One of the things we most appreciated about first getting to know Mike Rinder in 2011 is that he helped us understand exactly what it was like to be a prisoner in David Miscavige’s notorious gulag for his own executives, “The Hole.”
There are no words. "Unbelievable" yes, but doesn't say it. "Gobsmacked" better but doesn't quite say it. What is the word for an unbelievably gobsmacking notion that human torture is going on and is allowed to go on while no family, no friend, no group member, no government agency does fuck all about it? Oh, I'm sure there is some word we could come up. It certainly is not "religion."
And btw, while you're asking, in addition to "figures like Heber Jentzsch, Guillaume Lesevre, Marc Yager, Norman Starkey, Ray Mithoff...." where's Rena Wienberg, Fred Schwartz, Aaron Mason? No family reaching out to find them either? Unbelievable.
What a far cry from the good old days, when a German victim of the mind-fuck perpetrated by the criminal organisation known as the « church » of $cientology not getting a job in Germany was enough to generate a US government response. Now, it’s journalists who have to do the digging and all governments are united in going “bah!”
The problem of the evil that the Co$ gets away with might be small, on an international scale, but it’s easy to do something about, by the same token. What’s missing is political will. Like when no proper authorities in the US could conceive of investigating that nice religious “church” which Mr Jones was running...
Glad to see other journalists paying attention to Miscavige’s human rights violations. I’ve known Heber and Ray since 1969. What a nightmare they must be living.
There are no words. "Unbelievable" yes, but doesn't say it. "Gobsmacked" better but doesn't quite say it. What is the word for an unbelievably gobsmacking notion that human torture is going on and is allowed to go on while no family, no friend, no group member, no government agency does fuck all about it? Oh, I'm sure there is some word we could come up. It certainly is not "religion."
And btw, while you're asking, in addition to "figures like Heber Jentzsch, Guillaume Lesevre, Marc Yager, Norman Starkey, Ray Mithoff...." where's Rena Wienberg, Fred Schwartz, Aaron Mason? No family reaching out to find them either? Unbelievable.
What a far cry from the good old days, when a German victim of the mind-fuck perpetrated by the criminal organisation known as the « church » of $cientology not getting a job in Germany was enough to generate a US government response. Now, it’s journalists who have to do the digging and all governments are united in going “bah!”
The problem of the evil that the Co$ gets away with might be small, on an international scale, but it’s easy to do something about, by the same token. What’s missing is political will. Like when no proper authorities in the US could conceive of investigating that nice religious “church” which Mr Jones was running...
Glad to see other journalists paying attention to Miscavige’s human rights violations. I’ve known Heber and Ray since 1969. What a nightmare they must be living.