Marty: Open Letter to Residents of Ingleside on the Bay Texas

Sponge · Jul 9, 2011

xenubarb said: ↑

I'd complain. Damn clams think they can just use anything they want. No no no...

File DMCAs from "Cultbuster Productions"? lol riight. But then I'd have to team up with Marty since he owns the copyright on the original photo.
I'd rather just do this, this, this, this and this

Triumph · Jul 9, 2011

CoS Magazine seeks to hire reporter in south Texas
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/
nice long article

In Florida, Rinder and his work associates have called police and sheriff's deputies repeatedly after being confronted by Freedom Magazine reporter James Lynch, often with camera crews in tow.
Lynch is a veteran journalist. He is a former managing editor of the New York Post and held management positions with the New York Daily News, the Chicago Sun Times Media Group and publishers of several national celebrity tabloids.
When contacted by telephone by the Caller-Times, Lynch said, "How do I know you're who you say you are?" He then did not respond after being referred to contact information for the newspaper's reporters and editors on Caller.com and did not answer additional phone calls.
Rinder said Lynch's activities in Florida have been going on for weeks.
In reports June 15 and 16 by the Tarpon Springs Police Department, officers detail an incident in which Lynch came to the door of Rinder's employer, Origin Technologies, which develops products for the food service industry. Rinder shot video of the incident and turned it over to police. According to the report, Lynch refused to turn over his own video and was warned by police that his actions may have constituted trespassing because he didn't leave the business when asked. He was never cited for any violation.
Rinder's boss at Origin, Susan Clickner, has reported to police multiple instances of her and other Origin employees being accosted by Lynch, at work, restaurants, medical facilities, a car rental agency and a liquor store.
Employees have threatened to quit because of the unwanted attention, Clickner said.
"I have two people that are right on the edge," she said.
Other reports included visits by people other than Lynch who identified themselves as Scientologists.
"I can't go anywhere without them showing up," Clickner said. "I come out of the supermarket and they're there and they start yelling at me. All the shoppers stop and turn and watch, and I'm kind of held hostage while I'm loading my groceries."
Clickner said she has never been a member of the Church of Scientology and doesn't understand why she's being targeted. She was first introduced to her employee, Rinder, through independent Scientologists she knew.
"The people that have left the church are some of the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent people I've ever met," she said.
In her encounters with Lynch, she said, he has asked her questions about her business, and how she can afford the mortgage on her house. Clickner said she can't understand how any of it is relevant to Scientology or the stated human interest objectives of Freedom Magazine.
Rinder said the whole point is to punish him, and to drive his work associates and friends away from him, for defecting.
"It's annoying, but I know that it represents desperation on the part of Miscavige," Rinder said. "He doesn't have anything else he can do, anything effective to try to stanch the bleeding he is suffering and the exodus of people from the church, so he sends idiots out to try and intimidate people."
Lynch authored a 2009 article in Freedom Magazine titled "An Outsider's View of Scientology in Clearwater." Clearwater is home to the Flag, a religious retreat the church likens to Mecca.
Lynch's article criticized the St. Petersburg Times investigation for a lack of fairness and objectivity, and pointed out how Scientologists have helped the community of Clearwater economically and socially.
In 2010, Lynch told Michael Miner, senior editor of the Reader, an alternative Chicago news weekly, that he stood by his report.
"I didn't necessarily do this for the money," Lynch said. "I've always had an interest in religion and this gave me a good way to examine a religion I never had a chance to examine."
He wouldn't tell Miner what he was paid, but he asked, "Just don't make me look like a shill for Scientology."

read more here
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

good old fashioned Kitchen sink journalism

this guy does some reporting.....

Anonymous · Jul 9, 2011

Triumph said: ↑

CoS Magazine seeks to hire reporter in south Texas
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/
nice long article

read more here
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

good old fashioned Kitchen sink journalism

this guy does some reporting.....

It sounds like James Lynch is a paid shill and harasser for Scientology.

Sponge · Jul 9, 2011

Triumph said: ↑

CoS Magazine seeks to hire reporter in south Texas
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/
nice long article

read more here
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

good old fashioned Kitchen sink journalism

this guy does some reporting.....

Picking up on this bit...

caller.com article said:

Freedom bills itself as a magazine devoted to human rights and social betterment, but much of its recent reporting has been devoted to attacking former church members and the journalists who write and report about criticisms of the church.

Scientology propaganda, especially through its front groups CCHR, YFHRI etc makes great fanfare of promoting the Universal Declaration of Human rights, yet on a daily basis as a matter of policy and actual real life fact, as seen with this "squirrel busters" retardery, they break several of those very Human rights. Including.....

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation

Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

And before those lunatics claim that rights such as to travel freely in their own country and rights to freedom of assembly etc trump the above.... they don't....
There is nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that justifies any person or state doing anything that undermines the rights to which we are all entitled.

Article 30 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying... any right to engage in any activity... aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herin"

Although the UDHR is not legally binding, basically the cult and their "squirrel busters" have shown themselves to be the total hypocrits that they are. This should be clearly pointed out at the next council meeting and to more local news media.

Also see:

http://www.xenu-directory.net/topics/scn-vs-udhr.html
(although I doubt Marty Rathbun would promote the Hubbard policy comparisons on that xenu-directory link)

Triumph · Jul 9, 2011

Heres Jim Lynch dogging Mike and his employer

some of this is part of the above article

xenubarb · Jul 9, 2011

Anonymous said: ↑

All he needs is a water hose.

I'd prefer a tuna jig on 80 lb. test line.

xenubarb · Jul 9, 2011

Sponge said: ↑

File DMCAs from "Cultbuster Productions"? lol riight. But then I'd have to team up with Marty since he owns the copyright on the original photo.
I'd rather just do this, this, this, this and this

Oh, you!

Smurf · Jul 9, 2011

"Anonymous said: ↑

It sounds like James Lynch is a paid shill and harasser for Scientology.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2010/02/23/on-taking-the-scientologists-shilling

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicag...-a-lively-former-employee/Content?oid=1205418

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslynch060

Sponge · Jul 9, 2011

Anonymous said: ↑

It sounds like James Lynch is a paid shill and harasser for Scientology.

Smurf said: ↑

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2010/02/23/on-taking-the-scientologists-shilling

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicag...-a-lively-former-employee/Content?oid=1205418

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslynch060

He has lack of confront:

http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

[...]

In Florida, Rinder and his work associates have called police and sheriff's deputies repeatedly after being confronted by Freedom Magazine reporter James Lynch, often with camera crews in tow.

Lynch is a veteran journalist. He is a former managing editor of the New York Post and held management positions with the New York Daily News, the Chicago Sun Times Media Group and publishers of several national celebrity tabloids.

When contacted by telephone by the Caller-Times, Lynch said, "How do I know you're who you say you are?" He then did not respond after being referred to contact information for the newspaper's reporters and editors on Caller.com and did not answer additional phone calls.

[...]

"Communication is the universal......?"
Runaway! Runway!

Anonymous · Jul 9, 2011

Sponge said: ↑

He has lack of confront:

"Communication is the universal......?"
Runaway! Runway!

I'm sure he is proud of the fine work he is doing. Maybe it is his employer who won't let him be interviewed by his fellow journalists.

Triumph · Jul 9, 2011

My SA.com (San Anatonio Tx)
Scientologists behind harassment campaign in Ingleside
Defector from Scientology alleges harassment. Group claims it is making a documentary.
By John MacCormack
jmaccormack@express-news.net

INGLESIDE ON THE BAY — The first time Charlie Orr saw the group of men outside his home, wearing odd helmets and sky blue shirts with a “Squirrel Busters” insignia on the chest, he assumed a neighbor had a rodent infestation.
“I thought, ‘Well, we had a termite man out here. Maybe we have a squirrel problem I didn't know about,'” he recalled.
But as Orr, 70, and other residents of this idyllic coastal community of palm trees, elegant white skiffs and pastel-colored homes soon learned — to their continuing regret — the Squirrel Busters had no interest in tree-climbing varmints.

It's just an unfortunate situation. It's aggravated somewhat by the videotaping back and forth by both sides that ends up on YouTube,” Mayor Howard Gillespie said. “I'm hoping it will not be as confrontational as it has been. I hope they do their videotaping and leave.”
Besides following Rathbun around, the Squirrel Busters have handed out a lurid pamphlet titled “Neighborhood Alert” that describes him as a mentally imbalanced, violent criminal who was expelled from the church.
Their literature also accuses him of “spreading sensational lies to the media and starting and promoting his own cult-like hate group.”
After several failed attempts to rent a house near Rathbun's, the group now occupies one about a block away with a clear view of his residence. Rathbun said they also have come to his door, followed him around in a golf cart and used a paddle boat to spy on him from a backyard canal.
Bart Parr, one of several Californians on Squirrel Busters assignment, insisted the mission is purely journalistic and not harassment.
“We're here to shoot a documentary of Mr. Rathbun and his activities. We don't follow him around, he follows us around,” he said last week. “The Squirrel Busters are trying to show what people like Mr. Rathbun, who are squirrels, are doing.”

Parr said he's not a Scientologist, and insisted the church has no connection to the Squirrel Busters activities. Instead, he said, it is privately funded by unnamed Scientologists.
“We're not going to be here indefinitely,” he said. “We'll finish the documentary in the next month and a half.”
Attempts Friday to reach Scientology spokeswoman Linda Wieland in Los Angeles were not successful. Wieland earlier had said the church has no connection to the Squirrel Busters.

His wife, Monique, whom he married last year, also has been targeted.
“They've gone so far as to try and convince me he's evil and I should get away from him. They've gone to my friends and my ex-husband,” she said. “They've got websites up, saying I'm a man. And they smear me on their little blogs.”

And as the conflict has worsened and become better known, public opinion on the bay has hardened against the Squirrel Busters. Orr, who describes the Rathbuns as perfect neighbors, got fed up long ago.

“I've told people I'm thinking of forming a group called the ‘Ass Busters,'” he growled. “We'll block the street, capture them and take 'em all about 50 miles out in the gulf and see if they can swim back.”

Down at the Bahia Marina, a sign on the door tells all Squirrel Busters they will be arrested for trespassing if they set foot on the premises. The owner, Carol Regnier, also has ordered several dozen more signs to be sold at cost to residents with similar sentiments.
She said she first encountered the group with video cameras near the marina entrance.
“They told me they were doing a documentary on one of our neighbors, that he was a very notorious figure. They wouldn't tell me what he had done, but said it was something religious. So, I'm thinking, ‘My God, this guy has molested kids in the church,'” Regnier said.
“Before they left, one of the young men said, ‘We'll have him out of there in less than two months,' so I knew it wasn't a documentary,” she said.

She said the group members twice tried to rent houses near Rathbun's, but that she turned them down because she felt they were being dishonest about their intentions.
“What's strange to me is them spending all this money on this. How much good works could they do instead? It's supposed to be a church. Why aren't they doing things to help people?” she asked.
On Wednesday night, yet another encounter between Rathbun and several of the Squirrel Busters at a local business led to an ultimatum.
“Every time those two groups end up at my restaurant, the police come, and it's hard enough running a restaurant in this town,” said Christian Wiseman, owner of Nightlingers, a steakhouse in nearby Ingleside.
When Rathbun complained that Ralph Gomez, one of the Squirrel Busters, had approached his group in the restaurant and taken photos or video, Wiseman had had enough.
“I went up to Ralph. I said, ‘Look, dude. I'm only gonna tell you once. Any more shenanigans, and you'll be stuck eating at McDonalds or Sonic. I'm not going to have you harassing my customers,'” he said.
But the great Scientology spat shows no signs of abating. How it will end is anyone's guess, but few think it will be pretty.

“Both sides are pretty dug in and Mark is not going anywhere. I don't see him running away and they're pretty tenacious. It seems like a standoff,” Wiseman said. “It's completely bizarre. It reminds me of kids playing spy, all the little intrigues, and people following each other around with cameras. It's not what we would consider adult behavior.”

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Scientologists-behind-harassment-campaign-in-1459662.php

Zhongjianren · Jul 9, 2011

Magazine trails Ingleside on Bay church defector
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

Sorry, dupe.

Anonymous · Jul 9, 2011

Zhongjianren said: ↑

Magazine trails Ingleside on Bay church defector
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jul/09/church-of-scientology-magazine-seeks-to-hire-in/

see post 441

Anonymous · Jul 10, 2011

Never lacking for entertainment value, cult of CoS. likr crack ho's on a check-day.

Triumph · Jul 10, 2011

Coastal town now is awash in 'Squirrel Busters

' (photos)

Defector from Scientology alleges harassment. Group claims it is making a documentary.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Scientologists-behind-harassment-campaign-in-1459662.php#ixzz1RiTarVDK
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...-now-is-awash-in-Squirrel-Busters-1459662.php

mirele · Jul 10, 2011

Anonymous said: ↑

If you go to South Padre Island, you'll be 200 miles away from the Marty / Bustah action. Check out a map.

I KNOW that. It's just you got to combine some pleasure with your NutBusting tourism, right? Unfortunately, if I went to Texas on a trip, I'd be almost compelled to stop by and visit a sibling who lives in Houston, aka the humid armpit of the Gulf of Mexico.

Triumph · Jul 10, 2011

mirele said: ↑

I KNOW that. It's just you got to combine some pleasure with your NutBusting tourism, right? Unfortunately, if I went to Texas on a trip, I'd be almost compelled to stop by and visit a sibling who lives in Houston, aka the humid armpit of the Gulf of Mexico.

I thought it was known as the "the devils ashtray"

Anonymous · Jul 10, 2011

Obviously, Marty is conflicted. He wants the harassment to end, but also wants the harassers to stay because it makes him look like a martyr.

adhocrat · Jul 10, 2011

It's not what we would consider adult behavior.

I lol every time I read that

JohnnyRUClear · Jul 10, 2011

mirele said: ↑

I KNOW that. It's just you got to combine some pleasure with your NutBusting tourism, right?

I thought you wanted to go there because of its initials.

pooks · Jul 11, 2011

Zhongjianren said: ↑

The Squirrel Busters are using a combination of a noisy investigation and bullbaiting. Marty knows that better than anyone. With perhaps one lapse (grabbing the microphone, which I'm sure he is aware of), he has been doing a good job of using that knowledge against them.

The problem for the COS and the Squirrel Busters is that Marty does not react -- does not react to the bullbaiting, does not crumble in the face of the noisy investigation. As a result, they keep ramping things up -- that is the COS way. If X amount of force doesn't work, then obviously 2X is required. Which makes them look to the public more and more like psychotic, dangerous and delusional assclowns.

The biggest problem for the COS is that it is so insular that they have no idea how dangerous and idiotic they look. They don't ask themselves, "Are we acting in a way consistent with how the general public believes a religions would behave.?" They can't.

Yes, you absolutely nailed it. Plus, they truly think that they are absolutely right in what they are doing and that it doesn't matter what wogs think, because they are righteously right. They are completely deluded and out of touch with reality.

Scientology-- A Shit Heap Of Fail!

BLiP · Jul 11, 2011

subgenius said: ↑

lest we forget
Rugburn tormented and tried to destroy many people, including Gerry Armstrong
He was also personally involved in the blackmail that resulted in the IRS exemption, the revocation of which would end this shit quickly.
He has made NO amends, nor corrected any of those injustices.
He and Rinder are criminals.
Neither are doing the right thing probably due to the concept of mutually assured destruction.
As LBJ said about Nixon: "I don't know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad."
Damn, I'm hungry.

QFT

Triumph · Jul 11, 2011

Houston Chronicle
Scientology defector in Corpus Christi alleges Harassment

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/7648309.html

acepi86 · Aug 17, 2011

Smurf said: ↑

OSA's on overdrive... the Marty Rathbum newsletter.. http://martyrathbunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Marty-Rathbun-4th-of-July-Newsletter.pdf

"church" funds go into this...... sad

Anonymous · Aug 17, 2011

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