SPD: Suppressive Act Dealing With A Declared Suppressive Person

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SCIENTOLOGY POLICY DIRECTIVE

13 August 1982¹; ²

SCN POLICY DIRECTIVE 28

BPI
ALL STAFF
ALL PUBLIC

SUPPRESSIVE ACT

DEALING WITH A DECLARED

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON

REF: HCO PL 16 May 80 II ETHICS SUPPRESSIVE ACTS SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS³

“A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON or GROUP is one that actively seeks, by action or statement, to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by Suppressive Acts.

“SUPPRESSIVE ACTS are acts calculated to impede or destroy Scientology or a Scientologist in his studies or counselling, or to affect adversely his well-being.” (HCO PL 16 May 80 II)

It is a SUPPRESSIVE ACT to deal with a Declared SUPPRESSIVE PERSON unless you are the named terminal to deal with the SP (i.e. Sea Org MAA). Per the above referenced PL, “continued adherence to a person or group accurately pronounced a Suppressive Person or Group by HCO” is a Suppressive Act.

To maintain a line with, offer support to, or in any way grant credance to such a person indicates nothing more than agreement with that person’s destructive intentions and acts. Such dealings in fact act as a covert or overt attempt to undermine and negate the ethics and justice strengths of our ecclesiastical structure.

Standard on-policy lines exist should a Declared SP seek to set things right and make up for damage caused.

So labeled and declared, a person claiming injustice has the right to request a Committee of Evidence via their nearest HCO.

However, unless you are the named authorized terminal to deal with the Suppressive Person, to deal with one constitutes no less than a Suppressive Act. Such an act is cause to have levied against you the same per policy Church justice procedures afforded any Suppressive Person. Full ethics penalties will be applied.

Where the matter concerns family relations or where a Scientologist is in the position of being closely associated to a person found to be Suppressive the materials covering Potential Trouble Sources apply. There is no practice of “disconnection” allowed in the Church of Scientology and these materials cover completely how one may use proper lines and procedures to handle a PTS condition.

One does not however use a false excuse of “handling my PTS condition” to covertly maintain a line of supportful dealings and agreements with an SP. If you wish to maintain such a line, do so outside of current and future membership in the Church.

To deal with a Suppressive is a Suppressive Act.

The above is unequivocal Church Policy.

WATCHDOG COMMITTEE
for the Church of Scientology International

CSI:WDC:dr⁴

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