OSA Policy For Scios. To Post to ARS ; Safe.
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Date: 10/31/98 5:27:28 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Safe
To: Fellow Scientologists
Hi Fellow Scientologists,
I just learned today that it is "against policy" to post to ARS or
answer an "entheta" message because it supposed invites a half dozen
more messages that the "SPs" love to post. That's true if the
response is not an honest one. I've replied to alleged SP's and I
discovered that by treating them with respect, that they were not
SP's after all. It was a lie. You know you can make your own SP's.
I've cognited that the product of a true SP is ... "Enemies." Ask
yourself exactly WHO are actively CREATING enemies. That will be your
true SP.
I also never knew about TNX, which is an email list for
Scientologists.
Scientologists are free to communicate on this list with other
Scientologists without getting hassled by SP's. However it may not be
so free because the TNX list owner coordinates closely with OSA. So
one needs to watch their mouths and post only orthodox messages.
OSA now dictates what Scientologists can and cannot say and WHOM they
can talk to.
OSA claims it's their hat to handle the ARS group, which I see
they're doing such a wonderful job of. I imagine it's "their" hat to
clean up the mental health field. This INCLUDES us too you know.
There is always the possibility of that danger and I believe Ron has
warned of this.
I do not remember at anytime when subjected myself to agree with all
the internal church organization policies being enforced on OUTSIDE
Scientologists who are not staff. If somebody can show me a reference
where a Scientologists are forced to believe and abide by the
internal org policies, I'd like to see the reference please.
I'd like to indicate another fact that OSA's rules for Scientologists
to NOT post to ARS runs CONTRARY to our Church Creed, Code of Honor,
Code of a Scientologist, and even the senior tech on communication.
So there are very few Scientologists there posting real
communications there when there should be. Scientologists look like
they're hiding and can't take the heat by doing so.
To positively document what I say, I give you some reminders of
quotes from the above codes I mentioned. .... (Capitalization is mine)
"To keep Scientologists, the public and the press ACCURATELY informed
concerning Scientology, the world of mental health and society."
(This is all I've been doing and yet I just got complained about
again by a very few individuals regarding me "disrupting" the
fellowship of our board which resulted in another posting violation
for me. I believe they are out for blood. Those of you who know my
intentions know mine are only good. The only thing I'm "disrupting"
is somebody's fixed opinions.)
"To decry and do all I can to abolish ANY and ALL abuses against life
and mankind."
"To work FOR freedom of speech in the world."
(For an informed Scientologist to stop free speech is the very first
indication that they themselves need to be investigated for
suppressiveness. Entheta is only lies. Word clear the word. Entheta
is not what one can't confront. The LAST person in the world to stop
an honest communication should be a Scientologist. I agree that lies
are not ok and they ARE entheta. But as far as I know, no entheta has
been posted to this board. Somebody let me know
if there has.)
"To set an example of the effectiveness and WISDOM of Scientology."
"That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk
freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or
write upon the opinions of others."
(Of course this doesn't give a license to lie. But who's lying?)
"Never compromise with your own reality."
(No doubt many Scientologists compromise their reality regarding our
own church creed (above last) by taking illegal orders to not
communicate. Please read Dianetics 55!. I believe they do so out of
fear of consequences, which leads to the next statement by Ron.. )
"Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than your
immediate life."
(I believe too many people are worried about their own behind. This
is politics.)
What I speak here is REAL Scientology. It's PURE. It's HONESTY. I
believe all of us Scientologists need to get back to the basics and
really KNOW and APPLY our basic church precepts as listed in ...
The Creed of the Church of Scientology
The Code of a Scientologist
The Code of honor
These are all basic and take precedence over any illegal policy or
order. Remember that. I think a critic would be hard pressed to
disagree with these basic beliefs of our religion. The problem lies
in the PRACTICING of those creeds and codes.
In view of the above, read below from the TNX administrator and you
can see for yourself if REAL Scientology is being practiced or not.
It is very eye opening indeed.
Yours for get back to the BASIC CREEDS and CODES of our great
religion,
Safe
Date: XXX, XX XXX 199X XX:XX:XX -0700
From: Ron Chester ron@T...
Subject: [deleted for security reasons]
To: xxx@y...
Message-ID: XXX@apollo
[personal detail & greeting deleted]
Here's the story. As TNX Administrator, it is sometimes necessary for
me to look around ars a bit, usually in response to applications for
TNX
that have been submitted. I have also become our liaison with the
person handling the Internet at OSA Int, and we have developed a good
working relationship. As a result of a number of comm cycles with
OSA,
I learned that the Church does not want any Church public posting to
this entheta forum. We have never made a point of this publicly on
TNX,
because we found that, in the past, TNX posts that discussed how to
handle ars somehow ended up reposted to ars.
As an alternative, I worked up a write-up that addresses the most
commonly asked questions about ars. I send this to people when needed
on a case by case basis, rather than posting it to all of TNX.
Now a while back I was looking around ars, because of an application
to
TNX that we had received. In the course of doing that, I discovered
that you had posted quite a few messages to ars. So before saying
anything to you about it, I called OSA to see if they had changed
their
view of this at all. Once again, I found that they consider that it
is
their hat to handle ars, and they do not want any public posting to
ars
for any reason. They asked me to refer you to the relevant policies,
and
to ask you to stop.
So here goes. I will separately email you (from my other address) our
write-up of TNX rules about handling entheta on the net. I want to
emphasize an LRH quote that we use at the beginning of that write-up:
"The man who has no impulse to set things right is insane."
-- LRH, "Operation Manual for the Mind" lecture
So we acknowledge your efforts as stemming from a sane impulse to
clean
up this entheta site! And there is even a possibility that you did it
in coordination with your local DSA. (If so, please let me know.) I
have
found that sometimes there is a lack of coordination between OSA Int
and
the local level. In any case, here are some policies that would be
good
to look at. Please take the time to look them over in their original
form, not just the parts I have quoted here. And recognize that my
intention is not to make you wrong in any way, or to indicate
anything
about your case or any ethics situation. But this tech needs to be
aligned, as it applies to ars (which LRH never wrote about
specifically).
1. Data Series 43RA: Evaluation and Programs (OEC Mgmt Series, Vol
1,
p. 172)
This just establishes that OSA has the hat of "handling the
public
and acceptance of Scientology..."
2. HCOPL 16 Aug 66 Iss II Clearing Course Security (OEC Vol 1, p.
627)
"Any sort of squirrel activity, contact with declared SPs or
suppressive groups... would be grounds for suspicion." It also states
that there would be no grounds for suspicion, if unsolicited mailings
received from suppressive groups are turned in unread to the Ethics
Officer.
3. HCOPL 7 Jun 65 Iss II Entheta Letters (OEC Vol 2, p. 661-9)
This is the basic hat write-up on how to handle entheta comm,
which
is the dead file system.
"Therefore it is illegal as can be to handle entheta letters or
ethics reports in any other way than to and by Ethics." -- p. 663
"Dead file does *not* cover business firms demanding bills,
government squawks or dangerous suits or situations. [OSA now handles
the latter- RC] It covers only entheta public letters received on any
line including
SO #1." --p. 664
"Ethics seeing somebody answer an entheta letter ... should order
a
hearing on the person." --p. 666
"It is the *full* intention that:
4. That the line be cut completely." --p. 667
4. Admin Know-How Series 16: Suppressives and the Administrator
(OEC Vol 1, p. 1028-30)
"An SP (suppressive person) is unable to change because he cannot,
himself, confront. He is badly "out of valence". --p. 1028
"Our policy is we don't waste time on them. To cater to them is
to
betray 90 percent of the population. So we set them aside for
another day. --p. 1029
5. HCOB 10 Sep 83 PTSness and Disconnection (OEC Vol 1, p. 1041-4)
"If one has the right to communicate, then one must also have the
right to not receive communication from another." --p. 1041
"The term "disconnection" is defined as a self-detemined decision
made by an individual that he is not going to be connected to
another. It is a severing of a communication line." p. 1042
"An Ethics Officer can encounter a situation where someone is
factually connected to a suppressive person, in present time.
This
is a person whose normal operating basis is one of making others
smaller, less able, less powerful. He does not want anyone to
get
better, at all." --p. 1043
"In such an instance the PTS isn't going to get anywhere trying to
"handle" the person. The answer is to sever the connection.
"To fail or refuse to disconnect from a suppressive person not
only
denies the PTS case gain, it is also *supportive* of the
suppressive-- in itself a Suppressive Act. And it must be so
labeled."
--p. 1044
6. PR Series 27: The Enemy Line (OEC Mgmt Series Vol 3, p. 102-3)
"There is a maxim in PR or advertising that A MESSAGE MUST BE
REPEATED OVER AND OVER TO IMPINGE ON A GIVEN PUBLIC.
An enemy group usually originates several carefully worked-out
entheta statements." --p. 102
"NEVER FORWARD AN ENEMY CAMPAIGN ON YOUR OWN OR OTHER LINES!
Don't deny rumors for that is what they want you to do." --p.
103
Whew, that's a lot! BTW the three most important are probably #3, 5,
&
6, especially #6.
This is what I have observed on ars. Nearly everytime an on-lines
Scn'ist posts a message, regardless of its content, it brings on an
entheta response (and sometimes many) from the sps. So even though
you
may not quote their entheta (and thus forward it along), your response
gives them a reason to state it again, and again and again...
I believe this may be the main reason OSA does not want public posting
to ars. I have seen threads started by Scn'ists that have been
followed
by a dozen or more entheta replies. Or a Scn'ist will post a reply
to a
thread, and this will spawn another batch of entheta responses. So if
we post anything, no matter how theta, to an entheta forum, it can
cause
the volume of entheta to increase many times over. That's why the sps
love it when Scn'ists start posting to ars. It gives them another
chance to state their enemy lines over and over again.
I created TNX so there would be a theta forum for Scn'ists, so that
they
could leave ars behind. Per #4 above, I think your time would be
better
spent on TNX, rather than messing around with ars. Leave that task to
the staff at OSA.
Again, no make wrong intended. Let me know if you have any questions
or
disagreements on any of this.
Thanks... Ron Chester
TNX Administrator
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