Bibliophile

You just made tea come out of my nose with that one! What really makes it funny is that I could picture Miscavige, with his slicked back coif and car salesman smarmy persona and hard sell intense glare - saying something just like that.

Here are the KR's that the Co$ uses as the basis of why they declared her a "Supressive Person" and kicked her out of the church. http://tonyortega.org/2015/10/27/the-leah-remini-files-an-exclusive-look-at-the-krs-that-inform-her-memoir/ Basically the worse that can be said about her from them is that she acted like a rude diva on a few occasions and that is all subjective hearsay. The truth is she wasn't kicked out-she left once she was put through a small fraction of the oppression that others went through because it gave her the guts to look critically at her "religion" for the first time. Once you finally step back and allow yourself to see the forrest rather than just the trees immediately infront of you the sane moral people run for the hills.

I actually think that 20/20 may have just made a ton of concessions to get Co$ to participate. I know they did something similar with BBC's panorama when they did a show on $cientology (you can search it-it was called Scientology and me) and they made them agree not to interview some people and never use the word cult. The thing was BBC's John Sweeney did all the things that he said he wouldn't do anyway. He agreed, filmed the spots with church officials, and celebrity spokespersons first then after they had that they did the hard hitting stuff anyway. They tried to pull out of the program and they succeeded in getting most of their spots pulled but BBC had enough to make them look really bad. They have not participated with BBC again. It seems to me that 20/20 really wanted Co$ participation and the didn't want to burn bridges with them so they toe'd the line which basically left the viewing public with journalistic program that didn't follow journalistic principles. 20/20 might just have been soft to ensure their participation now and in the future in the name of balanced reporting however what we ended up with was not balanced at all. Personally as the viewing public I'd rather see a genuine hard hitting expose without church participation than a weak program that barely scratches the surface and presents nothing more than a rehashing of the tamest points that everyone already knows. Weak sauce.

occording to the Co$ they are all long term wife beaters. But here's my issue with that-if your auditing and KR's and overt/withholds and sec checks didn't reveal that then your "tech" is hokum and your scripture is bogus but if your "tech" really works then you knew that abuse was going on and you did nothing to stop it and you're a criminal for ignoring the long term abuses perpetrated by staff members that you kept promoting. The thing with there smear campaigns is that it doesn't work without also implicating $cientology as being complicit

Whoops 123movies not 123video. http://123movies.vc/film/my-scientology-movie-16917/watching.html itsthe only place I could find it since it's not release in the U.S. yet.

Was is just me, or did it look like Mike Rinder's son had make up under his right eye (possibly covering a black eye from a Miscavige beat down)? Also I felt like the most compelling aspects of the "war without guns" we're largely unexplored. If the focus of the expose on Scientology was its "war" over tax exempt status and the abuse that has been the fall out of that then why didn't they bring up scientologys PI's and underhanded coersive tactics like of the scores lawsuits scientologists filed against IRS workers and the IRS as an entity to blackmail them in reversing the ruling that revoked scientologists tax exempt status. Or talk about how they had tax exempt status but lost it over using money for personal benefit of persons in the church including scientology's mentally unstable messiah. Disconnection was hardly even brought up and though they did talk about the RPF they practically mentioned it in passing and only mentioned that those in the RPF have to dress in black, call people sir, and run every where they go. What about the hours spent doing hard labor and being given only table scraps to eat and being stuffed into filthy shared lodging 40 people to a room for the minimal time you are allotted for sleep. and all of this being protected under the banner of freedom of religion all due to the IRS status as a religion. for those without HBO looking for Going Clear it's also available on Amazon video at a reasonable price as well as a few other documentaries on Scientology that are free for prime members. If you are interested in Louis Theroux's documentary My Scientology Movie you can stream it for free at 123movies