Do you approve of Geir Isene's Liability formula?[ 30 votes ]
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This write-up is the next step after my earlier published "Doubt write-up". This is the closure on the support I have given to an organization that is acting contrary to the basics of Scientology and systematically violating human rights. The outpoints that I have witnessed is outlined in my Doubt write-up.

I became aware of systematic violations of Scientology ethics, technology and policy within the church since the autumn 2003. At that time a mission from the European headquarters in Copenhagen (CLO EU) came to Oslo and assigned the whole Norwegian field of public Scientologists the ethics condition of Treason. I was blasted for no real reason by the D/CO EU in a way that made me aware that something was rotten in Denmark. I was since made increasingly aware of the outpoints through my involvement in the OT Committee and in the OT Ambassador Programs. In the last two years before I left I spend approximately 1000 hours researching and verifying my observations. I then concluded, wrote up my Doubt formula and resigned the church on August 7th 2009.

Although I was never involved in perpetrating or promoting any abuses myself, I did in fact support the organization and feel I didn't do enough to help stop the outpoints. This liability write-up addresses the period from September 2003 till I left.

This write-up follows the formula for getting through the condition of Liability as laid out by L. Ron Hubbard (LRH). As with the earlier Doubt write-up, this also follows the WOIM format (see the WOIM definition page).

Liability formula (LRH instructions in quotes and as main points in the list)

  1. "Decide who are one's friends"
       1.1. My friends are people of integrity who are willing to change for 
        what they consider better and help others to do the same.
        Note that this includes a great many people still in the Church of
        Scientology.
  2. "Deliver an effective blow to the enemies of the group one has
   pretended to be a part of despite personal danger"
       2.1. I pretended to be part of a group that worked for the greater
        good, for human rights, for free speech and for the liberation of
        free will. I shut my eyes to abuses in the Church of Scientology to
        foster the illusion that it aligned with my purpose of freeing the
        will of man by applying the technology of Scientology. The church
        is not true to its stated purposes. I have since my departure from
        the church helped others realize the same. My Doubt write-up was
        broadly published, resulting in many leaving the church. Several OTs
        read my write-up and decided to leave, creating a ripple effect that
        has woken up many. Any exact number is hard to come by - but my
        write-up has tipped the scale for at least 10 other OTs. The signal
        effect of the only OT 8 in Norway leaving the church has been
        significant. After my departure, I have been in communication with
        thousands of people through meetings, phone calls, e-mail and my
        Internet activities. 
        I put up a blog (http://elysianchakorta.wordpress.com) that has had
        about 100000 views since I started blogging three months ago. After
        the number of comments on my blog reached 500 per week, 
        I decided to set up a forum, The Scientology Forum 
        (http://www.scnforum.org) to promote open discussions of Scientology 
        in a safe environment moderated by OTs. After one week of operation it 
        had more than 100 registered members and more than 1000 posts. 
        Feedback shows that Scientologists do wake up to the "out ethics", 
        "out tech", "out admin" and the abuses in the church through reading 
        my blog and The Scientology Forum and deciding to participate in the 
        open exchange of viewpoints. 
        Through several newspaper articles, one radio show and a TV broadcast
        on the main Norwegian news show on prime time, my messages have
        reached more than a million people. I took a firm stand in accordance
        with my personal integrity despite the consequences I knew would
        come; Most of my Scientology friends have disconnected from me and 
        my family, my company lost three offices in Russia and there is an
        ongoing black PR campaign directed at me in the church.
  3. "Make up the damage one has done by personal contribution far beyond
   the ordinary demands of a group member"
      3.1. My blog and The Scientology Forum has served more than the
        purpose of delivering a blow to the offending practices by the Church
        of Scientology. The forum promotes rational exchange of viewpoints and
        may very well already be the primary venue for courteous and open
        discussions of Scientology on the Internet. I have as well
        contributed to hundreds of people that has contacted me for help and
        support in sorting out their own situation with the church.
  4. "Apply for re-entry to the group by asking the permission of each
   member of it to rejoin and rejoining only by majority permission, and
   if refused, repeating (2) and (3) and (4) until one is allowed to be a
   group member again"
      4.1. This part becomes tricky as the group I ask to rejoin is the
        collective of people who are willing to change for the better and
        help others to do the same. It is clearly impossible to reach the
        majority of such people on earth. I have thus decided to publish this
        Liability formula on The Scientology Forum and let people there
        decide the fate of my re-entry.

[Updated on: Tue, 24 November 2009 08:07]