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Originally Posted by TheSneakster
CST was incorporated in May 1982, even according to the documents on that Veritas site, most of which are HTML texts and not images of originals and therefore somewhat questionable as to authenticity (but for the purposes of remainder of this post, I will assume they are accurate).
The authors of that site are ex-Churchie Scientologists who simply refuse to believe that Ron Hubbard himself personally ordered the C of $ corporate structure set up the way it is currently.
On that site, these authors proceed to expound upon - at great length - a conspiracy theory in which the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is the entity actually in control of the Church of Scientology, based upon two main facts: (a) the CST Board of Directors contains no Scientologists. (b) former IRS employee Meade Emory was heavily involved in the probate of Ron Hubbard's will.
These authors blissfully ignore the fact that CST Corporate By-Laws create a Board of Trustees that is empowered to remove and replace Board of Director members pretty much at will and requires that that Board of Trustees consist solely of Scientologists with good Ethics records, who have records of good case gain and have completed Upper OT Levels within 10 years of becoming a Trustee, etc., etc.
Read the By-Laws Articles VI and VII for a full rundown on the Board of Trustees and their relationship to the Board of Directors of CST.
The Board of Trustees has pretty much total power over the Board of Directors and David Miscavige has pretty much total power over the Board of Trustees, because he has the power to cancel any Trustee's certificates, upon which their membership in that board depends.
The I.R.S. is not in charge of Scientology - David Miscavige IS!
Interested readers are strongly urged to study the formal Declaration of Larry Brennan which has been posted verbatim to ESMB back in May 2008 for the true facts about the current corporate setup, which remains as he established it to this day.
Larry was there. The kooks who created the Veritas site were not.
Michael A. Hobson
I am *not* anonymous
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I am not sure what else to add here that I have not already covered except to say that I agree with Michael's comments above. Along the line of what Michael said above, I made a post about that some time ago as follows:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.r...2e2af7d44503e?
While CSI was created in late 1981, the corporate plan that accompanied the launch of CSI contemplated its relationship to what was going to be both RTC and CST (both of which were "launched" in 1982). The idea behind CST was worked out partly in late 81 and then in 1982, not after Hubbard died in 86.
We were not moving the ownership of Hubbard's intellectual properties to CSI but rather reserving it at the time to go into what would be RTC (trade marks, service marks, collective membership marks) and what would be CST (copyrights, etc.).
A key was to get federal income tax exemption for CST as the vast majority of the "Hubbard money" was going to go there. It was copyrights and not trademarks that produced most of the Hubbard money (between the two) not counting the many other things like inflated payments for treatments, special properties, etc., etc. that went to Hubbard as Miscavige funneled over $40 million of it to him in 1982 alone as we tried to creatively justify the payments. There was just so much phony money in that Hubbard estate!
And, worse yet, so much of it was what I call "blood money" based on fraud, the abuse of others like mission holders, the sweat of unpaid or horribly paid staff who could not even properly care for themselves or their own children while Hubbard and international management got millions, etc.
Anyway that's besides the point.
There are lies behind the creation of RTC and CST but its not that IRS/CIA nonsense. See the following post which is in a series I am writing about Miscavige's perjuries. It covers some previously unposted info re why RTC and CST as well as the trademarks which relates a tiny bit to this:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=346246#346246
Why in the world would the IRS and CIA really want to control scientology? It's not for that remote viewing stuff promoted on some web sites. I actually almost met someone from the CIA when I ran Special Unit and it was nonsense. Look, how many people have done the OT levels who can now do realistic remote viewing? Anyone?
I've even heard that somehow I am behind the secret groups (IRS etc) that secretly run organized scientology. That's a good one! ROFL
Whatever. People can believe whatever they want. That certainly helps make life interesting.
I know how Miscavige rose to power and I saw him do it. I had Hubbard orders in my hands as part of that corporate mission, I worked under Hubbard orders on legal matters for years prior to it when I was in the GO and I got Hubbard orders on external affairs matters for much of two years after that when I was later on WDC.
My own views of the real power behind organized scientology have nothing whatever to do with the IRS or the CIA. they are however based on years of experience with it. They are covered in the below post:
http://tinyurl.com/3b8ome
That's about all I have to say on it. It's cool if people don't believe it. Hell I've even had people tell me that I must have gotten orders from Hubbard's clone and not Hubbard as he would not do shady or illegal things.
Oh please! lol To those who believe that kind of stuff I wish you well but have no more words to agrue it.
Good luck, have a good life, happy trails, etc. I do wish you well. And we can just agree to disagree
Larry