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Narconon Certification Committee Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Melanie.Houle.Agence04@Ssss.Gouv.Qc.Ca 1 David Edgar Love 306- 1955 Duff Court Lachine, Quebec H8S 1E9 [email protected] To: Melanie Houle Narconon Certification Committee Trois-Rivieres, Quebec [email protected] David Edgar Love – Montreal Personal Safety Exanminer Montreal, Canada http://www.examiner.com/personal-safety-in-montreal/david-love “Born on the West Coast of British Columbia, David Edgar Love now resides in the Montreal area. David formed a charitable organization in 1990 and was the Director of a rehabilitation center for substance abuse. He then completed a University of British Columbia Real Estate Course and was employed as a Realtor and Sub-Mortgage Broker for more than six years. David's life is fulfilled doing research on public safety, culture, disease and illness, and strives to help persons with human rights and freedoms issues.” Montreal Personal Safety Examiner ### “I, David Edgar Love, having been a patient at Narconon Trois-Rivieres for five months and then recruited as a staff member for six months, I have thousands of pages of documents concerning the relationship between Narconon and the Church of Scientology. Please feel free to request any documentation you require in this, or any other case you are investigating.” 2 Below, you will see the direct connection between Narconon and Scientology. There is no difference, except in each entities Corporate Name. A Scientologist moves up The Bridge to Total Freedom, or simply "The Bridge", to a state of Clear when they have freed themselves from their "reactive mind". Purportedly, this takes place beyond training sessions in Church of Scientology auditing, and is said to be a lifetime commitment. Once an individual has reached Clear status, they claim to be more self-confident, happy and generally successful in their careers and interpersonal relationships. Beyond the state of Clear, Scientologists move through several auditing steps called Operating Thetan levels, the most sacred religious activity. An OT is a state of spiritual awareness in which an individual is able to control himself and his environment. The Bridge is broken down into two parallel paths, Training and Processing. Processing addresses the Scientology devotee's "case" or how they function in life as influenced by their "aberrations". The Training path teaches Hubbard's theories on the nature of life and the universe and the techniques of auditing. Participants feel that this knowledge greatly enhances their ability to be effective in life whether they audit another or not. Scientologists can travel up either side of the Bridge and many do both sides. Although not part of the formal Bridge, the chart also lists a large number of optional courses and training actions that can be done by Scientologists. One of the most controversial and hotly debated questions about Narconon is the nature of its relationship with Scientology - both the religion and the Church. Narconon's critics frequently claim that it is little more than a front for Scientology, used to recruit people into Scientology and to covertly introduce Scientology doctrines into wider society. The Church of Scientology and Narconon naturally deny this, stating that "Narconon drug rehabilitation and drug education is a secular social betterment program with highly effective results. It is a separate and autonomous charitable program that is independent of the Church of Scientology." ["Narconon: A New Life for Drug Addicts") But does it matter if Narconon is, as its critics claim, a front for Scientology? It does, for a number of reasons: Truthfulness. If Narconon is lying about its links with Scientology, why is that and what is it trying to achieve by doing so? 3 Legality. The United States is the most prominent of a number of countries which have strict legal restrictions on what activities may be undertaken by religious organisations or funded by public bodies. Fairness. Drug addicts are amongst the most vulnerable individuals in society, who by definition are not in full control of their faculties. They may often be unable to make fully rational decisions about their futures; a particular concern if they are potentially exposed to the often high- pressure recruiting tactics of Scientology-Narconon Registrars. There is very strong evidence that Narconon is in fact inseparable from Scientology. When one examines the facts in detail, it becomes apparent that there are very close links between the Church of Scientology and that Narconon itself is, in effect, virtually undiluted Scientology. The connections fall into three distinct categories: 4 5 6 The following leaked email document clearly indicates the relationship between Scientology and Narconon in Quebec, Canada; especially between the Montreal Church of Scientology and Narconon Trois-Rivieres - - as these two emails between the two entities clearly indicate without a doubt. (Montreal Church of Scientology) De: Jean Lariviere <[email protected]> Objet: RUSH - URGENT - Coming bill/new law re. Narconon in Quebec in Fallof 2008 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:14:59 +0000 A: <[email protected]> CC: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Version simple de l'imprimante Pièces jointes: 0 SupprimerPrécédentSuivantFermerRépondreRépondre à tousFaire suivre Dear Sylvain, Over 2 months ago, yourself, Aline and I met in Montreal to go over the situation of the media attacks on Radio-Canada and other medias and the statement made by the Minister of Health on television that a new bill/law would be tabled at the Quebec legislative assembly in the Fall of 2008 to regulate or control drug detox and/or drug rehab activities such as those taking place at Narconon 3-Rivers. My recommendation to you - based on my 25-year experience in public affairs including holding the post of DSA in the province of Quebec for over 20 years - was that NN need to first and right away - asap - establish the extent and nature of the threat or risk so that you would know asap what Narconon is facing or dealing with, and thus be in a position to then correctly estimate the situation and the extent and nature of the handling needed to properly handle the situation! (CONT) 7 (CONT) The truth was that you did/do not really know what this law is about. How can NN handle an unknown threat? Obviously, the first thing to do is to find out what this law is about, and what is the sit between NN and the Quebec governement's! For that specific purpose, I recommended that you (or someone like you who knows well NN activities and the activities of other drug rehab/detox groups in Quebec) to go right away - asap - do a few visits in Quebec City at the Ministry of Health and Social Services and meet with governement officials who are overseeing the area of drug detox and drug rehab - and who are likely the guys who are writing the new law and who are making recommendations to the Minister - to find out what is the contents and extent of the law that is to come out in the Fall of 2008. Also, to do so very overtly as a NN staff so that you find out exactly what they think about NN and what needs to be handled. In other words, find out from the horse's mouth so to speak! Two (2) major targets: 1) gathering basic and essential information and; 2) starting the PR handling right away with the people who must be handled! You agreed that was the right thing to do and you agreed it was to be done right away, asap so that you would be able to meet with them before they would go in Summer vacation... You were also supposed to let me know the results of those meetings so that I could assist with your writing a tailor-made handling or plan to handle the actual situation. I have heard nothing from you since then so I do not know if you did any visits with the relevant officials at the Ministry of Health in Quebec City. If no such visits have been done, then it is likely that Narconon 3-Rivieres is back in the same position that it was 2 months ago... except that NN 3-Rivieres is that much closer to having to deal with a possibly very ominous situation that cannot yet be properly assessed and handled until such visits and data gathering activities are made. Please check what LRH says about dealing with a Black Panther! 8 (CONT) As you know NN is not the Church and the Church is not going to and cannot meet with government officials on behalf of Narconon. No Church or DSA staff can do the job for you. Either you do it or someone else at or for NN does it. In any event, it must be confronted and done. The faster it is confronted the better and the better chances NN will have to handle the situation. I can only offer advices and the above is about the best advices I can give you my friend! I am always willing to talk with you and offer data or advices. Best, Jean Larivière ### (Narconon Trois-Rivieres Executive Director – Sylvain Fournier) De: Sylvain Fournier <[email protected]> Objet: RE: RUSH - URGENT - Coming bill/new law re. Narconon in Quebec in Fall of 2008 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:37:46 -0400 A: <[email protected]> CC: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Dear Jean, Thank you for your communication, and for your advise throughout this episode, I did use a lot of your recomendation to handle this situation.
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