To review:
- You have read Doug Misicko (“Lucien Greaves”) admit that he was paying himself with The Satanic Temple’s funds but claim he never really kept track of how much and never providing evidence beyond his word. If you think Misicko’s word during sworn testimony should be good enough, note how “not more than $2,000 per month” was immediately hedged after a follow-up question, for example, but also other instances he was caught lying.
- You have read Misicko and Cevin Soling (“Malcolm Jarry”) admit that they don’t see a difference between the various entities in The Satanic Temple, even though some are for-profit and others nonprofit. Repeatedly you saw that happen, and we really don’t have access to that much considering how many years and entities there are that need examined.
- You saw some specific examples where exactly this fungibility of legal entities and their funding was demonstrated, with neither funds nor entities being kept discrete as they should. That Belle Plaine invoice was the first time we saw that Spectacle Films, Inc., might still be involved financially, years after it supposedly no longer was, so it really is difficult to know what all we’re missing here.
- Together, these establish that money donated to nonprofit entities ends up being distributed back to the for-profits also owned by Misicko and Cevin Soling (and their pseudonyms) which they use to pay themselves an undisclosed amount they claim not to keep track of.
Now, there are those who hear all this and say, “What, so Lucien is just supposed to starve? So he took $2,000 or $4,000. Who cares?”
Some go even further: “it’s his religion he deserves to pocket the money.”
The second group is a lost cause, and at least their support is openly unconditional.
For the first group, those people have made up a complaint in their head that no one has said.
Frankly, Misicko could pay himself $10,000 per month. Most devoted supporters of The Satanic Temple would argue that “Lucien” deserved more for how hard we worked.
The point is no accountability for this money being entrusted to them and no way to evaluate it.
There’s absolutely no reason to believe these people — even under oath! — given how much they have been caught lying. Doug Misicko claimed he paid himself nothing from Reason Alliance in 2017, as he claimed every year.
Instead, we know Doug Misicko got at least 17 percent of the money the nonprofit spent that year ($4,000) to “encourage reasoning” — though it’s still unclear exactly which corporation that money was routed through. We only know this because documents turned over in discovery during litigation caught Misicko in a lie he was attempting to obfuscate with the use of multiple pseudonyms simultaneously.
When you start off treating money coming into your various corps as petty cash to be used as you alone see best, admit sometimes “best” is helping you “stay afloat”, you fudge the numbers on official filings, and you provide no documentation or even indication that you’ve cleaned up since — people are right to be concerned about where donation money, including money for abortion rights, is actually going.
We haven’t even really talked about the for-profit for The Satanic Temple TV (Cinephobia LLC).
Or about how “Goddess: The American Stripper” became “Winstonian Enterprises Ltd.” a.k.a. “The Satanic Estate”. Sex workers are workers, but nepotism is nepotism.
We haven’t really talked about the physical location, the Salem Art Gallery.
With that for-profit, the owners while being deposed reported incredibly round numbers in terms of ticket revenue — after claiming not to know when asked the first time — again, for a monument fundraised for the nonprofit “Reason Alliance Ltd.” but ultimately supposedly for a different for-profit “United Federation of Churches, LLC.” We haven’t talked about the Baphomet statue which was a result of fundraising before any of these entities except Spectacle Films existed.
We haven’t talked about whatever “The Satanic Chapel” is and what their $6,000 wedding packages fall under. (Presumably for-profit 64 Bridge LLC?)
Or is it a new corporation? Or one of Cevin Soling’s many other corporations registered in several states?
Again: imagine there’s a pair of Christian televangelists who used fake names to create a for-profit doing business as “The Jesus Tabernacle” to sell T-shirts, then a nonprofit that gives money back to the owners of that for-profit, then they made a church called “The Jesus Tabernacle” which they renamed “The Jesus Tabernacle, Inc.” after it got tax-exempt status from the IRS.
Plus, however many other fucking revenue streams there are.
Don’t ask “Lucien Greaves”, though.
When Doug Misicko was asked about it as recently as for Cave v. Thurston, he had no idea.
He says you should ask Cevin Soling’s business lawyer James MacNaughton, the same guy who moonlighted as The Satanic Temple’s first attorney for those Missouri abortion cases that they lost.
(What a shock.)
“That’s defamation! That’s none of your business! That was a long time ago, before the pandemic! That’s out of context! You’re biased!”
Demonstrate the bias specifically. Find us the context you think makes this stuff sound OK. We have provided all of it for you to demonstrate where we have misled anyone, and we swear, the more you look at the, worse it gets.
The Satanic Temple forced someone to record an “apology” after being criticized for things they deserve to be criticized for (as we have demonstrated).
This is TST’s backdoor blasphemy law: threaten lawsuits TST would lose on the merits but using a process too costly for poors to actually defend themselves.
Then, without any shame or sense of irony, this rat fuck “Lucien Greaves” says, “And soon we’ll have a very flexible idea, I think, of what constitutes hate speech, and that will be utilized in order to construct anti-blasphemy laws.” In his enlightened centrism, he concludes the political left will be as much to blame as the political right for restrictions on what people can say.
In 2022, he still says this.
Metal Blast: What is your position and by extension, the position of the temple in regards to freedom of speech issues?
Doug Misicko: Well, what’s funny about that is the civil rights movement in the United States was very strong, in advocating for freedom of speech, starting with Frederick Douglass. Freedom of speech was very much explicitly embraced by Dr. Martin Luther King. And the left were very much advocates of freedom of speech up until more recently. So I think it’s a complete ignorance of history to claim that freedom of speech is just a particular right wing political construct or whatever else.
Or to even say that I’m taking an absolutist point of view. I’ve been taking mostly a status quo point of view on freedom of speech, and making it clear that I don’t believe that defamation or imminent threats, and that type of thing, should be protected.
…When Donald Trump was in office a lot of the more progressive factions in the United States ponderously began fighting for more and more free speech restrictions, apparently not seeing how this could in any way negatively impact them in the future, or who would oversee these types of restrictions coming up. And Republicans might do a total sweep in the next election cycles because of inflation, and I think that, given the state of the Supreme Court, we might not be more than four years off from anti-blasphemy laws in the United States. And we’ll have the political left to thank for that as much as we will the political right, I guarantee you. Because they’ll have opened the door for that in their arguments. nd soon we’ll have a very flexible idea, I think, of what constitutes hate speech.
The Satanic Temple is watching the right actually make it a crime to talk about abortion and claiming that the “left”, whatever that is, equally responsible for curtailing speech rights.
What ghouls. What clowns. What clownish ghouls.
The idea that Doug Misicko, Cevin Soling, Matt Kezhaya, and The Satanic Temple at large have any capacity or even interest in protecting anyone’s freedom of religion is farcical.
“You are what you do repeatedly.”
Well, we’ve seen what TST and its owners do and are.
The Satanic HouseWife made two videos about The Satanic Temple.
You may notice in all of their attention to detail and legal threats, TST was completely silent on the main point of her videos: being a member of The Satanic Temple does not protect your rights to abortion access.
If you want someone to blow your money trying to intimidate poorer Satanists into submission, at least you know who to turn to, though.
By the way, today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances.
Hail Satan.
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