Not long after Mark Rathbun started speaking publicly, it became obvious to me that he was part of a limited hangout scheme. Or, of course, he could have been kingpinning it. Mike Rinder joined him in the Scientology “opposition,” presenting themselves as benevolent warriors for truth and justice; as courageous correctors of the fraud, abuses and crimes they perpetrated or knew about from their Sea Org years; and as cult dictator David Miscavige’s nemeses. Rinder joined Rathbun in strict adherence to the limited hangout’s narrative, its doled-out admissions, and its withholding of key and damaging facts.
There are two essential matters that are to be ignored, lied about, side-stepped, withheld, perverted: The Silencing and Destroying (“S&D”) of Gerry Armstrong; and, the unlawful obtaining of IRS tax exemption and US Government collusion. Within the limited hangout stratagem, the colluders must not admit to, or even acknowledge these matters. They must never let it all hang out. Rathubun and Rinder, et al. have never let it all hang out, ever since they first claimed that’s what they were doing.
These two matters are intimately intertwined, because my Fair Gaming, or S&Ding, if truth be told about it, was a legal bar to the grant of IRS tax exemption in 1993; and it is a legal bar to the Miscavigeites retaining tax exemption in 2024. Making this collusion or conspiracy incestuous, and creating spooky human or divine drama, Rathun and Rinder were the two most prodigious participants, under Miscavige, of course, in both matters: in the now forty-two-year campaign to silence and destroy me; and in the Miscavigeites’ submissions to the IRS to get an utterly undeserved tax exemption. Their submissions included the most maleficent lies about me personally, plus put me in serious and undeserved jeopardy, which continues.
Even since Rathbun seemingly blew from the “opposition to Miscavige” and realigned himself with the Miscavigeite Scientologists, when Rathbun and Rinder have appeared to criticize each other publicly, they have not violated the limited hangout rules. In fact, it can be seen that the present configuration of Miscavige—Rathbun—Rinder acts to protect even more effectively what they have been protecting for decades: the truth about the Fair Gaming of Gerry Armstrong, and the truth about the lies to get IRS tax exemption and create a collusive relationship with the US Federal Government, which prejudices citizens everywhere.
Rathbun and Rinder were naturals to be selected to take over the “opposition to Miscavige” and establish and guide the limited hangout stratagem. Throughout their long careers in the Sea Org, including running intelligence operations, they were dedicated to never telling the truth that should be told. Hubbardite Scientology and now Miscavigeite Scientology can be seen as the extreme of limited hangouts, or the utter suppression of the truth that should be told, achieved in part by operations to silence or destroy would be truth tellers.
The controlling Scientologists gave the world fluff and lies, which they called acceptable truths. Telling the truth that should be told was Treason. Those who got away, like I did, and told some truth about their experiences or knowledge were to be silenced and destroyed. At the top of the Miscavigeites’ list of matters that cannot be talked about, that must be suppressed, are the same matters Rinder and his fellow limited hangouters in the “opposition to Miscavige” still withhold, still refuse to tell the truth about: Fair Gaming me, and the crooked IRS deal.
Rinder has never, to my knowledge, directly explained why he hasn’t told the truth about these matters. This reality has become progressively obvious, and the matters he hasn’t told the truth about have become increasingly clear and relevant. So has his cruelty. A number of other limited hangouters, however, have defended Rinder’s refusal to tell the truth about these matters, and have given different explanations or excuses for him.
The most common excuse is that the good he has done after leaving Miscavigeite Scientology outweighs whatever bad he did to anyone inside the cult; therefore, he gets a complete pass. No, there is no such real equation or relationship. There is, however, the real relationship created with this lame excuse. The inarguable explanation for his doing the good he is doing is that it shields him from doing anything about the two key matters that really matter: my Fair Gaming, and the collusion with the US Government to defraud the world.
Another routinely-tendered, thought-stopping excuse for Rinder refusing to tell the truth about what for years I’ve been asking him to tell the truth about is that he would risk being imprisoned and would put his family in jeopardy. The assumption is that he committed prosecutable criminal acts to silence and destroy me, and criminal acts to obtain undeserved IRS tax exemption and Government collusion. I wrote about this excuse in 2019:
I do not believe there would be any prosecution of Mike Rinder if he told the truth about his knowledge of what Scientology, Scientologists and their colluders did to wogs. The threat of prosecution is invented to give Rinder an excuse to not tell the truth.
He very well could be pilloried for not coming forward and telling the truth all these supposedly post-cult years, and that threat grows with each day he delays. But the likelihood of prosecution if he told the truth I think is zero.
On the other hand, if he continues to not tell the truth, and in fact still keeps the conspiracy against rights working, he really does risk prosecution if the conspirators are prosecuted. By law they should be. By just what they have done to silence or destroy me they could be. Except that the US Government, the US Intelligence Community and US courts have been so corrupted, they would be. 1
Wikipedia quotes Victor Marchetti describing the limited hangout concept:
[It’s]spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further. 2
That is what Rathbun and Rinder, and of course, their underlings or supporters, pulled off. “The public,” the media, the Scientology victims or opponents, were intrigued by the “new information” this pair of the Miscavigeite ex-execs were “divulging,” or claiming to be divulging, or being promoted by their fellow limited hangouters as divulging. Almost no one pursued the matters of their Fair Gaming of Gerry Armstrong, or their criminal actions and communications to get IRS tax exemption, which has victimized millions of people.
The facts that Rathbun and Rinder dribbled out have largely concerned the felony allegation of human trafficking, which is virtually a bogus issue in relation to the Scientology cult. It is, however, important for the very limited hangout. The ridiculous fact is that under the law in the US as now interpreted or enforced, religionists in a religion can abuse each other, even batter each other, defraud each other, imprison each other, enslave each other, degrade each other, maybe even kill each other. And brother, that’s the free exercise of religion.
Standardly, and demonstrably, these antisocial or criminal actions are directed not at all evenly, Scientologist upon equal Scientologist. These religious exercises are ordered and carried out down Scientology’s “org board” hierarchically, from the dictator on high down through his cohort of sadistic enforcers, like Rathbun and Rinder, down to his cult’s myriad inferiors. Nobody drubs Miscavige, but the record of the drubbings he has delivered on his juniors, from his holy office of Ecclesiastical Poo-bah, is little short of gargantuan.
The US judge-made “law,” made for the Miscavigeite Scientologists, is that offenses that would be prosecutable in the US in the Wog World outside of Scientology control are just fine if committed inside the cult, and as long as these otherwise prosecutable actions are claimed and shown to be “doctrinally mandated.” In Hubbard’s millions of words of scripture, it is a very simple task to find Scientology doctrine that mandates the most evil and criminal of behavior of Miscavigeites on Miscavigeites, of senior religionists on juniors, of the flock head on his whole flock.
This is an idiotic and sick situation that is judicially permitted and non-actionable in the US, in part at least, because the underlings — the abused sheep — joined the lying, abusing religious cult voluntarily; or their parents voluntarily sacrificed them; and they stayed voluntarily, with “employment contracts” and Good Indicators (“GIs”), through years of such terrible treatment, which they observed, experienced, and might have even dealt out. I am all for Exscientologists getting justice for tortious or criminal treatment when they were Scientologists. It is a tortious, criminal, sadistic and diabolical organization into which many human victims are lured and trapped.
The campaign to silence and destroy me, however, is very different from Exscientologists’ human trafficking claims which stem from their maltreatment inside the cult. It is true that I was lied to, majorly by bricoleur Luciferian Ron Hubbard to join his cult. It is also true that after I joined, he and his cultists defrauded, abused, threatened, and betrayed me, and drove me to a life-and-death need to escape. The persons and entities perpetrating these evils are absolved of responsibility by the US Federal Government and its courts’ lunatic tack that permits, indeed encourages “religious” entities and their hierarchs to do such devilish perpetrating.
It is also easy to show in Scientology scripture that silencing and destroying wogs, Fair Gaming us, Black PRing us, ruining us, even murdering us, are doctrinally mandated. We wogs, however, did not volunteer to be “Suppressive Persons,” to be hated, threatened, assaulted, silenced and destroyed, smeared, beggared or murdered. That these crimes against wogs are doctrinally mandated does not create, so far, judicial defenses to our claims for the perpetrating Scientology entities or persons. In fact, the existence of policies, practices or orders in “scripture” that mandate such criminal or antisocial intentions or actions against wogs supports the claims of the victims.
It is true that the Miscavigeite Scientologists, with their skulks of lawyers and PIs, have many other tricks, sleazes and malfeasances and a billion dollars to rob their wog victims of wog justice. At least the perpetrators do not have the doctrinal mandate defense that they enjoy for defrauding and abusing their Scientologist victims inside their cult, so far.
I left the Hubbardite and Miscavigeites’ control, never to return, on December 12, 1981. Thereafter, I did not volunteer to be their subject, their defenseless punching bag, the victim of their functional sadistic personality disorder. In December 1986, to “settle” my claims in law against the Miscavigeites, for both pre-and post-December 12, 1981 torts, I gave my lawyer Mike Flynn no authority to sell me into legal or spiritual slavery to the Scientology slavers. I would not have given him such authority, but he never asked for it.
Such authorization never came up in our discussions because, rather than ask for my authorization for him to sell me into slavery to the Scientology slavers, he assured me, in multiple ways, that their settlement/slavery contract was “not worth the papers it’s printed on.” I had to sign the contract, not because I authorized its slavery conditions on me, but to have Fair Game end against him, and everyone else. His clear message to me was that the slavery conditions were so unconscionable, so diabolical, as I understood them to be, that they would never be judicially enforced, and the Scientologists would never attempt to judicially enforce them.
Mike Flynn is in an intertwined relationship with Mike Rinder in the limited hangout scheme’s two key verbotenedingen: the Gerry Armstrong Fair Gaming, which includes the slavery contract, and the lies to the IRS, about Flynn and me, of which there are plenty, that omitted any mention of slavery contracts or slavery. Slavery, as the Scientologists envisioned their contract, was their freedom to say anything about me or about anything else and my non-freedom to say anything about them or about anything they were saying anything about. Enforcing this ever-so-clever slaver-slave relationship and punishing any violation was a one-sided fifty-thousand dollar per utterance penalty, plus jail sentences and fines. See Fromm on sadism:
I propose that the core of sadism, common to all its manifestations, is the passion to have absolute and unrestricted control over a living being, whether an animal, a child, a man, or a woman. To force someone to endure pain or humiliation without being able to defend himself is one of the manifestations of absolute control, but it is by no means the only one. The person who has complete control over another living being makes this being into his thing, his property, while he becomes the other being’s god. Sometimes the control can even be helpful, and in that case we might speak of a benevolent sadism, such as one finds in instances where one person rules another for the other’s own good, and in fact furthers him in many ways, except that he keeps him in bondage. But most sadism is malevolent. Complete control over another human being means crippling him, choking him, thwarting him. Such control can have all forms and all degrees. 1
That is what the Scientologists have sought with me, complete control, crippling, choking, thwarting me. May all the Miscavigeites and all their collaborators end their sadistic passion and program to control me, to silence and destroy me and, I am convinced, thousands or millions of others. Let it all hang out. Let others let it all hang out.
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