Was John Travolta's Plane Used for a Scientology Kidnapping?

Was this plane used in a Scientology kidnapping?

Today, Tony Ortega of the Village Voice published a deeply sad and shocking story about the captivity and death of Annie Broeker Tidman which exposed the use of John Travolta's plane for a possible Scientology kidnapping.
"On November 17, 1992, Annie began her escape attempt, taking a cab to Ontario airport, where she planned to take several flights to join Logan in Nova Scotia.' 

"In a videotaped interview, Rathbun explained how he was sent on a mad cross-country dash to hunt Annie down and bring her back. (At the time, Rathbun was Miscavige's chief "enforcer" in the church.)' 

"After Rathbun caught up to her at Logan Airport in Boston, Annie seemed resigned to her fate -- as Rathbun says, once she spotted him, her shoulders sagged, and any intention she had of continuing on just evaporated. Taking no chances that she might change her mind if she and Rathbun waited for a morning flight, Miscavige had her flown back that same night on John Travolta's private jet, Rathbun says.
Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again."

Here is the Chief Enforcer of the Church of Scientology describing how he brought her back.



He makes it all seem so voluntary.

But he would, wouldn't he?

Questions for Law Enforcement:

1. Was John Travolta aware that his plane would be used to track down and force the return of a fleeing cult member?
2. Did John Travolta fail to contact police regarding the use of his plane in a possible felony?
3. What other possible criminal activity could John Travolta know about and be covering up for the Church of Scientology?

These are questions that need to be asked by law enforcement, and yet law enforcement seems to be doing nothing about any of this.

Why?

Scientology Falsely Imprisons Woman on its Cruise ship "Freewinds"

Australian media remains unafraid to provide evidence of criminal activity of the Church of Scientology.





When will law enforcement in the United States finally take action?

A History of Scientology Criticism: Paulette Cooper

Tony Ortega of the Village Voice is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Paulette Cooper's book "The Scandal of Scientology" on his "Runnin' Scared" blog. I don't know what he's Runnin Sceered about, cause it sure ain't Scientology.

Tony's article gives a very good overview of the story of Paulette Cooper and the nightmare she endured at the hands of L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, as well as providing links to her book, and a video where Paulette is interviewed by Mark Bunker for his upcoming documentary on Scientology called "Knowledge Report".

As usual, I have very little else to add, accept an observation inspired by being reminded of Paulette's story.

It is this:

It is a catastrophe to become a Scientologist.

You give your mind and life over to the fixed and finite solutions that Hubbard tells you to apply to everything from washing windows to who should be your friend and even who you can have in your family. Instead of consulting yourself for how to handle the situations in your own life, you consult L Ron Hubbard.

The most catastrophic thing you can do to yourself, and to others around you, is to constantly "think with" Scientology. When you are confronted with the infinities of life, and you begin to ask yourself "How does L Ron Hubbard say I should handle this problem?" you will, over time, begin to limit your own creativity, you will begin to stifle your own ability to respond and improvise, and you will, sooner or later, destroy your own moral judgement.

You will apply out-dated solutions that have nothing to do with the present time situations you face. What Hubbard is talking about, and what you are facing, are two completely separate and totally different things. But as a Scientologist, you apply what Hubbard says to apply. And right there, you become an idiot. When you look at the "Squirrel Busters", look at Tommy Davis and Karin Pouw telling idiotic, and easily disproven lies in the national media, you are watching someone apply an out-dated, disrelated solution to a situation they face in present time.

You are watching a Scientologist.

This is the fate of all ideologues, not just Scientologists. But when you have adopted an ideology as pernicious as Scientology, and made it the central thinking machine for your life, you are truly screwed. And so is everyone else around you.

After her experience at the hands of the Nazis, Paulette Cooper recognized the danger of totalitarian ideologies like Scientology, and decided to do something about it. She paid a heavy price for it, but her strength and her courage won out in the end. Fortunately, in the 1970's, the FBI was not as cowardly and corrupt as it seems to be today, and during the largest raid in US history, they were able to prove that L Ron Hubbard conspired to murder Paulette Cooper, drive her insane, or drive her to suicide.

Paulette survived everything L Ron Hubbard could throw at her. And she proved that we can fight totalitarian ideologies, and we can keep their pinheaded fanaticism boxed up and contained in their little tin-foil cells where they belong.

I want to thank Paulette Cooper for what she did for all of us. She is yet another person to whom we all owe a debt as members of a free society.

You can catch up with Paulette today on her website, still writing, still beautiful, and still as strong as ever, despite all those OT's who couldn't strike her down.

Scientology Sales Techniques From Hell : The "Imagine You're Dead" Close

In the late 1990's, I was a Scientology "Clear" who was being told that I was "at risk" and in danger of dying or going insane if I did not buy my next steps on the Bridge to Total Freedom. This message was straight from the "technical" writings of L Ron Hubbard himself, and was my religion at the time - a religion that had religious beliefs with sales techniques like these built into them.

Wow.


Anyway....

Back then, I had accumulated around $30,000 to $35,000 of crushing credit card debt for Scientology services. About $12,000 of that debt was being charged at around 25% interest because I had made late payments a few times. I was told, and I believed at the time, that all I needed to do was get on a Scientology course and my life would get better.

And so, as a Scientologist, I believed what I was told because it was, after all, my religion.

I had told them that I was not going to go into debt any more for anything in my life, and that I had purchased this course (for $6,000) as the last thing I would ever go into debt for, and I was going to go up the Bridge to OT without going into debt for anything else. Everyone agreed with me at the time - to get me to buy the course. They all agreed they would "work with me" - without going further into debt - to help me "go OT" over the next weeks and months while I attended the course.

So I got onto course to keep moving through the "No Interference Area", the one where you'll die or go insane if you don't, and to keep learning more Scientology so that my life would improve.

The sales crush never stopped. Every day I came to course, I would be hit up to buy more and more things. From the time I left my car in the parking lot at L Ron Hubbard Way to the door of AOLA 1 block away, I would be approached to buy something at least 3-5 times. Then, once inside AOLA, I would be approached by two or three or more of their sales staff to buy more things  - despite our "agreement".

I had explained my finances multiple times to each of these Scientology salespeople. They knew how much money I made at my job, which credit cards I had, what the balance was on each, and I had explained to them that I was on course to get Scientology tech in on my life, to straighten out my finances and to get out of debt. This financial situation of mine was explained in great detail, with documents, for hours at a time, over and over, for weeks.

But that didn't stop them from continuing to try to wear me down, to sell me my OT Package, by going into $35,000 more credit card debt, every single week.

After weeks of this insanity, my Scientology Sales Person, Tim Edwards, approached me with another Scientology sales person. They said that they wanted to talk to me before course. They took me into a small room and shut the door. Each arranged their chairs in front of the door with me facing them at the back of the room. The larger Scientology sales person turned and flipped the lock on the door and looked at me. "Alanzo", he said, "We are going to talk to you about going OT."

Tim Edwards began. He said that I had been "dramatizing" my OT 3 case for too long.  And that my "OT case" was putting stops in my own way to going OT. He said that the debt I had accumulated for Scientology services were my case's way of ensuring that I would never go OT, and that we were going to handle this right now.

I told him that I have done many conditions and applied all kinds of Scientology to my debt situation, and that going into more debt for Scientology services was not ever going to happen. So if they had another way for me to get my OT package without going into debt for it, I was all ears. I told them that, as a "Clear", my self-determinsim on this was quite strong, and so if they had it in mind that I was going to go into debt for this, they were very much mistaken.

Tim Edwards then told me that until I had done OT 3, I had no self-determinism at all. He told me that everything that I was telling him right now was coming from my OT level "case", which does NOT want me to go OT.

This actually shocked me awake. My religious beliefs taught me that only a "Clear" could be self-determined because he had cleared away his "reactive mind", which was the thing that ruined his self-determinism. I had spent many years in Scientology, and a lot of money and time out of my life working to reach "Clear". And now that I was "Clear", I saw that the goal posts were being moved on me in a very profound way. And here were two people who had me locked in a room, telling me that everything I was saying about my own financial situation was insane, and that I needed to simply listen to them and do what they said.

It didn't work. I began showing them L Ron Hubbard references about how Scientology organizations should never go into debt for anything. They brushed them all aside.

Then Tim blurted out what I needed to do. He told me that I just needed to open up another credit card, to pay for my OT III package today at the "buy now" price of $35,000, putting me fully $75,000 in credit card debt, and then just declare bankruptcy for the whole thing.

Sitting there in that locked room, with two Scientology salespeople, I said, "Wait a minute, Tim. I got into Scientology to win at life, not to lose at it. Declaring bankruptcy is losing at life."

Tim Said, "Look at it this way, Alanzo: Let's say you're dead and you are looking back on your life. On one hand, you went bankrupt. But on the other hand, you went OT III!"

I stood up and started screaming.

"What??? What is this? The "Now You're Dead Close"??? I've never heard of that one!"

The two of them stood up and pushed me back down into my chair. I looked at them, at the room, and what I was being told. In a flash, I got exactly what was happening to me.

A physical struggle ensued. I lunged for the door and they tried to stop me from reaching the lock. I began yelling and cursing loudly as I struggled with them  and disturbing other sales people at this end of the building. I finally got past these guys, unlocked the door, straightened myself up, and walked out.

I was still a Scientologist, but not for long. I would not be able to fully unravel Scientology, and the brainwashing techniques built into it, for another few years. But this incident was one which went a long way to waking me up from its hold on my mind and life.

After this incident, every move Scientology made toward me, every piece of mail, every phone call, screamed "CULT! YOU ARE IN A CULT, ALANZO!"

And that perception would never leave me.

Scientology is a complex labyrinth, a toxic pool of spiritual deception. And this was the experience which, more than any other, helped to wake me up from it and find my way out.

Thank you to the St Petersburg Times for exposing Scientology for what it is.

By the way, I never did go into debt for anything else in Scientology. I got away from those people and never did declare bankruptcy, either.  Fully disconnecting from those Scientology vampires allowed me to pay off my credit card debt and get myself into better financial shape than I have ever been in my life.

Leaving Scientology was the best thing I've ever done. Thank you Tim Edwards and the whole Advanced Organization of Los Angeles, for being who you were trained to be by L Ron Hubbard, and finally waking me up to what Scientology is all about.

To Karin Pouw, PR Hack for the Church of Scientology

Joe Childs and Tom Tobin of the St Petersburg Times have published another set of articles and videos exposing the criminality and abuse of the Church of Scientology called "The Money Machine".

Karin Pouw is a PR hack for the Church of Scientology International, who lies to the world about Scientologists not being pressured to go into debt. This is a report I wrote in 1999, while still a Scientologist, about my experiences at the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles - 12 years ago.

I left Scientology and started warning people about it within a year after this report was written because it had become clear to me that Scientology was incorrigibly criminal and abusive and that something must be done. I have continued to warn the public about Scientology, and your organization has continued its criminal and abusive practices.

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25 November 1999

RTC Reports Officer

Ethics Section AOLA

Qual AOLA

Deanna FCS AOLA

Tim Edwards  AOLA

Alanzo

Solo Certainty Student

Things That Shouldn't Be

1.     Pressuring Scientologists to squirrel the application of standard finance policy to their lives

2.     Routing a student off course when no policy had been violated, and while the tech was going in.

Since two weeks before my annual IAS membership expired, the FCS AOLA has been working with me to renew my membership. Deanna began by asking me to put my membership on a credit card and going into debt for it. I told her that I have gotten myself $36,000 in debt and that this is a severely out-ethics scene for me. I explained over multiple conversations, adding up to many hours, that I had been applying ethics to this and reading LRH Finance policy to turn this scene around.

I had not been applying standard admin for so long in this area that it now threatened my progress on the Bridge and has even gotten me close to bankruptcy. I told her that, instead of pressuring me into going further into debt, that I needed her help me to apply standard finance policy and to FP for this membership so that I could both apply policy and get my membership paid for.

I arranged to pay $50 every week toward my membership. Each time I paid my check to Deanna, she told me that I just needed to get my membership now and to put it on a credit card. She accused me of being ARC broken with the IAS. She repeatedly said that I "could do better than this", that I was "selling my self short" by not just going into debt and paying for it now. She said that I was "not some low havingness person with no money" but that "I could do it". One time she (good-naturedly, and with good humor) put her hands around my neck to act like she was strangling me in frustration, saying "Don’t sell yourself short like this!" as I paid my FPed amount.

When my membership finally expired, Deanna told me that I couldn’t be on course without being an IAS member. Having studied the policies on membership very thoroughly, and being an Ethics Specialist, I knew this was untrue and asked her to show me the reference. She could not show me any reference. I began to feel like I was attending course "despite not being an IAS member" - something no where in policy and not any kind of a standard for ethical behavior of a student.

I continued to make payments and Deanna continued to accept them. One night, on Tuesday, the 16^th of November, I received a message from Deanna that she wanted to speak to me before course. My next payment was due, so I had planned to see her anyway to make my payment. I went in to the Atrium and sat down with her. Deanna's demeanor had totally changed. She puffed out her shoulders and got up right in my face and said that she had attended an IAS briefing and that she had decided that "this was total bullshit" and that I was going to pay right now. I told her that I would make my payment, but that, as we had discussed for over a month now, I was applying standard finance policy and that I would not go any further into debt for this or anything else.

This actually became a firefight. I set out my check card to make my payment and she refused it, saying that wouldn't accept any more of my payments. I told her that I had done a lot of conditions on this, and that it was abundantly clear to me that people who pressure me to go into debt and off finance policy are not my friends. There are plenty of references on this, not the least of which is 18 February 1982 CHANGING WORKABLE FINANCE SYSTEMS.

She, again, said that I shouldn’t be on course without my membership paid for. I got up to get away from her and make the payment to Tim Edwards. Then I saw that it was three minutes to course time and so I turned around to go upstairs and Deanna was there. She took me by the hand and tried to" 8C" me to Ethics. I told her that I was going to course, so she rode the elevator with me. She accused me of "using policy to stop", even though there was no stop as I had been making payments all along and would have made one to her had she not refused it.

I walked in just before roll call and Deanna stood outside. After roll, as I began getting set up for course, I saw Deanna come into the course room and start whispering into the supervisor's ear. Then, later, I saw Deanna come back into the course room and place a piece of paper into the Sup's inbox. It was extremely distracting but I continued on with my drill anyway.

Five minutes later, the Supervisor Joey Chait, came up to me during a drill with an ethics routing form and told me that I was being taken off course and routed to ethics. I took it and went downstairs to ethics. The KR was stapled shut to the RF. (I personally did not receive a copy and still do not have one. It should be available in my EO  file.)

The ethics officer unstapled the KR and showed it to me and had me explain what happened. The KR said that I had told Deanna that anyone who tried to force me to go into debt was not a friend on of mine. It said further that this was "enemy line" and that "the string should be pulled".

I explained the situation that had just occurred with Deanna and asked to see any policy that I had been violating. I was fully willing to look at any overt that I might be committing that I'm not seeing. He said he couldn't think of a  policy I might be violating, and didn’t mention any overt that I might be committing. He sent me to go see the video of the latest IAS event. I was taken off course at 8pm and sat and watched the video until 10pm. Then I went to Tim Edwards and paid the $50 payment I had always intended to pay.

On the following Saturday, my twin offered to lend me the money so that I could pay for my membership and I would pay her back on the same FP schedule that I would be paying the IAS. I accepted this and my membership is now paid, and I am, once again, in debt for it.

I write this because the pressure that was used to get me to quit applying standard LRH finance policy was tremendous, even threatening my progress on the Bridge by verbally stating a fictitious policy that "students shouldn’t be on course without their IAS memberships in force" and threatening to try to take me off course, despite no policy regarding this at all.

I also write this because the KR that Deanna wrote was not filed in my ethics file, per the policies on the matter, with me receiving a copy,  but was used to actually take me off course in an emergency manner and being made to explain a KR which showed no evidence of a crime or even an off-policy action. This is actually a non-standard handling of ethics reports.

HCOPL 1 MAY 1965 STAFF MEMBER REPORTS states, "The most serious reports, which are the only ones taken up at once, are technical alter-is, noncompliance, any false reports, false attestations, no-reports, misdemeanors, crimes and high crimes. The others are left to accumulate (except in Emergency when all reports on that portion or org are taken up at once)."

HCOPL 17 MARCH 1965 RIGHTS OF A STAFF MEMBER, STUDENTS AND PRECLEARS TO JUSTICE, states, "There are no student rules and regulations except the Justice Codes. All others are abolished…"

This is true,

Alanzo

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Gerry Armstrong Provides Detail of Scientology Fair Game Operations

Last week, Gerry Armstrong spoke to a group of people in Germany and detailed the long 30 year history of Fair Game against him by the Church of Scientology, at the direction, and direct action of, Mark "Marty" Rathbun and Mike Rinder.

To this day, Mark Rathbun and Mike Rinder have continued to try to attack and discredit Gerry Armstrong - even after they claim to be outside the Church of Scientology as "Independent Scientologists" now.

Gerry's details include 6 separate lawsuits against him, many attempts to frame him for criminal activity, an attempt to run his car off the road, and another threat to "put a bullet between his eyes", as well as the use of "priest/penitent" pc folder data to discredit him during a lawsuit with Judge Breckenridge.

There is much more here. Everyone who has ever been involved in Scientology and who wishes to see Scientology reformed must watch this video.

It is unconscionable that no apology to Gerry Armstrong has ever been delivered by Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun - if they truly are the reformed "Independent Scientologists" that they say they are.

Until the background of these acts have been detailed and thoroughly condemned by Mike and Marty, and amends made to Gerry Armstrong for what they have done to him, there can be little possibility that a person who wishes true reform of Scientology should consider that Marty and Mike seek the same goal.

Australian Ex-Scientologists Have Found the Route to Worldwide Reform of the Church of Scientology

Australian Ex-Scientologists have done more to legally and officially cripple the Church of Scientology than any other group of activists worldwide.

Now, for the first time, official government justice agencies can be used to prosecute and convict those responsible for the human rights abuses within the Church of Scientology in Australia, and the model they have created can be used for other governments worldwide.

But first, they will be bankrupted. See how in the video below.

Thank you Aussie Exes for your groundbreaking work.

Here's hoping that your work can spread throughout the world to anywhere Scientology is harming people.

Oh, and here is Scientology's response to the report. 

How L Ron Hubbard Tricked You: The Source of Criticism is not "Overts"

LRH's 1.1 Carping Criticism of Critics?

I was talking to an ex-Scientologist, one who has undergone extensive security checking in L Ron Hubbard's Scientology, as I have. He said something to me that was quite profound. He said it in the context of a discussion about Buddhism's First Noble Truth, widely translated in English as "All life is suffering."

We had been discussing this for a while. My take on this is that I do not agree with it. While there certainly is suffering in life, there is also a tremendous amount of pleasure. I simply do not agree that "All Life is Suffering". We were discussing the different translations of "suffering" and the many related concepts that Buddhists have used to explain this principle for 2500 years and over so many different languages and cultures.

That's when he said it.

He said, "Suffering comes from expectations."

That hit me like a stroke of lightening. He went on, "For example, you expect your father to be a certain way, and when he is not that way, it causes all kinds of conflicts, arguing, criticism, hostility and general suffering in life." I sat and thought about that.

Expectations.

Here's the definition from The Free Online Dictionary
ex·pect  (k-spkt)

1.a. To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of: expecting a telephone call; b. To consider likely or certain: expect to see them soon.2. To consider reasonable or due: We expect an apology.3. To consider obligatory; require: The school expects its pupils to be on time. 4. Informal To presume; suppose

 expectation [ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən]

1. the act or state of expecting or the state of being expected

2. (usually plural) something looked forward to, whether feared or hoped for 

3. an attitude of expectancy or hope; anticipation to regard something with expectation

I see expectations now as the silent causal genesis of so much human perception. An expectation will sit there in the mind as an unspoken premise from which we view what we experience. When we look at things, we expect to see it. Often a person is not even aware that he has an expectation for what he is viewing, and whether what he is viewing is meeting that expectation. I think that unmet expectations most often express themselves as frustration, hostility, and criticism.

This is when I started thinking about Scientology and Hubbard's "technology" for the "true" cause of criticism.

..."In view of these mechanisms, when the burden became too great man was driven to another mechanism—the effort to lessen the size and pressure of the overt. He or she could only do this by attempting to reduce the size and repute of the terminal. Hence, not-isness. Hence when a man or a woman has done an overt act there usually follows an effort to reduce the goodness or importance of the target of the overt. Hence the husband who betrays his wife must then state that the wife was no good in some way. Thus the wife who betrayed her husband had to reduce the husband to reduce the overt. This works on all dynamics. In this light most criticism is justification of having done an overt.' 

"This does not say that all things are right and that no criticism anywhere is ever merited. Man is not happy. He is faced with total destruction unless we toughen up our postulates. And the overt act mechanism is simply a sordid game condition man has slipped into without knowing where he was going. So there are rightnesses and wrongnesses in conduct and society and life at large, but random, carping 1.1 criticism when not borne out in fact is only an effort to reduce the size of the target of the overt so that one can live (he hopes) with the overt. Of course to criticise unjustly and lower repute is itself an overt act and so this mechanism is not in fact workable."... -L Ron Hubbard Justification" HCO BULLETIN OF 21 JANUARY AD10

"Show me any person who is critical of us and I’ll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate’s hair on end." - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 4 April 1965 

"Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts."- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 5 November 1967, "Critics of Scientology"

While there may be one or two instances when a criticism stems from having committed overts to something, and the person feels he has to reduce the target of the overt to feel better about what he has done, I believe that this is an extremely rare occurrence in human behavior. Even when overts are relevant, discussing what the critic expected to experience is much more productive than continually asking the critic, "What are your crimes?" or ignoring the criticism and proceeding as if the person is a criminal, as Hubbard tells Scientologists to do. This Hubbard "tech" demonizes all criticism, and the critics who express it, and leaves the unmet expectation completely unaddressed.

While there can be many sources, or causes, to any one thing, and NOT just a "single source", I now see very clearly that the main source of criticism is not overts and withholds. It is unmet expectations. Look at the newly energized Independent Scientologist movement and their continual target of criticism: David Miscavige. Is that river of criticism caused by their own overts on David Miscavige? Or is it based upon the expectations Independent Scientologists have for a leader of the Church of Scientology that Miscavige so dismally and continually violates?

A better question to ask the Scientology critic, or an independent Scientologist, is "When it comes to the criticism of _________, what expectations did you have that ________ did not live up to?" And then, of course, asking "Where did you get those expectations?" would also be very revelatory to one and all.

Ask those questions, and you will finally get somewhere. Leave the critic's expectations ignored and unaddressed, while accusing these people of being low-toned criminals instead, and you will get what the Church has today - a world full of critics and decades of escalating and unchecked brutality and criminality on the part of the Church of Scientology.

As Hubbard taught, operating on a wrong why will make things worse. Even though Hubbard's view of the causes of criticism permeates the mindset of Scientologists, it is important to question this fundamental principle that Hubbard built into the technology and philosophy of Scientology.

Was he manipulating Scientologists for his own ends, or was he just wrong?

You decide.

US State Department and Attorney General Office Star-Struck Over Scientology Celebrities

On September 7, 2011, Mark Rathbun traveled to Germany to meet with Ursela Caberta, a German government official who has been pressured by the US government to back off her policing of the Church of Scientology in her country.

Mr. Rathbun gave her, and us, the inside skinny on how the Church of Scientology used their celebrity goon squad to influence Bill and Hillary Clinton, present Attorney General Eric Holder, and many other top US officials to try to stop the German government from investigating and protecting its citizens against the abuses of the Church of Scientology there.

This video is a real lesson on how politics are played in this country, and it goes a long way to explaining why no legal actions have been taken against the Church of Scientology by the US government, despite mounds of evidence showing criminal activity on the part of top Church officials. 

It is my understanding and expectation that we live in a country of laws. Maybe the list of people that Mr. Rathbun exposes here can answer questions about why and how they have impeded justice for the many people who have been abused by Scientology, and why their criminal acts remain un-prosecuted to this day.

 

I would like to thank Mr. Mark Rathbun for going to Germany and telling them the truth. This is the kind of thing that really improves conditions, for Scientologists, for the abused, and for those who need to make informed decisions about their involvement in Scientology.

Well done, Marty.

Keep going. You are headed in the right direction.

Was George Orwell an Ex-Scientologist?

From George Orwell's 1984:

Quote:

"The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.'

"As usual, the face of Emmanual Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago nobody quite remembered) had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities and had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The program of Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principle figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching...."

Tell me that isn't an accurate portrayal of Marty's blog, as well as the numerous  blogs that David Miscavige has put up to attack Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder. Before Rathbun & Rinder left David's side, all three made David Mayo and many others the "Emmanuel Goldstein" in their mental manipulations of Scientologists for the endless and futile pursuits of ideological purity and uniformity of belief.

Marty Rathbun and David Miscavige are locked in yet another death match for the ideological purity of Scientology. The hatred and the screeches of evil are deafening from both sides.

The serious and productive exchange of ideas is thrown aside for the fanatical chance to confirm to themselves every day just how evil the other is. No other topic is more important than this one for their blogs. Miscavige's and Rathbun's blogs are Scientology's dueling "2 Minutes of Hate" assemblies. 

It makes me wonder if George Orwell was ever involved in Scientology, left, and became an Ex-Scientologist. Ya think? How else could he have so accurately described what it is like to be involved in Scientology? Perhaps all ideologies fall into the same "pursuit of purity" traps, and they just go around and around, flushed down the dwindling spiral of hatred and screeching fear of independent thought.

Fortunately, this all shows the world that Scientology, and all of its off-shoots, are not healthy things to be involved in. They do not create "sanity", "greater ability", or any of the other sales buttons they use to rope people in.

Thank God for the Internet, where their true nature is exposed every day.

And thank God for my hero, George Orwell.

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