Feature Article #1

The Sydney Morning Herald: Scientology critic adds volume to inquiry call

Source: smh.com.au/national/scientology-critic-adds-volume-to-inquiry-call NICK O’MALLEY INVESTIGATIONS January 23, 2010 A LEADING critic of Scientology is to travel to Australia to support Senator Nick Xenophon’s campaign for an inquiry into the tax-exempt status of the church. Gerry Armstrong was an ardent believer in the church and its founder, the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, until he [...]

| January 22nd, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Getting Religious

From the US Department of State: Germany International Religious Freedom Report 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The Basic Law (Constitution) provides for religious freedom, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, discrimination against minority religious groups remains an issue. There was no change in the status [...]

| November 26th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Scientology, the Cult of Total Victimization

I spoke on the theme, “Scientology, the Cult of Total Espionage” in Russia in 2004. I’ve re-written my article for this conference to take into consideration certain developments since then, and to relate the organization’s intelligence nature and activities to what I now understand to be the organization’s key or basic purpose or purposes. Scientology’s [...]

| November 26th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Starrating Ron on OT III

I recently compared Scientology founder and former director L. Ron Hubbard’s OT III scripture, which he wrote in 1967 in the Canaries, with his novella Revolt in the Stars, which he wrote in 1977 while hiding out in Sparks, Nevada. Both writings contain a number of identical “facts,” and both inarguably tell the Xenu story, [...]

| September 28th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Letter to Riverside County Board of Supervisors

| January 6th, 2009 | Continued

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Why won’t Marty and Mike tell the truth?

August 14th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

(Responding to a post by BTs2Free) You asked the real question, “Why won’t Marty and Mike tell the truth?”

Caroline’s LFBD F/N item was: because the truth would set a lot of people free, and it serves their purposes to keep people trapped. I think that’s a pretty good answer, well supported with known wisdom or knowledge, history and current facts.

Marty and Mike have spent their adult lives using Scientology to prevent Scientologists, and wogs, from being set free. Marty and Mike also spent those years using Scientology to victimize people who would set free entrapped Scientologists or wogs by telling them the truth. Their life’s work has required of Marty and Mike virtually constant lying, and even criminal behavior toward their victims.

The universal desire, effort, postulate of Scientologists is to have lies be true. This is the essence and goal of the left hand path, and any ‘ologies, ‘isms or ‘ics on that path.

Hubbard represented this in Scientology, as you know, by “8-8008,” here truthfully restated: the attainment of infinity, that is the first eight, is achieved by the reduction of infinity, or all that is real or true, that is the second eight, to zero, which is the first zero and the building of one’s own zero, or nothingness, illusion or lie, from zero to an infinity, or what is real or true, and by that one achieves the attainment of infinity. (Ref. 9ACC 14, 5412CM24, from Scientology’s Technical Dictionary)

Marty did answer.

August 8th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

A few good wogs have been urging Marty to do the four simple things I’ve asked of him, or at least saying that it would be good if he did them:

1. Communicate to me;

2. Debrief to me and my legal representatives;

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

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

Other wogs have been saying that he should answer me, and there’s even a thread on ESMB “Marty Rathbun needs to answer Gerry Armstrong’s questions.”

I appreciate the support for calling Marty to do the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing in the Scientology v. Armstrong war. I’m writing this to correct the idea that Marty has never answered me, as “answer” is understood by wogs.

Application for Debt Ceiling Removal Job

July 29th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

July 28, 2011

President Barack Obama
The White House

Dear President Obama:

I have a solution for the debt ceiling crisis, plus the debt crisis underlying it, and the debt underlying that, and actually a number of related societal crises, and I’m writing to offer my help. I made much the same offer to President Clinton and President George. H.W. Bush, although not at the point of a debt ceiling crisis. The solution remains the same, and in this debt ceiling crisis it provides a clear way to go, and a very happy result. I wrote President George W. Bush about different things, and didn’t really suggest my economic solution because it seemed he was already having trouble keeping it all together. Through all you US Presidents, however, I haven’t stopped thinking about the US and the world’s economic problem and the solution, and I haven’t withheld the solution from anyone or any country but kept it available for anyone interested.

Lawrence Wright, writing in The New Yorker in its February 14, 2011 Anniversary Issue about, of all things, “Paul Haggis vs. Scientology,” related a conversation he had with one Tommy Davis concerning my economic solution.

Davis passed around a photograph of Armstrong, which, he said, showed Armstrong “sitting naked” with a giant globe in his lap. “This was a photo that was in a newspaper article he did where he said that all people should give up money,” Davis said. “He’s not a very sane person.”

Armstrong told me that, in the photo, he is actually wearing running shorts under the globe. The article is about his attempt to create a movement for people to “abandon the use of currency.”

The article Wright mentions was from the Marin Independent Journal in November 1992. I really was wearing a pair of running shorts, which I still possess, and are seen in these 1995 and 1996 photos. A Scientologist public relations person, who is also the son of a Hollywood actress, pronouncing some common, average Homo sapiens not very sane, is not only defamation, but a reason to read what that citizen had to say.

Communicating with Religious Freedom Watch agent Nikolay Varshavsky

June 23rd, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

From: [X] @ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:09 AM
To: gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
Subject: A question to work out

Gerald,

My name is Nikolay and I am representing the Religious Freedom Watch Russia. Recently you’ve been to Russia and RFWRU team is working on some materials on your activity as a critic of Scientology.

We want to make an article on site and we’d like to workout some moments with you. Just to make a try, let’s start from that question:

As you say, there were several physical assaults (six?) and several threats of murder toward you and once you’ve been almost pushed away from highway. Have you made corresponding statements to police and do you have a police records on that?

I hope you don’t mind to have this conversation with me as we want to recreate the whole story picture using certain and reliable facts and documents. So your answers may affect the final state of the article.

Nikolay Varshavsky
ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Nikolay Varshavsky
ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Dear Mr. Varshavsky:

Thank you for your communication.

I’m glad you only say that my answers may affect the final state of your article about me. If you’d said that my answers will affect the final state of your article, I’d almost have to laugh. All the answers and facts in the world haven’t affected what Scientology and Scientologists have written about me over the past many years.

No, I don’t mind having this conversation with you. I’ve tried religiously, in fact, to find a Scientologist who would honestly engage me about my experiences and knowledge, and so far failed utterly. I wrote last year to Mike Rinder, who executed years of fair game against me for Scientology, about my appeal and my long search for an honest Scientologist. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4717

If you become that first honest Scientologist, I would be forever grateful, and it would be a boon and blessing for you too.

Newsland.ru: Scientology and the “Democratic GULAG”

June 7th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

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Translation of this article: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/5029

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Alexander Chaussov: Scientology and the “Democratic GULAG”

June 7th, 2011 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Translation of a Russian article posted on June 4, 2011 on the website of Russkiy obozrevatel’: http://www.rus-obr.ru/blog/11380

Scientology and the “Democratic GULAG”

by Alexander Chaussov
June 4, 2011

Interesting things have been happening lately concerning cults in Russia. Gerald Armstrong recently visited Moscow. He is very well known, if not a legend, in certain circles. However, to understand who he is and why his visit is so important, we must begin not with him, but with the teachings of Dianetics and Scientology, with Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, and why the Scientology cult is called a totalitarian and destructive sect on reference websites such as “Religions and Sects in Russia Today” by the Novosibirsk Center for Apologetics Research and Alexander L. Dvorkin’s “Sectarian Studies: Totalitarian Sects”.

The Scientology cult has been operating in Russia since the 1990s. It is essentially a network of ramified organizations which offer techniques to become no more, no less than a superhuman, or an “Operating Thetan” (OT). Of course, this is not for free. According to reference materials published by the St. Irenaeus of Lyon Center, the method for becoming a superman devised by Hubbard (the founder of Scientology) is based on telling the organization every detail about oneself, even the most intimate ones. A closer look at the information on “Sectarian Studies: Totalitarian Sects” shows that the cult has its own intelligence gathering structures and that the goal of this organization is money and power. Moreover, this power should preferably be worldwide and total.

Alexey Ovchinnikov: Komsomolskaya Pravda (1 June 2011)

June 6th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Translation of an article published in Russian on  June 1, 2011  on the website of Komsomolskaya Pravda: http://msk.kp.ru/print/article/25695/897953

Ex-legal officer of the Scientology organization Gerald Armstrong: “I landed in a jail for cult members because I got into an argument with the secretary of Hubbard’s third wife”

In the U.S., his former coreligionists long ago declared him an outlaw

[discussion]

by Alexey Ovchinnikov
Photo: Marina Volosevicha and AP
June 1, 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda 2011-06-01 1

Gerald Armstrong came to Moscow to warn the country about the danger that threatens it

According to their rules, they can now hunt him down and, without qualms, take his life.   All the sins of Canadian Gerald Armstrong stem from the fact that he left the so-called “Church of Scientology”, where he was a personal assistant to the organization’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.   He travels the world describing what goes on behind the scenes in this organization which he openly brands as a cult.   Gerald Armstrong was recently in Moscow and, following a conference with students at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University, he answered questions from Komsomolskaya Pravda.

THE SMARTS TO ESCAPE

- Mr. Armstrong, how did you get into this cult?

- I became involved in Vancouver in 1969. I, like many people, was attracted by the idea of improving my intelligence through Scientology.

- Did it improve?

- (Laughs). Actually, yes: I acquired enough smarts to escape from the cult, but I spent twelve and a half years there.

Response to Scientology Moscow Black PR

June 2nd, 2011 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Translation of an article posted on May 24, 2011 on the portal-credo.ru, a website dedicated to news about religion: http://portal-credo.ru/site/?act=authority&id=1636

Church of Scientology of Moscow spokesman and editor-in-chief of “Right to Freedom”, Alexei Danchenkov: “Armstrong was invited to Russia as an expert on Scientology, but he left the church 30 years ago”

Interview by Valery Stepanov
for “Portal-Credo.Ru”

Gerald Armstrong spoke a few days ago at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow and he was presented as a former senior official of the Church of Scientology.   Is his name familiar to you?

Aleksei Danchenkov: Actually, Gerald Armstrong was a former clerk of the Church of Scientology of California.

Well yes, haven’t we all been clerks at one time or another?

It’s like saying, for example, that Aleksei Danchenkov is a former child, or a former room-cleaner, or a former bed-wetter.

Lecture at St. Tikhon’s University, Moscow (audio and transcript) 18 May 2011

May 25th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Source: http://media.pravmir.ru/mp3/armst.mp3
Download audio file: http://www.2shared.com/audio/_Bl7IOBi/Gerry_Armstrong_2011-05-18_Ful.html
Duration: 2 hours 11 min. 57 sec.
File size: 123.72 MB

Translation and transcript

Gerry Armstrong

Gerry Armstrong

Gerry Armstrong 2011-05-18 7

Prof. Alexander Dvorkin

Alexander Dvorkin (AD): I’ll translate from here.

Alexander Filippov: Gerry Armstrong’s Truth About Scientology

May 24th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Translation of a Russian article posted on May 20, 2011 on the Russian Orthodox website pravmir.ru: http://www.pravmir.ru/pravda-dzherri-armstronga-o-saentologii/

Gerry Armstrong’s Truth about Scientology
by Alexander Filippov

May 20, 2011

Gerry Armstrong, former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, spoke on May 18 at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University.   The meeting was attended by clergy, professors, university staff and many guests.

Gerry Armstrong

Gerry Armstrong

The university lecture room was completely filled with people and those for whom there weren’t enough seats stood in the aisle.   The meeting lasted over two hours and translation was provided by Alexander Dvorkin, a scholar at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University who specializes in nontraditional religious movements and sects.

The Scientology sect has spread throughout the world and the organization collects information about its members which it uses to totally control all aspects of their lives, leaving them no possibility of privacy.

Mr. Armstrong’s testimony and analysis are very important for gaining a true understanding of the Scientology organization, its development, its doctrine, its crimes, the scale of its expansion and the ways to combat it because, having been secretary to Hubbard for many years, he possesses full and accurate information.

Gerry Armstrong spoke about the doctrine and the history of the “Church of Scientology”, one of the most dangerous cults in the world today, about the threat the sect poses for private individuals and for society as a whole, and about his work in this organization, his personal impressions of his encounters with Hubbard, the contents of Hubbard’s personal documents, his escape from the totalitarian organization, and the fight that ensued.

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