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wbarwell wrote:
 > Bode Brausnan wrote:
 >
 >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:34:13 -0600, wbarwell
 >> <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>> L. Ron Hubbard EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE
 >>>
 >>> LRH ED 291 INT                         11 March 1977
 >>>
 >>> To: ALL EXECUTIVES AND STAFF
 >>>
 >>> From: RON
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> RON'S JOURNAL 29
 >>>
 >>> TOP MANAGEMENT
 >>>
 >>> .... THE "PTS CASSETTE"
 >>>
 >>> The Church is just polishing up the finishing touches on a
 >>> cassette for public sale called "CAN WE EVER BE FRIENDS?"
 >>>
 >>> You will be getting the release notices very soon.
 >>>
 >>> This is quite a tour de force (a big production). It is designed
 >>> so that any person connected to or who knows an antagonistic
 >>> person can buy one and send it to him.
 >>>
 >>> It is QUITE something! The effects it will create will be majorly
 >>> beneficial to one and all. But some of those antagos are going to
 >>> find it pretty hair-raising. Talk about sending a cat amongst the
 >>> pigeons -- this one sends a peace tank amidst the tigers. It will
 >>> be $6.50 and available from Pubs Orgs and org bookstores. It
 >>> pleads the cause of the PTSer and says for him a lot of things
 >>> he's been trying to say -- but this time it will stick!
 >> I've heard the tape: it is the most laughable piece of shit Hubbard
 >> and his crew ever put together. It is insulting and obnoxious. I
 >> bet more people have been turned away from Scientology by this tape
 >> than any ten "suppressive persons."
 >
 > I have heard about the tape but never seen its contents posted nor
 > had a copy of my own.
 >
 > A great idea, bad propaganda that targets have to pay for.
 >
 > Friends.  I guess not.
 >
 > Not til they apologize to all their victims, like Paulette Cooper.
 > and honestly end their fair game activities, their PC folder games,
 > harassing people, quackery, disconnections and come clean and start
 > acting honestly and fairly with people. How can one be friends with a
 > rather nasty cult?  An unrepentent nasty cult?
 >
 > What is it generally about?  Is it a long tape, short?

Here is a transcript I made of it a while ago  fairly long:

 >
 > Really cheesy organ sort of funeral home type music up to 1.55
 >
 > I am a minister of the Church of Scientology.  I appreciate your
 > kindness in being able to talk to you about those who may have become
 > estranged from and with the hope of mending broken relationships.  I
 > am missionary of good will and hope.  Life is not always pleasant.
 >
 > Friendships do not endure forever; gratitude does not always result
 > from favours and kindnesses.  Even though we turn our backs we
 > sometimes have to face the fact that life can be cruel. There is
 > enough grief in life without adding to it.
 >
 > It was once said that if the news spread that the world was coming to
 > end in one hour the telephone lines of earth would be jammed by
 > people calling others to tell them that they loved them. Life is far
 > too short to spend it nursing disappointment, grief and revenge.
 > Children, former friends, and even parents often do surprising
 > things.
 >
 > I think you will agree that any time spent in the repair of enmities
 > and bringing together again those who have been close is time well
 > invested.  We feel great sorrow for those who can no longer reach
 > those, whom once they loved and we are ready to do whatever we can to
 > repair the torn heartstrings of those who believe they have lost
 > their friends, their parents or children and despair of ever mending
 > their  once happy relationships.
 >
 > Association was not always bitter.  I am sure you can recall a time
 > when there was once love and affection and even an earlier time than
 > that.  I am sure you recall days when communication existed with a
 > lost one and even earlier days than that.  And I am sure you can
 > remember times of full agreement and shared things.  And many times
 > before that.  And there were not always misunderstandings but times
 > when you understood the other perfectly.
 >
 > And where love and understanding once existed hate need not endure
 > forever.  Of course there have been problems.  I am sure you can
 > recall an early problem you had with the strayed one. And possibly
 > now it seems a minor thing. For problems have a habit of becoming
 > yesterday, and perhaps this one also will.  Its seems reasonable that
 > those  things you did not say, that you felt you dared not say, you
 > can probably remember them and to this day have not said them or told
 > all. And on things you never said it might interest you to know that
 > the other knew them anyway and in his turn said nothing.  It may
 > occur to you that you can say these things now that they were built
 > up much larger than they were and now are not even interesting.
 >
 > It often appears that the things they have done were monstrous and
 > cruel and can never be forgiven but forgiveness is the very stuff of
 > which harmony is made.  Big people can forgive.
 >
 > There are certain things you will want to bring about, certain
 > changes of mind  you wish to effect.  Well, this is not beyond
 > possibilities.  There are certain situations that you probably want
 > to have resolved, no one is better off to be worried and even illness
 > can be brought about by too much concern.  Indeed, a cause of illness
 > has been said to be depression about another or another’s acts.
 >
 > Well…. It might be possibly to repair that, it might come about that
 > some of the troubles and concerns in one’s relationships can be
 > handled.  I think you will agree that it would be a relief if one’s
 > troubles with the hostilities or thoughtlessness of others were to be
 > resolved.  And possibly you would feel better and LIFE would be
 > better if today’s estrangements were to pass away.
 >
 > If you truly want that, why then there is a possibility that you
 > eventually you will achieve a more liveable relationship and arrive a
 > better and more workable understanding.  The possibility that
 > friendship and love can be restored should not be overlooked.  But it
 > cannot be arrived at on a pass through with falsehoods or
 > misconceptions.  You want to understand what has happened, be sure
 > you weren’t remiss or responsible and in many ways you are not but
 > you must be sure you are operating with correct data.
 >
 > My talk here is not in defence of Scientology it needs no defence.
 > My effort is to reconcile people who have become estranged.
 > Sometimes because of differing opinions about scientology or opinions
 > based on false information .
 >
 > According to the Scientology Public Relations World Wide every
 > difficult situation he was ever called to handle with parents or the
 > press was caused by some new or untrained scientologist completely
 > misinforming others  as to what was scientology data.
 >
 > Thus if scientology was any part of an estrangement can you be sure
 > the data given about it was correct??
 >
 > Realize that children are people who feel overwhelmed by someone
 > often say things to attempt to shock others in order to demonstrate
 > their independence. But another realizing this should be able to
 > recognize and understand even such crude attempts of self-assertion
 > for what they are.  For the most part having found more reasonable
 > data now they deeply regret their statements and actions and do
 > anything possible to repair them.
 >
 > Although policy letters forbid them to do this many relatively
 > untrained scientologists have upset their friends and families by
 > seeking to explain to them data their friends and families have not
 > understood.  Often these explanations were not even technically
 > correct. The church is sorry for this.  It was a mistake to do this.
 >
 >
 > The materials of Scientology are not very mysterious and when viewed
 > as a whole and not as fragments are very sensible.  Basic books
 > should have been used, not verbal attempts to convey the subject.
 >
 > Scientology libraries  contain over 25 million words of observations
 > of life, and what men in all walks of life have said or done or
 > believed.   Feeling challenged and invalidated the relatively
 > untrained scientologist sometimes tries to make an impact on a non-
 > scientologist by telling him bizarre or sometimes incomplete or
 > incorrect data on the subject instead of some useful material the
 > other can use to better his life. Uninformed persons experience a
 > drop in reality and feel antagonistic when this occurs.  You possibly
 > can recall some instance of this.  Actually Scientology Policy
 > Letters exist to discourage this kind of thing and point out that
 > where it has occurred upsets can follow.
 >
 > It makes scientology seem bizarre whereas anyone studying it fully
 > would agree that in scientology many hitherto strange oddities in
 > life and behaviour  are easily understood and handled as well.
 >
 > Scientology is a subject that brings about understanding and it
 > should not be used to cause misunderstanding.  (Such a flap)* can
 > also be repaired by scientology well the church devotes time to their
 > speedy repair.
 >
 > (Chortle) There is nothing as strange in scientology as the 19th
 > century psychology fixation that all men are just peculiar animals.
 > (laughter in voice here).  (chortle,chortle) or Freud said in the
 > last century that all religions are based solely on sex and there is
 > no more to life than sexual cravings 24 hours a day.  (lots of snorts
 > and chortles here).  (laughter and more chortling)  or the fact that
 > psychiatrists believe that frying their heads with electricity  kills
 > all criminals…(chortle chortle) no scientology is not as strange as
 > THAT.
 >
 > Scientology believes in kindness, understanding and better human
 > relations and that this is true is evidenced in the successes that
 > has carried scientology forward for a quarter of a century into the
 > fastest growing religion on the planet. So there is far more truth in
 > it than strangeness and people who are told about it should not be
 > hit with strangeness however in an effort to startle or impress.
 >
 > Furthermore certain dishonest people hand around to the press and
 > others certain an alleged pack of false policy letters which were not
 > written by the founder or contain issues cancelled twenty years ago
 > as well as forged issues. Those that pass such issues about KNOW they
 > are not true.  So persons who have been given strange or false data
 > should not feel guilty because they have formed an opinion since they
 > were given no real data with which to form a valid idea of
 > scientology or what the other person was really doing.  Of course it
 > may be presumptuous to assume that either party any longer cares
 > about the other.  The ruin may have been so cruel and the gulf
 > stretched so unfathomably that the former relationship has subsided
 > to a dull ache if thought about at all.  Even a forever dismissal may
 > have ensued.
 >
 > But.. if there is any hope left or possibility of pain why then
 > scientology is genuinely interested in repairing the relationship and
 > effecting any possible reconciliation  should that be thought
 > desirable by the parties concerned.  Scientology Pastors can always
 > be approached or contacted.
 >
 > Scientologists do not live cloistered and monkish lives.  Scientology
 > is the subject of life and society not a remote monastery high on
 > some forlorn hill. The vast number of hours spent in any given day
 > over the world by the ministers of Scientology in bringing people
 > back to participation in the world may well be greater than that
 > spent by any other group. They can be approached.  That is why they
 > are there. And they are willing and able to help. A considerable body
 > of technology exists simply to effect the repair of such
 > estrangements and it is in use.  Although due to misinformation you
 > might not immediately credit it your interests are OUR interests.  If
 > we can bring about a reconciliation that is to the best interest of
 > both parties according to their own judgements we work very hard at
 > it.  It is not in your interest or our interest to promote or
 > continue conflicts.
 >
 > Scientology is often mistaken by the poorly informed as a youth
 > religion.  We know this because parents startled us by asking if
 > their child gets enough rest and food and did he change his name.
 > Scientology membership and staff range in age from 16 to 80 and is
 > not even a majority of the young.  Scientologists work and sleep much
 > like anyone else. True they live interested lives but so do artists
 > and executives and other dedicated people.  True they often study or
 > work after supper but it is quite certain they get enough sleep and
 > it is sometimes suggested they do so by some executive or technical
 > person if watching late, late TV seems to be making them hollow on
 > it. They do not change their name. Of course, lady scientologists do
 > when they get married but that is routine in these societies.  People
 > who are not scientologists probably change their name more often as
 > any courthouse record shows.
 >
 > Now and then a health food store or doctor advocates a scientologist
 > goes on a diet but that is no more or less than the rest of the
 > country does.  Scientologists are not separated from society in any
 > fashion or form.  They see more people in society than most of
 > today’s TV-anchored families.
 >
 > Scientologists do not beg in the streets or shave their heads.  There
 > is one small division in the organization, which passes out
 > invitations to a lecture, but also surveys people on the streets but
 > so do newsroom reporters and public relations people – but no begging
 > in the streets.
 >
 > And after writing their parents when a chaplain finds some younger
 > staff member of scientology organization is creating concern by not
 > writing his parents there is a whole handling arranged which may
 > include something the staff member was never taught in school or in
 > life – how to write a letter or talk to his parents.  Where
 > scientology is concerned the strange fears are groundless.
 > Scientology is of the society at large not some reclusive haven for
 > the withdrawn.  As a matter of fact most scientologists live at home
 > quite happily.  Possibly misinformation given some people from
 > various sources has caused them to confuse scientology with something
 > else. You might be surprised to what degree the interest of parents
 > in a younger scientologist become the interests of scientology
 > organizations.  People are important to scientology because you live
 > and walk upon the earth YOU are important to us.
 >
 > In an age where 19th century psychology and psychiatry sought to
 > degrade man to a decadent animal in an aftermath of theirs and other
 > Nazi attacks upon the basic decency of man.  In a time of bloody wars
 > and civil violence the scientologists have resurrect faith and the
 > dignity and the importance of man.
 >
 > It is a long uphill road of course but scientology is the leader
 > amongst those who are making progress on that road and it might not
 > be believed by some parent or former associate that they themselves
 > might one day become important because they were once associated with
 > or related to the scientologists. And did you know that many young
 > people join scientology just to find a way to help their parents or
 > to improve their relationships with those who cruelly scold them or
 > invalidate them for doing so?  And they succeed in helping them.
 > There are numerous cases of it.
 >
 > Parents and even those antagonistic to scientology are important
 > people to us- important not because of what they might do but
 > important because they are human beings.
 >
 > In times gone by the aristocratic families of Europe always gave a
 > son or daughter to a church.  It was customary because the Noble
 > families felt a responsibility for the community and country as a
 > whole. They were not only concerned with their own petty quarrels and
 > family ambitions, they did not consider they had lost that family
 > member or relation – it was their way of contributing to a better
 > world.  Many parents and friends not misinformed feel that way about
 > their scientology relations.
 >
 > (heavy sigh type voice here)  SOME scientologists who have people
 > antagonistic to their being in scientology believe that the objection
 > is to people being helped.  They do not understand an apparent
 > prejudice against assisting ones fellow man or an invalidation of
 > that assistance.  They believe in tolerance; and tolerance of race,
 > colour, creed, and the beliefs of others is a large part of
 > scientology teaching.  Quite reasonably they do not understand why
 > some person might be intolerant of their religion when the
 > scientologist has no slightest urge to be intolerant of the other
 > person.  Scientology, as a religion, has been upheld in every court
 > in every land as a true religion, not once, but many times and in the
 > highest courts across the world.  Even the infamous Internal Revenue
 > Service  HAD to grant an exemption to a majority of scientology
 > churches.
 >
 > (angry hurried voice here)  Criticism of another’s dedication is no
 > way to make another remember on with kindness and affection.  The
 > name and repute of any man is a valuable thing. It is a cherished
 > thing to be thought of well by others but how many times have you
 > realized, possibly with a shock, that your good points, the decent
 > and thoughtful things you did went wholly unnoticed, unappreciated,
 > and unremarked and as far as being known or really understood is
 > concerned possibly, there are instances in your life when
 > misinformation has been spread around about you and it is no more
 > true about what is spread about scientology or scientologists.  It
 > may have occurred to you that your real and decent actions were not
 > even seen or noticed at all.  It is a bit of a sly control of people
 > to eternally threaten them with their misdeeds or rage against their
 > beliefs and good actions.  It is a sort of threatened robbery of
 > their good name and repute.  Not a very wise thing to do.  One has to
 > ask oneself a second time whether one has even been observed at all
 > no matter what he did.  Might it not be true that anything he or she
 > did might equally be invalidated and whether it would be wise to do
 > anything that was wanted or there might have been earlier times when
 > one was innocently doing something else following other studies or
 > ambitions and these as well were railed against. Possibly one retains
 > his good name, to say nothing of his self-respect, only by doing what
 > he himself knows is right. For if he has never been observed with
 > reality in the past will he be any better seen or appreciated in the
 > future.  Until reality on one side and understanding of his own
 > motives enters the scene nothing will ever stand much chance of being
 > repaired. No force, demand, invalidation, or argument , much less the
 > robbery of one’s repute, will be of any real persuasion.  The only
 > road to happiness is the respect for another’s opinion and beliefs
 > without surrendering ones own for in full surrendering one loses ones
 > respect for oneself .
 >
 > It is not always understandable to friends and family when someone
 > abruptly leaves their midst and cuts communication with them.  One
 > can sympathize with homes and circles where this has happened but is
 > not new in man’s history and indeed has been going on for hundreds of
 > thousands of years.  New York is crowed with waifs and runaways many
 > from good homes who would seem to have no statable reason for
 > disconnection.  Churches often give them refuge. In effect, that
 > refuge is in actuality sanctuary much like that afforded by
 > monasteries of the middle ages.  It is not a good thing to blame
 > churches.  I am sure a parent and friends would rather see their
 > loved ones in kind hands than frozen, starved, and left in a gutter
 > by a modern careless society.
 >
 > There are countless reasons such departures occur.  Chief amongst
 > them are several causes dislike of being further obligated for all
 > the favours, care, and indulgences is one of them.  Another is the
 > hopelessness of obtaining goals set for them by others – they doubt
 > their talents or skills to obtain such unwanted ambitions, or simply
 > feel they should do something else in life.  Often they suspect that
 > such goals spring from the personal ambitions of the parents or
 > friends and are wished off on them second hand.
 >
 > We of the church know and appreciate that many were raised in decent
 > and caring homes and even educated at some expense; but men must do
 > what men must do in life and women as well and demanding that they
 > live up to impossible standards or goals they do not want or even
 > dislike can cause a sudden chasm to occur.
 >
 > (very angry tone here) It is unreasonable to blame churches and
 > welfare groups because they help such people.  I am sure you do not
 > feel it would be better if they died friendless and abandoned in a
 > gutter.  To hate them because they saw a brighter light for man, to
 > scorn or invalidate them just drives them further away – doesn’t it?
 > Their home-life might have to be improved before they would again
 > confront it.  Totally ideal relationships exist perhaps only in
 > dreams but certain disturbing elements can be subtracted from the
 > average familial relationship. There would be far fewer broken
 > marriages and estranged children and friends if these items were
 > majorly handled.  Nagging accomplishes nothing.  Courtesy must
 > increase in direct ratio to the nearness of people.  Ambitions of
 > other people cannot be ignored.  Continual criticism  is more likely
 > to convince the other that he or she is disliked than to change them.
 > Invalidation of what the other thinks is right will not make him over
 > it is more than likely to widen estrangement than to close it.  One
 > MUST accept the times one lives in.  It is a changing and decaying
 > world.  The family has been breaking up increasingly since the first
 > beginnings of the industrial revolution a century and a half ago.
 > Vice, crime, violence, batters the on coming generations.  Drugs are
 > a refuge from an increasingly harsh and uncaring society.  One must
 > not overlook the determination of some to cease to hide and do
 > something about it.  Those who believe that such social chaos does
 > not exist today are living blindly in some distantly lost and
 > nostalgic past.  They of course would not understand the ambitions of
 > others to better the society or at least arrest its decline.
 >
 > (HUGE sigh) Again the break up of the family and friendships may not
 > be due at all to any organization or new religion.  It may be due to
 > the times we live in – the dregs of useless wars and spiteful
 > governments who have long since lost control of their societies and
 > they look like disconnection when it is only the progressive break up
 > of our society.  For no real fault may necessarily be found with
 > family and friends just because they have been ejected into chaos and
 > have seized a chance to do something about the society at large.
 > Despairing of ever handling their former homes credit must be given
 > to courage and high purpose – there is more to life than oneself or
 > being a pawn in the opinions and ambitions of others.
 >
 > A casual tour of some modern schools or universities can make the
 > observer wonder why any decent child or person would consent to stay
 > in one today.  Teachers and security guards beaten and killed,
 > students glazed eyes with drugs, draped across doorways and desks –
 > it can be a desperate arena; and the subjects taught anymore are
 > often not subjects but confusions – reading, writing and arithmetic
 > have become perplexity,  illiteracy, and mystification. In the war
 > mad days of 19th century Germany the psychologists spawned the
 > technology of degrading all man to animals. HE is in charge of your
 > schools today. It is compulsory training in every grade and teacher
 > level to regard all students and friends as treacherous beasts and
 > atheists.  Where the older generation did not stand this rape of
 > education should they criticize members of the younger generation who
 > draw a side from the beast to attack it in the flank and try to
 > civilize the monster their betters supported and helped create.  The
 > schools the taxes support today are not the schools the older
 > generation has such fond memories of bussed and beaten and dismayed
 > going nowhere learning nothing at vast parental expense. One need not
 > be very questioning as to why a student would bolt his school and go
 > to people who can teach and who are making inroads in school reform.
 >
 > In scientology organizations we teach them typing, business
 > administration, accounting and many other skills that are invaluable
 > in any sphere of life and we teach them a higher technology in ease
 > that astounded most businesses.  One can hide and pretend to say that
 > without any inspection of evidence that scientology is not doing
 > anything about it. The facts, statistics and rooms full of documents
 > prove that scientology IS doing something about it.  Even Playboy
 > magazine stated recently that drugs were dying out in universities as
 > the students became scientologists.  A new avalanche cannot be halted
 > with misinformation nor said not to exist.  You cannot stop the wind
 > by saying pooh, pooh.  Illiterate Phd’s are learning to read in
 > scientology .  Drug dazed youth is being rescued by scientology .
 > Why the very place where psychology began, Berlin, the technology of
 > the Founder as used by Narconon is an official drug rehabilitation
 > activity and has been stated officially to be the most effective.
 > And so it is in many, many states.
 >
 > One who is properly informed the facts, not lies, could not be
 > otherwise than proud that his former friend or family member is part
 > of a new wave and that all is not hopelessness and future dark ages.
 > Someone has to do something about it, one cannot always loll gazing
 > at the sky ignoring the shaking boat.
 >
 > Is your child or friend a dog because he seeks to arrest the decline
 > of civilization? NO I think NOT.  Only the psychologist who began the
 > decline thinks all men are dogs.
 >
 > It would be easy to turn disdain to pride.  It IS easy – just become
 > truly informed – not lied to by the men who want your civilization to
 > die. Upon whose lies stems from ignorance of many things. Let us take
 > some examples:
 >
 > Brain washing is a technical activity engaged in by the Pavlovian
 > school of psychiatry and psychology. Pavlov, a graduate of the German
 > school of Psychology that found all men to be dogs went back to
 > Russia and experimented on dogs.  By the accident of the flooding of
 > his kennel in Leningrad he found all his dog, which had been trained
 > to slaver when a bell rang and all that, found that all his dogs had
 > had their training wiped out by the three day experience of near
 > death by drowning. AHA he cried in rapture I can now wipe out all
 > past political and familial and religious belief in man and train
 > them they way I want. ( heavy sigh here ) and Stalin had him into the
 > Kremlin in 1928 and had him write down everything he felt could do
 > this – and so brain washing was born.  Well, Pavlov’s trick was tried
 > on 2,000 old line Bolsheviks in the treason reign of terror in the
 > early thirties and only a dozen or so were successfully turned. Some
 > thousand more- American prisoners in the Korean war were given the
 > great benefit of this tech and only 22 responded.  Such statistics
 > are consistent where brainwashing is done.  In short it does not
 > work.  But then psychology has not worked in schools either -  has
 > it?
 >
 > In some countries parents are told by criminals, some of them now in
 > prison, that if they pay $15,000.00 in cash they will get the child
 > declared insane and institutionalized and then kidnap him and
 > brainwash him.  They call it deprogramming.  Aside from the fact that
 > this is a very strange way to bring up children and show parental
 > love – letting a daughter or a son for instance be imprisoned in a
 > dark closet for weeks forced onto drugs, beaten, and raped it never
 > seems to occur to such parents that if brain washing worked that it
 > would also wipe out all family training, affection and connection.
 > Why would they want a zombie.  Fortunately brainwashing and
 > deprogramming too is a fake and a fraud that does not work.  You can
 > punish some people until they say yes, yes – anything to stop the
 > raping or beating or drowning but they probably will say no again the
 > first time they can be absolutely sure they won’t be tortured again.
 > _______ found this out in the early thirties, parents find this out
 > when their $15,000.00 has been blown on booze and they have a
 > wrecked, drugged or diseased son or daughter on their hands.  Anyone
 > doing, permitting, or ordering de-programming is guilty of child
 > abuse and should be so charged.
 >
 > Don’t go to crackpot authorities already in deep trouble with their
 > colleagues to get the facts.  Go to the local library look up Pavlov
 > and Stalin and brain washing – that’s the place we got this data.  We
 > didn’t listen to crackpots we went to the original papers and sources
 > and so should you if you don’t take my word for it.
 >
 > Some people, unfortunately , would rather listen to lies that agree
 > with their prejudices than expend the energy to seek truth but no
 > happiness can be based on lies and only truth can set you free. If
 > you care to examine the records you will find that scientology is far
 > less costly than other means of helping the mind and spirit but
 > compare the costs yourself.  Scientology is the only practice of the
 > mind or spirit which gives a refund if the person is not pleased or
 > helped. That is a fact.  Do patients ever rise from their coffins to
 > get the doctor’s fees returned? Can a psychiatric victim still talk
 > enough to ask for his money back or talk anymore at all?  And what
 > happens if he does? He gets taken to court or the local institution
 > if he does.  A person would have to be both fully and wilfully
 > misinformed to go on believing scientology was unfair where donations
 > are concerned. What other church lets the congregation take their
 > money back out of the collection plate when they don’t want to belong
 > anymore?  Only scientology.
 >
 > And people are sometimes misinformed concerning the income of the
 > founder of scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, he receives no percentage of
 > any fees paid to organizations or the church; as a matter of fact –
 > why should he?  Since 1930 L. Ron Hubbard has been, and continues to
 > be a best selling author.  In just the last six months the gross
 > public sales of his works has brought his publishers $2,505,653.00.
 > As his tax records would show 75% of his income comes from public
 > book sales and royalties and the remaining per cent from past
 > personal investments.  In his early days he wrote popular books in
 > order to finance all his research himself.  In fact, to this day, no
 > organization has paid for his research and has not even refunded it.
 > What need would he have for percentages of church training and
 > processing fees?  He has been a best selling author for 47 years and
 > furthermore his first book “Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental
 > Health” is right this minute is number one on the best sellers lists
 > of West US distributors.  What other author has had a book back on
 > the bestseller list 27 years after publication? Across the world he
 > outsells any other living author even Alistair McLean and to top it
 > Hubbard is contracting for the movie rights to one of his books and
 > you know what Hollywood pays but he himself is spending his time just
 > now writing and making short films for scientology organizations for
 > which it is doubtful he will ever receive any pay.
 >
 > Envy and jealousy can prompt a great deal of spite and you even find
 > this in some reporters. All of who wish they could write but not even
 > this are much critical anymore.  They are better informed today.
 >
 > Oddly he does not care very much about money and ten years ago
 > forgave all church debts to himself and even tried to cut off all his
 > scientology book income as well. To most people it seems an unreal
 > thing to do – (chortle) they wouldn’t do it but then they are not L
 > Ron Hubbard.  He is, as any one of his millions of friends will tell
 > you, truly interested in his fellow man and in you as well.  Possibly
 > that is why he is a legend in his time.  Why ask his few enemies
 > about him? Why not ask his millions of friends.  If you compactly
 > laid out edge to edge the certificates, awards, honours and trophies
 > he has received from cities, states, and governments for his work in
 > education, drugs,  and scientology they would reach a hundred yards
 > easily. Few alive today have saved so many lives or is soooo  widely
 > loved.
 >
 > All I tell you about funds and fees and refunds is the subject of
 > verifiable valid records. Possibly any trouble dianetics and
 > scientology ever had began on MayDay 1950 when the US government
 > excited about the possibility of monopolizing Hubbard’s work sought
 > to force him into classified government service.  In Washington they
 > told him they wanted him to work on projects to make people more
 > suggestible. When he declined they threatened him and typically he
 > refused to bow and the war between the government and scientology was
 > on.  Over the years, all of it past history now, books were written
 > against Dianetics and Scientology floods of anti-press came out.  In
 > the sixties foreign governments attacked it and instigated inquiries
 > into it.  All for nothing of course- they all failed –every one of
 > ‘em.  They never halted the progress of Dianetics or Scientology or
 > Hubbard and for the simple fact that there was nothing wrong with
 > Dianetics or Scientology or its organizations.
 >
 > A typical example was the Paulette Cooper book.  At the end she
 > surrendered in court and freely of her own accord attested under oath
 > that the incidences and so-called evidences in her book were not
 > based on any factual data or known data of any kind and were wholly
 > unsupported ( chuckle in the voice here).  This astonishing document
 > wherein she calmly attests that the book was wholly false is not
 > single or alone. Magazines, newspapers, and books read by trusting
 > public made similar statements and settlements. (bored voice here)
 > One government apologized – another Victoria, Australia passed a law
 > to keep scientologists from suing a court of inquiry when it was
 > found they had uniformly lied and falsely arranged testimony against
 > scientology. There has been a long parade of wins over such folks and
 > attacks – all them turn eventually to the credit of scientology. Some
 > copies, of course, even though repudiated by their authors and
 > publishers are still kicking around in dusty corners.
 >
 > The attacks were so prolonged, so baseless, and filled with false
 > data and suits were so easily won by us that Scientologists continue
 > to search for the original instigators.  Freedom of Information suits
 > in the United States have finally revealed the truth – the US
 > Government prompted(?)  this black pr campaign – they falsified
 > files, sent imaginative false reports to unsuspecting police and
 > governments over the world – then having foolish faith in them –
 > launched failing attacks.  At this moment the US Government is under
 > suit for conspiracy to the amount of 750 million dollars for a
 > quarter of a century of knowing lies.  They had edited, distorted,
 > and falsified every record they had on file knowingly and viciously
 > –they had fed such trash to unsuspecting authors and unquestioning
 > press and had created an international campaign of falsehood. A
 > rather monstrous thing to do for a responsible government – I think
 > you will agree. The evidence has all been collected – the government
 > attorneys know the suit will be won by scientology – they are
 > sweating.  Well it seems a rather expensive revenge for not having
 > gained a monopoly on a technology which now belongs to the people.
 > Press today on Scientology is overwhelmingly good and voluminous and
 > just the other day the mighty London Times and parliament was saying
 > in columns what wonderful people the scientologists are.
 >
 > You win when you are doing nothing wrong. When you use any of
 > yesterday’s falsely manufactured data to try and convince someone
 > that scientology is a bad thing you are likely to look ridiculous to
 > him.  He has the documents available to him through any Guardian’s
 > Office and they can tell him how you were misinformed.  He himself,
 > knowing scientology – knows what the truth is. If a family member or
 > friends objects to the amount of money, or lack of it, their
 > scientologist relation is making in scientology they overlook the
 > fact that not all people do things for money only.  Maybe that is how
 > society got like it is. Money is all there is in life but more
 > importantly by running about and making trouble for their relations’
 > organization it just may be that they are reducing that particular
 > organization’s income to the point where they find it hard to pay
 > their staff very much.  Such actions have never been able to destroy
 > any scientology organization –they just made it hard on the
 > individual staff to get paid. Staff never quit – they just tighten
 > their belts and carry on anyway.
 >
 > By nagging and invalidating the staff member his antagonistic
 > connection might be reducing his ability to make things go right –
 > not a very friendly act.  I will not minimize it in some
 > organizations the cost and effort of handling psychotic agencies
 > leaves little left over.  There is no reason why ministers and staff
 > should not be paid well –for years organizations left their donations
 > so low in spite of inflation around them that it was hard to survive.
 > Efforts are being made to remedy this.  It is a rather simple
 > solution if you want your relation to prosper at what he is doing
 > help him to do so.  Don’t make it almost impossible for him to live
 > by hammering at his public lines.  If you want him to be educated
 > then let scientology teach him to read.  If you want him off drugs
 > and leading a decent life then don’t drive him back into schools and
 > the drug culture .  Help him save the victims of that culture
 > instead. Some parents and relations demand to see if a son or
 > daughter got any better because of scientology when they open their
 > eyes and look they will see that he or she has.  One mother who had
 > been demanding it loudly finally did really see her son and had to
 > admit he was much better.  And another son, whose family for years
 > was unhappy with him for being in scientology, heard his grandfather
 > was dying and went home and saved his life with some standard
 > scientology.  If you say drug addiction is bad, that crime is bad, if
 > you say illness, unhappiness, and insanity are bad, then you cannot
 > also say that man should have no hope of escape from these things.
 > Man is caught in a morass of hate and prejudice.  In the hands of
 > trained scientologists scientology does everything it ever claimed it
 > could do.  You must not overlook the possibility that this is true
 > and demonstrably true. And you cannot but consider the magnitude of
 > the crime of trying to deny mankind the out of their misery.  Only
 > the insane seek to destroy sanity.
 >
 > You’ve been very patient in listening to me and I appreciate it but
 > now I am going to give you a challenge and it is this: Try to
 > reconcile your past differences.   Try to look and be correctly
 > informed about one another and what each other really is doing.  A
 > poet once said “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we
 > should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm
 > all hostility.” Do your estranged relation – wife or husband, mother
 > or father, son or daughter a favour – a BIG favour – and do one for
 > yourself as well at the same time try to communicate with one another
 > don’t let past hatred or present lies about what one another believes
 > or is doing keep you forever apart.  It takes big people to do that.
 > I think you can.  If you wish to reply in any way to this talk feel
 > completely free to address
 >
 > Can We Ever Be Friends Chaplain, Church of Scientology Guardian
 > Office, St. Hill Manor, East Grinstead ,Sussex UK
 >
 > We care what happens in your life and to you.  We LISTEN.
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