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I. Case IX: This couple opted to leave, due to her pregnancy.
They were sent to the Santa Barbara Class IV Organization in total
disgrace for choosing to leave the Sea Org group and go off and have a
baby. They were also spoken very critically of at a staff meeting.
I spoke to the husband before they left, in order to get his
viewpoint on leaving. He said it was partly for personal reasons, in
that he felt that this way he would have a chance to possibly make it go
right to get through his OT III (one of the most advanced levels in
Scientology) review, and finally get through OT III. He said he'd been
stuck in it for 3 years and hadn't been able to get the auditing due to
lack of staff auditors. He said, it was literally driving him nuts and
felt his only hope was to make it go right on his own to get this.
About four years later, I saw them at the Advance Organization of
Los Angeles ("AOLA"). AOLA is where Scientologists attend advanced
levels in Scientology). They were both extremely thin. Their daughter,
who was now about 4 years old was also extremely thin. The mother had
some sort of skin disease that covered half her face. The marriage was
destroyed and they were getting a divorce. She tried to keep up a good
front. But she did tell me that the Santa Barbara Org was very broke.
This meant they were also very broke and barely making it. Class IV org
staff members are paid out of the receipts from sales of Scientology
literature and courses as the org. Seeing them in this way really
convinced me that anyone would be a fool to go to a Class IV Org to have
their baby. It seemed to have caused them untold hardships. This
lasting impression I formed was one of the things that affected my
thinking about a year later, when I discovered my own pregnancy. It's
interesting that the only other alternative in keeping your baby, other
than go to a failing Class IV Organization was to actually route out of
the Sea Org entirely. It's hard to describe how completely unthinkable
this would be to someone as completely indoctrinated and dedicated to
the Sea org as my husband and I were. A way to describe it is with the
analogy of the feeling you would get if someone put a gun in your hand
and told you to go shoot your family. You would feel that there is just
no way in the world, for whatever reason whatsoever, that you would ever
do that.
J. Case X: She apparently didn't put up much of a resistance to
getting an abortion because her pregnancy was making her constantly very
ill.
24. I can see now that the act of getting my abortion along with
the harsh treatment from my seniors afterwards, began jolting me out of
the indoctrinated state of blind dedication to the Sea Org. Another
thing that jolted me was, just before going back to the Riverside
Planned Parenthood, for a check up, 2 weeks after my abortion, I was
getting administered to me something called, False Data Stripping. This
action was opening my eyes to some real craziness that were going on at
the Base, to which I had previously cast a blind eye. The biggest
craziness being the fact that, Miscavige, the highest leader in
Scientology, was regularly (about once a month or so) angrily yelling at
us in staff meetings about how inept and incompetent and inefficient we
all were. Sometimes he would even say, "WOG's could do better." (WOG
is a derogatory term used in the Sea org to mean someone in the outside
world who probably hasn't even heard of Scientology.)
25. These same Miscavige had the crew of Gold at their various
posts and functions performing their duties. The video portrayed Gold
Crew as demigods, in their levels of proficiency, perfection and skills.
26. Another oddity was I would sometimes note how poorly many of
the lower Sea Org Organizations were doing and some of the lower Class
IV Organizations. Despite this, Miscavige would portray the
International Scientology Scene as doing fantastically well and booming,
at all the major Scientology events where he and all his immediate
juniors called IG's (Inspector Generals) would talk. Each portraying
their area of responsibility as doing fabulously well!
27. I was never able to complete the false data stripping, because
I had to leave in the middle of it to go to my doctor appointment for a
check up (which was 2 weeks after my abortion). This was lucky as I had
been able to complete all the "false data stripping" steps, I would have
made complete sense out of everything again and been well on my way of
getting back to my thoroughly indoctrinated, very dedicated Sea Org self
again.
28. My husband picked me up after my check-up. It was then that
he told me of his big argument be had just had with Miscavige and how
Miscavige had greatly insulted him. After he told me the whole scene
that occurred, he told me, if he had it his way he would just get in our
pick-up and leave the Sea Org right now. I daily basis and that "this