OSA Network Order 17 

      :            OFFICE OF SPECIAL AFFAIRS NETWORK ORDER
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: OSA NW ORDER 17                                17 February 1988
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: IMEC
: OSA NW
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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 naturally the cult has to reissue many as OSA NW Orders. Simple, really. Keep the "tech". Just rename 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, rename the GO the "Office of Special Affairs". It's semantics, that's all -- an "acceptable" truth.

        The later 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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: [Hubbard suggests that governments can be "plotted" on the Tone Scale in the same way as individuals
: are "plotted." .


        The "tone scale" refers to the Scientology 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 ... 

      : [Hubbard says that, by doing so, one finds that all governments are "insane."


        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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: [Hubbard describes how "official acts" cause governments to act in a warlike or insane manner,
: comparing them to "personal acts."


        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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: [Sounding almost Libertarian, Hubbard defines a "public official" as someone not responsible 
: for his actions, akin to an "insane" person, and concludes that the result is "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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:                                      L. RON HUBBARD
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: 				     Adopted as official
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: 				     CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
: 				     INTERNATIONAL


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

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: LRH:CSI:jk:ta:


        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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: Unpublished work: Copyright (c) 1988
: by L. Ron Hubbard Library
: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


        Copyright law changed in the 1980s such that copyrights are now held in perpetuity. Before that time, I believe copyrights were valid for 20 years. If this is the case, the copyright on this work may have expired and this material is now in the public domain. Editor's Note - Unfortunately not, at least as threats from the Church of Scientology, Inc. against these pages would lead one to believe.

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