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ESMB: The Dreaded “Final Assessment”

ExVet1: I looked around and this subject doesn’t look like it’s been kicked around on this forum before. Not for a while anyway. As many of you know, the RPF issues were leaked to Wikileaks nearly a year ago. I happen to know who did that. In the “Discussion” portion of that Wikileaks entry is an article on the dreaded RPF Final Assessment. I know who wrote that too. I also know from my own personal experience that write-up is deadly accurate. For your edification, I am leaving the report on the Final Assessment right here. I hope it pisses you off as much as it does me. I wonder if there are any French nationals on the program currently? If so, perhaps the gov’t there would appreciate the information (evil laughter and much hand-wringing)….

The leaked issues are the complete set of the Sea Organisation policies concerning the set-up, organisation and running of all of Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Forces (RPF). This includes the “technical” program that is used to get RPF inmates to confess to their “crimes” and rid themselves of the “evil purposes” that prompted them to commit those “crimes”. These issues are the current policies in use today.

[edit] Historical Significance

These documents are genuine. They are what is in use today in the Scientology re-education camps.

The Sea Organisation is that “elite” group of Scientologists who run Scientology. The SO was established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1967 who then ran his new organisation with a very high level of discipline. In early 1974, he established the Rehabilitation Project Force for Sea Org members whom he perceived to be treasonous and destructive to the organisation or to have seriously broken its disciplinary rules, including just plain dissention.

SO members who are assigned to the RPF are considered to be serious criminals.

The RPF is still in operation today in the Sea Organisation and it uses the RPF policy issues that were just leaked. In fact, there are several “camps” located in the following areas: The SO’s Los Angeles facility known as the “PAC Base”, the “Flag Land Base” in Clearwater, Florida, the “ANZO” base located in Sydney, Australia, the UK Base located in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England and the “EU Base” located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Cursory Analysis

There is a point concerning the technical program that is worth explaining in a bit more detail, and that is the “Final Assessment” that is done at the very end of the program. This “assessment” is done on the following questions. These are asked of the inmate while he or she is hooked up to the e-meter (glorified lie-detector) to see if these questions are still “charged” in the inmate or if the questions are “clean.” It is this last action which tends to drag out the program for years on end. If you look at the questions you will see why. The bottom line is the inmate would have to have full respect and even reverance for David Miscavige and his RTC organisation as well as the rest of Scn management. The fact that this action takes so long to complete (if it gets completed at all) says a great deal. Here are the questions:

1. Regarding Int Execs, do you have an evil purpose?
2. Regarding Int Execs. do you have a vicious intent?
3. Regarding Int Execs, have you been spreading Black PR?
4. Regarding RTC Execs, do you have an evil purpose?
5. Regarding RTC Execs, do you have a vicious intent?
6. Regarding RTC Execs, have you been spreading Black PR?
7. Regarding LRH, do you have an evil purpose?
8. Regarding LRH. do you have a vicious intent?
9. Regarding LRH, have you been spreading Black PR?
10. Regarding LRH, do you have any bad thoughts?
11. Are you secretly disaffected with Management?
12. Do you have any withholds from RTC?
13. Do you have any intention to stop Scientology?
14. Do you have any intention to stop Scientology dissemination?
15. On your RPF program, has an evil purpose been missed?

The program blatantly does NOT work as evidenced by the fact that it takes YEARS to get through it, if indeed one gets through it AT ALL. The original 1974 program was supposed to take 3 months to get through. The program has been severely altered since that time and now takes years to complete (or fail to complete). A key example of an alteration is the final assessment above, which was never advised by Hubbard and was made up by somebody else.

The RPF issues position this program as something compassionate which no other organisation offers to employees who have wronged the organisation they work for. As other organisations simply fire or prosecute errant or criminal employees, RPF inmates are supposed to consider that they are lucky that they have the “opportunity” to participate in this program. However, with these inmates being incarcerated for years on end with only 7 hours sleep, 5 hours per day of compulsory confessions, a full days hard labor and three 20-minute meal breaks, it is plain to see that this program is tantamount to an illegal internal prison system run by the Church of Scientology. Can you think of any other “religion” that treats its employees like this?

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Letter to David Miscavige

November 23, 2006

David Miscavige
Religious Technology Center
1710 Ivar Avenue, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90028 U.S.A.

Also by E-mail

Dear Mr. Miscavige:

As you know, I am the Gerry Armstrong identified on the Scientology web sites religiousfreedomwatch.com , religiousfreedomwatch.org and religiousfreedomwatch.net . This letter is a demand that you immediately have all references to me removed from these sites.

You and Scientology first published the web pages on your sites that now contain references to me on or about October 20, 2006.

As you know, your Scientology organization junior Joel Phillips is identified as the administrative contact for these three sites, and I am therefore copying this demand to him.

Because of your reported policy and practice of denying receipt of communications that are sent to you directly from your targets and victims, which includes me, I am also copying this demand letter to a number of other Scientology organization personnel and components junior to you in the global Scientology enterprise. In that way, since you control every component of Scientology and direct all organization personnel, and since you require publicly that all personnel report all such communications and situations as mine to RTC, I am prudently doing what is reasonable to reduce or eliminate any temptation you might entertain to delay responding to this demand by pretending you didn’t get it. If you say you get it and you’d like to communicate one to one without the whole world having to have every word, that would be fine with me.

The truth, known to you beyond any rational doubt, is that I am not an anti-religious extremist, in any sane meaning of the term. The clear and unlawful reason that you have positioned and labeled me on these sites as an anti-religious extremist is to facilitate my obliteration. Positioning and identifying me as an anti-religious extremist is black propaganda, and done to cause the intended effect for black PR stated in your Scientology scriptures, which you know and enforce.

As you know, I am as far as a person can reasonably get in a lifetime from being an anti-religious extremist. Your libel that I am an anti-religious extremist is particularly hurtful, insane and threatening because you are actively prosecuting a massive, multimillion dollar anti-religious judicial and extra-judicial campaign to suppress and destroy my basic human rights, including, most egregiously, my freedom of religion. Virtually all your juniors in the Scientology religion and organization in every country of the world, including Phillips, participate in this religious persecution campaign against me that you control and direct. As I have often pointed out, you are all contracted legal beneficiaries in your litigation war against me, which is using wog secular courts, agencies and lines of communication to suppress and destroy my religious liberty and the religious liberty of my classes, widely “Suppressive Persons” and narrowly those SPs acting in concert with me

I am not arguing that anti-religious extremists do not exist, and indeed I would argue that you yourself are, on a gradient scale of anti-religious extremists, an extreme or extremely anti-religious extremist. I cannot, however, speak for or about all the other people on your sites whom you identify as anti-religious extremists, and I have, as you cannot but know, no way of knowing if some are anti-religious extremists or not. A few of them very well may be anti-religious extremists. Some of them, in fact, may very well be your agents or covert operatives, and included on your sites because perhaps they act the part of anti-religious extremists. You then associate and position me, and whoever else isn’t an anti-religious extremist and doesn’t act the part, with your actors. I don’t know. I do know, however, with complete clarity, that I am not an anti-religious extremist in any sane meaning of the word. I also know, as I said above, that you cannot but know that I am correct, and that you are willfully falsely identifying and labeling me as an anti-religious extremist with manifest malice.

With the understanding that I cannot know if some of the people you identify and classify as anti-religious extremists may be anti-religious extremists, I do know that those I know personally reasonably well, are most certainly, like me, absolutely not anti-religious extremists in any sane meaning of the term. I will also copy these people and suggest that they also protest their being falsely, maliciously and threateningly vilified as anti-religious extremists on your sites, and demand you remove any reference to them. There is, however, no reason for me to take up their cases with you at this time. I know how thoroughly wrong you are about me, and I reasonably extrapolate you being just as wrong about more people around the world, including a significant percentage of the people identified and attacked on your web sites as anti-religious extremists.

As I’ve documented and demonstrated in several legal proceedings, your Scientology head predecessor L. Ron Hubbard spelled out in your scriptures what you are doing in black PRing me as an anti-religious extremist on your sites, and why you and your Scientology juniors are doing it. In his 1969 directive “Battle Tactics ” Hubbard ordered that Scientology and Scientologists are to degrade the images of people like me to beast level, and drive public opinion into a frenzy of hate against us. He ordered that Scientology and Scientologists are then to just go all the way in and obliterate us. You had the “Battle Tactics” scripture reissued in 1987, the year after Hubbard’s death, and you had it included in Scientology intelligence training manuals in 1991. You are responsible, Scientology wide, for the enforcement of all scripture, and all application of scriptural directives, including Battle Tactics.

Obviously, the most beastly, degraded image imaginable is of anti-religious extremists. The public hates anti-religious extremists, and hates to be associated with anti-religious extremists. The public accepts that anti-religious extremists are so hateful it’s legitimate to attack or pursue them, to cut off their communications, funds and connections, to deprive them of political advantages and power, to raid and harass them, and to take over their possessions and territories. Clearly, by obliteration and by your behavior, you mean me death or physical harm as well as other forms of harm, and consequently I have been at all times and continue to be in physical danger as well as in other forms of danger from you and your juniors and agents. Your hate sites black PRing me as an anti-religious extremist are intended to generate so much public hatred against me that the world cheers when I’m obliterated, and to generate so much hatred against me within your Scientology enterprise that it’s a snap getting someone to just go all the way in to do the obliterating.

I recognize that your three hate sites listed above that willfully, wrongly, maliciously and threateningly vilify me as an anti-religious extremist comprise only one weapon system in one channel in a multi-channeled and international campaign to suppress and destroy me. Removing references to me from these sites will not guarantee, or even mean, that you and your juniors have ended your war on me. There are many more actions you and Scientology must take, and other actions you must stop taking, to work toward peacefully ending the Scientology v. Armstrong or Miscavige v. Armstrong war. The corrections and reparations you and Scientology must make are also on multiple channels, and will extend through some time. The first action toward that end, however, which you can do immediately, is to have any reference to me removed from your Internet hate sites.

As you cannot but be aware, I have identified you for some time as a sociopath. I think this is clarifying for everyone, and good for you as well because it gives you a real and immediate public opportunity to take your sociopathy by the horns and pen it up. Your reported history as Scientology head of physically beating people, your agents’ physical attacks on me and death threats, your continued operation and promotion of the murderous “Suppressive Person” doctrine , your bragging of shooting down people like ducks in a pond , and many other indicators, show that you are a sociopath of a violent stripe.

You and your Scientology juniors have conspired against me in violation of laws and moral and social norms for almost 25 years. Throughout those years, you have willfully falsely labeled and black PRed me as an “SP,” meaning in Scientology, as twisted by Hubbard, a “sociopath.” To get your 1993 tax exemption and “religion status,” you black PRed me in official documents as “psychotic.” And now you label me an anti-religious extremist. There is a statistically negligible chance that you will have a change of heart and cease your sociopathy, simply because you are a sociopath.

Nevertheless, I know that with God all things are possible, and certainly He can raise anyone above his sociopathy with the slightest willingness. This knowledge is itself adequate proof, it should be clear, that I am not in any way an anti-religious person, let alone an anti-religious extremist as you label me. There is also a chance that some smart good people in Scientology will get together and prevail upon you and upon your other organization juniors to do the sane, decent and lawful thing and remove your black PR on me from your hate sites. Thus, I am still hoping that the war you and your Scientology juniors wage on me can be ended without obliteration and more terror, and I writing you in that hope.

As you know, a number of your Scientologist juniors such as Barbara Schwarz or hired operatives have the hat of spreading your web sites’ black propaganda onto Usenet to further incite hatred and threat toward me, and toward all of the individuals you label anti-religious extremists on your sites. I will therefore post this demand letter to ensure that as many people as possible who are involved in Scientology’s war on wogs on Usenet, including, of course, your junior Scientologists and operatives, get the message as well. I will also web it.

Within a reasonable time, which is really up to you, I will begin the process of retaining an attorney to represent me in any potential legal action necessary to compel you and your Scientology juniors to remove the references to me from your hate sites. I will forward this letter to various government officials and media representatives who know or should know about Scientology’s antisocial and criminal activities. Because of the specific and immediate nature of your actions and of this demand I will also copy this letter to Tom Cruise, who recently has publicly identified you as his best friend. I do this in the hope that he isn’t also a sociopath, and that he can get you help, or at least talk to you about removing the references to me on your hate sites. I’ve seen that you are honeymooning together on a yacht as I send this letter, so this could be an ideal time for you and Cruise, and probably Ms. Holmes now, to talk about the antisocial and criminal things you’ve been doing and having Scientology do, the ignominy you bring to Scientologists, and most urgently your black PRing me as an anti-religious extremist on your hate sites.

I won’t list all the false statements about me on your sites at this time. You know what the truth is, and you know how big a liar you are. I will mention five willful lies that relate to your declaring and vilifying me as an anti-religious extremist.

1. “In 2000, Armstrong traveled to Europe to attend an anti-religious conference in Leipzig, Germany.”
The event I attended in Leipzig, in multiple years as you know, had nothing whatsoever to do with anti-religion. Religious people from many countries participated, and all people who participated were joined by the common desire for religious liberty everywhere. Events at these Leipzig events are very well recorded and documented, and you cannot but know that all the Leipzig events that I attended, if they were in any way at all religious, were pro-religious.

2. “In 2001, Armstrong traveled extensively in Europe, joining in a hate march in France with extremist Roger Gonnet”
I have never joined in a hate march in France, or at any other time or place in my life. I know Roger Gonnet personally, and spent some days with him in France and elsewhere. At no time did I ever see him join in a hate march, and indeed at no time while with him did I even observe a hate march. At no time did I observe any behavior by him that would lead a reasonable person to conclude he is an extremist, in any sane meaning of the word.

3. “and visiting anti-religious groups in Russia and Denmark.”
I have never visited an anti-religious group in Russia, Denmark or anywhere else in the world. In fact, the groups I visited in Russia and Denmark were truly religious in the most sincere sense of the word.

4. “At a meeting of hate groups in Russia, Armstrong met with deprogramming proponent Alexander Dvorkin.”
I have never attended any meeting of hate groups in Russia at any time, nor have I attended any meeting of any hate groups in any other country. I have met Dr. Dvorkin several times in Russia and in other countries, he has translated for me on several occasions, and I have been able to observe him for several hours at a time on many occasions. At no time did I observe him attend a meeting of hate groups, discuss attending any meeting of hate groups, or suggest that I or anyone else attend any meeting of hate groups. At no time did he propose deprogramming me or anyone else, as you define “deprogramming” on your hate sites; i.e., activities involving kidnapping and assaults or such stupidities. He is a Doctor of Theology, a religious man in the sincerest rational meaning of the word, and a teacher in religious studies and in religious organizations. He is one of the people identified on your hate sites as an anti-religious extremist that I know with complete certainly is not an anti-religious extremist.

5. “The following is what Gerry Armstrong’s ‘friends’ think of him:”
These people are not my ‘friends’ at all as the word ‘friends’ is commonly and sanely understood. Some of these people you call my ‘friends’ hate me almost as sociopathically as you do, and indeed serve your malevolent purposes in your Scientology v. Armstrong war. Some of these people you call my ‘friends’ and quote on your hate sites you don’t even identify by name.

You chose or invented, approved and webbed the untruthful, hateful things you say about me on your sites, and the untruthful, hateful things you claim other people say about me, whether my ‘friends’ or not. These things were written or selected to “support” your willful misidentification of me as an anti-religious extremist and your willful misassociation of me with other people you identify or misidentify as anti-religious extremists. You label, portray and position me as an anti-religious extremist so that more hate and more evil can rain down on me from everyone, and to create an atmosphere in which you can have me disposed of silently and no one would sorrow.

You write on your sites that I appear to have no gainful employment; as if this demonstrates I’m a degraded being and proves I’m the anti-religious extremist you say I am. The fact is, you and Scientology have worked very hard to prevent me from obtaining normal, gainful employment, and from living a normal, peaceful life. Your actions and threats against me and anyone who would even grant me credence , let alone gainfully employ me, have been effective. You have demonstrated that eight or ten million Scientologists, all close-knit on the one goal, can cut off many of my communications, pretty well all of my funds, and numbers of my connections, can deprive me of power, can harass me, and can impoverish me. Now you signal to those millions of your Scientology juniors all together on one goal that you can build hate sites, can lie about me, can call me an anti-religious extremist, and can legitimately attack and pursue me as an anti-religious extremist. That I am still alive, still defiant and still able to make this demand does not mean that your intentions and actions to suppress and destroy me on multiple channels are not adversely effective. I cannot but fight back. You cannot but remove all references to me from your hate sites.

Finally, you have webbed a photo of me (doing mayurasana) in multiple places on your hate sites without a proper copyright credit, and I request that you immediately correct this. I have always strived to properly indicate copyright ownership, if known to me, of any photos of you, or anyone or anything else I have used, or other materials I’ve used, in accordance with the fair use provisions of national and international copyright laws. See, e.g., the photos of you on, or linked to from, this page: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/fun/index.html

Even if you refuse to remove all your references to me from your hate sites and force me to take legal action to compel you to remove such references, this will not affect you at least providing a proper copyright ownership for my photo you are using. http://armstrong.xenu.ca/photogallery.htm

Thank you for whatever good you do.

Sincerely,
[signed]
Gerry Armstrong
Chilliwack, B.C.
Canada
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

cc: Joel Phillips
Various Scientology organizations
Various officials
Various media and representatives
Various other individuals

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Open letter to Joseph K. Grieboski, Institution on Religion and Public Policy

 October 25, 2004

Joseph K. Grieboski
Institute on Religion and Public Policy
1101 15th Street NW
Suite 115
Washington, DC 20005

Dear Mr. Grieboski:

I have webbed the statement of Professor Alexander Dvorkin1 made at the recent forum you and he attended at Rhodes, Greece. Dr. Dvorkin, who devoted part of his time to responding to a statement made by you, cites to and challenges you about the Gerry Armstrong case. I am that Armstrong, and I also challenge you and your organization about my case.

Dr. Dvorkin says:

“Mr. Grieboski says that without freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and other freedoms cannot exist. But totalitarian cults deny freedom of speech. After all, religious criticism is also an inalienable component of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. We see how totalitarian cults silence criticism of themselves with endless, grueling court proceedings, so that today in the USA it is extremely rare that one can encounter in the open press criticism of totalitarian cults or statements defending their victims. Indicative of this is the well-known case of Gerry Armstrong, who lost eleven years of his life in Scientology, for whom a court judgment of a California court now not only prohibits to speak about his experience in this cult, but even to pronounce in public words like “Scientology,” “Hubbard,” Dianetics” and so forth. For each violation of this prohibition he is supposed to pay 50,000 dollars. If for a moment one concurs with Scientology’s assertion that it is a religion, then such a prohibition could be compared to a court order prohibiting a former Muslim from uttering the word “Mohammed,” “Koran” or “Islam.” But if we were to say in this case that Scientology is an international intelligence organization that uses criminal methods, then the prohibition is the equivalent of prohibiting the victim of organized crime group from saying the word “Mafia” or “godfather.” And this abominable judgment was made by an American court and is upheld by American law enforcement agencies. Is this called freedom of speech?

At the same time, in the annual reports of the US Congress, publications by other countries that are critical of one or another cult are viewed and cited as violations of freedom of conscience.”2

You and your organization clearly support Scientology, and criticize those countries that oppose Scientology fraud, abuses, criminality and human rights violations. Scientology, as is also clear, portrays itself as a courageous defender and promoter of human rights, when the Armstrong case shows that Scientology is anything but.

Your research associate Kyle Ballard 3 writes this about his project “The Study of Religious Freedoms in Russia:

“In modern democracies, religious freedoms are fundamental. Thus, as Russia is shedding its Communist ideology and emerging as a democratic state, religious freedoms have become essential. With this in mind, I traveled to Moscow and Nizhniy-Novgorod to attend the Experts Conference on Religious Freedoms in Russia and to study the position of religious minorities in Russian society.

My assistant was Alexei Danchenkov, Russian national and a legal analyst and spokesman for the Church of Scientology. In attendance at the conference were academics, journalists, state servants, political advisers, and religious freedoms advocates from both Russia and the United States. The conference provided an open forum to discuss the state of religious freedoms in the Russian Federation and allowed U.S. experts to share the American experience. Moreover, because the Church of Scientology works extremely hard on religious freedom issues, I was provided with much information the struggles of religious groups around the world.”4

Your board member Lynsey Bartilson, who is identified on your web site as a “human rights activist,” is a Scientologist. She describes herself on her own web site as “the International Spokesperson for Youth for Human Rights.” She says that the purpose of this Scientology group is: “To teach youth around the globe about human rights, thus helping them to become valuable advocates for the promotion of tolerance and peace.”5

The Gerry Armstrong case demonstrates beyond any doubt that Scientology is not seeking religious freedom, and not defending and promoting human rights, as the organization publicly claims, but is a wholesale suppressor and destroyer of religious freedom and basic human rights.

Scientology seeks to have me jailed, fined and assessed the obscene amount of $50,000 in “damages” for every religious expression of my religious experiences, or my religious knowledge, or my religious beliefs concerning this organization, which insists that it is a religion.

Virtually all of my religious expressions of my religious experiences, knowledge, or beliefs for which Scientology wants me jailed, fined and ruined utterly have occurred in Canada or Europe. What Scientology seeks is in direct and flagrant violation of international human rights declarations and charters, which the U.S. lists in its own “International Religious Freedom Act of 1998:

“(2) Freedom of religious belief and practice is a universal human right and fundamental freedom articulated in numerous international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Helsinki Accords, the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, the United Nations Charter, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”6

Every Scientology or Scientology-affiliated corporation, organization or entity, and all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers, lawyers and agents sign on to the Armstrong contract 7 to suppress, punish and destroy religious freedom.

People like Ms. Bartilson, who probably have good hearts, but certainly have celebrity, are used by Scientology as spokespersons for its “human rights” front groups. As long as she remains under the domination of the Scientology organization, with its well known cultic policy and practice of attacking opponents, and even critics, will she really teach about real human rights, real tolerance and real peace? As a Scientology representative, Ms. Bartilson is contracted to suppress and destroy human rights.

Scientology’s ideal for peace is a state in which Scientology and every Scientology or Scientology-affiliated corporation, organization or entity, and all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers, lawyers and agents can attack, defame, silence, jail, fine, impoverish and destroy a designated target and he cannot respond. The Scientology organization even claims that all of those organizations and individuals have monetarily purchased such a state of “peace,” and use the U.S. courts and the organization’s infamous “Fair Game” machinery, to collect on and enforce such “purchase.”

Ms. Bartilson’s mother Laurie Bartilson was attorney of record for a number of years in Scientology’s several litigations – all using the U.S.’s courts – to deprive me of my basic rights.

Alexei Danchenkov, elsewhere called a spokesperson for Scientology, or as the organization so ironically calls its Russian operation, the “Hubbard Humanitarian Center,” is obviously a member of Scientology’s notorious Office of Special Affairs. OSA has the specific function in the Scientology enterprise, as directed by enterprise leader David Miscavige, of suppressing and destroying the religious and other human rights of the organization’s designated targets.

Mr. Danchenkov is a signatory to your letter of July 24, 2003 to the US House Appropriations Committee Washington, D,C., and is identified as “Chief Editor, Freedom Magazine in CIS.”

Scientology uses its magazine “Freedom” to attack, defame and eliminate any opposition to its fraud, abuses and criminality. See, e.g., these scandalous black PR attacks on me in “Freedom” that I’ve saved over the past twenty years. “Freedom” publishes typical hate literature of a typical rights-destroying totalitarian cult.8

I’m sure you can easily see why thinking people would think that you’re irresponsibly shilling for Scientology, and cults of its ilk. I still retain a hope, however, that you would attempt to do what is right, and to speak out against Scientology, which is the religious persecutor in this paradigm.

I’ll send a copy of this letter to Dr. Dvorkin, Mr. Ballard, Ms. Bartilson, Mr. Danchenkov, Mr. Miscavige, and to the IRPP general address. According to Scientology, this would amount to $350,000 in “damage” penalties for the organization. I’ll also post the letter to Usenet and web on my site, so if, for example, another seventy thousand people read the letter, that would be another $3,500,000,000. Do you think there is any decency, sense or worth whatsoever in the U.S. courts being used to silence a person whose slightest utterances of his religious beliefs have such galactic value?

Is this letter not the writer’s religious expressions about a religion? Is there anyone at IRPP who would come forward to argue that this letter is not my religious expression of my religious experiences, religious knowledge and religious beliefs, or indeed could not constitute religious scripture?

Scientology, after all, pronounces this Hubbard policy letter called “Battle Tactics”9 to be “religious scripture.” Are not the words of the victims and targets of these shocking and criminal war tactics of Scientology just as holy, just as religious, and just as needful of protection as the “scripture” that makes good people victims and targets and then victimizes them?

My suggestion is that you and your organization investigate the nature of Scientology, and that you publicly cease support for Scientology until you know the nature of what you’re supporting. I suggest that you locate and engage people who are actual victims of Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, and that you fully and openly investigate this doctrine, which is key to Scientology’s nature.

If you are satisfied that, having investigated Scientology’s nature, you and your organization still wish to support this organization, then shilling or collaboration is understandable.

I look forward to hearing from you, I look forward to your thoughts about the Armstrong case, and I look forward to a really good debate about Scientology’s nature.

Yours sincerely,

Gerry Armstrong

E-mail to: Joseph K. Grieboski
Dr. Alexander Dvorkin
IRPP@ReligionAndPolicy.org
Kyle Ballard
Lynsey Bartilson
Alexei Danchenkov
David Miscavige

This same U.S. law, H.R. 2431, states as U.S. policy:

“(b) POLICY- It shall be the policy of the United States, as follows:

(1) To condemn violations of religious freedom, and to promote, and to assist other governments in the promotion of, the fundamental right to freedom of religion.”

Pursuant to its own law, the U.S. Government should be condemning what the Scientology organization is attempting to do with me, especially because Scientology is seeking to deprive me of my religious liberty and other rights and privileges secured to me by the U.S.’s own Constitution and the U.S.’s own Laws under color of the U.S.’s own law.

Instead, the U.S. Government supports Scientology in its drive to suppress and destroy basic human rights, including by condemning those sovereign nations who oppose Scientology’s suppression and destruction of human rights. Your organization apparently does the same, in alignment with the U.S. Government’s anti-human rights position and activities.

As Kyle Ballard observed, Scientology works extremely hard on religious freedom issues. The Gerry Armstrong case shows, however, that this “religious freedom” Scientology works so extremely hard on is the “religious freedom” to suppress, punish and destroy religious freedom.

Scientology has paid millions of tax-exempt dollars to attorneys, private investigators and other agents, and organization directors, officers, employees and volunteers to achieve the criminal and condemnable goal of suppressing, punishing and destroying religious freedom. Scientology has paid millions to achieve that shameful goal in the Armstrong case alone.[1. See Armstrong’s Legal archive. ↩

  • See Scientology’s “Mutual Release” ↩
  • See
    Freedom Mag Special edition (1985) ; Scientology’s DA docs ↩
  • HCOPL Battle Tactics ↩

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    SPDL: Tom Cruise: Executing the Suppressive Person Doctrine

    Over the last six weeks, and erupting in the September Rolling Stone cover article, Tom Cruise has been talking up a volcano of media about his role as the hit man Vincent in the movie Collateral, and his character’s “antisocial personality.” He even had a ninety minute tête-à-tête two weeks ago with the French Minister of Finance Nicolas Sarkozy when Cruise was in Paris promoting the film.

    “Antisocial” is a common enough English language adjective.

    1 a: tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse
    b: hostile to the well-being of society
    c: characterized by markedly deviating behavior <antisocial actions> <crime is antisocial> <antisocial persons>

    2: averse to the society of others or social intercourse: misanthropic. — Webster’s Third New International Dictionary

    Cruise is employing the term in his media comments and in his portrayal of Vincent, however, with the special meaning he was taught in Scientology.

    From The Scotsman, August 23:

    when he talks about the role, and how it demanded a lot of research into what he terms “anti-socials”, he begins to sound uncomfortably intense and earnest.

    “I’ve studied anti-social behaviour and personalities,” he says, “and in Scientology, there is a large body of knowledge about anti-socials. So I worked hard to create Vincent’s moral code from that.”1

    On one of its web sites, Scientology presents an essay by cult founder L. Ron Hubbard entitled “The Antisocial Personality” that identifies what Hubbard says are such persons’ “characteristics.” This essay is taken from a “technical bulletin” Hubbard wrote dated September 27, 1966, which is almost identical to the online version except for, notably, its title: “The Antisocial Personality —The Anti-Scientologist.”2

    When the legal or political structure of a country becomes such as to favor such personalities in positions of trust, then all the civilizing organizations of the country become suppressed and a barbarism of criminality and economic duress ensues.

    Crime and criminal acts are perpetrated by antisocial personalities. Inmates of institutions commonly trace their state back to contact with such personalities.

    Thus, in the fields of government, police activities and mental health, to name a few, we see that it is important to be able to detect and isolate this personality type so as to protect society and individuals from the destructive consequences attendant upon letting such have free rein to injure others.

    As they only comprise 20% of the population and as only 2½% are truly dangerous, we see that with a very small amount of effort we could considerably better the state of society.

    Well-known, even stellar, examples of such a personality are, of course, Napoleon and Hitler. Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Christie and other famous criminals were well-known examples of the antisocial personality. But with such a cast of characters in history we neglect the less stellar examples and do not perceive that such personalities exist in current life, very common, often undetected.3

    Contract killer Vincent, Cruise is telling the world, is just such a common, undetected antisocial personality, an Anti-Scientologist.

    New York Daily News August 1, 2004:

    I’ve never played a character like this before,” says Cruise in an exclusive talk with the Daily News. “Vincent interested me because he is such an anti-social personality, bringing destruction and chaos with him wherever he goes. He’s a force of nature.”4

    “Chaos” is an interesting choice of terms too for Cruise. Hubbard called the antisocial personalities at one time “Merchants of Chaos,” and Scientologists still use that label. From the Scientology Technical Dictionary:

    Merchant of Fear or Chaos Merchant and which we can now technically call the suppressive person.5

    Also from the same Tech Dictionary, the definition for “Antisocial Personality:”

    we’re calling it a suppressive because it is more explicit.6

    As Vincent, Cruise is dramatizing a member of the class of people about whom he has been well indoctrinated in Scientology, the class called variously “suppressives,” or “antisocials,” “Suppressive Persons,” or “SPs.”

    USA Today August 3, 2004

    To nail Vincent’s “antisocial personality” and die-hard commitment to his job, Cruise explored his dubious moral code. Vincent, he says, doesn’t think he’s “doing anything wrong” and isn’t aware of “the chaos that he wreaks.” All he knows is that he has to kill five people by 6 a.m.7

    MTV August 4, 2004

    “This guy being an antisocial personality, the things that concern him aren’t the same things concern a social personality,” he said. “One of the keys is that people, when they’re doing things, they do believe that they’re right in doing them and they have it all justified as to why it’s OK.8

    This “social personality” is another Scientology term that has a very specific meaning to members of the cult. Hubbard writes in the same bulletin “The Antisocial Personality —The Anti-Scientologist.”

    The social personality can be defined most easily by comparison with his opposite, the antisocial personality.

    This differentiation is easily done and no test should ever be constructed which isolates only the antisocial. […]

    As the society runs, prospers and lives solely through the efforts of social personalities, one must know them as they, not the antisocial, are the worthwhile people. These are the people who must have rights and freedom. Attention is given to the anti-social solely to protect and assist the social personalities in the society. […]

    Thus it is the twelve given characteristics alone which identify the antisocial personality. And these same twelve reversed are the sole criteria of the social personality if one wishes to be truthful about them.3

    Cruise insists that he is no antisocial or Suppressive Person, but the SPs’ opposite.

    ABC News August 2, 2004

    “I look for characters that I feel are going to be challenging. This is definitely right out there. A very, very complex character, playing this anti-social personality.” […]

    “Just looking at the moral code, looking in terms of what I know about life, he’s the antithesis of who I am and how I feel about people and humanity,” Cruise said.10

    Boston Herald August 4, 2004

    “I play a character who is the antithesis of who I am,” Cruise said. “Everybody has a different moral code, and the things that concern him are not the things that concern a social personality, and this guy is an antisocial personality.”11

    Cruise’s insights about his Suppressive Person Vincent not thinking he’s doing anything wrong, and about antisocials believing that they’re right in doing what they do and having it all justified as to why it’s OK, also derive from Scientology “scripture.”

    Even the antisocial personality, in his warped way, is quite certain that he is acting for the best and commonly sees himself as the only good person around, doing all for the good of everyone — the only flaw in his reasoning being that if one kills everyone else, none are left to be protected from the imagined evils. His conduct in his environment and toward his fellows is the only method of detecting either the antisocial or the social personalities.12

    It is clear that Cruise, who is now regularly referred to in the media as a “devout Scientologist,” is indoctrinated enough in Scientology administration, “ethics” system and “technology” for the organization’s leadership to have him speak publicly about the subject, and even to talk about the “Suppressive Person” doctrine, and he is dedicated enough to do the public speaking they’re having him do. He knows what the SP doctrine is, and he executes it in his role as Tom Cruise, Scientology Agent.

    Scientology teaches that Suppressive Persons, or Antisocials are a class comprising two and a half percent of earth’s population, and are the cause of all illness, accidents and any bad condition. Scientology states that SPs are completely evil and irredeemable, “truly dangerous,” committing crime continuously, “psychotic,” and deserving of no civil rights. Scientology also teaches, and Cruise knows, that the Antisocial Personality, the SP, is, as the Hubbard bulletin but not the online version says, the “Anti-Scientologist.” The opponents or critics of Scientology or any of its doctrines, policies or practices are the people that the organization identifies as Suppressive Persons. From Hubbard Policy Letter of December 23, 1965, revised January 8, 1991 “Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology or Scientologists:”

    A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON or GROUP is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology with suppressive acts. […]

    Suppressive acts are defined as actions or omissions undertaken to knowingly suppress, reduce or impede Scientology or Scientologists.13

    Hubbard wrote, and Scientologists accept as “scripture,” that all critics of Scientology are criminals with criminal pasts for which they could be imprisoned, and Hubbard threatened that his organization would find and expose the crimes of anyone who opposes Scientology.14

    Scientology’s policy and practice for the treatment of people identified as Suppressive Persons, universally known by the name Hubbard gave it, “Fair Game,” calls for malignities against the SPs, the “enemy,” such as lying to, tricking or suing them, and criminal, violent acts acts, such as theft, injury or destruction.15

    In another policy letter, called menacingly “Battle Tactics,” Hubbard expanded on the need and opportunities for Fair Gaming Scientology’s SP “enemies.”

    “We must ourselves fight on a basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.[…]

    One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and harrasses.[…]

    The prize is “public opinion” where press is concerned. The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy, this means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing, complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That’s the enemy. What they love. That’s you.

    You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level. […]

    Wars are composed of many battles.

    Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.”16

    In heading for that safe public opinion of a frenzy of hate against the people Scientology declares “SPs” and “enemies,” and in their campaign to degrade these people’s images to beast level, the organization publishes and disseminates mountains of generalized as well as individualized defamatory and hateful attacks, which Hubbard termed “Black Propaganda” or “Black PR.” Hubbard himself Black PRs the SP class as “insane,” “criminal,” dramatizing a “continuous determination to destroy,” “the only thing wrong in this universe,” and responsible for “fill[ing] the institutions with victims, the hospitals with the sick and the graveyards with the dead.”17

    According to the “Suppressive Person” doctrine, SPs, Scientology’s “enemies,” “oppose violently any betterment activity or group,” and “have a deep but carefully masked hatred of anyone who seeks to help them.” For example, from “The Antisocial Personality – The Anti-Scientologist:”

    If anyone were to promise to make others stronger or brighter, the antisocial personality suffers the utmost agony of personal danger.

    They reason that if they are in this much trouble with people around them weak or stupid, they would perish should anyone become strong or bright.12

    From the Scientology Technical Dictionary:

    He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad. 19

    Important to the Suppressive Person doctrine is Hubbard’s and the organization’s claim that Scientology makes human beings more powerful and intelligent, stronger and brighter, in fact, that Scientology is the only system and procedure to make people more powerful and intelligent, and stronger and brighter.

    From Hubbard’s policy letter of February 14, 1965, “Safeguarding Technology:”

    In fifty thousand years of history on this planet alone, man never evolved a workable system. It is doubtful if, in foreseeable history, he will ever evolve another.

    Man is caught in a huge and complex labyrinth. To get out of it requires that he follow the closely-taped path of Scientology.

    Scientology will take him out of the labyrinth. But only if he follows the exact markings in the tunnels.

    It has taken me a third of a century in this lifetime to tape this route out.

    It has been proven that efforts by man to find different routes came to nothing. It is also a clear fact that the route called Scientology does lead out of the labyrinth.20

    To devout Scientologists, because Scientology is the only “technology” that works to improve mankind, make everyone smarter, more able, and, very importantly, more ethical, and get us out of the trap that Scientology also says everyone, except them, is in, learning, applying, spreading and defending the “tech” and their identities as Scientologists is all important. From Hubbard policy letter of February 7, 1965, “Keeping Scientology Working:”

    We’re not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn’t something cute or something to do for lack of something better.

    The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

    This is a deadly serious activity. And if we miss getting out of the trap now, we may never again have another chance.21

    Another key component of the SP doctrine is the concept of the “Potential Trouble Source,” or “PTS,” which is the state, condition and identity of anyone “connected” to a Suppressive Person or a Suppressive Group. Connection to an SP or an SP group, Scientology teaches, is the cause of all illness, and the cause of people “roller-coastering,” losing their “gains,” their increased power, ability and intelligence “gained” from the organization’s technology. From the definition for “Potential Trouble Source” in the Scientology Technical Dictionary:

    Somebody who is connected with an SP who is invalidating him, his beingness, his processing, his life. [cite]

    Means the case is going to go up and fall down. He’s a trouble source because he’s going to get upset. He’s a trouble source because he’s going to make trouble. And he’s trouble for the auditor and he’s trouble for us and he’s trouble for himself. [cite]

    It means someone connected to a person or group opposed to Scientology. It is a technical thing. It results in illness and roller-coaster and is the cause of illness and roller-coaster. [cite] 22

    Hubbard laid down the law in a number of policy letters, and in his book Introduction to Scientology Ethics, about what constitute Suppressive Acts that make a person an SP and that make people connected to the SP PTS. For example, from his policy letter “Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists:”

    Suppressive acts are clearly those covert or overt acts knowingly calculated to reduce or destroy the influence or activities of Scientology or prevent case gains or continued Scientology success and activity on the part of a Scientologist. As persons or groups that would do such a thing act out of self-interest only to the detriment of all others, they cannot be granted the rights ordinarily accorded rational beings.13

    Scientology publishes in its “scriptures” a long list of Suppressive Acts or “High Crimes” that make a person a Suppressive. These High Crimes include serious felonies such as murder and arson, and many acts that a reasonable person would view as innocuous and any citizen’s right, such as public statements against Scientology or Scientologists, testifying before state or public inquiries into Scientology, reporting Scientology or Scientologists to the civil authorities, public disavowal of Scientology, demanding the return of fees, publicly departing Scientology, making private plans to leave, informing others one is leaving, or continued adherence to a person or group pronounced a Suppressive Person or group.

    Scientology teaches that SPs, the people who criticize, and perhaps otherwise oppose the influence or activities of Scientology, are so hateful, or frightful, or powerful that Scientologists under the organization’s command may not deal with them or even grant them credence. Scientology’s leadership threatens that anyone who grants credence to an SP will be guilty of a Suppressive Act and the Suppressive Person doctrine will be applied to him.

    It is a SUPPRESSIVE ACT to deal with a Declared SUPPRESSIVE PERSON […] To maintain a line with, offer support to, or in any way grant credence to such a person indicates nothing more than agreement with that person’s destructive intentions and acts.

    [… ] 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.24

    The Suppressive Person doctrine teaches that Scientology alone has the “technology” to detect and to shatter SPs, the people who oppose the organization’s influence or activities, and the organization teaches its adherents in this detection and shattering “tech.” When Tom Cruise says that he “studied anti-social behavior and personalities,” he doubtlessly studied Scientology’s “PTS and SP Course,” also called the “How to Confront and Shatter Suppression Course.”25

    The organization’s “devout” celebrities, just like its non-celebrity devotees, are indoctrinated26 in this “technology” of detecting and shattering the SPs, Scientology’s “enemies,” “opponents” or “critics” that they encounter in life. Scientology then uses these indoctrinated celebrities’ status to promote the Suppressive Person doctrine to others in the organization’s publications, advertising and events.27

    The organized Fair Gaming of Scientology’s opponents, is not carried out by the celebrities, of course, because this would cause bad PR for the celebs. Fair Game operations are the responsibility of the SP doctrine enforcement personnel 28 in the Religious Technology Center and the Office of Special Affairs,29 which are arms or networks in the global Scientology enterprise directly under the control of cult leader David Miscavige.

    We whom Scientology’s leaders have declared to be “SPs” and are the cult’s Fair Game targets strenuously object to celebrities like Cruise using their star status and their easy access to national and international media and to officials to promote and forward the cult and its “technology” that target us. We are particularly concerned with Scientology’s current and increasing use of celebrities and supercelebrities to sell the public, media and government officials on the Suppressive Person doctrine. The Suppressive Person Defense League, which is dedicated to defending SPs and uniting SPs to stand up against the SP doctrine and its executioners, calls on Cruise, and all Scientologists, to immediately cease all support for this pernicious doctrine, and to cease all support for Scientology until the cult ceases teaching and enforcing this doctrine.

    We are not saying that there are not antisocial people in the world, or that such antisocial people are not evil or dangerous, or that they do not cause great damage and suffering. Psychology, psychiatry, science and the courts have recognized that such persons exist much longer than Scientology has existed. What we are saying, however, is that the people Scientology’s leaders, personnel and celebrities identify as “SPs” and “enemies,” as evil, criminal and insane, and target as Fair Game, are not antisocial at all, not evil, not criminal, and not insane. Scientology’s SP targets are generally and simply ordinary, good, social people who criticize or oppose some of this global, totalitarian cult’s policies, practices or claims.

    There are in fact a great number of Scientology organization policies and practices that are themselves antisocial, that are hostile to the well-being of society, averse to the society of others or social intercourse, or misanthropic, and which call out to good people for criticism. Many of the cult’s claims for its “technology,” such as raising IQ, even claiming “about one point per hour,” are provably false, and should be denounced as fraud. The Suppressive Person doctrine, which brings Scientologists to view opponents of the organization’s reprehensible policies and practices and fraudulent claims as SPs, and opens them up to Fair Game, is itself an extremely antisocial, dangerous doctrine and very criticism-worthy. Scientology’s policy and practice of “Disconnection,” which is rooted in the SP doctrine, and by which the cult breaks up families and destroys personal or professional relationships, is damnable.

    Contrary to what the Suppressive Person doctrine states, SPs, the Scientology organization’s critics or opponents, do not fear people getting better, or stronger or smarter. They don’t oppose violently any betterment activity or group, don’t hate anyone who seeks to help them, don’t vilify efforts to help anybody, don’t knife anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent, and don’t curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad. Scientology’s “scriptural” assertions that “SPs” do these things are false and defamatory, intended to black PR the good people who oppose the cult’s bad policies and practices, to degrade their image to beast level, so that Fair Gaming them becomes laudable.

    Scientology does not detect, target, Fair Game or shatter actual antisocial persons, but declares good, loving people to be “Antisocials” or “SPs” and then goes about targeting, Fair Gaming and shattering them. The cult equates the good people it targets with gangsters or murderers, but the cult doesn’t target or Fair Game gangsters or murderers. Scientology equates its SP targets with the al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked the U.S. on September 11, but doesn’t go after terrorists, and the cult equates the good people it Fair Games with Hitler and Stalin, but does nothing about the despots or their regimes in power around the world.

    The Suppressive Person doctrine is a doubly cruel thought system and organizational rule, because the good people who comprise its SPs are usually already Scientology’s victims. People that Scientology defrauds, often out of huge sums of money, have every reason to criticize the cult’s false claims, delivery failures and the Scientologists who carried out the fraud. Such criticisms, however, make the fraud victim a Suppressive Person, and a target for Fair Game, thus twice victimized. A person might have been horribly abused and victimized in Scientology, locked up, ordered into the cult’s reindoctrination labor camps, or kept slaving for years, but if he ever spoke out about the abuse he would be declared an SP and Fair Gamed, a victimization which can be worse than what he endured inside.

    In 1984 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. stated in his judgment in the case of Scientology v. Gerry Armstrong, which was affirmed on appeal in 199130:

    In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the [Scientology] organization over the years with its “Fair Game” doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.31

    From the evidence gathered since 1984 at the very least, similar conclusions can be drawn. Hubbard has died, but the “Suppressive Person” doctrine, and policies and practices for its execution, Fair Game, have continued in full force in the Miscavige Regime. There also are signs that while the SP doctrine is being pushed right now by Scientology, including by its celebrities, people outside the organization are beginning to grasp what the doctrine actually is.

    Neil Strauss writes in the September Rolling Stone:

    Since Scientology, in the popular imagination, is such a loaded word — often associated with heavy-handed recruitment tactics, strong-arm-lawyer assaults and steep membership and course fees — one would think that Cruise wouldn’t be so willing to take a journalist through that world.

    “Who are those people that say those things?” Cruise asks when I bring it up over lunch one day. “Because I promise you, it isn’t everybody. But I look at those people and I say, ‘Bring it. I’m a Scientologist, man. What do you want to know?’ I don’t mind answering questions.”

    He lists some of Scientology’s selling points: its drug-abuse, prison-rehabilitation and education programs. “Some people, well, if they don’t like Scientology, well, then, fuck you.” He rises from the table. “Really.” He points an angry finger at the imaginary enemy. “Fuck you.” His face reddens. “Period.”32; 33

    We are the enemy Cruise imagines, the people he points angry fingers at, gets red faced about, says fuck you to. Cruise knows, because he also knows that Scientology is the “science of knowing how to know,” that people who don’t like Scientology, who might comment on its heavy-handedness, strong-arm-lawyer assaults, and fees fit for millionaires, are Suppressive Persons, SPs, Antisocials, Anti-Scientologists. We are Scientology’s victims, and our further victimization is what Cruise’s fees buy.

    We’re looking back at Cruise, we’re bringing it, and we have some questions. We want to talk with him about the Suppressive Doctrine that he was taught in Scientology, and which victimizes so many good people. We’d like to talk to him about his support of the organization that promulgates and enforces this doctrine, its absence of science and reason, and the hatred and abuses it engenders. We’d like to ask him if perhaps he’d risk being declared SP himself, in order to criticize the doctrine, the hatred or the abuses, or to speak up for the victims. We hope he gets in touch.

    Gerry Armstrong
    Suppressive Person Defense League

    Notes

    1. From The Scotsman.com ↩
    2. See “How can Scientology help me with… The Antisocial Personality” ↩
    3. From HCOB The Antisocial Personality The Anti-Scientologist. ↩
    4. From NYDailyNews.com ↩
    5. Definition: Merchants of Chaos ↩
    6. Definition: Antisocial Personality ↩
    7. From USAToday.com ↩
    8. From MTV.com ↩
    9. From HCOB The Antisocial Personality The Anti-Scientologist. ↩
    10. From abcnews.go.com. Former link: https://web.archive.org/web/20041223032135/http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20040802_1077.html ↩
    11. From Boston Herald ↩
    12. HCOB The Antisocial Personality The Anti-Scientologist. ↩
    13. HCOB Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology or Scientologists ↩
    14. HCOB Critics of Scientology ↩
    15. See HCOPL Penalties for Lower Conditions ↩
    16. HCOPL Battle Tactics ↩
    17. HCOPL Attacks on Scientology (Continued ↩
    18. HCOB The Antisocial Personality The Anti-Scientologist. ↩
    19. Definition: Suppressive Person ↩
    20. HCOPL Safeguarding Technology ↩
    21. HCOPL Keeping Scientology Working ↩
    22. Definition: Potential Trouble Source; Potential Trouble Source (PTS) ↩
    23. HCOB Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology or Scientologists ↩
    24. Scientology Policy Directive 28 13 August 1982 Suppressive Act Dealing With A Declared Suppressive Person ↩
    25. Promo for the How to Confront and Shatter Suppression Course ↩
    26. See for example Celebrity interview with Marisol Nichols ↩
    27. See Celebrity interview with Nancy Cartwright ↩
    28. See Knocking Out Suppression ↩
    29. See OSA recruitment promo ↩
    30. See 283 Cal.Rptr. 917 ↩
    31. Breckenridge Decision in Scientology v. Armstrong ↩
    32. Strauss, N. (September 2, 2004) The Passion of the Cruise Rolling Stone. (Excerpts from print copy.) ↩
    33. rollingstone.com: The Passion Of the Cruise. ↩

    by

    Article: A Turning Point In Our History (2004)

    Flipping the switch at an exponential level on all we do to clear a planet, the launch of the Golden Age of Organization means expansion at the correct orders of magnitude.1

    A Turning Point in our History

    The standard every org is meant to emulate began with one man, and a handful of staff, non-Scientologists at that. Yet what we represent today is a global movement across every sector of society, thousands of groups, missions and organizations—millions strong.

    “Moreover—and let’s bear this in mind—the salvage of a planet is something that does span all areas where LRH tech must be employed— and all else we do to reverse the dwindling spiral, through social, governmental, and Human Rights reform.”

    With these words, Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board RTC, began a landmark briefing on the essential core of our crusade to clear a planet. For at the heart and soul of every sector of our activity—even our work in the fields of education, rehabilitation and success in the workplace—are our organizations.

    “And while you’ve heard it said that what LRH most wished for on his birthday was expansion,” Mr. Miscavige continued, “let’s not also forget, he defined that expansion in very specific terms. … LRH asked for a gift on his birthday that specifically named one thing that would represent them all—our organizations. And if the reason for that has previously been missed, it’s about to take on unmistakable clarity. Which is to say—if we have previously given LRH the gifts he asked for—tonight we do it like never before. Because it not only is precisely what he wished for—but it’s also the means by which that gift he asked for, will keep on coming.”

    “LRH asked for a gift on his birthday…and if we have previously given him the gifts he asked for—tonight we do it like never before. Because it not only is precisely what he wished for—but it’s also the means by which that gift will keep on coming.

    The ultimate target of the LRH Birthday Game is a cleared planet, and to achieve that goal LRH gave the precise ingredient to make it happen, for the entire purpose of the Birthday Game is expanding every org on the planet above and beyond the size of Old Saint Hill.

    “Exactly how we accomplish that is the subject we now address,” Mr. Miscavige continued, “for if you’ve seen huge strides in recent years, through establishment of massive bases of operation, then here is the final element in those plans which is the keystone of it all.”

    THE IMPACT OF THE WAKE-UP CALL ON OUR RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

    Our response to the wake-up call of 9/11 was a dramatic escalation of our impact on the world with a corps of 30,000 Volunteer Ministers spanning every continent; more new groups in two years than the previous two decades combined; massive new headquarters for Narconon, Applied Scholastics and The Way to Happiness spearheading those solutions globally; and the numbers of those completing OT levels hitting all-time highs, week after week.

    Although this is unprecedented expansion, in truth we have barely scratched the surface. “First—let’s take a look at the population of planet Earth—6.5 billion and growing,” said Mr. Miscavige.

    “Second—with all the people we have helped, through the expansion we have achieved, has come an even greater reach in return. And for every being we salvage (in the front lines, through our social betterment groups and even one-on-one with VMs, there is then the rest of the Bridge we must help them travel. And third—for all those new groups, missions and even new Social Betterment activities—behind them is an auditor.

    “The point is this,” Mr. Miscavige continued, “no matter how else we expand—that expansion is fully dependent on our organizations. We need big ones and lots of them.”

    Flag, our largest org, was built by LRH as the Mecca of Scientology. It now stands 20 times greater in size than Old Saint Hill and is expanding every day. “But, let’s now compare it to Earth,” Mr. Miscavige said. “Here it sits, a huge presence in Clearwater, Florida. Still it’s yet a single city in Florida, one of the United States, in North America—a single continent of Earth. And while it caters to thousands at a time in any given day—moving out across the world, it still is only thousands.”

    How large do we need to be to impact the entire planet?’ Or put another way—how do we honest-to-god, clear the planet, for real?

    There are 4,203 groups, missions and organizations on planet Earth today—but there are 2,795,000 towns and cities that don’t even have a group. With a population of 6.5 billion, we’d have to expand 5,750 times by tomorrow— to reach them all in the next 10 years! So how do we take it to a whole new level?

    The problem is not one of how much we’ve grown, or the expansion of existing activities. It’s a question of how do we honest-to-god, clear the planet, for real? The answer is orgs like Flag, everywhere. And thus the question becomes how do we do it?

    THE CORRECT ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE—WHAT ARE THEY?

    It all comes under the heading of Orders of Magnitude—how large or how small something is in relation to other things,” Mr. Miscavige continued. “And therein lies the essence of a pilot program launched by RTC last year. Specifically—not how to increase what we have, but to instead determine what it would take to now accomplish planetary clearing—at the correct order of magnitude.”

    How do we take all we’ve accomplished in 50 years and create that same cycle, at that same grand total order of magnitude achieved internationally—but in every single city, and all 50 years of progress in an instant in any given area?

    “The answer lies in policy,” Mr. Miscavige said, “and LRH’s discovery about the pattern of this universe. And without trying to make everyone a policy expert, there is one datum that you should know. The org board represents the cycle of expansion—in short, how any organization expands. And organizations—of any type, Scientology or otherwise—go through phases, division by division, representing that cycle of expansion.”

    THE PATTERN OF OUR EXPANSION EMERGES

    Reviewing our history on an international basis over recent decades, a pattern emerges. In the early 1980s LRH established the international structure from which to operate—that was the Establishment, or HCO, phase.

    With public awareness of Scientology less than 10 percent in the mid to late ’80s, the Dissemination phase began. Today, you can hardly find a person who hasn’t heard of us.

    The Treasury phase followed, with the IRS recognition and the end of a 40-year war in the early ’90s.

    Next, and immediately following, was Technical in the mid-1990s with the Golden Age of Tech—and the ability to train auditors to perfection, and make OTs for real.

    With technical standards in, we reached the Qualifications phase, removing arbitraries on Bridge progress and case progress to OT. The route up the Bridge increased by 5X and is more direct than ever.

    “Which brings us to today, and Public Divisions,” said Mr. Miscavige. “That’s where the answer lies and the result is the Public phase we now begin. And, believe me, it is the start of an entirely new era. It’s the answer to any existing org area not yet the size of Old Saint Hill—both why and how to do it in a snap. But it’s much more. It is also the answer to starting, and booming, new organizations anywhere. And the ability to do that, too, in a flash.”

    Heralding this new era as the “Golden Age of Organization,” Mr. Miscavige said some False Data Stripping was in order on the idea that expansion occurs on a gradient. For the true data on the subject, he quoted LRH on the Birthday Game: “It is a different idea: The consideration that it takes a long time to build something is not true. That itself is an aberration, an effort to discourage destruction by pretending creation takes a long time.”

    “We don’t build on a gradient, slowly, and bit by bit,” Mr. Miscagive continued. “Our new gradient for organizations is straight up—we do it all, and right now. And here’s why. Our organizations live and breathe. Their very essence is life itself.”

    The entire plan of an organization—the org board—can be analogized to auditing. The actions of an org are a Third Dynamic auditing session. In order to audit, all elements of a standard auditing session must be present. To omit the auditor, for example, would mean no session could take place. And so it is with an org. “If one omits any part of the organization, or its functions, then the session isn’t there and you won’t achieve the end phenomena.”

    The answer is an Ideal Org, which LRH describes in these terms:

    “One could look at this ideal org and know that this was the place a new civilization was being established for this planet. It is the product of the causative actions of many. The end product is not just an ideal org, but a new civilization, already on its way.”

    UNDERLYING “WHY” FOUND

    What we are working towards is not just a big org—it is a new civilization,” Mr. Miscavige said. “In essence, and as you are about to see, we found the underlying Why. And that is: They were trying to do too little. If the product of an org is a new civilization— then it requires all components to make that new civilization. The question is not ‘how to clear an individual’—it’s ‘how do we clear a civilization?'”

     

    For the answers, Mr. Miscavige turned to “the org LRH ran as ED Int, and which every org strives to achieve. On the one hand—you can look at its statistics for its sheer size. But beyond that—let’s look at purpose and responsibility. For Saint Hill wasn’t just a big org, it was central headquarters for all Scientology activities planetwide.”

    And therein lay the answers at the correct orders of magnitude, and precisely why LRH called for all organizations to emulate Old Saint Hill.

    “Old Saint Hill emanated every type of Scientology activity—new groups, missions and every form of LRH tech application, on an international basis,” continued Mr.Miscavige.”Those were the Public Division functions of Old Saint Hill. So how do we apply that basic purpose of Old Saint Hill— responsible for all activities of Scientology planetwide—to the result of planetary clearing?”

    The answer is to make every one of our orgs a Central Organization, a headquarters responsible for every sector of Scientology activity across its entire geographic zone—all of it!

    How do we take all we’ve accomplished in 50 years and create that same cycle, but in every single city and all 50 years of progress in an instant, in any given area?

    “Because, that is the next cycle of expansion, and why I also say, this is the New Era of Central Organizations.”

    The Pattern of our Expansion

    The org board represents the cycle of expansion and organizations move through phases, division by division, representing that. We have moved from the Establishment, or HCO phase, through Dissemination, Treasury, Technical and Qualifications and we are now in the Public phase.

    The Establishment phase was the early 1980s when LRH established the international structure for eternity, giving us the structure from which to operate.

    The Dissemination phase began in the mid to late 1980s when there was less than 10 percent public awareness of Scientology. Today, it would be hard to find someone who hasn’t heard of us.

    We passed through the Treasury phase in the early 1990s with IRS recognition and the end of a 40-year war.

    The Golden Age of Tech in the mid 1990s was the Technical phase with the ability to train auditors to perfection and make OTs for real.

    The Qualifications phase in the early 2000s resulted in all arbitraries on Bridge progress found and cancelled, speeding progress up the Grade Chart by 5X.

    We are currently in the Public phase, beginning an entirely new era of creating and booming organizations everywhere.

     CREATING A NEW BREED OF ORGANIZATION

    International Management bodies exist today for each sector of activity; including Scientology Missions International for missions across the planet; I HELP for field auditors and groups; and Social Betterment activities which handle drug rehabilitation, education and morality. And each one now emanates from the Central Org into the environment.

    “With this new breed of Central Organization— which are also now responsible for generating them across their entire geographic zone—we instantly increase our reach 200-fold in creating this new civilization. Let there be no doubt—that is the LRH plan for planetary clearing, and what all our expansion to date has brought us to accomplishing,” said Mr. Miscavige.

    As to how we do it, the solution comes from an LRH discovery made while researching in the realms of OT, and the result of that discovery was the formation of the three Public Divisions as the product of an org. As LRH said, “The theory of the org board is basically: THETAN, MIND, BODY, PRODUCT.

    “We have hitherto had only the mind and body in an org. Consequently, we have not expanded fast enough into the public. Our task is to make a cleared civilization.

    “As we have not provided for the public on our org board,it tends to become another determinism.”

    Understanding the Public Divisions Functions

    Our Public Divisions are key to creating a new civilization. They are not simply to introduce new people to Scientology

    1 The Public Contact Division (6A) introduces and enlightens new people on Dianetics and Scientology.

    From LRH research into the realms of OT came the organizational discovery of Thetan, Mind, Body and Product. With this came the breakthrough of three Public Divisions, the inclusion of everyone on our org board and the solution to creating a cleared civilization.

    2 The Public Servicing Division (6B) provides all Introductory Services and also provides many public services intended for all Scientologists to be done between major actions. Here, too, is where Scientologists and non-Scientologists train to open new activities.

    3 The final division is Fields (6C) where every type of activity is formed and continued to create a new civilization.

    PUTTING EVERY BEING ON OUR ORG BOARD

    As to increasing our numbers with the speed necessary to get the job done, the answer is to simply bring everyone on board. “That means the entire planet— Scientologists and non-Scientologists, alike.

    LRH put them all on our org board, and we’re about to slam on their hats!” Mr. Miscavige said.

    Putting this into action means confronting the size of the org and handling as needed to accommodate its nine divisions and within that, the three Public Divisions. Whereas the bulk of our org spaces have been dedicated to Technical, with approximately one-tenth allocated for Public Divisions, to build the orgs means expanding each one so that our Public Divisions occupy no less than one-third the space of our entire organization, without reducing the space devoted to technical delivery and administration. It also means correctly understanding Public Division functions, for they are not simply to introduce new people to Scientology.

    Is there a way to both provide for expansion and create new organizations in such a way that it’s a matter of “add water and mix”?

    The Public Contact Division’s function is to introduce and enlighten new people on Dianetics and Scientology. The Public Servicing Division includes all Introductory Services, and is also where we train Scientologists and non-Scientologists to open new activities. “But on top of that,” Mr. Miscavige said, “this division also includes the many public services intended for you. Because that’s another false datum—there is no such thing as an ‘off-lines Scientologist.’ LRH developed hundreds of services for you in between major actions and we’re going to be making every one of them available.”

    The Fields Division is the final Public Division and is where every type of activity is located— responsible for both their formation and their continued assistance. Here too is where every being is located on our org board.

    HOW DO WE MOVE ENOUGH PEOPLE ONTO THE BRIDGE TO IMPINGE ON THE PLANET?

    Taking up the biggest barrier in starting Scientology in any new area—bringing people to the awareness that help is possible—Mr. Miscavige stressed that except for a select and very minor percent of the population, when people find out what Dianetics and Scientology are, they want it. The major barrier is our communication. And if we are to achieve our objectives, we need to communicate at a whole new order of magnitude. And because we have a ton of solutions, we run the risk of being out-reality.

    So the problem becomes, “How can we answer that question ‘What is Scientology?’ completely and totally to the full satisfaction of any person?” And in the next segment of his briefing, Mr. Miscavige answered that vital question.

    “We do it in four words, and they are: ‘Go to the org.’ And that’s because we are taking all our successful dissemination programs—every one of them—and building them right into every org.

    “We’ve had massive touring WIS? Exhibitions—introducing hundreds of thousands in major cities. We’ve had LRH Exhibits, doing the same. We’ve had massive Book One campaigns, introducing millions. Well—we are building them all into every org.”

    Whereas telling a new person to go to the org might have ended at Reception or possibly the Reg in times past, now it will mean full dissemination, no matter the individual’s needs.

    A person walking into any one of our Churches will tour the Scientology Information Center right off Reception and soon be aware of the scope of the subject and the broad spectrum of real solutions available to him.

    “You tell them to ‘go to the org’ and know they’ll find their ruin—and what they need. And when they get there, it won’t require one person saying a single word, except this: ‘Welcome to Scientology.’

    “When someone walks into any Scientology Church, they will be greeted by an entire information center. Several Public Film and

    HOW WE ENSURE EVERYONE HAS A PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY

    Our new Public Divisions are designed to receive and handle any new person, find and handle his ruin and move him swiftly onto the Bridge. You will simply tell a person “go to the Org” and know he will be welcomed and that the Scientology Information Center will do the rest. Several Public Film and Introductory Lecture rooms, as well as auditing and course rooms, will directly adjoin the information center, so the flow onto the Bridge is simple and direct.

    Introductory Lecture rooms, as well as auditing and course rooms, will directly adjoin it. Large displays present every fundamental of Scientology itself.”

    There will be extensive exhibit panels, accompanied by an audio-visual presentation giving it all: the Reactive Mind; Thetan, Mind, Body; The Eight Dynamics; ARC Triangle; The Tone Scale; and more. A special display describes the E-Meter in full, and there are cans ready for anyone to pick up and see a thought.

     IDEAL FACILITIES FOR LARGE PUBLIC EVENTS

    Public gathering rooms will include a Chapel and Event Hall. For Sunday Services and ceremonies the walls of this large room will be lined with panels displaying Scientology basics including The Axioms, Codes, Creeds, and more. For large public events, including Open Houses, community events, lectures and workshops, the panels convert to present a specific display, for example regarding Dianetics in the case of a Dianetics Workshop, or a permanent exhibit on LRH himself.

    ANSWERING EVERY QUESTION

    But that’s only the half of it,” Mr. Miscavige continued. “Since each Church will be the Central Organization for their area, there are displays encompassing every sector—with descriptions understandable by Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike. They both enlighten, and generate new activities: from salvaging lives from illiteracy, addiction and crime; to programs for opening new groups to handle community ruins. It also includes everything needed to establish new missions, groups and VM chapters. And then there are the public gathering rooms, including a Chapel and Event Hall.”

    Showing the audience examples of these facilities, he went on to explain how for Sunday Services and ceremonies, there are panels displaying all basics: The Axioms, Codes, Creeds, and more. If the org is having an Open House or a large public event, the same room converts to present a permanent exhibit on LRH himself. It can also cater to any type of activity, including community events, lectures and “workshops, and can be converted quickly for public film showings. There are also individual lecture rooms for smaller groups of people, and directly adjoining all these spaces are public course rooms, which will now be sized like a full Academy.

    “They provide introductory services,” Mr. Miscavige continued, “but, as I mentioned, for the first time ever, they will also include course rooms for field activities—rooms for Scientologists and non-Scientologists to train on how to open a group, mission, or even a Social Betterment activity. So that’s our new Public Divisions and the first step in creating this new breed of Central Organization!”

    Following this rapid overview, Mr. Miscavige detailed just how all of this would work in this Audio-Visual Communication Age. As people are generally much more willing to watch a TV than read something, he pointed out this makes our job much easier. To illustrate the point, he briefed on a pilot study conducted over the past year.

    The question is not how to clear an individual—it’s how do we clear a civilization? And how we increase our numbers with the speed necessary to get the job done?

    “From the results, we have now refined it to perfection,” he said. “Our displays cover all major subjects, and each one will contain a brand-new film we’ve just produced—giving the full essentials of that subject—and in just two minutes.”

    For example, when a person walks up to the Dianetics display, he gets the basic concept from the panels. When he hits “play” a film gives him the reality of mental image pictures and the Reactive Mind—all in two minutes.

    There are also films on the fundamentals of Scientology: The ARC Triangle, its components and its application in life; The Eight Dynamics; Auditing; The Tone Scale and The Parts of Man.

    Showing one of these films to the audience, Mr. Miscavige then said, “That’s just the start. For then there is the application of the technology in society. The panels and displays enlighten people to use this tech—for instance, application of a moral code. Or use of Study Tech with children. And yes, they also bring individuals and community leaders on board to themselves implement these programs. And that’s why we have also produced brand-new films for all those field applications.”

    Adjacent to the Scientology Information Center, a number of rooms will be available for new public to view LRH Public Films and Enlightenment Films, addressing specific ruins and their handlings. A new multilingual digital projection system will allow the exact right LRH Public Film or Enlightenment Film to be shown instantly. And these film rooms will convert to Introductory Lecture rooms, providing even more facilities for enlightenment.

    Similarly, public can find out about Narconon—from its presence around the world to a description of the program itself. At the Applied Scholastics display, they can see the ‘worldwide centers, Study Technology itself and its many applications from children’s programs to inner cities.

    The Way to Happiness display provides a description of the book’s content and intended use, as well as the collective accomplishments of its dissemination through the years. Further displays show the rest: from the Volunteer Minister program, I HELP, SMI and WISE, all the way to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. There will be literally hundreds of videos presented.

    “During an Open House, or community event, there is no limit,” Mr. Miscavige continued, “since all displays can play at once. And we know that one way or the other we will provide the right answer each person needs, since these new Public Divisions show it all. And in that way we also place, in every org, the means to generate every type of activity as the Central Org for their geographic zone.”

    HOW WE HANDLE EVERY REACH

    Yet there is even more,” Mr. Miscavige continued. It is one thing to enlighten, but that only creates a reach. The next step is their own study of the tech itself. “That, too, is accomplished,” Mr. Miscavige said, “with Public Films, written by LRH.” And demonstrating a new multilingual Digital Projection system for all orgs, Mr. Miscavige said, “Most important, it allows the exact right film to be shown instantly. At the push of a button, the exact film is selected—another button and whatever language. It starts at once and the public is directed to the exact book, piece of tech, or even LRH Tech Films written for new public. With half a dozen films already in place, there will be a dozen more in the future.”

    Yet there was one further crucial element Mr. Miscavige told of: “If we are going to create a smooth route into Public Divisions—it also means they must be just as smooth through the division and out of it. Specifically onto the mainline Grade Chart and seeing that that individual gets the exact right service they need—personally—all the way to Clear and OT.”

    With that he announced new Enlightenment Films, covering every level of the Grade Chart from the moment a person moves onto The Bridge.

    By way of example Mr. Miscavige described the new LRH film, “Advice to Persons Being Audited.” Shown to a person immediately after he signs up for auditing, this 10 minute film teaches him the ropes of a session before he spends one minute of auditing time.

    Such films will cover all levels, from the Purification Rundown and TRs and Objectives, to the Solo Auditor, specifically written by LRH to be played for a person the instant he goes Clear.

    “The Registrar simply sits the public down and, again—at the push of a button, he is shown a film, straight from LRH, describing his next step. And with films that will cover every level, the result is we get in the full rudiments, create no confusion and keep every being moving step-by-step on the Bridge.”

    Closing this section of his briefing, Mr. Miscavige said, “With all I’ve shown we will answer the public’s questions and yes, it can be done anywhere and yes, that is how we move into the Public phase with authority.”

    Notes

    1. From International Scientology News Issue 27 (2004). ↩

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    Article: “2001 saw us shooting down SPs like ducks in a pond.”

    SPDL note: All of the people in this audience heard Scientology leader David Miscavige announce that 2001 saw the cult “shooting down SPs like ducks in a pond.” None these people protested. All of these people cheered. People with any humanity left in them would be horrified.

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    And to make ever safer environments to expand into, Mr. Miscavige briefed on the unprecedented number of legal victories in the past year, and our growing ethics presence worldwide, where “2001 saw us shooting down SPs like ducks in a pond.”[1. From International Scientology News Issue 20 (2002 CSI)

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