Re: Tony O exposes Virginia Stewart's lies regarding disconnection (ESMB gets a menti
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Michael Hobson 6 hours ago in reply to sketto
Ron Hubbard cancelled Disconnection in 1968 because the policy was too often abused and because the #1 complaint in the Australian Inquiry (which resulted a total ban against Scientology in Australia) was family disconnection.
It was David Miscavige who ordered this policy reinstated in 1983 specifically for purpose of political control on his own and without the knowledge or permission of Ron Hubbard according to public statements by the late Robert Vaughn Young, who also stated that *he* was the actual author of the 1983 reissue.
Michael A. Hobson
Independent Scientologist
I got into Scientology several years prior to 1983 and was in for a number of years after 1983. I saw NO change in the policy on Disconnections.
In fact, I personally did a PTS Handling on another staff member (1979 or 1980) as part of a course I was doing and the handling involved a disconnection.
How can any honest and slightly sane person write what Hobson did? But then, it seems some Scientologists are extremely unwilling to "confront" what is actually THERE!
I got involved in Scientology in 1976. There were SP declares and it was COMMON KNOWLEDGE that one did NOT communicate with ANY SP, because then YOU became guilty of a suppressive act, and YOU would get declared. The list of suppressive acts have been around since at least the early 1960s (see the first ethics book).
The simply fact that it is a published and enforced "suppressive act" to continue to communicate with any SP enforces the practice of
disconnection no matter what else is or isn't written about it.
Hubbard somewhere even stated that the "cancellation" of Fair Game and Disconnection was ONLY for PR reasons, and that the actions would continue happily along as they aways had.
That any person can acually believe that Miscavige is doing anything different than what happened before is STUPID at best and knowingly LYING at the worst. Granted, Miscavige may have increased the severity of "ethics" since Hubbard kicked the bucket, but I don't doubt for a second that if Hubbard
were alive and in control over the past 35 years that EXACTLY the same things would have happened in response to the events that transpired since then (mainly the Internet and the exposure of Scientology behaviors).
Hubbard is the apple tree, and Miscavige is just an apple who has fallen off.
These quotes are from the 1975 edition of "Introduction to Scientology Ethics", which was previously published in 1973 and 1968:
HIGH CRIMES
(SUPPRESSIVE ACTS)
A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON or GROUP is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by Suppressive Acts.
Suppressive Acts are acts calculated to impede or destroy Scientology or a Scientologist and which are listed at length below.
Suppressive Acts are defined as actions or omissions undertaken to knowingly suppress, reduce or impede Scientology or Scientologists.
B. DISAVOWAL, SPLINTERING, DIVERGENCE
6. Continued adherence to a group pronounced a Suppressive Group by the Hubbard Communications Office.
7. Aiding or abetting a person demonstrably guilty of Suppressive Acts in such acts.
10. Continued membership in a divergent group.
It has ALWAYS BEEN STANDARD to interpret the above High Crimes (aka "suppressive acts") as including "ANY COMMUNICATION with any declared SP". Any person declared as an SP is viewed as an ENEMY of the Church. No matter how you say it, it is long-standing tradition in the Church, based on MUCH LRH policy, that consorting with ANY ENEMY is NOT at all tolerated or viewed positively. An SP is ALWAYS considered as part of a "divergent group" and ALWAYS considered "demonstrably guilty of Suppressive Acts". For any Scientologist to even TALK to such a person is considered "aiding and abetting" that person.
So, in accordance with these
long-standing High Crimes, which have appeared in EVERY "Ethics Book" since it was first released,
it has ALWAYS been a Suppressive Act to remain in communication with ANY declared SP. ALWAYS. Does THAT not make sense to you Sneakster?
Granted, with each new release of the ethics book, many MORE "suppressive acts" have been added, though largely as a result of culling related information from Hubbard's various policies that were released AFTER the Ethics Book - and NOT because nasty Miscavige clones have been "adding to the wonderful pure tech of Ron".
When I first got involved in Boston, and for the years between 1977-1983 while in the Sea Org, the idea of an SP was HORRIBLE. It was constantly impressed upon staff and public as a VERY BAD THING. And, it was ALWAYS viewed very negatively to remain in ANY communication with ANY SP. It was NEVER thought that one could "handle" a "declared SP". The ONLY option per the exact LRH tech was DISCONNECTION. There never was ANY other alternative. NEVER! That is common sense and quite obvious to any person with any degree of experience with REAL Scientology behaviors.
If ANY person chose to remain in communication with a "declared SP", there was ONLY ONE result - you also would get declared, and the dominoes would continue to fall as each new person refused to cut communication with any SP. Regardless of any issue on disconnection or Fair Game, the above has ALWAYS been
Standard Operating Procedure with Scientology.
Anything else is LIES and PR and typical Scientology LRH-created BULLSHIT!
There is also an extant LRH policy on Deptartment 3 (ethics) that very specifically states, "be sure to take out ALL the connections when declaring anyone as an SP". Meaning, to be sure to also declare any person
connected to that newly declared SP (who remains connected and fails to disconnect).
To make matters FAR worse, it is also a Suppressive Act to
question or criticize ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY, no matter whether the criticisms are true or not. So, once any person does THAT, then he or she gets "declared as an SP", and the chain of connections and declares continues.
The bottom line is that
ANYTHING that might hurt Scientology in any way, regardless whether Scientology is wrong or not, is considered "evil" (suppressive). The blanket assumption is that Scientology is ALWAYS "right", and it must ALWAYS "be protected". SP Declares and disconnection follow naturally per policy to "help Scientology succeed and expand". Of course, they are much too stupid (over-indoctrinated) to notice that their continued "per policy" actions consistently make them out to be THE MAJOR IDIOTS of the modern era.
Just another of many contradictions in Scientology. Hubbard says that if one follows LRH policy that Scientology will "expand". The TRUTH is that
following LRH ethics and justice policies about SP declares and disconnection, when learned about truthfully by the public at large, creates much WORSE PR for Scientology and acts to HARM THEM even more than they would have if they never bothered to apply thge crazy LRH policies in the first place. Thus, the "footbullet" phenomena that is so common when following LRH
advice on how to "help & expand Scientology".
That any Scientology spokesperson can come out and state that "there is no such thing as disconnection" simply again demonstrates how much they can and do happily LIE and LIE and LIE whenever they imagine that it will "help" them. Thet never stop playing the LRH game of "mock-ups". What game is that? Just come out and say whatever you want to be viewed as "truth", using manipulative ARCU, keep saying it, over and over, and get enough people to
agree so that it becomes "real". The big problem for Scientology being that there are now FAR too many existing reports and actual observations of events and situations that show what they assert to be true is actually FALSE. The game of Scientology "mock-ups" utterly fails when spitting directly in the face of easily observable FACTS!
Scientology - where the stupid NEVER sleeps!