Before Donald Trump made his arrival in the political scenario in the USA, he already had a prior reference with whom he had very much in common although most likely they never met in person. His name was Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, better known as L. Ron Hubbard. Indeed, Trump could be called his alter ego.
Both men began with a wish for ruling or controlling the world, the only difference between them being that L. Ron Hubbard concocted a religion called Scientology to accomplish his main objective whereas Donald Trump is using politics and the Republican party. Otherwise, the final goal is the same, both pretending to be saviours, in the case of Donald Trump a saviour of the USA with his motto “Make America Great Again”, and in the case of L. Ron Hubbard saviour of the entire world -mind you, saviour of the entire Universe- with his promise to “clear planet Earth and thereafter the entire Universe”.
Recalling who L. Ron Hubbard really was may provide one of the best clues yet to who Donald Trump may really be and what every American might expect from him as president in case history repeats itself as it so often does.
When L. Ron Hubbard unleashed Dianetics upon the unsuspecting world in May of 1950 with the publication of his book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, he claimed that this “New Science of the Mind” was good for just about anything that was ailing the human condition. By removing painful prior mental conditions known as “engrams”, that were stored in the “reactive mind,” the IQ of anybody could be raised, you would never suffer accidents or colds, you could, by the sheer power of your mind remove cancer or other sorts of serious physical conditions. In other words every person could aspire to be a truly rational person with a mental powerhouse. Here follows a textual reproduction of some of these claims that have been branded obsolete for a lack of verifiable results:
“A [Dianetics] Clear, for instance, has complete recall of everything which has ever happened to him or anything he has ever studied.” (A ridiculous assertion, and unsurprisingly, it has never yet been displayed by any Dianetics or Scientology adherents. It would be easily tested by asking a practitioner what she had for dinner exactly 471 days ago, or having her try to list the names of all the classmates in her second-grade class.)
“Eyesight, when the stage of glasses is entered (not because of glasses), is deteriorating on the psychosomatic principle... One of the incidental things which happen to a clear is that his eyesight, if it had been bad as an aberree, generally improves markedly, and with some slight attention will recover optimum perception in time.”, “You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps”. (According to Hubbard, problematic eyesight is not caused by something physically wrong, like an eyeball with a slightly changed shape. Instead, he claimed it is just a problem in your head. And guess what, Dianetics can supposedly fix. In the real world, Dianetics and Scientology adherents just keep right on needing glasses and continuing to use them. Ironically, this even included Hubbard himself. The failure of Dianetics to live up to Hubbard’s claims of curing bad eyesight doesn’t phase his followers, even when the proof is sitting right on their own noses.)
“Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.” (Dianetics was touted by Hubbard as the cure for just about everything that could be physically wrong with a person. Hubbard also covered the entire spectrum of mental impairments with his announcement that, through Dianetics, he had discovered “the single source of all insanities, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions and social derangements”. There never was nor has there been any scientific evidence whatsoever to support these claims, and the American Medical Association, as well as the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association are is still waiting and very eager to receive a single documented proof of the cure-it-all claims of Dianetics made by the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.)
It might be added that Hubbard himself became a very bad example of the health benefits that could be derived from Dianetics and Scientology. He died alone at 75, which is not precisely a ripe old age, and in spite of all the propaganda stories about his “soul” leaving his body at will (“causatively”) in an act that is construed by some to be nothing less than suicide, by the information logged into the official documents of his demise he appears to have actually died from a brain hemorrhage which was not his first stroke but his third, becoming incapacitated after his second stroke and hiding from the view of everyone including his followers. There are no photographs of him in his last days or weeks, not even months, and he might have been extremely ashamed or embarrassed over the pitiful image those mementos of him could have left behind.
Before the upper level “Operating Thetan” or “OT” courses were released (in the prolific Hubbard jargon, the word “soul” was replaced by the word “Thetan” which stands for a highly evolved spiritual being having the ability to control matter, energy and spacetime in the physical universe, free of the encumbrance of the body), the status that went by the name “Clear” was the coveted end result of Dianetics and Scientology. All efforts were directed at being “Clear” as students from all over the world descended up the heretofore undistinguished village of East Grinstead.
L. Ron Hubbard told his bewitched readers and listeners that he wanted to “Clear” the entire planet by making every man and every woman from every nation on planet Earth a disciple of the religion he invented all by himself, in other words, to him, forcing the loyalty of mankind towards him by means of heavy “ethics” Hubbard-style, which included branding every person who resisted conversion to Hubbard’s religion as a Potential Trouble Source or PTS (Hubbard jargon) and further down the road as a Suppresive Person or SP (more Hubbard jargon), the last ones considered as enemies that had to be destroyed using the “Fair Game” policy. An SP was defined by Hubbard himself to be an anti-social person who hates all that is good and by their very nature are destructive. Hubbard claimed that these SPs constituted only 2.5 percent of the population, whereas PTSs made up 17.5 per cent of the population. A person deemed suppressive would receive a notice printed upon a particular color paper, goldenrod, that would list all of the various crimes against humanity and Scientology that this person committed. Such a notice would be hung on all Scientology bulletin boards.
The first public “Clear” produced by Hubbard was a fiasco. This comes from the Wikipedia: “There are several conflicting accounts of who first attained the state of Clear, and under what circumstances. In August 1950, amidst the success of Dianetics, Hubbard held a demonstration in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium (to an audience of 6,000 people ) where he presented a young woman called Sonya Bianca (a pseudonym) to a large audience including many reporters and photographers as ‘the world’s first Clear.’ However, despite Hubbard’s claim that she had “full and perfect recall of every moment of her life”, Bianca proved unable to answer questions from the audience testing her memory and analytical abilities, including the question of the color of Hubbard’s tie”. Even worse, when the basic Dianetics tenet of the engram and the Dianetic healing procedure called auditing were subjected to close scientific scrutiny under controlled laboratory conditions, both began to fail the first tests, as documented in the report entitled “An Experimental Investigation of Hubbard’s Engram Hypothesis (Dianetics)” authored by Jack Fox, Alvin E. Davis, and B. Lebovits, and published in 1959 (volume 10) of the Psychological Newsletter. Other people people with scientific training took the claims of Dianetics seriously, and conducted their own proper examination of it. Their results were published in books such as Dianetics: A Doctor’s Report written by J.A. Winter M.D., and a PhD thesis from Harvey Jay Fischer entitled Dianetic Therapy: An Experimental Evaluation (considered by some to be the only independent scientific study that has been able to properly examine the claims of Dianetics.) Both of these publications reported negative results. Eventually, after all the bad publicity, Hubbard discarded Dianetics replacing it with Scientology, but with the same goal, producing “Clears”. And learning from his failures, Hubbard never allowed proper scientific scrutiny of his claims ever again.
In order to gage L. Ron Hubbard claims accurately, we must ask ourselves: How did the first “Clears”, courtesy of Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, England, fare? Did they win Nobel Prizes? Were their lives free of the usual petty problems like divorce, the need for money, possible addiction problems that led to drug addiction and alcoholism? How was their health? Did Clears live a lot longer with their disease free lives than ordinary folk? What about eyesight? Hubbard said they should be able to do away with their glasses as their eye sight would improve from auditing. People with these abilities would certainly stick out, in fact they might be hard to hide with abilities like that. Their positive contribution to society would have been noted and lauded. So just how did they fare? In an article entitled “The First Hundred Clears in Scientology. What went wrong?” published in Wordpress by Androvillans, one can find the results of some research based upon existing lists. Here are the great products of Scientology. The meaning of the term “Suppressive Person,” or “SP” has already been explained above, One would think that among the altruistic people taking Scientology courses such a dire finding would be extremely rare. But alas, hold on to your seat:
John McMaster, SHSBC Course Supervisor, deceased, DECLARED SP, FIRST CLEAR.
John Imburgia, Class VIII auditor, St. Hill, DC, first Buffalo mission, DECLARED SP, Clear #2.
Pam Pearcy, Ad Council, St. Hill. DECLARED SP, Clear #3.
Pat Scrufari, Niagara Falls, Clear #4, out, deceased 2010?.
Terry Milner, Deputy GO, US, “Snow White,“ deceased, DECLARED SP, Clear #5.
Anne Greig, St. Hill staff, deceased, Clear #6.
Reg Sharpe, LRH Assistant and personal friend, deceased, DECLARED SP, Clear #7.
Alan Walter, US, mission holder, (deceased) DECLARED SP, Clear #8.
Philip Quirino, LRH Comm, DECLARED SP, Clear #9.
Leon Steinberg, former Exec Council WW, class XII, DECLARED SP, Clear #10.
John McCoy, Saint Hill staff, still in, Clear #11.
Ray Thacker, Saint Hill staff, deceased, Clear #12.
Otis Halliday, US, deceased, Clear #13.
Ralph Pearcy, St. Hill staff, out of Scientology. Clear #14.
Jennifer Edmonds, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #15.
George Galpin, St. Hill staff, still in, (Deceased 2002) Clear #16.
J.J Delance, Technical Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #17.
Bernie Green, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #18.
Jim Crawley, UK, probably out, Clear #19.
Tony Dunleavy, Clearing Course Supervisor. DECLARED SP, Clear #20.
Gareth McCoy, Dissem Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #21.
Joan Thomas, St. Hill staff, deceased? Clear #22.
Julia Galpin, St, Hill staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #23.
Dalene Regenas, St. Hill, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, (Deceased) Clear #24.
Otto Roos, Ad Council. DECLARED SP, One of the original LRH trained Class XII. Clear #25.
Felice Green, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #26.
John Lawrence, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #28.
Connie Broadbent, Dir Accounts. DECLARED SP, Clear #29.
Craig Lipsitz, Qual Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #30.
Marilynn Routsong, HCO Staff, deceased. DECLARED SP, Clear #31.
Fred Hare, St. Hill staff, still in, Clear #32.
Ellen Carder, American, went to St. Hill for cancer treatment, sued Hubbard. DECLARED SP, Clear #33.
Peggy Bankston, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #34.
Brian Livingston, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #35.
Joan de Veulle, deceased, London staff, Clear #36.
Haskell Cooke, St. Hill, Gold, out, deceased, Clear #37.
Chris Weideman, South Africa, still in, Clear #38.
Virginia Downsborough, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #39.
Joe Van Staden, Treasury Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #40.
Sheena Fairchild, Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, deceased, Clear #41.
Myra Elliott, Hawaii staff, deceased? Clear #42.
Yvonne Gillham, St. Hill staff, deceased, Clear #43.
Pete Peterman, Hawaii staff, unknown, probably out, Clear #44.
Scott Leland, Class VIII, St. Hill Staff, original Sea Org project, suicide, DECLARED SP, Clear #45.
Helen Hancock, New Jersey, deceased? Clear #46.
Helen pollen, Qual Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #47.
John Elliott, Hawaii staff, still in, Clear #48.
Fred Fairchild, Tech Staff St. Hill, now in the US, still in? Clear #49.
Dorothy Knight, Dissem Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #50.
David Gaiman, UK, deceaced, Clear #51.
Peter Goodwin, Portsmouth, “Racket Exposed” Auditor 1968, DECLARED SP, Clear #52.
Anton James, St. Hill Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #53.
Jenny Parkhouse, St. Hill, Treasury Staff. Personal Friend of LRH. DECLARED SP, Clear #54.
Herbie Parkhouse, Org Exec Sec. DECLARED SP, (Deceased) Clear #55,
Judy Gray, St. Hill Tech Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #56.
Cal Wigney, St. Hill, Div 6 Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #57.
Mary Long, St. Hill, Div 6 Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #58.
Chester Halliday, US, deceased, Clear #59.
Hana Eltringham, (Whitfield) high-ranking SO member, DECLARED SP, Clear #60.
Bill Robertson, St. Hill Staff and LA. DECLARED SP, Clear #61.
Linda Nussbaum, Exec Staff. DECLARED SP, Clear #62.
Peter Imburgia, Buffalo, DECLARED SP, Clear #63.
Marie Oaks, LA staff, deceased, Clear #64.
Mildred Mathews, Sydney staff, deceased, Clear #65.
Marguerite Wirick, San Diego staff, Out of Scientology, Clear #66.
Joan Davis, St. Hill Staff, unknown, Clear #67.
Beth Fordyce, Detroit staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #68.
Ron Pook, St. Hill Interne, still in. Clear #69.
Wal Wilkinson, Adelaide staff, deceased, Clear #70.
Allan Ferguson, Detroit staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #71.
Hank Laarhuis, St. Hill Staff, Netherlands, Clear #72.
Robin Lindsell, Tech Staff. Class XII. DECLARED SP, Clear #73.
Claire Louwrens, Cape Town staff, still in, Clear #74.
Penny Khaled, St. Hill staff, still in? Clear #75.
Helen Whitney, St. Hill staff, deceased, Clear #76.
Vern Gale, Interning for DC, deceased, Clear #77.
Wally Collis, Aukland, NZ, still in, Clear #78.
Joy Walter, Dallas, Tx, out since 1982, Clear #79.
Margaret Gormley, South Africa, DECLARED SP, Clear #80.
David Ziff, St. Hill Staff, still in, Clear #81.
Dick Moor, London staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #82.
Leila Flanagan, Houston, TX, DECLARED SP, Clear #83.
Pat Flanagan, Houston, TX, DECLARED SP, Clear #84.
Betty Halliday, Houston, TX, still in, Clear #85.
Ray Kemp, St. Hill, CA, early LRH supporter, deceased, DECLARED SP, Clear #86.
Val Wigney, Saint Hill Intern. DECLARED SP, Clear #87.
Tom Koon, CA, out of Scientology, Clear #88.
Douglas Shrewsbury, Seattle? Status unknown, Clear #89.
Helen Kitchin, San Diego, unknown, Clear #90.
Peter Khaled, St. Hill staff, still in, Clear #91.
Ellen Arnold, London Staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #92.
Jim Watson, Hawaii, DECLARED SP, Clear #93.
Mark Jones, London staff, DECLARED SP, Clear #94.
Douglas Hancock, status unknown, Clear #95.
Mary Edwards, St. Hill, still in, Clear #96.
Norma Maier, Hawaii, deceased, Clear #97.
Linda Munk, Toronto, out of Scientology, Clear #98.
Bert Rossouw, St. Hill, out of Scientology, Clear #99.
Dave Hunter, St. Hill, still in, Clear #100.
So, out of the first hundred “Clears” an astonishing number of them, 52 (not 2.5 percent of the entire population of the world at random as originally claimed by Hubbard, but fully fifty percent of those attested and certified to have been “cleared” by Scientology psychotherapy, were vile enemies of humanity. So proclaimed the great and wise L. Ron Hubbard. Nor is there any record of extreme longevity in this group. Granted, these clears were made a good many years ago, yet the ones who have passed on were, if anything, on the younger side of mortality expectations. It also looks like these important people were bypassed by fame and fortune. There are no great captains of industry here, or great artists or thinkers or scientists of any sort. All in all, a pretty tame bunch considering what was expected of them.
To date, no one knows what ever happened to the woman who used the pseudonym Sonya Bianca. It appears that she was renamed as Ann Singer, obviously another pseudonym. She’d be in her 80s today if she’s still alive, which is doubtful. On her whereabouts, the Church of Scientology has always been mum.
To the failed promises of Dianetics, we can add the failed promises of Scientology, such as raising the IQ level of intelligence of a person after that person has gone through Dianetics and achieved the status of Thetan. To date, there is no verifiable documented proof of this claim in the hands of the scientific community such as the American Psychological Association, and the top brass of Scientology has never been forthcoming in providing such proof. Even more outlandish is the claim that once you can control everything using just the sheer power of your mind alone, there is really just one more thing to do, and that is become a god-like being that can create its own reality. Hubbard referred to the “godlike” being a person can become if that person comes up with the money to pay for the healing procedures he concocted, and it certainly requires a lot of money. A Hubbard book called Scientology 8-8008 discusses how to “postulate universes into existence”, and promises that “a Thetan who is completely rehabilitated can… create his own universe; a person who is able to create his own universe… is able to create illusions perceivable by others”. In effect, L. Ron Hubbard promised to turn human beings into gods, he himself believing he was some kind of super-god.
Likewise, in spite of touting his salvation techniques as providing “freedom from insanity”, Hubbard was never able to free himself from his delusions of grandeur, his fixation with abortions, his truly bizarre belief that he was haunted by a swarm of confused unconscious or semi-conscious entities (burnt-out human souls), his persecutory delusion that forced him into hiding living in seclusion the last years of his life, and his compulsion to rule one way or the other above the rest of mankind, same compulsion we find in the Donald Trump now seeking the US presidency.
In a report published by The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle in April 24, 1951, under the heading “Ron Hubbard Insane”, Sara, Hubbard’s second wife, said that the doctors had told her that her 40 year old husband was suffering from a mental illness known as paranoid schizophrenia, and indeed he ended up becoming paranoid to the extent of turning his followers and converts into a vast network of obedient spies and informants. Secretive as he was until the last days of his life, he absolutely denied anyone to have any secrets from him, keeping tabs on his followers via the confessions privately obtained from them by squads of auditors with the help of a crude lie detector called the E-meter.
After the falldown of L. Ron Hubbard when he got into problems with the federal government, and as he approached the end of his life, his third wife Mary Sue took the blame for his overts (yep, more Hubbard Jargon, an English word redefined by Hubbard to mean “an intentionally committed harmful act committed in an effort to resolve a problem”) landing in jail in order to save the skin of her hubby (it might be added that she ended up as insane as Leona Helmsley, inheriting her $2.5 million residence to her dog), while he spent his last days living in a luxurious property he hid very well from his customers avoiding to mention it in his comuniqué “What your donations buy”, a piece of real estate located at Gilman hot springs, where the Gold Base of Scientology in currently located and where Hubbard himself “causatively decided to discard his body” (suicide?).
The present day followers of L. Ron Hubbard in the science-fiction religion called Scientology have not fared any better. John Travolta was not able to save the life of his own son Jett in spite of Travolta always being a faithful adherent and true believer of all the healing promises made by the cult invented by Hubbard, and Tom Cruise was unable to save his marriage with Katie Holmes which was broken up because of Scientology meddling into their private lives. And the inheritor of the Hubbartian legacy, David Miscavige, was unable to avoid the rift between him and his father, a rift not unlike the one that took place between Hubbard and his son Ronald DeWolf. Evil begets evil, insanity begets insanity.
There is little doubt that Donald Trump is a pathological liar, a fact that for some strange reasons his millions of followers have failed to notice. He lied for many years with his statement that president Obama had not been born in the USA thereby launching the birther conspiracy, and lied again by accusing Hillary Clinton of having invented such a lie. He also lied when he swore he had seen a video in which thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks. He lied when he claimed that he never gave his approval of the US invasion of Iraq before the invasion. He lies even more when he asserts that global warming is a hoax. Based upon a careful analysis of his public statements and behavior, there is a growing number of psychologists that are becoming convinced that Donald Trump fits all the criteria used to classify a pathological liar.
The above is not much different from the following statement made by Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr in the case Church of Scientology of California versus Gerry Armstrong, June 1984:
In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil-rights, the organization over the years with its “Fair Game” doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. He has been referred to during this trial as a “genius”, a “revered person”, a man who was “viewed by his followers with awe”. Obviously, he is and has been a very complex person, and that complexity is further reflected in his alter ego, the Church of Scientology.
With both Donald Trump and L. Ron Hubbard accused of being pathological liars, it must be remarked that they never acknowledged a single lie coming from them, and as a matter of fact Hubbard who made many affirmations in his lifetime went on to say in 1983 “I have never lied to you or conned you”, same claim instilled repeatedly by Donald Trump upon his followers.
Columnist James Kirchik shares my points of view on this topic in his article “Donald J. Trump Is the L. Ron Hubbard of Politics”, and from him we quote the following:
Consider: both men are (or, in Hubbard’s case, were) narcissistic, autocratic, money-obsessed, pathological liars and would-be sexual conquerors who built business empires for the primary purpose of self-enrichment under glitz-drenched brands maintained by fraud and advanced by uncompromising litigiousness and occasional physical aggression against critics.
Hubbard died in 1986, though perhaps only corporeally. He claimed he was Cecil Rhodes in a previous life and today may be inhabiting the soul of Donald Trump for all we know; at the least the two men bear some resemblance.
Both are defined by compulsive acquisitiveness. “MAKE MONEY. MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY,” Hubbard wrote to underlings in an early Scientology “Governing Policy” document. “MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY.”
Trump’s complaints of being unfairly audited by the IRS echo Scientology’s decades-long battle with the taxman; Hubbard was himself named an unindicted co-conspirator to a covert, 1973 Scientology operation dubbed “Snow White” aimed at infiltrating the agency.
Hubbard was also one of the great frauds of the 20th century. A man who lied about nearly every aspect of his biography and repeatedly bragged about imaginary feats of daring and physical bravery, his breathless, downright Trumpian testaments to his own genius and courage were mere preparation for the greatest lie of them all: that he had unlocked the secrets of the human mind in the form of “Dianetics,” the pseudoscience at the heart of Scientology. Hubbard used to claim that “auditing,” a process in which one holds onto electrically charged metal cans and talks about past life experiences, could raise people’s I.Q. by one point per hour.
Much as Trump surrounds himself with sycophants and media supplicants, Scientologists venerate Hubbard as a sort of man-god; his portrait, which followers salute while shouting “hip hip hooray,” is ubiquitous in Church establishments.
One distinction: Whereas Trump’s a talker, Hubbard was a writer, one who started out as a pulp fiction novelist and churned out hundreds of works of science fiction, crime potboilers, and sham sociology and religious texts over the course of his long career. For both men, the overflow of words is a function of an insatiable appetite for money, power, and acclaim.
Trump also resembles Hubbard as a self-help guru who mostly helps himself. Like all religions, Scientology promises its followers spiritual illumination, the apex of which is the revelation that, 75 million years ago, a galactic warlord named Xenu (the Scientology version of Satan) planted the bodies of billions of aliens around the Earth’s volcanoes and detonated them with hydrogen bombs. The immortal spirits of these beings now adhere to humans in the form of “Thetans” that one can only release with the help of Scientology teachings.
Trump’s Art of the Deal is to Trumpism what Hubbard’s Dianetics is to Scientology: a load of bullshit pretending to teach you how to fix yourself, just replacing the new-age homilies with odes to avarice.
Most ominous is the connection between the two men’s misogyny, racism, authoritarianism and the physical violence encouraged by their organizations.
“A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out,” the (like Trump) thrice-married Hubbard wrote in his Scientology: A New Slant on Life.
For several months in 1966, inspired by his belief that he was the reincarnation of imperialist Cecil Rhodes, Hubbard traipsed around Rhodes’s eponymous, white-ruled country, posing as a “millionaire financier.” Hubbard was also an admirer of the apartheid government in neighboring South Africa, and his writings from the time are full of racist ramblings. The following observation characteristic of the whole ignoble oeuvre: “The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe.”
Trump, like Hubbard, brooks no dissent within his organization, or of it.
“If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Peace is bought with an exchange of advantage, so make the advantage and then settle. Don’t ever defend. Always attack. Don’t ever do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy’s front ranks work best.”
That’s Hubbard, articulating a callous philosophy the two men share. Scientology for decades operated under his ruthless “Fair Game” doctrine, which declared that church critics “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
Trump’s Manichean worldview, in which everyone who criticizes him is an evil “loser” and everyone who praises him is a “terrific” “winner,” calls to mind Hubbard’s personal vindictiveness towards Scientology’s detractors, whom he labeled “suppressive persons.”
But the greatest similarity between these two egotistical, vamping monsters is that they have both tried to perpetrate a giant scam. With any hope, the American people will laugh away Donald Trump’s nightmare vision of the world as soundly—and with as much humor—as they have the science fiction space opera spewed by Scientology’s “Bare-Faced Messiah.”
And what about the bottom line, that enclave of bookkeepers, accountants and comptrollers who tally daily the end purpose of all human economic activities? In the final analysis, this has always been the only true incentive and motivation behind Donald Trump and all those like him, this is what makes him tick. Or as they say, they’re in it for the money. In this respect, L. Ron Hubbard was no different from Donald Trump. If Dianetics had started out as a church, the Church of Dianetics, instead of starting as the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, it could have avoided paying taxes, and none of its income would have gone to government (this made Hubbard very very angry), perhaps avoiding the bankruptcy of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. Learning this lesson well, in order to keep all of its income to himself and avoid paying taxes, Scientology was deliberately started out as a church, the Church of Scientology, thus claiming a tax-exempt status under the law, quite a feat considering that there is no kind of praying practise inside Scientology and there is no object of worship whatsoever except the dogmas emanating from the founder himself, thus providing quite an income, a tax-free income. (In Scientology, costs can vary considerably depending upon the needs for "spiritual enlightenment" of each individual, but a rough estimate suggests that each customer will be paying $128,000 to be classified as Clear, another $33,000 to reach OT 3, and an additional $100,000 to $130,000 to reach OT 8. The typical expenditure for the whole clearing procedure going all the way to the OT 9 readiness level has been estimated by some to be at $365,000 - $380,000, but this could go even higher, as high as half a million to one million dollars or so.) Besides the Church of Scientology proclaiming itself to be non-denominational (all those with money to spare are welcome regardless of their religious faith), in order to increase the customer base (keep in mind that the whole purpose of any business is maximizing profits) it was considered highly desirable to pull in as many Christians and Catholics it could into its rank and file, especially the wealthy ones, for which purpose Hubbard ordered the adoption of a cross as the symbol for which the Church of Scientology is well known to this date, though newcomers quickly learn that the Scientology cross catering to the whims and needs of the rich and famous has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian cross that symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth who made helping the poor and the destitute his top priority. This goes to say that in the face of Mammon nothing remains truly sacred or worthy of respect if the goal is to maximize profits. Kinda reminds us of the “non profit” Trump Foundation and the Trump University. Not surprisingly, and following the footsteps of the saviour of Mankind L. Ron Hubbard, time and again the pretended saviour of the USA Donald Trump has avoided paying a single cent of federal taxes by means of legal loopholes (he may not have paid a single cent in taxes for at least 18 years in a row according to a report published by the New York Times), which is precisely the reason he has been unwilling to release his tax returns to the same general public he is asking to land him in the presidency, hiding this data even from his own supporters. Or, as Hillary Clinton said on the presidential debate held Monday September 26: “All of you watching tonight, to know that he’s paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody’s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax”, to which the cynical tycoon replied “That mean’s I’m smart”, but Clinton continued saying “it means that Trump paid zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health”. And where does Trump as president plan to get all the money needed to fund his promises for better schools, better health care, better care for vets, if wealthy tycoons such as Trump himself boast of being smart enough to avoid paying their fair share of taxes thanks to the legal loopholes the US Congress has allowed into the system for the benefit of people like the Messiah Donald Trump? This, in the final analysis, is the bottom line.
With the arrival of Donald Trump into politics, we see a crisp example of history repeating itself. Man seems to be very bad at learning those hard won lessons from the past. There is, however, one very big difference between Donald Trump and L. Ron Hubbard. Trump has his eye on getting hold of the briefcase that contains the nuclear codes, the symbol of the epitome of power and authority, which Hubbard (luckily) never had. And Trump has made it clear that he will not refrain from using the nuclear warheads if need be. Provided of course that the US electorate hand him over the presidency coming November 8th when the entire future of mankind may very well be hanging on the balance. And this is precisely what will be at stake one month from now.
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