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From: Gerry Armstrong <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org>
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Subject: Re: Co$ in poker terms.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:56:30 +0100
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On 18 Nov 2002 02:44:39 -0800, rogerlar@spray.se (Roger Larsson)
wrote:
>The ones having a good hand don't have to make any big acting, they
>just have to be as they are.
>
>The ones having a bad hand don't see any other way out than in doing a
>great show in purpose to cover their bad hand and make it look good.
>
>If ARS give Co$ a good hand Co$ can drop its acting and act freely as
>it self.
>
>Co$ becomes CoS and the ending becomes happy:-)
>
>Roger Larsson
Hi Roger:
This reminds me of a statement made by Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Ronald Sohigian in a hearing in May 1992 in a case in which
Scientology sued me.
[Quote]
"The information (Gerald Armstrong's evidence) that's being
suppressed
in this case (by the organization), however, is information about
extremely blame-worthy behavior of the plaintiff which nobody owns; it
is information having to do with the behavior of a high degree of
offensiveness and behavior which is meritorious in the extreme.
It involved abusing people who are weak. It involves taking advantage
of people who for one reason or another get themselves enmeshed in
this extremist view in a way that makes them unable to resist it
apparently. It involves using techniques of coercion." (5/27/92
hearing transcript at p. 107, l. 6)
"There appears to be in the history of [the organization's]
behavior a
very, very substantial deviation between their conduct and standards
of ordinary, courteous conduct and standards of ordinary, honest
behavior. They're just way off in a different firmament."
"..it's the kind of behavior which makes you sort of be sure you
cut
the deck and be sure you've counted all the cards. If you're having a
friendly poker game you'd make sure to count all the chips before you
dealt any cards." (5/27/92 hearing transcript at p. 108, l. 15, l.
21)
[End Quote]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/affi-1993-02-17.html
In the poker game paradigm, Scientology, holds a bad hand and all
the
other players know it's a bad hand.
Everyone knows that the cult's big bets are bluffs.
The cult's only rational play is to fold, but rationality is not how
Scientology thinks it wins.
The cult tries to buy the pot, and the rest of the players can't
match
their gargantuan bets.
When everyone got in, they thought it was a table stakes game, and
according to Hoyle.
But Scientology doesn't play by the same rules; it cheats, it
bullies
and it's a terrifyingly poor loser.
Almost all the would-be players can't even come up with the ante.
Most good players don't get in because if the poor losers lose they
mug the winners in the alley as soon as they try to get out with their
winnings.
A few players have sat through the whole deal. They've been cheated,
lied to, stolen from, threatened and kicked. But they've followed
Judge Sohigian's rules, learned to count the cards, cut the deck and
even count the chips. They know the poor losers hold nothing. It's all
puffery. The good guys would raise the roof if they could, but they're
all in.
They know they'll be mugged, or even shot. But they're holding three
bullets, so the poor losers can't have enough left to take them all
out. They've got half the ladies to go with the aces. And they've got
alligator blood. So they call. And sit back and wait for the showdown.
© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org