If Judy ever gets tired of correcting other people's homework and decides to try her hand at actually writing something, I've got the perfect gig for her: writing angry, stinging letters to Co$ critics.
The back story on this is as follows. Vanity Fair is released a story about how Tom Cruise, unable to find a wife for himself who was considered suitable by the Church, arranged for numerous "interview sessions" so that he could "try out" pre-approved $cientologists as his prospective wife, while the Church interrogated them and investigated every aspect of their lives in the background. According to the article, it was a level of "vetting" that political candidates don't even go through. So how did the Co$ *react* to this article? Well, those who have followed their exploits know that they'll prob- ably react by siccing private detectives and smear artists on the article's author and on Graydon Carter, the publisher of VF. What they did in public was to have their lawyers send Mr. Carter a long, long, long-winded, eight-page hate letter: Article about the letter: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/church-of-scientology-responds-vanity-fair-tom-cruise-wife-auditioning_n_1889734.html The letter itself: http://www.scientologynews.org/sites/default/files/1-Jeff-Riffer-Re-David-Miscavige-to-Gaydon-Carter-16-Aug-2012.pdf Look it over. See if you don't think that writing such letters is a PERFECT career choice for Judy Stein. I mean, it's got all of her trademarks: * Picking nits and homing in on them to obfuscate larger issues * Trying to present the criticism as an example of religious hate crime and its authors as bigots * Posting total irrelevancies lauding David Miscavige (the leader of the Co$) to make him seem saintly while demonizing his critics * Lying outright (Miscavige has been reported as viewing videotapes of auditing sessions and using them for blackmail purposes *in court*, despite what this letter says) * Pretending that the critics don't really believe what they are saying but are lying and saying it to be malicious * Appealing to a derogatory "history" of the critics that is made up * Portraying the author's sources in not just a derogatory fashion but a libelous one, trying to portray them as "liars" * Making threats * Ignoring the actual question of whether the Church tried to be a matchmaker for Tom Cruise to find him a wife who was "suitable" for them, focusing only on "Kill the messenger" This letter follows almost all of the guidelines I posted (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/318903) the other day from L. Ron Hubbard on how to deal with critics. It also follows the Judy Stein Playbook, using the same tactics she uses here every week to demonize critics of TM, the TMO, and Maharishi. That's why I think writing for the Church of $cientology might be a great career choice for her. She certainly has the training for it, and who knows... writing for them she might accomplish what she has not here, and find some people who buy her act.
