“Also, they seem to really lean in to the Confederate nostalgia market.”

Well, that figures. CO$ has its own slave culture. Sea Org Slaves of course. Oh, and their elite Whales, the Big Beings who have all the dough and must be served. Ah, yes, the Church of Scientology, obedient Step & Fetchit Slaves and their Elite Whale Massas – perfect together.

Also, they seem to really lean in to the Confederate nostalgia market.

Hubbard was nothing if not clever. He issued many of his edicts in order to retain loyalty – at gunpoint, so to speak. “If – Then” statements abound in the world of the average Scientologist, so much so that any innocent conversation or thoughtless word can cause severe repercussions all across business, employment, and family lines. With Miscavige, there is a “Pick and Choose” concept in which the Tiny Tyrant picks and chooses who will be sent to purgatory and who will remain in good graces. I don’t think I could live under such pressure to walk on eggshells, as if there were a drunk mis-interpreting my every word and action.

I worked in a corporate setting with a daily morning meeting. At one point the bigwig got on some sort of opiate that made him liable to nod off, sleeping in meetings until something woke him up. Woe betide the last person to speak moments before the bigwig woke up, because he would hear some bits of the speaker’s words, and mis-interpret whatever point they were making. With no understanding of the point, the bigwig would then go off on a long and loud personal tirade, ripping the hide off that poor person who he mis-heard due to being drugged asleep. That person was me, at least once, but then I learned to never say anything unless he was wide awake. That was how I see Scientology – an bunch of angry people failing to communicate well because of course Hubbard insisted there be no nothing but his tone scale, ever.

I saw Peter Specker’s name, he works for Freddie Ulan’s company, as the “Exec Esto.”

So many talented hard working people, unfortunately still being preyed upon, they don’t see it that way but they are being heavily preyed upon, by official Scientology’s (Hubbard’s) demented world view.

Peter used to be a Class 8/9 in Sea Org, and rose to be Quality Exec International, under ED Int back in the early 1980s.

I think because some of the prominent long term “significant” ex Sea Org members, or old ex Guardian’s Office members, like Freddie was PR in the old Guardian’s Office, I recall, these old “war veteran” Sea Orgers have a long term committment to the whole movement, and they do have a view of it all, that is quite solid and hard to break out of.

Thanks so much Mike for pointing to links like this post today.

I can appreciate how difficult the Hubbard regulations make it for the long term Scientologists to break out of their business world with so many familial and business connections to fellow Scientologists “in good standing.”

The repercussions for breaking out, or getting labeled SP for infractions like even communicating or reading “SP” ex Scientologists’ books or blogs, is such a horrible predicament.

What “religion” has these rules that threaten their members with family splitting “disconnection” should the family members even read and converse with “SP” former members whose only infractions were communicating with prior “SP” ex members.

Just insane for Hubbard to have woven this degree of human interaction restraints and dire penalties.

Stuck in Hubbard’s “prison” of beliefs, for sure, with dire consequences if they pop out of the Hubbard “prison” of regulations.

The consequences for them NOT abiding by their insane Hubbard’s rules is too much for them, so they have to abide.