First I want to address a few questions about the NGO. When I say members in good standing, the current members of the NGO council will determine what that is. We also will be the ones to get in comm with those who we think it would be safe and useful to bring aboard. This is best said by the classic phrase don't call us, we will call you. The NGO is not for anybody. As we expand to more membership, we will be creating a new group for those who want to simply help out. We will certainly need the help when we take on Anonymous.
There is so much ability in all of us, we can do anything if we work as a team. COB does not know the meaning of teamwork. He gives his speeches and everyone smiles and claps, but only because they know they will be sent to ethics if they do not. Everybody knows that COB is failing to handle Anonymous and making questionable decisions and ever more demands for money. All for projects that never quite get finished or that take far longer than they should for the amount of money and labor involved. I've been in business long enough to know when money is being mishandled. The more research I do, the more appalling the mismanagement becomes to me. COB is not using Scientology's resources efficiently or effectively. He has no plan or the attacks would have stopped already and the Church would be growing. Now the situation is growing worse.
An Australian senator has come out with a fistful of lies spread by Anonymous and apostates. The media has been spreading lies and false data about Scientology non stop since Anonymous first attacked the church. None of this has been handled at all with the exception of a few court cases. I have read that one of the masked idiots finally went to prison for attacking church websites. But one is not enough. If that is the best COB can do after two years, it is time for him to go. The NGO is collecting what information we can on this senator and his connections. He may just be duped by the claims of Anonymous and their apostate friends. The constant attacks in the media are not helping and many are drawing wrong conclusions.
When Scientology finally has good leadership again, we must get the media under control and stop the attacks. This should be handled the way it was in 1991 with the attacks by Time Magazine. Make them put up or shut up in court and never give any ground to attackers. That is the way it must be done.
With Anonymous, no quarter should be given. Each one will be identified and their crimes discovered. The only way to make any form of grace with the church for them will be to sign a contract of eternal length swearing to stop their attacks on the church. They must also sign affidavits declaring their past statements false.
Anyone who will not sign will be placed on Church watch lists and their crimes investigated and exposed.
That is the way to handle enemies. You have to root them out into the open and find their crimes and then they are easily handled. As time goes by and we handle more and more of them, the rest will stop their attacks and hope we never discover who they are. LRH wrote much on the subject of handling attacks on the Church. I wonder if COB has even read any of it?
In the meantime there are ways to at least slow down some of their attacks. I have learned that they have been placing pamphlets in Scientology books in libraries. I visited my local library and removed the cards I found. I showed them to the library staff and explained about how the hate group is leaving them in the books and defacing them. They will now be watching that section and hopefully catch them in the act of their vandalism and report them to the police.
As we get more Scientologists on board, we will be asking them to do the same in their local cities. It is a small step, but as we gain strength, we will be able to do more and more to actually start handling the problem of Anonymous and attacks by the media.
This is all I have time for tonight. The NGO is taking up what little spare time I have now, leaving little time to write on the internet.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The New Guardian Office
Had some time to log in today and I see that anonymous has finally found this place. I removed anything that was written by them, but kept anything interesting or thoughtful. As you might expect, not much was worth keeping. I knew it was only a matter of time before they found this site. I will continue to remove any postings by anonymous without warning.
But I have more to talk about than that. A lot has happened since my last post and much progress has been made towards a new beginning for Scientology. I have been in comm with seven other Scientologists and we have agreed to work together to fight the problems facing the Church. We are forming the New Guardian Office, or NGO from here on out. The NGO will initially be hatted with bringing new organization to the Church and the removal of COB. Anonymous is a big problem, but after discussion, we agreed that COB is the biggest problem standing in the way of Scientology at the moment. Our goal is to replace COB with effective leadership that can turn the situation around with membership and reversing some of the changes COB has made to Scientology. Handling of Anonymous can commence once COB is removed from his post.
I am not going to post many details because we have to be careful. COB is clearly unwilling to step back and let someone more fitting run the church, so we are going to have to step carefully until we have enough momentum to be unstoppable.
There are a few rules on who can be part of the NGO. You must be an OT. You must be a Scientologist in good standing and you cannot have ever left and come back. Former members, apostates, and squirrels need not apply.
You must be discreet and willing to follow NGO directives. Comm will be done via email only until we have the strength to operate openly.
Our short term goals are to start with taking control of the orgs or as much of the orgs as possible before moving into the open. Once we have enough strength, we can move openly to remove COB and OSA and replace them with NGO leadership. There will be no more COB once we have removed David Miscavige from his post. A council made up of long time OT's will serve to control all the copyrights and funds of Scientology and the capable Scientologists will be hatted by the council to oversee various important parts of the church such as Flag, VM, Bridge Publications, etc. The days of one point of leadership will be gone and the church can move back to the original goal of clearing this planet and the dissemination of Scientology.
That is all I am willing to divulge at this time. We will grow carefully but we will grow. We must succeed for the sake of all Scientologists.
But I have more to talk about than that. A lot has happened since my last post and much progress has been made towards a new beginning for Scientology. I have been in comm with seven other Scientologists and we have agreed to work together to fight the problems facing the Church. We are forming the New Guardian Office, or NGO from here on out. The NGO will initially be hatted with bringing new organization to the Church and the removal of COB. Anonymous is a big problem, but after discussion, we agreed that COB is the biggest problem standing in the way of Scientology at the moment. Our goal is to replace COB with effective leadership that can turn the situation around with membership and reversing some of the changes COB has made to Scientology. Handling of Anonymous can commence once COB is removed from his post.
I am not going to post many details because we have to be careful. COB is clearly unwilling to step back and let someone more fitting run the church, so we are going to have to step carefully until we have enough momentum to be unstoppable.
There are a few rules on who can be part of the NGO. You must be an OT. You must be a Scientologist in good standing and you cannot have ever left and come back. Former members, apostates, and squirrels need not apply.
You must be discreet and willing to follow NGO directives. Comm will be done via email only until we have the strength to operate openly.
Our short term goals are to start with taking control of the orgs or as much of the orgs as possible before moving into the open. Once we have enough strength, we can move openly to remove COB and OSA and replace them with NGO leadership. There will be no more COB once we have removed David Miscavige from his post. A council made up of long time OT's will serve to control all the copyrights and funds of Scientology and the capable Scientologists will be hatted by the council to oversee various important parts of the church such as Flag, VM, Bridge Publications, etc. The days of one point of leadership will be gone and the church can move back to the original goal of clearing this planet and the dissemination of Scientology.
That is all I am willing to divulge at this time. We will grow carefully but we will grow. We must succeed for the sake of all Scientologists.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Washington DC Event
I went to the DC event to see COB speak. I wanted to hear his plans, see if he had anything worthwhile to say. I wasn't surprised when he had little more to say than the same empty promises and lies. But the setting was more important than the speech. The new DC Ideal Org looks great! But the way the ceremony was done was not. I have literature claiming there would be 5000 Scientologists there. I came to help make that number. There was not near that many. Certainly fewer than 1000. But we were still numerous enough we should have had an open ceremony to show the world who we are and what we are and that we still have strength. But COB chose instead to hide us behind ugly white tarps surrounding the event. What a farce! And all because a handful of masked idiots outside.
COB gives his speech while he and the rest of us cower behind a crudely erected wall! What kind of message does that send? Anyone coming by from outside would see this enormous wall around the building and it would only highlight the masked idiots outside. Instead of seeing their pitiful small band of suppressives next to a throng of Scientologists, the world saw a group of suppressives keeping us penned in a makeshift barrier. What a joke we must look like to the world. This is why COB must GO! This is why David Miscavige, yes I will use his name, needs to step down or be pulled down. LRH would not have had us cowering behind sheets because of a few SPs. This is why I am writing this blog.
As for the so called Anonymous, they came closer than should have been allowed and made enough noise to be heard at times over the crowd. Their jeers became increasingly loud after the speech by COB. I just wanted to go out there and turn a hose pipe on them.
In my next article, I will explain how I would deal with Anonymous and I also will be announcing I have found others of the same mind as myself. I am not the only one who wants COB removed and new leadership installed. More later.
COB gives his speech while he and the rest of us cower behind a crudely erected wall! What kind of message does that send? Anyone coming by from outside would see this enormous wall around the building and it would only highlight the masked idiots outside. Instead of seeing their pitiful small band of suppressives next to a throng of Scientologists, the world saw a group of suppressives keeping us penned in a makeshift barrier. What a joke we must look like to the world. This is why COB must GO! This is why David Miscavige, yes I will use his name, needs to step down or be pulled down. LRH would not have had us cowering behind sheets because of a few SPs. This is why I am writing this blog.
As for the so called Anonymous, they came closer than should have been allowed and made enough noise to be heard at times over the crowd. Their jeers became increasingly loud after the speech by COB. I just wanted to go out there and turn a hose pipe on them.
In my next article, I will explain how I would deal with Anonymous and I also will be announcing I have found others of the same mind as myself. I am not the only one who wants COB removed and new leadership installed. More later.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Anonymous Terrorism and ABC Nightline
Finally. Finally one of these anonymous people are arrested for terrorism. This time stockpiling weapons for an attack on the church. Yet the media does not seem to care. They haven't even mentioned it at all. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't told about it by a friend at the org that was the possible target. Why is the media not all over this?
Instead they are going on non stop about the ABC Nightline story. A terrorist gets caught with guns and they go on about this! And what was COB thinking putting Tommy Davis on to do Church PR? The man is a disaster! I watched both Nightline segments and I knew it was not going to go well. I've met Tommy and he is a rodent of a man. Did he not even do the basic TRs? Not one of them was in during this interview. He would start out almost confident and then he put on this strange body motion of flinching away and stammering. What kind of communication is that? Why can't COB find someone better for the job? Why put this idiot up in front of cameras to make things worse for us? He looked evasive and even untruthful the way he shied away from the reporter and the cameras. No confront, no TRs in. Nothing. This is what I am talking about. David Miscavige puts people in positions they are unsuitable for. L. Ron Hubbard never made these kind of mistakes. COB should not be running the Church. We need real leadership and we need it fast. It may already be too late.
Instead they are going on non stop about the ABC Nightline story. A terrorist gets caught with guns and they go on about this! And what was COB thinking putting Tommy Davis on to do Church PR? The man is a disaster! I watched both Nightline segments and I knew it was not going to go well. I've met Tommy and he is a rodent of a man. Did he not even do the basic TRs? Not one of them was in during this interview. He would start out almost confident and then he put on this strange body motion of flinching away and stammering. What kind of communication is that? Why can't COB find someone better for the job? Why put this idiot up in front of cameras to make things worse for us? He looked evasive and even untruthful the way he shied away from the reporter and the cameras. No confront, no TRs in. Nothing. This is what I am talking about. David Miscavige puts people in positions they are unsuitable for. L. Ron Hubbard never made these kind of mistakes. COB should not be running the Church. We need real leadership and we need it fast. It may already be too late.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Anonymous
Today I want to talk about Anonymous. I want to talk about what I think should be done about Anonymous.
For those not part of Scientology who may read this, know that Anonymous is a hateful organization of people who have been attacking the Church of Scientology as well as many other hapless targets online. They started in on us back in 2008 and we have suffered persecution from them ever since. I started this blog because Scientology mangement has failed to handle Anonymous and I feel it is time for new leadership. I am hoping to inspire current and future Scientologists to push for new leadership of the Church as well as to educate the public about our plight. If you are religious at all, you should know that you will be next on their list. Anonymous is made up of severely degraded beings who hold hate for anything and everything. They scream and shout at us when we go into or come out of our Church. They hold up mocking signs full of false data about the Church and they make obscene phone calls to the front desk and hand out papers full of lies and false accusations against the Church.
This is having a terrible affect on us and some people have even walked away due to their harassment. Worse some have even believed their lies and joined with them. Those I hold no sympathy for. They had to be against Scientology to begin with to walk over and join those people. We do have infiltrators inside, mostly psychs and others paid by the medical profession. However I am not so sure that all those kids out front are paid. I think some of them are just there to attack something, anything.
I have been doing research on Anonymous to think of ways to combat them and I have found some horrifying things.
They have these "chans" or websites that they congregate on and plot attacks against groups like Scientology. Most of their stunts are extremely childish and border on insanity. The worst was a man who attacked Scientology in New York covered in vaseline and private body hairs. I nearly got sick watching it and was appalled that there are people out there who are this degraded. It struck me as something a bunch of college kids would do after using drugs and I would say that there were certainly drugs involved in that attack. Worse, they continue their hate campaigns against other groups as well with racist and degrading attacks against many people.
I have located many of their online dens and am appalled at the things I have seen there. Why these sites are not shut down is just beyond me to answer. This is what Scientology leadership should be doing. We need to cut off the comm lines for these people, keep them from organizing their attacks. This has not been done. Unfortunately we have wasted a lot of time and let Anonymous damage us. It may already be too late. I had been making inroads with a man who is moving up in politics. I had been letting him know all the good thing Scientology can do. Just recently, he has told me he is not going to even mention Scientology, because right now it is politically bad to be seen as involved with us. I asked him why and he cited all the negative press and articles. Scientology is becoming seen as a bad thing by those who don't know the truth about it, and the lies of Anonymous are becoming accepted as fact by people without research. Had we acted sooner, we could have prevented this. Now we have lost an ally who is on his way to making big government policy because he is afraid to be seen with us. This is unbelievable, but it is true.
Anonymous must be shut down. There is more at stake than Scientology, but the youth of the world. Kids are looking up to Anonymous, talking like them, and worse acting like them. Let me give you some examples of what kind of sites children are being led to and what kind of degraded content they are being shown.
4chan - A website laden with cartoon and real pornography and no age restrictions to view it. Some parts of the site are full of racist and violent suggestions and is where they plan out their "raids" on people both on the internet and off. This is where the attacks against Scientology started in 2008.
12chan - Child pornography, openly on display to the world. Absolutely criminal that this site is not shut down and every member in prison.
7chan or 711 chan - Lots of attacks planned here, these people are even worse than 4chan. Never seen such hate and degradation in my life.
420chan - One of the worst, this site is all about drug and how to abuse them. Here you can ask advice on where to get and how to use drugs. Children are taught how to steal from medicine cabinets or how to get drugs from their doctors. This site is the dream of the psych and medical industry, who is willingly selling so these kids can get high.
F-chan - I found this one in my searching and it is full of bestiality porn and can only exist to push sex with animals. The pornagraphy here is even worse than that on the other chan places and is often grossly distorted. I could not stand to look at it for long without feeling sick.
So now you can see why Anonymous must be stopped. These chan sites need to be shut down before they ruin an entire generation. The plug must be pulled on this depravity once and for all. Scientology can help these children and we need initiatives online to bring children on the lines and to protect them from the horrors out there. This is what our leadership has failed to confront and to handle. We have influence and a strong voice. We must use it while we still can to convince the government to stop Anonymous once and for all.
For those not part of Scientology who may read this, know that Anonymous is a hateful organization of people who have been attacking the Church of Scientology as well as many other hapless targets online. They started in on us back in 2008 and we have suffered persecution from them ever since. I started this blog because Scientology mangement has failed to handle Anonymous and I feel it is time for new leadership. I am hoping to inspire current and future Scientologists to push for new leadership of the Church as well as to educate the public about our plight. If you are religious at all, you should know that you will be next on their list. Anonymous is made up of severely degraded beings who hold hate for anything and everything. They scream and shout at us when we go into or come out of our Church. They hold up mocking signs full of false data about the Church and they make obscene phone calls to the front desk and hand out papers full of lies and false accusations against the Church.
This is having a terrible affect on us and some people have even walked away due to their harassment. Worse some have even believed their lies and joined with them. Those I hold no sympathy for. They had to be against Scientology to begin with to walk over and join those people. We do have infiltrators inside, mostly psychs and others paid by the medical profession. However I am not so sure that all those kids out front are paid. I think some of them are just there to attack something, anything.
I have been doing research on Anonymous to think of ways to combat them and I have found some horrifying things.
They have these "chans" or websites that they congregate on and plot attacks against groups like Scientology. Most of their stunts are extremely childish and border on insanity. The worst was a man who attacked Scientology in New York covered in vaseline and private body hairs. I nearly got sick watching it and was appalled that there are people out there who are this degraded. It struck me as something a bunch of college kids would do after using drugs and I would say that there were certainly drugs involved in that attack. Worse, they continue their hate campaigns against other groups as well with racist and degrading attacks against many people.
I have located many of their online dens and am appalled at the things I have seen there. Why these sites are not shut down is just beyond me to answer. This is what Scientology leadership should be doing. We need to cut off the comm lines for these people, keep them from organizing their attacks. This has not been done. Unfortunately we have wasted a lot of time and let Anonymous damage us. It may already be too late. I had been making inroads with a man who is moving up in politics. I had been letting him know all the good thing Scientology can do. Just recently, he has told me he is not going to even mention Scientology, because right now it is politically bad to be seen as involved with us. I asked him why and he cited all the negative press and articles. Scientology is becoming seen as a bad thing by those who don't know the truth about it, and the lies of Anonymous are becoming accepted as fact by people without research. Had we acted sooner, we could have prevented this. Now we have lost an ally who is on his way to making big government policy because he is afraid to be seen with us. This is unbelievable, but it is true.
Anonymous must be shut down. There is more at stake than Scientology, but the youth of the world. Kids are looking up to Anonymous, talking like them, and worse acting like them. Let me give you some examples of what kind of sites children are being led to and what kind of degraded content they are being shown.
4chan - A website laden with cartoon and real pornography and no age restrictions to view it. Some parts of the site are full of racist and violent suggestions and is where they plan out their "raids" on people both on the internet and off. This is where the attacks against Scientology started in 2008.
12chan - Child pornography, openly on display to the world. Absolutely criminal that this site is not shut down and every member in prison.
7chan or 711 chan - Lots of attacks planned here, these people are even worse than 4chan. Never seen such hate and degradation in my life.
420chan - One of the worst, this site is all about drug and how to abuse them. Here you can ask advice on where to get and how to use drugs. Children are taught how to steal from medicine cabinets or how to get drugs from their doctors. This site is the dream of the psych and medical industry, who is willingly selling so these kids can get high.
F-chan - I found this one in my searching and it is full of bestiality porn and can only exist to push sex with animals. The pornagraphy here is even worse than that on the other chan places and is often grossly distorted. I could not stand to look at it for long without feeling sick.
So now you can see why Anonymous must be stopped. These chan sites need to be shut down before they ruin an entire generation. The plug must be pulled on this depravity once and for all. Scientology can help these children and we need initiatives online to bring children on the lines and to protect them from the horrors out there. This is what our leadership has failed to confront and to handle. We have influence and a strong voice. We must use it while we still can to convince the government to stop Anonymous once and for all.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Incompetence of the highest order
I promised a post the day after my last, but I was afraid. I almost deleted this several times. This is going to cause a huge flap if it gets out, and if I am found out, I will be in trouble. But I can't stay silent. I must press on because Scientology depends on someone standing up and saying what needs to be said.
Anonymous. They seem to be everywhere these days. They certainly did a year ago. I've never seen so many people marching against Scientology before. I've been looking online at pictures of the protests. We have been told not to, but I am anyway because as a Scientologist, I need to know more about my attackers. We have been told that Anonymous is run by the psychs. They are paid different amounts depending on who you talk to. I've talked to some contacts I can trust in other orgs and every one is getting a slightly different story. That by itself is troubling. No one seems to know the real truth behind them.
Their attacks are often juvinile and at times so stupid I find it hard to believe even a child could come up with them. Often the seem very loosely organized, showing up in a trickle rather than as a single group. Other times they seem incredibly organized and prepared to attack. How much depends more on where you go. This doesn't seem very organized over all. Locally they can be very organized but natitonally and internationally, the organization seems looser than it should be if organized psychiatry was behind this. Something isn't right here. The same goes with the stories of the pay. Right now the world economy is a mess and people are more desperate than ever. Certainly if there was pay involved, we would be seeing greater numbers of people rather than less. So what is the reason story behind Anonymous? Psych paid attackers, or just a bunch of hooligans from the internet?
Which ever it is, they are not being handled. We are hiding from them and on orders from above. David Miscavige would have us hide behind curtains and blinds rather than face down this threat. What has happened to LRH policy regarding attacks? Are we abandoning policy now? What goes next, KSW? Where does it end? Why are we letting these kids back us into a corner?
My answer to all of this is incompetence. Pure incompetence at the top levels of Scientology. David Miscavige is running everything and he seems incapable or unwilling to do anything about Anonymous. If the psychs are behind this, we should be able to fight them. We have been so successful in the past. Why are we having trouble with them now? And if this really is just a bunch of hooligans who get together online and make trouble for people, then it speaks even more volumes about the utter incompetence of our leadership.
Anonymous needs to be crushed. The media needs to be handled because they are spreading false data on a daily basis about us. We need solid leadership who will step up and make a plan to handle all this and execute it in accordance to LRH policy. If things continue the way they are going, we are going to start losing the battle for this planet and getting the momentum going our way again will be nearly impossible.
Anonymous. They seem to be everywhere these days. They certainly did a year ago. I've never seen so many people marching against Scientology before. I've been looking online at pictures of the protests. We have been told not to, but I am anyway because as a Scientologist, I need to know more about my attackers. We have been told that Anonymous is run by the psychs. They are paid different amounts depending on who you talk to. I've talked to some contacts I can trust in other orgs and every one is getting a slightly different story. That by itself is troubling. No one seems to know the real truth behind them.
Their attacks are often juvinile and at times so stupid I find it hard to believe even a child could come up with them. Often the seem very loosely organized, showing up in a trickle rather than as a single group. Other times they seem incredibly organized and prepared to attack. How much depends more on where you go. This doesn't seem very organized over all. Locally they can be very organized but natitonally and internationally, the organization seems looser than it should be if organized psychiatry was behind this. Something isn't right here. The same goes with the stories of the pay. Right now the world economy is a mess and people are more desperate than ever. Certainly if there was pay involved, we would be seeing greater numbers of people rather than less. So what is the reason story behind Anonymous? Psych paid attackers, or just a bunch of hooligans from the internet?
Which ever it is, they are not being handled. We are hiding from them and on orders from above. David Miscavige would have us hide behind curtains and blinds rather than face down this threat. What has happened to LRH policy regarding attacks? Are we abandoning policy now? What goes next, KSW? Where does it end? Why are we letting these kids back us into a corner?
My answer to all of this is incompetence. Pure incompetence at the top levels of Scientology. David Miscavige is running everything and he seems incapable or unwilling to do anything about Anonymous. If the psychs are behind this, we should be able to fight them. We have been so successful in the past. Why are we having trouble with them now? And if this really is just a bunch of hooligans who get together online and make trouble for people, then it speaks even more volumes about the utter incompetence of our leadership.
Anonymous needs to be crushed. The media needs to be handled because they are spreading false data on a daily basis about us. We need solid leadership who will step up and make a plan to handle all this and execute it in accordance to LRH policy. If things continue the way they are going, we are going to start losing the battle for this planet and getting the momentum going our way again will be nearly impossible.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Troubles in paradise
What I am about to write is going to shock and maybe upset many of my fellow Scientologists, assuming they ever find and read this. Scientology is going through a very troublesome period, with unprecedented attacks coming from this group called "Anonymous" and worrisome stats at many of the orgs. The leadership tries to deny it, but I think we have to be honest here, Scientology is in trouble. What sort of trouble? For the most part, marketing trouble. I have worked in marketing for a long time, and I know the signs of a damaged brand. Scientology has been damaged, and we are not going to help make things better by denying it. The biggest problem comes from the internet and groups of disgruntled ex-members and now, Anonymous, a group of mostly youthful people who have taken to picketing outside our Church one or more times a month. However the problems with Scientology as a brand go back further than when these masked people showed up in 2008. No effective advertising of Scientology was being done prior to Anonymous. Sure we had the test carts and some book drives, and the volunteer ministers. But there had not been any appreciable television or print advertising for some time.
While this is being done now, it unfortunately is coming rather late in the game. When Anonymous showed up in masks in 2008, they grabbed international attention and are still to this day showing up at least once a month in a major publication either online or off. Their attacks have badly tarnished the name of Scientology and they have put in the public's mind a notion that Scientology is some form of evil. While nothing could be further from the truth, that does not change the fact that this perception exists. What I want to know, and why I am making this blog, is why has our leadership not been handling this situation? Why is this group still able to attack us every single day for over a year? Why is there no attention being given to our damaged brand. Slick commercials are not going to save the brand at this point. Had the leadership gotten on top of this from the very beginning, had we been pushing the brand image of Scientology all along, we would not be in this unenviable position.
And who is responsible? Heber Jentzsch? Where is he? He is the president of Scientology, but he does not seem to be in charge. Instead control seems firmly in the hands of David Miscavige, who is chairman of the Religious Technology Center. Why is he heading all the IAS speeches? Why is someone whose job is supposed to be protecting the works of L. Ron Hubbard doing the tasks that should be handled by the president? Where is his staff and why are they not on top of these attacks?
These are questions that every Scientologist should be asking. Why have things been allowed to reach this point? I have seen ups and downs in Scientology and the orgs in the 17 years I have been a Scientologist, but things have never been this bad before. Morale is low, stats are down and we are not growing. David Miscavige says we are growing. But I am forced to admit that he is lying to us with a bald face. We are not growing. Scientology is shrinking and because of the failure to handle the attacks and misinformation, the problem is only getting worse. Yet David Miscavige and his team seem incapable of handling these conditions. If I did as bad a job on anything in Scientology, I would be declared out ethics in an instant. Yet no one seems willing to stand up and say what needs to be said, that David Miscavige is not handling the media and this group of protesters who are wreaking havok at orgs around the world.
L. Ron Hubbard left clear directions for how to handle attackers. Yet I see little evidence that much has been done outside of desperate attempts to stop protesting at Int and the PAC base. Orgs in other parts of the country are left to fend for themselves, usually by closing curtains and sending people home instead of confronting the attackers outside. Where is our confront? Where is our leadership? What is the office of special affairs doing? Certainly not their jobs.
One has to wonder if anyone is really willing to stand up and do anything inside the Church about this. We have been told that the psychs are paying the protesters. I believed it at first. Who else could organize such a massive attack as what we saw in February of 2008, and then again in March? The size of the protests have lessened since, but they have not stopped. We still get prank calls. We still get entheta and attacks against the Church scrawled on the sidewalks and left on nearby bus stops and telephone poles. Worse, sometimes we find copies of confidential teachings pinned up or openly referenced to. Why is this information not being protected? Who is pursuing the leaks?
More on this tomorrow.
While this is being done now, it unfortunately is coming rather late in the game. When Anonymous showed up in masks in 2008, they grabbed international attention and are still to this day showing up at least once a month in a major publication either online or off. Their attacks have badly tarnished the name of Scientology and they have put in the public's mind a notion that Scientology is some form of evil. While nothing could be further from the truth, that does not change the fact that this perception exists. What I want to know, and why I am making this blog, is why has our leadership not been handling this situation? Why is this group still able to attack us every single day for over a year? Why is there no attention being given to our damaged brand. Slick commercials are not going to save the brand at this point. Had the leadership gotten on top of this from the very beginning, had we been pushing the brand image of Scientology all along, we would not be in this unenviable position.
And who is responsible? Heber Jentzsch? Where is he? He is the president of Scientology, but he does not seem to be in charge. Instead control seems firmly in the hands of David Miscavige, who is chairman of the Religious Technology Center. Why is he heading all the IAS speeches? Why is someone whose job is supposed to be protecting the works of L. Ron Hubbard doing the tasks that should be handled by the president? Where is his staff and why are they not on top of these attacks?
These are questions that every Scientologist should be asking. Why have things been allowed to reach this point? I have seen ups and downs in Scientology and the orgs in the 17 years I have been a Scientologist, but things have never been this bad before. Morale is low, stats are down and we are not growing. David Miscavige says we are growing. But I am forced to admit that he is lying to us with a bald face. We are not growing. Scientology is shrinking and because of the failure to handle the attacks and misinformation, the problem is only getting worse. Yet David Miscavige and his team seem incapable of handling these conditions. If I did as bad a job on anything in Scientology, I would be declared out ethics in an instant. Yet no one seems willing to stand up and say what needs to be said, that David Miscavige is not handling the media and this group of protesters who are wreaking havok at orgs around the world.
L. Ron Hubbard left clear directions for how to handle attackers. Yet I see little evidence that much has been done outside of desperate attempts to stop protesting at Int and the PAC base. Orgs in other parts of the country are left to fend for themselves, usually by closing curtains and sending people home instead of confronting the attackers outside. Where is our confront? Where is our leadership? What is the office of special affairs doing? Certainly not their jobs.
One has to wonder if anyone is really willing to stand up and do anything inside the Church about this. We have been told that the psychs are paying the protesters. I believed it at first. Who else could organize such a massive attack as what we saw in February of 2008, and then again in March? The size of the protests have lessened since, but they have not stopped. We still get prank calls. We still get entheta and attacks against the Church scrawled on the sidewalks and left on nearby bus stops and telephone poles. Worse, sometimes we find copies of confidential teachings pinned up or openly referenced to. Why is this information not being protected? Who is pursuing the leaks?
More on this tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
My first blog... and why I am creating it.
I am a Scientologist. I go by a name that starts with a B and I will only go by that single letter for the time being. I have been in Scientology for over 17 years and have given a lot to the Church and gained a lot from it. I have reached OT VI and am continuing my way up the bridge as I have for a large part of my life. I owe a lot of my life successes to Scientology's teachings.
However there has been a lot happening with the Church lately that has forced me to do some thinking, and I am becoming increasingly concerned with the state of the Church. In this blog I want to discuss some of my misgivings of some events and the status of things inside, as well as threats from without. I will cover many topics, such as the leadership, direction of the Church, and of course, the attacks of "anonymous". I will write more on this tomorrow. Right now I am going to save this and step back. I have never written a blog before and so I am not entirely sure what to expect. Obviously I have used the internet some, but even joining here was a big challenge to me, so please bear with me. If you are a Scientologist, you may want to watch this blog as you may agree with some of what I will say. And on other things, perhaps not, but I feel that as a Scientologist, I have not just a right, but a duty to make observations when I see things that are not being handled as they should, or have any concerns with the direction of my Church.
Here is a quote that is one of my favorites.
"Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.” - L. Ron Hubbard
I want to be honest here, and I am writing this publicly because I feel I have no way to properly express my concerns inside. I feel only greater good can come from this, or I would not be doing it. More later.
However there has been a lot happening with the Church lately that has forced me to do some thinking, and I am becoming increasingly concerned with the state of the Church. In this blog I want to discuss some of my misgivings of some events and the status of things inside, as well as threats from without. I will cover many topics, such as the leadership, direction of the Church, and of course, the attacks of "anonymous". I will write more on this tomorrow. Right now I am going to save this and step back. I have never written a blog before and so I am not entirely sure what to expect. Obviously I have used the internet some, but even joining here was a big challenge to me, so please bear with me. If you are a Scientologist, you may want to watch this blog as you may agree with some of what I will say. And on other things, perhaps not, but I feel that as a Scientologist, I have not just a right, but a duty to make observations when I see things that are not being handled as they should, or have any concerns with the direction of my Church.
Here is a quote that is one of my favorites.
"Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.” - L. Ron Hubbard
I want to be honest here, and I am writing this publicly because I feel I have no way to properly express my concerns inside. I feel only greater good can come from this, or I would not be doing it. More later.
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