60 Minutes New Zealand - June 13 2006
'60 Minutes' on Scientology, New Zealand TV3 Best part is Martin Ruston aka Rockyslammer, talking about Scientology.
60 Minutes New Zealand - June 13 2006 - Tom Cruseand Scientology via Noolmusic.com
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Man Overboard: To Leave Scientology, Don Jason Had to Jump Off a Ship
"Don Jason was a Scientology officer who wanted out. Instead, he says he was held against his will, locked on a ship in the Caribbean."
[..] It always bothered him, and Jason resolved that he never would submit to the program. When the order came that he do the RPF aboard the Freewinds, he said he wanted off the ship.
No, the guards said. Do the program.
"So you're holding me against my will?"
Jason tried to walk off the ship with parishioners going on a shore excursion. The Freewinds guards stepped in his way. He tried a second time, but they blocked him again.
For three days he protested by refusing to work, but that only got him more restrictions. He needed a new approach.
THE ROLLING PIN
Jason decided to act like a good soldier, the picture of compliance. Behaving got him better work assignments and more freedom to move about the ship.
He ruled out jumping overboard. The 40-foot drop was too dangerous, and the dock walls too high, with no ladders.
The thick, 30-foot cables that moor the ship to the dock seemed his best chance. He thought through the variables.
He would have to move quickly down the cable; the guards would hurry to the dock to head him off. Timing was important. Too many people on the dock and he would create a scene. Then again, he wanted at least a few witnesses.
When the ship docked each day, he watched the cables go taut and slack with the tide. A drooping cable would leave him short of the dock. He would have to time his descent so when he reached bottom, the cable would be taut. He would have to get around the metal plate that kept rats from climbing to the ship.
He scavenged for materials to build a device that would help him quickly get down the cable.
He fashioned something like a rolling pin. Starting with a wooden dowel the thickness of a clothing rod, he sawed off a 16-inch piece. Around it he fit a 7-inch length of PVC pipe. To keep the PVC from moving side to side, he sunk drywall screws into the dowel on either end of the PVC.
For two weeks he observed and thought things through. He would have to hold his body high in case he needed to bring up his legs and slow his descent. He ate lunch on the bow every day so that when the time came, the guards wouldn't think twice about him being there.
Three months before, Jason had a title, an office and authority over hundreds of staff in Clearwater. Now his church was treating him like a prisoner.
"I'm thinking, You know what? Once I pull a stunt like this, I'll never get off this ship on my own terms. So I'm committed. Once I start this, I have to be prepared to take it all the way.
"I'm going to do whatever I have to to get off that ship, which includes fist-fighting people, yelling my head off, whatever it takes. I'm not going back on that ship. Period.''
NOV. 21, 1996
He had been on the ship six weeks when he made his move. Jason can't remember if they docked in Freeport or Nassau, just that the town had a decent-sized airport.[..]
Don Jason's route out of Scientology
Times staff In Print: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
1 August 1996: Working at Scientology's Flag Service Organization in Clearwater, Don Jason is told that the church is going to discipline him for something he felt was unfair. He leaves the next day without permission and drives on I-4 to Daytona Beach. He takes back roads north to Fernandina Beach and spends the night at a motel.
2 The next day: He continues north through Savannah. He assumes the church will look for him in his native Milwaukee, so he randomly chooses to settle in Atlanta.
3 After six weeks: He gets second thoughts about how he left. He returns to Clearwater to follow the church's approved "routing out'' process.
4 October 1996: Jason flies to the Bahamas to board Scientology's cruise ship, the Freewinds, where he becomes a virtual prisoner.
5 Six weeks later: Jason escapes over the bow of the Freewinds and makes it to the airport. He buys a ticket to Milwaukee, with a layover in Atlanta. A Scientology official buys the seat next to Jason on the leg to Atlanta. The layover: Marty Rathbun, a top Scientology executive, intercepts Jason at the Atlanta airport. Rathbun tries to persuade him to return to Clearwater and follow proper procedure to leave the church. Jason refuses, and Rathbun flies with him to Milwaukee.
6 In Milwaukee: Jason's mother and a sister pick him up at the airport. The next day, he comes to Rathbun's hotel and signs confessions to his "crimes."
7 Twelve years later: Jason works in Chicago as an operations manager for a building supply company.
[Last modified: Nov 02, 2009 10:56 PM]
Read and watch the complete Tampabay.com TRUTH RUNDOWN series to get the full picture.
[..] It always bothered him, and Jason resolved that he never would submit to the program. When the order came that he do the RPF aboard the Freewinds, he said he wanted off the ship.
No, the guards said. Do the program.
"So you're holding me against my will?"
Jason tried to walk off the ship with parishioners going on a shore excursion. The Freewinds guards stepped in his way. He tried a second time, but they blocked him again.
For three days he protested by refusing to work, but that only got him more restrictions. He needed a new approach.
THE ROLLING PIN
Jason decided to act like a good soldier, the picture of compliance. Behaving got him better work assignments and more freedom to move about the ship.
He ruled out jumping overboard. The 40-foot drop was too dangerous, and the dock walls too high, with no ladders.
The thick, 30-foot cables that moor the ship to the dock seemed his best chance. He thought through the variables.
He would have to move quickly down the cable; the guards would hurry to the dock to head him off. Timing was important. Too many people on the dock and he would create a scene. Then again, he wanted at least a few witnesses.
When the ship docked each day, he watched the cables go taut and slack with the tide. A drooping cable would leave him short of the dock. He would have to time his descent so when he reached bottom, the cable would be taut. He would have to get around the metal plate that kept rats from climbing to the ship.
He scavenged for materials to build a device that would help him quickly get down the cable.
He fashioned something like a rolling pin. Starting with a wooden dowel the thickness of a clothing rod, he sawed off a 16-inch piece. Around it he fit a 7-inch length of PVC pipe. To keep the PVC from moving side to side, he sunk drywall screws into the dowel on either end of the PVC.
For two weeks he observed and thought things through. He would have to hold his body high in case he needed to bring up his legs and slow his descent. He ate lunch on the bow every day so that when the time came, the guards wouldn't think twice about him being there.
Three months before, Jason had a title, an office and authority over hundreds of staff in Clearwater. Now his church was treating him like a prisoner.
"I'm thinking, You know what? Once I pull a stunt like this, I'll never get off this ship on my own terms. So I'm committed. Once I start this, I have to be prepared to take it all the way.
"I'm going to do whatever I have to to get off that ship, which includes fist-fighting people, yelling my head off, whatever it takes. I'm not going back on that ship. Period.''
NOV. 21, 1996
He had been on the ship six weeks when he made his move. Jason can't remember if they docked in Freeport or Nassau, just that the town had a decent-sized airport.[..]
Don Jason's route out of Scientology
Times staff In Print: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
1 August 1996: Working at Scientology's Flag Service Organization in Clearwater, Don Jason is told that the church is going to discipline him for something he felt was unfair. He leaves the next day without permission and drives on I-4 to Daytona Beach. He takes back roads north to Fernandina Beach and spends the night at a motel.
2 The next day: He continues north through Savannah. He assumes the church will look for him in his native Milwaukee, so he randomly chooses to settle in Atlanta.
3 After six weeks: He gets second thoughts about how he left. He returns to Clearwater to follow the church's approved "routing out'' process.
4 October 1996: Jason flies to the Bahamas to board Scientology's cruise ship, the Freewinds, where he becomes a virtual prisoner.
5 Six weeks later: Jason escapes over the bow of the Freewinds and makes it to the airport. He buys a ticket to Milwaukee, with a layover in Atlanta. A Scientology official buys the seat next to Jason on the leg to Atlanta. The layover: Marty Rathbun, a top Scientology executive, intercepts Jason at the Atlanta airport. Rathbun tries to persuade him to return to Clearwater and follow proper procedure to leave the church. Jason refuses, and Rathbun flies with him to Milwaukee.
6 In Milwaukee: Jason's mother and a sister pick him up at the airport. The next day, he comes to Rathbun's hotel and signs confessions to his "crimes."
7 Twelve years later: Jason works in Chicago as an operations manager for a building supply company.
[Last modified: Nov 02, 2009 10:56 PM]
Read and watch the complete Tampabay.com TRUTH RUNDOWN series to get the full picture.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back
Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you backBy Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers
Posted: Oct 31, 2009 04:30 AM
Posted: Oct 31, 2009 04:30 AM
Belgian newspaper De Morgen On Legal Choices To Hit Scientology
Thank you to Anonymous member TrevAnon for posting about the following article Belgian newspaper De Morgen on legal choices to hit Scientology. I have posted the original via BlogThis and have provided an English translation summary posted by another anonymous member because the Google translation did not translate the title accurately.
De Morgen De Gedachte -
Tref scientology in het hart (1022367) Belgium
Anonymous Summary:
Be firm with Scientology
Luc Willems is a lawyer who is the former reporter of the parliamentary inquiry into the cults and former senator for Open VLD, a liberal Belgian political party. Den Morgen is a reputable somewhat Leftist newspaper.
Belgian law, like French law but unlike English law, is Napoleonic and so depends on the application of general categories such as abuse of trust, extortion, illegal practice of medicine, or theft.
In France this week Scientology was convicted of organized fraud and in the U.S. is under attack by several legal suits brought by former members. In Belgium also several lawsuits against the cult are pending. Luc Willems has been occupied with the problem of cults for years: "Police and public prosecutors still do not have the right weapons to fight cults.”
The power that these organizations want to exercise conflict with basic rights and freedoms. To what extent should the government intervene?
Opinions are divided. Some say people should think for themselves; others feel that when people in distress are being manipulated, there should be more government intervention.
In the field of consumer protection the government in the seventies already set rules and enforcement to protect consumers from deception and misleading sales practices. A clear choice was made in favor of protecting the individual over the unbridled freedom of contract. And with success.
In Scientology the same question arises. Scientology followers are recruited through personal contacts or cover organizations. The potential victim is put through a profound personality test. The outcome of these tests is always similar: there are problems, but they can be cured by Scientology. The potential cult-member then gets a communication course offered at almost no cost or even free. Then a new course follows that costs more and before the cult-member knows he or she is immersed in the Church of Scientology and they pay expensive courses with questionable content and without results.
As long as this is done freely, there still is no problem. Gradually, however, the organization takes control over the cult member's personal life. Then it gets dangerous. Is the member able to get out at any time he wants? Does Scientology respect that choice? Does Scientology allow the ex-member to quietly build up his life again? There are many testimonies of victims against Scientology in this respect. Victims quickly lose 50,000 euros and their lives with it. They go further into debt to be able to take courses.
People in the throes of a personal crisis are particularly vulnerable: a broken relationship, job loss or loneliness makes them vulnerable to the feel-good-courses. The effects in relational and financial terms are dramatic. The same problems occur with therapeutic and other religious cults.
Rain in Paris
The parliamentary inquiry into cults in 1997 identified a series of failures in legislation and administration. Despite fierce criticism from cults, the majority of the recommendations from the inquiry were implemented into guidelines and legislation, and made operational. The most important part was the independent IACSSO, the advisory centre that informs the general public about cults in our country. Addressing the harmful cults was efficient and there followed a number of convictions. One recommendation which would criminalise the core business of cults has so far remained a dead letter: this is the mental destabilization of individuals and the abuse of vulnerable people. Since 2001 France has the About-Picard law which addresses these questions.
This law allows for prosecution to investigate proactively and for the courts to condemn serious violations. In Belgium, the prosecution must rely on more general crimes such as forgery, abuse of trust, extortion, receiving stolen goods, theft, slander, defamation or unlawful practice of medicine. The core of the activity, the abuse of the mental weakness of certain groups of people, remains out of reach. A thoughtful and effective legislation is essential to address certain issues. Police and public prosecutors have to date no appropriate legislative means to fight the dubious and reprehensible practices of certain cults.
Drizzle in Brussels
The support for legislation designed to prosecute such cases has significantly increased over the years. The opinions of the parliamentary monitoring committee in 2005 and the IACSSO indicated that there is wide cross-party support. However no parliamentary debate took place. Now it's raining in Paris, is perhaps the time to let it drizzle in Brussels.
Here is the original via Blog This
Tref scientology in het hart
De Morgen De Gedachte -
Tref scientology in het hart (1022367) Belgium
Anonymous Summary:
Be firm with Scientology
Luc Willems is a lawyer who is the former reporter of the parliamentary inquiry into the cults and former senator for Open VLD, a liberal Belgian political party. Den Morgen is a reputable somewhat Leftist newspaper.
Belgian law, like French law but unlike English law, is Napoleonic and so depends on the application of general categories such as abuse of trust, extortion, illegal practice of medicine, or theft.
In France this week Scientology was convicted of organized fraud and in the U.S. is under attack by several legal suits brought by former members. In Belgium also several lawsuits against the cult are pending. Luc Willems has been occupied with the problem of cults for years: "Police and public prosecutors still do not have the right weapons to fight cults.”
The power that these organizations want to exercise conflict with basic rights and freedoms. To what extent should the government intervene?
Opinions are divided. Some say people should think for themselves; others feel that when people in distress are being manipulated, there should be more government intervention.
In the field of consumer protection the government in the seventies already set rules and enforcement to protect consumers from deception and misleading sales practices. A clear choice was made in favor of protecting the individual over the unbridled freedom of contract. And with success.
In Scientology the same question arises. Scientology followers are recruited through personal contacts or cover organizations. The potential victim is put through a profound personality test. The outcome of these tests is always similar: there are problems, but they can be cured by Scientology. The potential cult-member then gets a communication course offered at almost no cost or even free. Then a new course follows that costs more and before the cult-member knows he or she is immersed in the Church of Scientology and they pay expensive courses with questionable content and without results.
As long as this is done freely, there still is no problem. Gradually, however, the organization takes control over the cult member's personal life. Then it gets dangerous. Is the member able to get out at any time he wants? Does Scientology respect that choice? Does Scientology allow the ex-member to quietly build up his life again? There are many testimonies of victims against Scientology in this respect. Victims quickly lose 50,000 euros and their lives with it. They go further into debt to be able to take courses.
People in the throes of a personal crisis are particularly vulnerable: a broken relationship, job loss or loneliness makes them vulnerable to the feel-good-courses. The effects in relational and financial terms are dramatic. The same problems occur with therapeutic and other religious cults.
Rain in Paris
The parliamentary inquiry into cults in 1997 identified a series of failures in legislation and administration. Despite fierce criticism from cults, the majority of the recommendations from the inquiry were implemented into guidelines and legislation, and made operational. The most important part was the independent IACSSO, the advisory centre that informs the general public about cults in our country. Addressing the harmful cults was efficient and there followed a number of convictions. One recommendation which would criminalise the core business of cults has so far remained a dead letter: this is the mental destabilization of individuals and the abuse of vulnerable people. Since 2001 France has the About-Picard law which addresses these questions.
This law allows for prosecution to investigate proactively and for the courts to condemn serious violations. In Belgium, the prosecution must rely on more general crimes such as forgery, abuse of trust, extortion, receiving stolen goods, theft, slander, defamation or unlawful practice of medicine. The core of the activity, the abuse of the mental weakness of certain groups of people, remains out of reach. A thoughtful and effective legislation is essential to address certain issues. Police and public prosecutors have to date no appropriate legislative means to fight the dubious and reprehensible practices of certain cults.
Drizzle in Brussels
The support for legislation designed to prosecute such cases has significantly increased over the years. The opinions of the parliamentary monitoring committee in 2005 and the IACSSO indicated that there is wide cross-party support. However no parliamentary debate took place. Now it's raining in Paris, is perhaps the time to let it drizzle in Brussels.
Here is the original via Blog This
Tref scientology in het hart
Saturday, October 31, 2009
L Ron Hubbard On Audio Tape Creating The Origins Of Those Space Cooties
It's been an overall very bad week for scientology.
Now comes an unearthing and posting on the internet of a rare tape 1952 audio tape with L Ron Hubbard and his wife, Mary Sue aka "Sue"! Wonders will never cease!!
What is remarkable about the tape is that gives the earliest history known to date on Hubbard's invented space cooties - aka space aliens or entities- * which Hubbard says came to earth by orders of the famous intergalactic ruler Xenu and eventually came to inhabit the bodies of you and me and the rest of the world.
Most importantly, this is a must read must hear for anyone wanting to know more about those space entities from the South Park show on Scientology, Trapped in The Closet, the ones that are the sole cause of all the problems in the universe, lol. If that's not enough,there's more. From it we learn about Hubbard's fantasy on the origins of the material universe and of psychiatry, so don't pass it up.
Anyaty, mucho thanks to RapidFx for posting this transcription of the 56 min audio tape Electropsychometric Scouting - Battle of the Universes, the audio of which be downloaded via MegaUpload
battle of universes
* Here is a short but excellent news report from Australia's Today Tonight News Show Exposes Scientology Cult's Xenu Story Broadcast February 4, 2009
Xenu and Scientology - Today Tonight:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
What a week for Scientology NOT!
Today Show 's Matt Lauer and Amy Kozinski sum up Scientology's bad week.
I just love coverage like this :)
I just love coverage like this :)
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Closing Arguments: Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status - Nightline's Daily Line
Closing Arguments: Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status - Nightline's Daily Line
Closing Arguments: Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Scientology and Human Trafficking, The Video
Source:
SP999999 Scientology and Human Trafficking September 03, 2009
"Does the Church of Scientology engage in Human Trafficking? Thanks to all for the usage of footage in this video.
Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: Scientology Human Trafficking protest picket Anonymous Marc Headley Jeff Hawkins Maureen Bolstad "
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Biggest Squirrel in Scientology is it's Leader
At least that's what many former members are stating.
According to Scientology Acronym/Terminology online reference, the term Squirrel, means:
A person who subverts Hubbard's "Tech"* by alteration. The name probably came from the idea of squirrels burying, or being associated with, nuts. In the cult jargon, Squirrel refers to someone who is too insane to follow Standard Tech. "Mayo was a Squirrel because he altered Source." (the Scientologists claimed.)
Little did they know that the leader himself was guilty of what he was accusing others of.
Even Katie Holmes seems confused by the situation, poor dear, but Miscavige knows he's been found out.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
FormerlyIn and those Pics and Sketches
I would like to set the record straight . The below pic set is of 2 different people. The one on the left if Marcel Femine of NY. I gave all the info on the left pic to those involved in the FormerlyIn matter and they ignored it. The guy on the right is a new pic of someone harassing anons. I do not believe these 2 pics are of the same person.
Someone in NY Anonymous photo took this photo of Marcel in 2008. Here he is Outside NY Org : Unknown guy on the left, and Marcel Femine, right:
I knew Marcel and his wife. He worked for OSA NY, she was then NY Day staff. Here are some more pics of him. Not sure of his status now but she is an FMS.
The Marcel and Lucille Femine Family taken probably about 15 yrs ago.
FormerlyIn's sketch, which looks nothing like the photo FormerlyIn's friend supplied:
Well That sketch looks more like Frank Scardella of NY org or Marcel's son Judson. You decide:
And that sketch does not look like the guy in this poster. It is a pic of Marcel Femine, as it definately is Marcel. Look at his facebook pic
Seeing all this made me wonder if OSA was harassing Marcel Femine but he's still from all reports so......
Someone in NY Anonymous photo took this photo of Marcel in 2008. Here he is Outside NY Org : Unknown guy on the left, and Marcel Femine, right:
I knew Marcel and his wife. He worked for OSA NY, she was then NY Day staff. Here are some more pics of him. Not sure of his status now but she is an FMS.
The Marcel and Lucille Femine Family taken probably about 15 yrs ago.
FormerlyIn's sketch, which looks nothing like the photo FormerlyIn's friend supplied:
Well That sketch looks more like Frank Scardella of NY org or Marcel's son Judson. You decide:
And that sketch does not look like the guy in this poster. It is a pic of Marcel Femine, as it definately is Marcel. Look at his facebook pic
Seeing all this made me wonder if OSA was harassing Marcel Femine but he's still from all reports so......
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Wife sues Narconon. Says Deception, Civil / Human Rights Abuse, Intolerant Culture Exist from Scientology Anti-Gay Agenda
Man goes to Narconon rehab for help and gets held against his will; made to endure Scientology teachings and bizarre verbal attacks. Wife sues.
A lawsuit was filed in Nevada County, CA last week by a woman who paid for
rehabilitation help for her then fiance, only to find out that she was repeatedly deceived and the services were dangerous and not as promised. Sarah Locatelli of Grass Valley, CA states the Narconon program using Scientology practices, made Daniel Locatelli subject to verbal attacks, often of an anti gay substance. He was denied medical care when he needed it and the staff kept him and his belongings against his will when he asked to leave. He finally escaped after 4 days.
The Locatelli vs Narconon Southern California, Narconon Joshua Hills et al complaint can be read in full here.
Background
Locatelli filed suit against Newport Beach's Narconon Southern California and Narconon Joshua Hills, then located at what is now the location of Narconon Palm Spring on Hopper Rd, Palm Desert Springs. It is now located at 82652 Lordsburg Dr in Indio Riverside County in CA . She filed the complaint after repeated requests for a refund were ignored.
Among the claims against the facilities and their employees and agents are breach of contract, fraud in the inducement, negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent misrepresentation. A referral help site unknowingly run by Narconon and it's agents is noted, as well as derogatory statements made to Mr. Locatelli during the 'therapy' which show a culture of hostility and intolerance.
Narconon is a part of the 'secular arm' of the Church of Scientology but the program is clearly all Scientology and has been for many years. Most aren't aware of this when visiting their web sites or talking with their intake people on the phone. As Locatelli came to find out, Narconon hides the fact outright. Records show that Narconon representatives tell victims they are not affiliated with Scientology when asked. Yet the program componients are the same as Scientology classes and texts, just repackaged differently.
There is a history of complaints against Narconon where this is voiced. Multiple unsuspecting victims in complaints filed with state agencies and in courts across the country over the last 10 years have complainted about the degrading nature of the routines, the false promises of therapy and human rights abuses victims were subjected to while there. Scientology is currently being sued by former staff members for similar and more horrific civil and human rights abuses and labor law violations in the state of California.
What is common and uncommon about this case:
The Locatelli family, like thousand of others, first became victims of Narconon and it's internet and telephone deceptive trade practices. Mrs. Locatelli did everything she could to locate the best care they could afford for Daniel yet he wound up in the care of The Church of Scientology without her even knowing it. She found what was supposed to be a referral hotline, which in fact is run by Narconon and it's agents for the sole purpose of sending it's victims to Narconon.
Mr. Locatelli, having attended both facilities for a total of 4 days, was held hostage held against his will, denied medical attention while ill and made to endure the church's questionable practices and it's hostility toward homosexuality and indifference to the most basic of civil and human rights. Due to the vulgar nature of the verbal attacks, the program training routine 'bullbaiting' quotes noted in the complaint will not be mentioned here.
Now, when one reads the complaint, it is obvious that the comments made during his time there were crude and offensive to anyone in what was supposed to be a professional setting to receive help for a problem. It does not matter whether Mr. Locatelli is gay or not, although he isn't. He was forced to listen to and accept the intolerant mocking comments levied at him because the Scientology based training routine prohibits one from being able to respond, lest one is made to endure all the more of it and then some. Throughout the whole time Daniel was there, the staff allowed the church's anti-homosexuality pro-scientology indoctrination to go on and even encouraged it.
In their attempts to help others avoid what happened to them, a web site was created by friends of Locatelli to warn others about Narconon and their internet scam, titled: Narconon Is A Code Name for Scientology . You can see the documents that Mrs.
Locatelli, then as fiancee Sarah Vogel, received after Mr. Locatelli arrived home, which she never signed here .
Narconon Joshua Hills Board of Directors - Names You May know:
Interestingly, Palm Springs' and Las Vegas' WALK OF STARS and MOTION PICTURE HALL OF FAME directors - Danny Pharmer, Robert Alexander and Janie Hughes are listed as among the board of directors of Narconon Joshua Hills and are presumably going to be added to the list of defendents as the case progresses.
Tiffany Pharmer, the director of Narconon Joshua Hills, runs an assisted living home and is a real estate sales woman with Coldwell Banker's Yeoman Group in the Palms Springs area. Both Daniel and Tiffiany Pharmer are unlicensed substance abuse counselors and were required to train and be certified within 5 years but let their registration with California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources expire last December indicating that they were never trained as required.
Complaints influencial in the Narconon Newport Beach closure in 2010
Narconon Southern California,a subsidiary of Narconon International which orchestrated the internet, telephone and financial scheme, has a long history of complaints and of being a problem in the Newport Beach area. Mr. Locatelli was asked by The City of Newport Beach to provide an affidavit on his experience with Narconon being over capacity and because of this and the many other complaints, infractions and obvious disregard for the welfare of it's patients & the community, the city refused to approve it's use permit application. As a result, it's license to operate in the city expires February 28, 2010.
Their counselors are not CARF certified as their international website suggests, either. Narconon Exposed is well known web site dedicated to informing the public about Narconon and it's practices. Sadly, most people find it after they have been ripped off by Narconon.
Others victimized by a similar set of tactics:
Ripoffreport.com has over many complaints about Narconon listed and many of these
are about Narconon Southern California and it's Newport Beach facility. In reviewing documents related to complaints sent to state agencies about Narconon, a common theme emerges to back up what Locatelli states in her claims.
For instance, 75 year old California resident Lillian Weaver and E.K. of Washington State were each taken in by fake referral sites run by Narconon & it's affiliates, the false promises of appropriate medical care availability and forced unwanted Scientology practices they were never informed about in advance, which turned out to be the whole of the program. Unbeknownst to them and their loved ones was the knowledge that Scientology is hostile towards traditional medical and mental health practices. Both were kept against their will when they wanted to leave and Mrs. Weaver's son had his diabetes and thyroid medicines & glucometer withheld for 2 days upon entry, endangering his health especially as he lacked a thyroid to produce what the medicine was necessary for! E.K.'s daughter became ill from the mega doses of vitamins they put her on, causing her to become ill. Both parent's loved ones suffered physically and emotionally due to this, the deception and the facility's subsequent negligence against the one the loved one once they arrived.
E.K. sent his daughter to what was supposed to be a licensed, medically based traditional theraputic program in NV owned by Narconon of Southern California. Within days he found out that the facility and their counselors were not licensed, there were no medical professionals or care on site as promised for his daughter's gallbladder disease which was exaserbated by the volumous amount of vitamins they insisted she ingest. She was so ill and in pain that he called and insisted they take his daughter to the airport so he could transport her to another rehab center or he would fly out and get her himself. He only received a refund when he reported the situation to the FBI Internet fraud unit, to all 3 state Attorney General offices and the NV licensing agencies.
States Vary in Regulations; The FBI Internet Fraud site is Helpful
For E.K., a Cease and Desist Order went out to the Narconon in NV for all unlicensed counselors and specifically to the executive director of their Narconon Rainbow Canyon facility, who had claimed on the internet to be licensed but was found to not. While owned by the Southern California organization, Nevada and it's stringent laws oversaw the matter for E.K. and Washington helped represent him as a constituent Locatelli says that she's had a complaint in with the California Alcohol and Drug program for over 1 year and they have a separate team investigating all complaints on Narconons in California. ADP is limited in oversite and underfunded, compounding the slow process on complaints.
ADP does, however, have a separate investigator on complaints about other programs using Narconon under different names, such as San Francisco County programs New Life Center SF( aka Social Betterment Development Company / SBDC) and Alternative To Meds Center, both of which are not licensed. ATMC was denied license and the City of San Francisco denied them a use permit for this unlicensed activity, but thy still operate to the dismay of the community. Both are considered dangerous programs. Recently a negligent death case was settled against New Life SF and owner Richard Prescott ( former director of Narconon Northern CA) after a patient committed suicide while on medication under nonexistent onsite medical care promised.
Locatelli went to Narconon to learn about drug and recover from them and found that there was no drug education nor traditional individual or group therapy as promised and required by the state of California. He was made to read materials written by Science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard and was supervised in the program steps by other patients called "students" instead of state required licensed substance abuse counselors. None of the counselors was licensed and the facility was overcrowded and in violation of local and county zoning laws.
The Little Hoover Commission and the Justin Foundation, who investigate and keep tabs on the state of affair of CA rehabs have isolated the loopholes that tie the hands of state agencies and give bad programs the free reign to victimize consumers, providing low to no quality care substance abuse services. One should read these reports before going or sending a loved one to a rehab facility, especially in the state of California. ADP was unavailable for comment.
The cost is more than most and refunds are prevented at all costs.
Narconon, depending upon the center and the desperation for funds and financial constrains of the victims, can cost between $20,000 to $35,000 Of the $26,000 Mrs. Weaver paid Narconon Southern California, she so far has only received a $15,000 chargeback credit from Bank of America after their thorough investigation and consideration of all the facts. Discover VISA, however, refused to accept the documentation and statements, closing her case witout any arbitration rights allowed. Narconon, however, wrote in response to Weaver's Better Business Bureau of So California complaint, that she'd received all her money back from all credit cards, so Mrs. Weaver is still trying to get them to pay back the balance of $11,000 via BBB. It would cost her more to go to court than the amount of the claim, so she is avoiding that last as a last resort.
Locatelli can appreciate Weaver's efforts and the obstacles she went through. Her bank, Washington Mutual, was on the verge of federal takeover at the time she requested her VISA refund. They had they audacity to deny the chargeback claim without even contacting the merchant Narconon for response. Her calls and letters to the bank, to the facilities and the Narconon reps fell on deaf ears and that is why she has resorted to suing both Narconon facilities. At ripoffreport.com, one can see that some have gotten their refunds while others not. Perseverence seems to be the key.
E.K. is one of the few who got his money without having to sign the traditional gag agreement, Although he promised not to badmouth Narconon, his complaint was already in the hands of others ( myself included )before the time of their settlement.
In E.K.'s case, his checks to "Narconon Nevada" were deposited into a Narconon of Southern California bank account in Las Vegas, NV instead of being sent to CA as he was told would happen. As they are not licensed in NV and their corporation status in NV was revoked last year, the settlement was probably made in part just to shut him up and make the problem go away. I have used that complaint as the basis of his information for this article, with his permission. You can read it in full here.
Mrs. Weaver says "Because of my son's medical problems, the referral Hotline gave our number to a man claiming to be a medical doctor who told us that Narconon was the best program to fit his needs. Well, "Dr. David Morris" of GA turned out to be a scientologist with an agenda - and a chiropractor, in violation of GA state Chiropractic disclosure laws."
There ought to be a law! Buyer Beware.
Locatelli says that the ordeal was " a terrible situation that no one should have to go through." They were fortunate that Daniel went right from that Narconon into an appropriate day program and continued in his recovery successfully despite all this, but that does not always happen to victims of these kind of scams. "
People looking on the internet for substance abuse services for a loved one are a target for unscruplous vultures. Rehabs specialize in honing in the 'must act now at any cost' sales pitch, often promising anything over the phone. Once the contract is thrown infront of the abuser, he or she is usually in a vunerable state as well. Often the contract is sent to the parent or family member after the patient arrives and services are started and what arrives states nothing that was promised over the phone.
"Some people lose their life savings to Narconon and other rehab scams. This happens every day and it's not just Narconon ripping people off like this, although they control most of the web sites on the internet. It's not fair and the federal Trade Commission should do something about it." says Locatelli.
Lillian Weaver agrees. " I trusted these people. That was a big mistake."
Federal and state deceptive trade practice and telecommunication laws are not widely known or enforced, leaving victims as easy prey. Victims often find themselves put into debt without refund while they scramble for another program to get the willing loved one the care they need once they escape the bad program.
"I am paying the credit card balance Narconon lied about and told BBB that it had been refunded when it wasn't. To help my son after that fiasco, I've had to use up my savings for another program and my retirement money to repay the credit card balance Narconon is refusing to give me back. It was not supposed to be that way and it's just plain wrong. These people have no conscience at all" says Weaver.
From the mistakes of others, protect yourself and your loved ones
When a person goes to a substance abuse rehabilitation program, and pays dearly for it based upon claims made, one would expect it to be a safe, nurturing and effective program based upon tried and true traditional definition of therapy. That is often not the case these days. That is why the buyer must beware of internet and telephone claims made those claiming to be rehab referral companies or hotlines or intervention specialists.
Locatelli suggests one "get your questions and answers in writing first. Then search on the internet for independent information at http://www.ripoffreports.com http://www.narcononvictims.com and http://narcononexposed.org . Also check with your state alcohol and drug program complaint department." Additionally, there are consumer driven complaint processes such as your county and state Consumer Affairs, and the Better Business Bureau who tend to side with the merchants but at least the number of complaints and their particulars are noted.
It's taken some victims years to get their money back and for many it's too exhausting and costly to pursue legal measures to get their day in court. Locatelli is the exception to the rule on filing her case in course herself. She hopes to inspire others to never give up, too.
If you would like further information about this case or other victims of Narconon, write to contact@california-rehab-referral.com and don't forget to visit Narconon-Exposed and ripoffreport.com keyword search Narconon.
tags:Scientology,Narconon, Civil and Human Rights, Alcohol and Substance Abuse treatment, anti homosexuality,anti gay,Drug Rehabilitation,Newport Beach CA
Related story:
Florida Man Demands $29K Narconon Refund
MIAMI (CN) - A Florida man claims he endured "horrible and outlandish mistreatment" at a Narconon treatment center in Newport Beach, Calif. During his 3.5 days at the Scientology-affiliated center, Pablo Mendoza claims he was sexually assaulted by a male masseuse, profanely taunted by another student, and forced to scrub the kitchen because he is Hispanic.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/03/09/Florida_Man_Demands_$29K_Narconon_Refund.
A lawsuit was filed in Nevada County, CA last week by a woman who paid for
rehabilitation help for her then fiance, only to find out that she was repeatedly deceived and the services were dangerous and not as promised. Sarah Locatelli of Grass Valley, CA states the Narconon program using Scientology practices, made Daniel Locatelli subject to verbal attacks, often of an anti gay substance. He was denied medical care when he needed it and the staff kept him and his belongings against his will when he asked to leave. He finally escaped after 4 days.
The Locatelli vs Narconon Southern California, Narconon Joshua Hills et al complaint can be read in full here.
Background
Locatelli filed suit against Newport Beach's Narconon Southern California and Narconon Joshua Hills, then located at what is now the location of Narconon Palm Spring on Hopper Rd, Palm Desert Springs. It is now located at 82652 Lordsburg Dr in Indio Riverside County in CA . She filed the complaint after repeated requests for a refund were ignored.
Among the claims against the facilities and their employees and agents are breach of contract, fraud in the inducement, negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent misrepresentation. A referral help site unknowingly run by Narconon and it's agents is noted, as well as derogatory statements made to Mr. Locatelli during the 'therapy' which show a culture of hostility and intolerance.
Narconon is a part of the 'secular arm' of the Church of Scientology but the program is clearly all Scientology and has been for many years. Most aren't aware of this when visiting their web sites or talking with their intake people on the phone. As Locatelli came to find out, Narconon hides the fact outright. Records show that Narconon representatives tell victims they are not affiliated with Scientology when asked. Yet the program componients are the same as Scientology classes and texts, just repackaged differently.
There is a history of complaints against Narconon where this is voiced. Multiple unsuspecting victims in complaints filed with state agencies and in courts across the country over the last 10 years have complainted about the degrading nature of the routines, the false promises of therapy and human rights abuses victims were subjected to while there. Scientology is currently being sued by former staff members for similar and more horrific civil and human rights abuses and labor law violations in the state of California.
What is common and uncommon about this case:
The Locatelli family, like thousand of others, first became victims of Narconon and it's internet and telephone deceptive trade practices. Mrs. Locatelli did everything she could to locate the best care they could afford for Daniel yet he wound up in the care of The Church of Scientology without her even knowing it. She found what was supposed to be a referral hotline, which in fact is run by Narconon and it's agents for the sole purpose of sending it's victims to Narconon.
Mr. Locatelli, having attended both facilities for a total of 4 days, was held hostage held against his will, denied medical attention while ill and made to endure the church's questionable practices and it's hostility toward homosexuality and indifference to the most basic of civil and human rights. Due to the vulgar nature of the verbal attacks, the program training routine 'bullbaiting' quotes noted in the complaint will not be mentioned here.
Now, when one reads the complaint, it is obvious that the comments made during his time there were crude and offensive to anyone in what was supposed to be a professional setting to receive help for a problem. It does not matter whether Mr. Locatelli is gay or not, although he isn't. He was forced to listen to and accept the intolerant mocking comments levied at him because the Scientology based training routine prohibits one from being able to respond, lest one is made to endure all the more of it and then some. Throughout the whole time Daniel was there, the staff allowed the church's anti-homosexuality pro-scientology indoctrination to go on and even encouraged it.
In their attempts to help others avoid what happened to them, a web site was created by friends of Locatelli to warn others about Narconon and their internet scam, titled: Narconon Is A Code Name for Scientology . You can see the documents that Mrs.
Locatelli, then as fiancee Sarah Vogel, received after Mr. Locatelli arrived home, which she never signed here .
Narconon Joshua Hills Board of Directors - Names You May know:
Interestingly, Palm Springs' and Las Vegas' WALK OF STARS and MOTION PICTURE HALL OF FAME directors - Danny Pharmer, Robert Alexander and Janie Hughes are listed as among the board of directors of Narconon Joshua Hills and are presumably going to be added to the list of defendents as the case progresses.
Tiffany Pharmer, the director of Narconon Joshua Hills, runs an assisted living home and is a real estate sales woman with Coldwell Banker's Yeoman Group in the Palms Springs area. Both Daniel and Tiffiany Pharmer are unlicensed substance abuse counselors and were required to train and be certified within 5 years but let their registration with California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources expire last December indicating that they were never trained as required.
Complaints influencial in the Narconon Newport Beach closure in 2010
Narconon Southern California,a subsidiary of Narconon International which orchestrated the internet, telephone and financial scheme, has a long history of complaints and of being a problem in the Newport Beach area. Mr. Locatelli was asked by The City of Newport Beach to provide an affidavit on his experience with Narconon being over capacity and because of this and the many other complaints, infractions and obvious disregard for the welfare of it's patients & the community, the city refused to approve it's use permit application. As a result, it's license to operate in the city expires February 28, 2010.
Their counselors are not CARF certified as their international website suggests, either. Narconon Exposed is well known web site dedicated to informing the public about Narconon and it's practices. Sadly, most people find it after they have been ripped off by Narconon.
Others victimized by a similar set of tactics:
Ripoffreport.com has over many complaints about Narconon listed and many of these
are about Narconon Southern California and it's Newport Beach facility. In reviewing documents related to complaints sent to state agencies about Narconon, a common theme emerges to back up what Locatelli states in her claims.
For instance, 75 year old California resident Lillian Weaver and E.K. of Washington State were each taken in by fake referral sites run by Narconon & it's affiliates, the false promises of appropriate medical care availability and forced unwanted Scientology practices they were never informed about in advance, which turned out to be the whole of the program. Unbeknownst to them and their loved ones was the knowledge that Scientology is hostile towards traditional medical and mental health practices. Both were kept against their will when they wanted to leave and Mrs. Weaver's son had his diabetes and thyroid medicines & glucometer withheld for 2 days upon entry, endangering his health especially as he lacked a thyroid to produce what the medicine was necessary for! E.K.'s daughter became ill from the mega doses of vitamins they put her on, causing her to become ill. Both parent's loved ones suffered physically and emotionally due to this, the deception and the facility's subsequent negligence against the one the loved one once they arrived.
E.K. sent his daughter to what was supposed to be a licensed, medically based traditional theraputic program in NV owned by Narconon of Southern California. Within days he found out that the facility and their counselors were not licensed, there were no medical professionals or care on site as promised for his daughter's gallbladder disease which was exaserbated by the volumous amount of vitamins they insisted she ingest. She was so ill and in pain that he called and insisted they take his daughter to the airport so he could transport her to another rehab center or he would fly out and get her himself. He only received a refund when he reported the situation to the FBI Internet fraud unit, to all 3 state Attorney General offices and the NV licensing agencies.
States Vary in Regulations; The FBI Internet Fraud site is Helpful
For E.K., a Cease and Desist Order went out to the Narconon in NV for all unlicensed counselors and specifically to the executive director of their Narconon Rainbow Canyon facility, who had claimed on the internet to be licensed but was found to not. While owned by the Southern California organization, Nevada and it's stringent laws oversaw the matter for E.K. and Washington helped represent him as a constituent Locatelli says that she's had a complaint in with the California Alcohol and Drug program for over 1 year and they have a separate team investigating all complaints on Narconons in California. ADP is limited in oversite and underfunded, compounding the slow process on complaints.
ADP does, however, have a separate investigator on complaints about other programs using Narconon under different names, such as San Francisco County programs New Life Center SF( aka Social Betterment Development Company / SBDC) and Alternative To Meds Center, both of which are not licensed. ATMC was denied license and the City of San Francisco denied them a use permit for this unlicensed activity, but thy still operate to the dismay of the community. Both are considered dangerous programs. Recently a negligent death case was settled against New Life SF and owner Richard Prescott ( former director of Narconon Northern CA) after a patient committed suicide while on medication under nonexistent onsite medical care promised.
Locatelli went to Narconon to learn about drug and recover from them and found that there was no drug education nor traditional individual or group therapy as promised and required by the state of California. He was made to read materials written by Science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard and was supervised in the program steps by other patients called "students" instead of state required licensed substance abuse counselors. None of the counselors was licensed and the facility was overcrowded and in violation of local and county zoning laws.
The Little Hoover Commission and the Justin Foundation, who investigate and keep tabs on the state of affair of CA rehabs have isolated the loopholes that tie the hands of state agencies and give bad programs the free reign to victimize consumers, providing low to no quality care substance abuse services. One should read these reports before going or sending a loved one to a rehab facility, especially in the state of California. ADP was unavailable for comment.
The cost is more than most and refunds are prevented at all costs.
Narconon, depending upon the center and the desperation for funds and financial constrains of the victims, can cost between $20,000 to $35,000 Of the $26,000 Mrs. Weaver paid Narconon Southern California, she so far has only received a $15,000 chargeback credit from Bank of America after their thorough investigation and consideration of all the facts. Discover VISA, however, refused to accept the documentation and statements, closing her case witout any arbitration rights allowed. Narconon, however, wrote in response to Weaver's Better Business Bureau of So California complaint, that she'd received all her money back from all credit cards, so Mrs. Weaver is still trying to get them to pay back the balance of $11,000 via BBB. It would cost her more to go to court than the amount of the claim, so she is avoiding that last as a last resort.
Locatelli can appreciate Weaver's efforts and the obstacles she went through. Her bank, Washington Mutual, was on the verge of federal takeover at the time she requested her VISA refund. They had they audacity to deny the chargeback claim without even contacting the merchant Narconon for response. Her calls and letters to the bank, to the facilities and the Narconon reps fell on deaf ears and that is why she has resorted to suing both Narconon facilities. At ripoffreport.com, one can see that some have gotten their refunds while others not. Perseverence seems to be the key.
E.K. is one of the few who got his money without having to sign the traditional gag agreement, Although he promised not to badmouth Narconon, his complaint was already in the hands of others ( myself included )before the time of their settlement.
In E.K.'s case, his checks to "Narconon Nevada" were deposited into a Narconon of Southern California bank account in Las Vegas, NV instead of being sent to CA as he was told would happen. As they are not licensed in NV and their corporation status in NV was revoked last year, the settlement was probably made in part just to shut him up and make the problem go away. I have used that complaint as the basis of his information for this article, with his permission. You can read it in full here.
Mrs. Weaver says "Because of my son's medical problems, the referral Hotline gave our number to a man claiming to be a medical doctor who told us that Narconon was the best program to fit his needs. Well, "Dr. David Morris" of GA turned out to be a scientologist with an agenda - and a chiropractor, in violation of GA state Chiropractic disclosure laws."
There ought to be a law! Buyer Beware.
Locatelli says that the ordeal was " a terrible situation that no one should have to go through." They were fortunate that Daniel went right from that Narconon into an appropriate day program and continued in his recovery successfully despite all this, but that does not always happen to victims of these kind of scams. "
People looking on the internet for substance abuse services for a loved one are a target for unscruplous vultures. Rehabs specialize in honing in the 'must act now at any cost' sales pitch, often promising anything over the phone. Once the contract is thrown infront of the abuser, he or she is usually in a vunerable state as well. Often the contract is sent to the parent or family member after the patient arrives and services are started and what arrives states nothing that was promised over the phone.
"Some people lose their life savings to Narconon and other rehab scams. This happens every day and it's not just Narconon ripping people off like this, although they control most of the web sites on the internet. It's not fair and the federal Trade Commission should do something about it." says Locatelli.
Lillian Weaver agrees. " I trusted these people. That was a big mistake."
Federal and state deceptive trade practice and telecommunication laws are not widely known or enforced, leaving victims as easy prey. Victims often find themselves put into debt without refund while they scramble for another program to get the willing loved one the care they need once they escape the bad program.
"I am paying the credit card balance Narconon lied about and told BBB that it had been refunded when it wasn't. To help my son after that fiasco, I've had to use up my savings for another program and my retirement money to repay the credit card balance Narconon is refusing to give me back. It was not supposed to be that way and it's just plain wrong. These people have no conscience at all" says Weaver.
From the mistakes of others, protect yourself and your loved ones
When a person goes to a substance abuse rehabilitation program, and pays dearly for it based upon claims made, one would expect it to be a safe, nurturing and effective program based upon tried and true traditional definition of therapy. That is often not the case these days. That is why the buyer must beware of internet and telephone claims made those claiming to be rehab referral companies or hotlines or intervention specialists.
Locatelli suggests one "get your questions and answers in writing first. Then search on the internet for independent information at http://www.ripoffreports.com http://www.narcononvictims.com and http://narcononexposed.org . Also check with your state alcohol and drug program complaint department." Additionally, there are consumer driven complaint processes such as your county and state Consumer Affairs, and the Better Business Bureau who tend to side with the merchants but at least the number of complaints and their particulars are noted.
It's taken some victims years to get their money back and for many it's too exhausting and costly to pursue legal measures to get their day in court. Locatelli is the exception to the rule on filing her case in course herself. She hopes to inspire others to never give up, too.
If you would like further information about this case or other victims of Narconon, write to contact@california-rehab-referral.com and don't forget to visit Narconon-Exposed and ripoffreport.com keyword search Narconon.
tags:Scientology,Narconon, Civil and Human Rights, Alcohol and Substance Abuse treatment, anti homosexuality,anti gay,Drug Rehabilitation,Newport Beach CA
Related story:
Florida Man Demands $29K Narconon Refund
MIAMI (CN) - A Florida man claims he endured "horrible and outlandish mistreatment" at a Narconon treatment center in Newport Beach, Calif. During his 3.5 days at the Scientology-affiliated center, Pablo Mendoza claims he was sexually assaulted by a male masseuse, profanely taunted by another student, and forced to scrub the kitchen because he is Hispanic.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/03/09/Florida_Man_Demands_$29K_Narconon_Refund.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Trial Against Church of Scientology in France Begins Today
Scientology is probably going to lose this one because there are far too many victims who have been similarly ripped off.
Scientology faces fraud trial in French court
Monday 25 May 2009
France 24 | Scientology faces fraud trial in French court | France 24
"French leaders of the Church of Scientology go on trial for fraud at a Parisian court Monday in a case that could lead to an outright ban on the organisation’s activities in France. " see news video here
Church of Scientology on trial in France accused of defrauding the vulnerable Church alleged to have duped 'fragile' woman out of life savings could be shut down in France
Church of Scientology accused of fraud
United Press International - 2 hours ago
PARIS, May 25 (UPI) -- The Church of Scientology in France is facing organized fraud charges for allegedly manipulating others for financial gain
Scientology could be shut down in France : "The Cult of Scientology could be shut down in France where seven of its French leaders are being charged with organized fraud and illegal pharmaceutical activity."
Kudos to those in France who have taken a courageous stand against these leeches.
Scientology faces fraud trial in French court
Monday 25 May 2009
France 24 | Scientology faces fraud trial in French court | France 24
"French leaders of the Church of Scientology go on trial for fraud at a Parisian court Monday in a case that could lead to an outright ban on the organisation’s activities in France. " see news video here
Church of Scientology on trial in France accused of defrauding the vulnerable Church alleged to have duped 'fragile' woman out of life savings could be shut down in France
Church of Scientology accused of fraud
United Press International - 2 hours ago
PARIS, May 25 (UPI) -- The Church of Scientology in France is facing organized fraud charges for allegedly manipulating others for financial gain
Scientology could be shut down in France : "The Cult of Scientology could be shut down in France where seven of its French leaders are being charged with organized fraud and illegal pharmaceutical activity."
Kudos to those in France who have taken a courageous stand against these leeches.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Scientology's Criminal Practices
I came across ThetanBait's YouTube Channel the other day and found these amazingly accurate and professional videos I'd come across last year but lost the link to.
Easily in the top 10 damaging expose videos series on the internet. Note in the first clip, famous pianist Mario Feninger admitting he knew nothing about the abuses until the reporter told him. That was years ago and Feninger is still a scientologist, blindly ignoring what his cult is doing today. Shame on him!
Scientology's Crimes : Series of public service announcements and news clips detailing Scientology's criminal practices.
This is why thousands of people around the world protest Scientology.
For more information, visit:
Message Boards & Groups
http://www.whyweprotest.net Why We Protest ( formerly Enturbulation.org )
http://www.exscientologykids.com ExScientology Kids of all ages
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology?hl=en ARS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XSO/ For Ex Sea Org Members XSO
http://ocmb.lermanet.us/discussion/ Operation Clambake Lermanet
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/ Operation Clambake XENU.NET
http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/26600/26600.html?1177143384
http://forum.exscn.net/ Moderated ExScientologist Message Board
http://forum.rickross.com/ Message Boards for Many different Cults
http://narcononvictims.com VICTIMS of NARCONON Message Board
http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/scientology
Stop Scientology Abuses | You Found The Card
http://www.youfoundthecard.com
http://xenu.net
http://whyaretheydead.net
XenuTV.com
http://www.xenu-directory.net
Lermanet http://www.lermanet.com
Marc Headley (BFG) and Jason Beghe have launched a website
http://www.blownforgood.com/
Leaving Scientology Resource Guide
http://leavescientology.blogspot.com/
http://www.endthecult.com/
Chef John From the Horse's Mouth
http://www.chefxenu.net/Home/contact
Just Bill's Ask The Scientologist
http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com
http://truthtopplestyranny.blogspot.com/2008/04/rest-in-peace-kaja.html
NY Anonymous http://www.epicanon.com/
http://www.anonanounce.com/pages/1
Easily in the top 10 damaging expose videos series on the internet. Note in the first clip, famous pianist Mario Feninger admitting he knew nothing about the abuses until the reporter told him. That was years ago and Feninger is still a scientologist, blindly ignoring what his cult is doing today. Shame on him!
Scientology's Crimes : Series of public service announcements and news clips detailing Scientology's criminal practices.
This is why thousands of people around the world protest Scientology.
For more information, visit:
Message Boards & Groups
http://www.whyweprotest.net Why We Protest ( formerly Enturbulation.org )
http://www.exscientologykids.com ExScientology Kids of all ages
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology?hl=en ARS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XSO/ For Ex Sea Org Members XSO
http://ocmb.lermanet.us/discussion/ Operation Clambake Lermanet
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/ Operation Clambake XENU.NET
http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/26600/26600.html?1177143384
http://forum.exscn.net/ Moderated ExScientologist Message Board
http://forum.rickross.com/ Message Boards for Many different Cults
http://narcononvictims.com VICTIMS of NARCONON Message Board
http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/scientology
Stop Scientology Abuses | You Found The Card
http://www.youfoundthecard.com
http://xenu.net
http://whyaretheydead.net
XenuTV.com
http://www.xenu-directory.net
Lermanet http://www.lermanet.com
Marc Headley (BFG) and Jason Beghe have launched a website
http://www.blownforgood.com/
Leaving Scientology Resource Guide
http://leavescientology.blogspot.com/
http://www.endthecult.com/
Chef John From the Horse's Mouth
http://www.chefxenu.net/Home/contact
Just Bill's Ask The Scientologist
http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com
http://truthtopplestyranny.blogspot.com/2008/04/rest-in-peace-kaja.html
NY Anonymous http://www.epicanon.com/
http://www.anonanounce.com/pages/1
Saturday, April 25, 2009
"My Time in Church and in the SO" ---------- by Happy Aberree
UPDATED BY DEMAND to include all parts! 4/26/09
This is a phenomenal must-read story for anyone who ever partook of :
My Time in Church and in the SO
by Happy Aberree
Hello all, I promised to give you a story so here it is.
I didn't think it would be a very long affair and just wanted to let people know what my background was. But I soon found that once I started writing it down I couldn't stop. It's amazing when you have so much stuff held inside and no one to communicate it to, that once you do start telling it, it just floods out. Anyway, I'll do it in sections because its turned out quite long.
---Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
My first taste of c0$ was in a small org in ANZO in the 80's. I had heard about it from a friend and listened to a Dianetics tape. I was still pretty young and had been looking for something worthwhile to do with my life. So when she said to go into the org, I did. I went through the battery of tests and started on the HQS. I also got a few hours of book one which were pretty far out. The auditor, I think now, thought he was a hypnotist. Or at least he had watched a lot of hypnotists because he definitely had the eyes and the voice for it. So I cured my hay-fever (just like in the tape I listened to) and told everybody about it. It's funny though that I still get hay-fever, but that's beside the point. I definitely wanted it to be true.
Within a few months, I had found out about the AO from some of the staff at the Class V org (they were actually class IV orgs at the time). They had told me that the AO (AOSH ANZO) was awesome and everything there was unreal and the staff there were in uniform. You have to understand that at the ripe old age of 21, I was still very impressionable (I mean more impressionable than I am now). So I checked the AO out. I talked to a staff member there and asked him what the Sea Org was. He told me, 'It just means you're a fully-dedicated Scientologist".
That was enough for me. I was trying to prove myself at something and this was going to be it. But I had some things to handle first (like my job and my mum-- who thought scientology was a health club). I thought it would take me 3-6 months to smooth everything out and save up some money to have in the bank when I joined. I told the SO member, I think it was John Willoughby, and he said something like, "Once you make up your mind to do something, then just do it. If you wait then the bank (sub-conscious) will key-in and you'll never do anything" Needless to say, he wanted me to join on the spot (or at least before Thursday 2pm when the stats ended each week).
I joined three days later (quit my job and family and friends). Looking back now it seems like I threw my life away -- it's a good analogy. Though I have had some great times in the c0$ and met some really cool people, I lost a lot too. The good times, I later realised, were really to do with the good people I met. You never admit that you lose anything when YOU'RE IN. You never admit to yourself that joining may have been a mistake.
--more to come
HAB
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here's the next installment:
---Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
My stat on tour was Appointments Made (to see the registrar). Now I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, $cn was going to save the planet and I was part of its highest order -- the $ea Org. I commanded respect even though I was still new on post. I had my class A uniform and cap and I was going to change the world. My senior was an awesome reg and 10-year Sea Org veteran. All the staff at the class V org called us 'sir' and looked at us with awe. My senior sat me down and handed me the call-in list and said 'Go to it!'
I picked up the phone, brimming with pride, and called the first number on the list of Clears and OTs in the field. And the guy said, "$cientology? Hey don't fu#king call here again, you got that?"
Whoops, must have been a wrong number.
Next call, "Yeah, yeah, look I told the last guy: I got no money and I'm not coming in. And why can't Rob call me himself?"
I had a list of hundreds of names. I imagined i would fill my boss' day with back-to-back appointments and even have to help reg some of the public myself. I thought that the people would be so happy to hear from a $ea Org member that they would all want to come in straight away and I would have to console them because they would have to wait until tomorrow. We were selling $cientology right? And not only that but the upper levels!
After talking all day to 'clears' and OTs in the field I was utterly spent. I had made about 4 appointments for about 100 calls. The best call I had was a sympathetic OT who tried to explain to me how things really were but she was very careful not to burst my bubble. She took her time and she could see that I was new. Rather than just give me an earful like so many had, she told me that I had to build up my relationships with people. Regging wasn't automatic -- you still had to be a salesman.
It was a small consolation. I couldn't believe how disaffected so many people were. I had to fight every inch on the phone to get every appointment -- and these were OTs. I dreamed of being OT!
Anyway, my stats sucked, and after a few tours they didn't improve very much. I also noticed that the staff at the class V orgs didn't look at me in awe -- I noticed they could see that I was green. The initial aura of the $ea Org was wearing off.
Later I found out that many people you call in the field are actually ex-$ea Org members. Many of the public at the AO were too. Maybe that had something to do with it; maybe not.
Over the years I got much better at call-in and regging too. And I had my fair share of face-rips for downstats (face-rip = when a senior removes the skin from your face through yelling alone). Compared to the guys and gals I've read about in higher management orgs though, my time in the SO was a walk in the park and it's not the main point of my story.
One of the last incidents I remember was getting back to the AO one day and the whole reception area was covered in petrol. Some guy had come in looking for his son weilding a knife and a can of petrol (which he proceeded to empty all over the place and then pull a lighter out of his pocket). He sliced the ethics officer's nose open before he got subdued by the crew. It was really far out. The police had already arrived by the time I got there. Still, it didn't sit easy in my mind -- people popping up and doing stuff like that in a church.
I eventually routed out -- I wasn't going anywhere in the SO, and seriously wasn't cut out for the strict discipline in that place. And back then, the discipline was far less than today. For example, out 2-D was fairly common in the ranks in those days (out 2-D means out-second dynamic and in the SO refers to sexual relations without being married).
It still wasn't 'okay' but you didn't go to the RPF or get off-loaded for it like now. And if you were a supervisor or auditor (or other key post) you wouldn't be in ethics for more than a day. Some of the repeat offenders back then got through ethics in one afternoon. From what I've seen nowadays out 2-D is like you beat up the Captain or something (although there were a few fights back then).
I had a small to average sized freeloader which I paid off after a year or two and pretty soon I was on service lines and working in Sydney (the city not the org). Now I'm going to explain what I saw over the next few years that led me onto The Bridge To Total Flee-dom -- rather than the details so much. For one thing my anonymity is quite comforting and the main point of my story is to help anyone who is right on that edge of wondering about the possibility of not being in $cn anymore.
-- more soon
HAB
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The Bridge to Total Flee-dom
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--Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FLEE-DOM
The first thing I noticed in the orgs that got me thinking questioning thoughts was the Golden Age of Tech (aka training in memory and not competence). Everything I had learned about tech revolved a lot around good communication yet the GAT seemed to short circuit that. Also they weren't written by anybody (or at least they weren't signed) so no one was responsible for them. Seeing Ron's name signed on every single piece of tech or policy was taken for granted and the GAT references were very unsettling in that respect.
Another thing that I thought was quite callous was that so many auditors who were great auditors but getting on in years had to re-do their entire training (and many of them couldn't) in order to retain their certs. So fabulous auditors and c/ses like Maureen and Dot ended up working in treasury or other non-tech divisions. Not to mention the public who had to re-train and pay for it.
I brought it up casually with a staff member and later more seriously with a supervisor. They basically just parroted some Int mgmt patter-response back at me expecting me to just suddenly realise that, no way could GAT be any sort of out-KSW (KSW#1 is a policy referring to keeping the tech of $cn totally standard i.e. unchanged). I was definitely doubting the staff in local orgs and especially the internal management that were overseeing this questionable GAT evolution. Without realising it, I had taken my very first step on The Bridge to Total Flee-dom.
I had done the DIM RD (Doubt Internal Management Rundown).
I was pretty indignant over the whole thing because the thought occurred to me that it was not LRH and people weren't even in an uproar -- they were happy about it.
At this stage I was hardly thinking of giving up on $cn but I was somewhat disaffected with the inconsistency between policy and what actually happened in orgs. I do remember a friend telling me that the highest number of tech trained staff had routed out of orgs in the history of $cn immediately following the GAT evolution. This only fueled my disaffection. It seemed that the smarter staff had left. The staff that stayed on in orgs seemed to be idiots. They would just do whatever their senior or management told them to do and their senior would do likewise.
Because I had been on staff myself I knew what boat they were in and how much sheer pressure can be brought to bear on you as a staff member -- even the execs get it from their higher org seniors. Even though I knew what they were going through I decided from then on to no longer take what staff said as gospel. That was my next step on the Flee-dom Bridge:
The DIS RD (Doubt Idiot Staff Rundown)
Though I was becoming more disaffected with the org staff, it indirectly increased my admiration of Ron. I would defend his legacy even though idiot-staff couldn't see what was happening.
The next thing that happened was purely by accident. I was getting quite interested and awed with Hubbard and his achievements and had collected most of the 'Ron' booklets (Ron the blah, etc). I tried piecing together a timeline to make up a kind of biography but I found there were a few gaps in his history. I remember getting quite anxious about finding out, so I innocently went on the internet and googled his name. Holy Messiah!
Now understand here that I viewed this man as the saviour of the planet and arguably the greatest man that ever lived. He did in his lifetime what 5 great men combined would be proud to have done. I was expecting to find all these independent sources praising him just like the c0$ did but for new stuff that I hadn't heard about. I read about his educational history; I read about his son, Quentin; I read about his personal comments on various things; and I read about his war history. In comparison to what I have since learned, it was only a fraction of the information out there on Ron, but it was too much for me.
I didn't feel well. In fact I felt quite ill for about 3 days. I couldn't believe the lengths people would go to to spread lies about a truly great man. And even though I justified it off, I was definitely having more questions. I mentioned it to a $cn friend at the time and she helped me re-focus. But I still didn't doubt $cn in any way.
--more soon
HAB
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Here's the next bit:
--Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
I had not been going to events around this time and when I got the usual 20 calls, for some reason I decided to go. There were the same people as the last time plus a few new faces (about 5) and I got seated next to someone I knew. I noticed one thing was different: there was a small group of SO members in the front rows and every time the audience on the video applauded, the SO members would give a standing ovation which of course would get the rest of the 'real' audience joining in. I still remember the aghast looks when I didn't stand up.
I took this rather personally. A standing ovation was an audience-origination as far as I was concerned and it was also usually reserved for applauding Ron. I thought that if you used it for everything then it degraded the standing ovation for the old man -- like selling 10 dianetics books in Fiji was as important as Ron? I don't think so. So I endured the looks for the rest of the night. I didn't even like events anyway -- the idea of clapping to a friggin' video screen was ridiculous! We were clapping a video!!! And now we were being prompted to do it!
And that voice-over!! it was like an infomercial.
Events were the next thing that got me to thinking. Over the last few years there had definitely been a prevalence of events. And each one seemed to have a new release -- a CD about something or a Passport to map your bridge progress, some new previously undiscovered chapter in a book, or a revised edition with the correct sequence of chapters. How could it take thirty years to find a chapter in a book that was supposed to be treated like the Bible is in Christianity?
And there were more events now. There were regular IAS events and there were Maiden Voyage events. Knowing from my years on crew about the purpose of events (basically to reg people) I started to wonder, 'Was the church now using events as a primary source of GI?' and if so, why?
I would rate things by how many calls I got as to their importance within the church. Out of thirty phone calls roughly 20 would be for the next event (or to come to the org and watch the VIDEO of the VIDEO EVENT...I can't wait), 5 or 6 calls would be for donations to IAS or similar and the remaining 4 or 5 calls would be about going up the bridge. Big shift in importance there. On went my mental notes. So events were definitely important now.
This was the next step that I took on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom. I was doubting org events and it was getting me thinking about more questions. Not all was as it should be. Events were being given priority importance over moving up the bridge (the $cn bridge).
I had very soon done the DOE RD (Doubt Org Events Rundown) -- can also be pronounced: Doh! (like Homer)
Around this time, I noticed what can only be described as a 'charity-fest'. Suddenly I and others were getting more calls for IAS donations. I noticed that CCHR, Athena School and ABLE were jumping on too. All these $cn units seemed to now need donations from public to do their job. Or, now they were planning projects that required large donations from the public. Cannibalising was nothing new to me (this refers to over-regging of a stagnant or non-expanding field i.e. repeat regging the same people) and I had seen it done for years in ANZO but at least before it was for services!
This was amazing -- not only could you just reg whatever amount of money you wanted, there was now no product. You see before, the heavy regging was for auditing/training and when a person went through that reg cycle and paid the money, the org then had the responsibility (in order to complete the entire cycle) of SERVICING HIM. But this new charity regging didn't need that -- the product was the money! I'm not saying that regging for auditing stopped, but it just got less important, like you could be an active $cn'ist just by contributing money (rather than moving on the bridge).
--more soon
HAB
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here are the next comedy of errors:
--Everything stated by me here on this site is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or chocolate biscuits).
Okay so charity donations were in fashion big-time.
Even the AO was getting donations to help people join the SO (you would get asked to put weekly or monthly contributions to pay a person's bills so that they could join NOW). It was amazing. I couldn't help but think that for an organisation that was in possession of the only technology that could produce miracles to do 'fundraising' of any sort was ludicrous. And I was seeing less and less miracles.
Even the idea that the orgs were not all booming and bustling hives of activity was remarkable. Actually at that time Syd org was I think around 40 staff on Fdn and less on Day which was far smaller than it had been in the late 80s early 90s. Melbourne and Brisbane were about the same and Canberra was Canberra. It didn't matter. Even if they were slightly bigger than they had been, they should have been huge! How can you have all the answers to human nature and all the answers on how to administer its facilitation into society and yet not succeed at a stupidly-stellar level? And now it was charities. More food for thought.
It was around '03 or '04 that a friend of mine said that he had just come back from the AO -- and he was livid. Now this guy had been Clear for as long as I'd known him and he was a genuinely logical person. But he told me that he apparently wasn't Clear anymore. What made it worse was how he found out: in an un-metered interview with the D of P that took about 5 mins. Within a few weeks I discovered a few more friends who had been given the same r-factor (story) and learned from one staff member that it was a world-wide thing. Apparently there was no past-life clear thing anymore and practically all Clears were being told the same thing (not clear, sorry about that).
This was really getting me thinking. The first thought that popped into my head was the Y2K bug and although the computer company involved did furnish everyone worldwide with updated software and saved a potential worldwide cataclysm, they must have made a megaton of money out of it. Brilliant from a marketing point of view.
I was noticing how many of the big 'advances' made in the c0$ worldwide were continually resulting in public having to invest further dollars into their religion. Each big advance seemed to produce a very high-necessity to do some next level, review, donation, repair, etc. In other words, if there was any really big news coming out -- YOU'RE GONNA PAY BIG!
I also remember being told about a tech bulletin that discussed the point of invalidation of the state of Clear, and how to do so was highly suppressive (I haven't read it so technically this is verbal tech -- unlike everything else in this story). But I thought, 'What did that make the person or people who just originated this world-wide 're-call' of Clears?'
I saw people I had known for years who were devastated in one fell interview. They got hit so hard it was like a flash flood and they watched as the house that they had spent years to build took off down the street. I wasn't a happy camper. I was definitely doubting the management of the technology but now also the source of its application. Where was this coming from?
For me this was the DTs RD (Doubt Technology Source Rundown) note: I have also done the delirium tremens Rundown which is also called the DTs RD but is not relevant to this story. Thank you.
A major step toward flee-dom for me was when the Ideal Org Pgm came out. Now based on the phone calls I got, this thing was 5 times as important as any event or other donations. In fact the IAS seemed to totally disappear shortly after the onset of this pgm. I don't mean they closed down, I just mean they were knocked down on the regging pecking order. I remember you could say that you were being regged for the ideal org and any other reg would leave you alone.
So my first experience face to face with an Ideal Org pgm reg had me asking many questions.
You see the way I figured it, if most of the phone calls I was getting, were about the ideal org then you would expect a rather large amount of policy to be written on this activity. You know green-on-white telling you to go and buy new buildings and then build the organisation up later. How about 1 policy? How about none? At least I couldn't find one. And I will stand to be corrected on this but I'm not holding my breath. The policies referred to by the regges for this pgm have nothing whatsoever to do with buying real estate. It doesn't matter what the next 50 steps are going to be after you buy the building. Step one is off.
I had never seen a more ridiculous action done in my history in $cn.
It would be like an accountant working for himself for 20 years without getting anywhere, suddenly saying, 'Before I can expand my business the first thing I need to do is spend $500,000 to buy a new office and equipment (he already has an office and equipment by the way), and I don't have the money so I'll get it donated from my regular customers'. Now that might be a slight exaggeration but not by much. And if that isn't nutty enough, to complete the analogy HIS CUSTOMERS WOULD ACTUALLY GIVE HIM THE MONEY!
So I asked questions about 'show me the reference' and 'why can't the org afford it themselves' and 'you've got to be kidding' but I didn't get many answers. I did notice though that on the reg's project orders, some of the references were real estate books -- great. The actual $cn references listed (org pgm #1 and Ideal Org P/L) have nothing whatsoever to do with buying buildings. The most common reaction to my queries was an utter surprise that I was not jumping at the chance to save my org. This reg firmly believed that this pgm was the ONLY thing that would save the org.
--more soon
HAB
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Okay... back into it!
--Everything I write here on this site is totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or chocolate biscuits).
That whole ideal org pgm thing was just a global 'why' (which is an impossibility) that has been forced on orgs planet-wide. One of the main problems I saw with upper management is that they would continually come up with these massive 'whys' (if you are not policy-savvy, a 'why' is the greatest departure from the ideal scene, in other words its the thing that will sort out the situation e.g. staff aren't trained, or no salesman on post, not enough promo, manager is serial killer, etc).
They would come up with these and then order their compliance planet wide; so whether you were Milan or Canberra you had to comply. But what it says is that the solution for Milan org is the same as the solution for Canberra org, and that's just rubbish. Anyone who has actually done a 'why find' in an org or department will know that it is very specific to that situation. There could be a Day and Fdn org in the same building and they could easily have two different whys respectively. And to order 6 staff to be sent up-lines for training on a GAT evolution from an org like Canberra (which often didn't even have 6 staff!) is just blind stupidity.
Anyway, I was now doubting upper management and had completed the DUM RD (Doubt Upper Management Rundown). I had taken my next step on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom.
After making such gains I couldn't believe that the next step would present itself so soon, but of course, it did. The BASICS; and it's a big one.
Now from what I remember of the event, there were gross errors that existed on the part of the publishers in the form of grammatical, formatting, missing chapters/sections, included chapters/sections, incorrect type-sizes (or something like that). And these errors had now finally been rectified through 9 gazillion hours of work.
Now I have to willfully control myself here so as to not just start spewing forth profanities willy-nilly.
So, calmly now, I am expected to believe that Ron wrote these basics over the course of a 10-15 year period and then 35 or so years after writing book one, he died. And these basics (the books anyway) are said to comprise the entire technology of $cn. I remember reading a policy that said that if you really understood the basic books and had full certainty on them, you could work the rest out yourself; they were that powerful (more verbal tech).
Okay.
Now these books contained GROSS errors that actually changed their meaning or the resultant understanding of them. And in all that time, Ron didn't notice that? Even if he was continually going from org to org non-stop working on expanding each area (not saying that he was), wouldn't it be more important to correct errors in the basic books of $cn? And if he was in the orgs and the basic books were so far out, you would expect major tech problems in those orgs -- which he would have surely seen.
Another thing I noticed at the event was that all this blame (there was about a ton of it) got put onto the old publishing companies or old staff who were distributing the books in the 60s. Which meant that very fortunately (funny that), absolutely no blame got put on current management. This is a habitual thing it seems:
1. Make a product and sell it; 2. Revise the product and re-sell it; 3. Improve the product and re-sell it.
Now this in itself is not foreign as a business concept or strategy. And it's hardly objectionable, as long as their is NO MONOPOLY ON THE PRODUCT. You have a product that you buy and a few years later, a better one comes out. If you want the better one, you get it.
Also if you're not happy you can always get a different product from a competitor. But within $cn it's more accurately this:
1. Make a product that is perfect; 1a. Sell it as the perfect product; 2. Discover imperfections; 2a. Make the product really perfect; 3. Sell it as the Really Perfect product; 4. Repeat ad infinitum.
And there is actually no competitor to buy from. The competitors are all SPs! Take a look: you want a different angle on mental health? Too bad because psychiatry is suppressive. What about another angle on the truth? Well that's out too because the media is suppressive. Different perspective on sorting out my illness? Maybe, but all drugs and drug companies are suppressive so not a good idea (and maybe the medical profession is suppressive too unless the doctor is a $cn). Surely I can get another opinion on management? You could if government wasn't so suppressive.
The real-world authorities (which are the ones who might question things within their spheres) are all viewed as enemies -- and you don't communicate to enemies. And you definitely don't believe what enemies tell you.
--which means you never find out that your group could be the enemy...
I was noticing some 'glaring out-points' and things were heating up. I was finally about to be 'fleed'.
--more soon
HAB
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Hey everyone thanks very much and here is the next installment,
everything here I write is my opinion bla bla maybe true or not or ham sandwhhiches..
Back to the BASICS...
The whole 'close' in the sales pitch is that these services, books or whatever, are THE TECH. They are perfect. Doing them will give you all the answers about that subject and so on. That's the main reason you buy. From what I had read about tech, $cn correctly applied is miraculous. Anything short of that is not (and is not $cn). So what were all the books that people bought over all those years, if there were these errors in them? Were they $cn? If they weren't, was that fair exchange?
And what about the money that people paid for them? The money had no errors in it; the $40 that Larry paid for FOT worked fine at banks and shops. None of it was later found to be counterfeit or malfunctioning. There are actually still people today using that money very successfully and it works fine. Yet little Larry finds now that not only does he have to pay $65 for the new edition, but that his old edition is 100% obsolete. As are all of his 12 other old editions, which are no good. He may as well throw them away -- they are no longer tech. Now how many thousands of 'Larry' are there?
So in essence the poor public pays again. Public pays for the expansion of $cn and the public pays for the contraction of $cn.
Actually regardless of the event -- the public seems to pay. $cn gets highest ever stats: public pays for new CD release. $cn gets attacked in Germany: public pays for IAS donations to fight Deutsch Suppressives. $cn crushes the psyches: public pays to get the psych-buster booklet (plus 50 more copies to hand out). $cn lifts arbitraries: public pays to re-do their bridge (without arbitraries). $cn gives bad auditing or incorrect c/s: public pays to get it fixed. I know that these are VERY general statements -- and if I wasn't so suppressive I would be a bit worried.
As a DUM RD completion I could see that the basics were just another money-spinner.
And this had been done extensively with courses too. It was a bit of a joke around the time when you asked someone if they had done the pts/sp course and they would say, 'Which one?' because there had been so many re-issues.
So I now doubted the basic books and lectures and thus took a huge step on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom by completing my DABBL RD (Doubt All Basic Books and Lectures RD).
Now well on my way to flee-dom, I found my first encounter with this site (and other internet sites). I had been told by various friends that several prominent and veteran $cn'ists had left the church and were now ranting all over the internet. I couldn't believe it. A couple of them (who I see are here regularly) I even knew or had met. There was also an ex-SO member who was on crew when I was, who apparently was raising all hell and giving out every conceivable detail about INT and RTC as he had been crew at both those orgs after he transferred from ANZO.
This was a big surprise. It was one thing for the media and psychiatry to gang up on the church -- they were suppressive groups anyway. But for $cns who had been around for years, EDs and Execs, SO members, big-time contributors, all to go (and not go quietly). How could they be suppressive? Some of these guys and gals had sweat blood for their church and given the major part of their lives to its cause. It didn't make sense and got me thinking further. I knew I was getting closer to the top of the bridge to flee-dom but in order to get there, I would have to do the next big step.
I promptly regged myself for the A-SCN RD (Anti-Scientology on the Net Rundown) and started the process.
Now you must understand that if you have not done the DUM RD and the DABBL RD then the A-SCN RD will not work on you. It just wont. Anybody who is not DUM and a DABBL will still have mechanisms in place that stop the person looking at information and cause him to justify ANYTHING he sees using $cn reasoning.
So I looked at a few sites and some u-tube stuff and I found it hard going. I wasn't getting through at the expected pace and I was definitely getting confused with the various information and views. Some of it sounded plausible but it could still have been made up. The entire thing could still (just possibly) be a huge conspiracy contrived by evil sps to attack the only true technology on spiritual happiness.
The last time I had done this, I had gotten horribly ill for days. I was determined not to fail but it was so hard to know the truth from the lies.
Was I going to get through? I really wasn't sure.
--more soon
HAB
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Okay here we go, nearly there guys please bear with me a little longer (everything I state here is opinion ie maybe true/false/cheeseburgers),
I had started the A-SCN RD and was stalling. Compared to what I know now, I had still looked at only a few sites/sources on the internet, and I still wasn't sure.
This is where I first found the ESMB and looked at the forums.
I had been curious about some ex-$cns that I had heard about from Sydney. I had known them to some degree when they were still on lines and contributing. After googling several versions of ex-$cn Sydney/Australia a post caught my eye.
I checked it out avidly read through and became more and more aghast as this lovely lady explained one of the last torments she had endured in the church. After a couple of installments I froze, "I know this person!" It was Carmel (Hi Carmel!) and I was totally amazed. As I read on I realised that I also knew this story!!! But the version i had heard was very abbreviated and had about 1% of the details that she had actually endured in her '9-levels-of-hell-inquisition'.
I couldn't believe this -- here I was worried about what might happen to me if I looked at certain things anti- to $cn, when this lady had gone 15 rounds with the Soul-Crushers -- and survived!!
The concept: "Fu*ck It!" appeared very clearly in my mind. I was calm. I was relaxed. Everything was moving really slow (like molasses in the winter time). And then I got really pissed. "You sonsofbitches. You snakes!! Not even snakes -- you eels in snakes clothing!!!
"F*ck you, I'm finishing my goddamn rundown!!" I promised. I had to quickly check with my c/s (that was actually me at the time) and it was green-light all the way.
I ran through a couple more posts.
"Yeah, you got that right!"
"Too right, mate!!"
"That's the goddamn truth!"
Then I found Feral's story and this was another big one for me, because I had known him also. I read his story. Holy Molasses! I had known him back when I was I on crew and knew of his contributions to a degree. For him to go through that and explain it as he did was amazing. Both these stories clinched it for me and I understood why.
These guys and gals -- I knew. They weren't an angry mob of SPs all spewing vitriol at anyone who approached. They were hard-core motherfu*kers who had paid sweat and blood for their church, their team. They had played hard for years at this game. They had taken hits that would petrify most people. They had fought and fought the enemy and not given in.
And their reward had been a big, shiny, glowing "FUCK YOU!" from the sponsors.
I carried on surfing the forums as the data sunk in. I was coming down off a high. The high of completing the A-SCN Rundown. Relief was just washing over me. Even if this wasn't the top of the bridge to total fleedom I certainly felt fleed.
--more soon, and thanks everybody for all your support!
HAB
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Cantsay, one point I wanted to make, and its related to the whole stats thing -- STATS are priority #1 -- when I was in the SO. I didn't realise it until I was a public. Working in with stats and conditions formulas, is Successful Actions, but this is generally looked at in a very short-sighted way by (IMO) most staff. Whatever gets the stats up was the successful action. That's why SO and staff members stay up till 3 in the morning (because last week it got the stats up). But its not looking at any long-term effects (like uh... there's only so many hours in the day)
So yeah, if something made money then, it will make money again -- even if it was an absolute cock-up. If the public bought it, it was successful. And after years of VERY GRADUAL indoctrination you go from:
a normal person hesitating to spend $30 on a book....
to a person who will pay $10,000 for repair auditing to fix $5,000 of bad auditing.
Before the basics evolution, individual books were being revised on a far lower gradient (new covers, extra lost chapter, hard cover, etc). And people bought it. "I have the book but I will buy the new one because they said it was better" These individual book releases paved the way for the Basics Evolution -- ALL BOOKS. And from memory the books that LRH listed as the basics were not all the books that they have now as the basics (I may be wrong there but don't think so)
Same goes for services:
Person is sold the idea that 'Clear handles all psychosomatic ills'; goes Clear but still ill; gets sold the idea of Non Interference zone will screw you up; goes OTIII; still gets sick; sold idea that OTV handles heavier somatics; goes OTV still sick; sold idea new release of pts/sp course (with never-before-seen-refs etc); ad infinitum. As long as the public is buying it, the c0$ keeps spinning it. There's always something else.
Okay, friends I think this about it,
Okay (everything I say here is my opinion i.e. could be true/false/cheesburgers/rock'n'roll)
Firstly, a small technical aside to refresh your memories:
FLEEDOM BRIDGE (so far)
LEVEL--- COST--- ABILITY GAINED
DIM RD--- (free)--- can hold your integrity vs local org strategies
DIS RD--- (free)--- can treat org staff like anyone else
DOE RD--- (free)--- can differentiate between reality and video
DUM RD--- (free)--- is able to neutralise altitude (altitude of post or rank etc)
DABBL RD--- (free)--- can recognise and evaluate data for yourself
A-SCN RD--- ($9)--- can take it or leave it ($9 is the price of 2 cheesburgers to snack on while on the net. NB. prices for this level may vary)
TBA -- TBA
[you should note that the Bridge to Total Flee-dom has the first rundowns at the top of the page and the last rundowns at the bottom unlike the $cn grade-chart which goes the other way. There are two reasons for this: firstly the flee-dom bridge is intrinsically the opposite of the $cn one and secondly it brings you DOWN....to earth. You have to do that before you can move up for real and get on with your life]
I was feeling truly relaxed and fleed. I was still surfing around on the net and checking stories from ex-SO members from up-lines and some shocking ones were posted by these guys.
A thought occurred to me about the first time I googled $cn on the internet all those years ago and how bad I felt afterwards. I was back now and running with it with no trouble. But something was bugging me and there was still more I needed to confront.
Even though I was lurking on ESMB you should know I still hadn't registered anywhere or posted anything. Actually the thought of that still made me shudder. And so I hadn't actually contacted anyone on the site. My only contact with someone who was "out" -- was a long-time friend I had who was overseas and the whole time that we were in $cn we had known each other and gotten on very well. He was actually a contributing factor to me getting onto the start of the Fleedom Bridge and doing those lower rundowns that cut the path to the A-SCN RD. He was smart with it too -- he didn't just rave on about crazy cult stuff. He mainly just got me to ask questions.
Something was still bugging me so I checked with my c/s. When I got the r-factor back (from me), I was very happy. There was another step and possibly the final step on the Bridge to Total Fleedom. This step I was told, would set me up perfectly for my future. It was actually a ground-breaking discovery and I was honoured to be one of the first ones out of me to do the rundown. What was it?
The KR RD!!! (Know Ron Rundown)
Strangely enough I had touched on this way back when I was trying to find biographical data on Ron and didn't even realise that it was a step on the flee-dom bridge. In a way I was happy that I didn't continue with it back then; without being DOE, DIS, DIM, DUM or DABBL who knows what would have happened, right? Probably would have fried my head off.
So I regged myself and found that as a founding member of me I qualified for a huge discount. It worked out costing me about... NOTHING!!! So I could get started straight away. This I have found is the major rundown and what I found on the internet about Ron has basically made me totally certain that I will flee.
Now you may think that I immediately concluded that Ron was a maniac and that means everything he ever said or wrote was absolute garbage. Not necessarily. Though I no longer viewed him as I had before.
I did not suddenly hate him or think that he was a monster or that sort of thing; it was far more subtle than that. I simply realised while doing this step that as a $cn'ist, I actually believed in Ron first. You see the tech all comes from him. And then I realised that $cn IS RON. In order to truly doubt the church you have to truly doubt its founder. Until you can question the founder -- and break the link between him and the church --that very last mechanism will stay in place and keep you seeing things through only $cn eyes. 'What would Ron do?' and that sort of thing.
I know there will be different viewpoints on this and I believe there must be. But for me, the instant that I considered that Ron was source was the exact same instant that I became a $cn. That's the instant I stopped looking at anything else. And the early indoctrination in the church is doing everything it can to nurture that belief. That is the making (or breaking) of a $cientologist. And all that happened on this rundown was I simply changed Ron from "source" to "a possible source".
My admiration of a person is based more on his achievements than on his irregularities. It doesn't matter that a rock-star has a different sexual orientation to me if he produces great music. The fact that Sherlock Holmes was an opium addict does not dull my admiration of his powers of deduction. Ron still did what he did, and as a friend recently pointed out: he was still primarily responsible for putting all these people together. Not a small thing. But like any person, he was flawed and the biggest insult from the c0$ is that they expect you to believe that he was not.
Now this an ongoing rundown. Unlike many here, I did not get to OT. I did not do up-lines management training. So I did not have experience of the entire green vols or the larger part of the bridge. But I can still work with what I do know. And it just means that I will know to test things for myself and to continue learning what I want to learn.
This could easily be the final step on the flee-dom bridge. And I think it becomes a personal thing from here. I reckon if you got to this point, then the only rundowns you would do after this would truly be your own rundowns. And because everyone here has such different histories, qualifications, case levels etc it wouldn't be necessary to describe the rundown that I am currently on (apart from: "it's great!").
I can sort of say it with a couple of lines out of a movie. These are two kids talking on a hill.
Chuckie: "I know what I want."
Fresh: "Yeah I know what you mean--I have this dream."
Chuckie: "Like what?"
Fresh: "Oh, nothing. I just have it that's all."
And that's how I feel -- my dreams and hopes and passions are my own, without needing to align with any other doctrine or discipline or person unless I want them to.
And so the KR RD is the final step on The Bridge to Total Flee-dom:
LEVEL--- COST--- ABILITY GAINED
KR RD--- (free)--- knows who is, was, and always shall be SOURCE (hint: do you have a mirror?)
I would like to truly thank everyone here and for all the support I've gotten from the people on this site, and especially to those who have made this site possible. It's been a blast sharing this -- writing a KR to the org just doesn't quite cut it.
I would still like to continue the story started here but probably on another thread to give $cns doubting the church some much needed help, support and perspective for their own hard journey to come.
Last thing -- if you haven't read Carmel's story and Feral's story, read them now. They'll knock you for six. There are other stories that I'm finding now here and it is all confirming what I now know to be true.
If I had any advice to give to a $cientologist who is not happy and is looking on this site, it would be: First, keep looking -- if we are all SPs and you know that, you should be sweet. Second, ask yourself: Of everything you know of $cn -- if all that were true of some OTHER group -- would you feel the same way about THAT group as you feel about $cn?
Thanks again everybody!
Cheesburgers all round
HAB
"LOOK! And ye shall know"
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There are many many comments to these posts, which should all be read as well. This one in particular, gives Happy Abberee an opportunity to expound off of a suggestion, lol:
2nd March 2009, 04:45 PM
Happy Aberree
[..]
Originally Posted by degraded being
One bit that "jumped out" at me near the end was this:
-snip- KR RD--- (free)--- knows who is, was, and always shall be SOURCE (hint: do you have a mirror?).
Without wanting to interfere with your creativity, it got me thinking that the "grade chart to Fleedom" could have on it somewhere; "Knows who he was and knows he never wants to be anyfuckingwhere near there again" as one of the "EP's
Cheers DB. I think that EP you mentioned is a very close second EP of the KR rundown but because the rundown is available to anybody (including little chilluns) it is not stated on the Flee-dom Bridge due to the profanity-content (though I will check with the publisher as I don't think "anyfuckingwhere" is officially a swear-word). lol [..]
OK, so there you have one person's experience in Scientology and it's Sea Organization which will be appreciaed by thousands!
Check out the whole thread with commentsMy story from inside Scientology by Happy Aberree
This is a phenomenal must-read story for anyone who ever partook of :
My Time in Church and in the SO
by Happy Aberree
Hello all, I promised to give you a story so here it is.
I didn't think it would be a very long affair and just wanted to let people know what my background was. But I soon found that once I started writing it down I couldn't stop. It's amazing when you have so much stuff held inside and no one to communicate it to, that once you do start telling it, it just floods out. Anyway, I'll do it in sections because its turned out quite long.
---Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
My first taste of c0$ was in a small org in ANZO in the 80's. I had heard about it from a friend and listened to a Dianetics tape. I was still pretty young and had been looking for something worthwhile to do with my life. So when she said to go into the org, I did. I went through the battery of tests and started on the HQS. I also got a few hours of book one which were pretty far out. The auditor, I think now, thought he was a hypnotist. Or at least he had watched a lot of hypnotists because he definitely had the eyes and the voice for it. So I cured my hay-fever (just like in the tape I listened to) and told everybody about it. It's funny though that I still get hay-fever, but that's beside the point. I definitely wanted it to be true.
Within a few months, I had found out about the AO from some of the staff at the Class V org (they were actually class IV orgs at the time). They had told me that the AO (AOSH ANZO) was awesome and everything there was unreal and the staff there were in uniform. You have to understand that at the ripe old age of 21, I was still very impressionable (I mean more impressionable than I am now). So I checked the AO out. I talked to a staff member there and asked him what the Sea Org was. He told me, 'It just means you're a fully-dedicated Scientologist".
That was enough for me. I was trying to prove myself at something and this was going to be it. But I had some things to handle first (like my job and my mum-- who thought scientology was a health club). I thought it would take me 3-6 months to smooth everything out and save up some money to have in the bank when I joined. I told the SO member, I think it was John Willoughby, and he said something like, "Once you make up your mind to do something, then just do it. If you wait then the bank (sub-conscious) will key-in and you'll never do anything" Needless to say, he wanted me to join on the spot (or at least before Thursday 2pm when the stats ended each week).
I joined three days later (quit my job and family and friends). Looking back now it seems like I threw my life away -- it's a good analogy. Though I have had some great times in the c0$ and met some really cool people, I lost a lot too. The good times, I later realised, were really to do with the good people I met. You never admit that you lose anything when YOU'RE IN. You never admit to yourself that joining may have been a mistake.
--more to come
HAB
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here's the next installment:
---Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
My stat on tour was Appointments Made (to see the registrar). Now I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, $cn was going to save the planet and I was part of its highest order -- the $ea Org. I commanded respect even though I was still new on post. I had my class A uniform and cap and I was going to change the world. My senior was an awesome reg and 10-year Sea Org veteran. All the staff at the class V org called us 'sir' and looked at us with awe. My senior sat me down and handed me the call-in list and said 'Go to it!'
I picked up the phone, brimming with pride, and called the first number on the list of Clears and OTs in the field. And the guy said, "$cientology? Hey don't fu#king call here again, you got that?"
Whoops, must have been a wrong number.
Next call, "Yeah, yeah, look I told the last guy: I got no money and I'm not coming in. And why can't Rob call me himself?"
I had a list of hundreds of names. I imagined i would fill my boss' day with back-to-back appointments and even have to help reg some of the public myself. I thought that the people would be so happy to hear from a $ea Org member that they would all want to come in straight away and I would have to console them because they would have to wait until tomorrow. We were selling $cientology right? And not only that but the upper levels!
After talking all day to 'clears' and OTs in the field I was utterly spent. I had made about 4 appointments for about 100 calls. The best call I had was a sympathetic OT who tried to explain to me how things really were but she was very careful not to burst my bubble. She took her time and she could see that I was new. Rather than just give me an earful like so many had, she told me that I had to build up my relationships with people. Regging wasn't automatic -- you still had to be a salesman.
It was a small consolation. I couldn't believe how disaffected so many people were. I had to fight every inch on the phone to get every appointment -- and these were OTs. I dreamed of being OT!
Anyway, my stats sucked, and after a few tours they didn't improve very much. I also noticed that the staff at the class V orgs didn't look at me in awe -- I noticed they could see that I was green. The initial aura of the $ea Org was wearing off.
Later I found out that many people you call in the field are actually ex-$ea Org members. Many of the public at the AO were too. Maybe that had something to do with it; maybe not.
Over the years I got much better at call-in and regging too. And I had my fair share of face-rips for downstats (face-rip = when a senior removes the skin from your face through yelling alone). Compared to the guys and gals I've read about in higher management orgs though, my time in the SO was a walk in the park and it's not the main point of my story.
One of the last incidents I remember was getting back to the AO one day and the whole reception area was covered in petrol. Some guy had come in looking for his son weilding a knife and a can of petrol (which he proceeded to empty all over the place and then pull a lighter out of his pocket). He sliced the ethics officer's nose open before he got subdued by the crew. It was really far out. The police had already arrived by the time I got there. Still, it didn't sit easy in my mind -- people popping up and doing stuff like that in a church.
I eventually routed out -- I wasn't going anywhere in the SO, and seriously wasn't cut out for the strict discipline in that place. And back then, the discipline was far less than today. For example, out 2-D was fairly common in the ranks in those days (out 2-D means out-second dynamic and in the SO refers to sexual relations without being married).
It still wasn't 'okay' but you didn't go to the RPF or get off-loaded for it like now. And if you were a supervisor or auditor (or other key post) you wouldn't be in ethics for more than a day. Some of the repeat offenders back then got through ethics in one afternoon. From what I've seen nowadays out 2-D is like you beat up the Captain or something (although there were a few fights back then).
I had a small to average sized freeloader which I paid off after a year or two and pretty soon I was on service lines and working in Sydney (the city not the org). Now I'm going to explain what I saw over the next few years that led me onto The Bridge To Total Flee-dom -- rather than the details so much. For one thing my anonymity is quite comforting and the main point of my story is to help anyone who is right on that edge of wondering about the possibility of not being in $cn anymore.
-- more soon
HAB
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The Bridge to Total Flee-dom
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Here's the next installment:
--Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FLEE-DOM
The first thing I noticed in the orgs that got me thinking questioning thoughts was the Golden Age of Tech (aka training in memory and not competence). Everything I had learned about tech revolved a lot around good communication yet the GAT seemed to short circuit that. Also they weren't written by anybody (or at least they weren't signed) so no one was responsible for them. Seeing Ron's name signed on every single piece of tech or policy was taken for granted and the GAT references were very unsettling in that respect.
Another thing that I thought was quite callous was that so many auditors who were great auditors but getting on in years had to re-do their entire training (and many of them couldn't) in order to retain their certs. So fabulous auditors and c/ses like Maureen and Dot ended up working in treasury or other non-tech divisions. Not to mention the public who had to re-train and pay for it.
I brought it up casually with a staff member and later more seriously with a supervisor. They basically just parroted some Int mgmt patter-response back at me expecting me to just suddenly realise that, no way could GAT be any sort of out-KSW (KSW#1 is a policy referring to keeping the tech of $cn totally standard i.e. unchanged). I was definitely doubting the staff in local orgs and especially the internal management that were overseeing this questionable GAT evolution. Without realising it, I had taken my very first step on The Bridge to Total Flee-dom.
I had done the DIM RD (Doubt Internal Management Rundown).
I was pretty indignant over the whole thing because the thought occurred to me that it was not LRH and people weren't even in an uproar -- they were happy about it.
At this stage I was hardly thinking of giving up on $cn but I was somewhat disaffected with the inconsistency between policy and what actually happened in orgs. I do remember a friend telling me that the highest number of tech trained staff had routed out of orgs in the history of $cn immediately following the GAT evolution. This only fueled my disaffection. It seemed that the smarter staff had left. The staff that stayed on in orgs seemed to be idiots. They would just do whatever their senior or management told them to do and their senior would do likewise.
Because I had been on staff myself I knew what boat they were in and how much sheer pressure can be brought to bear on you as a staff member -- even the execs get it from their higher org seniors. Even though I knew what they were going through I decided from then on to no longer take what staff said as gospel. That was my next step on the Flee-dom Bridge:
The DIS RD (Doubt Idiot Staff Rundown)
Though I was becoming more disaffected with the org staff, it indirectly increased my admiration of Ron. I would defend his legacy even though idiot-staff couldn't see what was happening.
The next thing that happened was purely by accident. I was getting quite interested and awed with Hubbard and his achievements and had collected most of the 'Ron' booklets (Ron the blah, etc). I tried piecing together a timeline to make up a kind of biography but I found there were a few gaps in his history. I remember getting quite anxious about finding out, so I innocently went on the internet and googled his name. Holy Messiah!
Now understand here that I viewed this man as the saviour of the planet and arguably the greatest man that ever lived. He did in his lifetime what 5 great men combined would be proud to have done. I was expecting to find all these independent sources praising him just like the c0$ did but for new stuff that I hadn't heard about. I read about his educational history; I read about his son, Quentin; I read about his personal comments on various things; and I read about his war history. In comparison to what I have since learned, it was only a fraction of the information out there on Ron, but it was too much for me.
I didn't feel well. In fact I felt quite ill for about 3 days. I couldn't believe the lengths people would go to to spread lies about a truly great man. And even though I justified it off, I was definitely having more questions. I mentioned it to a $cn friend at the time and she helped me re-focus. But I still didn't doubt $cn in any way.
--more soon
HAB
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Here's the next bit:
--Everything stated by me here on this site by the way, is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or even both).
I had not been going to events around this time and when I got the usual 20 calls, for some reason I decided to go. There were the same people as the last time plus a few new faces (about 5) and I got seated next to someone I knew. I noticed one thing was different: there was a small group of SO members in the front rows and every time the audience on the video applauded, the SO members would give a standing ovation which of course would get the rest of the 'real' audience joining in. I still remember the aghast looks when I didn't stand up.
I took this rather personally. A standing ovation was an audience-origination as far as I was concerned and it was also usually reserved for applauding Ron. I thought that if you used it for everything then it degraded the standing ovation for the old man -- like selling 10 dianetics books in Fiji was as important as Ron? I don't think so. So I endured the looks for the rest of the night. I didn't even like events anyway -- the idea of clapping to a friggin' video screen was ridiculous! We were clapping a video!!! And now we were being prompted to do it!
And that voice-over!! it was like an infomercial.
Events were the next thing that got me to thinking. Over the last few years there had definitely been a prevalence of events. And each one seemed to have a new release -- a CD about something or a Passport to map your bridge progress, some new previously undiscovered chapter in a book, or a revised edition with the correct sequence of chapters. How could it take thirty years to find a chapter in a book that was supposed to be treated like the Bible is in Christianity?
And there were more events now. There were regular IAS events and there were Maiden Voyage events. Knowing from my years on crew about the purpose of events (basically to reg people) I started to wonder, 'Was the church now using events as a primary source of GI?' and if so, why?
I would rate things by how many calls I got as to their importance within the church. Out of thirty phone calls roughly 20 would be for the next event (or to come to the org and watch the VIDEO of the VIDEO EVENT...I can't wait), 5 or 6 calls would be for donations to IAS or similar and the remaining 4 or 5 calls would be about going up the bridge. Big shift in importance there. On went my mental notes. So events were definitely important now.
This was the next step that I took on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom. I was doubting org events and it was getting me thinking about more questions. Not all was as it should be. Events were being given priority importance over moving up the bridge (the $cn bridge).
I had very soon done the DOE RD (Doubt Org Events Rundown) -- can also be pronounced: Doh! (like Homer)
Around this time, I noticed what can only be described as a 'charity-fest'. Suddenly I and others were getting more calls for IAS donations. I noticed that CCHR, Athena School and ABLE were jumping on too. All these $cn units seemed to now need donations from public to do their job. Or, now they were planning projects that required large donations from the public. Cannibalising was nothing new to me (this refers to over-regging of a stagnant or non-expanding field i.e. repeat regging the same people) and I had seen it done for years in ANZO but at least before it was for services!
This was amazing -- not only could you just reg whatever amount of money you wanted, there was now no product. You see before, the heavy regging was for auditing/training and when a person went through that reg cycle and paid the money, the org then had the responsibility (in order to complete the entire cycle) of SERVICING HIM. But this new charity regging didn't need that -- the product was the money! I'm not saying that regging for auditing stopped, but it just got less important, like you could be an active $cn'ist just by contributing money (rather than moving on the bridge).
--more soon
HAB
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here are the next comedy of errors:
--Everything stated by me here on this site is of course totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or chocolate biscuits).
Okay so charity donations were in fashion big-time.
Even the AO was getting donations to help people join the SO (you would get asked to put weekly or monthly contributions to pay a person's bills so that they could join NOW). It was amazing. I couldn't help but think that for an organisation that was in possession of the only technology that could produce miracles to do 'fundraising' of any sort was ludicrous. And I was seeing less and less miracles.
Even the idea that the orgs were not all booming and bustling hives of activity was remarkable. Actually at that time Syd org was I think around 40 staff on Fdn and less on Day which was far smaller than it had been in the late 80s early 90s. Melbourne and Brisbane were about the same and Canberra was Canberra. It didn't matter. Even if they were slightly bigger than they had been, they should have been huge! How can you have all the answers to human nature and all the answers on how to administer its facilitation into society and yet not succeed at a stupidly-stellar level? And now it was charities. More food for thought.
It was around '03 or '04 that a friend of mine said that he had just come back from the AO -- and he was livid. Now this guy had been Clear for as long as I'd known him and he was a genuinely logical person. But he told me that he apparently wasn't Clear anymore. What made it worse was how he found out: in an un-metered interview with the D of P that took about 5 mins. Within a few weeks I discovered a few more friends who had been given the same r-factor (story) and learned from one staff member that it was a world-wide thing. Apparently there was no past-life clear thing anymore and practically all Clears were being told the same thing (not clear, sorry about that).
This was really getting me thinking. The first thought that popped into my head was the Y2K bug and although the computer company involved did furnish everyone worldwide with updated software and saved a potential worldwide cataclysm, they must have made a megaton of money out of it. Brilliant from a marketing point of view.
I was noticing how many of the big 'advances' made in the c0$ worldwide were continually resulting in public having to invest further dollars into their religion. Each big advance seemed to produce a very high-necessity to do some next level, review, donation, repair, etc. In other words, if there was any really big news coming out -- YOU'RE GONNA PAY BIG!
I also remember being told about a tech bulletin that discussed the point of invalidation of the state of Clear, and how to do so was highly suppressive (I haven't read it so technically this is verbal tech -- unlike everything else in this story). But I thought, 'What did that make the person or people who just originated this world-wide 're-call' of Clears?'
I saw people I had known for years who were devastated in one fell interview. They got hit so hard it was like a flash flood and they watched as the house that they had spent years to build took off down the street. I wasn't a happy camper. I was definitely doubting the management of the technology but now also the source of its application. Where was this coming from?
For me this was the DTs RD (Doubt Technology Source Rundown) note: I have also done the delirium tremens Rundown which is also called the DTs RD but is not relevant to this story. Thank you.
A major step toward flee-dom for me was when the Ideal Org Pgm came out. Now based on the phone calls I got, this thing was 5 times as important as any event or other donations. In fact the IAS seemed to totally disappear shortly after the onset of this pgm. I don't mean they closed down, I just mean they were knocked down on the regging pecking order. I remember you could say that you were being regged for the ideal org and any other reg would leave you alone.
So my first experience face to face with an Ideal Org pgm reg had me asking many questions.
You see the way I figured it, if most of the phone calls I was getting, were about the ideal org then you would expect a rather large amount of policy to be written on this activity. You know green-on-white telling you to go and buy new buildings and then build the organisation up later. How about 1 policy? How about none? At least I couldn't find one. And I will stand to be corrected on this but I'm not holding my breath. The policies referred to by the regges for this pgm have nothing whatsoever to do with buying real estate. It doesn't matter what the next 50 steps are going to be after you buy the building. Step one is off.
I had never seen a more ridiculous action done in my history in $cn.
It would be like an accountant working for himself for 20 years without getting anywhere, suddenly saying, 'Before I can expand my business the first thing I need to do is spend $500,000 to buy a new office and equipment (he already has an office and equipment by the way), and I don't have the money so I'll get it donated from my regular customers'. Now that might be a slight exaggeration but not by much. And if that isn't nutty enough, to complete the analogy HIS CUSTOMERS WOULD ACTUALLY GIVE HIM THE MONEY!
So I asked questions about 'show me the reference' and 'why can't the org afford it themselves' and 'you've got to be kidding' but I didn't get many answers. I did notice though that on the reg's project orders, some of the references were real estate books -- great. The actual $cn references listed (org pgm #1 and Ideal Org P/L) have nothing whatsoever to do with buying buildings. The most common reaction to my queries was an utter surprise that I was not jumping at the chance to save my org. This reg firmly believed that this pgm was the ONLY thing that would save the org.
--more soon
HAB
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Okay... back into it!
--Everything I write here on this site is totally my own opinion and thus could be true, false or neither (or chocolate biscuits).
That whole ideal org pgm thing was just a global 'why' (which is an impossibility) that has been forced on orgs planet-wide. One of the main problems I saw with upper management is that they would continually come up with these massive 'whys' (if you are not policy-savvy, a 'why' is the greatest departure from the ideal scene, in other words its the thing that will sort out the situation e.g. staff aren't trained, or no salesman on post, not enough promo, manager is serial killer, etc).
They would come up with these and then order their compliance planet wide; so whether you were Milan or Canberra you had to comply. But what it says is that the solution for Milan org is the same as the solution for Canberra org, and that's just rubbish. Anyone who has actually done a 'why find' in an org or department will know that it is very specific to that situation. There could be a Day and Fdn org in the same building and they could easily have two different whys respectively. And to order 6 staff to be sent up-lines for training on a GAT evolution from an org like Canberra (which often didn't even have 6 staff!) is just blind stupidity.
Anyway, I was now doubting upper management and had completed the DUM RD (Doubt Upper Management Rundown). I had taken my next step on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom.
After making such gains I couldn't believe that the next step would present itself so soon, but of course, it did. The BASICS; and it's a big one.
Now from what I remember of the event, there were gross errors that existed on the part of the publishers in the form of grammatical, formatting, missing chapters/sections, included chapters/sections, incorrect type-sizes (or something like that). And these errors had now finally been rectified through 9 gazillion hours of work.
Now I have to willfully control myself here so as to not just start spewing forth profanities willy-nilly.
So, calmly now, I am expected to believe that Ron wrote these basics over the course of a 10-15 year period and then 35 or so years after writing book one, he died. And these basics (the books anyway) are said to comprise the entire technology of $cn. I remember reading a policy that said that if you really understood the basic books and had full certainty on them, you could work the rest out yourself; they were that powerful (more verbal tech).
Okay.
Now these books contained GROSS errors that actually changed their meaning or the resultant understanding of them. And in all that time, Ron didn't notice that? Even if he was continually going from org to org non-stop working on expanding each area (not saying that he was), wouldn't it be more important to correct errors in the basic books of $cn? And if he was in the orgs and the basic books were so far out, you would expect major tech problems in those orgs -- which he would have surely seen.
Another thing I noticed at the event was that all this blame (there was about a ton of it) got put onto the old publishing companies or old staff who were distributing the books in the 60s. Which meant that very fortunately (funny that), absolutely no blame got put on current management. This is a habitual thing it seems:
1. Make a product and sell it; 2. Revise the product and re-sell it; 3. Improve the product and re-sell it.
Now this in itself is not foreign as a business concept or strategy. And it's hardly objectionable, as long as their is NO MONOPOLY ON THE PRODUCT. You have a product that you buy and a few years later, a better one comes out. If you want the better one, you get it.
Also if you're not happy you can always get a different product from a competitor. But within $cn it's more accurately this:
1. Make a product that is perfect; 1a. Sell it as the perfect product; 2. Discover imperfections; 2a. Make the product really perfect; 3. Sell it as the Really Perfect product; 4. Repeat ad infinitum.
And there is actually no competitor to buy from. The competitors are all SPs! Take a look: you want a different angle on mental health? Too bad because psychiatry is suppressive. What about another angle on the truth? Well that's out too because the media is suppressive. Different perspective on sorting out my illness? Maybe, but all drugs and drug companies are suppressive so not a good idea (and maybe the medical profession is suppressive too unless the doctor is a $cn). Surely I can get another opinion on management? You could if government wasn't so suppressive.
The real-world authorities (which are the ones who might question things within their spheres) are all viewed as enemies -- and you don't communicate to enemies. And you definitely don't believe what enemies tell you.
--which means you never find out that your group could be the enemy...
I was noticing some 'glaring out-points' and things were heating up. I was finally about to be 'fleed'.
--more soon
HAB
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Hey everyone thanks very much and here is the next installment,
everything here I write is my opinion bla bla maybe true or not or ham sandwhhiches..
Back to the BASICS...
The whole 'close' in the sales pitch is that these services, books or whatever, are THE TECH. They are perfect. Doing them will give you all the answers about that subject and so on. That's the main reason you buy. From what I had read about tech, $cn correctly applied is miraculous. Anything short of that is not (and is not $cn). So what were all the books that people bought over all those years, if there were these errors in them? Were they $cn? If they weren't, was that fair exchange?
And what about the money that people paid for them? The money had no errors in it; the $40 that Larry paid for FOT worked fine at banks and shops. None of it was later found to be counterfeit or malfunctioning. There are actually still people today using that money very successfully and it works fine. Yet little Larry finds now that not only does he have to pay $65 for the new edition, but that his old edition is 100% obsolete. As are all of his 12 other old editions, which are no good. He may as well throw them away -- they are no longer tech. Now how many thousands of 'Larry' are there?
So in essence the poor public pays again. Public pays for the expansion of $cn and the public pays for the contraction of $cn.
Actually regardless of the event -- the public seems to pay. $cn gets highest ever stats: public pays for new CD release. $cn gets attacked in Germany: public pays for IAS donations to fight Deutsch Suppressives. $cn crushes the psyches: public pays to get the psych-buster booklet (plus 50 more copies to hand out). $cn lifts arbitraries: public pays to re-do their bridge (without arbitraries). $cn gives bad auditing or incorrect c/s: public pays to get it fixed. I know that these are VERY general statements -- and if I wasn't so suppressive I would be a bit worried.
As a DUM RD completion I could see that the basics were just another money-spinner.
And this had been done extensively with courses too. It was a bit of a joke around the time when you asked someone if they had done the pts/sp course and they would say, 'Which one?' because there had been so many re-issues.
So I now doubted the basic books and lectures and thus took a huge step on the Bridge to Total Flee-dom by completing my DABBL RD (Doubt All Basic Books and Lectures RD).
Now well on my way to flee-dom, I found my first encounter with this site (and other internet sites). I had been told by various friends that several prominent and veteran $cn'ists had left the church and were now ranting all over the internet. I couldn't believe it. A couple of them (who I see are here regularly) I even knew or had met. There was also an ex-SO member who was on crew when I was, who apparently was raising all hell and giving out every conceivable detail about INT and RTC as he had been crew at both those orgs after he transferred from ANZO.
This was a big surprise. It was one thing for the media and psychiatry to gang up on the church -- they were suppressive groups anyway. But for $cns who had been around for years, EDs and Execs, SO members, big-time contributors, all to go (and not go quietly). How could they be suppressive? Some of these guys and gals had sweat blood for their church and given the major part of their lives to its cause. It didn't make sense and got me thinking further. I knew I was getting closer to the top of the bridge to flee-dom but in order to get there, I would have to do the next big step.
I promptly regged myself for the A-SCN RD (Anti-Scientology on the Net Rundown) and started the process.
Now you must understand that if you have not done the DUM RD and the DABBL RD then the A-SCN RD will not work on you. It just wont. Anybody who is not DUM and a DABBL will still have mechanisms in place that stop the person looking at information and cause him to justify ANYTHING he sees using $cn reasoning.
So I looked at a few sites and some u-tube stuff and I found it hard going. I wasn't getting through at the expected pace and I was definitely getting confused with the various information and views. Some of it sounded plausible but it could still have been made up. The entire thing could still (just possibly) be a huge conspiracy contrived by evil sps to attack the only true technology on spiritual happiness.
The last time I had done this, I had gotten horribly ill for days. I was determined not to fail but it was so hard to know the truth from the lies.
Was I going to get through? I really wasn't sure.
--more soon
HAB
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Okay here we go, nearly there guys please bear with me a little longer (everything I state here is opinion ie maybe true/false/cheeseburgers),
I had started the A-SCN RD and was stalling. Compared to what I know now, I had still looked at only a few sites/sources on the internet, and I still wasn't sure.
This is where I first found the ESMB and looked at the forums.
I had been curious about some ex-$cns that I had heard about from Sydney. I had known them to some degree when they were still on lines and contributing. After googling several versions of ex-$cn Sydney/Australia a post caught my eye.
I checked it out avidly read through and became more and more aghast as this lovely lady explained one of the last torments she had endured in the church. After a couple of installments I froze, "I know this person!" It was Carmel (Hi Carmel!) and I was totally amazed. As I read on I realised that I also knew this story!!! But the version i had heard was very abbreviated and had about 1% of the details that she had actually endured in her '9-levels-of-hell-inquisition'.
I couldn't believe this -- here I was worried about what might happen to me if I looked at certain things anti- to $cn, when this lady had gone 15 rounds with the Soul-Crushers -- and survived!!
The concept: "Fu*ck It!" appeared very clearly in my mind. I was calm. I was relaxed. Everything was moving really slow (like molasses in the winter time). And then I got really pissed. "You sonsofbitches. You snakes!! Not even snakes -- you eels in snakes clothing!!!
"F*ck you, I'm finishing my goddamn rundown!!" I promised. I had to quickly check with my c/s (that was actually me at the time) and it was green-light all the way.
I ran through a couple more posts.
"Yeah, you got that right!"
"Too right, mate!!"
"That's the goddamn truth!"
Then I found Feral's story and this was another big one for me, because I had known him also. I read his story. Holy Molasses! I had known him back when I was I on crew and knew of his contributions to a degree. For him to go through that and explain it as he did was amazing. Both these stories clinched it for me and I understood why.
These guys and gals -- I knew. They weren't an angry mob of SPs all spewing vitriol at anyone who approached. They were hard-core motherfu*kers who had paid sweat and blood for their church, their team. They had played hard for years at this game. They had taken hits that would petrify most people. They had fought and fought the enemy and not given in.
And their reward had been a big, shiny, glowing "FUCK YOU!" from the sponsors.
I carried on surfing the forums as the data sunk in. I was coming down off a high. The high of completing the A-SCN Rundown. Relief was just washing over me. Even if this wasn't the top of the bridge to total fleedom I certainly felt fleed.
--more soon, and thanks everybody for all your support!
HAB
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Cantsay, one point I wanted to make, and its related to the whole stats thing -- STATS are priority #1 -- when I was in the SO. I didn't realise it until I was a public. Working in with stats and conditions formulas, is Successful Actions, but this is generally looked at in a very short-sighted way by (IMO) most staff. Whatever gets the stats up was the successful action. That's why SO and staff members stay up till 3 in the morning (because last week it got the stats up). But its not looking at any long-term effects (like uh... there's only so many hours in the day)
So yeah, if something made money then, it will make money again -- even if it was an absolute cock-up. If the public bought it, it was successful. And after years of VERY GRADUAL indoctrination you go from:
a normal person hesitating to spend $30 on a book....
to a person who will pay $10,000 for repair auditing to fix $5,000 of bad auditing.
Before the basics evolution, individual books were being revised on a far lower gradient (new covers, extra lost chapter, hard cover, etc). And people bought it. "I have the book but I will buy the new one because they said it was better" These individual book releases paved the way for the Basics Evolution -- ALL BOOKS. And from memory the books that LRH listed as the basics were not all the books that they have now as the basics (I may be wrong there but don't think so)
Same goes for services:
Person is sold the idea that 'Clear handles all psychosomatic ills'; goes Clear but still ill; gets sold the idea of Non Interference zone will screw you up; goes OTIII; still gets sick; sold idea that OTV handles heavier somatics; goes OTV still sick; sold idea new release of pts/sp course (with never-before-seen-refs etc); ad infinitum. As long as the public is buying it, the c0$ keeps spinning it. There's always something else.
Okay, friends I think this about it,
Okay (everything I say here is my opinion i.e. could be true/false/cheesburgers/rock'n'roll)
Firstly, a small technical aside to refresh your memories:
FLEEDOM BRIDGE (so far)
LEVEL--- COST--- ABILITY GAINED
DIM RD--- (free)--- can hold your integrity vs local org strategies
DIS RD--- (free)--- can treat org staff like anyone else
DOE RD--- (free)--- can differentiate between reality and video
DUM RD--- (free)--- is able to neutralise altitude (altitude of post or rank etc)
DABBL RD--- (free)--- can recognise and evaluate data for yourself
A-SCN RD--- ($9)--- can take it or leave it ($9 is the price of 2 cheesburgers to snack on while on the net. NB. prices for this level may vary)
TBA -- TBA
[you should note that the Bridge to Total Flee-dom has the first rundowns at the top of the page and the last rundowns at the bottom unlike the $cn grade-chart which goes the other way. There are two reasons for this: firstly the flee-dom bridge is intrinsically the opposite of the $cn one and secondly it brings you DOWN....to earth. You have to do that before you can move up for real and get on with your life]
I was feeling truly relaxed and fleed. I was still surfing around on the net and checking stories from ex-SO members from up-lines and some shocking ones were posted by these guys.
A thought occurred to me about the first time I googled $cn on the internet all those years ago and how bad I felt afterwards. I was back now and running with it with no trouble. But something was bugging me and there was still more I needed to confront.
Even though I was lurking on ESMB you should know I still hadn't registered anywhere or posted anything. Actually the thought of that still made me shudder. And so I hadn't actually contacted anyone on the site. My only contact with someone who was "out" -- was a long-time friend I had who was overseas and the whole time that we were in $cn we had known each other and gotten on very well. He was actually a contributing factor to me getting onto the start of the Fleedom Bridge and doing those lower rundowns that cut the path to the A-SCN RD. He was smart with it too -- he didn't just rave on about crazy cult stuff. He mainly just got me to ask questions.
Something was still bugging me so I checked with my c/s. When I got the r-factor back (from me), I was very happy. There was another step and possibly the final step on the Bridge to Total Fleedom. This step I was told, would set me up perfectly for my future. It was actually a ground-breaking discovery and I was honoured to be one of the first ones out of me to do the rundown. What was it?
The KR RD!!! (Know Ron Rundown)
Strangely enough I had touched on this way back when I was trying to find biographical data on Ron and didn't even realise that it was a step on the flee-dom bridge. In a way I was happy that I didn't continue with it back then; without being DOE, DIS, DIM, DUM or DABBL who knows what would have happened, right? Probably would have fried my head off.
So I regged myself and found that as a founding member of me I qualified for a huge discount. It worked out costing me about... NOTHING!!! So I could get started straight away. This I have found is the major rundown and what I found on the internet about Ron has basically made me totally certain that I will flee.
Now you may think that I immediately concluded that Ron was a maniac and that means everything he ever said or wrote was absolute garbage. Not necessarily. Though I no longer viewed him as I had before.
I did not suddenly hate him or think that he was a monster or that sort of thing; it was far more subtle than that. I simply realised while doing this step that as a $cn'ist, I actually believed in Ron first. You see the tech all comes from him. And then I realised that $cn IS RON. In order to truly doubt the church you have to truly doubt its founder. Until you can question the founder -- and break the link between him and the church --that very last mechanism will stay in place and keep you seeing things through only $cn eyes. 'What would Ron do?' and that sort of thing.
I know there will be different viewpoints on this and I believe there must be. But for me, the instant that I considered that Ron was source was the exact same instant that I became a $cn. That's the instant I stopped looking at anything else. And the early indoctrination in the church is doing everything it can to nurture that belief. That is the making (or breaking) of a $cientologist. And all that happened on this rundown was I simply changed Ron from "source" to "a possible source".
My admiration of a person is based more on his achievements than on his irregularities. It doesn't matter that a rock-star has a different sexual orientation to me if he produces great music. The fact that Sherlock Holmes was an opium addict does not dull my admiration of his powers of deduction. Ron still did what he did, and as a friend recently pointed out: he was still primarily responsible for putting all these people together. Not a small thing. But like any person, he was flawed and the biggest insult from the c0$ is that they expect you to believe that he was not.
Now this an ongoing rundown. Unlike many here, I did not get to OT. I did not do up-lines management training. So I did not have experience of the entire green vols or the larger part of the bridge. But I can still work with what I do know. And it just means that I will know to test things for myself and to continue learning what I want to learn.
This could easily be the final step on the flee-dom bridge. And I think it becomes a personal thing from here. I reckon if you got to this point, then the only rundowns you would do after this would truly be your own rundowns. And because everyone here has such different histories, qualifications, case levels etc it wouldn't be necessary to describe the rundown that I am currently on (apart from: "it's great!").
I can sort of say it with a couple of lines out of a movie. These are two kids talking on a hill.
Chuckie: "I know what I want."
Fresh: "Yeah I know what you mean--I have this dream."
Chuckie: "Like what?"
Fresh: "Oh, nothing. I just have it that's all."
And that's how I feel -- my dreams and hopes and passions are my own, without needing to align with any other doctrine or discipline or person unless I want them to.
And so the KR RD is the final step on The Bridge to Total Flee-dom:
LEVEL--- COST--- ABILITY GAINED
KR RD--- (free)--- knows who is, was, and always shall be SOURCE (hint: do you have a mirror?)
I would like to truly thank everyone here and for all the support I've gotten from the people on this site, and especially to those who have made this site possible. It's been a blast sharing this -- writing a KR to the org just doesn't quite cut it.
I would still like to continue the story started here but probably on another thread to give $cns doubting the church some much needed help, support and perspective for their own hard journey to come.
Last thing -- if you haven't read Carmel's story and Feral's story, read them now. They'll knock you for six. There are other stories that I'm finding now here and it is all confirming what I now know to be true.
If I had any advice to give to a $cientologist who is not happy and is looking on this site, it would be: First, keep looking -- if we are all SPs and you know that, you should be sweet. Second, ask yourself: Of everything you know of $cn -- if all that were true of some OTHER group -- would you feel the same way about THAT group as you feel about $cn?
Thanks again everybody!
Cheesburgers all round
HAB
"LOOK! And ye shall know"
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There are many many comments to these posts, which should all be read as well. This one in particular, gives Happy Abberee an opportunity to expound off of a suggestion, lol:
2nd March 2009, 04:45 PM
Happy Aberree
[..]
Originally Posted by degraded being
One bit that "jumped out" at me near the end was this:
-snip- KR RD--- (free)--- knows who is, was, and always shall be SOURCE (hint: do you have a mirror?).
Without wanting to interfere with your creativity, it got me thinking that the "grade chart to Fleedom" could have on it somewhere; "Knows who he was and knows he never wants to be anyfuckingwhere near there again" as one of the "EP's
Cheers DB. I think that EP you mentioned is a very close second EP of the KR rundown but because the rundown is available to anybody (including little chilluns) it is not stated on the Flee-dom Bridge due to the profanity-content (though I will check with the publisher as I don't think "anyfuckingwhere" is officially a swear-word). lol [..]
OK, so there you have one person's experience in Scientology and it's Sea Organization which will be appreciaed by thousands!
Check out the whole thread with commentsMy story from inside Scientology by Happy Aberree
Friday, March 13, 2009
News reporter Nathan Baca & KESQ go inside the Church of Scientology
It all started when Riverside County began restricting Anti-Scientology Protests
News Reporter / Assignment Editor Nathan Baca and the team at NEWS CHANNEL 3 KESQ.com of Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, CA took note of the protests and the hearings over & about Scientology's Golden Era Studio 'slave compound' and finally got their long awaited interview with the cult lackey and wow, have they done an excellent job!
Nathan Baca's EXCLUSIVE series of interviews with Scientology PR man Tommy Davis, son of actress Anne Archer show that this news atation is not afraid to ask the hard questions and get an answer.
KESQ says of Baca
Nathan's journalism philosophy is to "speak truth to power," believing it is a reporter's responsibility to keep local politicians and law enforcement accountable to the public for their actions.
Well, Thank God for men like him! A friend from anonymousdc.com sent me an email with all the links to this revealing and well reported interview series on the hard questions other reporters fear to ask Scientology.
So, please take some time and check out Parts 1-4 or the complete series 1-9 :
Part 1:The Battle Over Scientology:How the Lines Were Drawn in Riverside Co.
Part 2:
Tug of War Struggle Between Activists, Scientology Hits the Internet
Part 3:
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What is Scientology?
Part 4:
High-Ranking Scientology Official Explains 'Anonymous' Booklet, Videotaped Arrest
Part 5:
Scientology Official Addresses Works of L. Ron Hubbard
WATCH: The Complete Tommy Davis Interview 40 Minutes of Raw Tommy Davis Interview
As anondc of anonymousdc.com wrote:
"This interview is major. Exposing Scientology's collusion with Hemet lawmakers around Gold Base, getting the CoS to admit Xenu and space aliens are a real part of OT3, and basically stomping on the crotch of David Miscaviage. Enjoy, Anonymous. "
Well, I don't know about the crotch part but I'm certain this series has his head spinning and the orders flying. Nathan Baca certainly showed, as one anon said "balls of Steel" for getting this done. Thank you.
News Reporter / Assignment Editor Nathan Baca and the team at NEWS CHANNEL 3 KESQ.com of Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, CA took note of the protests and the hearings over & about Scientology's Golden Era Studio 'slave compound' and finally got their long awaited interview with the cult lackey and wow, have they done an excellent job!
Nathan Baca's EXCLUSIVE series of interviews with Scientology PR man Tommy Davis, son of actress Anne Archer show that this news atation is not afraid to ask the hard questions and get an answer.
KESQ says of Baca
Nathan's journalism philosophy is to "speak truth to power," believing it is a reporter's responsibility to keep local politicians and law enforcement accountable to the public for their actions.
Well, Thank God for men like him! A friend from anonymousdc.com sent me an email with all the links to this revealing and well reported interview series on the hard questions other reporters fear to ask Scientology.
So, please take some time and check out Parts 1-4 or the complete series 1-9 :
Part 1:The Battle Over Scientology:How the Lines Were Drawn in Riverside Co.
Part 2:
Tug of War Struggle Between Activists, Scientology Hits the Internet
Part 3:
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What is Scientology?
Part 4:
High-Ranking Scientology Official Explains 'Anonymous' Booklet, Videotaped Arrest
Part 5:
Scientology Official Addresses Works of L. Ron Hubbard
WATCH: The Complete Tommy Davis Interview 40 Minutes of Raw Tommy Davis Interview
As anondc of anonymousdc.com wrote:
"This interview is major. Exposing Scientology's collusion with Hemet lawmakers around Gold Base, getting the CoS to admit Xenu and space aliens are a real part of OT3, and basically stomping on the crotch of David Miscaviage. Enjoy, Anonymous. "
Well, I don't know about the crotch part but I'm certain this series has his head spinning and the orders flying. Nathan Baca certainly showed, as one anon said "balls of Steel" for getting this done. Thank you.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Mark Rathbun To The Courtesy Desk
Marty Rathbun, aka Mark C Rathbun is a former high ranking scientology executive who recently posted 2x's over at Ex Scientologist Message Board, seemingly oblivious to the impact his 'I'm a squirrel for hire' post would have nor the terrible impact his actions and past as a leader in Scientology have caused others.
Maybe these court documents filed by Marc and Claire Headley and the below video will enlighten him to the suffering others have had why many former scientologists and other critics would like him to come clean and join in with us in exposing the crimes committed in the name of scientology.
Still Mad As Hell
thelastanon describes this video: "What's this all about? A tribute to anonymous, the OG and everyone fighting the cult of $cientology.
Since early January, an Internet collective known only as Anonymous has been exposing the criminal activities and corrupt practices of the Church of Scientology (CoS) and its leadership. We do not oppose the rights of the "church's" membership to believe in the "religious" tenets of scientology. We oppose the illegal, immoral and deadly acts of its leadership including and maybe most importantly their attempts to suppress free speech on the internet."
That said,Mr Rathbun, please consider the broader picture and gather up the courage to help right the wrongs as others have done. Perhaps a consultation with an experienced attorney ie: Barry VanSickle or Graham Berry, on all that you know would be wise. Many people are counting on ex members like yourself to do the right thing.
Maybe these court documents filed by Marc and Claire Headley and the below video will enlighten him to the suffering others have had why many former scientologists and other critics would like him to come clean and join in with us in exposing the crimes committed in the name of scientology.
Still Mad As Hell
thelastanon describes this video: "What's this all about? A tribute to anonymous, the OG and everyone fighting the cult of $cientology.
Since early January, an Internet collective known only as Anonymous has been exposing the criminal activities and corrupt practices of the Church of Scientology (CoS) and its leadership. We do not oppose the rights of the "church's" membership to believe in the "religious" tenets of scientology. We oppose the illegal, immoral and deadly acts of its leadership including and maybe most importantly their attempts to suppress free speech on the internet."
That said,Mr Rathbun, please consider the broader picture and gather up the courage to help right the wrongs as others have done. Perhaps a consultation with an experienced attorney ie: Barry VanSickle or Graham Berry, on all that you know would be wise. Many people are counting on ex members like yourself to do the right thing.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
More Narconon Tax liens
Recently, reports have surfaced documenting tax liens the IRS and state treasury departments have been placing on Narconons & The Church of Scientology across the USA.
I posted what was found over the last couple of months and now I'm posting some more.
Narconon Stone Hawk Rehab Center in MI( aka A Forever Recovery ) owes alot of tax to the Internal Revenue Service and the State of Michigan Depart of Treasury according to lien judgements on record. With interest compounding daily, Stone Hawk could be at the $750,000 owing mark with the IRS.
Here we have liens on taxes owning and in one case, paid of, but they are still owning alot to the Michigan State Treasury:
Maybe that's why Narconon is currently doing business in MI as "A Forever Recovery"
Now, back to Narconon Georgia aka Narconon International, Inc in GA. Seems they owe much more in quarterly payroll taxes. This one coveres was was owed for the 1st & 3rd quarters of 2008. 9412 tax is withholding payroll. Looks like they may have fiinally gotten busted for not paying taxes on all those 'independent contractor' $100.week slaves they had at their facility and it's illegal residence.
Expect more.
I posted what was found over the last couple of months and now I'm posting some more.
Narconon Stone Hawk Rehab Center in MI( aka A Forever Recovery ) owes alot of tax to the Internal Revenue Service and the State of Michigan Depart of Treasury according to lien judgements on record. With interest compounding daily, Stone Hawk could be at the $750,000 owing mark with the IRS.
Here we have liens on taxes owning and in one case, paid of, but they are still owning alot to the Michigan State Treasury:
Maybe that's why Narconon is currently doing business in MI as "A Forever Recovery"
Now, back to Narconon Georgia aka Narconon International, Inc in GA. Seems they owe much more in quarterly payroll taxes. This one coveres was was owed for the 1st & 3rd quarters of 2008. 9412 tax is withholding payroll. Looks like they may have fiinally gotten busted for not paying taxes on all those 'independent contractor' $100.week slaves they had at their facility and it's illegal residence.
Expect more.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Hey, Mary Panton (aka Mary DeMoss).. I'm Lobbying You
Mary Panton aka Mary DeMoss
Updated Update 9/14/2009: I have changed the photo to one that reflects Mary's current relationship with Scientology and it's front groups like CCHR. The photo I had up here, while adorable, was no longer necessary since Mary deleted it from her Facebook and from her blog. However, the commenter needs to contact the infamous " Bernie 'because he has the photo up on his blog in his misguided rant about me.
UPDATE: Aug 14, 2009
UPDATE: Aug 14, 2009
Seems as if Mary took into consideration what I and others wrote. She subsequently took down her blog. She went out and started her own entertainment business. Her sister even wrote me recently. I don't know whether my post had anything to do with those things happening but would like to think so in some small way.
Her sister wrote:
Her sister wrote:
"Mary is a good person at heart. She is my sister and is a decent person. Let it be. Full stories are rarely revealed to all."
Anyone who knows me knows that I wrote what I wrote because I care. I am actually one of Mary's fans from the critic pool. I am also a mother. The lack of discretion concerned me. There was enough about her on the internet to curl a straight haired woman's head. Mary has little control over that stuff but she took that steps to get the blog down and started a career change in something she wanted to do that has nothing to do with scientology. That's progress.
I am not sure if her sister is a scientologist but if she is, I would find the comment suspect, but since I have no way of knowing, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she isn't a scientologist and that she's just someone who cares for her sister enough to defend her.
So, I am deleting what I wrote in response to Mary's posts on her old blog because she deleted the blog. I'm not sure what that last sentence in her sister's comment is supposed to mean but in consideration for Mary's son and the changes she made since I published the piece, I WILL let it go. I am anonymous but I do forgive and forget.
Anyone who knows me knows that I wrote what I wrote because I care. I am actually one of Mary's fans from the critic pool. I am also a mother. The lack of discretion concerned me. There was enough about her on the internet to curl a straight haired woman's head. Mary has little control over that stuff but she took that steps to get the blog down and started a career change in something she wanted to do that has nothing to do with scientology. That's progress.
I am not sure if her sister is a scientologist but if she is, I would find the comment suspect, but since I have no way of knowing, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she isn't a scientologist and that she's just someone who cares for her sister enough to defend her.
So, I am deleting what I wrote in response to Mary's posts on her old blog because she deleted the blog. I'm not sure what that last sentence in her sister's comment is supposed to mean but in consideration for Mary's son and the changes she made since I published the piece, I WILL let it go. I am anonymous but I do forgive and forget.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Victims Of Scientology: Complaints & Concerns About Narconon
I receive MANY complaints & concerns about Narconon. Often I get emails, explaining the problems. Sometimes people post comments here. Once I have enough information to understand the problem, I have the them fill out a questionaire so I can help them with getting their complaints addressed. I am only one person, a volunteer with little time but some experience and knowledge that may be of help. My desire is to help as I can.
If you are concerned about a loved one who is currently doing this program, or you are a victim of their deceptive trade practices and you don't know what steps to take, email me with particulars about the situation which you are comfortable discussing with me, using the below questionaire as a guide, and I will get back to you as soon as possible by email.
At minimum I will need to know:
A general idea of the substance/alcohol abuse history, age, the concerns expressed to you by your loved one and how long he/she been there, along with how the services were paid and by whom ( ie: you, another relative, insurance, employer etc). My email address is at the end of the questionaire.
Confidential Questionaire:
In order to be able to help you file your complaints and volunteer as an advocate for you in the problem you are having with Narconon, the following information is needed. Use as much space as you need on each question:
Name, address county state, ph number of person who spoke and made the arrangements for the person to attend Narconon:______________________________________________________________________
Name, address county state, ph numberand age of person who attended Narconon:
______________________________________________________________________
Name, address county state ph numbers and relationship of person who paid for Narconon:______________________________________________________________________How much was Narconon paid?
How was it paid and when?
via telephone? via internet? At the facility itself?
Explain when and how the money was transferred to Narconon: By what type of Credit card, or via wire transfer, by check, Cash etc: please explain:______________________________________________________________________
Have you asked for a CHARGEBACK from your credit card company? If so, What happened so far?
Supply the name of Credit card (s) company(s) and amounts pd (to each)______________________________________________________________________
Name and address of Narconon Facility or facilities, and dates of attendence.:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Was Narconon paid for another service such as medical detox or intervention?
If Yes, please note the name address and phone numbers of the other services and list the dates of the service and amounts paid from the total fee:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How did you come to find and choose this narconon? Fill in all that apply:
__ mail, radio,newspaper oradvertisement
__ Internet rehab referral site : Pls give us the web link, the Name, phone number of person you spoke to at referral site
__ Specific Narconon Internet site __ Internet, site unknown: list keywords used in the search:
__ Through word of mouth: a person? a group?
__ a newspaper ad. Do you still have the ad? yes/no
__ other?
For any of the above, list the particulars /specifics below:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If your contact with Narconon was arranged through an internet referral site,or from a hotline number, please list the names, email addresses and/or phone numbers of the people you were put in contact with.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If your arrangement for purchasing Narconon was arranged over the phone:
Specifically: what were you asking for and what were you told you'd be getting?
What promises were made over the phone or by email by whom? Specifically Who told
you these things and how was it communicated? Include the internet referral person promises, if applicable_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If you used an internet referral service, were you given choices other than Narconon? If yes, list them: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How much were you charged by Narconon for the program and fees?____________________
If it was an outpatient Narconon, who did you pay rent to and how much?
When,how and to whom did you pay this rent? ie, name, cash, credit card, check:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Was the patient seen by a medical doctor upon arrival or at another time? State when, and the name and contact information of the doctor if possible.
Did the patient sign a release at the doctor office so you could discuss your loved one's care? Did you talk with the doctor?
Did the staff discuss your loved one's personal problems and rehab care issues with you or another without his or her persmission? Please explain who what and when.
When you were on the phone with the referral service or the Narconon contact, were you told anything about any refund policy and or Insurance reimbursement? If so, please explain. This is VERY important:
Date you received a contract to sign? Did you sign it?
Did you receive a contract to sign before paying? y / n
Did you receive a contract before the person arrived at Narconon for services? y /n
Did you receive a receipt for your payment(s) y / n
Were you offered and did did you receive any part of your refund back? y / n
Who handled this with you? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How much, When and how was it repaid or credited? ____________________________________
Were there conditions to getting the payment? ie: did you sign a gag agreement?__________________________________
Please send copies of all agreements signed so we can see what you agreed to. ON A SEPARATE PAGE:
Have the patient write up what happened during his or her stay that he or she felt
was wrong or weird or unethical.
List the Narconon staff you and related family talked with, their title and what
was said once the person had arrived. Please tey to write in sequence and note the
facility they were at if the victim went to more than one.
Explain what happened (or didn't happen as promised) to the person who attended
Narconon that you feel was unethical, illegal or a breach of your agreement with the facility
Write down any concerns you have that are not addressed here.______________________________________________________________
It would be helpful to read any documents, contracts, complaint letter you have related to your complaint. If possible, please have them scanned and emailed to me at xscilentologist at yahoo.com
Mary McConnell, volunteer advocate
If you are concerned about a loved one who is currently doing this program, or you are a victim of their deceptive trade practices and you don't know what steps to take, email me with particulars about the situation which you are comfortable discussing with me, using the below questionaire as a guide, and I will get back to you as soon as possible by email.
At minimum I will need to know:
A general idea of the substance/alcohol abuse history, age, the concerns expressed to you by your loved one and how long he/she been there, along with how the services were paid and by whom ( ie: you, another relative, insurance, employer etc). My email address is at the end of the questionaire.
Confidential Questionaire:
In order to be able to help you file your complaints and volunteer as an advocate for you in the problem you are having with Narconon, the following information is needed. Use as much space as you need on each question:
Name, address county state, ph number of person who spoke and made the arrangements for the person to attend Narconon:______________________________________________________________________
Name, address county state, ph numberand age of person who attended Narconon:
______________________________________________________________________
Name, address county state ph numbers and relationship of person who paid for Narconon:______________________________________________________________________How much was Narconon paid?
How was it paid and when?
via telephone? via internet? At the facility itself?
Explain when and how the money was transferred to Narconon: By what type of Credit card, or via wire transfer, by check, Cash etc: please explain:______________________________________________________________________
Have you asked for a CHARGEBACK from your credit card company? If so, What happened so far?
Supply the name of Credit card (s) company(s) and amounts pd (to each)______________________________________________________________________
Name and address of Narconon Facility or facilities, and dates of attendence.:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Was Narconon paid for another service such as medical detox or intervention?
If Yes, please note the name address and phone numbers of the other services and list the dates of the service and amounts paid from the total fee:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How did you come to find and choose this narconon? Fill in all that apply:
__ mail, radio,newspaper oradvertisement
__ Internet rehab referral site : Pls give us the web link, the Name, phone number of person you spoke to at referral site
__ Specific Narconon Internet site __ Internet, site unknown: list keywords used in the search:
__ Through word of mouth: a person? a group?
__ a newspaper ad. Do you still have the ad? yes/no
__ other?
For any of the above, list the particulars /specifics below:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If your contact with Narconon was arranged through an internet referral site,or from a hotline number, please list the names, email addresses and/or phone numbers of the people you were put in contact with.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If your arrangement for purchasing Narconon was arranged over the phone:
Specifically: what were you asking for and what were you told you'd be getting?
What promises were made over the phone or by email by whom? Specifically Who told
you these things and how was it communicated? Include the internet referral person promises, if applicable_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If you used an internet referral service, were you given choices other than Narconon? If yes, list them: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How much were you charged by Narconon for the program and fees?____________________
If it was an outpatient Narconon, who did you pay rent to and how much?
When,how and to whom did you pay this rent? ie, name, cash, credit card, check:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Was the patient seen by a medical doctor upon arrival or at another time? State when, and the name and contact information of the doctor if possible.
Did the patient sign a release at the doctor office so you could discuss your loved one's care? Did you talk with the doctor?
Did the staff discuss your loved one's personal problems and rehab care issues with you or another without his or her persmission? Please explain who what and when.
When you were on the phone with the referral service or the Narconon contact, were you told anything about any refund policy and or Insurance reimbursement? If so, please explain. This is VERY important:
Date you received a contract to sign? Did you sign it?
Did you receive a contract to sign before paying? y / n
Did you receive a contract before the person arrived at Narconon for services? y /n
Did you receive a receipt for your payment(s) y / n
Were you offered and did did you receive any part of your refund back? y / n
Who handled this with you? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How much, When and how was it repaid or credited? ____________________________________
Were there conditions to getting the payment? ie: did you sign a gag agreement?__________________________________
Please send copies of all agreements signed so we can see what you agreed to. ON A SEPARATE PAGE:
Have the patient write up what happened during his or her stay that he or she felt
was wrong or weird or unethical.
List the Narconon staff you and related family talked with, their title and what
was said once the person had arrived. Please tey to write in sequence and note the
facility they were at if the victim went to more than one.
Explain what happened (or didn't happen as promised) to the person who attended
Narconon that you feel was unethical, illegal or a breach of your agreement with the facility
Write down any concerns you have that are not addressed here.______________________________________________________________
It would be helpful to read any documents, contracts, complaint letter you have related to your complaint. If possible, please have them scanned and emailed to me at xscilentologist at yahoo.com
Mary McConnell, volunteer advocate
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tax Liens: First Narconon, now Church of Scientology.
Narconon is not the only Scientology organization not paying it's payroll taxes:
New York State Department of State |
State Tax Warrant Notice System |
Taxpayer Names |
Please note that this record report has been generated by an independent searcher, using the Department of State's, State Tax Warrant Notice On-Line Database. The information contained in this report is NOT an official record of the Department of State. |
Taxpayer Name(s) Selected: | City specified in warrant address record of Taxpayer Searched: | County in which warrant is filed of Taxpayer Searched: |
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CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF NY | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
Your name selection(s) hasreturned 1 State Tax Lien Notice histories.
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Warrant ID# : E-004963899-W006-7
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* Filed with Department ofState on or prior to implementation of electronic filing system,January 8, 2004. Dates for filings made prior to January 8, 2004 mustbe derived from paper filings and should be obtained from theDepartment of Taxation and Finance
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Narconon and their Federal Tax Liens
I see that Narconon, one of several infamous scientology front groups is in the news again.
Narconon International dba Narconon Florida,Inc, just got busted for under-reporting payroll and not paying the IRS the appropriate payroll taxes in 2006.
I thought it was just an isolated case when I found that Narconon Georgia got busted for not paying appropriate payroll taxes earlier this year. Seems they too didn't have the money to pay it off, at least at the time I saw this:
Narconon Georgia got busted for the year 2007, as you can see here.
It's good to see is that the IRS is auditing Narconon payroll records. I suspect that there are more of these liens out there and more audits to come.
Narconon International dba Narconon Florida,Inc, just got busted for under-reporting payroll and not paying the IRS the appropriate payroll taxes in 2006.
I thought it was just an isolated case when I found that Narconon Georgia got busted for not paying appropriate payroll taxes earlier this year. Seems they too didn't have the money to pay it off, at least at the time I saw this:
Narconon Georgia got busted for the year 2007, as you can see here.
It's good to see is that the IRS is auditing Narconon payroll records. I suspect that there are more of these liens out there and more audits to come.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Scientology Front Group " Second Chance" Caught on Camera by Officials
You can't make this stuff up!
Nighttime shuttles clear rehab center
Second Chance blew last chance?
Last Edited: Wednesday, 24 Dec 2008, 11:40 PM MST
Created On: Wednesday, 24 Dec 2008, 11:40 PM MST
KRQE News 13 ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Reporter: Dave Bohman
Web Producer: Bill Diven
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Under cover of darkness Wednesday the troubled Second Chance rehab center mysteriously shuttled nearly 50 patients or inmates away from its facility just ahead of a deadline to explain who it's been housing....[..]
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Nighttime shuttles clear rehab center
Second Chance blew last chance?
Last Edited: Wednesday, 24 Dec 2008, 11:40 PM MST
Created On: Wednesday, 24 Dec 2008, 11:40 PM MST
KRQE News 13 ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Reporter: Dave Bohman
Web Producer: Bill Diven
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Under cover of darkness Wednesday the troubled Second Chance rehab center mysteriously shuttled nearly 50 patients or inmates away from its facility just ahead of a deadline to explain who it's been housing....[..]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Miscavige Legal Statements – a study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection
Here's a re-post of an important recent statement authored by Lawrence(Larry)Brennan, a former member and high ranking administrator of the Church of Scientology.
Whenever Larry posts, I listen because he's one of the most important witnesses to the deceptive corporate shenannagans played against the IRS by the Church of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige. Here's his latest:
Operation Clambake Message Board [..] SME posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008
“The Miscavige Legal Statements – a study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection” – Posting #10 – November 11, 2008
As covered in the first posting of this series, I am here listing a quote by David Miscavige in a legal document.
I. David Miscavige’s Quote:
From “DECLARATION OF DAVID MISCAVIGE” – Larry Wollersheim vs. Church of Scientology of Calfornia – 15 October 1999:
(link–http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-miscavige-1999-09-24.html)
“33. During the late 1970's to 1980, while producing religious training films, as well as 1980 to his passing in 1986, while in seclusion continuing his research and writing, Mr. Hubbard lived away from his wife, Mary Sue. This point is important. While Mr.Hubbard was the Founder of the religion, he did not hold any corporate position. His role was the inspiration and Source of the religion's teachings. Mrs. Hubbard was the head of the Guardian's Office. As the Founder's wife she was, of course, held in high regard in the religion. The GO was, in fact, answerable to no one except those in the GO, and Mrs. Hubbard held the highest position in the GO”.
II. The truth about the subject matter quoted:
In the above quote Miscavige carefully chooses his words to try not to perjure himself. For example he talks of L. Ron Hubbard (“LRH”) living away from his wife and holding no corporate position. And, he says that MarySue Hubbard held the highest position in the Guardian’s Office (“GO”). What he carefully omits is the meaninglessness of these statements.
Corporate “on paper” control was never the real control used for any length of time within organized scientology. Although he did not hold corporate controls on paper then, that never stopped LRH in the slightest from ordering into and controlling all major sectors of organized scientology including the GO. Whether or not he physically lived with his wife had nothing to do with his ability to order into the GO yet Miscavige states that to mislead the reader into assuming the fact of their physical separation actually has some relevance to the issue of control of the GO. It does not.
While Mary Sue Hubbard was indeed in a senior position to the Guardian World Wide while she held a position entitled “Commodore’s Staff Guardian” (later to be renamed to “Controller”) she was not in fact the senior most person to run the GO. Miscavige’s statement that she held the highest position in the GO is misleading at best. The fact is that while LRH had no title as being over the GO, he was in fact the senior most person over the GO itself.
Mary Sue indeed gave many orders into the GO and oversaw many activities of the GO. But the policies that the GO was trained on and the major strategic orders to the GO were overwhelmingly by and from LRH. This includes many policies, “Guardian’s Orders” as well as many of the major GO plans, programs and orders.
I was a fully trained and interned Legal Staff Member within the Guardian’s Office with over 9 years of experience of legal under Hubbard, mostly within the GO. Between July 1976 and July 1981 I worked at the headquarters of the GO in East Grinstead in the UK known as GO World Wide. I can tell you that there were so many LRH orders, programs, plans, etc (and compliances to same) in those GOWW files that it took some 100 or so GOWW staff and students weeks to vet out them or remove them from GOWW files alone after the FBI had raided GO offices in the USA.
These showed years of LRH control of many GO activities.
In just the GO legal “corporate” area alone, LRH himself was deeply involved in major corporate evolutions and scams from the beginning and in fact directed the GO with respect to handlings for same throughout the history of the GO.
This included corporate matters where money was secretly funneled to Hubbard for years and goes right up to and through that actual corporate sortout in 1981-1983.
A few examples of LRH controlling corporate/legal GO matters from personal history include:
1) LRH being the one behind the mid 70s "Greater Churches of Scientology" plan that GO US was following to set up backup corporations for each "church" corporation in the mid 70s. This was so new corporations were ready to start in the event the IRS seized all assets of church corporations in the US via jeopardy assessment. LRH wrote then that the real assets of any org were its staff and contacts and not the cash, buildings, etc. so he instructed the GO to get ready with backup corporations that could be funded from financial sources outside of the IRS's reach if needed. (Note: the wildest thing really about "all the IRS problems" through the decades is that most stem, not from GO mishandlings, but from the abusive written or other policies of LRH himself including the millions of millions of dollars he insisted constantly inure to his own private benefit).
Again, LRH was causing the problems, not the GO. And, he was directing the GO to cover them up;
2) You can see documents from earlier posts on alt religion scientology by others seized in the FBI raids on "the church" showing Deputy Guardian USGO's telexes to LRH where LRH's approval was being gotten on funds to use to purchase the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. CSC (Church of Scientology of California) funds could be used and they would secretly go though a phony front corporation called "Southern Land Development and Leasing Corporation" (SLDLC). Hubbard was not only behind this but his approval was needed on anything major that the GO did involving this. I myself was on the first "SLDLC" mission in Savannah, Georgia where I and a "Commodore Staff Aide" were checking out the Savannah Country Club as a possible location for Flag when the ship came ashore. When that was given up as not practical, Florida was chosen and LRH himself had to approve it being Clearwater;
3) After the whole SLDLC/UCF (United Churches of Florida) scam blew up in Clearwater, I wrote a corporate program to stabilize "Flag" in Florida. It was LRH himself who wrote to me with his approval of what the program covered and asking me to get "Flag" a consumer's certificate of exemption there so that it could operate and not have to be considered as a business and have to charge sales taxes. I did that and complied to LRH;
4) In GOWW, LRH constantly had to approve major corporate structures and other legal actions. He had to approve CSC being used as the main corporation in the UK for a time (when it was thought CSC would be tax exempt in the US and that would be a good positioning for the UK);
5) LRH's were the orders I had to follow to set up the first WISE corporation in Liechtenstein (which we didn't use as LRH did not like the "Limited" in the name as he said that killed the PR for WISE);
6) I had LRH's own orders on Corporate Sortout Matters from the early 80s where he pushed first one team and then my own team to come up with legal solutions to mask his control of the organizations of scientology and gave his own instructions on how to brief the attorneys;
7) LRH's own orders were used for the actual corporate sortout
missions that put in such things as RTC, CSI, broke up CSC, etc.;
8 ) LRH’s orders were the ones followed to set up and get operational Scientology Missions International in a way to get great tax advantages and to try to avoid legal liabilities. A copy of one of his orders on this matter is contained in section 16 of my declaration from May 2008: http://evil.scientology.googlepages.com/crs.pdf
9) LRH continued to order us well into 1983 about all that and more.
I could give many, many more examples but the above are given to point out that it was LRH who controlled the GO back then, the legal actions it took and it was that same LRH who controlled it after the GO, despite all that Miscavige says to deny this.
Likewise Miscavige’s statement of LRH being in seclusion from 1980 to 1986 is equally misleading. Not only were his orders used in 1981 to help restructure organized scientology corporately but for much of the time that I was on the Watchdog Committee in 1982 and 1983 I received and complied to orders from LRH weekly covering major legal matters involving organized scientology, royalties, etc. At that same time LRH was ordering me on such matters, he was also ordering all of the other WDC members on matters involving the sectors they oversaw.
Miscavige frequently uses corporate veils to hide the real controls by saying people had no corporate authority and thus could not have controlled organized scientology. However to Miscavige and LRH before him corporate was only a cover to hide the real controls. I personally educated Miscavige and got his approval on much of organized scientology’s corporate structure and have personal knowledge of hundreds of examples of his violating it while he ran organized scientology when employed in Author Service in the early 1980s despite his statements under penalty of perjury to the contrary
A great deal more can be covered on what Miscavige lied about in the above quote but this information should be enough to make my point.
(III). My vote: “Perjury”, “Just a Lie” or “Simply Misdirection”
While Miscavige’s wordings in the above noted quote were designed to mislead the reader (“Misdirection”), together they paint a very false picture of the controls of the GO. So much so that IMHO David Miscavige committed Perjury in his above statement.
Comments from anyone who wants to give them on this thread will be welcome. I welcome both agreement and disagreement and suggest that those concerned vote for “Perjury”, “Just a Lie” or “Simply Misdirection” as they see fit.
Eventually I plan to post on my blog the top actual examples of David Miscavige’s greatest perjury, lies and misdirecting statements to deflect attention away from organized scientology’s misdeeds as voted on by the general public. It should be interesting.
If any others reading this thread may want to add in their own examples of the truth which may be even more relevant than my own, please feel free to do so.
The entire list of these postings as well as other series’ of postings I plan to make through this next year will be found on my blogspot: http://larrybren.blogspot.com/
Larry Brennan
My blog: http://larrybren.blogspot.com/ [..]
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=347801#347801
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Did David Miscavige commit perjury using lies and misdirection? From the above and from my own experience as a former longtime member of scientology, I say it's more than lies and misdirection. I say it's perjury.
~ Mary McConnell
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
The "Bail Out", The Scientology Entities and The Slatkin Ponzi Scheme 7 years Later.
The party's over. Consumers are way in over their head in debt and the financial markets are overstretched for having stretched the lending rules. When the cards begin to fall, confidence games are exposed. Multi-million dollar Ponzi Scheme prosecutions are up because wherever there is greed, there's the potential for fraud.
The history of the one of the world's largest ponzi schemes of 7 years prior, the Reed Slatkin Investment Club, included a lax SEC and hundreds of greedy investors with an abundance of money to invest. Many of the investors who benefitted from the scam included members of the Church of Scientology and the Church of Scientology itself. In then the end, those funds received in excess of contribution to the 'club'were deemed avoidable and recoverable as fraudulent transfers. This resulted in millions and millions of dollars in recoverable judgements against or settlement agreements with the Scientology entities and it's involved members and staff. It's not surprising to see the cult of greed, as Time Magazine called Scientology, involved in the receipt fraudulent transfers.What is surprising is how Scientology managed to keep this information from hittin g the front pages of the media in 2006.
Recent news is rife with Ponzi cases and convictions, where some investors made out like bandits while the rest lost every cent they invested. Among them is the the Tom Petters 3 billion dollar investment scam; the SEC vs. Hu case where the SEC just charged former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu with "operating a $60-million Ponzi scheme in a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles." . In another, a Fargo, ND insurance agent has been charged with 78 felony counts, for stealing over $5 million in client funds, engaging in fraudulent practices and selling unregistered securities. These are just a few of the multiple ponzi schemes that have emerged as we grapple with a collapsing economy build with to much greed and encompassed with weak regulations that invite fraud and deception.
7 years ago Business Week asked "The Reed Slatkin Case: Did the SEC Drop the Ball?" and here we are again today, asking the same question about a what appears to be a ponzi scheme of worldwide proportions.
When will America learn to protect itself and it's comsumers from such destructive scams? Sadly, greed seems to get in the way of logic time after time and history repeqts itself. There is a technology of sorts to understanding the mechanics of how one becomes a victim of fraud and how to avoid it ( for starters try Fraud Tech expert and author Dennis Marlock's site); Detecting deceptive trade practices is not as complicated as one would think. This applies to institutions as well as to individuals. Perhaps there are still more lessons to be learned from how the Reed Slatkin ponzi scheme case is being resolved in US Bankrupcy Court by one of the most skilled forensic accountants and persistent court appointed bankrupcy trustees in the US today, R. Todd Neilson.
On April 30th,2000 many hundreds of dismayed investors with a combined total of nearly $600,000,000 of invested funds were gathered together and informed that their "money manager", Earthlink co-founder and Scientology minister Reed Slatkin, was filing for bankrupcy. You would have thought that investors would have checked up on whether Slatkin even held a broker or advisor license but apparently none had or cared until it was too late. The shock had not yet set in when on May 11, 2001 the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service agencies raided Slatkin's home office in Santa Barbara, CA to locate assets and documentation that would become the subject of multiple subpoenas of people and organizations including the noninvesting Church of Scientology.
Slatkin was charged with, among other things, running a ponzi scheme: collecting monies from new investors to pay the "earnings" and prinicple owed to earlier investors. You see, most of the investors who gained high profits from the ponzi scheme just happened to be * scientologists or employees of the church of Scientology.
So, what has Scientology itself have to do with this and the recent "bail out" of financial institutions? Well many have likened the "bail out" to a pouring of money into an already out of control ponzi scheme and the Slatkin ponzi scheme was evidence of a church and it's members consistently benefitting financially at the expense of those who lost all they'd invested. Keep in mind that Scientology is the only religious organization in the United States whose members are allowed by the IRS to deduct as charitable contributions for all religious instruction fees and material costs, in violation of the first amendment. Despite that favored position, the
'chickens had finally come home to roost' on this Slatkin matter as bankrupcy trustee R. Todd Neilson persisted over the last 7 years in making sure the church, it's involved members along with a minority of nonscientologists who gained in this ponzi scheme are held responsible for repaying avoidable and recoverable fraudulent transfers of funds received directly or indirectly from Slatkin pursuant to US and CA state civil codes.
This was not an easy task by any means. Trustee Neilson had to deal with many of the ponzi scheme 'winners' who did not want to repay the favorited illegal gains received, despite the threat of adversarial rulings that would have raised the rate of interest due and had potential to refer cases for criminal charges. The court is still in hearings related to recovery of funds that will be split according to preset percentages amongst those who lost their investments or benefit because of the ponzi scheme.
Since the inception of this case and those related to it, much money has been recovered and there are multi-million dollar judgements on record and being pursued. But more than money was at stake here. To my knowledge, at least 2 relatively young defendent / scientologists died within weeks of each other while enduring the lengthy court process: businessman Ivan(Ike)KEZSBOM and attorney Michael KANANACK. Another scientologist, Arthur D Gordin aka Arlo Gordin, DC turned in his license and fled the country with his gains - over $4 million worth - refusing to pay back anything at all to the bankrupcy estate. And yet another, Anthony Hitchman and wife, are in the process of being busted for using other people to funnel undeclared income to and for himself.
Many of the investors were audited by the IRS because of discrepancies found or in bankrupcy cases filed by the investors themselves. Scientologist and former Grateful Dead manager Ron Rakow is currently in prison on tax fraud charges which resulted indirectly from the Slatkin case. Anthony Hitchman may well wind up in prison because the trustee has witnesses and evidence that he was funneling unreported income via friends and relatives while under bankrupcy to avoid paying on his Slatkin case judgements. All of these these people are Scientologists, Hitchman being one of the most influential and earliest devotees of founder L Ron Hubbard's cult.
On September 25, 2006, the Church of Scientology entities, including it's front groups Narconon, Criminon, Celebrity Center, CCHR as shown below, agreed to pay back $3,500,000 after the church refused to allow the trustee access to theit'd financial records to effect a better settlement. The church was not cooperating in supplying financial records and documents and Trustee Neilson knew a hyperlitigious company when he saw one and he negotiated what he could use to settle the case rather than tying the case up in court. Neilson has faired alot better than the many who have challanged this controversial organization in a court setting. The former FBI forensic accountant is ever pesistent and discontented investors can be assured that Neilson will do all he can to recover the fraudulent transfers. Take a look at the links provided below for the individual PDF files and further information and documentation.
Lermanet.com 's Index of Fraud Slatkin-related files include names of Scientologists such as Arthur Hubbard ( son of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard)former Grateful Dead manager and Jerry Garcia business partner Rakow, Anthony "Tony" Hitchman, former chiropractor to the stars, Arthur D "Arlo" Gordin (who fled the country rather than pay back his illicit gains), Rakows girlfriend, Denise Del Bianco, CoS = Church of Scientology, Joseph Mancuso and Christopher Mancuso of World Wide Telecommunications Corporation and Clear World Communications Corp, author James Monroe Justice who is still fighting having to repay his gains, along with attorneys John Coale & wife Greta Van Sustern (who quietly repaid their illegally gotten gains despite claiming they would fight it ), Michael & Anne Kananack, Rosser Cole et al, Joel Kreiner and wife Stina Hans, and Scientology attorney Helena K Kobrin, George W Murgatroyd III and spouse, James Q Fisher & spouse, who settled or were judged guilty and ordered to repay. These scientologists are among the many other scientologists considered themselves among the most ethical people on the earth because Scientology taught them they are entitled to anything they can get away with, as long as they don't get caught and it's Fair Game to anyone who opposes them.
The real victims of Slatkin's fraud where those who believed in his ministerial collar, his use of Scientology 'communication routines' and skill as a trained "counselor" ( which really is about using mild but consistent amounts of hypnosis to gain cooperation of the counselee ) and his association with Earthlink and the power that association implied. he was a con man and some of the players in his ponzi scheme were con men as well. Scientologist Ron Rakow, in particular, had a history of ripping people off, including Jerry Garcia, and yet Garcia never wiped his hands of him. It take a good deceptor to make something like that happen, and happen over and over again. Scientology gave Slatkin the means and methods of conning others and the connections to get away with it. In his ear was Ron Rakow, encouraging him to go for more and bringing more victims into the fold. Both are in prison. Will they be better people when they get out? That remains to be seen.
In the meantime, consumers need to get a grip on greed and stop allowing themselves to be conned by weakly regulated con men and institutions. Learn how fraud & deception works and consider what you have learned as you watch this worldwide recession unfold, wherever the cards may fall.
Lermanet/ Scientology related Fraud Files
YouTube Video: Reed Slatkin 1/3
YouTube Video: Reed Slatkin 3/3
Estate of Reed E. Slatkin U.S. Bankruptcy Court Central District of California Northern Division Case #: ND 01-11549RR
More on Ron Rakow
Esquire mag October 1, 2001, "An incredibly strange and complex tale involving Scientology, EarthLink, Hollywood, and this man, REED SLATKIN "
SlatkinFraud.com Early history of the Slatkin Fraud case with lots of earlier court documents.
~ Mary McConnell
formerlyfooled at yahoo dot com
Tags: Scientology, fraud, bail out, ponzi, Reed Slatkin, Tom Petters, Norman Hsu, DNC, Santa Barbara, CA, Narconon, Criminon, IAS Members Trust, Association For Better Living and Education, cult, con game, fraudtech.org, Dennis Marlock, Arnie Lerma
Thursday, September 18, 2008
HUMBLE EX MEMBER OF SCIENTOLOGY DESCRIBES HIS LIFE IN THE CULT
I was really touched by this short but powerful interview of neil, a former victim of the cult of Scientology:
EX MEMBER NEIL, TALKS ABOUT THE HORRORS WHEN HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE CULT IN MANCHESTER, ST HILL AND LOS ANGELOS. by Tony & Sue aka getbeckyout
PART ONE: Neil C Interview MANCHESTER, England
PART TWO: Neil C Interview MANCHESTER, England
It brought tears to my eyes. neil truly conveyed the problems & fear so many of us experienced before we left, when we left and after we left as we came upon the truth about Scientology.
I'm doing my part to get this around the internet so scientologists and
nonscientologists alike can see it. Pass it along. Thanks
Kudos to getbeckyout aka Tony & Sue, the parents trying to get their daughter Becky out of Scientology
EX MEMBER NEIL, TALKS ABOUT THE HORRORS WHEN HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE CULT IN MANCHESTER, ST HILL AND LOS ANGELOS. by Tony & Sue aka getbeckyout
PART ONE: Neil C Interview MANCHESTER, England
PART TWO: Neil C Interview MANCHESTER, England
It brought tears to my eyes. neil truly conveyed the problems & fear so many of us experienced before we left, when we left and after we left as we came upon the truth about Scientology.
I'm doing my part to get this around the internet so scientologists and
nonscientologists alike can see it. Pass it along. Thanks
Kudos to getbeckyout aka Tony & Sue, the parents trying to get their daughter Becky out of Scientology
Monday, August 25, 2008
Scientology is 'Clearing the Planet', One Unborn Child at a Time.
Did you know that the Church of Scientology is Anti-Family and orders their elite members to abort pregnancies or risk being made to leave the group they are dedicated a billion years of their lives to? Well, here is the video where the church spokesperson admits that Scientology does indeed force certain members to have abortions. Why? Well, they are in the business of 'clearing the planet'. In this case, one unborn child at a time.
Richard & Judy item on Scientology
Channel 4, Oct 11 2005 [British television]
This video details life inside Scientology 's elite corp called the Sea Organization including it's policy of compulsory abortions for female members of that elite corp.
Former Scientologist Astra Woodcraft is interviewed by Richard & Judy, along with a spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology in the UK, Janet Kenyon-Laveau. Woodcraft left the organization so she would not have to abort her child.
Kenyon-Laveau is forced to admit to this, that Scientology's Sea Organization is anti-family and pro-enforced abortion.
This is a priceless interview. Kudos to Astra Woodcraft and the 'Richard and Judy' show for tackling this so effectively.
Richard & Judy item on Scientology
Channel 4, Oct 11 2005 [British television]
This video details life inside Scientology 's elite corp called the Sea Organization including it's policy of compulsory abortions for female members of that elite corp.
Former Scientologist Astra Woodcraft is interviewed by Richard & Judy, along with a spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology in the UK, Janet Kenyon-Laveau. Woodcraft left the organization so she would not have to abort her child.
Kenyon-Laveau is forced to admit to this, that Scientology's Sea Organization is anti-family and pro-enforced abortion.
This is a priceless interview. Kudos to Astra Woodcraft and the 'Richard and Judy' show for tackling this so effectively.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Scientology Caught Using Fair Game Tactics on Parents Trying to Reach Their Daughter, A Member of the Cult.
Meet Tony and Sue from Manchester England, peaceful protesters against the Church of Scientology. They are one of many families persisting to reach their THEIR CAPTIVE CHILDREN.
"We fight to get our daughter out of this mind control and money grabbing CULT." says Becky's parents, Tony and Sue. How do they fight? Using the sword of truth, and the tools of honor, decency and communication. What do they get back? Listen and find out:
TONY AND SUE v THE CULT Part 1
SCIENTOLOGY FAIR GAME explained:
"The term Fair Game is used to describe various aggressive policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies."
See more Tony & Sue Videos:
getbeckyout videos at Youtube
~Mary McConnell
formerlyfooled at yahoo.com
"We fight to get our daughter out of this mind control and money grabbing CULT." says Becky's parents, Tony and Sue. How do they fight? Using the sword of truth, and the tools of honor, decency and communication. What do they get back? Listen and find out:
TONY AND SUE v THE CULT Part 1
SCIENTOLOGY FAIR GAME explained:
"The term Fair Game is used to describe various aggressive policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies."
See more Tony & Sue Videos:
getbeckyout videos at Youtube
~Mary McConnell
formerlyfooled at yahoo.com
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Church of Scientology and Los Angeles Police Dept caught violating civil rights laws.
Working in concert together, the Church of Scientology and Los Angeles Police Dept were caught once again violating civil rights of citizens. Makes one wonder if there is some kind of public corruption going on. Where is the FBI when you need them?
Here is the rest of his usenet article, which is worth repeating:
"The Church of Scientology gala event to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Celebrity Center was an epic flunk and fail for the worlds’ most dangerous cult and totalitarian terror enterprise. It was also an epic win for Anonymous." wrote Graham E. Berry, attorney and advocate.
Cult leader David Miscavige was once “In Charge” of “Project All Clear,” a 1980s Scientology mission to eliminate all litigation and government investigations of Scientology so that L. Ron Hubbard could emerge from his hiding places and life on the lam. Twenty two years after the leading role of David Miscavige in the highly suspicious death of L. Ron Hubbard, Miscavige now needs his own Project All Clear. Anonymous is not going to let him have it. Anonymous does not forgive. It does not forget. It is epic. It will bring the Hubbard killers to great justice!
Before he died, Robert Vaughn Young gave me a copy of the first chapter of his never to be completed book “Who killed L. Ron Hubbard?” You can guess at the answer. http://tinyurl.com/647s4l
As I approached the Celebrity Center from Bronson Avenue/Hollywood Boulevard, a handicapped person (Mr. X) and I were excluded from progressing any further by the L.A.P.D. acting upon the instructions of Scientology Rev. Lyn Farny.
He is the corporate secretary of the Church of Scientology International. Rev Lyn Farny is also in charge of the OSA Internet operations and projects (including their “black ops” and Religious Freedom Watch). It was Lyn Farny who was conceived the Eugene Ingram February 1994 trip to New York to blackmail and bribe Robert Cipriano into signing the perjured Cipriano declaration, which Cipriano recanted after (Scientology lawyers and staffer ) Kendrick Moxon, Samuel D. Rosen, Gerald Chaleff, Gerald Feffer, Barbara Reeves and others had used it to engage in multiple frauds upon multiple courts and the State Bar in order to “utterly destroy” me. Had they not done that I would be doing other professional things at this time. However, Farny, Ingram and Moxon “pulled it in” for Scientology and here I am, as the direct result of what they did.
Now, 14 years later, Farny was personally directing that my civil rights continue to be violated by refusing to allow me to peacefully walk up the east sidewalk of Bronson Avenue to Franklin Avenue. As I approached, Farny spoke with an L.A.P.D. officer who moved to intercept me on the sidewalk. (see photos, below)
The time was 7.05 PM on August 9, 2008 and Officer 17038 blocked me from walking any further up Bronson Avenue. “You can’t walk up here dressed like that” the officer said to me.” I was stunned. “What do you mean I can’t walk up here dressed as I am?” The officer said, “You cannot walk up this street wearing that T shirt with those words on it and carrying that picket sign.” By now I was dumbfounded. Had the L.A.P.D. learned nothing from its encounters with the federal judges during the 2000 Democrat Party convention in Los Angeles?
In addition, words on a T shirt can be constitutionally protected speech. My T shirt read “Scientology Kills!”
Meanwhile, the peace officer allowed another man to access the sidewalk. “Officer,” I said. “Why are you letting that man walk on the side walk but not me?” The officer eplied, “Because I have already taken his ID and he lives in the neighborhood.”
I said, “Officer, you didn’t even ask me for my ID.”
As I began to walk away I noted the badge numbers of several of the other LAPD officers who were manning the barricades with Scientology’s Internet black-ops meister Rev. Lyn Farny. I deposed him once. The officers included #15034 and #8796. I was asked if I wanted to see the street closure permit. “Yes please.”
“You can see the Los Angeles City Councils own applicable codes, conditions, permit forms and procedures online at http://bsspermits.lascity.org/spevents/ ( removed by LAPD)
For example, the form PETITION (for commercial areas) REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY STREET CLOSURE PERMIT expressly provides that “[t]he closure, when granted, will be for the exclusion of vehicles only. Admission to an event may not be charged; and the public at large may not be denied access to any portion of any street except in cases of emergency. A 20-foot emergency lane shall be provided on all streets within the said closure at all times.” Emphasis added.
“Clearly, the Scientology enterprise, including Kendrick L. Moxon, Esq., and Ed Parkin, are working with the Los Angeles Police Department (and perhaps officials within the Los Angeles City Council Bureau of Street Services) to blatantly violate both federal law and the City of Los Angeles own municipal codes and permits. These violations have been occurring on at least two days of every week for about 24 consecutive weeks.”
You can read the language yourself: http://bsspermits.lacity.org/spevents/ ( removed by LAPD ) or http://tinyurl.com/22otpg . At the bottom of the page click on each of the three types of petition forms that the Church of Scientology signed and that is incorporated by law into the final permit. ( all removed by City of Los Angeles)
One of the L.A.P.D. officers who denied me access to all portions of Bronson Avenue for a number of blocks showed me a copy of the permit.
It was number 20081447. You can click on it here: or http://tinyurl.com/65a9tb
or
http://bsspermits.lacity.org/spevents/public/menu_public.cfm?ref_no=20081447
On the left side of the page click on each of the three pages of the permit.
I took a look at the permit and said, “Officer, the permit may say total or full closure but the permit is issued subject to the provisions of the Municipal Code and they are set forth on the permit application form itself. A total or full closure only applies to vehicle traffic. The law states that the public at large … may not be denied access to any portion of any street except in cases of emergency. Just because Farny and Scientology says the words full closure on a piece of paper mean you can exclude whoever you wish, it still doesn’t mean that the L.A.P.D. can just ignore the law and engage in civil rights violations.” [Also see Section 5733.11, Obstruction of Exits and Aisles]. The peace officer responded politely, “We only do what we are told by them (meaning Scientology security) and the permit says they can do it.” I walked off saying, “But the permit does not permit you to violate the law by excluding me from walking up Bronson Street.” And this officer was acting under color of law.
After six months of these civil rights violations the Los Angeles City Council should be reserving millions of dollars for potential legal defense and damages costs arising from the conduct of the L.A.P.D. and the Department of Building Services! However, what can you expect when Gerald Chaleff is the L.A.P.D. attorney? He was formerly one of the Church of Scientology’s leading and highest paid defense attorneys. Now he is in charge of R.I.C.O. compliance, or criminal racketeering avoidance, under a judicial consent decree entered into between the Los Angeles Police Department and the United States Department of Justice. The fox is in charge of the chickens!
By the way, I will soon commence local and state political action to stop these street closure illegalities and civil rights violations. Perhaps it is time to also seek a recall election to oust scientology shill Eric Garcetti? At the same time we might also consider petitioning for L. Ron Hubbard Way to return to its former name of Berendo Street. The name change to L. Ron Hubbard Way was the result of public corruption. Interestingly, the Department of Justice recently disbanded its public corruption unit in Los Angeles.
As a result of the Scientology enterprise and the L.A.P.D. excluding the handicapped Mr. X and me from any access to any portion of Bronson Avenue between Carlos Avenue and Franklin Avenue, we had to walk nearly a mile around and across the Hollywood Freeway in order to reach our desired destination of the Mayfair Market corner at Franklin and Bronson.
As we were walking along the deserted back streets we came across a parking lot. As you will see from the album cover picture (URL below), there was an L.A.P.D. mobile command vehicle and six other vehicles. Most cars had two officers already sitting in the car and they were ready to swoop on the 32 protestors peacefully exercising their first amendment rights, against an organization deemed a global terrorist group and racketeering enterprise by most of the European and other western nations. Later we would observe at lease two dozen Los Angeles Police Department Officers, over a dozen other L.A.P.D. patrol cars and motor cycles, an L.A. Fire Department truck and several dozen private investigators, some with their own vehicles and many with cameras.
There were also photographers (and sharp shooters?)positioned on the roof tops and terraces of the Scientology Celebrity Center. All this because of 32 young partying picketers. No wonder the New York City Police and Washington, DC police love policing the Anonymous pickets.
“Even though the crazy scientologists are calling us out very five seconds for nothing, dealing with Anonymous is fun. Much more fun than dealing with other protestors, like the World Trade Organization and anti-war protests.”
However, despite the overwhelming police presence to cope with 32 young protestors, a handful of jaded scientology celebrities and a few hundred scientology deep pockets, a white van illegally parked on a corner and beside a fire hydrant could not be moved.
Why? It obscured the view of Anonymous picketers as the few hundred scientology event patrons turned their vehicles and limos right from Franklin Avenue. I was present when a number of unsuccessful telephone complaints were made over five hours. Even the dispatch officers were amazed that parking enforcement had not arrived to tow away the violating vehicle.
Finally one dispatcher suggested that the callers file an official complaint on Monday morning. Mr. X spoke to an officer about it several times. “We’ve tried to get it moved,” he responded. Mr. X was not placated. “With all these dozens of police officers, police cars and police motor cycles here that old party van would be towed within five minutes if you wanted it gone.” Clearly, Scientology public corruption was at work.
I am increasingly convinced that there is a supernatural law of karma and light, and that what goes around comes around. I saw that again last night, not only with Lyn Farny reviving a statute of limitations, but also with the fecal matter that was spewing off the Celebrity Center stage and into the Los Angeles sewers. Indeed, one of the Scientology event speakers sounded a lot like David Miscavige. After his tirade against the suppressives, the street sewers really blocked and backed up, a fleet of L.A. City Sewer Department pumping trucks quickly arrived, and Operation BS Cleanup was under way.
While the sewerage cleanup was going on the keynote speaker was heard and seen addressing the several hundred scientology supporters. They would shortly be pressured to pay over even more money to “shatter suppression” through the funding of even more civil rights and R.I.C.O. violations by the Scientology enterprise and OSA. The keynote speaker was the Attorney-General for the State of Utah!
There cannot have been more than 3-500 scientologists at this event. Few of them appeared to be real celebrities. The Celebrity Center grounds were expensively and lavishly decorated with props, bunting, stages and sound equipment (which broadcast in blatant breach of Articles Five and Six of the Municipal Code (amplified sound and general noise). Even at $600 a plate the event must have been a huge financial, public relations and morale flunk. The scientology publications unit will have to use Photoshop again!
I did enjoy meeting our Anonymous brothers and sisters from San Diego and elsewhere and I really look forward to picketing with them in San Diego before the end of summer. Let’s make August 16 and 17 another epic global picket. The Scientology enterprise is crumbling. Now it is on to really expose W.I.S.E. and its members, Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and all of the other scientology false front groups.
Despite multiple calls over four hours LAPD and the LA City Council refuse to move the van.
Here is the URL to Mr. Berry's photographs of both the July 19, 2008 Washington, DC march and the August 9, 2008 Celebrity Center 39th Anniversary picket:
Monday, August 11, 2008
How Scientology Narconon et al Apply Hypnotic Manipulation
Here's how Scientology and it's front groups like Narconon, New Life Recovery Services, Social Betterment Development Co dba SBDC New Life San Francisco among others apply hypnotic manipulation:
Learn Science experiments at 5min
Learn Science experiments at 5min
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Who says Narconon isn't Scientology? Narconon Psych Waiver
Who says Narconon isn't Scientology? Just read the Narconon "illegal PC" Waiver:
The person who was made to sign this had been in detox for a week and does not even recall signing it. It was faxed over by VISA to the mother in her dispute to get her money back from being ripped off.
The reason the person was made to sign it was that he/she had at one time been prescribed Lexipro, having taken 4 pills over a 4 day period. Period.
To Scientology and Narconon, it's ok to discriminate against anyone having taken any amount of 'psych' medication.
The person who was made to sign this had been in detox for a week and does not even recall signing it. It was faxed over by VISA to the mother in her dispute to get her money back from being ripped off.
The reason the person was made to sign it was that he/she had at one time been prescribed Lexipro, having taken 4 pills over a 4 day period. Period.
To Scientology and Narconon, it's ok to discriminate against anyone having taken any amount of 'psych' medication.
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