That’s true, Mike, and it also goes for contracted staff as well. I remember all the mail I got while I was on staff had been opened by HCO prior to it coming to me.

Those examples were in mo particular order. Money doesn’t count more than family. But yeah, I see a cult as a drug in many way. They turn on the PA and pat themselves on the back for the &scores* of people they have helped. 20 is a score, so 22 could be score,s and they certainly are not above fudging the number.

LRH was a parasite. He leached on people for as long as they allowed, then sulked and pouted and tickled the story line to make himself the undervalued hero. They bald faced lies are in themselves more entertaining than anything he wrote. For every epic fail her re-wrote it to be some great feat to be lauded.

I especially liked this line: The FBI did not take Hubbard seriously: an agent annotated his correspondence with the comment, “Appears mental.”[195]

*laughing* Ya think???????

This lying parasitic waste of skin, no wonder co$ doesn’t want it’s members on the *net*. The truth is out there, and they certainly don’t want members to realize just how much of a load of BS they have been buried under for so long.

If he is a Sea Org member, Yes.

So any mail I send my brother in Clearwater will be opened by Scientology before it gets to him?

Wow, that is crazy, and sad. There is so much a person must justify to themselves in order to accept this way of life.

Barney, I realize that it seemed like that – particularly if you were at the right mission or org, and perhaps in the right place as public or lower-level staff to not to be exposed to some of the uglier management goings-on. There were a lot off well-intended people, public and staff, trying to help each other out and carry out their vision of what they thought Scientology was, or could or should be.

What I started to figure out, and have since confirmed from real old-timers and people close to Hubbard himself, is that Scientology was always a totalitarian, money-grubbing operation from the start. What Hubbard worked out on the ships he commanded in the 1960s, with military-style discipline, the RPF to punish and control people, and international money-laundering operations involving suitcases and even pallet-loads of cash, didn’t make it out into the orgs, and then the missions, until the 1970s and 1980s. At that point the Baby Boom had crested and was turning into the Baby Bust, and the waves of idealistic recruits and the flow of easy money ebbed, leaving Scientology to fight over retaining people, and squeezing larger amounts of money out of each of them (hence, for instance, the insane Hubbard-mandated 10% monthly price increases).

Sorry to hear that was so disappointing to you.

The earlier part of your story parallels mine, Barney.

Ammo, you are thinking of regular employees. S.O. is not. It is in the same class as monks at a monastery. They do not make enough in “allowance” to pay net Federal taxes. Maybe a few pennies in SS contribution. Workers comp doesn’t apply to them.

I believe so as it would be a way to get someone else into Scientology.