Ref: Conscience – Scientology and Human Rights
Lisa Hamilton does, and allowed me to share our email conversation on the matter:
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Ref: Conscience – Scientology and Human Rights
Lisa Hamilton does, and allowed me to share our email conversation on the matter:
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Kudos to Aida Thomas and those who assisted her in discovering and exposing the Office of Special Affairs (OSA, church of Scientology dirty tricks and propaganda wing) operative who publicly slimed her friend Silvia Kusada:
Aida Thomas Opens Up A Can of Whup Ass
In my view Aida sets a wonderful example of what friendship really entails.
As for Neil Roger Woods – aka Tim Higgs, aka truthseeker, the OSA operative very active in attempting to disrupt and destroy the lives and reputations of Independent Scientologists – he had his fun on this blog for a spell in 2010. That was until we noted that his creepy comments indicated he was an OSA troll.
This Woods message was a dead give-away:
4/24/2010
Mr. Rinder,
Have you ever been on the other end of one these “gang ups”? If so, was it just once or more than once? If a man spends years of his life shooting others, should others feel sorry for him when he gets shot?
Should we feel sympathy for someone who was once on the cause end of something like this but is now on the effect end?
Didn’t you and Marty Rathbun help to build the Frankenstein monster over the last 20-30 years we are now having to deal with?
Isn’t there a word for things that happen like this?
Isn’t that word “Karma”?
It is David Miscavige attempting to export the Hole right into our living room – the tell-tale “I am going to take your treasonous act of coming clean to make you guilty until you cave in and shut up”.
Woods ought to be exposed to the point where societal peer pressure forces him to confess and repent. “Oh”, the OSA trolls will rant, “but you are proposing to do just what OSA does!” No, I’m not. I have published OSA programs straight from their greasy files that direct the spreading of black PR (not fact) to ensure that folk of our ilk lose their jobs and any possibility of a livelihood. Examples, Tory Christman Program, OSA War Against Independence. That is precisely what Woods has been involved in, going on for years now. Mr Woods does not deserve to earn a red penny from anyone until he makes good on what he has been doing to others at the behest of Miscavige’s OSA network. To allow him to continue to harm people of good will is ethical bankruptcy.
Thanks again to Aida for not only demonstrating what a friend is, but also for helping to put Ethics in where sorely needed.
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, ethics, harassment, healing, independents, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, office of special affairs, PI reports, propaganda, the future, the Reformation, Uncategorized
Tagged Aida Thomas, Corporate Scientology, David Miscavige, Independent Scientology, Neil Roger Woods, Office of Special Affairs, scientology, Sylvia Kusada
An industrious individual decided that David Miscavige’s Office of Special Affairs black ops propaganda campaigns, and their Corporate Scientologist puppet executors, are overdue for a little of nature’s most effective disinfectant, sunshine.
First on the line up is the sponsor of the Corporate Scientology web rag with the Orwellian title Religious Freedom Watch.
Joel Phillips is welcomed out of the shadows. Steve Hall has also put Phillips on notice.
I encourage anyone who has time on their hands to see to it that each and every one of Phillips’ business contacts are made aware of what Phillips has been up to.
UPDATE:
More reflections on Phillips from Just Me and Mark Bunker:
Joel Phillips is an effing brownshirt Nazi! Here’s the crap he writes at
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/browse_thread/thread/a9e3bb544f0bc824?tvc=2&pli=1 .
Joel Phillips: “So I am calling for the total elimination of Islam. Many other religious choices are available to those currently in Islam. Islam must go and no Muslim can be allowed to remain anywhere in the world.”
Joel Phillips: “All Mosques must either be destroyed or made into something else. The other day we did a title for one that was converted into a shopping center, now that s a good use for one!”
Joel Phillips: “All copies of the Koran must be rounded up and burned or otherwise destroyed. If libraries insist on keeping them for historical reasons they have to be under lock and key and they have to post a guard to make sure no one copies them.”
Left to his own devices, Phillips will be packing people into cattle cars headed for concentration camps and gas chambers. He is either completely unfamiliar with or completely opposed to the U.S. Bill of Rights — particularly the First Amendment.
Astonishingly, Joel Phillips funds a publication called (this next bit would be so funny, if it weren’t) Religious Freedom Watch.
JM
Mark Bunker clarification:
This is an old post from someone looking to defame Joel Phillips by pretending to write extremist stuff as him. Not that I’m defending Phillips because RFW is filled with the over-the-top lies that corporate Scientology has spread about little old SP’s like me and my friends for years. Someone in the past also created a website supposedly from me and opened a twitter account in my name and spread similar anti-Islam messages in my name. I got the twitter account and website taken down. Tony Ortega wrote a piece about it way back when:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/10/google_and_twit.php
RFW is crap and the folks behind it are crappy. I think Phillips is likely just a front for RFW since in the video I shot of him talking with Andreas he seemed not to even know what he had on the site. But the anti-Islam material was written by someone else simply to cause trouble for Phillips and as a parody of Phillips own RFW site.
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Now this is a test. Phillips refused to answer my communication to him two years ago about correcting a litany of false, black ops PR he has posted on me. He knows how to get hold of me. If he refutes the comments about Islam, and wants them removed – notwithstanding it being posted with the opinion of Mark Bunker – all he has to do is communicate. My bet is he won’t – because he is hiding like the little rat OSA operative he is and doesn’t want to open himself to return communication about his obligation to take down his OSA propaganda designed to destroy a number of people.
I also suggest people write to the “religious experts” who have been paid to legitimize Phillips OSA op page – and tell them a thing or two about who they are whoring out to.
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, cover up, harassment, healing, independents, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, office of special affairs, PI reports, propaganda, the future, the Reformation, the world
Tagged "mark rathbun", Corporate Scientology, David Miscavige, Joel Phillips, marty rathbun, Religious Freedom Watch, scientology, Scientology propaganda
In the mid 1980’s a Class VIII Auditor named Ian Waxler headed a group called The Council for Spiritual Integrity. He recently sent me an April 1985 newsletter The Free Spirit that the council published. A copy of it can be accessed at the end of this post.
I highly recommend people giving it a thorough read. After having done so myself I recognized a couple of important things.
The parallels between what was happening in the field in the mid eighties and now are remarkable. The newsletter reads much like this blog in terms of issues the field was contending with. Though many doubt it, I had very little exposure to the “Independent” movement of the eighties. As will be made very clear in my book between 81 and 85 I was thoroughly consumed in dealing with dozens of lawsuits and a number of criminal investigations targeting L Ron Hubbard. It was not till November of 1984 that I was thrust into the Mayo/Advanced Ability Center lawsuit, in my position as Legal Executive Author Services Inc, as it was perceived that then-RTC honchos had thoroughly screwed it up. Even then, it was only one of dozens of disrelated lawsuits I remained involved in. By the time I got into RTC, March 1987, there was little to nothing going on overtly in the Independent field, at least nothing that effected the church very greatly. I give this brief history to make the point how remarkable I find it that Moving on Up A Little Higher so parallels The Free Spirit. Uncanny in some respects, like choosing July 4th for an annual Independents’ get-together.
Having been accused of all manner of skullduggery – there was plenty I was involved in, just not so much in this sector – by folks on the receiving end from the eighties, I batted back a lot of nasty comm I’ve received from that sector for three reasons. First, it was full of false accusations and arguing facts seemed to go nowhere. Second, and more importantly, it didn’t open the door to any handlings – their presumptive why for the past Independent movement having nothing whatsoever to with anything they did or didn’t do (the why is God). The comm only reinforced the conclusion I had already drawn about the ebbing of the “squirrels” (from my church perspective) that they had suffered the fate LRH had suggested they would if they did two things : a) squirreled, and b) denigrated Hubbard and his technology. Third, I found both “a” and “b” to be rampant within the current Freezone.
However, reading the Waxler CSI newsletter caused me to re-think this historical era. It has prompted me to conduct a thorough investigation and evaluation of the 1980’s Independent movement for purposes of learning from its strengths and weaknesses.
I am interested in receiving hard facts from the perspective of pioneer Independents on what went right and what went wrong from their points of view. I do understand the impact of the Mayo/AAC going down. I was most definitely involved in that. But, there are certainly other factors. There must be more useful facts for pure evaluation, that is, what did the Independents do or not do to lose their momentum, cohesion, and effectiveness.
While this process can certainly lead to important connections being made by various sectors of the Independent field, I am quite certain a bunch of comm attempting to “enlighten” me on the virtues of “a” and “b” above is going to be counter-productive. Because of the volume of traffic on my lines on a lot of productive fronts, this is a word of warning that I am not going to devote any time to such origins. If that is the bulk of what I receive, I’ll understand my initial conclusions – though omitting pluspoints like Waxler produced – were probably right in the first place.
If you have such facts and are willing to share them, please forward me reports at rathbunmark@yahoo.com.
Posted in acknowledgments, independents, miscavige crimes, office of special affairs, propaganda, squirreling, tech alterations, the future, the Reformation
Tagged "mark rathbun", church of scientology, Council for Spiritual Integrity, David Miscavige, Ian Waxler, Independent Scientology, marty rathbun, scientology
Tony Ortega at the Village Voice published an interesting story on the spiking of the FBI investigation into David Miscavige, supreme leader of Scientology Inc’s human trafficking operation.
If someone wants to really understand how Scientology Inc is able to manipulate the highest levels of America’s most powerful law enforcement agency they should read the two references I suggested Tony read.
First, read Matt Taibbi’s epic story in Rolling Stone magazine, Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Taibbi’s expose of corporate corruption at the top of the US federal government is very accurate. It has been going on for decades, and over three decades under the direction of David Miscavige I helped Scientology Inc perfect how to capitalize on that filth bucket.
Second, if you want a post-graduate level understanding read Lawrence Wright’s book The Looming Tower. Wright was deservedly awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for this work. His description of the political and money motivated systemic corruption of the FBI tracks on all four corners with what I observed in interfacing with them (and out-maneuvering them) over three decades.
Don’t get too worked up. I’ve been saying it for three years and I’ll say it again. The solution to Scientology Inc is not ‘over there’; it is in the hands of Scientologists. Independent Scientologists who take responsibility for the subject by proliferating its practice in a safe and sane manner.
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, cover up, healing, independents, int base, justice, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, office of special affairs, politics, propaganda, the future, the Reformation, the world
Tagged "mark rathbun", Amy Scobee, Daniel Montalvo, David Miscavige, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Independent Scientology, John Brousseau, Lawrence Wright, marty rathbun, Matt Taibbi, mike rinder, scientology, Scientology Inc, Tiziano Lugli, tony Ortega
The International Freezone Association has apparently made a very interesting announcement. They are changing their name to Association of Professional Independent Scientologists.
For those who have not been following this blog for long, in its early days of late 2009 I initiated the idea of people standing up and announcing themselves as Independent Scientologists. Some of the benefits of doing so and some of where I saw this trend going was covered in the post titled Independent Scientologists Community 26 Sept 2009.
Since then I have taken some heat from various sectors for not embracing the “Freezone” or the “International Freezone Association”. Rather than waste a lot of time in debate I kept carrying along with the “Independent” agenda. The idea was that given enough numbers and enough persistence three aims would ultimately be achieved:
a) Scientology would ultimately become differentiated in the public mind from the Church of Scientology as Independent Scientologists took a stand and took more responsibility for it.
b) Scientologists in greater numbers would no longer feel they had to disassociate themselves with from Scientology to survive and flourish. They would de-pts from Scientology Inc and recognize that no madman can or should have a monopoly on their religion.
c) By the continued momentum of “a” and “b” the dark empire of Corporate Scientology would become increasingly irrelevant as the subject of Scientology rose from the ashes like the Phoenix in the forms of myriad Independent Scientologists.
We are one month past the beginning of year three in a plan that I initially estimated would take about five years.
There is a long way to go.
There will always be peaks and valleys.
Hopefully, we will continue to experience momentum.
There has truly been a river of warmth, kindness and support!
I just want to say thank you for your caring communications in answer to my post as well as through emails and Facebook messages. I have been quite amazed to receive literally thousands of such emails and messages.
I would like to make a point about all of this – if it wasn’t for the unbelievable support we have gotten from so many this entire quest for truth and justice might already have been squashed. What has given us strength and resource has been the fact that so many people have come with support – information, brilliant ideas and funds to help with the legal defense. We have even had some help in getting more clients for our marketing business after losing many of ours. All of this has served to give us the strength and organization to be able to present the truth. And it is the truth that can pierce through 16 inch thick armor. And remember “truth is the only thing that can go through 16 inch armor plate steel.”
We have an attorney team that truly is incredible. They often work longer hours than Sea Org members and they are in it for the cause of justice. On top of that, they are absolutely brilliant. And they know they are up against deep pockets that can pay for the most expensive counsel. Independents have been there every step of the way since the TRO and suit were filed with support in every way.
It is a real shame that parishioners’ hard earned money is being used to cover up the crimes and gross human rights violations being committed by the “leader” of Scientology.
Anyway, it is I who owe you the thanks. Those who have come through with real help to win this battle. Whether it is being done to help salvage Scientology from ruin or to protect human rights or whatever drives you – your help is the only reason we are able to have the strength, resource and skill to fight this battle and have any hope of winning.
As has been covered on this blog, we were served with a 34 page motion for summary judgement. In a nutshell, on May 7th, the Church of Scientology will walk into a hearing with a judge, and demand that Wayne and I are found guilty without trial. If they can prove none of the facts that make their case are in dispute, a judge can simply bang down the hammer and our case will never go before a jury. The work that is ongoing to prepare our answer to this is considerable.
To deal with this we are asking for your continued help. And please be assured, no information will be divulged by us as to the source of any donations or otherwise. Any and all information will remain completely confidential no matter what pressure is brought to bear. You can donate to the defense fund here: www.debbiecookbaumgarten.com ;
Maybe my new nickname should be THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST! And it is a hornets nest of out ethics at the top. But it can’t be allowed to just go on. It has been going on to the extreme detriment of many good people and to the detriment of a movement that would otherwise be thriving, helping others and protecting and preserving human rights.
If only the last 30 years of real stats for Scn orgs internationally, like Auditors Made, Grade Chart steps completed, Releases, Clears, OTs made, bodies in the shop, etc. could be laid out on graphs. The decline would be shocking. If only the public saw those real stats instead of the BS that they see at the glitzy events, maybe it would break the spell and they could see that we aren’t in Kansas anymore.
Deep down you always believe that truth and good wins in the end, but when you look around in life that often doesn’t really seem to be the case. Those who can afford top legal defense certainly have a way of getting away with murder. So we definitely have our work cut out for us.
Thank you again for your support. We have a ways to go to win. But it can be done!
– Debbie
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, Debbie Cook, FLAG, harassment, healing, independents, int base, legal threats, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, office of special affairs, texas, the future, the Reformation
Tagged "mark rathbun", Corporate Scientology, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Independent Scientology, marty rathbun
On March 13, 2012 Moving On Up A Little Higher received its sixth millionth (6,000,000) visit.
People from 107 countries have tuned in so far this year. I have included below a list of the top fifty countries in order of rank by number of visits.
Thanks for visiting. Thanks for participating in the conversations. And thanks for letting others know about the Scientology blog that never sleeps.
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