This is an article that recently appeared on scientology.org — and it proves scientology “expansion” is slower now than it was 10 years ago, even when measured by their ridiculous standard of number of buildings renovated.
Here is what is listed in this article of the scientology churches around the world (not the CLO’s or AO’s):
2010
JAN 23, 2010 — Brussels
JAN 30, 2010 — Quebec City
FEB 6, 2010 — Las Vegas
APR 24, 2010 — Los Angeles (not even a new building?)
JUL 10, 2010 — Mexico City
JUL 18, 2010 — Pasadena
JUL 24, 2010 — Seattle
7 TOTAL — None new
2011
JAN 29, 2011 — Melbourne
MAR 13, 2011 — Tampa (for the 2nd time)
OCT 22, 2011 — St Paul
NOV 5, 2011 — Inglewood South LA
4 TOTAL — One new (Inglewood)
2012
JAN 21, 2012 — Hamburg (for the 2nd time)
JAN 28, 2012 — Sacramento
FEB 25, 2012 — Cincinnati
JUN 2, 2012 — Orange County
JUN 9, 2012 — San Jose (for 2nd time)
JUN 16, 2012 — Denver
JUN 23, 2012 — Phoenix
JUN 30, 2012 — Buffalo (for 2nd time)
JUL 28, 2012 — Los Gatos
AUG 21, 2012 — Tel Aviv
SEP 12, 2012 — Washington DC (for 2nd time)
OCT 27, 2012 — Padova
12 TOTAL — None new
2013
FEB 9, 2013 — Cambridge Ontario
FEB 23, 2013 — Pretoria
MAY 11, 2013 — Portland
DEC 7, 2013 — Kaohsuing
4 TOTAL — 1 new (Kaohsuing)
2014
MAY 3, 2014 — Sydney
1 TOTAL — None new
2015
APR 25, 2015 — Basel
JUL 5, 2015 — Bogota
AUG 8, 2015 — Tokyo
OCT 31, 2015 Milano
4 TOTAL — None new
2016
APR 2, 2016 — Atlanta
JUL 23, 2016 — Budapest
JUL 31, 2016 — Harlem
NOV 19, 2016 — San Diego
4 TOTAL — 1 new (Harlem)
2017
JAN 21, 2017 — Auckland
MAR 19, 2017 — Valley
APR 29, 2017 — Miami
MAY 27, 2017 — Copenhagen
OCT 14, 2017 — Dublin
OCT 21, 2017 — Birmingham
OCT 28, 2017 — Amsterdam
DEC 23, 2017 — Johannesburg North
8 TOTAL — 1 new (Dublin)
2018
FEB 17, 2018 — Salt Lake City
FEB 18, 2018 — Silicon Valley
MAY 5, 2018 — Perth
MAY 12, 2018 — Orlando
SEP 9, 2018 — Stuttgart
OCT 14, 2018 — Detroit
6 TOTAL — None new
2019
NOV 2, 2019 — Kansas City
NOV 9, 2019 — Columbus
2 TOTAL — None new
I put this onto a simple graph…
Dave — you are in a Danger trend, or being generous a long term Emergency (which according to Hubbard is Danger).
There are only 4 new churches of scientology opened in a decade. And in that time many Day and Foundation Orgs were combined (a Suppressive Act according to L. Ron Hubbard) and Celebrity Center Portland and Las Vegas were shuttered (combined with the “new” org) and Copenhagen Day and Foundation and Denmark Day and Foundation were combined into ONE org.
Thus in terms of the number of scientology organizations moving people up the Bridge to Clear — scientology CONTRACTED in the last decade.
Just went to the website for Nashville Org. Aside from a mention about the 2019 New Years event, not much has been updated on it. A lit of it is success stories from several years ago.
As Jed Clampett would have said ” Pitiful. Just pitiful. “
I would love for someone to newly take a head count. From what I see locally and what I hear about from others, I wonder what that number really is now. This local morgue is really, really empty. The people that are still in have to notice this. I did notice it when I was in. As a matter of fact, it worried me. It was the first thing that I searched the internet for, when I decided I was never going back.
“This post is yet another example of blatant religious bigotry. Disgruntled ex-members are bitter due to their own overts and withholds. That’s standard tech! I just wish Rinder and the rest of the disaffecteds on this blog would take responsibility for their own crimes. Don’t believe the stats shown here taken out of context. Scientology is expanding like never before!”
Friends of Foolproof
Gadfly,
Scientologists don’t have friends.
They are in the sense of Facebook friends, but more prone to drop you at the slightest sign of questioning Hubbard’s infallibility.
Especially those in the OSA section of the clambake!
Office of Special Affairs sounds like out 2d to me.
To: Gadfly
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Telling it like it is.
Spot on, son! That’s how you eliminate black PR; with correct data! You go and tell Foolproof that he may have a Freedom Medal coming to him! You, too!
ML
Dave.
This lack of a clear uptrend is particularly perplexing if one considers that the stats of scientology’s individual contributors (staff, Sea Org) are MANDATED by the fat man hisself to be in a perpetual uptrend.
Surely, “captain” Dave’s stats could not help but reflect these collective accomplishments somehow? And it definitely could not possibly look like THIS!
Wow! They can add the “Church of Scientology Mission of Launceston” to the list of new buildings.
It’s great!
It’s astounding!
It’s astonishing!
It’s amazing!
They’ve…gasp!…replaced…oohh!…the plastic bottle of water on the table that has some biros and clipboards with pieces of paper attached.
This is one of my favorite kind of posts: scamology shrinking.
Having said that, here is a thing that has never been explained about their stats. I know, it is beating a dead horse, the whole thing is a scam.
2010-2019: definite downtrend
2013-2018: a nice uptrend recovering from a temporary dip (2012-2014) of an uptrend (2010-2012)
So which one is it? Up? Down? Who’s to tell? There is nothing about it in the hubturd spewings…
I think the 2013-2018 uptick represented the period of economic recovery, when members once again had money to give towards completing work on all the buildings bought around 2007, a point that turned out to be the peak of the real estate bubble followed by the economic crash.
As noted in another comment, I suspect the general trend is indeed down, as they’ve worked through the backlog of buildings owned by orgs with enough members to come up with money for renovations, are are now stuck with properties owned by the worst of the small and failing orgs (SFOs) like New Haven and Battle Creek. They are going to have to heavily tap outside “whales” and even international funds to be able to finish the rest, and obviously now struggle for manpower to finish central files projects or find the staff they are supposed to have for an opening.
Scientology is SO stupid… I just opened some junk mail, “Power of Canada United” “Toronto’s Legendary Stars…”
Front page pictures Susan MacDonald, years in scn: 37, processing level: clear
Jack MacDonald – years in Scn: 37, processing level: Unclear. (WTF? That’s not a case level!)
Inside pages have some OTs, but another handful of 27– 40 years in, NED or purif case level.
Janet Standish has been in for 43 years, OT VII, and is a Student Hat grad!
Lunatics …these are all “outpoints” , not front page successes.
Idiots.
Prison Of Belief, Prison Of Belief…the more I think of this phrase, this brilliant phrase that Lawrence Wright thought of for his book, the more its profound meaning sinks in. These long-term Still Ins, redoing courses they did 30/40 years ago – redoing them because there is nothing new for them to do. Miscavige has nothing new to sell so he trumps up reasons for them to redo courses and auditing actions and pay again for what they completed and paid and attested to long ago. Zero responsibility on the cults part for what they delivered and these Die Hards go along with it. And there’s no OT9 or 10 but they don’t know that so Miscavige manipulates them with lies and empty promises. They’re donkeys pulling carts with drivers holding carrots on strings that dangle in front of them.
Its sad. They’ll never, ever get those carrots. Sad for them but then, 40 years of Scientology should have given these people SOME powers of observation, SOME ability to see what’s right under their noses, wouldn’t you say? So while I pity them, at the same time I have contempt for them too. That’s horrid, I know, but I can’t help it. WE saw, WE questioned, WE brought it to the cult’s attention – are we geniuses? Respectfully, I don’t think so. No kidding, how are WE so very different from THEM? WE were once in the Prison Of Belief too! And we got out. Why not them? Is it not true that what WE did, THEY can do?
Well Aqua, I would say that we were swimming in the kool-aid; they are drowning in it.
Good metaphor, Gadfly. They are drowning in it. We were swimming in it once too, but we got out before we could drown.
I hear you, Aqua… and your sentiments are echoed across this blog.. But for me, those thoughts are the flip side of a coin.
Turn it over and you hear “Never-In-and-would-never-fall-for-such-and-thing”
..
neither view helps me navigate my ever after or lights my ponderings about how to help my friends and family still trapped.
It is indeed a prison of belief.
Vastly generalized, here’s what I think, Rip: The truth was out there, to be observed, to be read about. The outpoints were there for anyone to see. A 10 year old with a double-digit IQ could observe these outpoints. Ok. There it was, to be observed, questioned, processed and acted upon. We observed, read about it; we questioned it, processed it and ACTED UPON IT. Again, the truth was out there for us. Now, its even MORE out there for the
Still Ins today. There it is for them, to be observed, questioned, processed, acted upon. Like the proverbial horse with water in front of him – he was brought TO the water – will he drink? Well, that’s up to the horse. All these Still Ins -some of whom are UTR and decided upon leaving and only mid-process possibly deciding HOW to leave – these Still Ins are being brought TO the water – the truth keeps pouring out, thanks to Exes like Mike and Leah and many others working to get the truth out there. The truth is ALL AROUND them and readily available to read and/or observe. Its all that can be done.
Jesus, Aqua.
Abandoning every shred of everything you’ve known or thought was true, feeling your entire concept of reality evaporate..
Certainty and an ordered world of answers, solutions, and glorious goals shatters to nothingness, leaving …. emptiness..
and the dawning realization that you were lied to about everything for decades and its all been a waste.
And now there is nothing left
And your life is mostly used up and gone.
…
I want them all to wake up too..
And it’ll be worth it, but …also?
No one can tell me yet how long that part lasts.
I hear you on everything, Rip. No argument on anything you’ve pointed out.
But then, YOU confronted it.
YOU dealt with it.
It was important enough to YOU to live with the truth instead of living in a familiar yet totally false and fabricated BUBBLE.
You handled it; why not them?
Why can’t they confront and handle this enormous and unwelcome truth, in, as you’ve stated, their own time and at their own pace.
I think they can, and if they have any pretense to reaching “higher states” of awareness, they MUST.
Because NO ONE ever reached a higher state of consciousness, awareness or ability by living a lie!
“NO ONE ever reached a higher state of consciousness, awareness or ability by living a lie!”
So true, Aqua.
Hey – Dave’s been busy
Why don’t you chart the expansion of lawsuits COB has single handily handled since 2010?!
Why don’t you chart the expansion of former Sea Org members who are speaking out and who COB has also, again, single handily handled since 2010?!
Why don’t you chart the level of donations COB has raised with his inspiring motivational speeches?
Why don’t you ……
hold on, I’m getting a call …..
Erm, COB has never asked for donations. Everyone just wants to give to the Church.
And I’m not going to speak to you any more about Scientology since you are a bigot …..
but I do need to empathize again that COB has never asked for anything
In fact, COB is so generous he is allowing me to go and relax and rehabilitate myself in our wonderful and VOLUNTARY Rehabilitation Project Force …… for which I am very grateful and excited ……
To: Chee Chalker
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Running your mouth.
Yeah, you had better appreciate the Rehabilitation Project Force! BECAUSE THAT IS DEFINITELY WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO! AND IT WON’T BE COMFORTABLE, I’LL SEE TO THAT! HOW DARE YOU INSINUATE THAT I, THE MOST ETHICAL BEING ON THE PLANET, WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE HIT PEOPLE UP FOR MONEY! Why, I don’t need to do that. People love me so much that they just send it automatically. You could, too.
AND IF YOU DON’T, YOU WILL BE GOING TO THE RPF!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Aquamarine, I’ll deal with you in a minute.
ML
Dave.
“Right on Dave! Even the name Chee Chalker is covert joking and degrading of the Clearing Course and Celebrity Centre. What’s a Chee Chalker anyway? He or she should do a double A-E so as to be fit company before being allowed back into the most ethical group on the planet.”
Friend of Foolproof
Shouldn’t that graph be blank except for four very short spikes for the actual ‘new’ orgs? Counting existing orgs moving into new buildings just seems like a way to inflate the numbers.
That lays it all out nicely. I hadn’t realized that building openings also dropped off from 2012-14. I’d been assuming they’re now at a permanent low rate of openings, more or less, because they’re down to the really marginal orgs that have long been stuck unable to raise enough funds on their own and thus require outside help.
The struggling orgs left often don’t seem able even to complete their “central files” projects without outside help. And they’re probably facing enough more shrinkage that it’s a struggle to get the money out of “whales” from other areas, and then find enough staff to even sign “postulate” contracts. There seemed to be a time when they could get a full contingent of 200 or so staff to at least show up for openings, perhaps particularly in their heartland in California, but more recently even Orlando seems to have opened with just a couple of dozen.
They could put on another blitz of openings if they pulled out the stops on using international management funds. But I suspect that Miscavige would rather space the remainder out over 10 to 15 years, to give himself any easy way to claim ongoing “expansion” and be the center of attention at ribbon yankings, through around the end of his tenure as Scientology’s leader.
These numbers about Scientology’s lack of expansion are very informative.
In the United States, there are currently 4 million Buddhists. There are about 160 Buddhists per Scientologist. There are 800,000 American Buddhists. There are 32 Buddhists of American origin
per Scientologist. Most of these 800,000 are in the last twenty years.
Hubbard claimed to be the Buddha’s teacher which was probably the biggest lie in the history of all
religion.
At my own local temple, growth was very slow until some new events were added. The biggest single change has been the crowds who attend “All night meditation sessions”. People bring entire families and try to meditate from 7:00 PM until 7:00 AM. No one predicted this one.
George, I think yoga should also be considered in comparison to Scientology – and as competition. I consider it an important factor in a changed social environment in which Scientology can no longer attract interest, or get any traction in recruiting.
While arguably not as serious a mental and spiritual practice as Buddhism, particular as popularized in the West, I think it offers many of the same functions as basic meditation. Thus it provides some of the same benefits promised or even possible in the initial parts of Dianetics and Scientology – probably even more reliably, and certainly without the inordinate costs and downside – and draws in the contemporary equivalent of the counter-culture “seekers” Scientology thrived on in its heyday:
Increased well-being: Another reason to try yoga – Harvard Health
“The ability of yoga to help dial back both physical and mental problems is reason enough to try it. But there’s more. Even at this early stage of research, a regular yoga practice appears to correlate with increased wellbeing, including better sleep, better body awareness, weight loss, and greater happiness. By improving mindfulness, it simultaneously helps to boost compassion, gratitude, and “flow” states, all of which contribute to greater happiness. Early evidence suggests that yoga may even slow aging on the cellular level, perhaps through its stress-busting effects.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/increased-well-being-another-reason-to-try-yoga
Sources I found indicate that over 30 million Americans practice Yoga, and that the number is going up by around 10% per year. I’m continually amazed at how yoga studios are continually popping up even in the area where I have my second home – I bet we could even find some that have taken over defunct Scientology mission locations!
I’ve even occasionally said, more or less jokingly, that Yoga killed Scientology – but there’s a grain of truth there, to meditate on.
And having been involved in Buddhist sanghas and meditation groups, I’m fascinated by your report of success with “All night meditation sessions.”
PeaceMaker,
Yes, I would include Yoga. That makes Scientology even smaller by comparison. 30 million is a good number. Yoga gets really good positive coverage. A few of my relatives are really into it.
There are, of course, many flavors of Buddhism. I belong to the Theravada tradition and in Florida some of the more traditional temples have had slower growth. The ones with growth have done things like having a big merchant bazaar. My own temple is very conservative and sticks to the old holidays. But we went through a very positive growth period when the annual “all night meditation” event started a few years ago. The parking lot is over full. People and full families bring whatever they need to get through the night. We get at least 4-6 monks to give talks and lead the meditation. WE got a gigantic new Buddha pavilion and a huge new statue. We get monks from Sri Lanka as well. It sure beats the old Friday night sessions.
What is your lineage, George? I’m involved with my local vipassana meditation group, losely connected with IMS (Insight Meditation Society).
My wife and I have become Pali scholars. We try to read as much as possible in the original texts. We follow a few groups in Canada, England, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Consider ourselves sort of original. Select monks.
Wow; I’m thoroughly impressed, George. The group I feel a real allegiance to is Amaravati Monastery in the U.K. These are western monks aligned with the teachings of Ajahn Cha, a deceased Thai master. The teacher that first impressed me the most is Ajahn Amaro, who I believe is now the head Monk, Ajahn Sumedho having retired. These two robed Monks, following traditional Thai practice, have influenced the most, really walking the walk of Buddhist practice. The local group I go to at least does some chanting (namo, tassa, etc. homage to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha).
Shirker that I am, I’ve been off and on with my involvement over the years and am trying to get back with it. I just remembered that sloth is one of the Five Hindrances to practices, and I’m guilty as hell. You’re inspiring me as I type this.
A little different from scientology, isn’t it? I’ a never in, thank God, but one of the first things I came across when I just started exploring the cult is that it, i.e., Hubbard, frowned on any type of meditation (staring at the wall for an hour or so doesn’t count).
Anyway, metta to you and your wife; may you be happy; may you be peaceful; may good things come your way.
Scott, aka bixntram
Great!
Ajahn Amaro is my wife’s favorite at that Monastery. We have followed it for years.
Ajahn Sumedho is my favorite, although he is retired.
Isn’t this amazing?
Well Mike, even though the number of new buildings, er, churches opened are down, surely the Well Done Auditing Hours and Bodies in the Shop are up, right? 😉
Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket. They’re higher than any time in history by 10X.
Wow! Jon Lovitz flashback!
😉
Scientology’s stats are going backwards!
No they’re not. David Miscabbage figured out and corrected this in his golden age of stat reading, that you don’t read stats from left to right; you read them right to left.
Don’t forget about St Louis, Missouri. Chad Lane, Matt Hanses and a few other highly trained and skilled manipulator’s bilked the St Louis Scientologists out of $16 million for the big huge dump on Lafayette in St Louis City. They already owned and were paying a huge mortgage on another dump located at 6901 Delmar in University City that was empty with no one coming in. Now they are selling the dump on Lafayette SECRETLY. What an ideal scam, eh? They are keeping the sale price suppressed so the St Louis Scientologist’s ( robots and sheep) don’t find out how much David Miscavige will be keeping to line his foreign bank accounts. He lives a lavish lifestyle while the St Louis Scientolgists are financially ruined. No need to be concerned though, it is common knowledge that it is perfectly okay to file bankruptcy and not pay off the second mortgages or credit cards for St Louis Scientologists. It is the perfect crime. Scientology’s leader, David Mismanagement hides behind the religious cloak.
They’ve been unable to unload the derelict St. Louis property, despite having tried to auction it off 2 years ago. I just checked, and Scientology still owns it, stuck paying $55,000 a year in property taxes on it, which means they’ve been throwing good money after bad for the more than dozen years they’ve owned 2345 Lafayette Avenue, the old German House.
https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/data/address-search/index.cfm?parcelId=21390002200
It also appears that they overpaid for it in 2007, after someone flipped it for double what they had paid less than a year before , in a suspicious transaction that was at best stupidly wasteful and extravagant on Scientology’s part. A number of the other still-derelict properties were bought around the same time, at the peak of the real estate bubble, in similarly questionable transactions.
Throwing good money after bad is another virtual definition of insanity – while we’re talking about the group doing it being one claims to bring a world without insanity. Between taxes and other ongoing expenses of owning the property, they may well end up selling it for less than it cost them to buy and hold on to, which “lines” Miscavige’s pockets to the extent that he has a bit more money than before, though significantly less than he could have if he’d really been smart about asset-stripping his members.
The St. Louis situation is indeed a complete, sad, travesty, in which members have even lost their own homes, so Scientology could buy and hold on to a property it turns out it will never even use and quite possibly have to sell at a loss. They might just as well have a ritual where instead of throwing money up in the air, members throw their money, personal possessions and property deeds on a bonfire.
PeaceMaker – that is some fine detective work you have done there. Very well done! St Louis is wasting $55,000 / year for taxes on that property sitting empty for over a decade but don’t forget the parking lot at 2351 Lafayette. They paid $495,000 for that piece of junk and then have been paying taxes on that as well. About $8,000 per year until they tore the little building down. Now taxes are around $5,000/ year. Still – the property has been sitting there since 2007. The church of St Louis Scientology financially ruined many St Louis families with the fraudulent fund raising done by the great fraudster, Chad Lane. I guess he got a huge commission when Adam Heft donated a million dollars. I think Adam inherited some type of trust fund. He has been on a spending spree in St Louis buying new cars and his 2-D just went Clear and did some L’s.
“No need to be concerned though, it is common knowledge that it is perfectly okay to file bankruptcy and not pay off the second mortgages or credit cards for St. Louis Scientologists”.
Not only is it “okay”, its admirable! The cult LAUDS people who stiff their creditors provided that money is diverted to the cult.
Donald Trump loves the uneducated. Well, the Church of Scientology loves the uneducated, the financially irresponsible, the bankrupt and the unemployable!
And if you don’t belong in any of these categories, don’t worry, Scientology can do something about that!
A Scientologist UTR in St Louis told us that Flag Trained Senior C/S Adam Heft from the St Louis Org, gave a million bucks to the building fund in St Louis. He is pissed. Adam Heft, an L’s completion and OT, went to Flag to do the Havingness Rundown and a Dynamic sort out assessment. He walked around the empty course room at Flag and threw around dollar bills. Wait a second. Didn’t he do that with the million dollars? Lord Xenu, please help me. My head hurts!
Out!^2, interesting report! Any update on the members who moved to Clearwater, hoping things would be better there? Reportedly they decided the St. Louis staff was riddled with suppressives and, perhaps typically, assumed things had to be better elsewhere….
Yes Peacemaker; I do have the scoop regarding a few of those St Louis cult members looking for that spiritual freedom in Clearwater because they could not get it in St Louis. I will have to post that info tomorrow.
In my neck of the woods one could shout “Scientology! Scientology!” from the highest rooftops, and not get a single response for months. Scientology is simply not on anyone’s radar around here, unless they happened catch an episode of Aftermath, Going Clear, or maybe the BBC John Sweeney documentary.
Scientology is smaller than small – for most Americans, it does not exist. Unfortunately, it’s small existence creates way too much harm for those it does affect.
Your last line……
No truer words have been spoken of it.
A graph with numbers along the bottom AND along the side? That’s really going to confuse Defendant Dave.
😂
It’s not fair! This graph actually makes sense! I hate it!
DO NOT WANT!!!
I’m so 1.1
Whenever I read this stuff, I have this scratchy little urge to wander through a couple of these orgs drooping feigned concerned comments or innocent questions…..
A satisfying bubble of vengeful snark resides in my tummy..
Waiting to belch.
🙂
(Christ, but I’ve had to swallow back my true thoughts a bazillion times when faced with Ideal Org pushes and promises)
And they will continue to contract. Compare that graph with a graph of the number of articles, TV shows, new blogs and films exposing Scientology’s lies and abuses. Which I suspect would be going up, up, up.
BKmole, it seems, to me at least, the the more celebrities names comes in to play the more the media now has an interest. That’s a good thing. Plus, a mystery like Where’s Shelly is something that will grab the interest of many.
Question. When more and more negative press comes out, the less DM is going to be able to hold on to the public cult members, which is where his big money is. So, do you think he will blow to some non extradition location?
I think Scientology has a ways to go before it gets that bad for Mouse-scavige. He has to stick around to keep the hardcore bots in place. When he does have to run, he will be hunted down like a rabid dog. He won’t be able to hide.
I like the way you think BKmole. I feel bad for the cult slaves, not for the big donors though. As long as he has to reach the point when he has to try to run that’s great.
Thanks. I was in for several decades. I have disdain for the whales who take their narcissism to a new level of insanity. Their support of the toxic scam is unforgivable.
I am a never in BKmole, and certainly don’t have the knowledge that you and so many others learned the hard way. I sort of tried to understand the whales but keep coming back to blaming a huge ego, the “Look at us Ain’t we somethin'”, while they live outside the bubble, in the real world, working or running a business, far removed from the horrible conditions inflicted on so many of the cult/slave members, sure not unable to see just what’s going on but their ego blinds them.
Oh boy, miscabage is really a downstat.
He should be on rice and beans and his libs (day off) cancelled.
He should send himself to the RPF!
I’m sure David Miscavige’s Ideal Org show and pretending “unprecedented expansion” is in large part to pretend that he is such an “up-stat” and the Ideal Leader for Scientology to be untouchable and unquestionable because of “ethics protection”.
The mantra of “Mr. Miscavige is so up-stat/hard-working” is constantly emphasized, mainly by his enforcers.
This is what Miscavige was/is relying on and with what he eliminated everyone to have the absolute power: “Ethics actions are often used to handle down individual statistics. A person who is not doing his job becomes an Ethics target. Conversely, if a person is doing his job (and his statistic will show that) Ethics is considered to be in and the person is protected by Ethics.
…When people do start reporting a staff member with a high statistic, what you investigate is the person who turned in the report.”
The policy: https://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/1977/07/08/ethics-protection-scientology-policy-letter/
E.g. that’s what happens with a person who questions his COBness like Leah Remini did, asking “Where is Shelly?” What followed were intense ‘ethics’ handlings and sec checks for months and even “The Truth Rundown” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9fJkVJD0yQ
https://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/1977/07/08/ethics-protection-scientology-policy-letter/
It’s excellent that Mike Rinder is so accurately showing David Miscavige’s real stat!
Send him to the Hole, not the RPF. 🤔😁
To: SILVIA
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Rumormongering.
AH, SHIT! ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE RPF! I INSIST THAT THESE LIES STOP AT ONCE OR YOU WILL BE THE ONE LIVING ON RICE AND BEANS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
By the way, I do not eat rice and beans.
They make me fart uncontrollably.
That makes Scientology look bad.
ML
Dave.