Interesting. Having read the opinions presented, I find myself agreeing with SchwimmelPuckel. Here's my reasoning:
Firstly, it's a false accusation. One thing Marty isn't is a squirrel. He's not altering the Tech: he's flogging the same, tired old Hubbardspew.... which means that his only 'crime' is failing to give kickbacks to Clearwater. While the money is very important in Scientology, the appearance of respectability is too.
Why would a cash-rich, reputation-poor organisation like the Church of Scientology perform a low-cost, highly visible black op that further tarnishes their image? They wouldn't. The most sensible option for the cult would have been to buy Marty off, quietly. Marty pockets a few million - barely registering as a blip in the income from the Ideal Org scams.... and he goes on his merry way. The alternative, that Marty is a man of principle, and he rejected such an offer -- and never mentioned it -- is highly unlikely, given that he records and broadcasts everything else.
If Miscavige is a man of principle (haha), and couldn't bring himself to buy Marty off, why not send in his lawyers to deal with the alleged 'squirrel'? They could tie him up for years with a mass of frivolous or not-so-frivolous lawsuits. They've done such things before... yet this time, they fail to do so.
Instead, we get four morons with cameras strapped to their heads...
making Marty look good. Spreading news of Marty and what he offers. Granting him beingness.
Either David Miscavige has cracked, or something more complex is going on. Or both. It's not impossible that long years of heavy drinking, exposure to Hubbardism and isolation from reality have fried one neuron too many. Maybe Squirrel Busting genuinely seems like a good idea to Miscavige, and nobody on his lines dares to tell him otherwise. But the Midget is a violent man, surrounded by people who believe that they can and should break mere 'wog' laws for the Greater Good, and for lifetimes yet to come. So why hasn't Miscavige ordered somebody to shoot Marty dead? (He wouldn't be the first obstacle to Scientology to end up dead in mysterious circumstances, after all...)
None of the above: Marty is at large, delivering Hubbardism and making the 'Church' look bad.
Remember LRH: "Don’t get interested in real estate. Don’t get interested in the masses of buildings, because that’s not important." I appreciate that I'm comparing camel turds with donkey turds here, but Marty is more 'on-source' than the Midget.
David Miscavige has made more money than he'll ever be able to spend, and he's discovered that being the leader of a cult is a lot less fun than LRH made it look. Maybe he really
is looking for an exit strategy... or maybe some of the people who work for him are looking for a way to get him out. One beating too many... and if you're a loyal Hubbardite, who replaces Miscavige?
Marty. Because unlike Captain Bill, Marty continues to adhere to the LRH material. Why does he do that? Surely, a 'reformation movement' would actually reform and rehabilitate Scientology: bring it up to date, removing the Cold War paranoia and the UFOs, in the same way that protestantism proclaimed its
differences from the Church in Rome. Not just "we think the Pope's a bad man for selling Papal indulgences, so we want Martin Luther to be the new Pope..." but a very different church.
If Marty is Scientology's Martin Luther (rather than Scientology's Rudolf Hess - thanks Smilla)... where are his
95 theses? Or is the guy too busy goofing off washing his truck, and the Squirrel Busters?
I smell something fishy -- and I'm not talking about the contents of Baldrick's Apple Crumble.
