6611C01 SHSpec-81 Government and Organization

A good government is in the realm of invention at this point. Man is so
afraid of a bad turn in a benign monarchy that he can't have one. He is
afraid of an SP getting into power. Also, a benign monarch can't wear all of
his hats. What makes a government bad is that it gets an SP into it. One SP
breeds others, as an SP wants other SP's around him. Generals that advocate
wars of attrition are SP's. They are just trying to knock off as many troops
as possible. The best military training is to do the most in the least time
at the least expense, and to keep your own people from being banged up. The
objective is to win. That is the proper conduct of war. You also want to
inflict the least possible damage to the enemy, because you will have to put
the enemy back together again if you win. This is a proper war. But the last
four wars were wars of attrition.

All governments consist of a body of beings against the individual. The
better a government is, the less against the individual and the more for the
individual it is. Total suppression exists where the government is everything
and the individual is nothing. The opposite extreme can be equally
suppressive: Anarchy, where the individual is everything and the government is
nothing. In an anarchy, any bum or suppressive is totally at liberty to knock
anyone on the head.

There is no perfect government. The individual is as close as you will
get to a perfect entity. Why do you need a government? Because any
organization can win over individuals. We thetans got to where we are today
because we didn't organize as a body of thetans. Instead, we let the bad guys
organize into a body to get us. This is the only big omission on the track.
OT's didn't handle it on their own feet. Any group of organized humanoids can
defeat any OT. However, this requires that one know something about the laws
of organization. Without an organization, the individual would have to
maintain constant vigilance, because he only has to lose one battle to lose
everything.

You want an org that is minimally restrictive and maximally effective.
In a benign monarchy, the individual doesn't have to have much say, because
everything is taken care of. When you turn over the government to a group,
however, confidence in the government is shaken and the individual must have a
say. Of course you don't let individuals make all the decisions. This would
lead to a clown government. No individuals can all know enough to be
meaningfully involved in every little thing. There never has been a
democracy. The Greeks never had a democracy. Just fifty landowners formed a
senate. The senators didn't even represent anyone. Therefore, it was not
even a republic.

Republicanism is a mean between the extremes. If you make proper
qualifications necessary for the holding of office, e.g. that a person not be
below Grade IV, that person and other similar ones, forming a senate, being
specialists in the issues at stake, could be sufficiently informed and have
enough time to think about it to actually govern. So if scientology took
over, you would have a republican government.

After you have chosen the governor, he is free to govern, without any
"Yak! Yak!", unless some weighty issue comes up for a referendum, e.g. a
change in the status quo or in the form of government.

England's failure to allow the American colonies representation in
Parliament was an error in tech that caused a rift. When a group feels that
it can't be heard, it ARC breaks. This is the sort of ARC break that always
precedes a war. Hitler said something that wasn't acknowledged, and vice
versa. So thirty million men were killed. In emergency situations, a benign
monarch is the best system. There is no time to consult anyone anyway. But
in time, a benign monarch gets tired and overworked, and he can't acknowledge
everybody who speaks. So, unless he gets backed up by a representative body,
you get a dissolution of the organization. The nominal head of the
organization should be out of the way, except in an emergency, while the
country is run by a representative body corporate. Such a body has great
liabilities. There is a lack of total responsibility [to the constituents],
so individuals in the group don't think fast enough. Therefore it is best not
to have a generalized body corporate running the government. It must be
specific in its representation, unlike the pattern of a board of directors.
Each member of a board of directors nebulously represents "the stockholders".
However, here, there is cross-representation. This generality goes into
suppression. If "the people" are represented, then they could [logically]
only be represented by one person. That is why a benign monarchy works.
There is no cross-representation. But as soon as the monarch gets a body of
advisors, that doesn't represent the people. More than one representative
would have to represent exact segments of the population. When too many
people are represented by one person, the distance becomes too great, and the
people feel unrepresented. But if they can communicate with their
representative and get action, they feel that their governmental hat is well
taken care of, so they can relax. The U.S. has two senators per state. This
violates the above principle of representation. Electoral districts, however,
do have direct representation. There is a further representation in state
government, which can receive [certain] orders from the federal government.
The U.S. government, however, has no representative in Colorado. It only has
covert agencies there. The Colorado state assembly cannot address the U.S.
Government. There is no direct line from the state assembly to the U.S.
assembly or the Senate.

Before you can have a governmental system [that is any good], you have to
have the tech of scientology to detect and improve abilities in people and
ethics tech to detect suppressives. You also need the communication formula,
ARC triangle, ARC break tech, etc.

If the people have a senator, why have a representative? The outcome is
that the individual states and the U.S. government are in violent conflict.
Hence the Civil War. When these comm lines don't exist, an individual goes
into apathy. You get a dictatorship of "the people" vs. the individual. Or
you get a situation where every man is the dictator. Representation can be
pretty big, because not everyone appeals at once. But if everyone does appeal
at once, then the representative had better do something fast. War is caused
by incompetent government, which causes a breakdown in the comm line between a
[constituent] group and the society that surrounds it. The society that
surrounds it may be so incompetently governed that the inner group has to be
nearly perfect to work its way forward. Scientology has this quality. We
also keep trying to be better, at least whenever there is a down statistic.

In scientology, there are lots of built-in safeguards in the system, so
there is no immediate need for elective representation In the future,
elections will be required, when scientology gets bigger. Then exact
representation will occur. No junior governing body may be given orders by
any senior governing body, in which it is not represented. Conversely, very
senior governing bodies should not give orders to junior governing bodies,
from which they do not have a representative. That ensures a two-way
communication situation.

The Advisory Council. The International Advisory Council would be made
up of representatives of continental parts of the world and executives who
represent types of divisions of orgs. It would have about fifteen members.
Rule: No one may initiate a motion unless that motion has been formed into an
issuable directive. If a person wants a policy letter framed, he must write
it up. Rule: The chairman is given the power of absolute veto, unless three
quarters of those present vote to continue discussion or voting. This will
prevent endless hobby-horsing. A proposal could be referred for special study
elsewhere, to be brought up later. This way, point of origin of policy
letters is stated, since that person wrote up the policy letter before it was
passed.

Members of the International Advisory Council represent the continental
Advisory Councils, but they also represent all orgs on that continent.
Therefore, someone from part of that continental area who feels that he is
being done in, or something, could write to his representative in the
international body. As the system expands out, the individual would find out
that he had a representative in his local continental body.

A member of the ad council, on majority signatures, can get an urgent
directive out on short notice, provided a B. of I. is convened later to
determine if it was the right action. Unless a policy change occurs, an ad
council directive is only in effect for a year, unless a policy letter is
issued. The purpose of this rule is to prevent arbitrary laws from being
arbitrarily introduced needlessly.

The advisory council has representatives from five continental areas plus
one from St. Hill and a divisional organizer [for each division]. He
represents every divisional secretary of that division in the whole world.
His job is to compile all the materials and specifications. It is too much
work for such a person to do this and hold another hat at the same time. So
if a person can't get books, for instance, he would write the Div 2 divisional
organizer. If the stat of the divisional organizer is down, he would get into
being an authority. He can get militant in the ad council. The ad council
can then issue what the divisional organizer has already written up in
advance. It is issued on the flash color of that division, and it applies
only to that division. The Divisional organizer is not operating those orgs,
so he does not act as a bypass of the OES of those orgs.

Conversely, we will have the St. Hill or WW representative in
continental ad councils. LRH comm can also serve this purpose. He has no
authority, but he can be talked to, and he can explain what WW is doing.

Every divisional secretary in orgs becomes a member of the ad council
[for that org]. The LRH comm is also on that org's ad council, to represent
HCO. Thus we get an eight-man ad council.

Sooner or later, we will need a representative of the ad council in each
of the divisions [of the org].

With a continental org that has three other orgs plus itself, you get
four ad councils, composed of secretaries and exec secs.



Thus, you get a ten-man ad council, [composed of the seven divisional heads,
plus the LRH Comm, plus the OES plus the HAS.] Each junior org would have to
have a representative in the senior org.

We are dealing with basic ethics and organizational tech.

It really helps to have all beings in the org cross-policed by stats.
Stats don't ever "happen". They are always made, and you have got to find out
what is making them. In a downstat situation, the errors are always gross.
The greatest source of downstats is: no personnel on the-post at all.

If you get a stuck flow going on for too long, with no return flow, you
get an apathy on the other end. [Cf. the S.O. 1 Line] People want to talk to
LRH to find out if he is there. It is to get the back-flow going. The main
problem is in the relationship between the individual and the corporate body.
A corporate body that can't act swiftly will cause a lot of upset. A
situation where any citizen can clobber the corporate body is equally
suppressive, because that person will also clobber other individuals. The
problem is to set up something that resolves the relationship between the
corporate body and the individual.

1. The individual must be able to get justice from the corporate body.

2. He is entitled to bright management.

3. The corporate body can expect contribution and compliance from the
individual.

All it takes to make an organization is to avoid violating these. When you
get the consent of the people and respect for the government, the thing will
go on and on.

On other planets, Empire selection of governors was based on state of
case.

When you put in a government, put in a review of that government. This
happened to some extent in the U.S. with amendments to the constitution, but
no one reported back to the original body that created the government.

A governed people who do not understand the theories or postulates of the
government or the laws, can be pretty dismayed and confused. They are afraid
that the relationship between the government and the individual will not be
safeguarded. They may even be represented and don't know it.