Daily Archives: June 11, 2017

Going Clear, Part 5 Dishonest Editing

Going Clear, Part 5 summary:

After establishing that 80% of L. Ron Hubbard’s time is accounted for when one reviews the magnitude and content of his thousands of lectures (Going Clear Part 2), Rathbun then examines Wright’s only significant quotation from those lectures. Rathbun demonstrates with the actual transcripts quoted that Wright liberally misquoted, mixed up the sequence of sentences so as to change meaning to smear Hubbard. Rathbun shows how Wright’s quoted passage omitted fully more than half of the text to make the lecture seem disjointed and non-sequitur. Rathbun produces the transcript and demonstrates with highlight pen the violence Wright commits against Hubbard’s words in order to put him in a bad light.  Wright even invents the ”point” that Hubbard was allegedly trying to make.  Rathbun demonstrates that invented point was very evidently NOT the point, the invented non-sequitur that Wright alleges. 

Going Clear, Part 4

Going Clear, Part 4 summary:

Rathbun reveals that Wright intentionally and unjustly ignored the testimony of Fletcher Prouty.  Prouty was more credible than virtually all of Wright’s anti-Scientology sources combined. After all, he was the famous “Mr. X” in Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, Stone acknowledging the historic, heroic and credible whistleblower credentials of Prouty.  Wright specifically discounted Prouty’s critical testimony concerning L. Ron Hubbard’s indisputable naval intelligence career and the fact that clearly the US Navy intentionally altered Mr. Hubbard’s naval records to cover for his intelligence activities.  Rathbun produces receipts to demonstrate Wright’s research of Hubbard’s military records was purely amateur.  He discloses that the entire premise Wright presented as fact that someone ‘misrepresentations’ about Hubbard naval history was a major recruitment tool of Scientology was invented by Wright; not even a single one of his anti-Scientology sources corroborates it.