In my recent article “Bill Clinton and Me,” I mentioned the desecration and dumping of America’s soul as the essence of the deal the US cut with the Miscavigeite Scientologists:

“the Clintons got to sell America’s soul once and for all.”

“It’s serious business, selling the nation’s soul.”
https://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/bill-clinton-and-me/

Somebody asked what the hell is this national soul sale or giveaway all about. I had written some thoughts on this point in the earlier article “Cowards R US,” which are still what I’d say.

The involved IRS, Department of Justice, and US Intelligence Community officials knew, beyond any argument, that I was not psychotic and that my state of mind was not one sordid, sado-masochistic nightmare. They knew that I had testified competently in Scientology-related legal matters; that I had provided relevant and unrefuted information to the IRS and the FBI; that I was a long-standing Fair Game victim of the Hubbardite and Miscavigeite Scientologists; and that the Scientologists were right then further criminally victimizing me in violation of public policy, before all these Government officials’ very eyes, in the false and ugly submissions to the IRS, and, no doubt, in their two years of face-to-face meetings.

From decades of dealing with the Scientologists, the Government officials also knew that the leader and hierarchs were malignantly motivated, avaricious, deceitful, irreligious, unregenerate, and in constant violation of US criminal laws. That knowledge or reality, not Miscavigeite Scientology being “operated exclusively for religious and charitable purposes,” is why, in fact, the relevant Federal agencies and officials granted tax exemption, betrayed the cult’s victims, US citizens, and citizens worldwide, and emboldened and empowered the cultists to victimize even more people.

These agencies and officials also betrayed their own laws, their oaths of office, and their consciences. With all their willful, unlawful and unholy betrayals, these officials, dominated by the US Intelligence Community, sold the nation’s soul. See my response to a sick Scientology covert collaborator’s recent threat that a cabal of his or her fellow collaborators were about to publish an unauthorized biography of me, essentially accusing me of condoning “Russian troops raping and torturing women, children, carrying out executions and committing other war crimes today.”

For some time now, I’ve thought and written a bit about the idea that when the USICers [the officials in the US Intelligence Community] cut the deal with the Miscavigeites in the early 1990s, the country lost its soul. I’m assuming, of course, that there is such a thing as a nation’s soul, and that it can be lost, or ignored, or suppressed, or depraved. I’m also assuming that a soulless nation can refind its soul, and attend and honor it. This would be national repentance, or a truth and reconciliation commission.

Probably the US was losing whatever soul it had had, bit by bit, bomb by bomb, war by war, dollar by dollar, billionaire by billionaire, pauper by pauper since World War II. But the Scientology deal has a special immorality to it, a deal not just with business crooks about money, but with Satanic Luciferian cultist business crooks. The deal was about money, certainly, but also, and pivotally, about the cultists’ demonic and criminal drive to silence or destroy truth tellers and the truth.

The USICers had all the information I had, and mountains more. They possessed and possess the mass and quality of information that it is expected the US’s intelligence agencies, departments, bureaus, etc. have collected ever since Hubbard started up his first organization, a mental health practice, not yet a religion. Giving the Miscavigeites’ IRS tax exemption also gave them a pile more money, an easier more alluring means to make billions from rich supporters, and a license to get away with the things that should have prohibited the cult from getting tax exemption. The USICers knew what they were doing, knew what they were unleashing, and knew on whom the Miscavigeites were doing these exemption-proscribing things.
https://gerryarmstrong.ca/the-gerry-armstrong-book-a-murder-mystery/

My old friend Bob Dylan called the assassination of US President Kennedy “Murder Most Foul,” and of that there can be no doubt. Who cannot remember the twenty-second of November, the day that a great hope was shot. There is little absurder than that this foul murder will ever be forgot. I was just seventeen, you know what I mean, and the way I felt was way beyond despair. We stayed at our desks to hear tidings so bad that only the foulest were joyfully glad. Dylan, and doubtlessly others untold, declared that this foulness rent America’s soul.

What’s new, pussycat? What’d I say?
I said the soul of a nation been torn away
And it’s beginning to go into a slow decay
And that it’s thirty-six hours past Judgment Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18

When the US cut its evil deal with the Miscavigeites, whom the involved officials knew were Satanic Luficerians theologically, sociopathic criminals socially, and unrepentant pathological liars ethically, those Federal officials consummated the disposal of the nation’s torn soul. The dirty deal is cowardice most foul. It’s moral cowardice most foul. In a way, it was worse, more foully infernal, than murdering JFK.

Very few Federal Government departments or officials, I’d say, went along with Kennedy’s assassination. But the silence about the deal with the Miscavigeites has been US Government-wide, open, and shameless. The deal ushered in the new and current government expedient: Don’t give a flying fork what citizens or anyone else might say; pretend we care, say we care, sure, but do what we wilt, and do not care.

With cowardice comes contempt. The deal with the Miscavigeite Scientologists bred the most fetid contempt for their victims, past, present and future. Rinder, Rathbun and Miscavige’s contempt for me, in their IRS submissions and in their actions to silence and destroy me, is fiendish. No less from the biggest superpower on the block.

A couple of weeks ago, in an article “Scientology sitting pretty as Trump names Pam Bondi his pick for Attorney General” Tony Ortega wrote:

There’s simply no doubt that Trump’s second administration is shaping up to be the friendliest White House that David Miscavige has experienced since Bill Clinton signed off on Scientology’s tax-exempt status in 1993 and then had his State Department chide Germany a few years later.

Below is an excerpt from a long article “Cowards R Us” I wrote some months ago to answer a simple question someone put to me: What is my take on Mike Rinder being asked why (after years “outside” of Scientology, and decades inside Fair Gaming me) he wouldn’t talk to me, and his response that it was because I was a bit crazy? In answering that, I went into a number of related things, including the Miscavigeites’ illicit deal with the IRS/US Federal Government, in which, accepting Rinder’s admission, he was, a key participant. The excerpt contains facts I relied on concerning who signed off and what they signed off on.

Likely, I’d guess, by US law, the President does not or cannot actually “sign off” on some “church” getting tax exempt status, etc. I am not a lawyer. Given the Miscavigeite Scientologists’ reputation at the time, all sorts of Government officials, including the President, might not have wanted to be known signatories on that unconscionable and unlawful deal. The Miscavigeites had generated an unsavory and scary notoriety for bringing people into a state of complete compliance with the goals of Scientology, and doing it by their high level ability to control, and their tech to overwhelm, to introvert, to silence and destroy.

Although the President undoubtedly did not, by Presidential Order, sign off on Miscavigeite Scientology’s tax-exempt status, he could and did, however, openly appoint someone to the position of IRS Commissioner who could and did sign off. She also might not have wanted to leave her signature on any of the criminal conspiracy documents, but she at least had the hat in the IRS to sign off or not, certainly on a deal of this magnitude and menace. Doubtlessly her necessary, compliant IRS bureaucratic underlings all signed off on the “Religious Tax Exemption Checklist,” her butt was covered, she did it for Bill, and the Clintons got to sell America’s soul once and for all.

It is clear to me that the Miscavigeites, with their closely connected colluders, prepared their November 23, 1992 submission for President-Elect Clinton, for Hilary Clinton, for the blind Commissioner, and for everyone else involved, to give them the agreed-upon narrative, to justify the lawfully unjustifiable. It is silly to imagine the President unable to pull himself away from drilling White House interns and licking them into shape, and so having no time to read the submission, which had been created, in manifest part by lawyers who also represented him, to give him the needed excuse to appoint a Commissioner who will read the same submission, do what the Clintons wanted, and sign off on the dirty deal.

So President Clinton read all about me, an ordinary guy then working in a getting-by law office in San Anselmo, CA, and defending against the Miscavigeites’ campaign to silence me. Clinton’s advisors, his lawyers, his election people, all sorts of people, read the pile of crap about me. It’s a page-turner. Clinton doubtlessly knew that what the submission stated about me contained lies that should have caused the redenial of tax exemption, etc. What the Miscavigeites said about me was sordid, psychotic and a nightmare.

Clinton had to pretend, however, that he was getting the truth in the papers he was given in order to understand it. It is implicit that the people giving him what he should read also had to pretend that they had received the facts and truth and that they were giving the President the fact and truth. This conspiracy of lies was huge before the cult got its tax-exempt status, and it is still huge.

In my experience and knowledge, every White House since the deal – Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden – has been equally friendly to the Miscavigites, and I don’t anticipate any significant burst of friendliness in Trump’s second term. The US Federal Government is at maximal friendliness, being joined with the Miscavigeite hierarchs and their coconspirators in a criminal conspiracy.

The US Intelligence Community thought up the scheme to give the Miscavigeites what they had been fighting us for, escape any exposure, and use them as an asset. Clinton already was a USIC asset. The cult is, after all, inter alia, of course, an intelligence entity. All administrations, congresses, and all elements and personnel of the USIC have maintained silence, have never spoken up and told the truth about the unlawful and potentially catastrophic deal between the US and the Miscavige organization.

The change could come, if they don’t blow us all away, when a truth and reconciliation commission, or similar, or a number of them, are established and do their job. The responsible parties’ lies are rapidly aging, and they must get out of the way of truth if they can’t lend a hand. It’s serious business, selling the nation’s soul.

Cowards R US

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The generally prevailing narrative is that Rathbun and Miscavige met with IRS Commissioner Goldberg in late 1991, sold him on the faucet deal and he gave the cult tax exemption, etc. This is the picture that Leah Remini and Rinder provide in their Scientology and the Aftermath series: 

MR: It’s reported that David Miscavige asked, “If we turn off the faucet of all of this Freedom Magazines, investigating, exposing, ads in USA Today?” –like, it was a major campaign — can you resolve our issues?” And Fred Goldberg said, “Yes.” And ultimately, the deal was done.

LR  11:04
So this guy [Goldberg] didn’t want to continue the fight. Because if they … you know, there’s documents that say, “We do not find this organization to be fitting the criteria for tax exempt status,” and then all of a sudden, the guy [Goldberg]signs off on it.

MR  11:20
Yeah.

That is not, however, the way the deal went down. Goldberg only agreed to review the denial of tax exemption, which had been the status quo in the cult’s relationship with the IRS for twenty-five plus years. He agreed to the review after Miscavige said he would end all the attacks: the smears, the exposés, the Freedom mag black PR, the front groups, the PI infiltrations, the public incitement, etc. Then Goldberg left the Commissioner position on February 2, 1992, and on February 3, Shirley D. Peterson, a George H. W. Bush appointee, took over. The review process stalled, for obvious good reasons.

William Jefferson Clinton won the 1992 US Presidential election which was held on November 3, 1992. The date on the Miscavigeites’ submissions to the IRS that contain the mass of lies on me, on Mike Flynn, a bunch of his other clients, and other persons and issues, is November 23, 1992. Goldberg was long gone. The principal lawyer for Scientology in the effort to obtain IRS tax exemption was Gerald A. Feffer of the Washington, DC firm of Williams & Connolly.  According to Rinder, and other sources, Williams & Connolly represented Miscavige personally. Williams & Connolly also represented Bill Clinton. Clinton was President from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001. Shirley Peterson left the Commissioner position on January 20, 1993, and on January 21, Michael P. Dolan, who had been the IRS Deputy Commissioner, was appointed Acting Commissioner. He served until May 26, 1993, and Margaret Milner Richardson was appointed Commissioner on May 27. In 1994, The Washington Post reported about her:

And she is a longtime friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton. They met through mutual friends years ago, and the friendship blossomed as the two often found themselves among the few women working on programs within the American Bar Association.

Richardson took leave from her firm to work on the Clinton presidential campaign, where she earned a reputation as a highly effective fund-raiser.

On October 1, 1993, Richardson, not Goldberg, signed off on the deal that reduced the Miscavige cult’s billion-dollar tax liability to a twelve and a half million-dollar chump change nuisance payment; granted all the entities in the cult tax exemption; made payments to it tax deductible; further victimized the cult’s victims in the US and around the world; and betrayed American taxpayers. Not long afterward, the IRS, still during the tenures of Commissioner Richardson and President Clinton, sent official letters to government authorities internationally containing, among other pro-Scientology statements, the averment that all the cultic entities are “organized and operated exclusively for religious or charitable purposes.”  The Clintons are reputedly as bent as spoon-benders’ spoons.

I’ve heard it said that a Miscavigeite PI, or a crew of PIs, had dug up a trove of dirt on Bill Clinton, and the threat of exposure fostered the installing of Hillary’s longtime friend Margaret Richardson as IRS Commissioner, her unstalling of the “review process,” and her speedy grant of tax exemption, etc. to the Miscavigeites. That very well might be a piece of the extortion or blackmail that secured for the cult the damnable deal, but I have not seen the evidence that joins all of that scenario’s dots.

The cultists’ attacks on the IRS, DOJ, etc. over decades are, however, well-evidenced. The threatened future attacks are well-portended. And the faucet that stanched all future attacks against every US Federal entity or official, including the Clintons, except for a few IRS scapegoats, is well-crowed about by Miscavigeite coconspirators Rathbun and Rinder. The ending of what had been endless attacks on the IRS, FBI, USIC, etc. is also easily discernable in the thirty plus years of post-deal Miscavigeite history.

The underbussing of a number of IRS officials is a significant component of the legion of lies, including the lies black PRing me, in the cult’s IRS submissions, written by Rinder, Rathbun, et al. and required by their government coconspirators. It is clear that this stupefying stack of required lies is intended to give credibility to the incredible and illegal tax exemption deal. Several years ago, I wrote about this scapegoating of IRS officials who had the cult’s number. The IRS officials who were not scapegoated but assigned the denial review task because of their inexperience, incomprehension, incompetence or intriguing are culprits in the coconspiracy.

Rathbun says [to The Tampa Bay Times] that Goldberg opened up the door for the Scientologists to make a case for tax exemption. Rathbun says Goldberg opened that door by creating “a team that didn’t really have a long track record on this.” “This” here has to be understanding and standing up to the Scientologists’ lies and other antisocial or criminal behavior against citizens and even against the US Government. Rathbun says that Goldberg brought in IRS personnel to deal with the Scientologists who were “fresh, who [ ] knew exempt organizations but didn’t have a long history with Scientology.”

Rathbun black PRs the IRS personnel who had a track record and a long history with the Scientologists as “some real haters, some real Scientology haters within.” He says they “had an attitude of, no matter what you said, they were going to [ ] deny the exemption.” Rathbun is lying, and his reason for lying is obvious. The IRS personnel with track records and a knowledge of history, and, I suppose, consciences, hated the Scientologists’ lies and other antisocial or criminal behavior against citizens and Government. These knowledgeable IRS personnel might have especially hated — just as many knowledgeable non-IRS people hate — lies and other antisocial or criminal behavior being directed and justified by “religion.”

With knowledgeable, incorrupt track record IRS personnel, the Scientologists would have had to tell the truth in their submissions to “make a case for exemption.” And, of course, if they told the truth, the Scientologists could never obtain an exemption. Goldberg, according to Rathbun, got rid of the knowledgeable, track record personnel, and replaced them with a team of agents, supposedly selected for their ignorance, but definitely selected for their corruptness, who would then allow, and in fact require, that the Scientologists continue to lie to make the case for exemption. The Scientologists had to provide statements, facts and answers to the Goldberg team’s questions that were acceptable to the Goldberg team. The Scientologists and the Government conspirators reached an agreement on what would be acceptable by negotiations over two years. By law, what the Scientologists submitted had to be true. The Government conspirators had to have required that in vital areas what the Scientologists submitted be false. Even though Rathbun only admits to the “Goldberg team,” the term “Government conspirators” is proper because the various decisions, from the first door opening, involved other US Government departments and personnel beyond the IRS.

Rathbun says in his Tampa Bay Times interview that Goldberg’s getting rid of the team with the track record and bringing in a team without a long history with Scientology was “so positive and unique.” This is because it let the Scientologists get away with lying, indeed required them to lie. From the Scientologists’ viewpoint, that is as positive as it gets. Before then, having to deal with the track record IRS team, for years the Scientologists had not been able to get away with lying for their exemption; so finally being able to get away with their lying was unique. When Goldberg got rid of the incorrupt track record team, the Scientologists had to lie to give the Government conspirators both the basis for the exemption and the justification for actions the Government conspirators took to make it possible for the Scientologists to lie and have their lies accepted and work. The Scientologists’ submissions to the IRS that resulted in the exemption contain black PR about the knowledgeable IRS personnel that Goldberg took off the Scientology case or cases. ¹

Whether Miscavige and his PIs had deadly dirt on President Clinton could be irrelevant. Whatever present and future extortion or blackmail material the Miscavigeites held that Miscavige, the faucet pharaoh, shut off in exchange for tax exemption, etc., everyone in the US Federal Government, including the Clinton Administration and every Administration thereafter benefited. They all acquired protection from the Scientologists and their agents investigating, exposing, black PRing, stalking, harassing, extorting or blackmailing them. And they acquired that pathetic protection by cowardly selling out non-US Government citizens everywhere.

The IRS, DOJ, etc. negotiators could have included non-governmental entities and citizens in the Fair Game faucet deal. The IRS, DOJ, etc. had the law on their side to make that eminently reasonable demand of the Miscavigeites because Fair Game, that is silencing and destroying citizens, robbing them, tricking them, lying to them, cheating them, ruining them, blackmailing them, etc. are tax exemption-precluding violations of public policy. Instead, the involved US Government departments and officials sold us down the river. They not only did not demand that the Miscavigeites end Fair Game public policy violations against citizens, but they participated with the Miscavigeites in Fair Gaming us in the submissions to the IRS, and licensed the Miscavigeites to Fair Game us with the grant of tax exemption, etc.

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