Greenwich Housing Authority discrimination, 2 of 5

Kristi Wachter <humanrights@racerrecords.com>
Greenwich Housing Authority discrimination, 2 of 5
18 Sep 2002

(Exhibit F Declaration of Ursula Milde dated September 6, 2002, at P 9)

The United States Court of Claims provided further clarity about the alleged purpose behind Scientology:

Scientology hopes to achieve this goal through its sacrament of 'auditing.' Through this process the person or 'pre-clear' is 'cleared' of problems and behaviors caused by his 'reactive mind.' The reactive mind is the term used by Scientologists to describe a force that causes a person to act irrationally or against his own best interest. Scientology seeks to allow a person to overcome his unknowing obedience to the reactive mind, help him clear himself of its influence, and make him responsible for his actions. When a person becomes clear, he achieves freedom from unwanted burdens, and becomes certain of immortality. The concept of immortality and previous lives is behind Scientologists' desire to preserve the words of LRH for billions of years.

Church of Spiritual Technology v. U.S., 26 Cl.Ct. 713, 715 (U.S. Court of Claims 1992).

According to L.Ron Hubbard's "Scientology: the Fundamentals of Thought", "Scientology is a route, a way, rather than a dissertation or an assertive body of knowledge. . .It is an exact science, designed for an age of exact sciences." (Exhibit I Scientology: the Fundamentals of Thought, L. Ron Hubbard, p.8-9). "Scientology is based on a belief that man is an immortal spirit who has lived through previous lifetimes." Church of Spiritual Technology v. U.S., 26 Cl.Ct. 713, 715 (U.S. Court of Claims 1992).

Currently Scientology offers numerous courses to its members at a variety of locations. Members can take lower level courses at local Scientology organizations (called "missions"), while they must go to larger Scientology facilities to take more "advanced" material. Together these courses and related training programs constitute what Scientology calls "The Bridge to Total Freedom" or simply, "The Bridge."

The Supreme Court in Hernandez also stated,

The Church charges a 'fixed donation,' also known as a 'price' or a 'fixed contribution,' for participants to gain access to auditing and training sessions. These charges are set forth in schedules, and prices vary with a session's length and level of sophistication. . . This system of mandatory fixed charges is based on a central tenet of Scientology known as the 'doctrine of exchange,' according to which any time a person receives something he must pay something back. (citation omitted) In so doing, a Scientologist maintains 'inflow' and 'outflow' and avoids spiritual decline.(citation omitted) The proceeds generated from auditing and training sessions are the Church's primary source of income. The Church promotes these sessions not only through newspaper, magazine, and radio advertisements, but also through free lectures, free personality tests, and leaflets. The Church also encourages, and indeed rewards with a 5% discount, advance payment for these sessions. (citation omitted). . .

In the instant case, Defendant Little required all employees in 1998 (conducted by

Scientologist John Wheatley), and again in August 2002 (conducted by the infamous Scientologist Arte Maren), to attend a Scientology training session entitled Improving Business Through Communication, Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard. (Exhibit B) The aforementioned training document was published by the Hubbard College of Administration International. (Exhibit G) which is closely connected to Bridge Publications, Inc. "Bridge Publications, Inc. ('BPI') is: . . . a California for profit corporation. BPI publishes and distributes the Scientology Scriptures (including books and recorded tapes), manufactures, repairs and distributes E-meters, and publishes and distributes fiction works written by L. Ron Hubbard." Church of Spiritual Technology, 26 Cl.Ct. at 724.

Defendant Little paid substantial fees with federal monies to Mr. Wheatley and Mr. Maren to perform such training sessions over several days. Deponent Kemp estimated that the amount of the 1998 training costs an estimated $10,000. Plaintiff has been informed by witnesses that the August 2002 training session cost even more. Defendant Little continues to use these Scientology training courses to further eradicate any other opponents and complete the infiltration of the Housing Authority.

Regardless of the size of the facility that offers these courses and related training, it is organized according to an "organizing board" (or simply "org board"). Moreover, businesses such as the Greenwich Housing Authority that utilize Scientology principles, concepts, and doctrines also use the same org board, with only slight variations to it in order to accommodate the nature of the products or services being offered. The organization board is comprised on numerous divisions that cover every thing from marketing, communications, administration, finance and recruitment.

The former executive director for the Defendants Thomas Crawford testified as to Mr. Little's efforts to establish a new Scientology management organization inside the Housing Authority,

Q: Did Mr. Little suggest new methods of management to you that had their origin in Scientology?

A: Well, he suggested some management things, creating some different divisions. And there was quite a few. I mean, you know, without actually looking at it now, but it was quite a few. I think it was close to 20 maybe different--it took things and you spread them out so that you created all these different divisions, but the divisions themselves were kind of -some of them would cross--apply to more than one, an individual job. It was a fairly complex system. We talked about it and I think we even went to - we were going to try and see about implementing some of that. I don't know that that was a Scientology thing, per se, I just knew it was something Ben wanted to do, and color code things, you know. But I think for the size of the organization, it was probably--it was a lot more complex that what is necessary for the Housing Authority.

(Exhibit C: Deposition Transcript Thomas Crawford at pp.180-181, June 27, 2002.) As will be discussed infra, deponent Crawford's testimony confirmed that the existence of an "infiltration" by Defendant Little's Church of Scientology had occurred at the Town of Greenwich Housing Authority. Plaintiff had no independent evidentiary support prior to deponent Crawford's testimony, that Scientology management controls were attempted by Defendant Little. At this time, no discovery has revealed whether Defendant Little continued to infiltrate the Housing Authority with Scientology religious management practices after the resignation of deponent Crawford. However, Plaintiff's asserts that Defendant Little, as recently as August 2002, paid with federally provided finances to have additional Scientology training seminars conducted for all Housing Authority personnel. At least two witnesses have confirmed that these training sessions did take place in August 2002, and were conducted by Mr. Arte Maren, a world renowned Scientology "Auditor." (Exhibit M: Personal Website of Arte Maren). However, due to the extreme fear of retribution, these two witnesses have asked that their names not be mentioned. Each witness has since left their employment with the Housing Authority.

"In addition to writing policy letters, L. Ron Hubbard also wrote executive directives called L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directives (LRH Eds)." Church of Scientology of California v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 83 T.C. 381, 402 (U.S. Tax Court 1984). Plaintiff asserts that one of those Executive Directives was one of the primary forces behind Plaintiff's termination. L. Ron Hubbard authored Executive Directive "ED 1040" which provides for the infiltration of an organization such as the Greenwich Housing Authority and terminate all those employees whom oppose the controlling Scientologists' directives. Executive Directive 1040 states:

A plan for setting up Scientology in businesses and taking responsibility for this area. (1) Take a business that is already doing fairly well on the basis that you reward the up-stat. (2) Approach the highest executive and disseminate Scientology to him. Offer to make his business make more money for him at no cost to him. Your two demands: (a) Total Control of the business during the time you're operating within the organization. (b) 50 per cent of the additional profit your actions will produce. (3) Next action is to put in Ethics. Locate the SP's in the org and fire them. (4) Audit the Execs . . . show them what its all about. This will then start the cycle of getting in tech0 in the organization. Execs will push their junior and other staff to have auditing. Start in the organization would be interested anyway as a result of suppressives out of the way thereby making the environment a safer place to work in . . . seeing Scientologists in operation. . . and also seeing the case gains on their seniors. (5) Admin: Set up Central org board and get organization worked out on this system. Comm. System, comm. Stations, hat write ups. Result of above will be that organization will get smaller staff-wise as putting in the org board will show up what posts etc. are dev-t and can be disbanded. Also any additional SP's or PTS's1 will have blown off staff as a result of ethics, tech and admin going in. All this - much increased production - expansion - Gross income increase. You would approach the executive of the organization with a copy of some of our production graphs as evidence etc. You would do this alone. When moving into the organization to set it up, you would take as many people as needed, depending upon the size of the org, to set this up. Naturally each person would be thoroughly expertised on the area he was handling.

(Exhibit A: Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology, "ED 1040", Report by Sir. John Foster, K.B.E., Q.C., M.P., Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, December 1971. Due to the secretive nature of some of the scripture (writings of L. Ron Hubbard) of the Church of Scientology, the public cannot easily obtain documents like "ED 1040" and must rely upon secondary sources for the information. In this case, Plaintiff recently discovered this copyrighted material by L. Ron Hubbard set forth in Exhibit A. The reason documents like "ED 1040" are not made public is because they reveal the truest of intentions of the Church of Scientology, i.e. suppress all possible trouble sources and protect the profit motives of the organization.

In the instant case, Plaintiff asserts that Defendant Little, through his authority as the Chief Executive Officer of the Town of Greenwich Housing Authority and as a member of the Church of Scientology, fired Plaintiff because she was a "suppressive person" who allegedly refused to follow Defendant Little's Executive Directives. Defendant Little also used the same tactic to fire his Director of Finance Russel Kemp. Apparently, Mr. Kemp failed to have Plaintiff "sign in" when she visited the Housing Authority on just one occasion. The Defendant Little had radically transformed the Housing Authority offices into a highly secured military operation. The high security was in conformity with the scripture of "ED 1040." Mr. Kemp was also the subject of Defendant Little's private investigator inquiry by Doranto Saccente. However, no negative performance issues were ever found, except for Kemp's failure to sign Plaintiff in.

It is now quite obvious, after conducting discovery focused at this issue, that Defendant Little followed the dictates of L. Ron Hubbard's scripture, pursuant to ED 1040, and fired Plaintiff because she was a "suppressive person"(SP) and a "potential trouble source" (PTS). Defendant Little even admitted during the Unemployment Appeals Hearing that one of the most important principles of Scientology is "carrying out directives," and that was the reason he terminated Plaintiff's employment. (Exhibit K: State of Connecticut Unemployment Appeals Division, June 7, 2001, Transcript at p. 109, Direct Examination of Benjamin W. Little). Throughout the ongoing dispute that led up to Plaintiff's termination, Defendant Little repeatedly accused her of not following his "directives." This is akin to being a "suppressive person" in the scripture of L. Ron Hubbard.

Plaintiff should be allowed to amend her complaint to include religious discrimination, conduct discovery on this issue and have a hearing on the merits of her newly discovered claim.

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Kristi Wachter the activist formerly known as "Jour" (before $cientology outed me)

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