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Suicide Note

I’ve been thinking about harm done by the actions of the Scientologists and their colluders, and Dr. Harry Bailey comes to mind. His suicide note shows the ultimate level of emotional distress the Scientologists and their colluders — with their intelligence, PR and lawfare tentacles and operations — can generate in their victims. “Let it be known that the Scientologists and the forces of madness have won.”

According to reports, Dr. Bailey suicided on September 8, 1985. This is the same year the Scientologists brought me to the edge of suicide. I’ve written and spoken about this before, e.g., this video of a 2011 talk in Berlin, Germany at around 37:40:

In April 1985, I was testifying at trial for the plaintiff in the case of Julie Christofferson v. Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard in Portland, Oregon. During my cross-examination, cult attorney Earle Cooley revealed that the Scientologists had videos of me meeting with their covert agents. Cooley claimed the videos showed me planning and doing horrible and criminal things. Relevantly at this time, one of the Scientology agents was Mike Rinder, who now presents as a cult critic and reformer, but still serves the Scientologists’ malign purposes toward his victims.

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.”1

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. 2

During my cross-examination in the Christofferson trial, when Cooley announced he had two videos of me meeting with the people I thought were reformers, the judge stopped the proceeding, dismissed the jurors, sent the gallery home, ordered the videos produced, and ordered attorneys for both sides into his chambers to watch them. For some reason, I was left in the witness box, alone in the empty courtroom.

I was in tremendous psychological turmoil. I tried to remember what I had said in these videoed meetings. I knew I had cursed, and made an obscene comment. I was humiliated and I knew the videos would be used to embarrass me even more. Knowing what I did of Scientology policy, and from my own experience, I anticipated the Scientologists would manufacture the calumny that I had betrayed the people who supported me, the people the Scientologists had victimized, and the people who stood up against them.

As I sat alone in the box, my mind turned to suicide and I came up with the best, least messy way I could think of: rent a plane and pilot and jump out over open ocean. While brooding over this solution, one of the Scientology attorneys Harry Manion came out of chambers, saw me, demanded to know what I was doing still in the courtroom, and made a scene about my being there. The judge came out of chambers and told me to go out to the hall and wait there for the plaintiff’s attorneys. 3

The courtroom was on, I believe, the third floor of the Multnomah County Courthouse. http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impact/photo/ct1jpg-11878e538fefdac0.jpg I waited alone for a bit on a bench, in even deeper despair, and then got the idea of jumping down to the ground floor to kill myself.

Multnomah County Courthouse

 

Multnomah County Courthouse (stairwell)

The stairs are, or were anyway, bifurcated ninety degree turn stairs, marble I think, around a pair of top-floor-to-ground-floor shafts or wells.

The ground floor was marble or perhaps a stone composite, but in any case rock hard, and I thought I could just jump from the third floor railing and achieve sure death.

I went over to the closest well, looked over the railing, waited a few seconds, and a person walked across the ground floor directly below me. I think there was a coke machine out of my view and people would pass across the floor at the bottom of the well to get to the machine. I thought it could be my misfortune to land on and kill some innocent person who just wanted a soda.

I went over to the railing above the other well, looked down, and another person walked across three floors below me. I think this time it was a row of ground floor courthouse pay phones that took people across my jump target. And again it would be my luck to survive and kill someone who just wanted to make a call.

I survived without jumping anywhere, and I haven’t been driven to that level of despair or desperation ever since; even though the Scientologists and their colluders have continued to try with all sorts of black propaganda and legal and extralegal threats to drive me there. I also gained a pretty good understanding of the psychological injury these people intend to inflict and do inflict.

Rinder has been and remains a key participant in the fair game on me. At the time of the 1984 videotape operation and the 1985 Christofferson trial, Rinder was the head of the US division of Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs (OSA), the successor to the Guardian’s Office (GO). From at least 1987 until 2007, he was posted as Commanding Officer OSA International, responsible, under cult head Miscavige, for Scientology investigations and intelligence operations against enemies or victims like me, for all Scientology black propaganda, and for all of Scientology’s lawfare around the world.

Very importantly, in the last few years, while again claiming to be reformed and a reformer, Rinder has refused to come forward and tell the truth about the fair game actions he took to victimize people during his years officially in or running OSA. He has refused to help in ongoing injustices he perpetrated, or concerning the undeserved IRS tax exemption by which the Scientologists get away with so much around the world. He played a key, indeed criminal role in the Scientologists obtaining their religious IRS tax exemption.

In the recent A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath, which Rinder co-produced, this quote from a Scientology policy appears:

Confidential

28 March 1972

COUNTER ATTACK TACTICS

CS-G Hat

GOWW Hat

D/G Hats

A/G Hats

Bu of Info

PRINCIPLE: When PR and Legal find themselves engaged in handling attacks, Intelligence has failed.

SITUATION: Those who attack Scientology as proven by Oxford Capacity Analysis graphs, criminal or shady record, personal lives etc., are provenly suppressive. When such people, as is currently common, ascend into the heights of governments or public or private organizations, or the press, they are able to exert the fullest dramatization against anything which might benefit others and usually do.

Being suppressive (a kind word for insane) their aims are destructive.

This is not limited to their fancied enemies. They are destructive to themselves and their own government or institution….

  1. These persons can always lose their jobs. These jobs, permitting them power to destroy, are valuable to them. This is a POINT OF VULNERABILITY.

  2. If the person’s job is also not valuable to him or if he cannot be made to lose his job, something can be found which he is seeking to protect and it can be threatened.Aftermath Season 1, Episode 7

Immediately following this text, Rinder states:

They (the Scientologists tasked with hating, silencing or destroying attackers) believe if they can get away with that sort of shit, that it puts you in the mindset of “My God, they’ll do anything!”

Rinder says this without ever identifying what he and his seniors and juniors did to implant in their victims the mindset that the Scientologists, and their colluders, of course, will do anything. It is as if he is bragging about putting his victims in that mindset. That “mindset” is psychological injury. It is a desire and product of terrorists.

In common law it is the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress, caused by the tort-feasors behaving in an “extreme and outrageous” way toward their victims. The Scientologists’ hatred and black propaganda are extreme. Their lying, especially under oath, is extreme. Their goals of silencing or destroying people is extreme.

It is extremely extreme and outrageous that the Scientologists and their colluders knew what psychologically they were doing to their victims and desired that injury. This tort and crime had to have been successful for the Scientologists and their colluders or they would not have kept pouring millions of dollars and millions of hours into perpetrating it over decades.

The Scientologists exacerbate the injury by black PRing their victims as “paranoid.” This is an example of the Scientology policy and practice Hubbard called “double curve,” which is facet of fair game.

Fair game is the treatment or handling of “Suppressive Persons.” Suppressive Persons are a religious class who commonly tell the truth, about their experiences and knowledge of Hubbard, Scientology, the Scientologists and their colluders, specifically concerning what the Scientologists and their colluders have done and are doing to silence or destroy people or put their victims in the mindset of “My God, they’ll do anything!”

Despite getting away with what so far they’ve gotten away with in terrorizing their victims, the Scientologists are aware of their own terrible reputations. So they work assiduously to get people or entities who are supposedly uncorrupted and not ill-reputed to collude with them and do some of the Scientologists’ dirty work attacking their victims.

I know very well that the Scientologists and their colluders will do anything, will say anything, will commit any crime to get away with what they’ve gotten away with. This certainty is what the Scientologists and their colluders wanted to be my “mindset” and they got their product. Mike Rinder got his product. They have, however, failed miserably to silence me or destroy me, and I hope to have them fail to silence or destroy anyone else. I hope the Scientologists and their colluders fail in their evil effort to terrorize people into this terrible mindset.

The Scientologists and their colluders have also failed to drive me to suicide. If I had written a suicide note, it would have been close to Dr. Bailey’s: “The Scientologists and the forces of madness have won.” But I was saved, and I hope the Scientologists and their colluders fail to drive anyone else anywhere close to suicide, and everyone is saved.

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Doing something about the Aftermath

Leah Remini and Mike Rinder ended their series season finale with them together in New York about to meet attorneys to discuss Scientology. Remini indicated they’re consulting attorneys because she “can’t let the church continue to abuse people and take their money and their lives.” She mentioned her determination that the Scientologists not “get away with shit.” The “shit” obviously is the abuse, fraud, extortion and other torts and crimes the Scientologists commit. Rinder said he hoped the meeting gave them “a path forward to be able to take action… what to do now.”

The pre-attorney meeting scene or scenes and the contrived mystery and suspense reminded me of a meeting with an attorney that Rinder’s Loyalist Op arranged for me in 1984. Mark Rathbun ran the op for David Miscavige and L. Ron Hubbard, and Rinder was assigned to pretend to be my personal friend. He was so anxious for my friendship that the Loyalists claimed he was risking being murdered by the criminal Miscavige cabal by meeting me, and we had to meet in secret.

In 1985 at the Julie Christofferson v. Scientology trial in Portland, Oregon, the Scientologists revealed their op, in order to be able to use its poison fruits.1 They still use their poison fruits and have poisoned people around the world. So do Rathbun and Rinder; even in their Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior. Following is a brief description of the operation from a declaration I wrote in November 1985 for one of the many cases where the Scientologists filed false claims and documents relating to the Loyalist Op, which they called the “Armstrong Op.”

  1. In order to compromise my effectiveness as a witness and undo the Breckenridge judgment, Scientology created the “Armstrong Operation.” It was a Scientology setup from the start. I was contacted in June of 1984 by an old friend of mine who told me that a group of individuals called the “Loyalists” were seeking to reform the organization, and end the criminal and tortious activities and the Fair Game doctrine. My friend said the “Loyalists” had existed for two years, they had people on staff in the organization and many others who supported their cause. The “Loyalists” wanted my help because I had contacts among other individuals who opposed the organization’s practices, and because I had been successful in litigating against the organization. They wanted me to act as their consultant.
  2. I had several meetings with representatives of the “Loyalists” and was even taken to meet an attorney who they said was going to file a lawsuit on their behalf to oust what they called the “criminal management” of Scientology. Unknown to me, these meetings were covertly and illegally videotaped. The entire operation was a setup. The “Loyalists” had no intention of ending the organization’s illegal activities and were not planning to file a lawsuit. They were a fictional creation to make it look like I was conspiring to overthrow Scientology.
  3. The videotapes do not reveal all of my conversations with the “Loyalists.” Scientology has chosen those parts which it feels are most beneficial to them. Even the videotapes they do use do not show what Scientology claims. They simply reveal conversations about ideas proposed by the “Loyalists” for their use in their struggle. Of course, since the “Loyalists” never really existed, nothing was ever carried out. In any event, the wild claims Scientology makes, that I conspired to plant false documents, steal privileged information, and set up some sort of sexual blackmail situation, are ridiculous. Judge Londer, in the case of Christofferson v. Scientology, et al, in Portland, Oregon recognized that the tapes do not say what the organization says they say. He stated, immediately after viewing the tapes on April 4, 1985:
    “I think they are devastating. I think they are devastating against the Church. We certainly view them in a different way, Mr. Cooley, you and I.”… “it borders more on entrapment than it does on anything else. How a sophisticated person, which Mr. Armstrong purports to be, could go for such an amateurish performance as I heard on these tapes is beyond me. The questions were being fed to him obviously; anytime he wanted to make an explanation, it was promptly cut off. There was no evidence of any attempt to commit a crime that I saw.”
    In fact, on the tapes themselves, in response to a suggestion by one of the “Loyalists”, an operative named Mike Rinder,2 that false documents be created, I reply, “I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.”
  4. Despite Scientology allegations to the contrary, I was not acting as an agent of Michael Flynn, or various government agencies when I met with the “Loyalists.” I simply was responding to the “Loyalists’” request for help from me, and I accepted their offer to help me out. They actively encouraged me to request all sorts of things, claiming they could get whatever I needed. Any requests I sent them I originated on my own. Neither Michael Flynn nor the federal government asked me to obtain any documents or information for them from the “Loyalists.” In fact, Michael Flynn cautioned me that the “Loyalists” might be an operation created by Hubbard.
  5. Under California law, an individual cannot be videotaped without his consent. Scientology, at the Christofferson trial, claimed that a private investigator hired by them, Eugene Ingram, (who had been kicked off the Los Angeles police force for various offenses) obtained an authorization to secretly tape me from a police officer. In an official statement released by the Los Angeles Police Department, however, LAPD Chief Daryl Gates stated that the  officer had no authorization, and that it would be “a cold day in hell” before the Los Angeles Police Department cooperated with Eugene Ingram. A copy of this announcement is attached hereto as Exhibit [A]. I have learned from Commander Booth of the LAPD that the officer involved, Phillip Rodriguez, was suspended for six months due to his improper “authorization.”
  6. If this court has any doubts about this entire illegal affair, I urge it to view the tapes themselves. They will plainly show that the Scientology charges are ridiculous and grossly inflated. It will also prove to the court that Scientology engages in precisely the types of covert criminal and tortious operations in violation of individuals’ rights which its critics have alleged it has committed for years.

The attorney that Rinder’s Loyalists said was going to file a lawsuit on their behalf to oust what they called the “criminal management” of Scientology was a Thomas Janeway in Encino, California. I’ve mentioned him a number of times over the past many years in different declarations or other writings.

In March 2015, I contacted Janeway for the first time since he participated in the Scientologists’ op against me. We spoke by phone, and I then emailed him:

Dear Mr. Janeway:

Thank you for talking with me today. I had this information for you from 1984:

15910 Ventura Blvd
Encino
818-995-1900

Please see this section of a declaration I executed April 9, 1986 regarding discovery I was seeking from the Scientologists:

At page 4070, the Court ordered the production of all documents omitted from my B-1 files, including all documents up to date; i.e., April 4, 1985, and attorneys for defendant organization (the same organization as plaintiff and cross-defendant in the instant case) agreed to produce all such documents.

These documents, however, were never produced. They include up to April 1985 at least the following:

[…]

The records, reports, orders, correspondence, documents and audio and video recordings of a meeting, arranged by organization agents posing as “reformers,” between an attorney Thomas Janeway and me in November 1984 in Encino, California. Janeway pretended to be working for these “reformers” and attempted to entrap and compromise me.
http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1875

In a complaint report I made to the DOJ in 2004, I wrote:

Kluge also took me to a meeting with a woman he identified as “Rene,” a “rich Scientologist who had been abused by the organization and who might back the “Loyalists” financially,” and a meeting with an “attorney” “named” “Thomas Janeway.” http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a8/3376.php

The people I knew of who were involved with bringing me to meet with you and debrief to you were David Kluge, aka “Joey,” Dan Sherman and Mike Rinder. Also involved, and running this covert operation, were Brad Balentine, Mark Rathbun and David Miscavige. Another key person was a PI Eugene M. Ingram. At the time of the meeting with you in 1984, I did not know Kluge’s real name.

The relevance of this 1984 meeting with you at this point is its place in an ongoing campaign against me by the Scientologists to maintain their 1993 IRS tax exemption, which they obtained by unlawful means, notably by lying about me. Documents relating to this campaign are here:  http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/  If you are interested, this is a good place to start: http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/about

If you can shed any light on this meeting with you, I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Gerry Armstrong
[address and telephone]

Janeway emailed me back:

Dear Mr. Armstrong,

In response to your phone call yesterday, and the email you sent, I can confirm that my office address in 1984 was 15910 Ventura Boulevard, Encino, CA and the office phone number was 818-995-1900.  I don’t recall meeting you 31 years ago, alone or with others, though it’s possible I did so.

The following information is based entirely upon my present recollection, and reference to my list of clients in the 1980s. With two exceptions, I don’t recognize or recall any of the names mentioned in your email message.  I have seen David Miscavige’s name mentioned in various news articles, but have never met or spoken to him.  I can confirm that Eugene M. Ingram was briefly a client in 1984 but, of course, there is a duty of confidentiality in connection with that representation which is protected by the attorney-client and work product privileges.  Since Mr. Ingram’s client file is now in dead storage, and not readily accessible, I haven’t reviewed the contents before replying to your email.  I don’t know anything about a discovery order or a subpoena duces tecum, referred to in your email, concerning Mr. Ingram’s office file or anything having to do with the Church of Scientology.  I think I would recall the circumstance if either of those eventualities occurred, even after 31 years.

Parenthetically, it seems to me that even if we had a meeting for some purpose in 1984 the gist and significance would be so remote in time and relevance to anything happening in connection with Scientology’s religious tax exemption the IRS would probably regard it as trivial and unimportant.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Sincerely,

Thomas Janeway

Ingram is a well-known lying thug the Rathbun and Rinder Scientologists paid millions to fair game their targets, the good people who told the truth about their criminal conspiracy against persons and rights. Ingram threatened to put a bullet between my eyes. In addition to conspiring with him to frame me, frame my attorney, illegally wiretap my attorney and me, and illegally videotape me, Rathbun, Rinder, et al. paid him to spread the false rumor that I have AIDS. Here is more related information from my 2004 complaint to the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division:

  1. After I returned to the U.S., Sherman and Kluge reestablished contact with me, and we met a number of times over the next five months. In late July 1984, Scientology commenced a media and legal attack on Michael Flynn falsely accusing him of masterminding a plot to cash a forged check for $2,000,000.00 on one of Hubbard’s bank accounts. Sherman and Kluge communicated that the “Loyalists” knew that it was a frame-up and that organization leaders were behind it, and the “Loyalists” were working to prove it was a frame-up. I was certain Flynn was innocent, and of course he was my attorney and friend, so I was grateful for the “Loyalists’” help in clearing his name, and I was willing to help them as I could.
  2. Over the next few months, the “Loyalists” sent me a number of messages via Sherman relating to the Flynn frame-up, including what they claimed was documentary evidence to be passed on to Flynn and the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston who was investigating the case. Because of their claimed fear of being discovered by organization leaders and murdered, I met with “Loyalists” Kluge and Mike Rinder in “secret” prearranged locations in Griffith Park and a Los Angeles area cemetery. Kluge also took me to a meeting with a woman he identified as “Rene,” a “rich Scientologist who had been abused by the organization and who might back the “Loyalists” financially,” and a meeting with an “attorney” “named” “Thomas Janeway.” Kluge also attempted to get me to fly to Las Vegas to meet another “financial backer,” but on my attorney’s advice because of the risk I didn’t make the trip. Knowing what I now know, there is no doubt that each of these meetings was recorded, and was set up to entrap me.
  3. During this period, agents of the FBI who were involved in an investigation of the organization contacted me, and I met with them and discussed my Scientology experiences and knowledge. Justice Department attorneys who were litigating Scientology-related cases contacted me, and I communicated with them and provided them with declarations concerning my experiences and knowledge. Officers in the Ontario Provincial Police and the Clearwater, Florida Police Department who were investigating Scientology also contacted me, and I provided them with testimony about Hubbard, the organization and my experiences.
  4. A short time after my LA trial, agents in the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS in Los Angeles contacted me, and I met with them and provided them with whatever information I had concerning Hubbard and Scientology. The IRS obtained access to certain documents and audio recordings of MCCS legal strategy meetings that the Court Clerk had retained in my case, and which became the subject of the series of cases entitled U.S. v. Zolin. 3; 4

The purpose Rinder and his coconspirators gave for the meeting they arranged with Janeway was virtually identical to the purpose Remini and Rinder gave for their upcoming meeting with their attorney: to discuss a legal action that could lead to reforming the organization, and ending the criminal and tortious activities and Fair Game.

It is beyond argument that Rinder has been serving the Scientologists’ antisocial purposes while claiming to be reformed, and no longer possessing the Scientology mindset. This is what he was claiming when conning me in 1984. In truth he was serving the same antisocial purposes that forward the interests of the same antisocial people.

Because he serves the Scientologists’ purposes, it is entirely possible that an illusion of success, an illusion of reform can be achieved. Rinder has done nothing that invalidates the obvious possibility of a soft landing program. What the Scientologists do regarding their relationship with me is the real evidence of reform.

Rinder has done nothing that demonstrates that he has reformed, or even desires to reform or be reformed. His actions and inactions have been successful, both inside and seemingly outside the Miscavige sect, in keeping organizational, behavioral or spiritual reform from happening. It has not happened. The Suppressive Person doctrine is in force; indeed Rinder subscribes to and defends this doctrine. The IRS tax exemption is untouched. Unlawfully silencing people continues. Preventing people from leaving continues. Religious persecution continues. The same black propaganda continues.

My relationship with Rinder is the best opportunity to correct injustices, correct black propaganda, and bring about real reform, IF those things were really what he wanted. It is clear that so far, despite his PR, those things have never been what he wanted to do.

Remini said that for some reason she believes that she is the person to help to make it right. What needs to be made right are the same things that needed to be made right that the Scientologists taking me to talk to attorney Janeway in 1984 were saying needed to be made right: abusing people, taking their money and their lives, criminal and tortious activities and fair game.

It is often in the field and activity of litigation where the Scientologists’ fair game – that is their criminal conspiracy against persons and rights – is most effective. The Rinder, Rathbun, et al. conspiracy faked plaintiffs in 1984, and it is very possible they are manipulating Remini in 2017 to use fake parties.

Because Rinder and Rathbun, beyond argument, serve the purposes of the Scientologists she says she is opposing, she has already accepted fake allies, fake reformers and fake reformed consultants and witnesses. No matter how evil, painful, harmful, antisocial or cowardly it is, disconnection is a fake issue, a fake cause. Rinder and Rathbun know this.

The Scientologists love to be on both sides of any conflict, and most vitally on both sides of litigation. There are reasons to believe that the Scientologists have engineered friendly lawsuits, friendly appeals, and other unethical friendlinesses to unethically obtain  decisions and results that benefit Scientology and its conspirators against persons and rights.

Hubbard provided the scriptural justification:

There is a principle in Scientology called pan-determinism. This could be loosely defined as determining the activities of two or more sides in a game simultaneously. (PAB 84, May 15, 1956, “The Reason Why.”)

To the Scientologists, litigation is a game. It is true that US District Court Judge James Ideman castigated the Scientologists for “viewing litigation as war.” But the Scientologists view war as a game. For the Scientology conspirators like Rathbun and Rinder, persecuting, punishing and destroying good people has been a game.

The optimum condition for an organism seeking control is to become the opposition. The Scientology conspirators seek to control the opposition, control the narrative and control the future. That is the goal of the US Intelligence Community, and probably every intelligence community. They also have the same job Rinder has acknowledged he had for treatment or handling of opponents the Scientologists hadn’t been able to control: silence or destroy them.

Remini communicates that she does not get the connections and commonality of purpose and function between the Scientologists and their visible PI and attorney collaborators and key departments and agencies in the US Federal Government. On 20/20, she deplored the Scientologists’ IRS tax exemption, and said she’s “hoping there’ll be somebody with some balls who will do something about it.” Rinder and Rathbun, however, have demonstrated their continuing desire to keep the tax exemption in place. If this is not the case they would have told the truth about the unlawful way they obtained it; which, significantly, was by framing my attorney, framing me, filing false statements with the IRS, and conducting a massive, ongoing black propaganda campaign.5

Unless Remini is a knowing participant in a scam, she certainly has been manipulated to attack wrong targets and accept Rinder’s misinformation and lies — that he has reformed, that he is telling the truth, that he wants to correct injustices, that nothing can be done about it. Except, now, meet with attorneys.

She has admitted that she was duped by the Scientologists who were duping her. She has expressed a determination to get to the truth and not be duped again. I have no reason to believe that she is anything but sincere in her expressed intentions. I know that Rinder is not sincere in his. It is needful that she be given the facts and truth about Rinder, Rathbun, et al. so she can investigate what she is being told and not told, and she can make informed decisions in her relationships with them and with others.

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Clayton C. Ruby, CM, libels Gerry Armstrong

As anybody with a clue knows, in his recent book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Marty Rathbun continues to lie about the people he victimized while in the Scientology cult, notably my attorney Michael Flynn and me. Rathbun still executes cult head David Miscavige’s malevolent command intention for treating specific Scientology victims. Rathbun has refused to correct his lies, has not told the truth to help his victims, but instead has incited others to hate us.

Rathbun writes in his Memoirs about the Ontario Provincial Police’s March 3, 1983 raid on the cult’s headquarters in Toronto, and provides a few snippets about his part in what happened afterward.

I retained two of Toronto’s most highly regarded and aggressive criminal civil rights lawyers, Clayton Ruby and Marlys Edwardh. They immediately began what would turn into years of litigation over the legality of the search and seizure.

[…]

Initially I was in Toronto for several days attempting to bring order, get the church proper back into delivery, and the legal unit organized and operating.
Memoirs, pp. 209,210

Ruby’s name came up for me in the Julie Christofferson v. Scientology trial in Portland, Oregon in April 1985.1

This past Sunday, while searching for copies of the transcripts of the unlawful video recording the Scientologists made of David Kluge and Mike Rinder’s entrapment conversations with me in Griffith Park in November 1984, Caroline and I discovered a November 6, 1992 letter from Ruby to cult attorney Monique Yingling.2 Ruby wrote the letter to help the Scientologists get their IRS tax exemption, and is included in their submission to the IRS dated, I believe, November 23 1992.

Rathbun’s black PR on Flynn and me in his 2013 Memoirs parallels Ruby’s black PR on us in his 1992 letter.

I have written Ruby three letters3 identifying his lies and libels about me and demanded that he remedy them. So far, like Rathbun, he has not responded.

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You and your corrupt cops

February 17, 2014

Clayton C. Ruby, Esquire
Ruby Shiller Chan Hasan

11 Prince Arthur Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5R 1B2
By:      Canada Post

Fax 416-964-8305
Email ruby@rubyshiller.com

Dear Mr. Ruby:

In April 1985, during the trial of Julie Christofferson v. Scientology in Portland, Oregon, cult attorney John Peterson stated to the court that you, Mr. Ruby, were responsible for the unlawful video recording you dishonestly call “a police authorized video” in your 1992 letter to Ms. Yingling.1

If a corrupt police officer signed an unlawful note authorizing you to murder someone you hated – like me for example – would you call that a police authorized murder?

Peterson said that you hired Eugene Ingram, the Scientologists’ most notorious private investigator, and you ordered the unlawful video recording, not Peterson and not the Scientology cultists. Your PI Ingram threatened to assassinate me, threatened to put a bullet between my eyes, as I’m sure you know.

At first I thought Peterson was lying in the Portland court, hiding his own and the Scientologists’ complicity in the unlawful Armstrong operation, and using the fact that you were in Canada and outside subpoena range for the Christofferson trial. Because of my discovery yesterday of your letter to Ms. Yingling, however, I have had to reconsider your involvement. I now believe that you conspired with Peterson and the Scientologists.

If attorney Peterson is to be believed at all, then you paid the corrupt LAPD officer for the unlawful “authorizations” to eaves drop on, wiretap and record my attorney Michael Flynn and me.2

Peterson also stated that you alone as of April 1985 possessed the unlawful video recordings. So I have to conclude that you are responsible for the dishonest editing of the videos, for the dishonest transcripts, and for the black propaganda the videos have been used for all these years.

I do not believe that your one letter to Ms. Yingling is your only communication about your video recordings, or your only communication lying about and black PRing me or Flynn. I think your one letter that surfaced is but the tip of a monstrous criminal black propaganda berg.

I believe that as willing as you have been to do what you have done in service of the Scientology cult, there is almost no limit to what you would do to a person you want to victimize like me. You are a criminal defense attorney with many connections into the criminal underworld, and into criminals like Ingram to do your dirty work. The Scientology cult has long had associations with dangerous criminals, and has a practice of hiring psychopaths. I believe I am in more danger from you and your clients and cohorts than ever.

Your Scientologist clients have physically assaulted me on multiple occasions, terrorized me on the freeway, broken into my car and stolen valuable property, framed me and tried to have me prosecuted on false criminal charges, obtained unlawful jail sentences against me, forced me into bankruptcy, black PRed me around the world up to the top of governments, run covert ops on me, forged my signature over racist Internet postings, and even hired prominent people like you to destroy me. You are the enemy of good people, and the world should know it for everyone’s safety.

I understand that even the most criminal even murderous people deserve legal representation. I have no problem with that concept. I have a serious problem, however, with the lawyers who lie for their criminal clients.

You also can correct all this. But you can’t correct it with more lies, or hiring more thugs. You have to tell the truth and remedy the lies and black PR you’ve spread about me, Flynn and your Scientologist clients’ other enemies or victims.

Yours genuinely,

Gerry Armstrong

 Notes

  1. For videos, transcripts and related documents: http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/the-illegal-videos ↩
  2. See Peterson’s trial testimony in Christofferson. ↩