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Terril, could you maybe rewrite that, so that us, mere mortals (non OT's) can understand.
Thanks
Wow!
Not so easy.
I'll start with a question.
Why and how is their existence.
Shooting Stars
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Wow!
Not so easy.
I'll start with a question.
Why and how is their existence.
Infinite
Troublesome Internet Fringe Dweller
There's multiple explanations.
You've put the horse before the cart. First you are going to have to demonstrate that OTs exist before you can explore the Why and the How.
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While working on "Shooting Stars" Part Eight tonight my thoughts drifted—as is their wont—to a post made by Carmelo on the Apollo Thread not long ago. While writing a post for the Apollo Thread as comments re: Carmelo’s post, I realized that these thoughts also belong here, on this Thread, as part of what I am trying to say. It's regarding Healthcare Insurance in general and Healthcare for Scn Staff.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=546818&postcount=11058
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http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=546818&postcount=11058
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Shooting Stars, Part Eight
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”. The Bhagavad Gita
As I sit here and write this I am disgusted at what I was part of all those many years ago. I don’t regret a minute of it…it was part of My Path. I’ve lived three distinctly different lives this time around and I’m currently living my fourth; pre-Scn, Scn, post Scn and my new life after my “Death” 5 years ago.
Until coming here to ESMB the thought of writing all this down never occurred to me. I don’t hate El Ron, Mary Sue or DM or anyone else along my path—in or out of Scn. For some reason, that I honestly don’t know, hate has never been in my heart. But, I am compelled to tell what I know, what I saw and what I experienced the best way I can.
One reason is, as I have already written, Y’all have a right to know my perspective and what information I have. I helped build and was a Senior Executive of an Organization that took all of Us for ride and has hurt, and is still hurting, a whole buch of good and decent folks.
Another reason is I just don’t want the sumbitch to get away with it…to get away with invading your minds and usurping your hearts. That’s what El Ron was doing, you know; El Ron wanted to “Possess” all of Us; El Ron wanted for all of Us to grovel before Hisself, convinced that El Ron had "found 'It'" and was “It”.
The spell has been broken for many years for me…I hope that my words may help break some of the spell for others and wipe away some of its' vestiges in another mind or heart, if only for one other, every moment of my time then, and now, has been well, well worth it.
Part Eight
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars
“The Gate of Lust.”
During the Age of the Begat’s El Ron was not only incrementally “checking-out” mentally, Hisself was also whittling down the ranks of the Horses Hisself had rode in on. So “into” El Ron, The Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Mogul persona was Hisself, El Ron pretty well only wanted gushing sycophants around him…and Children and Green Scns and SO Newbies fit the bill best for this. As long as the “New Order” fawned, gushed and ooed and cooed—and protected Hisself from the SP’s and DB’s—El Ron played out the tendrils of power. As with all Witches Brew's, the scum gurgled to the top and a new “Inner Circle” coalesced that would execute any order, or figuratively any one individual, of El Ron’s whim and choosing.
The “Old Order”, for all its’ faults, was adept at “framing” the agenda, as much Hisself could be guided, which always had been a delicate and risk laden task requiring experienced and deft hands. The Old Order for all its’ sins was, at heart, “real” Scns and actually…deep down inside…did care about people, did want the SO and Staff situations to ultimately improve and evolve and did want for El Ron to “step back” and truly let us get on with it and have more control of the “Ship” and where the money went. And, most importantly, the Old Order cared more about El Ron’s well being than about what Hisself’s opinion was of them personally. The Old Order, in my view, was mostly—certainly not all—pretty smart, good and decent folks that didn’t see the fact that they were in a Cult…the New Order was the opposite. The only “framing” that the New Order was adept at was that of others.
The best thing that El Ron could have done for Scn at that time would have been to follow the pattern that most Monolithic Command and Control Organizations (such as the US Military Branches) and, at this point, actually for real retire as the Leader of Scn, hand over the keys to the treasure chest—after setting up a “pension” to keep Hisself in style for the rest of Hisself’s life—and let the Old Guard take it from there and not interfere. This, of course, was the last thing the CMO wanted to see happen as not only would there be no purpose in the CMO being a functioning entity within the SO, the personnel that comprised the CMO would not fare well in post reassignment after their disbanding. You see, folks, not only were most of the CMO members young and inexperienced, all but a small handful of them had practically no Tech or Admin training, or Auditing, and those that did have any of those three were not high on the Chart.
I knew Pat Broeker; he was a fast talking, very clever, intrigue loving, conniving, self absorbed, larcenous and opportunistic pretty boy. When he and most of the others went “Over the Rainbow” with the CMO I went WTF? The David Miscavige I knew was a magnified and highly “juiced” full expression of all that unnerved me about his father; egotistical, selfish, foul mouthed, misogynistic, cunning, calculating, vindictive, heartless, cowardly, paranoid, ruthless, amoral, cold, soulless. The Marty Rathbun and Wendell Reynolds I knew were like peas from the same pod; articulate, quick-witted, self centered, vain, thrill seeking, power and attention hungry, self righteous, judgmental, showboating “gunners” that were jocks and used their physical presence to invade another’s space to overwhelm and intimidate. The Mike Rinder I knew was the most human of this bunch and was articulate, SO politics savvy and ruthless in complying to El Ron’s orders and, for all his suffering from being cut off from his family, "as ye sow so shall ye reap."
High on all the “Successes” of the later ‘70’s, El Ron was taking what Hisself “was due”…every last dime of what El Ron decided Hisself was “owed” El Ron El Rey for what Hisself had done and given unto all of Us. In Hisself’s addled state, our Founder and Commodore let slip Hisself’s Dogs of War upon Us. I am personally certain that El Ron knew damn well what Hisself was doing. I don’t buy for a minute that El Ron was “tooled” by Miscavige or any one else. I’ve seen the man “Operate”; I know firsthand what a diabolically devious “Genius” El Ron could be.
“The Gate of Anger.”
During the ‘70’s El Ron, The Organizational Genius had built an MCCO wherein all true power and authority was held in Hisself’s and Mary Sue’s hands. What little power and authority that was held in the rank and file was cross-wired through bloated, superfluous “Networks” that were of no real use in actually managing anything but were highly skilled at finger pointing and enforcement of unreal orders and oppressively destructive “plan de jour’s”. By the very nature of the construct, the Networks continually were at odds and schemed against and fought "Cold Wars" with each other. The key to controlling all of Scn was to control the Networks and Keys to the Networks were held by El Ron and Mary Sue. By far, in terms of actually effectively spreading and expanding Scn, the most important Network was the “Franchise” or Mission Network and Mary Sue held those Keys as part of the GO Network. By being on Mary Sue’s Key Chain the Missions were out of reach and safe from utter lunacy and farce of the SO and Orgs Networks. Nearly all the Missions were headed by highly trained, experienced and capable “old timers” that were, in effect, part of the Old Guard. There was a wealth of know-how and talent in the Missions and most were continually improving and doing better.
El Ron’s Networks were predicated by and fueled by designed in Anger. The Flag Rep, LRH Comm, FBO et al Networks as groups loathed the Staff and Crew Members as “inferior” and, for the most part, emotionally distanced themselves from the rank and file…this was by design. The SO Networks provided several things to EL Ron El Rey and The Empire. The Flag Bureaux would levy “Tribute” for their “Management Services" and “Support” Missions. The Networks levied Tribute for their “Services” as well, which were: Stat Pushing, Exacting Control, Orders Enforcement, Internal Intelligence, Tribute Extraction. As the CMO expanded and became more autonomous and were allowed by El Ron to actually permeate management to institute their own programs—as opposed to relaying direct orders from El Ron and returning back to Hisself with a response—they used Anger and Loathing to solidify their “Altitude” over Hisself’s Networks. This shift was palpable and discernable at all the Orgs and Units at the Flag Land Base.
Around 1978 or ’79 the CMO began firing Missions into the FLB’s Orgs and Units and these Missions were manned by inexperienced, scantily trained, inept and arrogant Messengers, like David Miscavige, and proceeded to start tearing up the place implementing faulty MO’s and “making it up” as they went along. Of course they were “infallible”…they were, after all, Commodores Messengers. To many of us “Old Salts” from the Old Days and the Apollo Era it was obvious the El Ron was off the lines and that the CMO was now “running” the show. The core of the “Old Guard” was being fragmented by musical chairs, postings to outer SO Orgs and Units and new recruits. Seeing Urq (Ken Urquhart) in the FSO HGC at that time spoke volumes as to where things were heading. Many of us new that if the CMO was in control any hope was now over of the SO evolving, maturing and changing into a group well worth being part of.
When Bill Franks was posted as ED Int there was a collective sigh of relief and new hope amongst the Vets that perhaps El Ron had come to Hisself’s, but it was tempered by a “we’ll see how this thing shakes out.” Franks was no "Yvonne" but he was, first and foremost, a Scientologist and was “one of us”. He was highly tech trained and experienced, highly Admin trained and experienced and had done the OT Sections. He’d worked in every strata of Tech and Admin in Scn—with the exception of a Franchise or Mission—but he’d worked with some of the biggest and brightest Mission Holders when he was running the LA Day Org. That’s what I see as eventually why Bill got creamed…he took his posting seriously and was determined to do a good job and lead Scn into a new era.
As has been well documented and extensively written about by others, by 1981 El Ron was now within an elaborate Security “cocoon” spun by the worms of the CMO. From within this cocoon El Ron was now “Safe” to exact revenge on all of “Them”.
I honestly don’t think that the El Ron of the mid '60's to late ‘70’s can be properly, and fully, discussed or understood without factoring in and including Mary Sue. Off and on Mary Sue had subtle yet great influence with El Ron. She was much more a scholar than Hisself and had attended Rice University (arguably one of the top 10 Academic Universities in the US) and earned Liberal Arts Degree from a very good school (UT, Austin)...earned during a period that Liberal Arts majors studied many of the “Classics” of human thought and experience. Mary Sue was an avid, eclectic and excellent reader and I know for a fact that she often discussed the highlights and gist of what she was reading with El Ron, especially if it was pertinent to something El Ron was interested in or currently messing around with.
Mary Sue, to me, has become an invisible elephant in the corner of the room of most discussions of El Ron. I knew her…as much as El Ron sought to be bigger than life and out front, she sought to be in the background and pump up Hisself’s balloon. She was very young Southern Belle "country girl" when she married El Ron, and was producing his offspring for the first part of the marriage. As she matured she effectively charted her way into a position of power within Scn that was 2nd only to Hisself’s. For all her faults, as far as I'm concerned she was also a very disciplined, resilient and smart cookie and no one was as devoted to El Ron as was Mary Sue.
Sadly, Garrison’s biography of El Ron will probably never be published…I think the title may be indicative of where Garrison was going and Mary Sue would have been a significant part of the story. For over two decades El Ron trusted Mary Sue more than anyone else in the world and then, later, feared her more than anyone else in the world.
And fear begets greed.
In a week or so,
Part Nine
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars (cont)
Peace.
Face
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”. The Bhagavad Gita
As I sit here and write this I am disgusted at what I was part of all those many years ago. I don’t regret a minute of it…it was part of My Path. I’ve lived three distinctly different lives this time around and I’m currently living my fourth; pre-Scn, Scn, post Scn and my new life after my “Death” 5 years ago.
Until coming here to ESMB the thought of writing all this down never occurred to me. I don’t hate El Ron, Mary Sue or DM or anyone else along my path—in or out of Scn. For some reason, that I honestly don’t know, hate has never been in my heart. But, I am compelled to tell what I know, what I saw and what I experienced the best way I can.
One reason is, as I have already written, Y’all have a right to know my perspective and what information I have. I helped build and was a Senior Executive of an Organization that took all of Us for ride and has hurt, and is still hurting, a whole buch of good and decent folks.
Another reason is I just don’t want the sumbitch to get away with it…to get away with invading your minds and usurping your hearts. That’s what El Ron was doing, you know; El Ron wanted to “Possess” all of Us; El Ron wanted for all of Us to grovel before Hisself, convinced that El Ron had "found 'It'" and was “It”.
The spell has been broken for many years for me…I hope that my words may help break some of the spell for others and wipe away some of its' vestiges in another mind or heart, if only for one other, every moment of my time then, and now, has been well, well worth it.
Part Eight
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars
“The Gate of Lust.”
During the Age of the Begat’s El Ron was not only incrementally “checking-out” mentally, Hisself was also whittling down the ranks of the Horses Hisself had rode in on. So “into” El Ron, The Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Mogul persona was Hisself, El Ron pretty well only wanted gushing sycophants around him…and Children and Green Scns and SO Newbies fit the bill best for this. As long as the “New Order” fawned, gushed and ooed and cooed—and protected Hisself from the SP’s and DB’s—El Ron played out the tendrils of power. As with all Witches Brew's, the scum gurgled to the top and a new “Inner Circle” coalesced that would execute any order, or figuratively any one individual, of El Ron’s whim and choosing.
The “Old Order”, for all its’ faults, was adept at “framing” the agenda, as much Hisself could be guided, which always had been a delicate and risk laden task requiring experienced and deft hands. The Old Order for all its’ sins was, at heart, “real” Scns and actually…deep down inside…did care about people, did want the SO and Staff situations to ultimately improve and evolve and did want for El Ron to “step back” and truly let us get on with it and have more control of the “Ship” and where the money went. And, most importantly, the Old Order cared more about El Ron’s well being than about what Hisself’s opinion was of them personally. The Old Order, in my view, was mostly—certainly not all—pretty smart, good and decent folks that didn’t see the fact that they were in a Cult…the New Order was the opposite. The only “framing” that the New Order was adept at was that of others.
The best thing that El Ron could have done for Scn at that time would have been to follow the pattern that most Monolithic Command and Control Organizations (such as the US Military Branches) and, at this point, actually for real retire as the Leader of Scn, hand over the keys to the treasure chest—after setting up a “pension” to keep Hisself in style for the rest of Hisself’s life—and let the Old Guard take it from there and not interfere. This, of course, was the last thing the CMO wanted to see happen as not only would there be no purpose in the CMO being a functioning entity within the SO, the personnel that comprised the CMO would not fare well in post reassignment after their disbanding. You see, folks, not only were most of the CMO members young and inexperienced, all but a small handful of them had practically no Tech or Admin training, or Auditing, and those that did have any of those three were not high on the Chart.
I knew Pat Broeker; he was a fast talking, very clever, intrigue loving, conniving, self absorbed, larcenous and opportunistic pretty boy. When he and most of the others went “Over the Rainbow” with the CMO I went WTF? The David Miscavige I knew was a magnified and highly “juiced” full expression of all that unnerved me about his father; egotistical, selfish, foul mouthed, misogynistic, cunning, calculating, vindictive, heartless, cowardly, paranoid, ruthless, amoral, cold, soulless. The Marty Rathbun and Wendell Reynolds I knew were like peas from the same pod; articulate, quick-witted, self centered, vain, thrill seeking, power and attention hungry, self righteous, judgmental, showboating “gunners” that were jocks and used their physical presence to invade another’s space to overwhelm and intimidate. The Mike Rinder I knew was the most human of this bunch and was articulate, SO politics savvy and ruthless in complying to El Ron’s orders and, for all his suffering from being cut off from his family, "as ye sow so shall ye reap."
High on all the “Successes” of the later ‘70’s, El Ron was taking what Hisself “was due”…every last dime of what El Ron decided Hisself was “owed” El Ron El Rey for what Hisself had done and given unto all of Us. In Hisself’s addled state, our Founder and Commodore let slip Hisself’s Dogs of War upon Us. I am personally certain that El Ron knew damn well what Hisself was doing. I don’t buy for a minute that El Ron was “tooled” by Miscavige or any one else. I’ve seen the man “Operate”; I know firsthand what a diabolically devious “Genius” El Ron could be.
“The Gate of Anger.”
During the ‘70’s El Ron, The Organizational Genius had built an MCCO wherein all true power and authority was held in Hisself’s and Mary Sue’s hands. What little power and authority that was held in the rank and file was cross-wired through bloated, superfluous “Networks” that were of no real use in actually managing anything but were highly skilled at finger pointing and enforcement of unreal orders and oppressively destructive “plan de jour’s”. By the very nature of the construct, the Networks continually were at odds and schemed against and fought "Cold Wars" with each other. The key to controlling all of Scn was to control the Networks and Keys to the Networks were held by El Ron and Mary Sue. By far, in terms of actually effectively spreading and expanding Scn, the most important Network was the “Franchise” or Mission Network and Mary Sue held those Keys as part of the GO Network. By being on Mary Sue’s Key Chain the Missions were out of reach and safe from utter lunacy and farce of the SO and Orgs Networks. Nearly all the Missions were headed by highly trained, experienced and capable “old timers” that were, in effect, part of the Old Guard. There was a wealth of know-how and talent in the Missions and most were continually improving and doing better.
El Ron’s Networks were predicated by and fueled by designed in Anger. The Flag Rep, LRH Comm, FBO et al Networks as groups loathed the Staff and Crew Members as “inferior” and, for the most part, emotionally distanced themselves from the rank and file…this was by design. The SO Networks provided several things to EL Ron El Rey and The Empire. The Flag Bureaux would levy “Tribute” for their “Management Services" and “Support” Missions. The Networks levied Tribute for their “Services” as well, which were: Stat Pushing, Exacting Control, Orders Enforcement, Internal Intelligence, Tribute Extraction. As the CMO expanded and became more autonomous and were allowed by El Ron to actually permeate management to institute their own programs—as opposed to relaying direct orders from El Ron and returning back to Hisself with a response—they used Anger and Loathing to solidify their “Altitude” over Hisself’s Networks. This shift was palpable and discernable at all the Orgs and Units at the Flag Land Base.
Around 1978 or ’79 the CMO began firing Missions into the FLB’s Orgs and Units and these Missions were manned by inexperienced, scantily trained, inept and arrogant Messengers, like David Miscavige, and proceeded to start tearing up the place implementing faulty MO’s and “making it up” as they went along. Of course they were “infallible”…they were, after all, Commodores Messengers. To many of us “Old Salts” from the Old Days and the Apollo Era it was obvious the El Ron was off the lines and that the CMO was now “running” the show. The core of the “Old Guard” was being fragmented by musical chairs, postings to outer SO Orgs and Units and new recruits. Seeing Urq (Ken Urquhart) in the FSO HGC at that time spoke volumes as to where things were heading. Many of us new that if the CMO was in control any hope was now over of the SO evolving, maturing and changing into a group well worth being part of.
When Bill Franks was posted as ED Int there was a collective sigh of relief and new hope amongst the Vets that perhaps El Ron had come to Hisself’s, but it was tempered by a “we’ll see how this thing shakes out.” Franks was no "Yvonne" but he was, first and foremost, a Scientologist and was “one of us”. He was highly tech trained and experienced, highly Admin trained and experienced and had done the OT Sections. He’d worked in every strata of Tech and Admin in Scn—with the exception of a Franchise or Mission—but he’d worked with some of the biggest and brightest Mission Holders when he was running the LA Day Org. That’s what I see as eventually why Bill got creamed…he took his posting seriously and was determined to do a good job and lead Scn into a new era.
As has been well documented and extensively written about by others, by 1981 El Ron was now within an elaborate Security “cocoon” spun by the worms of the CMO. From within this cocoon El Ron was now “Safe” to exact revenge on all of “Them”.
I honestly don’t think that the El Ron of the mid '60's to late ‘70’s can be properly, and fully, discussed or understood without factoring in and including Mary Sue. Off and on Mary Sue had subtle yet great influence with El Ron. She was much more a scholar than Hisself and had attended Rice University (arguably one of the top 10 Academic Universities in the US) and earned Liberal Arts Degree from a very good school (UT, Austin)...earned during a period that Liberal Arts majors studied many of the “Classics” of human thought and experience. Mary Sue was an avid, eclectic and excellent reader and I know for a fact that she often discussed the highlights and gist of what she was reading with El Ron, especially if it was pertinent to something El Ron was interested in or currently messing around with.
Mary Sue, to me, has become an invisible elephant in the corner of the room of most discussions of El Ron. I knew her…as much as El Ron sought to be bigger than life and out front, she sought to be in the background and pump up Hisself’s balloon. She was very young Southern Belle "country girl" when she married El Ron, and was producing his offspring for the first part of the marriage. As she matured she effectively charted her way into a position of power within Scn that was 2nd only to Hisself’s. For all her faults, as far as I'm concerned she was also a very disciplined, resilient and smart cookie and no one was as devoted to El Ron as was Mary Sue.
Sadly, Garrison’s biography of El Ron will probably never be published…I think the title may be indicative of where Garrison was going and Mary Sue would have been a significant part of the story. For over two decades El Ron trusted Mary Sue more than anyone else in the world and then, later, feared her more than anyone else in the world.
And fear begets greed.
In a week or so,
Part Nine
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars (cont)
Peace.
Face
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Ted
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“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”. The Bhagavad Gita
[...]
Another reason is I just don’t want the sumbitch to get away with it…to get away with invading your minds and usurping your hearts. That’s what El Ron was doing, you know; El Ron wanted to “Possess” all of Us; El Ron wanted for all of Us to grovel before Hisself, convinced that El Ron had "found 'It'" and was “It”.
As with all Witches Brews, the scum gurgled to the top and a new “Inner Circle” coalesced that would execute any order, or figuratively any one individual, of El Ron’s whim and choosing.
[...]
The best thing that El Ron could have done for Scn at that time would have been to follow the pattern that most Monolithic Command and Control Organizations (such as the US Military Branches) and, at this point, actually for real retire as the Leader of Scn, hand over the keys to the treasure chest—after setting up a “pension” to keep Hisself in style for the rest of Hisself’s life—and let the Old Guard take it from there and not interfere. [I have often said that. We would have granted Hubbard anything he might have wanted in retirement.] This, of course, was the last thing the CMO wanted to see happen as not only would there be no purpose in the CMO being a functioning entity within the SO, Enlightening!
[...]
Face, this is your best shot yet! You are coming on strong! "The scum gurgled to the top..." I love it!
Panda Termint
Cabal Of One
Another great Chapter, Face. Great stuff!
This is reading like definitive testimony (in a down-home kinda way) of the life and times. I'm glad that you're also addressing the MSH angle, I well remember how revered she was as a power-behind-the-throne amongst GO terminals of my acquaintance. Looking forward to the next instalment.
This is reading like definitive testimony (in a down-home kinda way) of the life and times. I'm glad that you're also addressing the MSH angle, I well remember how revered she was as a power-behind-the-throne amongst GO terminals of my acquaintance. Looking forward to the next instalment.
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“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”. The Bhagavad Gita
As I sit here and write this I am disgusted at what I was part of all those many years ago. I don’t regret a minute of it…it was part of My Path. I’ve lived three distinctly different lives this time around and I’m currently living my fourth; pre-Scn, Scn, post Scn and my new life after my “Death” 5 years ago.
Until coming here to ESMB the thought of writing all this down never occurred to me. I don’t hate El Ron, Mary Sue or DM or anyone else along my path—in or out of Scn. For some reason, that I honestly don’t know, hate has never been in my heart. But, I am compelled to tell what I know, what I saw and what I experienced the best way I can.
One reason is, as I have already written, Y’all have a right to know my perspective and what information I have. I helped build and was a Senior Executive of an Organization that took all of Us for ride and has hurt, and is still hurting, a whole buch of good and decent folks.
Another reason is I just don’t want the sumbitch to get away with it…to get away with invading your minds and usurping your hearts. That’s what El Ron was doing, you know; El Ron wanted to “Possess” all of Us; El Ron wanted for all of Us to grovel before Hisself, convinced that El Ron had "found 'It'" and was “It”.
The spell has been broken for many years for me…I hope that my words may help break some of the the spell for others and wipe away some of its' vestiges in another mind or heart, if only for one other, every moment of my time then, and now, has been well, well worth it.
Part Eight
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars
“The Gate of Lust.”
During the Age of the Begat’s El Ron was not only incrementally “checking-out” mentally, Hisself was also whittling down the ranks of the Horses Hisself had rode in on. So “into” El Ron, The Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Mogul persona was Hisself, El Ron pretty well only wanted gushing sycophants around him…and Children and Green Scns and SO Newbies fit the bill best for this. As long as the “New Order” fawned, gushed and ooed and cooed—and protected Hisself from the SP’s and DB’s—El Ron played out the tendrils of power. As with all Witches Brew's, the scum gurgled to the top and a new “Inner Circle” coalesced that would execute any order, or figuratively any one individual, of El Ron’s whim and choosing.
The “Old Order”, for all its’ faults, was adept at “framing” the agenda, as much Hisself could be guided, which always had been a delicate and risk laden task requiring experienced and deft hands. The Old Order for all its’ sins was, at heart, “real” Scns and actually…deep down inside…did care about people, did want the SO and Staff situations to ultimately improve and evolve and did want for El Ron to “step back” and truly let us get on with it and have more control of the “Ship” and where the money went. And, most importantly, the Old Order cared more about El Ron’s well being than about what Hisself’s opinion was of them personally. The Old Order, in my view, was mostly—certainly not all—pretty smart, good and decent folks that didn’t see the fact that they were in a Cult…the New Order was the opposite. The only “framing” that the New Order was adept at was that of others.
The best thing that El Ron could have done for Scn at that time would have been to follow the pattern that most Monolithic Command and Control Organizations (such as the US Military Branches) and, at this point, actually for real retire as the Leader of Scn, hand over the keys to the treasure chest—after setting up a “pension” to keep Hisself in style for the rest of Hisself’s life—and let the Old Guard take it from there and not interfere. This, of course, was the last thing the CMO wanted to see happen as not only would there be no purpose in the CMO being a functioning entity within the SO, the personnel that comprised the CMO would not fare well in post reassignment after their disbanding. You see, folks, not only were most of the CMO members young and inexperienced, all but a small handful of them had practically no Tech or Admin training, or Auditing, and those that did have any of those three were not high on the Chart.
I knew Pat Broeker; he was a fast talking, very clever, intrigue loving, conniving, self absorbed, larcenous and opportunistic pretty boy. When he and most of the others went “Over the Rainbow” with the CMO I went WTF? The David Miscavige I knew was a magnified and highly “juiced” full expression of all that unnerved me about his father; egotistical, selfish, foul mouthed, misogynistic, cunning, calculating, vindictive, heartless, cowardly, paranoid, ruthless, amoral, cold, soulless. The Marty Rathbun and Wendell Reynolds I knew were like peas from the same pod; articulate, quick-witted, self centered, vain, thrill seeking, power and attention hungry, self righteous, judgmental, showboating “gunners” that were jocks and used their physical presence to invade another’s space to overwhelm and intimidate. The Mike Rinder I knew was the most human of this bunch and was articulate, SO politics savvy and ruthless in complying to El Ron’s orders and, for all his suffering from being cut off from his family, "as ye sow so shall ye reap."
High on all the “Successes” of the later ‘70’s, El Ron was taking what Hisself “was due”…every last dime of what El Ron decided Hisself was “owed” El Ron El Rey for what Hisself had done and given unto all of Us. In Hisself’s addled state, our Founder and Commodore let slip Hisself’s Dogs of War upon Us. I am personally certain that El Ron knew damn well what Hisself was doing. I don’t buy for a minute that El Ron was “tooled” by Miscavige or any one else. I’ve seen the man “Operate”; I know firsthand what a diabolically devious “Genius” El Ron could be.
“The Gate of Anger.”
During the ‘70’s El Ron, The Organizational Genius had built an MCCO wherein all true power and authority was held in Hisself’s and Mary Sue’s hands. What little power and authority that was held in the rank and file was cross-wired through bloated, superfluous “Networks” that were of no real use in actually managing anything but were highly skilled at finger pointing and enforcement of unreal orders and oppressively destructive “plan de jour’s”. By the very nature of the construct, the Networks continually were at odds and schemed against and fought "Cold Wars" with each other. The key to controlling all of Scn was to control the Networks and Keys to the Networks were held by El Ron and Mary Sue. By far, in terms of actually effectively spreading and expanding Scn, the most important Network was the “Franchise” or Mission Network and Mary Sue held those Keys as part of the GO Network. By being on Mary Sue’s Key Chain the Missions were out of reach and safe from utter lunacy and farce of the SO and Orgs Networks. Nearly all the Missions were headed by highly trained, experienced and capable “old timers” that were, in effect, part of the Old Guard. There was a wealth of know-how and talent in the Missions and most were continually improving and doing better.
El Ron’s Networks were predicated by and fueled by designed in Anger. The Flag Rep, LRH Comm, FBO et al Networks as groups loathed the Staff and Crew Members as “inferior” and, for the most part, emotionally distanced themselves from the rank and file…this was by design. The SO Networks provided several things to EL Ron El Rey and The Empire. The Flag Bureaux would levy “Tribute” for their “Management Services" and “Support” Missions. The Networks levied Tribute for their “Services” as well, which were: Stat Pushing, Exacting Control, Orders Enforcement, Internal Intelligence, Tribute Extraction. As the CMO expanded and became more autonomous and were allowed by El Ron to actually permeate management to institute their own programs—as opposed to relaying direct orders from El Ron and returning back to Hisself with a response—they used Anger and Loathing to solidify their “Altitude” over Hisself’s Networks. This shift was palpable and discernable at all the Orgs and Units at the Flag Land Base.
Around 1978 or ’79 the CMO began firing Missions into the FLB’s Orgs and Units and these Missions were manned by inexperienced, scantily trained, inept and arrogant Messengers, like David Miscavige, and proceeded to start tearing up the place implementing faulty MO’s and “making it up” as they went along. Of course they were “infallible”…they were, after all, Commodores Messengers. To many of us “Old Salts” from the Old Days and the Apollo Era it was obvious the El Ron was off the lines and that the CMO was now “running” the show. The core of the “Old Guard” was being fragmented by musical chairs, postings to outer SO Orgs and Units and new recruits. Seeing Urq (Ken Urquhart) in the FSO HGC at that time spoke volumes as to where things were heading. Many of us new that if the CMO was in control any hope was now over of the SO evolving, maturing and changing into a group well worth being part of.
When Bill Franks was posted as ED Int there was a collective sigh of relief and new hope amongst the Vets that perhaps El Ron had come to Hisself’s, but it was tempered by a “we’ll see how this thing shakes out.” Franks was no "Yvonne" but he was, first and foremost, a Scientologist and was “one of us”. He was highly tech trained and experienced, highly Admin trained and experienced and had done the OT Sections. He’d worked in every strata of Tech and Admin in Scn—with the exception of a Franchise or Mission—but he’d worked with some of the biggest and brightest Mission Holders when he was running the LA Day Org. That’s what I see as eventually why Bill got creamed…he took his posting seriously and was determined to do a good job and lead Scn into a new era.
As has been well documented and extensively written about by others, by 1981 El Ron was now within an elaborate Security “cocoon” spun by the worms of the CMO. From within this cocoon El Ron was now “Safe” to exact revenge on all of “Them”.
I honestly don’t think that the El Ron of the nid '60's to late ‘70’s can be properly, and fully, discussed or understood without factoring in and including Mary Sue. Off and on Mary Sue had subtle yet great influence with El Ron. She was much more a scholar than Hisself and had attended Rice University (arguably one of the top 10 Academic Universities in the US) and earned Liberal Arts Degree from a very good school (UT, Austin)...earned during a period that Liberal Arts majors studied many of the “Classics” of human thought and experience. Mary Sue was an avid, eclectic and excellent reader and I know for a fact that she often discussed the highlights and gist of what she was reading with El Ron, especially if it was pertinent to something El Ron was interested in or currently messing around with.
Mary Sue, to me, has become an invisible elephant in the corner of the room of most discussions of El Ron. I knew her…as much as El Ron sought to be bigger than life and out front, she sought to be in the background and pump up Hisself’s balloon. She was very young Southern Belle "country girl" when she married El Ron, and was producing his offspring for the first part of the marriage. As she matured she effectively charted her way into a position of power within Scn that was 2nd only to Hisself’s. For all her faults, as far as I'm concerned she was also a very disciplined, resilient and smart cookie and no one was as devoted to El Ron as was Mary Sue.
Sadly, Garrison’s biography of El Ron will probably never be published…I think the title may be indicative of where Garrison was going and Mary Sue would have been a significant part of the story. For over two decades El Ron trusted Mary Sue more than anyone else in the world and then, later, feared her more than anyone else in the world.
And fear begets greed.
In a week or so,
Part Nine
Kristallnacht; Shooting The Stars (cont)
Peace.
Face
Awesome!
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Holy poops!
MOAR!
MOAR!
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Face, this is your best shot yet! You are coming on strong! "The scum gurgled to the top..." I love it!
Thanks Pal. Just about the most unjust, insane and STUPID things I ever saw in my life was what was done to the Mission Holders.
Feels good to finally have my say and especially to folks that lived it.
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Another great Chapter, Face. Great stuff!
This is reading like definitive testimony (in a down-home kinda way) of the life and times. I'm glad that you're also addressing the MSH angle, I well remember how revered she was as a power-behind-the-throne amongst GO terminals of my acquaintance. Looking forward to the next instalment.
Thank you, Panda. IMO Mary Sue was a far, far better administrator than El Ron. She'd of gone to the gas chamber for the louse and, in the end, he threw her to the jackals.
For all her sins—and Hisself’s sins—she paid a price and the bum turned Hisself's back on her...she didn't deserve that.
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Great Stuff!
filing in the gaps of my knowledge.
filing in the gaps of my knowledge.
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Keep em comin Face. 
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I'm lurking the hell outta this! - Thank's Face!
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just caught up with this thread.
whoa!
face throws it down like a gonzo rock star!
oxygen!
hoping it doesn't end in 1986 and face continues with hisself at target 2.
whoa!
face throws it down like a gonzo rock star!
oxygen!
hoping it doesn't end in 1986 and face continues with hisself at target 2.
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I don't know that I can wait a week!
May I suggest
Thank you, cakemaker.
Your thoughtfulness is much appreciated. I’ve tried dictating before but for some reason it doesn’t “work” for me. There’s something about going from my heart, through my head to my fingers that just feels “right”. :confused2:
One of the survivors of the Donner Party was an adolescent girl that wrote the following in a letter to her Grandmother after they were rescued;
“One thing I’ve learned about Life from this is; move along as quickly as you can but don’t take any shortcuts.”
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