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Scientology cult's secret prison camps: The "Sea Org" and "Rehabilitation Project Force"

by Dr. Lilly von Marcab (ADAPTED EXTENSIVELY FROM THE "RPF INSIDER")
The Scientology cult's internal prison gulag currently holds hundreds of people of various nationalities. This is happening right now in the USA at the "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF) centers run by this "church," where members who have disagreed with Scientology management are sent for punishment and re-indoctrination. The average internment is 2 to 10 years. Many of these people were granted USA visas as "religious workers" or "students" of Scientology. There are also RPF centers in the UK, Australia and Denmark.
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Scientology staff and even "public" Scientologists are heavily recruited to join the "Sea Organization," or "Sea Org." The Sea Org is an insider order of Scientology, where all members are required to sign a "billion year contract" to help Scientology "clear the planet" and "obliterate psychiatry." Any person who joins the Sea Org and then later disagrees with its practices will soon find him- or herself confined in the RPF. The conditions these people live in are inhumane and violate many US laws, as well as prisoner of war standards held by the United Nations and the Geneva Convention.

Regular Sea Org members are required to work 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, receiving receive only a small stipend, usually 50 US dollars/week, from which FICA and tax is withheld. The standard net payment is $46 and some cents. The actual work time is disguised by the statement that there are 8 hours of work time and 2-4 hours of "study". The "study" activities are merely intensive indoctrination sessions in learning how to perform one's work duties and how to comply with the many rules and policies of the organization. There's no "study" of anything other than Scientology, and many times this is canceled in order to meet production quotas, called "statistics". If the "stats" are down, members are frequently required to work even more hours. Many weeks this minimal pay is cut down further, due to other "financial planning priorities." The United States Government's federal poverty guideline for religious workers is about $12,000 per year per person. The annual pay per the current Scientology system only gives a Sea Org member $2,390 annually. No medical or other benefits are provided.

Sea Org members who have been sent to the Rehabilitation Project Force are only granted $11 and some cents per week. Even this is often cut down to one-eighth of full pay or about $5 and some cents. This is annually around $300 to $600. This system is built on the assumption that a Sea Org member is doing his or her work "voluntarily" and this way of reasoning is justified with the fact that he or she is given food, "berthing" (a place to sleep) and a uniform.

The quality of the housing and food is poor, and in the case of housing especially, violates many fire, housing and safety codes, as up to 50 people are packed into bunks stacked to the ceilings in rooms meant for 2 to 4 people. Hundreds are forced to use a single shower room, and bathrooms are shared by approximately 25 full time residents each.

Scientology is spending millions of tax free dollars on new buildings to in an attempt to show the cult's "growth." They get the buildings renovated and upgraded by using the slave labor of Sea Org members, especially those in the RPF. With regard to the nationals of other countries who are in the Sea Org, the US State Department forbids workers on religious visas to work as "janitors, maintenance workers, clerks, fundraisers or persons involved solely in the solicitations of donations."

Scientology does not have any kind of insurance for most of its members and most medical expenses are borne by US taxpayers. When members require medical or dental attention, they are required to fill out state aid forms identifying themselves as "indigent." They are also encouraged to abuse other social programs such as SSI, MediCal and Medicare. Scientology uses many methods to persuade Sea Org members to give up all responsibilities to their families and children, and they are encouraged to abandon family responsibilities to welfare agencies and other government social services.

RPF members in the Sea Org are not allowed to leave the premises, not even for medical treatment, unless accompanied by "security" personnel to ensure their adherence to the "shore story" (party line). Should someone manage to escape, Scientology security will guard every means of exit, such as airports, bus stations, subways, etc. They will spend weeks investigating the escapee's family and friends, and use Private Investigators to track them down, even picketing people's homes and harassing their friends, family, neighbors and employers. People assigned to Scientology's RPF have their passports, visa, IDs, credit cards and other documents confiscated and locked up so that full control can be enforced on the member, in an attempt to prevent him or her from leaving without permission. Permission to leave is only granted after an extensive "routing out" procedure has been completed, which includes intensive re-indoctrination, "security checks" on the "e-meter," and many pages of other forms and agreements to keep quiet. Completing these requirements takes months and sometimes years. Meanwhile those wishing to leave are held in virtual isolation under 24 hour guard. RPF members are considered to be security risks, especially if they have been to or worked at the "top secret" international Scientology base and headquarters at Gilman Hot Springs (Hemet), California, where "Golden Era Productions" and Scientology's leader David Miscavige are located. This is done in an attempt to scare and prevent ex-members from speaking out or taking any legal action against the "church" or management once they are finally allowed to leave.

People assigned to Scientology's RPF are forced to work at hard labor for an average of 2 to 10 years. They are not allowed access to their own mail, nor to newspapers, TV, any music, radio, or books. It is forbidden for any Sea Org member to view the internet. They are told "it contains harmful, confidential data, detrimental to your well-being." This is to prevent them from discovering the tremendous amount of evidence now available on the internet of Scientology's crimes and misdeeds.

All mail to all Sea Org members is opened and scanned into a security computer system. Personal mail containing any criticism of Scientology is sent to the "Ethics Department" and withheld from the addressee. RPF members are essentially cut off from reality for years. They are not allowed to contact their own families or children unless there is a "PR" (public relations) issue, in which case a staff member might be allowed a phone conversation or letter that is scripted and observed by Scientology security and designed to reassure those concerned that there is "nothing to worry about." Social gatherings such as weddings, anniversaries, family reunions are forbidden and though in rare cases a funeral attendance can be granted, the member will be accompanied by Scientology security.

Many married members have been forced to divorce if one of the spouses dares to defy scientology management. All Scientologists are forced to adhere to a policy called "disconnection, whereby they are forced to cut off contact with any friends or family members (including their own minor children) who express disagreement with Scientology.

"Retirement" in this cult occurs when a member becomes too old or sick to work. There are members of the Sea Org who are over 80 years old and still working. Members who are too ill to work are kept in isolation and abide by the same rules of no family contact, no TV, books, etc. as the rest of the RPF. The routine to offload "useless” members from the RPF program is called a "Fitness Board Turndown," and many are put out on the street with only $500 in "severance pay" after many years of labor (in many cases 20 or more years); no retirement funds, and no useable work history or skills. They end up dependent upon Social Security, or the mercy of family they haven't seen in years. Occasionally, Scientology Security will prevail on "Public Scientologists" (ordinary citizens who are Scientologists) to create a job for these unfortunate people. When released from "duty" in this way, they are forced to sign 15 or so pages of "nondisclosure" agreements wherein they are required to promise to never reveal the truth of what it is like to be a Sea Org member, especially one assigned to the RPF.

Child welfare and social services authorities in California and Florida are well acquainted with Scientology. Members are discouraged from having children due to the many legal "flaps" over the years. Children are considered to be "off purpose" as they take time away from "production" and "getting the stats up." Many members have been coerced into having abortions. Children who are raised in Scientology are separated from their parents, live in squalid conditions with minimal supervision, and are "trained" in scientology schools using "Study Tech." Many do not graduate high school. When they rebel, as most teenagers do, they are sent to the RPF (where many spend years) or are offloaded and declared "SP" (Suppressive Persons) and forced to disconnect from their parents and other family still in Scientology.

Yes, this is all taking place daily right here in the USA, while the Chairman of the Board of Scientology, David Miscavige, and his celebrity friends, are known to frequent casinos in Las Vegas and the Caribbean. Miscavige lives in luxury quarters at the Hemet Base and in Hollywood, where he has two additional luxury suites that were built and are maintained by Sea Org members, at no charge to him or to the church.

Scientology has been given a free ride in the USA and other countries for too long. The moment anyone criticizes the cult, the organization and its members begin whining loudly about "hate speech" and "bigotry," and frequently make comparisons of themselves with the Jews of 1938 Germany; i.e. threatened and persecuted victims of religious bigotry. Fortunately, several very serious investigations by US authorities have now begun into the Sea Org and many other nefarious aspects of Scientology.

You can join us in the effort to hold Scientology accountable for its many crimes and abuses. Please come to http://www.youfoundthecard.com and http://www.enturbulation.org

Locations of RPF facilities:
1308 L. Ron Hubbard Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
19625 Highway 79, Gilman Hot Springs, CA 92583
Clearwater, FL 33755
East Grinstead, Sussex, England
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sydney, Australia
SEE ALSO:

The RPF Insider series of communiqués
http://www.xenu-directory.net/critics/rpfinsider/rpfinsider1.html

Ex-Scientology Kids: The Sea Org
http://www.exscientologykids.com/seaorg.html

The Rehabilitation Project Force
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/rpf.html

Scientology's RPF (from ABC TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArJaG1Hv_k

The Childrens' RPF (from "Missing in Happy Valley")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8ZqGSkXjI

Scientology: Tax-exempt Child Abuse
http://www.taxexemptchildabuse.net

Professor Stephen Kent: Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force
http://www.solitarytrees.net/pubs/skent/brain.htm

Previous Indybay coverage of the Scientology cult
http://www.indybay.org/search/search_results.php?search=marcab

You Found the Card: Great source of basic info about Scientology
http://www.youfoundthecard.com

Operation Clambake: Probably the most comprehensive source of info about Scientology
http://www.xenu.net

Enturbulation: Worldwide coordinating center for anti-Scientology activities
http://www.enturbulation.org
§Scientology's "Gold Base"
by Dr. Lilly von Marcab
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This is a luxury Scientology headquarters as well as one of the primary RPF prison locations
§RPF worker in Clearwater, Florida
by Dr. Lilly von Marcab
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§RPF workers in Clearwater, Florida
by Dr. Lilly von Marcab
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§Child RPF worker in the UK
by Dr. Lilly von Marcab
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by RONBOTHUNTER

Ronbot is a pejorative term for some or all followers of Scientology. The term is a pun on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's first name and the word robot.
The term Ronbot is meant to express the habit of Scientologists of being so programmed with the "Tech" that they can't express their own viewpoints on life, because that has been suppressed and prohibited of them from doing so.
The Ronbot never doubts any thing he is told by staff, never investigates, never thinks beyond what he is told, never seeks to know more than he is permitted to know, never refuses to turn on his family, never reads what he is told not to read, never refuses to hurt the feelings of his family, never refuses to kill the love he had for his family, never doubts PTS or SP data, never seeks other ways to heal any symptom, never wonders why he is so fanatical and why? Never wonders why he hates SPs, never refuses to hurt, damage or harm an SP, never doubts he is superior to us, never refuses to obey his masters on staff, etc.
The Ronbots that guard the military bases and navy of Scientology are ordered to kill or shoot at any SP that comes near or invades their ships or bases, even if it is their own parents who go there to get them out. He is so robotic that the killing of his own parent, will not produce the same mental effect that it would produce in us – if we killed our own father or mother, whose only crime was the hurt of disconnection ordered by the cult.
Ex-scientologists view a Ronbot as a brainwashed Robot, since he can't ever leave the Tech and express his own view points.
His reading material, his TV viewing and his interpersonal relationships and what he says and the way he talks, are closely monitored by other Ronbot Staff. If they discover that he went out with or talked with an SP and read material from Anti-cult websites, he is in deep trouble and must now face an ethics review.
He in fact does not have his own viewpoints, but just thinks so. His mind is so flooded with the Tech that to speak to, associate with, date or love a person who is classed as an SP is instant insanity (drastic down-tone slide) and he will be classed by the Cult as a “risk” or PTS.
Remember this fact—that all true Ronbots have a weak mind and spirit. They are actually very willing to be a slave of the Tech without question.
In the CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY YOU HAVE NO CONSTITUTION RIGHTS SUCH AS FREE SPEECH – you are told what to think, do and say. Your actions, your friends your relations, your books, and everything else you can think about is RESTRICTED to their approval.
In the CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY YOU HAVE NO CONSTITUTION RIGHTS OR CIVIL RIGHTS SUCH AS THE RIGHT TO MEDICAL CARE OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING. IF YOU ARE SICK IN ANY WAY – YOU ARE PROHIBITED BECAUSE YOU ARE CLASSED AS A PTS PERSON AND AS SUCH, YOU HAVE NO FREEDOMS.
YOU ARE NOT A FREE MAN OR WOMAN ABLE to do as you please at home, read what you please at home, your home TV set has a little censorship lock on it placed there by the cult to keep you inline.
Even your thoughts and innermost secrets are investigated and if they are considered wrong or un-approved by your ETHICS OFFICER you are taken (scammed) for more money.
The Ronbot was told that "suppression is illness and illness is suppression", therefore he thinks that all illnesses come only from suppression or a PTS condition.
Remember that Ronbots are told that “all illnesses to a greater or lesser degree are due to only a PTS condition”. Any illness or symptom makes a Ronbot turn on anyone he was near in the past 72 hours. He is programmed to believe that his Mother or Father now is a Monster called a“SP” or “Suppressive Person.
He is never given the facts on “symptom re-stimulations”. He is never told about it being a physiological reaction, he is never told that all symptoms and illnesses are physiological reactions and that some symptoms can be re-stimulated by stress and arguments. And those symptoms are never the same for all; because every one has different deficiencies and different levels of toxins in their body that will always bring out a different symptom each time he is argued with.
Remember this one fact that Scientology rejects—“symptoms are not illnesses!” But Ronbots are never taught the true causes of real illnesses, and are trained to despise their parents when they get a symptom of a real illness. Symptoms can be re-stimulated by many real causes of illnesses even by stress—which in the cult is accepted by the brain-washed ronbots as “suppression”.
Scientology NEVER teaches Ronbots that symptoms are really physiological reactions of all life on Earth.
A physiological reaction is an effect of some cause. The real causes of all illnesses produce the symptom.
They use this brain-washing about symptoms, in order to control them and make them hate whoever opposes the cult.
In his weak brain-washed mind, he can't ever accept that legal and illegal drugs, chemicals, parasites, toxins, toxic plants, mutated foods, Nuked (irradiated) Foods, or poisonous animals or insects, poisons, viruses or bacteria or over acidity etc., are the only and true causes of illnesses in the world. His mind rejects these well known facts as SP propaganda.
When he faces you in the street—he can’t see you, he can only see what is programmed into his brain-washed head. To him, you are the SP monster who is no better than his SP father or SP mother he turned his back on and now hates and/or distrusts.
He is not free to think for himself--therefore he is a ronbot.
It is senseless to argue with a Ronbot—he needs de-programming—he needs to be told he is a Robot and that he can’t pull the plug and reset his brain. Do not confront a Ronbot the old way – just pity him and dare him to talk with you about how Physiological Reactions are connected to study tech.
Dare him to have a friendly conversation with you—the more of a Ronbot he is – the more he will be afraid to go to ethics for daring to talk with an SP.
The cult will threaten any person with total exposure of all their confessed sins and secrets, if you dare leave, EXPOSE or confront them. That is the weapon that controls ALL CELEBRITIES, PROFESSIONALS AND COWARDS. The weak have given up their soul and now find that it will be made public knowledge.
The programming that he has received will force him to ask for your sins and secrets. He sincerely believes that you are against the Cult ONLY because you have sins of omission and commission.
Explain to him that he has sins and secrets too and that you would like to know his first, since he brought up the issue first. But don’t ask to hear them as a treat or condition to talk with him—if he refuses to give you his own sins and secrets—let it pass as long as he is willing to talk with you.
Do not argue with or insult a Ronbot, talk with him in a polite way even if he disgusts you. Arguments are commercial Controversies and make you lose the game. Get him to identify who he is and find out if he has property or a website. He if is connected to any website that libels and slanders your actual name on it—he just made you rich.
Then hire a Private Investigator to find out who owns or runs the website. Write them and accept all their attacks on your name for value. Start the UCC method to counter-attack them and take them for all they own.
Know this for a fact. -- His brain is not his anymore. He can’t be proactive and dare to talk with a person who he was told is a MONSTER. But if he dares to talk and you only ask questions and never argue with him. He will begin to doubt and you know what happens to him after he is in the Condition of Doubt.
He is as evolved as a snail-or he was one in another life. In this life, he consented to be a mind-slave. Just dare him to read and dare him to talk with any anti-cult person on a friendly basis for at least one hour—dare him to get to know you--by then after that hour he is now a damaged ronbot to the cult—he won’t be trusted and now he is on his way to freedom from control.
For you to defeat the “Church” of Scientology you must expose these truths about how Ron discovered Study Technology.
Once you put this NEW DATA into his brain, he is now damaged goods and is no longer a Ronbot, but a suspected PTS person never to be trusted again by the Cult.
To save a RONBOT BRAIN you must deprogram it with NEW DATA.

Sincerely yours,

Ronbothunter
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Copyright Ronbothunter--- All Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice UCC 1-308 & 1-103.6 including rights under the UCC and common law remedies. I reserve my right not to be compelled to perform under any contract or commercial agreement that I did not personally sign and enter knowingly, voluntarily and intentionally and especially if I was not given full disclosure. I do not accept the liability of the compelled benefit of any unrevealed contract or commercial agreement.
by Anonomalous
<b>On Saturday 16 August we will have the seventh of our worldwide monthly protests against the Scientology criminal organization. Join us atEnturbulation to help with the efforts.</b>
by Anonomalous
On Saturday 16 August we will have the seventh of our worldwide monthly protests against the Scientology criminal organization. Join us atEnturbulation to help with the efforts.
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From this page:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/clearwater1998/rpf.epf.html

This picture is of the late Claire Reppen.
by Terryeo
Amusing, funny as in ha ha, that's funny. For example, the photo of "the luxurious base" shows a dry undeveloped, almost forbidden area with a castle-like building rearing up. When you live in luxury do you surround yourself with rocks and sand?

The article's entirety is far removed from reality. On one hand you have Scientology, a philosophy that proposes you understand what you know. On the other extreme are these articles refusing to recognize what is really going on. Snippets of "knowledge" are listed, usually, the more snippets, the better. The juxtaposition of one against the other is quite funny.
by Janey
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O RLY? Sometimes people want to have luxury desert pads. Don't play dumb. You know what's going on.
by Anonymous
Terryeo,
You make no sense, as usual. Do you really even know how daft you come across? YOU ARE NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST!!! Which is just fine with me because you do so much of the critics work for them. I saw how you were on a kids blog and wrote to someone "how many orgasms do you have a day?" You're a sick and dirty old man who argues with little kids on message boards. Your too old to even be on blogs like that. Oh, but your saving the world tho, right? You're freeing mankind. Dude, your just another pervert out there with your big nasty mustache like something out of the village people. Seriously, go hang out with your family or something and stop trolling scientology articles all day.
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