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		<title>By: ozsoapbox</title>
		<link>http://ozsoapbox.com/rest-of-australia/the-push-to-criminalize-scientology-in-australia/#comment-11046</link>
		<dc:creator>ozsoapbox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the update mate and good on you for speaking out. I was hoping the McBride&#039;s would play a strong part in calling for an inquiry.

Aaron Saxton has released some more videos on Youtube since I wrote about his original 7 part interview about his time in Seo Org being published online. They are absolute eye openers into the behind the scenes activities of Scientology.

The circumstances leading up to your brother&#039;s death and the picture Saxton paints of Scientology go hand in hand perfectly. 

I imagine like myself, many Australian&#039;s are waiting for an inquiry to be announced. I only hope the recent Liberal party struggles which are dominating the local news don&#039;t push the Scientology inquiry onto the back burner.

Last I heard it was supposed to be announced at 12:30pm last Monday, then Xenophon called for a delay in the announcement (I think?). Haven&#039;t heard anything since but I&#039;m curious how long for these things are deliberated before a decision is made.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the update mate and good on you for speaking out. I was hoping the McBride&#8217;s would play a strong part in calling for an inquiry.</p>
<p>Aaron Saxton has released some more videos on Youtube since I wrote about his original 7 part interview about his time in Seo Org being published online. They are absolute eye openers into the behind the scenes activities of Scientology.</p>
<p>The circumstances leading up to your brother&#8217;s death and the picture Saxton paints of Scientology go hand in hand perfectly. </p>
<p>I imagine like myself, many Australian&#8217;s are waiting for an inquiry to be announced. I only hope the recent Liberal party struggles which are dominating the local news don&#8217;t push the Scientology inquiry onto the back burner.</p>
<p>Last I heard it was supposed to be announced at 12:30pm last Monday, then Xenophon called for a delay in the announcement (I think?). Haven&#8217;t heard anything since but I&#8217;m curious how long for these things are deliberated before a decision is made.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen McBride (brother of Edward McBride)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephen McBride (brother of Edward McBride)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there OZSoapbox,

The last week has been pretty hectic to say the least !!
Just got back from Canberra after speaking with Nick Xenophon, press / tv conference, interview with a &quot;certain&quot; current affair show that will be aired next week.. National news group back in the UK will be setting up a telephone interview..

Here&#039;s a few pics of me at the press conference at Parliament House: http://www.aapimage.com.au/Search.aspx?search=%22SCIENTOLOGY+CHURCH+CANBERRA%22&amp;viewtype=Grid

Here&#039;s the latest news: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/soldiers-brother-takes-call-for-scientology-probe-to-canberra-20091123-iuho.html

Here&#039;s a link with me speaking at the press conference (MP3):
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2750634.htm

Regards,

Stephen McBride</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there OZSoapbox,</p>
<p>The last week has been pretty hectic to say the least !!<br />
Just got back from Canberra after speaking with Nick Xenophon, press / tv conference, interview with a &#8220;certain&#8221; current affair show that will be aired next week.. National news group back in the UK will be setting up a telephone interview..</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a few pics of me at the press conference at Parliament House: <a href="http://www.aapimage.com.au/Search.aspx?search=%22SCIENTOLOGY+CHURCH+CANBERRA%22&#038;viewtype=Grid" rel="nofollow">http://www.aapimage.com.au/Search.aspx?search=%22SCIENTOLOGY+CHURCH+CANBERRA%22&#038;viewtype=Grid</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the latest news: <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/soldiers-brother-takes-call-for-scientology-probe-to-canberra-20091123-iuho.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/soldiers-brother-takes-call-for-scientology-probe-to-canberra-20091123-iuho.html</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a link with me speaking at the press conference (MP3):<br />
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2750634.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2750634.htm</a></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Stephen McBride</p>
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		<title>By: iwonder</title>
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		<dc:creator>iwonder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;comment-10425&quot;&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-10425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ozsoapbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Not only that, but you can call yourself an admiral and claim income tax exemption!
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Or an &quot;executive&quot; as the case is with Polaris if you give them enough hard cash.</description>
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<p><strong><a href="#comment-10425" rel="nofollow">ozsoapbox</a></strong>: Not only that, but you can call yourself an admiral and claim income tax exemption!
</p></blockquote>
<p>Or an &#8220;executive&#8221; as the case is with Polaris if you give them enough hard cash.</p>
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		<title>By: ozsoapbox</title>
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		<dc:creator>ozsoapbox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;If I start a religion and call it The Intergalactic Bullshit Fund, and subsequently charge thousands of dollars for courses, cause severe mental and financial anguish for people, and use their secrets against them…..can I please claim that I am untouchable as it is my religious belief?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Not only that, but you can call yourself an admiral and claim income tax exemption!

...hmm I&#039;ve always wanted to be an admiral.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If I start a religion and call it The Intergalactic Bullshit Fund, and subsequently charge thousands of dollars for courses, cause severe mental and financial anguish for people, and use their secrets against them…..can I please claim that I am untouchable as it is my religious belief?</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only that, but you can call yourself an admiral and claim income tax exemption!</p>
<p>&#8230;hmm I&#8217;ve always wanted to be an admiral.</p>
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		<title>By: iwonder</title>
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		<dc:creator>iwonder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Question:

If I start a religion and call it The Intergalactic Bullshit Fund, and subsequently charge thousands of dollars for courses, cause severe mental and financial anguish for people, and use their secrets against them.....can I please claim that I am untouchable as it is my religious belief?

Wake up Scientologists of Australia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Question:</p>
<p>If I start a religion and call it The Intergalactic Bullshit Fund, and subsequently charge thousands of dollars for courses, cause severe mental and financial anguish for people, and use their secrets against them&#8230;..can I please claim that I am untouchable as it is my religious belief?</p>
<p>Wake up Scientologists of Australia.</p>
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		<title>By: ozsoapbox</title>
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		<dc:creator>ozsoapbox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;“Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has urged people to come forward about what they may have experienced as members of the Church of Scientology, following his explosive allegations in Parliament last night.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I hope Stephen and the rest of the McBrides contact him if they haven&#039;t already.

I love Scientology&#039;s response;

&lt;blockquote&gt;Church spokesman Cyrus Brooks has slammed the Senator&#039;s claims as an outrageous abuse of parliamentary privilege.

&quot;He&#039;s actually not responded to a single letter Scientologists have written in,&quot; he told AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Straight onto the attack without addressing anything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>“Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has urged people to come forward about what they may have experienced as members of the Church of Scientology, following his explosive allegations in Parliament last night.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I hope Stephen and the rest of the McBrides contact him if they haven&#8217;t already.</p>
<p>I love Scientology&#8217;s response;</p>
<blockquote><p>Church spokesman Cyrus Brooks has slammed the Senator&#8217;s claims as an outrageous abuse of parliamentary privilege.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s actually not responded to a single letter Scientologists have written in,&#8221; he told AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Straight onto the attack without addressing anything.</p>
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		<title>By: Vince</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vince</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;comment-10383&quot;&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-10383&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;marc abian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: links to Nick Xenophon’s speech in the senate -&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM&lt;/a&gt;

Cheers for those links marc. I highly recommend watching them and hearing what they&#039;ve been doing over the years (and what your tax dollars are paying for). 

&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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<p><strong><a href="#comment-10383" rel="nofollow">marc abian</a></strong>: links to Nick Xenophon’s speech in the senate -<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM</a></p>
<p>Cheers for those links marc. I highly recommend watching them and hearing what they&#8217;ve been doing over the years (and what your tax dollars are paying for). </p>
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		<title>By: Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Moar!

Former Scientologists urged to speak out
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2746295.htm?section=justin

&quot;Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has urged people to come forward about what they may have experienced as members of the Church of Scientology, following his explosive allegations in Parliament last night.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moar!</p>
<p>Former Scientologists urged to speak out<br />
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2746295.htm?section=justin" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2746295.htm?section=justin</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has urged people to come forward about what they may have experienced as members of the Church of Scientology, following his explosive allegations in Parliament last night.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: ozsoapbox</title>
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		<dc:creator>ozsoapbox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jen
&lt;blockquote&gt;In this recent AAP report, the Church says it will cooperate with investigations&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Scientology&#039;s co-operation is about as useless as relying solely on the testimiony of anyone directly accused of being involved in a crime.

I&#039;m certainly glad to hear that a parliamentary enquiry is on the cards but what needs to be brought to light is information Scientology &lt;em&gt;isn&#039;t&lt;/em&gt; willing to be co-operative with.

Enough of this hiding behind religious persecution crap, raid the them if you have to. The law should always come before religion.

@James
&lt;blockquote&gt;ahhh lol, it’s on the front page of news.com.au and on the TV news, not sure about calling it a tipoff, but anyway I’ll await the cheque in the mail.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Lucky for you I check here before heading over to the news :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jen</p>
<blockquote><p>In this recent AAP report, the Church says it will cooperate with investigations</p></blockquote>
<p>Scientology&#8217;s co-operation is about as useless as relying solely on the testimiony of anyone directly accused of being involved in a crime.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m certainly glad to hear that a parliamentary enquiry is on the cards but what needs to be brought to light is information Scientology <em>isn&#8217;t</em> willing to be co-operative with.</p>
<p>Enough of this hiding behind religious persecution crap, raid the them if you have to. The law should always come before religion.</p>
<p>@James</p>
<blockquote><p>ahhh lol, it’s on the front page of news.com.au and on the TV news, not sure about calling it a tipoff, but anyway I’ll await the cheque in the mail.</p></blockquote>
<p>Lucky for you I check here before heading over to the news <img src='http://ozsoapbox.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Thanks to reader James for the story tipoff. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

ahhh lol, it&#039;s on the front page of news.com.au and on the TV news, not sure about calling it a tipoff, but anyway I&#039;ll await the cheque in the mail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Thanks to reader James for the story tipoff. </p></blockquote>
<p>ahhh lol, it&#8217;s on the front page of news.com.au and on the TV news, not sure about calling it a tipoff, but anyway I&#8217;ll await the cheque in the mail.</p>
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		<title>By: marc abian</title>
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		<dc:creator>marc abian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>links to Nick Xenophon&#039;s speech in the senate -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>links to Nick Xenophon&#8217;s speech in the senate -</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKxzWNdONM</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5O302kHNM</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In this recent AAP report, the Church says it will cooperate with investigations
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/scientology-church-will-cooperate-20091118-ikys.html

They would do well to start by providing McBride&#039;s audit files (though I have serious doubts as to whether is would be turned over complete and intact).

I love how Cyrus Brooks blames it all on the internet, as if internet posters are uniformly united in the cause of evil. In fact, the internet has something Scientology does not, a transparency that provides a starting point for true analysis and investigation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this recent AAP report, the Church says it will cooperate with investigations<br />
<a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/scientology-church-will-cooperate-20091118-ikys.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/scientology-church-will-cooperate-20091118-ikys.html</a></p>
<p>They would do well to start by providing McBride&#8217;s audit files (though I have serious doubts as to whether is would be turned over complete and intact).</p>
<p>I love how Cyrus Brooks blames it all on the internet, as if internet posters are uniformly united in the cause of evil. In fact, the internet has something Scientology does not, a transparency that provides a starting point for true analysis and investigation.</p>
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		<title>By: Vince</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vince</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;comment-10376&quot;&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-10376&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;also the truth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: way to go OZ

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And way to go Xenephon!

All this politically correct crap has gone far enough, now it’s time to reverse the trend and tell it like it is.</description>
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<p><strong><a href="#comment-10376" rel="nofollow">also the truth</a></strong>: way to go OZ</p>
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<p>And way to go Xenephon!</p>
<p>All this politically correct crap has gone far enough, now it’s time to reverse the trend and tell it like it is.</p>
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		<title>By: also the truth</title>
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		<dc:creator>also the truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>way to go OZ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>way to go OZ</p>
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