When the St Pete Times came out with the first three articles on the Church of Scientology, The Truth Rundown, David Miscavige's answer (through cursing mouthpiece Tommy Davis) was that these four whistle blowers were simply isolated lunatics. So the St Pete Times rapidly produced eleven more senior executives from the highest ranks of the Church who's stories ALL corroborated the first group. The Church's response to that bit of shame was to say no one was ever kept captive at the Int base: all were free to leave any time they wanted. The St Pete Times answered that lie with the most recent series, detailing the stories of even MORE whistle blowers -- hounded, chased, spied upon, held prisoner, subjected to dirty tricks and more.

What these stories have revealed is not minor "criticism" but serious abuse and crimes punishable by law, felonies in some cases, violations of fundamental human and civil rights of the worst order. The St Pete Times has said nothing about the religion itself; the newspaper isn't attacking the religion.

The very fact that a few pathetic scarecrows calling themselves Scientologists continue to try and brush these kinds of crimes under the rug just serves to separate out the wholly irresponsible and the gleefully insane from the rest of us. Since these human failures have failed to figure it out, here it is again:

You don't sweep crime under the rug! You don’t "dismiss" a felony. Good deeds on one hand don’t make crimes by the other okay.

I remember several years ago when lurid accounts of child abuse by certain Catholic priests were revealed along with a decades-long cover up. I didn’t see a bunch of Catholics trying to pull the red herring, “Stop attacking my religion” or like Tommy Davis classic wrong answer to charges of horrid crime, "Stop whining."

In David Miscavige and his miscreant minions, we are exposing someone who is not only morally reprehensible, but entirely without scruples. If Scientologists with the Miscavige “M” on their forehead turn a blind eye on that, perhaps it’s because in 25 years under the shadow of Miscavige they’ve simply grown used to the DARK.

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