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26 March 2010, 3:24 pm

Jason Beghe Tells Me to Shut the Hell Up About Anderson Cooper's Scientology Special
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By Tony Ortega, Friday, Mar. 26 2010 @ 3:17PM
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​Just had a great conversation with Jason Beghe, the actor who famously defected from Scientology two years ago.

He understands the point I made yesterday -- that it irks me when Anderson Cooper announces that he's holding one hand behind his back as he goes into a boxing match with Scientology. Cooper said that while his special series looks at allegations of violence by Scientology's supreme leader, David Miscavige, he wouldn't be looking at the beliefs of Scientologists themselves.

I called that a big, fat mistake, and in the comments to the post, I added that it would be like doing a story revealing that John Gotti beat up his lieutenants, without mentioning that they were part of something called a mafia that extorted people.

Well, Beghe admitted that I had a point, but he also told me to shut the hell up.

Any story on a mainstream outlet like CNN which brings light to the nefarious nature of Scientology is a good thing, he says.

"It's like the health care bill. It doesn't really go far enough, but at least it's something. And it's important to get it out there."

Beghe went on to say that he's surprised the show is appearing at all. "I thought the thing was dead," he says. "It was ready a year ago, and had been held up all that time by attorneys on both sides."

Well, it's good to hear CNN's legal team finally grew a pair.

OK, Jason, we'll just shut up now and watch next week's special series, which begins airing on Monday.

From http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/03/jason_beghe_tel.php

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From http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/03/jason_beghe_tel.php

There are a couple of good comments on the article - I agree with completely with this one by R. Hill (of xenu-directory.net):

R. Hill says:

Well, since he didn't tell me to shut up...

The Scientology "scriptures" (aka Hubbard's "teachings") are the pillars of the multi-decades systemic abuses brought upon individuals and society by the Church of Scientology. Exposing the abuses is awesome, but keeping doing so while ignoring the root cause is silly in my opinion.

When those Exes keep whitewashing Hubbard's legacy by refusing to look at the big picture of Hubbard's teachings they sure miss a great opportunity to understand what happened to them. How did they find themselves associated for years or decades with an organization which had no qualm in destroying individuals simply because they were perceived as "enemies" of Hubbard's agenda?

In effect, what Scientology teaches first is how to sell L. Ron Hubbard stuff, while absolutely disregarding the financial, mental or spiritual wellbeing of his "customers." Potential recruits are referred as "raw meat." People coming are "bodies in the shop." Scientology salespersons are trained using "Big League Sales Closing Techniques." The "stats" has to go up in Scientology, or else... well, you might just be tagged as an evil "Supressive Person", which is a "shooting offence", as per Hubbard. If one's "stats" are up however, one can "get away with murder," again as per Hubbard.

Of course, when selling Hubbard's nonsensical promises at ridiculously high price, or as mandated by Hubbard's teachings, when using misinformation, misrepresention, deception and fraud to sell Hubbard's nonsensical promises, this is bound to attact criticism, thus a significant portion of Hubbard writings teaches his followers how to deal with individuals who get in the way of sales of his stuff. "Disconnection", "fair game", "dead agent", "merchants of chaos", "potential trouble source", etc., all means to ensure that his customers didn't question him, but rather question those who exposed him for the fraud he was. "Confidential upper levels" was also a necessity to Hubbard's scheme, to keep the customers spending for more and more levels. L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "We will fully exploit the superstitious belief of people in prophesy," and since Hubbard wrote it, it is indeed Scientology scriptures.

The other day I was watching Marty Rathbun in one of his video interviews on the St. Petersburg Times' website. At one point, he mentions how he was "conditioned" to go along with David Miscavige's "management" style. Made me wonder, if he agrees that there is such a thing as "conditioning," how come he seems to fail to see how very conditioning are the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard?

Scientology was no less insidious and no less dangerous to individuals and society before David Miscavige took over. For those who have observed Scientology for a long period, David Miscavige is a natural outcome of Scientology, as designed by Hubbard. For those exes who still abide stubbornly to Hubbard's overall teachings, the only reproach that can be made against David Miscavige, is that his "stats" are down. As per Hubbard's teachings, he now "can't sneeze without a chop."

Posted On: Friday, Mar. 26 2010 @ 4:36PM

His response to thetagal (another commenter) is right on target.  (Visit the site to read it.)

Here's the article that prompted Jason Beghe's comment: Anderson Cooper Plans Latest Misguided Slam on Scientology

Lots of good comments on that one as well.  There are a couple of funny ones too.