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While celebrity Scientologists including Laura Prepon and Jenna Elfman celebrated the holidays at a ambrosial Hollywood party, others spent the season behind the walls of the Church’s abstruse 500-acre arid compound near Hemet, California. Previously declared by aloft accumulation as “labor camp” and worse, the website has been alive in mystery — until now. A acclimatized Scientology official in fact acclimatized the accurate ambit at the “campus” in abbey in November — and the description is frightening.
Church official Warren McShane, who lives on the base, offered attorneys a new angle on the arguable website during his abasement as allocation of Monique Rathbun‘s ongoing harassment lawsuit adjoin the Abbey of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige.
Miscavige’s offices there, McShane declared in the deposition transcript, are amidst in a 45,000 sq. basal architectonics with just two floors, although he is rarely present for affiliated stretches of time. The aloft cannot be said for McShane, who acclimatized to alive a awful schedule of 9 in the morning until midnight every day.
When Miscavige isn’t present, McShane said his interactions with the church leader are apprenticed ashamed he doesn’t use a cellphone.
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“It’s complete allay [to adduce to him],” McShane told attorneys. “He doesn’t use the phone … because buzz calls, per our scripture, are not a acclimatized assay of communication. Like [church founder L. Ron Hubbard says, phones are psychotic. They access no memory, so we don’t use them complete often.”
And it’s not just buzz calls that are belted advancing in and out of the base, McShane said. In one air-conditioned moment of the deposition, according to the transcript, he declared in-detail the adapted advancement measures that advanced anyone from entering — or abolishment — the abject afterwards permission.
“The abject is amidst by fencing, isn’t it?” Rathbun’s attorney, Ray Jeffrey, asked McShane, who answered, “Sure.”
“And it has razor wire, some accustom of advancement wire on the top of it?” Jeffrey asked.
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McShane answered, “It’s got ‘ultra barrier,’ is what we all-overs it … a metal that’s got … metal spikes or whatever ashamed up.”
He continued, “Yeah, you wouldn’t appetite to get angled up in it.”
In addition, McShane revealed, there is video surveillance of the fence and motion detectors, “what we all-overs shakers,” he said, that complete an all-overs if movement is detected.
On top of all that, he confirmed, “There’s usually one accepting on a motorcycle” who patrols the perimeter.
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Previous depositions in the Rathbun case declared Scientology’s “forced activity camp” and imprisonment at the notorious “Hole,” accretion website across aloft Scientologists access claimed they were subjected to “physical and bookish abuse.”
At the time those claims were made, the Abbey of Scientology told Radar, “These discredited allegations are abolishment added than the aloft affronted bartering advanced for about 5 years by the aloft tiny accession of anti-Scientologists. These bodies access obsessively absinthian at accepting been expelled from their positions in the Abbey about a decade ago for bribery and incompetence. Shopped to about every media aperture ashamed 2009, these ever-morphing myths—including one aeriform from a acclimatized adventures in fact adapted to the Church—are accepting advanced yet afresh by the clique’s propagandists who access aboveboard they will lie to whatever admeasurement it takes to get media assimilation for this frivolous, get-rich acclimation now accepting hatched in a Texas courtroom. Orchestrated by a bead of absinthian ex-Scientologists and unemployed bloggers with axes to grind, these artificial tales access been discredited by amaranthine Abbey admiral in affirmation statements artificial beneath acknowledgment of perjury.”
These new allegations from McShane, however, represent the statements of a acclimatized accessory in able standing.
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