Marty Rathbun Can’t Help Himself

Marty Rathbun makes a practice of supporting harmful actions and attacking beneficial ones.

As a commenter here pointed out recently, it doesn’t matter what Rathbun attacks about, he will always have “reasons” for attacking and will manufacture complaints on which to attack. The one constant is his imperative to attack, and in fact, to destroy.

Even some of Rathbun’s own readers have noticed that Rathbun doesn’t find anything good to say even about the most obvious benefits and successes of the Church. In fact he goes out of his way to dream up faults in such efforts. If it were up to Rathbun, the tremendous aid the Church has delivered to disaster victims, the life-changing improvements brought to the illiterate, dramatic crime decreases brought about by dissemination of The Way to Happiness – just for example – all would not even be attempted.

What does Marty Rathbun do while the Church of Scientology rolls up its sleeves and helps so many?  He sits along the sidelines of life lashing out at those who would truly help their fellow human beings, issues mean spirited criticisms of anything and everything he can think of relating to Scientology and its Founder, and conducts an incessant campaign to try and build a cult of his own personality founded on hatred of those he betrayed.

Who does he support? Long-established religious bigots who have spent decades trying to eliminate Scientology altogether. Media suppressives who crave Rathbun’s “controversial” remarks while supporting themselves by advertising prostitution. Any and every bitter internet denizen who will contribute in any way to his efforts to destroy a religion.

You would consider such a person psychotic, and you would be right:

“The actual psychotic is covertly or overtly destructive of anything the rest of us consider good or decent or worthwhile.

Sometimes such a being is “successful” in life, but the end result of his activities are what you would expect – total smash. “

The true psychotic brings about an hysterical, apathetic or deranged mental condition in others. He or she does it for many “good reasons,” does it for no reason at all, or doesn’t even notice that he is doing it.

The true psychotic worships destruction and abhors reasonable, decent or helpful actions.”
LRH

In listening to Rathbun, you can see that he believes (or hopes) that people can’t be truly helped. This is a large part of why he himself doesn’t make the effort to help, and decries those who do.

“Further, he would not help his fellow man if his own life depended on it-he would rather perish.”
LRH

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110 Responses to Marty Rathbun Can’t Help Himself

  1. Posh says:

    Well, he’s certainly stuck. Even some of his own minions notice that he hasn’t changed in the last 2 years, except he’s gotten nastier.

  2. Larry H says:

    “the end result of his activities are what you would expect – total smash. “
    That’s been Rathbun’s end result for 20+ years. It’s getting harder and harder for him to hide it, tho.

  3. judyM says:

    Like you said in you last post, you’ll have to wait a long time before you see Rathbun perform altruistic acts. He might buy a beer for someone at his local saloon, but even that would be for his own pr.

  4. Terri says:

    The help button is one of the most reliable ways to determine an SP. Even when Rathbun “helps” someone like one of his “pc’s”, he does it so he can promote himself after. If anyone were able to check his products or see what he actually did, you can be sure it wasn’t real help, but probably squirrel by design.

  5. jimmyD says:

    Who does he support? is a great question. That’s all you need to know about Rathbun.
    Him calling himself a Scientologist is a joke. He’s just pure anti and his act is getting real old.

  6. kahn22 says:

    “He sits along the sidelines of life lashing out”
    He’s a bitter little man who can’t produce anything helpful. He gave up on that. He’s got nothing left but trying to harm the ones who can.

  7. martine says:

    To look at who he supports is one thing, and another is to look who supports him. Even the little people on his blog are sour, nasty supporters of him and his always complaining actions. They don’t do a very good job of hiding their real intentions.

  8. Mariel says:

    You paint a good picture of him, and it matches his actions. It’s what I think of him. I also think he has got to be rather miserable, being unable to function as a decent person.

  9. Philly says:

    “What does Marty Rathbun do while the Church of Scientology rolls up its sleeves and helps so many?”
    .
    He whines.

  10. Fuerte says:

    Nice, you’ve nailed how I think of Rathbun:
    “conducts an incessant campaign to try and build a cult of his own personality founded on hatred of those he betrayed.”
    That’s what he’s all about, really. He’s making a living out of attacking Scientology, and likes it better than going to work for a living.
    Why not? He never really got anything out of it because he can’t as-is anything. Why not trash it? If it ain’t good for Marty, it ain’t good for anybody.

  11. scootman says:

    well, when you said, “The true psychotic brings about an hysterical, apathetic or deranged mental condition in others” I thought that I could testify to that if anybody wanted to know. yeah, my data is many years old now, but I watched him for years and it looked like that was what he was #trying# to do to people.

  12. Peter G says:

    I think that Rathbun stopped being covertly destructive long since. He’s very overt about it now. Yes, he does say covert things, but he can be seen very overtly as destructive. I think it may not be long before he stops pretending to be “pro” Scientology.

  13. Arthur2 says:

    I haven’t been watching him for very long, but it’s already clear that he will always find things to complain about. It doesn’t matter what it is with people like that, they will just complain because they must complain.
    You will also never see positive products coming out of such people.

  14. Mason says:

    The only reason Rathbun could consider himself “successful” is because other suppressives cheer him on. That’s his whole audience as far as I can see. Maybe some severe PTSes.

  15. Angie R says:

    The true psychotic worships destruction and abhors reasonable, decent or helpful actions.”
    ~
    That’s really the whole story of Rathbun and what he is doing. It could be your whole blog posting.
    What’s really sad is that there are still people who have gathered to him or at least are in communication with him who don’t see that.

  16. Lion says:

    You’re never going to see real help coming out of Rathbun, or his camp. Just words and PR, designed to make themselves look legitimate. The only people who fall for it are people who want to, and you would have to ask yourself why they would want to.

  17. summerwind says:

    if rathbun had a single real “help” bone in his body, he would have risen up and slammed ortega for the sex trafficking his rag supports.
    I still suspect rathbun gets money for giving them content.

  18. Overdrive says:

    I think the thing that really torques Rathbun’s help button is knowing that other people are going OT daily. (while he personally doesn’t have a chance in hell.)

  19. agog says:

    rathbuns idea of help is helping anyone attack the church, and anyone who can help him to attack. he wants another total smash. thats about as far down as you can get as a being.

  20. Teacher says:

    You’re pointing out another signpost of Rathbun’s demise. I’ve said before he is delusional and a megalomaniac, and part of that is that he thinks what he’s doing is “help” and “good work.”
    Don’t let his apparent lucidity fool you.

  21. Avalon says:

    This is a good summary of Rathbun, but you should mention that he is involved in supporting that prostitution advertising while claiming to be very “moral”. He ruins his own small credibility with that.

  22. DFG says:

    “Long-established religious bigots who have spent decades trying to eliminate Scientology altogether”
    There is of course, no excuse for that no matter how you look at it. Caberta means no good whatsoever for Scientology or any Scientologist, and Rathbun is her ally.

  23. TRex says:

    It’s good you are pointing out what is now the mechanical action of attacking and trying to harm anything that really helps. This is entirely consistent with his other sub-zero actions and attitudes.
    When he rises on the scale, he becomes 1.1 and covert about his intentions, but that’s just for public consumption. As you quoted, the end result is always a total smash.
    Don’t look for Rathbun to ever genuinely try to help or improve others. His notions of improvement or “freedom” will always point downward on any given scale, overtly or covertly.

  24. Ginger says:

    Real help gets Rathbun’s buttons, and is only going to renew his efforts to try to smash it. He can’t come right out and do that because people would see him for what he is. He has to twist real help to sound like it’s just a “front,” which is just Rathbun again accusing others of what he does himself. He’s all “front”.

  25. Brio says:

    Of course, Rathbun is a man who even totally smashed his own honeymoon.

  26. StillAround says:

    Interestingly, other earlier squirrels just tried to ruin things by altering them. Rathbun does that too, but he’s not satisfied with just altering the tech. He madly attacks anything to do with Scientology as publicly as he can.
    This is one mad monkey.

  27. JonO says:

    It seems to me that someone close to rathbun has to point these things out to him at some point, no? Am I dreaming, or are all his friends going right along with his program?

  28. D.L. says:

    I think you’re right that Rathbun would be happy if all those things were never even attempted. He sees other people improving and can’t stand that.

  29. Sharpe says:

    Rathbun has tried to “help” his audience by sending them off to read pop psychology books instead of the tech he should have duplicated, oh, about 30 years ago.
    Of course that tech wasn’t real to him (the SP tech) because a true psychotic never questions his own sanity or motives.

  30. Carlos A. says:

    Reading those quotes in a new unit of time with regard to Rathbun is therapeutic for me. I can see how he did that constantly when I knew him, but could never quite apply that to him because I would dub in that he was legitimately trying to do a job. Damn.

  31. out and in says:

    rathbun thinks he is actually helping mankind by destroying. he’ll even say it with a straight face.

  32. out and in says:

    btw, believe me, rathbun does notice that he’s doing it.

  33. Philo says:

    “conducts an incessant campaign to try and build a cult of his own personality founded on hatred of those he betrayed.”

    Nicely said, and you’re right. It is just a destructive cult of personality. No wonder he natters about “kool aid.”

  34. innocent bystander says:

    I can only imagine what rathbun would be up to if he were hiding in the church these days. he would probably be trying to sabotage every decent program the church is operating.

  35. Michael says:

    How true. It’s not just his minions that have noticed he is an NCG nasty piece of work – it’s his wife as well. She has vanished from the scene, no longer adds any comments, doesn’t appear in any pics, and has effectively removed herself from his world of entheta.
    .
    I have it on good authority that she has smelled the rat.

  36. Markus says:

    Yes – he left a long trail of smash in the church – PR, legal and personal disasters, and a lot of upset lives. And it’s obvious he is doing just exactly the same now as an “independent”.
    Just look at the out-2D, drug use, fall offs and fails that surround him now that he is free to do just what he wants. It is clear that the only reason he ever produced a decent product (if he ever did) was because someone told him exactly what to do and reigned his bank in hard enough to make sure he did what he was told.

  37. Philly says:

    It’s all part of his downhill slide.

  38. Avalon says:

    It has to be pretty boring for her. All bad news, all the time, and it seems like all she gets to do is cook and listen to griping.

  39. Philly says:

    Maybe she’s doing “training”

  40. Philly says:

    Most of his contacts and supporters are those who are fond of “smash” too.

  41. Avalon says:

    Rathbun’s ulterior motive for everything is making himself look better.
    If you didn’t know you were a creep, you wouldn’t have to do that.

  42. Trex says:

    Rathbun is totally resistant to having his “tech” work inspected. He doesn’t even keep worksheets per se , for fear of being found out somehow.
    But you don’t need that anyway. Just read what he says and you can see all 10 points of KSW being violated.

  43. NB says:

    It’s definitely squirrel by design. He selectively omits parts of the tech that would reveal what he’s doing. You have to have ongoing major w/h’s to do that. It’s not just his button on self-importance that keeps him from letting anyone qual his “work.”

  44. NB says:

    And now he has no one at all keeping his ethics in, or inspecting his work. In all that time, those who reined him in missed a lot of w/h’s, therefore the incessant attacks as I see it.

  45. Terri says:

    You have to conclude they are of similar mind. There are too many gross suppressive acts and squirrel actions going on to just happen to overlook them.

  46. Overdrive says:

    Even that wouldn’t be “help” as you say.
    “listening to Rathbun, you can see that he believes (or hopes) that people can’t be truly helped.”
    I say he does most of what he does in the hope it will stop people from being helped.

  47. DFG says:

    Rathbun’s idea of help is to drink beer with Caberta, who would outlaw Scientology completely. To say anything else is a lie.

  48. DFG says:

    He said he would come to Germany to “handle”, but all he did was make things worse for Scientologists. We are thriving despite him, because everyday people can see what a suppressive person Caberta is.

  49. Lion says:

    I can see that attitude, but can’t respect the fact that he’s still pretending to be a “Scientologist.” He hasn’t got the integrity to come out and state what he really is and really intends.

  50. Overdrive says:

    Again, Marty is all about Marty. (Maybe that’s what his wife is starting to realize.)
    Even when he’s super friendly with his supporters his real message is “look what a great guy I am.”

  51. Sharpe says:

    If you could see what he does in session you would probably gag. Marty considers himself a source, and can do what he wants. He actually thinks he has duplicated the true intent of the tech better than anyone.
    He could demo the axioms, but that doesn’t stop him.

  52. Fuerte says:

    It’s the only way he has to make money now, also.

  53. Posh says:

    You can see that he’s been working hard to take the “whine” out of his rants over the last year or so, and keeps failing. He tries to write with altitude, but his underlying complaining keeps coming through.

  54. Philo says:

    Exactly right. Trying to make himself look better is one of his major motivations, and you can see it in everything he says.

  55. Brio says:

    He make a cult built on hatred? I hope he is under the eyes of your authorities.

  56. Lion says:

    With nasty little mentions of Jonestown, in between violating Godwin’s Law.

  57. NB says:

    That’s the key question. How did they predispose themselves to connecting up with someone who actively supports some of the most notorious SPs in our history?
    How blinded do they have to be (by their own o/w’s) to ignore the destructive intent, masked by the BS about practicing “independently”?

  58. NB says:

    It’s another huge outpoint that he keeps pushing that BS line, and even worse that some are still subscribing to it. From reading them, they don’t appear to be that stupid, and one can only conclude that they are in on the facade. The purpose is a simple one: pull as many people off or away from the Bridge as possible.

  59. summerwind says:

    his words have never matched his actions. like others have said, he talks a good game, knows all the lingo, but only uses what he knows to stop help from happening.

  60. Anton says:

    The last thing Rathbun will ever do is praise the benefits and successes of the Church. It would show how wrong he is, as an SP he just can’t be wrong.

  61. scootman says:

    I don’t think rathbun has any other act. he’s been doing the same one for over 20 years that I’ve known him. someone said he’s delusional, and maybe he really believes it in his upside down mind.

  62. TRex says:

    The point about him mechanically attacking and finding the “reasons” to use is a good one. It’s beyond his help. Rathbun really can’t help himself. He’s like a dog that absolutely must bark.

  63. Ginger says:

    Yes, it’s what I think of him, too. His misery comes through in his writing when I’ve read it. He puts up a good front, but it’s there.

  64. Posh says:

    That might actually be a relief. But he wears false colors to try to keep some kind of readership, and he would lose even more of that if he came out in the open.

  65. Brio says:

    It is hard to believe that he would attract anyone who didn’t think the same way with the same intentions.

  66. Posh says:

    It’s a lousy job, but he has it grooved in now, and he’s making a buck. He just has to keep coming up with alarming things to complain about and feed to ortega.

  67. Posh says:

    True; that’s what he’s trying to do from the outside now anyway.

  68. scootman says:

    you can take that to the bank. he even admitted thats what he was doing for the longest time. he’s bitter that he was busted off lines where he could do that, so had to go off and try to do that from the “sidelines” the way the blog posting says.

  69. Carlos A. says:

    That’s what he *was* doing, by his own write-ups, and now the moroon is pretending he was successful and responsible for wins. I sometimes wonder if he has any contact with reality at all.

  70. out and in says:

    he works hard to look very very sociable so he comes across as a decent human. plus he validates a lot of middle class pts stuff to make people feel better about “being good humans”.

  71. Posh says:

    They work very hard to hide their real intentions. Notice that they are not buiding anything, but concentrating on trying to tear things down.

  72. out and in says:

    he doesn’t think he’s whining. he thinks he is dealing in facts. welcome to the spinny world of marty.

  73. out and in says:

    marty is totally certain that he is a source, and thinks the mantle of source has fallen to him and that there is no one more capable of taking on that hat. seriously, no joke.

  74. Sharpe says:

    correction – “he couldn’t demo the axioms…”

  75. out and in says:

    it’s hard to see for most people. he goes on constantly trying to make it all look like something its not, and he has a lot of help doing that.

  76. out and in says:

    even tho marty keeps it “affordable” you should see how many don’t come back.

  77. George says:

    I have it on very good authority that she is actually doing the C/Sing now! She is a clever Bunny. Almost as clever as the Rat. Both of them can C/S without any training – very clever. Almost as clever as the people who have them C/S for them. Not.

  78. George says:

    Agreed. Left to his own devices Marty is incapable of doing anything other producing overt products and dramatizing evil purposes. He’s completely overwhelmed.

  79. George says:

    Agreed with you on that one. The only ‘help’ he provides is help with descending the spiral.

  80. George says:

    I just read through all 10 of them again and you are absolutely correct. Every single point is out with Marty, and it requires no huge investigation to see that. They are blatantly out.

  81. George says:

    Like – the Ethics tech, all of the OEC vols, and Data Series application that might find an outpoint in his area? Hmmm.

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  87. Posh says:

    He hasn’t been going out of his way to be friendly with them.

  88. Philly says:

    I have to admit it’s funny the way posters refer to Rathbun as a “moroon” since he spelled it that way himself. I tried writing “moron” myself and just couldn’t do it.

  89. Philo says:

    Marty speaks with forked tongue. He tries to take credit for “good” things the “independents” might approve of (or to try to make himself look like a legal “expert”) and out of the other side of his mouth denies responsibility for his own actions that people like anonymice find offensive, so they won’t turn against him.

  90. Sharpe says:

    Right. The IRS thing for example would have been a dog’s breakfast if Rathbun hadn’t been gotten out of the way. The guy created and extended situations, he didn’t handle them.

  91. Lion says:

    Not just decent programs; he actually sent in minions he created (other SP’s he found and put in place) to chop up auditors and help bring down productive upstats who might find him out.
    Rathbun has long been a bad, bad guy.

  92. Carlos A. says:

    The koolaid natter is one of his best. The Church and COB push Source, and Marty pushes his latest misinterpretations of source along with every self promoting phrase he can put into a paragraph.

  93. Damian says:

    From what little I’ve heard from Rathbun this is one guy who hasn’t even got “help” on his radar. I think even other bad guys know this, so you’re probably just preaching to the choir even writing about it.
    He and some of his friends have reached out to a few people I know and they took the whole thing like they were being slimed. Their idea of “help” was to help you get the hell out of Scientology, but meanwhile they were talking like they were the real Scientologists.
    I don’t know what drugs these anti helpers are taking, but I wish they would just keep them to themselves.

  94. judyM says:

    I hope this is a joke.

  95. Philly says:

    Unbelievable. “Training” as a C/S I guess, and I was kidding.
    You can’t make this stuff up, folks.

  96. Lion says:

    Good Lord, he’ll have her auditing and C/Sing “Nots” in no time. Marty the untrained, training the utterly misinformed (by Marty and friends) to “audit” the squirrel bait. Can this squirrel scene get any more surreal?

  97. Overdrive says:

    This is officially the first time I have ever read a comment on this site and pretended to myself I didn’t see it.

  98. Fuerte says:

    Well, the only “training” Marty had was read it, drill it, do it, so I’m not surprised that he would pull a bizarre stunt like this.
    When I think about it, it really can’t be worse than Marty himself. She at least looks like she was once a social personality.

  99. Sharpe says:

    Rathbun himself has absolutely zero business C/S’ing anybody, much less training C/S’es. Maybe he has Logan or somebody equally unqualified teaching her C/S’ing.
    I can only imagine the glowing “successes” that will be broadcast out if this, if in fact this isn’t a troll comment.

  100. StillAround says:

    I’ve been noticing squirrels for a long time and can honestly say spotting violations of all 10 points is easiest with Marty than anybody, and that is saying something when you consider who I’m talking about.

  101. NB says:

    It’s not even subtle with Rathbun, except for his continual protestations that what he’s doing is “standard.”
    How people who were at least *trained* in the tech can stand by and let him get away with this garbage is beyond me. I know some of them (De la Carriere, Logan) and while they were rightfully busted to zero tech wise, they should and do know better.

  102. Philo says:

    I see his obsession with “facts” as just a conscious PR effort to try to convince people he’s not the arcx generality merchant he really is. It doesn’t work on the informed, or anyone who can smell an outpoint a mile away.

  103. scootman says:

    it seems to me he’s still whining while he’s dishing out those “facts” of his.

  104. Overdrive says:

    “If you didn’t know you were a creep, you wouldn’t have to do that.”
    This is another one of those really funny, but really true remarks, thanks.

  105. NB says:

    Don’t overlook the major dive he took when he started seeking out the Cabertas and Bunkers and Berries. That was his idea of applying Emergency, because he was on a nosedive before that. Now, he’s managed to pull in a few baddies who actually liked that.
    Of course, it backfired like most of Marty’s big plans, and he lost a hell of a lot more than he gained.

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