LRH Sacred Writings About South Africans
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Can the Church Deny It?
Church dogma includes lying to control people, infiltrating organizations to
subvert them, and slavish devotion to its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. A product of
his time, Hubbard expresses his racist views freely in his works. However,
racial attitudes have changed greatly in the last 50 years-in fact, modern
anthropological theory denies the existence of "race" altogether. Hubbard's
opinions have not changed, and in fact cannot because they are Source: as the
Church's sacred scriptures, they are immutable. There can be no doubt,
therefore, that Scientology is inherently racist. Their own scriptures express
it and their doctrine demands it.
A basic component of the Church's services is auditing (counseling sessions).
Through a progression of special auditing actions for specific purposes, called
rundowns, Scientologists can advance their spiritual condition.
But Hubbard had a Big Auditing Problem with South African natives, who, along
with other primitives and children, are in a "retrograded" state.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the
entire world-he is probably impossible by any human standard.
-L. Ron Hubbard, Professional Auditor's Bulletin, No. 119, 1 September 1957.
Hubbard also found the "insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling"
and issued a special set of instructions, The Scientific Treatment of the
Insane, to South African auditors to address the problem. Note that Hubbard also
thinks the Bantu are in need of "rehabilitation", with mental health being only
one of the necessary efforts.
...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any program of the
rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health...
-L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB April 1960, "The Scientific Treatment of the Insane"
[Scientology Rundowns]
The South African Rundown, the only Scientology process targeted at a specific
ethnic group, was developed for "delivery to South Africans-those who reside in
South Africa as well as those who have emigrated to other parts of the world".
Hubbard apparently felt they required special processing because they were
"untrainable" and "insane".
The Church's auditing tool, the E-meter, requires adjustment in order to
accommodate the needle's larger movements because of the intensity of a Bantu's
undisclosed transgressions ("withholds").
A "black South African's" withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter]
alone but on the Tone Arm [sensitivity adjustment] as well.
-L. Ron Hubbard, E-Meter Essentials, section I: "Meter Oddities", 1988 (pg. 24)
Perhaps the unusually strong withholds can be explained by the Bantu's mercenary
nature:
Because the one thing - the very, very commercial little culture the Bantu has
... the idea of commerce and money and that sort of thing is very deeply
ingrained in these people.
-L. Ron Hubbard, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, "Errors in Time", 18 July
1963
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought is one of Scientology's basic public
texts and has this to say about African "savages":
Just as individuals can be seen, by observing nations, so we see the African
tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality
and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
-L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, Bridge Publications:
Los Angeles, 1997.
It was republished in 1997, perpetuating Hubbard's racist view of Africans.
According to Hubbard, Zulus are crazy:
...the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no
madhouses provided by his tribe.
-L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge
Publications, Los Angeles, 1995.
The Church runs security checks on members suspected of certain criminal
behaviors. The Johannesburg Security Check was "the roughest security check in
Scientology" and consisted of a series of pointed questions which the
Scientologist must answer while on the E-meter (used in this case not as an
auditing tool but as a lie detector). The contents of this security check were
later incorporated into The Only Valid Security Check. Included in the list of
"crimes" is engaging in an intimate relationship with a member of a "colored"
race. Selected portion of the questions:
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped anyone?
-L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCOPL) 7 April
1961, "Johannesburg Security Check"
-L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy "Letter (HCOPL) 22 May
1961, "The Only Valid Security Check"
There are hints that Scientology membership was limited to whites, at least
initially, in the orgs of southern Africa. In the first quote, Hubbard is
concerned about the World Bank taking control of England and the general advance
of Communism. He believes a stronghold of civilization can be set up in Africa
to ensure the survival of white Anglo-American culture. In the second quote,
Hubbard praises the South African org, who, in spite of the limited white
population from which to recruit, managed to outproduce all other Scientology
orgs.
Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on
moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in
Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in
case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.
-L. Ron Hubbard, recorded talk to the Saint Hill staff about Rhodesia, 6 May
1966
As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you
can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
-L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB 17 July 1959, "Africa over the Top"
Hubbard sought to create a Scientology homeland in South Africa or Rhodesia
(Zimbabwe). The Church claims it opposed the white minority governments (yet
most of its activity in the early years took place in colonial states where
whites ruled and English was the official language: England, United States,
Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia); Hubbard, however, appears to have thought
the problem of apartheid was overstated.
It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South
Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to
notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse
opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is
far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.
-L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 96, "Justice", 15 September 1956
[Quoted in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid
by Chris Owen]
The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no
native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England!
...
The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than
the United States government!
-L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (HCOB) 10 October 1960
Hubbard praises the South African government's handling of the black slums in
Johannesburg:
[As quoted by Chris Owen in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid]
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I
state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is
probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
L. Ron Hubbard, Letter to South African Apartheid Government, 7 November 1960,
Johannesburg; reprinted in K.T.C. Kotzé, Inquiry into the Effects and Practices
of Scientology, Pretoria, 1973
A comment by Chris Owen in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid:
Of course, to be fair, this *was* over 35 years ago and I would not want to
suggest that blacks are still kept apart from whites in South African
Scientology. But it does undeniably show that the (white-dominated) Church of
Scientology was, as an organisation, in favour of going along with apartheid
even within its own ranks. It is curious that an organisation which now claims
to have been against apartheid all along should not even mention it once in the
magazines which it published in South Africa at the time. Even when in later
years the Church of Scientology made public efforts to ameliorate the problems
caused by apartheid, it still does not appear to have made any adverse comments
on the policies of discrimination and enforced poverty which were causing all
those problems in the first place. This is especially odd given the long-running
campaigns of the Church of Scientology against abuses allegedly perpetrated by
psychiatrists. It is almost as if someone had said 'psychiatry's fair game, but
let's leave apartheid alone.' Again, a curious value judgement.
Hubbard sees indigenous people as happy, ignorant natives dancing in the jungle
or trying to overthrow the colonial government. [We assume these are Africans
since he mentions British involvement and he had a special interest in that part
of the world, though the ethnic identity of these "natives" is not actually
germane to his point.]
Illiterate cultures do not survive and they are not very high. The natives of
the tribe of the Bugga-Bugga-Booga-Boogas down in Lower Bugga-Wugga Booga-Woog
are mostly no longer with us, or they are around waving red flags today and
revolting against their central government.
Well, the British Tommy that went down there with his Snider, or his
Lee-Enfield, and brought them higher education in the first place was only
occasionally followed by anybody who taught them anything. And they didn't learn
fast. Their literacy was not up to absorbing culture rapidly.
They've been very happily down amongst the bong-bong trees, you know, dancing up
and down amongst the bong-bong trees, and the highest level of their interest
and so forth was their own back yard.
-L. Ron Hubbard, The Study Tapes, "Study: Evaluation and Information", lecture
given 11 August 1964
No comment necessary.
You shouldn't be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a
nigger; that's what they're born for.
-L Ron Hubbard, in a letter to first wife, Polly Grubb
[RealAudio required]
Listen to Hubbard describe the spiritual state of blacks:
Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where
they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon
and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know.
"What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
-L. Ron Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80, Part I, "Route to Infinity",
21 May 1952
MEST stands for Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. In the above context, it can be
likened to mud or solids or non-awareness. As one moves up in spirituality,
Scientology style, one moves further and further from MEST, or rather, from the
effects of MEST. One becomes able to shape and control MEST by will power alone.
But our sorry Negro here is so far down the ladder of spirituality that he
personifies MEST. The insult does not end there. Picture some guy taking his hat
off his head, holding it in front of his face, and talking to it. He actually
thinks that the hat can give him attention.
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