Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Cult

I'd heard whispers about this, but last night the whispers became reality. The St. Petersburg Times, newspaper of the Tampa-St. Pete area, dumped a huge package of stories and videos about the Happy Fun Cult, also known as Scientology.

Scientology: The Truth Rundown, Part 1 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology

You might think that the headline is overkill, but it's not, given the nuclear nature of the revelations therein. The star witnesses are two guys who were widely considered to be enforcers for the current head of Scientology, David Miscavige (aka DM), back in the 90s and early 00s: Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun. They've since "blown" (left) Scientology.

For those of us who were involved in the rather lonely business of exposing Scientology's bad deeds to the world back in the 90s and early 00s, these two guys were up there in trying to make US look bad. So it's something of a shock now to hear them talk about what a creep DM was.

Especially when these revelations managed to provoke AMAZING responses from the Co$:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012138.ece

This article documents not only the meltdown that Tommy Davis, son of "celebrity Scientologist" Anne Archer, had, but also that all the stuff that comes out in alleged confessionals and put into your "Ethics" folders is just "fair game" when it comes to smearing those DM considers to be his enemies.

There's so much incredible stuff here to go through. It really is amazing to see on the other side of the mirror and realize, yup, it was crazy in there. Scientology deserved and deserves to be exposed for the money-hoovering operation it really is (not a religion).