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From today's Village Voice:
In a videotaped interview, Rathbun explained how he was sent on a mad cross-country dash to hunt Annie down and bring her back.
(At the time, Rathbun was Miscavige's chief "enforcer" in the church.)
After Rathbun caught up to her at Logan Airport in Boston, Annie seemed resigned to her fate -- as Rathbun says, once she spotted
him, her shoulders sagged, and any intention she had of continuing on just evaporated. Taking no chances that she might change her
mind if she and Rathbun waited for a morning flight, Miscavige had her flown back that same night on John Travolta's private jet,
Rathbun says.
Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again.
Rathbun, at his blog, angrily pointed out the facts listed in the death certificate -- that at some point during her illness, Tidman
was moved to an apartment in Hollywood, although her sisters were allowed to keep thinking she was being held at the base, for example.
He also blamed Miscavige for coercing Tidman into dying ignominiously.
But I had to put it to Rathbun himself -- after all, wasn't he the one who screamed down the highway at illegal speeds to get to the
Ontario airport, and then flew across the country so he could track down Tidman and bring her back? An experience, combined with subsequent
"rehabilitation" with hard labor and sec-checking, that had "broken" her?
Didn't he feel some remorse for having helped to break down Tidman so that she never attempted to leave again?
"Do I feel guilty? Well, not really. She made her decision," he told me, saying that when he caught up with Tidman, she could have
continued onto a small plane that was about to leave the Boston airport and he would not have been able to follow her on board.
Instead, just the sight of him seemed to make her give up her escape attempt. Rathbun defensively added that he'd done what he could
to help the family get what information it could in the last year and a half. But then, he shifted tone.
"Yeah, I do feel bad about it," he said about the 1992 incident. "But I think I've been doing everything I can to reverse those problems."
As David Miscavige's chief enforcement officer Marty knew that she would react that way just seeing his face. It was the same reason he stayed in the
cult even after becoming victim to the abuse himself. Because he was afraid of being declared. Because he was afraid of losing his eternity.
Marty, if you wish to reverse the problems in the "church", give up trying to be the next Messiah and get out there and tell the world where all
the bodies are buried.
In a videotaped interview, Rathbun explained how he was sent on a mad cross-country dash to hunt Annie down and bring her back.
(At the time, Rathbun was Miscavige's chief "enforcer" in the church.)
After Rathbun caught up to her at Logan Airport in Boston, Annie seemed resigned to her fate -- as Rathbun says, once she spotted
him, her shoulders sagged, and any intention she had of continuing on just evaporated. Taking no chances that she might change her
mind if she and Rathbun waited for a morning flight, Miscavige had her flown back that same night on John Travolta's private jet,
Rathbun says.
Annie returned to Int Base, and never left again.
Rathbun, at his blog, angrily pointed out the facts listed in the death certificate -- that at some point during her illness, Tidman
was moved to an apartment in Hollywood, although her sisters were allowed to keep thinking she was being held at the base, for example.
He also blamed Miscavige for coercing Tidman into dying ignominiously.
But I had to put it to Rathbun himself -- after all, wasn't he the one who screamed down the highway at illegal speeds to get to the
Ontario airport, and then flew across the country so he could track down Tidman and bring her back? An experience, combined with subsequent
"rehabilitation" with hard labor and sec-checking, that had "broken" her?
Didn't he feel some remorse for having helped to break down Tidman so that she never attempted to leave again?
"Do I feel guilty? Well, not really. She made her decision," he told me, saying that when he caught up with Tidman, she could have
continued onto a small plane that was about to leave the Boston airport and he would not have been able to follow her on board.
Instead, just the sight of him seemed to make her give up her escape attempt. Rathbun defensively added that he'd done what he could
to help the family get what information it could in the last year and a half. But then, he shifted tone.
"Yeah, I do feel bad about it," he said about the 1992 incident. "But I think I've been doing everything I can to reverse those problems."
As David Miscavige's chief enforcement officer Marty knew that she would react that way just seeing his face. It was the same reason he stayed in the
cult even after becoming victim to the abuse himself. Because he was afraid of being declared. Because he was afraid of losing his eternity.
Marty, if you wish to reverse the problems in the "church", give up trying to be the next Messiah and get out there and tell the world where all
the bodies are buried.