From senahj@my-dejanews.com Fri Dec 04 17:25:35 1998
$cientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, stated initially that $cientology
was _not_ a religion; that it was instead a set of precise scientific
techniques discovered through research.
Only after Hubbard's grandiose claims for medical and psychological
benefits were show to be false, and with fraud prosecution by the U.S.
Federal government looming, did he reorganize $cientology as a church.
The Office of Special Affairs ("OSA") is the current $cientology
organization chartered for intelligence, propaganda, and covert operations.
These covert activities were formerly the job of the Guardian's Office
("GO"), which was reorganized into today's OSA after eleven top
GO officers were jailed in U.S. federal felony convictions.
http://www.entheta.net/entheta/go/go.htm
$cientology's paramilitary elite, the "Sea Org", maintains
re-education camps, known as the "RPF", at several locations.
The lowest levels of RPF have all the characteristics of a gulag work
camp -- involuntary confinement at hard labor; psychological manipulation;
continual harassment; inadequate food, sleep, and sanitation; gross
overcrowding.
http://members.aol.com/jour0/imprisonment.html
Women in the Sea Org are instructed that work is their absolute priority,
and that they are thus not to become pregnant. If they do, they are
pressured, and in some cases coerced, to terminate the pregnancy through
abortion.
http://members.aol.com/jour0/abortions.policy.html
In 1978-81, eleven high-ranking $cientologists were convicted, fined, and
sentenced to terms in Federal penitentiaries for their roles in
"Operation Snow White", a conspiracy to infiltrate and
burglarize U.S. Federal government offices, to steal and destroy
goverment files documenting facts unfavorable to Scientology.
The long list of offenses committed may be found in the court document
"Stipulation of Evidence", at URLs:
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul01.txt
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul02.txt
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul03.txt
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of $cientology, was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in this case.
The convicted include Mary Jane Kember, the "Guardian" (head of
the Guardian's Office, then the second-highest office in $cientology,
reporting directly to Hubbard himself), and Hubbard's second wife Mary Sue.
Despite $cientology's claim that these criminals have been ousted, several
of the convicted felons, including Duke Snider, Henning Heldt, Mo Budlong,
and Dick Weigand, are still active in $cientology.
Kendrick Moxon, senior attorney for $cientology, was named as an
unindicted co-conspirator in this case. Today, the bankrupt California
$cientology organization maintains its offices within Moxon's law firm;
Moxon was the lead attorney in the Scott case that drove the Cult
Awareness Network ("CAN") into bankruptcy.
In July 1992, the Church of Scientology was found guilty of infiltrating
the Toronto Police, along with the offices of Revenue Canada, the Ontario
Attorney General and the provincial government. Thousands of files had
been stolen.
http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/toronto
http://superlink.net/~mgarde/courts.htm#queen
Today Jentzsch is the president of the "Church" of $cientology
International, and McShane is the head of the Religious Technology
Corporation ("RTC"), which presses "copyright"
lawsuits against journalists and critics on behalf of $cientology.
$cientology has an official training routine, "TR-L", that is
used to teach its public spokespersons to lie convincingly, and without
remorse.
Lying defamation of enemies is standard policy in $cientology, and is
termed "dead agenting".
In 1995, the "Church" of $cientology Canada paid the largest
libel judgement in Canadian history, $1.8 million, to the Hon. Casey Hill,
because their official spokesmen continued to maliciously
"dead-agent" Hill when they knew their claims to be lies.
http://superlink.net/~mgarde/hillmann.txt
During "auditing", the person being audited ("the PC")
is asked a long series of detailed and intensely personal questions about
their sex life, illegalities they may have performed, anything they may
regret or be ashamed of. All responses are carefully recorded in the PC
folder.
Persons attempting to leave $cientology have been threatened with public
disclosure of the contents of their PC folder; ex-members who have made
trouble for $cientology have had these threats carried out.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/mpoulter/scum/culling.html
First person narrative of one person's career in $cientology:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu
The first critical Web page, and still good:
http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/index.html
More detail, well organized:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/mpoulter/scum.html
http://www.demon.co.uk/castle/audit/index.html
The Sekret Skripchurs
http://www.xenu.net/
Canonical list of all $cientology Web resources:
http://www.best.com/~mchong/arsweb.shtml
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Subject: Learn More About Scientology
From: senahj@my-dejanews.com
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 01:25:35 GMT
Heber Jentzsch and Warren McShane were officials in the Guardian's Office,
under whose auspices these felonies were planned and carried out.
A few WWW sites for the beginning researcher:
Intro to $cientology:
http://www.tiac.net/users/modemac/cos.html
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