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Scientology policy dictates harassing people through noisy investigations and other tactics.
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| August 6, 2008 | Anonymous Returns, Scientology Responds | Cringely outlines Scientology's long history of harassing journalists and critics. | |
| January 1, 2012 | St. Petersburg Times: For the Disadvantaged and Against Scientology | Former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a civil rights advocate, champion of the disadvantaged and archenemy of the Church of Scientology, died Friday, September 29, 2006, at the age of 86. | |
| September 27, 2001 | Sympathy For The Devil: The Tory Bezazian Story | Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics - until she met the darkest detractor of all. More than a year after her very public defection - the first in memory to occur on the Internet - Bezazian is still adapting to her transformation. She has quickly become a highly visible foe of the church she served for three decades. | |
| April 14, 2001 | Scientology Protester's Court Motion Is Denied | A Riverside County Superior Court judge on Monday denied Church of Scientology opponent Keith Henson's motion to dismiss the entire district attorney's office from his terrorist-threats case. In the motion, Henson accused the Riverside County district attorney's office of bias in favor of the Scientologists. | |
| October 20, 2000 | Kennedy Claims Harassment | Vallejo Times-Herald: Kennedy Claims Harassment | |
| June 16, 2000 | Harassment By Scientologist Denounced | Associated Press: Harassment By Scientologist Denounced | |
| March 29, 1999 | Critics Public And Private Keep Pressure On Scientology - At Home | Scientology reacts to the pickets by sending staffers out to confront them and take pictures. Increasingly, Scientologists go out and picket critics' home or office, distributing fliers that accuse them of being "religious bigots." Some pickets say Scientologists have frightened elderly family members with visits and questions about their picketing. | |
| March 28, 1999 | Hardball | In a 14-month, worldwide survey, the St. Petersburg Times has documented a consistent pattern of church officials relentlessly pursuing its critics in legal actions that some charge are designed as much to harass as to achieve legal victory. In one year alone, the Times has found, Scientology spent more than $30-million on legal and professional fees. | |
| March 28, 1999 | Scientology: 'We like to make peace' | In two days of interviews, officials from the Church of Scientology and five of its lawyers answered a wide range of questions in an effort to combat the church's reputation as litigious, secretive and closed to scrutiny. | |
| March 20, 1999 | Church of Scientology Targets Journalist | Two pickets from the Church of Scientology appeared before the Peace Tower with placards pasted with a photograph of a beaming Ms. O'Malley and the inscriptions "the Face of Bigotry" and "Religious Intolerance." | |
| March 27, 1998 | Scientology Looks Into Reporter's Personal Life | Continuing a long-standing practice, the Church of Scientology again is investigating the personal life of a news reporter. Scientology officials say their lawyers have hired a firm to investigate Joseph Mallia, a Boston Herald reporter who wrote a five-part series that raised questions about church practices. | |
| March 19, 1998 | Boston Herald: Church of Scientology Probes Herald Reporter | The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life. | |
| March 4, 1998 | Boston Herald: Church, Enemies Wage War on Internet Battlefield | Scientology's lawyers - including prominent Boston attorney Earle C. Cooley - raided and searched the homes of Scientology critics in Virginia, Colorado, and California and seized their computer disks. | |
| April 18, 1996 | Scientology Told to Pay Fees in Copyright Suit | Saying that the Church of Scientology has been playing "fast and loose with the judicial system," a federal appeals court has ordered the religious organization to pay nearly $3 million in attorneys fees to a former member it sued after he formed his own splinter group. | |
| August 26, 1995 | Scientology critics claim harassment for using Internet: includes interview with Robert Vaughn Young, former Scientology public | Seattle Times: Scientology critics claim harassment for using Internet: includes interview with Robert Vaughn Young, former Scientology public relations officer. | |
| January 3, 1995 | article about Scientology's harassment of Arnie Lerma | AP: article about Scientology's harassment of Arnie Lerma | |
| December 25, 1994 | Scientology Fiction: The Church's War Against Its Critics - and Truth | What had Lerma done to earn the attention of a church he left 16 years ago? He had engaged in freedom of speech. A frequent user of the Internet, Lerma had posted public records - documents from court cases involving Scientology - on the global computer network and on the America Online commercial service. The documents included testimony from former church officials who describe Scientology as a dangerous cult that brainwashes and blackmails its member and harasses defectors and critics. In the church's eyes, Lerma - who once signed a "billion-year contract" to serve Scientology as a member of its quasi-military "Sea Organization" - was now an enemy. | |
| December 29, 1991 | Founder of est Targeted in Campaign by Scientologists | Heisig said it was clear from the documents that Scientology was preparing a "media blitz" against Erhard-and that he was going to be a key player, spreading and collecting information that could be used to discredit the est founder. "The reason, I think it comes down to, is competition," Heisig said. "Since Werner started his est program, he took potential customers ... away from the church." The secret campaign against Erhard would span more than a year and become one of the Church of Scientology's top priorities. | |
| July 1, 1991 | Prozac Controversy Brings Rain Of Harassing Phone Calls | Gary Post-Tribune: Prozac Controversy Brings Rain Of Harassing Phone Calls | |
| June 6, 1991 | The cos's reaction to the Time article: the advertising campaign and the harassment of Richard Behar | Los Angeles Times: The cos's reaction to the Time article: the advertising campaign and the harassment of Richard Behar | |
| June 29, 1990 | Former Church of Scientology lawyer Joseph Yanny has become a target of harassment | Los Angeles Times: Former Church of Scientology lawyer Joseph Yanny has become a target of harassment | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: On the Offensive Against an Array of Suspected Foes | The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Ministers mingle with private detectives. "Sacred scriptures" counsel the virtues of combativeness. Parishioners double as paralegals for litigious church attorneys. | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: A Lawyer Learns What It's Like to Fight the Church | Attorney Joseph Yanny says his Century City law firm was burglarized four times and that Scientology-related documents turned up missing; that he has been spied upon by a church "plant" working as a secretary in his office; and that private investigators have camped outside his Hermosa Beach residence and shadowed him when he left. | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: The Battle with the "Squirrels" | Hubbard contended that only church members are qualified to administer his self-improvement-type courses. Outsiders, he said, inevitably misapply the teachings, wreaking spiritual harm on their subjects. But those who have launched "independent" Scientology-style centers say Hubbard concocted this as an excuse to eliminate competition so he could charge exorbitant prices for his courses. | |
| June 24, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: Burglaries and Lies Paved a Path to Prison | A web of criminal conspiracy to discredit the church's foes resulted in prison sentences for 11 top-ranking Scientologists. |