The LAPD has a long history of “partnering” with scientology.
Remember the “kiosk” in the LAPD Hollywood Division promoting scientology front groups.
And the glad-handing at Celebrity Center as LAPD accepted checks from scientology.
LAPD Captain Cory Palka at CC photo op
It’s a great insurance policy for scientology and has served them well over the years.
Of course, a community event like this is not the same as appearing on stage at CC for a photo op or putting up a kiosk in the police station. But it is a step towards that. Who knows what Gil Cedillo or the Northeast Community Police Station even knows about scientology promoting this as if they were actually involved…
Why are they trying to encourage their people to attend this event? It’s following Hubbard’s policy on the Safe Point and PRO Area Control and the “Special Zone Plan”:
See this: A housewife, already successfully employing Scientology in her own home, trained to professional level, takes over a woman’s club as secretary or some key position. She straightens up the club affairs by applying comm practice and making peace and then, incidental to the club’s main function, pushes Scientology into a zone of special interest in the club-children, straightening up marriages, whatever comes to hand and even taking fees for it meanwhile, of course, going on being a successful and contributing wife.
Or this: A Scientologist, a lesser executive or even a clerk in a company, trains as a professional auditor and, seeing where the company is heading, begins to pick up its loose ends by strengthening its comm lines or its personnel abilities. Without “selling” anybody Scientology, just studies out the bogs and remedies them. If only as “an able person” he would rapidly expand a zone of control, to say nothing of his personal standing in the company. This has been and is being done steadily across the world. Now that we have presessioning, it’s easy to straighten up other people. Our unreleased technology on handling third dynamic business situations is staggeringly large. You’d be surprised how easy it is to audit seniors. They and their families have so many troubles. Or how easy it is to spot the emergency-maker and audit him.
And see this: A race is staggering along making difficulties for itself. Locate its leaders. Get a paid post as a secretary or officer of the staff of the leaders of that race. And by any means, audit them into ability and handle their affairs to bring cooperation not trouble. Every race that is in turmoil in a nation has quasi-social groups around its leaders.
And this: A nation or a state runs on the ability of its department heads, its governors or any other leaders. It is easy to get posts in such areas unless one has delusions of grandeur or fear of it. Don’t bother to get elected. Get a job on the secretarial staff or the bodyguard, use any talent one has to get a place close in, go to work on the environment and make it function better. Occasionally one might lose, but in the large majority, doing a good job and making the environment function will result in promotion, better contacts, a widening zone.
The cue in all this is don’t seek the cooperation of groups. Don’t ask for permission. Just enter them and start functioning to make the group win through effectiveness and sanity.
I don’t see how a higher up somewhere has been like “nah fam. We don’t associate with this group” there has to be a DA or something somewhere that knows how slippery a slope they are on.
O/T. I accidentally posted the following on the prior story. I hope that I can also post it here so that people see it. I believe this type of thing is important, even if unwelcome.
Academic Paper: [Alleged] Religious Discrimination against Groups Perceived as Cults in Europe and the West [including Scientology ].
Eti Peretz & Jonathan Fox
Published online: 24 Aug 2021
[Note: As I recently explained, one of my self-appointed hats is to try to note all new academic papers, books and previously unreported news items concerning Scientology, good or bad, if they are substantive, so that people know what is out there and can, if necessary, refute or otherwise address them. ]
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921
https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921
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ABSTRACT
This study examines the comparative levels of discrimination against cults and other religious minorities in 37 European and Western democracies using the Religion and State-Minorities (RASM) dataset and data on four religions many governments consider cults—the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Mormons—collected specifically for this study. There is a considerable theoretical literature that argues that perceived cults experience more discrimination because they are considered new and strange in many countries as well as dangerous. Several violent events involving groups seen as cults in the 1990s such as those involving the Branch Davidians, the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven’s Gate, and the Aum Shinrikyo exacerbated this trend. Our analysis finds that perceived cults experience higher levels of religious discrimination by governments in these countries and this trend increased in the mid-1990s which is consistent with it being at least in part a response to the series of violent perceived cult-related events in the 1990s.
Acknowledgements
We thank the funders for their support. ny opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the supporters of this research.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Additional information
Funding
This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 23/14), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (Grant 1291-119.4/2015) and the John Templeton Foundation.
Notes on contributors
Eti Peretz
Eti Peretz received her Ph.D. in Political Studies from Bar Ilan University in 2018, is a research associate at the Religion and State Project, and currently works at Tihon Hayovel Herzliya.
Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox (Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1997) is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar Ilan University and director of the Religion and State project. He has published extensively on various topics in religion and politics. His most recent books are Thou Shall Have No Other Gods before Me: Why Government Discriminate against Religious Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Why do People Discriminate Againast Jews? (Ooxford University Press, 2021).
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NOTE: The entire paper is available for $45.00 at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921?scroll=top&needAccess=true
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O/T. Academic Paper: [Alleged] Religious Discrimination against Groups Perceived as Cults in Europe and the West [including Scientology ].
Eti Peretz &Jonathan FoxORCID Icon
Published online: 24 Aug 2021
[Note: As I recently explained, one of my self-appointed hats is to try to note all new academic papers, books and previously unreported news items concerning Scientology, good or bad, if they are substantive, so that people know what is out there and can, if necessary, refute or otherwise address them. ]
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921
https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921
* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *
ABSTRACT
This study examines the comparative levels of discrimination against cults and other religious minorities in 37 European and Western democracies using the Religion and State-Minorities (RASM) dataset and data on four religions many governments consider cults—the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Mormons—collected specifically for this study. There is a considerable theoretical literature that argues that perceived cults experience more discrimination because they are considered new and strange in many countries as well as dangerous. Several violent events involving groups seen as cults in the 1990s such as those involving the Branch Davidians, the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven’s Gate, and the Aum Shinrikyo exacerbated this trend. Our analysis finds that perceived cults experience higher levels of religious discrimination by governments in these countries and this trend increased in the mid-1990s which is consistent with it being at least in part a response to the series of violent perceived cult-related events in the 1990s.
Acknowledgements
We thank the funders for their support. ny opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the supporters of this research.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Additional information
Funding
This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 23/14), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (Grant 1291-119.4/2015) and the John Templeton Foundation.
Notes on contributors
Eti Peretz
Eti Peretz received her Ph.D. in Political Studies from Bar Ilan University in 2018, is a research associate at the Religion and State Project, and currently works at Tihon Hayovel Herzliya.
Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox (Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1997) is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar Ilan University and director of the Religion and State project. He has published extensively on various topics in religion and politics. His most recent books are Thou Shall Have No Other Gods before Me: Why Government Discriminate against Religious Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Why do People Discriminate Againast Jews? (Ooxford University Press, 2021).
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NOTE: The entire paper is available for $45.00 at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2021.1969921?scroll=top&needAccess=true
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If that ‘tech’ was SO effective, you’d think scientology’s PR in Clearwater —even Florida— would be golden after 45 years. After 70 years, they SHOULD be controlling the *WORLD*
Seems not.
Scientology’s false claims hinder them. They’ve never been able to make great new people who change the world for the better.
Attack their enemies who expose their well known problems which they are unable to fix, since they are stuck executing Hubbard’s meritless backfiring “solutions.”
People on earth do not suffer from “whole track” past-lives trauma “case” which they drag around in their heads unbeknownst to everyone. People on earth are not all infested with the surplus and messed up souls that Xenu earth dumped 75 million years ago, and the secret Hubbard solution for these surplus souls is exorcism them off of the Scientologists bodies.
This exorcism is bogus. The past-lives therapy (crank pseudo-therapy) of Hubbard’s is bogus.
People who come out the other end of the Hubbard past-lives pseudo-therapy and the exorcism aren’t the great people they claim and believe they’ve become.
So when Hubbard admitted he failed, at the end of his life, which he unfortunately didn’t tell everyone, he only admitted it to Sarge apparently, there is a delay in Team Xenu land of recognizing Hubbard quit them.
He’s left them holding the Hubbard bag of quackery which doesn’t work.
Hub’s theology is really just a conditioning framework to induce/heighten the placebo effect during therapy. The greater one buys into it the greater the possibility of therapeutic value (and repeat business), no matter how illusory. That’s just faith.
Whether scientology “works” or not as a therapy/faith is arguably irrelevant to the behaviour of its adherents, imho. What sets scientology apart is its institutional culture. The significances assigned to certain scripture. Its core values as a group. It’s the same thing that differentiates catholics from, say, the westboro baptists.
What are scientology’s core values?
1. Group = all
2. Image = everything
3. Wealth = worth
4. Status = power
5. Charity = degradation
6. Life = insignificant
7. Relations = unimportant
Yes, these values are rooted in scripture…but largely unrelated to its theology. Miscavige has also long demonstrated he can cherrypick policy and alter significance to suit his own agenda – in this case, he chooses not to. As the primary beneficiary of the sociopathic structure Hubbard implemented, he has little reason to. He was raised on these values. More importantly, they appealed to his personality.
There is little if anything in scientology that conditions people to be kind and compassionate or to do good works (other than as a PR exercise). There’s certainly no rule or regulation that insists upon it. EPFers aren’t fired off to Africa for a year to build a school before entering the SO. OT eligibility doesn’t require anyone to save the elephants or help out in some war-torn hell hole. Publics absorb the culture of their orgs and, ultimately, that filters down from the top.
Excellent and packed overviews, thanks.
Some comments are not equal, yours is about one of the tops.
A plan for a housewife to infiltrate and secure a women’s club: “She straightens up the club affairs by applying comm practice and making peace and then, incidental to the club’s main function, pushes Scientology into a zone of special interest in the club-children, straightening up marriages, whatever comes to hand and even taking fees for it meanwhile, of course, going on being a successful and contributing wife.”
I wonder what “comm practice” hubbard had in mind? Is she to do the “insult and dash?” Or the “cross the street when you see her?” scientology may be known for many things. It just so happens that “making peace” is notably absent from any list.
How is she supposed to give advice on “marriage” or “children”? Hold out hubbard as an example? Cruise? Alley? Miscavige? Recommend disconnection as a universal solvent?
On children? Recommend they get a 90 hour a week job when they turn 12? Talk about the hubbard family and how the little thetans can be cared for by the rest of the family once the husband absconds and fails to provide? Discuss how Cruise dotes on his daughter–from the further away the better? Suggest to follow Miscavige’s child phobia? Abort them while you still have a chance? Or again, recommend disconnection as a universal solvent?
Methinks that hubbard didn’t give this poor woman infiltrant much to work with!
Please watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
That video seems on a par with scientology’s drivel, frankly. But I didn’t detect any scientologisms.
I’m so grateful for the info in your and Mr Ortega’s blogs! Thank you! Keep up the good work. (And Ms Remini too!)
You’re welcome!
I have seen this firsthand, although it only became clear in retrospect (as I didn’t know I was a target of scn at the time). They infiltrated a university newspaper I managed. They are sneaky little liars.