Posted February 7 2008
Threat on Scientology
Scientology, or “the study of truth” (according to the Scientology website) is “the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others, and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths.” The main goal is true spiritual release and freedom. In short, it is a belief system for those who want a way of eliminating stress from their lives. They claim to focus on an aspect of their life and seek to repair it. With the advent of the internet came a flow of unsettling revaluations about the core beliefs of Scientology, and as a result Scientology has become the source of increasing controversy. In order to respond to the growing amount of scrutiny against their religion Scientology began to implement policies like “Attack the Attackers” and other such hostile actions toward anyone that criticizes their beliefs or organization in a public forum; church executives have proclaimed that it is “not a turn-the-other-cheek religion.” If they are under attack or see a potential threat, they will attack first to remove whatever threatens them. Because of these defensive policies the organization of Scientology has been able to deflect a number of potential scandals the largest of which involves the suspicious death of Scientology member Lisa McPherson.
Recent controversy erupted when an internal Church of Scientology video of Tom Cruise accepting an award was leaked to YouTube. Because of the video’s rambling, comically outlandish content, it became an internet phenomenon and within days, millions of internet viewers had seen and commented on the video. Feeling threatened by the attention, Scientology sent a cease and desist letter to YouTube demanding the removal of what Scientology considered to be their intellectual property. YouTube attempted to comply, but the internet community continued to post the video, making it impossible for YouTube to completely censor it from their site.
Days after this occurred, a video was posted onto YouTube by a group calling themselves Anonymous. Featuring an electronic voice and eerie music, the video declared that the goal of Anonymous is to destroy Scientology. Anonymous claims that they have decided to do this “for the good of [Scientology's] followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment. As such [they] shall expel [Scientology] from the internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form.” This threat is compounded by the fact that Anonymous has already been successful at crashing websites belonging to Scientology and a few days ago, envelopes containing what was later determined to be harmless powder was sent to Church of Scientology location in Los Angeles. This threat prompted street closings and evacuations. All of these actions leads me to believe that Anonymous is not joking, they mean what they say and are actually working towards accomplishing what they said they will do.
Personal beliefs aside, these events lead us to ask the question: Is religious intolerance ever ok? Though Scientology has been demonized on the internet as a “cult set on world domination,” we as Jews we have been on the receiving end of sentiments similar to this thousands of years ago in Egypt, hundreds of years ago in Spain and seventy years ago in Germany. Granted that Scientology doesn’t have the greatest record and conducts itself with a secrecy that breeds suspicion, but who gets to decide that their right to exist and practice is any less than ours. Knowing that Jews are at the forefront of the ADL and the ACLU for the purpose of protecting people’s religious freedoms, no matter how eccentric they may be, can we stand idle while a “religion” faces defamation? If freelance groups can decide to take matters into their own hands, who is to say that no other group will try to do the same thing to other groups and religions? After all, the Nazis started as a small group who wished to correct what they perceived to be the problems facing Germany. If Anonymous is allowed to continue its campaign, where will the line be drawn to say that one group can act in this capacity and another cannot?
Perhaps it’s more a question of whether or not Anonymous’s actions are actually religious discrimination. In the United States, the first amendment allows for Scientology to act as a religion, but the right to act as a religion and actuality being a religion are two different things. Judaism is a religion that centers around the betterment of our community. To that end we have concepts that focus on an individual’s responsibility to his/her community, be it through charitable work or social welfare, and as a result of this, the religion of Judaism (in theory) gives more to the people than the people give to it. Scientology, on the other hand, though also based in social welfare, makes exorbitant fanatical demands of its members and focuses on the practitioner’s responsibility to the institution rather than the institution’s responsibility to its practitioners. It is at the expense of its practitioners that Scientology has become so powerful, and that is the behavior that Anonymous finds to be worthy of persecution.
There is a concept in Judaism of a Rodef. Though there is no exact translation, Rodef can best be described as someone who through manipulation and guile does harm to people and the community. A biblical example of this is Korach. The Torah states that it is actually a Mitzvah to see that these people are outcast so that their negative influences will not do further harm. That is the sentiment that Anonymous conveys with its message to Scientology. They wish to dismantle Scientology for the good of the community because Scientology has proven that they do more harm than good.
It is difficult to really understand what the motivations behind Anonymous’s actions may be. It’s always possible that these people are lying about their highfalutin’ altruism and are simply out to destroy a group they don’t like. On the other hand, there is just as good a chance that these people are as afraid of Scientology as many others are. While this country has a powerful tradition of tolerance and religious freedom, this country has just as strong a tradition of people knowing what has to be done, and even be willing to take the law into their own hands to do it. In the end, history will be a better judge than any of us.
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thejackpinto says:
JeraldR says:
Wow Jackpinto,
In one short post you confirm everything the writer had to say about ” always attack, never defend” I thought this was the most balanced piece I have seen in some time, yet you felt the need to attack the writer because she dared to ask a few questions.
I am and I have been a critic of scientology for some time now. I think scientology is a business that hides behind the protection of religion. But I also like most critics have spoken out against the attacts on scientology web sites. We want people to see the sites and we want people to see the critic sites such as xenu.net and xenutv.com also. Most critics feel people are smart enough to make the right choice when they have all the info.
Lets chat about sceintology writings since you asked the writer here to read up on them. The quote that come to mind first is this one……
“There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.”
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
To follow up there is also this…..
“In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.”
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology’s measure of mental and spiritual health.]
So please tell me Jack, what real religion thinks those who don’t belong should love their civil rights and be disposed of quietly and without sorrow? How can you even dare to bring up the Holocaust here when Hubbards own writeings promote the same kind of actions.
Scientology has critics because scientology has a long dark evil history behind it. What other so called church has had its leaders convicted of breaking into goverment offices to steal papers and plant bugs? What other church has tried to frame people in order to put them in a mental home or prison? (Paulette Cooper and Operation Freakout)
Name one health clinic, food bank, homeless shelter or anything scientology does in the area’s it is in that betters the people around them?
Or is it just easyer to attack than to do the right thing and clean up your church from the inside out? scientology will not survive or change without the rank and file members demanding change. I have always felt most the members of scientology are good and caring people, they are also the only ones who can stop the dark and bad behavior of scientology. Why not start it with you?
Gerry Armstrong says:
Jackpinto writes:
“Remember the Holocaust it was irresponsible and evil people that made it happen and you shouldn’t follow that route. Scientology disagrees with the unnecessary drugging our children and adults, Human Rights violations, Honesty and Morality and all that is good for society and man kind.”
Scientology does indeed disagree with honesty and morality and all that is good for society and mankind. But Scientology does *not* disagree with human rights violations. Scientology is a global and egregious human rights violator. Probably the best example of its human rights violations, which involves virtually every Scientologist in the cult run by David Miscavige, is the Scientology v. Gerry Armstrong “contract” and the years of judicial and extrajudicial efforts to enforce it. Doubtlessly, Jackpinto is a beneficiary in this contract and litigation and a supporter of the suppression and destruction of my basic human rights and the rights of anyone who dares to act in concert with me.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/index.html
But back to the holocaust. What underlies the Scientology group’s crimes and human rights abuses, and its real threat to humanity, is the cult’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, which is laid out in Hubbard’s writings that JeraldR observes as promoting the same kind of actions as were carried out in the holocaust.
My wife Caroline Letkeman and I built and maintain a web site dedicated to exposing the Suppressive Person doctrine, and defending the victims of the doctrine.
http://suppressiveperson.org/spdl/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Caroline is, like me, a former Scientology member that the cult has declared an SP. Cult head Miscavige made Caroline’s daughter disconnect from Caroline 6 years ago and Caroline has not heard from her since. Caroline has one of the very best web sites on Scientology fraud and the cult’s other unconscionable practices.
http://www.carolineletkeman.org/sp/
From SPDL on the SP doctrine:
Hubbard and Scientology teach that SPs comprise the most evil two and a half percent of the planetary wog population. “Wogs” are what Scientologists call the human race or Homo sapiens. Scientology teaches that Scientologists comprise a new race, “Homo novis” or “Homo scientologicus,” a much more able, aware, intelligent and ethical race than the “humanoid” wog race. The organization markets and delivers courses training Scientologists how to spot or identify SPs among the wogs they encounter in life, and then to shatter the SPs once spotted. In reality, cult leader Miscavige and his Sea Org religious police do the identifying of Suppressive Persons for shattering, and rank and file Scientologists simply obey their police arm’s SP declarations and other orders.
Scientologists are indoctrinated to proclaim that Scientology possesses the only mental or spiritual system that “works,” or has ever “worked,” and in fact produces “total freedom.” Scientologists universally are dedicated to “keeping Scientology working,” and they spend immense amounts of time and enormous sums of money to keep it working. The work Scientology claims it is performing is the “processing” of people, with its trademarked technology, from the state of “raw meat,” or wog or human being, to the most astonishingly superior and stable state called “Clear.” More processing, Scientology says, takes Clears to superperson states and “never before imagined” beings called “Operating Thetans,” or “OTs.”
A Clear, Scientology says, has achieved optimum rationality and optimum sanity, and is as far above normal wogs as normal wogs are above “institutionalized cases.” Scientology scripture promises that a Clear’s IQ has shot up like a skyrocket, about a point per hour of processing; he recalls everything that ever happened to him and anything he ever studied; and he does mental computations, as in chess, which a wog chess player would do in half an hour, in ten or fifteen seconds. Scientology says that the Clear is a created evolutionary step in man, without ills or aberrations. OTs, Scientology claims, are “at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life” and can operate outside their bodies. By the time I left the organization, I had reached Clear and OT Level 3, and had undergone over a thousand hours of processing to get there.
Scientology calls its system of manifold grades and levels for processing people from wog to OT the “Bridge to Total Freedom,” and all Scientologists are somewhere on that bridge. Scientology scripture, which is unalterable on this point, states that the whole agonized future of this planet, every man, woman and child on it, and the Scientologists’ own destiny for the next endless trillions of years, depend on what each Scientologist does here and now on the Bridge. The Suppressive Person doctrine declares that the only thing stopping everyone from moving up the Bridge and becoming more able, aware, ethical and intelligent, the only thing preventing total freedom, indeed the only thing wrong with this universe, is SPs.
Originating in racial dogma within Scientology’s religious scriptures, SPs form, from the Scientologists’ perspective, a religio-racial class roughly equivalent to Jews from the Nazis’ perspective. Just as the Nazis could theoretically join and leave Nazism, Scientologists can theoretically join and leave Scientology. Just as the Jews, from the Nazi perspective, however, could not stop being Jews, SPs, Scientology teaches, cannot stop being SPs. According to Scientology dogma, which Scientologists also accept as “science,” Suppressive Persons possess a genetic pathology plus a mental and psycho-spiritual handicap and morbidity that prevents them from ever being anything but SPs. The Nazis’ dogma and science concluded that the Jews were handicapped with their own set of irremediable genetics and psycho-religious malignancies that kept them from being anything other than Jews.
Scientology’s SP doctrine states that SPs are the truly destructive, truly psychotic and truly criminal of the world’s wogs, the cause of illness, at the root of every bad condition, and deserving no civil rights. According to the doctrine, the majority of people in mental institutions are not insane at all, but were put there by SPs, who are the truly insane. Wog psychiatrists and psychologists are seen as a subclass of SPs, and psychiatry and psychology are considered “Suppressive Groups,” which Scientology seeks to “obliterate.” The SP doctrine identifies archetypal SPs like Hitler, Stalin and Osama bin Laden, but also says that SPs are very average, common too, just like me, and undetected.
The “stellar examples” Scientology uses to personify Suppressive Persons are very likely what wog mental science now calls antisocial personalities or sociopaths. Hubbard in fact also used the term “antisocial personality” for Scientology’s enemies, but inside the organization the settled and universal label is “SP,” or formally “Suppressive Person.” Many of the characteristics Hubbard imputes to SPs resemble the traits that psychology and psychiatry say sociopaths possess. The majority of the people Scientology calls SPs, and treats or attacks as irredeemable criminals, however, do not exhibit these characteristics, are not sociopaths, and do not manifest antisocial personality disorders.
The people Scientology and Scientologists identify and target as Suppressive Persons are largely good, social, non-sociopathic people who have simply stood up to the organization and spoken out about its fraud, its persecution of good people, its SP doctrine, or its numerous other antisocial policies and practices. The more knowledge a person has of these things, the more he communicates that knowledge, and the more rationally and accurately he communicates it, the bigger SP he is in the view of Scientology’s leaders. The bigger an SP these leaders consider a person to be, the greater the persecution that is to be inflicted on him, and the more of the organization’s personnel and resources that are directed to that target or front in Scientology’s global war. The form and amplitude of the persecution are further modulated by Scientology’s and Scientologists’ opportunities and means, and the need to be seen as winning.
Scientology does nothing really to wage war on the world’s actual or arguably truly dangerous sociopaths. Organization leaders, in fact, recruit and form alliances with certain sociopaths, and enforce within Scientology a self-perpetuating group sociopathy. Hubbard was a sociopath, who used his God-given will and mental power to make himself even more sociopathic. He saw his own sociopathy, as perhaps every sociopath does, not as a disorder, but as an ideal condition and way of life that made everyone else, and their conditions and ways of life, inferior. He conned countless people into admiring him, slaving for him, committing crimes for him, and paying him huge sums of money to obtain the fabulous qualities and abilities he claimed he possessed and had the “tech” to impart to others. The individuals that Scientology uses its inordinate wealth and power to attack are simply ordinary people who might recognize that Hubbard’s mental states are not ideal or even superior, or observe that other claims are false, and who speak out critically about him or his organization’s system and actions despite the inevitable persecution.
Hubbard devised, built and operated a global bait-and-switch psychotherapy scam, promising amazing results and money-back guaranteed satisfaction for its mental processing “technology.” Since Hubbard’s death in 1986, David Miscavige has operated the Scientology scam. The organization claims cures of many distressing or pernicious physical and psychological afflictions, and promises “gains” of superhuman abilities, powers, awareness, memory and intelligence. Scientology extracts exorbitant fees from its customers on these promises and fails to deliver what is promised. Even worse, it also extorts money, labor and immoral or criminal activity from its customers or members with threats of doom or of being declared SPs. The organization abuses its own people, breaks up families, induces dissociation and other deleterious psychological conditions, incites fear and hatred, and damages many of its members’ physical health. Consequently, a great number of the people who have knowledge of Scientology’s destructive, antisocial policies and actions to speak out about are already its victims.
When the victims who have realized they have been victimized do speak out, Scientology leaders victimize them again, declaring them SPs and targeting them for special persecutory treatment and handling by the organization units and outside professionals established or hired for that purpose. Scientology scripture and its enforcement by organization leaders prohibit Scientologists not specifically assigned to those units as staff members or agents from having any contact with declared SPs. This is a common Scientology practice known as “Disconnection” that over the last forty years has devastated countless families, relationships and lives. Scientology scripture states that if Scientologists even so much as “grant credence” to an SP, they can themselves be declared Suppressive Persons.
Scientology scripture permits only one response to the persons who speak out about organization abuses or criminality — Attack! The outward-facing” Scientologists, or agents authorized to respond, do not address or deal with Scientology’s evils that are causing harm and being criticized, but only treat or handle the critics. Permissible treatment or handling does not include reason or empathy but only attack, since these persons are SPs. Because Scientologists not assigned to deal with Scientology’s SP critics may themselves be declared Suppressive Persons if they do deal with or grant credence to such people, almost all Scientologists are shuddered into not even listening to, or reading, what SPs communicate. It is axiomatic inside Scientology that the only wogs organization leaders attack, and employ organization personnel, agents and resources to attack, are SPs.
The philosophy Hubbard adopted to govern and justify the treatment or handling of SPs is technically and commonly called “Fair Game,” meaning that the “enemy” in that condition or status is legitimately open to attack or pursuit. Scientology’s position is that the Suppressive Person doctrine, being from Hubbard and being religious scripture, makes attack and pursuit of SPs wholly legitimate, and protected, indeed mandated, religious expression. Fair Game is the basic philosophy of war, the condition in which attacking or pursuing the designated enemy is legitimated, and failure to attack or pursue may be illegitimate or even punished. Fair Game in Scientology has also come to mean the battle tactics the organization employs against SPs, and the actions its personnel and agents have taken in their treatment or handling of SPs over the decades since Hubbard first ordered his troops to adopt and apply the Fair Game philosophy.
In his scriptures during a period in the 1960’s, Hubbard even called the treatment or handling he intended for SPs “Fair Game;” although he later ordered that the use of the term “Fair Game” be discontinued because “it causes bad public relations.” In one of his directives, which has come to be known as the “Fair Game Policy,” Hubbard stated: “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.”
Scientology has for decades claimed that Fair Game, as a philosophy, policy and practice, was cancelled, but this assertion is patently false since all that Hubbard cancelled in scripture and in application was use of the term.
Although it has unquestionably caused Hubbard and his organization bad PR, and has repeatedly been exposed in the international media and condemned in court judgments, Fair Game continues to be the only treatment or handling Scientologists are permitted to administer on SPs. The tactics and actions that comprise Fair Game in the organization’s long war of total attrition vary according to target, opportunity, availability of resources, fear of exposure or legal repercussions, the sociopathy and whims of the organization’s head, and other factors. Scientology’s state of war against SPs, however, and the Fair Game philosophy and decision necessary to wage that war, have remained constant and unchanged into present time.
Scientologists’ or their agents’ Fair Game against me in execution of the Suppressive Person doctrine include: physically assaulting me on six occasions; breaking into my car; stealing my property, including photographs, documents, a manuscript and original artwork; spying on me and my spouse; scaring our neighbors; menacing our families; threatening to assassinate me; terrorizing my companions and me on highways in California and Germany; paying a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department officer for fake authorizations to eavesdrop on me, my attorney and my associates and to tap our telephones; Fair Gaming and compromising my attorney; covertly and unlawfully videotaping me; attempting numerous times to have me prosecuted on false criminal charges based on fabricated evidence, including with the Los Angeles District Attorney, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Prosecutor of Ekaterinburg, Russia; suing me six times; forcing me into bankruptcy; driving me from my home; obtaining unconscionable jail sentences against me and warrants for my arrest in California; forging hundreds of Internet postings over my name, including nonsense and racist messages; running endless intelligence operations against me and my family; and carrying out a global “Black Propaganda” campaign against me that extends to U.S. Federal Government departments, Members of Congress, U.S. diplomatic missions and staff, U.S. state and local government officials, foreign government officials, judges, law enforcement agencies and officers internationally, clergy internationally, media internationally, and the broad international wog and Scientologist populations.
Black Propaganda or Black PR is Scientology’s policy and practice of willful and relentless rumormongering, slander and libel, often from hidden sources. Since Hubbard’s death in 1986, David Miscavige is responsible for organization Fair Game and is the biggest hidden but actual source of the Black PR on Scientology’s enemies. The goal of Black PR, which is a basic and pervasive component of Scientology’s war, is destruction of the SP targets’ reputation and consequently elimination of public trust in their knowledge of Scientology abuses and crimes. Even if not always successful in achieving this goal, the organization’s Black PR consciously hurts its targets and collaterally threatens every potential opponent or critic. The sadism Scientology flaunts in its Black PR publications and operations has been very effective in deterring many people from standing up and disclosing their knowledge of its policies and activities.
In 1969, founder Hubbard ordered that Scientologists were to use “standard wartime propaganda” to “degrade the image” of the organization’s SP enemies “to beast level,” and to inflame public opinion into “a frenzy of hate” against them. Miscavige has the same function as Hubbard in his organization’s Fair Game campaigns: making others incite hatred, making others degrade good people to beast level, and making others do all the antisocial and criminal things that sociopaths and their hired professionals can spend a religion’s money conspiring to make others do. Like Hubbard, Miscavige runs Scientology as a dictatorship, maintained by his will and managed from his positions as commander of the military-structured but unincorporated Sea Organization and as director of a global network of incorporated “churches” and other entities.
At this time, Miscavige is titularly the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a corporation called Religious Technology Center, Inc., which claims to own Scientology’s trademarks and service marks. RTC describes itself as “an external body which protects the Scientology religion and acts as the final arbiter of orthodoxy” by “monitoring and enforcing the purity of technical application.” What Miscavige and RTC “protect” the religion from are its victims, the Suppressive Person class, and from the SPs’ knowledge of Scientology’s abuses and criminality. In the organization’s relations with the SPs, what Miscavige and RTC monitor and keep orthodox and pure in its technical application is Fair Game, and its many channels or components - Black Propaganda, legal harassment, financial ruin, disconnection, psychic and physical violence, and obliteration. Anything that appears to threaten or even counter Scientology’s, or Miscavige’s, intentions is a “matter of RTC concern” that can activate the organization’s networks and Fair Game machinery.
Because of the antisocial and criminal nature of Scientology’s Fair Game relationship with the identified SP class, which class organization leaders and their agents with their Suppressive Person doctrine have created, these leaders and agents fear public opprobrium and legal prosecution. Scientology therefore hides or cloaks many of its hostile intentions and Fair Game activities, and at its core, but webbing out through virtually every Scientologist, the organization functions as a global intelligence agency. The flow of orders and control is from Miscavige in Los Angeles downward and outward to anywhere in the world, and the flow of information and compliance with orders is upward and inward to Miscavige from around the world. Scientology leaders crave other people’s secrets, the private, personal or sensitive information of both Scientologists and wogs, and of wog governments and institutions. Scientology uses its own personnel and hired professionals as covert agents and moles to get the desired information, often by illegal or immoral means. Miscavige and his cadre operate largely in secret, with high security, codes and clandestine communication lines, files and operations.
In 1977, the FBI conducted a massive raid of Scientology intelligence offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. and seized evidence of operations to burglarize, penetrate or compromise over a hundred federal and state agencies and media and to terrorize a multitude of private citizens. The U.S. Department of Justice charged eleven Scientology intelligence personnel, including Mary Sue Hubbard, with various crimes against the U.S., convicted them and sentenced them to federal prison. In 1983, the Ontario Provincial Police raided Scientology offices in Toronto and seized evidence that led to convictions of a number of individuals as well as the organization itself for breach of trust stemming from espionage activities against several federal and provincial agencies or organizations including the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Ministry of the Attorney General, the OPP, the Toronto Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Law enforcement agencies have raided several Scientology offices in European countries, and the organization and its agents have been successfully prosecuted on a variety of charges. Germany views Scientology as a totalitarian cult whose activities are directed against the free democratic basic order, and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the German intelligence service responsible for that protection, keeps the organization under official observation. A 1991 Time Magazine cover article entitled “Scientology the Thriving Cult of Greed and Power” quotes the former head of the FBI’s Los Angeles office saying that Scientology “has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI.”
Despite U.S. federal officials’ extensive knowledge of Scientology’s espionage activities against the government, and their awareness of Scientology’s criminal conspiracy to deprive SP class citizens of their civil rights, in the early 1990’s the U.S. decided to cease opposing the organization, and worse, to protect and promote it. It is inconceivable that this decision was made without the knowledge and agreement, or even the direction, of the U.S. intelligence community. The decision led to the Internal Revenue Service’s grant of tax exemption in 1993 to Scientology’s many corporate components as a religious organization. Subsequently, U.S. State Department and Foreign Service personnel have assisted Scientology’s efforts to operate and expand in countries whose governments viewed the organization as non-religious, dishonest or dangerous. U.S. Congressmen have introduced resolutions to condemn those countries, notably Germany, which do not embrace and support Scientology as the U.S. Federal Government does. It is apparent that since the U.S.’s strategic decision to ally Scientology, U.S. agents have improperly influenced judges and other government officials to aid the organization’s corporate components and personnel to the detriment of its victims, the SPs.
It is well observed that the U.S. Federal Government and its intelligence agencies have formed a number of alliances in recent times with unsavory or criminal organizations or even dictatorships, which Scientology is, if such relationships supposedly served some U.S. national interest greater than the national interest in not being allied to such organizations or regimes. Unsavory or criminal organizations or regimes have victims, because victimizing people is what makes organizations or regimes unsavory or criminal, and the U.S. making allies of such organizations or regimes is always to the obvious detriment of their victims. What the greater national interest was in the early 1990’s, and which apparently still exists, that brought the U.S. to ally the Miscavige regime remains unclear. The SP class is doubly threatened and victimized because the U.S. Government and its intelligence agencies now have an interest in marginalizing and thwarting SPs in order to have the decision to support Scientology against its victims appear right and just, or in some other way in the national interest.
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Moshe Glasser says:
Gerry -
As one of Jewneric’s founders, I helped Tiff work on her article in advance and saw her struggles to keep it balanced and non-judgmental. However, reading the legal transcripts and public records concerned with the conflicts you have had with the Church of Scientology, I have difficulty keeping my objectivity. It’s hard to imagine how something that I must assume comprises many hard-working, generous, and sincere people could have been so twisted and mismanaged. I hope that some light being shed on Scientology can remake this organization into what many of its members must hope it will become.
As a high school English teacher, however, I think Scientology should be embarrassed to have someone with the writing skills of Jack Pinto representing them.









I see you are not informed and have not read any of the Scientology scriptures. The church has testimonials of many on how it has helped them that would fill a many of your hall’s. Being a learned man as you claim you should take much more responsibility on what you forward to others.
Remember the Holocaust it was irresponsible and evil people that made it happen and you shouldn’t follow that route. Scientology disagrees with the unnecessary drugging our children and adults, Human Rights violations, Honesty and Morality and all that is good for society and man kind. If all the lies about Scientology were true don’t you think the group would of disbanded long ago. It’s been expanding just over 50 years. Rather it expands even more so when all these lies are unpublicized.
Scientology only deals with what is the obvious which is as close to truth as you will ever get. What is real to you is what you have seen and observed for you self. How could you make such statement with out going in to a Scientology Organization and buying a book and reading it for your self and then and only then can you came your comments. I’ve been in the church for well over 20 years and I have been helped and I have seen and observed other getting the help they where searching for and much more so.
So mister when you write you mind understand millions see that you have you eyes closed and that is the trouble that Scientology has there are still people with eyes closed.
But eyes can be opened and that what we do and will keep on doing just like the Buddhist turned the barbarians to civilized societies we the scientologist will do the same.
We believe man is basically good. So we will continue to open people eyes till they are all open. At which time love and brother hood will live on.
Read Mr Hubbards book “Dianetics” and read “Fundamentals of though” also by Mr Hubbard
Then write what your observed from reading the books. That is taking responsibility before you forward your conclusions.
May you live a happy life for you and you love ones.
Cheers jack