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What you're missing is the lead-up to all of this. There are several vidoes from different angles plus the fact the Hanna was looking for Aaron (who can be seen walking down the street towards him in the video) and that Aaron has had an AVO taken out against him apparently and that Hanna's actions could easily be shown to be an attempt to provoke Aaron into some sort of assault.
Also, Hanna was the head of OSA for this area of scientology for many years, was the public face for the cult until he left, is STILL registered as a scilon minister and, as a trained lawyer, would know that the acts he committed are illegal and that there was no provable provocation - Malcolm certainly did nothing to provoke being kissed now did he?
Should this go to court, the media resulting from testimony would be damning for the cult and I doubt that any jury presented with all the facts would have any trouble convicting Hanna of assault etc.. I'd say the cult will try to bury this by distancing themselves from Hanna and getting him to distance himself from the cult. Not that that will work too well these days.
One video doesn't show what happened before nor does it show the whole story of what happened then.
Correct. I AM missing the leadup to this. Just saw the clip of Aaron's speech and it was a very powerful speech. I thank you. I am forwarding this video clip on to all my contacts in my local Org. Thanks for your courage.
Until the day you have your boots on the street rather then your fingers on the keyboard, you don't get to say what we should or shouldn't be doing.
Correct again. A fair statement and I acknowledge that. I do get to express my opinion however, and you -- all of you -- have every right to reject it.
It's obvious you're totally in the dark about Scientology-OSA's long history of harassment & abuse towards critics, and endless covert & overt operations designed to set people up for arrests. . .
Not correct. I have been researching this for a year and have reams and reams of information. Fully understand that the underlying tactics are vicious in the extreme and a Scientologist-run world is worse than some Nazi/1984 world. . .
Scientologists live by the creed, "Never defend... always attack." A plan was set in motion to attack prior to Mark being chased down the street by anons with cameras.
A wog jury pool would be blown away by the insurmountable evidence collected over decades of Scientology's appreciation for threatening, provoking & absuing those that criticize them.
Your blueshirt guy's attorney will be attacking only the assault video and doing his best to make all other evidence inadmissable. What is key is that
all the other evidence come forward and the protesters not get
any sort of a bad reputation.
I just clearly remember my attorney (during my very bitter divorce) telling me I had to appear to be an absolute saint or I would lose my kids, my savings, everything. A small example in comparison to this.
The clip of Aaron's speech is far more powerful and persuasive (in terms of getting people out of the COS and bringing down the organization) than the video clip of the 'assault' which was the first clip I saw posted.
Thanks for your comments. Thanks to all of you for your courage in protesting. Thanks to Aaron for clearly and publicly speaking out.