HAROLD'S JOURNAL
Whoa, now! Maybe it's time for us backwater Cowboys and Indians to slow
down our wagons and ponies a bit, before we git stampeded into thunderation
by a bunch of slick talkin' riverboat shysters toutin' some new fangled
snake oil cure for the fire-water frazzles.
Like olden days when Dr. Malingerer visited the town with his wagon of
"tonic" guaranteed to cure everything from gout to the vapors in man or
beast, we're about to be hoodwinked by another bunch of bamboozelers.
We need to wake up quick and smell the horse apples. This Narconon
®
outfit
appears to be a front for the Church of Scientology
®
and it's founder L. Ron
Hubbard. It looks right like a religious cult... a religious con that makes
TV preachers look like choir boys.
Hubbard's Wagon seems to be filled with bottles of hocus-pocus, engrams,
E-meters and other imaginary whoo-ha designed to dazzle the desperate and
free from their wretched bodies not only their "Thetans", but also their
bucks.
That this pseudo-theological mumbo-jumbo not only exists, but is actually
growing is a credit to Mr. Hubbard's ability as a convincing science
fiction writer.
Conanon..., I mean Narconon is settin' up shop at Chilocco with some
"generous" assistance from a philanthropic outfit called the Association
for Better Living & Education (ABLE
®) which says
it has been impressed with
Narconon's worldwide record. Just like it was a separate outfit looking for
a good cause. And the Naronon guy profusely thanks the ABLE lady for the
"donation" that will insure the success of the Chilocco project! How
wonderful it all is. The melodrama is tearjerking.
ABLE and the Narconon International Association share the same building in
Los Angeles. In fact. they share the same floor of the same building. In
fact, they share the exact same office suite of the same floor of the same
building. Why did they bother to come here to "donate" the money from their
left hand to their right? Unless it was a hokum-pokum show for us dummies
out here in the gulch!
They ain't selling snake oil, tax free cigarettes, or nickel bingo. What
they're selling is hope, vitamin pills and steam baths. Packaged in
blarney. Their own propaganda says their treatments "cannot be construed as
a recommendation of medical treatment or medication and it is undertaken or
delivered by anyone on his own responsibility." In other words, if it don't
work, tough cookies.
Narconon says it has an 86 percent cure rate, but a West Berlin study
showed the rate to be about 10 percent. Of course, if the first two weeks
of the basic program don't work - and they probably won't - there are many
more courses available that might. Nineteen volumes of them, in fact. All
part of the "unique technology" of Mr. Hubbard. How much money can Narconon
rake out of Indian Health Care funds that could otherwise be used for
legitimate medical expenses?
Information we have read suggests that dependency upon drugs is simply
replaced with dependency upon Scientology. A sociology professor in
California has warned us that similar establishments have been used by this
group in the past as warehouses for dissident members. The isolation is
ideal. The lack of outside scrutiny is perfect. The potential is
frightening beyond anything we have dealt with before.
These mental messiahs with forked tongues are treading on our Indian
neighbors' hopes of economic and social development. What they really want
is the isolation of Indian land, exempt from state and local law
enforcement jurisdiction. And in the deal, they'll get a ready made crop of
Indian "patients." With Indian Health Care picking up the tab for nearly
all of them while they get "processed" down the path of "enlightenment."
And beyond the swindle of Indian health care funds, how many patients will
actually wind up believing they are "Super Thetans" capable of taking
intergalactic voyages by leaving their bodies behind? How many people will
forgo medical care while trying to "erase" the "engrams" that are causing
their heart trouble? How many will die? It only takes a few more courses to
get there. And money, of course.
How many of our sons and daughters will wind up working as Scientology
missionaries or Narconon staffers in order to pay for their unending array
of enlightening courses?
In return, Narconon is offering a measly $3.2 million per tribe for a 25
year lease on misery. Our Indian neighbors have again been let down by the
"agencies" designed to help and protect all of us from shysters and
swindlers. Especially the Oklahoma Health Planning Commission, which must
have had it's head plugged into an E-meter not to discover the true nature
of this malignity. Surely information so readily available in the Newkirk
Public Library is available in Oklahoma City.
If you think this all sounds like I've been smoking funnygrass, I suggest
you trot on over there and look it up yourself. If you need a list of
references, I've got lots of 'em. But just reading today's paper will give
you the general idea. And you won't need an E-meter to get the mental
picture.
We've already got too many drunks and dopers. Do we want a bunch of space
cadets, too?
We may be the only voice crying in the wilderness, but we suggest that
Narconon is no answer to our area's drug problem, or it's economic problem.
It would behoove us all to encourage Hubbard's hucksters to hook up their
horses and get their asteroids on down the road.
The name "Narconon"® is trademarked to the Scientology
organization through one of their many front groups. The name
"Scientology"® is also trademarked to the "Church"
of Scientology. Neither this web page, nor this web site, nor any of the
individuals mentioned herein assisting to educate the public about the
dangers of the Narconon scam are members of or representitives of the
Scientology organization.
If you or a loved one needs help -- real help -- there are
a number of rehabilitation programs you can contact. The real
Narcotics Anonymous organization
can get you in touch with real people who can help you.
Click [HERE] to visit Narcotics
Anonymous's web site. Narcotics Anonymous's telephone number is
1 (818) 773-9999.
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Narconon Exposed web site.
Editorial Comment By RWL - 27 April 1989
Backwater Cowboys
Bob Lobsinger
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