Judge Randolph Hammock clearly didn’t want to give up handling Leah Remini’s lawsuit after he had spent so much time producing a 37-page ruling for it. But after initially resisting being removed from the case, Judge Hammock ultimately acknowledged that Scientology leader David Miscavige could, according to court rules, remove him with a “peremptory” challenge — meaning Miscavige’s assertion that he believed the judge was prejudiced against him required no evidence or argument.
Well, it's always a learning curve for judges, and more and more judges seem up to contend with legal tactics coming from Scientology's "top" lawyers, so in any case, the world is learning "modern" Scientology legal tactics, ongoing.
To me, I was a layman going into, and coming out of, Scientology. (My "ruin" was thinking the supernatural "OT" stuff Hubbard falsely offers, was real, which of course there is no supernatural stuff or "OT powers" gained by the Hubbard quackery "therapy" or the Hubbard exorcism/soul-freeing procedures.)
I always had faith in the outside world. The Hubbard "A to J" policy lists out the societal institutions which Scientology/Hubbard have prejudices against.
It's not common knowledge, but a story is warranted on the Hubbard PTS A to J groups in society which to this day, Hubbard's Scientology policies still stand.
Scientology/Hubbard is and will always be, until they reform (or until official Scientology simply goes the way that splinter Scientology has gone, and simply dispense with the full panoply of the Hubbard prejudices against society's institutions and professional groups), Hubbard's bag of prejudices.
Scientology/Hubbard is a noxious operation, the full bore official Scientology, when studied in detail, and comparing official Scientology to even the tiny "splinter" Scientology groups which don't do the full totalitarian/prejudiced Hubbard full doctrines/polices of the Miscavige run official Scientology movement.
It's disappointing to see the more orthodox/totalitarian "top lawyers protected" Scientology "win" in any way, against society's freer institutions and professional groups.
Well, as a dumb layman, college dropout that I was/am, I'm still faithful to society's institutions, who even though they might "lose" to nasty organizations, there is always "word of mouth" to warn against nasty groups like official Scientology.
I hope Leah's team wins, and will gladly donate to her legal effort, if that is ever called for.
The nastiness "fair gaming" of Scientology I don't believe is even done at all, other than by "word of mouth" within the splinter Scientology.
I wonder what the ex GO people who still hold faithful to Hubbard's "tech" and principles, but who aren't allowed to participate with official Scientology, I wonder what their thoughts are.
I'm in the "public" layman camp, and just more tolerant of decent religions, and I hope religions act decently, and strive that direction.
A "fair gaming" "religion" is a foul and not to be followed "religion" in my layman's view.
Leah's case is simply a legal one of harassment, and I hope it wins.
In the court of public opinion, official Scientology is nasty foul and still to this day, unworthy of people's money or time. I would only tell anyone to study or learn about Scientology from reading on their own or by contacting splinter un-official Scientologists. (Which is why I'm curious if there is even an even smaller group of ex Guardian's Office Scientologists who are not part of official Scientology, and what they think of it all, just to hear their views if they even exist much.)
Public word of mouth always catches up to Scientology, and it's Hubbard's fault ultimately, and even if society's professional institutions aren't the ones to make judgements, the public thankfully has come to that judgement due to ex's writings and speaking about the details of their Scientology staff and regular follower lives.
Chuck Beatty
ex smaller time lower level staffer, Sea Org 1975 to 2003 (Flag Admin Courses Supervisor, Word Clearer, later on research projects for the "routing forms", later INCOMM computer room operations button pusher, later ASI staffer in the ASI computer room, then almost 7 years on the RPF wishing to leave and finally leaving Scientology, only made it to "Clear" which I realized is bogus.)
"Join an event and panel of top OTs and Scientologists from Battle Creek, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville and Columbus in the name of Clearing the Hearltand!" Yep, the "hearltand" (sic) will be cleared in no time. The flyer also misspells the name of the venue (it's Eyry of the Eagle, not Eyre). The only reason I paid attention to the flyer is because my grandparents lived in Battle Creek and I spent a lot of time there as a kid, so I'm fascinated by Scientologists' bizarre determination to place an Ideal Org in Michigan's 24th-largest city.
Too bad there wasn't a time-out. Which was started on the day that a lawyer appeared for the first time, not on behalf of defendant David "he is NOT insane!" Miscavige, but on behalf on another defendant, to argue that the lawyer had no idea if this Miscavige person even existed, but whoever it was they had never been served with nothing. Nu-uh!
Another travesty, but I intend Leah will prevail as she has a great legal team, though therein lies the problem--we are not dealing with Common Law, but Maritime Law/Admiralty courts, which have ALL been corrupted.
I am hoping this new judge will be as diligent and well informed as Judge Hammock. We are just at the beginning of a very long process.
Well, it's always a learning curve for judges, and more and more judges seem up to contend with legal tactics coming from Scientology's "top" lawyers, so in any case, the world is learning "modern" Scientology legal tactics, ongoing.
To me, I was a layman going into, and coming out of, Scientology. (My "ruin" was thinking the supernatural "OT" stuff Hubbard falsely offers, was real, which of course there is no supernatural stuff or "OT powers" gained by the Hubbard quackery "therapy" or the Hubbard exorcism/soul-freeing procedures.)
I always had faith in the outside world. The Hubbard "A to J" policy lists out the societal institutions which Scientology/Hubbard have prejudices against.
It's not common knowledge, but a story is warranted on the Hubbard PTS A to J groups in society which to this day, Hubbard's Scientology policies still stand.
Scientology/Hubbard is and will always be, until they reform (or until official Scientology simply goes the way that splinter Scientology has gone, and simply dispense with the full panoply of the Hubbard prejudices against society's institutions and professional groups), Hubbard's bag of prejudices.
Scientology/Hubbard is a noxious operation, the full bore official Scientology, when studied in detail, and comparing official Scientology to even the tiny "splinter" Scientology groups which don't do the full totalitarian/prejudiced Hubbard full doctrines/polices of the Miscavige run official Scientology movement.
It's disappointing to see the more orthodox/totalitarian "top lawyers protected" Scientology "win" in any way, against society's freer institutions and professional groups.
Well, as a dumb layman, college dropout that I was/am, I'm still faithful to society's institutions, who even though they might "lose" to nasty organizations, there is always "word of mouth" to warn against nasty groups like official Scientology.
I hope Leah's team wins, and will gladly donate to her legal effort, if that is ever called for.
The nastiness "fair gaming" of Scientology I don't believe is even done at all, other than by "word of mouth" within the splinter Scientology.
I wonder what the ex GO people who still hold faithful to Hubbard's "tech" and principles, but who aren't allowed to participate with official Scientology, I wonder what their thoughts are.
I'm in the "public" layman camp, and just more tolerant of decent religions, and I hope religions act decently, and strive that direction.
A "fair gaming" "religion" is a foul and not to be followed "religion" in my layman's view.
Leah's case is simply a legal one of harassment, and I hope it wins.
In the court of public opinion, official Scientology is nasty foul and still to this day, unworthy of people's money or time. I would only tell anyone to study or learn about Scientology from reading on their own or by contacting splinter un-official Scientologists. (Which is why I'm curious if there is even an even smaller group of ex Guardian's Office Scientologists who are not part of official Scientology, and what they think of it all, just to hear their views if they even exist much.)
Public word of mouth always catches up to Scientology, and it's Hubbard's fault ultimately, and even if society's professional institutions aren't the ones to make judgements, the public thankfully has come to that judgement due to ex's writings and speaking about the details of their Scientology staff and regular follower lives.
Chuck Beatty
ex smaller time lower level staffer, Sea Org 1975 to 2003 (Flag Admin Courses Supervisor, Word Clearer, later on research projects for the "routing forms", later INCOMM computer room operations button pusher, later ASI staffer in the ASI computer room, then almost 7 years on the RPF wishing to leave and finally leaving Scientology, only made it to "Clear" which I realized is bogus.)
"Join an event and panel of top OTs and Scientologists from Battle Creek, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville and Columbus in the name of Clearing the Hearltand!" Yep, the "hearltand" (sic) will be cleared in no time. The flyer also misspells the name of the venue (it's Eyry of the Eagle, not Eyre). The only reason I paid attention to the flyer is because my grandparents lived in Battle Creek and I spent a lot of time there as a kid, so I'm fascinated by Scientologists' bizarre determination to place an Ideal Org in Michigan's 24th-largest city.
Too bad there wasn't a time-out. Which was started on the day that a lawyer appeared for the first time, not on behalf of defendant David "he is NOT insane!" Miscavige, but on behalf on another defendant, to argue that the lawyer had no idea if this Miscavige person even existed, but whoever it was they had never been served with nothing. Nu-uh!
The longer Scientology drags out the Leah case the worse their reputation will become.
Miscavige is scared. And the organization continues to shrink.
Another travesty, but I intend Leah will prevail as she has a great legal team, though therein lies the problem--we are not dealing with Common Law, but Maritime Law/Admiralty courts, which have ALL been corrupted.