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Okay, let's pause a moment to consider the real possibility that Scientology "phoned in" its own death threat. Same way they made up bomb threats and tried to frame Paulette Cooper.
Same way they manufactured bizarre "terrorist threats" against their own "church", in a ludicrous effort to try to turn the internet against Anonymous, LOL.
But why, if they did, would they call in death threats? One needs to think like a megalomaniacal merchant of madness in order to even imagine something like that. So, let's open up a chapter in the L. Ron Hubbard/ David Miscavige sociopath's playbook and see what it says.
LIKELY REASON WHY IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE DEATH THREATS AGAINST YOURSELF: Because, as a cult dictator, you are necessarily in a rapidly degenerating mental state of paranoia about your "security". Your multiple estates in different cities/countries and fanatical entourage protecting you just doesn't seem enough. Everyone is out to "get" you. The media attacks you daily. The internet is a never-ending tsunami of entheta about your imprisoning & beating staff. Writers and film makers are openly laughing at you with best-selling books and devastating documentaries. Even your own elite teams (Rathbun, Rinder, et al) have all turned SP, deserted, betrayed and sabotaged you right in the public eye. The Ideal Org scam is collapsing under the unsustainable tonnage of propaganda, lies & spinning bullshit. The SuperPower scam did not make planetary clearing a reality. Since the "Basics" were released more dedicated Scientologists continue to blow Scientology than ever before. Even the hard core group of reliable celebrity shills (Paul Haggis, Leah Remini, Lisa Marie Presley, Jason Beghe, Katie Holmes, et al) have openly defected and rejected the cult.
In the state of mind of a vicious cult tyrant, the most horrific sin imaginable is being publicly laughed at. And that's exactly what's happening. Wait, worse yet is the idea that the "authorities" (IRS, cops, bankers, psychs...) are going to take your money away and throw you into jail or a crazy ward.
All this calculates into an obsessive need for personal safety and security.
Miscavige thinks nothing of spending tens of millions of dollars on private investigators to follow his personal "enemies" (former staff, father, et al) for decades. He thinks nothing of spending tens of millions on lawyers to keep him personally out of the legal system. He has secret hideaways all over the world map which cost the cult hundreds of millions of dollars--all for his personal sense of safety.
But this is a problem. A charitable organization is supposed to spend their money on things other than inurement. Big problem! So how does a crazed cult leader cook the books so that he can continue spending hundreds of millions on his own personal luxury and "safety"?
ANSWER: Death threats.
See, being insane can be kind of simple. LOL