Often I see references to the RPF as a prison camp, a brainwash camp, a re- education center where prisoners are held against their will. This is not believable. If this were true, why have the vast majority of these prisoners not complained to the authorities? Scientology can always rightly claim, "these people were given the choice of the RPF, or leaving Scientology and they chose the RPF. No one forced them". When talking about the RPF you need to explain why it acts like a prison, even though the inmates can't legally complain about it. 1) Many of the staff who this happens to have nowhere else to go. They have no savings and don't believe their families or friends will accept them back. Thus, they are trapped. They could not even afford bus fair to the next town. How are they supposed to escape? 2) Scientology facilities are often remotely situated. How would like to be alone, out in the middle of the desert in some Scientology hole surrounded by malicious bullies who have even intimidated the local police department? Would you feel safe walking 20 miles through the desert to a local police station? Look what happened to Lisa McPherson. She was trying to leave Clearwater Florida, had an auto accident, and within an hour 12 Scientologists were surrounding her hospital bed. How did they know where she was? Why 12? Why any at all? 3) There is something called a "Freeloader" bill. This is where, after paying you 17.50 a week, for an 80 hour work week, Scientology also charges you whatever price they feel for the "services" you receive as a staff member. Many staff are under the false impression that if they don't do the RPF, they will owe Scientology that money. For example, if you received 12 1/2 hours of "auditing", at 300.00/hour, you would owe them $3750.00. After being there for a year, many staff owe 10's of thousands of dollars. The purification rundown, which consists of sitting in the Sauna and taking vitamins costs Scientology about $100 to deliver, and they charge something like $5000.00 for it. What the staff don't realize is: a) The services are religious and "donations" are used to pay for them, thus, they must give no value to the donator (donations can't be used to buy valuable things to the donator, otherwise you could not deduct donations from your income tax because you really weren't giving a donation. Imagine a car being bought with donations, thus being totally tax deductable? No). b) The terms of the staff contract are dictated by Scientology Policy. There is a Qualifications Division Policy called Staff Enhancement that states upstats are supposed to receive 2 1/2 hours AUDITING per day of enhancement. I don't know of any situation where that ever occurred and thus, Scientology is breaking THEIR side of the contract which means the other party can break theirs. 4) Scientology harrasses ex-members doing anything they feel is necessary including framing them for crimes, anonymous phone calls to their employers, leaflets to all their neighbors accusing the ex-member of being a pedophile and such in order to silence the person or keep them loyal to Scientology. Scientology's only rules they put on their organizational behavior are 1) don't get caught 2) If you do get caught, hire as many lawyers and private detectives as it takes overwhelm the justice system. 5) Scientology members are, on the whole, while amicable, rather timid and easily pushed around, thus they scare easily and don't stand up to organizational bullies. They would have to be this type of person in order to get sucked into Scientology. I myself am no exception. Witness my use of an anonymous posting method, because I know what these clowns are capable of. 6) The Scientology Dirty Tricks Department (OSA Office of Special Affairs) acts as a vast conspiracy. It would be hard to bring one of its members to justice because any of the members would always testify that another member accused of a crime for instance, was "at my house". They all have witnesses to give them alibis. That's why it's always necessary to have a video account of any transaction with Scientology. I don't know how law enforcement deals with this kind of conspiracy, but I don't think they do a good job of it. 7) Scientology puts a LOT of creativity into framing people. Witness the Operation Snow White where they, a) suckered Paulette Cooper into falling for one of their members as her lover and he reported everything about her to them. b) They stole stationary with her fingerprints and wrote a bomb threat, framing her. This is all a matter of record, actual facts. This type of crime, framing people, is so henious, that the law should make the FRAMER receive the sentece the FRAMEE would have received if the frame had succeeded. I can't imagine why the government didn't put a permanent regulation into Scientology after the Snow White trial. I can only imagine that, due to their being no individual victims, just a government beaureaucy, the emotional reaction wasn't there (which the trial was NOT about Paulette Cooper. The framing of Paulette Cooper only became revealed in documents seized during another trial) This is stuff out of the twisted mind of L. Ron Hubbard, and more recently most likely the workings of the Kicked-off-the-force Ex LAPD Cop turned private detective Eugene Engram (Ingram really). Imagine how BAD you'd have to be to be kicked off the LAPD! 8) Scientology uses infiltration as a method of destroying its enemies. This is also a matter of public record. The Cult Awareness Network was destroyed by having one of its members actually be a Scientology agent who did things to bring disrepute to the organization. Note the creative touch of buying up the Trademark and Property of CAN, and now, when people call the Cult Awareness Network, they are really talking to a Scientologist and everything they say will be filed to be used later if necessary to control them. With all those intimidation tactics, completely identical to classical organized crime methodology, it's no wonder people choose to do the RPF instead of leave, but realize, it isn't a free choice. It's, "do the RPF" or "owe us 30,000 dollars (or some such), be subject to our harrassment, usage of your confessional data to blackmail you and FAIR GAME where any Scientologist is allowed to destroy you and the Church will look the other way". Yes boys and girls, that is their written policy. All the above behaviors are not random. They are all organizational policy! You can find all the methods within the Scientology Policy Letters. Now, when you talk about the RPF being a prison camp, you need to explain why, otherwise readers will think, "Why didn't the person just walk out?"

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