Darwin:
Here is my latest effort.
I am incredibly weary. Today my children took it upon themselves to
compose their own messages to IJC. It was all on their own
originations. Even dear, sweet Paige asked her Mom to write down
what she dictated so she could send a letter to IJC, too, and
explain all this to him.
I couldn't read it. I took another walk, this time through the woods
near our house, and I fear I sat against a giant, ancient tree and
wept for some time.
Randy
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CJC EUS 16 June 1996
Jon Randall McDonald
cc: IJC
Re: Suppressive Person Declare, FCO 12212
Ref: HCO PL 23 December 1965RB,
"SUPPRESSIVE ACTS
SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND
SCIENTOLOGISTS"
HCO PL 7 September AD13,
"COMMITTEES OF EVIDENCE, SCIENTOLOGY
JURISPRUDENCE, ADMINISTRATION OF"
Booklet:
"TAX COMPLIANCE MANUAL," p. 9
"Specifically, orgs and missions must not be
guilty of anything illegal..."
Booklet:
"THE CORPORATIONS OF SCIENTOLOGY," p. 24:
"The articles of incorporation legally bind the
organization to abide by the Scientology
scriptures."
Booklet:
"DESCRIPTION OF THE SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION," p. 2:
"L. Ron Hubbard is the only source of
Scientology Scripture."
Dear Sir or Madam:
Pursuant to and in strict accordance with the above referenced
Policy Letters (Scientology Scripture), I am writing to claim that
the Suppressive Person Declare which was written on me (also
referenced above) is false, and to request a Committee of Evidence
for recourse and for redress of wrongs. Also in strict accordance
with policy, and with the Articles of Incorporation, and based on
the official booklets quoted above, you are legally bound to grant
this request, to grant it swiftly, to convene it as an HCO Area
Committee of Evidence, to see that it completes its job within seven
days, and to publish its findings and recommendations exactly
according to HCO PL 7 September AD13, "COMMITTEES OF EVIDENCE,
SCIENTOLOGY JURISPRUDENCE, ADMINISTRATION OF."
In specific, let me address each relevant part of the Policy Letters
(Scientology Scripture):
"...(A) person or group may be falsely labeled a Suppressive Person
or Group."
I assert that this is the case: that I have been falsely
labeled, and that, given any fair hearing before an impartial
body, I can prove beyond any doubt that I have been falsely
labeled.
"Should the person or group claim the label to be false..."
I do so hereby emphatically claim the label to be false.
"...he, she or they may request a Committee of Evidence via their
nearest Continental Justice Chief."
I do so hereby request a Committee of Evidence. You are my
nearest Continental Justice Chief, so this is going via you. I
also completed my last service at CC Nashville, and so am a
parishioner on CC Nashville's lines, and so am properly within
your jurisdiction per HCO PL 7 September AD13, "COMMITTEES OF
EVIDENCE, SCIENTOLOGY JURISPRUDENCE, ADMINISTRATION OF."
"The executive with the power to convene a Committee of Evidence
must do so if one is requested for recourse or redress of wrongs."
I do so hereby request the Committee of Evidence for
recourse and for redress of wrongs. Per the Policy (Scientology
Scripture), as quoted above, this request must be granted based
on this request alone. No other qualifications or conditions can
be imposed, and to impose any other condition is to introduce an
arbitrary and to therefore be in violation of the Scripture, and
to therefore be in violation of the Articles of Incorporation
and the law. To quote the policy again, for clarity:
"The executive with the power to convene a Committee of
Evidence must do so if one is requested for recourse or
redress of wrongs."
L. RON HUBBARD
Per HCO PL 7 September AD13, "COMMITTEES OF EVIDENCE, SCIENTOLOGY
JURISPRUDENCE, ADMINISTRATION OF," this requested Committee of
Evidence is fully within the purview and authority of you, as CJC
EUS, and CC Nashville:
"HCO AREA COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE
"The Convening Authority is the HCO Executive or Area
Secretary in the sphere of a specific central organization
or city office. It handles any matters referred to it by its
convening authority. These may include all matters relating
to the suspension or cancellation of certificates... . It
also handles ALL disputes with field auditors, students,
preclears, and members of the public." (Emphasis added)
L. RON HUBBARD
Per these policies, the Committee of Evidence is to be convened in
Nashville at Celebrity Centre where I was most recently a student,
and where I am a member of the public. That is in accordance with
these policies. It is also necessary because:
a) I live here. I am within the jurisdiction of EUS.
b) I am a parishioner on CC Nashville's lines.
c) My livelihood and the livelihood of my family (wife and four
children)depend utterly and exclusively on my income. And my income
depends utterly and exclusively on my being here on a daily basis,
since I freelance and am on-call constantly for my clients. I am
right now under intense deadline on several very large projects that
span several months, and that require my regular, frequent
interaction with the clients and agencies who have contracted me to
do the work. Since I was contracted based on my unique designs and
particular talents (winning these contracts over other designers),
it is specifically my personal talents and abilities that are being
paid for. My business is called "Randy McDonald Creative Services."
I do not have staff to delegate my creative work to; that's not what
a freelance designer does. Therefore I do not have the luxury of
taking even several days away from my work. When I did it last year
to attend a Comm Ev in L.A., I lost work that was vital to me, and
as a result I am still, at this very writing, trying to make up lost
ground. I am in a very competitive business and time-intensive
business, and though I have established myself well with several of
the agencies and larger firms in this area, there are plenty of
other designers vying for my business. To not be available when
needed on deadlines is the kiss of death for my profession. The
projects that I am right now contracted for and heavily working on
demand my presence. If I am not here to make client changes, to art
direct photography, to produce and deliver layouts on the schedules
I have already committed to, it will effectively destroy my
professional reputation with these clients and agencies and would
lay me open to suit.
d) Therefore any period of time away from my work would be
disastrous to my established trade and income and to the survival of
my family.
e) There is no reason whatsoever to convene the Committee of
Evidence anywhere else; any such requirement would constitute the
introduction of an arbitrary IN VIOLATION OF THE SCIENTOLOGY
SCRIPTURE AND IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW, a very destructive arbitrary
which would place an unnecessary and overwhelming burden on me and
my family, and would render the realization of actual recourse and
justice in this matter impossible for me to attain.
f) The executives and staff at CC Nashville are fully competent
to apply Scientology Justice policies and to conduct a Committee of
Evidence standardly and on-policy.
g) Per the policy referenced at the top of this request: "It is
wise for any Scientologist, HCO Secretary or Committee of Evidence
in matters concerning Suppressive Acts to obtain valid documents,
letters, testimonies duly signed and witnessed, affidavits duly
sworn to and other matters and evidences which would have weight in
a court of law. Momentary spite, slander suits, charges of
Scientology separating families, etc, are then guarded against." If
this policy is going to be applied fairly, justly, and correctly,
then any evidence that anyone claims to have against me can be
delivered to the Committee in the forms specified above.
For the many reasons stated above, all exactly in accordance with
Policy (Scientology Scripture), I request that the Committee of
Evidence be convened and held at CC Nashville.
It is my belief, based on events of the last several months, that
there will be an effort from some quarter to force me to go to L.A.
if I want a Committee of Evidence. I say this based on the fact that
Kurt Weiland, D/CO of OSA Int, has made repeated efforts in recent
weeks to get me to "come to L.A. and talk face-to-face" (traffic on
file). As this kind of "handling" (for standard reports I have
written) is nowhere in Policy, and as it would have placed an
impossible burden on me and on my family--logistically, financially,
and professionally--I steadfastly declined his invitations to "come
to L.A.," despite the fact that part of the duress placed on me to
do so was the threat of being declared if I didn't (also on file).
Since this threat has now been made good, it would surprise me if
there were not, now, an arbitrary entered in: that the only place I
can get a Committee of Evidence is in L.A. This, of course, would be
an arbitrary and nothing but, as a reading of policies on Committees
of Evidence will reveal. There simply is no supportable reason why I
should be uprooted from my home, my job, my family, and forced to
travel 2,000 miles, and to stay away from my work and livelihood for
an indeterminate amount of time, in order to face a Committee of
Evidence and deal with any actual evidence against me--if there is
any.
The tired old trick of saying it will have to be in L.A. for
"security reasons" may be trotted out--without, of course, providing
any substantive basis for why "security" should be a consideration.
Well, I sure don't have anything to hide. Does somebody else? If
not, then the Committee of Evidence will be convened in Nashville,
where it makes sense to have it, and where Justice can surely and
without question be accomplished.
As part of this request for recourse and redress of wrongs, I would
like to state that the Declare is composed exclusively of
generalities, half-truths, and utter, fabricated falsehoods. It is
slander of the most heinous and despicable sort. It makes the
National Enquirer look like a model of truth-in-print. It is,
itself, a sick mockery of HCO PL 2 June 1965, "WRITING OF AN ETHICS
ORDER." Therefore it is already a violation of Policy (Scientology
Scripture), and so is, itself a violation of the Articles of
Incorporation and of the law. Examples:
1) "He (McDonald) went so far as to publically support
infiltrators and attackers of the Church."--Not one specific is
given, because this is a bald-faced lie that cannot be supported.
2) "Not surprisingly, he has complained that he makes no case
gain."--Another completely fabricated lie. My files are full of rave
success stories about the amazing, untold, miraculous wins I have
had from Life Repair, ARC Straightwire, Objectives, Full Drug
Rundown, Standard Dianetics, The Primary Rundown, M-1 Word Clearing,
The Purification Rundown, ALL Expanded Grades, attesting to Clear,
the HQS, Admin and Ethics courses and hats...on and on. I owe my
very existence to LRH and to his miraculous technology; I have never
uttered one word to the contrary, and have never experienced
anything short of miracles from any Dianetics or Scientology.
Whoever says otherwise is a black-souled liar, and I pray for the
opportunity to tell them that to their face.
3) "Instead he chose to blow from the Sea Org, along with his
wife."--Yet another complete lie. A 1987 Committee of Evidence at CC
Int verified that we didn't blow. We were Fitness Boarded out of the
Sea Org.
It would be easy to go on, point-by-point, but that is the job of
the Committee. I include these examples merely to show to what
lengths someone has gone to try and paint me in the worst possible
light, without regard to truth--a clear violation of Policy
(Scientology Scripture), and therefore of the Articles of
Incorporation, and therefore of the law.
Therefore I write this request so that you have an opportunity to
get these unfounded and unconscionable accusations against me
examined immediately by an impartial body and and get the truth
published and undo this heinous breech of the Scripture.
I therefore urgently recommend that the Committee, in accordance
with policy, be convened swiftly, and, also per policy, that it
complete its investigation within the proscribed seven days. The
false and slanderous allegations made against me in this Declare
have already had serious repercussions on my family and on my
profession, and these can only become compounded the longer this
gross injustice is allowed to stand uncorrected.
Finally, I demand that HCO PL 23 December 1965RB, "SUPPRESSIVE ACTS,
SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND, SCIENTOLOGISTS," as Scripture, be
applied correctly. Part of that includes the following:
"Also, until a suppressive person or group is absolved, BUT NOT
DURING THE PERIOD WHEN THE PERSON REQUESTS AND HAS A COMMITTEE OF
EVIDENCE, or an amnesty occurs, no Scientology ethics other then
this HCO Policy Letter applies to such persons...." (Emphasis added)
L. RON HUBBARD
This has already been violated in efforts to cut off my lines for
submitting reports, forbidding me to communicate with others
(necessary in order that I might gather data about the false reports
and slander that have been widely circulated about me), forbidding
others to communicate with me, etc., ALL since my original request
for this Committee (dated 12 June) was submitted and received by
IJC. I demand that these illegal orders to others and to myself be
cancelled immediately, and that you operate in accordance with this
Policy (Scientology Scripture) as you are BOUND to do by the
Articles of Incorporation and the law. I assert that this means that
the entire body of Scripture regarding ethics is fully in force in
relation to me during the period from now until the Committee of
Evidence has been properly convened, has finished its job within the
proscribed seven days, and has had its findings and recommendations
actually published. ANY effort to deny me the recourse and freedom
guaranteed by the entire body of those policies (Scientology
Scripture) will be documented as evidence of willful violation of
these relevant scriptures, violations of the Articles of
Incorporation, and violation of corporate and criminal law.
As this matter is of the utmost concern to me and to you, I am
FAXing this for speed. I would appreciate it if you could
acknowledge receipt of this letter by return FAX. My FAX number is:
(615) 367-3896. To send a FAX to that number, it is not necessary to
listen on a handset for a FAX tone; simply dial the number and start
transmission.
Thank you for your swift attention to this request. I am confident
that policy (Scientology Scripture) will be followed, and therefore
that this request, as it must, will be quickly granted.
Sincerely,
Jon Randall McDonald
P.S.--Please note that my original request for a Committee of
Evidence was incorrectly dated "12 May 1996" instead of 12 June
1996, which is actually the correct date. This has been corrected on
all copies here and elsewhere. Please correct any copies you know to
exist. Thank you.