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Re: The RPF: $cientology's Slave Labor Camp
From: noplefforatx@yahoo.com (Farewell to Sicily)
On Jul 10, 4:14 pm, Dennis L Erlich <infor...@informer.org> wrote:
"Honest Abe" <freespe...@4ever.net> wrote:
The facts about their "RPF" prove the egregious hypocrisy in $cientology's
criticism of psychiatry.
From the Usenet archives:
The RPF: $cientology's Slave Labor Camp
In 1974, the blatant breaking of another person's will - "break 'em down,
build 'em back up" - was implemented by Hubbard as an official "Church"
institution: The Rehabilitation Project Force.
The RPF is essentially a punitive slave-labor prison for $cientology staff
considered to be unproductive, disobedient, or security risks. Inmates eat
leftover food scraps, without utensils,
We had utensils at the Flag RPF.
after non-RPF staff finish eating,
and are not allowed to speak to them unless first spoken to. They are then
only to answer briefly, always addressing their betters as "sir." RPFers are
dressed in uniform overalls and have to run wherever they go. Their quarters
are the worst - often filthy and roach-infested.
We slept and "lived" in the 3 floor parking structure of the FH hotel.
We were all gassed with exhaust fumes every time a car parked.
The RPF continues to this
day as one of several parts of the "Church" of $cientology hidden from
"public PCs" and "wogs" (outsiders).
According to $cientology dogma, confining someone in the RPF is a benevolent
act. RPFers are considered insane, loaded with "evil purposes" causing them
to commit "overts" (harmful acts), and therefore they have many "withholds"
(undisclosed overts). The RPF is their last chance at redemption.
Right.
Some that have left $cientology after being RPFed tell of having to
fabricate overts, writing them up to appease the Ethics Officer, to prove
they were being rehabiliated. A common reason for being RPFed is the
decision to leave the cult. According to Hubbard: "People leave because of
their own overts and withholds. The only reason anyone has ever left
Scientology is because people failed to find out about them." By this
reasoning, the Jews fled Nazi Germany because of their hidden offenses
against Hitler.
The degree of degradation experienced in the RPF is difficult to comprehend.
And attempt at breaking the will and rebuilding the personality in the
cult image.
Hubbard, Greek Gods">GOD to a believing $cientologist, in effect is telling you that you
are subhuman, evil, degraded. Long periods of confinement at hard labor,
with poor nutrition, little sleep, and no toilet facilities are common
practice.
We had toilet facilities. Our own tiny shower and toilet room.
According to former Hubbard aide Gerald Armstrong: "There is no
way to really describe the RPF experience, the hopelessness, the
humiliation, the horror. It seemed to go on forever, the days all identical,
no time to oneself, the same blue boiler suits like prison garb, day after
day, the same questions in the same endless security checks [gruelling
interrogation sessions on a lie-detecting e-meter]. Hubbard's purpose in
creating the RPF, running it as a prison with assignees considered
criminals, was the breaking of peoples' wills, the total subjugation of
anyone he considered exhibited 'counter intention' to his goals. He achieved
his purpose with me so well that I thanked him for the opportunity of doing
the RPF, much like prisoners of war, who are broken emotionally and
spiritually through deprivation and mind control techniques, thank their
captors."
A program of induced Stockholm Syndrome.
The best coverage of the cult's internal prison system can be found in
"Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force. (RPF)" by Dr.
Stephen Kent -
From THE CODE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST by L. Ron Hubbard:
[This hypocritical "code" helps motivate $cientology's criticism of
psychiatry. It is an excellent illustration of criminals diverting attention
from themselves with idealistic poop and by exposing the crimes of
others. We are supposed to think this crusading "church" is above the very
conduct it condemns in others.]
4) "To decry and do all I can to abolish any and all abuses against life
and mankind."
5) "To expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in
the field of mental health."
7) "To bring about an atmosphere of safety and security in the field of
mental health by eradicating its abuses and brutality."
20) "To make this world a saner better place."
And $cientology's brutal, abusive RPF serves these purposes??
No that was the other side of Elrong's mouth talking.
D
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"An' here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice."- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
This is another reason Sciengology's tax status should be lifted.
Slave labor is a crime, plain and simple. Another good account of
what goes on in the RPF can be found in Amy Scobee's book that just
came out:
The dictator of this nasty cult will trust nobody who has not been in
the prison system. All of the top people have been there. But when I
say that he "trusts" them take it was a grain of salt. -Toby
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