Month: January 2019

… the more she speaks out against Scientology, the more they back off. I’ve found that to be true, and it’s so typical of bullies.  There’s nothing to be afraid of by speaking out and nothing to be gained by not doing it.  When I was being quiet, they were fair-gaming me anyway.

People sometimes wonder why I have signs in my shop window protesting the abuses of Scientology. To me, it seems obvious, but I forget that not everybody grew up the way I did.  My mother took it seriously, when she learned of the saying, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good …

People have written firsthand horror stories about what it was like inside Scientology.  It’s all on the internet.  And of course, Scientology doesn’t want anybody reading that stuff.  I had to work up to going online at all, after so many years of indoctrination that the internet was evil. But they shot themselves in the …

I accidentally found one sure way to get out the vote in East Hollywood, when I ran for Arts & Culture Representative for the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council in 2016.  Now two years later, elections are coming up again.  Election Day this year is Sunday, March 31st. Since I’m on the Elections Committee, I have …

I thought the friends I had were real friends.  I didn’t think they would shun me.  How could people I’d known for decades do that to me?  On top of the cult brainwashing, that kind of treatment makes it hard to get over the whole experience.  By design, I think.  Leaving Scientology is supposed to …