I want to talk in some detail about Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights or the CCHR. The CCHR was created in 1969, founded by the Church of Scientology and by famous renegade psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz.
The purpose of its founding was basically to create a legitimate front in the Scientologists’ war against psychiatry. Over the years, the CCHR has often downplayed or disavowed any connection to Scientology. It does that to increase its acceptability and to have its messages seen as rational and scientific, as opposed to religious and opposed to simply being a part of the Church of Scientology.
However, I want to challenge that. From day one, most or many of the senior leadership of the CCHR have been Scientologists. So, yes the CCHR is open to anyone of any type of religious persuasion, but the leadership and the majority of the participants are and always have been Scientologists.
The CCHR has continued from day one to be sponsored and financially supported by Scientology, including the International Association of Scientologists.
And these connections, you know the staffing connections, the people connections, the financial connections, become a lot more clear when we examine some of the internal CCHR and internal Scientology sources, as opposed to what the CCHR says on the outside for the public.
Here, for example, is a paper from 1978, Citizens Commission on Human Rights. This is a CCHR paper for internal distribution. It says, “If you were a Scientologist, your future track may be in danger.” It goes on to say that — they are talking about suppressive groups — “and we are well aware of exactly who on this planet has the technology to expose and eliminate them. And those Suppressive Persons know exactly what technology is the most deadly now available on this planet to harm a thetan.”
So listen to that. We’re talking about Scientology jargon, we’re talking about using the word “suppressive”, we’re also talking about using the word “thetan”, we’re talking about “technology”; these are all Scientology words explicitly within the CCHR document. It’s very interesting.
There’s also further material, and here’s another example. This is the magazine of the International Association of Scientologists, Impact Magazine, 24th Annual Anniversary, Issue 119.
And this is much more modern. It’s a few years old. And in this magazine, which is distributed to Scientologists internally, it talks about their new plan for psychiatry: “Global Vaporization.”1 And this is what it says, very casual, it says:
“This is Psychiatry: Global Vaporization. And it’s funded by grants from the IAS” — the International Association of Scientologists. “It is how CCHR is ripping the veil off psych drug fraud, psych drug deaths and obscene psychiatric profits, and is bringing an end to the psychiatric horror for millions.”
So again, there’s this casual interchangibility, this… “Yes, it’s an IAS-sponsored thing, the CCHR is doing it.” This is a very well-integrated situation here.
One of the things that the CCHR does, is it capitalizes deliberately on its name, “human rights.” And the rhetoric that this organization puts out pertaining to human rights is really quite staggering.
From the CCHR International website, the current President of the CCHR says, and I quote, “Our work aligns with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads in part, ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’”
It says, “All are equal before the law and are entitled, without any discrimination, to equal protection of the law.”
And it goes on to say, “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”
Now what’s interesting is, coming along and reading this, one would think, “This is a human rights organization. These people are very serious when it comes to international human rights.”
But in every one of those things I just mentioned, if you understand the beliefs that Scientology and CCHR have about psychiatry specifically, you’ll see that these words, from their point of view, are absolutely anti-psychiatry, and justify the attacking of psychiatry.
So the United Nations talks about people not being subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. And we can all imagine around the world what that might look like in certain countries, and for certain groups of people. For the CCHR, their belief is that modern, safe, well-regulated, appropriate psychiatric practice in every big city, in every hospital, in every psychiatrist’s office around North America is actually “torture or cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment.”
So their definition of psychiatry and what psychiatry is, actually in their mind filters in to this human rights set-up that they have.
So, we read it and we think, “Wow, that’s impressive. It’s a human rights organization.”
But from their point of view, they are taking the language, they’re taking the rhetoric of human rights, and they’re twisting it to further substantiate, to further justify their completely off-base opinions and beliefs regarding psychiatry.
So to recap a little bit, the CCHR is not about human rights. The CCHR has taken the language of human rights, and it uses it to become more legitimate in the eyes of casual observers, and it uses it to justify its own efforts to destroy psychiatry.
And it’s actually the destruction of psychiatry, which we’ve talked about, in Scientology and now in the CCHR, that is ultimately their goal.
I want to read a little bit from a very interesting document that comes from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. It’s an International Executive Directive, dated November 28th, 1989. And this is something that sort of sets up a sense of what their approach, and what their… what the things that are important to the CCHR really are. And this is a document that talks about what they call “Psych Losses,” which is… Basically, they say, “This new expanded Psych Losses stat opens the door to really cleaning up the field of mental healing, putting criminal psychs behind bars and getting their destructive practices outlawed. So it’s basically not about human rights, it’s about destroying psychiatry.
And “Psych Losses” is a fascinating, fascinating document. It’s basically kind of a participation program, or a “frequent flyer” program, or a points or loyalty… consumer loyalty program, that gives CCHR members and Scientologists particular points or particular rewards for certain behaviors that damage or destroy psychiatry.
So, for example, in here on page 3, when it comes to publishing books; it says, “You get ten points per page of material which exposes rotten spots in the field of mental healing, per 100,000 printing. Example: There have been several books published in the last year which have had chapters containing data about psychs, supplied by the CCHR. If one of these had ten pages of anti-psych materials, and the first printing was 50,000 copies, that would be 50 points. If the book was made successful, and then went into a second printing of 100,000 copies, that would be an additional 100 points.”
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…[If the book was made successful, and] then went into a second printing of 100,000 copies, that would be an additional 100 points.
There are further points for the distribution of information letters, pamphlets and broadsheets. It says, “These are publications exposing the crimes and abuses in the field of mental health, produced by CCHR groups, which are then distributed broadly to the public, either by handouts or by mail, etc. One point per page per 100,000 distributed.”
So you can start adding up your points!
CCHR often approaches people that possibly have had some difficult experiences within the field of mental health, possibly have been harmed or victimized by whomever or whatever, people that are frustrated, people that are hurting. The idea is to get them to talk about these experiences and to start a process against psychiatry.
So we have, for example, part of “Psych Losses” on page 4. You get points for “A signed and witnessed written statement or signed affidavit from the person telling his story (the victim himself or the surviving relative or guardian of someone killed, ruined or otherwise abused by a psych or other member of the field of mental health, or by a psych organization: 25 points.”
Listen to this language. It’s also true that they’re not just going after psychiatrists. We’re talking about psychiatric nurses, psychiatric administrators, or any type of worker within a mental health or a psychiatric organization.
So they go after people that they feel possibly have had a difficult experience. And they try to convince them to come forward and try to convince them, in a sense, to be a victim.
It gets better. And we’re getting into the big point hauls, now. Here we go: “An official indictment with formal criminal charges against a psych or a member of a psych organization or group or official by a government or police agency, based on a criminal complaint filed through the actions of a CCHR group. For each person charged with at least one felony charge: 1000 points. ”
“Criminal psych or mental health field rotten spot organization or official found guilty of a criminal charge: 5000 points.”
“Bonus: For each additional charge found guilty of: 1250 points.”
And here’s a neat one: For “Psych or mental health field rotten spot organization official sentenced to jail term.” For each year of the sentence you get an additional 500 points, if it’s your material within the CCHR that has caused this to happen. I feel like we could almost fly to Europe on this.
Finally, it talks about anti-psychiatry legislation. This is the creation of laws or the influence of laws at the level of politics. And the CCHR has done an awful lot of work in attempting to change laws to become very unfriendly to psychiatry. That’s the topic of a different discussion.
But here we go on page 7:
“Anti-psych legislation introduced which would limit the power, activities or funding, etc., of a psych or psych groups or activities. International level: 500 points. National level: 250 points. Regional or state level: 100 points, and local level: 50 points.”
There’s a lot more in here, and I think I’ve belabored this just to give a sense of what kind of direction the CCHR is truly coming from.
I don’t see a lot of human rights in that document that I just talked about.
These are individuals and this is an organization that wishes to destroy psychiatry and wishes to motivate its people to go along with that.
Looking at what we’ve already seen, the “Psychiatric Global Vaporization” … here’s another picture of “Psychiatric Global Vaporization”. (Shows.) Citizens Commission for Human Rights. So we’ve got a big CCHR brochure, we’ve got a big logo, and we’ve got the concept of global vaporization of psychiatry. So again, I don’t see a particular interest in human rights in the internal material that these people are talking about.
On New Years Eve 2006, the International Association of Scientogists had a big bash and the Scientology head honcho David Miscavige presented. Again he’s talking about a new effort to obliterate psychiatry: “Psychiatry: Global Obliteration.” This is something that can be seen on the Internet. It’s quite a disturbing speech, particularly because he starts to butt up against some images and some suggestions that are potentially violent.
Miscavige said his new campaign is to “break the dark spell cast across Earth by psychiatry. Our mental health budget adjustment kit, which essentially works like a smart bomb in that it sniffs out psych fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism. And in that way, to put it bluntly, we booby-trap the whole psychiatric eco system.”
Miscavige goes on to say, and again talking about Scientology and the CCHR, “While it takes a psych eight years to earn his license, we’ve already yanked twenty-one in the last four weeks.”
Human rights indeed.
The purpose of its founding was basically to create a legitimate front in the Scientologists’ war against psychiatry. Over the years, the CCHR has often downplayed or disavowed any connection to Scientology. It does that to increase its acceptability and to have its messages seen as rational and scientific, as opposed to religious and opposed to simply being a part of the Church of Scientology.
However, I want to challenge that. From day one, most or many of the senior leadership of the CCHR have been Scientologists. So, yes the CCHR is open to anyone of any type of religious persuasion, but the leadership and the majority of the participants are and always have been Scientologists.
The CCHR has continued from day one to be sponsored and financially supported by Scientology, including the International Association of Scientologists.
And these connections, you know the staffing connections, the people connections, the financial connections, become a lot more clear when we examine some of the internal CCHR and internal Scientology sources, as opposed to what the CCHR says on the outside for the public.
Here, for example, is a paper from 1978, Citizens Commission on Human Rights. This is a CCHR paper for internal distribution. It says, “If you were a Scientologist, your future track may be in danger.” It goes on to say that — they are talking about suppressive groups — “and we are well aware of exactly who on this planet has the technology to expose and eliminate them. And those Suppressive Persons know exactly what technology is the most deadly now available on this planet to harm a thetan.”
So listen to that. We’re talking about Scientology jargon, we’re talking about using the word “suppressive”, we’re also talking about using the word “thetan”, we’re talking about “technology”; these are all Scientology words explicitly within the CCHR document. It’s very interesting.
There’s also further material, and here’s another example. This is the magazine of the International Association of Scientologists, Impact Magazine, 24th Annual Anniversary, Issue 119.
And this is much more modern. It’s a few years old. And in this magazine, which is distributed to Scientologists internally, it talks about their new plan for psychiatry: “Global Vaporization.”1 And this is what it says, very casual, it says:
“This is Psychiatry: Global Vaporization. And it’s funded by grants from the IAS” — the International Association of Scientologists. “It is how CCHR is ripping the veil off psych drug fraud, psych drug deaths and obscene psychiatric profits, and is bringing an end to the psychiatric horror for millions.”
So again, there’s this casual interchangibility, this… “Yes, it’s an IAS-sponsored thing, the CCHR is doing it.” This is a very well-integrated situation here.
One of the things that the CCHR does, is it capitalizes deliberately on its name, “human rights.” And the rhetoric that this organization puts out pertaining to human rights is really quite staggering.
From the CCHR International website, the current President of the CCHR says, and I quote, “Our work aligns with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads in part, ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’”
It says, “All are equal before the law and are entitled, without any discrimination, to equal protection of the law.”
And it goes on to say, “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”
Now what’s interesting is, coming along and reading this, one would think, “This is a human rights organization. These people are very serious when it comes to international human rights.”
But in every one of those things I just mentioned, if you understand the beliefs that Scientology and CCHR have about psychiatry specifically, you’ll see that these words, from their point of view, are absolutely anti-psychiatry, and justify the attacking of psychiatry.
So the United Nations talks about people not being subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. And we can all imagine around the world what that might look like in certain countries, and for certain groups of people. For the CCHR, their belief is that modern, safe, well-regulated, appropriate psychiatric practice in every big city, in every hospital, in every psychiatrist’s office around North America is actually “torture or cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment.”
So their definition of psychiatry and what psychiatry is, actually in their mind filters in to this human rights set-up that they have.
So, we read it and we think, “Wow, that’s impressive. It’s a human rights organization.”
But from their point of view, they are taking the language, they’re taking the rhetoric of human rights, and they’re twisting it to further substantiate, to further justify their completely off-base opinions and beliefs regarding psychiatry.
So to recap a little bit, the CCHR is not about human rights. The CCHR has taken the language of human rights, and it uses it to become more legitimate in the eyes of casual observers, and it uses it to justify its own efforts to destroy psychiatry.
And it’s actually the destruction of psychiatry, which we’ve talked about, in Scientology and now in the CCHR, that is ultimately their goal.
I want to read a little bit from a very interesting document that comes from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. It’s an International Executive Directive, dated November 28th, 1989. And this is something that sort of sets up a sense of what their approach, and what their… what the things that are important to the CCHR really are. And this is a document that talks about what they call “Psych Losses,” which is… Basically, they say, “This new expanded Psych Losses stat opens the door to really cleaning up the field of mental healing, putting criminal psychs behind bars and getting their destructive practices outlawed. So it’s basically not about human rights, it’s about destroying psychiatry.
And “Psych Losses” is a fascinating, fascinating document. It’s basically kind of a participation program, or a “frequent flyer” program, or a points or loyalty… consumer loyalty program, that gives CCHR members and Scientologists particular points or particular rewards for certain behaviors that damage or destroy psychiatry.
So, for example, in here on page 3, when it comes to publishing books; it says, “You get ten points per page of material which exposes rotten spots in the field of mental healing, per 100,000 printing. Example: There have been several books published in the last year which have had chapters containing data about psychs, supplied by the CCHR. If one of these had ten pages of anti-psych materials, and the first printing was 50,000 copies, that would be 50 points. If the book was made successful, and then went into a second printing of 100,000 copies, that would be an additional 100 points.”
9:45 (end of Part 1)
0:00
…[If the book was made successful, and] then went into a second printing of 100,000 copies, that would be an additional 100 points.
There are further points for the distribution of information letters, pamphlets and broadsheets. It says, “These are publications exposing the crimes and abuses in the field of mental health, produced by CCHR groups, which are then distributed broadly to the public, either by handouts or by mail, etc. One point per page per 100,000 distributed.”
So you can start adding up your points!
CCHR often approaches people that possibly have had some difficult experiences within the field of mental health, possibly have been harmed or victimized by whomever or whatever, people that are frustrated, people that are hurting. The idea is to get them to talk about these experiences and to start a process against psychiatry.
So we have, for example, part of “Psych Losses” on page 4. You get points for “A signed and witnessed written statement or signed affidavit from the person telling his story (the victim himself or the surviving relative or guardian of someone killed, ruined or otherwise abused by a psych or other member of the field of mental health, or by a psych organization: 25 points.”
Listen to this language. It’s also true that they’re not just going after psychiatrists. We’re talking about psychiatric nurses, psychiatric administrators, or any type of worker within a mental health or a psychiatric organization.
So they go after people that they feel possibly have had a difficult experience. And they try to convince them to come forward and try to convince them, in a sense, to be a victim.
It gets better. And we’re getting into the big point hauls, now. Here we go: “An official indictment with formal criminal charges against a psych or a member of a psych organization or group or official by a government or police agency, based on a criminal complaint filed through the actions of a CCHR group. For each person charged with at least one felony charge: 1000 points. ”
“Criminal psych or mental health field rotten spot organization or official found guilty of a criminal charge: 5000 points.”
“Bonus: For each additional charge found guilty of: 1250 points.”
And here’s a neat one: For “Psych or mental health field rotten spot organization official sentenced to jail term.” For each year of the sentence you get an additional 500 points, if it’s your material within the CCHR that has caused this to happen. I feel like we could almost fly to Europe on this.
Finally, it talks about anti-psychiatry legislation. This is the creation of laws or the influence of laws at the level of politics. And the CCHR has done an awful lot of work in attempting to change laws to become very unfriendly to psychiatry. That’s the topic of a different discussion.
But here we go on page 7:
“Anti-psych legislation introduced which would limit the power, activities or funding, etc., of a psych or psych groups or activities. International level: 500 points. National level: 250 points. Regional or state level: 100 points, and local level: 50 points.”
There’s a lot more in here, and I think I’ve belabored this just to give a sense of what kind of direction the CCHR is truly coming from.
I don’t see a lot of human rights in that document that I just talked about.
These are individuals and this is an organization that wishes to destroy psychiatry and wishes to motivate its people to go along with that.
Looking at what we’ve already seen, the “Psychiatric Global Vaporization” … here’s another picture of “Psychiatric Global Vaporization”. (Shows.) Citizens Commission for Human Rights. So we’ve got a big CCHR brochure, we’ve got a big logo, and we’ve got the concept of global vaporization of psychiatry. So again, I don’t see a particular interest in human rights in the internal material that these people are talking about.
On New Years Eve 2006, the International Association of Scientogists had a big bash and the Scientology head honcho David Miscavige presented. Again he’s talking about a new effort to obliterate psychiatry: “Psychiatry: Global Obliteration.” This is something that can be seen on the Internet. It’s quite a disturbing speech, particularly because he starts to butt up against some images and some suggestions that are potentially violent.
Miscavige said his new campaign is to “break the dark spell cast across Earth by psychiatry. Our mental health budget adjustment kit, which essentially works like a smart bomb in that it sniffs out psych fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism. And in that way, to put it bluntly, we booby-trap the whole psychiatric eco system.”
Miscavige goes on to say, and again talking about Scientology and the CCHR, “While it takes a psych eight years to earn his license, we’ve already yanked twenty-one in the last four weeks.”
Human rights indeed.
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