Anonymous Belfast

Scientologies REAL View toward Civil Rights (Part One - fair game)

In Dianetics, by LRH(L Ron Hubbard) p534 it states

Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will be granted civil rights before law. Perhaps the goal will be reached at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals.

Yet, even in light of this, they dont see the parallel to Orwells 1984 shown clearly within the writings of LRH. In his ideal world it would only be through the $cientology auditing process that a person would be able to attain civil rights.

Throughout the text of Science of Survival, LRH advocates quarantining, removing and even deleting those which they deem to be a detriment to society. These references can be found in chapters 13, 21, 25 & 27. Here is one example;

The sudden deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone. To have a reasonable and worthwhile social order it is only necessary to delete those who range from 2.0 down or simply quarantining them from the society.
- LRH SoS p183

The most common argument made by adherents in support of this stance is to reference the worst elements of society, in hopes of achieving a state of agreement with the one questioning this view.

The question quickly becomes who lies below 2.0 on this Tone Scale which they use to judge others? This belief in banishing others from society, as a whole, does not apply merely to critics and the worst of the criminal element. In fact it encompasses a broad cross section of society, anyone critical of their beliefs, and the entire field of psychiatry.

Many of the terms and ideas which are utilized within the Scientology Cult are particular to their group. As a result some of these concepts must first be explained, so that the subject may be better understood.

The first, and one of the most important, segments of their beliefs is what they refer to as the Tone Scale. In $cientology they refer the assorted writings of LRH as tech, and that term will be used frequently. The comprehensive tone scale, as provided with the book Science of Survival, by LRH, is used to classify not merely $cientologists, but each person they come across in their daily life. It is through this apparatus that they are taught to judge those around them.

The tone scale does not merely address actions and behavior. Additional categories by which others are prejudged include physical health, sexuality, emotional state, vision, sight, speaking and listening ability, how agreeable they are, their perception of reality, their value to society, ability to handle responsibility as well as truth, memory retention, how literally minded they are, their persistence, and even their methods of handling others.

The highest value of any position in this rating scale is 4.0 and the lowest practical value is 0.0, representing death. LRH talks often about removing from society, without sorrow, anyone who lies below two on this scale. The following is a partial list of qualities within that range.

Flighty, poor concentration, severe sporadic illness, neurological illness, accident prone, chronically ill, expressed or unexpressed resentments, resentments, angry, fear-full or apathetic, shy, withdrawn, hate-full violent, pleas for pity, antagonistic, disagrees with others views of reality, verbal doubts, insecure, shame, anxiety, grief stricken, incapable, irresponsible, uses responsibility to further own ends, cowardly, underhanded, unreasonable bravery, immoral, dishonest blunt, devious, antagonistic, over emotional, sly, suppressive, Rape, sex as a punishment, brutal treatment of children, promiscuity, perversion, sadism, irregular practices - including homosexuality, impotency, sexual anxiety, no efforts to procreate & more

Yes, there are indeed some horrible behaviors listed on their Tone scale, but many of the other categories in which they judge others represent a