who owns scientology, really?
Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology
yertletheturtle asked this question on 7/31/2000:
What is Mead Emory's current role in the church and who are
these guys who have control of Scientology?
Also, is the following web site accurate?
http://www.clever.net/webwerks/veritas/
honorarykid gave this response on 8/1/2000:
Mead Emory is a high level board member in Scientology's
corporate structure. According to Veritas, Emory is a
non-Scientologist. Although I don't have any information on
this point, I can buy the claim.
Also, by roundabout implications, Veritas also argues that
Emory one of the secret leaders of the CoS, and that he
has, and does use and control David Miscavige as some
sort of puppet on a string. I think this is wrong.
Emory used to be a deputy at the IRS during the time
Hubbard's fear of being arrested kept him in hiding, leaving
a power vacuum in Scientology which was mostly filled by
Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue.
After Mary Sue and other top G.O. officials were convicted
in the Snow White operation the power vacuum became
much more acute.
Also at the time, Scientology was in the process of losing a
huge monetary judgement to former OT member, Larry
Wollersheim in the Wollersheim I case.
To make sure Mary Sue would not be able to regain power
following her release from prison, and also to avoid paying
Wollersheim, and to insulate itself from others who might
mimic Wollersheim's successful lawsuit, the new CoS
leaders (Miscavige or Emory) needed new, more
liability-proof corporations to protect their newly won
power.
So at the time, Emory helped to create the CST and RTC
and ASI, among other corporate entities. The CSC then
shifted all assets away from itself and into those newly
formed entities.
The main question for Veritas is, what role did current RTC
COB, David Miscavige, play in the formation of those
corporations? It's beyond any doubt that he certainly
benefitted from them.
Most Scientologists who were in S. California at that time
recall that a youthful member of the powerful CMO
(Commodore's Messenger Org) named David Miscavige
organized a power take-over from the Broekers, and
wrested control away from the kindly, subservient couple,
then widely assumed to be 1st in line to succeed Hubbard
following his death.
But the Veritas people believe that David Miscavige was
too uneducated and inexperienced at the time to have set
up the new corporations. After all, he was a high-school
dropout, just in his early to mid 20s.
Veritas thinks Miscavige was too young and easily
controllable (perhaps some classical Freudian projection?)
and must therefore now be just a pawn of Mead Emory and
Sherman Lenske and some other lawyers. They believe that
Miscavige was not instrumental in the creation of the more
liability-proof corporate structures set up by Emory and
Lenske.
Are they correct? I doubt it.
Generally, I think the Veritas web site has some terrific
research about the formation of those various Scientology
corporations. Their facts are usually quite reliable.
But I also agree with another expert's observation that the
analysis of the folks who created that site are frought with
illogic, conspiracy fears, and over-the-top conclusions not
supported by fact.
Scientologists near the top of the food chain are not
generally ambitious power grabbers. Like in other
totalitarian systems, the one's just below the top are not
leaders at all, but really are just the best brown-nosers.
Following the imprisonment of the G.O. 11, the remaining
power centers of Scientology were ripe to be taken over by
a bold, brash stroke. And this, according to many, many
ex-Scientologists, is exactly what David Miscavige
orchestrated.
Once he began to consolidate power, it is highly likely that
he had plenty of money and power and influence needed to
employ Lenske and Emory WITHOUT taking orders from
them.
Officially and legally, the CST trustees may have the right
to remove David Miscavige from his seat of Scientology power.
But Veritas doesn't even know if Miscavige is himself a CST
trustee.
Veritas has never supplied a single document which
supports their contention that Miscavige is taking orders
from Lenske and Emory.
yertletheturtle rated this answer:
Thank you! Whatever the final truth turns out to be, the one
clear fact seems to be that managment definitely has no
accountablity to the parishoners. Why else would they make it
so complicated to find out what is going on?
I can't imagine how the scientology public can be such a
group of dunderheads to allow this sort of one-pointed control
over their future.
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