GOING CLEAR MOVIE 1, FANTASTIC PROPAGANDA

I kind of got thrust into this thing. So, I did a little bit of media at the outset, okay. And, okay. And so my face was out there with the movie. I started getting emails because this was sort of an unprecedented amount of exposure to an anti-Scientology piece, right. And I started getting emails from all over the place, from people who were connected with Scientologists, okay.

I found myself having to defend Scientology, because these people were just hysterical. That was the effect the movie had. Like, I would get these things about children stuff, because Spanky Taylor in the movie said something that happened, and they have no idea that she was talking about 1978. I mean, put aside whether it’s exaggerated, put aside whether it’s true, the one thing I do know, is it happened in 1978. The people who watch the movie have no idea. They think whatever she’s griping about is happening right now.

So, I’m having to calm people down. “Wait a second, okay. That particular thing that got you so – that happened in 1978, okay. They haven’t even had child care facilities since the mid ‘80s, okay. That’s 30 years ago.” I mean, these are the types of responses I’m having to go, “Calm down!” Right.

I mean, paranoid things. I had some guy in Las… I had a lot of people who were former members, right, who were, like, completely convinced that their phones were being monitored or there was, you know – and I was like, I look at the circumstance of the person, and I’d say, “Look, man. First of all, that stuff—they ain’t doing any of that stuff. But second of all, you’re just the last person on Earth they’d be interested in.” Okay. I mean, this is like, it just created this hysteria, right.

Interestingly, because they made this big thing, and it’s been a big thing in the anti-Scientology field now – because there’s no other – there's no fresh or new accusations and there hasn’t been for almost 10 years concerning Scientology – they’re rehashing stuff. And they’re rallying around this whole idea about disconnection as this most horrendous thing, there’s this policy of disconnection, which is shunning, right. And so a lot of them had to do with that.

And so there were business connections or family who were connected with Scientologists, who were all in hysteria about, “I’ve got to do something radical to either get this person out of Scientology, or to disconnect so that they can’t hypnotize me in some way.” And I'm like – I mean, it really was shocking to me. Because, you know, I’ve been out for a long time, I mean, you know, I’ve been sort of involved in the anti-Scientology area, and just I never saw such hysteria before, right.

And so, you know, I just handled every inquiry, you know, the person in front of me, one by one. And so literally I found myself, you know, having to put things in context for people. And but I’m telling you, the impression that was created by people at large, and what I got from this was, is that, they cherry – I know this happened, because I did a full analysis of the book, and the movie – they cherry picked every sensational, the most sensational, accusations from 50 years (because they indicted L. Ron Hubbard from the age of 12), so I guess 50 years before or 40 years before the inception of Dianetics itself, all the way up to present time, and communicate it in such a way that this is all happening now, and it’s a clear and present danger to you, right.

Okay. And if you go down the roster of the people that are creating the most hysteria, right, they’re 35-year-old. 35 years before, 50 years before, and 65 years before respectively. And they’re people talking about things that happened 35… So, I mean, accuracy be damned, or, you know, accountability for hype and exaggeration and everything be damned, all that stuff is highlighted and then thrust on it. And it created that impression. I know firsthand, because I sort of became the point person, and literally, to a one, I found myself trying to get people to calm down. “That’s not happening.” Whether it did or didn’t before, it was mainly putting things in time sequence for them.

So, the guy did really good. And I ultimately came to the conclusion, the guy is a fantastic propagandist, okay, because he created this guttural, deep emotional fear and terror of something that does not exist.