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Super-Adventure Club News

By The Daily Dish
May 14 2007, 10:15 AM ET

The BBC is now in a major YouTube fight with the Super Adventure Club (aka Scientology) over an imminent documentary on their controversial methods and practices. Alas, at one point, the reporter completely lost it when a Scientologist accused him of bias. The reporter, John Sweeney, explained his outburst thus:

"I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a 'bigot' by star Scientologists, brainwashed that is how it felt to me in a mock-up of a Nazi-style torture chamber and chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers."

And that's what led to this (a video promoted by the Super Adventure Club as part of its campaign against the documentary):

The BBC version of this story can be read here.



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