Hubbard’s 7 February 1965 policy letter “Keeping Scientology Working,” commonly called “KSW,” is known and studied by virtually every, even minimally indoctrinated, Scientologist. A copy is included as the first “issue” in several courses. Seniors harp on it and cram juniors on it, and it is cited in many ethics orders. Tom Cruise lives by it, he says. From his infamous, lying, hallucinatory 2007 recruitment video:
I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn, and…because a Scientologist does. He, or she, has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Uh, being a Scientologist, you look at somebody and you know absolutely that you can help them.
So, for me, it really is KSW, and it’s just like … it’s something that, uh … I don’t mince words with that… you know, with anything that LRH does. But that policy to me has really gone – pfft — boy, I never had a … this time I went through and I said, “You know what…” When I read it I … you know, I just went “Pyoonng!” “This is it. It’s exactly it.”
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one that can really help.
That’s…that’s what drives me, is that I know that we have an opportunity, and uh, to really help … for the first time… effectively change people’s lives, and uh … I am dedicated to that. I’m gonna … I’m absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that.
Orgs are there to help, okay, but we as, you know, also the public … It’s like … we have a responsibility. It’s not just the Orgs. It’s not just Dave Miscavige. You know, it’s not just me. It’s you. It’s everyone out there … kinda … re-reading KSW and looking at what needs to be done and saying, “Okay! Am I going to do it or am I not going to do it?” Period. And am I going to look at that guy or am I too afraid, because I have my own out-ethics, to put in someone else’s ethics. And that’s all it comes down to. Because I won’t hesitate to put ethics in on someone else, you know. Because I put it ruthlessly in on myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
1965 was also the year Hubbard introduced into Scientology scripture, the practice and the cult vernacular the terms “Suppressive Persons,” “Suppressive Groups” and “Suppressive Acts, also called “High Crimes.” In a PL of 23 December 1965 entitled “Suppressive Acts : Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists : The Fair Game Law,” which states that it replaced the same PL dated 7 March 1965, Hubbard provided a lengthy list of “Suppressive Acts.”
In his original KSW PL, Hubbard does not mention anything about SPs or the SP doctrine. In a reissue of the PL dated 15 June 1970, published in Volume 0 of the 1970’s Organization Executive Course (“OEC”), however, he added a “note” stating that “actions which neglect or violate this Policy Letter are HIGH CRIMES resulting in Comm Evs on ADMINISTRATORS and EXECUTIVES.” (Caps are his)
The List of Suppressive Acts in the 23 December 1965 PL, which was published in Volume 1 of the 1970’s OEC, does not contain “actions which neglect or violate” the KSW PL. Most, if not all, of the Suppressive Acts listed, however, can be seen, at least in the paranoid Hubbard mind, as threats to “keeping Scientology working.”
Miscavige had the 1965 SP Acts list massively expanded and published in the © 1989 book Introduction to Scientology Ethics. Most of the “new” SP Acts are recognizable as excerpted from the slew of PLs Hubbard published between 1965 and when he died in 1986. The most deranged Suppressive Act on the 1989 Miscavige list, not exactly, as far as I can tell, from Hubbard is:
Violation or neglect of any of the ten points of Keeping Scientology Working, as listed here:
One: Having the correct technology.
Two: Knowing the technology.
Three: Knowing it is correct.
Four: Teaching correctly the correct technology.
Five: Applying the technology.
Six: Seeing that the technology is correctly applied.
Seven: Hammering out of existence incorrect technology.
Eight: Knocking out incorrect applications.
Nine: Closing the door on any possibility of incorrect technology.
Ten: Closing the door on incorrect application.
Try to wrap your wits around that madness!
Miscavige had the same SP Act included in a 8 January 1991 revision of the 23 December 1965 “Suppressive Acts” PL which he published in Volume 1 of the © 1991 OEC. He also included this SP Act in a © 1998 edition of the Introduction to Scientology Ethics book.
The first Act on the Suppressive Acts list in all three Miscavige regime publications – the two Ethics books and Vol 1 of the © 1991 OEC — is:
Any felony (such as murder, arson, etc.) against person or property.
This is obviously a squirreled version of this SP Act about two-thirds down the list in the 1965 PL:
1st degree murder, arson, disintegration of persons or belongings.
“Disintegration of persons or belongings” perhaps sounded too space operatic to Miscavige for the extremely serious Suppressive Person doctrine materials. It is clear, however, that he had murder and arson, and every felony imaginable, like rape, terrorism or genocide, at the start of his gargantuan list of Suppressive Acts to set the tone, the hatefulness, the threat to all mankind, of every Act he listed. He doesn’t differentiate between these terrible crimes and not having some unidentified, incognizable, even useless or fraudulent technology, which some loutish, benighted, pathological liar says is the “correct technology.”
Within Miscavigeite Scientology there is not one person who “has the correct technology.” The “tech” does not work as advertised. Sure, it makes mountains of money for Miscavige, and gives him total freedom to buddy around with Tom Cruise, hobnob with presidents, princes and high-priced pettifoggers, and live a life of happy sadism. So Miscavige can say that he has the correct tech. But none of his underlings, the victims of his sadism, have that tech. And what Miscavige uses the “tech” for is not what Scientology advertises is the “correct tech.”
And how about the rest of today’s eight billion, two hundred twelve million people on earth? None of them have the correct technology. All of them are violating or neglecting all “ten points of Keeping Scientology Working, as listed, by Miscavige. All of them are committing Suppressive Acts all day long. All of them are, by the Miscavigeites’ policies and practices, Suppressive Persons. And all of them can be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist, tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. What insanity! What misanthropy! Policed and enforced by madness!