||||| From: karethian@aol.com (michael pattinson) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Hi from Michael Pattinson Date: 25 Apr 2002 00:04:00 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 98 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.188.193.42 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019718241 25953 127.0.0.1 (25 Apr 2002 07:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Apr 2002 07:04:01 GMT Path: news2.lightlink.com!news.lightlink.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: news2.lightlink.com alt.religion.scientology:1459537 Hi. I was talking with Tory, and saw a need to give a few clarifications of my recent sudden absence from ars. I was in the cult for over 24 years and got ripped off horribly. The cult of Scientology promised me a Bridge to Total Fredom that it has not and can not deliver. I went all the way up through "New OT8" and found no more road to travel, and I was NOT "totally free". NOBODY has ever travelled to "Total Freedom" through Scientology and there are none (zero, nada, zilch, etc....) who can demonstrate the promised OT powers to show for all the money spent. 50 years and no final product. Quite a scam. I sued for fraud etc.... and became the target of Fair Game by the OSA-CST-RTC litigation mob to the degree of being deliberately financially ruined, evicted, bankrupted and isolated from all my former friends in Scientology. My courageous lawyer (Graham Berry) was attacked mercilessly, not only in the litigation process but in his personal, professional and private life by the illegal and criminal actions of the same mob till he was ruined too. In retrospect, in my case his primary error (and he is no longer my lawyer) was most likely hitching his own personal anti-scn (wagons) to my case (locomotive) and the cult used that to derail the case. Well, that's history. (My future options are not.) I received no donation $$$ help from Mintonbucks and Co. and had to survive the onslaught alone. It was very difficult to lose my home, car, job, bank accounts, credit standing, friends etc.... and keep up the fight for the truth about the scam that Scientology perpetrated on me. Some armchair warriors of ars ignore the real world of standing up to the cult and seem to have no compassion whatsoever for someone brave enough to do so. I have not settled with the cult, and they have never contacted me to seek a settlement. I am not gagged or restricted from using any of my rights, including refiling my case or speaking out against the cult's scams. I filed a criminal complaint with the US Justice Dept in January. No comment further on that here. I first hoped that ars would be a forum of mutual assistance for victims of the cult and would be a zone of friendship as a refuge from its savagery. I now know that is not the case. I see ars now as a valuable forum for recording and archiving the truth about Scientology. So I will post here at my discretion and not seek to obtain anything further. Frankly I could not give a damn what armchair cowards say about my postings, my life or anything. They have done nothing to merit my respect, and sometimes quite the opposite. I guess a horde of refugees have nothing else in common than being refugees. I want a life of my own now, and if the cult ever interferes with that then I will again have to interfere with them to protect myself. What I do with my life is nobody's business but mine. I have earned my "wings" by standing up to all the cult's bullets and bombs in the real arena of their ugly hateful warfare. I have stood up for my beliefs, for honesty and human rights, against very heavy odds as I believe it is honorable to do so. That is who I am. It feels right so I do it. Being a lurking, hiding coward never felt like any kind of option to me. I was in the cult from 1973 (at age 24) to 1997 and fought its criminality for several years afterwards. So I have never actually "had much of a life" outside the cult as an adult, and I want to experience that. So far I like it, and it is a happier life that in the cult of Scientology by far. I would not go back into Scientology for anything. It has taken years to rid myself, even partially, of the evil brainwashing I got there and the disappointment of their fraudulent promises. I will not be a "regular" poster here any more but will use ars as I want when I want. To Int Mgt, CST, RTC, and the Liar-Lawyers of Scientology, I say...."What goes around comes around", and I would not like to be in your shoes when it does! To OSA, I feel sorry for you guys still hopelessly mummified in the tight bandages of Hubbard's lies and false data. I hope you WAKE UP!! To those destructive morons who come on ars to backstab and harm....Get a Life! To those decent and constructive ars members I salute you, encourage you, love you and wish you all the very best in everything you do. To those who fight for the truth you have my utmost respect and admiration. BRAVO!!!!! "Namaste". (the God in Me salutes the God in You) Michael Pattinson.