Scientology In Turmoil, Now Is The Time

Big shit has been happening. Shawn Lonsdale, a prominent and vocal anti-Scientology filmmaker who abruptly ceased his activism in 2006 after being Fair Gamed mercilessly by the cult, was found dead in his home with a garden hose in the window which was attached to the tailpipe of his car.

The Clearwater police (you know, the ones who wear cop uniforms during off-duty hours in the employ of the cult for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year) believe it was a suicide, as there was a note. No foul play is suspected.

I read (but have not yet been able to confirm) that his death was announced online before the police were alerted by a post on alt.religion.scientology, which reads:

"We are anonymous
We do not care about your friend or his death
We do not care about scientologists or their beliefs
We are not your private army
We do what we do because we have chosen to"

Note the mangled memespeak.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I think he was murdered (especially if he had a history of depression, as I have read), but I am suspicious for obvious reasons.

But who knows, maybe he got tired of receiving all those death threads over the phone and being told "people in your line of work don't live too long around here" and offed himself to save David Miscavige the trouble.

Update on the Scientology situation from a user calling him or herself Quentin Hubbard:

It seems this is the appropriate place to be posting this information; over the course of the last month the Church has been investigating potential 'trouble spots' inside the organization. Various amounts of security or "sec checking" are occuring at even the highest levels. You will no doubt has noticed that there is at least one credible source of information inside of the Commodore's Messenger Organization. What you may NOT know is that there is also a leak inside of Office of Special Affairs [OSA]. For the last two weeks there has been, an identified leak inside of Special Affairs but the folks over at Special Affairs being the goons they are decided it was easier to deal with this problem internally rather than submit to David Miscavige and suffer the blow-back which would inevitably come from such a problem.

With all of the people inside and outside posting information, I thought I'd just drop the "hat" and tell you there is indeed at least one possibly two sources of information inside of OSA and these people are not leaking bad information, they are leaking VERY good information.

(This is probably in response to the leaked "Marcabian psychiatrists are controlling Anonymous" stuff that's been coming up from several sources).

And another from Arnie Lerma:

I am getting reports from recent defectors, JUST left from Scientology that Flag income is down 50% from 2003 and the only statistics that are up are refund/repayment demands

new critical data that may have the power to reopen past legal cases is coming out.

I have been contacted by ..... 18 new now ex-scientologists in less than a week, and have heard that Tory and many others are being swamped with calls from ex members, sometimes getting together in GROUPS to place the call to Lermanet.com! Fr the last week, the telephone here has been ringing one call after another..

I've said that when scientology goes down it is going to go down as fast, and as unexpctedly, as the Berlin Wall fell..

I'm getting the feeling THIS IS IT.

regards
Arnie

God I hope so. I never want to see Tory Christman cry again over yet another dead friend who got tangled up in Scientology.