Scientology: Hubbard was "Humanitarian" like MLK, Mother Teresa, Gandhi : Indybay

According to a new Scientology cult fundraising video, cult founder L. Ron Hubbard was a humanitarian and inspirational world leader on a par with Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Nelson Mandela. The video, designed to help raise funds for Scientology's Mountain View, California office to become an "Ideal Org," or massively luxurious new facility, has no narration, but features photographs of each of these figures, usually accompanied by a short audio excerpt of an important speech, and then a bit of text on the screen from a different speech. In the background plays a sort of "new age" electronica music. There is no audio of Mother Teresa (whom they have re-named "Mother Theresa"), and they do not identify Mahatma Gandhi or Eleanor Roosevelt by name. Text at the beginning of the series declares that "Humanitarians of the past have worked tirelessly to build a better world...", and afterward, it reads that "L. Ron Hubbard developed the way for all their goals to be fully realized." Then, a photograph of L. Ron Hubbard appears, in a very unnatural-looking pose that someone apparently thought would make him look contemplative, followed by one of Hubbard's quotations.

Following this avalanche, there are several minutes of "artist's conceptions" of how Scientology envisions its "Ideal Org." The background music picks up tempo, and lots of pictures of luxuriously appointed "church" facilities, capable of supporting hundreds of "parishioners," pass by on the screen. Then, an exhortation to the viewer to join the "Scientology Humanitarian Club"; and finally, in a 1970s science fiction font, "HELP PUT OUR IDEAL ORG HERE.

In Scientology, a $100,000-$750,000 donation will make the donor a "Humanitarian," and the donor will be celebrated as such in various Scientology internal propaganda materials.

It is quite bizarre that Scientology regards Hubbard, a science fiction writer, "very good friend" of Satanist Aleister Crowley, and insane millionaire money-grubbing hypnotist, to be a "humanitarian" of similar standing as Martin Luther King and the rest. It is a particularly cynical and exploitative position for Scientology to take, in view of how Hubbard, in reality, regarded African-Americans like King, Mother Teresa's Catholic religion, Gandhi's ethos of passive resistance, Mandela's southern African heritage, and Roosevelt's concern for human rights.

It is also quite cynical for Scientology to keep pretending that their "church" in undergoing "massive expansion" and "unprecedented growth," necessitating the purchase of huge new buildings, when in reality there are fewer than 100,000 Scientologists worldwide (far from the eight or ten million they claim), and that number is declining rapidly. There are lots of reports of Scientology building or buying large new facilities, but what often doesn't get reported is that after the down-payment has been made, the building either sits empty; construction is never finished enough for the building to be used, or it is foreclosed upon.

Here are some quotations from L. Ron Hubbard that provide an accurate counterpoint to the strange notion that he was any kind of "humanitarian," let alone on such an exalted level.

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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 therea hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality. Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80 ("Route to Infinity" tapes), Part I, a lecture given on 21 May 1952
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world he is probably impossible by any human standard. Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization).
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. Hubbard, 15th ACC (Power of Simplicity) lecture "Education: Point of Agreement", 30 Oct 1956.
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 Hubbard, HCOB April 1960, "The Scientific Treatment of the Insane"
[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 . Hubbard, 1st Melbourne ACC, lecture "Principal Incidents on the Track", 27 November 1959.
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! Hubbard, State of Man Congress, Opening lecture, 1 January 1960...
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 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.
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. Kotz, Inquiry into the Effects and Practices of Scientology , 1972
Now we say there's, well, another place in the worldthere's India. Wonderful place except for its people. L. Ron Hubbard, "The Control of Hysteria" (lecture), 15 April 1957.

Human rights, nonviolence, charity, passive resistance, religion etc.

It is all very well to idealise poverty and associate wisdom with begging bowls, or virtue with low estate. However, those who have done this (Buddhists, Christians, Communists and other fanatics) have dead ended or are dead ending., HCOPL 21 Jan 1965
MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. GET OTHERS TO MAKE MONEY. HCO PL 9 Mar 72
(In his book "Science of Survival,: Hubbard establishes a "tone scale," ranging from -3 to +4, for classifying categories of people and evaluating human behavior. "Perverts," as he classified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, fall at 1.1 on Hubbard's scale. He considered them to be extremely dangerous to society.)
The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two [sexuality and procreation] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically. -Hubbard, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health"
At 1.1 on the tone scale we enter the area of the most vicious reversal of the second dynamic. Here we have promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices. People on this level on the second dynamic are intensely dangerous in the society, since aberration is contagious. A society which reaches this level is on its way out of history, as went the Greeks, as went the Romans, as goes modern European and American culture. Here is a flaming danger signal which must be heeded if a race is to go forward. The person may claim to love others and to have the good of others as his foremost interest; yet, at the same moment, he works, unconsciously or otherwise, to injure or destroy the lives and reputations of people and also to destroy property... No social order which desires to survive dates overlook its stratum 1.1's. No social order will survive which does not remove these people from its midst. Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics... The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of such persons from society to avoid the contagion of their insanities and the general turbulence which they bring to any order, thus forcing it lower on the scale, or processing such persons until they have attained a level on the tone scale which gives them value - Hubbard, "Science of Survival"
Show me any person who is critical of us and I'll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate's hair on end. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 4 April 1965
Somebody some day will say "this is illegal." By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs
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, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. - Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955
ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1) "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists"
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 5 November 1967, "Critics of Scientology"
This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 25 February 1966
A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [sic] her (5) use her sexually (6) sterilise her to prevent conception (7) kill her by a brain operation to prevent disclosure. And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder. We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one. This is Project Psychiatry. We will remove them. - Hubbard, Sec ED, Office of LRH, Confidential, 22 February 1966, "Project Psychiatry"
"Psychiatry" and "psychiatrist" are easily redefined to mean "an anti-social enemy of the people." This takes the kill crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions...The redefinition of words is done by associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended...Scientologists are redefining "doctor", "Psychiatry" and "psychology" to mean "undesirable antisocial elements"...The way to redefine a word is to get the new definition repeated as often as possible. Thus it is necessary to redefine medicine, psychiatry and psychology downward and define Dianetics and Scientology upwards. This, so far as words are concerned, is the public opinion battle for belief in your definitions, and not those of the opposition. A consistent, repeated effort is the key to any success with this technique of propaganda. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 5 October 1971, PR Series 12, "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words"
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. - Hubbard, 'Science of Survival"
Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor. - Hubbard, "Science of Survival"
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. - Hubbard, "Science of Survival"
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. - Hubbard, "Science of Survival"
The whole Christian movement is based on the victim. Compulsion of the overt-motivator sequence. They won by appealing to victims. We can win by converting victims. Christianity succeeded by making people into victims. We can succeed by making victims into people., HCOB 18 July, 1959, under "Historical Note".
Somebody on this planet, about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6. I don't know how they found it; either by watching madmen or something. But since that time they have used it. And it became what is known as Christianity. The Man on the cross. There was no Christ. - L. Ron Hubbard, Class 8 Auditor's Course (Confidential), taped on the ship Apollo in Corfu, Greece. [note: Scientologists believe that an "R6 Implant" in our minds from 75 million years ago is why we have religions].
You'll find, by the way, another man at this stage, and his preclears will shift the identities and borrow facsimilies. Like men, there's what they call 'The Christ Game' and that game has been played and played and played and play..., honest to Pete, these cards are just so thin, they've been laid down amongst the coffee cups, and so forth, of the whole universe. You'll find out thousands of years before the year 1 AD, Earth, you will have facsimilies and dolls made up like Christ. Fact one: a million years ago is occasionally rigged with Christ and the devil and an angel. It's a fascinating thing, it's an old game. Here on Earth, there was undoubtably a Christ. One of the reasons he was ... he swept in so suddenly ah, and he, he would go forward so hard, is he had a good assist back of him in terms of an implant., "Philadelphia Doctorate Course," Tape #24, L. Ron Hubbard, 1952

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