Dear Mike:

Your message “Where Is Heber?” inspired me to write. He’s my ex-stepfather-in-law, of course, and we go back to the 70’s, about as long as you and I go back.

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. Okay, I’ll shut up and you start your message:

WHERE IS HEBER?

by Mike Rinder

After watching the AC 360 series many have wondered: “Where is Heber?”

Not me. I wondered, and outright asked, “Where is an honest Scientologist?” LFBD

And I again ask, where is an honest Scientologist? LFBD

Or at least, where is a Scientologist courageous enough to want and seek to be honest? LFBD

A Scientologist could start off as a fully loaded liar, I suppose, and then start throwing the lies away on a gradient, or lie-by-lie, when, for example, confronted with a lie, or reminded of a lie. I think though that conducting a mental examination for the lies in the load and getting rid of them en masse, or at least getting rid of chunks or chains of lies, is probably the process by which both homo sapiens and homo scientologicus get honest, if getting honest is possible. I think of the Damascus Road when imagining some Scientologist getting honest.

In any case, I’m asking where’s an honest Scientologist? And I’m asking you, Mike, and every Scientologist. Heber seems about as unlikely to be the first honest Scientologist, as Tommy Davis or David Miscavige. But the invitation goes out to Heber as well, and Davis and Miscavige.

To be honest, I realize, a Scientologist would have to be reborn as a wog, or somehow successfully make it through to the wog state or species. Being an honest wog, the person, naturally, couldn’t be an honest Scientologist, which, so far has been shown to be a perfect oxymoron. 8 million to 0.

Although they can’t be truly honest, virtually any Scientologists, I’m certain, while still Scientologists, can understand the concept of honesty, and understand what I’m looking and asking for.

Scientologists truly know, moreover, how to become honest, which is inarguably simple: just by dumping or shedding their load of lies. And Scientologists, I’m also certain, except, acknowledgedly, possibly the certifiably deranged, know when they’re lying. They know when they’re lying just as, acknowledgedly, virtually all uncertifiable wogs know when they’re lying. Scientologists, just like wogs, know when they’re adding to their lie load, know all the lies in the load, and know they’re all lies.

That means, Mike, I’m treating you as a knowledgeable equal. I’m not inviting pretended ignorance, although I’ll probably know it when I see it. It is principally Scientology in their lives that Scientologists are loaded with lies about, including Scientology’s effect on their lives and others’ lives. Because of this demonstrable fact, rejection of the entire subject from their lives is the most rational handling. It is, of course, reasonable to retain and employ Scientology, as I have, as a completely rejected subject.

His absence was magnified by who Miscavige did send forth as cannon fodder to respond to his crimes: four obviously rehearsed ex-wives who made fools of themselves by repeating lines given to them by Miscavige and received unanimous derision on the AC 360 blog; “Teflon” Tommy Davis who has been caught in more lies than Baghdad Bob and looks more and more like (dare I say this, after he made such a big point about me selling cars for a living) a sleazy used car salesman; and a bored, disinterested looking NON Scientologist tax attorney there to field the “tough” questions about Scientology tech and policy that Tommy couldn’t handle. As everyone knows, Heber is far more accomplished, competent and likeable than any of Miscavige’s new puppets.

At what is Heber far more accomplished? LF

Telling lies.LFBD F/N

In Heber’s and Tommy’s position, what were you accomplished at? LF

Telling lies. LFBD F/N

So you’re saying forked tongued and silver spoon mouthed Tommy Davis is far less accomplished at telling lies than the more silver tongued, and, yes, silver haired, Heber.

I’m sure that with your acknowledgement of Tommy as a lying failure, who’d been caught in a stack of lies, you were hoping that you’d be thought of as a more accomplished liar than Tommy. From your message, it’s pretty clear you hoped you’d be seen as closer to Heber in your lying accomplishment and competence, and your likeableness.

To be a competent liar, in the paradigm you’re positing, your lies would have to be accepted as the truth, or appear to be the truth, or at least not sound like outright lies. To be a competent liar for Scientology you couldn’t get caught in your lies, as you observe about Tommy.

If you’re a really accomplished liar, and, unlike Tommy Davis, don’t get caught in a load of lies, it’s likely you also come across as more likeable than he does. Heber’s either unwilling now to tell the required lies, or he’s being kept from telling them. That makes him perhaps more likeable, certainly to Scientology’s victims, than Tommy, who’s out here lying his forking tongue off.

I’m sure it seems to feel better to postulate that under Miscavige Scientology’s spokespersons have degraded or degenerated, or become less accomplished, less competent, and less likeable. But that is, I believe, a ridiculous proposition that has no real support in known facts and statistics.

It is abundantly clear that wogs’ knowledge of Scientology and Scientologists has increased, arguably dramatically, over the Heber-Davis and Hubbard-Miscavige periods. It has to also be evident that the number of wogs possessing and sharing that increased knowledge has increased.

I also believe it can be shown that the actual issues are being asked about more frequently, indicating an increasing understanding by more wogs of these issues. It’s also observable, I believe, that there’s an increasing intention and ability among many wogs to bypass Scientology spokespersons’ avoiding and cloaking of these actual issues.

Scientology spokespersons have always done what they could to hide and cloak the issues, of course, and all the reporter TRs give them the tech for that purpose. I’m sure you’d agree that Heber, besides appearing to be a far more accomplished and competent liar, also appeared far more accomplished and competent than Tommy at hiding, cloaking and avoiding the issues. Being able to avoid the actual issues certainly makes a spokesperson likeable to people who want the issues avoided, that is, their Scientology bosses.

Successful avoidance of the actual issues also means you don’t have to lie about them. Or at least you don’t have to continue to lie about the issues beyond the lies you told in order to get the issues avoided. Lying is often present during Scientologists’ efforts to avoid the issues, of course, because lying about the issue to be avoided is how most issues are avoided. Tommy’s walking out of an interview when asked about an issue – Xenu – without saying anything, is not an issue avoidance practice that will work for many issues with many interviewers.

Despite all Scientology spokespersons’ avoidance tech, however, disconnection is being probed. So are coerced abortions. So is Miscavige pummeling people. Tommy can’t now avoid these actual issues, because he has to talk to media people who know the issues, and some will probably have the courage to bypass his reporter TRs. Not being able to avoid the issues, Tommy can only lie: disconnection as such doesn’t exist; coerced abortions are voluntary; so’s the RPF; and Mr. Miscavige has never punched, kicked, choked, bashed, battered, beat, boxed, bruised, buffeted or butted anyone; in fact here are dozens of affidavits swearing that Mr. Miscavige is the most compassionate person in the universe and wouldn’t hurt a fly.

The most important issue that is beginning to be looked at and asked about, and I would argue is spreading into wog society consciousness, is the “Suppressive Person” doctrine. All the world’s Scientologists hiding, cloaking and avoiding the issue will not now keep the SP doctrine from being raised and probed, and probably pilloried for the indefensible evil it is. What do the most accomplished, competent and likeable Scientology reps do when an issue can’t be avoided? LF

They lie. LFBD F/N

Just like when Tommy can’t avoid the issue of Miscavige battering people. Tommy lies. F/N

I submit that your conclusion that Tommy (if you’re being honest in this matter) is far less accomplished, competent and likeable than Heber, or the ex-wives, Norman, Guillaume, Monique, or the other DM puppets as you call them, is erroneous. Tommy and the others are made to appear less accomplished, competent and likeable than prior spokespersons because wogs and wog society have advanced in their relationship with Scientology and Scientologists, whereas the Scientologists who interface with wogs have not advanced or evolved, but have been kept retarded.

I believe that if you went back to the cult, Mike, and were again the spokesperson, you would come across as a hopelessly unaccomplished, incompetent and unlikeable liar. I think the same is true of Heber if he was put back on post dealing with wog media.

The whole time you were Scientology’s spokesperson, I knew you were a liar, and of course a crumby cloaker and avoider of the issues. I’ve known from before I left the cult that Scientology’s spokespersons, Heber included, were willful liars, and bullies and manipulators in the service of monstrous men. But now there are millions of wogs with a clue, including people, in media and elsewhere, that Scientology’s spokespersons have to talk to.

I think there isn’t a devolutionary dwindling spiral in society, as all Scientologists postulate (making themselves, by the way, basic chaos merchants), but an evolutionary expansion. Relevantly, this is eminently observable in the field of human knowledge. Putting their efforts into being right about the dwindling spiral requires that the postulating Scientologists “experience” the dwindling. It has to be what’s true for them. They therefore ignore the overwhelming data supporting wogs’ evolution, wogs’ genius, and wog’s holiness, and project onto the wogs their own ignorance of the truth they ignored. Projection of the same chaos, and the same ignorance of the truth, onto the same people – all the wogs – is essential to performing the devotion called keeping Scientology working.

Another, and vital, devotion in Scientology, among all Scientologists, is projecting their most terrifying thoughts, the evilest of intentions they can, with all their mental tech and power, project, onto the class of wogs called SPs. I represent the SP class. The SP doctrine that creates by scripture the SP class, is in issue, Mike. So far, you’ve successfully avoided it.

In order to constantly “prove” that Scientology works (at reversing the dwindling spiral for them at least, or whatever) Scientologists constantly postulate, or project really, an increasing separation between themselves and wogs. In their postulated increasing separation, the Scientologists are becoming increasingly intelligent, able and powerful, and the wogs, not having LRH’s tech, and spiraling dwindlingly, are becoming decreasingly intelligent, able and powerful.

This mental mechanism of projection, which Scientologists call “clear” or “OT,” shields them, they’re taught, from acknowledging that all sorts of wogs are more intelligent, able and powerful than they are. The Scientologists also do what they can to shield themselves from acknowledging that some wogs have turned their excellent intelligence and ability to understanding Scientology and its actual issues.

No Scientologists acknowledge that wogs have their number, simply because it is impossible for Scientologists to be honest. The lie that wogs don’t have their number is one of the most numbing lies in Scientologists’ entire lie load. Consequently, Scientologists like you and Marty instead conclude, or project, that the cult’s current crop of spokespersons are less accomplished, competent and likeable.

So, where is Heber? Why isn’t he out there representing the C of M?

X – No read.

The answer is simple:  Miscavige hates Heber.  He has said many times that Heber portrays the wrong image of “his” Church.  Heber is too old (but not too old to send to the Hole….).  Heber doesn’t feel the need to dress like a window mannequin for Barney’s.   Heber is “stupid”.  And Heber knows too much.  Unlike Teflon Tommy, who was never at Int, Heber has not only witnessed Miscavige brand physical and mental abuse ™, he has experienced it firsthand.  Miscavige cannot afford to put Heber front and center because he might just tell the truth.

Okay, so it isn’t really because Miscavige hates Heber. It’s because Heber might just tell the truth. You’ve got it. It’s why Miscavige, and Marty, and you, and all Scientologists hate me: because I tell the truth about Scientology.

Now, will you tell the truth about Scientology’s ops, black PR, the hatred, the threats on me for all those years? Are you going to be the honest Scientologist? Or, since that hasn’t been possible, will you be an honest born again wog?

And I know how that goes – me having to lie to the BBC about Miscavige beating people was the straw that broke the camel’s back and I walked out while in London.

In your metaphor, you’re clearly the camel. You’d been loaded up with lies over time, and when one more was dumped on you to tell – about Miscavige beating people – your back broke.

Everyone knows now that your lie that Miscavige never beat you, or beat anyone, is a lie. But what are all the other lies in that load of lies under which you were lumbering, before that one’s added mass broke your back and you walked out in London?

Presumably, you’re talking about walking out from under the whole load of lies, not carrying them around with you with your broken back and all.

I’m serious, Mike. You were involved in intel ops against me, litigation fair game against me, and you loaded me down with a pack of your lies about me. You did it all, moreover, in the service of evil. So how about if you unload those lies from both of us?

(So much for me being removed from all positions of authority and kicked out by Miscavige when he found out all the terrible things I had done – I was the International Spokesperson for the Church and on the Board of CSI when I blew. It is true, I didn’t have a post – but then again NOBODY in management did, and it appears to be that way still as Guillaume Lesevre was presented at the “Barnum and Bailey” March 13th spectacle  as “from International Management”  rather than “ED International” because he hasn’t been on post for at least 5 years!).

That’s funny. Norman Starkey chairmanned a comm ev on me at WHQ in 1978, found me guilty of Joking and Degrading, confirmed Hubbard’s assignment of me to the RPF, and wrote in the Findings and Recommendations:

The shot was commentated by Jerry [sic]Armstrong who assumed the beingness of a Barnham [sic] and Bailey circus ring master, making the shot into a quality degrade.

[…]

Crimes Charge 1

Pleaded guilty. The Committee found him guilty. Gerry was the announcer in the shot and originated playing his part as a Barnham [sic] and Bailey circus ring master announcer which introduced and communicated a quality degrade of the shot.

Charge 2

Pleaded not guilty. The Committee however found him guilty of the charge due to his originating and introducing the Barnum and Bailey Beingness into the shot which brought about a joking and degrading communication of the Cine drills. Even though the the [sic] interested party stated that it was not his intention to communicate a joke/degrade of the shot and that he himself had made good gains from the drills themselves, the shot did communicate a Joke and Degrade and this is what caused the extreme upset to command.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/findings-recs-1978-10-04.html

What a pathetic excuse for command, for a leader of any kind, that he experienced extreme upset from a simple, cheerful video of a lighting drill he ordered. Or worse, if the sick and gutless wonder didn’t really experience extreme upset but just had his thuglet elementals report his extreme upset so he and they had a good reason and a golden opportunity to victimize good people. From reports I’ve read, Miscavige does the same thing, dramatizing extreme upset to victimize people and get others to victimize people.

Both Hubbard and Miscavige are Scientology leaders issuing and enforcing Scientology’s leadership policies. Having people, they use them. They’re users of people, as their Scientology scripture mandates. They’re real leaders, so, per their scripture, they consider their enemies, the SPs, need killing. Being real powers, Hubbard and Miscavige make Scientologists dependent on their power, and make those power-dependent Scientologists push more power to them.

Pursuant to their scripture, and by their orders and behavior, what Hubbard and Miscavige wanted or want from Scientologists includes more money, more ease, a snarling defense to their critics or the killing of their enemies. Being extremely upset, obnosisly, is not the more ease Hubbard and Miscavige are owed as “powers,” so these super sensitive dear leaders get to victimize the people who caused them the extreme upset. Hubbard and Miscavige also say in their scripture that they’d like their enemies’ properties conflagrated, or potentially the whole wog camp, conflagrated, as a birthday surprise.

Although their intention is the murder of their enemies, which Hubbard and Miscavige have made in spades, and the torching of their enemies’ encampments, these Scientology leaders have not been able to fully execute that intention, or get others to execute it. An important reason is that Hubbard and Miscavige are not the real powers they say they are. Miscavige is a not quite bright bully. Hubbard was a much brighter bully. They have bully power. But they are also pathetic and cowardly, and countless wogs have their number.

Even though their leaders are being clear bullies and cowards, however, not one Scientologist to my knowledge has ever communicated to Hubbard or Miscavige that the Scientologist wouldn’t kill their wog enemies for them, or burn their wog enemies’ camps, or hurt another in the Scientology cause. In fact, as you know, it is considered a point of honor among Scientologists to not fear hurting people in Scientology’s cause. Scientology’s cause, as you well know, is dishonest and unjust.

Heber bore the brunt of much of Miscavige’s ire over the years.  I have seen Miscavige strike Heber on at least 10 occasions.  Miscavige had dolls made in the likeness of Heber (and me).  These were very elaborate reproductions that looked like ventriloquists dolls. Miscavige would make Heber sit with the doll on his lap and Miscavige would address himself to the doll instead of talking to Heber directly.  This was to demonstrate the “fact” that Miscavige thought Heber “wooden” and “unresponsive.”  (Anyone who knows Heber can attest to how ridiculous this is).  It is all part of Miscavige’s Joking & Degrading and constant denigration of people around him, especially those he considered were some form of threat (and Heber’s popularity with staff and public was a very real threat in Miscavige’s eyes).

I cannot believe that Heber’s popularity with staff and public was a very real threat in Miscavige’s eyes. Heber was for years an accomplished and competent liar for Hubbard, and for even more years an accomplished and competent liar for Miscavige. It was Heber’s accomplished and competent execution of command intention to avoid issues and lie that made him likeable or popular with Hubbard’s and Miscavige’s staff and public.

Accepting that a person’s place on the popularity scale can be a very real threat in Miscavige’s eyes, it would be Heber’s unpopularity with staff and public, rather than his popularity, which would be the real threat. I’m a very real threat in Miscavige’s eyes, and Scientology staff and public universally hate me. I’m not popular with any Scientologist. In fact, Scientologists cannot even grant me credence, let alone grant me popularity.

I think, however, that Scientologists’ popularity with staff and public, to sociopaths like Hubbard and Miscavige, is neither good nor bad, but a fact or circumstance, to be used. The people who stood up to Hubbard and stand up to Miscavige are never good, but always bad, because they refuse to be used. I will always be a very real threat in Miscavige’s eyes, and I will always be unpopular with his staff and public because I tell the truth, don’t avoid the actual issues, and don’t lie about them.

The dolls were even flown to the UK for the IAS event where Heber endured endless cruel bullbaiting at the hands of Miscavige.  I only saw Heber snap once, when after hours of Miscavige brand taunting and belittling ™, Miscavige squirted Heber’s face and glasses with contact lense fluid and then blew powdered coffee creamer into his face. This is the level of behavior of the so called “leader” of Scientology.

Can you please provide the details of Heber’s snapping?

But that wasn’t all that happened at IAS event time.  Heber, along with myself and Guillaume Lesevre were assigned to MEST work.   It was surreal, donning a tuxedo to do an international event and then a boilersuit to do MEST work in the woods next to the Saint Hill Manor lake.  And then being thrown fully clothed in the lake (in November).  Miscavige then decided it wasn’t good enough to be “hidden” by the lake and moving us to do MEST work next to the Stables where all Saint Hill staff walked to eat their meals.  It was there that Heber slipped on a log, fell and quite badly injured himself.  Of course, Miscavige blamed that on Heber’s “out ethics”.

If Heber was not looking at where he was planting his feet, he wasn’t clear.

But most importantly, Heber, Guillaume, you, and every Sea Org member or Scientologist take the abuse from Miscavige in order to continue to push power to him and to continue to execute his command intention. His command intention has two related basic requirements: 1. to get away with what he’s gotten away with, and 2. to victimize people. Hubbard had the same basic needs and intentions. What Hubbard wanted, and Miscavige wants, to get away with is all the victimizing they’ve done as Scientology leaders. Pretty well whatever you’ve done in the Sea Org or Scientology, except for leaving and telling the truth, pushes power to the leaders’ evil intentions.

(And just a final note on the UK, not really on topic – Guillaume Lesevre and I were assigned to clean the toilets and sweep the halls in AOSHUK , watched over by Security Guards – plenty of public witnessed this).

Heber is banned by Miscavige from making any public appearances and isn’t allowed to be in Int events any longer.   So, he has become a “non-person” and is kept out of sight at the Int base.

Heber was the first person from outside the Int base to be sentenced to the Hole.  He was there when I left in March 2007, and for all I know, is still there. I do know NOBODY has heard from him for years.  And while he was in the Hole, regardless of his years of service and his progressing age, he was treated like everyone else:  living in the CMO Int trailer along with 100 others, sleeping on the floor, eating standing up in an office with no tables and chairs and only leaving for 20 minutes once a day for a communal shower in the garage  (unless DM was around, in which case some days there were no showers as nobody wanted to risk DM seeing the SPs in the Hole being frog-marched by security to the garage because it would “enturbulate”  him – though he demanded daily reports to keep track of “juicy” admissions coerced out of people).   Heber was stood in front of the 100 people and “forced” to confess (an activity which I am ashamed to say I took part in) and then derided about his Mormon upbringing and his relationships with other religious leaders (he was labeled a squirrel).  Heber never complained though he was the most senior person in the Hole and the living conditions took a greater toll on him than anyone.

Is Heber never complaining Scientology working or being kept working? Or is Heber not applying Scientology by never complaining?

If Heber was applying Scientology by not complaining, was Miscavige also applying Scientology by giving Heber something to not complain about?

And like everyone else, he was not allowed to communicate with anyone outside the Hole at all.  Not even his own family.  And that for Heber was perhaps the hardest thing to endure.

But he did endure it. And he endured it so that evil could triumph; so that the Scientology power he pushed power to could victimize all the people the power wanted to victimize and get away with all the victimizing.

You did a lot of victimizing, Mike. You victimized me for more than 20 years. Don’t you, exactly like Hubbard and Miscavige, want to get away with what you’ve gotten away with? Isn’t that why you haven’t contacted me and helped me end the victimization?

Marty too has the same evil intention as Hubbard and Miscavige: to get away with all the victimizing he’s done for Scientology. That’s why Marty doesn’t grant me credence and continues to victimize me.

Anyone who knows Heber knows above all else his high communication level and how many friends he has made over many years.  He is loved by so many because it is impossible to know him and not see the goodness in his heart and his real concern for the well-being of others.

He is so good he’d lie his head off in the service of evil. Was it charm?

Note that these are the same words a huge Scientology faction is saying about the littlest dictator: Mister Miscavige is loved by so many because it is impossible to know him and not see the goodness in his heart and his real concern for the well-being of others. A high communication level in Scientology means the most accomplished, competent liar.

What if both Miscavige and Heber are sociopaths, grotesquely willful liars, and that goodness you say you saw in what you thought was their hearts is standard sociopath’s charm? And what if what you say you saw as real concern for the well-being of others cloaks the sociopaths’ frightful cowardice and evil purposes?

I believe the cutting of his comm lines was the greatest penalty Miscavige could impose on him.

I’m reminded of your cutting my comm line to Mike Douglas by threatening him. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/michael-douglas.html
Now that I think about it, you threatened a bunch of people to try to cut my comm lines with everyone. You black PRed me all over the world to cut my communication lines. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/rinder-ltr-1994-05-09.html

Scientologists paid you to cut my comm lines, and you were very popular with your fellow SO members for doing as much evil to me as you could get away with.

And I must also note that while virtually every prominent executive left in Scientology has put their name on perjured declarations saying that all that has been exposed about Miscavige’s reign of terror ™ is lies, there has been no word from Heber.  When you stoop to the bottom of the rotten barrel to trot out ex-wives to respond to allegations of mental and physical abuse by Miscavige, isn’t it odd that the person with perhaps the most credibility with Scientologists and with the media ISNT heard from?

Credibility with Scientologists? The best, most accomplished liar has the most credibility with Scientologists? That makes sense. But the most credibility with wog media? That’s ludicrous.

Accepting for the moment that you’re not lying about your evaluation of Heber as the Scientologist with the most credibility with the media, this evaluation evidences Scientologists’ postulated separation between themselves as superior beings and wogs, including wog media, as inferior beings.

To be honest, I’d rethink that evaluation, and that demonstrably delusionary postulate.

So, why is he still there?  Well, read the excellent blog by “Back to Life” recently posted on Scientology-cult which incisively explains the circumstances and mindset that keeps good people chained inside a bad scene.

Scientology is the answer. LFBD F/N That’s what Scientology does. F/N That’s a vital Scientology VFP. F/N

Scientologists applying Scientology make a bad scene. Scientologists applying Scientology keep good people inside the bad scene. Scientologists applying Scientology generate the circumstances and mindset necessary to get people to keep good people in the bad scene. Yes, Scientology is the answer. LFBD F/N

And beyond that, Heber is getting extra-special attention.  Because of his popularity and credibility, he has to be kept out of sight.  Imagine the nightmare for Miscavige if Heber was ever freed and able to speak his mind?

I suppose that would be interesting. But his mind could be full of lies. Or delusions. And there’s no nightmare for Miscavige if Scientologists tell lies, or wogs tell lies, or they spout delusions. What he can’t handle is Scientologists or wogs telling the truth about Scientology.

Since Scientologists cannot tell the truth about Scientology, it falls to wogs to tell it. And those are the people that give Miscavige nightmares. They’re the same people that give all Scientologists nightmares, you and Marty included. You share the identical nightmares with Miscavige: honest wogs speaking their minds.

That is why you don’t see Heber.

And yes, something DOES need to be done about it.  He is 76 years old, has served LRH and Scientology with distinction and dedication for many decades and in the winter of his body’s life should be living a peaceful existence, pursuing activities that give him pleasure.

Remember, for Heber, serving Hubbard and Scientology with distinction and dedication, was lying. Serving Miscavige and Scientology is the same thing. You can’t serve Hubbard and tell the truth.

For decades, getting away with what he’d gotten away with – avoiding issues, lying, bullying, victimizing good people – was what gave Heber pleasure. It’s the same with every Scientology spokesperson. It was pleasure because, to Scientology spokespersons, successful lying, victimizing, etc. meant the avoidance of the pain that Hubbard, Miscavige or their enforcers inflicted if the spokespersons failed to avoid the issues, failed to get away with their lies, or failed to bully or victimize their targets.

So, if you have an opportunity, ask Scientologists, the media, law enforcement or anyone else who may have an interest:  “Where is Heber Jentzsch, the President CSI?”

But infinitely more importantly, ask everyone, “Where is an honest Scientologist?” LFBD

Senator Nick Xenophon
212 Grenfell Street
Adelaide, SA, 5000
Australia

Via E-mail: Senator.Xenophon@aph.gov.au

Dear Senator Xenophon:

I’m writing you because someone has offered to fly me to Australia to contribute to the effort to bring about an inquiry into Scientology. I would like to communicate with you, or someone from your office, or someone else you suggest, to establish if and how I can be helpful, and to work out a schedule.

From the US Department of State:

GermanyInternational 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 of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. The Government does not recognize Scientology as a religion, viewing it instead as an economic enterprise; federal and state classification of Scientology as a potential threat to democratic order has led to employment and commercial discrimination against Scientologists in both the public and private sectors.

[…]

The status of Scientology was the subject of many discussions during the period covered by this report. The US Government expressed its concerns over infringement of individual rights because of religious affiliation and over the potential for discrimination in international trade posed by the screening of foreign firms for possible Scientology affiliation.  Embassy officers at all levels consistently and repeatedly supported German Church of Scientology requests for direct dialogue with German Government officials. The US Government consistently maintained that only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35456.htm

The US Government’s decision to leave the determination of whether an organization is “religious” to the organization itself, and, on the basis of that self-religionizing determination, to afford it all the benefits and protections afforded any other “religions,” is a stupidity that cannot help but increase “religious intolerance.” The US exacerbates this foolishness with a ridiculous policy of condemning, threatening and sanctioning sovereign nations that don’t fall in step with the US’s intolerance-increasing position and actions. Because this “consistently maintained,” although only recently promulgated, position most benefits the most antisocial and least beneficent “religious” entities, increasing intolerance is an eminently reasonable attitude and response to US- determined “new religions.” Since antisociality in organizations that most benefit from the US position and policy manifests as human rights violations, intolerance toward these “religions” actually promotes and defends individual human rights, including, most ironically, freedom of religion.

If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious, an organization that is a money-motivated economic enterprise, as Scientology demonstrates, can certainly determine that it is religious. That economic enterprise then is afforded, at least in the US, all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. With such benefits and protections, a religious economic enterprise enjoys some heavenly advantages, including tax exemption, over economic enterprises that have not leapt into this US Governmental vacuity to declare themselves to be “religious.”

The German Government obviously does get involved in the determination of religiousness in organizations in Germany, insofar as that determination has related to those organizations’ governmentally established benefits and protections. Germany says, in various ways, that organizations that are economic enterprises do not get afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises.  Consequently, such economic enterprises that call themselves “religious” do not, in Germany, gain huge advantages over competing economic enterprises that do not determine and declare themselves to be “religious.”

The same is true with an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order; or that might be a ruthless bait-and-switch scam; an intelligence operation waging a covert war on good citizens; or a hate group peddling hatred as human rights. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious in the US, then an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order, a scam, an intelligence network, or a hate group hawking hatred can determine to be religious and be a religion. Such US organizations then are afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not threatening democracy, not scamming people, not involved in espionage, and not inciting hatred. Germany, which gets involved in the determination of religiousness or religion, has decided that threats to democracy, scams, intelligence ops, or hate groups may not, by use of the “religion angle,” be afforded such benefits and protections.

At this time in history, the world can generally trust Germany’s determination of religion or of an organization’s religiousness, since that determination involves the organization that seeks to be classed as a religion, plus the government, plus other participants such as the already historically determined religions. It is, however, irresponsible to trust the US’s determination of religion, which involves only an organization itself determining it is religious or a religion. It is axiomatic that an organization determining itself religious also determines that its activities constitute religious expression. Because of the US Government’s zero-screening policy, as can be studied with the Scientology organization, other nations have a responsibility to their own citizens to screen and investigate any organization or “religion” that is operated from the US, exported from the US as “religion,” or is defended and promoted as “religion” by the US Government.

Scientology, of any of the entities presently proclaiming their religiousness, is all of those things that the German Government observes, and more: an economic enterprise, a bait-and-switch scam, an intelligence organization waging war on good citizens, a hate group with the superhubris to call itself a human rights group, a criminal conspiracy, a totalitarian cult with a sociopathic philosophy, and consequently a threat to democratic order. These activities form and govern Scientology’s nature, and the religion’s religious expression. They cannot but be “religious” because Scientology states in its “by-laws” that it is organized “exclusively for religious purposes.” To not discuss or permit the discussion of the nature of what the US Government is defending, promoting and exporting because that export calls itself “religious” is indefensibly irresponsible.

If the US Government had adhered to a strict hands-off policy for “religions,” leaving the determination of religiousness to organizations themselves might make a little more sense than it does. The US’s International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (now 22 USC. §§ 6401-6481), however, requires that the Government, from the President down to every consular mission everywhere in the world, defend and promote the entities that declare themselves to be religious or religions.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sec_22_00006401—-000-.html

Organizations that are threats to democracy, or scams, intelligence operations, hate groups, criminal conspiracies, totalitarian cults or commercial enterprises, which determine, as Scientology did, that they are religious or religions, get defended and promoted, by the US President on down, just the same as entities that are religious or religions but are not threats to democracy, not scams, not intelligence ops, not hate groups, not conspiracies, not totalitarian cults, and not commercial enterprises.

It turns out in fact that the US defends and promotes Scientology even more than almost all other US religions just because the cult is, in its nature and activities, an intel op, threat to democracy, etc. Scientology needs more defense and promotion because of its antisocial nature and because of its antisocial activities in all of those countries that object to organizations scamming their citizens, spreading hate, committing crime, and threatening their democracy. The US Government made the strategic decision in the early 1990’s to ally Scientology rather than continue to oppose it, as the US had been doing for many years in a number of government departments and agencies. Events both before and since this decision support the conclusion that it was made just because Scientology has an antisocial nature and is involved in antisocial activities, is an intelligence organization, a scam, a hate group and a totalitarian anti-democracy cult. See also: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/scientology-cult-of-total-espionage.html

For decades Scientology employed a flock of “religious experts” to “scientifically” legitimize its claim to “religious status.” These academics wrote papers, gave speeches and testified for the organization, equating its beliefs and practices with those of traditional religions, and attacking people and countries, including the US, which argued that because of its antisocial or criminal practices Scientology should not be granted the status, protections and benefits traditional religions received. When the US assumed the position that organizations themselves, and only themselves, regardless of their structure, nature, beliefs or practices, could determine they are religions, Scientology’s need, in America, for its academic collaborators was largely eliminated.

The new US position, which was announced after the strategic decision to form an alliance with Scientology, and which could not but have been assumed in order to sustain that decision, means that a religious organization’s beliefs no longer need be sincerely held. As the Scientology v. Armstrong legal cases demonstrate, Scientologists universally are contracted to violate their own “creed,” the formal statement of their “beliefs” that founder Hubbard published to give the organization the trappings of traditional religions in the period before the US made even such trappings unnecessary. The new US position in reality removed any requirement, as far as the Government is concerned, for truthfulness or honesty in any “new religion’s” claims or activities. In Scientology, as in any criminal gang, hypocrisy is a virtue, telling the truth, except to one’s bosses, is punished, and lying is enforced. Because the organization is a religion, lying is properly called a “sacrament.” To be “religious,” an organization need not embrace or even pay lip service to the worship of God; indeed, Scientology and Scientologists, psycho-theologically speaking, are at war with Him.

Following its decision that made an ally of Scientology, the US passed into law the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), which capitalizes on that decision to forward the US’s global hegemonic interests. Although the IRFA’s published purpose is unquestionably noble, the US’s application of the law in the Scientology v. Armstrong issue shows that another purpose is present and dominant. The IRFA, if read realistically, would direct the US to condemn Scientology’s violations of my religious freedom, assist the Canadian and European governments to promote my fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to stand with me against Scientology’s religious persecution, which is government tolerated. (See 22 USC 6401(b)(1)-(5)) I have formally requested that US officials meet with my wife Caroline and me and, as the IRFA mandates, help us against Scientology religious persecution. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4

While continuing to promote and defend Scientology, which is a global religious persecutor, the US has done nothing about the cult’s persecution of Caroline and me, and has not even acknowledged our request for help.

For the US to be compelled by its own law to promote and defend a “religious” organization internationally, the only condition the IRFA puts on the nature of that organization’s religious “practices” is that they are “peaceful.” (See 22 USC 6401(a)(5), 6402(13)(A)(i).) If Philip Morris, the tobacco corporation, being a commercial enterprise, determined that it is religious, and that its cigarettes are religious artifacts and smoking is a sacrament, the US would be obliged to defend and promote the Church of Philip Morris® around the world. The Church’s religious artifacts and religious exercise might harm or shorten the lives of its practitioners, but smoking is peaceful, and even people’s deaths from smoking or lung cancer are peaceful. In fact, death from smoking necessarily eliminates any possibility of the diers dying unpeaceful deaths, which for CPM is an excellent religious marketing concept.

The Church of Philip Morris, following religiously in Scientology’s precedential legal footsteps, would make Fair Game against its critics a core religious belief and practice. As with Scientology, CPM’s false advertising for its products and its way to happiness would of course be a protected, tax exempt activity; as would be the Church’s lying, trickery and litigation, and even destroying people, as long as it was some form of peaceful destruction. CPM members and their attorneys naturally would Black PR people who criticized the Church and its poisons as religious bigots or anti-religious extremists.

Scientology, however, unlike the Church of Philip Morris, is not peaceful, even in its own unalterable scripture, and is not engaged in peaceful activities, but is, by scripture, at war. Scientology and Scientologists, moreover, are not at war with an unfortunate, or harmful, or threatening condition in the world; for example, a war on evil, or on poverty, on illiteracy, or on litter. Scientology is at war with real, live, decent, productive people with real, live families, friends, careers, etc. Scientology’s front groups. which make a big deal of confronting generalized phenomena or conditions in society, the wogs’ world — Applied Scholastics for illiteracy; Narconon for drugs; Criminon for criminality; Citizens Commission on Human Rights for psychiatry; etc. – all exist to cloak Scientology’s and Scientologists’ real, and antisocial, war, which is on real persons, live human beings that the Scientology head says are to be warred on. All persons that Scientology and Scientologists war on are in the religio-racial class invented and identified in Scientology scripture as “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.”

Key US Government departments and personnel have known about Scientology’s warmongering in its scripture for at least 32 years. These same US Government entities, and others, have understood the SP doctrine, which incites and “justifies” the warring on citizens, for almost as long. The doctrine, of course, includes the axiom that all persons Scientology and Scientologists war on are SPs. Hubbard wrote his scriptural policy letter of 16 February 1969 “Battle Tactics” years after he had installed the SP doctrine in scripture and had his underlings implement and execute it. Scientology’s “enemies” are all SPs.

We must ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.

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One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and harasses.

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You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.

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Wars are composed of many battles.

Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics.html

After Hubbard died, the Miscavige regime specially reissued “Battle Tactics” for application by the new regimeists to the same old SPs.

Scientology and Scientologists teach in their SP doctrine that Suppressive Persons comprise a class consisting of the most evil, destructive two and a half percent of the planetary population, who, for everyone’s and everything’s survival, must be shattered and obliterated. Since Scientology cannot yet get away with disposing of all of the world’s SPs quietly and without some other people sorrowing about the mass class obliteration, the organization leader directs his troops and resources against the individual SPs that at that time he most fears and hates and most wants disposed of. In Scientology’s Suppressive Person doctrine, SPs come in a range of sizes or importances; and current cult head Miscavige, and consequently every Scientologist, considers me an enormous SP.

http://suppressiveperson.org/spdl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=462&Itemid=38

The US Government has also long known that Scientology and Scientologists not only called for war against human targets in key scriptural directives, but had also been certifiably dishonest, conspiratorial, menacing and physically aggressive in applying the religion’s “Battle Tactics” and similar directives. Hubbard says in “Battle Tactics” that he wants his war against SPs waged in the “field of thought,” and that certainly is a front in, or facet of, the war. Where he and his Scientology and Scientologists concentrated their efforts and spent enormous sums, however, was in the field of persons, with bodies, identities, reputations, careers, families, relationships, etc. The US knew that Scientology conspired to drive Paulette Cooper’s mind insane in the field of thought, and to terrorize and sue her into ruin and silence, and get her body falsely imprisoned in the field of persons. In or out of the field of thought, Scientologists, in reality, are never permitted to reason with their victims, targets, critics, enemies, SPs, etc. Scientologists are only permitted to treat or handle such people as “fair game,” that is, to attack or pursue them, both in the field of thought and in the field of persons.

The US has known for years about Scientology’s and Scientologists’ physical attacks on me, as well as a litany of other unlawful and antisocial acts against me. In all the time they have considered me an SP and an enemy, Scientologists have never reasoned with me, or acknowledged my reason, either in the field of thought, or in the field of the physical world where real humans live real lives. As is clear in the public record, the US, despite many Scientology victims’ testimony and documents, has continued to support and promote the organization as if its practices are as peaceful as prayer circles.

A recent project undertaken by the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, as a great number of people are aware, has resulted in several articles based on videotaped interviews with recently escaped Scientology “executives” about serial physical violence inside the cult, particularly at the hands of ecclesiastical head Miscavige himself. http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/

I believe there is more than enough immediate evidence here to force the US the review, and withdraw, its support for Scientology and its activities. The SP Times lead in:

Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige.

Since the passage of the IRFA in1998, the US has largely ignored the violence, intimidation, and other antisocial victimizing Scientologists have perpetrated against their SP victims outside the cult. There has been no mention of such violence in the State Department’s yearly reports. The State Department should not be allowed, I believe, to now ignore the documented culture of intimidation and violence inside Scientology, particularly since that violent culture’s source is its rotten core.

Each national government where Scientology operates, I believe, has a duty to warn its citizens about the culture of violence into which the organization is luring them. All Scientology advertising and recruiting efforts are to draw people further and further into that culture of violence, closer and closer to Miscavige.

A culture of violence is not peaceful. Violence can certainly be religious expression, as Scientology proves. It cannot be, however, religious expression, or religious exercise, or worship, which the US, pursuant to its International Religious Freedom Act, is compelled to protect and promote. I believe that the US has a duty, even pursuant to its own law, to withdraw its support for Scientology internationally. And I believe that national governments, which the US makes subject to this US law, have a duty to their citizens and their nations, to get the US to do this right thing.

From the St. Petersburg Times:

–  Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader’s attacks.

–  Physical violence permeated Scientology’s international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times.

–  Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty to Miscavige and prove their mettle.

– Rathbun says, “Nobody’s respected because [Miscavige]’s constantly denigrating and beating on people.’

– Rathbun, Rinder, Scobee and De Vocht say they participated in and witnessed madness, from musical chairs to repeated physical abuse.

–  Rathbun and Rinder list the executives they saw Miscavige attack: Marc Yager: At least 20 times. Guillaume Lesevre: At least 10 times.

–  Ray Mithoff: Rathbun said Miscavige “would regularly hit this guy open-handed upside the head real hard and jar him. Or grab him by the neck and throw him on the floor.”

–  Norman Starkey: “Right in the parking lot, (Miscavige) just beat the living f— out of him, got him on the ground and then started kicking him when he was down,” Rathbun said.

–  He said he saw Rinder “get beat up at least a dozen times just in those last four years … some of them were pretty gruesome.”

–  Said Rinder: “Yager was like a punching bag. So was I.”

–  The issue was the humiliation and the domination. … It’s the fact that the domination you’re getting — hit in the face, kicked — and you can’t do anything about it. If you did try, you’d be attacking the COB. (COB is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center David Miscavige)

–  [Miscavige’s violence] was random and whimsical. It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment.

–  [Miscavige] shouted obscenities at Rinder, grabbed him and, while holding him in a headlock, twisted his neck and threw him to the floor.

–  Of the dozens of attacks Rinder says he endured, this one was the most painful. “my neck was out of place, and for maybe 30 minutes I couldn’t speak because my larynx had been squashed against the back of my throat.”

–  The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds.

–  He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another.

Scientology’s response, also from the St. Petersburg Times, admits that a culture of violence existed in the cult, but blamed it on the people who had left and spoken out.

–  Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis: “The “true perpetrators of any violence were [the Times] sources.”

–  Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, key figures in the earlier stories and the highest executives ever to leave the church’s staff, repeatedly are described in the declarations as violent and threatening.

–  At least 11 declarations cite instances in which Rathbun was abusive. Former colleagues wrote that he grabbed, hit or slugged them, and pushed them against walls. Guillaume Lesevre said Rathun dragged him by the ear. David Henderson wrote that Rathbun tried to scare him into a confession by waving a baseball bat, then smashing it into a file cabinet.

–  In the declarations, three women said Rinder hit them. Former staffer Shelby Malone said Rinder slammed her against a wall and pinned her head back by pressing his right forearm into her neck. Kathleen O’Gorman said Rinder hit her in face with a clipboard, cracking a molar. Marcy McShane wrote that Rinder grabbed and squeezed her shoulders, told her she was “stupid” and threw her into a wall.

–  Davis said his own internal investigation found that Rathbun attacked 22 Sea Org members in the years before he left the church — 50 instances in all.

– [Scientology] said “Rathbun instituted a ‘reign of terror.’

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, which Hubbard got certifiably indoctrinated Scientologists to implant in themselves. Once Scientologists make it up their “bridge to total freedom” as far as “advanced level” OT III, they “run” themselves through Hubbard’s Xenu story hundreds or even thousands of times. The Scientologists’ implanting certainly goes on much longer on average than 36 days, which was the duration Hubbard said in scripture that Xenu implanted his victims.

Dear Mark:

Some people have been saying that I wanted an apology from you, or you should apologize to me, or even that you’ll never apologize to me, for the fair game you perpetrated against me and got others to perpetrate against me while you were in the Scientology organization. I want to assure you and everyone else that I am not seeking or asking for an apology. In fact, an apology from you without you doing what you can to correct the wrongs you perpetrated and are ongoing could be yet another cruelty. With your apology plus a quarter I could make a local payphone call.

What needs attention and resolution are ongoing black PR, ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which you were involved in and can help resolve. I know that you know this.