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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.

Desertphile gave this response on 5/11/2000:

Greetings! You are asking some fine questions today. Your brother should be proud. (I talked with him today and even borrowed his e-mail account: he has graciously allowed me to place some 600 web pages on his server).

The policy of "Fair Game" is still in effect. It has not been canceled--- only the phrase "fair game" has been discontinued. Hubbard said so, after all.

Your sibling has an excellent site that shows that Fair Game is alive and "well" and still going on, even as I write this! Check out the Fair Game agaisnt Mark Bunker at http://holysmoke.org/mb/mb.htm

and the fair game attack against Grahm Berry, at http://holysmoke.org/gb/gb.htm

The Berry Fair Game attack is particularly egregious (fuck--- I actually spelled "egregious" correctly!), because the Church of Scientology recently tried to frame him for child molestation and battery. The Church of Scientology paid a male prostitute to testify that Berry had and has sex with under-age boys, and that this male prostitute witnesses this on three occasions (if I recall correctly). News of this slander got to Berry through a defector from the Church of Scientology, and the plot failed--- but not until after much damage had been done. The Church of Scientology had printed up flyers saying "Your neighbor is a child molester" and posted them around Berry's house.

Obviously, "Fair Game" has not been cancled.

You rated this answer a 5.

You could [ask] Shydavid for a HolySmoke e-mail account if you're short one. }:-}

I've seen the Mark Bunker text but not the Graham Berry one.

So the Policy hasn't been canceled. Some other experts have noted that Fair Game is still in force since Hubbard died and it couldn't be recalled even if the cult wanted to. And the text of the cancelation is an order to followers not to mention it, not to stop doing it.

Amazing.

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