This is what OSA tells its members to do in response to my posts
Truth Seeker
This is a list of actions OSA tells their members to do in
response to a post made on this newsgroup by a critic or an enemy of
Scientology. This is a "checklist" of responses each OSA troll uses in
order to "handle" a critic of Scientology.
1. Try to distract the reader off of what the critic is saying and
onto something else.
2. Try to distract the critic off of communicating to world about
Scientology and onto arguing and fighting with you.
3. Accuse the critic of being a Scientologist and of trying to dead
agent people.
4. Take whatever the critic says is true and state that it is not true
or that the opposite is what's true.
5. Try to make the critic feel everybody on the newsgroup is against
him or doesn't agree with him.
6. Make the critic feel he's wasting his time and nobody is listening
to him.
7. Try to waste the critic's time and energy by asking him a bunch of
questions and by trying to get him to do tasks for you. For example,
try to get him to compile lots of evidence to back up his claims or
get him look up the definition of this word and that word.
8. Attempt to make the critic wrong. No matter what he says try to
make him wrong, even if its how he spells!
9. Attempt to make nothing out of the critic and his posts with
insults.
10. Alter-is his name and his writings so the original meaning gets
lost.
Now, if I was an OSA member, I would never tell you this. If I
was an OSA member I would never reveal the tricks of the trade. It
would be like a Magician telling everybody before the show how the
tricks are done. If he keep doing that the tricks wouldn't work
anymore and he wouldn't have show. No OSA member would tell you this,
I just did.
.
Truth Seeker
"A man must purify himself, no man can purify another"
======================================
If you want to know what Scientology doesn't want you to know, take
a look these posts that I've put up earlier on this newsgroup. (That's
if the Church of "Suppress Free Speech" hasn't illegally cancelled
them)
"The key to how Scientology is handling this newsgroup" (a Must read)
"The FAQ for Alt.Religion.Scientology"
"Tactics OSA uses to stop critics on this newsgroup"
"Attention Newbies: The do's and don'ts of this newsgroup"
"Converting church members into Critics 101"
"How Scientology is playing both sides of the coin"
"Scientology's Decoy System"
"The 3 beliefs Scientology wants the world to believe"
"Some different Ways to "Handle" Scientology"
"How Scientology Traps New Members"
"List of Scientologists pretending to be critics on this newsgroup"
"Scientology's Trick to keep people from REAL criticism"
"Weaknesses of the Church of Scientology"
"How Scientology creates identity confusion"
Truth Seeker
This is a list of actions OSA tells their members to do in
response to a post made on this newsgroup by a critic or an enemy of
Scientology. This is a "checklist" of responses each OSA troll uses in
order to "handle" a critic of Scientology.
1. Try to distract the reader off of what the critic is saying and
onto something else.
2. Try to distract the critic off of communicating to world about
Scientology and onto arguing and fighting with you.
3. Accuse the critic of being a Scientologist and of trying to dead
agent people.
4. Take whatever the critic says is true and state that it is not true
or that the opposite is what's true.
5. Try to make the critic feel everybody on the newsgroup is against
him or doesn't agree with him.
6. Make the critic feel he's wasting his time and nobody is listening
to him.
7. Try to waste the critic's time and energy by asking him a bunch of
questions and by trying to get him to do tasks for you. For example,
try to get him to compile lots of evidence to back up his claims or
get him look up the definition of this word and that word.
8. Attempt to make the critic wrong. No matter what he says, try to
make him wrong, even if its how he spells!
9. Make the critic feel that his posts and efforts are having the
opposite effect than what he is aiming for.
10. Attempt to make nothing out of the critic and his posts with
insults.
11. Alter-is his name and his writings so the original meaning gets
lost. (take a look at how they have altered my name and you will see
what I mean)
If I was an OSA member, I would never tell you this. If I was an
OSA member I would never reveal the tricks of the trade. It would be
like a Magician telling everybody before the show how the tricks are
done. If he kept doing that, the tricks wouldn't work and he wouldn't
have a show anymore. No OSA member would tell you this, I just did.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
arnie lerma - www.lermanet.com
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/tilse.htm
"...Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...
censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter,
undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you
must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is
tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives." --Robert A.
Heinlein, -If This Goes On
My Doubt Formula,19 April 2003 by Michael Tilse
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.
In accord with working my way through the condition formula to resolve
this, as L. Ron Hubbard set it down, I now have to inform both sides
of my decision. Since my behavior over the years may have caused you
upset or concern, out of my care for you I have to put it here in
writing.
The first thing I must tell you is that I have decided who my friends
are: My friends are any and all those who care for and love people and
who sincerely act to help and support themselves and others. These are
people of good will. These friends include many who study the applied
philosophy written by the man L. Ron Hubbard and many who do not. My
friends have good intentions toward other people and this results in
their honesty, willingness to communicate, willingness to look for
truth,a sense of fair play, a sense of right and wrong and a sense of
justice. By my own personal creed, I truly wish you well. And I wish
to continue communication with you, my friends.
I have had over 27 years of association with the philosophy written by
the man L. Ron Hubbard. He called it Scientology and said it was an
applied religious philosophy. Since October 1975 I have studied
various aspects of this philosophy and tried to understand its nature
and apply its lessons to my life. During that time I have had some
significant positive experiences and life changing results from this
study and application. During that time I have also applied this
philosophy to others with happy results both for them and myself. I
trust these experiences and results and I intend to continue with my
study and application of this philosophy.
I have taken to heart many aspects of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology
philosophy. One aspect of this is that he said Truth is the exact time
place form and event. A lie is an alteration or omission of the exact
time place form and event. Another part I have taken as my own is that
L. Ron Hubbard insisted that only his original writings compose the
Scientology philosophy and that altered versions of his writings or
the writings of others issued under his name must not be done and in
fact must be rooted out and destroyed. That the sacred duty of every
person who sets out to follow Hubbard’s philosophy is to make sure
these writings are kept pure and unaltered.
From my personal acceptance of this philosophy I have applied the
doubt formula to things I have been able to observe for myself.
The doubt I experienced was caused by individuals at six levels of the
Church of Scientology structure refusing to apply the justice policies
written by L. Ron Hubbard. One or two could have been explained as
individual out-ethics. I could not believe that it would occur all the
way up to RTC unless something was seriously wrong.
Such a possibility set up an extreme conflict within me. If such a
simple thing as standard justice actions were being rejected, then
perhaps it was only an indicator of far greater out-ethics, perhaps at
the International or RTC level. Yet this was the Church I had been in
for many years, had supported and that I hoped would deliver me onto
my advanced counseling.
The actual activity of Bill Goode, AOLA, LA WISE Charter Committee,
WISE INT, International Justice Chief for Reports and Reports Officer
Religious Technology Center in my case was to refuse to apply L. Ron
Hubbard’s justice policy letters. This was contrary to the written
statements of the purpose of these organizations.
Further observation of intention and activities occurred when I wrote
up questions I had about the events surrounding L. Ron Hubbard’s
death. I had been in the audience at the Hollywood Palladium in
January 1986 when David Miscavige of the RTC announced L. Ron
Hubbard’s death. He said that L. Ron Hubbard had been in excellent
health before his death, that he had gone as far in his philosophical
researches as he could with a body and that he had walked over to his
bed, lay down and discarded the body so he could do further research
without it. Other things were said by Pat Broker, LRH’s aide at the
time of his death and he was not contradicted by David Miscavige.
Others also spoke, creating the impression through specific statements
that LRH had gone on to higher spiritual levels and had left the
church in the hands of Pat Broker and Annie Broker and David
Miscavige. There was an issue of KSW news that came out shortly after
this event which put many of these statements in writing for
Scientologists. It included an image of the supposed Flag Order LRH
wrote.
Then later I read an issue from David Miscavige which discredited Pat
Broker as having been involved in out-ethics and which canceled the
purported last Flag Order LRH wrote that appointed Pat and Annie
Broker “Loyal Officers”. This raised questions in my mind because
whereas before I had been somewhat comfortable with the explanations
given at the Palladium event in 1986, I felt that I didn’t know what
was true and what was false now that Pat Broker had been discredited.
For a long time I had suppressed this uncertainty, but the other
events described above awakened this problem in me and I felt I had to
resolve it if I was to be honest and straight and fully committed to
progress in Scientology. I was back on the LOC in March 1997 when I
wrote this:
*Begin letter*
Norman Starkey,
Trustee, LRH Estate
Care of: Author Services International
1710 Ivar Street
Hollywood, CA 90028
Dear Mr. Starkey,
I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Michael Leonard
Tilse. I have been a Scientologist since October 1975. My case state
is Clear and I am a Sponsor of the IAS. I am currently on the Hubbard
Life Orientation Course at the Advanced Organization Los Angeles.
While doing the Repair of Past Ethics Conditions on my first dynamic,
I have realized that I have some questions that I need to get answered
regarding Ron's passing. I have had these questions for a while and by
not getting them answered I have had a barrier to my own progress up
the bridge.
Some of my attention has stuck in this area and I have also been
afraid to address my questions to anyone in the Church for fear that I
would be considered disaffected. So it has created a problem for me.
But as I am sure you understand, the LOC has a way of ensuring the
confront of problems heretofore studiously avoided.
I discussed my need to clear up these questions for myself with my
course supervisor, David Berman. He suggested that you would be the
person who could best answer my questions or direct me to the correct
publications. Hence this letter. It would help me greatly if you would
assist me in getting this resolved.
The essential reason I have these questions is that the existing
account, (That I am aware of.), of Ron's passing does not make
complete sense to me. I was at the event held on January 26,1986 at
the Palladium in Hollywood where Ron's passing was announced. David
Miscavige, yourself, Mr. Cooley and Pat and Annie Broker spoke there,
among others. Shortly thereafter there was an issue of KSW News, (If I
recall correctly.), which covered what was presented at the event,
including the "Admiral" Flag Order. I also attended an event at LA
Org. where Jeannie Bogvad spoke, giving some more information.
It was my understanding from these events that Ron had deliberately
departed this life at 8:00pm on January 24, 1986. It was made clear,
at least to me, that he knew he was going and planned to go and did so
at a specific time. It was also clear that it was not because of
illness or accident, but because he had to go to continue his research
that could not be done while holding onto a mest body.
Some time after that, the "Admiral" Flag Order was withdrawn or
canceled and there was an issue of some kind that Pat Broker had been
involved in an unethical situation. This gives rise to my first
question:
1. If the "Admiral" Flag Order was written by Pat Broker to aggrandize
himself, and not written by Ron, then to my knowledge Ron did not
write or speak any direct communication to Scientologists coincident
with the time of his passing. This is just impossible for me to
believe. One thing that I observed about Ron is that he was always in
communication with Scientologists. I just cannot understand that if he
knew he would be going, why he would not have issued a "Ron's Journal"
or a written message for all Scientologists that assisted us to
understand. Such a communication would be in his writing or in his
voice so that there would be no doubt. So these two datum don't align:
Ron knowing he was leaving and doing it at cause and deliberately and
there being no personal message from him for Scientologists.
To my understanding, two things could be the case here: There WAS a
communication from Ron at the time of his passing, but I missed it
somehow or there was no communication because something happened other
than what has been reported. So I need to be directed to that
communication if it exists and I need to know the actual events and
circumstances. My other questions involve what I need to know about
the actual events and circumstances given that what Pat Broker
presented is evidently not true.
2. The specifics of Ron's passing:
A. When was the first communication that Ron was dying or going to
leave?
i. This would be the specific comm that indicated his passing would
occur within hours days or weeks, not his general messages as to him
not always being here on guard and the like.
ii. What was the communication?
iii. Who was it directed to and what happened then?
B. Where was he when he died?
C. What was the exact time of his death?
D. What was the actual cause of his death as listed on the death
certificate?
E. Did his body fail or did he deliberately leave?
F. Who was physically there with him at the time he died?
G. Were others called by Ron to be there with him at the time he died?
i. Who was called?
ii. How long before he died were they called?
H. How long before he died did he indicate he knew that he was going
to leave January 24, 1986?
I. Who signed the death certificate?
J. Why was there no autopsy?
K. Were you there at the time of his death?
L. Did he leave any personal message for his family in the hours or
days before his death?
M. Is there any possibility that Ron was murdered?
N. Is there anything about the circumstances of Ron's death that is or
would be embarrassing to the Church?
O. Is there anything about the circumstances of Ron's death that is in
conflict with the public record and position of the Church or Ron's
writings?
I have further questions that are specific to what Pat Broker and Ray
Mithoff said at the Palladium event.
3. Questions related to Pat Broker's presentation.
A. What was true and what was false about Pat Broker's comments?
B. What was the out-ethics situation that Pat Broker was involved in?
C. Was the presentation of the supposed OT X "date" true or a
fabrication by him?
D. What about the supposed "leaving the body" instructions of OT XV?
E. Was Pat Broker a "plant"?
F. How was it that Pat Broker was believed about the "Admiral" F.O.
and the other things he said until after the event?
4. Related to LRH's materials.
A. Given that Pat Broker was supposedly not authorized to access LRH's
materials, did he do anything to harm them or alter them or destroy
them?
B. Are we sure that ALL of LRH's OT materials were recovered?
C. Who has custody of LRH's upper OT materials and research now?
D. Is it evident from the materials we have that they are complete?
How would we know if they are not?
E. Did Pat Broker or other persons make or receive originals or copies
of LRH's materials?
5. Misc. questions.
A. I have seen no photos of Ron from 1985 or 1986.
i. Are there pictures of Ron toward the end of his life, at the
Creston ranch?
ii. Why haven't they been published?
iii. Did he look strange or different or very old?
B. Will photos from this time of Ron's life ever be published?
C. Was "Excalibur" ever recovered intact? Will it ever be published?
D. Where can I get the true story of what happened to Quentin Hubbard?
As you can probably tell, the whole thing with Pat Broker has brought
up a lot of questions with me, which I have not been able to answer.
While I understand the theological- Scientological truth that Ron had
finished his work and moved on, that does not replace for me the
desire to know the exact facts of his passing.
I hope you will take this letter and the questions in it in the
sincere manner that I am offering it. Having had these questions for
10 years and feeling that I haven't been told what really happened nor
that I can even seek to find out without being thought less of, I have
come to the point where I have to get the answers so I can move onward
in life and up the Bridge. I would really appreciate your help.
Love,
Michael Leonard Tilse
Student, AOLA - Sponsor IAS
*End letter*
You reading this may feel that I was being disrespectful. Yet I felt
then and feel now that the death of L. Ron Hubbard is an event
comparable to the death of Buddha or Jesus Christ and the actual truth
of it, the actual Time, Place Form and Event MUST be known and not
become a myth or legend. Truth is the truth. I also felt that honest
and candid answers to these questions would go a long way toward
restoring my confidence in the Church Management, so shaken by the
other events I had experienced.
The only response I have ever received from the Church in answer to
these questions, despite having submitted them on the proper lines and
4 to 5 other times to Ethics, C/Ss and several orgs, is when the very
nervous LRH Host AOLA, Heather, told me LRH had died of natural
causes. She would give me no other information.
Shortly after I sent this letter, I was ordered to Sec Checks at AOLA.
These questions came from my own thought, my own attempts to
understand Hubbard’s death and events in the Church. They did not come
from someone else, or from something I had read. The 10 intensives of
Sec Checks I received from Felix Hackenberg at AOLA proved that I had
no evil intentions in asking them nor had I been implanted this
lifetime nor was I a “plant” in the Church. The questions were asked
sincerely to resolve problems *I* was having, not to be destructive of
the Church. At the end of the Sec Checks, I still wanted the actual
true answers to these questions.
Since I had never received any actual responsive answer since 1997
when I first submitted it, in January 2003 I began to search for the
answers to the above questions. In nearly 6 years, despite repeated
requests, no answers had come from the Church.
I have given a lot of thought to what I now have to tell you. Finally,
I decided that no matter how mad or upset you might be with me because
of this communication, as a true friend I must tell you now, rather
than have you upset and mad at me in the future for not telling now.
I found on the Internet World Wide Web scanned images and typed text
that purported to be the death certificate and the coroner’s
investigation report and the results of the toxicology screen of LRH’s
blood taken from his body after his death.
I found these documents very disturbing. In fact, if these were true,
then David Miscavige and Pat Broker and Ray Mithoff and the others had
blatantly LIED to me at the Palladium event in January 1986. LRH’s
death was not at all what they had described. And within the contents
of these documents were very suspicious events.
I felt that I had to verify for myself the veracity of these specific
documents. In February 2003 I traveled to San Luis Obispo California
and visited the County Clerk’s office. There I viewed and received a
certified copy of the Death Certificate of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard.
I then traveled to the Sheriff’s department of San Luis Obispo County
and went to the Detective and Coroner’s department. The Detectives
also do Coroner’s investigations. I received copies from their own
files of the 1986 Coroner’s investigation and the toxicology report
that related to LRH’s death.
They were better copies than what I had found on the web, but were
otherwise the same documents.
This shocking information caused me to seek other information. Since
it is second hand, I will not share it but it consists of various
transcripts of testimony and depositions under oath in various court
cases, including challenges to LRH’s will and trust documents brought
by hundreds of former Scientologists. Had I known the contents of the
documents in 1986 I believe I would myself have joined such lawsuits.
It is reported that the Church of Scientology settled these suits by
paying out millions and millions of dollars and getting in return “gag
agreements” that prevent those who it paid money to from saying
anything about the issues in the suits.
It is now quite clear to me by the Church’s subsequent behavior that
by asking Mr. Starkey my questions I missed many large withholds. The
events that occurred at Ron’s death were concealed from Scientologists
and even the Coroner’s investigator appears to have been misdirected
about the content of the Will LRH supposedly signed about seven days
after the stroke and the day before he died.
Other information I have found is very disturbing: Books authored by
L. Ron Hubbard and now being published supposedly as “new editions” by
L. Ron Hubbard Library have been altered from the original text. In
some cases, entire chapters are deleted and others added. In most
cases various wording is being changed or paragraphs deleted. There
are many many reports of changes to tapes and tape transcripts.
Deletions and alterations in word sequence are examples. These changes
can only be detected by listening word for word and comparing the
original reel-to-reel tapes with the newly issued versions.
You are familiar with the revisions being made to HCOBs even 14 or
more years after LRH’s death. This ongoing changing of the technology
does not seem correct to me.
Some folks may say that by looking at information on the internet I
expose myself to entheta and risk ruining my case with upper level
material. I would have to agree that there is some risk. However I
have no interest in reading the supposed “upper level material” until
I am ready and I can discover for myself if the Church is off the
rails just by obtaining publicly available documents such as the
coroner’s report and death certificate and realizing I was lied to.
And I have verified for myself that alterations are being made to the
actual writings of L. Ron Hubbard.
In just the 1998 edition of “Introduction to Scientology Ethics”
authored by the “L. Ron Hubbard Library”,
(“L. Ron Hubbard Library is also known as “Church of Spiritual
Technology”, which was founded in 1982 by one “scientologist”, two tax
attorneys and Meade Emory, a former assistant commissioner of the IRS.
In 1982 when CST was founded, the IRS was still named a suppressive
group. Meade Emory, a founder, was a former member of the IRS and per
HCOPL 29 June 1968, “Enrollment in Suppressive Groups”, “Such persons
may not be employed by orgs or offices and if found employed in any
center that mission charter will be canceled”. How can it be then that
he founded what is now the highest level organization, even above RTC,
in Scientology?),
In 1 hour of examination I have discovered the deletion of two LRH
essays, (that are in the 1974 edition),”The purpose of Ethics” and
“Safeguarding Technology” and the addition of over 480 words to the
essay “Rewards and Penalties”.
In the 1988 Edition of “A New Slant On Life” (Authored by the L. Ron
Hubbard Library”) I compared against the 1975 printing of “Scientology
A New Slant On Life” by L. Ron Hubbard, I find that the following nine
chapters are omitted: “The Reason Why”; “The Conditions of Existence”;
“Myths of the Mind”; “The Man Who Succeeds”; “On the Death of
Consciousness”; “Accent on Ability”; “Freedom vs. Entrapment”; “The
Human Mind”; and “Communication”. There were also twelve other
chapters added. This is alteration and deletion on a large scale. Even
though the added chapters seem to be from L. Ron Hubbard’s other
writings this is still major alteration. And deletion can not be
justified.
There is much, much more to all this. What I have put down here is
only a tiny bit of the picture. There are many long time members,
highly trained and audited, and former top executives who are exposing
the exact time place form and event of these FACTS. I am fully willing
to speak to anyone on what I know and where to look. In fact, the
prohibition of LOOKING, fear of being expelled, of losing the “upper
levels” kept me from finding out what I had to know for many years.
Prohibition of communication is a kind of implant.
Because I now know that even the so called “tech” being delivered by
the so called “Scientology Religion” is not the actual pure and
unaltered writings of L. Ron Hubbard I can tell you that the
“Scientology Religion” is not the Scientology applied religious
philosophy L. Ron Hubbard authored. I was cleverly defrauded by
wording designed to confuse me into believing they are the same thing.
They are not the same. Look for the words “Based on the works of L.
Ron Hubbard”. That is not the same as the words: “By L. Ron Hubbard.”
Because of this fraud, any and all documents, bonds, agreements or
waivers that I may have agreed or signed with regard to any aspect of
the Church of Scientology, the “Scientology Religion” or any
associated group were obtained by fraud and are thus invalid.
ALL the monies I paid into these so called “Scientology” organizations
or the International Association of Scientologists were given by me
only because I was led to believe I was supporting, protecting and
paying for pure and unaltered Scientology applied religious philosophy
as authored by L. Ron Hubbard and that these organizations were
ethical and legitimate in all their aspects. All these monies were
obtained by fraud because NONE of these organizations has delivered
pure and unaltered Scientology applied religious philosophy nor are
all their activities ethical or even legal. Further, the various
organizations of the “Scientology Religion” are deeply involved in
numerous lawsuits and trials around the world due to the criminal and
unethical acts of their own members, staff and executives. And IAS
monies are being used to pay to defend the perpetrators of these
crimes.
So I have had to make that distinction. The “Scientology Religion”
composed of Orgs, Missions, Advanced Orgs, Flag, the Freewinds ship,
RTC, Church of Spiritual Technology, etc., is NOT composed of and is
NOT FORWARDING the pure and unaltered Scientology applied religious
philosophy as authored by L. Ron Hubbard. They are doing something
else.
All this has shaken my stable data of the “Church”. My new stable data
is the writings and editions and tapes issued as authored by Ron
before he died.
I’m sorry that this may all be upsetting. It probably is. But I have
to tell you all this so I am honest and straight with you.
I also urge you to not take my word for it. Do your own investigation.
Insist on KSW for yourself. Compare books, tapes and HCOBs word for
word and discover what has been changed. If you find something has
been changed since Ron’s death, ask to see the directions for the
changes as Ron wrote them, in his actual handwriting. It is not
entheta or disloyal to ask to see the actual source, it is only KSW.
Do as I did and obtain the actual information about Ron’s death, the
suspect will, the challenges that were made. Do not accept my word or
the Churches word, find and read the actual documents, form your own
questions. Compare it to what you have actually seen and experienced
being in and around the “Church”.
Find out for yourself how many, what percentage, of people who have
made it onto the “upper levels” are either dying of cancer, dropping
off the bridge or leaving the “Scientology Religion” altogether. Then
make your own conclusions.
You may ask, “What about my wins?”. I have this to say: What real
results one gets and which draws us onward is the real unchanged L.
Ron Hubbard tech that is still there, that is still delivered by
people of good will, which seeps through the alterations. I have had
many wins with real L. Ron Hubbard writings and tech. That is my
stable data.
There are people and staff still within the Church who are still
trying to deliver pure L. Ron Hubbard. They are hampered or stopped by
the pervasive alterations.
I believe that the lower level courses, VM program and auditing are
being kept fairly straight as a way to continue to draw new people
into the Church as an income source. But alterations in the technical
bulletins and training of auditors have resulted in many problems with
upper level auditing. I don’t think an unaltered upper bridge that
actually delivers the promised EPs is there any more.
And for many years I and others have been hammered repeatedly about
all manner of “attacks” and impending chaos in order to pry ever more
money out of our parishioner pockets.
One only has to read the felony indictments of Flag in the Lisa
McPherson case, read about the missing caretaker logs and the
condition of Lisa at the time of her death to know that the 17 day
“Introspection Rundown” isolation watch that ended with her death was
very, very, very far from any correct LRH technology, yet it took
place at the “Mecca of Technical Perfection” and it is being
vigorously defended by CSI, RTC and OSA and IAS money. My monies are
being spent to evade the consequences of what is to me an absolutely
CRIMINAL act done by staff and executives of Flag. And it outrages me.
Ron wrote in HCOB 14 September 1971R Issue V, Revised 3 February 1975,
Solo C/S Series 1R, Solo Auditors Rights: “Integrity is a hallmark of
Dianetics and Scientology”. The actions of the “Scientology Religion”
that have been kept from the view of its members have nothing of
integrity in them.
I do not believe that a “Scientology Religion” which alters source
materials, lies to its members and evades responsibility for it’s
criminal acts by abusing the legal system should be supported.
I do believe that the actual true unaltered Scientology applied
religious philosophy as authored by L. Ron Hubbard should be supported
and helped.
Another portion of the doubt formula is to view my own intentions and
activities. I have. I find my stats miserable and there are many
things about myself I wish were different. But I also now can see that
I was not delivered in auditing and on courses the tech as Ron wrote
it. Not one course or auditing action I received since the late 80’s
was untarnished by out-tech, alterations, or evaluation and
invalidation by church staff. And I was PTS to the suppression of an
off the rails church which was sec checking me for missing it’s
withholds. It is so strange that I believe that at the end some sort
of “Reverse Auditing” was being done.
So I in consulting my own experiences and observations have been able
to establish that where I have fallen down is by letting myself be
convinced against my own knowingness and understanding that the
“Scientology Religion” was the same thing as Scientology. And being
fooled into supporting it and by duress of losing my future keeping
myself from examining the actual time place form and event of the most
critical incident, Ron’s death. Once I began to pull the strings on
that event, the whole fabric of illusion created by the RTC, CSI, CST
and OSA began to unravel. The fraud and deceit was revealed.
So I befriend all persons of good will regardless of their affiliation
with any “church”. I befriend L. Ron Hubbard and accept his Legacy of
the Tech.
I have no desire to be in conflict with or an enemy of the
“Scientology Religion”. I do demand returned to me all the monies
defrauded of me. I know that those who manufacture the feeling that I
am a threat may, contrary to all LRH wrote to us about the
confidentiality of our confessional records, ethics records and such
like, cull my P.C. folders and other confidential records for “juicy”
items, supposed crimes or overts or things that would make you think
less of me, and use them to Black PR me or “Dead Agent” me or destroy
my life and future. To the degree they do this you know that they have
no actual regard for the sanctity of auditing but only a thirst for my
destruction. They may wish to punish me for publishing this doubt
formula. If they do it, it is just more fraud compounded upon what
they have already done.
Thank you.
Michael Leonard Tilse
This essay is written as an exercise of freedom of speech and the
exercise of my own spiritual beliefs. It is also copyright 2003
Michael Leonard Tilse, all rights reserved. It may be republished in
it’s unaltered entirety with signature and copyright notice intact if
you desire to pass it on by email or by printed copy. It may not be
excerpted for any reason and expressly may not be copied or excerpted
or passed on within any “Scientology” or “Scientology Religion”
organization for any purpose or “procedure” of such an organization.
This essay is written to individuals.
My demand for a refund from Scientology:
(back)
AFFIDAVIT AND DEMAND FOR REFUND AND REPAYMENT
19 April 2003
*addresses deleted*
Dear Registered Agents, Churches and David Miscavige,
Michael Leonard Tilse hereby declares these true facts to all
concerned:
My name is Michael Leonard Tilse.
I am over the age of 18.
The statements herein are of my own personal knowledge and research
reading and I can testify competently thereto.
I first encountered the Church of Scientology in mid-October, 1975 at
the so-called Church of Scientology San Francisco Organization, then
on Mason Street.
On or about 13 January 2003 and thereafter I became aware of having
been defrauded by the so called Church of Scientology, the Scientology
Religion and various of its affiliates and organizations of its
overall ecclesiastical and corporate structure, (the Church), in a
number of ways as set forth in in this document.
Since October 1975 The Church has defrauded me by representing to me
that it is the most ethical and law abiding group on the planet so as
to secure my continued membership, contribution, support and monetary
donations.
Whereas as revealed in sworn testimony I have now read from various
court cases the actual truth is that at all times since at least
October 1975 there have been members, staff members and executives of
the Church, who have been involved in crimes as a matter of the normal
operation of the Church. Examples are the the Church’s Guardian’s
Office department members who pleaded guilty and agreed to all the
crimes mentioned in the governments stipulation of evidence in the
case of US vs. Mary Sue Hubbard, who then went to jail.
In 1976 when I was on staff at the Church, San Francisco, the
Guardian’s Office staff at San Francisco Organization approached me to
borrow a miniature “Minolta 16” camera from me so they could
photograph documents when they did their breaking and entering capers.
At the time I did not realize that this was actually criminal acts
that were being planned. I have since read testimony of 70’s Church
Guardian Office staff who relate the criminal operations of this
group.
I have read accounts of the Church Office of Special Affairs using its
operatives to impersonate Spanish policeman in an operation conducted
to intimidate ex-scientologists in Spain.
I have read testimony of former staff of the Church Author Services,
Inc., about David Miscavige as Chairman of the Board of Author
Services, Inc., as head of this for-profit corporation, (in the 80’s),
taking millions of dollars out of the nonprofit status Church of
Scientology and Scientology Missions for the use and inurement of L.
Ron Hubbard. One of these depositions was from Jesse Prince whom I had
known while I was in the Church Sea Organization during 1977-1978.
I was never told these facts. I would never have joined or stayed in a
group that I knew was engaged in such crimes.
When I was in the Church Sea Organization in 1978 I was ordered to
destroy documents which I now realize were material evidence in
Federal investigations as to the continued influence and intimate
control of the Church of Scientology by L. Ron Hubbard when such
control and influence was illegal due to the nonprofit status of the
Church. I was not told that destroying these documents was a crime and
that such control and influence were subjects of investigation even
though there is testimony and recorded tapes from that time that show
that executives within the Church at the time knew and discussed these
exact facts.
I feel that my personal reputation and integrity has been blackened by
having been ordered to commit this crime and my having done it because
I was told at the time it was not unethical or a crime. Had I known it
was a crime I never would have done it.
In 1975 and at all times thereafter the various “Churches of
Scientology” I have associated with have defrauded me by falsely
representing to me that the various files about me kept in the
organizations such as “P.C.” folders, or “Confessional Formulary”
files, “ethics files”, “student files” and staff applications and
other Church records regarding me are confidential and are only used
for internal Church purposes to deliver the elements of the
Scientology applied religious philosophy.
I was specifically told this when, after doing the “Communication
Course”, (Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist Course), in October 1975 in
the San Francisco Church of Scientology on Mason Street, I was very
upset after I had read articles in the “British Statesman” at San
Francisco public library. These were articles about the Church which
told of the Church of Scientology in England using the contents of
staff applications and auditing sessions against ex-members.
When I brought these articles and the statements in them to the
attention of Bill Steiner the then ethics officer of the San Francisco
Church of Scientology as causing fears that I had had while doing the
”life History” section of the staff application form, specifically
that this information could be used against me, He assured me that all
of it was confidential and would never be used against me as a matter
of Church policy and that the articles in the British Statesman were
lies.
It was fundamental to my agreement to remain in the Church as a member
at that time and after and then to join Church staff in February 1976
and after, that I was assured the information I was giving the Church
in the staff application, other communications and in auditing
sessions about my sex life, childhood wrongdoing, family members,
etc., would NEVER be used against me.
It is part of the public policy of the Church that “auditing” or
“P.C.” files are to be kept secret and confidential. These folders are
even marked “confessional formulary.”
I now discover through reading sworn testimony that it is common
practice and is even written in Church Guardian’s Office and Church
Office of Special Affairs confidential and secret policy to search and
extract or “cull” P.C. files and other files of individuals who are
ex-members, for crimes or sexual events or any other embarrassing
information and “buttons” that can then used to harass, intimidate and
destroy the lives of those who have left the Church, testify in court
to Church crimes and activities or those who are critics or reformers
who speak out about Church abuses.
There is sworn testimony in court cases, such as the so-called
“Wollersheim” case in which former members of the Church Guardian’s
Office or the Church Office of Special Affairs have testified to the
fact of the practice of using such confidential information to harass
and intimidate ex-members and spread information to their families,
friends and employers in order to destroy their lives and reputations.
I believe that the actual written Church policies have also been
entered into evidence in court cases.
Had I been told by the Church that such materials and information
obtained from members had ever been used or would or could be used
against anyone who had left the Church I would not have associated
myself or remained associated with the Church nor given them any money
for counseling or training.
I was defrauded by the false assurance of the Church in its policy and
by its executives that the Church adhered to and delivered only the
pure and unaltered Scientology applied religious philosophy as written
by the man L. Ron Hubbard.
In my many years of taking Church courses I was required to read the
L. Ron Hubbard written policy known as “Keeping Scientology Working”
many times and I have been assured many times by this policy and by
written Public Relations articles in magazines, bulletins, local
announcements, and at group events by executives such as David
Miscavige that the Church adhered to and delivered only the pure and
unaltered works of L. Ron Hubbard.
Yet now I find that L. Ron Hubbard’s technical bulletins, books, tapes
and policy are being reissued by the Church with deletions, additions
and wording changes as many as 16 years after he has died, which
changes cannot be traced back to any original verifiable L. Ron
Hubbard handwritten directives for such changes.
I have personally verified deletions, additions and changes to several
books which have been published by the Church publishing organization
Bridge Publications as being copyrighted by the L. Ron Hubbard Library
and which are sold in bookstores. These include the “Introduction to
Scientology Ethics” book and the “New Slant on Life” book. These books
are designed to confuse readers by including the words “L. Ron
Hubbard” in the title and represent that they are “new” editions of
similarly titled books actually authored by L. Ron Hubbard. These
altered editions are then used by the Church to deliver training
courses and counseling and other activities which are represented as
being the pure Scientology applied religious philosophy as authored by
L. Ron Hubbard.
There are many reports of other books, tapes and other writings by L.
Ron Hubbard being issued after his death that contain additions,
alterations and deletions as compared to the original published tapes,
books and articles. These include changes in the technical application
of the Scientology applied religious philosophy, something which L.
Ron Hubbard specifically warned against.
This is a fraud on me as I was led to believe only pure L. Ron Hubbard
writings and lectures would be delivered to me as a student and as a
person receiving counseling and such confidence was the basis for my
donations of funds for training, counseling and membership. Gaining my
confidence and selling me on the basis of this promise of pure and
unaltered technology and philosophy and then delivering to me an
altered version with changes not traceable to actual works provably
written by L. Ron Hubbard is complete fraud.
I would not have continued to support the Church or donated time,
effort or money to it had I known it was delivering something else
than pure and unaltered L. Ron Hubbard technology and writings.
I was defrauded when I was convinced to donate money to the Church
International Association of Scientologists by being told the
falsehood that the International Association of Scientologists and its
money collecting organizations such as the West US IAS Membership
Tour, the US IAS Members Trust or others, were solely established for
and operated to “Unite, Support, Advance and Protect Scientology
applied religious philosophy...” when the truth was quite different.
I was sold an IAS membership and pressured into further donations to
the IAS on the basis it was to protect the scientology applied
religious philosophy. Many “briefings” were given me in the sales
efforts of IAS registrars such as Howard Becker, Bridgett Kelleher and
Michael Roberts, in which stories of “attacks on Scientology” in
countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy and France were used to
convince me that I had to urgently give them them money to “Protect
Scientology”.
Such registrars as Howard Becker and Michael Roberts even came to my
house uninvited and verbally “double-teamed” me, playing on my
“buttons” of my desire to help and support my religious philosophy for
hours until I was emotionally beaten into giving them more money for
the IAS. I was made to feel guilty if I did not give them more money.
I had to forcefully ask them to leave more than once. One time I had
to flee my own house because they were putting so much manipulative
emotional pressure on me.
I now know that in fact IAS monies have been used to defend church
staff, executives and organizations from the consequences of their own
criminal acts as in the so-called “Crusade” against the Larry
Wollersheim Case, the David Mayo case and now currently the Lisa
McPherson case.
I have now read testimony and reports that the so-called “attacks” in
Spain, Germany and France were in fact caused by the unethical and
criminal acts and the financial crimes of Church members, staff and
executives and these so-called “attacks” were actually legitimate
judicial investigations, inquiries, trials and lawsuits brought by
Governments who had actual evidence, not some fabricated conspiracy.
Furthermore, the IAS is represented as the official membership
organization of the Scientology Religion yet it was not created by L.
Ron Hubbard, it was not authorized by L. Ron Hubbard, nor was the
policy accepting it as the membership organization of the Church of
Scientology written by L. Ron Hubbard. Even the whole issue type of
this policy, known as a “Scientology Policy Directive” was never
authorized by L. Ron Hubbard.
Protecting staff, executives and organizations from the consequence of
their crimes is a false and fraudulent use of the monies I donated for
the protection of the Scientology applied religious philosophy and had
I known this money was going to be used in that way, I would never
have donated it.
I have been convinced under the false pretenses above to donate of USD
$31,867.00 to the IAS via various organizations such as the West US
IAS Membership Tour and the US IAS Members Trust and by such
registrars as Howard Becker and Michael Roberts and also Ted Bronson
of the IAS office aboard the Church vessel known as the “Freewinds”. I
would imagine that would thus be an International monetary crime since
the ship was in the Caribbean at the time of that registration effort
and my donation.
It is known to me that the Church organization known as CMO
International ordered the IAS to refund money involved in another
fraud and this demonstrates that the IAS and its associated
organizations are in fact an inseparable part of the overall Church
structure.
I hereby DEMAND full repayment of all monies and the value of all
stock as credited to my IAS account with no delay or argument.
I was defrauded into contributing time, effort, support and monies to
the Church by a false and clever wording of documents and promotion
pieces designed to convince me that the “Scientology Religion”
composed of these Churches was the same thing as the “Scientology
applied religious philosophy” as authored by the man L. Ron Hubbard.
My continued membership in the Church has always been based on my
desire to personally benefit and secure for others benefit from the
Scientology applied religious philosophy as authored by the man L. Ron
Hubbard. This personal desire has cleverly and fraudulently been
diverted into support for and agreements signed with organizations of
the Church “Scientology Religion” through being presented with
documents and advertising containing clever and deceptive wording
designed to convince me that they are the same thing. They are not. In
fact the lawyers for the Church of Scientology have argued in court
that the “Scientology Religion” has no legal obligation to adhere to
any of the writings of L. Ron Hubbard.
My interest and participation in the Church has been in part to attain
the promised spiritual awareness and abilities of the Scientology
philosophy “upper levels” known as the “”OT levels”. These “OT Levels”
are the basis for the promise of “Total Freedom” and “Immortality as a
Spiritual Being” made in the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. The
possibility of being denied access to these “OT Levels” is a matter of
huge duress to me. I have been fraudulently induced into signing
agreements, waivers and other documents with the Church, (Such as the
Advanced Organization Los Angeles and the American Saint Hill
Organization, the RTC and possibly others), under the duress of not
being allowed access to these “OT Levels”. It was made clear to me by
staff and executives and the documents themselves that if I did not
enter into these agreements and sign these documents I would not be
allowed access to these “OT Levels”.
Yet per testimony of people who have studied these “OT Level”
documents, the “Scientology Religion” and its Churches are not
delivering pure unaltered L. Ron Hubbard writings for these levels and
thus they are factually NOT available within the Church. Thus all
agreements I have made with any of these organizations and any
documents I have signed of any kind with them are invalid due to this
fraud and duress upon me.
I was defrauded of legally required minimum wages in the 2-1/2 years
of work I did for various Churches as a staff member.
When I was a staff member in the Church I was told I was working for a
charitable organization and later that I was in a religious
fellowship, (The Sea Org). However, I was not told at any time during
my tenure on staff that the Church actually was involved in crimes,
was involving me in crimes and that it had its nonprofit status under
review, such status had been revoked or that funds being collected by
the Church were inuring to for-profit organizations, (Author Services,
Inc.), and to individuals. Thus the so-called Churches should have in
fact been paying me at least minimum wages for work.
Confidential parishioners donation records of mine have been sent to
the IRS without my knowledge or agreement.
In 2000, (as I remember it), I was notified of an IRS audit of my
taxes for 1998. In the course of collecting information about this I
found that my 1999 parishioner’s statement from the Church Advanced
Organization Los Angeles was in error with nonsensical computer
generated characters that made the statement values incorrect. I was
disturbed about this because the IRS was also requesting my 1999
returns and documents. I spoke to Marc Jefferson, the Director of
Income at the Advanced Organization Los Angeles. When I told him he
would have to give me a corrected statement to send to the IRS, he
told me that the church had already provided the parishioners
statement information to the IRS independently as part of its tax
compliance program. It was clear he was not speaking of a 1099 form or
a summary, but the actual detailed parishioner’s statement. I was
outraged by this.
I was never told prior to this that the Church organizations had a
practice of sending by unrevealed separate channels the information
about my church donations to the IRS. I was never asked to agree to
this and never would have agreed to this.
This practice of the Church makes them an agent of the IRS which is a
violation of my privacy, a fraud upon me because I never would have
agreed to this practice and possibly a violation of laws regarding
government interference with religion.
In order to fraudulently induce me to continue my membership, support
and money donations to the Church and the “Scientology Religion”,
David Miscavige, Pat Broker, Ray Mithoff, Earle Cooley, Annie Broker,
Norman Starkey and possibly others conspired to hide from me the
actual events and circumstances of L. Ron Hubbard’s death. They did
this by fabrication of a so-called “Acceptable Truth” which then
became the LIE that that they individually and together told at the
Hollywood Palladium event in January 1986 to assembled members of the
Church, which audience included me personally.
The actual facts of L. Ron Hubbard’s death include that he had a
stroke nearly 8 days before he died, that the attending physician, Dr.
Denk, had informed the coroner’s investigator that L. Ron Hubbard had
exhibited dysphraisia after the stroke, that he had Vistaril
tranquilizer in his blood at his death and that 11-1/2 hours passed
before anyone called the funeral home to report his death. And
especially, suspiciously, that he supposedly had signed a new will on
the day before his death.
Per testimony, there also appears to have been no effort on the part
of these church corporation executives to inform Hubbard’s wife or
children of his sickness and impending death, nor to allow them to
attend the body, be involved with the investigation or attend the
cremation of the body.
These facts which are alarming in the extreme to anyone who has been
involved with Scientology for any length of time were carefully
omitted from the fabricated story told at the Hollywood Palladium
event in January 1986.
The continued conspiracy included fraudulently concealing from me and
other Church members that there were many challenges filed to the last
will of L. Ron Hubbard and the probate of his estate which the church
then paid out millions of dollars to settle and obtain “gag
agreements” from those challengers.
Had I been informed of the actual facts of L. Ron Hubbard’s death and
its suspicious circumstances I would have personally supported
independent investigation of it and challenge to the probate and
probably would have joined the challenges myself. I certainly would
not have accepted the story I had been told by these executives.
In 1997, when I did start asking Church executive and estate executor
Norman Starkey questions about L. Ron Hubbard’s death I was refused
answers to my specific questions and I was ordered to undergo
counseling at my expense which attempted to find out the source of my
questions. This was sold to me as part of my “OT Preps” and it was
clear I would not be allowed on the “OT Levels” without this
“handling”. This is intimidation and duress for trying to find out the
truth.
Also under the duress of being denied my “OT Levels” if I did not
sign, I was given a document and fraudulently induced to sign an
agreement that I be subjected to the so-called “Introspection Rundown”
if the Church decided it was the appropriate “Spiritual” procedure by
its estimation and that this could include my being held isolated from
family, friends or legal representation and that I could not rescind
this legal agreement.
At the time I was being induced to sign this agreement, the Church
withheld from me that at the Church organization known as Flag, Lisa
McPherson had in 1995 been held against her will on the so-called
“Introspection Rundown” for 17 days and had died while under the care
of the Church staff and executives. Nor did they disclose to me that
Flag was the subject of two felony indictments in this death. I would
not have signed this agreement or donated further monies to the Church
had I known the facts of this case.
I hereby declare that any agreement I may have signed or otherwise
entered into that grants any Church organization, member, staff member
or executive the right to subject me to any procedure or counseling,
including the “Introspection Rundown”, is invalid, false, illegal and
fraudulent and has no force nor may it be enforced upon me in any way.
I personally can testify that the Church Religious Technology Center
has received stolen property and that I was told how the RTC then used
it.
I personally can testify that the Church Advanced Organization, WISE,
Church of Scientology International and the RTC knew that a crime had
been committed against me by another member of the Church and all
these organizations refused to follow the L. Ron Hubbard justice
policies that I cited to remedy the situation. This is evidence that
the Church in practice feels that it has no duty to follow the
writings of L. Ron Hubbard but is instead following some other
divergent writings.
I personally can testify that the Church Advanced Organization,
American Saint Hill Organization and the Flag Service Organization
have known of an actual crime against me by a member in good standing
with these organizations, yet have not taken any effective steps that
I know of to get this member to remedy his crime, but instead have
questioned me as to my ethics and have threatened me with denial of
access to the “OT Levels” and expulsion from the Church.
I can testify that I was told in “briefings” during the so-called
“Wollersheim” trial that when the International Association of
Scientologists (IAS) was created in 1984, millions of dollars were
transferred from the Church of Scientology of California into the IAS
by the ruse of the Church donating $2000.00 “Lifetime Memberships” for
each staff member in the Church at the time so as to deplete the
assets of the CSC and thus deny payment in the event of loss of
lawsuits.
I can testify that this scheme of buying IAS memberships for staff
members occurred when I was myself on staff in the Sea Org at
Scientology Missions International, yet I was subsequently reguired to
purchase an annual membership in the IAS, and later purchased a
Lifetime membership even though it supposedly had been previously
bought by Church of Scientology of California.
I can testify that while on staff at Scientology Missions
International, I observed that the international statistics were being
falsified.
In my experience in the Church since 1975 I have been told many times
by the Church that critics of the Church tell only lies and
distortions and that reading the comments of or communication with
such critics or ex-scientologists can upset me and that the fact of my
doing so can be used to deny me access to the “OT Levels” or even
membership in the Church.
Because of this duress and fear of being denied attaining the promised
spiritual awareness and ability of the “OT Levels”, that I was also
told was only available within the Church, I kept myself from reading
information that was critical of the Church. Instead because I had
questions born of my own personal observations of the Church’s refusal
to follow the writings of L. Ron Hubbard within the Church and because
specifically I questioned the story that had been told about L. Ron
Hubbard’s death, in 1997 I wrote to Norman Starkey, who is executor of
L. Ron Hubbard’s estate, asking him questions so I could determine the
true story of L. Ron Hubbard’s death, including asking what was on the
death certificate and what the coroner had reported.
Between 1997 and 2003 the only answer I received from the Church was
that L. Ron Hubbard had died of natural causes. This was not a
responsive answer to my detailed and extensive questions. The Church
had received from me many communications that it was important to my
own peace of mind and continued participation in the Church that I
have these questions honestly and responsively answered.
In January 2003, after almost six years of being denied within the
Church answers that would resolve my personal doubts, I finally began
to research using the Internet to find the answers to my questions.
Only after I had become convinced that I would never be answered and
that I also would never be allowed access to the “OT Levels” because I
kept asking these questions, did I then break from the prohibition of
the Church against communication with information from critics or
ex-scientologists. I began to read postings regarding facts of the
death of L. Ron Hubbard and other reports and only then did I realize
that I had been lied to by the Church.
I verified for myself that the postings were true and correct by
obtaining official documents from the County of San Luis Obispo in
California.
In further research on the Internet I came across various postings of
court testimony, depositions, historical records, documents, official
filings and personal writings having to do with the Church and its
history and activities.
There are a number of these sworn testimony postings which confirm my
own experiences within the Church and which are by people I had met or
known of. Many of these ex-members had been in the Church as long or
longer than myself.
Only after I read these various information sources did I become aware
of the way in which the Church has defrauded me in many areas since
1975, as detailed in this document, by withholding from me the actual
truth about its secret policies and activities and the actual truth
about the various court cases and “attacks”. Had I not been prohibited
from researching this information by the intimidation of the Church, I
would long ago have sought out this information and severed my
association with the Church and demanded my money back. The duress of
never being allowed access to the “OT Levels” and the general
intimidation of the Church against members finding out critical
information about it is a fundamental part of the fraud it perpetrated
upon me.
The Church in fact has paid refunds and repayments and court awards to
many ex-Scientologists including Larry Wollersheim, Greg and Deborah
Barnes, Loretta Miscavige, Virginia McClaughry, Tory Christman and
others. Many of the points of fraud I have brought up in this document
have been issues in litigation which the Church has lost.
I refuse to have my money held hostage in exchange for waivers or gag
agreements. I will not sign any waiver of rights or “gag agreement” in
order to get my own money which was, as detailed in this documents,
swindled from me by fraud.
I cannot sign any promise not to sue or testify against the Church in
the future because I cannot guess in what way the Church may harass
me, intimidate me, commit criminal acts against me or otherwise create
grounds for such prosecution or lawsuit against itself. An example
would be using any information contained in counseling or auditing or
P.C. files or other files in any way. Such an act would be completely
against the law due to the promises which the Church made to me as to
confidentiality of these files and I would therefor have to seek
criminal prosecution and civil suit.
I will not sign any waivers because I cannot know at present if or
when some future criminal prosecution or civil action against the
Church may name me as a party along with the Church due to my long
association with it. Also, it is part of my inalienable rights and my
duty to speak out about criminal and fraudulent acts and thus I cannot
sign any gag agreement that would prevent me from communication of
what I know.
I will not sign any “gag agreement” because I am a writer and the
memories, experiences and documents I have accumulated in my 27 years
of association with the Church are a vital part of what I have to
write about. Any such agreement would thus impair my future prospects
as a writer, a further fraud.
It has been reported that the “Freewinds” ship, on which I spent 10
days doing Church activities, is contaminated with asbestos and thus I
could have been exposed. It is conceivable that I may have a cause of
action against the Church should I develop illness as a consequence.
In 1977 while working as staff for the Church on renovations of the
Church “Complex” which had been the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, I was
exposed to large amounts of asbestos containing dust from the sanding
of asbestos content drywall “mud” that was being used in those
renovations. I was also involved with removing piping and pipe
insulation from the hospital laundry room as part of the renovations
and was likely exposed to asbestos from the pipe insulation dust there
and in the boiler room and from other renovation debris.
I was exposed to large quantities of dust at the Hollywood Guarantee
Building when I participated in the demolition of the interior
structures during it’s renovation while doing a Church required
“amends” project. Since this was an old building, it is likely this
dust was contaminated with everything from lead paint to asbestos.
Should I have or develop illness or injury related to these exposures
I would have to initiate legal actions against the Church for damages.
I have read reports that the massive quantities of vitamins ingested
by a person doing the Church “Purification Rundown” may cause liver
and other cellular damage.
I was put on the “Purification Rundown” in 1979 while I was in the Sea
Org at Cedars Estates Service Organization and I was on it for 60
days. During those 60 days I consumed the massive quantities,
“megadoses”, of vitamins which I was told to take by the Case
Supervisor of the Church New World Corps who was in charge of my
progress.
In addition I again was on the Church “Purification Rundown” in the
late 1980s, taking the vitamins I was directed to and doing the sauna
and exercise as directed. This lasted approximately 2 weeks.
Should I have or develop adverse health effects from damage caused by
the “Purification Rundown” I would also have to initiate legal action
against the Church.
I am dissatisfied with the results of so-called training and
counseling that I received within the Church as they deviated markedly
in numerous ways from the actual writings of LRH.
I have experienced extreme upset and despondency over many of my
experiences in the Church which the Church has refused to address in
any satisfactory manner. These problems persist and make it difficult
or impossible for me to obtain and hold a job or have much hope for my
future.
I am quite upset and despondent over the one hundred ninety four
thousand one hundred fifty dollars and nine cents which the Church has
systematically defrauded me of. These thousands of dollars would have
been my life savings and retirement funds. Instead I find myself with
few assets, no medical insurance and hopelessness.
I do not wish to remain in conflict with the Church or any of its
organizations. I do not nurse any desire to sue the Church or destroy
it. I only wish to receive a repayment and refund of every penny I
have ever given the various Church organizations including the IAS and
then to go my separate way and live what remains of my life in quiet
and personal pursuits.
In return for a full repayment and refund of all monies that I have
given at any time to the Church, including the value of donated stocks
as credited to my accounts and unpaid minimum wages from my years on
staff and including so-called “freeloader debt” payments, I will sign
a receipt, which the Church may use to demonstrate that it has
repaired its fraudulent swindling of me since 1975. Such a receipt is
the only document or agreement that I will sign.
Therefore, on the basis of continued fraud as detailed above since
1975, I hereby demand immediate full repayment and refund of all
monies of whatsoever kind I have ever given or donated to any Churches
of Scientology, Scientology Religion, International Association of
Scientologists or associated groups in any form, including cash,
checks, credit card charge, value of stocks donated as credited to my
accounts, freeloader debt payments or value of labor performed as a
staff member without payment of at least minimum wages, excepting only
paid to me “service completion awards”, actually received staff pay,
bookstore items and the $150.00 dollars which I paid for my lifetime
membership in the Hubbard Association of Scientologists,
International, which membership organization is the only one ever
authorized by L. Ron Hubbard, as I elect to keep that membership.
Refusal to pay me this demanded repayment and refund may not be done
by omission or refusal to answer this demand letter. Your refusal to
pay the full amount demanded by 2:00pm 1 May 2003 or your refusal to
answer this demand letter within seven days of your receipt
constitutes full agreement with and an acknowledgment of truth to
every charge made in this letter and constitutes grounds for me to
bring criminal prosecution charges and civil litigation against the
Church, its members, staff and executives at every level on every
point covered in this demand letter and others unnamed within it, for
not only the the amounts demanded but interest, damages, interest on
damages and punitive damages as well as criminal convictions, jail
terms and fines.
I expressly reject as baseless and false any assertion by the Church
that I owe them any money for any reason.
I hereby demand full and complete refund and repayment of the One
hundred ninety four thousand one hundred fifty dollars and nine cents
in cash, value of stocks, value of labor, credit card charges,
personal checks or other valuable consideration that I have donated
to, given to, or been charged by the Church or any of its affiliated
organizations including the International Association of
Scientologists or associated organizations in this continuous fraud
and swindle since 1975.
My accounting for this is as follows:
Church San Francisco Organization $ 1,800.13
Church Sea Org / ASHO/ Estates $ 12,553.84
Church Sea Org / Scientology Missions Int. $ 2,819.35
Church Los Angeles Organization $ 5,517.12
Church Advanced Organization Los Angeles $ 112,994.98
Church American Saint Hill Organization $ 25,372.31
International Association of Scientologists $ 31,867.36
Church Flagship Service Organization $ 1,225.00
Total of demand for refund and repayment: $ 194,150.09
The Church is to deliver to me the full amount of USD $194,150.09 by
Cashiers check or by deposit of this money into an account of my
choosing by 2:00pm, 1 May 2003.
Upon the check being certified by a bank of my choosing as fully
valid, or the deposit into my account is verified as cleared, I will
sign a simple receipt for the money.
The representatives of the Church may wish to engage in negotiations
regarding this demand by quoting “Policy”. Since it is known to me
that the Church follows policy only at its whim, no such “Policy”,
delays or other requirements will be accepted.
All communications between the Church and myself about this demand for
repayment or refund, wording of the receipt to be signed or other
matters will be completed by 2:00pm 1 May 2003. The Church will at
that time or before pay me the demanded money in full as above with no
delay or conditions.
Michael Leonard Tilse
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Visit Mr. Tilse's home page
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/tilse.htm
I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak.
The only thing that always works in scientology are its lawyers
The internet is the liberty tree of the new millennium
Secrets are the mortar binding lies as bricks together into prisons for the mind
Support http://www.lermanet.com - mentioned 4 January 2000 in
The Washington Post's - 'Reliable Source' column re "Scientologist with no HEAD"
arnie lerma - www.lermanet.com
"I am not condemning one's right to have a religion, to have beliefs,
to claim wonderful results from such beliefs, regardless of my own
belief that such is the result of indoctrination, I am condemning the
fascist tendencies of the Church of Scientology which ultimately stem
from Hubbard's own paranoia, the "at war" siege mentality which
imposes an environment of oppression on its staff, which causes the
OSA to engage in illegal acts, "black ops", in order to squash
dissent, because "Scientology is the only hope for mankind". In this
regard, Scientology has arrived at the nadir of all religions. When I
think about the level of fanaticism that is pervasive in Scientology,
the brutality of its forward effort, the zombie-ish uniformity of
testimonials on "auditing gains", "wins" etc., I am reminded of the
aliens on the X-Files. It is a bit like an Orwellian nightmare. "
In the book review section of the L.A. Times from Sunday Feb. 10th is
an interesting review of a book about a man named Victor Serge who
wrote during the early Stalin era. Here is a description of Stalin:
"Stalin, who had no ideas of his own, simply took advantage of each
new disaster to discredit and then destroy those true believers who
had been caught taking the wrong "line." He was a bureaucratic genius,
adept at exploiting divisions among his opponents and promoting rumors
of heresy or sabotage. Thus the second form of Stalinization: the
crushing of anybody capable of independent thought."
Truth Seeker
Jack is a Scientologist working in the OSA division. Try and
figure out by which one on of these OSA tactics he is using in order
to "handle" me and my posts:
This is what OSA tells its members(like Jack) to do in response to my
Truth Seeker
post, OSA tactic #1.
JB@nowhere
"Truth Seeker" <doubledr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f6c105bb.03091...@posting.google.com...
> Dear Reader,
>
>
> Jack is a Scientologist working in the OSA division. Try and
> figure out by which one on of these OSA tactics he is using in order
> to "handle" me and my posts:
>
>
>
>
> This is what OSA tells its members(like Jack) to do in response to my
> posts:
>
You're getting tiresome, little boy...
"Pay no attention to the person behind the screen" ("truth seeker") - The
Wizard of ODZ
He wouldn't know the truth if he was sat down in front of it and then spoon
fed the same...
If you want TRUTH, look at these:
If you're truly interested in finding out information on the Criminal Cult
of $cientology, goto any of these links - ignore the thing behind the
screen:
<http://www.xenu.net/index.html>
<http://www.lisamcpherson.org/>
<http://www.skeptic.com/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html>
<http://w4u.eexi.gr/~antbos/XENU.HTM>
<http://www.xenu-city.net/index.html>
<http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/alter/>
<http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice/>
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/>
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/>
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=OT+III>
<http://www.xenu.de/>
<http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/cooper/index.html>
<http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/>
<http://www.altreligionscientology.org/>
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/room174.html
http://lisa.whyaretheydead.net/
and, just to be fair -
Jack
Truth Seeker
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"The FAQ for Alt.Religion.Scientology"
"Tactics OSA uses to stop critics on this newsgroup"
"The Magical Transformation of Church Member into Critic"
JB@nowhere
> This is what OSA tells its members to do in response to my posts:
>
>
> This is a list of actions OSA tells their members to do in
> response to a post made on this newsgroup by a critic or an enemy of
> Scientology. This is a "checklist" of responses each OSA troll uses in
> order to "handle" a critic of Scientology.
I have a ~lot~ of time, nutter...
"Pay no attention to the person behind the screen" ("truth seeker") - The
Wizard of ODZ
If you want TRUTH, look at these:
If you're truly interested in finding out information on the Criminal Cult
of $cientology, go to any of these links - ignore the thing behind the
Truth Seeker
This is a list of actions OSA tells their members to do in
response to a post made on this newsgroup by a critic or an enemy of
Scientology. This is a "checklist" of responses each OSA troll uses in
order to "handle" a critic of Scientology.
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"Scientology's Grand Plan to Stop Critics & Criticism on this
newsgroup!"
"The key to how Scientology is handling this newsgroup"
"The FAQ for Alt.Religion.Scientology"