I’m posting three email exchanges I had with Steve Cannane prior to the publication of his book Fair Game, which was in September 2016. These demonstrate certain relevant facts: he had my contact information; we were communicating; I had provided detailed, accurate data; he knew this to be true because he sought my data and credited it in his emails. This thread from July 2015 concerns information Cannane had requested from me when we met during a conference in Toronto that took place between … [Read more...] about Aiding and Abetting Fair Game — 2015
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Fair Game: more telling untold stories
On October 24, 2016, I emailed a letter to HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd and Steve Cannane to complain about how he dealt with me in Fair Game: the Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia. I identified fact errors and defamatory statements about me, and I included a number of fact errors and spelling or semantic mistakes that are not directly related to me, but which caught my eye in a quick read through the book. On November 7, 2016, I posted my complaint letter and an … [Read more...] about Fair Game: more telling untold stories
A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 3)
https://youtu.be/v2bdug1f4kA Zinberg was a Guardian’s Office (“GO”) and Office of Special Affairs (“OSA”) volunteer, who was briefly involved in covert ops targeting Cooper. What is reported he did to her was stake out her apartment building, although he never saw her, and deliver to her father Ted Cooper’s jewelry business pages that Zinberg’s GO seniors had covertly, unlawfully copied from her teenage diary. The GO’s obvious goal for the diary op Zinberg participated in was to generate or … [Read more...] about A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 3)
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 … [Read more...] about Doing something about the Aftermath
Speaking up about Fair Game
The day after emailing my comments and corrigenda (below) to HarperCollins and Steve Cannane, I emailed him again because I had just received the paper edition he had sent me: Dear Steve: Fair Game has arrived. Thanks very much. Further to my fact correction of the book, please also see this recent correction of Jon Atack/Tony Ortega’s fact errors relevant to areas you discuss in Fair Game: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1832 Regards, Gerry Cannane emailed me and said he is on … [Read more...] about Speaking up about Fair Game
Russian Scientologists Erasing Consciences for their US Masters
The Scientologists have just published a new and updated black PR page on me on their Russian Religious Freedom Watch hate site: http://religiousfreedomwatch-ru.org/religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong The Scientologists provided a pdf with an English translation: http://religiousfreedomwatch-ru.org/uploads/Armstrong-33_years_of_bla_bla-EN.pdf They have some nice Anonymous protest pics from Vancouver and Hamburg, and a goofy goose step pic allegedly from London, but unrelated to … [Read more...] about Russian Scientologists Erasing Consciences for their US Masters