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Testimonys against the US cult of scientology and Narconon Video: Testimony of M.E. Love, a former staff member at Narconon Trois-Rivières (March 2010) Video: Testimony of Patty Pieniadz. She was Executive Director of Narconon Connecticut (May 26, 2008) Former Narconon Staff Speaks Out ! (alt.religion.scientology - February 2, 2008) Another Narconon Stone Hawk victim speaks out (alt.religion.scientology - February 2, 2008) |
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Video: Testimony of M.E. Love (March 2010)
Video: Testimony of M.E. Love (March 2010) This video comes from YouTuber peterstorm. Source: http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?p=4623 Mr. D. E. Love is a former staff member at Narconon Trois-Rivières, a drug detox center run by Scientologists for Scientology. Mr Love has extensive knowledge of what goes on behind closed doors at Narconon and has met some of the U.S.-based high executives of this organization. His story was published on March 21st 2010, in the Quebec city, Canada newspaper Le Soleil. Testimony of M.D.Love: Intoxicated by Scientology (cyberpresse.ca - 21 mars 2010) Bilingual Narconon Again the Focus of Controversy (cyberpresse.ca - 22 mars 2010) Bilingual The church of Scientology, another hard hit (cyberpresse.ca - 21 mars 2010) Bilingual |
Testimony of Patty Pieniadz an ex-Scientologist who left after over 27 years. She was once the Executive Director of Narconon Connecticut and Director of Rehabilitation for the Church of Scientology
Patty Pieniadz's flyer at stop-narconon.org More info: http://www.xenu-directory.net/critics/pieniadz1.html |
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Bringing Out The Truth About Narconon/ Scientology!
Narconon claims to have a 80% success rate. In the 7 months I was involved with one of 2 Narconon facilities in California, over 80 people attended and graduated from the program. I personally know that 71 of them relapsed. Many who relapse return to Narconon, where they are put on a degrading and punishing "ethics cycle" where they are forced to perform manual labor in order to "make up damage" to the Narconon facility and rejoin the group. Relapsed addicts who return are not only put to work, but subject to even more intense efforts to get them to join the Co$ and be brainwashed by the Narconon "counselors". The facility, only licensed for a little over 32
patients by the State of California, had almost 50 because of all the
relapsed graduates who returned. The facility was overcrowded and in
violation of fire and Whole rooms had nothing in them but beds from wall to wall,
cramming students in. There was minimal staff supervision because staff
members were totally outnumbered. On-site drug use was rampant and students
were constantly getting high in the facility or in the surrounding
neighborhood after escaping unnoticed. The safety and well being of
students was endangered when non-commercially licensed and uninsured
staff members would drive students around in uninsured facility
automobiles for program-sponsored events. To deal with the lack of space
at the actual facility, students were placed in temporarily rented
apartments that were far from staff supervision (2 of these apartments being
several miles away from the actual facility). State authorities were unaware
of these ad-hoc facilities and no license had been granted for them. Many Narconon graduates at facilities world-wide go on to work at the facility. This is often because the upper-level Scientologist counselors who run the facilities convince them they can't afford to go out in to the world or they will inevitably return to drug use. Their only chance at sobriety is to work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day with minimal contact with family, vacation time, free time or personal time at Narconon. Narconon, the
"couselors" say, saved their life, so the patient must "repay their debt" by
working for Narconon. They are paid $50 a week to start, and raises come
only after they pass through various courses given at the local Co$
organization. "Counselors" have no formal training when it comes to first
aid, drug abuse treatment, medicine, counseling. The only so-called formal
training they have comes from the Co$ and the fact that all employees at the
Narconon facility were themselves recent graduates. Addicts and their
families pay over $22,000 to go to Narconon after being convinced through
deception and lies that the program will save their life or that of their
addicted love one. A significant portion of this $22,000 goes to the Co$ as
payment for classes staff members are required to take. Furthermore,
thousands of dollars out of that $22,000 goes to purchasing books from the
Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), itself an arm of
Scientology and the "publisher and copyright owner" of the books Narconon
uses (books that are all LRH's teachings). Narconon "students" (the name used to refer to patients) are subject to
an unproven, quack medical practice of the purification-rundown, where they
sit in a sweltering sauna for hours on end, taking harmful doses of
vitamins, minerals and niacin (a very harmful substance in the amount
Narconon makes its "students" consume). Never in my time at this Narconon facility was there every a licensed
medical professional on staff, apart from a registered nurse who had
gone through the program herself after becoming addicted to prescription
medications she stole from work before coming to Narconon. This nurse, the
facility's only licensed medical professional, relapsed 3 times during the
course of my employment at the facility. She was far from the only staff
member to relapse. Both students and staff members were constantly getting
kicked out or fired because of drug use, inappropriate sexual conduct
between staff members and students, or being deemed "suppressive" by
hardcore Co$ staff members after, say, a staff member missing a day of work,
showing up late, or refusing to embrace forced Co$ teachings. While at Narconon my job involved public relations for the facility and
recruitment of new "students". I was told by my bosses to lie to any and all
people who called the facility seeking help for themselves or loved ones.
We would lie about insurance coverage (We would tell people we knew for a fact that their insurance carrier would cover our program when in fact, such carrier had never, EVER agreed to cover the Narconon program because that health insurance company had doctors smart enough to recognize Narconon as the scam it is). So, innocent people would pay tens of thousands of dollars, sure that their insurance providor would reimburse them at a later date. That reimbursement would never come but by then Narconon and Co$ already had
their money. We would lie about our success rate, basing the statistics of a
70%-80% success rate on decades old studies done by obscure European
research firms. In actuality, there was no record of the firms conducting
such studies of ever having existed. But, go to the website of any Narconon
facility worldwide and they will taut this 70%-80% success rate. I would
extoll our success rate to callers while at the same time knowing that well
over 90% of students I had seen graduate from the program had relapsed.
We would constantly hear of graduates relapsing when their families
would call mere days after the students graduation, devastated that they
had already returned to drug use. I personally can recall the names of 6
students who graduated and became staff members... lasting less than a week
as staff before relapsing. Almost all students who attempted to return home
after graduation relapsed as well. These unfortunate people are not statistics to me. I can recite the names
of each and every one of these Narconon victims who I saw come in to the
program desperate for help, only to be taken advantage of, abused, and
manipulated. Narconon tauts this high success rate but the staff knows it is not true.
In typical C0$ fashion, however, they deny the facts and make themselves
believe in the lies that best serve their agenda... recruitment and
fundraising for the Co$ by taking advantage of drug addicts and their
families. Even the Narconon facilities are constantly sending students-turned-staff back and forth to one another for because of relapses. Narconon Southern California had to send their "Ethics Director" to the Northern Califoria facility after he relapsed. Narconon Chillocco's Senior Case Supervisor (the upper-level Scientologist who determines what Scientology courses individual students will take, in what order, and how) relapsed and came to the So. Calif. facility to redo her program. Narconon Nor. Calif's Intake Director
(the lead person responsible for bringing in new "students" relapsed and
apparently had a sexual relationship with a juvenile "student" (Narconon
Nor. Calif. is the only Narconon facility licensed to treat juveniles as
well as adults), and was sent to Narconon So. Calif. to redo his program.
These staff members, supposedly among the most advanced, most accomplished,
most experienced, most highly trained graduates and staff members of
Narconon still could not stay sober! And because of their staunch dedication
to the Co$, they were sent to another facility after their relapse (where
they would avoid embarrassment and so that the students at the facility they
used to work for would be unaware of what had occurred) where they would
quickly go through their re-attempt at the program and get hired at a
different Narconon facility. Narconon is truly a criminal enterprise. It sickens me to know that I was
responsible for bringing in decent people who sought out my guidance for
help at the most desperate times of their lives to an evil organization like
Narconon - an organization who's sole purpose was to defraud, manipulate,
then brainwash these drug addicts and their families to the extent that the
addict would get suckered in to accepting the Co$ and LRH's insane
teachings. Lives and families are torn apart at Narconon. When I left Narconon in an argument with my bosses because of my gradually becoming more and more aware of what a criminal conspiracy Narconon was and is, I was threatened by these Scientologist bosses of mine. For weeks after I left they tracked me down and left threatening messages on my answering machine. Despite such threats and the evil we all know Scientology can inflict upon those who it deems its enemies (especially people like myself who were on the inside of their tactics and teachings), I had to post this message here and share my experiences at and knowledge of Narconon in the hopes that it will keep atleast 1 person from going to this facility were they previously considering it. |
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Another
Narconon Stone Hawk victim speaks out alt.religion.scientology - February 2. 2008 *Late November, 2007* Looking for a drug rehab for my son, I found
Narconon Stone Hawk on the Internet, and contacted the owner, Per Wickstrom.
My wife and I don't have a lot of money; we couldn't afford Narconon's steep
price. But Per had a solution: he took our financial information, and
submitted credit card applications for us with Discover Card, Chase, and
Bank of America (for an American Express card). Discover Card turned us
down, but we got a $20,000 line of credit from Bank of America. This was
just enough to cover the combined cost of Narconon plus another company that
works with them, Intervention Services and Technologies. The $20K total is
less than what Narconon normally charges, but it was all the credit card
company would loan us, and Per was willing to take what he could get. *December 28, 2007* On December 2 we took our son to Narconon Stone Hawk
in Albion Michigan, at 12:30pm. He called on Dec. 5 and begged me to please
look more closely at this place. He told me to look on Google. I told him I
would. By 3:00 am on December 6th we were on our way to pick him up from
Stone Hawk. I have been trying to get some answers for how they are going to handle
this. I spoke with Jai (he has since resigned from the company as of
December 19), Michelle Darrell (Per Wicksrom's assistant), Sean Kelty
(my son's intake person), Kristene, and now Eric (Jai's replacement).
Everyone keeps giving us the run-around; no one will return our calls. I had spoken with Eric last Thursday December 20th. He said he would have
to look into it and call me back. I called him back after an hour he said he
would send our $500.00 for medical and $40.00 student account money in the
mail that day. Now over a week has passed and no check. So I called Eric
today. His secretary, said Michelle Darrell takes care of that. I called
Michelle. After leaving a message and being very persistent, I finally got
to talk to her. She said, she needed us to fill out a release form and have
it notarized.She was supposed to e-mail it, but I have not got that either.
I tried to call Eric back and his secretary said he was not accepting phone
calls until further notice. I called back after about 10 min. and talked to Michelle again. She said that she would send the $540.00 check today. But she told me that Stone Hawk would refund all but $15,900.00. Technically, Chris did not start the program. He only went through 3 days at de-tox and spent part of 1 night at the Battle Creek facility. How can they justify this? If they care about people as they say they do (and I stated this to Michelle), why would they keep our money that we need to help Chris ?
1/8/08 Per, This letter is in reference to Christopher Z. He arrived at them
Albion MI facility on 12/2/07 at about 11:30 am. On the morning of
12/5/07 my wife and I picked Chris up at the Battle Creek, MI facility. Chris at that time had only been to de-tox and had not started any class or sauna treatments. I know that we signed the contract stating that the program is non refundable, but we should have educated ourselves a little more
before we took this step to help our son. The reason I am writing this is to ask you to consider refunding our money. Please keep reading. We put ourselves in a huge financial bind when we did this, but from what we were told, it would
be worth the effort and this program was the best thing for Chris. As
we learned more about the program, we decided that this was not the
treatment we wanted for Chris. I know you don't call it Scientology,
but from what we gathered it is. This goes against our beliefs and
up-bringing and we don't want this forced on Chris. We didn't know
enough about the program before we brought Chris to you. We made a
mistake. I did not write this to bash your program. I'm sure that your program can help some people and that you have had some success with
it. We just feel this is not the right thing for our son. We can't understand how you can justify keeping the entire amount of the program when Chris was there less than 4 days and had
not technically started the program. We haven't been able to talk much
with anyone and haven't had our calls returned when we leave messages.
We have tried many times. If you decide to not refund our money, we will have no other resources to get Chris the help he desperately needs. We need this
money. You are in the business of caring for people. Please understand where we are coming from and consider our request. Sincerely, Jeff Z
*January 14, 2008* Per Wickstrom called Saturday in response to the
letter I sent him asking for a refund. We weren't home at the time and he
left a message that I was welcome to call him back. Today I called while on
my lunch break. He started off defending his program. I had mentioned the Scientology
practices in my letter, and he tried to make it clear that they do not
use Scientology. I told him that we did some research and found some
things that scared us. His response to that was "do you believe
everything you see on the internet?" He went on and suggested I "look at
the Catholic religion. They are all pedifiles. Don't you agree that you
would not go to another Catholic Church after reading this?" I replied
with "no because I know that they are not all that way". We went back
and forth for about 10 min. Then I mentioned the Vince Daniels radio
program. He asked if I had talked to Vince. He said Vince was fired for
falsifying information on the Internet. I don't know if this is true or
not, but he became more argumentative from this point on. A lot more was said, but it was mainly Per defending his position as a
"business man" and what would I do if I were in his postion. He also
kept bringing up the contract that we signed. He stated that according
to the contract, he doesn't owe us a penny. I aggreed with that, but
since Chris was only there for less than 4 days I didn't feel he could
justify keeping all the money. His response was that "he has an open bed
for Chris, and he has alot of money invested for Chris. When Chris slips
and starts using again, we can bring him back and put him back in the
program and pay the remaining $15,000". I wanted to laugh. I told him
that Chris would not come back there. In the end Per said he may be willing to give us something back to "help
the hurt". He said "I'm not going to give you $10,000 though". He
suggested I think about an amount that I feel is fair and call him back.
Is there anyone higher up than Per? Because he said that he doesn't have
the final say in this. I don't want to call him back with a dollar
amount and shoot myself in the foot so to speak. I don't guess his idea
for a fair amount and mine would be the same. Tomorrow I am going to call [Pennfield Township Treaurer and Narconon
advisory board member] Barb Phillips and see what she has to say. *January 15, 2008* I called Barb Phillips today. She is still on the
advisory board for Narconon in Battle Creek. She said that her role is to
enforce the codes for their Conditional Use Permit. This requires them to
maintain the property, and not let "students" roam around the neighborhood
unsupervised. Basically the business should not affect the surrounding
comunity in a negative way. She has no involvement with the business end
of Narconon. She also said that one of their requirements is to keep in
contact with her. She said she has sent several e-mails over the past
few weeks to Jai and has recieved no replies. I informed her that Jai
has resigned his position at Narconon. She was surprised at this. She
said the last she knew, he was a happy little camper there. She did not know why they could not give us a refund. Again she has no
involvement with the business end. Her only advice was that we would
probably need to hire an attorney. She then asked what happened there. I
told her a little about our experience. I pointed her to the
Stop-Narconon.org web site. She seemed shocked to hear what was going on
there. She was very interested and said she would definitely take the
time to look at the web site I poiinted out to her. I informed her that
there are many more web sites with peoples' bad experiences for her to
look at. She also told me she would bring this to the attention of her
supervisor. She asked if she could get my name and number so she could
call me if she found any help. I did not give her this information. I
told her I didn't feel comfortable enough yet because we were in the
early stage of this battle, and I don't want to compromise whatever
ground we have gained. I did however let her know I would stay in
contact with her. We contacted the credit card company and started dispute proceedings
against. the charge made by Narconon. I don't know if this was the right
thing to do or not ... The day that we picked up Chris at Narconon,
George Knight (who is the guy that came to our house for the
intervention) called. He asked how Chris was doing at Narconon. I told
him we picked him up this morning. I told him what happened. He asked
where we got the information that made us go get him. I told him and he
asked what the web sites were and siad he would look at them. In the
meantime he asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his supervisor Owen
because he knows other places we could take Chris. I agreed. Later Owen
called me and asked me what happened. I told him but he would not let me
elaborate about what we saw on the Internet. Whenever I tried he cut me
off. He told me about a place called XXX in Arizona. I told him that
while our money was tied up at Narconon we would not be able to send
Chris anywhere. I have not researched the XXX facility. I know we would
not be able to get Chris to go anyway. By the way, Chris is doing well and staying clean. Since he only spent 3
days at Narconon he can't say much about the later starges of the
program, such as the sauna, but he remembers that the food looked and
tasted terrible. As soon as we got him out of there we stopped for
something to eat because he had eaten very little while he was there. *January 24, 2008* I have received a form from the bank to dispute the
Narconon charge. I wrote the letter they asked for and am going to mail it
tomorrow. I'm also filing fraud complaints with the Attorney General's
office in both my home state and the state of Michigan, and I plan to
contact the Michigan Department of Community Health to file a complaint with
them as well. More about Narconon and its "purification rundown": |
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Un must: "Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué" Ce livre de Russell Miller révèle la face cachée de la scientologie. On y découvre un Ron Hubbard, malade, mythomane et poursuivi par la justice. Il est disponible en format pdf ou html sur notre site. Nous avons également publié une version résumée.
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