Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes Among Scientologists Exposed to Asbestos Aboard Ship

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are listed among a host of Scientology luminaries who have at one time or another been aboard a church-owned ship that was recently sealed by authorities after it was found to contain high levels of asbestos.

The 40-year-old ship, Freewinds, was in dry-dock in Curacao when repair workers discovered the blue asbestos. Officials immediately decided to cordon off the vessel, which is described as the flag-ship of the Scientology fleet.

Reportedly, the ship's captain initially responded to the discovery of asbestos dust in the ventilation system by trying to keep the news secret, even from the crew.

Blue asbestos is the most dangerous form of asbestos. A single microscopic grain can become lodged in the lungs for years and even cause cancer. Decontaminating the ship will cost millions of dollars and require months of work.

A list has been released of the Scientology celebs who've spent time on Freewinds (pared down here to remove uninteresting names):

Kirstie Alley
Catherine Bell - - actress
Nancy Cartwright - - voice of Bart Simpson
Erika Christensen - - actress
Tom Cruise
Bodhi Elfman - - actor
Jenna Elfman - - actress
Katie Holmes
Danny Keough - - actor, musician. ex of Lisa Marie Presley and father of her children
Juliette Lewis - - actress
Christopher Masterson - - actor
Daniel Masterson - - actor
Corin Nemec - - actor
Lisa M. Presley Keogh - - Elvis' daughter
Laura Prepon - - actress
Beth Riesgraf - - actress, mother of Jason Lee's child Pilot Inspektor
Marissa Ribisi - - actress, wife of Beck Hansen and mother of his children
John Travolta

Lapsed Scientologist Jason Beghe was also reportedly on the ship. All could now be dying of cancer...unless Scientology detox was successful in sweating the asbestos out of their lungs.

The telling point here concerns the actions of the captain, whose first instinct when he found out about the asbestos was to try to hide it. Scientology clearly cares more about protecting its secrets than about protecting the health of its members. Were I a Scientologist with even a jot of sense, I would be disturbed by this.

(Thanks Patricia)

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Kirstie Alley Is My Favorite Scientologist

Lovable Scientology butterball Kirstie Alley is running her yap about how brilliant she is, and about all the wonderful stuff being a Scientologist allows you to do. Here's Kirstie going on and on about her "Super Power Expansion Project":

I'm walking out an entirely different being, and I mean entirely different . . . My viewpoint on the fourth dynamic and mankind and other people changed. You know, I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of "mankind" — it really irritated me!

Then I realized why mankind upset me so much — it's because I wasn't taking responsibility! . . . Now, I have genuine affinity for mankind . . . I've made decisions here, big, crazy, great, brilliant decisions here about the magnitude I'm going to help this group and help this planet, and it's real . . . I want everybody in the universe to experience this.

Not just everybody in the world, but everybody in the universe.

And these people aren't raging egomaniacs?

I wonder if Kirstie even knows what she's supposed to be talking about. Cause most of what Scientologists say is just blather. They use all their L. Ron terminology, and think they sound so smart. That's mostly what Scientology is I think - a way of speaking that makes idiots think they're saying something profound.

Here's another question I have: Why are there so many fat Scientologists? Kirstie is willing to "take responsibility" for her feelings about mankind, but she's not taking any responsiblity for her feelings about cheesecake. Doesn't she know cheesecake is full of bad Thetans? I'm telling you, if she doesn't clear this eating thing, she'll never make it across the bridge to the tenth dynamic where all the four-armed albino Leprechauns live.

(Memo to all the people who keep accusing the Crabster of hating Scientology. I don't hate Scientology - I hate Scientologists. Big difference.)

(source)

Kirstie Alley Gives Us Another Reason To Hate Scientologists

Celeb Scientologists continue their campaign of idiocy against media entities who refuse to bow to the notion that their stupid book-club religion should be taken seriously. The latest to feel the wrath - Us Weekly. Today, Gawker posted a letter allegedly sent by fat dipshit Kirstie Alley's lawyers to Us in response to a joke that publication made about Scientology. The letter reads:

Gentlemen;

This office represents Kirstie Alley. It has just come to our attention that in your January 7, 2008 edition, page 87, there is a photograph of Nicole Kidman at the Golden Compass premiere in Sydney, Australia. On the photograph, Danica Lo makes the comment: "Bonus: This specially designed suit repels Scientologists."

While I realize that Ms. Lo and your magazine are attempting to be sarcastic and funny, you are perpetuating the unfair prejudice against Scientologists in our society. While you may feel that appealing to this prejudice will help you sell magazines, it degrades our society and plays upon baseless fears and suspicions about Scientology which are spread by the media.

You would not have published Ms. Lo's statement if she had made the comment about African Americans, Hispanics or other minorities who have been the victims of bigotry. Would you have published this comment if it were Jews, Muslims or Christians who were singled out for ridicule by Ms. Lo? Scientology's principal difference from these other religions is its age, which apparently you feel gives you license to publish unfair and bigoted statements about its followers. Hostility against people of faith based solely on their religious beliefs is a poison you are helping to spread.

Ms. Lo should be discharged for her narrow-minded comment. You should apologize and commit to a thorough examination of why you have chosen to foster animosity and bias against Scientologists.

And since Us Weekly doesn't have the balls to respond to this letter as they should, I will do it for them:

Dear Scientology,

We here at Us Weekly respect your concerns about writer Danica Lo's humorous statement in our January 7, 2008 edition. Ms. Lo demonstrated poor judgment in making fun of Scientology when remarking upon Nicole Kidman's dreadful outfit, and we are sorry for any offense this may have given.

Actually, no we're not. In truth, we find it odd that, with all the shit that's been said about Scientology in recent months, you would choose to zero in on this one particular innocuous, throwaway joke. First of all, the joke wasn't even funny. Second of all, we thought you hated Nicole Kidman and would enjoy any jab at her, even if it was also sort of at you. Third of all, does Kirstie Alley have nothing better to do with her life than read Us Weekly? We thought all Scientologists spent their days pondering the mysteries of the universe. We didn't realize they ever took time out to catch up on what Pete and Ashlee have been up to. It's sort of flattering, in a way, knowing people of Ms. Alley's caliber find our publication stimulating.

In case you didn't know, I was being sarastic again. Kirstie Alley is clearly a fat, stupid, heinous cow who can't read anything more sophisticated than a celebrity rag without getting totally lost. She doesn't have too much trouble reading menus though does she? Actually, she doesn't even need to read them at this point - she has them memorized. Or does she even need to memorize the menus? Does she now just walk into restaurants and say, "Bring me a side of beef," and devour the whole thing without even once wiping her stupid, fat, idiot mouth? Kirstie Alley, in case you people hadn't noticed, is revolting. And she clearly has no sense of humor about herself or her fake religion, otherwise she wouldn't get so upset over a silly joke in a silly magazine.

It may be true, Scientologists, that we wouldn't have published the same joke about Christians or Muslims or Jews, but even if we had, it's unlikely that representatives of those faiths would've bothered calling us on it. Most people of those faiths are secure enough in their beliefs not to get thrown into an angry tailspin over every joke or criticism, and those who aren't so secure are merely the crackpots, radicals and fringe figures, the mainstream members having better things to do with their lives than make their lawyers draft irate missives and send them out willy-nilly. So, are we to understand that Ms. Alley is herself a crackpot Scientologist? Or are all Scientologists, in fact, crackpots?

We suggest Ms. Alley try to broaden her literary horizons. Maybe if she read something besides Scientology texts and celeb rags, she would be enlightened enough by now to see the difference between a harmless crack and a real criticism. Maybe if she put down the pork chops and got out some, she would acquire enough knowledge of the world to realize that it doesn't revolve around her fat ass. Or, maybe she wouldn't. Maybe, like most of the rest of the Scientologists on earth, she is too wrapped up in her own bullshit delusions of universal conquest to even realize there is anything else going on.

Thank you for your time.

(source)

More Scientology Wackiness

Here's an old Scientology recruitment video someone filmed playing on their TV. Bad quality but one gets the gist.

“If you leave this room after seeing this film," says the narrator, "and walk out and never mention Scientology again, you are perfectly free to do so.

“It would be stupid, but you can do it. You can also dive off a bridge or blow your brains out - that is your choice.

“But, if you ... continue with Scientology, we will be very happy with you – and you will be very happy with you.”

That's their pitch. "It would be stupid, but you can do it." And they want to be taken seriously?

Speaking of people you can't take seriously...Anne Archer and Kirstie Alley are in this video. Both claim they would be dead if not for Scientology.

Damn you Scientology!

And, most horrifying of all? The bug-eyed black guy from Ice Pirates is a Scientologist.

I'll never believe in anything again.