I was one of the early subscribers (3rd) to the Church of Scientology Investigation (COSI) when it was created on 29 Jan 2000.

I voluntarily unsubscribed from COSI on 7 Nov 2000, when I fully realized that the "Reform" Movement was just a re-dramatization of the oppressive Mother Church and it purpose was to serve more as a forum for LRH Fans and individuals disaffected with the present management of the CofS, who they consider the primary influences that have corrupted Scn.

LRH still remains a Sacred Cow and any disparagement of him or suggestion that he had any knowledge about or complicity in the criminal activities of the Scn Org and the GO/OSA operations is strongly frowned upon. None of this came as a surprise to me.

The identity of the creators of COSI (The Theta Group?) still remain a mystery although Virginia McClaughry, a disaffected Scientologist is the list owner. The introductory posting re COSI states that one of the creators is/was a Class VIII OT8. Since the CofS does not recognize any valid Solo NOTS completions, the claim of "OT8" status seems rather contradictory. Repeated requests to identity the Class 8/OT8 have failed. To my knowledge, Virginia's only technical training consists primarily of the indoctrination checksheet and intrusive Sec Checking that all aspiring OTS have to submit to.

One of the COSI team members publicly stated he is now functioning as a channel for LRH. Unlike the last LRH channel, Koos, the current COSI scribe maintains a friendly attitude toward the Founder.

The present COSI LRH channel is currently auditing OT3 outside of the CofS umbrella. Like Koos, the COSI LRH channel was also a staff member in the old Guardian Office (B1) and to my knowledge has expressed no remorse about the harmful and oppressive projects he participated in against the many the perceived enemies of Scn, inside and outside of the organization.

The COSI leadership is a strong promoter of the Hubbardian cosmology of whole track implanters and the ongoing global conspiracy against Scn by agents of Institutional Psychiatry, the major Drug Companies, International Bankers, and agents of domestic and foreign Intelligence agencies and off-planet forces such as the Markab Confederacy and their many allies here on earth and elsewhere in the galaxy. Rational expressions of other points of view are strongly frowned upon.

Virginia also currently lists herself as a SNCC (Solo NOTS Case Completion). She assumed ownership of the list on 20 Nov 2000.

The postings since that time have been:

October 1160
November 979
December 421 Current membership is 108 subscribers.

It is not totally clear, but it appears that the VERITAS Website is one of the major sources the COSI team has used to create their CTT (Criminal Time Track) of Scientology.

She is very empathic about it being "HER List!". She has spent 10 years solo auditing NOTS, yet the official CofS position is that NO one has actually completed Solo NOTS. So her elite SNCC signature remains a mystery to me and frequent requests made to her to clarify what SNCC actually means remains an unanswered question.

As a long-time advocate of free speech I make no pretense about my blunt criticism and outrage related to the list owner's oppressive discretion and conduct in expelling subscribers who dare question her assertions.

Exercising my own discretion, I am reposting a recent e-mail message from John Lester, regarding this current situation. I should point out that I have had many different points of view on subjects that John has posted here and in other forums. But on matters of free speech and attempts by anyone to stifle dissent, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with him for infinity. I maintain this same policy for present adherents of the CofS as well, even the most zealous of them.

I have edited out the names and addresses of John's e-mail and I will have no further comment on the matter. For any readers interested in doing their own evaluation of the mindset of the COSI List and the owner/owners of it, all of the postings and responses are archived at:

http://www.onelist.com/community/COSinvestigations Original Message -----
From: "John Lester" <lifemaster@talk21.com>
To: "Virginia" <vmcc@icehouse.net>

Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 4:09 PM
Subject: FW: [COSinvestigations] Pulling All The Strings

> The following email was returned to me because Virginia has kicked me off
> her COS Investigations discussion lits for honestly writing that which I
> felt obliged as a genuine Scientologist to write to her list.
>
> If a genuine Scientologist can be declared from the COS Investigations list,
> then the C of S is indeed making headroads into the freezone.
>
> I would appreciate the advice and support of all genuine Scientologists in
> getting me re subscribed to Virginia's list.
>
> For those who need clearly documented emails as background information,
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> John Lester
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lester [mailto:lifemaster@talk21.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 02:38
> To: COSinvestigations@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [COSinvestigations] Pulling All The Strings
>
> Your tantrums are all off topic and have nothing in common with genuine
> investigations relating to the Church of Scientology. The only
> investigations in which you appear to be interested are those involving
> recriminations and blame, which interests of course correspond with your
> emotional tone level of resentment. You hate my guts because, when I talk to
> you I assume a tone level close to, but slightly higher than your own and
> therefore you cannot avoid being dragged into irrational antagonism, a
> position which you cannot for long maintain unless I keep winding you up.
>
> You are antagonistically and irrationally lying when you say that you are
> sorry that I was outraged by your totally off topic comment about me. This
> will be quite clear to anyone on the list to deduce for themselves from the
> rest of the remarks in your postings.
>
> There are definitely other issues than my alleged deficient beingness and
> deficient doingness as a Scientologist, the main one being your
> qualifications and competence to administer a list which is ostensibly for
> the benefit of the purified Scientology to which all genuine freezoners
> subscribe and wish to establish.
>
> You are interested in analysing and resentfully swimming around in
> recriminations about the past. It would be much more on topic if your were
> to direct your efforts to investigating the manner in which many non
> Scientology organisations around the world already apply Scientology
> principles in their operations, which is more than can be said for your
> antics.
>
> Rather than continue in blame, why do you not encourage the COS
> Investigations list members to investigate and develope an administration
> scale for the effective replacement of the C of S by an effective
> alternative. Whilst doing so they will become aware of the part played by
> the knowledge of other mentally, physically and magically oriented
> traditions which Ron Hubbard wove into the relatively fixed and temporarily
> stable high magic cauldron we know as Scientology.
>
> Your reality is so limited that you cannot even conceive of the mental,
> physical and spiritual relationships to the Tech. contained in my postings.
> If your confront had been higher you would long ago have either seen or
> asked me to explain their relationship to the declared purpose of your own
> list. But no, you would rather natter.
>
> Why do you not apologise to all those you have insulted (including David
> Miscarriage, because to do so will clear the shit out of your soul even if
> it doesn't change him). Then clean up your resentment laden overts, so that
> we can return to subjects relating more directly to the list, including ARC,
> GPMs, KRC and how to initiate a new and better stable data for a new and
> better Scientology.
>
> Unconditional love to you,
>
>
> John Lester
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virginia [mailto:vmcc@icehouse.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 07:45
> To: COSinvestigations@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [COSinvestigations] Pulling All The Strings
>
>
> Agent "John Lester",
>
>
> To you, and anyone else reading, I stand by this I said. (below)
>
>
> I am sorry you are so indignantly outraged by my having the audacity to say
> what is the truth.
>
> As follows:
>
> "I do not think John Lester should be the moderator BTW, he does not seem to
> know that much about Scientology, or the Church, and often does off-topic
> posts-which although interesting, are not what I consider on-topic."
>
> Since this is all I said about the subject of you, there ARE no other
> issues.
>
> You DO post off-topic posts, and you do NOT know that much about
> scientology, or the church.
>
> Again, I stand by what I said, and your recent "comm" only serves to further
> offer examples of what I stated above.
>
> Ie: more demonstration of obviously knowing nothing about things you are
> supposedly trained on, how to write an ethics report for one, what is black
> pr for two, let alone what is a generality for three.
>
> Anyone here is welcome to bring up a post of John's that shows good
> understanding and application of scientology, or accurate knowledge of the
> church, or contributing anything of use towards the investigation of the
> COS.
>
>
> Virginia
>
>
> SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
>
> The following un called for remark was recently broadcast by Virginia, the
> list owner on the COS Investigations discussion list:
>
> "I do not think John Lester should be the moderator BTW, he does not seem to
> know that much about Scientology, or the Church, and often does off-topic
> posts-which although interesting, are not what I consider on-topic."
>
> No prior communication with me had preceded this public outburst. I felt
> very insulted but realised that it was nothing more than her personal and
> very subjective opinion. Even more so, knowing of my actual training,
> processing and many years of application since, should I not have been
> phased by her "un Scientology like" behaviour.
>
> I immediately resigned as moderator, but then thought to myself, but you
> haven't completed the cycle that you were asked to perform by previous list
> owner Mike, that of moderator. Surely everything could be put right by an
> honest and carefully worded Scientology style report that would blow all the
> shit out of the window and hopefully put the COS Investigations list and its
> obviously less than well trained owner back on track.
>
> Recently, she demonstrated her knowledge of, but lack of application of the
> tech by the following remarks to others regarding matters which did not
> involve myself.
>
> "Your friend should remember that any evaluation is incomplete if all
> strings
> are not pulled, or if there are any oupoints unresolved, such as conflicting
> datums."
>
> Good in theory, so I am practising it, to demonstrate that I know how to
> pull strings:
>
> She also recently said to someone else:
>
> "But actually, yes a tech can be poisoned, look what Dm etc have done to
> Scientology tech, which then actually isn't even scientology tech anymore."
>
> Hopefully she will reconsider her own nattery and judgmental pollutions of
> the COS Investigations list.
>
> She did the same when she said to someone else:
>
> "Thanks for your sincere effort to help, but you appear to be mistakenly
> forwarding the idea that I originally "attacked" freespeech. I did not.
> I don't really care what is thought I should do or not do as Listowner.
>
> Prior to which she had, in fact, attacked freespeach, as follows:
>
> "Are you now on some sort of amends project? started auditing on Alan's
> lines? Someone attacking your views on some other list and the BPC is
> carrying over here? What?.......
>
> ........I, have on occasion, definitely "come down hard" on such
> antagonistic
> behaviour towards me, or sometimes even to someone else on this list,
> especially when it is disproportionate, and has lies or false data.
>
> I also have done this on ARS, especially with Robert the Church PR, who is a
> liar of the first rank."
>
> I did definitely strongly correct you, but believe me I was not attacking
> you, nor even "coming down hard" on you. You would know it if I was, as
> first of all, if you did not change your behavior, I would simply
> unsubscribe you from the list. I am not Confront23, I won't put up with it,
> it's a waste of time.
>
> Get your sequences correct please, you are whose comm has changed, I treated
> you accordingly as I would anyone who changes so drastically and whose comm
> becomes antagonistic, all out of proportion.
>
> John Lester says:
>
> What a screwed up, unfit for purpose, list owner for a list entitled COS
> Investigations?
>
> And I still unconditionally love her. Its only her shitty behaviour that
> isn't Scientology.
>
> John Lester
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