The Religious Technology Center (RTC) was ostensibly created in 1982 to protect the Technology of Scientology. However, what RTC actually protects is David Miscavige — even when this means altering the Tech. For example, LRH designed the Tech so that a pc could say anything in the sanctity of the session. Per the Auditor’s Code, both the auditor and the Church promise:
- Not to evaluate for the preclear or tell him what he should think about his case in session.
- Never to use the secrets of a preclear divulged in session for punishment or personal gain.
But what has happened in David Miscavige’s RTC? Is the pc protected? No. In fact, in direct violation of LRH, here is what a pc may or may not say in session:
- It is strictly forbidden for a pc to name David Miscavige as an SP or an antisocial personality. Such an origination is not accepted by the auditor.
- The auditor will become adversarial if a pc names David Miscavige as an SP.
- The pc cannot name DM as an item in a Search and Discovery (searching for the SP)
- The pc cannot name DM in a PTS Rundown
- The pc cannot speak his or her thoughts, opinions, considerations on DM
- If a pc named DM as an SP, he or she can expect to be put onto lengthy security checks
As reported by ex-Freewinds and ex-Flag pc’s who come for repair to the Independent community, David Miscavige is absolutely “off limits” in session. Nothing negative may be said about David Miscavige inside of the Cult of Scientology. Said another way, David Miscavige may only be lavishly praised and glorified inside of the Cult.
Even when DM engages in brutality and human rights abuses he may not be spoken of as an SP. In the normal course of events, what person can get away with beatings, assault and battery? Not only has David Miscavige gotten away with this under the guise of “ministerial exception” granted by a judge, but DM has routinely engaged in:
- Sadistic lockdowns and sec checks
- Serving Oliver Twist slop as food to prisoners in the RPF
- Cutting off air conditioning in midsummer to dozens of RPF prisoners locked inside two trailers against their will
- Using Sea Org members as if they were Federal Marshals in an attempt to take custody of a fleeing Sea Org member
- Ordering husbands and wives in the Sea Org to divorce — or otherwise ordering them to posts hundreds or thousands of miles apart so they can never see each other
- Setting the state for wholesale abortions for some 25 years — only recently stopped because of Internet transparency and lawsuits.
- Making staff clean the sewage treatment lake (feces pond) at the Int Base without hazmat equipment
- Forcing executives to clean the oily bilges of the MV Freewinds without proper safety equipment
- Cleaning grease traps at PAC base.
(The grease traps are passages that run under the PAC base kitchens. These passages are approximately two feet in height and are referred to as “Rats Alley” by PAC base RPFers and are the ultimate punishment detail for errant Sea Org Members.)
Rats Alley cleaning detail consists of crawling along the hot, stinking, roach-infested passageways on backboards with wheels to deal with pools of stagnant grease from the kitchens above.
The stock in trade of RTC is abuse.
The stock in trade of David Miscavige is sadistic abuse.
Miscavige is protected from the consequences of his crimes by $1,000-per-hour attorneys. DM’s legal team is led by his personal Lawyer Monique Yingling. She carefully covers his misdeeds along with her husband criminal defense Lawyer Gerald Feffer. What they have covered up, what they have enabled Miscavige to get away with, is a remarkable lesson in just how dirty and profitable practicing law can be when Miscavige opens the flood gates of parishioner money. Unlimited budget.
Inside of the Church, David Miscavige’s sadistic campaign of terror is carried out and enforced by RTC. The staff of RTC fawn, placate and do whatever Miscavige wants — even if this means routinely violating LRH policies, church doctrine, or spying on people. These people are toadies who Miscavige rewards with status, cars, shopping trips, cash bonuses, and better pay for their abject obedience, blind loyalty, and cruelty in carrying out DM’s brutal dirty work.
Early on, Miscavige decreed the beingness of RTC members as “cold chrome steel.” Thus are warm only to each other and steely cold to everyone else — to hell with affinity, reality and communication. The RTC network has absolute power over the rest of the Sea Org and exercise that power with cruelty.
RTC has announced that they are responsible for safeguarding the very technology they sabotage and undermine by order of David Miscavige. From 1992 forward, their obsession grew insatiably for power and domination over Sea Org members.
Declaring decent people, physical attacks, screaming, inflicting penalties, canceling auditor certificates, ordering demotions, and invalidating and denigrating technical staff with joyous sadism has became the hallmark of RTC.
Following the tradition of secret police as a modern-day Gestapo, RTC demanded the entire population of Scientology act as secret informers. A normal report includes copies to the person who is being reported on. But RTC’s report line is confidential. Husbands are encouraged to report on their wives and wives on their husbands. Parents are told to report on their kids and kids to report on their parents. Friends report friends. Marriages, families, and friendships mean nothing to Miscavige.
Failure to report someone to RTC makes one an “accessory to the crime.” Sea Org members are encouraged to report the slightest infraction and even when there is only a suspicion of something. RTC policy specifies identical penalties for those who “fail to report” to RTC.
As RTC Inspectors were themselves coerced to enforce DM’s draconian punishments with instant alerts to the “Office of COB” something happened. Departure of RTC members began to occur. The good and ethical human beings reached their tolerance level and blew.
Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, and some 25 other former RTC all with Marty and Mike currently, endured the toxic level — the effects of the poison emanating from Miscavige. Despite the loyalty of these people to LRH, their threshold was met. People will either be destroyed if they stay in, or they will blow to regain their sanity.
DM’s self-appointed title as “Chairman of the Board” is a gigantic lie. There is no “Board of Directors.” It is a sham and always was. No board meetings occur. DM can remove “board members” using signed, undated resignations kept by him. Battered and abused Sea Org members must sign these resignations on demand.
A normal board of Directors can remove the Chairman for misconduct in any 501C3. Yet, as DM has no functioning Board of Directors, he has been able to rule year in and year out with impunity. http://www.savescientology.com/
One cruel example of RTC indulging in superiority and bullying is the incident of the RTC Rep at the Flag Land Base in 1995 who decided to target my son Alexander Jentzsch — 12 years old at the time. Alexander was not permitted to go to school, but instead was used for janitorial duties 12 hours a day in child slave labor. Alexander cleaned toilets and the lobby of the Fort Harrison and all the grimy back staircases and service entrances behind the galley in violation of child labor laws.
Alexander told me the story years later. The RTC Rep was a young Miscavige bully who would place his face one inch away from Alexander’s face and say:
“You WANT to hit me, don’t you?”
“You want to strike me, but you are too chicken”
“You would love to punch me in the jaw in retaliation, but you do not have the guts, sissy!”
Alexander Jentzsch would say quietly “No Sir, I do not want to hit you,” while looking down at the floor.
Why this RTC Rep had it in for Alexander, why these bizarre episodes occurred, I do not understand. But in the Sea Org you dare not write a Knowledge Report on RTC. And this “RTC Rep” knew that Alexander was orphaned in Clearwater because his Ex- Sea Org mom was 3,000 miles away in Los Angeles and his father Heber was incarcerated by DM and put on slave labor, steam-cleaning the engines of buses from morning till night.
Alexander could not report this child abuse. Alexander could never be critical of a DM’s appointment of an RTC thug. Only years later after the RTC REP blew and was declared, did Alexander feel “safe” telling me about the incident.
Alexander did not feel safe for many years in sharing how he was abused and harmed. When a felony was committed on him, he was ordered to not speak about. This is symptomatic of the single biggest problem inside of the cult: David Miscavige may never be spoken of negatively in any session. Scientologists who have experienced “adversarial auditing” (the auditor challenging or being hostile to the pc and so on) leave and seek the freedom of old-school auditing in the Independent community.
Written by Karen de la Carriere
