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psychiatrists and psychologists, including Dr. Geertz, are Fair Game as
far as Scientologists are concerned.
72. Hubbard taught that the world
must be protected from psychologists and psychiatrists at all costs.
Hubbard wrote many, many scriptures and recorded many lectures in which he
vilified, ridiculed, attacked, and blamed all the ills of the world on the
mental health profession.
73. The vitriol in Hubbard's attacks has three
sources. First, much to Hubbard's surprise and chagrin, the mental health
profession did not embrace either Hubbard or Dianetics, Hubbard's "Science
of Mental Health." Second, and even more offensive to Hubbard, was the
fact that his often dangerous techniques were labeled as quackery. Third,
and perhaps most important, Hubbard regarded the mental health profession
as a well-established and deeply entrenched competitor for monies which
might otherwise flow to him and to Scientology.
74. The following sampling makes clear the degree of Hubbard's loathing
and contempt for
these professions, and shows that Scientologists will stop at nothing
short of total obliteration of these professions.
75. In 1970 Hubbard
wrote "The Psychiatrist at Work" "attached as Exhibit 10). he attacks
psychiatry as follows: ". . . psychiatry is making insane people. "This
is why the insanity statistic is soaring and why the crime statistic is on
a wild climb.... "The psychiatrist has masters. His principal
organization, World Federation of Mental Health, and its members, the
National Associations of Mental Health, the 'American' Psychiatric
Association and the 'American' Psychological Association, are directly
connected to Russia. . "It goes without saying that the savagery and
fraud of psychiatry must cease and that auditors must encourage in state
and public and through all their connections displacing psychiatric abuses
with sane auditing."
76. Obviously, psychiatrists and psychologists were
evil because their services competed with Scientology auditing. In a 1971
document by Hubbard called "Confidential" (attached as Exhibit 11), he
wrote: "Policy is that we assign any case or upset in Scientology to past
damage and interference with the person by medicine or psychiatry. They
were sent to us after medicine or psychiatry had already destroyed them.
We cannot be blamed for psychiatric or medical failures. "By continually
repeating this, make the AMA, Nats [National Associations of Mental
Health], etc. very wary of using our name on these psychiatric and medical
failures. Both subjects are guilty and the statement is demonstrably true.
Use it often. Make it known to the enemy that this is our policy as a
restraint on their fetid imaginations: "Every time you attack us we will
disclose more records of your failures.'"
77. In another 1971 document of
the same date, entitled "It is time we begin to label Psychiatry for what
it is, the greatest failure of the Nineteenth Century. Every notorious
criminal and defector of the Twentieth Century was in psychiatric hands
before the crime. Burgess, McLean, the Texas Tower murderer, Manson and
all the rest were psychiatric failures first. Every infamous modern
assassin was a psychiatric failure. Psychiatric victims are endless
trouble to our society. We are tracing social turmoil, unrest, widespread
drug addiction to psychiatry. "We wish to issue a public warning that
psychiatry kills. We in Scientology stand ready to help anyone, and help
Governments rid themselves of psychiatric crime. There is urgency in this.
In too many cases we are asked to repair persons already maimed beyond
human tolerance by psychiatric interference and brutality. We blame
psychiatric failure for the state of modern society. We will do all we can
to help, but Nineteenth Century Psychiatry must go. We have never had a
failure or upset that psychiatry had not first ruined."
78. In 1980
Hubbard wrote "Criminals and Psychiatry" (attached as Exhibit 13). In it
Hubbard said: "Almost every modern horror crime was committed by a known
criminal who had been in and out of the hands of psychiatrists and
psychologists, often many times.... "The most charitable look at this
would be that the psychologists and psychiatrists are simply incompetent.
But other more sinister implications can be drawn.
"Developed in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they appeared on
the militaristic scene of a rearming and conquest-minded Germany. At that
time, the arch criminal Bismarck was laying the groundwork for the
slaughters of World War I and World War II. It fitted with the philosophy
of militarism that man was an animal and that there was neither soul nor
morality standing in the way of the wholesale murder of war. "Up until
that time the Church had some influence on the state and possibly some
power in restraining bestiality and savagely insane conduct, but small as
it might have been, it was incompatible with the unholy ambitions of the