New Scientology video surfaces

In a subtitled video that popped up in a few places on the Internet early this morning -- Glosslip.com found it, and it was later picked up by Gawker.com and other sites -- Scientology leader David Miscavige is shown speaking to an audience about both the religion's multipronged campaign for the "global obliteration of psychiatry" and its international effort to disseminate a booklet, authored by Church founder L. Ron Hubbard, that the organization uses for outreach. The video appears to have been made in 2006. Miscavige mentions the value of "corporate tie-ins" and implies that multinational companies such as Coca-Cola, 7-Eleven and Dell Computer have been involved in distribution of Church literature.

In describing the workings of what he called "the 2006 campaign for the global elimination of psychiatry," Miscavige boasts of a coordinated international public relations attack meant to damage and discredit the psychiatric profession, its revenues and the drugs it employs.

"That campaign was expressly, maybe even diabolically, engineered to ignite both government action and media blizzard," says Miscavige from a lectern. "Our Mental Health Adjustment Kit essentially works like a 'smart' bomb in that it sniffs out 'psych' fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism."

"To put it bluntly," he continues, a moment before receiving rousing cheers from a large audience, "we booby-trap the whole psychiatric ecosystem."

Miscavige also goes into detail about a program he refers to as Operation Planetary Calm, whose goal is the worldwide distribution of Hubbard's "The Way to Happiness," a text the Church of Scientology refers to as a nonreligious "common-sense guide to happier living," according to a website registered under the address of the church.  Part of the strategy, he says, is "corporate tie-ins."

"Multinationals tend to have Third World image problems," he notes as snippets of video play.  "So this is what they're doing about it -- Coca-Cola Pakistan with a braille edition for the blind ... Philips Electronics, likewise all over Pakistan, and Dell Computers all over Africa."

Miscavige also implies that 4,000 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan carry the book, and adds that "the numbers grow even larger when you follow the campaign trail into Taiwanese schools -- to date, it's 250,000 by order of Taiwan's Ministry of Education."

At one point, a computer animation depicts a giant grenade, labeled "Psych Buster," exploding near a building labeled "government" and another building, perhaps a bank, with a large dollar sign on its side.  Miscavige repeatedly invokes end-times biblical tropes such as "plagues," "parting seas" and "apocalyspe," and cites the goal of breaking "the dark spell cast across Earth by psychiatry."

After a message was left with the church seeking comment on the apparently leaked videos, links to which were initially sent to The Times by investigative journalist Mark Ebner, a spokesman identifying himself as Kendrick Moxon returned a call to say he was aware of the video.  He described it as "an edited copy of a pirated video."

"Some sort of an excerpt is what it appears to be," he said, and did not deny that the video represented a real event.

Late calls to Coca-Cola seeking comment were not immediately returned.

As of this writing, at least three copies of the video had been posted on YouTube, the most-watched of which had fewer than 10,000 views. 

Read the entire transcript here.

Note: The comments are getting to be a bit redundant and off-topic at this point, so I'm closing them for this post. 

Comments

[Andrew]

The assault on psychiatry by the cult/criminal organization known as Scientology is despicable. Psychiatry saves human lives in large numbers. I hope that psychiatric professional organizations sue the "Church" of Scientology for slander. Oh yeah, and Tom Cruise and all the other Hollywood folks involved in this cult are a bunch of freaks.

[X-hippie]

Shhhhhh - they'll hear you......

besides haven't you heard that schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder and various other psychotic states can be cured by "auditing"?

Hahhahahahah -boy o boy, people are sooooo dumb. They'll believe anything! Thetans, lost golden tablets, people rising from the dead, virgins in paradise, crop circles, Bigfoot, - you name it.

If only we had free (or at least affordable) college education in California like we used to - maybe we'd have a more informed population.

[Marcus]

Man, listening to Miscavige is like watching an elephant trying to hide behind a little pole. He thinks that because he can't see you you can't see him. Honestly, I feel sorry for any Scientologists out there. Put the sci-fi books down, forget about aliens, and pick up the Bible if you want a spiritual experience.

[Marcus]

Even psychology teaches that if you believe that something like "auditing" will solve a mental problem then it probably will. Doctors give people blanks, or dummy pills, all the time. Scientology is feeding blanks to every hungry sucker out there who is looking for something to believe in.

[Dilbert Perkins]

This video will be so damaging to the "Church." Corporate affiliates will pull out (if any actually exist), and genuine mental health agencies and advocates could sue for libel and harassment. I wish they would. Good stuff!

[Saturn]

Moxon is a lawyer, not a church spokesman. Not too smart of them to let him do the talking, considering he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the "Operation Snow White" case. You know, the biggest illegal government infiltration in US history? Hahaha. Oh man, it just keeps getting better.

[Mousy]

What's the betting that there are more claims of it being "taken out of context". I don't think you can mistake the context of those statements. Some serious investigation needs to be done regarding the actions of scientologists and their organization, and it needs to be done quickly.

[Sou Monona]

The leader guy mentions some companies that support the Corporation of Scientology.
They claimed that DELL aided them in distributing a booklet of theirs called “The Way to Happiness” all over Africa!

Here is a place for people to let DELL know how they feel about this alleged connection:
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/102505?comment_id=111108#comment111108

[Patricia]

Why are there still homeless mentally ill people wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Why haven't the Scientologists cured them all by now?

Where are their homeless shelters, seriously?

They do nothing but talk and raise money. I haven't seen a single dime of that money going to house or treat any homeless schizophrenics yet.

[Revolutionary]

Mediation, prayer, and community in the temple/mosque/church of your choice is FREE!

Finding inner peace in Scientology will cost you about $500,000.
Hmmm....just who is "global calming" going to benefit?
Wake up, folks. If it's really salvation, it won't have a price tag!

[CoS... it hurts]

“david_f: I manage Dell’s corporate affairs team, and want to thank you for bringing this video to our attention. We’re looking into this video’s extremely vague reference to Dell, but I can tell you that it is not our business practice to disseminate religious materials.”

http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/102505/Dell_must_cut_ties_to_Scientology

[Weirdos]

Okay, I'm starting to think that Germany has got the right idea on these wack jobs. If you want to drink the Kool-aid, I can't stop you. But if you want to force everyone else to, well then we've got to step up and stop these loonies.

Thanks to whoever is releasing all this stuff. Obviously someone deep in the Church has gotten burned/seen the light, and is taking them down from inside.

[Nonny Mouse]

I think it's brilliant that who ever is leaking the videos is doing it in tantalizing bite-sized pieces.

[Ben Brown]

Psychiatry is a political tool with it's orgins in the Soviet system. There is no such thing as schizophrenia...it's simply manic-depression with psychotic features easily treated with change in diet and environment. Clandestine subterranean lab facilities generating subliminal microwaves which include holographic visualzations are the primary culprit.

[John Bard]

David Miscavige - the only man that can make Tom Cruise look tall.

[anon]

Ben Brown: WTF!?!?
"subterranean lab facilities generating subliminal microwaves which include holographic visualzations"

You know, crazy people often DO hate shrinks. Wow man, you must hate them quite a bit!!!

I'm laughing so hard I'm crying! Comedy GOLD!

[Arnold Sefton]

I am sure I have seen this footage before. It's from a movie called "Triumph Of The Will", isn't it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/

[anon]

Patricia, in reference to "Where are their homeless shelters, seriously?"

Scientologists don't help the homeless, they help only those with the means to help themselves. You know, the people that can afford their help.

[anon]

Arnold Sefton, great link! I saw a comment on the message board there that I thought was brilliant:
"We need to stop thinking of evil in terms of something we can spot a mile a way. True evil tricks you. True evil comes with a charisimatic smile."

[Gabrielle P]

Does it feel like all of this Scientology nonsense is coming to a head? It seems like the groundwork is being laid for some great final battle. But for now, watching these specatularly insane videos is kind of like watching Lindsay or Britney in the news. You may know it can't end well -- but that doesn't change the fact that you're powerless to stop it.

[Lady Anon]

Dell has used CO$ technology to train its workers in Ireland: http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir7-09.html

[Ben Brown]

Anon, your laughing in the face of the most secret and most militant ideological evil the world has ever known? Now that's crazy.

"There's something they're not saying
About what's happening out there"

"Inside Out"- The Traveling Wilbury's

[anon]

Oh Ben, do you believe EVERYTHING the CoS tells you? Is there any non-CoS related proof of the existence of this evil you speak of?

Now let's see, what is more likely here: ONE big liar - the CoS / or EVERYBODY else is lying?

[ladyli1]

You know what? We, "of the African-American community", can stand Kimmora Lee Simmons!! No wonder they are after Will Smith! They're going to have some serious problems recruiting us because No. 1, We don't follow wacked out, short white guys and No.2, if said same guy tried to "reach out" to my 12 to 18 year old, someone is going to get hurt!

[gibber]

Psychiatry is even worse that this video depicts. My best friend was totally destroyed when her husband committed her to a designer-psych hospital when she got upset after her four kids trashed their house. They gave her 15 shock treatments. When she came out, she couldn't even remember who I was. She had lost the last 6 months of her life. She told me how she and the other women who were being shocked would sit together trying to piece together a enough that each of them remembered to have some kind of coherent group memory of the past week. When she came out she was utterly miserable, so they put her on Thorazine. The end result -- she would sleep till about 4 in the afternoon, get up for a couple of hours, wander around the house and back into bed. She was the walking dead. So don't talk to me about psychiatry being helpful. I am glad someone is taking them on and exposing them for what they really are.