Kurt Weiland about Elron & Apartheid
Tilman Hausherr
On page 165 of the new german book "Staatsfeind scientology?" by Thomas
Kruchem (no it's not available in english, no it's not available
online), the naive author asks Kurt Weiland whether it is true that
Elron wrote a letter to Verwoerd where he praised the black townships,
and how one should understand the letter? Weiland responds that Elron
gave Vervoerd the "benefit of doubt", but that he changed his mind in
1966, when he proposed a "one man one vote" constitution for Rhodesia,
and was told to get out within a week.
I have only a few pages of the book, but the questioning reads like an
interview by Larry King. Especially the questioning "how to understand
the letter", is asking Weiland to deliver his spin.
cc to Chris Owen
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Chris Owen
<til...@berlin.snafu.de> writes
>Here the latest spin on L. Ron Hubbard's racism:
>
>On page 165 of the new german book "Staatsfeind scientology?" by Thomas
>Kruchem (no it's not available in english, no it's not available
>online), the naive author asks Kurt Weiland whether it is true that
>Elron wrote a letter to Verwoerd where he praised the black townships,
>and how one should understand the letter? Weiland responds that Elron
>gave Vervoerd the "benefit of doubt", but that he changed his mind in
>1966, when he proposed a "one man one vote" constitution for Rhodesia,
>and was told to get out within a week.
This rather begs the question of how Verwoerd's South Africa could have
been involved in throwing Hubbard out of Ian Smith's Rhodesia. I don't
recall the two countries having especially close relations. In any
case, as Weiland knows full well given his Guardian's Office background,
Hubbard continued to support Verwoerd well into the 1970s. He
repeatedly claimed that he had sent Verwoerd a letter warning that of a
"danger in his environment" coming from South African psychiatrists -
Verwoerd was indeed assassinated by a psychiatric patient - but it had
never reached him, and the original copy had been stolen from Saint Hill
Manor. After the death of Verwoerd, psychiatric facilities began to be
used to "treat" political prisoners and dissidents, as also happened in
Russia. The post-Verwoerd regime also set up an enquiry into
Scientology under the judge K.T.C. Kotzé, which eventually reported in
1973 after nearly three years of hearings.
The truth is that Hubbard only reversed his support for the South
African regime when he became convinced that it had been taken over by
psychiatrists. He evidently continued to believe that Verwoerd was one
of the good guys long after the latter's death. The problem was, as he
himself said, not that the blacks were being mistreated but that they
were being inefficiently exploited by their white masters. Apartheid
was never the issue for Hubbard; psychiatry was.
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