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Still here? Tales of the IAS.
IAS ~~ TRUE STORY:
The divorcee:
The Motivator:
Interesting post on priorities and income:
Other than the data regarding the amount the average New Major Service Arrival would pay ten years ago, the last post may appear a bit "inside baseball," but I think it is important. It shows how the IAS and other "direct donation" units starve not only the Class V Orgs, but also the AOs and even the Flag delivery units.
I can well understand the anger of Independent Scientologists who believe, not without at least some reason, that they have been prevented from actually delivering Scientology. I can also understand why for that (and many other) reasons they are drawn to Marty.
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New tales:
Bankruptcy Rewarded By The Church of Scientology With Excommunication And Disconnection:
The IAS Commissions of Jeff Pomeranz of the The Church of Scientology:
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Still here? Tales of the IAS.
IAS ~~ TRUE STORY:
War and Peace // May 27, 2010 at 6:23 am | Reply
IAS ~~ TRUE STORY
Sent to me by someone in Southern California.
“PLEASE post on Marty’s Blog.
In recent times visits to AOLA show almost no photos of LRH. The whole of the 1st floor is emptied of LRH Photos in the corridors.
The only videos playing are David Miscavige and his standing ovations at Int Events.
Instead of LRH photos on the walls, the new decor is pictures of Ideal Orgs and Statuses.
Outside the examiner’s office, (no LRH photos) I noticed a brightly colored poster of Barbara Dakin naming her “Gold Meritorius” of the IAS.
Barbara is about 75 years old, a widower and hardly a person of means. I used to volunteer with her in that Los Angeles beautification project.( clean the graffitti, pick up the trash. )
I ran into her in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles and congratulated her on her celebrity IAS status and mentioned her photo and award as the only photo image on the first floor of AOLA.
I asked her “how much do you give IAS for Gold Meritorius status?”
She replied “One Million dollars”
“Whew ! How did you do it ?” I asked knowing she had no such wealth.
She looked at me with a tired smile.
“My husband died, and he had life insurance, and the IAS got that, plus his 401K, and I owned my house free and clear in Silverlake and took out a mortgage. The combination of my husbands’ 401K, his life insurance and mortgaging my home got it to $1 million.”
“They were with me til 2am on the Reg cycle” she added.
75 year old widower, no job, with a mortgage so IAS could take get the $1 million in one evening.”
The divorcee:
windhorse // May 27, 2010 at 12:43 pm
And there is the divorcee, retired, about 70 at the time who joined the SO and was regged for her 400K nest egg, all for the IAS. She later felt she was unable to make it in the SO, routed out.
With NO money. Try starting over at 70.
Unconscionable is a kind word for this type of reg cycle. Purely evil. It was bad when it was supposed to be going to defend the church. Now that we know the life style of the small and infamous – it’s just horrific.
WH
The Motivator:
Suzanne // May 27, 2010 at 4:03 am | Reply
Yeah, I had a fun one with Bridget, too. I remember one story in particular. She told me how someone they were regging had recently refused to give them a donation and the next day was involved in a near-fatal car accident. “If only he had given us the donation, he wouldn’t have pulled in such a terrible motivator.” Well, I had little kids at the time and, NO WAY, did I want to pull in something bad and leave them motherless. Out came the credit card. This sort of cycle repeated many times. Howard, Mike, Bridget, Marian…over and over. Boy, did I feel hoodwinked every damned time. Still do.
Interesting post on priorities and income:
Mat Pesch // May 27, 2010 at 3:28 am | Reply
As someone who has been the Dissem Sec and the Treas Sec for the FSO I can tell you that the gauntlet of “direct donation” units at Flag is a formitable barrier to public service.
On both the Arrival Routing Form and the Departure Routing Form the public person is made to see (in turn) each “direct donation” unit on the base of which the IAS is just one.
If a rich public is arriving at the airport the IAS would frequently pick up the person themselves, bypassing the Flag airport van.
If a public sits down in Dept 6 and agrees to buy services, but first needs to go to their hotel room to get their check book or credit card – it is standard procedure to walk the public to their room “arm and arm”. Why? Because far too often the person would be hijacked by a “direct donation” reg on the way, who would take the money first, leaving the public with no way to pay for services.
Bonuses are paid to staff for helping or directly getting a public to make a “direct donation” but they are paid nothing if the public pays for an actual service.
Direct Donation regges are KING at Flag and the IAS regges are above it all. They are protected by RTC and no service reg or staff member with a half a brain would complain about them or show any indicator of CI (counter intention).
Ten years ago it was known at Flag that the average New Major Service Arrival would pay $50,000 before they left the base. Second mortgages, retirement funds, extended credit cards (with help from the reg), selling property, borrowing from family and friends……
The reg units competed for that money like vultures on a bloody carcass. God help the poor guy that thought he was going to “the friendliest place in the world” for some actual help to become more sane and able.
Other than the data regarding the amount the average New Major Service Arrival would pay ten years ago, the last post may appear a bit "inside baseball," but I think it is important. It shows how the IAS and other "direct donation" units starve not only the Class V Orgs, but also the AOs and even the Flag delivery units.
I can well understand the anger of Independent Scientologists who believe, not without at least some reason, that they have been prevented from actually delivering Scientology. I can also understand why for that (and many other) reasons they are drawn to Marty.
ADDED:
New tales:
Bankruptcy Rewarded By The Church of Scientology With Excommunication And Disconnection:
Lucy James // May 27, 2010 at 3:10 pm
As the Executive Director of Birmingham Org I had numerous public upset about the continual harassment from IAS registrars.
One public was harassed so hard and for so long she finally gave $10,000 she didn’t have (on top of the $100,000 she’d already donated along the way). She ended up bankrupt. She was upset and tried to get help from the IAS. No communication came forth from them. She finally snapped and got a tough lawyer and refunded all her IAS donations. The IAS told her she would never do Scientology again so she went further and got a full repayment of all monies. I had to meet with her and have her sign all her forms. It was heart breaking — she told me how much she loved LRH, Scientology and all the Birmingham staff but she felt the IAS actions were wrong and she had to take a stand.
Many public including OT’s came to me in tears. They just wanted to come to the org and get their services and not be harassed by the IAS. The main Reg of the org who was loved by all the public started telling public he would ensure they were not hounded by the IAS in the org so they could get their services. This was early June 2005. Guess what? He was ordered down to St Hill by the RTC Rep and put on the meter for hours. His wings were clipped. He routed off staff shortly after and the org went insolvent and couldn’t pay its staff. He had been on staff for 19 years.
The IAS Commissions of Jeff Pomeranz of the The Church of Scientology:
T Paine // May 27, 2010 at 2:52 am | Reply
Totally the correct target and handling Marty!
Around the year 2000, in Birmingham, England, the IAS insisted on us holding an IAS event “in exchange” for the What is Scientology? Cavalcade rolling into town as part of their UK tour.
The Birmingham Org staff did all the work while holding their own posts and put in extra time to call all the public, get an event hall and set it all up. Birmingham org paid for the hall, the food and all the special equipment the IAS demanded as well as the call-in telephone costs (not small amount of money in England).
Jeff Pomeranz showed up on the night to MC the whole thing, speaking long and pleadingly about the need to raise money for all the worthy causes in the world.
Since they didn’t know any better at that time, the Birmingham public turned out in their droves, and bless them gave generously, very generously. Many gave money I know they didn’t have, following the lead of the org staff who did most of the work on the night and even gave money themselves though they had precious little.
$120,000 was raised that night alone, I think even the IAS were surprised by the amount donated by the regular hard working folk of Birmingham, it was like they’d hit the jackpot.
A couple of days later, when I found out Pomeranz had walked away with more than $12,000 of that money as his fee, I puked.
There are 8 orgs in the UK, Pomeranz did them all on that tour, he made a small fortune at the expense of the British orgs and public, pure unadulterated graft.
And London Org was driven over the edge financially as a result. They went insolvent because the IAS insisted they hold the event in a big fancy London Hotel which of course the org had to pay for. All the more opulence for Jeff to work his “magic” in!!
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