I took few days to try to put up my thoughts, which are neither less or more valuable than Mike Rinder's take or other member's opinions here..Thoughts,are just thoughts and opinions, either made of prejudiced favorable\not favorable to her, or made from personnal experiences in encountering her as a colleague \ reg \ Captain\boss runing a $cieno SO compound. (A slavery and mindfucking compound)
(I don't have any doubt she was a good intented youngster when she joined $CN with good motives, as we mostly did)
Mike, as a colleague, may have good feelings and much admiration toward her, her past en present behavior, her post and support her decisions...He can admire her record of service and training at Flag. Fine...It belongs to him, not to others neither does it represents THE RIGHT THOUGHT.
Other fellows may have work for FSO CAPTAIN Debbie and experienced true $cientology abuse from a High Rank powerful senior who would decide if they are denied red meat, proper sleep, and sent to[STRIKE] rpf[/STRIKE] prison...It's like having power over you to live or die. We never read anything from her about this..only few ex SO did mentionned it.... so they are too entitled to their opinion, feelings, emotions and to be judgemental...even though her e-mail got people out...but this is another issue. (I don't believe it was intended to be so but more as an attempt to create something else..., but I may be wrong here)
That would have help the cause if she disclosed such human abuses in her e-mail. If she would have tols the human right abuses on SO coumpounds while testifying and would have appeared as genuinely well intented to many people.
But it remained only focus on David Miscavige scam of IAS. ..the money...
The worst abuses and tragedies remained under the carpet...in the closet...
Some other, may have a lot of admiration for her as they recall the very good auditor she was....they may feel she helped them...they may be greateful - fine!
Some others may have carried a very negative prejudice toward her as they may have been put into these famous Flag reg cycles (you are litterally extorted all your belongings even the inheritance you didn't yet get as the dev-t old mother isn't dying yet) - they may have been threated, put in ethics, coerced to get loans..put on infinite cycles of seck checking, and gone bancrupties and mentally sick...those may hold a different opinion than Mike.
Some others, are gone..they are dead...because they have been put in isolation , denied their right, let fall into dehydration, locked in small rooms, and mentally tortured to be forbidden any communication and to leave...others have taken out their life, other died in despair, sick, completely ruined... those, we can't know what they think... (Here I had a priviledge access to the heartbreaking story of one millionaire completely ruined in a short time and who had suicide as it's sole option to end his sufferings...)
I don't belong to any of this category, but I know how Flag was run as a SO compound, by experience, I know it was run as a slave camp, and that a top executive must be an enforcer of abuses to keep holding such position with full support of COB...especially when the executive live on royal condition , like a queen in a palace, while SO don't have proper food, sleep and hygiene\shoes\ medical-dental care, berthing...and are put in prison, while those executive buy expensive cars the day after they ruined a weak woman.
These are fact...wether these are pleasant or not...these are facts...They might be ''normal business as usual'' (as the end justify means to get stat compliancy for some people who run it from the top) , but for the nobody, the one in despair, at the bottom...these are deep suffering and scarves that remains for decades if not for a lifetime. I never read any kind of sorrow, apology, admission from Captain FSO Debbie, ..never... I only read and heard what have been done to her...at the end of her long prosperous career.
We certainly don't know what she ressents, deep, in her heart...neither what the futur will bring as changes of viewpoints.
But when some people tell me that Captain Cook was so admirable, because of her record, training, devotion, e-mail, ...I am short of admiration..I gave it to people who ,despite the abuses , left, escaped, and survived the sequels and those many who spoke. Those who tried to help others to go free and those who sincerely expressed their deep sorrow..we can feel their shame and sadness when they do so...they deserve admiration for the courage to see the wrongdoing.
I wouldn't take for a proud record any of my years in the cult neither any ''pseudo accomplishment''...and I would forbid anyone to remind it to me as a positive accomplishment. I never talk about it, as it turned out that I was working for an Enslaving Organisation INC.
A few people in the cult, rose to top exec post, and used their powers to give relief to people...to help them to route off, to get better slave conditions, to solve situation etc..some protected their juniors..those were more driven by kindness than by power, status, and money goals. I don't know about Debbie Cook..only her juniors would know and may judge her records as well as public who she regged
So when people don't suddenly change completely their feelings and mind, because one seems to have left the [STRIKE]Cult[/STRIKE] Church INC...but not the cult of $cientoplogy and Hubtardism, and never brought light to what happened neither unveiled the abuses to let know the SO slaves conditions at Flag...I understand them. And they shouldn't pay attention to any comment like :: Ehhhh you can criticize when you'll have done what she has done....bla bla bla.. How dare you...bla bla....
Many people refused to do abusing stuff although they were offered power, money and status...
ASFAIAC ,
I am happy she can recover a normal life..better her heath, because there is no doubt she ALSO have suffered some abuse in the last months ...but the fact she didn't released any other abuses in her e-mail is a choice, a decision she made...
Now, it's belongs to her..only her..
I wish her good luck and to resolve anything she would need, also to find peace at heart, but I will never admire the post and fucntion she held for what it had implied, caused as suffering\abuses and tragedies.. No!
No matter what Rinder, or any other member here, may think and write as their thought is only their viewpoints from their own perspective. Not at all more valuable that any other.
In other words and to make it very simple, there is a huge part missing in
the complete story behind the story to grasp what was the true Story of Debbie Cook and to understand it. All the part of Captain FSO COOK at flag... But I feel very grateful I was not a nobody behind the scene to experience it!
My 2 cents
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