Don't get me wrong as I am thrilled that Marty and some others have been telling the truth about Miscavige's violence since the spring/summer of 2009 with that first SP Times article.
But this was not nearly the first time it was done.
If you check you will find affidavits covering his violence such as Homer Shomer's in 1986 or so talking about his gang bang sec checks at ASI or Jesse Prince's affidavit of 17 March 1999 telling of Miscavige screaming in the face of and otherwise abusing a then sickly Mary Sue Hubbard to intimidate her into signing over LRH's fortune to organized scientology shortly after Hubbard died.
Or, one of my favorites here, watch Don Larson confess on the BBC in 1987 telling about Miscavige's violence:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6454589518364422755#
Even on a personal level I have told of Miscavige's violence many times on radio, in video, to press in Canada, Portland and Boston and otherwise in postings throughout 2006-2009 before the SP Times articles.
A few examples:
1) My affidavit of May 2008, see section 26 and sections around that:
http://evil.scientology.googlepages.com/crs.pdf
2) here is a link to a posting I made as "SME" on the public forum alt.religion.scientology in March 2007:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/2528865afb25843d?
Here is a bit from that posting:
"DM even spit on, beat and /or otherwise abused his own ASI people (see
Homer Shomer docs for an example) if he considered they were not
getting Hubbard enough money or losing money that could be Hubbard's.
Every time we put in a corporate structure, DM would violate it. He
ran a reign of terror from ASI. His alleged "non involvement" in
church management when he was in ASI and just "coordinating" and
"negotiating" with the church included such things as ordering who
would run RTC, who would run the key parts of CSI (WDC/CMO Int for
example) and then running those people himself and deciding who of
them got busted. This included things like him going to Int and
spitting on top church WDC/CMO Int executives, punching in the mouth
hard, slapping across the face hard and choking hard. And, again,
this was in the time period he says in court he was in ASI and not
involved in running the church".
3) Also from another posting of mine in March 2007:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/16f077c6107b94fd?
"Starting in late 81 with the advent of the new corporate structure
and DM securing complete control over the organizations, there have
been wholesale abuses of scientology staff, public and critics through
countless means. In 1982 alone, under DM, more people were horribly
abused, gang bang sec checked, declared, fair gamed and the like than
in the entire history of the GO!".
The point here is that a lot of people are getting out the word and some have for years. But thanks to Anonymous and others it is now going viral and many more can speak out. Just 4 years ago many press were terrified to write anything negative about them. I know as I worked with many.
Now the floodgates have opened and much, much more is to come.
Marty, Mike, Amy etc. got great coverage starting with that SP Times series last year and much more since then such as AC 360. This is terriffic!
But, again, disclosures of DM beating others go well back to before Marty even started to speak out. Why Anonymous itself was getting that word out every single month all over the world for well over a year before it came out in the SP Times.
I say "thank you" to everyone helping to get out the truth. Together we just may help end these abuses yet.
w/<3 Larry