Leah Remini, Part 4 – Remini and Tony Ortega, Blackmailers
Transcript:
Mark Rathbun:
Remini asks Rathbun to join the Anti Scientology Cult (ASC)
Talking about hypocrisy. After I rejected the producer role where I can write my own ticket with Leah Remini (see Leah Remini, Parts 1-3) several months later Leah gets a hold of me and literally wants me to make a commitment to be in the ASC (Anti Scientology Cult).
Rathbun tells Remini he doesn’t want to join a cult
And told her, “look, I am not a joiner. I’m not a sheep. I’m not a follower. If you haven’t figured that out in the two or three years you have observed me…” And Leah said, “no, no, no it’s if you are against them, we’re together.” And I said, “the problem is, you want me to join a group of people that have experience with who are demonstrably, obviously far more unethical, disloyal, criminal than any Scientologist I ever deal with in 27 years I was within it.”
Rathbun schools Remini projection
I told her, “And, yet as much as you rail about it, you want me to act in the very way you accuse Scientology of acting.” In other words, “forget about all that stuff, if you are against them, you are with us. It’s use vs them. And so if you are not with us, you are for them, basically.” I told her, “no.”
Remini does what she accuses the church of doing
Remember, the narrative that Remini and the troika has been capitalizing on for the past three years, central to the whole thing which they go on and on about, is ‘disconnection.’ In other words, because in Scientology, to the extent that someone acting anti-socially can’t be reformed or lived with people will disconnect from them. That that is such a ‘greivous crime’ to family and humanity that it justifies creating a cult to combat Scientology. So, when I won’t join her group, Leah Remini literally disconnects from me. And I mean in a way they don’t even accuse Scientology of doing. She told me “not only are not to be in communication with me again, you must destroy all my contact information, because I am destroying yours!”
It is not just a command that you are not to communicate with me, it’s “we’re going to make it impossible for us to communicate again.” So, it could not have been a more explicit disconnection. And that was the response to me for refusing to say I will give love, devotion and surrender to this ASC cult of yours.
Worse than Scientology
Now, after Leah Remini disconnects from me after I refuse to join the cult…Here is where the parallels come in with the narrative “Scientology disconnects from you, and then if you keep defying they ruthlessly attack you.” So, I do a couple essays on my blog that are sort of time to time neutral on the subject of Scientology. I always felt it was important that you attained some sort of objectivity about your experience in Scientology. Even if you felt it was negative to have it continually reinforced on you that it is negative, you are going to get sicker and worse. Like Scientology, or virtually any self-help philosophy or like any religion, it is far more healthful to recognize that you are responsible for your own condition and move along and take the positive from your experience. So, I do a few posts and the troika (Remini, Rinder, and Ortega) goes crazy.
Tony Ortega Cult Hatchet Man Attempted Blackmail
Tony Ortega launches this smear campaign and he runs it for six months non-stop, about me and my family. They attempted to infiltrate my family. They attempted to drive wedges between my wife and me. When that failed, they took up a collection to hire a private investigator to spy on and harass us. And when that failed, they attempted to blackmail me. I literally received a blackmail threat. (and it was from the number one source of funding of Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker operation). “If you keep talking about the ASC, if you keep talking about our side of the story or about our laundry, we are going to expose all the crimes that you failed to disclose about your scientology experience.” And I laughed at that because unlike them, I am the one person whose life has been an open book and there is nothing I ever held back. So, I said “go ahead.” My response was “make my day.”
Ortega makes good on the blackmail threat
I didn’t hear anything for several months until the very day before Leah Remini’s January 2017 ABC 20/20 Special. I hear from ABC 20/20 asking me, “do you know a guy named Sergio?” I said, “no, I’ve never known a Sergio in my life.” Simultaneously, I receive an email from Tony Ortega, saying “Sergio Lame (or whatever his name is) says that he got raped by an old male when he was a teenager inside Scientology and that you found out about it and covered it up.” So, I got what was going down. This was the payback on the blackmail threat. They literally made it up. So, I looked up this Sergio guy. He’d been going on for 3 or 4 months in the ASC troll farm. The guy was so incredible, he would say some stuff one day that three days later he would absolutely contradict. I mean his lack of credibility was so apparent just on the face of what he was saying without any refutation. It was that bad.
The Tony Ortega Slander Laundry
So, Tony Ortega as he’s waiting for my response, blogs “watch 20/20 tomorrow; there’s going to be explosive, and I mean, explosive stuff.” Then, it was clear to me it was going to be the Segio Lan “cover up.” So, I wrote back to 20/20 and said “I never heard of this guy in my life. But, now that I’ve heard from Tony Ortega I understand what is going on. He’s running the same op he is running all the time. Mike Rinder has explained it to me.” It goes like this, Tony will run anything because he has nothing to lose because he’s a nobody with a blog. Scientology and nobody else is going to waste their time suing a guy who can never make good on whatever damage he does in the first place; and can blog from a shopping cart in an alley as well as he can from whatever apartment he is living in now. So, he’s got immunity in that respect from libel. He’ll put out the sleaziest, most criminal innuendo with little grains of truth mixed in and keep repeating enough, with the intention that a tabloid at some point will start to pick it up. The intention is to keep feeding the tabloid with the intention that ultimately – in this degraded age of infotainment, click-bait news we live in – “legitimate media” will pick up on it. And that is the only reason the blackmail didn’t run, because I called ABC out on it.
Summary
They blackmailed me, I told them bring it, they had nothing to bring so they literally manufactured something. They literally manufactured accusations of criminal conduct that never happened. Accusations that were so unfounded that no media would run with it. But, they came within an inch from broadcasting it nationally.
Now, take my experience and you get a better idea of how the ASC and troika (Remini, Rinder and Ortega) works vis a vis Scientology – they run the same gig as above day in and day out over a seven year period.
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