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On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death in her own home. Jeremy was under the care of the Church of Scientology at the time. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a number of years before the incident, however Elli Perkins (a senior […]

Tom R. Bennett was the copilot on Trans Australian Airways flight 408 on the 19th July 1960, when the world’s first midair sky-jacking took place. The aircraft, a Lockheed Electra Mk 2 (VH-TLB) was operating the last Sydney to Brisbane flight for the day. Forty three passengers and six crew were on board. The terrorist was […]

Since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1952 the organization has strongly opposed established mental health care practices and the fields of psychiatry and psychology. To this day, Scientologists abhor mainstream psychiatry and view it as a barbaric and corrupt profession. Scientology members are denied access to psychiatric care and medication, and instead are […]

At the turn of the twentieth century, Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday showed heroism in the field of battle in a quintessentially English manner. The man was a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Boxer Revolution in China. Halliday was 30 years old at the time. Stationed in Peking, China, Halliday was a captain […]

A British soldier who survived the Battle of Dunkirk in WW2, did so with a picture of his new bride in his pocket. After the horror of Dunkirk saw the allies having to retreat along the beaches of Belgium and northern France, brave Norman Johnson swam through the waters to the safety of a boat, […]

The Disney Mickey Mouse Gas Mask is a strange entry in the long and successful cannon of Disney themed merchandise. It all came about during WW2, a month after the Pearl Harbour attack. For the first time in the war an attack had taken place on American soil. Now the threat of a chemical attack […]

The circumstances surrounding the death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan in 2007 warrant discussion for anyone interested in the workings of Scientology and its strange relationship with the American judiciary. Kyle died from a gunshot wound to the head on Friday, February 16, 2007. (The time of death was estimated to be 11:00 p.m.) He was […]