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November 24, 2008 | 3:05 am

Scientology guard shoots man with sword

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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It’s difficult to miss the Scientology Celebrity Centre from the 101. Not sure if it was a disgust for the French chateau architecture or the Church of Scientology’s teachings or just an unfortunate choice of locations to practice the ancient way of the samurai, but a man was shot and killed in the centre’s parking lot Sunday after waving two samurai swords at a security guard:

Police did not release the name of the guard or the man killed in the shooting, which occurred about noon. An investigator said the man had a history with the church but was not a member now. The tape showed the man arriving at the Celebrity Centre’s Bronson Avenue parking lot in a red convertible, getting out of the vehicle and approaching a trio of security guards and waving a sword in each hand, Hara said.

He said the man, who was described as being in his 40s, was “close enough to hurt them” when the guard fired. The man was taken to County-USC Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Det. Wendi Berndt said the man was involved with the church “a long time ago.”

“There was a previous relationship, but it is unclear to what degree,” she said.

A teenager who saw the man arrive in the parking lot said he stopped the car abruptly in the driveway and climbed out with a 5-foot sword in his hand and an angry expression on his face.

Tony Marquez, 17, said the man, who was bald and had tattoos on his arms, walked toward the building, then returned to the car to get the other sword.

You know, Tom Cruise was in a movie called “The Last Samurai.” It’s probably nothing; I’m just saying ...

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People seem to have an extreme reaction to Scientology. I saw this video a few years ago, http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wv
of the Ronmeister’s great grandson very upset about stuff. I found it again using the search terms Hubbard and grandson, and a lot of results appeared for anyone interested.

Scientology reputedly began beause L. Ron Hubbard was tired of grinding out science fiction for a penny a word and wanted to make a million dollars. There are at least a dozen variations of the story in which in the early 1950’s either he, or George Orwell, or Robert Heinlein, or somebody declared that the way to make real money was to start a religion. My guess is that the idea gelled over time and many discussions so more than one of these is true. I don’t discount Heinlein like some since the development of a religion was the major theme of his 1949 novel “Sixth Column”, which I read under its later title “The Day After Tomorrow”.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/24/08 at 11:38 am

Ben Plonie, you can keep your insulting and intolerant comments about a religion you don’t believe in to yourself. This article is about security guards who killed a man in the parking lot. You obviously don’t have any thoughts on that specifically, so maybe keep the rest to yourself?

Comment by Reality on 11/24/08 at 1:36 pm

The name ‘Reality’ should have been a tipoff. My thetan name is ‘Ultimate-Truth’ but keep it under your hat.

It’s not insulting or intolerant to tell what you know. You can call Scientology a belief system if you want but it is not a religion in the same sense that we Earthlings understand the term. Maybe you should be in contact with Hubbard’s great grandson.

In any case, Scientology the granddaddy of all modern synthetic neuro-linguistic LGAT cults such as EST/The Forum/Landmark. I have heard that Scientology spends a lot of money and effort in suppressing this story or Scientology’s origins, and several of those who have succeeded in escaping the Matrix have hinted at unstated violence in the movement. For one thing, Scientologists have a significantly lower life-span than There have been stories of kidnappings in the early days, and it has been noted hat every violent act aimed at Scientology has been by fellow or former Scientologists.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/29/08 at 11:14 pm

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