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There's always either an ongoing mild discussion or raging debate on message boards about how much privacy or freedom from public discussion/inspection people like Marty, Mike, Debbie, and others should be accorded. That is, once they leave they should be able to live their lives and believe what they want to believe and it's no one's business. They should be left alone to heal and find their own way in a post-Scientology world.
And so they should, I guess. :confused2:
However, they all chose to have
high executive positions for decades in a
mental therapy delivery corporation with billions of dollars in play.
OK, a mental therapy delivery corporation . . . with a religious or spiritual twist. Thus granted special protections because of the religious thing. But still top executives overseeing the collection and spending billions of dollars of hard working people's money.
When most large corporations fail or implode, or investment schemes fail, and in the process thousands of people lose their jobs, careers, life savings, and perhaps their hopes and dreams for the future, there's hell to pay for the people at the top. The ones that held the key positions in the corporation and took the money in and managed things.
A few on the list off the top of my head:
- Enron
- Arthur Andersen
- Bernie Madoff
- Jim Baker / PTL Club
- MF Global
- Washington Mutual
- Lehman Brothers
- List goes on and on . . .
The top guys screw up or are knowingly or unknowingly doing fraudulent things while executives, they sorta lose some of their right to privacy and are generally hounded for years by the former employees who lost jobs or the clients who lost money.
This is human nature and rightfully so, I guess.
People want their money back and if the money is gone, they want their "pound of flesh."
All I'm saying is the number #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, etc. guys at the top have to expect to be under inspection, discussion, and be prepared to take a lot of heat and answer up about many recriminations,
perhaps for the rest of their lives, after the collapse or failure of a corporation that many people are invested in (either financially or spiritually or both).
That's just sorta the way it goes down in this world. Human nature and all. Am I wrong?
The defense from the two top people I've cornered with direct questions about their involvement in the COS fraud and coverups: "I didn't know about that until I got out and started reading the blogs." And the other just skirted my most penetrating questions with oblique comments.
I've pretty much put all this behind me years ago, but I guarantee there's a lot of people that will be coming to these message board in the future . . . and they will be
freshly pissed and looking for their own
"pounds of flesh."
We could say, "looking for their why's and who's," per their Data Series studies. :wink2:
Maybe I'm all wrong and there's something in the Scientology mindset best described as
"instant forgiveness."
Maybe. :confused2:
I can tell you, it
doesn't exist in the Bernie Madoff world.
Hope this was not a thread derail!