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Click the Image Above Contents I. Disclaimer ........................................................................ 4 II. Who was L. Ron Hubbard? ......................................... 5 III. What is Scientology? .................................................. 9 IV. Why should I care? ................................................... 12 A. Fair Game ................................................................ 13 B. Mysterious Deaths..................................................24 C. The Lies ....................................................................25 D. The Crimes ...............................................................29 E. The Cover-Ups .........................................................33 F. Litigious Nature .......................................................35 G. Human Rights Abuses ...........................................37 H. Disconnection ........................................................39 I. Being Declared .........................................................40 V. Scientology vs Psychiatry .........................................43 VI. Secret IRS Tax Deal ....................................................49 VII. What Officials Say ....................................................55 VIII. Cult Phenomenon ..................................................56 IX. David Miscavige.........................................................58 A. The Sea Org.............................................................66 X. The Scam of Narconon ..............................................70 (continued) 2 Contents XI. The E-Meter ................................................................ 71 XII. Scientology Front Groups ......................................72 XIII. Helpful Links ............................................................73 XIV. Who or What is Anonymous? .............................. 74 A. Why Do We Wear Masks? ....................................75 XV. Glossary of Terms .....................................................76 XVI. References ...............................................................77 XVII. We Are Anonymous .............................................80 3 BEFORE YOU CONTINUE All information included in this packet has been pulled from actual court documents, affidavits, quotes from ex-Scientologists, or those who have been harassed or ’fair gamed’ by the Church. Where applicable, sources will be cited, but the reader is strongly encouraged to do his or her own research and not take the word of Anonymous alone. We believe that once a person starts to research the history of the Church of Scientology, they will find a disturbing and readily emerging pattern: cover ups, unrivaled litigious actions, arrests, convictions, as well as countless heartbreaking testimonials from the men, women, and children who have escaped the cult of Scientology. Read the official Church websites, hear their side, then compare. While reading, ask yourself: ”Do these seem to be the actions of a church?” ”He is a fraud and has always been a fraud.” - Ron DeWolf, son of L. Ron Hubbard, speaking of his father 4 Who was L. Ron Hubbard? It is difficult to understand the religion of Scientology without first understanding its founder. The official church biography paints Hubbard as a humanitarian, educator, world explorer, artist, philosopher and, ultimately, the very savior of mankind. Reality paints a much dimmer image. By piecing together his personal journals, pulling his educational and military records, and listening to the words of his own family, we see something much different: a deeply paranoid individual desperate to smash his name into the history books, and, in the process, make millions of dollars pushing his own brand of pop psychology. L. Ron Hubbard was an American fiction writer from the state of Nebraska, known prior to the creation of his religion for his emphasis on science fiction. He received a measure of education from George Washington University, enrolling in 1930 in the civil engineering program. His academic record was decidedly poor, however, and he was discharged from the school the following year. During World War II, L. Ron Hubbard served as a naval officer, but was continually removed from leadership positions for incompetence. In June of 1943, he became the subject of a disciplinary hearing. Hubbard was relieved of command for the third time after he anchored his ship off of the Coronado Islands, which is Mexican territory, and proceeded to conduct gunnery practice there. The Mexican authorities lodged an official complaint. That, coupled with his failure to return to base as ordered, led to a Board of Investigation. It determined that Hubbard had disregarded orders and was transferred to other duties. After being discharged from the Navy, Hubbard was primarily engaged in fiction writing exploits. L. Ron gained some measure of acclaim for his work in science fiction, but writing for a penny a word was not his idea of success. ”You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” - L Ron Hubbard’s response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association (7 November 1948), quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz. Sometime after the war, Hubbard met Jack Parsons, an aeronautics professor at Caltech and an associate of the British occultist Aleister Crowley. Hubbard eventually moved in with Parsons and his girlfriend Sara Northrup. Parsons, a Satanist, introduced Hubbard to ritual magick. The Church of Scientology does not deny any of this occured, but claims that Hubbard was actually working as an ONI agent on a mission to end Parsons’ supposed magical activities and to ’rescue’ Sara Northrup, who Parsons was using in his Satanic rituals. (continued) 5 Who was L. Ron Hubbard? Actually, Hubbard described Parsons as his friend in his Scientology lectures rather than a person he was investigating. Also interesting to note was that Hubbard later married the girl he said that he rescued from Parsons. Sara Northrup became Hubbard’s second wife in August 1946. (It was an act of bigamy, as Hubbard had abandoned, but not divorced, his first wife and children as soon as he left the Navy) Soon after, Dianetics was published. One can only guess as to how L. Ron hubbard actually developed his ’science’ behind Dianetics. No records of his experiments have ever been shown, nor have any of the methods he used to come up with his theories on the mind been proven. According to the Church, the seeds of Dianetics were planted by a series of cytological experiments he allegedly conducted in 1937. These experiments were said to demonstrate that the urge to survive overrode every other possible life- enhancing drive. This was a new spin to the then current theory that life is nothing more than a game of chance. Unlike Darwin’s theory of evolution, which gave importance to survival only to the extent of natural selection, Hubbard postulated that the command to survive comes from an ’intelligence’ behind the scheme of life. Hubbard stated that all life is directed by one command: survive. But survive how? Hubbard had to come up with a practical application. His first major step towards such a practicality, and consequently towards Dianetics, came about in 1945 during the Second World War. Hubbard, then a lieutenant in the US Army, came across 15 former prisoners of war who, after near-starvation diets, were found unable to assimilate protein despite all possible treatments. Intrigued, Hubbard concluded that if the mind regulated the body and not the other way round, then the mind could create mental blocks that would keep the endocrine system from responding to treatment. On the other hand, if this mental block could be cleared, the problem should be resolved. This became the premise of Dianetics. The word ’dianetics’ comes from the Greek dia (through) and nous (mind or thought). After his experience with the POWs, Hubbard began the formulation of Dianetics primarily on the premise that it is the mind that acts on the primal directive of survival and, in turn, directs life in the effort of survival. Claiming that he had pinpointed the source of most problems that afflict the individual, Hubbard set upon the process of making Dianetics a noninvasive therapeutic science that could successfully handle all kinds of neuroses, psychosomatic ailments, and psychoses. 6 L. Ron Hubbard’s College Transcript 7 L. Ron Hubbard’s Naval Record 8 What is Scientology? The first official Church of Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1953 in the city of Camden, New Jersey. By that point, however, the belief system had already been largely developed. The basis of their beliefs can be traced to the publication of Dianetics three years previously. The Church is founded on a set of ideas about mind, body, and spirit that are referred to collectively as ’Scientology’. This set of beliefs contains large elements of Hubbard’s previous self-help regimen, Dianetics, which had enjoyed sizable commercial success when published in 1950. Scientologists believe that we all possess two separate minds. The Analytical Mind is the part which we consciously use and are aware of. This is the portion of the mind which thinks, observes data, and resolves problems. It has standard memory banks which contain mental image pictures and uses the data in these banks to make decisions that promote survival. The second mind is the Reactive Mind. When a person is ”unconscious,” the reactive mind exactly records
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