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The “Warmth and Friendliness” of David Miscavige

August 24, 2022 By Mike Rinder 38 Comments

This showed up yesterday. Wonder why? Almost certainly it's the result of Miscavige having a hissy fit about the imminent release of my book, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology I've seen it many times -- Miscavige screaming at his underlings that he is "being attacked" and "nobody ever does anything to protect him." (Add some expletives of course) They frantically rush off to "do something" and a pathetic press release like this results. No doubt there will be other "handlings" -- more articles on the STAAD website, more nasty tweets from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: David Miscavige, Patheos, STAAD, Vince Hurley

Scientology Inciting Murder? STAAD League Suddenly Silent

March 9, 2019 By Mike Rinder 50 Comments

The hypocrisy of the OSA Front group STAAD is astonishing. Remember when Fast Eddie Parkin and the STAAD League made an enormous deal out of the false story that someone who committed a murder at their Advanced Org in Sydney was "incited" to do so because he had read a website that had a link to an Aftermath show. He claimed repeatedly that Leah Remini and Mike Rinder had "incited a murder" along with "hundreds of other incidents and threats." This of course was a completely manufactured accusation. The alleged murdered has NOT claimed ANY motivation for committing the crime, let alone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Interviews, Scientology Tagged With: bryan seymour, Ed Parkin, Karin Pouw, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, murder, STAAD, STAND League

Fast Eddie Parkin Strikes Out Again

December 17, 2018 By Mike Rinder 100 Comments

Leader of the STAAD League and Westworld extra hopeful "Fast Eddie" Parkin has dropped another foot-nuke in his desperation to smear Leah Remini and me. In late November we aired an episode about the Jehovah's Witnesses. In mid-December an arsonist burned down a Kingdom Hall in Washington State. Ever fast on the draw, Eddie got busy on Twitter, posing the not-so-subtle question whether this could be the latest "A&E and Leah Remini product"? It seems even Fast Eddie was a little worried about what he was saying -- it's an old trick to accuse by posing a question, like if I asked "Does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology, The Aftermath Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, public relations, Scientology, STAAD, STAND League, The Aftermath

Disney — Fire Them You Hypocrites

October 20, 2018 By Mike Rinder 67 Comments

Here is something from the STAAD website decrying hypocrisy. It's almost like this was written for a TV satire -- The Office or Veep. The character who is a horrible racist files a complaint with HR over an alleged slight on him that he interprets as racially motivated because he has a complete misunderstanding of the term that is used. Scientologist Stacy Sass is complaining so bitterly of "hypocrisy" yet she is part of an organization that embodies the very definition she quotes: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Aftermath Tagged With: Disney, Leah Remini, public relations, Scientology, STAAD, STAND League, The Aftermath

Ebony Awakening

March 13, 2018 By Mike Rinder 86 Comments

Scientology is desperate. And the most desperate of them all is the Freewinds. Trying anything to get people to the home of OT VIII, whether they are ready for OT VIII or not. One of those only comes along every few weeks, hardly enough to keep 200 SO members busy, so they have to come up with other ideas to get people to come to the Freewinds to hand over their money. And what better idea could there be than an "Ebony Awakening" convention? Scientology is notoriously white. But in recent times it has used Alfraudie Johnson to cozy up to the Nation of Islam, even going so far as to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nation of Islam Tagged With: Freewinds, fundraising, Nation of Islam, noi, STAAD, STAND League, Tony Muhammad

David Miscavige Leader of Men

January 31, 2018 By Mike Rinder 143 Comments

Of course, though the STAAD League blocked me from seeing their tweets (though I am the subject of a lot of them...) people send me some of their drivel every now and then. This one came in a little while ago. If you looked up "brown-nosing" in the dictionary you might well find this tweet presented as an example. "Mr." David Miscavige (nobody DARE refer to him as merely "David Miscavige" or heaven forbid, "David" or perish the thought, "Dave") has apparently marked many wayposts on the path to peace (like a dog peeing on a fire hydrant?) and somehow they "pointed" to a better … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: David Miscavige, Ed Parkin, golden age of tech, IAS, public relations, Scientology, STAAD

Scientology’s STAND (STAAD) Front Group

December 17, 2017 By Mike Rinder 54 Comments

The mighty STAND (STAAD) League pretends to be a group of "concerned scientologists" who "stand up for religious freedom." In fact, they are an Office of Special Affairs front group consisting of selected individuals (many of them are ex-SO/staff/GO like the example below) cleared by OSA who are given direction and authorization to participate in attempts to smear those exposing scientology. The International Director of STAAD is Ed Parkin. He has been in PR OSA Int for more than 20 years. He dishes out commendations to the chosen ones (lots of good these commendations will do them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, STAND League Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Office of Special Affairs, OSA, public relations, STAAD, STAND League

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