Well, I supposed this is the best he’s got, even though it’s more than 20 years old.
A desperate attempt to try to burnish Dear Leader’s sagging image…
It’s the annus horribilis. Going Clear, Going Clear Emmys. Let Him Die following his own father media blitz. Tony Ortega’s book and Paulette Cooper. The Saldarriaga hacking scandal. Jim Jackson. Leah Remini’s new book. Narconon’s implosion. Louis Theroux. And things are not looking any better beyond next month.
His recent go to image boost has been the “ideal orgs.” But that is a failure — cannot even get any new ones open when he pays for them and the ones that have been opened are so clearly dismal failures that the silk purse has revealed itself to be a sow’s ear. Did he really think that the “model” that everyone would follow was importing 200 SO members? And nobody would notice the outpoint.
So, to steady the ship and reassure the troops that all is well, Miscavige pulls this old, flea bitten rabbit out of his hat. His claim to fame. The tour de force that proved to all scientologists he was “the man” and cemented his place at the top of the heap. The 93 IAS event.
Miscavige considers this his best performance ever. He has said so many times.
So when it all looks bleak, order a re-showing. And this one is being pushed harder than ever before. Apparently every org in the US is being required to air this on the same day. It is getting as much airplay and push as the Auditor’s Day events.
Now one might ask, if everything has been expanding so much SINCE then, and everyone knows already scientology has complete tax exemption from the IRS — what’s the point? Why drag out an almost archival video? Because there is NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. And because Miscavige considers this to be his greatest moment. It HAS all been downhill from here. This was a significant accomplishment. Everything since has been small by comparison and many just outright fake.
The fact that THIS is what is being shown everywhere is yet more proof that the oft repeated “fastest growing religion in the 21st century” and “straight up and vertical expansion” and “greater growth in the last 5 years than the 50 years previously” are flowery lies intended to placate the sheeple. They are clearly wearing thin — so he trots out the old standby.
Funny, everywhere is showing it on 3 or 10 October except one place.
Would it be a coincidence perchance that this is 30 minutes before the 7pm airing of Going Clear with the Q and A following it just down the road a bit?
I wonder….
Here are just a few of the announcements of this monumental event that have been flooding in from all areas of the country:
Oh goody. Will we get to watch the ’93 IAS event five times over? Can’t wait to have a cognition!
Hint: The desired cognition is to donate substantial bucks $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Will the CoS have the public watch this event five times through just to make sure that they got the data, and have a cognition?
So Miscavige thought recognition as a “religion” was the turning point! He sees one face of the two-faced god Janus — the god of beginnings and endings. He saw it as a beginning.
I saw it as the final blow to the credibility of Scientology:
— As a “modern science” Dianetics seemed worth investigating.
— As an applied spiritual philosophy, Scientology seemed interesting.
— As an applied religious philosophy, well, I could squiggle that word “religious” around to be okay.
— But as a flat out religion, when the phony crosses, the fake minister collars, the mandatory quasi-religious Sunday services and all that showed up by order from on high and abruptly in orgs (churches) and centers (missions), Scientology became a parody of itself.
As a religion, Scientology no longer has any valid claim to being scientific, no objective proof of workability, no burden of proof, no need for research or documentation, no accepted way to falsify its claims, no constraining its hagiography to facts, and nothing to sustain it other than dogmatic, totalitarian belief in the supposedly infallible ramblings of a mentally ill and now dead founder.
In those regards, Scientology is not unlike some other religions (both big, enduring cults and smaller, more easily recognizable cults).
But Scientology is despicably unique in this regard: it sold its soul for 30 pieces of silver, and it has been living a lie ever since.
So Miscavige saw the gate Janus held open and walked through it thinking he was entering the realm of victory, when in fact he entered a land ever further detached from any meaningful reality.
Hi FOTF2012, A wonderful post,filled with insight.Thank you.Love,Ann.
FOTF2012 A very nice post,
loved the 30 pieces of silver…..how true
If Scientologists could use the internet they could see the whole 1993 IAS shebang any time they wanted for free on YouTube.
Glad you made it out, Mike, but sorry you lost contact with your family due to disconnection.
I see you or Chris Shelton now on the internet and you are so intelligent. I wonder how such smart people could have been dupes of DM and LRH. But it is as you say in Going Clear: “The only answer is faith.”
You both had faith in Scientology and it let you down.
Yes Buber, and what a ‘down’ that was. Karma comes to mind…
Mr. Rinder,
Thank you for your most wonderful blog. I look forward to reading it each morning.
I have ordered my friends who live in Clearwater to attend the Palm Harbor screening and Q & A. Sadly, I no longer reside in that area, but if it continues to rain where I am, I may drive a few hours to Pinellas to join them for this most illuminating documentay– as well as some literal sunshine!
I am continually amazed and inspired that you have made a new life after enduring such abuse. I still have difficulty understanding how intelligent people (like you) could put up with the COSs shenanigans for so long. However, I also wonder how I could have believed many silly things: for example, that my college boyfriend was going to marry me, that certain bosses would ever act with integrity, and that late 90’s internet stock prices would keep rising forever.
The moral is this: sometimes, good folk embrace unhelpful, incorrrect, toxic beliefs. As such, there are still smart, good people trapped in the COS. May the growing body of information about its corporate evils SOON precipitate its demise, thus freeing those trapped in its web to do more useful and soul-nurturing things than tattling on “fellow parishioners” and watching videos of 20+ year old tax status announcement events!
Let the people say “Amen”. In this case, even atheists should say “Amen!” ?
I did wonder how the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology was going to follow the epic fail of the IAS event 2014 with the multiple invasions of Stain Hill by SPs, but I had not imagined that the answer was this pathetic! Captain David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige must really, REALLY, not want to expose himself to the public any more. Good.
Did he edit our the part where he says “Marty and I” Isn’t it this the event where he describes how Marty Rathbun and he were walking down the street and spontaneously decided to stop in and see the the IRS Commissioner and that is what opened the door to handling the whole thing?
I’m nearly 100% that I read either here or Tony’s site that recent versions of that even have the footage of Marty whistling and cheering edited out and the part where Miscavige mentions him edited out too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQkRxvIeJA&index=6&list=PL97bG9F7T-UeA-fS8gxIlNHYNsKKEb3g7
About minute 3:00
I’m confused. Did you post the wrong video? This is deposition testimony re Monique Rathbun/Miscavige. Nothing particularly significant seems to happen at 3:00.
I would call it hysteria, but that would be an offense to hysteria.
I feel that DM , besides a pathetc attempt to do some “damage control” , is trying beforehand to “Dead Agent” Gibney’s targeting of the Church’s tax exemption status. Remember that Gibney is using his Emmy winner documentary to push the pertinent agencies , specially the IRS, into looking at Scn’s tax exemption status in a new unit of time from other angles that the IRS might have missed at 1993 when the agreement was settled. The many Media reports about the HBO doc, and the interviews themselves stresses that point.
So by showing the loyal followers how he “defeated” the mighty IRS after a “40 years battle” where Scn had allegedly been suppressed in its god-given right as a “religion” , then the “brainwashing indoctrination” is “effectivel” accomplished. He might think that “dead agenting” (not for non-Scientologists, but exactly for them) Gibney’s targeting of the Church’s tax exemption status is the next “logical” step, and right before , at , or during the airing of the documentary at the theaters.
Make no mistake, he is using LRH’s PR series (and GO series) to the letter. It is a strategy directed mostly towards Scientologists , very certain fo be followed by a “special” edition of the Freedom magazine dedicated just to that subject. 20 years is a VERY long time, and he knows that people tend to have a short memory in these matters. So he will “joggle” their memorg first, plant reasonable doubt, and do his thing with Freedom mag. I don’t feel that he is necessarily desperated, but is “cleverly” planning ahead. Don’t underestimate this guy.
TC
Don’t underestimate this guy??? Whoa, Daddio…are you by any chance referring to David I’m Going to Shoot Myself In The Foot Today Miscavige? Oh wait, I get it. The Little Moron is being made into a force to be reckoned with by utilizing the “Man to Superman” TECH! That IS what you’re subliminally suggesting right? 🙂
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Well, that little “dumb” man :
1. 3Ped (Third Paried ) LRH about David Mayo (his competition for assuming power) , and got him labeled as the “biggest SP in history”. Then totally crushed him legally , and put him at total oblivion as regards to doing or talking ANY Scn.
2. Got rid of his other “competition” , Pat Broeker, by totally Black PRing him, and persecuted and harassed him for years. Nothing more has been heard about Pat. He just disappeared. The only guy alive (as far as I know) that actually has first account inf about what really happened to LRH.
3. Got rid of almost all high profile veteran SO members that could eventually wake up and de-hypnotize themselves, and replaced them by young robots who doesn’t have a clue about the real history of Scn.
4. Managed to defeat the mighty IRS obtaining a full tax exemption in the USA , and only had to pay a mere 12.5 millions in taxes over the whole 30 years period. The USA State Depart even uttered a defense (in one of its paragraphs) in favor of Scn in its Human Rights report , criticizing the German government’s “suppression” of Scn as a religion.
5. Managed to totally abort any FBI investigations of his person even with dozens if not hundreds of testimonies about Human rights abuses.
6. Managed to deceive thousands of Scientologists into believing that GAT 1 and 2 are based on LRH’s writings. I am talking of many old-timers and even highly trained auditors. Was capable of making thousands re-do many Bridge steps having to pay them all over again, and at a higher cost to the parishioners.
7. Managed to fool many hundreds or thousands of Scientologists about how ANY attacks from the Media and published books and government reports are just “SPs” attempting to destroy Scn.
7. Managed to fool thousands into believing in the “standardness” of the Ideal Org program, being a able to collect millions in donations.
8. Fooled almost all Scientologists for years about the alleged “grandiosity” of the IAS.
Shall I go on ?
But according to you he is just a “dumb little man”. Gee, with more of those totally “stupid” individuals this planet would turn into a complete mad house.
I am afraid that it takes Scn to beat Scn. It takes the same Intelligence training and the same exact use of LRH’s tactics. But only someone so trained can really understand what I am talking about.
I never make the terrible mistake of underestimating my “enemies”. In sports, that’s a deadly disease. What is done is to STUDY your enemy in detail , and learn all of his tactics and blind spots. Then , we know what to attack. Ignore that fact at your own peril.
My ¢2 cents.
TC
Indeed, Peter, the man has the audacity of an ambitious cutthroat who can operate without the constraint of morals or conscience. He blackmailed and dirty-tricked his way to the mountain top having learned from the Master of Dirty Tricks Himself. As for fooling a bunch of indoctrinated scientologists, he did it all out in the open and they just laid down for it. That was no accomplishment. He has since fallen from that mountain top and appears to be floundering pathetically. You think he is still a titan who poses a serious threat, okay, I guess we’ll see if that’s true.
“You think he is still a titan who poses a serious threat, okay, I guess we’ll see if that’s true.”
Not any longer , dear Roger ; not any longer. But this is not the time to relax neither , if you understand what I mean. Many wars were lost due to overconfidence.
Best regards,
Peter
Hi Theta Clear, Thank you for your postI would never under estimate David Miscavige.You know I get chills whenever his name comes up.Love Evwr, Ann.
Got it , dear ; thanks. :-)))
Love,
Peter
David let him die Miscavige IS following LRH policy to the letter except for this policy: “if everything is going to shit in a hand basket, then do something else.” LRH followed that policy religiously his whole life, that’s how he came up with new policy, but he didn’t let anyone else do it . That’s why DM’s fate is sealed. He can’t reverse the downward spiral caused by outdated policy because he can’t change the policy. He can’t be “clever” and do something else. That would be off policy.
DM is applying LRH’s frozen “PR” policy to its logical conclusion: they are simply being laughed out of existence. The butt of a jokes. Fodder for SNL. A humorous footnote in history.
It must never be forgotten that the epic 1993 “Turning Point” paved the way for the new Purification Rundown uniforms of 2015.
The only reason he won that concession from the IRS is because Marty was with him. If Marty wasn’t there he would have been told, “Run along now, little man, you’ll be hearing from us…”
Talk about a “One hit wonder.”
Laughter! One hit wonder!!! Good one!
Bingo, Scott Cambell, just a dead-on statement.
I hesitate giving this school-yard bully too much credit for anything. He is not particularly intelligent, nor stable, and he is largely responsible for driving his aggressive and profit-oriented organization into the ground. As the personafier of a bully he could win an actor’s award, after that all he deserves in terms of recognition is a jail term.
David Miscavige – “Look at those impossible odds”.
“Thank you”.
“Did you contribute to the motion of Scientology – impossible odds for anything but a slow, dwindling spiral down to the nothingness it is today?”
“Thank you- yes, Sir, you most certainly did.”
“Now – throw Scientology all away”.
“Oh, you don’t need to – it has been over for many years and what is left is just smoke and mirrors”.
“Ok – well, thank you Sir”
End of session.
End of the Show being on the road.
End of Scientology.
Full IRS event posted on Youtube by AGP
Just bringing it to atention, Not necercarelly for posting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uumuuQm5eQ
Another book that was released this month is David Love’s “Dante’s Eighth Circle” Why Scientology’s Narconon Must Be Stopped. And more recently all the docs linking police reports to Narconon Arrowhead and other facilities were released on Narconon Review. ?
I assume they’ll have to cut our more than Marty’s name to show that video.
Gotta be a lot of other defrocked apostates in that audience.
Plus those in the Hole…
Yeah, and Shelly who was prominently in the first row. Along with Janet Light McLaughlin. The crowd cutaway applause shots will no doubt now consist almost exclusively of long audience pans.
Okay, $10k to whoever can get the ORIGINAL event DVDs sent to the orgs and get them played instead…
Hi Cindy,Thank you for your post.That is horrible and not just because I adore doggies and all cats,but because nothing done in the name of cos surprises me!Sad but true.Love,Ann.
It is pretty clear why Miscavige is choosing to run this particular “moldy oldie” at this moment.
It has to be in response to the September 18 piece in the Tampa Bay Times which featured James Jackson’s talk about how a “palace coup” could bring Miscavige down. The IRS battle is Miscavige’s single significant achievement and is thus his entire claim to legitimacy.
So when he’s worried that someone, somewhere might see the TBT article and start pondering how to get rid of him, he’s trotting out his signature achievement that no one in the cult can really dispute. He knows that there’s increasing dissension about the Idle Morgue strategy. He knows many people have left over blatant rip-offs like The Basics. But the one thing that you can’t dispute benefits the cult and its members is the tax exemption.
The fact that it’s being shown at the same time as Going Clear is a nice “twofer” but I suspect that’s far less important.
I can only imagine how awful it must be to be at Int Base and have to deal with Dave’s increasing paranoia, which has taken a couple big jumps forward in the last week.
Hi Jonn P. Capitalist, Good to see you again. I feel paranoia is wrapping tentacles around David Miscavige as I post. Thank you for yours,Love,Ann.
There is always the wild card. For example, no one really expected Boehner to quit.
A possible scenario would be that Miscavige actually snaps to the degree that the high tension at Int results in ‘locking him up’ to protect him, followed with a coup. Plenty have bide their time for such an opportunity and it is becoming more feasible.
Oh, I don’t know. Captain David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige apparently uses private security company personnel to ensure his personal safety, so this scenario would not be an option.
Private security companies have to be paid, though…
Hey Dave,
I’m curious about the two words edited out of the video.
Marty. Rathbun.
The “story Scientologists need to know about” isn’t the IRS decision, it’s the big lie that’s been hidden from them for decades by Miscavige.
Longer than that Doug. Since 1950.
For sure, but I was hinting about the big lie about “LRH dropping his body to do upper OT research” vs. expiring in a motorhome with drugs in his system and a mess of an old man, a far cry from an “OT”. A gradient before they start to unravel all the other fibs.
Great approach idea Doug!
I agree that LRH was a physical wreck when he died, but I don’t understand why descriptions of his state include info that at 74 his hair was thin and receding in front. Lots of healthy men in their 20s have hair that is thin and receding in front.
Agreed; I’d go with the teeth.
…and LRH died refusing to tell us the truth.
The End.
It isn’t a day in Scientology if the Church is not embroiled in a P.R. flap or a law suit. It has become tradition now, part of the culture. The Church’s biggest profit points.
Hi The Oracle,A perceptive post.And don’t the lawyers all know this and love getting that paycheck especially the ones on David’s side.XXOO Ann.
But seriously, if you are “thinking with the tech”, doesn’t this mean the Church is PTS?
Hi The Oracle, Yes, yes it does! Love U,Ann.
Memorieeeeeees, light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored meeeeeeeemories…
of the way we were.
If I had any video skillz I’d overlay that song onto the money shot portion of the video. That would be funny.
Hi Gus Cox, You have me laughing right now.Thank you! Love,Ann.
For anyone who has read “Blown for Good” when Miscavige said “the war is over” the recording cut out and the lights weren’t on him so the words had to be edited in. The sound quality was in the sports arena. The majority of the audience was forced to react to the cues of the few who could hear the audio. The original live event wasn’t exactly what was seen on video. Imagine that.
Of course people must be forced to rewatch this event ad infinitum. Every night as David Miscavige watches it with his nightly bottle of scotch he perceives yet another tiny imperfection which MUST BE CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY; some CICS whose face appears in the video who must be blurred out, some inflection of speech, something.
It is highly unlikely that the event that is referred to in these flyers as “our history” even slightly resembles the event that occurred at this point which is why people must continue to be re exposed to it.
As it changes over the years, they have to have the new memory of the event recorded over the event that actually occurred. SPs cannot have had anything to do with it! People who are no longer part of the faithful must not be in the audience.
Brainwashing at its finest.
Turning point? Only if you mean turn and leave.
Hi Valerie, You go girl,Loved your post.Ann.
Out of Ron Hubbard’s fertile imagination come implant stations where people are continually forced to watch all sorts of propaganda for the purpose of making them malleable and compliant to one specific authority. The ones who do this implanting are the evil ones in Hubbard’s tales. Interestingly, in his great trek to free mankind, he meticulously assembled the million intricate pieces required to build the very system he railed against in his tales and doctrines.
Banksy’s Dismaland closes today. It’s turned out to be the art exhibition of the year, a magnificent collection of artificial misery with surly, depressed guides, all set in a depressing location. So, if Scientology needs money, why can’t they just copy Banksy? They’ve got a whole lot of real misery set in even more depressing locations around the world. They’ve got a potential Dismaland franchise at every single Idle Morgue. The highlight can be a forced showing of the War Is Over video, just like they’re doing to their own people.
Seriously, Dave, if you want money so badly, Banksy has shown you the way. You don’t even need to change a single thing. You’ve already got the RPF, the inattentive Div Sux, the Sea Org surliness. Just call it an art exhibition and watch the money roll in.
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Didn’t Miscavige publicly thank Marty Rathbun at this event?
Dollars to donuts it’s been edited out.
I found the bit. It’s at 2:07:00 in the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFixbJVDe1Y.
At 1:30:05 DM mentions Marty Rathbun. 1.5 minutes of DM’s precious ‘me time’ will need to go from the show?
http://youtu.be/HFixbJVDe1Y
This link should start playing at that mark.
Heber and Marty are both there, looking happy.
Isn’t this just about the last time he thanked anyone inside the church apart from his hero Tom? After this DM did everything by himself so there was no real need to thank the folks around him. COB seems genuinely happy in parts (now he always appears grumpy and mean looking despite the fake acting to the contrary) however the way he wags his finger at the sheeple is strange and threatening body language to me.
Self-congratulatory cheers from the world’s religions:
Catholic Church — Wearing fancy hats since 380
Southern Baptists — Bringing souls to Jesus since 1845
Church of England — Getting new wives for fat kings since 1533
Buddhism — Karma’s a bitch since 500 BCE
Taoism — Finding our Way since 600 BCE
Mormons — Reading gold plates with seeing stones since 1820
Scientology — Not paying taxes since 1953 and getting away with it since 1993
Good one, HGC. Very clever. “Scientology — not paying taxes since 1953 and getting away with it since 1993.”
Outstanding, post, hgc! Wow!
The Lutheran Church opposed Hitler in the 1930s and 40s when no one else did, but Davey has to look for something a bit more trivial.
jgg2012 I hate to spoil the mood here. But nothing could be further from the truth. While there were priests of both large churches opposing and resisting the Nazis. That was not the mainstream in these churches.
The mainstream was way to busy cutting deals with Hitler to introduce the church tax (collected for the church by the state) which made them the richest churches in the world and it is still collected by the German equivalent of the IRS today.
DM just got the IRS to not collect taxes from him, the German Churches (lutheran and catholic) managed to get the Nazi IRS to collect taxes for them. They were way ahead of DM.
After the war the churches pulled out the one’s that became martyrs under the Nazi regime and made it appear that this was the mainstream. While the mainstream in reality often assisted the Nazis to create the martyrs.
That switch in presentation seems to have been very successful as your statements shows.
Regarding the “Church tithe tax in Germany, Article 137 of the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and article 140 of the German Basic Law of 1949 are the legal basis for this practice.
I ran a company in Germany and had to collect. I researched this law at the time…
Years ago the 700 Club had a remarkably fair and realistic look at the behavior of Protestant pastors under Nazism. One guest said that most pastors voted for Hitler, and that for many “Hitler was not just the man of the hour, he was God’s man of the hour.”
Dm is mentally deranged.
Tony, with all due respect, that’s an insult to mentally deranged people. You’re going to have to come up with another category for SOB….
Agreed in spades. Captain Loser does not get to hide behind his own service facs.
Yo Dave,
Ya know good buddy…….. where exactly do you think the sheeple that are not at the Fart Harrison for your 93 event re-showing are going to be? Yep, visiting their out of town in-laws or some such tripe.
I’ll give you even money that the Alex Gibney showing in Palm Harbor will be sold out. The real question Dave is how much will you dole out that evening in PIs to cover and photograph the goings on so you can write a proper Freedum Editorial?
OK Captain Loser, do your thingy!!!
LMAO! “Ok, Captain Loser, do your thingy!!!” That’s an instant classic! “Hey Davy, have you done your thingy today?” Still laughing…..
Bringing this old video out and attempting to enforce people to come watch it is only going to get those people to apply the thing the church teaches the most…lie. They will come up with various excuses why they can not make it to the event and add another small step in the direction of heading out the door for good.
I agree, Mona. And they’ll have a terrific excuse to the staff for blowing off this event: “I’ve seen it 3 times already!”
“Because there is NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW.” That line will go down in the annuals of scientology history, Mike. NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. Hey folks! I gotta admit to all of you, we’ve got NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. So we have to travel back to1993 so COP can crow a few times. Other than that, there’s NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. I mean, look, we’re already forcing EVERY SINGLE MEMBER to do the lower bridge all over again. With the purif being done multiple times (for good measure). And to tell you the truth, many of you are, in fact, NOT CLEAR! So you’ll have to do that over again too. Oh, and of course you have to pay for it ALL OVER AGAIN, too. Why? Because we have NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. Briefing Course? Sorry to tell you this, but, it flat lined. Auditing and training? That’s so 1980s. But, rest assured that we do need your money now more than ever! Why? Because we STILL have NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW.
I wish I could be at Tony Ortega’s event in Portland, OR. But, I’ll be a NO SHOW.
This is what Lou has been telling Dave ever since he SHOT HIS WAD yanking ribbons.
LMFAO!!!!! Whew! Still laughing! Now that’s some funny shit!
He may try to distract the very few blind followers left, yet, he can not control all the other continents- Europe which is already boiling with legal suits on fraud, Latin America that follows more the events of a genuine leader, Pope Francis and so on.
It does suck to be miscavige.
It is ironic that the best moment of his life is the “Win Over the IRS…” yet it was Marty who pulled that one off while in the SO working as David, let him die,, Miscavige’s right hand man. He even gave public kudos to Marty at one of the events for his good work on the IRS thing. Yet now he rails against Marty as if he were the devil incarnate. When the church tried to Dead Agent Marty to me, they told me that Marty actually screwed up the IRS thing and almost ruined it for us and that Miscavige had to take over and salvage it. Well if that were the case, why then congratulate Marty publicly at an event on the stage for his handling the IRS so well? I would love it if someone could find the video of DM giving Kudos to Marty on stage for the IRS. We could put the link on Mike’s site and everyone could see for all posterity how DM talks out of both sides of his mouth. Oh, wait, I got that wrong — he can only talk from one side of his mouth while standing on his soap box to give him height.
Really from 1993 .. my first thought was the 93rd Anniversary .. but this was to high in number .. so I checked they show this old stuff again .. how idiotic is that .. everybody knows about that ..
Well, Friend, it’s not that idiotic. Why? Because they have NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW (trade marked).
Keep on spinning, spinning David Miscavige. You’re losing it and it shows.
$cientology : Ever Looking Backward, Never Moving Forward….
Well, Bruce, that’s exactly what they have to do. The really don’t have a choice because they have NOTHING ELSE TO SHOW. Simple when you think about it.
Dave,
Will there be body routers at Muvico to shuttle some lost sheep to your rerun at the Fort Harrison?
I got one of those flyers this week for Pac Base Oct. 3
Wow, AGP! You got invited! Way to go! I’m SURE you’ll be met with open arms…..
DM: You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this comment is about you. Actually, it is about your twin, Liberace. You’re becoming more and more like him. I expect to a candelabra at an event one of these days.
You walked into the Idle Morgue like you were walking onto a yacht,
Your SO hat strategically dipped below one eye,
You’re scarf was SO blue.
You had one eye in the mirror as you watch yourself go by,
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your auditor, they’d be your auditor
You’re so vain, you probably this comment is about you (back up singers- you’re so vain), you’re so vain you probably think this comment is about you, don’t you, don’t you?
Well you had me several years ago when I was in CMO,
You said that we made such a pretty pair and that you’d never go
But you gave away the KRs you loved and one of them was me.
I had some SO dreams, they were rice and beans in my coffee, rice and beans in my coffee
You’re so vain, you probably think this comment is about you, don’t you, don’t you don’t you?
You’re so…..Oh what the hell, You’re an asshole!
Hi OSD,Did you post one time that you are in a band? If so and even if not,your lyrics are an instant classic. Thank you my friend.Ann
Indeed, Ann B, I’ve had my band for a decade now. It’s in its third incarnation. And this is THE most talented band I’ve ever had. We did a gig last Friday night. Had a great crowd! We play a lot of classic rock. We’re a six man band. I play acoustical rhythm and am one of two lead singers. I also sing back up.
Hi OSD, Y’all sound great! One of these days I will be in the audience rocking out with one of the best! Love to you two Ann.
Same horror ever in “Flag’s tour” in Paris. Frist, SO did cancel the first date retained, on august 15th, than had no more than 100 people – staffs included – on september 19th, in Hotel Marriott rive-gauche, some days ago.
Paris is supposedly having tens of thousands scientologists it opened since 1959, in Rue de Londres, then in rue de la Montagne Ste Geneviève, then near the Gare du Nord, then at rue Jules Cesar, while a self-called Celebrity center changed twice its adress and is a complete failure , with some few tens people coming on the very very best evenings.
True enough, Paris Courts, after Lyon courts, Marseille courts, Lille courts and some others, never forgot what L. Ron Hubbard was: a fraud, sentenced for fraud to 4 years and amend in Paris courts, 1978.
Hi roger gonnet, Liked your post.I remember the Flap at Asho when France sentenced Ron for fraud.It was like a hornet’s nest stirred up for weeks after around the Org.Always,Ann.
Ah, that smell…Ah,yes…It´s the unmistakable funk of Punching Pimping Proto-Puto Pontiff PIG SHIT.
Curiously, screening this event yet again (wasn’t viewing this mandated also a few years ago?) also communicates to me as a bid for sympathy on the part of Miscavige to his loyal sheeple, a la : “See what I did for you? Scientology survived because of ME! So don’t turn on me now! Stay with me! You OWE me!” Just my opinion but I think Miscavige is really scared, and force-feeding this event to the Still-ins as his covert plea for continued their support and loyalty, his boasting, bragging way of arguing that no matter what’s wrong it should not be HIS head that gets nailed on a pike.. In particular, to the Whales, I think, this is Miscavige, actually begging to keep his job.
Nice observatio
I think you’re on to something there, Aquamarine.
Miscavige to his loyal sheeple, a la : “See what I did for you? Scientology survived because of ME!
“So now back me in everything I do because we are under attack like never before” will be the rallying cry at the IAS event, better have those check books ready sheeple!
The more that we all make the true aims and abuses of RCo$ known the worse it will be for COB SOB
Rats Mike!!!! Now I’m going to have to miss your thing. I really can’t skip out on the Ft. Harrison event without someone there noticing my absence and the sec-checkers are starting to catch on to a lot of our ‘beat the meter’ tricks. Rain Check?
Desperation sets in at Der Dwarfenbunker…
Do y’all think that he’ll marry “Lou” in the final days?
LMAO!!!!! Still laughing! John, once again, you do have a way with words! Now that’s some funny shit!
OSD, I blame my love of history. 🙂
I love the Hitler bunker theme! So appropriate!
Devastating. You’ve said it all, Mike. Here is proof positive to anyone paying even halfway attention that David Miscavige and the Church of Scientolgy is in serious trouble.
Pity the poor staff doing call-in who’ll be hearing, “But I saw that 22 years ago and once or twice since! How many times do we have to see this thing?” This is going to be a tough sell and I’d bet money attendance will be poor.
Yes and we already know attendance will be poor because they are having it at the Orgs rather than at the Shrine Auditorium as in years past. Tthe Shrine holds what, maybe 3,000 to 5,000 people? Well now they can’t have it there because all the empty seats would be a tip off to the faithful. So they crowd them in to the Org and crow there was, “standing room only!”
Oh, I see. I didn’t spot that indicator, Cindy. What a joke! And I’ll bet the Sheeple are cringing and working out how to avoid giving the IAS their last dollar at this IAS event.
I thought of another possibility: perhaps the threat of LOSS of Marty Rathbun’s – uh, I mean, David Miscavige’s brilliantly-won tax deduction will be the strategem that will be employed to get the Sheeple to pry open their wallets.
Of course, somehow this eminent danger necessitating immediate large infusions of cash will somehow be conflated with the unprecedented expansion, and no-one will ever wonder why, with millions of new members, so few people show up at Int Events, and why, with the 47X expansion the Church of Scientology doesn’t have the dough to handle the threats to its survival.
Poor Sheeple. Today, it happens I feel sincerely sorry for them. Its such an amazing con, after all.
You have to hand it to SOB he really does nice powters for his events.
Such a pity that none of this crap reports how many auditors have been trained, nor how many new missions are out there.
SOB is scraping the bottom of the IAS barrel and I wish I had the time to attend the Tampa screening of the film he is so enraged about.
I do so enjoy these posts of SOB writhing about like the cobra he really is.
Damn, TT! I wish I had thought of that! I mean, SOB is THE prefect name for the runt! Hey you, SOB! How’s it hangin’? THE RPF??? WTF for?
Yes, ironic really, that this was supposed to be the start of a massive international expansion, yet 1993, give or take a year or two, was certainly the high point of Scientology in terms of actual delivery (which, believe it or not newcomers, used to mean something). The amount of cubic feet of hot air delivered by His Holiness is the only thing straight up and vertical since then – unless empty cathedrals are considered important.
Two other minor points on this: 1. There was a time when all Scientologists were given a DVD of the event, so if they REALLY had the urge to sit through the three hours of bum-numbing self-admiration again they would only have to fire up their DVD players and 2. Has Marty being name-checked in it been edited out?
In 25 years, if SOB is still around, he’ll still be forcing Idle Morgues to show it. Lou will be wiping away the drool from his mouth as SOB, once again, basks in is glory.
Yeah, I thought of that too. I’m sure they edited out any reference to Eeeee-vil Marty. I think the vid that has it is up on youtube somewhere.
Having attended the 1993 “The War is Over” event, I can recall feeling elated by the news and presentation, yet at the same time a sense of foreboding. Deep down it did not seem genuine, that Scientology somehow did not deserve religious recognition. Add to that all of the predictions and promises:
1) Money normally spent on defence could now be directed toward promotion and marketing
2) That all the governments of the world would follow suit and fall like dominoes, ushering in unbelievable expansion
3) That removing the burden of both the IRS and Interpol, that Scientology would almost spontaneously expand and orgs would prosper.
Yeah…well…
NONE of that happened. Stats in my org remained unchanged. And now 22 years later, the org is smaller than when I left.
No, Scientology got religious recognition by bullying the IRS.
How can one be proud of that?
In all fairness it’s actually pretty cool if you can bully the IRS. And it’s not like they’re a sweet bunch of guys.
Hi People, Great to hear from you.I second your post.Having the IRS visit me years ago over a matter of treasury checks for some odd reason I was pulled off post to sign all night at Asho F I can vouch they were not Nice Guys at all! Men in black with sunglasses.Love,Ann.PS and it was raining when they visited me!
Against impossible odds we took a stand for freedom——–
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha !!!
OK,now you get a pass on TR – L
Hi Mike, I particularly enjoyed the last line on the Austin Org promo piece.” and must never be forgotten in all the generations to come ” A typo,David Miscavige! Take out the word never then I’ll really understand!XO Ann.
Mike, yes they are doing a big push as big as Rons Birthday or Dianetics. I’ve received an unusual amount of emails and calls. Little Davey is trying to run self analysis by rehabbing a big clam pleasure moment.
This was the beginning of the end for me, as the IAS really took off and became the fat, glutted vampire that sucked me and so many others dry.
Scientology is truly stuck in the past. All their efforts, Dianetics, clear, OTIII, NOTS etc. are past, past, past.
Scientogies present is filled with their true persona. Lies, abuse, fraud, human rights violations, insane dogma, exploitation, destroying families and destroying lives.
Davey has NO “PR area control”. Public opinion is straight down and vertical.
Like any true psychotic he is living in the past. The present is far to painful and the future is bleak.
I can imagine clams scratching their heads and wondering why they have to show up for this event. The only value there is to showing this video, is to further indoctrinate all the young fresh meat that was not around for the IRS win.
At the time we scientologists thought that this event marked a new beginning.
Truly reshowing the 1993 video is the ushering in of the end of this toxic organization.
And none too soon.
Razor-sharp point, exposing again that the leader is suffering from extreme denial.
Dementia, is a fitting word, and it fits the church as well. An insane church is a social disease, to be sure.
It is so pleasing for me to go out into the general world today, hearing the dismal opinion that is the fresh, public opinion of Scientology. I live rurally, out in the sticks really. But go into town and mention Scientology and everybody seems to know the honest story; just today I overheard somebody randomly say,”Scientology?… why, those people are just a bunch of bullies, thank god they’re not around here” , a very rewarding thing for me to hear, personally. Everybody knows.
Our efforts to expose this carniverous organization for what it is – is paying off.
-Mike, I am so proud of your contribution to the world in this regard. Everybody who posts here wins my highest appreciation. Thank you all for bringing light to this sinister tool of deception orchestrated by the deluded, this thing called Scientology. I do hope your Q and A is taped in Florida after the presentation of Going Clear, Mike. I’ll be looking for that. The church implodes along with the mental collapse of its leader, we all bear witness now.
You own my debt of gratitude. (until there is no fresh meat left for the sharks to eat)-mm
Are they inviting Marty?
A turning point indeed, but in what direction? Tiny Fists…a faded, jaded ex-movie star, showing endless re-runs from the glory days.
What an incredibly bad year for Let Him Die Miscavige. He must be quivering in his Gucci diapers.
Zola, your comment brings to mind my favorite David Miscavige shoop – someone at the Bunker did it – a classic line from “Sunset Boulevard” with DM’s head on Norma Desmond’s body and Tom Cruise’s on Joe Gillis’s body: “I AM big. It’s the orgs that got small.” Hilarious!
Observer created the shoop. And the shoop was my idea.
Since ’93, here are some other Turning Points:
The death of Lisa McPherson (great job C/Sing, Dave)
The Basics “push” forcing the exodus of public and staff
The IAS tactics forcing the exodus of many more
Top Execs leaving
The Truth Rundown
The Debbie Cook email
It goes on and on and on and on….
Congratulations Dave. You’re the man!
1. I suppose Miscavige’s complimentary comments about Marty Rathbun’s efforts (and Mike Rinder too?) in that video have been edited out. Perhaps some people will remember that special mention and wonder why it is not on the video any longer.
2. The 93 video also places in stark contrast the fact that the number of people attending important events has dwindled. People who are new to the Church since 93 will be amazed – and not for the reasons the Church seeks.
3. A question – does anyone know if Scientology was represented at the Pope’s multi-faith ceremony in New York this past week – and if so – who was there representing the CoS? At this end of the world I heard no mention of Scientology being represented – meaning I heard/read no mention on CNN, Sky or BBC television news or websites.)
Hi Wendy M, Good to meet you.My hubby is a news watcher and he said he never heard one bit on Scientology regarding the Pope.He is an agnostic and I do not belong to any religion now, but I know my spirit will traverse into another place if that is my will.I also like Jesus as to his words in The NewTestament,I just get frustrated that his words were written years after his death.I guess you can call me A Vagabond Traveling Spiritualist but not as the group that exists in upper New York and has a camp in Florida.I just want all to see the beauty within.We all have it,it just involves the Will to let it shine on this planet.Love,Ann.
Thanks for your reply Ann! The “fastest growing religion” in the 21st century had no representation at the biggest multi-faith event in the US in decades. And if there was any representation no-one noticed……. Hmmm.
OH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!!
Fancy that. Now the Ethics Officer will be able to create a list of the “Ethics Situations FOUND” so they can get those pesky “ETHICS SITUATIONS HANDLED” next week and 5.4x/47x their stats and finally get to take a libs day!!
Someone did a stat analysis and finally (reality) a giant super duper long graph of some stat (could it be Value of Services DELIVERED) was made. If Del Sol is still standing (I have no idea) the graph likely went from that little room where we had supplies passed out to the reception/HCO room.
Or maybe they put it on a giant printer and made a graph big enough to go into Tom Cruise’s hanger?
YAY!! I’m so happy they are trying so hard to stop people from actually seeing the truth and I bet this creates even MORE of an exodus into a world with Peace and Love everywhere!
For years prior to this event in LA, we would get IAS “briefings” in the course room asking for money – of course – but also asking for volunteers to stand outside IRS buildings with clipboards to query employees for any known criminal activity of their higher ups.
Was any criminal activity found from this “3rd dynamic sec checking”, and was it used as blackmail by Miscavige to obtain IRS tax exemption?
Alanzo
Alanzo,
D.M. found Dirt on IRS employees so much
that the Head of the IRS granted Tax exemption
based on that, nothing to do with religion or doing anything good or
fair .
David NORMA DESMOND Miscavige! Hint: “Sunset Boulevard” washed-up silent screen star watches her old movies every night to relive her glory days.
Davie says, “I’m still big! It’s the pictures that got small.”
He’s ready for his close-up, Mr DeMille.
OMG, I just posted this same thing, Cindy! Before reading your post!
Twin sisters from different mothers! lol
Or you could just go to youtube and watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFixbJVDe1Y
Shit quality, but good enough to get the gist of the cult of personality Miscavige so obviously craves.
Great post but I do have a question:
Why do the posters say the “war” took 40 years to win? I thought Scientology had tax-exemption up until 1963. It being instated in 1993 would mean that it had been fought over for 30 years.
1993-1963= 30 years
I’m not sure if I’m mistaken about 1963 or if whoever drafted these promos can’t count. Can anyone fact check me?
Well, like everything else in the world of Miscavige, he uses numbers interchangeably. Whatever sounds good is good enough for him. 47X. 12 million scientologists. A page of a book read every 3.59 seconds. 4,327,652.5 inches of state-of-the-art lighting fixture wiring installed…
You’ve hear of word salad?
He also serves up numbers hash.
You know, Mike, I’m going to give up doing stand-up if you keep coming up with these one liners. I just don’t think I can compete!
Hi OSD, I second your post.Mike is damn good with words! Just think if the going gets rougher and it most certainly will for David Miscavige, he can give his dwindling band of SO slaves extra busy work- opening The David Miscavige Cafe serving “word salads and numbers hash” to the upstats and in the back corner that absolutely classic dish of cold beans and slightly green dogs to the downstats! Love, Ann.
Helluva menu, Mike! ROFL And when I first saw “annus horribilis”, I mentally deducted one “s” and thought it a good description of Mini Mouse Misk.
A message to David Miscavige, thug leader of the criminal cult of Scientology:
Be sure to have spies at every showing provide an honest count of attendees. This will give you an objective measure of how your 47X expansion is really a collapse.
Be sure to harshly punish all the staff and SO for the poor attendance! It may help them wake up and leave the criminal cult. Do the same to public who don’t attend – they need even more reasons to leave the evil cult.
“Be sure to harshly punish all the staff and SO for the poor attendance!” You’re onto something here. Miscavige will absolutely blame them, and in turn, they’ll blame the Other Fish To Fry Counter Intentioned PTS public, and the public will cringe and blame themselves, and their withdrawal and non-participation will accelerate.
And the Class V org staff will focus even more on setting up their reasons for not re-signing their staff contracts when they expire.
I keep looking at the photo of dear leader on that imposing stage…and can’t help but notice how tiny he appears.
I was thinking the same thing. Tiny. Tinny tiny. So tiny you’d need a magnifying glass to see it…..ummmmm….. I mean him. So tiny you’d need a magnifying glass to see HIM. Yeah, that’s the ticket…
Hi Peter,I always love to see your posts.David Miscavige ( my IPad just auto corrected that name to Mr. Caviar! laughter) But what you posted sparked my memory to maybe the late 80s or earlier when for some reason the news on TV at the time showed a clip of Scientologists racing across a stage with all these flags etc.I immediately got the worst chill and I thought what is going on here? That must have been my intro to the man himself David Miscavige who of course came in way after my time in Sea Org.But yes he does appear tiny and I do not feel any “theta” from him at all.Love Always,Ann.
While the Scientologists are watching an old 1993 video about David Miscavige’s successful efforts, the rest of the planet will be watching the HBO documentary Going Clear. I am pretty sure that all of the people ordered to watch the old 1993 video are going to be a bit disappointed as most of them have already seen it.
Hey Dean! Now that you’re living the life in beautiful Austin, do you ever cruise by the Idle Morgue there? Isn’t across the street from the university? Any sign of life?
I went there last year and reported on it. Totally dead. And I went there when they were supposedly having an “event”…
Wow. I know the cult like to recruit on college campuses. Mike, do you know if they ever put up one of their big yellow tents? I know they have at other colleges.
You know, Mike, if you were there last year and it was totally dead, image what it’s like now, after Going Clear.
Thanks for the heads up!
OMG Mike
Trotting out this old video that we were FORCED to watch over and over, along with other clearly self congratulating events is going to go over REAL WELL with all the old timer koolaiders…it’s going to taste like puke and send a clear message to UDRs and fence sitters that they ain’t got no future..so, bail out now and look at the internet!
memories ! How odd and hopeless
I was overjoyed and stood up and applauded in my family room when going clear won the Emmy. now everyone knows the horror Scientologists had to endure
Hi Kris Nielsen,Very good to meet you and thank you so much for your post! At some point this train wreck of a cult will wither and die,thanks to you and all who know the truth about it.Love,Ann.