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Bertram Fields, a top US attorney and Human Rights advocate recently wrote a strongly worded letter to a Marty Rathbun voicing concerns over Marty's "serious invasion of Tom’s privacy and a violation of the priest-penitent relationship".
OK, who are the main players? Bertram Fields is acting as attorney on behalf of Tom Cruise of "Risky Business" fame. He is a very public attorney and leading human rights advocate, according to himself.
Marty Rathbun is someone who left the organisation calling itself the church of scientology because, he claims, of its serious human rights abuses and specifically the physically and mentally abusive nature of the "ecclesiastical" leader of the organisation, David Miscavige.
Marty published a series of revelations regarding his career in the St Petersburg Times (link provided) in which he claimed to be Tom Cruises' auditor (the equivalent to a confessor in the organisation calling itself the church of scientology and the belief known as scientology).
Tom Cruise, is Tom Cruise regardless of which film he's in; at least in my humble opinion, but hey he use to sell films so why not?
In Bertram Fields' strongly worded letter he states that Marty Rathbun:
"...repeatedly announced to the public that you were Tom’s ‘auditor’ at the Church of Scientology, and you have used that announcement, including Tom’s name, on your website to promote your business or profession."
which he claims:
"... is not only a serious invasion of Tom’s privacy and a violation of the priest-penitent relationship, it is the unauthorized use of Tom’s name to promote a business or professional venture, which is a clear violation of Tom’s common law and statutory rights."
We can deduce from the suggestion by Bertram that this is a "violation of the priest-penitent relationship" that Marty Rathbun was indeed Tom Cruise's confessor. Logically Bertram, being the clever attorney he is, would have slapped Marty really hard had the claim being untrue.
Naturally Marty Rathbun disagrees with Bertam's assessment of his actions and told him so in a rather lengthy response. Not only did the response deny the allegations made in Bertrams' letter but it also included counter allegations that:
David Miscavige, diminutive "ecclesiastical" leader of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology, did the following:
"....direct(ed) the public release of confessions, he suborned the perjury of a number of his underlings, and specifically had them state under oath that I never had a position of authority within the Religious Technology Center and had no training as an auditor."
Rathbun went on to say:
"The best evidence of that perjury is that in 2001 through 2003 Miscavige personally assigned me as Inspector General RTC (Religious Technology Center) – the second highest ecclessiastical position in the religion – to coordinate Tom’s divorce from Nicole and to serve as his auditor."
Rathbun then also stated that he had since:
"....counseled people who were abused by Tom personally – in matters that eerily resemble the behavior of Miscavige – to give Tom the time to get educated and do the right thing which I have convinced them he ultimately will do."
A clear allegation that Tom Cruise also committed physically and mentally abused others in the same way Miscavige does.
Just to get an idea of how serious an allegation this is it isn't just a matter of Tom Cruise getting irate like he did when interviewed a few years ago regarding psychiatry ("You DON'T know the history of psychiatry..". David Miscavige is accused of beating staff savagely to the ground. He is accused of orchestrating acts of physical aggression between his underlings.
To accuse Tom Cruise of abusing people like David Miscavige does is to say that Tom Cruise has abused his social status within the organisation to physically beat others.
Personally I don't really like Marty Rathbun, he's not exactly a saint in my opinion either, but the man had the guts to walk away from the organisation with nothing; even those in disgrace in the organisation tend to stay in it because it really is all they feel they have.
Actually in fairness to others still in Marty has family and they seem to be there for him, others may not have any living relatives; those in the USA and Canada can try toll free number 1-866-XSEAORG for people who will help them transition back to the real world.
We've already had admissions that physical abuse is tolerated within the organisation by Tommy Davis, the spokes person for the organisation. Now it seems we have an apparent admission that Marty Rathbun was Tom Cruises' confessor by Bertram Fields and all manner of allegations and hints at more intrigue involving the likes of Tom Cruise, what more will come out as this drama unfolds and the organisation calling itself the church of scientology implodes around its "ecclesiastical" leader David Miscavige?
Follow this link to read the full response by Marty Rathbun:
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/291-scientology-discussion/marty-rathbuns-letter-tom-cruises-attorney-51874/
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