Some crazy guy… I mean, a completely rational ex-Scientologist named Peter Letterese has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. Letterese even names Tom Cruise in the suit.
The NY Daily News says:
In court papers provided to The News by investigator Paul Barresi, Letterese claims a member of the church phoned his lawyer at home, and when the lawyer's wife answered, said he was her husband's homosexual lover.
He singles out Cruise, who's made no secret of his religion, saying that Scientology head David Miscavage is "aided and abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, his right-hand man for foreign and domestic promotion, as well as for foreign and domestic lobbying. He has assisted the syndicate in acquiring funds and [made] his own donations of money believed to be in the multiple tens of millions of dollars."
Letterese also referred to Scientology as a “crime syndicate” and requested that it be broken up via the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization laws, a set of laws normally used to prosecute the mafia.
This would all be very interesting if I actually believed that Scientology was a legitimate religion or that Scientologists had created a false religion with plans of exploiting a government tax loophole. However, I just think it’s a big inside joke. Scientologists are playing a practical joke on the world and seeing how far they can push it. Why? Because people like Tom Cruise and John Travolta have achieved everything they could ever want in life, and they’re bored. Right now, Cruise and Travolta are sitting around, watching TV and saying things like, “Dude, that was great when you mentioned how aliens are coming back to Earth to save us! They totally bought it!! And that stuff about medicine being outlawed was priceless!! This is too easy!! Next week, let’s declare war on the Church of Latter Day Saints!!!”
Here are some pictures of Tom, Katie and Suri showing their American pride…
