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Who is Mark Rathbun or Marty Rathbun?
Mark Rathbun is a former Scientologist who once worked close to the ecclesiastical leader of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige. After revelation of gross misconduct, violence against other and alterations of Scientology he was demoted and left the church in 2004. Since about 2009 has publicly been an anti-scientologist.
During his time in Scientology Mark Rathbun called himself "Marty" Rathbun.
Before becoming an apostate Marty Rathbun made a public announcement that says in essence that for years he tried to destroy others, including David Miscavige, to cover up his own failures.
Mark "Marty" Rathbun - a "rambling psychotic" (Freedommag.org)
In 2009 and 2010 Mark Rathbun continued his public confessions (this time in the media*). He said he tried to damage the Church of Scientology and its leader by destruction of court evidence he was responsible for, and physically violent conduct towards others. He also publicly bragged with telling others to lie about their Church, in an attempt to "win" a legal case (it took Church leader David Miscavige to reveal this plot, straighten out the case and get everyone involved to apologize to the court).
In May 2010 Rathbun also said he sabotaged an internal correction system for auditors - the "look in system", where counseling sessions are videoed by visible cameras directed on the e-meter and the room and with the agreement of all concerned, for review by the Case Supervisor whose task is to ensure the positive progress of the session, so that his misapplication of Scientology would not be detected for a long time.
Rathbun's misdeeds were severe violations of the Church of Scientology's ethical codes which by themselves, warrant immediate expulsion from the Church.
There are rumors that Mark Rathbun is trying to take over the Church of Scientology or that he is part of some schism of Scientology, which is at odds with the fact the international network of Scientology churches has seen its biggest expansion since Mark Rathbun left. No surprise for Scientologists and easily explained: the continuous destructive actions of Mark Rathbun during his time as church staffer were removed together with him. More information about the growth of the Church of Scientology here.*In summer 2009 the Church of Scientology published several transcripts dealing with Mark Rathbun's confessions to the media. It is online here:
http://www.freedommag.org/merchants-of-chaos
http://www.freedommag.org/mark-marty-rathbun-betrayal.html
More information about Mark Rathbun, mainly from people who worked together with him, can be found on these rather private websites:
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/mark-marty-rathbun/
http://www.markrathbunisasquirrel.com
http://squirrelrathbun.wordpress.com
http://www.marcusbrutusrathbun.comLooking for Rathbun on CNN? Click here!
Note: There is a prominent sociopath with the name Mark Rathbun (who was sentenced in December 2008 to over 1,000 years of prison for rape and sexual assault on 67 occasions). Though one could think of Mark "Marty" Rathbun as some kind of "psycho", these two Mark Rathbun's are not the same person (http://whois-markrathbun.com/).
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A Brief Chronology Of Monumental Disasters
The Career Of “Kingpin” Rathbun
“I have proven a proclivity for creating some of the greatest catastrophes in Church history when allowed to have some leash.”
—Marty RathbunContrary to his public utterances to an uninformed media who know nothing about the Scientology religion or Church (and aren’t expected to know, since they are the media and not part of the religion), Rathbun never served in an ecclesiastical management capacity. Rather, his entire Church career was in external affairs, responsible for legal matters. Here follows a sampling of his malfeasance, covered up for years.
1) 1986: The Church’s Founder had passed away in January. As with any Church, the transitive years from a living Founder are the most critical to the religion determining its future survival. As part of this transition, all past legal disputes against the Church were directed to be amicably settled. Unfortunately, however, a civil trial in one case had already been scheduled. Nevertheless and even after the plaintiff had presented his case, a court-supervised nuisance-value settlement had been agreed to.
Throwing a fit in a courtroom and verbally abusing the federal judge until Rathbun had to be escorted from the courtroom.
However, after the check was delivered to the court, by Rathbun, he returned and reported it “fell through.” Consequently, due to the religious prejudice of what was then a new religion, the trial ended in a staggering $30 million judgment. On appeal, the courts reduced this figure to less than a tenth, but still far greater than the agreed-upon nuisance settlement. For more than 15 years, Rathbun blamed the botched settlement on an attorney who had suddenly passed away from a diabetic seizure. Meaning, this attorney was not there to defend himself. Either way, Rathbun next refused to pay the greatly reduced judgment following appeal and by the time all was said and done, between legal fees and interest, the matter cost the Church more than 100 times the original settlement.
It was not until 2003 that Rathbun admitted he had torpedoed the 1986 settlement as he felt the Church should only engage in wars and he could not imagine a cessation of fighting battles. In his own words:
“On external lines my operation is the same—it consists of the [suppressive] characteristic of only restimulating and never destimulating.” —Marty Rathbun
Attached to that confession he listed the monetary costs:
Judgment $8 million.
Legal fees $7.5 million.
That’s $15.5 million. In fact, his math is conservative, but for the sake of his amends, the $15.5 million of losses caused by him will be accepted. That he never came clean for 15 years, and the mental anguish this mystery caused others, is noted as incalculable damage.
2) 1988: Pursuant to his “fight, no matter what” mentality, he next launched a legal war against Church counsel. He was upset over a disputed $50,000 in legal fees—a paltry sum in terms of legal expenses for a global organization. In his own words:
“… when there is a threatening situation or suit, I get the [external affairs] staff and attorneys wound up toward ‘destroying the threat.’” —Marty Rathbun
Why he felt the Church’s own attorney was an “enemy” can only be explained by him. What is not in question is that the civil case he insisted on bringing to recover these fees was lost. Instead, he wasted $3 million in attempting to recover the disputed $50,000 and was further ordered to pay the party $199,000 in additional fees.
In total, $3,199,000 of wasted parishioner funds because Rathbun was upset over a disputed $50,000 that he wanted returned.
3) 1988: The Church had successfully prosecuted a case to prevent a violation of the Church’s intellectual property rights. Having already been granted a federal injunction against the offending party, Rathbun was not satisfied, as said party had not screamed “Uncle!” Whereupon, he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by:
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Refusing to provide documents the court requested so that the judge could calculate the amount of monetary damages the offending party owed to the Church.
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Throwing a fit in a courtroom and verbally abusing the federal judge until he had to be escorted from the courtroom.
It’s a well-known mental phenomenon, mostly seen in institutions for the criminally insane or maximum-security prisons.
Result? Court-ordered sanctions against the Church of $2.9 million in a case in which the Church had been victorious. And $600,000 in legal fees wasted on his post-victory “crush the enemy mercilessly” strategy AFTER the Church had won.
4) 1992: A person who had served on staff for years, but was now employed in the private sector, approached the Church for charity—having fallen on hard times and now indigent. A severance of $50,000 was ordered by Rathbun’s superiors, which the indigent would have gratefully accepted. Rathbun, in his “I hate everybody and nobody should be shown compassion or charity” mode, covertly torpedoed the payment. This individual descended into the economic status of welfare case. As this person would later state—he couldn’t pay his grocery bills and so turned to what he never imagined. Specifically, selling stories to the tabloids and personal injury attorneys, whereupon he was next accusing the religion’s ecclesiastical leader of killing the religion’s Founder, killing his mother-in-law… Well, why go on. All allegations were, of course, untrue, scandalous and promptly dismissed by the courts. But the mere cost of doing so reached millions of dollars. Rathbun only admitted a decade after the fact his role in torpedoing the charity payment.
5) 1984-1995: The Church had been viciously attacked and wrongly accused by the government of Canada—accusations for which the Church was vindicated in the courts. However, before the vindication, Rathbun insisted on Church lawyers making a statement, on the courthouse steps, accusing Canadian officials of complicity in obstruction of justice for which Rathbun assured Church lawyers he had evidence. Factually, he later discovered he had the wrong identity and accused the wrong individual. Rather than retracting the statement, he covered up his discovery (that he had the wrong identity) and had counsel continue to defend a libel case brought against the Church. That case was ultimately lost after 10 years of litigation at a cost of $10 million in legal fees and court-ordered judgment. He did not confess to his cover-up for another eight years (after the lost judgment), which was in fact 19 years since he had become aware of his blunder in accusing the wrong party.
6) 1993: Notwithstanding Rathbun’s irrational and psychotic desire to fight, fight and fight some more—preferably until the end of eternity—the leader of the religion managed to bring to an end a 40-year conflict with the IRS, resulting in the recognition of the Church and all its related social betterment organizations as fully tax-exempt. So protracted had been this battle that its genesis preceded the birth of most Scientologists. Consequently, it was no overstatement when the victory was announced as “The War is Over!” live before 10,000 Scientologists at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, with satellite replays to congregations in hundreds of cities world over.
While Scientologists celebrated this monumental accomplishment as the history-making event it was, to be looked back upon by generations of Scientologists to come, Rathbun blew in the middle of the night—without so much as a word to his colleagues, friends or even his wife. When he contacted the Church a week later, it was assumed the pressures of the external battles had taken their toll on him and he was granted a two-year sabbatical. Meanwhile, his superiors had to clean up the remaining legal skirmishes he had created and left behind. (Rathbun would not confess for another decade that his departure was not due to external pressures but, rather, because the war was over and he was prevented from realizing his desire—to start a new one.)
7) 1995-2004: Having completed his sabbatical but a few weeks earlier, Rathbun was placed on a training program in Florida. Church staff and executives at these facilities were unaware that he had lost all authority, since his blow had not been broadly publicized. This was done as an act of kindness so as to not utterly destroy any reputation he had. As it turns out, failure to make known his mental breakdown was an epic mistake. Because no sooner was he once again provided a work position than he set in motion a new disaster to give him the legal battles he so desired. In contravention of longstanding policy by the religion’s Founder, he allowed a psychotic individual on Church premises—overriding objections of all then Church staffers. When investigations were ordered by Rathbun’s superiors to see who had allowed this to occur, he was the person charged with investigating. Rather than admitting his guilt, he named more than a dozen innocent parties—all of whom were then subsequently removed or dismissed. Also undisclosed at the time was his participation in suborning perjury to law enforcement. In a misguided attempt to “defend the Church” and the reputation of the psychotic against a biased police force (who were, in fact, biased), he ordered staff to not disclose the circumstances of the individual’s psychosis (even though the psychotic was violent and physically harmed the staff attempting to care for her). The real reason for Rathbun’s cover-up was the knowledge that he himself would be dismissed from the Church for violating Church policy on allowing psychotics on Church premises. All this quite in addition to the matter of a potential 10 years in jail—the length of two five-year sentences for suborning perjury and obstruction of justice. (See A Liar is a Coward; A Perjurer is a Criminal.)
They blame their failures on somebody else (No Responsibility For Anything) and when they look in the mirror they see a “warm and fuzzy guy,” while the rest of the world sees someone in need of an exorcism.
It was not for another decade plus that the Church would finally discover his familial history of insanity—never revealed by him although required on his application for Church staff—which caused him to act irrationally in allowing psychotics on Church premises. In particular, he was acting in a misguided effort to attempt more than was done to help his institutionalized mother and two brothers.
The consequences of his actions resulted in criminal charges. While the Church was ultimately vindicated, it was not before Rathbun’s criminal conduct spun out of control and the ecclesiastical leader was accused of the very conduct Rathbun had engaged in. Of course, the religion’s leader was unaware of Rathbun’s involvement, as Rathbun had manipulated himself into the position of “defending” the leader against these “scurrilous allegations,” and never once mentioned or confessed that the charges would have been true had they been leveled against Rathbun himself. He kept this secret for eight years. It was only once all charges had been dropped and internal investigations to find the actual perpetrators narrowed in on him that he blew. He still was not to confess to his suborning perjury and obstructing justice for five more years—a full 14 years after he’d committed the crime. By then, the legal ramifications to the Church had long since been settled. But not before expending millions in legal fees defending itself.
“The motivations for these acts are a psychotic computation for self-preservation: keep enough chaos and threat stirred up in the environment, make myself appear to be a solution to it instead of the instigator of it, and lots of people go down and remain in turmoil while I go unrecognized as the source of it and survive.” —Marty Rathbun
8) Summary: By Rathbun’s own calculation on September 29, 2003, the total amount of harm visited upon Scientology due to his “reign of war” and secret misconduct was $43,799,000.
He was being very conservative and the damage is far higher. For by engaging in his own psychotically motivated war, he also distracted Church leaders who ultimately had to clean up his mess. Then, too, he diverted Church funds from humanitarian programs to help Mankind, not to mention the creation of new Church facilities to service the greater community of Scientologists and the communities in which they work.
Since the discovery and removal of Rathbun, the endless series of “unexplainable” external battles and legal cases has “magically” ended. Indeed, the Church has emerged victorious in country after country with religious recognitions as well as precedent-setting decisions in the European Court of Human Rights. Moreover, with the Church’s resources now dedicated to the religion itself, in five years the size of the Church has doubled what it had achieved in its first 55 years of existence.
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All of which answers the question as to how Rathbun could lose all touch with reality in the full-blown psychotic break that is now his daily existence. The answer is simple. Sometimes one can easily make amends for misconduct. By way of example, a low-level staff member or executive could be responsible for foul-ups that cost the organization thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work to undo the damage caused. However, what does one do when the damage caused is so great that it’s in the tens of millions and required hundreds of thousands of hours of combined work by others to undo the destruction? For the individual who wishes to atone for such misconduct, it’s a long road back. One either travels that road to redemption or, instead, one of delusion.
It’s a well-known mental phenomenon, mostly seen in institutions for the criminally insane or maximum-security prisons. That is, unable to come to grips with the depths of evil one has engaged in, one instead has an “epiphany.” One “realizes” one day that “None of it was my fault! Those were the cards I was dealt and I was just a victim of fate!” At which point one has a euphoric resurgence, losing touch with all reality of one’s past, and reinvents oneself as what they wish they were. They blame their failures on somebody else (No Responsibility For Anything) and when they look in the mirror they see a “warm and fuzzy guy,” while the rest of the world sees someone in need of an exorcism.
That’s Marty Rathbun. Because while he paints himself as a lovey-dovey, pop-psychology guru to the indigent, his actions belie his self-proclaimed façade. Worse, he seems utterly unaware of the turmoil that is his life. He could have kept fishing from his used trawler like the Old Man and the Sea. But all he sees is an endless battle to be picked and imaginary war to be fought.
The Church is at peace. Indeed, the only battles today are the rantings of Rathbun and his “Posse.” No longer able to create and then fight wars for the Church at Church expense, he now attacks the Church itself for no other reason than its refusal to let him continue to fight his psychotic war against what he imagines are the enemy—the entire world and anybody who doesn’t see it his way.
As L. Ron Hubbard discovered in researching psychosis and describing the insane:
“They are involved in warfare, with conflicts around them which are invisible to others. One wonders how they can be so involved or get so involved in so much hostility.”
— L. Ron HubbardNOTE: This above listing only includes external affairs misconduct. His technical crimes in the malpractice of Scientology auditing are kept in confidence, pursuant to priest-penitent privilege, and will only be provided Rathbun for atonement once he has made amends for the cost of the above misconduct and has demonstrated he can be trusted by anybody in any way.
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“I am afraid of my potential for destruction.” —Mike RinderAnd so he should have been afraid. For so intense and vicious is Rinder’s hatred for anyone associated with Scientology that it ultimately destroyed every meaningful relationship he ever had… beginning with the family he abandoned for the fact they remain Scientologists.
Here’s the unvarnished story on that most unforgiving and reprehensible aspect of Rinder’s hate-driven character, with a few pointed highlights for starters:
- Once a spokesperson for the Church (before he was removed for incompetence and mega-misconduct), now obsessively lying to the media about the religion he previously defended, Rinder has no regard for the feelings of the longtime Scientologists within his family. To be sure, Rinder couldn’t care less about any—and all—members of his family.
- Along with fellow Scientology-haters, attempts to wreak havoc wherever he goes with video camera and recording devices, all under the pretense of “documenting” that he cares about his family.
- Cut all contact with his elderly mother in Australia, despite repeated letters from her, and just as ruthlessly cut contact with his brother and sister.
- Abandoned his wife of more than 30 years and their two children.
Rinder, 55, was born in Australia. His parents became Scientologists in 1960 and were recognized as Founding Scientologists in the land Down Under in the late ‘60s. His mother, brother and sister remain active, engaged and committed Scientologists.
For so intense and vicious is Rinder’s hatred for anyone associated with Scientology that it ultimately destroyed every meaningful relationship he ever had…
In 1973, after attending high schools in Australia and England, Rinder worked for his now-deceased father in the wholesale grocery business. That same year, he joined the Church’s religious order, the Sea Organization, in Australia. Three years later, in 1976, he married 20-year-old Cathy Bernardini, another Sea Organization member.In 2007, after severing all ties with his Church, Rinder abruptly and callously abandoned his wife of more than 30 years and their children, one of whom would subsequently wage an excruciating war against cancer. As his wife Cathy Bernardini tells it in a sworn affidavit to CNN:
“In April 2009, I went to see Mike in Denver, but he didn’t want to see me. I tried to get in communication so he could be informed of family matters such as [our son’s] illness, but he adamantly did not want to talk to me or see me, so I flew back to L.A.”
At this point, one might reasonably ask: What kind of father would do such a thing? And how could he live with himself?
For Rinder, however, it was just another dismal act in a well-practiced melodrama of his so-called life.
The story of his family in Australia is especially ironic, inasmuch as many years ago what amounted to a Mike Rinder “prototype” precipitated a short-lived prejudicial and unconstitutional ban on practicing Scientology in the Australian state of Victoria. Accordingly, the Rinder family lore includes many a story of secreting L. Ron Hubbard books beneath floorboards lest authorities raid the home, and the family triumphantly fighting to overturn the illegal ban.
Even more to the point, a Policy Letter by L. Ron Hubbard enumerating suppressive acts against Scientology and Scientologists was originally issued in the wake of that ban. And, indeed, that Policy Letter cites the very same acts Mike Rinder is perpetrating today, including:
“Being at the hire of anti-Scientology groups or persons.”
“Receiving money, favors or encouragement to suppress Scientology or Scientologists.”
And, “Seeking to splinter off an area of Scientology and deny it to properly constituted authority for personal profit, personal power or ‘to save the organization from the higher officers of Scientology.’”
It was certainly not for nothing, then, that 79-year-old Barbara Rinder penned this to her son Mike in a painstaking hand that betrays her age and maternal wisdom:
“Michael, you are destroying everything that I am and I have been trying to achieve for the personal freedom for all family members since 1961. I need a promise from you to desist from these actions.
“It is important for me to know that this situation is handled promptly, because there is not a lot of mileage left in this body. I feel I must get it totally understood that I will not tolerate your enemy actions, and I must insist you stop.”
Beyond that, the letter contains nothing even vaguely antagonizing and closes with a simple “Your mother, Barbara.”
Rinder never bothered to respond.
For all intents and purposes, however, he has indeed betrayed everything his mother is and all she worked to achieve. While if only to cap it with the height of bad taste, he soon took up with another rancorous anti-Scientologist, Christie Collbran, a woman young enough to be his daughter and someone else who shattered the hearts of her parents. (See Mike Rinder’s Live-in Media Puppet, Christie Collbran .)
All came to an ugly head on April 14, 2010, when Rinder and three cohorts appeared at the front door of the Fort Harrison, the Church’s religious retreat in Clearwater. They came lugging video and sound recording equipment, akin to an ad hoc news crew.
Their ostensible purpose? Rinder claims he finally wanted to speak with his 27-year-old son, a Sea Org member who had just recovered from a three-year fight against a life-threatening form of cancer.
Rinder had known of his son’s illness for a full year. Not from his wife, of course, since he refused to speak with her, but through a subsequent conversation with a newspaper editor to whom he had been dishing out one or another version of his story.
When an officer finally speaks with Rinder’s son, the young man categorically states that he does not wish to see his father—paternally born again or otherwise.
That the eventual recovery of the young man was only made possible because the Church and its leader enlisted the world’s foremost specialist in malignant melanoma makes this chapter of Rinder’s life even uglier—not to mention ironic. While if only to cap that one with yet another lesson in bad taste: For months Rinder had lived but a 25-minute drive from his son and yet never once bothered to inquire about his health, let alone attempt to see him.
All of this, in addition to having ignored the boy for more than 20 years, was irrelevant to Rinder. He now wished to play the conscientious father, albeit one who is chauffeured by a girlfriend (Collbran) not much older than his son, and one who brings along a “bodyguard” (Rathbun). To top it off, he planned to videotape the whole “tearful” reunion and flog it to some other tabloid.
Predictably, if disappointingly for the now “Born Again Dad,” Rinder’s performance is a dismal flop. He is met by Church officials and police officers, the latter none too pleased that Rinder and Rathbun are begging for a fight. Moreover, when an officer finally speaks with Rinder’s son, the young man categorically states that he does not wish to see his father—paternally born again or otherwise.
Rinder, in turn, takes the news with all the emotional response one would naturally expect from a “loving father” when his son denies him: He turns to the camera and exclaims:
“You can stop saying I don’t want to see my kid, because now I’ve proven you won’t let me see my kid!” (While adding that it’s “all documented” on video “for the BBC”—for whom it is reported Rinder has negotiated a six-figure deal to tell the “truth” about his former Church, friends, and, obviously, his family.)
All present—save for Rathbun—are entirely nonplussed that anyone, even Rinder, would so bluntly and blatantly lie about the Church “preventing” him from seeing his son. Moreover, Rinder wasn’t even remotely bothered that his son refused to see him, owing to the hatred he elicits for the Church to which his son and entire family are dedicated. But, of course, for Rinder it was never about his son; it was about the media, always the media. (For the record, when Rinder and gang are finally cited for loitering and prowling, they all knowingly provided the police with false home addresses.)
Rinder wasn’t even remotely bothered that his son refused to see him, owing to the hatred he elicits for the Church to which his son and entire family are dedicated. But, of course, for Rinder it was never about his son; it was about the media, always the media.There is substantially more and it all but puts the final nail in the coffin of Rinder’s unhinged mental state and hastens his Kafkaesque metamorphosis into oblivion.
Shortly after the Rinder/Rathbun/Collbran attempted ambush of Rinder’s son, wherein Rinder claimed the Church wouldn’t “allow” him to “see his family,” Rinder’s Scientologist brother Andrew flew from Melbourne, Australia, a journey of more than 10,000 miles, to do just that—see his brother. On landing in Florida, he meets up with Rinder’s wife, Cathy Bernardini, and Rinder’s own daughter, who have traveled from Los Angeles. The family members eventually find Rinder outside a doctor’s office in Clearwater where he has taken Collbran for acupuncture treatment. He is standing on the sidewalk, merrily chatting on his mobile phone. When he sees his brother, wife and daughter approaching, he instantly goes into shock. In point of fact—and this after not seeing his brother, wife and daughter in years— he tells his family that it’s the press on the other end of his phone, and that he’s talking to the press about them.
After which, and shockingly so, he hangs up and then speed-dials the local police to make a complaint that his family is “trying to see him.”
At which point the encounter devolves into a genuinely violent confrontation, as Rinder grabs hold of his wife’s arms in a vice-like grip—causing lacerations which bled so much that paramedics were called to come and give her first aid.
She said of that day in Clearwater, “Mike’s hands were gripping my arms so tightly I could feel his fingers actually digging into my bones.” After he finally let her go, she tried to show him the damage he had done. His response was characteristically Rinder, the anti-family man: “I don’t care, you f***ing bitch!”
For whatever reason, perhaps humility, Andrew Rinder did not mention to the paramedics that his own finger was nearly broken by his brother in the attack.
Needless to say, the “loving” father who had tried to ambush his son days earlier, now contemptuously rejects his own daughter when she does try to talk to him.
After the incident, Andrew Rinder boards a return plane to Australia, which leaves him another 24 hours of flight time back to the other side of the world to ponder why his brother is “behaving eccentrically and violently and refusing to communicate with us.”
“Mike’s hands were gripping my arms so tightly I could feel his fingers actually digging into my bones.” After he finally let her go, she tried to show him the damage he had done. His response was characteristically Rinder, the anti-family man: “I don’t care, you f***ing bitch!”Similarly, after receiving further medical care, Rinder’s wife and daughter return to Los Angeles battered and emotionally bruised.
Meanwhile, Mike Rinder couldn’t care less. Except to make his next call wherein he spins a wild version of the episode to the local tabloid. The theme, as always, makes him the “victim.” And his wife? Somehow, she “got injured.” Calls to the paper inquiring whether Rinder was paid for his story have not been returned.
Bernardini was no match for her beefy husband, whose hands, she says, are “twice as big as mine.” Weeks after the incident, her left forearm still showed blotchy red abrasions turning black and blue, and her right forearm, heavily bandaged, showed red-clawed flesh that a specialist said would take several months to heal.
Today, Mike Rinder’s metamorphosis is complete: from mental instability to full-blown lunacy and physical violence. And it’s now directed at all Scientologists—even his own family.
As for Rinder’s denial to law enforcement and the press that the harm to his wife, Cathy, had been caused by him—corroboration came from an independent source. For it seems that forcefully grabbing the arms of women is a standard part of his behavior. Then again, lying about it, and coaching others to corroborate his lies, is another daily routine. (See Rinder: The Lady-Killer .)
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Scientology First Responder Heads Back to Haiti
| Adelaide, Australia • July 08, 2010 |
Australian Volunteer Minister Peter Dunn, helping to raise the spirits of group of Haitian childrenADELAIDE—“I want to help,” says teacher Peter Dunn, 61, on why he is returning to Haiti with the Scientology Haiti Disaster Response Team. “As a trained Scientology Volunteer Minster I knew I could help and felt it was something I personally needed to do.”
Troubled by the images of the destruction of Haiti that played non-stop on his TV screen in Adelaide, Dunn contacted the Scientology Volunteer Ministers international headquarters in Los Angeles, confirmed they were deploying a disaster response team to Port-au-Prince, paid for a ticket from Australia to Haiti and told them to count him in.
Arriving in early February, Dunn spent nine weeks in Haiti. He describes the conditions then as “pretty rough.” “After an exhausting day and a shower in a bucket of water, you’d fall asleep and be startled awake by military jets taking off in the middle of night,” he says of his first weeks living in a tent at the Port-au-Prince airport.
Dunn’s days were filled with helping refugees in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and children at the orphanages. “These people lost everything,” Dunn said. Some of the IDP camps had tents, but at one where he volunteered 1,500 people lived under sheets of plastic draped over sticks and held up by string.
“I went to the camps as part of a medical team and helped triage people to get them whatever medical help we could,” says Dunn. He also provided Scientology assists—procedures developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard to relieve the spiritual aspects of trauma and speed healing. “We gave hundreds of assists each day,” he said.
Dunn, who is heading back for another three months in Haiti, was struck by how fast people responded to the assists, despite the language barrier and the losses they suffered. “And people would come up and thank the Volunteer Ministers and ask to learn how they could deliver assists themselves to help the others in the camps,” Dunn says.
Before Haiti, Dunn spent the past several years teaching English as a second language in China and Thailand. But Haitians are unique, he says “Living under the most severe conditions they nevertheless carry themselves with dignity and personal pride.”
Even before returning home to Australia in April, Dunn was planning his next trip to the country. “I was amazed at the resilience of the Haitian people, and I want to help them in any way I can.”
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Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
L. Ron Hubbard was a writer, philosopher and humanitarian and Founder of the Scientology religion. He was born March 13, 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska, and passed away January 24, 1986.
L. Ron Hubbard was a writer, philosopher and humanitarian and Founder of the Scientology religion.Ron's long and adventurous road to discovery began at an early age. Under the tutelage of his mother, a thoroughly educated woman, he was reading well beyond his years: Shakespeare, Greek philosophy and an array of later classics. Yet his early years were far from bookish and with his family's move to Helena, Montana, he was soon breaking broncos with the best of the local wranglers.
As an inquisitive youth in what was then still a rough and tumble American West, he was also soon befriending indigenous Blackfoot Indians—learning tribal lore and legend from a local medicine man and so achieving that very rare status of Blood Brother. By the age of 13 he had further distinguished himself as the nation's youngest Eagle Scout, and so represented American scouting to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
Yet what most distinguished the young L. Ron Hubbard was an insatiable curiosity coupled with an innate desire to better the human condition. Recognizing exactly those qualities, a student of Sigmund Freud's and the only American naval officer to study psychoanalysis in Vienna, Commander Joseph C. Thompson introduced the young L. Ron Hubbard to Freudian theory.
Although genuinely fascinated with the possibilities of plumbing the human mind, Ron was left with many unanswered questions.
When his father was assigned to the South Pacific as a United States naval commander, Ron embarked upon the first of his famed Asian travels. By the age of 19 he had traveled more than a quarter of a million miles and traversed much of China and India. Through the course of it, he became one of the few Western adventurers to enter the forbidden Tibetan lamaseries in the western hills of China and studied with the last in the line of royal magicians from the court of Kublai Khan. Yet for all the wonders he witnessed, he could not help but conclude the legendary wisdom of the East did nothing to ease suffering and poverty in these overpopulated and underdeveloped lands.
Returning to the United States in 1929, Ron resumed his formal education and enrolled in George Washington University the following year. There, he studied mathematics, engineering and attended the first American class on atomic and molecular phenomena. Although not necessarily subjects of choice, such were the disciplines that provided him the investigatory tools with which to pursue outstanding questions of the human mind and life. Indeed, L. Ron Hubbard became the first to bring a scientific methodology to age-old questions of existence.
To round out his university days, he also became one of the foremost pioneers of American aviation and a barnstorming sensation across the Midwest. Ultimately, however, and particularly in light of what passed for a "science of the mind" in university psychology labs, he could only conclude that Western academia held no answers.
As he later wrote:
"It was very obvious that I was dealing with and living in a culture which knew less about the mind than the lowest primitive tribe I had ever come in contact with. Knowing also that people in the East were not able to reach as deeply and predictably into the riddles of the mind as I had been led to expect, I knew I would have to do a lot of research."
To fund that research through the Great Depression, Ron embarked upon the first leg of a 50-year literary career. By the mid 1930s he was among the most widely read authors in the fabled heyday of American pulp fiction. He also scripted several memorable screenplays in Hollywood's Golden Age, and is still remembered for his work on various box office blockbusters and a classic Clark Gable film. Many of his novels are now legendary, including:
- Fear, considered by many, including Stephen King, as one of the great horror classics;
- Final Blackout, considered by many, including Robert Heinlein, as one of the most perfect pieces of science fiction ever written; and
- Buckskin Brigades, heralded at the time by the New York Times as one of the first Westerns to break the prejudicial mold of "cowboy killing Indians," instead written from the view of the Blackfoot Indian.
But never losing sight of his primary quest, he continued his mainline research with far-flung expeditions to primitive lands. He would eventually study 21 races and cultures while searching out an underlying "common denominator of existence" upon which to build a workable philosophy for the betterment of Man. In early 1938, he isolated that common denominator as Survive!
That survival was a key motivation within all living things was not a new idea. That all life was ultimately and only attempting to survive was entirely new. Ron originally presented this discovery in a manuscript entitled Excalibur, yet he eventually chose not to publish the work because it lacked actual methods for improvement. Nevertheless, with this first philosophic breakthrough on the shelf, he now had the yardstick with which to align all further research.
In recognition of his exploratory achievements through these years, in 1940 Ron was admitted to the famed Explorers Club where he stood among the foremost ethnologists of his day. Consequently, all subsequent expeditions were carried out under the coveted Explorers Club flag—most immediately a late 1940 voyage to Alaska wherein he not only conducted landmark studies of Pacific Coast Indian tribes, but also pioneered a long range navigation system employed along all sea and air lanes into the latter decades of the 20th century.
With the advent of the Second World War, Ron entered the United States Navy as a lieutenant and initially served as a senior American intelligence officer in Australia. Upon his return to the United States (as the first American casualty of South Pacific combat) he went on to serve with distinction in both the North Pacific and Atlantic—commanding anti-submarine corvettes and training crews for amphibious landings. Although highly decorated for duties under fire, he was deeply saddened by the resultant carnage and inhumanity, and so resolved to double his efforts to improve the human condition. Accordingly, he continued his research even through the darkest days of 1943 and 1944.
Left partially blind and lame from injuries sustained in combat, Lieutenant L. Ron Hubbard was diagnosed as permanently disabled by 1945 and hospitalized in Oakland, California. By this point, however, he had evolved the first practical procedures for alleviating trauma. He tested those procedures on former prisoners of war who, notwithstanding intensive medical treatment, had failed to regain their health. With the employment of early Dianetics techniques to remove "mental blocks" inhibiting response to medicine, all those Ron treated swiftly and remarkably recovered. Utilizing the same procedures, he likewise regained his own health—much to the bafflement of medical examiners.
With the restoration of peace, Ron set out to further test the workability of Dianetics among hundreds of individuals from all walks of life. After continued refinement in that "real-world laboratory," he prepared a paper detailing both underlying theory and techniques. The paper was Dianetics: The Original Thesis, and copies of the manuscript were initially distributed to medical and scientific circles. In no time at all, however, those copies were eagerly recopied and passed on to others, until Ron's Original Thesis was literally circulating around the world.
To meet the veritable flood of inquiries from readers, Ron was next urged to author a definitive text on the subject. In reply, he began work on Dianetics: The Mo d ern Science of Mental Health, the first comprehensive text ever written on the human mind and life. Released May 9, 1950, the work immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list and gave rise to some 750 Dianetics groups from coast to coast. It further inspired the formation of Dianetics Foundations in six American cities to help facilitate Ron's advancement of the subject.
That advancement was swift, methodical and at least as revelatory was what had preceded it. For extending from the final chapter of Dianetics, wherein Ron wrote of plans to pursue "further research into life force," he soon found himself investigating mounting evidence that this life force was intrinsically spiritual and extended well beyond any one lifetime. That is, as Ron also soon wrote:
"As it develops, Dianetics more and more seems potentially able, eventually, to contact the often-postulated, but never thoroughly sensed, measured and experienced human soul."
The statement proved entirely accurate, and with further investigation through late 1951 and 1952, Ron indeed contacted, measured and provided a means to experience the human soul. Thus the Scientology religion was born as "the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life."
Through the latter 1950s, Ron continued delving ever deeper into the nature and potential of the spirit, while documenting discoveries in recorded lectures, technical issues, articles and books. As the community of Scientologists commensurately swelled, Churches of Scientology opened across the United States, Europe, Australia and South Africa. Accordingly, he both oversaw the worldwide growth of Scientology and worked to codify an exact and standard route along which individuals could ascend to higher states of awareness.
Yet, as Scientology embraces the whole of life, there is finally no aspect of human existence L. Ron Hubbard's subsequent work does not address. Residing in Great Britain, then aboard a research vessel in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Caribbean before returning to the United States, he drew from the larger body of Scientology procedures to develop an array of social betterment technologies:
- L. Ron Hubbard's procedures for drug rehabilitation are presently employed in 47 nations. They have proven five times more effective than any similarly aimed program.
- His program for criminal reform is presently at work in more than 2,000 prisons and penal institutions internationally and has produced an 80 percent reduction in recidivism.
- His technology for learning and literacy are delivered across 74 countries.
- L. Ron Hubbard's universally acclaimed moral code entitled The Way to Happiness, non-religious and appealing solely to common sense, has statistically reversed declining moral trends across entire communities, with 82 million copies distributed in 95 languages in over 150 countries.
But, of course, the greater story of L. Ron Hubbard can only conclude with his completion of his mainline research. Before his passing in 1986, he fully codified all Dianetics and Scientology materials for application across every level of society and to the utmost spiritual heights.
Today, those materials comprise tens of millions of published words recorded in volumes of books, articles and many thousands of recorded lectures. With over 300 million copies of his works in circulation L. Ron Hubbard has inspired a movement millions strong and spanning all continents.
In testament to the workability of his legacy are the miracles of his technology and his millions of friends world over who carry that legacy forward. Both continue to grow in number with each passing day, and otherwise affirm what Ron declared in his own essay, "My Philosophy":
"I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
"These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is."
While seeing that his family was cared for with modest bequests, Mr. Hubbard donated the bulk of his estate to the Scientology religion—not to any individuals. And to this day, royalties from sales of his books benefit the Church and not any one individual, as a result of his gift. So in fact, it is the Church that is the beneficiary of his substantial earnings as an author.
L. Ron Hubbard recorded the results of all his research in writing, on film or in taped lectures so that it would be preserved. Since his passing, Scientology has continued to expand, and its future survival is assured.
All great religious leaders of the past have died. Their work flourishes. Men die. Wisdom and ideas do not.
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A FREEDOM SPECIAL REPORT A Timeline of CNN's "Investigation"
aka >> Running Away from the Subject of Their ProgramKeep in mind that the last time the Church's spokesperson talked with anyone from CNN about the show, Editorial Director Richard Griffiths agreed a “hard reset” was in order. Translation: Let's start the relationship over and see if we can make amends. Now it is clear that was a disingenuous discussion.
Not only did CNN and Cooper refuse to interview these Church executives, including the International Executive Director, but they weren’t even welcome to drop by CNN studios.
Here's the back story: That conversation came about after numerous frustrations the Church experienced with Cooper and his producers during their “investigation.” Here are just a few:
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AC360 contacted the Church in late July 2009 demanding an interview to answer allegations from disgruntled, expelled anti-Scientologists for a show airing within a week. Spokesman Tommy Davis immediately agreed to an interview on July 29—the date CNN demanded. He then flew from Los Angeles to New York along with half a dozen top Church staffers (who had firsthand accounts to disprove the allegations) to meet with Cooper and be interviewed in CNN's studios.
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However, upon arrival on July 29, the scheduled date of Davis' interview, CNN suddenly announced Cooper wasn't “ready,” claiming “no studio availability.” (Of course, the reader can decide for himself the credibility of CNN New York having no studio availability for their golden boy on the day he scheduled an interview and for which Church executives had flown across the country from Los Angeles.)
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Having been utterly inconvenienced, Davis suggested CNN take the added day to meet with him and other Church executives so the Church could provide CNN with documentation vital to their report. After all, if Cooper intended to conduct a meaningful interview, here was valuable material he could be briefed on prior to that interview—something every real TV journalist demands of his production staff. The answer was, stunningly, “No.” As in, “No,” CNN didn't want the information and, “No, they would not” accept written materials delivered to CNN's offices.
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Davis once again queried whether the interview was delayed because of studio availability or Cooper's unavailability or another assignment. CNN insisted, as incredible as it sounds, that the lack of studio was the only cause of delay. That being the case, why wouldn't Cooper want to meet, since he had nothing else to do that day? At a minimum, common courtesy and good manners would have been reason enough given Cooper and CNN had wasted the time of more than half a dozen Church executives who were now cooling their heels 3,000 miles from their busy offices.
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Continued back and forth e-mails degenerated to a final simple request to meet over coffee for 15 minutes in the CNN lobby café. After all, Davis and Church executives weren't just in the “vicinity of” CNN studios, they were in the hotel that literally connected to CNN studios. Again, CNN's answer was: “No.”
Over five nights, AC360 aired 46 minutes and 19 seconds of interviews and allegations from its anti-Scientologist “sources.” Over the same five nights, AC360 aired just 17 minutes and 52 seconds of Church responses.-
Finally, frustrated, Davis informed CNN that in addition to him, the half-dozen Church executives would arrive to be interviewed by Cooper the next day. CNN's answer was again “No.” Not only did CNN and Cooper refuse to interview these Church executives, including the International Executive Director, but they weren't even welcome to drop by CNN studios. (Cooper would later claim on his broadcast that Church executives refused to be interviewed—a lie. In fact, he even canceled interviews a second time months later, after they had finally been scheduled, with the CNN excuse that Cooper had contracted an “inner ear bug.”)
MONDAY
Church responses 23%
Anti-Scientologist sources 77%
TUESDAY
Church responses 16%
Anti-Scientologist sources 84%
WEDNESDAY
Church responses 36%
Anti-Scientologist sources 64%
THURSDAY
Church responses 21%
Anti-Scientologist sources 79%
FRIDAY
Church responses 33%
Anti-Scientologist sources 67%-
The next day, July 30, Davis was interviewed. Cooper couldn't get out of the studio fast enough after the one-hour time allotment was up.
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However, before Cooper's producers could make their escape, Davis and Church counsel personally handed them a full box of documentary evidence, including dozens of signed affidavits disproving the stories fed CNN by their “sources.” It was something CNN would never forget or forgive. Because despite Cooper's attempt to not receive any information, so he and CNN could maintain “plausible deniability” when he aired scandalous, sensationalistic lies from his sources, CNN was now in possession of the truth disproving those lies.
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Next ensued a bizarre series of CNN escapades in an attempt to recover higher ground.
When Church executives repeatedly insisted on being interviewed, CNN refused to call them at their offices but would only speak to them if the executives were on a cell phone.
After Church officials denied that ridiculous demand, CNN refused to speak to them at all, never even responding to numerous voice mail messages.
Church executives then wrote to CNN. Despite more than a dozen letters, transmitted by both e-mail and FedEx, CNN never answered or acknowledged receipt of even one.
Next, CNN was contacted by Church counsel, whereupon the network begrudgingly agreed to interview Church executives. But Cooper had a precondition: The interview had to be in a hotel room.
When that absurd precondition was rejected, CNN finally agreed to interview Church executives at the Church of Scientology—located a mere 723 yards from CNN studios. But Cooper had another precondition: He insisted the Church not be allowed to record their own video of the interviews and further insisted that the Church not be provided with a copy of interview footage shot with CNN cameras. (Other media outlets never give such prima donna preconditions for their news anchors when interviewing the Church.)
It didn't matter. When the interview date arrived, in October, Cooper canceled due to that “inner ear bug.” He never attempted to reschedule.
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Compounding their prima donna stance, Cooper and company then shot down any meetings with other CNN shows or staff. When another program was scheduled with another far more prominent, competent and well-known CNN journalist, CNN Corporate had it torpedoed. Why? Because this competing program, on CNN, would have shown the inside of a Church and, by comparison, shown the AC360 “investigation” to be the joke it was. (See How Anderson Cooper Torpedoed an Interview . )
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Caught out and checkmated by the fact their two star journalists would present entirely different pictures of Scientology, and by the fact they sabotaged the one that would have included both an on-site inside look at the Church as well as an interview with the Church’s leader, CNN committed to a “hard reset” of Cooper's AC360 “investigation.” Meaning, AC360's bias had been exposed and CNN would start over and do it right. That was November 2009.
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March 2010: It was now five months later and Cooper's ratings continued to plummet—a mere 50 percent viewership compared to the year before.
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Out of the blue, after refusing to take one hour, let alone one minute, to accept invitations inside any number of Church facilities and so see firsthand the religious institution he claimed to be investigating—not in the nine months since he first contacted the Church, not in the five months since CNN did a “hard reset”—Anderson Cooper announced his program. It was laughingly portrayed as a “nine-month investigation.” (See Anderson Cooper: By the Numbers .)
For Cooper's choice of salaciousness over reality, watch the video Anderson Cooper's Definition of “An Investigation.” For his taste in the tabloid sound bite, no matter how outrageous, watch the video A Worker’s Paradise “Slave Camp.” And finally, in full evidence of the journalistic maxim that “pictures don't lie” and proof of Cooper's willful avoidance of the truth, watch the video A “Beating Every Day” While 10,000 Miles Away .
Sound outrageous?
Well, nothing is too outrageous for AC360, because Cooper, his producers and even CNN Corporate saw exploiting the popularity of Scientology as a quick fix to their ratings debacle. But it didn't even work. Throughout the five nights, ratings continued their inexorable plummet. The public knows when they've been duped. Even the most casual viewer couldn't help but notice the same outrageous, unsubstantiated sound bites played over and over and over, while the program CNN titled “Scientology” never showed a single second of the Church.
So that's all AC360 was about. An attempted quick fix to their ratings plunge. Too bad they didn't accept the Church's offer to go inside. That would have at least been news. But CNN is no longer the “most trusted name in news”; it seems they've left the profession entirely. Their ship is sinking and can't be saved. Now it's clear why.
RUNNING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH
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For Immediate Release
Scientology opens new National Organization
for Mexico in the City of Palaces| Mexico City, Mexico • July 10, 2010 |Led by a 30-man mariachi orchestra and colorful traditional dancers, 7,000 Scientologists and guests hailed the grand opening of the new National Scientology Ideal Organization for Mexico in the heart of Mexico City. Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, officiated the historic occasion.
The ceremony marked the conclusion of a full-scale reconstruction and design of Mexico City’s Juarez Building. Directly adjacent to Mexico’s Fine Arts Palace and neighboring the National Supreme Court, the National Bank and the National Palace, it stands as a six-story contemporary cultural landmark. Fully configured to be a physical embodiment of the religion, the building includes an extensive Public Information Center with 17 multimedia displays that presents and illustrates Scientology beliefs, the life of its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and the full array of its many social betterment and community outreach programs. In full, these displays provide a concise but panoramic view of the religion to visitors, students and others desiring to learn more about Scientology.
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The new national Scientology Mexico Ideal Organization was dedicated July 10, 2010, in ceremonies attended by 7,000 Scientologists and their guests. Officiating was Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman the Board of Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, joined by civic leaders and government officials. Thousands toured the new building and its Public Information Center after the ribbon was cut and the doors opened.
Download >>For Screen160.2KB >>For Print2.7MBDescriptionThe new national Scientology Mexico Ideal Organization was dedicated July 10, 2010, in ceremonies attended by 7,000 Scientologists and their guests. Officiating was Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman the Board of Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, joined by civic leaders and government officials. Thousands toured the new building and its Public Information Center after the ribbon was cut and the doors opened.1 / 25
Start StopDescribing the positive impact of Scientology organizations on the communities they serve, Mr. Miscavige addressed the assembled crowd:
“Take this Ideal Organization and use it for all it is intended.
“You say there is drug abuse out there? Well, you now have the wherewithal to ignite a ‘drug-free movement’ more potent than anything littered along trafficking lanes.
“You say there is criminality and cruelty out there? Well, you now have The Way to Happiness to rebuild self-respect and revivify the goodness within every human being.
“Then again, you say there is aching poverty and misery across this city? Well, you now have technologies for learning and literacy—from which comes prosperity and abundance.”
Also commemorating the occasion and expressing its significance to their country were leaders from diverse fields in the Mexican nation.
Mr. Alejandro Rojas Dias Duran, Secretary of Tourism for the City of Mexico, stated on behalf of the city: “We are confident that Scientology Mexico will positively contribute and plant a seed of the fundamental values of humanity so that people of all ages, races and creeds can create a new future toward achieving a new civilization of peace and prosperity without criminality, violence and without drugs.”
The Honorable Ricardo Guzman Wolffer, Federal Court of Appeals Judge and renowned author, expressed the importance of Scientology to the future of Mexico and the world: “Today we open the doors of this beautiful new Scientology Organization, which I see as a commitment to take L. Ronald Hubbard’s message to everyone. I am of the idea that it is through individual change that one can change the world. This Ideal Organization gives everyone the chance to learn the truth within. It is the entrance to a new bright future.”
Dr. Jesus Corona Osornio, Doctor of Religious Philosophy and author of texts on religion and its place in modern society, addressed the role of Scientology in society: “This new Scientology Organization represents the emerging, multicultural Mexico of today. Mr. Hubbard took a very novel, revolutionary approach to spirituality. As an engineer, he employed highly precise technological tools to illuminate spiritual phenomena. The result is a definitive resolution between science and religion. In doing so, he salvaged religion. Spirituality lives in the 21st century and in that regard, Mr. Hubbard has made one of history’s greatest contributions to mankind.”
Ms. Laura Chapa, Senior Advisor for Special Education to the Federal Ministry of Education of Mexico, spoke of the solutions Scientology offers: “I believe that with the opening of this new Organization, leaders of all sectors of society will have the same realization I had: that you have the solution. And so I also believe that what will come from this new Organization is a turning point for our nation.”
In closing the dedication ceremonies, Mr. Miscavige said: “Today we cut a ribbon. And in doing so, I wish to extend my gratitude to all of you who made this moment possible, you who gave so much of yourselves to build this magnificent Ideal Organization, you who we shall not forget—not now, not ever.
“While to everyone else, I cordially invite you to step across that threshold and consider what’s waiting inside. For therein lies not only all I referenced for a drug-free, crime-free, literate and prosperous Mexico, but all else to spark that revolution of the spirit for which Mexico has been waiting so long.”
Architecturally, the building features a five-story atrium, a Chapel seating hundreds, a library containing all Church Scripture, as well as a multitude of seminar rooms, film rooms and volunteer workspaces for its many social and community programs and projects—in addition to course and counseling rooms to provide Scientology training and auditing for parishioners.
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Scientology missionary activities began in Mexico in the mid 1960s and the first official Scientology Association was formed in 1977. Mexico City is home to the largest community of Scientologists in Latin America. Today, its growing membership supports social betterment programs that include the largest non-governmental drug education and human rights education programs in Latin America. To make the Scientology religion more accessible, in the past two years the Church has provided the full library of its Founder’s books to public libraries and universities throughout the country.
Scientology Mexico is the fifth new Ideal Organization of Scientology to open in 2010. On January 23 this year, the Brussels branch of Churches of Scientology for Europe was opened in Belgium; the Church of Scientology of Quebec was dedicated January 30; the Church of Scientology & Celebrity Centre of Las Vegas opened February 6; and the new Church of Scientology of Los Angeles opened April 24.
In the past three years, new Churches of Scientology have opened in world cultural centers, including: the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington D.C.; the Church of Scientology of Rome, Italy; the Church of Scientology of Malmö, Sweden; the National Church of Scientology of Spain, in Madrid’s Neighborhood of Letters; the Church of Scientology of New York, just off Times Square; the Church of Scientology of San Francisco, in the original historic Transamerica Building; the Church of Scientology of London, at the city’s epicenter; the Church of Scientology of Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate; the Church of Scientology Las Vegas, Nevada; the Church of Scientology Nashville, Tennessee; and the Church of Scientology of Dallas, Texas.
Another seven new Churches of Scientology are scheduled for completion before the end of 2010.Worldwide, there are more than 8,500 Scientology Organizations, Missions and affiliated groups in 165 countries.
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Scientologists Gear Up for United Nations Day Against Drugs
June 16, 2010
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Churches of Scientology around the world will host community drug education activities June 26 in recognition of the United Nations International Day Against Illicit Drugs and Trafficking. Steadfast drug education advocates for more than 20 years, Scientology Churches are inviting local police, officials, community leaders, parents and teens to toughen up their neighborhoods with youth-oriented drug education activities for both young and old.“To bring about real demand reduction, people need facts they know are real and that’s been missing from most drug education programs,” says Rev. Bob Adams, spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International and a former National Football League player. “To resist a drug pusher, a peer or anyone else encouraging drug abuse, one’s knowledge about drugs has to be certain and firm.”
The Church’s community drug education programs have been conducted at a grass-roots level by both Scientologists and non-Scientologists since the mid-1980s. Adams says toughening up neighborhoods against drugs benefits everybody. “Today we are all affected by drug abuse in some way or another and it’s not just illegal street drugs and youth. Prescription drug abuse is also a huge problem. All of it directly relates to health, crime, and safety, and things people don’t immediately think of in relation to drugs, like success and economics. The truth is that today, if you’re not well educated about drugs, you are at risk.”
In addition to its anti-drug advocacy and community activation, the Church sponsors the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the international provider of The Truth About Drugs education materials available in 20 languages. Based on authoritative surveys and studies, The Truth About Drugs series includes abundant first hand testimonials in a youth-friendly format: 13 pocket-sized booklets and short videos covering the most commonly abused drugs, a new documentary based on interviews with over 200 former addicts, which can be seen and ordered free, at www.drugfreeworld.org.
“The Truth About Drugs Documentary and booklets are upfront, poignant and real,” says Adams. “They empower youth, parents, educators, law enforcement, social workers and anyone else concerned because it’s not about scare tactics—it’s true life experiences with facts.”
The United Nations International Day Against Illicit Drugs and Trafficking was established in 1987 by UN resolution 42/112 to strengthen action and cooperation in achieving an international society free of drug abuse.
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