Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

care if it was true or not. I wasn't going to argue. After he finished the story we all clapped - there
were two messengers there - no one wore uniform at Hemet. He had already done some singing
when I arrived. I sat on the floor at his feet along with the two messengers. He'd finished the song
and the two girls clapped so I joined in. Then he'd tell a little bit about the mountains of Tennessee,
then sing another song. They were strange songs, but had a hill-billy ring. Mostly they rhymed. but
one didn't and it sounded like some strange tuneless prose. It crossed my mind at time he was adlibbing.
When I went back to NZ I didn't know that the day [of Ron going into seclusion] was coming close.
He was always worried about raids. There were buzzers and warning systems all over the place,
and a back escape route. We were drilled what to do if anyone came to the door that could be a
marshal or process servers or FBI agents. They had a buzzer system, one where he could push a
button by his bed and a buzzer and red light would come on. It was linked between apartments. You
could ring it from another entrance. The entrance to the apartment where the messengers stayed
had a buzzer that would sound in his bedroom. If someone pushed the button it would wake him
and the other messengers. At the front entrance to the apartments onto the street, there was also a
back way through a door into the parking garage. You could get into a vehicle there that went onto a
different street. A vehicle was kept in readiness always. Also in La Quinta, we always had one or
two escape vehicles ready. We were drilled what to do if someone came to the door. First, don't
answer the door if it looked like someone suspicious. If you were asked anything about LRH or
where he was, or what was your name - we were all given aliases, mine was Dan Majors, it had to
be similar sounding and similarly spelled so if later challenged for giving false name could accuse
person you had given it to of misduplicating [mistaking] it. You were trained to sign so that it would
look little similar to D. Mayo. You were never to reveal anything about Hubbard or your correct name.
You had to sound the alarm if you could, but your main duty was to delay or, if possible, get rid of
the caller. But you were at least to delay until the alarm could be raised and LRH could be got out of
the building. You could hear one in living quarters and saw the red light go on. We were supposed
to drill and at the same time be acting normal in the apartment complex. We were supposed not to
attract any attention to ourselves.
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We tried not to think about his behaviour because it wasn't rational, but to even consider it wasn't
rational would have been a discreditable thought about LRH and you couldn't allow yourself that.
The Jo'burg Sec Check - one of misdeeds on it was, "Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about
LRH?", and you could get into very serious trouble if you had. So you tried hard not to.
At time I thought, this is an anomaly, but he is also a genius and has done so much for mankind
that I was in awe of, so it was like these other things in apparent contradiction, but who am I to
judge? If he has faults they are minuscule compared to his other deeds.
There were other things I became aware of. Some was information which he revealed during
sessions when I was auditing him. Outside of sessions I became aware of other things; there
were times when a messenger would arrive with a suitcase full of money, wads of hundred dollar
bills. I've been in his room on 3-4 occasions at least when a messenger has come in with a
suitcase of money, both at Hemet and Rifle [La Quinta]. He would ask to see it. She'd open it and
he'd gloat over the money for a bit and have her close it and put it in his bedroom. He didn't really
spend much of it, so I guess it was getaway money. Some of it was being spent, but not the
amount brought in. He went out and bought a very fancy camera. They were buying gemstones
which he had in his safe. One was a topaz, really huge. He'd go out and look at them in jewellery
shops and either buy them himself or send someone to buy them for him. Warwick Allcock would