HCOB: Criminals and Psychiatry

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 29 JULY 1980¹

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CRIMINALS AND PSYCHIATRY

Almost every modern horror crime was committed by a known criminal who had been in and out of the hands of psychiatrists and psychologists often many times.

There is no particular reason to enumerate endless case histories of this:  they occur too frequently in news accounts and the newspaper morgues are thick with them.And as such stories develop it is found that the perpetrator had a long history, some even from childhood, of psychiatric and psychological treatment.

Such a record of failure does not seem to come to the attention of legislators and these  continue  to  pour  floods  of  money  into  the  coffers  of  the  psychiatrists, psychologists  and  their  organizations.  The  public  at  large,  by  survey,  seems  to  be aware  of  this  state  of  affairs  if  not  the  whole  facts:  the  only  real  customers  the psychiatrist and psychologist have are the governments—the public does not of its own volition go to them.

The most charitable look at this would be that the psychologists and psychiatrists are simply incompetent. But other more sinister implications can be drawn.

Developed in the latter part of the 19th Century, they appeared on the militaristic scene of a re-arming and conquest-minded Germany. At that time, the arch-criminal Bismarck was laying the ground work for the slaughters of World War I and World War II. It fitted with the philosophy of militarism that man was an animal and that there was neither soul nor morality standing in the way of the wholesale murder of war.

Up  until  that  time  the  Church  had  some  influence  upon  the  state  and  possibly some power in restraining bestiality and savagely insane conduct but, small as it might have been, it was incompatible with the unholy ambitions of the militarists. That man was only an animal after all, soulless and entitled to no decency, was bound to be a popular doctrine. That insanity consisted of urges to harm others would have been a very unpopular idea to government heads who had nothing else in mind. And so the notion that insanity was a physical disease was taken up avidly.

The basic tenet of psychology is that man is just an animal. The basic tenet of psychiatry is that insanity is a physical disease. Neither has any proof that these tenets are correct. That man can be reduced to animalistic behavior does not prove that that is his true basic nature. That some physical diseases also produce mental aberration  does not prove that any “mental illness” has bacteria or virus and indeed none have ever been isolated.

The  instigators,  patrons  and  supporters  of  these  two  subjects  classify  fully  and demonstrably as criminals.

If the crimes committed by a government in one single day were committed by an individual, that individual would be promptly put in a cell and probably even a padded cell.

Unfortunately, positions of power and authority attract to themselves beings who, all  too  often,  need  that  altitude  to  exercise  their  lust  for  covertly  or  overtly  harming others.

Government positions are well suited to this use; they are also all too often held to be above any law. Some of the most notorious criminals in history have operated from government positions.  This becomes statistically impressive when one counts the Looking this over (and it is amply documented in any history book or newspaper) one can begin to make some kind of sense out of it. Spawned by an insanely militaristic government,  psychiatry  and  psychology  find  avid  support  from  oppressive  and domineering governments. The employer of these people classifies, even in the most generous view, as criminal. Thus it cannot be much wondered at that these subjects have no real success or even interest in detecting and handling criminals.

One cannot go so far as to say that psychiatry and psychology knowingly create criminals or actively plan and implant their patients to commit crimes, even though it might look this way in some cases. Rather, these subjects are false subjects, based on false principles which are well suited to the demands and ambitions of their employers.

Their technology is incapable of detecting, much less helping, the criminal. It is even doubtful  if  their  employers,  the  governments,  would  tolerate  a  subject  which  could detect and  resolve  criminality—for  who  would  be  the  first  ones  detected?  Some amongst the governments, of course. No, the wolf would only favor a jury of wolves to judge the crime of killing sheep. That is why you see governments flooding out money for psychologists in schools and psychiatrists in government departments.

With  a  complete,  government  supported  monopoly  in  the  field  of  the  mind, potential criminals will go right on remaining undetected until they injure or slaughter citizens  and, having  done  so,  become  unrelieved  or  even  confirmed  in  their  habit patterns in the hands of psychiatrists and psychologists and re-released upon the world to further injure and slaughter citizens.

The credence and power of psychiatry and psychology are waning. It hit its zenith about 1960:  then it seemed their word was law and that they could harm, injure and kill patients without  restraint.  The  appearance  of  an  actual  technology  of  the  mind—Dianetics and Scientology—has played no small part in acting as a restraint. At one time  they  were  well on  their  way  to  turning  every  baby  into  a  future  robot  for  the manipulation of the state and every society into a madhouse of crime and immorality.

The world is still suffering from the effects of that domination.

There is no real reason why, using the proper technology, the criminal cannot be detected and also reformed. One might also, by the use of false data stripping, redeem a psychologist or psychiatrist—though this would be made difficult by the fact that he achieves  all  his  power  and  money  from  the  state  which  might  have  quite  different purposes for him.

The world is turning, things change. And there may come a day when the mad dogs of the world are not given over to the charge of mad dogs. But that will be to the degree that you successfully carry forward Dianetics and Scientology.

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER

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