I called around the cults california orgs today to see what was up.
Mike Rivera at Celebrity Center was cordial and answered most of my questions until he asked for my name, which I gave, then a few minutes later he hung up on me .
Mike speaks with an accent and has been in the cult 2 years and is currently on his 'objective' processing. (that is a very early step, paying public gets that in the first few weeks usually).
He said the current recovery program has been going on for 2 years that he knows of (its perenial), and the latest push for 2 weeks. He said it involves 19,800 people off lines at Celebrity Center in LA alone. (the guy at ASHO Mr North said the cult was recovering over 200 clears and OT's a week, and Mike seemed to confirm that fiigure) However its been 8 weeks now, and tha would be 1600 recoveries and we dont see anything like that in the orgs.
He said that all these folders had been reviewed for error and an auditing program written so the person could get back into swing of rip off... er I mean brainwash. He said he knew of no plan to make up damages done to people.
He asked if it was OK to get my folders for study and programming and I said it was. :) ( the D of P is going to call me now that will be interesting we can discuss private eyes, hit men and whores probably).
I was amazed at myself, Ive been out for 15 years now and any phone calls to these folks has always run my blood pressure up, and been very tense for me... but this time there was no sign of stress. I must be starting to get over the experience.
I asked how many students in the course room and he said he was not sure but that he though there were 500. When I pointed out that those course rooms are hard pressed to hold 100 students he began asking who I was and shortly there after hung up on me.... he is a bit slow in spotting SP's apparently.
Id say the cult is having some succes though by targeting the natural and dianetic clears, most of whom have no clue. Its promising them an easy trip to "OT"... and that is apparently sucking some of them back in.
These probably need to see picket signs and fliers addressing the criminal nature of the cult the mistreatment that occurs on the OT levels.
Phil Scott
Maybe some few folders are small enough and simple enough to be done quicker, but a lot more of those 20,000 pcs would need more time spent to study the folders and write the program.
Where do they suddenly get C/Ses to do all this on 20,000 pcs? C/Ses are scarcer than auditors. C/Ses are very scarce and precious in Scn. Okay, so they are caught in a bind here. They have to do some sort of "all hands" project, and whatever it is, you can be sure that the alleged quality of tech goes down the tubes. You can be sure that no possible "all hands" project could do anything more with 20,000 pcs than to put in a printed slip of paper that says, basically, "pc to report to org for HGC or Ethics consultation as appropriate, in accordance with [some program order from on high by which everyone inactive is to be called in and handled].
So all 20,000 cases were presumed to have an error because these people have dropped off the org lines. That's the "reviewed for error" part of Mr. Rivera's acceptable truth, and the "program was written" part is what I just described above. The deception is that the words suggest that a human being spent some actual time reviewing each case individually and wrote an individual program.
Oh, well, it's a PR world, as LRH was so fond of saying.
Ed