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Don Jason is an apostate who left his position as volunteer staff in 1996 quite suddenly, before it could be discovered that he had been stealing from his wife and his church.
Jason revealed these facts himself, several months later, when Church officials offered him a chance to come clean about his transgressions and still remain a Scientologist. In a public statement, Jason revealed for the first time that he had a long history of criminality, dating back to before he became a Scientologist. He admitted that he intentionally withheld that part of his personal history from fellow Church members, because he knew it would disqualify him for admission into the Church’s religious order, The Sea Organization, which demands a very high level of ethical conduct.
Recently, Jason has taken to fabricating lies about his former religion, apparently as part of yet another unethical money-making scheme. But the following excerpts from his 1997 public statement make it clear that Don Jason is a life-long thief, who is no more trustworthy now than he was when he was a teenager who robbed bars.
This is Don Jason, in his own words:
“In the years prior to my Scientology involvement I was addicted to drugs. I regularly stole and cheated others to support this habit to the point where these dishonest acts became a way of life. In fact, I robbed a number of bars when I was a teenager….
“My sister and brother-in-law - - Scientologists, worked to help me get off drugs and to change my way of life.
“Although I had many improvements with the Scientology I did apply, I continued to commit various criminal acts.
“I knew that this philosophy could save me from certain death as a drug addict and criminal.
“I heard of the religious order called the Sea Org and that its members maintained a higher ethics level, higher than any other and I joined this organization.
“I withheld my background from the Sea Org as this would have disqualified me from employment.
“I was joining this group as I knew that they would not permit me to continue my dishonest ways.
“This clean ethical environment of the Sea Org improved, beyond compare, my life.
“However, having joined under false pretense [sic], and not being there on the same terms of [sic] the other group members I covertly continued to engage in criminal activity.”
Jason goes on to state that, over a period of years, he stole approximately $4,000. of Church property; misspent his wife’s money to the point where he felt “morally accountable to her for $25,000″ engaged in promiscuous activity, and then took another $2,500 from his wife after cheating on her with another woman.
Jason goes on to list numerous other transgressions committed against his church and fellow church members, revealing a life-long pattern of deceiving others that he has not yet found the courage to change.
Until 1995, Bruce Hines was a member of the Church of Scientology.
Hines supports the cyber hate group, Anonymous. Anonymous has been the subject of numerous investigations for engaging in hate crimes targeting the Scientology religion, its leaders, members and Churches through death and bomb threats and arson threats as well as engaging in serious cyber-crimes intended to disrupt and damage the Church. Most recently, a member of Anonymous from New Jersey was sentenced to over a year in federal prison and ordered to pay $37,500 in restitution to the Church for his part in an attempt to destroy the Church’s website.
While in the Church Hines held various posts including auditor. Hines repeatedly violated the Auditor’s Code as well as the technical procedures of the core religious practice of the Scientology religion—auditing.
In February 1995, Hines violated one of the most fundamental clauses in the Auditor’s Code:
“I promise not to permit sexual liberties…”
Violating this moral precept is universally regarded as a despicable and heinous act, not only within the Scientology religion but in virtually any faith. A parishioner whom Hines was ministering reported that he had made an inappropriate sexual advance towards her. This resulted in Hines’ immediate removal from his ministerial position.
Hines was also found to have falsified reports as an auditor, a severe breach of the Scientology Ethics Codes, which results in immediate expulsion from the Scientology religion.
A subsequent investigation uncovered Hines’ pattern of voyeurism and exhibitionism.
In 2001, Hines wrote a 13-page public announcement in which he detailed the Suppressive Acts he had committed. These included lying in his own auditing, lying about his auditing of others, alterations of standard auditing procedures and sexually inappropriate behavior while auditing women, all of which he covered up with lies. Lying was a constant unchanging pattern with Hines.
In Hines’ own words:
“I had committed sexual perversions (exhibitionism and voyeurism) over the previous 2 ½ years… I withheld them.”
“I seduced and then stole another’s wife resulting in severe disrepute for Scientology, which was a suppressive act.”
Hines has claimed in the media that his wife was “forced to divorce him.”
However, Hines’ former wife says that it was her discovering unacceptable activities Bruce was involved in, that brought about her decision to divorce him. It had noting to do with the Church.
Hines’ former wife states:
“Bruce has been involved in severe sexual perversions for a very long time, and after we were married…he told me some of his sexual escapades that occurred before we were married. When he communicated these instances, he expressed them as if this sexual perversion was no longer a problem, lying to me from the start.
“One specific instance Bruce told me about was some shop across the street from where he lived. A girl worked there and he knew when she would be leaving the shop at the end of the day. He would open the curtains in his apartment, stand on a chair naked and hope that she would see him. Bruce told me he did this many times….
“Bruce has now apparently tried to put himself forward as some expert of Scientology, but it’s pretty obvious that he would do or say anything to cover up his crimes. It is very hard to believe that his perverted behavior has stopped after all these years. And he knows that his exhibitionism and peeking through peoples’ windows will get him into jail one day and labeled as a sex offender.”
Michelle Sterling alliance with hate group to destroy Free Speech on the Internet
Recent information received by Religious Freedom Watch shows that Michelle Anne Sterling, from Melbourne Australia, conspired with the cyber-hate group Anonymous to DDoS Religious Freedom Watch.
Michelle Sterling and Anonymous succeeded to take RFW down for several days. She also participated in the DDoS attack of the official Scientology site.
Michelle Sterling is known to frequent hate chat rooms using the moniker “emmma”.
The chat log below unequivocally shows Michelle Sterling inciting Anonymous to commit a criminal act, while telling them that officially she will not be supporting them. Sterling then persuades Anonymous to hit Religious Freedom Watch offering her help to do so.
Anonymous then executed the DDoS attack and brought down Religious Freedom Watch.
Sterling’s IP addresses, and that of her criminal cohorts, were recorded during the DDoS attack and the information is being turned over to law enforcement.
Religious Freedom Watch investigates and exposes individuals who breed racism and anti-religious intolerance through hate speech. If you have information regarding Michelle Sterling please contact us.
From chat sessions between Michelle Sterling (emmma) and Anonymous:
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:02] * Joins: emmma`` (exscn@desu-14232769.chirn1.vic.optusnet.com.au)
[Jan/22/08 - 04:02] <Croissantman> I am awesome
[Jan/22/08 - 04:02] <Croissantman> nuff said
[Jan/22/08 - 04:02] <Haywire> what is this silence?
[Jan/22/08 - 04:03] <ColonelCockslap> I need a status report
[Jan/22/08 - 04:03] <emmma“> hello anons
[Jan/22/08 - 04:03] <LamontCranston> uh oh, emmma“ sounds important
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] * Quits: torbjorn (torbjorn@desu-C7AEF41A.dsl.snantx.swbell.net) (Quit: torbjorn)
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <emmma“> not really
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <Croissantman> ahahaha
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <hinges> hi emmma“
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <Croissantman> http://youtube.com/watch?v=EFKaLfs68Sk
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <emmma“> hi hinges
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <LamontCranston> hey you’re in victoria emma, interested in IRL raid?
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <hinges> emmma“: don’t be afraid if I rape you
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <hinges> that’s just the nigger way
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <emmma“> i’m the webmaster at ESMB
[Jan/22/08 - 04:04] <James_P_Sylvan> TNB
[Jan/22/08 - 04:05] <hinges> I’m still gonna rape you 
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:10] <ruddkipz> emma you must help us
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:12] <emmma“> I’m all for you guys and what you are doing
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:15] <Freud> make the motherfuckers regret that they woke up this morning
[Jan/22/08 - 04:15] <emmma“> It’;s our intenrtion too
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:15] <Freud> emmma“ well you just got the most powerfull ally ont he intarweb
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:15] <ihatecrayons> but emmma“, if scientology starts harassing you, you know where to find us
[Jan/22/08 - 04:15] <emmma“> thanks guys
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[Jan/22/08 - 04:18] <emmma“> I just want you guyts to know that PUBLICALLY I can’t support you…
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[Jan/22/08 - 06:15] <emmma“> if there is website you guys should hit is that religious freedom watch site
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[Jan/22/08 - 06:18] <emmma“> if you took that down you’d be adored
[Jan/22/08 - 06:18] <Tigor> k
[Jan/22/08 - 06:18] <Tigor> back on the laptop
[Jan/22/08 - 06:19] <emmma“> I’d help with that one!
[Jan/22/08 - 06:19] <emmma“> what do i do?
[Jan/22/08 - 06:19] <Jon> i dont think its owned by scientology
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[Jan/22/08 - 06:19] <emmma“> It’s “owned” by Joel Phillips
[Jan/22/08 - 06:19] <UltraNigger> looks like a good target
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[Jan/22/08 - 06:20] * Anondelivers is now known as ElBaldo
[Jan/22/08 - 06:20] <ElBaldo> arrest me mtherfckers
[Jan/22/08 - 06:20] * []Kikkoman is now known as Advocate_of_Painful_Death
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[Jan/22/08 - 06:20] <emmma“> check the enrty on dave touretzky
[Jan/22/08 - 06:21] <Freud> reward5000@earthlink.net GOATSE THAT EMAIL!!!
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[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Anonz> Setting off Webclaw DDos. Forgot about that…
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Levo75> Jesus666
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Jesus666> yes
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Levo75> Are you well enough informed?
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Levo75> Do you have the ddos tools?
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Jesus666> yup
[Jan/22/08 - 10:23] <Jesus666> yeah lots of tools lol
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[Jan/22/08 - 11:57] <Splongcat> I’m preparing for a dDoS on the website.
[Jan/22/08 - 11:57] <Anondelivers> keep DDoSing scientologists
[Jan/22/08 - 11:57] <Anondelivers> we dont have time for all religions
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:07] <LOL_WUT> www.religiousfreedomwatch.org - DDoS nao
[Jan/22/08 - 12:07] <PatternKat> IN MY EYTES
[Jan/22/08 - 12:07] <hurpydurp> So, what is happening now, my children
[Jan/22/08 - 12:08] <Anonymoot> I’m using my neighbours wireless
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:08] <Splongcat> Attack is starting
[Jan/22/08 - 12:08] <Splongcat> Raid pack is ready
[Jan/22/08 - 12:08] <Splongcat> http://rapidshare.com/files/85780905/AIDS3.rar.html
[Jan/22/08 - 12:08] <Splongcat> Get it
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <jewlion> in b4 teh file is corrupted
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> Go for that. we’re nuking down the morans that think they can bounty us
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> http://rapidshare.com/files/85780905/AIDS3.rar.html
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> Go go go
[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> Destroy attack die
[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> Everyone
[Jan/22/08 - 12:09] <Splongcat> we dDoS now.
[Jan/22/08 - 12:10] <SuicideUnit3351> WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:11] <Splongcat> We attack now
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Freud> http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/media-newsroom/5000-reward/ its wodn1
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Testicles> aids on religiousfreedomwatch or scientology?
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <hinges> just attack
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Splongcat> Attack
[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Interwabs-hero> im attacking without a proxy anyway
[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Splongcat> NOW
[Jan/22/08 - 12:12] <Anonymoot> ALREADY DEAD?
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:13] <Interwabs-hero> we’re winning
[Jan/22/08 - 12:13] <Splongcat> Nuked.
[Jan/22/08 - 12:13] <LOL_WUT> www.religiousfreedomwatch.org is no moar
[Jan/22/08 - 12:13] <qwerty123> it must stay down
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:14] <Splongcat> This is the power of anonymous
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:14] <psyop> 100 people DDoSing a host when 70 suffices means that 30 DDoSers are going to waste
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:15] <qwerty123> we nuked them, WIN WIN WIN WIN
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:15] <Frankeh> RFW down already?! I lol’d.
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:15] <LOL_WUT> it’s down, no matter
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:16] <Coopsta> lol religuosfreedom took all of 30 secs to DDos
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:21] <html> The server at www.religiousfreedomwatch.org is taking too long to respond.
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:21] <Splongcat> Someone digg the fact we just nuked it down
[Jan/22/08 - 12:21] <Freud> we are on top
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:23] <Splongcat> “Anonymous nukes down the http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/media-newsroom/5000-reward/ website.”
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[Jan/22/08 - 12:24] <Frankeh> I’m just going to put this out there, but I don’t think we should advertise that we are taking out semi-innocent sites. I mean we want to keep the Diggers on our side. I just don’t think that will, no matter how cool it was, show us in our best light.
MIKE RINDER IN HIS OWN WORDS
You may be aware of recent statements to the press from Mike Rinder regarding his former religion and his tenure within Scientology’s religious order known as The Sea Organization. Religious Freedom Watch has obtained material from public statements made by Mike Rinder. These include public apologies and statements he made concerning actions he had taken while in the Church—statements he made when he was not trying to garner sensational headlines attacking his former religion. To address a predicted false accusation about this material, Religious Freedom Watch is assured (and it is obvious from the content to any knowledgeable person) that nothing contained here came from any confidential confessional material. All of it consists of words Rinder wanted his peers at the time he was still in the Church to know about what he had done.
“I’ve wanted COB to be involved in external flaps… This is a computation I have used on media and legal situations and it has resulted in me having COB involved in matters he shouldn’t have been.”
- Mike Rinder
“I emulated Marty… I thought he was the person I should act like—and I did. I became a clone of him but totally subservient to him in all respects—I never disagreed with him on anything and had tacit agreements with him that anything he did or said was ok.”
- Mike Rinder
“With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.”
- Mike Rinder
“[Name] was called over by Marty and attacked by Marty for not doing something. Marty beat him up and [name] was very shaken up… I didn’t have the courage to counter Marty and…It was a direct overt on [name].”
- Mike Rinder
“I doped off in a meeting with a reporter from Premier magazine. Marty and I were meeting with [name] from Premiere in the boardroom at the HGB. It was a long meeting and quite contentious. I was sitting on the other side of the table from [name] (same side as Marty). We were showing him a video and I started doping off. I am not sure if [name] noticed or not but it was terrible out PR.”
- Mike Rinder
“My stats suck. I have produced practically no VFPs in the last two years… I have become untrustworthy, I cannot be guaranteed to get something done if sent to do it. Thus, my value to the group is very small. I have it this way in an effort to avoid responsibility. I became an “expert” only in handling “legal” matters and those stats stink.”
- Mike Rinder
“… I was lazy. I took the course of least resistance and quickied things because I was unwilling to be responsible, while I pretended responsibility by “helping”.”
- Mike Rinder
“I have committed Suppressive Acts over an extended period of time. I have been off-Source and squirrel, violating Keeping Scientology Working, dramatizing self-importance, operating on service facs and evil purposes.”
- Mike Rinder
Mark Fisher is an apostate who appears to have abandoned his religion due to an inability to live up to any kind of moral or ethical code. Fisher also supports the cyber hate group, Anonymous. Anonymous has been the subject of numerous investigations for engaging in hate crimes targeting the religion, its leaders, members and Churches through death and bomb threats and arson threats as well as engaging in serious cyber-crimes designed to disrupt and damage the Church. Most recently, an Anonymous member in New Jersey was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $37,500 in restitution to the Church for his part in an attempt to destroy the Church’s website.
Fisher has sexual obsessions so severe that they appear to have cost him his savings and his livelihood as a mortgage broker.
Fisher apparently considers himself so unattractive that he found it necessary to squander his money on “sex trips” to Thailand, paying questionably-young bar girls to please him in ways he was unable to find at home in the U.S.
Fisher became so fixated that he established a (now defunct) website, bachelorfreedomtravel.com, where he boasted of his escapades. Below is a sampling of the kind of advice Fisher offered to other desperate sex-seekers:
“I here also is a bar called the -Kangaroo Bar. I his may sound like an Australian bar where you can get a cold beer, but trust me, the main attraction is the girls giving the men oral sex under their bar stools out in the open! (I told you Thailand is wild!)
“Thailand Tip - Always practice safe sex in Thailand!
“Thailand Tip - Be careful of the “ladyboys” known as “katoeys”. They look like some of the most beautiful women you have ever seen! Make sure you are with a real woman!
“The best part of the Safari (or any Go Go Bar) is the fact that you can take anyone of the girls home with you to your hotel for a night of fun! Unless you are rude and obnoxious, they will NEVER SAY NO!!!
“Choose your girl and then you will have to pay a “bar fine” of 500-600 baht ($14 - $17) to the bar in order to let the girl go home with you. This bar fine is supposed to compensate the bar for the lost income they would have gotten if the girl stayed and worked selling drinks
“Then it is off to your hotel or wherever you like Dancing? Drinking? Dinner? Whatever you like, but you always will end up at your hotel room, where she will do whatever you want in the bedroom. Be sure that you negotiate with the girl before you leave the bar to find out what she will do and also how much she will expect to be tipped.
“The going rate for a “short time” session (which is a few hours out on the town and in your hotel, but not sleeping over) is anywhere from 1,000 baht on the low end to 2,000 baht for a really superstar quality girl.
The going rate for a “long time” session (which is having the girl go out with you and spend the night in your hotel all night long) is between 2,000 baht on the low end to 3,500 baht on the high end.
“Remember, everything is negotiable! If you think the girl is asking too much, tell her you only have a little bit of money and offer it. She probably will take it.
“Then it is off to your night on the town. Remember when you take a girl out in Thailand, you are also expected to pay for everything - food, drinks, taxi’s etc. And it is also proper to give the girl an additional 100 baht for taxi fare when she heads home.
“Don’t forget. Always practice safe sex!! Most girls will demand that you wear a condom. Have your own with you. I have found that the Thai condoms are too small for Western men!! Bring your favorite brand from your home country. If you forget, buy some condoms at the pharmacies. The brand to get are Durex “Comfort”. These are larger sized condoms and are safe.
“But in Thailand, the Land of Smiles, you spend $60 to $75 dollars and are guaranteed action at the end of the night! And it will be service with a smile!!”
Fisher now makes ends meet as a taxi driver. No longer financially able to feed his obsession with sex tours of Asia, he now makes do trawling internet sex sites such as www.worldsexarchives.com.
Gary Morehead, once a “simple security guard”, as he put it, for the Church of Scientology, has recently made statements to the press regarding his former religion and his tenure within Scientology’s religious order known as The Sea Organization. Religious Freedom Watch presents the following information in rebuttal.
This information is drawn from public apologies and statements Morehead made concerning actions he took while in the employ of the Church - statements he made when he was not trying to garner sensational headlines attacking his former religion. Since we expect false accusations to be made about the source of this material, Religious Freedom Watch is assured that nothing contained here came from any confidential confessional material. All of the following statements were made freely by Morehead to his peers in order to inform them of what he had done.
What follows is Gary Morehead, in his own words:
“Although Sea Org members are required to maintain very high ethical standards, I have consistently failed to do so…. I have repeatedly attempted to make myself look better by making false reports to my supervisors and fellow staff regarding the quantity and the quality of my work…. I have stolen jewelry and other items that did not belong to me….I also stole a motorcycle part from another staff member…I took a valuable diamond ring that had been found and turned into security for safekeeping…I used it to pay for the repair of a car I had damaged…I had been informed that the ring had a value of $5,000 to $8,000, I used it to settle a repair bill for $2,000….”
“I have repeatedly attempted to make myself look better by making false reports to my supervisors and fellow staff regarding the quantity and the quality of my work….”
“I have, during my time on staff, consistently been lazy, sleeping or playing games when I was supposed to be working or studying….”
“….Such misconduct is a serious breach of the commitment I made upon joining the Sea Org and the trust that was place in me. I regard none of the forgoing as petty or excusable. Telling lies, stealing property and failing to meet my responsibilities are not the acts of an ethical person….”
“In all of my dealings with the Church, and my time in the Sea Org, I have observed that the Church has taken scrupulous pains to abide by the law and has demanded the same of its staff. I know that Church policy requires that all staff and parishioners abide by the law. I have not observed any illegal activities by Church staff and know that honesty, integrity and ethical conduct are emphasized at all times. When infractions, dishonesty or unethical conduct are found, I know from my own observations and experiences that the Church has taken appropriate actions to rectify the conduct and to help the individual at fault mend his ways….”
“I have always been and continue to be treated very well by the staff and have been well fed, have had plenty of food, rest, clothing, vitamins, medical care and anything else I needed.”
“…my position within [the Church] was quite junior at all times. I was not an executive…. I could never be honestly described as “a high-ranking Scientologist” or a “key insider” or anything like that. I am not and have never have been [sic] an officer or director in any Scientology entity or corporation…. I wasted the numerous opportunities that I had to obtain religious training and counseling and, consequently, I have very little actual knowledge of Dianetics, Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Church structure or management. I was a simple security guard.”
MARK “MARTY” RATHBUN IN HIS OWN WORDS
You may be aware of recent statements to the press from Mark Rathbun regarding his former religion and his tenure within Scientology’s religious order known as The Sea Organization. Religious Freedom Watch presents the following information in rebuttal.
One fact Rathbun has not been able to escape is his clear statement to the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 that totally refutes his present allegations. The statement also shows that Rathbun is merely echoing old, stale allegations he himself refuted more than a decade ago. Readers will likely recall this exchange from the October 25, 1998 St. Petersburg Times:
In sworn declarations used in several anti-Scientology lawsuits, Miscavige also has been accused of ordering the shredding of documents sought by the IRS and the courts, ordering attacks of church enemies, and striking subordinates.
Miscavige’s top lieutenant, Marty Rathbun, said the courts and the IRS got every document they requested. He also said he has never known Miscavige in 20 years to hit anyone. “That’s not his temperament,” Rathbun said. “He’s got enough personal horsepower that he doesn’t need to resort to things like that.”
Rathbun’s response when challenged on this statement was that he lied. Religious Freedom Watch accepts his admission he is a liar. We question, though, what he is lying about and submit he is lying now, that his previous statement was true, and that his current outlandish allegations are fiction.
Religious Freedom Watch has obtained material from public statements made by Marty Rathbun to illustrate this point. These include public apologies and statements he made concerning actions he had taken while in the Church—statements he made when he was not trying to garner sensational headlines attacking his former religion. To address a predicted false accusation about this material, Religious Freedom Watch is assured (and it is obvious from the content to any knowledgeable person) that nothing contained here came from any confidential confessional material. All of it consists of words Rathbun wanted his peers at the time he was still in the Church to know about what he had done.
“I am writing this public announcement to inform executives and staff that I have come to my senses and I am no longer committing present time overts and have ceased all attacks and suppressions on Scientology. I am applying Steps A-E of HCO PL Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists because my continuous actions over the past two decades have suppressed Scientology dissemination and the purposes of this base. It has been carefully masked by a façade of being important or working on important things. It is all the more insidious because that “importance” has been by association with COB.
“I instigated a pattern of operation that is 180 degrees opposite to the purpose of orgs, this base, and ethics and justice. By enforcing parts of this pattern on others by order or example, I have driven in the following pattern:
- Hear of a bugged production area. Bypass all seniors and base HCOs, and find a target. Interrogate the individual for personal out ethics and bad intentions.
- Write up a report that contains lurid details, making the target out to be an incorrigible threat. Write it in such a way that some senior or HCO terminal feels compelled to take the target off post or tell the person myself he is busted.
- Write the report in such a way to justify my existence by proving the base is dangerous and requires my “services.”
- Do nothing to get the target replaced. Do nothing to get out the product that the target was not getting produced.
“The end result is unmocked org form, overworked and enturbulated executives and staff, bad news about the intentions and activities of staff members, lowering production and morale; and the creation of “threats” to justify my own existence and suppressive operating basis.
“This suppressive operating basis was employed to try to maintain the false impression that I have some other production record externally that warrants me maintaining a high position. In fact, this is a fraud I have perpetrated. On external lines my operation is the same – it is consists of the S.P. characteristic of only restimulating and never destimulating. That is, when there is a threatening situation or suit, I get the OSA staff and attorneys wound up toward “destroying the threat.” This has resulted in some very expensive situations becoming much bigger than they were and winding up on COB’s plate to terminatedly handle. Each and every time on major situations, COB has had to intervene to clean up wars I had exacerbated. For example, left to my own devices in handling IRS litigation, the end result would undoubtedly have been no exemption, a billion dollar tax bill, and possible shutting down of the Church. I have developed a slick false PR technique of positioning myself as having been integral in handling threats during and after the fact, when they are actually terminatedly handled by COB. By calculation I have lost the Church 43 million dollars on losses and expenses that could have been avoided.
“By perpetuating these operations internally and externally, the worst suppression has been visited upon COB RTC. It is the worst suppression because COB RTC is the person who has single-handedly salvaged Scientology from potential external ruin, and single-handedly salvaged Scientology itself by holding the line technically, administratively, and on dissemination. Had he not been here and done what he has, Scientology would have been lost. There is no slightest doubt about that. The cumulative amount of COB’s time I have cost in terms of dropping balls, creating situations internally and externally, is on the order of eight years. If that time were recouped, there is no doubt we would have at least double to triple the amount of orgs, we’d have thousands of missions and we would be very well on the way to a clear planet.
“The motivations for these acts are a psychotic computation for self-preservation: keep enough chaos and threat stirred up in the environment, make myself appear to be a solution to it instead of the instigator of it, and lots of people go down and remain in turmoil while I go unrecognized as the source of it and survive.
“I recognize my actions have been unfounded and ignorant and destructive in the extreme. There is no conspiracy connected with this pattern of suppression, except a portion of it. That is Mike Rinder who has gone into tacit agreement with me on making nothing of situations, false reporting on them, and allowing them to expand until they explode on COB’s plate to handle. The rest of the operation described in this announcement is an individuated and psychotic activity. I know of no one who agrees with it or condones it, or who participated in some part of it except by having been sufficiently electrified or intimidated by me to act reactively or to think it was somehow pro-survival for the group.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I have acted as an avowed enemy over the past several years by continually reporting on how bad people are…, while not producing a single product myself,… by attacking and having removed personnel, placing legal and PR flaps on his [COB’s] plate…. This suppresses Int Scn expansion. … This conduct is suppressive and insane.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I am admitting [my] actions were squirrel and you won’t find any justification for them in Standard Tech. This involves the following out-tech practices:
A) Doing a metered interview or an RB, and calling it an Ethics Investigation. Ignoring statistics and production record, and instead focusing on conduct or behavior. The purposes and methods of Ethics investigations are well covered in HCO PL 1 September, 1965 Iss VII Ethics Protection, HCO PL 11 May, 1965 Iss I Ethics Officer Hat, and HCO PL 15 November 1970R HCO And Confessionals (and its references to Data Series 16 and 17).
B) Not getting an exam after a metered action. This is a violation of HCO PL 13 October 1968RA PC EXAMINER…
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“Those who I mishandled:
[name] — withhold pulling interview no EP — took outside and whacked.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I abused [name] on 20 occasions. … I severely laid into [name] in an abusive fashion, cursing and invalidating him very loudly in front of others. … On 7 occasions I boxed [name] ears or wrestled him to the ground. Once I hurt one of his ears pretty severely where I could tell it hurt him throughout the rest of the day.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I abused [name] and lessened her confidence and drove her frantic. Between February and July 2001 I called [name] such names as “bitch”, “fucking criminal”, called her acts “suppressive”, told her [name] was “1.1″ and will go to calculating lengths to fuck me over.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I abused and invalidated [name of woman] to the point of harming [name’s] confidence. I did invalidative upbraidings on [name] on 5 occasions. On those occasions I went beyond simply pointing out what was wrong with her actions and invalidated her personally with insults to her intelligence, and questioning her intentions.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I roughed up [name] on three occasions. In November 2000 I threw him up against a wall…. I then grabbed him and forcibly led him outside into private for a tongue lashing. In January 2001… I chased him and tackled him down the stairs and shoved his head into the corner holding his jaw for several seconds. In May 2001 I grabbed [name] by the shirt and lifted him into a wall.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I roughed up [name]. In April or May 2001, I threw him across a table.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I abused and degraded [name - woman]. On about 25 occasions I severely ripped into [name].”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I created an operating climate of fear on the base. I put on a tough-guy beingness, unfriendly, suspicious and menacing virtually everywhere I went on the base. I was snappy with people in general. I went around with a scowl like I was ready to knock anybody’s block off who made a wrong move. It created a hate atmosphere.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I abused, denigrated [name - woman]. I have tortured her with a schedule that puts her going home after I leave and arriving before I get up. I blame her for things that she didn’t do — including my own fuck ups — sign of an SP continually wrong targets.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“In January 2001 I interrogated [name] with Rinder and… I slammed him against the wall hard, and pinned his head against the wall with a firm grip on his jaw while I cursed at him loudly.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
“I became an enemy of the group in Dec 2000 through April 2001 when my efforts to stop others from destructive acts became generalized and started stopping generally. I instituted instant punishment and made an unsafe and destabilized environment on the base. I was being some kind of a whole track prison warden actually the most detestable beingness to me.”
- Mark “Marty” Rathbun
Mark Rathbun’s Testimony Under Penalty of Perjury
Contrary to what Rathbun is now telling the media, he testified under penalty of perjury to facts completely contrary to his current statements.
For example Rathbun submitted the following to the court on March 10, 2000:
“David Miscavige, through his long history of actions taken to protect the Scientology religion from any and all threats to its survival and growth, has earned a reputation among Scientologists as the one person who can be absolutely counted upon not to be corrupted, and not to act out of any other motivation than maintaining the purity and integrity of the religion. Mr. Miscavige’s actions have created great comfort and security for Scientologists in good standing around the world. At the same time, by virtue of those same actions, Mr. Miscavige has greatly upset those who have plans for self-aggrandizement at the expense of the religion and those who seek to alter it in any way from the written and recorded words of its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard.”
…
“Over the years, I have witnessed innumerable personal attacks upon Mr. Miscavige, his family, his character, his integrity and his leadership by apostates and other opponents. Frequently vicious, uniformly offensive, such attacks are a reflection of Mr. Miscavige’s success in safeguarding the religion against attack. Until recently, I have considered the individuals who have attacked Mr. Miscavige as merely embittered, spite-driving anti-Scientologists. However, as described in more detail below, it has recently become clear to me that these individuals are seeking more than merely the removal of Mr. Miscavige or any purported “reform”of the Church. Their ultimate goal is to take over the Church of Scientology, and they are attempting to use this court and the instant motion to accomplish this. They violently disagree with Scientology as practiced by millions across the world, and seek to alter its beliefs and practices to suit their own ends. It is because Mr. Miscavige stands in their way that he has been targeted by them.”
…
“While Mr. Hubbard was alive, he saw Mr. Miscavige attacked by those antipathetic to the religion for the reason that Mr. Miscavige had a close relationship to him. In fact, Mr. Hubbard himself spoke out publicly in responding to one such attack which alleged that Mr. Miscavige was harming Mr. Hubbard and mismanaging his estate. He stated:
“‘Since there apparently have been specific allegations of wrongdoing by David Miscavige, I wish to take this opportunity to communicate my unequivocal confidence in David Miscavige, who is a long time devoted Scientologist, a trusted associate and a good friend to me. Any activities which he may have engaged in at any time concerning my personal or business affairs have been done with my knowledge and authorization and for my benefit.’”
“More than anyone else, Mr. Miscavige has preserved and carried out the legacy of his good friend and Founder of his religion.”
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“In fact, all Scientologists are eternally grateful to Mr. Miscavige for ridding the religion of those who sought to undermine and destroy it from within – the very individuals who today testify as paid anti-Scientology witnesses.”
“The Scientology community and the individual Scientologists who comprise it also recognize that what Mr. Miscavige’s attackers’ are attempting to accomplish is profoundly inimical to the well-being of their religion and that it is Mr. Miscavige’s personal fortitude and strength of character that has prevented the apostates from accomplishing from without the Church what they could not accomplish from within.”
“I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. “
Introduction
A grandmother in Texas, visited by her two biracial grandchildren, is plagued by abusive phone calls, online harassment and a racist flyer posted in her neighborhood.
A 14-year old boy in Pasadena, California, who created a “no-cussing” club is deluged with hate e-mails and death threats—nearly 50,000 per day.
A hip-hop website is hacked and defaced with Nazi symbols, fake headlines and pictures saturated with racial slurs.
The common denominator in these incidents? “Script kiddies”1 and cyber bullies calling themselves “Anonymous,” who get their kicks from ruining other people’s lives.
For the past few years, Anonymous has mounted hate campaigns against selected targets, ranging from massive attacks that render websites inaccessible to spreading obscenities and degraded imagery on the Net.
Anonymous members have infested the Internet with postings encouraging suicide and murder. They also have engaged in cyberterrorism and more conventional forms of harassment such as telephone bomb threats and vandalism.
According to a YouTube posting from an Anonymous member, they are “people devoid of any type of soul or conscience,” who live in a place “where taboos do not exist” and have formed “a nameless, faceless, unforgiving mafia.”
The hatred and violence generated by Anonymous is not limited to the virtual world. Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a threat on an Anonymous forum before going on a shooting rampage, stating he was going to “kill people … in the name of anonymous.” He murdered nine people before taking his own life. Jarrad Willis, after posting a threat on an Anonymous forum to carry out a shopping mall massacre, committed suicide the day before he was to appear in court on related charges.
Certain high-profile members of Anonymous have come forward with details of the group’s behind-the-scenes criminal activities. Included in this publication are a few excerpts from the story that unfolded.
Their motto could be summed up in these words, taken from a video posted by an Anonymous member on YouTube in response to a Fox News exposé in July 2007:
How Did Anonymous Begin?
Guy Fawkes mask
Anonymous was born on an online image board called 4chan.org, created in 2004. Anonymous congregated on a an online forum known as “/b/”2, where nothing is off-limits, including mutilated bodies and bestiality.
Later, some Anonymous members moved from 4chan to 7chan because 4chan had “deprived us of our jailbait,” (referring to child pornography). While 7chan no longer exists, Anonymous has created several other “chan” image boards where they post porn, denigrating and obscene comments and racial slurs.
In December 2004, Encyclopedia Dramatica3 was created, and Anonymous material began appearing there. According to Wired Magazine, Encyclopedia Dramatica is a “wikified lexicon of all things /b/.”4
“The Sekrit Code of Anonymous” was published on Encyclopedia Dramatica, stating: “Anonymous is devoid of humanity, morality, pity, and mercy.”
When Anonymous members engage in their so-called real-life “raids,” they hide behind masks, such as the image of 17th century anarchist Guy Fawkes, to conceal their identities while infringing upon the rights of others.
Anonymous claims to have no leaders, but there is clearly a hierarchy within the group. Why do Anonymous members hide behind anonymity and pretend to have no leaders? It is a convenient facade for perverse and sometimes criminal activity on the Internet.
One prominent member and organizer is Gregg Housh, who was convicted in 2005 for conspiracy to violate copyright laws–for his part in a software piracy operation. In October 2008 he was ordered by a court in Boston to stay away from the Church of Scientology, after admitting to disturbing religious services. He was warned that he could face incarceration if he further violated his probation.
At least two Anonymous members have been convicted for making terrorist threats. Other criminal cases are pending.
Stated goal of Anonymous
The following words are taken from online postings by Anonymous members. While some members may claim other goals and intentions, or claim these are merely a “joke,” they cannot divorce themselves from the hate that Anonymous threatens and promotes.
“We will stop at nothing until we’ve achieved our goal. Permanent destruction of the identification role.”
“Anything standing in our way, doesn’t deserve to live. We are void of human restraints, taught to never forgive. Answering the question of who we are is a must. We are Anonymous, indeed. Therefore, Expect us.”
Anonymous doctrine
In a “Message to New Anon from Old Anon,” Anonymous members state:
“Some maladjusted Asian shoots up his university, we laugh. Fifty-thousand die in North Korea, we laugh. AIDS ravages a continent, we laugh.”
“We are human nature unencumbered by pointless ethics, foolish moralities or arbitrary laws and restrictions.”
“We have no culture, we have no laws, written or otherwise. We are an autonomous collective, each an insignificant part of a whole. … We do not feel remorse. We will tear you apart from outside and in, we have all the time in the world.”
The “Anonymous Manifesto of Philosophic Condition” states:
“Right or wrong? No. We destroy for destruction’s sake.”
“Welcome to nihilism made manifest in Western Civilization.”
“Strong were the Nazis, who worshiped might and power to destroy.”
“Strong nihilism has emerged in resentment of a superfluous society.”
“Anonymous has achieved a persona. Anthropologists would call it a ‘death cult.’ We have subjugated our individuality for our thirst for hatred. … We have shattered lives.”
In short, Anonymous is poisoning the Internet with their subversive writings.
Racism & Religious Hatred
Anonymous has targeted Blacks, Jews and Muslims with their hate propaganda. They have denigrated people of all faiths for their religious beliefs with a barrage of demeaning images and obscenities.
In one instance, Anonymous launched an online attack on two popular hip-hop websites, defacing them with swastikas and racial slurs against blacks. The hackers also stole personal information on employees of one of the sites.
Racist, anti-Semitic and other anti-religious images and postings abound on Anonymous sites. Some examples are included herein; others were so offensive they were left out.
Calls for Violent Action, Murder & Suicide
Anonymous members have directed debased and perverse postings to young people, often emotionally vulnerable, goading them to take their own lives. They have posted photographs and instructions online encouraging suicide —and murder.
They have exploited the grief of a family who lost a loved one. The parents of a 7th-grader who shot himself with a rifle were bombarded with prank calls for over a year concerning his death. Anonymous joked about his death, hacked into his MySpace page and turned his face into a zombie.
Anonymous insiders have admitted to vandalism, bomb threats, plans to create and use pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails against the Church of Scientology, and other illegal tactics of their hate campaign.
Even a brief visit to their online forums and websites reveals that Anonymous is in fact a “death cult” as stated in the Anonymous Manifesto.
Who can say how many deaths may have resulted from Anonymous postings?
Cyber-Terrorism & Terrorist Threats
Fox News aired a special report exposing Anonymous in July 2007, after Anonymous hacked a MySpace account and plastered it with images of gay pornography.
In response, Anonymous assaulted Fox News computers with massive attacks from multiple computers, designed to overload Fox’s computers and make them inaccessible–known as a Distributed Denial of Service, or “DDoS” attack.
In early 2008, Anonymous launched 141 million malicious hits against Church of Scientology websites, in an attempt to bring down those sites. During the same period, there were 41 death threats, 56 bomb and arson threats, 103 other threats of violence and 40 incidents of vandalism against the Church. One Anonymous member now faces criminal charges for those DDoS attacks.
The information in this booklet is presented with the purpose of informing the public and law enforcement of this public menace.
Published with permission from Freedom magazine.
1 Script kiddie: a derogatory term used to describe those who use malicious scripts and programs developed by others to attack computer systems and networks.
2 /b/ is a “random” category on 4chan.org, meaning that users can use this forum to post any kinds of images. It can also refer to a state of mind typified by /b/.
3 Encyclopedia Dramatica is a collection of obscenities, racist images and anti-Semitic, irreverent postings, sometimes referred to as “spoof” pf Wikipedia.
4 “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame of Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World,” Julian Dibbell, Wired Issue 16.02, Jan 18, 2008
Text:
NEW JERSEY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO LAUNCHING ATTACK
THAT SHUT DOWN CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY WEBSITES
NEWARK, New Jersey – A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to his role
in a cyber attack on Church of Scientology websites in January 2008 that rendered
the websites unavailable.
Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to computer
hacking charges originally filed in Los Angeles for his role in the distributed denial
of service (DDOS) attack against the Scientology websites. A DDOS attack occurs
where a large amount of malicious Internet traffic is directed at a website or a set
of websites. The target websites are unable to handle the high volume of Internet
traffic and therefore become unavailable to legitimate users.
According to the criminal information filed last year in United States District
Court in Los Angeles, Guzner participated in the attack because he considered
himself a member of an underground group called “Anonymous,” a group that has
led protests against the Church of Scientology at various locations across the
country.
Guzner is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge
Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. on August 24. As a result of today’s guilty plea, Guzner
faces a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
This case was investigated by the Los Angeles Field Office Electronic
Crimes Task Force, which includes the United States Secret Service, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Los Angeles Police Department. The New York
Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force, and the Newark Field Office and the
New Haven Resident Office of United States Secret Service assisted in the
investigation.
CONTACT: Assistant United States Attorney Wesley L. Hsu
Chief, Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section
(213) 894-3045
Release No. 09-061
Tory Christman insists in repeating her twisted version of the facts, but her ex-husband, who tried to salvage their marriage had the following to say about what really happened:
March 8th, 2006
To Religious Freedom Watch:
I was married to Tory Christman for 26 years. She left me in July 2000 while I was away on a business trip.
When I spoke to her the night of July 19, 2000, she said she was leaving for a while and would be home in a week or two. She lied repeatedly about where she was going, and refused to talk to me any further about what was going on. When I asked her why she was leaving, she told me to call our friends and they’d tell me what was happening. She said she had to go and hung up.
I called our friends and they told me that Tory was going to Florida and would be changing planes in Chicago the next morning. I drove to Chicago and stopped at my sister’s house. She said she’d had a long talk with Tory and Tory told her that she was leaving me, saying she was leaving Scientology and was unhappy with our relationship. Tory also told my mother, step-father and brother that she was leaving me, saying it was no big deal as we weren’t getting along anyway. (All this from a woman who told me two weeks earlier that I’d thrown her “the best birthday party ever and that I was the most wonderful husband in the world.”)
I drove to the airport and met Tory as she was changing planes. I told her I’d cancelled the rest of the business trip and wanted to go to a resort and talk with her and find out what was going on. She told me she did not want to be a Scientologist anymore and that she was leaving the Church. I said, “Okay, you don’t have to be a Scientologist if you don’t want to, just don’t leave me. Let’s go away by ourselves.” She told me, “No way, my ticket is paid for, I have to go.” She then threatened to have me arrested if I “bothered” her again. I then told her I’d get a ticket and fly with her and we could talk. She repeated that she’d have me arrested if I didn’t leave her alone. I took a later flight to Florida and found her in an airport hotel.
I tried to talk to her again in private but she refused, saying she’d only talk to me in the presence of her new friends. She again threatened to call security if I insisted on talking with her away from her new friends. I took a room and invited her up for dinner and a movie. She said “maybe later” but she never called me.
The next day I called her to talk and she said she was sleeping and asked if I could bring her some toiletries. When I went to set them outside her room, the door of the next room opened and she was sitting on the bed talking to one of her new friends. She was in her night gown. She didn’t want to talk to me and she got angry when I questioned the motives of her new friends. I talked to her once more that night with her friends waiting in the next room
After that night, she was out of touch for weeks. Whenever she called me she needed money and her epilepsy medicine, both of which I arranged for her. As a side note, Tory has complained to reporters that the Church ordered her to stop taking her medication. This is a complete fabrication. She wanted to quit taking the medicine because she didn’t like it, but she was never told to do so by the Church at any time since I’d met her in 1974. In fact, she was told by the Church and by a Scientologist doctor that it was not necessary for her to stop taking her medicine.
Several months later Tory called me saying she was going to move to Florida permanently and was coming home to pack. She wanted her car serviced so she could drive it cross country. When she finally arrived home, she showed up with her friend Nancy Many who helped her set up an inexpensive divorce agreement by recommending we utilize “We the People” - a business which does this. Tory made the appointment and she wanted me to be the petitioner, as she was going to move to Florida and it’d be easier for them to contact me.
After helping her pack for a month, she decided she wasn’t going to go. She thought we could live in the house and split the rent. I agreed to this in the hopes of repairing our marriage. But in the six months we lived under this arrangement, I never saw a dime from her. I covered all the rent, utilities, phone, food, etc. During this time she tried several jobs, but never made a go of it. I helped her and coached her and set up a financial plan for her, but to no avail.
She finally left permanently.
She now has been quoted a number of times over the years as saying I left her. It is time to put this lie to rest once and for all. She left me and our 26-year marriage with no notice at all and resisted all attempts to put our relationship back together. That is a truth she can never run away from no matter how far she goes.
Harold Bezazian
Report documents how extremists harness the power of the internet
Leo Adler of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tells one small city in Canada’s north that even they are not isolated from the epidemic of hate being generated by internet extremists….
Sudbury not immune from terrorism; One person can create a web of lies, Simon Wiesenthal researcher says
The Sudbury Star
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 09:00
Lara Bradley
Local News - Hate websites are becoming increasingly clever at luring in the young, angry or just plain curious, and we should all be vigilant, an expert says.
On the Internet, you can find games like Border Crossing in which the player shoots Mexican “wetbacks” - pregnant women with toddlers in tow as they scurry across the border.
Then there’s Ethnic Cleansing, where the player gets to custom-tailor the group he or she would like to hunt down; and Kaboom, in which the player gets to be a suicide bomber, earning points based on the size of the crowd taken out.
Leo Adler, director of national affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, presented its 10th annual report on Digital Terrorism and Hate for 2007 to Sudbury media on Monday.
“Sudbury may be small compared to other Canadian cities, but it is not isolated,” Adler said. “All it takes is to attract and recruit one individual. … Sudbury is no further immune than Toronto, New York City or any other place.”
The centre, a human rights organization dedicated to fostering ideas of tolerance and understanding, has been monitoring the Internet since 1995. Back then, there was only one hate crime site called Stormfront, a group promoting white supremacy.
“Hate on Demand chronicles what has taken place,” Adler said. “How extremist groups harness the power of the Internet.”
Now, countless terrorists groups - from the Baby Liberation Army, which targets medical staff who perform abortions, to religious extremists pumping up suicide bombers to hardcore environmental groups promoting violence to achieve their ends - use the World Wide Web to disseminate information to members, as well as market themselves to potential members.
“Things don’t happen spontaneously,” he said. “Terrorism is extremely well organized.”
continued at: The Sudbury Star
For several weeks Chuck Beatty has been talking about how he “heroically” assisted Christian Markert “escape” from Buffalo, NY. When the true story was told that the person Beatty helped escaped appears to have been sent in by a German government official, Ursula Caberta, Beatty came out publicly asserting that Markert is “legit”.
Beatty went on to say, in one of his propaganda pieces, that Markert was now in “Caberta’s competent hands”.
There are several questions that Chuck Beatty should answer.
Did Caberta plan this out with Beatty?
Did Caberta contact Beatty and tell him to go to Buffalo to pick up her asset?
Or was David Touretzky contacted by Caberta?
We don’t expect Christian Markert to tell the truth. He is only capable of making empty legal threats and lying about his background. Who is going to pay for his attorney, Ursula Caberta? However, while Chuck Beatty claims that, in his view, Markert is legit, he should do his homework and find the answer to the following questions:
1.Markert claims that he has been a Scientologist for 7 years and, in some instances, stated that he was in the Church for 15 years. Where was he a member for such a long time?
2.How come Markert engaged in a correspondence with the Church in Buffalo stating that he had no time to go to the Church in Dublin because it was too far away? Markert claimed that he was living in Dublin and had a company there so why would Buffalo be closer than Dublin, especially when he claimed that he was a member of the Church in Dublin and had donated a very substantial amount of money to Dublin?
3.If Markert was such a successful businessman in Ireland and a wealthy one, according to his own words, how come he had to be picked up by Beatty? Why couldn’t he afford to pay for a hotel room but had to remain hidden at Linda Kirkhart’s house in Pittsburgh? Besides, if Markert was so wealthy why did he borrow money from Scientologists in Buffalo, and then pay them back with checks that bounced?
4.Markert stated to the European Court of Humans Rights that he was both German and American, dual citizenship. Why did Markert tell Scientologists in Buffalo that he had to travel to Austria, in April of 2007, to obtain a visa for the United States? If he had U.S. citizenship why did he need a visa?
5.Assuming that Markert lied to the European Court of Human Rights by telling the Court that he was an American citizen when he was not, then did Markert lie to U.S. Immigration authorities when he did not disclose his criminal convictions both in France and Germany?
Finally, Chuck Beatty believes that he will intimidate Religious Freedom Watch by making statements that he has alerted his employer, a local Pittsburgh paper, regarding this story. We are not surprised by Beatty’s intimidating tactics and we are not afraid of such attempting to silence us. What is Beatty hiding that he needs to resort to getting his employer to front for him if RFW continues its investigation into the Markert story?
On June 20, 2007, a press conference was held in the Berlin Parliament House involving speakers Ursula Caberta, Thomas Gandow, and Mr. Schiemann, member of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German domestic intelligence).
A surprise guest was a man who claimed to be a former long-time Scientologist from the Church of Scientology of Buffalo, New York - Christian Markert. Markert was touted as having information about internal Church matters.
In view of the fact that renowned hate mongers Ursula Caberta and David Touretzky were connected to Markert’s sudden appearance on the anti-religious scene, Religious Freedom Watch investigated the matter.
We began with “Who is Christian J. Markert?” since only a handful of people in Buffalo had ever heard of him. Markert claims that he was born in Dinslaken, Germany. He also claims that he attended Robert Kennedy University in Los Angeles, California, from 1989 to 1993 and obtained an MBA degree. No such university exists.
Markert claimed he attended a private Junior High School in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1989, called Abitur. However, he also claimed that he attended Gymnasium Voerde in Germany from 1980 to 1989. How could he possibly attend both schools in the same time period in two different parts of the world? These are only a few of the inconsistencies that appear as one gathers up the countless stories Markert told to various people after he landed on Scientology’s doorstep in March of 2007 - stories that smack of a hastily rehearsed background fabricated by someone with something to hide.
Markert had come from overseas and boasted to several people in Buffalo that he was a successful businessman in Ireland, where he managed a company called Creaventure Consulting. To bolster this story, Markert claimed that one of his company’s clients had deposited 3 million Euros into their account to secure his company’s services, but that the Irish Revenue Service thought it was profit, which triggered, according to Markert, a tax investigation into Creaventure Consulting. Markert claimed that Creaventure Consulting went from 200,000 Euros in income to 22 million Euros in just three years, which also prompted a full audit of his company. Markert explained that there were 25 agents from the Irish Revenue Service doing the audit. But when Religious Freedom Watch had their correspondent in Ireland look into Creaventure Consulting, including official public records, there was no such company in existence or previously operating in Ireland.
The only evidence that could be found of Creaventure Consulting was the domain name, creaventure.com, which was registered on the internet in January of 2007, just a few weeks before Christian Markert began his brief involvement in Scientology which ended in June of 2007.
Does Creaventure Consulting only exist in the mind of Christian Markert? Or was it created for him by a few bungling individuals who hoped to place him as a “plant” within a Church for just a few months in the hope of gaining information that could be later spun into something that appeared incriminating? It certainly wouldn’t be the first time such a ploy has been used by would-be extortionists and their like.
Markert made many claims to Buffalo church personnel to try to appear as though he had a history in Scientology. He claimed that he was a member of a Church of Scientology in Ireland but, when inquires were made, not a single record could be found to support Markert’s claim. Markert also claimed that he had donated an exorbitant amount of money to the Church in Ireland. That also proved to be a complete fabrication. In fact, no one in Ireland had ever heard his name.
It appears that, in order to gain acceptance by Church members during his brief few months in Buffalo, Markert gave several entirely fabricated versions of having a history in Scientology. He told some people he was a Scientologist for 15 years, others for 10 years, still others for 7 years. The fact of the matter is that Christian Markert was never a Scientologist, he just infiltrated the Church under false pretenses and he was sent in with specific marching orders.
Who are the “handlers” of this wannabe spy?
Consider the timeline: Markert’s company name “Creaventure” first appears on the internet as a domain name registered on January 21, 2007. Five weeks later, on March 1st, Markert makes his first contact with Scientology at the Buffalo, New York, church. A mere four months after that, German native Christian Markert appears in Berlin at a press conference conveniently arranged by government official, Ursula Caberta, in support of her long-time campaign of slander against the Church of Scientology.
Concurrent with the end of Markert’s “career” as a bookseller in Scientology, a couple of extremists chronicled in the Anti-Religious Extremists section of Religious Freedom Watch began making claims about some dramatic event that was going to occur involving a former Scientology staff member.
Prior to the press conference in Berlin, David Touretzky announced from Carnegie Mellon University, that he was in contact with “an anonymous source” within the Church. Some days later Chuck Beatty, an apostate of Scientology, tried to tell a “dramatic” story of how he helped Christian Markert to “escape” from Buffalo and hid him away at his sister, Linda Kirkhart’s house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while arrangements were being made to fly him back to Germany.
In fact this was a pre-planned infiltration designed to create a sensational story at that 20th of June 2007 press conference in Berlin - and the perpetrator needed a lift to the airport.
The “imagineers” of this attempted drama are extremists who spend most of their waking hours slandering the Church in the most vicious of terms with a devotion that only paid agent provocateurs can muster. Unfortunately for them, Markert, their wannabe spy, whom they spirited off to Berlin for this dramatic press conference, had nothing to show for his efforts except Scientology news that any staff member in the world could provide, even though Market did his level best to put an anti-religious spin on it.
“Getaway Driver”
“I drove from Pittsburgh to Buffalo, last Wednesday morning, picked up Christian [Markert], who had blown Buffalo staff and I picked him up and we went up to Niagra Falls for a late lunch, saw the American Falls at least, then came back to Pittsburgh, and he stayed here at my sister’s place for a couple days, then I got him to JFK, and then he got to Germany and to Ursula’s [Caberta] competent hands, etc.” - Chuck Beatty
In the attempt to make their amateurish spy operation seem successful, Chuck Beatty also broadcasted the following statement on the Internet, “Christian [Markert] was already a high level successful consultant (making hundreds of thousands of Euros per year)…He [Markert] became a Scientologist, helped the Dublin Mission, joined Mission staff there, donated tons of money for Dublin to get their building, then he volunteered to even help out at higher levels of staff …”.
It seems Beatty really wanted to ensure that people out there believed the prefabricated story about Markert being a successful businessman who became a Scientologist, doing it in such a way as to leave little doubt in our minds that he and other extremists had a hand in its manufacture.
But let’s go back a couple of months and specifically to April 2007 when Chuck Beatty met with Ursula Caberta in Hamburg, Germany. What was the purpose of the meeting between these extremists and what did Beatty and Caberta plan? It is of interest that Markert infiltrated the Church only a month prior and would soon be in need of someone to help orchestrate his “dramatic” exit from Scientology - or at least give him a ride to the airport just in time for Caberta’s press conference in Berlin. The Church of Scientology there is expanding in greater numbers than ever before, an expansion that Germany’s OPC (Office for the Protection of the Constitution) has worked hard to thwart for decades. Whatever the plan, it seems Beatty, Caberta and Touretzky didn’t think it all the way through. As is usual with a story strung together by lies, eventually it backfires on the perpetrators: David Touretzky, Ursula Caberta and their go-for, Chuck Beatty, used a convicted criminal to infiltrate the Church.
A simple search for Christian Markert on the worldwide web reveals that Markert was convicted in France for fraud and was also extradited to Germany for crimes he committed in that country.
Markert’s Criminal History
Here is a glimpse of Christian Markert’s fraudulent activities in both France and Germany:
12 June 1997, the Trial Court of Meaux (Paris, France) convicts Christian Markert of fraud and sentences him to 18 months in jail.
February 1997, German authorities issue an arrest warrant against Christian Markert, based on a 9 April and 29 November 1996 warrant issued by the court in Essen, Germany. The first warrant cites five instances of Markert’s illegal activities. The second, expanded warrant includes eight counts for various forms of fraud.
18 June 1997, Christian Markert is officially notified of the various outstanding arrest warrants in Germany.
10 July 1997, the German court issues an extradition request against Christian Markert.
June 1998, Christian Markert brings a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against France. His case was not accepted by the European Court.
13 August 1998, Christian Markert is officially notified of the extradition request.
3 May 1999, Christian Markert is extradited to Germany.
This is just scratching the surface of the documents easily available on the internet that evidence Markert’s history of fraud and criminality. If Religious Freedom Watch could find this evidence, so could computer expert David Touretzky and government official, Ursula Caberta. One must assume that they did.
It would be hard to believe that Ursula Caberta, with all her government intelligence contacts, did not know Markert was a criminal. Both Ursula Caberta and the OPC are very well aware that it is illegal to spy on a foreign country or a foreign organization. David Touretzky is employed by Carnegie Mellon University and receives US Government funds to supposedly study and experiment on rat brains. Instead he may have used resources funded by taxpayers to aid and abet a German government official and a convicted criminal in their efforts to spy on a US based Church. Chuck Beatty, is an accessory to all this, although he is motivated by hatred for his former religion. It is not known if Linda Kirkhart, Beatty’s sister, played any role in this operation besides innocent host her brother and Markert.
Was Markert promised some sort of a deal by Caberta and/or by the German government in exchange for infiltrating the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York, and causing havoc? Is this why Chuck Beatty traveled to Hamburg in the midst of this operation and then had to personally drive Markert from Buffalo to Pittsburgh and hide him away at Linda Kirkhart’s house until he flew off to decorate Caberta’s press conference?
Is Safetran aware of Rice’s activities?
Fredric Rice’s inflammatory lies about such religions as Christianity, Scientology, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, clearly serve no other purpose than to spread intolerance via the internet, the influence of which can be seen in the “The Influence of Hate” section of this site.
It appears that someone is fed up with Touretzky’s racism.
Some people, caught with their pants down, admit the truth. Others avoid the damning evidence, talk about other things, or assert the proof is not sufficiently credible.
In his continuing defense of racist/bigot Touretzky, DeSio either (1) didn’t bother to ask his fellow traveler Touretzky if the chat-room quotes of Touretzky’s disgusting and racist comments are accurate, or (2) asked and got an answer DeSio could not defend.
DeSio reveals that his definition of “credible” is whatever supports his pre-fabricated story. His sources overtly have conflicts of interest and could be expected to say what they said - that is of course, why DeSio quotes them. Its like going to Hamas and asking, “What do you think of Jews?” and then reporting that his intrepid investigation reveals “everyone” dislikes them. Then , when shown that his sources are biased, DeSio whines that the evidence of their bias is not (to him) credible.
And, contrary to DeSio’s protest, we didn’t say he committed crimes against journalism.
We’re saying his “story” got it wrong, it is based upon biased sources, and he demonstrably lacks the courage to admit it. We understand the modus operandi DeSio - his friend Touretzky is the same way. So was Machiavelli’s heroic Prince. Actually, DeSio’s methods closely follow a time-honored practice known as “yellow journalism.” DeSio has a manufactured message to convey and simply won’t let the truth get in the way of that message. We recognize that some journalists eschew information that contradicts their assertions. That’s the way yellow journalism works. But let’s not forget
what it is, and pretend it offers truth. DeSio had a job to do and he did it.
We understand biased people - that was why Religious Freedom Watch was created and that’s why Touretzky is featured. DeSio should carefully read it.
Thank you for the supporting comments and emails regarding the “Methinks you doth protest too much DeSio” article. We have been requested to post samples of the actual chat logs received by RFW showing some of Touretzky’s racial slurs.
Here is a portion of a chat log. Please note that Touretzky’s IP address is “~dst@Hidden_SP-679.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU”. Needless to say, while he was making racist statements, he was logged on from CMU.
Note: In the chat log you will see the initials “dst”, which stands for David Stuart Touretzky.
We seem to have hit a nerve in a comment regarding John DeSio’s unflinching support for bigot David Touretzky. Indeed, DeSio displays a troubling inability to take several sentences of criticism - while uttering all manner of generalities himself. DeSio claims that he was horribly misrepresented by a comment noting that in his inaccurate and biased article based on Touretzky’s opinions, there was no denial of Tourtezky’s abiding racism. DeSio now wants to correct the record to say that he stands behind the failure to note Touretzky’s racism, because it was DeSio himself, not his “source,” who felt the evidence of racism was not strong enough to mention the matter. DeSio whines, “Touretzky did, in fact, deny he was a racist. But since the evidence charging that he was a racist is so flimsy in the first place it was not even worth bringing up.”
You be the judge. DeSio had access to all of the statements from Touretzky quoted below. Is one who makes the following comments (verbatim quotes from Touretzky) a racist?:
“There should be a video game where you can beat Rodney King.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Don’t quote that scumbag Jesse Jackson, Tory, or I’ll puke in your lap.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Regarding former California state Senator Diane Watson, now a Member of Congress:
“Oh, she’s a ’state’ senator. Did she get elected to congress after that statement was made? So now she’s their whore in Washington? … She is the former ambassador to Micronesia! and she’s black. I should have known. What are all the really st00000pid congresswomen black?” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Reagrding Afro-Americans:
“Washington DC is more disgusting than Harlem. .. Disgusting as in rates of illegitimacy, drug abuse, domestic abuse, shootings, prostitution, welfare culture. I think Harlem has gotten better the last few years, but DC has not. White men don’t walk in Harlem at night.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Although, your remark about ‘niggers’ reminds me of an incident I’d been meaning to tell you about. .. Back before we were all posting on Usenet, we had a local bulletin board system here at CMU. And one of those boards was dedicated to no-holds-barred discussion. … I asked on this board why we had no term that was the black equivalent of ‘white trash’. Because, you know, the N-word was totally unsuitable. We needed some other term. A term that would show that the speaker drew a deliberate distinction between people of a certain skin color who behaved decently (as in ‘decent white folk’) and those who behave badly (as in ‘white trash’).” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Living in trailers is a white thing. Drive-by-shootings are a black thing etc. Anyway, here’s the interesting part of my story. A colleague of mine, from Texas, took grave offense at my inquiry. He said that the reason people say ‘WHITE trash’ is to distinguish it from ordinary trash, which is ASSUMED to be black. So even “white trash” is an anti-black term. Personally, I think we need a term for ‘black trash’ so that people can express disapproval of a subculture without appearing to denounce an entire ethnic group.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“… we have a high infant mortality rate for a developed country, but it’s not because middle class people’s babies are dying. It’s because of crack whores giving birth to high risk premies. …I’m just telling the truth.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Maybe [you] know something about crack whores that I don’t. … but if you want to talk about race…. infant mortality in the US is much higher for blacks than for whites. I have no idea what the racial breakdown of crack whores is. … I’m sure that blacks are over-represented in that profession, but in terms of absolute numbers, I don’t know.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“I’m not racist, I’m classist.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Man, Hispanics are fucked up, which is why they’re still working class. Dipshits.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Methinks you doth protest too much DeSio. Or do you find Touretzky’s racist comments so normal, and your defense of his bigoted statements so necessary to support your own deep hatred, that, as claimed, “it was not even worth bringing up?”
Touretzky was “interviewed” by a New York reporter regarding an issue about which Touretzky has never been able to respond: he’s a racist. Touretzky’s internet postings derogatory of Afro-Americans reveal his hatred for blacks. Touretzky considers blacks to be “really stupid”. He doesn’t like Hispanics either, who are also low-life’s in Touretzky’s opinion.
Asked by the reporter about the charges that he is a racist, Touretzky failed to deny a single one of his bigoted statements made in his favorite chat room, utilizing his typical evasion technique of asserting that his statements could not be found on Lexis-Nexis - as if that proved or disproved anything.
Touretzky’s hate propaganda campaigns are conducted under the imprimatur of Carnegie Mellon University.
“The next day I called her [Tory Christman] to talk and she said she was sleeping and asked if I could bring her some toiletries. When I went to set them outside her room, the door of the next room opened and she was sitting on the bed talking to one of her new friends [Mark Bunker]. She was in her night gown. She didn’t want to talk to me and she got angry when I questioned the motives of her new friends. I talked to her once more that night with her friends waiting in the next room.” - From a letter written by Tory Christman ex-husband.
Last Updated: Monday May 28 2007 | 10:36 AM ET Vandals slashed tires on three vehicles and left notes containing racist slurs in front of a Laotian-Canadian family’s new home in Ottawa’s west end on the weekend. “I was sick to my stomach and I’m still on an emotional roller-coaster right now …. Read the full article.
See article by Eric Heyl.
Interesting incident indeed. Is this the reason why CMU won’t act against David S. Touretzky?
Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon Reappointed for Third Five-Year Term. It is hoped that he will enforce CMU’s policies with regard to David S. Touretzky.
More discrimination.