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Taryn Kelly Rinder

January 22, 2023 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

My daughter, Taryn, was born on 22 January 1978. Today she turns 45. I thought I would take the opportunity to reprint the letter addressed to her and her brother at the start of A Billion Years. And also to put some photos of her here. As you may know if you read my book, after I escaped in 2007 my personal belongings were sent to me, without ANY of my photos or anything that memorialized my life in the Sea Org. Since then, scientology has spent inordinate amounts of money creating internet hate sites about me, many focused around my children and ex-wife. They have used some of my photos … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kids Tagged With: Barbara Rinder, Benjamin Rinder, Cathy Rinder, Ian Rinder, Taryn Rinder, Taryn Teutsch

STAND League Outrage: Blocked on Social Media

November 28, 2022 By Mike Rinder 19 Comments

  Scientology hypocrisy on display for the world once again. Now they are whining about someone blocking their hate tweets! In this piece they attack Rick Caruso's campaign manager because an ad "outraged tens of thousands of scientologists across the city" (they couldn't gather tens of thousands of scientologists across the entire country at this point). And then he blocked some of them who called him a bigot: Shocked Scientologists took to Twitter demanding to know if the Caruso campaign approved of its manager blocking constituents after they called out his bigotry against … [Read more...]

Filed Under: STAND League Tagged With: Ace Smith, Rick Caruso, STAND League, Taryn Teutsch

A Billion Years Event: Scientology is Losing Its Mind

November 27, 2022 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

On Wednesday November 30th I am doing an event at the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Marci Hamilton. This is causing great consternation in the hallways of OSA/Stand League. They tweeted about it using my daughter's account and even created a new video where she whines how she just got a "copy and paste" reply to her form-letter complaint to UPenn. Seriously, only scientology could come up with something like this -- a whineTweet for Thanksgiving. I thought Thanksgiving was supposed to be a day when you remember what you are thankful for, not an excuse to circulate the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Billion Years, ChildUSA Tagged With: A Billion Years, Child USA, Danny Masterson, Jeffrey Augustine, Marci Hamilton, MeToo, Mike Rinder, Taryn Teutsch, University of Pennsylvania

No Justice for Paul Haggis

June 3, 2021 By Mike Rinder 44 Comments

This recent article in Variety makes my blood boil. While scientology has continued to support and protect Danny Masterson, who has been trying to avoid his day of reckoning in court at all costs, Paul Haggis, who they have accused of being a "rapist" has been trying desperately to get INTO court to clear his name. Masterson is being criminally prosecuted, in addition to the civil case filed by his victims. Paul Haggis has never been criminally charged -- or even investigated. Unlike Masterson's victims, Paul's accuser  did NOT go to law enforcement, Paul did. He asked them to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Danny Masterson, Fair Game Tagged With: Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, Danny Masterson, Denim Day, Justice4Mom, paul haggis, Taryn Teutsch, Variety

Episode 39: Former A&E Executive Devon Graham Hammonds

May 3, 2021 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

This week we talk with our guardian angel at A&E, Devon Graham Hammonds. Devon was VP Programming (she has since moved on and is now an executive at the production company that produced the show) and oversaw The Aftermath show in every respect. We talk about how the show came to be with a lot of behind-the-scenes glimpses into what it was like to make The Aftermath -- including the Fair Gaming of everyone concerned and the challenges the network and production company and everyone who worked on the show faced. We also cover why the show ended (it was not, as scientology crowed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: A&E, Devon Graham Hammonds, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, IPC, Leah Remini, Scientology And The Aftermath, Taryn Teutsch

Episode 34: Journalist and Author John Sweeney

March 29, 2021 By Mike Rinder 47 Comments

Our friend and scientology nemesis, journalist, author and podcaster John Sweeney, joins us this week. John was for many years a correspondent for the original TV investigative magazine show, Panorama.  He did a program about scientology for Panorama in 2007, where I was one of the "handlers" on behalf of scientology. It was a catalyst for me leaving -- I was in London defending scientology and Miscavige from the "chaos merchants" at the BBC.  After I had left, I did a second Panorama show with John explaining some of the things that had happened in that first program. We had a lot to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: BBC, Cathy Bernardini, David Miscavige, Fair Game Podcast, Hunting Ghislaine, john sweeney, Justice4Mom, Leah Remini, media, Mike Rinder, Panorama, Pinellas County Sheriff Report, podcast, Scientology and Me, SHeriff Report, Taryn Teutsch, The Church of Fear, The Secrets of Scientology, Tommy Davis

Twitter Cracks Down on #ScnPsychoTerror

February 4, 2021 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Thanks to some excellent and diligent work by friends on Twitter, led by the formidable Stefani Hutchison, two of the primary scientology psychoterror accounts have been suspended and the first "Stand League" account also. If you missed my post of yesterday concerning scientology psychological terrorism, please read it. One prong of scientology terrorism campaigns has been to abuse social media and the internet with endless lies about people they target. Scientology has the ability to devote huge amounts of tax-free money and free labor resources into creating an overwhelming volume of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Scientology, STAND League Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Freedom Media Ethics, psychological terrorism, psychoterrorism, STAND League, Stefani Hutchison, Taryn Teutsch, Twitter

Episode 19: Christie Collbran Rinder

December 7, 2020 By Mike Rinder 53 Comments

  This week Leah and I speak with my wife, Christie. I will add the link as soon as it is live. While there is always a lot of interest in me, Christie has her own story. She is much more than simply my other half. Her entire immediate family, just like mine, disconnected from her when she began to question things and tried to communicate this to them. When our son, Jack, was 6 months old we visited LA and tried to see Christie's parents to introduce them to their grandson. Her mother was sent away to the Freewinds. Her father, who I have never met, is a former pro-linebacker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Bert Leahy, Christie Collbran, Christie Rinder, Cierra Westerman, Dave Lubow, Dwayne Powell, fair game, Freedom Magazine, Heather McAdoo, Jim Lynch, Justice4Mom, Marty Rathbun, Netflix, Taryn Teutsch, The Aftedrmath

The Dark Triad

August 31, 2020 By Mike Rinder 60 Comments

Frequent commenter Mike Westen has written a follow up article on his blog to his earlier Scientology and Status, entitled The Dark Triad. With his permission I am republishing it in its entirety here:   This is a follow up to my previous article, Scientology and Status. virtue signalling noun [U] UK (US virtue signaling) /ˈvɜː.tʃuː ˌsɪɡ.nəl.ɪŋ/ An attempt to show other people that you are a good person, for example by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them, especially on social media — Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus To take a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Cathy Rinder, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, Mike Rinder, Mike Westen, Taryn Teutsch

An Interview with Leah Remini

August 29, 2020 By Mike Rinder 27 Comments

If you didnt see this on my social media yesterday, I recommend you read this piece in AwardsCircuit.com about The Aftermath. It is pegged to the Emmy nomination for the finale that aired last year (the result will be announced on Monday 14 Sept). Leah talks about the Danny Masterson case and why we didn't air the initial episode we shot. She also discusses the Me Too movement and scientology, the STAND League, scientology tax exempt status and much more. Give it a read.         … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Interviews Tagged With: Danny Masterson, Emmy, Leah Remini, STAND League, Taryn Teutsch, Tax Exemption, The Aftermath

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