Not to be rhetorical, since most of know that Guillaume has long since been in the paws of David Miscavige, but in terms of; whatever happened to the man?

I worked with this man. I watched him build Europe from a broken continent back in the late 1970s, to a booming, truly booming, region. He made more new orgs than practically any other continent combined, and he put Scientology on the map at a whole new level.

He was strong leader, a decent guy, and he used the technology and administrative tools sensibly and without crushing people in the process of “doing it on policy.”

He was a great man. He was someone to be respected.

And yet, he has fallen, like a soldier, into the gulag of the Int base, but worse, he has become a puppet of a man who should hold no sway over other people, whatsoever – especially over Guillaume Lesevre.

Guillaume could run circles around David Miscavige, with his eyes closed and hands tied, because here is a guy who actually built up orgs, boomed a continent and really DID it. He didn’t prance on stage like a prize stallion. He didn’t boom and threaten people. He didn’t stat push endlessly for every cent from people. And he certainly didn’t corrupt Scientology.

Yet, here he is – a mere pawn in the David Miscavige game of “how many people can I put on my personal chess board and command and degrade?”

When I saw Guillaume speak on a news program this past year, in defense of David Miscavige, I saw a broken man. He was thin, gaunt, hollow-eyed, and the animation, the character that made him HIM, was submerged. He was in fear.

Fear of who? Some megalomaniac who thinks he can press his thumb down and command everyone below him? Some two-bit dictator who calls himself the Chairman of the Board of Scientology – a title he has never earned, and to the contrary, should be stripped of.

Guillaume is now a classic example of the Stockholm Syndrome. He’s been beaten up, abused, degraded, invalidated, and humiliated to the point where his only apparent defense is to suck up to the source of all of that, and pretend to be his ally.

If there was one person whom I have always believed could have run Scientology into the stars, and who had all the right elements; charisma, leadership, compassion, presence, intelligence, drive and some reckless “who gives a fuck,” it was Guillaume. That was the Guillaume I knew back in the late 70s and early 80s. Unfortunately, he no longer can step up to that plate, because even on the day that DM steps aside or runs away (either will happen), Guillaume has sold out to the devil himself. He has compromised his principles and could never be trusted to stay the ship on the right course.  I am sad to say that, as I had hoped that he and a few others would march into DM’s office one day and inform him that he was OUT. Believe it or not, they CAN do that. If he, Heber and Marc went into Hemet, hired an attorney, drafted the paper showing clearly the corporate and tax-mandate violations, and then went to the local cops and asked for an escort, they could march into the base, inform David Miscavige that he has violated the integrity of the Church of Scientology and its very mandates corporately and with the IRS, not to mention his own personal wealth which has slipped away in some remote bank accounts (you don’t think DM makes $44 every week like other Sea Org members, right?) and then demand that he steps aside. If they waved a legal document in his face, had an attorney there, and cops to prevent DM from ordering his goons up to the RTC building to physically stop them, well, the showdown would be messy – but it would work because David Miscavige cannot legally hold onto the Church. LRH set up the legal precursors to prevent that from happening. It just has to be shown how DM has manipulated the system to make it look like he owns Scientology and has unchallengeable control over it. It’s a ruse, and a good one because he’s got a lot of good people buying it. Alas, I am sad to say that Guillaume will probably never step up to the plate to do that, but I wish it were so, because if he had snapped out of the brainwashed condition he has slipped into, he had the credentials for the job.

Needless to say, we need someone else to step up to that plate. Like Gaddafi and every other dictator, DM will eventually find his place in this world. Not because I say so, but because history reminds us that people will eventually oust him, and he will be despised and forgotten about, except in the history books as a lesson to all of humanity.

Written by Outside the Box