I like to call the attitudes and methods of protesting Scientology that I consider the best "Gandhi Tech." These are the same methods used by Martin Luther King, Jr. It calls for peacefully confronting those who are doing wrong, standing up for your rights even when you are certain you will be knocked down, and keeping hope alive that these peaceful methods will produce a good result.

Both Gandhi and King succeeded with these methods. It took willingness to absorb pain and humiliation on the part of the activists. It took patience. It took intelligence and wisdom. It took banishment of the word "revenge."

On such a day as today it is good to look at what we are struggling against. While Gandhi and King sought for civil rights for all, there are today others who promote something quite different. Scientology claims to have sold millions of the book Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health. They still promote this book so I assume they still stick by what is in it. L. Ron Hubbard wrote there that:

"Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will be granted civil rights before law. Perhaps the goal will be reached at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals and would produce a marked increase in the survival ability and happiness of man." [Book 3, chapter X] In other words, only those who have taken Dianetics courses up to a certain level would be granted citizenship, and thus civil rights, in Hubbard's perfect world.

And what of losing the thought of revenge? "People attack Scientology. I never forget it. Always even the score." [HCO MAnual of Justice, page 1] What about loving your enemy? "Enemy - Fair Game. May be tricked, sued, or lied to or destroyed."

While our society honors the actions, the words, and the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. there are others who choose to believe that the ends justify the means and utilize revenge, hate, and a dichotomy between "us" and "them." We do well to fight such systems.

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