Chuck Beatty
Chuck Beatty is an ex-lifetime Scientology's
Sea Org movement staffer
(1975-2003).
Radar (March 17, 2008): "Cult Friction" by John Cook
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Invariably, former Scientologists do the same thing
when they first leave the Church: They log onto the
Internet and start searching. "Members of the
general public know more about Scientology than
decades-long members do," says
Chuck Beatty,
a 27-year veteran who worked for Author Services,
Inc., the powerful Scientology organization that
manages Hubbard's copyrights. As a rule,
Scientologists are forbidden from exposing
themselves to any of the dozens of websites—
xenu.net,
chief among them—devoted to exposing the Church's
sordid past and nefarious nature. While much of the
information has been available on the Internet for
years, you once had to actively seek it out.
Interest in the Tom Cruise video and media coverage
of the Anonymous campaign has pushed this
information out in front of a mass online audience,
reinforcing the view that Scientology is a cult and
cutting into its recruitment efforts. "Celebrities
are gaining them exposure and ridicule," says
Beatty, "but they're not gaining them members." [
...]
St. Petersburg (March 2008): "Group called Anonymous protests
Scientology policies in Clearwater" by Robert Farley
Chuck Beatty, a former Scientology staff
member who is now a critic, said the lawsuits reflect
Scientology's policy of "always attack, never defend."
Rolling Stone (February 2006): "Inside Scientology" by Janet
Reitman
Former Sea Org members who've been through
the program charge that it is a form of re-indoctrination,
in which hard physical labor and intense ideological study
are used to break a subject's will. Chuck Beatty, a former
Sea Org member, spent seven years in the
RPF facilities in
Southern California, from 1996 to 2003, after expressing a
desire to speak out against the church. For this, he was
accused of "disloyalty," a condition calling for
rehabilitation. "My idea was to go to the RPF for six or
eight months and then route out," says Beatty. "I thought
that was the honorable thing to do." In the RPF he was given
a "twin," or auditing partner, who was responsible for
making sure he didn't escape. "It's a prison system," he
says, explaining that all RPFers are watched twenty-four
hours per day and prevented from having contact with the
outside world. "It's a mind-bending situation where you feel
like you're betraying the group if you try to leave."
Dear "Lily"
The best part of your message, again, is the fact
that you call on people to go to society's outside
existing institutions for assistance.
I totally agree,
because Scientology isolates itself from society's
institutions, and the abuses in Scientology's staff
hierarchies need at times outside intervention.
Heady
concept: "freedom"
There are so overwhelming numbers of crimes and
penalties LRH wrote for being off-source, out-tech,
out-ethics, other-intentioned, false-data-prone,
evil-purposed, other-fish-to-fry,
squirrel.
The longer one reads LRH, the more the "channels" for
keeping
in ethics appear out of his writings to keep one
going right down
HIS idea of how to get to
"freedom."
LRH's "research" proved LRH's conclusions
were correct, and thus the errors and faults are NEVER
with LRH.
After 27 years in Scientology and the Sea Org, Chuck Beatty
tells his story
He reads me the final release legal doc that I
give up all my rights to speak about ANYTHING in my Sea Org
employment, the normal give up ALL your rights to free speech,
etc., and I sign or I initial all pages, etc., while Elliot
reads page by page, or the major section titles over the major
sections of the release, out loud, all on video.
This was a pretty intense and admittedly significance packed
moment, my final moment, in these legal OSA settings, signing
away rights, that no normal Buddhist ex-monk or Catholic ex-monk
would sign away when they depart their monastic lifetime staff
categories, but no matter. Again, Scn does what it does, and our
legal system doesn't support this type of activity in certain
contexts, and hasn't supported this yet. But
our legal system does support Scn legal tactics in other
matters. Whatever. The threat was still sitting there in my
face. We'll get you if you talk, buddy! That was the
message.
Washington Post (November 2005): "A Place in the Desert for New
Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles" by Richard Leiby
The church maintains two other vaults in
California to preserve Hubbard's materials and words,
according to Hines and another longtime staff member who
also quit a couple of years ago, Chuck Beatty of Pittsburgh.
"The whole purpose of putting these teachings in the
underground vaults was expressly so that in the event that
everything gets wiped out somehow, someone would be willing
to locate them and they would still be there," said Beatty,
who spent 28 years in Scientology. Some loyalists are tasked
specifically with the "super-duper confidential" job of
coming back to Earth in the far-off future, he added.
The billion-year contracts are signed by members of what
Hubbard, a Navy lieutenant in World War II, called the
church's Sea Organization. The motto of that cadre,
according to Beatty and Hines, who said they were both
members, is "We come back."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 2005): "From the outside, looking
in"
"In my opinion, Scientology is in many
instances dangerous," he said, adding that in many cases,
Scientology can be a "harmful, manipulative organization
whose members cannot make informed decisions about their own
lives and the lives of their loved ones."
Chuck Beatty, target of Dead Agenting in order to silence him
(January 2006)
Ken Shapiro smear email. Church of
Scientology's Office of Special Affairs produced the
following smear email, and they used Kenny Shapiro as the
delivery vehicle. This January 2006 smear tactic
demonstrates how the Office of Special Affairs branch of the
Church of Scientology continues its irreligious smearing
tactics even today, which only recoils on the official
Scientology movement.
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