"Light ethics handling" is ONLY for the "upstats". If you are towing the line, paying money, contributing time, or at least NOT causing any trouble, then, and ONLY then does "light ethics handling" apply.
In Scientology, if you fall outside of those parameters
then the "heavy ethics" quickly ensues. Just as described and defined by exact "standard" LRH policies. The "justice" part of "ethics & justice" triggers and takes over.
Dunno about later.
When I was the E/O in 1979 Did word clearing, specially " Ethics", which wasn't the generally understood idea of punisnment, and efforts to improve survival for the individual concerned.
Ya know what Terril, that is like some decent lowly clerk working in some section of the Catholic Church in the 1500s, during the Inquisition saying, "I taught Christ's message of Love". And, while he was truly trying to apply one small aspect of the subject of Christianity, as best he could, the larger majority were out torturing and burning heretics.
No doubt there were and still are a few isolated Scientology church members who do their best to use and apply their own "good version" of the larger toxic subject of Scientology.
As long as I was involved with Scientology, since 1976, being staff and Sea Org for 3-4 of those years, and a public person who knew many people onlines at Flag in the 1990s, ANY person who "caused trouble" IMMEDIATELY found his or herself undergoing HEAVY ETHICS actions. The Church of Scientology, based on exact LRH policies, has NEVER had any tolerance for dissent, other ideas, criticism, questioning or "downstats".
If you talked to a "bad person" you were pulled in fast and hard to ethics. If you mentioned anything counter to Hubbard or management, you were pilled in fast and hard to ethics. I saw examples of this in the 1970s, in the 1980s and in the 1990s. The intense refusal to accept ANY disagreement was always there. It was LRH policy!
I remember that a friend and I were looking over Capt Bill's stuff in the mid-1990s on the Internet. I was getting Sec Checked for something or another by OSA, and I mentioned it. Within 24 hours my friend was SEVERELY R-FACTORED AND ORDERED to "report to Flag". He was traveleing in the midwest at the time, and had to stop everything, with much dev-T to his life, to get to Flag. He was pulled into a room and SCREAMED AT for about 20 minutes, "do YOU want to LOSE your Eternal Freedom"? "Do you want to get decalred an SP"? It was brutal, AND it was TYPICAL. OSA was there. The Flag MAA was there, His FSM was there.
That doesn't mean that a few here and there didn't like what was going on with the controlling central Scientology organization, and didn't try, in their own little spheres, to "apply decently various fragments of the larger Scientology subject".
But, as far as the BIG picture went, Hubbard was a tyrant and he used "ethics and justice" to keep his Obedient Army of Idiots towing the line.
Geez, it kills me how some people remain in this la-la land of some fantasy version of the
good 'ole Scientology days, kinda like the
Scientology Garden of Eden where all was "pure and perfect".
( I knew whatcha meant, just playin' around) 
