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“Unemployed Blogger” Dominating Scientology

December 13, 2020 By Mike Rinder 78 Comments

The huge, international scientology organization is at the mercy of an “unemployed blogger.” STAND League flounders as they are pressured to "handle" him. These are the real (if unspoken) headlines for STAND League’s latest attempted smear on Tony Ortega. To be fair, I will give them a point for using a decent photo of him. Not their usual style. But that is the only thing worth noting that is not a terrible lie.   Obviously, Fast Eddie and his minions have gotten some heat from David Miscavige to "get effective" shutting down Tony Ortega. They have failed for more than a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Tagged With: Bari Berger, David Miscavige, Ed Parkin, Eddie Parkin, STAAD League, STAND League, Tony Ortega

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

October 17, 2020 By Mike Rinder 35 Comments

Scientology recently tweeted this attack on Tony Ortega. Not sure why, they didn't write a new article. They just regurgitate the same old stuff. But they felt the need to "Dead Agent" him newly, probably because he has put out all the Black Ops videos... What is interesting about this is that they claim Tony Ortega is not an expert on scientology and thus is unqualified to comment on the subject. A couple of points to note. First, for supposed champions of "free speech," this is very hypocritical. One can only speak if you are an "expert"? Then how does Ed Parkin comment on a journalist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Mike Rinder, STAND League, Tony Ortega

Scientology and the Communist Witch-hunt

September 30, 2020 By Mike Rinder 56 Comments

For some unknown reason, the STAND twitter account recently put up a new tweet accusing The Hollywood Reporter of a "history of forwarding hate. In the 1940s and 50s, the publication was part and parcel of fomenting the anti-Communist campaign in Hollywood..."   If you click on the link it goes to a page on the STAND site that is a letter of complaint about an article in the THR from 2017 (they don't seem to have a whole lot of new material): It is so typically scientology -- they don't like something they said, so they launch into an attack over something that happened 70 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: communism, Ed Parkin, Hollywood Reporter, L. Ron Hubbard, Muckrock, STAND League, THR

Scientology Spokesman Trashes David Miscavige

September 23, 2020 By Mike Rinder 74 Comments

Over the past 2 years, there is only one recognized person who speaks on behalf of scientology: Marty Rathbun. The two other recognizable "spokespeople" are never heard from -- Ed Parkin sends out a stream of tweets and Karin Pouw's name is affixed to the routine letters sent to the media written by others. They are never actually seen speaking. These 3 are the troika of scientology spokespeople today. Monique Yingling seems to have gone into retirement. Tommy Davis blew. Heber Jentzsch is disappeared. Even Bob Adams and Linda Simmons-Hight have vanished. And the other people who speak in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Public Relations Tagged With: David Miscavige, Dean Blehert, Ed Parkin, Karin Pouw, Leah Remini, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, STAND League

They Cannot Get Over It

September 20, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

Ed Parkin (and his Dear Leader, David Miscavige) continue to be obsessed about A&E. Not content that The Aftermath completed its 3 season run more than a year ago, they are operating on the Hubbard dictum "I never forget, I always even the score" and continue, once a week on average, to write editorials demanding the entire A&E network be exterminated. They literally want to cost every A&E employee their job, also pursuant to the dictates of Hubbard. Everyone who works at A&E is an "enemy" because they are connected to The Aftermath, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder. Why does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: A&E, Disney, Ed Parkin, Hulu, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Martin Landon, Mike Rinder, STAND League, The Aftermath

“Portrait of a True Leader: David Miscavige”

September 12, 2020 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

  Fast Eddie Parkin put out a beauty of a brown-noser tweet a few days ago. Even by Eddie's low standards, this one was exceptional. His 60,000+ "followers" managed to put together 4 "likes" and 8 of the 10 comments were, to put it kindly, not complimentary of the COB. Then I clicked on the article. OMFG. It runs the gamut of obsequiousness that would be embarrassing for anyone other than a dyed-in-the-wool sociopath. I am not going to rehash it here, I will simply excerpt the fawning descriptions of the great man by one Joel Anderson (someone who may have shaken hands … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: David Miscavige, Ed Parkin, Joel Anderson, STAND League

Episode 5: The History of Fair Game

August 25, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

  In this week's episode, Leah and I discuss the history of Fair Game and the ongoing Fair Game efforts against us. As always, I include a link here to my "summary of Fair Game" entitled: Dealing with Critics of Scientology - The L. Ron Hubbard Playbook. If you have not read this before and have an interest in this subject, I recommend starting with this. Honestly, this is one of the most important episodes of this podcast. It is not disclosing "new' information, but even seasoned scientology watchers and former scientologists will learn things they likely did not know. Few have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: Andrew RInder, Art Linson, BBC Panorama, Benjamin Rinder, Cathy Bernardini, Cathy Rinder, Danny Masterson, Dave Bloomberg, Ed Parkin, Gretchen Carlson, Guillaume Lesevre, Jackie Lacey, jenny linson, Joe Childs, John Linson, john sweeney, Justice 4 Mom, Leah Remini, Marc Yager, Mary Sue Hubbard, Michael Meisner, Mike Rinder, Paul Marrick, private investigators, Sarah Mole, Stacy Francis, STAND League, Sue Wilhere, Taryn Rinder, Taryn Teutsch, Tom DeVocht, Tom Tobin, Truth Rundown

The Hypocrisy of Scientology Knows No Bounds

August 13, 2020 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

Once again, scientology demonstrates "do as I say, not as I do" -- following the well-trod path of founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Here again we see the so-called "Stand League" (I prefer to call it by its true acronym, STAAD -- "scientologists taking action against discrimination") railing against anti-Semitism in one of their recent blog posts. This is their attempt to present themselves as champions of religious freedom and speech by taking a sure-to-gain-agreement stance that anti-Semitism is to be deplored. How brave. How noble. Old Martin Landon has really gone out on a limb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups, Human rights, Nation of Islam Tagged With: anti-Semitism, Ed Parkin, Martin Landon, Nation of Islam, noi, Propaganda, STAND League, Tony Muhammad

STAND is Woke

July 30, 2020 By Mike Rinder 46 Comments

OK, so a little more from our friends at the STAND League. The "Reverend" Ed Parkin has some vetted and cleared "volunteers" who write things for him and they put them on their STAND League blog. It is pretty much inevitable that every item somehow worms its way to rail against Leah Remini (and often me). No matter what piece of news or view they are expressing, somehow all roads lead to Remini and Rinder. This is one of their latest pieces. And I comment on a few notably ironies within it. It doesn't matter who Liv Watson is. All OSA flunkies are the same. They might sometimes write … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Public Relations Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Leah Remini, Liv Watson, Louis Farrakhan, Mike Rinder, noi, STAND League, Tony Muhammad, Twitter

Let the Scientology Fair Game Begin

July 29, 2020 By Mike Rinder 58 Comments

I mentioned in my post on Sunday that I would let Leah respond to the latest bs about her from Ed Parkin. He should know by now not to poke the bear. Here is what Leah has to say. As only Leah can say it.   Scientology uses a practice called Fair Game, these are directives and activities that seek to discredit and destroy anyone and anything Scientology considers a threat to their vile, illegal, and criminal practices. The practice of Fair Game by Scientology, its employees and parishioners is nothing new. It has gone on for decades. Here are some of the “Operations” carried … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Tagged With: Alex Gibney, Anderson Cooper, Danny Masterson, David Miscavige, Dead Agent, Dead Agenting, Ed Parkin, fair game, Freedom Magazine, Guardian's Office, Heber Jentzsch, Jesse Prince, Karin Pouw, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Feuer, Mike Rinder, OSA, Psychology Today, STAND League, Twitter, Vicki Aznaran

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