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41 “in ignorance and darkness”: Ibid. Hawkins is now affiliated with Anonymous,
a hacktivist collective that has targeted Scientology. They often picket church
offices, sometimes wearing Guy Fawkes masks. The group pugnaciously opposes
any form of censorship, and became hostile to Scientology after the church invoked
copyright claims in order to remove from the Internet the video of Tom Cruise
extolling “KSW” The church terms Anonymous a “cyber-terrorist” group. Two
Anonymous members pled guilty to participating in a 2008 attack on a Scientology
Web site.
42 “He smelled of body odor”: Yael Lustgarten affidavit.
43 “I gathered all the buttons”: Interview with Amy Scobee. Scobee says she was
used to Scientology’s methods of resolving internal conflicts. Twice, when she was
fourteen and had just become a part of the church, she was sexually abused by an
older man in Scientology. She never called the police. “We’re taught that ‘we
handle our own,’ ” she told me. Because she failed to report the incidents of abuse
to her auditor, after her abuser had confessed them, she was consigned to manual
labor. Her abuser later became an Ethics Officer in the church.
44 He said that all of the abuse: Deposition of Thomas Davis, Marc Headley vs.
Church of Scientology International and Claire Headley vs. Church of Scientology
International, US District Court, Central District of California, July 2, 2010.
45 “He had a weird”: Interview with Tom De Vocht.
46 “gold bullion”: Ibid.
47 “You’re the biggest”: Ibid.
48 Donors are accorded higher: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun. A former
Sea Org executive, Debbie Cook, confirmed the $1 billion figure in an e-mail she
sent to other Scientologists. Tony Ortega, “Scientology in Turmoil: Debbie Cook’s
E-mail, Annotated,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, Jan. 6, 2012.
49 Nancy Cartwright: David K. Li, “The Church of $impsontology,” New York Post,
Jan. 31, 2008.
50 The IAS now holds: Interview with Marty Rathbun; Joe Childs and Thomas C.
Tobin, “In Letter, Former Scientology Leader Debbie Cook Renews Concerns about
Church Fundraising,” Tampa Bay Times, Jan. 7, 2012. Rathbun has since doubled
his estimate to “nearly two billion dollars—all offshore, out of the reach of tax
authoritities or civil lawsuits.” Rathbun, The Scientology Reformation, p. 50.
51 Scientology coursework alone: Urban, The Church of Scientology, p. 136.
52 ranges in price: Interview with Bruce Hines. According to the church, “there are
no ‘prices’ for auditing,” there are “fixed donations.” Karin Pouw, personal
correspondence.
53 Services sold in Clearwater: Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Former
Scientology Insiders Describe a World of Closers, Prospects, Crushing Quotas and
Coercion,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 13, 2011.