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FredricRice asked this question on 5/11/2000:

Greetings, Scientology experts!

The policy of "fair gaming" people was apparently either modified or canceled and I'm trying to find out which it is.

In HCOPL 18/Oct/67, L. Ron Hubbard said that his enemies are "fair game" that "may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discopline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

But in HCOPL 21/Oct/68 a little over a year later, he said "The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethic Order. It causes bad public relations. This PL does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of any SP."

Does this mean that Hubbard's policy was canceled, or does it mean that followers who apply the policy are supposed to keep quiet about it?

Thanks.

honorarykid gave this response on 5/11/2000:

The policies about "handling suppressives" were collectively known as the fair game policies.

When Hubbard said "the practice of declaring people fair game will cease" while explicitly maintaining the policies themselves, he can only have meant that the term "fair game" was not to appear on the ethics order which otherwise led to the same exact types of "handling" of the suppressive person.

A not-a-rose by any other name...

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