As I mentioned in a previous post, I just read Roy Wallis' The Road To Total Freedom (in book, not electronic form, but webbed here if you want to read it:

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/books/wallis/ ).

PKZip file: wallis.zip Guess who I found? Nan McLean. As a Scientology critic, she predates the net, the Time article, the Erlich raid - all of it. As it turns out, some of the weird stuff that the cult has been doing to Gregg and his family has already been done to the McLeans. Anybody else want to argue that the cult has changed?

In the second paragraph of the Acknowledgements, the quote goes:

"Mrs Nan Mclean and Dr Russell Barton provided useful information and documentation."

"A further case concerns a Canadian family, the Mcleans, who became disaffected with the movement. (2) The mysterious and unpleasant events from which they suffered began to occur after the Mcleans publicized some of the reasons for their dissatisfaction with Scientology in the local news media.

"Mr Mclean claims that he shortly afterwards suffered from telephone calls to the school where he worked, of a kind which seemed designed to cause embarassment. The family also assert that compromising Christmas cards and telephone calls were received at their home, and neighbours received telephone calls inquiring into the Mcleans' credit-worthiness and suggesting domestic problems in the family. The local Board of Education, Mr Mclean's employers, are said to have received anonymous telephone calls implying that he was misusing Board property and student labour for his own profit. They believe that their house was kept under surveillance by men in cars using binoculars The Scientology Org's Assistant Guardian was instrumental in securing th prosecution of Mr Mclean for allegedly harassing him by repeated telephone calls. (The case was dismissed.) When Canadian Television (CTV) planned to make a film on Scientology, including the Mcleans, the television company was threatened with an 'inevitable suit which just follow should the show be aired'. (3) In the ensuing action the Mcleans were named among the co-defendants. Members of the Scientology organisation in Toronto held a 'mock funeral' for 'lost souls' in the Mcleans' home town, carrying a coffin and handing out leaflets chargmg 'that the Mclean family had "betrayed all God-fearing Canadians" and was "succumbing to the mysteries of evil".' (4) When Mr Mclean became an official of the Ontario high school teachers' federation, Scientologists are said to have picketed a federation meeting at which he was to speak on professional matters.

"(The Scientologists assert that the Mclean's major source of disaffection concerned the refund of fees or donations paid to the organization. These were repaid to the family. The Scientologists also argue that undertakings in respect of the terms on which these payments were made, were broken by the Mcleans. Various legal actions are still in process.)"

"(2) I am grateful to the Mclean family for making available to me ample documentation on which the following account is based.

"(3) Letter from S- S- of the Church of Scientology to the President of CTV, 22 April 1973.

"(4) Mcleans Magazine (June 1974), p. 27."

And now for the Other Stuff.

On Page 199 of this book:

"...Among Hubbard's projects in Washington was the formation of a political party, the Constitutional Administration Party, in which his wife held executive office. Its manifesto, circulated to Scientologists, contained much high-minded rhetoric appealing to the Constitution and the rights of the individual against the unconstitutional behaviour of the Department of Internal Revenue and the

"...Supreme Court Justice who does not recognize the rights of the majority, but who stresses the rights of the minority and who uses psychology textbooks written by Communists to enforce an unpopular opinion... (3)"

"(3) 'The Campaign of the Constitutional Administration Party of America', circular (1956), p.2."

Hm on this one too. Exactly how is this an example of Scientology being apolitical? Of course, Scientology is intensely political - but only for the benefit of Scientology.

Here's another morsel. From an article by James H. Schmitz titled "What happened to the tens of thousands?" published in the International Dianetic Society Letter in 1957:

"The promise made in _Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health_ was a very definite and simple one. It was stated that the application of the approach described in the book would within a few hundred hours of auditing time produce a cleared individual, free of all aberration. It was also stated that as auditing continued, progress toward 'clear' became consistently more easy.

The reason that dianetics did not retain its original impetus and, in fact, rapidly lost almost all the ground it had gained at first, was due simply to the fact that, when dianetics was put into practice, it was observed that none of these statements was correct."

Anyway, where is Roy Wallis now? Is he still alive? What did he do with his Scientology-related archives?

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