Criminon

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

escapee asked this question on 9/30/2000:

I was reading an answer by a believer in the good that Scientology does, and she mentioned Criminon. Criminon didn't even exist when LRH was alive. The word "crims" is a terribly derogatory word that as far as I know, was David Miscavich's origination. It was used as slang as the lowest of the low. It was used to degrade. Now there is a "help" group called Criminon?

So what do they do, promise jobs in the Sea Org? Is that where they recruit their staff? What tech do they have to handle criminals?

On this point I am a disbeliever, because I know that the COS routinely has thrown out people that are "difficult" cases, the Potential Trouble Sources, they label people SP instead of rehabitating because they have no technology to rehabilitate a real suppressive person. So they are really being effective helping criminals change their colors?

Convince me.

honorarykid gave this response on 10/3/2000:

Criminon is a public relations front for Scientology. It recruits prisoners and convicts.

I'm not sure if it ever helps anyone in prison, but it most definitely can plant some really bad ideas in some unbalanced minds.

Charles Manson studied Scientology while in prison, PRIOR to forming his own cult group. Then, when he got out, he started his murderous "family." The rest is history.

Did Manson's examination of Scientology give him the impetus to build his band of insane zealots? I can't prove anything, but I think it definitely played a large role in planting the ideas for building a band of loyal zealots in Manson's mind.

On the day the shocking stories about the brutal murders of Sharon Tate, her fetus, and the LoBianca's broke in the newspapers, the CoS in Los Angeles organized a hasty effort to destroy all records of Manson's involvement in Scientology.

Was that an ethical thing to do? I leave that determination as an exercise for the reader.

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