Jackie is well aware of Scientology. She is a longtime friend of Patricia Ryan, the daughter of Congressman Leo J. Ryan. Patricia was also the President of the original Cult Awareness Network for several years.

Patricia was also close to Rep. Tom Lantos, who was elected to fill Congressman Ryan's seat after his death in Guyana. After Rep, Lantos died of cancer, Jackie was elected to fill his seat and has been re-elected ever since.

Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress chose to remain silent when it came to Scientology & religious cults, in general. So has Jackie.

It looks like DM is wasting the cult’s money on unnecessary alterations of the renovations. He might as well throw that money into a red-hot furnace.

She was one of the screaming banshee RoboScion's in the Anderson Cooper series? No?

Sad. Very sad. Being the unedycated southern black white minortiy 1%-er livin' in poverty that ah am, ah would ask:
What is it that Jenny DeVocht and other Scilons are not getting about life, if Scn is a pathway to a better one? I mean, is their vision of a better life so messed up that they think they've found it, in "the hole", and are eager to force that joy on others? I'm very confused.
Here's a binary multiple-choice test, for example:
1) Does a better life mean a more rational and humane one?
a) Yes.
b) No.
2) Is letting some sadistic nut-case starve you and beat you and drive you crazy a horrible idea?
a) Yes.
b) No.
#) Does seeing someone abuse someone else piss you off?
a) Yes.
b) No.
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above, keep reading. If you answered "No" to one or more, keep reading. If you were unable to figure it out, or didn't bother, or can't remember how you answered, keep reading..

Tenor.

One of the many mantras/aphorisms of $cientology is, "The way out is the way through."

Tory uses a variant on this. You may have seen it: "The way out is through the nearest door."

There are other mantras: "The thetan knows." "Production is the basis of morale." "Outflow equals inflow." You get the idea. One of the functions of these things is as a 'thought stopper,' which you'll find explained in Steven Hassan's books.

What is meant by "the way out is the way through" is that once beset by difficulty or some kind of trial the way to get out of that difficulty or trial is to go through it, "confronting and handling" what comes up as one goes. There is a positive aspect to this. People involved with $cientology do not walk away from adversity. They deal with it. Of course, the negative aspect of it is they do not walk away from abuse or things that might be dangerous or destructive to them.

At the same time Hubbard has presented a vision of a land where everybody is fairies and elves, people can have all the comic books they want and chocolate and waxed lips. Oh, wait, sorry. That's from Woody Allen's monologue on being kidnapped. Nevertheless Hubbard presented a very utopian vision of a future world where everything is absolutely shiningly wonderful with no crime, no war, no suppressives, no insanity, and nothing bad at all. People involved in $cientology have bought into that. To get that they are willing to make whatever sacrifices are necessary so they'll put up with a lot before they finally decide they've had it with the horse shit and leave.

Those who are in the hole probably look on their punishment as necessary in order to make progress toward what Hubbard promised to them. The mental bars are much stronger than steel ones.

Wieber,
Nice analysis, all of it. What I bolded cracked me up laughing. To me, the ability to analyze a situation and correctly evaluate it within a huge sphere, is precisely what the study of knowledge is about. My belief is that man is indeed a spiritual being (Buddhists believe in reincarnation, as well as peace, so why can't I?), and that within Scn there are very important truths, so to me the horror-show is all the more painful. No derail here, just introducing myself to you, not joking. It amazes me that people can be convinced to beat and deprive others, and it's my belief that gross depravity must be stopped. We need some of the people who investigated Abu Grahib (sp?) to visit the Co$.
Tenor.

Here are the wives on Anderson Cooper, including Jenny DeVocht.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tqrMsD ... ature=plcp

You bet. Sea Org members happily refer to the process of the RPF as "redemption". They believe they are freeing themselves from themselves, getting back to a pure, ethical state. They have been indoctrinated to believe that they are dramatizing evil because they have not stayed within the tiny boundaries that are created for each of them. That boundary = produce, produce, produce as ordered and get NOTHING, ZERO in return, = SLAVERY. So, be a good slave, or go to the RPF. But like Wieber says, the chains of this special kind of slavery are invisible because they are mental chains. This is the part that Judges, Courts and Agencies apparently have a difficult time with, and it's what makes scientology so insidious.

CoS has woven these kinds of religious terms (redemption, apostate) into their vernacular as part of their ruse to make a dangerous group that's in the abuse-business, appear like a religion.

From one of my first posts here:

Marx and Lenin promised the same.

"Licking bathroom floors til one's tongue and jaw aches for extended periods of time has been doled out by the Flag Staff MAA ("ethics officer" )as punishment on staff, regularly and routinely."

Just one such episode should be enough to convince them that it is time to make a run for freedom. But they stay no matter what is thrown at them.

Moses called the Hebrews who did not want to leave Egypt "slaves".

This is what organized religion does to you.

Did you know the American Psychological Association has reported that the highest use of antidepressants are among middle-aged women in Utah? That the Mormon Church, despite it's enormous PR efforts to show themselves as pure & wholesome, has a very high incident rate of spousal abuse among it's members.. women who are beaten senseless by their husbands, but are ordered by church leadership to forgive, forget, and look the other way, after all, the man is the head of the household?

Scientology is not unlike other religious institutions where power & influence is given to one person or a small group of people, that is then allowed to wield it as they please. In some respects, David Miscavige as become another Adolf Hitler, and deserves to be deposed.

I am not sure why Mr. Webb made it look like he revealed one of cult’s secrets -- everyone in Sea Org knows that the sessions are recorded. This policy is reflected in numerous HCOBs.