> Now for an opinion:

> In my humble opinion the reason why everything was really controlled by
> Hubbard, and then DM as taking over for Hubbard, and the reason for all
> the abuses and the wiping out of anyone else who had a piece of that
> power when Hubbard and then DM felt they were somehow hurting "the
> cause" is because scientology, especially the "upper levels", is
> Hubbard's personal "case" that he felt had to be "fought  and
> defended at all times".

> Why must everyone and everything be destroyed or at least stopped that
> opposes what Hubbard says about the upper levels (those levels that
> cover past and future specifics of "the time track")? Why does the
> real power always come back to that central point? Why were there
> countless management structures and corporate evolutions to protect and
> hide the real power? Why is there "fair game" and great abuses to
> deal with anything imagined by the power that attempts to stop this
> "one way out"? Why are all others expendable and can SO members be
> made to live in squalor and their children not have proper nutrition
> and care while Hubbard and top management controlled by him get tens of
> millions of dollars? Why does someone "near the top" who utterly
> supported him get blown out of the water when their connection to him
> seems to create a risk to him? Why does a hugely successful mission
> holder running things well independent and not under the control of top
> management supervision "have to be destroyed"? Why is it that when
> Hubbard's abusive policies cause governmental and/or civil
> "attacks" do those abusive policies not change but rather the ones
> trying to handle the attacks get "RPFed", declared or otherwise
> wiped out for not "handling it"?

> I'll tell you again my opinion of why. It is because it is
> Hubbard's "case" and NOT yours. In my opinion the entire, ever
> "evolving", power structure (no matter how well hidden corporately
> or physically) and policies to enforce it all are nothing but
> dramatizations of Hubbard's personal case.

> The manifestations of what seemed to be the real power changed through
> new postings, new org boards and/or new corporate structures but the
> true power behind it all never really changed.

> The structures "evolved" to mirror how Hubbard himself
> "evolved" in his moves to here or there or to what degree he stayed
> in contact or was  physically or mentally well.

> I don't think you will ever find true and complete "answers" to
> questions relating to who had what real powers in the scientology
> structure without realizing the above first. It makes all else make
> sense. All people who will try to research this later, including
> whatever scholars who may do so, will never get the real answers from
> looking at "management org board changes" or corporate evolutions
> unless they realize where the true power always was. And also, how
> everything else changed as Hubbard's own position in space or his
> connections with others changed.

> The GO wielded many powers. Sometimes in a very destructive way. But
> Jane Kember got her powers via Hubbard's appointment of her and via
> MarySue who was connected to Hubbard as CSG and under other title.
> (Note: the change of MarySue's title from "Commodare's Staff
> Guardian" to "Controller" sure made it look like she and not
> Hubbard controlled things huh?). MarySue, Jane and others from the GO
> went to jail for crimes they committed. But for one second do you think
> Hubbard did not know of this or even order it? You are incorrect if you
> think so. Even docs seized by the FBI in the GO raid showed some of his
> orders about snow white and so much more. Proving it legally as a
> criminal matter with high standards of proof needed in criminal cases,
> verses lowers standards of proof accepted in civil cases, is a whole
> other thing.  Just ask OJ! lol

> When the heat got too close to the real power, for example executives
> in the GO being charged for crimes they committed, those below him were
> wiped out and his connection to them was "vetted away" or otherwise
> denied or hidden "to protect the real source and power". The same
> thing, if less dramatically, happened to all others who held high
> positions if what they did in any way really compromised Hubbard or how
> he felt things must be at that time. Hubbard even let his own wife take
> the fall for him.

> ALL power in scientology was fleeting but his own.

> (Personally, I believe that the constant trouble to get approval of new
> management org boards and the like, why it can even take years and why
> DM "always has to be the only one who "can do it" is NOT because
> other Int staff are stupid or not as "aware" as DM. It's because
> it is really complicated as it based on a lie of the real power that
> can't even be spoken much less committed to writing there).

> On Hubbard's demise, DM is the one who now runs that control and who
> now is defending and dramatizing that "case". He may think he has
> "that power" now but I personally think what he has now is "that
> curse".

> The entire corporate structure is nothing more than a legal
> dramatization of that "case" of protecting the power at all costs,
> protecting that "one way out" and destroying everything that
> opposes it.

> Bottom line, what DM says in his declaration about "changes in
> power" from the GO to CMO is meaningless. The real power NEVER
> changed. The lies and abuses continue. The only difference is that
> Hubbard later died with DM having the reigns and now an even crazier,
> more hostile and abusive person holds the purse strings of scientology
> where abuses even dwarf those done by ones that came before him.

> Current "church" management has had and will continue to have the
> same legal problems as the GO had, as they are based on the same lies
> and the same abusive policies. Even after the corporate sortout of
> 81/82, money was funneled to Hubbard in fraudulent and deceptive ways
> just as bad as in the old RRF/OTC days. All under demands by DM with
> threats of such things as strangulation for non compliance. Some of the
> people doing that corporate sortout thought it was a new beginning
> where lies about control, inurement and the like would discontinue.
> Little did they know that nothing would truly change.

> Sorry for the length. I just wanted to say this as all this is what
> truly lies behind perhaps more than 100 lies DM has made in court that
> are being documented. I feel it explains what is really behind such
> lies.

> And, I would like to conclude by saying that I deeply do respect
> one's own religious and/or spiritual beliefs and this includes the
> right of people who feel they can make spiritual or other gains through
> the application of different scientology practices (communicate better,
> do better in their own estimation, whatever). If abuses could stop
> (which means many policies have to change) I support scientologists,
> like anyone else, having the rights to their beliefs. I just don't
> happen to be one of those believers and this does not change the points
> about secret controls and lies above.

> SME