Are you ready for three hours of David Miscavige, pilgrims? We’re partnering with Alex Barnes-Ross and his website, Scientologybusiness.com, to bring you the full Friday night program at Scientology’s IAS gala that took place on November 3, when church leader David Miscavige gave the crowd his usual report on the organization’s expansion news and handed out Freedom Medals.
About the only thing that could be amazing is if Miscavige somehow resurrected Dan Sherman to write this crap.
In other, related news, while I can not speak for psychiatry, I CAN say that medications and therapy have helped me undo the mess that decades of auditing sessions in a totalitarian group have caused. So of course therapy and Psychs are the enemy of Scientology.
I just realized this: He gets away with it because he relays such an astounding number of falsehoods, switches topics at a rapid rate, and no one else can face (or is allowed to engage in) fact checking him on the vast amount of mendacity he spews. Three. Hours. Of. This. It reminds me so much of 1984, also of 24/7 propaganda loudspeakers in slave labor camps. And Scn TV network does the same.
Ha, I was thinking something similar: Dan, via OT postulates and upper level shape shifting, reassembled the meat sack, returned to Hollywood Boulevard, and promptly got WASTED on fentanyl...and then, after teleporting to Clearwater, spiked Dave's Macallan with homemade LSD. He handed Little Lord Bloodclot the sacred copper rod, which was, um...properly "located". Cigar-sized spliffs were smoked, and this speech, culled from Dan's between-lives meditations upon a galactic porcelain throne at the Hubbard Outhouse of Infinity, was transmitted telepathically from the Silver Mullet to "the rod", unsullied by cannabis smoke. The gloriously illiterate word-salad printed here has decisively changed the fate of the universe! All hail the Pimp of Pimps!
Well, I only read a bit of it, but from the short portion I read, looks like he could have turned that 3 hour speech into about 20 minutes if he left out all the gobblydegook!!!! What a load of nothing.
From the start, so many vague claims, half-truths (if that) and so much misinformation! Three hours of this drivel would be enough to stun and overwhelm any listeners’ sensibilities. (Did you know ... people stop actively listening to speeches after 20 minutes?) I bet good cash that Miz Cabbage expects no one to fact check his claims. I chose one random claim to check on. The Lakeside Sequel (not CEQUEL) shutdown in Michigan. In an article I found, a “federally appointed watchdog group” blew the whistle. Zero mention of Scn front groups. Children were sent to any one of 19 other Sequel facilities out of state. “Hundreds” of these homes “shut down”? Not by a long shot. In an article from 11/07/21 (Now, who’s going to back up the bus to check this, among 2 hours and 57 minutes of data bombardment?) “As of April, Sequel operated programs in 19 states, but it’s unclear how many facilities the company continues to run. It closed operations at 12 facilities in the past two years and no longer publicly lists its programs.”And not by Scientology. “Multiple states — including California, Oregon and Washington — said they stopped placing children in Sequel facilities since Frederick’s death as additional allegations of abuse and neglect of children in the company’s care came to light.”
Thank you Elwyn for tracking this. (P.S. I loved Paris Hilton in the movie The Wax House, a remarkable example of bad plot, bad lines, and bad acting. Did anyone else see it, or maybe only Mr Free and I caught it on TV many years ago?
No, LOL. The last thing I saw Ms. Hilton in was her TV show, "The Simple Life". I think that's what it was called. She continues her campaign for legislation to regulate these places even today because she spent some time in one.
Paris Hilton has been raising awareness for a while about abusive “child therapy” camps for wayward teenagers. She survived one. More than one kid has died from neglect. Utah is the home of lots of these places. Very poorly regulated. Excellent podcast called “Sent Away” goes into it. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1086046156/sent-away
I,too,paused after the clans descended one, but I pushed on, determined to read more. The more I read, the more I thought, “who even talks this way?” I don’t even know how to describe it. And then it was, “do they really believe that this is what is happening?” If they only knew what their money is really being used for to pay for attorneys and private investigators, and it has nothing to do with psychiatry. Do they really not know that their ‘leader’ is hiding from lawsuits? If he hasn’t done anything wrong, then why is he still hiding? So many questions and too few answers. And the 9 million hours of indiscriminate assistance after catastrophes? Exactly what did that consist of? Needless to say, never even got half way through it
Wait. I thought Dan Sherman was dead. I could only get through two paragraphs, but this has "the front porch of infinity" written all over it. Did they resurrect Dan Sherman with AI?
Okay Tony, as requested this is my (last) comment letting you know I got all the way to the end.
To be fair, I now have a headache and a desire to beat my head against the wall to try and distract myself from the pain of reading it, but I did it. And, I am not sure I will ever want to read another one of Donald Tru... I mean David Miscavige's speeches again.
"And finally, consider the last time this planet suffered a pandemic was 100 years ago. History shows it took two years for that one to run its course about the same time as the one we just suffered. Seems to me 100 years later, somebody should have been able to do a better job. Yes, somebody could have done a better job. In fact, we did and having done so it’s time to tell the rest of the world so they know as a new feature length documentary in full demonstration that something can always be done about it. here’s a preview."
-- Someone please tell me there's public access to that preview because that has to be as filled with lies as that paragraph alone and must be quite bombastic.
"An incoming alert tags one Dr. Chima of New York’s upstate psychiatric clinic, suspected crime, health care fraud of astronomic proportions .... [Dr. Keith Ablow] But he also lands in CCHRs tracking system when he’s reported for illegal prescriptions."
-- This "alert" and "tracking system" is just Google Alerts, right? Like CCHR/CoS isn't sophisticated enough to somehow have the ability to track all of psychiatry, right? I can't see CoS putting that much money into even trying to create an impossible system like that.
[Also, if true that it's just like Google Alerts that means they were alerted AFTER the news about their misdeeds became public.]
"An incoming alert tags one Dr. Chima of New York’s upstate psychiatric clinic, suspected crime, health care fraud of astronomic proportions, so CCHR zeroes in and takes pursuit. From a small town office the doctor touts his skills at treating thousands of patients, when in fact he lives in his own alternate universe because video surveillance reveals a pathological liar as in making up in person visits for non-existing patients and falsely billing insurance. All told he submits more than 5,000 fraudulent claims for an estimated $1.8 million. CCHR passes the evidence to New York office of professional misconduct with an official complaint, at which point it breaks on ABC News, and Chima is not only stripped of his license, he also goes down for federal fraud."
--In reality, Dr. Cheema was charged on the billing and other stuff in 2018 due to the video surveillance and analyzing of claims being done by the >FBI< and an FBI undercover agent. The investigation began and also involved the US Attorney General and the state Department of Financial Services.
Given CoS's abhorrence for law enforcement and government agencies, at best the only way to really make this work is if the undercover agent doing video surveillance was a Scientologist working for the FBI. Does Scientology abide that? Do they let police officers and other law enforcement employees become Scientologists (and then stay employed as law enforcement personnel)?
That could be one of your greatest assets. In the end, in those cases, will they more abide by the constitutional oath? Or the supreme leader's directives in your interest?
"And so it continues up the Bridge as the floodgates open in his brief breadth of eternity, an academy completion every 25 minutes, a release or Clear every seven minutes."
I apologize in advance for the many comments coming, but I wanted to make it easier to correlate answers with questions.
"And today, it begins with the Scientology Network, launched just one year before we last met. Our timing could not have been better. For when the pandemic hits, the universal watch words suddenly became binge watching, and we’re talking no less than 20 million new viewers to Scientology TV. "
Wasn't there a big to do from CoS about if it was called Scientology Network or Scientology TV? Did that stop?
About the only thing that could be amazing is if Miscavige somehow resurrected Dan Sherman to write this crap.
In other, related news, while I can not speak for psychiatry, I CAN say that medications and therapy have helped me undo the mess that decades of auditing sessions in a totalitarian group have caused. So of course therapy and Psychs are the enemy of Scientology.
Just a serving suggestion. Your results may vary.
𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥
That's as far as I made it.
Oh, and I misread a word and snorted.
“When our clans descend” got me, too. WTAF?
Our clans descend, our fans ascend, fling shit in a booth, and call it THE TRUTH!
Scientologists swoon at the smell and heavy theta texture of Dave's boolsheet.
I do believe they feel flattered at being in the "inner circle" and lap it up.
Absolutely!
..and much more privileged, with the platinum bait: Mr. Tom!
It’s like someone cut up a Dan Sherman speech, tossed it in the air, and rearranged the pieces.
Somewhere, there is a refrigerator missing a lot of adverbs.
Maybe it was written by AI? Bits and pieces of LRH-sounding phrases, a mad rush of unverifiable claims and statistics.
I just realized this: He gets away with it because he relays such an astounding number of falsehoods, switches topics at a rapid rate, and no one else can face (or is allowed to engage in) fact checking him on the vast amount of mendacity he spews. Three. Hours. Of. This. It reminds me so much of 1984, also of 24/7 propaganda loudspeakers in slave labor camps. And Scn TV network does the same.
You just described classic brainwashing techniques. And a Donald Trump rally.
Ha, I was thinking something similar: Dan, via OT postulates and upper level shape shifting, reassembled the meat sack, returned to Hollywood Boulevard, and promptly got WASTED on fentanyl...and then, after teleporting to Clearwater, spiked Dave's Macallan with homemade LSD. He handed Little Lord Bloodclot the sacred copper rod, which was, um...properly "located". Cigar-sized spliffs were smoked, and this speech, culled from Dan's between-lives meditations upon a galactic porcelain throne at the Hubbard Outhouse of Infinity, was transmitted telepathically from the Silver Mullet to "the rod", unsullied by cannabis smoke. The gloriously illiterate word-salad printed here has decisively changed the fate of the universe! All hail the Pimp of Pimps!
A veritable tsunami of fresh, fragrant, high-mass booolsheet.
Shout-out to Tony and Alex, but...nah, not today!
Well, I only read a bit of it, but from the short portion I read, looks like he could have turned that 3 hour speech into about 20 minutes if he left out all the gobblydegook!!!! What a load of nothing.
From the start, so many vague claims, half-truths (if that) and so much misinformation! Three hours of this drivel would be enough to stun and overwhelm any listeners’ sensibilities. (Did you know ... people stop actively listening to speeches after 20 minutes?) I bet good cash that Miz Cabbage expects no one to fact check his claims. I chose one random claim to check on. The Lakeside Sequel (not CEQUEL) shutdown in Michigan. In an article I found, a “federally appointed watchdog group” blew the whistle. Zero mention of Scn front groups. Children were sent to any one of 19 other Sequel facilities out of state. “Hundreds” of these homes “shut down”? Not by a long shot. In an article from 11/07/21 (Now, who’s going to back up the bus to check this, among 2 hours and 57 minutes of data bombardment?) “As of April, Sequel operated programs in 19 states, but it’s unclear how many facilities the company continues to run. It closed operations at 12 facilities in the past two years and no longer publicly lists its programs.”And not by Scientology. “Multiple states — including California, Oregon and Washington — said they stopped placing children in Sequel facilities since Frederick’s death as additional allegations of abuse and neglect of children in the company’s care came to light.”
Paris Hilton seems to have had more of an effect: “At a news conference last month, entertainer Paris Hilton evoked Frederick’s death as she campaigned for new federal regulation of youth facilities, saying the patchwork approach to oversight hasn’t been effective.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-courts-still-sending-children-sequel-facilities-rcna4729
Thank you Elwyn for tracking this. (P.S. I loved Paris Hilton in the movie The Wax House, a remarkable example of bad plot, bad lines, and bad acting. Did anyone else see it, or maybe only Mr Free and I caught it on TV many years ago?
No, LOL. The last thing I saw Ms. Hilton in was her TV show, "The Simple Life". I think that's what it was called. She continues her campaign for legislation to regulate these places even today because she spent some time in one.
Paris Hilton has been raising awareness for a while about abusive “child therapy” camps for wayward teenagers. She survived one. More than one kid has died from neglect. Utah is the home of lots of these places. Very poorly regulated. Excellent podcast called “Sent Away” goes into it. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1086046156/sent-away
I,too,paused after the clans descended one, but I pushed on, determined to read more. The more I read, the more I thought, “who even talks this way?” I don’t even know how to describe it. And then it was, “do they really believe that this is what is happening?” If they only knew what their money is really being used for to pay for attorneys and private investigators, and it has nothing to do with psychiatry. Do they really not know that their ‘leader’ is hiding from lawsuits? If he hasn’t done anything wrong, then why is he still hiding? So many questions and too few answers. And the 9 million hours of indiscriminate assistance after catastrophes? Exactly what did that consist of? Needless to say, never even got half way through it
Wait. I thought Dan Sherman was dead. I could only get through two paragraphs, but this has "the front porch of infinity" written all over it. Did they resurrect Dan Sherman with AI?
Did everyone get a note when they entered that the standing ovation for Miss Cabbage needed to be 3 minutes?
You have to wonder
Thanks for the fact check, Elwyn, and for sharing it with us
Okay Tony, as requested this is my (last) comment letting you know I got all the way to the end.
To be fair, I now have a headache and a desire to beat my head against the wall to try and distract myself from the pain of reading it, but I did it. And, I am not sure I will ever want to read another one of Donald Tru... I mean David Miscavige's speeches again.
"And finally, consider the last time this planet suffered a pandemic was 100 years ago. History shows it took two years for that one to run its course about the same time as the one we just suffered. Seems to me 100 years later, somebody should have been able to do a better job. Yes, somebody could have done a better job. In fact, we did and having done so it’s time to tell the rest of the world so they know as a new feature length documentary in full demonstration that something can always be done about it. here’s a preview."
-- Someone please tell me there's public access to that preview because that has to be as filled with lies as that paragraph alone and must be quite bombastic.
"An incoming alert tags one Dr. Chima of New York’s upstate psychiatric clinic, suspected crime, health care fraud of astronomic proportions .... [Dr. Keith Ablow] But he also lands in CCHRs tracking system when he’s reported for illegal prescriptions."
-- This "alert" and "tracking system" is just Google Alerts, right? Like CCHR/CoS isn't sophisticated enough to somehow have the ability to track all of psychiatry, right? I can't see CoS putting that much money into even trying to create an impossible system like that.
[Also, if true that it's just like Google Alerts that means they were alerted AFTER the news about their misdeeds became public.]
"An incoming alert tags one Dr. Chima of New York’s upstate psychiatric clinic, suspected crime, health care fraud of astronomic proportions, so CCHR zeroes in and takes pursuit. From a small town office the doctor touts his skills at treating thousands of patients, when in fact he lives in his own alternate universe because video surveillance reveals a pathological liar as in making up in person visits for non-existing patients and falsely billing insurance. All told he submits more than 5,000 fraudulent claims for an estimated $1.8 million. CCHR passes the evidence to New York office of professional misconduct with an official complaint, at which point it breaks on ABC News, and Chima is not only stripped of his license, he also goes down for federal fraud."
--In reality, Dr. Cheema was charged on the billing and other stuff in 2018 due to the video surveillance and analyzing of claims being done by the >FBI< and an FBI undercover agent. The investigation began and also involved the US Attorney General and the state Department of Financial Services.
Given CoS's abhorrence for law enforcement and government agencies, at best the only way to really make this work is if the undercover agent doing video surveillance was a Scientologist working for the FBI. Does Scientology abide that? Do they let police officers and other law enforcement employees become Scientologists (and then stay employed as law enforcement personnel)?
That could be one of your greatest assets. In the end, in those cases, will they more abide by the constitutional oath? Or the supreme leader's directives in your interest?
"And so it continues up the Bridge as the floodgates open in his brief breadth of eternity, an academy completion every 25 minutes, a release or Clear every seven minutes."
Where's the stat on how many "blows" per day?
I apologize in advance for the many comments coming, but I wanted to make it easier to correlate answers with questions.
"And today, it begins with the Scientology Network, launched just one year before we last met. Our timing could not have been better. For when the pandemic hits, the universal watch words suddenly became binge watching, and we’re talking no less than 20 million new viewers to Scientology TV. "
Wasn't there a big to do from CoS about if it was called Scientology Network or Scientology TV? Did that stop?