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		<title>Portrait of a Ponzi Man</title>
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			<title>RE: Portrait of a Ponzi Man</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-3576</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thank you VERY much for writing this Thoughtful. I have had BPC on DM's "must attend events" and KNEW they were all PR (lies) and quit going to them 10 years ago. As an OT it's not difficult to percieve BS when I see it. I have also wondered about the "short term" TV ad's over the years. It always struck me as out-marketing tech. No ad campaign that only runs for a few weeks and then stops has ever been (and never will be) successful. It truly is sad how many SHEEPLE we have in Scn. who listen and follow whatever COB has to say. In other words, how effing STUPID can you possibly get? But I guess he knows it, and therefore continues his ponzi game. But alas, all SP's/crminals want to get caught, and he will be. That is a promise.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rebel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:24:18 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Han Solo says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-3113</link>
			<description><![CDATA[maybe he's taking the last moments he has in office to really goof the floof ... before he gets unelected.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Han Solo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:47:17 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>The Untrained PR</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-2992</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One method used by DM to gain access to the people he wants to control lies in his ability to win their trust and confidence. He dupes very rich and influential people with his hyperbolic presence and these people, easily impressed by such extravagant displays of MEST, shower him with praise and are willing to hand over money to fund the endless special projects and releases he announces and boasts about at his illegal, per L. Ron Hubbard, hyped up PR/Marketing events. He then flaunts those special relationships to the peers of those people in order to safe point himself with them creating potential new converts to his brand of Scientology. Up to this point we could say “VWD DM!” however, from now on things go wildly off the rails because, not knowing how to, he refuses to do the next step of the hat he is wearing, his PRO Hat, which is: finding himself in this position of power he should now be doing all he can to safe-point LRH and Scientology, something he doesn't know how to do. But, he has to do something, so, instead of wearing his hat and safe-pointing LRH and Scientology he does the only thing he knows how to do, he goofs off, bullies people and causes PR flaps. Now, armed with an 8gig ipod of ser-facs that explain for him how his seemingly extreme behavior is actually quite correct, he is totally justified in continuing to use the power at all costs to cover up his PR flaps and guarantee a situation which makes it possible for him to continue to not wear his hat by goofing off, bullying people and causing more PR Flaps, and we have the current scene.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ex-GEM</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:17:57 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>peter  says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-2836</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm from Australia and have first hand knowledge of the destruction of Scientology here since the takeover in 1983 down here. Miscavige is without doubt the one responsible but he wasn't the only one. He never came down here but the result was the same. Over half the active Scientologists in Australia were kicked out or left and more are still leaving every day. Scientology could and should be huge here if it is handled right. For example LRH said that Perth Western Australia will be the first clear city on the planet. But we have no ad campaign at all. Our evil demon in Australia was a man named Henderson, a CMO missionaire who was as bad as Miscavige. And what ever happened to Reynolds the infamous "Int Finance Dictator"? The down under dude.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>peter </dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:03:34 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Metaphor</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-2006</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We have all heard the saying " If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck---it might be---a duck. Go to any used car dealer---DO they have flashy watches? act like they know something you don't? seem to be "just like you"? try to be your friend? Yeah you understand! Miscavige IS Xenu! Now how do you feel? Like you have been raped?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Horace Jones</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:06:20 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Different car, same amount of wheels</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-1273</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am actively seeking to join, but not if it's run by a leader that lies, hides, and covers up activities of abuse. But, in response to you definition of Ponzi. With all due respect, you are missing the point, it's not about the word or it's meaning, it's what this man is doing with the money "donated". Is it exactly how LRH wanted it to be used? Or is it another pyramid scheme. Ponzi or not, "Thoughtful" is doing the right thing, however emotional his response. People are not stupid, especially with our current technology and quick access to high speed information. They will investigate, much like myself, before "investing". MISCAVIGE, BE FOREWARNED: If what "Thoughtful" has said is true, your days are numbered, and the true essence of LRH will reveal itself, and in the end, you WILL PAY, and pay dearly. It's never too late to redeem yourself and do the right thing, before it's too late. Help those that once believed in you, pay back what you have taken, and you will benefit in the end. Now Mr. Miscavige, do you have enough foresight to see this? Or, are you really what "Thoughtful" accuses you of being? It's your move...and we are watching.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>New To This</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:49:06 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Thoughtful says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-1213</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Are you saying that all of Bernie Madoff's victims or any investors have "larceny in their hearts"? You are missing the point that Scientology donors are NOT just about altruism. An exchange is most definitely expected. In fact, "exchange" is a fundamental principle of Scientology. So either (A) You don't understand what Scientologists believe, or (B) you are just an OSA plant beating the drum for Miscavige. If it's "A" then you should know that Scientologists believe they are spiritual beings who will return in a new body next life. So when they donate to 4D programs, it is with an expectation that they are making it better not only for others, but also for themselves NEXT LIFE. If that betterment is not purchased with the dollars they invested, then they were in fact cheated. If it's "B" then your obvious target is to establish that Scn donors neither expect nor deserve anything in exchange, which lets Miscavige off the hook for having done a bait and switch. This is called "lessening the overt" in Scientology lingo.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Thoughtful</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:20:20 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Aurelio says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-1194</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thoughtful, you talk as if Miscavige never really promoted Scientology before 2009. But Miscavige ran a huge advertising campaign for Dianetics in the 1990s, putting Hubbard's book on the best seller list. You accuse Miscavige of running a Ponzi scheme. Miscavige is a sadist, a tyrant and a crook, but he has not been running a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme targets investors, not donors. Like all cons, it relies on the larceny in the hearts of its victims to work. To repeat: a Ponzi scheme is one that people enter out of financial self interest, not altruism.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Aurelio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:18:05 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Here\s what happened says:</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-1198</link>
			<description><![CDATA[No, the campaigns that put Hubbard's book on bestsellers lists happened in the late 1980s. It was shut off by Miscavige (I was there) in 1990. Jeff Hawkins wrote the ads for Dianetics all during the successful 1980 period which expanded Scientology. Jeff Hawkins also originated the entire program. It had nothing to do with Miscavige. Jeff built up an entire org, called SBMU: Strategic Books Marketing Unit. Located in LA, SBMU had 12 or 15 staff and all they did was market Dianetics under Jeff's direction. Jeff answered to no one but LRH. About March 1987 SBMU was absorbed into the new CMU (Central Marketing Unit) but left "hands off" so it continued to function. I joined CMU (transferring from FSO) in May 1987. Jeff got Dianetics back on the New York Times bestseller list. Also instrumental in that was Bill Dendiu, who was the D/CO CMU. Bill acted as the product manager for the trade Dianetics campaign. And of course there were others who contributed heavily. Then in 1988, David Miscavige began to cross order SBMU off it's successful program (Jeff and his unit were in the condition of Power). By 1989 SBMU no longer existed and all staff were re-posted and loaded up with other duties, utterly cross ordering and destroying the entire activity. David Miscavige did that personally. And in 1990 David Miscavige cancelled the Dianetics campaign and killed all funding. Starting in 1997, I wrote all the ads for Scientology and Dianetics. DM only pretended to run them broadly. Actually, they were barely run. I understand that donors are not investors, per se; however, Scientologists DO consider they are investing -- in the welfare of their own 4th dynamic. There money was supposed to be invested by expanding Scientology into and across the world and as a way to create a better, safer, saner world which they will occupy. The payback is in terms of purchasing a better world. If Miscavige doesn't actually DO the advertising campaign and expand Scientology, then there is NO payback, just as in a Ponzi scheme. He's just using the money to run some token ads, then he spends the rest on "4D program" -- a total lie, which really means he spends the money any way he pleases, like on new clothes for himself, new buildings for himself, vacations for himself, new homes for himself, etc.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Here\s what happened</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:19:45 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>In France</title>
			<link>http://www.scientology-cult.com/portrait-of-a-ponzi-man.html#comment-888</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am French and my English isn't very good. I have been harassed by scientologists during 2 years. I was like a prisoner, they violated my private life, they used black propaganda with my friends and they recruited some of them. Spied, followed by cars, my house was excavated, they attacked my son, they listened my phone, they introduced a trojan on my computer, I lost my job etc. found a new job in a firm managed by a scientologist and where the major part of the employees were scientologists. In France, they use the job like a very persuasive argument to recruit people. They present themselves like a protective organization.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:07:05 --600</pubDate>
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