Saturday, December 13, 2014

Stop Disconnection

Over the past few weeks I’ve begun an outreach to members of the Outer Banks. Some have opened the door and talked about their time in Outer Banks and their relationships to the moderators of the group. Others have shunned us to the point of blocking our account on Twitter effectively disconnecting from us. The offenders typically are the people at the top of Outer Banks or they are “celebrities” of Outer Banks.
Here’s the current list of people who have disconnected from us.
I will continue to update this post as we are disconnected from.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Chris Shelton Supports Censorship

Almost a week ago we shared a story to r/scientology about Rod Keller’s attempts to stifle free speech. One of Rod’s fellow critics Chris Shelton stood up soon after to defend him.
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Let’s clarify a few things since Chris Shelton appears to be aghast that someone could challenge his opinions.
  1. The information that we posted on Rod Keller is all public information available on the internet.
  2. Chris Shelton has never stood up and criticized Rod Keller for infiltrating and doxxing scientologists by befriending them with phony facebook accounts. On numerous occasions Chris has actually supported and laughed about Rod’s actions. A bit two faced of “The Critical Thinker At Large.”
  3. If there ever was an Ex Scientologist who continued to reg people for money outside of the church that person would be Chris Shelton. Continous attempts to get his viewers to support him with monthly donations and to buy his merch. I wonder if he will create a paywall in 2017 to monetize his videos.
Now let’s clarify a few things for Adam Burgess aka Echo1883.
  1. It didn’t go under the radar it was near the top of r/scientology because the viewers of the subreddit upvoted it.
  2. I do not feel that I owe anyone an explanation in the comments. You continue to push this idea that I must defend my stance on Reddit. I disagree.. If you choose to delete or shadow ban my threads while not doing this to others it will be taken up with your reddit overlords.
  3. Spam? Please allow me to compare.
Chris Shelton’s Reddit Post History:
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My Reddit Post History:
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Seems like my 5 posts to Shelton’s 50 or so promotional spam posts. I hope you enjoyed this continual walk through of hypocrisy that runs prevalent in the exScientologist community.

Friday, September 26, 2014

WitchHunt: Amy Scobee and Tony Ortega Wrongly Accuse Person Of Stalking

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On December 12th 2016 Amy Scobee tweeted out a pair of photos of a white vehicle. She claimed that the person filmed her as she walked by. In her tweet she alluded to the person in this vehicle being a PI for Scientology.
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Looks like they're at it again. Someone parked outside my apartments, in his car for hours. Filmed me as I walked by. Wonder who it is?
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Amy’s followers took to twitter to comment about how she was being intimidated by hired guns who were likely paid for by Scientology.
One of Amy’s followers even suggested that she started carrying a weapon to protect herself from stalkers like the person in the car.
Looks like they're at it again. Someone parked outside my apartments, in his car for hours. Filmed me as I walked by. Wonder who it is?
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Fast forward to today where Tony Ortega himself published a post where he identifies the person in the vehicle in Amy’s tweets and accuses him of stalking Amy Scobee.
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Tony has since taken this post down but here’s the part where he targets Corey Steele.
What. A. Helluva. Guy.
Today, Steele, 64, lists himself as “Personal Injury medical/legal coordinator” at the law offices of Ron Norman in Sherman Oaks, California.
We sent email messages to Ron Norman, Corey Steele, and to Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw, hoping they’d call us so we could discuss Mr. Steele’s excellent qualifications for a Freedom Medal. We’ll let you know if they get back to us.
We also asked Amy Scobee about yet another attempt by Scientology to tail her and get her on camera.
“What are they trying to prove? What are they trying to do? If they think they’re going to intimidate me into silence, it’s not going to work. It just shows how desperate and slimy they are,” she says, and she assures us that such tactics aren’t going to stop her and Mat.
“It might work on other people, but it’s not working on us.”
Ortega’s followers instantly took to the comment section to rip Mr. Steele apart. Here’s a selection of some of them:
Bobby Tolberto: He needs to ditch the necklace, it’s sooo 1978.
Andrea ‘i-Betty’ Garner: Corey L. Steele leaves a trail of slime in his wake wherever he goes. Someone sue him for creating slip hazards.
Asillem4: Sorry but he looks like the kind of ‘cool old guy’ [in his own imagination] who tries to pick up college girls at the beach while they’re catching a tan in their skimpy bikinis.
Draco: And the ambulance chaser is caught with his pants down in public!
Jeffrey Augustine: Why is Scientology wasting Steele’s talents by having him spy on Amy? Based upon the ruling of the CA State Bar, Steele is natural born Scientology registrar!
Graham: What a moron. Uses his own vehicle and allows himself to be clearly identified. Looks like the stalker got stalked.
Johnny Tank: This is what happens when you think you are superior to mere wogs. This dude just got Ortega’d.
Unfortunately for Mr. Ortega it looks he is the one who was Ortega’d. You see, after a short time after Ortega published the story on Mr. Steele it disappeared. A new post was published refuting the earlier post. Here is Ortega’s update.
Earlier today the Underground Bunker posted a story about a man named Corey Steele, who lives in Sherman Oaks — in the very apartment complex where a woman named Amy Scobee lives.
Amy was the subject of a recent episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, and she’s been experiencing a lot of harassment from the Church of Scientology. She’s been followed and photographed and her image has been plastered on anonymous attack websites that we believe are operated by Scientology.
And so when she saw that there was a man parked outside her apartment recently, spending hours in a red zone and looking in her direction, Amy believed she was being surveilled and photographed again by Scientology. When she went out to photograph the man and his car, she says that he reacted by filming her with his smartphone.
But Corey Steele tells us that he not only lives in the same complex as Amy — something we verified with the complex manager — but he says that he was simply parked there because he likes to sit there and make phone calls while he’s working. He was not there to film Amy, and he was not working for the Church of Scientology.
“I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I would never work for those guys,” he told us.
Corey works for a personal injury attorney, and he says he’s actually a really nice guy. He said being identified in our morning story was very stressful, and for that we apologize.
We completely understand why Amy is wary, given the years of harassment she has been through. Corey acknowledged that we had left a voice mail for him yesterday, and we’re sorry that we didn’t get a chance to talk to him then, or his colleague, attorney Ronald Norman. Again the Underground Bunker apologizes for the confusion.
If I may suggest something to Mr. Steele. You were not at the wrong place at the wrong time. You were simply around paranoid people who targeted you and lambasted you on the internet. It started on Twitter and then moved to Mr. Ortega’s blog where many other people started performing character assassinations of you. This situation reminds me of the time Reddit users went on a witchhunt to identify the suspects of the Boston Bombing. It is time for Mr. Ortega to understand that his words and his actions have consequences. One thing is for certain. Ortega’s and Scobee’s credibility just took a big hit. This isn’t the first hit by any means but it is an ever apparent black eye on both of them from this day forwards.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Steven Mango On Disconnection

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Steven Mango released a video recently where he talks about his time protesting the policy of disconnection. Steven will often talk about how Scientology fairgames him and others. After watching his video I have a question to ask:
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I recently reached out to you and others recently on Twitter to get your thoughts on some of our posts here and you swiftly blocked me. At that moment you enacted the policy of disconnection. Why would a simple tweet stir such a reaction from you? Surely you can’t be that thin-skinned.
Then again maybe Steven is that thin-skinned just like many in the ex-Scientology community who flock to its paper-skinned queen Karen de la Carriere.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Former Member Reaches Out

Another reader has come forward and given us their experience with Outer Banks.
Was chosen [to be invited to Outer Banks], but got out. I was scolded several times for some perceived wrong-doing. It’s all bs. Just because they physically leave the cult, doesn’t mean they’re not still ruined by it.
This message was sent on Twitter so we asked the person if they mind if we share it here. This is their response.
Sure. But, they will freak out if they know it’s me.
I’m glad to be out of all those clubs tho. Too much drama.
We’d like to thank this reader for coming forward with their story.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Tony, Who Are You Kidding?

I wonder if Karen set up that twitter account to draw attention to herself and pay Tony Ortega to write a puff piece for her.
I have some questions for Ortega: Do you actually bother to do any fact checking before publishing your blogs? Do you just take Karen BS for granted? What’s in it for you?

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