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the other day to all of last week actually anderson cooper on c_n_n_
had a really good
kind of investigative piece on scientology and the peace
was about both the church of scientology and there's an organization called the
sea organization asi es
which is kind of like the central management operation of the church
the investigation
it was really very well done it went into accusations that the church's
leader david miscavige regularly eats
and punches people
and this is something that he's done for a long time that if you divorce someone
who's in the church of scientology they're told to disconnect this
connection
or have no more contact essentially
a whole bunch of other stuff the investigation was really well done they
talk to a lot of people
when i see it because they re clear when you hear the two sides of the story
the people who are defending the church of scientology
seem to be relatively unbalanced and not credible and have very specific motive
four line
wears those who
what indicate
that these kinds of acts are going on
seem to be much more credible to me and actually have a story that i have evans
hold this happened last summer
where i was
kind of recruited
the church of scientology and i think i told you about this today not yap yap
where they were even start at let let's idled as back up there
my mom was having work done
at her house
and she had a handyman type of guy
doing work fare and she was on vacation during that time so she said to check in
on what's going on
stop by
but let's see if the guy needs anything let him and let him out whatever i
assumed that the guy was a conservative because i always would hear him he would
bring a little radio he beat lou listening to conservative talk
he would have conservative ab
talk show host stickers
on his work vehicle so i was like this is a conservative guy
i assumed he was christian or catholic or what have you that one day i'm just
their this today has a goings everything ok you need anything
need me to ask my mom anything that's going to talk to her
and he brings up scientology he says
have you heard a heavy deal with you know that scientology type of thing very
open ended question and i assume
knowing that he is a conservative politically he is going to
come from a christian angle and make fun of scientology so i say yeah isn't it
the religion that the science fiction writer
started l ron hubbard
thinking that that was the way he was going to go when he says
i no no no that's that's funny would mention that actually buda
but no its value a lot of people think that he's a science fiction writer but
actually the guy's really a genius
and he's written so many books and ideas i'm not really a scientologist myself
and
my kids are scientologists he told me where in the country which church i
won't mention interests not to give it
i don't want these people identified you know may be good
for them to be pointed out and but you know and it's really a lot of people
actually the when they say those things
they are him
their their account and trying to suppress their being suppressive
and i acted like this is the first ever heard of the suppressive person thing
but i'd i've known in my research of scientology there is an espy label
that if somebody
in the church identifies you as protesting what they do criticizing the
church you're labeled the nastiest suppressive person and it's not good to
be labeled as a presser person i know you've heard about the still yes
so i'm
at this point i'm honestly pretty horrified and i don't want to be labeled
in espy so i just play along and say
i'm sure is going to buy the tommy some great story so he says yeah mice at my
kids
are actually
kind of high up members in the church and my wife and i are really high up but
we've been doing a twenty years and i'll tell you
i've been able to do miracles because of scientology
he says this to me i've been able to do
miracles because i'm a scientologist and albany says gave aren't you a business
guy
uh... you know l ron hubbard she could teach you about business a lot of his
books are written about business and you should be should look into that
and by the way
buysell some of the books i sell the scientology books ab and i saw the one
to another client of mine in you know she was kind of like uh...
i don't know about scientology she read it
she loves it now she's going to become a scientologist you don't have to agree
with everything i'd buy the glad to sell you a book
so that this guy it
is trying to sell me
scientology books in in my mom's home at this point the bizarre experience but
again
i'm horrified
i don't want david miscavige coming to my house and punching me in the face for
no reason
i don't want to be label to suppress a person
i don't want scientologists outside of my house or trying to take over the
radio show so i stay as quiet as i can
and i say you know interesting i i don't know that it's for me
bal cell stick with what i've what i'm doing now you know thank you though
policy within five minutes on on the phone to my mom saying we we can never
hired this guy again he's proselytize in for the church of scientology
and he's trying to sell me books
ten minutes later as i'm leaving i walk out and i looked in the mailbox my mom's
mailbox minding and there's a letter in their an outgoing letter and standing up
for the post office to pick up
i grab it just a look
and it's address to the church of scientology in the city
the his kids live and i can tell just because it is very sunny out i wasn't
looking but it was just so sunny i could see right through the envelope
but it's a check written out for a pretty significant amount by a guy that
i don't think has that much money
to the church of scientology
i don't know if you've ever been approached by the scientologist but
that that's one anecdotal story
i have i think i've walked by like abr
from the street yet where they're selling books or whatever and i'll tell
you i'm not we talk to people on the show we get into kc kenneth contentious
situations and i'm not uncomfortable with it
this may be very uncomfortable
because i didn't know am i going to go on some list if i started when did just
me saying didn't a science fiction writer creator religion
get me on the list of suppressive persons yeah i think this kind of falls
off
in a way under the same categories the urologist we're talking about
he's bringin politics of the workplace you know and in in a major way in this
guy's props proselytize ng in a much more signify doing his job in other
people's homes right yes and sending out checks it to that effect
from other people's mailboxes which had get it
it's for his return addresses on there
i don't want the post office guy
thinking that my mom is donating to the church of scientology we just can't
there's nothing good
that could come of that misunderstanding if you know any
very very bizarre so if you have your own scientology stories radio at
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