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May 16, 2012
Anti-drug Pamphlets Linked to Scientology Gone From Santa Ana Police Department
It appears that drug-prevention literature connected with the Church of Scientology will no longer be distributed by the Santa Ana Police Department. Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna, the department spokesman, said he was told that "none of the brochures we talked about" are being passed out by the ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Scientology's Two-step Shuffle: Get Drug Prevention Booklet Inside SAPD; When People Call Number, Direct Them to Narconon
Why, looky here. My Pultizer-winning photo shows the back of a pamphlet picked up at the Santa Ana Police Department, advertising the Foundation For a Drug-Free World, which, lo and behold, is sponsored by the Church of Scientology.I called the number and asked where one should go to get help f ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Is The Santa Ana Police Department Collaborating With Scientology? Yes, Says The OC Org's Executive Director; No, Says SAPD
A recent YouTube video features Ed Dearborn, executive director of the Orange County Scientology "org", touting the merits of the organization's Narconon program. Dearborn says Scientology has been "collaborating with the Santa Ana Police Department on our anti-drug education program, which has bee ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Are Scientology's Ideal Orgs 'Islands of Sanity'? No, Says Former Scientologist Paulien Lombard
Scientologists in Orange County continue to move forward with the transformation of the former Santa Ana Performing Arts and Event Center at the corner of Sycamore and Fifth streets into an Ideal Org.According to the website OCideal.org, L. Ron Hubbard envisioned Ideal Orgs as "islands of sanity ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Is Scientology's Orange County Org Looking at Your File?
Orange County Scientologists are getting the word out about the happenings in Hubbardville, one YouTube video at a time. Check out ocidealorg's channel! One video in particular is titled "The Central Files: The Quest For an Ideal Org."After the jump, watch Scientologists sift through the files of t ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Scientology's Orange County Org Uses Koi Fish, Cat in YouTube Video to Call for Volunteers
We learned last week that the Church of Scientology in Orange County may be struggling to build its Ideal Org center at Sycamore and Fifth streets at the former Santa Ana Performing Arts and Event Center.Apparently, they also are short on staff.A video posted on YouTube shows staffers (including koi ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
A Sneak Peek at Scientology's Ideal Org in Orange County, Whenever it Opens
Tony Ortega, editor of our sister paper, Village Voice, recently published an article featuring three mailers from the Church of Scientology, in which the movement promotes its efforts, and primes members to fork over money for the cause. Lucky for us, one mailer promoted a conference in Los An ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Documentary Shows Scientology Protesters Up Close
So I got my man hands on a documentary about Anonymous, the group that protests Scientology orgs around the world. The roughly 37-minute film was produced by local college students for a class project, and focuses on protests at the church's Los Angeles headquarters.People wearing Guy F ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
So I got my man hands on a documentary about Anonymous, the group that protests Scientology orgs around the world. The roughly 37-minute film was produced by local college students for a class project, and focuses on protests at the church's Los Angeles headquarters.People wearing Guy F ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Scientology Protester on Allegedly Being Followed: 'It Was Actually Pretty Mind-Boggling'
She received a cease and desist order. Laguna Beach resident Susan Elliott said she's among those whose efforts to combat alleged abuses in the Church of Scientology have been met with spy tactics and harassment at her doorstep.
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March 1, 2012
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
She received a cease and desist order. Laguna Beach resident Susan Elliott said she's among those whose efforts to combat alleged abuses in the Church of Scientology have been met with spy tactics and harassment at her doorstep.
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February 27, 2012
Scientology Strikes Back Against Former Spy--But Do Commendation Letters Prove Ex-Spy Right?
Last week's cover story and subsequent Navel Gazing post on the Church of Scientology garnered a fair amount of comments from OC Weekly readers. And some may recall that your humble scribe was called out by Karin Pouw, a Scientology spokeswoman, for not immediately responding to her request ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
How the Church of Scientology Responds to a Reporter's Repeated Requests for Comment
Asshole. Prick. Handsome. I've been called all three. But Karin Pouw, a spokesthetan for the Church of Scientology, dropped a u-bomb on me in a Feb. 20 email. She called me "unprofessional." Sniffle. Between Feb. 13 and 18, I called the church's media-relations outfit in Los Angeles t ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Paulien Lombard Was a Spyentologist
A former spy for Scientology came clean on abuses. Now, she says, the church is chasing her
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November 25, 2011
The OC Couple Who Gave More than $1.3 Million to the Church of Scientology--Only to Leave
Over the past couple of weeks, the St. Petersburg Times has been publishing their latest blockbuster series on the Church of Scientology, that ever-mockable collection of has-been movie stars and good people being driven to donate more and more money just to realize an intergalatic overlord name ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Anarchy in the SC! Posters for Global Revolution Group Anonymous Paper San Clemente
Mysterious posters popped up on trees and light poles along Avenida Pico, Avenida Del Mar and the downtown in San Clemente over the weekend, just as they have in other Orange County cities lately.They advertise the "global revolution group" Anonymous and direct people to whatis-theplan.org, an eq ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Scientology "Enemies List" Leaked, With More than a Few OC Residents Listed
Our sister paper, the Village Voice, posted last week about the recent leaking of a Scientology document listing the names of more than 100 people that aren't on the good with the Clear anymore. "In the document, dated January 22, 2010, an [Office of Special Affairs, Scientology's covert-operati ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Pato Banton
Tiki Bar
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April 7, 2011
Vince Neil's Domestic Battery Treatment Plan
Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was arrested for domestic violence in Las Vegas on Friday after allegedly poking his ex-girlfriend in the arm during an argument. Neil, 50, has vowed to fight the charges in court, which means we will all be treated to hilarious footage of the glam rocker testify ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Stryper
House of Blues
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December 16, 2010
Five Dishes that Wiccans Enjoy During their Winter Holidays
The Wicca Cookbook: Recipes, Ritual, and Lore was originally released in 2000 but was rereleased this year as a second edition. The authors are Jamie Martinez Wood and Tara Seefeldt, and Wood's bio in the back says she "leads workshops, lectures, and retreats on manifesting the Divine and and mag ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Billionaire Hedonist Satanist?
No, that's not a reference to Richard Branson.But our eagle-eyed proofreader Jack Grimshaw caught Moxley's last post about Henry T. Nicholas and did notice a helluva resemblance between the Broadcom founder and another notorious pagan. See side-by-side shots and Jack's description after the jump ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
OC Church of Scientology Can't Pay Water Bill?
Over the past couple of weeks, the influential anti-Scientology message boards Operation Clambake and Why We Protest have reported with glee that the Church of Scientology in Orange County can't pay its water bill on its downtown SanTana building. The source is a former Scientologist who, like so ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
OC Church of Scientology Needs to Work on their Proselytizing
I read more about Scientology than normal people should, only because I'm a bit obsessed about religions, pseudo-religions, and their secrets. So when the followers of L. Ron Hubbard bought a historic SanTana building a couple of years ago, I figured they were about to launch a massive outreach e ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
100 Artists See Satan
Grand Central Art Center
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July 1, 2010
100 Artists See Satan
Grand Central Art Center
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May 24, 2010
Dio Wasn't Always A "Satan Worshipper"
www.ronniejamesdio.comAt 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 30, there will be a public memorial service for Ronnie James Dio at the Hall Of Liberty (Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles). For Dio's family, friends and fans, it will a chance to celebrate his life and music. (There ... More >>
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February 25, 2010
Milo the Witch Finds Toil and Trouble at Ralphs
Milo Shiff loves his job, but hated that Halloween display enough to file a discrimination complaint
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December 17, 2009
Danzig
Long Beach Arena
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July 7, 2009
Chuck Devore to China: Set Your Prisoners Free!
In September 2001, Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) self-published a book called "China Attacks" which envisioned a Chinese sneak attack against Taiwan that precipitates a third world war. Call it a case of bad timing: as the events of 9/11 suggested, China might not be America's worst enemy after all. In 20 ... More >>
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April 17, 2009
Nixon, John Taylor and the Bohemian Grove
Early 1990s Cave Man campers. Taylor is in red polo at far right, Nixon sits at left and Meese is behind him.In his August 2006 story "Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself!" the Weekly's Nick Schou interviewed an unnamed Orange County resident and former employee of the private, all-male, 2,700-acre forest ... More >>
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March 6, 2009
The White Coffin Terror
I've always had a soft spot for the dark side. I totally believe in ghosts and am still holding out for the tiny chance that zombies might be real. This infatuation has spilled over into music and has led me to crank bands such as the Cramps, the Misfits, Samhain and the Damned at full volume in mon ... More >>
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April 9, 2008
Barbara Coe, Sonny Bono, And the Illuminati
It must be nigh-impossible for the nicotine-stained brain of California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe to keep up with all the conspiracies (Reconquista, evil Muslims, the Cult of the Two Blue Shoes) she subscribes to. Nevertheless, we always dismissed her efforts and rambles ... More >>
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July 24, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: MTV films Newport Harbor High!
A patriot act: To celebrate a trip home from Bagdad to Laguna Niguel, Army Cpl. Jon Warren sipped a Corona beer, smiled and bit into a tuna sandwich. Greg Hardesty of the Reg tells us that Warren spent “a frightening eventful first nine months in combat.” He's been injured in three bomb blasts ... More >>
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June 6, 2006
666: Not as Evil as You Think
If the triple sixes of today's date have made you decide to skip voting and huddle under the blankets at home instead-- or worse, tempted you into planning to go see The Omen-- forget it. The only things you have to fear are the choices on the ballot, and the prospect of shelling out hard earned cas ... More >>
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June 1, 2006
AIDS 'n' Pagans
This Sunday (a day named to honor Egyptian sun god Ra), Orange County pagans, witches, warlocks (maybe Moorlachs?) and other so-called heathens are using their mystic powers to fight the AIDS. That's right, I said pagans. Monotheistic religions are so passe. AIDS was first noticed in America when, i ... More >>
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April 13, 2006
Messiah news: Real Estate and Sushi Edition
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Santa Ana Performing Arts and Event Center building may soon leave behind the things of this world, and take on the fight against the evil alien power from beyond the stars that's keeping you from fulfilling your potential and living like Tom Cruise. In other ... More >>

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