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The Wrong Guy · Sep 6, 2012

Headley Family Legal Defense Fund by Marc Headley

Thanks for all the support! We are already at 2.5% in two minutes! I am here for you guys, I think you know that. Teared up a bit reading the comments on the Village Voice blog. Really, from the bottom of our hearts. Thanks for helping us out.

www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

Mod Edit: His paypal account is marc@blownforgood.com

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

no way to send in payment?

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Anonymous said: ↑

no way to send in payment?

If you don't have a copy of Blown For Good, now would be a good time to order one.

http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Good-Behind-Curtain-Scientology/dp/0982502206

Krautfag · Sep 6, 2012

The Wrong Guy said: ↑

Headley Family Legal Defense Fund by Marc Headley

Thanks for all the support! We are already at 2.5% in two minutes! I am here for you guys, I think you know that. Teared up a bit reading the comments on the Village Voice blog. Really, from the bottom of our hearts. Thanks for helping us out.

www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

DO EET, FAGGOTS!

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Might this qualify for a sticky for some period of time?

Headley Family Legal Fund by Marc Headley - GoFundMe

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Created by Marc Headley on September 6, 2012

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In 2005 my wife and I fled the compound where we had worked for Scientology for many years. After getting out and starting our lives over, we realized that what went on there was not only wrong but that no one was doing anything effective to expose and stop it.

While we were exhilarated to finally be free, and excited to start our lives over with nothing, we also felt a moral obligation to do something about the abuses we knew were being committed on a daily basis behind Scientology’s glossy façade.

In 2006 I (Marc) started posting what I knew on the Internet and exposing the real story of what was going on behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology. Very few people were speaking out against Scientology at the time. Those who were speaking out were being heavily harassed by Scientology and their private investigators, as were we. Regardless of the harassment, I continued to speak out and expose anything that I thought would help end the abuses.

We felt we were alone at first, in all honesty we often felt quite like a Target commercial, with a big red bullseye painted on our rear ends waving in the wind. It has not been an easy road, and there were many times we had regrets, concern for our personal safety and that of our family, and where we wondered if we had made the right choice. But so many people have since stood up and added their voices to ours. It has been an incredibly liberating experience, a form of therapy in and of itself, and the moral support we received has been beyond words. To see organizations and groups form, Anonymous, independents, ex Scientologists, you name it, all of whom added their voices to ours, and who have brought Scientology abuses and criminality into mainstream view. Words cannot describe how important this has been to us personally. We could not have done this alone, and we are well aware of this fact.

We have never asked for financial support, nor expected any. We have made every effort to help people leave Scientology, helped them find jobs, provided food, lodging, references, financial advice, whatever we could do, knowing full well what it is to leave with nothing but the clothes on your back and absolutely no idea of where to turn. When we left in January 2005, it was tough. We had no-one to talk to that could understand what we were going through - the adjustment process when one leaves is not an easy path to travel. Learning to live life in the real world has its difficulties when you have no money, no job, no resume, no assets to your name, no credit, etc. There was no network of ex Scientologists, Anonymous and independents to turn to for advice or help in any form. Ex-Sea org members, particularly those from the Base, were kept carefully segregated. That was a big problem OSA had with us from the start: we worked hard and fast to find people who left, connect them to lost friends, join together and support one another. In fact, we held the first official SP party at our house in December 2007, even with private investigators sitting in our drive way. We have been more than happy to provide help to many ex-members recovering from the after effects of Scientology abuse, in any way we could. Over the years, we’ve spent tens of thousand of dollars helping people leave and get on their feet, and we will continue to help in any way we can.

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Headley Family Legal Fund by Marc Headley - GoFundMe

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Continued:

Some of scientology's abuses that we have helped expose include but are not limited to:

1. "Blow Drills" where ex members are tracked, hunted down and brought back to the Sea Org and punished for attempting to leave.

2. That Sea Org members were being paid less than slave wages in China.

3. That Sea Org members were forced to perform difficult and unpleasant tasks as punishment at the whim of David Miscavige, such as cleaning out dried human excrement ponds at the International Headquarters.

4. That physical violence took place at the International Headquarters and staff members were routinely and regularly punched, slapped, kicked or thrown against walls and floors.

5. That female Sea Org members were routinely forced to undergo abortions, with threats of heavy manual labor, intensive interrogation and extreme segregation until any pregnancy was terminated.

6. That not only were husbands and wives regularly separated but that, at the International Headquarters, members were forced to divorce each other if they worked in different organizations even if the building they worked in was hundreds of feet away.

Scientology spokepersons responded to these claims telling members that we were spreading lies about Scientology and informed our families still involved with Scientology that we were never to be contacted.

We brought lawsuits against the Scientology corporations we worked for in effort to stop and expose the abuses. They spent millions of dollars fighting our cases and attempting to get us to drop the lawsuits.

After several years, the courts issued a ruling that not only confirmed everything we had said but that the Scientology organizations argued that these were part of their doctrine.

As a result we lost our lawsuits. The court also noted that, had we used other legal theories such as "assault, battery, false imprisonment or intentional infliction of emotional pain", we might have fared differently in our case.

Scientology has since admitted that every point above that we had said occurred (and which they had labeled as “lies"), DID OCCUR and in fact many of the above facts were included in the court's final decision as FACT.

We have also learned that Sea Org women that become pregnant are now being allowed to have their babies and leave the Sea Org without being pressured to stay or perform hard labor tasks.

We have learned that hundreds of staff all over the United States have since left the Sea Organization and are now being allowed to leave for fear that more lawsuits will be brought against Scientology.

We have also learned that Scientology members have flown all over the world to meet with former staff and have them undeclared or brought back to good standing or have "freeloader" bills cancelled in an effort to keep them in line to attempt to keep them silent.

Although we lost our lawsuits, ultimately we feel that what we have done has forced the Scientology organization to end some of the abuses. We feel we have given future lawsuits a better road map to be able to convict the Scientology organization of its abuses and that we have documented in public record and exposed countless other abuses and acts that are committed daily by related Scientology organizations the world over.

Other than that positive note that society can benefit from, our personal reward is a legal bill in excess of $45,000.

August 22nd of this year, Claire & I are celebrating our 20th Wedding Anniversary. In February of next year we are expecting our third child. We are living our lives.

We hope that anyone who thinks that we might have helped them in some way would be willing to contribute to our legal fund. If we're able to raise anything above and beyond what we need, we will donate it to the next legal cause aimed at exposing Scientology's crimes and abuse.

Anything will help and we greatly appreciate your donation.

And from the bottom of our hearts, we are incredibly thankful to the thousands who have helped spread the word and who have contributed to exposing Scientology abuses.

Thanks.

Claire & Marc Headley

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Been on VV for hours and finally checking in here. Nice post! Go Headleys!

The Wrong Guy · Sep 6, 2012

The Wrong Guy said: ↑

Headley Family Legal Defense Fund by Marc Headley

Thanks for all the support! We are already at 2.5% in two minutes! I am here for you guys, I think you know that. Teared up a bit reading the comments on the Village Voice blog. Really, from the bottom of our hearts. Thanks for helping us out.

www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

Wow!! Just Wow! Thank you so much for the incredible outpouring of support. We are humbled beyond words. We are amazed that we are at 36% less than 9 hours after we started this.

We just did two more major TV interviews and hopefully they use some good parts of our interviews.

www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Just a reminder. There is now the HEADLEY FAMILY TRUST RUN BY MARC HEADLEY. This is the place to donate money, not MartyRathbun's Hubbard fan club.

Anonymous · Sep 6, 2012

Donated 25$

Xenu Is Lord · Sep 6, 2012

I bet Slappy is climbing the walls as he sees the donations going up. I have a vision of him yelling MOTHER FUCKER! MOTHER FUCKER! MOTHER FUCKER! and punching his staff and half size dolls.

Internetzin · Sep 6, 2012

One of the donators pointed out that at 1/1000th of the total required, $43 donated by a very achievable 1000 headley fans would see the cos bill paid in next to no time. Only $43 to give David Miscavige a giant middle finger, a bargain I would say.

The Wrong Guy · Sep 6, 2012

Somebody just donated two grand. Within a few hours we'll be halfway there.

At this rate, they'll be all squared away in a day or two.

www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

Albion · Sep 7, 2012

The story seems now to be as much about the amazing response to the Headleys' plight as their refusal to buckle under and act as informers for Scientology. I've put together an account at Infinite Complacency. (Did we link to the defence fund? I think we did.)

"Marc and Claire Headley have refused an offer from Scientology to inform on fellow critics of the movement in return for having their hefty legal costs waived – and now their supporters are rallying round."

RightOn · Sep 7, 2012

this makes my heart swell
Damn! some days feel so good to be alive and in this fight

Anonymous · Sep 7, 2012

"Anonymous said: ↑

I love how this is all blowing up in David Miscavige's face. 2012 is the year!

Where's Shelly Miscavige??

$20.00

Shelly Miscavige

11 hours ago

Meet me at the back fence at 2am. Bring a ladder and a spare pantsuit.

The Wrong Guy · Sep 7, 2012

From http://www.gofundme.com/15lfi4

Just saw that we are halfway there! 22K in 15 hours has got to be some sort of record. We are truly overwhelmed by the amount of support from all corners of the globe.

In terms of media, Claire and I both did an interview for ABC's Nightline yesterday. Not sure when that will air or what they will use, but we did our best to make it meaningful. It is sometimes frustrating when you get interviewed for an hour and they use the 10 second clip about the Tom Cruise drama for the 26th time!

A few months back, Claire did an interview for a TV show called 20/20 on ABC. We she was done talking, the entire video crew had tears in their eyes. It was a very powerful interview. That show is supposedly airing tomorrow night. What ends up getting used is anyone's guess, but hopefully it turns out well.

Pretty sure no matter what happens at this point we are going to be sending a lot of Thank You notes over the next several days.

Thanks again for all the support.

- Marc Headley

Recent Donations

$25.00

Karen Pouw

See? I'm really a sweetheart. I'd have contributed sooner, but I've been reeeeeeally busy lately. I'd have sent more, but I didn't want to dip into my freeloader bill savings fund. Y'know, for later.

Xenu Is Lord · Sep 7, 2012

Anonymous said: ↑

$20.00
Shelly Miscavige
11 hours ago

Meet me at the back fence at 2am. Bring a ladder and a spare pantsuit.

I bet she will get sent to the RPF's RPF for that one. Shit, she spent a months paycheck to help out. It brings tears to my eyes.

Anonymous · Sep 7, 2012

Do we know if they take donations by PayPal? I tried to donate but the site started bugging me about my foreign credit card.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$142.00

The Golden Error Musicians

1 min ago

Donation pledges for these “Miscavige’s Sentencing Party” Song Requests @ $5 each: Bohemian Rhapsody, What Goes Up Must Come Down, I Fought the Law and the Law Won, Money For Nothing, How To Disappear Completely, The Royal Scam, Money (Pink Floyd), Step Right Up, Let It All Fall Down, Feel a Whole Lot Better, Liar, Sick of You, Like A Rolling Stone, Short People, Mission Impossible Theme, It’s The End of the World As We Know It, You’re So Vain, Waterloo, Teenage Lobotomy, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Stayin’ Alive, Pretzel Logic, Tiny Bubbles, Can I Get a Witness, We Stand Tall, Thank You For Listening, and literally, A Few Dollars More to make it an even $30,000.”

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$25.00

Charmaine and Bruce Rogers

3 hours ago

After we screwed so many at the tune of over 200 Million $$ and got rich in the process. We think it is time to give generously back to the community.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$70.00

For Derek Block, because he Rocks

6 hours ago

We're all family here, Derek. While we may not share your biological blood, we are all linked by the same human heart.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$25.00

karen pouw

7 hours ago

see? i'm really a sweetheart.. i'd have contributed sooner, but i've been reeeeeeally busy lately.. and i've have sent more, but i didn't want to dip into my freeloader bill savings fund.. y'know, for later..

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$25.00

Suri

9 hours ago

My Daddy gave me money for a new pair of high heeled shoes. But your kids need their swing set back much more. Maybe they will invite me to swing on it some day.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$10.00

In Loving Memory of Robert Vaughn Young

19 hours ago

from the security guards at Flag Land. After the protesters left we found another $10.00. We also support Anon Sparrow, Radio Paul, Darth Zander, Mark Bunker, and anyone else who wants to set our children free!

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$20.00

Helen P

22 hours ago

I live in Florida, where one of our cities is basically "owned" by Scientology. When I see those poor brainwashed people trolling for new members my heart breaks for them. Thank you for bringing the truth forward, and thank you for helping those who find the courage to leave

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$25.00

Marc Yager

23 hours ago

Sorry I was always such a douche bag. Uh oh, I hear them coming. Bye.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$10.00

L. Ron Hubtard

1 day ago

Dude, I totally never meant for everyone to take this crap so seriously! I was just trying to get rich. And I liked boats. Sorry Little Davey has been such a pain in your arse. If I was still around I’d slap him silly.

Albion · Sep 7, 2012

Anonymous said: ↑

Do we know if they take donations by PayPal? I tried to donate but the site started bugging me about my foreign credit card.

Strange: I didn't have any problem with my French card. I couldn't see a PayPal option for the donation fund. Try contacting them at http://blownforgood.com/ for guidance.

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$10.00

Xenu

48 mins ago

I just want to apologize for being a figment of LRH's imagination. P. S. I'm a moonie now!

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$100.00

Anonymous

1 day ago

Expect Us!

sallysock · Sep 7, 2012

$10.00

Shelly Miscavige

1 day ago

Please don't tell my husband.

hushpuppy · Sep 7, 2012

Albion said: ↑

Strange: I didn't have any problem with my French card. I couldn't see a PayPal option for the donation fund. Try contacting them at http://blownforgood.com/ for guidance.

His paypal account is marc@blownforgood.com

And donating is twice sweet<3: Helping his amazing family who is in financially in trouble only because they refused to be silenced by CoS, and also hoping that the CoS/OSA SP handlers maybe get the point that there's a thriving community outside CoS, with plenty of love and humanity to share

Anonymous · Sep 7, 2012

"A light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not."

JohnnyRUClear · Sep 7, 2012

Good investment.

anonysamvines · Sep 7, 2012

hushpuppy said: ↑

His paypal account is marc@blownforgood.com

And donating is twice sweet<3: Helping his amazing family who is in financially in trouble only because they refused to be silenced by CoS, and also hoping that the CoS/OSA SP handlers maybe get the point that there's a thriving community outside CoS, with plenty of love and humanity to share

thanks for that, i too was having trouble with the other site

Co$ must really hate the way the internet lets lots of people donate whatever we can afford, and how fast.
Yet another of their tried and trusted bully boy, suppressive tactics down the pan, and delivering more lulz to us and fingers to them.

AnonymousVanAllen · Sep 8, 2012

Remarkable: $33k raised already, only a paltry $12k to go, all in a matter of hours.

It seems, after all, that there are people of good conscience out there, who refuse to stand by and allow a criminal mob to destroy a man and his wholly innocent young family because he spoke the truth about their abuses - the exact same sort of horrific abuses covered by the laws on human trafficking, but which provided him with no protection whatsoever, and instead rewarded his outstanding courage with a legal bill for $43000.

Thank you, all those who have already donated, whether a few $ or a few thousand $.

Internetzin · Sep 8, 2012

Now at $33000 target in approach
http://www.gofundme.com/15lfi4
Love the messages of support for a lovely family

anonamus · Sep 8, 2012

This is really a good cause!
Damn I wish I could see DM's face when he rages about all that money donated to his SP #1.
Not so much KSW with Hubbard's "If possible, destroy him utterly" now Slappy, or what?

Internetzin · Sep 8, 2012

Hate to be anywhere near his slappyness.

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