There have been some magnificent flops in the ideal org strategy (Malmo anyone? Cambridge? Berlin? Phoenix? Pretoria?) but I don’t think any have been such a fail as Inglewood.
Hyped to the hilt by Miscavige as one of the two orgs (along with Harlem) that was going to “bring scientology to the black cultural centers,” it has done nothing and become a white elephant sitting in the middle of South Central LA.
And here is the latest proof.
A SINGLE Purif completion is BIG NEWS. It’s not even a Clear or a Grade Completion. Let alone more than one.
But what is even weirder, Richard Didcoate is not only not a member of the local community, he is not even American. He is a former Sea Org member from the UK. What the hell is he doing at Inglewood? And is that really all they have to show for themselves? One very caucasian, british ex-SO redoing his Purif? Where are all the locals? They’re not even in the picture of the Purif program….
But let’s take a bit deeper look at the horrendous lies that are foisted off on the sheeple.
This is the introductory page of the International Scientology News from June 2007.
I realize the quality of the image is not so great, but you don’t really need to be able to read the shermanspeak other than the headline:
“The Ultra OT Summit 2007 was a watershed in our history. From here, Scientology changes FOREVER.”
How many times has THIS been said since 2007? Virtually every promo piece they send out about anything. Ever. In fact, it would be a watershed moment, signifying a massive change in Scientology if there was ever a promo piece or magazine that didn’t claim the next meeting of the local OT Committee or briefing to fundraisers was NOT epic, milestone, earth-shattering or watershed.
But more interesting are 4 pages that come later in the magazine, announcing “IAS sponsored” “ideal orgs” — including Inglewood. This “IAS sponsored” pitch is a gimmick Miscavige has used for some time. Certain orgs are justified to be “funded by an IAS grant” because they are in the “cultural centers of the world” — NY, DC, Madrid, Rome, Brussels, Kaohsuing(?), Harare(?), Tel Aviv, Moscow, LA Org (but not Valley?), Inglewood and Harlem. It then gives more reason to give money to the IAS as they “fund the ideal org program” and it helps unload some of the massive volume of excess cash the IAS accumulates into real estate holdings.
Remember, this was 2007 — nearly 8 YEARS AGO now. Two of these orgs are STILL not opened, which goes to show that collecting the money from the sheeple is NOT the only block to opening ideal orgs. Some of these places don’t have anyone to man them.
The hype about “setting the trends in society blah blah blah” is condescending and the shermanspeak is ridiculous. The number of “community events” of any significance in the “Community Center” is exactly 0. How do we know? Not one of them appears on the scientology.org website or in any magazine or press release. And you can guarantee that if ANY event of ANY significance had been held there, it would have been shouted from the rooftops. After all, they put out promo pieces for a single ex-SO Purif re-completion.
And here is the hype about Harlem. This was the FIRST org in “Black America’s Capital City”(?) and 8 years later its still not open.
And here is another total bust. This place at last report had been taken over by squatters….
And finally, Tel Aviv. Which did finally open, but is operating at a lower level of production than the independent Dror Center a few miles up the road.
Can you believe they actually promote this org as being near the national soccer stadium? But of course, truth not being something that really matters when you are writing a speech for Dear Leader “its better to sound good than to be right”, it is a 6 mile “free kick” from the org to the national soccer stadium — on the opposite side of Tel Aviv. And the address is 30, not 39. But hey, who’s counting? And love his characterization of Tel Aviv as “not exclusively one religion or another, but the meeting point of all religions planetwide”?? Bet there aren’t a whole lot of Hindus or Buddhists in Tel Aviv. If you’re not Jewish in Tel Aviv (with more than 500 synagogues), you may be a Muslim (1%) or Christian (1%), but according to Wikipedia, that’s it.
It’s kind of amusing to look back at earlier promises made to the sheeple and wonder when, if ever, they will awaken from their hypnosis and realize they are being fed a constant diet of lies. They are dressed up in run on sentences (paragraphs?) language and have all sorts of splendid CGI to make them appear real, along with music and rah-rah. But in the end, it is one lie piled on top of another….
And meanwhile, the great ideal org strategy is a monumental, watershed FAIL.
Mike, safe travels to NYC and DC! Once more, thank you so much for all that you do. These are exciting times!
Ideal Orgs are a manifestation of the Dwarfology doctrine of HAVE-DO-BE.
I think it’s HAVE-TO-BE. THere is no “Do” at all. “Have” makes it possible to “be.”
Or perhaps half-to-be so you always defer to Der Führer.
I like it! If that’s not an improvement on LRH Tech then what else is? Forget the “DO”, just firstly “HAVE” and then “BE” — Brilliant !!
Christian churches have fine buildings where people meet for services — Dwarfology does better by having finer buildings where people will come and PAY for services. As for the “DO” part, the whales have done the “DOing” by earning the money to give to the Dwarf so there is no need to repeat the action. Big and wonderful Ideal Orgs with their doors open to the public — and when public flock through the doors, the reception desk is there ready to receive their checks (or in some cases, take them aside to arrange credit for them). The planet will soon be cleared, thanks to the streamlined Tech of Dwarfology!
I’ve ranted about the unworkability of Have-Do-Be” already.
But I need to rant some more. Thank you.
OK, would anyone decide to give a dinner party in this sequence.
1. Deciding to give a dinner party for 8 people.
2) Buying all the groceries.
3) Cooking all the food on the day of the dinner party.
4) Setting the table
5) Calling up the guests and letting them know they’re invited NOW and fully expect them all to show up.
Ok, I think I have this ALL out of my system.
But I’m making no promises.
Yeah that Harlem org is doing well–if you’re a copper thief.
$2K of Copper Wire Stolen from Church of Scientology in Harlem, Police Say February 19, 2015, Gustavo Solis, DNAinfo.com
Why does it look like the ground floor of the proposed Inglewood mOrg has those security bars on the entire first floor? And of course, fencing around the parking area? Oh well, it doesn’t really matter, the NOI are going to be the only ones using that building. How’s that for a return on investment clams?
I know that Inglewood building very well as I once drove by it every day for 10 years. In 1976 I started a home delivery service of meats and provisions in South Central Los Angeles and within 2 years I had built my business to 14 trucks serving mostly South Central and I did that for 10 years. I was the only white kid in the “hood” then. I carried fresh cut daily-never-frozen meat products at a better quality than the supermarkets in that area so people trusted us. I did business with tens of thousands and had 100’s of friends in the hood. From my experience the church will totally miss on what the people in South Central are concerned with and what their interests are. The church will be like an alien organization. That is why they have nearly zero customers in Inglewood.
Al, you speak sooth.
Al Baker in 2008 or so routed out of the SO, long time Sea Org African American, very nice fellow who I was while not close with but good friends. He was arguably the best basketball player in the SO that I played with or against. Anyway he contacted me in this time period on Facebook. He then moved to Paris, he told me he asked to leave when he petitioned Dave to be the ED of Harlem org and that never worked out. He later tried to get me to hook up with in the various Multi Level Marketing Scn scams. By 2009-10 I had moved onward and de-friended all of my ex SO FB friends and any one still in. He is one of a few I still care for.
The Ideal Org. buildings are look great, too bad they are empty.
I like the line “tomorrow has arrived”. An amazing accomplishment if I ever heard one.
it’s more like ground hog day, yesterday is here again. an equally amazing accomplishment.
Nah Hallie. Just cause over time……..
Excuse me for getting this part; also I didn’t read every word of above: IAS funded some of these Orgs that are not open yet? If IAS funded these, why aren’t they open? Strictly because they aren’t manned?
“…for NOT getting this part;….”
About the IAS funding Orgs that are not manned.
Correct me if I am wrong,but, it was the public who paid for the Orgs
and now too bankrupt to be staff.
Money given to the IAS goes mostly to David Miscavige offshore accounts.
Only microscopic amounts are gifted to buildings that make the scam look legit.
That is given massive PR to appear tremendous to the IRS and critic’s.
Richard’s life makes me think of a new way to quickly define OSA, or Office of Special Affairs, which to me can be quickly summarized as a Keystone Cops UFO Cult Stasi.
OSA. It’s Scientology’s UFO Cult Keystone Cops Stasi.
If all the bumbling last 15 years or so OSA’s operative work were laid out, there are some laughable moments to lay out.
Ripe for a Monty Python skit – call it Dave’s Dumbos.
Lastly, and then I’ll return to my Sunday activities… Perhaps their promo should say “Join the Action, Move Down the Bridge…” Apparently that’s what Richard Didcoate is doing anyway. He was OT IV at the very minimum last I checked, and I imagine he originally did the Purif in the 70s when he got into Scientology in the UK.
When EVERY event is described as a “watershed moment” one begins to suspect one is sitting in a very leaky rowboat.
🙂
Greta
Dave knows it’s incremental, but monumental sounds so cool!
Someone with shooping skills should do a picture of Miscavige having a “watershed” moment.
On a separate note, I wonder if anyone has ever analyzed dear leaders speeches over the years… Apparently he can’t get over “watershed” and “unprecedented” as “phenomenal” speech writing words…. Oh no wait, I forgot, the speechwriters all sleep through the events since they haven’t slept in the weeks if not months leading up to them. Never mind.
Add, “grass roots” “Juggernaut”, “wildfire, and “notwithstanding” and you are well on your way to “Shermanspeak”
Don’t forget “Notwithstanding”, “Yet again”, “Moreover” and blah blah blah blah 🙂
And let’s not forget inasmuch as, needless to say and make no mistake, etc., ad nauseum.
And the old chestnut, “…which brings us to this”
When Steve Jobs said, “one more thing” it actually meant something.
How about the way David Miscavige pronounces the word “total”? It drives me crazy.
He says TOH-Tal. Pronouncing both T’s equally, affecting a British accent. Americans tend to pronounce “total” like “todal” or if the second T is sounded, it is pronounced more softly than the first T.
I can’t stand it when Americans try to sound British. It’s pretentious and you’re not fooling anyone. If you’re an American, just own the fact that you speak English with one of the regional North American accents. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Pepper:
TOH-Tal would be the French way of pronouncing it (especially if it has an e on the end as in the French multinational Oil company) not the English, which would almost always clip the last a. But I know what you mean because Hubbard did the same thing putting on fake English accents when they are quite deaf to them and imitate them really, really badly.
Well one thing is for sure with DM. It’s Ta Ta, not Ta Da!
I don’t think he’s trying specifically to sound British. His speech patterns are peppered with odd and inappropriate syllabic intensity. It’s a characteristic of of some people who are strong with phony affect and babble endless meaningless folderol, such as Miscavige does in every public utterance and as Hubbard did before him. He doesn’t sync the rhythm of his speech with the meaning of his words because his words are meaningless. Think of great lyrical singers like Fred Astaire or Frank Sinatra. What they do with verbal expression is the opposite extreme in communicative ability from a gibbering loon like Miscavige.
Perhaps he could enlist the aid of Professor Henry Higgins. I know he helped Eliza Doolittle.
hgc10:
I think you got it exactly. I think Miscavige pronounces certain words like the British do, for some sort of effect on the listener.
I will say this: Miscavige tries to sound like he comes from anywhere else than where he does originate from, which is east coast, middle-class America. This is where I am from and we do not sound like that. He as an affect, which is a put on, and he puts in on heavily when he speaks at the events. It makes me think that he wants people to think that he comes from the blue-blood upper class, and this is an attempt to disassociate himself from the middle-class. It annoys me.
I don’t know if Miscavige sounds like that in his personal life since I’ve never been around him but I have wondered about this.
Michael:
The visual of Professor Henry Higgins working with Miscavige made me laugh!
Yes Pepper, but I think Dave would be a poor student.
Far from speaking the King’s English, I read that Naz Boniadi had trouble understanding David Miscavige’s rapid fire Philly-accented talk and asked him to repeat some things a few times, thereby “invalidating” COB’s TR1, and incurring the Wrath of Tom (“Then There Is Me”) Cruise.
And, by the way, not a peep out of him lately. C’mon, Tom, where’s your team spirit? Kirstie and Jenna are all doing their bit for the war effort so dust off that Medal Of Valor or whatever its called, sling it around your neck, put a seminar together and take it on the road, hitting all the Ideal Morgues. You’re the only one who can help at this point, you know that!
Pepper, you DO know that Miss Cabbage, from the age of ~11 ’till his late-teens grew up in South East England???? A VERY language impressionable age… Don’t fall into His & El Con’s very bad habit of NOT researching of what you speak… 😉
Ha! I can hardly think of a greater chasm than that between Boniadi and Miscavige in education, style, and grace. Of course she couldn’t understand a goddamned word He said!
Tom (“Then There Is Me”) Cruise! ROFL!
And Dave still has an 8th grade vocabulary.
I agree that from the very early stages, Inglewood org has been permanently embedded with the iron engravings of EPIC FAIL. In 2010, we received a phone call asking for help volunteering there! Note this was FIVE YEARS after we were “declared” and WHILE we had a pending lawsuit against Scientology. Nothing reeks of DESPERATION more than a phone call asking for help from people one has supposedly nailed the door shut on (note this latter is a reference to an LRH Advice regarding Int base staff. Where anyone else leaving scn is supposed to have a crack of the door open for if they ever want to return, for Int base staff who blow, LRH specified that door was to be nailed shut…) So yeah, the exception being an utterly desperate and destined for failure project named Inglewood Ideal org…
Well, isn’t that special…
This place was stillborn. And unsurprisingly, it is still dead.
But that doesn’t stop the hype.
Or the demands for money and assistance.
Amazing.
That’s hilarious Claire. The Church sought help from the “Devil’s themselves” in trying to get that org breathing. OMG!
Calling people to come in and volunteer for an Ideal Org who are blown from Int Base, Declared and in a pending lawsuit is just so crazy ridiculous. They are terribly confused. Good God.
Obviously you didn’t go in and help. Right? 🙂
In fact, maybe that’s what “they” should do. Call in all the “old,” “no longer used” scientologists to get the job done. Too bad Dave got rid of all the good that was left.
From the Scientology.org website (Inglewood):
Its establishment, along with the opening of our new Community Center at Vermont Avenue and 81st Street, marks the beginning of a new era. For although Scientology parishioners have been actively involved in these neighborhoods for decades, it is now our privilege to be able to serve the whole of the community on an entirely new scale.
To that end, we offer our many humanitarian and social betterment programs to Inglewood and South Los Angeles and look forward to working together with those who share our common goals for a drug-free, crime-free and thriving future.
Well, thank God they used a little sense and didn’t have the “bring Scientology to the black cultural centers” posted on their website. I can easily see David Miscavige saying something like that in one of his speeches though, making himself and Scientology in general look culturally ignorant and U.S. centered, which is the usual case whenever he opens his mouth.
Ideal Org buildings were a substitute for delivery of Scientology. Talk about lost technology? It’s buried under mountains of brick and mortar with such horrid PR that nearly no one will enter the front door of their own free will..
These buildings are monuments to the misplaced efforts of those caught in Miscavige’s web of lies.
Indeed Robert.
Those buildings stand as citadels of toxic failure. The public of the world now know what lies they contain and stay well clear as if it’s the plague.
Didcoate! what a prat.
Eloquently put my old friend.
So funny….didn’t know this word
Prat
1.Basically someone whos a major idiot, or is delusional and dumb. Acts against logic and thinks hes self-righteous. AKA: Major dumbass.
I love that word! 🙂
Along the lines of “Ideal Orgs” the Latam Mexico one is as empty as last year; a population of 21 million in the city and they can barely gather 10 people.
By the way, Going Clear is promoted in that country (Mexico) as the latest revelations about Tom C and John T, it sure doesn’t look good.
Tick Tock…Poom (collapse), Kaput (finished).
Brilliant, Mike. As sad as this all is, I love your parody and sense of humour while reporting this.
It’s a bloody shambles indeed and I too have to ask WHY oh WHY can’t the KA zombies left in the church see this? By what stretch of the imagination are they justifying this as an acceptable state of affairs?
South Africa is sitting with 2 bankrupt Ideal Morgues, one empty stand where they pulled down a building they paid R16 Million for, and 6 other properties (including the “IAS sponsored” Harare and Bulawayo buildings in Zimbabwe) that are still not open for business after all these years.
The “sucker for punishment” resolve of these sheeple is mind-boggling.
Exactly vot happence vhen ze minds uf der sheeple iss f-r-o-z-e-n into mere froth by der Fuhrer, mein fraulein, jawol? 🙂
But, Shelly…they’re going to have all of the Idle Morgues done and open in AF this year, along with the AO! They postulated that, so therefore it’s true!
End sarcasm mode. And I still believe that Kyalami Castle wasn’t purchased as an AO, but as Davey’s bolthole when things finally go tits up in the US. LRH had a manor, so Short Shit has to go one better and have a castle.
Apparently the castle is just across the road from a veritable nest of SP declared OTs.
Richard lives in Torrence area, and thus Englewood is his closest org, and he and Kathy thus would be most likely to go there.
I wish Richard defects, and Kathy of course also, and reveal how Kirsten Caetano and anyone else from OSA Int has had them doing their targets on the “Handling Programs” and I wish Mike would tell a little more about those handling programs.
The Shoops go just so far and then the truth gets out of the bag.
People have smart phones with cameras and laptops with huge data bases.
Grind, grind, grind, grind, gri…. on and on and on. Rehash, refurbish, reveal, retreat, re-invent, rebuke, retaliate, Reinstate, refuse, repudiate, remake, re,re,re.. un-freakin’ believable, Mike? Part of the (self)mind-numbing, mind control uf der Fuhrer?
I suppose this is what one resorts to, when one has re-done everything to a point of no ‘return(s).’ Banging one’s head against the wall, would be a saner thing to do! 🙂
And I suppose, when one must be as jittery and wobbly as a de-fanged, tarantula after a tequila hangover,? Due to pending immanent ‘capture’ by the guys who see you as the ultimate prize?
— Anything, is acceptable, to stave off the stark terror of being forced into court, to face one’s accusers?
Nervous times ahead, for sure! “You fi$6@8 xxfckuupuufckincxucker!666!!!” Bring me two crates of that rare, malted, two-grand-a-shot whisky — NOW! yofu$%*Ing cxxt!!
….Just a-nother-day-in-para-dise….. oh-yeeeeaaah, baby! 🙂
First that post over at the South African blog in Durban slang, then this. Calvin, sir, you certainly have a way with a riff. May your riffing continue unabated.
EssPeeinado, my good man, your active radar looks after your interests with great aplomb, I can certainly assure you. 😉
i-Kneel Orgs, the penultimate level before going straight down and horizontal.
LOL …….There will be a New Deal with the I Kneel.
Watch for the ‘Last Gasp Rundown’ . Dave will discover it shortly in the Creation of Human Disability.
Not that I agree with the ideal org strategy … all that’s been done is put PR and spin ahead of production. PR and spin are easy, and make everything look like it’s all forward-motion. Establishing the activity for production is the hard part; it is simply overlooked, ignored and/or disdained. There’s also the factor of having to have before one can do. I can write this comment because I have practical experience in the area (Writers of the Future).
“Richard Didcoate is not only not a member of the local community, he is not even American. He is a former Sea Org member from the UK. What the hell is he doing at Inglewood? ”
Maybe Richard was born a poor black child Mike. Ya never know!
Richard surfaced as part of the “ex Sea Org member” group sort of, he was obviously, now clear to me, a Scientology OSA run intel operative keeping tabs on things, in that period up to when Marc Headley as blownforgood revealing the details of Int Base atrocities as Marc did.
Richard suckered me for a couple years, I was in weekly touch, then monthly, then every couple month touch, him sucking intel out of me, until he leeched elsewhere, with Cathy his wife leeching intel out of the ex Int Base/Gold gatherings that occured then in the 2006-onwards period.
Mike, I wish you’d tell more details.
But for sure, Richard now is clearly a “spy” as good as Scientologists take on their spy double duties at OSA handled opertives to gather intel on the Int Base defectors.
Richard runs/ran a business of providing A/V equipment to parties and conventions, he or his staff set up the entertainment A/V equipment for their parties/events.
This was in the 2005 onward time slot there in LA. He lived in Torrence, near Culver City and near Inglewood, and still likely does.
He isn’t answering my phone calls. As an onlines Scientologist again, he shouldn’t talk to “SPs” like me.
I’d known Richard since his earlier days as an outer org trainee come to Flag, Clearwater back when Int Training Org was there, and I helped him on the OEC Course. He might have even been on the old confidential “Oscar Program” which was a somewhat secretive training program for training up future org executives to replace their “Oscar” (Hubbard code name for the “criiminal” org execs who needed replacing but who stayed on their posts until their “Oscar Replacements” were trained through the the OEC, Janis Grady can confirm this “Oscar Program” she as then a high up Commodore’s Messenger ran that program or oversaw it from her Watchdog Committee position I believe, I was the Chief executor of the training part of that program, we piloted snippets of the KTL Course, Debug Tech, Crashing MU Finding, and other gobbly-gook Hubbard harebrained theoretical training/enchancement techniques on these “Oscar Replacements”, I made them do the whole Hubbard pilot line up, and even David Rousseau who was then a Commodore’s Messenger came done from Int to Clearwater to run me on running the students on the Crashing Misunderstood pilot and some other Hubbard snippet “tech”, I did False Data Stripping personally, the special amplified Conditions by Departments pilot also parts that later became part of the Life Orientaiton Course.
The whole 1079-1980 bunch of crazy stuff Hubbard came up with, I helped pilot, and Richard might have been on for some of that piloting.
I remember Richard later when he moved up to being in the Flag Bu in Div 6 running from the Flag Management level, he did that faithfully for years and years.
He’s easy to work with, then saw him again on the PAC RPF from Nov 2000 until I routed out of the Sea Org in Mach 2003. He contacted me just prior to the Las Vegas SP getogether Mick Wenlock and the Carlsons and Mark Fisher and Rob Williamson and Marilyn Brewer and her husband and Michael Tilson and Nancy Many all attended, and Janis and later some of us met briefly with Terri.
It’s clear, I was unfortunately guilty of vouching for Richard and helped bring him along to that gathering for which I think he reported on to OSA Int, my educated guess. And he stayed in touch with the next couple years, up to when Marc Headley came out as blownforgood, at which point intel gathering out of me became much less of OSA’s focus.
I’ve always thought just tell the details publicly making Scientology’s spying irrelevant and that trend overwhelms and should just extinguish their need to even spy! If all the crazy Scientology skeletons are multiple times exposed from multiple ex members’ lives, it just overwhelms their Keystones Cops spying intel censoring programs.
that would mean they outed him by using him like this. do think they just didn’t realize it?
Yes, WhiteStar,
I think you are right. Scientology just outed him.
Because he was in cahoots with us “SPs” in that window of time leading up to and including Marc Headley’s going public and for a year or so after, I’d get occassional phone calls from him.
So yes, they outed him by this and likely didn’t realize it.
Other “spys” were the Sherrifs, Tony and Brigette, who called me just prior to the first BBC TV show where Sweeney interviewed Mike when Mike was saying “rubbish, rubbish, rubbish” (I told BBC to be nice to Mike since history showed that PR people for Scienotlogy defect, and if history were worth noticing in Scientology’s case, then Mike would be ripe to someday talk to BBC and noticably Mike did come out to media with the BBC first, good for BBC and for Mike!)
Tony Sheriff was so persistently odd that the BBC called me to ask did I think their behavior was just too over the top, and yes, Tony Sheriff just was too weirdly asking too many questions back at the BBC, while Brigette Sheriff was playing like she had some history to add to the show, BS on her part. Keystone Cops OSA operatives.
Maybe we should pick out a thermos for him, not an ordinary thermos, but the extra best thermos you can buy with vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in!
Another great post.
I was looking into the Philadelphia “ideal” org. Evidently that has been a mess too, with an abandoned eyesore in the heart of center city, for which they are being fined. If I get into town, I’ll take some pics. But, I couldn’t find any more info after 2007 or so. They have a small storefront in a weird location.
Even if all these orgs were real, fully functional,as advertised, it shows a very decadent approach. If spiritually is about gleaming towers, (and lies, empty promises), I want none of it. Hardly a humanitarian effort, in any way.
Even more interesting is that Richard & Cathy Didcoate were at a few of my “SP parties” a few years back!
Well Marc, it would seem they were either plants or are masochists returning for more punishment.
My hunch is that Didcoate never even stepped foot I the Inglewood Idle Org. I think they just got his picture from wherever he did re-complete his service and then typed up the promo that he completed it at Inglewood and photo shooped it together. Amazing that they don’t have any black people anywhere in the Inglewood promo. That’s because there is no one from the community doing ANY service in Idle Inglewood. It’s a fantasy land created by a delusional diminutive dickhead.
And you me too.
In the first SP Las Vegas Party I attended, Richard befriended me for the next couple years up until you went public, and he continued as you surfaced back then.
I have a number of photos, I’ll stick up somewhere.
Richard then I believe must have been the spy Janis Grady later then thought might have been Marilyn Brewer and her husband, and it looks like that “spy” of that earlier Las Vegas Party was none other than poor Richard!
Richard’s wife used to be Payroll Gold, and I happened to be on the Int RPF same time as her and then when I transferred to the PAC RPF, she and the group of Int RPFers that all transferred down to the PAC RPF came after.
Scientology’s spying using ex members with their formerly somewhat friendly connections, is par for their intel stuff.
Such a sad bad mix of intelligence and fake religion. Pure Hubbard Scientology.
So ironic that an old Flag Bureaux Div 6 manager gets his Purif Cert about 30 years into his Scientology career of ups and downs (Brit Scientologist, to ED of UK orgs on garrison mission, to Sea Org westcoast international HGB level manager of Div 6’s, to RPF, to spy, to Purif Completion at his nearest Ideal Org).
The actual “timetracks” of the pictured Scientologists, only a long term dupe learns the ropes on how to fake it as badly as they end up pretending progress.
correction!!! Marilyn Brewer was NOT at all nor her husband, a “spy”, that was a false speculative rumor, sorry to have spread that bad rumor and Janis praised and was skeptical of that rumor.
Hope no one sticks that false label on dear Marilyn.
It’s more likely it was sadly Richard Didcoate.
That’s really sad Richard apparently hasn’t got the memo yet – or Kathy. I have fond memories of both from my early SO days. Richard was a go-to missionaire mostly, working with Steve Langley, and they had a reputation for “getting the job done”. Kathy I worked with on the Dianetics marketing in the UK, very successfully – along with Andy Hutton. Ironic that there should be a graphic of Harare on this post too, since the last time I saw Richard was in Harare Org, on the first floor of the State Lottery Building as it was then. He came to relieve me after I had to take over the Org – although I was just public by then – from a failed mission after the missionaires had started sleeping with each other. One of them started informing / spying for OSA before dying of a heart attack a couple of years ago. Andy Hutton became informer too, as apparently so did Richard Didcoate also.
Fascinating. A friend who visited there told me the ED at that time was handing the receptionist who was the reg for stealing the gross income. While this was happening the ED, who was also the supervisor, was literally chaining the dictionaries to the desks because they were constantly stolen.
The org was at the back offices, upstairs, within a church, like Christian.
No staff, no public. But, the current leader buys a new ideal building.
Mushroom Scientologists: kept in the dark on a diet of crap.
Dan — I would modify this slightly.
Scientologists: mushrooms kept in the dark on a diet of crap.
To be a corporate scientologist you must be a mushroom. “Mushroom scientologist” is redundant.
Hence the saying… ” There is fungus amongus “
And flatulence from Davey’s shit.
Hey, I’m cool! I’m a Fungi! Oh stop the moaning! You try to come up with clever shit!
LOL. Nicely put Mike.
For those still Scn’ers on here who wonder why some REALLY have it out for El Con and his criminality that spanned unbroken for decades. There is a reason. There were many people, the vast majority that were REALLY, REALLY tops for humans caring about other humans, that spent their ENTIRE adult lives toiling for El Con in the S.O. All for a lie. A knowing lie. That was told in order to make them virtual slaves. I’m glad I got out fast. Many are still in. MANY have died while in because of El Con’s lies that stick them there out of a sense of honor and belief in the lies He told about Scn being the route to save mankind.
The YOU cannot confront the crimes committed doesn’t change the fact that they were committed and many lives ruined, wasted and in fact, terminated as a result. Bring your confront up.
Better yet, call them just plain: Shrooms!
Definition: Shrooms are hallucinogenic mushroom: They are a non-addictive way to experience alternate planes of existence.
And they made my steak much more interesting too! Especially when it started taking to me.
Ahhh… reminds me of a fungi called “Gold Tops” if I remember correctly.
Now that was steak topper to respect man, change ya outlook on the whole day they could! Made omelettes hard to beat too. And yeah, a swim or a surf afterwards gave a whole other definition for “bubbles.”
Woo hoo…
All doctored shots… I knew the one guy wh was doing the job in the SO, long ago, and explained how many orgs were totally void, just illustrations from photoshop, with every object inside perfectly presented… but not one single soul around to use these Tools , meters, tapes reader, books etc.
Since DM is wholly unable to share the least small part of power, money and knowledge of what happens really in these unexisting “orgs”, he loses lots of his good staffs doing a good job scientologically speaking, even if these jobs almost only pure boastings from DM the Great! Sure, Hubbie was no better: evey pace he did was to boast something that could make more money. Make money, make more money and get others making more money.
PS: less that half the number of issues of scn mags do exist since years. Most are never started; perhaps because that way, they don’t appear void… though when one looks the few remaining ones attentively, they copy similar ones, past ones, etc. Repeat, repeat of the few original ideas missy cabbage ca get off his small head.
Excellent great job you did too, Roger! Only if someone goes into the massive amounts of work former critics have done over the decades would they see how much work got done by earlier critics and ex members! You were huge in terms of insider leaking and help to the French Govt stuff I suspect, you’ve done a huge amount of media and exposure!
I don’t know how you keep up with all of this absolute Fail, Mike. There is just SO much of it.
It reminds me of the Action Affluence formula in reverse: Doing things that Failed, not new things untried as yet….such as something successful like treating parishioners with kindest and decency and telling the truth.
Another EPIC fail ineed.
The Church of Scientology states that LRH states that “African Americans” do not make good Scientologists because they are too MEST based of a genetic race. Now, “all of sudden” the Black community in New York is assisting in the spearheading of global church expansion. As you may have already guessed, the new Ideal Black Org is no doubt doing much better than the “all white” Org on 46th Street downtown. 🙂 Not to mention the recycled public listed as an Inglewood Purif completion. Going Clear is alot easier than you think when a Church of Scientology is not involved.
Do you have the exact LRH quote? Would love to see it.
Lawrence may be referring to a now deleted portion of Scientology: Fundamentals of Thought, where Hubbard said (actually this was just transcriptionist error):
“Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part … that rocks, trees, walls etc. can give them attention. The white man seldom believes this and so is likely to become anxious about people.
Thus the white saves people, prevents famine, flood, disease and revolution for people as the only purveyors of attention are scarce. The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown peoples’ attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive but by and large, saner. And the white race is progressive but more frantic. The yellow and brown races do not understand white concern for “bad conditions” since what is a few million dead men? There are plenty of identities and there is plenty of attention, they think. The white can’t understand them. Nor can they understand the white.”
The Fundamentals of Thought,pp. 35-36.
Or this little gem from Therapy Section of Technique 80: Part I, Route to Infinity, 21 May 1952:
“Actually, have you ever noticed how a negro, in particular, down south, where they’re pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gate post and the wagon and the whip and anything around there. A hat — they talk to ’em, you know. “Wassa madda wit you, hat?” [laughter]. They imbue them, with personality.”
I don’t know where the COS every promoted this, though!
I recall a taped lecture in which Hubbard talked about the flaws of blacks in Africa. He accused them of being chronic liars and thieves and expressed doubts that they could be helped because they were so far from becoming civilized, or something to that effect. They were so far down their overts wouldn’t even read. Sorry, I don’t remember the name of the lecture.
Here’s some other clues:
“Blacks were so stupid, he told John McMaster, that they did not give a reading on an E-meter.” (from Bare-Faced Messiah, from an interview with McMaster).
Also: “The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard.” L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization).
I guess an apologist for Ron could argue that he didn’t mean all blacks, just African natives, and that since blacks in the USA are about 20% genetically black they are not who Ron was talking about.
But the truth is that Ron was once again ignorant, since “race” is really a social construct and not a biological reality and a superficial trait like skin color, eyelid shape, etc. does not a human define.
Even skin color yields to evolutionary explanation. “Whites” and “blacks” both have about the same number of melanocytes (melanin producing cells) in their skin. The difference is that in “blacks” the melanocytes are “turned on” and produce skin pigment, while in “whites” they are “turned off” and only produce temporary changes like in tanning. Why do both non-races have the same number of melanoctyes? Because both groups evolved from an earlier ancestor who had darker skin for survival advantage reasons, probably living in the tropical zones, and most likely in Africa.
PS I just found this YouTube video that may be the lecture I was thinking of, or at least a similar one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNemqy9yjLE. In it Hubbard claims that African blacks have a different nervous system, and that South Africa has no problems (!).
Isn’t there a step something like “invest the remainder in service facsimiles”? That might explain a few things.