I watched the whole thing. Beghe is rough around the edges (there’s a lot of profanity and some-not-particularly-coherent bits) but he does get across just how deranged and insular Scientology is. Even the fact that now, a year after he left, he cannot stop using all these ridiculous acronyms and doesn’t even seem to be aware that he’s doing it, underscores just how weird a mindset exists inside the organization.

I also couldn’t help thinking, while watching it, that he’s probably going to need those dogs he has outside. Maybe some more dogs. With frickin’ lasers on their heads, as the saying goes.

What he’s done is either brave or stupid. He says he doesn’t want to upset people, which is either disingenuous or naive. This is going to infuriate people high in the org. I imagine we’ll hear he’s been sued for putting the video out, and I wish there was a way to download it…

I think he is probably too high-profile to risk doing him physical harm, but I have a feeling he may find himself dragged into court repeatedly until he has no money left, and I also expect you’ll hear people start saying things to the press that call his mental state into question.

I think the reason people are afraid of them in the US and not other places is that we have a whole lot more of them here, and they have a lot of money. They also exploit loopholes in our legal system (which it sounds like do not exist in Israel; be thankful) to harass people who criticize them.

The interview was fascinating. I think where Jason lapses into incoherence, it’s an artifact of Scientology. The guy said even they couldn’t define Clear; now he’s trying to discuss Clear and OT class 5 and Auditing but he can’t. It sounds like he’s babbling because that’s all it is. None of it means anything. I listened to Tom Cruise’s interview when it was available and kept looking on the internet to figure out what the hell OTs and SPs are but I haven’t figured it out to this day. It’s like reading one of those fakey liberal arts thesis papers.

OT’s are representative of the level you have reached in their teaching The higher the number the higher up you are. SP’s are “suspicious people” and ones who believe in scientology should not associate with.