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Scientology’s FAQ: Why has Scientology sometimes been described as controversial?

Q Why has Scientology sometimes been described as controversial?1

A Like all new ideas, Scientology has come under attack by the uninformed and those who feel their vested interests are threatened. As Scientologists have openly and effectively advocated social reform causes, they have become the target of attacks. For those vested interests who cling to a status quo that is detrimental to society, Scientology’s technology of making the able more able and teaching people to think for themselves poses a serious threat.

This conflict dates back to 1950, a time when psychiatry was entrenched among the United States intelligence services and living off the fat of government grants. In May of that year, L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Not only did Dianetics contain the first workable technology of the mind that anyone could apply, but it also labeled their “state-of-the-art” psychiatric drugs as dangerous. Moreover, it decried the inhuman use of electroshock treatment and lobotomy—then the mainstay of psychiatric “treatment”. One cannot overestimate the threat that Dianetics posed to that psychiatric establishment, both in terms of its inherent message and its unprecedented popularity with the American public; for suddenly here was a work that effectively ripped away their pretense of authority.

The response was immediate and considerable. Less than a month after the publication of Dianetics, psychiatrists on government payrolls were denigrating the book as a hoax, while admitting in the same breath that they had never even read it. A handful of influential psychiatrists used their government connections to spread lies and false reports through media and government files, escalating into an all-out attempt to close down the Dianetics foundations which had sprung up across the country and later, after its formation in 1954, the Church of Scientology. The issue was clearly financial: how long could psychiatrists continue to convince the American taxpayer to foot the bill for multimillion dollar psychiatric appropriations when Dianetics provided a means to greater happiness and ability for only the price of a book?

The attacks intensified after 1951, the year Mr. Hubbard published Science of Survival. In that book, Mr. Hubbard publicly exposed, for the first time, government-funded mind-control experiments in which psychiatrists administered drugs and electric shock to unsuspecting human guinea pigs who were then implanted, while unconscious, with hypnotic commands. Decades later, victims would receive government compensation for the injuries they suffered from such experiments. But at the time these matters were among the best-kept secrets of the U.S. intelligence and psychiatric communities.

Once again the response from the federal/psychiatric circles was considerable. At least half a dozen federal agencies, including the FBI, IRS and FDA, were brought into the effort to suppress Dianetics and Scientology.

The story of the attempts to wipe out Scientology would fill a book, but this war was effectively over in October 1993, when, after its exhaustive scrutiny, the IRS issued a series of rulings expressly recognizing that the Church of Scientology and all its subordinate churches and related charitable and educational institutions in the United States are tax-exempt organizations.

The IRS ruling, which encompassed not only every Scientology church in the United States but also several important Scientology organizations outside the United States, signified that the IRS—and the U.S. government—had formally recognized that the Church of Scientology is a bona fide religious organization and that its activities are beneficial to society as a whole.

As old lies are disproved, the controversy quickly fades and the truth about Scientology, what the Church really is and what is members do, replaces it.

And today, the Church continues to make great efforts to provide the accurate information which tells the true story and corrects the falsehoods that have been circulated in the past.

Notes

  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: Why has Scientology sometimes been described as controversial? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page29a.htm ↩

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SPDL note re: Hubbard and The Criminal Mind

The evidence is clear and conclusive: Mr. Hubbard is a charlatan and worse as are his wife Mary Sue Hubbard (she has been convicted of criminal offences in the United States in connection with Scientology and imprisoned) and the clique at the top privy to the Cult’s activities.”—  Justice Latey, The Latey Decision 1

SPDL Note:  Can there be any doubt that L. Ron Hubbard was talking about his own criminal mind, and that he knew that he was guilty of the very crimes that he was accusing Suppressive Persons of committing?

Can there be any doubt that David Miscavige and his regime are continuing to project their criminality and criminal minds onto their victims, innocent people they beastify and fair game as SPs?

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 15 SEPTEMBER 19812; 3; 4

Remimeo

THE CRIMINAL MIND

“Definition: A criminal is one who is motivated by evil intentions and who has committed so many harmful overt acts that he considers such activities ordinary.

There is a datum of value in detecting overts and withholds in criminal individuals:

THE CRIMINAL ACCUSES OTHERS OF THINGS WHICH HE HIMSELF IS DOING.

[…]

The FBI agent or executive accuses others of graft and even sets up ” abscams” to manufacture the crime. But an FBI agent regularly pockets money supposed to be paid to informers and then screams to protect informer sources that do not exist.

The FBI agent is terrified of being infiltrated and accuses others of it when, as standard practice, he infiltrates groups, manufactures evidence and then gets others charged for crimes his own plants have committed.

The FBI acts like a terrorist group posing as law enforcement officers. Their targets seem to be legislators and Congress and public individuals who might someday have power over public opinion, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.

From all this we get another datum:

THE CRIMINAL MIND RELENTLESSLY SEEKS TO DESTROY ANYONE IT IMAGINES MIGHT EXPOSE IT.

You have to be very alert when criminals are around.

[…]

Doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and the government form a tight clique. Only the government would support such people as the public hates them.

From all this we get another datum:

INDIVIDUALS WITH CRIMINAL MINDS TEND TO BAND TOGETHER SINCE THE PRESENCE OF OTHER CRIMI NALS ABOUT THEM TENDS TO PROVE THEIR OWN DISTORTED IDEAS OF MAN IN GENERAL.

[…]

Apparently they add it up this way: “If I accuse him of robbing, then it would be assumed by others that I have not robbed a bank.” By loudly voicing a condemnation of a crime, the criminal, with a crooked think, supposes people will now suppose he is above bank robbery and won’t suspect him.

[…]

It is inconceivable to the criminal that anyone could possibly be decent or honest or do a selfless act. It would do no good whatever to try to convince him, for he knows all men are like himself.

Thus one gets another datum of value:

THE CRIMINAL ONLY SEES OTHERS AS HE HIMSELF IS.

One of the reasons he does this, of course, is to justify injuring others. Because everyone else is useless, worthless, criminal, an animal and insane, why then, he reasons, it is perfectly all right to injure them.

The criminal mind is a bitter and unsavory subject. The percentage of criminals is relatively small but the majority of grief and turmoil in the world caused by criminals is a majority percent. Thus, the criminal mind is a subject one cannot avoid in research as it is a major factor in the distortion of a culture.

It is a mind like any other mind but it has gone wrong. It is motivated by evil intentions which, even if idiotic, are greater than the possessor’s ability to reason. The criminal, even when he seems most clever, is really very, very stupid. The evil intentions get dramatized by senseless overt acts which are then withheld, and the final result is a person who is more dead than alive and who faces a future so agonizing that any person would shudder at it.

[…]

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

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Magazine: Cause Over Your Environment


Cause Over Your Environment
By L. Ron Hubbard1

Well, they not only report the most threatening bits of news that couldn’t have any possible effect upon their readers’ lives, but also sensationalize it, and make it worse than it is. What more do you want, as a proof of their intention? Well, of course, this is a chaos merchant. He’s paid to the degree that he can make the environment threatening. […]

There’s a lot of people spend their whole lives as professional chaos merchants — just worry everybody around them to death. In fact, the percentage is pretty good. The percentage is probably one out of four.[…]

So the chaos merchant has lots of troops — a lot of people with vested interests. What’s a blackmailer but somebody who’s trying to extort money by telling somebody that he can make the environment far more dangerous.


Don’t ever try to stop truth. That’s the only thing that can go through sixteen-inch armor plate.

This fellow is screaming and howling and raving around and he’s cutting you up one side and down the other, and if you know the mind you say, “The reason you’re mad at me is because you had a withhold from me concerning my paycheck two months ago.” Watch him fold up if that’s the truth. Don’t watch him fold up if it isn’t, because he won’t if it’s not the truth.

The clean blade of truth — it can’t be stopped.

Notes

 

  1. From Celebrity Issue 353 (2003 CCI) ↩

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Article: Introduction to PTS/SP Course Lectures

INTRODUCTION1

The lectures you are about to hear were delivered by L. Ron Hubbard from December 1963 through August 1966 to the students of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course in Sussex, England. These years represent one of the most exhilarating periods in the history of Scientology.

A great deal of the fame of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course came from the fact that while Ron was lecturing to the top auditors of the day from around the world, training them and improving their skills, he was concurrently mapping the route to full OT. This gave his lectures to these students an even more special flavor: the thrill and exhilaration of discoveries just made, of barriers to sanity defeated.

From the research and testing of this period came much of the technology standardly in use around the world today, including fantastic advances in E-Meters and their use, prepared lists and remedies, the full technology of study and codification and standardization of the Bridge to Total Freedom.

In the accompanying lectures Ron thoroughly covers the subject of Suppressive Persons and their victims—the PTS. Here is the technology to confront and shatter suppression and put one at cause.

This is technology for every being. It not only assures one’s progress up the Bridge, and the gains that are available each step of the way, but is technology that puts one at cause in every aspect of life.

While these lectures were originally recorded many years ago on equipment which is long since obsolete, the most meticulous care and procedures were used at all stages of production to reproduce these priceless lectures with the highest possible quality, using Ron’s Clearsound state-of-the-art sound technology.

It is our great pleasure to present these lectures to you now.
The Editors

Notes

  1. Document studied on the How to Confront and Shatter Suppression PTS/SP Course. (2001 ed.) ↩

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Article: Religious Technology Center and the Inspector General Network

Definition: Inspector General An independent authority who inspects the conduct, ethics and morale of the troops and the officers. The Inspector General also investigates reports of corruption, subversion or infiltration and has the authority to handle. The key to success of an Inspector General is independence and objectivity.

Fifteen years ago, a momentous event took place, one which determined the whole of our collective destiny: LRH formed the Religious Technology Center.

By the early nineteen eighties, LRH codified and turned over the many duties he performed in Scientology -from Executive Director International to auditor. Yet one crucial hat remained – protector of the religion.

He knew that in order to turn that hat over he would require a team of the most dedicated Sea Org members. That hat would require a special form of dedication, born from unwavering certainty that Scientology works. Finally, that hat would require an absolute uncorruptibility. In other words, it would require a team of Sea Org members who would operate exterior to the organizations and be utterly uncompromising with the tech. Religious Technology Center and its Inspector General Network has become that team.

LRH’s stated purpose for RTC was, “To safeguard the proper use of trademarks, to protect the public and to make sure that the powerful technology of Dianetics and Scientology remains in good hands and is properly used.”

This was no theoretical idea. RTC was formed after Scientology organizations had been assaulted by attacks and infiltration in the early 80s. LRH related the story in RJ 38:

“This conflict is quite a dramatic story. At last a small hard-core group of founding members, devoted on-policy, in-tech Scientologists who suddenly understood what was happening, used their power as Trustees and, just as it looked like the Churches were finished and about to fall into hostile hands, they suddenly isolated the infiltrators and threw them out!”

This may seem fantastic to those who did not live through those times. That’s only because since that time RTC has safeguarded the technology and those responsible for its ethical delivery so effectively, calm has apparently reigned for the past fifteen years.

How is this continuing duty accomplished?

LRH gave to RTC the trademarks of Dianetics and Scientology. The trademarks are certain words and symbols of the Scientology religion that are legally owned, registered and licensed to ensure the purity of application of the technologies by those authorized to use them. Misuse or misrepresentation (calling something Scientology that is not, or calling Scientology practices something else) can be legally enjoined by RTC’s exercise of its rights.

In fact, in the past year alone RTC has won three landmark legal cases preventing unauthorized use of Scientology materials by unscrupulous individuals.

These court decisions set legal standards recognized across the world.

But RTC does much more within Scientology organizations to ensure the standard application of LRH tech. This is accomplished through its Inspector General Network. Inspector Generals investigate and root out suppressives within and outside Scientology orgs who would prevent or distract from 100% standard application of tech. The Inspector Generals also inspect technical and policy standards of application and correct them where they are out.

RTC collects tremendous amounts of information by direct inspection and by reports from staff and public across the globe. This points up broader situations that require more comprehensive handling. For example, the investigation and evaluation and resultant production and implementation of the tools to make perfect auditors in any Scientology organization on the planet — released under the banner “Golden Age of Tech” – has raised technical standards internationally to heights never before achieved.

Man’s ultimate freedom lies with the OT materials. And LRH recognized the tremendous backlash this fact creates with suppressives:

“Psychotics deal with doing people in. Their whole mission in life is destruction.

“They inveigh against lower-level gains and seek to discredit them since these run contrary to their aberrated purpose.

“But when it gets to Clears and OT levels, psychos go berserk!”

That is why LRH entrusted RTC directly with safeguarding the upper end of The Bridge. RTC licenses each Advanced Org to use the Advanced Tech under specific guidelines protecting their security and ensuring their standard delivery. And because their security and exact application is so important, RTC has created offices and posted Inspector Generals at each of the Advanced Orgs.

Here too, broader situations are evaluated and action taken to raise technical standards. With the breakthroughs of the Golden Age of Tech being applied to Solo auditors in the OT band, never before have so many OTs been made in so short a time.

RTC is not involved in day-to-day operations or Church management. That is by design. LRH had discovered that the future of Scientology could only be assured by an external body not subjected to or influenced by statistical concerns or the bustle of day-to-day events. Indeed, only such a group would then have the vision to locate hidden subversives intent on stopping Scientology who would otherwise remain hidden in the wake of chaos they would create through their actions.

All of RTC’s actions add up to Scientology remaining secure from unscrupulous interlopers who seek to enslave man, and keeping Scientology in the hands of those who will use it for its intended purpose to free mankind.

The legacy of RTC is already impressive. From successfully ending the war with the IRS and Interpol, to locating the Why preventing standard application and creating the Golden Age of Tech – and from the thousands of individuals we’ve helped get Standard Tech to the dozens of SPs and plants we’ve located and removed from the lines which you never heard about because we kept it off your lines. When it comes to keeping Scientology working, we get the job done.

In RJ 38 LRH summed up how all staff and public could align their actions to accomplish these ends:

“My earnest advice is: Only deal with or associate with those organizations licensed by RTC and auditors in good standing with the Church; close your ears to false statements made by bad hats and thus really clear the planet.”

Through standard inspections and reports, RTC Inspector Generals locate and root out suppressives who would otherwise create chaos and stop org expansion.

Religious Technology Center and the Inspector General Network, (1997.) Highwinds 20, 46-47.

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The Decision in Scientology v. Armstrong

The Decision in Scientology v. Armstrong
LA Superior Court Case No. C420153
(excerpts)1

In 1970 a police agency of the French Government conducted an investigation into Scientology and concluded, “this sect, under the pretext of ‘freeing humans’ is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts by (use of) pseudo-scientific theories, by (use of) ‘auditions’ and ‘stage settings’ (lit. to ‘create a theatrical scene’) pushed to extremes (a machine to detect lies, its own particular phraseology . . ), to estrange adepts from their families and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to continue with this sect.” From the evidence presented to this court in 1984, at the very least,  similar conclusions can be drawn. In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the 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. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. He has been referred to during the trial as a “genius,” a “revered person,” a man who was ” viewed by his followers in awe.” Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology.

[…]

On February 18, 1982, the Church of Scientology International issued a ” Suppressive Person Declare Gerry Armstrong,”2 which is an official Scientology document issued against individuals who are considered as enemies of the Organization. Said Suppressive Person Declare charged that Defendant Armstrong had taken an unauthorized leave and that he was spreading destructive rumors about Senior Scientologists.

Defendant Armstrong was unaware of said Suppressive Person Declare until April of 1982. At that time a revised Declare was issued on April 22, 1982.3 Said Declare charged Defendant Armstrong with 18 different “Crimes and High Crimes and Suppressive Acts Against the Church.” The charges included theft, juggling accounts, obtaining loans on money under false pretenses, promulgating false information about the Church, its founder, and members, and other untruthful allegations designed to make Defendant Armstrong an appropriate subject of the Scientology “Fair Game Doctrine.” Said Doctrine allows any suppressive person to be “tricked, cheated, lied to, sued, or destroyed.”

Notes

  1. For the complete document, see The Breckenridge Decision (1984-06-22) ↩
  2. See Suppressive Person Declare Gerry Armstrong (1982-02-18) ↩
  3. See Suppressive Person Declare Gerry Armstrong (revised 1982-04-22) ↩