HCOPL: Cancellation of Fair Game
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.1
Hubbard, L. R. (1968, 21 October). Cancellation of Fair Game (Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter) The Organization Executive Course (First US Printing 1974 ed., Vol. 1, p. 489). Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California.
Notes
- Hubbard’s fair game doctrine, when he laid it out in his Policy Letter of 18 October 1967, was quickly recognized by thinking government officials, journalists and citizens as calling for violent, illegal actions against the cult’s “enemies.” As a result, he issued another Policy Letter dated 21 October 1968 entitled “Cancellation of Fair Game,” that the Miscavige regime insists cancelled this criminal doctrine. But Hubbard was just fair gaming his “enemies” with his “cancellation,” just playing a trick on them. He “cancelled” the use of the term “fair game” when declaring people “enemies” or “SPs,” with the cynical excuse that it caused bad PR, but he ordered that the same “treatment” of those “enemies” continue as before. The Scientologists in the Hubbard regime knew that the same violent, antisocial and criminal actions were to be taken against these “enemies,” the “SPs.” Fair game would continue, but it would not be called by that name. ↩
I am a bit of an old timer. Just a dog-leg from Gilman Springs, which warmed the track up a little every time I passed the masts on the east side of the compound. It added flavor to my Sunday KZ1000 drive.
I guess I cling to some of the old data that demands for a reference. All entities experience evolution and Fair Game was just part of ours. No longer in use means we’ve evolved in the better direction. But don’t conceal the reference which other documents form from or referring too. It abridges the data, which corrupts the relative text, and tech. Add it back and make it available for reference. The notation and explaination the practice was discontinued should be a plus to the organization, and not something negative.
The CIA use to do testing using citizens. Bad things occurred in Vietnam. We’ve all learned through our past usually for the better…I sure have. Ford Motor hated to spend a quarter to create better features, and that could have saved lives. They spend more today than ever. Earth: Our University of Life. If we conceal the bad, we don’t know how much we’ve improved.
My best to all,
MAL-j
Thanks for your comment, Mark. “No longer in use means we’ve evolved in the better direction.” If only. Scientology’s unbroken record of fair game shows clearly that they have not evolved in a better direction since Hubbard wrote the above policy letter.