WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST INVESTIGATE THE CRIMES, ABUSES AND FRAUDS OF THE SCIENTOLOGY ENTERPRISE
This is a copy of copy of a speech Graham E. Berry gave to F.E.C.R.I.S. (the umbrella group for European anti-cult organizations) in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday May 15.
WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST INVESTIGATE THE CRIMES, ABUSES AND FRAUDS OF THE SCIENTOLOGY ENTERPRISE
Ladies and Gentleman:
Thank you F.E.C.R.I.S. for inviting me to present this paper and I thank you too to you to the governments of France and Germany for making it financially possible to be a presenter at this conference. Today, I address you in St. Petersburg, Russia, from where I urge and petition the United States federal government to investigate the extensive evidence of egregious human rights and civil rights abuses, criminal conduct and financial frauds committed by a tax-exempt American sect cult called the Church of Scientology. Scientology’s financial center is next door to another and but much smaller St. Petersburg, a city, near in Clearwater, Florida.
A full presentation of the reasons and evidence supporting such an investigation of the Scientology tax-exempt, and racketeering enterprise would take many days and fill many volumes. Accordingly, in this speech I shall merely highlight some of the issues and information that, in my opinion, cries outbegs for investigation, correction and compensation.
Scientology was founded in 1953 by a science fiction writer and Satanist, L. Ron Hubbard, who had been declared as unfit for any command position or promotion in the U.S. Navy. Scientology has since been called the most dangerous of all cults and it now has holds a special position among psycho-terror groups. If terrorism can be defined as achieving one’s aims through fear, then the Scientology enterprise has an extensive history of terrorism that no responsible government can or should continue to ignore.
In brief, and according to U.S. Federal Court Judge Leona Brinkema, “Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler Xenu over 75 million years ago. These dead alien spirits attach themselves by “clusters” to individuals in the contemporary world, causing spiritual harm and negatively influencing the lives of their hosts.” Scientology charges enormous hourly fees, sometimes as much as $1,200 per hour, to use a primitive lie detector called an E meter to remove a Scientologist’s Body Thetans. HoweverAs if this were not odious enough, the auditing process is never ending. The Body Thetans on the Scientologist also have their own Body Thetans dwelling upon them. They too have to be removed, at the expense of the individual Sscientologist because Body Thetans, also known as “BTs and Clusters,” do not have any money to pay for Scientology processing themselves. Indeed, it is not unusual for Scientologists to spend over a million dollars trying to deal with their own BTs and Clusters and the BTs and Clusters that cling to those BTs. For everyone except Scientologists, Scientology beliefs can easily be found on the internet with search terms such as Xenu, Operating Thetan, OT III, Scientology and upper levels. Indeed, since November 16, 2005, many millions of people have learned about Scientology’s secret OT teachings from the “Trapped in the Closet” episode of the South Park television show.
However, the investigation and prosecution being called for is not about whether or not Scientology works to cure all physical, mental and emotional conditions and will work as the universal world government and provider of all medical and mental health services, all of which Scientology claims, practices and is intent upon achieving. The purpose of the investigation called for is not to investigate the truth or falsity of any alleged religious faith of Scientology. For everyone except Scientologists, Scientology beliefs can easily be found on the internet with search terms such as Xenu, Operating Thetan, OT III, Scientology and upper levels. Indeed, since November 16, 2005, many millions of people have learned about Scientology’s secret OT teachings from the “Trapped in the Closet” episode of the South Park television show. Instead, the investigation being demanded is about whether the Church of Scientology, directly or indirectly, is engaged in financial fraud and crime, human and civil rights abuses, human trafficking, unlicensed medical practice and other criminal conduct.
Amazingly, the United States government already has voluminous evidence of Scientology criminal conduct. On July 7, 1977, the F.B.I. raided the Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California. Over 48,000 incriminating documents were seized and eleven Church of Scientology leaders were convicted of the largest ever-known criminal infiltration and burglary of the United States government. Scientology had code named this massive crime “Operation Snow White.” More recently, the Church of Scientology itself was convicted in Canada and elsewhere for similar criminal conduct. Currently, the Scientology conglomerate is being criminally prosecuted in both Belgium and France. The Belgium government of Belgium has accused Scientology of extortion, fraud, organized crime, obstruction of medical practice, illegal medical practice, invasion of privacy, conspiracy and corporate violations. The French government has accused Scientology of commercial fraud and the illegal practice of medicine. The German government considers Scientology to be a totalitarian fascist political movement that is a danger to the democratic state. It is also believes that Scientology is a criminal organization that engages in psycho-terror, money laundering and other forms of commercial fraud and extortion. Historically, over the past sixty years, there have been dozens of other damning prosecutions, convictions and investigations of Scientology around the planet. Indeed, right now in California, Scientology is being sued for forcing staff members to participate in human trafficking, forced abortions, labor law and minimum wage violations. Scientology and its attorneys have responded with witness intimidation and threats to financially destroy and bankrupt the attorneys representing the three former Scientologists seeking justice. Some refer to Scientology as “tax- exempt child abuse.” This One Particular of the three former Scientologist litigants was recruited for full time work at the age of 14. For the next 18 years or so he worked 100 hours or more per plus weeks for a weekly wage of forty six dollars a week. In this way Scientology is able to make an enormous profit on its products and merchandise. For example, the E- meter costs less than fifty dollars to manufacture but is sold for prices that soar to over twenty-seven thousand dollars.
The United States Congress has the power to investigate the secular crimes, civil rights and human rights abuses alleged of the Church of Scientology. It The Congress has the power to investigate the allegations and evidence of corruption of the legal system and of the executive branch of the United States government by the Scientology enterprise, its the latter’s unconstitutional use of the Departments of State and Treasury to advance the expansion of Scientology abroad, and to perpetuate the unlawful Scientology corruption of the United States Internal .Revenue .Service. within the United States. The U.S. Congress also has the power to investigate all of the business and other money making activities of Scientology as part of its legislative power. Where does all the money go and who controls it? After all, the Church of Scientology is now a tax- exempt organization in the United States based upon the premise that it is organized for the public benefit. Scientology has falsely claimed to be the world’s fastest growing religion. In reality, it has shrunk to less than 30,000 active staff and members’ world wide. Falsely inflated membership claims are part of the complex Scientology fraud.
In contrast to the United States, Europe has developed a much more sensitive and sophisticated approach to psycho terror groups. with sectarian aberrations (ICKY word choice! Aspirations? Whatever but using the Scino buzz-word “aberrations” is WRONG!. Last year, at the F.E.C.R.I.S. conference in Italy, Mr. Alessandrini said that, (?) “…These “(? Doesn’t the “ go before the “these’ and not where it is?) organizations are able to thoroughly condition an individual, detach him or her from their reality and the love of their families. They often harm the victim’s health, by negatively affecting their physical and psychological balance, they trick their victims out of their assets, perpetuate physical violence, and practice blackmail, abuse, frauds and and threats.” …
What we are focusing here is a crime that they commit against the most intimate part of a human being … a crime against individual freedom and against self-assertion which in Italy is commonly known as subjugation but should more appropriately go under the name psycho-physical conditioning.”
In the United States, we also call this coercive indoctrination. In 1955, an affiliate of the Church of Scientology published a booklet called “Brainwashing” complete with several references to the Church of Scientology. Scientology’s founder claimed to be an expert in psychological warfare, brainwashing and obtaining confessions.
In 1998, I delivered a speech in Hamburg, Germany. That speech was called “The Dark Side of Scientology” and it can be found on the Internet if you should you be interested. In that speech, I said that Scientology could be reduced to three fundamental concepts: “Power, Purge and Punish.” Power referred to the goal of Scientology to “clear the planet” and eliminate all opposition to Scientology. Purge referred to Scientology’s removing all critical or negative documents and information from government files and public accessibility. Punish, I said, was the darkest of all sides of Scientology. It took two forms: an internal Orwellian form of eliminating any dissent or critical thought, and an external form of punishing critics and the uncooperative government officials with copyrighted policies of terror and psycho-terror for the “Handling of Suppressive Persons;” persons who oppose or impede Scientology’s objectives. These written policies are loosely called “Fair Game” and they take different forms: intelligence, investigation, intimidation, litigation, fraud and deception. These six forms of Scientology “Fair Game” are the principal means with which the Scientology enterprise uses and exploits governments and their legal systems for its own ends.
The Church of Scientology has a well deserved reputation for being the most fearsome and intimidating litigant in America. Many lawyers are willing to deal with “hard ball” litigation tactics but few are willing to confront criminal tactics: public corruption, bribery, blackmail, extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, fraud, false claims, lying, defamation, deception, intimidation and psycho-terror. All of these things are well documented as being the regular litigation tactics of the Church of Scientology, its lawyers and its private investigators.
The Scientology fraud starts with the deceitful claim that it is simply a misunderstood peaceful, ethical religion. However, Scientology’s well documented criminal conduct demonstrates that its religious cloaking is merely a public relations facade and fraud, along with its many other “false front” commercial tentacles and recruiting routes such as W.I.S.E., Narconon and Applied Scholastics.
The copyrighted policies and records of Scientology demonstrate that it really seeks global totalitarian political domination and that has never changed. One Scientology policy document classifies all governments as Suppressive Persons, to be “utterly destroyed” and “eliminated,” “quietly and without sorrow.” In 1960, Scientology issued the “Special Zone Plan – The Scientologists Role in Life.” Scientologists who are not on Church staff are ordered to achieve influence in the society at large, by taking positions next to the high and mighty. “Don’t bother to get elected. Get a job on the secretarial staff or the body guard.” For example, Scientologist John Danielson was Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Education Rod Paige. They are still working together as the Chartwell Education Group and they are continuing to support Scientology as “Applied Scholastics” in ten states to receive tax-payer monies as part of the Supplemental Educational Services under the “No Child Left Behind” program. Bruce Wiseman, the President of Scientology’s anti-psychiatry false front, the Citizens Commission for Human Rights (C.C.H.R.), is also the Treasurer of the National Foundation of Woman Legislators. Former lead Scientology lawyer Gerald Chaleff is now the Los Angeles Police Department attorney and command team member. The Los Angeles County Sheriff publicly supports and promotes Scientology. It is said he even tried to introduce Sscientology training into the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
The list of infiltrated, influenced, corrupt and compromised public officials, including judges, is a long and tawdry one. For example:, Scientologists are placed into law firm word processing departments, and into congressional mail rooms, to intercept, eliminate and report on litigation documents and citizen complaints. These people are coercively indoctrinated into ignoring their oaths and obligations of office and to always advance Scientology’s agenda. To them, as written policies demand, the ends really do justify the means.
As you know, here in Europe, no democratic state can survive such pervasive criminal behavior, but the United States now has an institutional tolerance of Scientology crimes and abuses, frauds and sedition. More than that, the United States government actively promotes and protects Scientology around the world as part of its preferential and unconstitutional tax settlement agreement. Along with other recent events, this has seriously compromised the international reputation of the United States. Indeed, the United States Ggovernment’s active support for Scientology’s world wide expansion leads many to now refer to the United States of HyprocrisyHypocrisy rather than to the United States of America. On the one hand, the United States government opposes global terrorism while on the other hand it pressures foreign governments to permit tax- exempt Scientology “psycho-terrorism” within their borders.
In the early 1960s, Scientology established a Department of Government Affairs. Hubbard wrote that ” The goal of the Department of Government Affairs is to bring the government and hostile philosophies into complete compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is done by high level control, and in its absence, by low level ability to overwhelm. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies.” Later, Scientology also established a Department of Official Affairs, to create “Heavy influence through our own and similarly minded groups on the public and official mind.”
Next, came the Scientology “Public Investigations” section. In 1966, these Scientology departments were merged into the Guardian’s Office, the church’s very own intelligence agency. It handled public relations, litigation, and intelligence gathering. The Intelligence Bureau not only conducted “black ops” but also engaged in intimidation and worse; what has been properly classified here in Europe as “psycho-terror” and even “terrorism,” being perpetrated by a California based religious corporation calling itself a church.
In 1982, as part of Scientology’s deceptive and fraudulent corporate re-organization, Scientology’s Guardian’s Office was renamed the Office of Special Affairs or O.S.A. Contrary to sworn representations to the United States government, many Guardian’s Office staff continued to work for O.S.A., just as they had for the Guardian’s Office. One example is O.S.A.’s lead in-house lawyer, Kendrick Moxon, who was named in the 266 page Stipulation of Evidence in the case of U.S. v. Hubbard, for providing fabricated evidence to the F.B.I.
Today, lead Scientology attorney Moxon continues to fabricate evidence. T, and the Office of Special Affairs is headquartered in Hollywood and Gilman Hot Springs, California. David Miscavige, the totalitarian leader of this para-military cult, lives there in Gilman Hot Springs in an armored building and often travels by armored vehicle. His actions and orders go out around the world and the money comes back into the United States from around the world, or it flows into secret, numbered bank accounts in Luxembourg and in the Caribbean. Apparently, much of this money-laundering is conducted through secret numbered bank accounts administered by the Merrill Lynch company. Obviously, all the money does not come from church members paying for courses and auditing. The real money comes from other sources and activities. How the money comes in, and the secret off shore tax haven accounts much of it is deposited into, are a subject for another day and the U.S. Government’s secular investigation that has been requested by tens of thousands of United States Citizens.
In 2003, Scientology ordained minister Reed Slatkin pleaded guilty to a fifteen count federal indictment that included charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. At the time it was the largest ever Ponzi scheme in U.S. history; a six hundred million dollar fraud. Much of the money came from celebrities and was funneled, by Slatkin and others, into the Church of Scientology and its related entities such as Narconon International, the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center International and the Church of Scientology Western United States, according to court records and media reports. Appropriately, Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme and Amway like are words often used to describe the Church of Scientology which pays many members commissions for recruiting new members. In this way, some Scientologists called Field Service Members I believe that it is Field Service Member not Monitor! receive hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. What other church uses a “Hard Sell Pack” which demands that recruiting targets, called “raw meat,” be signed up immediately. “Hard sell means insistence that people buy,” states this Scientology publication.
On October 9, 2001, less than 30 days after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States, the O.S.A. legal unit known as Moxon & Kobrin renewed the copyright of Scientology’s policy document called “Targets Defense.” In this church policy and practice document, certain “vital targets” are identified.
“Target” 1, Depopularizing the enemy [all those who oppose a global Scientology takeover] to a point of total obliteration;
Target 2, Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media;
Target 3, Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures;
Target 4, Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance.”
Graham E. Berry
3384 McLaughlin Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90066-2005
(310) 745-3771
IMHO
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