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the following:
Have you ever stolen anything?
Have you ever been in prison?
Have you ever embezzled money?
Have you ever been in jail?
Have you ever had anything to do with pornography?
Have you ever been a drug addict?
Do you have a police record?
Have you ever raped anyone?
Have you ever been involved in an abortion?
Have you ever committed adultery?
Have you ever practiced homosexuality?
Have you ever had intercourse with a member of your family?
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever been a Communist?
Have you ever been a newspaper reporter?
Have you ever ill-treated children?
Have you ever had anything to do with a baby farm?
Are you afraid of the police?
Have you ever done anything your mother would be ashamed to find
out?
How do you feel about sex?
How do you feel about being controlled?
Later the contents of this security check were revised into "The
Only Valid Security Check" which contains many of the same questions
with the addition of several others such as:
Have you ever practiced cannibalism?
Have you ever peddled dope?
Have you practiced sex with animals?
Have you ever attempted suicide?
Do you collect sexual objects?
Have you ever practiced sex with children?
Have you ever practiced masturbation?
Have you ever killed or crippled animals for pleasure?
Have you ever had unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard?
Are you upset about this security check?
As if this weren't enough, there is the lengthy "Whole Track Sec
Check" designed to ferret out "overts" a person has committed during his
thousands of past lives. Of the 346 questions on this form, a sample few
are:
Have you ever enslaved a population?
Have you ever sacked a city?
Have you ever raped a child of either sex?
Have you ever bred bodies for degrading purposes?
Have you ever deliberately tortured someone?
Have you driven anyone insane?
Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?
Have you ever made a planet, or nation, radioactive?
Have you ever maimed or crippled other people's bodies?
Have you ever torn out someone's tongue?
Have you ever blinded anyone?
Have you ever punished another by cutting off some part of his body?
Have you ever smothered a baby?
Have you ever had sexual relations with an animal or a bird?
Have you ever castrated anyone?
Have you ever applied a hot iron to another person's body?
Have you ever beaten a child to death?
Have you ever eaten a human body?
Etc.
There is even a special security check for children from ages 6 to
12, who are asked questions like:
What has somebody told you not to tell?
Have you ever decided you didn't like some member of your family?
Have you ever pretended to be sick?
Have you ever bullied a smaller child?
Have you ever been mean to an animal, bird or fish?
Have you ever broken something belonging to someone else?
Have you ever done anything you were very much ashamed of?
Have you ever failed to finish your schoolwork on time?
Have you ever lied to a teacher?
Have you ever done anything to someone else's body that you shouldn't
have?
Have you ever felt ashamed of your parents?
Have you ever lied to escape blame?
Have you ever told stories about someone behind their back?
Etc.
Similar to security checks is another assignment frequently meted
out by the Ethics Officer, and that is the assignment to write up one's
"OWs" (overts and withholds), which in Scientology means all the things
one has ever done wrong (overts), and especially those which someone
else almost found out about (withholds).
This will commonly be assigned to a person who is in the process of
"working out of a condition of Enemy." The Ethics Officer is usually not
satisfied until many pages of "OWs" have been produced by the properly
repentant member. At one point in Scientology it was the practice to
lock the member in a closet for two or more days while he wrote up his
sins.
If a person in Scientology should become querulous, especially
should he find fault with something written by Hubbard, or should he
doubt some point of dogma, that person will be quickly isolated from the
other students and dispatched to Ethics until his overts can be
discovered and dealt with.
Anything authored by Hubbard ("Source") is assumed to be valid and
true; therefore, anyone who has a disagreement with anything written by
Hubbard must have personal overts which are causing him to find fault.
It is the job of the Ethics department of Scientology to assign the
person the appropriate lower condition and have him write up his OWs
until he has come to see the light and can be returned a more obedient
and humble member of the group.
In the case of serious deviation from the norms of the group, there
are more severe penalties which can be applied to provide the motivation
for a member to more obediently conform. Some of these penalties have in
the past included:
- a dirty grey rag tied to the left arm to indicate a condition of