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Response to Krasny Sever article

My response to the October 18, 2017 article in Красный Север (“Red North“).1

Dear Ms. Rybiakova:

Thank you for your article mentioning my talk in Salekhard. I have posted the complete English text, and anticipate it being translated into Russian quite soon.2

I am particularly grateful that you made the plunge, as you call it, into Scientology, to some degree to find out what on earth I was talking about. That a serious person in a legitimate societal position looked into Scientology as a result of my words at this cult conference, and then spoke up publicly with your own observations and an implicit warning, is a wonderful outcome for the conference.

In your recent research, you learned a lot about the Scientologists’ visible operations – life improvement courses, business training, personal growth seminars, “study technology,” drug cures, blindness, disability and cancer cures, auditing promises. You found them all over the Internet and in offices throughout the Urals. It is then very possible that the Scientologists will, in one way or another, contact a great number of YNAO citizens and try to sell them something.

There are also other aspects of Scientology and activities of the Scientologists that already affect every Russian citizen everywhere and warrant serious people’s serious study of this entity and its operators. The Scientologists are pursuing the right, indeed a license, to deceive, defraud and abuse people, and deprive them of their rights. The Scientologists claim to have such a license in the US. One of the Scientologists’ most important actions in obtaining such a license is acceptance as a religion. This then, the Scientologists say, make deceit, fraud, abuse and the deprivation of rights, doctrinally motivated religious exercise, thus privileged and legally protected.

The Scientologists, operated from the US, have confronted the Russian Federation at the highest levels in pursuit of this antisocial “right” to run their con on every citizen. They have used Russian lawyers, Russian courts, and the European Court of Human Rights. They have used international media, the US State Department, other US agencies, and human rights-championing NGOs. The Scientologists recently used Russia’s celebrated civil rights activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva to lobby President Putin for them. And last month, the Scientologists got a number of parliamentarians at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to sign a declaration urging the Russian Government to intervene in pending criminal proceedings against Scientologists.

In one of his core scriptural edicts that mandate the Scientologists’ war on the “Suppressive Person” class – the SPs — Scientology inventor L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in your own subject area. It is not good to fight in the territory of allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people, not ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When all your battles are fought on his terrain, you are winning.
Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, February 16, 1969, “Battle Tactics, reissued September 24, 1987.3

The Scientologists have evaluated that the “enemy terrain” for them is Russia, and particularly at this time your country’s laws identifying and criminalizing extremism. The “enemy” the Scientologists envision and engender comprise the Suppressive Person class. SPs are simply the class of people defined in Scientology “scripture,” who stand in Scientology and the Scientologists’ way, who might frustrate their drive for power and control. This links me with Russians, in government, in law enforcement, in the clergy, in the media, in the citizenry, who stand up to the Scientologists.

Where the Scientologists should be fought, I think, is on their Suppressive Person doctrine. Every citizen of every country should stand in the way of this doctrine. It is the Scientologists’ terrain, their subject area. It is bad warfare to allow the Scientologists to fight the battle on the lawfulness of Russia’s laws that might adjudge this terrible doctrine unlawful. It is good warfare to confront the Scientologists on their SP doctrine.

I hope that many serious people in Russia will take the time to fathom the Scientologists’ infantile, but very extremist and very dangerous, Suppressive Person doctrine. It is wholly indefensible by international human rights charters and national laws; so opposition to it is on solid ground logically and principled morally.

Just gaining an understanding of the doctrine to be opposed and the measures its practitioners have taken against the SP class, however, can be daunting. My wife Caroline and I have assembled relevant materials to help. 4

Opposing Scientology is essentially speaking up and communicating the understanding gained. This can be threatening for many real reasons, including because the Scientologists will employ the most silver-tongued lawyers, experts, lobbyists and celebrities their billions can buy.

Speaking the truth about the SP doctrine, its inventor Hubbard, his system Scientology, and the cult’s operators is the “sacrilege” that commonly causes a person to be labeled and treated as a Suppressive Person. The truth is what threatens or thwarts the Scientologists in their secular pursuit of power and control.

I know it cost what for me is a lot of money to get me a visa, fly me from British Columbia, book me and other participants in the lovely Yuribey Hotel, dine us superbly, take us to some of Salekhard’s hot tourist spots, translate us expertly, bless us with gifts and amazing memories, and care for us so thoughtfully through our excellent visit.

I also know that the Scientologists’ attack vector on the conference is that it was “financed by the state budget … at the expense of taxpayers … a budget waste … clearly questionable for the region’s value.” The Scientologists imply that I was paid for my attendance at the conference, that I was “earning a living…touring the country.” Although I was necessarily repaid for my costs, I can assure everyone that I received no fee; nor have I been paid for anything I have said or done anywhere in your great country. Your effort to understand Scientology more deeply and speak publicly about it made the conference very valuable.

Many people, even Governor Kobylkin, gave their time to organize and put on this professional conference in this charged and risky subject of cults. I am grateful too for the trust and friendship of Archbishop Nikolay and all the clergy who contributed to the conference.

According to the cults’ battle tactics, the conference was on their terrain, in their subject, their extremist or dangerous doctrines and activities. They seek to move the fight to what their directives say is enemy terrain – the government, the Russian Orthodox Church, the state budget. If they are successful, the Scientologists, and the other dangerous cults, will not have to change, or even address, their own extremist or dangerous doctrines and activities.

It was an honor to be invited to your part of the world to talk about my experiences and knowledge, and I will be touched for a long time by the kindnesses shown me there.

Gerry Armstrong
Chilliwack, BC, Canada

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Salekhard, Russia, October 18, 2017 article in Krasnyy Sever

Below is a Google translation of an article by Natalia Rybiakova and some comments published October 18, 2017 by Красный Север (“Red North”).1; 2 I made a couple of what I think are corrections of Google’s effort.

Also, “overwhelming personality” and “fair prey” are doubtlessly the Scientology concepts “Suppressive Person” and “fair game.” I’m unsure what “money is given to the shoes” means in the comments. Perhaps it’s a Russian idiom.

GA

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SOCIETY

Gathered for training? Make sure that this is not a sect!

10/18/2017 00:22:00

Gathered for training? Make sure that this is not a sect!

They distribute their organizations throughout the Urals. Their victims are not only ordinary citizens, but also businessmen, officials, politicians. Once hitting the Scientologists, it’s almost impossible to leave.

As worshipers manipulate people’s minds and persecute those who choose to break with them, Gerald Armstrong is well aware. He spent more than twelve years in the sect. Becoming a personal archivist of the founder of Scientology Ron Hubbard, had access to secret documents and realized where he was. Trying to tell the truth, he ran into threats.

– I had to run. If I did not, I would be grabbed, locked up and silenced, which means that I could be killed. Because of what I learned and decided to talk about, Scientologists consider me to be the main enemy for almost thirty-six years.

All this time he is pursued by the adepts of the organization, because now he is for them “overwhelming personality” and “fair prey.” So according to the doctrine everyone is called who dared to speak out against them.

On the real dangers of Scientology, Armstrong told at the International Scientific and Practical Conference on sects and cults, which was held in Salekhard in the last days of September. According to him, their methods are from total espionage to grave crimes, such as kidnapping, keeping them in prisons and even killing.

OFFERING HELP, REPLACE IN THE TRAP

… When I listened to the story of Gerald Armstrong, it seemed to me that all this is far away and not about us. His statement that there are plenty of Scientologists around, and perhaps even in this room, caused a grin. But the more I plunged into the topic, the more I realized that I was not right.

In the Internet a huge number of sites, forums and literature, telling about the teachings of Hubbard. Allegedly, public organizations offer at first sight seemingly harmless courses to improve their lives, conduct business trainings and seminars on personal growth, organize English language courses, luring young people. The center “Dianetics” is actively working in Yekaterinburg, the churches of Scientology are open in Surgut, Chelyabinsk, Omsk. Throughout the Urals, Scientologists operate through public organizations and various LLCs that promise to cure drug addiction, organize schools of additional education and business education. Several sites actively recruit into the ranks of sectarians of the inhabitants of Tyumen. They act so skillfully and professionally that sometimes I even caught myself thinking that I’m beginning to doubt: what if this really is the way to success?

“My name is Demchenkov Vyacheslav, I’m a simple Scientologist from Ulyanovsk. And this page is made especially for the people of the glorious city of Tyumen, “a simple Ural guy tells Web users about the wonders of Scientology. “Help is possible, believe me! Surely your loved ones in Tyumen need it. Do you have something to help? “- echoes the preacher on another portal. But before you help, you will be asked to go through the “Oxford test of personality analysis.” Experts argue that this invention of Scientologists to psychology has nothing to do with it. The purpose of the test is to lure a person to the following paid classes. At the same sectarian “business training” courts of different countries have repeatedly recognized as fraudulent.

TYUMENTSEV “GIVE UP” FOR THE AUDITING

At the Tyumen sites of Dianetics – the main work of Hubbard, which is interpreted by his associates as a modern science of mental health and success, many “success stories”: about achievements in business, gaining happiness and incredible abilities after meeting with adepts. And in the rubric “health” you can find revelations about how blind people become sighted, people with disabilities get to their feet, and cancer patients can dissolve into incurably sick! Talking about the miraculous healing, one Sergei positively offers a meeting “with a professional auditor”, which will help solve problems, and even leaves his cell number.

Armstrong told me about the auditing process. This is a perverse “confession”, during which a kind of “lie detector” is used. Man under the influence of hypnosis tells everything about his life, down to intimate details. The auditor makes him look for the causes of failure, digging through his memory. All this is recorded on video, and then stored in the archives of the sect. One such session costs from ten to thirty thousand, and they need to go dozens, and sometimes hundreds of times. Manipulating the consciousness of a person, he is “placed” on auditing, as a drug.

– Scientology does not improve physical fitness and well-being. Most of her practices are disastrous for health, Armstrong says. “Scientologists do not live longer than others.” Stress from one presence in the higher circles of the organization, where in my time I was, worsens the physical, mental and spiritual well-being. My own health suffered. Even Hubbard was often sick in those years when I was beside him. There are many examples where Scientologists fell ill and died young, as they were denied medical treatment and used charlatan treatments instead.

As a result – crippled destinies, destroyed families, lost states, problems with the psyche …

REVELATIONS FROM THE INTERNET

We bring to your attention a few comments from the site Woman.ru. Spelling and punctuation of the authors are preserved.

∙ Please do not go on auditing !!!! This is stupid hypnosis, Ron Hubbard is a fantastic middle-aged writer who himself said that you need to create a religion in order to be rich and to rule with loaches!!! Familiar family is Scientology. Nothing of its own, the child’s application to the group writes, so that money is given to the shoes !!!!!!!!!! You will be brainwashed, that’s all! all tests for the need for auditing are counterfeit, even the most positive answers are written at the end – you are depressed, you need auditing! Think about it and never go there!

∙ My husband is engaged in Scientology, the roof is riding full-sits every night with an e-meter. In real life, nothing is clear. The psycho is over. On the first wife conducted experiments brought to a psychiatric hospital, I refused to be his guinea pig, I do not know can found on the side. Do not sleep at night and does not give us. Draw conclusions

∙ People please do not even think about reading this literature!!! I lived 25 years in the neighborhood with the “leader” of one of these gangs. tell all the horrors about this family, and how this woman ruined her whole life for herself and her loved ones, how she left without property and sacrificed everything-even the toys of children-to go through the cleansing programs I will not. it’s very very long! I want to say and warn you – run away from there! Relieve relatives for this sect!

Ishkildin
10/18/2017 02:58:17
He’s right. We were in the hall. Some of us chuckled for disguise.
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Olesya
10/18/2017 03:42:06
Dear author, what kind of nonsense did you write here? You have been paid an article, so you would at least try a little. And then something so frankly garbage some scribbled.
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Yana
10/19/2017 08:22:25
At us catastrophic scales reached the activity of the “Parents of the Urals for a world without crime, violence and drugs” Scientology sect. Who even thought of letting people in with people who do not have the necessary qualifications, but who have an extremely dubious reputation. The first word that will drop out, if you enter the name of the organization in the search bar on the Internet, is Scientology. Where is the guarantee that the lecture “drugs is bad, crimes are bad,” will not end. “Hubbard is good, Scientology is good, The road to happiness is your favorite book.” People who have been entrusted to life and health (including spiritual) of our children, think about what your negligence and connivance can lead to.

Наталья Рыбьякова

Natalia Rybiakova

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