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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,546 --> 00:00:08,257 - In 1975, Clearwater, Florida was chosen to be 2 00:00:08,384 --> 00:00:12,219 the international headquarters of Scientology. 3 00:00:15,016 --> 00:00:16,974 The plan was to turn Clearwater 4 00:00:17,101 --> 00:00:19,184 into the first Scientology city. 5 00:00:19,311 --> 00:00:23,605 - Slowly, it's coming out, this town is being taken over. 6 00:00:23,733 --> 00:00:27,151 They have chosen us to be their spiritual headquarters 7 00:00:27,278 --> 00:00:29,737 and they are going to buy up our town. 8 00:00:29,864 --> 00:00:32,948 - And anybody who spoke out against that 9 00:00:33,075 --> 00:00:34,533 was going to be neutralized. 10 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:36,910 - And these orders, very clearly, 11 00:00:37,038 --> 00:00:40,789 stated, "Find out who your enemies are. Destroy 'em." 12 00:00:40,916 --> 00:00:43,625 The orders, in effect, were occupation orders. 13 00:00:43,753 --> 00:00:48,005 - What's really interesting is that it is the only city 14 00:00:48,132 --> 00:00:49,965 that actually had hearings. 15 00:01:00,686 --> 00:01:03,437 - The city of Clearwater was fighting back. 16 00:01:03,564 --> 00:01:06,899 - We can't deal with this mafia-like organization 17 00:01:07,026 --> 00:01:08,609 in our small town. 18 00:01:08,736 --> 00:01:12,446 - It was a continuing fraudulent enterprise. 19 00:01:12,573 --> 00:01:15,157 It still is to this day, as far as I'm concerned. 20 00:01:15,284 --> 00:01:19,078 - You had people willing to stand up and fight 21 00:01:19,205 --> 00:01:21,121 and they were fighting. 22 00:01:21,248 --> 00:01:24,500 - The city then tried to enact an ordinance 23 00:01:24,627 --> 00:01:27,878 designed to get Scientology out of Clearwater. 24 00:01:28,005 --> 00:01:32,132 - Unfortunately, Clearwater lost. 25 00:01:32,259 --> 00:01:34,579 - We would start hearing about additional properties 26 00:01:34,678 --> 00:01:36,011 that they were buying, 27 00:01:36,138 --> 00:01:38,472 and they stated cherry-picking the areas 28 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:41,517 so they could control, you know, the... the entire area. 29 00:01:41,644 --> 00:01:46,480 - Today, Scientology has almost achieved its objective 30 00:01:46,607 --> 00:01:51,652 of complete subjugation of downtown Clearwater 31 00:01:51,779 --> 00:01:56,698 of taking over vast tracts of the city 32 00:01:56,826 --> 00:02:01,453 and turning it into the first Scientology city on Earth. 33 00:02:03,958 --> 00:02:07,292 - I am the writer of the textbooks of Scientology. 34 00:02:07,419 --> 00:02:11,380 The aim and goal is to put man in a mental condition, 35 00:02:11,507 --> 00:02:14,216 uh, where he, him, can solve his own problems. 36 00:02:14,343 --> 00:02:17,511 - Without any Scientology organization, 37 00:02:17,638 --> 00:02:19,798 things are not gonna change on this planet. 38 00:02:22,143 --> 00:02:25,185 - After years of slowly questioning Scientology... 39 00:02:25,312 --> 00:02:26,873 - Leah Remini and her very public break 40 00:02:26,897 --> 00:02:27,937 with Scientology... 41 00:02:30,067 --> 00:02:34,361 - Scientology, what they do. Trying to destroy people, 42 00:02:34,488 --> 00:02:36,947 trying to destroy their families when they leave, 43 00:02:37,074 --> 00:02:39,408 they create a lot of people 44 00:02:39,535 --> 00:02:41,575 who are willing to fight against them. 45 00:02:50,629 --> 00:02:53,172 - Scientology takes tax-free dollars, 46 00:02:53,299 --> 00:02:55,007 and ruins people's lives. 47 00:02:57,178 --> 00:02:59,803 - This is not the life that I want to live. 48 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:02,097 I wanted to end my life. 49 00:03:03,934 --> 00:03:05,453 - Some people, it takes a year. 50 00:03:05,477 --> 00:03:07,311 Some people, it takes ten years 51 00:03:07,438 --> 00:03:11,773 of just peeling that onion of how you were manipulated 52 00:03:11,901 --> 00:03:13,609 and made to think. 53 00:03:13,736 --> 00:03:16,403 - This season, we really needed to focus on 54 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:19,198 the reason why Scientology is able 55 00:03:19,325 --> 00:03:21,408 to do the things that they do 56 00:03:21,535 --> 00:03:23,575 is because they have tax-exempt status. 57 00:03:33,714 --> 00:03:37,382 - The people who have bravely come on 58 00:03:37,509 --> 00:03:39,092 and told their stories 59 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:41,678 have not told those stories in vain. 60 00:03:41,805 --> 00:03:43,639 They are having an impact. 61 00:03:43,766 --> 00:03:45,785 - We're presenting our case to the world, 62 00:03:45,809 --> 00:03:48,810 to the FBI, to the IRS. 63 00:03:48,938 --> 00:03:51,178 - The most important thing that has to be done 64 00:03:51,273 --> 00:03:54,066 is the persistent telling of the truth, 65 00:03:54,193 --> 00:03:55,442 and that's what you're doing. 66 00:03:55,569 --> 00:03:57,653 - You have to continue to fight. 67 00:03:57,780 --> 00:03:59,980 You have to continue to fight for what's right. 68 00:04:07,998 --> 00:04:09,748 - You've heard the history 69 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:12,209 of how Scientology got to Clearwater 70 00:04:12,336 --> 00:04:17,214 but what's really interesting is that it is the only city 71 00:04:17,341 --> 00:04:20,008 that actually had hearings 72 00:04:20,135 --> 00:04:23,971 to deal with the problem of Scientology. 73 00:04:24,098 --> 00:04:29,059 Then the city, unfortunately, overreached 74 00:04:29,186 --> 00:04:31,478 and lost... 75 00:04:33,941 --> 00:04:36,149 To Scientology. 76 00:04:36,277 --> 00:04:40,279 And that was kind of the end of this battle. 77 00:04:40,406 --> 00:04:43,699 That all changed in 1995 78 00:04:43,826 --> 00:04:46,868 with the death of Lisa McPherson. 79 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:53,061 We've always wanted to tell this story, Mark, 80 00:04:53,085 --> 00:04:55,919 'cause I was just so always touched by what 81 00:04:56,046 --> 00:04:58,797 you and Bob Minton had started 82 00:04:58,924 --> 00:05:01,717 with the death of Lisa McPherson, and... 83 00:05:01,844 --> 00:05:04,469 you know that I've been hounding you for years. 84 00:05:04,596 --> 00:05:07,556 Like, how do we tell her story? 85 00:05:07,683 --> 00:05:09,182 I'm so emotional today. 86 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:11,435 - Yeah. 87 00:05:11,562 --> 00:05:13,353 - Sorry. 88 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,480 I was crying on the way here. 89 00:05:16,567 --> 00:05:18,295 - I know. - Yeah, it's... 90 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:20,171 Yeah, yeah, you've shed a couple of tears too. 91 00:05:20,195 --> 00:05:21,653 - Yeah. 92 00:05:23,115 --> 00:05:24,906 But I'm glad that we're finally telling it. 93 00:05:25,034 --> 00:05:27,367 You know, originally we... 94 00:05:27,494 --> 00:05:29,202 You know, we got so many messages 95 00:05:29,330 --> 00:05:31,890 on social media about covering Clearwater 96 00:05:31,957 --> 00:05:34,541 as a, uh, you know, "Hey they're taking over our town," 97 00:05:34,668 --> 00:05:38,337 and there's long history, but it's turned into something else 98 00:05:38,464 --> 00:05:42,799 which I'm very thankful for that we are able to kind of 99 00:05:42,926 --> 00:05:45,427 stop and tell Lisa's story. 100 00:05:47,097 --> 00:05:50,474 - Lisa McPherson was a devout Scientologist 101 00:05:50,601 --> 00:05:52,434 for 15 years. 102 00:05:52,561 --> 00:05:55,687 She had been recently reconnecting with old friends 103 00:05:55,814 --> 00:05:57,397 and saying that she had doubts 104 00:05:57,524 --> 00:05:59,983 and she was thinking about coming back home, 105 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:03,153 and shortly after that, she got into a minor fender bender 106 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:05,280 in downtown Clearwater. 107 00:06:05,407 --> 00:06:10,077 And by the time the police came and the ambulance, 108 00:06:10,204 --> 00:06:12,579 she had stripped off of all of her clothes 109 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:16,124 and was walking down the street naked, 110 00:06:16,251 --> 00:06:17,979 and a paramedic came up to her and said, 111 00:06:18,003 --> 00:06:19,753 "Why are you doing this?" 112 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,441 And she said, "Because I need somebody 113 00:06:21,465 --> 00:06:22,798 "to pay attention to me. 114 00:06:22,925 --> 00:06:24,841 I need help." 115 00:06:24,968 --> 00:06:28,887 So they took her over to the nearby Morton Plant Hospital 116 00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:30,639 and they checked her in there. 117 00:06:30,766 --> 00:06:33,058 Within an hour, 118 00:06:33,185 --> 00:06:35,977 ten Scientologists came to the hospital 119 00:06:36,105 --> 00:06:38,688 and talked her into leaving and going back with them, 120 00:06:38,816 --> 00:06:40,524 against the doctor's wishes. 121 00:06:40,651 --> 00:06:42,692 They had to release her 122 00:06:42,820 --> 00:06:46,613 and then Scientology took her back to the Fort Harrison Hotel 123 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:50,158 in locked her in a room for 17 days. 124 00:06:50,285 --> 00:06:54,871 On Scientology's introspection rundown, 125 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:57,238 where if somebody's having a psychotic break, 126 00:06:57,334 --> 00:06:59,167 you don't talk to them, 127 00:06:59,294 --> 00:07:01,022 you don't respond if they're talking to you, 128 00:07:01,046 --> 00:07:02,921 there's all these rules. 129 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:09,177 - Unfortunately, Scientology's rules also don't include 130 00:07:09,304 --> 00:07:13,557 having anybody trained to deal with someone in Lisa's state. 131 00:07:13,684 --> 00:07:17,227 They literally grabbed anybody that could be spared. 132 00:07:17,354 --> 00:07:19,187 They had no training; 133 00:07:19,314 --> 00:07:23,358 they had no idea whatsoever what they were doing 134 00:07:23,485 --> 00:07:27,279 and had no ability to effectively 135 00:07:27,406 --> 00:07:30,115 deal with someone in her state. 136 00:07:30,242 --> 00:07:32,075 - Every day, the caretakers would take logs 137 00:07:32,202 --> 00:07:34,202 and you can see in the logs 138 00:07:34,329 --> 00:07:36,538 that her condition is getting worse and worse 139 00:07:36,665 --> 00:07:38,498 and worse every day. 140 00:07:38,625 --> 00:07:42,294 The last three days of her life, 141 00:07:42,421 --> 00:07:46,465 those records were destroyed by Scientology. 142 00:07:46,592 --> 00:07:48,552 Marty Rathbun confessed to that. 143 00:07:48,594 --> 00:07:49,843 He ordered them destroyed. 144 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:51,720 - Well, hang on. 145 00:07:51,847 --> 00:07:54,890 David Miscavige ordered those documents to be destroyed 146 00:07:55,017 --> 00:07:56,911 through Marty Rathbun who, in fact, 147 00:07:56,935 --> 00:07:58,121 admitted to destroying them. 148 00:07:58,145 --> 00:08:00,604 - Yes. 149 00:08:00,731 --> 00:08:03,607 - You ordered those days of logs to be destroyed. 150 00:08:03,734 --> 00:08:05,984 - Right. - All right, 151 00:08:06,111 --> 00:08:08,778 could you explain, you know, why you did that? 152 00:08:08,906 --> 00:08:11,406 - To protect the organization. 153 00:08:11,533 --> 00:08:15,118 One of them was talking about the witness in the case 154 00:08:15,245 --> 00:08:18,455 pleading with the doctor, who was on staff, 155 00:08:18,582 --> 00:08:21,041 to get Lisa to a doctor. 156 00:08:21,168 --> 00:08:23,168 That was like a smoking gun incriminating 157 00:08:23,295 --> 00:08:24,920 in terms of people knowing 158 00:08:25,047 --> 00:08:28,089 that she was in a deteriorated physical condition. 159 00:08:42,481 --> 00:08:45,357 - As a Scientologist at the time, 160 00:08:45,484 --> 00:08:48,610 I never even heard of Lisa McPherson 161 00:08:48,737 --> 00:08:50,445 or her death. 162 00:08:50,572 --> 00:08:55,283 Scientology is so genius at having parishioners 163 00:08:55,410 --> 00:08:58,828 not look at the news, not read newspapers. 164 00:08:58,956 --> 00:09:01,581 - This was a huge story. 165 00:09:08,173 --> 00:09:10,966 - And then, uh, when they came down with the actual charges, 166 00:09:11,093 --> 00:09:13,510 when our medical examiner, uh, Joan Wood, 167 00:09:13,637 --> 00:09:16,471 uh, came up and... and found out that the cause of death 168 00:09:16,598 --> 00:09:19,766 was... was, uh, not natural, it was not an accident, 169 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:22,561 um, but it was criminal in nature, 170 00:09:22,688 --> 00:09:26,481 then Scientology once again showed its power, 171 00:09:26,608 --> 00:09:29,234 showed its, uh, capabilities so to speak, 172 00:09:29,361 --> 00:09:30,986 and they went after Joan Wood. 173 00:09:33,657 --> 00:09:36,908 - The fact that Scientology was charged with 174 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:40,787 criminal neglect in the death of Lisa McPherson 175 00:09:40,914 --> 00:09:43,081 was of enormous concern to David Miscavige 176 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:45,959 because it was the biggest threat 177 00:09:46,086 --> 00:09:48,795 to the tax-exempt status of Scientology. 178 00:09:48,922 --> 00:09:52,215 You cannot be engaged in illegal activities. 179 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:54,843 Miscavige spared no expense 180 00:09:54,970 --> 00:09:59,639 to challenge the findings of Joan Wood. 181 00:09:59,766 --> 00:10:01,975 We, Scientology... 182 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,269 - Mm-hmm. 183 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:08,106 - Hired the foremost criminal pathologist in the world, 184 00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:11,484 three of them who came and lived in Clearwater... 185 00:10:11,612 --> 00:10:13,506 I mean, these were the guys that had just finished 186 00:10:13,530 --> 00:10:18,575 the O.J. Simpson trial... To find credible explanations 187 00:10:18,702 --> 00:10:22,829 that would place the findings of Joan Wood in doubt. 188 00:10:22,956 --> 00:10:25,707 - And they went after Joan Wood and... with a vengeance... 189 00:10:25,834 --> 00:10:29,919 And... and took her down, and ultimately she changed 190 00:10:30,047 --> 00:10:34,215 the autopsy to cause of death as being an accident 191 00:10:34,343 --> 00:10:36,237 and that gutted the state attorneys'... 192 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:37,322 - The prosecution? - Yeah, the prosecution, 193 00:10:37,346 --> 00:10:38,762 state attorneys', uh, case 194 00:10:38,889 --> 00:10:40,809 and they had to drop the charges. 195 00:10:42,309 --> 00:10:48,104 - It was money to hire people who have great influence. 196 00:10:48,231 --> 00:10:50,398 It was David Miscavige 197 00:10:50,525 --> 00:10:53,818 personally contacting Joan Wood's lawyer 198 00:10:53,945 --> 00:10:56,613 to persuade Joan Wood that she had no choice 199 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:58,448 but to change her testimony 200 00:10:58,575 --> 00:11:01,701 based on the information that was coming forward 201 00:11:01,828 --> 00:11:03,203 from these medical examiners. 202 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:16,299 This was a major catastrophe in the Scientology world. 203 00:11:16,426 --> 00:11:20,345 It threatened to expose Miscavige's involvement 204 00:11:20,472 --> 00:11:23,640 in Lisa McPherson's life. 205 00:11:23,767 --> 00:11:28,978 Scientology literally spent millions and millions. 206 00:11:29,106 --> 00:11:34,442 No expense was to be spared because David Miscavige's ass 207 00:11:34,569 --> 00:11:36,069 was on the line. 208 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:40,448 - There was also a civil case that was funded by 209 00:11:40,575 --> 00:11:43,159 soon-to-become my boss, Bob Minton, 210 00:11:43,286 --> 00:11:44,744 who was a retired 211 00:11:44,871 --> 00:11:46,724 international investment banker, 212 00:11:46,748 --> 00:11:50,542 and he started look back into this in 1995, 213 00:11:50,669 --> 00:11:52,460 and the more Bob started looking into it, 214 00:11:52,587 --> 00:11:56,214 meeting former members, he decided he wanted to help. 215 00:11:56,341 --> 00:11:58,633 And one of the things he did was, 216 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:04,639 in 2000, he opened up an office right next to Scientology's 217 00:12:04,766 --> 00:12:07,684 Office of Special Affairs in the bank building, 218 00:12:07,811 --> 00:12:11,813 and he gathered a few of us to stand up to Scientology 219 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:13,732 because the city wasn't. 220 00:12:13,859 --> 00:12:15,525 They had made peace with them. 221 00:12:15,652 --> 00:12:19,279 - The Lisa McPherson Trust was both, uh, an insult 222 00:12:19,406 --> 00:12:22,657 and a threat in the mind of David Miscavige 223 00:12:22,784 --> 00:12:25,994 and in my mind and everybody else 224 00:12:26,121 --> 00:12:28,246 who was in the Office of Special Affairs. 225 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:34,043 That this avowed financier of anti-Scientology activities 226 00:12:34,171 --> 00:12:36,004 had moved into town 227 00:12:36,131 --> 00:12:40,008 and set up an office right next door to Scientology? 228 00:12:40,135 --> 00:12:43,762 This was, uh, seen as a... A massive failure 229 00:12:43,889 --> 00:12:45,825 that he had been able to do that. 230 00:12:45,849 --> 00:12:49,017 - This space now belongs to the Lisa McPherson Trust 231 00:12:49,144 --> 00:12:51,728 and we are going to change the face of Scientology 232 00:12:51,855 --> 00:12:53,563 and Clearwater forever. 233 00:12:53,690 --> 00:12:57,233 - Scientology doesn't respond to slaps in the face 234 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,569 by turning the other cheek. 235 00:12:59,696 --> 00:13:03,573 The full force of L. Ron Hubbard's philosophy 236 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:06,993 of attack the attacker and destroy your enemies 237 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,954 was brought to bear on Bob Minton 238 00:13:10,081 --> 00:13:12,207 and the Lisa McPherson Trust, 239 00:13:12,334 --> 00:13:14,626 and I know because I did it. 240 00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:30,058 - So Scientology has been, um, harassing and, uh... uh, 241 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,265 attempting to silence people for decades 242 00:13:32,354 --> 00:13:35,188 and now the Lisa McPherson Trust comes into town. 243 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:39,901 People were saying, "An injustice is happening. 244 00:13:40,028 --> 00:13:42,487 We're gonna stand up for Lisa McPherson." 245 00:13:42,614 --> 00:13:46,574 And, of course, Scientology says, 246 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,993 "That's not okay. 247 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,495 Attack." 248 00:13:50,622 --> 00:13:53,456 And that's exactly what they did. 249 00:13:53,583 --> 00:13:55,917 Here's this wonderful man, Bob Minton, 250 00:13:56,044 --> 00:13:57,585 creates a trust, 251 00:13:57,712 --> 00:13:59,337 gets good people like you, 252 00:13:59,464 --> 00:14:01,150 and you guys are just doing this 253 00:14:01,174 --> 00:14:02,485 'cause it's the right thing to do. 254 00:14:02,509 --> 00:14:04,759 - Right. - And you set up shop 255 00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:07,929 in Scientology territory, which also takes some balls, 256 00:14:08,056 --> 00:14:12,308 and they are sending Scientologists there 257 00:14:12,435 --> 00:14:14,811 to harass you guys. 258 00:14:14,938 --> 00:14:18,189 That footage is so creepy, Mark, that I saw. 259 00:14:20,694 --> 00:14:23,361 - We quickly recognized what a problem 260 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:25,446 the Lisa McPherson Trust was. 261 00:14:25,574 --> 00:14:27,866 Miscavige believed that the Lisa McPherson Trust 262 00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:29,826 were there to be in his face, 263 00:14:29,953 --> 00:14:32,537 so he wanted Scientologists 264 00:14:32,664 --> 00:14:34,330 to be back in their face 265 00:14:34,457 --> 00:14:36,457 and make their life uncomfortable. 266 00:14:59,691 --> 00:15:02,609 - It got... kind of got ratcheted up when Bob Minton came and... 267 00:15:02,736 --> 00:15:06,821 And then decided to have an organized protest. 268 00:15:06,948 --> 00:15:08,634 Go in front of the Fort Harrison, 269 00:15:08,658 --> 00:15:11,326 on the sidewalk, hold the signs like you see, 270 00:15:11,453 --> 00:15:16,289 and what happened next was, uh, chaos in a way. 271 00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:19,292 Somebody came up to him and stuck their camera 272 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:22,921 right in his face, and Bob pushed it away. 273 00:15:23,048 --> 00:15:25,465 It had hit the guy in the head and, of course, 274 00:15:25,592 --> 00:15:28,551 with great dramatic flair, he went to the ground 275 00:15:28,678 --> 00:15:32,180 and, uh, Scientologists all went around him 276 00:15:32,307 --> 00:15:34,766 and stood there in silence 277 00:15:34,893 --> 00:15:38,645 and the police were called and, uh, Bob was arrested. 278 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:40,750 - For assault? - He was arrested for battery 279 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:43,149 on this... on this... On this fella. 280 00:15:43,276 --> 00:15:47,320 We went to court over it and explained why he was set up 281 00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:50,740 and to do that, we had to explain Scientology, 282 00:15:50,867 --> 00:15:52,492 fair game, and what it was, 283 00:15:52,619 --> 00:15:55,370 and that became discussed in the trial. 284 00:15:55,497 --> 00:15:58,915 When the case was over, he was acquitted. 285 00:15:59,042 --> 00:16:01,020 - It's just remarkable the lengths that Scientology 286 00:16:01,044 --> 00:16:02,044 will go to. 287 00:16:02,087 --> 00:16:04,128 You talk about the chaos. 288 00:16:04,255 --> 00:16:06,335 There was one night that was really bad, 289 00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:08,591 which we called The Mad Picket. 290 00:16:08,718 --> 00:16:10,176 If you look at the full video, 291 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:13,221 which I've put out raw and unedited on YouTube, 292 00:16:13,348 --> 00:16:15,284 you can see it starts off quietly 293 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:17,558 outside the, uh, Fort Harrison Hotel 294 00:16:17,686 --> 00:16:19,497 and after about five minutes of that, 295 00:16:19,521 --> 00:16:22,271 down the street comes the O.T. committee. 296 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:25,900 - Loser! McDonald's workers! 297 00:16:26,027 --> 00:16:27,777 You guys are losers! 298 00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:30,530 That was sad and pathetic. 299 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:32,093 - You should go back to your Nazi friends. 300 00:16:32,117 --> 00:16:33,344 - Move along, move along, move along. 301 00:16:33,368 --> 00:16:34,742 Cult member. 302 00:16:34,869 --> 00:16:37,787 - Chop chop! Chop chop! - Move. 303 00:16:37,914 --> 00:16:39,122 - Come on, Mark! 304 00:16:39,249 --> 00:16:41,416 - So, we're there quietly protesting 305 00:16:41,543 --> 00:16:45,586 and then Scientology comes to get in our face, literally, 306 00:16:45,714 --> 00:16:47,672 trying to provoke us 307 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:49,465 uh, and they had orders to do this. 308 00:16:49,592 --> 00:16:51,134 I caught them on tape. 309 00:16:51,261 --> 00:16:54,429 Like, one guy shoved Bob Minton, I believe it was. 310 00:16:55,807 --> 00:16:57,410 - Watch out! Hey, hey. hey! 311 00:16:57,434 --> 00:16:59,554 - Hold-hold-hold-hold-hold... - Who's that? 312 00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:04,105 - And another Scientologist came up to him and said, 313 00:17:04,232 --> 00:17:05,690 "Let them come to you." 314 00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:10,153 So they wanted to provoke us 315 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,049 so that so that we would do something against them 316 00:17:12,073 --> 00:17:13,573 and have us arrested. 317 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:15,469 - Sure, sure. - That's their whole goal. 318 00:17:15,493 --> 00:17:18,244 - The problems that we're having with the pro... protesting 319 00:17:18,371 --> 00:17:22,040 got so out of hand, uh, that the... the police 320 00:17:22,167 --> 00:17:23,666 and the politicians and all that said, 321 00:17:23,793 --> 00:17:25,168 "This has got to stop." 322 00:17:25,295 --> 00:17:28,212 And so there was an injunction filed 323 00:17:28,339 --> 00:17:32,258 by the church against the people that were protesting 324 00:17:32,385 --> 00:17:35,595 and we had long hearings in... in front of a... a... 325 00:17:35,722 --> 00:17:37,575 A circuit court judge in Clearwater 326 00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:40,308 where he took testimony about what they were doing, 327 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:42,977 whether they were violent, and so on and so forth. 328 00:17:43,104 --> 00:17:46,481 And, uh, the judge ultimately issued the injunction. 329 00:17:48,693 --> 00:17:51,861 - And unfortunately, my... my comrade here is named 330 00:17:51,988 --> 00:17:53,613 in one of the injunctions 331 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:56,115 to stay away from, uh, anybody that's... 332 00:17:56,242 --> 00:17:58,220 I think it says that's a Scientologist. 333 00:17:58,244 --> 00:18:00,578 - Yeah. - And you live in Clearwater! 334 00:18:00,705 --> 00:18:02,391 - Well, wait a minute, how do you know you're a... 335 00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:04,143 They don't go around with a T-shirt... 336 00:18:04,167 --> 00:18:05,936 - Right, right. - Saying "I'm a Scientologist." 337 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,169 But he supposedly has to be clairvoyant 338 00:18:08,296 --> 00:18:10,524 and find out that he has to stay a certain number 339 00:18:10,548 --> 00:18:13,466 of feet not only away from Scientologists, 340 00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:15,196 but anyway from any buildings 341 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:17,114 that were named in the injunction. 342 00:18:17,138 --> 00:18:19,639 It was a one-sided debacle that was, uh, 343 00:18:19,766 --> 00:18:22,100 really a sad... a sad time for Clearwater. 344 00:18:38,326 --> 00:18:42,120 - We hit upon the idea of hiring off-duty 345 00:18:42,247 --> 00:18:44,288 Clearwater police department officers 346 00:18:44,415 --> 00:18:46,916 to guard the building 347 00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:49,794 to protect against the Lisa McPherson Trust. 348 00:18:49,921 --> 00:18:52,296 This had the effect 349 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:56,467 of turning many Clearwater police officers 350 00:18:56,594 --> 00:19:00,346 into de facto employees of Scientology. 351 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:03,474 They were schmoozed in order to make them 352 00:19:03,601 --> 00:19:07,061 more favorable toward us 353 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:10,731 and less favorable towards the Lisa McPherson Trust, 354 00:19:10,859 --> 00:19:14,402 who were positioned always as troublemakers 355 00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:17,321 who had been imported from out of town 356 00:19:17,448 --> 00:19:21,367 to come and cause trouble in beautiful downtown Clearwater. 357 00:19:30,086 --> 00:19:32,378 - Today, many in the Clearwater Police Department 358 00:19:32,505 --> 00:19:34,630 work for Scientology on their days off, 359 00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:37,049 and they're supposed to report of Mike Rinder, 360 00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:39,927 the head of the Office of Special Affairs. 361 00:19:40,054 --> 00:19:43,181 The Clearwater Police watch as the O.S.A. agents 362 00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:44,974 videotape our every move. 363 00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,935 Scientology Pis follow us everywhere. 364 00:19:48,062 --> 00:19:51,230 - The police had just stood by while these protestors 365 00:19:51,357 --> 00:19:53,608 have been assaulted by Scientologists. 366 00:19:53,735 --> 00:19:56,319 The police had been absolutely unwilling to do anything 367 00:19:56,446 --> 00:19:58,070 to protect the protestors. 368 00:20:03,661 --> 00:20:05,203 - The day that injunction 369 00:20:05,330 --> 00:20:07,290 was put into effect by the judge, 370 00:20:07,415 --> 00:20:09,895 he was out on the street using it trying to get us arrested. 371 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:11,834 I've got tape of the police officer... 372 00:20:11,961 --> 00:20:13,772 You saying to the officer, "Look, they're named here! 373 00:20:13,796 --> 00:20:15,087 They're named!" 374 00:20:15,215 --> 00:20:16,775 - That was another life. Leave him alone. 375 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:18,360 - Well, Mike... Mike is fully aware 376 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:20,176 that we're going to find that stuff 377 00:20:20,303 --> 00:20:22,720 and we're going to air it. Sorry, Mike. 378 00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:24,527 - Oh, Mike! - We're gonna find that stuff. 379 00:20:25,975 --> 00:20:27,786 - So it appears as if they've called the Clearwater police 380 00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:32,355 to complain of the, uh, prior peaceful picketing activity. 381 00:20:32,482 --> 00:20:33,773 I'm concerned that Mike Rinder 382 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,753 wants to stop peaceful picketing 383 00:20:35,777 --> 00:20:38,027 under the guise of legal process. 384 00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:39,528 - Mike Rinder is the chief 385 00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:41,467 of their dirty tricks department 386 00:20:41,491 --> 00:20:44,533 and there is nothing he wouldn't do or say 387 00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:49,622 to try to keep this, uh, criminal 388 00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:52,750 at the helm of Scientology, David Miscavige, in power 389 00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:57,004 because Mike Rinder's power comes from David Miscavige. 390 00:20:57,131 --> 00:20:59,632 - Have you been served with one of these injunctions 391 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,487 as an agent of his? - No. 392 00:21:01,511 --> 00:21:03,948 You were in court, Stacy, when that was issued. 393 00:21:03,972 --> 00:21:06,532 You were test... You were sitting right there. 394 00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:09,620 Because you're saying that you're... you're not on notice. 395 00:21:09,644 --> 00:21:12,204 Or you're trying to say you're not on notice. 396 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:16,315 - This was just a tactic to try to stop protests. 397 00:21:16,442 --> 00:21:17,722 - You're not allowed to protest? 398 00:21:17,777 --> 00:21:19,610 - Well, that's the entire injunction. 399 00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:25,241 - That injunction, issued in 1999, 400 00:21:25,368 --> 00:21:27,785 even though the Lisa McPherson Trust 401 00:21:27,912 --> 00:21:30,538 ceased to exist in 2001, 402 00:21:30,665 --> 00:21:33,582 Scientology still drags this thing out 403 00:21:33,710 --> 00:21:35,251 at every opportunity. 404 00:21:35,378 --> 00:21:36,836 They put a red cover on it, 405 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:38,462 they make it look all official, 406 00:21:38,589 --> 00:21:40,401 they hand it to the cops and they say, 407 00:21:40,425 --> 00:21:42,611 "Here, we got an injunction against this guy. 408 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:44,260 He's just a troublemaker!" 409 00:21:44,387 --> 00:21:48,848 In 1999, like 20 years ago? 410 00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:54,437 It's absurd, but the theater of the absurd 411 00:21:54,564 --> 00:21:57,982 is the theater of Scientology. 412 00:21:58,109 --> 00:21:59,962 - Scientology realized, like, 413 00:21:59,986 --> 00:22:02,820 "Oh, Mark can't be within ten feet of us." 414 00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:06,490 So then they started staging Scientologists every ten feet 415 00:22:06,617 --> 00:22:08,457 so that you couldn't even walk down the street. 416 00:22:08,578 --> 00:22:09,994 - Yeah, I... I went to one event 417 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:11,704 across from the Ford Harrison Hotel. 418 00:22:11,831 --> 00:22:13,711 - Yeah. - And there's a woman 419 00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:15,811 talking with a police officer and they were talking toward me 420 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,753 and she, uh, saw me coming and she shouted, 421 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,713 "Ten feet!" 422 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,674 And I had to stop... 423 00:22:23,801 --> 00:22:26,260 and the police told me that I could not walk down the street 424 00:22:26,387 --> 00:22:28,346 as long as she was there. 425 00:22:28,473 --> 00:22:30,890 I said, "Well, can I walk out around the cars in the street?" 426 00:22:31,017 --> 00:22:32,516 "No, that'd be breaking the law." 427 00:22:32,643 --> 00:22:35,644 - Wow! - That's crazy, that's insane. 428 00:22:35,772 --> 00:22:38,230 - The next event where David Miscavige was speaking 429 00:22:38,358 --> 00:22:40,691 downtown at a, uh, opening ceremony 430 00:22:40,818 --> 00:22:42,943 for one of their new buildings, 431 00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:46,989 I arrived and they stationed Scientologists every ten feet 432 00:22:47,116 --> 00:22:49,325 around two blocks around the event. 433 00:22:49,452 --> 00:22:51,494 Precisely ten feet, 434 00:22:51,621 --> 00:22:54,163 and she was waiting as I approached 435 00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,790 with two police officers. 436 00:22:55,917 --> 00:22:58,959 - They tried to get Mark kicked out of his condo 437 00:22:59,087 --> 00:23:02,088 because his next door neighbor was a Scientologist. 438 00:23:02,215 --> 00:23:04,340 - I got a knock on the door from my neighbor. 439 00:23:04,467 --> 00:23:05,925 Very excited to meet me 440 00:23:06,052 --> 00:23:08,052 and very chipper and happy and "Hi, come on in..." 441 00:23:08,137 --> 00:23:09,470 "come on over to my place! 442 00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:11,158 "You need some furniture? You want a chair? 443 00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:12,598 "How 'bout a table," you know? 444 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:15,059 And we sat and talked for about 15, 20 minutes 445 00:23:15,186 --> 00:23:17,520 and she was very up and very positive 446 00:23:17,647 --> 00:23:19,980 and then, uh, I noticed she had a big bookcase 447 00:23:20,108 --> 00:23:22,316 full of L. Ron Hubbard Scientology stuff. 448 00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:24,693 She would, again, was trying to force furniture on me 449 00:23:24,821 --> 00:23:26,757 and I said, "Well, that's... That's very kind of you" 450 00:23:26,781 --> 00:23:29,698 "but I think you should know that I am an SP 451 00:23:29,826 --> 00:23:31,659 "and I've been making a documentary 452 00:23:31,786 --> 00:23:33,577 "about the Church of Scientology and 453 00:23:33,704 --> 00:23:35,579 "I just wanted to be upfront about that 454 00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:37,415 and I hope we can still be friends." 455 00:23:37,542 --> 00:23:40,626 Uh, how'd that go? 456 00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:43,629 - Her face just went to a glower. 457 00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:47,550 "In that case, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." 458 00:23:47,677 --> 00:23:50,177 I said, "Well, I... I... I think still think we can talk..." 459 00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:51,971 "Leave now." 460 00:23:52,098 --> 00:23:54,598 And then the next day, the condo association 461 00:23:54,725 --> 00:23:55,994 were getting threatening letters 462 00:23:56,018 --> 00:23:57,601 from Scientology attorneys 463 00:23:57,728 --> 00:23:59,687 saying I had to be evicted 464 00:23:59,814 --> 00:24:03,649 because I was ten feet away from this Scientologist 465 00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:05,359 and breaking the injunction. 466 00:24:05,486 --> 00:24:07,945 And the condo association thankfully said, 467 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:10,781 "No, we ran a check on this guy. He's fine." 468 00:24:10,908 --> 00:24:12,219 - Wow. - And they didn't like 469 00:24:12,243 --> 00:24:13,637 Scientology trying to pressure them, 470 00:24:13,661 --> 00:24:15,222 so they... they... - They stood up for you. 471 00:24:15,246 --> 00:24:16,486 - You know, they stood with me. 472 00:24:16,539 --> 00:24:18,706 So it... it's... it's just nuts. 473 00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:20,541 - Nuts. 474 00:24:34,015 --> 00:24:36,348 - Talking about the... The injunctions 475 00:24:36,476 --> 00:24:39,852 and all of the hoo-ha around the Lisa McPherson Trust, 476 00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:44,732 the real issue is what got done, ultimately, 477 00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:46,692 to destroy it. 478 00:24:46,819 --> 00:24:48,527 Which was not the injunctions 479 00:24:48,654 --> 00:24:50,048 and not the people in their faces 480 00:24:50,072 --> 00:24:51,697 and that sort of stuff, 481 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:54,992 but the investigation and the harassment 482 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,203 that was conducted against Bob Minton. 483 00:24:59,957 --> 00:25:04,001 And I am extremely familiar with this because I ran it. 484 00:25:09,342 --> 00:25:10,903 - If ever there was a critic of Scientology, 485 00:25:10,927 --> 00:25:12,510 it was Bob Minton 486 00:25:12,637 --> 00:25:16,180 and, I promise you, no expense was spared 487 00:25:16,307 --> 00:25:19,683 when it came to hiring private investigators, 488 00:25:19,810 --> 00:25:22,770 hiring people around the world 489 00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:28,484 to investigate Bob and his finances in particular. 490 00:25:28,611 --> 00:25:32,196 It was his money that we were interested in. 491 00:25:32,323 --> 00:25:37,159 We knew that Minton had made a considerable amount of money 492 00:25:37,286 --> 00:25:39,828 selling Nigerian bonds. 493 00:25:39,956 --> 00:25:45,376 So Dave Lubow went to London and managed to persuade 494 00:25:45,503 --> 00:25:47,461 the Nigerian government 495 00:25:47,588 --> 00:25:50,756 that Bob Minton and the people he had worked with 496 00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:55,177 had scammed them out of tens of millions of dollars. 497 00:25:55,304 --> 00:25:58,389 And the Nigerian government 498 00:25:58,516 --> 00:26:01,600 officially requested a prosecutor 499 00:26:01,727 --> 00:26:05,229 in Switzerland to open an investigation 500 00:26:05,356 --> 00:26:08,148 and to freeze Bob Minton's funds 501 00:26:08,276 --> 00:26:10,234 in his Swiss bank accounts. 502 00:26:11,821 --> 00:26:13,821 And he had no money. 503 00:26:13,948 --> 00:26:16,134 He didn't have any money to pay his bills, 504 00:26:16,158 --> 00:26:20,119 and that was the real pressure that was put on him. 505 00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:21,890 - Now why are you getting emotional? 506 00:26:21,914 --> 00:26:23,234 'Cause you're making me emotional. 507 00:26:24,292 --> 00:26:26,083 Bob was my hero. 508 00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:28,961 Uh, he was a flawed man but he was a good man. 509 00:26:29,088 --> 00:26:31,297 - Yeah. - And he really cared 510 00:26:31,424 --> 00:26:32,901 and was really trying to make a difference. 511 00:26:32,925 --> 00:26:34,194 - Yeah. 512 00:26:34,218 --> 00:26:35,676 - And he helped a lot of people. 513 00:26:35,803 --> 00:26:37,845 It was not a... a pretty ending. 514 00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:39,972 Um, I saw the pressure on him. 515 00:26:40,099 --> 00:26:42,641 Every day I would... 516 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:45,769 I would walk into his house and wonder, is this the day 517 00:26:45,896 --> 00:26:48,188 that Bob's gonna shoot himself? 518 00:26:48,316 --> 00:26:52,610 And it was horrific, 519 00:26:52,737 --> 00:26:54,945 and Stacy went through that too. 520 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,158 They were trying to get Bob out of this 521 00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:01,827 and one of the things they did, 522 00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:04,455 uh, was try and sit down with Scientology 523 00:27:04,582 --> 00:27:09,209 and work out some sort of ceasefire. 524 00:27:09,337 --> 00:27:11,754 I believe they, uh... uh, were you at those meetings? 525 00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:13,233 - Absolutely. - Yeah. 526 00:27:13,257 --> 00:27:15,507 And... and from my understanding... 527 00:27:15,635 --> 00:27:17,468 Thank you. 528 00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:19,803 From my understanding, Bob and Stacy 529 00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:21,722 wanted to go in there and just say, 530 00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:25,601 "Okay, we'll... we'll stop all the lawsuits. 531 00:27:25,728 --> 00:27:28,687 We just wanna get out of this because it's too hard." 532 00:27:28,814 --> 00:27:32,566 And at the first meeting, my understanding is 533 00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:35,486 you said, "Not only are... are you not getting out of this" 534 00:27:35,613 --> 00:27:37,905 but here's a $10 million lawsuit." 535 00:27:38,032 --> 00:27:42,326 And, I was told, a detailed $30 million RICO case 536 00:27:42,453 --> 00:27:44,662 that you were preparing against Bob 537 00:27:44,789 --> 00:27:48,457 and they came home from that just shell-shocked. 538 00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:51,710 - Bob called me and asked me if I would be willing 539 00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:54,421 to meet with he and Stacy alone. 540 00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:56,256 I said yes. 541 00:27:56,384 --> 00:27:58,153 Miscavige insisted that Monique Yingling 542 00:27:58,177 --> 00:28:01,970 go with me and we met at the Johnson Pope law offices. 543 00:28:02,098 --> 00:28:05,015 He eventually just went, "I want out. 544 00:28:05,142 --> 00:28:09,269 If you can get my money freed up, I'm out of here." 545 00:28:09,397 --> 00:28:13,232 And that was sort of the sad end of Bob 546 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,735 as a crusader against Scientology. 547 00:28:16,862 --> 00:28:23,492 He was effectively terminator as an attacker, 548 00:28:23,619 --> 00:28:27,413 which is the objective of the Office of Special Affairs. 549 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,957 - He was neutralized. - Neutralized. 550 00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:54,457 It is something that haunted me 551 00:28:54,525 --> 00:28:56,275 for a long, long time. 552 00:29:09,331 --> 00:29:11,915 - Stacy and Bob called me when he was in Zurich 553 00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:13,375 going to get his money 554 00:29:13,502 --> 00:29:15,294 and he was suicidal 555 00:29:15,421 --> 00:29:17,441 and he was threatening to jump out the window 556 00:29:17,465 --> 00:29:18,745 of his hotel room 557 00:29:18,841 --> 00:29:21,633 and Stacy called me to help, 558 00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:24,428 to get me to talk to Bob and I ended up talking to him 559 00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:26,074 for, like, two hours on the phone 560 00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:29,057 and... and talking him out of committing suicide. 561 00:29:29,185 --> 00:29:32,102 And I was still in the Office of Special Affairs 562 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,979 at that time. - Right. 563 00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:38,192 - And I ultimately had a lot of conversations with him 564 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:41,570 and Stacy and I was going to go visit them in Ireland 565 00:29:41,697 --> 00:29:43,489 when he moved to Ireland, 566 00:29:43,616 --> 00:29:47,075 but he was still so scared, he said, "Please don't come." 567 00:29:47,203 --> 00:29:49,119 "I'm afraid that if you come, 568 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:51,057 the Pis are all gonna come again," 569 00:29:51,081 --> 00:29:52,581 and he couldn't take it. 570 00:29:52,708 --> 00:29:54,708 And then he died. 571 00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:01,715 - And I never got to see him, 572 00:30:01,842 --> 00:30:05,844 to have the... the real personal one-on-one conversation. 573 00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:14,812 What I directed to be done against Bob Minton 574 00:30:14,939 --> 00:30:19,525 and what I did to Bob Minton has haunted me for a long time, 575 00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:25,614 and I am sorry for what I did to destroy him 576 00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:27,199 or to seek to destroy him. 577 00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:33,664 This story of Lisa McPherson really touched him 578 00:30:33,791 --> 00:30:36,124 and it's what motivated him. 579 00:30:36,252 --> 00:30:38,585 He was not motivated by money. 580 00:30:38,712 --> 00:30:41,588 He wasn't even motivated by a hatred of Scientology, 581 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:44,258 and you know the way that I know that? 582 00:30:44,385 --> 00:30:47,719 He was willing to have me as a friend 583 00:30:47,847 --> 00:30:51,223 even when I was still in Scientology. 584 00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:02,234 - But you got to finally say you were sorry to him? 585 00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:04,361 - Oh, absolutely, and to Stacy. 586 00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:09,199 I mean, to this day, Stacy is... I consider a good friend. 587 00:31:09,326 --> 00:31:10,887 - Yeah. - And the only reason 588 00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:13,078 that she is not on this show... - Yeah. 589 00:31:13,205 --> 00:31:15,664 - Because she desperately wants to be... 590 00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:19,209 Is because of the settlement agreement that I did with her 591 00:31:19,336 --> 00:31:20,711 that prevents her from talking. 592 00:31:20,838 --> 00:31:22,963 - Non-disclosure. 593 00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:26,444 One thing I didn't realize was that he had no connection 594 00:31:26,468 --> 00:31:27,759 at all to Scientology 595 00:31:27,887 --> 00:31:30,095 or Clearwater or no relatives. 596 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:32,472 He just came down to make our city better. 597 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,976 - That's what's so insane, is that they talk about 598 00:31:36,103 --> 00:31:37,853 freedom of speech and freedom of religion, 599 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:42,524 but they attack and destroy those who are... 600 00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:44,045 - Exercising? - Speaking. 601 00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:45,463 - Yeah, exercising freedom of speech. 602 00:31:45,487 --> 00:31:46,673 - Exercising that right. 603 00:31:46,697 --> 00:31:48,717 - Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 604 00:31:48,741 --> 00:31:52,868 - I hope that the... 605 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:58,874 the memory of Bob is as it should be. 606 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:03,170 That people understand that he was doing something 607 00:32:03,297 --> 00:32:05,047 that was selfless 608 00:32:05,174 --> 00:32:10,677 and I, you know, I genuinely have great, great sorrow 609 00:32:10,804 --> 00:32:12,512 about what happened. 610 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,767 The only... the only mitigating factor is the fact 611 00:32:16,894 --> 00:32:19,686 that I was able to... to speak with him and Stacy 612 00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:22,373 afterwards and kind of make peace with them, 613 00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:25,567 but that's not made peace with the world, 614 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:29,154 so I hope that to some extent this will accomplish that. 615 00:32:31,909 --> 00:32:33,951 - Yeah. 616 00:32:34,078 --> 00:32:36,161 - Sorry. - It's okay. 617 00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:37,888 - This is going to mean the world to her. 618 00:32:37,957 --> 00:32:39,539 Thank you. 619 00:33:18,914 --> 00:33:22,624 - Mark Bunker, when he walks down the street, 620 00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:27,254 suddenly, the Clearwater Police Department appear in force 621 00:33:27,381 --> 00:33:29,461 because Scientology calls them and says, 622 00:33:29,550 --> 00:33:31,883 "We have an injunction! We've got a trespasser," 623 00:33:32,011 --> 00:33:35,804 and they are there in a flash 624 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:38,348 even though that injunction is 20 years old. 625 00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:43,164 - So tell me the history of this park. 626 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:45,313 It was built for the purpose of what? 627 00:33:45,441 --> 00:33:46,835 - This used to be... - I mean, it's lovely. 628 00:33:46,859 --> 00:33:48,739 - I'm not... I'm not... I'm not begrudging them. 629 00:33:48,777 --> 00:33:51,528 - This for the longest time was a drive-through Checkers... 630 00:33:51,655 --> 00:33:52,487 - Mm-hmm. - Drive-through. 631 00:33:52,614 --> 00:33:53,905 - Oh, that's right. 632 00:33:54,033 --> 00:33:56,241 And Miscavige... His office used to be 633 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:58,535 up in that corner. - Mm-hmm. 634 00:33:58,662 --> 00:34:00,996 - And he hated this being here. 635 00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:03,832 It attracted people to... - His area. 636 00:34:03,959 --> 00:34:05,645 - His environment. - I... 637 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:07,794 - And this was his little zone over here. 638 00:34:07,921 --> 00:34:10,380 So... like they bought this park. They bought that one. 639 00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,883 That parking lot, this parking lot. 640 00:34:13,010 --> 00:34:14,612 Then when this became available, 641 00:34:14,636 --> 00:34:16,344 they bought this 642 00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:18,074 and they didn't have anything to do here with it, 643 00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:19,514 so they just made it a park. 644 00:34:19,641 --> 00:34:21,266 - Mm-hmm. 645 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:22,454 - It gets used one time a year now 646 00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:23,598 for Winter Wonderland. 647 00:34:23,687 --> 00:34:25,062 There's nowhere that you can go 648 00:34:25,189 --> 00:34:27,939 to even take a photo of someone. 649 00:34:28,067 --> 00:34:29,707 - Mm-hmm. - Right. 650 00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:34,674 - These cops don't know what to do. 651 00:34:34,698 --> 00:34:36,259 They brought them the injunction. 652 00:34:36,283 --> 00:34:38,241 - Of course. 653 00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:40,263 - And does the injunction say that he can't be at a park? 654 00:34:40,287 --> 00:34:41,473 - Nope, nope. 655 00:34:41,497 --> 00:34:42,954 - Here's another one. 656 00:34:43,082 --> 00:34:45,624 Here you go, Scientology using the resources... 657 00:34:45,751 --> 00:34:47,562 - They've called the Sergeant in. 658 00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:48,586 - Uh-huh. 659 00:34:51,090 --> 00:34:52,734 - Somebody in the car. - Yeah. 660 00:34:52,758 --> 00:34:55,634 That's probably the O.S.A. people. 661 00:34:55,761 --> 00:34:57,281 - Sorry, they just took pictures of us. 662 00:34:57,346 --> 00:34:59,282 - Oh, here's another one. Now there's four now. 663 00:34:59,306 --> 00:35:00,847 - Yup, there you go. 664 00:35:00,974 --> 00:35:03,100 This is a big crime. 665 00:35:03,227 --> 00:35:04,996 - I don't really get this shit, Mike. 666 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,229 Am I overreacting to this? 667 00:35:07,356 --> 00:35:09,189 - Not at all. 668 00:35:09,316 --> 00:35:12,067 This is why we're doing a show about Clearwater. 669 00:35:12,194 --> 00:35:18,281 When it comes to Scientology, this is insanity HQ. 670 00:35:18,408 --> 00:35:21,118 - Well, I'm sitting my ass here until these cops leave. 671 00:35:22,788 --> 00:35:24,162 So it's gonna be a long night. 672 00:35:42,349 --> 00:35:43,765 - Thank you! 673 00:35:45,352 --> 00:35:46,810 Thank you! 674 00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:49,396 - What are you... what... What's up? 675 00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:50,981 - We're sitting here. 676 00:35:51,108 --> 00:35:53,066 - We're sitting here at a park. 677 00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:56,403 - Okay. 678 00:36:01,243 --> 00:36:03,410 - We're sitting here talking 679 00:36:03,537 --> 00:36:05,120 and Scientology, of course, 680 00:36:05,247 --> 00:36:07,247 doesn't want us sitting here talking. 681 00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:08,665 So. 682 00:36:10,961 --> 00:36:13,128 What are... what shall you report back? 683 00:36:13,255 --> 00:36:14,921 Hi, O.S.A.! 684 00:36:16,842 --> 00:36:20,844 - You... you know that injunction isn't applicable to him here. 685 00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:24,181 - I'll... I'll explain it to you. 686 00:36:24,308 --> 00:36:26,286 - They're the complainant, you guys are the subjects, 687 00:36:26,310 --> 00:36:28,288 we're just here to get this whole thing sorted out. 688 00:36:28,312 --> 00:36:31,271 - That injunction was gotten actually by me 689 00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:35,108 when I was in the Church against him and 13 other people 690 00:36:35,235 --> 00:36:37,777 that used to work for the Lisa McPherson Trust, 691 00:36:37,905 --> 00:36:41,448 and it requires that he and those other people 692 00:36:41,575 --> 00:36:44,409 not protest in front of the Fort Harrison 693 00:36:44,536 --> 00:36:47,370 or the flag building and a few other places. 694 00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:49,434 That's what that injunction says. 695 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:53,835 This isn't any of those locations 696 00:36:53,962 --> 00:36:55,648 and he's not, as far as we know... 697 00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:57,192 - Hi! - Hi. 698 00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:01,321 - Oh, my gosh. Yeah. - We appreciate it. 699 00:37:01,345 --> 00:37:03,385 - Thank you. - Hold on. Juno, come on! 700 00:37:04,848 --> 00:37:06,431 - As we're standing there 701 00:37:06,558 --> 00:37:08,453 with the Clearwater Police Department, 702 00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:10,371 we have people who are filming us from Scientology, 703 00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:12,562 but also we have people who are screaming, 704 00:37:12,689 --> 00:37:14,064 "We love you, Leah and Mike! 705 00:37:14,191 --> 00:37:15,649 "Keep going!" You know, 706 00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:17,378 "Can we take pictures with you?" 707 00:37:17,402 --> 00:37:19,297 Like... and it's just a... such a weird dicho... 708 00:37:19,321 --> 00:37:21,488 It's just so weird. 709 00:37:21,615 --> 00:37:24,950 It's like, what world are we living in? 710 00:37:25,077 --> 00:37:26,660 - So this is my normal life here. 711 00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:30,247 - Mark, you poor baby. 712 00:37:30,374 --> 00:37:32,207 - I didn't do anything. 713 00:37:32,334 --> 00:37:34,251 - Okay, here comes the boss. 714 00:37:34,378 --> 00:37:35,658 - Hi folks, I'm Corporal Wassmer. 715 00:37:35,712 --> 00:37:36,814 How are you? - Good, how are you? 716 00:37:36,838 --> 00:37:38,463 - Hey, man. 717 00:37:41,176 --> 00:37:42,634 - No one has. 718 00:37:47,307 --> 00:37:49,224 - This is their private property right here? 719 00:37:49,351 --> 00:37:51,579 - Yeah, the park and... - So we can use the benches? 720 00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:54,163 - We're gonna stand there. Is that okay? 721 00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:56,626 - Let's see if they... if they have a problem with us 722 00:37:56,650 --> 00:37:57,650 standing here. 723 00:37:59,111 --> 00:38:00,527 - I am. 724 00:38:03,949 --> 00:38:05,699 - Uh-huh? 725 00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:08,186 - I don't think this is part of the injunction though. 726 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:14,769 - They didn't even own this building 727 00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:16,396 when this injunction was done. 728 00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:17,711 - That why we all just... 729 00:38:17,838 --> 00:38:19,438 There's nothing wrong with us being here. 730 00:38:24,678 --> 00:38:27,137 - Well, and that's why we wanted to document it too. 731 00:38:33,312 --> 00:38:35,020 - Okay. 732 00:38:38,442 --> 00:38:40,044 - Bring 'em on, bring 'em on. - Please do. 733 00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:41,568 We will stand on this public street. 734 00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:43,236 - We will wait here for... 735 00:38:43,363 --> 00:38:46,656 For her happily. - We would really love it. 736 00:38:46,783 --> 00:38:49,242 - It's ostensibly a public park, 737 00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:51,745 and they even have a big sign which lays out 738 00:38:51,872 --> 00:38:54,998 that everybody is welcome to come in here. 739 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:58,877 It has a little line at the end that says 740 00:38:59,004 --> 00:39:02,213 and we reserve the right to remove anybody 741 00:39:02,341 --> 00:39:04,799 should they be harassing people 742 00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:06,843 or something like that. 743 00:39:06,970 --> 00:39:12,474 The truth of the matter is that this is Scientology property 744 00:39:12,601 --> 00:39:14,142 and if they don't like you, 745 00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:18,563 they will call the police to get you thrown out. 746 00:39:26,782 --> 00:39:30,325 - This injunction is almost 20 years old. 747 00:39:30,452 --> 00:39:34,037 They will never give up. 748 00:39:34,164 --> 00:39:36,748 A whole ruckus is being caused 749 00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:41,878 because Mark Bunker is sitting in an empty park. 750 00:39:42,005 --> 00:39:43,755 Still going on today... 751 00:39:43,882 --> 00:39:46,424 Using the Clearwater Police Department 752 00:39:46,551 --> 00:39:50,136 for these criminals sitting in a park. 753 00:40:03,026 --> 00:40:05,235 This is what the IRS should be looking at. 754 00:40:05,362 --> 00:40:08,196 These fake buildings that have nobody in them. 755 00:40:08,323 --> 00:40:10,573 - Right. - What is this? 756 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,470 - This was the L.M.T. - This is it. 757 00:40:12,494 --> 00:40:14,775 - Oh, this was it! - This is where the L.M.T. was. 758 00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:22,919 - My office was in the back half of that space there. 759 00:40:23,046 --> 00:40:25,463 - It's been heartbreaking 760 00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:29,175 to walk through this adorable community 761 00:40:29,302 --> 00:40:33,012 and see nothing but empty Scientology buildings. 762 00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:35,432 What a waste of a cute town. 763 00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:46,359 - If you look at the big view of Clearwater, 764 00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:50,697 it is the perfect microcosm of whether Scientology, 765 00:40:50,824 --> 00:40:54,367 in fact, provides a public benefit or not. 60400

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