Atlanta, GA - Jan 14, 2017: Holy shit, we still exist

AquaMan · Dec 20, 2016

I know we've been kind of quiet about raids and stuff, but we're going to see about doing something about that, with the start of the 9th year of Chanology.

So, without further ado, delicious copypasta. You must eat read it.

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The location: Atlanta Ideal Org
5395 Roswell Rd
Sandy Springs, GA, 30342

Date and Time: Jan 14, 2017, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

Bring:
* Yourself and your friends! Friends of friends!
* Signs
* Flyers
* H20 and caek
* Trash bags
* Good spirits and a cool head
* Cameras, still and video

Other miscellany:

* Police are notified
* Masks are illegal, but we've had no problems with sunglasses, hats, wigs, face paint, as long as they don't cover the majority of your face. Choose your disguise/costume with wisdom, and at your own risk.
* Please contact media.

Do not park on private property!!! There are several restaurants in walking distance (if for somewhat loose values of "walking distance" in some cases), plus several other public places including a Publix supermarket. There are also several nearby bus stops for MARTA, including one right in front of the org.

Unlike with previous locations the protest location is on the same side of the street as the Org, so keep an eye out for visits from the org's serfs guests, including Sea Org types.

RightOn · Dec 20, 2016

Love this!
Wouldn't it be wonderful what with all the new stuff coming out if all the cities did protests again?

ravenanon · Dec 22, 2016

And we promise to post pictures from this it too! We are going to get all fancy again

RightOn · Dec 22, 2016

ravenanon said: ↑

And we promise to post pictures from this it too! We are going to get all fancy again

Noice
Do it up!
<3

AquaMan · Dec 23, 2016

I have to post a correction to the OP. I was just informed by Sandy Springs that since the Publix parking lot is not public property and there was no advance permission requested from them, anyone involved with the protest who parks there will have their vehicle towed at the owner's expense.

TL;DR: DO NOT PARK AT PUBLIX FOR THE PROTEST

Seems Scis are still active in trying to suppress protests, and complained up to Publix corporate offices about the note above.

neverforger · Dec 23, 2016

This is why! Never forget the cult killed in our own back yard

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/2-investigates-patient-death-georgia-narconon/242045857

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/rehab-center-settles-patients-family-after-death/242538959

http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/narconon-punished-stripped-defense-civil-case/nS2rW/

and from elsewhere
http://www.newson6.com/story/217626...led-against-narconon-arrowhead-rehab-facility

I could go on, but listing out all the deaths, molestation, rapes, and abuse the cult has inflicted would take a lifetime.

ravenanon · Dec 27, 2016

"AquaMan said: ↑

Seems Scis are still active in trying to suppress protests, and complained up to Publix corporate offices about the note above.

I kind of figured that was a bad idea. I use the public areas around the cult.

However, the cult is reading this thread..... well lets see what I can copy pasta for them to read!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's internal name for a major criminal conspiracy during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries.[1] It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history,[2] with up to 5,000 covert agents.[3] This operation also exposed the Scientology plot 'Operation Freakout', because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the US government investigation of the Church.[3]
Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Eleven highly placed Church executives, including Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard and second-in-command of the organization), pleaded guilty and were convicted in federal court of obstructing justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property. The case was United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., 493 F.Supp. 209 (D.D.C. 1979).[4][5][6][7]

Background

As early as 1960, L. Ron Hubbard had proposed that Scientologists should infiltrate government departments by taking secretarial, bodyguard or other jobs.[8] In the early 1970s, the Church of Scientology was increasingly scrutinized by US federal agencies, having already been raided by the Food and Drug Administration in 1963. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed the Church owed millions of dollars in taxes and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sent agents into the organization.[8] The Church's response involved a publicity campaign, extensive litigation against the IRS and a program of infiltration of agency offices.[8]
The specific branch of Scientology responsible for Operation Snow White was the Guardian's Office. Created in 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard, the purpose of the Guardian's Office was to protect the interests of Scientology.[9] At the time of Operation Snow White, the Guardian's Office had its worldwide headquarters (Guardian's Office WW) located at Saint Hill Manor in England. Headquarters in the United States (Guardian's Office US) were in Los Angeles, California, though smaller offices existed in Washington, D.C. (Guardian's Office DC) and other cities throughout the United States. Each Guardian Offices consisted of five bureaus. One such bureau was the Information Bureau, which oversaw the infiltration of the government. L. Ron Hubbard oversaw the Guardian's Office, though it was Mary Sue Hubbard, his wife, who held the title Commodore Staff Guardian.[10]
Several years later, in 1973, the Guardian's Office began a massive infiltration of governments around the world, though the primary target of the operation was the United States. Worried about Scientology's long-term reputation, the Guardian's Office decided to infiltrate Interpol to obtain documents related to Scientology, as well as those connecting L. Ron Hubbard to criminal activity. Jane Kember handed this duty to Henning Heldt and his staff.[11]
Around this time L. Ron Hubbard himself wrote Guardian Order 732, which called for the removal and correction of "erroneous" Scientology files. It is here that Operation Snow White has its origins. Though the order called for this to be achieved by legal means, this would quickly change.[12] Hubbard himself would later be named by federal prosecutors as an "unindicted co-conspirator" for his part in the operation. Though extensive records of his involvement exist, many Scientologists claim his directives were misinterpreted by his followers.[13][14]
Operation Snow White would be further refined by Guardian Order 1361. Addressed from Jane Kember to Heldt, Duke Snider, and Richard Weigand, GO 1361 called for, among other things, an infiltration of the Los Angeles and London offices of the IRS, and the Department of Justice.[15]
While the order was specific to the IRS, the Guardian's Office was soon recruiting their own field agents to infiltrate other governmental offices, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S. Coast Guard intelligence service,[16] and the National Institute of Mental Health, among others, as well as the American Medical Association.[17] The program called for rewards to be given for successful missions carried out by Scientologists.[18]
One of the sentencing memoranda in the case also noted that, contrary to what the defendants claimed, the programs planned by the Guardian's Office were not restricted to trying to remove "false reports" but included plans to plant false information—for instance, planting false records about "a cat with a pedigree name" into US security agency computers so that later "the creature holds a press conference and photographic story results." The purpose of Operation Cat was "to hold up the American security to ridicule, as outlined in the GO by LRH."[19]
The start of 1974 saw Michael Meisner appointed Assistant Guardian for Information in the District of Columbia (AG I DC). Meisner's responsibilities included the implementation of all Information Bureau orders, programs, and projects within the DC area. Meisner's supervisor at this time was Duke Snider, the Assistant Guardian for DC, or AG DC. This was the highest position in Washington's GO office.[20]
In July 1974, Meisner was ordered by Duke Snider to implement the previously written plan to obtain Interpol documents, which were then located in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Meisner had more to do than just this, though, as by August he was also taking directions from Cindy Raymond, the GO's Collections Officer for the US, who ordered Meisner to assist her in finding a loyal Scientologist agent to gain employment at the IRS headquarters in Washington DC. This employee was to steal all documents dealing with Scientology, especially those involving current litigation by Scientology against the government. Meisner discussed this with Raymond for a period of a month before interviewing various Scientologists with no luck. A month after the order had been given, Raymond informed Meisner that she had selected Gerald Bennett Wolfe.[21]
Implementation

The GO's actual infiltration of the government likely began when Gerald Wolfe and Michael Meisner were able to gain employment at the IRS as clerk-typists. Under direction of the Guardian Office, Wolfe monitored files on tax-exempt organizations and, when requested, illegally made copies for Scientology.[16] Meisner supervised both Wolfe and the Information Bureau section in DC, and reported to the GO's Deputy Guardian for Information in the US.[22]
In November 1974, Operation Snow White took an unexpected turn for the GO when they received word that the IRS would be conducting a meeting on Scientology's tax-exempt status. In response, the church sent a spy to bug the room.[23] On the morning of November 1, the day before the meeting, a GO agent, Hermann, broke into the conference room and plugged the device into an electrical outlet. This device, in turn, then transmitted a signal on an FM frequency, which was picked up and recorded by Scientologists sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Smithsonian, which faced the office. After the meeting Hermann removed the device, and the taped recording of the meeting was sent to Los Angeles.[24]
By December, Wolfe, Herman, and Meisner had sent a shipment of stolen documents 20 inches thick to Duke Snider. Snider, in turn, sent notification to Mo Budlong in Los Angeles. By the end of December, Wolfe was stealing documents from the IRS's Chief Counsel's office. Just days after Christmas, Wolfe broke into the office of Barbara Bird, an attorney in the IRS's Refund Litigation Service. Bird had been present at the November 1st meeting. Instead of stealing files, Wolfe took them to a copier and made photocopies using government paper.[25]
Later, Wolfe met Meisner at a restaurant, where he reported on his most recent theft. Meisner took the documents and underlined selections that he believed his superiors would find interesting or relevant and wrote a summary of the important points. This was then routed through the Assistant Guardian for DC and on to the Deputy Guardian for the US, the Deputy Guardian for Information in the US, the Branch I Director of the Information Bureau, and the Collections Officer, all of which were in Los Angeles. A copy was also sent to Mary Sue Hubbard. This was typically standard procedure for Meisner.[25]
In early 1975, Operation Snow White expanded again as Sharon Thomas found employment in the U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence Agency and Nancy Douglass began work at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Douglass stole documents and made photocopies of others. These were transmitted to Hermann.[26]
By spring, attention had been called back to the IRS case as Mary Sue Hubbard had instructed Kember and Heldt to "use any method at our disposal to win the battle and gain our non-profit (tax) status".[27] Heldt wrote back telling that her request had been sent to the Information Bureau, who had been ordered to complete the collection of documents from the IRS and the Department of Justice's tax files within three months.[28]
In April, Meisner procured a directory of the Department of Justice and located the offices that would have files pertaining to Scientology litigation. When he found what he wanted he sent in Wolfe, who broke into the offices of two attorneys on three successive Saturdays. Wolfe copied twelve files and met up with Meisner, as before, at a restaurant. These files were especially useful to Scientology, as it detailed the government's strategy in various court cases.
In May, Willardson directed Meisner to implement "Project Horn", which called for Meisner to "provide a cover for PR and legal for the way they obtained IRS docs". The idea would be for the GO's Public Relations Bureau to view the documents without worrying about being connected to the theft. Willardson's idea called for Meisner to steal documents dealing with organizations other than Scientology. Willardson also called for the theft of IRS stationery, in order to forge letters from a (fictional) disgruntled IRS employee. The files on various organizations (including Scientology, of course) would then be sent out attached to the fake letter. The idea was that it would appear that an upset IRS agent had himself sent the files to numerous organizations. There would be nothing to tie it to Scientology. Wolfe stole both the stationery and, without permission, files on the Unification Church and Bob Jones University.[29]
During the summer and fall months of 1975, the GO launched an additional plan. In July, Meisner was told by Cindy Raymond that the Church of Scientology had initiated a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the IRS. Meisner was directed to add the office of Charles Zuravin to his list of offices to monitor. Zuravin was representing the government in the case. Meisner immediately passed this duty on to Wolfe, who broke into Zuravin's office multiple times between July and November. Wolfe revealed to his superiors that Zuravin was preparing an index of Scientology files relevant to the FOIA case. IRS offices from all over the country were sending files to Zuravin. This index file, required by the courts in all FOIA cases, is a total list of the documents requested, and reasons for their exemption from the public, if any.[30]
By October, Zuravin had finished the index, numbering each document in order to simplify location, and had provided a copy to Scientology attorneys. These attorneys, in turn, gave the index to Raymond, who passed it along to Meisner, who passed it to Wolfe. Wolfe then entered Zuravin's office and then began copying the documents listed on the index. Zuravin had essentially done the GO's job for them.[30]
On December 5, 1975, Jane Kember issued Guardian Program Order 158, which intended to give L. Ron Hubbard early warning of impending legal action. The plan called for the infiltration of the government agencies that had either the power to issue, or the knowledge of, impending subpoenas.[31] Specific agencies include the US Attorney's Office in DC and LA, the IRS Office of International Operations, the DEA, and the Coast Guard and Immigration and Naturalization. After reviewing the letter, Meisner concluded it would be a better idea to infiltrate the Department of Justice than the US Attorney's Office.[32]
In January 1976, Hermann, the Southeast US Secretary for the Information Bureau, informed Meisner that Heldt and Weigand approved a plan to send Alverzo to Washington. Alverzo arrived on the 17th, and on the 18th he picked the locks on the doors belonging to the office of Lewis Hubbard (no relation to L. Ron Hubbard) and the file room housing Zuravin's files. Wolfe stood guard at the end of the hallway while Alverzo worked on Hubbard's door. A few doors down Meisner worked on Zuravin's door. After an hour and a half with no success, Meisner was getting upset. In frustration, Meisner hit the top of Zuravin's door, which popped right open. The three Scientologists entered the office and took the remaining Scientology related documents. They then traveled to another floor where they made photocopies. Wolfe continued to make copies while Alverzo and Meisner tried again to open Hubbard's office. The trio then worked well into the night photocopying files from Hubbard's office. When they left, sometime around 2 AM, they left with a foot tall stack of documents.[33] Less than a month later Richard Weigand wrote to Jane Kember, telling her that the IRS documents that had been ordered to be produced in Guardian Order 1361, over two years earlier, had been obtained.[34]
Gerald Wolfe, along with Meisner, were later able to break into a room and make false IRS identification cards, which allowed them access to the federal courthouse in Washington. Wolfe and Meisner then used these cards to gain access to restricted areas and steal more documents.[16]
While Wolfe and Meisner continued their work at the IRS, Mary Sue Hubbard, along with other Guardian Office members, were coming up with further plans. Guardian Program Order 302, written by Cindy Raymond and approved by Hubbard, amongst others, directed the infiltration of all government agencies that had withheld files from Scientology's various FOIA requests.[35]
On the night of April 14, Meisner and Wolfe were on the tenth floor of the IRS building housing the Office of International Operations. Trying to enter an office, the pair found it locked. A passing cleaning lady noted Meisner and Wolfe's suspicious behavior, and notified a security guard. The guard confronted the pair and was presented with Wolfe's genuine IRS card and Meisner's fabricated one. Satisfied, the guard had the cleaning lady open the door. Inside, the pair grabbed a hefty load of files. Unable to find a photocopier, the pair then took the files to the main IRS building, where the pair again used their identification to gain access. After copying the files, they returned them to Crate's office. The entire process took some four hours.[36]
In May, Wolfe broke into the United States Courthouse and stole keys to the office of Assistant United States Attorney Nathan Dodell. Wolfe then took these keys to have them duplicated, and returned them unnoticed. Almost three weeks later, Wolfe and Meisner broke into Dodell's office, stealing documents and, as usual, forwarding them to Guardian headquarters in Los Angeles.[16] The GO's interest in Nathan Dodell stemmed from a Scientology FOIA case. In April, Judge George L Hart asked Dodell whether the US had considered taking a deposition of L. Ron Hubbard. Dodell responded that it was an "interesting thought". Furthermore, he promised to discuss it with the Department of Justice.[37]
In May, Meisner and Wolfe entered the US Courthouse for the District of Columbia around four in the afternoon. They went to the third floor, which was the home of both the US Attorney's Office and the Bar Association Library. They planned to locate Nathan Dodell's office, which was in the back of the Civil Division area, near an elevator. They then searched for the building's photocopiers. After mapping out these locations, they left. Later, Wolfe and Meisner made a copy of Dodell's keys.[37]
On May 21, Meisner and Wolfe entered the Courthouse, signing in to do research in the library and were issued an elevator key. After riding the elevator to the floor of the library, the pair entered the library and removed several books from shelves and sat at a table. After a few minutes, they exited through a backdoor and emerged in a hallway. In this hallway was Dodell's office, which they entered using their keys. The duo stole a number of documents related to Scientology and walked through the hallway to the two copy machines they had previously located. The pair photocopied some six inches of documents before returning the originals to Dodell's office.[37]
One week later, Wolfe and Meisner again met outside the IRS building. The duo then walked to the US Courthouse, and signed in under fake names. They repeated their actions from the previous week, copying another group of documents from the District of Columbia Police Department as well as the Food and Drug Administration. Returning to Dodell's office through the library, they were stopped by the night librarian, who asked if they had signed in. While they had signed in at the front desk, they had failed to do the same at the front desk of the library. When they announced that they had not, Johnson, the night librarian, told the pair not to come back unless they had specific authorization from the day librarian. The pair promptly left. Three days later Johnson notified the US Attorney's Office that two individuals had been seen using the photocopying machines of the Attorney's Office. Johnson and the night guard were told to immediately contact the FBI if the individuals returned.[37]
Less than two weeks later, Hermann phoned Meisner, and ordered him to return to Dodell's office and steal his personal files. The goal was to formulate a plan that would result in Dodell being removed from his position as an Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia.[37]
Meisner and Wolfe entered the United States Courthouse on June 11 around 7 in the evening. They signed in as they did before, and headed to the library. Johnson, the night librarian, recognized the pair and immediately stopped them. Meisner was prepared for this, and showed the man a letter from the head librarian. Wolfe and Meisner continued to the back of the library where they exited into the hallway. Outside Dodell's office the two saw that cleaning ladies were still at work.[37]
While Meisner and Wolfe waited for the cleaning crew to vacate the office, Johnson called the FBI, which sent two agents over immediately. The two agents confronted the Scientologists and demanded to see their identification. Wolfe used his real identification. Meisner presented his fake card, and told the agents that he had recently resigned from the IRS. Meisner told Hansen that the pair was in the library to do legal research, and that they had used the photocopiers to copy books and cases. Neither mentioned Scientology. After roughly twenty minutes of questioning, the FBI agents allowed them to leave. Meisner then phoned Hermann to inform him of the news and was told to immediately fly to Los Angeles.[37]
Aftermath and trial

Meisner and Wolfe were given cover stories by the Guardian's Office.[10] On the last day of June, Gerald Wolfe was arrested. Wolfe was charged with "the use and possession of a forged official pass of the United States."[38] The day after Wolfe's arrest, Mary Sue Hubbard wrote a letter to Weigand ordering him to keep her abreast of the situation. Hubbard also conversed with Mo Budlong and Richard Weigand about Wolfe's arrest, cover story, and subsequent plan to destroy evidence linking Wolfe and Meisner to Scientology.[10]
At the end of July a judge decided that the case against Wolfe warranted an investigation by a grand jury. A week later the judge issued an arrest warrant for Meisner, who, at the time, was being hidden in LA. The FBI was able to connect him to Scientology.[39] By January 1977 it was becoming increasingly likely that Scientology would be unable to escape Operation Snow White without serious penalty. Though Meisner was still in hiding, he was growing increasingly anxious about the situation.[40] By April, Meisner wanted to surrender to the authorities. Meisner was quickly put under the control of several guards.[10]
On May 13, Gerald Wolfe entered a guilty plea.[41] Later in the month, Meisner escaped his captors, only to be convinced to rejoin the GO the following day.[41]

From 1964 to 1995, the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C.. The building was raided by the FBI in July 1977.
In June, Wolfe, after being sentenced to probation and community service, testified before the Grand Jury. Instead of the truth, Wolfe told the latest incarnation of his cover story.[10] Several days later Meisner would again escape his captors, though this time he would contact the FBI. Meisner was eventually taken to Washington, where he agreed to plead guilty to a five-year conspiracy felony and cooperate with the Grand Jury.[42]
On July 8, the FBI raided Church of Scientology locations in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Washington, DC.[16] The Los Angeles raid involved 156 FBI agents, the most that had ever been used in a single raid. It lasted 21 hours and filled a 16-ton truck with documents and other items.[8]
The raids not only turned up documentation of the group's illegal activities against the United States government,[43] but also illegal activities carried out against other perceived enemies of Scientology. These included "Operation Freakout", a conspiracy to frame author Paulette Cooper on false bomb-threat charges, and conspiracies to frame Gabe Cazares, mayor of Clearwater, Florida, on false hit-and-run charges.[44][45] The papers also revealed that Sir John Foster (author of the official UK Government inquiry into Scientology) and Lord Balniel (who had requested the report) were targets, along with the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH) and World Federation for Mental Health.[46]
Comparing the FBI to the Gestapo, the Church declared that all the files seized from the Church were taken illegally,[47] though the FBI produced a 40-plus page affidavit detailing 160 specific items they were looking for.[48]
By July 20, 13 days after the raid, a Washington judge ruled that the documents should be returned, at least temporarily, to the Church, and that none of the documents could be shared with branches of the government, unless that specific branch was investigating Scientology. Scientology's lawyers had successfully argued that in order to prepare for an August 8 hearing on the legality of the raid, they must be able to see the documents.[49] By July 27, a judge in Washington had ruled the warrant authorizing the raid was too broad and, as such, violated the Church's 4th Amendment rights.[50] In August, this ruling would be overturned, with Scientology promising to take the case to the Supreme Court,[51] which would, early in the next year, refuse to hear the case.[52]
In August 1978, 11 high-ranking members of Scientology were indicted on 28 charges. One of the indicted was Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of Scientology's creator L. Ron Hubbard. The other ten were Gerald Wolfe, Cindy Raymond, Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Gregory Willardson, Richard Weigand, Mitchell Herman, Sharon Thomas, Jane Kember, and Mo Budlong. Kendrick Moxon and L. Ron Hubbard were named unindicted co-conspirators.[53]
Over the course of the investigation, the Church of Scientology attempted to have a judge removed,[53] and subpoenaed almost 150 federal agents in what appeared to be a large stalling scheme.[54] The Church also offered several shifting explanations for their actions.[55][56] Ultimately, these tactics failed and the defendants agreed to a plea deal.
Seven of the 11 members of the Guardian's Office pleaded guilty to just a single count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One more pleaded guilty to a similar charge and a ninth pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. The Scientologists were allowed to argue for the suppression of the government's evidence. The remaining two Scientologists were in England, pending extradition.[57]

The Royal Courts of Justice, London, where Kember and Budlong's plea for political asylum was denied.
On December 6, 1979, some five years after Operation Snow White began, it officially came to an end. Five of the Scientologists were sentenced to four years in jail, with four of the convicted being taken immediately. Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of L. Ron Hubbard, was sentenced to five years. Each of the six faced a fine of $10,000.[58] The next day the four remaining Scientologists were sentenced. Three of the four faced a fine of $10,000 and five years in jail. The fourth was fined $1,000 and sent to jail for six months. Upon release Mary Sue Hubbard was given five years of probation and community service. All of the Scientologists immediately appealed[59] but the verdicts were confirmed.[60]
In November 1980, the two remaining Scientologists, Jane Kember and Mo Budlong, were finally convicted on nine counts of aiding and abetting burglary in connection with break-ins at government offices,[61] and were sentenced to six years.[62]
Kember and Budlong had claimed political asylum in the UK, arguing that they should not be extradited to the US because the burglaries had political objectives. Their application against extradition was denied by the British High Court on the grounds that it did not fall within the political offence exception to the Extradition Act 1870; Mr. Justice Griffiths said:[63]

I am unable to accept that organising burglaries either for the purpose of identifying persons in Government offices hostile to the Scientologists, or for the purpose of gaining an advantage in litigation, or even for the wider purpose of refuting false allegations thus enabling a better image of the Church of Scientology to be projected to the public, comes anywhere near being an offence of a political character within the meaning of the Extradition Act.
The Applicants did not order these burglaries to take place in order to challenge the political control or Government of the United States; they did so to further the interests of the Church of Scientology and its members, and in particular the interest of Ron L. Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. In my view, it would be ridiculous to regard the Applicants as political refugees seeking asylum in this country, and I reject the submission that these were offences of a political character.
Involved parties

Mary Sue Hubbard, Cindy Raymond, Gerald Bennett Wolfe, Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Gregory Willardson, Richard Weigand, Mitchell Herman, Sharon Thomas, Jane Kember, and Mo Budlong, all high-ranking Scientologists, were convicted and sent to prison for five years. L. Ron Hubbard was named by federal prosecutors as an "unindicted co-conspirator" and went into hiding for the rest of his life.[8][14]
Effect of the scandal

See also: Scientology in Canada
The Church has been reluctant to discuss the operation's details; typical statements by members and operatives are often vague comments saying that the Guardian's Office (GO) had been "infiltrated" and "set up" to fail in its mission to protect the Church, that those involved were "purged" from the Church, without detailing what actually happened (although it has been suggested many of those involved and "purged" remained in important positions of power within the church).[64] Church spokespersons on the Internet and elsewhere have been known to claim that the operatives "had done nothing more serious than steal photocopier paper."[65]
In 2009, Church of Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis said that the jailed members of Guardians Org were declared "suppressive people" (aka "SPs&quot by the Church of Scientology and had to undergo rehabilitation in order to resume their upper level training in the church.[66]
Operation Snow White extended to Canada and resulted in legal proceedings against the Church.[67]
By 1990, all eleven defendants in Operation Snow White were free.[68]

Copy done in a hurry, but with great amusement

RightOn · Dec 27, 2016

The crow will fly high at noon and bring the message
But the squirrel is no longer running up the same tree.
I repeat, the squirrel is NO longer running up the same tree

Maria Sklodowska · Dec 27, 2016

RightOn said: ↑

The crow will fly high at noon and bring the message
But the squirrel is no longer running up the same tree.
I repeat, the squirrel is NO longer running up the same tree

The squirrel is busted!
Do not engage.

Protest moved to Albuquerque, unless we can find another [MOD EDIT dont post that stuff here]

RightOn · Dec 27, 2016

Maria Sklodowska said: ↑

The squirrel is busted!
Do not engage.

Protest moved to Albuquerque, unless we can find another [MOD EDIT dont post that stuff here]

sorry, no idea what you are talking about

Ogsonofgroo · Dec 28, 2016

RightOn said: ↑

The crow will fly high at noon and bring the message
But the squirrel is no longer running up the same tree.
I repeat, the squirrel is NO longer running up the same tree

'The nuts are on the ground!'

"Rampaging squirrels defy sanity" News at 11:00, stay tuned!

ravenanon · Jan 2, 2017

Cult needs more to read! Also the red car drives slowly with the squirrel

Scientology and forced abortions

http://caic.org.au/psyther/sci/abortion.htm

MARY TABAYOYON AFFIDAVIT
CD - 14
26 August 1994

Copyright (C) 1994 Mary Tabayoyon
Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes.

BEGINNING IN 1986, MEMBERS OF THE SEA ORG WERE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE ANY MORE CHILDREN IF THEY WERE TO STAY ON POST AND THE HUBBARD TECHNOLOGY WAS APPLIED TO COERCIVELY PERSUADE US TO HAVE ABORTIONS SO THAT WE COULD REMAIN ON POST.

7. On September 28, 1986, Gillaume Leserve, the Executive Director International ("ED Int&quot, put out an order binding on all Sea Org members. Within the Sea Org, these binding orders were called Flag orders. The September 28, 1986 Flag Order No. 3905 forbade Sea Org members from having any more new children. The reason given by ED Int. was that the Sea Org simply did not have the time, money and resources to raise children properly. In the event Sea Org members elected to disobey this Flag Order, they would be exiled to a non Sea Org Scientology organization of the Class IV level until the Child reached 6 years of age. Once the unauthorized child achieved 6 years of age, the parents could return to the Sea Org.

8. On April 3, 1991, an addition to this Flag Order was issued. Part of that supplement provided that anyone who did get pregnant would be sent to a non-expanding Class IV Org. The Commanding Officer of CMOI, Marc Yager, endorsed application of this supplement to all crew at the base and added to it. It stressed that Sea Org members were the top echelon of the Sea Org. As such Yager admonished us that we had the responsibility on our shoulders for the expansion of Scientology and freeing mankind. Scientology's Senior management determined, we, at this high level, could not afford the time and resources it would take to raise children. Having children was found to undermine our production and our purpose. It became an Ethics matter. An Ethics matter is an offense against Scientology. An ethics matter arises when a Scientologist does something which detracts from the spreading of Scientology. Ethics matters are dealt with through Scientology rituals administered to those who have "wandered off the straight and narrow". (See definition of "out ethics", attached as Exhibit 1).

9. Furthermore, Sea Org members would be exiled, would be sent to a non-Sea Org, lower organization called a Class IV Org to serve as a staff member. The only concession to our years of devoted service was the fact that we were entitled to keep our membership in the Sea Org.

10. The Flag Order established that Sea Org members who disobeyed it and chose to have children would not be allowed to choose which Class IV organization they would serve. Rather, Scientology's senior management would send the offending Sea Org members to a Class IV organization that was failing. This is a severe punishment. In a failing Class IV Org an exiled Sea Org member would have to fend for himself or herself and try and raise a child on the nominal compensation provided to the staff of a failing Class IV Org. In addition, the exiled Sea Org members would be obligated to revive the failing Org or
suffer more Ethics conditions.
11. While at the base, I knew of several instances of staff getting pregnant and being coerced to get an abortion. Some instances were relayed to me by the victims themselves and others were relayed to me by another. In two instances, the couples to keep their child despite extensive course of ethics method and thus were banished to a failing Class IV organization. In every instance they had to go through ethics handling designed to prevent them that it would be far more advantageous to Scientology and the Sea Org for each of them to have an abortion. Some of these women went through extensive pressure methods to convince them to have an abortion. The severity of the Ethics handling was directly proportional to the prospective mother's desire and insistence to keep the child. I myself got pregnant in 1993 and gave up my child due to my greatly misguided obligation and dedication to the Sea Org.

12. During the year and a half before I discovered I was pregnant, I was incessantly drilled, along with all other Gold crew, on becoming perfect and on purpose Sea Org member who would always follow Command Intention. Command intention basically means the intention of the highest in command over all of Scientology and Sea Org. Like LRH, Mark Yager and David Miscavige were expressed in various forms of publication I was indoctrinated that I should never put my own personal desires ahead of the accomplishment of the purpose of the Sea Org. I was indoctrinated to believe that I should never put my own personal desires ahead of the accomplishment of the purpose of the Sea Org. Although I would have dearly loved to have had my child and the idea of abortion is abhorrent to me, I did not dare to say it would be nice to keep my baby.

13. I told the Medical Officer (Martine Collins) of my pregnancy. She immediately went into action to arrange for my abortion. She told me, that I would naturally be expected to pay for it myself, since it was considered Out Ethics to get pregnant. (Out Ethics in Scientology simply means your reasoning facilities are no longer thinking in a direction designed to promote Scientology and must be corrected).

14. Medical Office Collins told me to call for the appointment to have an abortion myself. She told me not to give the address of the base as my address or to acknowledge I was from the base. She said the reason for this was because there were too many woman going there from the base for abortions and it was probably becoming "out PR" (out Public Relations, which means your public relations have gone bad).

15. The day after I returned from my abortion, I was weak and sore and had cramps. I proposed a light work load that I felt I could accomplish. My Senior, Megan Rae, refused this and instead gave me a target that literally would have taken about many people to accomplish in one day. I attempted to let her know what an impossible task it was and that her order must have been a joke. I soon learned that she was completely serious. My obvious protest on this was met with the barked threat, "If you use this abortion cycle to dramatize inefficiency and thus not accomplish your production targets, I will have you comm-eved." A commev is short for Committee of Evidence. It is one of the severest Ethics actions you can level at someone.

16. A friend of mine, Betty Hardin, who works in the treasury division of Golden Era Productions, told me that she used to transport the pregnant women at the base to Riverside, California for their abortions. For about a year, she transported women almost weekly to the Planned Parenthood Center, in Riverside, so that they could have their abortions and follow up check ups that were needed. She said it just became routine. Pregnant Sea Org members were sent to the Planned Parenthood Center to get their abortions. When they returned to the base they went to Ethics.

17. The term "Ethics" is used to name the place you go to have your ethics be back put in. To explain this in regular terms, you are sent to ethics any time you've gone off the rails, like went against Command Intention, mistakenly or purposefully, and the ethics officer would then work with you until you were again unswervingly dedicated to advancing Scientology and had made up the "damage". I will explain more about Ethics and its methods later.

18. Betty Hardin said, once formerly pregnant women were back from having their abortions, they would be sent to Ethics and made to do "lower conditions". Lower conditions are, from the lowest on up; Confusion, Treason, Enemy, Doubt, and Liability. Each one of these lower conditions have an exact set of steps you follow. once you get through all the steps of all the lower conditions, successfully, and only the Ethics officer can officially determine if you have gotten through it correctly, and thus let you go on to the next higher condition, you are a gung-ho Sea Org member again with new and revitalized determinism to never make a mistake again that would cause or threaten any harm to your group.

19. My senior made me do the steps of the condition formula called "Danger", which is the next higher condition higher than liability. This was to handle my ethics on the fact I got pregnant. The reason I didn't have to do treason and all the lower conditions is I professed that the Scientology auditing I had prior to my pregnancy had healed my body to such a degree that I was able to get pregnant despite the fact that a doctor told me years earlier that I probably would never have any more children. This wasn't altogether true but it was my only solution to avoid going to Ethics and being put through those lower conditions again. I knew eventually in my future confessional, it would come up and I would have to come clean on it and then do the lower conditions, but I simply was not up to it at that time. This was really quite unusual for me too, as I had made it a constant necessity in my life to always be very truthful.

20. Also, to preserve my own integrity and dignity in my own mind, I professed to myself and to a couple of friends that my husband and I had a real fear of either me or my baby not living through a birth due to complications in an earlier unsuccessful delivery I went through. But the truth was and is, had I been in my normal frame of mine, I would never have considered abortion. My husband and I still wish to have another child.

21. I asked Betty how many women she had actually taken to Riverside to have their abortions. She didn't want to tell me. From the way she had been talking, it sounded like quite a few, so I asked, conservatively, "Was it more than 20?" She waived her arm and said very emphatically, "Oh yes!"

22. Betty also told me how she finally flat out refused to be the driver anymore and it was getting to be quite an embarrassment as there were often anti-abortionists petitioning going on in front of the Planned Parenthood center and they kept seeing her bringing woman to get abortions.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...ges-church-forced-abortions-article-1.2926780

Former Scientology member alleges church ‘forced’ abortions in interview for Leah Remini’s docuseries

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BY Nicole Bitette
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 2:27 PM
A former Scientology member made shocking allegations to Leah Remini about the church's protocols on women having children.
Claire Headley — who was a member of the church's elite Sea Organization for 30 years — claims the church coerced women into having abortions upon learning of a pregnancy, she alleged on Remini's A&E docuseries "Scientology and the Aftermath."
"If a woman got pregnant, she would instantly be scheduled to get an abortion," Headley explained to Remini in a clip from Tuesday's episode.
While no one in the church directly held anyone down for the procedure, she told Remini that women were met with grave consequences if they refused.
Leah Remini says Scientology wife Shelly Miscavige could be dead
"If she refused in any manner, she would be segregated, not allowed to work with her husband, put on security watch, put on heavy manual labor and interrogated as to why she wanted to leave," according to Headley.
The ex-Scientology member left the church with her now-husband Marc Headley in 2005, whom she met when she was 17 and he was 19 while both involved in the organization.

Actress Leah Remini heard former Scientology members’ claims that the Church coerced women into having abortions.

(Greg Allen/Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
Headley claimed that Scientology leaders feared pregnancies meant woman were trying to leave the church, so they allegedly ordered abortions.
She shared with Remini that she knew people who had "up to six" abortions.
Leah Remini says Tom Cruise thinks she’s 'literally the devil'
Marc and Claire Headley now have three sons — who were all born after they disconnected themselves from the church.
However, Claire fought back tears while discussing her childless years as part of the church.
"I can go, 'Well, now I have three beautiful children who are my life,' but ... It doesn't make me feel better about not being strong enough to tell (Scientology) to go f--- themselves," Claire said in the episode, according to USA Today.

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The Headleys previously filed unsuccessful lawsuits against the Church of Scientology.
Reveals from Leah Remini’s ‘Scientology and the Aftermath'
The church issued a statement to A&E in regard to the Headleys, noting, "they are part of a small group of obsessed individuals who make a living attacking their former religion," their latest scheme being the Remini-Rinder reality television show.
It also alleges that Sea Organizations "may marry," but "those desiring to have children" do so outside of the organization.
"The Church never advocates abortion to Church staff or to parishioners," a statement obtained by USA Today reads.

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ravenanon · Jan 10, 2017

HEY! I bet the cult needs to read more on this thread. Let us now discus the failures of the e-meter!!!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/tbite.html

The Book Introducing The E-Meter

by L. Ron Hubbard

Softcover, 47 pages. Available from Bridge Publications Mail Order, 4751 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles CA 90029, or call 1-800-843-7389. In Europe, order from New Era Publications Int. ApS, Store Kongensgade 55, 1264 Copenhagen K, Denmark. 1995 price US $40.
Note: all images accompanying this book review are copyright 1966, 1968, or 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard. They are reproduced here under the ``fair use'' provision of the US copyright code.

Cover of the 1983 edition.
The insignia on the cover shows two facing chairs (as in an auditing session) with an e-meter between them. The edition offered for sale in 1995 has a more modern cover design based on the Mark Super VII meter, but since it is a crime in Scientology to alter any of Hubbard's writings, one may assume that the text and photographs will never be updated.
This book, first published in 1966, was supposedly compiled from lectures and demonstrations given by L. Ron Hubbard. The compilers are never identified. Hubbard, who is referred to throughout in the third person, and with obsequious respect, is named in the frontmatter as the book's copyright owner. It seems likely that he is also the author.
The book describes the Mark V e-meter, the last simple model in the e-meter line. First issued in 1962, the Mark V uses a few transistors mounted on a single printed circuit board. (See Homer Wilson Smith's e-meter schematic for the essence of the design.) Its successor, the Mark VI, was an all-new design released in the 1980s using microprocessor technology, and is substantially similar to current top-of-the-line model, the Mark Super VII.
The venerable Mark V is still in use in Scientology today, retailing in 1995 for US $625. It is promoted as a training meter for student auditors, and as an inexpensive back-up meter, since all professional auditors are required to own two. ($625 may sound like a lot of money for such a simple device, but the more sophisticated Mark Super VII is far more dear at US $3,850.) Although The Book Introducing The E-Meter is now thirty years old, it still offers timely data for would-be Scientologists.

Candid Introduction

The book begins with a surprisingly candid introduction:

This is a Hubbard Electrometer called an E-Meter for short. Technically it is a specially developed ``Wheatstone Bridge'' well known to electrically minded people as a device to measure the amount of resistance to a flow of electricity.
Critics of Scientology sometimes deride the e-meter as ``an overpriced ohm-meter'' or ``just a wheatstone bridge''. Here we see Hubbard himself making this admission. Technically, the e-meter is an ohm-meter with continuously variable range and sensitivity settings.

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The printed circuit board of the Mark V reveals the simplicity of the design.
As in most of its literature, here Scientology will be mixing a little fact with a lot of fiction. The hype begins almost immediately. On p. 6 we see a photograph of Hubbard checking a new Mark V against what it supposedly the prototype. ``This prototype is kept by Ron in a safe and is used by him from time to time to make sure that the standard of manufacture is maintained. It was made to his exact specifications and assembled in a Mark IV case.'' And we are told again on p. 9 that the Mark V is ``made to Ron's exact specification'', and that it is a ``precision instrument''. The fact that it's just an ohm-meter has apparently been forgotten, and no specifications for the true precision of the instrument are ever given, here or in any other Scientology publication. And another contradiction: on p. 28 we're told that in choosing electrodes for the meter,

Ordinary "tin" cans with the paper label stripped off are preferred. Although they are less attractive, they give a more accurate response.
More accurate than what? And how can the electrical properties of ordinary tin cans, manufactured for an entirely different purpose, be sufficiently uniform to qualify them for use with a ``high-precision'' resistance meter? No alternative sources of electrodes are mentioned in the book, but all the illustrations show clean, shiny cans with screw-on lids. In the center of each lid is a rubber grommet through which a wire enters. (See picture below.) These reasonably attractive looking electrodes are obviously custom jobs -- precisely what Hubbard is advising not to use.
The Measurements of the E-Meter

Another surprising statement appears on page 3:

The resistance of a dead female body is 5,000 ohms and of a dead male body, 12,500 ohms.
The alert reader is thus warned early on that the author is a quack, or to put it more charitably, has a limited understanding of biophysics. It is unusual in Scientology publications to begin with the most obviously loony bits; typically one has to wade through many pages of vague definitions and undocumented claims before discovering the true nature of the material.
The 5,000 and 12,500 ohm values have special significance in Scientology. They correspond to Tone Arm settings of 2 and 3, marked on the Tone Arm dial with an F and an M, respectively. In a normal auditing sesssion, the TA must be between 2 and 3 at the start of the session; the auditor adjusts things until this is so. However, on page 4 of the book we read:

When, however, the resistance of a live body is measured it can be as low as 500 ohms or as high as 1,000,000 ohms. These figures are mentioned as a matter of interest and to show the wide divergence of the electrical resistance of a body when it is inhabited.
On pages 35-39 we are given another example of the great significance placed on body resistance values as measured by the e-meter. One of the tests that must be passed to become a Class VI auditor is that, while holding the electrodes, the Tone Arm value with the needle at the set-point should be between 2.0 and 4.0. A value of 4.5 is considered barely passing; 5.0 or higher is a failure, as is any value below 2.0. Presumably, an individual whose Tone Arm setting cannot be brought within the ``normal'' range is too mentally unhealthy or spiritually unworthy to be a Class VI auditor. However, in other publications the Scientologists acknowledge that people with unusually dry hands may require some skin moisturizer in order to make a good contact with the electrodes. One wonders how many auditor candidates have availed themselves of this solution to their spiritual problems.
What The Meter Does

The basic claims for what the e-meter does (besides measure body resistance) are summarized in the statement below, taken from pages 5 and 6:

Tests conclusively show that an individual's emotional state, his thoughts, etc., instantly raise or lower the electrical resistance of the body. Thus the meter is an extremely valuable tool in the hands of a trained auditor... We in Scientology have come to accept the fact that the E-Meter ``talks'' to us.
We rarely give much thought to the hours and hours of work and research put in by L. Ron Hubbard, resulting in the perfect instrument -- the Mark V -- and an exact exposition of what the various readings and changes mean.
How much credence should we give to these claims? Is the Church willing to stand behind them? From the copyright page:

This book is part of the works of L. Ron Hubbard who developed Dianetics spiritual healing technology and Scientology applied religious philosophy. It is presented to the reader as a record of observations and research into the nature of the human mind and spirit, and not as a statement of claims made by the author.
In other words, ``This stuff is not supposed to be factual; it may well be rubbish. Don't try to hold us responsible. Hubbard wrote it; we publish it.'' From the same page:

The Hubbard Electrometer, or E-meter, is a device which is sometimes used in Dianetics and Scientology. In itself, the E-meter does nothing. It is not intended or effective for the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of any disease, or for the improvement of health or any bodily function.
This despite the fact that Scientology claims that 70% of all illness is psychosomatic and can be cured with auditing!

Operating The Meter

The bulk of the book is devoted to the mechanics of setting up the meter and demonstrating the controls. Discussion of these topics runs from page 10 through page 39. Here is a summary of the controls of the Mark V:

The Tone Arm is the range control. With the Tone Arm set to 2, the needle will be centered when the resistance across the elctrodes is 5,000 ohms.

The sensitivity knob controls the meter's sensitivity to resistance. (Technically, it sets the gain on the amplifier circuit that drives the needle.) It ranges from 1 to 16 (or 32 in later models); a normal value is around 4. When turned fully counter-clockwise, it shuts the meter off.

The sensitivity booster knob gives coarse-grain control of the meter's sensitivity. It has three settings: 16, 32, and 64.

The set/transit/test switch is normally left in the ``set'' position. It is switched to ``test'' to check the battery; a full-scale needle deflection to the right indicates that the battery has sufficient charge. The switch should be moved to the ``transit'' position when shipping the meter for repairs, or any time the meter is not in use. This protects the needle movement.

The trim knob allows the operator to adjust the needle position without moving the Tone Arm. It is used to calibrate the meter by setting the Tone Arm to 2.0 and adjusting the trim until the needle is at the set-point on the dial.

The tone arm counter is an mechanical accumulator that may be attached at the bottom of the tone arm knob to tally downard (counter-clockwise) motion of the Tone Arm. This supposed to indicate the total ``charge'' released during an auditing session.

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A typical auditing session. The preclear holds the cans (electrodes) in his hands. The auditor's left thumb rests on the Tone Arm knob, so he can continually and unobtrusively manipulate it during the session.
Needle Actions

The book concludes with a summary of the major ``needle actions'' (types of motion) that may be observed during auditing. Supposedly there are 10 of these, although later, more advanced publications claim around 20. Only a few are actually explained in this book. The 10 actions listed are:

Stuck needle: ``You ask the pc a question and the needle just stays stuck with no movement whatsoever.'' The term pc means pre-clear: the person undergoing auditing.

Null: the needle continues to behave in whatever way it was doing, showing no influence of the auditing question.

Fall: the needle moves to the right. In more advanced texts this class is subdivided into short falls, long falls, and long falls with blowdown (needle goes offscale, requiring Tone Arm readjustment.)

Rise: the needle moves to the left.

Theta bop: a rapid back-and-forth dance of the needle, from 1/8 to 1/2 inch wide, at a rate of 5-10 times per second. In more advanced texts it is revealed that a theta bop is seen when the thetan (spirit) is repeatedly leaving and reentering the body.

Rock slam: a rapid, irregular, jerky motion of the needle, varying in width. ``The needle goes crazy.'' Significance is unexplained here, but in other literature it is revealed that a rock slam indicates that the pc has an Evil Purpose.

Stage Four: the needle repeatedly rises an inch or two, sticks, and then falls, about once per second. It is unaffected by auditing commands.

Floating needle, often abbreviated F/N: slow, smooth movement over a wide range. This indicates the conclusion of an auditing acitivity. It is a crime in Scientology to pursue a process beyond a floating needle.

Change of characteristic: no details given.

Body reactions: not explained here, but these are artifacts caused by body motion, such as the preclear yawning, coughing, moving around in the chair, or lifting a finger off the cans.

Conclusion

Although this is a short book on a narrow subject, to the perceptive reader it reveals much of the feel of Scientology. There is a smattering of science (``ohms'' and the ``wheatstone bridge''), a bit of the supernatural (bodies being ``inhabited''), some obvious lunacy (dead female bodies are 5,000 ohm resistors), a dose of mystery (unexplained needle actions, special tests for Class VI auditors), and much reverence for the founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Given Hubbard's obviously limited scientific understanding, one wonders whether he contributed anything at all to the design of the transistorized Mark V, though he is credited here as its developer. No mention is made of Volney Matheson, the man who designed the original e-meter. In Understanding the E-Meter, p. 97, Hubbard claims to have invented it himself.
The Book Introducing the E-Meter, this modest little 47 page softcover volume with black-and-white photographs dating from the 1960s, was being offered in 1995 for the outrageous price of US $40. That, too, makes it a telling introduction to Scientology.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/

Embarassing E-Meter Facts

Although Hubbard's name is on the patent application, the E-meter was actually invented by a chiropractor named Volney Mathison, and was originally called the Mathison Model B Electropsychometer.
Mathison also marketed a cheaper Mathison Quiz Meter and a manuscript on "Electropsychometry" by L. Ron Hubbard and himself. Here is an excerpt.

Mathison's Electropsychometer (meter photo) was promoted as an aid to psychotherapyand psychoanalysis, which is anathema to Scientologists!

The more modern "bathroom scale" E-Meter design was registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1997 under registration number 2056778. (Thanks to Scientology attorney Samuel D. Rosen, of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, for pointing this out.) Here is the trademark registration. In August 2001, Scientology also registered "E-Meter" as a word mark; the registration is here. But there are many other commercial usesof the term "E-Meter"! It appears the main point of the trademark registration would be to prevent FreeZone groups from marketing their own electropsychometers under this name.

Needle actions can be faked. Martin Hunt confessed to faking an F/N (floating needle, a movement that signals the end of an auditing process) by gently squeezing the cans. E-meter drill 9 and drill 13 are supposed to teach auditors to recognize such actions, but they don't always catch them. Pxxxxxx Jxxx and Arnie Lerma have found that a violent needle movement called a rockslam can be produced simply by checking the electrode leads, or by corrosion in the plug contacts.

The ``metabolism test'' done at the start of each session has nothing to do with metabolism.

The mechanical meter movement is specially designedto bounce around a lot, producing extra ``phenomena'' for the auditor to interpret.

The US Food & Drug Administration raided Scientology on January 4, 1963 and seized hundreds of E-meters as illegal medical devices. The incident is described in Jon Atack's book, A Piece of Blue Sky, and in this essay by Stephen Barrett, M.D. Since that time, meters have been required to carry a disclaimer stating that they are purely a religious artifact. This appellate court decisiondescribes the trial and the various witnesses who appeared.

This subsequent court decision says in part: "As a matter of formal doctrine, the Church professes to have abandoned any contention that there is a scientific basis for claiming cures resulting from E-meter use. The Church, however, continued widely to circulate Scientology literature such as Government's exhibits 16 and 31, which hold out false scientific and medical promises of certain cure for many types of illnesses." Also see this decisionby the US District Court in Minnesota concerning the E-meter and unlawful medical claims.

The 9th Circuit reached a similar conclusion, noting that "Labels of disclaimer, to-wit: 'Not intended or effective for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease,' found on about half of devices, were not controlling in determining whether devices were mislabeled within Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and thus subject to prohibition of importation, but were to be considered together with any extrinsic evidence of intended use of device."

The actual ordered E-meter warning was published in Federal food, drug, and cosmetic act: judicial and administrative record, 1969-1974, 1969-1974 FDCA Jud. Rec. (FDLI) 90 (D.D.C. 1971) and 1969-1974 FDCA Jud. Rec. (FDLI) 131 (D.C. Cir. 1973).

E-meters are assembled at "Gold Base", Scientology's armed compound in Hemet, California.
The St. Petersburg Times reports it takes only 80 minutes to put one together, as the technician shown at left is doing.
And for this they charge over $4,000???

E-Meter-like devices are available from sources outside the Church of Scientology at much lower prices. Rest assured, these fine products are every bit as worthless as the Scientology models. Check out this Google directory for links. But if you want a genuine Scientology E-Meter, you can purchase the "Mark Super VII Quantum™ E-Meter® pastoral counseling device" from the FLAG bookstore. Or pick up a used one on eBay.

From the "idols with feet of clay" department: even L. Ron Hubbard had "discreditable reads"(indications of serious aberration or criminality) on the E-Meter. This really ticked him off!

Here's how Scientology uses eBay's VERO program to keep ex-members from selling their E-meters. Thanks to attorney Scott Pilutik for permission to reproduce his essay (original version).

Look Inside the Mark Super VII E-Meter

Click here for a

guided tour of the Mark Super VII.

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Until the release of the Mark VII Quantum model in 1996, the Hubbard Professional Mark Super VII was the latest (mid-1980s) and most sophisticated model E-meter sold. Scientology doesn't want anyone looking too closely at their "advanced" technology, but this web page offers you a guided tour of the device, with exterior and interior views including the main circuit board, charging circuit, jacks, and data plate. "Hey, it's got Intel inside!"
Here is US Patent 8,121,676 detailing some recent (circa 2003) advances in E-meter technology. Interestingly, Hubbard is listed as an inventor, although he died in 1986.
What's Next? The Mark VIII Ultra!

The Mark VIII Ultra E-Meter shown at left (click for larger version), was manufactured in Japan in 2004, on a production line that once made Sony Walkmans. It was finally released in November of 2013.
Some folks think the new meter looks a lot like the Easy Bake oven, a popular kid's toy.
Here's a drawing of the meter that came out several years before its release. Look at those cans! The TA counter is visible behind the dark plastic wedge at the top center of the meter. This is Russ Bellin's baby. Too bad he stuck with an old-style serial port connector instead of putting in a USB port. Those all had to be replaced before the meter was finally released.
There were 20,000 of these white elephants sitting in the Bandini warehouse in Los Angeles, awaiting the day when DM decided to release them to the world. That day finally came in November 2013.
For more juicy background details on the meter, read this and this and this.
Here is US Patent #6011992, System for Measuring and Indicating Changes in the Resistance of a Living Body, which covers the Mark VIII Ultra and perhaps some of its predecessors.

E-Meter Maintenance

Battery leakage

can be a problem.

Reviews

Understanding the E-Meter

, an old book by L. Ron Hubbard that Scientology now prints with a more modern sci-fi cover.

Here's the book description from the Church of Scientology's own web site: "Is the theta being inside or outside the mest body or both? How big is a theta being in relation to his body?" The answers aren't very convincing, but it's unusual to see Scientologists even asking loopy questions like this in front of raw public, much less purporting to answer them. Bottom line: $50 buys you a load of comic book physics and a revealing look at what constitutes a "scientific explanation" in the cult of Scientology.

The Book of E-Meter Drills.Compiled by Mary Sue Hubbard, who later went to jail for a long list of crimes including bugging the IRS and stealing files from the FBI. Her husband L. Ron Hubbard was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator.

The Book Introducing the E-Meter.This title no longer seems to be offered by Bridge Publications, but used copies are still available.

CoS and Totalitarianism, by Laura Kay Fuller. This excerpt is the section on Technology, which focuses on the E-meter. The full thesis is available here.

E-Meter Humor

Travolta Hospitalized with Critically Low E-Meter Reading. Parody piece from The Onion.

Chilling fictional account of what can happen to someone who gets too much auditing.

Kinky things to do with your old Mark V E-meter (not suitable for readers under 18): pic1, pic2

This web site endorsed (not!) by Koos Nolst Trenite, official kook-in-residence of alt.religion.scientology. And we thank him for his endorsement.

A Fictional E-Meter

Peter Alexander's Scientology parody, an independent film called The Profit, features a device called a "mind meter" that is modeled after Scientology's own E-meter. You can see more pictures at The Profit: the Movie Scientology Won't Let You See. The movie's official web site is www.TheProfit.org.

So what awesome person has all of this and sooo much more posted about the cult of scientology? Why it is David S. Touretky! He has the BA, MS, and PHD the founder of the cult of scientology, Hubbard failed to obtain! Let us learn more about David Touretky!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky

David S. Touretzky

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David S. Touretzky

David S. Touretzky in 2007
Born United States
Residence United States
Nationality American
Fields Artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Alma mater Rutgers University, B.A., 1978
Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D., 1984
Known for Criticism of Scientology, free speech activism
Notable awards Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery, 2006
David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, especially what he perceives as abuse of the legal system by government and private authorities. He is a notable critic of Scientology.
Contents

1 Research

2 Criticism of Scientology

3 Free speech activism

4 Publications

5 References

5.1 Further reading

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Research

Touretzky's research interests lie in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and learning. This includes machine learning and animal learning, and in particular neural representation of space in rodents (e.g., in the hippocampus) and in robots. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.[1][not in citation given]
Criticism of Scientology

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Since the late 1990s, Touretzky has worked to expose the actions of the Church of Scientology. He sees the actions of the organization as a threat to free speech, and he has taken a prominent part in Internet-based activism to oppose it, also appearing regularly as a critic in radio and print. He has also worked to expose what he sees as dangerous and potentially life-threatening treatments provided by Narconon, the Scientology-based drug rehabilitation program. He maintains a Web site entitled Stop Narconon, which archives media articles critical of the program. Dr. Touretzky's research into Narconon was a primary source of information for a series of San Francisco Chronicle newspaper articles criticizing Narconon on June 9 and June 10, 2004 that ultimately led to the organization's program being rejected by the California school system in early 2005.[2]
Touretzky has undertaken extensive research into the secret upper levels of Scientology, and he has made this information available to the public on the OT III Scholarship Page (concerning Xenu) and the NOTs Scholars Page (concerning the higher Operating Thetan levels). These pages, he states, are academic studies of Scientology's texts, and the proprietary materials are therefore legally available due to careful application of the academic fair use provisions of copyright law. The Church has failed in their attempts to have them removed, after repeatedly threatening Touretzky with lawsuits and filing complaints against him with Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon, in turn, has issued statements in support of Professor Touretzky, noting that his criticism of Scientology is a personal affair and not the opinion of the University itself.
Touretzky has been the object of public attacks by the Church of Scientology, including various "dead agent" campaigns against him. He has been accused of religious bigotry, racism, misogyny, misuse of government funds, support for terrorism, and collusion with the pharmaceutical industry, among other misdeeds.
Free speech activism

David Touretzky is an Internet free speech activist. He has supported several movements in what he perceives as abuse of the legal system by government and private authorities.
In 2000, Touretzky testified as an expert witness for the defense in Universal City Studios et al. v. Reimerdes et al., a suit brought by seven motion picture studios against the publishers of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (the case name refers to Shawn Reimerdes, an unrelated defendant who settled prior to trial.) The suit concerned the publication of DVD decryption software known as DeCSS, which the plaintiffs asserted was illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Dr. Touretzky testified as an expert in computer science on the expressive nature of computer code, and convinced the court that code was indeed speech. Touretzky also created an online gallery of various renditions of the DeCSS software. Readers sent in their own renditions of the decryption algorithm, including a mathematical description, a haiku, and a square dance.
In reaction to the federal prosecution and eventual imprisonment of 18-year-old political activist Sherman Austin for hosting bomb-making instructions entitled Reclaim Guide on his web site, Dr. Touretzky provided a mirror on his Carnegie Mellon website for more than two years, although he acknowledged on the website that his own reposting of the information did not violate the plain language of the statute under which Austin was convicted.[3] In May 2004, to avoid harassment of the university and controversy in the media, Dr. Touretzky moved the mirror from the Carnegie Mellon server to a private site.[4][5]
In 2011, Touretzky began hosting a mirror of the website of George Hotz, containing executable files and instructions facilitating the jailbreaking of the Sony PlayStation 3, after Sony filed lawsuits against Hotz and other hackers aiming to utilize the takedown provisions of the DMCA to remove the content from the Internet.

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