See statement on Aftermath Fdn website

Right on everything, Loosing, which is why that billboard is a brilliant ploy!

That bla5ck lift appears to be a Wide Electric Model, 26′ Tall. In LA it rents for $132 per Day, $330 per Week, and $667 per Month – and about $8000 per year.

The blue lift appears to be an Electric 34′ Articulating Boom Lift. Rental in LA costs $252 per Day, $698 per Week, $1,696 per Month, and a whopping $20,000 per Year.

That Aftermath sign is contracted for one year. It will cost Scientology the equivalent of $28,000 per year to keep those two expensive pieces of construction and maintenance equipment in place. It is a futile attempt to prevent their members from even seeing such a simple message and easy-to-remember phone number.

All the billboard does is suggest that help is available for those wanting to leave Scientology, an organization described by the United States Supreme Court not as a church but rather as a “fee-for-services business.”

By trying to prevent Aftermath’s message from being seen by their membership, they are simply confirming that Scientology is a high-control cult, going to great expense to restrict their members access to information, proving again that Scientology DOES NOT want members to think for themselves.

p.s. Those two lifts and what they attempt to do are spreading the Aftermath’s message of hope and help to a far wider audience than a single sign alone could ever have done. I wish to thank David Miscavige and Scientology for providing such a huge increase in exposure of the sign, and at no cost to the Aftermath Foundation. Instead of a modest local impact, Scientology has boosted the sign’s exposure into an international incident, a staggering increase in eyeballs on the sign, more than they could possibly have calculated on their 50s era slide rules.

The indentured workers in the Sea Org are growing older with recruiting at an all-time low. Ever wondered why COB talks about square feet and not membership numbers? Scientology’s membership has declined drastically to a currently estimated 20,000 worldwide.

And in that context OSA simply does not have enough in-house resources any more to watch all socalled enemy websites and channels. They most likely outsourced a lot of it to what they consider trustworthy OTs.

And that is why you are here, reading and summarizing Mike’s blog. Hi there! You’re not the first and probably won’t be the last. 24 years ago it was Tory. Check out the details of her story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_Christman

I now invite you to call the Aftermath Foundation. One thing you should have noticed is that Mike and the Foundation will not disclose your identity so it’s safe to pick up the phone.

I tend to wonder how the cult is going to explain this to their staff at a muster. So I took a dive into the cult thinking and I suppose they could tell the staff it’s a trap by the evil psychs to trick SO members and cult members into promising them help but it’s just a plot to destroy Scn.

Scn will try to convince members that calling that number will lead to the psychs giving them electric shock therapy. Some members will buy the lie, and others will call the number. Thanks so much for doing this.

This is 2024, people see right through 1950ties manipulation. Problem for sucio is that policy was created, in another world, another reality. Kind regards Kim

We must understand that Scientology isn’t a religion. We must understand that Scientology is a con game invented by L. Ron Hubbard. We must understand that outside of the Collectivist movement L. Ron Hubbard was one of most vile men who ever lived. Bad people often believe they’re good people. We saw this with the harassment of Paulette Cooper. If the United States had a real government Scientology would be treated as the criminal organization it actually is.

Scientology will eventually become extinct. L. Ron Hubbard didn’t design Scientology to outlast him. L. Ron Hubbard was wrong about a lot of things. My first paying job in the private sector was a part time janitorial position at two candy shops in downtown Minneapolis. Both candy shops had picture windows, Hubbard’s method of cleaning windows was NEVER used.