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I posted a link to Mike Rinder's blog on the Leah Remini TV series thread, however I think it deserves it's own thread. Goodness knows the other person Mike spoke out with - Marty Rathbun - has enough threads about him.
Watching Mike over the years it is great to see that programming falling away and see him speaking his truth. As a 'generational scientologist' he has a much harder time than most in doing this and it takes a tremendous amount of courage to not only find your way out of the maze but also have the courage to do something about it on a global stage. Mike has suffered a lot, has been mercilessly attacked himself and has a shattered family - what he is doing now is terrific.
This latest post on his blog is Mike Rinder really taking on David Miscavige in no uncertain terms. There is anger, there is outrage, there is truth.
Go Mike! Telling it like it is. I would love to quote the whole rant but here's the link:
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-dead-agents-itself-2/
Watching Mike over the years it is great to see that programming falling away and see him speaking his truth. As a 'generational scientologist' he has a much harder time than most in doing this and it takes a tremendous amount of courage to not only find your way out of the maze but also have the courage to do something about it on a global stage. Mike has suffered a lot, has been mercilessly attacked himself and has a shattered family - what he is doing now is terrific.
This latest post on his blog is Mike Rinder really taking on David Miscavige in no uncertain terms. There is anger, there is outrage, there is truth.
Go Mike! Telling it like it is. I would love to quote the whole rant but here's the link:
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-dead-agents-itself-2/
Cleverly (?) titled Aftermath: After Money (no doubt Miscavige got a kick out of that, probably thought it up himself, laughed at his own cleverness and his sycophants all laughed along with him) it announces in its headline what has come to be the hallmark of scientology’s “Dead Agent”* efforts: They accuse everyone else of what they do. Starting right with their “clever” title.
Hey there Scrooge McDuckavige, do you know that docuseries like this are done on a shoestring budget — absolute peanuts compared to a network sitcom? If Leah was interested in making money she would be doing what she has very successfully done in the past, making a sitcom. Or if she really wanted to be rolling in the dough she could start a tax-exempt charity that claims to do good around the world, produces staged fundraising videos, hands out gauche statuses and gaudy trophies and then sit on the piles of money her team of vultures fundraisers extracts. Sound familiar?
The other hallmark of a scientology “Dead Agent Caper” is to absolutely ignore what is being exposed (see definition of Dead Agent below – scientology cannot do anything not covered in policy written by L. Ron Hubbard). Never respond. Just pretend the rapes, broken families and destroyed lives don’t exist and ramble on about what poor victims you are and how terrible people are exposing your putrid, diseased underbelly.