TRANSCRIPT:
So, the last bits of this first two-hour second [first] season business [of Aftermath ] is really telling. They put up the question, “Will ‘fair game’ continue?” right. And so they ask Lens Ginsburg [Len Zinberg], Lens—Lev…they ask Lev, the ex-Guardian’s Office guy, right, who has been gone for 40 years, and it was banished 35 years ago, and he is going to give us a definitive answer whether…okay.
What he was engaged in 40 years ago is still going to—is going to continue in the future, even though it was wiped out when he was banished 35 years ago. Then they asked—and then the Aussie guy, Bryan Seymour, pipes in and says, “The greatest example and the greatest proof that ‘fair game’ exists by Scientology against others, is that they said it was cancelled in 1968.”
So, it’s just very telling, like that—by the Church saying, raising a defense and making a factual averment, to him, that’s “fair game.” Like, Leah, “You guys are putting up a defense and you are countering what I am saying? That’s fair game,” right. She is doing it all day long. This is marginalization by definition—that if you even speak, you’re condemned.
[Stephen] Kent is right in alignment with them. He says, “Oh yeah, I’ve been fair gamed.” After going out and announcing to the world as an “expert” that Scientology is brainwashing—because they informed the public about the techniques of brainwashing, so that people wouldn’t be brainwashed—because the Church published their counter to this guy as an expert, that’s “fair game.” You get what I am saying here? Each one of them is saying that if you say anything you are committing evil. It’s marginalization. It is attempted suppression of speech, okay.
Then the next question is, “What is the future of Scientology?” And of course, the Aussie guy says, “I believe it will end,” okay. But this is what’s really telling—[Mark] Ebner says, “I promise you, satire, comedy and mockery is going to win.”
So, at the end of Season 1, we have gone from playacting that Leah is bankrolling with her own money, going to New York to get the FBI to come down on Scientology, because there is this big clear and present danger; and to hire the greatest law firm with the greatest influence and sway to politically force agencies to go after Scientology and sue them back to the stone ages, right. Which, you know, when I saw it, I said is never going to happen. Already been there, done that; already tried over and over again, okay. And now your stuff is eight, nine years stale. And now we have gone through the whole opening act for the second season, and we haven’t had a single mention of any of that—even though the first season ended, “to be continued”—this little saga that they are playacting.
And it ends with, “satire and comedy and mockery will win,” okay. And that’s exactly what this has degraded into: satire, comedy and mockery. That’s the substance of what this series is.
