A couple of days ago, Tony Ortega posted a lengthy “success story” from a woman who had recently completed “Super Power.” Of course, it was over-the-top bizarre, but one paragraph stood out:
While on the rundown two major SPs (2.5 percent) connected to my dynamics received their bitter end. One died in an unexpected way, and the other got put in a psychiatric hospital by his best friend. This filled me with the glory of justice.
I doubt there is a more clear-cut example of the callous disregard for human life into which scientologists are inculcated than this.
Many former scientologists, including Leah Remini and me, have made the point that scientologists believe their “enemies” do not deserve to live. Some have thought this was an exaggeration said just for effect. I give you this woman as Exhibit 1. She said the quiet part out loud. This IS what scientologists are taught to believe. That those who are “SP’s” should be dead or incarcerated in mental institutions (which to scientologists is in fact worse than dying because “the psychs” will implant you to destroy your future lifetimes). And when someone you deem to be an enemy or SP meets their demise, it is a result of the “glory of justice.” They got what they so richly deserved. No remorse. No compassion. No empathy.
Scientology.
It should come as no surprise. Hubbard never had much problem saying the quiet part out loud. Over and over. Anyone who has been schooled in the world of Hubbard knows this is a perfectly reasonable attitude to have towards your enemies. The SP’s of the world do not deserve to live. My own children have been taught that I do not deserve to live and will see it as the “glory of justice” when I shuffle off this mortal coil.
A glance at just SOME of what Hubbard wrote will send shivers down the spine of normal people. Starting way back in 1951 in his second major book on the subject (emphasis mine):
Science of Survival:
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. Adders are safe bedmates compared to people on the lower bands of the tone scale. Not all the beauty nor the handsomeness nor artificial social value nor property can atone for the vicious damage such people do to sane men and women. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line — a task which, indeed, is not very great, since the amount of processing in many cases might be under fifty hours, although it might also in others be in excess of two hundred — or simply quarantining them from the society. A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
HCOB 31 December 1969 Blow-Offs
Here he explains that those who don’t support scientology are harming good people and because of this they end up dead. He adds some crocodile tears disclaimers to his boasts.
The person is blowing himself off with his own overts and withholds. If these are not removed then anything the Organization or its people does to him goes in like a javelin and leaves him with a dark area in his life and a rotten taste in his mouth. Further he goes around spouting lies about the Organization and its related personnel and every lie he utters makes him just that much sicker. By permitting a blow-off without clearing it we are degrading people, for I assure you, and with some sorrow, people have not often recovered from overts against Scientology, its Organizations and related persons. They don’t recover because they know in their hearts even while they lie that they are wronging people who have done and are doing enormous amounts of good in the world and who definitely do not deserve libel and slander. Literally, it kills them and if you don’t believe it I can show you the long death list.
Just this year I had an electrician who robbed HCO of money with false bills and bad workmanship. One day he woke up to the fact that the Organization he was robbing was helping people everywhere far beyond his ability to ever help anyone. Within a few weeks he contracted TB and is now dying in a London Hospital. Nobody took off the overts and withholds when he left. And it’s actually killing him – a fact which is no fancy on my part. There is something a little terrifying in this sometimes. I once told a bill collector what and who we were and that he had wronged a good person and a half hour later he threw a hundred grains of veronal down his throat and was lugged off to hospital, a suicide.
HCO PL 12 February 1967 Responsibilities of Leaders
Hubbard opines on the biggest mistake Manuela Saenz made in her life — not killing Simon Bolivar’s rival Santander:
Her most fatal mistake was in not bringing down Santander, Bolivar’s chief enemy. That cost her everything she had before the end and after Bolivar died. She knew for years Santander had to be killed. She said it or wrote it every few days. Yet never did she promise some young officer a nice night or a handful of gold to do it in a day when duelling was in fashion. It’s like standing around discussing how the plainly visible wolf in the garden that’s eating the chickens must be shot, even holding a gun, and never even lifting it while all one’s chickens vanish for years.
In a land overridden with priests she never got herself a tame priest to bring about her ends.
She was a fantastic intelligence officer. But she fed her data to a man who could not act to protect himself or friends, who could only fight armies dramatically. She did not see this and also quietly take on the portfolio of secret police chief. Her mistake was waiting to be asked-to be asked to come to him, to act. She voluntarily was his best political intelligence agent. Therefore she should have also assumed further roles.
She guarded his correspondence, was intimate with his secretaries. And yet she never collected or forged or stole any document to bring down enemies either through representations to Bolivar or a court circle of her own. And in an area with that low an ethic, that’s fatal.
She openly pamphleteered and fought violently as in a battle against her rabble.
She had a great deal of money at her disposal. In a land of for-sale Indians she never used a penny to buy a quick knife or even a solid piece of evidence.
And these are two steps of his “formula” for Power:
- When you’re close to power get some delegated to you, enough to do your job and protect yourself and your interests, for you can be shot, fellow, shot, as the position near power is delicious but dangerous, dangerous always, open to the taunts of any enemy of the power who dare not really boot the power but can boot you. So to live at all in the shadow or employ of a power you must yourself gather and USE enough power to hold your own-without just pattering to the power to “kill Pete”, in straightforward or more suppressive veiled ways to him as these wreck the power that supports yours. He doesn’t have to know all the bad news and if he’s a power really he won’t ask all the time, “What are all those dead bodies doing at the door?” And if you are clever, you never let it be thought HE killed them-that weakens you and also hurts the power source. “Well, boss, about all those dead bodies, nobody at all will suppose you did it. She over there, those pink legs sticking out, didn’t like me.” “Well,” he’ll say if he really is a power, “why are you bothering me with it if it’s done and you did it. Where’s my blue ink?” Or “Skipper, three shore patrolmen will be along soon with your cook, Dober, and they’ll want to tell you he beat up 357 Simson.” “Who’s Simson?” “He’s a clerk in the enemy office downtown.” “Good, when they’ve done it, take Dober down to the dispensary for any treatment he needs. Oh yes. Raise his pay.” Or “Sir, could I have the power to sign divisional orders?” “Sure.”
- And lastly and most important, for we all aren’t on the stage with our names in lights, always push power in the direction of anyone on whose power you depend. It may be more money for the power, or more ease, or a snarling defense of the power to a critic, or even the dull thud of one of his enemies in the dark, or the glorious blaze of the whole enemy camp as a birthday surprise. If you work like that and the power you are near or depend upon is a power that has at least some inkling about how to be one, and if you make others work like that, then the power-factor expands and expands and expands and you too acquire a sphere of power bigger than you would have if you worked alone. Real powers are developed by tight conspiracies of this kind pushing someone up in whose leadership they have faith. And if they are right and also manage their man and keep him from collapsing through overwork, bad temper or bad data, a kind of Juggernaut builds up. Don’t ever feel weaker because you work for somebody stronger. The only failure lies in taxing or pulling down the strength on which you depend. All failures to remain a power’s power are failures to contribute to the strength and longevity of the work, health and power of that power. Devotion requires active contribution outwards from the power as well as in.
Scientologists claim this writing is merely parable and not intended to be taken literally. That this often-cited policy letter is simply a dissertation on a book about life as it was centuries ago. But there can be no doubt about Hubbard’s attitude towards those who are “enemies.” His formula is for the present day and the future. It is the steps he asserts must be taken to retain power. And the idea that Hubbard’s words are not to be taken literally is only EVER said to people outside scientology when they are trying to save face or avoid guilt. To a scientologist, his words are to be taken very literally and very seriously.
And even if “the Simon Bolivar PL” (as it is widely known) were all merely a parable about a long gone era, what follows is most certainly not.
Auditor Magazine Announcement
Hubbard published these directions concerning those he thought were stealing his “technology” for their “personal gain” in a scientology magazine for the world to see.
There is no room for doubt with this one.
Though scientology claims Hubbard’s reference to “Process R2-45” is a Hubbard “joke,” they do not dispute that it is a reference to using a .45 pistol to shoot someone in the head in order to separate their thetan (spirit) from their body. That IS what it means. And even if he was joking at the time he first described it, he was not joking in 1968 when he directed Sea Org members to use it against his enemies. What else could this mean?
There is much more Hubbard about how to treat enemies and SP’s detailed in my earlier posting: Dealing with Critics of Scientology: The L. Ron Hubbard Playbook.
PODCAST TONIGHT
The podcast tonight is the third edition of “Listener Questions” and we have some great topics as always… I will as always do a post with the documents associated with the episode along with the link to the podcast itself.
This another in a LONG string of truly excellent,concise,pithy posts that use
“scientology scripture” to support its thesis.
EVERY SINGLE PROOF OF SCIENTOLOGY’S CODIFIED INSANITY AND INTENTIONAL CRIMINALITY IS CONTAINED IN ITS WRITTEN POLICIES, WHICH FRAME AND DRIVE THE OPERATIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF ITS ORGANIZATIONS AND ALL OF ITS ADHERENTS-period!!!
This I why I repeatedly state my passionate, unequivocal view that scientology has NO redeeming value. It was and is a maliciously crafted Crowleyian mind fuck purposely designed to delude,degrade,and defraud its participants/adherents/administrators and to enrich,first,El Con Blowhard, and now,C(unty)O(obstinate)B(astard).
Wow. That girl needs some life lessons to teach her that having the mindset that wishes other people death and insanity is like a big mirror and it reflects right back on her. It’s her mind that thought this up that spread it to others so she is living with it whether she wants to believe that or not. I guess its NOT. Because when SHE gets sick it will be blamed on someone else some”SP'” but not her. Their hypocrisy is sickening.
Don’t forget Knowledge Reports policy, where L. Ron Hubbard defines how in ethics staff would correctly end up giving enemy staff members black eyes.
In ethics staff would never tolerate a fellow staff member sticking pins in fellow staff, without the pin sticker staff member receiving a black eye.
Knowledge Report policy essentially forever more condones giving out black eyes.
I remember back in 1989 or 1990 I read that policy letter about the people killing themselves and a few others and thought “people who don’t know what Scientology is will think that it is a fascist group.” I thought it was a “temporary” use of high control to achieve long-term freedom. The high control is real and permanent but the freedom is a false promise that never comes true.
The Larouche cult is similar, as are many others, and uses claims of being extremely interested in equality and justice (from a left political stance) but is extremely fascistic in its inner circle and policies.
Scientology promises freedom and the Way to Happiness comes across as very agreeable to equality and justice but it’s a false front, like much of Scientology propaganda.
Hubbard mastered a propaganda technique that Arnie Lerma pointed out to me the reverse blockade – having people get contradictory information to overwhelm and confuse them, but Hubbards uses it in an additional way.
He uses reversals of truth as a way to induce double think as described by Orwell. But he uses these as thought stopping cliches that are meant to be triggered by the introduction of the truth.
In other words say Hubbard knows news of his practice of fair game will get out. He writes a policy to enforce fair game and a list of justice codes but simultaneously writes the Way To Happiness or a bunch of policy letters that are the opposite of his actual practices.
This gives a Scientologist a thought stopping cliche to think of as a response to the true opposite information.
If you’re a Scientologist and someone talks about a topic you can find an opposite idea from Scientology doctrine. Hubbard said Scientology is the most ethical organization on earth so you can think of that whenever criticism arises and you can think of his claims that critics are evil and insane people motivated by hidden crimes and evil purposes and a hidden terror of others.
That in debate is an ad hominem attack and the genetic (as in genesis meaning origin) fallacy. Both are fallacies (poor arguments) because they are irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of claims. If you only believe claims by perfect people then you don’t believe any claims.
So, in other words Hubbard tried to program the thoughts of his followers so they follow a predictable pattern.
You as a Scientologist are meant to think of people supporting Scientology as wise and good and people opposing Scientology as evil and insane or at best PTS to the middle class. You are meant to have a variety of reactions to different stimuli that all reinforce your belief in one thing over all others – your belief in and submission to the authority of Ronald Hubbard.
He contradicted himself on many, many things but not on this. He always positions himself as an infallible genius and the “mistakes” he admits to are things like “creating miracles with Dianetics never before created but creating even better miracles with Scientology! Overcoming a lifetime of irrational behavior with auditing but later overcoming eons of aberration with newer auditing!” he was bragging when he pretended to be admitting his mistakes. He admitted to “listening to the ideas of others” and “having to eat crow”, meaning HIS ideas are ALWAYS AND FOREVER WITHOUT EXCEPTION better than the ideas of anyone else – including you!
So, when in doubt you are meant to think of HIS words to decide for you and never your own.
See how it works?
The key to understanding Fascism is to recognize its appeal. Nazi stands for National Socialist. Fascism makes its appeal to the right and left with appeals to patriotism & national pride along with regulating capitalism and corporations, health / environmental regulation, and a collective work together mindset. Fascism was seductive for a reason.
There are a lot of reasons for Scientology to draw people in. Then it keeps pulling you in, getting you to excuse more and more. Remember what Mike Rinder, a great guy , ended up doing for the cult.
It is good to reflect on how these destructive ideologIes could have (or did) drawn you in. Recognizing that it could have been you in the Hole or in OSA is sobering.
Scientology has been named over and over as a HATE group.
It pays IT professionals to make ATTACK and HATE pages on its critics, many of whom served for decades for a pittance.
Another feature of their *HATE* is to gloat and take great pleasure in the DEATH of a critic or someone who speaks out.
How very church like and ecclesiastical.
I told Mike that he really ought to start a new web site titled, “Who is Dxxxx Mxxxxxxxxx?” I bet people would contribute some excellent opinions for that page.
That woman’s post about taking pleasure that one so-called “SP” had to be put in a psych facility and one died, is beyond repugnant. What a bitch to say such a nasty, vile thing.
Several people who post to this blog have called this cult Fascist. I can’t imagine any stronger proof of that then the contents of today’s blog. Reading what he wrote, it would be difficult to tell the diff between Blubbard and Hitler.
Thank you again,Mr.Rinder for another excellent and informative article.Now I realize that besides being a total lunatic,LRH was also a psychopath.If he had not founded Scientology,he probably would have become a serial killer instead.Looking forward to the upcoming podcast very much.Be well.
Nancy, IMO and others’, Hubbard WAS a serial killer. How man y of his loyal followers died unnecessarily by following his demon-exorcizing instructions rather than getting evidence- and science-based medical treatment? MSH, Annie Broeker, and Captain Bill come easily to Mind. All were far more loyal than he deserved.
Nancy, IMO and others’, Hubbard WAS a serial killer. How many of his loyal followers died unnecessarily by following Tubby’s demon-exorcizing instructions rather than getting evidence and science-based medical treatment? MSH, Annie Broeker, and Captain Bill come easily to mind. All were far more loyal than he deserved.
Oh I don’t know, suppose the only way someone can get off the OSA stats as a, ‘Who,’ is be doing the honourable thing and dying.
Lron was a nasty, lazy, sociopathic little boy who coned enough people into worshiping him and giving him money. All else flows from that.
That is true. But it’s also worth knowing from what all of that flowed.
Somehow, when he was a kid, he developed the notion he was a great man and the whole world should be worshipping him. But when he joined the Navy and learned he was a complete screw-up and incompetent … when he learned he could never seem to do anything without screwing it up, he decided to lie cheat and steal in order to fake some kind of fabulous reputation instead of trying to earn it honestly. But considering the state of affairs in 2020, he screwed that up more than anything else.
Sorry Zee, but when I saw “coned’, all I could think of was the coneheads. LOL😜
Mike, A post I have achieved because in all the hatred and horror that is contained within Ron’s policies & writings,there is the putrid undercurrent of Ron that pulls all the corrosion and pain to the viewpoint you have so forcefully presented above.
I know that once I was targeted as a SO SP Plant within the cult of Scientology it was to the mean end of all of me. My body, my mind and my spirit. On those the onslaught of Fair Game would be unleashed. And so R2.45 was used to let me know in no uncertain terms I was to be eliminated by any and all means necessary to produce the outcome wanted.😢
An excellent job! You always seem to manage to get right to the heart of things, clearly stated facts…most often using their own writing and actions to prove that the evil is there blazing forth!
Thank you for sharing this!
I’ve always said and stand by my conclusion. Scientology CREATES and nurtures sociopathy. The uncaring callous disregard for people who are anti-Scientology OR in this case cited, an enemy of the Scientologist. I’ve seen these sorts of instances over and over in Scientology for as long as I can remember.
This sort of thinking is pure cult-think.
Right, Michael.
LRH’s perfect little slaves didn’t HAVE emotions to dissuade them from following his dictates to the letter, immediately and thoroughly. Even better was to anticipate his wishes.
Mike, another great article opening everyone’s eyes to how Scientology really feels about enemies.
My great insight into Hubbard was on the Universe Tapes in 1952. It was very obvious that Hubbard was an extreme Fascist. In fact, his basic assumption was that the “native state” of the thetan was Fascism. The entities that Hubbard was trying to control on that tape came to him from the Sumerians through King Solomon and through Crowley. With a below average mind, Hubbard himself could only fall into the idea that murder was the only solution. Hubbard claimed to have fought the Marcabs and Xenu. In this way he justified his ignorance. But in the end, all of the Scientology Bridge is Satanic. In Eastern religion, Satan is closer to death while in the West it is evil. So the Scientology Bridge which claims to produce immortal life, in fact produces death for its members and uses death as a remedy for its enemies.
Fascism is the result of fixation on self (individuality). This fixation also leads to racism and the greed of capitalism. The whole idea of THETAN comes from the fixation on individuality. Hubbard tried to differentiate individuality from identity in the section “Identity versus Individuality” of Scientology 8-8008; but, interestingly enough, you cannot have an individuality without identity.
In many ways I find Donald Trump to be instinctively following this fixation of Scientology. Scientology is making inroads in politics. I find that to be quite dangerous.
Excellent comment and very accurate. You filled in the blanks and spotted Hubbard in his essence. By the way, I was a high school classmate with Donald Trump at NYMA. He ended up President. I ended up OT VIII. But seriously, I had to deal with him on many occasions and it was not at all fun in high school. Your analysis of identity and individuality is spot on.
Vinay. Nice post. Hubbard ego was greater than his ‘tech’ or ‘discoveries’ .
He was extremely too much fixated on himself as a savior. But he wasn’t that.
He couldn’t divide own’s big individuality from the truth: one is simply a reflex of Life making experience to get consciousness.
Hubbard was simply an ego dramatizing its desire to don’t die.
“All within the State. Nothing outside the State.” – Mussolini
Fascism is not individualism, it is the subversion of the individual into the National Will and the Group. Economically, it does not seize industries, but instead makes them tools of the state. Everything must be directed toward the glory of the state and its destiny.
People familiar with Scientology can see the parallels – the individual must submit to the “greatest good for the highest dynamics” Family, business, all your life are tools for the Org. The Sea Org even bring to mind the Blackshirts & Brownshirts, or to use a different flavor of totalitarian nightmare, Mao’s Red Guards. Hubbard was a wannabe dictator. He was the only one allowed to be an individual.
Vinay, I see any inroads scientology makes ANYwhere as insanely dangerous. Thankfully, the alliance with NOI seems self-correcting though it may take awhile before the final dust-up explodes. I can’t imagine two groups more diametrically opposed.
Vinay, there’s also what Hubbard wrote in his more mellow moments and that which he wrote when in his manic phases. We all signed up to forward the pro-survival goals he professed, then got trapped into his less-survival-minded paranoia and sociopathy. How many times did we all fail to help our friends who merely needed a shoulder to lean on and an open ear? “No case on post”, “don’t discuss your case out of session”, No verbal tech”, were all codes for “Don’t examine the ‘tech’. and “Don’t help a friend in need with the most basic of help, two-way comm.”
In “Racket Exposed,” point 3: “They are declared Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life.”
I am sure Never-Ins who visit this blog will surely scratch their heads: How could people embrace such extraordinary self-importance, and non-negotiable tribal self-involvement?
However, looking at this through my lens when I was a Still-In, I would have responded, “Yeah! Damn straight! How could they? Eternally dirty rotten scoundrels. They surely are an enemy of all life!”
“All life”? Gimme a break. (Sensitive, much? Get your TR0 Bullbait back in, how about.)
This is a remarkable series of deprogramming to visit this site. Thank you, Mike!
As a never-in, I do scratch my head. Then again recent politics has shown me celebrating the death of opponents is more common than I imagined.
I’m active on a political site that’s considered “Progressive.” I was shocked to see some members celebrate the COVID deaths of people who previously claimed COVID was a hoax.
These are progressives who consider themselves ethically holier than right wingers. And when I added a comment indicating I felt these people were victims of trumpism and paid with their lives, I was ridiculed for my compassion.
One example was a trump supporting couple with kids who made a number of Facebook videos claiming COVID was a left-wing conspiracy/hoax to ruin the trump presidency.
A few weeks later both husband and wife died of COVID leaving their kids orphans. So many ‘progressives” gleefully celebrated this news.
It was a sad reminder for me of the dark side of human nature.
Thanks Peridot.
Deprograming humanity is the precise word to describe what Mike Rinder and Leah Remini are doing. And very successfully in my opinion.
Truly wants to make me throw up seeing that drivel again. How I read that stuff years ago with a straight face makes me makes me want to cringe now. But hey… better out than in! Ain’t that the truth?
Oh, and that success story – gives me the image of cat puke on a plush white carpet!
Unfortunately this is true and it is not an exaggeration.
If something serious happens to someone considered to be an enemy, it creates joy. Even if unfortunately it happens to a relative of the enemy, that’s okay, since the enemy will suffer.
Hate IS an integral part of scn but strangely when they feel it towards others no one is deemed to be below 2.5 on the tone scale.
It should be noted that many in scn (I use their terminology) have a chronic low tone level towards certain categories of non-scn people of their 3rd and 4th dynamics (if not even all of them).
It is in effect a precise form of racism.
Good observation but even more precise than referring to race, it’s a doctrine of precise mental conditioning with a known but also an acceptable and enforceable in-house effect upon all its members. Similar to the fascist methodology policed with fear by Her Himmler. Without such success stories, how else could they continue to pledge their allegiance? Money and slave devotion and of course inciting death & destruction by whatever means to the enemies of their masters. That’s the bubble of insanity that is Scientology, and in their minds, “it’s all for the good of mankind.”
(It’s Christmas and I’m pissed the Scientology effect still leaves it’s lingering stench within my family).
The dark side of human nature is called “dark” for a reason. We don’t really like that it exists, but there it IS. Schadenfreude is a related concept. It’s the basis of some forms of comic humor; slipping on a banana peel, pratfalls, the Three Stooges. I was somewhat surprised to hear, years ago, that on some Greek island, the Stooges shows were wildly popular in English, not captioned in Greek, not necessary. These things are universal
On that note, I’ll make my exit saying only
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
May next year be a good deal happier.