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After taking what I thought would be a short break from harpooning L. Ron Hubbard's one true legacy (the scientology cult) in the blogosphere, in order to take aim at other tasty targets in a variety of backchannel ops... methinks its high time to resume my post as marcabian scribe. So fasten your seat belts, grab the popcorn and assume the position - the resurrection of HG2Anon begins NAO.
What's next? Hopefully the imminent implosion of the cult's USA bases that has recently had the rug pulled out from underneath of it with Marc Headley's Blown for Good book while Nancy Many's My Billion Year Contract memoirs is forcing the ranks of ex-members to reevaluate just how deadly the cult's inhuman practices can be to both their mental health and spiritual welfare.
Where do we go from here? The never ending deluge of media attention that is focusing on one heinous aspect of Scientology after another needs channeled into the proper context: All these terrible things about Scientology is NOTHING NEW. In fact, most of the issues causing the greatest amount of public outrage have been happening for decades. The dark underbelly of the scientology cult is a vast labyrinth that reaches back to the days when L. Ron Hubbard was still manning the helm.
For those who venture upon this blog that might not be aware of just how deep the rabbit hole of Scientology's nefarious actions actually reach, the following 30 minute video montage should bring you up to speed without spending a week of endless of googling.
Pay Attention David Miscavige. Time is proving itself to be on our side. As we round the bend to completing our second year of protesting the failings of your evil dictatorship, we constantly underscore the weakness of your stranglehold on the victims who still drink the LRH kool-aid. The lies being used to handle the flap of Anonymous no longer holds any weight, and the avalanche we started has taken on a life of its own. Your power base now matches your tiny stature, and the shit has gotten so deep that painting a shiny new veneer to hide the inner rot no longer works. The end game will begin soon, the only question that remains is whether or not you'll run and hide from your crimes like L. Ron did; or destroy your empire of delusions on your way out to ensure that nobody else can enjoy the ill gotten gains of the tech once your no longer in control. Personally, I'm betting on the latter but either one works for the greater good of the world at large.
The world's most successful scam religion is attempting - yet again - to suppress the truth about their many human rights abuses.
On Oct. 31, Irish publisher Merlin released “The Complex,” in which John Duignan, identified as “a former high-ranking member” of the church in Britain, describes his “dramatic escape” from its “elite para-military group,” the Sea Organization. Five days later, Cruise dropped by Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to glad-hand staffers and host a sneak peek at his new movie, “Valkyrie.” -- NY Daily News
A book critical of the so-called "most ethical group on the planet" has been released you say? Heh... here we go again this anon and many others say.
The usual rounds of vindictive attacks and revenge litigation has already begun. Such is the norm for the scilons when their crimes come to light. Now that the media has begun paying attention to this story, it's a certainty that the next step on behalf of the crime syndicate will be unleashing the typical mountains of false accusations as per other sacred doctrine of a group who belligerently calls themselves a 'church'.
If the nasty culties stay true to form, as prescribed in the boatload of arcane policy letters that is likewise sacred if it was written by LRH... This phase will be closely followed up with outright threats leveraged against an outspoken victim by exploiting whatever pyscho-babble dirt they can scrape from the poor man's dianetics counseling files. And they call us anons trolls?? Hmmmm.
Anybody who speaks out against the scientology organization is automatically an enemy is another one of their basic principles of faith that dictates that they must stop at nothing to destroy all perceived enemies through whatever delusional means they deem necessary. Funny how they never bother to defend their positions or views when this happens; despite their so-called expertise in Communication courses.
It has been over a month now since John Duignan's book was first released. So let there be no doubt, despite John's tenacity to wisely keep his cards close to the chest, Fair Game 101 has definitely commenced by now. The cult's goon squad should be fully lubed and loaded for dirty lawfare tricks and targeted harrassment. Everybody stand back while the dementia brigades from the Office of Special Affairs (aka "OSA") storm onto the scene and make their usual attempts to "handle the flap".
The following vid expresses how Anonymous feels about the whole situation.
In this particular case, the flap at hand for the scientology cult is that John's book exposes the horrors he experienced first hand as a high-level scientologist. This non-fictional account details how badly John suffered (on many different levels) from the cult's inhuman policies and never-ending human rights abuses.
The release of this damning expose means the inevitable smear campaign full of false accusations will surely be launched towards John in the imminent future. I recommend all lurkers & sympathizers of the anti-scientology movement keep lots of popcorn handy because this time around should be quite entertaining to watch considering that the world-at-large no longer sees Scientology in the same light it used too. Thus, the brave publishers continue to defy Scientology’s attempts to bully them.
The following letter is from John to Anonymous, expressing his thanks for the fervent current of electrified activism that is speaking out against this evil organization from all corners, and helping him to do his part to fight back against these abuses.
To you Anonymous
Thank you to the individuals and the collective that created the newest video on the banning of my book.
I consider myself part of your movement and I care deeply about your commitment to achieving the end of that cult.
'The Complex' is my testimony, it says what it says and of course it could have been said better, but it is out there and it is creating a stir.
Let me be quite clear, it would not have happened without Anonymous being there and it would not have gotten the attention it is receiving without your efforts and backing.
Let me restate a fundamental point:
Scientology is engaged in the daily violation of fundamental human rights.
It is a parasite living off of our free democratic and open society, its sole intention is to suck as much finance and power as it can from these societies before subverting them to its own totalitarian regime.
Scientology perverts human rights, you may have heard of YHRI the Youth For Human Rights front group? It gets regular hearings from the UN, it promotes the human rights activist, L. Ron Hubbard.
Free democracies such as England, Australia, Denmark and the US host Sea Org bases, where the cult operates illegal prison camps.
I witnessed the incarceration and subsequent attempted suicide of Alice. This lovely 19 year found that she could not escape the RPF, at least her body couldn't, but she figured that her spirit could. She swallowed a bottle of paint thinner and jumped off a roof.
The Scientology PR office successfully covered up the event.
Stacy Moxon was 19 when she died on the Sea Organisation base in California.
There has been no investigation into the deaths, no cult officers have been prosecuted for failure in matters of duty of care.
The cult carries on.
I love my new found freedom, I love learning and growing, but each day I remain acutely aware of the manipulative hold the cult maintains on its members and its ongoing and incessant attempts to gain political and legislative power through the corruption of MPs, Senators and police.
We can't fight that, but we can make known what we know, we can shine light on the cult and one day great justice will be done.
Don't give up, your kids will thank you.
Let us not ever be silenced.
John Duignan,
Author of 'The Complex'
"They stole my freedom, now I am stealing it back"
Thanks Anonymous.
While sale of “The Complex” has been blocked in the UK, it is locally available in Ireland and can be ordered online via Easons.ie Books for international delivery. Amazon.com US currently has an un-stocked listing that will supposedly be available at some point in the near future, despite the listing being temporarily removed prior to the press widely reporting the suspicious timing of a Tom Cruise visit to Amazon headquarters.
If you wish to help make sure Amazon realizes the significant demand for this publication, make sure you add the unavailable book to your shopping cart to help secure enough pre-orders to guarantee future availability. Another extremely helpful action to take a stand against the suppression of truth is to go to your local franchise bookstores with the author's name, title, and ISBN 1903582849 and inquire if they can order it for you in the hopes of getting additional stock on the shelves.
If all of the above tactics fail or you lack the patience to wait for a backorder, the book can be ordered directly from its publisher Merlin Publishing. Merlin Publishing can be contacted by phone (+35 314 535866) or through their website: http://www.merlinwolfhound.com.
Pay Attention Amazon.com Customers. The Cult of Greed has a pervasive nature when it comes to leveraging the interests of their commercial enterprise to be aligned with the interests of other commercial enterprises. Don't let their fake Hollywood image fool you, pay attention to where you buy your reading material and judge for yourself whether your bookseller cares about their customers interests or do they bend over for an oppressive cult just to protect their profits?
Scientologists desperately try to claim the internet protesters speaking out against their corrupt practices and manipulative schemes are religious bigots and make false accusations that we terrorize them as well as other religions. As with most of their claims of any significance, this is a BOLD FACED LIE TWICE OVER.
The first half of the lie is that we are not bigots. The Anonymous activists are merely unconventional devotees of truth and justice, who care deeply about basic human rights while refusing to tolerate a commercial enterprise selling a twisted charade that ultimately hurts people in more ways than one.
The second half of the lie is that we actually protest NO religions whatsoever because once you strip away all the lies and false promises that the Church of Scientology hides behind, the only thing left is few simple self-improvement techniques that are used as weapons of mass manipulation instead of being applied as mechanisms of self-help.
A religion is defined as "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, usually involving devotional and ritual observances." Scientology was originally marketed as "the study of advanced dianetics: the science of mental health" albeit that didn't fly very well in the public eye since they purposely avoid scientific techniques, established clinical standards, and open forms academic study. Nowadays, the meaning of the word "scientology" is defined as meaning "the science of knowing how to know" which implies a methodology of learning how to think rather than a system of beliefs based on principles of faith.
"Scientology has opened the gates to a better World. It is not a psycho-therapy nor a religion. It is a body of knowledge which, when properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual." - L. Ron Hubbard, Original 1953 publication of "THE CREATION of HUMAN ABILITY", before it was edited out in the 1971 edition.
A truly humanitarian cause does not ignore the sentiments of charity and humility as a normal human emotion. Similarly, an honorable church does not rank the state of having no sympathy as one that carries a higher emotional value than truly heartfelt states of having pity for those less fortunate. A respectable system of beliefs does not belittle grief and fatal illness, nor discourage wanting to make amends for your past wrongs. Yet one of the core beliefs of scientology is the Tone Scale, which ranks ALL of these normal human emotions as less than desirable rather than as hallmarks of decency and goodness.
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow." - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
An honest path to spiritual enlightenment does not include reprogramming the language you use, or using meditation to the point of sensory deprivation. Positive self improvement is not fostered by performing repetitive exercises that replace normal human reaction with confrontational behaviors. Yet the cult of scientology replaces the acts of prayer and reflection that are held sacred by god-fearing religions, with acts of mind numbing Training Routines that drill all of these negative impacts into their members psyche while fracturing their conscience mind in order to suppress basic human emotions. How can one be enlightened while being conditioned into a mindset that is unfeeling and unresponsive?
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves." - L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING ("KSW"), February 1965, reissued August 1980
A ministry that caters to a message of personal salvation is typically built on a foundation of charity, compassion, and forgiveness. Scientology sells salvation for a fee, deems the less fortunate as unworthy, plus retaliates against all dissent with vengeful accusations and total severance. Religion should be a vessel for greater understanding and acceptance, and not used as an amphitheater for fostering conspiracy theories nor used as a tool for parishioner manipulation.
With this many contradictions, delusions, and coercive tactics built into the infrastructure of the organization's practices, the end result is that the cult's system of beliefs is nothing but a conduit for mass corruption. This corruption has reigned unchecked for too many years. This corruption has festered and rotted while destroying the lives of too many former members and ex-scientologists for far too long. The rapidly growing list of victim testimonials can not be ignored; the suffering and loss can no longer be hidden.
"Therefore we really do have the remedy before the assault weapon is produced. Did you ever read poor old George Orwell's uh.. 1984? Yes, yes, that's wonderful. That would be, could be, the palest imagined shadow of what a world would be like under the rule of the secret use of Scientology with no remedy in existence." - L. Ron Hubbard, Philadelphia Doctorate Course Tape 20 (Course Transcript)
The ongoing Chanology Protests has built a platform for the victims' voices to be heard and the stories of real life horrifying experiences is being told. The time has come to vindicate the victimized and acknowledge the evil empire lurking in our midst. The voices of the ex-scientologists say it all, and the many victims like those featured in the following YouTube Playlist is ultimately why many Anonymous Protestfags say "We Do Not Forgive. We Do Not Forget."
An ethical practice of religious beliefs should aim for the betterment of the basic human condition for all people; be it in this lifetime, the afterlife, or a person's next lifetime. Whereas the practices of organized scientology vehemently aims to victimize their members for the sole betterment of the organization with complete disregard for the moral standards of decency for humanity as a whole.
Religious doctrines that are worthy of making self sacrifes for should generate hope and caring amongst believers, and not leave a wide trail of victims in it's wake like scientology does with their practices of immoral manipulation and depraved indifference to the basic human condition that mankind is not meant to be a perfect being.
Therefore, the victims of scientology prove beyond a doubt that the only bigotry the Anonymous protesters are guilty of is that of loathing the practices of an EVIL CULT that advocates an inhuman means to an end by using well honed dark arts of deception and coercion.
One of the most unsettling aspects of the corrupt practices of organized scientology is their strictly enforced policies that foster an attack mentality. There has been a great deal written over the decades regarding the never ending list of lies and falsehoods perpetuated by L. Ron Hubbard that scientologist consider sacred because the person they worship as their "source" wrote them. These lies are blatantly apparent and extremely laughable to the average person (aka "raw meat") who has not become numb to normal common sense and human emotions due to being subjected to extensive brainwashing techniques.
Thus it is no surprise they continually avoid openly discussing their beliefs and vehemently insist that their upper level doctrines can not possibly be comprehended without thousands of hours of auditing, and tens of thousands of dollars of training. These facts alone practically scream "deception" while underscoring many other ominous concerns related to the long term effects of applying their pseudo-science and other arcane processes that are hailed as planet-saving dogma.
So it really shouldn't be a surprise that this devious crime syndicate also applies strict adherence to policies of always attacking their critics with whatever it takes to eliminate any scrutiny and avoid defending their own beliefs. However, it's still utterly shocking to me that an organization that calls itself a "religion" categorically defines any and all criticism as undeniable proof that the person leveling the criticism is a criminal. This creates one of the many contradictions within their belief system that doesn't make rational sense as shown in quoted sources below.
We of the Church believe: [...]That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense; [...]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; [...]And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly. (Hubbard, The Creed of the Church of Scientology, 1954)
"NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. ONLY agree to an investigation of the attackers. Start Investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals. Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attacker to the press." (Hubbard, "Attacks on Scientology", HCO Policy Letter of 25 Feb 1966)
"The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK. Whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law... The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." (Hubbard, "The Scientologist: A Manual on Dissemination of Material" Ability, March 1955)
"Attackers are simply an anti-Scientology propaganda agency so far as we are concerned. They have proven they want no facts and will only lie no matter what they discover. So BANISH all ideas that any fair hearing is intended and start our attack with their first breath. Never wait. Never talk about us - only them. Use their blood, sex, crime to get headlines. Don't use us." (Hubbard, "Attacks on Scientology", HCO Policy Letter of 25 Feb 1966)
The following film from Anonymous highlights the cult's attack mentality against peaceful protesters that speak out about the many injustices of this criminal organization. This serves as a very small sampling of their extremely unethical behavior in regards to their obsession of covering up their deceptive practices while vehemently denying their own executive level corruption.
Any organization willing to go these to these extremes with a complete lack of conscience surely has a vast amount to hide. Is it no wonder there is global movement speaking out about their dangerously abusive policies and hiding behind masks to protect their identity?
If you have ever heard the saying “it is better to give than to receive” you may also know that receiving is not always what it is cracked up to be. People with a gentler nature will often worry about saying that a gift is the wrong size, or even hide the fact they already have the same item that was given. When most people give to a worthy humanitarian charity, it makes them feel good. However, if money is unknowingly given to expert pan-handler, who may or may not be using the gift in the same spirit it was given, the initial act of generosity becomes a form of victimization rather than instance of charity.
This type of human behavior that is behind deceptive donation ploys is commonly referred to as "boiler room scams”. These con artist schemes are named after the conditions of the office that are typical to back-room or ‘under wraps’ type of questionable business falsely claiming to be a charity. A boiler room of a building (or the lowest rent office available), would often be used to house a number of shady telemarketers or sales staff. This task force will sit at their desk all day long working a canned sales pitch non-stop for what is seemingly a “good cause” and “tax deductible” while offering the extra benefit of “free gifts” or other perks when purchased in bulk quantities so how can you lose right?
Wrong. These shifty outfits are entirely sales-based and use a gigantic mailing list to sell product or service that is never quite what it seems. They solicit unsuspecting patrons to request a donation for such modern-day things as advertising to benefit the fire department retirees, or selling tickets for underprivileged children to go on a nice outing, or aiding handicapped workers to earn a desperately needed commission.
Organized scientology has been using a very similar model to con their parishioners into buying multiple sets of books for quite some time. A currently ongoing example of a global Co$ boiler room book scam that is becoming notorious on the internet is ‘Scientology’s Great Library Dumping Scandal ’.
In this fine exhibition of deceptive salesmanship at an all-time sneaky high, staff members from the cult send out fliers and leaflets galore as apart of their daily mass spam abuse to all of their members, former members, friends, enemies, and anyone whoever took a stress test in past 10 years and made the mistake of giving an address they still live at. The propaganda being distributed in this manner and throughout the local orgs or special events is a steady stream of aggressive donation campaigns for distributing a significant portion of their new 2007 releases of the organization’s Basics Set of Books & DVDs.
This fund raising effort falls under the wing of one of the many scientology front groups known as the "Library Donation Service". This savvy sales division of the crime syndicate has the ambitious goal of getting the non-staff members & wealthy supporters to sponsor the publishing costs and shipping expense of placing an entire set of the 18 Basic Books (along with at least one or more DVD’s) on the shelf of ALL public and private libraries around the world.
For a donation of a few thousand dollars, donors are encouraged to sponsor the sending of multiple sets of the Scientology beginner books to a varying range of library facilities. As the campaigns progressed throughout the past year or so, great stats of success and accomplishments were bragged about incessantly (as shown later), all the while encouraging more and more donations that have obviously been pouring in based on Anonymous’ research that is summarized below.
One example of these campaigns is included in the initial video clip below where a radio show disc jockey reads from the Library Donation Service brochure while USA distribution was still being sold hot & heavy. The high-end contribution was 15 sets of books for $6,000 (or $400 per set). Additional email-based marketing reported on Clambake Forums indicates the going rate in 2008 drives is $450, as with a specific campaign for tropical distribution that was reported on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board under the topic The Cuba connection as follows:
A friend of mine forwarded this comment from an email they recently received.
"AOLA is getting one set of LRH's Basic Books into every library in Cuba this week. We have the opportunity now that Castro has stepped down, and need to get Source on the shelves before the psychs move in. We are more than halfway there already. Your donation could complete it! It's $450 per library. ANY amount is accepted. It's tax deductable, and you will be commended in writing. Call me at the above number to do this."
Killing Trees… For The Sake of Fraud or Salvation?
What was truly being done with the massive book dumps being shipped out in geographical waves? Is the cult actually spreading the preliminary introduction to their entry-level doctrines in large scale unchecked? Entire shelves of scamatology books IN MY LIBRARY? WTF?!?!?!!
Anons of course wanted to know these answers and moar. So many info seekers around the world commenced to investigate if the books were truly making their way onto library shelves for mass consumption. As to be expected, we found that the books where indeed being SHIPPED out to the libraries, and often the same sets of books where being sent to the same USA libraries multiple times. But what happens to those books after they ARRIVE is an entirely different story as you shall see.
The following YouTube Playlist tells the tale of this fraudulent fiasco from there. This series features a library unpacking their 9th set of books and other related goodies. Also included with these vids is a brief glimpse back at a few other past & present scientology scam tactics, which reaped similarly unsavory results on a large scale but only scratches a tiny dent in the cult’s long history of unethical schemes that exploit their member’s ‘donations’ by any means possible.
What do the librarians say about these book donation campaigns? If you pay attention to the beginning of the unpacking clip in the above series of videos, you hear them mention they have received NINE boxes and comment (with much lulz) on the fine quality of the box! Also seen in the vids above, the ever diligent Professor at a university buys a whole stack from the campus library to prevent anyone else from getting a hold of literature from a destructive cult. The hip Prof paid $16 for his stack of 16 unwanted books. This is the same material that the public scientologist being debated by Anon on the street in a subsequent clip states he donated $2000 Canadian dollars (approx. $1,984 USD) for an unknown number of sets (most likely 5 if he purchased them at the usual rate). Little does he know the sets of books he was conned into buying were rudely sent to a library that never asked for them in the first place… yet gets stuck with either getting rid of the books, or getting hassled and harassed by the obnoxious sales agents of Bridge Publications when they try to politely return them.
These same "Basics Set" hardcover books carry an average list price of $33.00 per book. Add to that a generous estimate of roughly $2 per book for shipping and handling in the bulk packaging shown in the videos above, and a full set of 18 books and 1 video is worth approximately $650 total street value in US currency.
Based on the examples of their advanced in-house “Print On Demand” (POD) publishing system shown in the promotional vid also included in the playlist above; books that list for $35-40 dollars typically cost approximately $10 to produce in this manner at standard labor rates. That would make for manufacturing costs on an entire 18 book set roughly under $200. Yet donors being suckered into the Library donation scam fork over $400-450 in US currency for the typical box of unwanted crap being dumped on unsuspecting libraries who the cult expects to place them on the shelves with no questions asked.
Waste Not, Want Not…. or maybe NOT!!
For those who have great faith in the Scientology techniques saving the world, a 225% markup over cost might be a justifiable donation they can be proud of, assuming the books are put to good use and reach a wider audience. However, we found that is not the case as told over on the "@theLibrary" blog who first referred to it as the Scientology Dump and kicked off the initial internet stir regarding this ubiquitous scam back in March of 2008:
Original Post: The Library keeps getting unsolicited texts and DVDs from the Church of Scientology. I can only imagine that this is the Church’s public relations response to Anonymous declaring war on them a couple of months ago. Have any other libraries out there received at least two large boxes packed with the “basic” works of Scientology? Who knew that there are at least 18 books and 3000 lectures that comprise their canon?
... Our Assistant Director called them up because we don’t have the room to shelve the 40 or so books and DVDs that we were given. I think we shipped most of them back and kept only a few titles like The Scientology Handbook, and The Fundamentals of Thought, and a couple of others including a DVD with a picture of L. Ron Hubbard on the cover.
Follow up Comment by the author on March 25, 2008 at 5:27 am: ...I have a feeling that the Friends of the Library ended up selling them for .50/ea. or something like that. As an aside other librarians are telling me that their libraries received these as well… All kinds of libraries, even the technical library at Three Mile Island has apparently received these sets.
Comment by herself on March 25, 2008 at 4:18 am: *lol* I worked for a public library once which experienced the same inundation. I sent back the “response card” (which only gave me the choice of requesting more books, or requesting more books) with a note saying, “Please do not send any more books.” I actually got a call from the Scientology publisher people asking (incredulously) why I wouldn’t want their books for my library. I decided to leave content out of the discussion and told them that every one of our 26 branches got 2 copies of every book they sent out, and that few of our little branches had room or demand for them. She said, “What happens to the books?” and I told her they end up in the book sale marked $1 each (and that’s on the high side). She was appalled. “That’s an expensive book!” My response: “Well, then quit sending so many.” I gave her the number for our countywide collection development head, then hung up and called the head to warn her. *eye roll*
Comment by Heidi on March 25, 2008 at 6:14 am: I work in a hospital library and received a box of Scientology books in December. Made my head hurt trying to figure out why they’d be sent there.
Response by the author on March 25, 2008 at 6:49 am: Hiya Heidi! It does provoke quite a bit of confusion doesn’t it? Did you order these? WHO ordered these things? Where is the PO? What the hell is happening here?
Comment by AmyH said this on March 25, 2008 at 9:19 am: ...Yes! My library got that dump, too! The Acquisitions Librarian put the materials into our school’s Book Sale which helps to fund scholarships. We already have “Dianetics” in our collection and that’s enough.
So it seems the libraries DO NOT WANT these texts, which typically cost public scientologists thousands of dollars in donations because their strongly encouraged to sponsor multiple sets of books with a single generous donation. We were unable to get our hands on a visual image of the actual donation propaganda drumming up this support at this time, but hope to include it as documentation in a follow up article in the coming months.
Let the Truth Be Told… on the Stacks!!!
As we began to look at this closer, Anonymous members on the WhyWeProtest.net reported the following findings from doing some local legwork sleuthing earlier this year:
"I talked to my friend’s mom who works at a library in town, and they got three boxes. They put all of them in the basement nickel book sale, and when none sold for a month, gave them out for free to anyone who wanted them. They only managed to give away two."
"In my local library they are still behind the counter wrapped as they came, no plans for placing them on the shelf"
"I picked up my basics package from my librarian friend today! 9 books, all hard-bound, I'm in heaven...Apparently I asked at just the right time; they were in a cardboard box with the word 'Trash' scrawled on the side."
"They're claiming the US is 100% done, yes. And there are *three* libraries I've checked local to Clearwater that don't have all of them."
"My friend works at a library. She said they received a box of scientology books.... they promptly threw them away. Ha!"
"I work at a library, and recently we and our branch library each received two sets of boxes of Scientology books from the Scientology publisher. Our director did not put them into our library like they wanted us to do. The books were tossed."
Thus, initial anon findings jive with comments on the @theLibrary blog and indicate further proof that the vast majority of the donated books are "gotten rid of" in one of four ways. The libraries either sell them off for fund raising along with the old and out dated books for a dollar or two a piece, the entire set is given away for free, or thrown out with the trash. Otherwise, the libraries attempt to ship them back to where they came from and deal with the duress of being hassled over not placing them on the shelves by the disgruntled donation service sales force.
Dirty Deeds Redone Dirt Cheap… An Online Bookseller Free-for-All!
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet another recent example of this book dumping fiasco of FAIL can be found on the “Jasmine’s Blog” site, posted on June 4, 2008 under the entry Can I interest anyone one in Scientology books?
They’re brand new, still wrapped, unread. I had come across a box labeled “Free Books” at the public health library. Usually it’s filled with books that look gross- that if you’d place them under a black light, they’d glow from fecal, blood, etc. stains – like hotel comforters.
But this time, the books looked clean. While I have zero interest in reading about Scientology/Dianetics, I had a vague idea that I would use them as emergency firewood or to level an uneven table. So I grabbed like 6 or 7.
Unfortunately, it seems this discovery is nothing new. Ebay.com has become saturated with dozens of brand new books still in the wrapper offered for a fraction of the cost and often posted in bulk quantities. Google checkout currently features 5 pages of new editions for $1 or less. Meanwhile, over on Amazon.com there is more than a dozen online book sellers who are selling the brand new hardcover editions for under a dollar and sometimes as low as a penny a piece!
So it’s readily apparent that organized scientology’s great book dumping donation scam has been going strong for well over a year. This is proven by “The Invisible Library” blog entry from January 2007 under The World of the Day Before Yesterday– Now With Fedoras:
At the library yesterday we received a donation of DVDs from Bridge Publications Inc. the publishing arm of the Church of Scientology. We regularly receive unsolicited donations from publishers but as these DVDs were lectures by L. Ron Hubbard on Scientology, I was intrigued. [Ha! Intrigued enough the author continues on as very knowledgeable critic of the subject matter after reviewing the extended DVD lecture set.]
Now with all this massive output and distribution of their public doctrines to so many libraries, one would think that public access to scientology books would by now be readily available in vast quantities. Anonymous thinks NOT.
The Real Deal Exposed… Factual Library Catalog Statistics are just a mouse-click away!!
Using informative online library index sites such as WorldCat.org Search to drill down into other online catalogs such as the Los Angeles Public Library, and the NYC Public Library systems; the actual on-the-shelf statistics were easily gathered for tabulating a rough estimate on the number of the new editions made available to the public in various venues compliments of the cult’s Library Donation Service.
Scientology’s claims of completion status for these library dumping campaigns as of May 2008 that are used for comparison on each region below were taken from My Scientology Blog: Scientology in Libraries and shown in the image below. An additional email-based report on oversees distribution to various islands was leaked on the Clambake Forums in May 2008.
Using a WordCat.org Library Catalog List for the full set 2007 Basics books and introductory video, a detailed search was made for a variety of interconnected online library catalogs and systems. Specific stats were gathered for the quantity of scientology materials actually found on the stacks around the world. From this information, we compiled findings that indicate a small trickle of new editions have been recently made freely available in the United States, but nowhere near a “100%” success rate can legitimately be claimed.
The following link outlines these findings in detail for four major corners of the world with summary highlights from each region as of July 2008 noted below.
We aim to revisit these stats and provide another update for a time range comparison in 3-6 months or when the scilons publish another round of updated completion stats that are ripe for the dis-proving!
USA Trends found as of July 2008: 57 independent libraries or regional library systems checked for recent editions of scientology basics in 35 major US cities. This region of the world was reported as 100% complete as of May 09, 2008.
Major Universities have little-to-none new editions w/ a few exceptions. They also typically have a small number of copies of a few older editions ranging from 1986-92 already on the shelf in all but Los Angeles & Clearwater where the past versions are typically 1998-99.
City/County Public libraries mostly have a limited number of copies of the new edition books along with a few DVD’s. Small number of extreme scilon infiltration exceptions found with > 1/3 of the set of books.
With the exception of Southern & Central areas of Florida near the scilon mecca, the other southern states & midwest regions of the US have more occurrences of "none" than elsewhere.
The obvious conclusion to be made from these easily-verified findings is pretty clear. From well over 1,000 total facilities tabulated in our stats, 205 have NO RECENT EDITIONS or DVD's!!!
So an educated guestimate can be made that at least 20% of 123,000+ libraries in the United States DO NOT have the most recent editions of the Scientology Basics Books in the stacks. Therefore, if the US is 100% complete, that’s a helluva lot of books thrown out, given away, or sold for $1 or less. Never fear though, anon is near… many a studious protester has been sure to scoop up their own full set of new editions For FREE! These of course are being quoted profusely and exploited often in the ongoing crusade to rape the destructive cult with their very own “truths” that testify to unlimited bounds of snake oil quackery.
In additional to the USA on the shelf stats, we also gathered a sampling for the following regions that were only reported as being partially complete as of this round of data collection.
Canada Trends as of July 2008: 26 independent libraries or regional library systems in Canada checked for recent editions of scientology basics. This region of the world was reported as 55% complete as of May 09, 2008.
UK Trends as of July 2008: 27 independent libraries or regional library systems in England & Ireland checked for recent editions of scientology basics. This region of the world was reported as 22% complete as of May 09, 2008.
All things considered, it becomes quit clear when combining the input from all these different sources along with the online library catalog statistics used to produce the regional findings shown above; the libraries have definitely been throwing books away or contacting the Church of Scientology asking them NOT to send more boxes of books. Sometimes the books are shipped back to C.o.S. and other times they are sold off for pennies on the dollar of their retail price. Yet they tout this outcome of such a huge amount of donations, as such great success of their Keep Scientology Working program. Large sums of monies not being spent on humanitarian efforts like normal "churches", but pissed away on distributing unwanted materials where very little if any is making it onto the actual library shelf. Where's the success in that? Oh that's right, at 225% markup over cost, the success is in putting more profit into the crime syndicate's pocket.
Global Boiler Room Scam… Not Your Average-sized “Basement” Operation.
The official scientology front group responsible for this fine effort is known as the Library Donation Service and is set up as part of the larger International Library Campaign in order to place scientology books and materials into the public libraries around the world. Their actions are explained on an official Co$ FAQ as follows:
The Church encourages the widest possible dissemination of Scientology publications containing all the Scientology scriptures other than its confidential, unpublished materials, which comprise a small fraction of the scriptures of the religion. In addition to the many public information actions described later, we have donated thousands of copies of Scientology books and materials to public libraries. This has been done to make it possible for individuals with limited financial means to learn and apply Scientology principles to their lives without having to pay anything. Our library donation program has proved extremely successful. In fact, it has been calculated that every 29.5 seconds, somewhere in the world, a person checks out a Scientology book from a library.
With all the many lies, exaggerations, and hyped up sales propaganda within the convoluted hierarchy of the crime syndicate of organized scientology... who would of thought there would still be enough room leftover for such a broad boiler room scam to run unchecked for well over a year. But never fear - Anon have been here and collected many a free or cheaply gotten new edition to educate ourselves for the ongoing battle because knowledge is power afterall. Nonetheless, here's hoping the cult soon finds a new secondary book-selling pitch to compliment their annual book-a-thon drives since it seems pretty clear to us this one has done more than enough wasteful damage to their donors wallets.
Now considering how totally downstat their book-a-thon was this year, combined with huge amounts of books wasted by the donation service campaigns, I'd suspect next year's new scheme to sell excess books by the quantity will involve some freshly crafted tactic that doesn't give them away for free and ripe for the trashing or reselling.
GTFO of My Library... What Can Been Done?
Lookup the main WorldCat Entry for the Dianetics Book, then under the "Libraries" tab use the "Enter Location Information" box to find the libraries nearest you. Follow the links to the libraries in your area that you easily recognize, and search for books by L. Ron Hubbard published in 2007.
In you find any public libraries infiltrated with the new editions of Scientology books, stop by and confirm they are indeed on the shelf. Ask the librarian who the proper channel is to complain to if you have concerns about the recruiting tools of a destructive cult being distributed for public access, outside of a higher education environment, with disregard to the serious harm that has been well documented by former members in regard to what happens to the unknowing bystanders that get sucked in as the next victims. If given the opportunity, provide fliers and other material stating the facts regarding the crimes committed by organized scientology. If this gets you nowhere, consider inserting flyers or cards into the books on the shelf as explained in the related "Operation" and "Project Andromeda" links listed in the references below.
Special Thanks for this article goes to YouTuber MrFyde who helped coauthor certain sections and analyze the collected stats, as well as all the anon who personally checked their local libraries!!
As the Anonymous Protests that hit the streets once a month rally forth, the most prominent message coming across is the media releases promoting the overall monthly theme, the picket flyers, as well as the signs & banners carried by the anons that make their way into the endless number of photo albums and video channels. There is such a vast amount of issues that are just totally wrong about organized scientology, it's easy for the more personal and heartfelt messages to get lost in the noise of the mountain of negatives being exposed.
Thus I thought it was high time to take a step back from the myriad of messages relayed at the surface level that typically focuses on the most serious crimes and abuses, which cause the majority of public outrage, but do not constitute the entire picture. In the bigger scheme of things, the moralfag factions of Project Chanology are also bearing forth messages of hope and compassion to the scientologists who are still trapped within the clutches of the cult. These messages of outreach are meant to bring hope to those who thought things would never change. These messages of compassion are one of several things that helps form the bonds that have grown between the anon ranks and the 'Old Guard' critics as well as ex-scientologists.
Everybody has their own reasons for protesting, their own tickle list of the crimes of organized scientology that get under their skin the most. But we all stand unified in our own truth, which we feel is the bigger truth. Because unlike the crime syndicate we are taking a stand against -we form our opinions not by buying twisted PR statements handed down from above, but rather by using critical thinking, common sense, and evaluation of both sides of the issues so that our 'truths' are based on carefully scrutinized facts.
Many of us feel that the path to discovering the truth about this cult is lined with entirely too many victims on many different levels. And while the victims who loose their lives often get a greater share of attention, the victims who live and are left to deal with the damage done to their lives are just as worthy of notice.
Thus, the following YouTube Playlist takes a moment of reflection on the less recognized messages of outreach.These messages attempt to relay our understanding of the emotional trauma that members who leave often endure. As well our heartfelt support that even though we despise the executive level of the organization perpetrating the con on it's unsuspecting members, many of our actions are for the members sake - even if their awareness of what they have gotten involved in, has not yet awakened.
Aside from not being able to get near many staff scilons, one of the hardest obstacles in relaying our messages of outreach is that the general public seldom understands the great differences between "staff scientologists" who work for the organization and often live within the organization's many compounds vs. the "public scientologists" that are not employed by the cult and simply work their way through the lower course levels thinking it's a humanitarian path to self-improvement.
The differences between these two groups are like night and day. Such that the common general public sentiment of "anybody foolish enough to get mixed up in that stuff deserves what they get" is not only a un-informed opinion, but a dangerously insensitive one. Being conned and manipulating to the point of brainwashing has essentially the same victimizing effect as intellectual rape. Add to this coercion tactics applied to members who try leave and either have to sit through months or years of extended security checks to complete a "routing out" process, or else flat out quit and go "blown" then be declared a suppressive person who's friends and family will be instructed to disconnect from. The staff scientologists are the victims of these injustices, whereas the public scientologists are both the prey and fodder, feeding cashflow into this crime syndicate that's hell bent on nothing but ensnaring others.
No matter which means are used when former members leave, the staff scientologists and children born into the cult always have an awakening process to go through. When the damage done to them is extensive enough, other ex-scientologists (exscn) often come forward to help them though a deprogramming experience. Then once the shock of how radically different the real world really IS starts to fade, the healing process begins. A big part of this healing process has been significantly aided by the internet, and there's practically a mass mental cleansing exercise going on all over the net as former parishioners network with other exscn and work through their pain and torment by revealing their personal experiences from inside the cult so that the healing process can begin.
These stories are stacking up by the dozens on many different sites, and have been going on much longer than the anon activism movement has been on the scene enjoying lulz. Some of these stories are testimonials of horrible suffering, while others are just the unburdening of shame and emotional pain. No matter the nature of these stories, the purpose of having them recorded for others to see has begun change. Now that the anti-scientology movement has the strength in numbers combined with the public awareness catalyst of Anonymous making the Co$ tactic of hiding behind the unbelievable no longer an effective diversion from the truth, the number of ex-scientologist stories of life on the inside has become something not easily counted anymore. A few of these stories have emerged from within anon circles as a direct result of the protests, but many many more have come from the other circles of the global anti-scientology movement. Where the stories come from doesn't really matter, what truly matters is that they keep coming, the words keep flowing, and the healing continues in larger numbers with each passing month.
Unlike a few years ago, coming forth and speaking your peace is no longer strictly driven by an incentive for documenting the truth. Nowadays, it is more of a self-healing and self-realization effort. The general public or "wog world" might not understand what these ex-members have been through, but within their own ever-growing online communities they are understood all to well. Such that the vast amount of people helping people for the sake of not seeing another person endure the hardships of coming to terms with reality alone, is a beautiful thing to see in a world that is seemingly screwed up in more ways than one.
The following letter is from an active member on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board and expresses both how hard it can be for former members of the Church of Scientology to come forward with their story, and attempts to help others see ways of rationalizing what their going through in order to see the good that can come from sharing their experiences.
To the Scientologists who are reading this message board and dare not speak out.
I can totally understand the many and varied reasons why you would be afraid to speak.
Maybe because you agree with the basic tenets of Scientology and wish to forward these aims. Maybe you think that actually speaking to SPs and squirrels would only enturbulate you, make you lose your gains, you might get sick or have horrible things happen to you. Maybe you think that anyone saying anything critical of Scientology is against people becoming stronger, more able and making spiritual progress, that critics of Scientology are deeply screwed up, insane, have withholds and crimes that they don’t want known or they simply don’t understand Scientology and have been listening to the ravings of the crazy psychiatrists.
If you speak to and stay in contact with anyone critical of the Church your Scientology family and friends would have to disconnect from you. This one is the biggest control factor that the Church uses to keep its members towing the party line.
You might get away with reading a few anti-scientology sites on the web and still stay in the Church. You’d probably get some sort of ethics handling and end up by saying that you learned more about the nature of SPs and PTSs, but that niggling feeling inside, that something isn’t right, that this isn’t what you signed up for will never go away.
Talking to other Scientologists in the Church, even an auditor (especially an auditor) about the craziness and injustices you see within the church will get you into serious trouble; sec checking, cramming, ethics, conditions, amends etc. None of the church handlings will resolve these things and if you persist in trying to get the ‘tech’ in, the way you think it should be applied, you know, with good ARC, genuine honesty, integrity, ethics and justice for all – you will very likely wind up getting declared. Yes, of course it’s wrong!
This is not my attempt to disseminate to you, I’m not trying to ‘handle’ your considerations about speaking out. I think your reasons for being silent on the subject are likely bloody good reasons and it takes courage and certain amount of balls to stand up for what you believe is right.
Staying silent on the subject, being quiet, putting up with it and thinking that maybe, somehow, the Church management knows how to get the tech in, that the truth in Scientology will somehow prevail. Maybe if I just work hard enough, train myself and others, get enough auditing done, maybe enough people will make it to clear and OT and then the Church will sort itself out. I’m sorry to say that this is simply not possible unless we are free to communicate.
You know, deep down, that you could never really be an OT without being truly honest and open, at least with yourself.
So for gawd sakes, speak up, talk to us, you don't have to tell anyone who you are. Tell us what you really think, all viewpoints welcome. We want to know and really do care about you.
- Mary
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