But then, he has his eyes on a bigger game. "I believe a bunch of federal governments particularly in Europe and in the Commonwealth will follow in the steps of the Australian Fair Work Ombudsman and begin their own examinations and reviews," he informed Australian tv this week. To put it simply, more holes for Miscavige to stress over, letting in more light.
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Mike Rinder, who defended the church to the media for 20 years, couldn't stomach what was taking place on the within. The strategies to keep executives in line "are wrong from a Scientology perspective,"said Rinder, who strolled away 2 years earlier. "They are not standard practice of Scientology. They are simply not humanitarian.
It becomes part of the "ecclesiastical justice"system the church troubles bad entertainers. Rinder and the other defectors could not cut it in the tough world of Scientology's Sea Org, a group whose members devote their lives to service of the church, the church states. Rather than accept their own failings, the defectors are putting a sinister twist on something that is regular.
The members of it concur with a male named L. Ron Hubbard. They abide by his policies. and we follow it to the T, to the letter, to the punctuation marks. And if you disagree with that and you don't like it, you don't belong. Then you leave."The order came about 10 p.Miscavige had the staffers line up at the diving board in their uniforms, and one by one, jump into the pool. Before everyone went in, Norman Starkey, when the captain of the Apollo, called on them to be much better souls. He recited a traditional Sea Org saying: Miscavige ordered the group to go to an office in their wet clothes and stay put till they figured out where they had actually stopped working.
But he well remembers the doubts that crept into his head as he sat damp and shivering. De Vocht had actually joined the church with his mother when he was simply 10 and rose to a magnate post at Scientology's spiritual head office in Clearwater. However in the months after that mass dunking, he no longer recognized the organization.
Anything."And Dave would sit there and listen to it and take pleasure in the hell out of it," said De Vocht, who recalled one seance when he stated Miscavige struck executive Marc Yager and threw him to the floor, then singled out Faith Schermerhorn, a midlevel administrator who is black."He goes, 'By the way, (Yager) believes black people are n ------, and he doesn't desire Scientology to assist blacks.
"I punched somebody. The church provided the St. Petersburg Times with sworn statements from Yager and Schermerhorn rejecting that the incident happened. In Yager's statement, he stated he is not prejudiced and Schermerhorn is a buddy.
Miscavige has been the individual in Scientology who has done the most for black people."Rinder stated a group confession early in 2004 stands apart for him since Rathbun, his long time pal, ended up attacking him."You stand up and there's 50 individuals in the room all shouting and yelling, 'What did you do? And you did this and you did that.' And I'm standing there saying, 'No, I didn't do that,' "Rinder said.
He needed to have actually done something: Come on. Own up. Begin."And then when I said absolutely nothing, that's when Marty jumped on me,"Rinder said. "Which's psychotic. There is a term for it in Scientology. It's called Contagion of Aberration."When you get a group of people together, they will promote one another to do things that are crazy."Davis, who succeeded Rinder as church representative, stated the term "seance"is not utilized in Scientology and Miscavige never encouraged violence.
Rinder stated the unsightly minute was an example of the corrosive environment at Scientology's base near Los Angeles. "There's an effort to play individuals off, one versus the other. And you know that and you see it," Rinder said. Rathbun's attack "wasn't encouraged by hatred towards me, it was motivated by some attempt at conservation for him."Davis cited church founder Hubbard's policy that motivates members to face and "come tidy" when they have actually done something to lower their group.
"They were definitely guilty, definitely in infraction of the mores of the group,"stated spokesperson Jessica Feshbach."And were they challenged by peers and asked, What's going on? Absolutely. Since that is the duty of the group."Pulling down the group likewise can lead to overboarding, church spokesmen said. It's a Sea Org ritual akin to traditions in other religious orders.
If a Sea Org member ruins, "you throw him over the g-- d-- side of link the ship," Starkey stated."He falls into the water, he swims around, climbs up the ladder, leaves at the dock, strolls back in once again. He never ever does that once again. He understands that that is the method we run."He was standing right there, laughing,"Rinder said. "It was very entertaining for him."Rinder said he doesn't remember any towels at the prepared, that night or any of the 10 or two other times he states large groups of staffers were escorted to the lake under guard and required to jump in fully dressed.
Which is how church representative Davis stated he punished a subordinate."It was a anonymous guy who was blowing it and kept blowing it and kept blowing it making mistakes, underperforming," he stated.
"The g-- d-- front door wasn't locked. And if they had a problem with it they might have strolled out."The defectors were not just soft, they couldn't maintain the sped up work rate Miscavige developed, the church says. Rathbun flubbed so many assignments, such as his handling of the Lisa Mc, Pherson wrongful death straight from the source claim, that Miscavige needed to take over, distracting him from more vital tasks, spokespersons said.
"Where Mr. Miscavige was able to get on to what he constantly wished to get on to."Davis played DVDs of Scientology ads now on cable television. He described a multimillion-dollar global expansion program to open an array of "perfect orgs," each with course rooms, shows that discuss Scientology to the uninitiated, centers for community outreach groups, and spaces for auditing, the core counseling of Scientology.