The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology (40 page)
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Authors: John Sweeney
Rathbun, Marty:
The Scientology Reformation
, Corpus Christi, 2012.
Rolph, CH,
Believe What You Like
, Andre Deutsch, London, 1973.
Scobee, Amy:
Abuse at the Top
, Scobee Publishing, Washington State, 2010
Singer, Margaret:
Cults In Our Midst
, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2003.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Rinder, Mike; Rathbun, Marty; Headleys, Marc and Claire; Hines, Bruce; Scobee, Amy; Hawkins, Jeff; Beghe, Jason; Hall, Steve; Henderson, Mike; Shannon, Donna; DeVocht, Tom; Andrus, Alison; the late Singer, Margaret; Ross, Rick; Lifton, Prof; Behar, Richard; Miller, Russell; Morton, Andrew; Childs, Joe and Tobin, Thomas C; Ortega, Tony; Christman, Tory; Lonsdale, the late Shawn.
Moles, various; Mole, Sarah; Browne, Traitor Bill; Barrie, Patrick; Hesse, Uli; Smith, Sandy; Giles, Tom; Kemp, Darren; Edwards, Clive; Law, Roger; Leask, Damian; Richardson, Adam; Stead, Katy; Coffey, Jon; Harte, Alys; Stott, Chris; Hunters, Humfrey, Charlotte and Ringo.
Newson, Tomiko; Sweeneys, Sam, Molly, Barbara, Bertie.
The great British public who via the BBC pay my wages and who forgave my exploding tomato outburst.
And to everyone who is still in. If you’ve read this far, you might consider getting out. Humanity, for all its faults and foolishness, is not as bad as you’ve been told.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Sweeney is a reporter for BBC Panorama who became a YouTube sensation in 2007 when he lost his temper with a senior member of the Church of Scientology. Before joining the BBC in 2001, Sweeney worked for twelve years at
The Observer
, where he covered wars and revolutions and unrest in more than sixty countries including Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya and Zimbabwe. He has helped free seven people falsely convicted of killing their babies, starting with Sally Clark and Angela Cannings. Over the course of his career John has won one Emmy, two Royal Television Society prizes, one Sony Gold award, the What The Papers Say Journalist of The Year Prize, an Amnesty International prize and the Paul Foot Award. His hobby is falling off his bike on the way back from the pub.
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Copyright
First published in 2013 by Silvertail Books
www.silvertailbooks.com
Copyright © John Sweeney 2013
The right of John Sweeney to be identified as the author of this work has been asswerted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978–1–909269–07–1
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from Silvertail Books
Typeset in Ehrhardt Monotype
Table of Contents
Chapter Two: What Do My Socks Have to Do With Spiritual Freedom?
Chapter Three: Ill-Met At Midnight
Chapter Four: One Man Against The Crowd
Chapter Five: Your Needle’s Floating, Tom
Chapter Six: This Is The Word of The Church of Scientology
Chapter Seven: Do I Look Brainwashed To You?
Chapter Eight: They Want You To Be Afraid
Chapter Nine: The Industry of Death
Chapter Ten: The Tethered Goat
Chapter Eleven: The Concrete Angel
Chapter Twelve: You Suck Cock On Hollywood Boulevard
Chapter Thirteen: Is There Anybody There?
Chapter Fourteen: Panorama Exposed