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On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Paul Tipon wrote: Now that Captain, FSO
has that figured out, maybe someone can figure out what is wrong with
the Tech they are delivering.
On Jan 1, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Debbie Cook wrote:
Dear Scientologist,
I am emailing you as a friend and fellow Scientologist. As we
enter a new year, it is hoped that 2012 can be a year of great
dissemination and a year of real progress up The Bridge for all
Scientologists.
Although I am not in the Sea Org right now, I served in the Sea
Org at Flag for 29 years. 17 of those years were as Captain FSO.
I am a trained auditor and C/S as well as an OEC, FEBC and DSEC.
I am completely dedicated to the technology of Dianetics and
Scientology and the works of LRH. I have seen some of the most
stunning and miraculous results in the application of LRH
technology and I absolutely know it is worth fighting to keep it
pure and unadulterated.
My husband and I are in good standing and we are not connected
with anyone who is not in good standing. We have steadfastly
refused to speak to any media, even though many have contacted us.
But I do have some very serious concerns about out-KSW that I see
permeating the Scientology religion.
I have the utmost respect for the thousands of dedicated
Scientologists and Sea Org members. Together, we have come
through everything this world could throw at us and have some
real impingement on the world around us. I am proud of our
accomplishments and I know you are too. However there is no
question that this new age of continuous fundraising is not our
finest moment.
LRH says in HCO PL 9 Jan 51, An Essay on Management, "drop no
curtains between the organization and the public about anything.”
-LRH
Based on this policy I am communicating to you about some
situations that we need to do something about within our
religion, within our group.
Actions that are either not covered in policy or directly violate
LRH policy and tech include:
The extreme over-regging and fund-raising activities that have
become so much a part of nearly every Sea Org org and Class V org
as well as every “OT Committee” is not covered anywhere in LRH
policy.
Hardworking Sea Org members and the dedicated staff of orgs
around the world aren’t choosing to do these actions. Nor are the
OTs. I am sure they would be more than happy if they could just
get on with direct dissemination of Scientology as they have done
for so many years.
But the truth is that this is being driven from the very highest
echelons within the Scientology structure and clearly there is a
lot of pressure to make targets that are being set.
The IAS: The IAS was created unbeknownst to LRH in 1984 by Marc
Yager and David Miscavige. This was supposed to be based on LRH
policies on the subject of membership and the HASI, however the
IAS is nothing like the membership system described by LRH which
only has two memberships and is covered in HCO PL 22 March 1965
"Current Promotion and Org Program Summary, Membership Rundown"
and states: "There are two memberships..."- LRH
LRH lists there the INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP and gives its
cost at 10 pounds sterling or $30 US. He also lists a LIFETIME
MEMBERSHIP which is priced at $75 US. There are no other
memberships or statuses approved or known to LRH. Furthermore,
membership monies are supposed to go directly to the org where
the membership is signed up, and the money used for dissemination
by that org, in that area. This is covered in HCOPL 1 Sept 1965R
Membership Policies.
"It all goes into the HCO Book Account in the area where the
membership is brought and is not part of the organization's
weekly gross income. Membership monies go to dissemination".- LRH
Currently membership monies are held as Int reserves and have
grown to well in excess of a billion dollars. Only a tiny
fraction has ever been spent, in violation of the policy above.
Only the interest earned from the holdings have been used very
sparingly to fund projects through grants. In fact many of the
activities you see at IAS events are not actually funded by the
IAS, but rather by the Scientologists involved.
Think about it, how many ads disseminating Scientology, Dianetics
or any Scn affiliated programs have you seen on TV? Heard on the
radio? Seen in newspapers? I haven’t seen one in the 4 years I
have lived in San Antonio, Texas, the 7th largest city in the US.
How many have you seen?
Donating anything more than a lifetime membership to the IAS is
not based on LRH policy. The article “What Your Donations
Buy” (The Auditor, The Monthly Journal of Scientology No. 51,
1970) is clearly talking about how the church uses your donations
for Dianetics and Scientology services. Next time you are asked
to donate outside of services, realize that you are engaged in
fundraising and ask to see something in writing from L. Ron
Hubbard that this is something he expects from you as a
Scientologist.
New Org Buildings: LRH also never directed the purchase of
opulent buildings or the posh renovations or furnishings for
every org.In fact, if you read HCO PL 12 March 75 Issue II, “The
Ideal Org”, which is what this program has been called, and
nowhere in it will you find 20 million dollar buildings or even
any reference to the poshness of org premises at all as part of
LRH’s description of an “Ideal Org”. Instead, an Ideal Org was
one that delivered and moved people up The Bridge – something
that is not part of this “Ideal Org” program.
LRH says in the PL that an Ideal Org: “would be clean and
attractive enough not to repel its public” – LRH. This is all it
says about the state of the building.
As a result of this off-policy alteration of the Ideal Org PL, we
have the majority of top OTs, now deemed “OT Ambassadors”,
heavily engaged in fund-raising activities that include “bingo”,
“pirate dinners”, “knitting classes”, “hay rides”, and many other
activities strictly revolving around raising funds for the
required multi-millions of dollars to fund their “Ideal Org”. As
part of this, people around every org are now asked to donate to
their local “Ideal Org” instead of their own services or their
own Bridge.
LRH says in HCO PL Org Ethics and Tech: “GET RID OF DISTRACTIONS
FROM SCIENTOLOGY in your org. Baby-sitting or raffle tickets and
such nonsense.”
Yet these distractions are rampant as they are being used as fund-
raisers to get money for the huge quotas being issued to fund the
“Ideal Org”.
"If the org slumps... don't engage in 'fund-raising' or 'selling
postcards' or borrowing money.
Just make more income with Scientology. It's a sign of very poor
management to seek extraordinary solutions for finance outside
Scientology. It has always failed."
“For orgs as for pcs, 'Solve It With Scientology'.
"Every time I myself have sought to solve financial or personnel
in other ways than Scientology I have lost out. So I can tell you
from experience that org solvency lies in more Scientology, not
patented combs or fund-raising barbeques."
HCO PL 24 February 1964, Issue II, Org Programming, (OEC Vol. 7,
p. 930)
The point is that Scientologists and OT's need to be training,
auditing and disseminating to raw public- not regging each other
or holding internal fundraisers.
Out Tech: Over the last few years we have seen literally hundreds
and hundreds of people who were validated as clear using the CCRD
as developed by LRH now being told they are not Clear. This
included hundreds of OTs who were then put onto NED as a
"handling". LRH clearly forbid any Dianetics to be run on OTs in
HCOB “Dianetics Forbidden on OTs”. This is out tech.
This entire technical “handling” was directed personally by COB
RTC and was done on thousands of OTs. But it was based not on an
LRH HCO Bulletin, but rather based on a single C/S instruction
where LRH C/Sed one pre-OT who had not achieved the state of
clear but was mid OT III and not making it. LRH directed a solo
handling that the pre-OT was to do to get himself to achieve the
state of Clear. This LRH C/S taken out of context was then used
to implement a technical handling that was in direct violation of
an LRH HCOB.
This and other “technical handlings” done on Solo NOTs auditors
created great expense and hardship on Solo NOTs auditors around
the world as they were made to do these handlings to continue on
the level.
Then there are the “fast grades at Flag” that no other org has.
How can it be that Flag has been delivering grades differently to
the rest of the world for the last 3 years? Whatever the problem
is, the fact is that having “fast Grades” at Flag creates a
hidden data line and is a HIGH CRIME and the subject of an entire
policy letter called "TECH DEGRADES" which LRH has placed at the
start of every Scientology course.
More recently the fad seems to be that nearly everyone needs to
“re-do their Purif and do a long objectives program”, including
many OTs mid Solo NOTs.
There is nothing wrong with doing objectives, but it is a clear
violation of HCOB 'MIXING RUNDOWNS AND REPAIRS" to have a person
mid a rundown or OT level be taken off it and placed on an
objectives program.
Solo NOTs auditors are also being made to get their objectives
from a Class IX auditor at great expense as they are not being
allowed to co-audit.
Flag has made many millions of dollars on the above listed out
tech handlings because OTs mid Solo NOTs are forced to get these
out-tech actions to be able to get back onto and stay on the
level and complete it. Not to mention the spiritual effects of
the out tech that this has on each OT.
I myself was subject to these out tech “handlings”, including
extensive FPRD mid Solo NOTs. It took its toll in many ways,
including physical situations I am still dealing with today. So I
have some reality of the hardship caused.
LRH Command Structure: LRH left us with a complex and balanced
command structure, with our orgs led by the Office of ED
International. This office was considered so important that LRH
created a special management group called the Watch Dog Committee
whose only purpose was to see that this office and the other
needed layers of management existed. LRH ED 339R speaks of this
extensively as the protection for our Church. But these people
are missing. And not just some. As of just a few years ago there
were no members of the office of ED Int on post, not to mention
top execs throughout the International Management structure.
You may have also wondered… where is Heber, the President of the
Church? What about Ray Mitthoff, Senior C/S International, the
one that LRH personally turned over the upper OT Levels to? How
about Norman Starkey, LRH’s Trustee? What happened to Guillaume –
Executive Director International? And Marc Yeager, the WDC
Chairman? What happened to the other International Management
executives that you have seen at events over the years?
The truth is that I spent weeks working in the empty
International Management building at Int. Empty because everyone
had been removed from post. When I first went up lines I was
briefed extensively by David Miscavige about how bad all of them
were and how they had done many things that were all very
discreditable. This seemed to “explain” the fact that the
entirety of the Watchdog Committee no longer existed. The
entirety of the Executive Strata, which consisted of ED
International and 11 other top International executives that were
the top executives in their particular fields, no longer existed.
That the Commodore’s Messenger Org International no longer
existed. All of these key command structures of Scientology
International, put there by LRH, had been removed.
There were hundreds and hundreds of unanswered letters and
requests for help from org staff, written based on LRH ED 339R
where LRH says that staff can write to these top executives in
the Exec Strata for help. But this is not possible if all these
execs have been removed and no one is there to help them or to
get evaluations and programming done to expand Scientology.
Well, after that I got to spend some quality time with Heber, Ray
Mithoff, Norman Starkey, Guillaume, as well as the entirety of
International Management at the time, who were all off post and
doing very long and harsh ethics programs. These have gone on for
years and to the only result of that they are still off post.
There is no denying that these top executives have all gradually
disappeared from the scene. You don’t see them at the big events
anymore or on the ship at Maiden Voyage.
David Miscavige has now become the “leader” of the Scientology
religion. Yet what LRH left behind was a huge structure to
properly manage all aspects of the Scientology religion. He put a
complete and brilliant organizational structure there, not one
individual. There never was supposed to be a “leader” other than
LRH himself as the goal maker for our group.
There is a situation here and even if you have not been to the
International Management Base you should be able to see that over
regging and frequent tech changes are not OK and you have a
responsibility to do something to Keep Scientology Working. You
should be able to find and read the references on membership in
OEC Volume 6. Find and read the HCO PL entitled “The Ideal
Org” (Data Series 40). Find and read the references on org
buildings, including HCO PL 24 Aug 65 II, Cleanliness of Quarters
and Staff, Improve our Image. Also, HCO PL 17 June 69, The Org
Image.
If you don’t want to make waves or put yourself in danger of
being taken off the level or denied eligibility, then there are
some simple things you can do. First and foremost, withdraw your
support from off policy actions. Stop donating to anything other
than your own services and actual Bridge progress. Simply demand
to see an LRH reference that says you are required to make other
such donations. No one will be able to produce any references
because there aren’t any.
Stop supporting any of the activities that are being done to
forward off-policy fund-raising in your area.
LRH says what he expects of a Scientologist – that is what he
expects you to do. In fact he put it in HCOB 10 June 1960 Issue
I, Keeping Scientology Working Series 33, WHAT WE EXPECT OF A
SCIENTOLOGIST. Read it and follow it.
The other thing you can do is to send this email to as many
others as you can, even if you do it anonymously.
Please keep this email among us, the Scientologists. The media
have no place in this. You may wonder why I have not written a KR
and gone about my business. The answer is, I have. But there is
no longer anyone to send that KR to.
But you can and should write reports and bring off-policy to the
attention of local org executives and local Sea org members.
We are a strong and powerful group and we can affect a change. We
have weathered many storms. I am sorry that I am the one telling
you, but a new storm is upon us. Its waves are already in the
media and the world around us.
The truth is that as a Scientologist you are more able, more
perceptive and have a higher integrity. Scientology is supposed
to make you “think for yourself” and never compromise your own
integrity. And most certainly LRH held every Scientologist
responsible to KEEP SCIENTOLOGY WORKING.
I am not trying to do anything other than affect a change in
serious off policy actions occurring. My husband and I have most
of our family and many many good friends who are Scientologists.
I have not been real interested in sticking my neck out like
this. However, I also know that I dedicated my entire adult life
to supporting LRH and the application of LRH technology and if I
ever had to look LRH in the eye I wouldn’t be able to say I did
everything I could to Keep Scientology Working if I didn’t do
something about it now.
We all have a stake in this. It is simply not possible to read
the LRH references and not see the alterations and violations
that are currently occurring. You have a very simple obligation
to LRH. Don’t participate in anything off policy, and let others
know they should not either. If every person who reads this email
does nothing more than step back from off-policy actions we would
have changed direction. If we took all that energy and directed
it into auditing, training and raw public dissemination, we would
be winning.
And that is what I wish for you and all of us as we ring in this
new year.
ARC,Debbie Cook
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