ASHO strikes again
You would think everything would be hunky-dory with ASHO now, right? Wrong! Two months later, ASHO MAA Arthur Milford walks into my shop (I was managing Georgettes General Store across the street from the "Big Blue" complex of Churches of Scientology) and hands me an envelope. He had ordered an Ethics Hearing on me (click to view what the paper he handed me).
As best I knew, I was not in any ethics trouble at this time and marched over to the AOLA LRH Host's office. And who do you know was sitting in that office... Chase Wilson. Chase had earlier threatened me with the alleged WISE West US Ethics Order mentioned in Arthur Milford's Ethics Hearing announcement, but Chase Wilson had figured out what was wrong with it and supposedly never actually "issued" it (meaning it wasn't made official or distributed). So why would ASHO have a copy of it and was "using it to attack me" again? Chase tried to tell me he had cancelled the order before issuing it. The LRH Host ordered him to correct/handle the matter. Within one hour I had in my hand an apology/correction from Chase Wilson (click here to see Chase's immediate correction for ASHO and the followup correction he wrote a month later). You'll hear more about Chase Wilson's role in the alleged-but-not-officially-issued WISE WUS Ethics Order in the next story.
The LRH Host said she would take care of the ASHO Ethics Hearing order, and I never heard about this again. I never went back to ASHO, either.
Los Angeles Org withholds auditing for 4 months
In late 2000, I signed up for some auditing at Los Angeles Day Org. I was given the run-around for four months without any auditing sessions. (I'd paid them $12,000.00!) I tried to figure out what the delay was. The D of P suggested I write to the C/S; he remarked about some "pain" I had mentioned. I never mentioned any pain, unless it was "mental pain" (anguish). He suggested I write up what I did know to the C/S, and so I did. The C/S Annie Palmer read what I wrote, and wrote a Knowledge Report on me for what I wrote. Disgusting!
After the four months had gone by with still an impasse, I finally said (or wrote) to them that if they weren't going to accept me for processing/auditing, that they might as well give me back my money since such "fixed fee donations" (as my $12,000 was termed) was accepted conditionally upon acceptance by the HGC (HGC=Hubbard Guidance Center, that section of a Church of Scientology which does the counselling/auditing).
I was in session the very next day. Amazing!
And I never discovered what the hold-up was about.
Los Angeles Org's C/S requests harsh ethics but continues to have me audited
In December 2001, my then husband Bernard (Bernie) Littman had his over 10-year-long "illegal pc" status overturned by LA Org C/S Annie Palmer. He was thrilled to no end and shouted from the roof-tops about it. He posted his announcement to iTheta and a week later added some more information along with a notation that if anyone else wanted their illegal pc status looked at, they should contact LA Day Tours Reg, Steve Drabin.
Oh, did we all get in trouble for that! I guess no good news goes unpunished. Steve Drabin was pulled in and talked to. He came over to our house and together we drafted a "retraction" per his orders from someone at LA Org. On January 25, 2002 the clarification went out. (Click here to read the Bernie emails and the 'clarification' from Steve Drabin.) We never heard anything more about this, and thought everything was cool. But we were wrong.
That spring, I was doing auditing at LA Org. My C/S was Annie Palmer. I didn't think any more about the long ago incident.
Later in the fall, I was working with the LA Org Ethics Officer on something. She pulled out a paper she wanted to show me. She used another paper to cover up some of this "letter" she was showing me, but accidentally didn't cover enough of it. I read a paragraph and was stunned. Someone was requesting that I, my husband Bernard Littman, and staff member Steve Drabin get a Committee of Evidence (a very harsh and serious justice action in the Church of Scientology). I demanded to know who wrote this, since the Ethics Officer had accidentally shown me too much (she was attempting to show me something else in the letter). It was Annie Palmer. And the date of the letter was back in the springtime. I asked the Ethics Officer what came of it, and she said that she didn't think it necessary to do a Comm Ev and so nothing came of Annie Palmer's requests.
But what about the date? The date was the same time I was getting auditing in the LA Org HGC under C/S Annie Palmer's guidance. C/Ses are supposed to send their pc's to Ethics if they think something is out-ethics. Why would she write such a request to the Ethics Officer without routing me to Ethics? Why continue the auditing? This is a serious breach of Scientology "Standard Technology".
I was baffled but filed this incident in my mind under "bizarre behavior, avoid Annie Palmer in the future". (Especially considering the earlier incident with her.) Annie Palmer later showed up in Tampa Florida on staff while I was going there. I made sure I didn't get any auditing there while she was on staff.
Summary
With bizarre applications of L. Ron Hubbard technology including messing up cases and harsh justice penalties for non-out-ethics, you can wonder why I stuck around. I wonder that, too, sometimes. But if you think the above stories of injustice are harsh, wait for this next one!
