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September 4, 2009 by Clerk1

Letter to Mark Rathbun: Apology not needed or wanted

Dear Mark:

Some people have been saying that I wanted an apology from you, or you should apologize to me, or even that you’ll never apologize to me, for the fair game you perpetrated against me and got others to perpetrate against me while you were in the Scientology organization. I want to assure you and everyone else that I am not seeking or asking for an apology. In fact, an apology from you without you doing what you can to correct the wrongs you perpetrated and are ongoing could be yet another cruelty. With your apology plus a quarter I could make a local payphone call.

What needs attention and resolution are ongoing black PR, ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which you were involved in and can help resolve. I know that you know this.

The situation between you, me and Scientology is analogous to a conspiracy that gets a person falsely imprisoned. The victim sits for years in prison. One of the co-conspirators leaves the conspiracy, perhaps because the head conspirator, the crime boss, beat up one too many of the otherwise happy criminal co-conspirators. The falsely imprisoned guy learns that the ex-conspirator has left the conspiracy (or at least the ex-conspirator claims he’s left the conspiracy) and is publicly offering to help people that he or the conspiracy had hurt. The ex-conspirator seems to be claiming that his ethics are now one hundred eighty degrees diametrically opposed to what his ethics were when he was a lieutenant conspirator under the head conspirator.

Although the Sea Org/Scientology is more a criminal organization than a spiritual organization, because it calls whatever it is and does “religious,” you could use the usual Catholic analogy, in which an ex-Catholic had been a Cardinal Conspirator under the Pope Conspirator. The Catholic Conspiracy, from the Pope through some Cardinals down through some more clergy to attorneys and lay thugs, would have been carrying out the Pope’s Holy Command Intention to have the earlier ex-Catholic falsely imprisoned, and in other ways criminally attacked. The person who’d left the Church years before the Cardinal blew could have been a Bishop, or maybe just a Clerk, but perhaps was an uncommonly blessed Clerk, who’d known God personally, and had been authorized by God to do the research for His Biography. The Catholic analogy is not inapt, but I think the conspiracy is easier to follow and understand without the vaticanist trappings, since it is a simple criminal conspiracy, even if called a sacrament.

The falsely imprisoned guy writes to the ex-conspirator asking for the offered, and clearly needed, help. The ex-conspirator doesn’t respond to his victim’s request, which his victim e-mailed to him and posted on various Internet sites to make sure the ex-conspirator got, and very clearly, where his victim was coming from. With good reason and, especially given the circumstances, good humor, and with accuracy and care, the victim communicated some of his sincerely held thoughts about the situation and the human relationship. As an icebreaker, the victim made his initial communication an interparagraphing analysis of a perjurious declaration the ex-conspirator had executed to cause the victim trouble and harm a number of years even before getting him falsely imprisoned.

As you can see, the ex-conspirator would be even crueler than he had already been if he “apologized” to the victim and then did nothing to bring the ongoing crime against the victim to an end. In our analogy or scenario, the ex-conspirator does neither. He doesn’t apologize and he doesn’t help. In fact, clearly contemptuously, he doesn’t communicate back at all.

Not receiving a response from the ex-conspirator, his victim again writes him requesting his help to correct the injustices the ex-conspirator had for many years perpetrated and prolonged against the victim. Specifically, the ex-conspirator had known about the conspiracy’s theft of the victim’s valuable documents and artwork, also years before the false imprisonment, and could have been, if he really had left the conspiracy, a great help in getting them back to the victim. Again the victim receives no acknowledgement, not a word granting him a shred of credence.

The victim waits another month or so then writes the claimed ex-conspirator again, about another cruel injustice that the conspiracy had perpetrated against the victim. Some people had suggested to the victim that victimizers like the ex-conspirator wouldn’t help their victims unless their victims were extremely polite to them. The victim thinks that this is what bullies or sociopaths standardly do to their victims; nevertheless, he is extremely careful to be extremely polite, and even pre-apologizes in case he was being thought of as overly polite. Again, the victim insures the victimizer gets his communication by sending it directly and publishing it publicly. Despite his victim’s extreme politeness and his care in making sure the claimed ex-conspirator really got his communication, the claimed ex-conspirator again doesn’t even acknowledge his victim.

As you can imagine, by this point, the victim is fairly certain that the claimed ex-conspirator is still part of the conspiracy, doing some twisted nastiness for the conspiracy as he’d done for many years; or he is simply a coward and a bully, and just blowing smoke about helping victims. Nevertheless, the victim writes yet again, trying to assuage his victimizer’s guilt, if he was feeling any, and if he was using the guilt he was feeling in excusing not helping his victim. The conspirators, including the ex-conspirator, as a key part of their criminal conspiracy to destroy the victim, had conducted a global defamation/psychoterror campaign that included lies the ex-conspirator knew were lies. The ex-conspirator had been in places and positions in the conspiracy to know the truth, including the truth about the other conspirators’ knowledge of the crimes they were committing against the victim. The ex-conspirator knew that the conspiracy against the victim and his rights was unlawful, and knew that unlawful acts were committed in furtherance of the conspiracy. The ex-conspirator correcting those lies and confessing to the knowing unlawfulness of the conspiracy and its actions would be a very effective step to start righting the wrongs they had committed and were ongoing.

Despite the victim being one of the conspiracy’s most victimized victims, and despite the claimed ex-conspirator’s vital participation in the victimizing, yet again the claimed ex-conspirator doesn’t respond, or even acknowledge the victim’s existence. Yet again, the victim’s letter had been reasoned, factual, accurate and polite. The ex-conspirator comments publicly in another matter about only responding to communications that are civil, and he’s probably intimating that he hasn’t responded to his biggest victim because he wasn’t civil enough. His victim, of course, was not only civil, but polite, and not overly polite, and the ex-conspirator, whether or not he really had left the conspiracy, is treating and handling him with contempt.

Again too, I’m sure you can see, an apology from the ex-conspirator without his doing whatever he could to correct the judicial injustices and other ongoing iniquities, would be cruel. The ex-conspirator’s contempt for the victim, which the silent treatment à la Lisa Tech evidences, was made willfully more contemptuous and crueler by the ex-conspirator’s setting up a “practice” in which he is the possessor, seller and deliverer of superlative “ethics.” If the ex-conspirator would help his victim as he could and never apologize, doubtlessly the victim wouldn’t object. If the ex-conspirator apologized at any point in their relationship from here on, doubtlessly the victim, being reasonable and not at all like the black PR the conspirators had manufactured about him, would be grateful. An apology could even help, and psychologically and socially could even help the ex-conspirator. But the victim isn’t asking for an apology, because, without the requested help, it would be cruelty.

The analogy is closer to reality than most people would imagine, I would imagine, because, although I have not been falsely imprisoned all the years of your analogous victim above, the Scientology conspiracy did obtain and currently possesses a series of unlawful orders jailing me in California and fining me. I simply didn’t comply with these unlawful orders because they’re unlawful, and no one has any lawful obligation in California, or anywhere in the US, to comply with any order that isn’t lawful. There are still unlawful orders to jail me in California, and you could be very helpful in getting them canceled. If I had complied with even one of those unlawful orders jailing me, the Scientology cultists could have kept me jailed for years, or decades or forever.

You know all the details of the Miscavige regime’s unlawful orders against me, in fact you know details of all Miscavige’s and his regime’s fair game on me, up until 2005, I suppose, when you say you blew from Gilman. I’ll provide a brief description of the unlawful orders and circumstances, and some comments on the relevant related issues, however, so that others who will read this will have enough information to create a pretty clear picture. The available and relevant documents, of course, for all Scientology’s legal cases against me are well organized on my site.

The 1995 injunction Scientology got against me in California Superior Court in Marin County was obtained unlawfully and is on its face unlawful. The injunction has been one of the most insane, self-destructive successes imaginable for Scientology. What a flap! And it’s still ongoing. And you, Mark, were involved in the litigation to obtain the injunction, and in the enforcement actions following its unlawful grant. In fact, you were, throughout many of those years, directly over the litigation. It’s funny really, if you could think about it, that you write to Bert Fields that you held the “second highest ecclesiastical position in the [Scientology] religion” when you were over litigation. This supports the reality that litigation is an ecclesiastical activity, or religious expression, or religious exercise. In my life, as I have proven, it certainly is.

You were on the approval line for the unconscionable contract that would make every Scientology church, every affiliated entity, and all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers, agents, assigns and attorneys, beneficiaries, not only in the unlawful contract, but in the unlawful injunction that enforced the unlawful contract, and in all the actions, which are all unlawful, taken to enforce the unlawful injunction. I won’t focus on the injunction here, although clearly it is an injustice that must be corrected, even for the benefit of the Scientologists it makes universally and willfully suppressive of basic human rights, but I’ll deal mainly with the enforcement efforts, which resulted in the unlawful jail sentences and fines against me.

You were also involved in fair gaming my attorney Michael J. Flynn from the day you were assigned to the Special Project or MAC. The “Juggernaut” eval is actually a criminal conspiracy. You were also involved in the operation to frame Flynn with the $2 million check forgery, using testimony Scientology purchased and which you knew to be false. From Vicki Aznaran’s July 19, 1990 declaration:

I have been informed by Mark (Marty) Rathbun, a high ranking Scientologist, that his private investigator, Gene Ingram, “fed” confession to Ala Tamimi when visiting him in an Italian prison. This false confession was, in substance, that Tamimi had been involved in a bad check scam involving an account of L. Ron Hubbard. This false confession implicated attorney Michael Flynn in the check scam. Michael Flynn was at the time considered a major enemy of Scientology because he represented numerous clients with claims against Scientology. This purported confession was used to slander and attack Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn has also been sued by Scientology as part of its “strategy” for handling enemies.

So you know what was done to conspire against, threaten, manipulate and degrade Flynn to get him to get me to sign your unlawful contract. These actions too must be confronted, the contract rescinded as unlawful, and the record cleared. As I said above, however, I will just deal now with the efforts to enforce the injunction that enforces the contract, and the unlawful jail sentences and fines you and your fellow religious conspirators obtained against me.

You will recall my August 14 letter, in which I requested your help to correct the black PR on me that you and Miscavige submitted to the IRS to get Scientology’s 1993 tax exemption. I mentioned in the letter that in January 1997, while living in San Anselmo, California, I discovered some of this black PR on the Internet, and that the discovery was so shocking that I felt I had to flee. I was also well aware at that time, of course, of Scientology’s leaders’ willful dishonesty, evil intentions toward me, and their propensity for physical violence, and I felt I had to be in a place, Canada, where I could more safely deal with this black PR and Scientology’s other attacks and threats. As you know, now twelve plus years later, time has proven me right. I also was painfully aware, obviously, that I could not get justice, or even reason, from the Marin Court Judge who’d issued the unlawful injunction and other unlawful orders and who had unlawfully denied me a fair trial, or any trial, Gary W. Thomas.

Back in January 1997, as Randomity would have it, just a few days before I actually left California, and while I was getting ready to leave, which was an extraordinarily threatening and troubling time, Grady Ward, a friendly fellow fighter against Scientology lies, abuses and criminality, served me with a subpoena for production of documents in the US District Court copyright infringement case he was defending against the cult. The following day, Andrew H. Wilson, the cult’s attorney in the Scientology v. Armstrong state case, sent me a letter claiming that my production of the subpoenaed documents to Ward would be a violation of the contract and injunction, and threatening me with enforcement if I produced the subpoenaed documents to Ward. Wilson didn’t copy Ward or the US District Court with his letter, and, although Wilson stated that Scientology would file a motion for a protective order in the Ward case to prevent my production of the subpoenaed documents, the cult never did file the motion.

Because Wilson’s threat and attempted interference was clearly unlawful, since I was a subpoenaed witness, I wrote a declaration reporting the threat and sent it to US District Court Judge Ronald M. Whyte, who presided over the Ward case and the related copyright infringement cases, Erlich and Henson. It was completely lawful, in fact arguably a legal duty, to report Wilson’s threat, and the report could not lawfully be prohibited by any injunction, certainly any State Court injunction. After reporting the threat, I left California for Canada. I had already filed a notice of appeal from the injunction and was awaiting the Marin County Clerk’s creation of the record and transcript for the appeal.

While I was in Canada, Scientology had Wilson file an application in Marin for an order to show cause re contempt against me for sending the declaration reporting Wilson’s threat to Judge Whyte. Scientology never served me with the application, or the OSC. Only many years later did I obtain a copy of some of the documents Wilson and Scientology filed in this matter. In his declaration in support of the application, Wilson omitted any mention of Grady Ward serving me with a subpoena duces tecum, any mention of Wilson’s threat, and any mention of the fact that I was sending my declaration to the federal judge to report that threat.

Scientology and Wilson, with machinations you would know about, then got the Judge Thomas, who had already granted the unlawful injunction and an equally unlawful judgment, to grant the cult’s contempt order, punishing me with two days in jail and a $1,000 fine. There is no mention in the order of Grady Ward serving me with the subpoena duces tecum, of Wilson’s threat, or that my declaration reported that threat to Judge Whyte.

While reasonably safely in Canada, I received the Marin Superior Court Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal, and I wrote and timely filed my Appellant’s Opening Brief in August 1997 in the California Court of Appeal in my appeal from Scientology’s unlawful injunction and judgment. Given where I’d written my brief, my situation, condition and resources, my brief is actually very good, and eminently civil, and no one has offered any reasoned and legally supported opposition to its substantive arguments. Scientology didn’t file a respondent’s brief, but filed a motion to dismiss the appeal based on the unlawful contempt order Judge Thomas had signed, which, the cult said, made me a fugitive from justice and therefore barred me from appealing.

What machinating Scientology, Scientologists and your attorneys organized to get Division Four of the First Appellate District to dismiss my appeal from the patently unlawful judgment and injunction, after I had filed a competent, well-supported and civil brief that showed that the injunction on which the contempt order, jail sentence and fines were based was unlawful, you would know, I’m sure, in considerable detail. After you got that appellate division to dismiss my appeal, it became clear to me that defiance and not civility was what was needed for Scientology and Scientologists.

My becoming very defiant as a result of your criminal abuse of process and conspiracy against my rights led me to see, of course, that defiance and civility weren’t mutually exclusive. My civility as a terrorized victim was simply transformed into the civility of a victim who has become very defiant. Defiance, as I intend it here, is “bold resistance to an opposing force or authority” and is, as you can see, neutral. Scientologists, for example, defy me to try to correct the injustices you’re perpetrating against me, and, of course, they defy logic, and even defy God. I defy Scientology’s and Scientologists’ lies. I defy you all to confront your “Suppressive Person” doctrine. I defy you, Mark, to prove that you’re on the right side. I defy you to prove you can’t understand what I’ve written. I defy all Scientologists to prove their “reason” is superior, or even reason at all.

Throughout my adult life, I have been civil, and in fact consciously and automatically polite and courteous. In an earlier communication to you, I mentioned my need to communicate as I communicate, and to publish what I publish, to counter Scientology’s and Scientologists’ lies and black PR on me. I mentioned specifically the big lie to the IRS to get your tax exemption that all of you truly believe I’m psychotic. The very same abundance of my writings and other communications now also has to prove, and does prove, that I’m civil. I am as civil as anyone as defiant as I am could be. I defy you to find anyone as defiant as I am and more civil than I am. In fact, I defy you to find anyone who is, whether a defiant victim or not, as big a victim of Scientology persecution as I am, and more civil.

The common, non-social emotion and attitude among Scientologists, which is installed in them by the application of Scientology, is contempt. They even watch each other to make sure they’re contemptuous enough of the right victims. Scientologists are universally contemptuous of me. Contempt is also, you should be aware, the actual, non-social tone and attitude of bullies and sociopaths. Scientologists’ group contempt for someone, or for others, facilitates aggression toward the targets or victims of their contempt. One of the available tones and attitudes in response to Scientology’s and Scientologists’ contempt and aggression or fair game is defiance, bold resistance. I’m happy to be able to report that the number of wogs defying Scientology’s and Scientologists’ contempt and aggression has grown exceedingly over the past several years. This expansion of planetary defiance, of course, has validated my own choice to defy these evils, and even made my defiance more defiant.

Your communications indicate that you are elevating your contempt for me to the point of demanding that I be civil. Yet, as a defiant victim of Scientology and Scientologists, you included notably, I am excruciatingly civil, dotting every i, crossing every t, and obeying every other convention or rule of grammar, etiquette and civility. You’re actually demanding that I stop being a civil defiant victim and just be your civil lickspittling victim, which I could never be even if I wanted for some insane reason to be. Your demand, of course, is both impossible and ludicrous. Victimizers demanding politeness from their victims is a form of what Hubbard called in scripture “double-curving.”

My defiance of your contempt is good for you, for me, and in fact it’s good for everyone. When you stop being contemptuous, naturally, I’d stop being defiant. I’d still be civil, but I’d appear very differently to you. You’d see in fact what you already know; that I’d been civil all along. So really, an apology from you, as long as you remain contemptuous of me and don’t help to end the continuing injustices and other fair game against me, would be just more contempt, more fair game, and, as I said, more cruelty, which, of course, is what contempt and fair game is intended to be.

Following your success getting Judge Thomas to sign your contempt order jailing and fining me for my sending my threat report to Judge Whyte, you also got Judge Thomas to sign a second contempt order for thirteen religious expressions about the Scientology religion I expressed in Europe and Canada, punishing me with another twenty-six days in jail and another monetary fine. Such an order is no more lawful than it would be to jail a person for expressing religious expressions about the Christian religion. The idea that an injunction issued by a California State Court judge, clearly either deranged or degraded, can lawfully prohibit a Canadian citizen from expressing his religious expressions about a religion in Canada or anywhere else is, of course, obscene, and clearly impossible.

After Judge Thomas retired, you used his series of unlawful orders and the Court of Appeal’s unlawful dismissal of my appeal to get another Marin Court Judge Vernon F. Smith to sign another contempt order against me for one hundred thirty-one religious expressions of my religious experiences and religious knowledge of a religion and its religionists. Being as defiant as I humanly could be, knowing that the contract’s and injunction’s conditions that I was violating were inarguably unlawful, and just living my life, I had, even by that time, actually violated these conditions hundreds of thousands of times. I would say that I have violated these unlawful conditions millions of times.

Over my sincere opposition at every stage, you priced each religious expression of my religious experiences and religious knowledge at $50,000 per expression, and you got Judge Thomas to agree that was a reasonable, fair and judicially enforceable figure. I disagreed that my religious expressions of my religious experiences and religious knowledge had that monetary value, but Scientology and all Scientologists, and certainly you, who were then in charge of litigation, insisted upon that valuation, and Judge Thomas went along with you. To further unlawfully help Scientology and Scientologists to unlawfully persecute me, he also went along with your unconscionable math, ruling it perfectly fathomable. The multiplicand for the $50,000 would be determined by the recipients, or even intended recipients, of any religious expression of my religious experiences in and religious knowledge of the Scientology religion.

You’ll recall that you had Scientology state in its early lawsuit to enforce its contract against me that I had sent a single religious expression to 19 people establishing its value at $950,000. All my religious expressions times their recipients times $50,000 a pop, I’m sure you’re aware, generates more monetary value than there is money in the world. In his deposition in the case, your junior during many years Lynn Farny provided the ecclesiastical adverb “a pop” when explaining how Scientology performed its monetary valuations of my religious expressions.

[Attorney Michael L. Walton:]  Q. The sending of this letter Scientology has alleged entitles it to $950,000 in liquidated damages. Can you explain that to me?

[Lynn R. Farny:]  A. Yes, I can. The letter which is attached to the Complaint as an Exhibit E is nine pages long and provides an extensive amount of information. Now each of the individuals designated in paragraph 87 received a copy of this letter, so it’s the disclosure of information to those individuals at $50,000 a pop which totals 950,000.

This letter to you, which I intend and expect conservatively a million people will receive, is worth, according to the Scientology “beneficiaries,” $50 billion.

Based on the unlawful injunction, judgment and contempt orders, in 2002 you had Scientology sue me again, seeking $10 million for two hundred of my religious expressions, virtually all of which were expressed in Canada or Europe. Your suit was also against Bob Minton and the Lisa McPherson Trust, seeking more millions from them for “acting in concert” with me in violation of your unlawful orders against me. You sued Minton for purchasing a computer for me because that computer would be used by me to express my religious expressions about the Scientology religion. Your attorneys unlawfully threatened several people with judicial enforcement of the unlawful injunction.

In 2004, at a trial of your $10 million suit, which was not the fair trial I seek in which I can put on a defense, Marin Superior Court Judge M. Lynn Duryee dispensed with the jail sentences and fines Scientology had obtained against me as unconscionable punishment. Amazingly and demonically, and through a very dishonest connection in the same appellate division that had dismissed my appeal of the unlawful injunction on the basis of the unlawful contempt order, Scientology was able to get this unconscionable punishment reinstated. I have the complete appellate record on my site.

Thus there are still these unlawful jail sentences and fines that prevent me from traveling to California, and even threaten my traveling anywhere else in the US. You know they’re unlawful, and shouldn’t want them, if you have any conscience, to be considered lawful by anyone; and you’re perfectly able to help me correct these and all the injustices Scientology and Scientologists have perpetrated against me all these years. That you worked so assiduously under Miscavige to silence people about Scientology, and make it appear lawful to silence people about Scientology, is a crime not only against me but against all wogs, and even more, against all Scientologists.

Scientology and Scientologists, as you know and doubtlessly directed, have also used, and continue to use their unlawful California jail sentences and other unlawful orders against me to black PR me and cause me trouble all around the world. See, e.g. this 2001 OSA black PR to a huge list of Russian Federal, and Provincial departments and officials, the clergy, and the mass media :

I am talking about Gerald Armstrong, a man who will take part in this conference and will present a paper on April 24, 2001.

In May 1998 the Supreme Court of the State of California issued an order to “arrest him and to bring him to the court” and that this arrest “can be conducted any time day or night” (cited from the court decision). I should add that this Armstrong was to be brought before the court and held accountable for anti-religious propaganda.

The order has not been executed until now for the simple reason that Armstrong is not at the moment residing in the US and thus is outside the reach of American justice.

I have no doubt that neither the Diocese of Nizhny Novgorod nor the authorities of Nizhny Novgorod Province and the city of Nizhny Novgorod have access to this data; otherwise this man would not have been put on the list of participants in the Conference.

I include here a copy of the document sent to me from the USA and I ask you to find out whose initiative it was to invite this man to Nizhny Novgorod, deliberately not informing the government that he is a criminal element. It is necessary to carefully screen all the list of the participants as well.

I also would like to inform you that this document, with an explanatory letter similar to this one, has already been submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the information about the arrival of Armstrong in Russia has been handed to the U.S. Embassy in Russia so that the necessary measures may be taken for his detention.

Or see Scientology’s false statement to have me prosecuted in Ekaterinburg, Russia in 2003, which included this “support” for the demanded false prosecution:

We ask you to take measures, which are provided for by the law in relation to the members of this group of people. And we inform you, that G. Armstrong was brought to justice for his illegal activity. Namely, the Supreme court of the state California, County of Marin, case #157680, sentenced G. Armstrong to be guilty and demanded him to pay the compensation in the amount of $300 000 to the plaintiff. The Supreme Court of state California county of Marin, case #152229, awarded the Order to immediately arrest G. Armstrong, who purposely violated the writ 13 times. Also, the Supreme Court of California county of Marin, case #157680, #152229 declared, that the defendant G. Armstrong is guilty in 13 acts of contempt of court. Also he is punished for the previous contempt of authorities by the fine $200 for each infringement (totally $2600) and confinement in the County Jail for a period 48 hours for each infringement (totally 26 days). G. Armstrong should appear before the Court of the county of Marin, obeying the law, or should be brought to suffer punishment till 10 of February 1998. In case G. Armstrong does not obey to the mandate of the court, the bench warrant will be issued to arrest him immediately and subject to confinement, till the punishments for the contempt of the court are fulfilled.

If you stick with the Scientology position that the orders jailing me and fining me for expressing my sincere religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge about this religion, or any other religion, are desirable, moral or lawful, then you support Miscavige on this most key issue confronting Scientologists. On the other hand, if you really want to bring Miscavige to justice, to get justice for the victims of his regime’s injustice, and to actually defend human rights, then these orders and my relationship with Scientology and Scientologists provides an excellent opportunity. My case and the orders against me are all about human rights, and I have fought for this opportunity for over twenty-seven years. The help I need from you is your knowledge of what you were doing, or getting others to do, or of what Scientology was doing, that was not lawful, or fair, or conscionable, or even arguably advisable in its conspiracy to silence, imprison, ruin, and beastify me. If you tell the whole time, place, form and event, my attorney and I will make great use of it to do great good.

Yours civilly as always,

Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2P6
Canada
604-703-1373

Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Mark Rathbun

December 31, 2014 by Clerk1

Marty Rathbun knows Scientology terrorism

He writes:

Unidentified Scientology Terrorists
Posted on December 14, 2014 by Mark C. Rathbun

The following video captures a second wave of scientology terrorists trespassing at a private studio in Hollywood (for the first wave see the the last post, Scientology Top Management) on Saturday afternoon 13 December 2014.  They are attempting to intimidate and silence me in my ongoing consultant work with the credible production companies producing feature-length, theater-release documentary films on scientology. Both of their principle accusations against me (that I have been paid a red cent for adopting a child and for consultancy on the documentary) are bald-faced, invented lies. 1

This took me back thirty years to an incident in Heathrow Airport when three of Marty’s agents terrorized my wife Jocelyn and me. I described the incident in a declaration on July 1, 1984.

7. On June 29 when my wife and I were checking in at London’s Heathrow airport for our return flight to the U.S., we were accosted by three men, one of whom called my name and thrust at me the Temporary Stay Order, Attachment A. It was then 11:20 a.m. Our plane was due to depart at 11:55 and was already boarding. There was no actual reason for the Temporary Stay Order to be served on me at the airport in London since it has for some time been the arrangement for any service of pleadings etc. to be made on my attorney of record in my stead. The only purpose of such service at that time and the harassment that followed would be an effort to make us miss our flight back to the U.S.

8. The man who did all the talking of the threesome was in his 40’s about 5’10”, very overweight and with an offensive odor. He identified himself as John Ingram, a private investigator. One of the other men was grey haired, probably in his 50’s also around 5’10” and more distinguished looking than Ingram. The third man was probably in his early 20’s, about 5’5″ wearing a motorcycle jacket and carrying a helmet. My wife identified him as having followed us all the way from downtown London in the train to the airport. These two men would not give their names, but admitted that they worked for Ingram.

9. I had heard about Ingram on the previous Saturday from a former Scientologist, Jon Atack. Mr. Atack had told me that Ingram was retained by Scientology in the U.K. and had been involved in harassment of people who had split off from the organization. Ingram is not the same person as Eugene Ingram or Ingraham, another private investigator employed by Scientology in the U.S. to carry out their covert operations and harass individuals.

10. At Heathrow airport, Ingram was abusive and pushy. He and his cohorts followed my wife and I through the airport as we went through the check-in procedure. Ingram kept questioning me and accusing me about being in contempt of court and about an alleged meeting on Tuesday evening, June 26 at the Olde Cock Tavern in London. Ingram’s statements ran as follows:

“Who did you meet at the Olde Cock Tavern on Tuesday evening?”

“Who was the man you met at the Olde Cock Tavern?”

“You’re in contempt of court.”

“Who did you give the sealed documents to?”

“You violated the court order.”

“You were seen giving the sealed documents to a bearded man on Tuesday evening in the Olde Cock Tavern.”

“Who was the person you gave the sealed documents to?”

“Two private investigators observed you on Tuesday evening in the Olde Cock Tavern giving the sealed documents to a bearded man, an Arab. You’re in violation of this court order. You’re in contempt of court.”

11. I told Ingram that he was (variously) mad, working for terrorists, a liar, harassive, trying to frame me, and full of fecal matter. 2

I realized I had hit on something effective when I told these men they worked for terrorists, and I began to say it very loudly and emphatically. I raised my arms so that everyone else in the terminal could see and I pointed down at the trio right in front of me as I yelled, “These guys work for terrorists.” Rathbun’s terrorizing agents took off, and Jocelyn and I made our plane.

After this, Rathbun had one of his UK agents execute a sworn statement containing the same bald-faced, invented lies he had his PI “John Ingram” spew at me in Heathrow. The Scientologists clearly sought to use this affidavit in the Scientology v. Armstrong case in LA 3 to turn the judge, Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr., against me, and to cause me other legal trouble. Judge Breckenridge had presided at my trial, which had just occurred, and “sealed documents” was an issue throughout the Armstrong 1 litigation. Fortunately, I had written this declaration immediately upon my return to the US, and provided the facts refuting these false accusations in advance of receiving or even knowing about the UK agent’s written statement.

12. There is absolutely no truth to Ingram’s statements or accusations. I had no sealed documents in London, nor any way to obtain sealed documents. I had met no Arab in London. I had given no one any documents while in London except a copy of Judge Breckenridge’s intended Judgment and this to no bearded man, no Arab and nobody in the Olde Cock Tavern.4

13. I had been in the Olde Cock Tavern restaurant on Monday, June 25 for lunch with my wife. This establishment is on Fleet Street, right across from the English Court where I was then testifying. When the Court broke for lunch my wife and I by chance ate at the Olde Cock Tavern. We ate alone and did not pass documents to anyone. On Tuesday evening, June 26, my wife and I, because we had had a good meal there the day before and because it is near the hotel where we were staying, decided to have dinner at the Olde Cock Tavern. Upon arriving in front of the establishment, however, we found a sign stating that the restaurant was closed except for a private party which had reserved it for the evening. We therefore did not enter the Olde Cock Tavern on Tuesday evening.

14. At a minimum the actions of these private investigators hired by LRH, MSH or Scientology are harassive and designed to intimidate my wife and me. More likely these actions are part of a larger plan to entrap or frame me and so bring about my destruction which these people seek. Entrapment and frame-ups are standard Scientology intelligence actions. Allegations of contempt of court are designed to break me financially by forcing me to defend myself legally. The actions of LRH, MSH and/or Scientology keep me convinced that I have no future after Scientology and that my life and my wife’s life are just as much in danger now that the case has been won as before the litigation began. LRH, MSH and Scientology are vindictive and will stop at nothing to get revenge. 5

Falsely accusing the Scientologists’ lawfare targets of violating court orders was a litigation stratagem Rathbun had his agents and underlings used many times while he ran legal affairs for L. Ron Hubbard and current cult head David Miscavige. 6 To prevent the publication of Russell Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah, Rathbun had his personnel Kenneth David Long and Sheila MacDonald Chaleff execute affidavits falsely accusing me of violating court sealing orders and passing sealed documents to Miller for his book. 7 Rathbun then had one of his powerful Scientology lawyers threaten me to prevent me from responding to Long and Chaleff’s lies.

In April 1985, I testified in the Julie Chistofferson Titchbourne v. Scientology trial in Portland, Oregon about the Heathrow incident, and mentioned the conclusion I had then reached that the Scientologists comprised a terrorist organization masquerading as a religion. Since the Christofferson trial, principally because of the IRS’s 1993 grant of tax exemption and the US Federal Government’s acceptance, protection and promotion of Scientology as religion, I was compelled to change my belief about the Scientologists masquerading, and accepted that they comprised a legitimate terrorist religion. Although the Scientologists’ intentions and actions have not changed in any relevant way, and they still terrorize good people, I now believe that, more accurately, at least in the US, they comprise a criminal organization or criminal religion that terrorizes. Being a religion, the policies and directives to terrorize people are scripture, even if unholy scripture.

I was called just after the Armstrong trial, which ended in early June, 1984. I was called by someone, and this person said, did I want my PC files. I had wanted my PC files for a long time, and it was obvious that, sure, I wanted my PC files, I didn’t want the organization to have them, and I wanted them for my own peace of mind and any number of reasons.

The person — it was a male voice — said that they were being transferred that night. And later I got that they were being transferred from ASI. They were being transferred that night, and did I want them. I said, “Are you going to deliver them to me?” I still don’t know who made the call, but I thought at the time it might be Mark Rathbun, who I saw in the court this morning, but it probably wasn’t, it was probably someone else working for the organization.

So I then asked — or it came out that I would have to go somewhere and pick them up, and I said you, “Could that be construed as accepting stolen property?”

And the person said, “I don’t know what the legal definition of it would be.”

So I said, “Well, in that case, as much as I want them, I’ll pass.” That was my first direct contact, and here it was just a voice on the end of the phone.

Within a day or two — I was at that time — The trial had just completed, my trial, and I had already made arrangements prior to the trial to testify in a case in London, England, a custody case. And I was called again and — same voice — and I was told that “While you are in England, you are going to be served with a lawsuit by the organization. And the reason this is to take place in England is because over there, you are going to have to get an attorney and you are going to have to come back here, and you are going to have to go back there, and they are going to break you financially by your having to defend yourself.”

So in any case, I still decided to go to England. While in England — I arrived on a Friday in England, and by Tuesday, I had picked up surveillance.

I was with my wife over there, and we were staying in a little hotel, and we knew we were being surveilled on Tuesday. I had testified on a Monday and we left on a Friday, and we picked up surveillance in London on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. And it made it an extremely unpleasant stay in London when it could have been something half decent.

On the way, flying out of Heathrow Airport in London, three people who identified themselves as private investigators — we only had about — The plane was boarding when this thing happened and we were in a panic to get through lines and to get there, and we were followed from the hotel out to the airport. And then two more PI’s picked us up in the airport, and I was indeed served with a paper.

The paper was not a lawsuit. It had — It was an emergency stay in my case from the Appellate Court, sealing the documents which had been admitted into evidence. This was served on me; it made no sense whatsoever, because what had been custom up to that point, simply to give my attorney a copy of whatever paper I was being noticed with.

During this period, which lasted about ten minutes with the private investigators, this guy kept repeating that — first of all, he said, “What were you doing in the Old Cock Tavern on Tuesday night?” And I said, “You are nuts.” The Old Cock Tavern happens to be on Fleet Street right — a little down the road from the Court, High Court in which I was testifying in the custody case. And I — in fact, my wife and I had had lunch at the Old Cock Tavern on the Monday preceding this alleged incident on the Tuesday. I said, “You are nuts.” He said, “You were observed by two private investigators in the Old Cock Tavern on Tuesday.” I said, “You are nuts. I was in the Old Cock Tavern on Monday.” He said, “Who was the Arab you were talking to in the Old Cock Tavern?” Again I said, “You are nuts. I never talked to an Arab.”

And he kept pushing this and finally he ended up saying, “You were observed by two private investigators passing sealed documents to a bearded Arab in the Old Cock Tavern on Tuesday evening” — an incident which never took place. My wife and I had, in fact, gone to the Old Cock Tavern on Tuesday because the luncheon Monday had been okay, and the place was sealed off. That is, the dining room part was sealed off. So after the Monday, I was never in the Old Cock Tavern; I never spoke to any Arabs there. The only person I did speak to there was the waitress and my wife.

In any case, I knew at this point there was some operation going down regarding me, and I was extremely freaked out and upset. Then I got back to the U.S. And the day after my arrival I prepared an affidavit, which was filed in my case, laying out all of these — the incidents from London.

Then there was another series of events which happened. I was in court in my own case — there was a hearing — and I had won my case and there was a decision which had come from the judge; it was a very strong decision, it was completely in my favor. And the attorney for the organization, a guy by the name of John Peterson, went into an absolute tirade in the court, again going through the same party line of the organization: that I was a thief, that I had stolen these documents, and I was guilty — when those private investigators who harassed me and my wife for a month and a half, I was guilty because I had taken their photographs.

And I knew then that there simply is no way that courts can restrain these people; that it is a terrorist organization. I had beat them in court and yet it was meaningless. And I knew this whole thing came from Hubbard. And I knew that I had no future whatsoever, and the only thing to do was to confront what was this thing which was masquerading as a religion and was, in fact, a terrorist organization.8

In addition to running the agents who accosted me in Heathrow, Rathbun directed the efforts to prevent me from testifying, the use of my pc folders to lure me into the Scientologists’ trap, attorney Peterson’s false charges, and dozens, if not hundreds, of other fair game actions. All of Rathbun and his agents’ actions had the same purposes: to intimidate and silence me in my work, and to harm or destroy me for keeping my work working. My work, whether I knew it, or did it well, or not, was telling the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. This work was certainly necessitated by the Scientologists’ determination to harm or destroy me, which soon became overt, covert, complex and continuous. Rathbun touches on this in his 2013 book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, although he blames the conspiracy and campaign to harm or destroy me on Miscavige. There is no doubt that, more importantly, my best work, from its start, has been in response to a Power that quells all the terror the Scientologists and their collaborators can postulate.

After Miscavige busted Gerry’s direct superior, Laurel, Armstrong formally brought the matter of the potentially false representations to the attention of authorities in CMO International. Armstrong respectfully recommended that the church cease issuing any representations that it could not back up with documentation. The matter was referred to Miscavige, since he was responsible for L. Ron Hubbard’s defense. Rather than investigate Armstrong’s concerns, Miscavige sent Starkey to intimidate Armstrong into line, treating him as if he was imagining his concerns because his mind had been “infected” by the GO. Ultimately, by the end of 1981, Sullivan and Armstrong left the church, in protest at being treated as criminals. Memoirs, p. 168.

Flynn also received a windfall, care of the fruits of Miscavige’s enemy-making proclivities. Gerry Armstrong, the archivist whom Miscavige and Starkey nearly hung for trying to protect Hubbard and the church against the very claims Flynn had been making, had made contact with Flynn. We knew this because for several months Miscavige had been directly supervising surveillance of Armstrong, through a former GO intel staff member named Geoff Shervell. Shervell utilized teams of private eyes to shadow Armstrong everywhere. Shervell reported directly to Miscavige through all those months, just as I had on litigation matters from our Special Unit. On more than one occasion, Shervell groused to me about the incessant, obsessive pressure Miscavige put on him, demanding to know Armstrong’s every move. He said, “Marty, he knows we’re on him, which kind of defeats the purpose of the surveillance.” Thinking for a moment, Geoff added, “Unless the purpose is to drive him crazy.”

Armstrong became increasingly paranoid under pressure and finally got spooked enough to go to Flynn for help. Armstrong also brought with him several boxes of biography archives he had lifted from the church; documents that demonstrated to him that Hubbard’s personal biography, promoted by the church, was full of holes.

I did not connect the dots until years later, but Miscavige had essentially chased Armstrong right into the enemy camp. In September, 1982, all I knew was that Shervell had evidence of Armstrong lifting the documents, and I had direct, urgent orders from Miscavige to sue Armstrong back to the stone ages. We sued, and obtained an injunction which impounded the files with the Los Angeles Superior Court pending trial (which would occur years later). But that did not stop Armstrong from – in fact it drove him to – writing long, detailed declarations claiming L. Ron Hubbard was a fraud and that the church would stop at nothing to prevent him from proving so. Flynn now had a fresh, inside witness who knew Hubbard’s personal archives better than anybody on Ron’s side. Miscavige’s treatment of Armstrong also sent Hubbard’s former Personal Public Relations Officer, Laurel Sullivan, to jump on board with Flynn.

Further, Miscavige’s treatment of Bill Franks, the erstwhile Executive Director International, had prompted Franks to join Flynn and to provide even more new high-level witness declarations. With Armstrong, Sullivan and Franks aboard, suddenly Flynn could paint a credible picture, through sworn declarations, that L. Ron Hubbard was actively engaged in tight control of the church of Scientology – something we had gone to great lengths to disprove over the past year and a half. All three of the powerful new guns in Flynn’s arsenal were people that David Miscavige had personally treated with aggression and vengeance.

Granted, Hubbard had directed or authorized their falls from grace, but Miscavige had an inimitable, aggressive style that produced only two possible results: a) compliance with Ron’s intentions, or b) an avowed enemy of Miscavige, and usually, by association, of Hubbard and Scientology. Objectively speaking, even though I did not fully appreciate it then, in a little more than a year from the time the quest for All Clear had begun, the enemy’s hand had been strengthened beyond its wildest dreams. All compliments of the man L. Ron Hubbard had charged with ultimate responsibility for All Clear: David Miscavige. Memoirs, (pp. 193-194)

For the record, Rathbun could not have known that Shervell had evidence of my lifting Hubbard’s documents. That is because there was no evidence. And there was no evidence because I had not lifted the documents. If I had lifted the subject documents, which were retained by the Clerk of the LA Superior Court, and the Scientologists had evidence of that lifting, they would have presented it at trial, or far earlier. What Rathbun could have known was that Shervell claimed he had such evidence. Rathbun, of course, as the person assigned to sue me back to the stone ages, had a duty to verify that claim. My belief is that when he acted, for the purpose of suing me back to the stone ages, a doubtlessly unlawful purpose, Rathbun knew that I had not lifted Hubbard’s documents. He nevertheless had that and other false claims made in the Armstrong 1 complaint, and in the media, and among Scientologists, in compliance with scripture, to get them in a frenzy of hate for me and in love with the terrorists.

In any event, Rathbun learned no later than September 1982 that I had not lifted Hubbard’s documents, but had been given them by Omar Garrison for the lawful and justified purpose of sending them to my attorneys. Rathbun also knew by the 1984 judgment in his back-to-the-stone-ages suit all about the lawful chain of custody of the subject documents. Although he devotes a whole chapter in Memoirs to the Armstrong 1 case, he ignores this issue, which was so key at trial and in the judgment.

Discussion
The court has found the facts essentially as set forth in defendant’s trial brief, which as modified, is attached as an appendix to this memorandum. In addition the court finds that while working for L.R. Hubbard (hereinafter referred to as LRH), the defendant also had an informal employer-employee relationship with plaintiff Church, but had permission and authority from plaintiffs and LRH to provide Omar Garrison with every document or object that was made available to Mr. Garrison, and further, had permission from Omar Garrison to take and deliver to his attorneys the documents and materials which were subsequently delivered to them and thenceforth into the custody of the County Clerk. 9

The reason Rathbun, the Scientologists and their collaborators continue to knowingly lie and get others to lie about my lifting or stealing the subject documents is obvious, even though it has long since been disproven. It is what they have to somehow justify the decades of fair gaming or terrorizing me. For a perpetrator or victimizer, the thought of acknowledging that lie, and being left with no justification whatsoever for all the evil that lie justified, could be terrifying.

I also did not bring with me several boxes when I went to Flynn for help, as Rathbun claims in Memoirs. I went to Flynn for help right after the Scientologists stole a set of photos I had and told me to get an attorney. I already knew I was a fair game target, which Rathbun essentially acknowledges, and blames on Miscavige. It was several weeks after going to Flynn for help that I sent him two boxes of documents, not several.

Relevant to Scientology terrorism, Rathbun is claiming that Miscavige’s terrorizing me drove me to write long, detailed sworn declarations. Naturally, my declarations included details I knew about that terrorism, as well as about Hubbard’s active engagement in tight control of the Scientologists who were doing the terrorizing. The Scientologists had two choices: stop the terrorism, or keep right on terrorizing to intimidate me and silence me about their terrorism. They chose terrorism in 1982, and since then have never renounced that choice, despite how unsuccessful they have been in silencing me, despite long exposure of their antisocial and criminal actions, and despite the clear possibility of future condemnation and prosecution.

To get their terrorism against me, and of course others, accepted, and as a key facet of their terrorism, the Scientologists have done their damnedest to reduce my image to beast level around the world. Hubbard ordered this practice in the same very senior scriptural directive in which he ordered that a frenzy of hate be incited toward the Scientologists’ terrorism targets. If my image can be reduced to beast level, the Scientologists will have public opinion on their side in terrorizing, harming and destroying me. To carry out their targets’ beastifying and terrorizing, and of course to have good indicators on post and wins in life, the Scientologists’ necessary attitude toward their victims like me is contempt. Rathbun has retained his contempt since claiming to have left the terrorists, who, he says, now terrorize him and his wife. He serves their purposes in their terrorism against me with his contempt, and with his lies about me by which the terrorists justify their terrorism.

Rathbun paints a completely incredible picture in Memoirs that Hubbard had nothing to do with terrorizing Laurel Sullivan, Bill Franks and me, and thereby driving us into Flynn’s arsenal. Rathbun writes that Hubbard had just directed or authorized our falls from grace. Certainly Hubbard did not in my case, because there was no fall from grace. I blew. A person doesn’t fall from grace when he escapes a criminal conspiracy, or a terrorist organization, or even a terrorist religion. A fall from grace in Scientology would be a demotion of some kind within the cult. I had witnessed many Hubbard-directed falls from grace as a Scientologist, and had experienced some. He had twice personally assigned me to the RPF, and doubtlessly directed my bust off the RPF Bosun post and my extra time in the joint. But when I escaped from Hubbard, who I knew by then was a gargantuan liar, and from Scientology, which I was starting to grasp was a malignant and dangerous cult, it was not a fall from grace, and Hubbard did not direct or authorize it.

When he heard that I had blown, and probably began to recall what I might have discovered in his personal archive, he directed that I be terrorized, and, of course, he authorized everything the Scientologists did to me for that purpose until he died. From my introduction to the Armstrong Op:

The Armstrong Op is central to the Scientology v. Armstrong war, which is in its thirty-third year. The war started the moment L. Ron Hubbard, or his emissary on duty, received a report of my leaving his cult, and ordered that I be treated or handled as a traitor, enemy, threat, target, victim, “Suppressive Person,” or “SP” So, December 1981. The Scientologists could have done something other than declare war on me, but they didn’t. They could have ended their war at any time, even before Hubbard died in 1986, but they haven’t.10

Last month, Jesse Prince confirmed on his blog that Hubbard had directed the fair game on me during that period.

From 1983 until the settlement in 1986, I would receive on a daily basis, usually sometime between 6-8 pm, intelligence reports  generated by staff of Special Project Operations (ASI), OSA and RTC concerning secret and illegal operations by Scientology against [G]erry, his lawyer Michael Flynn, and other plaintiffs represented by Michael Flynn’s firm.

[…]

There were years of board room meeting at ASI to figure out how to get rid of [G]erry Armstrong, L Ron junior, David Mayo and a few other people who had devoted their lives in servitude to L Ron and his grand ideas. All of these devoted people turned out to be Suppressive Persons all along according to the instructions from L Ron via his publishing organization ASI.

[…]

It was new management’s job to hunt them down and get them put in jail. Some may recall during the early to mid 1980’s L Ron got a bug up his ass and thought he had the power to have people criminally prosecuted for disobeying or being out of step with what he wanted. This is way past just having a stick up your ass, he really wanted this done and some people did get set up and went to jail.  It was required protocol to hate and contribute to the destruction of men and women that I had never met or laid eyes on. We would be sitting in the board room at L Ron’s Author Services organization reading advice’s from L Ron calling for the heads of staff he felt offended him somehow. Listening to Miscavige and other staff figuring out ever clever ways to get rid of the people who were aggravating poor L Ron. As we sat there making up plans to attac[k] the very same people who were at L Ron’s side doing everything in their power to do his will. L Ron never wavered when it came to annihilating the oldest and closest devote[d] adherents he had. There is no retirement in the business of Scientology. Ron taught his prodigy to quickly and quietly get rid of the most loyal staff members without remorse.

There were banker boxes full of “advi[c]es” from L Ron spewing hate filled vitriol about [G]erry. 11

“Advices” were what Scientologists called Hubbard’s orders to them, as a cynical ruse to help shield him from responsibility or liability for his orders they were compelled to carry out. Even though his orders to harm or annihilate me that spewed hate filled vitriol about me are religious scripture, the Scientologists hide them and deny their existence, because of the Scientologists’ guilty knowledge that these scriptural orders are evidence of their criminal conspiracy and the source of their terror tactics. Current head Miscavige similarly has his underlings, who execute his orders to harm or destroy people like me, shield him from responsibility or liability for those antisocial or criminal orders. Because of Hubbard’s religion angle, where he transformed a medical scam into a religious scam and made himself the “Source,” his hate filled, vitriolic “advices” evidence a criminal religion that uses terror. Obviously, Rathbun is still hiding Hubbard’s direction and authorization of the Scientologists’ criminal actions against me, and others like me, which Hubbard did until he died.

Although Miscavige personally ordered that I be treated with aggression and vengeance, or otherwise personally ordered that I be terrorized, he did not personally treat me that way. The same is true with Hubbard. He did not personally treat me with aggression and vengeance, because, like Miscavige, he had no personal contact with me after I left his cult. Hubbard personally ordered his underlings, including Miscavige, to treat me and get others to treat me with aggression and vengeance. It’s like Hitler and the Jews; he didn’t, for the most part, personally treat them with aggression and vengeance, but got others to do it. Rathbun too, for the most part, personally got others – attorneys, PIs, and his Scientologist underlings – to treat me with aggression and vengeance, but stayed hidden and didn’t personally carry out most of my treatment. In Memoirs, he paints a false picture of Miscavige’s personal treatment of me and others, to hide Hubbard’s responsibility, and Rathbun’s own responsibility, for personally ordering my treatment with aggression and vengeance, and terror, just as Miscavige did.

I didn’t attend closing argument in the Christofferson trial, and I don’t have transcripts for much of the trial, but an article in The Oregonian on May 14, 1985 highlighted plaintiff’s attorney Garry McMurry’s use in closing argument of the image of terrorism as religion, or religious practice.

Titchbourne lawyer calls Scientology terrorist group in guise of church
By FRED LEESON
of The Oregonian staff

The Church of Scientology was decried Monday as a terrorist organization run by a “brilliant sociopath” under the guise of religion as lawyers began closing arguments in a civil fraud trial against the church in Portland.

“This is a bogus scheme of mental health to which religiosity is callously tacked on,” declared Garry P. McMurry, an attorney seeking up to $42 million in punitive damages against the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

In a daylong argument before a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury, McMurry attacked Scientology as “nothing more than a terrorist organization masquerading as a religion.” He urged jurors to impose a large damage award to punish Scientology for its conduct regarding Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, to deter future anti-social behavior and to warn other thought-reform groups about the consequences of wanton disregard of the truth.

“If any case ever cried out for punishment, it is this case against L. Ron Hubbard,” McMurry said after citing a list of what he said were misrepresentations about Hubbard’s personal background and alleged benefits from Scientology.

McMurry also attacked a series of policies written or authorized by Hubbard in which opponents of Scientology were declared to be “fair game” and could be cheated, sued, lied to, tricked or “destroyed” by other Scientologists without special sanction from the church.” 12

The Christofferson jury began deliberating on May 15, and on May 18 The Oregonian ran an article “Woman awarded $39 million in Scientology Suit.”

The jury unanimously held Hubbard liable for $20 million in punitive damages and by 9-3 votes approved punitive damages of $17.5 million against the Church of Scientology of California and $1.5 million against the Church of Scientology Mission of Davis. The Church of Scientology of California is the national Scientology corporate entity.13

On July 16, 1985, the judge declared a mistrial. I don’t have a transcript containing his ruling or his reasoning, and I haven’t been able to find any article from The Oregonian, which I expect reported on the mistrial. The Clearwater Sun published about it on July 17.

Scientology case declared mistrial

From Sun reports

PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge, saying courts must pay closer attention to religious freedom, declared a mistrial Tuesday in a lawsuit that ended with a jury’s $39 million fraud judgment against the Church of Scientology, and ordered a new trial.

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Donald Londer said he based the ruling on improper and prejudicial arguments made by the attorney for plaintiff Julie Christofferson Titchbourne during the 11-week trial that ended in May.

More than a thousand Scientologists converged on Portland for protests for about a month after the jury’s May 17 ruling, claiming the verdict represented an assault on freedom of religion.

[…]

But Londer said the jury was told improperly that information on the Scientologists’ beliefs and practices could be used as a basis for punishing the group.

He also said the jury was prejudiced by abusive language used during McMurry’s closing arguments, when the attorney called the Church of Scientology a terrorist group and Hubbard a sociopath. 14

Rathbun, under Hubbard and Miscavige, of course, ran the terrorism, or the criminal conspiracy, in the early 1980’s as I experienced it and testified about it in the Christofferson trial in 1985, and as McMurry meant and used the term “terrorist group” in closing argument. Now Rathbun says that in 2014 the Scientologists attempting to intimidate and silence him is terrorism. He even calls the two agents, who were videoed apparently accosting him in a Hollywood studio, “terrorists.”

The Scientologists under Miscavige have charged that Rathbun ran a “reign of terror,” and Rathbun and his supporters have charged that Miscavige established the “reign of terror.” The Miscavigeites and the Rathbunites had been referring here, however, to the “terror” inflicted on themselves and their Scientologist underlings, not the terror the Scientologists inflicted on wogs. Hubbard, Miscavige, Rathbun, Prince, Rinder, et al. directed the underlings, hired agents, and spent untold millions to terrorize good wogs. All Scientologists, if they only knew it, sign up to terrorize wogs, specifically the Suppressive Person class. Hubbard and his then cabal knew it because they ran the conspiracy to terrorize the SPs.

Rathbun and Miscavige have been in virtually complete agreement to not address the terror the conspiracy inflicted on their wog targets. Because Rathbun refuses to tell the truth about the terrorism or criminal actions he perpetrated and got others to perpetrate against the Scientologists’ human targets, the Scientologists’ recent actions against Rathbun, of course, are suspect. They could easily be “stage settings” for appearances and social engineering purposes. Judge Breckenridge entered the term into my consciousness in the Armstrong 1 judgment.

As indicated by its factual findings, the court finds the Testimony of Gerald and Jocelyn Armstrong, Laurel Sullivan, Nancy Dincalci[ ], Edward Walters, Omar Garrison, Kima Douglas, and Howard Schomer to be credible, extremely persuasive, and the defense of privilege or justification established and corroborated by this evidence. Obviously, there are some discrepancies or variations in recollections, but these are the normal problems which arise from lapse of time, or from different people viewing matters or events from different perspectives. In all critical and important matters, their testimony was precise, accurate, and rang true. The picture painted by these former dedicated Scientologists, all of whom were intimately involved with LRH, or Mary [Sue] Hubbard, or of the Scientology Organization, is on the one hand pathetic, and on the other, outrageous. Each of these persons literally gave years of his or her respective life in support of a man, LRH, and his ideas. Each has manifested a waste and loss or frustration which is incapable of description. Each has broken with the movement for a variety of reasons, but at the same time, each is, still bound by the knowledge that the Church has in its possession his or her most inner thoughts and confessions, all recorded in “pre-clear (P.C.) folders” or other security files of the organization, and that the Church or its minions is fully capable of intimidation or other physical or psychological abuse if it suits their ends. The record is replete with evidence of such abuse.

In 1970 a police agency of the French Government conducted an investigation into Scientology and concluded, “this sect, under the pretext of ‘freeing humans’ is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts by (use of) pseudo-scientific theories, by (use of) ‘auditions’ and ’stage settings’ (lit. to ‘create a theatrical scene’) pushed to extremes (a machine to detect lies, its own particular phraseology . . ), to estrange adepts from their families and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to continue with this sect.”[ ] From the evidence presented to this court in 1984, at the very least, similar conclusions can be drawn. In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the organization over the years with its “Fair Game” doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. 9

Despite the fact that Rathbun continues to serve the Scientologists’ malevolent purposes toward their wog targets, it is sensible for me to continue to give him the greatest benefit of the doubt and therefore continue to urge him to do the right thing, tell the truth, and correct what he can for the people he terrorized or otherwise victimized. I am appealing to his highest ethical awareness, and I am providing what facts and reason I believe he could need to make the highest ethical decision. It would be historically significant, and possibly legally relevant even at this date, for Rathbun to acknowledge that McMurry had it right; the Scientologists were terrorizing people, and saying so in closing argument was proper.

This should be easy for Rathbun to do, not just because the Scientologists really were terrorizing people, but because McMurry calling the Scientologists terrorists or Hubbard a brilliant sociopath did not cause the mistrial. That was just the excuse Judge Londer used to cover up how he was actually guided to his decision, two months after the $39 million jury verdict. The purpose of punitive damages is to reform or deter the defendant and deter others who would engage in such conduct. It would take a big damages award to reform or deter multimillionaire and sociopath Hubbard and his billion dollar Scientology cult. The Christofferson jury got that. Indeed, no amount of damages or payments has reformed or deterred the Scientologists yet. The compensatory-to-punitive damages ratio is outside the judgment bell curve, but the amount could have been reduced, as happened in Wollersheim v. Scientology.

From Rathbun’s facts in Memoirs about the Christofferson case, however, what brought about the mistrial — but should have brought about charges against Scientology attorney Harry Manion, Miscavige and others — was over-the-top improper contact between Manion and Londer, which Miscavige ordered.

We kept orchestrating Harry’s having “chance” encounters with Judge Londer, hoping to divine where he stood and hoping that he might begin to understand this case was not only important to the church and Earle, but to Harry’s future. Try as he might, Harry would come back from his meetings befuddled. His refrain was that Londer was as dumb as a sack of rocks, and he couldn’t tell whether anything we were presenting was getting through.

On the afternoon prior to the final hearing and the announcement of decision on the mistrial motion, Earle, Harry and I sat in Earle’s hotel room in Portland preparing our arguments. We had a last-minute brief to file, and had purposely waited until mid afternoon, when we knew Londer took a break. That way, when Harry was bringing the brief into the clerk, Londer might see him and invite him into his chambers for a chat. That went like clockwork. Earle and I beseeched Harry to call in any chips he might have with Londer. Earle told Harry to tell him outright that Londer needed to do this for Harry. Harry reported back that he had schmoozed with Londer, but that it wasn’t appropriate under the circumstances — open chambers doors — to make his ultimate personal pitch. However, Londer had invited Harry to come to his home that evening to meet his wife, since it might be the last time they would see one another. Harry had not committed, out of concern for doing something that would smell of impropriety and could come back to haunt us.

Earle and I discussed the matter in some detail. He explained the downsides of a visit — if it were ever found out it could raise the ugly specter of the decades of GO improprieties we were attempting to live down. “On balance,” Earle said, “this is up to the client. You need to brief the boss [Miscavige] and I’ll trust his instincts.” I called Miscavige and briefed him on all that had transpired. He said, “What is your hesitance? It’s a no brainer. Of course he sees Londer, and he does whatever he has to do to get the product.” I told Earle the verdict. Earle told me, “Okay, now it’s between me and Harry. I’m going to protect you and Dave. Leave it to me.”

Earle did report that Harry had gone to Londer’s home. He did not give particulars beyond saying that Londer was thrilled with the visit. He gave no guarantee of any particular outcome, “But,” Earle added, “tell Dave to relax.” And then Earle told me an anecdotal aphorism he would repeat several times to Dave and me over the next couple of years. He said, “Here is my only test of friendship. I know you are going to testify tomorrow in front a grand jury investigating me. Do I sleep tonight …or don’t I?” (pp. 275-6)16

This excerpt is from Rathbun’s Chapter 22, “The Battle of Portland,” which we have now posted in full on the Armstrong Op site: 17

As for Hubbard being a sociopath, the Scientologists put on no witnesses to refute the witness and document evidence that showed he was. Even the Scientology attorneys’ behavior in court, and toward the witnesses who had the courage to testify for the plaintiff, evidenced a sociopathic entity directing them. The judgment in Armstrong 1, less than a year before the Christofferson trial, ascribes characteristics to Hubbard that essentially identify sociopathy.

The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. He has been referred to during the trial as a “genius,” a “revered person,” a man who was “viewed by his followers in awe.” Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology. Notwithstanding protestations to the contrary, this court is satisfied that LRH runs the Church in all ways through the Sea Organization, his role of Commodore, and the Commodore’s Messengers.[ ] He has, of course, chosen to go into “seclusion,” but he maintains contact and control through the top messengers. Seclusion has its light and dark side too. It adds to his mystique, and yet shields him from accountability and subpoena or service of summons. 18

Londer could not but have known that his ex parte meetings with Manion were improper. Londer also had to have known that for whatever mess of pottage Manion was plying him with, he was letting the Scientologists keep right on terrorizing people, which they have done for thirty more years. Rathbun mentions the contempt the Scientology side had for the judge’s intellect:

–         he was not very bright. In the condo we used to joke that maybe he had his lights knocked out one too many times during his boxing career.

–         Miscavige railed about the stupidity of Judge Londer

–         [Manion’s] refrain was that Londer was as dumb as a sack of rocks, and he couldn’t tell whether anything we were presenting was getting through.

It is clear to me, however, that Judge Londer was not so much intellectually challenged as morally challenged, or corruptible. The Scientologists, Manion, et al. let him know, through their improper ex parte contacts, if nothing else, that his corruption worked for them.

There is no evidence that I’ve ever seen that Julie Christofferson’s attorneys ran any corruption tech or op on the judge, or were even invited over to the judge’s house during the proceedings to meet his wife. I was on the witness stand for several days in the Christofferson trial, and was able to observe and listen to Judge Londer quite closely. I found him at times dismayingly sadistic, which his encouragement to the Scientologists and their agents to corrupt him helps to explain. He knowingly improperly allowed Manion to do whatever he had to do, as Miscavige ordered, to get the product, a mistrial, which, according to Rathbun in Memoirs, allowed the Scientologists to survive a nuclear explosion.

In his book What Is Wrong With Scientology?: Healing Through Understanding, which he published in 2012, Rathbun mentions the Scientologists terrorizing him and his wife.

I have been threatened by powerful Scientology lawyers on several occasions. My computers have been hacked. My phone records have been stolen. My cell phone gps device has been unlawfully used to track me. Airline reservation information has been hacked in order to terrorize my wife and me. Wrong With Scientology, Introduction.

Rathbun, under Hubbard and Miscavige, of course, directed these types of actions, and much worse, against me, over many years. Rathbun didn’t have my cell phone gps device used to track me, however, because I didn’t have a cell phone when he was directing the terrorism.

In Memoirs, Rathbun also accuses Miscavige of terror specifically, but only of terrorizing certain of his Scientologist underlings. To some extent, Scientologists submit to being terrorized, and rarely ever object to the reign of terror that their leaders run on them. Wogs, as I am, did not sign on to be terrorized by Scientologist terrorists, and some of us do not submit but object strenuously to the Scientologists’ terror tactics.

To terrorize the majority into line, Miscavige excommunicated a number of veteran mission holders attending the conference, verbally and right on the spot. It scared people all right. Virtually every major productive mission holder left the church over the next year or two, with the most prominent of them winding up in FAMCO’s camp. The Mission network would dissolve over the next decade, and this vital introduction line to Scientology, which Hubbard had painstakingly built up over decades, would never recover. Memoirs, p. 195.

In February this year, I wrote an article parsing Rathbun’s flimflam in Memoirs about FAMCO.

As people know who have read Marty Rathbun’s Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, he blames much of his and his fellow Scientologists’ antisocial and criminal actions against SPs over many years on FAMCO, Flynn Associates Management Corporation.

Michael Flynn was a Boston attorney standing up to and so far not crushed by the Scientologists’ legal and extralegal warfare. In Memoirs, Rathbun lies about FAMCO and its part in the people and groups he warred against while in the Scientology cult.

Rathbun double-curves Flynn in Memoirs, lying about him even though Rathbun had fair gamed Flynn for years and is now claiming publicly to have left the cult and be redressing his antisocial and criminal actions. 19

On his blog, starting in 2009, Rathbun has many times accused Miscavige of terrorism. Again, however, these are mainly accusations of terrorism against fellow Scientologists, not the much worse terrorism against the wogs who comprise the SP class. Rathbun really only complains about Miscavige’s terrorism against the Scientologist terrorists who terrorize the SP wogs. Rathbun communicates throughout his books and other writings that the terrorism in which he participated against the wog targets was justified and even laudable. In that he acknowledges Miscavige’s actions, or the actions Miscavige ordered, as terrorism, what Rathbun is doing is like complaining that the problem with bin Laden was his terrible, terroristic treatment of his al-Qaeda subordinates.

Rathbun’s blog, August 13, 2009
Some of you old timers might recall the early eighties when Wendell Reynolds lead a group of Gestapo-like storm troopers called the International Finance Police. They used to storm into Missions and even private businesses running a literal protection racket.

[…]
When the media heat was off, and DM’s thirst for extorted money became uncontrollable – and many of the complaining public were declared and discredited – magically Wendell re-appeared leading the storm trooping Finance Police on an uninterrupted reign of terror. 20

Rathbun’s blog, September 25, 2009
To stand and communicate one’s convictions and defend the rights of other friends to do the same is the remedy for Miscavige’s brand of terrorism.  It can make one feel healthier and more whole. If enough people follow your lead, it will lead to the end of the Scientology reign of terror.21

I have been communicating my convictions, and defending the rights of others to do the same, about Hubbard, Scientology, Scientologists, and Miscavige’s brand of terrorism, which is Hubbard’s brand of terrorism, for thirty-three years. It was because I communicated my convictions and defended human rights that the Scientologists, including Rathbun, have terrorized me all these years. Rathbun has so far not followed my lead, but, with his continuing contempt and black propaganda, has supported the terrorists against me.

Even if he is on a program that Miscavige is personally operating, to perhaps become the opposition, just another Loyalist Op, for example, Rathbun can still do the right thing. So can Rinder and Prince, of course, or any Scientologist or Exscientologist, but this is for Marty. He can change his convictions. He can leave the terrorist group and philosophy he supported and support the people he had terrorized for antisocial reasons. He can stand up and communicate his new conviction. He can defend my rights to do what I have done, for which he had me terrorized over many years. And I agree with him that if he stood up and communicated the truth about what he had done to me he very well could feel healthier and more whole.

The Scientologists and their collaborators, including Rathbun to date, clearly do not want him to change his conviction and tell the truth to help his victims. This condition is “command intention” from David Miscavige, and all Scientologists and their collaborators embrace and forward this intention. Rathbun not telling the truth about the Scientology v. Armstrong war, not debriefing to me and my attorney, and remaining contemptuous toward me and his other wog victims, is what the Scientologists call their “ideal scene.”

The basic strategy the Scientologists and their collaborators use to make sure that Rathbun never helps me is invalidation. They invalidate the meaning and value of the matter for which the help was requested. They invalidate the worth or potential effectiveness of that help. And they invalidate the person the help would be for, who happens to be the person asking for the help. Other people, of course, could also ask Rathbun to help me, but those are rare, mainly because of the effectiveness of the Scientologists’ “inval tech.”

An extraordinary thing, not caused by me, but which I have not withheld from Rathbun or everyone else, is that the Scientology v. Armstrong war is not a meaningless, eminently ignorable matter, something of no relevance or importance to anyone other than me, the poorest of pilgrims.  There is a set of people, in law firms, in thinktanks, in forums, in government positions, in and out of Scientology, who, over the years have worked their tech to make that illusion real, and make helping me in that war useless, or even dangerous.

I wrote to Jesse Prince recently about transpersonal factors in my legal situation, and the classes of people affected by the injustices and lies the Scientologists, including Rathbun, Rinder and Prince had perpetrated, and gotten others to perpetrate. I also mentioned the many people who would be freed or otherwise assisted by correction of those injustices and lies. 22

The set of people who would be helped if Prince told the truth is the same as those that would be helped if Rathbun did. Nobody need be afraid of joining or becoming my “personal army” by helping me against the Scientologists and their collaborators. That’s just invalidation tech at work.

The fact is that if Rathbun stepped up and honestly debriefed to me and my attorney, it would be heroic. It couldn’t help but be humiliating at times, because he did evil and got others to do evil for so many years in such an unjust, sick cause. But the humiliation would pass; in fact the heroism is largely in confronting it and carrying on with helping. Putting off doing the right thing that has been so well laid out before him to do, and justifying not doing it with black propaganda, are pettinesses or cruelties that keep the humiliation unconfrontable. Ultimately, the opportunity for Rathbun to do the right thing, heroic or not, will be lost, which, of course, is “command intention.”

“Invalidation” is a huge item in Scientologists’ programming, and so ubiquitous in Scientology-speak that it is commonly called “inval.” It is constantly used in “auditing;” e.g., “On blahblah has anything been invalidated?” In “ethics” scripture, Hubbard stated that antisocial personalities deal mainly in invalidation. And he declared that invalidation of “clears” is a high crime.

Spreading false tales to invalidate Clears is a High Crime.

Anyone found spreading libelous and slanderous statements about the alleged behavior of Clears shall be declared Suppressive at once by the first Ethics Officer so hearing of the matter. Investigation should take the form of looking for a criminal background on the person spreading such rumours.

For sixteen years I have been subjected to this type of attack. Now it is being transferred to Clears by Suppressive Persons.

Such attacks are born out of terror of having anyone better or stronger.

This is the basic motivation of any SP.

It has been a hard task to bring the shreds of civilization to a scientific barbarism known as “Western Culture.”
Quite obviously it will require a long time to get Ethics in on this society. We have not been tough enough.

So get tough. 23

As years of unrefuted evidence has shown, the “State of Clear” was and is illusory, Hubbard and his Scientologists’ selling of “Clear” is fraud, and the “Clear” he was and the “Clears” he produced were not only not “clear,” but woefully aberrated and even antisocial. What Hubbard and his Scientologists called “false tales” about “Clears” to invalidate them, were actually facts and the truth about the illusory state of “Clear” and Scientologists professing to be “Clear.” “Getting tough” on the people courageous enough to tell the truth about “Clear” and “Clears” meant and means harming or destroying such people. To help cloak his policy and practice of harming or destroying people who tell the truth about Scientology, Scientologists or himself, Hubbard used the euphemism “fair game.”

Hubbard defined “invalidation” as “a refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be a fact.” 24 He also described the effect of “invalidation” on the individual:

Now let’s get this one…just get this one down real good. Let’s get this down real good. Invalidation by words is the symbolical level of being struck. You got that? Invalidation by words is the symbolical level of being struck. If a person is afraid of being hit, he is afraid of being, quote, “invalidated”, unquote. 25

Invalidation is force applied. You apply enough force to anybody and you’ve invalidated him. How invalidated can he get? Dead.

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The invalidation on a pure force level makes a person feel that he is nothing. Degradation brings him down from rather high heights, on a force level, to nothing; he has been unable to overcome any force or any action taken against him and as a consequence, he considers himself to be practically zero. 26

Although the invalidation of the state of clear is the discrediting of something discreditable that should be discredited for everyone’s benefit, the Scientologists’ invalidation of me, or people similarly placed as me, is to degrade our images, which should not be degraded, to beast level. Rathbun, Rinder, Prince, Miscavige, and similarly placed Scientologists who do and order the image-degrading of someone telling the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists are completely aware of the intended effect of their degradation tech. The desired result, through enough strikes or hits, enough force, enough degradation, and getting enough others to degrade him enough, is to invalidate him dead. Clearly, however, the Scientologists’ invalidation tech, even if applied dedicatedly, covertly and overtly around the world and over decades by swarms and generations of degraders and degrading agents, is not always successful.

If Rathbun ever considers changing his conviction, and standing up for me, he can be grateful for his unsuccess in degrading my image to beast level, or bringing about my death. I am not what he and other Scientologists project and get others to project onto me. I am not the evil, psychotic person he black PRed me as, and got others to black PR me as, to the IRS, and to other agencies, other governments and myriad persons around the world. I am not the psychopath the Scientologists portray me as with their Suppressive Person doctrine, which defames the whole SP class as psychopaths. I am not an antisocial personality as the Scientologists degrade me by declaring me an SP, and treating me as an SP these many years. I am not a scofflaw or a criminal, which they accuse me of being, and I committed none of the crimes they have accused me of over thirty-three years. Even if I really was evil and a psychopath, however, and even if I was a degraded being or criminal as Rathbun, et al. have black PRed me, what they have done to intimidate and silence me would still be unlawful and terrorism. But I am not the evil, degraded, criminal entity they portray me as, and they all should be thankful. I am a very average, common person, given ordinary and unique abilities and experiences by God, just like every other person.

Rathbun’s blog, September 30, 2009
Several mechanisms are wielded by Miscavology to keep the sheep in the pen and to keep the more adventurous ones in fear of straying too far. The most common weapon is the disconnect card. It is used to keep people in a state of terror of losing their family, friends and livelihoods.

[…]

Toward the end of my career, Shelly sometimes came by my office after a particularly brutal DM espisode, plop down in the chair in front of my desk, and look up to me and say wistfully, “what are we going to do?” Because of the atmosphere of terror instilled prohibiting any sign of disaffection, I’d reply with an equally wistful, “hell, I don’t know.” 27

Rathbun’s blog , August 26, 2010
The intent of the propaganda is the same intent behind forcing you to periodically sign five year employment contracts which make you think you have signed your rights to free speech away.

The purpose is to keep you in a state of electrified fear of ever even thinking a negative thought about David Miscavige and his rein of terror, let alone ever doing anything about it.
[…]
Miscavige is less and less seen by the average staff member because he is figuratively burrowing himself further and further into his Hitlerian bunker. He has good reason to choose his ground hog strategy.

His rein of terror is under intense scrutiny by people who make their lives’ work to end effective slavery and mafia-like intimidation tactics by dictators. 28

Rathbun’s implication that he was among the people who had made their lives’ work to end slavery and mafia-like intimidation tactics is bogus. For many years, he was a high level participant and operator in the Scientologists’ intimidation and terrorizing of the SP class, including me. Since claiming to have left Scientology and be opposing that intimidation and terror, he has in many ways continued to support the Scientologists against me and other wogs or human beings he had terrorized while in the cult.

Rathbun’s blog , October 10, 2010
Remember, Miscavige has two missiles in his arsenal. One, intimidation with seemingly unlmited chutzpah and money in order to wear one down to the attitude of “it is not worth it any more.”  Two, when “one” has had its intended effect, use seemingly unlimited funds to either a) make the legal and PR trouble he has created with this over-the-top intimidation tactics go away, or b) throw the target a bone to settle and go away quietly.   I also said from the beginning that breaking the mafia-like monopoly of terror Miscavige runs is inevitable because we are a new breed of cat.  We are immune to both missiles in his arsenal.  We just ain’t afraid, and we are not buyable at any price.29

Since he claimed to have left Scientology and be speaking out, Rathbun has attacked me, and had others attack me for, among other “reasons,” my December 1986 dismissal of my legal claims against the Scientologists up to that time in exchange for a sum of money. It was supposed to be, and was called, a “settlement.” Rathbun, et al. call it “selling out,” and they claim that Rathbun has never sold out and will never sell out, is “not buyable at any price,” etc. This black PR line and his usurping of virtue in this paradigm are perverse because Rathbun was the person in charge of buying me, or forcing me to settle, by, among other crimes, criminally framing my attorney. I wrote an article in 2011 about the Scientologists’ attack on me for “selling out.” 30

In 2009, soon after Rathbun started communicating publicly, and claimed he was helping a set of the Scientologists’ victims, which included me, I wrote him seven letters before he answered. I wrote about different criminal or antisocial matters of great importance to me that he had personally been involved in or knew about, and I requested his help in correcting gross injustices and human rights violations that he had been responsible for perpetrating and perpetuating. The help I was requesting was very simple, just to debrief truthfully to me and my attorney about actions against me, concerning which Rathbun had direct evidence.

  1. May 31, 2009, “Open letter to Mark C. Rathbun”
  2. July 7, 2009, “GA Letter to Mark Rathbun”
  3. July 12, 2009, “Sitting Bull blowing smoke” (Rathbun had written as “Sitting Bull”)
  4. August 14, 2009, “Letter to Mark Rathbun re Black PR to the IRS”
  5. August 18, 2009, “To Mark Rathbun: Help on Black PR”
  6. September 4, 2009 “Letter to Mark Rathbun: Apology not needed or wanted”
  7. September 6, 2009, “Letter to Rathbun: Seeking Understanding for Wogs”

On September 9, 2009 Rathbun answered.

I have a hard time following your communication. There are some critical differences between you and I:

a) You were willing to lie and did. I’m not.

b) You decided to become a victim, and relish it so much you’ve continued to be one to this day. Everything you utter is through the prism of a victim and to the degree that it is refracted as such, it is false. I am devoted to helping people from entering the dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood.

c) You sold out  twenty-three years ago – and are apparently still mad at yourself for the indelible taint it left. I will never sell out.

If you made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral a-c set you on then I’d be glad to assist in your about-face and ascent.

Marty31

Rathbun’s assertion that I was willing to lie and he isn’t, is both a lie and a laugh. It’s a sick laugh because he is telling that lie, on top of thousands of lies he told or had other tell about me, to excuse his refusal to tell the truth that could correct all those lies he’s told, plus the injustices he perpetrated. His assertion that I sold out twenty-three (now twenty-eight) years ago is a lie. That signing the contract, which contained unlawful conditions that he had concocted, left an indelible taint on me is another lie. The conditions’ unconscionability and the crimes he committed and had others commit to get me to sign is where the taint trail leads. What he projects onto me is all his and his fellow Scientologists and collaborators’ taint.

After being terrorized for all these years and around the world, by the Scientologists and their collaborators, with and about their unlawful conditions in their contract, and their unlawful court orders unlawfully enforcing those unlawful conditions, and even after failing so far to judicially defeat the Scientologists’ efforts to enforce their unlawful contractual conditions and orders, I am grateful for the privilege of signing their unconscionable contract. After having my image degraded to beast level, having a frenzy of hate incited on me, and being at times truly terrorized, I am grateful that I was chosen for this bizarre and depraved persecution. My gratitude does not reduce the need for Rathbun, et al. to end their persecution, change their convictions, stand up for their victims like me, tell the truth, and do what they can to end the lies, injustices and other evils they perpetrated. My gratitude, however, does show that I am not the pathetic subhuman Rathbun, et al. postulate and portray me as. And, of course, the Scientologists’ war on me is also to persecute and terrorize others, and I fight for their rights and peace as well.

In 2011, I wrote about the ludicrous labors that in his September 9, 2009 email Rathbun said I must perform before he would assist me. He did not say he would assist me as I asked to be assisted, by his telling the truth, but would assist me in a way that would not assist me at all, but would subject me to more of abuse.

Marty’s impossible tasks for me that I must perform before he will consider that I have made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral he says I’m on include: accept that lies are true and the truth is lies; stop relishing what I don’t relish; stop being what I am not; stop being what I am, which relevantly includes being his victim; stop uttering everything I utter through a nonexistent prism; stop being mad at myself when I’m not; stop being indelibly tainted by nothing.

Marty postulates me into a dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood, where it is clear he puts his and his cult’s wog victims. He says he’s devoted to keeping people from entering his dark, dank dungeon, which makes sense because people might stumble across the victims he’s postulated into his dungeon. His assertion that everything I utter is through some prism he defines, and that everything I utter is false, is the logic of a psychopath.32

Rathbun’s blog, October 14, 2011
Miscavige’s sickness is known as sociopathy in society at large.  His tactics are known as terrorism in law enforcement circles.   One of our primary aims is to de-fang the monster Miscavige’s operates to make lives miserable.  As you can see the monster is becoming more desperate and vile as we progress in disarming it.   Do not be alarmed that these tactic of his can or will reach out to readers and supporters and independents at large.   My prediction of two years ago – that when enough people stand up, Miscavige’s monster will not have the resources to keep up and will begin to lose its grip – still holds, and has been verified as correct in many ways. 33

Yet in the Scientology v. Armstrong terrorism Rathbun has not only not stood up, but has continued into present time to contribute to that terrorism.

March 23, 2012
I think on this score, we can learn from the pioneers; both of the civil rights movements and of the earlier Independent movement. I think we ought to learn from them a higher level of personal involvement.  I am asking people to step up to make it uncomfortable on those who are perpetuating Miscavige’s character assassination network.  I am not suggesting in the slightest that anyone engage in anything resembling harassment, Corporate Scientology style or otherwise.  I am suggesting that the likes of Joel Phillips, John Allender, Ed Bryan, Joanne Wheaton, Norman Bates (whatever his real last name is), Iz Chait, Dave Lublow, and other known agents of Corporate Scientology’s domestic terrorist network be called to account for their months and years of domestic terrorist work.

Miscavige, being the 1.1 coward that he is, has polluted the internet and American neighborhoods by having OSA volunteers and PIs serve as an “arm’s length” domestic terrorist network.  Please do what you can to help disinfect this sickness with sunshine.34

I have been delivering exactly what Rathbun asked for here. I have stepped up to confront him about his perpetuating of the character assassination campaign he ran against me for Hubbard and Miscavige, during the period Rathbun was in the Sea Org. Although claiming to have left the Sea Org, he still perpetuates that campaign, as he demonstrates in Memoirs. I have done my utmost to shine light on the dark sides of Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists, including the terrorism they practice on decent, light-shining wogs with the courage to be terrorized.

Rathbun’s blog, November 30, 2012
After our exposure Miscavige’s terror squads upped the ante by placing mirror coverings on all windows of the 90 thousand dollar surveillance outpost.   That had a chilling effect on a number of local residents.35

Rathbun’s blog, August 17, 2013
Lori Hodgson visited with us in April 2011.  She was there on 18 April when the Squirrelbusters (SQBs) first arrived.   I had already just learned quite a bit about the leaders of the original SQB crew prior to their arrival. That is because one of the reasons for Lori’s visit was to heal from the terror they had already individually and collectively visited upon Lori.

[…]

[Ms. Hudgson’s son] Jeremy lasted only 7 months in the Sea Org.  He cried many nights to come home, but never was allowed to tell his mom.  He finally did come home.  But when she tried to remedy whatever he had experienced in the Sea Org that caused him so much terror and grief, she was rebuffed because Jeremy was forced to sign a non-disclosure bond that threatened him with a $3 million fine if he told his mother anything about his Sea Org experience.
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Such a contractual condition cannot but be unlawful. Jeremy is one of thousands of victims of such conditions, and his situation is one of a thousand similar reasons why Rathbun should do what he can by telling the truth about these evil documents that he used against good people for so long, and still does. He acts as if these unlawful conditions are lawful and lawfully judicially enforceable, and in my case black PRs me for selling out to him. He does so to excuse both the evil he did and his refusal to now tell the truth about that evil, and in doing so he serves Miscavige and the Scientologists’ antisocial purposes toward their victims.

February 10, 2014
Many have speculated why the Miscavige obsession with our family is so intense and seemingly inexorable.  Miscavige has spent millions in a variety of forums attempting to explain or justify it.  The writings on that score in his publications, legal threats to media, and legal pleadings and utterances from his PR hacks and agents – including the deep ranks of expensive attorneys – are so far-ranging, self-contradictory and red herring in nature, that they are unhelpful in discerning the answer to the question: why such an obsession?  Yet, the answer is apparent, by the repeated expression of our objectives right here on this blog as well as in  a number of media interviews. Below are several excerpts and links to support the ideat that the motivation for Miscavige’s mania lies in his need to resurrect the effectiveness of Scientology’s domestic terror apparatus.

[…]

It apparently has come to pass that from Miscavige’s perspective too many people have stood up and been counted so that Scientology has lost its terror-control factor.  There are not enough resources to re-corral or make examples of all those who have stood and are continuing to do so, nor even a significant portion of them.  Apparently, in the mind of Miscavige the only way to discredit the notion that Scientology can no longer hunt you to the grave if you dissent is to very visibly and thoroughly destroy the guy who widely and repeatedly asserted that there was nothing to fear – and the current state of affairs to gain – by standing up. 37

If Rathbun really fears nothing by standing up, as he claims to have widely and repeatedly asserted, then it is not fear, of humiliation or prosecution or of anything else that keeps him from standing up and telling the truth in the Scientology v. Armstrong war. To claim for himself fearlessness, Rathbun essentially admits that his refusal to stand up and tell the truth about the many evils he perpetrated and got others to perpetrate against me is motivated by malice. This also explains why he has continued to lie about me, attack me and treat me contemptuously after saying he had left Miscavige’s control. Whether or not Miscavige dictates Rathbun’s malice toward me is not known, but that Rathbun’s malice is Miscavige’s “Command Intention” and serves the Scientologists’ malevolent purposes is certain. Rathbun’s awareness of what he is doing, and whose intention and purposes his malice toward me serves, is just as certain.

I pray that in 2015 he has a change of heart and stands up for the people he truly terrorized for no moral or lawful reason, and that he tells the whole, unadorned truth about all that terrorism. And may God give him the courage he says he has.

Notes

  1. From https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/unidentified-scientology-terrorists/ ↩
  2. From Declaration of Gerald Armstrong (1 July 1984) ↩
  3. See Armstrong 1 ↩
  4. Ye Olde Cock Tavern web site: http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/ye-olde-cock-tavern-holborn/c1188/ ↩
  5. From Declaration of Gerald Armstrong (July 1, 1984) ↩
  6. See, e.g. this 1986 affidavit of Lavenda VanSchaick and these responses: Declaration of Michael Flynn; Declaration of Gerry Armstrong. ↩
  7. See section “CSC v. Russell Miller, et al.:” http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/other-scientology-litigation.html ↩
  8. From Testimony April 4, 1985 in Julie Chistofferson Titchbourne v. Scientology, Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland Oregon. ↩
  9. From Breckenridge Decision ↩
  10. See About the Armstrong Op ↩
  11. From  http://princejesse53.blogspot.ca/2014/11/the-future-is-here-and-im-feeling-good.html ↩
  12. See The Oregonian (1985-05-14) ↩
  13. See
    The Oregonian (1985-05-18) ↩
  14. From Clearwater Sun (July 17 1985) ↩
  15. From Breckenridge Decision ↩
  16. See Mark Rathbun: on Earle Cooley’s partner and protégé, Harry Manion (May 28, 2013) ↩
  17. From Memoirs, Chapter 22 “The Battle of Portland” ↩
  18. From  Breckenridge Decision ↩
  19. From Rathbun’s FAMCO flimflam ↩
  20. From http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/ ↩
  21. From http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/winds-of-change/ ↩
  22. See For Jesse Prince: Who gets helped? ↩
  23. From HCOPL 4 August 1966, “Ethics Clears, Invalidation of.” ↩
  24. Ref. HCOB 2 June 1971 “Confronting” ↩
  25. From Hubbard sermon, December 9, 1953, “Bodies” ↩
  26. From Hubbard sermon, 24 July 1952, “E-Meter Behavior Versus Flow Lines and Patterns” ↩
  27. https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2009/09/ ↩
  28. From https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/ ↩
  29. From https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/ ↩
  30. See Who or what sold out? ↩
  31. Ref. Marty did answer ↩
  32. From Marty did answer. ↩
  33. From http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/ ↩
  34. From https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/independents-now-and-then/ ↩
  35. From http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/ ↩
  36. From https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/scientology-and-psychiatry/ ↩
  37. From http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/miscaviges-obsession-with-the-rathbuns/ ↩

Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Eugene Ingram, Heathrow Airport, Jesse Prince, Mark Rathbun, terrorism

August 8, 2011 by Clerk1

Marty did answer.

A few good wogs have been urging Marty to do the four simple things I’ve asked of him, or at least saying that it would be good if he did them:

1. Communicate to me;

2. Debrief to me and my legal representatives;

3. Execute declarations that contain facts elicited in the debrief;

4. Make himself available to testify in any legal proceedings to correct the injustices or situations he helped make.

Other wogs have been saying that he should answer me, and there’s even a thread on ESMB “Marty Rathbun needs to answer Gerry Armstrong’s questions.”

I appreciate the support for calling Marty to do the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing in the Scientology v. Armstrong war. I’m writing this to correct the idea that Marty has never answered me, as “answer” is understood by wogs.

Scientologists are taught that an answer to be an answer must be a logical answer, and an illogical answer is no answer at all. This is crucial in the Scientology system because Scientologists are also taught to judge people’s stupidity and insanity by “the length of time it takes to get a logical answer,” which Scientology and Scientologists call “communication lag,” or “comm lag.” Back in February, I wrote to Tommy Davis about comm lags and Scientologists’ failure over many years to logically answer my many logical questions or concerns.

The Scientologists I’ve sent my logical communications to over the past thirty years naturally included Marty when he was in the Sea Org, and clearly he saw most of those communications personally. Clearly too, he was included in the great mass of Scientologists that never in all those years offered a logical answer to my logical communications.

Since Marty has been communicating publicly after he says he left the Sea Org, I’ve sent him several logical communications directly, and I still haven’t gotten from him a logical answer. By Scientology scriptural tech and standards, his decades-long comm lag identifies him as almost immeasurably stupid and insane. Hubbard wrote in cult scripture that the longest comm lag he had ever encountered was ten years. And Marty’s comm lag is three times that long.

As I said, however, I don’t use Scientology’s definition and standards for what constitutes an answer to my communications. An answer can be illogical, dishonest, evasive, or anything else; and it’s still answer; just an illogical answer, a dishonest answer, etc. Although Marty’s answer to me was illogical, dishonest and evasive, and by his own Scientology scripture wouldn’t be an answer, it’s an answer to me, and to wogs generally.

I don’t accept Hubbard and Scientology’s tech or science regarding communication lags and the significance or meaning they attach to the length of time it takes to get a logical answer from someone. As Marty demonstrates, people aren’t necessarily stupid or insane when they withhold logical answers to logical communications, and instead respond with illogical answers. Such people can be independent psychopaths, or they can be under orders, as many Scientologists are, to withhold logical answers and give illogical answers.

Between May and September 2009, I wrote Marty several very logical communications that he didn’t answer. His one answer to me was in response to my sincerely and patiently logical letter to him of September 4, 2009, I titled “Apology Not Needed or Wanted.” I told Marty that, contrary to what some people were saying about my needing or wanting an apology from him for the many years of criminal and sociopathic actions he perpetrated against me, I really didn’t need or want an apology from him. I stated fairly clearly what I needed and wanted:

What needs attention and resolution are ongoing black PR, ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which you were involved in and can help resolve.

[…]

If you stick with the Scientology position that the orders jailing me and fining me for expressing my sincere religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge about this religion, or any other religion, are desirable, moral or lawful, then you support Miscavige on this most key issue confronting Scientologists. On the other hand, if you really want to bring Miscavige to justice, to get justice for the victims of his regime’s injustice, and to actually defend human rights, then these orders and my relationship with Scientology and Scientologists provide an excellent opportunity. My case and the orders against me are all about human rights, and I have fought for this opportunity for over twenty-seven years. The help I need from you is your knowledge of what you were doing, or getting others to do, or of what Scientology was doing, that was not lawful, or fair, or conscionable, or even arguably advisable in its conspiracy to silence, imprison, ruin, and beastify me. If you tell the whole time, place, form and event, my attorney and I will make great use of it to do great good.

I also identified in my letter with sufficient specificity some of the black PR, and several of the ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which Marty was involved in and has the knowledge and ability to resolve.

Marty’s answer:

From: [  ]@[  ] [mailto:[  ]]

Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:15 AM

To: gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

Subject: Re: Apology Not Needed or Wanted

Gerry,

I have a hard time following your communication. There are some critical differences between you and I:

a) You were willing to lie and did. I’m not.

b) You decided to become a victim, and relish it so much you’ve continued to be one to this day. Everything you utter is through the prism of a victim and to the degree that it is refracted as such, it is false. I am devoted to helping people from entering the dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood.

c) You sold out  twenty-three years ago – and are apparently still mad at yourself for the indelible taint it left. I will never sell out.

If you made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral a-c set you on then I’d be glad to assist in your about-face and ascent.

Marty

By saying that he had a hard time following my communication, which was simply written and easy for people of average intelligence to read, Marty implies that my communication was illogical. This is a falsehood that Marty has used elsewhere as well, and other Scientologists use, to justify their total failure and refusal to communicate a logical answer.

Marty’s answer is illogical, in addition to being dishonest and cruel, because he imposes a set of impossible tasks for me to perform before he will assist me to correct the injustices he perpetrated. He doesn’t say how he will assist me, but how I want him to assist me is broadly described in my letter he was answering, and narrowed down to the four easy tasks for him listed above.

Marty says he will know when I’ve accomplished his set of impossible tasks when he observes what he describes as a genuine reach from me to reverse the downward spiral he also says he observes I’ve been set on. This is itself an obviously impossible task for me to perform because there is no dwindling spiral I’ve been set on. Having to reach to reverse what doesn’t exist is the kind of impossible, and frankly degrading and psychopathic tasks victimizers insist their victims perform to stop the victimizing.

Marty’s impossible tasks for me that I must perform before he will consider that I have made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral he says I’m on include: accept that lies are true and the truth is lies; stop relishing what I don’t relish; stop being what I am not; stop being what I am, which relevantly includes being his victim; stop uttering everything I utter through a nonexistent prism; stop being mad at myself when I’m not; stop being indelibly tainted by nothing.

Marty postulates me into a dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood, where it is clear he puts his and his cult’s wog victims. He says he’s devoted to keeping people from entering his dark, dank dungeon, which makes sense because people might stumble across the victims he’s postulated into his dungeon. His assertion that everything I utter is through some prism he defines, and that everything I utter is false, is the logic of a psychopath.

So Marty has answered me, and although his answer was dishonest, contemptuous and illogical, it was an answer. It hasn’t changed and doesn’t change what I want and need Marty to do, nor our relationship.

I am not blind to the fact that doing the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing regarding me and other wogs he has victimized is not in what Marty considers his best interests. It might never be in what he considers his best interests to do the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing about his victims. Lots of people, I’m quite sure, harden their hearts and never do this thing their whole lives.

It is possible, and not all that hard, for Marty to see that doing this thing is in his best interests, because, of course, it is. Whatever fear it is that has kept him his whole adult life from doing that good thing can be shown to be utterly illusory just by doing it.

I realize that if Marty were to unharden his heart toward his victims, because of its adamantine condition as a result of decades of hardening, it would be a Damascus Road sort of incident for him. It’s very rare, almost never heard of among people with his condition, but I still believe it’s within their understanding and power, and certainly well within Everything’s possibilities.

It is a condition that he really is responsible for. The victimizer always tries to make his victims responsible for their conditions. But the victimizer really is responsible for his condition as a victimizer. It’s an extremely difficult task for the victims of many victimizers to stop being victims. It isn’t accomplished with psychopathic semantics like Marty uses about victims in his answer, while the victimizer keeps right on victimizing them.

For the victimizers to stop being victimizers, that’s as easy as it gets. Victimizers don’t keep being victimizers because stopping is beyond their comprehension or control, or an impossible or even difficult task. They keep victimizing because it serves their purposes, that is, it’s pro-survival, and, because it serves their purposes, can even be fun, and a game.

Marty is not too unintelligent to know what it would take – almost a reversal of the impossible tasks he has laid before me. And he’s intelligent enough to know what a Damascus Road moment would be for him. In the Scientology v. Armstrong, et al. war, of course, such a moment for Marty is on the legal stage and quite dramatic.

Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Mark Rathbun

September 20, 2019 by Clerk1

Matters of ESMB Concern

Caroline posted on Exscientologist Message Board:

At least some of the Aftermath people are still okay with the SP doctrine and declaring certain people “evil.” They just don’t want to be on the receiving end.

Gerry reached out to Leah Remini in February 2019 about the Aftermath’s support for Scientology’s SP doctrine. (Complete letter with images here.)

Poster “dchoiceisalwaysrs” posted in response:

Caroline. Without going through a whole lot here as I have been up for 17 hours reading all kinds of things and I am rather tired, I will just say that there is one key part that I disagree with Gerry. There are two Hubbardian methods of defining an SP and those are A) the 12 Characteristics and B) as Gerry essentially stated the Crimes/High Crimes itemized in the NOT ETHICS book but the conflated, ethics with SCN (in)-JUSTICE, book.
I do however see how in practice the Scientologist’s who adhere to method B as being the predominate and senior deciding method.

About the excerpted transcript of Leah talking about evil as suppressives…I will have to get back on that but it seems ‘out of place or out of context or I am just too tired to have made sense of it…although I think it might actually tie into Gerry’s omission of the 12 Characteristics…NO?

By the way, I was just thinking a couple of days ago that Gerry’s actions resulting in the Admissions are on the top rung in my mind for the greatest reveal of the malignancy of Scientology and their organizations. And please pass along my gratitude for Gerry’s integrity.

And before I pass out..lol, I do hope that Mike Rinder, who has stepped up quite nicely recently, will apologize in person to Gerry for what Mike did while acting as a truth suppressor et al and thus Gerry.

Caroline posted:

Yay! A disagreement!

Seriously, I appreciate you putting your mind to this topic. I’ve forwarded your post to Gerry and he’d like to respond. I’ll post it when he does.

Everyone will get two responses, as it turns out, because I’ll deal separately with “Hubbard’s Twelve Characteristics,” or “Hubbard’s Twelve Attitudes,” and whether they’ve been omitted or unconsidered in the literature treating the Scientologists’ SP doctrine. Other matters I’ll respond to here.1

  1. Thanks for your kind comment about Hubbard’s Admissions. For some time now I’ve used the term “Affirmations,” but “Admissions” is certainly acceptable, and certainly interchangeable. I recently posted a response to academic Scientology collaborator Massimo Introvigne, who challenged the Affirmations’ authenticity, denigrated my honesty, and disparaging their relevance for understanding Hubbard’s thought, even if they are authentic. 2
  2. Thanks too for your comment about my integrity. You might not have known that my “integrity” was a button the Miscavige conspirators used on me to lure me into their operation. E.g., from an article I wrote last February, “Blowing the lid off the problem with Clearwater:”

What Rinder is doing with you regarding his knowledge of what he did and had done in Clearwater is very similar to the way he “handled” me in his “Loyalist Operation” conspiracy in the 1980’s. He ran OSA in the US at that time, and was responsible, under cult head Miscavige for the op. The major targets were to criminally entrap me and ultimately criminally frame me.

He and his co-conspirators, who called themselves the “Loyalists,” contacted me in 1984 with claims that they were “reformers” who wanted to “reform” their cult and wanted my help. This was a step in what is called the “Armstrong Operation,” which the Scientologists initiated as soon as I left the cult. The Armstrong Op’s goal is my obliteration.

The “Loyalists” knew, they said, that the cult’s leaders were criminal. This was no surprise, because I already knew it in spades. So did relevant agencies and officials in the US Federal Government, so did courts, and so did pretty well everyone else. The “Loyalists” claimed they wanted to end the Miscavige regime’s lies, abuses and criminality, and have Miscavige, the criminal usurper of all things wise and wonderful, criminally prosecuted. Rinder and his co-conspirators claimed to be dedicated to opposing, exposing and reforming the cult. They claimed they wanted my help because I had just prevailed in court against the criminal Scientology leadership and had integrity.3

E.g., from an article I wrote last December, “Suicide Note:”

In June 1984, following a lengthy trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, I had prevailed in the first lawsuit the Scientologists brought against me. Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. issued an important judgment that besides exonerating me, declared Scientology head Hubbard virtually a pathological liar, condemned the Scientologists’ practice of “culling” auditing folders, and confronted and articulated the functioning of the Suppressive Person doctrine and its criminal application, which Hubbard euphemized as “fair game.”

At the same time, Dan Sherman, an “old friend” from my Sea Org days, a writer, contacted me and said he was in touch with a group of “reformers” inside the cult, and communicated they wanted my help. He said they respected my “integrity” and what I had done, considered that Hubbard and his regime had somehow been usurped, and the usurping Scientologists were criminals. Sherman said the “reformers,” who called themselves “Loyalists,” wanted to get usurper head David Miscavige prosecuted, and intended to make the organization honest and decent.

I met with four Loyalist-connected persons perhaps a dozen times over a four month period, including twice with Rinder, whom I had known at that time for more than ten years. He was presented to me as the person in charge of the “Loyalists’” legal affairs. He pretended to be friendly and on my side against the Scientology “criminals,” and looked to me for a lawful way to take control and stop the criminal behavior. My lawyer drafted a “bare bones” complaint on behalf of the “Loyalists” to have the court put the organization into receivership.

Rinder and the rest of the claimed reform-seeking Loyalists were actually being directed by Miscavige, and were scheming and acting to set me up and destroy me. The Loyalists even took me to a lawyer Thomas Janeway who pretended to be on my side against Scientology, but was actually working for the Scientologists.4

And way back in a February 1994 declaration that was filed in Scientology v. Fishman and Geetrz:

4. During the 1984 trial of the organization’s case against me, Church of Scientology of California and Mary Sue Hubbard v. Gerald Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court no. C420153 (“Armstrong I“), Sherman told me that one of these friends, whom he called “Joey,” had told him that there was an actual group inside the organization who were dedicated to reforming it because management had become suppressive. They called themselves the “Loyalists,” claiming to be “loyal” to the preservation of the ideals of Scientology, “what worked.” They also recognized that its leaders were criminal, crazy, dangerous, and not dedicated to those ideals but were acting to destroy them. The “Loyalists” wanted to take control in a well-planned, effective and peaceful action before some tragedy happened. They claimed to know of criminal activities and a key part of their plan was the documenting of these activities.

5. Sherman said they were 35 in number, or at least there were 35 who knew they were “Loyalists,” all smart, reasonable and not fanatics. Some of them were his old friends from B-1. Such persons tended to be smart, reasonable and often were not fanatics. The people whom I knew to be, including Hubbard, the organization leaders, prided themselves on their recognition of unreasonableness as a virtue, and maintained an abiding fanaticism to justify their abuses and keep their positions of power. Sherman was smart and gave every appearance of being reasonable and unfanatical. He said the Loyalists knew he was in communication with me and wanted to talk with me but were afraid for their lives. This was not surprising to me because I knew from my own experiences that the organization had a brutal side and its leaders were dangerous, armed and desperate. Thus the first communications with the Loyalists were a few messages relayed by Sherman. They said that I had a proven record against the organization, that my integrity had been unshakable and they wanted my help.5

Ironically it was Judge Breckenridge, who had presided over the Scientologists’ trial against me in LA Superior Court in the spring of 1984, who provided the conspirators with the integrity button:

However, just as the plaintiffs have First Amendment rights, the defendant has a Constitutional right to an attorney of his own choosing. In legal contemplation the fact that defendant selected Mr. Flynn rather than some other lawyer cannot by itself be tortious. In determining whether the defendant unreasonably invaded Mrs. Hubbard’s privacy, the court is satisfied the invasion was slight, and the reasons and justification for defendant’s conduct manifest. Defendant was told by Scientology to get an attorney. He was declared an enemy by the Church. He believed, reasonably, that he was subject to “fair game.” The only way he could defend himself, his integrity, and his wife was to take that which was available to him and place it in a safe harbor, to wit, his lawyer’s custody. He may have indulged in overkill, in the sense that he took voluminous materials, some of which appear only marginally relevant to his defense. But he was not a lawyer and cannot be held to that precise standard of judgment. Further, at the time that he was accumulating the material, he was terrified and undergoing severe emotional turmoil. The court is satisfied that he did not unreasonably intrude upon Mrs. Hubbard’s privacy under the circumstances by in effect simply making his knowledge that of his attorneys. It is, of course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. order 121669 should complain about an invasion of privacy. The practice of culling supposedly confidential “P.C. folders or files” to obtain information for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant and outrageous. The Guardian’s Office, which plaintiff headed, was no respector of anyone’s civil rights, particularly that of privacy. Plaintiff Mary Sue Hubbard’s cause of action for conversion must fail for the same reason as plaintiff Church. The documents were all together in Omar Garrison’s possession. There was no rational way the defendant could make any distinction.

[…]

Appendix

Defendant Armstrong was involved with Scientology from 1969 through 1981, a period spanning 12 years. During that time he was a dedicated and devoted member who revered the founder, L. Ron Hubbard. There was little that Defendant Armstrong would not do for Hubbard or the Organization. He gave up formal education, one-third of his life, money and anything he could give in order to further the goals of Scientology, goals he believed were based upon the truth, honesty, integrity of Hubbard and the Organization.

[…]

During 1980 Defendant Armstrong remained convinced of Hubbard’s honesty and integrity and believed that the representations he had made about himself in various publications were truthful. Defendant Armstrong was devoted to Hubbard and was convinced that any information which he discovered to be unflattering of Hubbard or contradictory to what Hubbard has said about himself, was a lie being spread by Hubbard’s enemies. Even when Defendant Armstrong located documents in Hubbard’s Archives which indicated that representations made by Hubbard and the Organization were untrue, Defendant Armstrong would find some means to “explain away” the contradictory information.

Slowly, however, throughout 1981, Defendant Armstrong began to see that Hubbard and the Organization had continuously lied about Hubbard’s past, his credentials, and his accomplishments. Defendant Armstrong believed, in good faith, that the only means by which Scientology could succeed in what Defendant Armstrong believed was its goal of creating an ethical environment on earth, and the only way Hubbard could be free of his critics, would be for Hubbard and the Organization to discontinue the lies about Hubbard’s past, his credentials, and accomplishments. Defendant Armstrong resisted any public relations piece or announcement about Hubbard which the L. Ron Hubbard Public Relations Bureau proposed for publication which was not factual. Defendant Armstrong attempted to change and make accurate the various “about the author” sections in Scientology books, and further, Defendant rewrote or critiqued several of these and other publications for the L. Ron Hubbard Public Relations Bureau and various Scientology Organizations. Defendant Armstrong believed and desired that the Scientology Organization and its leader discontinue the perpetration of the massive fraud upon the innocent followers of Scientology, and the public at large.6

“Integrity,” and related compliments, can bring risibly gaslighty thoughts to mind. But thanks nevertheless.

  1. Rinder has not stepped up. He has refused to step up. I have made it very clear for several years that he is being asked to step up. Throughout these years, he has run standard Scientology ignore tech on me, and kept his black PR working.

After OJ Simpson murdered his wife and Ronald Goldman, he made this public statement:

My first obligation is to my young children, who will be raised the way that Nicole and I had always planned. … But when things have settled a bit, I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman. They are out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in, I will provide somehow. 7

As used here, “to step up” means “to accept a challenge or responsibility for something; to rise to the occasion.” It certainly sounds as if Simpson was stepping up, right? He sounded like he was rising to the occasion, taking responsibility for bringing the murderer or murderers to justice. But Simpson was doing anything but stepping up, anything but rising to the occasion, anything but taking responsibility.

The same is true, really, with Mike Rinder. If a person really was ignorant of what Rinder had actually and specifically done — his antisocial or criminal actions to silence or destroy real persons in the Suppressive Person religious class – it might look as if Rinder is stepping up, rising to the occasion, taking responsibility. And Rinder even has people preserving or increasing an image of him stepping up quite nicely. Like Simpson, however, despite appearances or PR, Rinder has not actually stepped up.

Just as Simpson never stepped up in the murder of Nicole and Goldman, Rinder has never stepped up in the long conspiracy and multiple programs to silence or destroy me. Simpson and Rinder have doubtlessly stepped up about other things, but in specific cases with real persons, where it really matters, they have not stepped up. Simpson could get an Emmy for making his goal the pursuit of the perpetrators, for providing whatever it takes to bring them in, for stepping up. And just as Simpson really did murder Nicole and Goldman, Rinder really did persecute me, really did conspire to destroy me.

4. Of course an apology from Rinder would be nice. Without him doing the right thing, however, without him stepping up, without him telling the truth that would assist or free his victims, without him repudiating the black PR he propagated, an apology would be heartless, and not an apology at all. I’ve explained this a number of times. 8

Notes

  1. See also Twelve Characteristics, Eleven GO Felons ↩
  2. https://gerryarmstrong.ca/the-affirmations-what-was-l-ron-hubbard-thinking/ ↩
  3. https://gerryarmstrong.ca/blowing-the-lid-off-the-problem-with-clearwater/ ↩
  4.  https://gerryarmstrong.ca/suicide-note/ ↩
  5. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/related/3138.php ↩
  6. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/283.php ↩
  7. https://www.bustle.com/articles/152052-did-oj-simpson-really-look-for-nicole-browns-killer-as-promised-he-made-a-bold-statement ↩
  8. For example: https://gerryarmstrong.ca/?s=apology+not+needed and https://alanzosblog.com/gerry-armstrong-mike-rinder/ ↩

Filed Under: Writings

December 31, 2016 by Clerk1

On meeting Mike Rinder

Re: Mike Rinder posted something important today

8th December 2016, 10:10 PM #14
Caroline
Gerry has written and spoken quite a bit about Mike Rinder, because he was Rinder’s biggest fair game target for so long, and he continues to be a key fair game target. Below are links to some of the materials that inform their relationship, and to the small amount of correspondence between them.

Over all the years Rinder fair gamed Gerry for Scientology, and had been paid by Scientology for that purpose, he wrote and spoke a great deal about Gerry. Almost all of what Rinder has written or said was in secret. Much was black PR. He has never publicly, or to Gerry, disclosed or acknowledged what he did to fair game Gerry or what he has written or said about him.

Since Rinder in recent years has been portraying himself as Scientology tamer or exposer, the absence of his public statements concerning Gerry is actually a revealing factor in their relationship. Rinder is identified as editor of Rathbun’s 2013 book, and Gerry says it forwards the cult’s black PR on him and his attorney Mike Flynn. Rinder was briefly recorded by the German filmmaker Markus Thoess black PRing Gerry. (Video below) He has taken no action that I am aware of to correct the black PR he promulgated, even to the highest levels of government.

Rinder and Gerry really have an extraordinary relationship, which is similar to Gerry’s with Mark Rathbun: the long unrepentant victimizer and his common undying victim. Gerry is not seeking a sense of “closure.” His requests of Mike Rinder are the same as his requests of Mark Rathbun, which are essentially to tell the truth toward correcting ongoing injustices and black propaganda. It very well may be that “closure” is not obtained, but at least justice would have been sought. Right now, Mike Rinder and Mark Rathbun do not seek justice for their victims and do not support the people who do seek such justice. The “closure” they apparently seek is our acceptance of the decades long injustices and other crimes they perpetrated against their victims. “Public apologies” without real willingness to do what’s possible to correct the wrongs reduces the “apologies” to further acts of fair game. “May be tricked, sued, or lied to or destroyed.”

No Truth from Rinder? No reconcilation. 1

9th December 2016, 12:53 AM #16
HelluvaHoax!
Thanks Caroline.

What do you think about the idea of having a meeting and airing of all these unspoken of events between Jerry and Mike–and having the event HOSTED and FILMED by someone like Mark Bunker?

It would be a first.

Just speculating, but I would imagine that Jerry would greatly appreciate and enjoy the chance to such a live/recorded forum. I don’t know Mike R., but I can also hope that he too would “bite the bullet” and just get it over with by answering some tough questions and getting it behind him. For Mark Bunker’s part, maybe it is one of the missing ingredients and illuminative sparks to help tie together his long-overdue documentary.

It’s never been done before, a fair gamer talks openly to a fair-gamed.

I know this might be offering unsolicited advice, but it’s “humbly tendered as a gift” and all that……on this planet.

ps: So there is no misunderstanding, I view this cathartic kind of meeting as historical. Not to jam up Mike Rinder in any respect. He has been a spectacularly successful demonstration of escaping the inner core of the diabolical cult. He has disavowed it all and done extraordinary things to expose the abuses, even if you/Jerry are unsatisfied with his not yet providing certain specifics that victimized Jerry. That is understandable. But MR has earned some medals on the way out of the COS (Crimewave of Scn) and perhaps there may be even more medals to be pinned on him before it’s all over. He’s a good man and Jerry’s a good man. It sucks that both got caught in the dark gravity of Hubbard’s hoax.

Last edited by HelluvaHoax!; 9th December 2016 at 03:06 AM.

Dear HelluvaHoax:

Yes, any meeting between Rinder or Rathbun and me would be a first.

I met them at different times when I was inside Scientology and we all worked openly for Hubbard. I did not work directly with them in the same Sea Org departments, and we did not have remarkable relationships at that time. I knew Rinder back on the “Apollo” in Europe, and I first met Rathbun, I believe, at the La Quinta, California base. Our relationships became remarkable when I blew, Hubbard declared me SP and fair game, and they were assigned as the executioners. That these remarkable relationships have continued over more than thirty years adds remarkableness.

We have not met since they started claiming that they opposed Miscavige, were telling the truth about their antisocial or criminal actions for Hubbard or Miscavige, and at least pretending remorse for their actions that created all their victim-victimizer relationships.

Well that’s not exactly true. Back in 1984, after my LA Superior Court trial, Rinder was claiming to be opposing Miscavige, claiming to be telling the truth about antisocial or criminal actions inside Scientology, and claiming to be afraid of fair game and wanting to end it; and we met at that time. Rinder and his phony group, the “Loyalists,” were claiming that things were so antisocial and criminal inside that they wanted to take control from Miscavige, indeed get him criminally prosecuted.2 Rathbun was then running Rinder as a “Loyalist,” but we did not meet.3

I have written about my meetings with the “Loyalists” in a number of declarations, and testified about them in a number of legal proceedings. This is from a February 20, 1994 declaration, which was filed in the Scientology v. Fishman and Geertz case:

There were many times during this period when I considered the possibility that I was walking into a trap. The thought arose in all my meetings with [David] Kluge, and later with Mike Rinder, the second Loyalist I would meet. Their communications often didn’t jibe with what they or Sherman had said on earlier occasions, and sometimes they said things which were downright stupid.

[…]

My first meeting with Kluge was in a cemetery in Glendale. I met him two more times in early November at different locations in Griffith Park, and then met with Rinder two times in late November at two more locations in the park.

[…]

Finally the Loyalists said that their legal expert would meet me and a rendezvous was set up, again in Griffith Park. The “legal expert” turned out to be Mike Rinder, a person I had known in the organization, who had held various lower level administrative posts. Rinder, it turned out, also professed ignorance of legal concepts, and my meetings and communications with him were even more frustrating.

[…]

During my cross-examination in the spring, 1985 trial of Julie Christofferson v. Scientology, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, Multnomah County, No. A7704-05184, the organization broke the fact that Sherman, Kluge and Rinder had been covert operatives, the Loyalists were invented, and that my meetings with Kluge and Rinder had been videotaped. The organization called the whole more than two year affair the “Armstrong Operation.” Organization lawyers, Earle Cooley and John Peterson, claimed the Armstrong operation had been authorized by the Los Angeles Police Department, and they produced a letter dated November 7, 1984, a copy of which is appended hereto as Exhibit [B], signed by an officer Phillip Rodriguez, directing organization private investigator Eugene M. Ingram to electronically eavesdrop on me and Michael Flynn.

On April 23, 1985, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates issued a public statement, a copy of which is appended hereto as Exhibit [C], denying that the Rodriguez letter was a correspondence from the Los Angeles Police Department, denying that the Los Angeles Police Department had cooperated with Ingram, and stating emphatically that all purported authorizations directed to Ingram by any member of the Los Angeles Police Department are invalid and unauthorized. On information and belief, the officer, Phillip Rodriguez, who signed Ingram’s letter was paid $10,000.00 for his signature.

Also on information and belief, following a Los Angeles Police Department Internal Affairs Division investigation and a Police Department Board of Rights, Officer Rodriguez was suspended from the Los Angeles Police Force. Eugene Ingram had himself some years before been drummed out of the Los Angeles Police Department. He is reputed to have been busted for pandering and taking payoffs from drug dealers. He is a liar and a bully who has been involved in organization intelligence operations against its perceived enemies for many years. During the period I was involved with the Loyalists Ingram called me at my home and threatened to put a bullet between my eyes.4

The Scientologists and their collaborators have continued to use the poison fruits of Rinder’s meetings with me, which were illegally videotaped, to fair game me. Rinder, et al. also manufactured poison fruit to poison the whole world about me. In this February 22, 1994 declaration, which was also filed in Fishman, I was responding to cult head Miscavige’s personal use of his poisonous fruits:

Mr. Miscavige states that I advise one of his covert operatives to accuse the organization of various criminal acts and when I am told that no evidence exists to support those charges I respond to “just allege it.” (Miscavige Dec. p. 32, l. 5 – l. 8) “Better Basket” describes something of the context in which I make a statement differentiating between “allegations” and “proof.” The operative I’m talking to is Mike Rinder. Before this meeting I had already, on request of the “Loyalists,” provided them with a “bare bones” draft of a complaint. Complaints contain allegations. Complaints do not contain proof. Rinder, who had been represented to me as the Loyalists’ “best legal mind” couldn’t seem to get the distinction between allegations and proof in the complaint, and I was frustrated in our conversation because he seemed so dense. Now, of course, his denseness is fully understandable. He had to appear stupid and had to deny that there was any “proof” of the sort of allegations that would be made in a complaint because he knew he was being recorded on a videotape which was going to be used to attack, and if possible destroy me. Even what the organization has done to me alone (see, e.g., crimes listed by Judge Breckenridge and the list in paragraph 7 above) is enough for actual true-hearted reformers to bring a lawsuit to take control of the organization from the criminals now in charge.5

This past October, someone on Rathbun’s blog posted the same Rinder-Miscavige just-allege-it line, and I wrote a response:

The Scientologists and their collaborators have been using this statement out of context for black PR purposes for over thirty years. They have used it into the US Congress, into the US Intelligence Community, into the IRS to get their unlawful and undeserved tax exemption, into court cases, into media, into governments around the world. They still use it.

The person I was talking to when the “allege it” words were used was Mike Rinder. Below are excerpts from two declarations I wrote in 1994 to provide the context and facts.

Just like Rathbun, Rinder has never told the truth about this covert operation, known as the Armstrong Op.1 Just like Rathbun, Rinder has never come clean or told the truth about what he did in service of Hubbard and Miscavige to victimize good people who stood up to his cult’s lies and predations. Just like Rathbun, Rinder has never corrected the vicious black propaganda he generated and disseminated, and had others disseminate.

Just like Rathbun, Rinder’s black PR continues. They are both black propagandists. Rinder was Rathbun’s editor for his 2013 book that continues the criminal framing of my attorney Michael Flynn and me.

Just like Rathbun, Rinder has shown zero remorse for the evil he did in service of Hubbard and Miscavige. Instead, just like Rathbun, Rinder has carried on bullying. Just like Rathbun, Rinder has tried to become the opposition to Scientology, just as he claimed to be during the Armstrong Op. He and his co-conspirators claimed they knew Miscavige is a criminal and they wanted to get him jailed and Scientology reformed.

All the support and kudos Rinder has received as a whistleblower and as someone “bringing down the cult” is disgusting. If he really wanted to bring it down, or correct injustices, or confront Miscavige, he would tell the truth about all the victimizing he did or knows about, all the lies he told, all the injustices he perpetrated. Just like Rathbun, he hasn’t.6

I think it’s correct to classify it as cosmic irony that the truth Rinder was pretending to be telling in 1984, but, truthfully, lying about, is precisely the truth he is pretending to be telling, but truthfully not, in 2016: fraud, crimes, abuses, rights violations, in fact hate crimes, fair game he knows about. If he had been truthful back in 1984, thirty-two more years of fraud, crimes, abuses, rights violations, misery, threat, etc. could have been avoided. Millions of years of human lives would not have been wasted. He possessed enough truth no later than 1984. After that, he only learned more truth of more fraud, crimes, abuses, rights violations, misery, threat, etc. At no time did Scientology work as advertised, for him or anyone else. He never encountered one fact that justified the fraud, crimes, abuses, rights violations, misery, threat, etc. His thirty plus years of effort to find or manufacture justifications is more fair game.

Even now, the fraud, crimes, abuses, rights violations, misery, threat, etc. could be stopped. The clear conclusion is that Rinder and Rathbun wanted their positions where, with the millions extracted from defrauded people, they could commit crimes against people, abuse them, violate their rights, cause them misery, threaten them, control them. They had to hire conscienceless PIs and lawyers, not conscienceful ones. Rathbun and Rinder needed the cult conspiracy to survive so they could have those positions and power. Rinder says he took fifty to a hundred beatings from Miscavige, just to be able to keep doing his job. Twenty years of his job, he says, was running OSA, a key component in the criminal conspiracy against persons and rights. He had to have been uptone and winning on post all those years. Fair gaming people, conspiring against their persons and rights, punishing people, was a game to Rinder.

The argument I had for Rinder in 1984 to his lie that there was no proof is also cosmically ironic:

Even what the organization has done to me alone (see, e.g., crimes listed by Judge Breckenridge and the list in paragraph 7 above) is enough for actual true-hearted reformers to bring a lawsuit to take control of the organization from the criminals now in charge.

It is true today. Even what Rinder, Rathbun, Miscavige, et al. have done to me alone is enough for true-hearted people to take control of the organization from the criminals now in charge.

Yet another item in this cosmic irony, and historic irony as well, is that I was the guy in 1984 who was asking Rinder for the truth, and not accepting his lies that he had told it. Same thing in 2016; here I am asking him for the truth, and not accepting his lies that he has told it. I had to deal with his 1984 lies, and write about them, and I’m still dealing with them, and dealing with thirty-two more years of his lying, and, as I’m doing now, still writing about it all.

Just as in 1984, and in the intervening years, there are all sorts of people now who support Rinder lying and not telling the truth. Certainly David Miscavige supports these actions or inactions, just as he did in 1984. All Scientologists, Miscavigeite or Nonmiscavigeite, appear to want what Rinder has been delivering: not telling the truth — the truth, that is, which would foster justice and reconciliation. He also has his supporters among avowed wogs, just as he had from 1984 forward. It is probable that there are even wogs who support him not telling the truth, but aren’t aware that he is serving the Miscavigeite Scientologists’ malignant purposes toward their victims. Perhaps some wogs find this reality that Rinder is still serving these dastardly purposes unconfrontable.

In this modern era, in large part because of Loyalist Op One, however, since Rathbun and Rinder have been on Loyalist Op Redux, a meeting with them would be a first.

I would think that media could be interested in any revelation from Rathbun and Rinder about the criminal conspiracy they served and serve, just because of the unambiguous fact they have not revealed anything about it. Even what the conspiracy did and tried to do just to me, one of the world’s average SPs, is one hell of a story.

Media appear to be bullied or bamboozled into not taking up at all what Rinder and Rathbun did to their fair game victims, so a whole media event devoted to exploring that specific, and dramatic, topic would be a quantum first.

Actually, in My Scientology Movie, Louis Theroux asked Rathbun in the most general terms about his role in fair gaming people. Rathbun flashed out his menacing hate-hold beingness, and Theroux I think backed off, with, obviously, some good footage in hand.

Oh yeah, in 2011, Markus Thöß famously asked Rinder about me while filming him. This was not even about what Rinder had done to me, but just for his opinion of me as a past and present Scientology target. Including a long pause to gather his thoughts, everything Rinder would say was under thirty seconds.7 Then, apparently, not only dependent Scientologists but independent ones refused to talk to Thöß or help him with his documentaries if he related amicably to me.

In June 2015 at the Toronto Scientology event, Tony Ortega said that he had talked to Rinder “a little bit about the Gerry Armstrong operation,” and that he’d “like to write a story about that.” I did not pursue the matter, and if Rinder and Ortega did talk about me, it might have been quite a bit earlier. Here is a video clip with transcript from the brief exchange I had with Ortega:

GA: My question is really to Tony. And that is:

You have … you know, Rathbun is one of your sources. Rinder is one of your sources.  Two or three years ago, in speaking to me, you said, you know, “Be patient, I’m going to talk to these guys.” You probably you remember then.

TO: No, I didn’t.

GA: Okay. About the Gerry Armstrong case.

TO: Oh, right.

GA:  About their fair gaming of me…

TO: Yeah.

GA:  about acts against me, which, significantly, in this age, includes what they filed in the IRS. So my question is to you what have they said about this?

TO: Yeah. I have talked to Rinder a little bit about the Gerry Armstrong operation. I’d like to write a story about that . It’s … You have been very patient Gerry, and I’d like to get into that.

As far as Rathbun and the IRS, I agree with you. I think Marty Rathbun writing … because remember you know it was the October 1993 event that was featured in Going Clear where you see David Miscavige bragging about him and Rathbun walking into the IRS office. So if there’s anybody that should have some influence on peeling back that decision, you would think it would be Marty Rathbun.

I think Marty’s in a really interesting transition moment right now. He didn’t even come to New York for publicity on that movie. I think he’s got to the point now where he’s feeling a little overwhelmed and is backing…

I am having a hard time even getting him on the phone right now. So I think he’s having some… I think he’s rethinking exactly what his role is going to be. I think it would be great if he was to talk to the IRS.

The “two or three years ago, in speaking to me,” referred to communications Ortega and I had, almost all by email I believe, in the first part of 2013. He said he was going to talk to Rathbun and Rinder about their relationship with me, and it was clear he hadn’t by then. His talking to Rinder about what he understood to be the Gerry Armstrong operation had to be after that. 8

I had no further communication with Ortega concerning him talking to Rathbun or Rinder until I spoke up at the 2015 Toronto event and asked him what they had said about my litigation, fair game, the black PR to the IRS, etc.

In May 2013, of course, Rathbun published Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, which Rinder edited, and which largely repeated the same lies and black PR about the Armstrong Operation they had disseminated as hardcore admitted Miscavigeite fair gamers.

Both Rathbun and Rinder know that there are significant falsehoods, omissions and semantic trickery in their account of the op in Memoirs. They also both know that in Memoirs and elsewhere they serve malignant Miscavigeite purposes toward their SP victims.

In March 2015, I wrote to Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and Paul Haggis, who, in a TimesTalks discussion called out Tom Cruise and John Travolta to get Miscavige to answer his accusers, and I asked Gibney, Wright and Haggis to call out Rinder and Rathbun to answer their accusers, inter alios, me. The issue, as stated by Wright in the discussion, is the same for me, “abuses that are going on inside Scientology.” Because the key abuses are going on outside Scientology by Scientology insiders, I state it differently, but I seek the same thing: the ending and remedy of the abuses. Gibney, Wright and Haggis were in a position to call out Rinder and Rathbun, and Rinder and Rathbun are in a position to do something effective, if they answered their accusers; that is, told the truth. Obviously Gibney, Wright and Haggis did not really want to get those abuses addressed, even the crimes that involved the US Government and resulted in the IRS tax exemption.9

I noted in my review of Steve Cannane’s recent Fair Game:

Although the book is about “fair game,” and Rinder is a major contributor to the book, there is no mention of his fair game against his victims. There is no evidence he was asked about such actions, no challenge to his assertion or intimation that he and the new regime did not engage in illegal activities, and no question of his aghastness.10

I have seen nothing in the Scientology and the Aftermath series so far that indicates Leah Remini has asked Rinder what he did to wogs like me. I have not seen where she reached out to any of his victims, except perhaps for John Sweeney who is a sort of beard victim for Rinder.

Remini and her researchers had to have known that his biggest longest victim was broadcasting, rather trenchantly, that Rinder had not told the truth despite my urging him to. She and her researchers had to know I was broadcasting, without a word of counter-argument from him, that he is still serving Miscavige’s purposes toward his victims. It seems to me that because of Remini’s at least asserted relationship with the Scientologists, Rinder had a legal duty to divulge to her the fact that he still serves these purposes, and that his black PR of good people on behalf of the Scientologists still abounds.

In Episode 3,11 Remini did ask him the ultimate softball question about his past actions, and, although he lied (which used to be taboo in PR) his “no-answer” is revealing.

LR: Have you made peace with all of it? Like all the stuff that you did?

MR: In general terms yes. It, it still, if I come across someone, an individual who has an individual story and they say, “Well did you know that X, Y and Z was happening? Or this happened to me? Or that happened to me?

Often times, I have no personal involvement or knowledge of what it was that happened. But still I’m sorta like–

LR: You feel somewhat responsible?

MR: Yeah, exactly.

LR: Yeah.

MR: I feel like I, I owe them an apology. But interestingly, for the most part, not a single person has ever been bitter like ah,

LR: Yes. I understand what you’re saying. Like towards, like you, “You f-ked me man.” You…

MR: Exactly. No, it’s like “Yeah, you were part of the, you were part of the same thing that I was a part of. And you know, I understand.”

I was part of Scientology like Rinder. I was part of the Sea Org like Rinder. And, I probably have as adequate an understanding of Scientology and the Sea Org as the next guy. Nevertheless, I speak up for justice and for truth. My understanding, in fact, leads me to oppose Rinder and expose him for not being responsible, and for continuing to victimize good people for base reasons.

I was not part of the same criminal conspiracy Rinder was, and is, part of. It is not necessary to be part of a criminal conspiracy, of course, to understand it.

It is interesting that none of Rinder’s victims are bitter. By this he acknowledges that they are astonishingly good people. They are nonetheless his victims. There is no need for bitterness even when someone victimizes you for more than thirty years as Rinder has victimized me. There is no need for bitterness to pursue truth and justice even if Rinder refuses to give. There is no need for bitterness to stand up to, call out, debunk, and even censure him.

Remini did state that she wanted to help the Scientologists’ victims, and she lamented that she had no way. If Mike Rinder told the truth — not the scripted, generalized, post-truth truth12 that she facilitated – a lot of victims would be helped. There is hardly any cost involved. It will bring about reconciliation. Because of her stated desire, she might use her celebrity megaphone and status to get him to do the right and honest thing.

It appeared to me that Remini was sincere in her intentions and her relationship with the Scientologists, and she was not aware that Rinder was zooming her. She did acknowledge being zoomed for years by Scientologist liars, and then realizing they were lying; so maybe she will get she’s still being zoomed by the same liar. “I ran OSA for twenty years,” “I have no personal involvement or knowledge of what it was that happened,” Zoom. About his victims: “I feel like I, I owe them an apology.” If he apologized to all the people he owed an apology to, he wouldn’t feel like he owed one. An apology without truth, of course, is scorn. An apology without justice is sadism.

There is a huge difference between the knowledge an insider like Rinder had and the knowledge a non-insider like Remini had. His hat and job included lying to her and keeping her ignorant of the criminal conspiracy in which he operated. She did not have the hat and job of keeping him ignorant. He is still keeping her ignorant of his conspiracy against persons and rights.

The millions Remini forked over to the Scientologists paid Rinder and OSA’s wages and hired them conscienceless PIs and attorneys to fair game wogs like me. Rinder knew but she didn’t. He used her celebrity as cover for his fair gaming and as a lure for more celebrities and more money to keep fair game working.

To his victims, who know he has not reached out to them, or told the truth to them, or done anything to make them whole, or lifted a finger to end ongoing injustices, or correct black PR, he comes across not just as a liar but a bully. Because of his inaction for his victims, when he claims that he ran fair game and that when someone was to be destroyed he did it, he comes across like a thug gangster boasting. Rathbun on many occasions sounds the same. Without telling the truth and helping his victims, Rinder benefiting now from all his victimizing smacks shamelessly of Son of Sam. In his role in the Aftermath series, without coming clean, he stinketh.

So the story of Rathbun and Rinder’s relationships with me is virtually untouched by the media. Yet it involves a criminal conspiracy against persons and rights and reaches into principalities and powers. Rathbun, Rinder, and their superiors — Hubbard and Miscavige — occupied high places and engaged not just in secular lawfare or wordly persecution but in spiritual wickedness. They all sought power, grabbed power, flowed power to power, and used their power for evil, the destruction of good people. Although my relationships with Rathbun and Rinder are long and complex, require a lot of reading and understanding, including legal documents, if they are to be understood, and although these remarkable relationships are desecrated by disinformation and other social engineering actions and black PRed as repulsive or toxic, they are a real opportunity for a smart writer or filmmaker who can parse byzantine intelligence campaigns and stand up to fairly sophisticated material and spiritual villainy.

Funny, sort of out of the blue, on Christmas Day Markus Thöß emailed me and said that NOBODY is willing to talk about Rinder as OSA boss, and everybody is hiding behind fatuous excuses for his ongoing, unforthcoming, Miscavige-serving actions. Thöß has been making documentaries for several years on a number of Scientology-related deaths and other topics, and apparently has spoken to everyone imaginable to try to get them to talk about Rinder. Thöß stressed that NOBODY would speak out about what Rinder did — not Rinder himself, and not even me. “Somehow or other,” Thöß also got the false idea that I had no evidence of what Rinder had done.

Obviously, since Rinder is afraid, for whatever reason, to tell the truth about what he did while in the Miscavigeite conspiracy, it falls to others to do their best to tell it, and if others are really afraid to tell the truth, it falls to me. It is no secret that I have spoken out about what Rinder did, and I am as willing as ever to tell the truth I know. It would be better, I think, for a number of reasons if Rinder spoke up himself and detailed what he did, and I have urged him to do so and given him endless opportunities. Whether he ever does is in God’s Great Hands.

I have never itemized what he did or had done to me, but I have identified certain areas or times in our relationship that are factually significant, and I have overwhelming evidence of antisocial and criminal actions of his when he openly worked for Hubbard and Miscavige. I also have a stack of the black, uncorrected, unrepented propaganda he spreads in service of their criminal purposes and conspiracy. I don’t think I ever had seen Rinder’s time as OSA head pinned down as precisely as Steve Cannane got it in Fair Game a few months back.

Shortly after being involved in the cleanout of the Guardian’s Office, Rinder became the head of the new Office of Special Affairs. It was a position he would hold for close to 20 years.

[…]

By early 2004, Mike Rinder had fallen out of favour with Scientology’s leader. According to Rinder, Miscavige was upset at how he and other Scientology executives handled a special New Year’s event.

The GO cleanout was over in 1983, meaning Rinder’s claimed or reported stretch as OSA head was until 2003. He would have been let into the conspiracy by 1983, maybe earlier. His status in the conspiracy changed in 2003, as it has changed many times over the years, but his participation in the conspiracy, to the extent of serving its malevolent purposes toward its victims, has continued to this day.

Thöß said that the truth needs to be told about Rinder, and other similarly placed insiders, who, Thöß observes, tell little bits but never tell the whole truth. So there is this scintilla of media interest in what Rinder did to his victims. Now that he has been able to parlay his career criminally victimizing people into documentary stardom, there might be a smart, courageous journalist or filmmaker who dares to ask. Obviously, a bigger-they-are syndrome could also be in play and out of everyone else’s hands in Rinder’s, and Rathbun’s, and Miscavige’s relationships with their victims and their admiring publics.

The media can get interested and write about Rinder and Rathbun’s relationship with me without them ever having to meet me. Mark Bunker or other media people can communicate any time with ideas, questions, etc.

There could be a place for public meetings or debates or filming, and, without seeing a proposal, I have no opposition. In 2013, I did get, I’d say, Rathbun’s agreement to debate me, but he rabbited after I submitted my opening statement. The debate was not about his fair gaming me, however, but concerned his antisocial vilification of the Suppressive Person class and misrepresentation of the SP doctrine in Memoirs.13

I am not going to enter the US until I know that any orders for my arrest have been cancelled or a smart, honest attorney takes my case and we challenge the existing court orders.

I am free to meet anywhere in Canada, or perhaps somewhere in Europe. Germany probably deserves a debate between Rathbun and Rinder and me, and definitely deserves to know the details of the fair game actions they took in the country during their time as international conspiracy bosses. I did talk about their relationship with me to a group of people in Berlin in 2011. 14

Maybe the Russians would be up for hosting such a public media event. They have shown a continuing interest in my experiences and knowledge generally, and my relationship with Hubbard; but have not gotten into my relationship with Rathbun and Rinder, the “independents,” and what presents in the American milieu as the opposition to Scientology. The Russians should have an interest because of the IRS fraud, the human rights violations, the US Intelligence Community’s knowledge of Scientology crimes and human rights violations, religious freedom, religion serving the US’s intelligence interests, State Department complicity, the black propaganda, Rathbun and Rinder’s Department 20 goals and functions inside and “outside,” and the list goes on. It is with good reason that the US is known today as the Scientology of nations.

For language and cost considerations, however, I suggest Canada, and further suggest Vancouver, BC.

Meeting up with Rathbun or Rinder for a media event is not, however, what my focus or goal necessarily is regarding them, or rather what broadly I am suggesting to them.

Where their words are requested is in a legal proceeding in a court of law, not in the court of public opinion. That is, their words would be sworn to, so they would understand the truth being asked of them. Ideally, their words should be in answer to well-formulated questions from persons who understand evidentiary matters and the relevant legal issues. So probably smart, courageous attorneys.

I already know a great deal about what was done to me during the periods when Rathbun and Rinder say they ran fair game for Hubbard and Miscavige, and I have documented much of that. I have an understanding of their public statements since claiming to no longer be fair gamers for Hubbard or Miscavige, and I can access much of the public record they have made. I know what to ask them to get the details of their attitudes, intentions and actions, and would be as able as anyone to discern truth or lies in what they say.

I necessarily must concentrate on Rathbun and Rinder’s fair game on me, black PR about me, legal matters concerning me. For everyone, however, Scientology is ripe for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I’ll write something about this separately.

Rathbun and Rinder’s legal and extralegal fair game on me is not at all just personal. Key matters in this long campaign are of great public concern; e.g., the IRS tax exemption, the International Religious Freedom Act, the ongoing suppression of human rights on a massive scale. Their actions toward me concern others, and the truth that they can tell has the potential to free other people, even Scientologists. They are both fully aware that their not telling the truth keeps people trapped, to some degree in their control. 15

I am simply asking Rinder and Rathbun to tell the simple truth, the time, place, form and event of what they did and had done to me and their other SP targets. That is a debrief, which Rinder and Rathbun are familiar with. They have debriefed others and been debriefed themselves many times.

Consider that they debriefed to Miscavige untold times about what they did and had done to me, their victim, and their other victims, but they will not now debrief to the victims or to help the victims. Rathbun and Rinder know what “time, place, form and event” means, and have probably demoed it a dozen times. They still serve Miscavige and they know it and justify it. They bamboozled people inside and they’re bamboozling people outside.

In a way, because of the antisocial or criminal nature of their history that they are being asked to debrief about, which has been in service of criminal, sadistic masters, this would be to Rathbun and Rinder a lot like spies going over to the enemy side and debriefing to the enemy they had previously spied on, vilified, attacked and tried to destroy.

If those spies do not go over to the enemy and do not debrief to assist their victims or targets, those spies serve their former masters’ current purposes, which can be malevolent. That is the condition Rathbun and Rinder are in.

As you can imagine, a media event with media goals is less conducive to obtaining the truth and reaching reconciliation, than a simple interview room in which the truth is told and reconciliation starts. If that happens, media contacts and events logically follow.

But if anyone in the media wants to do something for Rathbun and Rinder’s victims, who are legion, before they tell the truth or debrief about all their victimizing, I would not object.

Notes

  1. See ESMB post for links to referenced materials. ↩
  2. See Introduction to the Armstrong Op. ↩
  3. Documents relating to Mark Rathbun; Documents relating to Mike Rinder. ↩
  4. From Declaration of Gerry Armstrong of February 20, 1994 ↩
  5. From Declaration of Gerry Armstrong February 22, 1994 ↩
  6. From http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1855 ↩
  7. See Armstrong declaration and video excerpt. ↩
  8. For my understanding of the Armstrong Op, see http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/about ↩
  9. See
    http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1488 ↩
  10. See Speaking up about fair game ↩
  11. A & E’s series “Scientology And the Aftermath” ↩
  12. Definition: Post-truth ↩
  13. See The Suppressive Person Doctrine On Trial: Opening Statement by Gerry Armstrong ↩
  14. 2011 talk in Berlin ↩
  15. See Why won’t Marty and Mike tell the truth? ↩

Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Michael J. Rinder, Mike Rinder

December 12, 2016 by Clerk1

No, do it Mike Rinder. Tell the truth.

10th December 2016, 05:20 AM #41

CommunicatorIC

Re: Mike Rinder posted something important today

Originally Posted by programmer_guy

Mike made a general apology.
Gerry wants Mike (and others) to admit to specific details that can stand up in a court of law.

Which Mike cannot do without potentially exposing himself to civil and criminal liability — and thus threatening his family.

As I noted above, Mike cannot rely on any statute of limitations defense because of legal doctrines that suspend the running of the statute of limitations such as fraudulent concealment, equitable tolling, equitable estoppel, minority, incapacity, or simply being physically outside a particular jurisdiction.

My advice to Mike would be not to do it. If, hypothetically, I had a wife and child I would not endanger their futures and our family to do it.

If Gerry didn’t like that, I would completely understand. I would not, however, engage in an action that could threaten my family just because he is not satisfied with a “general” apology and wants “specific details that can stand up in a court of law.”

Honestly, I think that if Mike didn’t have a wife and child, then there *might* be some chance that Gerry would get what he wants. Given that Mike does have a wife and a small child, I think the probability of Gerry getting what he wants is precisely zero.

I understand that there are many people who, like Communicator IC, do not want Rinder to do what I have asked him to do, and even, like this poster, advise him not to do.

What I have consistently asked Rinder for is to tell the truth. What I have consistently, in many public communications, said I  wanted from Rinder is the truth.  I simply want him to tell the truth.

In psychopathic logic, I am supposed to stop wanting him to tell the truth because he won’t, or hasn’t, or refuses. That isn’t the way such wanting works. One doesn’t want peace in the world, and then stop wanting it because there isn’t peace. In the choice between war and peace, I choose peace. In the choice between Rinder telling the truth or not telling the truth, I want the truth.

Wanting him to tell the truth, as I do, can exist as a life choice and nothing is done about it. Like a million other choices perhaps we all have made over our lives. My wanting him to tell the truth only arose when he claimed to be doing so, and because I had real and legitimate reasons to want him to tell the truth. The Scientologists and their collaborators, clearly, do not want him to tell the truth.

I did act on what I wanted, of course, and he knew right after he started presenting as telling the truth that that was exactly how he could help me and so many other people. It was exactly what I was wanting from him. I did have a brief email exchange with him, which, because of recent events, I’ve assembled here: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1919 I have not bothered him at all with correspondence.

I have communicated things that have helped keep alive the issue of Rinder not telling the truth, which at this time is serious.This obviously has upset the people who want him to not tell the truth yet be seen as telling the truth. But it’s fake upset, and the efforts to keep Rinder from telling the truth, and bestow celebrity status on him for telling the truth are perverse and logically puerile.

Although I want Rinder to tell the truth, and have made this known to him, I have also accepted that he probably won’t. I have long ago accepted his decisions to hate me, make me his enemy, black PR me, and side with the people who want me dead. I’ve accepted that all the Scientologists and their collaborators in the world hate me, consider me an enemy, and would welcome my death.

Despite accepting that Rinder, unless he has a Damascus Road moment, is not going to tell the truth, there is still a need to get the fact known that he is not telling the truth. The same was true with Hubbard: he didn’t tell the truth but claimed to be telling the truth; he was not going to start telling the truth, but there was still a need to get the fact known that he is not telling the truth. Fraud should be exposed, and Rinder’s pretense of telling the truth should be exposed just as Hubbard’s should be.

The truth has to be told in a way that means or does something toward reconciliation and justice, so his telling the truth to his priest or psychiatrist or his pillow or his personal demon wouldn’t suffice. The truth to be told is his experiences with and knowledge of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology corporations, organizations, and affiliated entities, and their officers, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and legal counsel. (This is the language of what Rinder, et al. sought to silence me about by their contract1

Rinder knows exactly who and what needs to have the truth told about them. It is very simple. Nobody wants Rinder to tell the truth about what he said in his auditing sessions, or about his dreams, or about his wins. The truth he must tell, if truth be told, is his experiences and knowledge of fair game, what was done to wogs in furtherance of the criminal conspiracy against persons and rights in which he was a key member for many years.

That criminal conspiracy still exists. Rinder still serves its criminal purposes. He can only stop serving its purposes by telling the truth about it. Otherwise, he will, until his death, serve that diabolical criminal conspiracy. Scientolomerta. And that will be his legacy. Except for his desire to keep serving this conspiracy and keep the conspiracy working, the choice, I would think would be obvious.

It is this conspiracy against persons and rights that needs to be taken down, not Scientology or the Church of Scientology or some named corporation.

Rinder admittedly has his reason or reasons for not telling the truth. He had ample reasons for more than twenty years, he says, as Miscavige’s Fair Game IC. As I said, he knows what the truth is that he has reasons to not tell. This could be described as criminal and depraved actions planned or taken against members of the SP class, black propaganda, which is also depraved, and ongoing injustices and fraud. That is a huge and understandable, but completely unacceptable, reason not to tell the truth about it.

That is also the reason Communicator IC gives for advising Rinder to not tell the truth. What he should tell the truth about is so criminal, so depraved, so unjust and involves so much criminal fraud, in Communicator IC’s reasoning, he shouldn’t tell the truth about it. The details of Rinder’s fair gaming good people for Scientology — for pay, for prestige, which still serves him, and for fun and for joy, because he had to have been uptone about it all those years — are so criminal, so depraved, and so unjust and the fraud he promoted and defended with fair game so noxious, that telling truth about them would threaten his family, so Communicator IC says.

Obviously, what it will take for Rinder to tell the truth — even if the contemplation of the shame of it all is crushing, even if it might open him up to liability for his actions to someone, even if he is honoring a contract to not tell the truth and his coconspirators might murder him, even if he’s still on Miscavige’s payroll, and even if he hates me beyond human endurance — is courage. He should be encouraged to tell the truth and advised to be courageous, rather than encouraged to be cowardly, and provided spurious justifications for his continued cowardice. I think he should opt for courage. He certainly learned cowardice in Scientology in spades. His bluster, I think, is rooted actually in the Scientology cowardice condition, which makes it misplaced bluster. But perhaps all bluster is.

Now is the time for Rinder to get courageous, to do the right thing, and tell the truth that can free people – the truth about his experiences and knowledge of actions by the Scientologists and their collaborators against members of the SP class.

Communicator IC’s assertion that Rinder cannot tell the truth without potentially exposing himself to civil and criminal liability, which is provided as a lead-pipe justifier for advising him not to do so, is clarifying on three issues. 1. It acknowledges, finally, that Rinder has not told the truth. 2. It acknowledges that the truth to be told is relevant and important, and concerns criminal and tortious actions against victims; in this case me personally. 3. It acknowledges that Rinder could not have told the truth to the FBI.

I have seen it claimed that, since apparently leaving the Sea Org and presenting himself as telling the truth about his Scientology-related experiences and knowledge, Rinder, along with Mark Rathbun, has been to the FBI, talked to the FBI, been interviewed by the FBI. I have no actual knowledge of their “going to the FBI,” but there are multiple reports of them doing so. If Rinder had told the truth to the FBI; if the FBI had been the Constitution-obeying federal law enforcement entity it publicly purports to be, operating by its motto Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity, and not cowardly collaborating with the Miscavige-Rathbun-Rinder, et al. conspiracy against persons and rights; and if the FBI has not prosecuted him, which they have not, then there is zero risk that Rinder would face criminal liability if he told that truth to me or my lawyer.

Rinder and Rathbun do not merit the defense or excuse that telling the truth will expose them to criminal liability, when they are claiming they’re telling the truth to the FBI — of all law enforcement entities — without the slightest hint of criminal liability.

When the FBI got the truth of the Scientologists’ fair game actions against Paulette Cooper during the GO period, the FBI contacted Cooper. Since Rathbun and Rinder, after supposedly leaving the Miscavigeite sect, went to the FBI, and supposedly told all, which had to include their years of fair game actions against me, the FBI has not contacted me. I have reason to believe, in fact, that Rathbun and Rinder continued their adherence to the conspiracy line in their communications with the FBI, which included the continued black PRing and criminal framing of me.

I wrote last year about Rathbun and Rinder’s visits to the FBI since claiming to have left the Miscavigeite sect, and explained that it is a virtual certainty they did not tell the truth:

This scenario of Rathbun and Rinder talking to the FBI or going to the Feds has been brought up several times over the past few years. It is used as evidence of them doing the right thing, or how effective they are as critics, as it has been assumed that whatever they told the Feds helped the Scientologists’ victims.

In view of the known facts, however, this assumption is illogical. It is illogical to think that Rathbun and Rinder would lie about me in Memoirs, continue the criminal framing of me and Mike Flynn, black PR me and other persons he victimized, and yet tell the truth about what they did to fair game us to the Feds.

Rathbun went to the Feds all sorts of times while working inside the cult and in charge of fair game under Miscavige. Rathbun went to the Feds, and had others go to the Feds, about Flynn and me. Rathbun lied to the Feds then, and there is no reason to believe he is not lying to them now. Until he tells the truth to his victims about his victimizing them, his talking to the FBI is just like Kendrick Moxon talking to the FBI.

All the “Indies” talking to all the FBI had the effect of ending any investigation into the cult. All Rathbun’s followers would have black PRed me and others similarly positioned SPs to the Feds.

It must be understood, of course, that the Feds conspired with the Scientologists against the Scientologists’ victims.2 When Scientologist conspirators like Rathbun and Rinder talk to the Feds, they are talking to their coconspirators. The cure is the public exposure of the conspirators and breaking of the conspiracy, not the conspirators talking in secret. That keeps the conspiracy working, which appears to be Rathbun and Rinder’s purpose.2

If civil or criminal liability would exist should Rinder tell the truth, then it must exist now, without his telling the truth. Arrangements are very often made that provide immunities of various kinds if witnesses, or even participants in crimes, tell the truth about their experiences and knowledge, or allocate. Consequently, his telling the truth could actually reduce his criminal and civil liability. Therefore criminal and civil liability for telling the truth is not really a good excuse for Rinder not doing so, certainly regarding the Scientology v. Armstrong evils. In my case, the principal crime or offense against me is continuing, rendering statutes of limitation inapplicable, so Rinder’s liability increases every day he keeps serving his conspiracy’s purposes.

From the very earliest efforts I made to get Rathbun and Rinder to communicate to me, I have provided them with the best opportunity to tell the truth, to have it be meaningful, to put it to tremendous and dramatic use. It is disgraceful that people, presenting themselves as opposing the Scientologists’ malign purposes, advise Rathbun and Rinder to not take this golden opportunity, and smear the very person with whom the opportunity exists. Advising Rinder to not tell the truth but keep serving the Scientologists’ malign purposes serves the same people’s same purposes.

Communicator IC forks up a strawman that it’s my satisfaction that weighs or argues against endangering Rinder’s wife and child and family. I had never used, relied on or referred to my satisfaction in any of my requests to Rinder or arguments to anyone that he tell the truth. My satisfaction is unrelated to Rinder telling the truth. Reconciliation, justice, peace, honor, in fact the elimination of an endangerment to his child, wife and family — those are on the other side of Rinder growing a spine and telling the simple truth, not my satisfaction.

Legal and social issues relating directly to the truth of Rinder’s experiences and knowledge also exceed and transcend my satisfaction, including, e.g., human rights; religious freedom; contracted religious silence; a light on black propaganda; the IRS crimes;  those who would act in concert with me. It is completely understandable that the Scientologists and their collaborators do not want Rinder to tell the truth, because it would affect, and could correct these issues. They do not want the Scientologists’ criminally obtained and legally undeserved IRS tax exemption to be lost or challenged.

If child, wife or family endangerment is a factor, then it should be observed that Rinder endangered, and continues to endanger his children, wives and family by being Hubbard or Miscavige’s Fair Game IC for twenty years, committing acts that even Communicator IC says subject him to criminal liability. Now Rinder keeps adding his refusal to help his victims, as does Rathbun, when he could have done so much with nothing more than the simple truth, all of which will be the legacy he leaves his children.

What a burden on them also to discover that their father used them as his excuse not to help his victims, not to end injustices. Rathbun also has been using his wife and child as human shields for much the same purpose and his supporters too validate that use.

The Scientologists and their collaborators seek to present my relationship with Mike Rinder and Rathbun as one of equal opponents equally empowered, equally right, and equally deserving of public scrutiny and criticism. If this can be accepted, of course, my few requests of both of them to communicate to me and tell the truth can be made to sound unfair. After all, they are not requesting that I  speak up and tell the truth about their and their fellow Scientologists’ fair gaming of SP class members.

Even though I see the equality, and also the unity, of all Homo sapiens, however, the clear relationship this past thirty-five years is of victimizer and victim. It is our essential equality that makes this unholy relationship of victimizer and victim what it is.

As can be seen, I did not know that Rinder was targeting me until 1985 when the Scientologists proclaimed the shocking truth that he was conning me about being my friend, about understanding where I was coming from, and about coming to me for my assistance, because he and his “Loyalists” sought fairness, truth and justice.

Rinder knew that he was targeting me from the first minute he knew I had left, which was thirty-five years ago today. Through every minute of his OSA career he targeted me. I had no idea. I did nothing about him.

I naturally testified as necessary thereafter about what had been revealed in 1985 of what he had done, but that was only because he had done it and it was relevant in various legal proceedings

Rinder had the whole OSA apparatus and used it to sue me, black PR me around the world, frame me, bankrupt me, stalk me, op me, threaten me, betray me, destroy my relationships, get me enjoined and sentenced to jail, and drive me to the edge of death, all in execution of his conspiracy’s criminal purposes and programs. I had no such apparatus, and did none of those things to Rinder.

Rinder and his fellow Scientologists and their collaborators have sought for thirty-five years, and paid millions of dollars, and corrupted courts, to silence me. I never tried to silence him or them. In fact it is quite clear that I urge them to communicate.

Rinder, et al. seek to have me jailed and fined for truthfully expressing my sincere religious experiences and knowledge. I don’t seek to have them jailed, but seek to have them truthfully express their sincere religious experiences and knowledge.

In last week’s Scientology and the Aftermath program, Rinder said:

Part of my job was to discredit and destroy critics who spoke out against the Church. If the Church believed that someone was an enemy and needed to be silenced or destroyed, it was my job and I did it.

[…]

I was the guy.

I feel bad about the people who got hurt as a result of my actions. But I feel it’s important to tell the truth of what really goes on behind the scenes. What really is happening in Scientology.

I had no such job to destroy Rinder.

Rinder’s conjunction “but” is confusing here, but his implication is clear that because he says telling the truth of what really goes on behind the scenes in Scientology is important, he must be telling such truth. Obviously he is not telling such truth; or there would be no need to advise him to not tell the truth or supply him with justifications to keep him from telling the truth. What really goes on behind the scenes is the criminal conspiracy against persons and rights in which Rinder has been such a key conspirator.

Notes

  1. See “Mutual Release And Settlement Agreement“. ↩
  2. From http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1332 ↩

Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: FBI, Gerry Armstrong, Mark Rathbun, Michael J. Rinder, The Loyalist Op

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