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From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Hubbard's O/W's lead to Service Facsimiles and DA
Date: 07 Feb 1999 09:15:25 PST
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martinh@islandnet.com (Martin Hunt):

	Grammar Warning:  I purposely included two idiomatic phrases
which required ending sentences with prepositions.  If this makes you
uncomfortable, read no further.

>Hubbard was a bigamist; see Russell Miller's _Bare-Faced Messiah_
>for details. He so abused one of his wives that it made for scandal
>in the press when she divorced him, claiming he beat her, drugged
>her, and that he was insane.
>
>In _Ability_ Issue 92 from the spring of 1959 Hubbard refers to
>the bad press over his misdeeds, but withholds what he actually
>did to the woman:
>
>  I'm pretty excited about all this - and comfortable. There were
>  times when people got to jumping around so in the public prints
>  that I figured straight jackets for reporters and Commies were more
>  vital in our logistics than clearing. But it never entered my head
>  to quit, not even when Time magazine divorced me from a woman I
>  wasn't even married to. (Invented inverted 2nd Dynamics always make
>  more news to Luce* people than a world well and free.)
>
>[Henry Luce was the editor of _Time_ at the time.]
>
>Later on, Hubbard's bad behaviour (overts) led to the following
>DA in HCOB 31 May 1977 entitled _LSD_ (a drug Hubbard was familiar
>with himself):
>
>  The way LSD got popular was because of Henry Luce, the head of Time
>  Magazine, who publicized it and glorified it from mid-1950 on. He 
>  and his wife were under psychiatric care and were on LSD.
>
>Well, there you have it, DA from the master. Is it any wonder that
>Hubbard's deluded and pathetic followers continue to use this
>"technology"?
>
>Hubbard's tech applied to himself; it was the product of his own
>fevered mind. Whether it makes sense for anyone else to use it 
>at all is doubtful, as it has never been shown to work.

	What you said, Martin.  But add this other element:

	The Hubster knew that it introverted him to be asked about his
withholds, so he turned that around and made it into "technology" for
manipulating people.  The subject evolved into a social "martial art"
designed to cave in "anchor points," and put people under his sway.
But bullying one's critics into ceasing their criticisms and leaving
him alone was only a side benefit.  What underlies it is a prime
mechanisms he used to control his followers.

	He invented tech which decrees that if a person accuses him of
harmful acts, it is because the accuser himself has done those very
things.  This placed him beyond criticism.  It deifies him.  If he can
get a person to accept this idea, then he can get them to accept being
locked in chain-lockers, caged in basements or starved to death in
cockroach infested cabanas.  It is the inevitable consequence of
Winston Churchill's social axiom:  "Power corrupts.  Absolute power
corrupts absolutely."  

	Hubbard attracted people who would allow him to exert this
kind of power over their souls, and would look at him as infallible.
Lisa McPherson's execution by introspection was an inevitable result
of the corruption of that kind of power on people's minds; those of
Lisa's "handlers" and on Lisa's.

	Check out the things Hubbard accused others of.  Pull out the
Jo'berg Sec Check.  Or the Whole Track Sec Check.  I'm sure those
lists of evil deeds were things Hubbard either had done, or badly
wanted to do (but couldn't get away with.)

	He was one sick f*ck.

          Rev Dennis Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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