Wednesday, February 20, 2008

"I certainly hope that a very thorough investigation is conducted."



The headline above is the statement from the attorney of Shawn Lonsdale. Shawn allegedly committed suicide over the weekend. Who is Shawn Lonsdale? Shawn was one of the harshest critics of Scientology around. He lived in Clearwater, Florida and after a confrontation at a City Council meeting with a Scientologist, he basically became a one man crusade against them.

2006 was his biggest year for making them mad. Almost everyday in 2006 Lonsdale would stand in downtown Clearwater beside a sandwich board that read "Cult Watch" in the heart of Scientology's religious headquarters.

He used his video camera to record footage of Scientology buildings, church staffers walking the streets, security guards watching his movements and verbal confrontations with Scientologists. He then edited them into a "pseudo-documentary" about Scientology that eventually aired on local cable television.

After his big video came out on public television, the Scientologists decided to hire a private investigator and set about ruining Lonsdale's life. The publicized past convictions and would call Lonsdale's employer and his landlord telling them they should get rid of Lonsdale.

Over the past six months or so, Lonsdale has kind of moved on with this life. He found a new job and didn't devote nearly as much time to his anti-Scientology crusade. I think this is why it was the perfect time to get him if they wanted him. Now the Scientologists can say that they had no reason to go after him because he wasn't doing anything to them anymore. Well, yea, duh, if he had committed suicide back in 2006, the world would have come swarming down on the Scientologists. Instead, now, it just looks like a guy who paid his rent every month, was friendly to everyone, had a new job that he loved and was moving forward, suddenly killed himself over the holiday weekend. If you want to read more about Shawn, you can click here.

27 comments:

GammaGirl said...

The circumstances of this apparent suicide seem very sketchy. I'm not convinced that the Scientologists had nothing to do with this.
Scary.

ElsieFire said...

All you have to do is read about Lisa McPherson - then make up your own mind if this is suicide.

cheesegrater15 said...

He "committed suicide" like L. Ron's son "committed suicide." I'm not scared of these fuckers. I'd like to see them try to fuck with me. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure this cult goes down.

Like somebody said on another website, I hope a bulldog next-of-kin that refuses to let this drop.

I'm sure the government will never do a damn thing about these people because they don't want another Waco.

jax said...

fisr the phtotg with the wedding pix..and now this? interesting.

bama said...

anyone read about the 'suicides' in Vanity Fair?
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/suicides200801

WTF said...

Who "commits suicide" by running a hose from a car to the house???

Anonymous said...

wtf - same concern. All the windows/doors must've been blocked. It takes a lot of carbon monoxide to fill a house.

jax said...

the police women who reported 'no foul play was involved"...is a scientologist!

YahMoBThere said...

This is the reason I think Andrew Morton really softened up his book, and even he remains afraid of what they might do.

Gary T. Burnaska said...

I love what the hacker group Anonymous is doing to these jerkoffs. Unlike Shawn, there is no one person or address, or organization CO$ can attack.

The internet is our greatest weapon aganist them, we can freely spread all the info about them and they cannot block it.

If it was not for the web, no one could find out what XENU is, the church would have been able to supress it.

The GOVT will not do a damn thing, because we have a political party in control of congress that is totally beholden to the Hollywood Elite and this church that has corrupted them.

Andrea said...

Yeah, just like all the other Scientology related "suicides":
David Hans Shmidt, the guy who tried to extort Tom Cruise:
http://bittenandbound.com/2007/09/29/tom-cruise-extortionist-david-hans-schmidt-found-dead/
And Jeremy Blake, a rising star on the New York art scene:
http://bittenandbound.com/2007/07/28/someone-should-really-investigate-this-whole-scientology-thing/

GammaGirl said...

@wtf: It feel morbid to even bring this up, but a friend of my father's committed suicide like that. The think that he ran a hose from the car in the garage to the house.All the windows and doors were sealed.

Maxi Mouse said...

Scientology is an evil pyramid scheme, not a religion. Please, people, support Anonymous. There are raids taking place on March 15th all over the world. Google "Project Chanology".

cheesegrater15 said...

Maxi, I would totally set up a protest in Seoul on the 15th, but Koreans generally don't give a shit about something that isn't going on in their country.

Lux Luthor said...

About the method and connecting a hose from the car to inside the house: I know of an instance where someone did that too. An old boyfriend of mine's elderly aunt died that way. It was because she wanted to die inside her house.

Not that I think that's what this guy did, the whole thing seems way too suspicious. I'm just saying it's weird, but it does happen.

Brenda22 said...

How can the police really not see the connection? How is it such a coincidence that all critics of Scientology just mysteriously commit suicide? Something needs to be done to stop these people.

Anonymous said...

Good god. It just gets scarier. Like someone said, if it werent for the Internet, we wouldnt be able to even know about their beliefs or practices....when is it going to stop? Why is Germany the ONLY country with enough backbone to call them on their bullshit? America, yes, is a country of RELIGIOUS freedom, but its also a country FULL OF LAWYERS and saavy individuals who know a pyramid scheme when they see one.

Sick sick sick sick sick. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.

califblondy said...

I didn't realize what they were capable of until I read that article in Vanity Fair. I guess we're supposed to be believe all these suicides are just coincidences? Ya, and I believe in the Easter Bunny too.

Kory said...

For all things Scientology: http://xenu.net

You'll find some interesting reads in there.

Also, this was no suicide.

takeme2espana said...

Are the entire Clearwater PD/CSI/Forensics staff blind, or incapable? Or just paid off? Perhaps we should ALL email them...asking if they have genuinely persued every angle of this case the we find it utterly suspicious.

YahMoBThere said...

Takeme2espana - they're probably just as afraid of the Scientologists as everybody else is.

takeme2espana said...

Can't they all dress up like David Caruso to present their findings?

brendalove@gmail.com said...

I know I'm scared.

Judi said...

Wouldn't be surprised at all if this was a hit. Nothing re the lengths these people would go to would surprise me. Now they're trumpeting the "religious persecution" line. Sickening. Not afraid here.

Reese said...

A friend of mine's family owns a furniture store in the Tampa area (not far from the Scientology Center) and when he was in high school had to make a delivery to the cultists. His sister was very upset that he had to go over there and cried and begged their parents not to send him. She was afraid the Scientologists would hold him hostage and brainwash him into drinking the Kool-Aid. The parents have always told that as a comic family story, but when I read things like this it doesn't sound all that far fetched.

Zabbie said...

If you want to know what's going down look this up:

www.xenu.net

www.whyaretheydead.net

www.xenutv.com

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY

http://uca.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9922246956

PerkinsTragedy.org

google:
Lisa McPherson
Elli Perkins
Operation Snow White
Operation Freakout


Co$ KILLS!!!

KNOWLEDGE IS FREE

Tania said...

Very suspicious.
The sooner this cult is stopped, the better.

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