There has been some discussion on a.r.s. in the past week or so about "joking and degrading" and how it's interpreted and "handled" inside the Scientology cult.

These findings and recommendations are reflective of the attitude toward J & Ding, and the way this term and "offense" are used to enhance Scientology's total mind control.

Get the idea that Scientology defends its killing of Lisa McPherson as protected religious expression. And here you have 6 people RPFed within 24 hours because some messenger brat got Hubbard to think they were joking at his movie making.

I've posted a pdf file of the F & R's, which were printed by spirit duplicator, to a.b.s

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CONDITIONS ORDER 288-1 		4 OCT 1978 

	FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 
		OF
	COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE
	CALLED ON CONDITIONS ORDER #288 

_BACKGROUND_ 
	On the 25th of Sept, Cine set about making their daily JVC of
a short sequence for R as part of their training program. 

	The JVC that was done and sent up caused gross upset on R's
lines as it communicated a slap stick comedy degrade of the very
successful Cine drilling that was in progress. 

	The shot itself was a mockery of a Gaffer drill and depicted
Gary Press removing and replacing the Molipso from a stand.  Gary
played it with hammed up comedy and made it into a slap stick which is
known to be not wanted in Cine acting.

	The shot was commentated by Jerry Armstrong who assumed the
beingness of a Barnham and Bailey circus ring master, making the shot
into a quality degrade.

	During the filming of the shot at the studio, David Rossouw
remarked to the Director, Camera Chief and Producer that the shot was
corny, however these remarks were ignored and the filming of the
degrade was continued and sent up to command.  

	The following day an investigation done by a Commodores
Messenger revealed that the Producer and the Director saw nothing
wrong with the shot and didn't correct the degrade despite the
disagreements with its quality and presentation from an experienced
Cine crew member on the set.  Gary Press, recently removed from the
post of Chief Gaffer, was the actor and responsible for the slap
stick.  Gerry Armstrong as the commentator added to the degrade of the
tech of the drills.  The Cinematographer, Terri Armstrong was aware
that it was thought that the shot was corny and not OK yet she (the
one responsible for getting high quality shots in the can with the
camera) thought the shot was "cute" and went ahead with the degrade.
Carol Spurlock, the Cine Crew Supervisor thought that the shot was
good and announced this to all the Cine crew at the Cine study muster.

	The interested parties: 

		Stuart Moreau------ Producer 

		Mike Titmus-------- Director

		Gerry Armstrong---- Announcer of shot

		Terri Armstrong---- Cinematographer

		Gary Press--------- Actor in the shot

		Carol Spurlock----- Supervisor 

were the following day routed to the RPF for the quality degrade,
making the shot into a slapstick, allowing it to occur, condoning the
degrade and causing Cine to go into disrepute.

	The interested parties were allowed a Committee of Evidence by
R if they felt that the RPF assignment was incorrect.  Every one of
the interested parties requested a Comm Ev.

	On the 28th of Sept the Committee of Evidence met to review
the evidence and look into the assignment of the interested party's
assignment to the RPF.

	The committee reviewed the JVC tape that was sent up to
command and collected knowledge reports on the incident from the
following witnesses:

		Talent Chief		-	Bob Waldeman

		Chief Electrician 	-	Marc Ferreira 

		CMO Messenger	-	Marc Yager

		DCO CMO External 	-	DeDe Reisdorf

		Cinematographer 	-	David Miscavige

		DCO CMO 		-	Gayle Reisdorf

		A/Cam for Lighting 	-	David Rossouw

		Chief Gaffer 		-	Robbie Robinson

	The following witnesses were called to the Committee to give
evidence on the charges:

		Chief Gaffer 		-	Robbie Robinson

		A/Cam for Lights

		   Now Director 		-	David Rossouw

		Cinematographer 	-	David Miscavige

		Talent Chief		-	Bob Waldeman

	Commodores Messenger, Shelley Barnette was making a detailed
report on the incident as she was a key witness, being on duty for the
investigation and the subsequent RPF assignments but in the interests
of time she attended the Committe meeting and gave all her evidence
verbally, to the Committee, in the presence of all interested parties.

	The interested parties were shown all the evidence and
knowledge reports presented.  They were then individually interviewed
on each of the charges and cross questioned on the circumstances of
the incident.

	The interested party's ethics files were looked at by the
Committee, those stats that were available were looked at and in the
efforts of justice, the work each interested party had done in the
past was looked at as deciding factors when drawing up the
recommendations.

	In interviewing each of the interested parties they wanted it
made known that at the time of the shooting of the shot they said that
their intentions were not to communicate a degrade slapstick or to
mock the drills but did realize after RPF assignment that this did
appear to communicate to command . 

	Here are the results of the Committee of Evidence: 

_INTERESTED PARTY - GARY PRESS_

_High Crime  Charge 1_

INterested party pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found no evidence
of Gary inciting a mutiny.  The Committee finds him not guilty. 

_Crimes Charge 1_

Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty. The tape sent up R in
which he was the actor was definitely a quality degrade.

_Charge 2_

Pleaded not guilty. However the Committee finds him guilty of joking
and degrading in that as above he admitted guilt of quality degrade
and as the shot itself was portrayed as a slap stick comedy making a
joke of the shot and the drills, despite the interested parties
statement that this was not his intention, this is what communicated
in the shot.

_Charge 3_

Pleaded not guilty. The Committee finds Gary guilty of this charge.
He was the one who originated the beingness which was introduced into
this shot which started out as a simple gaffer drill.  He incited the
Announcer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer and the majority of the
Cine crew present into agreeing with his beingness which in actual
fact communicated insubordination to command. 
_Charge 4_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty as by his own
admission, this incident did cause a flap in Cine as a result of his
actions.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee found no specific incident of Gary
being guilty of this crime in relation to the incident of the 25th.
The Committee finds not guilty. 
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty as the incident did
cause an overwork to command through Gary's ignoring his duties.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty of this charge.  The
incident on the 25th did cause a severe disturbance to R and a
resulting disrepute to Cine.
_Charge 8_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee found him guilty in that the incident
which produced a quality degrade and communicated a mockery of the
drills was condoned by the interested party and did result in a
collapse of Cine and the loss of 5 of its staff.
_Charge 9_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds the interested party
guilty of this charge as the Video tape did communicate a mockery of
the drills and also made a mockery of ED 276 Cine, quality degrade
which are both Scientology materials.  Evidence of this is on the
Video tape itself and the resultant upsets caused to command.
		_____________________

_INTERESTED PARTY - CAROL SPURLOCK_

_High Crime #1_
Interested party pleaded not guilty. The Committee found no evidence
that showed that Carol in any way incited a mutiny by her actions. 
_Crimes #1_
Pleaded not guilty but admitted that to the degree that she was in the
studio at the time of the incident, did see it happen and didn't take
any action to correct the matter that she was guilty the Committee
confirms this and finds her guilty of this charge.
_CHARGE 2_ 
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee found no evidence that she was
guilty of joking and degrading.  The Committee finds her not guilty.
_Charge 3_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found no evidence of her being
guilty of this charge and so finds her not guilty.
_Charge 4_
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee finds her guilty as she could have
prevented the collapse.  See details under charge #6.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee found her not guilty as no evidence
found which would incriminate her on this charge,
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds her guilty. Carol should have
spotted that the JVC was an overt product as she herself has been a
lead actor in the films and worked under R directorship so is quite
familiar with the standards of film production demanded.  As the crew
supervisor she could and should have been looking at the quality of
Cine production as this reflects the application of the materials
learned by Cine crew. The resultant JVC tape that did go up did cause
an overwork on command lines.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded guilty and found guilty by the Committee as per #6 above.
_Charge 8_
Pleaded guilty and found to be guilty by the Committee as per evidence
in Charge #6 above.
_Charge 9_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee finds her not guilty as found no
evidence of her being uilty of this charge. 
		_____________________

_INTERESTED PARTY - STUART MOREAU_
_NOTE_:  The interested party when first interviewed, pleaded guilty
to all the charges as he as the senior terminal in Cine ( Producer )
felt that he would be guilty of all charges laid out in the Bill of
Particulars. However, when interviewed separately and asked for
specifics of why he was guilty, could not provide them on 2 charges
and changed the plea to not guilty.
_High Crime 1_
First pleaded guilty then after being asked for specifics, changed the
plea to not guilty.  The Committee found him not guilty as after
examination of the evidence did not feel that Stuart incited a mutiny
by his actions. 
_Crime Charge 1_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds him guilty.  The video did
communicate a gross quality degrade and as Producer, he was
responsible for the end product of the Cine org. 
_Charge 2_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds him guilty as the Video did
communicate a joke and a degrade and while the interested party states
that he did not intend it to turn out that way, that is what the Video
did communicate and Stuart accepts the responsibility for the end
product.
_Charge 3_
The interested party pleaded guilty to this charge. The Committee does
find him guilty of this charge in that as the senior of Cine he is
responsible for the whole org and that the Video of the 25th did
communicate an insubordination and this could all have been prevented
had he worn his hat and prevented an overt product from being filmed
and sent up to command.
_Charge 4_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty. The Cine org did
suffer a collapse as a result of the Video sent up and as the CO,
Stuart is responsible for the effects it caused.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty. As the Producer and CO
of Cine he was responsible for the incident of the 25th which did show
a lack of discipline in the Cine Exec structure and in those involved
with the overt product and in failing to prevent it.
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty and the Committee finds him guilty. The incident did
cause an overload on command lines and as the CO he could have and
should have prevented this from occuring.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty.  The Video tape sent
up on the 25th did cause a severe disturbance to command and did cause
disrepute to Cine. As the CO, Stuart is fully responsible for this and
does recognize it. 
_Charge 8_
Pleaded guilty. The Committee finds him guilty.  There was a collapse
in Cine as a result of the JVC tape sent up to R and the fact that the
shot was considered by an experienced Cine terminal to be corny was
made known to Stuart at the time of the shooting but were ignored by
him.
_Charge 9_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds him guilty as he did allow a
mockery of the drills and a quality degrade to be communicated to R on
the Video tape. 
		_________________

_INTERESTED PARTY -TERRI ARMSTRONG_

_High Crime #1_

Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found no evidence of Terry inciting
a mutiny.  The Committee finds her not guilty of this charge.
_Crimes 1_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found her guilty.  As the
Cinematographer, she is responsible for the high quality shots in the
can and by allowing a shot to go up which did communicate a quality
degrade, she is guilty.
_Charge 2_ 
Pleaded not guilty.  However, as the Cinematographer, and the one
responsible for the shot which appears in front of the camera, she
also is held responsible in allowing a JVC to go up to R which
communicated joking and degrading of the Cine drills and so the
Committee finds her guilty of this charge.  Interested party disagreed
with this finding.
_Charge 3_
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee found her not guilty of this charge
as found no evidence of her inciting to insubordination.
_Charge 4_
Pleaded not guilty and then later changed her plea to guilty.  The
Committee finds her guilty as she as the then Cinematographer was
totally responsible for the quality of the shot going into the camera.
She allowed the product of the CameraDept and the JVC section to
collapse by sending up an overt product yet she as the Cinematographer
could have prevented the catastrophe by demanding that a high quality
shot be set up in front of the camera and refusing to shoot an overt
product.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded not guilty.  Then changed her plea to guilty later.  The
Committee finds her guilty as she refused to uphold discipline in
allowing a degrade of a drill to occur in front of her camera.
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found her guilty of this charge due to
the fact that she allowed the quality degrade shot on the JVC to be
taken, condoned it and allowed it to be sent up to R which resulted in
upset to command, overworking command and forcing command to intervene
to handle the situation.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found her guilty.  There was a severe
disturbance caused by the 25th JVC and there was disrepute caused to
Cine as a result.  Also see charges 4 & 6 above.
_Charge 8_ 
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found her guilty as per evidence in 4 &
6 above and in the fact that Terri was told that the shot looked corny
by A/Camera for Lights and herself condoned it saying she though it
was a cute shot.
_Charge 9_ 
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds her guilty in that as the Cj
Cinematographer, she allowed a mockery of the drills and a quality
degrade per ED 276 Cine to take place in front of her camera and go up
to command whereas she could have prevented it. 
NOTE: The Interested party wanted it made known that she felt that at
the time of the shooting of this shot she did not intend that the shot
would communicate a degrade or a mockery.  She has since observed that
that is what is communicated and has taken responsibility for this.
She wanted it also made known that she had benefitted from the Cine
drills, was totally with them and did not intend to undermine them.

_INTERESTED PARTY - GERRY ARMSTRONG_
_High Crime #1_
Pleaded not guilty. The Committee found no evidence of Gerry inciting
to a mutiny. The Committee found him not guilty of this charge. 
_Crimes Charge 1_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found him guilty.  Gerry was the
announcer in the shot and originated playing his part as a Barnham and
Bailey circus ring master announcer which intoduced and communicated a
quality degrade of the shot.
_Charge 2_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however found him guilty of the
charge due to his originating and introducing the Barnum and Bailey
Beingness into the shot which brought about a joking and degrading
communication of the Cine drills.  Even though the the interested
party stated that it was not his intention to communicate a
joke/degrade of the shot and that he himself had made good gains from
the drills themselves, the shot _did_ communicate a Joke and Degrade
and this is what caused the extreme upset to command.
_Charge 3_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found him not guilty of this charge
as found no evidence incriminating him on inciting to insubordination.
There was an element of insubordination in his actions in the shot and
this has been taken into account in the drafting of the
recommendations.
_Charge 4_
Pleaded guilty.  The committee finds him guilty.  By his contributing
actions, there was a collapse in Cine as a result of the JVC sent up
on the evening of the 25th Sept.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found him not guilty of refusal to
uphold discipline.  There was a lack of discipline in the actions of
the interested party in the part he played in the shooting of this
overt product JVC however and the Committee has taken this into
account in the drafting of its recommendations.
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found him guilty.  The JVC shot in
which he played the Announcer did cause overwork to command.  Also see
data in charges 1 and 2 above.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee found him guilty as there was indeed a
severe and disreputable disturbance created by the quality degrade JVC
shot in which the interested party participated and contributed to.
There was as a result disrepute caused to Cine.
_Charge 8_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found him guilty. The circumstances
did cause a collapse in Cine and were condoned.  See above charges.
_Charge 9_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him guilty as he was
the announcer in the shot and did participate and contribute to a shot
that communicated a mockery of the drills and a mockery of ED 276
Quality Degrades.
		_________________________

_INTERESTED PARTY - MIKE TITMUS_
_High Crime #1_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee found no evidence in Mike "Inciting
a mutiny"and so finds him not guilty of this charge.
_Crimes Charge 1_ 
Pleaded not guilty.  However, the Committee finds him guilty as he as
the Director is directly responsible for the actions on the set and by
definition is over all the terminals on the set.  The shot did
communicate a gross quality degrade.  Interested party did not feel
this was correct.
_Charge 2_
Pleaded not guilty.  However, as the actor in this shot was in fact
communicating joking and degrading and as he as the Director is
directly responsible for the quality of the shot and the direction or
the shot, the Committee finds him to be guilty of this charge.
_Charge 3_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee finds him guilty of this charge as
he as the Director allowed to go up to R a Video that communicated
insubordination and that he did nothing to correct this despite being
informed by the A/Camera for Lights (now the Director) that the shot
was corny.
_Charge 4_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him guilty as the
Product of the Director is high quality shots in the can.  The very
low quality of the JVC shot manifested a collapsed Director section.
_Charge 5_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him guilty of this
charge as he as the Director was told by an experienced Cine terminal
that the shot was "corney".  He agreed that the shot was corny but did
not correct it.  He also allowed the original 'Simple Shot of Drills
Being Done Well', as the original theme of the JVC shot for the day to
be degraded into a joke and a degrade.
_Charge 6_
Pleaded guilty.  The Committee finds him guilty.  There was an
overload caused at command level due to the Director ignoring his
duties of insisting and getting a high quality shot in the can.
_Charge 7_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him to be guilty of
this charge as there was indeed a disreputable disturbance created by
this bad JVC tape sent up to command and the repute of Cine and the
Director was marred severly.
_Charge 8_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him to be guilty of
this charge as he as the Director was directly responsible for the
quality of the shot in the can.  He was urged to improve it but did
not do so.  The overt product did result in a collapse in Cine.
_Charge 9_
Pleaded not guilty.  The Committee however finds him guilty of this
charge as he as the Director is responsible for the quality of the
shot in the can and this JVC was found to have made a mockery of the
drills and ED 276 Cine, Quality Degrades, even though the interested
party stated that this was not his intention, this is what was
communicated to command in the shot and is majorly what caused the
whole upset and the collapse in Cine and the resultant RPF
assignments. 

The interested parties have been confronted with these findings.

_RECOMMENDATIONS_
_NOTE_:  The Committee, in proposing these recommendations, took into
account the seriousness of the charges considering that not only did
they cause unnecessary and unfair upset and overload on R's lines,
they were also committed during a period when Cine was already heavily
on R's lines, out of production, in disrepute and in a low condition.
Mitigating factors in each individual case were also looked at in
proposing handlings.

_GARY PRESS_
The Committee found that Gary was deeply involved and largely
responsible for the J&D JVC.  There were few mitigating circumstances
to consider in his favor and the committee feels that in view of this
and the fact that Gary was recently removed from post as the Chief
Gaffer, has dramatized case on post and is in need of correction that
his RPP assignment be confirmed. 

_GERRY ARMSTRONG_ 
The Committee found that Gerry was also very much involved in the
rendition of the JVC shot and the establishment of the tone and
beingness which it communicated.  Gerry has been in post difficulty
over the last month or two. As with Gary Press above, the Committee
recommends that Gerry's assignment to the RPF be confirmed. 

_TERRI ARMSTRONG_ 
Besides being the Cinematographer and a Div head in Cine at the time
of the JVC incident, Terri is also a Commodore's messenger and should
have set an example far above that expected from other Cine staff.
The Committee has noted that while Terri was found to be hard working
on her post, she has been in difficulties as a Cameraman since she
started in Cine and has had numerous ethics and Qual handlings.  The
Committee feels that besides being a correct ethics handling, it would
benefit her and the group for her to get herself cleaned up and
enhanced in the RPF.  Therefore the Committee recommends that her RPF
assignment be confirmed.

_MIKE TITMUS_ 
The Committee recognizes the severity of the offences for which Mike
has been found guilty and agrees that the offences warrant an RPF
assignment however after careful consideration, the Committee has
taken into account the fact that Mike was on the post of Director for
one week and on a training program to get hatted up as a Director.
His main contribution to the situation was found to be not grabbing
and wearing his hat of Director, during the time of this JVC shot.
The Committee therefore recommends that the RPF assignment of Mike be
held in abeyance and that he be put on a one month probation during
which time he be assigned to Cine sets.  The Committee recommends a
condition of confusion be assigned for the crimes of which he is
guilty. 

_CAROL SPURLOCK_
The Committee found that Carol's involvement in the incident was not
severe.  She does recognize her failed responsibility.  The Committee
has found that Carol has never completed an EPF cycle nor done her
basics of staff statuses or Product 0.  The Committee therefore
recommends that Carol's RPF assignment be held in abeyance and she be
put on a probation for a period of one month and that she be assigned
to the WHQ EPF where she is to do MEST work and complete her basics.
The Committee recommends a condition of confusion for the crimes she
is guilty of.

_STUART MOREAU_ 
Whereas the Committee found Stuart guilty on the majority of the
charges, it found that the interested party himself had recognized his
total responsibility in the matter as he was the CO and had taken full
responsibility for the crimes committed.  The Committee took into
account the good work done by Stuart in the construction of the WHQ
and the Silver barn and the many construction cycles done by him at
WHQ.  The Committee feels that the severity of the situation has been
duplicated by the interested party and in view of the good work he has
done outside of Cine, recommends that he be assigned to WHQ
Construction on probation and that the RPF assignment be held in
abeyance for a period of one month, pending his excellent production.
Post stats and demonstration of assumed responsibility.  The Committee
recommends a condition of confusion in addition for the crimes
committed. 

Respectfully submitted: 

Chairman: 	Norman Starkey
Secretary:	Pat Murray 
Member:	Glenn Hackenberg
Member: 	Lesley Tyrer 

The Findings and Recommendations are accepted and the Committee is
thanked.

The interested parties who are assigned conditions are to report to
HCO for deligation of amends.

Carol Spurlock is to do her EPF MEST work in the Galley.

		Lynn Hurst 
		Convening Authority 

LH:NS:PM:GH:LT:ph 

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