I'm with you on this - I just cannot believe what I just saw.
These folk are nuts - completely, stark, raving, nuts.
To do that with a camera rolling on you is just so ....
They live in a world that has not even a nodding acquaintance with reality.
I don't get it either. Not fully, that is. I mean, it is clear what they tried to do - and failed. Nonetheless, even from a rather machiavellian perspective still there would remain the question why they do not care about the negative impact on "wog world" that Marty's video will produce. They have to know the following:
1) Sharing the fact that these people
are Scientologists, is the first thing he (like any "SP") will do.
2) So people get to know, these deliberately raging nuts are >> Scientologists <<. And many will imply correctly, especially after having seen more vids like this (which are, ofcourse, available in abundance), that Scientology might make you behave nutty. Okay, the Scientologists will not know that there
are videos in abundance, but still: even
this one video is very detrimental to their mission.
3) So them who watch the vid(s) will assume Scientology must be some mightily nutty thing, and they will stay away from Scientology altogether. Or even visit "SP" sites and become "enemies" themselves.
- How can their priorities ever get so twisted?
In battle terms, this mission could still make sense as a strategy, considered that getting a video where Marty uses violence, along with the following court case(s), would have been of such "value" that the solely negative impact that has been achieved here, could be considered irrelevant, even when they need more than one try. Still, it seems to be moronic to assume that Marty would do this - another major flaw. Surely there is enough public and confidential "data" on Marty to do some personality analysis, like every real secret service agency would do, to evaluate whether a mission has any considerable chance for success or not. But then, they
cannot give up and must
never stop, because the doctrine says, they must never stop. Okay, got that one...
What comes to my mind too: it is all very staged, yes, but in such a robotic way that somehow I don't think the involved people have considered all the strategical pros and contras. What about their bosses, the ones who have sent them on this mission? Aside from the fact that these people along with their reputation are "disposable pawns" for them.
Is there even some machiavellian calculation ongoing, or is it all done just because of the "never give up" doctrine?
Understanding Scientology and Hubbard is one thing - understanding Scientologists (and some exes), seemingly, another.
It is difficult enough for me to understand one nut, Hubbard, but despite these people are following the same doctrine and trying to become little Ronbots, they still are all sick in different ways. I've read about harassment on Rinder, it was all the same, they were shouting and shrieking and what not, going completely lunatic, but also they were bringing up personal issues. I get that they are trying to "push buttons", so since these people were family members, it seems to make sense (ghah) that they brought up the personal stuff, but in that case, at some points, it wasn't completely clear whether they were really flipping out, becoming hysterical about him being an "SP" (thus, sabotaging their mission of saving the world, the universe), or whether they still were
just acting. Is there a special mode, a doctrine, that "advises" a Scientologist to crack, to go nuts in a halfways controlled way, when one has to terrorize an "SP"? The thing is, their behavior reminds me of the way one is expected to act in auditing, with all that deliberate "dramatizing". Is this the missing link I'm looking for?
