John P. Coale: The Curious Incident of the Scientologist in the Boardroom

The Washington Times recently reported the curious appointment by Governor Martin O’Malley of John P. Coale to the Board of Directors of UMMS (University of Maryland Medical System). Coale is a high-ranking Scientologist and trial lawyer who got rich from the “tobacco wars” and has particpated in Scientology’s assault on Ritalin, taking on not only its manufacturer, Novartis, but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and patient advocacy group CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Defict Disorder).

Coale is a member of Scientology’s glitterati, married to Scientologist Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.  Along with Tom Cruise and other celebrities, he helps to fund Scientology’s campaign for the “Global Obliteration” of Psychiatry so memorably reported on by head of the Church David Miscavige in 2007:

By way of a recap, the campaign was expressly, maybe even “diabolically,” engineered to ignite both government action and media blizzard. It’s also got an internal kicker: our Mental Health Budget Adjustment Kit, which essentially works like a “smart bomb” in that it “sniffs” out psych fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism. And in that way—to put it bluntly—we booby-trap the whole psychiatric ecosystem.

Miscavige has stated, flat-out, that Scientology’s goals for the millennium are the global obliteration of psychiatry and placing Scientology at the absolute center of society. It looks like Coale is a “twofer”.

L. Ron Hubbard’s worldview demands that not only psychiatry, but also psychology and all forms of medicine and religious counselling using psychology, be utterly extirpated. To save the human race, they must all be replaced – by “Hubbard Tech”. To that end, Hubbard constructed large-scale plans to infiltrate psychiatric and medical organizations in “Scientology’s War on Psychiatry”

Coale is a man of some social and political influence.  A longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, Coale lent Governor O’Malley’s campaign $500,000 to clear its debts. A supporter of Hillary Clinton, Coale also – perhaps strangely – backed John McCain’s presidential bid, and enjoyed palling around with Sarah Palin. Now that Barack Obama is to be president, one wonders where Coale’s largesse will flow next.

Did Governor O’Malley’s vetting team do any research at all on this appointment? Did they investigate what’s wrong with Scientology? Did they know and inform the Catholic governnor that David Miscavige enforces a policy of coerced abortion for female middle and upper managment and that the Church’s Volunteer Ministers blocked health care professionals and clergypeople from ministering to the traumatized at Ground Zero after 9/11? Did it occur to them that Coale’s appointment might be construed as Scientology “booby-trapping the psychiatric eco-system”?

What is O’Malley’s embarassment is psychology’s knife in the back for the professors and staff of the University of Maryland Medical School and the network of hospitals of UMMS, the second largest employer in the state. One of the directors O’Malley replaced to make room for Coale was sailing hero Gary Jobson, who was healed of non-Hodgkins lymphoma by Dr. Aaron Rappaport at the Greenebaum Cancer Center. After being ousted Jobson said:

I wanted to continue,” he said. “I felt that my personal mission at the hospital was long from finished. I wouldn’t have lived if it wasn’t for the work of the doctors at the hospital. … I’m on a mission to make sure that patient quality and care is at an absolute.

Easy to dismiss as merely potty, Scientology’s medical and psycho-therapeutic malpractice has resulted in numerous suicides and deaths.  In his new book The Complex, former Scientologist John Duignan writes of twenty people he knew personally who became insane or committed suicide. Scientology is blocking Amazon and other book sellers from distributing the book, perhaps with the aid of deployable celebrity agent Tom Cruise.

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Very good article! Thanks for the research you’ve done on this.

Scientology is a slap in the face of thinking humans. The campaign to undermine Mental health is insidious and criminal and has used the star power and money to dismantle opposition wherever it can.

John Coale and Greta van Susteren both lobbied the Clinton Administration on behalf of scientology to obtain a settlement agreement with the IRS. If you want a clue as to what David Miscavige’s political agenda is, just watch Greta and John. In scientology, they are both treated as major VIPs.

wow, good research you have done. hey, did you know
greta’s sister is a psychiatrist? she works
at Georgetown in DC i believe. odd one out kind of. her name is Lise
Van Susteren. she ran for US Senate in 2005 and lost.

This is frightening! How did this happen? Is the governor that blind?

Infiltration of mental health groups, part of the agenda:

US
Detroit news (Nov 2, 1979): “Church spies infiltrate health groups”
“Leaders of the Church of Scientology considered the American Medical Association … and the National Institute for Mental Health enemies and infiltrated the AMA as part of an effort to discredit it…”

Canada
Globe and Mail (Dec. 20, 1984): “19 people charged in Scientology case”
“And the alleged stolen documents the church is charged with possessing include photocopies of files belonging to legal firms, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Metro Toronto Police, the RCMP, and the OPP. ”

UK
History of Scientology Fair Game in the UK
“… the NAMH was the target of a mass infiltration campaign by Scientologists who tried to take over key offices and change the organisation’s policy on psychiatry.”

For a good standing Church of Scientology member, the Scientology doctrine supersede everything else (”KSW”), and since Scientologists believe psychiatry/psychiatrists are the root of all that is evil in the universe, you can’t expect reason to rule when it comes to deal with issues on mental health.

See this interview conducted by Damien DeWitt with former Scientologist Michael Pattinson, who knew John Coale well: http://anonforgreatjustice.blogspot.com/2008/12/governor-martin-omalley-has-appointed.html

I believe an investigation should be done to find out why Governor Martin O’Malley would knowingly appoint someone with this kind of reputation to the Board of Directors of the University of Maryland Medical System, of all places.

Scientology teaches all illnesses are psychosomatic. So what the heck is a top scientologist doing on the board of directors there? It makes no sense whatsoever. Why would they knowingly tarnish their reputation this way? Maybe they did it to drop their stock so they can get some bailout money too lol.

Tom Cruise will be on the board next, after all “he KNOWS the history of psychiatry”.

Thank you for reporting on this. This raises serious questions about what kind of money is changing hands behind the scenes. I can’t see why anyone would appoint this hack to such a serious position. A man who is in up to his neck in a UFO cult with his wife and a cult whose goals are the “elimination of psychiatry” wow. That is scary. So much for science. This is like appointing a creationist to run the history department.

Thanks for the comments. Consciousness is arising among the public, and I hope reports like this will stir the mental health community to action.

We need Congress to investigate David Miscavige’s perjuries on which the tax-exemption rests and which Lawrence Brennan has documented so well. If they are exposed, the tax-exemption falls. This is a tax-exemption that never should have been granted. It is an insult to to true religion to call this pit of medical malpractice a religion.

David Miscavige lied. Lisa McPherson died.

Had there been no tax-exemption she probably would be alive because corporate Scientology could not have avoided scrutiny through its false religious cloaking.

Keep spreading the word virally.

PS: AID EUS – can you supply links on Van Susteren and Coale’s lobbying the Clinton administration for the tax-exemption? I think that the Global Obliteration of Psychiatry is a radioactive issue, and both Republicans and Democrats should stay far away from its proponents

Here’s the video: Miscavige details his “diabolical” plans against psychiatry

I’m not very familiar with the way things work in the good old USA but it seems to me that Governor Martin O’Malley needs close inspection. Have the Board of Directors of UMMS seen this?

Excellent post.

Scientologists are arrogant megalomaniacs. What do you expect from them? They drive people mad and tell them “This is good”. They don’t look at themselves can’t stand being laughed at and I’m sure their number one rule is “never live up to the morals you pretend to uphold. The great pity is that they think they are right. I think I’m right but I’m just a bundle of sensory bits wondering about things. I don’t force my beliefs on them. They insist on being right. They play gods. Sad for them. Closed minds. Cause so much damage to others without even knowing it.

Thank you for this insightful article! I am glad that people are able to openly question Scientology and it’s aims on the internet. This is freedom of speech at it’s best! The big media are ignoring what should be a very big deal. The governor had better watch it because you saw what happened to Blagojevich in Illinois for a pay to play scandal. This smacks of the same thing. I hope for the governors sake that he is not doing the same things Blago did. The public is in no mood for this kind of corruption or for clowns to be appointed to serious government positions. We had enough of that under Bush and we don’t need more ignorant or downright crazy people in at any governmental levels.

These scientologists are arrogant as hell and dangerous to boot. There should be an investigation on this. I agree with the guy above, this reeks of chicago style politics.

NOW HE’S HELPING SARAH PALIN!!!!!

As mentioned in the Baltimore Sun, Coale loaned O’Malley $500,000 in the final days of his campaign

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The Washington Times recently reported the curious appointment by Governor Martin O’Malley of John P. Coale to the Board of Directors of UMMS (University of Maryland Medical System). Coale is a high-ranking Scientologist and trial lawyer who got rich from the “tobacco wars” and has particpated in Scientology’s assault on Ritalin, taking on not only its manufacturer, Novartis, but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and patient advocacy group CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Defict Disorder).

Coale is a member of Scientology’s glitterati, married to Scientologist Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.  Along with Tom Cruise and other celebrities, he helps to fund Scientology’s campaign for the “Global Obliteration” of Psychiatry so memorably reported on by head of the Church David Miscavige in 2007:

By way of a recap, the campaign was expressly, maybe even “diabolically,” engineered to ignite both government action and media blizzard. It’s also got an internal kicker: our Mental Health Budget Adjustment Kit, which essentially works like a “smart bomb” in that it “sniffs” out psych fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism. And in that way—to put it bluntly—we booby-trap the whole psychiatric ecosystem.

Miscavige has stated, flat-out, that Scientology’s goals for the millennium are the global obliteration of psychiatry and placing Scientology at the absolute center of society. It looks like Coale is a “twofer”.

L. Ron Hubbard’s worldview demands that not only psychiatry, but also psychology and all forms of medicine and religious counselling using psychology, be utterly extirpated. To save the human race, they must all be replaced – by “Hubbard Tech”. To that end, Hubbard constructed large-scale plans to infiltrate psychiatric and medical organizations in “Scientology’s War on Psychiatry”

Coale is a man of some social and political influence.  A longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, Coale lent Governor O’Malley’s campaign $500,000 to clear its debts. A supporter of Hillary Clinton, Coale also – perhaps strangely – backed John McCain’s presidential bid, and enjoyed palling around with Sarah Palin. Now that Barack Obama is to be president, one wonders where Coale’s largesse will flow next.

Did Governor O’Malley’s vetting team do any research at all on this appointment? Did they investigate what’s wrong with Scientology? Did they know and inform the Catholic governnor that David Miscavige enforces a policy of coerced abortion for female middle and upper managment and that the Church’s Volunteer Ministers blocked health care professionals and clergypeople from ministering to the traumatized at Ground Zero after 9/11? Did it occur to them that Coale’s appointment might be construed as Scientology “booby-trapping the psychiatric eco-system”?

What is O’Malley’s embarassment is psychology’s knife in the back for the professors and staff of the University of Maryland Medical School and the network of hospitals of UMMS, the second largest employer in the state. One of the directors O’Malley replaced to make room for Coale was sailing hero Gary Jobson, who was healed of non-Hodgkins lymphoma by Dr. Aaron Rappaport at the Greenebaum Cancer Center. After being ousted Jobson said:

I wanted to continue,” he said. “I felt that my personal mission at the hospital was long from finished. I wouldn’t have lived if it wasn’t for the work of the doctors at the hospital. … I’m on a mission to make sure that patient quality and care is at an absolute.

Easy to dismiss as merely potty, Scientology’s medical and psycho-therapeutic malpractice has resulted in numerous suicides and deaths.  In his new book The Complex, former Scientologist John Duignan writes of twenty people he knew personally who became insane or committed suicide. Scientology is blocking Amazon and other book sellers from distributing the book, perhaps with the aid of deployable celebrity agent Tom Cruise.

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