The Last Samurai
Grandmother
“The ‘Samurai Grandmother’
Margaret Singer
has passed away…”
Singer was the author of
Cults in Our Midst.
For some background on
Singer and Scientology,
see The Anti-Cult Movement.
” ‘I might look like a little old grandma, but I’m no pushover,’ she told a reporter last year, just before tossing back another shot of Bushmills Irish whiskey, her libation of choice.”
“Occasionally threatened, Singer refused to back down. In a 2002 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, she told how, at 80, she had frightened off someone who’d been leaving menacing notes in her mailbox.”
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“I’ve got a 12-gauge shotgun up here with a spray pattern that’ll put a three-foot hole in you, sonny, and you’d better get off my porch, or you’ll be sorry!” she shouted out the window. |