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.
Sucks about Shawn Lonsdale. Just watched his CultWatch video. Interesting (if inappropriately placed) CoS footnote. According to this May 2007 Slate article, Romney’s favorite novel is Battlefied Earth. Though this blog suggests he doesn’t actually agree with CoS, he was just pandering to them. Shock.
That should be “footnote: ” referring to the article I linked. Really wish we could edit these.
BTW, the end of Lonsdale’s Cult Watch video has a demonstration of Scienos doing LRH’s confusion technique . Something akin to what your older dipshit brother and his stoner friends might pull on you the first time you get high.
I’ll try to add some permissions to contributor profiles so you can edit your comments. Although if you aren’t logged into the blog itself and you’re just filling in the comment form it doesn’t know who you are, so you can’t edit it.
It’s not a big deal, I’m just whining so I don’t look like an idiot for mistyping my comment. Why can’t articulating myself clearly be easier, Gawd?