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		By: Hennessy		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-143010</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142800&quot;&gt;Chee Chalker&lt;/a&gt;.

Yes, and remember when AC asked if they had phones (in order to report assaults to law enforcement), Jenny Linson was peaved. She told AC &quot;now you are being rude&quot; in an effort to shut him down. Norm Starkey made it even worse by saying that insulting his &quot;leader&quot; was not okay! So did his leader do something then?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142800">Chee Chalker</a>.</p>
<p>Yes, and remember when AC asked if they had phones (in order to report assaults to law enforcement), Jenny Linson was peaved. She told AC &#8220;now you are being rude&#8221; in an effort to shut him down. Norm Starkey made it even worse by saying that insulting his &#8220;leader&#8221; was not okay! So did his leader do something then?</p>
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		By: Hennessy		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-143009</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142816&quot;&gt;Mike Rinder&lt;/a&gt;.

Idiotic and ... Embarrassing to watch.]]></description>
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<p>Idiotic and &#8230; Embarrassing to watch.</p>
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		By: Luvitouthere		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142917&quot;&gt;dankoon&lt;/a&gt;.

This is some creative writing, I must say.  Who else would be able to say so many derogatory things about someone?]]></description>
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<p>This is some creative writing, I must say.  Who else would be able to say so many derogatory things about someone?</p>
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		By: Luvitouthere		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142917&quot;&gt;dankoon&lt;/a&gt;.

Can the church not be sued for deformation of character?]]></description>
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<p>Can the church not be sued for deformation of character?</p>
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		By: dankoon		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mike, not to elbow my way into the Big Time with you, Marty, Devo and others, but 2 days after Mariette&#039;s book won the top prize at Crime Time Gotland on Saturday, Scientology&#039;s Dear Leader anointed me with my own smear page. It&#039;s nothing like what you guys have been honored with but it&#039;s a start. I posted an edited version with some editorializing on The Outer Banks yesterday but it was removed somehow, so here it is again for your blog readers, which I am sure has a significant overlap with TOB:

•	Dan Koon: Failed Artist and Go-To Ghostwriter for Degenerates
Meet Donald “Dan” Koon, a failed artist who is the co-author of Ron Miscavige’s literary forgery. Today Koon hides out in Sweden, a sad, pathetic figure of a man who betrayed his wife of 27 years for his mistress, betrayed his friends and is now exploiting wife-beater Ron Miscavige and his family to try to eke out a living.
 
Donald “Dan” Koon Note: the picture of me in our sauna did not copy over, but it is just me from the chest up sweating. (Comment: This is me in our sauna. The other photo of me rolling in the snow buck naked somehow was deleted. Dave lifted it from the blog I kept after we moved to Sweden in 2011. You can find it by going to https://movingtoswedendotorg.wordpress.com/ and then looking in the archives for December 2012. The photo looks like I had sex with the abominable snow-woman and she melted in ecstasy.)

Exposed as a crazed anti-Scientologist disguised as a ghostwriter . . . Koon’s specialty is hooking up with “authors” with a treasure trove of appalling and deviant baggage to test Koon’s skill at covering up the truth. In fact, Koon has established himself as the go-to guy for would-be anti-Scientologists trying to keep their horrific skeletons from bursting out of their closets. (Comment: Free publicity. I’ll take it. Thanks, Dave. You heard it here from the leader of Scientology: I am your go-to guy.)

Dan’s promoting of deviants even extends to his former mistress and now wife, Mariette. Like Koon, she can’t see the difference between fact and fiction. Whereas Koon writes lies and calls it nonfiction, he has her write fiction that she shamelessly claims is real. But what Mariette really has in common with (Name A and Name B) is that she too has a dark past, which she describes as perverted behavior. It is a well-known fact that the real reason Mariette was removed from her position in her former Church was for a string of sexually perverse actions including stalking a senior executive, exposing herself by rubbing her breasts against a window for all to see and making unusual use of all manner of objects.

That Dan Koon has a trifecta of deviants that he covers up for is no surprise. . . .

Dan Koon at his finest  

According to Koon’s former wife Sue Goodban, Dan’s immoral life started at an early age. She tells how he once confessed that for his own amusement while in college he secretly slipped his parents the powerful hallucinogenic drug LSD. As Sue tells it, Koon also got his kicks knocking down street signs, emptying fire extinguishers into parked cars, destroying lawns by driving over them, breaking windows and ripping off others, later explaining that he “got the idea that stealing was okay.” (In my own humble defense and in the interests of accuracy, it wasn’t me who persuaded my parents to try LSD, it was my older brother who, when LSD was still legal, experimented with it for spiritual purposes. I’m the only one in my family who never tried LSD, actually. As for the stealing comment, I don’t know where she got that. I don’t recall ever saying that or feeling that way. Maybe she will confront me publicly and we can sort it out.)

But Koon’s vindictiveness probably stems from his disastrous string of failures during his tenure with the Church. Koon was so incompetent he was removed from a total of 23 positions. He was renowned for poor copy writing, wasting hundreds of hours of time by producing mountains of substandard work. He would later admit that he hadn’t “produced squat” or “been of any use to anyone, including myself.” 

That paled beside Koon’s worse transgressions when he altered religious writings. Koon showed he couldn’t be trusted by entering his own ideas into compilations of the Founder’s works. It took nearly a decade for the leader of the religion to fix the problems Koon created and to bring the materials back to exactly what the Founder called for. (Comment: this does not reflect well on David Miscavige since for the 10 years I worked in and headed RTRC, every single submission was raked over by him with a fine toothed comb. For it to take him an additional 10 years to straighten out his and my alterations is a poor recommendation.)

Despite his incompetence, Koon still benefited from the ecclesiastical leader’s benevolence, such as going out his way to help Koon by arranging for surgery to correct a lazy eye condition that had embarrassed him all his life. Koon acknowledged the generosity recently: “Yes, I went under the knife again for another operation and was very happy with the results.” . . .

Now the thin-skinned Koon is especially upset for being called out by his former wife. When Sue Goodban wrote a letter about Koon’s treachery, Dan went ballistic, ranting to another wife-abusing anti-religious blogger on the fringe of the Internet. (Comment: Anyone who knows me knows that if they went to the dictionary and looked up the word “ballistic” they would not find my picture. “Comatose,” perhaps, “ballistic,” no.) Among other things, Goodban told the true story of betrayal by the hypocrite who broke up their marriage and now has the nerve to claim that he strives to keep families together. According to her, the last time she saw Koon was December 21, 2003. She was ironing his shirt for work the next day. He left, lying to Sue by telling her he was going out to do some Christmas shopping. She never saw him again. After 27 years, he left without a word to shack up with a woman he had secretly been having an affair with. (Comment: Inaccurate. Mariette and I did not begin our affair until after she blew on March 31, 2004.)

Said Sue Goodban, “Dan Koon once described himself as ‘on the evil side of the equation.’” On that count, how right Dan was. (Final comment: well, on that count the article may be correct. I’m working on it, though. Honest.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike, not to elbow my way into the Big Time with you, Marty, Devo and others, but 2 days after Mariette&#8217;s book won the top prize at Crime Time Gotland on Saturday, Scientology&#8217;s Dear Leader anointed me with my own smear page. It&#8217;s nothing like what you guys have been honored with but it&#8217;s a start. I posted an edited version with some editorializing on The Outer Banks yesterday but it was removed somehow, so here it is again for your blog readers, which I am sure has a significant overlap with TOB:</p>
<p>•	Dan Koon: Failed Artist and Go-To Ghostwriter for Degenerates<br />
Meet Donald “Dan” Koon, a failed artist who is the co-author of Ron Miscavige’s literary forgery. Today Koon hides out in Sweden, a sad, pathetic figure of a man who betrayed his wife of 27 years for his mistress, betrayed his friends and is now exploiting wife-beater Ron Miscavige and his family to try to eke out a living.</p>
<p>Donald “Dan” Koon Note: the picture of me in our sauna did not copy over, but it is just me from the chest up sweating. (Comment: This is me in our sauna. The other photo of me rolling in the snow buck naked somehow was deleted. Dave lifted it from the blog I kept after we moved to Sweden in 2011. You can find it by going to <a href="https://movingtoswedendotorg.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://movingtoswedendotorg.wordpress.com/</a> and then looking in the archives for December 2012. The photo looks like I had sex with the abominable snow-woman and she melted in ecstasy.)</p>
<p>Exposed as a crazed anti-Scientologist disguised as a ghostwriter . . . Koon’s specialty is hooking up with “authors” with a treasure trove of appalling and deviant baggage to test Koon’s skill at covering up the truth. In fact, Koon has established himself as the go-to guy for would-be anti-Scientologists trying to keep their horrific skeletons from bursting out of their closets. (Comment: Free publicity. I’ll take it. Thanks, Dave. You heard it here from the leader of Scientology: I am your go-to guy.)</p>
<p>Dan’s promoting of deviants even extends to his former mistress and now wife, Mariette. Like Koon, she can’t see the difference between fact and fiction. Whereas Koon writes lies and calls it nonfiction, he has her write fiction that she shamelessly claims is real. But what Mariette really has in common with (Name A and Name B) is that she too has a dark past, which she describes as perverted behavior. It is a well-known fact that the real reason Mariette was removed from her position in her former Church was for a string of sexually perverse actions including stalking a senior executive, exposing herself by rubbing her breasts against a window for all to see and making unusual use of all manner of objects.</p>
<p>That Dan Koon has a trifecta of deviants that he covers up for is no surprise. . . .</p>
<p>Dan Koon at his finest  </p>
<p>According to Koon’s former wife Sue Goodban, Dan’s immoral life started at an early age. She tells how he once confessed that for his own amusement while in college he secretly slipped his parents the powerful hallucinogenic drug LSD. As Sue tells it, Koon also got his kicks knocking down street signs, emptying fire extinguishers into parked cars, destroying lawns by driving over them, breaking windows and ripping off others, later explaining that he “got the idea that stealing was okay.” (In my own humble defense and in the interests of accuracy, it wasn’t me who persuaded my parents to try LSD, it was my older brother who, when LSD was still legal, experimented with it for spiritual purposes. I’m the only one in my family who never tried LSD, actually. As for the stealing comment, I don’t know where she got that. I don’t recall ever saying that or feeling that way. Maybe she will confront me publicly and we can sort it out.)</p>
<p>But Koon’s vindictiveness probably stems from his disastrous string of failures during his tenure with the Church. Koon was so incompetent he was removed from a total of 23 positions. He was renowned for poor copy writing, wasting hundreds of hours of time by producing mountains of substandard work. He would later admit that he hadn’t “produced squat” or “been of any use to anyone, including myself.” </p>
<p>That paled beside Koon’s worse transgressions when he altered religious writings. Koon showed he couldn’t be trusted by entering his own ideas into compilations of the Founder’s works. It took nearly a decade for the leader of the religion to fix the problems Koon created and to bring the materials back to exactly what the Founder called for. (Comment: this does not reflect well on David Miscavige since for the 10 years I worked in and headed RTRC, every single submission was raked over by him with a fine toothed comb. For it to take him an additional 10 years to straighten out his and my alterations is a poor recommendation.)</p>
<p>Despite his incompetence, Koon still benefited from the ecclesiastical leader’s benevolence, such as going out his way to help Koon by arranging for surgery to correct a lazy eye condition that had embarrassed him all his life. Koon acknowledged the generosity recently: “Yes, I went under the knife again for another operation and was very happy with the results.” . . .</p>
<p>Now the thin-skinned Koon is especially upset for being called out by his former wife. When Sue Goodban wrote a letter about Koon’s treachery, Dan went ballistic, ranting to another wife-abusing anti-religious blogger on the fringe of the Internet. (Comment: Anyone who knows me knows that if they went to the dictionary and looked up the word “ballistic” they would not find my picture. “Comatose,” perhaps, “ballistic,” no.) Among other things, Goodban told the true story of betrayal by the hypocrite who broke up their marriage and now has the nerve to claim that he strives to keep families together. According to her, the last time she saw Koon was December 21, 2003. She was ironing his shirt for work the next day. He left, lying to Sue by telling her he was going out to do some Christmas shopping. She never saw him again. After 27 years, he left without a word to shack up with a woman he had secretly been having an affair with. (Comment: Inaccurate. Mariette and I did not begin our affair until after she blew on March 31, 2004.)</p>
<p>Said Sue Goodban, “Dan Koon once described himself as ‘on the evil side of the equation.’” On that count, how right Dan was. (Final comment: well, on that count the article may be correct. I’m working on it, though. Honest.)</p>
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		By: WhatWall		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142838&quot;&gt;J. Swift&lt;/a&gt;.

J. Swift, &quot;body slam&quot; of a comment! OSA&#039;s practices mirror the sociopathic personality of David Miscavige.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142838">J. Swift</a>.</p>
<p>J. Swift, &#8220;body slam&#8221; of a comment! OSA&#8217;s practices mirror the sociopathic personality of David Miscavige.</p>
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		By: Chee Chalker		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142823&quot;&gt;SadStateofAffairs&lt;/a&gt;.

Meanwhile that little midget sleeps until noon every day......
Even with all the sleep he gets and Botox and fillers and make-up and hair dye, he still likes like a shrunken old man.
Those pics that were snapped during his rehearsal (in Australia I believe) show just how much the cigarettes and whiskey is getting to him.]]></description>
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<p>Meanwhile that little midget sleeps until noon every day&#8230;&#8230;<br />
Even with all the sleep he gets and Botox and fillers and make-up and hair dye, he still likes like a shrunken old man.<br />
Those pics that were snapped during his rehearsal (in Australia I believe) show just how much the cigarettes and whiskey is getting to him.</p>
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		By: roger gonnet		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alas, SK is far from alone. USA keeps on trying to put its dirty hands on every thing totalitarian on the planet. The &quot;chriteniningt&quot; of Hungary Budapest new super-org for the eastern Europe is in the same juice. Scientology adores totalitarian things, including sometimes hyper-islamists ones or royalists ones like Hungary, now very very on the right.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alas, SK is far from alone. USA keeps on trying to put its dirty hands on every thing totalitarian on the planet. The &#8220;chriteniningt&#8221; of Hungary Budapest new super-org for the eastern Europe is in the same juice. Scientology adores totalitarian things, including sometimes hyper-islamists ones or royalists ones like Hungary, now very very on the right.</p>
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		By: Karen#1		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It begs the question of Mike Rinder was all these things, why in the hell was he International Spokesman for the cherch of Scientology for 20 years ?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It begs the question of Mike Rinder was all these things, why in the hell was he International Spokesman for the cherch of Scientology for 20 years ?</p>
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		By: T.J.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-north-korea/#comment-142847&quot;&gt;Cece&lt;/a&gt;.

So sorry to hear that your children disconnected from you, that&#039;s really sad. It&#039;s awful that the church was responsible for pushing you &#038; your kids apart. I hope they will see the light and reunite with you, hopefully very soon. - T.J.]]></description>
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<p>So sorry to hear that your children disconnected from you, that&#8217;s really sad. It&#8217;s awful that the church was responsible for pushing you &amp; your kids apart. I hope they will see the light and reunite with you, hopefully very soon. &#8211; T.J.</p>
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