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Friday, 1/6 @ 10pm ET: Leah Remini on 2020 to discuss Scientology. Indies mentioned.
Apparent subject of tonight's ABC 2020 show - Scientology’s disgusting secret: Young teens used to interrogate adults about their sex lives
Tony Ortega: Scientology’s disgusting secret: Young teens used to interrogate adults about their sex lives
http://tonyortega.org/2017/01/06/sc...-to-interrogate-adults-about-their-sex-lives/
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Serge Gil first reached out to us more than a year ago. It’s taken a lot of time for his story to get to a large audience, but tonight he’s going to be featured on an episode of ABC’s 20/20 that we were also interviewed for.
Gil’s story is wide ranging and very troubling, and we don’t know how deeply 20/20 is going to get into it. But we wanted to provide some basic background on what he went through in order to supplement ABC’s show. And we’ve had help by talking to Claire Headley, Aaron Smith-Levin, Mike Rinder, and Jefferson Hawkins.
We’ll start by pointing out that Serge Gil is an angry man. He’s now 38, but he says that how he was treated when he was a young teen at Scientology’s “Flag Land Base” in Clearwater, Florida has permanently scarred him, and he is looking for payback.
“The world needs to hear what I went through, Tony,” he told us last week in our latest conversation, sounding agitated. Earlier, he had said, “I’m going to be an ambassador for all the children who were being abused.”
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Slight sour grapes here - I'm glad the US media are finally catching up on this but the Oz media have been all over it for several years.
FWIW, ACA with the excellent Ben McCormack did a segment on the E-Meter back in 2012 where we discussed using the meter to pull withholds of masturbation etc.. - http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?28069-ACA-on-the-e-meter-30-July-2012
Sadly, Zhent's YouTube account was taken down and I've no idea if Channel 9 still have that somewhere in their archives.
The episode got a lot of airtime in Oz as it was during the Olympics and a lot of peeps were tuned in waiting for the Olympic coverage to resume.
Ben was yet another person who the cult successfully turned into an enemy by their usual heavy-handed "always attack, never defend" tactics.
FUCK YOU, OSA !!!
More "successful" actions from the Most Ethical Group on the Planet practising 100% workable Standard Tehc.
What is amazing to me is that they would put someone on who hasn't done the Comm Course or STCC (particularly the "No Answer" drill), and Pro TRs, say nothing of TR-L. Seriously, could they pick a person with worse TRs?MONIQUE YINGLING - LIAR / Lawyer for the Church of Scientology AKA David Miscavige
whilst non-stop blinking and could not look at the ABC 20/20 Reporter interviewing her on Scientology; A War without Guns -
said...
With a Straight Face
Scientology's hatred toward "THE PSYCH'S" is just a catch phrase
[FONT=&]"In her [/FONT]20/20[FONT=&] interview, Ms. Remini revealed that her docu-series won’t end with next week’s season finale. The actress-turned-investigative reporter says she’s in talks to confirm a second season of [/FONT]Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath[FONT=&]."I'm waiting for someone with skills to make spliced segments of Yingling's showing her with continuous eye fluttering. It's almost like her eyes are about to take off like a bat out of hell.
Did you hear the mention that there are negotiations to make a second season of Leah's Aftermath?
Tony Ortega wrote:
Mike Rinder’s perfect dissection of what’s wrong with it. (ABC 20/20)
http://tonyortega.org/2017/01/07/ph...or-billboard-about-scientology-disconnection/
"The single most noteworthy thing about the whole show (not just to me, see Twitter and the comments on the 20/20 site) was how bad Muffins was. She looked terrible. Her answers were evasive and inconsistent. And she looked like she was in one of those movies where people try to blink out morse code messages when they are being forced to do a video to prove they are alive for a kidnapping extortion plot."
Dr. Maria Taheny says
January 7, 2017 at 10:43 am
People who are taught as children to speak truth often make horrible liars. Forensic psychologists know to look for blinking eyes and touches to the cheeks or lips to know when a person is lying. The more blinks, the less the person believes their own lies. This is why Miscavige does not blink. He believes his own lies. Psychopaths never blink. They give overly intense stares without blinking as their body language communicates a determination to make others believe what they are saying, no matter how implausible. The body usually betrays a liar, either way.
And those who seek truth know this intuitively!
PickAnotherID • 5 hours ago
Since 'Aftermath' started airing, I've been inviting friends and neighbors, who previously had little to no interest in $cientology, over to watch. I started doing this for two reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to see the reaction of people who don't have all the back story information of long time critics and exes. And second, to hopefully get them interested enough to get involved in the fight. At least to the point of writing letters to Congress, etc., if nothing else.
Last night I had about a dozen people, who are a mix of Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, Jews, Hindus, atheists, and don't want to talk about it, over to watch the 20/20 episode. During, and shortly after, the show they were also calling other friends for reactions to things being shown or said. Overall, $cientology did not come off well. At all. And none of them, not even one of the phoned friends, came away believing anything Yingling had to say, except, "That's what I was told." Some of their reactions are scattered around in my comments yesterday. Today I want to get them in one place, to give an idea how "regular folk" who are new to this are reacting to last nights show.
In no particular order:
- First question asked in the group, "Why does she (Yingling) blink so much? Especially when she's asked a question?"
- When they actually read some of the "SecCheck" questions for 6-14 year olds off the sheet for themselves, then heard Yingling's BS response to it, I'll just say it's a good thing she wasn't in the same room as them.
- When Serge explained about kids being "ancient Thetans" in young bodies, so their old enough to handle anything to Dan, my neighbors about fell out of their chairs. Several people reacted with, "Does that mean they think it's okay for an adult to have sex with a kid?"
- The reaction to Yingling calling Serge's story a lie was overwhelmingly, "Who's got the tars and feathers? That b*tch needs a ride out of town on a rail."
- My Catholic neighbors were, "That's not how confession is supposed to work!", in reaction to the 'SecCheck' sheets. They couldn't believe $cientology actually has printed "confessional" question sheets. Especially with such intrusive questions on them.
- When it was mentioned Auditing and SecCheck sessions were recorded, the general reaction was, "That's not a church, it's an extortion racket. Why aren't they being investigated?"
- Pretty much any time Yingling opened her mouth, the reaction was, "Lying sack of sh*t."
- Yingling's obvious insincerity made the exes who spoke out all the more believable.
- Everyone noticed $cientology was heavy with ad hominem attacks, and never really addressed the issues being raised by critics and exes. It went a long way towards validating what critics and exes have been saying about $cientology's 'Fair Game' practices all along. The concensus was, "My God! This is a church?"
- Most of the group couldn't understand why a non-$cientologist was on the show answering questions for $cientology. If not Miscavige, they thought it should have been some high level $cientologist executive/clergy. I had to explain these days there are no high level $cientologist executive/clergy except for Miscavige.
- Serge vs Yingling, someone quipped a local saying, "If I had to buy a cabbage, I'd take his. Hers are full of worms."
- General reaction to the 'Squirrel Busters' segment, "Are those idiots for real?"
- General reaction to Serge getting help from a psychiatrist, "After what they did to him? Thank God!"
- General reaction to $cientology's attacks on psychiatry, "Assholes!"
In summary:
Yingling: "I was told..."
Exes: "I experienced..."
Yingling: "All the exes are lying..."
Neighbors watching with me, "WTF?!? Yingling's just parroting what $cientology told her to say. She doesn't have a clue what's actually going on."