A Very Big Blow Against Scientology
once again the St. Petersburg Times has got the goods on Scientology and this time it’s big. Usually you only hear about some poor schmuck who lost a few tens of thousands of $ on “clearings”, but not this time. Oh no. This time it’s right from the top
The leader of the Church of Scientology strode into the room with a boom box and an announcement: Time for a game of musical chairs.
David Miscavige had kept more than 30 members of his church’s executive staff cooped up for weeks in a small office building outside Los Angeles, not letting them leave except to grab a shower. They slept on the floor, their food carted in.
Their assignment was to develop strategic plans for the church. But the leader trashed their every idea and berated them as incompetents and enemies, of him and the church.
Prove your devotion, Miscavige told them, by winning at musical chairs. Everyone else — losers, all of you — will be banished to Scientology outposts around the world. If families are split up, too bad.
To the music of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody they played through the night, parading around a conference room in their Navy-style uniforms, grown men and women wrestling over chairs.
The next evening, early in 2004, Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader’s attacks.
This account comes from executives who for decades were key figures in Scientology’s powerful inner circle. Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest-ranking executives to leave the church, are speaking out for the first time.
Two other former executives who defected also agreed to interviews with the St. Petersburg Times: De Vocht, who for years oversaw the church’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, and Amy Scobee, who helped create Scientology’s celebrity network, which caters to the likes of John Travolta and Tom Cruise.
One by one, the four defectors walked away from the only life they knew. That Rathbun and Rinder are speaking out is a stunning reversal because they were among Miscavige’s closest associates, Haldeman and Ehrlichman to his Nixon.
How sweet it is. Spread the news far and wide my friends, far and wide, and while we are at it please stop supporting Scientology by giving you money or your attention to morons like Tom Cruise, John travolta, Chick Corea, Kirstie Alley, Nicole Kidman, Kelly Preston, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Presley. Every time you watch a TV show or movie they are in or buy a magazine with them on the cover or a story about then inside you are financially contributing to them, directly and indirectly. Not only that but you are helping their star status and in turn that is used to promote Scientology. If no one watches their movies, buys their albums etc they lose that star status and the ability to effectively promote this fraud.
Part 2 of the 3 part series is here
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