My Life in Scientology | Print |
Saturday, 13 December 2008 03:33

I was a highly-positioned insider of the Church for many years and most people would be shocked to discover the extent of my contributions to Scientology. After some 25 years on staff, however, including a span of approximately 20 years in Scientology's international headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, I decided to leave staff due to the unethical practices of The Cob, David Miscavige, the leader of the Church. Specifically, The Cob physically assaulted and violently battered three individuals in my presence, sending a strong message that everyone in the room was likely to be next.

The three assaults I witnessed were against Mike Rinder, Mark Yager and Guillaume Leserve (three of the highest-ranking officers of the Church of Scientology). In the case of Mike Rinder, he and I were standing shoulder to shoulder when Mike was attacked in early December 2003 in the offline edit bay at the Int base. The Cob didn't like a minor edit that Mike had made to a video we were working on. Suddenly Miscavige just went off: he lunged, grabbed Mike with both hands and bashed his head into solid cherry-wood paneling three times putting his whole body into the effort. Mike has since departed staff.

Physical abuse is just the tip of a very dark iceberg.

To be clear, this website is not an attack on Scientology. It is an attack on criminality.

Every criminal justifies his actions. No doubt Miscavige feels his crimes are justified. All criminals feel that way. But the law is specific. And the reason we have law is because there is no justification for crime. That is the philosophic reality that underlies law. Crimes are always unnecessary and therefore irrational.

Strangely, in the case of The Cob, it is not only he who feels his actions are justified. Many staff support his actions "whatever they are." Unfortunately, that in itself is gang-land mentality. "Joey had to kill Pete. Too bad for Pete."

L. Ron Hubbard made it the job of every Scientologist to stamp out unethical practices. But what do you do when the man at the top is corrupt? If you take action against him, you face banishment. I'm proud to say that after several years of turning the other cheek, I have decided to step forward and do the right thing no matter the cost. And I'm not the only one.

Even when covered up, crimes are impossible to hide. Therefore every crime enacted by someone in a position of trust is an invalidation that strikes at the very heart of our movement. Assault and battery, extortion, kidnapping, manslaughter, theft and a host of civil and human rights abuses are what stands in the way of the broad acceptance of Scientology.

Yet this website will not only tell you all about what is wrong, it will tell you all about what is right.