Freezoners' Motives
What is the motive of the “freezoners” in attacking the Church?
They are in it for the money, since they hope they can persuade Scientologists in good standing with the Church to leave and join them instead. Mr. Hubbard described them here:
“People such as our best known ‘squirrels’ are perfectly willing to snatch our hard-won materials and misuse them, but they are not willing to support the effort which brought these materials into being. In other words, their existence is parasitic. Completely aside from the perversion of materials, this is what we have against them. Fortunately they number one in thousands; their lies, stupidities, vilifications are all a statement that they are unwilling to pay for what they use. They are cheap. The rest of us paid our way and we have won.”1
Without exception, every one of these people had ethical problems while in Scientology, often years before they left. They were either stealing money, committing gross violations of standard procedures, or performing other acts that violate the standards expected of a Scientologist.
How did the “Freezone” begin?
It began as it has continued – as an attempt to rip off the technology for the personal gain of the “freezoners.” In Ron’s Journal 38, published on December 31, 1983, Mr. Hubbard described what happened:
“As you know, Scientology churches are very vast and influential global organizations and there were people around whose claws itched to take them over and in a perverted form, exploit them for their own profit. The hoped for pattern was to knock the organizations apart and then take them over. So certain people infiltrated the legal department (the old Guardian Office) and set it up to lose left and right and get people in trouble. They also infiltrated top management. Being off lines, I was not involved with any of this as even the government agreed.
“This conflict is quite a dramatic story. At last a small hard-core group of Founding members, devoted on-policy, in-tech Scientologists who suddenly understood what was happening, used their power as Trustees and, just as it looked like the churches were finished and about to fall into hostile hands, they suddenly isolated the infiltrators and threw them out! You possibly read about that in the press – the first time in history the media was accurate!
“The only way such power crazy people can ever take over such organizations is to discredit management. Now here is the grim joke. The very people who were managing kept saying how awful Church management was! And they were talking about themselves! And after they were ousted, they followed the same line, still hoping to grab the Churches.
“The new executives who took over inherited a pretty sorry mess. Every false suit had been handled to lose. Good execs had been lost to orgs. Tech had been corrupted. Lines had been shattered. But these new executives were hard-nosed, on-policy, in-tech, high case level Scientologists and they rolled up their sleeves and went to work. Their job was to rebuild global Scientology in every division and sector, get it back on policy and in tech. And they had to do it in the teeth of the carping criticism of those rats who had been involved in the earlier power push and who were now outside, still hoping to grab the pieces and corrupt them for their own greed and your detriment. But these new executives did not quail and they got the show on the road again!”2
Why do the freezoners think they can get away with making false claims?
A former Church executive who was for a time affiliated with a cadre of such ex-members has written an affidavit in which she explains the methods they use to craft false accusations against the Church. Context and the truth are disregarded altogether, she writes, and “the allegations are crafted so they can cannot be objectively disproven” because the Church is put “in the impossible position of trying to prove a negative and trying to prove without documentation.”
She adds that the tactic is used in order to harm the reputation of the Church in an effort to win money or force the Church to settle. You can read her affidavit here.
1The Organizations of Dianetics and Scientology, PAB 90, June 26, 1956.
2Ron’s Journal 38.
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