The Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAAD) League has been playing the victim card for a while now and have come up with a new tactic of orchestrating a letter writing campaign to advertisers on The Aftermath. You may recall their earlier "victory" of claiming to get copies of People magazine removed from the shelves of a Target store because Leah Remini was on the cover. It was a "huge blow for religious freedom" -- even though it almost certainly didn't happen -- but didnt do much for the concept of freedom of speech that scientology spouts as one of their … [Read more...]
The Aftermath Is Back
Tonight, the Aftermath is back with a new episode. I am on a short vacation with friends -- including the Headley's and Smith-Levin's and our combined 8 children (only one of whom is visible in this shot, our son Jack, but three others are taking this shot, one with camera and two holding "camera lights" directed by Marc Headley). We will all be tweeting tonight. Unfortunately, we are in the Central Time Zone so will be an hour behind the East Coast to watch it on TV but will tweet live starting at 9 EST. … [Read more...]
Do Scientologists Really Care?
The next new episode of Aftermath is on 10 October. This week and next A&E is airing reruns of earlier episodes. There is plenty of material in those shows -- I recommend watching them again even if you have watched them before as many people find more revealing information in each episode that was missed in the first viewing. Relevant to Aftermath, and especially to scientology's response to every show a couple of observations/thoughts. Do Scientologists Really Care? It is a curious, and rather disturbing, fact that run of the mill scientologists on social media never (and this … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to Episode 6
Here is my customary response to the weekly scientology insanity that appears on their website during the airing of each episode of The Aftermath. Anyone who sees the vile invective spewed by scientology about EVERYONE who ever says anything they don't like reaches the same conclusion: scientology's reaction is evidence of the truth of the experiences each of these people recounts. This organization is hateful, vindictive and insane. No story is too incredible to be believed. There is no reason NOT to believe everything that is said by the victims. So, let's take a look at this week's … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath S2 Ep 6: the Aftermath
Tonight's episode addressed another subject we get a LOT of questions about. Celebrities and scientology. And of course with the controversy over Elisabeth Moss's Emmy win for her portrayal of the victim of an oppressive system that controls every aspect of people's lives when she is a scientologist, and then Nicole Kidman's acknowledgement of the unconditional love from her 2 daughters with Keith Urban, while not mentioning the two children she adopted with Tom Cruise, there is heightened interest in the subject. I must say, because I do not feel we were really able to communicate this … [Read more...]
The Boycott is Working!
Sometimes you really have to wonder at the intelligence of some of these bubble-dwellers. And their delusions of grandeur. Look at the crazy here. Just to be sure what she is taking credit for: Set aside her not too well thought through conclusions about deriding Trump -- this woman is on a rant about Leah winning an Emmy and THIS is why the ratings are down. Still, 11.4 million viewers is a BIG audience -- the same as last year before Trump was elected. If you wonder about the audience of NW TV these days obviously you didn't watch the show and see how many awards Hulu and … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to Episode 5
Time to take a look at the weekly "response" from scientology to The Aftermath's latest episode. It is of course as pathetic as all their previous efforts because they cannot address the FACTS, so they exclusively deal in ad hominem attacks pursuant to scientology policy. I will endeavor to bring some semblance of truth to the stream of lies they put forth about JB and Jackson. Scientology is wearing a trail into the carpet -- everyone is a bad person, they are all "low-level" nobodies, they all have "confessions" that "prove" they are liars, cheats and thieves and not a single person … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath S2 Ep 5: the Aftermath
Tonight's episode scratched the surface of a subject that many wonder about. What is David Miscavige like and how did he get where he is? Understand, he was NOT anointed by L. Ron Hubbard. Though he likes to show a declaration that HIS lawyers drafted for L. Ron Hubbard to sign in the Ron De Wolf probate case and takes a statement Hubbard made about "good scientologists" in Portland and claims it is about him -- Hubbard did not choose him. In fact there is NO written or recorded statement of what Hubbard wanted in his succession other than his will. But his will does not anoint David … [Read more...]
Emmy Win
This picture IS worth a thousands words. My hero: … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to S2 Special Episode 1
As has become usual now, BEFORE the show finished airing scientology had a new webpage up attacking the contributors, and deployed their twitter and Facebook bots to announce to the world that the people who appeared on the show were some very bad hombres. Of course, nothing to respond to the CONTENTS of the show. That would not be scientology. Strictly ad hominem. And some of their ad hom is REALLY low, even for scientology. I had wondered whether they would focus on me and Leah due to the nature of the show. But they just couldn't resist going after Bruce Hines -- proclaiming him … [Read more...]