It is probably not my place to make this posting but I am going to anyway.
I believe that Karen has left OCMB and ESMB for now. I'm really sorry to see this but I do understand in my own way.
Karen is a dear and close friend who I have known as a kind and wonderful person since 1981. We chat regularly on the phone and it is always some of the nicest chats I have.
Karen has so much wanted to highlight the horrid ongoing abuses in organized scientology on both here and xenu.net and has had excellent threads on same that hopefully internet spiders will find and can be used by authorities to help them take action against the abuses.
Unlike some of us who have had more time to decompress, Karen has only been out of organized scientology for a very short time. She, like, so many of us has been badly hurt in organized scientology and has lost dear loved ones to its cruelty.
Karen is still trying very hard to decompress, like many of us she is still really hurting but she is fighting back and fighting back hard. One of the things that she (and I) absolutely hated in organized scientology was how she had no free speech in it and how she was abused and otherwise mistreated when she tried desperately to speak out and correct wrongs (as were so many others).
Like many of us Karen is experiencing the freedom to speak out now and it is liberating. But, IMO, the constant attack on her beliefs she is getting on here and on xenu.net is too much for her right now in her current stage of trying to heal herself, especially in threads where she was only trying to highlight current abuses in an attempt to help others and to get action taken. (BTW she has also been invaluable to me back channels to help me get the attention of an important criminal investigator in a major government agency with what I know about organized scientology. Karen is involved in many important things back channels where she is trying to make a positive difference).
I for one am really sorry to see her go off these boards for now and I look forward to her coming back. This thread was started from one on xenu.net which in turn was started with back and forths between Karen and myself. I have supported the thread on xenu.net many times and I love these threads.
But like I have told Karen on xenu.net and in private conversations and emails, others here with some views different from her own are also deeply hurt and they too have their stories to share and they too have very important things to say and must be free to do so. And while telling her that she is going to be challenged and possibly even hurt by speaking out by many, like me, who do not believe in LRH or his "tech", I always hoped she could steel herself and keep up the exposures and fight because it is healing for many and a worthy cause.
Karen is aware of so many of my talks, posts and other public statements that are critical of LRH and scientology itself including in another very important current thread on xenu.net about the causes of abuses in scientology organizations:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=45019
And I am aware of how she holds Hubbard and much of what he has done in high regard. Yet we remain kindred spirits and close friends even after I told her I would support the free speech of others over friendship if there arose a conflict.
I just think she needs to go off and continue her fight elsewhere for now. And I will do what I can to support my friend Karen there and elsewhere.
In the meantime we each of us who wish to do so will continue on public forums and elsewhere to expose the criminality, fraud and abuses that is scientology will continue to speak out.
Our free speech, no matter how it may differ from that of others or even hurt, is so very important and must not be abridged.
Anyway, this above is from me, not Karen or anyone else. Perhaps I have misspoken and even unintentionally misrepresented her feelings. But it is my honest opinion.
The good fight for healing and freeing others continues!