Thank you to Tony Ortega for permission to mirror these interviews he did with Mike Rinder.
Mike explains why people stay when the horrors at INT Base were draconian. Mike served for 35 years. After he exited his mother was disconnected from him by Church manipulation. When he visited Australia 2-3 years ago, the Church relocated his mother for the duration of his visit so he never saw her again. Here's what he wrote on his blog: http://www.mikerindersblog.org/disconnection-and-my-mother/

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Thank you Axiom 142 for permission to mirror. I knew George Baillie back on the Apollo when he was a regular 6 pack Joe. After decades in the Church and advancing * spiritually*, he is unrecognizable. This video is significant in nailing the attitude so frequently acted on in the culture. Sword fencing, locking horns, butt heading with no attempt to increase understanding. The word "squirrel" in Scientology Inc is an epithet equivalent to the "N" word in American Culture. Ad hominem attack is in the culture...

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Lori Hodgson has two children neamed Jeremy and Jessica who have been manipulated by the "Church" to shun her.  It is the Church of Scientology's toxic policy of Disconnection. Scientology Inc is infamous for the destruction of the family. As long as all family members are snitching and "knowledge reporting" each other to RTC "Religious Technology Center" and "Office of Special Affairs" (OSA), the "Church" every is okay.

However, as soon as a family member expresses any criticism or unwillingness to pay more money, surrender their children to the "Sea Org" and so on, interrogations begin and "Ethics Officers" start draconian actions to split off the disaffected member from the rest of the family.  Divorces in the Church of Scientology are very often orderd as a way to "handle" a disaffected spouse. Children are made to disconnect from a parent who is disaffected. This is what happened tp Lori: Her own children were ordered to disconnect from her by the Church.

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Credit to Tampa Bay Times Joe Childs and Thomas Tobin for their exposes on the Money Extortion practice of the Church and the extreme penalties on Sea Org members
who do not reel in big bucks.
While most Charities and Tax exempt organizations issue an Annual Report, Scientology Inc does not.
The money vanishes into thin air, Lots of it. The pressure to give your money, ALL your money is a Surreal experience.
Many give a lot to the point of bankruptcy before they wake up.

High Fives to Hy Levy for speaking up before he passed on.  Fly High and RIP.

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