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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 Hole: A List of Prisoners

April 23, 2019 By Mike Rinder 101 Comments

There has been plenty of commentary about "The Hole" since it was first disclosed by Joe Childs and Tom Tobin in the St Petersburg Times in 2009, and again famously featured in Lawrence Wright's Going Clear book and Alex Gibney's HBO film based on the book. Scientology has asserted the Hole "does not exist and never has." But the numerous people who have witnessed it first hand and spoken about it have, to any objective observer, put scientology's denials to the sword. Miscavige even had a sign made and hung on the outside of the building to identify it clearly as "The Hole." (Where he got … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Int Base Tagged With: Alex Gibney, David Miscavige, Going Clear, Int Base, Joe Childs, Mike Rinder, The Hole, Tom Tobin

Scientology, Lying and the FBI

May 15, 2017 By Mike Rinder 76 Comments

Recent articles at Tony Ortega's blog and the Tampa Bay Times recount the stillborn scientology FBI investigation based on FOI documents obtained by RadarOnline. There is not much else to say about the investigation itself, it has been covered at length by Tony Ortega, the Tampa Bay Times and Lawrence Wright, first in his New Yorker article then more extensively in Going Clear.   What is interesting is to look back at how scientology responded when asked about the investigation in earlier years. A number of people who had been interviewed by the FBI (including me) had confirmed that an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal, Scientology Tagged With: Civil Rights Division, David Miscavige, FBI, Joe Childs, Karin Pouw, Larry Wright, Marty Rathbun, Mary Carter Andrues, New Yorker, public relations, tampa bay times, Tom Tobin, Tony Ortega, US attorney

Scientology: “You Are Being Watched 24/7”

March 10, 2015 By Mike Rinder 117 Comments

In light of recent events, I thought it might be appropriate to repost a couple of videos. These were originally posted on Marty Rathbun's blog in December 2012. They are pretty self-explanatory. The first two show one of the earlier iterations of "you are being watched 24/7" video surveillance the church set up on my house. I realized this was the case when I received an "anonymous" letter warning me not to talk to my neighbor -- which was a sort of "WTF?" moment where I asked myself "How does anyone know I spoke to my neighbor"? From there, it was not hard to figure out where the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Harrassment, Scientology Tagged With: bird house camera, d-line, Dave Richards, David Miscavige, Dead Agent, HBO, Heather McAdoo, Joe Childs, Marty Rathbun, public relations, Robert Almblad, Scientology, Sotheby's, taking my garbage, tampa bay times

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We are going to be responding to some listener questions on the #FairGamepodcast soon. You can now RECORD your questions here: https://fairgamepodcast.com/submit-your-question/
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Great take! It would be the most dangerous thing he ever did…

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The only stunt I want to see this man perform is speaking out publicly against Scientology.

It would quite literally be the most dangerous thing he could ever do, far more so than these so-called "dangerous" stunts where his life was NOT really on the line at all. https://twitter.com/BritishGQ/status/1557314444392292352

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Did you think Scientology scared us away?

Not a chance…the Fair Game podcast is back!

@MikeRinder and I will continue to hold Scientology accountable for its abuses.

Check-out our latest trailer and subscribe to the Fair Game podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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