He says that the church paid him $515,000 ($800,000 including his lawyer's fee) and that his attorney at the time persuaded him to sign an agreement promising to "maintain strict confidentiality and silence with respect to his experiences with the Church of Scientology."
That agreement says Armstrong would pay $50,000 for every utterance about Scientology. The church maintains that Armstrong has violated the agreement at least 201 times and owes it just over $10 million.
That's the damnation of signing contracts. It's paper - and it can haunt the writer. The WT knows that too, eh?
"They (Scientology) know the only way to silence Armstrong is to shoot him,'' Greene said. "This suit is really directed at other people who might be inclined to speak out. It's a PR ploy to keep other people silent.''
Yep. That would seem to be the reason that the WT was sooooooo harsh with Vicki Boer - a lesson must be given to their followers. Vicki Boer did a courageous thing in refusing to take their money in return for her silence.
I read on the net (thank Jehovah for the Internet!) where a young boy was accidently killed at a KH building site. The WT paid $30,000 to the parents.....and a "confidentiality clause" was put into place on the situation. One of the WT female attorneys *visited* the grieving parents.
waiting
edited because the script is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SMALL! However, I can't change it to be just a *little* bigger. sigh.