Some ASC cultbot twittered me that he thought that it was so “coincidental” that I blogged about ASC shortly after Leah Remini started a podcast series that I must be blogging on behalf of Scientology. Seriously, you culties are less intelligent than bots. Did the cultbot listen to the podcast? If it had, it would have learned that:
Mike Rinder, in spite of being called out on his lack of candor in disclosing a single particular about what he did with his own paws during his twenty-years as head of Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs, had no particulars to give once again. Instead, he waxed authoritatively about acts that I allegedly did during that period. Not surprisingly, he did not even get that right in spite of me having long ago cleared that record.
His sugar mommy Remini was so impressed with Rinder’s mini-me routine that she said they would devote more time in their future podcasts to the subject of “Marty Rathbun.”
If cultbot were in the know – his condescending tone toward me indicated he was omniscient – he would have also known that Tony Backpage Ortega had recently blabbed about me on another podcast. As per usual, he lied about and smeared me and my wife in his inimitable smarmy style. Worse, for him and others he resurrected a propaganda campaign against my family.
So, the sequence is unsurprisingly 180 degrees opposite of what bunker mentality apparently agreed upon. As much as the troika would like to make Scientology and others obsess with them – they remain obsessed with me. Remini, Rinder, and their third leg Ortega, are like parasites. They have no lives or stories of their own – so they burrow in and suck the lives out of others for sustenance. They make a living off of disrespecting the lives of others. Other people’s lives for other people’s money. A sadistic, no-responsibility cult.
Having devoted some time to setting the record straight, I had been intent for two years on letting it ride with these mosquitos. But, having no original thoughts or experiences of their own, they remain intent on taking other people’s money by suppressing other people’s lives. They have decided that they cannot apparently make a living without me. Unfortunately that means I will need to do a little more pest spraying.
Rinder explained to me that they had literally had it worked out that – they, the three of them, the troika (Rinder, Remini and Ortega) – an operation, where Leah’s departure from Scientology would be orchestrated and be reported in a way that they would manipulate people into reporting it. It was an act. In other words, this is an active troll job. Leah would act as if she were being persecuted by Scientology for disagreeing with it and having all this “scandalous” information about it. All the while, she was having her agents create the story of her leaving. And it was done in such a way as to try to create a reaction on the part of Scientology. It was a string operation to try to get Scientology to reach out to try to salvage her, to get Scientology to have people disconnect from her. All it would be part of an ongoing story. It was all going to be a roll out to increase her profile and create this mystery and create this figure – this ‘warrior princess’, his innocent warrior princess. She’d be this innocent princess who was turned into a warrior because she was hunted down and persecuted by Scientology. That was the story.
As it rolled out Scientology never played its part. And they just acted like it did. She never did get persecuted, she never did get hunted down, she never did get people begging her to come back. None of that stuff happened. But, Rinder and Ortega just keep spinning the ball giving the impression that it did. The reason I refer to Rinder, Remini and Ortega as a ‘troika’ – this cluster at the top of this thing (the Anti Scientology Cult, ASC) – is they have this penchant for having one of them act like ‘Mickey the Dunce’ when something happens. That is how they rolled out Leah Remini in the first place. Tony Ortega literally reported as if he were onto a hot tip from a “tipster.” The ‘tipster’ was Leah Remini. Ortega made it look like someone else, like an insider who was leaking. And Ortega literally quoted Leah’s husband – he reported that he called Leah’s husband and said “hey, we heard your having a big break up with the church of Scientology,” and her husband was reported as saying, “oh, no, not at all, we get along just peachy keen. And if we ever did, we would resolve it with the church.” And Ortega goes as far as writing, “and we thanked him for being so candid.”
News is created
Well, the whole thing was scripted by Leah Remini, her husband, and Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega. So he literally made up this ‘news.’ That is how the whole thing rolled out and started. They continue that who op until today where one of them does something and the other one says “I don’t know anything about that.” Example. In the last episode of Remini’s first year of her series on Scientology, they spent the entire episode over Scientology accusing Leah of disaffecting and inspiring this kid Brandon Reisdorf to commit a hate crime by throwing a brick through a window of a Church of Scientology. She was like, “hah, can you believe they have accused me?” She is literally next to Mike Rinder as she says it. Rinder did in fact orchestrate the kid’s disaffection and inspired him into hating David Miscavige and Scientology so much that he was willing to maim somebody. And Remini spent the entire episode railing about how she was falsely accused and yet her partner Mike Rinder is sitting right next to her; the guy who executed the whole thing. And I know first-hand that he did.
So, I refer to them as a troika, cluster for a reason. If you do not consider them as an inseparable group, it is like a chimera, you don’t know where anything is coming from. Because it is planned and executed that way.
Ethics of the Anti Scientology Cult
Another example. They rail about ethics. “Scientology has this utilitarian ethics system, us v. them, good v. evil.” The funny thing is that literally is the ASC (Anti Scientology Cult) system of ethics. It literally consists of ‘if it harms scientology, it is good. If it helps scientology, it is evil.” Period! Mike Rinder literally said on a podcast that Scientology is ‘fair game’ and you can literally can say and do anything you want against Scientology and get away with it. Literally promoting that idea.
Rank Propaganda
Ortega puts it in many ways, day after day, on his blog. One incident really encapsulates what happens here. A woman took her car and rammed it through the front door of the Austin, Texas Church of Scientology, sped through the lobby and crashed into the Church’s nursery where there were toddlers. When the police arrived the woman said she was disappointed when she was told she hadn’t hit anybody; that she had failed to kill anybody. And that was her only regret, that she didn’t. It subsequently came out that she was primarily inspired to do this by Leah Remini. She had been reading her book or watching her show or listening to her ramblings or her productions. And of course, Leah Remini just never says anything about it. Instead, Tony Ortega comes in and Tony Ortega flanks for her by trying to euphemize the whole thing. He literally characterized the admitted attempted murder as delinquency. Ortega’s got about a couple hundred people in his sheep farm (troll farm) and they generate thousands of comments a day because that is all they do all day, sit there and comment. Just as an exercise went through the comment section that day. Out of two thousand comments, not a single person objected to his characterization or called him out on it. And they are all just frothing these attempted memes of hatred against Scientology, based on a woman attempting to kill somebody with her car.
Denialism is part and parcel with the whole ASC (Anti Scientology Cult) narrative. They have to any possible benefit and 55 million written and spoken words in lectures that constitute Scientology philosophy. They have to deny that it exists in its entirety. So their narrative can be summed real simply as, “Scientology is a group of people who have no substance; there is no substance that they are trying to protect. And yet they do two things. If somebody breaks ranks and vociferously disagrees with the group they are ostracized and are disconnected from. And if the person then escalates that disagreement and turns it into an attack, then Scientology ruthlessly dispenses with the attacker.” And that in essence is the narrative gone over and over. It is the basis of Going Clear (book and movie); it is the basis of their blogs (the troll farms). What I learned through 5 years of interacting with ASC – these people who are the authors of the bible of the ASC, and the center of the hierarchy (the Troika cluster, literally is that that narrative that they tell is precisely a description of themselves.
There is literally no philosophy, it is literally an anarchy of ideas. There is no solution. There is no interconnecting philosophy or way of looking at things. There is only ostracizing, marginalizing and attacking Scientologists. It is ‘use vs them’ and that is the only basis upon which the group exists.
The TROIKA of ASC
The Troika (Remini, Rinder and Ortega) of ASC considered that they had a well defined, hardbound hierarchy. The only problem with it is that all three members think that they are in charge. The three members, Tony Ortega who runs a daily blog serving as their PR meme guy, Mike Rinder who runs a daily blog and Leah Remini who runs reality TV and spin offs on Scientology. Every meme, every idea that emanates from the ASC emanates from those three. It may be that someone has an idea and brings it in, but clears one of those three before it gets put out there. And they continue to churn this stuff out and they only do it because it is profitable.
When I said they consider they have a hierarchy, I have had discussions with these people. Tony Ortega snickers about what fools Mike Rinder and Leah Remini are and how easy it is to sucker them into making Ortega the only “scoop guy” so he gets all the “scoops.” Mike Rinder says that Leah Remini is just a ditzy, hair brained, privileged person, who has a greatly bloated image of herself and that he has to guide her every step of the way and hold her hand. Leah Remini says Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega are hallucinating if they don’t realize that they are her bitches. And she is just using them. That’s why I say it is like a cluster; they think they have a hierarchy but each part of thinks their in charge.
It is all about money
It always comes back to money. And Leah Remini explained it to me one day. She asked me if I had been paid for participating in Going Clear. I told her, “no, I never got paid for participating in any media or documentary. And that I never would out of principle.” Remini said, “I don’t get that. I don’t understand your thinking. I didn’t participate because they wouldn’t pay me. I don’t do anything unless I’m paid. Nothing.”
Remini Scores Unlimited Funding to Attack Scientology
So at one point Leah Remini told me that after two years of careful work through her publicist, and Rinder and Ortega, had successfully come up unlimited financial backing to go after Scientology. And that she was going to create a production to do so. Leah told me that she was so well back that I could “write my own ticket” on this to participate as a producer. So, I asked her “what are you looking at producing?” And she told me essentially it was going to be a regurgitation of everything publicized about Scientology over the past seven years, about things that have happened over the past 40 years allegedly. And that she would resurrect the players who were saying things about Scientology for the past seven years as somehow new and current. My reaction was, “I have no interest whatsoever.” I’d had this conversation over two years, “if you want to do something that is educational, that is somewhat objective, that could lead to people getting on in life better, that gave some new perspective”, that was the only basis I told her I ever would participate in her stuff. And I said, “and still stands. But, what you are proposing is essentially a cheap, tabloidesque pile on that I’m not interested in.”
And I thought that would be the last I ever hear of her. Because, I mean that was the end of the conversation. I mean, she was like a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. It was like Ralph Kramden, “humada, humada, humada.” At the end of the conversation, she had nothing to say. So, I did think that would be the end of it after I told her what my position was. But, it wasn’t. But I’ll get back to that and for now stick to the subject of financial motivation.
Mike Rinder in it for the money
Remini’s partner, Mike Rinder, since he has left the church of Scientology (2007) never had a job, was never employed, never lifted a finger to do anything that wasn’t related to Scientology work that was paid for by people who were interested in seeing Scientology’s ox get gored. I know that because for his first three or four engagements he had specifically asked me to help him get into a position where he could have such backers and I put him in that position. So, since 2009 it has been a series of sugar daddies, one right after the others. A venture capitalist, former trader, actually there are a number of these people in that type of business. An old woman with a ton of money who is just obsessed on the subject. It has just been one after the other, and now Leah Remini. In essence, he has followed the same philosophy as Leah Remini who – when I rejected her offer – went straight to Mike Rinder who took her up happily.
Tony Ortega profits on misery of others
And then there is Tony Ortega, who is the third part of the troika. Tony Ortega at one point was really sucking up to me because I was getting a lot of media attention and he wanted to get his media cred. And he flew all the way down to South Texas to my home. He had just got fired from the Village Voice which he had converted into this anti-Scientology platform for two years. In rare moment when he had a moment to be somewhat candid, he told me circumstances under which he left the Village Voice. And the circumstances he said – “you know, this can’t go anywhere,” but what happened was that the Village Voice had been accused, and in fact had been investigated by law enforcement, of human trafficking, and supporting the child sex slave industry, by way of its Back Pages ads. And Ortega told me that Scientology had been exposing that and the problem is that Scientology was more accurate than anybody thought; and that, in fact, the Village Voice was almost exclusively by that human trafficking operation and that there were profits beyond that. And so the owners, now that Scientology was exposing it and now that law enforcement was investigating it, decided they had to get rid of Tony Ortega because he was just obsessed with Scientology and that was keeping them focused on him and their operation. So, they needed to get rid of him. So, in order to do that, and to extract his cooperation in keeping quiet about what he knew…which is interesting because Ortega is the first guy to accuse anyone who does go after Scientology of being bought off…Ortega literally agree to cover it up and obstruct justice for a payout of essentially a two-year buy-out deal. They paid him enough to where he could literally do nothing for two years but go out and write a book about Scientology so he could begin with some foundation of credibility upon which to continue his career which had had turned into trashing Scientology.
Sum up
So with all three of the troika I have had personal experience with which tells me the primary motivation is money.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 