Scientology head L. Ron Hubbard wrote “The Way To Happiness,” which he called the “morals booklet,” in 1980, while hiding out in California. He’d gone into hiding principally to avoid people seeking justice for injustices he’d perpetrated, or seeking the truth from him.

He sent the manuscript and orders for its publication and exploitation to his “Senior Personal Public Relations Officer” Laurel Sullivan. In Flag ED 2119 dated 4 Feb 1981, Laurel provides what Hubbard stated was the purpose of the booklet and its exploitation program: “to improve morals over the world and create a hand to hand subversion of an immoral society.”

As can be seen by the ED’s distribution list, this purpose and the program were known to and embraced by Scientology management and both the Guardian’s Office and Commodore’s Messenger Organization hierarchies. I was Laurel’s direct junior at the time, and possessed the ED because I had program targets as Snr Pers PRO Researcher.

To make his subversion scheme seem moral, Hubbard postulated an immoral society. All Scientologists identically postulate an immoral society in order to contribute to its subversion with, among other things, Hubbard’s Way to Happiness scheme.

Society is not immoral enough to be subverted by the likes of L. Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige, Mark Rathbun, Mike Rinder or any Scientologist in the world. Yet all Scientologists participate in society’s subversion.

Postulating an immoral society — or a “dangerous environment,” or society on a “dwindling spiral,” or “hell on earth,” etc. — is a procedural step in what Hubbard called in his scripture “Scientology Zero.” Hubbard’s idea was to postulate an immoral society, or danger or chaos, and then sell Scientology as a moral or stabilizing influence, or source of calm. See also this 2009 talk “Scientology, the Dangerous Environment Racket.”

Hubbard merchandized chaos and fear and profited from promises of their calming, reduction and erasure, and he got others to do the same. Current Scientology head Miscavige likewise merchandizes chaos and fear, sells the calmness solution to the dangerous environment he postulates and merchandizes, and gets Scientologists everywhere working on his program.

The cult even now calls its Way to Happiness campaign “Operation Planetary Calm.”

The “Way to Happiness British Columbia” web site states the booklet “can help to spread calm across a turbulent world.” http://www.improving-our-community.com/

The last page of the waytohappiness.org’s online booklet reads:

All you have to do is keep The Way to Happiness flowing in the society. Like gentle oil spread upon the raging sea, the calm will flow outward and outward.

The conduct and actions of others affects your own survival.

The Way to Happiness includes helping your contacts and friends.

Begin with close friends and contacts that affect your survival.

Give them The Way to Happiness and several additional copies—so they too can spread the calm outward and outward.

This pocket-size booklet is available in quantities of 12.

Hardback and special gift editions may also be obtained.

Special discounts exist for schools, civic groups, government organizations and businesses as well as other programs allowing for individuals and groups to republish this book for widespread distribution.

For more information contact The Way to Happiness Foundation www.thewaytohappiness.org

In line with TWTH’s purpose of subverting society, Scientology’s public statements of its purpose omit any mention of subversion. E.g., “its purpose is to help arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to Man.”

The Way to Happiness Foundation says its mission is “reversing the moral decay in society by restoring trust and honesty in the world through the publication and widespread distribution of The Way to Happiness.”

It’s understandable that Scientology and Scientologists would hide their purpose for TWTH of creating a subversion of our society, because the subversion they intend is so antisocial, and they know it.

“Subvert” has two basic applicable meanings:

1.  to overturn or overthrow from the foundation;

2.  to pervert or corrupt by an undermining of morals, allegiance, or faith

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subvert

Our society’s foundation is morality, not immorality, and includes all the “moral precepts” Hubbard lists in the Way to Happiness booklet, e.g., truth, trust, respect for religious beliefs. To overturn or overthrow our society from these foundational morals would yield what Scientology and Scientologists actually want:  a society founded, as Scientology is founded, on lies, mistrust, religious ignorance and suppression, and a host of other evils or immoralities.

In 1984, a California State Court issued a judgment in the case of Scientology v. Armstrong, affirmed on appeal in 1991, that addressed Hubbard’s moral standards.

The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/283.php

Hubbard’s immorality and base cynicism  also evidenced throughout Flag ED 2119, and acutely in the reference to the “Messianic buttons.”

Incidently, those on promotion lines will be very interested to know that this property very clearly fills all 9 of the Messianic buttons. The demand for such a code by the public is long term, and “happiness” is a button to be found again and again on surveys.  In short, we have another winner and the value of this property and its widespread use should not be underestimated.

In the 1970’s Hubbard had Scientologists conduct a massive set of surveys to find out what were the qualities people recognized in messiahs. These included, of course, honesty, humanitarianism, justice, etc. which is how Scientologists universally characterize Hubbard, Miscavige, Rathbun, etc. The messiahs’ valuable final product or gift to mankind that Scientologists surveyed was “happiness.”

Hubbard was never going to possess or manifest a messiah’s qualities, or even desire these qualities, because he was a pathological liar, a coward, a malignant narcissist and a sociopath. But he had his Scientologist troops in the organization he controlled promote him as having a messiah’s qualities.

Like Hubbard, David Miscavige is a gargantuan and pathological liar and sociopath. He is a violent man who has physically beaten many people and gleefully ruined many lives. He is also frightfully cynical, promoting himself as messiah with a messiah’s qualities, while remaining a conscienceless tyrant. See also Nancy Many’s book My Billion Year Contract about Scientology’s Messianic Surveys.

Lies have always been mandated and enforced in Scientology under both Hubbard and Miscavige, and telling the truth about the cult’s nature, intentions and activities is punished as “treason.” Indeed, lying is so pervasive in Scientology it has for years been known as the religion’s central sacrament.

Scientology states on its Way to Happiness Foundation site that “the Way to Happiness book sets a standard of conduct for the citizens of the world.”

Yet Scientology and Scientologists will never apply the booklet’s moral precepts to themselves, and will never permit its standard of conduct among themselves.

Scientology and Scientologists seek the advantages that come when everyone else is honest and the cultists still lie, cheat, rip people off, break up families, and destroy basic human rights, including most egregiously freedom of religion. Scientology’s standard of conduct is the standard of conduct of sociopaths.

By remaining willfully and actively immoral – dishonest, untrustworthy, setting a terrible example, harmful of people of good will, etc. — while preaching morality in the world’s “first nonreligious moral code,” Scientology and Scientologists have had some success in undermining morals, allegiance and faith and achieving the perversion or corruption of many individuals and some significant sectors of society.

Scientology and Scientologists cannot but see our society’s members as potential marks. They distribute their Way to Happiness booklets to people who can be conned into believing that Scientologists are as moral as their moral code, or who can be conned into joining in the immorality that is Scientology, and joining in the hand to hand subversion of the moral society they’ve left.

As the Way to Happiness and its exploitation program demonstrate, Scientology and Scientologists are organized to subvert what is honest, upright and just in our society. Consequently, it is honest, upright and just to subvert immoral Scientology and the immoral Scientologists. For the honest, upright and just, Scientology’s subversion, its overturning or overthrowing from its foundation of immorality, is the way to happiness. Happily, it’s also the way to happiness for the Scientologists.

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

Via E-mail: Senator.Xenophon@aph.gov.au

Dear Senator Xenophon:

I’m writing you because someone has offered to fly me to Australia to contribute to the effort to bring about an inquiry into Scientology. I would like to communicate with you, or someone from your office, or someone else you suggest, to establish if and how I can be helpful, and to work out a schedule.

I am copying this letter to Seven Network’s Bryan Seymour and Craig McPherson because you commended them in your Senate speech for their investigative reports, and they might already even know of my relationship to Scientology.

Last Saturday, a videographer at the monthly Anonymous protest of Scientology in Vancouver, BC, Canada asked me about Australia, and then put this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4CoGWjULss

I mentioned that if my information or testimony about Hubbard, Scientology fraud, fair game, etc. was wanted in Australia I would be up for going there.

A man in Montreal saw the video, e-mailed my wife Caroline and me, and offered to pay our way for this purpose. I accepted, and this kind gentleman has now sent a sum to us by Paypal. For security reasons, our present intention is that I make the trip alone.

That someone in Canada has come forward to pay for this trip to support a governmental inquiry in Australia into Scientology evidences the importance this matter has for people internationally.

Caroline and I sent you brief reports last month in support of your call for an inquiry. Both of us were high level Scientologists and are now high level targets and opponents of the organization. My site: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/

Caroline’s site: http://www.carolineletkeman.org/sp/

Our site on Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine: http://www.suppressiveperson.org/spdl/

I have testified for over 70 days in depositions or trials in more than 20 Scientology related legal cases, written dozens of sworn declarations or affidavits, and spoken publicly or done media interviews on many occasions, most recently in Germany. I think that my knowledge and experiences can be helpful in understanding, questioning and dealing with Scientology, and I hope that Australia uses them.

I will also now communicate this information to Australian internet contacts Caroline and I have, so that my time can be well utilized, and this excellent opportunity developed for the best result.

Please feel free to forward this letter to anyone else.

Yours sincerely, and Merry Christmas!

Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2P6
Canada
(001) 604-703-1373
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

WWP: Post Game International Megaraid Event – Hamburg – December 3rd-6th

OCMB: International Megaraid Hamburg December 3 – 6 2009

I am in touch, mostly by Internet, with people around the world who know of the work being done here by Ms. Caberta and her staff. It is perhaps as well known as Hamburg’s famous „Miniatur Wunderland,“ the world’s largest model railroad. The Scientology Working Group is, of course, known by different people, not happy, model railroad-loving children and other visitors to Hamburg, but survivors and victims of the Scientology cult, and other people involved in the opposition to to the cult’s fraud, abuses and criminality. Ms. Caberta and her group are also well known to Scientology’s leaders who perpetrate that fraud, abuse and crime.

I am a survivor, victim and target of Scientology. I was inside the cult for 12 ½ years, and was terribly abused – defrauded, enslaved and imprisoned. On December 12, I will have been out of the cult for 28 years. All those years, I have been a target of Scientology’s aggressive and criminal policy and practice known as „Fair Game.“ There are thousands of people who are victims and targets just like me. We all, some more than others of course, look to Hamburg and derive strength and even some safety and security from the Working Group, and from the knowledge that the State and people of Hamburg support it.

People too who were never Scientologists but who stand up to the cult on behalf of its victims – attorneys, government officials, clergy, educators – also look to Hamburg.

The working Group is quite unique in the world. My country of Canada has no such group, and one is truly needed. Not every city in Germany perhaps needs such a group, because Hamburg’s group has done so well. But Germany needs a group, and the world needs a group, and Hamburg – thanks be to God – is that group. It is knowledgeable, accessible and human.

Because people everywhere know about the Miniatur Wunderland, and know about model railroads, is not a good reason to shrink or eliminate the Miniatur Wunderland. Because Ms. Caberta’s group has been effective in educating people about Scientology’s dangers is not a good reason to curtail the group’s activities.

Scientology’s membership might be declining slightly, but it is still dangerous – to society and to its own members. The recent revelations of physical assaults and other abuse by cult leader David Miscavige, and long, unlawful incarcerations of his Scientologist juniors show that it’s actually more dangerous than ever inside.

Because Scientology under Miscavige is abusing people terribly, we have no choice but to keep up the pressure against him and his cult – with media, legal processes, protests, etc. But, as history with other destructive cults has shown, with such pressure comes increased possibilities of tragedies and mass exoduses of members, all of whom are victims, who will need help. We pray and work, of course, for no such tragedy, but we must be prepared for it. For that reason too, we in this conflict look to Hamburg, and pray that this group keeps working.

If Hamburg hosted World Cup football, the security needs would be enormous. If security was successful, no catastrophe would happen. If no catastrophe happened in the event’s first weeks, it would make no sense to withdraw security in the final week to save money, or because security had been so effective or had done such a good job. No, security would be maintained until the event was complete. For the same reason, we who understand Scientology and its dangers to security ask that the Hamburg Working Group be kept working.

This would also, of course, send a clear message to Scientology’s leaders and deny them the „big win“ they seek against Ms. Caberta and Hamburg.

___________

To understand Scientology’s treatment and handling of critics and criticism, internally and externally, it is necessary to understand that the cult is a dictatorship and at war.

Scientology’s enemies in its war are a class of people called „Suppressive Persons“ or „SPs.“ Anyone who criticizes Scientology, or its dictator David Miscavige is an SP. Scientology says that SPs are completely evil and cause all illness and every other problem in the world. In truth, SPs are simply good people with the courage to stand up to Scientology and criticize it.

Scientology’s rules of criticism and dealing with critics are complex, often extremely rigid, and at times totally arbitrary.

The rules of criticism are very different for Dictator Miscavige than they are for other Scientologists. When I was inside, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard ran the cult and the rules were very different for him than for the rest of us.

Hubbard could, and Miscavige can criticize anyone , and no one can criticize them. Anyone who dared to criticize them would be severely punished. If they even suspected that someone harbored a critical thought that person would be punished. There are credible reports coming out of Scientology recently of Miscavige physically beating juniors just because he felt they were thinking critical thoughts about him.

The leader’s „criticisms“ of his juniors can be nasty, defamatory black propaganda. The juniors cannot even tell the truth about the leader.

For Scientologists generally, there are certain things that are always beyond critcism, and any criticism of them is punished. E.g.,
1. Scientology works;
2. Hubbard is right;
3. Miscavige is right;
4. Management is right;
5. Scientology is the most ethical group on the planet.

These assertions are complete lies, and of course, deserve a great deal of criticism.
1. Scientology does not work as it claims, but is a criminal fraud;
2. Hubbard was a monstrous liar, in fact he was declared a pathological liar in the first case in which Scientology sued me;
3. Miscavige is an equally big liar, and a sociopath;
4. Scientology management is dishonest and criminal;
5. Scientology is arguably the most unethical group in the world.

Scientology indoctrinates its members with the idea (which cannot be questioned or criticized) that people who criticize it, or criticize Hubbard, Miscavige or Mangement are criminals with crimes in their past for which they can be imprisoned. Because of this, Scientologists learn to suppress any reasonable criticism they could have of these things – which deserve obvious criticism – and don’t even bring their criticisms up to consciousness.

Scientology subjects its members to „security checks“ using the E-meter as a lie detector to find any disagreements or criticisms they might have. These sec checks can even be „gang bang“ style in which a person is locked in a room, put on the meter and multiple people interrogate him, scream accusations at him, and attempt to break him down to confess to criticisms he had.

For people who do criticize Scientology, Hubbard, Miscavige, etc., Scientology’s intelligence or security personnel are instructed to find or manufacture evidence of their crimes. Scientologists and their agents have attempted several times to have me criminally prosecuted on manufactured evidence – in the US, including with the FBI, and even in Russia.

Just as there are things in Scientology that may not be criticized, there are things that must be critricized. E.g.,
1. Psychiatry;
2. Media;
3. The whole wog world and all wogs (what Scientologists call us, human beings);
4. Anyone who leaves Scientology;
5. All critics or SPs.

If a Scientologist even „grants credence“ to an SP – which could be as little as acknowledging that something about the SP, or something the SP is saying, is okay – the Scientologist can be declared an SP and made „Fair Game.“

Being declared an SP is a terrifying experience for most Scientologists, and they will do almost anything to avoid it. The threat of being declared an SP is used constantly inside to control the members.

Being declared an SP means that the person is disconnected from friends and family members who remain „in good standing“ in Scientology. The cult denies that disconnection, or Fair Game exist, but these are simply lies, which to these practices’ victims are very cruel.

My wife Caroline was declared an SP for criticizing Scientology and Hubbard, and the cult’s leadership disconnected her daughter from her, and she has not communicated to Caroline in over 8 years.

Caroline was inside Scientology and a devoted member for 24 years. She paid over $60 thousand, and worked many years for slave wages. Yet the leadership would turn on her, black PR her, destroy her relationship with her only child, Fair Game her in the US, Canada and even in Germany, just because she dared criticize the cult and it creator.

Because I criticized Scientology and Hubbard, current cult head Miscavige has had me physically assaulted six times, spied on, sued six times, and relentlessly black PRed. Scientology agents have run covert intelligence operations on me and my family, bankrupted me, broken into my car and stolen my possessions, caused trouble for me with my employers, and caused potential employers to not employ me.

All these Fair Game actions have, of course, given me even more to criticize Scientology for. In fact they have made criticizing Scientology even more necessary for my health,sanity and safety, and the safety of my family and fellow SPs.

When everyone is free to criticize what in Scientology needs criticism, and when Scientologists are free to criticize and are no longer in fear of punishment if they criticize their organization’s evils, then the war will be over. Then the Hamburg Working Group can declare „Mission Accomplished“ and we can all go off to other careers, crusades or callings.

Gerry Armstrong