But from the 2nd season, she began using the whole Nuremberg "brainwashing defense" to explain all the abuses committed by Sea Org members, and fired up the "Scientologists believe in pedophilia" theme.
And Mike Rinder, the person most responsible for covering up sex abuse in Scientology, would just sit there and nod his head, saying "they did this", "Scientology does this", never "I did this", or "This is what we did to you."
Hi Alonzo!
First Off: I Really do not have the time or frame of mind to keep posting the same thing over and over in response to the same type of thing stated over and over, yet by a different person or maybe it is not a different person?
Mike has taken on an immense amount of responsibility for what he did and he will continue. this is my opinion as an outsider. I would, and did and do trust him with my identity, and although I only saw him briefly at events and during my stint at gold base/int, I can say that I would trust him with my life.
He has never betrayed my trust since we have 'met' via email and had several short dialogues.
I always wish I could help out him and Leah more.
Secondly I really feel you may be missing the point that it really isn't that "Scientologists believe in Pedophilia" I did not get that view at all from watching the episode. - I think it's more that they
don't believe in it, nor consider it being a problem, and are indifferent to it more than anything else.
When one is an auditor, things come up. Things that come up have to be addressed the way they are 'supposed to be addressed'. This can happen even if it's not in a "confessional"... it can come up in just "flying ruds" or whatnot.
Hell I've seen people go past life on "repair of past ethics conditions".
Does this make it right? No, not by a long way...
but the fact that it was brought to light that this occurs as part of the standard practices of scn
is only a good thing.
The more understanding people can gain about how things are/were and why they are/were that way, and
why no one did anything about anything is IMO educational for those who may be interested in WTF IS HAPPENING UP IN THERE.
I'd have to re watch the episode to give you the exact things I found to be outstanding in terms of educating and informing the public on what and why. I was thinking WOW, Its exactly like that! AND better than I could have tried to explain it to someone.
It makes much more sense than to just having people think 'oh, most Scn are just a bunch of sickos who condone pedos'. I didn't get that take on it at all.
Some of our families are still there and we don't consider them sickos... moreso they are victims of a broken system (understatement).
Oh, and I am talking your average run of the mill scn, not the fanatical osa member or sea org commander, etc.. We were the good guys... wanting to save the planet. That alone justifies so much, or it used to... shame, that.
Hope I explained this right... My brains aren't working super well right now.
Thanks in advance for your consideration of my take on it.
-No One