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Initial 1997 filing included at least two OTVIII Scientologists. Several failures to re-register with California Secretary of State. Ongoing filings include at least 3 OTVIII Scientologists. Last filing (2021) included as CEO a man who died 6 months before (still 3 of 4 officers are Scientologists). David Miscavige held an event and publicly grave danced over CAN's demise and took credit for the absolute takeover of CAN.
The closest thing to "multi-faith" that the NEW CAN ever did was to publish a list of non-Scientologist other-faith names and phone numbers for people to self-help with. Anyone who thinks this organization was ever really a "multi-faith organization" has failed to look at the evidence, or maybe they just read from published notes that were written in the early NEW CAN days when Scientology was still bothering to put some window dressing on the "New CAN" and had sent out dozens of press releases.
I cannot locate a website for this company name or any indication that it performs any function at all in current time. The last working copy of the cultawarenessnetwork.org website in the Wayback Machine is in January 2010. Guidestar reports "This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years".
It looks to me that after they donated the old CAN files ( 145 boxes, 150 linear feet in 1999 & 2007) they quit bothering to run the organization.
▶ I am Grorp ◀ 12:42, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
The "multi-faith board" content in both articles rely on a single source that I consider not-reliable. It is based on a quote from a book compiled from multiple authors, and wasn't attributed in the Wikipedia citation. In this case, the source was written by Bruce A. Robinson who founded Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Robinson was an agnostic, a retired electronics engineer with no formal education in theology or work experience in religious or scholarly pursuits, who created his own religious tolerance activism website [1] [2] [3] which probably wouldn't pass muster as a reliable source for Wikipedia content, just as CESNUR is considered "generally unreliable". Yet CESNUR was started and run by sociologists, historians, and priests.
Are there any reliable sources for this same information? The closest I can find is this: [4] Or maybe this book (page 300) which has a blurb about Foundation for Religious Freedom, pointing out the list I mentioned previously. No such mention of "multi-faith board".
Foundation for Religious Freedom is a Scientology-owned organization that predates the acquisition of CAN by legal finagling. Since the Church of Scientology re-filed paperwork in 2021 using the name of a dead man for its CEO, then why would one think that "naming" a multi-faith board of directors would have anything to do with the new CAN being multi-faith? In true Scientology style, it was likely just window dressing and never meant anything more than names on a paper to sway public opinion. Unless one has something more reliable than Robinson, the inclusion of "multi-faith" in any form falls under WP:UNDUE.
No doubt there are other NRMs and public who didn't like the old CAN's techniques, but it was Scientology (mostly via Moxon) who orchestrated their bankruptcy and takeover, by hiding their involvement in the final lawsuit blow to old CAN, then opened the new CAN under ownership by Scientologists, which continues to this day. They haven't given away the organization to someone else to run it. Note that Kendrick Moxon, the one who did this under color of "legal counsel" to Scott was then (and is now) a long time Scientologist who was part of the old dirty tricks Guardian's Office of Scientology—that same organization that coordinated and carried out the largest infiltrations of government offices in US history which resulted in the conviction of 11 of Moxon's cohorts. He was an unindicted co-conspirator who got off because he cooperated with providing evidence to the prosecution against his co-conspirators. That show of duplicity was 20 years before the duplicity against Scott. A leopard never changes his spots. Today, 25 years later, he is still fighting legal battles for the Church of Scientology.
They may have donated the old CAN files to the university archives but, I'm sure, not before Scientology went through every last paper and removed what they didn't want to pass into the public domain.
▶ I am Grorp ◀ 10:33, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
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Initial 1997 filing included at least two OTVIII Scientologists. Several failures to re-register with California Secretary of State. Ongoing filings include at least 3 OTVIII Scientologists. Last filing (2021) included as CEO a man who died 6 months before (still 3 of 4 officers are Scientologists). David Miscavige held an event and publicly grave danced over CAN's demise and took credit for the absolute takeover of CAN.
The closest thing to "multi-faith" that the NEW CAN ever did was to publish a list of non-Scientologist other-faith names and phone numbers for people to self-help with. Anyone who thinks this organization was ever really a "multi-faith organization" has failed to look at the evidence, or maybe they just read from published notes that were written in the early NEW CAN days when Scientology was still bothering to put some window dressing on the "New CAN" and had sent out dozens of press releases.
I cannot locate a website for this company name or any indication that it performs any function at all in current time. The last working copy of the cultawarenessnetwork.org website in the Wayback Machine is in January 2010. Guidestar reports "This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years".
It looks to me that after they donated the old CAN files ( 145 boxes, 150 linear feet in 1999 & 2007) they quit bothering to run the organization.
▶ I am Grorp ◀ 12:42, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
The "multi-faith board" content in both articles rely on a single source that I consider not-reliable. It is based on a quote from a book compiled from multiple authors, and wasn't attributed in the Wikipedia citation. In this case, the source was written by Bruce A. Robinson who founded Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Robinson was an agnostic, a retired electronics engineer with no formal education in theology or work experience in religious or scholarly pursuits, who created his own religious tolerance activism website [1] [2] [3] which probably wouldn't pass muster as a reliable source for Wikipedia content, just as CESNUR is considered "generally unreliable". Yet CESNUR was started and run by sociologists, historians, and priests.
Are there any reliable sources for this same information? The closest I can find is this: [4] Or maybe this book (page 300) which has a blurb about Foundation for Religious Freedom, pointing out the list I mentioned previously. No such mention of "multi-faith board".
Foundation for Religious Freedom is a Scientology-owned organization that predates the acquisition of CAN by legal finagling. Since the Church of Scientology re-filed paperwork in 2021 using the name of a dead man for its CEO, then why would one think that "naming" a multi-faith board of directors would have anything to do with the new CAN being multi-faith? In true Scientology style, it was likely just window dressing and never meant anything more than names on a paper to sway public opinion. Unless one has something more reliable than Robinson, the inclusion of "multi-faith" in any form falls under WP:UNDUE.
No doubt there are other NRMs and public who didn't like the old CAN's techniques, but it was Scientology (mostly via Moxon) who orchestrated their bankruptcy and takeover, by hiding their involvement in the final lawsuit blow to old CAN, then opened the new CAN under ownership by Scientologists, which continues to this day. They haven't given away the organization to someone else to run it. Note that Kendrick Moxon, the one who did this under color of "legal counsel" to Scott was then (and is now) a long time Scientologist who was part of the old dirty tricks Guardian's Office of Scientology—that same organization that coordinated and carried out the largest infiltrations of government offices in US history which resulted in the conviction of 11 of Moxon's cohorts. He was an unindicted co-conspirator who got off because he cooperated with providing evidence to the prosecution against his co-conspirators. That show of duplicity was 20 years before the duplicity against Scott. A leopard never changes his spots. Today, 25 years later, he is still fighting legal battles for the Church of Scientology.
They may have donated the old CAN files to the university archives but, I'm sure, not before Scientology went through every last paper and removed what they didn't want to pass into the public domain.
▶ I am Grorp ◀ 10:33, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
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