Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The governor's office referred CNN to the state Department of Developmental Services, which sent a two-sentence statement: "The State of California deeply regrets the harm caused to victims of involuntary sterilization that occurred through the first half of the 1900s. This was a sad and painful period in California's history, one that should never be repeated."
Six decades ago, Charlie Follett was a teenager living in California's Sonoma State Home. As he did most days, Follett sat in a field, singing popular songs to himself, enjoying the sunshine and the solitude.
Suddenly, someone came outside to get Follett and brought him to the hospital. They told him to lie down on an operating table, and then the needle came out.
"First, they shot me with some kind of medicine. It was supposed to deaden the nerves," he said. "Then the next thing I heard was snip, snip, and that was it."
The doctors didn't tell Follett what they were doing, but he knew anyway. Other boys at the Sonoma State Home had told him how much it hurt to have a vasectomy. Now it was his turn. "When they did (my right side), it seemed like they were pulling my whole insides out," said Follett, now 82 and living in Stockton.
California: Leader in forced sterilizations
Follett was one of 20,000 Californians forcibly sterilized by the state from 1909 to 1963. The goal was to rid society of people thought to be undesirable: people labeled "feeble-minded" or "defectives."
"It's one of the most horrific and shameful chapters in California's history," said Los Angeles civil rights attorney Areva Martin.
Thirty-two states had eugenics programs, but California was in a league of its own.
I think they're just waiting for the victims to die and forget this whole thing ever happened.
The Golden State sterilized more than twice as many people as the next state, Virginia, which sterilized 8,300, according to Paul Lombardo, a professor at Georgia State University's College of
Law.
The law said that wards of the state like Follett had to be sterilized in order to be discharged from institutions like Sonoma, according to Christina Cogdell, a cultural historian at the University of
California-Davis and author of "Eugenic Design."
Men and women, boys and girls, were sent to state institutions for all sorts of reasons. Some had
serious developmental disabilities. Follett ended up at Sonoma because his parents were alcoholics and couldn't care for him.
In the mid-20th century, the country's intellectual elite such as doctors, geneticists and Supreme
Court justices supported forced sterilizations.
In California, the eugenics movement was led by figures such as William Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, and Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
In other states, the sterilization program would stop and start due to legal challenges, but California's ran strong for more than half a century, Cogdell said.
"If you were deemed worthy of being sterilized by a doctor, there was no board where you could have a hearing to protest," he said.
In the mid-20th century, many U.S. doctors, geneticists and judges supported forced sterilizations.
In the mid-20th century, many U.S. doctors, geneticists and judges supported forced sterilizations.
California's movement was so effective that in the 1930s, members of the Nazi party asked California eugenicists for advice on how to run their own sterilization program.
"Germany used California's program as its chief ex
ample that this was a working, successful policy," Cogdell said. "They modeled their law on California's law."
"It kills my last name"
In 2003, then-Gov. Gray Davis apologized for the forced sterilizations, but Follett wants compensation for not be able to have children of his own.
"What really ticks me off is, it kills my last name," Follett said. "If I should die tomorrow, everything's died."
Over the past few years, a friend of Follett's has tried to help him seek justice. Rudy Banlasan, a nursing student, has written letters and e-mails on Follett's behalf to Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown and other state politicians and officials.
He has not succeeded in getting any of them to speak with him. Banlasan keeps a file of the e-mails he's sent to politicians and the form letters he's received in return.
"I hate to sound so cynical, but I think they're just waiting for the victims to die and forget this whole thing ever happened," Banlasan said. The State of California deeply regrets the harm caused to victims of involuntary sterilization. The governor's office referred CNN to the state Department of Developmental Services, which sent a two-sentence statement: "The State of California deeply regrets the harm caused to victims of involuntary sterilization that occurred through the first half of the 1900s. This was a sad and painful period in California's history, one that should never be repeated."
California's response to victims stands in stark contrast to North Carolina's.
North Carolina task force recommends $50,000 for sterilization victims
In that state, Gov. Bev Perdue has sought out victims and held hearings where she apologized personally and heard their stories.
She also set up a task force to help the victims and recommended that each receive $50,000 in reparations.
"That's not happening in California," said Martin, the civil rights attorney. "To think that we're behind on this issue instead of leading on this issue is very troublesome."
"California has not done right"
Art Torres is the former California state senator who wrote the 1979 legislation outlawing sterilization.
He said he's not surprised politicians are reticent on the subject.
"I would venture to say most people in this legislature -- and most people in California -- aren't even aware there was a eugenics movement in California," Torres said.
Californians, he added, need to face their history and at least hold hearings and invite victims to tell their stories.
"California has not done right by these victims," Torres said. "But I think California and Californians need to be aware of their history."
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
What gives the right for either a European nation or a State of the U.S. to be given the authority to play God with God's Children?
The substantive criteria that guide the decision maker are formulated into four kinds of legal rules. The Hayes opinion adopts the most common approach, which could be termed a "mandatory criteria" rule; under this type of rule a court can authorize sterilization only if several specific findings are clearly made. This rule places a significant burden on the petitioner, limits judicial discretion, and makes it difficult to establish the desirability of sterilization.
The "discretionary best interest" standard is a more flexible rule; instead of requiring specific findings, it directs judges to consider whether sterilization is in the incompetent person's best interest. Grady directs the court to consider the Hayes criteria and any other relevant factors in order to make the decision that the disabled person would make for herself if she were competent. Finally, a few jurisdictions simply prohibit the sterilization of anyone found by the court to be incompetent to give informed consent to the medical procedure. On a functional level, the various legal rules seem to promote different objectives. A rule prohibiting sterilization without the subject's informed consent apparently aims to protect only the right to procreate. Sterilization is by definition a violation of this right, regardless of the person's preferences.
The "discretionary best interest" standard is a more flexible rule; instead of requiring specific findings, it directs judges to consider whether sterilization is in the incompetent person's best interest. Grady directs the court to consider the Hayes criteria and any other relevant factors in order to make the decision that the disabled person would make for herself if she were competent. Finally, a few jurisdictions simply prohibit the sterilization of anyone found by the court to be incompetent to give informed consent to the medical procedure. On a functional level, the various legal rules seem to promote different objectives. A rule prohibiting sterilization without the subject's informed consent apparently aims to protect only the right to procreate. Sterilization is by definition a violation of this right, regardless of the person's preferences.
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Is this what we used to do to our children in the United States of America? Really? Shame on you and your pathetic laws of the past.
Custodial programs that segregate and warehouse retarded persons are no longer endorsed by professionals. Today, programs for mentally retarded persons pursue the goal of "normalization' the development of skills that enable the individual to live as independently and self-sufficiently as possible. Issues of sexual autonomy are an important aspect of the normalization trend; freedom and privacy in social and sexual relationships may be as important to mentally disabled persons as to others. Furthermore, marriage and parenthood are realistic options for some mildly disabled persons who, with appropriate training, may be capable of fulfilling those roles.
Sterilization is viewed as rarely desirable because many mentally retarded persons are presumed to have at least a potential interest in having children.
The preceding factors have stimulated the reform of sterilization law in recent years. A few jurisdictions have banned sterilization of incompetent persons altogether. Under most reform laws, however, the state may authorize sterilization under its parens patriae authority if certain conditions are met. First, the court must determine whether the individual is competent to make an informed medical decision about sterilization.
This inquiry seeks to protect the autonomy interest of the court determines that the person is incompetent, it must then consider specific factors and decide whether sterilization is in the competent person's best interest and who has no need for a surrogate decision maker best interest. Most laws following the Hayes decision embody strict procedural and substantive requirements that create a strong presumption against sterilization. These laws presume that there is a conflict of interest between the child and the parent in this context and consequently exclude parents from any role in the decision in a formal "semi-adversarial" proceeding.
A court makes the sterilization. The retarded individual is represented by an attorney, usually a guardian or a legitimate parent who most of the reform laws allow a court to order sterilization only upon findings may be directed to oppose the parents' petition for sterilization based on clear and convincing evidence. In addition to procedural restrictions, these laws employ rigorous substantive criteria to guide the court's deliberations.
Some require inquiries into whether the individual is able to reproduce and whether she is "imminently" likely to engage in sexual activity. The petitioner will be asked to demonstrate that less drastic forms of contraception have been tried and are not of feasible capacity to care for a child. The court must also assess the individual and some states require a determination that sterilization is medically essential to preserve the life or the physical or mental health of the individual. In some states, the court must also inquire into the disabled person's understanding of reproductive functions and the relationship between sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Some laws direct the court to consider the psychological trauma associated with sterilization and alternatively with pregnancy and childbirth. Additionally, an inquiry into the individual's preferences about sterilization may be required, although her objection is not determinable. The Hayes decision and some later laws require findings that medical science is not on the verge of breakthroughs that will correct the individual's disability or make reversible sterilization available. These various criteria create formidable substantive barriers to the sterilization of mentally retarded persons.
Current law explicitly or implicitly excludes some variables from the court's consideration, such as the state's interest in protecting society from the genetic and financial burden of children produced by retarded persons. The parents' interest in protecting their child from unwanted pregnancy or in avoiding the inconvenience associated with menstrual hygiene is also excluded from consideration.
Finally, the disabled individual's interest in promoting family stability by reducing the stress associated with her care may not be considered.
Sterilization is viewed as rarely desirable because many mentally retarded persons are presumed to have at least a potential interest in having children.
The preceding factors have stimulated the reform of sterilization law in recent years. A few jurisdictions have banned sterilization of incompetent persons altogether. Under most reform laws, however, the state may authorize sterilization under its parens patriae authority if certain conditions are met. First, the court must determine whether the individual is competent to make an informed medical decision about sterilization.
This inquiry seeks to protect the autonomy interest of the court determines that the person is incompetent, it must then consider specific factors and decide whether sterilization is in the competent person's best interest and who has no need for a surrogate decision maker best interest. Most laws following the Hayes decision embody strict procedural and substantive requirements that create a strong presumption against sterilization. These laws presume that there is a conflict of interest between the child and the parent in this context and consequently exclude parents from any role in the decision in a formal "semi-adversarial" proceeding.
A court makes the sterilization. The retarded individual is represented by an attorney, usually a guardian or a legitimate parent who most of the reform laws allow a court to order sterilization only upon findings may be directed to oppose the parents' petition for sterilization based on clear and convincing evidence. In addition to procedural restrictions, these laws employ rigorous substantive criteria to guide the court's deliberations.
Some require inquiries into whether the individual is able to reproduce and whether she is "imminently" likely to engage in sexual activity. The petitioner will be asked to demonstrate that less drastic forms of contraception have been tried and are not of feasible capacity to care for a child. The court must also assess the individual and some states require a determination that sterilization is medically essential to preserve the life or the physical or mental health of the individual. In some states, the court must also inquire into the disabled person's understanding of reproductive functions and the relationship between sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Some laws direct the court to consider the psychological trauma associated with sterilization and alternatively with pregnancy and childbirth. Additionally, an inquiry into the individual's preferences about sterilization may be required, although her objection is not determinable. The Hayes decision and some later laws require findings that medical science is not on the verge of breakthroughs that will correct the individual's disability or make reversible sterilization available. These various criteria create formidable substantive barriers to the sterilization of mentally retarded persons.
Current law explicitly or implicitly excludes some variables from the court's consideration, such as the state's interest in protecting society from the genetic and financial burden of children produced by retarded persons. The parents' interest in protecting their child from unwanted pregnancy or in avoiding the inconvenience associated with menstrual hygiene is also excluded from consideration.
Finally, the disabled individual's interest in promoting family stability by reducing the stress associated with her care may not be considered.
The people that I have mentioned below are the worst type of people that ever roamed the earth.
Hubbard, Freud, Thompson, J. Watson, Comte, Decartes', Wundt, Galton, H. Glass, Davenport, James, G. Hall, Wittmer, Lightner, Halsted, Jung, W. Kelly, Olser, Weishaupt, Haldane, Haynes, Haywood, Le' Bon, Sighele, Tarde', Fredrick Jones are all people that are to be looked down upon, looked at with despise, sympathy, and an overall general feeling the definition of the word pathetic.
The crimes of psychologists from Wundt to Watson
The Hayes decision and some later laws require findings that medical science is not on the verge of breakthroughs that will correct the individual's disability or make reversible sterilization available. These various criteria create formidable substantive barriers to the sterilization of mentally retarded persons.
Current law explicitly or implicitly excludes some variables from the court's consideration, such as the state's interest in protecting society from the genetic and financial burden of children produced by retarded persons.
Monday, March 24, 2014
The worst man ever to live
The Background of the Worst Man on Earth, that is, L. Ron Hubbard
Written by Mark Ralph Rowe
San Diego, CA
March 24th 2014
How is it that one man could persuade so many people into believing so many lies for so many years? These lies are
also consistent and in parallel with extreme hate towards mankind and the false presumption that all men are created with only evil characteristics and need to be corrected with extreme psychological abusive control by methods of brainwashinghuman computer biotechnological techniques and wave frequencies used to send pre-programmed parameters with determined by one or more computer engineers to create more pseudo scientific research experiments and pseudo scientific research findings.
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The Evils of the Church of Scientology
The Evils of the Church of Scientology
The theory that all men are created evil
Written by Mark Ralph Rowe in San Diego, CA
on March 24th, 2014
Modern Psychiatry (post 1958) is based on the pseudoscience of Dianetics. Dianetics is a pseudo scientific science that was developed first by William Jones in Missoula, Montana during the 1920's. This science has horological, animal physiological, human physiological, and hybrid crossover applications between the three. Dianetics involves modifying gene frequencies of plants, animals, and human tissue. This science has cloned plants, mice, rats, and sheep. In more recent years Dianetics has used miniaturized computer circuits to create artificially controlled hybrid human beings, that are controlled by a main circuit board, microwave radio frequency identifier device microchip, and a highly complex electronic control system that maps out programmed computerized instructions determined by one or more software engineers from a remote location.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Why did you have to create this false religion of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard?
or money on health and all the local morning break
what has happened L ron Hubbard bound to lead the world
wealthiest and most controversial religious groups scientology
what are the issues to be discussed this morning with my first guess
run to work with the Sun lifting L ron Hubbard like getting a big battle
five-point
do welcome
and you allege in court papers that your father had lived the life
characterized by severe mental illness and political the rule who's written for
him
and use the fall and fraudulent of time criminal
to cover up the failure and to acquire well phone
and power in order to destroy hypocrisy
enemy when you withdraw those conclusions what did you think that led
you to that
because I loved it I ninety-nine percent a weapon I L
file a little concerned about himself totally untrue
I and millions of people have
taken militia false data over a period or
thirty-some-odd usual and relied upon and
and bill to settle believes in building organization
and all basically those allegations that I made were true because
throughout up in you
I was deeply involved in all a myth it would you think that the cleaning
battling with a criminal
like button down but what do you think fraud and deception
I'll the involvement with
in the early days and he says oh no please don't belong to
involvement with the almost home
%uh the I that kind and what the past
the a you so
scientology money his own money I
to fine also a
York implications into the country from Mexico and Colombia and saw the things
as I was involved with the solely incidents
why'd you will catch because the allegations anything the John Wall I
left the church for a whole wide variety of reasons it is into a very simple
answer
I'm I left because of my wife wanted me to
and I also
because I wasn't making any money because all the money flows are close to
my father always has
I I was also tired with the fatherless option plus then
his deep involvement in a warm I
personal use a warm home shopping other is a black mold you
month old black magic what are you talking about
like the only thing that i win black materia it sounds as
absolutely unbelievable what im talking about anything
while the funny thing is is that the actual truth is about as far out as
so assault ology it's all I'll
really the basis of Scientology which is rather hidden covered over is all
me a call to the a
a deep involvement with the satanic powers we felt that the
he was deeply in love with I'll
I may be sure black magician call I'll still prolly
I and two putting himself will depict not a translucent guns on each of you
want to become the most powerful
being in the world you consider all this the religion
you now who no wine at
because the business it always has been
I was really incorporate is the one with the original
church organizations and we incorporated just because the AMA
I'm and the IRS
so were giving him a lot of problems the wall
early fifties what was your relationship like with your father I think a lot of
people they would say
well maybe you're doing all this because you did not have a good relationship
with your father
amid you doing all this for the money what why all you picking
that I wanna see the the true and I can expose my father without exposing myself
to me my life is a
I'll pretty messed up a groupie anyway I'll
and in actual fact truly belongs in this jail on other
my father but why I'm doing and is a
let's play all the facts out let people decide
I have a copy of the letter that that supposedly came from your father
we talked about the fact that your mother was an alcoholic and that he
deserted both the UN that you're not in any position to know about him call
or the church you believe this is an authentic leather possible
I really don't know but I know that he has a fax all fouled out
such as well that he didn't know me
way well I home the fact is from to I was very instrumental
in around the organization and the formation with I was directed to you
up of him many better than $ advance clinical course he so
I was chief instructor travel the
to and a half a dozen homes with whipping
and say that I love you in a position to really know your father and the church
in a working to make it
holes very much so while quite you believe now that
I do you believe now that your father is a lot I personally don't believe so
I'll I really don't know
that just as I said a personal belief but I think that the
if he is alive real here certainly quite incompetent always a little fairy who
will be
grossly manipulated by the people around him people such as
while in my petition we named I believe the
-year-old boy a all about a ninth grade education the
David Miscavige wall and this is the first mobile also what is calm now the C
ivan is a sure tackler
yes the Sea Org a and that is the
I'll sure the
could be considered the I SSR
why would you explain that he who are these people
ally who labeled the lead because they're very much paul although
they hit the right type organization all I want more difficult for us don't
understand that he i thing in america today and be
year and you tell you at the building group that young people
who are like yes who widening how will the end of tornado will be young people
it now wouldn't that make this concept about
got it from my father the wall
they were raised in scientology all they've known his
homology remove all older with the isolated from
the outside world altogether not altogether but pretty much show
kept in a very tight group I'll
and the course outside contact an outside communication was always been
more
kept at a minimum over the years when you say SS I think about harassment
intimidation even death
that the humidity in this holes all I've been the
subject to the which call the fair game doctrine
which is really existed since the mid fifties that simply says that any
one perceived as an enemy oh hell on her bitter scientology can be
attacked applied to the private property and even destroyed
I without any at all this appalling retribution only organization might have
actually tried to kill you
yes I believe so about so - times over the years
a lot now that you are the public we have that he didn't like that
no not since I file my petition that they've been rather quiet simple
Scientology is one of the most successful religious courts in the world
this is only much the promotion of different Hollywood stars musicians
different Hollywood stars like Elfman and Kirstie Alley
and Tom Cruise and John Travolta to name only a few
have gone on record promoting scientology
the
just a go do
do the
stars like John Travolta and Kirstie Alley have even taken to the airways in
defense of Scientology
but is it possible that what they are defending is yet another
a Leicester Crowley in satanic call do you ever think
but might be quite mad Holly s
Scientology has a time come under the scrutiny the secular news media
but the stark truth has not yet been told that Scientology is an away another
fruit other teachers say this a lesser Crowley
is barely known few people realize that scientologist founder
now ron Hubbard was yet another disciple little Esther crowley's
refer to Crowley as his good friend I'm Chesham
I have a magic cards I have the
on Smackdown whether trial centuries waste
were fast like I
my work has anything to do airstrike around its past
assassinating working itself mass work at my house to cry
late Alistair Crowley my very good friend I'm glad
K he became South springboard
I'll passer by Starbucks by
on those magic clots science and South
the next my sucks extra Hubbard stated that Scientology's basic idea
parallel crowley's doctrine of do what thou wilt ron Hubbard's all the Sun
over an hour junior who witnesses fathers discipleship under Crowley
admitted his father was a sickness in a follower Crowley all the funny thing is
that with the actual truth is you can polish
far-out also all or sold are you at all
on wheelbase is his own collagen
which is what we should move forward always all will call shortly
of gable wall with Paul
so you can control powers who fall football
he would be cool off work for all
I may be sure but would you should follow sure prolly
all on throughput himself who do you get what I told him she was once of you want
to become the most powerful
wall garage in your stated that likely re around senior felt that he was
helping to complete crowley's mission
L ron Hubbard junior stated that his father considered himself to be the one
who quote
came after and that he was probably successor and had taken
on the matter love the Great Beast scientology actually began in December
st
this was a day lester Crowley died it appears that however believe that
Scientology will be instrumental
a building at a Chris Kingdom is seeking to destroy Christ that is coming
in a document alleged by many former Scientologist to be written th
the highest level a Scientology Harbor declared quote my mission could be said
to fulfill the biblical promise represented by the brief
anti-christ period during this period there is a fleeting opportunity for the
whole scenario to be effectively derailed
L ron Hubbard was close to Jack Parsons who was a rocket scientist the cofounder
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ste before Parsons was killed in explosion as laboratory
he wrote a book in this book he call for the destruction of quote the black
brother had called Christianity
any stated that the anti-christ would bring all men to the law of the beast
and in his live show conquer the world a Leicester Crowley was a deceiver who
lied to his followers
by promising them freedom and all the while bringing them into satanic slavery
well Crowley claim that his followers would be free to the practice to do what
thou wilt
they were actually brought in the satanic bondage the worst kind of
slavery and non freedom in existence
notice how crowley's doctrine of Allama or will
was really a subtle way events leaving his followers to Satan
in the end a lesser Crowley was totally deceived he died hopelessly addicted to
heroin
and this lady Satan witnesses declared that his last words before his death
were quote
I am perplexing quote sometimes I hate myself Crowley himself had been totally
deceived by Satan
as he was led to believe that he himself would be the anti-christ and now he was
on the verge of death not have you realize his twisted dream
he was said to be very depressed before his death an extraordinarily fear for
Crowley knew that it was time for him to face his Creator who had so much
any new that the scripture state is a fearful being
to fall into the hands of the living God and that our God is a consuming fire
Crowley was heard PC before his death until he finally collapse
and met his horrible and in hell sadly he is taking millions of people to hell
with him
as a father modern culture and as the patron devil
love rock n roll
let us begin this half hour with the secretive and controversial Church of
Scientology in a moment a defector from the church's leadership Corps
will speak out in an exclusive live interview
business as usual it seems for scientologist
at the organization's expanding world headquarters in Florida
but for -year-old Christine Cole Bren member
of Scientology's delete Coursey org
life is anything but she was born into a family a Scientologist
but since Christine and her husband Chris also a member of the church
broke away and started speaking out against Scientology
as they did in a recent New York Times article Christine says
the church has cutter of from her family her decision to leave she says was
emotionally
and financially costly Christine said every member signed a so-called
but Trinity contract to remain a Scientologist
for a billion years which she broke back on track
she says the church which it paid or fifty dollars a week
handed her up forty thousand dollar bill for counseling services
the church had given her over her lifetime I find a contract that said I
was going to be there for the rest of my life
and beyond so I didn't fulfill that contract and they bill you
that bill was later reduced to ten thousand dollars
Christie can call brand is with us exclusively Christie good morning
nice to see you II would in this era innovation which is basically be
elite corps I've scientologist their staff members you don't have to be a few
remember to be a Scientologist and that's where you sign that billion your
contract is in the fee or
you were scientologist since you were born you became a member of that
organization it's kinda
like a religious or leadership order within the church
on it when you you obviously like your role there for a while you learn
worked long hours for very little pay what changed all that what made you
decide this was not what you signed up for
well there was a different atmosphere at the very end of my career in the Sea Org
things had changed
the I'm there the leader of the church david miscavige had
implemented things that had trickled down even to organization that I was
that you know it was an atmosphere I'm sorta fear people were scared<br><br><br>
A father
blames scientology for breaking up his home miss destroyed
the family we've always been a happy family and I'm not
now it's been destroyed how dangerous is the worldwide cult
thats homed in on the south of England
the young woman in black
doesn't know it but the man is about to try to recruit her into the fastest
growing cult
Britain the man doesn't say he's a Scientologist
it simply else whether she'd like to take a personality test
it's the first step in the recruiting process with a very high success rate
in Britain scientology claims the following
, the vast majority of them in the south scientology for all its -year
exist
has been highly controversial in places like prices become more than just a
controversy
here it's a day-to-day reality the young men and women recruited on the streets
joining one of the most acted powerful cult in the Western world
scientology exerts huge influence it commands huge well
it in southern England the movement's European power base
this bitter disagreement about what it is and what it stands for
is it the road to total freedom as follows insist
or is it nothing more than a fraud and in some cases even
the road to total really in this program will be looking at new evidence
to try to establish whether Scientology is a force for good
over evil the scientologists a building themselves a fortress
alongside the national headquarters at East Grinstead Saint Hill Manor
here they crusade for a better world world they say is achievable
only through scientology but the end the Scientology are
was the criminalist without insanity war
where enough good man flourish and prosper
and achieve your goals and it's very important that
people are free to pursue their own course in life
but the free to seek spiritual freedom another
anyway but in doing this throughout saint Hilaire images of the founder and
curator
scientology American Lafayette ron Hubbard have it was a prolific science
fiction writer
at American naval officer in the second world war a number to FileMaker
small-time Hollywood scriptwriter by the end
a millionaire many times over other died last year
but his personality is still dominates the cult his office has kept like a
shrine
untouched since his last visit there twenty years ago
Hubbard is dead but his writings live on in the Faith Hill library
everything here it is here and his word is the gospel
in particular the Bible scientology dianetics
another important legacy a public is that the meter
most recruits to scientology have at least one session like this
a meter is based on lie-detector principles
sometimes say it measures stress trainee counselors around to try it out on
teddy bears other to that human beings were hindered
developing their full potential by negative experiences
they don't even remember n-grams a call them
if people could bring these to the surface and overcome them
that he went on the road to total freedom so the meter is just a tool
in a process of spiritual therapy which the cold calls auditing
closing the petitioner listens
mostly he asked questions in this is to the answers three
it's a question direct investors attention and getting
how they feel about it and perhaps getting to look at new
viewpoints unlike the hammacher or and results for the president serves as
hey I did that before the realized something in a
auditing is supposed to take students scientologists all the way up the road
to freedom
their ultimate aim is to take control over every aspect of their lives
but this ontology leadership insist is not just open they point to the
anti-drugs campaign to show how they're working for the public good
and as further evidence for their good intentions they single out there better
opposition to psychiatric
well worsening orderly psychiatric treatment consists
are brain surgery consists electric shock treatment
are considered writes all these
are an attempt to chemically create something which is
more than likely spiritual in nature so therefore
I mean I could not condone such treatment its am
basic infringe human rights to
subject them to electric shock and you might as well just beaten over the head
with a baseball bat
problem better fact scientologist sex ain't a love prod
stance on psychiatry but they're many opponents say the cult should not be
taken at face value
among the fiercest critics is helen is AQ she says in reality the county
dogmatic and intolerant and does more harm than good
this is a cure blame scientology for the suicide of her daughter Rita
me to lift at Kroger in Sussex with her husband they were both scientologist
like most cult members strongly oppose psychiatry
but a year ago reserve became severely depressed
she cried lol card and card he hardly
you could hardly by hello bomb to make it without the place at school
best it will be a lol she was so depressed she cried all the time
much about nothing but they come out is that there's not much the logistic NOLA
when I you know about that Himalayan know in a United
she's obviously a lineout that anything a bath Reacher believe the depression
but due to an ear infection
and she went to see a specialist Catherine Middleton Captain EO
Milton tested yeah and she asked a few questions about the bill
and she told later that the problem was more Sun a psychological
physical and that she desperately needed to say
they thought that it helped the greeter refused to see a psychiatrist
she wrote to her mother I feel that there is no real help for improvement to
be had from psychiatrists
but my turning to them would just be a way to hide from life
and problems Reacher committed suicide in March
by inhaling cards or fumes in a garage
scientology insist they did not advisor again psychiatric treatment
today her mother is still fighting to establish that cult dogma
did contribute to reach his death others living in the South despise
scientology but for different reasons for example the cult stands accused of
breaking up families
the lily family Bognor Regis on a shopping trip to London
pose for a photograph happy carefree moment
but to the many parents know seems a lifetime away
German at least say that Scientology has broken up and ruined their family
two daughters have become full-time members of the cult
this %uh recruited in Brighton order to
and Lucy three years older works full-time at a house in East Grinstead
looking after Scientology children but one stage three of the four daughters
were in the cult
the parents speaking about the tragedy tonight for the first time
recall one evening last year when the girls came home to confront the couple
about their hostility to scientology all three they say have changed beyond
recognition
they just arrived on the doorstep and I just couldn't
looked like on daughters Taylor completely
my Howard who relies on his right knee yeah saver
in Pima and damn
I think they'd beam advise
how to hand allows ice by somebody I
I did nice today lot Saunders with a smile on their face
and just stated that
to neighbor
that I wanted to be scientologist this was I'll life they wanted
issue and and nothing me
said and could deter them I am
it was it was how scientists
and to see him a than they were standing there and we knew the words coming and
and I can
from their mounts when I want our daughters I would just like little
robots unprogrammed
everything we we said you
one could almost tell was the Palo page five paragraph
parents objection its I'll miss
glycerin Lucy after failing to placate their parents
decided instead to discern they sent what their parents recognized as
disconnection letters
a classic response to critical outsiders which all scientologists tort
in this case the outsiders where a mother and father
the emotional strain has had traumatic affects John Lilly has had a nervous
breakdown
as a result he's had to give up his job the couple now exist on sickness benefit
and they've been forced to sell their home and do their fathers break down the
daughters have had a change of heart about disconnecting
but their allegiance to scientology is unswerving
the lid is fine that tragic because in their view ron Hubbard is a phony
and new research seems to back this up
all this scientology describe ron Hubbard is the greatest humanitarian and
history
and he himself claim some remarkable achievement
others have investigated life say he was a liar and a cheat
for example have a claimed he was a nuclear physicist
in fact he took only a short course in physics and failed
claimed he was crippled and blinded in world war two in fact he was never even
slightly wounded
he also claimed he was a war hero winning medals
fact you got any for routine declarations in the US Navy
another them for heroism or combat three remarkable claims by Scientology founder
that researchers say don't stand up to scrutiny
the author Russell Miller has just completed a biography on other
contrasting the claims and the fax is called it
their face missile church
I'm sure you know say the public was a much decorated war hero
that Hughes fresh casualty was flown home from
front in the secretary of state's playing that he was an intelligence
office
solved in covert operations whose much wounded much decorated eccentrics
none of these trains a true non he I'm
did join the Navy and did come off so
but his actual career was
ill-starred to say the least in one area
other did perform extremely well he made a huge sums of money
money was an obsession in he said the best way to make a million dollars
was the start Monday religion two years later he founded scientology
and in a directive to his followers he confirmed his priorities
make money may more money
make other people but use so as to make money
opens bridge to total freedom can be crossed by anyone who can afford it
the full counseling program costs at least , pounds per person
some followers have paid a hundred thousand pounds
in Brighton nigga tryin was caught up in the how that money making machine
in the space of four weeks she handed over nearly eight thousand pounds to the
town scientology center
she believed the money would help me had a spiritual freedom
at least that was what logic K who runs the center told her
he persuade me that I needed something called a life repair
which was to get over the initial problems that I had
to experiences in my past and that was too costly
,
I was reluctant and thoughtful
think that with a lot of money and I did question
the mount I was
chatted to talk to well university course will cost you much more than that
but after the life repair brown and
I then again has happened came with much K
and I was persuaded that I should
tank the journey up to clear
which is curious state baking completely you
lose you reactive mind and totally clear and free
and that was too costly just over
, pounds six ounces and
you gonna trudge told the Scientologist brightened a annual summer it was only
seven thousand times
she says their response was to suggest she took out large loans
and lie on the application forms by falsely claiming that the loan was for a
car or home improvement
but as well losing money if a Trojan was losing faith in scientology
she took up the cult promises a refund and was repaid some , pounds
but only after Scientology was ordered by a court to pay it
yet the cult is extremely rich recent documents from saint Hill
tamed by facing south show the total income for the seven scientology centers
in Britain in just one week
was over , pounds apart from the regional organizations
there are recruiting centers including four on the south coast
much of the money they raise goes to the headquarters in East Grinstead
some from here to the united states in the post huge amounts of cash was for a
friend of my husband for his personal use
some went into Swiss bank accounts know how but was reluctant to admit it
I don't back officers there is a bank accounts with
I don't know how much money is in it but not very much
in fact other siphoned off millions of dollars for his personal accounts
by a front company registered in liberia on his behalf
the money was then distributed to secret accounts in Liechtenstein
and Luxembourg former a testified that hovered took tens of millions of dollars
scientology
although ordinary scientologist underwear this diversion
farms someone becoming disillusioned with another aspect is scientologist
finances
Steve bisbee left the cult in he was unhappy that so little
spent on the basic welfare stop
style hey walls
four pounds a week in practice
four pounds Lee really got
I can show you my own in
from those dates with prunes
the amount money paid out anything
tend to look at the statistics demand goes
income was taken in June that period from
church services credible expects
but the Scientology officials at saint Hill insist their money is well spent
on running the church organizations or as they call them the Hawks
all the management the top management at the church
is done from the state's and as such there's a service which comes back
management is
I hasn't idyllwild
specifics on money was I new will open up
he's going at the center books so
and I me sure going it might come to take on to your question
detailee want DC me
other excited to religious like more like bellman claim has been relentless
penny-pinching within the cult
and she says that the constant emphasis on money has had disastrous human
consequences
particularly on children's welfare
work filming worked for six years in a nursery at stones
hostile force scientologist of your is Grinstead
in scientology they considered that
putting somebody to look after children was a waste manpower
so that meant that he didn't actually look after them
no if you have a big group of children have moved
also you have no funds to buy basic equipment
then you get a rebel and that's what we had
we didn't get to talk to the used to run wild
basically turned local
at Stone morning bill maynes found that the lack of cash to pay the bills
often meant harsh measures it happened once in the depth of winter
the idea was because there wasn't enough money
to pay these bills the punishment shall we say
for that was to cut a hole heating cut up hot water
and we lived well hitting
girl to stay and also we will put dime
things in life and the including two children
so these little kids one to only eight
thing for each new recruit
there's more money for the cult and the energy put into recruitment could be
seen at Bright
on every day of the year in scientology
a likely candidate is called your meat if he agrees to take the personality
test they offer
it won't be long before the Scientologist announces who he is
approaches the subject of money we secretly recorded an interview between
one recruitment officer
and a facing south for such posing as a student
inside the recruitment center he was taken to an upstairs office
hello only minutes into the conversation followed
the Scientologist was asking for cash for short initial course
on yes his
mmm that be pounds in most cases would be only a first installment
each school's has another feet and the scientologists where possible
prefer payment in advance
I'm group
and if you know it you home my I can't tell you the number
gonna give it a name the name and into
okay step
growing
the personality test offered Brighton is one way of involving people in
scientology
there are others
an advertisment in a national newspaper offers help for all kinds of ailments
from tiredness to fungal infections its place by the Candida albicans advice
centre
these Grinstead candied as consultant doctor dorothy west
turns out to be a long-standing scientologist her advice group has
recommended
auditing as part of the treatment Candida
is sponsored and supplied by G&G fitment centre
based in East Grinstead company is run by a husband and wife who also
long-standing scientologist wife she game in
is executive director scientologist social coordination Bureau
GNG solicitors say the company has no legal
corporate no financial ties with Scientology
by whatever route people reach scientology once they're they discover
that
total obedience to the cult hierarchy is the top priority
purely court scientologist same hill christen naval uniform
custom stemming from how the navy career Hubbard on his ocean going yachts or it
ordinary members where to obey instructions without question for their
own
good when somebody and rolls consider he or she has joined up for the duration of
the universe
never permit an open-minded approach when missus patty cake comes to us to be
taught
turn that wondering doubt into effect dedicated player
she away will all
but to help its mind the worst offensive all was too quick the ranks
and then indulge in open criticism for such defectors
entity for any critics he had a special venom
la can be used very easily to harass
and enough harassment somebody will generally be sufficient to cause his
professional DC
if possible ruin him
in another directive other daughters cult members to stamp out opposition
by discrediting and destroying the critics reputation
you tell them one spot who is attacking us
to start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse
free start feeding laureate blood sex crime
actual evidence on the attackers to the press
how the daughter that private detectives be used to enforce these measures
this is one of several private detectives photographed outside the
house have a Scientologist defector
any scripted complained he was being harassed
and only last week a private detective hired by scientology
shot to Sunday Times journalist investigating the cult
other branded scientology critics suppressive persons
he said they were fair game and therefore
maybe the private property or injured by any means by any scientologist
without any discipline at the Scientologist maybe trip
suit or lied to or destroyed
one man declared a suppressive person was Marcus Allen
he was chairman of the trustees Greenfield school
Near East Grinstead the school says its independent it's run by scientologist
the first charitable status specter's this mean substantial cash benefits
through tax relief
rockefeller became increasingly hostile to the cult because the victim of a
total loyalty
finally summoned to a meeting at Sage Hill Manor where he says to senior
official
presented him with reports on his behavior written by other scientologists
cross-examine him then accused him of associating with opponents have the cult
I was asked if I would stop seeing these people
said no which is why and friends see the people I chose to see
on that response they said well if you wish to continue seeing these people
you may do so we want to know all the conversations you have with them
this report back to us what is said who these other people see
I declined the option and left
I was being asked to sponsor my friends which
found extremely distasteful from an organization which
calls itself a church I find this
almost unbelievable
soon after that meeting marcus allen's -year-old son
Alexander was drawn into the dispute he was about to cities owner
green feels but the day after his father was declared a suppressive
I was up there was called to a meeting with the headmistress and her deputy
voice in the office to go home and mother who condemned
Martin quite myself down the at the desk
and said case very simply and until situation with your father
with apology has been cleared out people the best
for me to stay at home the headmistress Margaret Haugen
claimed that Alexander was sent home because his stammer
have become worse she denied he'd been expelled
but Marcus Allen complaint his son had been made a scapegoat
I said this was totally outrageous that a child to be victimized
so that I was minutes before than you did
newt was due to begin my son had a school to go to
I had a satisfactory explanation as to why he is being
in effect expelled the experiences I do have been through as a result
or Greenfield school scientology
so really to confirm the belief iPad
that for me to remove myself
from any association isn't always use the correct decision
look it up and other critics are determined to expose
just what scientology means but every day new people are still being recruited
to the calls
it's business as usual senthil today even disenchanted ex-members concede
that scientology can help some people
but they say its obsessed with making money and suppressing opposition
and the fam is that too often the victims or their loved ones blind faith
families like the lid is they recall that joyous moment when their daughter
Melissa came home
having apparently decided to leave the cult but she didn't stay
looks OK from the Brighton scientology center followed
house when John Lee told him this I might never go back
the Scientologist wasn't satisfied UK and said well
you know if that was the case use was very serious and he would have to
consider how much money
a.m. and daughter owed full courses
that she had a I'll
that would be right and national Rotterdam
large iraqi down market down now
Marshall submit my account to you wallet time announced that she is
worked for you nothing on our on my
figure will be more than yours it didn't happen course
a we should have allowed to say we should have
stop and she went back home
then the whole thing start
i sat<br><br><br>
beavers damn fever
him
has been the white out moment for count was religions and cults a leader
announces he has super powers
and promises on such-and-such a date to prove it day arrives
nothing happens leaders caged in Nutley New Jersey or third during the countdown
well Paramount Pictures wonders it it can overcome
tom Cruise is adherence to scientology at the box office
the faith is set to open up its own Supercenter
where believers can hone their superpowers in beautiful downtown
Clearwater Florida the percept X
described by founder L ron hubbard will be brought out by your submissions
including
an anti gravity simulator and something with the gyroscope
so mister Cruz has a place to prove his gravity his compass direction especially
the saline content of self well you check yours
state lines how to copy got to sit down with former and current members of the
group
talk about the number one face at the church scientology many celebrities
whereby scientology
here's john Juliet Jenna and Jason kirstie Leah and Sophia
not the king but his wife and daughter back and bar
is a book reporter a week well the actors to his voice
and eat is no coincidence we were
put under incredible duress actually to recruit celebrities
in my mission to find out if cruises in control or out of control
but former Scientologist Karen presley she says she used to work full time at
the church's
exclusive celebrity center in hollywood her job she says
recruiting the stars was there a list
actually there was young actors that were really
making it in film at the time I think we're
our biggest priorities me
any
Tom Cruise was exactly that it was and he was filming
Top Gun pieces the church helped cure him up to learning disability
in recent years you have to fix the rest of us or at least his coworkers
you know you have to understand Hollywood when people need help
they call me when you're having trouble with something they call me
because they know that on the type of person that they can depend on
but good Hollywood studios depend on cruise
or had his private life blown up his public appeal
our mission to learn more about him takes us
into one of the most personal rituals have scientology
clutching these metal rods connected to this machine called any meter
scientologists undergo intense spiritual counseling
meant to clear their minds a past traumas and self-defeating behavior
the person drawing it out to them is called an auditor
you wanted what dozens of people hundreds of people
p thousand bruce Fein says he spent years in the church
and was and auditor to the stars he says he sat with them drawing out their fears
secrets
past indiscretions in here L everything down
when I was offering celebrities I would have to write
daily how did it go and what was happening with this person and how are
they doing
and this report we go to people very high up in the organization they keep
tabs on
are there things in those folders or secrets in there that might
change one's opinion have the celebrity
definitely better or worse purse
he would not reveal what he learned from the stars
but he told us in he was sent to audit cruises then wife nicole kidman
and find out if and why she was losing interest in scientology
how concerned were the leaders in scientology that Nicole Kidman
wasn't really you know showing up interest
in the church fairly concerned as evidenced
by the fact they sent me down there why do you think Nicole ultimately left
scientology
she felt it wasn't for her you know it wasn't
what she want to do in life do you think she
couldn't have remained missus Tom Cruise
and not be a Scientologist in my opinion no
their view of life would be so at odds with each other I don't think that they
could have
very meaningful relationship room so with key it was court
and convert are you a Scientologist have you looked into it yourself into
happened I really like it and I think it's really one
have you got have you tried any sessions at all or any army like that yeah
and its it's really I feel like I'm bettering myself
she joins the a-list cast a Scientology my mission was to delve into the world
at the church's
leading man i sat down with one of the highest ranking members at the church of
scientology
Mike winder rarely talks publicly about his most famous church member I'm in
time for a
fifteen years I consider him a friend
do you think he's a good spokesperson for Scientology i think is a very good
representation
what a Scientologist is I think he's obviously
successful he's obviously very happy
he does a lot to help other people he
lose a on ethical life
but last year the store was orbiting far from Planet Hollywood
into the galaxies in scientology many wondered
the water off too far does the church ever call Tom Cruise and say
you know what call back the reins a little no I don't think anybody in the
world calls Tom Cruise and tell them to pull back the reins
the Tom Cruise and other celebrities
do promote Scientology's agenda there's a church
actively recruit celebrities no
no the church's open to anybody no one specifically told
would like to get more celebrities because celebrity sorta
up the profile of Scientology we have a list of celebrities
longer absolutely not there absolutely not
maybe not but company religions have a designated
Celebrity Centre and he confirms that the church keeps confidential files on
celebrities and other members of the church who undergo
auditing so what happens my question is what happens to those notes
those files locked in and
file cabinets and locker rooms never to be
opened never only the order to the
there for the auditor for anybody else the church's former auditor Bruce hines
never met with Nicole Kidman and should not discuss his work for the church
the church goes on to dispute both his and Karen presley statements
and questions their motive just because someone says something
particularly of former someone who is
you know seeking to get have them into fame by making statements that sells
sensational that doesn't make it true
thing is for sure tom Cruise is behavior over the last year has raised the
profile of Scientology
the question is for better for worse
do you consider Tom Cruise the church's biggest
asset or liability up come on
the joke question the question
passable labeling tom Cruise is the biggest movie star in the world tom
Cruise is a Scientologist
but will cruise
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