Just when you thought the LRH Birthday couldn’t be more degraded by David Miscavige.
In the event you consider my use of the term con or my linking of David Miscavige as the master of the con are over-reaching, please review the following:
The Hijacking of the International Association of Scientologists
International Association of Shills
LRH’s Birthday Game was designed to encourage Organizations to make it up to the size and productivity of Old St Hill. During the life of LRH the game consisted of orgs competing by reporting up a number of production statistics reflecting delivery of Scientology services to the public. During that time and for a few years after LRH passed away the Birthday Game resulted in several orgs actually achieving something on the order of Old St Hill size.
Since David Miscavige’s assumption of total dictatorship over Scientology Inc the LRH Birthday Game has been gradually corrupted into a Con. The game receives lip service for the sole purpose of giving Miscavige justification for conducting an event each March 13th wherein he can have awards passed out. For St Hill size orgs? For the past decade and one half, no. The “game” has been so corrupted it does not even lead to expansion. Instead, it leads to a bunch of busy work on statistics that lead to a photo op in some Div 6 course room, at best. Recent evidence indicates the game is now little more than a con.
The email below authored and circulated by the Birthday Game I/C of the Los Angeles Foundation Organization says it all. LA Foundation is vying to win the Birthday Game by:
a) Putting a bunch of veteran Scientologists onto a Div 6 (beginner, new public) course part-time (which can only detract from the org product of auditors made)
b) Increasing IAS (International Association of Scientologists) donations (which diverts gross income, staff pay, and money paid for auditing and training – all vital to org success)
Sent: Mar 3, 2012 9:13 AM
Subject: RUSH: LA FDN still #1 – Can you help this final week of the Birthday Game?
It’s a very tight game. LA Fdn has this final week to maintain their lead and pull off the final victory! They have never won a Birthday Game before, so this is amazingly exciting. If you like to help, now is the moment of truth!
Bring in friends, family, YOURSELF! If you are already onlines doing a course somewhere else, come into LAF and join our Life Improvement Club!
This Club is for active Scientologists. All you have to do is add just one course period a week, in the Div.6 Life Improvement Courseroom. This gives you the opportunity to zoom in on improving specific areas of your life without taking away from your Bridge progress.
My husband and I have done many of the Life Improvement Courses in this way and it is so worth it! Those courses are so stabilizing.
L, Your Friends, Daniel & Diane Leriche
P.S. Of course there are many other ways to contribute as well. See the message below for another vital needed and wanted:
Whatever you can flow or get others to flow, please do so now or right away or immediately.
Call any one of the following to make donations:
Thank you!
Andrea Kluge
LA F Birthday Game I/C
PAC OT Committee
Another Texan! What’s up with Washington, Florida and Cali these days? And the rest of the world for that matter. By the way, if you haven’t already done so, go to Scientology-cult.com and sign the Indies 500 list. I think Steve Hall is right – it’ll take just about 500 to mark the final tipping point. Welcome aboard Ronnie. This write up right here Smokes, with a capital S. – Marty
Dear friends and family,
I’d like to share something very personal with you.
Scientology is a subject that teaches about, and helps one to attain personal freedom. Anti-social personalities are, of course, threatened by this, and suppress others’ freedom to discover truth for themselves.
“What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
What is personal integrity? Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed. And that is integrity and there is no other integrity.
Of course, we can talk about honor, truth, nobility—all these things as esoteric terms. But I think they would all be covered very well if what we really observed was what we observed, that we took care to observe what we were observing, that we always observed to observe.”
L Ron Hubbard
From the essay “Personal Integrity”
The freedom to observe is part of being a free person. Free people come to their own conclusions by freely making their own observations and investigations. A free person also keeps their own counsel, and selects their own decisions.
You’re certainly intelligent enough to reach your own conclusions about facts you freely investigate.
If you’re commanded to not investigate, is that freedom?
Why would someone bar you with fear of excommunication for the crime of simply observing?
There can be only two reasons:
1) The internet is so dark and evil that your whole being will be swallowed up forever in a paralysis of eternal damnation, if you so much as dare to look.
2) Someone is trying to hide something from you about them.
Relax for a moment and put your TR-0 in. Ask yourself: which of these answers seems more reasonable?
I think that educated Scientologists are smart enough and observant enough to differentiate between harmful third party and reports from honest individuals who are simply revealing what they themselves have observed.
In that spirit, I’d like to say that it’s possible that you may not have granted yourself the right to freely observe and investigate the many hundreds of honest reports about the true scene in our church.
I recently chose to put on my personal integrity hat, and do my own free investigation of these reports.
What I can tell you is that there are more of them than you might imagine. Secondly, the character and worthiness of the individuals making these reports is of the highest order. Many, if not most of these individuals, are highly trained and processed, and most have long careers of service on staff in the Sea Org and Class V orgs. In fact, you probably know many of these people personally.
After months of personal investigation, and comparing the reports of other Scientologists to my own observations of ‘things that should not be’ within our church, I applied the Doubt formula to the situation. My final analysis is that certain suppressive individuals within our church have done great harm to our religion and the third dynamic over the last thirty years. I have chosen to remain in that group who are loyal to LRH and to the Standard Tech of Dianetics and Scientology.
Please see my attached write-up.
In closing, I value you as a friend, and hope that you grant yourself the freedom to make your own observations, and draw your own conclusions about the current state of our church.
It’s very likely that you’ll soon be pushed to disconnect from me because of the position I’ve taken in regards to the church. Just know that LRH canceled the policy of disconnection in 1968 and never re-instated it (see RJ-68). No one has the right to force you to disconnect from anyone. Only you have that right.
Thank you for being there, and for communicating.
ARC,
Ronnie Bell
RONNIE BELL’S WRITE UP
My name is Ronnie Bell. I am now, and will always be a Scientologist.
After about a year of searching, I found Scientology in early 1973, when I was nineteen years of age. I attended a standard Dianetics lecture at the L.A. Org, and routed right onto the Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist (Comm) course. Long story short – that course was run Flag-style, and the incredible wins I experienced made me a Scientologist for life. Although I didn’t do a lot of training after completing the Comm Course, I read most of LRH’s books, did the HQS Course, and an introductory Ethics course, all in my first two years.
Over subsequent years, I completed Life Repair, the Purification Rundown, and the CCRD, as well as many Div 6 courses, and the Student Hat. I paid for OT Preps and Solo 1 at ASHO and AOLA (respectively) in the summer of 2005, and received six weeks of full time auditing at ASHO. That auditing began with my Clear status being de-certified, and went downhill from there. The final results of that auditing were inconclusive. I did not make it to the Solo 1 course.
I also served as a hired staff member in the Sea Org renovations org from 1988, to 1997. I worked on all of the major church projects in that time, including (but not limited to) HGB, LRH Exhibition, Manor Hotel and C.C., Saint Hill Castle, ASI, Flag Land Base, Sandcastle, Super Power building, Coachman, Clearwater Building, and PAC Base renos.
I’ve also worked on many volunteer projects, including the ASHO Central Files project in 1994, where I was the Volunteer I/C.
Since at least the early 1980s, I’ve noted a great many disturbing things occurring within my church. Some of these outpoints have been acute, one-off instances, while others have become chronic, down-trending situations of great magnitude and seriousness. Most of these are of such seriousness, that they’ve become real and present threats to the viability of the Church of Scientology as a group.
These chronic outpoints have grown to such a state of magnitude, that they have caused me a great deal of spiritual distress, resulting in decreased reach for the Bridge, lowered ARC with my natural constituents within the group, feelings of hopelessness about the health and well-being of my religion, and doubt about church management’s ability to correctly apply LRH tech to handle these issues.
Perhaps worst of all, I found that I’d fallen into tacit agreement with the suppressive and unspoken command to not look – not listen, and that I’d cut myself off from any information channel which did not emanate from church management. By doing so, I violated my own Code of Honor, and caused myself to operate in something of a PTS condition in life for many years.
I have recently looked over all of the outpoints with the existing scene in our church, and have given myself permission to become informed of the great number of Knowledge Reports by upstat Scientologists around the globe. Having looked at all of the evidence, and having consulted my own reality on what I’ve personally observed, it’s my conclusion that the corporate church and its officers have violated and degraded the tech of Scientology, and have sunk into lower conditions on the third dynamic.
As they say, ‘what has been seen, cannot be unseen’. Therefore, I have chosen to withdraw my allegiance from the corporate church, and to make it known that I intend to stand with those who remain friends of LRH, and who practice and disseminate the Standard Tech of Scientology, as developed and written by its founder. The following is a partial list of major outpoints within the corporate church that I am personally aware of.
Outpoints and Things That Should Not Be within the Church of Scientology
1. By direct observation, the number of students on major auditor training courses has fallen continuously and precipitously over the last 30 years.
2. Most Int level execs known to the public, have virtually disappeared from public view. In fact, the whole of the Int Exec Strata which was widely known to Scientology public has now become virtually invisible or non-existent. Letters and KRs to individuals, posts, and offices at that level, now routinely go unanswered.
3. Orgs have become more like new car dealerships, than oases of spiritual freedom. Public are often trapped into crush sales situations by staff of every level whenever they venture into an org. This aggressive over-reach on the part of church staff even extends to parishioners’ homes and businesses.
4. HGCs are much quieter and emptier than in decades past. Again, by direct observation.
5. The practice of disconnection is in full use by church officials today, despite the policy being canceled by LRH more than 40 years ago (see RJ 68). This has been attested to by hundreds of Independent Scientologists, whose friends and family members have been coerced into disconnecting from them after they have left the corporate church.
6. Clears and OTs have routinely had their Clear state invalidated on auditing lines for close to a decade. This has apparently been done by executive order, and has no basis in the written technology of LRH. This is a monstrously suppressive act, and has caused untold anguish, hardship, and disaster for thousands of Clears and OTs. Many have been spiritually crashed by this action, including myself.
7. An unwritten rule that parishioners should ‘not look – not listen’ has somehow solidified into a tacit agreement over the last three decades. Scientologist public are often warned by org terminals to ignore widespread reports about the church in the news media and on the internet. This violates a person’s right to freely give and receive communication, per the Code of Honor.
8. As a result of this suppress on Scientologists’ comm lines, most who are actively on lines in the church have no idea of the very real outpoints and failings of church management, both domestically, and internationally.
9. The international church puts on at least four major international events each year, which is a violation of LRH policy on the subject. LRH specifically forbid such gargantuan galas, as they take staff and public away from auditing and training, and drain precious financial resources.
10. All such international events are staged for the primary purpose of crush selling the public on new books and lectures, or for donations to the IAS. This is proven by the fact that public who attend such events are routinely funneled through a physical gauntlet of registrars and high pressure sales people when these events conclude. Church staff are even posted at the exits to force the public into the crush regging area.
11. Donations to the IAS from the Scientology public now number into the hundreds of millions of dollars, but there has been little result shown for such a massive outpouring of support. The public has been told that the IAS is keeping the church safe from outside suppression, but anyone availing themselves of widespread news coverage of the church’s court battles and struggles with governments, can see that this simply isn’t so. For the most part, church parishioners aren’t even dimly aware of what a precarious position the international church is in right now, as regards its reputation and PR with the broad public. In fact, parishioners have almost no awareness of the fact that the corporate church is primarily engaged in legal battles with Scientologists who have dared to speak the truth about gross outpoints, and even crimes they’ve witnessed within the church.
12. The public has been crush regged to donate to many ‘Ideal Org’ projects around the world. They’ve been led to believe that if they provide swank new quarters for their orgs, that they will attract new public, and help to expand the Scientology religion. Neither has occurred. Every such ‘Ideal Org’ is as empty of bodies as they were before their publics set them up in much more expensive digs. Now these orgs are in even worse shape than before, because their monthly building expenses have increased many times over. This program has forced orgs into ‘having to have before they can do’, which is a complete reversal of the natural order of Be – Do – Have. The ‘Ideal Org’ program also violates several LRH advices about procuring real estate for orgs. See HCOPL 23 Sept. 1970 Quarters, Policy Regarding on org premises. See HCOPL 24 February 1964, Issue II Org Programming on demanding donations for buildings.
13. The so-called Super Power Building in Clearwater is a glaring outpoint. It has been under construction for at least 18 years now, and is still not finished or occupied. This has flapped all over City of Clearwater lines for years, and the Flag Service Org has taken a lot of heat from the city about that idle real estate. This has caused inestimable damage to the PR of Scientology, both in Florida, and around the world.
14. Those on OT VII are forced to report to Flag every six months for a ‘check’. As it turns out, this ‘six month check’ is nothing more than a Sec Check, which is not required in the written LRH materials regarding that level. It’s also inspection before the fact, which is expressly forbidden by LRH ethics tech advices. Reportedly, the cost for this service is $10,000 per intensive. Not only is it out-tech, but it’s an absolute rip off of dedicated and upstat public. It is also highly destructive to parishioners’ income production, and family stability.
15. Per widespread reports, 30 of the 54 Class XII auditors ever made, have been declared SP. All 8 of the Class XIIs personally trained by LRH have been declared SPs. It is illogical in the extreme that such a high a percentage of a single group of people, are actually suppressive persons.
16. Most of the first 100 Clears have also been declared, including John McMaster, Clear #1. Again, this is a strong indicator that the true SP is active within the church.
“Now any time you find thirty people on staff being removed because they were suppressive, you know they had the wrong Why, because the percentages are wrong. It’s just as mathematical as that.
If they’ve done that then I can also assure you they’ve left the suppressive on the staff and I can also assure you the guy that did it was suppressive.”
HCOPL 15 MARCH 1977 RA
Data Ser 41 RA, Evaluation, The Situation
(Management Series Vol. 1, p. 154)
17. The standard floating needle has been redefined by COB, David Miscavige, as a “three swing” needle. This is a squirrel definition of a phenomenon that has been well defined by LRH for well over half a century, and which has been learned and used by thousands upon thousands of successful auditors. Since this squirrel definition has been enforced, auditing times for processes and rundowns of all types has lengthened greatly, and over-runs on processes are now the rule, rather than the exception.
From Friends of LRH.com ~ http://www.friendsoflrh.org/Section2/ :
The contrivance of COB’s interpretation is borne out by the fact that, from the release of the bulletin What Is A Floating Needle in 1978 to the Senior C/S Conference in 1995, there isn’t one known instance of a student or auditor, from Class XII on down, having come to COB’s understanding of F/Ns on their own, despite thousands having word-cleared the definition.
Since this redefinition of F/Ns was first incorporated into the Pro Metering and Solo courses, students have been referred to sources as far-fetched as the Art Series, the Marketing Series, a physics text, and The Encyclopedia of Music, in order to understand it.
LRH’s definition of an F/N, on the other hand, couldn’t be simpler:
“A floating needle is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle.
That’s what an F/N is. No other definition is correct.”
HCOB 21 July 1978
What Is A Floating Needle?
(Tech Vol. II, p. 204)
18. The so-called “Golden Age of Tech” has turned out to be an enormous invalidation of pre-existing technology developed by LRH. The hundreds of drills and verbatim memorization of materials has resulted in robotic auditors who have little ARC, Understanding, or Duplication, while auditing.
Per LRH:
“The only allowed practical drills on any Scientology course including PE [Personal Efficiency] are:
1. Modified Comm Course for PE
2. Original Comm Course TRs 0-4
3. Original Upper Indoc TRs
4. E-Meter drills contained in the Book of E-Meter Drills
5. Dissemination drills when I write and release them.
NO other practical drills of any kind will be permitted.
Other practical drills are abolished.
Reason: They consume time uselessly, suppress actual processes and mess up data and cases. I did not authorize these drills and have now seen that they teach alter-is of easy processes. They are not needed. They make poor auditors. I have just reviewed this matter thoroughly and have traced several training failures to these wildcat drills. Further, I traced several failed cases on course to them.
Somewhere along the line somebody went mad inventing “drills” and “TRs”.
If this is permitted to continue, we will no longer turn out good auditors. The standard drills as listed above have proven sufficient for years.”
HCO P/L April 1965 Issue II
Drills, Allowed
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 616)
The length of checksheets has also vastly increased over those in use during the true golden age of Scientology (1965 – 1980). There are many tech references by LRH that advise against long checksheets for auditors, and which do advise getting newly trained auditors in the chair and auditing. Per LRH, an auditor learns to audit by auditing – not by endless course study and drilling.
The following is from Friends of LRH.com ~ http://www.friendsoflrh.org/Section2/ :
With the issuance of RTC ED #450, COB announces his revamping of every single auditor course checksheet.
These include the Academy Levels, NED, Grad V, and the Briefing Course.
He also heralds new checksheets for all Div. 6 (Introductory) courses, such as Life Improvement, Dianetic Seminar, Success Through Communication, and HQS.
Finally, he announces the restructuring of all co-audit courses, such as TRs and Objectives, Scientology Drug Rundown, and Method 1.
Each of these checksheets has since been compared to its earlier versions. In almost every case, they were found to be far, far longer — often two to three times or more.
LRH warned of the devastating consequences that overly long checksheets have on training:
“Speedup of HDCs, Class IV, VI, VII, VIII and ‘HGC Auditor’ courses at all orgs, AOs (and SHs) would encourage more students. My time for it is 3 weeks. This was up to 5 and even 11 to 13 weeks at once by illegal checksheet increases.
…Fast training gets students in.
Slow training messes up the whole field and denies enrollments.”
HCOB 23 December 1970
Fast Courses
(Tech Vol. IX, p. 213)
“Unreal and lengthy checksheets [are] the most frequently used methods of stopping students.”
LRH ED 592 INT
Special Program, Fast Academies
3 October 1967
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 372)
See also; HCOPL 7 Feb. 1965 Keeping Scientology Working, HCOB 8 March 1962 The Bad Auditor, HCOB 22 January 1977 In-Tech, The Only Way to Achieve It.
19. Through deceit, and the suppressive practice of dissuading Scientologists from accessing widely disseminated news and media, church management has caused Scientologists to believe that they are the only source of LRH’s spiritual technology. The vast majority of staff and public within corporate Scientology have no idea that LRH’s technology is widely in use outside the corporate church. There are literally hundreds of Independent Scientology groups and practitioners delivering On Source training and processing outside of the established churches. In fact, it’s been reported by thousands of ex-corporate church members, that these individuals and organizations are delivering far superior results, and are more On Source, than any corporate church orgs. The truth is, the entire Bridge is available outside the corporate church.
20. The corporate church has discontinued measuring their production by the only two stats that LRH considered to be of primary importance. Those are; number of case completions, and number of new auditors graduated. Today, the public is wowed by stats at international events such as, ‘number of new square feet added’, ‘Basic books and lectures sales’, ‘number of people studying the Basics’, ‘number of books translated’, ‘populations of countries where Scientology has taken hold’, etc. All of these are impressive, but they’re simply sub-products of the only stats that count – number of case completions, and number of new auditors made. Unsurprisingly, those two vital statistics are never mentioned at major church events, or in any of the church promotional materials.
“Orgs have only 2 major final valuable products.
One is well-trained auditors. The other is satisfied pcs.”
LRH ED 131 INT
Life Repair Block
8 December 1970
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 145)
“The product of an org is well-taught students and thoroughly audited pcs.”
HCO P/L 17 June 1970RB
KSW Series 5R, Tech Degrades
(OEC Vol. 0, p. 14)
21. A recent comparison of auditor training completions published in church magazines from the mid-70s to the present day, shows a ten-fold decrease in the number of auditor course graduates and major case completions. Despite the glitz and glamor of church magazines, Ideal Org buildings, and international events, the fact is, the corporate church of Scientology is shrinking fast.
From: http://www.friendsoflrh.org/Section2/ ~
“In early 1971, ASHO’s The Auditor magazine, Issue 61, listed the total number of Scientologists who had trained on the Hubbard Standard Dianetics Course (HSDC). This list includes graduates from the course’s initial release in May 1969 to the publication of this magazine less than 2 years later.
Here is a summary:
LA Org 209 (over 2 a week)
ASHO 146 (about 1½ a week)
San Francisco 88 (1 a week)
Toronto 83 (1 a week)
New York 64 (1 every 11 days)
In contrast, completions of the New Era Dianetics (NED) Course — the modern equivalent of the Hubbard Standard Dianetics Course — compiled from 2004 to 2005 revealed the following:
LA Org 0
ASHO 3
San Francisco 4
Toronto 0
New York 2
The number of NED comps for 2006-08 varied slightly from 2004-05, but averaged out roughly the same. Compared to the figures from mid-1969 to early 1971, this represents a decline of 95 to 100%.”
22. By my personal observation and experience, many old timers (those who’ve been in Scientology for 30 years or more) avoid going into the orgs, and many have nearly given up on progressing up the full Bridge this lifetime. In my view, they, like me, have noted most of the outpoints above, and have quietly withdrawn from the church for the most part, because they don’t know how to fix what’s wrong with their church, and are afraid to rock the boat.
From: http://www.friendsoflrh.org/Section2/ ~
When confronted with proof of an unprecedented crash at all levels of training, staff and public often respond with justifications and reasons why. LRH wrote extensively about the mental mechanism behind this phenomenon:
“One often wonders why people are so ‘reasonable’ about intolerable and illogical situations.
The answer is very simple: they cannot recognize outpoints when they see them and so try to make everything seem logical.
The ability to actually see an outpoint for what it is, in itself is an ability to attain some peace of mind.
…The human reaction is to REACT! to an outpoint. And then get ‘reasonable’ and adopt some explanation for it, usually untrue.
You can safely say that ‘being reasonable’ is a symptom of being unable to recognize outpoints for what they are and use them to discover actual situations.”
HCO P/L 30 September 1973 Issue II
Data Series 30, Situation Finding
(Management Series Vol. 1, p. 128)
“A lot of people are on a stuck flow of being sensible and sane — and that winds up in stupidity. So they get reasonable. Their confront of evil isn’t up to it — basically, their confront of outpoints.”
HCO P/L 18 March 1977RA
Data Series 43RA, Evaluation and Programs
(Management Series Vol. 1, p. 167)
23. The corporate church has priced Scientology services far out of reach for the average man and woman. LRH references exist wherein he goes into detail about how to properly price auditing and training, so that the vast majority of public can realistically afford it. Per LRH, services should be priced within reach of the lower middle class. That is certainly NOT the case with today’s prices for services, which can only be realistically reached by those in the upper middle class or higher. This is a suppressive act, as it puts Scientology auditing and training out of reach for most people.
Prices should be set according to HCOPL 23 Sept 1964 which is actually based on “the average lower class of lower middle class pay scale.” Such is clearly not the case today, where it costs upwards of $29,000 to become an auditor in a Class V Org, if one is an IAS member. This is more than half a year’s salary at the U.S. median income. In fact, that figure represents 100% annual salary for the average lower class of the lower middle class today.
In Summary
I can no longer ignore that which is clearly right in front of my eyes. I have not-ised the many outpoints I have seen within the church for over two decades now, and have paid dearly for my non-confront of evil and my tacit agreement with the fallen state of my church.
I have taken the time to make my own evaluations of the hundreds of reports written by upstat Scientologists outside the corporate church, and have found them to be not only credible, but solidly backed up by LRH advices, policy, and tech. Most of what I’ve read is also consistent with my personal observations, experience, and reality.
The overwhelming body of evidence to hand proves to me that the Church of Scientology has been taken over and transformed into a dictatorship by one David Miscavige, and that he has turned it into his personal fiefdom. Voluminous testimony by scores of formerly well-respected, highly placed officers of the Church, tells a sordid tale of betrayal, violence, illegal acts, manipulation, suppression, lies, alterations, and outright destruction of the Church hierarchy by this one man.
It is abundantly clear to me, that this one man has quietly been destroying all that LRH, the Sea Org, and dedicated staffs built, in the 30 years before he wrested control away from the duly appointed officers of the Church. He is the primary driver of every outpoint listed in my write-up above.
“So we can assume that people who are a bit inclined to malign, knock apart and shoot the human race, and have that as their only goal, can get into Scientology and can remove things from the technical line, or pervert or alter things in the technical line, which then makes Scientology unworkable.”
“And the higher on a command line the power is drawn from, the wider area the alter-is covers.”
LRH
Class VIII TAPE 1
“An Introduction To Standard Tech”
24 September 1968
“There are people who suppress. They are few. They often rise up to being in charge and then all things decay. They are essentially psychopathic personalities. Such want position in order to kill.
…They arrived when they arrived, in charge of things, because nobody when they were on their way up said ‘No’. They are monuments to the cowards, the reasonable people who didn’t put period to them while they were still only small bullies and still vulnerable.”
LRH
HCO P/L 7 December 1969
Ethics, The Design of
(OEC Vol. 1, p. 483)
Until David Miscavige is brought to justice, and removed from his position of corporate control over the Church of Scientology International, I consider the corporate church and all who remain connected to it, to be PTS, and in lower conditions.
I hereby assign COB, David Miscavige the condition of Treason.
Resignation
In the By-laws of the Church of Spiritual Technology, LRH differentiates between the RELIGION of Scientology and the CHURCH of Scientology. He EXPLICITLY says that the RELIGION of Scientology and the CHURCH are not necessarily “co-terminal.”
Exact quote:
“Religion of Scientology” and “Church of Scientology” shall not necessarily be coterminal.” http://www.savescientology.com/cstbylaws.pdf
In light of the above, and the contents of this write-up, I now formally resign from the Church of Scientology and hereby declare myself to be an Independent Scientologist.
I’ve examined the stats of the corporate Church of Scientology, versus the stats of those upstat Scientologists who have been falsely declared and banished from their religion, and have found in favor of the banished. I now declare my allegiance to those who remain friends of LRH and the true technology of Dianetics and Scientology.
Ronnie Bell
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ABC news dubs Miscavige’s abuse and torture as Another Scientology PR Crisis. (Good Morning America coverage). Ya think?
More in depth coverage is scheduled for tonight’s ABC Nightline.
Tony Ortega at the Village Voice has published a bunch of Cook litigation related documents, at Inside the Alamo. The last letter that Tony posts is a not so subtle threat toward Debbie’s counsel Ray Jeffrey. Standard operating procedure for corporate Scientology: when the law doesn’t support you – argue the facts, when the facts don’t suport you – argue the law, when the facts and law go against you – destroy opposition counsel by any means necessary. Dave apparently missed the memo, the Cold War ended for everybody else a couple of decades ago.
Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.
I have a feeling that exposure of Miscavige’s sickness is going viral today.
UPDATE 8:08 a.m.: Battered Woman Syndrome. Marc Yager is the unidentified individual who wrote to ABC denying that Miscavige beat him. Over the past 2 1/2 years Yager has been doing little other than writing statements denying Miscavige beats him. He may yet turn into the most curious and widely studied case of battered woman syndrome.
UPDATE 2:02 pm: On Yahoo News top stories.
UPDATE 2:49 pm: UPI.com coverage
UPDATE: 4:52 pm: Jonathan Hurley weighs in.
UPDATE: 8:48 pm: UK Daily Mail.
UPDATE: 9:40 pm: Gather.com.
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You need a scorecard these days to keep track of who is in and who is out of Scientology Inc in Toronto.
On the 31st of August, 1973, I stepped through the front door of the Toronto org for the very first time. I was introduced to the Public Reg, Judy Breaks. (She later became Judy Light, a Flag reg for some time, I believe.) I began the HQS course that evening. I was on the Bridge to Total Freedom.
On the 31st of August, 2011, exactly 38 years later, I stepped through the front door of the Toronto Org possibly for the last time. I came for a meeting with the Toronto Day Org’s Ethics Officer, David Felske (David is the son of the local, Toronto DSA, a woman named Pat Felske). He showed me the two written official Flag Ethic’s Orders that he had received that morning. I read them both. The first one declared me to be a Suppressive Person. The second one expelled me from the Church. The EO told me I would not be given a copy of either of these two published Ethics Orders. I left the meeting. I left the building.
Thirty-eight years. To the day.
Perhaps now I could get back on the Bridge to Total Freedom as an Independent Scientologist. Has anyone else, reading this, had a similar thought?
Hello! My name is Dave Stokes. I have lived in Toronto all my life. Sixty-one years. The Toronto Org has always been my Org.
My personal Scientology history is:
– I joined staff on three different occasions, completing one 2.5 year contract (’73 thru ’76) and not completing two others (’78 and ’86).
– As a public, I completed three auditor training courses (HSDC, Academy Levels 0-4, and the Sec Checker course). I failed to complete all three internships and therefore I have no auditor experience.
– As a public I made it to Dianetic Case Completion at Toronto Org (2001).
– I went Clear and did my OT 1-5 at AO ANZO in 2002-3.
– I began solo auditing on OT 7 in June, 2004.
– I stopped solo auditing on OT 7 in July, 2005.
– Having a personal computer, I had been a good boy and behaved myself from 1997 to 2009 by viewing only “approved” web sites and not reading any “entheta” anywhere from any source.
– My behaviour changed in August, 2009 when I found out about and listened to all the Truth Rundown videos.
– Thereafter, I had a valence shift and I became a bad boy and misbehaved wickedly from August of 2009 to August of 2011 reading anything and everything I could find about Scientology on the internet and elsewhere.
– I was Comm Ev’ed in the last week of June, 2011.
– I was found guilty of my alleged crimes and high crimes, declared an SP and expelled from the Church, 31 August 2011.
– I am declaring myself to be an Independent Scientologist, Feb. 2012.
What were my high crimes that caused me to become an “overnight” SP, you might wonder?
I looked. I spoke up. (We all did this, is that not the case?)
In late 2009, having committed these two crimes, my Flag D of P (Nancy Hawkins) asked me to stop. I said “No.” In 2010, a Flag MAA (Wella MacDonald) told me to stop. I said “No.” A Flag Tour Qual Consultant (Myron Rapp) ordered me to stop. I said “No.” The FSC for Canada (Arda Froese) encouraged my to stop. I said “No.” In 2011, two OSA agents (Peter Stevenson and John MacPhail) counselled me to stop. (I did not know they were OSA agents at the time. I thought they were concerned fellow Toronto Scientologists just trying to help me in my hour of need. However, the only evidence at my Comm Ev was submitted by Stevenson and MacPhail.) In 2011, the Chairman of my Comm Ev (Susan Sisson) warned me to stop. I said “No.” My ex-wife (27 years of marriage), my son and my daughter begged me to stop. I said “No.”
Perhaps this is not an unfamiliar story to many others?
Since August of 2009, I have tried hard to inform myself of missing data that was unavailable to me as a parishioner of David Miscavige’s church. In no particular order, this data includes:
– Reported physical violence at Int Headquarters on SO staff by SO staff.
– SP declarations on 18 of 54 Class 12 auditors (meaning one-third of all Class 12’s have been declared over the years to be SP’s).
– SP declarations of 38 of 54 original Old Saint Hill staff members (meaning 70% of the original Old Saint Hill staff have been declared over the years to be SP’s).
– The details of David Mayo’s removal from post, his comm ev and subsequent declaration and expulsion.
– The “instant SP declarations” of many veteran mission holders in 1982.
– The treatment of Mary Sue Hubbard and the non-announcement of her death in 2002 and therefore no subsequent celebration of her life.
– The details of the editing of LRH’s written and spoken words after the fact of his death.
– The details of the re-introduction of disconnection policy in 1982.
– The fact of the continuing promise of Super Power “next year”.
– The details of the non existence of the New World Corps and Universe Corps.
– The details of LRH’s death.
– The details of changes made to LRH’s will the day before he died.
– The details surrounding Lisa MacPherson’s death.
– Pat and Annie Broeker’s disappearance from public view in 1987.
Apparently International Management considers the staff and public of a Class 5 Org to be of such a low order as to be unable to correctly confront and evaluate such data. For the record, I object.
The only Class 5 Org that I have reality on is Toronto. Thirty-eight years is enough time to become familiar with the workings of the Toronto Org. I have done no services at any other lower Org. In those 38 years I have observed the following key Org stats that have entered a completely non viable range (= condition of Non-Existence):
– Auditors made (= Non-E).
– Releases made (= Non-E).
– Clears made (= Non-E).
– New public starts (= Non-E).
– Staff Pay (= Non-E).
The Toronto Org has managed to stay alive only because two stats have not yet slipped into Non-Existence:
– Gross Income (= Danger).
– Number of Staff (= Danger).
As well, over the years continual emergencies arise in Toronto like:
– Unpaid property taxes resulting in threats of being locked out.
– Unpaid heating bills resulting in the heat being turned off (it’s Canada!).
– No air conditioning (= unbearably hot auditing rooms and course rooms).
– Plumbing failures resulting in degraded bathroom facilities.
– Wasted money due to incompetent local management decisions (like $180,000 wasted on purchasing significantly unusable architectural plans for the new “Ideal Org” reno’s).
– And no toilet paper!
The Org actually is a smelly near-corpse that should have died years ago. But people of good will keep it going. Dedicated, long suffering staff members perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation every Thursday somewhere around two o’clock.
The basic history of this Org is straightforward. Its heydays were the 1970’s. That 10 year period produced several thousand public and several hundred staff (as Jim Logan will attest to). I was one of them. As was Jim. And many of us are still around. Myself and Jim included. And Paul Staffer.
There was a gradual decline over the last thirty years. Now, in 2012, there is a core group of about 200 Toronto Scientologists. This group is made up of 30 year or 40 year veteran Scientologists and their offspring. About 30 are on Toronto staff. The rest make up the bulk of Toronto’s public. There are about 35 active OT 7’s and 8’s. There are about 15 staff and field auditors who actually audit others on grade chart actions.
This core group over the years has been abused. They’ve been knocked around. They’ve been through building fires and police raids and government trials and bad press and stupid ED’s and psychotic CO’s and staff rip-offs and suppressive quotas and wrong whys and weird evals and unrealistic promises and no heat and no toilet paper and no fun.
And still some of them are here. Bedraggled. Bruised. But breathing.
In my opinion, these Toronto Scientologists only need three uninterrupted hours of truthful information regarding the world-wide Scientology scene to have a cognition. Given that cog, I am convinced they’d soon renounce current management and join the independent field. But … it won’t happen. It won’t happen for a very good reason. The threat of disconnection.
These +30 year, +35 year, and +40 year Toronto Scientologists have their day-to-day routines, their families, their livelihoods, their friends, their associates solidly intermingled. It’s almost incestuous. Disconnection would cause any veteran Toronto Scientologist to lose everything and everybody he or she needs or values.
I know. It happened to me. It has been six months since I was declared. In that time, my ex wife has not spoken to me. My son has not spoken to me. My daughter has not spoken to me. My best friends have not spoken to me. My employer has not spoken to me. My doctor has not spoken to me. My accountant has not spoken to me.
Luckily, my personal motto is: “Be willing to experience anything.”
I am truly enjoying my state of “being disconnected from”. Maybe I should go to the examiner and attest to something! (Joke.) If somebody, anybody, disconnects from me given my beingness, then, it’s his loss and my gain. Being a bad boy is bring back fond memories. A plus point! Might it be the same with you?
And I have long prepared for this disconnection. I figured it was going to happen sooner or later.
In 2005, I left Flag without permission, without routing out, without my confidential materials, and without saying goodbye. Flag was pissed! I had been on the level for 13 months. I then simply stopped auditing on OT 7. I had had enough. I had seen enough. I knew something was wrong. Very wrong. But in 2005 it was only a vague knowingness. I thought it was me! I thought I must have fucked up. Again. You know, more overts. More withholds. More mis-understoods. But I was not going to let anyone touch me. Handle me. Convince me. Re-hab me. Sec check me. In my mind I was going to withdraw (Theta/MEST theory) and think things through for a while. On my own.
So I lied to people. I lied to all the people who tried to get me to resume my auditing. And from 2005 to 2011 that was close to probably thirty different people. I lied to them all. I made excuses. I made vague promises to continue sometime in the future. In other words, I stalled for time. And peace. Admittedly, I was still concerned about what life would be like after declare and disconnection.
Then in 2009 I watched all the videos of “The Truth Rundown” and began reading Marty’s blog. I became a lurker. And for the next two years I did some pretty serious research on the internet. The main question that I personally wanted answered was: “What would cause a long-time SO member to actually leave the Church after so many years of dedication, persistence and loyalty?” I reasoned that the answers to that question would reveal the big outpoints. Perhaps even the biggest outpoint in all of Scientology. I read so many personal stories of ex-SO members that I lost count. I read all the posts. All the comments. All the books. Watched all the videos. I got all the data I could.
And the answers were revealing. The outpoints became obvious. To me.
I then knew why I had stopped my solo auditing. It was no longer vague. It was concrete. The pieces of the puzzle all fit. It all made sense. But it had taken me a total of five years. And didn’t Marty say that he decompressed for four years? Others have given similar time periods to get over the shock or whatever they needed to get over.
So for 5 years I had been preparing for my inevitable declare and disconnection. It still shook me.
The Toronto Scientologists, with their lives so intimately connected with everything Scientological, are not so prepared. And that’s why it is going to be so difficult for many of them to leave. For many, almost impossible. Inconceivable.
The fear factor is huge. Is this similar in other orgs?
The heartening thing is that seven +25 year Toronto Scientologists, all OT’s, contacted me after I had been declared. They acted independently of each other, of course. It took courage. I thanked them individually for that. The conversations were not too long, just long enough. Danger hung in the air palpably. Each wished me luck. Each voiced fears. Thoughts. Considerations. And each expressed his or her own wish that the PT insanity would soon end. Peacefully. With no blood (metaphorically). But each, in his or her own way, acknowledged that being disconnected was not an option available to them. He or she would avoid SP declaration and disconnection at all costs. I did not press the point. I ended by saying that I’d be in touch if anything really exciting happened. Not one of these seven people told me not to get back in touch.
So … I think the following statement is exciting:
“ I, David Stokes, of Toronto, Canada, (not Boise, Idaho) declare that I am now an Independent Scientologist.”
So, I’ll be shortly getting back in touch with these seven Toronto OT’s and giving them this exciting news. And Debbie Cook’s email. More excitement! We’ll see what happens.
Also, I invite any lurking Toronto Scientologist or any other Scientologist, veteran or neophyte, who wishes to communicate with me, on any subject whatsoever, Scientology or otherwise, local or worldwide, to email me. My secure email address is: davestokes@hushmail.com
Those who have known me well over the years know that I pride myself on my discretion. Any comm given to me I treat as inviolable. Sacred!
My secret plan is to facilitate a mass Toronto Scientologist declaration of Independence. Twenty-five OT’s sounds about right. Twenty-five Independent Beings announcing together that “the chains are off”, “we are at cause, not effect” and “we think for ourselves”. Perhaps unrealistic but a plan nonetheless. Again, a secret plan. So mum’s the word, please.
Any suggestions?
I wish you well,
Dave (a.k.a. Toronto Public)
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Kristina has been a Scientologist during six decades. Thus, she provides a broad view that few can share. Read and learn.
These are my reasons for no longer wanting to participate with the Church of Scientology and why I have disconnected from it. To begin with, here is a quote by LRH on the aims of Scientology, which I fully support.
The Aims of Scientology, by L. Ron Hubbard
A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.
It has been my understanding and belief that the purpose of Scientology was to Clear the population of this planet in order to achieve the Aims of Scientology as quoted above. Therefore, I believe that whatever else the Church is doing, its primary goal is getting people through to Clear and above. Scientology is the only subject that I am aware of that expresses the above goal and has a technology that the group applies for the purpose of obtaining that result. It is my belief that the CofS should be concentrating on this goal above all else and that any other activities that the church sponsors and/or carries out should be done only if they do not interfere in any way with the senior goal of clearing the planet and, indeed, contribute to it. As long as the church stayed true to the above, I would continue to support it in this endeavor. However, over the years, I have seen more and more evidence to the contrary. I believe the current Church of Scientology is no longer on the straight path to fulfill these goals and has become out-ethics and has gone into Treason to LRH. This is why I no longer support or want to be associated with that organization. Following are specifics that have led me to this conclusion:
Through the years since I first go involved in Scientology in 1964, I have experienced various disappointments with organizations I was personally involved with. Such things as mishandlings of a public person by a reg or out-ARC between senior execs and their juniors or misapplication of ethics. I won’t try to give specifics here as this is merely to give some background to what follows. Whenever I saw these things, back in the early days, I would consider it an isolated incident. However, over the years, I heard similar complaints from other people involved in Scientology and witnessed enough myself to come to see there were definite outpoints in organizations, at least the ones I witnessed myself. Additionally, I also witnessed the struggle those organizations had in trying to arrive at viability within the organization. I believe every organization I was personally involved with during those years was always struggling to some degree to stay afloat. There would be ups and downs, but I never personally witnessed a Scientology organization arriving at a viable Normal level of operation. During those years, this puzzled me as LRH had written specific policies, which, if followed, should have resulted in viable orgs.
Years later, while on staff at FSSO, I believed that I got the answer regarding the problems orgs were having. That was when we were handed a briefing sheet about Key To Life, LOC and Superpower with a number of quotes by LRH explaining why these things were needed. In that briefing sheet there were quotes by LRH stating that Orgs were not going to make it and were doomed to failure if staff did not get through Key To Life, LOC and finally Superpower. The “Why” that he had found on why orgs were failing was that staff were not able to duplicate policy and that the handling for this was getting staff through those actions. If this were not done, he said, orgs would eventually fail altogether.
When I read this, I was very happy to see that LRH had found THE reason for the outpoints I had noticed over the years and was excited to see that Management was now taking the steps necessary to get these actions in on all staff. Staff at FSSO, including me, were immediately put onto the Key To Life course. This was such good news to me as I felt things were finally moving in the right direction and, once staff were gotten through all the actions, clearing the planet would take off like never before.
In 1990 I left staff at FSSO and no longer had my finger on the pulse of what was going on within the church. I was active at the Boston Org, both on course and as part of the OT Committee and through this was able to witness at least the struggle that particular org was having, even with newly trained Execs of that org freshly back from California. (I don’t know where exactly they received their training, but the ED did tell me that part of her training involved training at Int Mgmt level.) Being public again, I wasn’t paying attention to the progress of the local staff in regards to Superpower, but I finished up my KTL and LOC while I was there along with a number of other public.
In 1998 we moved to Clearwater to be near FSO as we intended to get onto New OT VII and also to be near Conan and Devin, who were in the SO there at the time. I was already through New OT V. Richard was a previous New OT VII completion and planned to get back on the level as he had been advised to do. Both Richard and I had done the original OT V, VI and VII. I wondered why these new levels were called “New” OT V, VI, and VII as this seemed to me to be a “Technical Degrade” of the previous levels. I hoped this would be explained somewhere in the material, but I never saw an explanation. What I had come to believe (and I’m not sure where I got this data or perhaps just came to this as my own conclusion) was that these “New” levels were needed for people to truly make it on the original levels, but have really no idea if this is the case. Anyway, prior to getting onto OT VII, the promotion of this level was that if enough people (I think the number was 10,000) got on this level, that this would be one way we could affect the clearing of the planet. Knowing what the level consisted of, I thought there could be validity to that statement. I saw contrary data to this statement later on, once I was in the SO again, this time at FSO. (I’ll write more on that point below.)
Shortly after we moved to Clearwater, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Superpower building was held. This was very exciting for me as, once again, I saw hope for the orgs as outlined by LRH in the briefing sheet I had read. In May of 2003, a few months after I started on New OT VII, I joined the SO at FSO to be part of the New World Corps, which meant I would be trained up through to deliver Superpower. Once on the TTC (Tech Training Corps), I of course met other NWC TTCers. Through several conversations, I learned that at least these people I talked to had not done KTL or LOC and I asked them why they had not taken those courses first, as it was my understanding that they must be done first before training to be a Superpower auditor. Those two or three people told me I asked that KTL and LOC were no longer on the line up as requirements for Superpower training. I never checked into this with anyone else, but if this is true, then someone is not following LRH’s advice, as I understood it. Perhaps these courses were going to be done by those people later, but that is an outpoint (wrong sequence) as these people were now training without having done KTL, which would inhibit their ability to understand what the Technical Bulletins they were being trained on. I had done not only KTL and LOC, but also had done the Primary Rundown on the Apollo, indirectly under LRH supervision. This put my ability to duplicate way ahead of other TTCers who had not done any of these courses. This did not make sense to me.
While I was on the TTC, I was also still auditing on New OT VII. During my time at FSO, I learned directly from some and indirectly from others that there were quite a few staff members who had started New OT VII who were no longer able to continue on the level. One or two told me they didn’t get enough sleep to be able to audit. Another told me she needed a review to continue on OT VII, but had not been able to get the review for over two years. This is an additional outpoint, as she should not be left sitting in situation where she needed a review. Another staff member told me that she understood there were about 150 staff members who had started New OT VII, but were off the level for one reason or another. In any case, it became a major outpoint to me that staff that had gotten onto New OT VII were not now auditing. The way I see it, if New OT VII really does help in clearing the planet and if the church really were being true to the original goal of Clearing the Planet, then anything and everything would be done to get people (staff included, of course!) on and through this level. In fact, it would make perfect sense to have a whole unit set up for those staff who were auditing on New OT VII whereby the first priority would be for them to be in session, per LRH specific data on this level, everyday and when not in session (which due to the nature of the level, would be quite a bit of time) could be training up for the post that they would hold once off the level. It would make perfect sense that this would be set up and staff would be systematically gotten up the bridge and onto New OT VII and then, once completed, put on the post that they had been training for. What a powerhouse FSO would be if they were to do this. But, NO! Not only was nothing like this even remotely being done, there was nothing particularly set up for those of us who were on the level. I had to share a room, the only space left, as I understood it, where I could audit on this level. This was in the Class VIII course room where one room was not being used at that time, so the supervisor made it available to us. I shared it with three other people who were auditing on the level. I was told by the Director of Personnel Enhancement (senior over the TTC) that there was nothing set up or being set up for staff who audited on New OT VII. There were neither rooms nor a Solo NOTS D of P assigned to staff auditing on New OT VII. We were on our own to “make things go right”! How is that for intention to Clear the Planet!! The whole scene for staff on New OT VII was, in my opinion, major out-ethics and major off-purpose to the original goal of Scientology. I wrote up reports about this every week, but saw no changes occur while I was there.
Additionally, regarding New OT VII, there is another major outpoint going on. That is the six-month checks. As a public, I was under the impression that the six-month checks were to insure the pre-OT’s auditing was going along standardly and to correct any outnesses that might have come up. When I joined the SO at FSO in 2003, I had been auditing on New OT VII for less than six months. When I was due for a six-month check, I was already in the SO. So one day, I went over to the Sandcastle and up to the Solo NOTs area and asked to see my (as a public) D of P. While waiting for her to come out, the TTC I/C showed up. He asked me what I was doing there and I told him I was getting ready to get started on my six-month check. He laughed and said that there is no six-month check if you’re in the SO. I asked why that would be, thinking whether you’re in the SO or not, you would want to be sure to handle any area that needed correction. He said that was not what the six-month check was all about and that it was merely done for the purpose of making sure the person on Solo NOTs had not gone out-ethics in any way. I couldn’t believe this and thought he was mistaken and told him I wanted to check this out with my D of P. Just then, the D of P saw me and came over to find out what I needed. I told her what the TTC I/C had just said and she confirmed that this was the case, so there was no six-month check for me. Well, this is an outpoint on a number of levels. First off, you have a person who has gotten all the way up the Bridge and is now on Solo NOTs, and he has to be checked every six months for out-ethics?! A person can’t get on the level without going through all kinds of checks to make sure his/her ethics are in. So, why this “inspection before the fact” (off-policy) check to see if he/she has gone out ethics within the last six months? Further, this is an interruption of a major action (out-tech) enforced on the Solo NOTs auditor every six months. This cannot be good per LRH technical data on interrupting a major action. So, WHY is this being done? This seems very squirrelly to me. Something is very wrong with this picture.
To make another point regarding outnesses I witnessed, I need to go back to my time on staff at AOLA. Most of the time I was there, I was the Tech Sec. I had been DTS and then D of P for a short time prior to being put on the post of Tech Sec. Later, I was put on the post of HAS. During my time there, I got very familiar with the Org Board and how a Scientology organization works. As an Exec, I was also part of Exec Counsel, Ad Counsel and Financial Planning, which helped me to understand the needs and wants of the various departments and divisions of the organization. For the most part, my time there was good. I did witness some outpoints, most of which I chalked up to be isolated situations. The biggest outpoint to me was the lack of ARC in use amongst the staff. In fact, I even mentioned this to the then CO (Fred Hare) who told me that ARC is not used in the SO, because you would never get anything done. Well, I didn’t agree with that then and I never did go into agreement with that, but I saw other staff who did. I chalked this up to their being low on the Grade Chart and out of valence. I had already done all the way through the original OT levels prior to joining staff and thought it was just a matter of case regarding those low or nowhere on the Bridge. But that didn’t account for others who were farther along on the bridge. Anyway, I decided one day I would try being forceful with my juniors instead of using ARC, just as an experiment. What happened is they became less efficient and, of course, lower toned. I quickly got together with them and apologized for my behavior and, to my recollection, that is the last time I went (albeit causatively) out of valence while on staff. But this little experiment proved to me that out-ARC was not the way to go.
Now, jump ahead to 1989 when I was on staff at the Freewinds Relay Office prior to going to the FSSO. While there, I was almost immediately posted as Super Cargo (with no hatting, by the way) as I had been HAS on my last post. In fact, I was on the post of Super Cargo at the same time as being an “expeditor” under the HAS, which meant I was her senior and her junior at the same time! An interesting juxtaposition. In any case, I soon learned that there now were new seniors over areas that did not exist in this new capacity when I was on staff at AOLA. That was, CMO Messengers. I just couldn’t wrap my wits around that one. When I was on the Apollo, LRH had a number of messengers and that was precisely what they were, his personal messengers. LRH used his messengers to give and receive information (not orders) from staff. I never heard of or witnessed any LRH Messenger by-passing the entire Org Board structure to give an order to a staff member on the ship. Now, I was told, whenever a CMO Messenger comes to you with an order, you must obey it as if LRH personally was giving you this order. So there I was, being the Super Cargo at FRO when this little 12 year old CMO Messenger came with an order that I needed to obtain a certain number of filing cabinets in a certain color for the FSSO and that this needed to be done immediately. This order did not go through my senior. He came directly to me. Yet, when I asked my senior about it, she said, yes, we all must obey any order we get from a CMO Messenger as if it were straight from LRH. When I asked to see Policy on this, she had none, but pointed to a letter from Int Management that was tacked on her wall. I read it, but didn’t get how this altered policy. She told me to think of it this way: that Int Management has to shoulder the responsibility of the whole Church, so anything that they ask us to do we need to do so willingly and at once. In fact, the person that had been Super Cargo before me had been whisked away to Int with no replacement. Sometime prior to my being posted as Super Cargo, I had seen him protesting this order and trying to find a replacement. I heard him trying to defend his post and saying this was being handled off-policy, but he was sent off without a replacement anyway. Later, I became the replacement, but he had already been shipped off.
Now, move ahead to 2003 when I’m on the TTC at FSO. There I witnessed not only CMO Messengers running around (at least in the course room where I personally saw this happen) making demands and giving orders, but now RTC Reps have been added to the mix. Wow, talk about too many chiefs and not enough Indians. This was, in my opinion, completely off-policy, out-Org Board, and inefficient. Put those people on the posts they are demanding things get done and maybe more things would be getting done. What I witnessed was a complete by-pass of the organization structure of FSO. This means FSO was (is?) in Danger. However, per LRH, if a condition goes on too long, it will fall to the next lower condition. So by the time I was there, I would imagine that FSO was way down the conditions, perhaps in Confusion. But at the same time, correct Danger formulas were not being applied. I didn’t see any CMO or RTC staff come in to handle the area while at the same time getting it up the conditions, nor any senior over the area. No, just daily visits to the courseroom telling the supervisors or sometimes directly to the students what they were doing wrong. How does anything get corrected this way?
By the end of 2003, I had come to the conclusion that there was no way to correct the outnesses I had witnessed as the outnesses I saw were either being done directly by or with the complicity of the very people who were supposed to see these outnesses get corrected. So who can one report to in this case? I did send one report up to RTC at Int, but got a letter back stating that my report had been turned over to the local RTC to handle. I never heard any more on that report. By this time, my body had become the effect of the stress I was under, which I believe was mainly due to my recognition that things weren’t quite right, but seeing no solution within the church structure to handle it. I decided I needed to get out of this organization, get some space away from it and get my body back into good health. So I left the FSO.
During the time of routing out of the SO, I often sat in the confidential Qual study area in the Sandcastle while waiting for the routing-out Sec Check. One evening while there, I was asked by a NOTs auditor to check him out on a bulletin for a cram cycle he was on. The reference was, I believe, Auditor’s Rights. While checking him out, he originated to me that in the future he would always remember this particular bulletin regarding his rights as an auditor and went on to say that he had been auditing a person on Solo NOTs on her six month Sec Check and she completed it rather quickly. He ended the session and sent her happily to the examiner. Shortly after this, he was told by an Exec (I believe it was the Chief Officer) that he had to take this person back in and give her more Sec Checking. He refused at first, saying she was done. Then the exec demanded that she be taken back in and that he needed to do this to get the hours (stats) up before Thursday at 2:PM, stat time. I don’t know what occurred to make him go along with this, but he did and now regretted it, saying the next time this happens, he will use this bulletin as his reference and refuse the order. I don’t know how often this happened or happens or if this was one of those isolated incidents, but I believe the pressure to get the stats up or get more money in could result in out-tech such as this. My own brother has told me of out-tech actions being applied to him during his six-month check visits. In fact, this has happened to the point where he now refuses to return to FSO for any action whatsoever and feels that FSO is in Treason to him.
After I left the SO for the last time, I slowly began to reflect on all the things I had seen and experienced while there and earlier while in the FSSO. I began to wonder if the good outweighs the bad and thought perhaps there are New OT VIII’s out in the world now doing all kinds of wonderful things. I decided to start searching on the internet to see if anyone was promoting the gains they had achieved having finished OT VIII. Unfortunately, the only place I could find any good reports were from the Church of Scientology itself. This didn’t feel right. I don’t know why the church would not allow someone to speak up about their gains outside of church-controlled communication. In any case, while looking, I did find a website announcing the passing of Mary Sue Hubbard. It annoyed me that the church had made no mention of this in any of their publications. After all, LRH many times had acknowledged Mary Sue’s contributions to Scientology. Anyway, that was just one more outpoint.
The more I looked at outpoints I had witnessed, the more outpoints showed up. One major one is Superpower. Way back when I was on staff at FSSO and had read the briefing sheet where LRH was quoted regarding Superpower and the need to get it in on staff. (As I recall, LRH wrote that Superpower was to be done on all staff first, then government officials and then delivered to public.) KTL and LOC were released to staff then, in 1990. I was hopeful that Superpower would soon be delivered to all staff. Now, here we are in 2011 and still no Superpower. However, there was a public person who received at least some of the Superpower rundowns. His name is Matt Feshback. Matt gave a talk, which I attended, about the wins he had received from this auditing. This was back around 1999, I believe. In any case, it was many years ago, now. So, my question is, so what if the “Superpower Building” isn’t quite ready yet with all the bells and whistles. So what that there aren’t enough staff to fill the required posts in the new building. The fact is that at least some of the rundowns are in deliverable form and were delivered to at least one public that I am aware of. Therefore, at least some Superpower could be being delivered to staff, as it was to Matt Feshback. The fact that nothing has been set up or provided for staff to be rotated through these rundowns, speaks volumes to me. The sane thing to do, obviously, would be to send at least one staff member at a time to wherever Matt was sent to be audited by whoever Matt was audited by so that one staff member is that much more able to duplicate LRH. Once that one staff member is done, send another and another and so on. If there is more than one auditor who can deliver Superpower, than send that many staff to receive it and keep on rotating staff through. If this had been started back when Matt Feshback received his Superpower rundowns, how many staff could have been gotten through by now? How much more sanity would there be within the organizations if this had been done? Of course, this is assuming that what Matt Feshback said was true, that he really did receive a number of Superpower rundowns and that he really did have major wins as a result. But, if he did speak the truth and if what that briefing sheet quoted LRH having said is real, then there is clearly insanity at the top of the Church for not having gotten these actions going on as many staff as possible.
Here is my problem with “Ideal Orgs”. The following quote is what LRH has to say in HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 MARCH 1975 Issue II Data Series 40 THE IDEAL ORG:
“Such an ideal org would be built by taking what one has and step by step
building and smoothing; grooving in and handling each of its functions, with
each of its divisions doing more and more of its full job better and better.
The business is always there-the skill with which it is handled and the results
on pcs and students is the single important line which makes it possible to
build the rest.
The ideal org is the image one builds toward. It is the product of the causative
actions of many. Anything which is short of an ideal org is an outpoint that
can be put right. The end product is not just an ideal org but a new civilization
already on its way.” L. RON HUBBARD Founder
What LRH says here makes total sense. This is not what I see Int Mgmt doing under the direction of COB. It is all cart before the horse.
And finally, The Basics Event, which was when I came to the conclusion that the current C of S is in Treason to LRH under the leadership of David Miscavige. Here are the main things said by DM during the event that I took issue with:
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, ethics, events, FLAG, healing, independents, l. ron hubbard, miscavige crimes, Orgs, propaganda, squirreling, tech, tech alterations, the future, the Reformation, training
Tagged "mark rathbun", Corporate Scientology, David Miscavige, Independent Scientology, Kristina Royce, marty rathbun, Scientology Inc
Dear Friends,
On 31 Dec 2011 I sent an email that I hoped would help Scientologists around the world to involve themselves in the direction of the Scientology Religion and also to remind them that LRH empowered all Scientologists to do all they can to keep things strictly to LRH tech and policy.
I never spoke to the press and asked that it be kept from them. I also made it clearly known to the Office of Special Affairs that I had no plans for any further action and asking that our family, friends and business associates not be pressured to “disconnect” from us.
In response I received no communication from the Church at all, but rather every one of my Scientology clients was instructed to disconnect from me and my company was tanked. Further, my Scientology friends and family were contacted and ordered to disconnect.
Further still the Church of Scientology filed suit against me, demanding a legal injunction requiring complete silence on the subject of Scientology and $300,000 in damages.
The first part of that legal action occurred on 9 Feb, where the Church’s legal counsel asked of the Texas courts to legally silence me. They withdrew that filing the very next day after the court heard a very small sample of the physical abuse committed behind the closed doors of the International Scientology Base. But that was thanks to the 100% support of Marty and Mike and a few others very dear friends who were there to help guide us through this. It was especially due to an attorney and his team who came from the very heavens.
I have since done some press interviews, only with the intention of making it clear that these issues of duress and confinement are not based on the scriptures of the Scientology religion or the works of L. Ron Hubbard. They are the doings of an individual or a few individuals. And that Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard are kind and caring and good.
Before me now is the damages case, where DM will demand millions of dollars in damages from me.
But for now, the first battle was won.
And for this, I want to thank from the bottom of my heart each and every one of you who supported me through this time, my true friends. From the well over one thousand people who sent emails and letters of support to the hundreds of people who donated to my legal defense, thank you!
In my moment of need, many stepped forward. People I knew and people I didn’t. Scientologists in “good standing” and those who aren’t. And Scientologists with some real heart-wrenching stories to tell. And not just Scientologists, but people from all faiths and all walks of life who saw that a great injustice was afoot and stepped forward to help prevent it. And together in this first round, we prevailed.
However, this fight is far from over and if truth is to prevail, your positive support and help will make all the difference.
Please know who I am. I support L Ron Hubbard. I have seen L Ron Hubbard’s technology create many miracles. There is no question in my mind that Scientology books and lectures as written by L Ron Hubbard hold tremendous benefit for anyone who just takes the writings as they are and applies them. I have seen the lame walk. I have seen emotionally broken people renewed. I have seen relationships healed. And I have seen these things over and over and over again. Nothing could ever shake my belief in the value of L Ron Hubbard’s philosophical writings.
I will do whatever is needed to ensure that the Scientology religion moves forward into the 21st Century in the spirit of love, compassion and kindness.
So that is who I am.
At this time, I have more friends than I had before I made this stand, far more. And we have our integrity. And it feels damn good.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Debbie Cook
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, Debbie Cook, disconnection, ethics, FLAG, harassment, healing, independents, int base, justice, l. ron hubbard, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, policy, propaganda, tech, texas, the future, the Reformation
Tagged "mark rathbun", Corporate Scientology, Debbie Cook, Independent Scientology, marty rathbun, Scientology Inc
On day one of Scientology Inc v Debbie Cook, after witnessing the opening statements of Ray Jeffrey and George Spencer, after Debbie Cook was called as first witness of the plaintiff, and after being dismissed from the courtroom as announced witnesses, Mike Rinder and I took a leisurely stroll at the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio. We could relax for a moment since by then we were assured that we owned David Miscavige.
We talked about the state of David Miscavige’s mind as reflected in his handling of the Battle of San Antonio. Our walk was relaxed because we knew that Miscavige’s arrogant, ill-advised first move would be his last – calling Debbie Cook to the stand. I said to Mike, “these days, watching Scientology Inc Legal is like watching a Tommy Davis PR performance.” Mike mused about how predictable it was that Miscavige would react as we figured he would to our message from the Alamo.
We reflected on how after our announcing to the world that Miscavige was following right in the footsteps of infamous general and despot Santa Anna, he had ignored the well-known aphorism of philosopher George Santayana:
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
That is not say that all was sea shells and balloons on the front lines – but we knew at that point there was no reversing the fact that the Scientology Inc locomotive was headed straight into the train wreck of the century.
Even then though, we did not suspect that within 24 hours Miscavige would channel Santa Anna right on down to waving the white flag, and fleeing across the Texas plains in his underwear.
A Scientology Inc outright surrender is unprecedented in circumstances such as these.
Yes, Scientology Inc has paid huge sums of money at the courthouse steps in exchange for silencing Public Relations and Legal nightmares.
But, never has Scientology Inc surrendered after the damage was already done, and never in such a pathetic, thoroughly embarrassing fashion.
On my way out of San Antonio, I had a visit with Village Voice Editor In Chief Tony Ortega. Tony asked me why the Surrender at San Antonio was so epic.
I told Tony that in order to fully appreciate the answer he needed a little history lesson, as follows.
The Temporary Restraining Order(TRO)/Preliminary Injunction (PI) procedure is relatively standard in most states in America. Since 1981 Mike and I had helped Scientology Inc capitalize on it to crush, punish and silence many people. Generally, one can get the TRO with no notice to the defendant, and then the defendant has but ten days to put together a complete defense in a hearing for a PI. That means scrambling together for bread and trying to hire someone competent to enter a thoroughly unremunerative and unrewarding battle field and get him prepared for the unpreparable. Very few that Mike and I could recall had ever been able to get it together in that time frame. So, dozens of times we had used the weapon successfully to muzzle a defendant from the outset and for the remaining two to five year period the case would take to get to ultimate trial. It was like shackling the defendant to the whipping post, then using the two to five years of litigation process to bury, punish, and bankrupt him or her with harassing discovery and motion work. And while ultimately the defendant might prevail at trial (e.g. Gerry Armstrong, Joe Yanny), in many ways the person was ruined and enervated by that time.
Mike and I knew that it was no coincidence that from January 1, 2012 to this day Office of Special Affairs (OSA, dirty tricks and propaganda arm of Scientology Inc) had every available operative in the field pushing one message and one message alone toward Debbie Cook and Wayne Baumgarten: whatever you do, stay away from Marty. We read that like a telegram authored by Miscavige: we’re isolating Debbie for the whipping post treatment.
As one can read at exhibit B to Defendants’ Original Answer filed in the Bexar county courthouse, as late as January 15 (12 days prior to the Temporary Restraining Order), the OSA line had some effect. Debbie pled with OSA to leave her alone with this distancing claim: “I am also certain at this point that it was Marty and the Independents that worked so hard to get that comm into the press.” That was claimed despite the fact the “press” had her email before I even did, and I’ve never worked, let alone “worked so hard”, to get anything into the press, and notwithstanding the fact I had already informed Debbie through a mutual friend of the identities of two confirmed OSA agents whom she and Wayne had already befriended and trusted since 1 January. Regardless of Debbie’s mistrust, Mike and I still noted in my blog that it would not take long for Miscavige to force Debbie toward her only hope of a decent defense. And so we proceeded to raise funds for that purpose.
It was not until Debbie and Wayne were served with a Temporary Restraining Order that I received a call that she wanted help.
Here is where the formidable Independent network really came into play. First, mutual friends Yvonne and Ken Schick arranged a meeting at a secluded several acre residence where no OSA interference was possible. Another Independent paid the airfare to get Mike Rinder out to Texas immediately. Another Independent (Action Jackson Morehead) stood in for Mike in Florida to complete the move that he and Christie were in the middle of when the call for help arose. Probably the most crucial clutch play of the game also came from a Texas Independent. His many years of ethical business practice and consequent connections lead us to the biggest star of the entire battle, Sugar Ray Jeffrey.
Mike and I have worked with some of the most expensive and accomplished lawyers in countries across the world for several decades; and both of us recognized the day we met him that Ray was the only horse that could run the course before us in the time allotted to prepare. Normally, an attorney of his capability (with the level of competence and dedication of his partner and associate) would cost far more than we could afford. But, because Ray and his team were quick to understand the facts, and were moved by the principles and equities involved, we were able to retain him through the hearing of this week for just about the amount of money that Independents (for the most part) contributed – almost to the penny.
With precious little time to work, it seemed that every resource we needed at every step of the way magically appeared compliments of one Independent or another.
I told Tony that had it not been for a lot of good folks living right and supporting one another and being there for one another and ready to drop everything to answer when the call came, Debbie Cook and Wayne Baumgarten would have been Texas road kill by now.
Had it not been for David Miscavige’s insane paranoia – which was as predictable as the morning sunrise – Debbie Cook’s testimony as to Miscavige’s crimes would never have seen the light of day.
Until David Miscavige sued Debbie Cook she made her intentions to him clear in writing as follows:
a) She did not intend to disclose publicly the crimes of David Miscavige and Scientology Inc.
b) She considered the intentions and interests of “Marty and the Independents” something not necessarily parallel to her own.
However, the very crimes Miscavige was trying to cover up with the Temporary Restraining order, and keep covered up with the sought for Preliminary Injunction, were the very crimes that invalidated the “agreement” that he wanted enforced. It didn’t take a legal genius to understand that; Mike and I saw it before we even saw Miscavige’s stupid lawsuit and secretly obtained Temporary Restraining Order.
David Miscavige literally forced Debbie Cook to disclose his crimes in the only forum, under his own interpretation of the law, she could possibly do so without legal repercussions to herself. To wit, in the witness box in defense of an application for a Preliminary Injunction worded in the fashion Miscavige worded his would-be one against Debbie.
Miscavige got what he postulated; and he paid dearly with Scientology parishioner donation war chest funds to make his postulate stick.
Some have wondered about the merits of Miscavige’s claim that he has now attained the goods to win the case on Summary Judgment. There are no merits to it. It is simply a typical Miscavige “PR” maneuver – the bully getting the tar whipped out of him, and claiming as he retreats “I am gonna kick your ass later.”
And as is typical of Miscavige, the rest of his statement was bogus too. He didn’t surrender because Debbie was going to continue to use the witness stand to trumpet his crimes. She was done with that phase of her testimony – the rest of it was rather mundane by comparison. What he was hoping to avoid was the rest of the defense case (Mike and I establishing that the precise duress Debbie described being applied to force her to sign the “agreement” was standard operating procedure designed and engineered by Miscavige) and the inevitable court ruling that Scientology Inc gag orders are unenforceable, whether backed by fifty grand in “consideration” or not.
You see, Debbie is just the tip of the iceberg. And Miscavige is acutely aware of that. Others have left the Int Base torture chamber called “The Hole” since Debbie departed in 2007. Among them are former WDC member Greg Hughes, former Int Management Exec Committee member Debbie Hughes, and former COB Project Ops (and Hole Torture In Charge) Angie Blankenship. They too were bought off and signed agreements identical to Debbie’s. The facts they can testify to about the conduct of David Miscavige are still within the criminal statute of limitations for aggravated assault and battery, false imprisonment, and human trafficking.
While Miscavige’s unprecedented surrender is indicative of a meltdown of magnitude, there is still a method behind the tyrant’s madness.
But, Greg Hughes, Debbie Hughes, Angie Blankenship, and others similarly situated cannot take solace in the lack of official precedent invalidating their agreements. I know they would love to do so as some kind of synthetic balm for their aching consciences. Fact of the matter is, despite the lack of written judicial decision, the precedent has been set and it is clear as a bell to any literate individual aware of the Battle of San Antonio. David Miscavige has not nor can he use the courts to enforce his unlawful, unconscionable cover-up contracts. We have proven that when push comes to shove those “agreements” are as worthless as the paper they were written on. Further, we have established that when Miscavige attempts to isolate and tie anyone to the whipping post, there is a formidable movement out here that will protect them and lead them safely to the promised land; whether they agree with and support our aims or not.
All who contributed please take a huge win. You got us to exactly where I predicted you could take us with your contributions. The product was better than any of us could have expected. Some of the lessons I take with me:
Don’t mess with Texas.
Don’t mess with Independents.
Don’t mess with the Truth.
update: Village Voice Cook Interview, Ortega’s Intro video now works.
Posted in acknowledgments, black dianetics, cover up, Debbie Cook, ethics, harassment, healing, independents, justice, legal threats, miscavige crimes, office of special affairs, propaganda, texas, the future, the Reformation, the world
Tagged "mark rathbun", David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Ken Schick, marty rathbun, mike rinder, Ray Jeffrey, Scientology Battle of San Antonio, Scientology Inc, Scientology non disclosure agreements, Yvonne Schick
Here is the latest justification for a multi-million dollar shakedown of Scientology Public called the Idle Morgue scam.
Tens of millions of dollars for two new people a day? Making it a total of five people of day to be avoided like the plague, denied a live comm cycle, and made to look blankly at Miscavige’s gaudy videos, and finally be blown off with a creepy impression of Scientology?
And to think, David Miscavige is suing Debbie Cook for having the temerity to object to this sick travesty. And he has spent at least another couple hundred grand in parishioner donations already in an attempt to silence, punish and annihilate her for doing so. In my opinion Miscavige has degenerated into little more than a cluster of escalating spending to cover up and distract attention from previous crimes, which escalated spending constitutes more crimes which require further escalated spending to cover up and distract, and so forth and so on and on and on. The closest analogy I can think of is the plague.
Posted in black dianetics, cover up, Debbie Cook, ethics, ias, miscavige crimes, miscavige lawyers, Orgs, propaganda, texas, the Reformation
Tagged David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, marty rathbun, Scientology Inc
Moving On Up a Little Higher 