How Ideologies Make You Blind and Stupid

An ideology is a system of beliefs which work as a cognitive structure to  frame your experiences.

An ideology is a way for you to structure your moral choices, your attitudes, and your feelings , and have them all pre-wired and pre-decided ahead of time.

Here's a made-up example of an ideology:

"Reaganism"

The Axioms of "Reaganism": 

1. The government destroys everything it touches. Any time the government gets involved, any activity becomes corrupted, over-priced, and useless after the government gets done with it.
2. Private enterprise can always do a better job than the government can. The attempt to turn a profit always makes an activity more efficient and productive for everyone.
3. Therefore, governments should be run by businesses because businesses can always do a better job than the government can.

When you adopt Reaganism as your ideology and become a Reaganologist, you look out onto the infinitely big, wide world that exists out there, and instead of seeing exactly what is there, you use the pre-wiring and the cognitive structures of Reaganism to interpret and categorize that infinity into simple bite-sized chunks.

Let’s say you are driving through a construction zone, through a government-run road project. To you, the Reaganologist, this project is filled with people who just stand around all day and never get any work done.  Even though you are driving on a road - a road built by a government-run road project - you never notice that all the roads you have ever driven on were built by government-run road projects. You never notice that you have never had trouble on any roads at all. You’ve never been in want of any road anywhere, and you have always driven to even the most remote towns – towns which were very expensive to build roads to - and towns that no one could make a profit on by building a road there.

As a Reaganologist, you see none of that. You only sneer and become resentful at all this government waste, and all those lazy, do-nothing bums working on this road.

Your ideological structure has filtered out some things that do not conform to it, and accepted others that do conform to it, and given you attitudes and emotions to feel per its dictates.

As a Reaganologist, the titans of industry are all heroes to you, because they embody all the values that you adopted when you became a Reaganologist. You swell with pride every time you see a CEO of Goldman-Sachs on TV and you can't believe that any government bureaucrat at the Security and Exchange Commission would ever question his business practices. Government oversight is criminal in your mind, and suppressive to the real producers in society.

In this way, after becoming a Reaganologist, you see the world in the way that Reaganism dictates.

The advantage of an ideology is that it takes the infinite world around you and breaks it up into bite-size chunks, with all of it pre-understood ahead of time. It makes things simpler for you.

This is also the disadvantage of an ideology:  You don't see the world as it is any more. You no longer see the parts of the world that do not fit into your cognitive structure.  You see the world only as your ideology dictates that you see it.

This same example can be made for a "Rooseveltist". The same advantages and disadvantages would apply. Rooseveltology would make you just as blind, and just as stupid as Reaganism.

No ideology can match the infinity of life, or the infinity of you. The stronger you hold on to an ideology, the smaller, and more fixated you become.  As more and more of the infinities of life hit you which do not fit into your ideological construct, the more tightly you cling to it. Until at last, you become fixed and pinheaded.

Not only does an ideology blind you to things that do not fit into it, an ideology also separates you from your own thinking. When you start “thinking with” an ideology, you become unaware of how you came to your own conclusions. In fact, they are not your conclusions - they are the ideologies’ conclusions, and you’ve just accepted them because they are consistent with, and support, your ideology.

Coming up with solutions that only support the ideology is the way the Church of Scientology got to be what it is today, and this has also made David Miscavige who he is today.

Adopting an ideology to do your thinking for you is the basic mistake that many humans have made throughout history, not just Scientologists.

But it is a mistake.

This is the most important thing I have learned from being an ideologue.

And the most important thing I have learned from George Orwell.

Alanzo

Karen de la Carriere's "Surviving Scientology" Youtube Channel

Class 12 auditor Karen de la Carriere has a new Youtube video channel called "Surviving Scientology".

Lately, I do believe that Karen has decided to tell the full truth about Scientology, and I believe that she will be doing this through her youtube channel.

Go there and see:

Karen de la Carriere's 

Surviving Scientology

When LRH Created a Cult, The Cult Created Him, Too.

I’ve finally figured out the whole thing.

When you create a cult, the cult creates you.

L Ron Hubbard could not handle the firehose backflow of praise and admiration that comes with any spiritual or religious position, and he went off the rails and became a cult leader for real.

The bigger the cult of Scientology got, the bigger the cult leader he became.

Nothing in his philosophy allowed him to pop his big ego balloon. Nothing in his viewpoint ever allowed him to recognize that we are all just bozos on this bus, including him. Nothing allowed him to let it all just fall if that's what it was always going to do anyway. So he began putting Maoist reconditioning techniques and every form of brainwashing he could find into Scientology so it would always go up and never go down.

There are two concepts from Freud, "Transference" and "CounterTransference", which Hubbard completely left out of Dianetics and Scientology, and which are the keys to what happened to L Ron Hubbard.

Because Hubbard believed that the ego (thetan) was immortal and the only real thing to a human being - the only thing which had inherent existence - as soon as all those fire hoses of sycophantic praise were turned on him, he puffed up like a big hot air balloon and went totally insane.

No matter the religion, people join because they want the ecstatic feelings they get from it. And they feel so grateful to "The Master" for giving them to them - any Master - they turn their big fire hoses of praise onto The Master.

If the Master can't handle it, The Master is fucked.

That's what happened to L Ron Hubbard.

A great counter-example of a guy who handles the sycophantic fire hoses of religious praise very well is the Dalai Lama. He is always making jokes about how "important" he is and doing things every day to deflate his own ego, and to make sure that he and everyone else around him are reminded that there is no inherent existence to the self, that all existence is dependent co-arising, and that no position that anyone holds is ever permanent.

It is all just a big sea of energy, with waves for all of us to surf. You might be riding a big wave today, but tomorrow there may be no waves at all to ride. You are never anything special because of the size of the wave you are presently riding.

My Big Insight into Hubbard was achieved from re-studying "How To Practice" and meditating on dependent co-arising, and also by being exposed to the concept of counter-transference in a comment from the discussion of a very provocative and outrageous movie called  "Kumare" which I think everyone who has ever been involved in Scientology should see.

I could never understand what happened to L Ron Hubbard.

But now I think I do.

Hubbard was just a man, just like you and me. And the backflow of being a cult leader was too much for him to handle. And he blew it.

That is all.

So what? Things rise and fall all the time. Nothing survives forever.

The point is to have fun, keep surfing, and to never get all puffed up like a big L Ron Hubbard ego-balloon.

Alanzo

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

 - Jonathon Swift

My Review of John Sweeney's "The Church of Fear" for Amazon.com

"Portrait of a Brutal Totalitarian Brainwashing Cult"

I was a dedicated Scientologist for 16 years. I got out 12 years ago, once I’d had enough experience and information to realize that I was lied to, each of my spiritual vulnerabilities used against me, and was exploited for everything of value that I had willingly given in service to a Cause that never existed.

When I first began reading John Sweeney’s book “The Church of Fear”, I laughed out loud at the hilarity of his searing satirical portrait of bumbling brainwashed fanatics, completely unconnected from anything real. I cheered and vengefully pumped my fist at the thought that a mainstream journalist, with such reach as Sweeney, had experienced Scientology’s brainwashing techniques first hand, and was intent on poking this particular crocodile in the eye.

 But then I read this, an internal email that Sweeney’s assigned Scientology inquisitor had written to his master, David Miscavige:

”So I’m focused on getting the job done and not having it be a flap and fixing my treasonous caving in and my total betrayal of setting up COB [Miscavige] yesterday. I caused it so I have to fix it. I have no right to criticize Mike or bitch about being where I am with him. It’s up to me to be responsible for both of us and not only handle myself but Mike as well, ML Tommy”

I know this language. It is one that I spoke as a Scientologist for too long. Reading this brought back my own self-debasement which resulted from years of being viciously debased by my own Scientology seniors. All of a sudden none of this was funny anymore. I stopped reading, and only by forcing myself to continue, could I get through the book.

What started out as a triumphant validation of my own battle for justice, turned into a painful realization of my own deep wounds. 

Scientology deserves all the ridicule and derisive satire that can be heaped upon it. But Scientology is not funny. It ruins people utterly. It takes a person’s highest hopes and ideals, and his most divine impulses, and it exploits these, and uses them against him, until all the life has been sucked out of him. And then it gives him his own gun, to insert into the roof of his own mouth, to pull the trigger. 

John Sweeney’s book is brilliant. Every time he calls them a cult, he proves it. Every time he says that they brainwash people, he proves it. He exposes every lie they told him – for everyone to see. 

But if no law enforcement official reads this book and acts, if all other global media pros read this book and continue to hide behind their corporate lawyers, then Scientology will continue, and more people will be harmed. And more people will die. 

Thank you, John Sweeney, for this book. Words cannot express the depth of gratitude that I have for what you have done. 

Alanzo

John Sweeney's Book on Scientology "The Church of Fear"

I just read the Introduction to John Sweeney's book, "The Church of Fear, Inside the Weird World of Scientology".

Anyone who has ever read this blog, or any other article or website or blog on Scientology, HAS to get this book.

John Sweeney gets it. He really really gets it.

It is so good to have someone in his position who gets it! We need many more people like John Sweeney in the highest positions of media and government who get what Scientology is all about.

I can't tell you how deeply satisfying it is to know that Ex-Scientologists and those who have been harmed by Scientology are finally being heard, and understood. Since their inception, Scientology has been able to destroy those who spoke out about them. Those days are coming to a close.

Thank you John Sweeney for being afraid and for going ahead and doing it anyway, This is the very definition of courage. And it is your courage which makes you, and your book, so valuable.

Click HERE to Buy this book on Amazon

Buy this book!

In the Service of Shooting Stars

Scientology was the best thing to happen to me, for I learned the vulnerabilities of my idealism, and the hunger of wolves.

I learned that the best of me can not be stolen, and the worst of me can fade away.

I learned that others exist in the world like me who love freedom, and who help themselves by helping others

In the service of shooting stars.

I learned that the big ogre that ate me up was my own failure to practice me.

But I learned, most of all, that I'm still here, still practicing.

And I haven't missed a beat.

I never did. And I never will.

Scientology taught me that.

 Alanzo

The Master: Scientology's Suppression of Artists in Hollywood?

If you have seen Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant movie, "The Master" and were following along with news of its production and early promotions, you may have noticed some oddities.

The trailers which were created to promote the film in its early stages of release were filled with scenes, excellent scenes, important scenes, which did not end up in the movie itself.

Trailer #1, released in mid July 2012



Trailer #2, rerleased in early August 2012



And then there were the reports of those who had read the script, and who even published screenshots of them, such as this one from a character named "Mary Sue", the name of L Ron Hubbard's 3rd wife:

In the version of the movie which was released in Sept 2012, the character name of "Mary Sue" became "Peggy". And there are two scenes in the movie which look odd and hastily put together, and both are scenes where Lancaster Dodd is introducing his wife to other characters, calling her "Peggy" in those scenes.

One oddity is a scene where the entourage is landing on a dock in New York, and Dodd and his entourage are greeted there by the character who was the editor of Dodd's first book. Dodd introduces his wife as "Peggy" in that scene. The other scene was an odd shot into a hallway through a door where Dodd's entourage arrives at a party in New York, thrown by the woman who later sues Dodd for not paying her for the boat they were using for their cruise. Dodd introduces his wife as "Peggy" here, too.

Were these scenes hastily put together because of artistic suppression from the Church of Scientology?

Tom Cruise Salutes the Head of Scientology, David Miscavige

It was first reported in May of 2012 that Paul Thomas Anderson screened "The Master" for Tom Cruise, and that he "had issues" with the movie.

Did Tom Cruise write a Knowledge Report on Paul Thomas Anderson to the head of Scientology, David Miscavige?

And did the Church of Scientology's lawyers pressure PTA to alter his movie to avoid being sued by them?

To anyone who has been watching Scientology for as long as I have, these oddities add up to a very familiar pattern - the familar pattern of Scientology suppressing the creative vision and work of important artists. We all lose out when this is allowed to happen to our most talented and creative minds, like Paul Thomas Anderson.

But there is another important question which needs to be asked: Is this what Tom Cruise got into Scientology for? To go around and silence the creative vision of artists in Hollywood as a pinheaded little totalitarian tool for David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology?

Where are the scenes with the character named "Mary Sue" talking about Dodd writing "The Brainwashing Manual" as the script indicates above?

Where is that powerful and important scene of Freddie walking the streets with Scientology in his head, as in the second trailer above?

There is a much bigger story here, I am sure. These are just a few odd little strings sticking out waiting to be pulled.

What will we find at the end of those strings once we begin pulling?

I think we will find an even more powerful version of "The Master" which Scientology has suppressed.

This is one of the ways we all lose as a culture and as a society when we allow suppressive, totalitarian organizations like the Church of Scientology to run around unchecked - by smashing the creative visions of important artists.

I want to see the real version of "The Master", and I'll bet millions of others would like to see it too. I think that if cinema has any importance as an art form in our culture, then this is an important movie to be shown.

So, as an artist who supposedly values aesthetic expression, what are you going to do about this, Tom Cruise?

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Because I know that most readers who check my blog are people who are always learning, I thought I would pass along a book that has truly changed my life. I believe this book will become a foundation in a new branch of psychology called moral psychology, and it will have a very profound effect on society.

It's called The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt.

Just spreading an idea...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Righteous-Mind-Politics-Religion/dp/0307377903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346080114&sr=8-1&keywords=the+righteous+mind+why+good+people+are+divided+by+politics+and+religion

Hawk Radio Discusses Recent Deaths at Scientology Narconon Center

Tom Smith of Hawk Radio interviews David Love and Colin Henderson, two former students of Scientology's Narconon program about recent deaths at Scientology's Arrowhead Narconon center in Oklahoma.

Click here to listen: Deaths at Narconon

Scientology OT VIII Commits Suicide Under Mysterious Circumstances

This German documentary details the circumstances surrounding the suicide of Biggi Reichert, a prominent Scientology OT VIII from Germany 2 weeks after returning from "Flag" - Scientology's headquarters in Clearwater, Florida.

Be sure to click on the "CC" at the bottom right hand corner of the video frame for English subtitles.

The Dangers of Scientology's "E-Meter" Exposed

There have been many news stories over the years about Scientology's "religious artifact" named the "E-Meter". It is an electronic device which is used to measure electrical resistence in the body during auditing sessions, and these changes to electrical resistance are used by the auditor to locate times of spiritual or emotional distress.

This is the theory, anyway. The famous psycho-analyst Carl Jung was the first to use such a device for the purposes of counseling, and a Scientologist named Volney Mathison created the first one for L Ron Hubbard in the 1950's. Hubbard soon saw something that could be sold with lots of money to make, so he made it a standard part of every Scientologist's "library" and practice of Scientology.

The idea that a counselor might have an aid to locating times of stress or emotional or spiritual upset is a valid one. These issues are often not conscious, and anything that helps to locate these areas should be something of value to therapy. However - as this excellent news story points out - these devices can be abused in an infinite number of ways. And I beleive that L Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology have tried to abuse the emeter in each and every one of those infinitely possible ways.

The Dangers of Scientology's E-meter Exposed on Australian News Show "A Current Affair" July 30, 2012

Go here to see the segment: http://www.aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8507884

Also, to see a fascinating re-enactment of Carl Jung's Emeter in use, watch the movie "A Dangerous Method" starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley in a brilliant performance as a deluded patient of theirs. This movie also shows the dangers of following an ideology, rather than a science, in therapy.



And congratulations to Ex-Scientologist Paul "Scooter" Schofield for his expert and invaluable contribution to this news story which resulted in one of the first accurate criticisms of Scientology's E-meter in the media.

L Ron Hubbard's Great Grandson, Jamie deWolf, on L Ron Hubbard and Scientology

Jamie spoke at the Dublins Offlines Event last month, and Hamburg Anon did another excellent job of presenting the video. It's so good, in fact, I will present it to you, too here, for your consideration.



For more on the Dublin Offlines event, go here: http://exscientologistsireland.org

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Scientology's Worst Nightmare: Gerry Armstrong Speaking on Camera About Scientology and L Ron Hubbard

In July of 2012, Gerry Armstrong gave a talk to around 100 people in Dublin, Ireland on his history in Scientology, and provides information about Scientology's basic philosophy and practices, and about the real activities of L Ron Hubbard.

At the end of the video, Gerry also makes a very important point about the SP Doctrine in Scientology, and its effects on the minds of all Scientologists, including Independent Scientologists.



For more information, visit Gerry Armstrong and his wife Caroline Letkeman's website:  http://www.suppressiveperson.org/ 

Gerry Armstrong Comments on Mike Rinder's History of Illegal Fair Game

Mike Rinder Engaged in Illegal Videotaping
of Gerry Armstrong as Part of Fair Game

RE: Mike Rinder's History of Running False Flag Operations for the Church of Scientology

Hi Alanzo:
Thanks for tackling the Scientology v. Armstrong saga, and for your supportive and helpful comments over some time. 

My history really is complex and the facts endless. But I sense too that you appreciate facts and like to have yours right. So I have tried here to provide what facts I knew about a few of the things you wrote about, or add some thoughts or documents to create a clearer picture. I make an effort to keep the record as accurate as reasonable.

From the original post:
After leaving Scientology, Gerry Armstrong was declared a Suppressive Person and marked Fair Game by the Church of Scientology for releasing Hubbard's true biographical information which proved much of what Hubbard wrote about himself in his "About The Author" sections of his books, and told about himself in his lectures, were lies.

Gerry Armstrong's comments:

"I was actually declared a Suppressive Person before I released any Hubbard biographical information. I didn’t even really possess the materials that would be released until after I was declared.' 

"I possessed these materials while working on the Hubbard biography inside the cult. I delivered these materials, or copies usually, to Omar Garrison as a hat function and contractual duty from October 1980 until I left the Sea Org and Scientology in December 1981. The Scientologists declared me in February 1982, although I didn’t learn about it until a couple of months later, around the time they published a second, scarier declare. Sometime after that, being declared and knowing what that meant, I asked Omar for documents to send to my attorneys for my defense, and he gave them to me. These included the documents that were released in the Scientology v. Armstrong  trial in LA Superior Court in 1984.

From the judgment, which was affirmed on appeal:' 

"While defendant has asserted various theories of defense, the basic thrust of his testimony is that he did what he did, because he believed that his life, physical and mental well being, as well as that of his wife were threatened because the organization was aware of what he knew about the life of LRH, the secret machinations and financial activities of the Church, and his dedication to the truth. He believed that the only way he could defend himself, physically as well as from harassing lawsuits, was to take from Omar Garrison those materials which would support and corroborate everything that he had been saying within the Church about LRH and the Church, or refute the allegations made against him in the April 22 Suppressive Person Declare. He believed that the only way he could be sure that the documents would remain secure for his future use was to send them to his attorneys, and that to protect himself, he had to go public so as to minimize the risk that LRH, the Church, or any of their agents would do him physical harm." 

"This conduct if reasonably believed by the defendant and engaged in by him in good faith, finds support as a defense to the plaintiff’s charges in the Restatements of Agency, Torts, and case law."
[…]
"On February 18, 1982, the Church of Scientology International issued a “Suppressive Person Declare Gerry Armstrong,” which is an official Scientology document issued against individuals who are considered as enemies of the Organization. Said Suppressive Person Declare charged that Defendant Armstrong had taken an unauthorized leave and that he was spreading destructive rumors about Senior Scientologists. 

"Defendant Armstrong was unaware of said Suppressive Person Declare until April of 1982. At that time a revised Declare Was issued on April 22, 1982. Said Declare charged Defendant Armstrong with 18 different “Crimes and High Crimes and Suppressive Acts Against the Church.” The charges included theft, juggling accounts, obtaining loans on money under false pretenses, promulgating false information about the Church, its founder, and members, and other untruthful allegations designed to make Defendant Armstrong an appropriate subject of the Scientology “Fair Game Doctrine.” Said Doctrine allows any suppressive person to be “tricked, cheated, lied to, sued, or destroyed.” 

"The second declare was issued shortly after Defendant Armstrong attempted to sell photographs of his wedding on board Hubbard’s ship (in which Hubbard appears), and photographs belonging to some of his friends, which also included photos of L.R. Hubbard while in seclusion. Although Defendant Armstrong delivered the photographs to a Virgil Wilhite for sale, he never received payment or return of his friend’s photographs. When he became aware that the Church had these photographs, he went to the Organization to request their return. A loud and boisterous argument ensued, and he eventually was told to leave the premises and get an attorney. 

"From his extensive knowledge of the covert and intelligence operations carried out by the Church of Scientology of California against its enemies (suppressive persons), Defendant Armstrong became terrified and feared that his life and the life of his wife were in danger, and he also feared he would be the target of costly and harassing lawsuits." 

"In addition, Mr. Garrison became afraid for the security of the documents and believed that the intelligence network of the Church of Scientology would break and enter his home to retrieve them. Thus, Defendant Armstrong made copies of certain documents for Mr. Garrison and maintained them in a separate location." 

"It was thereafter, in the summer of 1982, that Defendant Armstrong asked Mr. Garrison for copies of documents to use in his defense and sent the documents to his attorneys, Michael Flynn and Contos & Bunch."

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/283.php

After the Church of Scientology supposedly settled with Gerry in court, Gerry was followed, photographed, videotaped and harassed. Attempts were made to run his car off the freeway.

"These incidents happened before the supposed settlement, which was in December 1986. Although a similar set of incidents happened after the settlement, I believe you are referring here to incidents that happened before the “settlement.” 

"Some of these incidents were mentioned in the 1984 judgment. 

"After the within suit was filed on August 2, 1982, Defendant Armstrong was the subject of harassment, including being followed and surveilled by individuals who admitted employment by Plaintiff; being assaulted by one of these individuals; being struck bodily by a car driven by one of these individuals; having two attempts made by said individuals apparently to involve Defendant Armstrong in a freeway automobile accident; having said individuals come onto Defendant Armstrong’s property, spy in his windows, create disturbances, and upset his neighbors. During trial when it appeared that Howard Schomer (a former Scientologist) might be called as a defense witness, the Church engaged in a somewhat sophisticated effort to suppress his testimony. It is not clear how the Church became aware of defense intentions to call Mr. Schomer as a witness, but it is abundantly clear they sought to entice him back into the fold and prevent his testimony." 

On top of all that, the Church of Scientology, including Mike Rinder, set him up in a sting operation involving a mysterious group of Scientologists called "The Loyalists." in 1984.
"I wrote a couple of declarations on this operation: 

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html

The "Loyalists" were supposedly a group of high ranking members of the church who were dissatisfied with how David Miscavige was running Scientology after Hubbard had gone into hiding.  Hubbard eluded the law after the govermnent raided the church and sent ten top officials to prison.  Hubbard remained in hiding the rest of his life.

The "Loyalists" turned to Gerry for "help" in planning a coup from which they would gain control of the church.  Gerry met with two representatives of The Loyalists to discuss possible scenarios.

The first person Gerry met was a man named David Kluge who met with Gerry on November 7th and 9th of 1984.

Next, Gerry met another member of The Loyalists...Mike Rinder.  Rinder is the head of the Office of Special Affairs which is the "dirty tricks" branch of the church.  Rinder met with Gerry twice.  First on November 11th and then again on November 30, 1984.

"The person who set up my meetings with the “Loyalists,” or rather set me up in meetings with the “Loyalists,” was Dan Sherman, the current Hubbard biographer and Miscavige speech writer. The Scientologists started operating him to get close to me right after I left.
"See the “Armstrong Project,” which is dated February 17, 1982. 

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gerry-armstrong-project.html 

"Sherman was the GAS, or Guardian Activities Scientologist, identified in step 15 as a writer I respected, that the Scientologists used to get close to me and ultimately set me up in their videotape operation. 

Step 15) Persue the potential existing line that might be available to us via a trusted GAS who is a writer and who is respected by Gerry. This would require some reach from Gerry, though, as he might be suspicious if this GAS made a big reach for him.

"The Scientologists published their first declare on me the next day, February 18. 

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare.html

Gerry didn't know that these meetings in the park were being videotaped by a Scientology hired P.I. and that both Kluge and Rinder were wired.

"The videotaping was unlawful. That’s why Miscavige, Rathbun, Rinder, et al. paid a corrupt LAPD Officer to sign an “authorization” to do the videotaping, and commit other crimes against me, my attorney and others. LAPD Chief Daryl Gates denounced the operation and the officer was suspended from the force." 

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/gates-announcement.html

These tapes were used by Scientology in the court trial involving Julie Titchbourne in Portland, Oregon in 1986.  Julie sued the church for fraud and Gerry was called as a witness.  To try to discredit Gerry as a witness in that trial, the church played these tapes.

After the trial, the jury was polled and it was very clear that the church's plan backfired.   Most jurists agreed that the tapes made the church look terrible.  Furthermore, Gerry appeared to be a good man trying to help clean up the corruption in the church.

This same jury found Scientology guilty of defrauding Titchbourne and awarded her a massive $39,000,000 victory.

Next the church took these tapes and had them edited into a 20 minute video which they sent to media outlets to discredit Armstrong.  This truncated version was narrated by Heber Jentzsch and edited by a woman who would one day be another thorn in Scientology's side, Stacy Brooks.

______________________________

When I was first getting involved in Scientology, in 1984, I was shown the Church's tape to convince me that "evil SPs were out to destroy the Church".

"It was doubtlessly 1985, because the Scientologists only “broke” the news that they had videos in April 1985, which was the Julie Titchbourne trial, although a year earlier than what you have. Scientologists, both staff and public, were then brought into viewing rooms in the orgs, shown the Heber version, and recruited and/or regged to support the war against those evil SPs they told you about. 

"I heard somewhere that the cult targeted $150 million to be regged with their unlawfully obtained, and perverted video of me. The Scientologists used the video to get other Scientologists to write, meet and pressure Federal officials. 

http://sp.gerryarmstrong.ca/wordpress/archives/tag/fbi  

"The Scientologists have used their videos in court cases and in black PR efforts against me around the world for 27 years. 

"This past December I found this same black PR being spread around the world by one of Scientology’s covert agents in the religious freedom field, Joseph K. Grieboski.

"Gerald Armstrong is a former clerk in a Scientology organization. Armstrong intended to seize assets of the Church of Scientology. When attorneys of the Church discovered the plan, they obtained permission from the Los Angeles police to conduct an investigation into Armstrong’s plans. The investigation caught Armstrong on videotape stating that he intended to forge and then plant incriminating documents on Church premises, to be discovered in a subsequent raid. When challenged on how he would obtain proof of the allegations he intended to make, he responded that: “We don’t have to prove a god dam thing. We don’t have to prove shit. We just have to allege it.”

http://www.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/147

Mike Rinder had posed as a "loyalist" to LRH who only wanted to rid the Church of David Miscavige in order to restore "true Scientology" once again.

Sound familiar?

"Loyalist Redux. Any more of them and you’d have to get your reduxes in a row.  From Caroline in 2012 on OCMB:

"My short answer is that Rathbun and his Free Radicals have not left Scientology, despite all their usual smoke, mirrors, button tech and "PR." I don't know that they have looked, observed or reasoned anything, or that they've taken off the same blinders. The possibility that Rathbun et al.'s actions are a Loyalist Redux op cannnot be dismissed. Their steadfast refusal to look further than Miscavige, or their implying that this is their mo, is evidence of standard Scientology, KSW, on-Source, etc., and shows that their Scientology operating system is still intact. "

http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=31906&start=59

Some text above excerpted from this site. For more videos on this False Flag Operation by Mike Rinder and the Church of Scientology, see this link. 

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