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    Position Paper:  on Scientology and "settlement"

   (author's note:  this is a "bad cop" position for
   others to argue about and against)

Scientology is trying to settle its past and embark on a new 
"reformed" future.  If you believe that, I have a used car 
for you.  Scientology is trying desperately to avoid the only
thing that will really make a difference:  criminal prosecution
of its leaders.

Remember when you were in Scientology, how anything could be 
rationalized?  "You should Buy Now Because...." Whatever was 
wanted at the moment could be explained as "the greatest good 
for the greatest number of dynamics." The sales technique was 
to demand the specific action (GIVE ME THE CHECK!) and allow 
complete flexibility in how the individual rationalized and 
justified that action.  Human creativity is wonderful.

In the same way we are now going to see a marvelous proliferation 
of reasons why it's ok to settle with Scientology.  "I've done 
my part." "We'll use their money to finance cult education projects." 
"All I want is reasonable compensation."  "The settlement will 
enforce cleaning up their act....."  Bullshit.  And bullshit.
And bullshit.  And bullshit.

Scientology knows that the offer of money and peace will be
irresistible to people who have suffered and fought beyond human
endurance.  Everyone will produce, in his or her own creative
way, the rationalizations that work for him or her.  The bottom
line is that any coherent public exposure of Scientology will
fragment and dissolve.  Scientology has a winning strategy here.
They count on the opposition dissolving in money, into incoherent
fragments, each justifying its own action in its own way.
Money will make it happen, and Scientology has money.  
They will win unless we do something extraordinary like
STAY FOCUSED ON CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

The most pathetic rationalizations of all involve "using
Scientology's money against them." Remember in the fairy tales
what happens when you eat the witch's food?  The image is valid
even if we can't fully comprehend or explain the mechanism by
which "the witch's food" entraps us and derails our purpose.
Maybe it's the busybody mechanics and delays of trying to enforce
a constantly eroding "agreement." Maybe it's the moral compromises
we make, almost without noticing (just as one gets recruited into
a cult in the first place), in order to reach a "settlement."
To the evil empire, settlements like this are just a routine cost
of doing business.  Nothing changes.  

I support using Scientology's money against them IF it is --
	--	money collected from open court judgments AGAINST THEM
      		 and NOT
	--	money THEY "AGREE TO" in a "settlement."

Scientology CANNOT reform.  An organization that worships a psychopath
cannot be sane.  An organization that believes its mission to be above
any government and moral code cannot be trusted.  An organization that
depends for its existence on deception ("niacin and exercise remove
toxins from the body") and long-term hypnotic training ("TRs"and
"auditing") cannot be benign.  Any rationalizations we produce which
justify taking money because they "agree to reform" are prima facie
indications that Scientology has won.

Scientology cannot renounce L. Ron Hubbard, auditing, the Purification 
Rundown, TRs, and "ethics" and still be Scientology.  But otherwise 
it continues to be harmful and destructive.  That is its nature.  
Talk of "reform" is bullshit.  Such talk may be useful to someone's 
rationalizations but it has no other meaning.
										-- Bob
 
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