Going Clear, Part 6 Australian Inquiry, more Wright dishonesty

Going Clear, Part 6 Australian Inquiry, more Wright dishonesty

Page 91 he talks about the Australian government’s Board of Inquiry, and I note that I went through with him in some detail, Ewen Cameron being involved in this. And I’ll talk about the significance of that, about the prosecutor Dax, and the fact that it was really a kangaroo court. Ironically, this really sort of—I don’t know, juvenile, not juvenile, what’s a better word? The guy’s, he’s a terrible writer, the guy who wrote this book called Fair Game, Steve Cannane out of Australia. You know, as much as the guy Cannane tried to just pile on—because he’s playing the “pile on” game now, because it’s easy to go after Scientology—and so he’s just regurgitating these things that have been said. But even Cannane, who was not, who wasn’t trying to come to this conclusion, the description that he gave of the Australian Inquiry and that whole episode, which he went into some depth because his book’s in Australia, describes a kangaroo court and a witch hunt to the tee. Of course, none of that’s described in here. He says they came out with a “passionate condemnation of Scientology”.
But I went through a lot of those factors that Cannane actually reported on, even though Cannane—I never talked to him about any of that, and had I, he would’ve heard what I told Wright. But we’ll get there when he brings this up, because, again, he’s doing this jumbled time line.
Wright says in the same paragraph where he introduces the Australian Inquiry, that “Hubbard believed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the FBI and CIA, were feeding slanderous information about the Church to various governments”.
Now all of a sudden, that’s been devalued to a “belief” which can be written off to his delusions and hallucinatory, you know, and paranoid mind frame that he’s accused him of 50 times already, and we’re only at page 91.
And yet I went through this a lot with Wright, about how—he didn’t “believe” it, it’s documented. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FBI, and the CIA were feeding slanderous information about the Church to various governments. But Wright just dismisses, so he doesn’t tell that story that I told him. Instead, he says “Hubbard believed…” as if this is just a paranoid delusion. You get what I’m saying?
This is doubly kind of dishonest too, because, you know, and I don’t know if Wright in here does it, but the whole anti-Scientology narrative goes into this whole thing about well, they bought the IRS off, or intimidated the IRS, I mean it was so bizarre the IRS agreed to settle. I think they highlighted in the film where David Miscavige says the IRS is going to send out all this correction material to all these places that got their bad information, right? It’s not that they were intimidated or forced, or bought off to do it, it’s that this statement that he says was a belief of Hubbard’s, is documented true. U.S. agencies were sending slanderous materials, and did it for four decades.
And it was so patently clear, by the documents Haitian presented to the higher levels of the IRS. That’s why they agreed to send corrective material out. That’s how much of a not “belief” or paranoid delusion it was. It was for real. And Wright knew that in spades.