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https://abc.go.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2018-09/21-from-classroom-to-captive

How did he know that?

“He looked it up.”

I have to believe her.  But it still seems like she is being programmed.

For those who don’t know, I followed the story.  It goes back to the father who looks like Paul Williams.  He was working day and night killing bugs in the town of 5,000.  The wife had been removed from the home for abuse (kid-reported and convicted).

They are going to win.  The Culleoka Unit is going to pay and the John Grisham wannabe was on the trail right from the start.  Tad does not have it anymore.  Who else can you sue?

I didn’t know.  I thought the collecting of rocks a little cute and a lot pathetic.  No, it was to convict him in every state.

Even the sentence is a paradox because his Christian suffering was getting the better of him.  It is going to be a long time and he is going to be close to an old man.  Plus, he will be a changed man.

I would like to be there as a fly on the wall.  And I do mean innocuous fly.

No, I do not want to do that.  It could be something close to a lynching, and that is not right either.

It is impossible to calculate the percentage, but the teenager is not completely innocent.  Perhaps her role is extremely small–something like .01%–but it is still there.  She packed.  She got in the car.  She was vulnerable and (barely) underage, but she did go.

I believe she was 16.  By months, in one of the states or across them all, she was barely under the sexual-consent age.

That is one of the things the 20/20 piece worked around, sex.  The off-the-gridders in No. Cal. said they were going at it frequently.

Just imagine if everyone immoral is convicted.  And do not leave it up to high school classmates to judge.

Anyway, girls and boys know about those things most places.

Interesting.  If you want to be brainwashed, is it brainwashing?  If you are an adult, and you allow yourself to be brainwashed, is it brainwashing?

Favorite show:  American Greed.  Fraud is the hardest crime to prove because you have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, intent to deceive.

I don’t usually do this.  I would rather write about people and corruption.

I saw part of the hearings live and I was surprised.  Shocked is too much.  Disappointed.

The woman was rock-solid.  The judge was not.  “I like beer” he said over and over.

I didn’t like him.  I thought about all the people, attorneys, defendants, and others he must have berated as a judge.  Often they probably deserved it.  But I doubt anyone can be right all the time.

He appeared as a spoiled, used to getting his way, angry person.  He appeared ignorant of the whole process that he must keep his cool and look like a supreme court judge.  What’s more (and remember, I don’t know a thing) he appeared as someone who is capable of getting drunk and violent.

The more I think about it, he appeared as someone who is guilty.

How guilty?  If he really didn’t make a habit of it…  If he isn’t that sort of man…  Why didn’t he just say ‘I remember her.  She is an attractive woman.  We frolicked a little.”

It seemed to me that he could very well have an angry pattern.  I see no lies in the women, but it is always a possibility.  I don’t know because I’ve never been accused of any such thing.  I have also never sought a high-level political confirmation.

What I saw is a man who became very angry, emotional, and unsettled during a legitimate questioning session.  From what I saw he is unfit for long-term duty on the highest court.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-melissa-millan-murder-leverett-warrant-20180924-story.html#

It figures.

Management needs to “root out fraud and boot out” employees engaged in misconduct.

link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

ceo personification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_(psychology)

Then there is the link that popped-up on the Detroit News – the guy in Arizona who it is said faked Downs Syndrome as fraud (and a sexual escapade).  The issue there is the fraud and where that comes from in a criminal sense.

“notice of claim forms,”

Margery Wakefield, in her book Understanding Scientology, claimed that the extremely repetitive questioning done during drills in Scientology auditing was a form of hypnosis. She claimed that these drills are sometimes done for several hours at a time, “until the preclear can do it without delay, without protest, without apathy, but with cheerfulness.” ^[5]

In 1984, a Tax Court concluded that the church had “made a business out of selling religion,” and that Mr. Hubbard and his family had diverted millions of dollars of church funds. And a Los Angeles Superior Court judge called Mr. Hubbard “a pathological liar” who seemed gripped by “egotism, greed, avarice, lust for power and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.”

L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible person.  One of his children killed himself and another changed his name to distance himself; he disowned other kids.  His wife went to prison because of him.  He beat, philandered-on, stole money from, and created great anxiety for his wives.

Eventually he became a complete dictator and punisher of others.  Plus, he was convicted or unwelcome in various countries.

Tony link.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962611.Bare_Faced_Messiah

Damn, that’s a boring review, that top one.  It is also a bit boisterous — you could even say narcissistic.

It is not the beginning as that was in Nebraska.  He was raised in Helena, Montana and then attended The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

The whole book is right here:  http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/index.html.

I skipped to the end, or rather the parts I was most interested in, and ended-up reading about the last third.  It is a very good book and a rare talent.  It is accurate and fun to read.

On the accuracy front, it survived.  A key ingredient was the “stolen” documents by someone in the closest circles.  The court cases never really made an effort to get them back, but they were sealed for a while; the book was never published in the U.S.  Europeans took a harsher view of Scientology (e.g., arrests in France and Spain)  and courts and sentiment seemed to be less allowing in the U.K. too.

In terms of Keith Raniere and NXIVM, it is almost a rehash.  It is a clear blueprint and Raniere was far less successful at it.

Again, the book is excellent and I need to read the first half before I comment too much.

For now I can say I find L. Ron Hubbard odious.  In later life he was a lonely, fat, lazy man who spent money and ordered people around.

But the beginning, you have to start at the beginning…  In terms of his power and wealth, the e-meter and auditing is risky to the point of fraud.

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Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller is not a great book.  The beginning is disappointing.  Before the internet age the author seems to be an armchair researcher only.  It seems as though he never visited anywhere (e.g., Helena, Montana where Hubbard grew up) or spoke with anyone such as childhood friends, relatives, teachers, etc.  The nonfiction work provides almost no insight into his development and personality.  Also, it is completely lacking in expert input on where and how his extreme narcissism comes from.  The book lacks any depth in terms of these issues.

One example is, I was looking forward to insight on Hubbard’s marriage to Sara (Polly) Northrup, tall, blonde, young USC student.  He fell for her hard and stole her from a friend while swindling him out of money too.  It seems he was infatuated with her to the point of acting crazy, such as kidnapping their daughter and threatening suicide if she left him.  The book provides little input on the relationship beyond obvious and public news.

One further thing I would like to add about the Scientologists:  It is interesting how they use their rights as consumers, en masse, to help achieve their goals.  In the church’s fight against the IRS individual lawsuits about tax deductions were extremely effective.  Church members submitted some 2,400 of them and to a degree the government had no solution for them.  That appeared to help significantly with the organization’s success in achieving tax-exempt status in the U.S.

This is a pic I had not seen before, courtesy of Barbara Bouchey and CBC.  It’ll be fun to listen to one of the podcasts.  There is some new information there.

One tidbit is the idea of a traumatizing narcissist.  The concept is real, but it seems to be championed only by the one psychologist Daniel Shaw.  In terms of Raniere Shaw says “His behaviour (sic) seems driven by an insatiable need to constantly prove his own superiority.”

That is the thing about NXIVM and Keith Raniere:  It is all about him.  He leaves his victims, i.e., the people he comes into contact with, traumatized.

Among them Ms. Bouchey is still the star.  Her appearance on 20/20 helped bring that episode to life.  Frank Parlato is still at it too and he mentioned that she would be on the Today show.  Then he followed-up with more–he seems to spend a lot more time with guests and commenters than he used to–from a poster who describes Bouchey as still conflicted.  She is conflicted (or traumatized) and that is why she is so interesting.  On the one-hand she comes off as proud that she was his girlfriend, that she chauffeured him around, and people moved over on the couch to make room for him.  Elsewhere we’ve seen her crying and lamenting the lost $1.2 million and her personal bankruptcies.

Mr. Parlato still spends a ton of time studying the whole thing; in particular, he will dissect every court appearance and legal filing ad nauseam.  Of course he is still fighting his own indictment.  He insists it is bogus, but it will not go away.

The CBC series points out that when Raniere found out about his intelligence gifts at the age of about eight he changed into a real egotist and people-abuser.  As a teen he lived with his divorced, alcoholic mother who died when he was 17.  That’s when he started attending college, racking up debt, and pursuing his goal to change the world.

Later on, after the dramatic collapse of Consumers’ Buyline, he met Nancy Salzman and that cemented his final vision.  Bouchey says he was into Scientology and we all know Salzman was the critical neurolinguistic programming link.  It is not a pretty picture, these people who are 60 years old, don’t have a dime to their name, and the rest of their lives are only about staying out of prison.  (Paul Manafort, age 69, is another.)  Anyway, Ms. Salzman–her daughter indicted too–is now ill or recuperating.  It is not a pretty picture at all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manaforts-guilty-plea-exposes-hardball-tactics-he-used-to-thrive-in-washington-swamp/2018/09/14/6113fb4c-b82d-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html?utm_term=.87bbd2511a81

President Trump has done a lot of creepy things but this, to me, is the creepiest.  Yanukovych is a very bad guy.

Today I am going to write about qualified immunity.  A lot of people think they deserve qualified immunity.

I will write about it another time.

I need to do a better job of writing about narcissism.  My message didn’t work.