Mark Rathbun

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers, Part 16 - Remini Propaganda Spew and Projection It just gets more desperate and sleazy the further it goes on. In Episode 6 Leah begins the thing by saying, “There’s no life to be enjoyed when you are a Scientologist.” I mean what a pronunciamiento! “There’s no life to be enjoyed”. I mean talk about projection. She says “You do the work now so that there is life for your children.” Right? In the context of what she says it, it makes it sound like every Scientologist becomes a worker ant and is just programmed to work and then the – but of course, you put it in the context of what she said earlier. I mean, two episodes earlier she began with “there is no mother-father relationship”, “you are trained not to have a single care or a concern about your offspring”. Here she is two episodes later because she’s trying to create a different false impression, she says precisely the opposite – that you only work for the future of your children. Do you get what I am saying? Everything is just this extreme so they will just say these most outlandish things at the beginning to create the foundation in which to falsely position the “narrative” they are going to tell. In this case, she literally, this is the one where Leah allegedly encounters randomly this woman on Clearwater Beach who is trying to score some dope. And Leah is going off about how “when I was a Scientologist I was trained to think I should do something for her, like I had some responsibility”. Like, what a crazy notion. So not only are you a victim and you are always going to be a victim, but you also aren’t responsible for anything and if you have a thought that you might take responsibility for your neighbor, that’s a sickness that’s been implanted, that you’ve been brainwashed into. That’s where we’re at too, by episode 6. It’s just gotten to the point where the pile-on is so frenzied that it is completely non-sequitur, self-contradictory to the things that have been said earlier and actually weird destructive statements to the public at large. But at this point it is just this flailing pile-on and it doesn’t matter. Because they are just trying to create the immediate emotional sensation of the story they are going to tell right now. Again, they started off with – and by the way, this technique of Leah and Mike Rinder talking for the person they’re portraying, displaying. It gets worse. Episode by episode. To this one where she begins a segment by Leah saying, “The reason Scientologists don’t want to speak out is because they have family members in the Church and it’s a mortal sin”. Mortal sin! They’re using this, end of quote. So, she’s now created this new thing in Scientology – mortal sin. There is no such thing as a mortal sin in Scientology but she’s created one. She’s also created an excuse, I guess, in advance for Aaron Levin-Smith as to why “he didn’t speak out”. And so, Aaron begins this segment off with a big lie. He says, I was in Scientology until two years ago. Outright lie. He’s been out of Scientology since 2009, he’s been in communication with myself and Mike Rinder since 2009 – 8 years, acting as a mole and a spy in a Scientology company because it was paying him very well and he did not want to come a cropper with those people. So he pretended like he was a Scientologist so he could continue to profit and get intelligence which made him important with his idol, Mike Rinder. The next thing he says is absolutely false. He says “I’m the 16 year old kid” or however old he was and I’m going to this Scientology event and I see David Miscavige talking about what happened with the IRS and how it was this big, it was 30 years of persecution that was overcome and it was proven that Scientology entitled to exemption and exemption was gotten. Right. And he said “I was watching it in awe only to later find out that it was all bullshit” except the problem was, it wasn’t all bullshit. Virtually everything that was said there – In fact the entire thing was backed up by documents. Virtually everything that was said there was true. Like David Miscavige or not. Like Scientology or not. What Aaron Smith Levin saw, the things that he said were the false representations that then lured him in and made this whole thing fraudulent to him, weren’t false in the first place, they were true. So, there’s no story. If that’s wrong, there’s no story. And I’m telling you it’s wrong. So, he wasn’t lured in through false representations. And then in order to, I guess, try to validate they were false, they throw this chyron up, all in caps. “The Church owed the IRS more than $1 billion in taxes”. Well, Mike Rinder knows that’s a lie. But Mike Rinder is just a bag of delusion now, so it doesn’t even register with him. It’s a “good line”. The fact of the matter is we do know, is that Mike is laying these down and I do know from firsthand knowledge that he does have knowledge that these are false premises and we also know that he’s been doing nothing other than for 8 years being paid to act as an authority to produce such, to manufacture such negativity about Scientology. That’s what he got paid for, that’s what Levin Smith paid him for, that’s what Mike Bennett paid him for, that’s what Almblad paid him for, that’s what Argyle paid him for, that’s what the Garcias paid him for at $175 an hour and that’s what Leah’s paying him for. Which really comes down to the whole point I’m making or you know, I tried to make unsuccessfully in asc circles was: as much as you want to paint it this way, as much as you guys want to adopt these convenient narratives, as much as you want to marginalize and identify, identify and then marginalize people and create these black and white no-exception sort of pictures of the world, just like any other controversy with Scientology it ain’t that simple, Okay. There’s exceptions to every rule, Okay. There’s nuances in every situation. You’re not invited to examine those and the last people on earth who are gonna ferret those out are Rinder and Remini because they don’t want to. They want it to be this black and white world and so when Levin-Smith makes a bloop that, you know, ain’t that closely monitored and if I don’t wish to do something I don’t have to do it, it just goes right by you, you know, because the pile on is so heavy that you know, by this part in the series you’ve just lost all cognitive sensibility. It’s all this insensible appeal to emotion – they’re bad, everything’s black and white, there’s no exceptions. This is a creation, this is a creation of Remini and Rinder. They have created that through this series and that’s why I say, here we are on the second to last episode I think and virtually none of these stories, absent that backdrop, absent that conditioning, absent that brainwashing, none of these rise to the level of being a story that anybody would have any interest in hearing.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers, Part 17 – Remini Missing Person Scam One of the critical parts of the Rinder, Ortega, Remini roll out was the “missing Shelly Miscavige”, the wife of David Miscavige. You know at the time – in 2013 I think it was – Rinder told me about that. That she was going to do a whole thing about “where is Shelly” and put the church in just an unbelievably terrible position because he figured it all out; because he was in public relations his entire life. He figured it all out. There was going to be this untenable position where nobody could respond to it because it is so personal and it is so… The accusation is one of those things like a “do you beat your wife” conundrum. Right? The way they are framing the accusation that they could just go to town and make it into a series that just keeps playing out. Right? And I said to Mike, why would Leah do something like this, you know, if she has any concern about her own credibility and integrity? You know she’s not missing. You know that Leah Remini truly does not have the rank to ask to know exactly where she is; when; or how she does her business. That is just as much as she feels like… that she needs the ability to be wherever she wants and associate with whoever she wants. Shelly has the exact same right. The last person in the world she would want to see is Leah Remini or Mike Rinder. Mike goes, “Yeah, I know all that but it’s like this perfect thing. Because it puts them in a position where this is the wife of the head of Scientology. It puts them in this untenable position.” He knew. He knew it was a scam from the beginning. He knew it was a cheap shot from the beginning. I was certain that Rinder conned her on the Shelly story being a story of manufacture. When I called her out on it she said, “Oh yeah, I already knew that. I was running a false black PR campaign the entire time”. I said, “Mike Rinder knows this is a scam and a sham. And I could have, if you had asked me about it; if you asked my opinion you would not have gotten into this in the first place”. She goes, “I know that, I knew she wasn’t missing”. In other words, she told me she is in complete and utter league and agreement with Mike Rinder. At that time I was just giving her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she was just being taken advantage of because Mike. You know, that is what he is famous for. He is the most agreeable guy on the planet and people find that reassuring to have him around them. So, he is making good, regular bucks by playing that role for her. But no, she knew that. That was cool with her. In other words, she knew it was a scam from the beginning. The amazing thing is, here we are, that was 2014-15-16 and we are three years later. They are still running it. Every several months or so they roll the thing out again, they come out with an event, a PR event. She’ll file an FOI request with the police. And Ortega will run this big thing and try to get it out to the tabloids. She’s complaining because the police aren’t investigating the Shelly thing, right. They get their documents, their responses, no further story, right? Because there’s nothing there. But, you know, they don’t inform the troll farm so all these people living in this alternate reality – that they believe this world view that they are being fed by Remini, Rinder and Ortega who are laughing all the way to the bank.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 10 – Phony “Journalists” So, they do an Ask Me Anything thing about “journalists” and, you know, again, there’s no journalists. They have 3 guys that show up for the show, Mark Bunker, Tony Ortega and John Sweeney, none of whom are journalists, at least with respect to Scientology. Tony Ortega hasn’t had a reporting job in a number of years, since he was laid off from the Village Voice for being obsessed with Scientology and for taking actions that they perceived was going to wind them all up in jail for their human trafficking sexual slave activities. Mark Bunker says on camera that he’s not journalist. And John Sweeney, is really – if you know the guy, I’ve worked with him – he’s an entertainer more than he is a journalist. He does newsy things but he’s a personality in the UK. An entertainer. And when it comes to Scientology, which they’re talking about here, Sweeney told me himself, his producer told me, herself, that their interest in Scientology, from the outset in 2007, up to the present, has been solely to troll Scientology. They did an entire show in 2007 – that’s how they got involved, where they had no story, they were pursuing no story, they had no story in mind. The only story they had in mind was, let’s be the biggest pains in the asses we can possibly be and record Scientology’s response to it. It was literally the definition of trolling. Which is interesting, because, you know, that’s the only thing that Tony Ortega, John Sweeney and Mark Bunker have in common. You could go on the internet and see, there’s hours and hours of footage of Mark Bunker, taking great pains to try to crash Scientology’s events, trying to crash Scientologists in events that have nothing to do with Scientology, saying the most demeaning and denigrating things they can, and embarrassing things they can to them on camera, with an ambush camera. I mean literally physical trolling. Tony Ortega trolls day in and day out on his blog. That’s all he does. So from the beginning, the whole thing’s a sham. The episode is about harassment of journalists. There’s no journalists. Remini begins the segment by saying “the word critical means enemy in Scientology”. She just made that up. Literally made it up. You cannot find that in the 55 million words of Scientology. It’s not there. She invented it for this series. Again, her and Rinder go back and forth on this sort of mutual pile on and in the middle of it, Remini says, “Questioning anything in Scientology means you are an enemy”. Again, it’s almost like, it’s almost like that kind of brainwashing they used to do, with the, with the subliminals. All this noise and stuff and then she throws in this flash, she throws in these datums. That datum doesn’t exist in Scientology, she literally just invented the datum for the purposes of creating this segment to make aggressors look like victims. Then they have Mike Rinder presented as the guy who runs the Ops factory, you know, the operation, who once ran the operation factory of the Church of Scientology, who says, you know, it was his job to silence critics and he’s very sorry, he’s almost weeping, about how remiss he feels for having been on that side. It’s been, it’s not do. Because Mike Rinder never, ever talks about anything that he ever did, with his paws. So, they position it as if this is this great, interesting revelation because Mike Rinder is seeking forgiveness and reconciliation with those who he targeted. But they never give any particular because Mike Rinder never cops to any particular. OK? So, it’s just all assumed that these guys were harassed, and yet the guy who would know about any harassment doesn’t have any particulars to give about any harassment. So, the whole thing’s again, it’s this big elaborate act that’s put on. There is one exception that I do know about. I do know that operations were not running against Mark Bunker. I know that there was no PI operations against Mark Bunker. Because I was around when Mark Bunker was trolling Scientology actively. The one thing I do know, that they showed on the show did happen, was his home got picketed when Bunker kept picketing Churches of Scientology. One morning, Mike Rinder organized a bunch of Scientologists to go and picket Mark Bunker’s home. But you would never know that in the show. Because Mike Rinder never cops to it. And I also know Mike Rinder got in a tremendous amount of trouble because it was such an outlandish thing to do at the time he did it, 15, 20 years ago.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 11 – Remini Trolling Operation. Cooper/Rinder act. The proof of the pudding is right from the outset of the episode that this is a trolling operation, because, Mike and Leah are playing footsie and giggling and chuckling over the fact that Mike says what we’re doing, “is driving them nuts” okay? Tee-hee. Like that’s the purpose of what they’re doing. Like that serves some purpose. Trolling. That’s the object of trolling. And this Paulette Cooper business is literally stage act, stage acted. And I mean, like no other segment, because Paulette Cooper was somebody who was involved with Scientology in the 70s. Her story is 35 to 40 years old. It is so old that she had a beef with Scientology and settled it, 20, 35 years ago. She actually settled it 35 years ago, over things that occurred and started 10 years prior to that. So, in fact, before, right about the time Rinder got involved with the Office of Special Affairs, the legal branch of Scientology, one of our first tasks was settling the Cooper case. Okay? And here he is, now put that in the context and watch this segment. If they only told their audience that, they would laugh them off the screen. Because Rinder acts like he’s learning things for the first time from Paulette Cooper. Oh, he’s so gravely concerned with these things she’s saying that happened 40 years ago. Which he learned of 37 years ago, which he was involved with the settling of her, 35 years ago over. And then, as she’s talking, as Paulette Cooper’s talking about these things that allegedly occurred 40 years ago, Mike Rinder is saying, “they will do these things to you”. Okay? And of course, the stuff she alleged, we were young men when we first got involved in handling this stuff, and we were dealing with, with, activities that we were tasked with abolishing. And did, at that time. And he’s saying, 37, 35 years later, “they will do this”. And so, it’s this mutual stroke fest, which is, which this series is degenerating progressively more and more into. So they’re stroking Cooper for all this stuff that she would, settled satisfactorily, 35 years ago. And acting as if Scientology “will do” those things now. Right? With no predicate or basis. Then, it goes, and Cooper reciprocates, by saying, “I’ve got to thank you, I’ve got to thank you, Mike and Leah, because, because of you doing your trolling in the present, and your sticking, poking sticks in Scientology’s eyes, the attention’s now come off of me”. The attention’s been off of her for 35 years is the fact! I mean, I was there during 22 of those 35 years, right, and she wasn’t even on anybody’s radar screen. And here she is, 35 years later, saying, by doing what you’re doing now, the attention is off of me. It, it’s just mutual stroke fest which is this creation on top of a creation. They’re creating Paulette Cooper into something that exists in the present, and she’s creating them as serving some useful purpose. And it’s all just a creation of their imaginations.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 12 – The Cult of Anti-Scientology Hypocrisy. The tail end of episode 3, the AMA, they bring in Karen de la Carriere, who gives a big song and dance about her, her son and her former husband, who is her claim to fame, because he was the President of the Church of Scientology. Who, she’s been divorced from for 20 years? More than 20, probably 25 years. And yet to this day, she clings to as her 15 minutes of fame ticket. And I think it’s appropriate to bring it up now, because the very next episode’s about Ron Miscavige. Because Ron Miscavige is the father of David Miscavige, who is now a hero in the asc for turning on his son like a jackal. So, she’s here lamenting her son and her previous husband, and we’re about to lionize her, which Karen de la Carriere has done with the rest of the asc. Ron Miscavige is being a hero for going after his son. Listen, here’s the level of hypocrisy here: they literally to a one, Mike Rinder, the Headleys, who come up later, Leah Remini, however they explain this about, they all point the finger at their parents for “getting them into Scientology in the first place.” They’re all rational, straight people, that were subjected to this, by their evil parents, right? And so – but Ron, who’s the parent of David, since he’s on the asc side and going after Scientology, it don’t apply to him. That rule, he’s the exception. He’s an exception to the rule. But he wasn’t always. Because when he was on the inside, or perceived to be on the inside, and he wasn’t out, stabbing his son in the back, Karen de la Carriere offered me huge sums of cash to publicize on my blog an accusation that she made, that Ron Miscavige confessed to her that he indeed raped a woman, that he was indicted for. But not convicted—charged with but not indicted or convicted for—many years earlier. And I, as I do with anybody who wants to pay to play, and purchase what I have to say or not say, I told her “no.” Okay? That was 4 or 5 years ago, right? So, I’m just saying, she’s on episode 3 as the cleanup for Paulette Cooper, ranting and raving about the atrocities of father-son, mother-son relationships, she’s – but then I’ll tell you, she’s the woman that tried to pay me to publish that Ron Miscavige senior confessed to having raped a woman. Okay. It’s just, it just gets, it gets busy and it gets twisted. Because the next episode is Ron Miscavige, who’s now a hero. And his 15 minutes of fame come by condemning his child, from the womb. And again, we have this propaganda by omission. Just as, from the beginning, they omit Scientology and what it does and what it’s about and what it’s for. They omit that entirely. With Ron Miscavige, we omit the first 16 years of David’s life, and it begins by he says, he came right out of the blocks one day when he was 16 and said, Dad, I want to go join the Sea Organization. Okay? Now this notwithstanding the fact that Ron Miscavige has been on record for 18, almost 20 years now, with a publication in Florida, where he gave the whole background leading up to that decision when David was 16, which also included a miraculous cure of a chronic asthma problem. Which dealt with a lot of childhood travail and problems. All of a sudden that’s gone and omitted. To make it sound bizarre and queer, all of a sudden he says, one day the kid just pops out of bed and says I want to go join the Sea Org and he left. Okay? He omits that Ron Miscavige considered at that time, encouraged it. That Ron Miscavige considered, they didn’t position it like he was resistive somehow. No. He encouraged it. He thought it was the greatest honor you could possibly have was to be in the Sea Org, the Church’s Sea Organization. Okay? If anybody, he felt—and we know in retrospect that of course he felt he would, it would rebound to his benefit somehow. You know, somehow some benefits would inure to him by his son joining at an early age and rising through the ranks. He omits entirely the story that he told, he’s been on record for, for 20 years, that the 16-year, the 16-year old revelation that David had was really sincerely backed by a concern about the rampancy of drugs in schools and the dead-end nature of where his generation was going, all right? He wanted to do something purposeful. He omits all that. So, of all people, Ron Miscavige, who acts like, you know, he really digs and understands the philosophical background and depth of Scientology. You know, if it were a natural thing, maybe he would say something about Leah’s pontificating and creation of scripture. But it doesn’t. She just lectures. Because this is her gig. “No spiritual being is the father of another human being. Mother, father, son, daughter roles, all these roles are taken away and Scientology becomes your parent”. So she’s providing scriptural, I guess, justification for Ron turning and piling on his own son, right? Because after all, there is no mother, father, son, daughter relationship in Scientology. Again, chalk it up, and she’s been doing it all along, she’s literally just created this. She literally just created this. There’s no—there’s nothing in Scientology that even resembles this. And she makes it sound as if this is the actual tenets and holdings of Scientology. So, what’s remarkable is, Ron had just gotten off a year world tour doing media stops and because of a book that he had somebody write for him. He couldn’t even write a book, he had, he had somebody else, as a “co-author” write the book, right? He just goes right into the thespian act with them. Because, I mean, he told me himself, he wrote it in his book, he told it over and over again in I don’t know how many media, about this big harrowing escape he had, this dramatic escape, all the way down to, you know, the expressions of the guys he was conning, to you know, to have to get around, in order to get, right? Tells a whole, brand new story. Brand new story. Never heard of it. It’s not in his book, it’s not in the hours and hours of conversations he had with me. It’s nowhere. All of a sudden, he says, he got a kindle from his son, right, for Christmas, and he turned it on, and did a Google search, and all it took was one Google search. Just tells you the depth of this guy’s intellect, that all you do was one Google search and he changed, reversed his entire life for 80 years. Okay? His story is just, was literally invented for this. And I think it was literally invented in order to poke a stick in somebody’s eye, because they say it, like, what an idiot, what a buffoon, Miscavige must be for giving his Dad a Kindle without turning off the Google feature—assuming that he ever wanted to turn off the Google feature. Assuming that somebody was so shallow and unintelligent that it would take one Google search to change their, you know, change their entire psyche and their, everything they learned over 80 years. So, you know, they go through this whole story about PIs, allegedly being told by David Miscavige that if his father’s having a heart attack during the stakeout, then don’t call an ambulance, right? You heard this story, right? Well, when Ron told me this story, I said, well, you know, and I knew he was looking at doing a book, and he’d already gotten some media on this. I said, “Ron, I guess Rinder must have told you by now,” since I get the impression he’s, you know, part of the partnership on this book deal, because he usually gets a piece of the action on anything like that, that’s hot. “That that never would happen. Since Rinder and I were in positions to know that, that David Miscavige wouldn’t talk to a PI. You know, in my 27 years involved with Scientology, he never talked to a PI, and there’s no reason to believe he would begin after that. Quite the contrary.” Right? Ron was silent, right? But he goes over and tells the story again, right? Interestingly, what’s interesting about that is when I exposed that, that he was on notice about that, that it was kind of clear that he’s just, that he’s just really grandstanding at the expense of his son in order to make a buck and get some fame, this is where the harassment from the asc really began with a vengeance on me. At this point, when I published that, the blackmail, you know, the infiltration, the raising money for PI, you know, they all just went total, the total treatment that they say Scientology does to others? They went there, on this. So, this was kind of central. He was, what I’m saying is, he was on notice that this was an incredible accusation, long before he published it in a book, long before, which was long before he got on this show. Then he went ahead with it anyway. And Rinder is the producer and the director, and the guy I told Ron, if you want to validate what I’m saying, just ask Mike Rinder. But he didn’t have the balls to say, come back to me and says, ah, Mike didn’t agree with you. Mike didn’t have the balls to call me and say, “Marty, I don’t agree with you”. No, they just, as if nothing happened, they just go with the story. Because truth and getting it right, has no meaning to them. Ratings, popularity and money, that’s all they care about. Here’s the reality with Karen de la Carriere, I mean, she donated to my blog, she continuously tried to get me to, tried to influence what I put on my blog. I continuously told her that ain’t ever going to happen. This is, this is my running account, of how I see things. And I don’t do things for effect. OK? Over time, I saw that she redirected a lot of that resource towards Mike Rinder and then to Tony Ortega – and particularly Ortega. I mean, she was boasting and bragging to people that she owned Tony Ortega, she was boasting and bragging to people that she owned Mike Rinder. Because of the amount of money that she’d invested into them and that she had kept them going, that they were, I mean she’s bragged about that, she’s notorious for bragging about that. And so, you know, that kind of goes to the, why she’s even in there. I mean if you look at her in that AMA segment, she’s completely non-sequitur. What’s Karen de la Carriere got to do with it. Nothing. She knows nothing about it, her story is, has nothing in common with it, but she’s paid in heavily to two rungs of the asc troika cluster, and so that’s the pay back.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 13 – Tom Devocht phony narrative You know again, they do this propaganda by omission, in episode 4, with Tom Devocht. As a matter of fact, it is not only by omission, it also is by putting words in people’s mouth. Mike Rinder starts off talking about what Tom Devocht can say. Tom Devocht never says it. Mike Rinder tells, he says Tom Devocht has stories. Okay. And so, Mike Rinder starts telling a story about how he had to tear up the road and the entire sidewalk had to be torn up because of protestors coming to the Fort Harrison. Why is Mike Rinder telling us when they have, they sent a whole camera crew including themselves for vacation in Seattle to see him? Why doesn’t he tell us? And why I say it is propaganda by omission is because there is a story that kind of, there is a kernel of the truth in there that the sidewalks were in fact torn up around that place and there had been a plan in the works for many months – if not years – and that permits had been approved, recently. So, the purpose of tearing up the sidewalks, David Miscavige woke up one morning and said, “The protestors are coming, tear up the sidewalks”. The sidewalks were getting replaced as part of a plan that had been years in the making and that had recently been approved. So, the next step is to tear up the sidewalks. If there is a benefit that they don’t give a platform for people to get in the faces of Scientologists at a particular time of the year, great. But it didn’t happen like Mike Rinder said it happened and that is probably why Tom Devocht doesn’t tell us what Mike Rinder tells us Tom Devocht’s story is. It is just absurd on its face that he has got to tell the story of the guy who is the featured person who they fly 3,000 miles to film with a film crew and he doesn’t tell us the story. That is pretty absurd. So, when they do talk to Tom Devocht, Tom Devocht starts talking about how David Miscavige is talking to him about technical things at the top of the Scientology Bridge. I got news. David Miscavige talked to Tom Devocht about sidewalks, and he talked to him about elevator shafts, and he talked to him about window frames and door jams and building plans and hiring contractors. The last thing in the world David Miscavige would talk to Tom Devocht about is technology. Particularly technology on levels that were many steps about the levels that Tom had attained. I mean we are eight years into this thing. I spoke to Tom Devocht six, seven years ago, okay. He never mentioned anything like that. All of a sudden, seven years after the fact of leaving, seven years after spilling all and telling all, he is now all of a sudden making up that he is being told by David Miscavige, the secrets of the highest levels of the Bridge of Scientology. I mean this stuff is so patently incredible on its face, it’s laughable. But you know, this is part of that whole devolution of people and how all this asc activity really screws them up and turns them into really, really messed up people. You know, because I hadn’t really talked to Tom for a few years, but, you know, there’s been this, he’s devolved, into this, you know, the more he’s been validated and stroked for acting like a victim, with respect to Scientology, the more victim he’s become, and that is the phenomenon that happens. I mean, I really liked Tom Devocht, in fact, first times I spoke about him, when I spoke to the media early on, I made that clear. I always liked the guy when I was in Scientology, but since we’ve been out, he’s become more and more degraded, you know, to the point where, you know, I did a show where I was trying to establish some objectivity with respect to Scientology, and he was on camera with me having a discussion, and I said, you know, “I did get a few” – and I was low key about it, I wasn’t preaching Scientology, I simply said, you know, “It can’t be denied that I got some, at the time I felt I got some good tools, at the outset, when I got involved with Scientology”. And this guy literally leapt out of his chair and got in my face and started spewing at me, how do you know you got anything out of it? How do you know? I’m like, Tom, relax. Like, why would he care? I mean, he literally was trying to brainwash me. So, this is 5 years after having left. And having told all he knows. Now he’s down to not telling all he knows but trying to edit what somebody else is trying to say. And so, the devolution continues, so then that very movie comes out, and I have some critical things to say about it. On Scientology. My Scientology Movie, it’s called, and I had some critical things to say about it. What does Tom Devocht do? Because I’m critical of somebody who’s, remember it’s us versus them, any, if you, anything goes, with respect to Scientology, they are fair game, as long as you do something against Scientology, you’re with us, right? And so, I’m breaking ranks, and I’m saying, hey, I’m critically looking at this thing that “exposes” Scientology, because it’s dishonest in certain respects. What does he do? Tom Devocht immediately runs to Tony Ortega and starts criticizing me and calling me crazy. Literally publishing, going on record. This is where this guy’s gone to. I mean, where he’s headed to, he’s headed to – shopping cart man. He’s losing his mind. And it really is hypocrisy, right? Because, you know – remember, one of the first justifications for all this, this self-love that they give themselves, is we want to have the freedom to express our views and things as we see them. Right? We want to. Me, me, me, me, me. But if anybody has anything to say that doesn’t walk lockstep, goosestep, lockstep with it, you are fair game. And they head, I mean literally the guy started attacking me publicly. So, I comment on his attack on me, right? Tom Devocht is quoted in that movie as saying, Scientology is, I mean, frothing almost, “Scientology is the most destructive cult in the world”, most dangerous, rawr. Right? And so, I comment on the dishonesty of Tony Ortega, and the crew from that movie. You know what Tom Devocht posts? “Give it a rest, Marty. Scientology’s a joke, it’s just entertainment”. I’m pointing this out as hypocrisy. Because he’s going to the premiere in Hollywood, on the arm of Alex Gibney, right? He’s got a date with Alex, and act like a big shot on a red carpet, because he’s frothing at the mouth about how Scientology’s the most destructive thing and we got to do something about this, right? The second I push back, a little bit, he’s like, “hey, it’s a joke, the whole thing’s a joke, it’s just entertainment. Don’t you get it?” That’s why I say, it’s all about the lulz. You know? It’s all about trolling.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 14 – Jeff Hawkins (King of Karens); inventions To tell you how desperate these people are, or not how desperate, but how hard up they are, I don’t know what you call it. They have a whole episode dedicated to Jeff Hawkins. Jeff Hawkins, when he first spoke, was actually recruited by CNN to validate certain things I had to say when I had an interview in 2009, which is 8 years ago. 8 years ago. Alright? And so, 8 years later, okay, 8 years later, he now tells the same story about allegedly being wrestled to the ground. But now, 8 years later, he adds a hammer to the equation. A hammer was being waved in front of his face. Just, literally, out of whole cloth, this gets added to the equation in the Rinder Remini production. In the production that he was involved in with me, with the UK production, right, he said, they went to him because they wanted to, they wanted to make their story, they wanted to go after me, the English guys, because I was being somewhat neutral and objective about Scientology, right? So, they went all the way to Seattle to ask Jeff Hawkins a bunch of leading questions, and of course Jeff Hawkins being the crepe hanger, ghoulish guy that he is, and the jealous guy full of resentment, says to them, they say, do you think Marty Rathbun’s told all? And he says “Oh no. Not by a long shot.” Of course, I watched that clip, you know, I never was informed about it, but I watched it, I’m like, are you kidding me? This guy is the last person on Earth, it would be like going down to, it would be like going down to, you know, downtown LA and finding a guy pushing a shopping cart, and say, “hey, has Marty Rathbun come clean?” That’s how, that’s how, that’s the equivalent of how qualified he is to make a statement about that. The guy never stepped foot in my office in all his career in Scientology, right? And so, I’m just bringing this up to tell you who this guy is, who’s now saying that people are waiting, who 8 years after telling his story, he’s now added the hammer to the equation, right? He literally, this dark, rationalist, materialist guy, always has been, who never got a gain in Scientology. He’s what you call in Scientology a no-case-gain. It, outside of Scientology they have a word for it, it’s called non-peaker. Somebody who’s incapable, apparently, of having a spiritually uplifting experience. And so, they’re like a chronic materialist by definition. They can’t be empathetic towards any spiritual experience. That’s Jeff Hawkins. He’s a ghoulish character. So, so the other thing he says, in this movie, is that the guy asks him, “Was Marty Rathbun an okay guy?” He goes, “Oh, no, Marty Rathbun was a predator. There’s predators and victims, and he was always a predator,” right? Which I’m watching it and I’m literally laughing, because, I told you, he got involved, because CNN needed somebody to verify some facts and places and times that he happened to be able to do. And nothing else, right? Well when he did his interview, CNN called me and said, “Hey, guess what, this guy sung the praises about you, we’ve got this, in case, you know, the other side tries to, you know, keep denigrating you. This guy has all these unbelievable…” I said really? What did he have to say? The guy ran me the tape. They have, they literally have him on film, saying that I was one of the most upfront guys, and upstanding guys that he ever met in Scientology, no matter how bad and rough things got, he always managed to treat you with, I mean, they literally have that on film. Right? But now we’re 8 years down the road. This is what this stuff does to you. This brainwashing that they go through, that Leah Remini sits and looks at the camera, talking to former Scientologists and saying you’re a victim, you always were a victim and you always will be a victim. Things have been done to you that shouldn’t have been done that you didn’t deserve to have done to you. This is what becomes of them. I never thought of this before but look at Tom DeVocht. Okay? Look at Jeff Hawkins. These people just degenerate over time into these ghoulish, creepy people, who will literally just, they’re so delusional, they will say things with all conviction, and be filmed doing it, even though it contradicts stuff that they’ve said years before, that’s on film. It’s remarkable. These guys literally live in a delusory world. I liked Tom DeVocht 8 years ago. This guy literally, I mean, I’m not even doing anything to him and he’s attacked me twice, he’s shooting shots across my bow. Jeff Hawkins, I never said a discouraging word about. This guy entertains a film crew and trashes me. But here’s the point, I know it sounds all personal, okay? Well with me it is personal, but it’s objective too, because like I said, these guys are on film, earlier. Not expressing any of that. They’re on film, you know, saying all they had to say and now all of a sudden, they’re creating new things that, experiences, that conflict with the old ones, eight years later. They literally become delusional. Reason I bring up the reality thing is this: I saw a really good documentary on Trump, about being this creation of himself, a creation of his own imagination. But it’s not just him. It’s all these, the Kardashians, it’s all these, Jenner, it’s all these guys that make a living out of being reality people. They, the Duck brothers, what are they called, the Dynasty Ducks? It’s all the same thing. These guys aren’t anything about, their lives in reality aren’t anything that resembles too closely who they portray in these shows. They’re acting, they’re acting out, they’re projecting themselves, you know, how they want to, want to be. And our society is so screwed up that it’s, that line has been erased. Where we believe what we see, we’re seeing what we get. But this is first hand, to show you, that, that she’s a prime example, of somebody being a legend in their own mind and her being a figment of her own imagination. What you’re seeing.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 15 – Rinder fraudulent “expertise”; Headley Propaganda The Headley thing was begun by Mike Rinder who starts the whole thing out with this pronunciamiento about the constitution and how it is just horrible – the First Amendment is this horrible document. I actually jotted down his quote, “Religions under the Constitution of the United States basically have free reign to do what they want to do and your option is to leave the religion because the First Amendment says in effect that the government, including the Courts, may not entangle themselves in the decisions about the ecclesiastical or the religious practices of any religion”. End of quote. And, as is ever-present with Rinder, it’s a fairly accurate rendition of the law except that he’s got his own special twist on it as they always do with their infinitive, all inclusive. It’s not a, there’s exceptions to everything. OK? Rinder is getting this from the outset because the Headleys, who are part of this episode, are telling the story and they brought a lawsuit which is based upon their narrative. And they were thrown out of court, and it was upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and they were out of luck. And so, in order to take that sting away, Rinder gives this altered pronunciamiento about what the law of religion is. He’s correct in the fact that if you do have a beef, you’re option is to leave, okay. What he doesn’t disclose and what the Headley’s don’t disclose is they were always able to leave. And that more importantly, in the constitutional principle, which is a throw-away in many respects – it’s a given – the 9th Circuit was more of a factual decision than a Constitutional decision because they focused on the fact that for the entire time that the Headleys were in Scientology, they had the option and they could have easily exercised the option to go. You would never know that from watching the segment. You get the idea that they literally walked in one day, the door was open, they threw the key away and they were locked in. I mean, the 9th Circuit went through in detail about all the opportunity over all the years that they could have left. They were developing a disaffection. The bottom line is they’ve adopted – the asc has adopted this explanation as to why the FBI investigation into Scientology that was prompted by the Headleys and the Headley case didn’t result in the banishment of Scientology was they were “Damn! Saved by the Constitution again.” Right. And, in fact, the facts of the matter are, with respect to the FBI and with respect to the Courts and with the Headleys was, and they just won’t say the truth of what happened. They were screwed by the facts. You could take the Constitution right out of the picture and they were screwed by the facts. Because of the opportunity to leave. OK. Which comes down to, how did they paint this picture for the Headleys? By the same sleazy tactics that Rinder and Remini have been perfecting through this whole series. And that is, they make all these statements about what the policy of the Church is with respect to abortion, with respect to families and all this sort of thing – all inaccurate, all exaggerated, all sensationalized. And then they have Claire say a few things and then they have Marc say a few things and then they have Mike or Remini coming in and saying what they said, and interpreting what they said against, not just what they said, but against the false datums that they put in originally. And so, it is just a complete – legend in your own mind reality creation, you known, projection, the projection of self that one wants to project. In this case Remini and Rinder are creating the Headley narrative. I mean, she contends that she was “forced to have an abortion”. Right? She never says that. She doesn’t even say that she was coerced to. She doesn’t even say that she was persuaded to. She wasn’t even saying that anyone suggested it to her. But you get the impression that she was forced to, based on the subjunctive introductions, subjunctive laden introductions by “they would” and “they could” and “they should” and “they might” and “if this, then that” that Remini and Rinder are piling on with. You get the impression that she said, hey, somebody put a gun to my head and said “get an abortion”. Yes, so, having said that the show doesn’t support, the Headleys don’t support what the show says about themselves, and they are there to say it. Because Rinder and Remini say it for them. Right. You know, Marc Headley has his habit, does just like Tom DeVocht, Ron Miscavige and Jeff Hawkins before him. He’s literally, he’s been telling a story for, I don’t know how long. Many, many years and all of a sudden it is all sensationalized. It’s a different story than what he originally told. Throughout his law suit, throughout the many media he’s been involved in, through a book he wrote, you name it. Now, the guy who said he got hit, punched – now had the “shit beat out of him” by the “pope,” who Mike Rinder gratuitously puts in, David Miscavige liked to be known as the pope. Entirely, utterly manufactured. He literally manufactured that. Never happened.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 9 – Rinder abandons his children: Remini dissembles to cover In order to justify this, Mike Rinder’s unstated… because they don’t state it, but anybody watching is going to know it, Rinder abandoned his children, right. So in order to I guess justify Rinder’s abandoning his children, Leah Remini – and she does this throughout the series, she invents these, these things about Scientology. She does the “Tony Ortega” role of, you know inventing these things about Scientology to interject. To send the thing in the trajectory they want it to go. She says, “because of the view about past lives and Scientology” she says, “your mother is really not your mother, they put little significance on any interpersonal relationships, family members and the same with marriage”. I mean, ok, end of quote. I mean, that, that literally, is just, the first I’ve ever heard of that. And I’ve been involved for 35 years. Inside, outside, pro, con – it don’t matter – neutral. She just invented that. For Mike. Nice little present for Mike to make him a human being, I guess. But think about that statement, right. Because of the belief in past lives, there is total ruthless negligence of any concept of family. Right? She could be talking about the entire Far East, and the entire subcontinent of India, right, because of the belief in past lives, it means you’re a heartless person who can’t be trusted with respect to family. Right? Because it’s some form of brainwashing, it goes with; she literally says, the Scientologists are brainwashed to believe that they’re responsible for their own conditions. Okay? I guess she’s saying that they’re brainwashed to believe in past lives? Which then has all these, you know she just invents these, these consequences for them.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers 1 – For-profit Troll Farm Operators. Remini, Rinder, and Ortega So we spoke about denialism – and that is part and parcel with the whole ASC – narrative. They have to deny any possible benefit or the 55 million words of spoken words and lectures that constitute Scientology philosophy. They have to deny that it exists in its entirety and so there narrative can be summed up real simply as “Scientology is a group of people who have no substance”. There is no substance that they are trying to protect and yet they do two things: if somebody breaks ranks and vociferously disagrees with the group they are ostracized and they are disconnected from. And if the person then sets their goal or activity to escalate that disagreement and turn it into an attack, Scientology then ruthlessly, dispenses with the attacker. Ok. And that in essence is the narrative that goes over and over and over. It’s the basis of Going Clear, it’s the basis of Aftermath, it’s the basis of the blogs in the troll farm and what I learned through five years of interacting with these people who are the center of the, the authors of the bible of the asc and the center of the hierarchy – the “troika cluster” is that literally that narrative that they tell, is precisely a description of themselves. There is literally, no philosophy. It is literally an anarchy of ideas. There’s no—no solutions; there’s no inter-connecting sort of philosophy or way of looking at things, there is only ostracizing, marginalizing and attacking Scientologists. It’s “us versus them” and it’s the basis upon which the group exists. Ok, so the troika. I mentioned that the troika of asc considered that they had a well-defined, hard bound hierarchy. The only problem is that all three members of it think that they’re in charge. And what I mean by that is – the three members: Tony Ortega – who runs a daily blog -- he’s there sort of PR meme guy. Mike Rinder – who runs a daily blog and Leah Remini who runs reality TV spin offs on Scientology. Every meme, every idea that emanates from the asc, emanates from those three. I mean, somebody may have an idea and bring it in, but it clears one of those three before it gets put out there. And they continue to churn this stuff out. And they only do it, because it is profitable. Now when I say they consider they have a hierarchy, I mean I discussions with these people. I mean – Tony Ortega snickers about what a fool Mike Rinder and Leah Remini are, and how easy it is to sucker them into making him the only first scoop guy so he gets all the “scoops” right! Mike Rinder says that Leah Remini is just a ditzy, hair-brained, privileged person who has a great over-bloated self-image of herself and that he has to guide her every step of the way and hold her hand. Leah Remini says that Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega are hallucinating if they don’t realize that they’re her bitches. And she is just using them. And so that’s why I say it’s like a cluster and they think they have a hierarchy but each part of it thinks that they are the one that’s in charge. But again, I say, it always comes back to money. And Leah Remini explained it to me one day. She asked me if I got paid to participate in Going Clear and I said no, I never participate in, I never got paid for participating in any media or documentary, and I never would out of principle. She said, “I don’t get that. I don’t understand what, I don’t understand your thinking”. She said, “I don’t” she said “I didn’t participate because they wouldn’t pay me”. She said, “I don’t do anything unless I’m paid”. Nothing. So at one point Leah Remini told me she had, she, after two years of careful work through her publicist and Rinder and Ortega, had successfully come up with unlimited financial backing to go after Scientology and she was going to create a production to do so. And she told me that she was so well backed that I could write my own ticket to participate as a producer. And so I asked her, you know, what are you looking at producing? And she told me, essentially, it was going to be a regurgitation of everything that’s been publicized about Scientology over the last 7 years. About things that have happened over the last 40 years, allegedly, and she would sort of resurrect the players who were saying things about Scientology 7 years as somehow new and current. To which my reaction was I have no interest whatsoever. “If you want to do something”—I’ve had this conversation over 2 years. “If you want to do something that’s educational, that is somewhat objective, that could lead to people getting on in life better, that gave some new perspective”, that was the only basis upon which I ever told her I would ever participate in any of her stuff, right, I said, and that still stands, “But what you’re proposing is, is a, essentially a cheap tabloidesque pile on, and I’m not interested”. OK? And I thought that would be the last I’d ever hear of her, because, I mean, she, that was the end of the conversation. She just, you know. She was like a long tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs, it was like Ralph Kramden, hubeda hubeda hubeda. And it was the end of the conversation, she had nothing to say. See. So I did think that would be the end of it, I told her what my position was. But, it wasn’t, but I’ll get back to that. Because I’m on this subject of financial motivation. Her partner, Mike Rinder, since he’s left the Church of Scientology, has never had a job, or never had employment, or never lifted a finger to do anything that wasn’t related to anti-Scientology work, that wasn’t paid for by people that were interested in seeing Scientology’s oxes gored. And I know that because his first 3 or 4 engagements he specifically asked me to help him get into a position where he could have such backers and I put him in that position. And so from 2009, it’s just been a series of sugar daddies for him one right after the other. You know, venture capitalist, former traitor, well actually, a number of people that are in that kind of business, an old woman, with, you know, a ton of money, which is obsessed on the subject. It’s just been one chain, one after the other. And so, in essence, he’s, he’s followed the same philosophy as, oh, and now Leah Remini. You know, who, when I rejected her offer, she went straight to Mike Rinder and he took her up happily. And then there’s Tony Ortega, who’s the third part of the troika, and Tony Ortega, you know, at one point, was really shining—was really sort of sucking up to me. Because I was sort of attention of a lot of media, and he wanted to get his media cred, and he flew all the way down to south Texas, to my home, and he had just got fired from the Village Voice which he had sort of converted into this anti-Scientology platform for 2 years. And at a rare moment where he had a motive to be somewhat candid, he told me about the circumstances in which he left the Village Voice. And the circumstances, he said, you know, this can’t go anywhere, but what happened was, is that, the Village Voice had been accused, and practically been, factually been investigated by law enforcement of human trafficking and promoting the child sex slave industry by its backpages ads. And he pointed, he told me that, you know, Scientology had been exposing that. And he said the problem, is, is that Scientology was more accurate than anybody thought. And that in fact, the Village Voice was almost exclusively financed by that human trafficking operation and that there were profits beyond that and so the owners, now that Scientology was exposing it and law enforcement was investigating it, said—decided they had to get rid of Tony Ortega, because he was just obsessed with Scientology, and he was keeping their focus on him and their operation, so they needed to get rid of him. And so, in order to do that, they, and to extract his cooperation in keeping quiet about what he knew, which is interesting, because of course, he’s the first guy to accuse anybody who doesn’t go after Scientology as being bought off, right? He literally agreed to cover it up and obstruct justice for a payout of essentially a 2-year buyout deal. Where they paid him enough where he could literally do nothing for 2 years and go out and, and write a book on Scientology so that he could begin with some foundation of credibility upon which to continue his career which he had turned into trashing Scientology. So, with all three of the troika, I’ve had personal experience that tells me, the primary motivation is money.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 2 – Remini Acts the persecuted, while inciting violence Rinder explained to me that they had literally worked out the three of them, the troika, had literally worked out an operation where Leah’s departure from Scientology would be orchestrated, okay. And it would be reported in a way that they wanted it manipulated being reported, which was completely and utterly an act. It was a classic troll job. Leah would act as if she were being persecuted by Scientology for disagreeing with it and for having all this “scandalous” information about it. All the while, she was orchestrating and having her agents create the story of her leaving. That was done in such as to try to create a reaction on the part of Scientology to get Scientology—it was a sting operation—to try to get Scientology to reach out to try to salvage her, to get Scientology to have people disconnect from her, all of which would be part of the ongoing story. And it was all going to be a rollout to increase her profile and create this mystery and create this figure who was this warrior princess, innocent warrior princess. She’d be this innocent princess who was converted into a warrior because she was hunted down and persecuted by Scientology. OK, that was the story and they literally, and you know, as it rolled out Scientology never played its part. And they just acted like it did. I know she never did get persecuted, she never did get hunted down, she never did get people begging her to come back, none of that stuff happened, but Rinder and Ortega just kept spinning the ball, giving the impression that it did. This op that is run by Rinder, Remini and Ortega is, and the reason I refer to them as a troika, is a cluster at the top of this thing, is that they have this penchant for having one arm of them, they act like Mickey the Dunce whenever one of them does something, you know. That’s how they rolled out Leah Remini in the first place. Tony Ortega literally reported as if he were onto a hot tip from a “tipster”. The tipster was Leah Remini. You know, like an insider that knew what was going on with Leah. And he literally quoted Leah’s husband. He reported that he called Leah’s husband and said, hey, we heard you are having a big break with the Church of Scientology, and her husband reportedly said, “Oh no, not at all, we get along just peachy keen. And if we ever did we would resolve it with the Church”. And Tony Ortega says, goes all the way as to saying, “and we thanked him for being so candid”. Right. Well the whole thing was scripted by Leah Remini and her husband and Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega. So it was like they literally made up this news. And that is how the whole thing rolled out and started. And so they continue that whole op today, where one of them does something and the other one can say, I didn’t know anything about that. It was in the last episode of her first year of her series on Scientology, where they spent the entire episode obsessing about how Scientology had accused Leah of inspiring, disaffecting and then inspiring this kid, Brandon Reisdorf, to commit a hate crime by throwing a brick through a window of a Church of Scientology. How can you believe she is accusing me dududud, and she is literally standing, sitting next to Mike Rinder who in fact did orchestrate the kid’s disaffection and inspire him getting to the point of hating David Miscavige and Scientology so much that he was willing to maim somebody. And she spent the entire episode railing about how she was falsely accused and yet her partner had executed the entire thing and I know firsthand that he did. So, and so, when I refer to them as a troika cluster for a reason. Because if you don’t consider them as this inseparable group, it is like a chimera, you just you don’t know where the thing is coming from. Because it is planned and executed that way. Another example, you know, they rail about ethics. They say Scientology has a totalitarian ethics system that is us versus them, good versus evil, and the funny thing is, is that that literally is their system of ethics. It literally consists of, if it harms Scientology it is good, if it helps Scientology it is evil. Period. And, you know, this is—the way that Mike Rinder has put it, he’s literally put out on a podcast that Scientology is fair game and that you may and can do anything you want against Scientology and get away with it. Literally promoting that idea. Ortega puts it in many ways, every day on his blog, day after day. One incident stood out to me that really sort of encapsulates what I am talking about here. A woman took her car and rammed it through the front door of the Austin Church of Scientology, sped through the lobby and crashed it into the Church’s nursery for their toddlers. When the police arrived, she said she was disappointed when they told her that she didn’t hit anybody, she failed to kill anybody and that was her only regret that she didn’t. Well it subsequently came out that she was greatly inspired by Leah Remini. Had been watching or reading her book or watching her show or listening to her ramblings or her productions and of course Leah Remini never says anything about it, right. Instead, Tony Ortega comes in and Tony Ortega flanks for her by trying to euphemize the whole thing. He literally characterized that attempted murder as delinquency. He has got about a couple of hundred people in his sheep farm and they generate thousands of comments a day, because that is what they do all day, they sit there and they comment. Just as an exercise I went through that day. Out of 2,000 comments not a single person objected to this characterization or called him out on it. And they are all just frothing into these memes of hatred towards Scientology based on a woman attempting to kill somebody with her car.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 3 – Remini confesses to “Reality” TV being scripted So once I got taken to school on the subject of reality TV by Leah. I had talked to her, this is one of her AWOL periods where I call her out on something and all of a sudden she can’t be found for several months. And I texted her after I watched her reality show where they had this therapist come in and they had a group therapy session with their family. And I texted her and I said, “Hey, you know, I am really impressed that you guys had the, that you had the courage to do that and share that with people. I mean that is pretty personal” right. I said, “I got one problem with it though. I mean I think it was really terrible how you just dumped it all on your mother and made her look like she was the villain of the piece and somehow unintelligent and stupid and culpable for getting you, the whole family involved in Scientology”. I said, “I could literally see it on her. She didn’t, she looks terrible”. So Leah, lets the first part go, and just addresses the second part, because she’s a narcissist and, you know, if you say anything that, if you say anything that’s perceived as other than worship for her, she’s going to jump on that. “Oh, no, no, no” she says, “you didn’t get, you didn’t get it at all”. She said, “this wasn’t an actual therapy session, we, this whole thing was planned and scripted”. We literally, I said, “you literally acted?” “Yeah, we literally” she says, “listen, that’s how it works, honey, doll, that’s how you do it. It’s not reality. I work out, I plan out all these episodes and we figure it out beforehand who’s going say what and who’s going to do what, and we, what do you think, I’m just going to put a camera on myself?” And I’m like, you know, that’s how uneducated I am about reality TV. I mean, I don’t watch reality TV, I just assume they put a camera in there and people live their lives. But no, she instructed me that’s not what it’s about. It’s not reality. It’s unreality. It’s fake reality. Matter of fact, in the course of her telling me this, she literally told me that they had planned this and scripted it for the purposes of having maximal poke-in-the-eye effect on David Miscavige and Scientology.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 4 – Remini Cult Recruiter and Enforcer. Manufacturing smears Talking about hypocrisy, right? So, you know, so after I reject the producer role, where I can write my own ticket with Leah Remini, I don’t know, several months later, I don’t know exactly what it’s in reaction to, but several months later, she gets ahold of me, and wants me to literally make a commitment to being in the asc. And I’m like, look-it, I’m not a joiner, I’m not a sheep, I’m not a follower. I mean, if you haven’t figured that out in the 2 or 3 years you’ve observed me, then, you know, you’re really—and she said, “no, no, no, it’s like, if you’re against them we’re together”. And I said, “you know, the problem is, you want me to join a group with people that I have experienced and been involved with who are demonstrably, obviously, far more unethical, far more disloyal, far more criminal, than any Scientologist I ever dealt with in 27 years I was within it. And yet, and yet, as much as you rail about it, you want to, you want to act in the very way—you want me to then act in the very way that you accuse Scientology of acting” In other words, forget about all that stuff. If, if, if you’re agin ‘em, you’re with us. OK? It’s us versus them. OK? And, and, so if you’re not with us, you’re for them, basically, right? I told her no, right? Do you know what her response was? Her response was—and by the way, before I give you her response—remember the narrative that she’s been capitalizing on for 3 years and the troika’s been capitalizing on for 3 years. Central to the whole thing, which they go on and on about, is disconnection. In other words, because Scientology, if somebody becomes anti-social to the extent that they can’t be reformed or lived with, people will disconnect from them. That that is such a grievous crime to family and humanity that it justifies creating a cult to combat Scientology, right? That is the central pre—so when I won’t join her group, she literally disconnects from me. And I mean in a way that they don’t even accuse Scientology of. I mean, she told me, not only are you not to get in, be in communication with me again, “you must destroy all my contact information, because I’m destroying yours”. OK? So, so that it’s not just a command that you’re not to communicate with me, it’s, we’re going to make it impossible for us to communicate again. So I mean, it couldn’t be a more explicit disconnection. And that was the response to me refusing to say I’m going to give love, devotion and surrender to this asc cult of yours. OK. Now, after I’m, after Leah Remini disconnects from me, when I refuse to join the cult, this is where the parallels go again, back to their narrative, you know the asc narrative, Scientology disconnects from you and then if you keep defying, they ruthlessly attack you, right? So, I do a couple of essays from time to time on my blog, which are sort of neutral on the subject of Scientology. You know. Even, you know, I even felt that you know, I always felt, that you needed to obtain some objectivity as to your experience in Scientology, or you know, if you walked, or even if, even if you felt that it was negative and you kept having reinforced on you that it is negative, you’re going to get sicker and worse, right? It’s like, OK. Like Scientology, like virtually any self-help philosophy, like virtually any religion, far more helpful to recognize that you’re responsible for your own condition and move along and live, and take the positive from your experiences, right? OK. So I do a few, and boy, I tell you, the troika starts going crazy, OK? Tony Ortega starts a smear campaign and he runs it for 6 months, nonstop on me and my family. Alright? They attempted to infiltrate my family, OK? They attempted to drive wedges between my wife and me. When that failed, they literally took up a collection to hire private eyes to spy and harass us. And when that failed, they attempted to blackmail me. I literally received a blackmail threat that said if you keep talking about the asc, if you keep giving, if you keep talking about the other side of the story or about our laundry, we’re going to expose all the crimes that you failed to disclose about your Scientology experience when you were in Scientology. You know, I laughed at that, because, unlike them, I’m the one person whose life has been an open book, and there’s nothing I’ve ever held back, right? So go ahead. My response was, make my day. OK. Didn’t hear anything for several months. Until, the day before, literally, the day before Leah Remini’s January 2017 20/20 special, right. What they did was, they took, what happened was, I hear from ABC 20/20, asking me, “Hey, do you know a guy named Sergio?” I said, “No, I never heard of the guy in my life.” Simultaneously I get an email from Tony Ortega saying Sergio Plame or Lame or whoever this guy is says that he got raped by an adult male when he was a teenager in Scientology and that you found out about it and covered it up. OK. So I got what was going down. This was the payback on the blackmail. They literally made it up. OK? So I looked up this Sergio guy, he’d been going on for 3-4 months in the asc troll farm, right? I mean, on its face, I mean, the guy was so incredible, that he would say stuff one day, that 3 days later he would absolutely contradict. I mean, his lack of credibility, was just apparent on what he was saying with no refutation. It was that bad. So Tony Ortega, as he’s waiting for my response, blogs, watch 20/20 tomorrow, there’s going to be explosive, and I mean, explosive, stuff. And it was clear to me, it was going to be the Sergio Lan cover up, right? So, I wrote back to 20/20, said I never heard of this guy in my life, but now I’ve heard from Tony Ortega and I understand what’s going on. He’s running his same op that he runs all the time. Mike Rinder’s explained it to me. Tony will run anything, because he’s got nothing to lose, because he’s a nobody with a blog. Scientology, nobody else is going to waste their time suing a guy who can never make good on whatever damage he does in the first place and, you know, can blog from a shopping cart in an alley as well as he can from wherever he’s, whatever apartment he’s living in now. OK? So he’s literally got immunity from that respect to libel. OK? And what he’ll do is, he’ll put out the sleaziest, most criminal innuendo, right? With different grains, little grains of truth mixed in, and keep repeating it enough, with the intention, the tabloids at some point will start to pick it up, with the intention that, he’ll keep feeding the tabloid, with the intention that ultimately, in this degraded age of infotainment and click bait news, the “legitimate” media will pick up on it. And that’s the only reason the blackmail didn’t run. Because I called ABC out on it. But they literally, I mean, that’s how far they went. They blackmailed me, I told them bring it, they had nothing to bring, so they literally manufactured something. They literally manufactured accusations of criminal conduct that never happened. That were so, that were so unfounded, that no media would run with it. But came within an inch of having it broadcast nationally. Now, take my experience, and you get a better perspective of the asc and the troika vis-a-vis Scientology, which they do the same gig, day in and day out over a 7 year period. _______________

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 5 – Remini technique for passing fiction off as fact Leah took me to school on what reality TV is and how unreal it is. And I was watching the second reality series, or Aftermath series, I see it takes it to a whole different level. I mean it is so obviously, it is so obviously scripted, rehearsed, acted and dramatized every step of the way that it is a whole new level of false impression. I spoke earlier about how Alex Gibney pirated from this Roast Beef Productions in the UK. He pirated their format that he used in his documentary. Which was to say, they came up with this idea of, we’ll get witnesses to say things and if they won’t go far enough, we’ll bring in Tony Ortega—who will say anything for a handout—and he can make it sound like the person said something else. OK? And so they used him inter-dispersed in the film. And then Gibney did the exact same thing. Tony Ortega, who didn’t participate in the book—it’s supposed to be a documentary about the book—didn’t participate whatsoever, is throughout because he’s going to create the parenthesis. In the Aftermath, they compound the felony because they used the exact same technique except that the producer, director, talent, actor—Leah and Mike Rinder—are doing it throughout. They introduce a concept with a bunch of generalities, then they have somebody say something, then Rinder and Remini jump back in and interpret and throw out more generalities and it is completely and utterly altered, the reality of what the person’s experience was. In other words, the people who participate don’t even have to have a story, which in fact, none of them to date that I have seen through Season One, has a story worthy of news. How do I know? Because I knew these people 9 years ago when the news was reporting some of the stuff that was going on in the previous 10-20 years when the news was interested in it… OK. They didn’t make the cut then. But they are making the cut now because they will say whatever they are saying and as interpreted, as introduced by Leah and Mike and then interpreted afterwards and then bridged to their next comment, it all of a sudden becomes this nefarious, scary thing. And that is the technique that is used episode after episode.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 6 – Amy Scobee, Manufactured Stories; plan, script, create. It begins with Episode 1, which is literally from beginning to end a manufactured story, okay. Remini starts off saying that she wrote a book and she thought it would all be over. She just wrote the book and just wanted to move along. Of course that’s contradictory to the whole roll out campaign that Rinder briefed me on, that she confirmed later. But she presents herself as, “Oh, I was just going to write all my, all the facts down, all my experiences, I’d be done with this”. Right? Except, “there was such an unbelievable demand for me to go protect these poor innocent people who got harmed by Scientology”. And so Episode 1 is supposed to be that story. She says she got connected, she got reached out to by Amy Scobee, okay. This is 2015/16 – 2016? Amy Scobee told her story in 2009. That’s seven years before that, OK? Amy Scobee wasn’t in need of somebody to do a—she wrote a book in 2009, alright? But according to Episode 1, Amy came to her to resolve this problem of her being disconnected from her mother, in 2016. Except, that Amy’s been connected with her mother since 2010. So in other words, they literally manufactured and made up this story that people came out of the woodwork, beginning with the person that they put up front and center, Amy Scobee, to solve this problem that didn’t exist, that in actual fact didn’t exist. This was acting, planning, scripting, acting, dramatizing as much as her previous reality show. I mean, you can just look at what these people are saying in real time. Amy literally put on her Facebook, “It’s show time!” That was her promotion for the movie coming. It wasn’t, “Hey, I’m going to tell my heartfelt story”. It wasn’t, “Hey, I’m going to tell my heartfelt story, in this documentary search for the truth”. It was “show time” okay. Listen, it’s opportunism, okay. Everybody’s scratching everybody’s back. She ends up getting a gig as a personal assistant in Hollywood. At the same time, her husband gets another gig for another, you know. So she is playing it for all she can get. Now look it—I consider myself friends with these people, I’m not trying to put them down or anything, I’m just telling you like it is. I got nothing on them. But it is sort of par for the course with her personality. I mean they create, plan, script, create these warrior princess personalities that don’t exist in reality. Like Amy now tells a new story nine years after the fact of writing a book about it. That there was all these terrible things going on at the international headquarters of Scientology and that she got in ethics trouble because she had a problem because she used to tell things like it was. OK? What’s wrong with this picture is, is I was there at the time, okay. And I was there for 20 years while she was there. Amy Scobee was exactly the opposite. The only time she ever got in trouble was for exactly the opposite, was for telling things how they weren’t. I mean, you’d have to go to great lengths to get her to knock off the public relations, okay, to knock off the spin, to knock off the false positivity, to knock off, you know, and just tell it like it is. And yet she’s saying, “I got disciplined and I went down in flames because I had a problem. I was telling it like it is”. In other words, positioning it like she was protesting these terrible things that were happening. Didn’t happen. Literally manufactured. Scripted, acted, played out. So again, creating this picture of telling it like it isn’t. The reason I bring this up, like I said, I don’t dislike Amy, she is a very personable person, but what I’m pointing out is the reality of it. This story is absolutely invented. And then the talent, you know I brought up earlier how Rinder and Remini changed the story and changed the complexion of it by commenting and introducing and then having a person make a quote and then interpreting and altering and putting another spin on it, so that they alter what the person said. What I’m telling you is, in this series it goes a whole step further. The talent, the guest—Amy—is literally telling a story that is 180 degrees and then it’s pumped and altered and changed and conflated by the producer-director talent Rinder and Remini. So by the end of it, it just bears no resemblance to reality.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 7 – Mike Rinder self-created Myth So episode 2 is all about Mike Rinder. Which really makes it easy for them. Because Rinder and Remini are making stories of other people by having people say something and then they conflate it into something, so he’s got himself, conflating himself and then throwing something out and then conflating what he just threw out with Remini piling on. Which is bizarre if you think about it. They present it—present it as a documentary yet he’s the paid producer, director, editor, scripter, clapper girl—you know, whatever, everything, and yet it supposed to be about him. So Rinder begins establishing his credibility by saying, “if the Church believed someone was an enemy and needed to be silenced, it was my job and I did it”. Okay? I challenge anyone to go find and cull where Rinder has disclosed in the 9 years that he’s been out, or the 7 years that he’s been out, the specific confession of his having silenced anybody. There’s not a single one. I was involved with the guy during his entire time over the Church’s external affairs bureau and was the guy that got him a job once he got out. I was the guy that got him job after job after job that allowed him to continue to go after Scientology without having to work. He’s never, he’s never given a single specific or particular to back that up. And yet that’s how he establishes his credibility for episode 1. His second establishment is that he ultimately became, “ultimately” became the head of the Commodore’s Messenger organization, which is the highest management body within the Church of Scientology, and he said that, he was one of “8 people” that was working for Hubbard. He literally manufactured that, it’s a complete lie. He’s acting as if he was one of the original messengers, on the ship, with L. Ron Hubbard. He wasn’t. It’s almost like everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. The next thing he states, which is the big statement, is, “my biggest regret, and something I can’t change now, is that I caused my two children to be born into and raised into Scientology. I effectively lost them because I brought them into and raised them as Scientologists” okay. I mean the guy’s already on camera in the exclusive he did for the BBC, and saying his greatest regret was something that he said acting as a PR agent for Scientology to a reporter. That was his greatest regret. In fact they made a whole one-hour program that was built on that foundation, that that was this guy’s greatest regret. That he was going to now make good on it. Now correct that regret. But this is show time. Okay? So now he’s got this new regret. He says in the thing that he, he says in this story that he, Mike Rinder says that he moved to Clearwater so that he would be visible to his son Benjamin who was working in Clearwater. I was there. Never came up. He moved to Clearwater because I got him a free ride gig with a guy who would pay him to do nothing but talk out about Scientology. Nothing to do with Benjamin, his son. Okay. To highlight the point. I don’t know, a few months after he was there, Rinder took great offense to the fact that the Church was responding to him attacking the Church by saying, well, he left his kids behind and doesn’t care about them, right. And he would bemoan that over and over and over again. Right. And so I said, “hey, if it bothers you that much that people are saying that, why don’t we go down and attempt to go see your kid. The Church isn’t going to let us, and therefore we can put it on tape, and it can show that you did have concern for your kid but they didn’t allow it to happen. Oh, Rinder was all happy about that. That sounds great. It had nothing to do with seeing his kid. Alright. Because he knew it was going to be rejected. It had to do with his own personal reputation and him responding to accusations that were made about him in public. And when we went to the Fort Harrison, the Church’s headquarters in Clearwater, as predicted, they said “you can’t come here and they gave us a trespassing warning. You’ve got to leave. And in fact we called the police”. So I said “hang on. Let’s wait and see the police. So the police showed up, and the police said “we’re giving you a trespass warning. You gotta leave”. I explained to them why we were there. That Mike wanted to see his son, who worked there. And the cop said, “Hey, I can go in there and see him. And in the presence of nobody, tell him that you’re here to see him. And if he wants to come, we’ll escort him right out to see you. If it’s, you’re worried, as you say, that the Church isn’t allowing it to happen”. Rinder’s like, “no, no that’s okay.” I said, “No, no, let’s do it”. He didn’t want to do it. I said, “Let’s do it”. So it put him in a bad position and the cop said “okay”. And the cop went in there, 20-30 minutes later came back. And he said, “I got to talk to him alone and Benjamin doesn’t want to see you. And he’s an adult. And it’s his red, white and blue American born right to exercise that prerogative. You know Rinder has stated that he was the great warrior for Scientology, right. Without ever disclosing anything he ever did that was nefarious. Just saying that he did. That he silenced people, and he was the hit man. But nobody ever got hit, and there was no silencing that we’ve heard of. And so she, Remini exonerates him of all this and says, “You’re fighting now against the Church so you’re on the right side of the fight now”. End of quote. Right. And this is what I’m talking about. He’s absolved by the fact that he’s on board with this cult. This cult that says they’re the enemy and anything you do in furtherance of weakening the enemy is A-Okay. And so, and so, the thing, the crux of the story that keeps being replayed with Rinder is, this great justification that he must continue to crusade against Scientology, because of his two children that are in Scientology, okay. And they omit the fact that he left Scientology without ever reaching out to or making any kind of gesture whatsoever to any of his family, to try to get somebody to go with him, or to explain himself, or to be talked back or to any of that. He just, he just took off. Right? Number 1. Number 2, he just denigrates his kids. I mean, I have reality on one of them in particular because I know his daughter Taryn. I probably worked more closely with her than he ever did, based on my position in the Church, because she was in the technical, Qualifications division. And so I had a lot of back and forth, and I mean, and I’ve had this conversation with Rinder, I mean he knows. I’ve made this known to him and he hasn’t disagreed. His continuing to crusade, his continuing to denigrate Scientology, his continuing to belittle Scientology, okay—is the worst possible thing he could ever do in terms of ever reconciling with his son and daughter. And yet he continues to do it. I mean, it goes to new extremes in this series with Remini, to the point where he literally makes statements that are denigrating to Taryn and Benjamin, personally, saying there couldn’t possibly be any reason, there couldn’t possibly be any input in the decision for them to not be in communication with me. In other words, they are just mindless automatons who are taking orders from the Church. First of all, he doesn’t, he has no basis to know that, because he chose to leave, what, 8 years earlier, now? By the way, you know, the time just gets screwed around with, you gotta realize, all this happened 8 years ago, right? Nine years ago. 10 years ago. It’s 10 years ago now. I mean, that’s how long ago this is. And they make it sound like it’s all, this is all new, fresh stuff. He left 10 years ago. With a good riddance, essentially, to them, Benjamin and Taryn. And then he has the temerity to get on national TV and say they’re automatons and they can’t make up their own minds. Well listen. I did see a clip that the Church publicized of Taryn talking about Mike. And I have been no friend of the Church of Scientology, and as I’m watching that, I’m going, that’s the Taryn I knew. That’s not acting. I think, you know, what’s acting, is the Aftermath group. Taryn is saying, talking about Mike, just like she would talk about Mike 15 years ago when I was there. OK? But Taryn, let me tell you, she comes off as credible as she can be, and that is the Taryn I knew, OK? And, so what it amounts to, literally is he’s, Mike Rinder is literally being paid by Leah Remini to go up there and denigrate and call his kids a bunch of mindless automatons and then have the temerity to say, “hey, this is all I can do, I’m doing this for my children”. It’s really sick, it’s really twisted.

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 8 – Mike Rinder Anti-Scientology Sugar Daddies and Mommies. God, it’s been 10 years since he left, and he literally for an entire decade has not worked, and I arranged virtually all of his gigs with people that would pay him to just do anti-Scientology stuff. First there was this guy down in Clearwater. He lasted about, I don’t know, only a few weeks and the guy just couldn’t tolerate Rinder being around so he got fired. Then it was this guy Almblad, who was an alcoholic, who just would go into these alcohol fueled rants and rages about bringing David Miscavige to his knees and destroying Miscavige. He just had this complete obsession, and Rinder would just pump that up, and tell him how possible all this stuff was and how they could attack the trademarks and rip off the copyrights, and all this other kind of stuff. And, you know, my conversations with the guy were, you know, kind of talking him off the ledge about how it’s kind of a neat pipe dream but the practicalities are, it ain’t going to happen. You’re in no legal position to do it. And he could, and he didn’t like that, but he continued to “employ” Rinder for another two years, to have him stroke him with those fantasies, had him living in his, rent free in a home and the whole thing. Then there was this other guy, Michael Bennett, who came along, who called himself a venture capitalist from Chicago. He came all the way to South Texas to see me, and was, you know, he, first of all, first, he just walked up to me in a coffee shop in San Antonio. Rinder was there, acting like this little groupie about, you know, I really admire you, and this, that and the other thing. He was trying to sleaze in on him, and I said, god, this guy’s really creepy, and Mike of course, being Mickey the Dunce, Mickey the, you know, ingratiator, said, “Oh yeah, I agree, Marty”. Right? Then that Bennett guy, two months later, comes all the way down to south Texas to my home in Corpus Christie, and he’s running the same thing on wanting to, you know, be my benefactor, be my partner, or some kind of thing. And I’m like, I couldn’t get out of my house fast enough, he was that creepy. Well I didn’t actually arrange that gig, I guess I did indirectly, by rejecting the guy, because 3 months later, several months later, all of a sudden Rinder tells me he’s working for this Michael Bennett guy. The long and the short of that, I said, what are you doing? He says, “I’m doing public relations”. I said, OK. What are you, what have you actually done? He said, well the only thing I did, I, you know, he had this woman who was sort of eccentric, who had tons of money, she got a huge divorce settlement and she had nothing better to do so she created a gelato company, doesn’t know the first thing about it, but, so I was doing PR. “Like what?” He said, “Well, basically, I did TRs, training routines, Scientology training routines, to teach her how to feel comfortable communicating” And that’s all he did. And then there’s Karen de la Carriere, who, you know, I’ve described before, and she wants to be the center of the universe, and I don’t know how she makes her money, but she makes a lot of it and she passes it out, but she wants lots of face time and lots of influence and I, you know, I finally told her, just don’t even send me any money, because, she’d become so meddling, I said, I’m not going to be influenced by your, you know I told you that from the beginning, and you just won’t learn, I’m not going to do it. Well of course, Mike doesn’t have those rules. He’ll do or say whatever anybody wants him to, as long as there’s grease, right. So she’s been greasing him the whole time, and she famously makes it known to others that he cannot turn on her or say anything negative about her, pursuant to asc cult “rules” because she’s his matron. And so, you know, the Aftermath, that’s the, that’s the pre-math, okay? The Aftermath, is him playing with his latest benefactor, Leah Remini, because I know for a fact she told me I could write my own ticket to take that place and I rejected the gig, just like I did with the other ones, who want to tell me what I’m going to say and do.

Going Clear, Part 21 – Headley case, FBI Sting Operation A key part of the anti-Scientology narrative, as partially authored by Lawrence Wright, continuously published by Tony Ortega, endlessly repeated by Rinder and the other outlets on the troll farms, is that “Dang! We had Scientology—the FBI was right on them—and they got saved by this thorny constitution as interpreted by limp-wristed liberal justices of the 9th Circuit.” Okay. That’s literally an invented narrative. On several levels. The first level is this: If you read the opinion, you don’t need the Constitution, you don’t even need the constitutional analysis. First of all, the 9th Circuit statement of constitutional protections afforded religion is absolutely accurate. And that it was applied to Scientology is absolutely nothing new. It had been consistently applied for decades. Okay. So there’s no news there. But, if you read the opinion, they didn’t even need the Constitution. They found it on a factual basis. If you literally broke down the facts, they wouldn’t even need constitutional protection. Because the facts didn’t support the accusations of the civil wrongs that they alleged. Okay. Now, we know that the FBI investigation was prompted by the Headleys. And really that was the core of their case, right. So Wright and these people say well, and he, once he pontificates that, they all bow down in asc and adopt that as Moses speaking from the Mount, right. They said factually—the courts said factually—you don’t have a case. Okay? Now. We’re going to compound the problem. Because as early as April 2010, the only significant “defector” from high up in Scientology that ever said anything or spoke out after 2009 was John Brousseau. And I arranged for John Brousseau to speak with the FBI. And John Brousseau told the FBI, “I have seen no violence on behalf of David Miscavige or anybody else at the upper levels of Scientology. I have seen no evidence of anything resembling this thing they called “the hole”. For the several years that I’ve been there, since most of these people left. None of this stuff that was the advertised crux of the FBI investigation existed. The only percipient witness, the only person who was in a position to know, and a position to see, who was speaking on behalf of the complainants, said there’s no there there. And that, in effect, was the end of the FBI investigation. The only conversations I had with the FBI after that point were about how to sting Scientology executives on a potential obstruction of justice rap. In other words, do what the FBI usually does to get somebody in a white-collar case. 88% of the time, or whatever, 90% of the time that they get someone on a white-collar case, they get them covering up. And I said, “You could troll them”. In FBI lingo that’s sting ’em. Right. Get them to do something stupid. And in fact, they engaged in it. And Scientology didn’t take the bait. Now it was doubly; now even the sting was over by 2010. So, this whole narrative about how the Constitution saved Scientology from the scrutiny of the FBI is completely invented. Wright said, you know, he was going to cover it in his article because sometimes the Justice Department has a dismal record in dealing with “cults” and sometimes they need some incentive. So, it was clearly, he was going to try to give them a black eye to incentivize them to go after Scientology. Which was quite the motivation of an objective journalist, right?

Going Clear, Part 20 – Wright Straw Man Propaganda Technique (Oak Knoll) Wright sets up this straw man where he, or there’s a couple of straw men. They’re related. The first straw man is that Wright goes into this thing about how Hubbard and Scientology is all predicated on the representation that Hubbard cured himself from crippled and blindness and that he cured himself and this all occurred at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, okay. First of all, you know I went through that in spades with him demonstrating that that is a straw man, it’s a false premise, it’s not that representation doesn’t really exist, number one, and number two, what actually happened at Oak Knoll didn’t involve L. Ron Hubbard and it’s all covered. I gave him all the lectures. If you look, L. Ron Hubbard didn’t say he went and cured himself at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. He said he discovered the fundamental techniques of Dianetics by engaging in two-way communication therapy of sorts with people who were recovering from illnesses there. Okay. And he talks about it at length in detail and you can see the logic, if you know anything about Dianetics and Scientology. Which I gave him all the material on and took the days to go through and explain it to him and give him the primer so he could understand it, it makes perfect and logical sense. And the proof of the pudding is, is that to this day Wright still defends himself—you know, it’s not a defense really because in this bankrupt age of intellectual corruption people embrace these reductio ad absurdum simplicity, simple sort of propaganda statements about issues and Scientology’s no exception and so Wright’s embraced, but it’s based on a straw man.

Going Clear, Part 18 – John Sweeny false narrative Wright goes into really making a big deal about John Sweeney, about how the guy “never had such emotional and psychological pressure placed upon him than he did with Scientology,” even though he’d covered the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya and all this other kind of business. And then he euphemizes Sweeney’s infamous meltdown on camera, by stating that Sweeney shouted in an oddly slow cadence and he says—it’s a total euphemism of the guy having a meltdown in the middle of the set. And this whole thing is just, and I believe, I probably at some point went over this with Wright too, but even if I didn’t, I mean he is supposed to be an investigative journalist and be and have some sort of objectivity. But Sweeney’s producer, Sarah Mole, and Sweeney himself, both told me unequivocally that that entire story that he did on Scientology that Larry Wright is referring to here, was a trolling operation. There was no subject of investigation. There was no, you know, they didn’t even, they probably did, but they did not have a reason like the phony reason that Lawrence Wright gives in his book, for his “investigation.” They literally set forth to do a trolling operation to see what reaction they could cause from the Church and that would be the subject of the—like in other words, we are investigating you, we are going to be as noisy and obnoxious as we can and we are going to document your reaction to that and that was the entire thing. So, for him to position John Sweeney as some seasoned brave guy who then undertook an even braver task to look into Scientology is complete and utter fiction.

Going Clear, Part 19 – IRS, Wright and Harry Smith (NBC) trickery and bias The only media that I participated in or was asked to participate in, was when the book came out in January 2013. Larry Wright asked me if I would be willing to go to New York to do a segment of some NBC show, Rock Center I think it might have been. You know, he said, you’re a central person in this whole thing. And so, would you do that, talk about the book? And I said sure. And I don’t even know if I read the book by that point, I am not sure, maybe, maybe not. But in either event, I did and I flew to New York and I spent an entire half a day with Harry Smith in this elaborate set-up in some, it was down the street, it was like—it was in the Waldorf Astoria. It was like this old historic room, library type of thing and we were there for the entire morning and into the afternoon. And the entire time we were in there, Harry Smith was doing what Larry Wright had done with me a year earlier, or two years earlier, was to try to get this generalized statement that Scientology’s tax exemption was fraudulently or illegitimately obtained and he tried angle after angle and I’m like, to me it was like Larry Wright redux. Larry Wright had gone through the same thing with me and I went through chapter and verse and detail about no, you don’t get it. Yeah, there was some hard ball played but you don’t get it. When the IRS is coming after you, you’ve got to play hardball back or you meet your demise. You’re getting all caught up in these tactics and the bottom line is and the thing that they just want to write out of history is that two years, all the hardball tactics did was get us to the table, okay? And at that point, they held the cards and they held everything and every anti-Scientology voice, every person who had been there for 20 years and had this deep-seated institutional bias, everyone of them was fully heard and we had to answer to every one of them. Okay? And for two years we went through – and I had to explain this all over to Harry Smith. And Harry Smith is looking at me like, he’s pissed. It’s like he can’t believe that there is all this information coming out and all he wants is to get in the cut and print on yeah the whole thing was a sham or the whole thing was, you know. And so, it just went on for three hours, and it did. It got to the point where it, as it had sort of with Wright a year and a half earlier of this sort of testiness and disappointment. But, that was it. And we finally finished. We got out of there. I couldn’t wait to get out and get back home. So, unsurprisingly, I guess—two weeks later the show plays and I’m not in it. So, clearly, I mean very clearly, that was the intent of Larry Wright having me go there in the first place. It was what Harry Smith was briefed on. It was what he was to get and they didn’t get it, so they just cut it out. You know, just cut it.

Going Clear, Part 16 – More phony Haggis narrative At 319 we’re back into his—he goes out of his narrative, now he’s back into his narrative, okay. Back into Paul Haggis’ narrative, and he talks about Paul Haggis connecting up with Jason Beghe. This is almost like a script, like a spec script of Haggis, because he says, “Beghe says, I just want you to know I’m no longer in Scientology,’ Beghe told Haggis when he called. “Actually, I’m one of its most outspoken critics. The Church would be very unhappy if you hire me.’” Okay? Let’s go back for a second here. Oh, again, “Haggis was casting The Next Three Days in the summer of 2009 and he asked Jason Beghe to read a part for his detective.” Okay. He omits that Paul Haggis called Jason Beghe to participate in his movie because I asked Paul Haggis—the only thing I ever asked Paul Haggis was to do something for somebody else because Jason Beghe was such a wreck and so convinced and his confidence was so shot that he was so convinced that he could never work again. I asked Paul Haggis without telling Jason Beghe, can you give this guy something, anything. That is all omitted from here. So they make it look like a cold call that Paul Haggis just decided, hey “when I decide to cast somebody, I cast somebody.” Right. I mean they make this guy out to be John Wayne. So he calls him and then, according to this, he is learning for the first time – which is bullshit because I already told Paul Jason Beghe’s whole history, I had him watch his YouTube videos. He knows the whole story, chapter and verse. But the way this is written, just a cold call. And then he’s learning for the first time when Jason tells him “I just want you to know I’m no longer in Scientology,” Beghe said. “Actually, I’m one of its most outspoken critics. The Church would be very unhappy if you hired me.” End of quote. And what does John Wayne say? “’Nobody tells me who I can cast,’ Haggis responded.” Like—I mean if this happened, they’re just living this Hollywood fantasy of theirs. Haggis is acting like a big macho guy? I mean Haggis talked to me for days about making this call to Beghe. And then he acts like for the first time he’s learning that Jason is disaffected and his immediate response is, throw caution to the wind. Right? I don’t take orders from nobody. This is just all invention.

Going Clear, Part 17 – Haggis Lies, phony victim positioning So he says, by October, Marty Rathbun got a hold of the letter. Well I actually have an email of 23 August, 2 months earlier, where I’m already, I’m talking about, I’m talking with Paul Haggis, about, not only do I have the letter, but I’m getting detailed meticulous instructions about how to present it deceptively to media contacts that I’ve established, two months prior to October. OK? By October, it found its way to me, it didn’t find its way to me, Paul Haggis gave it to me. Paul Haggis consulted with me every step of the way, on how he should position this and how he should do this. And, OK? He called Haggis, who was shooting in Pittsburgh, and asked if he could publish the letter on his blog. Two months earlier than that, Paul Haggis wrote to me, and made me the coordinating point on seeing to it that his letter was published. So how could I be asking him to publish it two months later, right? Yeah. And then he got a call from Tommy Davis, “Paul what the hell”? Of course, I coached him through every step of the way and he wanted my counsel every step of the way, and you know, even then he was out getting counsel from Jason Beghe, and Bill Dendiu, and running it by me and trying to use my comm. I mean, what a prima donna. This process went on for two months. And so finally, I probably told him, I’m publishing it because you can’t make up your mind one way or the other what to do.

Going Clear, Part 15 – Paul Haggis phony narrative So, this is where we get into where I believe that we have got a really phony narrative going on. “Because Haggis stopped complaining, Davis felt that the issue had been laid to rest. But far from putting the matter behind him, Haggis began an investigation into the Church. His inquiry, much of it conducting on line, echoed the actions of the lead character he was writing for Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days, who goes on the Internet to research a way to break his wife out….” I mean this is such patent patronizing. He’s using his own created character to make him look like a hero in a movie. Right? And the reason why I covered all this business on the foundation of the homosexuality and the emphasis, this big emphasis, on Haggis being so suddenly – you know, he’s like that inspector in Casablanca, “I’m shocked and dismayed.” That’s being communicated all through here. This is false. He didn’t begin an investigation after this little tête-à-tête with Tommy Davis over Proposition 8. He sat on his butt. Wright says “what is so striking about Haggis’ investigation is that few prominent figures attached to the Church of Scientology have actually looked into the charges that have surrounded their institution for many years.” Again he’s going to lionize and dramatize this altruistic nature that sets Haggis apart from the rest of these scum celebrities who won’t look, right. Again, I’m telling you, he didn’t do that. This is false. What in fact actually happened was, several months after, if not a year after this whole intro that he, that Wright created, I got a mailing list that had Paul Haggis’ email address on it and I started an anonymous communication with him directing his attention to media that I had participated in. Okay? And I did it very cleverly to draw his interest and to get him talking about it. Before he even knew who I was. Okay? And this cat and mouse game went on for several days, okay? And he read the media. Then he began his investigation. And they have communicated the sequence all the opposite. Now, to give Larry Wright a break, before Larry Wright saw me, I think it was after the New Yorker article, but it could have been before, but I think it was after, Paul Haggis phoned me and he said “Marty can you do me a big big big favor?” Because he knew that Larry Wright was choosing me as the person that was going to be sort of the Church. Sort of be the surrogate—just so his due diligence would be done. So that he could say he got all of this—because I was very pro the technology of Scientology even though I had issues with the organization. And Hubbard, and L. Ron Hubbard. Okay? And so Paul also knew I was a huge part of the narrative, of this story that has been constructed here, created through the imagination and delusion – to steal a phrase from Larry Wright – of Larry Wright. But I’m giving Larry Wright a break because Paul Haggis called me and he said, “Marty can you do me a big favor?” I said, what is it? He said, “Look for the sake of my image with my daughters, can you please avoid telling Larry Wright that you were the person, that you prompted me to go do an investigation into the Church.” And I told him, look man, I’m not going to lie to him. But I will deceive him. I will not originate it unless he specifically asks me, point on and I will bob and weave but I’m telling you, if I get asked straight up, I’m not just going to outright lie for you. Oh and he was just profusely thanking me and thanking me because it was very important for his image with his kids. Now, in retrospect, I think it was very… now that I see the very productions that have been made with the movie and all his and the way the whole campaign has rolled out, I’m pretty sure he could give a rat’s ass about his kids. It’s important for his public image because he rode this sort of pro-gay rights wave as a PR vehicle and as to paint himself as heroic. Do you understand what I am saying? And it was critical—this critical passage right here—it was critical to the whole false narrative. And that is why he has got to really pump it up, “What is so striking about Haggis’ investigation is that no prominent Scientologists have ever charted and trail-blazed the land that he decided unilaterally to go blaze.” Problem is, he didn’t. Didn’t happen.

Going Clear, Part 14 – Wright adopts and publishes discredited nut cases So then he goes into this case about Michael Pattinson, who was a guy who claimed to be gay and discriminated against in Scientology, right. And he brought a lawsuit against Travolta and I think me, I think David Miscavige. You know, it was one of those nut-case lawsuits where he listed, he included as a defendant Bill Clinton, who was the sitting President of the United States of America at the time, was in this lawsuit. Alright. Larry Wright doesn’t tell you that here. “This is a very grave and important lawsuit on the subject of homosexuality that Michael Pattinson brought”. He doesn’t tell you that. And this is what he says, quote “that case was voluntarily withdrawn following an avalanche of countersuits. Both Pattinson and his attorney say they were driven into bankruptcy”. Okay. Let me tell you something. I was there when that lawsuit got filed. You know what it was good for? Comedic relief. It was a relief, because you know there was a lot of serious litigation and all sorts of—and this lawsuit came in and that was all it was good for, was comedic relief and that’s how the court viewed it. It was a complete shopping cart lady lawsuit. But he makes it sound like a real thing here, that these guys were systematically destroyed for having had the temerity to raise these grave issues. It was a joke. And the guy who filed it, the lawyer, was labelled as a vexatious litigant by the LA Superior Court. Which means he had to have his pleadings vetted before he could even bring another lawsuit. He couldn’t even just go down and—he lost his right to file a lawsuit. This stuff was so frivolous that he lost his right to even file a lawsuit. He had to get permission to file a lawsuit. OK, so here we are. This is all building this big façade about this intolerable homophobic environment that Paul was having to navigate.