Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

pig. I remember one of the first things he told me was that you could hear a tomato scream if you
cut it and that's why he never ate tomatoes. He talked a lot about whether vegetables could feel
pain and about all his past lives. It was very entertaining; it was obvious he had a good mind and
was widely read.
'After the bust was finished we were invited to dinner with him and his wife at Saint Hill. When we
arrived we were met by Mary Sue. She was a rather drab, mousy, nothing sort of person quite a bit
younger than him. She showed us into a book-lined study and he waited a few minutes, rather
theatrically, before making an entrance. I don't think they had finished work on the house because
we had dinner in the kitchen. It was all white tiled, very antiseptic, and the meal was served by a
woman wearing a white overall, white shoes and stockings. There was nothing to drink but Coca-
Cola or water and the food was awful - we had frozen plaice fillets, a few vegetables and ice-cream,
but he had an enormous steak overhanging his plate. It was obvious that everything revolved
around him. He was almost like Oswald Mosley, he had the same sort of power. Both of them
talked a lot about past lives; they told me that their daughter had previously been a telephone
operator who had died in a fire. We didn't stay late and when we got back to Victoria Station Eddie
and I were both so hungry that we went in the buffet and had delicious roast lamb sandwiches.'[4]
In October, Dr Hubbard unveiled yet another of his interests. Learning that East Grinstead had been
unable to fill a vacancy for a Road Safety Organizer, he volunteered for the job. As he explained to a
meeting of the East Grinstead Road Safety Committee, he was anxious to make a contribution to
the community and he felt that the experience he had gained serving on 'numerous' road safety
committees in the United States could be put to good use in East Grinstead. He gave an interesting
talk on road safety campaigns in the United States, put forward many ideas on how to reduce
accidents locally, confidently answered questions and was unanimously elected as the town's new
Road Safety Organizer by a grateful committee.
He was not able to give road safety considerations his attention for too long, however, for he had
arranged to visit Australia in November to lecture the Scientologists in Melbourne. He left London
on 31 October, flying first-class on BOAC via Calcutta and Singapore. At the Hubbard
Communications Office in Spring Street, Melbourne, he was greeted by an ecstatic crowd of
Scientologists who cheered noisily when he announced his belief that Australia would be the first
'clear continent'. Between lectures, he spent hours with local HASI executives discussing ways of
persuading the Australian Labour Party and trades union movement to adopt Scientology
techniques. Hubbard was convinced that Scientology could help Labour win the next election in
Australia, thus creating a favourable climate for the development of the church and neutralizing the
unabated hostility of the Australian media.
While he was still in Melbourne, Hubbard received an urgent telephone call from Washington with
bad news. Nibs, he was told, had 'blown'. To Scientologists, 'blowing the org' (leaving the church)
was one of the worst crimes in the book: it was almost unbelievable that the highly-placed son and
namesake of the founder would take such a step. Nibs had simultaneously held five posts in
Scientology's increasingly cumbersome bureaucratic structure: he was Organizational Secretary of
the Founding Church of Scientology, Washington DC; Hubbard Communications Officer-in-Charge,
Washington DC; Chief Advanced Clinical Course Instructor; Hubbard Communications Office
World Wide Technical Director; and a Member of the International Council.
Despite his portentous titles, Nibs was frustrated by not being able to make any money out of
Scientology and he left a letter to his father explaining that this was the only reason for his
resignation: 'Over the past few years, I have found it increasingly difficult to maintain basic financial
survival for myself and my family. This I must remedy. I fully realize that I have not handled my