Organized Scientology Attempts to Destroy a Peaceful Protestor
by Larry Brennan, Guest Writer for FACTNet
Organized scientology is attempting to silence and destroy a young man in Boston who has been peacefully protesting against their abuses.
Along with others, “Gregg”, a member of the loose knit group known as “anonymous”, has been peacefully protesting against the abuses of organized scientology.
The protests held outside the scientology headquarters in Boston on February 10 and March 15, 2008 were part of worldwide protests on the same days outside of major scientology centers around the world by thousands of people concerned with the lies and abuses surrounding scientology and its practice.
Despite the peaceful nature of the protests and the fact that the protests were directed at abuses and lies and not the freedom of scientologists to practice their philosophy, organized scientology branded the protesters as religious bigots and began to have their lawyers and private eyes harass protesters or people who they thought might be protesters.
Organized scientology considers that anyone who speaks out against their lies, abuses and/or crimes to be criminals that they will attempt to harass and ultimately destroy.
Their attempts to falsely accuse such protestors in Clearwater, Florida and Los Angeles were thrown out by either the courts (Clearwater) or by prosecuting authorities (Los Angeles).
However they still have charges filed against Gregg in Boston that will be going before a magistrate very shortly.
They have filed false charges for “criminal harassment” and “trespass”.
….As for why they are coming after Gregg specifically, he got the permits for the protests in Boston for both February 10th and March 15th, 2008. They know his information because of this. He also put up a website that people in Boston use to help organize protests and their “flyering days”, days where they pass out flyers concerning the protests or abuses/lies by organized scientology. In short, they got his name while the other masked protesters in the Boston area remained anonymous. Here is what happened on that day that lead to those charges being filed:
Gregg and some others went out and passed flyers out about scientology and the then upcoming Anonymous event on March 15th, 2008. The path they were on was going to take them close to the scientology building in Boston. Another anonymous member with them suggested showing the “church” what they were handing out.
They all thought that it was supposed to be a public church and that it was not illegal to walk up to a church. If people from the “church” wanted some copies of the fliers they were giving out to the greater Boston area then the anonymous folks would provide them to the scientology folks. If not, the scientologists could ask them to leave.
A couple of the anonymous folks went into the immediate entrance to the “church” and Gregg did not. .Four scientologists met them, took the flyers and asked them to leave. They all left immediately when asked, peacefully and without incident. The fact that Gregg was NOT one of the anonymous members who went in the door and that he stayed outside on the steps can be verified from two different angles on video.
This resulted in the “church” of scientology criminal complaint for trespass. At this point no one is sure what they even mean by the other complaint of “criminal harassment”. The videos will certainly show no criminal harassment by Gregg or the other anonymous people as well.
Gregg is no leader of any kind, just someone passionate about this who is trying to stand up for those who have been abused by organized scientology, call attention to this and hopefully stop further abuses from happening.
Knowing organized scientology’s policies of silencing people who speak out against their abuses, it is clear they want to shut Gregg up.
Gregg is not only not a criminal, he has done everything he can to help ensure all was done legally, permits were gotten and the like. He supported the police at the events and was a voice among many of the peaceful protesters to listen to the police and be peaceful.
Now organized scientology is trying to have this courageous young man deemed a criminal and do what they can to ruin his life. If anyone would like more information about this and would consider helping Gregg, see the following link to an article about all this and a way to help Gregg: http://tinyurl.com/36cwse
I’m sure that there are good people who will read this and not understand how any “church” could ever want to ruin the life of a young man like this, especially knowing the charges are false.To help you understand this, I would like to quote from a few written policies of organized scientology which they hold as their “scripture” and operating procedure in dealing with those who speak out against them:
I. Policy Letter of 15 August 1960: “Dept of Government Affairs” by L. Ron Hubbard:
“…(3) Make enough threat or clamor to cause the enemy to quail … (6) If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or … any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Don’t ever defend. Always attack. Don’t ever do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy’s front ranks works best.”
Whatever they do, they will have to manufacture “crimes” that Gregg “has committed” which means they will lie as per their own written policy.
II. Policy Letter March 1955 “Dissemination of Material” by L. Ron Hubbard:
“The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway … will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.”
III. Policy Letter of 25 February 1966: “Attacks on Scientology” by L. Ron Hubbard:
It states, Scientology must respond to attacks by:
“… attacking the attackers only. NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. ONLY agree to an investigation of the attackers. This is the correct procedure: (1) Spot who is attacking us. (2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies … (4) 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 tough, rough on attackers all the way…. There has never yet been an attacker who was not reeking with crime. All we had to do was look for it and murder would come out.”
The above is what organized scientology is following to destroy this young man.
Again, if you would like to help Gregg here is a link to tell you how you can help: http://tinyurl.com/36cwse
For anyone who would like more information showing real life examples of organize scientology’s abuses of others, even trying to falsely imprison people they do not like, here are two links to postings I have made in the past about same. (I am the “SME” in those links):
Here too
Additionally, here is a link to a short video showing how organized scientology abused many people through extortion and the like to get money from them. It’s by one of the very guys involved with same. I can personally verify that it is accurate as when I was on staff I had to many times try to prevent the these “International Finance Police” of organized scientology from falsely charging someone to “get heads on a pike”:
The above is what we are dealing with here and what Gregg is up against.
Organized scientology is trying to “shudder Gregg into silence”. They could care less if they destroy the life and reputation of a decent young man. In fact, per the above policy quotes, they hope to do just that.
Organized scientology is run by David Miscavige who is behind more dirty tricks and abuses than anyone I have ever known. He beats staff senseless while he covertly runs organized scientology and then holds them to silence by threatening them with loss of their families through disconnection or even worse, and IMHO he has perjured himself repeatedly about this.
IMHO
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Posted by David Pike on April 11, 2008.
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