You should explain that to Alexis, and the many other people who have essentially had their existence made null and void by Scientology's disconnection policies. I, as far as I know, if actions speak louder than words, no longer exist to my offspring still in the SO.
I doubt, by your cavalier posts, you have been of the receiving end of Hubbard's toxic policies. The very policies that seemed to make sense to me when I was a true believer ( it's an ethics gradient that will make them see the error in their ways and rejoin the crusade to clear the planet ) when in reality they are no more or less than cruel policies to A) punish those who leave, B) dissuade those who remain from leaving, C) and prevent interaction (communication) from those gullible souls still in and those who would burst their bubbles. Money was Hubbard's god, and it superseded all other considerations he might have had about fair play.
No, Clay Pidgeon, devaluing the toxic-ness of Hubbard's personal and organizational behavior is reprehensible. It is not a mere boy-girl game. While it is not in the same league as murder, it is nonetheless destructive.
Mimsey
Mimsey, I am bitterly and tragically on the receiving end of the dark side of policy.
I have not seen my sons since 1980.
My first born son was dead four years before I was told of it
After the wretched divorce in 1980 I decamped to the left coast and my comm line to them was severed from the other end. In 1986 I traveled east seeking my sons and failed to get in touch. I returned west and knowing only my ex-mate's mother as a person who knew the whereabouts of my sons (my own mother knew and would not admit it) I sent her cards and letters asking where they were.
Then one day out in Seattle a note with a Los Angeles postmark and no return address arrived in Seattle ordering me to "stop harrassing Mary Wihere" and signed only with a squiggle which I recognized as the monogram of Greg Wilhere's initials being well familiar with his hand from doing folder study of PC's he audited.
No return address.
Not the least bit of respect or common decency.
And as I later learned this happened when my son was being treated for leukemia
GET THIS REAL STRAIGHT MIMSEY...
THERE HAVE PRETTY GODDAM FEW PEOPLE WHO PASSED THROUGH THIS BOARD WHO HAVE BEEN SCREWED SO HARD BY COS AS I HAVE.
But I am still an auditor. I learned things training and practicing auditing which have been of surpassing value in the course of my life
Moreover I have personal substantial experience of what is termed "OT"
Also...
My father's life was shortened for having twice receiving ECT and I was twice railroaded into psychiatric facilities where I wqs incarcerated w/o warrant and subjected to malpractice in extremis
Furthermore...
Residence in institutions for the criminally insane is reserved for those who actually cut children into pieces not those who in a fit of pique claim to have done so.
And I'm gonna tell ya something else...
The divorce thrust upon me was so ROTTEN I had moments when I was so vastly engulfed by hot black impotent rage I...
I'm a proud man Mimsey, but not so proud I can't confess this in public...
wanted to murder my own children.
I could not honorably condemn Ron for his wrath.