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While our good friend Mike Rinder is going through a tough round of chemotherapy — head up, mate! — we thought we’d cheer him up with this little blast from the past that came our way courtesy of another friend of ours, Austrian journalist Peter Reichelt.
Says Peter:
“Just found in my archive some photos taken during the Lisa McPherson protests in front of Scientology’s Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida on Dec. 6, 1998,” Peter says. “This is me on the left side from the back doing a video of the scene for our ARD TV documentary.”
And who is that handsome devil in the middle of the photo? Why it’s notorious Scientology executive Mike Rinder, who has come to “handle” the protesters.
Here’s an even better shot of him, and with St. Petersburg Times reporter Tom Tobin (the now newly retired Tom Tobin of the paper that later changed its name to the Tampa Bay Times).
You can see the Scientology Winter Wonderland setup behind them across from the hotel, confirming that this took place in December.
In this shot, Rinder and Tobin have been upstaged by a rather droll-looking protester with a great sign.
And here’s the same protester with the controversial Garry Scarrf, who passed away some seven years ago.
Ah well, time flies. But Lisa McPherson is still gone, and Scientology is still paying a price for killing her.
Meanwhile, Peter also wanted us to know that he has helped put out yet another piece about Austrian artist and longtime Scientologist Gottfried Helnwein, this time for the Vienna investigative weekly, Falter.
We’re working on something even more special with Peter for a future item which we are very excited about. Peter has really come out of retirement swinging!
And we’re really looking forward to Mike’s return to good health. Let’s all send him some good thoughts. Rest up, friend! We need you back at full strength.
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Many thanks, Peter Reichelt, your continued publishing of $cieno 'secrets' and their nefarious past and present is a public service. As the sign said, 'the internet will not be handled' and thanks to 'fair use' the secrets of $cientology were made public. And laughter and merriment ensued. And more and more were warned away and the flow of 'new meat' dwindled to nothing. Which is about as good as it gets in this legal atmosphere.
Be well Mike Rinder, there are so many more crimes that need exposure.
Scientology's quackery deserves constant public warnings against it.
Quackery with an intelligence nasty branch to try to "Fair Game" and obliterate the critics of that quackery.
Hubbard wrought a nasty predicament for people caught up in the Hubbard quackery, pro and against (the right ones) it.
The Jon Atack article about S. I. Hayakawa's review of "Dianetics" from 1951, is always the crux of what is the basic deepest wrong about Hubbard's Dianetics/Scientology.
The world does not need a nasty quackery outfit stuck in L. Ron Hubbard's mentally unbalanced mind going nasty on the world.
Past lives engrams and Xenu's body-thetans themselves laden with their own past lives engrams, are not humanity's problem. Scientology is a pseudo-therapy/exorcism false cure that only provides some placebo and psychosomatic benefit to believers of it. Hayakawa explains this best in his best ever takedown of Dianetics.
https://tonyortega.org/2016/01/08/jon-atack-the-best-thing-ever-written-about-the-language-traps-in-scientologys-bible-dianetics/#google_vignette