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I found this on the net.  I'm not sure many know the history of scientology in South Africa.  This does a great job of giving some background on it.  It is essentially a critic responding to scientologists who claims scientology is for equality. It seems hubbard not only was for segregation and resettlement of the area, but also for attempting to once again dominate/control the local governemnt.

Link: http://www.culthelp.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=934&Itemid=12
Scientology & Apatheid in South Africa
From: email removed         (Chris Owen)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,soc.culture.south-africa
Subject: Scientology lies about dirty past in South Africa (Re: Interesting article in South Africa)
Date: 20 Jan 1996 04:44:45 GMT

In article , Andrew Milne wrote:
I and other Scientologists have pointed out before that Scientologists have a history of defending human rights, often at great cost or risk to themselves. An article in the South African "Financial Mail" this week examines the courageous expose in the 1970s by the Church's Freedom magazine of psychiatric slave camps for black patients run by the apartheid government in liaison with the for-profit Smith Mitchell company.

Perhaps, Andy, you can tell us why Hubbard consistently expressed support for the implementation of apartheid during the 1960s?

In HCO Executive Letter of 16 August 1966, Hubbard circulated a report from John McMaster (a white South African who was supposedly the "first clear") re progress in South Africa. It praises the activities of one Mr. Du Plessis on behalf of Scientology, referring to alleged interviews by Du Plessis with Dr. H.F. Verwoerd (then Prime Minister) and also the Admiral of the South African Navy. It concludes:
 "You asked for strong Orgs in South Africa. You will get them and there will be a friendly reciprocity of flow with the Government." [HCO Executive Letter, 16 August 1966]

A few years earlier, in November 1960, Hubbard wrote a letter to Verwoerd praising the implementation of forced resettlement:

 "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." [dated 7th November 1960, Jo'burg]

 He goes on to lambast those who denounced the policy of forced resettlement: "Any criticism of it could only be engaged upon by scoundrels or madmen and I know now your enemies to be both." [same letter]  This was not the first time he had expressed his active support for Verwoerd and the policies of "grand apartheid". Three weeks previously, he wrote the following to Verwoerd:

 "Those who understand are never swayed by vicious writings in the English press. [The English-language press was frequently anti-apartheid; think of Donald Woods in "Cry Freedom", for instance.] To cope with those who could be swayed we work ceaselessly to secure communication lines to create an image closer to the fact. We are doing everything we can to change the complexion of the English language press and in a very few months we hope to have the means of completely altering this public image. Peace with strength can yet save, with your undaunted leadership, South Africa. Meanwhile we sincerely hope that vileness such as that in last week's Sunday Times does nothing to dismay your dedication. I apologise that we were not yet able to prevent such a travesty, but can promise a better future in such things." [dated 17th October 1960, Jo'burg]

In other words, the CoS would endeavour to take over or otherwise influence the press so that it could no longer criticise Verwoerd or his policies. What a wonderful advertisement for the democratic ideals of Scientology!

 Hubbard was not the only Scientologist to write to the South African Government. When it was announced in 1960 that Liberia and Ethiopia were to take legal action against South Africa to bring the Government to book for its implementation of apartheid, a Mr. S.J. Parkhouse wrote as follows to Dr. Verwoerd:

 "On bringing to Dr. [sic] Hubbard's attention the fact that Liberia and Ethiopia intend to insitute an action against the Union [of South Africa] in the World Court Dr. Hubbard suggested that the Union itself would be well within its rights in bringing suit against any and all countries seeking to promote internal trouble in the Union through the use of boycotts etcetera. Consequent to our discussion Dr. Hubbard prepared a form of suit which could be used by the Union in the World Court. I enclose a copy for your perusal. Apart from the blow that this would strike for the Union on the International front it would appear that such an action would establish the World Court as a place where civil matters between Nations could be settled without warfare and thus would be of service to humanity as a whole. In closing I would assure you of our continued willing assistance at all times." [dated 7th November 1960, Jo'burg]

This makes it clear that the CoS was willing, and attempting, to take an active role in the South African Government's struggle against the growing anti-apartheid movement. Of course, the CoS was not the only foreign organisation to oppose boycotts and sanctions against South Africa - in the 1980s the British government was prominent in its refusal to sanction South Africa. However, the basis for that stance was that boycotts and sanctions would hurt the black population far more than it would help them - a mistaken opinion, as subsequent events have shown, but an honest one. As the above letter makes clear, the CoS was opposed to boycotts and sanctions because it *supported* the policy of the South African government. The letter shows that the CoS sought to actively defend apartheid.

 The support for the South African Government expressed in the previous extracts was not simply a matter of supporting a *government*, as distinct from a political party. Take the following letter from L. Ron Hubbard:

 "I wish to extend my appreciation to South African Scientologists for their splendid activities and alertness. And I wish to thank the South African Government for its forbearance and ex-Minister of Health Herzog for his sense of justice and fair play in his 1968 pro-Scientology decision [not to appoint a Commission of Enquiry into Scientology] ... Note, please, that the press in Southern Africa call Dr. Radford and Dr. Fischer when it wants adverse comments on Scientology. Those two are United Party members. The United Party supports psychiatry in South Africa. Therefore, unwittingly the Government is led to pay for opposition and subversion." [HCO Information letter, 16th February 1969]

This letter clearly reveals Hubbard's determination to enter the South African political arena. His support is not only for the Government, it is for the ruling Nationalist party, which he perceives as being friendly to Scientology and hostile to psychiatry. It's apparent that he regarded supporting apartheid as being worthwhile if it meant that Scientology was helped and psychiatry damaged. At the very least, Hubbard was neutral towards offical South African racism; the balance of evidence (including the extracts below) show that he was prepared to actively support apartheid if it meant that the CoS got "wins" in South Africa.

It is also clear that Hubbard wished to have Scientology adopted as an official tool against the anti-apartheid movement. What, for instance, is the purpose of Hubbard's assertion made at this time that during auditing

 "In South Africa, a Bantu's withholds read not on the needle alone but on the Tone Arm as well" [L. Ron Hubbard, "E-Meter Essentials", page 23]
if it is not an attempt to emphasize and validate the supposed fundamental racial differences which underlay apartheid? I have not come across any references in Scientology literature regarding racial differences encountered anywhere other than in South Africa during auditing. And why the reference to "in South Africa" in particular? Are black South Africans physically different from other black Africans? (That's the implicit message).

It is significant that in these papers, the CoS consistently refers to black South Africans as "Bantus". That, if I remember rightly, was the standard term used by the apartheid governments; the Bantus are just one of the many tribes in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, for instance, is a Xhosa, and Mangesotho Buthelezi is a Zulu.

 A little further on, one comes to the rather incredible claim that
 "In South Africa terrorism and its attendant dangers can be fought more effectively by E-Meters than by guns, since only Scientologists with meters could detect subversives." [L. Ron Hubbard, "E-Meters Replace Guns", HCO information letter, 16 Oct 1968]

 It's just as well for the ANC (and for the emancipation of black South Africans) that Scientology's efforts to ingratiate itself with the Government were unsuccessful! Those infalliable E-Meters would have made short work of any ANC supporters and that notorious terrorist Nelson Mandela would still be in jail...

 Also, since subversive activities in South Africa included expressing support for black civil rights, the Communist party and the ANC - and the penalty could be imprisonment, execution or simple murder - the danger of what Hubbard proposed is obvious. It is also interesting that he appears in the above extract to be proposing to violate the supposed confidentiality of the auditing session, as the damning information would presumably be extracted during auditing and then handed over to the authorities. This runs directly counter to the so-called "Code of Reform" which was enacted only a few months previously. Its main statements declare that no records would be kept during auditing, no information which could be used for blackmail would be retained, and anything revealed during auditing was strictly confidential. It looks like *that* didn't last very long. South African figures from the apartheid years, such as the former defence minister Magnus Malan, are now being arrested for their role in the apartheid governments. Any attempt by the CoS to relaunch itself in South Africa should be met with similar demands that it account for its behaviour in the apartheid years, and it should explain precisely why L. Ron Hubbard deliberately drove a cart and horses through his own supposedly "non-political" aims.
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Re: South Africa, Racism and Hubbard
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 00:19 »
more abt it: http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/deny.htm
These are a few of them.
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          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'slights go out.                                  –L. Ron Hubbard, recorded talk to the Saint Hill staff about              Rhodesia, 6 May 1966                 


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                       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"                 
         
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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           
       

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Re: South Africa, Racism and Hubbard
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 00:30 »
I can't help with this one at the moment, as Hubbard's racist, ignorant, arrogant, uninformed, assy comments make my blood boil and temples throb, and I am out of ibuprofin right now.
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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 20:02 »
Hope you laid in a good supply of ibuprofin, Lorelei. 

There is a tape which used to be a part of the Anatomy of the Human Mind Congress (AHMC) lectures.  The current series of tapes contains the following lectures:
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6012C31 AHMC-1 The Genus of Dianetics and Scientology
6012C31 AHMC-2 The Things of Scientology
6101C01 AHMC-3 Dianetics 1961 and the Whole Answer to the Problems of the Mind
6101C01 AHMC-4 The Field of Scientology
6101C01 AHMC-5 Scientology Organizations

But in 1960/1961, it contained these:
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6012C31 AHMC-1 The Genus of Dianetics and Scientology
6012C31 AHMC-2 The Things of Scientology
6012C31 AHMC-3 A Talk on South Africa
6101C01 AHMC-4 Dianetics 1961 and the Whole Answer to the Problems of the Mind
6101C01 AHMC-5 The Field of Scientology
6101C01 AHMC-6 Scientology Organizations

The missing tape,  A Talk on South Africa, has been leaked to the following locations:
http://rapidshare.com/files/287072832/6012C31C_-_AHMC-3_-_A_Talk_on_South_Africa_-_Copy.mp3.html
http://www.badongo.com/file/17538953
http://depositfiles.com/files/lcahb80ij
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PK0P3A3W
http://www.zshare.net/audio/66348811ca515cb1/

In case anyone wants to say the tape is faked, here's a photo of page 190 of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology, Volume IV: 1960-1961, in which it appeared. 

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/29/dsc00050zf.jpg
South Africa, Racism and Hubbard (and David Miscavige too)


Scientologists can check it out for themselves, if they can lay their hands on this antique book.  I seem to remember something about David Miscavige wanting people to turn in their old books when he put out the new and improved version of the Basics.  I wonder why?   ;)
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Re: South Africa, Racism and Hubbard
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 23:08 »
I can't help with this one at the moment, as Hubbard's racist, ignorant, arrogant, uninformed, assy comments make my blood boil and temples throb, and I am out of ibuprofin right now.

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« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2009, 19:20 »
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2009, 19:27 »
That is one of my favorite videos!

This site has some more info: http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/hubbard-racism.htm

The below has some more of hubbards mixed up views

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On Yellow and Brown people:
Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get  attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part  … that rocks, trees, walls etc. can give them attention. The white man seldom  believes this and so is likely to become anxious about people.
Thus the white saves people, prevents famine, flood, disease and revolution  for people as the only purveyors of attention are scarce. The  white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and  that yellow and brown peoples' attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown  races are not very progressive but by and large, saner. And the white race is  progressive but more frantic. The yellow and brown races do not understand white  concern for "bad conditions" since what is a few million dead men? There are                              plenty of identities and there is plenty of attention, they think. The  white can't understand them. Nor can they understand the white.



This last one seals the deal. hubbard thinks men are not created equal.

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Hubbard did write in Science of Survival:  "While all men are created with equal rights under the law, an examination of  the individuals in the society rapidly demonstrates that all men are not created  with equal potential value to their fellows." and   "In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the tone scale should not have, in any thinking  society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings  into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no  such restraints." (*)                          Tone Scale  : A scale which shows the emotional tones  of a person. These, ranged from the highest to the lowest, are, in part,  serenity, enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom,  antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy. (There are additional  tone levels than these in the Expanded Tone Scale, and for further information  see the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.)
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2010, 21:56 »
Regardless of what Hubbard said about black people, if they have money, the cult of today is not above targeting them: http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/AllSports_23/Heading_In_A_Different_Direction.shtml

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NORTH CAROLINA (BASN) -- Writer Stephen Leacock once stated that "Advertisement is the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

So parents beware, because ESPN is advertising more than just Gatorade and sneakers these days. In fact, the other night I was watching ESPN when an intriguing commerical captured my attention.

In my mind, I'm thinking this must be a new commerical from Nike.
 
No, maybe it's Reebok. Or even Adidas.
 
But to my surprise, it was the latest advertisement for Scientology.
 
Scientology??? (WTF) Get the hell out of here!!!
 
When did this science fiction cult become mainstream and when did it start targeting athletes and sports fans!!!

more at http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/AllSports_23/Heading_In_A_Different_Direction.shtml
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« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2010, 21:34 »
Latino and Black Youth March Proudly Together in Long Beach to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 15:24:28 EST
Edited by Carly Zander
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) --

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Sponsored by Narconon International and the National Alliance for Faith and Justice, youths carried a banner promoting peace between their races. Media in southern Los Angeles County have often reported conflict between Latinos and Blacks, but today 35 youths carried a banner in the Long Beach Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade on 16 January specifically to promote peace and to show that the majority of youth want peace and are willing to do something to make peace between the races come true.....

Narconon supports youth events such as this all across the United States and the world to support drug-free, ethical, and peaceful communities. Narconon centers across the United States are participating in similar events including in Georgia and Oklahoma.

What was provided in support? Looks like another opportunity for recruitment to me.

more at http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2010-01-0118-003.shtml
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 17:22 »
Here's a couple of old stories from a series in the Boston Herald:

Church keys programs to recruit blacks
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By JOSEPH MALLIA
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Date of Publication:3/2/98

The Church of Scientology has targeted black families in Massachusetts with a learn-to-read program that critics say is just a rehash of old methods that leans heavily on the church's religious teachings.

The learn-to-read program - the World Literacy Crusade - is part of a nationwide effort by the church to entice blacks into Scientology and then convince them to take other, expensive programs, according to critics and former members of the church.

A Herald review has found that Scientologists have:

  • Targeted a literacy campaign at inner-city Boston programs for minority children, including Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn's Youth Development Program, the Roxbury YMCA and the Roxbury Youth Works.
  • Attracted dozens of middle class and professional black families to Delphi Academy in Milton. This Scientology-run school uses E-Meters - devices akin to lie detectors - on children, according to a former Delphi student.
  • Taught Scientology methods to ninth-grade teachers at Randolph High School - which has many black students - after persuading headmaster James E. Watson that their techniques work.
  • Taught Scientology's study techniques to Boston Public Schools students at Brighton High School through teacher Gerald Mazzarella, who is also a church member.
  • Created 26 World Literacy Crusade programs - in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, Memphis, Tenn., and a host of other U.S. cities in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
  • Gained the endorsements of prominent local blacks such as Georgette Watson, co-founder of Drop-A-Dime and former anti-drug aide to Gov. William F. Weld.
More at the link above.

And:

Milton school shades ties to Scientology
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By JOSEPH MALLIA
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Date of Publication:3/2/98

A Church of Scientology school in Milton is enrolling large numbers of children from middle-class and professional black families in what critics say is part of the church's nationwide plan to recruit minorities.

Officials at Delphi Academy do not tell parents that the school is part of the Church of Scientology, and that they are trying to recruit blacks for Scientology's costly programs.

Yet they do admit that all staff members are Scientologists and they use Scientology materials.

A Herald review of the school has found that Delphi Academy:

Used precisely the same "Study Tech" as the Boston Church of Scientology on Beacon Street, where the methods are considered religious scriptures.

Sent up to 10 percent of each child's tuition money to the Association for Better Living and Education, a Scientology organization in Los Angeles, according to its federal tax returns.

Got "referral" income of 10 percent to 15 percent of any Scientology course or book bought by a Delphi Academy parent, according to the school's federal tax returns and ex-members of the church.

Has used an "E-Meter" - a device like a lie detector that measures emotional reactions - on Delphi children, according to a former student, Sabriya Dublin of Jamaica Plain. The E-Meter - the same device used by the church in counseling- sends a mild electric current through the child's body, with fluctuations in a gauge showing emotional reactions, as a child answers questions while holding a shiny metal tube in each hand. A former Delphi student from Oregon, however, said the E-Meter was not used at his school.

Created a Delphi Parents Association so parents could pay for playground repairs and two new computers through fund-raising events - while Delphi made royalty payments to Scientology's ABLE organization.

Promoted Scientology outside the school. Delphi's headmistress, Ellen Garrison, helped establish a Scientology tutoring program for ninth-grade teachers at the Randolph Public Schools, said former Scientology church spokeswoman Kit Finn.

And a "Homework Club" sent older Delphi students to teach Scientology methods at the Tucker Elementary School, a Milton public school, a Delphi official said.

Attracted so many students in recent years that the school, in a converted gatehouse off a quiet stretch of Blue Hill Avenue, had to build two new classrooms. School spokeswoman Joanne List said most of the new students were black.

Critics of Scientology say the real motive of Delphi is to increase church membership, and make money by selling high-priced Scientology courses to parents, according to Priscilla Coates, an anti-cult activist in Los Angeles.

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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 20:17 »
I believe someone suggested that Jada Pinkett-Smith (confirmed Scientologist, I think) and her husband Will Smith (not confirmed; he uses a lot of weasel words when asked) are being groomed as the African American celebrity faces of Scientology and used to speak favourably about Sci-related topics, such as the Study Tech (they apparently financed a school that includes Sci tech and Sci teachers on staff)...esp. now that Isaac Hayes is dead.
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2010, 20:50 »
Along with Doug E. Fresh, going after different demographics I guess.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/08/hip_hop_star_doug_e_fresh_admits_he_s_a_
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Hip Hop Star Doug E. Fresh Admits He's A Scientologist, Says It's Not A 'White' Religion
September 8th, 2009 8:15am EDT

Doug E. Fresh
Veteran rapper Doug E. Fresh is hip-hop's first Scientologist after converting to the controversial faith eight years ago.

The star, 42, has previously drawn inspiration from aspects of Christianity and Islam, but has confirmed longstanding rumors of his affiliation to Scientology, the religion which counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its followers.

Fresh reveals he was introduced to the faith by late soul legend Isaac Hayes when he was dating New York radio DJ Miss Jones.

In an interview with Essence magazine, he says, "I am the first hip-hop artist to do it (convert to Scientology). Isaac Hayes was a former co-worker of Miss Jones and he told her about it. I went with her to one of the classes. Miss Jones stopped going but I continued. I found it fascinating. It changed how I thought. I've learned how to look at things and not judge them but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality."

And Fresh hopes to use his knowledge of the religion to educate others who may be skeptical of the faith.

He adds, "Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people. Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look. You may be amazed at what you get."
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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2010, 17:55 »
Ebony Awakening: http://ebonyawakening.org/About_Ebony_Awakening.htm

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About Ebony Awakening

Ebony Awakening is a not for profit corporation registered in the state of Florida. Our members include artists, educators, professionals and government employees with a diverse range of religious philosophy and beliefs, as well as political affiliations.

The problems of drugs, moral decline, illiteracy and criminality that are threatening to destroy our people can and are being effectively addressed in Black neighborhoods and communities through the programs supported by Ebony Awakening.

Our Mission:

To restore dignity and self respect in Black communities by eradicating drug abuse, illiteracy and criminality, so that people can live in peace and prosperity without the constant threat of loss.  Our success is made possible by the application of rehabilitative and educational technologies developed by American humanitarian, L. Ron Hubbard.

Founded in 1982 by legendary concert/jazz performer, composer and educator, Amanda Ambrose, Ebony Awakening has supported the establishment and growth of social betterment programs from Los Angeles to the Nation's Capital.

http://clearwater-volunteers.flag.org/page07.htm

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Scientologists in Clearwater have been involved in issues of minority rights and awareness including the celebration of Native American Spirituality and the celebration of African American Achievement, both of which were held at the Church’s Fort Harrison Hotel. The Tribute to African American Achievement was sponsored by Ebony Awakening, a group founded in 1982 by Scientologist and legendary concert/jazz performer, composer and educator, Amanda Ambrose, who currently calls Clearwater her home.
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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2010, 14:26 »
Why is scientology so interested in the black community? 

From: http://www.naderlibrary.com/cult.flagorder1890.htm

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ZONES OF ACTION -- FLAG ORDER 1890
by L. Ron Hubbard

SEA ORGANIZATION
Flag Order 1890
26 March 1969
CONFIDENTIAL

ZONES OF ACTION

We are now operating in three zones of action.

1) To boom Scientology wherever possible.  Some major points are to capture medical interest, to capture students interest with a book or study, to put in an ECAOs, to keep bad ethics and false reports out of orgs, etc.

2) To invade the territory of Smersh (editor's note: Smersh = National Association of Mental Health), run it better, make tons of money in it, to purify the mental health field.  Part of this is redefining Quackery (which they haven't defined) as "The action of selling service and refusing refund of the fee if the customer isn't satisfied and demanding it be stamped out, by getting medical equipment, drug and construction companies on our side and push these actions, by giving real service, by stamping out death camps, by grabbing huge contributions and appropriations all as Mental Health not Scn.  If these Smersh nuts could run it at all, we can boom it.

3)  Contact and make friends with and organize all minority groups until we have the biggest group on the planet.  By cheering them up in their defense and attack actions, organizing and International Minority group organization, feeding them out Gung Ho and PRO policies, making friends with even the biggest enemies of the West, we will be able to avert Fascism now taking over in the West.

These are the major targets.  If what we are doing does not add up to making our SO a good primary nucleus and the three targets above then it is an unnecessary action.

This is a 3 pronged all out attack, carefully studied out as the important zones to give us final victory.

L. RON HUBBARD
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« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2010, 07:35 »
LOL @ SMERSH, which was a group of evil Russians in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. They are so stuck in the Fifties it isn't funny. What's the original release date of that LRH memo?
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« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2010, 18:49 »
LOL @ SMERSH, which was a group of evil Russians in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. They are so stuck in the Fifties it isn't funny. What's the original release date of that LRH memo?

All the copies I can find list the same, March 26, 1969.  I guess once Hubbard started writing his own science fiction religion, he didn't have time to read other science fiction authors anymore.
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Re: South Africa, Racism and Hubbard
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2010, 22:12 »
A little bit more to add to this thread:

http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/funeral-for-a-friend/
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Around the turn of the Millennium the late Rhythm and Blues legend Isaac Hayes asked to meet Miscavige to discuss what he considered something of grave importance. Miscavige, as he did on numerous occasions when he didn’t want to mix with someone he considered beneath him yet needed to maintain public relations, sent me as his emissary.

Isaac and I met at a coffee shop for several hours.

...

Isaac’s face lit up while he summarized the gains in ability and spiritual understanding he’d attained from Scientology. Then he suddenly went quiet, paused for a moment, looked directly at me with his sorrowful eyes, “Marty, it kills me that I can’t share it with my people. Of all those who deserve and need this technology it is Black folk. Scientology is priced so that only the wealthy can afford it. I understand the focus of ‘making the able more able’.

...

After a few hours of discussing the history of class and race warfare in America, I told Isaac I not only understood him, but I couldn’t be more in agreement. I told him there was hope because I was aware of Hubbard writings that directed Scientology be made affordable to the average working “Joe.”

Isaac then leaned forward and told me in a conspiratorial tone that if there were resistance at the top to making Scientology affordable in the ghettos because of financial considerations, “have them consider this. From where do trends come in this country and the world? Music, fashion, slang, all that is hip and cool comes from the Black ghetto. Man, you should let them know that they are shooting themselves in the foot by ignoring the ghetto. Just from a pure marketing perspective, if that’s how folks look at things, help Black America and you help yourself. In the long run it will pay big dividends when Scientology becomes cool.”

I assured him that I would report his exact concerns directly to Miscavige. That I did, in detail. Admittedly, I was not able to communicate all of the meeting. That is because, in his inimitable style, Miscavige cut me off whenever I attempted to explain any of the emotion and deep-seated beliefs we had discussed. He focused like a laser beam on what he considered of utmost importance, Isaac’s afterthought on how to influence management: servicing the ghetto could make Scientology hip.

...

Miscavige told the audience that Black America was considered hip, that ghetto Blacks were the trend setters in music, fashion and more. He said that made investment in the ghetto very much worth Scientology’s while. It would make Scientology hip. My stomach ached as I heard him cherry-pick Isaac’s secret pitch to a profit motivated management and have the arrogance to announce it to the “elite”, well-heeled followers he had carefully cultivated.

He had unilaterally decided to take on the situation in the most audacious possible manner. He announced that the Church was working on two new magnificent, “showcase” Churches: one in Harlem and the other in South Central Los Angeles. He showed the audience grandiose design plans for both. I uneasily imagined how Isaac felt about seeing Miscavige take his report, and have the temerity to talk about Black America like a thing that need be conquered for Scientology’s aggrandizement.
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« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2010, 18:49 »
Marty Rathbun has posted a notice about an event that was held by the Church of Scientology, called the "Clear African Americans Convention," on June 18th through June 20, 2010.  Marty was a high level executive in the "Church" of Scientology until he left several years ago.  He still believes in the original scientology, which I don't recommend, but his statements on this matter otherwise are vaild.

Marty's post is here: http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/clear-african-americans-convention/

He says:
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The latest promo out of Flag is below. I find it troubling, but not surprising.  I suppose it is DM’s answer to my publishing evidence of his disdain and treatment of African Americans as some group to be conquered for his own PR and self-aggandizement, see  http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/.

His answer is not to do what Isaac Hayes told DM to do through me more than ten years ago.

The answer is to come up with a way to disseminate to a particular ethnic group.

Note, they are going to have either Sonja Jacques or Capt FSO Harvey Jacques tell them how to get up the Bridge. I guess it all depends on whether Harvey is on too big of a crush reg cycle on some Mr. got-bucks or not at the time.

Note, DM is not doing what Isaac suggested, because this convention is clearly not aimed at the people Isaac wanted most to help.  Some tell-tale signs are the Jacques “briefings” and a “closed door IAS briefing” at the end.  You got it. They have zero discrimination against any race, color or creed – just as long as whatever your race, color, or creed is you’ve got a fat bank account.

I’ll tell them exactly how to disseminate to African-American people – even though it will not have the slightest effect, because clearly DM is in violent disagreement with it:

Stop being so fucking high and mighty, holier than thou, cliquish,  haughty and – last but not least – greedy, that you cannot face a person of any race, color or creed, locate the being and treat him or her like the spirit he or she is.  You don’t have a problem with disseminating to African-Americans. You have a problem with disseminating, period. You’ve got a problem with disseminating because you do not practice Scientology so you do not attain and maintain the gains available if you did.

Here is the full text of the promotional piece:
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CLEAR AFRICAN AMERICANS
CONVENTION AND AWARDS BANQUET


SUMMARY:

Thursday June 17th Registration Begins
Friday June 18th Seminars/workshops
Saturday 19th Free Case Analyses
Juneteenth* Awards Banquet:
Sunday June 20th Harlem & Inglewood Ideal Orgs Briefings
Sunday Service Wrap-up
   *Juneteenth – Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19th, 1865, the slaves in Texas learned from Northern soldiers that the Civil War had ended and that all slaves were now free. That was a cause for a celebration which became known as Juneteenth. On January 1, 1980, Juneteenth became an official Texas state holiday. The successful passage of this bill marked Juneteenth as the first emancipation celebration granted official state recognition.

Thursday:
Sign in Registration

Friday:
Ballroom
10:30 am Doors open
10:30 am Sign in & Registration
11:00 – 11:10 am Welcome and Overview
11:10 am -1:00 pm Seminar – How to disseminate to African Americans
a) Gung-Ho policies, OT zones, Disseminating to Christian ministers by Milton James
   1. How to be a successful Scientologist Disseminator/Navigating the Grant Process/How to reach African Americans with ABLE programs and get exchange
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 pm Special briefing Rev. Alfreddie Johnson & Minister Tony Muhammad
3:00 – 5:00 pm Seminar – How to use the technology of Public Relations to reach African Americans
   1. What are the basic sub-groups within African American communities? Are we all one big group? by Public Relations Director, Church of Scientology FSO Pat Harney
b) Ethnics, manners and other aspects of PR within African Americans by Pat Harney
c) How to reach African Americans when religion is a barrier Rev. Alfreddie & Minister Tony & Rev. Kennedy
4:00 – 5:00 pm Questions and Answers
5:00 – Dinner
8:30 p.m. Flag Graduation

Saturday:
9:30 am Doors Open
10:00 – 11:00 am Seminar – Get up the Bridge Yourself Captain Harvey Jacques or Sonya Jacques
11:00 am – 4:00 pm Bridge Consultations/Free Case Analysis
5:30 pm till Awards Banquet
AWARDS: Lifetime Achievement Award – Stephanie & Amanda
FSM Awards (We are creating special award categories for Ebony Awakening)
DINNER: BUFFET STYLE
CONCERT: Teena Marie
DANCING

Sunday:
9:00 am Doors Open
9:30 am Seminar: Briefing on Harlem by Phyllis Mack
10:00 am Seminar: Briefing on Inglewood by Juan Bogan and Michael Roberts
11:00 am Sunday Service with Rev. Alfreddie
12:30 am Lunch
2:00 pm Wrap up – “Where do we go from here?”
IAS closed door briefing

Slick promo piece that goes with it: Clear_African_American_Convention[1]

In the phrase, "How to reach African Americans with ABLE programs and get exchange," the term "get exchange" means to get money.  "ABLE" consists of the scientology "social betterment" front groups, Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics, and others.

"Bridge Consultations/Free Case Analysis" is just another way of saying "we will work out how you will spend more money for "church" services, and nag you till you agree to pay."

Ebony Awakening has been covered earlier in this thread.  FSM stands for "Field Staff Member" which means a person who sells scientology to other people outside the "church" and gets a commission (a percentage) on all money spent back at the "church."

"IAS closed door briefing" (IAS=International Association of Scientologists) is described best in a comment on the blog by "Chairman of the Bored":
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Sunday wraps up with an “IAS closed door briefing”. We all know what that means. The public will be pitched on how they need to achieve their next honor level in the IAS and that the money will be used to pass out Way to Happiness booklets in Harlem. $200,000 will be raised at the event; $3,000 will be used to print booklets. A photo opportunity will be done with Michael Roberts walking around Harlem in a Way to Happiness tee shirt. And the scam continues…

As an aside, given that Miscavige referred to Yager as a “f*ckin’ Jew”, one can only imagine how he refers to Black people when the cameras aren’t around.

   (OoO)  Ahem.

Now, I do not know about you, but for me:
  • I do not want an alleged "church" figuring out special ways to target me because of my skin color.
  • When my religion is a barrier to something, I'll go with my religion and what it teaches, not toss it to the side because of some tricks some alleged "church" has come up with to pull the wool over my eyes and get around my barriers, i.e., my religion.

I will end this post with another comment from the blog linked above:

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Well, I believe you do have to disseminate differently to African-Americans. The dissemination is like this:

“Anytime white people put on any sort of benefit for Afro-Americans, realize they just made you “different” and all they want is for you to be made different. Just that particular group wants to make you different.”

Next: any time you see white men putting on a benefit for the ‘poor black people’ realize it is they who will benefit from this ‘benefit’.

Next: “Anytime you see the C of M putting on a ‘benefit’ for anyone or any class of thing, realize that the C of M is completely lost and hasn’t a clue as to what a thetan is.”

ML Virg
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« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2010, 03:10 »
Now, I do not know about you, but for me:
  • I do not want an alleged "church" figuring out special ways to target me because of my skin color.
  • When my religion is a barrier to something, I'll go with my religion and what it teaches, not toss it to the side because of some tricks some alleged "church" has come up with to pull the wool over my eyes and get around my barriers, i.e., my religion.

Exactly. People are not thrilled to be solely defined by the amount of melanin in their skins (or the amount of cash in their wallets).
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