Thinking of leaving Scientology? Jefferson Hawkins has your roadmap Tony Ortega

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TONY ORTEGA
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Seven years ago, we published this excerpt from Jefferson Hawkins’s 2012 book, Leaving Scientology. As part of our Saturday bonus story series, we’re reprinting this piece to remember Jefferson, who we lost this week.


Seven Things We Are Not Supposed to Remember

George Orwell, in his novel 1984, commented on the tendency of authoritarian regimes to revise history.

“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.

As a member of the Church of Scientology, it is helpful to have selective memory loss. There are certain things we are not supposed to remember. And in case you’ve forgotten the things you are supposed to forget, here are some of the key ones:


1. The 1986 LRH Memorial Event
We are not supposed to remember this event, or, as I mentioned in a previous chapter, the fact that it was announced that LRH had passed the torch to a couple named Pat and Annie Broeker. There was an issue about this time, supposedly signed by LRH, granting Pat and Annie the rank of Loyal Officers. No mention was made of David Miscavige.

Yet within about a year, Pat Broeker had mysteriously disappeared, and David Miscavige was in charge. What happened to Pat and Annie Broeker? We are supposed to forget that they ever existed (Pat is apparently still alive, and still under Church surveillance, even after 25 years. Annie was kept as a virtual prisoner at the Int Base up until her death in 2011).

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Thinking of leaving Scientology? Jefferson Hawkins has your roadmap

Seven years ago, we published this excerpt from Jefferson Hawkins’s 2012 book, Leaving Scientology. As part of our Saturday bonus story series, we’re reprinting this piece to remember Jefferson, who we lost this week.

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[I M Dex]

I'd sure love to see Pat Broeker emerge and clear the air and speak to all that he was part of and experienced. Perhaps he's nearing the point where he doesn't care anymore about the threat from Miscavige..

 

[Type4_PTS]

I'd sure love to see Pat Broeker emerge and clear the air and speak to all that he was part of and experienced. Perhaps he's nearing the point where he doesn't care anymore about the threat from Miscavige..

It's possible the threat from Miscavige isn't the only reason he's silent. He could also be getting paid to STFU.

I have zero evidence to suggest that he is. But I do know that some others who have left the INT base did get paid in exchange for their silence.

If Miscavige believed it was important enough to pay PIs for decades for surveillance of Pat Broeker, maybe he would additionally pay Broeker as well if he felt that would increase the chances of keeping him silent.

 

[I M Dex]

It's possible the threat from Miscavige isn't the only reason he's silent. He could also be getting paid to STFU.

I have zero evidence to suggest that he is. But I do know that some others who have left the INT base did get paid in exchange for their silence.

If Miscavige believed it was important enough to pay PIs for decades for surveillance of Pat Broeker, maybe he would additionally pay Broeker as well if he felt that would increase the chances of keeping him silent.

I actually thought of that as part of the threat, that he was paid off, and part of that was a non-disclosure agreement, which has been used to maintain a legal and financial threat against speaking.

 

[Type4_PTS]

I actually thought of that as part of the threat, that he was paid off, and part of that was a non-disclosure agreement, which has been used to maintain a legal and financial threat against speaking.

It could be like that, or he could be getting regular payments, and if he wants to continue getting them, he needs to keep quiet.