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A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 3)

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 exacerbate conflict between Mr. Cooper and his adopted daughter Paulette, who was then a stellar Scientology target.

You fair gamed me while you were inside and commanding the sect’s Office of Special Affairs worldwide, Mike, for over two decades. That was your org board position and your function in the criminal conspiracy against rights that Hubbard and then Miscavige headed. You ran hundreds of volunteers like Zinberg. You ran a raft of PIs, a bevy of attorneys and a covey of covert operatives. Five of your conspiracy’s six lawsuits against me were filed, and all of them were prosecuted, when you commanded OSA and ran the legal apparatus. You had me unlawfully bankrupted. You had me threatened and driven from my home in the US. You ran covert and overt operations against me in the US, Canada and Europe. You unlawfully used millions of dollars in tax exempt funds of a religious corporation to commit crimes against me. You culled my pc folders. You black PRed me. Psychologically, your conspiracy, and you specifically, hectored me to within a heartbeat of suicide. Although admittedly you fair gamed me more than any other individual you have identified, you fair gamed and made your juniors fair game average, common wogs like me all over the world.

You were an insider in the Scientologists’ criminal conspiracy against persons and rights. The conspiracy in 1974, which the GO hierarchy then ran for Hubbard, used Zinberg, indeed used him for criminal acts or ops; but Zinberg was never an insider. Even Chris Shelton, who was in the SO for seventeen years, and proclaims himself a “high level insider,” was not an insider, not even a low level insider. (Actually, Shelton could have been an insider – with you in your criminal conspiracy — but not if what he has stated about his Scientology career is somewhere near true.) You, Mike, however, were an insider where being an insider mattered: in the Scientologists’ criminal conspiracy against persons and rights, your doctrinally motivated and doctrinally vindicated persecution of the SP class. Unlike you, I was not an insider in the conspiracy. When I was in the SO, I was close to the conspiracy many times, and could conceivably have been brought in, or leveraged my way in, but I was saved from that evil activity.

A few GO personnel were briefly involved in executing the conspiracy’s command intention and program targets to silence or destroy me just after I left Scientology. SO execs under Hubbard, however, had already absorbed the GO execs’ functions and staff, and ran all the Scientologists and wog collaborators then tasked with targeting me. The SO personnel in the conspiracy operated on the same “Suppressive Person” doctrine as the GO and applied the same policies of hating, black PRing, waging war on, silencing and destroying people who told the truth. Rathbun writes about that period in his Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, which you edited:

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. (p. 193)1

You absorbed that same purpose — to drive me crazy — when you joined the conspiracy, and you have worked on that purpose ever since. You also worked and work on a parallel or secondary purpose, to get people to believe I’m crazy. If you couldn’t drive me crazy, which so far, you have to acknowledge, you have failed at, you could get people to buy your lie that I’m crazy. If you couldn’t silence or destroy me, you could at least get people to not listen to me. With evaluated, drilled, skillful, wide and relentless black propaganda you could get people to think I’m crazy, and even join you in your black PR campaign. If you successfully reduced my image to crazy, no one would grant any credence to my words. And if the whole world said I was crazy and no one granted me any credence, and you achieved total revulsion and complete isolation, this would certainly get you closer to actually driving me crazy.

You have been black PRing me as crazy in sworn statements, in court filings, in media, to the IRS, to governments, to people everywhere for thirty-six years. That’s what, as a post-Sea Org, truth-telling reformer, you were doing to filmmaker Marcus Thoess in 2011:

Gerry Armstrong is seeing things at this point. Gerry Armstrong was … was involved in, you know, a long battle with the church. But Gerry Armstrong is kind of a … kind of a … a bit of a fruitcake frankly.2

Repeating the last sentence I quoted above from Memoirs, and then Rathbun , and you as editor, continue:

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.1

Quelle crock! Your statement about my mental state aside, along with your incompetent psychological diagnosis, you conspirators did declare me SP, you did target me for silencing and destroying, I did reach out to Flynn, and he agreed to meet me. In fact he flew me from Los Angeles to Tampa, Florida to meet him in Clearwater. I did not, however, bring with me several boxes of documents. I had very few documents, memorably a copy of the contract between the cult and wog writer Omar Garrison to write Hubbard’s biography.

From the moment I learned of it, I have shown your accusation that I lifted any biography archives from your cult to be false. I have proven it in a court of law, and obtained a judgment in 1984 that states I had all the permissions necessary, and a contract, to deliver all the biography archives as I did to Garrison. The judgment also states that when you conspirators conspired to fair game me, I was justified to go to Garrison and obtain from him biography archive documents to send to Flynn to defend myself. My defense, the judgment, and all subsequent events, have shown that I did the safest and wisest thing, You attacked the judgment in the appeals court, and I successfully got it affirmed in 1991.

You had certain knowledge, from the beginning, that your accusation that I stole, or thieved or lifted the documents I delivered to Garrison is false. You were over legal, including your cult’s case in which my handling of the Hubbard biography archive was at issue. Nevertheless, the Scientology conspirators, including you and Rathbun specifically, have continued to make this false claim, right into present time. It is defamation per se, and the willfulness over a very long time makes it very malicious.

And Hubbard’s documents did not demonstrate only to me, as you make it sound, that his biography, which you promoted, was full of holes. They demonstrate to everyone, to wogs and Scientologists, that his cult-promoted biography is full of holes. The documents demonstrated it to you. Every person in your conspiracy knew that the biography they were promoting was full of holes.

During the first years you were in the conspiracy, the conspirators also excused your silencing or destroying of people like me by trumpeting and madly pursuing the immediate and fake goal of “All Clear.” This would be when the legal threats to Hubbard had all been “handled,” and it would be “all clear” for him to come out of hiding. He had been in hiding actually wherever he sojourned or stopped as long as I’d known him. His SO coconspirators at the time – the All Clear Unit hierarchy, Special Project hierarchy, Author Services (“ASI”) hierarchy, Religious Technology Center (“RTC”) hierarchy, lawyers, agents — soon renamed or relettered a set of GO positions and functions “OSA.” You began participating in my persecution almost certainly in 1982, when the GO-OSA sleight of name was happening.

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  1. Rathbun, Mark. Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior (p. 193). Amazon Books. Kindle edition. ↩
  2. Mike Rinder black PRs Gerry Armstrong and Graham Berry to German film makers ↩
  3. Rathbun, Mark. Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior (p. 193). Amazon Books. Kindle edition. ↩

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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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Gerry to Graham Berry on Honey Tech

Graham Berry responding to Thomas Gandow and Aida Thomas on Facebook:

I was referring to all the “Fair Game” victims. However, to complicate such matters, Gerry has not welcomed, forgiven and befriended Marty and Mike but has mercilessly attacked and condemned them — even as they assisted and apologized to a few ex members and made the contributions to the truth and cause they are now making. I consider Marty and Mike to have also been victims and many of us know that the waking, recovery and healing process from Scientology is apparently the longest and toughest of all cults and takes many years. In my view, kindness, compassion, acceptance and generosity of spirit works better than the attacks some have fermented. Honey instead of vinegar works better here-at least IMHO.1

Thank you for bringing this subject up publicly, Graham. A couple of kind souls sent your FB post to me. Also Marty Rathbun’s recent comment on Oz TV about having paid off his karma some time ago2 makes a public clarification of this subject timely. The karma he’s talking about relates to his participation in, as you say, damaging or destroying people by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities.

Describing what I have communicated to or about Marty and Mike over the past five years as mercilessly attacking and condemning them has to be honey. You are applying honey tech. You and I had a phone call in 2012 in which we discussed honey and vinegar, and I’ve considered the concept and seen it in operation since then. The honey versus vinegar idiom means:

It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands. 3

If it really was easier, then courts, prosecutors and plaintiffs would flatter the accused, rather than demand the accused answer. To flatter means:

1. To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor; or 2. To please or gratify the vanity of. 4

You are flattering me, and I am supposed to be flattered. Certainly honey tech lets me know you actually see me as doing something far worse than mercilessly attacking and condemning. If you were applying vinegar tech, you would not have honey-coated what you really considered I have been communicating as mere merciless attacking and condemning.

By harboring the heinous and hideous reality about me and only describing my communications to or about Marty and Mike as simple merciless attacking and condemning, you’re trying to cajole me into doing just that. You want me to merely mercilessly attack and condemn them, rather than keep doing the far more evil things you haven’t openly accused me of doing. Thanks Honey Tech!®

On the planetary victims scale, David Miscavige is an equally big one. And I would bet that the same many that know that the waking, recovery and healing process from Scientology might be the longest and toughest of all cults and takes many years would also know that it might take DM years too.

The waking and recovery and healing process cannot, however, be a relevant factor in the immediate Marty & Mike v. Gerry conflict. Or are you saying that you consider Marty and Mike to be my victims in M & M v. G, my victims in the victim-victimizer paradigm? It does appear that portraying the victimizers as victims and the victims as victimizers is a standard honey tech app.

Telling the truth is the sole factor in Marty and Mike’s conflict with me. It’s a one-step action. No matter where a person is on the years of waking, recovery and healing, he has the ability to tell the truth. If a person can be audited, he can tell the truth.

I am not asking Marty or Mike for a deep psycho-philosophical shift, when, for example, a person changes from lying as a pro-survival activity and way of life and starts to value and desire truth telling and that becomes a way of life. I am also not denying that such a shift could perhaps occur, or be related. I think testifying seventy-some days in Scientology litigations might have altered me psycho-philosophically, and certainly being M & M & every other Scientologist’s target for all these years has.

I believe, however, that the testimony or truth that Marty and Mike can provide me, which would assist in correcting injustices, can be provided in a couple of days. They know how to debrief, know how to tell the truth, and have always had the ability. The idea that Scientologists cannot tell the truth or do not know truth from lies is a ruse that some Scientologists use to escape responsibility and natural consequences for the bad acts they know they’ve committed against their victims, or are still committing.

Marty and Mike are at cause over their refusal to now assist the people they helped to damage or destroy by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities. Their condition or their place in their long or short path of waking, recovery and healing is not why they have not assisted their victims. They had the ability to assist people while inside Scientology and the Sea Org, and the idea that they have lost that ability since leaving is ridiculous. They also have the same reasons for refusing to assist their victims that they had while in the SO. They did not acquire a new set of reasons for doing what they had always done: something or anything other than assisting their victims, giving justice, telling the truth.

I am just requesting the narrow, relevant truth about a clear and active matter: Marty, Mike, Hubbard, Miscavige, et al. v. Armstrong & friends. Marty and Mike are two individuals with a great deal of information, who are now presenting as fighters for justice who have told the truth about their part in victimizing others. Since they have not told the truth, and do not seek justice, even in correcting injustices they perpetrated and can help correct, the logical conclusion is that they are “Loyalists” mispresenting themselves. My communications that you call mercilessly attacking and condemning Marty and Mike have been useful and valuable in establishing these facts.

Not everyone gets to tell the truth that matters to someone. My request has been appropriate and the truth I’m requesting is relevant in ongoing legally cognizable injustices. Sometimes a request for the truth can be by subpoena. In my case it is the earnest, free request of a knowledgeable and known victim in a long legal and extralegal campaign of victimization and injustice.

What you call mercilessly attacking and condemning Marty and Mike are my communications containing the level of truth I’m requesting of them and my best reason made understandable and unhumdrum. I am giving Marty and Mike what I am requesting of them; facts, reason and truth. I don’t want them to run their honey tech or fudge tech on me.

When I was getting out of the cult, I wanted the very best, most factual and truthful insights and information about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. Since then, in my own post-Scientology process, I wanted the same thing. I wanted information and insights from multiple sources. I wanted to know what I was up against as fast as I could learn it. There was a lot of truth available, but far less than now. I knew some myself. I didn’t want honey tech run on me, even though Marty and Mike successfully operated Dan Sherman to dupe me with professed kindness, compassion, acceptance and generosity of spirit.

Kindness, compassion, acceptance and generosity of spirit, I take it, would be absent from vinegar tech.

Neither honey nor vinegar works, I believe, and I would not endorse either. But then again, I’m not trying to catch flies. If honey worked, your honey tech, which I presume you apply at all times, would have brought about the result you sought: Marty and Mike doing what they could to assist those of us who were damaged or destroyed by the intimidation, litigation and defamation activities they were part of for many years. To me, their telling the truth is the essence of such assistance.

I know there are other fair game victims, and, presumably, like you, they have also been applying honey tech, and Marty and Mike would have assisted them if honey tech had worked. Although I do not use vinegar tech, it is also clear that, from what you say, and I agree, I do not use honey tech. I don’t want flies, I want justice. I suppose what I use could be called truth tech. But importantly, I think it’s safe to say that you believe that all other fair game victims are using honey tech like you, and I am the only one using truth tech, even if you miscall it vinegar tech.

More importantly, you are implying that with my truth tech I am complicating the matters of other fair game victims, the other people like you who are applying honey tech to get Marty and Mike to assist them. Perhaps Garry Scarff conjured this idea up, because I see a FB post by him that you respond to was deleted.

Logically, you should blame the failure to get Marty and Mike’s assistance on honey tech. But it appears you are blaming honey tech’s failure on the one person who hasn’t been applying honey tech.

In any case, think about it:

1. Marty and Mike, as you say, damaged or destroyed a number of people with the intimidation, litigation and defamation activities they were part of for many years.

2. Marty and Mike’s victims want them to assist them, at least that’s what you say. Why all such victims want this, I do not know. I want it for justice and to end injustices. Regardless, there are apparently other victims of Marty and Mike that want their assistance

3. One of the victims applies truth tech, tells Marty and Mike the truth and requests that they tell the truth.

4. The rest of the victims apply honey tech, flatter Marty and Mike and do not request that they tell the truth. These victims apparently hope that by applying honey tech Marty and Mike will assist them without being requested.

5. Honey tech didn’t work for its appliers. If it had worked, you wouldn’t still be hoping that Marty and Mike assist their victims.

6. Truth tech didn’t work for me, but only in the unimportant sense that Marty and Mike did not agree to my request. In all important senses, truth tech works miracles.

7. Marty’s Memoirs shows that he is still actively black PRing people in unison with the Miscavige Scientologists. Marty is not still black PRing his victims because I am pointing out that he is doing it, or because I’m complicating matters in his decompression or anywhere else.

8. Blame the one non-honey tech applying fair game victim for Marty and Mike not assisting the honey tech appliers. The corollary is that if everyone does not use honey tech, then Marty and Mike won’t tell the truth. Leverage, leverage, leverage.

For this belief to be even slightly sincerely held, the believer would have to have received a communication or signal from Marty or Mike or their communicants that I, or my truth tech, was complicating such matters for the honey tech users.

This is weirdly much like what happened with Marcus Thöss. He received a communication threatening that, if he was friendly with me, Marty, Mike and their communicants wouldn’t help him with his film about Scientologist Biggi Reichert’s death. Thöss went nuts on me, which apparently did get him some assistance from M, M & communicants.

Obviously, if Marty and Mike’s price for assisting their fair game victims is to have me blamed for their failure to assist their victims so far, a reason would be useful. So charge me with not using honey tech but applying vinegar tech; paint me bereft of kindness, compassion, acceptance or generosity of spirit; and label my communications as mercilessly attacking and condemning Marty and Mike. It makes that kind of sense.

The truth you get with honey tech will logically be the truth that validates honey tech: how wonderful and sweet the person is who was flattered into doling out such truth. The truth you get with truth tech will logically be truth that validates truth tech. I think it’s kind to Marty and Mike to let them know what I am asking for, why I am asking for it, and what they can expect by interacting with me, including that they won’t get honey or fudge tech.

I do not celebrate much when Marty or Mike dole out a new revelation, a new fact, a new vague confession, because the doling has all been antisocial, willfully cruel. People say that Marty and Mike are doling out the truth a bit at a time for strategic reasons, and, of course, they are. But it is also cruel. Indeed, cruelty is one of the strategies. This is not news, because cruelty is a common trait and aspiration in the Scientology milieu. Hubbard was stupendously cruel. Marty and Mike, of course, while inside Scientology, had the responsibility and were given organization power and resources to be cruel in many ways to the same people that they’re cruel to now with their dole tech or denial tech.

I am not claiming that when I left Scientology I immediately divulged all my experiences or knowledge. I don’t think that happens for anyone, although certainly is possible. Basically, I told the truth when requested and when it was relevant. This resulted in a lot of declarations or affidavits and oral testimony in a lot of legal proceedings, and I contributed to books and other media. All I am requesting of Marty and Mike is that they tell the truth in this very relevant, ongoing legal and extralegal fair game campaign against me.

In the March 23 Australia 60 Minutes segment “The Defector” this exchange took place between interviewer Liz Hayes and Marty:

LH: It’s a tough one now, knowing what you’re going through, when you reflect, knowing you did participate in activities similar to, to others.

MR: Yeah, and I feel that some of it is karma, and it is, I’m getting back what I, what I dished out. Quite frankly though, that balance was paid off some time ago.2

In an article “Tip of the Spear” in the January 2013 Los Angeles Magazine, Joel Sappell wrote about an October 2012 meeting he had with Marty:

I tell him that readers of this story will probably think he’s getting what he deserves. After all, this is the same treatment he once dished out. For the first time during my visit I see a flash of the aggressive Marty I remember. He stops pacing in the kitchen, where I’m seated, and stares at me. “That’s what they’ll think if that’s what you write!” he says, his voice rising as he points a finger at me. It’s not a matter of opinion, I say. Those are the facts. “I’ve taken a lot of hits in the last three years,” he says, softening his tone. “I’ve been working off a lot of karma for what I’ve done.” Now, he says, “the scales are even. I’ve built up a reservoir of good karma that I can draw on.”6

So at least by October 2012, Marty was saying publicly that he had fully worked off his bad karma – his damaging or destroying people by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities – and by that time had even built up a reservoir of good karma. Drawing on this store would mean that Marty could now safely do the things — damaging or destroying people by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities, etc. – that earlier had pulled in the bad karma. Marty is running what’s known as the karma con.

The Marty & Mike v. Gerry conflict is not about karma. It’s about justice. Nevertheless, because of Marty’s karma con, it is worth saying something about karma here. First good old Wikipedia:

Karma means action, work or deed; it also refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual. Good intent and good deed contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad karma and future suffering. Karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian religions. In these schools, karma in the present affects one’s future in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives – or, one’s saṃsāra. 7

Now from Hubbard’s sermons:

People create their fates. Somebody who believes that one has accumulated an enormous amount of karma up and down the track, and so on, is believing that nobody creates his fates.

Now all you have to do with somebody who’s worried about karma is get him to create a few fates, and his karma has a tendency to go poof! The way to solve karma is just to have somebody create some fates and consequences. 8

And one of the ways of phrasing it is that everything done by you will be revisited [visited] upon you. That’s karma.

“You will pay for everything you have ever done”: that’s karma. And a lot of people get the overt-motivator sequence mixed up with karma. They are not the same thing.

The overt-motivator sequence means that you have to lay yourself open to feeling bad about something – to a motivator – with an overt. That’s true, too. But do you know how it’s true? It says there’s an area you mustn’t attack. And that becomes the keynote and the whole swan song of a people: There are things you mustn’t attack. 9

Karma. Karma isn’t true.10

In the karma con, which integrates Hubbard’s fate-creation tech, first you make the evil you did to people almost heroic. As is clear in Rathbun’s Memoirs, he considered damaging or destroying people by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities was necessary, and he accomplished it almost single-handedly against a veritable juggernaut. So according to that calculus, there’s not much bad karma to pay off.

The next karma con step is to interpret the bad being visited on you as paying off or balancing whatever bad karma you’d ever accumulated. Marty was even able to parlay the Squirrel-busters and the black PR pages into a reservoir of good karma. So David Miscavige, by sending the Squirrel Busters and ordering the web pages, provides Marty the justification he needs to not assist their joint fair game victims. DM and Marty have a nice symbiotic thing going.

Ultimately, with karma con, since it is actually an antisocial use of karma and generates more bad karma, you can award yourself a karma balancing cert. With karma con, a person can almost achieve what Hubbard promised: total freedom from conscience. Who would want to though?

The Marty & Mike v. Gerry conflict is about injustice and justice. This is possibly true with their treatment of others among their fair game victims. It could be said that it is my karma to seek justice and the truth, and it is Marty and Mike’s karma to seek injustice and to have lies triumph. It is not necessary, however, to divine the force or source that brought us to this relationship to know that I seek justice, that Marty and Mike participated in damaging or destroying me by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities, which have resulted in ongoing injustices, indeed crimes, and that by simply telling the truth they could assist in obtaining justice.

You mention, Graham, a “cause” that apparently you have, and which you say Marty and Mike are contributing to. I think I’ve seen where this cause has been stated something like, “ending the cult in its current form,” which is not my cause at all. I see the SPs ‘r’ Us FB group states this quasi-universal cause as, “the destruction of the “Church” of Scientology in its present form,” which is also not my cause, and might even be unlawful.

It is easy to see that Scientology can change its current or present form, or leader, or leaders, without correcting injustices or giving justice. It is also easy to see that correcting injustices or giving justice is possible without Scientology’s form changing at all. Therefore, the legitimate cause is justice. By not assisting the people you say Marty and Mike helped damage or destroy by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities, Marty and Mike are not contributing to that legitimate cause.

Accepting for sake of argument that taking down the cult is a legitimate cause, the most effective thing that people with Marty and Mike’s experiences and knowledge could do to take it down would be to tell the truth about antisocial and criminal acts against wogs and wog institutions, e.g., the IRS. (Or, please identify what other actions Marty and Mike could take that would contribute more to achieving that goal.) Marty and Mike do not do this, despite it costing no money and incurring no legal liability. Therefore they do not share the goal of taking down the cult, let alone correcting injustices. In fact, by not doing this simple and obvious thing, they demonstrate they oppose the goal of taking down the cult, and their “contributions” are as suspect as David Miscavige’s.

I assume you have read Memoirs, Graham. Marty doesn’t mention you, but he mentions me by name over a hundred times, lies about me, black PRs me, and justifies his fair game against me while inside the cult. So in reality his fair gaming me did not stop when he left and became an “independent.”

I would like to know how as an attorney you would justify advising your client, whom an individual or a criminal conspiracy had damaged or destroyed by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities, to welcome, forgive and befriend his victimizer or victimizers.

I’m not implying that I’m your client. But presumably if I was your client you would advise me exactly the same way. Presumably too, you would advise all of your clients to welcome, forgive and befriend their victimizers. I am not suggesting that Marty, Mike or anyone else should not be welcomed, forgiven and befriended. Those actions, however, are not necessarily related to the demand for justice, or the request for the truth.

A person can demand justice and be unwelcoming, unforgiving and unfriendly toward the perpetrator of the injustice. A person can demand justice and be welcoming, forgiving and friendly toward the perpetrator of the injustice. Given the magnitude of what Marty and Mike have done to try to damage or destroy me by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities, given the fact that their fair game activities have continued in their new independent roles, and given their refusal to assist me to correct injustices, I believe that you will find my communications to them have been remarkably welcoming, forgiving and friendly. My communications have also been thoughtful, factual, sincere, caring, encouraging and real.

In my opinion, the application of honey tech, and the parallel attack on whoever does not apply honey, by the people Marty and Mike victimized and by others, has not worked, except by encouraging Marty and Mike to maintain their lies and injustices, and to keep right on victimizing their victims. Marty can get away with declaring his karma balanced because his honey tech-applying victims and others, such as his communicants, are telling him he’s balanced it, and tell him what wonderful contributions he’s making to the cause, and because he knows they attack anyone who says otherwise. Then, with his karma supposedly balanced and his good karma reservoir filled, thanks to his handled, but not assisted, victims, he never has to consider doing anything about all that damage or destruction by intimidation, litigation and defamation activities that the truth tech guy keeps communicating about; or, as you say, mercilessly attacking and condemning him about.

How about a debate, Graham? You can defend and promote honey tech being applied to Marty and Mike. I will argue against it, and propose truth tech as a better alternative.

Notes

  1. (March 13, 2014 1:45 p.m.)  https://www.facebook.com/GrahamBerry.LA/posts/10202121196484711?comment_id=6270767&offset=0&total_comments=19 ↩
  2. 60 Minutes Australia (23 March 2014) “The Defector”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDChgYTSCA ↩
  3. Retrieved from http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/You+can+catch+more+flies+with+honey+than+with+vinegar ↩
  4. Retrieved from  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flatter ↩
  5. 60 Minutes Australia (23 March 2014) “The Defector”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDChgYTSCA ↩
  6. Retrieved from http://www.lamag.com/features/2012/12/18/the-tip-of-the-spear/print ↩
  7. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma ↩
  8. Hubbard, L. (1957, 16 January) “Havingness” ↩
  9. Hubbard, L. (1962, 3 April) “The Overt-Motivator Sequence” ↩
  10. Hubbard, L. (1957, 7 July) “Child Scientology” ↩

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Letter to Dan Sherman

Dear Dan:

As you know, I’ve written and published a number of things about our relationship and your “Armstrong Operation,” principally in declarations for different legal proceedings. I’ve had to deal with you Scientologists and your collaborators’ perverse spin on your dirty op and your subsequent black propaganda around the world for almost thirty years. Your Scientology operators, of course, started your op as the “Gerry Armstrong Project” thirty-two years ago.

Persue (sic) the potential existing line that might be available to us via a trusted GAS who is a writer and who is respected by Gerry. This would require some reach from Gerry, though, as he might be suspicious if this GAS made a big reach for him.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gerry-armstrong-project.pdf

It is well known that you are employed to purvey your cult’s black PR on me, and on the good people in my religious group or class. Usually, however, you do your black PRing covertly, and I only know of one time where you purveyed your black PR on me over your own name. It was in a letter to the Boston Herald in 1998, which, to my knowledge, was not published in the Herald, but  was published in Freedom, your religion’s biggest organ for hate and slime. I haven’t communicated to you in many years, and have never responded before to this particular nastiness, which I’ll quote below. 1

It’s actually Marty Rathbun’s portrayal of the Armstrong Op and your relationship with me in his latest book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior that brings me to write you now. Your part with me in Memoirs is all in chapter 21, which Rathbun calls “The Juggernaut.” The way he has you disappear from his narrative is weird – poof — but accords with other more obvious and ongoing evidence that you and he remain coconspirators against your religion’s enemies or victims, like me.

Rathbun mentions “Sherman” 18 times throughout Memoirs. The first 4 are Sherman Lenske (oops). Then you have 5 through 16, on pages 257 and 258. Then there’s Lenske (oops) two more times at the time of Hubbard’s death. In one paragraph, Rathbun has you meeting with me, whetting my appetite, and dealing me a pack of lies. In the next paragraph, he has you arranging a meeting between Dave Kluge and me in Griffith Park. And then you are never heard from again in the rest of the book.

You certainly have been heard from, and Rathbun knows a whole epic more than he’s written about you in Memoirs. You’ve been the Scientology cult’s official Hubbard biographer probably longer than he’s been dead. You’re widely known as David Miscavige’s gag writer, authoring his event speeches that over so many years have made so many millions gag. And, as I mentioned, you are notorious for generating a shipload of black propaganda over many years targeting your cult’s enemies, including me.

Rathbun titles his chapter about your clandestine op and your lies to me “The Juggernaut,” which is typical Rathbunion double-curve black humor. He had targets on your cult’s 1981 “‘Juggernaut’ Eval,” and then, under Ron-the-Juggernaut-Head, he became the eval’s executive executioner. “Juggernaut,” as the evaluation title and in its “Bright Idea” is straight from Hubbard.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/juggernaut-eval.html

In his Memoirs, Rathbun projects his juggernautiness onto Mike Flynn and me, accusing us of being the overwhelming, mercilessly destructive force that he has to confront and vanquish. But really, Hubbard postulated you Scientologists as the “tight conspiracy” forming the body of the juggernaut he led, and you all executed the old juggernaut head’s command intention. You postulated yourselves as the mercilessly destructive force that would crush Flynn and me. It is a postulate so iniquitous that Rathbun, dramatizing the criminal mind Hubbard demanded of all Scientologists, projects it onto his juggernaut’s victims.

Your flapdoodle in Freedom overlaps Rathbun’s in his “Juggernaut” chapter in Memoirs, but I’ll deal with his separately. For now, I’ll just address what you had published in Freedom:

Here’s another, perhaps even more to the point: your Joseph Mallia leads off his article with a recitation of Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge’s ruling from the 1984 case involving “a top Scientology defector’s court suit against the Church.”

Well, gentlemen, I spoke with Judge Paul Breckenridge. I further spoke – at length – with that top Scientology defector, and let me simply say you have done your readers and your reputation a very grave disservice. The facts are these: that defector is none other than Gerald Armstrong – former Scientology clerk, former paid agent of a renegade government intelligence service and, frankly, a certifiable nut. After failing to seize Church assets in a truly bizarre scheme involving the forging of incriminating evidence and the secret planting of that evidence on Church premises, he next appears in the public eye as the would-be masochist for Saddam Hussein. That is, he actually proposed Hussein accept him as a willing hostage for the release of prisoners, significantly adding: “I will be available for torture.” Needless to say, even those within Hussein’s camp had sense enough not to reply.

But in either case, this is the man whose testimony inspired the Breckenridge decision. This is a man who when asked “How does one prove such testimony?” casually replied, “You don’t have to prove a god damn thing! You don’t have to prove s__t! You just allege it!” Finally this is also a man who was recently found in multiple contempts of court for violating court orders and agreements he had entered into. He now lives as a fugitive from a jail sentence.

Need I say more on the matter?
http://web.archive.org/web/19991009175913/news.scientology.org/mag/boston/page10fb.htm

Well yes, Dan, you do need to say more on the matter. You need to tell the truth.

I will admit that Mallia did get a couple of things about me wrong, although they are unimportant for his series on Hubbard and Scientology, and you don’t even quibble with them.  Mallia writes:

“The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be reflective of its founder LRH,” wrote California Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge during a top Scientology defector’s court suit against the church.

“The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements,” said Breckenridge, who ruled for defector Gerry Armstrong in the 1984 case.

Judge Breckenridge really did write those things about Scientology and Hubbard in his 1984 decision in Scientology v. Armstrong, and what the judge wrote was true. His decision became the judgment in the case, and was affirmed in 1991 in your cult’s appeal. The decision was not, however, in my suit against your cult; it was in your cult’s suit against me.

It could be said I was a “defector,” and I normally don’t argue with that designation. Usually, however, “defector” refers to a person who leaves one group, cause or country to join another. When I left your cult, I did not join any other group except for rejoining the wogs — the Homo sapiens, or human race. Scientologists like you are a different sort of Homo, calling yourselves Homo novis or Homo scientologicus. Rather than defecting from your Homo group of cultists, I escaped. Thus I was an escapee, and not so much a defector, in the same way that a Jew might have escaped from a Nazi death camp, and would not have defected from the camp. You Scientologists filed Scientology v. Armstrong in 1982, and the trial and Judge Breckenridge’s decision were in 1984. So it should be called a 1982 case, not a 1984 case.

You say you spoke with Judge Breckenridge as if that means something. Did he know you were a covert operative for the Scientologists? When you spoke to him did you tell him you were lying? That would mean something.

You imply that the Boston Herald did its readers and reputation a very grave disservice by publishing what Mallia wrote about me. Then you proceed to wilfully lie about me to support your spurious implication. It’s your reputation that is harmed, Dan. All your cowardly lying all these years in service of Hubbard and Miscavige to destroy good people has been the greatest disservice to your reputation imaginable. Whether you can rehabilitate your ruined reputation is in your hands; but it cannot be done with more lying and hurting more people in your unjust cause.

How incredibly unimaginative that you call me a “former Scientology clerk.” You Scientologists have been disparaging me as a former clerk for more than thirty years, even though I never even was a Scientology clerk. See this response to your fellow cultist, Russian Scientologist Aleksei Danchenkov, who called me the same thing in 2011: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/316 And note in my response to Danchenkov your “president” Heber Jentzsch’s use of the same term to belittle me in 1983.

Being a former Scientology clerk is certainly much more honorable than being a present Scientology clerk. Being a former Scientology storesman, or former Scientology legal officer, or former Scientology intelligence officer, or former Scientology RPF member, or former Scientology RPF Bosun, which I am, is much more honorable than being a present Scientology storesman, legal officer, intelligence officer, RPF member, or RPF Bosun. Being a former Scientologist of any kind is more honorable than being any present Scientologist, which you are, because Scientology is so consummately dishonorable.

You should become a former Scientologist, Dan, and become honorable again. You cannot be honorable as a Scientologist, because being Scientologist requires that you lie and do other dishonorable things. You know this, I am sure. But you haven’t left your dishonorable Scientology cult because you haven’t summoned the necessary spark of courage that lies deep inside you.

Your assertion that I am a former paid agent of a renegade government intelligence service is a bald-faced lie. It is also a dangerous lie. You have no evidence that I was ever a paid agent, because there is no evidence. I was never a former paid agent of any intelligence service, renegade or not. I was never a former paid agent of any government, or an unpaid agent, or any agent. I understand why you lie about me as you do: cheap, garden variety, cowardly malignance. You are a paid agent of a cult run by psychopathic cult leaders. You apply Scientology. As Hubbard ordered in your scripture, you reduce my image to beast level so that you and your fellow Scientologists can just go all the way in and obliterate me.

You Scientologists have been vomiting out the black PR that I am “a certifiable nut,” or similar, ever since I escaped your cult and your control. Your PR person Tommy Davis is reported in Lawrence Wright’s 2011 article in The New Yorker lying about me “sitting naked” in a photo, and then Davis uses that lie to conclude that I am “not a very sane person.” Also in 2011, in a video interview, your cult’s “former” PR person Mike Rinder black PRed me as “seeing things” and being “a bit of a fruitcake, frankly.” http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/223 Rinder, of course, like Rathbun and you, still executes your cult head Miscavige’s command intention for treating you Scientologists’ wog targets and victims like me. Who will tell the truth?

In 1994, Rinder, as a “director” of your cult, signed a declaration claiming that Stacy Brooks Young told him that I am “psychotic and live in a delusory world” in which I hold “conversations with God.” Later, Rinder confirmed that he had lied about Ms. Young making such a statement, and that it was his own conclusion that I was psychotic because I held conversations with God. Billions of people, of course, hold conversations with God. It’s called prayer. Scientologists like you, on the other hand, hold conversation with imaginary beings Hubbard claimed infest, indeed comprise, your bodies and control and overwhelm you. You Scientologists pay huge sums of money to hold these conversations with your imaginary “body thetans” or “clusters” of them. Conversing with God is free. You might try it.

In 1997, you Scientologists, using one Ute Kock, distributed a black PR sheet in Germany claiming to quote Scientology attorney Elliott Abelson lying that my “normal activities consist of conversations with the dead.” Kock continued quoting Abelson libeling me as “a psychotic person.” Then there are the wogs like Rob Clark, who serves you Scientologists’ malevolent purposes by black PRing me as “a vicious psycho,” “loonboy,” “crazy,” “a fucking nutcase,” “totally batshit,” etc. You Scientologists love it when your “critics” black PR your victims like me. And, then there are Scientology’s superpsychopathically-acting black PR merchants, to whom I sincerely suspect you contributed your writing talent. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/usenet/clameleon-op.html

Most infamously, Rathbun, Rinder, Miscavige and your attorneys filed submissions to the IRS to get your undeserved tax exemption stating you all “truly believe” me “to be psychotic.” None of you truly believe that. You all know you are lying. Importantly, I have to accept that there is no lie you will not tell, no crime you will not commit, to keep your ill-gotten money, and destroy the people like me, who are unpsychotic, unnutty enough to stand up to your lying and other criminal behavior. You might try that too.

If I really was a certifiable nut, or psychotic, etc., your treatment of me, your fellow Scientologists’ treatment of me, and your collaborators’ treatment of me would be pathologically cruel. You Scientologists are indeed pathologically cruel to certifiable or psychotic people, as your treatment of Lisa McPherson shows. You locked her up, tied her down, dehydrated her, and killed her. Rathbun continued the cruelty even after her death by destroying evidence of your murderous treatment. I am not, however, a certifiable nut or psychotic, as you know. Your black PRing of me as such, nevertheless, is also pathologically cruel because it is your intention to degrade my image to psychotic level, and even drive me actually psychotic with your battle tactics tech.

Your claim in your letter published in Freedom that I attempted to seize your cult’s assets is a lie. Your claim that I schemed to forge evidence is a lie. Your claim that I schemed to secretly plant such forged evidence on your cult’s premises is a lie. Rathbun tells the same lie, which he knows is a lie, in his Memoirs. I just discovered that your cult’s Canadian attorney told the same lie to help you Scientologists get your IRS tax exemption. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1074

Your claim that I next appeared in the public eye as the would-be masochist for Saddam Hussein is a lie. Between the time you tried to entrap me in your criminal operation that you call my scheme, which was 1984, and when I wrote to Saddam, which was 1990, you Scientologists continued to black PR me and fair game me around the world. You and your black PR kept me in the public eye all those years. Even after the supposed settlement with you Scientologists in 1986, you went right on fair gaming me, including in your publications and in court cases, and kept me into the public eye.

I have had to confront the fact that no matter what I do in life, no matter how beneficent my actions are, you Scientologists and your collaborators will pervert it all into something evil or degraded. That is a constant and terrible awareness to have to live with. Your profound betrayal brought me to the edge of suicide in 1985. All the lies you told starting in 1982 to become my friend just so you could betray me still hurt. Your sucking me in again with your phony apology and more faked friendship after your betrayal, your continuing hatred and lies, and now Rathbun’s sick black propaganda spin on your op, have almost achieved my obliteration that you Scientologists seek. See, e.g.  http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/op/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1986-03-DS.pdf
I don’t have all of my written correspondence with you, but I’ve webbed what I still have along with some notes for the record. http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/dan-sherman/

My letter to Saddam was a simple effort to present an alternative to the Gulf War that would bring death to hundreds of thousands of people and wreak untold destruction on the region. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/saddam-bill-wgert-and-me.html
What did you do, Dan? Cower in your cult employing your God-given mind and skills to victimize good people. I am sure that there were other people in the world who didn’t lust for the Gulf War and didn’t want those hundreds of thousands killed. Some of the good citizens who didn’t want all the unnecessary killing doubtlessly communicated in some way in the hope that it wouldn’t happen. Yet I am the only person you black PR for my simple, serious, cordial literary attempt to do something about it. It’s as if you Scientologists and your collaborators would rather have limitless evil happen than tell the truth about me or even have someone grant me the slightest credence.

As for Saddam’s camp having sense enough to not reply to my letter, I would bet that they didn’t even see it. But you will see this letter to you, and everyone will see if you have sense enough, or really courage enough, to reply. Courage versus cowardice is your issue, Dan. You Scientologist generate seven what you call “valuable final products” in your characters or “beingnesses:” vanity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, envy, pugnacity, malignity and pusillanimity. It’s not a pretty picture, and puts many people, both Scientologists and wogs at risk. But something can be done about it. Humility, honesty, sincerity, charity, comity, sympathy, and gallantry can be yours for the asking. But they cannot be with Scientology.

It is true that I am the man whose testimony inspired the Breckenridge decision. I am not, however, as you describe me. Your description is filled with lies and is disgusting typical Scientology black propaganda. Your description demonstrates just how pathetic, albeit dangerous, your cult or religion is, and how pitiable its practitioners are, especially its personnel like you who black PR people like me. Judge Breckenridge describes the man who inspired his decision much more accurately and understandingly.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/283.php

In two of the declarations I wrote in 1994 concerning your covert and unlawful videotaping in your Armstrong Op, I explained you Scientologists’ lies about what I said regarding “allegations” rather than “proof” being in legal complaints.

The organization has continued to claim that I originated the “plot to overthrow “church” management” and that I initiated the contact with the organization members, who merely played along with my plan while remaining “loyal” to the organization. It also has continued to claim that the videotapes show me plotting to forge documents and seed them in organization files to be found in a raid, show me creating “sham lawsuits,” show me urging the Loyalists to not prove anything but “just allege it,” and show me seeking to take control of the organization. The videotapes show none of those things. The tapes show that in the fall of 1984, during the reign of the organization’s present supreme leader David Miscavige (DM), the fair game doctrine was alive and as unfair as ever. The tapes show a mean-spirited, mendacious and malevolent organization using well-drilled operatives and electronic gadgetry to attempt, unsuccessfully, to set up an unwitting, funny, sometimes silly, clearly helpful, at times foul-mouthed, but otherwise ordinary human male.

The organization’s refusal to stop telling these lies is not surprising, however, because its leaders have put so many of their eggs in their dirty tricks basket. These leaders are unbalanced and in a very precarious situation. Having lied about the Armstrong Operation in so many courts and publications and to so many people, including their own followers, these leaders risk their positions of power, and in their minds their very lives, if they ever admit the breadth of those lies. Yet it is in the acknowledgement of the truth behind those lies where ultimately their safety will be found. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html

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.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html

Although I cannot be in contempt of court for violating your contractual conditions, I do acknowledge that I have been found in contempt of court multiple times for violating your court order. Your injunction, however, is unlawful, and no one has any legal obligation to comply with an unlawful order. You Scientologists’ desiring, obtaining and attempting to enforce this unlawful court order actually evidences your abysmal character and antisocial intentions. Despite how threatening and deleterious it has been in my life, I am glad that I have violated your unlawful court order, as I am doing here in responding to your black PR. I will continue to violate your unlawful order because it is unlawful and because it is wrong for everyone for me to obey it.

It is no more lawful to silence a person by court order about the Scientology religion or his religious beliefs about Scientology, his experiences with Scientology, or his knowledge of the Scientology religion, even though Scientology is an antisocial religion with a murderous philosophy, than it is to silence a person about traditional religions such Christianity, Judaism, Islam or Buddhism. US court orders that silence a person about his religious beliefs, experiences or knowledge, and punish him for communicating these, show that your country’s claims of religious freedom are massively hypocritical. Since what has happened to me obviously can happen to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, etc. everyone everywhere in the world is justified in opposing the US for its great hypocrisy and its threat to everyone’s religious freedom.

Why the US has taken this cowardly, duplicitous route regarding religious freedom is not completely known. Certainly the US has done so for antisocial purposes that align with you Scientologists’ antisocial purposes. Your claims of promoting and defending religious freedom, when you are silencing good people about their religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge and jailing and ruining them for their free exercise of religion, are shocking in their hypocrisy. Everyone everywhere in the world is justified in opposing all of you and fighting you to the death. That is your contribution to religion, to religious freedom and to world peace.

Yes, you have a jail sentence against me. But that simply shows how antisocial Scientologists make each other with Scientology. Your gloating shows how depraved your religion has made you. I will never serve your jail sentences, because they are unlawful. And I will fight you Scientologists’ unlawful orders and jail sentences, and your antisocial writings and criminal fair game actions until the end of my life.

So yes, you need to say more on this matter, Dan. You can do it. You are not too old, and it is not too late. You have within you the guts to stand up and tell the truth. Yes, Scientologists will hate, revile and fair game you. But that is far better than staying with the haters, revilers and fair gamers and wasting your life destroying the good people who have found the guts and have told the truth.  Believe it or not, you can still be a hero. Come out and communicate.

Gerry Armstrong

Notes

  1. See also the Boston Herald series: Scientology Unmasked: Inside the Church of Scientology. ↩

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Rathbun’s FAMCO flimflam

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.

Rathbun claims that “the IRS […] was part and parcel of the FAMCO plan,” (p. 151) which is not only untrue but deranged. Hubbard and Scientology had been at war with the IRS for years before. The IRS had been around since 1862, and had the name “Internal Revenue Service” since 1918.

Rathbun talks about “the FAMCO litigation” and the idea of settling it. (pp. 152, 190) Yet he never mentions any FAMCO case or cases, because there were none.

Rathbun writes that the threat that FAMCO was had “its roots in long-term Department of Justice, AMA, and APA hatred of Hubbard.” (p. 199) There was no such institutional or DOJ hatred of Hubbard. The idea that FAMCO stretched back to 1950 when a few mental health professionals responsibly criticized Hubbard for his criminally fraudulent claims in Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health is patently false and absurd.

Writing about the 1983 DeWolf litigation in Riverside Superior Court, Rathbun says he warned Mary Sue Hubbard that if Hubbard showed up he “would be personally served with a couple dozen FAMCO lawsuits.” (p. 203) There were no FAMCO lawsuits to be served, FAMCO had never had a lawsuit, and FAMCO had ceased to operate at all two years earlier.

Rathbun claims that “the FAMCO group” was Hubbard’s “avowed nemesis,” and that except for Mary Sue, all of “Hubbard’s long-term close friends and allies who had been denigrated and depowered” by Scientology’s leaders “had joined or were drifting toward” the FAMCO group. (p. 203) Not Bill Franks, not Laurel Sullivan, not Homer Schomer, not Martin Samuels, not me, none of us joined or drifted toward FAMCO. Rathbun helped implant the false ideas in Hubbard’s mind to make him declare FAMCO his nemesis, and Rathbun is still falsely mocking up FAMCO as an actual evil enemy entity.

Rathbun writes that the people who had been denigrated and depowered by him and his cohorts, “the new regime,” would receive acknowledgment and comfort as victims” when they joined the FAMCO group. None of us joined, and none of us received acknowledge and comfort for any reason from the FAMCO group.

Rathbun writes about flying to Philadelphia to meet “a New York mafioso named Joey Deciccio who claimed to have the information and power to bring Flynn’s FAMCO scheme to a halt in an instant.” (p. 224) This meeting was apparently in 1984, years after the Scientologists knew FAMCO was not happening and was a non-issue, which they were manufacturing into an “issue.”

According to Rathbun Deciccio described what his “power” to end FAMCO was: the mafia “boys” would hold Flynn “by his feet and dangle his head in the sewer till the rats start gnawing on his face.” Rathbun says he asked, “What if that doesn’t work?” He says Deciccio told him they cut a finger off, and then if that didn’t work, “the rest of his fucking fingers.” According to Rathbun, Deciccio promised that these “Brooklyn rules” would “make the litigation go away.”

Rathbun says he told Deciccio he wouldn’t authorize the sewer rats and finger-chopping plan, because he and his fellow Scientologists “will not engage in or condone any illegal acts.” This is an ass-covering, sanctimonious lie, because Rathbun himself had already condoned, paid for and committed illegal acts, including against Flynn personally.

Rathbun writes that Hubbard’s antisocial “writings issued between 1981 and 1984,” including the “reinstatement” (actually the restatement) of disconnection, and the “‘ends justify the means’ approach” to the world, “were very likely a response to learning, through Special Project reports, that the dozens of lawsuits confronting Hubbard included a stable of FAMCO expert witness psychiatrists and psychologists, readying to testify to Scientology’s alleged deleterious mental effects upon the plaintiffs.” (p. 234) Rathbun was in Special Project, and was responsible for reports to Hubbard about lawsuits, witnesses, etc., and even FAMCO. So Rathbun’s lies about FAMCO drove Hubbard to make disconnection worse than it was and to introduce the “‘ends justify the means’ approach.”

Rathbun says that Hubbard was “likely also influenced [to write policies directing disconnection, and the ends justifying the means] by reports [from Special Project Legal] of the tight lines of coordination that were discovered between FAMCO and the U.S. Department of Justice (including the FBI). (p. 234) There were no tight, or even loose, lines of coordination between FAMCO and any department or person in the US Government or any government. FAMCO possessed no coordination lines. Rathbun has shown no coordination lines. He is just alleging lines and their tightness.

If there wasn’t FAMCO, which there wasn’t, what was there? There were individuals in various capacities and standings, all over the world, who had been victimized by Hubbard and his Scientologists, or who stood up for the victims, despite themselves being victimized. Some of the individuals standing up for the Scientologists’ victims were necessarily attorneys in law firms, and to a necessary degree their firms stood behind their standing up against the Scientologists in the legal arena.

In seeking redress for the victims, and because Scientology is a criminal organization, US Federal Government Departments, particularly the Justice Department, should be contacted, and they should be urged to do what they can by law do to help the victims and curtail the victimization. There should be then lines of coordination between the Scientologists’ victims, the people standing up for them, and government departments that would be appropriate for all victimized citizens and their defenders.

Rathbun writes that in 1985, David Mayo, because “his back [was] against the wall, then joined ranks with FAMCO and the DOJ, and moved the court to order the church to produce Hubbard for deposition.” (p. 284) I am certain that Mayo never considered that he was joining ranks with FAMCO. FAMCO didn’t have ranks to join. Litigants and the government sued or subpoenaed Hubbard because he invented and managed Scientology and controlled and directed financial, legal and fair game matters. In the Mayo case, of course, Hubbard was a percipient witness concerning the creation of NOTS and Mayo’s activities over many years inside the cult. Rathbun even states in Memoirs that Hubbard had issued an order three years earlier to “terminatedly take out” Mayo, and “had ordered that the church ‘squash him like a bug.’”

Throughout his Memoirs, Rathbun acknowledges that he and other Scientologists, including Miscavige, could get communications to Hubbard, and they received orders from him. I knew such a communication line existed and provided my knowledge to wogs in legal proceedings beginning in 1982 and many times thereafter, the time period Rathbun is talking about. At the same time the Scientologists were denying in legal proceedings that they had any such communication line with Hubbard.

Rathbun and his fellow Scientologists ran a related fraud upon the court and upon their victims by falsely claiming that Hubbard was not the organization’s managing agent, that he was in no way responsible for policy, practice, programs or actions of anyone in the organization.

Managing agent. A person who is invested with general power, involving the exercise of judgment and discretion, as distinguished from an ordinary agent or employee, who acts in an inferior capacity, and under the direction and control of superior authority, both in regard to the extent of the work and the manner of executing the same. One who has exclusive supervision and control of some department of a corporation’s business, the management of which requires such person the exercise of independent judgment and discretion, and the exercise of such authority that it may be fairly said that service of summons upon him will result in notice to the corporation.
Black’s Law Dictionary

Hubbard was clearly the Scientology cult’s managing agent. Hubbard ordered and directed Rathbun’s actions. Rathbun did not order or direct Hubbard’s.

Rathbun writes:

Hubbard outlined our strategy for All Clear as follows.   First, we were to get Hubbard extracted from the suits.   We were to make a case, by affidavits and documentation, that Hubbard did not run the church and was by no means its managing agent. (p. 158)

Rathbun knew just by receipt of Hubbard’s “outline” that he was to follow, that Hubbard was the managing agent. The affidavits and documentation that could make the case that Hubbard directed be made could only be false. Any intention or effort to execute his “strategy” made him the managing agent.

Rathbun writes:

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. (p. 194)

To “disprove,” of course, means to prove to be false. Rathbun, Miscavige, et al. did nothing to prove that Hubbard was not Scientology’s managing agent, which was the issue in the legal arena. What they went to great lengths to do was manufacture the lie that Hubbard was not the cult’s managing agent, and they did it as Hubbard directed, with false affidavits and documentation.

Memoirs communicates a brazen admission of obstruction of justice for Hubbard, as if all those years of lying and getting others to lie under oath were moral or laudable. Rathbun communicates no care for the people organization personnel victimized when Hubbard was its managing agent. Rathbun seeks to justify his obstruction and other fair game actions against the Scientologists’ significant victims back then by further lying about them thirty or so years later. He tells a set of lies to make us victims members of an “illicit scheme” called FAMCO (p. 160) that we were not members of and, as far as we were concerned, didn’t exist.

In April 1985, after Bill Franks became involved in the Scientology opposition, he wrote this declaration that mentions his knowledge as the Executive Director of Scientology in 1981 that the Scientologists knew that the allegations they were making about FAMCO were false, and nothing was ever done with the corporation.

6. In 1980 and 1981, I have personal knowledge of many orders issued by L. Ron Hubbard concerning attacks against Michael Flynn. Hubbard considered Flynn to be a “whore” and Hubbard ordered him to be totally ruined. We were ordered to do a complete investigation of Flynn, find or “manufacture ” crimes he had committed, expose his “crimes” to his clients and to law enforcement officials, ruin his law practice, have him disbarred and file numerous law suits or bar complaints against him without regard to whether the complaints were meritorious or not. L. Ron Hubbard personally ordered all these activities and I saw many of the orders.

[…]

12. In 1981, we obtained from the trash, a copy of a draft prospectus for a corporation named Flynn Associates Management Corporation (FAMCO). This prospectus made it look like Flynn was attempting to finance the Scientology litigation by selling shares in the litigation. From the trash documents and other investigations of Flynn’s finances, we already thought that he would not have enough money to finance the litigation. In fact, Hubbard ordered us to find out who was paying Flynn. This prospectus seemed to provide the answer, and it was sent to Hubbard. In fact, we later received information that shares in FAMCO were never sold or even offered.

13. After seeing the FAMCO prospectus, Hubbard issued an order stating that this proved that Flynn was syndicating litigation. We were ordered to have him disbarred on the basis of the FAMCO documents. FAMCO was viewed as the best method of ruining Flynn’s reputation in the legal community because he had engaged in unethical conduct. Hubbard further ordered that Flynn’s clients be contacted and informed about FAMCO and that Flynn would be shortly disbarred and sent to jail. An attorney in Boston, Harvey Silverglate, was specially hired to make sure that Flynn was disbarred. He was instructed to file bar complaints and make sure that Flynn was unable to practice law. At that same time, we were filing bar complaints and trying to ruin Flynn’s reputation, we had received information that FAMCO shares had never been sold and nothing was ever done with this corporation. In other words, we knew our allegations about Flynn and his involvement with FAMCO were false. Nonetheless, pursuant to Hubbard’s instructions to ruin Flynn, we still made the allegations and attempted to have Flynn disbarred.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/related/4092.php

Very recently, I obtained a copy of a declaration containing the cult’s black propaganda line against FAMCO and Mike Flynn that Heber Jentzsch apparently executed in late 1983.http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/related/5140.php

I obtained at the same time a copy of a declaration Flynn wrote in response to Jentzsch and executed April 4, 1984. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/related/5143.php

Rathbun was responsible for the legal and black PR attack on Flynn and FAMCO, so would have had this written for Jentzsch. In fact, both in style, content and spin, it sounds as if the same person could have written Memoirs and Jentzsch’s declaration.

Because of all the evidence, because of all the evidence he manufactured, because of the actual absence of evidence, and by reason, Rathbun knew, by the time Franks knew, that what he was saying and having others say about FAMCO was false. Rathbun knows that he is still lying about FAMCO in his Memoirs.

I don’t know what cases these declarations were filed in. The Jentzsch declaration was created and Flynn wrote his declaration just before the Scientology v. Armstrong trial was to start in LA Superior Court. Rathbun was also already deep into the operation to frame Flynn with forging a $2 million check on one of Hubbard’s bank accounts.

The Jentzsch declaration evidences much madness and malice.

“The Church of Scientology has a long history of creating freedom of thought.”
“As a religion, Scientology has brought reason into philosophy.”
“psychiatry seeks to destroy worship, to create evil, to create hate and to destroy religious freedom.”

The Flynn declaration is an important look into what he contended with on a number of attack lines including FAMCO. The declaration also provides some insight into the man, why he stood up to the Scientologists and their professional collaborators them, and why he succeeded.

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Letter to Marty Rathbun re the petards in his Memoirs

From: Gerry Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:18 PM
To: Mark Rathbun (…@aol.com)
Subject: Captain Moulton black PR in your Memoirs

Dear Marty:

I am sure you read what I publish religiously. Nevertheless, I do sometimes feel a bit of a duty to specifically inform a living person if I’ve written about him or her at any length. In this article, which is self-explanatory, I mention you and also deal with a section from your Memoirs book. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1017

I also posted it on WhyWeProtest, and there are a few comments. https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/missing-armstrong-1-trial-transcripts-found.116298/

Easily one of your biggest supporters “Michael Hobson” attacked me in the WWP thread. As history would have it, just a couple of weeks ago I had written about Hobson who, over the last couple of years, has been attacking me on various public forums http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1007 His attacks have pretty well all been in your defense, or more specifically in defense of your refusal to help your real victims from your Scientology period get justice. So I should let you know about that article as well.

You will recall that in a May 31, 2013 email, you stated: “If you have an objection to a factual statement in the book, please provide specifics and any documentation available to support your position.” Our emails relating to Memoirs and our debate, up to my opening statement, are at: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/773 In this latest article, I am only dealing with a small charge, but potentially explosive, which I formulated:  who or what really was hoist by their own petard? LF

You made the factual claim that Captain Moulton was hoist by his own petard. I have shown by specifics and documentation that this is false, and that it was you and your fellow plotters that were hoist by your own petard. You identify the petarded plotters at page 249: “ [you], Miscavige, Starkey, and the rest of the [Scientology] legal team.”

My earlier provision of specifics and documentation, however, addressed a very large and continuously important false fact statement in Memoirs: that the SP class are roughly equivalent to sociopaths or psychopaths. I posted my specifics and documentation in an easily navigable and understandable form. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/826 And I informed you by email on July 3. Your reaction, your lack of reasoned response, and your failure to correct this false assertion about SPs, show irresponsibility and seriously misplaced contempt for your SP victims.

You will recall that in 2012 I made a video, “What’s Wrong with Marty Rathbun on the Suppressive Person Doctrine,” in which I also provided specifics and documentation identifying false and maligning statements you made about the SP class in your previous book What Is Wrong With Scientology? Healing Through Understanding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeeWZPdZ-U8 You obviously disregarded my specifics and documentation because you repeated essentially the same hate language about SPs in Memoirs.

On your blog recently I came across your ad for venturers to take your correspondence course, “A Course in Graduating from Scientology,” and saw that your two books that I have shown as maligning the SP class – Wrong and Memoirs — are course prerequisites. It is clear to me that you are not helping people to graduate from Scientology. What you have been teaching thus far, your published words, including your words about me personally, show that you cannot be giving guided tours out of the Scientology philosophical labyrinth, except in the sense that L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige give guided tours out of the Scientology philosophical labyrinth.

You have not graduated from Scientology because you have not acknowledged the evil of the SP doctrine, and not rejected it and stood up to its appliers and their collaborators, but have continued to excuse that inexcusable doctrine to justify your refusal to give justice to the victims of your application of the doctrine. What you have to teach are the mental tricks you have so far seemingly successfully used to avoid confronting the antisocial nature of the SP doctrine and the antisocial things you did to SPs.

The Suppressive Person doctrine, as you have been teaching and applying it, in addition to inciting and justifying the religious persecution of SPs like me, also works to keep people in Scientology by preventing them from even granting credence to people who tell the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. You don’t grant SPs like me credence, right?

The doctrine in Scientology is stupid and represents stupidity. It also is a manifestation or effect of stupidity. Stupidity is a constant option for what to do with knowledge. The SP doctrine is Hubbard and Scientologists’ solution to the SP problem. The SP problem is good people telling the truth about Hubbard and Scientologists’ stupidity – their stupid acts like stealing from people, injuring people, tricking them, lying to them and destroying them. The SP doctrine as a solution, as I’ve said before, is as stupid as the Nazis’ Jewish doctrine as a solution to the problem Hitler and the Nazis had with Jews.

You are advertising for venturers who are having difficulty correlating their Scientology gains with the wog world and its philosophies and religions. The gains a person gets from Scientology, however, are the gains that come from adoption of the SP doctrine and living life by it. Think about it; even by Hubbard scripture, the “gains” are directly related to being an SP, or not, or being connected to an SP, or not. When it is grasped that the SP doctrine that directed a Scientologist’s life throughout his or her life as a Scientologist is completely wrong and reprehensible, unless one really is a psychopath, the gains from Scientology, are not gains at all but ill-gotten losses, which kept the SP doctrine working its evil.

Your failure to communicate to me before you wrote about me so extensively and so defamatorily in Memoirs is clear evidence of malice. You also had two editors, Russell Williams and Mike Rinder, and neither of them contacted me to verify your statements about me. Rinder at least, of course, conspired and participated with you in a criminal conspiracy against me over several years, and he appears to be motivated by the same malice since apparently leaving the Miscavige faction.

I certainly was available to communicate with you during the period when you were writing your book or having it edited. In fact, I made a very good record of the fact that I had for some years been asking you to communicate to me. I have made many sincere efforts to get you to communicate to me for, inter alia, the sincere purpose of getting you to not continue to defame me, which is cruel, damaging and threatening. In your malice and your defamatory words, you are willfully acting in concert with David Miscavige, which is further damaging and threatening.

I have a venture for you, a risky or daring journey or undertaking, if you will, and for the sole, very social purpose of Justice. Do the very simple things it seems I’m always asking from you:

1. Communicate to me;

2. Debrief to me and my legal representatives;

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

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

Yours confidently,

Gerry Armstrong