Bob Minton
At one time, Bob was the most visible of Scientology's critics.
Date | Title | ||
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| October 14, 1997 | Scientologist Mary Frances, Bob Minton, doesn't, critics | Scientologist Mary Frances telephones Bob Minton and threatens him with further harassment if he doesn't stop funding Scientology critics. "She indicated that $cientology was prepared to start attacking me on or in a number of areas unless I stopped giving financial support to their enemies. The areas of possible attack conveyed to me were: Family, Children, Ex-wife, Ex-business partners, State and Federal taxes, Mental Health, Drugs, Paying picketers." | |
| December 15, 1997 | Bob Minton's house | A dead cat is left at Bob Minton's house. | |
| December 16, 1997 | Scientologists, Bob Minton's house | Scientologists picket Bob Minton's house. | |
| February 9, 1998 | Bob Minton | A cult revenge picket at Bob Minton's home is reported: | |
| March 10, 1998 | Harassment: Bob Minton, Los Angeles | Harassment: Bob Minton suffers a mysterious theft in Los Angeles | |
| April 19, 1998 | Critic Bob Minton, Cult Information Service Annual Conference | Critic Bob Minton gives a speech at the Cult Information Service Annual Conference titled "Battling Scientology's Attack on Free Speech". | |
| August 31, 1998 | pickets Bob Minton, Stacy Young, Denver airport | Scientology pickets Bob Minton and Stacy Young at Denver airport | |
| September 7, 1998 | Bob Minton, drive-by pickets | Bob Minton, drive-by Scientology pickets, | |
| September 30, 1998 | Maureen O'Keefe, Boston OSA, Bob Minton's, Therese | Maureen O'Keefe of Boston OSA, writes Bob Minton's wife Therese. | |
| October 9, 1998 | DA, Bob Minton's friends, partners, Nigerian, minister | DA attack directed at Bob Minton's friends, business partners, and Nigerian foreign minister | |
| December 14, 1998 | Scientologists, Bob Minton's family: | Scientologists picket Bob Minton's family: "Two scientologists conducted a picket in front of Therese's house at 39 W. Cedar Street in Boston with picket signs emphasizing the relationship between Stacy and me. It seems that the timing of their picket was designed to coincide with the arrival of my two daughters from school. So much for Maureen O'Keefe's assurance in her letter to Therese of not doing anything to upset the children." | |
| December 16, 1998 | Bob Minton's, Scientology | Bob Minton's children harassed by Scientology | |
| December 16, 1998 | Scientologists, Bob Minton's family: | Scientologists picket Bob Minton's family: "scientologists picketed again at Therese's house at 39 W. Cedar Street, in time to greet the girls from school at 3:00." | |
| December 22, 1998 | leaves, Bob Minton, Therese, (ages 10, 12), neighborhood. Bob's, Stacy Brooks, say | Scientology leaves fliers about Bob Minton at the home of his wife Therese and their two daughters (ages 10 and 12) and all over the surrounding neighborhood. The fliers draw attention to Bob's relationship with Stacy Brooks and say, "Minton has spent over $2 million of his family's wealth creating hatred and bigotry towards members of our religion. Minton's behavior is socially obnoxious and morally impaired." | |
| December 24, 1998 | Bob Minton's, harassed | Bob Minton's children harassed | |
| December 26, 1998 | Over 4000 Sandown NH, Maureen O'Keefe, Scientologist, Bob Minton. An excerpt: | Over 4000 Sandown NH households receive a letter sent by Maureen O'Keefe, Scientologist, smearing Bob Minton. An excerpt: "Mr. Minton has become increasingly vocal and violent in his attacks on my Church and parishioners, myself included. He has poured millions of dollars into funding what is nothing less than a massive anti-religious hate campaign." | |
| March 29, 1999 | Critics Public And Private Keep Pressure On Scientology - At Home | Scientology reacts to the pickets by sending staffers out to confront them and take pictures. Increasingly, Scientologists go out and picket critics' home or office, distributing fliers that accuse them of being "religious bigots." Some pickets say Scientologists have frightened elderly family members with visits and questions about their picketing. | |
| April 7, 2000 | A Visit from Scientology's Enemy Number 1 | Bob Minton was never a Scientologist. He began to get interested in the machinations of the sect when he read about the Lisa McPherson case on the internet. The young woman, who died, had apparently been locked up and starved by U.S. Scientologists. Scientology regards Minton as "Enemy Number One" - its arch-enemy. At his side sat Stacy Brooks, who worked in the "Sea Org" in the sect's headquarters and then left after being held against her will for nine months. | |
| August 1, 2000 | Scientology distributes copies of Freiheit (Freedom) magazine | Scientology distributes copies of Freiheit (Freedom) magazine by mail to Berlin residents. They allege that Bob Minton has been involved in fraud, money-laundering, and forgery. A few months later, they will be found guilty of libelling Minton, fined, and prohibited from republishing the libel. | |
| March 27, 2001 | Scientology Found Guilty of Libelling Bob Minton | Scientology is found guilty of libelling Bob Minton by claiming he had defrauded Nigeria in a debt buy-back scheme. In addition to being made to pay Minton's court costs, Scientology is prohibited from repeating or republishing the false information. |