Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #14

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And scientology

has perfected

A lot of

techniques of control.

There is

no logical explanation

As to why,

other than faith.

Your future, your eternity,

All depends on

you going up the bridge.

It's scary.

It's kinda like

christianity with hell.

If they don't have the bridge,

they can't go free.

They don't believe

they can get it anywhere else.

It's like brainwashing.

Really simple.

I mean,

that's a scary word,

And it took me a long time

To come to that conclusion,

that that's what's occurred.

You take on

A kind of a--

a matrix of thought

That is not your own.

I think that's how i

and other people got involved

And stuck through it

for so long.

Because when you're out,

you look at it,

And you go,

"what the crap

was i thinking," you know?

It's such a hard thing

when you do wake up.

You go, "oh my god."

Because you have this wave

of regrets.

I just started to think

that maybe my entire life

Has been a lie.

You just don't see it

happening to you.

You justify so much.

Cults, they prey on people,

suggesting that, you know,

You should be able

to think for yourself

And then tell you exactly

how you have to think,

or get out.

And if you get out,

there will be consequences.

Come on, marty.

Got anything to say?

What's your name?

Why don't you answer

his question?

Beat it. I said get off

my property, boy.

The real sustained campaign

Began in early 2009

When i spoke to

the "st. Petersburg times."

And i'd been hounded

and hunted like wild prey.

It's a policy of

the office of special affairs

Authored by l. Ron hubbard.

When somebody's speaking out

against scientology,

Investigate to find out

who the instigator is.

I started getting calls

from the church,

And they're-- they're really,

uh, comin' after me.

They showed up

at my mother's house.

The feeling in the pit

of your stomach

Knowing that scientology's

chief dirty-tricks pi

Was just

on my mother's front step.

They've tried to destroy me,

there's no question.

They create

anonymous websites about me,

And smear me

with a lot of garbage.

Www.Whoistomdevocht.Com.

Whoispaulhaggis.Com.

"paul haggis,

the hypocrite of hollywood."

"this guy is a sex pervert,"

or "this guy's a drug dealer."

In the meantime,

Survey carefully

to find out what

he most values and protects.

Immediately draw up

a three-prong program

To threaten it effectively.

I don't value anything

more than monique.

That's why this campaign

ended up on our doorstep.

Was she there?

I knew they had

their goons around.

And then the guy

rolls down in window

and i saw the truck.

And he starts filming,

and i go,

"okay, this is not good."

What's goin' on?

Oh, we're just doing

a documentary.

A documentary?

Oh, a former

scientology deal.

But it would

probably be a good idea

if y'all went ahead--

Now that you've gotten

what you need,

Go ahead and leave the area.

Sure.

Okay?

I don't know

who these people are.

I don't know

what they're capable of.

And now that i have my son...

I have

a little louisville slugger

i keep next to me.

It's been a nonstop onslaught,

for five years.

I told you to leave.

Get out of here.

Oh no, i'm leaving.

You can't even

defend yourself

on this can you?

What's your name?

I gave you my name, marty.

What's your name?

Marty, i gave you my name.

The people on marty's doorstep

were sent by scientology

Because the church

had branded marty a "squirrel,"

A term invented by hubbard

for former members

Who threatened

church teachings.

David miscavige had you

come all the way from...

Marty.

...San jose.

Marty!

Man #2:
You can't do that.

You can't do that, marty!

I just did it.

No, that's my

personal property, marty.

Yeah, that's right.

I got arrested, man.

I got arrested for grabbing

this guy's glasses.

I said, "don't look at her."

you understand that?

Yeah.

I heard her.

Of course, the guy had been

stalking monique for two years.

He looks

like a leering pervert,

Like norman bates

from "psycho."

I didn't break his glasses.

I just removed them

from his-- from his face.

They got it all on videotape

from their surveillance house

That was filming 24/7, 365,

For five years,

across the street from us.

This lawsuit

with monique rathbun--

It's a brilliant

legal strategy.

If marty sues,

the church just says,

"this is

a first amendment fight.

"this should not be

in a court of law."

But monique

was never in scientology.

She's suing david miscavige

and asking to depose him.

And scientology

will do anything to keep him

out of that situation.

And the point is, judge,

If you let me

make my presentation,

On first amendment law

That comes from

the united states

supreme court...

For every court date,

The church hires a bevy

of high-priced lawyers.

They are determined

to use every legal trick

in the book

To keep miscavige

from having to testify

About church abuses

or whether the religion

of scientology

Is actually operated

like a business,

Controlled by the whims

of a single individual.

In 2014,

miscavige celebrated

The ongoing expansion

of the church,

But he was hiding

a terrible secret.

Good evening!

The church's

active membership

has dropped

To fewer

than 50,000 people,

Yet the financial value

of scientology is soaring.

How about we just say,

2013 is the year

we went stratospheric?

The church

is making investments

And buying

valuable real estate

all over the world.

That financial clout

gives scientology

enormous power.

It's a kind of

tax-free shell company

Growing past $3 billion

in assets.

The church now

no longer has a public face.

There's no spokespeople,

They don't do

media interviews,

And that suits miscavige.

There is nobody

that he is willing

To have be

the face of scientology

other than himself,

But he's afraid to

be interviewed by anybody

For fear that they're

gonna ask him questions

That he can't answer,

or doesn't want to answer.

Where are the checks

and balances on his power?

There is none.

So there are two things

that could happen.

One is, the irs

would reconsider

its tax exemption.

The only other thing

is that some of these

celebrity megaphones

Could turn

against the church.

And tom cruise

should be leading

that chorus.

Is there anything

that you look back on,

In terms of your own career

in the church,

And think, "wow,

i wish i hadn't done that?"

You know, we talked

about karma earlier.

And, you know,

it still happens that

it's like it's just this--

I constantly get presented

with who i was,

And, you know,

and i constantly

don't like what i see,

And i sort of constantly

keep dying deaths.

Um, and--

I don't know how many

more deaths i have left,

But i-- but i--

But i regret

And i'm ashamed of, uh...

The entire experience,

you know?

What i take away from it

is that we--

We lock up a portion

of our own mind.

We-- we willingly

put cuffs on.

We willingly avoid things

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