You can email me atjonnymcj AT hotmail.com, or send a private message to any of the main Scientology-related message boards (Why We Protest, Operation Clambake...), where I post as Albion.
Start here for exhaustive coverage of the Paris trial of Scientology for organised fraud: courtroom reports, details of the broader political controversy and the fall-out from the convictions. See here for the complete list of more than 50 posts.
-- UPDATE: the appeal reached its target total on Tuesday, Sept 18 -- Marc and Claire Headley have refused an offer from Scientology to...
About this Site
Infinite Complacency explores the violence and abuse at the top of Scientology: abuse that to some degree is replicated throughout the movement. Scientology is defending itself against potentially catastrophic lawsuits in the US and criminal prosecutions in Europe; a wave of revelations from defectors including former senior executives; and a perfect storm of civil, criminal and parliamentary action that threatens to devastate its operations in Australia. Infinite Complacency also shows how the latest allegations echo those made in the past.
Click on the image to order the new edition of Jon Atack's definitive history of Hubbard-era Scientology. To learn more about the battle to get the original version published read "Atack Unchained" below.
I approached Scientology several times to get their response to the allegations set out in the first section, "Violence and abuse in the Sea Org" regarding David Miscavige's violence and the abuse at the International Base: nothing so far.
Unless otherwise specified, all quotes come from interviews with the author.
Don't get me started: If you want to know why I write about Scientology, read this account published in Scotland's Sunday Herald on November 8, 2009. Since they never properly formatted it on their website I've also posted it here, in a slightly more readable form.
The Paris Trial: In answer to a question from a reader: these are my first-hand reports from the court, not a round-up of the French press coverage.
September, 2011 It's official: I'm "murderously rigorous". Many thanks to Tony Ortega at Village Voice for including me in The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology.