Former Scientologist Storms Celebrity Center With Swords, Killed By Church Guards
This past Sunday, former Scientologist and mental patient, Mario Majorski, stormed the Scientology Celebrity Center complex in Hollywood, wielding two swords threatening those at the center before being fatally shot by armed Scientology guards. Majorski, who was a member in good standing of the Church as of ‘93, was named in a suit brought by Scientology’s attorney, Ken Moxon against UCLA and a professor at the university.
Majorski, who maintained residence in both LA and Oregon, had a history of making threats against the Church for some time, and was known by the CoS and local law enforcement. He also had had non-CoS related police run-ins in the last decade.
Here’s more detail on the incident from the LATimes:
A church spokesman said the 48-year-old had not participated in Scientology activities for more than a decade, but in recent years he had made a series of threatening phone calls to church offices in Los Angeles and Oregon, where he had been living.
“There were over a dozen threats at various points since 2005,” said spokesman Tommy Davis.
The church alerted police to the calls, which Davis described as ranging from veiled statements that “something bad” would happen to the church to direct threats of violence.
Although Majorski’s name was known to church security, Davis said, guards, including the former police officer who shot him Sunday afternoon, did not know him by sight.
“It was only after it happened that we realized, ‘Oh, it’s that guy,’ ” he said.
The Times report also said that law enforcement believed Majorski hadn’t had regular employment for a while, but had previously worked with his now-deceased father’s real estate
business. Majorski’s mother also passed away in the last year, and there were some incidents related to his mother at the facility where she was staying before she died:
In 2006, the administrator at Country Villa Broadway, the San Gabriel medical facility where his mother was a patient, sought a restraining order against him. In court papers, the administrator wrote that Majorski’s visits from Oregon were unwelcome.
A Superior Court judge barred Majorski from visiting unless he was accompanied by a special monitor.
While living in Florence, Oregon, Majorski had run-ins with law enforcement there as well:
On Nov. 2, Majorski was arrested at a Mormon church service in Florence, Ore., the coastal town where he lived
A Florence police spokeswoman told the Associated Press that he was “cursing and moving around a lot” and was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
Less than a month ago, he was arrested in Florence for swinging an ax at an Auto Club employee who was bringing him gas for his car.
Majorski threatened to shoot police who went to his home to investigate, according to a police report. He pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct.
As to the lawsuit and Scientology issue while Majorski was a student at UCLA, that’s a bit more complicated. Here’s what the times was able to dig up:
Majorski was a church member in good standing in 1993 when he and a classmate sued a psychiatry professor and UCLA.
The professor, Louis West, was an expert on brainwashing and an outspoken critic of Scientology, which he dismissed as a “pyramid scheme.”
Suits filed in state and federal court accused West of activities, including speaking to anti-cult groups, that transgressed the separation of church and state and interfered with Majorski’s practice of religion.
Both suits were dismissed, and court records indicate that Majorski’s role was largely limited to providing his name as a plaintiff.
This last bit is where the heart of matter may lie. Scientology’s beliefs are inherently antagonistic towards modern psychiatry and psychiatric therapies, including pharmaceutical drugs designed to help people suffering from a variety of mental illnesses. According to the NY Daily News, Majorski was a mental patient on probation, who has stalked an Oregon judge with a weapon:
A samurai sword-swinging ex-Scientologist shot to death outside the Church of Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Center was a mental health patient on probation for stalking a judge in Oregon.
Mario Majorski, 48, was caught with a “sharpened railroad spike” in his backpack as he entered an Oregon courthouse in June 2007 searching for a female judge who handled a landlord-tenant dispute he’d lost, a top prosecutor told the Daily News.
“He sent the judge a threatening letter, and after that he entered the courthouse with a backpack containing a sharpened railroad spike about seven inches long,” said Lane County Chief Deputy District Attorney Alex Gardner.
Majorski pleaded to a misdemeanor stalking charge, and the felony weapons charge was dropped. A judge directed him to the Lane County Mental Health department on 24 months probation, Gardner said.
Clearly the guard at the Celebrity Center was justified in his efforts to thwart Majorski, who was intent on harming someone. Coupled with his blatant threats against the Church of Scientology, it is probably an open and shut case. But the deeper issue here is how did Scientology’s crusade against psychiatry affect Majorski’s mindset towards getting the mental help he so obviously needed? Not to mention the damage that may have been done to the fragile psyche of a person with mental issues by being involved with an organization which has been routinely accused of being a brain-washing cult.
This is not the first time Scientology has been at the center of a mental illness related death, where their efforts to “obliterate psychiatry” have come back to haunt them. Read about Jeremy and Elli Perkins, Lisa McPherson, or Linda Walicki, an Australian woman, who stabbed her father and her 15-year old sister to death when her Scientologist parents refused her medical treatment for her worsening mental illness because of the Church’s teachings. Her mother survived several stab wounds, and told authorities, “It’s not her fault, she’s sick,” after the deaths of her husband and young daughter.
The Church of Scientology protected itself on Sunday from one of its own, but what about all the victims it’s knowingly created and unleashed on the world? Who will protect them or those they hurt in the process?
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I saw this earlier, but I knew I couldn’t do it justice and you could. Great job, as always.
Comment by k — November 25, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
As with all of these horrendous deaths, $cientology lied to try and distance itself. Majorski was very active even to 2004, at least. They’re lying, that’s the story.
And what does it all say for “LRH tech” and $cientology?
Not only ineffective, but induces mental illness, and then prohibits real treatment for it.
This won’t be the last of this type of incident until the cult is destroyed.
Why are they dead? Money and power.
Comment by marcab — November 25, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
I figured it was only fair k, since you got to cover the wonderful Spiedi story. I am so jealous
Comment by D — November 25, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
ps, can you see the video above or is something wrong? It was ok when I first posted, but kind of screwed up now.
Comment by D — November 25, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I don’t see the video, and when I tried to press play (there’s a little triangle in there), I got that this video was unavailable.
Comment by k — November 25, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Nothing here D.
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Fixed the link, but had to adjust the size. Hopefully that won’t break the code.
Comment by D — November 25, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
I’m surprised the cult hasn’t blamed this on mental health facilities or psychs. I’m sure internally they are blaming his actions on the evil psychs.
Anyways, Lake County jail let him out cause they didn’t have room or something after a week or two since his last arrest. How much jail time would you be facing if you stalked a judge, had gun possession charges, then brandish axe and threaten to blow up police and then get arrested at a mormon church. I believe he had not gone to court over the last two charges yet (axe & mormon church).
Comment by ann hero — November 25, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
In one report Tommy Davis questioned whether this man was a member of the “cyber terrorist” group Anonymous.
Pretty classy of the guy use this man’s death as an opportunity to smear Anon, but then we expect no less of Davis.
“Davis said the church frequently receives threats, many of them originating from a “cyber-terrorist group” that goes by the name Anonymous and includes Scientology among its targets.
Earlier this year, a Scientology building in Hollywood was vandalized with graffiti, and shots were fired through another Scientology building in Los Angeles, Davis said. In January, church officials in California received 22 envelopes of suspicious white powder that was treated by authorities as an anthrax threat.
Davis did not know if Majorski had been a member of the group”
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11066762
Also of interest, from The Auditor Issue 318 June 2004
The Monthly Journal of Scientology
American Saint Hill Organization ASHO
VITAL STATISTICS
“WHO’S COMING TO THE SAINT HILL SPECIAL BRIEFING COURSE NEXT AT ASHO”
Mario Majorski
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/c8e7c63f60a4401e
Comment by Rachel — November 25, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
Is there a delay for posting comments now?
Comment by Rachel — November 25, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
Nevermind
Comment by Rachel — November 25, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
Sorry about the comments…they’ve been a bit wonky of late on all the posts. Don’t worry, we have our extensive team of GlossLip computer experts working 24/7 to resolve the problem.
Comment by k — November 25, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
Guess the Purification Rundown didn’t take.
Comment by J.R. LeMar — November 26, 2008 @ 1:05 am
Ok… Would they have shot the man if they didn’t know him? Now thay are claiming they didn’t know him until AFTER he was shot? The story keeps changing.
If I had ANY doubts that the LAPD where in the pocket of the cult, then anyone with half a brain can see how biased the news reports are with the interviews of the cops. And the people in the vid they interviewed about their safety?
SO obvious that they are either paid plants, or Scientologists or both.
The police already determined on the spot according to the FIRST news casts that this man had mental problems? And how did they figure this out? Since he was dead on their arrival? They also determined it was self defense because of the END of the tape?
They said the END of the tape shows the attack. How about the beginning of the tape? Will we get to see the footage of the tape before the cult edits it? Too graphic? Ok…..then how about showing the beginning of the tape?
And according to Californaia law, a security guard cannot use deadly force unless he is met with the same fire power?? This does NOT includes swords.
If they didn’t know who this guy was…then why didn’t they detain him until the police arrived? Run into the building and call the police??
There were THREE guards he attatcked. All at once? It’s funny how three COS guards swiftly and brutally took down a protester that was baited and ambushed by them a few weeks ago. Now you are tellingme that THREE guards could do nothing but shoot this guy?
This has stink written all over it. I hope there is a BIG investigation. An earlier news cast already said they guard will NOT be charged? HUH???
Is ANYONE going to press charges? The family?
IS EVERYONE GOING TO ACCEPT THIS BULLSHIT?
And Tommy Davis is nothing more than a lying poor excuse of a Homo Novis that I have ever seen. How DARE him suggest that this man was connected to Anonymous. Just goes to show you how much they LIE and will say anything to defend this CULT.
Comment by SCIENTOLOGY KILLS — November 26, 2008 @ 11:44 am
oh and one more thing…..the cult says he did not particapte in Scientology for more than a decade? BULL! I guess they don’t teach Scientologists math skills.. only to harrass it’s critics.
Because according to records, this man was still invloved as of 2004. Is that over a decade ago??
And he supposbly was going to take or took one of Hubbard’s “L” courses which is CRAZY expensive. Emphasis on the word crazy.
I am not saying that this guy did not have mental problems or a long police record, or a history of attacking…. what I am saying is that shooting him was not RIGHT, espcially that he was a former cult member and that he had mental problems. WHICH THEY ADMIT TO.
One news caster said and I quote ” They do not do religious teachings here, more like guidance courses”
SO WHY ARE THEY TAX EXEMPT?
First the cult states they ARE a church, Now that someone gets gun downed in their parking lot, they say the Celebrity center isn’t a “church”.
How convenient.
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS ONCE AGAIN.
Comment by SCIENTOLOGY KILLS — November 26, 2008 @ 11:54 am
I guess the cult didn’t count on the little tidbit from 2004 showing up.
A bit off subject but here is a video I rather like in remembrance of Lisa McPherson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NgFsec7zPk
Comment by Rachel — November 26, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
I find it interesting that the usual scientology supporters have not responded to or commented on this article. Is the fact that he was a former scientologist problematic?
Comment by Mitsu Too — November 28, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
SHOW US THE BEGINNING OF THE DAMN TAPE!
If the tape is supposbly SO graphic…. then where is the beginning of the tape?
Does the guard warn him he was going to shoot???
Scientologists will rarely comment when they are WRONG, or if you back them into a corner and they can not prove their tech works, WHICH IT DOESN’T. If it did, this shooting wouldn’t have occured. Or if you bring up the Sea Org. They never comment about the Sea Org, unless to deny the conditions exist at Flag and Gold Base even though there are sworn testimonies from ex Sea Org members. They won’t comment on the barbed wire on the INSIDE of the fences at Gold Base either.
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