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Rhetorical question . Did you catch the HBO special John?
Did not. Knowing that the likes of Tom Cruise and others in his circle are involved is enough to keep me away. It's my anti-social side.
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So much of the Tea Party's paranoid anti IRS rhetoric seems to be a page stolen from Scientology's playbook from the '90s.
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Holy crap, 2012 tax records show the 'church' has $1.5 billion on the books? Wow...
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Holy crap, 2012 tax records show the 'church' has $1.5 billion on the books? Wow...
They have a whole lot more than that...... a whole lot.

(At one point, before the IRS agreed to giving them the status of a religion, they owed about that much in taxes.)

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They have a whole lot more than that...... a whole lot.

(At one point, before the IRS agreed to giving them the status of a religion, they owed about that much in taxes.)

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Looking forward to your impressions of this flick.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...ry.html#page=1

Time to dust off the RICO statutes.
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Time to dust off the RICO statutes.
Yes, it is.

I watched "Going Clear" yesterday. It covered pretty much the same ground as the earlier BBC documentaries I linked to earlier but it was interesting to see some of Miscavige's goons from the BBC shows as sources in the HBO documentary.

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