There is something to think about.
The days of sending Tom Cruise to the White House to whisper in the ear of the Administration is OVER
They would not
DARE use Tom Cruise as a photo op to Politicians while peddling Miscavige's lines.
We are down to 1 year left for Presidential re-election. Too much scruntiny.
Too many hard knocks to Tom Cruise's career.
I sincerely believe the usage of Scientology celebs for Political clout is
DEAD.
When I looked at that picture two words sprang to mind:
Blowjob and Whackjob
Rant mode on/
I was born in Washington DC, at George Washington University hospital. I grew up in Washington DC in Georgetown... for a short time I lived on the top floor of an Embassy, my mother was the Ambassador's Executive Secretary... My friends parents all worked for "the government"... I grew up knowing that something was very wrong with our "Federal" government, there was no integrity, there was only money and a lust for power.
Everything in Washington DC is and has been for sale. There is no democracy, just money for actors who make occasional appearances to massage various interest groups, it is ALL a theatrical to fool public citizens.. the ONE congressman who was willing to meet with me face to face rather than through a Chief of Staff or whatever, who happened to be the sitting representative with the highest percentage popular vote in his district of all congressmen, was Cong John Traficant, he ended up going to federal prison. You see HE dared go after the IRS... and AIPAC/ADL's influence on the hill.
So did Scientology's old pals, The Spotlight, and Liberty Lobby and Willis Carto... and the Spotlight newspaper, Liberty Lobby et all.. was destroyed utterly... after a scientologist worked his way up through the organization from being a copy boy in the 1970's to being the #2 man with 'the keys to the kingdom'... while they were being sued by a guy represented by Lawrence Heller. When I informed Mr Carto that Lawrence heller was a lawyer/director for CST... Mr Carto suddenly understood
some of what had happened to him.
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Before there was "the net" there was Willis Carto's populist operation.. his outfit first published the story of the USS Liberty being bombed and strafed by Israel to try and get us to attack Egypt in the 67 war. And the first expose about the Federal reserve, and most other of what are now internet classics...and TRUE.
The Federal government really is a theatrical... executive branch agencies are expected (encouraged) to screw up so that when their constituent writes their Senator, about a screwup, his staffer sends a letter to whatever agency, and helps them 'fix' the problem. John Q public thinks he was just helped by his representative... but even that was by design...
Congressmen shmooze ANYONE for the money or blowjobs. The US congress is bought and paid for by corporations and by AIPAC... $cientology is just one more corporation... with a Lobby firm, named Federal Legislative Associates and a lawfirm named Williams and Connolly representing David Miscavige and CST!
I found out about Williams and Connoly when the Washington post was added to RTC vs Lerma in 95 and the Posts law firm recused themselves due to conflict of interest and The Wash Post had to goto another firm...!!
Corrupt... its more like Gommorrah... and much like pre WWII Fascist Italy
IMO We need regime change...and a return to Constitutional rule, the place to go after scientology is at the State level....IMO.
Perhaps, having done in your face lobbying on capital hill for the scientology cause for a decade, I have grown --- worse than skeptical...
I sat down with Bono's chief of staff and HE TOLD ME the story of the drowning of Judge Swearinger's dog, and he just wanted to hear more juicy stories! (poke in the ribs, lets go have a drink at The Palm...)
Ive sat down with the Senate minority leader's staffers (all of them) at their group mansion on a secluded hillside next to Spout Run Parkway...who assured me that scientology would never get anything through the US Senate... but nothing on the record.
Ive voiced my opinion in front of charades like the CSCE "Commission for Security and Coorperation in Europe", in front of that slavering scientology italian lapdog Massimo Introvegne, and had my words erased from the record!
Ive been ejected from a public hearing full of fawning congressional morons for wearing a Scientology kills T-shirt, while in the hallway, staffers from other congressmen told me "we need your information, help us"...and then I did
I handed a 4" think briefing pack on scientology to a senate hearing chairman, and then watched OSA DSA DC , Sylvia Stanard, place her hands on the binder,while it was in this mans arms, and while pulling at it gently, repeat with TRs IN "You don't need this, give it to me, it is all lies, YOU don't need this, give it to me.." while I was in disbelief at what I was witnessing, and kept my eyes locked on that man's eyes and said :"Do you see what you are dealing with?????, do you SEEE!!!" and he did..."
Senator D'Amato from NY was a shoe in for his reelection, he sponsored a bill to condemn Germany for its "human rights Abuses" re scientology...everyone told me, don't bother going after Sen D'amato, he will win for sure... everyone knows he is corrupt... it doesnt matter.. but I spent a pile of (Mr Robert Minton's) cash on stamps and mailing letting the good people of New York know that Sen Damato was in bed with scientology... well, I did describe them as a satanic cult, but anyway, D'Amato lost!! and even the guy running against him, Shumer, had his staffers meet with me.. but that's another story..
I'm not bragging, I'm just saying, I've been there... and it is way worse than anybody thinks...
I was tutored on lobbying techniques by a staffer from Seagrams Lobby firm..and from VIACOM... I was tutored on how to get the dirt by an auditor in US Inspector General's Office, of the US Dept of Treasury, the IRS. People like this were my friends,
they taught me.
Yes there were and perhaps are few good people on the hill but of those who survived, many are now running for the hills, as I have, cause they see the rise of the Neo-Con 4th Reich and their bankster owners...and some mysteriously fall out of upper story hi-rise balconies...and there have been a lot of suicides...
Frankly, it is because of these things that I believe our best chance is at the state level and the OWS movement..because our federal system is broken, having already been sold to the highest bidders, long ago....
Arnie Lerma
PS: And I was told we were close to having congressional hearings about scientology, where WE would be heard... so close that i was asked to compile lists of those who would willingly testify and who would need to be subpeona'd... and then there was 911...and everything turned upside down...