Aaron Smith-Levin Arrested for Felony Assault at Flag Land Base

[HelluvaHoax!]

You know they are going to claim it whether it's real or not, and I don't see an easy way to counter those claims. Just to be clear, I don't condone any real world harm/violence being done to members of the Sea Org or any other Scientologists.

Agreed.

However, once upon a time---having been INSIDE the cult---I will add a highly cynical, inflammatory & caustically controversial comment.

If Scientology execs thought they could get away with it, there is no doubt in my mind that they would be discussing if it would be possible to "assist" the guy hit with the blue chalk powder to "shed his impediment" and claim that Aaron's attack was a felony for which he would be bankrupted, arrested and imprisoned. For "manslaughter" due to "reckless or negligent actions that lead to the unintentional death of another person".

If they reasonably thought they could pull off that "caper" (scn's romanticized euphemism for felonious attacks on innocent people) they would do so, because it is the "greatest good" for the "greatest number of dynamics". Same reason they stalked & terrorized journalist Paulette Cooper. Same reason they stalked & terrorized WITNESSES in the Danny Masterson case to keep a serial rapist out of prison where he could continue pushing up the cult's money stats as well as his own personal "number of people raped" power-trending graph.

If anyone doesn't know that Scientology is fully capable of ANY despicably evil act (if they think it will benefit the cult or its guru) then they don't really fundamentally understand what Scientology is.

SCIENTOLOGY: The science of knowing how to know.

EX-SCIENTOLOGY: The science of knowing how to un-know Scientology's "knowingness" (i.e. lies)


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[Lee #28]

Several years ago, I was protesting solo at a fancy doo at Flag. I had my sign mounted on a tall stick of wood....

Standing near a crosswalk on the Fort Harrison side....all the ladies and guys in their formal wear were crossing there.....as were a group of people standing around me, trying to block my sign. Across the street were the Clearwater Police.

So...eventually the Cult deployed their Umbrella Tech and I had numerous umbrellas trying to shield my sign...

Then they started to try an hook my sign and pull it down. When one umbrella did hook my sign, I yanked down hard and tore that Umbrella.....

At that point a older seasoned cop came over and said to me...." you have 2 choices, either leave right now, or get arrested."

So....I left.

Things were a bit rougher years ago....I think.

 

[I M Dex]

Several years ago, I was protesting solo at a fancy doo at Flag. I had my sign mounted on a tall stick of wood....

Standing near a crosswalk on the Fort Harrison side....all the ladies and guys in their formal wear were crossing there.....as were a group of people standing around me, trying to block my sign. Across the street were the Clearwater Police.

So...eventually the Cult deployed their Umbrella Tech and I had numerous umbrellas trying to shield my sign...

Then they started to try an hook my sign and pull it down. When one umbrella did hook my sign, I yanked down hard and tore that Umbrella.....

At that point a older seasoned cop came over and said to me...." you have 2 choices, either leave right now, or get arrested."

So....I left.

Things were a bit rougher years ago....I think.

I wonder if that cop would have reacted the same way if you weren't alone, and were part of a group of protesters. Good on you for having the cujones to go it alone!

 

[Hatshepsut]

So...eventually the Cult deployed their Umbrella Tech and I had numerous umbrellas trying to shield my sign...

Then they started to try an hook my sign and pull it down. When one umbrella did hook my sign, I yanked down hard and tore that Umbrella.....

Did umbrellas look like this?

 

[I M Dex]

Did umbrellas look like this?

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Or this

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[Lee #28]

It is kinda funny that the SO is now using Water Tech to thwart protesters!
In the past they’ve used Shrubbery Tech and Umbrella Tech…. now, Water Tech.

They are getting more aggressive and have greater impingement. Simply throw a pail of water.

 

[Reyne Mayer]

I was curious what Aaron said, but didn't have the time or desire to watch the video. So I uploaded the transcript generated by YouTube into Claude.ai and asked for it to be summarized. This is the result (below).

thanks. that looks like a clever and useful technique.

i use transcripts at times simply because it allows me to search for a term of interest and (hopefully) find the section i want without having to listen to a whole video. also, from what i understand if the video isn't allowed to run for 30 seconds or more, it's not going to generate any monetization revenue for its source, so i can avoid contributing to people i don't want to support (or encourage).

 

[Reyne Mayer]

It is kinda funny that the SO is now using Water Tech to thwart protesters!
In the past they’ve used Shrubbery Tech and Umbrella Tech…. now, Water Tech.

They are getting more aggressive and have greater impingement. Simply throw a pail of water.

i've read about them turning on lawn sprinklers in LA that had been set to spray onto the sidewalk -- referred to as 'sprinkler tech'.

deliberately aiming at people or throwing buckets of water seems to me to be crossing a line into a form of assault, which particularly surprises me if staff are doing it -- there's a history in CW of members (i'd guess actually OSA volunteers) getting rough with protesters, but that's different and not so clearly tied to the organization.

the whole business of chalking seems to me like what i call 'performance' protests done by various sorts of activists and zealots that i think are self (or in-group) gratifying (and childish) -- and not only not productive in the wider world but prone to having unintended consequences including 'blowback'.

unfortunately ASL seems to me on a downward spiral. i thought some of what he was doing on video was well organized and productive at first.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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It is kinda funny that the SO is now using Water Tech to thwart protesters!
In the past they’ve used Shrubbery Tech and Umbrella Tech…. now, Water Tech.

They are getting more aggressive and have greater impingement. Simply throw a pail of water.

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Mankind should also never forget and show gratitude for Ron having humbly gifted us "Curtain Tech" on this planet.

Ron first discovered "Curtain Tech" in a wholetrack research session where he traveled back in time quadrillions of year to another planet! In that incident Ron had been a used car salesman who became besieged by former customers bitterly complaining and demanding a refund, often falsely claiming that their car broke down before they even got half-way to their home on the first day they purchased it at his dealership.

In order to keep his stats flourishing and prospering Ron needed to stop all the enturbulation that other customers in the showroom were being hit with. ln fact sales were dropping when new customers heard all that screaming and false data flying about. Ron's necessity level to solve this dilemma rose to extraordinary heights before his whole chain of dealerships might collapse from the "ethics particles" clamoring and suing him to get their money back. Thus it was that Ron invented the technology of curtains! He hired an entire team of seamstresses and instructed them how to create cloth (another huge discovery!). Ron then put the sheets of fabric atop the dealerships windows and pulled it down when any low-toned SPs showed up and began pounding on the locked doors.

Curiously, during that session Ron also discovered a wholetrack incident where the small dog (named "Toto Freedom") of teen-aged girl was somehow able to get inside his dealership and pull the curtain back to expose his racket of selling "magically powered cars that didn't need gas and could fly thru the air". Although no customer ever experienced those miraculous powers in the used cars they bought, Ron was able to explain it when he discovered that if someone is evil it's normal that their car would not have those powers. That's when Ron began charging previous customers to be trained on how to standardly drive.

Even more amazing is that during that same wholetrack time, Ron invented "Water Tech" but it didn't work properly. Ron then invented "Bucket Tech" with which to hold the water so that it could be thrown on an evil wicked witch who was nattering and spreading a lot of entheta about the "Ideal Cars" his business was selling to winning customers. That stopped her in her tracks and Ron's car sales returned to normal or above on all his graphs!


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[Lee #28]

^^^^^^^

LOL. Yes, of course, forgot about Curtain Tech.

Also forgot about Blaring Music Tech..... and or Copyrighted Music Playing Tech

 

[Lee #28]

That particular location in from of the Super Power Building was a bone of contention back when I was protesting there.

The computer I have my videos on,of those protests, is broken....and I took them down from YouTube.....

But, the Police were called on me .....or better yet, back then, never left my side my entire time in Clearwater.

But the actual Property Line was different when I was there.....or claimed to be by the Org and Police....

Someone must have done some research to find the true property line and what was actually Public Property....as it is sure different today to what was back then....

If half or 1/3 or that embedded seal or logo at the front door is on Public Property then that could be a negotiating lever for the City.....regarding that street they want to buy.... If Flag is already not playing nice.....then what to expect in the future?

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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unfortunately ASL seems to me on a downward spiral. i thought some of what he was doing on video was well organized and productive at first.

It would seem so. . .

However, what if he is a marketing genius and his "successful actions" include/embrace doing cringey stunts that backfire on him—in order to generate controversy & clicks to a business model that seems to have plateau-ed for the longest time at just under 250K subscribers?

It's possibly the same as "carnival tech" where vagabond move from town to town enticing customers to try to win "flash". Carnival term for wildly bright dayglow stuffed animals that "anyone can win, it's easy!" The carnival couldn't stay around more than a few short days before people got tired of the ton's of cash they spent to try and win a jumbo teddy bear that cost the carnival under 2 dollars. That's probably why the longest lasting and most successful carnivals developed SIDE SHOWS where people were charged even more to go inside tents housing cringey freaks of nature. What if this is blue-powder tech is Aaron's version of a freak show? LOL

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[Reyne Mayer]

However, what if he is a marketing genius and his "successful actions" include/embrace doing cringey stunts that backfire on him—in order to generate controversy & clicks to a business model that seems to have plateau-ed for the longest time at just under 250K subscribers?

yes, i think he's gotten into clickbait and follower-building relatively successfully as that has become his primary source of income -- but didn't he once have a legitimate (and stable) business that was based on things like doing financial research?

 

[Lee #28]

LRH liked and studied Carnivals and Circuses...

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

yes, i think he's gotten into clickbait and follower-building relatively successfully as that has become his primary source of income -- but didn't he once have a legitimate (and stable) business that was based on things like doing financial research?

His financial research enterprise blew up, according to reports, when he leaked private information about his primary billionaire
client. Then, it is said, that word got out on the street that Aaron was persona non grata and on the no-fly no hire list.

At the beginning of his trip down the river (think Joseph Conrad's book "Heart of Darkness" or even the movie Apocalypse Now) Aaron was a licensed real estate broker, frequently promoting for clients to find homes and other acquisitions. I wondered recently if he let that whole real estate thing crumble and die when he was becoming a nicely compensated celebrity on YouTube.

After his various scandals, Aaron's real estate biz might have about the same level of public trust as "Tampa Brad" the construction guy with cosmic aspirations of becoming the Grant Cardone of bathroom remodeling (on this planet).

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[Reyne Mayer]

Aaron was a licensed real estate broker, frequently promoting for clients to find homes and other acquisitions.

from what i'm hearing the FL real estate business is in the dumps these days. but between that and his financial work he did seem to have a knack for real business, that he doesn't seem to be currently putting to work.

what stuck out to me is that he often said 'what do i know, i was in a cult'. but then he didn't seem to really reflect on that and question whether for example his judgment or reactions were still compromised in culty ways.

 

[Hatshepsut]

And there's monkey tech

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[onceuponatime]

Agreed.

However, once upon a time---having been INSIDE the cult---I will add a highly cynical, inflammatory & caustically controversial comment.

If Scientology execs thought they could get away with it, there is no doubt in my mind that they would be discussing if it would be possible to "assist" the guy hit with the blue chalk powder to "shed his impediment" and claim that Aaron's attack was a felony for which he would be bankrupted, arrested and imprisoned. For "manslaughter" due to "reckless or negligent actions that lead to the unintentional death of another person".

If they reasonably thought they could pull off that "caper" (scn's romanticized euphemism for felonious attacks on innocent people) they would do so, because it is the "greatest good" for the "greatest number of dynamics". Same reason they stalked & terrorized journalist Paulette Cooper. Same reason they stalked & terrorized WITNESSES in the Danny Masterson case to keep a serial rapist out of prison where he could continue pushing up the cult's money stats as well as his own personal "number of people raped" power-trending graph.

If anyone doesn't know that Scientology is fully capable of ANY despicably evil act (if they think it will benefit the cult or its guru) then they don't really fundamentally understand what Scientology is.

SCIENTOLOGY: The science of knowing how to know.

EX-SCIENTOLOGY: The science of knowing how to un-know Scientology's "knowingness" (i.e. lies)


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Definitely, which means claiming physical harm (real or not) isn't something they will even think twice about. I'm sure they will try to convince the authorities that the SO member has suffered life long harm and is practically a cripple. Again, I don't support what ASL did and I don't support harm being done to Scientologists.

 

[I M Dex]

Definitely, which means claiming physical harm (real or not) isn't something they will even think twice about. I'm sure they will try to convince the authorities that the SO member has suffered life long harm and is practically a cripple. Again, I don't support what ASL did and I don't support harm being done to Scientologists.

Isn't it interesting how its embedded in Scientology that when somebody else suffers mistreatment it is through their "out-ethics", but when Scientology itself encounters any form of opposition, the onus is totally on the opposition for being "suppressive". Exemplary of the hypocrisy of Hubbard himself, which is then embodied in his Scientology.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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from what i'm hearing the FL real estate business is in the dumps these days. but between that and his financial work he did seem to have a knack for real business, that he doesn't seem to be currently putting to work. That stuck out to me is that he often said 'what do i know, i was in a cult'. but then he didn't seem to really reflect on that and question whether for example his judgment or reactions were still compromised in culty ways.

At one point in time Aaron really "broke thru" and rose to extraordinary levels of skill on presenting what Scientology really is. I recall his appearance on various other mega podcasts (e.g. Lex Friedman--where he received 30K views, Jordan Peterson--where he received 17K views, et al). During such shows where he was interviewed, Aaron demonstrated brilliant and simple presentational skills and likability-- without coloring outside the lines with any weird or quirky personal glitches.

It was very impressive! That's the lucidly focused and wonderfully well-informed guy that was as good as any "SP" has ever been at telling the true tale of Scientology. To your point, during such shows Aaron showed zero artifacts of having been in a cult and it was great entertainment and revelational at a level any unfamiliar "wog" would be able to fully enjoy and understand.

That's the Aaron everyone loved and hopes to see again. . .

MAGA!!! Make Aaron Great Again!


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