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Ponce
30th November 2011, 11:46 AM
......Woman “imprisoned” on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years
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.By Eric Pfeiffe
The Church of Scientology's flagship vessel, "Freewinds"
For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation.

But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and never allowed to leave the ship without an escort.

In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC News) Lateline program, Paris claims that Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship when she was 18 in order to prevent her family from pulling her out of the organization.

"I was basically hauled in and told that my mum had attacked the church and that I needed to disconnect from her because she was suppressive," she said. "He decided the ship, and I found out two hours before my plane left, I was woken up in the morning and I was sent to the ship for 'two weeks.' "


Paris was born into a Scientology family, but her mother quit the group after her husband committed suicide, blaming Scientology for coercing him out of a self-made personal fortune of more than a million dollars.

Instead of the promised two week stay, Paris found herself unable to leave the ship without an official Scientology escort and was often forced into hard labor on the lower levels of the ship for stretches as long as two full days. "It's hot, it's extremely loud, it's smelly, it's not nice. I was sent down there at first for 48 hours straight on almost no sleep and I had to work by myself," she said.

So, why didn't Paris simply escape from the ship when it would take port? The Freewinds has a relatively small sailing route, traveling throughout the Caribbean and occasionally docking at small islands.

"I did not want to be there, I made it clear I did not want to be there and that was considered bad ethics, meaning it was considered not right," she said. "They take your passport when you go on the ship and you're in the middle of an island. So it's a bit hard [to escape] and by that time I was 18, I'd been in Scientology my whole life, it's not like I knew how to escape," she said.

The Church of Scientology calls Paris' claims false but declined ABC requests to make church officials available for interviews for the story. The church, which has a well-known litigious history, threatened Lateline with legal action for taking part in an alleged breach of confidentiality between Paris and the church. In a statement, the Church of Scientology said Ms Paris' claims were false.

"She certainly wasn't 'forced' to be there. She was also never forced to perform labor in the engine room," the statement said. "The Freewinds is a wonderful place, as even Valeska said on numerous occasions. Her allegation that she could only leave the ship with an escort is totally false."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-imprisoned-scientology-cruise-ship-12-years-145114448.html

TheNocturnalEgyptian
30th November 2011, 12:51 PM
If I was on a ship I didn't want to be on, and had unfettered access to the engine room, I'd fuck some shit up. You couldn't hold me unless you kept me in solitary 24/7.

Joe King
30th November 2011, 01:22 PM
If I was on a ship I didn't want to be on, and had unfettered access to the engine room, I'd fuck some shit up. You couldn't hold me unless you kept me in solitary 24/7.If you were to "fuck shit up", solitary would always be an option on a ship. As would the threat of just heading out into open Ocean and throwing you overboard.....after chumming the water for sharks, of course.

Yes, IMHO, a private Ocean-going ship would be quite a good place to hold someone against their will.

Serpo
30th November 2011, 01:50 PM
As I always said church first ,family second...hahahaha

Ponce
30th November 2011, 02:15 PM
To Serpo and others........YOU SHOULD ALWAYS COME FIRST because without you there would be no church and no family...

I wrote about this before......When I joined the SF at Ft. Bragg I was asked "Are you willing to die for your country" and I said "Hell NO"......they were taken back by this because it was the first time that someone have giving them that answer... and I then explained "I am willing to KILL for my country but not to die for it, if I were dead then who would defend the country?, if I were to be kill then tought cookies it was my turn and that's it"

Serpo
30th November 2011, 02:27 PM
Just kidding Ponce

Infact ....screw the church..........

Ponce
30th November 2011, 03:41 PM
For that you also have to be alive hahahahahahahah.