Declaration of David Alexander to IRS
Sworn Statement for Prosecution and Litigation of the Church of Scientology,
and for Tax Exemption Review by the Internal Revenue Service
Dear Sirs:
This is to report gross profiteering and fraud by the Church of
Scientology -- in violation of their non-profit status, and of their agreement
with the IRS to refund parishioners of products and services upon demand. I
understand the church is currently up for review of its tax exempt status.
I was once on staff and when I left that position I was called a freeloader
after I was billed for services that were promised to be a part of the
compensation for being on staff. As the term implies, being a freeloader is
something of a disgrace and I was told I was prohibited to come to my church
or participate in my religion until I paid this fraudulent debt.
Then when I received a personal injury award following an accident there was
an endless pursuit by Scientologists to apply coercive, intimidating sells
efforts on me from various churches of Scientology. When the word of my new
wealth was reported to other Scientology Churches, "Commando Sales Teams"
came to my home from Los Angeles, Clearwater, Florida, and New York. High
ranking Scientologists "worked" on me around the clock and closed sales
after exhausting me for up to twelve hour periods.
Once, after I stopped payment on $200,000.00 worth of checks, Scientology
personnel threatened me with eternal death if I didn’t make the checks good.
In all, I was defrauded of $112,822.26 by salesmen from the Church of
Scientology, promising me an impossible Salvation. It was witheld from me
that the upper levels were exorcism of spirits from other planets.
It is a formal lie by a dishonest church that their income can be called
"donations". They sell high-priced counseling to be delivered by counselors
long-trained in suppressing the customers’ objections while bamboozling the
customer into agreement to do so. The price of their fixed-price counseling
is not negotiable, it is a firm price at up to 600 dollars or more per hour.
These prices are printed regularly and are not left to disgression as a
donation -- no payment, no service. And then they can invoke policies, not
earlier disclosed, which entitle them to not deliver those services.
After accepting large payments from me for counseling for my fiancee and
myself to resolve pre-marital difficulties, the church in L.A. only gave us
the most primary rudiments of Scientology. Separating us they suggested to
me that she was evil and that I should leave her. This had a great impact
on me. I later feared that after they got all my money they would have no
use for me and would just keep her discarding me.
This discarding came within two months of the abusive counseling. In August
of 1992 the church officers in Dallas had a meeting with my fiancee and told
her I was psychotic and dangerous and that she should take a Hotel room to
hide from me (This time they were telling "her" that "I" was evil).
Needless to say, my reaction was vociferous and uncontrolled. They punished
my reaction by banishing me from the church and threatening me with eternal
damnation if I didn’t "make up for the damage I had caused".
I pleaded with them to let me come back to church, but I was met with a
morally bank-rupt sadism that I had never believed possible by human beings.
I by-passed them, pleading with the mother church in L.A. All pleas were
denied. I pleaded with a Scientology minister in Austin who prescribed
vitamin therapy for my "insanity". He began a process of indoctrinating me
in the sinfulness of love with Hubbard’s scriptures entitled "Pain and Sex".
During this time I was depressed, and desperate to convince the church of
the injustices which had taken place. Also I was frantically trying to
contact my fiancee who had moved back to Europe. Finally one night I
snapped and tried to end my life. An outside contact interrupted me long
enough for me to regain my orientation. I was held for ten days in a
psychiatric observation facility. While I was there an official of the
Church of Scientology contacted the head psychiatrist, giving him
disparaging information from my confidential priest/penitent folder seeking
to have me committed to a ninety-day psychiatric drug program. She (Ann
Laws) did this in contradiction to Scientology disdain of the Psychiatric
profession as "evil".
This frightening experience induced me to strive even harder to get back in
standing with the church.
Meanwhile, an executive from "Scientology Missions International" put out a
warning to other churches to compel me to donate my funds on account
out-right so the church would experience no loss. The "Commodore’s
Messengers from Clearwater, Florida came to me promising that all would be
resolved if I would donate the balance in my account to the new church in
Russia. I refused strongly as I felt I needed the services those funds had
paid for to continue my "Clearing", as the Scientology Salvation is called.
But they persisted that I could not continue in Scientology unless I did so.
After about two weeks of persistent salesmanship I donated about $45,000.00
remaining on account believing that I was doing what was best for my
spiritual salvation.
[A U.S. Judge has determined that the various Churches of Scientology are
"Alter Egos" of the one Church of Scientology, and that denial claims that
one church is not responsible for violations of another church are merely
dodges, and are invalid.]
When a minister/salesman from the mother church in L.A. visited the Austin
church and invited me to come to L.A. and promised me that this upper level
church would resolve everything if I came, I left a large home I had
furnished with $150,000.00 worth of furnishings for myself and my children
to have nice surroundings and sought to accept his promise. I managed to
sell the furnishings for about $6000.00 in an estate sale which financed my
move to L.A.
But in L.A. I met with severe opposition from sources there, and in the
Florida church to which I had stopped payments on $200,000.00 worth of
checks two years earlier. It was forbidden that I should come around the
church anymore. When I persisted, Security was called to usher me off the
premises. I persisted for three more years, writing letters that were
placed, unopened, into a "deadfile" folder. Over this time I tediously
wrote up all the injustices and sent them to the "International Justice
Chief". Four days later, the windows were shot out of my car.
All these persons had the opportunity at one time or another to see through
the charlatan religion, but they caved-in to coercive, abusive, sadistic
implantation under the tutelage of the megalomanic, paranoid schizophrenic,
homosexual, sadistic L. Ron Hubbard (documentation on request). This is a
highly unstable situation. The lot of them are trapped in a bizarre state
of mind which makes for an explosive situation. Scientologists are of a
mind to break any law for their "religion". They are continually frazzled
by compliance to severe work schedules and payrolls of $30.00 per week.
Each of them is menaced with incarceration in Scientology’s own private
prison system.
Other losses: An expensive leather Scientology jacket and Scientology gold
ring were stolen from my locked room at a Scientology boarding house (only
Scientologists were permitted on the premises). My two bicycles, worth
about $2000.00 were stolen from the Scientology parking garage where they
were chain-locked. The chains were cut by a bolt cutter. Passage is
admitted only with a card key given only to Scientologists.
There was never a resolution to whatever reason they were keeping me from my
religious progress.
If it sounds preposterous that anyone would tolerate such a sadistic,
coercive treatment, consider the similar circumstances of a recruit in the
United States Marines Boot Camp, where a similar belief factor leads him to
submit to various coercions because he believes it to be for the best
interests of his country. Can anyone doubt that religious zeal for the best
interests of mankind can surpass patriotic zeal?
Scientology teaches a course called "Hard Sell" teaching that failure to
sell Scientology goods and services is the only sin that one can commit.
And Scientologists are punished for this sin too frequently. In the
Scientology Management Dictionary there is listed the definition of
"Commando Sales Team" (listed as "Sales team, Commando"). These teams
visited me on more than one occasion and other Scientology salesmen called
me constantly, menacing me with rewards or consequences for paying my money
to the church. The salesmen come with "Command Intention", meaning they
were instructed by the Executive Director of Scientology International to
close the sale at all costs. It is an established manipulation in the
Church of Scientology to threaten people with eternal damnation if they don’
t comply with demands from the higher levels. This is very effective on
members who have come to believe in this charlatan religion through claims
of "scientific basis".
Scientologists represent their "religion" to be scientific, and base
promises of personal improvement on these "scientific"claims. Coming into
Scientology under the guise of a religion begins one level of commitment.
But the representations that it is scientific multiplies one’s convictions
and gullibility.
One of these claims is that the E-meter (a lie detector) can date and locate
troublesome memories, that is, to identify the exact time and place a person
received the troublesome memory. Claims are made that these troublesome
memories can be dated and located back trillions of years with precision.
Demonstrations are offered to "prove" this, such as a pinch test, and actual
psychotherapy to improve a person with the aid of the E-Meter—claiming that
the psychotherapy gains were due to the E-Meter and to Hubbard’s superior
"Technology". [The use of the word "Technology" for Hubbard’s scripture
lends more of an aura of "scientific method".] The entirety of Scientology
"religious experience" is in actuality psychotherapy—resulting in practicing
medicine without a license. So after a time, a reverence for the E-Meter is
induced, built on the feelings of personal relief rendered by the
psychotherapy-labeled-religion. This provides the basis for the customer to
believe he has had a "religious experience". It shouldn’t be hard to
understand that this is religiously very impressive. Once the religious
nature of the E-Meter is "established" it is natural for the religious
customer to assume all that he is told about Scientology. This coupled
with regular group and individual coercion induces the customer to believe
without question that counselling results in spiritual growth. And as
pschotherapy has always been a helpful technique for relieving persons of
bereavances and trauma, the relief gained is said to be a result of
religious workings. In this way a blind faith is induced which leads one to
never question the church or its staff. Subsequently compliance is coerced
through Hubbard’s "Ethics Technology" by shaming and blaming the customer
into submission to the demands of the "Ethics Officer".
Supporting these claims is the dirivation of the Advanced Technology—which
consists of Exorcism of spirits from 75 other planets who were flown here in
DC-8’s, from as far away as 750 light years, 75 million years ago, frozen in
"glycol". Fifteen Trillion such beings were brought to Earth and destroyed
on volcanoes in giant thermonuclear explosions. The lingering souls of
these beings are collectively the "boogy men" of the Scientology religion
and the only way to steer clear of them is to spend approximately $360,000
to the Church of Scientology.
But did Hubbard learn of this demonic possession through his own spiritual
divination? No. Hubbard represents that this was divined through the use
of the infallible E-Meter. In his book, "History of Man", Hubbard
represents that through hundreds of psychotherapy sessions using the
E-Meter, this Advanced Technology gradually took shape by compiling the
distant memories of past lives of Scientology customers, as "confessed" in
session. The customers did not volunteer the date and places—that was
claimed to have been interpolated from E-Meter activity during interrogation
of the customer. Hubbard claimed that the story of the 15 Trillion demons
was accurately dated and located to have happened 75 million years ago at
various volconoes on Earth. He listed the volcanoes by name—compiling a
list of perhaps twenty volcanoes which are in existence today.
So Hubbard’s Advanced Technology is claimed to be compiled from the
testimony of hundreds of customers, divined by the dating accuracy of the
E-Meter. He claims specifically that E-Meter reads are the customer’s
reactions to questions of ‘when’ and ‘where’ an incident happened. He
represents this procedure to be an infallible science—lending the credence
of science to convince his customers. Although belief in this aspect of
Scientology is coerced, it is represented to be "scientific". The result of
this complexity is to induce in the customer something akin to "allegiance"
rather than belief.
However, modern geology has determined that none of the volcanoes Hubbard
listed could have existed 75 million years ago. Especially the two
"Headquarters Volcanoes", in the Canary Islands, and in Hawaii, definitely
did not exist 75 million years ago. In 1967 or 1968 Hubbard had a
motorcycle accident in Las Palmas, the Canary Islands. This was about the
time Hubbard came up with the "Demon Spirit Technology". Hubbard professed
to be immune to accidents. This was embarrassing to Hubbard. It is likely
he contrived the story of little boogy men surrounding the Canary Islands to
account for his accident—like claiming that the "devil" made him do it.
Peter Forde, a college trained geologist has written a treatise on the false
foundation of Scientology’s Advanced Technology.
Peter Forde, B.Sc. - A Scientific scrutiny of OT 3 (revised June 1996)
Copyright (C) 1994, Peter Forde; revised version, Copyright (C) 7th June
1996, Peter Forde. This document may be freely reproduced on a
not-for-profits basis. For other uses you are requested to obtain prior
permission from the author. Note that "Section III OT", "OT3",
"Scientology", "L.Ron Hubbard", "Dianetics", "E-meter" and other
scientology words are trademark and belong to COSRECI. Written by Peter
Forde B.Sc. 54 Underwood Court, Hyde, CHESHIRE UK SK14 3HX
[OT3 is the Scientology document which lays out the basis of the Advanced
Technology]
The only conlusion is that Hubbard fabricated the compiled counselling
"confessions" into the basis of the Advanced Technology claiming that the
E-Meter authenticated the historical claims with infallibility. Hubbard had
no way of knowing that his fabrication could later be disproved by
scientific discoveries. Hubbard’s Advanced Technology is the lucrative scam
of a depleted Science Fiction author. This is Deception and Fraud.
There are other instances of Hubbard’s deception and fraud.
The claim to lead individuals to salvation independently of God is a sham.
It is tantamount to building salvation in your back yard with hand tools.
It smacks of having been invented by someone who has the ability to
participate in spiritual phenomenon—someone like a magician--but excludes
God from his spiritual phenomenon and claims it to be his own doing,
independent of God. This would be the way for an evil entity to build a
group in rebellion against God. It rings of the story of Satan and his
followers. Anyone trying to get into the spiritual realm (heaven) through a
back door has been likened to a robber or a thief. The Being Who made this
comparison, Christ, was said by Hubbard to never have existed. This is told
in a recording of Hubbard’s recognizable voice on one of the secret Class
VIII lectures ("…There was no Christ."). Elsewhere Hubbard calls Christ a
pedophile ("…what is common amongst all the OTVIII documents that I have
seen is the slander of Jesus Christ, being a pedophile, a lover of little
boys, and a slander on religion…", -Jesse Prince [once the #2 man in
Scientology] as told to Lawrence Wollersheim)
Yet Hubbard represents to the world that Scientology is compatible with
Christianity. This is a sales tool when assuring Christians of the
Christianablity of Scientology. It is deception and constitutes Fraud.
Further quotes:
"The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
They smell of all the baths they didn't take."
(L. Ron Hubbard, personal journal, 1928.)
"Gentlemen, this is a request for treatment. After trying and failing for
two
years to regain my equilibrium in civil life, I am utterly unable to
approach
anything like my own competence. My last physician informed me that it might
be very helpful if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically
or even by a psychoanalyst. Toward the end of my service I avoided out of
pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I
had every reason to suppose was seriously affected."
( Hubbard in a letter dated 14 October 1947 to the Veterans' Administration
from his Hollywood address.)
[It is Scientology scripture that psychiatry and psychiatrists are evil and
are working against mankind. Hubbard and the Church of Scientology have
tried to cover up these untoward incidents while expounding the integrity
and even holiness of Hubbard. This is deception and fraud.]
Scientology has been promising to refund my money since August 1997. I got
calls from them telling me that it is only proper for them to refund my
money to me and that the Office of Special Affairs is working on it. The
last time I heard from them, Oct 12, 1998, they sent a Private Investigator
with a check and an agreement for me to sign. True to their deception and
duplicity it was not a refund but was an attempt to pay me a mere $10,000 in
exchange for my signature on an agreement that I would never engage in
communicating my knowledge of Scientology to anyone. The agreement included
a $10,000 penalty I would have to pay for each violation of this gag
agreement. This is an attempt to gag me and to cancel my First Amendment
Rights. I rejected the offer flatly as it was not a refund. This is
representative of Scientology’s sadistic manipulation.
For your inspection, I have tape recordings of these phone calls from OSA,
declaring their admission that they should return my money, via their
Private Investigator. It is probable they were doing this as a
procrastination to exceed the Statute of Limitations.
The harmful, destructive Church of Scientology has been defrauding the
Internal Revenue Service and citizens in scores of other nations.
There is information that Scientology has a "plant" in the IRS, so please
take care that no one in your office might "misplace" or "misdirect" this
letter and act on it before there can be any offers of bribe, blackmail, or
extortion.
Copyright 1998, David Alexander. Liberal use granted to the authorites and
to critics for the purpose of prosecution and litigation. Copyright
violations by Scientologists will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law.
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