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On 28 Feb 2005 12:57:27 -0800, chuckbeatty77@aol.com wrote:
>friendship wrote:
>> Can one of you please explain the day to day life of an average Int
>> staff member? What time do people wake up? What is the berthing
>like?
>
>
>Average Day before I finally routed out of the Sea Org.
>
>[My diary entry for my final day in the Sea Org:
>"29 March 2003
>"Talk to Mr. C [Kirsten Caetano, my handler for smoothing my exit
>from the Sea Org] Laundry, dekludge. Get out Sat afternoon, see lawyer
>[Elliot Abelson], get moved."]
>
>The missing details of this day are as follows:
>Got up about 7am, dressed, and me and my watch who slept with me, Lars
>Asplund takes me down to breakfast in the crew galley in the complex.
>Watch changes, Urs Spoori, my new watch, accompanies me back to my
>room, I carry my breakfast with me, as I eat in my nice little 12 by 12
>room, which had two great windows, this was 3rd floor, main building of
>the complex, room directly above the front main entrance to the
>complex, just above the long wide-stepped entranceway on the Fountain
>Ave side, in the tallest section of the complex. My room overlooked
>the long sloped wide-stepped front entrance to the complex.
>
>Ate breakfast and chatted with Urs in our room, we ate together. This
>gives Lars time to eat breakfast, and do his own thing, hit the
>bathroom, since that is one of the major bugs of being someone's
>watch, you can't go off to the bathroom and leave the person you are
>watching alone, since the person being watched might escape, obviously.
They just have to double the security personnel. But now surely all
guards, RPF on up, have phones.
>
>After breakfast, Urs gets replaced by Lars, and Lars and I take what
>little dirty laundry I have and he accompanies me over to the staff
>laundry room in the complex, which is in the CTO (Continental Training
>Org) building. The CTO building used to be the old Bridge building,
>and the laundry has been in that same place for about 20 years now I
>believe.
>
>We wait and I read in my room, with my watch accompanying full time as
>usual. I think I called Mr. Caetano (Kirsten) to see what the deal
>was. She said it was going to be soon, meaning that day or the next,
>for sure, this WAS finally IT!! I was about to really get okay.
>
>Lars and I finish my laundry, then I want to go to the library.
>
>We walk, from the complex over to the LA Public Library, at the corner
>of Franklin and Hillhurst. I insisted on going there almost every
>other day, my final 2 months in the Sea Org. I went to the library
>since I wanted to get caught up with the world, since I rationalized I
>was just killing time, waiting for the bureaucratic approval to route
>out.. I'd had so many disappointments waiting for okay, at least
>going to the Library was one thing I could predict and accomplish, and
>I loved reading, etc., and I started surfing the internet, first for
>job hunting, later, unbeknownst to the Scn people, I even checked out
>the anti-LRH sites.
>
>We go to the library, and come back to the complex for lunch. Eat
>lunch in my room, take our dishes to the dirty dishes room, and head
>back to the library.
>
>Right after lunch, back at the library, suddenly Mr. Caetano (Kirsten)
>and Mr. Duvall (the friendly good natured PAC Security guard who deals
>with the trickier route out or off-load people category that I fell
>into at this time) they show up. They came into the public library and
>sort of suddenly right behind me, I didn't notice them, and they tell
>me I was now going over to OSA, and this was it, the final steps.
>(This moment was the awkward moment when I just happened to be looking
>at the Internet at the Library, and I was reading about David Mayo at
>one of the anti-Scn sites, and Mr. Duvall was slightly taken aback that
>I was looking at this. Later, I think Lars may have gotten into some
>trouble for letting me do this, it was something that I gradually
>accomplished, getting my watches used to my uses of the internet where
>they didn't see what I was doing exactly, I've posted on that
>already.)
>
>I got a ride over to OSA with Mr. Duvall and Kirsten, and we go up to
>the OSA staff floor of the HGB, and into the room with the video
>camera. Elliot Abelson comes in, all cheery, popping peanuts,
>red-nosed, and briefs me. He introduces himself, in the course of
>minor briefing of this legal release I will be signing on video, I
>tell him I read the New York Times. My intended implication was that I
>understand the bigger lay of the land wog world where I assumed
>businesses do similar things like making people sign these legal
>releases when they leave, but knowing full well that the Buddhist monks
>and Catholic monks are very unlikely required to sign similar things,
>and knowing that up to that time in my Sea Org history, I've never
>heard of any instance of a court enforcing these freedom of speech
>muzzling legal releases on ex-Sea Org members who have blatantly
>violated similar releases for decades already, and me thinking that
>even Elliot would have to ultimately face the intelligent minds of
>judges and the much smarter NY Times and Wall Street Journal level
>reporters someday, who would likely put any future Scn legal tactics
>against me regarding this legal release, in quite candid historical
>and accurate context.
>
>He reads me the final release legal doc that I give up all my rights to
>speak about ANYTHING in my Sea Org employment, the normal give up ALL
>your rights to free speech, etc., and I sign or I initial all pages,
>etc., while Elliot reads page by page, or the major section titles over
>the major sections of the release, out loud, all on video.
>
>This was a pretty intense and admittedly significance packed moment, my
>final moment, in these legal OSA settings, signing away rights, that no
>normal Buddhist ex-monk or Catholic ex-monk would sign away when they
>depart their monastic lifetime staff categories, but no matter.
Interesting comparison. Almost a comparison that Sea Org legal and PR
would use. (The "fraternal" SO.) The fact is that an ex-monk cannot
sign away his right to discuss his experiences, simply because he's an
ex-monk. Or rather, a secular court cannot lawfully enforce a
"religious" organization's contract that prohibits an ex-monk from
discussing his monk's experiences. Freedom of religion necessitates
the freedom to discuss religious experiences.
If he was an ex-CIA employee, he probably can sign away his right to
discuss his experiences in that company.
Scientology wants it both ways: to operate as a CIA, and bind its
former employees to silence; and to get all the protections and
benefits of being a "religion" run by "monks."
> Again,
>Scn does what it does, and our legal system doesn't support this type
>of activity in certain contexts, and hasn't supported this yet. But
>our legal system does support Scn legal tactics in other matters.
>Whatever. The threat was still sitting there in my face. We'll get
>you if you talk, buddy! That was the message.
That is important. That's what a contract cannot lawfully be. And
Abelson, and whole nest of Scientology crooks know it. Their
"contracts," which seemed so clever when Hubbard concocted the idea
as
"religious "scripture,"" and which Miscavige took to the stars
with
the Armstrong "contract," have bound Scientology and Scientologists
to
self-destruction.
It seemed so clever because no "religious leader" before Hubbard,
and
no "religion" before Scientology, had ever thought to bind their
followers to silence with contracts concocted by secular lawyers to be
enforced in secular courts.
Their "contracts" are now, in addition to unlawful, a clear reflection
of the cult's increasing toothlessness. So much effort, wealth and
public relations have been dissipated by Miscavige, all of RTC, all of
OSA, dozens of law firms, hundreds of lawyers, tens of thousands of
Scientologists, all trying to threaten people into compliance with
unlawful, anti-human rights "contracts," that the cult has crippled
itself. And there's no way back, because it's all there in the cult's
own "contracts." People will forever laugh at Scientology and
Scientologists for their "contracts."
Imagine writing your criminality, the baseness of your desires, your
anti-human rightness, and your lies and hypocrisy into a witnessed
"contract." Imagine too, contracting virtually every Scientologist in
the world to that criminality, those base desires, the destruction of
human rights, lies and hypocrisy. Then imagine seeking by threat, and
worse, by use of the justice system, to enforce this "contract." What
a field day for the wogs.
>
>The signing to me was the tough veiled threat bargain I'd been led to
>agreeing to, and I was resigned to this signing because I saw I could
>get my freedom finally and get back to wog life. I didn't want to
>upset the cart at this point, because in about two hours I would
>finally be out of the Sea Org. My plans were NOT to go out flaming.
>Had I chosen the flaming route, I wouldn't have waited those many
>extra months. I didn't want to just dash all the ARC that people in
>the Sea Org had for me, were I to go out as a protesting recalcitrant
>because that would have surely gotten me labeled suppressive And I
>opted to take advantage of the help the Sea Org did offer, and I did
>wish to remain on good terms, simply because I am not of the nature to
>get into screaming matches with ignorant fellow RPF members who were
>completely unaware of local law violations, and I did not ever wish my
>life's events escalate up to me having to actually call the police
>to protect me from physical restraints, physical restraints I'd seen
>applied to other RPFers and which I had earlier been threatened with
>and even personally received in my earlier RPF years already. .
I guess I didn't go with the flaming route or the route-out route, but
took the escape route. I will say that had my escape not been
successful, or if I'd been confronted before I escaped, I was willing
to fight to the death. They would have had to kill me, so I saved them
one hell of a crime by getting away clean.
>(Regarding violating the legal release I signed, I just figured if I
>did violate it, I'd face that when it came up, and in the future I
>would follow the high principled good examples of famous wogs in
>history who throughout history have taken principled stands against
>oppressive similar circumstances.
Did this occur when you were faced with signing but hadn't yet signed?
I ask this because I had a similar thought, related by a view of the
future, when I was faced with having to sign the cult's unconscionable
"contract."
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
> I knew in my guts someone out there
>would protect me, should I choose to not adhere to this release I was
>signing to bargain my way out smoothly. Also I could worry about my
>then freshly acquired legal predicament with the church later in my
>life, when I chose to violate this legal release.) This all passed
>through my head, in the moments I was listening to Elliot and finally
>signing my legal release form with Elliot. I signed the damn thing. I
>was almost out now.
>
>It was almost finally over.
>
>On my way out of the OSA floor, I check the halls, see the OSA staff
>that I will see probably for the last time in my life, Sea Org members
>who have known me, some for decades, many OSA staff attended my
>marriage ceremony to one of their own, Janet Findley, 10 years earlier.
> About 60 OSA staff attended, our marriage, right there in the same
>building, in the historical "Charlie Chaplain's Office", a room
>that Charlie Chaplain has somehow been associated with, in earlier
>years, there in the historic HGB building.. [This last goodbye moment
>was not really the last for me, because later in the next year, when I
>was living in Hollywood, I used to switch city buses near the HGB, and
>I rode my bicycle by the HGB, and I ate gyro sandwiches at Combo's
>restaurant, across from the HGB, so I was to see dozens of Sea Org
>members I'd known in my 27 year Sea Org career, this was from 2003
>till summer 2004, when I left LA and moved to Pittsburgh, where I live
>now.] I had mixed feelings of sadness and massive relief, that my
>life came to that unusual predicament, in that unusual setting, with
>this piece of paper threatening me with huge amounts of legal fees I
>would be potentially paying Scn lawyers for violating my agreement to
>give up my rights to discuss ANY aspect of my lifetime staff life!
But no $50,000 per utterance liquidated damages clause, right?
And for all that "consideration." Didn't they give you five hundred
clams or something when you left? Did they give you whatever $ they
gave you on this great last day too?
>
>Mr. Duvall takes me back to the complex, I load my stuff and he drives
>me two blocks to the rooming house at 5117 Harold Way, owned by a then
>LA Foundation staff member, and which housed Scn members only.
Wow, a real SO halfway house!
>
>On my final walk out of the building I shake hands with my watch, get
>a few well wishes from my watch, I think I got to say goodbye to all my
>watches that day, Urs, Lars and two or three other guys who'd been my
>watches. I walk out the back exit walking by the RPF course room, but
>when so routing out, there was no goodbyes exchanged with RPFers, I
>only said goodbye to my watch. I did get to say goodbye I think to
>Frank Frau, who I'd been on the RPF for over 6 years with. Francesco
>Frau, good guy.
>
>Mr. Alex Meyers, the PAC RPF I/C
This is a post outside the RPF?
>was waiting on the sidewalk outside
>the back entrance at my final moments, and he shook my hand and wished
>me well, Then I got into the car with Mr. Duvall and he took me to
>the Scn rooming house, just two blocks away, this was about 4pm, I
>think, Saturday, Mar 29, 2003.
>
>Once in the rooming house, I got settled in, watched some TV and saw
>some videos, I hadn't seen TV more than about 6 times in the last
>over 7 years.
>
>I was finally out, free, able to walk alone, not accompanied by a
>"watch" for the first time in many months.
>
>It was a seriously good day for me, despite the potential loss of
>signing away my rights to speak and write about my life. Just being
>out, finally, after having spent a total of over 18 months, trying to
>get out, over the two periods I had tried to get out of the Sea Org, it
>was a massive final relief of accomplishment.
What an EP for the Sea Org: Out!
>
>This was most of my final moments in the Sea Org, typical last day.
Very funny. An exceptional last day.
>
>More typical days I will write up in the next post.
>
>Best, Chuck Beatty
>
>PS: A photo of me, next weekend, on top of Griffith Park, overlooking
>LA. http://www.freewebs.com/chuckbeatty77/
Great pic.
© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org