Miss Pert
Silver Meritorious Patron
I was on chat today and the subject of my actually physical removal of myself form the cult came up and it was suggested that I tell this story. It turns out to be longer than I expected so I’ll break it up a bit
It was 2009 and I was living with a friend, a Scio who was auditing on OTVII, and her 11 year old son, she allowed me to stay for free in exchange for cleaning the house, doing odd jobs, helping her with her son, as she is a single mother, and helping her with some backlogged projects she wanted done for her business. I’d been back from Flag for just over 6 months and struggling to survive financially, as you would expect on an org salary, when she told me she was going to Flag and asked if I could care for her son on weekends while she was away. I agreed to this as I had always done this for her in the past and it wasn’t a problem for me, he was always well behaved when he was in my care.
Anyway, about ten days before she is due to leave I ask her if she can organise for her son to have a sleep over on a particular Saturday night while she was away. She became a bit upset about this as I had told her I would take him on weekends, I explained it was just one night and I would collect him first thing Sunday morning and I told her I just wanted one night to go and see my friends, the Pandas, play at a club. The Pandas were already out by this time and I knew this but they weren’t actively trying to get me out or telling me horrible things about the cult so I never even considered it a problem. My friend then asked if I know if I am allowed to see them, since they were out, they may have been declared. I pointed out that there had been no been no declares posted in HCO at the Class V or the AO so I didn’t think it would be a problem, plus they have been my friends for 30 years. I also asked her about the creed, all men have the inalienable right to their own religious beliefs etc, she said to me “now you’re just being reasonable.”
My friend immediately called OSA to check, she told me she couldn’t risk going to Flag with something like this on her lines, it would slow her down and cost her more money. OSA informed her that the Pandas were indeed declared and she put me on the phone to Virginia. She explained that the Pandas were not only out but posting entheta about the Co$ on the internet, I then asked if they had proof and explained how long we’d been friends and that there was no way I would accept someone’s word on this. Virginia agreed to this and told me to go the AO the next day and she would arrange to have the Dir I&R to show them to me. So, I arrive at the AO the next day, a Friday I think it was, and see the Dir I&R who starts to ask me questions about how much of a Scio I am and about Pandas past involvement with the SO etc, checking to see how well I knew him. Well I’d never discussed this sort of stuff with him so I had no idea, at which point she decided that the so called evidence was too “entheta“ to show me. I told her that was fine I would arrange to see them personally and discuss it with them, to my shock she agreed, however by the time I got home there was an email requesting I not do that and return to the org to see her, this email I ignored.
Part 2 to follow shortly.......
It was 2009 and I was living with a friend, a Scio who was auditing on OTVII, and her 11 year old son, she allowed me to stay for free in exchange for cleaning the house, doing odd jobs, helping her with her son, as she is a single mother, and helping her with some backlogged projects she wanted done for her business. I’d been back from Flag for just over 6 months and struggling to survive financially, as you would expect on an org salary, when she told me she was going to Flag and asked if I could care for her son on weekends while she was away. I agreed to this as I had always done this for her in the past and it wasn’t a problem for me, he was always well behaved when he was in my care.
Anyway, about ten days before she is due to leave I ask her if she can organise for her son to have a sleep over on a particular Saturday night while she was away. She became a bit upset about this as I had told her I would take him on weekends, I explained it was just one night and I would collect him first thing Sunday morning and I told her I just wanted one night to go and see my friends, the Pandas, play at a club. The Pandas were already out by this time and I knew this but they weren’t actively trying to get me out or telling me horrible things about the cult so I never even considered it a problem. My friend then asked if I know if I am allowed to see them, since they were out, they may have been declared. I pointed out that there had been no been no declares posted in HCO at the Class V or the AO so I didn’t think it would be a problem, plus they have been my friends for 30 years. I also asked her about the creed, all men have the inalienable right to their own religious beliefs etc, she said to me “now you’re just being reasonable.”
My friend immediately called OSA to check, she told me she couldn’t risk going to Flag with something like this on her lines, it would slow her down and cost her more money. OSA informed her that the Pandas were indeed declared and she put me on the phone to Virginia. She explained that the Pandas were not only out but posting entheta about the Co$ on the internet, I then asked if they had proof and explained how long we’d been friends and that there was no way I would accept someone’s word on this. Virginia agreed to this and told me to go the AO the next day and she would arrange to have the Dir I&R to show them to me. So, I arrive at the AO the next day, a Friday I think it was, and see the Dir I&R who starts to ask me questions about how much of a Scio I am and about Pandas past involvement with the SO etc, checking to see how well I knew him. Well I’d never discussed this sort of stuff with him so I had no idea, at which point she decided that the so called evidence was too “entheta“ to show me. I told her that was fine I would arrange to see them personally and discuss it with them, to my shock she agreed, however by the time I got home there was an email requesting I not do that and return to the org to see her, this email I ignored.
Part 2 to follow shortly.......