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Isaac Hayes: not dead, just resting between gigs

Friday, August 15, 2008

ISAAC Hayes – music pioneer, actor, author of a cookbook, the voice of the cartoon chef in South Park, oh, and a 24-carat Scientology nutjob – is dead at 65.
Well, not really. According to wacky Scientology dogma, he has moved on to claim another body – or “meat” as the Scientologists so delicately put it.
Said [...]

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It’s OK to use the C-word to describe Scientology in Edinburgh, but not Glasgow

Thursday, May 29, 2008

HATS off to Edinburgh City Council bosses who said this week that they had “no objection” to the use of the word “cult” to describe the cult of Scientology.
Their decision follows the barmy police action taken at the beginning of May against a young anti-Scientology protestor in London, who was served with a summons for [...]

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Silly cult summons makes asses of the police

Friday, May 23, 2008

CITY of London Police have been made to look exceedingly foolish following their issuing of a court summons to a teenager for displaying a sign that branded Scientology a “dangerous cult”.
Which, of course, is precisely what it is.
And today the boy’s protest was vindicated when the Crown Prosecution Service ruled the words were neither “abusive [...]

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Scientology - daft and dangerous

Friday, April 4, 2008

IT’S described as a “totalitarian, Mafia-like organisation, which also employs extreme methods to intimidate, harass and silence critics”.
No, not Islam, but something equally potty: Scientology, which is attracting the unwanted attention of a group calling itself Anonymous.
Earlier this year, Anonymous members in Scotland – as part of a world-wide, 9,000-strong protest against the Church of [...]

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