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Subject: Does Hubbard mean what I think he means?
Answered by: Irmgard
Asked By: Anonymous

Anonymous asked this question on 5/5/2000:

"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 ... or simply quarantining them from the society."

I think Adolf Hitler tried this already, didn't he? Does Hubbard mean what I think he means?

Irmgard gave this response on 5/6/2000:

Well I have not seen any realistic plans to do such a thing.

It is, though, a fact that within Scientology people who are angry, afraid, said, apathic or sympathizing (!) do not have the same value as a person like a person who is content or enthusiastic. Their opinions have no value, their decisions are not rational, etc. (except, of course, if they decide to further Scientology in any way Scientologists want them to...) Actually it is said in theory and practiced in life that such people do not have human dignity - their value depends only on their doing what Scientologists want them to do.

At least this is the case when someone has a higher status as the low toned individual in question. If the angry guy is the one who has the higher status, things do look differently - he is not low on the tone scale, but his emotion is precisely fitting to the situation, while he naturally ranges much higher.

There is a strong social agreement in Scientology that Scientologists do not belong to that lower band of emotions - they do not want to be one of those despised people, so they suppress such feelings (and Scientologists do usually have a very good functioning mental censure process running - they don't even realize that they are suppressing their emotions).

Irmgard

Anonymous rated this answer a 5.

I'll have to see how much of the over 23,000 documnents that were seized in the 1970's have been made available through the Freedom of Information Act. The only pieces of publically-available policy that talks about these things are sinister enough, it looks like. That and the paramilitary GO/OSA Department 20.

Further facts about this criminal empire may be found at Operation Clambake and FACTNet.

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