On April 14 I wrote to Simon & Schuster President and Publisher Jonathan Karp [1. Armstrong's April 14 2023 letter to Simon & Schuster] about a false statement about me in Mike Rinder’s A Billion Years book. Rinder’s falsehood is a black PR meme on me that the Miscavigeite Scientologists have been disseminating, and getting others, e.g., now Simon & Schuster, to disseminate around the world for forty plus years. I copied my letter to Michael J. Flynn, my attorney, to Hazel-Ann … [Read more...] about Mike Rinder, Simon & Schuster, the IRS and me.
Defamation in Mike Rinder book
April 14, 2023 Jonathan Karp President and Publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020 USA By Canada Post and email: [e-mail redacted] Re: Simon & Schuster book A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder Dear Mr. Karp: I am the Gerry Armstrong Mr. Rinder writes about in his book. You might not be the person to deal with the matter I’m mentioning here; so please forward to the appropriate person in … [Read more...] about Defamation in Mike Rinder book
Interview by German Filmmaker Peter Reichelt (December 6, 1998)
https://youtu.be/n-1GdvbW-9E … [Read more...] about Interview by German Filmmaker Peter Reichelt (December 6, 1998)
To Mike Rinder: Request for complimentary eBook
From: Gerry Armstrong Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 8:20 AM To: Rindermike@[ ] Subject: Request for complimentary eBook By email: Rindermike@ [ ] Dear Mike: As you know, both by your actions and reputation, I have been your biggest fair game target ever since you assumed your OSA posts. I’ve asked you and your supporters before if you can name anyone else you targeted or victimized more than me, and you have never suggested another person. That’s forty years of fair game. I’ve … [Read more...] about To Mike Rinder: Request for complimentary eBook
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Dear Ms. Šorytė: I am responding here to your article “‘Secretophobia’: The Modern Prejudice Against Religious and Spiritual Secrets,” recently published in The Journal of CESNUR. [1. The Journal of CESNUR, Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2022, pp. 68-82 https://cesnur.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/tjoc_6_3_full_issue.pdf ] It is broadly an attack on American professor of religious studies Hugh Urban, couched as a scholarly criticism of his writings on secrets in Freemasonry and … [Read more...] about Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Prospect of a Flood
The most important weather predictor I learned as a child in Chilliwack was, “If there’s snow on the Prospector on the Queen’s Birthday, there’ll be a flood.” “The Prospector” is a slash on the south-western flank of Mt. Cheam, or on the saddle between Cheam and the mountain to its south. (Is that Mt. Thurston?) The old prospector has a pack on his back and is kneeling, panning for gold I guess. Here’s a photo that shows his shape pretty clearly: … [Read more...] about Prospect of a Flood