"bad lot"...."juvenile delinquents".... Sound to me like A.you approve of child abuse because you were doing the abusing. or B. you were the victem of abuse and believed it when they told you "you deserved it".
Nobody deserves to be mindfucked by so called "operating theatans" in this way. They way he goes off at the end (SIT DOWN IN THAT CHAIR) just shows the EP of being brainwashed with TR's and OT auditing. Denial.
He treated the public in the same way. Dont you remember how he went after that guy at the docks when the poor guy pulled into a public parking spot Wally claimed as his? The way he bragged about killing people? The sick comments he made about useing his OT powwas to "sense the heat comming off the waitress tits"?
"never thought it had anything to do with Scn. per se" ......L. Ron used to throw people overboard as "punisment", David Miscavige is said to abuse and beat his staff just for the fun of it. If you were at Wallys, then you remember what a voilent enviroment it was. Kids fighting kids, Wally beating kids, hunting animals with guns for fun. It was all supervised by expert child auditor OT 8 Debbi Mace and she knew about and approved the violence, as long as it served her goals (control). When you make excuses for sick people, you make yourself look sick too. Those kids needed help, not Wallyworld.
Wow. Look - you have your own opinion of what child abuse is. In most countries, spanking a child is not abuse. I don't think it is. I went to a school that paddled children (it was NOT a Scn school, by the way.)
The problem with your post, and with a lot of critics of Scn that I see, is that you are unable to separate what a Scientologists does/did from Scientology.
My point is, if an asshole joins Scn, and continues to be an asshole, then maybe it's just the person being an asshole.
You act like no-one ever got spanked before outside of Scientology.
So Ron thew people overboard or had them "beached." Hardly a new practice. Doesn't make it right (or wrong!).
Yes I was at the Ranch, and sure some kids fought other kids. So? Kids fight all the time. The whole "violence" thing there is a little blown out of proportion. Sure if you acted up way too much you got paddled. Seriously, BFD. I was there a while and I never saw random beatings or anything, it just wasn't that bad.
I'm not trying to defend Scn. I'm not even a Scientologist any more. But I think the criticism is inaccurate, that's all. For example - teaching people to handle guns and hunt animals: what's wrong with that? I gather that you have some moral objection or something, but there's nothing illegal about it, you can get a hunting license at 12 years old, and lots of people (NOT Scientologists) do it. I learned to hunt at the Ranch. I loved it. I still do. Are you now telling me that the hunting skills and enjoyment I learned are part of some diabolical church plot to screw me up or something?
Cmon. I get that you had a bad time there or something. Dude, get over it. It was 17 years ago.
Sorry if I offend, but I'm just telling it the way I see it. I'm certainly not defending Scn or critics either way. A little truth would not go amiss though.