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Subject: Reeducation Camps?! Huh?! II
Anonymous asked this question on 5/1/2000:
You didn't answer the question. Instead you gave a red herring response
hoping to throw people off the subject.
larrybergan gave this response on 4/25/2000:
Dear Monica,
Would Reba approve of such a veiled attack on a spritual group? I've done
the reserach, Spirit is right as desertfiler continues to be a known man of
dirpeute.
desertphile gave this response on 4/24/2000:
One may call it "re-education" or as John Atack, Stephen Kent, and others
call it, "re-indoctrination." See the RealMedia clip at
http://www.xenutv.com/int/happy.ram
On January 7th 1974 Hubbard wrote the following words:
"The Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) is hereby brought into being."
The inmates are classified as:
1. Criminally minded people who are in the Sea Org working against the rest
of the group.
2. Those who are not able to do the jobs they are assigned and or who
demonstrate opposition to the overall group intentions and purposes.
3. people who are actively carrying out counter intentions to the overall
group goal as evidenced by the lack of self generated contribution and
demonstrated willingness to comply to directives, orders, programs and
issued policy- basically
4. People who are not getting the "correct" result after
applying the product of and who are assigned exact results and
do not achieve these.
5. People who are deemed insane, out of character and this is evidenced by
behavior patterns deem crazy or nuts by the group.
"As a two-time 'graduate' of the RPF, I have a very good understanding of
what the purpose of the RPF is. It's to break a person's spirit and turn the
person into an unquestioning, obedient Sea Org member who will do
whatever told without question. LRH repeatedly said he didn't believe in
punishment, but the RPF is proof that he didn't really mean it. " -- Monica
Pignotti
"On Flag, the typical schedule was that we got up at 5AM each
morning and went until 10PM each night. This is a total of 17
hours. Subtract 5 hours 'study time' (mainly e-metered confessionals)
and half an hour for each of three meals. That's 17 hours waking
time minus 6 and a half hours (meals and study), less half an hour
for personal hygiene = at least 10 hours of work per day. The work
consisted mainly of cleaning toilets and bathrooms and cleaning
corridors for the womens' teams and doing garbage detail and
scrubbing decks for the mens' teams.
If the areas cleaned failed to pass white glove inspection, punishment
was to run laps. Any questionining of the fairness of the punishment
resulted in further orders to run more laps. There were times when
this schedule was over-ridden and we were ordered to work 30 hours
straight, at a stretch, as Stephen Kent truthfully reports. On the
RPF's RPF people do not get any 'study' time and are allowed only 5
hours of sleep per night, and with the exception of brief meal
breaks have to work the dirtiest jobs the rest of the time." --
Monica Pignotti
http://wwww.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti
How long was someone's duration of stay in RPF typically?
"It can vary from about 3 months if the person gets through quickly to 1-3
years for some people. From what I've seen, it depends on how compliant
and passive the person is. The more compliant they are, the quicker they
will get out." -- Monica Pignotti
larrybergen declined to answer on 4/26/2000:
Sorry to hear about your experience ,though i wonder what you might have
done? Could it be similar to what you do now? I'm not interested in
communication with you but thanks for sharing and letting me know where
you are coming from.
Greg Churilov gave this meandering lie on 5/2/2000:
Monica, I am sorry that your RPF experience was a crappy one. Mine was
a more positive one, where policy was more closely observed.
I can understand your resentment, since obviously the program you
experienced was run ineffectively and perhaps even abusively.
The RPF is a very small part of the Sea Org, which is a very small part of
all of Scientology. It also focuses on individuals that have (to some
extent or other) violated their vows to the Sea Org, so I can see that it
may ocassionally happen that they are treated with less than love by the
rest of the team.
So it may be that ocassionally there isn't enough focus in having it run
as well as it should. If that is the case, then that should be remedied.
But I cannot condone your attacks on the whole of Scientology, instead
of, as is standard policy within the Church, to write Knowledge Reports on
a bad situation to have it corrected.
To the extent that you participate and do nothing to change a bad
situation, you are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
You are now dramatizing your case wildly, which is not constructive to you
nor to the Church.
I would recommend a different approach...
best,
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Answered by: Greg Churilov
Asked By: Anonymous
[And in fact the RPF is a prison work camp that one is ordered to go
to upon pain of being thrown out of the cult -- if they're allowed that
much. Many people get kidnapped and shipped off to the cult's RPF where
they are held against their will. Some that have escaped managed to make
it to police authorities which took them into protective custody where
after eventually the victims launched successful criminal and civil cases
against the cult - flr]
[The cultist uses the cult term "knowledge report." This is a
letter about someone else wherein the individual contrives elaborate lies
about someone else, or covers an incident and does his or her best to blow
it up into a major "crime" against the cult's mad messiah. This
use of "knowledge reports" is esactly equal to the advent of
Nazi Germany in that neighbors wrote "knowledge reports" on their
fellow neighbors to get in good with the Workers Party - flr]
[Of course he would. Anything but the truth would be nice for the cult's
remaining followers - flr]
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