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Freedom Exposé

Spying Behemoth

Most Americans have little concept of how much their government knows about them—and what can potentially be done with that information. While most tend to believe the National Security Agency’s work is focused on scouring data from overseas to thwart terrorism, the terabytes of personal information collected and stored on Americans in the agency’s “mother of all data centers” in Bluffdale, Utah, can be passed on to other agencies.

investigations

The Data Demon

investigations

Poisoned Justice

Scientology News

Unlimited Vistas

Crime & Morals

Riding for Peace

Contents

Editorial

Privacy Matters

How to watch everyone without being watched—that’s the lust of every dictator, authoritarian, totalitarian, social manipulator and corporate voyeur. Many despotic endeavors have ascended and collapsed based mostly on their ability to spy on citizens.

At a Glance

News Briefs

The study revealed an outlay from the Department of Defense for more than a million back-office jobs to support 1.3 million troops on active duty.

Cover Story

The Data Demon

The spy center that Inglis inaugurated is a sprawling 20-building complex officially known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Code-named “Bumblehive,” the facility opened in 2014 and is popularly referred to as the Utah Data Center.

Sean Lawson

“The idea of the government collecting and storing massive amounts of information about people does rub up against the core principles and values that this country was founded on,” says Lawson.

Media & Ethics

How Much Freedom?

Religion accounts for 20 percent of all hate crimes in the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hatewatch” report

investigations

Poisoned Justice

The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”

Scientology News

Unlimited Vistas

Yes, it was about having a new Church, gleaming and modern, where Scientologists could advance along the religion’s spiritual path, the Bridge to Total Freedom.

Into the Field

Riding for Peace

Over the last two years, the Peace Rides they started have grown from dozens to hundreds of riders at a time, crisscrossing gang territories and extending 100 square miles to communities from Compton to Lancaster.

Kenyan Spreads ‘A Life of Sharing’

After introducing Study Tech to his students, Okello says, “Their performance improved, and my student population increased twice within a semester.”

Narconon Honored

The Congress of the State of Sonora officially recognized “the efficient drug rehabilitation and prevention program” that helps addicts “to reintegrate into society and be much more productive and of value.”

Ukrainians Learn Their Rights

The chapter currently has 50 active members and frequently organizes community outreach events, puts on lectures in schools and participates in city festivals.

Dateline: 1970s

Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa

Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.

L. Ron Hubbard essay

Justice

In the mid- to late-twentieth century, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard authored an extraordinary series of essays on tyranny of government, injustice, oppressive economics and psychiatric abuse. He wrote the bulk of these works for Freedom magazine. The following essay is among the many originally published in 1969.

Basic Principle

The A-R-C Triangle

Great importance is placed in Scientology on the factor of communication, as Scientologists know that communication is the bridge to higher states of awareness and happiness.