Hubbard's version, from 13 Sep 1978, is
There is so much bad in the best of us
And so much good in the worst of us
That it ill behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
I remember when it first came out wondering about the rhyming scheme and thinking the first two lines would sound better transposed. I guess Hubbard just had to dick with it and make it worse somehow.
Paul
August 18, 1978 story from the Washington Post under the headline 'Matriarch surrenders':
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Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of...
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According to Heldt's deputy, Duke Snider, the situation has come to pass because the Church was born amid the paranoia of the McCarthy era in the 1950s, when government agents investigated and contrived reports about the Church including alleged links to LSD, homosexuality, and brainwashing."
Does that sound familiar? The "
cold war era..."
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/washingtonpost/marysue-081878.htm
Some background:
Below is a sampling of some pages from the many pages of letters sent by L. Ron Hubbard to the FBI during the 1950s. I've seen the photocopies of these letters, and the 2nd and 3rd pages down are missing a paragraph and two lines which were, for some reason, not scanned. I have filled in the missing paragraph and two lines.
The content of these letters ranges from attempts to identify people as Comminists, to "explanations" for various things, and an apparent attempt to persuade the FBI to persuade the IRS to not investigate Hubbard and his finances lest Hubbard accept a Soviet offer to fly to Russia and work "for very high fees," etc., to just plain bizarre ramblings.
The letters in their entirety can be accessed if one is curious, but these pages happen to be handy on the Net.
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In the greatest spirit of friendship and camaraderie it seem that I can go to Russia as an advisor or a consultant and have my own laboratories and receive very high fees. And it's all so easy because it's already been ascertained that I could get my passport extended for Russia and all I had to do was go to Paris and there a Russian plane would pick me up and that would be that.
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Indeed that would be that.
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I suppose when the Russian-inclined 'friend' finds that...
A page from another letter of the time period:
Part of a letter from September 1955. Note the reference to LSD.
A few weeks later in September 1955, Hubbard also told Scientologists about the covert use of LSD - the "insanity drug" - to undermine and discredit Scientology. Note the duplicity.
From the 'Professional Auditors Bulletin' of 30 September 1955:
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I could tell you about long strings of psychotics run in on the Foundation and the Association, sent in to us by psychiatrists who then, using LSD and pain-drug-hypnosis, spun them and told everyone that Dianetics and Scientology drove people insane. I could tell you about the strange politics and ambitions of psychiatry, so well covered in the book Psychopolitics [Hubbard's hoax 'Russian textbook on Pyscho-Politics', which he had just secretly authored and was soon to be published]
, and give you a proper riddle as to why we, a small group, the only ANGLO-SAXON DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT [sic], have been subjected to so much attack and finance... But I am not telling you stories or being dramatic. I am inviting your cooperation in your own future security..."
As for dealing with those whose behavior became erratic or an embarrassment after Scientology processing, Hubbard wrote, in the same 'PAB':
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You'll find the family physician or psychiatrist was called in midway in processing... You'll find there is a vested interest somewhere in the insanity of the person. An so testify that you suspect it. We will have on hand lots of literature on LSD..."
Sixteen years later, Hubbard would write a similar statement, although this one doesn't mention LSD and is more to the point. It has the simple title 'Confidential', and is dated 29 June 1971:
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Policy is that we assign any case or upset in Scientology to past damage and interference with the person by medicine or psychiatry. They were sent into us after medicine or psychiatry had already destroyed them. We cannot be blamed for psychiatric or medical failures."
IN 1955, Hubbard also had sent the FBI a copy of his concocted "Russian Textbook on Psycho-politics', which - with its multiple negative references to Dianetics - was to "document" his assertion that Dianetics and Scientology were patriotic and under attack by the Russians.
No doubt about it. Miscavige
hijacked Scientology and
Reversed it. Yup.
Now, where were we, of yes, "Tom Cruise, Scientologist..."