Elron's Racist writings. Hubbard the racist bigot. The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world? he is probably impossible by any human standard. -L. Ron Hubbard, Professional Auditor's Bulletin, No. 119, 1 September 1957. .... ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any program of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health... -L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB April 1960, "The Scientific Treatment of the Insane" The South African Rundown, the only Scientology rundown targeted at a specific ethnic group, was developed for "delivery to South Africans, those who reside in South Africa as well as those who have emigrated to other parts of the world". Hubbard apparently felt they required special processing because they were "untrainable" and "insane". The Church's auditing tool, the E-meter, requires adjustment in order to accommodate the needle's larger movements because of the intensity of a Bantu's undisclosed transgressions ("withholds"). A "black South African's" withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter] alone but on the Tone Arm [sensitivity adjustment] as well. -L. Ron Hubbard, E-Meter Essentials, section I: "Meter Oddities", 1988 (pg. 24) ... Because the one thing, the very, very commercial little culture the Bantu has ... the idea of commerce and money and that sort of thing is very deeply ingrained in these people. -L. Ron Hubbard, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, "Errors in Time", 18 July 1963 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought is one of Scientology's basic public texts and has this to say about African "savages": Just as individuals can be seen, by observing nations, so we see the African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. -L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997. It was republished in 1997, perpetuating Hubbard's racist view of Africans. ... ...the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. -L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, 1995. The Church runs security checks on members suspected of certain criminal behaviors. The Johannesburg Security Check was "the roughest security check in Scientology" and consisted of a series of pointed questions which the Scientologist must answer while on the E-meter (used in this case not as an auditing tool but as a lie detector). The contents of this security check were later incorporated into The Only Valid Security Check. Included in the list of "crimes" is engaging in an intimate relationship with a member of a "colored" race. Selected portion of the questions: Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone? -L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCOPL) 7 April 1961, "Johannesburg Security Check" -L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy "Letter (HCOPL) 22 May 1961, "The Only Valid Security Check" --------- There are hints that Scientology membership was limited to whites, at least initially, in the orgs of southern Africa. In the first quote, Hubbard is concerned about the World Bank taking control of England and the general advance of Communism. He believes a stronghold of civilization can be set up in Africa to ensure the survival of white Anglo-American culture. In the second quote, Hubbard praises the South African org, that, in spite of the limited white population from which to recruit, managed to outproduce all other Scientology orgs. Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out. -L. Ron Hubbard, recorded talk to the Saint Hill staff about Rhodesia, 6 May 1966 As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created. -L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB 17 July 1959, "Africa over the Top" Hubbard sought to create a Scientology homeland in South Africa or Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The Church claims it opposed the white minority governments (yet most of its activity in the early years took place in colonial states where whites ruled and English was the official language: England, United States, Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia); Hubbard, however, appears to have thought the problem of apartheid was overstated. ------------- It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace. -L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 96, "Justice", 15 September 1956 ------------ The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! ... The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government! -L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (HCOB) 10 October 1960 (quoted in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid by Chris Owen) ---------------- Hubbard praises the South African government's handling of the black slums in Johannesburg: Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence. L. Ron Hubbard, Letter to South African Apartheid Government, 7 November 1960, Johannesburg; reprinted in K.T.C. Kotzé, Inquiry into the Effects and Practices of Scientology, Pretoria, 1973 (as quoted by Chris Owen in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid) ------------- Illiterate cultures do not survive and they are not very high. The natives of the tribe of the Bugga-Bugga-Booga-Boogas down in Lower Bugga-Wugga Booga-Woog are mostly no longer with us, or they are around waving red flags today and revolting against their central government. Well, the British Tommy that went down there with his Snider, or his Lee-Enfield, and brought them higher education in the first place was only occasionally followed by anybody who taught them anything. And they didn't learn fast. Their literacy was not up to absorbing culture rapidly. They've been very happily down amongst the bong-bong trees, you know, dancing up and down amongst the bong-bong trees, and the highest level of their interest and so forth was their own back yard. -L. Ron Hubbard, The Study Tapes, "Study: Evaluation and Information", lecture given 11 August 1964 ----------------------------- You shouldn't be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that's what they're born for. -L Ron Hubbard, in a letter to first wife, Polly Grubb -------------------------------- Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there?a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality. -L. Ron Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80, Part I, "Route to Infinity", 21 May 1952 ----------------------- Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. ... The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people's attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner. -L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997. ------------------------------ Now we say there's, well, another place in the world?there's India. Wonderful place ? except for its people. -L. Ron Hubbard, "The Control of Hysteria" (lecture), 15 April 1957. -------------------------------- In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things a gun and a whip [sic] and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much. -L. Ron Hubbard, Professional Auditor's Bulletin, No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization) (as quoted by Chris Owen in Scientology's Fight for Apartheid) ------------------------------- He's [the Arab] been going crazy steadily and gradually ever since he lost the early very fertile basins of the Middle East. He's been going crazy ever since he failed to learn wheat farming and brought about the erosion of all of the fertile areas of the Middle East. This race has been going for a very, very long time and has been eating death for a very long time and it is death. The Arab is to a point where he won't even follow a decent leader. He's got to have a man of blood, a man of cruelty, exaggeration and bigotry. Then he'll follow him. ...the Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest. -L. Ron Hubbard, 20th Advanced Clinical Course, "Case Analysis rock Hunting", lecture of 4 August 1958 --------------------------------------- Hubbard on Egyptians: Past civilizations have vanished, you see...Hindi, Greek, Roman, European, they did vanish. These little beaten-down peasants you see in France were once the proud Romans. Those small brown men w ho sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians. -L. Ron Hubbard, Ability, issue 56, October 1957, quoted in Winning ("News Journal of the Office of Special Affairs") vol.1, iss.3, 1997 (quoted in a.r.s. post by Peter Lucey) ------------------------------------------- Hubbard on Jews Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock. -L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 92, "A Critique of Psychoanalysis", 10 July 1956 ------------------------------------------------ This is the only way I know of to keep Anzo from being deluged with Asiatic hordes. -L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Information Letter, "Anzo Supplement", 17 February 1969 ---------------------------------- Japanese is a baby talk ? very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language. -L. Ron Hubbard, New Slant on Life, Bridge Publications, 1997. ------------------------------------ One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them. ... We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason. -L. Ron Hubbard, "The Part Played by the Analytical Mind" ( lecture), 19 July 1950 (as quoted by Anthony Roberts in a.r.s. post) ----------------------------------------- A science of mind is a goal which has engrossed thousands of generations of Man. Armies, dynasties and whole civilizations have perished for the lack of it. Rome went to dust for the want of it. China swims in blood for the need of it; and down in the arsenal is an atom bomb, its hopeful nose full-armed in ignorance of it. -L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Chapter 1: "The Scope of Dianetics", Church of Scientology of California Publication Organization, Los Angeles, CA, 1950 ----------------------------------------------- When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life. -L. Ron Hubbard, The Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1, "Education and the Auditor", July 1951 And we see at the other extreme China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. -L. Ron Hubbard, Fundamentals of Thought, Chapter "Causation and Knowledge", Section "Civilization and Savagery", page 113-114, 1997. You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks. -L. Ron Hubbard, tape 5211C06A LS-1, "Methods of Research - The Thetan as an Energy Unit"; also known as "Secrets of the MEST Universe", lecture 1) ...[The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort. A Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down. They smell of all the baths they didn't take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here. -L. Ron Hubbard, personal journal, 1928. ----------------------------------------------------------------------