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If you’ve come here from It’s OK, John (http://itsokjohn.com), thanks for coming and thanks for reading the following. I hope you’ll take a moment to add your vote. - Ella Rache

Rumours have been surfacing that John Travolta is wrestling with the dichotomy of a faith that denies his son’s illness, stands behind the [non] treatment that may have contributed to the boy’s death and undoubtedly places blame with the father and son versus a reality that plainly says otherwise to all. Reports that he’s sleepless and driving alone around his private airport in the middle of the night have aroused a great sympathy for him and the pain he must be feeling. Myself included.

But even if he is conflicted and feels the urge to pull away from Scientology, Travolta very likely feels he has no choice but to remain in the organization. For, you see, like most cults Scientology immediately begins walling in its victims the moment they join; Separating them from the outside world and conspiring to keep them inside by any means necessary. They collect personal and deeply private confessions from their members almost from day one and store and protect them like a bank hoarding money. They guard these records with cunning and ferocity and, when needed to enforce discipline amongst their ranks, may dole out little bits in pricking threats or veiled warnings to errant members. For when a member of the Church of Scientology has thoughts of leaving or otherwise doing something the cult does not approve, they will soon be subtly (or not) be reminded of all the cult has stored against them… should they need it. And if they go to far… the cult will go further.

So everything the young John Travolta has confessed to during auditing — and mark my word it is a grueling and unending process of recorded confession that every member participates in from the day they join until the day they die or otherwise find their way free of the cult — has been recorded, stored, indexed and scrutinized by the upper echelons. And should the day come where they need to reign in Mr. Travolta, a devoted Scientologist since joining in 1975, all they need do is crack open his file and drop a couple of hints. They may not even need to do that as Travolta has no doubt turned this idea over in his own mind many times; there’s no way he could not have heard the rumours of this happening to others who left the cult.

And now, it seems, a grief-stricken father does disconsolate laps in a golf cart on the airstrip in front of his home late at night, wrestling with anguish and uncertainty.

So I’m asking you now to join me in a simple (even simplistic, I admit) but empathetic gesture. Send a message to John Travolta and his family that, no matter what Scientology may threaten, no matter what they say they’ll do to his career or his reputation. That you will stand up for him and, by lending no credence or judgment to whatever gossip, true or not it does not matter, they may use to try and keep him in their clutches… you will stand by him and his family and help them rise above and beyond the menace that is eating into their lives and grieving.

And should he decide to take that step, agree to step up to his defense on the Internet or around the water cooler. Make a point to attend any film he then goes on to appear in, whether you have interest in it or not. Show the cult of Scientology that fear is only a weapon when we allow it to be. And we can take that power from them any time we please. Let’s start here. And then maybe, just maybe, this grieving father can get a night’s sleep and find closure.

Simply cast your pledge of support at It’s OK, John (http://itsokjohn.com) and pass this along to others so that they might join the ranks. Please Tweet it or blog it or whatever. Just imagine if, by this simple act, you could allow this man and his family to have the courage to walk away from this controlling, self-serving influence and find closure for their grief.

Thanks,
Ella