Kha Khan
Patron Meritorious
Comment from Marty's blog on the effectiveness of Freedom magazine:
Also note, sadly, the at least initial sensitivity of any criticism of Hubbard. Criticism of the current COS -- OK. Criticism of management -- OK. Criticism of DM -- OK. Criticism of LRH == non-confront, ignore.
WWP Thread: The effectiveness of Freedom magazine
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Jack // June 22, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I personally started “waking up” upon receipt of the “DM edition” of Freedom Mag. I skimmed through it on first look. It just seemed so bizarre! I hadn’t a clue who “Kingpin” et al. were, nor was I even that interested.
Being relatively active online, I kept coming up against references to some mysterious “Truth Rundown” series but, again, I wasn’t really that interested. I’ve come up against so much crap in my time regarding both Scientology and the CoS that I dismissed it as more of the same.
A couple of months passed. I can’t remember why, but I randomly pulled out Freedom and thought I’d read it properly (without being too coarse, I may even have just wanted something to read whilst on the toilet…!) Anyways, whatever the reason, I read it. Cover to cover.
When I finished reading it (and remember I had absolutely NO clue what any of this was about or in reference to) all I wanted to do was find out! (It was puerile! I couldn’t believe this was Freedom (a mag I actually had a lot of respect for). The mere fact that juvenile “nicknames” were used rather than actual names was especially lame). And so I thought “oh, what the hell!”, and LOOKED.
I eventually found the “Truth Rundown” site and started reading (and watching).
What KEPT me reading, in hindsight, was the fact that there was NO criticism of LRH, no tired, hysterical accusation of “brainwashing”, no OTIII hoo har, etc. etc. This was not about Scientology. This was something else…
Also note, sadly, the at least initial sensitivity of any criticism of Hubbard. Criticism of the current COS -- OK. Criticism of management -- OK. Criticism of DM -- OK. Criticism of LRH == non-confront, ignore.
WWP Thread: The effectiveness of Freedom magazine
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