Chris, you say you’re perfectly capable of screwing up your marriage. Well, so was L. Ron Hubbard. Here’s a guy who drove away his first two wives and got the third sent to prison.
How’s that for screwing up a marriage?

Thanks.

To: Alcoboy
From: Fred G. Haseney

Your contributions to this blog are absolutely priceless.

Hi Aquamarine,

I will give her a boost as you asked. I know she’ll appreciate it.

Yes, the cult should be held responsible for their recruit tactics. But on the flip side the 3rd worlders they hit on have their own part in it. They wish the better life here and so will do whatever is needed to get it. The cult sucks on the weak because they more easily take the bait in an effort to reach their own goals and desires. At Flag there are a lot “English is a 2nd language” staff so the proof is in the pudding.

Call it a rant, I think it was common sense Aqua.

Almost no new missions have been opened since the wave of exposure of Scientology began with the publishing of The Complex, then Blown for Good and Inside Scientology. About the only fresh blood I’ve noticed is those who take over celebrity missions in particular, I presume heavily recruited to relieve those most special of “whales” of the burden; Jenna Elfman’s former mission in San Francisco was kept alive for about decade, though after moving out of the space she’d set it up in, before it finally vanished.

I’m so glad this girl didn’t sign! Send her a thumbs up for me, OK?

I’ll tell you, the more I read and comment on these predators, these SO predators, taking advantage of vulnerable, gullible and/or uneducated and needy young people here and abroad is the more furious I get. Its just so unfair. It is just so, so so wrong! And that it is happening, that it is blatantly and legally STILL happening in the 21st century, in the United States of America just blows my mind, continually!

Sorry, end of rant.

Hey Aquamarine,

You’re totally right. The more inexperienced, untrained, and unfit for real life one is the more easy it is to suck them in. Promises of a better life so to speak. Seen folks from countries where life isn’t so good being hit on hard and given false promises of a better life in America. One girl I know from Russia was “hard sold” to join the SO at Flag and wasn’t ever told her minor age child would not be accepted. No, just buy round trip flights for she and her son, (cause coming on a visitor visa requires return flight tickets) come and see how good it is in the US and then be told the son had to fly back to Russia as he wasn’t acceptable. Children aren’t accepted. Luckily she smelled the truth and didn’t fall down that rabbit hole.

I don’t know. Could be. Around a year or so ago I read – on this blog or on Tony’s, I forget which one – that having tried LSD would no longer eliminate someone from recruitment into the SO. I know I read this as a comment from someone but I don’t know if its accurate or not.