Daily Archives: July 21, 2017

Going Clear Movie Part 2, Wright, Gibney Deception, transcript:

Mark Rathbun:  At 6:15 in the film Wright says “I’ve studied Jonestown, radical Islam”, go give his qualifications I guess and to give comparatives. I spoke to this guy for hours and days about religions and things he had written about “Methodists, Satanists, Atheists, Catholics”, everything but Jones town and radical Islam.  But, all the sudden, Larry Wright is an “expert” on Islam and Jonestown because they are going to implant this idea real early to give you…”we are going position Scientology right from the beginning with my new invention.”  Wright says right after that, “My goal was not simply to write an expose, it was to understand Scientology.”  Now, I’ve done a whole analysis of the book and just with my personal experience with Wright, that is most false he could possibly make.  I mean, I’ve gone through it chapter and verse; and it is a complete, utter lie.  His goal was clearly to write an expose from the beginning. Anything that had anything to do with bringing an understanding about Scientology – which he got in spades from me over days, weeks and months – none of it made it into his book. So, this is just a complete and utter lie.  So, he sort of create this aura of objectivity which is false.

Phony Haggis Narrative

Gibney does a good job, as Wright did, of shifting the timeline back and forth. So, he is kinda of telling a narrative, but he is real liberal moving things around and not dating them so that, like I said before, you end like it is all in present time.  So, at 7 minutes into they skip back to Paul Haggis and was what was he trying to resolve by getting into Scientology.  And Haggis says, “I’m in love.”  You go back to the book and he’s asked the same question and he answers that he had bad grades and he was going nowhere.  They have just created a second, new script.  Then Haggis said he told his wife “it could save our relationship.”  Nowhere in the book does he talk about their relationship being a problem, let alone a reason for joining Scientology.  Not in the book, not in the film, nowhere else.  It is all of the sudden a new, invented scenario. 

More Phony Haggis re religion

So, at 7:45 into the movie Paul Haggis said he was troubled when he found out Scientology was a religion.  Of course, because he is such a deeply intellectual person it was troubling.  Except that in the book, his first encounter was on the street, and it was not about somebody telling him about a cult in New York (yet another tale Haggis wove), it was a guy handing him a copy of the book Dianetics which Haggis flipped open and it said “Church of Scientology of London, Ontario.”  And Haggis’ response to “Church of Scientology of London, Ontario” was “take me there!”   But now we’re doing the movie, and we’re really going to influence the Hollywood people and really marginalize Scientology, so we just rewrite the script. Now all the sudden, Paul “the intellectual”, was troubled when he found out it was a religion. 

Deceptive editing

At 9:10 Spanky Taylor comes in – and, I don’t know Spanky Taylor from Adam – but I do know that the whole way that they have edited this film, she all the sudden says from nowhere she signed a billion year Sea Org (Scientology Fraternal Order) contract.  There is no possible way – and I was in the Sea Org for twenty-seven years and another ten years afterwards with a lot of interaction with Sea Org members – and there is not a single one of them who doesn’t have some sort of life-changing, life-altering sort of miraculous experience through Scientology before signing a billion year contract.  And they just dramatize you know, she says “they just couldn’t hold me back!”  Right? Well, what was it that you experienced that put you in the state that you couldn’t held back?  But Gibney is like, “we’re not going to put that in here.”  So, it is really sleazy editing.