Let's start this officially...
Welcome to the Hamburg municipal office of the interior,...
...to a press conference about the subject of Scientology.
That's why all of you are here after all.
If I may introduce...
I probably won't have to introduce the lady next to me: Ursula Caberta,...
...Scientology expert here with us in the office of the interior is probably known to all of you.
Much more exciting is the gentleman next to her,...
...Mark Rathbun, a high ranking defector from the organisation in the USA.
He turned his back on the organisation since 2004.
And he will report about Scientology's seat of power from his perspective, today.
I'll turn the floor over to Caberta who will give you some introductory words.
Our press spokesman can pronounce the difficult word already without blinking an eye.
I'm proud of him!
Welcome, I'm happy to see all of you.
Before our guest speaks I'd like to...
...say a few things still.
Because, being committed to this assignment in Hamburg since 1992...
...I believe no later than 1993 if not earlier...
...was the name "Marty Rathbun" known to me.
And if you struggle with the organisation internationally,...
...you could not help hearing about his name.
Back then, I'd have never thought it possible that the two of us...
...would sit before the press...
...in order to report about what's happening at international level,...
...at upper management in the USA.
I am so happy because for some time now, even for a number of years...
- and some people might remember, others won't -
I've always been of the opinion that the Scientology organisation...
...through their chief David Miscavige at least since 1993...
...has progressively radicalised.
That David Miscavige belongs to one of the most dangerous persons of this world.
It was under the leadership of David Miscavige...
...that the government of the United States of America has been influenced such that...
...we in Germany have to hear all the time that...
...we would discriminate against and persecute people in the Scientology organisation.
While really we're not doing anything else than...
...what we hopefully will do together in the future, Marty Rathbun and I:
That the crimes of David Miscavige occuring worldwide under his leadership,...
his harrassment of critics and defectors which is run under his management are brought to light...
...so as to maybe finally put an end to the spook of the Scientology organisation under David Miscavige.
However from my point of view this will only succeed...
...if we manage to make clear in the United States of America...
...what kind of man they're really dealing with.
And not only with him, but we'll have to be just as hard on his henchman Tom Cruise.
A few other words on that...
I'd be happy to relate more later concerning this matter.
One thing surprised me...
...with the tale of Marty Rathbun.
As you know, I've been endeavouring for years...
...to always contact those high ranking people who have left the organisation,...
...to invite them to Hamburg so we get the complete picture of what is happening.
I was flabbergasted, I thought the whole world would be pleased...
...that Marty Rathbun would come to Hamburg and talk and work with us.
But what's happening beforehand?
I had to hear: "Marty Rathbun is still a Scientologist.
Don't drive alone in the car with him.
Marty Rathbun came to handle you."
Can any of you on this planet imagine someone is going to persuade me...
...to kneel before David Miscavige?
Those absurd discussions that could be read on the net for the most part...
...are so ridiculous.
And as a basic rule concerining people leaving the organisation...
...I've met alot of them and I was allowed to help many of them,...
...not only in Germany but elsewhere.
Not a single one of these people said after he had spoken to me:
"Everything I did during my time at Scientology...
...was damaging to me. There were things that helped me."
And there were already many people here from the USA who said...
...for me the organisation under David Miscavige is the common denominator that is to be fought together.
But there are people that have decided to leave the organisation, and this is key,...
...still think a bit nostalgically about Hubbard.
This has never been, and to this day is not, my problem.
If I were to hold the yardstick, that many on the net apply to Marty Rathbun's assertions...
...and allege he's not out or whatever...
If I had applied those standards to all those, I wouldn't have been able to help a single individual.
Once more:
This is about the organisation Scientology, internationally, right at the top,...
...David Miscavige and his people with Tom Cruise leading the way,...
all those who work in the US, in Germany and everywhere,...
to make clear how dangerous this man is.
...and showing them how this organisation works.
And what those people are doing that quit the organisation...
...and whether they keep their Hubbard dictionary under their pillow...
...was never, and will not be of interest to me in the future.
And if all these people are active independently from this organisation...
...it would have never been necessary to set the OPC on Scientology.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) surveils the organisation Scientology.
It does NOT monitor members that have left the organisation,...
...exchanging their experiences.
The so called "Free Zone" consisting of former Scientologists is NOT being monitored by the OPC.
I'm asking you to consider this and I'm saying this into a certain direction...
...because lots of speculation is raging on the net including defamation.
And one thing is clear: The strategy that is being driven by Scientology...
...is to make Marty Rathbun untrustworthy so that we two won't meet.
Both of us are sitting here, the strategy of the Scientology Organisation has failed.
We will work together and educate...
...about all the crimes and fraud that's been going on and still does on a daily basis,...
...in the USA and in Europe.
This was a bit longer but I was so pissed off about those stupid Emails...
...that I had to get this off my heart first.
Thank you.
Oh, I am sorry, a warm welcome to Marty Rathbun.