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We got Tommy Davis’ lies

Tommy Davis
c/o Colony Capital, LLC

Dear Mr. Davis:

As you know — because you were officially on post in the Scientology cult at the time — I wrote you a series of letters in early 2011 about certain statements that, according to Lawrence Wright, you made to him and other staff at The New Yorker.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4819

http://newyorker.gerryarmstrong.ca/letter-to-tommy-davis-the-value-of-valor/

http://newyorker.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/575

http://newyorker.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/578

http://newyorker.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/580

I sent these letters to a number of Scientology corporation addresses, plus put them on my blog to make sure you received them. My wife Caroline also posted the letters to a Scientology-related forum that I know you Scientologists monitor.

Despite my identifying to you black PR and lies about me that, according to Wright, you had communicated to him and the other New Yorker personnel, you did not respond to any of my letters.

On February 8, 2011, as you know, I wrote and challenged you about your charge, reported by Wright, that I “had forged many of the documents,” which were the subject of the Scientology v. Armstrong LA Superior Court case, and were referred to by Judge Breckenridge in his 1984 decision in that case.

The essential reason I’m writing you, however, is your charge that I had forged many of these documents that I later disseminated, to discredit Hubbard or for any other reason. This is a nasty, criminal lie, and I believe you have a duty to tell the truth to reduce the threat you’ve generated.

If you really have Hubbard-related documents that you really believe I forged, then produce them and let me deal with them and my accuser. Otherwise, please acknowledge that you don’t have any such documents, and that you’re lying about me.

A key reason I oppose Scientology is the cruelty of its practitioners. That’s virtually impossible for the majority of Scientologists to get because Scientology is their way of life, and “cruelty” has still not been transformed into a virtue or even neutralized. Therefore to be a Scientologist at all, a person has to deny its cruelty.

It’s an easy concept for Scientologists such as Miscavige, and I’d think you, to get, however, because it’s your job, your hat, your beingness to be cruel. It’s not hard to see that the state of OT has much to do with cruelty. Your willful lying in the face of facts is cruel. Your continuing conspiracy to steal valor is cruel to the people who didn’t lie about their service, wounds or awards. Your forgery charge is false and cruel. Your cruelty is willfully threatening.

Please publicly withdraw this charge.

http://newyorker.gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/575

You did not respond and did not withdraw your false, defamatory charge. Apparently, however, you left the Sea Org and apparently are now working in Colony Capital, an apparently Homo sapiens company. I again find myself without your email address, so I will email people at the company where you are reportedly working and ask them to forward this to you. I will also post it on my blog, and perhaps at other forums, in a good faith effort to make sure you see it.

Later, in July 2011, when Lawrence Wright was working on Going Clear, he advised me that Hubbard’s “affirmations” or “admissions” were among the documents you had told him that I had forged. Wright stated that specifically what you told him was that Hubbard’s affirmations “have no basis in fact nor were they written by Mr. Hubbard.” Wright, of course, devoted some pages to Hubbard’s affirmations in Going Clear, and I will include that text for reference and research purposes at the end of this letter.

I am following up on my earlier communications to you now because of what Mark Rathbun subsequently published in his book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior about Hubbard’s affirmations.

More damning, Flynn entered into evidence what were called “the affirmations.” These were dozens of handwritten pages from the Hubbard archives. They contained some sort of self-processing Ron had been engaged in, in the late forties. They were called the affirmations because for the most part they seemed to be a sort of positive thinking Ron was writing down, to boost his own self-confidence. They began with this statement of purpose,

‘The purpose of this experiment is to re-establish the ambition, willpower, desire to survive, the talent and confidence of myself’

There were a number of entries acknowledging Ron’s sexual and living relationship with Sarah Northrup, and his close personal friendship with Jack Parsons, the rocket scientist who had headed the Ordo Templi Orientis black magic group Ron had participated in.

Flynn harped on the following passage to give credence to his former-staff witnesses, who had testified about slave-like conditions in the Sea Org:

Material things are yours for the asking. Men are your slaves. Elemental spirits are your slaves. You are power among powers, light in the darkness, beauty in all.

The passage that perhaps had the greatest overall effect, in a trial about whether L. Ron Hubbard’s archives proved him to be a self-promoting liar, read:

You can tell all the romantic tales you wish. You will remember them, you do remember them. But you know which ones were lies. You are so logical you will tell nothing which cannot be believed. But you are gallant and dashing and need tell no lies at all. You have enough real experience to make anecdotes forever.

The affirmations were highly personal, detailing Ron’s sexual problems, physical deficiencies, fears and phobias. I felt like they were a precursor to some Scientology confessional processes, and felt sorry for LRH that they were being bandied about in open court. However, one of the first exhibits Flynn entered into evidence was a Guardian’s Office order authored by Mary Sue herself, which directed that preclear folders (supposedly confidential notes from auditing sessions) of Scientologists deemed “security risks” be routinely culled for information, for use against them should they become a problem for the organization. We would be receiving no sympathy from the court over the airing of Ron’s secrets.

Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, pp. 248, 249.

In 2009, not long after Rathbun announced that he had left your cult, I had actually written him and asked if your cult head David Miscavige had ever let him read Hubbard’s affirmations.

I’m sure you’re knowledgeable about many of the years of attacks on me while you were working under David Miscavige. But right now I just want to address your August 13, 1991 dec. While I’m at it, because DM is steamed and some of his Scientologists or ops have been communicating particularly insanely recently about Hubbard’s Admissions or Affirmations, I’ll also take this opportunity to ask whether DM ever let you read them.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/3292

In a letter in 2011 to Rathbun, I again mentioned Hubbard’s affirmations. I called them Hubbard’s “Admissions,” but Rathbun, Miscavige, you and I all know what I’m talking about.

You promote Hubbard as promethean, and Scientology markets him as promethean. Hubbard promoted himself as promethean, a polymath, professional in 29 fields. His Admissions evidence his promethean urges, and, of course, he declared his high hopes of smashing his name into history so violently that it would take a legendary form; which is about as promethean as it gets.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4837

Rathbun did not respond to my sincere question in 2009, or my communication in 2011, because he still executes Miscavige’s malevolent command intention toward people like me, who, despite our victimization, tell the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists, like Miscavige, Rathbun and you. Rathbun has now, however, as I said, acknowledged that Hubbard’s affirmations are Hubbard’s affirmations, and even quoted from them, in the Memoirs book. I am now asking you, Tommy Davis, to tell the truth that Hubbard authored his own affirmations, and correct your lie that I forged them.

Yes, I know that Rathbun still lies for Scientology, as Memoirs shows. Even the most gargantuan of liars, however, has to acknowledge some truth or fact, just to keep lying and keep the hope alive that some lie will be believed. Doling out truths but for some all-important lie, is standard psychopath tech. Hubbard, who was, as you know, a judicially declared virtually pathological liar, salted Scientology with all kinds of grains of truth and even the odd nugget. In mining for truth, Hubbard’s affirmations are a sort of mother lode.

Please publicly correct your lie that I forged them. And please correct your other lies about me.

Decidedly,

Gerry Armstrong

cc: Mark Rathbun
cc: David Miscavige

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Going Clear, pp. 32, 33:

The fact that Hubbard was a continent away from his wife offered him the opportunity to court other women, which he did so openly that he became an object of wonder among his writer colleagues. Ron blamed Polly for his philandering. “Because of her coldness physically, the falsity of her pretensions, I believed myself a near eunuch,” he wrote in a private memoir (which the church disputes) some years later. “When I found I was attractive to other women, I had many affairs. But my failure to please Polly made me always pay so much attention to my momentary mate that I derived small pleasure myself. This was an anxiety neurosis which cut down my natural powers.”

One of those momentary mates was named Helen. “I loved her and she me,” Hubbard recorded. “The affair would have lasted had not Polly found out.” Polly had discovered two letters to different women that Hubbard left in the mailbox when he was back in Port Orchard; she took the letters, read them, then vengefully switched the envelopes, and put them back in the mail. For a while, Ron and Polly didn’t speak.

Ibid. p. 36:

While he was in Miami, Hubbard contracted gonorrhea from a woman named Ginger. “She was a very loose person,” he confides in his disputed secret memoir. “I was terrified by it, the consequences of being discovered by my wife, the navy, my friends. . . . I took to dosing myself with sulfa in such quantities that I was afraid I had affected my brain.”

Wartime sexual diseases were a common affliction, and servicemen

were constantly being cautioned about the dangers of casual romance. Although American sexual relations were freer in practice than the popular culture admitted at the time, divorce was still sharply stigmatized; and yet, as a young man Hubbard seemed to be constantly driven toward reckless liaisons and courtships that would destroy his marriages and alienate his children (he would eventually father seven

children by three wives). He admitted in his disputed memoir that he suffered from bouts of impotence, which he apparently treated with testosterone. He also wrote of his concerns about masturbation, which at the time was considered a sign of moral weakness that could also lead to many physical ailments, such as weak eyesight, impotence, and insanity.

Ibid. pp. 38, 39

Hubbard continued to San Diego on his shakedown cruise. In June, the PC-815 participated in an exercise off the coast of the Mexican state of Baja. Afterward, he ordered additional gunnery and small-arms fire, shelling South Coronados Island, a dry atoll that he apparently failed to realize was a part of Mexico. He was admonished for firing on an ally and relieved of his command. He felt unjustly treated but also remorseful about the compromised situation he had placed his shipmates in. “This on top of having sunk two Jap subs without credit, the way my crew lied for me at the Court of Inquiry, the insults of the High Command, all combined to put me in the hospital with ulcers,” Hubbard noted in his disputed secret memoir. He spent the next three months in a naval hospital in San Diego. In a letter to his family he explained that he had been injured when he had picked up an unexploded enemy shell that had landed on deck and had blown up in midair when he tried to throw it overboard.

Ibid, pp. 39,40:

When he arrived in Princeton, in September 1944, Hubbard fell in with a group of science-fiction writers who had been organized into an informal military think tank by his friend Robert Heinlein. The Navy was looking for ways to counter the kamikaze suicide attacks on Allied ships, which had begun that fall as desperation took hold of the Japanese military planners. Hubbard would spend weekends in Philadelphia at the Heinleins’ apartment, along with some other of his former colleagues, including his former editor, John Campbell, gaming different scenarios for the Navy. (Some of their suggestions were actually tested in combat, but none proved useful.) Heinlein was extremely solicitous of his old friend, remarking, “Ron had had a busy war—sunk four times and wounded again and again.” The fact that Hubbard had an affair with Heinlein’s wife didn’t seem to affect his deep regard. “He almost forced me to sleep with his wife,” Hubbard

later marveled.

Ibid. p. 41:

POLLY AND THE TWO CHILDREN had spent the war waiting for Ron on their plot in Port Orchard, but there was no joyous homecoming. “My wife left me while I was in a hospital with ulcers,” Hubbard noted. “It was a terrible blow when she left me for I was ill and without prospects.”

Ibid. pp. 50-55

A fascinating glimpse into Hubbard’s state of mind during this time is found in what I am calling his secret memoir. The church claims that the document is a forgery. It was produced by the former archivist for the Church of Scientology, Gerald Armstrong, in a 1984 suit that the church brought against him. Armstrong read some portions of them into the record over the strong objections of the church attorneys; others later found their way onto the Internet. The church now maintains that Hubbard did not write this document, although when it was entered into evidence, the church’s lawyers made no such representation, saying that the papers were intensely private, “constitute a kind of self-therapy,” and did not reflect Hubbard’s actual condition.

This disputed document has been called the Affirmations, or the Admissions, but it is rather difficult to define. In part, the thirty pages constitute a highly intimate autobiography, dealing with the most painful episodes in Hubbard’s life. Many of the references to people and events made in these pages are supported by other documents. It appears that Hubbard is using techniques on himself that he would later develop into Dianetics. He explores memories that pose impediments in his mental and spiritual progress, and he prescribes affirmations or incantations to counter the psychological influence of these events. These statements would certainly be the most revealing and intimate disclosures Hubbard ever made about himself.

There are three sections in this document, each of which seems to have a different purpose.

The first section is called “Course I.” This is what I have termed the secret memoir, as it contains reflections on the most embarrassing or troubling features of Hubbard’s biography. “The purpose of this experiment is to re-establish the ambition, willpower, desire to survive, the talent and confidence of myself,” Hubbard declares straightforwardly at the start. “I was always anxious about people’s opinion of me and was afraid I would bore them. This injected anxiety and careless speed into my work. I must be convinced that I can write skillfully and well.” Those who criticize his work are fools, he writes. “I must be convinced I have succeeded in writing and with ease will regain my popularity, which actually was not small.”

“My service record was none too glorious,” he admits. He also confesses his shame about his frequent affairs. But he is intent on succeeding in his relationship with Sara, whom he describes as “young, beautiful, desirable.” Unfortunately, he is handicapped by bouts of impotence. “I want her always. But I am 13 years older than she. She is heavily sexed. My libido is so low I hardly admire her naked.”

Sex preoccupies him. He’s worried about his “very bad masturbatory history,” his sexual diseases, and his impotence, which he had been treating with testosterone supplements. “By eliminating certain fears of hypnosis, curing my rheumatism and laying off hormones, I hope to restore my former libido. I must!”
Through self-hypnosis, he hopes to convince himself of certain prescriptive mantras, including:

I can write.

My mind is still brilliant.

That masturbation was no sin or crime.

That I do not need to have ulcers anymore.

That I am fortunate in losing Polly and my parents, for they never meant well by me.

That I believe in my gods and spiritual things.

That my magical work is powerful and effective.

That the numbers 7, 25, and 16 are not unlucky or evil for me.

That I am not bad to look upon.

That I am not susceptible to colds.

That Sara is always beautiful to me.

That these words and commands are like fire and will sear themselves into every corner of my being, making me happy and well and confident forever!
The second part of the document, labeled “Course II,” included the statements that have come to be called Affirmations, although Hubbard refers to them as incantations. He had recently gotten a new recorder for dictation, called a SoundScriber. It may be that he recorded this portion and played it back to himself as a means of self-hypnosis. This section begins with the command “You are asleep.”

In this lesson, Hubbard tells himself, he will learn several important things:

You have no urge to talk about your navy life. You do not like to talk of it. You never illustrate your point with bogus stories. It is not necessary for you to lie to be amusing and witty.

You like to have your intimate friends approve of and love you for what you are. This desire to be loved does not amount to a psychosis.

You can sing beautifully.

Nothing can intervene between you and your Guardian. She cannot be displaced because she is too powerful. She does not control you. She advises you.
You will never forget these incantations. They are holy and are now become an integral part of your nature.
Material things are yours for the asking. Men are your slaves.
You are not sleepy or tired ever. . . . Your Guardian alone can talk to you as you sleep but she may not hypnotize you. Only you can hypnotize yourself.
The desires of other people have no hypnotic effect on you.
Nothing, no one opposes your writing. . . . You can carry on a wild social life and still write one hundred thousand words a month or more. . . . Your writing has a deep hypnotic effect on people.
You will make fortunes writing.
Your psychology is advanced and true and wonderful. It hypnotizes people. It predicts their emotions, for you are their ruler.
You will live to be 200 years old.
You will always look young.
You have no doubts about God.
You are not a coward.
Your eyes are getting progressively better. They became bad when you used them as an excuse to escape the naval academy. You have no reason to keep them bad.
Your stomach trouble you used as an excuse to keep the Navy from punishing you. You are free of the Navy.
Your hip is a pose. You have a sound hip. It never hurts. Your shoulder never hurts.
Your foot was an alibi. The injury is no longer needed.
Testosterone blends easily with your own hormones. . . . You have no fear of what any woman may think of your bed conduct. You know you are a master. You know they will be thrilled. You can come many times without weariness. . . . Many women are not capable of pleasure in sex and anything adverse they say or do has no effect whatever upon your pleasure.
You have no fear if they conceive. What if they do? You do not care. Pour it into them and let fate decide.
You can tell all the romantic tales you wish. . . . But you know which ones were lies. . . . You have enough real experience to make anecdotes forever. Stick to your true adventures.
Money will flood in upon you.
Self pity and conceit are not wrong. Your mother was in error.
Masturbation does not injure or make insane. Your parents were in error. Everyone masturbates.
The most thrilling thing in your life is your love and consciousness of your Guardian.
She has copper red hair, long braids, a lovely Venusian face, a white gown belted with jade squares. She wears gold slippers.
You can talk with her and audibly hear her voice above all others.
You can do automatic writing whenever you wish. You do not care what comes out on the paper when your Guardian dictates.

The red-haired Guardian Hubbard visualizes so vividly is a kind of ideal mother, who also functions as his muse and is the source of his astoundingly rapid writing. Hubbard loves her but reassures himself that his Guardian does not control him. In all things, he is the controlling force. She seems to be an artifact of the influence of Aleister Crowley. Jack Parsons had said that Hubbard called his Guardian “the Empress.”

His fear of hypnotism is quite striking. He was an accomplished stage hypnotist, a skill he displayed at a meeting of a group of sci-fi fans in Los Angeles, when he put nearly everyone in the audience into a trance, and persuaded one of them that he was holding a pair of miniature kangaroos in the palm of his hand. He also once tried to hypnotize Sara’s mother, after she had a stroke, to persuade her to leave her money to him. But then he would accuse Sara of hypnotizing him in his sleep.

If one looks behind the Affirmations to the conditions they are meant to correct, one sees a man who is ashamed of his tendency to fabricate personal stories, who is conflicted about his sexual needs, and who worries about his mortality. He has a predatory view of women but at the same time fears their power to humiliate him.

The third and final section of this document is titled “The Book.” It contains a checklist of personal goals and compliments he pays to himself, but it is also a portrait of the superman that he wishes to be. He does make mention of an actual book—he calls it One Commandment—that seems to be a reference to Excalibur. “It freed you forever from the fears of the material world and gave you material control over people,” he writes.

You are radiant like sunlight.

You can read music.

You are a magnificent writer who has thrilled millions.

Ability to drop into a trance state at will.

Lack of necessity of following a pulp pattern.

You did a fine job in the Navy. No one there is now “out to get you.”

You are psychic.

You do not masturbate.

You do not know anger. Your patience is infinite.

Snakes are not dangerous to you. There are no snakes in the bottom of your bed.

You believe implicitly in God. You have no doubts of the All Powerful. You believe your Guardian perfectly.

The judge in the Armstrong suit, where this document was presented as evidence, offered his own amateur diagnosis of Hubbard’s personality in a crushing decision against the church:

The organization is clearly schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. . . . Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology.

Ibid. p. 68:

One of the charges that would be lobbed against Hubbard by his disaffected eldest son was that his father had attempted two abortions on his mother. “One I observed when I was around six or seven,” L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., later testified. He recalled seeing his father standing over his mother with a coat hanger in his hand. The other attempted abortion was upon himself. “I was born at six and a half months and weighed two pounds, two ounces. I mean, I wasn’t born: this is what came out as a result of their attempt to abort me.” Hubbard himself writes in his secret memoir that Polly was terrified of childbirth, “but conceived despite all precautions seven times in five years resulting in five abortions and two children.” While he was writing Dianetics, and Sara was pregnant with Alexis, she says, Hubbard kicked her in the stomach several times to attempt to cause a miscarriage. Later, Hubbard told one of his lovers that he himself had been born of an attempted abortion.

Endnotes:

32 “Because of her coldness”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html The church disputes the authenticity of this document, claiming that it is a forgery.

33 “I loved her and she me”: Ibid.

36. “a very loose person”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

39. “This on top of”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

40. “He almost forced me”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

41. “My wife left me”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

51 “a kind of self-therapy”: Church of Scientology, California, v. Gerald Armstrong. Information that has become available since the Armstrong trial, such as the Heinlein and Hays letters, confirms much of the material in the Affirmations, adding to its credibility.

68. “but conceived despite all precautions”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

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Letter to Marty Rathbun re the petards in his Memoirs

From: Gerry Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:18 PM
To: Mark Rathbun (…@aol.com)
Subject: Captain Moulton black PR in your Memoirs

Dear Marty:

I am sure you read what I publish religiously. Nevertheless, I do sometimes feel a bit of a duty to specifically inform a living person if I’ve written about him or her at any length. In this article, which is self-explanatory, I mention you and also deal with a section from your Memoirs book. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1017

I also posted it on WhyWeProtest, and there are a few comments. https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/missing-armstrong-1-trial-transcripts-found.116298/

Easily one of your biggest supporters “Michael Hobson” attacked me in the WWP thread. As history would have it, just a couple of weeks ago I had written about Hobson who, over the last couple of years, has been attacking me on various public forums http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1007 His attacks have pretty well all been in your defense, or more specifically in defense of your refusal to help your real victims from your Scientology period get justice. So I should let you know about that article as well.

You will recall that in a May 31, 2013 email, you stated: “If you have an objection to a factual statement in the book, please provide specifics and any documentation available to support your position.” Our emails relating to Memoirs and our debate, up to my opening statement, are at: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/773 In this latest article, I am only dealing with a small charge, but potentially explosive, which I formulated:  who or what really was hoist by their own petard? LF

You made the factual claim that Captain Moulton was hoist by his own petard. I have shown by specifics and documentation that this is false, and that it was you and your fellow plotters that were hoist by your own petard. You identify the petarded plotters at page 249: “ [you], Miscavige, Starkey, and the rest of the [Scientology] legal team.”

My earlier provision of specifics and documentation, however, addressed a very large and continuously important false fact statement in Memoirs: that the SP class are roughly equivalent to sociopaths or psychopaths. I posted my specifics and documentation in an easily navigable and understandable form. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/826 And I informed you by email on July 3. Your reaction, your lack of reasoned response, and your failure to correct this false assertion about SPs, show irresponsibility and seriously misplaced contempt for your SP victims.

You will recall that in 2012 I made a video, “What’s Wrong with Marty Rathbun on the Suppressive Person Doctrine,” in which I also provided specifics and documentation identifying false and maligning statements you made about the SP class in your previous book What Is Wrong With Scientology? Healing Through Understanding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeeWZPdZ-U8 You obviously disregarded my specifics and documentation because you repeated essentially the same hate language about SPs in Memoirs.

On your blog recently I came across your ad for venturers to take your correspondence course, “A Course in Graduating from Scientology,” and saw that your two books that I have shown as maligning the SP class – Wrong and Memoirs — are course prerequisites. It is clear to me that you are not helping people to graduate from Scientology. What you have been teaching thus far, your published words, including your words about me personally, show that you cannot be giving guided tours out of the Scientology philosophical labyrinth, except in the sense that L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige give guided tours out of the Scientology philosophical labyrinth.

You have not graduated from Scientology because you have not acknowledged the evil of the SP doctrine, and not rejected it and stood up to its appliers and their collaborators, but have continued to excuse that inexcusable doctrine to justify your refusal to give justice to the victims of your application of the doctrine. What you have to teach are the mental tricks you have so far seemingly successfully used to avoid confronting the antisocial nature of the SP doctrine and the antisocial things you did to SPs.

The Suppressive Person doctrine, as you have been teaching and applying it, in addition to inciting and justifying the religious persecution of SPs like me, also works to keep people in Scientology by preventing them from even granting credence to people who tell the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. You don’t grant SPs like me credence, right?

The doctrine in Scientology is stupid and represents stupidity. It also is a manifestation or effect of stupidity. Stupidity is a constant option for what to do with knowledge. The SP doctrine is Hubbard and Scientologists’ solution to the SP problem. The SP problem is good people telling the truth about Hubbard and Scientologists’ stupidity – their stupid acts like stealing from people, injuring people, tricking them, lying to them and destroying them. The SP doctrine as a solution, as I’ve said before, is as stupid as the Nazis’ Jewish doctrine as a solution to the problem Hitler and the Nazis had with Jews.

You are advertising for venturers who are having difficulty correlating their Scientology gains with the wog world and its philosophies and religions. The gains a person gets from Scientology, however, are the gains that come from adoption of the SP doctrine and living life by it. Think about it; even by Hubbard scripture, the “gains” are directly related to being an SP, or not, or being connected to an SP, or not. When it is grasped that the SP doctrine that directed a Scientologist’s life throughout his or her life as a Scientologist is completely wrong and reprehensible, unless one really is a psychopath, the gains from Scientology, are not gains at all but ill-gotten losses, which kept the SP doctrine working its evil.

Your failure to communicate to me before you wrote about me so extensively and so defamatorily in Memoirs is clear evidence of malice. You also had two editors, Russell Williams and Mike Rinder, and neither of them contacted me to verify your statements about me. Rinder at least, of course, conspired and participated with you in a criminal conspiracy against me over several years, and he appears to be motivated by the same malice since apparently leaving the Miscavige faction.

I certainly was available to communicate with you during the period when you were writing your book or having it edited. In fact, I made a very good record of the fact that I had for some years been asking you to communicate to me. I have made many sincere efforts to get you to communicate to me for, inter alia, the sincere purpose of getting you to not continue to defame me, which is cruel, damaging and threatening. In your malice and your defamatory words, you are willfully acting in concert with David Miscavige, which is further damaging and threatening.

I have a venture for you, a risky or daring journey or undertaking, if you will, and for the sole, very social purpose of Justice. Do the very simple things it seems I’m always asking from you:

1. Communicate to me;

2. Debrief to me and my legal representatives;

3. Execute declarations that contain facts elicited in the debrief;

4. Make yourself available to testify in any legal proceedings to correct the injustices or situations you helped make.

Yours confidently,

Gerry Armstrong

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Missing Scientology v. Armstrong Trial Transcripts Found

The court reporter’s daily transcripts of the 1984 Scientology v. Armstrong trial in LA Superior Court have been on gerryarmstrong.org for some years, except for May 21 and May 31, which were volumes 16 and 22 respectively. All the documents I’ve had for this case, known as Armstrong 1, are available at:  http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/index.php
The trial transcripts run from April 19 http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/2466.php to June 8, 1984: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/2517.php

Caroline and I recently discovered the missing two trial transcript volumes and have now put up pdfs and ocred them as well as we reasonably could.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/5130.php
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/5131.php

May 31 is particularly interesting because it contains the testimony of Scientology witnesses Robert Vaughn Young, who had been a long time PR in the Guardian’s Office, and Captain Thomas Moulton, who had served briefly with Hubbard in WW II on the PC 815.

I had gotten Young transferred to the Hubbard biography project, and we worked together in the Hubbard Archive for a month or so before I left the cult in December 1981. The Scientologists used Young in the trial to try to invalidate me as Hubbard’s researcher and my research that showed Hubbard was a liar. Because of Young’s claims of academic credentials and research skills, the judge, Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr., permitted my attorney Michael J. Flynn some latitude in cross- examining Young. I believe the Judge felt sorry for most of the Scientology witnesses, including Mary Sue Hubbard, and restrained Flynn from normal, more aggressive cross-examination. Judge Breckenridge wrote about Mrs. Hubbard in his decision:

LRH’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard is also plaintiff herein. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. She was forced from her post as Controller, convicted and imprisoned as a felon, and deserted by her husband. On the other hand her credibility leaves much to be desired. She struck the familiar pose of not seeing, hearing, or knowing any evil. Yet she was the head of the Guardian Office for years and among other things, authored the infamous order “GO 121669” which directed culling of supposedly confidential P.C. files/folders for purposes of internal security.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/283.php

Judge Breckenridge also mentioned Young in the decision:

It was not until late 1981 that Plaintiff was to provide a person to assist on the biography project by providing Mr. Garrison with “Guardian Office” materials, otherwise described as technical materials relating to the operation of Scientology. The individual appointed for this task was Vaughn Young. Controller Archives and Guardian Office Archives had no connection to the Hubbard Archives, which Defendant Armstrong created and maintained as Hubbard’s personal materials.

[…]

In December of 1981 Defendant Armstrong made the decision to leave the Church of Scientology. In order to continue in his commitment to Hubbard and Mr. Garrison in the biography project, he copied a large quantity of documents, which Mr. Garrison had requested or which would be useful to him for the biography. Defendant Armstrong delivered all of this material to Mr. Garrison the date he left the SEA Organization and kept nothing in his possession.

Thereafter, Defendant Armstrong maintained friendly relations with Hubbard’s representatives by returning to the Archives offices and discussing the various categories of materials. In fact on February 24, 1982, Defendant Armstrong wrote to Vaughn Young, regarding certain materials Mr. Young was unable to locate for Omar Garrison.

At page 3848, Flynn questioned Young about a letter Young had written to me just a few days after I left the cult:

Q Did you after Mr. Armstrong left the church say that, “You are the best damned whatever researchist-archivist type I have met.”

A Yes. That was my conclusion after working with him for a month and a half.

Young stated in his letter:

Other than the mechanical part of wondering where a few things are, miss you. Still think you’re the best damned whatever-we-researchers/
archivists-types-are I’ve met.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/rvy-ltr-armstrong-1981-12-16-txt.html

It wasn’t easy for Young to then be given the task, before the judge, attorneys, wogs, Scientologists, and the world, of showing me to be the worst damned researcher/archivist he had ever met.

In 1989, he and his wife Stacy also left the cult, and we reconnected a bit later and became friends. He apologized for what he had done to help the Scientologists destroy me, although I never questioned him for details, or got him to execute a declaration about his knowledge of their legal and extralegal fair game campaign. He communicated that the shamefulness of using his talents for whom and for what all those cult years, particularly his ability to write and research, was painful to him. There were also other persons and situations that were cautioning him about me and my legal situation, so he never really opened up to me in a way that could be helpful legally to me.

Young did get into the Scientology problem as a writer and speaker, and did get involved in Scientology litigation as a witness on behalf of their victims or targets. Funnily, he executed a declaration in 1993 in the Scientology v. Fishman & Geertz case that identifies the fair game he didn’t participate in:

51. In fact, Fair Game did continue. Although the Guardian’s Office was “disbanded,” a new campaign was undertaken against Gerald Armstrong in 1981, a staff member who had fled with some of Hubbard’s files. Contrary to what Mr. Farny said, there were Fair Game actions taken against Armstrong after the GO was “disbanded.” I know because I sat in on those strategy meetings and was ordered by Hubbard as well as David Miscavige to “get Armstrong.” For example, Hubbard ordered a “reward” poster that would characterize Armstrong as a criminal. (I did not comply with the order, for which I was severely berated by Miscavige.)

[…]

57. […] Nor was the GO disbanded. It was taken over. It was renamed, in the same offices, had the same personnel and operated from the same policies from Hubbard. The person who oversaw the “disbanding” was David Miscavige, who directed the Fair Game actions on Armstrong from what was called “Special Project” which was, in fact, Author Services, Inc., where I was employed.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-rvyoung-1993-10-25.html

In the same declaration, Young also mentioned his experience reading the Hubbard archive and his part in my trial.

J. AUTHORIZED HUBBARD BIOGRAPHER AND ARCHIVIST.

89. In 1981, I was asked to go to a non-GO archives to gather information about the writing of a biography on Hubbard. The archives was operated by Gerry Armstrong and contained about 25 filing cabinets full of Hubbard’s personal papers and memorabilia. I worked there for several weeks and was the last person to see Armstrong before he disappeared. I thereby inherited the archives by default and continued to read Hubbard’s private papers, which gave me not only an entirely different view of the man than what we had been telling Scientologists but a view that no one else knew (at that time) besides Armstrong.

[…]

O. EXPERT WITNESS ABOUT THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY DURING THE ARMSTRONG TRAIL.

103. In 1984, after Gerry Armstrong was sued by the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige assigned me to do key research into Hubbard’s life to refute Armstrong’s claims that Hubbard had lied. With a team of full time people working for nearly two months (compared to Armstrong working by himself), we found additional information to challenge some points Armstrong had made. I was to testify as to what had been found.

Also somewhat humorously, Young quoted the most damning part of the Breckenridge decision, which he tried so hard to prevent. Or perhaps his testimony helped inspire it.

52. The use of Fair Game on Armstrong was confirmed in 1984 when California Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge, Jr., ruled against Scientology with an opinion that included a statement about the civil rights of members and Hubbard:

“In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the organization over the years with its ‘Fair Game’ doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.”

Judge Breckenridge allowed Thomas Moulton to testify fairly freely on direct examination by Scientology attorney John Peterson, and Flynn let the examination proceed with negligible objections or interruptions. That was generally Flynn’s trial style, which was effective and exhibited and instilled confidence, as opposed to the Scientology attorneys who objected and interrupted almost obsessively, which was what their bullying but probably terrified cult clients demanded. Young had talked about Moulton earlier that day, obviously setting up his surprise courtroom appearance, and I’m sure both the judge and Flynn, and everyone else present, wanted to hear what Moulton had to say about Hubbard, the PC 815, etc.

One of the great ironies of the Armstrong 1 case, which is filled with irony, is that Judge Breckenridge had himself been in the US navy. I don’t think anyone on my side knew this, but doubtlessly the Scientologists knew because of the standard B1/OSA intel done on any judge on a Scientology-related case. This case was huge for the Scientologists, and Hubbard was personally involved and directing the litigation; so they would have dug up every incident and connection in the judge’s life, and passed on to the attorneys what might help them. Of course you can’t disqualify a judge because he had served in the US Navy.

Because of the way they proceeded, even with a bench trial and bringing in Moulton, the Scientologists probably thought Judge Breckenridge, being ex-navy, would respect and even sympathize with Ron the War Hero. It is more likely, however, that the judge, being ex-navy, saw Hubbard as Ron the Valor Thief, which, of course, he was. The judge then also had to see the Scientologists as doing their damnedest to defend a cowardly liar and fair game his legitimate debunkers. The record that the judge saw showed that while claiming unearned medals and heroism, and while faking medical conditions to avoid punishment and duty, Hubbard was also contemptuous of the US Navy and its command.

I can forget such things as Admiral Braistead. Such people are unworthy of my notice.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

Toward the end of Moulton’s testimony, Judge Breckenridge also asked him some questions and made some comments or dicta that both showed the judge’s knowledge of naval matters and Moulton’s lack of knowledge of matters he had testified about. While maintaining good control of his courtroom, Judge Breckenridge also demonstrated kindness, understanding and a great sense of humor. Some of his comments or quips are priceless.

While Young was testifying, Mary Sue Hubbard’s attorney Barrett Litt questioned him about Hubbard’s time in China, in an obvious effort to support Hubbard and the Scientologists’ claims that he had spent considerable time there, studying, immersing himself in the culture, and absorbing the wisdom of the east.

[YOUNG] But along the way, we stumbled across someone else quite accidentally that we are still in the process of pursuing. There was a woman who had gone into the region from the Explorer’s Club during that early years, apparently during the very late ’20’s, that when she met with people back in the far regions they had made an account of the story of a young man from the West with bright red hair who had visited them.

THE COURT: Marco Polo?

To my knowledge, the Scientologists have never yet trotted out this little old lady  from the Explorers Club. And the club states on its site that women were not admitted until 1981. Oops. http://www.explorers.org/index.php/about/history/history

Reading the transcript recently, having sat through Captain Moulton’s testimony, and because of what has happened and been learned in the almost 30 years since the trial, it is obvious to me the Scientologists had given Moulton a shore story. Probably, on behalf of Hubbard, because Hubbard was still alive during the trial, they had also given Moulton a sob story. His testimony revealed that Hubbard had been giving Moulton shore stories in 1942, the year before Hubbard asked him to be his Chief Officer on the PC 815.

Marty Rathbun devotes virtually his whole chapter 20 “The Tipping Point” in his 2013 book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, pages 241 to 253, to the Armstrong 1case and trial. His book in its entirety is yet another effort in the Scientologists’ long history of efforts to rewrite their cult or religion’s history, or at least have some of their lies accepted as true. Rathbun admits to many facts in that quest, and even discloses some new ones, as the cultists have done for decades. For all those new admissions and disclosures, some of which are about Armstrong 1, I am grateful.

I am also grateful for what he has not disclosed that morally or ethically he should have disclosed, and for the untruths he told in his book, even if some of them were cruel, and clearly serve the Scientologists’ antisocial command intention toward their victims. I dealt with the extremely cruel black PR in his book against the Suppressive Person class in an opening statement for a debate, which Rathbun rabbited from. (Scientology, not wog definition for vb. “rabbit.”) I will deal with the rest of Rathbun’s Memoirs separately, but just want to address here what he wrote about Captain Moulton, whose name Rathbun misspells throughout “Moulten:”

After weeks of Flynn’s attacks on the credibility of witnesses, unrelenting blows to the character of L. Ron Hubbard and decrying of Mary Sue and the Guardian’s Office’s crimes, we were prepared to deliver our own counter-blow.   It was something that I, Miscavige, Starkey, and the rest of the legal team were convinced would throw question on the entire Flynn-Armstrong presentation. The star witness we had waiting in the wings would blow Armstrong’s and Flynn’s credibility out the water.   He would just prove that L. Ron Hubbard had seen combat in World War II; he would also attest that Ron was a war hero.

Thomas Moulten had served on a naval vessel captained by Ron, which Ron had claimed had sunk two Japanese subs off the coast of Oregon during World War II, after two days of pitched, fevered battle. Moulten testified that regardless of official naval records determining that there were no subs and that Hubbard had led a wild goose chase, lobbing depth charges into empty water for two days, he had in fact seen oil bubbles rise to the surface – indicating subs had been struck.

There is no question Moulten was a decent man. And there is no doubt he thought very highly of Hubbard, even though he had neither seen nor heard from him since the war.   However, much like Mary Sue before him, he was hoisted by his own petard as far as credibility was concerned.   First, he sounded somewhat eccentric telling a story utterly contradicted by all available documentary evidence.   And, like Mary Sue, he did not leave well enough alone. He testified that Ron had seen a lot of action previous to the alleged Oregon battle. He described how Ron had sustained torso bullet wounds by Japanese machine gun fire; even though there was no record anywhere of Ron ever having been fired upon. On cross examination, Flynn had a field day with the fact that Moulten’s only source of knowledge about Ron’s alleged stellar combat record was Ron himself.   Flynn was able to paint a convincing picture of Moulten as just another person misled by Ron’s great story-telling skills.
[Rathbun’s Memoirs, pp 249,250)

To be hoist with, on or by one’s own petard, is to be hurt or destroyed by one’s own plot or device, of one’s own doing which one intended for another; to be “blown up by one’s own bomb.”
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoist_by_one%27s_own_petard#English

Captain Moulton wasn’t hoist by his own petard, because it wasn’t his plot or device, or bomb, to hurt or destroy me. He was the petard. Rathbun is using this idiom to shift the blame from who or what really was hoist by their own petard. Although shifting and avoiding responsibility or blame has been a standard communication and operating stratagem of Rathbun for years, and he is known for mixed metaphors and willful semantic dishonesty, as well as misused idioms, blaming his own petard — good old Captain Moulton — for blowing up Rathbun’s own plot, is doubly curvaceously ridiculous.

Rathbun actually identifies the plot and the plotters in the above quote. He calls the plot his and his fellow plotters’ “counter-blow.” They intended it to be their counter-blow to L. Ron Hubbard being shown over weeks of testimony and documentary evidence to be, as Rathbun even quotes in his book: virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements. Rathbun states that they believed their counter-blow “would blow Armstrong’s and Flynn’s credibility out the water.” That is petard talk. And the petard the plotters came up with was, Rathbun says, star witness Captain Moulton.

Moulton was not out to destroy Flynn and me, any more than any petard intends to destroy when it explodes. Rathbun and his coconspirators intended to destroy us, and Moulton was their petard. They used him for a corrupt purpose, to have a lie accepted as true. It is very likely that Hubbard used him for the same corrupt purpose in 1943 when he was Chief Officer on the PC 815. Hubbard certainly got him to accept Hubbard’s lies as true in 1942.

It was not that Moulton didn’t leave well enough alone. That is an idiom that means “to allow something to stay as it is because doing more would not improve it.” What he did was answer Flynn’s well-crafted and relevant questions on cross-examination. Moulton cannot seriously be considered blameworthy for not ending his testimony after his direct examination by Peterson. For the star witness petard to work, Rathbun and his coconspirators had to get him through cross-examination, and that meant he would have to lie. But, despite their obvious coaching, Moulton didn’t join their conspiracy. He didn’t lie, or lie well enough. Rathbun, et al. failed and were hoist by their own petard.