{"id":91792,"date":"2023-09-11T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91792"},"modified":"2023-09-11T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:00:09","slug":"scientology-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/scientology-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientology Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s a hero in the <strong>Danny Masterson <\/strong>trial, it\u2019s <strong>Leah Remini<\/strong>.&nbsp; When the so-called <em>Church<\/em><em> of <\/em><em>Scientology<\/em> ramped up efforts to get Masterson acquitted of numerous rape convictions, the actress exposed details of the campaign \u2013 including how the \u201cchurch\u201d engaged in \u201ca conspiracy to cover up crimes of sexual violence\u201d.&nbsp; When Masterson was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Remini was in the courtroom.&nbsp; She wasted no time in sharing her thoughts, Tweeting, \u201cFor over two decades, Danny Masterson avoided accountability for his crimes.&nbsp; While Danny was the only one sentenced, his conviction and sentence are indictments against Scientology, its operatives, and its criminal leader, <strong>David Miscavige<\/strong>.\u201d&nbsp; BTW, the diminutive dictator\u2019s wife <strong>Shelly <\/strong>is still MIA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A codicil to the Masterson saga came from <strong>Ashton Kutcher <\/strong>and <strong>Mila Kunis<\/strong>.&nbsp; When letters the couple wrote on behalf of Masterson went public (they all worked together on <strong><em>That \u201870s Show<\/em><\/strong>), they were lambasted for their perceived tone-deaf efforts.&nbsp; Kutcher and Kunis said that they were asked to write the letters by Danny\u2019s family, and they simply wanted to share their experiences about someone they\u2019ve known for 25 years.&nbsp; \u201cWe are aware of the pain that has been caused by the character letters we wrote on behalf of Danny Masterson,\u201d said Kutcher.&nbsp; \u201cThey were intended for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or re-traumatize them in any way.&nbsp; We would never want to do that.&nbsp; And we\u2019re sorry if that has taken place,\u201d added Kunis.&nbsp; \u201cWe support victims.&nbsp; We have done this historically through our work and will continue to do so in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s a hero in the Danny Masterson trial, it\u2019s Leah Remini.&nbsp; When the so-called Church of Scientology ramped up efforts to get Masterson acquitted of numerous rape convictions, the actress exposed details of the campaign \u2013 including how the \u201cchurch\u201d engaged in \u201ca conspiracy to cover up crimes of sexual violence\u201d.&nbsp; When Masterson was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91793,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91792\/revisions\/91793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}