Racist Scientology Cult Targets Africa
(Blatantly copied from
"L. Ron Hubbard,
Dianetics, Scientology and Racism")
Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard's views are shockingly racist to modern sensibilities, but were
common in white society during much of his life. Hubbard's prejudices,
however, are forever codified in Source, i.e., they are sacred, immutable
doctrine. Scientology refuses to make a disclaimer or add a footnote
to any of Hubbard's racist remarks, let alone change them, and yet they
reprint his books again and again. All these years later, not one Scientologist
in the world would dare to say "Hubbard was wrong." Hence,
Scientology is inherently racist, as the following collection of "scriptural"
quotes illustrates.
A basic component of Scientology's
services is auditing (counseling sessions). Through a progression of
special auditing actions for specific purposes, called rundowns, Scientologists
can advance their "spiritual" condition. But Hubbard has a
Big Auditing Problem with native South Africans, who, along with other
"primitives" and children, are in a "retrograded"
state:
The South African native
is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world
— he is probably impossible by any human standard.
–L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No.
119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American
St. Hill Organization).
Natives need the help of
white men to explain how to care for their possessions, including their
land. Hubbard scolds South Africa for not properly attending to native
education:
As long as a white foreman
is there, they will prevent soil erosion; but the moment that a white
foreman turns his back — boo! There goes the whole program.
And you finally get up to
the point of where he's [native] supposed to take care of something,
a lesson which has never been taught to the native of South Africa.
–L. Ron Hubbard, 15th
ACC (Power of Simplicity) lecture "Education: Point of Agreement",
30 Oct 1956.
Hubbard also finds that the
"insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling" and
issues a special set of instructions, The Scientific Treatment of the
Insane, for South African auditors to address the problem. Note that
Hubbard also thinks the Bantu are in need of "rehabilitation",
with mental health being only one of the necessary efforts.
The insanity rate per capita
in South Africa is appalling. …it is easily seen that a primary requisite
in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa
would be mental health…
–L.
Ron Hubbard, HCOB April 1960, "The Scientific Treatment of the
Insane"
The South African Rundown,
the only Scientology rundown targeted at a specific ethnic group, was
developed for "delivery to South Africans—those who reside in
South Africa as well as those who have emigrated to other parts of the
world". Hubbard apparently feels that they required special processing
because they are "untrainable" and "insane".
Scientology's auditing tool,
the E-meter, requires adjustment in order to accommodate the needle's
larger movements because of the intensity of a black South African's
undisclosed transgressions ("withholds").
A "black South African's"
withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter] alone but on
the Tone Arm [sensitivity adjustment] as well.
–L. Ron Hubbard, E-Meter
Essentials, section I: "Meter Oddities", 1988 (pg. 24)
Perhaps the unusually strong
withholds can be explained by the Bantu's mercenary nature:
Because the one thing
— the very, very commercial little culture the Bantu has
… the idea of commerce and money and that sort of thing is very deeply
ingrained in these people.
–L. Ron Hubbard, SHSBC,
"Errors in Time", 18 July 1963
Scientology: The Fundamentals
of Thought, one of Scientology's basic public texts, says this about
"African savages":
…the African tribesman,
with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and
savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
–L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology:
The Fundamentals of Thought, Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997.
The reason that Africans feel
barbarous is because of their numerous overts [glossary] that have resulted
from being exposed to a "fantastic amount of space opera [glossary]"
and a hostile environment.
[Y]ou'll find in Africans
a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on
… which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process
because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances
… and why he feels so barbarous….
–L. Ron Hubbard, 1st Melbourne
ACC, lecture "Principal Incidents on the Track", 27 November
1959.
In Hubbard's view, people have
to be trained to be "governable" in order to become civilized
and deserve independence. He suggests that this was the problem in Cameroon,
undergoing internal strife on its way to independence from France and
England, because there was no one there to "give civilization to".
They took people who were
totally dedicated to certain tribal procedures
… and said, "You're free." And they said, "Free. Free?
Free. Ah! You mean there's no police anymore." Boom! Boom!
–L. Ron Hubbard, State
of Man Congress, Opening lecture, 1 January 1960.
According to Hubbard, Zulus
are crazy:
…the Zulu is only outside
the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his
tribe. … primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples.
Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness
…
–L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles,
1995.
Scientology runs security checks
on members suspected of certain criminal behaviors. The Johannesburg
Security Check is "the roughest security check in Scientology"
and consists of a series of pointed questions which Scientologists answer
while on the E-meter (in this case, used more like a lie detector than
an auditing tool). Included in the list of "crimes" is engaging
in an intimate relationship with a member of a "colored" race.
A selected portion of the questions demonstrates the seriousness of
this crime:
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped
anyone?
–L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL
7 April 1961, "Johannesburg Security Check"
There are hints that Scientology
membership was limited to whites, at least initially, in their organizations
in southern Africa. In the first quote below, Hubbard is concerned about
the World Bank taking control of England and the general advance of
Communism. He believes a stronghold of civilization can be set up in
Africa to salvage white society. In the second quote, Hubbard praises
the South African organization, that, in spite of the limited white
population from which to recruit, managed to outproduce all other Scientology
organizations.
Now if we can get white
population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa
and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern
Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in
case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.
–L. Ron Hubbard, recorded
talk to the Saint Hill staff about Rhodesia, 6 May 1966
As South Africa has a white
population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every
other central organization in the world has been out-created.
–L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB
17 July 1959, "Africa over the Top"
Hubbard sought to create a
Scientology homeland in South Africa or Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Scientology
claims it opposed the white minority governments (most of its activity
in the early years took place in colonial states where whites ruled
and English was the official language: England, United States, Australia,
South Africa, Rhodesia). Hubbard, however, appears to have thought the
problem of apartheid was overstated.
The problem of South Africa
is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The
native worker gets more than white workers do in England! […] The
South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people
than the United States government!
–L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB
10 October 1960, "Current News"
It is considered in England
and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether
too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that
the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion
and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it
is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native
populace.
–L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No.
96, "Justice", 15 September 1956
One reason Hubbard was attracted
to Rhodesia was his admiration for Cecil Rhodes; he even claimed to
have been Rhodes in a previous life. Rhodes originated the racist land
grabs in South Africa, suggesting that "we must find new lands
from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit
the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies".
Hubbard's expertise in handling
the natives, who were a great resource that was not "well utilised
at all", was probably a continuation of his former lifetime's experience.
For instance, my boy Jamble
… I used to tell him "yes, I know Jamble
— you're a good boy even though you do drink and smoke dacca and gamble
— that has nothing to do with me, you're still a good boy" and
you know he came way up tone arm. I noticed he drank less and I think
he stopped smoking dacca entirely but he didn't stop gambling because
Master used to give him a pound to go out to the race track and lose.
… tremendous labour supply
in the Bantu, the Mshombe, the Matabele, these people are very hard-working
people and under proper direction are quite productive.
… and here is this perfectly valid labour supply
— the African, who at this time is not being well utilised at all;
…
–L. Ron Hubbard, Conference
with the Guardian, 18 July 1966
But they served with great
enthusiasm. Those people sure can work. The African sure can work. That's
one thing nobody has ever quite noticed about them. They are very hard-working
people.
–L. Ron Hubbard, "About
Rhodesia", lecture given on 19 July 1966
Hubbard praises the South African
government's handling of the Johannesburg slums:
Having viewed slum clearance
projects in most major cities of the world may I
state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships
what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity
in existence.
–L. Ron Hubbard, Letter
to South African Prime Minister Dr. H.F. Verwoerd, 7 November 1960,
Johannesburg; reprinted in part in G.P.C. Kotzé, Inquiry into the Effects
and Practices of Scientology, 1972
Hubbard has few reservations
in supporting the apartheid government and, in fact, calls Hendrick
Verwoerd a "great guy". He suggests ways that Scientology
could serve the apartheid agenda, for instance, using e-meters to interrogate
suspects and to uncover agent provacateurs. "Clean them up and
the riots collapse." In Hubbard's world, the deplorable conditions
of non-white citizens did not give rise to the protests, instead, it
was outside agitators (usually Communists) who were to blame — a view
in alignment with the government's.
Hubbard sees indigenous people
as carefree "natives" dancing in the jungle, or agitators
trying to overthrow the colonial government because they haven't been
properly primed for civilization.
Illiterate cultures do not
survive and they are not very high. The natives of the tribe of the
Bugga Bugga Booga Boogas down in Lower Bugga Wugga Booga Woog are mostly
no longer with us, or they are around waving red flags today and revolting
against their central government.
And they didn't learn fast.
Their literacy was not up to absorbing culture rapidly.
They've been very happily
down amongst the bong-bong trees, you know, dancing up and down amongst
the bong-bong trees, and the highest level of their interest and so
forth was their own back yard.
–L. Ron Hubbard, The Study
Tapes, "Study: Evaluation and Information", lecture given
on 11 August 1964
Hubbard invokes the "N-word":
You shouldn't be scrubbing
the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that's what
they're born for.
–L. Ron Hubbard, in a
letter to first wife, Polly Grubb
Hubbard describes the spiritual
state of blacks:
Actually, have you ever
noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty
close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and
the whip and anything around there—a hat. They talk to them, you know.
"What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
–L. Ron Hubbard, Therapy
section of Technique 80 ("Route to Infinity" tapes), Part
I, a lecture given on 21 May 1952
(Blatantly copied from "L. Ron Hubbard,
Dianetics, Scientology and Racism")
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