6607C19 SHSpec-69 About Rhodesia

LRH has just come back from Rhodesia. Around February, 1966, LRH was
holding the mock-up [his body] together with sticking plaster. The
organization was going fine. Tech was wrapped up. LRH put things on "wait"
-- his case, for one thing. He decided to take a vacation. He spent thirty
days in Las Palmas. The organization was running fine. Clear No. 1 (John
McMasters) was made during February of 1966, while LRH was in Las Palmas. LRH
decided to go to South Africa. He wanted to locate an alternate base for
OT's, in case of war or political takeover. He couldn't figure out why he couldn't do this. [The reason was that he hadn't defined the purpose of such a base. The purpose was:

1. An alternate base for scientology, in case of war or political
takeover.

2. To serve as a base from which to put in ethics on the planet, so tech
could go in.

3. To put in economics, so that people can support orgs and the orgs can
flourish.

See later part of this lecture (p. 749, below).]

LRH went to Rhodesia. He conceived of a type of constitution they could
use to solve their difficulties. The government liked it. LRH recalled that
he had some assets in South Africa. He decided to invest them. He bought a
house and learned that he could buy a hotel in the wilderness for 5500 pounds,
and did. He bought a farm. He was watching the economics and behavior of the
Wog world and getting a kick out of being out there, making friends with tough
characters (his usual friends). Rhodesian culture is still Victorian. It is
a small civilization in the middle of a howling wilderness. It is more
sophisticated than London.

Rhodesia has lots of land, minerals, precious metals, and a beautiful
climate. It is untouched and could easily be developed. LRH met the
governmental high-ups. He was very acceptable to them. He didn't discuss
scientology at all. He was examining the Wog world, and he didn't want to
un-wog it. He went on TV and radio. He had no authority, but he was solving
lots of problems. Each individual Rhodesian would agree with LRH's solutions,
but warned him that no other Rhodesian would agree with him, because the
solutions were too advanced.

LRH went down to his hotel at Lake Kariba. He supplied the hotel with
two-ton trucks. Local industry started to use his trucks to transport goods,
and the area boomed. LRH started a furniture factory. A colony started to
sprout. Just the fact of LRH's being interested in the country and seeing
hope for it caused production to rise.

Then LRH wondered how he was going to leave, to go back to Saint Hill.
He was woven too tightly into the picture, with a staff of nine personal staff
and twenty-nine general staff, the pick of the ex-consular domestic staffs.
White Rhodesians kept telling LRH how to handle the African. He realized that
they didn't know anything about Africans, because they didn't recognize that
they were people. They would say, "They are sullen. You've got to watch
them." But the reason they are sullen is no acknowledgment, bad 8C,
over-expectation, and out-gradient. They were taking people with no
experiential background in politics or economics and expecting more of them
than they were trained to do. LRH made his staff happy by telling them that
they weren't Rhodesians anymore, that they were Americans. They were very
spit-and-polish, enthusiastic, and hard-working. So in four months, LRH was
very acceptable to both races and even to extreme moderates, as well as to
extreme rightest whites.

A reporter from the London Daily Mail told the Minister of Information
what a bad fellow LRH was. The minister instantly told prime minister Smith
what a bad fellow he was. Smith told the cabinet the same story, and the next
morning the Rhodesian Front Committee was charging down [to see LRH], when
they found out that his visa wasn't going to be extended, because they knew
that it was all lies. Smith had been built up as too fair and too honest.
His popularity had begun to decline, because he hadn't worked miracles, and because his communication was going out. Then he told the Committee various things, such as, that LRH's business associates were complaining about him. LRH had, in fact, only three business associates, and one of them was there and denied the story. Smith said that LRH had been deported from Australia. But LRH's passport had no record of having entered Australia. He said that LRH was wanted all over and had a criminal record. These people, however, knew that LRH's credit was in the stars all over the world. They saw Smith's feet of clay and walked out. So LRH could leave, covered with laurels.

As a result of this expedition, LRH found out that you can't locate a
base that you don't know the purpose of. That was why he had trouble locating
"OT Base". Now he knows what "OT Base" has to do. It has to put in ethics on
a planetary basis, so that tech can be gotten in. As you associate with the
public and try to tell them about scientology, you have trouble with the
public, because their ethics are out, and for no other reason. One SP in
Rhodesia has wrecked the country, and is keeping the whole scene
enturbulated.

The only real threat to scientology is that an atom war or a political
takeover could prevent the organization from going ahead to clear people. In
addition to ethics, but less vital than ethics, economics has to be gotten
straightened out. Economics is a very simple subject, with very plain laws.
It has nothing to do with politics and ideology. Actually, economics exists
as a subject, the purpose of which is to get people enough to eat, etc. Man
violates the laws of economics all the time for ideological and political
purposes. The already existing economic systems of the planet are usable in a
modified form, and we need them to improve, in order to allow for an expansion
of our organization. There has to be a workable enough economics on the
planet so that people can support orgs and the orgs can flourish and expand.
A total subsidy of processing doesn't work, because there is no contribution
from the PC. People have to contribute to benefit from auditing. So the
economic purpose is a secondary purpose of OT Base. Also, ethics is hard to
get in on starving people!

Ethics is out on earth, and the out ethics prevents easy dissemination.
Nearly every human being on this planet that is in trouble, is in trouble
because ethics are out. In England, someone stole and sold LRH's research
papers, which were then represented as the current practice of scientology --
a very different thing. People are killed in wars because of one SP in the
government. The only reason for war is a few SP's. We could go and sort out
key SP's in international situations. What we would do about it is something
else.

Political systems exist only to solve the problem of succession of
rulers. Otherwise, everyone could agree on a benevolent monarchy. The answer
is, of course, not to have successors. Clear the monarch! But political
systems are not concerned with the happiness or productivity of people.

The only source of our individual, personal difficulties is not having
ethics in, in the society around us. The only reason why you are having
difficulty as an individual is not having ethics in, in your immediate
environment. We've got to shift gears in our emphasis. We have been getting
ethics in on our fellow scientologists with great enthusiasm. Now we are
familiar with the system and how it works. We have erred by getting ethics in
too heavily on scientologists and too lightly on the environment. It is time to
reverse the emphasis. "There isn't any point in getting ethics in on a
willing person," just because he is stupid. Doing that just makes the person
sullen. Ethics should be directed at willful acts of sabotage.

A real SP is not just anyone. He intends to damage you. He is a real
nut. He intends to knock you down. He is not just a difficult person. He is
a real monster. Upgrade your idea of what an SP is like. SP's amount only to
2.5% of Mankind. Find out if the guy is driving people into sanitariums,
strewing social wreckage about, and smashing statistics. We have only had one
real SP on staff. Just because a person shows up on an S and D doesn't mean
that he is a real SP. Maybe he is just making someone unhappy. Don't fling
the title around lightly, within scientology. Outside scientology, don't
worry about making a mistake and accusing someone wrongly. Just get ethics in
real hard first and correct the mistakes later. We've got to put in ethics
fast to prevent disaster.

It was great to find that the organization could continue without LRH.
It was great to find that you could make more clears. You made No. 22 to
celebrate his return.

LRH's immediate program is to finish his own clearing. He has found that
people don't make it with their grades out. Then he will start OT research.
Every time he tries to put together the scope of OT, he has to run off the
invalidation. Any statement you can make about OT falls short of the truth.