After you have achieved a high level of ability you will be the first to insist upon your rights to live with honest people.
When you know the technology of the mind you know that it is a mistake to use “individual rights” and “freedom” as arguments to protect those who would only destroy.
Individual rights were not originated to protect criminals but to bring freedom to honest men. Into this area of protection then dived those who needed “freedom” and “individual liberty” to cover their own questionable activities.
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap. When his own deeds cannot be disclosed then he is a prisoner; he must withhold himself from his fellows and he is a slave to his own conscience. Freedom must be deserved before there is any freedom possible.
To protect dishonest people is to condemn them to their own hells. By making “individual rights” a synonym for “protect the criminal” one helps to bring about a slave state for all; for where “individual liberty” is abused, an impatience with it arises which at length sweeps us all away. The targets of all disciplinary laws are the few who err. Such laws unfortunately also injure and restrict those who do not err. If all were honest there would be no disciplinary threats.
There is only one way out for a dishonest person — facing up to his responsibilities in the society and putting himself back into communication with his fellow man, his family, the world at large. By seeking to invoke his “individual rights” to protect himself from an examination of his deeds, he reduces just that much the future of individual liberty, for he himself is not free. Yet he infects others who are honest by using their rights to freedom to protect himself.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a guilty conscience.
And it will lie no more easily by seeking to protect misdeeds by pleas of “freedom means that you must never look at me”. The right of a person to survive is directly related to his honesty.
Freedom for man does not mean freedom to injure man. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to harm by lies.
Man cannot be free while there are those amongst him who are slaves to their own terrors.
The mission of a techno-space society is to subordinate the individual and control him, by economic and political duress. The only casualty in a machine age is the individual and his freedom.
To preserve that freedom one must not permit men to hide their evil intentions under the protection of that freedom. To be free a man must be honest with himself and with his fellows.
If a man uses his own honesty to protect the unmasking of dishonesty, then that man is an enemy of his own freedom.
We can stand in the sun only so long as we don’t let the deeds of others bring the darkness.
Freedom is for honest men. Individual liberty exists only for those who have the ability to be free.
Today in Scientology we know the gaoler — the person himself. And we can restore the right to stand in the sun by eradicating the evil men do to themselves.
So do not say that the investigation of a person or the past is a step forward to slavery. For in Scientology such a step is the first step toward freeing a man from the guilt of self.
Were it the intention of the Scientologist to punish the guilty, then and only then would a look into the past of another be wrong.
But we are not the police. Our look is the first step toward unlocking the doors — for they are all barred from within.
Who would punish when he could salvage?
Only a madman would break a wanted object he could repair — and we are not mad.
The individual must not die in this machine age — rights or no rights. The criminal and the madman must not triumph with their new-found tools of destruction.
The least free person is the person who cannot reveal his own acts and who protests the revelation of the improper acts of others. On such people will be built a future political slavery where we all have numbers — and our guilt — unless we act.
It is fascinating that blackmail and punishment are the keynotes of all dark operations. What would happen if these two commodities no longer existed? What would happen if all men were free enough to speak? Then and only then would you have freedom.
On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
Don’t stand in the road of that freedom. Be free, yourself.