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the past included:
- a dirty grey rag tied to the left arm to indicate a condition of
liability
- confinement to the premises of the organization
- suspension of pay and dismissal from post
- a black mark on the left cheek to indicate a condition of
treason
- the person cannot be communicated with by anyone in the
organization
- deprivation of sleep for up to 72 hours
- assignment of manual labor for up to 72 hours
In the case of persons who become actual enemies of the
organization, the Ethics order of Fair Game can be applied, which means
that these persons may be "deprived of property or injured by any means
by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be
tricked, sued, lied to or destroyed."
At one time Hubbard ordered the ultimate punishment for thirteen
people who had defected as "enemies" from the organization. Hubbard
ordered that "auditing process R2-45" be used on these people if they
were seen by any Scientologist.
"R2-45" is a term understood by every Scientologist. When he first
demonstrated it, it is fabled that Hubbard shot a Colt 45 revolver
through the floor of the stage he was lecturing from. Routine #2-45
refers to the act of shooting someone in the head with a Colt 45 and is
the execution procedure in Scientology. In defending themselves,
Scientologists will say to outsiders that Hubbard meant this as a joke;
however, in a document called Racket Exposed,
Hubbard did in fact order thirteen people to be shot on sight.
Other aspects of the system of social control enforced by the ethics
arm of the organization are "Knowledge Reports" and "Committees of
Evidence."
Knowledge Reports were introduced by Hubbard in 1965, and the system
of Knowledge Reports is not unlike the system used in a communist
country in which everyone spies on everyone else.
In Scientology, if you see someone doing something "wrong," you are
obligated to write up a Knowledge Report on that person to be sent to
Ethics for "handling."
Hubbard justified this system in a policy letter called Knowledge
Reports, in which he says:
To live at all, one has to exert some control over his equals as
well as his juniors and (believe it or not) his superiors.
And get a REAL group in return that, collectively, can control the
environment and prosper because its group members individually help
control each other.
A person in the organization suspected of being a dreaded
"suppressive person," will be called before the Scientology version of a
jury trial, called a Committee of Evidence, or "Comm Ev" for short. A
Comm Ev, however, will have little to do with justice, as the results
have frequently been determined ahead of time, and the Comm Ev is itself
just a formality through which the offending person can be officially
declared "SP" and ousted from the organization.
A Suppressive Person in Scientology is defined as one who "actively
seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by
Suppressive Acts." A Suppressive is basically anyone who is an enemy of
Scientology. It is hard to convey the terror that the words "suppressive
person" arouse in a Scientologist. It means a person who is thoroughly
evil beyond redemption, and whose soul is doomed for eternity.
Even being around an "SP" can be bad for one's health, spiritual and
otherwise, and a person connected to an SP is known as a "PTS," or
Potential Trouble Source.
When a person becomes ill, or is doing badly for any reason, it is
assumed that the person is connected to an "SP." When a Scientologist
becomes ill, an auditing action such as an "S and D" (Search and
Discovery) might be ordered to discover the identity of the "SP" in the
person's environment. Once the "SP" is located and disconnected from,
according to Scientology theory, the person should recover. It is a
strange brand of medicine.
It is always assumed that Scientology itself is good, and that those
who are against Scientology are by nature evil. In an article called
Why Some Fight Scientology, Hubbard wrote:
Scientology had no enemies until the word was out that it worked!
Criminals, Communists, perverted religionists alike swarmed to support a
"new fraud," a "hoax," a brand new way of extorting money from and
enslaving Man. And then in 1950 they found that the new sciences worked
with, to them, deadly accuracy. And with a shudder of terror they faced
about and struck with every weapon possible. The press, the courts,
shady women, insane inmates, politicians, tax bureaus, these and many
more were used in a frantic effort to beat down what they had found to
be honest, decent and accurate.
The unthinkable thought in Scientology is that something said by
Hubbard is wrong. Doubt in Scientology is a "lower condition" to be
punished. Scientology is a group in which there is no room for
individuality, only conformity. And this extends to the act of thinking
itself.
What was most frightening for most people about the novel
1984 by Orwell was that the one sacrosanct territory belonging to