NICK O’MALLEY INVESTIGATIONS

January 23, 2010

A LEADING critic of Scientology is to travel to Australia to support Senator Nick Xenophon’s campaign for an inquiry into the tax-exempt status of the church.

Gerry Armstrong was an ardent believer in the church and its founder, the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, until he began researching an authorised biography of his hero in 1980. [Full story...]

Also in Brisbane Times

Related stories: Trouble in the House of Hubbard, We are More than just this body and this life

OCMB Media Thread: Australian Senator calls for Fed Senate Inquiry into Co$

See also: Offer to come to Australia to support call for Scientology Inquiry

GermanyInternational Religious Freedom Report 2004
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Basic Law (Constitution) provides for religious freedom, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, discrimination against minority religious groups remains an issue.

There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. The Government does not recognize Scientology as a religion, viewing it instead as an economic enterprise; federal and state classification of Scientology as a potential threat to democratic order has led to employment and commercial discrimination against Scientologists in both the public and private sectors.

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The status of Scientology was the subject of many discussions during the period covered by this report. The US Government expressed its concerns over infringement of individual rights because of religious affiliation and over the potential for discrimination in international trade posed by the screening of foreign firms for possible Scientology affiliation.  Embassy officers at all levels consistently and repeatedly supported German Church of Scientology requests for direct dialogue with German Government officials. The US Government consistently maintained that only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35456.htm

The US Government’s decision to leave the determination of whether an organization is “religious” to the organization itself, and, on the basis of that self-religionizing determination, to afford it all the benefits and protections afforded any other “religions,” is a stupidity that cannot help but increase “religious intolerance.” The US exacerbates this foolishness with a ridiculous policy of condemning, threatening and sanctioning sovereign nations that don’t fall in step with the US’s intolerance-increasing position and actions. Because this “consistently maintained,” although only recently promulgated, position most benefits the most antisocial and least beneficent “religious” entities, increasing intolerance is an eminently reasonable attitude and response to US- determined “new religions.” Since antisociality in organizations that most benefit from the US position and policy manifests as human rights violations, intolerance toward these “religions” actually promotes and defends individual human rights, including, most ironically, freedom of religion.

If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious, an organization that is a money-motivated economic enterprise, as Scientology demonstrates, can certainly determine that it is religious. That economic enterprise then is afforded, at least in the US, all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. With such benefits and protections, a religious economic enterprise enjoys some heavenly advantages, including tax exemption, over economic enterprises that have not leapt into this US Governmental vacuity to declare themselves to be “religious.”

The German Government obviously does get involved in the determination of religiousness in organizations in Germany, insofar as that determination has related to those organizations’ governmentally established benefits and protections. Germany says, in various ways, that organizations that are economic enterprises do not get afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises.  Consequently, such economic enterprises that call themselves “religious” do not, in Germany, gain huge advantages over competing economic enterprises that do not determine and declare themselves to be “religious.”

The same is true with an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order; or that might be a ruthless bait-and-switch scam; an intelligence operation waging a covert war on good citizens; or a hate group peddling hatred as human rights. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious in the US, then an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order, a scam, an intelligence network, or a hate group hawking hatred can determine to be religious and be a religion. Such US organizations then are afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not threatening democracy, not scamming people, not involved in espionage, and not inciting hatred. Germany, which gets involved in the determination of religiousness or religion, has decided that threats to democracy, scams, intelligence ops, or hate groups may not, by use of the “religion angle,” be afforded such benefits and protections.

At this time in history, the world can generally trust Germany’s determination of religion or of an organization’s religiousness, since that determination involves the organization that seeks to be classed as a religion, plus the government, plus other participants such as the already historically determined religions. It is, however, irresponsible to trust the US’s determination of religion, which involves only an organization itself determining it is religious or a religion. It is axiomatic that an organization determining itself religious also determines that its activities constitute religious expression. Because of the US Government’s zero-screening policy, as can be studied with the Scientology organization, other nations have a responsibility to their own citizens to screen and investigate any organization or “religion” that is operated from the US, exported from the US as “religion,” or is defended and promoted as “religion” by the US Government.

Scientology, of any of the entities presently proclaiming their religiousness, is all of those things that the German Government observes, and more: an economic enterprise, a bait-and-switch scam, an intelligence organization waging war on good citizens, a hate group with the superhubris to call itself a human rights group, a criminal conspiracy, a totalitarian cult with a sociopathic philosophy, and consequently a threat to democratic order. These activities form and govern Scientology’s nature, and the religion’s religious expression. They cannot but be “religious” because Scientology states in its “by-laws” that it is organized “exclusively for religious purposes.” To not discuss or permit the discussion of the nature of what the US Government is defending, promoting and exporting because that export calls itself “religious” is indefensibly irresponsible.

If the US Government had adhered to a strict hands-off policy for “religions,” leaving the determination of religiousness to organizations themselves might make a little more sense than it does. The US’s International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (now 22 USC. §§ 6401-6481), however, requires that the Government, from the President down to every consular mission everywhere in the world, defend and promote the entities that declare themselves to be religious or religions.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sec_22_00006401—-000-.html

Organizations that are threats to democracy, or scams, intelligence operations, hate groups, criminal conspiracies, totalitarian cults or commercial enterprises, which determine, as Scientology did, that they are religious or religions, get defended and promoted, by the US President on down, just the same as entities that are religious or religions but are not threats to democracy, not scams, not intelligence ops, not hate groups, not conspiracies, not totalitarian cults, and not commercial enterprises.

It turns out in fact that the US defends and promotes Scientology even more than almost all other US religions just because the cult is, in its nature and activities, an intel op, threat to democracy, etc. Scientology needs more defense and promotion because of its antisocial nature and because of its antisocial activities in all of those countries that object to organizations scamming their citizens, spreading hate, committing crime, and threatening their democracy. The US Government made the strategic decision in the early 1990’s to ally Scientology rather than continue to oppose it, as the US had been doing for many years in a number of government departments and agencies. Events both before and since this decision support the conclusion that it was made just because Scientology has an antisocial nature and is involved in antisocial activities, is an intelligence organization, a scam, a hate group and a totalitarian anti-democracy cult. See also: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/scientology-cult-of-total-espionage.html

For decades Scientology employed a flock of “religious experts” to “scientifically” legitimize its claim to “religious status.” These academics wrote papers, gave speeches and testified for the organization, equating its beliefs and practices with those of traditional religions, and attacking people and countries, including the US, which argued that because of its antisocial or criminal practices Scientology should not be granted the status, protections and benefits traditional religions received. When the US assumed the position that organizations themselves, and only themselves, regardless of their structure, nature, beliefs or practices, could determine they are religions, Scientology’s need, in America, for its academic collaborators was largely eliminated.

The new US position, which was announced after the strategic decision to form an alliance with Scientology, and which could not but have been assumed in order to sustain that decision, means that a religious organization’s beliefs no longer need be sincerely held. As the Scientology v. Armstrong legal cases demonstrate, Scientologists universally are contracted to violate their own “creed,” the formal statement of their “beliefs” that founder Hubbard published to give the organization the trappings of traditional religions in the period before the US made even such trappings unnecessary. The new US position in reality removed any requirement, as far as the Government is concerned, for truthfulness or honesty in any “new religion’s” claims or activities. In Scientology, as in any criminal gang, hypocrisy is a virtue, telling the truth, except to one’s bosses, is punished, and lying is enforced. Because the organization is a religion, lying is properly called a “sacrament.” To be “religious,” an organization need not embrace or even pay lip service to the worship of God; indeed, Scientology and Scientologists, psycho-theologically speaking, are at war with Him.

Following its decision that made an ally of Scientology, the US passed into law the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), which capitalizes on that decision to forward the US’s global hegemonic interests. Although the IRFA’s published purpose is unquestionably noble, the US’s application of the law in the Scientology v. Armstrong issue shows that another purpose is present and dominant. The IRFA, if read realistically, would direct the US to condemn Scientology’s violations of my religious freedom, assist the Canadian and European governments to promote my fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to stand with me against Scientology’s religious persecution, which is government tolerated. (See 22 USC 6401(b)(1)-(5)) I have formally requested that US officials meet with my wife Caroline and me and, as the IRFA mandates, help us against Scientology religious persecution. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4

While continuing to promote and defend Scientology, which is a global religious persecutor, the US has done nothing about the cult’s persecution of Caroline and me, and has not even acknowledged our request for help.

For the US to be compelled by its own law to promote and defend a “religious” organization internationally, the only condition the IRFA puts on the nature of that organization’s religious “practices” is that they are “peaceful.” (See 22 USC 6401(a)(5), 6402(13)(A)(i).) If Philip Morris, the tobacco corporation, being a commercial enterprise, determined that it is religious, and that its cigarettes are religious artifacts and smoking is a sacrament, the US would be obliged to defend and promote the Church of Philip Morris® around the world. The Church’s religious artifacts and religious exercise might harm or shorten the lives of its practitioners, but smoking is peaceful, and even people’s deaths from smoking or lung cancer are peaceful. In fact, death from smoking necessarily eliminates any possibility of the diers dying unpeaceful deaths, which for CPM is an excellent religious marketing concept.

The Church of Philip Morris, following religiously in Scientology’s precedential legal footsteps, would make Fair Game against its critics a core religious belief and practice. As with Scientology, CPM’s false advertising for its products and its way to happiness would of course be a protected, tax exempt activity; as would be the Church’s lying, trickery and litigation, and even destroying people, as long as it was some form of peaceful destruction. CPM members and their attorneys naturally would Black PR people who criticized the Church and its poisons as religious bigots or anti-religious extremists.

Scientology, however, unlike the Church of Philip Morris, is not peaceful, even in its own unalterable scripture, and is not engaged in peaceful activities, but is, by scripture, at war. Scientology and Scientologists, moreover, are not at war with an unfortunate, or harmful, or threatening condition in the world; for example, a war on evil, or on poverty, on illiteracy, or on litter. Scientology is at war with real, live, decent, productive people with real, live families, friends, careers, etc. Scientology’s front groups. which make a big deal of confronting generalized phenomena or conditions in society, the wogs’ world — Applied Scholastics for illiteracy; Narconon for drugs; Criminon for criminality; Citizens Commission on Human Rights for psychiatry; etc. – all exist to cloak Scientology’s and Scientologists’ real, and antisocial, war, which is on real persons, live human beings that the Scientology head says are to be warred on. All persons that Scientology and Scientologists war on are in the religio-racial class invented and identified in Scientology scripture as “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.”

Key US Government departments and personnel have known about Scientology’s warmongering in its scripture for at least 32 years. These same US Government entities, and others, have understood the SP doctrine, which incites and “justifies” the warring on citizens, for almost as long. The doctrine, of course, includes the axiom that all persons Scientology and Scientologists war on are SPs. Hubbard wrote his scriptural policy letter of 16 February 1969 “Battle Tactics” years after he had installed the SP doctrine in scripture and had his underlings implement and execute it. Scientology’s “enemies” are all SPs.

We must ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.

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One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and harasses.

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You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.

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Wars are composed of many battles.

Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics.html

After Hubbard died, the Miscavige regime specially reissued “Battle Tactics” for application by the new regimeists to the same old SPs.

Scientology and Scientologists teach in their SP doctrine that Suppressive Persons comprise a class consisting of the most evil, destructive two and a half percent of the planetary population, who, for everyone’s and everything’s survival, must be shattered and obliterated. Since Scientology cannot yet get away with disposing of all of the world’s SPs quietly and without some other people sorrowing about the mass class obliteration, the organization leader directs his troops and resources against the individual SPs that at that time he most fears and hates and most wants disposed of. In Scientology’s Suppressive Person doctrine, SPs come in a range of sizes or importances; and current cult head Miscavige, and consequently every Scientologist, considers me an enormous SP.

http://suppressiveperson.org/spdl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=462&Itemid=38

The US Government has also long known that Scientology and Scientologists not only called for war against human targets in key scriptural directives, but had also been certifiably dishonest, conspiratorial, menacing and physically aggressive in applying the religion’s “Battle Tactics” and similar directives. Hubbard says in “Battle Tactics” that he wants his war against SPs waged in the “field of thought,” and that certainly is a front in, or facet of, the war. Where he and his Scientology and Scientologists concentrated their efforts and spent enormous sums, however, was in the field of persons, with bodies, identities, reputations, careers, families, relationships, etc. The US knew that Scientology conspired to drive Paulette Cooper’s mind insane in the field of thought, and to terrorize and sue her into ruin and silence, and get her body falsely imprisoned in the field of persons. In or out of the field of thought, Scientologists, in reality, are never permitted to reason with their victims, targets, critics, enemies, SPs, etc. Scientologists are only permitted to treat or handle such people as “fair game,” that is, to attack or pursue them, both in the field of thought and in the field of persons.

The US has known for years about Scientology’s and Scientologists’ physical attacks on me, as well as a litany of other unlawful and antisocial acts against me. In all the time they have considered me an SP and an enemy, Scientologists have never reasoned with me, or acknowledged my reason, either in the field of thought, or in the field of the physical world where real humans live real lives. As is clear in the public record, the US, despite many Scientology victims’ testimony and documents, has continued to support and promote the organization as if its practices are as peaceful as prayer circles.

A recent project undertaken by the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, as a great number of people are aware, has resulted in several articles based on videotaped interviews with recently escaped Scientology “executives” about serial physical violence inside the cult, particularly at the hands of ecclesiastical head Miscavige himself. http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/

I believe there is more than enough immediate evidence here to force the US the review, and withdraw, its support for Scientology and its activities. The SP Times lead in:

Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige.

Since the passage of the IRFA in1998, the US has largely ignored the violence, intimidation, and other antisocial victimizing Scientologists have perpetrated against their SP victims outside the cult. There has been no mention of such violence in the State Department’s yearly reports. The State Department should not be allowed, I believe, to now ignore the documented culture of intimidation and violence inside Scientology, particularly since that violent culture’s source is its rotten core.

Each national government where Scientology operates, I believe, has a duty to warn its citizens about the culture of violence into which the organization is luring them. All Scientology advertising and recruiting efforts are to draw people further and further into that culture of violence, closer and closer to Miscavige.

A culture of violence is not peaceful. Violence can certainly be religious expression, as Scientology proves. It cannot be, however, religious expression, or religious exercise, or worship, which the US, pursuant to its International Religious Freedom Act, is compelled to protect and promote. I believe that the US has a duty, even pursuant to its own law, to withdraw its support for Scientology internationally. And I believe that national governments, which the US makes subject to this US law, have a duty to their citizens and their nations, to get the US to do this right thing.

From the St. Petersburg Times:

–  Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader’s attacks.

–  Physical violence permeated Scientology’s international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times.

–  Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty to Miscavige and prove their mettle.

– Rathbun says, “Nobody’s respected because [Miscavige]’s constantly denigrating and beating on people.’

– Rathbun, Rinder, Scobee and De Vocht say they participated in and witnessed madness, from musical chairs to repeated physical abuse.

–  Rathbun and Rinder list the executives they saw Miscavige attack: Marc Yager: At least 20 times. Guillaume Lesevre: At least 10 times.

–  Ray Mithoff: Rathbun said Miscavige “would regularly hit this guy open-handed upside the head real hard and jar him. Or grab him by the neck and throw him on the floor.”

–  Norman Starkey: “Right in the parking lot, (Miscavige) just beat the living f— out of him, got him on the ground and then started kicking him when he was down,” Rathbun said.

–  He said he saw Rinder “get beat up at least a dozen times just in those last four years … some of them were pretty gruesome.”

–  Said Rinder: “Yager was like a punching bag. So was I.”

–  The issue was the humiliation and the domination. … It’s the fact that the domination you’re getting — hit in the face, kicked — and you can’t do anything about it. If you did try, you’d be attacking the COB. (COB is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center David Miscavige)

–  [Miscavige’s violence] was random and whimsical. It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment.

–  [Miscavige] shouted obscenities at Rinder, grabbed him and, while holding him in a headlock, twisted his neck and threw him to the floor.

–  Of the dozens of attacks Rinder says he endured, this one was the most painful. “my neck was out of place, and for maybe 30 minutes I couldn’t speak because my larynx had been squashed against the back of my throat.”

–  The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds.

–  He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another.

Scientology’s response, also from the St. Petersburg Times, admits that a culture of violence existed in the cult, but blamed it on the people who had left and spoken out.

–  Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis: “The “true perpetrators of any violence were [the Times] sources.”

–  Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, key figures in the earlier stories and the highest executives ever to leave the church’s staff, repeatedly are described in the declarations as violent and threatening.

–  At least 11 declarations cite instances in which Rathbun was abusive. Former colleagues wrote that he grabbed, hit or slugged them, and pushed them against walls. Guillaume Lesevre said Rathun dragged him by the ear. David Henderson wrote that Rathbun tried to scare him into a confession by waving a baseball bat, then smashing it into a file cabinet.

–  In the declarations, three women said Rinder hit them. Former staffer Shelby Malone said Rinder slammed her against a wall and pinned her head back by pressing his right forearm into her neck. Kathleen O’Gorman said Rinder hit her in face with a clipboard, cracking a molar. Marcy McShane wrote that Rinder grabbed and squeezed her shoulders, told her she was “stupid” and threw her into a wall.

–  Davis said his own internal investigation found that Rathbun attacked 22 Sea Org members in the years before he left the church — 50 instances in all.

– [Scientology] said “Rathbun instituted a ‘reign of terror.’

Scientology’s group goal, as commanded by its head, is power – secular, worldly power! Worldly power, of course, requires worldly wealth, and seeking that wealth requires greed. Time magazine famously labeled Scientology in 1991 the “Thriving Cult of Greed and Power.” In 2009, Scientology is still a thriving cult of greed and power.

The group purpose for the goal of power Scientology seeks is to victimize people. Scientology calls itself as a subject an “applied religious philosophy,” which in part is true. It is the philosophy — in its scripture, between its scripture’s lines, and in its application – of victimization and victimizers.

Victimizing people is not just Scientology’s essential purpose, it is also a vital activity in its temporal pursuit of its goal. Scientology is manifesting its purpose, “proving” it is winning, by using its power to victimize. Obtaining greater secular power lets Scientology victimize more people more effectively and with less opposition or threat to its victimizing “technology” and application of that tech.

Every lie Scientology tells victimizes people. And telling lies including making false claims in Scientology is pervasive, indeed compulsory, and a sacrament. Every penny Scientology extracts from people with any of its endless lies victimizes those people.

The “human right” that Scientology fights for, the “human right” it doesn’t already have, is the right to victimize people. Scientology’s campaign for the “human right” to victimize people collides, unavoidably, with the human right to not be victimized.

Only one of these rights, of course, can be legitimate. The right that Scientology fights for is not a legitimate human right, any more than the right to suppress freedom of speech, which Scientology also does, is a legitimate human right.

Scientology, being compelled to victimize — by its own scripture or policy and its leader’s intention and orders — accuses people or governments that oppose its victimization “tech” and victimizing actions of suppressing Scientologists’ human rights. Scientology, the monstrous victimizer, portrays itself as the victim, especially the victim of the people it victimizes.

Scientology’s leadership is very aware that they have victimized people, and have had their underlings victimize people, millions of people. And these leaders are aware — in fact Scientologists are as aware as the rest of us — that in the world outside of Scientology, victimizing people is largely unacceptable, and even illegal. Scientology’s leaders have guilty knowledge — the mens rea — that their victimizing, and the victimizing they have Scientology and Scientologists do, is unethical and unlawful.

Because these leaders, although guilty-minded, and guilty as sin, have never been held legally, or even socially responsible, they have accomplished decades of victimizing, and are driven by a secondary purpose: to get away with all the victimizing that’s been done. Scientology and Scientologists have done considerable evil; they have victimized their fellow Scientologists, they’ve victimized people they “disseminate” to or try to lure into their cult, they’ve victimized the good people who stood up to the victimizing; and now they have the overarching need, and the resulting purpose, to get away with it.

It could be observed that this is the same purpose — to get away with it — that governs virtually any unconvicted criminal’s actions and life. The criminal’s, or the Scientology leadership’s, success through time yields their now dominating purpose: to get away with what they’ve gotten away with.

Criminals, or Scientology’s leaders, of course, are still faced with the grim reality that they very well might stop getting away with what they’ve gotten away with. The opposition’s task is to bring that about, simply to stop Scientology from getting away with what it’s gotten away with. What it has gotten away with is victimizing people.

Because of their guilty knowledge, and because they cannot admit to what they’ve gotten away, the leadership has always depended on the secrecy and covert actions of intelligence, and has structured and operated Scientology as an intelligence organization. For that reason it’s proper to describe Scientology as a Cult of Intelligence, or Espionage. The intelligence is for the purpose of victimizing people and for getting away with it, so it’s just as proper, and probably more understandable to see Scientology as a Cult of Victimizing, or Victimization.

To understand how Scientology and Scientologists have come to this point in their relationship with the world and with themselves, it’s helpful to understand some things about their worldview. It is a worldview concocted and enforced by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard when he was alive, and now enforced by current organization head David Miscavige. In the Scientology worldview, Hubbard, and now Miscavige, are totally right. Their orders must be complied with exactly and in their totality, and non-compliance is to be punished. The ideal administrative form of Hubbard’s and Miscavige’s organizations is a dictatorship, an autocracy under their individual and total control.

In Scientologists’ worldview, the Scientology system is the only hope for survival, for themselves and for all mankind. Their system is scientifically precise, discovered and organized by the great scientist Hubbard through years of painstaking scientific research. All other systems, ideas, religions or cures throughout the history of man have failed. The Scientology system, and only its system, can raise its adherents to superhuman levels of ability and power, raise their IQs to supergenius levels, and even raise the dead.

Mankind is in a trap, and Hubbard alone discovered the only way out of the trap, Scientology. Scientologists alone are responsible for getting Hubbard’s “technology” for escaping the trap implemented across the world, and are responsible for the salvation of everyone in the whole world. Hubbard wrote in a vital scriptural directive called “Keeping Scientology Working:”

The whole agonized future of this planet, every man, woman and child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology. This is a deadly serious activity. And if we miss getting out of the trap now, we may never again have another chance.

Scientology divides the planetary population into two groups, Scientologists and “wogs.” Scientologists, by their “progress” in Scientology, and just by being Scientologists, are superior to wogs, more intelligent, more aware, more able and more ethical than wogs.

“Wog” is a racial slur in Scientology, comparable to the word “nigger.” Wogs comprise the human race, or “Homo sapiens.” In their worldview, Scientologists comprise a new created race, “Homo novis.”

Scientology teaches that in the wog world there are just two types of people: “good people” and “bad people.” Hubbard wrote, “There are no other types…there aren’t even shades of grey.”

In the Scientology worldview, the real “bad people,” the “truly dangerous,” are a class of two and a half percent of the planetary population called “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.” According to Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, all other people who do something bad or destructive do so only because they are “connected” in some way to an SP.

The “Suppressive Person” doctrine, which is central to the Scientology worldview, states that SPs are the cause of all illness, all accidents and any bad condition in the world. SPs are completely evil, psychotic and impossible to cure, redeem or reform. Scientology says SPs commit crime continuously, and should be given no civil rights. In scripture, Hubbard recommended that such people be disposed of “quietly and without sorrow.”

The Suppressive Person doctrine states that the infallible way of identifying SPs is if Scientology did not work on them. People who complain that after doing Scientology they did not acquire superhuman ability and power, or that their IQs did not go up to supergenius level, are simply SPs.

The organization does not permit Scientologists connected to an SP to take its courses or undergo “auditing,” as Scientology calls its mental probing and manipulation procedures. The Scientologists must first “disconnect” from the SPs they are connected to. This is Scientology’s infamous policy of “Disconnection,” by which the cult has broken up and destroyed countless families, businesses and other relationships.

Scientology says SPs make people they’re connected to appear insane and have them put into mental institutions, and that mental institutions are filled with people SPs put there.  Scientology says the SPs, however, are the real insane, although they look and act perfectly normal. Scientology says SPs are common, but also identifies “stellar” historical examples, in scripture: Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. Stellar living SPs in Scientology’s current “reality” and its relationship with the wog world would be people like me.

Scientology trains its members, and people in its front groups, in a “technology” for identifying or “spotting” SPs. Scientology calls the methods it teaches for dealing with SPs once they have been spotted, “shattering” them. The title in fact of the course Scientology uses to indoctrinate Scientologists in the Suppressive Person doctrine, is How to Confront and Shatter Suppression Course. Suppressive Persons are the people that Scientology considers its “enemies.” They are also Scientology’s victims.

Hubbard originally called the policy and practice for handling or treatment of its SP enemies, “Fair Game.” In one of his most famous directives, which won’t go away for Scientology until Fair Game goes away, Hubbard wrote:

ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.

For decades, Fair Game has been condemned by courts and by government officials, and heavily criticized by the international media. Scientology claims that for public relations purposes it stopped Fair Game forty years ago. Yet it remains Scientology’s policy and practice for the handling or treatment of the cult’s Suppressive Person “enemies” to this day.

Fair Game is the policy and practice of victimizing people considered “enemies; essentially the science and actions of war. Scientology’s victimizing of its own personnel, although directed by the same malignant minds, is technically different from Fair Game, which is the Scientologists victimization of people who are not its personnel, that is, wogs. Scientology’s SP doctrine is the “rationale” for the victimizing, the “rationale” for the Scientologists’ war against SPs, and the “rationale” for the victimizing of their own members.

The people that Scientology identifies, targets and treats as SPs are not bad, destructive, suppressive, evil persons. Projecting this nature onto the leadership’s chosen targets is willful and is done to forward the leadership’s purpose to victimize, to mistreat their human targets.

The people that Scientology’s leaders declare to be SPs are generally merely critics of the victimizing, of the lies and fraud and of the antisocial or criminal policies and practices like Fair Game. The people that Scientology Fair Games are good people who look and act perfectly normal, but who oppose the cult’s lies, fraud and criminality – medical professionals, clergy, educators, writers, and many more, even the very common like me.

Scientology teaches that SPs are terrified of people getting better, becoming smarter, more able and more powerful. Since Scientology makes people better, smarter, more able and more powerful, they all say, SPs attack the religion. In its worldview, critics of its policies or practices are “criminals,” and Scientologists are directed to find or manufacture evidence of their crimes. Scientology scripture states:

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

In truth, the critics of Scientology do not have criminal pasts. Scientology does not work as it claims, and does not make its members better, smarter, more able, more powerful or more ethical. Scientology’s claims for its “technology” are false, and the cult extracts huge amounts of money from people by fraud, and by extortion or manufactured threat that parallels the fraud. Hubbard was no scientist, and conducted no scientific research whatsoever. He was a charlatan who claimed academic degrees and titles he never earned, and he was a sociopath who organized people to victimize.

Scientology, with its determination to victimize, excused and fostered by its Suppressive Person doctrine, makes its adherents extremely unethical. Toward the SP class, Scientologists dramatize the very criminality and other antisocial qualities they project onto their SP targets. The SP doctrine makes Scientology a hate group, and execution of the doctrine – victimization that Hubbard called “Fair Game” – makes the cult a criminal conspiracy.

The actions that Scientology orders its personnel to take in its attacks on SPs are shocking and, being organized or conspired, criminal. One directive, entitled “Battle Tactics,” which was confidential for obvious reasons, is very revealing of what Hubbard expected his Scientologist troops to do:

* “apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows we get into, press or legal or public confrontation;”

* “expend the maximum of enemy troops;”

* “make the war costly to the enemy;”

* “cut off enemy communications, funds, connections;”

* “deprive the enemy of political advantages, connections and power;”

* “take over enemy territory;”

* “raid and harass;”

* “capture and use his communication lines. A press magnate on your side is a big win.”

Scientology calls these aggressive, antisocial actions “religious activities,” or “religious exercise,” and calls the “Battle Tactics” directive “religious scripture.” The “enemy” is the SP class, the good people – all wogs it should be observed – whom the Scientology leadership wants victimized. Hubbard wrote that “nothing in this paper advocates physical violence or invites the physical destruction of persons.” He does elsewhere, of course, and there is no limit to what Scientology’s leadership might do, including physical violence and physical destruction to get away with what they’ve gotten away with.

In the same directive, Hubbard spelled out his command intention for the policy and practice of “black propaganda” or “black PR,” Scientology’s often covert manufacture and dissemination of lies, slander and libel to destroy their SP victims’ reputations, credibility, livelihood and lives.

The prize is “public opinion” where press is concerned. The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy. This means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing, complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That’s the enemy. What they love. That’s you.

You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.

Scientologists are relentless in their black PR campaigns, which in Scientology is a universal form of victimization. Black PR also facilitates all the others forms or tech the leadership uses to victimize its targets. Hubbard wrote in a scriptural directive entitled “Black PR:”

basically it is an intelligence technique…Essentially it is not a PR campaign. It is a cross between PR and intelligence… a hidden source injects lies and derogatory data into public view.

In the same directive, Hubbard acknowledged that Scientology engaged in black PR; and in thousands of other communications, most of them hiding their source, he originated and injected into public view decades of vile, destructive black PR. All Scientologists participate in the intelligence technique of black propaganda.

In the “Battle Tactics” directive Hubbard makes very clear that Scientology and Scientologists are factually at war with the people they target as SPs.

We must ourselves fight on a basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.…

Wars are composed of many battles.

Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.

Hubbard is not talking about a war with the devil, or with evil, but with real human beings.

Because the Suppressive Person doctrine is hateful and even criminal — since it orders a conspiracy to victimize a class of citizens — and because of the Scientology leadership’s guilty knowledge of their victimization tech and their victims, the doctrine’s implementation is necessarily largely covert. Scientology’s war on SPs is principally a secret war. Scientology doesn’t announce that it’s at war, and denies that it’s at war. But this is simply a lie to let the cult continue to get away with warring on good people, which they’ve gotten away with for as long as there’s been a cult.

In our societies, open warfare, obviously, is immediately defended against. A hidden or disguised war will not be defended against, unless it is recognized as a hidden or disguised war. Inimical troops and operations won’t be unmasked unless it’s known they’re masked. Scientology does what it can to hide its belligerent intentions and aggression towards its SP victims. But a study of Scientology’s own documents and the unrefuted testimony of many credible witnesses make its victimization modus operandi and those bad intentions very clear.

The most important war technology and operations for Hubbard and Miscavige in their multi-channeled campaign against their SP targets are intelligence. Other channels include public relations, legal, finance, physical bullying and intimidation. Intelligence, naturally, attempts to conceal or disguise many of its operations and objectives. Scientology has been working hard to disguise itself as a “humanitarian organization,” a defender of human rights. The organization has spent millions of dollars to create this cover, and even set up front groups like “Youth for Human Rights” to make its self-promotion as human rights crusaders sound real.

What is real, however, is that Scientology is a monstrous, shameless destroyer of human rights. The Scientology v. Armstrong case is overwhelming evidence of the Scientology leadership’s intention to suppress and destroy virtually anyone’s basic human rights, just to victimize us, to facilitate our further victimization, and to get away with all the victimizing. While Scientology has spent many millions manufacturing an image as a human rights organization, the cult has spent many times that amount to destroy the rights it claims it’s defending.

Scientologists go along with their leaders’ deceptions, and even with their organization’s flagrant human rights violations, because they accept Hubbard’s directive that they are at war. They do not protest that everything for all eternity depends on what they do here and now with and in Scientology. Included in what the leadership requires Scientologists do with and in Scientology is to support the war upon the designated SP enemies, accept and support the destruction human rights and the other forms of victimization, and lie about and help disguise these things.

The anti-drug program Narconon, the education program Applied Scholastics, which goes by many other names, the anti-psychiatry entity Citizens Committee on Human Rights, the Volunteer Ministers, are Scientology front groups that, among their functions, provide cover and intelligence for Scientology’s covert war on Suppressive Persons. All Scientology fronts help the leadership get away with what they’ve been getting away with. And all of these fronts victimize people.

Scientologists, even quite new ones, know that their group or religion is at war, and that they are troops in that war. They know to be on the lookout for enemies, and they watch and listen for anyone in their environment “forwarding the enemy line.” They know when to be silent, and when disinformation should be communicated. They know to not divulge what Scientology is up to. In fact, letting a wog in on Scientology’s actual intentions is considered treason.  The organization leadership tells Scientologists who the SPs are, and the Scientologists spot even more SPs in their personal lives who correspond in behavior to officially declared SPs.

Scientologists can indeed spot SPs, because SPs are simply individuals who criticize Scientology’s victimizing people, its fraud, abuses and crime. If Scientologists read or hear a criticism, they know its source is an SP. They know who Scientology’s “enemies” are, and they know these enemies are to be victimized as directed. Scientology troops in their war also know to not get caught, and to not cause adverse publicity for the organization. Because so many people who oppose the victimizing watch for Scientology’s operations and influences around the world, and the leaders must, above everything else, get away with whatever is done, Scientologists are for now at least somewhat limited in their war or Fair Game opportunities. This is a clear and very welcome result in Germany of the OPC officially keeping Scientology under observation.

War binds troops in a life-or-death cause, and Scientology’s intelligence war is a significant factor in keeping people in the cult. Scientology being at war justifies its demand of total, standard wartime allegiance, and justifies constant allegiance testing of its troops, including lie detector “disagreement checks.” The allegiance Scientology and its leadership demand from their underlings is senior to, and more demanding than, their allegiance to country, company, professional codes, family or any other group or charter. For this reason, it is reasonable and prudent to bar Scientologists, or organization agents from positions where conflicts in allegiance create unsafe conditions.

For many Scientologists, and wogs, it is exciting to be a covert operative in a covert war, living a double life, spying on the enemies, reporting to their organization intelligence operators, etc., and getting away with it. Scientology’s intelligence war is not particularly dangerous to the Scientologists, because the enemies they spy and war on and seek to destroy are ordinary, good, peaceful people.

One would think that Scientology would be easy to defeat in its war, because the enemies it creates in order to keep its war going are ordinarily good people. There is no evil empire of Suppressive Persons as Scientology tells its troops, and the Scientologists’ victimizing of good people is immoral with no rational justification.

Scientology, however, has usually selected as its SP targets people who, in our society, lacked the resources to defend themselves or fight back. It has been quite easy for the cult, an extremely wealthy intelligence-focused organization, to financially, legally, socially, psychologically, or even physically crush many of these selected victims. Just because they are good people, they don’t resort to the battle tactics of Scientology, a criminal conspiracy to raid and harass people, degrade them to beast level, obliterate them, etc.

The term “Total Espionage” comes from a book with that title by Curt Riess, published in 1941, about the Nazis’ system of total espionage. Hubbard had Scientologists who dealt with SPs study the book on a Scientology course in intelligence procedures. Because of the dominance and pervasiveness of an intelligence mentality and intelligence activities inside the organization, and because every Scientologist in any capacity anywhere in the world participates, it is accurate to call Scientology a religion, or cult, of total espionage. Because intelligence in Scientology serves the purpose of victimizing people, and because victimization is pervasive and every Scientologist participates, often, of course, as victims, it is accurate to call Scientology a cult of total victimization.

Scientology has a network of Scientologist intelligence personnel, and hires outside private investigators and other professionals. The organization uses standard intelligence means and channels for obtaining information: legitimate research or purchase of information, and illegitimate activities such as infiltration, burglary, theft and extortion. Scientology has internal security and counter-espionage departments, and departments and operatives that function in the wog world. Scientology calls these units or personnel  “external facing.” Scientology’s leadership seeks intelligence on every stratum of society — on political leaders, industrialists, entertainers, medical professionals, law enforcement, and on the very commonest of citizens.

In 1977, 150 agents the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, raided Scientology’s intelligence offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Evidence seized in these raids showed that Scientology’s intelligence operatives had burglarized, infiltrated or penetrated over a hundred U.S. state and federal offices or agencies. Eleven Scientologists, including Hubbard’s wife, were prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison.

In a 1991 article in Time Magazine, the Bureau Chief of the FBI in Los Angeles, who participated in the 1977 raids, is quoted as saying:

In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI.

At its core, Scientology has all the functions of national intelligence services. But what makes it a cult of total espionage is the participation of every Scientologist in the organization-wide report system. Everybody reports on everybody else. Every Scientologist must report, or they will themselves become targets. Husbands report on wives, wives report on husbands, children report on their parents, and parents on their children. Scientologists report to the organization about any “violations” of Scientology’s thousands of detailed policies, criticisms they hear, anything “suspicious,” anyone associating with an SP.

In their early indoctrination into the cult, Scientologists are brought to accept that they will be reported on to organization intelligence seniors, and that they will themselves report on others – Scientologists and wogs everywhere. The amount of intelligence information that Scientology collects through its report system, and dozens of other intelligence channels is staggering.

In “auditing” — the psychological “processing” that Scientology claims makes people super powerful, super able and super smart —Scientologists divulge everything about themselves and their pasts. During this procedure, they are monitored on an electronic meter, and what they say is written down, and is often audiotaped or videotaped. Scientologists divulge their whole sexual history, anything they’ve done for which they could be prosecuted, anything embarrassing, all their innermost secrets, and their families’ and associates’ secrets.

All of this material goes to Scientology’s leaders and to the core intelligence personnel to be used for intelligence purposes, including controlling the Scientologists who divulged their secrets. It is a cruel irony that Scientologists pay huge sums of money to divulge their secrets, which will then be used against them to their further detriment. Scientology’s possession of these personal secrets is a very effective intelligence weapon in keeping people in the cult and preventing them from ever speaking out against the cult’s abuses and criminal activities.

Scientologists are also routinely subjected to even more invasive and threatening interrogations called “security checks” or “sec checks.” The Scientologists are monitored electronically during sec checks using the cult’s electronic meter as a lie detector. These interrogations can be very terrifying experiences. Scientologists have been kept in a sec check room for hours, on the meter, not permitted to go to the bathroom, multiple interrogators hammering them with questions. There is sworn testimony of Scientology leader David Miscavige coming into such a sec check, which Scientologists call “gang bang” sec checks, verbally abusing and threatening the Scientologist victim and spitting tobacco juice in his face. “Gang bang” is another term for gang rape.

Miscavige runs Scientology, and is legally responsible for keeping it working as a hate group and as a criminal conspiracy to violate human rights. For several years of his leadership Miscavige and his underlings denied he ran Scientology — the vast international conglomerate — but there is so much unrefuted evidence of his total control, that they have been forced in most situations to stop telling that lie. He runs the total espionage network and directs the war of intelligence against the SPs.

He controls and operates Scientology through a web of corporations, associations and networks, and a highly dedicated Scientologist officer corps, his co-conspirators. The corporate structure is the product of a conspiracy of devious and power mad minds with some clever and connected lawyers, with the acquiescence of the US Government. The corporate structure was designed to permit first Hubbard, and now Miscavige, to avoid legal liability; which is to say, to facilitate their getting away with victimizing people.

Miscavige calls himself the Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, or RTC. His underlings all know him as “C-O-B.” Even Tom Cruise calls him C-O-B. To avoid legal responsibility for Scientology’s many failures, and the torts and crimes committed in the war on SPs, RTC claims to be “autonomous.” And Miscavige has had himself labeled, also to help him avoid liability, merely Scientology’s “ecclesiastical head.”

Although intended as bald-faced deception, this is actually quite true, because victimizing people, and the commission of torts and crimes, are ecclesiastical activities. By “ecclesiastical” is meant “relating to a church” or “suitable for a church.” Scientology insists that everything it does is suitable for a church. Importantly, what Scientology does, and is organized to do, is victimize people.

The simple reality is that Miscavige runs Scientology, and legally the conglomerate whole is his alter ego. Although Miscavige and his RTC personnel keep much of their activity hidden, they have published a directive entitled “Matters of RTC Concern” in a great number of Scientology magazines and other media, leaving no doubt of their control and operation of the Scientology-wide intelligence report system.

There are certain matters of particular importance and concern to RTC as provided here on a detailed list. Whenever these occur, copies of your reports should also be sent to RTC. RTC’s Inspector General Network uses such reports to help locate hidden suppression, infiltration, subversion or corruption within and external to Scientology Churches, Missions and other Church organizations.

“Matters of RTC Concern” then provides an extensive list of things that Scientologists are to report to RTC, including:

* Any suppressive act against Scientology or Scientologists.

* Any anti-Scientology … or anti-Church management actions or intentions.

* Any person who is hypercritical of Scientology or the Church.

* Publicly departing Scientology.

* Public statements against Scientology or Scientologists

* Anyone forbidding or advising against the writing of Knowledge Reports.

* Anyone forbidding or advising one not to send Knowledge Reports to RTC.

* Anyone refusing a confessional or refusing to answer a reading question.

A “confessional” is what, for obvious religious cloaking reasons, Scientology calls its metered sec check interrogations. A “reading question” is an interrogation question that produces a reaction on the electrometer.

The most undeniably successful cover for Scientology, the cult of total victimization, has been its determination to be accepted as a religion, something achieved in the US in 1993 with the Internal Revenue Service’s grant of tax exemption. A recent video interview of Miscavige’s former and long time lieutenant Marc Rathbun done by the St. Petersburg Times newspaper in Florida as part of a series on Scientology contains an amazing admission of why the organization determined to be a religion.

it was always perceived that the IRS was the most important thing to handle because if you have tax exemption you have […] religious recognition, you’re treated differently in courts […] there’s […] some level of almost immunity, First Amendment immunity, to a lot of the type of allegations that were being made.

[…] I mean the number one mission was to obtain ah, tax exemption from the IRS

The allegations against Scientology, for which it sought First Amendment immunity, were of victimizing people – fraud, extortion, assaults, theft, false imprisonment, drugging people, and, as with at least Lisa McPherson, homicide. The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the “free exercise” of religion. Being accepted as a religion meant that Scientology and Scientologists had immunity from prosecution and could victimize with relative impunity, because the victimization they standardly practice is accepted as religious exercise. The US permits Scientology to make all sorts of false claims for services, for which it charges enormous sums, and to use the US mail and other communication media to make its false claims, because it’s a religion. The US says nothing about Scientology locking people up without trial because it’s a religion.

It has for years been obvious to many people that Scientology’s religious status covers, permits and justifies victimization, and certainly makes it possible for the leadership to get away with it all. But Rathbun was the person inside Scientology who, along with Miscavige dealt directly with, and ran operations against, the IRS, to obtain tax exemption and “religious recognition.” Rathbun’s admission that Scientology’s religious recognition was to get immunity from legal prosecution or liability, for what cannot but be victimizing, is an important development.

In 1998, the US passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which requires that the US protect and support religious organizations around the world, and to criticize or even sanction countries that threaten or limit those religious organizations’ freedoms. Pursuant to the IRFA, the US State Department has published annual reports on religious freedom in each country. The annual reports, as many Germans know, have criticized Germany’s non-acceptance of Scientology as a religion, Germany’s efforts to warn its citizens about the cult’s dangers, and Germany’s reasoned opposition to the victimization.

The only condition the IRFA puts on its support for a religious organization’s free exercise is that the exercise be “peaceful.” Scientology has never been peaceful, but has always been at war. The US, unfortunately, has completely ignored this war in order to continue to support Scientology and to criticize other countries such as Germany, because the war has been largely covert and hidden, and seldom resulted in documentable physical violence against SPs. The same St. Petersburg Times series, in which Rathbun admitted obtaining IRS tax exemption for the antisocial purpose of getting away with victimizing people, however, also contains a multitude of credible reports of physical violence, indeed a “culture of violence” inside Scientology, Scientologist on Scientologist. The most physically violent of all Scientologists is its leader David Miscavige. Scientology’s culture of violence is Miscavige’s command intention.

Scientology recruits people, citizens from every nation, into this culture of violence. Its many front groups are what it calls “feeders” that feed people into the Scientology culture. Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers literally get their hands on people at disaster sites to lure them into that culture of violence. There is so much evidence of this culture of violence at Scientology’s core that the US Federal Government should be made to reconsider, and terminate, its support for Scientology and what the religion says is its free religious exercise. A culture of violence is not peaceful, and the US is not obliged by the IRFA to support it.

My suggestion to Germans and Germany is to compile a dossier of victimization in its many forms that Scientology practices including physical violence, which the SP Times has virtually done. This dossier would be presented to the US State Department, perhaps the US Ambassador in Berlin, and demand that the US act against Scientology’s leadership to eliminate the culture of violence, since it originates in the US where it is protected, and immediately suspend international support for Scientology pursuant to the IRFA. During the suspension, the US Government should conduct hearings into Scientology’s nature and activities, hearing especially from the victims.

Gerry Armstrong

Both writings contain a number of identical “facts,” and both inarguably tell the Xenu story, which Hubbard got certifiably indoctrinated Scientologists to implant in themselves. Once Scientologists make it up their “bridge to total freedom” as far as “advanced level” OT III, they “run” themselves through Hubbard’s Xenu story hundreds or even thousands of times. The Scientologists’ implanting certainly goes on much longer on average than 36 days, which was the duration Hubbard said in scripture that Xenu implanted his victims.

Hubbard installed in Scientologists, as part of the implant, the delusion that they’re running their “body thetans” through the Xenu story, and that their BTs are scanning through or reliving the story’s incidents. It’s obvious, however, that it’s the Scientologists themselves that are spending all the time making the story “realer” and “realer,” and more solid.

Body thetans, Scientologists learn as part of their group implant, are “spirits” or “beings” that the Xenu story happened to 75 million years ago, and which now infest and comprise human body parts.

Hubbard also got his implanted Scientologists to get other people to implant themselves, and charged them all, implanters and the implantees, enormous sums of money for the implant.

Before auto-implanting the Xenu story, which Scientologists do with an array of Hubbard’s instructions, procedures and techniques, they implant themselves with his instruction that the story is scientifically researched and completely factual, the exact time, place, form and event.

The Scientologists implant Hubbard’s instruction that the Xenu story is common to their BTs, which, because of that story, cause the Scientologists’ unOTness, their humanness, and their other problems or non-optimum conditions. The Scientologists also implant Hubbard’s instruction that they must follow his implanting sequences and procedures in order to eliminate these problems and unwanted humanoid conditions.

Serendipitously, I just reread Hubbard’s science fiction novella Seven Steps to the Arbiter, which was originally published as The Kingslayer, copyright 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc., and discovered a clear connection to the same Xenu story.

The hero in Seven Steps, Christopher (Kit) Randolph Kellan, is, like the hero in many of Hubbard’s stories, Ron himself, a red or golden haired man with superhuman abilities and intelligence, and, of course, superhuman charm and success with a superbeautiful babe. Adding the letter “e,” Hubbard had Kit go to the same high school Hubbard had gone to, although Kit graduated 2030 years later. Perhaps even more amazingly, Seven Steps had, in 1949, what Hubbard’s cult of Scientology is now universally lampooned 60 years later for having, a dwarf.

“From which school did you receive your master of theoretical engineering philosophy?” said Lapham.

“College of Nuclear Physics, Martian University,” said Kit.

“Hmm,” said Lapham. “You are certain.”

“Of course I am. My sheepskin was stolen but Mars should be able to send the record.”

“We have heard from Mars,” said the dwarf, pulling out a light-thin letter. “They state that whereas you may have been a student there, no record is available in their files.”

Kit started to speak hotly and then snatched at his temper and controlled it. He had argued once too often, that was why he was here.

“You finished high school right here in Washington, D.C.,” said the dwarf, “but we have no further record. In 3960 you were given high school examinations at Woodwarde Prep of this city and passed them it says with honors…”

While Hubbard was always a chubby, soft endomorph, of course, Kit was, as Hubbard’s heroes almost always were, a broad shouldered, hard bodied, athletic mesomorph.

By six o’clock Kit was stripped to the waist, his splendid torso agleam with sweat, his gold hair burning like a torch and his eyes bright with inspiration through the mask of grease.

Hubbard’s hero Rawl, who vanquished Xenu, the Supreme Ruler of the Galactic Confederation, and his renegades, and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is, was also a mesomorphic marvel.

Rawl was smiling good-naturedly. He was a tall, athletic man, handsome in a blunt sort of way. He wore the plain khaki trousers, blouse and cap of a Loyal Officer.

The Announcer stood on tiptoe to see better over his mikes. “Rawl, the Loyal Officer in charge of Earth. Rawl, Speaker of the Congress! You have heard his name connected with every great deed and decency!”

What positively links Seven Steps to the Xenu story, however, are the stars.

Hubbard identifies the twenty-one member stars in Xenu’s Galactic Confederation as Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Vega, Capella, Arcturus, Rigel, Procyon, Achernar, Beta Centauri, Altair, Betelgeuse, Acrux, Aldebaran, Pollux, Spica, Antares, Fomalhaut, Deneb, Regulus and Sol.

In Seven Steps, Hubbard identifies the Six Nations that the Arbiter, the head of the Galactic Arbitration Council, rules as Terra, Centauri, Vega, Sirius, Procyon and Aldeberan.

Kit scratched his gold hair and looked at the dead man. Kit’s nose was stubbed, and wrinkled when he was worried. “I haven’t called you a renegade. … Oh! Perhaps you belong to a group that wants to undermine the Six Nations, or…”

“Ah, yes. Terra, Centauri, Vega, Sirius, Procyon and Aldeberan. Henry! I say, how’s that. Remember every single one of the six nations…”

Hubbard also mentions Spica in Seven Steps, although not as one of the Six Nations.

Ralph Hilton wrote in his entry in the 1999 ARS Literati $10,000 Challenge:

The film script “Revolt in the Stars” was intended to reveal these events to the current populace of Earth in a way that would send them into Scientology in droves. The script states that the stars of the Galactic Federation were:

“Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Vega, Capella, Arcturus, Rigel, Procyon, Achernar, Beta Centauri, Altair, Betelgeuse, Acrux, Aldebaran, Pollux, Spica, Antares, Fomalhaut, Deneb, Regulus and Sol”

The “Hamlyn Guide to Astronomy” by David Baker in 1978 lists the 20 brightest stars from Earth as:

“Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, Vega, Capella, Rigel, Procyon, Achernar, Betelgeuse, Beta Centauri, Altair, Aldebaran, Acrux, Antares, Spica, Fomalhaut, Pollux, Deneb, Beta Crucis”

[…] The distances of these stars from Earth vary widely – a developing federation would surely choose stars closer together rather than those brightest from Earth. I find the conclusion almost inevitable that his list of stars came not from whole track recall but a brief study of an astronomy book.
http://www.holysmoke.org/minton/arslc/hilton.htm

I couldn’t obtain a copy of Hamlyn’s Guide, but plenty of other writers, or astronomers, and even astrologers, have listed the same twenty brightest stars, as seen from Teegeeack, and in essentially the same order Hubbard listed the twenty stars that, along with Sol, formed the Galactic Federation.

http://www.wegryn.com/sci/speaking/Stars.htm

http://tinyurl.com/nr6lld

It’s generally agreed that there’s something like 10²² to 10²⁴ stars in the Universe.  esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_index_0.html That’s between 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or between ten sextillion and a septillion stars.

I’ll let some else do the math who knows how to multiply by all kinds of zeros better than I can. I have concluded, however, that the odds of Hubbard coming up with his list of the stars in his Galactic Federation through his own scientific research are only slightly better than the odds of him coming up with the rest of Scientology scripture or “tech” through scientific research.

For implanted Scientologists, of course, the fact that Hubbard’s star list in the Xenu story matches the brightest-stars-as-seen-from-earth list, is proof of the unbelievable accuracy of his whole track recall.

Hubbard’s last sea assignment during World War II was Navigating Officer on the USS Algol, an attack cargo ship. He later claimed that his adventures on the Algol were reported as those of the title character in the movie Mr. Roberts, which was pure BS; but he really was a navigator, and trained in celestial navigation. He’d sailed before the war, in fact really did sail the Inland Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska, so was competent in celestial navigation from that period.

All the stars Hubbard said comprised the Six Nations in Seven Steps can be found on the list of 57 or 58 navigational stars.  wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_stars

Centauri from Seven Steps could be Alpha Centauri, which is listed as navigational star Rigil Kentaurus, or Beta Centauri, listed as navigational star Hadar, or both stars. Wikipedia says: “Most of these stars are a subset of the list of brightest stars and are defined by convention and nautical tradition.”

I think that when Hubbard wrote Seven Steps in the 1940’s, he pulled the stars in his Six Nations, plus Spica (the ear of corn), out of his celestial navigation knowledge. He started the OT III scripture with the words, “The head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here).” He didn’t name them. In Revolt, he said that there were 21 stars, with the same 76 planets. As quoted above, he also lists the GC’s stars in Revolt, in pretty well the same order as everyone else lists the twenty brightest stars as seen from earth.

I think that his stars list is the biggest clue, and admission, he provided everyone that he was scamming them. He dramatized what he called the “criminal mind” intent on being found out. Probably no one in the sf community called him on his celestial nav ripoff in 1949. Nobody called him really on the Xenu story and its “larger stars visible from here.” He had to write Revolt and match the 20 Brightest Stars list to let everyone know, far, far beyond any reasonable doubt that it was all fiction. And if there were any facts, like the stars, they were simply cynically and shamelessly stolen.

The Chairman and Board of Supervisors
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Re: Proposed Ordinances 884 and 888: Targeted Residential Picketing Board meeting January 6, 2009, Agenda Items 3.28 and 3.29 (Supervisor Stone)

Honorable Chairman and Supervisors:

I live in British Columbia. I once lived at Scientology’s Gilman Hot Springs headquarters. I actually helped set up the Gilman base in the 1970’s while in the organization’s forced labor camp, the Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF. I was inside Scientology and close to founder L. Ron Hubbard, and I have been one of the organization’s key enemy targets for 27 years.

I write to tell you that not only I but thousands, and even millions, of people around the world are watching what you do in this matter. Your county has acquired a bad reputation for its Scientology-instigated injustice procedures.

It is clear that these proposed ordinances are intended to specifically benefit the Scientology organization headquartered in your county at Gilman Hot Springs. I realize that the ordinances are worded to appear to benefit all county residents, but that is clearly to cover the fact that the ordinances have been concocted for Scientology to be applied to prevent, or stupidly restrict, protests or picketing at the Scientology base.

It would therefore be irresponsible of the Board of Supervisors to not determine and announce or publish exactly how those ordinances would apply at and to the organization and property for the benefit which they are being proposed.

Before these proposed ordinances are passed, you owe it to your citizens to go to the Gilman Hot Springs property and, with the participation of the Scientology organization and its protestors, establish exactly what will be the real effect on the protestors’ rights and abilities to protest.

Scientology is a religion because the US Federal Government says that any organization can determine to be a religion and it’s a religion. In fact, your Government says that only an organization itself can determine if it’s religious or not. It can be a commercial scam, a criminal conspiracy, or an antisocial cult, and it is a perfectly fine religion according to your national government. All of such enterprises or organizations, of course, are eminently picketable. The US’s laws that protect and encourage picketing, of course, were enacted to give the victims of such organizations, and other citizens offended by such organizations’ victimizing, a right and way to confront the victimizers. Virtually all of the fraud, extortion, human rights abuses and other antisocial and criminal victimizing behavior in Scientology “churches” and affiliated entities around the world is ordered and controlled from the organization’s Gilman Hot Springs headquarters. You should expect picketers at Gilman from around the world until Scientology stops victimizing people and makes reparations to all the people it has victimized.

These proposed ordinances benefit the victimizers, and there is no need for these ordinances except to benefit the victimizers. Why any Riverside County official would want to benefit the Scientology victimizers to the clear detriment of Scientology’s victims and their supporters can only be answered with deception or corruption.

Please, before you vote on these proposed ordinances, at a minimum establish for all your citizens’ benefit exactly what will be the effect at all points where the Scientology property at its Gilman Hot Springs headquarters adjoins public property where picketing must and will occur.

I pray that all of you will search for wisdom in this matter.

Respectfully,

Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 2P6
Canada
604-703-1373
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/

Gerry Armstrong

Cc: various media

Hubbard talked and wrote a lot about “honesty” during that period, making all sorts of high-sounding pronouncements such as “Freedom is for honest people;” “To protect dishonest people is to condemn them to their own hells;” and “To be free a man must be honest with himself and his fellows.” (Ref. HCOB 8 February 1960, “Honest People Have Rights Too.”) Yet Hubbard was a judicially declared “pathological liar,” who never got honest with himself or his fellows throughout his whole lifetime. His replacement as Scientology cult head David Miscavige, while subjecting his juniors, as Hubbard did, to sec checks and gang bangs, is also a willful and horrendous liar. Scientology itself is so dishonest as an organization that lying is recognized almost universally as its central sacrament.

In his lecture of 3 Jan 1960 “Zones of Control and Responsibility of Governments” Hubbard laid out a scheme of using the theme of “honesty” to set up a front group, with a “corny” name like “Citizens Purity League,” which would con police departments into permitting Scientology sec checkers to interrogate their personnel. The pretext was to be “people are entitled to an honest government,” and the goals were to recruit the police as “preclears,” get their overts and withholds, and charge them money. Hubbard stated that police departments were to be this scheme’s or “gag’s” entrance point, because they’re the “point of corruption” and  would be used to stop Scientology.  The first police officers the cult he wanted Scientologists to target were “the vice squad.”

Now, this is just one of the things I had to cover; it’s not the whole of this immediate lecture at all. But I just had to tell you about the purity league gag! This is too good to keep. I-you’re very hard to withhold things from.

Now, I’m out-not outlining this as something we’re going to do instantly and immediately. I’m simply outlining this as something which is a good idea. That is to say, a funny idea, an idea that would be a little sport.

It would work like this: An auditor in his spare time would find out in his immediate city, something like that, who were the more important political figures. Or he would get hold of a salesman. That’s why I wanted you to get some salesmen into the PE [1], not because we wanted to teach all the salesmen in the world-but because it made a good communication line-but actually because I wanted you to have some people in your midst who were used to selling and handling people. See, personnel problem was what that came up from more than anything else.

All right. Now supposing-supposing this auditor got ahold of one of these salesmen and he gave them a list of these men, and he gave him some stationery, you know, and an address. And across the top of it, it said the Citizens’ Purity League. I just love the title. It’s just too corny for words, see?

And he gets the salesman to go around and call on all these prominent civic leaders, you see, and lend their name to an advisory board of the Citizens’ Purity League. And then you add all those to the stationery, see? It isn’t costing anything so far, you see? What an overt act, you know?

And the literature of this Citizens’ Purity League-I love that title. It- just-nothing is that corny! And it says that honest people are entitled to an honest government. And that’s all it stands for, you see? And it says that a people are entitled to a government or to being governed by honest men. And everybody will go for this! Good roads, good weather, naturally! Naturally, a people are entitled to an honest government, you see? But that’s its whole message.

And the Citizens’ Purity League, now with all these advisory committee names, you see, which list every civic leader in the whole community, writes a letter-and this is the department you have to tackle first-to the chief of police on this stationery, saying you want to make a Security Check (give him your literature) on his personnel-not on him, on his personnel. You want to check over the heads of his departments and things like that, so that you can guarantee this sort of thing.

Well now, one of two things happens: Fascism takes place overnight or he cooperates. See, it gets to be an open-and-shut proposition. It’s either this one or this one and there’s not much in between. But of course he says-he looks at all these prominent names, and you go in and you talk to him.

And he says, “Well,” he says, “um-hmm-hmm. It’s very unusual-ahem- very unusual request you’re making here. Very unusual request. What do you intend to do?”

“Oh, just talk to these men and check them over from the standpoint of record, you know, so as to give them a clean bill of health for this.”

And he’s thinking all the time usually, you know, about, “I wonder how much percentage these guys are holding out on me,” you know? “I wonder if there’s a crook in the lot here that’s denying me my percentage.”

Well, if he refuses, he knows what you’re going to do. You’re going to write every single member of your advisory committee; you’re going to say the chief of police refuses completely to cooperate with any Security Check on his departmental personnel. Of course, you know what that means-there’ll be a new chief of police in there at once. Because that’s one thing civic leaders are able to do: change chiefs of police.

So the chances are he’ll say, “Well, go ahead. Go ahead.”

So, you take-of course, the first one you want is the vice squad. And you just takes your little E-Meter and you just check over the vice squad for overts and withhold, and what you’re looking for is unreported crimes by the person. Well, of course, as soon as the word gets around, practically everybody in the police department that couldn’t stand a Security Check blows. Pshew! That mechanism will work right now, see?

So you simply call a meeting of your advisory committee or write them all a letter-never hold meetings of them-just write them all a letter in a bulletin and say, “Well, we’ve gotten rid of so many people because they had unsavory reputations and they’re being replaced by more reliable men.” And this committee says, “Fine. The Citizens’ Purity League is working beautifully and we are getting a purer government and three cheers,” see?

So that’s fine. And it gets up to a point now where you turn around to the chief of police-it must be the police department, because that’s the department that would be used to stop you. That must be the first entrance point. Always the police. They’re the point of corruption. They’re the point that a revolution takes place in. Remember that, always, you see? So if you clean them up first, you can keep from precipitating something very bad.

Now, these people, of course, are all very interested now that the police department has been checked up and-checked out and everything is very happy in the town of whatever it is.

And you turn around to the chief and you say, “Well now, we want to check you out.”

And he goes through this, “Well, I can tell him-oh, no, wait a minute now. Oh, no, not that one!” You know, he goes through this, “My life is an open-um-my life is-uh-my life bears inspection. I’m not on any criminal file-well, not in this area.”

But here’s the point: You’re not trying to fire these people. What you’re trying to do is get preclears. Interesting gag, isn’t it?

You check over the head of the homicide division and you find the head of the homicide division has been taking a little bit of a cut on the side-here, there, something of this sort. You find this, you don’t instantly say, “Well, this is going to be reported, and you’re going to be shot from guns.” You’re going to say, “Get your nose clean, son. It’s going to cost you money.”

And then the word gets around that you actually charge people for straightening them up and that “this is a method of revenue and a gag and a racket.” Your answer to that is instantaneously-instantaneously you say, “What? The people must be paid to straighten up the dishonesty of men who should have been honest in the first place. Make those men pay!”

And everybody will say, “That”-in the advisory committee-”that’s absolutely right. Absolutely right. Why should the people pay?”

This is just a gag. This is an interesting gag. But some such operation could open the door to responsible governments over the whole face of Earth and move away the specter of overthrow, by violence and criminality, the peoples of Earth and further degradation of their liberties as has been going on for the last few centuries. Would work. Think it over.

Of course, you get the accounts department and you get the other department and you finally work up to this person or that person, so forth. You could check-an auditor just could be kept busy day and night, just doing something like this and having a ball.

Now, if you started in on a program of this character and it was successful, you’d have to depend upon the PE franchises, you’d have to depend on these foundations to furnish enough people to be trained as auditors to meet the demand for auditors. So we’ve even got that side of it covered if something like this really happened rapidly.

Now, it’s not very much to ask people to simply be honest, whatever their principles are-simply to be honest in their execution. And simply to demand that honest people deserve honest men in government roles. That’s not very much to demand.

But you’d change the whole face of Earth. You would. And you’d make good something they were trying to do in 1775, which was strike off the chains of the world.

Now, I think it’s time somebody took an interest in that program again. I don’t think it ought to be left down here in the Capitol rotunda, forgotten, while a bunch of fellows go storming around the world from some other nation, telling them they’re the men that are setting men free. When did Russia ever set any men free? From what prison camp? They’ve still got their prisoners of war from the last war. And these fellows are allowed to go around the world and talk with their big mouths and say that they’re the pioneers of freedom? Oh, no. What corn. It’s not true.

So if this country measured up to its total responsibilities, it would first have a totally honest government, at every level, and then would have a total responsibility for everything it started in the idea which it fostered out along the line so long ago. Do you agree with me?

Audience: Yes.

We are not helpless. There is something we can do about it. We can tell you the wrong thing to do always. That’s nothing. Nothing is the greatest overt act you can commit. If you don’t believe it, run into it sometime in your case! The times you did nothing: Those were the overt acts.

Well, we needn’t be guilty of it in this particular lifetime, because you’ve got just as big a share in this as I have, as anybody has.

And with your knowingness goes a certain increased responsibility. That’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? You say, “Well, I want to know more about this.” The second you know more about it, you’re more responsible for it. Do you realize that?

And when you’re in my boots and know all about it, and have since the beginning, you’ve really got a lot of responsibility to carry around.
— Lecture 3 Jan 1960: Zones of Control And Responsibility Of Governments by L. Ron Hubbard

[1] PE: short for Personal Efficiency Course. See PE Course in this glossary. That’s why I wanted you to get some salesmen into the PE, not because we wanted to teach all the salesmen in the world -but because it made a good communication line -but actually because I wanted you to have some people in your midst who were used to selling and handling people. -Zones of Control and Responsibility of Governments (3 Jan. 60)

PE Course: abbreviation for Personal .Efficiency Course: an introductory course for new Scientologists which contained lectures, communication drills and auditing. See also auditing in this glossary. That, by the way, is quite a killer as a Group Process, if you want to run Group Processing into any PE Course or anything like that that you have anything to do with and so forth. – Group Auditing Session (2 Jan. 60)

auditing: the application of Dianetics and/or Scientology processes and procedures to individuals for their betterment. The exact definition of auditing is: the action of asking a person a question (which he can understand and answer), getting an answer to that question and acknowledging him for that answer. Also called processing. “Oh well, let’s see, now, if I get some auditing-if I get some auditing, well, I don’t necessarily have to give up any of these withholds because I’m dangerous.” -Overts and Withholds (1 Jan. 60)
— State of Congress Lectures Transcripts & Glossary

In reality, auditing is not the application of anything to individuals for their benefit, and certainly not for society’s benefit. Auditing is for the benefit of Scientology and the person controlling it – Hubbard, and now Miscavige. Any auditing, moreover, is worse than no auditing, being actually harmful to society, the person being audited, and his family, friends, associates and finances.

Dramatizing his pathological humbuggery and gargantuan hypocrisy, Hubbard published a handout for the PE Course in 1961 that is full of appalling lies, which he told for the evil purpose of luring people into his cult’s clutches.

It is very difficult for most people to conceive of someone who talked and wrote so much about the value of honesty being so monstrously dishonest. Hubbard, moreover, knew exactly what he was doing with his pertinacious lying, writing in HCOB 29 July 1963 “Scientology Review:”

Exactly where are we technically, personally and organizationally?

[...] On the various [present time problems] of Scientology we have had some very significant wins as follows:

[...]

Incredulity of our data and validity. This is our finest asset and gives us more protection than any other single asset.

Hubbard was, just as Miscavige is, clearly not quite as brilliant or as literate as he projected, and undoubtedly means the “incredibility,” or “incredibleness” of his data that was his cult’s “finest asset” and greatest “protection.” What a justification for their lying!

See also: State of Man Congress: Something to Hide?

Despite Hubbard’s acknowledgement of the corniness of the name for the front group in his scheme to subvert the police — “Citizens Purity League” – the cult apparently used that very name in the 1960’s for such a front in Australia. Sociologist Roy Wallis reported on the Citizens Purity League, as well as other cult fronts in his 1976 book The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology:

Another technique employed from time to time was that of establishing a committee or society, whose leading personnel would always, covertly, be Scientologists, which would concern itself with public morality, mental health, the state of the nation, or some other public issue. An Australian example was the formation of a Citizen’s Purity League in Melbourne inaugurated by a Scientologist who heard of the idea on one of Hubbard’s tapes.[1] Its executive committee was composed of HASI members, but the links with Scientology were not publicized. A campaign was started to secure public membership and support on morality issues.

The aim of this Citizens’ Purity League would be to reach a point of prestige and influence in the community that would enable it to carry out a plan of clearing, first the State Police Force, and then those engaged in the governing of the State of Victoria. [2]

Such tactics are said to have been employed in more recent years. Informants allege that the Scientology leadership indirectly organized a ‘Loyalty Petition to Parliament’ in the late 1960s which advocated that psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists declare before a Justice of the Peace that they were neither in the pay of foreign governments nor members of any movement or party which aimed to subvert the Constitution and Parliament of Great Britain. Several thousand signatures of members of the public were secured, but it was found that the Petition was not drawn up in a form proper for parliamentary presentation.[3]

Interview respondents have also alleged that they were encouraged to form committees with high-minded titles for promotional purposes. The aim of such committees was to create a political lobby to promote the publication of material in the press related to such issues as the ‘evils of psychiatry’, ‘brutality in mental hospitals’, ‘communism’, and other issues on which the Scientology leadership had expressed a position. Whenever possible, prominent public figures unconnected with Scientology were approached to join the roster of patrons for such committees and associations. One such body, known as the Association for Health Development and Aid, among whose patrons, executive and consultant doctors were a number of Scientologists, managed briefly to secure the support of the Bishop of Southwark.[4]

Other committees and associations clearly have a more specific and ad hoc purpose. One explored by the News of the World was entitled the Citizens’ Press Association. The group was established after reports concerning Scientology appeared in the News of the World, and sought to secure the support of other
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1 Mary Sue Hubbard, HCO Newsletter, 14 April 1961.
2 Ibid.
3  Interview.
4 Rolph, op. cit., pp. 53-4; Letter to the author from the Bishop of Southwark.

‘victims’ of this paper for the introduction of legislation to ‘cope with these papers and prevent any further wrongs being committed’. [1] No association with Scientology was indicated in the letter from the Citizens’ Press Association although a spokesman for Scientology later admitted to News of the  World reporters, ‘that this was one of our ideas . . .’[2]

As well as such covert organizations, Scientology openly sponsors or assists a variety of organizations engaged in pressure-group or welfare activities.[3] A major pressure group openly supported by the Church of Scientology and predominantly composed of Scientologists is the Citizens’ Commission for Human Rights. This organization seeks to bring pressure to bear on administrators of mental hospitals and members of government, by direct means and through press reports, to improve conditions in mental hospitals, protest against involuntary committal, physical and psychopharmacological modes of treatment psychosurgery, and what are referred to generically as ‘psychiatric atrocities’.

A prominent welfare organization sponsored by the Church is Narconon which operates a drug programme employing Scientology techniques. It claims a very high rate of success, and official support in America and Scandinavia. Letters from various addiction facilities and prisons, in reply to my requests for information, indicated that Narconon was generally admitted to such facilities on the same basis as other community-based, volunteer, self-help groups. Replies were received from eight facilities in the USA listed in a Scientology publication as ’supporting’ the Narconon programme. Four indicated that the programme was in operation and received unqualified support, as did most other volunteer self-help groups. Three indicated that the programme had met with little success and had died of attrition, while the final reply indicated that the programme had been cancelled some time previously by the prison director.[4] (This may not, however, be a true reflection of the status of Narconon. The City of Los Angeles, for example, recognized Narconon’s contribution in a ‘Resolution’ which highly commended its efforts in twenty-five programmes, half of which were in penal institutions, and which had ‘achieved remarkable success, in that 85 per cent of those in the program released on parole have no further involvement in the criminal justice system . . .’)[5]
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1 Letter from Citizens’ Press Association cited in News of the World, 24 August 1969.
2 Ibid.
3  Such front groups and organizations are not uncommon among more recent sectarian movements. On the front groups of the Japanese manipulationist sect Soka Gakkai, see James W. White, The Sokagakkai and Mass Society (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1970), p. 113. On those of the Communist Party, see Philip Selznick, The Organisational Weapon (Free Press, New York, 1952), pp. 27, 114. On those of the Nazi Party, see William Ebenstein, The Nazi State (Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1943), p. 59.
4 Letters to the author,
5  ‘Resolution’ adopted by the Council of the City of Los Angeles, 1 March 1974, copy made available by the Church of Scientology.

A further welfare organization associated with the Church is Applied Scholastics Inc, the aim of which is said to be to provide an educational programme for slow learners or potential educational dropouts. This programme also employs Scientology techniques.[1] The Church of Scientology supplied, in a letter to the author, the names of a number of US educational establishments in which the programme was said to be operating. Not all of these could be traced. Of five such institutions approached, four could not trace any programme in association with Applied Scholastics – although the programme may have been operating on an unofficial basis. The fifth institution located ‘an informal program’.[2]

Scientology’s most vocal social involvement is in its campaign against orthodox psychiatry and the methods which it currently employs. To promote this campaign, a ‘newspaper’, Freedom, was established in 1968. It concentrated on vilifying psychiatrists; attacking the practices of mental hospitals; and impugning the motives of supporters and leaders of the mental health movement and its organizations, such as the National Association for Mental Health.[3]

The Scientology movement secured a great deal of publicity when its members began demonstrating outside the offices of the National Association for Mental Health with banners reading, ‘Psychiatrists maim and kill’ and ‘Buy your meat from a psychiatrist’[4] during early 1969, and when later that year it was discovered that between 200 to 300 Scientologists had secured membership in the NAMH [5] The enormous increase in applications to the NAMH does not appear to have merited attention until, shortly before the scheduled Annual General Meeting in November, nominations began arriving for office in the NAMH which included known Scientologists such as David Gaiman, an Assistant Guardian of the Church, who was nominated for the office of Chairman of the NAMH. The Association hastily insisted on the resignation of over 300 recently admitted members, rendering them ineligible for attendance at the Annual General Meeting, and a lengthy period of litigation ensued, in which the Scientologists sought reinstatement. Their actions to this end proved unsuccessful.[6]
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1 See the Basic Study Manual, compiled from the works of L. Ron Hubbard (Applied Scholastics Inc, Los Angeles, 1972).
2 Letters to the author.
3  Such attacks led to the settlement of a libel action in favour of Kenneth Robinson as a result of his suit over a Freedom article.
4 G. H. Rolph, Believe What You Like (Andre Deutsch, London, 1973), pp. 52, 102.
5  Ibid., p. 102.
6  Ibid., passim. The Scientologists’ version of these events is the subject of David R. Dalton, Two Disparate Philosophies (Regency Press, London, 1973). See also my review of this work ‘Convert or Subvert’, The Spectator (29 December 1973). The Scientologists’ arguments are also rehearsed in Omar V. Garrison, The Hidden Story of Scientology (Arlington Books, London, 1974).
— The Road to Total Freedom A Sociological analysis of Scientology by Roy Wallis ©1976 Roy Wallis

In the US, Scientology set up a front group with the same purpose, modus operandi and targets as the “Citizens Purity League,” and with an equally corny name — “American Citizens for Honesty in Government.”

From Scientologists Kept Files on ‘Enemies’ by By Ron Shaffer, Washington Post Staff, 16 May 1978:

After recent articles in The Post about their alleged activities, scientology spokesmen held rallies and put out news releases announcing that the organization had been “monitoring” government activities in order to find “government illegalities and cover-ups” and make them public.

The spokesmen announced the formation of a new group, American Citizens for Honesty in Government, and called on “every honest government employee” to report improprieties to the “ACHG Ethics Committee.’
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/washingtonpost/enemies-051678.htm

From Shocked officials say they’ll fight by Debbie Winsor, Clearwater Sun Staff, 3 November 1979:

CLEARWATER – Church of Scientology documents released Thursday that outline the Scientologists’ intention to control or “take over” the city left local government officials wondering Friday how the group planned to reach that goal – and what the city should do about it.

Mayor Charles LeCher and City Manager Anthoney Shoemaker agreed the city’s first move is to seek copies of the documents released Thursday in Washington, D.C., by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey.

[...]

LeCher said the Scientologists have not intimidated or harassed him or any other commissioners. He said the group did tell him, however, that its American Citizens for Honesty in Government arm planned to investigate city officials.

“But they wouldn’t say how,” LeCher said. “I asked them how they would conduct such an investigation, and they wouldn’t tell me.”

“Everything seems to be falling into place. It annoys the hell out of me.”

Scientology spokesman Nancy Reitze denied that the organization ever investigated city officials.

The group did survey city residents, asking them whether they belive [sic] government to be corrupt. The overwhelming majority replied yes, she said.
http://groups.google.com/group/fl.general/msg/503e322a282493be?dmode=source&hl=en

Mark Dallara posted an index of Clearwater Police Department documents on Scientology that included the following entries which show some ways Scientology collects and uses intelligence:

7/9/78 St. Petersburg Times

“Scientologists Form Group to Investigate Investigators”

Scientologists form American Citizens for Honesty in Government to investigate abuses by federal investigative agencies.

11/7/78 Tampa Tribune

“Reward Is Offered Federal Tattletales”

American Citizens for Honesty in Government pass out flyers in front of the Federal Building in Tampa offering up to $10,000 to any government worker who supplies information leading to the conviction of corrupt government officials.

2/17/79 St. Petersburg Times

“Scientologists Query Staffers on Corruption”

American Citizens for Honesty in Government pass out fliers at City Hall seeking to ferret out official corruption. Church officials state this is part of a national effort and respond to Commissioner Tenney’s call for a congressional investigation into the church, calling him a “mini Gabe Cazares”

8/16/79 Clearwater Sun

“State Official: Scientology Group Out of Line”

Florida Transportation Secretary responds to demands from American Citizens for Honesty in Government that a former employee be prosecuted for destroying 374 boxes of D.O.T. studies and maps which were discarded during a 1975 cleanup.

The Clearwater PD reportedly stopped monitoring Scientology a few months before this November 1999 article which stated that the Chief of Police “said a major factor in his decision was the possibility of litigation against the city by the church. He said he felt an obligation to protect the city from that threat.”

By January 2000, according to this March 11 2001 St. Pete Times article and this  March 22, 2001 St. Pete Times editorial, Scientology was paying uniformed Clearwater Police officers to work for the cult as security personnel, sanctioned by the Chief of Police

Watch Mark Bunker’s excellent documentary on the Clearwater Police and Scientology.

Scientology’s front group “Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights,” as Wallis writes, uses strategies similar to what Hubbard laid out for his “Citizens Purity League” to wage war on the mental health field. Following is the list of CCHR’s claimed current “board of advisors,” or “commissioners” from the cult’s web site:

Founding Commissioner

Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, State University of New York Health Science Center.

Board Member

Isadore M. Chait

Science, Medicine & Health

Rohit Adi, M.D., diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has been practicing Emergency Medicine since 1993 and now serves as the assistant director of a level II trauma center, U.S.

Ivan Alfonso, M.D., doctor of internal medicine, Columbia.

Garland Allen, professor of biology, with research interests in the history and philosophy of biology, U.S.

Giorgio Antonucci, M.D., medical doctor and author from Italy, who worked in Imola psychiatric institution with “schizophrenic” patients that he treated drug-free, enabling them to be discharged and to work in the community without the hindrance of psychiatric labels and drugs, U.S.

Ann Auburn, D.O., natural health practitioner and Chairman of the Osteopathic Medical Board of Michigan, U.S.

Mark Barber, D.D.S., dentist and researcher, U.S.

Lisa Bazler, B.A., M.A., psychologist, co-author of Psychology Debunked.

Ryan Bazler, B.S. in electrical engineering, co-author of Psychology Debunked, co-founder with his wife, Lisa, of the Christian Backpacking Youth Ministry for six years, U.S.

Shelley Beckmann, Ph.D., microbiologist and researcher, U.S.

Lisa Benest, M.D., dermatologist, U.S.

Peter Bennet, retired police superintendent with a diploma in Criminology. He is now an expert on environmental/toxic effects on child behavior, UK.

Mary Ann Block, D.O., licensed osteopathic physician, medical director of The Block Center in Dallas, Texas, author of No More ADHD, U.S.

John Breeding, Ph.D., psychologist, director of Texans for Safe Education and author of The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses and The Necessity of Madness and Unproductivity: Psychiatric Oppression or Human Transformation, U.S.

Lisa Cain, associate professor of psychology, U.S.

Anthony Castiglia, M.D., physician and member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, U.S.

Roberto Cestari, M.D., general medical practitioner, author and president of CCHR Italy.

James Chappell, D.C., N.D., Ph.D., doctor of chiropractic, naturopathic doctor, clinical nutritionist and author of the book, A Promise Made, A Promise Kept: Son’s Quest for the Cause and Cure of Diabetes, U.S.

Beth Clay, president BCGA International, LLC, an integral health consulting and government relations firm, U.S.

Bishop David Cooper, president, the Spanish Orthodox Church and professor of nursing, U.S.

Jesus Corona, psychologist, Mexico.

Javier Hernandez Covarrabias, medical doctor – ear, nose and throat specialist.

Ann Y. Coxon, M.B., B.S., neurologist practicing in Harley Street, London, UK.

Moira Dolan, M.D., Texas general medical practitioner and researcher who has testified against electroshock and other psychiatric practices, U.S.

Mary Ann Durham B.S., pharmacologist, U.S.

Dan Edmunds E.D.D., psychotherapist, consultant and lecturer, U.S.

David Egner, Ph.D., child psychologist and former special education director, U.S.

Seth Farber, Ph.D. psychologist, author and founder of the Network Against Coercive Psychiatry, U.S.

Mark Filidei, D.O., medical director of the Whitaker Wellness Center in California, U.S.

Nicolas Franceschetti, M.D., ophthalmologist, Switzerland.

Marta Garbos, Psy.D., psychologist, U.S.

Howard Glasser, M.A., executive director of the Children’s Success Foundation, psychologist and author, U.S.

Patti Guliano, D.C., chiropractor, U.S.

Edward C. Hamlyn, M.D., a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, medical doctor with the International Allergy Testing Center, UK.

Brett Hartman, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of Hammerhead 84: A Memoir of Persistence about his own experiences being subjected to psychiatric “treatment” as a high school graduate, overcoming this without drugs, U.S.

Lawrence B. Hooper, M.D., medical doctor specializing in Family Practice, U.S.

Joseph Isaac, clinical psychologist, India.

Georgia Janisch, R.D., registered dietician, who treats mental and emotional problems without the use of psychiatric drugs, U.S.

Derek Johnson, natural health practitioner, South Africa.

Jonathan Kalman, N.D. naturopathic doctor, U.S.

Marguerite Kay, M.D., medical doctor specializing in internal medicine, U.S.

Peter Kervorkian, D.C., chiropractor, U.S.

Oleg Khilkevich, professor of nursing, U.S.

Kenichi Kozu, Ph.D., chief exectutive officer of the U.S. non-profit corporation, Society of Preventive and Alternative Medicine, Japan.

Eric Lambert, pharmacist and past president of the West Virginia Pharmacists Association, U.S.

Anna Law, M.D., emergency room physician, UK.

Richard Lippin, M.D., occupational medicine, U.S.

OTan Logi, former psychotherapist, U.S.

Bari Maddock, Ph.D., holistic psychologist, U.S.

Lloyd McPhee, U.S. health insurance agent opposed to mandated mental health parity and any regulation forcing insurance carriers to cover psychiatric treatment.

Joan Mathews-Larson, Ph.D., founder of Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.

Coleen Maulfair, executive director of Maulfair Medical Center, U.S.

Conrad Maulfair, D.O., doctor of osteopathy, founder of Maulfair Medical Center in Topton, Penns., U.S.

Clinton Ray Miller, lobbyist for alternative health, U.S.

Robert Morgan, Ph.D., psychologist, U.S.

Craig Newnes, consultant clinical psychologist and editor of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counseling and Psychotherapy, UK.

Gina Nick, N.M.D., head of Dr. Gina Nick’s Medical Practice and president of the California Naturopathic Doctors Association, U.S.

Gwen Olsen, former pharmaceutical company sales representative and author of the book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher – God’s Call to Loving Arms, U.S.

Mary Jo Pagel, M.D. graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch with honors in cardiology. She is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Preventative and Industrial Medicine.

Steve Plog, founder and CEO of the Results Project, U.S.

Vladimir Pshizov, M.D. psychiatrist who wrote two books about Soviet punitive psychiatry and is a practicing psychiatrist from the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS.

Lawrence Retief, M.D., family practitioner who helped expose apartheid psychiatric practices, South Africa

Franklin H. Ross, M.D., medical doctor specializing in wellness, U.S.

Megan Shields, M.D., family practitioner from California, U.S.

Allan Sosin, M.D., Medical Director of the Institute for Progressive Medicine, U.S.

David Stein, professor of criminal justice at Virginia State University, U.S.

Ram Tamang, director of Ayurvedic medical clinic, U.S.

David Tanton, Ph.D., graduated with honors from Clayton Natural Healing with a Ph.D. in holistic nutrition and is founder and research director of Soaring Heights Longevity Research Center, U.S.

William Tutman, Ph.D., former clinical psychologist and executive of the Campaign to Stop the Federal Violence Initiative, a 1990s plan by psychiatrists, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, to drug African American youth and other minorities, U.S.

Tony Urbanek, M.D., D.D.S., prior fellowship with the National Institutes of Health, and an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, U.S.

Margarethe von Beck, Doctor of Literature and Philosophy, South Africa.

Wanda von Kleist, Ph.D., psychologist, U.S.

Julian Whitaker, M.D., is the founder of the Whitaker Wellness Center in California and a popular speaker and lecturer. Dr. Whitaker is the author of the widely read newsletter Health and Healing, U.S.

Spice Williams-Crosby, BSc, MFS, CFT, [Master of Fitness Sciences, Certified Fitness Trainer], actress, stuntwoman, nutritional counselor and human rights activist, U.S.

Michael Wisner, environmental health activist and author of Living Healthy in a Toxic World, U.S.

Sergej Zapuskalov, M.D., former Soviet psychiatrist who rejected psychiatry when communism ended, CIS.

Politics & Law

Jose Francisco Aguirre, attorney, Mexico.

State Rep. Russell Albert (NH), sponsored bill against ECT, U.S.

Lewis Bass, M.S, J.D., attorney, U.S.

Timothy Bowles, Esq., attorney, U.S.

Robert Butcher, barrister and solicitor, Australia.

Robert E. Byron, LLC, attorney, U.S.

Lars Engstrand, attorney, Sweden

Sandro Garcia Rojas, attorney and expert on international law, Mexico.

Guillermo Guzman de la Garza, Director of Extraditions and International Judicial Matters of the Attorney General’s office for Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Steven Hayes, attorney, U.S.

Gregory Hession, Esq., attorney, U.S.

State Sen. Karen Johnson (Az), chairperson of the Family Services Committee, member of the Appropriations and Finance Committees, co-chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Children and Family Services, U.S.

Erik Langeland, attorney, U.S.

Leonid Lemberick, Esq., attorney, CIS.

Vladimir Leonov, M.P., member of Parliament of Leningradsky region of CIS.

Lev Levinson, legal advocate, CIS.

Doug Linde, Esq., attorney, U.S.

Jonathan W. Lubell, LL.B. Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), former president of the National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter, and attorney for the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research, U.S.

Kendrick Moxon, Esq., attorney, U.S.

Rep. Curtis Oda, state representative, Utah, and insurance agent, U.S.

Col. Stanislav Pylov, director of personnel for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, CIS

State Rep. Guadalupe Rodriguez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Timothy Rosen, attorney, U.S.

Steven Russell, Esq., attorney, Utah, U.S.

Rep. Aaron Tilton, state representative, Utah, U.S.

Rep. Mark Thompson, former Arizona state representative, now attorney, U.S.

Rep. Michael Thompson, former state representative, Utah, U.S.

Rep. Matt Throckmorton, former state representative, Utah, U.S.

Arts & Entertainment

Kirstie Alley, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning actress, U.S.

Anne Archer, Academy-Award Nominated actress, U.S.

Jennifer Aspen, actor, U.S.

Catherine Bell, actor, U.S.

Dr. Wadell Brooks, Sr., radio host, “Community Focus”, U.S.

David Campbell, multi-platinum recording arranger, composer and musician, U.S.

Raven Kane Campbell, singer, composer and playwright, U.S.

Nancy Cartwright, Emmy Award-winning actress and voice-over artist, the “Voice of Bart Simpson.”

Kate Ceberano, five-time Platinum and four-time Gold Album recording artist, Australia.

Chick Corea, multi-Grammy Award winner, jazz composer and pianist, U.S.

Bodhi Elfman, actor, U.S.

Jenna Elfman, Golden Globe winning actress, U.S.

Cerise Fukuji, Producer, writer, U.S.

Isaac Hayes, Grammy award winning composer, musician, actor, U.S.

Donna Isham, manager, U.S.

Mark Isham, award winning composer, recording artist and instrumentalist.

Jason Lee, actor, U.S.

Geoff Levin, musician and composer, U.S.

Gordon Lewis, author, publisher, archivist, U.S.

Juliette Lewis, Academy and Golden Globe Award nominated actress, and singer/songwriter, U.S.

John Mappin, chairman and owner, United National Newspaper Group and Camelot Castle, England, U.K.

Jaime Maussan, investigative reporter, Mexico.

Jim Meskimen, actor, U.S.

Tamra Meskimen, actress.

Tariz Nasim, owner and publisher of Carvan Weekly and Radio Carvan, Canada.

Marisol Nichols, actress, U.S.

John Novello, keyboardist, composer, arranger, musical director and producer, U.S.

Kelly Patricia O’Meara, investigative reporter with the Insight Magazine and author of the book, Psyched Out, U.S.

David Pomeranz, multi-Platinum award winning recording artist and songwriter, U.S.

Kelly Preston, actor, U.S.

Carlos Ramirez, actor, U.S.

Leah Remini, actor, U.S.

Carina Rico, singer, Mexico.

Lee Rogers, actor, writer, director and producer, Australia.

Raul Rubio, newspaper reporter for El Regio, Mexico.

Harriet Schock, award-winning singer and songwriter, U.S.

Dennis Smith, the director of TV series JAG and Emmy-nominated Director of Photography, U.S.

Michelle Stafford, Emmy Award Winning Actress, U.S.

Micheal Walker, screenwriter, businessman and educational activist, U.S.

Cass Warner, President and Founder of Warner Sisters Productions, author, granddaughter of Harry Warner, President and Founder of Warner Bros. studios, U.S.

Miles Watkins, director, U.S.

Kelly Yaegermann, actress, producer, U.S.

Education

Doctor Samuel Blumenfeld, former teacher, educator, author of 9 books on education, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children, How to Tutor, The New Illiterates and NEA: The Trojan Horse, U.S.

Gleb Dubov, Ph.D., psychologist and educator, CIS.

Beverly Eakman, executive Director of the U.S. National Education Consortium, (author of Educating For The New World Order and Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education, U.S.

Antony Flew, professor of Philosophy, UK.

Wendy Ghiora, Ph.D., school principal, U.S.

Hector Herrera, professor and Assistant to the Secretary of Education of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Wendy McCants-Thomas, founder of Victory Ranch Inc., a charter school which offers non drug outreach programs for children and, instead, providing literacy and education assessment, U.S.

Sonya Muhammad, M.S., Los Angeles County Office of Education and advocate for foster children, U.S.

James Paicopolos, licensed elementary teacher, school psychologist and school director, U.S.

Nickolai Pavlovsky, university lecturer in ethics, CIS.

Anatoli Prokopenko, archivist, historian and author, CIS.

Gayle Ruzicka, director of Eagle Forum, Utah, an educational and family rights organization, U.S.

Joel Turtel, psychologist, education policy analyst and author of Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie to Parents and Betray Our Children, U.S.

Shelley Ucinski, former School Board Member, New Hampshire, U.S.

Business

Lawrence Anthony, environmentalist and businessman, South Africa.

Michael Baybak, businessman, California, U.S.

Phillip Brown, executive director of Global Business Incubation, U.S.

Luis Colon, CEO or MGE Inc., a management consulting group that has actively supported human rights causes, U.S.

Bob Duggan, businessman, California, U.S.

Joyce Gaines, CEO of United Merchant Services and co-owner of the Professional Business Bank, U.S.

James A. Mackie, businessman and mental health advocate, UK.

Cecilio Ramirez, businessman, U.S.

Sebastien Sainsbury, businessman, UK.

Roberto Santos, businessman, Mexico.

Religion

Pastor Michael Davis, Pentecostal minister, U.S.

Reverend Doctor Jim Nicholls, doctor of theology, founder of the television and radio program “The Voice of Freedom.” U.S.

Bishop Samuel V.J. Rowland, Chief Apostle of the new Bethel Apostolic Assembly, Inc. and Fellowship Mission, U.S.

Activists/Human Rights

Paul Bruhne, holocaust survivor, Germany.

Janice Hill, founder of the Janice Hill Foundation, UK.

Nedra Jones, vice president Silicon Valley chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, U.S.

Elvira Manthey, author, holocaust survivor, Germany.

Sheila Matthews, founder of Ablechild, Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education, U.S.

Ishrat Nasim, President of the Canadian Asian Shelter for the Homeless, Canada.

Ghulam Abbas Sajan, member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Canada.

William Tower, California director of the American Family Rights Association, U.S.

Patricia Weathers, founder of Ablechild, Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education, U.S.

Charles Whittman, III, director of Advocates for Children and Families and a board member of the American Family Rights Association, U.S.

Allan Wohrnitz, BSc, national coordinator of the Children’s Rights Project, South Africa.

Lloyd Wyles, national executive director of the National Indigenous Human Rights Congress, Australia.

All of these individuals should be contacted and informed about the nature, the schemes and antisocial goals of the organization they’ve allowed their names be used to promote. All the other societies or groups these individuals come from or belong to should be contacted and informed about these individuals’ ill-advised support for the Scientology cult, its anti-mental health front group, its anti-intellectualism, its fraud, its sociopathy, and its criminality.

Scientology boss Miscavige’s head private investigator Eugene M. Ingram is a former Los Angeles Police Department vice squad sergeant. When LA PD Chief Daryl Gates stood up to Scientology and its vice squad PI Ingram, and refused completely to cooperate with the cult’s nefarious schemes, there was, as Hubbard postulated, “a new chief of police in there at once.” “Civic leaders” changed the chief of police.

In 1972, Hubbard and Scientology attempted to get their security checking scheme installed on a national level in Morocco. Sea Org missions fired from the Flagship “Apollo” to train Moroccan military intelligence personnel to use the E-meter to interrogate suspected traitors to King Hassan II. The Mission failed, a “shore flap” developed, and the cult’s missionaries and its other staff had to flee Morocco. See, e.g., http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-1999-02-24.html

“Atheism is the state of disbelief or non-belief [1] in the existence of a deity or deities. [2] It is commonly defined as the positive denial of theism (ie. the assertion that deities do not exist), [3] or the deliberate rejection of theism (i.e., the refusal to believe in the existence of deities).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

“Theism is the belief in the existence of one or more divinities or deities.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism

I believe that an agreement can be reached between theists and atheists that will end their age-old conflict about the creation of everything, and allow them to proceed to another discussion or controversy.

All that is required is sanity.  I believe that there can be sane theists and sane atheists; and there can be delusional people who call themselves either theists or atheists.  I assume, for purposes of sane discussion, that there are no delusional people, either theists or atheists, here right now.

A workable (not absolute) criterion and procedure for differentiating sanity from insanity can be the distinguishing between reality and illusion.

The sane can accept that everything is.  Another way of stating this is that the sane can accept that what is, is.

The sane also recognize that what does not exist is not a part of what does exist.  This is a clear arithmetic statement, perhaps as basic as is humanly attainable, on which sane theists and sane atheists can agree.

The delusional will insist that something that does not exist is, or could be part of what exists.  The delusional will necessarily have to redefine existence as nonexistence; or reality as illusion.  But by definition, and pursuant to the rules sane people live by, these delusional redefinitions cannot be true.

If there does not exist a purple elephant, not even the proverbial one, then a purple elephant is not part of everything.  If a purple elephant is brought into existence, then it will be part of everything.

We, quite obviously, do not know what is included in everything.  We do not know, and perhaps cannot know, if even herds of purple elephants are included in everything that exists.  But we can know that what exists exists, and that it is everything that exists, or simply, everything.

Mathematics is (my dictionary says) a science that deals with the relationship and symbolism of numbers and magnitudes and that includes quantitative operations and the solution of quantitative problems.

Math is and works the same for theists and atheists.  These two groups of people can both use the same sets of numbers and magnitudes and both do the same mathematical operations with the same results. Theists and atheists may at times apply math to different problems, but the math can be the same.

What constitutes everything is arrived at by the simplest of mathematical operations, addition.  Everything consists of its bits or components added up.  It might be that multiplication or quanta, for example, are real, so they can be added in.

It is true that an imaginary everything can be calculated in exactly the same way, by addition of its parts, and, being imaginary, can be of any imaginary magnitude.  But it is not necessary to consider imaginary everythings, or imaginary anythings, in order to consider the arithmetical calculation of the real everything.

It is also not necessary in considering the calculation of the total of everything to determine or answer the question of whether the physical world is an illusion, or whether a part or aspect of the world is illusion.  Whatever is illusory simply is not part of what is real, and not part of what adds up to everything.  This is true without knowing or having to know what if anything is illusory and what if anything is real.

So sane theists and sane atheists can agree that everything exists; or, again, said another way, that what exists constitutes everything [that exists].

Sane theists and sane atheists can also agree that everything that exists came from something or somewhere.  Without considering the nature or qualities of what or where everything comes from, that is, the nature or qualities of what caused everything, it is possible to accept and know that it was caused by something. If everything has always been here, then it is causing itself and always caused itself. But again, putting aside any discussion of the cause’s nature, it can be seen that whatever is real has a cause.

The nature of what caused everything that exists could be a big bang, it could be a spark in mud, it could be an error, it could be a non-error, it could be conscious, it could be unconscious, it could be a one-shot deal, it could be a continuing process, it could be everything itself.  It is not necessary to know what caused everything to know that everything was caused.

It could be that today’s oak tree is caused by an acorn of two hundred years ago, or by that acorn’s cause, which could have been another tree and another acorn two hundred years earlier; or by the acorn plus all the sun, soil and water over the hundreds or thousands or millions or billions of years.  It is not necessary to know what caused the oak tree to know that it was caused; if the oak tree exists.

It is not necessary to know if identical or different factors comprise the cause or causes that brought into effect two different parts of everything to know that the two parts were caused.  The oak tree has, for example, its seed, sun, soil and water, if those things comprise its cause; and the clam has its parents, its seed, its sun, its soil and its water too that cause it to be part of everything.

It is not necessary to know if the cause for anything that exists knew what it was doing in causing that thing in order to know that there was a cause.  Even if whatever was caused was caused by quote accident it still had a cause.

Just as everything that exists at this moment can be determined by the simple arithmetic operation of addition of its parts, so too can everything that caused everything that exists be determined by adding up that cause’s parts.

Just as it is not necessary to know what all the parts of everything are, and what the nature of all of the parts is, to be able to know that they add up to everything, it is not necessary to know what all the parts are of what caused everything, and what the nature of all the parts that caused everything is, to be able to know that they add up to everything’s cause.

That sum or totality of whatever, in the beginning or at any time, caused that which exists is properly called “God.”  The theists have almost owned the word, and the atheists, to my knowledge, have oddly objected to using the word, but have never really had another word for it. Fitting “that sum of whatever, in the beginning or at any time, caused what exists” into all the places a person could say “God” is so cumbersome and goofy that the atheists perhaps avoid even getting near those places at all.

God, as the cause or Creator of all that exists, without considering God’s nature or qualities, is what sane theists and sane atheists can agree upon. They can talk together about oak trees coming from acorns, thoughts being created by minds, or man causing pollution, overpopulation or his own destruction.  And now sane theists and atheists can talk about God, those causes added together that resulted in whatever is real.

Whether that cause or Creator created everything in Love, or is a God of Love, or an all-knowing God, or a just God, or is in fact Everything Itself Anyway, does not have to be considered to know that the sum of all causes caused all that is.

God could be a force, an “accident,” a wave, a particle, a static, an evolution or a Big Bang, but these natures or qualities of God do not have to be considered to know that God, the sum of all causes, caused all that is.

It is true that knowing that God caused or created everything might very well cause a search for God’s nature and qualities, and even God’s intention, reason and wisdom.  Very possibly, some people will be led to a belief that God is omniscient, omnipresent or all-loving; and some people may be led to a belief that God is capricious, mechanistic or even hateful.  Some people may be led to the belief that God caused everything and then left the building.  These beliefs might influence people’s lives, but it is not necessary to know if any of these beliefs about God’s nature or actions are right or wrong to know that God caused or created everything.

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This proof is sound biblically, conforming to the words and thought contained in John 1:3 (KJV) “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.”

A usual response from someone who takes offense at this simple proof is to try to project a straw believer’s qualities for God onto the basic identity of God, which is given here deliberately without qualities.  It will be argued that it is improper to use the word “God” without considering God’s nature and qualities beyond God’s being “the sum of all causes for everything.”

Either there is a cause for what exists or there is not. If there is a single cause, the theist says, the name for it is “God.”  If causation has component parts over time that added together form the sum of all causes, the theist says that the name for that sum is “God.” No nature or quality of any part of that cause or sum of those causes is considered in calling it “God.”

In order to prove that the cause for everything could not be God; that is, that the cause for everything could not be the cause for everything, a person must start by proving that there could be no cause for anything.  Since we are so overwhelmingly surrounded by everything that exists, and form ourselves a part of what exists, such a “proof” can only be “accomplished” by resorting to delusion or insanity, and pronouncing everything to be nothing, reality to be illusion.

There is no need whatsoever to sacrifice our God-given, or God-caused, minds and to opt for delusion.  The simplest conclusion happens to be the sane one. Everything exists. God did it.

Photo: JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

As part of Runners Against Trash (RAT), Gerry Armstrong runs a route and as he runs he picks up trash along the way. jenna hauck/ progress

Katie Robinson
The Progress

Just like a rat, Gerry Armstrong likes trash – likes picking up trash, that is.

For 20 years Armstrong has been picking up haphazardly discarded trash laying about his neighbourhoods. Candy wrappers, cigarette butts, even dirty diapers. And he’s been doing it while running.

It doesn’t matter how far the distance, 5 km, 10 km, 42 km, he always picks up the trash. “Carrying stuff while I’m running gives me great upper body strength, and it keeps me incredibly limber,” he said.

But Armstrong didn’t start all this for the benefit of upper body strength. He started more for punishment than reward.

When Armstrong first started running in his 40s, he often had to slow down to a walk part way through his runs, due to exhaustion. To penalize himself for slowing down, he forced himself to pick up trash and carry it until he came across a suitable receptacle. Sometimes, he carried that trash through his entire run.

But soon, it became almost like a game: sprint to the next piece of trash game.

“It was insurmountable at first, but I just kept plugging away and away,” said Armstrong. “The cleaner an area got, the easier it was to spot things, and when I did, it was really exciting to be able to run and pick up the next wrapper, or butt, or whatever else was lying there.”

While living in California, Armstrong formed a society, Runners Against Trash (RAT), and organized a group of runners to assist him in his trash-cleaning adventures. They cleaned their own running routes, popular routes, and Armstrong even went as far as cleaning the first 5 km of the Boston Marathon, before participating the next day.

What first started out as a penalization, quickly evolved into a dream, a dream of cleaning up North America.

“It’s doable,” said Armstrong. “An organized bunch of runners could easily clean an area very fast, and also raise societal consciousness about picking up trash.”

But since moving back to Chilliwack, his hometown, it’s just been Armstrong picking up the trash – he wants to change that. He wants to get RATs out again.

And the benefit of doing such a thing, he said, is everlasting.

“It is such a wonderful feeling being in an area where the inhabitants take such obvious care,” he said, listing “clean” cities in Europe as examples. “The amount of good that can come from this is monumental.

“It’s Gerry’s dream.”

For   more   information, or to get involved, contact Gerry Armstrong by email at gerry@gerryarmstrong.org.

krobinson@theprogress.com

Original broadcast 30 June 2008
Enhanced audio file (Thanks scientrology.org)

When I arrived, Armstrong suggested we drive to a nearby park, rather than talk in their apartment. It was a beautiful July day and, except for a couple of stoners milling about out of earshot, the three of us were alone on the manicured grass beside a pond. Now sixty-one, Armstrong is an alarmingly small man, with elfin features, a beaky nose, sallow skin and large limpid blue eyes. The baseball cap he wore to ward off the hot sun made him look even more vulnerable. Amiable, soft-spoken with no trace of aggression, he chose his words with deliberation. Caroline seemed protective of him.

Full article online at Maisonneuve

The following images were published in the hard copy magazine article.