Who Is Mark Rathbun?

I would like to look Marty Rathbun in the eyes and ask him one question: “If LRH’s tech works then why are you so stupid?”

One of LRH’s many creations was “study tech,” which Tom Cruise praised as the reason he’s able to read. If that’s the case, Tom’s the only one.

From Marty’s blog:

Pam, D/CO WUS, has kindly provided us with a list of all Scientologists in the WUS whom OSA considers don’t march quite lock step enough to Miscavige’s liking.

I don’t honestly know what else to say, aside from ‘could someone translate that for me?’

There was a recent post on Marty’s blog about how Miscavige and Co. falsify the cult’s stats on a regular basis. Now, for anyone who has been paying attention to the cult for a decent amount of time, this is not news at all. Of course they falsify stats. Considering everyone who has ever purchased Dianetics to be a member? Sounds like falsification to me! And we all knew this already. We knew that, come every Tuesday at 2pm, every single SO member scrambles to make up enough bullshit to make DM happy.

We also are fairly familiar with their tactic of sending out instructions for their peons to comment on any web article with a connection to Scientology. We’ve seen the wash of bullshit, obvious “I AM NOT A SCIENTOLOGIST, BUT…….” comments that cause most news organizations to close comments on Scn-related articles.

But, of course, when Marty posts it, his cronies treat it like its some giant revelation, and let him get away with over-charged rhetoric like this:

Irrespective of how much we try to educate the public that the entire Scientology Network has taken the cue from the top to routinely falsify statistics, the morons continue unabated creating houses of lies.  And, ultimately being basically good  they leave smoking guns lying around in the hopes we might put their ethics in.  Here we’ve caught Miscavige’s very close and dear pet project Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).  So far he’s sent two Texas CCHR punks and the two heads of CCHR INT (Eastgate and the other blonde spokeswoman) to attempt to kidnap escaped SO members and disrupt Scientology services. No wonder they MUST falsify their statistics – they certainly aren’t producing any and Dave needs his rolling thunder material.  Here’s the most recent evidence – a widely distributed email instructing Cult of Miscavige members on how to become criminal:

There’s a few problems with what Marty has said there. The first is that the public is, for the most part, aware of the cult’s constant stream off self-aggrandizing bullshit. Hence why news organizations close down comments on Scn related articles, as we mentioned before. They know this, in part, because of the work Anon has done – not anything that Marty did. But, that’s not the most interesting part. The most interesting part is where he claims that asking someone to rate a website, and possibly skew the rankings, of a private/commercial web-ranking tool, is a crime. Our reaction?

Followed immediately by:

Now, I understand, if you are Marty, that you have to use the most inflamatory language you can to increase the shock value every time you post. Otherwise your adoring sycophants and any marginally interested journalists might lose interest. They’re not there for you, Marty, they’re there for the EXCITEMENT. The BEDAZZLE. They’re there to see you stick it to the Man (that man, in this case, being DM). They actually don’t give a shit about you, and you know that. You know that the moment you stop making self-aggrandizing statements yourself, and just tell the truth (which is bad enough as it is), they’ll stop coming.

Not too long ago, someone got into Marty’s blog and screen-capped a bunch of images of comments that had been made, showing that many of the people posting on Marty’s blog are in fact sock puppets of other posters. By Marty’s assessment, this makes them criminals too. But of course, Marty won’t “ack” that because it doesn’t fit what he wants to portray. He’s falsifying his stats too, it would seem.

I believe that Scientology hurts people in very real, deep ways. Ways that take years to heal. I believe that they lie constantly, and that DM is becoming more and more frantic every time those lies are exposed. The problem is that Marty sets himself and his community as a legitimate transitioning point for those leaving the cult who are disillusioned, abused and in need of help. At the same time, he lies, inflates his own ‘stats,’ and does many of the same things that cult did to all those people. And every sensational lie, every DM-like insistence that “we are growing” just cheapens what the people who are flocking to him actually went through.

Honestly Marty – Why do you have to lie to make things look so shocking, when the truth is shocking enough already?

Today Marty had another “new independent” post their story on his blog. Another independent who went through so much bullshit at the hands of Scientology, only to find Marty and be ‘saved’ by his brand of ‘Tech.’

And I can’t help but think… does Marty really think that people are buying this?

Every single post made by independents always give credit to Marty as being the person who saved their lives. Its as if he solicited reviews from customers. Actually, now that I think about it, that’s exactly what he did. Solicited reviews from customers.

You will never see a story on Marty’s blog that doesn’t say something to the effect of “and then I started reading Marty’s blog” or “I recently went for auditing with Marty, and everything feels right again.” Because his blog isn’t about “exposing ‘Radical Scientology’.” Its about talking shit about his competition.

So Marty, you can stop trying to keep up these appearances. I know it must be tiring, pretending you care about these people. Its ok. We understand. Everyone has to make a buck, and in this shitty economy, you found a great way to do it.

Just admit it, Marty. You’ll feel so much better!

Recently Marty posted a long post about the stuff that he “went through” while he was in LA. Wild claims about “cell phones being traced” were made in such a way that its clear he expected his readers to take it at face value. And I’m sure many of them do. There are several of them who are deadset on believing that Scn has access to airline computers and that’s how they find out about all of the Independents’ travel plans (as we discussed in our last post, its more likely that people in their group have an inability to keep their mouths shut). But they believe it anyways – why shouldn’t they believe that Scn is also tracking their phones?

I have to admit that I’m starting to get fed up, not just with Marty for pedaling this bullshit, but with his drones for believing it. I understand that when you’ve been programmed to have that “believe anything your leader tells you” that Scn programs into its people, you run the risk of clinging to something else with as much delusion once you leave Scn. But that doesn’t make it right. Most of these people are either so out of touch with reality that they don’t understand how phones work (and I think many of them probably are) or they are being willfully ignorant.

Lately Marty has been posting songs and videos on his blog. Well, we have a video for him: