On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:09:38 +0200, Tilman Hausherr <tilman@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:

>On 28 Aug 2000 17:46:29 GMT, jimdbb@aol.com (JimDBB) wrote in
><20000828134629.15324.00000295@ng-mf1.aol.com>:
>>John: During your phone call to me yesterday you hesitated before you began to
>>taunt me and demean me because I have to use supplemental oxygen.
>Alex Beam of the Boston Globe correctly called scientology an
>"anti-intellectual movement". I think that most scientologists believe
>that Oxygen is some sort of illegal drug.
During my Sea Org days in 1983, I spent several nightwatches with Frank Stevenson.

This guy had asthma, and I got quite alarmed how his face would turn blue and his lips go nearly black when he spoke to me. He was obviously fighting for breath and even speaking was too much for him.

During days all he could really do was write letters, although I think he was posted with HCO and not the Letter Reg section I was in charge of.

I asked him why doesn't the Saint Hill organisation get some of the oxygen bottles they already possessed charged up and put to his use?

But he said it was "ethics trouble" and the org. wouldn't do that.

A few weeks further on, I saw on the staff notive board that he was in ethics trouble for his medical condition. The post nattered how he refused to handle the ethics that was causing his asthma, and put him under some penalty "condition".

Not long afterwards, round the time I blew the Sea Org, I saw the fellow on the street. He had been thrown out.

He was quite happy about this - his Sea Organisation contract specifically said that he would be employed only until he was no further use, then put out to fend for himself. Then when he "dropped the body" and picked up another one, he was to report to any S.O.

recruitment office once he reached adulthood. "Remember the Sea Org motto 'Revenimus' which means 'We come back' ".

While the man may have thought his treatment just, I was quick to point out that no National Insurance or Pension contribution had been made whilst he was on staff. So he lost out in 5 ways - diabolically low wages that maxed at 15 pounds and avereaged about 4 pounds a week, - no insurance or pension for medical or old age - refused medical treatment, including supplemental oxygen - thrown out when he became a burden to Scientology - brainwashed into believing all this was right and proper and that medical treatment was unjustified even *after* he was thrown out.

Peter Forde

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