The L Ron Scientologists don't want you to see. by Jennifer
(liberal)
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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"Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality."
- L. Ron Hubbard, DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY TECHNICAL DICTIONARY, copyright 1975, reprinted 1987, p. 370
"MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 9 March 1972, MS OEC 384
"Show me any person who is critical of us and I'll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate's hair on end."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 4 April 1965
"Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
"If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
- L. Ron Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955
"When we need somebody haunted we investigate'When we investigate we do so noisily always."
- L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
"People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear."
- L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
"So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes."
- L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
"Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Dianetic Contract" 23 May 1969
"ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
[SP = Suppressive Person a.k.a. critic of Scientology]
"The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 21 October 1968, "Cancellation of Fair Game"
"A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1) "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists"
"The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are: 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations [that] would make us unable to function."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 16 February 1969, "TARGETS, DEFENSE"
"When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia [sic] and bribe the police."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 12 February 1967, "The Responsibilities of Leaders"
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
- L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING. 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
"They smell of all the baths they didn't take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."
- L. Ron Hubbard's diary, 1928. (Jon Atack, A PIECE OF BLUE SKY: SCIENTOLOGY, DIANETICS AND L. RON HUBBARD EXPOSED. Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group 1990)
"Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence."
- L. Ron Hubbard in a letter to H.F. Verwoerd (widely considered to be the architect of South Africa's apartheid system) dated November 7, 1960, reprinted in K.T.C. Kotz', INQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS AND PRACTICES OF SCIENTOLOGY, p. 59, Pretoria 1973
"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health.]
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 171
"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 159
"In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Ron's Journal" 1967
"A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [sic] her (5) use her sexually (6) sterilise her to prevent conception (7) kill her by a brain operation to prevent disclosure. And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder' We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one' This is Project Psychiatry. We will remove them."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Sec ED, Office of LRH, Confidential, 22 February 1966, "Project Psychiatry"
"I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys."
- L. Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, written during the period when he was creating Scientology's secret "upper levels." (Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf, L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? Random House 1989)
"Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 5 November 1967, "Critics of Scientology"
"This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 25 February 1966
"We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 7 November 1962
"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
"Scientology...is not a religion."
- L. Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251
"This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN, 1952
"Benzedrine often helps a case run."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "The Intensive Processing Procedure," 1950
["Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone]
"Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Journal of Scientology," Issue 1-G, 1952
"Leukaemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukaemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukaemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'"
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Journal of Scientology," Issue 15-G, 1953
"When somebody enrols, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe - never permit an 'open-minded' approach... If they enrolled, they're aboard, and if they're aboard they're here on the same terms as the rest of us - win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists... When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare' The proper instruction attitude is, 'We'd rather have you dead than incapable.'"
- L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING, 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
"Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself."
- L. Ron Hubbard speaking of his Operating Thetan Courses, Flag Mission Order 375
"'Psychiatry' and 'psychiatrist' are easily redefined to mean 'an anti-social enemy of the people'. This takes the kill crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions...The redefinition of words is done by associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended...Scientologists are redefining 'doctor', 'Psychiatry' and 'psychology' to mean 'undesirable antisocial elements'...The way to redefine a word is to get the new definition repeated as often as possible. Thus it is necessary to redefine medicine, psychiatry and psychology downward and define Dianetics and Scientology upwards. This, so far as words are concerned, is the public opinion battle for belief in your definitions, and not those of the opposition. A consistent, repeated effort is the key to any success with this technique of propaganda."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 5 October 1971, PR Series 12, "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words"
"Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away."
L. Ron Hubbard, DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, 1987 Ed., p. 72
"Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns."
- L. Ron Hubbard, ALL ABOUT RADIATION, p. 109
"You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Eyesight and glasses," "Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin," Vol. 2, No. 7, January 1952
"The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now'"
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, November 1970, "Psychosis"
"Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky."
- L. Ron Hubbard to an associate in 1950, soon after the opening of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. (Jon Atack, A PIECE OF BLUE SKY: SCIENTOLOGY, DIANETICS AND L. RON HUBBARD EXPOSED, Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group. 1990)
"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
- L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949; quoted by Eshbach in OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA, Donald M. Grant Publisher. 1983
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Jennifer, And this would likely be the most accurate quote for you personally:
"Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts."
From L. Ron Hubbard: "Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.”
Markus is using what is known as an ad-hominem attack; attacking the source of the claims as oppose to the claims themselves. The crimes of Jennifer (if any; contrary to your belief, there ARE critics of Scientology such as myself who have no criminal past) are irrelevant to the content of the article. L. Ron Hubbard was a con man. David Miscavige is squirreling the tech. Upper level management of Scientology is just not capable of handing the new waves of critics awoken by the internet any more.
Indded, although it seems these days one could do away with the 'critic' business altogther and simply say 'the Scientologist.' Starting with L Ronniew himself.
The implication being that con text makes these sensible things to say?
Sorry, these all sound just as psycho in context as out. The "context" can be easily discovered, as the quotes are fully sourced.
And have no fear that i've run out of things to say. I'm just warming up. You will beastonished at the tings we have to say, especially all the dirty little secrets so many think are locked away safe.
Of course, Jennifer. Selecting one line snippets out of millions of words, your misunderstanding is clear enough. Scientology, you see, is a study of knowledge, to understand it. And, unfortunately, one line snippets do not understanding bring. They are information, they are data, they might be knowledge. But they are not personal understanding. For that, as with anything worthwhile, you would have to work. But thanks for expressing your misunderstanding.
You are so, so, so wrong. Scientology is not the "Study of knowledge," even if such a thing were a logical possibility. scientology is active avoidance of knowledge, to the pont of coercion.
So many, many times I have asked Scientologist friends to read a book, or visit a website, or investigate a fact: every time, they have denurred, because they are discouraged or even actively forbidden from acquiring knowledge. Real words and real logic are disavowed in favor of rigid doctrines, special lingo ("knowingness!"), and cognitive dissonance. (Operation Snow White? Perfectly legal! All these protesters? Paid by Pyschiatry!)
Terry listen to yourself. You are babbling. They are data they might be knowledge? They are real words and the sentances alone have meaning.
L Ron was a fraudster and he is still pulling the wool over your eyes despite the fact he has been dead of a drug overdose for 22 years now.
This scientology thing is not science. The tech only works on other scientologists because they are trained to respond to it. That is the reason your tech and TR's and other training cannot make us go away.
You have been fighting this online war agaisnt the truth for how long now? Yet the world goes on outside scientology and it is doing fine. It isn't perfect, but you will never have the utopian perfect that LHR promises. The world is entering into a new technological age. It is easier than ever to make friends and find someone out there who understands you via the internet. People are coming together from all over the world for causes. They don't need scientology to do this, they don't need leaders or people to tell them what to do or think. When you go back to your bunk tonight, think hard on this. Where is your life headed. Is it really better than it was before you got in? Is it worth trying to pretend the rest of the world is your enemy when there is so much out there to experience. So much outside the world of sec checks and TR's and shouting at ashtrays and being asked if birds fly over and over again ad nauseum?
Think about what is outside. You could be saving up and travelling the world as an individual, helping people in real ways instead of a mouthpiece for David Miscaivaige, who is depening on you day and night to keep people paying so he can go partying with celebs at the Celeb centers and eating fine food every night on your dime.
"Make money. Make more money. Make other people produce so as to make more money." - Hubbard wrote that as an HCOPL. Those letters (HCOPL) go to the organization., they are policy letters to members who run the Church. He tells organizational members to make money. Hubbard, somehow managed to punch his communication through and by golly, even critics get it.
"Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality." - While that makes good sense to me, apparently it does not make any sense to some critics. Have a nice day.
Posted By: General Public AYS
Date: 2008-09-15 07:43:41
Terryeo, you can't produce anything immortal. If that makes sense to you, then you hope one day to produce something immortal yourself. Let us know when you make it, but we won't hold our breath waiting.
I don't know where to start. These quotes are partially incomplete, some are comments, others are jokes by Hubbard, only a few are actually valid for Scientology and all of them are out of context to push a certain agenda etc. etc. Horrible.
I wonder if reading this cabinet of curiosities means something to anyone not familiar with scientology?
Posted By: General Public AYS
Date: 2008-09-15 12:00:31
"Leukaemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukaemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukaemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'"
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Journal of Scientology," Issue 15-G, 1953
Louanne, if you can't prove this above statement by providing the evidence: name at least one of the eight aforementioned sufferers of leukaemia who was 'treated successfully by dianetics' , then I shall indeed see it as one of Hubbards jokes -albeit a sick one.
Don't give me any excuses now, go and do some research. Such amazing medical achievements must be on a scientific paper somewhere. Where do these happy people live, and why havn't they sold their stories to the press?
I've actually read them in context, I've done enough research :)
My question was about the CoS practice of charging for "religious material". I was asking Lou if she knew of anywhere that the CoS provides these materials for free. I didn't expect that she wouldn't/couldn't even answer that.
I figured she'd say library, but you'd be surprised at how many of them won't carry LRH's books, lol!
L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology says things about immortality. Stated very briefly (my opinion) Scientology says we are all immortal but have forgotten our immortality, we have become unaware that we are immortal. Still, we are immortal whether aware or not, but we can regain awareness. And that is what auditing adddresses, especially the OT levels. It addresses increased awareness. But what you choose to understand by studying those things might be different than what I choose to understand. Your choice, my choice.
Christianity suggest immortality might be granted by God, based on good human behaviour. Scientology suggests an individual's immortality is an individual's native state, his (or her) natural situation, immortal whether aware of immortality or not aware of immortality.
But the bottome line is, either we are all immortal, or we are not. Either I am immortal, or I am not. Either you are immortal, or you are not. Immortality is not one of those things that can come and go, here today but gone tomorrow. Our physical universe is billions of years old. That's a whole lot of "immortality", wouldn't you say? But are you and I immortal, also? Are we?
Terryeo, look out! You are practicing "verbal Tech" (even though it's digital). We know that you are not allowed to discuss $cientology and your experiences in $cientology with others (especially Entheta-style merchants of chaos). You'd be sent to your organization's Ethics Officer and to the RPF gulag if your comments weren't part of your organization's Secret Police tactics. Yes we recognize you, but we won't report you to your Handler. Your freedom is safe with us:^}
Posted By: General Public AYS
Date: 2008-09-17 01:27:58
Hubbard was very much influenced by that other great egoist Crowley and believing in immortality is the greatest mistake an ego can make. It takes the normal desire for certainty to a dangerous level. The function of this belief is to rid ourselves of death and other unknowns.
The greater the ego the further away it places itself from that which can manage it's runaway energies; compassion allied with wisdom. This is evident in the concept of 'homo-novis' whereby those convinced of their new status seperate themselves from other 'inferior' beings. A wish of the ego is to feel special so in order to do this it makes others ordinary. The accompanying arrogance allows one to behave as deemed fit by the group one belongs to.
A tale has been told by an ex- sea-org member that when a relative of his died he asked Miscavige for permission to go to the funeral. Miscavige refused his request by saying that the soul will soon pick up another body. The bereaved man was not able to grieve properly, an essential requirement needed to adequately deal with the sadness of death. These needs were callously denied. The concept of the homo- novis overoad the reality of the Homo-sapien.
Once the certainty of immortality is fixed, though it never is truly complete, the fear of death is pushed away. It has been said that the more pronounced this fear is the greater is the inability to live life properly. A refusal to accept what is natural forces the ego into convoluted structures of actions and controls which inevitably cause disfunction to the intellect and emotional life of a person. The seperation from the rest of the world which is insisted upon leads a person into an increasingly isolated state. If they are in a group which promotes these structures they are forced to follow rather than think and act independantly. The drive of the group includes the survival technique of regimenting thought and controlling it.
In conclusion, scientologists have a developed system of avoidance as laid down by Hubbard. This man was so afraid of death that he attempted to create life during his pre-dianetics black magic days. Although unsuccessful he attempted again to become god-like by becoming immortal to those he could influence. He was able to feel like a god even if he hadn't the powers of one.
His last years were full of miserable suffering as his feelings of power lost their strength. He took the anti-psychosis drug Vistaril to control his confusion. If he could have controlled his ego he may have led a more peaceful life.
So, we are immortal or we are not immortal?. If I was immortal I'd imagine I'd have special powers. But I can't find any, being a normal Joe like the rest of us. Therefore I am not immortal, and my wife says I shouldn't worry about it. So I don't. Logically then, if I'm not and my wife, who has the patience of a saint and other noble attributes, isn't either -then nobody else is.
I will not be fobbed off with celestial promises of any kind. If heaven exists I don't want to go there. It'll be full of Jehovial Witlesses and suicide bombers with the occasional visit of LRH to break the monotony. No thanks.
You are not immortal either terryeo, you are a very naughty boy.
Posted By: 10 year old kid
Date: 2008-09-17 02:10:01
"Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns."
- L. Ron Hubbard, ALL ABOUT RADIATION, p. 109
That is a statement solid and undeniable. It is not a 'comment' and can't possibly be a joke .How can it be taken out of context? How is it 'incomplete'? But where's the evidence?
Without the facts to back it up it cannot be considered true. If this happens too often how can we even give the benefit of the doubt? Do us all a favour LOUANNE, either deliver us the necessary data to back up this statement or ask OSA to give you another job.
Posted By: Forgive Me Delilah
Date: 2008-09-17 02:24:23
I'm a helping kind of person regardless so I'd like to help Louanne sort out the wheat from the chaff. We could share the work Louanne, wouldn't that be nice?!
Posted By: Louanne Date: 2008-09-15 09:29:34
"I don't know where to start. These quotes are partially incomplete, some are comments, others are jokes by Hubbard"
You find the incomplete quotes, terryeo can find the comments and I'll find the jokes. Ooooh look!!! I've found some already.
Joke1. "There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
joke2. "Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you."
Joke3. "The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now'"
Posted By: Forgive me too
Date: 2008-09-18 12:53:29
The Critic & the Lawyer
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Tennessee. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked what he was doing. The lawyer responded, “I shot a duck but it fell in this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it.” The old farmer replied, “This is my property, and you are not coming over here.” The indignant lawyer said, “I am one of the best trial attorneys in the United States and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own.” The old farmer smiled and said, “Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes in Tennessee. We settle small disagreements with the Three Kick Rule.” The lawyer asked, “What is the Three Kick Rule?” The Farmer replied, “Because the dispute occurs on my land, I get to go first. I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so on back and forth until someone gives up.” The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom. The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his steel toed work boot into the lawyer's groin, and dropping him to his knees. His second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer's last meal gushing from his mouth. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie. The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, ”Okay, you old fart, now it's my turn.” The old farmer smiled and said, “Nah, I give up. You can have the duck.”
"Fair Game" is one of the key attack points for scientology critics. What they usually mean is that they feel inconvenient if someone checks out what they are actually doing and how this violates other people's rights. I understand that especially those who have something to hide so not like this approach, but it has nothing to do with "Fair Game". Here is what "Fair Game" was when L. Ron Hubbard used the term forty years ago:
What is "Fair Game"?*
There is a rumor around that a former member of Scientology could be declared "Fair Game", meaning that illegal actions could be taken against this person with Church officials closing both eyes. This is nonsense and has no evidence at all.
A policy of "Fair Game" does not exist within the Church. There was an early policy called "Fair Game" that was cancelled in 1968. The purpose of that policy was to make it known that a person who has left the Church was no longer entitled to the privileges of membership. L. Ron Hubbard himself testified on this in 1976 (link below), making clear that nothing of this meant to violate the law. And that did not happen either.
Scientology critics sometime interpret any lawful action the Church takes to defend itself against their claims or treatment as "harassment" and "Fair Game". The Church does use the same legal tools that anybody else can use, such as lawful information gathering and evidence collection, to defend themselves from unfounded suits, to enforce a legal right or to guard against infiltration and sabotage. This is so common amongst religious organizations as to be routine.
The Church is also within its rights to question the motives of people who would seek to destroy it and to defend itself with lawful means. Other religions also question the motives of those who would seek to destroy them, as well as taking lawful measures to protect themselves, as these examples illustrate.
Basically, Scientology defends itself from attack, by legal means. Just like any other religion would do.
And the misinterpreted policy of "Fair Game"? It is used as an attack method by apostates and hatemongers. It is not a policy used by the Church, it was cancelled 40 years ago. And when it was used, it was not used as is alleged.
Event adamant critics of the Church of Scientology have testified to that. For example, in a most interesting set of declarations an ex-Scientologist said:
"...it has become a routine practice of litigants to make accusations against the Church, including even false allegations of threats of murder, which would be summarily thrown out of court as unsupported and scandalous in other litigation. They do it because it works, and they do it by deliberately mischaracterizing the term "Fair Came". They do it as an intentional means to destroy the reputation of the Church in the context of litigation so that they can win money or force the Church to settle."
and
"The term "fair game" has become a catch phrase for those who attack the Church. When I was in the Church I never heard it referred to as a policy to be used, the only time it was discussed was in reference to litigation in which it was being alleged by Church adversaries. When I was in the Church, I knew that litigants opposing the Church were constantly making fair game allegations against us and that those allegations were nonsense. I also know the frustration those allegations caused because of the willingness of courts and juries to embrace them. From my experience in litigating against the Church, I can see that nothing has changed in this regard. I also know from my experiences in suing the Church and from my association with other litigation adversaries of the Church that they know that "Fair Game" as they portray it is not Church policy. "Fair Game" exists only as a litigation tactic employed against the Church."
That might be a little more convincing if you folks weren't stalking me.
Sorry, but "fair game" is EXACTLY as critics describe, and worse. i've personally witnessed two assaults, numerous stalkings, etc. You folks broke into my email.* you've had some poor clown pretend to be a long lost friend to try to get my phone number. I've seen an assistant DA FOLLOW a minor child away from a protest. I've seen video of you folks trespassing (just this week) on private property in darkness. You've called my place of employment and that of my friends', with stories like "so and so is a drug dealer" and WORSE.
Then there's the car tampering and attempted murder, burning down that poor lady's apartment because she left your cult and talked to the FBI. Wanna talk about GEP making fake bomb threat videos and posting them on their OWN account on Youtube? The FBI sure does.
How about that poor girl who lives on LRH Way who CAUGHT you folks rifling through her home, just because she posted on a message board?
What about that poor girl you folks "exteriorized" in cold blood in NYC? (Did you think that was forgotten?)
From Scientology's "Code of Honor":
"Never fear to harm another in a just cause."
Fair Game was NOT cancelled. CALLING it FG was cancelled. You folks went to court and tried to argue you had a RELIGIOUS RIGHT to attack people, and you wonder why people criticize you?
*While they were stealing my social bookmarking passwords, they left their ip number on a wiki site. OOPS. Oh, hai, OSA! Can you spell B-U-S-T-E-D?
Louanne and Terryeo seem to have vanished into some Xenu-scented air, but here for the delectation of those who continue bravely to seek the truth about the degraded and degrading Scientology organization, is a reminder of the exact words of it's founder regarding the use of "lawfare" on any critics:
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. "
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