Scientology Digest 02/19/2008

Before I get around to posting non-CoS material, I thought I’d share with everyone some late-breaking, utterly disturbing news. A guy by the name of Shawn Lonsdale recently ‘commited suicide’ by feeding a tube from his car exhaust pipe into his apartment. He was found dead some time later.

Why is this disturbing? Because Shawn just so happens to live in Clearwater, FL and just so happens to be a prominent anti-scientologist who frequently filmed people and events related to the cult in Clearwater. He was even interviewed on the aforementioned Panorama program on the BBC back in April or so where a confrontation between himself and a PR head of scientology, Tommy Davis (son of Anne Archer) smeared him publicly for having been arrested for lewd conduct in the late 90s. Not surprising considering their propensity for smearing people who criticize them, but now the guy is dead and there are a lot of questions to be answered, primarily by toxicology reports and handwriting analysis of his apparent suicide note.

Whatever the outcome of the case, it is ridiculously miserable that someone who dedicated himself to fighting the invasive presence of scientology in his town is dead.

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