Taken from: http://www.scientology-cult.com/one-big-lie.html
I am a former staff member at the Int/Gold Base in Gilman Springs. I was declared by The Cob, Miscavige, and since then all attempts on my part to handle this on church have been ignored or “dead-filed” in violation of basic church policy. Hundreds more are in the same situation. Many of us are proven Scientologists with decades of meaningful contributions and accomplishments. Yet, Dave Miscavige, The Cob, closed the door on us permanently, in contravention of explicit Hubbard policy.
I can attest that the flagrant violations of the Church of Scientology are traceable to The Cob.
This is due to the fact that Dave Miscavige set himself up as The Cob, with complete dictatorial authority in the structure of the church and related corporate entities. He describes himself in his Religious Technology Center as ‘uniquely qualified’ to be the ultimate authority on all matters Scientological. And that is true, since through some 27 years he has successfully removed and/or nullified all potential threats.
Moreover, Hubbard never intended for Scientology to have a dictator. Dave Miscavige was neither assigned nor approved by Hubbard to be its sole leader. In fact, Hubbard directed Pat Broeker, whom he assigned the title, Loyal Officer, to be responsible for the Upper Level material left in note form. And he assigned Anne Tidman, to the post of Inspector General. This was part of an extensive check and balance system that Hubbard created to run the church and its related entities. The Cob has all but dismantled the entire structure.
As a further check and balance, Hubbard directed the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) safeguard the above two posts. The Board of CST was to be manned by the highest trained and accomplished persons in Scientology. As insurance, Hubbard required these persons benefit from the full wealth of Scientology, both personally and as administrators. It remains a specific requirement of CST Board Members to study and audit a minimum of 2.5 hours per day to accomplish the above.
Further checks and balances included a Watchdog Committee, the Commodore’s Messenger Org, and the Executive Strata — all directed to be proven veterans of Scientology management. And he made it the duty of every Scientologist to be personally responsible for keeping Scientology working.
Yet Cob claimed Pat Broeker intended to monopolize the discoveries of Scientology and exclude people from having it. The Cob claimed that he prevented this evil plot and thus “saved Scientology” when in actual fact he defied Hubbard’s specific orders and has now turned Scientology into a cash cow.
At a word from him, anyone can be expelled permanently from Scientology in direct violation of Hubbard’s policy. People permanently declared are not eligible for services and other Scientologists are not allowed to speak to them.
Dave Miscavige is as devious as he is ruthless, we have to grant him that. And it was through his most devious arts he fabricated the biggest lie of all.
The position of “Chairman of the Board” (of Religious Technology Center), the very post that he holds, upon which authority he undermined Scientology technology, destroyed countless lives, and annihilated the check and balance system Hubbard put in place to govern and prevent any single person from ever grabbing control of Scientology…
The very title “Chairman of the Board RTC” is itself the personal creation of Dave Miscavige. Per Hubbard, no such post exists.
Writen by Adam MacLennan
Taken from: http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1048116.ece
Pat Broeker, in this 35-year-old photo, was named a “loyal officer’’ by L. Ron Hubbard, the highest rank the church founder bestowed.
Pat Broeker could say what no one else in Scientology could: He outranked David Miscavige.
But he left the church in 1989 and started a new life in Colorado. Still, Miscavige worried about him.
“He (Miscavige) came directly to me,” Marty Rathbun recalled. “He said, ‘Marty, you get on this guy. I want to know every move he makes.’ ”
Broeker and his wife, Annie, assisted Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in the months before he died in 1986. Hubbard bestowed on each of them the title “loyal officer,” outranking Captain Miscavige.
Pat Broeker had something else: Hubbard’s written research of Scientology’s upper levels of counseling and training, completed in his last years. Without the papers, Broeker would be diminished. Rathbun said he and Miscavige came up with a plan.
With Miscavige and Broeker on a trip to Washington, D.C., Rathbun told the caretaker at the Broeker ranch that the FBI was about to raid the place; he needed to get in right away and get sensitive documents out of there. Rathbun said he and Miscavige put them in a church safe.
Broeker was done. He set out for the Rockies.
Miscavige wanted him watched, said Rathbun, who arranged for two private investigators to find and stay on Broeker.
One became a drinking buddy and gave Broeker a cordless phone as a Christmas gift.
In the early 1990s, before cordless phones became sophisticated, conversations could be monitored via a police scanner from a block or two away. It was a legal practice.
“Dave loved this idea,” Rathbun said. “He wanted to hear as many conversations as he could with Pat. We recorded all his conversations for probably a year. We knew everything he was up to.”
Broeker relocated to Wyoming, and the PIs followed.
Rathbun said his direct involvement in the “Broeker op” ended in 1992, when he went to Washington to help Miscavige negotiate the church’s tax status with the IRS.
Rathbun stayed beside Miscavige another decade before leaving Scientology. Rathbun’s closest associate, Mike Rinder, left two years ago.
Last March, they reconnected at Rinder’s apartment in Denver and shared stories. Rathbun recalled setting up the Broeker surveillance in 1989.
Rinder had a fresher memory. Early in 2007, Miscavige had him recommend cuts in his departmental budget, which included expenses for intelligence operations.
Rinder said he asked his staff about a line item he couldn’t understand. He was told: That’s for the Broeker op, and it’s untouchable.
Broeker did not respond to interview requests left with his family.
Saturday, 19th April, 2003 10:03:56pm
Name or Alias: Michael Tilse
Training and/or processing level: Clear
Org or location: AOLA
Time involved in the Church of Scientology: 27 Years
Recommended Website – Scientology and the IRS
1. How did you first become acquainted with the Church of Scientology?
Comm Course
2. What initially appealed to you about scientology?
Bettered ability to communicate, spiritual abilities
3. Were there problems in your life that you thought scientology would address?
Problems having a purpose, family problems
4. Did you see, experience, or hear about things that didn’t seem right while you were in the Church of Scientology? What were they, and what convinced you to set aside your feelings?
yes
5. Why did you choose to stay in the Church of Scientology?
Kept hoping that it would all sort out, that I could go ‘OT’
6. Were you staff or public? If staff, was it at a mission or an org? Were you ever in the Sea Org or OSA? Which unit? If not on staff, did you ever volunteer to ‘help out’?
Both. Sea Org
7. Why did you leave the Church of Scientology? Was there a “final straw”?
Found out the facts of Hubbard’s death.
8. Do you think the Church of Scientology needs to change some of its practices? If so, what should be changed? How did those practices affect your life?
Yes.
9. If the items you listed in the previous question were changed, would you consider rejoining or staying in the Church of Scientology? If so, why?
I cannot conceive how it could be corrected, in a practical sense. It would take a massive effort to remove all the existing corporations, management structure and re-validate ALL the writings and tapes against authenticated originals, then re-issue them.
I simply do not think it can be done until the current structure is left unsupported by the field
10. Any additional comments you would like to make?
Doubt formula of Michael Leonard Tilse
19 April 2003
Dear Friends,
I have had my troubles over the years and I need you to read this sincere statement of opinion and belief written with trust in the creed of the church and the philosophy written by L. Ron Hubbard:
I have been frozen in the midst of an uncertainty since the early 1990s. This acute doubt came about because I thought I had observed within the Church of Scientology a refusal to apply standard policies about justice that were written by the author L. Ron Hubbard. These observations occurred during an effort to put ethics in on a former employer and Church member who committed a crime and suppressive act against me. These events seemed so contrary to what I had studied when I was in the Sea Org and on various courses composed of L. Ron Hubbard’s policy writings that I became despondent and upset.
Being in this doubt condition I sought answers to how these things could have occurred and answers to questions about other events related to L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology that did not make sense to me.
I tried to resolve these questions and my condition of doubt over the years and I paid for and received over 25 intensives of Sec Checks, FPRD and PTS Rundown counseling at AOLA in trying handle any personal issues that were making it persist. I was also trying to get onto L. Ron Hubbard’s advanced counseling levels.
I have come to realize that I have never actually resolved the doubt condition and that all my Church counseling and training, including much of the KTL and Life Orientation Courses, was done while I was in an unhandled lower condition of doubt despite myself having tried sincerely to find out the answers. So I have addressed it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Marty Rathbun’s blog at http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/my-trip-in-and-out-of-the-church-of-scientology/
on April 20, 2012 by martyrathbun09 | 319 Comments
by Andy Porter
For 20 years I was an active member of the Church of Scientology, first as a public person taking courses, then as a staff member and finally as an international missionary. My trajectory through the church traces a dual path of increasing awareness and improvement while at the same time trying not to notice the things that were wrong. The problem was that the more aware I became the harder it was to ignore what wasn’t right.
My story is not heroic. I made and accepted excuses for the “bad” parts of the Church. In many cases I perpetrated wrongnesses on others, led witch hunts and used force and threats to get compliance. In the end it was only when I, personally, had been repeatedly betrayed that I was prompted to take action.
Last week I received a call from the local Org ethics officer, informing me that I had been declared a suppressive person. No reason was given, I was not sent, or shown, or even read my SP declare. Such was my ignoble ending of church membership!
The trip started in 1980 in Bellevue, Washington. I had just moved to Washington and was looking for a job when I was stopped by an attractive gal in the street and asked to do a survey. This led to taking the personality test and signing up for the Communications Course.
Back then the course consisted of reading the definitions of basic scientology terms and then doing the Training Routines (TRs). I completed the course in a few weeks and was then signed up for an auditor training package at the mission.
In a few more months I completed the training and became a New Era Dianetics Auditor. I then went over to the local Scientology Org and did my internship and started the next training levels.
Things seemed pretty cool in Scientology, there were lots of young people, like me, and the idealism was up my alley. “To hell with the “authorities” let’s create a better world.” The concept of the reactive mind was very real and as I audited more people I could really see that there was a hope.
Andy at Clear Lake
In June 1981 I joined staff at Bellevue Mission. I was posted in Division 6 and was a body router, basic course supervisor and Div 6 registrar. I was good at doing test evaluations and started giving introductory lectures. Read the rest of this entry »
By Tony Ortega
Wed., Apr. 4 2012 at 8:00 AM
Taken from:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/mike_rinder_scientology_former_spokesman_interview.php
For years, Mike Rinder was the Church of Scientology’s chief spokesman and executive director of the Office of Special Affairs, its intelligence wing. In 2007, his defection was among the most surprising in an exodus of high-ranking officials from the church. Since then, he’s given several interviews, but none as complete as the videotaped discussions we had with him last month in his Florida home. In this first segment, he describes the conditions in “The Hole,” Scientology’s notorious concentration camp for fallen executives at its California headquarters. In other segments, Rinder also talks about the confessions forced out of prisoners, the constant indoctrination of church members, and much, much, more…
First, some background that we picked up while getting a tour of Scientology’s spiritual home.
Rinder was born in 1955 to Ian and Barbara Rinder in Adelaide. (He has two younger siblings, Andrew and Judy.) Ian was an entrepreneur and owned a series of businesses, including a wholesale grocery distributor, an aerosol canning company, a travel agency, a restaurant — he even raised goats at one time. Barbara kept the books.
Mike went to private schools growing up. “They were Christian but non-denominational. There were a lot of private schools in Adelaide,” he says, calling it Australia’s version of Omaha or Des Moines.
In 1959 or 1960, Rinder’s parents became interested in Scientology — L. Ron Hubbard had given lectures in Melbourne around that time, and left behind some active groups there and in Adelaide. After moving to Sydney for about a year, the Rinders then made a pilgrimage to Saint Hill Manor in England in 1966 or 1967 that lasted nine months. (Hubbard had just left the manor, which remains to this day Scientology’s European headquarters.) After a second trip to Saint Hill a few years later, Rinder had twice been around the world by ship by the time he was 15 years old.
The following is an excerpt from the article published on Marty Rathbun blog. Please, find the whole, read and comment at http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/an-idle-scientology-org-story/
My name is Phil Bruemmer.
I have been a Scientologist since 1971.
I am a “new OT IV”, Class VI C/S and an OEC/FEBC grad.
I am also a course supervisor, professional word clearer and trained Cramming Officer.
Posts I have held include, Director of Communications, HCO Cope Officer, Basic Courses Supervisor (that’s Basic Courses Supervisor – NOT Basics Courses Supervisor.) I ran the Comm Course and HQS, before they were suppressed out of existence), Word Clearer, Cramming Officer and Executive Director.
That was all in San Francisco Org.
I held the post of Senior C/S, and later, auditor in Stockholm.
Around 2004 I went off staff and audited in the field under the “control” of I HELP for a few years, during which time paid I HELP to annoy me.
I went on back on staff to be the Senior C/S of the soon to open “Ideal Org” in Malmö in April 2009.
I left Malmö in August and sent a farewell letter to IJC, CJC and RTC (the Justice Chiefs as I was under comm ev). Below is the comm which I sent in while waiting (& waiting, & waiting…) for the Findings and Recommendations:
12/17/11
To: International Justice Chief
RTC Reports Officer
RTC Rep EU
CC: Cont. Justice Chief EU
From: Phil Bruemmer
Re: The Church of Scientology
My name is Phil Bruemmer.
I have been a Scientologist since 1970 and most of that time I have been staff.
I am a Class VI C/S (mostly non-GAT), OEC/FEBC, MCSC (1978) interned, PWCC and Cramming Officer
Some posts that I have held throughout my staff career are:
External Comm Flow Officer, Internal Comm Flow Officer, Dir Comm, HCO Cope Off and HAS, Basic Courses Supervisor (HAS course/HQS course), Word Clearer, ED, Cram Off, auditor, C/S and Snr C/S.
On 11 October 2011 I had a committee of Evidence, which was held on me at CLO EU. It is now 17 December and I have not had any word on the findings and recommendations.
This is too bad as I had wanted to let the cycle complete. However, I am disinclined to wait any longer.
The”church” in its present state has departed so far from the church that I joined as to be unrecognizable.
The Technology and the Administrative technology have been altered beyond workability in some cases or the misapplication renders it mostly unworkable.
Read the rest of this entry »
This interview with Jim Logan was taken in Los Angeles CA, March 2012.
Read Jim’s articles and contact him: http://community.freezone-tech.info/jim-logan/
This interview with Ian Waxler was taken in Los Angeles CA, March 2012.
http://community.freezone-tech.info/waxler/
A fitting post for March 13th. Before L Ron Hubbard wrote LRH Executive Directive (ED) 339R he did some serious research. As many of you know the ED was all about the question of what LRH wanted for his birthday. He answered the question: big, booming Scientology organizations.
He formulated a game for Organizations to play with one another that would encourage them to expand from year to year to achieve that. Part of his research to make this game work included surveying staff across the world about what it was that they most wanted as a reward for achieving the target he had set for them. The answer was overwhelming: to make it up the Bridge to and through the OT Levels. And so, LRH ED 339R was anchored on that reward. It was THE incentive to get org staffs to go the extra mile to dedicate themselves wholeheartedly toward expanding their organizations. The sabotage of that reward was not minor. It was a betrayal that marked the beginning of the end of the LRH Birthday Game. Mike Reppen and his wife Betsy tell in some detail how that sabotage was achieved. Their story parallels what happened to virtually every org that achieved the target of the Birthday game in the 80′s and 90′s. If you wonder about Miscavige’s motives for carrying out this sabotage look no further than HCOB 10 May 1982 OT Levels. – Marty Rathbun
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-reppens-rip-on-march-13th/
A-E Declaration: I have seen enough
by Mike Reppen
Hello Friends,
For you Scientologists who have been in theChurchofDavid Miscavigesince the 1980’s or before, I have to ask you a question: Have you ever scratched your head and wondered whatever happened to LRH ED 339R and the Universe Corps? Whatever happened to Old SH size Orgs?
I was a Universe Corps Auditor from 1990-1997.
LRH ED 339R was issued in 1982 with words from L.Ron Hubbard to all Class V Org staff that if they actually expanded their Organization 5.4X to Old Saint Hill Size, then he would make good on a promise. That promise was that International Management would in exchange send a team to the org to get the staff up the Bridge and deliver them the OT levels. Incredible concept, eh? In my opinion this LRH ED 339R was a major stimulation for theChurchofScientology’s statistics upward trend in the 1980’s; it certainly motivated staff.
I have for decades had a soft spot in my heart for CL V Org Staff. Having done 50-60 Sea Org Missions from 1978-1992 to such Organizations around the world, I know from first hand experience how hard it is to survive in that world. Having been in the Sea Org for 25 years, I knew at least I would be given a bed to sleep on, 3 meals a day (even though it was beans and rice often) and 2 1/2 hours study each day. CL V Org staff, believe it or not have it much harder. They do not get these “luxuries.” Their pay will often be lower than a Sea Org member’s, and they have no “berthing” covered and no medical. And BTW, they usually have to eat Spam, Raman Noodles and/or peanut butter sandwiches. Most of them moonlight to get by. I used to know a former Executive Director at San Francisco Org who drove a taxi as a moonlight job. Read the rest of this entry »
My name is Ronnie Bell. I am now, and will always be a Scientologist.
After about a year of searching, I found Scientology in early 1973, when I was nineteen years of age. I attended a standard Dianetics lecture at the L.A. Org, and routed right onto the Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist (Comm) course. Long story short – that course was run Flag-style, and the incredible wins I experienced made me a Scientologist for life. Although I didn’t do a lot of training after completing the Comm Course, I read most of LRH’s books, did the HQS Course, and an introductory Ethics course, all in my first two years.
Over subsequent years, I completed Life Repair, the Purification Rundown, and the CCRD, as well as many Div 6 courses, and the Student Hat. I paid for OT Preps and Solo 1 at ASHO and AOLA (respectively) in the summer of 2005, and received six weeks of full time auditing at ASHO. That auditing began with my Clear status being de-certified, and went downhill from there. The final results of that auditing were inconclusive. I did not make it to the Solo 1 course.
I also served as a hired staff member in the Sea Org renovations org from 1988, to 1997. I worked on all of the major church projects in that time, including (but not limited to) HGB, LRH Exhibition, Manor Hotel and C.C., Saint Hill Castle, ASI, Flag Land Base, Sandcastle, Super Power building, Coachman, Clearwater Building, and PAC Base renos.
I’ve also worked on many volunteer projects, including the ASHO Central Files project in 1994, where I was the Volunteer I/C. Read the rest of this entry »
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