Operating Lambda
Patron
I read here and on OCMB all kinds of speculation about DM's takeover of Scn and its ongoing fallout, and, especially, the de-LRH'ing of current Scn ("Source" is now "Originator", wholesale alter-is of LRH books and issues, etc.).
For a long time I wondered whether DM was a cynical megalomaniac in his OWN right, or an obsessed Rondroid, doing "What Ron would do".
After far too many hours on these boards and elsewhere (and no, I haven't done a proper Eval per the Data Series) I've settled on the latter explanation, because:
1. DM lacks the intelligence, education and knowledge (especially legal) to have pulled off this coup on his own
2. DM in his personal appearances (events, interviews) is entirely devoid of personality or character; he appears robotic
3. In 1983 (the year I left CoS), ten years before the unprecedented and illegal IRS settlement, the IRS already had its claws deep into CoS following the Snow White case (MSH et al. imprisoned—sacrificed for the greater good). IRS also had plants in the CoS hierarchy ("what you resist is what you become") whose names now feature as officers in the for-profit Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) which OWNS, to all intents and purposes, the CoS, and all of its "scriptures".
4. LRH was already "off the lines" by 1983, stricken with physical and mental disease (NCG?). CoS was being run by its own established bureaucracy headed by the Commodore's Messenger Org (CMO) which was created by LRH in his own image, and with his explicit authority. CMO had already destroyed the CoS feeder/recruitment line by annihilating the thriving Mission Network in 1982.
5. DM (a Commodore's Messenger who had worked closely with LRH on movie projects), and those taking care of the increasingly psychotic Founder on his California ranch, realized that things had come to an impasse. What do these 20-somethings, lacking any real-world education, do now, with a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation, and the salvation of mankind in their hands?
6. They listen to the IRS plants, highly educated and knowledgable in the ways of the real world. Scn would be annihilated, they were told, by the IRS, who had more than enough evidence and authority to do so. The only way to Keep Scn Working was to cooperate with the IRS, or, at least the particular IRS lawyers working this case, who could conveniently leave government service when a cash cow presented itself for their personal engorgement.
7. Thus CST, a group of non-Scn lawyers, including a retired Commissioner of the IRS, essentially dictates strategic Scn policy to DM . And DM goes along with this because Scn must keep on working! And, as a sociopath, DM is personally doing really well out of all this and gets to condemn loyal officers to eternal damnation at the drop of his little willy. So what, we're Keeping Scn Working. This is what Ron would do.
8. The non-Scn lawyers at CST are in this purely for the money, short term. They look at the Scn lineup in terms of dollars-per-hour-per-person, for profit. So the Bridge, and the tech, get altered, and, who can possibly understand these arcane LRH books, jeez, they're unreadable, and hey we can make money from selling revisions back to them, and if the books are wrong, then the whole Bridge must be wrong, so we can exploit them on that too… and so on, and so forth, with profit being the imperative.
9. Noticing the shrinking membership and recruitment in CoS, CST orders investment in world wide real estate as a hedge and a divestment of their massive cash reserves—mostly in rapidly dwindling U.S. dollars—a sensible business decision, promptly carried out by DM under the guise of "Ideal Orgs" (= prestigious, empty buildings).
10. Just to be clear (sic), I don't think CoS is controlled by the U.S. government via IRS. CST board members are all EX-government employees feasting on a fatted calf. Purely opinion, of course.
etc., etc.,
You get my drift. I would appreciate your comments, especially regarding CST, which seems to be dissed, ignored, or even apologized for, on most boards.
IMHO, CST (look closely at its composition) is the WHO behind the current collapsing state of Scn. DM, in his ignorance and delusion, believes he's doing the right thing to Keep Scn Working.
Just my take.
For a long time I wondered whether DM was a cynical megalomaniac in his OWN right, or an obsessed Rondroid, doing "What Ron would do".
After far too many hours on these boards and elsewhere (and no, I haven't done a proper Eval per the Data Series) I've settled on the latter explanation, because:
1. DM lacks the intelligence, education and knowledge (especially legal) to have pulled off this coup on his own
2. DM in his personal appearances (events, interviews) is entirely devoid of personality or character; he appears robotic
3. In 1983 (the year I left CoS), ten years before the unprecedented and illegal IRS settlement, the IRS already had its claws deep into CoS following the Snow White case (MSH et al. imprisoned—sacrificed for the greater good). IRS also had plants in the CoS hierarchy ("what you resist is what you become") whose names now feature as officers in the for-profit Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) which OWNS, to all intents and purposes, the CoS, and all of its "scriptures".
4. LRH was already "off the lines" by 1983, stricken with physical and mental disease (NCG?). CoS was being run by its own established bureaucracy headed by the Commodore's Messenger Org (CMO) which was created by LRH in his own image, and with his explicit authority. CMO had already destroyed the CoS feeder/recruitment line by annihilating the thriving Mission Network in 1982.
5. DM (a Commodore's Messenger who had worked closely with LRH on movie projects), and those taking care of the increasingly psychotic Founder on his California ranch, realized that things had come to an impasse. What do these 20-somethings, lacking any real-world education, do now, with a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation, and the salvation of mankind in their hands?
6. They listen to the IRS plants, highly educated and knowledgable in the ways of the real world. Scn would be annihilated, they were told, by the IRS, who had more than enough evidence and authority to do so. The only way to Keep Scn Working was to cooperate with the IRS, or, at least the particular IRS lawyers working this case, who could conveniently leave government service when a cash cow presented itself for their personal engorgement.
7. Thus CST, a group of non-Scn lawyers, including a retired Commissioner of the IRS, essentially dictates strategic Scn policy to DM . And DM goes along with this because Scn must keep on working! And, as a sociopath, DM is personally doing really well out of all this and gets to condemn loyal officers to eternal damnation at the drop of his little willy. So what, we're Keeping Scn Working. This is what Ron would do.
8. The non-Scn lawyers at CST are in this purely for the money, short term. They look at the Scn lineup in terms of dollars-per-hour-per-person, for profit. So the Bridge, and the tech, get altered, and, who can possibly understand these arcane LRH books, jeez, they're unreadable, and hey we can make money from selling revisions back to them, and if the books are wrong, then the whole Bridge must be wrong, so we can exploit them on that too… and so on, and so forth, with profit being the imperative.
9. Noticing the shrinking membership and recruitment in CoS, CST orders investment in world wide real estate as a hedge and a divestment of their massive cash reserves—mostly in rapidly dwindling U.S. dollars—a sensible business decision, promptly carried out by DM under the guise of "Ideal Orgs" (= prestigious, empty buildings).
10. Just to be clear (sic), I don't think CoS is controlled by the U.S. government via IRS. CST board members are all EX-government employees feasting on a fatted calf. Purely opinion, of course.
etc., etc.,
You get my drift. I would appreciate your comments, especially regarding CST, which seems to be dissed, ignored, or even apologized for, on most boards.
IMHO, CST (look closely at its composition) is the WHO behind the current collapsing state of Scn. DM, in his ignorance and delusion, believes he's doing the right thing to Keep Scn Working.
Just my take.