Dispelling the Lies

By Michael Leonard Tilse more
11 January 2007

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/8bbc0d26d40127ea

Hi Professor,

I took a look at the thread and I can understand that the responses to your query might seem not too friendly. As you learn more, I think you might understand why you get that reaction.

I am an ex-scientologist. I was in for 27 years. I did my share of study and giving and getting auditing.

I am not only out, but I am also trying to inform people about my experience and what I found out once I left scientology.

I really don't care that much about the theology of scientology. Rather, I am concerned with the actions of scientology. Those actions are rooted in the policy, writings and behavior of Hubbard.

As perhaps you will learn, many of the things Hubbard said about himself and his life are simply not true. Things such as his trips to china, his schooling, his military record, are available through research and through government, school and other documents. The sources exterior to scientology reveal that he lied about himself. Scientology of course will say it is all fabricated to impugn his reputation.

Yet, if true, these documents and research that clearly show Hubbard lied also reveal that scientology is fraud.

I don't know about you, but I relied on Hubbard's representations of himself to make important decisions about becoming a scientologist, making payments to scientology and attempting to gain for myself the results Hubbard said scientology could uniformly deliver to individuals.

Making false representations to people in the process of getting them to sign up, pay money or deliver time, effort or resources to you, is fraud.

It doesn't matter if it seems to work, or that you got something. The false representations make it fraud.

It is well known to many who frequent this group that the organizations of scientology and people in their employ make extreme effort to prevent anyone from giving any credence to the evidence of Hubbard's personal lies and fraud and the general lies and fraud of the business he founded. Documents from the group itself show they tried to frame people, physically harm people and destroy their reputations in order to prevent this information from being spread and being believed. I realize this might be hard to credit. Yet clear evidence of this has been gathered by the FBI, and exists in many exhibits and testimony in court proceedings.

Tory Christman in her writings tells about how she as a member of scientology, working with the 'office of special affairs' part of the group, helped them to disrupt communications on the internet as part of these actions. She is a good source of information. You can even call her.

In my own journey, which you can read some accounts of by googling my name and reading my essays on the subject, I determined that there had to be at least one nexus, one key point of information that I could find out personally if it was true or false.

For me, that was the event of Hubbard's death. The scientology group's explanations and account of it didn't make sense.

You see, if Hubbard was all he represented himself to be, if the scientology program delivered what he promised in all the millions of words of scientology writings and lectures, the he should have gone out as the bright shining exemplar of all his tech and philosophy promises.

I determined to compare the account I received from scientology with the actual documents available from the coroner's office and county records in San Luis Obispo where he died in 1986.

I obtained the actual documents from the police files and the county records. They revealed that Hubbard, far from being the expected shining OT example, died in disturbing circumstances, from a stroke, with a drug, Vistaril, in his body. He was unkempt, had needle injection marks in his butt, had long hair and finger and toe nails. The attending doctor notes he experienced dysphasia from the stroke before he died. The people with him at the time and after his death tried to keep the fact of it from the authorities by calling the funeral home directly, and delayed doing that for somewhere going on eleven hours after he died.

David Miscavige told me at the event announcing Hubbard's death, that Hubbard was strong and healthy and that he only 'left the body' to do more spiritual research. None of the disturbing details from the coroner report and death certificate and toxicology screen were told the assembled scientology members at that event. At the least it is withholding material facts. And that makes it fraud.

I understand that since the report information now is widely available, the scientology group tries to down play the significance of the coroners report, the drug in his body, etc. To me that is misdirection, cover-up, or just 'rationalized thought'. The truth is too unpalatable.

Yet, if you really 'confront' the implication of how Hubbard died, you simply see that the founder and chief promoter of the tech, ethics, policy and philosophy of scientology did in no way achieve for even himself what he promised to others. And that should open the door for you to find out for yourself what else you have been told has been misrepresented or are out right lies.

It is too easy for critics and even ex-scientologists to come to think that those still in the scientology group are not intelligent, or they are knowing parts of a con game. Or outright malicious. The known behavior of some scientologists support that. But I know that the vast majority have simply never known the outside information and are honesty laboring to get what Hubbard promised them. I spent 27 years in that state myself and I try to have compassion.

Michael Leonard Tilse