Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

The length of time for children would vary, but no one was there less than a day. The average was a
week or two. Three weeks was about the maximum. Age didn't matter. The youngest kids were 5, 6
or 7. Old, young, men, women, big, little; it wouldn't matter because to Scientologists the being is
ageless so you don't think in terms of how young or old someone is.
Reisdorf affair - if someone tried to do something it would have been worse. Hubbard said that
maritime law prevailed, like in days of Hornblower, when the captain of ship has the power of God
Almighty. He said under maritime law he had total power over everyone on the vessel.
The idea of being overboarded or beached was terrible. People were beached in sometimes fairly
hostile countries, like Algeria and Tunis, Beached meant put ashore without passport or money,
just the clothes you stood in and you were on your own. When I joined the Sea Org I often
considered returning to NZ but I was a little naive at the time - the idea of being beached was very
formidable. I didn't know how to go about earning money and getting home. The other part was
being out of Scientology forever and cast into alien world of "wogs".
Scientology can't be run like the AA [Mayo's breakaway Advanced Ability Center] because Hubbard
didn't set it up to run that way in his policy letters. In the early days some wits described his first
Dianetics book as "A Womb With a View".