OK I'll take this up because I believe you may be referring to me as being nasty, fair enough, but i will give my reasons for not backing Debbie.
It has been stated here and probably elsewhere that she took a lot of shit from the cult. I'll agree she did BUT she also received in her service a lot of preferential treatment that many others who were part of the cult did not receive such as bonuses, beauty parlor treatment and other things.
No one deserves what was meted out at Int Base.
However, their are those who were at Int Base who left without getting $50,000 tax free but left with nothing and no idea of where to go. Jeff Hawkins comes to mind and others.
As far as believing, when in, that it was the right thing and done on altruistic principles, though for many of us that was true, their are those for whom that just wouldn't be true and, to me, Debbie was one of them. I will explain.
Debbie was Captain of the FSO for over a decade. As Captain of the FSO she had to know what was going on behind the scenes. Those things that occurred behind the scenes were an RPF with deplorable conditions such as pregnant women being kept in a garage. This was not in Debbie's time period but I doubt if conditions improved under her watch. Many people mysteriously died at the Ft. Harrison, not only Lisa McPherson' but many others. One guy found boiled in a bathtub. These are just some of the things she would have had knowledge about, things far removed or inexplicable to the Greatest Good Doctrine.
Debbie, as close as I remember, testified she would have killed babies to leave the Int Base. If she would have done that to leave the Base then what would she have done to make her stat at the FSO by Thursday at 2 under the intense pressure that she must have been under to do so? How many times was Debbie removed from post at the FSO for not performing as expected?
It has been said, and I agree, that Debbie did a lot of damage with her email to the cult but was the the email truly intended to help victims of Scientology or to show DM she can be a force to be reckoned with so pay up? Do we really know Debbie's intentions for writing that email?
Being in Scientology for as long as she was and holding the position she had as well as knowing Dave as well as she did because she , herself, spent time in the Hole, KNEW it was a dangerous endeavor. Did she do it for altruistic purposes or because she really felt she had covered up a lot for Dave and deserved her Quid Pro Quo?
Then, it is speculation that she did, got paid off a second time for her performance on the stand and to be shut up quickly before she said more.
No, we don't know she did for sure but there is strong indication that she did. For one thing, I'm sure Ray Jeffrey would not have agreed to the court order without appeal if their wasn't sufficient pay for his effort. There are pictures on the net of she and Wayne on a beach somewhere smiling and happy not long after that case ended and other signs.
Does someone deserve the treatment at the Base? No.
Did Debbie work as Captain of the FSO and not know of the dirty and dark side of Scientology for more than a decade? I seriously doubt it.
Did Debbie write that email for those being abused in and out of the cult? I lean to no.
Did Debbie suffer more than others who went through the same conditions? No. In fact she got paid once that we know of and a second time that is quite probable. Whereas others received nothing went through the same or worse and left with no idea of where to go and most of them have little sympathy for their former church.
Am I being unfair towards Debbie? Maybe, but I have reasons not to believe she is "a good girl"
Yes, Scoots above is quite right and correct.
I find it a little disappointing, even not nice, some of the criticism and labels being leveled at her.
Yes, she did the job she did while CO at Flag . . . we all acted to do the job asked of us, even if only as FSMs, while in and we did it because at the time we believed it was right.
It is a little disingenuous to be nasty towards her for doing what she and we believed to be right when "wearing our hats" while in.
We, of course, are smarter now and are right to see the tragedy of the cult and its evil . . . but we should not be nasty to those who are still coming to the truth.
We should be grateful they have seen the light and welcome them to the club of "outies" and "exies."
I
And Debbie, as Scoots points out, has performed stellar service in the cause of blowing the whistle on the evil of the cult and helping to bring an end to it.
R