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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
translation needed, thank you!!!!
Achtung, erste non-google-Übersetzung auf Gerry Armstrong: "Scientology, the Cult of Total Victimization", Nov 2009 Suse Scientology, the Cult of Total Victimization I spoke on the theme, “Scientology, the Cult of Total Espionage” in Russia in 2004. I’ve re-written my article for this conference to take into consideration certain developments since then, and to relate the organization’s intelligence nature and activities to what I now understand to be the organization’s key or basic purpose or purposes. Scientology’s group goal, as commanded by its head, is power – secular, worldly power! Worldly power, of course, requires worldly wealth, and seeking that wealth requires greed. Time magazine famously labeled Scientology in 1991 the “Thriving Cult of Greed and Power.” In 2009, Scientology is still a thriving cult of greed and power. The group purpose for the goal of power Scientology seeks is to victimize people. Scientology calls itself as a subject an “applied religious philosophy,” which in part is true. It is the philosophy -- in its scripture, between its scripture’s lines, and in its application – of victimization and victimizers. Victimizing people is not just Scientology’s essential purpose, it is also a vital activity in its temporal pursuit of its goal. Scientology is manifesting its purpose, “proving” it is winning, by using its power to victimize. Obtaining greater secular power lets Scientology victimize more people more effectively and with less opposition or threat to its victimizing “technology” and application of that tech. Every lie Scientology tells victimizes people. And telling lies including making false claims in Scientology is pervasive, indeed compulsory, and a sacrament. Every penny Scientology extracts from people with any of its endless lies victimizes those people. The “human right” that Scientology fights for, the “human right” it doesn’t already have, is the right to victimize people. Scientology’s campaign for the “human right” to victimize people collides, unavoidably, with the human right to not be victimized. Only one of these rights, of course, can be legitimate. The right that Scientology fights for is not a legitimate human right, any more than the right to suppress freedom of speech, which Scientology also does, is a legitimate human right. Scientology, being compelled to victimize -- by its own scripture or policy and its leader’s intention and orders -- accuses people or governments that oppose its victimization “tech” and victimizing actions of suppressing Scientologists’ human rights. Scientology, the monstrous victimizer, portrays itself as the victim, especially the victim of the people it victimizes. Scientology’s leadership is very aware that they have victimized people, and have had their underlings victimize people, millions of people. And these leaders are aware -- in fact Scientologists are as aware as the rest of us -- that in the world outside of Scientology, victimizing people is largely unacceptable, and even illegal. Scientology’s leaders have guilty knowledge -- the mens rea -- that their victimizing, and the victimizing they have Scientology and Scientologists do, is unethical and unlawful. Because these leaders, although guilty-minded, and guilty as sin, have never been held legally, or even socially responsible, they have accomplished decades of victimizing, and are driven by a secondary purpose: to get away with all the victimizing that’s been done. Scientology and Scientologists have done considerable evil; they have victimized their fellow Scientologists, they’ve victimized people they “disseminate” to or try to lure into their cult, they’ve victimized the good people who stood up to the victimizing; and now they have the overarching need, and the resulting purpose, to get away with it. It could be observed that this is the same purpose -- to get away with it -- that governs virtually any unconvicted criminal’s actions and life. The criminal’s, or the Scientology leadership’s, success through time yields their now dominating purpose: to get away with what they’ve gotten away with. Criminals, or Scientology’s leaders, of course, are still faced with the grim reality that they very well might stop getting away with what they’ve gotten away with. The opposition’s task is to bring that about, simply to stop Scientology from getting away with what it’s gotten away with. What it has gotten away with is victimizing people. Because of their guilty knowledge, and because they cannot admit to what they’ve gotten away, the leadership has always depended on the secrecy and covert actions of intelligence, and has structured and operated Scientology as an intelligence organization. For that reason it’s proper to describe Scientology as a Cult of Intelligence, or Espionage. The intelligence is for the purpose of victimizing people and for getting away with it, so it’s just as proper, and probably more understandable to see Scientology as a Cult of Victimizing, or Victimization. To understand how Scientology and Scientologists have come to this point in their relationship with the world and with themselves, it’s helpful to understand some things about their worldview. It is a worldview concocted and enforced by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard when he was alive, and now enforced by current organization head David Miscavige. In the Scientology worldview, Hubbard, and now Miscavige, are totally right. Their orders must be complied with exactly and in their totality, and non-compliance is to be punished. The ideal administrative form of Hubbard’s and Miscavige’s organizations is a dictatorship, an autocracy under their individual and total control. In Scientologists’ worldview, the Scientology system is the only hope for survival, for themselves and for all mankind. Their system is scientifically precise, discovered and organized by the great scientist Hubbard through years of painstaking scientific research. All other systems, ideas, religions or cures throughout the history of man have failed. The Scientology system, and only its system, can raise its adherents to superhuman levels of ability and power, raise their IQs to supergenius levels, and even raise the dead. Mankind is in a trap, and Hubbard alone discovered the only way out of the trap, Scientology. Scientologists alone are responsible for getting Hubbard’s “technology” for escaping the trap implemented across the world, and are responsible for the salvation of everyone in the whole world. Hubbard wrote in a vital scriptural directive called “Keeping Scientology Working:” 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. Scientology divides the planetary population into two groups, Scientologists and “wogs.” Scientologists, by their “progress” in Scientology, and just by being Scientologists, are superior to wogs, more intelligent, more aware, more able and more ethical than wogs. “Wog” is a racial slur in Scientology, comparable to the word “nigger.” Wogs comprise the human race, or “Homo sapiens.” In their worldview, Scientologists comprise a new created race, “Homo novis.” Scientology teaches that in the wog world there are just two types of people: “good people” and “bad people.” Hubbard wrote, “There are no other types…there aren’t even shades of grey.” In the Scientology worldview, the real “bad people,” the “truly dangerous,” are a class of two and a half percent of the planetary population called “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.” According to Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, all other people who do something bad or destructive do so only because they are “connected” in some way to an SP. The “Suppressive Person” doctrine, which is central to the Scientology worldview, states that SPs are the cause of all illness, all accidents and any bad condition in the world. SPs are completely evil, psychotic and impossible to cure, redeem or reform. Scientology says SPs commit crime continuously, and should be given no civil rights. In scripture, Hubbard recommended that such people be disposed of “quietly and without sorrow.” The Suppressive Person doctrine states that the infallible way of identifying SPs is if Scientology did not work on them. People who complain that after doing Scientology they did not acquire superhuman ability and power, or that their IQs did not go up to supergenius level, are simply SPs. The organization does not permit Scientologists connected to an SP to take its courses or undergo “auditing,” as Scientology calls its mental probing and manipulation procedures. The Scientologists must first “disconnect” from the SPs they are connected to. This is Scientology’s infamous policy of “Disconnection,” by which the cult has broken up and destroyed countless families, businesses and other relationships. Scientology says SPs make people they’re connected to appear insane and have them put into mental institutions, and that mental institutions are filled with people SPs put there. Scientology says the SPs, however, are the real insane, although they look and act perfectly normal. Scientology says SPs are common, but also identifies “stellar” historical examples, in scripture: Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. Stellar living SPs in Scientology’s current “reality” and its relationship with the wog world would be people like me. Scientology trains its members, and people in its front groups, in a “technology” for identifying or “spotting” SPs. Scientology calls the methods it teaches for dealing with SPs once they have been spotted, “shattering” them. The title in fact of the course Scientology uses to indoctrinate Scientologists in the Suppressive Person doctrine, is How to Confront and Shatter Suppression Course. Suppressive Persons are the people that Scientology considers its “enemies.” They are also Scientology’s victims. Hubbard originally called the policy and practice for handling or treatment of its SP enemies, “Fair Game.” In one of his most famous directives, which won’t go away for Scientology until Fair Game goes away, Hubbard wrote: “ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.” For decades, Fair Game has been condemned by courts and by government officials, and heavily criticized by the international media. Scientology claims that for public relations purposes it stopped Fair Game forty years ago. Yet it remains Scientology’s policy and practice for the handling or treatment of the cult’s Suppressive Person “enemies” to this day. Fair Game is the policy and practice of victimizing people considered “enemies; essentially the science and actions of war. Scientology’s victimizing of its own personnel, although directed by the same malignant minds, is technically different from Fair Game, which is the Scientologists victimization of people who are not its personnel, that is, wogs. Scientology’s SP doctrine is the “rationale” for the victimizing, the “rationale” for the Scientologists’ war against SPs, and the “rationale” for the victimizing of their own members. The people that Scientology identifies, targets and treats as SPs are not bad, destructive, suppressive, evil persons. Projecting this nature onto the leadership’s chosen targets is willful and is done to forward the leadership’s purpose to victimize, to mistreat their human targets. The people that Scientology’s leaders declare to be SPs are generally merely critics of the victimizing, of the lies and fraud and of the antisocial or criminal policies and practices like Fair Game. The people that Scientology Fair Games are good people who look and act perfectly normal, but who oppose the cult’s lies, fraud and criminality – medical professionals, clergy, educators, writers, and many more, even the very common like me. Scientology teaches that SPs are terrified of people getting better, becoming smarter, more able and more powerful. Since Scientology makes people better, smarter, more able and more powerful, they all say, SPs attack the religion. In its worldview, critics of its policies or practices are “criminals,” and Scientologists are directed to find or manufacture evidence of their crimes. Scientology scripture states: Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. In truth, the critics of Scientology do not have criminal pasts. Scientology does not work as it claims, and does not make its members better, smarter, more able, more powerful or more ethical. Scientology’s claims for its “technology” are false, and the cult extracts huge amounts of money from people by fraud, and by extortion or manufactured threat that parallels the fraud. Hubbard was no scientist, and conducted no scientific research whatsoever. He was a charlatan who claimed academic degrees and titles he never earned, and he was a sociopath who organized people to victimize. Scientology, with its determination to victimize, excused and fostered by its Suppressive Person doctrine, makes its adherents extremely unethical. Toward the SP class, Scientologists dramatize the very criminality and other antisocial qualities they project onto their SP targets. The SP doctrine makes Scientology a hate group, and execution of the doctrine – victimization that Hubbard called “Fair Game” – makes the cult a criminal conspiracy. The actions that Scientology orders its personnel to take in its attacks on SPs are shocking and, being organized or conspired, criminal. One directive, entitled “Battle Tactics,” which was confidential for obvious reasons, is very revealing of what Hubbard expected his Scientologist troops to do: * “apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows we get into, press or legal or public confrontation;” * “expend the maximum of enemy troops;” * “make the war costly to the enemy;” * “cut off enemy communications, funds, connections;” * “deprive the enemy of political advantages, connections and power;” * “take over enemy territory;” * “raid and harass;” * “capture and use his communication lines. A press magnate on your side is a big win.” Scientology calls these aggressive, antisocial actions “religious activities,” or “religious exercise,” and calls the “Battle Tactics” directive “religious scripture.” The “enemy” is the SP class, the good people – all wogs it should be observed – whom the Scientology leadership wants victimized. Hubbard wrote that “nothing in this paper advocates physical violence or invites the physical destruction of persons.” He does elsewhere, of course, and there is no limit to what Scientology’s leadership might do, including physical violence and physical destruction to get away with what they’ve gotten away with. In the same directive, Hubbard spelled out his command intention for the policy and practice of “black propaganda” or “black PR,” Scientology’s often covert manufacture and dissemination of lies, slander and libel to destroy their SP victims’ reputations, credibility, livelihood and lives. 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. Scientologists are relentless in their black PR campaigns, which in Scientology is a universal form of victimization. Black PR also facilitates all the others forms or tech the leadership uses to victimize its targets. Hubbard wrote in a scriptural directive entitled “Black PR:” basically it is an intelligence technique…Essentially it is not a PR campaign. It is a cross between PR and intelligence… a hidden source injects lies and derogatory data into public view. In the same directive, Hubbard acknowledged that Scientology engaged in black PR; and in thousands of other communications, most of them hiding their source, he originated and injected into public view decades of vile, destructive black PR. All Scientologists participate in the intelligence technique of black propaganda. In the “Battle Tactics” directive Hubbard makes very clear that Scientology and Scientologists are factually at war with the people they target as SPs. 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.… Wars are composed of many battles. Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars. Hubbard is not talking about a war with the devil, or with evil, but with real human beings. Because the Suppressive Person doctrine is hateful and even criminal -- since it orders a conspiracy to victimize a class of citizens -- and because of the Scientology leadership’s guilty knowledge of their victimization tech and their victims, the doctrine’s implementation is necessarily largely covert. Scientology’s war on SPs is principally a secret war. Scientology doesn’t announce that it’s at war, and denies that it’s at war. But this is simply a lie to let the cult continue to get away with warring on good people, which they’ve gotten away with for as long as there’s been a cult. In our societies, open warfare, obviously, is immediately defended against. A hidden or disguised war will not be defended against, unless it is recognized as a hidden or disguised war. Inimical troops and operations won’t be unmasked unless it’s known they’re masked. Scientology does what it can to hide its belligerent intentions and aggression towards its SP victims. But a study of Scientology’s own documents and the unrefuted testimony of many credible witnesses make its victimization modus operandi and those bad intentions very clear. The most important war technology and operations for Hubbard and Miscavige in their multi-channeled campaign against their SP targets are intelligence. Other channels include public relations, legal, finance, physical bullying and intimidation. Intelligence, naturally, attempts to conceal or disguise many of its operations and objectives. Scientology has been working hard to disguise itself as a “humanitarian organization,” a defender of human rights. The organization has spent millions of dollars to create this cover, and even set up front groups like “Youth for Human Rights” to make its self-promotion as human rights crusaders sound real. What is real, however, is that Scientology is a monstrous, shameless destroyer of human rights. The Scientology v. Armstrong case is overwhelming evidence of the Scientology leadership’s intention to suppress and destroy virtually anyone’s basic human rights, just to victimize us, to facilitate our further victimization, and to get away with all the victimizing. While Scientology has spent many millions manufacturing an image as a human rights organization, the cult has spent many times that amount to destroy the rights it claims it’s defending. Scientologists go along with their leaders’ deceptions, and even with their organization’s flagrant human rights violations, because they accept Hubbard’s directive that they are at war. They do not protest that everything for all eternity depends on what they do here and now with and in Scientology. Included in what the leadership requires Scientologists do with and in Scientology is to support the war upon the designated SP enemies, accept and support the destruction human rights and the other forms of victimization, and lie about and help disguise these things. The anti-drug program Narconon, the education program Applied Scholastics, which goes by many other names, the anti-psychiatry entity Citizens Committee on Human Rights, the Volunteer Ministers, are Scientology front groups that, among their functions, provide cover and intelligence for Scientology’s covert war on Suppressive Persons. All Scientology fronts help the leadership get away with what they’ve been getting away with. And all of these fronts victimize people. Scientologists, even quite new ones, know that their group or religion is at war, and that they are troops in that war. They know to be on the lookout for enemies, and they watch and listen for anyone in their environment “forwarding the enemy line.” They know when to be silent, and when disinformation should be communicated. They know to not divulge what Scientology is up to. In fact, letting a wog in on Scientology’s actual intentions is considered treason. The organization leadership tells Scientologists who the SPs are, and the Scientologists spot even more SPs in their personal lives who correspond in behavior to officially declared SPs. Scientologists can indeed spot SPs, because SPs are simply individuals who criticize Scientology’s victimizing people, its fraud, abuses and crime. If Scientologists read or hear a criticism, they know its source is an SP. They know who Scientology’s “enemies” are, and they know these enemies are to be victimized as directed. Scientology troops in their war also know to not get caught, and to not cause adverse publicity for the organization. Because so many people who oppose the victimizing watch for Scientology’s operations and influences around the world, and the leaders must, above everything else, get away with whatever is done, Scientologists are for now at least somewhat limited in their war or Fair Game opportunities. This is a clear and very welcome result in Germany of the OPC officially keeping Scientology under observation. War binds troops in a life-or-death cause, and Scientology’s intelligence war is a significant factor in keeping people in the cult. Scientology being at war justifies its demand of total, standard wartime allegiance, and justifies constant allegiance testing of its troops, including lie detector “disagreement checks.” The allegiance Scientology and its leadership demand from their underlings is senior to, and more demanding than, their allegiance to country, company, professional codes, family or any other group or charter. For this reason, it is reasonable and prudent to bar Scientologists, or organization agents from positions where conflicts in allegiance create unsafe conditions. For many Scientologists, and wogs, it is exciting to be a covert operative in a covert war, living a double life, spying on the enemies, reporting to their organization intelligence operators, etc., and getting away with it. Scientology’s intelligence war is not particularly dangerous to the Scientologists, because the enemies they spy and war on and seek to destroy are ordinary, good, peaceful people. One would think that Scientology would be easy to defeat in its war, because the enemies it creates in order to keep its war going are ordinarily good people. There is no evil empire of Suppressive Persons as Scientology tells its troops, and the Scientologists’ victimizing of good people is immoral with no rational justification. Scientology, however, has usually selected as its SP targets people who, in our society, lacked the resources to defend themselves or fight back. It has been quite easy for the cult, an extremely wealthy intelligence-focused organization, to financially, legally, socially, psychologically, or even physically crush many of these selected victims. Just because they are good people, they don’t resort to the battle tactics of Scientology, a criminal conspiracy to raid and harass people, degrade them to beast level, obliterate them, etc. The term “Total Espionage” comes from a book with that title by Curt Riess, published in 1941, about the Nazis’ system of total espionage. Hubbard had Scientologists who dealt with SPs study the book on a Scientology course in intelligence procedures. Because of the dominance and pervasiveness of an intelligence mentality and intelligence activities inside the organization, and because every Scientologist in any capacity anywhere in the world participates, it is accurate to call Scientology a religion, or cult, of total espionage. Because intelligence in Scientology serves the purpose of victimizing people, and because victimization is pervasive and every Scientologist participates, often, of course, as victims, it is accurate to call Scientology a cult of total victimization. Scientology has a network of Scientologist intelligence personnel, and hires outside private investigators and other professionals. The organization uses standard intelligence means and channels for obtaining information: legitimate research or purchase of information, and illegitimate activities such as infiltration, burglary, theft and extortion. Scientology has internal security and counter-espionage departments, and departments and operatives that function in the wog world. Scientology calls these units or personnel “external facing.” Scientology’s leadership seeks intelligence on every stratum of society -- on political leaders, industrialists, entertainers, medical professionals, law enforcement, and on the very commonest of citizens. In 1977, 150 agents the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, raided Scientology’s intelligence offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Evidence seized in these raids showed that Scientology’s intelligence operatives had burglarized, infiltrated or penetrated over a hundred U.S. state and federal offices or agencies. Eleven Scientologists, including Hubbard’s wife, were prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison. In a 1991 article in Time Magazine, the Bureau Chief of the FBI in Los Angeles, who participated in the 1977 raids, is quoted as saying: In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI. At its core, Scientology has all the functions of national intelligence services. But what makes it a cult of total espionage is the participation of every Scientologist in the organization-wide report system. Everybody reports on everybody else. Every Scientologist must report, or they will themselves become targets. Husbands report on wives, wives report on husbands, children report on their parents, and parents on their children. Scientologists report to the organization about any “violations” of Scientology’s thousands of detailed policies, criticisms they hear, anything “suspicious,” anyone associating with an SP. In their early indoctrination into the cult, Scientologists are brought to accept that they will be reported on to organization intelligence seniors, and that they will themselves report on others – Scientologists and wogs everywhere. The amount of intelligence information that Scientology collects through its report system, and dozens of other intelligence channels is staggering. In “auditing” — the psychological “processing” that Scientology claims makes people super powerful, super able and super smart —Scientologists divulge everything about themselves and their pasts. During this procedure, they are monitored on an electronic meter, and what they say is written down, and is often audiotaped or videotaped. Scientologists divulge their whole sexual history, anything they’ve done for which they could be prosecuted, anything embarrassing, all their innermost secrets, and their families’ and associates’ secrets. All of this material goes to Scientology’s leaders and to the core intelligence personnel to be used for intelligence purposes, including controlling the Scientologists who divulged their secrets. It is a cruel irony that Scientologists pay huge sums of money to divulge their secrets, which will then be used against them to their further detriment. Scientology’s possession of these personal secrets is a very effective intelligence weapon in keeping people in the cult and preventing them from ever speaking out against the cult’s abuses and criminal activities. Scientologists are also routinely subjected to even more invasive and threatening interrogations called “security checks” or “sec checks.” The Scientologists are monitored electronically during sec checks using the cult’s electronic meter as a lie detector. These interrogations can be very terrifying experiences. Scientologists have been kept in a sec check room for hours, on the meter, not permitted to go to the bathroom, multiple interrogators hammering them with questions. There is sworn testimony of Scientology leader David Miscavige coming into such a sec check, which Scientologists call “gang bang” sec checks, verbally abusing and threatening the Scientologist victim and spitting tobacco juice in his face. “Gang bang” is another term for gang rape. Miscavige runs Scientology, and is legally responsible for keeping it working as a hate group and as a criminal conspiracy to violate human rights. For several years of his leadership Miscavige and his underlings denied he ran Scientology -- the vast international conglomerate -- but there is so much unrefuted evidence of his total control, that they have been forced in most situations to stop telling that lie. He runs the total espionage network and directs the war of intelligence against the SPs. He controls and operates Scientology through a web of corporations, associations and networks, and a highly dedicated Scientologist officer corps, his co-conspirators. The corporate structure is the product of a conspiracy of devious and power mad minds with some clever and connected lawyers, with the acquiescence of the US Government. The corporate structure was designed to permit first Hubbard, and now Miscavige, to avoid legal liability; which is to say, to facilitate their getting away with victimizing people. Miscavige calls himself the Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, or RTC. His underlings all know him as “C-O-B.” Even Tom Cruise calls him C-O-B. To avoid legal responsibility for Scientology’s many failures, and the torts and crimes committed in the war on SPs, RTC claims to be “autonomous.” And Miscavige has had himself labeled, also to help him avoid liability, merely Scientology’s “ecclesiastical head.” Although intended as bald-faced deception, this is actually quite true, because victimizing people, and the commission of torts and crimes, are ecclesiastical activities. By “ecclesiastical” is meant “relating to a church” or “suitable for a church.” Scientology insists that everything it does is suitable for a church. Importantly, what Scientology does, and is organized to do, is victimize people. The simple reality is that Miscavige runs Scientology, and legally the conglomerate whole is his alter ego. Although Miscavige and his RTC personnel keep much of their activity hidden, they have published a directive entitled “Matters of RTC Concern” in a great number of Scientology magazines and other media, leaving no doubt of their control and operation of the Scientology-wide intelligence report system. There are certain matters of particular importance and concern to RTC as provided here on a detailed list. Whenever these occur, copies of your reports should also be sent to RTC. RTC's Inspector General Network uses such reports to help locate hidden suppression, infiltration, subversion or corruption within and external to Scientology Churches, Missions and other Church organizations. “Matters of RTC Concern” then provides an extensive list of things that Scientologists are to report to RTC, including: * Any suppressive act against Scientology or Scientologists. * Any anti-Scientology … or anti-Church management actions or intentions. * Any person who is hypercritical of Scientology or the Church. * Publicly departing Scientology. * Public statements against Scientology or Scientologists * Anyone forbidding or advising against the writing of Knowledge Reports. * Anyone forbidding or advising one not to send Knowledge Reports to RTC. * Anyone refusing a confessional or refusing to answer a reading question. A “confessional” is what, for obvious religious cloaking reasons, Scientology calls its metered sec check interrogations. A “reading question” is an interrogation question that produces a reaction on the electrometer. The most undeniably successful cover for Scientology, the cult of total victimization, has been its determination to be accepted as a religion, something achieved in the US in 1993 with the Internal Revenue Service’s grant of tax exemption. A recent video interview of Miscavige’s former and long time lieutenant Marc Rathbun done by the St. Petersburg Times newspaper in Florida as part of a series on Scientology contains an amazing admission of why the organization determined to be a religion. it was always perceived that the IRS was the most important thing to handle because if you have tax exemption you have […] religious recognition, you're treated differently in courts […] there's […] some level of almost immunity, First Amendment immunity, to a lot of the type of allegations that were being made. […]I mean the number one mission was to obtain ah, tax exemption from the IRS The allegations against Scientology, for which it sought First Amendment immunity, were of victimizing people – fraud, extortion, assaults, theft, false imprisonment, drugging people, and, as with at least Lisa McPherson, homicide. The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the “free exercise” of religion. Being accepted as a religion meant that Scientology and Scientologists had immunity from prosecution and could victimize with relative impunity, because the victimization they standardly practice is accepted as religious exercise. The US permits Scientology to make all sorts of false claims for services, for which it charges enormous sums, and to use the US mail and other communication media to make its false claims, because it’s a religion. The US says nothing about Scientology locking people up without trial because it’s a religion. It has for years been obvious to many people that Scientology’s religious status covers, permits and justifies victimization, and certainly makes it possible for the leadership to get away with it all. But Rathbun was the person inside Scientology who, along with Miscavige dealt directly with, and ran operations against, the IRS, to obtain tax exemption and “religious recognition.” Rathbun’s admission that Scientology’s religious recognition was to get immunity from legal prosecution or liability, for what cannot but be victimizing, is an important development. In 1998, the US passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which requires that the US protect and support religious organizations around the world, and to criticize or even sanction countries that threaten or limit those religious organizations’ freedoms. Pursuant to the IRFA, the US State Department has published annual reports on religious freedom in each country. The annual reports, as many Germans know, have criticized Germany’s non-acceptance of Scientology as a religion, Germany’s efforts to warn its citizens about the cult’s dangers, and Germany’s reasoned opposition to the victimization. The only condition the IRFA puts on its support for a religious organization’s free exercise is that the exercise be “peaceful.” Scientology has never been peaceful, but has always been at war. The US, unfortunately, has completely ignored this war in order to continue to support Scientology and to criticize other countries such as Germany, because the war has been largely covert and hidden, and seldom resulted in documentable physical violence against SPs. The same St. Petersburg Times series, in which Rathbun admitted obtaining IRS tax exemption for the antisocial purpose of getting away with victimizing people, however, also contains a multitude of credible reports of physical violence, indeed a “culture of violence” inside Scientology, Scientologist on Scientologist. The most physically violent of all Scientologists is its leader David Miscavige. Scientology’s culture of violence is Miscavige’s command intention. Scientology recruits people, citizens from every nation, into this culture of violence. Its many front groups are what it calls “feeders” that feed people into the Scientology culture. Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers literally get their hands on people at disaster sites to lure them into that culture of violence. There is so much evidence of this culture of violence at Scientology’s core that the US Federal Government should be made to reconsider, and terminate, its support for Scientology and what the religion says is its free religious exercise. A culture of violence is not peaceful, and the US is not obliged by the IRFA to support it. My suggestion to Germans and Germany is to compile a dossier of victimization in its many forms that Scientology practices including physical violence, which the SP Times has virtually done. This dossier would be presented to the US State Department, perhaps the US Ambassador in Berlin, and demand that the US act against Scientology’s leadership to eliminate the culture of violence, since it originates in the US where it is protected, and immediately suspend international support for Scientology pursuant to the IRFA. During the suspension, the US Government should conduct hearings into Scientology’s nature and activities, hearing especially from the victims. 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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
translation is needed here too, thank you!
Getting Religious From the US Department of State: Germany International Religious Freedom Report 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The Basic Law (Constitution) provides for religious freedom, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, discrimination against minority religious groups remains an issue. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. The Government does not recognize Scientology as a religion, viewing it instead as an economic enterprise; federal and state classification of Scientology as a potential threat to democratic order has led to employment and commercial discrimination against Scientologists in both the public and private sectors. […] The status of Scientology was the subject of many discussions during the period covered by this report. The US Government expressed its concerns over infringement of individual rights because of religious affiliation and over the potential for discrimination in international trade posed by the screening of foreign firms for possible Scientology affiliation. Embassy officers at all levels consistently and repeatedly supported German Church of Scientology requests for direct dialogue with German Government officials. The US Government consistently maintained that only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious. Germany The US Government's decision to leave the determination of whether an organization is “religious” to the organization itself, and, on the basis of that self-religionizing determination, to afford it all the benefits and protections afforded any other “religions,” is a stupidity that cannot help but increase “religious intolerance.” The US exacerbates this foolishness with a ridiculous policy of condemning, threatening and sanctioning sovereign nations that don't fall in step with the US’s intolerance-increasing position and actions. Because this “consistently maintained,” although only recently promulgated, position most benefits the most antisocial and least beneficent “religious” entities, increasing intolerance is an eminently reasonable attitude and response to US- determined “new religions.” Since antisociality in organizations that most benefit from the US position and policy manifests as human rights violations, intolerance toward these “religions” actually promotes and defends individual human rights, including, most ironically, freedom of religion. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious, an organization that is a money-motivated economic enterprise, as Scientology demonstrates, can certainly determine that it is religious. That economic enterprise then is afforded, at least in the US, all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. With such benefits and protections, a religious economic enterprise enjoys some heavenly advantages, including tax exemption, over economic enterprises that have not leapt into this US Governmental vacuity to declare themselves to be “religious.” The German Government obviously does get involved in the determination of religiousness in organizations in Germany, insofar as that determination has related to those organizations’ governmentally established benefits and protections. Germany says, in various ways, that organizations that are economic enterprises do not get afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. Consequently, such economic enterprises that call themselves “religious” do not, in Germany, gain huge advantages over competing economic enterprises that do not determine and declare themselves to be “religious.” The same is true with an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order; or that might be a ruthless bait-and-switch scam; an intelligence operation waging a covert war on good citizens; or a hate group peddling hatred as human rights. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious in the US, then an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order, a scam, an intelligence network, or a hate group hawking hatred can determine to be religious and be a religion. Such US organizations then are afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not threatening democracy, not scamming people, not involved in espionage, and not inciting hatred. Germany, which gets involved in the determination of religiousness or religion, has decided that threats to democracy, scams, intelligence ops, or hate groups may not, by use of the “religion angle,” be afforded such benefits and protections. At this time in history, the world can generally trust Germany's determination of religion or of an organization's religiousness, since that determination involves the organization that seeks to be classed as a religion, plus the government, plus other participants such as the already historically determined religions. It is, however, irresponsible to trust the US's determination of religion, which involves only an organization itself determining it is religious or a religion. It is axiomatic that an organization determining itself religious also determines that its activities constitute religious expression. Because of the US Government's zero-screening policy, as can be studied with the Scientology organization, other nations have a responsibility to their own citizens to screen and investigate any organization or “religion” that is operated from the US, exported from the US as “religion,” or is defended and promoted as “religion” by the US Government. Scientology, of any of the entities presently proclaiming their religiousness, is all of those things that the German Government observes, and more: an economic enterprise, a bait-and-switch scam, an intelligence organization waging war on good citizens, a hate group with the superhubris to call itself a human rights group, a criminal conspiracy, a totalitarian cult with a sociopathic philosophy, and consequently a threat to democratic order. These activities form and govern Scientology's nature, and the religion’s religious expression. They cannot but be “religious” because Scientology states in its “by-laws” that it is organized “exclusively for religious purposes.” To not discuss or permit the discussion of the nature of what the US Government is defending, promoting and exporting because that export calls itself “religious” is indefensibly irresponsible. If the US Government had adhered to a strict hands-off policy for “religions,” leaving the determination of religiousness to organizations themselves might make a little more sense than it does. The US’s International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (now 22 USC. §§ 6401-6481), however, requires that the Government, from the President down to every consular mission everywhere in the world, defend and promote the entities that declare themselves to be religious or religions. US CODE: Title 22,6401. Findings; policy Organizations that are threats to democracy, or scams, intelligence operations, hate groups, criminal conspiracies, totalitarian cults or commercial enterprises, which determine, as Scientology did, that they are religious or religions, get defended and promoted, by the US President on down, just the same as entities that are religious or religions but are not threats to democracy, not scams, not intelligence ops, not hate groups, not conspiracies, not totalitarian cults, and not commercial enterprises. It turns out in fact that the US defends and promotes Scientology even more than almost all other US religions just because the cult is, in its nature and activities, an intel op, threat to democracy, etc. Scientology needs more defense and promotion because of its antisocial nature and because of its antisocial activities in all of those countries that object to organizations scamming their citizens, spreading hate, committing crime, and threatening their democracy. The US Government made the strategic decision in the early 1990’s to ally Scientology rather than continue to oppose it, as the US had been doing for many years in a number of government departments and agencies. Events both before and since this decision support the conclusion that it was made just because Scientology has an antisocial nature and is involved in antisocial activities, is an intelligence organization, a scam, a hate group and a totalitarian anti-democracy cult. See also: Gerry Armstrong--Statement of Gerry Armstrong at the International Conference Totalitarian Cults and the Democratic State in Novosibirsk, Russia November 9-11, 2004 For decades Scientology employed a flock of “religious experts” to “scientifically” legitimize its claim to “religious status.” These academics wrote papers, gave speeches and testified for the organization, equating its beliefs and practices with those of traditional religions, and attacking people and countries, including the US, which argued that because of its antisocial or criminal practices Scientology should not be granted the status, protections and benefits traditional religions received. When the US assumed the position that organizations themselves, and only themselves, regardless of their structure, nature, beliefs or practices, could determine they are religions, Scientology’s need, in America, for its academic collaborators was largely eliminated. The new US position, which was announced after the strategic decision to form an alliance with Scientology, and which could not but have been assumed in order to sustain that decision, means that a religious organization’s beliefs no longer need be sincerely held. As the Scientology v. Armstrong legal cases demonstrate, Scientologists universally are contracted to violate their own “creed,” the formal statement of their “beliefs” that founder Hubbard published to give the organization the trappings of traditional religions in the period before the US made even such trappings unnecessary. The new US position in reality removed any requirement, as far as the Government is concerned, for truthfulness or honesty in any “new religion’s” claims or activities. In Scientology, as in any criminal gang, hypocrisy is a virtue, telling the truth, except to one’s bosses, is punished, and lying is enforced. Because the organization is a religion, lying is properly called a “sacrament.” To be “religious,” an organization need not embrace or even pay lip service to the worship of God; indeed, Scientology and Scientologists, psycho-theologically speaking, are at war with Him. Following its decision that made an ally of Scientology, the US passed into law the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), which capitalizes on that decision to forward the US’s global hegemonic interests. Although the IRFA’s published purpose is unquestionably noble, the US’s application of the law in the Scientology v. Armstrong issue shows that another purpose is present and dominant. The IRFA, if read realistically, would direct the US to condemn Scientology’s violations of my religious freedom, assist the Canadian and European governments to promote my fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to stand with me against Scientology’s religious persecution, which is government tolerated. (See 22 USC 6401(b)(1)-(5)) I have formally requested that US officials meet with my wife Caroline and me and, as the IRFA mandates, help us against Scientology religious persecution. Letter to US Ambassador to Canada David H. Wilkins : Scientology v. Armstrong While continuing to promote and defend Scientology, which is a global religious persecutor, the US has done nothing about the cult’s persecution of Caroline and me, and has not even acknowledged our request for help. For the US to be compelled by its own law to promote and defend a “religious” organization internationally, the only condition the IRFA puts on the nature of that organization’s religious “practices” is that they are “peaceful.” (See 22 USC 6401(a)(5), 6402(13)(A)(i).) If Philip Morris, the tobacco corporation, being a commercial enterprise, determined that it is religious, and that its cigarettes are religious artifacts and smoking is a sacrament, the US would be obliged to defend and promote the Church of Philip Morris® around the world. The Church’s religious artifacts and religious exercise might harm or shorten the lives of its practitioners, but smoking is peaceful, and even people’s deaths from smoking or lung cancer are peaceful. In fact, death from smoking necessarily eliminates any possibility of the diers dying unpeaceful deaths, which for CPM is an excellent religious marketing concept. The Church of Philip Morris, following religiously in Scientology’s precedential legal footsteps, would make Fair Game against its critics a core religious belief and practice. As with Scientology, CPM’s false advertising for its products and its way to happiness would of course be a protected, tax exempt activity; as would be the Church’s lying, trickery and litigation, and even destroying people, as long as it was some form of peaceful destruction. CPM members and their attorneys naturally would Black PR people who criticized the Church and its poisons as religious bigots or anti-religious extremists. Scientology, however, unlike the Church of Philip Morris, is not peaceful, even in its own unalterable scripture, and is not engaged in peaceful activities, but is, by scripture, at war. Scientology and Scientologists, moreover, are not at war with an unfortunate, or harmful, or threatening condition in the world; for example, a war on evil, or on poverty, on illiteracy, or on litter. Scientology is at war with real, live, decent, productive people with real, live families, friends, careers, etc. Scientology’s front groups. which make a big deal of confronting generalized phenomena or conditions in society, the wogs’ world -- Applied Scholastics for illiteracy; Narconon for drugs; Criminon for criminality; Citizens Commission on Human Rights for psychiatry; etc. – all exist to cloak Scientology’s and Scientologists’ real, and antisocial, war, which is on real persons, live human beings that the Scientology head says are to be warred on. All persons that Scientology and Scientologists war on are in the religio-racial class invented and identified in Scientology scripture as “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.” Key US Government departments and personnel have known about Scientology’s warmongering in its scripture for at least 32 years. These same US Government entities, and others, have understood the SP doctrine, which incites and “justifies” the warring on citizens, for almost as long. The doctrine, of course, includes the axiom that all persons Scientology and Scientologists war on are SPs. Hubbard wrote his scriptural policy letter of 16 February 1969 “Battle Tactics” years after he had installed the SP doctrine in scripture and had his underlings implement and execute it. Scientology’s “enemies” are all SPs. We must ourselves fight on the 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 harasses. [...] 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. Gerry Armstrong--HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBURARY 1969 BATTLE TACTICS After Hubbard died, the Miscavige regime specially reissued “Battle Tactics” for application by the new regimeists to the same old SPs. Gerry Armstrong--HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBURARY 1969 BATTLE TACTICS Reissued 24 September 1987 Scientology and Scientologists teach in their SP doctrine that Suppressive Persons comprise a class consisting of the most evil, destructive two and a half percent of the planetary population, who, for everyone’s and everything’s survival, must be shattered and obliterated. Since Scientology cannot yet get away with disposing of all of the world’s SPs quietly and without some other people sorrowing about the mass class obliteration, the organization leader directs his troops and resources against the individual SPs that at that time he most fears and hates and most wants disposed of. In Scientology’s Suppressive Person doctrine, SPs come in a range of sizes or importances; and current cult head Miscavige, and consequently every Scientologist, considers me an enormous SP. Suppressive Person Defense League - Scientology’s Suppressive Person Doctrine The US Government has also long known that Scientology and Scientologists not only called for war against human targets in key scriptural directives, but had also been certifiably dishonest, conspiratorial, menacing and physically aggressive in applying the religion’s “Battle Tactics” and similar directives. Hubbard says in “Battle Tactics” that he wants his war against SPs waged in the “field of thought,” and that certainly is a front in, or facet of, the war. Where he and his Scientology and Scientologists concentrated their efforts and spent enormous sums, however, was in the field of persons, with bodies, identities, reputations, careers, families, relationships, etc. The US knew that Scientology conspired to drive Paulette Cooper’s mind insane in the field of thought, and to terrorize and sue her into ruin and silence, and get her body falsely imprisoned in the field of persons. In or out of the field of thought, Scientologists, in reality, are never permitted to reason with their victims, targets, critics, enemies, SPs, etc. Scientologists are only permitted to treat or handle such people as “fair game,” that is, to attack or pursue them, both in the field of thought and in the field of persons. The US has known for years about Scientology’s and Scientologists’ physical attacks on me, as well as a litany of other unlawful and antisocial acts against me. In all the time they have considered me an SP and an enemy, Scientologists have never reasoned with me, or acknowledged my reason, either in the field of thought, or in the field of the physical world where real humans live real lives. As is clear in the public record, the US, despite many Scientology victims’ testimony and documents, has continued to support and promote the organization as if its practices are as peaceful as prayer circles. A recent project undertaken by the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, as a great number of people are aware, has resulted in several articles based on videotaped interviews with recently escaped Scientology “executives” about serial physical violence inside the cult, particularly at the hands of ecclesiastical head Miscavige himself. Scientology: The truth rundown | Tampabay.com St. Petersburg Times I believe there is more than enough immediate evidence here to force the US the review, and withdraw, its support for Scientology and its activities. The SP Times lead in: Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige. Since the passage of the IRFA in1998, the US has largely ignored the violence, intimidation, and other antisocial victimizing Scientologists have perpetrated against their SP victims outside the cult. There has been no mention of such violence in the State Department’s yearly reports. The State Department should not be allowed, I believe, to now ignore the documented culture of intimidation and violence inside Scientology, particularly since that violent culture’s source is its rotten core. Each national government where Scientology operates, I believe, has a duty to warn its citizens about the culture of violence into which the organization is luring them. All Scientology advertising and recruiting efforts are to draw people further and further into that culture of violence, closer and closer to A culture of violence is not peaceful. Violence can certainly be religious expression, as Scientology proves. It cannot be, however, religious expression, or religious exercise, or worship, which the US, pursuant to its International Religious Freedom Act, is compelled to protect and promote. I believe that the US has a duty, even pursuant to its own law, to withdraw its support for Scientology internationally. And I believe that national governments, which the US makes subject to this US law, have a duty to their citizens and their nations, to get the US to do this right thing. From the St. Petersburg Times: -- Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader's attacks. -- Physical violence permeated Scientology's international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times. -- Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty to Miscavige and prove their mettle. -- Rathbun says, “Nobody's respected because [Miscavige]'s constantly denigrating and beating on people.' -- Rathbun, Rinder, Scobee and De Vocht say they participated in and witnessed madness, from musical chairs to repeated physical abuse. -- Rathbun and Rinder list the executives they saw Miscavige attack: Marc Yager: At least 20 times. Guillaume Lesevre: At least 10 times. -- Ray Mithoff: Rathbun said Miscavige "would regularly hit this guy open-handed upside the head real hard and jar him. Or grab him by the neck and throw him on the floor." -- Norman Starkey: "Right in the parking lot, (Miscavige) just beat the living f--- out of him, got him on the ground and then started kicking him when he was down,'' Rathbun said. -- He said he saw Rinder "get beat up at least a dozen times just in those last four years … some of them were pretty gruesome." -- Said Rinder: "Yager was like a punching bag. So was I." -- The issue was the humiliation and the domination. ... It's the fact that the domination you're getting — hit in the face, kicked — and you can't do anything about it. If you did try, you'd be attacking the COB. (COB is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center David Miscavige) -- [Miscavige’s violence] was random and whimsical. It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment. -- [Miscavige] shouted obscenities at Rinder, grabbed him and, while holding him in a headlock, twisted his neck and threw him to the floor. -- Of the dozens of attacks Rinder says he endured, this one was the most painful. “my neck was out of place, and for maybe 30 minutes I couldn’t speak because my larynx had been squashed against the back of my throat.” -- The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds. -- He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another. Scientology’s response, also from the St. Petersburg Times, admits that a culture of violence existed in the cult, but blamed it on the people who had left and spoken out. -- Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis: “The "true perpetrators of any violence were [the Times] sources.'' -- Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, key figures in the earlier stories and the highest executives ever to leave the church's staff, repeatedly are described in the declarations as violent and threatening. -- At least 11 declarations cite instances in which Rathbun was abusive. Former colleagues wrote that he grabbed, hit or slugged them, and pushed them against walls. Guillaume Lesevre said Rathun dragged him by the ear. David Henderson wrote that Rathbun tried to scare him into a confession by waving a baseball bat, then smashing it into a file cabinet. -- In the declarations, three women said Rinder hit them. Former staffer Shelby Malone said Rinder slammed her against a wall and pinned her head back by pressing his right forearm into her neck. Kathleen O'Gorman said Rinder hit her in face with a clipboard, cracking a molar. Marcy McShane wrote that Rinder grabbed and squeezed her shoulders, told her she was "stupid'' and threw her into a wall. -- Davis said his own internal investigation found that Rathbun attacked 22 Sea Org members in the years before he left the church — 50 instances in all. -- [Scientology] said “Rathbun instituted a ‘reign of terror.’” Gerry Armstrong Audit Body Thetans |
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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
translation is needed here too, thank you!
Getting Religious From the US Department of State: Germany International Religious Freedom Report 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The Basic Law (Constitution) provides for religious freedom, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, discrimination against minority religious groups remains an issue. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. The Government does not recognize Scientology as a religion, viewing it instead as an economic enterprise; federal and state classification of Scientology as a potential threat to democratic order has led to employment and commercial discrimination against Scientologists in both the public and private sectors. […] The status of Scientology was the subject of many discussions during the period covered by this report. The US Government expressed its concerns over infringement of individual rights because of religious affiliation and over the potential for discrimination in international trade posed by the screening of foreign firms for possible Scientology affiliation. Embassy officers at all levels consistently and repeatedly supported German Church of Scientology requests for direct dialogue with German Government officials. The US Government consistently maintained that only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious. Germany The US Government's decision to leave the determination of whether an organization is “religious” to the organization itself, and, on the basis of that self-religionizing determination, to afford it all the benefits and protections afforded any other “religions,” is a stupidity that cannot help but increase “religious intolerance.” The US exacerbates this foolishness with a ridiculous policy of condemning, threatening and sanctioning sovereign nations that don't fall in step with the US’s intolerance-increasing position and actions. Because this “consistently maintained,” although only recently promulgated, position most benefits the most antisocial and least beneficent “religious” entities, increasing intolerance is an eminently reasonable attitude and response to US- determined “new religions.” Since antisociality in organizations that most benefit from the US position and policy manifests as human rights violations, intolerance toward these “religions” actually promotes and defends individual human rights, including, most ironically, freedom of religion. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious, an organization that is a money-motivated economic enterprise, as Scientology demonstrates, can certainly determine that it is religious. That economic enterprise then is afforded, at least in the US, all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. With such benefits and protections, a religious economic enterprise enjoys some heavenly advantages, including tax exemption, over economic enterprises that have not leapt into this US Governmental vacuity to declare themselves to be “religious.” The German Government obviously does get involved in the determination of religiousness in organizations in Germany, insofar as that determination has related to those organizations’ governmentally established benefits and protections. Germany says, in various ways, that organizations that are economic enterprises do not get afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not economic enterprises. Consequently, such economic enterprises that call themselves “religious” do not, in Germany, gain huge advantages over competing economic enterprises that do not determine and declare themselves to be “religious.” The same is true with an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order; or that might be a ruthless bait-and-switch scam; an intelligence operation waging a covert war on good citizens; or a hate group peddling hatred as human rights. If only an organization itself can determine whether it is religious in the US, then an organization that is a potential threat to democratic order, a scam, an intelligence network, or a hate group hawking hatred can determine to be religious and be a religion. Such US organizations then are afforded all the benefits and protections afforded religions or religious institutions that are not threatening democracy, not scamming people, not involved in espionage, and not inciting hatred. Germany, which gets involved in the determination of religiousness or religion, has decided that threats to democracy, scams, intelligence ops, or hate groups may not, by use of the “religion angle,” be afforded such benefits and protections. At this time in history, the world can generally trust Germany's determination of religion or of an organization's religiousness, since that determination involves the organization that seeks to be classed as a religion, plus the government, plus other participants such as the already historically determined religions. It is, however, irresponsible to trust the US's determination of religion, which involves only an organization itself determining it is religious or a religion. It is axiomatic that an organization determining itself religious also determines that its activities constitute religious expression. Because of the US Government's zero-screening policy, as can be studied with the Scientology organization, other nations have a responsibility to their own citizens to screen and investigate any organization or “religion” that is operated from the US, exported from the US as “religion,” or is defended and promoted as “religion” by the US Government. Scientology, of any of the entities presently proclaiming their religiousness, is all of those things that the German Government observes, and more: an economic enterprise, a bait-and-switch scam, an intelligence organization waging war on good citizens, a hate group with the superhubris to call itself a human rights group, a criminal conspiracy, a totalitarian cult with a sociopathic philosophy, and consequently a threat to democratic order. These activities form and govern Scientology's nature, and the religion’s religious expression. They cannot but be “religious” because Scientology states in its “by-laws” that it is organized “exclusively for religious purposes.” To not discuss or permit the discussion of the nature of what the US Government is defending, promoting and exporting because that export calls itself “religious” is indefensibly irresponsible. If the US Government had adhered to a strict hands-off policy for “religions,” leaving the determination of religiousness to organizations themselves might make a little more sense than it does. The US’s International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (now 22 USC. §§ 6401-6481), however, requires that the Government, from the President down to every consular mission everywhere in the world, defend and promote the entities that declare themselves to be religious or religions. US CODE: Title 22,6401. Findings; policy Organizations that are threats to democracy, or scams, intelligence operations, hate groups, criminal conspiracies, totalitarian cults or commercial enterprises, which determine, as Scientology did, that they are religious or religions, get defended and promoted, by the US President on down, just the same as entities that are religious or religions but are not threats to democracy, not scams, not intelligence ops, not hate groups, not conspiracies, not totalitarian cults, and not commercial enterprises. It turns out in fact that the US defends and promotes Scientology even more than almost all other US religions just because the cult is, in its nature and activities, an intel op, threat to democracy, etc. Scientology needs more defense and promotion because of its antisocial nature and because of its antisocial activities in all of those countries that object to organizations scamming their citizens, spreading hate, committing crime, and threatening their democracy. The US Government made the strategic decision in the early 1990’s to ally Scientology rather than continue to oppose it, as the US had been doing for many years in a number of government departments and agencies. Events both before and since this decision support the conclusion that it was made just because Scientology has an antisocial nature and is involved in antisocial activities, is an intelligence organization, a scam, a hate group and a totalitarian anti-democracy cult. See also: Gerry Armstrong--Statement of Gerry Armstrong at the International Conference Totalitarian Cults and the Democratic State in Novosibirsk, Russia November 9-11, 2004 For decades Scientology employed a flock of “religious experts” to “scientifically” legitimize its claim to “religious status.” These academics wrote papers, gave speeches and testified for the organization, equating its beliefs and practices with those of traditional religions, and attacking people and countries, including the US, which argued that because of its antisocial or criminal practices Scientology should not be granted the status, protections and benefits traditional religions received. When the US assumed the position that organizations themselves, and only themselves, regardless of their structure, nature, beliefs or practices, could determine they are religions, Scientology’s need, in America, for its academic collaborators was largely eliminated. The new US position, which was announced after the strategic decision to form an alliance with Scientology, and which could not but have been assumed in order to sustain that decision, means that a religious organization’s beliefs no longer need be sincerely held. As the Scientology v. Armstrong legal cases demonstrate, Scientologists universally are contracted to violate their own “creed,” the formal statement of their “beliefs” that founder Hubbard published to give the organization the trappings of traditional religions in the period before the US made even such trappings unnecessary. The new US position in reality removed any requirement, as far as the Government is concerned, for truthfulness or honesty in any “new religion’s” claims or activities. In Scientology, as in any criminal gang, hypocrisy is a virtue, telling the truth, except to one’s bosses, is punished, and lying is enforced. Because the organization is a religion, lying is properly called a “sacrament.” To be “religious,” an organization need not embrace or even pay lip service to the worship of God; indeed, Scientology and Scientologists, psycho-theologically speaking, are at war with Him. Following its decision that made an ally of Scientology, the US passed into law the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), which capitalizes on that decision to forward the US’s global hegemonic interests. Although the IRFA’s published purpose is unquestionably noble, the US’s application of the law in the Scientology v. Armstrong issue shows that another purpose is present and dominant. The IRFA, if read realistically, would direct the US to condemn Scientology’s violations of my religious freedom, assist the Canadian and European governments to promote my fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to stand with me against Scientology’s religious persecution, which is government tolerated. (See 22 USC 6401(b)(1)-(5)) I have formally requested that US officials meet with my wife Caroline and me and, as the IRFA mandates, help us against Scientology religious persecution. Letter to US Ambassador to Canada David H. Wilkins : Scientology v. Armstrong While continuing to promote and defend Scientology, which is a global religious persecutor, the US has done nothing about the cult’s persecution of Caroline and me, and has not even acknowledged our request for help. For the US to be compelled by its own law to promote and defend a “religious” organization internationally, the only condition the IRFA puts on the nature of that organization’s religious “practices” is that they are “peaceful.” (See 22 USC 6401(a)(5), 6402(13)(A)(i).) If Philip Morris, the tobacco corporation, being a commercial enterprise, determined that it is religious, and that its cigarettes are religious artifacts and smoking is a sacrament, the US would be obliged to defend and promote the Church of Philip Morris® around the world. The Church’s religious artifacts and religious exercise might harm or shorten the lives of its practitioners, but smoking is peaceful, and even people’s deaths from smoking or lung cancer are peaceful. In fact, death from smoking necessarily eliminates any possibility of the diers dying unpeaceful deaths, which for CPM is an excellent religious marketing concept. The Church of Philip Morris, following religiously in Scientology’s precedential legal footsteps, would make Fair Game against its critics a core religious belief and practice. As with Scientology, CPM’s false advertising for its products and its way to happiness would of course be a protected, tax exempt activity; as would be the Church’s lying, trickery and litigation, and even destroying people, as long as it was some form of peaceful destruction. CPM members and their attorneys naturally would Black PR people who criticized the Church and its poisons as religious bigots or anti-religious extremists. Scientology, however, unlike the Church of Philip Morris, is not peaceful, even in its own unalterable scripture, and is not engaged in peaceful activities, but is, by scripture, at war. Scientology and Scientologists, moreover, are not at war with an unfortunate, or harmful, or threatening condition in the world; for example, a war on evil, or on poverty, on illiteracy, or on litter. Scientology is at war with real, live, decent, productive people with real, live families, friends, careers, etc. Scientology’s front groups. which make a big deal of confronting generalized phenomena or conditions in society, the wogs’ world -- Applied Scholastics for illiteracy; Narconon for drugs; Criminon for criminality; Citizens Commission on Human Rights for psychiatry; etc. – all exist to cloak Scientology’s and Scientologists’ real, and antisocial, war, which is on real persons, live human beings that the Scientology head says are to be warred on. All persons that Scientology and Scientologists war on are in the religio-racial class invented and identified in Scientology scripture as “Suppressive Persons” or “SPs.” Key US Government departments and personnel have known about Scientology’s warmongering in its scripture for at least 32 years. These same US Government entities, and others, have understood the SP doctrine, which incites and “justifies” the warring on citizens, for almost as long. The doctrine, of course, includes the axiom that all persons Scientology and Scientologists war on are SPs. Hubbard wrote his scriptural policy letter of 16 February 1969 “Battle Tactics” years after he had installed the SP doctrine in scripture and had his underlings implement and execute it. Scientology’s “enemies” are all SPs. We must ourselves fight on the 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 harasses. [...] 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. Gerry Armstrong--HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBURARY 1969 BATTLE TACTICS After Hubbard died, the Miscavige regime specially reissued “Battle Tactics” for application by the new regimeists to the same old SPs. Gerry Armstrong--HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBURARY 1969 BATTLE TACTICS Reissued 24 September 1987 Scientology and Scientologists teach in their SP doctrine that Suppressive Persons comprise a class consisting of the most evil, destructive two and a half percent of the planetary population, who, for everyone’s and everything’s survival, must be shattered and obliterated. Since Scientology cannot yet get away with disposing of all of the world’s SPs quietly and without some other people sorrowing about the mass class obliteration, the organization leader directs his troops and resources against the individual SPs that at that time he most fears and hates and most wants disposed of. In Scientology’s Suppressive Person doctrine, SPs come in a range of sizes or importances; and current cult head Miscavige, and consequently every Scientologist, considers me an enormous SP. Suppressive Person Defense League - Scientology’s Suppressive Person Doctrine The US Government has also long known that Scientology and Scientologists not only called for war against human targets in key scriptural directives, but had also been certifiably dishonest, conspiratorial, menacing and physically aggressive in applying the religion’s “Battle Tactics” and similar directives. Hubbard says in “Battle Tactics” that he wants his war against SPs waged in the “field of thought,” and that certainly is a front in, or facet of, the war. Where he and his Scientology and Scientologists concentrated their efforts and spent enormous sums, however, was in the field of persons, with bodies, identities, reputations, careers, families, relationships, etc. The US knew that Scientology conspired to drive Paulette Cooper’s mind insane in the field of thought, and to terrorize and sue her into ruin and silence, and get her body falsely imprisoned in the field of persons. In or out of the field of thought, Scientologists, in reality, are never permitted to reason with their victims, targets, critics, enemies, SPs, etc. Scientologists are only permitted to treat or handle such people as “fair game,” that is, to attack or pursue them, both in the field of thought and in the field of persons. The US has known for years about Scientology’s and Scientologists’ physical attacks on me, as well as a litany of other unlawful and antisocial acts against me. In all the time they have considered me an SP and an enemy, Scientologists have never reasoned with me, or acknowledged my reason, either in the field of thought, or in the field of the physical world where real humans live real lives. As is clear in the public record, the US, despite many Scientology victims’ testimony and documents, has continued to support and promote the organization as if its practices are as peaceful as prayer circles. A recent project undertaken by the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, as a great number of people are aware, has resulted in several articles based on videotaped interviews with recently escaped Scientology “executives” about serial physical violence inside the cult, particularly at the hands of ecclesiastical head Miscavige himself. Scientology: The truth rundown | Tampabay.com St. Petersburg Times I believe there is more than enough immediate evidence here to force the US the review, and withdraw, its support for Scientology and its activities. The SP Times lead in: Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige. Since the passage of the IRFA in1998, the US has largely ignored the violence, intimidation, and other antisocial victimizing Scientologists have perpetrated against their SP victims outside the cult. There has been no mention of such violence in the State Department’s yearly reports. The State Department should not be allowed, I believe, to now ignore the documented culture of intimidation and violence inside Scientology, particularly since that violent culture’s source is its rotten core. Each national government where Scientology operates, I believe, has a duty to warn its citizens about the culture of violence into which the organization is luring them. All Scientology advertising and recruiting efforts are to draw people further and further into that culture of violence, closer and closer to A culture of violence is not peaceful. Violence can certainly be religious expression, as Scientology proves. It cannot be, however, religious expression, or religious exercise, or worship, which the US, pursuant to its International Religious Freedom Act, is compelled to protect and promote. I believe that the US has a duty, even pursuant to its own law, to withdraw its support for Scientology internationally. And I believe that national governments, which the US makes subject to this US law, have a duty to their citizens and their nations, to get the US to do this right thing. From the St. Petersburg Times: -- Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader's attacks. -- Physical violence permeated Scientology's international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times. -- Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty to Miscavige and prove their mettle. -- Rathbun says, “Nobody's respected because [Miscavige]'s constantly denigrating and beating on people.' -- Rathbun, Rinder, Scobee and De Vocht say they participated in and witnessed madness, from musical chairs to repeated physical abuse. -- Rathbun and Rinder list the executives they saw Miscavige attack: Marc Yager: At least 20 times. Guillaume Lesevre: At least 10 times. -- Ray Mithoff: Rathbun said Miscavige "would regularly hit this guy open-handed upside the head real hard and jar him. Or grab him by the neck and throw him on the floor." -- Norman Starkey: "Right in the parking lot, (Miscavige) just beat the living f--- out of him, got him on the ground and then started kicking him when he was down,'' Rathbun said. -- He said he saw Rinder "get beat up at least a dozen times just in those last four years … some of them were pretty gruesome." -- Said Rinder: "Yager was like a punching bag. So was I." -- The issue was the humiliation and the domination. ... It's the fact that the domination you're getting — hit in the face, kicked — and you can't do anything about it. If you did try, you'd be attacking the COB. (COB is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center David Miscavige) -- [Miscavige’s violence] was random and whimsical. It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment. -- [Miscavige] shouted obscenities at Rinder, grabbed him and, while holding him in a headlock, twisted his neck and threw him to the floor. -- Of the dozens of attacks Rinder says he endured, this one was the most painful. “my neck was out of place, and for maybe 30 minutes I couldn’t speak because my larynx had been squashed against the back of my throat.” -- The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds. -- He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another. Scientology’s response, also from the St. Petersburg Times, admits that a culture of violence existed in the cult, but blamed it on the people who had left and spoken out. -- Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis: “The "true perpetrators of any violence were [the Times] sources.'' -- Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, key figures in the earlier stories and the highest executives ever to leave the church's staff, repeatedly are described in the declarations as violent and threatening. -- At least 11 declarations cite instances in which Rathbun was abusive. Former colleagues wrote that he grabbed, hit or slugged them, and pushed them against walls. Guillaume Lesevre said Rathun dragged him by the ear. David Henderson wrote that Rathbun tried to scare him into a confession by waving a baseball bat, then smashing it into a file cabinet. -- In the declarations, three women said Rinder hit them. Former staffer Shelby Malone said Rinder slammed her against a wall and pinned her head back by pressing his right forearm into her neck. Kathleen O'Gorman said Rinder hit her in face with a clipboard, cracking a molar. Marcy McShane wrote that Rinder grabbed and squeezed her shoulders, told her she was "stupid'' and threw her into a wall. -- Davis said his own internal investigation found that Rathbun attacked 22 Sea Org members in the years before he left the church — 50 instances in all. -- [Scientology] said “Rathbun instituted a ‘reign of terror.’” Gerry Armstrong Audit Body Thetans |
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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
http://anon-ddorf.ning.com/ http://www.myspace.com/rheinlandbernd Quote:
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http://anon-ddorf.ning.com/ http://www.myspace.com/rheinlandbernd Quote:
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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
Ja... Ein Politiker, der Nahholbedarf zeigte und insgesamt eine Menge Vernetzung der Arbeit. Außerdem wurde besprochen, wie man vorgehen kann und welche Aktionen erfolgreich sind. Austausch im RL ist sinnig und ich empfand das Ganze als extrem Gewinn bringend. Es waren sehr viele interessante Gespräche.
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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
hmmm die Torte sieht richtig lecker aus ;)
viele Grüsse von Missis Beasley, Onkel Bill, Buffy, Jody, Cissy and Mr. French http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059982/mediaindex |
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Re: Internationale Klausurkonferenz„ Scientology und Politik in Europa“
Das war sie auch und das ist keine Lüge ;)
Du bist aber sehr schnell *fg* http://anon-ddorf.ning.com/ http://www.myspace.com/rheinlandbernd Quote:
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