St Pete Times - new articles

[Kha Khan]

Links to Chapter 2 of Part 3:

Links to Chapter 2 of Part 3:

What happened in Vegas - St. Petersburg Times

How Scientology got to Bob Minton - St. Petersburg Times

Ex-officer says Scientology policy didn't match directive - St. Petersburg Times

Who's who in this installment - St. Petersburg Times

The Scientology response - St. Petersburg Times

Has Scientology been watching Pat Broeker for two decades? - St. Petersburg Times

 

[Kha Khan]

Scientology Defectors "Hunted Down" - The Daily Beast

REPORT: Tom Cruise Wedding Chef "Chased Down" By Scientology | RadarOnline.com

 

[TEoS]

Time for another edition of Freedom Magazine, Slappy?

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

All three of my attempted posts there have been deleted. I've been given no reason.

They usually only allow one post per IP Address per day to prevent spambots from flooding their site. So your first post should not have been deleted. If you want to make multiple posts you need to reset your IP Address by reseting your modem

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

The thread reply notification I received had sponsored links which included the following:

- Blast Door and Hatch
- Survival Bunker
- Survival Shelter
- Family Bunker

HH, your post is being used by the survivalists to drum up business!

I'll happily take that over a banner from CoS with Hubbard quote:

"I want Scientologists to survive World War III"

Actually, I take that as a cool thing. Survivalists are probably one of the only cults that even scare Scientologists!

 

[flashgordon]

If you want to make multiple posts you need to reset your IP Address by reseting your modem

Reseting your modem does not always reset your IP address.

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

Reseting your modem does not always reset your IP address.

That's true, but it usually does if you power down for a minute or two

 

[Daddio]

Single post from an IP?

Hmmm...

Maybe that was it. My second comment at SP Times was deleted, but 10 minutes after it showed up. But someone nicked JamesP and a few other's multiple posts using the same nicks were posted. I just thought it was something related to really heavy traffic, and a flawed database...

Alas...

 

[Free to shine]

All three of my attempted posts there have been deleted. I've been given no reason.

Sponge on OCMB posted this:

Scientologits[mispelling intended] have been flagging the negative comments about scientology on these SP Times articles.

Due to the change of commenting system, also now requiring registration btw, when you use the "Report Abuse" link on a comment it has the effect of removing the comment immediately for review by a human at the SP Times before it either gets put back or binned.
Apparently, the SP Times staff are aware of this malicious flagging. Not sure if they are going to do anything about it right away but I hope this behaviour gets column space in the next chapter, or in a special editorial.

http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=368227#368227

 

[ARC]

I heard that reported comments are removed until a moderator can look at them, which is why after Scientology flags all non-Scientology comments, the comments disappear for a while before they're put back again.

This could be compared to a DoS-attack. It is at the very least possibly illegal.

 

[Daddio]

Fixing the report comments:

Most likely, the report button can be tracked to the nick what done it, and result in banning said user...

Get on the job SP Times IT!

 

[OHTEEATE]

Links to Chapter 2 of Part 3:

What happened in Vegas - St. Petersburg Times

How Scientology got to Bob Minton - St. Petersburg Times

Ex-officer says Scientology policy didn't match directive - St. Petersburg Times

Who's who in this installment - St. Petersburg Times

The Scientology response - St. Petersburg Times

Has Scientology been watching Pat Broeker for two decades? - St. Petersburg Times

I just picked up the actual Monday and Sunday editions of the paper. Janis Grady has TWO full color pictures on the FRONT PAGE. One with LRH and another party pic showing her, her sister Terri and Terris' husband Fernando
Gamboa. The Church spend a bundle keeping an eye on these guys because they knew a lot about the inner workings of Int. Mgmt.

 

[mountainpeak]

An hour long interview with Rathbun. Lots of new data, including the 20 year surveillance of Pat Broeker.

http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/rathbun.shtml

 

[Wisened One]

An hour long interview with Rathbun. Lots of new data, including the 20 year surveillance of Pat Broeker.

http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/rathbun.shtml

Is this a new vid/article?

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

Is this a new vid/article?

Yes

 

[everfree]

Sponge on OCMB posted this:


http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=368227#368227

Ah, that makes sense. It's gross of course, but what do you expect from the church?

 

[Zinjifar]

"I'm just going to leave it at that." - Marty Rathbun in a nutshell

Zinj

 

[Wisened One]

Yes

Thanks. Also gathered that after started listening....

Note: It's constantly rebuffering. Any ideas of how I can stop that?

 

[fishdaddy]

The St. Pete Times just restored all of the deleted comments. With their "report abuse" function, if three people click the button, the post is automatically hidden. Scientology was apparently gaming the system to get rid of certain posts (those from ex-members validating the information, for instance). I alerted the Times to the abuse, and they have now restored the deleted comments.

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

The St. Pete Times just restored all of the deleted comments. With their "report abuse" function, if three people click the button, the post is automatically hidden. Scientology was apparently gaming the system to get rid of certain posts (those from ex-members validating the information, for instance). I alerted the Times to the abuse, and they have now restored the deleted comments.

The cult keeps proving time after time that it is ... a cult. I can't wait until this criminal enterprise loses all it's tax exempt status.