Here is an old post, a favorite, Hubbard lying his ass off about saving America froma revolt of America's nuclear physicists in 1945.

Recently, we had some posts on teh nature of Hubbard's claims and his lies. here we not lies. Not just shading the truth, spinning things, exaggerating a bit, making a little fact bear more than it can hold, but out and out, bald faced, big lies of amazing brazeness.

When a man will get on a stage, take a microphone and spew lies of this caliber to a fawning audience of Scientologists, this tell us something. Not only about Hubbard's penchant for lies, but Scientology's habit of taking these lies to heart and making them part and parcel of Scientology. These tapes were on sale for deacdes and still are. The Book, All About Radiation" was for sale for years, and I believe, still is.

The following, massive, huge, vast, incredibly brazen and utterly false lie is in both. Hubbard shows not the slightest sense of shame in palming this tissue of lies off as gsopel truth on the assembled Scientologist audience, and it is obvious from the tape, that he had well practiced this tale and enjoyed his own performance immensely.

And that tells me a lot about what sort of man he was. He not only lied, he rather enjoyed the experience. He liked having an audience who was utterly uncritical and would accept whatever he said as true.

Which is why there are so many lies in Scientology and why to this day, the cult has a problem telling the truth or even distingushing truth from fiction.

For those of you who never heard or read this lie, read on.

Its a corker. A real 24 karat lie, a tall tale of towering proportions, a granddaddy of lies.

Pope Charles SubGenius Pope of Houston Slack!

by L. Ron Hubbard that had Hubbard telling a big cock-and-bull tall tale about how he and a buddy of his had met at Cal Tech with a bunch of mutinous nuclear physicists. This book was actually up from a set of lectures Hubbard gave in London in 1957, "Radiation and Your Survival", which is available as a set of tapes by that name. The LRH and Johnny Arwine vs the mutinous nuclear physicist tall tale came from this tape series, tape 5, 5704C13, "Radiation and the Scientologist." The book had edited out a few juicy comments from Hubbard. I have this tape and am going to repost my original excerpt from the book and I will add in the bits from the book left out.

Pope Charles Nov 11, 1997

Ron tries to save the world.

"The Revolt of American Nuclear Physicists".

"Right at the end of WWII, to bring up a bit more history here, on the subject, if you'd be interested in it? Right at the end of WWII, a friend of mine, named Johnny Arwine, Lt. Commander of the Coast Guard and myself went to the California Institute of Technology [CalTech] to meet with a great many old time atomic physicists who had been at the projects that dropped the original atomic bomb - the people from Los Alamogordos. And it was our intention to organize these people so that some sort of sensible control could be monitored across the bomb. [sic] Nobody had thought about it at this date, and Johnny Arwine and I were still in uniform. We both of us had been in the world of engineering, and then in the world of arts and then finally in the service.

[Hubbard flunked out of George Washington University after 4 semesters in 1932. He never had anything to do with engineering whatsoever. He wrote pulp fiction a few free lance articles, not much 'art' One novel, Buck Skin Brigades. He joined the Navy in July 1941. He was released from active duty December, 1945. He was dismissed of command in the Navy for being unfit for command.] "Neither of us had a thing to do with atomic fission in it's development, by our own choice. Both of us had refused this.

And we were both shot up, and feeling rather grim. And we were still in uniform when we went down to Cal-Tech, and we got these atomic physicists together. We said we were going to have a meeting. And they remembered us, and they were very happy to talk to us, and the next thing you know, we did.

We had a very vast number of atomic physicists there, and and I took the chair, and Arwine addressed them, and we spoke of using a propaganda weapon against anyone who would use atomic fission further against the human race, of using any means we had to educate the people of the world concerning this.

The nuclear physicists was already so mad, he was already so furious, that Arwine and I could not control that meeting, even vaguely. We could keep them in their place, we could tell the next fellow to talk, but we couldn't get across any thought to them that was rationally workable. [sic] And these men said one thing: "We wish to overthrow the government of the United States by force."

Now that is an astonishing little chapter in the field of nuclear phsyics that only a few of us know about. There was a revolt and later on, you saw offices in the United States being opened to propagandize the public, and a movement led by Albert Einstein.

And that was the outgrowth of that meeting.

But all Arwine and I could manage to do at that meeting was say, "Guys, please! You people are talking in terms of mutiny.

Revolution." And the only answer we would get to it was, "We will develop an bomb so every atomic physcists can have one, [Hubbard laughs at this point] and nobody can arrest him, and we'll put this government in it's place!" The idea of using this stuff on women and children! These fellows were mad!

We withdrew our support and did what we could to knock the rough edges off the movement. We reported the findings of it to the Navy Department and the President.

We said we could not associate our names with this organization. And it all fell to nothing.

But the atomic physicist did try. That was his push. It took place late in the year of 1945 in the United States. And he's not going to do anything else. Why? Because his leaders are dead. Einstein is dead.

And the other day I read the list of atomic scientists who are now amongst the graveyard. And it's practically the whole roster. Dead of what? Dead of leukemia, cancer and the very things that the radiation sickness breeds.

They died to a marked degree of radiation, mostly I suppose mentally because they had exerted a tremendous overt act against the world [overt act, Scientology lingo for an intentionally harmful act] and have been unable to repair it in any way. Now what I tell you is clear fact and not propaganda.

I have no propaganda at all. I am just telling you that there was a backround where the nuclear physicist did attempt to revolt.

The punishment taken against him was severe. None of the information given here is not even vaguely confidential and I am not in the possession of any confidential information of any kind."

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