Mary
Patron with Honors
My family are utterly confused and distraught with worry about my daughter who they dearly love. She is in the Sea Org and refuses to have any contact with them as long as they are in contact with me.
This is an excerpt from a letter to my brother. He is a non Scientologist.
I’ve edited names and details so as to remain anon.
“I did want to tell you what has been going on regards this situation with my daughter, ex-husband and the Church of $cientology. I may have told you some of this before, but it does me good to let off a little steam.
I have had it with being in fear of them, trying to keep quiet about it, hoping that they would realise that they'd made a terrible mistake etc, or that I could do whatever steps (called "A to E") they wanted me to take to get this declare lifted.
You have to understand that this "declare" is a declaration to all Scientologists that labels me a Suppressive Person. By their definition, it means an evil being, a insane psychotic who's sole intention and purpose is the destruction of all people and things around him. You have known me all my life, do I really fit this description?
Any Scientologist who has any contact with me is labeled PTS (potential trouble source). That means that they will become ill and or insane themselves, perhaps become criminal, lose any gains they made in Scn and generally will do very badly in life.
Previously there was about 2 years of my repeatedly writing to them (International Justice Chief section) very polite letters. The very few replies they sent back took months to arrive and the answers were pretty useless.
Eventually, I managed to get an agreement from them to review the Declare on me. I immediately got a plane to their headquarters. I stayed in a Hotel nearby, waiting to be seen. Almost three weeks later, the day before I told them I could not stay any longer and had to leave the next day, they arranged a meeting for 11pm that night. I waited and waited, it was approx 2.00am that I was finally given 10 minutes of their precious time.
I was told later, that they had reviewed the declare and decided that it should stand.
The only option I was given was to do the A to E steps. The first step in this program is to "stop all attacks". This means that I have to disconnect from and divorce my husband, disconnect and have no contact with my son and have absolutely no contact with anyone who they consider to be a Scientologist.
Any Scientologist who does have any contact with me will also be declared a suppressive person. My husband and son have currently been issued with PTS declares and they will eventually get their Suppressive Person declares. This applies to some of my husband’s family, all our friends and my son's friends that are or were involved in Scn to any degree. (Yes, whether or not they still consider themselves to be Scientologists!)
I have found out from the many, many anti-scientology websites that the number of declares in recent years is of staggering proportions. The Church has declared thousands and thousands of people.
A great number of these people were previously in the Sea Org or on staff at local organisations. Many gave years and years of dedicated hard work for practically no pay, had no time off for themselves or their families and sometimes tolerated appalling living conditions. Many gave up all their money, their education, their house, their careers, all their time and effort in the belief that they were doing something noble and good to help mankind.
It is utterly impossible for anyone to believe that they are, all of them, actually evil, insane, psychotic beings.
I've recently been through a major episode with their International Justice Chief section. It started about 4 weeks ago. After 3 years of almost no communication from them they started a major barrage of telephone calls, several times a day from various people, emails, packages in the mail etc.
Apparently, they have come up with a "special" program for me and my husband whereby we don't have to get divorced. My husband would be allowed to do the A to E steps with me. No mention was made about my not having to disconnect from my son.
The program consists of:
1. Buying sets of the newly released Basic Books and Lectures to donate to libraries. They require a minimum of 15 sets at $450 each.
2. Doing some amends project in the field; work for some unspecified amount of time getting Scn products into local schools or hospitals etc.
3. "Handle" the out-ethics situation that caused the declare in the first place - I cannot imagine what the f*@!*#! they think I'm going to do about that.
4. Complete a major course in Scientology. This would cost approx $2000 each and would take a minimum of 6 months full time.
5. Write up everything we have done and request to be re-instated.
Even if we did pay over something like $13,000 for the library donations and the courses, do the amends project, handle the ethics and complete the course etc, there is still no guarantee that it would be enough to lift the declare.
I love my daughter very much and would go to great lengths to see her again. But I cannot agree to this - it is plain and simple extortion and blackmail from a criminal organisation that should be exposed."
This is an excerpt from a letter to my brother. He is a non Scientologist.
I’ve edited names and details so as to remain anon.
“I did want to tell you what has been going on regards this situation with my daughter, ex-husband and the Church of $cientology. I may have told you some of this before, but it does me good to let off a little steam.
I have had it with being in fear of them, trying to keep quiet about it, hoping that they would realise that they'd made a terrible mistake etc, or that I could do whatever steps (called "A to E") they wanted me to take to get this declare lifted.
You have to understand that this "declare" is a declaration to all Scientologists that labels me a Suppressive Person. By their definition, it means an evil being, a insane psychotic who's sole intention and purpose is the destruction of all people and things around him. You have known me all my life, do I really fit this description?
Any Scientologist who has any contact with me is labeled PTS (potential trouble source). That means that they will become ill and or insane themselves, perhaps become criminal, lose any gains they made in Scn and generally will do very badly in life.
Previously there was about 2 years of my repeatedly writing to them (International Justice Chief section) very polite letters. The very few replies they sent back took months to arrive and the answers were pretty useless.
Eventually, I managed to get an agreement from them to review the Declare on me. I immediately got a plane to their headquarters. I stayed in a Hotel nearby, waiting to be seen. Almost three weeks later, the day before I told them I could not stay any longer and had to leave the next day, they arranged a meeting for 11pm that night. I waited and waited, it was approx 2.00am that I was finally given 10 minutes of their precious time.
I was told later, that they had reviewed the declare and decided that it should stand.
The only option I was given was to do the A to E steps. The first step in this program is to "stop all attacks". This means that I have to disconnect from and divorce my husband, disconnect and have no contact with my son and have absolutely no contact with anyone who they consider to be a Scientologist.
Any Scientologist who does have any contact with me will also be declared a suppressive person. My husband and son have currently been issued with PTS declares and they will eventually get their Suppressive Person declares. This applies to some of my husband’s family, all our friends and my son's friends that are or were involved in Scn to any degree. (Yes, whether or not they still consider themselves to be Scientologists!)
I have found out from the many, many anti-scientology websites that the number of declares in recent years is of staggering proportions. The Church has declared thousands and thousands of people.
A great number of these people were previously in the Sea Org or on staff at local organisations. Many gave years and years of dedicated hard work for practically no pay, had no time off for themselves or their families and sometimes tolerated appalling living conditions. Many gave up all their money, their education, their house, their careers, all their time and effort in the belief that they were doing something noble and good to help mankind.
It is utterly impossible for anyone to believe that they are, all of them, actually evil, insane, psychotic beings.
I've recently been through a major episode with their International Justice Chief section. It started about 4 weeks ago. After 3 years of almost no communication from them they started a major barrage of telephone calls, several times a day from various people, emails, packages in the mail etc.
Apparently, they have come up with a "special" program for me and my husband whereby we don't have to get divorced. My husband would be allowed to do the A to E steps with me. No mention was made about my not having to disconnect from my son.
The program consists of:
1. Buying sets of the newly released Basic Books and Lectures to donate to libraries. They require a minimum of 15 sets at $450 each.
2. Doing some amends project in the field; work for some unspecified amount of time getting Scn products into local schools or hospitals etc.
3. "Handle" the out-ethics situation that caused the declare in the first place - I cannot imagine what the f*@!*#! they think I'm going to do about that.
4. Complete a major course in Scientology. This would cost approx $2000 each and would take a minimum of 6 months full time.
5. Write up everything we have done and request to be re-instated.
Even if we did pay over something like $13,000 for the library donations and the courses, do the amends project, handle the ethics and complete the course etc, there is still no guarantee that it would be enough to lift the declare.
I love my daughter very much and would go to great lengths to see her again. But I cannot agree to this - it is plain and simple extortion and blackmail from a criminal organisation that should be exposed."