due to an international psychiatric conspiracy against Scientology (according to Scientology).
In the course of a 37-year dispute with the IRS, the church was reported to have used or planned to employ blackmail, burglary, criminal conspiracy, eavesdropping, espionage, falsification of records, fraud, front groups, harassment, money smuggling, obstruction of audits, political and media campaigns, tax evasion, theft, investigations of individual IRS officials and the instigation of more than 2,500 lawsuits in its efforts to get its tax exemption reinstated. A number of the church's most senior officials, including Hubbard's wife, were eventually jailed for crimes against the United States government related to the anti-IRS campaign. The IRS, for its part, carried out criminal investigations of the church and its leaders for suspected tax fraud and targeted the church as a "dissident group" during the Nixon administration.
Although the church repeatedly lost in legal cases which were heard up to the level of the Supreme Court, it undertook negotiations with the IRS from 1991 to find a settlement. In October 1993, the church and the IRS reached an agreement under which the church discontinued all of its litigation against the IRS and paid $12.5 million to settle a tax debt said to be around a billion dollars, and the IRS granted 153 Scientology-related corporate entities tax exemption and the right to declare their own subordinate organizations tax-exempt in future.
The terms and circumstances of the agreement remained secret until details emerged through leaks and litigation from 1997 onwards. They have attracted controversy for their perceived favorability towards the church and have been described as unconstitutional by federal courts for their bestowal of privileges on Scientologists that are shared by no other religious group. Questions have also been raised about whether the IRS exceeded its authority by effectively overruling the Supreme Court in setting the terms of the agreement and permitting tax deductions not authorized in law. However, legal commentators have concluded that the agreement can effectively no longer be challenged in court.
Why hasn't Scientology been investigated as a criminal enterprise for epidemic levels of fraud, including against taxpayers, enslaving people, and even infiltrating the government, and preparing for armed fight with the police?
"A side-point re Quentin Hubbard's autopsy. I happened to mention it to Maxim privately and he asked to see it. I didn't know he was going to post it - but I have no problem with that. It should be made known. Do forward it around.
You can see I got it from Christopher 'Kit' Green - who IS a CIA agent. I had corresponded with him extensively as part of a highly complicated scenario involving UFOs and aliens back in 2005-6 (he was the person who briefed Bill Clinton on UFOs). I met him for a couple of days in San Jose in Feb 2006 (with Hal Puthoff, who did the famous Remote viewing research at SRI in the 70s, a very good man, and whom I consider a friend).
We were talking about Scientology - because MANY of the SRI team were Scientologists at the time: not only Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, but also Pat Price, Russell Targ, and even Kit Green himself. Kit mention the Quentin Hubbard autopsy report in passing and I nearly fell off my chair. I asked him to forward it to me and he did.
The implication from the report is that Quentin was murdered. Kit Green declined to comment when I asked him the direct question - which was his way of saying 'yes'. Some of you (particularly anyone who was in the Church in the 70s) may find it all quite interesting."
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originally posted by: zacherystaylor
a reply to: The GUT
...although like many other disclosures it simply didn't seem credible, and I suspected it might be Scientology propaganda.
originally posted by: Bigburgh
I feel ya on how much the word Scientology puts your mind through the paces, Big B. It must be strange trying to separate love of family from the family connection to Scientology.