How do you spell CRIMINALLY RETARDED? Marty Rathbun

A man walks into a bar,, says he’d like a beer and three shots of tequila, says “I’ll pay you once I’m done”, downs it all in 10 seconds flat, when asked to pay up tells the bartender it was someone else who ordered it, gets irate once accused of lying, physically assaults the bartender and a patron, continues his story all the way to the police station, is charged then makes his family pay the bill, bail, court fee and fine. Pretty fun huh!?

Okay so the above was an analogy, what actually happened is Rathbun told everyone he knew what he was doing, the lawyers believed him, he then realized he had the wrong guy but instead didn’t tell anyone and led them along for ten years, costing $10 million for the Church due to his idiocy.

This from FREEDOM MAGAZINE:

1984-1995: The Church of Scientology had been viciously attacked and wrongly accused by the government of Canada—accusations for which the Church was vindicated in the courts. However, before the vindication, Rathbun insisted on Church lawyers making a statement, on the courthouse steps, accusing Canadian officials of complicity in obstruction of justice for which Rathbun assured Church lawyers he had evidence. Factually, he later discovered he had the wrong identity and accused the wrong individual. Rather than retracting the statement, he covered up his discovery (that he had the wrong identity) and had counsel continue to defend a libel case brought against the Church. That case was ultimately lost after 10 years of litigation at a cost of $10 million in legal fees and court-ordered judgment. He did not confess to his cover-up for another eight years (after the lost judgment), which was in fact 19 years since he had become aware of his blunder in accusing the wrong party.

MARTY RATHBUN – CRIMINALLY RETARDED.

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