That can’t be legally binding, signing a clause that says that you can’t sue them, if they do you wrong surely you can take them to court.

It’s similar to workplace agreements where they throw in a heap a clauses designed to act as a deterant yet in reality they cannot enforce any of them.

Chuck here, I worked on the “routing forms” project, and the applicants to Scientology beginner courses, are offered “Membership” in SCientology for free, they all get offered the free 6 month membership. The key benefit is cost of the course, it’s cheaper if you are a “Member of the International Association of Scientologists” (the IAS).

Hubbard policies pointed to get all newbies into one of the three scales of “Membership”
a) 6 month free
b) Lifetime Membership (I think the cost is about 5 grand)
and a couple other Membership rankings, either more costly but give the recipient some kind of status “Honorary….” etc.

The “Release Agreements” one signs when one starts a Scientology newbie course, are where one signs away one’s rights to sue Scientology organizations and that’s an additional step when one is a newbie applicant.

At every stage of the starting of a new course or paying and starting to receive the Hubbard Scientology pseudo-therapy or exorcism “grade” upon oneself, one ALSO signs a fresh new “Release Agreement” form which contains the latest and greatest Scientology lawyer tweaking of the participants giving up their legal rights to sue Scientology organizaitons.

The history of the Release Agreements is LONG, it goes back decades, and the earlier “release” agreements had more loopholes allowing the older era Scientologists to sue effectively.

it’s been only in the last 20 or so years, all the loopholes have been closed with the help of Scientology’s lawyers.

Chuck Beatty
ex “Routing Forms Research and Writing” In Charge, LOL, 1983-1986.

The enrollment agreements contain the “arbitration “ clause. Not membership agreements — and I don’t even know what they are?

THE OVERT DOTH SPEAK LOUDLY IN ACCUSATION.

Thanks for the clarification.
I must confess I didn’t look for the origin of the word.

In the 1890s, William Randolph Hearst wrote many articles relating to the abuses that Cubans suffered at the hands of their Spanish overlords. These articles were just his opinion.

Later, when the Spanish / American War started in 1898, Hearst claimed that his articles caused it. Many were skeptical.

I think this is “gonzo” in spirit even if the word did not exist at the time.

Interestingly, for a few years, Hunter S Thompson worked for the Hearst Corporation.

Yes one and the same Janice Wheeler.

Even here the founder of Scientology violates that religious rule in his own written instructions and actually incites a generalized interpretation of it.

The rest of this post makes me feel ill. Scientology needs desperately to be dragged in front of justice systems all over the world to answer for their criminal intent and actions. Yes, some FBI type raids would be good to see applied to that organisation, documents seized, and let the prosecutions begin…
Live by the sword, die by the sword.