Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 15 November 1990

Justice Should Be Blind, But Not Ignorant

Geeese, I was gonna leave it alone for awhile and see what the rest of the world was doing, but as a true "born again Wog" I just can't resist...

Most of you know by now that Narconon managed to get Judge Leaman Freeman to toss out the State Mental Health Department staff recommendation against the certification of Narconon.

"Biased", he said.

Then Narconon went to Federal Court and screamed Indian sovereignty again, just for good measure.

So the board, without benefit of staff counsel or recommendation, did nothing.

But they have a much truer picture now of the beast than they might have had before last Thursday's meeting in Ft. Supply.

The Mental Health Department's staff had probably figured out that L. Ron Hubbard was totally unqualified to be in the drug treatment business;

that his program has never been independently proven medically or scientifically acceptable;

that it inculcates the Scientology religion in its patients as part of the treatment;

that more Narconon units in the US have been closed than are currently in operation;

that the cult exhibits identifiable attributes of mind control;

and that it is maliciously antagonistic towards the mental health professions.

Lots of documentation proves it. Lots of people know it.

Even former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop knows it. He belongs to the National Coalition Against Health Care Fraud, which is vigorously protesting the promotion of the "Hubbard Method" (that's what they call Narconon's Purification program when they don't want you to know it's the Purification program).

If they do their job about half thoroughly, anybody the board picks to review Narconon will come up "biased". The Judge can make a career of tossing them out, one after the other.
All the way up to Dr. Koop.

'Spose the judge would throw him out too?

Standardly applied, this precedent setting decision could help establish the system of "Hubbardian Justice" broadly in society:

Toss out the evidence, the witnesses, and the facts.

Have the defendant tell his story to the jury.

And then have the jurors vote to let him go.

That how a Com-Ev party works? (inside joke)

If only the unbiased are allowed to provide information to the board, Narconon and it's stable of Scientology experts and lawyers should also be disqualified.

Talk about biased...

These are the folks who believe that psychiatrists and psychologists are outright murders and classify them as criminals.

These are the people who follow a man who proclaimed that they should take over total control of all mental healing in the West.

These are the "beings" who proclaim themselves superior to all others on earth... Who derisively refer to the rest of us as "Wogs"... Whose leader was the epitome of sanity, so rational that he believed he had visited Heaven. Twice.

These are the folks who find themselves in the awkward position of applying to the State Board of Mental Health for permission to propagate their folly.

No wonder they're trying to intimidate our legal system. They know the Mental Health Department has the facts. And they know the courts don't.

Justice may be blind, but it should not be ignorant.

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