Greg and Debra Barnes
1282 Jasmine Way
Clearwater, Florida 33756
April 12th, 2001 Dear Glen, Since you did not respond to my March 26th letter I write to you again demanding that you refund our monies. Just as a side note you mentioned in one of your earlier letters that "we barely know each other". Was that you who attended our "comm ev" and sat next to Art Webb? Just curious, maybe I can now put a face with the letters. Now lets focus on the issue at hand and you said it best in your December 7th 2000 letter in which you state to us regarding the return of our money on account "just simply honor your agreements". In your May 15th 2000 letter you state that we signed enrollment forms that stated we would abide by the policies of the Claims Verification Board of the Church of Scientology etc etc. Now Glen if you work with me here and keep personal comments and accusations about me to a minimum then we can bring this cycle of action to a conclusion. I do understand though your perspective 100% and even though I do not agree with them lets assume for a moment that we can make Hubbard’s tech, statements and policy our basis of mutual understanding. With that agreement in mind we will be able to move on. First and foremost the basic policy letter KSW would be agreed by most Scientologists one of the most senior policies as well as deliver what you promise. Our basic fact is that we were not delivered LRH tech on the services sold to us called the "six month checks" and now referred to as the "refreshers". There are no references that Hubbard wrote that mention these "actions". Matter of fact C/S Series 73RA states emphatically to not audit FPRD on individuals who are in the middle of a major action and this includes OT 7. Now C/S Series 73RA states to not interfere with anyone who is progressing well with sec checks or anything else. (2) Not only were we sold services that violated the above two senior Hubbard bulletins but we were declared for telling two other OT’s to read such references. Now since Flag promotes itself as the Mecca of tech and it is widely known that the tech delivered there is only Hubbards, then the fact that we were delivered someone else’s tech other than Hubbards is one of our basis for asking for our money back. My wife and I have both read the deputy senior c/s’es instruct on why Flag delivers the refresher and the MAA’s office and Quals story of why LRH technical bulletins are being ignored is because RTC licenses us and if we do not do what RTC says we lose our license. The MAA’s office states according to April Buchanan and Causma Passaro that "we can not trust OT 7’s". Be that as it may Qual and the MAA’s opinions are not the point. The fact is the Sandcastle (Flag) is not delivering Hubbards tech as Hubbard laid it out to be delivered and C/S Series 73RA and RB state it very emphatically. Unkown to us at the time we read C/S series 73RB was the income that Flag generates from selling these "off - source, squirrel services". Now since we were all trained on KSW and hammered and hammered that the only tech we need is Hubbards and that the only tech any org or mission should be delivering is Hubbards and that all Hubbards HCOB’s are senior to all other policies or Flag orders etc etc. then the obvious fact that we were not delivered "standard tech" is our basis for asking for our money back. Now do not state to me as you did to the consumer complaint department that we are not satisfied with some "brand" of Scientology because according to Hubbard there is only one brand and no substitutes. This was the intention of the Golden Age of Tech to get only standard tech delivered every where around the planet. Now Flag is also known as Ron’s org and only Ron’s tech is delivered there. This is the promise of Flag as well as the assumption that parishioners coming there for services have. Ron’s tech is not what we were delivered per the C/S series references we have referred to above. This is just one of our basis for asking for our money back that was donated for services we should not have received. (3) Deliver what you promise is the second most senior policy second only to KSW. Now Debra and I have been coming to Flag for years thinking we were being delivered standard LRH tech and we weren’t as C/S series 73RB and RA state. We paid for OT 5 twice and this is another example of both KSW and deliver what you promise not being done. We did not get what was promised the first time and had to pay for it a second time. My point is to explain to you our basis for our claim of a refund and repayment. Now Hubbard talks a lot about exchange and lists several types of exchange as you are well aware. What would Ron call someone who sold someone else a Mercedes but it was really a Dodge frame with a Chrysler motor and a Russian paint job. After driving this $190,000 car off the lot they discover it was only a Mercedes body and nothing else not to mention all the troubles with the car that ensued afterwards. What level of exchange would Ron call this ? He would call it criminal exchange or rip off. This is our basis for asking for our money back. This is what is going on over at Flag specifically for the OT 7’s. Now Glen you state we signed documents stating that we would abide by the Claims Verification Board and follow church policy blah blah blah. Now these documents were for the Church of Scientology founded by L. Ron Hubbard, that was our understanding. Since we were not delivered Hubbards tech and we never read anything in any documents about the fact that "hey, Hubbard died and we are fucked so we now have to make shit up because we need lots of money". Some how I missed that line. This is our basis for demanding our money back. Now when we joined Scientology we understood that it was a self improvement group with global goals to free mankind of aberrations that make him do insane things. Scientology preaches ethics and morals and to not be (4) criminal or "violate the laws of the land" as stated in Fundamentals of Thought, at least the version I have states thus. Glen when we read of all the civil and criminal problems that OSA and others associated with the COS had gotten convicted of around the world in the 90’s we were shocked and I doubt if many of your present parishioners know of these activities either. Nothing in the document "What your donations buy" states anything about hiring sleazy private detectives or law firms to harass ex members who know of your crimes. Nothing in that booklet stated anything about my donations being used to pay off upper Scientology executives who left the church. (Mayo, Franks, Aznarans,Armstrong) Nothing in that booklet stated that my donations would be used to pay for libel and slander awards by the Church of Scientology’s "Fair Game" tactics. Now you have the Lopez case in California of which you stole over a million dollars from a brain damaged car accident victim who has the IQ of a 14 year old and instead of giving him his money back you would rather spend your parishioners money to fight a lost battle in court. I won’t even mention the money you spent on legal fee’s and still are in the Wollersheim case. No Glen I doubt very much if most of your parishioners know where there donations really go. Nor do they know how Hubbard really died. This is my basis for asking for our money back. The written promises promoted by your organization regarding the "spiritual" gains is not only misleading but a total lie as far as we are concerned. We did not get the rewards and gains as promised by your organization, and Hubbard does state to deliver what you promise. Hubbards lies about what Dianetics can deliver, his lies about his accomplishments with the tech, the lies about what the tech can do and the criminal element of OSA are also reasons for our demand of our money back. (5) So I hope you got the idea of why we want our money back. Maybe more people need to know of the fraud and deception and our specific findings on Hubbard and other references. Your lack of response will only force us to involve others. We want closure Stilo and your lack of response will only create more and more work for you. Sincerely, Greg Barnes

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