Who Is Mark Rathbun?

In a recent post on his blog, Marty talks about a company called Survival Insurance. Survival Insurance, for those who don’t know, is a business owned by a Scientologist. So, for all intents and purposes, its owned by the CoS. The owner of this business recently gave the IAS 10 million dollars.

Now, its not my business what people do with their money (hey, I like to spend mine on hookers and blow!), but I will agree that this guy was an idiot to put 10 million dollars straight into DM’s pocket. Especially since he is now declaring bankruptcy, and that 10 million would more than cover he debts (or so Marty claims). However, the true idiocy is found in Rathbun’s insistence that people should find out who this guy’s creditors are and let them know about the 10 million dollar donation. Somewhere in his mind, these ‘creditors’ will go to DM himself and demand that the money he was given, be given to them.

Unfortunately Marty, that isn’t how it works. If you spend your money on hookers and blow, and neglect to pay your bills, your electric company is going to go find the hookers, or the drug dealer, and say “that money is supposed to be mine.” No, they’re going to put your debts in collections and drag your ass into court. But in your imaginary world, everyone and their mom realizes that DM is an evil cunt, and is going to go after him because you suggested they do so. It doesn’t work that way. Ask your wife, she lives in the real world. Perhaps you should get a crash course in “reality” from her after you get done giving her courses in science fiction. Hey, who knows, maybe you guys can meet in the middle!

Today, in one of the most blatantly egotistical blog posts ever to be posted on the internet, Marty claimed to be the reason that critics of Scientology have been getting less shit from the church. In fact, if it were not for him, Janet Reitman and Hugh Urban would not have been able to write their books.

Now, I will give Marty that the movement he has started, and now controls with an iron fist, is certainly interesting, and adds a whole new dynamic to the playing field that is the game of “bringing Scientology to ruin.”

But fuck him. Fuck him for suggesting that he is “the game changer.” Fuck him for suggesting that without him, all these journalists (several of whom have given notice to his movement and at the same time acurately portrayed what an asshole he really was when he was in Scientology) would not have had the courage to put up with Scientology’s shit.

If anyone wants to know the real reason that Scientology had its balls cut off, look no further than Anon. The sheer mass of people that are involved in anon made it impossible, for the first time ever, for the cult to get away with going after people silently. People, for the first time, felt safe to speak out in a very vocal manner, because they knew that anon was watching. If anything happened to them, anon would be there to shout about it from the rooftops.

So fuck Marty Rathbun. Fuck him eight ways to Sunday. He hasn’t made anyone feel safe. All he’s done is pick up the brainwashing right where LRH left off. I’m sure he’s done LRH proud, but the rest of us wish he’d take a long hike off a short Golden Gate Bridge.

We’ve discussed before the fact that most ex-Scientologists are stupid as shit. It actually makes sense when you consider that many of them dropped out of school or went into the Sea Org instead of continuing their education and going to college. The fact that they spent so much time being totally out of touch with reality doesn’t help the whole ‘intelligence’ thing either.

But you’d also assume that once they get out, they’d start improving. Marty seems to be regressing. Every new post of his that we read is seems more and more incoherent than the last. The most recent one shows that the only part of the English language he’s got a good grasp on is exaggeration – something he does extremely well, all while making a mess of his sentence structure, confusing words, failing to capitalize proper nouns, and using words that do not mean what he thinks they mean. Call me Inigo Montoya, but it seems like someone ought to make Marty aware of the fact that he’s an absolute bumbling dipshit.

I really didn’t think it would be possible for the Marty vs. SquirrelBusters Saga to get any more interesting. Really, I mean, they’ve already made complete asses of themselves.

And then the SquirrelBusters released this gem:

Not to be outdone by the SquirrelBuster asshattery, Marty saw their stupidity and raised them a srscat is srs post about their video, in which he claims, among other things, that DM himself edited together this video. He claimed that Mike Rinder would back him up on this, which is useless, since whenever Mike backs up something Marty said, I just look at it like Marty said something twice (saying something twice makes it true-er, don’t ya know?!).

And so, I was wrong. Things got better…. for those of us who don’t give a shit about who “wins” this whole thing, that is. Or, for those of you who took my advice and bought stock in popcorn.

Watching Marty and the Squirrel Busters is like watching two trains collide head on. Its a massive fucking train wreck.

I have no idea why the hell anyone would lower themselves to the level of that the Squirrel Busters have, in their stupid blue shirts, looking like assholes to everyone but each other. But they’re Scientologists. Its actually somewhat forgivable for them to do this type of thing, after all they’re just doing what Davey tells them to right? But Marty… he’s just encouraging them. If they really were annoying him as much as he claims they were, he would ignore them, or take legal action to get them to go away. But he’s not going to do that. He loves them. They’re the best PR he’s ever had.

Several of the anons on WWP have been suggesting that we shouldn’t do anything about this whole situation. We should just sit back and let this fire rage out of control, in hopes that it consumes both the SBs and Marty. I for one, agree wholeheartedly.

And while its all still going down, may I recommend buying stock in Orville Redenbacher?