Oh my.
I looked at the length of the video and thought "I'll just watch the first 10 minutes to see if anything interesting is said". And I got sucked in.
Danny is in deep, deep shit. Give him a few weeks in there and he will be ready to throw all of Scientology under the bus. Which means that Miscavige may be looking into having Danny whacked before that happens.
You make an important point. Masterson will feel total desperation which would make him extremely likely to do ANYTHING to stop the terror; including throwing Scn under the bus.
The problem is that in doing so:
-- He might inadvertently sabotage his own civil lawsuit
-- He might weaken or ruin his chances for a successful appeal
-- There is no guarantee that by him blowing the whistle on the COS it would reduce
his criminal sentence.
Normally in the fashioning of a sentence reduction, the rat is given NO GUARANTEE that their cooperation will produce less years in the penitentiary. The judge can consider it as a mitigating factor but I don't believe that they have any obligation to do so. This is (I believe) not the case where a plea deal is worked out and that package is presented in court. Masterson did not enter a plea deal and thus he is still hoping to overturn his conviction on appeal.
Even if the judge rewarded his testimony throwing the cult under the proverbial bus, it wouldn't change the outcome of his criminal trial---because Scientology was not a party to that action. Scientology is a party in the civil lawsuit, so why would Judge Olmeda have any reason to reduce a criminal sentence that only might affect an unrelated civil trial?
We need lawyers to weigh in on legal strategies and precedent-setting case law.
At this point, Masterson's only exit strategies are:
- Overturning the verdict on appeal
- Gambling on serving his time before being murdered.
- Prison break and travel to non-extradition treaty nation
- Suicide
Naturally, he would not want anyone to think he killed himself. Thus, he would need to leave a written r-factor of how he had left the body on his own self-determination, in order to journey to deep space and conduct advanced research on the OT levels with Ron.
There is another bizarre concept that might help Masterson. What if the
NOI has sufficient presence in California prisons and Masterson can have his people negotiate a deal on the outside with Abdul Malik Sayyid Muhammad; otherwise known as the Freedom Medal winner Tony Muhammad. If NOI has its own gang inside the prisons (or if NOI can broker a deal with the actual Muslims) Masterson might be able to make monthly protection payments to Tony who will do whatever it takes to keep his cash cow alive. Probably Tony would have to "kick up" a percentage to Farrakhan.
Hey, who knows, maybe Danny becomes a member of NOI's elite "Fruit of Islam" and changes his name to Muhammad 5.4X.
..