STAND League members are Scientologists. As such they consider themselves part of the Scientology Master Race. This Master Race ideology is one of the core elements in categorizing STAND League members as part of an organized hate group.
The initial purpose of Scientology’s STAND League was to launch online psycho-terrorist Fair Game operations against the guests who appeared on Leah’s double Emmy-winning show Scientology and the Aftermath.
These psycho-terrorist operations were retaliatory in nature for these guests having spoken out about their horrific experiences in the Church of Scientology.
STAND League has since become a social media hate platform to conduct the same psycho-terrorist operations against those persons targeted for attack by Scientology. STAND League engages in lies, slander, defamation, and character assassination.
L. Ron Hubbard’s Fair Game focuses on “manufacturing evidence” and “effectively outflowing false data.” These are Cult-speak terms for lying. The Church of Scientology lies as the central principle of its own existence — and STAND League reflects the intrinsic nature of Scientology.
By using widely accepted definitions, we classify STAND League members as constituting an organized hate group:
The Southern Poverty Law Center defines a hate group as an organization or collection of individuals that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics
Based upon orders from the Church of Scientology International, STAND League members conduct online Fair Game operations against an entire class of people Scientology deems Suppressive Persons. In L. Ron Hubbard’s ideology, Suppressive Persons have immutable characteristics which place them below 2.0 on Scientology’s Tone Scale.
L. Ron Hubbard called for a genocide against all persons 2.0 and below on Scientology’s Tone Scale. In Scientology’s worldview, all SP’s should be “disposed of quietly and without sorrow” as Hubbard phrased it.
Like all Scientologists, STAND League members consider they are part of a Scientology Master Race called Homo Novis. STAND League members embrace the genocidal and Master Race ideology of Scientology.
STAND League members are radicalized Scientology zealots. For these reasons, we archive STAND League’s postings and maintain an index of its past and present members. Under certain conditions, we make all, or part, of this data available to government agencies, law enforcement, attorneys, and investigators.
In 2018 and 2019, many critics — including we at the Scientology Money Project — documented the STAND League engaging in a massive social media fraud in which it used stock photos and claimed these images were real Scientologists. Why did Scientology engage in such an obvious fraud that made David Miscavige look like an incompetent fool? Was STAND desperate to inflate its membership or was there a more serious reason?
We consider the possibility that Scientology may have needed to protect its actual members from potential civil and criminal liability arising from STAND League’s malicious online activities.
As STAND members are an organized group that engages in online harassment and psychoterrorism, its members are open to being named in civil and criminal actions. The Scientology Squirrel Busters were an organized hate group. Several Scientology Squirrel Busters were named as individuals in the Rathbun v. Miscavige lawsuit. OSA may have had this in mind when it used stock photos.
REAL OR FAKE STAND LEAGUE MEMBERS?
Individual Scientologists are generally very easy to find online as they post on social media. The Church of Scientology also puts the names and photos of its members into the public domain when it mails its various magazines out to the tens of thousands of people who have done even one course in Scientology.
Statistician and Scientology critic Kristi Wachter has worked tirelessly since the 1990’s compiling lists of Scientologists the Church publishes in its various magazines. Wachter publishes these names at her outstanding website The Truth About Scientology.
All one need do to find a Scientologist is to type their name into the search bar at Wachter’s website. The website provides the first published date of a given Scientologist’s course completion and all of their subsequently published course completions and Bridge progress.
Using Kristi Wachter’s website, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, we reviewed STAND League’s latest online roster of 44 active hate bloggers.
Our research found that 25% of these Scientologists were not independently verifiable online. The only place these people can be found is at the STAND League website.
Are these people real Scientologists or are they fake? We are asking our readers for help in identifying these purported Scientologists. We are doing this as part of our work in maintaining and updating our database of STAND League members.
The list of 44 currently active STAND League hate bloggers is listed below. A link to Kristi Wachter’s site is provided for those Scientologists whose identity we can verify and confirm:
1. David Aden- Verified New OT VI – L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 2001.
2. Peter Alemis – Verified New OT VI – L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 2013.
3. Joel Anderson – Verified New OT VIII – L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 1999.
4. Nicky Baker – Verified New OTV III. – England – Meet A Scientologist episode. First Scientology course completion listed in 2000.
5. Laurie Bartilson – Verified New OT VI. First Scientology course completion listed in 1998. Ex-In-House lawyer for OSA Int.
6. Timothy Baxter -Verified New OT VI – L’s Completion. — First Scientology course completion listed in 1998.
7. Dean Blehert -Verified New OT VIII – L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 1986.
8. Norm Shannon: No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
Norm Shannon
9. Melissa Butz – No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND’s hate website. STAND League photo:
Melissa Butz
10. Spencer Caden – No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
Spencer Caden
11. Rodger Clark – Verified as Paul Rodger Clark — L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 1987.
12. Stephen Eckleberry – Verified Scientologist. Filmmaker. Was married to the late actress and Scientologist Karen Black (1939-2013). Eckleberry had to raise money online to pay for his wife’s medical care as she was dying of cancer. There are no published Scientology completions for Stephen Eckleberry. Skip Press’ article on Karen Black.
13. T. Riggs Eckleberry a/k/a Riggs Eckleberry. Verified Scientologist. CEO at Originclear, yet another Scientologist-owned water company. Eckleberry defaulted on $127,403.01 in loans and entered into a settlement agreement in January 2019 with Power Up Lending Group Ltd. Copy of Settlement. There are no published Scientology completions for Riggs Eckleberry.
14. Hans Eisenman – Verified Clear and L’s Completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 1994.
15. Chris Ellis – No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
Chris Ellis
16. John Evans – Verified. Clear. The STAND website offers no photo of the Scientologist hate blogger.
17. Dean Glosup – Verified. New OT VIII – L’s Completions.
18. Update/Correction: Dylan Green has been identified as Scientologist Colin Green Swartz. Why Swartz felt the need to use a fake name raises questions. Why?
Colin Swartz’s Twitter account was suspended when he used the Dylan Green name.
19. Carole Gournet — No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. Gournet claims to have been a Scientologist for 48 years. Where is the evidence? STAND League photo:
Carole Gournet
20. A.E. Hansen — No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND offers no photo of Hansen.
21. Wayne Hanson – New OT V – L’s Completions
22. Roger Harrison – New OT VIII
23. Bill Henderson — No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND offers no photo of Henderson.
24. W. T. Jaffe — No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND offers no photo of Jaffe.
25. Jim Kalergis – L’s Completions. Kalergis claims to be a screenwriter. However, his IMDb page shows one credit for a project in development.
26. Maia Kinsky — No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League Photo:
Maia Kinsky
27. Martin Landon. No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League Photo:
Martin Landon
28. May Livingston: No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
May Livingston
Update/Correction: After publication of this article, the Church of Scientology’s STAND League published a photo of May Livingston attaining the State of Clear:
29. John Logothetis – Verified New OT VI – L’s Completions
30. Luna C. Luz: No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
Luna C. Luz
31. Deanne Macdonald – Verified New OT VII
32. Eva Mahoney – Verified L’s Completions
33. A. Margolin: No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND offers no photo of Margolin.
34. Jim Meskimen – Verified New OT VIII and L’s Completions. Meskimen is a long-time -D level Scientology celebrity.
35. Jeffrey Murphy – Stock photo Scientologist. No evidence of Scientology membership or participation outside of the STAND website. STAND League photo:
Jeffrey Murphy: Photo Shop Scientologist
There is a Jeff Murphy who stated in a letter on STAND League letterhead that he has been a Scientologist for almost 50 years.
However, Justin Templer exposed the Jeffrey Murphy shown above as a fake in 2018. Apparently, Scientology likes the nonexistent and youthful Jeffrey Murphy and renewed his contract as a Stock Photo Scientologist. This is Scientology using AI software to create fake faces:
36. Joey Percival – Verified – Director of Public Affairs of the Church of Scientology San Jose. Percival is also associated with Scientology’s insane and rabidly anti-Psychiatry group CCHR.
37. Bernard Percy – Verified New OT VI. First Scientology completion in 1987.
38. Caralyn Percy – Verified OT VI. First Scientology course completion listed in 1986.
39. Michael Scandling – Verified New OT V, one L completion. First Scientology course completion listed in 2000.
40. Peter Sokoloff – Verified New OT VIII. First Scientology course completion listed in 1995.
41. Tad Reeves – Verified Clear. First Scientology course completion listed in 2011. Reeves had his STAND League Twitter account suspended for violating Twitter rules.
42. Stuart Rosenbaum – Verified New OT VI. First Scientology course completion listed in 2004.
43. Leland Thoburn – Verified New OT VIII. First Scientology course completion listed in 2005.
44. Wil Seabrook – One Course Completion Shown. Seabrook is a minor D-Level Scientology Celebrity. Seabrook’s STAND League Twitter profile was suspended for violating Twitter rules.
SCIENTOLOGY STAND LEAGUE OSA MANAGERS
ED PARKIN
Ed Parkin, OSA member and Executive Director of STAND League. We documented the way in which the creepy Ed Parkin used the images of a little girl and a nude model in his fake Stock Photo Scientologist brigade.
BERI BERGER
When she is not posting Scientology’s lies and hate online, OSA member Bari Berger hustles for Scientology’s various phony front groups
Bari Berger, Sea Org National STAND Director US – OSA PR Los Angeles – LinkedIn Profile
LIV WATSON
Left: AOLA Photo Right: STAND League Photo
Liv Watson: Liv Watson is listed as the Director of Promo & Marketing for the AOLA OT Committee, Los Angeles. There are two photos of Liv Watson. As documented by Dice Man, Liv Watson of STAND had her Twitter profile suspended:
The Church of Scientology has been repeatedly caught using fake “stock photo” Scientologists on Twitter and Facebook. fraud. The Scientology Money Project has documented Scientology’s extensive social media fraud and yet the fraud continues:
Scientology’s blatant social media fraud fuels attacks on Leah Remini and Mike Rinder
Scientology Caught in Yet More Social Media Fraud! It Never Ends!
Scientology Narconon Europe Caught in Blatant False Advertising: More Scientology Stock Photo Fraud!
Scientology’s Social Media Fraud Campaign Tries to Defeat Google Reverse Imaging
Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley & Other Scientologists Lose Fake Followers in Twitter Fraud Purge
Categories: The Scientology Money Project
Good investigation. Have you formally reached out to them to confirm? (not that I’d expect a useful response)
We are unable to contact any of these purported Scientologists as they have no online presence, no e-mails, and no means of contacting them.
We did find a Carole Gournet online. However, she died in Paris in 2010.
Thanks Jeffrey. I try to follow your links to here, and see your excellent work. It’s truly unappreciated how much you have done in your citizen years keeping track of so many details about Scientology. You truly could run rings around the “paid” academics in terms of research and you understand Scientology so deeply, it’s not funny.
Thankyou! You are a citizen godmine of views and research over the decade or two you’ve been at it.
Your one item above showing how they modified the man’s face/head but left the shirt and tie identical, just disheartening proof not to trust Scientology.
What do they say to that type of manipulation/creation of false participants.
Someone could go through your site(s) of material and have enough to submit papers to the journals on “new religions” to give those out there who aren’t aware of all you’ve concluded in your years of work.
I used to send a briefing to a group of about 5 “new religion” academics, ever couple months, up to the late 2000s, and they appreciated it.
if the material you’ve researched, if I had more in me, I”d love to summarize your work, and submit some papers to the “new religion” journals.
Because “study” of Scientology really isn’t seemingnly being importantly done but by persons like you, and Tony Ortega.
I used to not mind trying to send news to the “new religion” people Id met and conversed with.
Maybe when I retire retire (I still work) I’ll do that.
Indexing all the great work you’ve done, that’s also something I’ve thought of.
In the old days, there used to be the “Periodical Index” in the public librraries. That could guide a researcher to material to study subjects or persons.
I’ll bet a site called even “The Scientology Researcher;’s Index” might even be useful, to have.
And then link to your research, and the decades of research by others, and guide “future researchers” into what’s all been done these decades so far.
And maybe a book review site, of all the books, with Indexes per book.
That’s another project I thought I might be useful, is doing some indexing of what all is available for future researchers to see what has been done already quickly.
Anyways, again, thank so much for your massive amount of good sense and contributions over the last decade or two.
Chuck Beatty
ex lifer staff in Sea Org, 1975 til 2003.