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The Marty Rathbun airport incidient - prespective from a murdered journalist

Lermanet_com

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Nominated for one of the STUPIDEST moments in recent memory of the Cult of Scientology.

Three of the most senior, international ecclesiastical executives of the cult verbally harassing Marty at LAX. This is akin to three cardinals from the Vatican verbally abusing an ex-catholic parishioner at the Rome airport.

They simply cannot stop executing LRH's idiotic, self-destructive 'always attack' doctrine.

How stupid is this? Scientology stupid.

[video=youtube;EG70fhg0wL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG70fhg0wL4[/video]

A few quotes from page 227, of Paul Klebnikov's(note) The Godfather of the Kremlin, In the The Age of Gangster Capitalism

He was talking about Yeltsin's reelection campaign in Russia:

"While the Communists were handicapped by their weak public relations strategy, the Yeltsin camp received help of the best foreign campaign specialists. One of the first image specialists was Tim Bell, the advertising genus behind Saatchi and Saatchi and Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. The Yeltsin team also recruited the campaign managers responsible for California Governor Pete Wilson's impressive come-from-behind election victory in 1994. The American campaign managers were installed in Yeltsin's campaign headquarters in the Presidential Hotel. They were under strict instructions to keep a low profile and to venture from the hotel as little as possible. The California team was based in suite 1120 of the Presidential Hotel; across the hall in Room 119, was Tanya Dyachenko. (Yeltsen's daughter) The professional relationship. American political strategist George Gorton bragged to Time magazine, was unusually close: Tanya and the Americans shared the same secretary and same fax machines."

"The American consultants were treated like foreign royalty"

NOTE THIS:

"The Americans suggested such dirty tricks as trailing Zyuganov with "truth squads" which would heckle him and cause him to lose his temper.

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Paul Klebnikov was Forbes Russian Bureau chief, he was murdered, Richard Behar author of the 1991 Time Magazine article on Scientology founded an organization to investigate his murder...

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Begs the question: Just whose PR tech is $cientology using? Do any of the PR names ring any bells to anyone?

Keywords: Tim Bell, George Gorton, Governor Pete Wilson, Saatchi and Saatchi, truth squads. marty rathbun
 

prosecco

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I don't understand the connection. Yes, Tim Bell is a PR master. No, didn't know he was behind the Yeltisin PR coup.
 

Lermanet_com

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I don't understand the connection. Yes, Tim Bell is a PR master. No, didn't know he was behind the Yeltisin PR coup.

That the Rathbun Airport incident - there were lots of folks wondering how they could be so stupid, why they would do it, hell, so was I...

Then reading this eye opening book, noticed US PR outfits telling Yeltsin to do what sounds like the same thing back then...

The question WHY would CO$ do it is answered IF it was suggested by a their Firm, perhaps one of the same outfits described in Klebnikov's book. Did this help? I'd like to know the other names alluded to.

$cn used to use Hill and Knowlton < This firm choreographed the entirely fictitious story, using the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador, to tell a tear jerking story about babies being ripped out of ventilators... to galvanize the US public into supporting the Iraq war.

Hill and Knowlton supposedly dropped $cientology telling THEM to clean up their act. So who is $cientology's Public Relations Firm now? Might it be one of the same ones in the excerpt above? Maybe the guys that did Pete Wilson's governorship campaign?

This posting was just a seed for those hyperfocus types that I know are out there, that can beat search engines to death and skim lots of tl:dr texts.

AND I can add this tidbit:

Saatchi and Saatchi mentioned as using one of the PR guys in the excerpt I posted, are the largest financial contributers to $cientology's front group: The Way To Happiness Foundation

Edit: Error correction: Saatchi and Saatchi were financial contributers to Barbara Ayash's (Ginger's mother's) original CBAA, Concerned Businessmen of America and were listed by Scientology on their $cientology Way To Happiness site.
 
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tetloj

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Maybe the technique works until you are filmed doing it and the video goes viral on You Tube. New strategy required for the age of smart phones and social media.
 

oneonewasaracecar

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My 2 cents. LRH was a psychopath. The policies and directives of Scientology embody his illness.

Scientology: If something is wrong, you need to find the closest person to you to blame (this is what psychopaths do).

Scientology: Always attack, never defend (this is what psychopaths do).

Scientology: It is a good idea to get blackmail on people (this is what psychopaths do).

The idea of manipulating someone into doing something in public that might be damaging is just another thing a psychopath would do. Manipulation is what they do.

I would say that American Corporations, like Scientology, often behave psychopathically (there is a good documentary on this called The Corporation where they actually use the DSM IV to diagnose the US Corporation). I am not surprised that the same techniques were used.
 

Lermanet_com

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So deceitful and immoral behavior is not limited to OSA...

That is what Political Ponerology is about see Ponerology.com
 

RogerB

Crusader
Good one, right on target, Arnie.

You too Oneone . . .

For the search engine wizards: typically, the largest international Ad Agencies competitors each own one of the largest competing PR firms as subsidiaries. I saw this when I visited and dealt with them here in the '80's.

I forget the line-ups now . . .

But the fact is, these bastards are totally amoral if not outright immoral in their standards of conduct and what they think is right and proper to do to make a $$$ or 4.

Thus it is totally correct to see them in the context you cite Arnie of serving an evil empire and doing whatever is necessary to earn a dishonest $$$.

Thus it is totally correct to see these two camps of characters partnering to facilitate the outcomes desired by the payer of the $$$'s

When you look at it in the context of the obvious and easily observed as in the case of the "tech" being used by the PR types in the political arena . . . what one sees is the predominance of "attack and destroy" the opposition campaigns and a dearth of anything that presents a candidate's positive and worthwhile agenda or valid reason for the candidate to be elected . . . it is all geared to destroying the opposition.

And that is the "tech" of the cult.

R
 

Operating DB

Truman Show Dropout
oneonewasaracecar says: My 2 cents. LRH was a psychopath. The policies and directives of Scientology embody his illness.

That quote is going into my personal favorites quotes folder.
It is a concise and accurate truth!
 
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