FAIR GAME Re:"Ruin Him Utterly" (Score 1)

Let me add to the fire with this, the FAIR GAME policy of scientology...

"[An enemy of scientology]...may be tricked, cheated, lied to, sued or destroyed." See footnoe [1]

After realizing what a PR disaster this policy was (it was used as ammunition by Britain when they declared Hubbard and his followers undesirable aliens in the 1960's), L. Ron Hubbard "revoked" the FAIR GAME--that is what scientology's party line is, anyhow.

In actual fact, Hubbard only revoked the practice of ~labeling~ scientology's perceived enemies as FAIR GAME. The issue that scientology uses today to assert FAIR GAME's revocation reads:

"FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This Policy Letter does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP." See Footnote [1]

Note: SP = Suppressive Person - i.e.- any actual or perceived enemy of scientology, or the mom next door who wants her kid out of the cult, or the spouse who wants to know why his/her mate is spending their life savings on scientology "religion."

California courts have taken legal notice of the FAIR GAME policy in the cases of Gerry Armstrong (who eventually fled to Canada as Henson has done) and Larry Wollersheim. In Wollershiem's case, the California Court of Appeal (July, 1986) upheld a ruling in his favor that he had been subjected to the Fair Game policy by the church of scientology. Fair Game was mentioned multiple times by Judge Breckinridge in his opinion from the 1982 case filed by the church of scientology against the former scientologist (whose scientology job title was "L.Ron Hubbard Personal Public Relations Office Reasearcher."

H. Keith Henson, and indeed his whole family, have been under Fair Game attack by scientology for years.

Fair Game is one of those scientology policies that the jury should have been permitted to review.

Fair Game is alive as well, and being practiced by scientology everywhere it has even the slightest opposition.

Nukewaster at aol.com

Footnote:

[1] Ref: Organization Executive Course, Volume 1 (A compilation of articles written and copyrighted by Hubbard, comprising the "administration technology" of scientology, and claimed as "scripture by the cult.)

A reference for those who are curious about FAIR GAME:

The excellent book, "A Piece of Blue Sky, Scientology, Dianetics and L.Ron Hubbard Exposed" by Jon Atack, (c) 1990, Carol Publishing Group. It's out of print now, but can be read online at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/ind ex.html

What the Heck, check out the whole scientology library at this Carnegie-Mellon University professor's site - all the classic works on scientology are there.

For Judge Breckinridge's opinion in Church of Scientology of California versus Gerry Armstrong, try http://www.lermanet.com