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Anonymous asked this question on 4/27/2000:

Greg Churilov declined to answer on 4/27/2000:
No reason was provided for declining this question.

The Church of Scientology tied Lisa McPherson to a bed and starved her to death because she wanted to leave (see, among others, http://www.lisamcpherson.org/) Do you know whether this deadly "introspective rundown" ritual is employed routinely in the Ft. Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, or was this murder a rare occurance?

Thanks.

Greg Churilov gave this profound lie on 4/28/2000:

Oh COME ON! Lisa McPherson's death was a tragedy, but to use her to defamate my Church is SHAMEFUL!! Lisa was a psychotic. She ran naked through the streets of Clearwater, Florida. She had been REFUSED services as the Church of Scientology because of her mental condition. She had a psychotic nervous breakdown as a result of an altercation with her abusive family. She would have been institutionalized. Scientolog .org) and thus it intervened.

[What this cultist doesn't mention is that Lisa McPherson had just months before this incident been proclaimed "clear" by the cult and as such was supposed to be incapable of this behavior. Lisa paid an unknown amount of money for these "services" that literally drove her insane.

If the cultists responsible for this homicide had been allowed to think for themselves, Lisa would have been taken to a hospital. Indeed, Lisa wouldn't have been held against her will in the first place. But because the individuals responsible for this homicide had to unthinkingly apply their mad messiah's insane notions, they wound up killing her - flr]

Lisa was given plenty of rest, plenty of food and a LOT of attention and care. She was treated with love and decency. She was given ONLY over-the-counter sedatives to help he sleep.

[That's an unmitigated lie that the cult's ringleaders doubtlessly had to start telling their remaining followers. The cult's own "baby watch" records taken every day of her captivity show that they subjected Lisa to inhuman torture and routinely administered drugs without doctor's orders, without a licensed medical doctor present or proscribing, held her down so she couldn't escape, and tried to force feed her.

Lisa repeatedly fought with her captors and accurately informed them -- according to the cult's own records -- that she knew they were trying to kill her.

This cultist is doubtlessly unthinkingly mouthing off what his cult leaders are telling their remaining followers - flr]

Unfortunately a sudden medical emergency ( a blood-clot) led to her being RUSHED to the Hospital by Scientology staff. She didn't make it.

[And we know that's not true as well. The cult's own records show that Lisa was starved to death and died from dehydration and forced bed rest. The cult also admitting (accidentally, it looks like) in court records that she died inside of the Ft. Harrison Hotel where they had held her captive against her will.

And this cultist also doesn't mention that they delivered her body to a hospital four hospitals away (a 45 minute drive at best) so that they could drop her body off with a Scientologist doctor who could do a cover-up, rather than a hospital emergency room that was just half a block away from the Ft. Harrison. No one can say whether the emergency room half a block away could have brought her vital signs back if they had not wanted to cover up the homicide.

It's amazing what the cult's leaders are feeding their followers in light of the easy availability of all the court documents and the cult's own internal documents that cover this killing. Presumably the cult's ringleaders order their remaining followers not to listen to the news or to read the newspapers - flr]

Lisa's death is a sad, deeply unfortunate incident.

It is something that ocassionally happens when dealing with the mentally ill. hundreds of incidents such as this occur in Mental Institutions and nobody even talks about them!

[And that's a lie that Hubbard came up with. First off, Lisa was driven insane by the cult's "TR's" -- that's "Training Routines" and by the cult's "Auditing" -- a hypnotic brainwashing process wherein subjects are forced to manufacture past lives memories and beliefs.

The cult held her against her will because she was talking about escaping from the cult. If they had just let her escape, she would be alive and, of course, talking about the inhuman things she was subjected to while in the cult - flr]

Meanwhile, millions of Scientologists go to Scientology Centers every day and get great results, and are happy human beings. Must you sensationalize and distort Lisa's death to attack my Religion? Shame, deep shame on you.

[And that's a lie that the cult's ringleaders tell to anyone who'll still listen to them. There are only anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 cult followers in this particular cult. And from reading messages written by Scientologists, it's unlikely that any of them are happy - flr]

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