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The Unabomber Op (January 4, 2019)
January 4, 2019 by Clerk1
I've communicated publicly many times about Mike Rinder's direct threat to me in 1994 that he and his group were going to keep black PRing me until I shut up. I've brought this up in emails and videos to him since he has been — the narrative goes — speaking up about Scientology cult criminality and abuses he knew about. Here is an excerpt from a letter to him in February last year:
I've written and spoken several times about a 1994 face-to-face confrontation you and I had, in which you threatened that until I shut up — meaning until I stopped telling the truth – you and your co conspirators were going to keep on black PRing me — meaning you were going to keep on lying about me, vilifying me, and destroying my credibility, relationships, opportunities and life. I even mentioned this incident in a letter to you soon after you started claiming and pretending you were no longer serving your conspiracy's purposes:
I wanted to communicate civilly, because it is important to me that something be done about the Scientology v. Armstrong, et al. war. Lies maintain the war. You remember, I'm sure, when I spoke to you about your black PR, saying to me that you — meaning you, Miscavige, Scientology, the attorneys, the PIs, et al. — were going to keep right on black PRing me until I shut up.
Your statement has stuck with me all these years because it was so brazenly threatening. In fact, it was blackmail, a threat to my person to defame me and destroy my reputation and life, unless I complied with your demand, here that I stop telling the truth. Obviously I have not stopped telling the truth, and, true to your threat, you kept right on black PRing me. Because you remain an unrepentant black propagandist for your Scientology conspiracy, and because your black PR is intended to shudder me into silence or destroy me, you also remain a blackmailer, indeed an unrepentant blackmailer. What greater motivation for repentance? 1
True to his threat, Rinder has kept right on black PRing me into present time, years after he supposedly escaped from Scientology Duce David Miscavige's service and control and began to portray himself as an opponent and exposer of Miscavige and his regime. Rinder could easily correct this but he has not. I have explained in earlier articles that his refusal to correct his black propaganda keeps its evil working.
I have also shown that with Rinder being touted as now telling the truth, now being compassionate, now helping his victims, now correcting the injustices or iniquities he perpetrated or had others perpetrate with and in Scientology, his refusal to now correct his black PR generates the false appearance that what he said and had said about me in the past was true then and is true now, and therefore needs no correction. There can be no doubt that this supports and forwards the Miscavigeite Scientologists' black PR purposes.
If, by Rinder continuing the black PR, the lie can be generated, as he has done, that his victim deserves all the black PR and all the injustices heaped on him, then black PR can be made the truth, injustice can be made justice, destroying people can be made enlightened and laudable. Then one of Rinder's victims like myself who calls the black PR black PR, calls injustice injustice, and calls destroying anyone criminal and an abomination, will be further black PRed as a liar, a whiner, a bit of a fruitcake, or psychotic. (From Rinder/Miscavige/Scientology's submission to the IRS that bagged the cultists their tax exemption: "The exception is Armstrong who we truly believe to be psychotic."2
Since I am not those things, since Rinder's black PR about me is not the truth, since the injustices he perpetrated against me are not just but are ongoing crimes, since destroying even truly horrid people is criminal, his refusal to actually tell the truth is cruel and cowardly, and it clearly serves the Scientologists' malevolent purposes toward me.
In 1994, he was Commanding Officer of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs International (CO OSA Int). He would hold that post, according to published statements, until 2007. He was responsible, under Duce Miscavige, for Scientology investigations and intelligence operations targeting enemies or victims like me. Rinder was responsible for all Scientology black propaganda, and for all Scientology's lawfare and other criminal activity around the world.
Before he was CO OSA Int, Rinder was CO OSA US, responsible for Scientology investigations and intelligence operations targeting enemies or victims like me, for all black propaganda and all lawfare across the US. I was living in the US and was his US target and victim during that period, and continued as his target for victimizing when he was CO OSA Int.
Throughout those years, Rinder was also a "corporate director" of the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the corporation called the "Mother Church," which the Miscavige-headed conspiracy most uses to victimize its victims like me. As CSI's director, Rinder had legal responsibilities and duties, and there could be no conflict of interest between his silencing and destroying people as CO OSA and what the "church" desired and commanded.
As OSA head, Rinder had thousands of posted juniors and paid and perverted wog or Scientologist colluders to victimize people like me. He paid millions of dollars to these Scientologists or wog colluders to silence or destroy us. He would have me threatened in many ways by many people over many years, but this in-my-face threat in 1994 was shocking and indelible, and so foolish of him.
During recent years, the public narrative has been spun, and is kept spinning, that Rinder has been speaking up and telling the truth about his experiences and knowledge of silencing or destroying persons like me, persons who told the truth about their experiences and knowledge of Scientology, its inventor and First Duce L. Ron Hubbard, and other Scientologists. I have shown publicly that Rinder has not done so at all. He has not done so even though his silence, and whatever lying he has done over many years, keep black PR, injustices and continuing crimes from being remedied.
I have made it publicly obvious that I have requested that he tell the truth about what he and his co-conspirators or co-colluders have done and are doing to silence or destroy me. I have made this easy for him because I have published a substantial outline of what I know he has done or had done and said or had said.3
As I have shown, the actions against me alone, by Rinder and his co-conspirators, constitute an ongoing criminal conspiracy against rights, and a fraud upon people everywhere. He has refused to communicate and tell the truth about what he did and had others do to me over more than twenty years. Yet telling the truth here of all places, where it is meaningful, has to be easy and pleasant.
As I have shown, Rinder continues, both by his actions and inaction, to serve the same purposes of the same organization he is supposedly speaking out about toward the same victim he victimized while officially posted in OSA, CSI and the Sea Organization (SO). In fact, the Scientology and the Aftermath production4 with Leah Remini can logically be viewed in that way. So far, with little give-away, this production has provided undue cover for Rinder, and forwarded the Scientologists and their colluders' false narratives on key issues.
Whether Remini knows what she is doing is serving the Scientologists' malign purposes is uncertain. It is certain, however, that Rinder knows. When they were both formally inside the Scientology cult, Rinder and his OSA underlings and others he controlled worked hard to keep other Scientologists, particularly their celebrities such as Remini, ignorant of the criminal conspiracy running the cult, whose malign purposes they all in some way served. Insiders, the conspirators like Rinder, kept the mass of Scientologists, presumably including Remini, ignorant of their victims, their crimes against their victims, their black PR of their victims, their hatred of their victims, their evil intentions toward their victims.
Rinder is doing the same now and having others do the same now: keeping people ignorant of his victims, his crimes against his victims, his black PR of his victims, his hatred of his victims, his evil intentions toward his victims, his Miscavige-headed conspiracy and his co-conspirators who directed all the victimizing. I represent his victims. I have unassailable standing because — if victimizing people can be quantified — he victimized and had me victimized more than any other wog he and his co-conspirators ever victimized. It is well known that I am his grossest victim ever, and no one else, to my knowledge, has spoken up to represent or defend his victims, like me.
In various Aftermath episodes, both Remini and Rinder have praised their interviewees for their courage in coming forward and telling their stories on the show of their victimization by the Scientologists. Remini and Rinder distinguish the participants in their series from the people who have pertinent testimony and do not come forward and do not tell their story on the show. The conclusion Remini and Rinder clearly want drawn is the absence of courage in anyone who didn't appear on their program or was unwilling to appear on their program.
There are some knowing or ignorant cult supporters who have disseminated the idea that I was upset or jealous because Remini and Rinder had not included me and my story in their program, or even approached me about my story. This projected jealousy, I suppose, is supposed to explain why I had been asking Rinder not to keep screwing his courage to the sticking place in service of Miscavige, et al., but tell the easy and pleasant truth that would help his victims. I had been insisting, after all, they say, from years before the production started, that I have the grossest set of victimization facts in the Miscavige, Rinder, Remini era.
I have been interested in the Aftermath series, did watch most of what aired, and noted certain fact or position statements that I thought deserved attention, and I might go back to. Rinder was indeed my grossest victimizer, the program is about Scientology, which is, inter alia, what I am about, and I have a very dynamic legal and extralegal relationship with the Scientologists and their colluders. I did not, however, ever try to contact Remini or anyone connected to the production, or ever try, or even want, to be interviewed for it.
Although I suppose it would have been nice, a sign of respect or something, to have been asked to talk to Remini on camera about my Scientology-related experiences and knowledge, I would have declined if I had been asked. One of the producers asked me about some photos, and I helped as I could. As the Aftermath episodes progressed, I had to be grateful I had not asked or been asked to participate in an interview for the production. I had an earlier experience I've talked about when Rinder as CO OSA US had editing control of the video he had made of me.
In May 2018, my wife Caroline Letkeman wrote to the A&E attorneys credited in the Aftermath, Cameron A. Stracher and Kimberly Lord, about subliminal messaging in all the episodes:
Dear Mr. Stracher and Ms. Lord:
I was involved with Scientology as a Scientologist for twenty-four years. After my escape from both the corporation and the ideology in 1999, I have been studying Scientology from a critical perspective. I am married to Gerry Armstrong, who was also a Scientologist and has endured decades of legal and extralegal fair game at the personal hand of Mike Rinder, Mark Rathbun, L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige since Gerry's own departure in 1981. Mike Rinder, as you know is a co-host and consulting producer for the Aftermath series.
I understand from the show credits that you are the legal counsel for the Aftermath series. I have a number of issues to communicate with you and Ms. Remini about her production, the first of which I will summarize here.
I have located subliminal messaging in every episode of the Aftermath series, and have posted my evidence and related scientific research papers on my website, here: http://scientology-research.org/malignant-persuasion/. The subliminal messaging involves emotionally charged profiling terms for the audience targeted by the producers of this series. On the above link you will find transcripts of the relevant excerpts.
Examples of the subliminal series are also present in a few of the free "bonus" videos that A&E makes available on their YouTube channel. Here are links to those videos and transcripts:
Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath – Bulldog Determination (Bonus) | A&E: Subliminal Messaging (2017)
Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath – Commanding Officer (Bonus) | A&E: Subliminal Messaging (2017)
Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath – Battle with the IRS (Bonus) | A&E: Subliminal Messaging (2017)
I am not a lawyer, but believe this law review article directly relates to the above issue: Historical and Legal Implications of Subliminal Messaging in the Multimedia: Unconscious Subjects (2012) https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nlr/vol36/iss3/4/
Please have Ms. Remini contact me in writing about this matter. I would appreciate an acknowledgement of receipt of this e-mail.
Caroline Letkeman
Caroline says that neither the A&E attorneys, nor anyone else on behalf of any of the entities or persons responsible for the production, nor Ms. Remini, has communicated back to her. Caroline says that it is apparent to her that the subliminal devices continue to be employed in the recent Fall 2018 episodes.
I would certainly have been willing to talk to Remini, or anyone else from her production company, or A & E, or Rinder, because I'm willing to talk to pretty well anyone who calls for any reasonably relevant reason. But being interviewed for her Aftermath program as long as Rinder is serving the Scientologists' purposes toward me would be wrong.
Although Remini has expressed multiple times throughout the series that she didn't know some fact or another about her fellow cultists' antisocial activities and their victims, I have not accepted that she is unaware that Rinder has not told the truth about all this, about his conspiracy, his victims, his black PR, his ongoing crimes, or about his relationship with me. Just a few minutes of due diligence by her, by someone in her employ, by someone at A & E, et al., by one of their lawyers, etc., would have revealed everything she needed to acquire such an awareness, if she or any of them actually lacked it.
What seems most likely is that Remini has joined with Rinder and is knowingly participating, for whatever reason, in the campaign to keep people ignorant of her co-producer's ongoing conspiracy against rights, his lawfare, his black PR, and the conspiracy's biggest victim. She personally poured a million or so dollars into the cult over years to support my criminal victimization, and she personally used her celebrity to protect and gain acceptance for my criminal victimizers, the conspirators who ran her cult.
She has acted to keep people ignorant of the SP doctrine. Whether she is aware of this or not isn't known. Rinder certainly knows it. She has kept the public ignorant of what really could be done to correct injustices and insanities she says she is trying to correct with her Aftermath production. She has kept people ignorant of what really could be done to correct the Scientologists' unlawful and unlawfully obtained IRS tax exemption.
Significant correction of injustices, insanities, cruelties and enforced ignorance could be achieved very simply by making public and legally usable what her co-producer Mike Rinder has done and had others do to silence or destroy people or otherwise victimize people, most grossly, me. Remini has access to the facts and she has the wherewithal to make this happen. If Rinder still refuses to speak up and tell the truth, she can easily obtain from other sources, like me, the truth of what he should have spoken up about. She can easily make this truth public, make it usable, and get it used it to correct injustices, insanities, cruelties and enforced ignorance she claims she wants to correct.
One of Rinder's supporters recently posted that he should not speak up and not tell the truth because what he did to me is so criminal he could be prosecuted, and supposedly put his wife and children at risk. This excuse has been given for him publicly a number of times that I've seen. I do not disagree that what he did, and is doing, is criminal and possibly prosecutable. His actions and his co-conspirators' actions constitute ongoing violations of, inter alia crimina, 18 USC §§ 241, 242 and 371.
His co-conspirators or co-colluders include US Federal Government officials and entities, so the matter is complicated and requires mindful courage. I confidently violate the court injunction, judgments, jail sentences and fines that Rinder and his co-conspirators obtained against me in the US because I know these are unlawful, even by US law, and Rinder, et al. obtained them by unlawful means, with US Federal collusion.
I have, however, no interest whatsoever in prosecuting Rinder or having him prosecuted. I simply have requested over considerable time that he tell the relevant truth, which he knows. His refusal and his other actions that serve antisocial purposes against the Scientologists' victims require a response so that people can hear the truth and have the informed opportunity to not be defrauded and not support demonstrated cruelty and cowardice.
In response to an FOIA request to the FBI, I received a document this past July showing that someone had false-reported me as possibly the Unabomber. The document the FBI produced to me is a memorandum dated May 5, 1995 evidencing the transmittal by some Supervisory Special Agent somewhere, of my name, and presumably my information, to the Unabomber Task Force (UTF) as a "possible suspect."5
The only persons on planet earth who would have been actuated at that time to black PR me as possibly the Unabomber, and who had the opportunities and means to get an SSA to pass on the black PR to the UTF, were Rinder and his co-colluders. This op would have been in play not long after the time he threatened they were going to keep black PRing me until I shut up.
Falsely accusing their critics of bomb threats and even framing them has been a special action of the Scientologists positioned like Rinder for over forty years. The Scientologists sending themselves bomb threats to frame Paulette Cooper in the 1970's is well known. It is also well known that through their lies, and their false sworn testimony about how scared they were of Keith Henson as a mad bomber, Rinder and his co-colluders orchestrated Henson's criminal conviction in California, and then his violent, dangerous SWAT takedown in 2001, in Canada.
Harming or destroying me or shuddering me into silence with complex and continuous black propaganda just because the black propagandists hated me would be one thing. But black PRing me also had another sinister purpose: to undo the 1984 judgment against the Scientologists in their first lawsuit against me, Armstrong 1. This judgment, rendered by LA Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr., besides exonerating me, declared Scientology head Hubbard virtually a pathological liar, condemned the Scientologists' practice of "culling" auditing folders, and confronted and articulated the Suppressive Person doctrine and its criminal application, which Hubbard euphemized as "fair game." 6
Rinder and Leah Remini defend the SP doctrine on their Scientology and the Aftermath show. They misdefine what the doctrine is to make it sound reasonable to the uninformed. Through an interviewee they criticize the doctrine's misapplication, not its content, its inherent and indefensible evil.
Other knowledgeable sources have told me over the years that the Scientology conspirators who run legal, PR, finance and intel personnel and operations had expressed among themselves their conviction that they "can't live with" Judge Breckenridge's Armstrong 1 judgment. The conspirators' opportunities for their revivification by judicially overturning the judgment, however, were largely lost when the California Court of Appeal affirmed it in July 1991, and the California Supreme Court denied review in October 1991. These appellate rulings not only certified the judgment the conspirators said they couldn't live with, but retarded them with more judicial rulings they couldn't live with, including a devastating published legal precedent.
From 1991 and into 1995, and on May 5, 1995 when my name was forwarded to the UTF, I was working with attorney Ford Greene in San Anselmo, California. Rinder and his co-colluders knew this fact from the first day I started with Greene. The UTF was headquartered in San Francisco, a few minutes from Greene's law office, where I was also then living. Here's a video Rinder had his co-colluding PIs make of me on that date.7
In May 1978, when Ted Kaczynski began his bombing campaign in Chicago, Illinois, I was shooting movies with Scientology cultocrat Hubbard in La Quinta, California. In November 1979, when Kaczynski planted a bomb on an American Airlines jet flying from Chicago to Washington, DC, I was in charge of Hubbard's Household Unit at Gilman Hot Springs, CA. In December 1985, when Kaczynski perpetrated his first murder, a computer store owner in Sacramento, California, I was paralegaling for Mike Flynn in Boston, Massachusetts. In October 1985, Rinder had me framed in Boston with the crime of impersonating an FBI agent, 18 USC § 912. In February 1987, when Kaczynski placed a bomb in a parking lot in Salt Lake City, Utah, I was in Oakland, California. Throughout his long campaign, which included at least sixteen bombings, our itineraries never intersected.
By the 1990's, I had testified about my abodes and travels, and about the rest of my cult-related history, in numerous court cases, and to US Government agencies. Rinder and his co-colluders knew, beyond any argument, that I was not the Unabomber. Although instigating and perpetrating violence toward me, the Scientology colluders knew beyond argument that I was not violent. They knew they were black PRing me. Also beyond argument, fingering me as the Unabomber was not to assist law enforcement in the hunt for him, but to cause me undeserved trouble and put me in undeserved danger.
The IRS/US collusion with the Scientologists started at least by 1991, included the grant of tax exemption in October 1993, and continues to this day. The Miscavige Scientologists' actions to silence or destroy me, and Flynn, my attorney, evidence massive, ongoing violations of public policy that made the tax exemption grant unlawful. This included the Scientologists' false submissions to the IRS, which US Federal Government officials knew to be false. Indeed, as reported by Mark Rathbun, US officials required that the Scientologists' submissions contain the false statements they contain.
With legally undeniable knowledge of the Scientologists' lying and manifold civil rights and public policy violations, the US officials nevertheless colluded with the Scientologists against their victims, and had and have a gargantuan motivation themselves to have me silenced or destroyed.
In a declaration dated June 6, 1996 for a US Bankruptcy Court case that Rinder had filed against me, after bankrupting me with an unlawful and unlawfully obtained monetary judgment in California State Court, my friend and former attorney Michael Walton described an incident in the summer of 1994 where Rinder personally threatened him in order to get him to pressure me to do what the cultists' wanted to get rid of Judge Breckenridge's judgment. 8
Rinder, who, under Miscavige, ran all cult legal activities, had three cases filed against me in state court in 1992 and 1993, Armstrong 2, 3 and 4. In Armstrong 4, Rinder had Walton sued along with me on the false claim that a 1990 transfer I had made to Walton of my interest in a property in Marin County, California was fraudulent. There is no doubt that Rinder knew my transfer was legitimate, there was nothing fraudulent about it, and the lawsuit he had filed to take Walton's home was itself fraudulent.
In his declaration for my bankruptcy proceeding, Walton stated these facts:
Rinder contacted Walton twice in the summer of 1994 to discuss Armstrong 4.
Before speaking to Rinder, Walton sought and obtained permission from Scientology attorney Laurie Bartilson.
Rinder told Walton that "Scientology" was not interested in Walton's money or taking away his residence, but what "Scientology" really wanted was to get out from under the Armstrong 1 judgment, also known as the "Breckenridge decision."
Rinder told Walton that the judgment was used to Scientology's detriment every time Scientology was involved in litigation.
Rinder said that "Scientology;" i.e., he and his co-colluders or co-conspirators, wanted me to sign a document recanting some of the testimony that was relied upon in the formulation of the Armstrong 1 judgment.
Rinder told Walton that "Scientology" would provide me with certain information, which, according to Rinder, I then lacked, to cause me to reach a different conclusion and sign a document indicating my change of opinion about the Armstrong 1 judgment.
Rinder said that since Walton was my good friend Walton could use his influence to convince me to sign such a document.
Rinder indicated to Walton that "pressure" would continue to be put on me and upon Walton and Walton's family until I signed such a document.
Rinder stated to Walton that there was no way to make the "Fraudulent Transfer Action" go away absent my signing the "Scientologists'" document.
Some days after the final conversation with Rinder, on or about September 12, 1994, Walton had a telephone conversation with attorney Bartilson in which she confirmed to him Rinder's articulation of Scientology's position, as provided in Walton's declaration.
During that conversation, Bartilson told Walton in a hostile and threatening manner that "Scientology" would never allow the Fraudulent Transfer Action to settle with respect to Walton and would only make things worse for him unless he would agree to "put pressure on your friend" (me) to capitulate in a separate breach of contract case that was then being litigated between the Scientologists and me.
Walton told Bartilson he declined to attempt to put any kind of pressure on me.
The next day Scientology named Walton's wife as a DOE defendant in the Fraudulent Transfer Action.
Since then, while inside the Miscavige-headed Scientology cult or presenting as outside, Rinder has never identified any piece of relevant information that I did not have at the time of the Armstrong 1 trial and he later possessed. Neither Rinder nor any of his co-conspirators has ever provided me a shred of evidence that would have then caused me to recant my Armstrong 1 testimony, or reach a different conclusion about the Armstrong 1 judgment, and sign the Scientology conspirators' document swearing to a change of opinion they wanted concerning the judgment. In fact, whatever evidence has been discovered or manufactured since my trial has confirmed my testimony, my conclusions and the judge's conclusions, and revealed that Scientology is even worse than I thought.
The Scientology conspirators, which includes attorneys, were apparently convinced they needed a "new" basis to mount a "new" judicial assault on the Armstrong 1 judgment to somehow get out from under it. Rinder was menacing Walton to pressure me to provide the conspirators their postulated "new" basis. So far, to my knowledge, thirty-four years after the judgment, the conspirators have not mounted a direct legal challenge to it. They do, however, still keep the judgment's eradication in their programs, and still attack it around the world on their PR and intelligence channels, and in their multifarious legal proceedings where it is cited. As I've shown, the conspirators also attack me, the subject of the judgment, on the same channels, for the same purpose, to get out from under it.
I've written and spoken quite a bit about the black PR and other false statements in the Scientologists' submissions to the IRS that resulted in the 1993 IRS tax exemption grant. Recently, Rinder proclaimed that he oversaw the collection and preparation of all the documents presented to the IRS. See, e.g.,
Mike Rinder: Keeping the IRS tax exemption working (Part 1) (February 14, 2018)
Because he still serves the Miscavigeite Scientologists' purposes, it is very possible that he is now lying about overseeing the collection and preparation of all the documents presented to the IRS on which the tax exemption is supposedly based. Nevertheless, accepting his word on this issue, he oversaw the preparation of this statement:
We have included some background information here and an epilogue to the decision in question. That is because the Service has continuously thrust the Armstrong case at us, demanding an explanation. The Armstrong case decision was so inflammatory and intemperate that it was used to stigmatize the Church in the legal arena and make other outrageous decisions possible. As we shall demonstrate below, all this decision ever involved was Armstrong's state of mind, which subsequently obtained evidence proved conclusively to be one sordid, sado-masochistic nightmare. Furthermore, Armstrong's state of mind horror stories have fallen on deaf ears in recent litigation. Relying on Armstrong or the Armstrong decision is wholly unjustified. 9
According to Rinder, he oversaw this statement's preparation, and submitted it to the IRS in 1992, eight years after the Armstrong 1 judgment. He acknowledges that during that period, in the IRS's long denial of tax exemption, the Service had continuously thrust the Armstrong case at the Miscavigeite Scientology cultists and their lawyers tasked with obtaining an exemption. What the IRS would have continuously thrust at the Miscavigeites was not the Armstrong case exactly, but the facts proven or adduced in Armstrong 1.
I've written and spoken publicly about finding online in 1997 a part of the 1992 Rinder-prepared submission to the IRS that contained the above statement. The black PR content was rendered particularly alarming because the Scientologists had not produced it to me in discovery in Armstrong 2, 3 or 4 then being litigated, despite court orders to produce any such materials. Under Duce Miscavige, Rinder, as CO OSA Int and CSI Director, controlled all these cases.
Finding the part of the Scientologists' submission to the IRS brought my certainty that the Scientologists and their colluders would do anything into hyperawareness. They will do anything to protect their ill-gotten, undeserved IRS tax exemption. I immediately decided to leave the US for Canada, where I believed I would be much safer, and where I could speak up and oppose the Scientologists and their colluders' lies, abuses and criminality and their unlawful court orders against me, which I have done.
In that the IRS, from 1984 to 1992, according to what Rinder oversaw, continuously demanded from the Miscavigeites an explanation of the Armstrong 1 facts, it is clear that either the Miscavigeites refused to give any explanation, or the explanation or explanations they gave were unacceptable to the relevant IRS officials and rejected. Since the Scientologists were publicly, widely and continuously providing an "explanation" for the judgment, which was much the same as Rinder's "explanation" quoted above, it is highly unlikely they did not provide it continuously to the IRS from the moment the Service began continuously thrusting the Armstrong 1 facts at them, demanding an explanation. 10
It is extremely likely that the relevant IRS officials had, from 1984 to 1991, rejected the Scientologists' "explanation" each time they provided it, because those officials knew it was a lie, knew the truth of the judgment, and knew the Miscavigeite Scientologists were violating public policy and did not deserve tax exemption. When the relevant US Federal Government officials commenced colluding with the Miscavigeites, however, and got rid of the IRS personnel who had been continuously demanding an explanation of the judgment and opposing tax exemption, the new IRS colluders negotiated the explanation, the preparation of which Rinder oversaw, he says.
His statement that all the Armstrong 1 judgment ever involved was my state of mind is patently false. Anyone reading the judgment would see Rinder's statement is a lie. He knew it was a lie, the rest of the Scientologists and the lawyers interfacing with the IRS knew it was a lie, and the relevant officials in the relevant federal departments knew it was a lie.
There is no evidence Rinder and his co-conspirators subsequently obtained that proved conclusively, or not, that my state of mind was at any time one sordid, sado-masochistic nightmare. He knew he was lying. Every one of his co-conspirators knew he was lying. Every one of the relevant US Federal Government officials, who negotiated and insisted on this statement, knew it was a lie.
This is what Judge Breckenridge had actually stated in his judgment about my state of mind in the relevant period:
While defendant has asserted various theories of defense, the basic thrust of his testimony is that he did what he did, because he believed that his life, physical and mental well being, as well as that of his wife were threatened because the organization was aware of what he knew about the life of LRH, the secret machinations and financial activities of the Church, and his dedication to the truth. He believed that the only way he could defend himself, physically as well as from harassing lawsuits, was to take from Omar Garrison those materials which would support and corroborate everything that he had been saying within the Church about LRH and the Church, or refute the allegations made against him in the April 22 Suppressive Person Declare. He believed that the only way he could be sure that the documents would remain secure for his future use was to send them to his attorneys, and that to protect himself, he had to go public so as to minimize the risk that LRH, the Church, or any of their agents would do him physical harm.
This conduct if reasonably believed by the defendant and engaged in by him in good faith, finds support as a defense to the plaintiff's charges in the Restatements of Agency, Torts, and case law.
Defendant was told by Scientology to get an attorney. He was declared an enemy by the Church. He believed, reasonably, that he was subject to "fair game." The only way he could defend himself, his integrity, and his wife was to take that which was available to him and place it in a safe harbor, to wit, his lawyer's custody. He may have indulged in overkill, in the sense that he took voluminous materials, some of which appear only marginally relevant to his defense. But he was not a lawyer and cannot be held to that precise standard of judgment. Further, at the time that he was accumulating the material, he was terrified and undergoing severe emotional turmoil.
From his extensive knowledge of the covert and intelligence operations carried out by the Church of Scientology of California against its enemies (suppressive persons), Defendant Armstrong became terrified and feared that his life and the life of his wife were in danger, and he also feared he would be the target of costly and harassing lawsuits.
In addition, Mr. Garrison became afraid for the security of the documents and believed that the intelligence network of the Church of Scientology would break and enter his home to retrieve them. Thus, Defendant Armstrong made copies of certain documents for Mr. Garrison and maintained them in a separate location.
It was thereafter, in the summer of 1982, that Defendant Armstrong asked Mr. Garrison for copies of documents to use in his defense and sent the documents to his attorneys, Michael Flynn and Contos & Bunch.
After the within suit was filed on August 2, 1982, Defendant Armstrong was the subject of harassment, including being followed and surveilled by individuals who admitted employment by Plaintiff; being assaulted by one of these individuals; being struck bodily by a car driven by one of these individuals; having two attempts made by said individuals apparently to involve Defendant Armstrong in a freeway automobile accident; having said individuals come onto Defendant Armstrong's property, spy in his windows, create disturbances, and upset his neighbors. During trial when it appeared that Howard Schomer (a former Scientologist) might be called as a defense witness, the Church engaged in a somewhat sophisticated effort to suppress his testimony. It is not clear how the Church became aware of defense intentions to call Mr. Schomer as a witness, but it is abundantly clear they sought to entice him back into the fold and prevent his testimony.
Here is what in part the judge depended on to reach his decision, which became the judgment:
As indicated by its factual findings, the court finds the Testimony of Gerald and Jocelyn Armstrong, Laurel Sullivan, Nancy Dincalci[ ], Edward Walters, Omar Garrison, Kima Douglas, and Howard Schomer to be credible, extremely persuasive, and the defense of privilege or justification established and corroborated by this evidence. Obviously, there are some discrepancies or variations in recollections, but these are the normal problems which arise from lapse of time, or from different people viewing matters or events from different perspectives. In all critical and important matters, their testimony was precise, accurate, and rang true. The picture painted by these former dedicated Scientologists, all of whom were intimately involved with LRH, or Mary [Sue] Hubbard, or of the Scientology Organization, is on the one hand pathetic, and on the other, outrageous. Each of these persons literally gave years of his or her respective life in support of a man, LRH, and his ideas. Each has manifested a waste and loss or frustration which is incapable of description. Each has broken with the movement for a variety of reasons, but at the same time, each is, still bound by the knowledge that the Church has in its possession his or her most inner thoughts and confessions, all recorded in "pre-clear (P.C.) folders" or other security files of the organization, and that the Church or its minions is fully capable of intimidation or other physical or psychological abuse if it suits their ends. The record is replete with evidence of such abuse.
The Armstrong 1 judgment, which contained these statements about my state of mind, was affirmed on appeal in 1991. 11
Rinder's statement in the Scientologists' submission to the IRS, on which tax exemption is supposedly granted, that what I testified in Armstrong 1 concerning my state of mind at relevant times, and what Judge Breckenridge ruled about my state of mind, were my "state of mind horror stories," was to satisfy the US Federal Government, as represented in this transaction, by the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the rest of the US Intelligence Community. These Federal Government entities and officials represent the American public. The same is true about every other lie, distortion or nastiness, the preparation of which Rinder oversaw. Whatever the Miscavigeites submitted to the IRS — the conduit to the rest of the US Intelligence Community/US Federal Government — had to be what these entities and officials demanded.
A pair of lawyers the Miscavigeites have possessed over many years, Anthony P. Bisceglie and William C. Walsh of the Washington, DC firm Bisceglie & Walsh, have a curious connection to the Unabomber Op. Walsh died this past September. I have very few pieces of the lies and other nastinesses Bisceglie, Walsh, Miscavige, et al. generated together, or what has been generated about them together. Having a sense of what they have done in their long collusion, I understand they would go to some effort to keep much of it hidden. As with all the Scientologists' lawyers, pursuant to the "settlement agreement" they seek to enforce against me, Bisceglie and Walsh have for decades been contracted to suppress and destroy the human rights of the Scientologists' victims.
The European Federation for Freedom of Belief, which is quite clearly a Scientology-affiliated entity, posted an obituary for Walsh that states:
18 October 1948 – 22 september 2018 […]
Bill was an energetic and passionate International Human Rights attorney who dedicated over 40 years to human rights matters, representing clients nationally and internationally in the US, Europe and in the International courts too.
Bill was a member of the U. S. State Department Advisory Working Group on Religious Freedom and Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Religion and Public Policy, an organisation that seeks to encourage open dialogue and shape public participation in policy of the global community of faith.12
The European Federation for Freedom of Belief, if it is a Scientology-affiliated entity as it evidences, it, and all of its officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, successors, assigns and legal counsel are also contracted to suppress and destroy my human rights and the human rights of the class of persons acting in concert with me. As a Scientology-affiliated entity, the European Federation for Freedom of Belief and all its officers, directors, etc. have made themselves beneficiaries in this mass suppression and destruction of human rights.
Throughout Scientology's existence, Hubbard, Miscavige and the Scientologists have hired all sorts "human rights attorneys;" but that only means attorneys who represent the Scientologists in legal matters in which human rights or civil rights are in some way issues. The "human rights" the Scientologists pay many millions every year to lawyers to obtain and defend, are the rights of the religious corporations, controlled by religious dictators, to defraud people, silence or destroy people, and crush the actual basic human rights, which are those of individuals, the Scientologists' human victims. Consequently, the Scientologists do get involved in all kinds of human rights cases and seemingly ironically hire attorneys with human rights practices.
I have no doubt Walsh poisoned the State Department, and officials and courts and media wherever he went, about the Scientologists' victims, the Suppressive Persons religious minority. To be a "human rights attorney" for the Scientologists it takes an understanding and acceptance of Scientology, some experience in the human rights area of law, and the satanic willingness to use the law on behalf of rich, secularly powerful, ill-intentioned cultists to victimize the less powerful, the already victimized.
In 2011, while pretending to be an opponent of the Miscavigeites but still serving their purposes toward their victims, Mark Rathbun blogged about Walsh:
Bill Walsh does little else than serve as a yes-man to David Miscavige. In fact, he nods in agreement so much that Mike Rinder and I have referred to him as a very expensive bobbing-head doll. With that in mind, consider this: Walsh was pulling in close to a 1/2 million dollars a year from Scientology Inc over multiple years. As late as 2007, an Office of Special Affairs financial planning document referred to Walsh's nearly 1/2 million dollar a year production as "spectator work."
I imagine spectator work for OSA is the stuff of intelligence reports.
The Scientologists' online Freedom Magazine reported about Walsh's participation in their effort to impugn the sources for the June 2009 Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg Times "Truth Rundown" articles, bully the writers Joe Childs and Tom Tobin, and prevent publication.
It is estimated Childs and Tobin have devoted some 500 hours to their sources since first contact. They have interviewed Rathbun in Texas, Rinder in Colorado and crisscrossed Florida to catch [Tom] DeVocht and [Amy] Scobee.
But now they sit at a rosewood and mahogany conference table in the Colonial Boardroom of Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. Facing them are [cult attorney Monique] Yingling, [cult agent Tommy] Davis and [cult agent Jessica] Feshbach. Also present is Bill Walsh—the longest-serving Church counsel and internationally renowned human rights attorney. As with Yingling, Walsh previously tidied up messes left by Rathbun and Rinder. He was further tasked with mopping up in the wake of their removals and eventual departures.
In the eight days since Yingling and Davis set this meeting, the four Church representatives had compiled a minutely documented brief on S.P. Times sources. It is ten o'clock in the morning EST.14
The "minutely documented briefs" that Walsh helped compile were what are known as the Scientologists' "black PR packs." Black PR is the Scientology policy and practice of covertly and overtly, widely and relentlessly, cleverly and stupidly smearing their victims to destroy their reputations, credibility, relationships, opportunities and lives. Compiled black PR packs are weapons in the black PR arsenals of the Scientologists and their colluders like Walsh.
He can no longer correct the black PR he generated, the false narratives he forwarded in the Scientologists' malign service. His black PR will go on, as he and his Scientology employers postulate, long past his death. William C. Walsh, Esquire's legacy will be unrepentant black propagandist. Mike Rinder is still alive, so he can still correct the black PR he generated and had generated in service of Scientology and the Scientologists. Every other Scientologist or wog colluder, of course, from Miscavige on up or down, can do the same.
The Institute for Religion and Public Policy (IRPP), whose board of directors, according to the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, Walsh vice-chaired, also served the Scientologists' malign purposes. The IRPP whitewashed the Scientologists' teachings and antisocial actions victimizing SPs like me, and actively black PRed us. The founder and president of the IRPP Joseph K. Grieboski personally published a black PR piece on me in 2007. 15
The earliest document I have for Walsh is the 1986 DC Circuit opinion in Founding Church of Scientology v. William H. Webster, the FBI Director.
Opinion: Founding Church of Scientology v. Webster (September 26, 1986)
Bisceglie and Walsh were on the brief for Scientology. The appeal was from a District Court dismissal of the Scientologists' 1978 case against Webster, and numerous other federal officials, because of the Scientologists' failure to produce their managing agent Hubbard for a court-ordered deposition.
On August 21, 1984, the Government noticed Hubbard's deposition as officer, director or managing agent. The June 20, 1984 Armstrong 1 decision, which was deemed the "statement of decision on July 20, 1984 and entered as the judgment on August 14, 1984, stated:
The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. He has been referred to during the trial as a "genius," a "revered person," a man who was "viewed by his followers in awe." Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology. Notwithstanding protestations to the contrary, this court is satisfied that LRH runs the Church in all ways through the Sea Organization, his role of Commodore, and the Commodore's Messengers.3 He has, of course, chosen to go into "seclusion," but he maintains contact and control through the top messengers. Seclusion has its light and dark side too. It adds to his mystique, and yet shields him from accountability and subpoena or service of summons.
The DC Court of Appeals cited to my testimony about Hubbard's control and to the Armstrong 1 judgment:
Beyond these declarations specifically cited by the District Court (J.A. [Joint Appendix] at 429), the Government submitted other declarations bearing on the question of Hubbard's control. […] Gerald Armstrong, another associate, told of a 1980 meeting to make plans to conceal Hubbard's acknowledged control over "all aspects of" the Church of Scientology of California. J.A. at 222.
Appellees presented substantial evidence that the arrangement by which Hubbard could communicate with the Church only at his initiative was in fact designed to shield Hubbard from legal process. See Declaration of Gerald Armstrong, J.A. 222;
Three decisions, relying on many of the same declarations and documentary evidence presented in this case, found that Hubbard could be deposed as a managing agent. Church of Scientology of California v. Armstrong, No. C420153 (Cal.Super.Ct. July 20, 1984),
Fascinatingly, the Scientologists' monstrous international and continuing campaign to impugn me as a witness and silence or destroy me with their unlawful, edited videos of me meeting on different occasions with their agents landed with FBI Director Webster. The Scientologists had revealed in the Christofferson v. Scientology trial in Portland, Oregon in April 1985 that they had made clandestine videos of these meetings. Rinder was their star actor in the videos, as well as co-producer. I recently wrote about what happened with me when the cult's lawyer divulged this in court.16
By June 1985, Florida Senator Lawton Chiles had forwarded to Webster a bunch of the Scientologists' letters urging government action about the videos, and Webster had responded to Chiles.
The videotape referenced by many of those who wrote to you on this subject has been provided by the Church as exhibits to various pleadings filed in litigation with the Department of Justice, and it fails to substantiate claims of a counterintelligence program directed against that group.
NOTE: Senator Chiles wrote to Judge Webster on behalf of 28 of his constituents seeking information concerning allegations that the Federal Government was attempting to discredit and disrupt the management of the Church of Scientology. Reply coordinated with SA [?] CID, and SA [?] LCD, who advised that the videotape referenced by many of the constituents was made by the Church of Scientology itself. Transcripts of it which were provided by the Church as exhibits to various pleadings filed in litigation with the Department of Justice fail to substantiate the claims of a counterintelligence program directed against them.17
In August 1985, Webster responded to California Representative Don Edwards, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.
Honorable Don Edwards
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
U. S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Chairman Edwards:
Your letter of June 3, 1985, requesting FBI review of allegations made by Reverend John Standard III, Director, Office of Public Affairs, Church of Scientology International, concerning "a bizarre multi-agency plan to disrupt the Church of Scientology has been brought to my attention.
The FBI has received other inquiries on this subject. I want to stress that the FBI is not involved solely or on conjunction with other Federal agencies in any attempt to destroy the Church of Scientology. In those cases where a violation of Federal law falling within the FBI's jurisdiction has occurred, the FBI investigates such situations with complete fairness to all parties involved. The facts are then presented to the appropriate United States Attorney's office which determines the prosecutive merits of the case.
The particular allegations made by Reverend Standard are based on conversations recorded during "secret" videotaping of a former Church member, Gerry Armstrong, whom Reverend Standard alleges is a "government covert operative."
Gerry Armstrong, a former church member, has been interviewed numerous times by various Federal investigators and attorneys in connection with pending litigation in this and other Federal investigations. Partial transcripts of Mr. Armstrong's videotaped conversations have been provided by the Church as an exhibit to various pleadings filed in litigation with the Department of Justice, and they fail to substantiate claims of a counter-intelligence program directed against that group. Conversely, review of the unexpurgated transcripts of those videotaped meetings referred to by Reverend Standard conclusively negates any inference of government conspiracy.
I hope this will be of assistance to you.
NOTE: Reverend John D. Standard III, Director, Office of Public Affairs, Church of Scientology International, wrote to Representative Rodino, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee alleging "a bizarre multi-agency plan to disrupt the Church of Scientology", and requested Representative Don Edwards hold hearings on this matter. Representative Don Edwards requested the FBI review Reverend Standard's allegations. Videotaped conversations of a former Church member, Gerry Armstrong allegedly establish the government-wide conspiracy and have been utilized as exhibits in various pleadings filed by the Church; however, the transcripts selectively omit a pertinent portion of the tape which conclusively negates any inference of government conspiracy. The context of this letter was taken, in part, from similar replies to congressional inquiries. This reply was coordinated with [?] Legal Counsel Division.
[Handwritten] Copies of the transcript of the videotaped conversations of former church member Gerry Armstrong were filed as an exhibit to a motion to vacate summary judgment entered on behalf of the defendants in Founding Church of Scientology v. Director FBI etc. (USDC, DOC, C.A. No. 78-0107). A review of these transcripts by DOJ attorneys and by SA [?] reveals several statements by Armstrong to the effect that the government is "not out to get" the Church of Scientology or any Scientologist. Copies of the full text are in possession of LCD and DOJ Federal Program Branch. 8/1/85 18
The cult's operative is John D. Stanard, III, who also participated in the criminal framing of Mike Flynn.19
DC District Court no. 78-0107 is the case underlying the DC Circuit appeal cited above in which Bisceglie and Walsh participated. It is likely that they were attorneys of record when the Scientologists' video transcripts that Director Webster refers to were filed in the case.
The Scientologists' videos and their transcripts in reality are very high quality evidence of their own criminality. The Scientologists and their colluders say the videos are evidence of my criminality, but they are simply lying, as they commonly and per policy do. The relevant US officials all knew the videos were inarguable evidence in 1985 that the Scientologists were committing crimes, had not "turned over a new leaf" when the GO was renamed OSA, and were in clear and constant violation of public policy and could not be given tax exemption.
As the Webster letters state, in various pleadings filed with the Department of Justice the Scientologists and their colluders provided video transcripts as evidence of "a counterintelligence program directed against them," a "government-wide conspiracy." After review of the Scientologists' "evidence," Webster refuted their claims, and castigated the Scientologists and their colluders for selectively omitting from their transcripts "a pertinent portion of the tape which conclusively negates any inference of government conspiracy."
The Scientologists and their colluders probably provided their transcripts and their videos in filings in hundreds of non-DOJ cases as claimed evidence of a government conspiracy, my participation in this conspiracy, my commission of crimes against the "church," and my destruction of their rights. The Scientologists and their colluders have sent their selective transcripts, their edited videos and their false claims about what they show to government officials, to law enforcement, to media, to clergy and common citizens around the world. But it is all a big lie. It is the Scientologists' crime, a gargantuan, ongoing frame-up.
There is no doubt that the IRS and other relevant US officials who read the Scientologists' transcripts and viewed the videos recognized them as evidence of the Scientologists' public policy violations, and would have, as Rinder complains in his IRS submission, continuously thrust their video operation back at them "demanding an explanation." These officials would have rejected the Scientologists' explanations, because they are lies and have always been lies. Then in 1991 and 1992, the new cadre of relevant officials, not only accepted the Scientologists' lies about me and about their video operation, but required them to lie and to file their transcripts to support their lies.
Walsh wrote about me and the Scientologists' video operation in a declaration dated February 8, 1994, which the Scientologists used in the case of CSI v. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz in US District Court in Los Angeles:
1. I am over the age of eighteen and a citizen of the District of Columbia. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and, if called upon to do so, could and would competently testify thereto.
13. Flynn was also involved in assisting Gerry Armstrong, a Flynn client and government informant, who plotted a take-over of the Church. Armstrong's plan included planting phony documents that would then be seized in a raid by federal agents.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.20
Walsh was lying for the Scientologists. He had no personal knowledge of anything he said about me in his declaration, and what he swore he had personal knowledge of is false. I never plotted a take-over of the church or cult or religion or anything. The cult's agents, notably Rinder, who tricked me into trusting them as sincere and friendly, were actually plotting to destroy me.
Rinder, et al. communicated that they wanted replace Miscavige, end his regime's lies, abuse and criminality, and reform their organization. So any takeover plot, even though fake, was the Scientologists' own plot. I did provide the fake reformers, or fake ethical plotters, with a bare bones complaint Flynn drafted seeking a declaration of their rights, protection of their assets, and the determination of whether a constructive trust should be imposed.21 Only the plotters' names, not mine, would be on their complaint, and only they would benefit from a successful "takeover" that would be theirs, not mine.
I had no plan to plant phony documents that would then be seized in a raid by federal agents. The fake plotters, who called themselves "Loyalists," had all the plans. They came to me and asked for my help. My plan, if it can be called that at all, was for the Loyalists to tell the truth, document the truth, come forward and tell the truth to the Federal Officials I was in touch with, don't be such cowards, tell the truth. That's still my plan for the lying cowardly Scientologists and their lying cowardly colluders.
In response to statements in CSI v. Fishman that Miscavige, other Scientologists and their co-colluders like Walsh made about me and their video op, I wrote two declarations dated February 20 and 22, 1994.
There were many times during this period when I considered the possibility that I was walking into a trap. The thought arose in all my meetings with Kluge, and later with Mike Rinder, the second Loyalist I would meet. Their communications often didn't jibe with what they or Sherman had said on earlier occasions, and sometimes they said things which were downright stupid. I had no way of originating a communication to them, had no telephone numbers, no locations, no names, and no idea what any of them did. They had my address, phone number, knew exactly what I did, and could call me any time they wanted. They told me almost nothing, and wanted to know everything I knew. They claimed I had to be kept in the dark because of their fear for their lives, and for that reason I went along with their, even to me, strange behavior.
While claiming that the Loyalists wanted to take legal action to bring about a safe transfer of power, both Sherman and Kluge also claimed that they didn't know anything about legal matters, nor any of the organization's litigations, and that there were other people higher up in the Loyalist network who were trained in legal, stayed abreast of the organization's litigation battles, and had an understanding of the Loyalists' legal options and an overview of their plan which Sherman and Kluge didn't have. Coupled with their claimed need to keep me in the dark for fear of their lives, their assertions of ignorance of legal matters caused considerable frustration in me and in our communications. As a result, I requested in a number of communications to speak to their "best legal mind."
Finally the Loyalists said that their legal expert would meet me and a rendezvous was set up, again in Griffith Park. The "legal expert" turned out to be Mike Rinder, a person I had known in the organization, who had held various lower level administrative posts. Rinder, it turned out, also professed ignorance of legal concepts, and my meetings and communications with him were even more frustrating. 22
At some point between May 5, 1995 when I was named as a possible Unabomber suspect and April 3, 1996 when Kaczynski was apprehended, long time cult colluder Anthony Bisceglie became, according to Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz, "a critical intermediary for the FBI in the Unabomber case." One story is that Bisceglie was a lawyer friend of a lawyer friend of Linda Kaczynski, the wife of David Kaczynski, Ted's younger brother. David, apparently for various reasons, feared that Ted was the Unabomber. I have not read much about the case, but understand that Bisceglie contacted the FBI on behalf of David and Linda, and then got them to meet with the FBI.
It certainly could be pure coincidence that one of the Scientology colluders would falsely finger me as the Unabomber, and another colluder would be in on the identification of the actual Unabomber. Determining if this is more than a coincidence is probably impossible, and not important. It is darkly humorous that, according to reports, David Kaczynski didn't want to report his brother to the FBI because deep down he knew Ted was the Unabomber, whereas the Scientology colluder wanted to report me because he or she knew deep down I wasn't the Unabomber.
What is important in the relationship with Rinder and his co-conspirators or co-colluders is the knowledge, which they taught me, over many years and hard knocks, that they will do anything. This means that there is no lie they will not tell, no antisocial thing they will not do, no crime, including murder, they will not commit to achieve their goals. Rinder has acknowledged that this state of mind or mindset is what he and his co-colluders desired in their victims, like me. He has not yet acted to dispel that mindset. Indeed his actions and inactions since claiming to be correcting the wrongs he committed while formally in the Sea Org, validate my analysis and conclusion that he and his co-colluders will continue, in fact, to do anything.
They will do anything to protect their conspiracy, to keep their tax exemption, and get away with everything they've gotten away with. Rinder admitted in the Aftermath series that he and his co-colluders, the individuals in service of Scientology and Scientologists who are tasked with hating, silencing or destroying persons like me, "believe if they can get away with that sort of shit, that it puts you in the mindset of "My God, they'll do anything!" Rinder has gotten away with all sorts of nasty, criminal shit against me alone. Many people have helped him get away with that nasty, criminal shit. Leah Remini, the other personnel involved in the Aftermath, and even the Emmy judges have helped Rinder get away with it.
US Government agencies and officials have helped the Scientologists inculcate the mindset in their victims of "My God, they'll do anything!" The US gave the Scientologists IRS tax exemption, knowing it was to help them get away with what they'd gotten away with, nasty, criminal, rights-destroying actions against citizens. The documents linked to here or provided on my web sites show that US Federal officials colluded with the Scientologists against the Scientologists' victims, and these officials have gotten away with that crime. The US has taught knowledgeable citizens like me that, my God they'll do anything too.
A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 2) (February 20, 2018) ↩
CSI 1023 Submission: Response to Question 10 (Civil litigation involving the Church) (November 23, 1992) ↩
See http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/mike-rinder/ ↩
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6244192/ ↩
FBI Memorandum: http://legal.gerryarmstrong.ca/1995/05/05/fbi-memorandum-unabomber-investigation-may-5-1995/ ↩
The Breckenridge Decision: http://legal.gerryarmstrong.ca/1984/06/22/memorandum-of-intended-decision-june-22-1984/ ↩
Scientology surveillance videos: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scn-surveillance-videos.html ↩
Declaration of Michael Walton (1996-06-06): http://legal.gerryarmstrong.ca/1996/06/06/declaration-of-michael-walton-in-support-of-gerald-armstrongs-objection-to-trustees-abandonment-of-estate-june-6-1996/ ↩
From Introduction to the Armstrong Op: http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/about/ ↩
See, e.g., this August 4, 1991 black PR handout over the name of cult attorney Earle C. Cooley, whom Rinder had hired and directed. ↩
Appellate Opinion: http://legal.gerryarmstrong.ca/1991/07/29/opinion-july-29-1991/ ↩
Obituary: William C. Walsh: https://freedomofbelief.net/articles/william-bill-c-walsh-obituary ↩
Mark Rathbun article (2011-12-23): https://markrathbun.blog/2011/12/23/scientology-incs-lobbying-machine/ ↩
Freedommag.org article: https://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/sptimes/merchants-of-chaos.html ↩
Armstrong v. Grieboski: Defamation Analysis (January 12, 2012) ↩
"Suicide Note": http://gerryarmstrong.ca/suicide-note/ ↩
Letter from FBI Director William Webster to Senator Lawton Chiles (1985-06) ↩
Letter from FBI Director William Webster to Chairman, Subcommittee On Civil and Constitutional Rights, Don Edwards (1985-08-06) ↩
Letter from John D. Stanard to FBI (1984-09-12) ↩
Declaration of William C. Walsh (1994-02-08) ↩
Draft complaint: https://mega.nz/#!OmZAwAbB!YeGXnGClpMFpjXbTBS-EjJkcIZ6NNn_gNJjci46gajc ↩
Declarations of Gerry Armstrong (1994-02-20); (1994-02-22) ↩
Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: David Miscavige, Leah Remini, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, Mark C. Rathbun, Michael J. Rinder, Michael Walton, Unabomber Op, William C. Walsh
A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 8) (February 28, 2018)
February 28, 2018 by Clerk1
To Hubbard, you, Rathbun, Miscavige and the rest of you conspirators, persecuting your targets, silencing or destroying us, ruining us utterly is a game. You are "high-toned," and enjoy creating that game, even if it is by wog standards evil and by wog law criminal. Through all your years persecuting us, committing crimes against us, you had to display good indicators ("GIs"). You had to be GIs. You had to be uptone, "winning on post," cheerfully lying, enthusiastically tormenting us, aesthetically plotting our demise, exhilarated as you silenced us, in action destroying us, serenely driving us crazy. You could never have exhibited bad indicators ("BIs") – a shred of sincere sympathy for your victims, a scintilla of unfaked credence granted us, real regret, a hint of conscience, an inkling of unhappiness about what you were doing — or you would not have lasted twenty years as CO of your conspiracy's SP persecution department.
In 1994, just before you tried to extort me with the in-my-face threat that you and your coconspirators were going to keep on black PRing me until I stopped telling the truth, you executed and filed a declaration in the Scientology v. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz case in US District Court in Los Angeles falsely accusing me of, among other things, perjury and extortion. Dramatizing the beingness Hubbard assigned in his scriptures to criminals, as Scientologists standardly do, you were accusing me, and other individuals in the SP class, of what you yourself were doing.1
The Scientologists have continued to use your declaration as truth and continued to use you as a truthful witness of the experiences and knowledge you falsely swear to. The Scientologists use your declaration for the same purpose you had when you signed and filed it in 1994: to smear your conspiracy's SP truth-telling victims. I have never seen where you actually recant the lies in this declaration or any other sworn statement you executed for your conspiracy.2
You know a lot about recanting, Mike, which means, per Merriam-Webster:
to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly; to take back or disavow an opinion, declaration, or course of action; make an open confession of error
What you called recanting, however, was forcing your victims, the people you tried your nastiest to silence or destroy, to sign affidavits retracting what they knew to be true. You got them to lie in affidavits, and attack other victims of yours with lies, and you called that recanting. But you know what the truth is. You knew what the truth was every time you lied. And you have never recanted your lies.
Recently, as you know, the Scientologists used a paragraph from this declaration in a black PR smear of Hana Whitfield, who had contributed to the Aftermath series.
In 1994, when Whitfield was at the peak of her "deprogramming" activity, Remini's co-host Mike Rinder wrote a declaration under penalty of perjury describing the anti-Scientologists she was part of (and that he has since joined). What he wrote then perfectly describes Rinder today, Remini and the parade of guests like Whitfield they trot out each week for her reality TV show:
"These people have gathered around them a few others who are bitter and harbor an unabiding[sic] resentment of Scientology and what it stands for and for their own failures in the Church. They view the Church as their 'lottery ticket' and pursue their jackpot with lies and threats at the expense of the millions of happy and satisfied members who support the Church with their time and donations. The Aznarans and Youngs are joined in that pursuit by the likes of Hana Whitfield, Andre and Mary Tabayoyon, Larry Wollersheim, Steve Fishman and Gerry Armstrong. Though they either do not know David Miscavige, or had some remote contact with him many years ago, they are willing to make vindictive allegations, not based on personal knowledge or the truth, and defame him personally and as the leader of the religion. The tactic is as transparent as it is unconscionable—spread venom in the hope that the victims of the hate campaign will eventually be forced to buy their silence so the Church can get on with its real purpose of expanding the Scientology religion and helping more people."3
You swear in your declaration, which, as the Scientologists point out, is under penalty of perjury, that you have personal knowledge of the facts you set forth, including details about Jesus Christ, specifically the causes of his crucifixion and the actions of Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, other Romans in Judea, and the coeval Christians. You equate Scientology head David Miscavige with Jesus, and present yourself as an apostle, proclaiming Miscavige's Christ-like qualities.
You adduce for the court, and announce to the world, the "good news" that you know Miscavige's "compassion from personal experience;" that Miscavige twice personally took care of your healing from illness; that Miscavige is "completely honest, and sincerely dedicated to helping people;" that he "never sought personal power or aggrandizement;" that he constantly demonstrated "integrity and selfless willingness to serve for the good of others;" that "he works … without respite for only one reason–his sincere dedication to bettering the lives of others;" that in response to "a virtually unending history of personal attacks against him… [he] didn't change;" that he "took no credit" for his enormous accomplishments when "the credit he so graciously gave to others, in fact, belonged to him;" that he "made the tax exemption by the IRS possible;" that he "is very approachable and friendly;" that he even "eats with the rest of the staff in the communal dining room."
You equate the testimony of Exscientologists, including me, about Miscavige with "the false accusations" and "the lies," which, you say, incited Jesus' crucifiers to crucify him. You declare, knowingly falsely, that we "targeted Mr. Miscavige with … spite and malevolence;" that we "harbored" "blind hatred;" that we "are willing to make vindictive allegations, not based on personal knowledge or the truth, and defame him personally;" that we "rail against Mr. Miscavige and unleash the foulest lies about him [our] imaginations can concoct;" that "none of the accusations made about him were true;" that we "spread venom in the hope that the victims of the hate campaign will eventually be forced to buy [our] silence;" that we are being used "as a threat to extort funds;" and that we are "paid witnesses, "mercenary witnesses" in Scientology's case against Fishman and Geertz.
Although some of the Exscientologists you name in your declaration were paid for their expert testimony and expert participation in the case, and although some of my evidence and certain of my sworn statements were used in the case, I was not paid anything. As for any hopes or efforts of mine, which you say have been to force whomever or whatever to buy my silence, I think it is evident that I have worked uncompromisingly to demonstrate that my silence is unbuyable, and what I might say could be as valuable as God's Own Words.
Your declaration still sits in the US Federal Court files, available to everyone. The Scientology conspirators still use your declaration, testimony and other OSA work product to vilify the individuals you vilify in it, and to incite hatred and violence against us. You have never corrected the gross lies you told in it. Both your false witnessing when you were officially in the SO, and your refusal to correct your lies and perjury from that period, unquestionably still serve your conspiracy's malign purposes. Whatever pretext you used for your lies and perjury, and whatever pretext you use now for not correcting your false witnessing, your basic motivation that underlies your excuses, I conclude, is cowardice.
In your declaration, you present yourself as a Bible expositor, qualified to instruct the US Federal Court on Christian scripture and thought. You present as qualified to assert a holy equivalence between Miscavige and Jesus Christ, and an unholy equivalence between Miscavige's critics and Jesus' crucifers. In a 2013 documentary Scientologists at War, Rathbun corroborated your equating Miscavige with Jesus Christ:
Ron Hubbard [after his death in January 1986] is now God, and [Miscavige is] appointed Jesus. And so he's Jesus Christ to Scientologists.4
In providing your credentials, Mike, that qualify you to testify as you did, you state that you are a "Director of the Church of Scientology International (CSI)." More importantly, but not in your declaration, you were at that date the Commanding Officer OSA International. The Court and other readers of your declaration would probably be predisposed to understand that a director of an international church would possess deep knowledge of scripture. I mention your discourse on these bogus biblical parallels because it permits, in fact evokes, a comment on Hubbard, Miscavige, Rathbun, you and your coconspirators' actual biblical roles.
http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/declaration-of-michael-rinder-april-11-1994/ ↩
See, e.g., Deposition of Michael Rinder (January 6, 2015). ↩
http://www.leahreminiaftermath.com/articles/leah-remini-digs-up-hana-whitfield-after-three-decades.html# ↩
https://www.journeyman.tv/film_documents/5895/transcript/ ↩
Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: David Miscavige, Fishman and Geertz, God, Hana Whitfield, Jesus Christ, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Mark Rathbun, Michael J. Rinder, Pontius Pilate, Scientology and the Aftermath
A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 7) February 27, 2018
Hubbard advertised and made others advertise that he was "mankind's greatest friend." He published and made others publish what they all said was an authentic, heroic, supermanic biography. He promised and made others promise fabulous results for his technology and religion. Should we have believed and trusted him, or any of his agents or spokespersons, at any time? Emphatically no! We should have challenged him and his people, and we should have observed and challenged how they reacted to challenge and handled or treated their challengers. And we should challenge them now, and continue to challenge them.
Even before he announced Scientology to the world, Hubbard lied about his benevolence, his intentions, his history, his research, his abilities, his products, his statistics. You, Mike, were Hubbard and Scientology's spokesperson for many years, and you knew from incontrovertible evidence no later than 1984 that Hubbard and his spokespersons were lying about these things. That is when these facts were litigated in your first lawsuit against me, and Hubbard was judicially declared a pathological liar. It is reported that you became a director of CSI in 1982, so you actually had access to this evidence, and were legally responsible for actions against me and other SP targets, from that date. Since then, you have been willfully lying in service of this man you knew to be a pathological liar, and you have never owned up to it. You happily victimized the people Hubbard or his pathologically lying successor David Miscavige wanted victimized.
Hubbard's credibility, his claims about himself, his truthfulness, his history, his qualifications, and his claims for his technology are fundamental to why people were suckered into his cult, why they got fleeced, and why they remained there, abused and enslaved. You are significantly responsible for keeping the lying, fleecing, abuse and slavery working. You have treated or handled well-founded challenges and bona fide challengers just as Hubbard did, and Miscavige does, and Rathbun does – as the cowardly do. "Double curve," "attack the attacker," "black PR," "fair game," "silence or destroy," and even "ignore tech" are all cowardly reactions to warranted challenge.
The ignore tech you, Rathbun, Miscavige, et al. practice in response to legitimate challenges does not show, as you would have people believe, that you are "above it all," that you are morally superior to your challengers, and we are inconsequential "naysayers," who aren't worth you ignorers' time, and only deserve ignoring. The Scientologists and their collaborators' ignore tech is contemptuous and cowardly. It is proof of cowardice. You should be challenged, again and again. So should Leah Remini and A&E executives, who must have known you still serve the Scientologists' malign purposes toward your victims, yet reward you richly, provide you cover for your criminality, and promote you as courageous when you know you're being cowardly.
Years ago I recognized cowardice as the Scientologists' Why for their continuing aggressive, antisocial actions toward their victims. For example:
[Jeffrey Augustine:] Why can't Gerry make peace with the Indies?
[me] Because their terms are destructive. The Scientologists have to make peace with their victims.
The question is, why don't the Scientologists make peace with their victims? LF
Cowardice. LFBD F/N This is really Scientology's VFP.1
As I noted, cowardice is one of the Scientologists' essential valuable final products, if not their most essential VFP, that they produce and enforce in their members and collaborators' characters. Wikipedia says:
Moral character or character is an evaluation of an individual's stable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as empathy, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits. Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of qualities that distinguish one individual from another—although on a cultural level, the set of moral behaviors to which a social group adheres can be said to unite and define it culturally as distinct from others.2
For phonetic and syntactic parallelism, when listing the Scientologists' eight character VFPs I've identified, I use "pusillanimity," which is just a fancy synonym for common cowardice. This is from a 2015 response of mine to a letter to the Los Angeles Times from attorney and one of your coconspirators Monique Yingling:
In Scientology, crass merchandising, hard sell, deceit, fraud, hate, incarcerations, slavery, the destruction of human rights and persons, financial ruination, using the law to harass, black propaganda, and many other antisocial or criminal activities are religious exercise, or sacraments. The Scientologists lure good wogs into their cult with the wonderful promises of White Luciferianism, and then handle and hold them with Hubbard's Black Luciferian "tech," and do their damnedest to turn them into tough, dedicated, glaring Black Luciferians. While telling people their objective is to get everyone to "think for yourself," the Scientologists compel cult personalities that must think as the cult head commands. Thinking for oneself or "other-intentionedness" is restrained and punished. While insisting that they are engendering virtuous or moral characters and behaviors in their members, the Scientologists actually instill the "valuable final products," as they call them, of vanity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, perfidy, envy, pugnacity, malignity and pusillanimity.3
In his 2015 book Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt, which I highly recommend, writer, Presbyterian minister and activist Chris Hedges distinguishes between physical courage and moral courage.
To rebel requires that elusive virtue that Snowden exemplifies and that Melville's Starbuck lacks — moral courage. I have been to war. I have seen physical courage. But this kind of courage is not moral courage. Very few of even the bravest warriors have moral courage. The person with moral courage defies the crowd, stands up as a solitary individual, shuns the intoxicating embrace of comradeship, and is disobedient to authority, even at the risk of his or her life, for a higher principle. And with moral courage comes persecution.
The US Army pilot Hugh Thompson had moral courage. He landed his helicopter between a platoon of US soldiers and ten terrified Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre in 1968. He ordered his gunner to fire his M60 machine gun on the advancing US soldiers if they began to shoot the villagers. And for this act of moral courage, Thompson was hounded and reviled. Moral courage always looks like this. It is always defined by the state as treason— the Army attempted to cover up the massacre and threatened to court-martial Thompson. Moral courage is the courage to act and to speak the truth. Thompson had it. Daniel Ellsberg had it. Martin Luther King Jr. had it. What those in authority once said about them, they say today about Snowden. 4
The Scientology conspirators permit and even demand physical courage from Scientologists in many situations – hard labor, sleep deprivation, life-risking assignments, beatings, imprisonment, impoverishment, disaster site appearances, punishable criminality, etc. The conspirators, however, prohibit and suppress moral courage in Scientology in virtually every situation, and punish it as a high crime. Because I once defied Hubbard and his crowd, stood up as an individual, disobeyed his authority, and told the truth, he had his coconspiring juniors — you, Rathbun, Miscavige, et al. — persecute me, and you have been persecuting me ever since.
http://gerryarmstrong.ca/j-swift-on-tony-ortegas-blog-lying-for-indies-whoever-they-are/ ↩
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_character ↩
http://gerryarmstrong.ca/on-monique-yingling-alex-gibney-scientology-and-the-irs-deal/ ↩
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion (Toronto, ON: Vintage Canada, 2016), 59. ↩
Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: Chris Hedges, cowardice, Jeffrey Augustine, Michael J. Rinder, Monique Yingling
I have no doubt that cowardice, moral cowardice, abounds in the world. Without my knowing what it was, I think it was my "ruin," which was important in my recruitment into Scientology. I didn't speak up when I morally should have. If we are all moral cowards, then there would be no one who modeled for people moral courage. Yet it is known that such people do exist. It is also obvious that the morally cowardly can fake or pretend moral courage. You did this as a "post beingness" throughout your OSA career. Hubbard faked fearlessness on a gargantuan scale and even faked military service, wounds and medals to prove it. Cowardice was his human sin, above which he never rose.
Cowardice is one of what I've called elsewhere the Scientologists' valuable final products ("VFPs") which are produced and maintained in their characters or psyches. For many years, one of your most important hats was enforcing cowardice among Scientologists. In large part you succeeded by threatening and silencing or destroying any Scientologists, or wogs like me, who might get courageous. In Scientoloworld, getting courageous is really speaking up and telling the truth about their Scientology-related experiences and knowledge.
It is not hard to see that people's moral cowardice puts the whole world in peril, and moral courage stands against it. I was just sent a Winston Churchill quote: "courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities…because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Conversely, cowardice guarantees, I think, the antiqualities, the rest of the anti-valuable VFPs. It would be foolish to uncritically let known cowards be accepted as models of courage.
The resolution of your cowardice cannot but involve the truth of what exactly you did and made others do to persecute individuals – wogs, whether in the SP class or not — and you have never spoken up about it. Even Rathbun, who now publicly and insouciantly serves the Miscavige sect's antisocial purposes, which, for years after leaving the SO, he had covertly served while pretending to expose and oppose these purposes, is acknowledging that you have never said what you did and had done to whom to silence or destroy them, or drive them crazy.
In his recent videos, Rathbun repeated this accusation of the obvious, almost as a commendation to you for holding the line so perfectly and not spilling your conspiracy's criminal beans. Rathbun, Miscavige and the rest of the cult coconspirators do not want you, or anyone else for that matter, to tell the truth about your persecution of people, the truth-telling class. Many Scientologists and their collaborators, duplicitous or duped, want you to stay dumb, when morally you should be debriefing.
Rathbun in his "Troublemakers Part 7" video:
https://youtu.be/051SoaHXXos?t=45s
So Rinder begins establishing his credibility by saying, "If the believe… If the Church believes someone was an enemy and needed to be silenced, it was my job. And I did it."
Okay. I challenge anyone to go find and cull where Rinder has disclosed in the 9 years that he's been out, or the 7 years that he's been out, the specific confession of his having silenced anybody.
There's not a single one. I was involved with the guy during, during his entire time over the Church's External Affairs Bureau, and was the guy that got him a job once he got out. Was the guy that got him job after job after job that allowed him to continue to go after Scientology without having to work.
He's never, he's never, he's never given a single specific or particular to back that up. And yet that's how he establishes his credibility for Episode 1.1
Your statement in Episode 1 of the Aftermath series that Rathbun is referring to was:
Part of my job, according to Scientology policy was to discredit and destroy critics who spoke out against the Church. If the Church believed that someone was an enemy and needed to be silenced or destroyed, it was my job, and I did it.2
Rathbun's reason for ostensibly pillorying you for not giving any specific or particular about the persons your sect's conspiracy wanted silenced or destroyed is very different from my reason for publicizing your unwillingness to provide these facts. Certainly neither Rathbun nor his Scientology coconspirators actually want you to tell the truth about the people you silenced or destroyed or tried to silence or destroy, or what exactly – "time, place, form and event,"– you did to try to silence or destroy us. You have so far, without apparent objection, complied with your coconspirators' orders or command intention that you not divulge those facts. On the other hand, I do want you to tell the truth, for everyone's sake and survival, including yours. I do not want your cowardice to continue.
Rathbun was your senior for many years, and is likewise responsible for silencing or destroying people your criminal conspiracy wanted silenced or destroyed, and specifically and particularly me. As I've been doing with you, I made real and sincere efforts over several years, ever since Rathbun started publicly presenting himself as a regenerate reformer and valiant truth-teller, to get him to tell the truth about what he did to persecute me and his other SP class victims. Like you, Rathbun has never given specifics or particulars about his victims and what he did and made others do to victimize us while he and you were inarguably in the SO. Like you, he has continued to victimize us after he claimed to have left the SO and his sect's control. As you are doing, Rathbun conned or maneuvered people into defending and encouraging his cowardly refusal to tell the truth. He even got people to ignore or vilify his victims and others who legitimately challenged his dishonesty and antisocial actions. In Rathbun's recent videos, where he appears to be attacking you, he is using Hubbard's "confusion tech," and actually generating cover for you, and for himself, and for Miscavige and undoubtedly for other coconspirators. Embedment without the truth is stupid, as well as unsafe.
The Scientologists use their seemingly sagacious precept that their victims are "responsible for their own condition" to excuse and enhance their victims' victimization. This precept is no more true, as the Scientologists apply it, than terrorist bombing victims are responsible for their own bombing, or responsible for their condition of terrorist bombing victims. In your case, however, you are responsible for your own condition of cowardice. Bombing victims have no power to change their condition. You can change your condition just as Zinberg changed his cowardice condition – simply muster the easily musterable courage to tell the unadorned, unrationalized truth about what you did.
The persecution of SPs is motivated and rationalized by religious doctrine. The Scientologists base this doctrine on the SP class's religious actions or sacraments. These are improper, criminal or punishable only by Scientology religious scripture and by the religious hierarchy's religious edicts, the religious criminal conspiracy's commandments. The person you say is responsible for making you silence or destroy people, or otherwise black PR and fair game us, David Miscavige, is, without argument, the Scientology religious sect's ecclesiastical head. You not only criminally conspired to deprive us of our rights, but your actions to silence or destroy SPs like me, and to make others produce so as to silence or destroy us, also constitute hate crimes.
You continue to manifest the hate toward me that was instilled in you and demanded of you when you were officially posted in the sect's SP persecution department. You have also not communicated anything that signals to me that you are now more restrained than previously from acting on that hate. The cover and "good PR" you have garnered in the "critic community" have not generated in you a discernible desire to reach out to me to correct your black PR or the injustices you perpetrated. I am not a member of the "critic community," and was hated and attacked by several of its members before you and Rathbun assumed opinion leader roles, but I am more of a target since your assumptions.
In relation to us — your SP victims – you share several factors or conditions with Hubbard. Both of you sought or seek to convince us, and other wog publics, and your Scientologist juniors, of your honesty, your sincerity, your trustworthiness, your integrity, your courage, your ethics, and your excellent, loving, humanitarian intentions toward your fellow man. Both Hubbard and you used and use evil tech – fear and lying — to do your convincing. You both used deceptive and hypnotic devices to obtain undue influence over your targets. You both used the same antisocial PR and intelligence tech, waged lawfare and committed crimes to gain acceptance. You have not signaled that you are now using some other PR tech. People, both wogs and Scientologists, who told the truth about Hubbard and his coconspirators' dishonesty, insincerity, treachery, fraud, cowardice, criminality or evil intentions, became your fair game targets.
Unofficial transcript:https://youtu.be/051SoaHXXos?t=45s ↩
Scientology and the Aftermath Season 1 Episode 1. ↩
Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: courage, cowardice, David Miscavige, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard, Mark C. Rathbun, Michael J. Rinder, Mike Rinder, SP doctrine
Remini and you recently published a joint statement in the Paul Haggis sexual assault matter stating: "the fear of consequences for speaking our truth has not held us back in the past and isn't about to start now."1
If you mean by "our truth," what you learned in Scientology was "the truth" — "the exact time, place, form and event" — then you are lying. You have not spoken the truth, and you serve the Scientology conspirators' purposes by not speaking the truth. Whether Remini actually believes you have been speaking the truth, I do not know, but it sounds incredible. You could be conning her just as you conned her when you both were admittedly in the Scientology sect. You could be using her just as you have used so many people over so many years. Or Remini could be jointly lying with you. Regardless of what she knows, however, you know you are lying when you say, or convey the message, that you are speaking the truth.
The day after you published your joint statement in the Haggis matter, you also posted about the Scientologists' response, and mentioned the Scientologists' semantic trickery and dishonesty.
As with everything in scientology's PR denial closet, you have to read it closely and parse its terminology carefully. Scientology mastered the technique of "depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is" long before Bill Clinton came along.2
I have observed, parsed and dealt with Scientologists and their high-priced collaborators' willful, drilled semantic slippery, spin doctoring, obfuscating, out-pointing and outright lying, including yours, ever since I left Scientology. Here, you and Remini are not clear what "our truth" means. Using Scientology religious communication "tech," "our truth," truly, can mean a lie, or a stream of lies, or a mix of lies and truth, or whatever is true for us. The truth is, whether or not fear of consequences held you back, you have never spoken the truth about important matters where truth from you would right wrongs and do good.
In your joint statement, you and Remini say:
We have supported victims of sexual abuse who have reached out to us and have worked with them and law enforcement to ensure justice is done for both victims and the accused.3
Presumably you and Remini were not the sexual abusers whose victims reached out to you and you supported. You, Mike, are, however, the person who abused me. You conspired to deprive me of my basic human rights. You had the job for more than twenty years of criminally silencing or destroying me. I have reached out to you, and you know I have reached out to you. I have wanted you to tell the truth to correct ongoing injustices, and ensure justice is done. You have cruelly refused. You brag about helping other people's victims, and you won't help your own.
You write in answer to the Scientologists' response:
The problem is that scientology has a documented history of engaging in frame-ups of its enemies, and a doctrine that dictates they continue to do so as the gospel according to L. Ron Hubbard. It's hard to ignore that once you know. Scientology tries to pretend it doesn't exist for that very reason.
We want ALL the facts to be known.2
You framed me, Mike. Because you refuse to tell the truth about it, you continue the frame-up. You framed me and testified falsely about me in court cases, to law enforcement, to the IRS, and into the tops of governments. You cannot honestly claim, and have not claimed that I have seen, that you are now still driven by Hubbard's scriptures or dictates, or Miscavige's dictates. Your refusal to tell the truth, while pretending you are telling it, while malicious, I believe is a product of cowardice. It is possible you really want ALL the facts to be known, and your cowardice prevents you from making known the facts you have. Or you are just lying about wanting ALL the facts known, and cowardice keeps you from telling the truth that you do not want the relevant facts known, and you really do fear the consequences for speaking the truth.
Among your other promotional actions, you and Remini used psychologist Steve Hassan on your Aftermath series to publicly position and extol you as a model for people who have left Scientology, indeed "modeling for ex-members of thousands of other cults." Hassan distinguishes himself as "one of the foremost authorities on undue influence (mind control) and destructive, authoritarian people and cults," and I believe he is. Before the Hassan interview, you include a title page identifying him as a "Cult Expert" and "Licensed Mental Health Counselor," and I am sure that is accurate.
When Hassan said you were modeling for people, for ex-members of thousands of cults, he had to be referring to your words and actions since leaving the corporate cult, not your spiffy attire. Words and actions, it can be seen, are governed by character. Since you are actually modeling cowardice, and faking courage, as shown by your actual post-Sea Org words and actions, it was professionally improper of Hassan to commend and recommend you for modeling. You are still victimizing, as I have shown, the very people you victimized for your conspiracy you profess to have left. We are also the very people Hassan says he is an authority about, and claims he is helping. I will copy this to him in the hope he would correct his message that you are, or were at the time he said it, a model for people; or, since we all model for people, that you are a desirable or endorsable model for people.
You and Remini used Hassan's modeling statement about you, knowing it was false, to help you and your collaborators like Remini manufacture the false impression that you have told the truth, that you have reached out to your victims, that you have done what you could to help us, and that therefore you are the model of courage for the millions of ex-members of myriad cults. In your case, the truth and real help, where such is sought and could benefit so many people, has to be what would merit recognition as modeling. An Exscientologist who criminally conspired to silence or destroy many people over many years, who then publicly left the conspiracy and claimed to be regenerate, to be telling the truth about his victimizing, and to be helping his victims, and who refused in fact to tell such truth or help such victims, is not modeling for people. He is conning people. And he is continuing to persecute his victims, which is more anti-modeling.
It is easy to determine that you have not told the truth about your persecution of the SP class or about your conspiracy's actions against citizens, simply because you have not done so and there is no record of you doing so. Unquestionably, I have not remained silent concerning my observation of your continuing refusal to tell the truth about your conspiracy against the SP class, your continuing persecution of SPs like me, and your continuing, — in important matters — to serve the Miscavige sect's antisocial purposes. My criticism of these actions and inactions is well known, and I certainly would have provided what relevant facts I had if Hassan had contacted me. I have made my own legal cases and my own facts and documented history with you easily publicly available, and presented these as constituting a categorical example of where the truth and help you willfully withhold would make a pro-survival difference.
My legal cases, history and documents comprise a dividing enterprise or challenge you can meet with either cowardice or courage. You cannot courageously sidestep or ignore it. You can cowardly ignore it, as so far you have, forever. You can fake courage, as you have been doing, also forever. You and your collaborators can get others to support your cowardice, and even to attack your victims for pointing it out or for asking you to have courage and tell the truth. Acquiring such courage might be as simple for you as asking for it.
Criticizing you for mismodeling, when people almost everywhere mismodel their heads off, is called for because of the numbers and natures of the persons and groups for whom, as Hassan says, you are modeling; or mismodeling. Telling the truth about what makes your words and actions mismodeling is especially important because there is such an obvious agenda to portray you as a model – for character, or virtue, but certainly courage – when you are not such a model. The legal issues that link you and me are not me seeing things, as you say, but profound and far-reaching: conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, religious freedom, the IRS villainy, as examples. For avoiding me and these issues, from what has been reported, there is no excuse but cowardice, and cowardice is no excuse at all.
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/concerning-paul-haggis/ ↩
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-scientology-debunked-conspiracy-theory-response/ ↩
Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: Leah Remini, Michael J. Rinder, Paul Haggis, Scientology and the Aftermath, Steve Hassan