(OCR Corrected) Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression
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Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression
The Psychiatric Times - The Newspaper of American Psychiatry
June 1991
A personal aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for eight of her
nearly 20 years with the group says that fluoxetine (Prozac) and therapy
have finally stopped the depression and suicidal ideation she had
suffered since 1976. "I have to speak out." Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield
told The Psychiatric Times. "The Scientologists choose the most
prominent psychiatrists and the most successful drugs to attack. That's
why they attacked Ritalin, and that's why they are now attacking
Prozac."
Although trained as a nurse in South Africa, Hana said she didn't
realize that she had a mental block toward seeking therapy because of
the hatred for psychiatry taught by Hubbard and maintained by his
followers. "It took me five years to get over the fear of going to a
counselor, therapist, or anyone connected with the psychiatric field,"
she said. Then, in 1989, she and her husband, Jerry, also a former
Scientologist, read 'Combating Cult Mind Control' by Steven Hassan.
"Suddenly we realized that there was such a thing as mind control, that
it was practiced by Scientologists and that we had been subjected to
it," she said. It was only then that the "cult personality" began to
fracture."
Once it did, Hana said she gained some frightening insights:
* "Scientology makes people into clones of Hubbard. You can't think
except within the parameters he has set.
* "Auditors [Scientology counselors] are unlicensed practitioners who
don't know that they are putting people into trance states and using
desensitization techniques that appear to work for a time but then the
problem recurs or is replaced by another one."
It was physical illness, depression, and suicidal ideation that finally
pushed Hana out of Scientology. "I got a terrible headache during an
auditing session in 1974 and from then on for 10 years I was almost
never without a migraine," she said. According to Scientology, Hana is
"Clear 60" - she was the 60th person to reach Hubbard's "nirvana state."
Therefore, it was embarrassing to Hubbard that she was having the
headaches since "clears" are not supposed to have physical or emotional
problems. He even supervised her auditing personally for two years, but
the headaches didn't improve. In fact, Hana said, "she was constantly
depressed and the last five years constantly suicidal. The headaches
were so bad I couldn't work two or three days a week, and even the
vibration of a person walking in the hall outside my room made the pain
excruciating. I am five feet nine Inches tall and I weighed only 125
pounds."
Looking back, Hana said the trance state of the auditing process, which
heightens awareness accounts for the headaches she suffered, Hubbard was
hypersensitive, too, particularly to smells, she said. "He would fly
into rages it he could smell soap in his shirts or if the cleaning girl
used a product whose smell irritated him." The trance state also makes
people more suggestible and easier to control, Hana said. She and others
she knew experienced leaving their bodies and other altered states.
"This was what Hubbard wanted us all to attain permanently," she said.
"Now I'm aghast to think about it."
Hana believes that her suicidal ideation resulted from her acceptance of
Scientology's doctrines of reincarnation and karma. "If I was
experiencing such pain in the present, what was the bad thing from the
past that had caused it?" Hana said. "I couldn't find it and it haunted
me."
For nearly 20 years, Scientology was her whole life. At one time, Hana
said, "I was in charge of a whole block of international affairs." But
in 1981 she made a decision to leave: "I decided 'if I don't leave while
I know I have to, I won't make it.' I knew I had to get away so I could
think." It still took three years for her to make the final break.
Nine months ago, Hana began counseling with a social worker from the
Cult Clinic at Jewish Family Services in Los Angeles who recommended
that she ask her physician for an antidepressant. The endocrinologist
she had been seeing for migraine headaches prescribed fluoxetine. Hana
said she feels calm for the first time in years. "I can think more
clearly now, my memory is coming back, I can assess situations and reach
logical conclusions and express my feelings again." she said. "It's
taken me nine months to be able to let people know the good Prozac can
do. It has changed my life around."
Before beginning counseling and fluoxetine treatment, Hana said,
discussing her experiences often triggered so much emotion she would
have to pull back. Now she said she can speak freely and help her
husband with their work. The couple offers, their services to people who
are concerned for a family member who is in Scientology.
There is no coercion or kidnapping involved, Hana said. "We just talk
with them. And because of our experiences, many see more clearly."
How it Began
Hana Eltringham was a nurse in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1965 when
she took her first Scientology course on the recommendation of a
physician with whom she worked. Her instructors encouraged her to
continue, and she moved to England for more advanced training. She came
to Los Angeles in 1966 for additional training. "I loved the
organization," she said. "What I didn't like was the race that Americans
live in."
In 1967, she accepted an opportunity to leave the United States to work
personally with L. Ron Hubbard on a "secret project." She was not told
where she was going and had to change planes a couple of times in
Europe, eventually reaching the Canary Islands and a refurbished cattle
ferry called the "Royal Scotsman," where she spent the next eight years.
During that time she witnessed Hubbard having innumerable "unpredictable
raging, screaming tantrums for the least irritation." At other times,
"he would sulk in his cabin for days if a project didn't go well or he
didn't think the mechanic had fixed his car properly. He would be
petulant, mope and cry and moan.
"I once saw him lift Michael Douglas [another aide] by the shirt neck,
shove him against a wall, and scream in his face for five or six
minutes." Hana said, "It was uncivilized, a barbaric kind of thing."
Despite their fear of Hubbard, however, Hana said both she and other
staff members rationalized that his behavior was due to the pressures of
wanting to save the world. "We revered him, there's no doubt about it,"
she said. "I and most of my associates saw him almost as God incarnate."
While Hubbard never made claim to that title, she said, he did claim to
be the reincarnation of Buddha in a book he wrote called The Hymn of
Asia. In retrospect, she said: "He was a deranged man. He wasn't
anywhere near normal."
During those years, she also heard Hubbard rail against psychiatry. "The
gist was that psychiatry was intent on destroying Dianetics and
Scientology because it was the only practice that could cure people who
had been treated by psychiatrists," she said. As a nurse, Hana said she
only had four weeks of training on a psychiatric ward, which she found
"most unpleasant." She witnessed one patient administered ECT without
medication, which left her shaken. "I never saw the positive side of
psychiatry, so his [Hubbard's] prejudices fed into my own."
Afterward
Although they never met while in the Church of Scientology, Hana and
Jerry both left the cult in 1984. They met shortly after that, were
married in 1985, and together have faced harassment from Scientologists.
After he was accused of writing a bomb threat to Sterling Management, a
front group for Scientology, Jerry showed investigators papers about the
"PC Freakout," a Scientology plot to discredit author Paulette Cooper,
who had written a scathing book about the group, accusing her of a
similar plot. "As it turned out, the private investigator looking into
the matter was a handwriting expert and already knew I hadn't printed
the note," he said. Private investigators lured by Scientology still
question neighbors, family, and friends. Jerry said be takes their
pictures and goes out to talk to them whenever he sees them.
"Hubbard taught them to rule by fear and intimidation using harassment
tactics," Hana said of the current Scientology leadership. "The more you
speak out and tell the truth, the less they harass you. When they start
bothering us we contact the national media."
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Scientology's War an Psychiatry
The Church of Scientology has long been at war with the mental health
field, its biggest financial competitor. Its Citizens Commission on
Human Rights, which refers to itself as the "Psych Busters," has focused
its most vociferous attacks on some of the most efficacious psychiatric
treatments.
* Ritalin
Calling psychiatrists "baby druggers" and methylphenidate "a chemical
straightjacket," CCHR directly and indirectly contributed to at least 13
lawsuits filed by parents of children taking Ritalin. It also blanketed
the country with press releases and interviews in which the group made
inaccurate claims and misinterpreted legitimate research on the drug.
* ECT
Following up on L. Ron Hubbard's particular dislike of electroconvulsive
therapy, CCHR has claimed ECT causes permanent brain damage and is
forced on patients by "ambitious" psychiatrists. CCHR has picketed
conferences, spread inaccurate information about its use and effects,
and rallied government officials to support a ban on the treatment. Most
recently, CCHR has promoted a campaign in San Francisco to severely
limit its use and has lobbied a sympathetic state lawmaker (who
introduced legislation a few years ago on Ritalin) to introduce a bill
to put further controls on ECT.
* Prozac
Claiming that psychiatrists and Eli Lily are "accomplices to murder" and
fluoxetine is a "killer drug", CCHR has encouraged people to submit
adverse drug reaction claims to the FDA and bring lawsuits against Eli
Lilly and psychiatrists. It has also picketed the stock exchange in an
effort to hurt drug companies' profits, started the national "Prozac
Survivors Support Group" in an attempt to show popular support for its
claims about fluoxetine, and lobbied government officials to take the
drug off the market.
National Media Beginning to Reveal Scientology's Anti-Psychiatry Tactics
"(Mental health] is a dirty inhuman rotten field, full of graft,
misappropriation, phoney authoritarianism and betrayal. Because
it is like this we get a back flash from it. We are the only
ones in it who have clean hands and effective technology. So we
have no choice but to NOISILY CLEAN IT UP."
- L. Ron Hubbard, quoted in a 1980 "Psych Buster" memo
issued by Scientology's CCHR
The Church of Scientology, one of the oldest and certainly the most
powerful of the anti-psychiatry groups, has become more public in its
attacks on pharmaceuticals and ECT in recent years, while continuing to
gather material covertly to use against psychiatry. They may be paying a
price for this boldness, however, as two prestigious national
publications - first The Wall Street Journal in April and then Time
magazine in May - have broken a long silence in the media, carrying
critical articles about the damage the organization is doing, both in
its hate campaigns and to individuals seeking help for personal
problems.
"Scientology is the most dangerous cult out there in terms of its impact
on American society," according to Cynthia Kisser, executive director of
the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). "It's a terrorist organization." CAN
receives so many complaints about Scientology that it is designated as a
separate category and, in 1990, ranked second only to the general
category of Satanism in the number of complaint calls. "From January to
August of 1990 we had 506 phone complaints and 80 write-ins specifically
about Scientology," she said. That doesn't sound like many, but it is
for just one specific cult."
Although the group has many "front" organizations that try to hide and
downplay their links to Scientology (see sidebar below), the most public
anti-psychiatry arm of the group has tried to position itself as a
grassroots organization standing up for the mentally ill. Sanford Block,
executive director, and Dennis Clarke, president of the church's
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), have become familiar faces
on television talk shows, their quotes appearing regularly in major
publications. Founded in 1969, the group has been behind some of the
most sensationalized attacks on psychiatry, the most recent being
directed against Eli Lilly's antidepressant, fluoxetine (Prozac).
"Prozac is a killer psychiatric drug which is destroying thousands of
lives," Block said in one of 16 similar 1990 news releases obtained by
The Psychiatric Times. "Psychiatrists are making a lot of money turning
people psychotic with Prozac and then claiming that these drug reactions
are the person's own mental problems," he said. Clarke, a former solar
heating salesman, now uses his emotionally charged pitch to sell the
public at distorted facts such as this diatribe made on "Donahue" in
February about fluoxetine: "...people are killing themselves and making
it appear to be accidents. ...It appears to be accidents because the
drug is producing in these people an obsessive violent need to kill and
to be killed."
According to Edward West, director of corporate communications for Eli
Lilly, "The producers of 'Donahue' were apparently duped by the
Scientologists into presenting this very biased and outrageous program.
This show is only one example of how the media has, for the most part,
been manipulated by a highly orchestrated, pervasive,
Scientology-inspired, public relations campaign. This campaign is
designed to frighten patients away not only from Prozac but from their
psychiatrists as well and into the clutches of Scientology."
CCHR uses a variety of tactics to wage its war against psychiatry,
sending out press releases, publishing a newsletter, picketing
conferences and the stock exchange, and encouraging people to inform
them and the FDA of psychiatric abuses and adverse reactions to
psychiatric treatment. CCHR news releases may reach many rural Americans
without being edited. When Linda White, editor of a small rural
newspaper in Virginia, was asked why she had run an unedited Scientology
news release, she told The Wall Street Journal that small newspapers
don't have the resources to verify information in press releases. All
those who read the Smyth County Mews that week were informed that: "A
nationwide warning has been issued on the psychiatric antidepressant
drug Prozac cautioning that the drug can generate intense, violent
suicidal thoughts and can push unsuspecting users of the drug to commit
murder." It did not include any comments from psychiatrists, Eli Lilly,
or the Food and Drug Administration.
"I'd never heard of this group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights,
and I didn't know they were associated with Scientology until I read The
Wall Street Journal story," White said. "I never got any response from
readers for our story, but right after The Wall Street Journal article
ran, they (CCHR) contacted me and asked if they could send me some
information. Two days later I received a three inch stack of information
by Federal Express. It must have cost them a lot."
CCHR keeps close tabs on what is reported on psychiatry in the media.
When Newsweek touted Prozac as a new wonder drug last year, CCHR
International sent a telex to its local offices encouraging them to
flood the magazine with letters condemning the "promotion of such
barbarism. This is a declaration of war!" Once the small Teicher study
was published in February 1990 on the intense suicidal ideation observed
in six patients taking Prozac, lawsuits were filed using the "Prozac
defense," saying the drug made people kill themselves and/or others.
CCHR stepped up its attack, organizing the national "Prozac Survivors
Support Group" in which depressed patients who have taken fluoxetine are
encouraged to blame the drug for any suicidal or homicidal ideation or
actions they might experience. (See May TPT). They enclosed FDA adverse
reaction forms in their mailing, encouraging people to report their
symptoms to the FDA.
In March a local Chicago television station alerted viewers that
picketers at the trade center who were urging people not to buy stock in
pharmaceutical companies were actually Scientologists from CCHR. And in
April, The Wall Street Journal reported that Lilly's share of the
antidepressant market had dropped from 25 to 21 percent.
ECT
ECT, another long-term CCHR target, is getting headlines in San
Francisco where CCHR and other antipsychiatry factions triggered
hearings to tighten restrictions on its use in that city. On April 30
the California Assembly's Public Safety Committee passed AB 1817 out of
committee without the provision (lobbied for by CCHR) that any voluntary
or involuntary patient could refuse ECT treatment, even if ordered by
the court. The bill would make appointment of a patient's rights
advocate mandatory, even over the patient's objects.
In a prior court certified declaration. Clarke testified as to CCHR's
position: "ECT 'works' by causing brain damage, and the resultant memory
loss as well as loss of cognitive ability is both random and permanent."
Hubbard's Hate Campaign
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, began expounding his theories
about the source and cure of all mental illness in his earliest science
fiction articles as well as his first book -- Dianetics: 'The Modern
Science of Mental Health -- still considered Scientology's "bible,"
according to Louis Jolyon (Jolly) West, M.D., professor and former chair
of the psychiatry and biobehavioral department at UCLA. "I think it was
related to his own recurrent psychiatric illness, which it appears he
first suffered while in the Navy during World War II, although the Navy,
quite correctly, never released information on his medical record."
There are, however, public records that support that theory -- letters
Hubbard wrote to the Veterans Administration in 1947 asking for
psychiatric treatment. "Towards the end of my [military] service."
Hubbard wrote, "I avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping
that time would balance a mind which I had even reason to suppose was
seriously affected. I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of
moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize
that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate
myself at all." This and bizarre notations found among his writings,
such as "All men are your slaves," and "You can be merciless whenever
your will is crossed and you have the right to be merciless," were
revealed 40 years later in Los Angeles Superior Court, according to the
June 24, 1990, Los Angeles Times.
But somewhere along the line, Hubbard changed his position about
psychiatry. In a 1968 executive directive obtained by The Psychiatric
Times, Hubbard wrote: "You may not realize it staff member but there is
only one small group that has hammered Dianetics and Scientology for 18
years. The press attacks, the public upsets you receive and all those
you have received for all your time in Scientology were generated by
this one group.
"For 18 years it has poured lies and slander into the press and
government agencies. Last year we isolated a dozen men at the top. This
year we found the organization these used and all its connections over
the world. They are as red as paint. Their former president was a
card-carrying Communist and they have four on their Board of Directors.
yet they reach into International Finance, Health Ministries, Schools,
the press, they even control immigration in many lands".
"Psychiatry and 'Mental Health' was chosen as a vehicle to undermine and
destroy the West!"
Hubbard goes on to compare psychiatrists to Russian infiltrators who
"select out anyone they wish to kill, get him behind closed doors in an
institution and depersonalize or kill him." The "Russians" show up in
other Hubbard writings depicting "enemy." West said Hubbard wrote the
FBI in the 1950s and asked for protection claiming that the Russians
were coming into his room at night to steal information from his
sleeping brain to use in the cold war.
Hubbard reportedly died in 1986, but this recent release from CCHR shows
how his writings and beliefs have carried on in the new leadership:
"Psychiatrists are incapable of curing anyone, and instead do an
incredible amount of damage to the people they treat. Often the people
who have been harmed by psychiatric drugs and treatments go out and kill
or injure other people. This is a very real threat and is a danger to
the safety and lives of the children and families in our communities."
And another CCHR "study," sent to those who ask for information on the
group, lists notorious criminals including Charles Manson and John
Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan, as only having problems because
they had been treated by psychiatrists. "These men were all, at some
time prior to the commission of the crimes for which they are infamous,
locked up by and treated by psychiatrists. Manson was taking several
psychiatric drugs including LSD, as were Hinckley and Chapman (John
Lennon's murderer)."
While it may be difficult to accept that people believe such wild
accusations. Kisser said it was easy for the charismatic Hubbard to
convince the thousands of people in the Scientology cult to believe
psychiatry is evil. "It was important for Hubbard to teach people to
fear psychiatry," she continued, "because with the kinds of abuses in
that group, if you make them afraid of psychiatry, even if they escape
the abuser, they won't go to a psychiatrist for help because they
believe they are worse abusers. I think that's crucial to Scientologists
-- that people who leave not go for help and not get well."
West has followed the group's activities since 1950 and has openly
spoken and written about its dangerousness. He said of Scientology's
current leadership: "Since Hubbard died, I think they have become more
dangerous. Hubbard was eccentric, although some of his ideas were
brilliant. Now the group listens more to its many lawyers and its PR
firms. They try to engage the best law firms so they are not available
for the opposition to hire. They have many front organizations....
Clarke talks convincingly about Ritalin or Prozac. It's baloney."
The new power behind Scientology is believed to be a 31-year-old
second-generation Scientologist named David Miscavige. Described as
"cunning and ruthless" by those who knew him before they left the
organization, Miscavige reportedly was earning commissions toward
becoming an auditor by recruiting "raw meat" (new members, in
Scientology terms) when he was 12 according to Time magazine. At the
same time, Kisser said, he probably knows no other "philosophy" so, in a
sense, he is a victim as well as a victimizer.
There are, in fact, many victims of Scientology. The May 6 Time article
leads with the suicide of a 24-year-old Russian-studies scholar who
jumped from a 10th-floor window clutching $171 "virtually the only money
he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology... ." In the
article, his parents blame the church and say Noah Lottick became
paranoid after seven months of auditing (Scientology's term for
counseling). Five days before his death, he accused his parents of
spreading false rumors about him, the article said. His father called a
psychiatrist for help, but it was too late for Noah.
Scientologists refused to talk with time reporter Richard Behar, but
Earl Cooley, attorney for the group, interviewed on a local Los Angeles
television station on April 29 said, "Mr. Behar is a liar." He also
suggested that Behar represented the IRS and was practicing "yellow
journalism." Cooley dismissed situations related in interviews by Behar
as having never happened, such as that of an elderly woman promised a
cure for grief after her husband died and a couple told they had
personal problems that auditing could cure, who subsequently spent
thousands of dollars for help only to be hounded by Scientologists for
more money. Cooley announced on the program that Scientologists planned
to file suit against the reporter and Time.
When asked whether people are charged $1,000 for counseling, Church of
Scientology president the Rev. Heber Jentzsch, who also appeared on the
show, said: "... people contribute to the church. That's how we make an
existence, you know? "The "contributions" are required, however,
although the language is vague. For example, a price list for its
Celebrity Centre services describes the costs as "donations from
parishioners," listing "minimum requested donations" along with
discounts for members and for advance payment.
"Fair Game"
In the article, Behar quotes Hubbard's 1967 policy letter that all
perceived enemies are "fair game" and should be "tricked, sued, or lied
to or destroyed." He describes harassment Scientologist challengers have
experienced including being "stalked by private eyes, framed for
fictional crimes, beaten up, or threatened with death."
This doctrine has been translated into a calculated and often cunning
use of public relations and information gathering techniques. Time
journalist Behar described his harassment by Scientology in his article,
reporting that the Scientologists hired a private eye to do an illegal
credit check on him and for five months private investigators contacted
family, friends, and neighbors. Behar called Cooley and demanded that
the harassment be stopped. Cooley told him he would "look into it."
The Scientologists use public relations and legal systems to try to
polish their image or hurt their enemies. Not long after Hubbard died.
Scientology hired Hill and Knowlton, a large PR firm, to promote its
image as a healthy, family-minded organization. After the Los Angeles
Times published a series of investigative articles in 1990, the
Scientologists purchased billboards on major freeways and in the city of
Los Angeles that carried quotes taken out of context to make it appear
that the articles praised the cult. It cost Scientologists $1 million,
according to the Time article.
The Cult Awareness Network has also been the subject of hate campaigns,
Kisser said. The CCHR recently sent a letter to all readers of its
magazine Freedom, urging them to buy a pamphlet that accuses CAN of
being antireligious. Kisser said this is only the most recent in a
series of smear campaigns in which CCHR has called CAN antiminority,
atheist, fundamentalist, and "run by Jews."
Scientology's "Roots"
The roots of what would become Scientology derive from articles printed
in the late 1940s in Astounding Science Fiction, a pulp magazine that
paid writer L. Ron Hubbard a penny a word. The origins of Dianetics came
out of that first, rather innocent-appearing science fiction article.
Jolyon West was a resident at Payne-Whitney in New York with an interest
in hypnotism when he read the first edition of Dianetics. He met a
physician named J. A. Winter at a talk he attended about hypnotism. In
discussing their shared interest, Winter told West that he had written
the introduction to Dianetics and that Hubbard knew all about hypnosis.
It was clear to West that the counseling or "auditing" described in
Hubbard's book used hypnosis. Winter subsequently wrote an article
outlining the principles of Dianetics, but it was turned down by both
JAMA and the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Winter introduced West to Hubbard on one occasion but West said: "I
guess I didn't find the man very memorable. I was more interested in the
book which described the auditing technique in which they had preclears
-- or prereleases if just beginners -- count backwards from seven to
zero repeatedly until they went into a trance. Although Hubbard denied
it was hypnosis, Auditors would do an age regression thing and the
subjects would go along with the idea that there was a file clerk in
their minds pulling out bad engrams [memories] that needed to be
cleared."
In 1952, West completed his residency and became a major at Lackland Air
Force base in San Antonio, Texas. Later he examined pilots and other Air
Force personnel returning from Korea who had been brainwashed and forced
to give false confessions. He continued to do follow-up studies for the
Air Force after his discharge in 1956 and never lost interest in the
process of brainwashing. Later, West began speaking and writing about
cults, but he said Scientologists did not view him as an enemy until he
chaired a department of psychiatry -- first in Oklahoma for 15 years and
then at UCLA for 20 -- and became active in the American Psychiatric
Association. He served on one APA panel on cults in which every speaker
received a three-page letter from Scientologists threatening a major
lawsuit if Scientology was mentioned. West was the last to speak and no
one had named the group. "I read parts of the letter to the 1,000-plus
psychiatrists them and then told any Scientologists in the crowd to pay
attention. I said I would like to advise my colleagues that I consider
Scientology a cult and L. Ron Hubbard a quack and a fake. I wasn't about
to let them intimidate me."
He has since been the brunt of a number of "dirty tricks" and several
smear campaigns including one that twisted his antiapartheid trips to
South Africa as being pro-apartheid. He even made the cover of
Scientology's Freedom magazine as a not very flattering cartoon
character. "I was lucky that I was a full-time professor in a big
university like UCLA," he reflected. "Others, like Harvard's Jack Clark,
who was primarily in private practice, nearly had their lives ruined by
the Scientologists."
Scientology sued John G. Clark, M.D., an assistant clinical professor at
Harvard Medical School, after he said in testimony before the Vermont
legislature that the group was a dangerous and harmful cult. Clark said
Scientology's claims against him were groundless and he filed a
countersuit. In 1988, Scientologists paid Clark an undisclosed amount to
withdraw the suit. Clark also agreed not to criticize the group again.
Stopping the Hate Campaign
"No single person or organization can stop the Scientologists," Kisser
said, but she added that the recent national media coverage might have
offered clue to what will work. "Using the national media to educate and
networking among professional groups they go after -- mental health, law
enforcement, education, social service agencies -- that would. If these
groups share information, expert witnesses, former Scientology members'
testimonies about criminal activity in that organization, I think the
group could not stand up to a united legal, ethical stand by
organizations."
West also emphasized the importance of educating the public as well as
mental health and legal professionals. He called for more judges who,
under standing how people's judgment is affected by auditing, would be
willing to grant short-term conservatorships for concerned families. He
also said lawyers need to file more cases for those who invested and
lost their money to Scientologists claiming they could cure them of
mental problems.
Scientology must begin to lose legal cases such as these, he said. That
would stop them.
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Scientology "Front" Organizations
A number of organizations holding health care management conferences,
operating alcohol and substance abuse detoxification programs, offering
school tutorials and essay contests, and organizing a coalition of
religions to defend religious freedom in the courts have been found to
be affiliated with the Church of Scientology. While the affiliation of
some groups such as the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) --
whose logo proclaims it has been "investigating and exposing psychiatric
violations of human rights since 1969" -- have been made public, others
have not. When you see the names of these organizations in the future,
read "Scientology":
Either the Religious Technology Center (RTC), a nonprofit group, or
Author Services, Inc. (ASI), a for-profit group, control every
organization in the Scientology network. Administrators in these groups
are members of Sea Org who wear navy-like uniforms and take billion-year
loyalty oaths.
Celebrity Centre is an organization whose aim is to draw well-known,
influential people into Scientology. Several movie stars including Tom
Cruise, John Travolta, and Kirstie Alley allow their names to be used as
supporters of Scientology programs.
Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Education, Los Angeles, is
a nonprofit foundation that attempts to link with scientists across the
country in an attempt to legitimize Hubbard's drug and chemical
detoxification program and to attract influential leaders from science
and education to Scientology. The foundation holds stock in Health Med,
a chain of clinics run by Scientologists with offices in Los Angeles and
Sacramento, which administers a detoxification or purification program
using a regimen of exercise, excessive sweating, and vitamins, according
to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
National Toxics Campaign draws public attention to pollution problems in
an effort to draw clients to the purification program. The program is
also used in Scientology's 33 Narconon centers in 12 countries for drug
and alcohol rehabilitation, and there is a prison version of the program
called Criminon. A flyer on Narconon claims that: "in mistreating drug
addiction... psychiatry makes billions, destroying millions of lives in
the process. ...[Millions] urgently need an upstat place, free of
psychiatry's destructive treatments, where they can be fully
rehabilitated with 100% Standard Tech and then go on up from there."
(The term "upstat," one of many invented by Hubbard, refers to being
ethical and productive: down-stat means not producing adequately for the
group. The phrase "100% Standard Tech" refers to Hubbard's repeated
insistence that everything in Scientology be "done according to the
"technology" he devised, otherwise it was "out-tech." "Go on up from
there" presumably means going up "The Bridge," or series of auditing
sessions, in order to become "clear" of "engrams.") Kirstie Alley is a
spokesperson for this organization.
The Concerned Businessmen's Association of America is run by
Scientologists, though not otherwise connected to the church of
Scientology. This group and The Way to Happiness Foundation distribute
to schools a moralistic pamphlet written by Hubbard. They run a national
essay contest called "Set a Good Example" and offer $5,000 awards to the
top elementary, junior high, and high school winners. School officials
contacted said they were not aware of the Scientology affiliation,
according to a June 27, 1990, Los Angeles Times article. The program's
critics claim it is aimed at initiating children into Scientology.
Applied Scholastics has announced plans to build a 1,000 acre campus to
train educators to teach a tutorial program designed by Hubbard and
aimed primarily at public schools with high minority enrollment and low
standardized testing scores, according to the Los Angeles Times. The
program is expensive -- $27,000 to train 125 students in one 1990
proposal -- and simplistic. A primary solution to test score problems
offered in the course is to use a dictionary. Narconon and Criminon as
well as Applied Scholastics and Way to Happiness Foundation are
administered by ABLE (The Association for Better Living and Education).
WISE (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises) licenses management
consulting firm, to teach Hubbard's management technique in seminars to
health care workers. Among these companies are:
Sterling Management Systems of Glendale, Calif., which markets primarily
to dentists and has been listed for several years by Inc. magazine as
one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States.
Singer Consulting of Clearwater, Fla., founded by Scientologist David
Singer. He later split the company and claims the current David Singer
Enterprises does not use Hubbard philosophy, according to an article in
the March 1990 issue of Podiatry. Those who attended earlier courses
said they signed up at Flag Service Organization, Scientology's
spiritual center in Clearwater. Singer sold part of the original
corporation to three Scientologists, who named their consulting firm
after themselves -- Irons, Marcus, and Valko (IMV), and who do base
their seminars on Hubbard's teachings.
Hollander Consultants in Oregon has expanded its market from the
Northwest to include Canada and all of the United States.
Uptrends, located in Concord, N.H., targets computer professionals
rather than health care providers.
Other groups believed to be connected to Scientology through WISE
include investment brokers Southgate Partners, Stockbridge Partners, and
Junkyard Partners, as well as Executive Software, Stryker Systems, and
several companies owned by the Feshbach Brothers.
The Religions Freedom Crusade has attempted to attract representatives
of various mainline religions, convincing them that lawsuits brought
against the Church of Scientology constitute a threat to all churches.
It advises Scientologists to attend churches and, after the service,
compliment the ministers on their sermons and invite them to speak at
their church. The strategy also includes making friends with the
minister's wife and other members of the congregation and, once in, "to
get the ministers to write a notarized affidavit or letter stating that
'Scientology is a bona fide religion.'" It uses Scientology publications
Freedom and Crusader to promote its causes.
NCLE (National Commission on Law Enforcement) organizes opposition to
INTERPOL which has been investigating Scientology.
The National Coalition of IRS Whistle-Blowers is aimed at uncovering
abuses by the IRS, which also has been investigating Scientology and has
issued charges that the group owes back taxes. The Citizens for an
Alternative Tam System (CATS) campaigns to do away with income tax and
the IRS entirely.
Bridge Publications Inc. of Los Angeles, does not publicize that it is
founded and controlled by Scientologists. The company has offered
"gifts" to book distributors, and a former salesman said he was given a
list of booksellers believed to be among those whose sales are used to
set The New York Times best seller list and told to promise them that
Hubbard's books would "sell well" if they would stock them, according to
an article in the June 28, 1990, Los Angeles Times. One major book chain
reported receiving books from distributors that already had its sticker
an them. It appeared that Hubbard's books were being purchased to run up
the number of books sold, then turned over to distributors to be sold
again, a spokesman for the book stores said.
New Era Publications of Ann Arbor, Mich., was first listed by Publishers
Weekly as having no ties with the Church of Scientology in 1988 when it
filed the first of two suits charging copyright violations against two
authors quoting unpublished L. Ron Hubbard works. But, in a February
1990 article, the company is listed as affiliated with Scientology.
The Office of Special Affairs at Los Angeles was formerly the Guardian
Office, Scientology's investigative and harassment center. Several
members of this group, including Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue, planned
retaliation measures including smear campaigns and dirty tricks for
individuals and groups, within or outside of Scientology, who were
considered "enemies". They eventually were convicted of breaking into
and burglarizing an IRS center and Justice Department offices, and 11
scientologists, including Mary Sue, were sentenced to five years in
prison. When 134 FBI agents stormed the Los Angeles Guardian offices,
they carted off 48,000 documents detailing operations against public and
private "enemies" as well as eavesdropping and burglary equipment. It
was then that the office was renamed and the group began to hire private
detectives to do their investigations, according to an article in the
June 24, 1990, Los Angeles Times.
Educational Funding Services, a sham company in Los Angeles, illegally
acquired credit reports on a reporter from Time who was doing a story
about Scientology. The owner of the mail drop receiving the reports was
a private detective hired by a former police officer now working for
Scientology, according to an article in the May 6 issue of Time.
SirLagsALot
l.l.lipshitz
Tilman Hausherr <tilman...@snafu.de> wrote:
| I have read and corrected the text of the article below. There are
| *many* corrections, but most are minimal, mostly punctuation. One major
| error: after "to take the drug off the market" the normal article
| continues. Another: after "When they start bothering us we contact the
| national media" the article ends, and a new article ("National Media
| Beginning to Reveal Scientology's Anti-Psychiatry Tactics") starts.
|
| A simple HTML version is available on request (each paragraph here as
| one paragraph in HTML, but without the links in the original article).
|
| Save this if you want a "clean" version for your archives.
|
| http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/psychiatric-times-1991.htm
| Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression
2 small additional 'clean-ups':
'Smyth County Mews' probably should be
'Smyth County News'.
the phrase 'them and then' probably should be
'there and then'.
a simple text search will find these strings.
[...]
-elle
--------=[ l.l.lipshitz * elkube(at)lycos(dot)com ]=--------
people are not only innately stupid,
they are ambitiously so. -kk
Barbara Schwarz
SirLagsALot wrote:
> "Tilman Hausherr" <tilman...@snafu.de> wrote in message
> news:l2clk115emevvtj58...@4ax.com...
I usually ignore the lies that Tilman Hausherr posts. I read so many
from him already, and enough already of his lies about me.
What did you do with the 1000 Pounds of dogfood, that you stole,
Randall? Did you grow a fur and a tail?
Barbara Schwarz
***********
Tilman Joerg Hausherr from Berlin, Germany (hired by Siemens and
married to Ilse Hruby-Plechl, a nurse) is an anti-religious harasser
and defamer. He is pro Eugenics, defends psychiatrists who sexually or
otherwise abused patients, is a German governmental agent and wants to
hurt the American tourism.
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/hauser1.html
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/whistle/cwletters/cw2.html
http://groups.google.com/group/de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology/msg/1f01f4169cd33abe?dmode=source
Tilman Hausherr posted approx. 24.000 aniti-religious hate messages on
Usenet and his thinking is compared to that of Hitler.
http://www.alarmgermany.org/tilman.htm
Tilman Hausherr is cold, cruel, fanatic and unprofessional
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Tilman+Hausherr&btnG=Google+Search&domains=BERNIE.CNCFAMILY.COM&sitesearch=BERNIE.CNCFAMILY.COM
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/sitemap.htm
About OPC agent Tilman Hausherr and his company Siemens which made and
delivered WMD to Saddam and covered it up:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/7d8ffac20e4dd581?dmode=source&hl=en
***************
Wikipedia founder Jim Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is/was the owner/ CEO of porn
search engine Bomis.com. That may also explain why Wikipedia is such a
libel machine in which "contributor" gangs have the only saying as e.g.
the gang supporting Tilman Hausherr or Marty Sharp of Chillicothe, MO
64601. Wikipedia's "Monitor Hall" applies Wikipedia "policies" only for
the advantage of their "contributing" gang members and deletes any
information that reveals their "contributors" as the lawless people or
criminals as they are. "Monitor Hall" suppresses any speech that he
does not like and abuses his Wikpedia "monitor" postition. "Monitor
Hall's" Wikipedia profile says that he is a Canadian living in Liberty
Lake, Washington, who is mainly interested in sport and entertainment,
which means that he is not even qualified to edit information on me. I
hope that Wikipedia and their gang contributors are being sued for
Millions of Dollars by their victims. People who go to Wikipedia for
education purposes are fools!
Marty Sharp lives at home with his dad but often posts from Olathe,
KS. He stole the ID's of many people and forged them on his website.
Sharp posts with "Simkatu" or "Anus Simkatu" (Yuk!) on Usenet and stole
the ID "Vivaldi" to spread lies about me on Wikipedia. Geocities just
canceled his criminal website http://www.geocities.com/martysharpgolf/.
The police chief of Chillicothe, MO, is very interested in any
information on Marty Sharp.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=simkatu&qt_s=Search
Sharp/Sinkatu defames, libels, harasses and stalks anti-suicide
encouragement activist Patrick Sullivan and me in mentally retarted and
insulting websites, and Sharp blocks the domains in which we live that
we can't read his libel, so the corrupt fool thinks.
One day Sharp/Simkatu/"Vivaldi" claims to be a mechanical engineer,
another a day he claims to be a bioengineer, a biomedical engineer and
a member of the Biomedical Engineer Society. Lol!
********
Tilman Hausherr
<elk...@lycos.invalid> wrote:
> 2 small additional 'clean-ups':
>
> 'Smyth County Mews' probably should be
> 'Smyth County News'.
>
> the phrase 'them and then' probably should be
> 'there and then'.
Thanks!
Tilman
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