Breaking News: Arrests Made At Scientology's Guarded Desert Compound, Including Renowned Critic Mark Bunker
Glosslip sources revealed well-known anti-Scientology critic Mark Bunker was arrested along with another critic Doug Owens (moniker Mark Lowell) at the Scientology's Hemet, California compound known as Gold Base.
Bunker, was there to speak at a meeting by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to discuss issues related to protests taking place at the Hemet Scientology facility. Video of today's meeting can be seen here, including what Mark described as "revealing links between Chairman Jeff Stone and close affiliations with the Church of Scientology.
After the meeting, Mark and a group of protesters, including members of Anonymous who posted about the arrest at WhyWeProtest.net, headed to Gold Base for a previously scheduled protest. Gold Base is the main headquarters for Scientology's secret sect, the Sea Organization. The Sea Org consists of the most devout members, who are forced to sign the infamous "billion year contract", and work at the secluded compound, often for only room and board. Glosslip has detailed some of the horrors and atrocities which have occurred within the Sea Org, including slave labor, forced abortions and physical violence.
Glosslip was able to contact Mark Bunker shortly after he was arrested and processed for trespassing. Mark gave us the exclusive details on what led to the arrest of he and fellow protester Doug Owens.
Mark said when they arrived at Gold after the meeting, Riverside County sheriff's deputies were already there waiting for protesters. Despite Scientology and Riverside County officials attempting to stop all protests at Gold, they were informed that they were still permitted to protest. Mark looked across the street and saw Owens being arrested by deputies for trespassing and Bunker went over to see what the problem was. As he explained to me, protesters were previously permitted to walk in front of the entrance to Gold as long as they kept moving and didn't block the entrance to the compound.
While Mark was getting clarification from the Riverside deputies, he spotted Celebrity Center spokesperson and ubiquitous mouthpiece for the Church of Scientology, Tommy Davis. As Mark was attempting to get a pictures of Davis, he walked across the entrance way and it was then that he was also placed under arrest. It wasn't until Mark was released that he discovered he was arrested as part of a "citizen's arrest" initiated by the same Cathy who attempted to discredit Bunker at the Riverside meeting. Cathy was cutoff by Riverside reps during the meeting and was asked to not engage in "personal attacks."
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