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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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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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    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. ↩

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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)

    Notes

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    IGN: Wake-up Call The Urgency of Planetary Clearing

    Logo: Inspector General NetworkINSPECTOR GENERAL NETWORK
    BULLETIN No. 44
    from
    Religious Technology Center
    Holder of the Dianetics and Scientology Trademarks

    11 September 2001

    TO: All Scientologists

    FROM: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER

    Wake-up Call

    The Urgency of Planetary Clearing

    […]

    The terrorist attacks of this day demonstrate the destruction a small minority of suppressive persons can wreak. If nothing else, it also demonstrates why our mission is so vital and why speed in accomplishing our aims is of paramount importance.

    Bluntly, we are the only people of Earth who can reverse the decline, and we do not have an endless amount of time to pull it off. Every sector of Scientology activity plays a vital role that must be fulfilled.

    […]

    While we will continue to fight psychiatric influence and brutality until those plagues are a forgotten memory, that is only one step in achieving our primary mission for each and every being, as reflected in The Bridge to Total Freedom. There is no shortcut, no “one-shot” handling.

    We have the technology to pull it off. But if we don’t work faster we could face a scenario where any help would be impossible. And it’s not just the violence we have recently witnessed; it’s everything that violence potentially wreaks in terms of economic and social collapse, not to mention the pervasive apathy which terrorism seeks to instill, leaving a population that can only think of death. We are the only ones who can change that tone, so vital to conquering evil.

    […]

    Likewise, we have the means to reverse the cycle of materialism so that “all is MEST” and one “only lives once” is no longer the mantra of modern society. That’s where the nation of America stood on September 11th, 2001— where happiness was defined by the buck, and if that didn’t bring happiness (and it never has), then just take a mood-altering pill. Only when a society has lost its spiritual values, or relegated them to a passing thought (to cover all bases “just in case there is an afterlife”), can a scene deteriorate in a flash—as it just has. The public knows other religions have failed. Every one of them had an original goal of peace, love and compassion. And yet, one by one, they became involved in war themselves—all because they lacked the technology to achieve their aims—Christianity, Islam, Judaism—you name it. All except us.

    Perhaps in the past some haven’t seen the urgency with which we must act, Perhaps it didn’t seem real that the planet would not survive. Perhaps it seemed like we had a lot of time. Well, it’s a lesson we all must learn at one time or another. The social veneer of this world only makes it appear that all is fine. But il just takes one event to bring the curtains down and expose the facade. All won’t be well until we do our job.

    […]

    What would you have thought if rescue workers in New York City stood to the side of the road waiting for other rescue workers to arrive at the scene? All while the wounded and trapped waited for help? Only to find out every rescue worker thought the other one was going to handle it? Well, we have a planet to salvage. And until we do, you are looking at entire populations stuck in the trap forever. The only way they can get out of the trap is by traveling The Bridge. And the only means to accomplishing that are hundreds of thousands of field auditors, tens of thousands of missions and thousands of orgs.

    While the job may seem overwhelming, consider this: we were once just one man: today we are millions. In other words, we have the numbers to actually pull it off. It only requires enough of them to answer “yes” to a single question: Will you please help us?

    LRH gave us the answers. Let’s never forget the call he issued in the final sentence of Book One:

    “For God’s sake, get busy and build a better bridge!”

    We can do it. We will do it.

    Captain David Miscavige
    Chairman of the Board
    Religious Technology Center

    Grateful acknowledgement is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetics, Scientology, OT, The Bridge, Book One and the Religious Technology Center Corporate Symbol are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology Center. SCIENTOLOGIST is a collective membership mark designating members of the affiliated churches and missions of Scientology. Printed in U.S.A.

    Miscavige, D., (2001, 11 September) Wake-up Call The Urgency of Planetary Clearing. Inspector General Network bulletin, 44.

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    Article: Cause Over Suppression Means Cause. Period.

    Cause Over Suppression Means Cause. Period.1

    As Chairman of the Board RTC explained during the Maiden Voyage OT Summit Events: “As you know, International Management’s GOING GLOBAL strategy is aimed at bringing the materials of Dianetics and Scientology to every language of Earth. […]

    Then a few weeks later, at the second in the series of Maiden Voyage Anniversary OT Summit Events, a milestone achievement was announced in making it possible for all Scientologists to make it up The Bridge. The brand-new PTS/SP Course: “How to Confront and Shatter Suppression” was released in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese and Hebrew! […]

    And why is this so important? As Chairman of the Board RTC explained at the event, “While we can move someone up the Grade Chart on a direct shot to OT and provide the rundowns to get him back on the grade chart when he falls off, this one factor could prevent it all: Suppression. “…Well, I don’t think anyone likes suppression. Yet, just from the fact that one lives on this planet, there isn’t a single person who isn’t in contact with it. The question becomes whether he is at CAUSE or EFFECT.” And now, with the release of the fully body of PTS/SP Technology and the new PTS/SP Course in fifteen languages, tools to be at CAUSE have been put in more beings’ hands than ever.

    Notes

    1. From Going Global (2001 CSFSO) ↩