[NOTE: Cerridwen's report here contains a description of what the head
crime boss David Miscaviage had to say about his 'Vulture Ministers'
fraud so the whole report is reproduced here - jad]
"Cerridwen"
The 2002 LRH Birthday Event was a bit of a bore this year.
My husband absolutely refused to go with me to this event so I went
with a girlfriend. We made a night of it and went out to eat at this
really nice Italian restaurant. I had the excellent veal piccata and
she opted for the blackened chicken alfredo. We both had a couple of
glasses of merlot which could account for my lack of specifics in the
reporting of this event.
As with each International Event, there is always a thread or a theme
that runs throughout the event. The basic theme of this event was
to get Scientologists "rehabbed" on getting back on purpose on
the 3rd Dynamic. In wog speak that means to get them to be more
active and especially to get them to join staff.
It's never done in an obvious heavy handed way, that is, one would
not get. "Ok you worthless shits, get on staff". But instead
it's done by "enlightening" and pushing lots of Scn buttons.
But it's pretty much known and unspoken that both Org and Sea Org staff
think that anyone that is not on staff is a worthless piece of shit.
Keeping this theme in mind, the rest of the event and the news,
wins, and briefing were all given with the idea of getting the public
revved up to join staff or at least contribute more to the C of S.
Throughout the event the cameras panned the crowd and we got to
see Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie, Nancy Cartwright, the CO Flag
Debbie Cook, Sally and Craig Jensen and other Scn "got bucks"
types. As per some policy, Scientology's Rich and Famous get front
row seats at events.
DM as always is the first on stage and starts the event with a
standing ovation.
DM is wearing the same very nice single-breasted shawl lapel
tuxedo with the white straight cut handkerchief in the breast pocket
and a black bow tie. He is wearing his hair just slightly longer and it
is much darker than it was 5 or more years ago. I have no way to
confirm this but I think he had lifts in his shoes. Either that or the
winners of the Birthday game were all kind of short.
DM starts in with the Wins and Expansion News and talks about
ABLE. Narconon Arrowhead is the big news.
Per DM Narconon Arrowhead is busting at the seams with public
and they have had to build bunk beds to accommodate all the public
there.
Not only that but Narconon arrowhead is the place where Narconon
staff are sent to train so that they can then go back and start new
Narconon's all over the world.
DM spoke of some accreditation agency, whose name I can not recall
(I can't take notes at this thing.) This accreditation agency does have
the word "Addiction" in it and I apologize, as that is all I
remember of the name. I do not believe it was CARP or the other
agency that Narconon lists on its web pages. DM said that this
accreditation agency ALWAYS had a policy that they would only
accredit counselors with "college degrees".
DM stated that the Narconon staff did a presentation to this
accreditation board and convinced them that the Narconon/LRH
tech was far superior to any college degree and the Accreditation
Board was so damn impressed that they certified 22 Narconon
Arrowhead counselors.
I believe DM stated that there are twenty new Narconon's in the
world with 2 of them in the US.
When the next issue of Int Scn News comes out I am sure it will list
all the specifics of the event and I will post them for you.
DM also spoke of Narconon PSA's (Public Service
Announcements) and their continued playing on CNN.
This is all due to the fact that CNN was so damn impressed with the
Narconon program. Anyway, per DM, CNN will continue to air the
Narconon PSA's as long as Narconon continues to provide CNN
with them.
The CNN PSA's are creating a very big reach for Narconon per
DM's briefing.
The Berlin Wall and Dianetics Books.
Most of you have heard the stories of how the Berlin Wall came
tumbling down after OT 8 was released. Well DM has a new reason
why for the Berlin Wall coming down. It appears that just before
the Berlin Wall crumbled, a small but secretive Dianetic Auditors
Group had formed behind the Berlin Wall. They became active and
Viola! The rest is history.
VM Campaign.
DM said that the VM phone line gets 6000 phone calls a week.
A stat graph showed 5100 VM's before Sept 11 and 15,400 VM's as
of March 13, 2002.
Of course there were NOT 10,300 VM course grads in the past 6
months. Nope. It appears anyone can be a VM, even a
non-Scientologist. In one example given it looked like someone
taught a bunch of Africans how to do a touch assist and they all
instantly became VM's.
As we all know the C of S has their own unique way of counting
stats.
Dan Sherman - LRH Biographer.
Let me preface this next section with the explanation that since my
unindocing, I no longer think like many homophobic Scientologists.
I've looked the situation over and I'm very cool on people being gay.
I will admit that this was not the case when I was a fully indoc'd one
as part of the indoc teaches you that gay people are 1.1 and
perverted.
Now with that said I have to tell you that Dan Sherman, the LRH
biographer, seems to be ahhh… be in touch with his feminine side.
What I mean by that is that he is so obviously gay. My girlfriend
and I both agreed that it was VERY noticeable and we just couldn't
figure out why DM was letting this guy who flits his wrists and talks
with a sweet lisp and who more than likely likes to take it up the
poopshute, would be a major speaker at the event. Of course if you
are a regular Indoc'd Scientologist, you're not going to say anything
about it to anyone as it may sound like you are nattering or god only
knows what else.
But I will have to admit that when I mentioned Dan's "gayness" to
another unindoc'd friend, she didn't see it that way at all.
I am not sure if Dan is in the SO or exactly what his status is but I
got the idea that he may not be in the SO because he wore his hair
rather longish, (just slightly over the collar) and the SO guys usually
have a clean military coif.
Anywayz, Dan went on and on and on and on about LRH and this
3rd Dynamic tech.
He mentioned that back in the 50's LRH did not originally own or
control the Dianetic groups, and because of that they failed
organizationally. Dan mentioned that the guy who ran one of the
original groups was a communist and used Das Kapital as his form
of organization, and that another one was an Admiral who knew
about the navy but nothing about running a Dn organization. The
basic message here was to drive home the indoc by convincing
everyone that LRH is smarter than everyone else and only he could
figure our how to run an organization successfully. The rest of us
are basically a bunch of asshole and need to follow instructions.
Back to Dan
What Dan Sherman really knows about LRH is unknown to me.
Dan being the official biographer is either indoc'd to the eyeballs,
an idiot, or just spoon-fed what DM wants him to know. It may be a
case of all of the above.
But it seems that Dan's job as Biographer is to time track every
waking moment of LRH's life. Additionally, he seems to have the
job of proving LRH right about everything. Geeze, is this poor son
of a bitch in for a loss or what.
This entire event was a major recruitment cycle. Dan talked about
LRH and basic purpose of the being with the idea of motivating or
rehabbing each Scientologists purpose to help expand Scn.
Dan got in his evil psych lines when discussing the early Dn groups
that were so fucked up 3rd Dynamically, due to the fact that LRH
admin tech did not yet exist.
Dan discussed how LRH was one of the very first people on the
planet to use telex machines making for swift comm lines
throughout the world.
The Implant Graphics
Here's one for you paranoid types that are into subliminal messages
and symbolism.
Before each or video clip was shown (something that is done quite
often at these events) there was this really weird graphic of being
sent down a tunnel with this schwooshing noise. For those of you
who are into the C of S Implanting/Subliminal/Symbolic thingies, this
would be a very cool example. But since I'm not into that aspect, I'll
not go into great detail about it.
In addition to this schwooshing tunnel Implant thingie, one graphic
used was all the OT 2 platen GPM thingies. I forget why they were
shown because I was surprised that they were using them.
Mark Yager
Mark Yager spoke of the Mission expansion and the translation
stats. I really thought he looked like shit. Extremely thin. I know
the guy has always been thin but he was really skeletal. Also he is
VERY bald. Some guys look great bald. Mark looked bad.
Honestly, I just wanted to take him home and give him a good meal.
Due to some kind of new computer they now have they are able to
produce translated tapes, books, course pack etc in two weeks. This
is a very big deal for the C of S as what now takes two weeks used
to take 4 months or something like that. The point is that they are
now doing these translations very quickly.
I believe all of the Bridge up through Class V is now available in
Russian. This includes all the course packs, books and tapes that are
required for Courses in a Class V org.
A Video was shown of the St. Petersburg, Russia, Mission, which is
now officially a Class V org. Lots of stats and expansion numbers
being tossed about to show how fast Scn is expanding in Russia. I
have no idea if the data is accurate or not.
Harlingen, Texas
There was a video clip on Harlington, which is the home of WISE
member and big bucks Scientologist, Juan Villarreal
It seems that The Way to Happiness is a being widely promoted
down in Harlingen, Texas and per the video, is the sole reason why
the crime rate dropped to zero in the town of Harlingen. I'm not
kidding they said the crime rate dropped to zero.
Also a brand new mission was opened in Harlingen and the mayor
was there to cut the ribbon.
Who Won Birthday game?
Missions:
Class V Org:
SEA ORG ORG
Continental Liaison Orgs
For those of you not familiar with the Birthday game, it's not about
the biggest org/mission that year. It about the overall expansion and
it's based on a complicated point system.
The Org, Mission, CLO, etc. with the most Birthday game points
wins.
The Mission Holder, ED of the Class V org or the Commanding
Officer of the SO Org, goes to the stage to receive their trophy and
jockey shirt.
"Jockey shirt"? Yes, jockey shirt. It has something to do
with LRH talking about the birthday game being a race and the winner is
top jockey. The trophy is a statue of a jockey on a racing horse as well.
The winner stands on the stage with DM with two very pretty SO
girls on either side of DM and the Winner. The girls are dressed in
all white with the long white gloves and have that vestal virgin thing
going on.
The 4 of them stand there for about 15 seconds for the photo op and
then one girl hands the winner the trophy and the other one folders
the jockey shirt and then hangs it over the winners arm. THEN both
girls blow a kiss to the audience and walk off stage.
It is so corny and contrived that I actually groaned when I saw it.
The Winner then approaches the podium and gives a short (about 2
minutes) speech that is already written and approved of.
What was very noticeable is that each of the winners took time to
thank the COB and the RTC for "keeping the tech pure". Then of
course each one thanked LRH at which point everybody stands
(even the guys watching the video a week later) and applauds LRH.
After the Birthday winners are announced there is another important
win to be announced. This win starts off with the schwooshing
down the tunnel implant graphic and then we see the video
announcing that both Class V Orgs in Mexico City went Saint Hill
size.
Now if anyone out there has the specs on what it takes to be Saint
Hill size, I would greatly appreciate the data being posted or mailed
to a critic that you trust with a request to post the data. Certain
criteria must be met to get the Size of Old Saint Hill awarded. It has
to do with the number of people on staff, the number of people on
course, the number of well done auditing hours, etc.
But anywayz... Both Mexico City Orgs got awarded with "Saint Hill
Size" status, which is a very big deal because I don't think that any
orgs have been awarded "Saint Hill Size" in the past 8 or 10 years.
Per the video, it appears that the "why" for these two orgs going
SHS is that a bunch of Mexican's responded to DM's wake up call and
joined staff.
DM also said that there were 5 more Class V orgs on the brink of
being awarded SHS and news of this will be coming up at future
events.
Dm wraps it up with pitch to join staff. Make Scn your purpose, etc,
etc, etc.
The after event is a series of avoiding staff while stuffing your face
with very tasty food. One must fill out surveys, and then run the
gauntlet of staff to get out the door. My girlfriend and I were still
stuffed from dinner so we blew out of there as quickly as possible.
Cerridwen
Report on the 2002 LRH Birthday Event
4 Apr 2002
First Place -- The Mission of Beverly Hills.
First Place - C of S of Budapest, Hungary.
Second Place - C of S of Padova, Italy
Third Place - C of S of Milano, Italy
First place - AOLA
Second Place - AOSH EU
Third Place - Celebrity Center Int
CLO EU
CLO WUS
CLO EUS
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