Defamer
The Church of Scientology has a long history of harassing those individuals who dare question their controversial doctrines. While they mostly utilize legal channels to do so, there have been more than a few whispers over the years that they sometimes deploy members of the church to do the harassing in person (the most recent example being Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, the couple whose mysterious dual suicides were recently chronicled in the pages of Vanity Fair). Now author Ian Halperin, who infiltrated the Church and wrote about in a book called Hollywood Undercover, has drawn so much attention from Hubbard's mobsters that the scribe has been forced to go into hiding. Defamer received communication from Halperin late last night regarding threatening phone calls he had just received, phone calls that prompted him to get outta Dodge for awhile:
"Tonight I received a call from an unknown number saying, 'If you enjoy breathing, shut your fuckin' mouth,' and then they hung up. Tomorrow I think I'll go stay at a friend's place up in the mountains for a while until it all dies down."
Yikes! While we sometimes wake up in fear that crazed LRH disciples have left the severed head of Kirstie Alley in our bed, we are beginning to have some suspicions that perhaps Halperin is getting a wee bit paranoid during his fifteen (well, to be fair, thirty) minutes of bold-faced fame. That said, you can never be too careful.
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Ian should place a call to Anonymous.
Ummm, after the events of the past week, I think I'd call 911 before I'd call Defamer, but that's just me. Bottom line, I call BS on this one.
I say Nick Denton pays for a bodyguard and a documentary filmmaker to follow Halperin around for six months and provide documented evidence of Xenu's creepy dirty tricks.
Also, isn't waking up with an intact and alive Kirstie Alley in your bed equally as frightening?
@BoHan: Actually, I would call Mary-Kate Olsen first.
I don't know anything about this guy, but the notion that he's receiving death threats is anything but farfetched. Go watch the Cruise video again. Look at the expression on his face when he talks about "SPs" or Suppressive Persons, Scieno jargon for anyone who has the brains and the guts to point out that they're whackjobs and liars. Then reflect that Cruise is actually one of the saner and more intelligent members of the CoS.
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'If you enjoy breathing, shut your fuckin' mouth,'
But what if he's congested? These Scientology heavies are so inconsiderate.
It's the same people as Iggygate, sounds like to me...
@BoHan: I dunno, I've heard anecdotal stories that the only FBI agent to ever investigate CSI for its (inherent) massive fraud was chased out of the bureau and into a new name, along with his wife and kids.
Is he sure it was a Scientologyst?
I'm sure they would have abbreviated that to 'SYFM'.
Did he call The Olsen girl first? Seems like he thing to do these days.
If I got threatened by the Co$ I'd hire the local Hell's Angels chapter to do a little S&D.
If something happens to him, and I mean even an unexplained paper cut, I'm storming the Celebrity Center and killing everyone.
For some reason, I think this book is titled Hollywood Undercover. Seriously, is proofreading completely dead?
So these guys are like Islamic fundamentalists? A couple of goddam cartoons or book will get you fatwa'd?
What's the name of this crowd, "The Sword of L. Ron?"
@Michael Jahn: How do you think they finally got to be a tax-exempt church? They wore down the IRS and the federal courts with something like 15 years of litigation.
@SteamyMcFirecrotch: That video is awesome.
They did this to him before, when he left the "church." He must have seen this coming.
"Tonight I received a call from an unknown number saying, 'If you enjoy breathing, shut your fuckin' mouth,' and then they hung up."
"Later, they rang back and apologised, and asked if I wanted to save money when calling long-distance. Turns out it was their first day on the job, and they had mistakenly read from the wrong script."
"Tomorrow I think I'll go stay at a friend's place up in the mountains for a while until it all dies down."
So, don't follow me or anything now that you know that I'm leaving, when, and that it will be in the mountains with one of my friends. So, don't kill me or anything! KTHNXBAI.
@procrastinator, esq
And second, third and fourth.
Speaking of which, is Nick Denton still alive?
@NotReadyForPrimeTime: Yeah, he's fine. Here he is stalking LoHan et al over at Gawker [gawker.com] and pretending it's someone else.
The safety of crowds - he haz it.
@Theda_Bara: A plot point used in 76% of Stephen King novels these days.
So he's going to the mountains eh? They're training wild bears and killer raccoons as we speak.
Does anyone else find it a little odd that these people are following a religion made up by a SCIENCE FICTION WRITER?! Or is it just me?
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