In the American Constitution and system of laws, we have built in checks and balances. Western Law is essentially based upon this same model.

In America, freedom of religion is counterbalanced by:

A Free Press

Freedom of Speech

The Civil Rights of Americans

The Right of the individual to sue in court if injured, harmed, or defrauded

The System of Laws at the Federal, State, County, and City levels. These laws make monopolies illegal in most cases because monopolies tend to become corrupt and abuse their power.

The goal of Constitutional Law is to create an orderly society and to have a way to punish those who disorder and harm society by breaking its laws. Opposing these noble ideals are those businesses and private groups who use virtually all means possible to circumvent checks and balances and laws. In business, lobbyists work at the legislative and executive branches in an attempt to get special laws passed that cripple their competition or give them some legal advantage in the marketplace. The courts act to check the legislative and the executive branches by ruling on lawsuits arising from disputes in civil law or personal lawsuits. The adversaries in court are entitled to a trial that is heard and decided on by a jury of their peers. Appellate courts exist all the way up to the Supreme Court.

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L. Ron Hubbard and COS began their attack upon the US Constitution and the constitution of other countries in a surreptitious way when he made this statement:

Scientology cannot thrive in an atmosphere of Suppression.

To Caroline's point about the SP Doctrine, LRH articulated and then unfolded an ideological cascade. The SP Doctrine is only one link in the fascist ideological spine that links together CoS and all of its front groups. I see the ideological spine of Scientology cascading down into these groupings:

LRH
CST

RTC
The Tech
Homo Novis
Ethics
OSA

CoS
Clearing the Planet
The Orgs
Front Groups
PR Control

Obliterating Psychiatry

The SP Doctrine
Fair Game
LRH's Call for a Genocide of those >2.5


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Fundamentally, LRH created a false dichotomy. In its barest terms, this is LRH's false dichotomy:

Homo Novis vs. Suppression

Make no mistake about: LRH's goal was to process "homo saps" into Homo Novis. Scientologists want to be nice people, but they also consider themselves to be a Master Race, to be the authorities on the mind, education, drug treatment, business management, raising children, literacy, and everything else.

In order to expand and universalize his false dichotomy and spread his teaching into all areas of life, LRH created the Dynamics. His orders were then to "Shatter Suppression" across all dynamics. This order placed the Scientologist at war with their own self at all levels of their existence. Anyone and anything that opposed Scientology was Suppressive. The war was on: All dynamics were to be brought into compliance with the goals and aims of Scientology:

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the first dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the second dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the third dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the fourth dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the fifth dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the sixth dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the seventh dynamic

Homo Novis vs. Suppression on the eighth dynamic

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What does LRH mean when he speaks of Suppression? In real world terms, CoS has shown us the manifest expression of what it wants:

1. CoS wants Freedom of Religion while operating like a for profit business. Therefore, "Suppression" is when a country does not accept the premise of CoS wanting the best of all possible worlds:

A. Tax exemption and profits.

B. The payment of slave wages to "religious volunteers" who produce products that are sold by CoS for a huge profit.

B1. The exemption of CoS from all labor laws and worker protections.

B2. The right to work people ~100 hour weeks with one day off per fourteen days.

B3. Exemption from child labor laws where minors are defined as religious volunteers.

C. The right to avoid paying any retirement benefits to "religious volunteers."

D. The right to abandon "religious volunteers" after 25+ years of service by payment of $500.

E. The use of civil contracts to strip all CoS parishioners and clergy of their civil rights and their rights to sue in civil courts.

F. The freedom to Fair Game opponents where "Fair Game" is a protected religious sacrament.

G. Special laws that ban protesters or keep them away at some distance.

H. Lavish support from law enforcement on even minor complaints, this while CoS is tax exempt and does not pay taxes towards law enforcement.

I. The rights to imprison individuals in private prisons for indefinite periods of time in order to effect coercive mental changes. These changes make people compliant to the purposes and goals of CoS.

I1. The right to promote CoS as a humanitarian group while it also engages in human rights abuses and the circumvention of labor laws by use of religious volunteers.

J. The right to market and sell defective products.

K. Exemption from liability on sale of defective products.

L. The right to tell lies and call them acceptable truths.

M. The right to dump waste on islands.

N. The right to spy on the enemies of Homo Novis.

The list goes on and has been well documented. The point is that CoS calls any opposition to its often despicable, shoddy, and inhumane practices "Suppression." Accordingly, Homo Novis acts to Shatter Suppression in its war to conquer the World and bring it into compliance with the purposes and goals of CoS.

"Shattering Suppression" is code for CoS' war against the Human Race.


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A Scientologist wrote:

"It is amazing how Scientology can thrive when it is not subjected to Suppression."

What I take this to mean is: Scientology can thrive when it can do whatever it wants and is not held to accountability in the press, by the authorities, or by the public at large. The Church of Scientology needs secrecy to survive due to the nature of its practices and what it hides.

As a fascist system often at War with its own members -- and always at war with the World -- CoS will always encounter what it falsely labels Suppression.

Scientologists are attempting to exist as the Master Race of Homo Novis while they are inescapably human. This causes an inevitable inner war in every Scientologist.

Approaching life from the Dynamics, the Scientologist is at war with all of the parts of his or her own existence. Unless the dynamics can be made to comply, there is a PTS or SP situation on several, or even all, of a Scientologist's dynamics. Worse, the Scientologist is at war with his or her own wholetrack: Charge must be blown in this and all other lives. Over against this, CoS constantly wants money and is constantly regging the Scientologist for money.

Only the wealthy can actually survive in CoS because Money is Free Theta. That is part of the secret: Money buys love, forgiveness, acclaim, and "Certificates of Enlightenment" in CoS.

Down at the bottom of LRH's organizational cascade is this cruel, stable datum:

"Make money, make more money, make others produce so as to make more money."

Is it no wonder CoS is falling apart and is subject to such wide global criticism?

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Again, LRH created a false dichotomy. In its barest terms, this is LRH's false dichotomy:

Homo Novis vs. Suppression

What is noteworthy is that LRH gave himself and Scientology an Ultimate Escape Clause:

The only thing that can stop Scientology is Suppression.

In other words, LRH quite openly admitted that Suppression is greater than, and therefore senior to, Scientology.

Why did LRH do this? LRH wrote the Scientology texts. He did not have to write in this escape clause and yet he very deliberately did.

* Why did LRH build in an Ultimate Escape Clause?

* Will this Ultimate Escape Clause be exercised by CoS?

* If so, what would such an exercise look like and result in?


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Can you give a cite to Hubbard's statement above, please J. Swift?

It's clear to me that he started his war on countries and their constitutions (at least as they related to protecting human right), and his war on human beings, many years before he named his targets "suppression" or "suppressives." "Merchants of fear" were 1953. There's a lot of antisocial and bellicose material in Hubbard's scripture before 1965 when "suppression" appears.

Hubbard tended to modify his propaganda depending on his audience, but in reality and practice, the SP doctrine is about shattering living, breathing human beings he labeled "Suppressive Persons," not really about nebulous and atmospheric "suppression."

I don't know if this has any bearing on this discussion but I wanted to point it out. The passage from the bulletin that Caroline quoted is a check sheet item on the SP/PTS course as a golden age of tech(nology) (GAT) drill.

The drill involves reading this passage out loud to the wall repeatedly until the student can recite it to the wall verbatim without reading it or looking at any material and without making any errors.

Hubbard's Science of Survival dates his assault on US constitutional rights guarantees back to 1951.

I think he did it because his little religion was pulled out of his ass!

"Scientology doesn't work? It's you. But you tried it verbatim? Then it's Suppression. The ~PSYCHIATRISTS~ are suppressing us! They want us to FAIL! Ohnoez!"

OK, that's not true for me.

Excellent dissection.

There's probably a few more "working points," but herein lies an excellent description of the "zero sum game" that is $cientology.

On one side, there's fucked-over municipalities, federal governments, ex-$O members, current $ea Org $laves, general public, and $cientology public.

They are all being/or have been fucked-over.

Then, on the other side, there's the raving sociopath—David Miscavige, who gets to live in extreme comfort, opulence, with all monies flowing into his control.

No action is ever challenged from within.

No comfort is too extravagant or too excessive.

It's amazing.

Translation: 2.0 = Antagonism. Therefore, anyone who disagrees with Scientology is 2.0 and should have no civil rights. If allowed to have civil rights, these people will pass laws that prohibit CoS from acting in a criminal manner. Thus, in Dr. Hubbard's world, people at 2.0 can only have civil rights once they are no longer antagonistic to Scientology.

This is deeply flawed thinking on Hubbard's part. This logical flaw is called a tautology, or a circular argument, and is akin to other religious circular arguments:

1. The Bible is the Word of God because God says so right there in the Bible. This is how God has proven to Man that the Bible is his Word.

2. Only hell-bound sinners would argue that the Bible is not the Word of God. These sinners are blind to God's Truth that is plainly declared in the pages of scripture.

3. I have found the Bible to be true in my own life, therefore it is true for everyone else as well. After all, only hell-bound sinners would argue that the Bible is not the Word of God.

3. The Tech works because L. Ron Hubbard said so. I have found the Tech be true in my own life, therefore it is true for everyone else as well. After all, only SP's would argue that the Tech does not work.

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For Independents interested in expanding their spiritual reading, I recommend Aliester Crowley's very small book called The Book of the Law. In this book, you will see where LRH sourced some of the centrals ideas in Scientology. The Book of the Law can be downloaded for free here: http://www.leary.ru/download/crowley/%2 ... %20Law.pdf

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Excuse me Dr. Hubbard, but the US Constitution calls for elections and for everyone to have a vote. I cannot find anything in the US Constitution about mandatory, fascist psychometry on the population using your Tone Scale.

In any case, The Church of Scientology has found its own level in the marketplace of ideas by competing with all other religions. The results have not been good for CoS. I think this has to do with CoS fighting its own members and bleeding them dry of money. In the end, it will be found that the regges killed CoS as much as everything else that is wrong with it. Any religious Cult built on lies, greed, and treachery is doomed to fail. This is why CoS is in free fall watching the ground come up very fast to meet it.


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There are often quoted passages in Science of Survival in which Hubbard in a veiled way calls for an end to individual human rights unless they support scientology. When I first read that book and the passage quoted in this thread I was caught up in it and agreed with it all. Not only that I was fervent to see that what Hubbard suggested should actually happen.

Here's that passage again:


Science of Survival is not now promoted to people who are outside scientology. By the time most people involved in scientology get to it they have done their training routines (TRs) and had some auditing. They have been indoctrinated, put into their hypnotic trance states, gone through their love bombing and they have bought into the principles of Keeping Scientology Working.

Hubbard leads up to this advocacy of taking away people's rights. He starts off the book with a brief reiteration of what is in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health except that he becomes alarmist about the contagion of aberration and he describes the future of the world without treatment for that aberration in catastrophic terms.

When Hubbard released Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health he had no money making organization based on it. Since there are no definite instructions in that book to do whatever Dianetic therapy is I have to conclude that Hubbard wanted people to come to him looking for that instruction after having read that book. He must have had plans to start a money making organization that gave such instruction.

Science of Survival is much akin to phase two of bringing a person into a cult. Where Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health mainly deals with personal problems and issues, Science of Survival moves those problems and issues into the larger milieu of society, countries and the world. In that context Hubbard essentially presents his manifesto.

For a person involved in scientology what is outlined in Science of Survival is the kind of world they are working so hard and so diligently on bringing into existence. Such a world will have in it all the points J. Swift lists in this thread. Such a world will not be safe for anyone, not even those people who work so hard and so diligently for scientology.

Hubbard claimed in 1952 that he could set up a hierarchy of government, install communism or fascism, and strip people of their civil rights without breaking the law.