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: OSA NW ORDER 17                                17 February 1988
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:                  _THE_GENUS_OF_INSANE_GOVERNMENTS_
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:           (Taken from undated LRH notes.  Issued
:            an OSA NW Order on 17 February 1988.)

The original date of issue is during the era of the Guardian office (before the Snow White Trials in 1979). This proves that Hubbard dictated Guardian Office orders, despite Scientology's claims to its members (and the U.S. Government) that Suppressive Persons [radicals outside of Scientology's control] infiltrated the Guardian Office and were responsible for Snow White.

Miscavige, his lawyers, and his Public Relations representatives said that all Guardian Orders were "cancelled", so Scientology simply reissued many as OSA NW Orders. This way, they could keep "tech" by renaming it something else to go with the illusion that the criminals (GO staff) were ousted and the "off-source tech" issues (Guardian Orders) were cancelled. In parallel, Miscavige renamed the GO the "Office of Special Affairs". It's semantics, that's all -- an "acceptable" truth.

The OSA issue date is after Hubbard's death in 1984. This proves that Scientology did not disband the Guardian's Office, despite Scientology's claims to the contrary. In reality, both GO and OSA are the same Scientology entity, internally named Division 20.

This particular order originates from "an undated LRH note". The date of the order (1988) is four years after Hubbard's death. In this case, the OSA is creating material for itself from recycled LRH archive material.

If anyone knows what "IMEC" is, I would like to know.

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Here, Hubbard suggests that governments should be plotted on a Tone Scale . Hubbard believed that a person (or in this case, an institution) had a particular quality called a "tone". The Tones run the gamut of human emotion, although Hubbard had his own cynical ordering for them. For example, "sympathy" is lower-toned than "hate". Once a tone was determined, it provided the basis for predicting the person's behavior. Of course, the tone scale is grossly oversimplified.

Hubbard then applies the tone scale to "any government on Earth today". When something as overgeneralized as the tone scale is applied to such an overgeneralized subject, the resulting analysis is sure to be incorrect in a great many cases. However, that never stopped Hubbard before. So, let's continue on and see where Hubbard is going ...

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:      What do you find?
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:      A murderer, a non-producer, a thing unable to run engrams
: - in short, an insane person.

Hubbard concludes from from the Tone of "any government on Earth today" that all governments are insane. After being kicked out of virtually every country in Europe, I suppose I can understand Hubbard's attitude. It's unclear to me how Hubbard proposes to "run engrams" on (i.e. audit) an amorphous entity such as a government. However, Hubbard is quite clear that governments are "aberrated", i.e. are murderers and non-producers. Perhaps "murderer" refers to government's indirect support of Scientology's arch-nemesis, the Evil Psych Zombie ElectroShock IcePick Drug Lordz (See OSA NW Order 7). "Non-producer" probably refers to Hubbard's distaste for taxes, which violates his "Exchange Principle" (See OSA NW Order 10 ).

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If one rewinds this statement, Hubbard is saying that before government can cause a war, it must be capable of "official act[s]", as opposed to "personal act[s]". Apparently, a totalitarian dictatorship is not within Hubbard's definition of government. Hubbard was not a detail man when he was on a rant.

It would be interesting to know what "official" act or acts elicited this observation from Hubbard. Unfortunately, the note is undated, so we'll probably never know.

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:      Definition of an insane person: An individual who is not
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:      Definition of a public official: An individual who is not
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:      Result: Insane Government.

Hubbard often used a style of single-sentence paragraphs. Perhaps Hubbard used this style to e-m-p-h-a-s-i-z-e   e-v-e-r-y   t-h-o-u-g-h-t. Perhaps Hubbard, in a holdover from his previous career as a penny-a-word sci-fi writer, couldn't be bothered to back up and edit for readability. Another possibility is that Hubbard had difficulty grouping his thoughts into a coherent paragraph that didn't meander like a small stream on a flat plain - putting one sentence in each paragraph solves this coherency problem.

We finally see where Hubbard is going with all of this and it's a whopper of a logical fallacy. An attribute of insanity is irresponsibility. Public officials are irresponsible. Therefore [NOT], Public officials are insane. This is similar to saying that since birds fly and airplanes fly, then birds must be airplanes.

With feet planted firmly in flawed logic, Hubbard goes on to declare Government to be insane. In Hubbard's utopia of a Cleared Planet, the insane are subordinate to Hubbard and Scientologists. The insane (and their rules) can be ignored. The insane are "disposed of quietly and without sorrow".

This document serves as yet another justification for Snow White (infiltration of Government offices by Scientologists for the purposes of "cleaning up" dirty records).

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It is official Scientology policy to treat government as one would treat an insane individual.

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This line describes the Scientology management hierarchy:

1. L. Ron Hubbard dictates to the Church of Scientology International.
2. CSI dictates to Jane Kember (?) [Worldwide Guardian or head of G.O.].
3. jk dictates to "ta", who is probably the person charged with typesetting this OSA Network Order. Note: typographical errors appear in the original.

Hubbard is clearly controlling the actions of the Guardian's Office, despite Scientology's claims to the contrary during the Snow White trial. Hubbard also controlled the Office of Special Affairs.

I'm unsure of the meaning of the final colon. Perhaps there was someone else in the chain.

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The LRH Library holds this work to be "unpublished" for the purposes of copyright law. According to 17 USC 303, unpublished works prior to 1978 (i.e. all GO documents except Order 40) receive protection under 17 USC 302 for 25 years after the author's death.

In fact, this is an internal document that is distributed to every Office of Special Affairs recruit. The "unpublished" section of copyright law seems tailor-made for keeping information hidden from scrutiny:

• The work is legally protected from being reproduced.
• It avoids public disclosure of the work.
• It is difficult to refute a charge of copyright infringement because the text cannot be compared to an authoritative source.

The provision for unpublished works in the copyright law was not meant for hiding a work under a rock in perpetuity. The LRH Library uses this designation for legal harrassment; it is just one more charge which the hapless defendant must address and adds to the cost of litigation. Hubbard said "the purpose of the lawsuit is to harrass", not to win. Scientology punishes its critics by forcing them to pay exorbitant legal fees to defend themselves.