A guest blog for Hollywood, Interrupted by Tom Klemesrud
"Mark, it great to see my favorite journalist keeping doing what he does.
Since we met and got our photo taken together at L. Ron Hubbard Way at a protest, I myself have been moved off my position of power at the ABC-TV network.
Do I suspect the cult? You bet.
Of course scientology tried to sue me out of existence in 1995 (RTC v. Netcom) ... but all of this is blood under the bridge.
You know I used to work for CBS before ABC, and I used to work for Paramount before that (I could actually get on the lot now, but not Cruise).
What I want is to apply for a job with my former employers. I want to be "battle captain" for Sumner Redstone.
Cruise was trained in the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard said:
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. "
That is how they are going to go after you Mr. Redstone. Hubbard continued:
"(1) Spot who is attacking us. (2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using own professionals, not outside agencies. (3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. (4) Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press..."
I fought this ideology in 1995 when I was an Internet service provider. A disaffected scientology minister would post criticism using my hobby ISP.
Scientology thought -- because it was a hobby -- that they could cave me in by repressing the free speech rights of my users. They thought they could cave the little guy in and create new Internet law -- in their favor. Little did they know that I had insurance. I had a defense with no litigation limit for my attorney fees.
We had former FBI agents, the best lawyers acquainted with scientology -- we even had someone inside the cult.
Mr. Redstone, these people are still here today. I could do you proud!
I learn all I could and used my investigators and lawyers to get to the facts of what was going on.
Now, Sumner Redstone, the heir to my friend, CBS's William Paley, is being attacked by what is called "the Cruise Camp."
It is my opinion and belief that the intelligence arm of the church of scientology has dossiers on Sumner Redstone, and every Paramount executive that might have an impact on Tom Cruise being the biggest sow at the Paramount money trough.
They have begun to attack Sumner Redstone ... He has lost his mind, he has gone insane, the scientology camp says. Creative Artists Agency, Cruise's talent agency, says they will do what fans of South Park did -- boycott Paramount -- because Cruise was able to pull the "Trapped in the Closet" episode from Comedy Central.
But Sumner Redstone is the greatest media patriarch since Bill Paley. Sumner is a person with real ethics. He can afford it, he has $7.7 billion dollars. Sumner knows right from wrong and younger people admire him like they would their own dad.
I was disappointed when I heard that Bert Fields and Tom Cruise would not sue Paramount or Sumner Redstone.
Could you imagine how discovery would go? Sumner would get marketing execs to prove that Cruise' career is over -- the "Q" factor; and then we would get David Miscavige, Marty Rathbun and Warren McShane to give depositions concerning the covert operation to take Paramount's promotional money, to be redirected into scientology's public relations campaign.
I know the story, I respect Sumner Redstone. I know how to fight with the scientologists.
Sumner I apply for the job of "battle captain" against the "Cruise Camp", and their puppet masters, the scientology cult.
I am doing great living in my motor home on a great lake in Minnesota, but Sumner, I would go back to work for you -- because you are special, and all us younger media folk love you and admire you and what you do!"
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Tom Klemesrud -- A brief biography
Tom Klemesrud graduated University of Iowa in television and film production 1973. He attended USC's film school as a graduate student in 1974.
From 1968 to 1999 he worked in radio at WABC, KHJ, KFWB, and in television at WABC-TV, KWHY-TV, Metromedia TV/ FOX, CBS-TV City, Paramount Television, and ABC-TV Network.
He worked in radio and television engineering until becoming a vidotape editor in 1977. Some of my credits can be found here.
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Hi Tom!
Bravo indeed for what you did against that monsterly criminal system called scientology, which hides the worse intentions behind the gentlest promises. We can indeed consider that wanting to control the while world is an evil purpose. That's scientology's.
roger
Posted by: roger gonnet at August 27, 2006 12:33 AM
