: The Lisa McPherson Trust: Mission, Objectives and Philosophy

The Lisa McPherson Trust: Mission, Objectives and Philosophy
From: Bob Minton  <bob@minton.org>
Subject: The Lisa McPherson Trust: Mission, Objectives and Philosophy
Date: 1999/12/10
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The Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc.

Mission Statement:

To carry out the final wishes of Lisa McPherson's mother, Fannie, which were
to expose the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology and to help
those who have been victimized by it.

Statement of Objectives:

To accomplish our mission, we will demystify and thereby make transparent
the  coercive processes and practices of Scientology. In this way, informed
consumers can make an educated decision about whether Scientology can meet
their psychological or spiritual  needs.

We will expose Scientology's abuses of the human, civil and privacy rights
of  its members and critics.  We will reveal  its deceptive advertising
practices that border on consumer fraud. We will disclose its "religious
practices" and conduct that violate civil and criminal law.  However, we
will of course  respect the rights of all Scientologists to embrace any
religious belief they may choose.

We will assist former Scientologists to recover from their unique personal
experience with the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology.  We will
offer counsel to current Scientologists who choose  to learn the truth about
how Scientology uses deceptive mind control techniques to capture their
hearts and minds. Our dedicated staff of counselors will provide the
information,  compassion and support to current Scientologists that will
enable  them to release the bonds of cult mind control.

Finally, all of the people involved in the Lisa McPherson Trust will respect
the dignity and innate human goodness of all current, former and recovering
Scientologists.

                                      

Our Philosophy:

The Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and staff of the Lisa McPherson
Trust  includes a number of  former Scientologists who have had first hand
experience with Scientology's abuse, and they are all in some way still
recovering from it. They are decent, caring and loving human beings who have
freely chosen to help others who have made a similar  uninformed decision
about  Scientology.  Moreover, they are willing and able to share their
innermost personal experiences in the Sea Organization or as Public
Scientologists in order to counsel, educate and immunize others against the
abuses and deceptions of Scientology.

Scientology draws its members from a broad cross-section of society, and,
like other destructive cults, uses a sophisticated combination of deceptive
recruiting methods, false promises, hypnosis, behavior modification, sleep
deprivation, dietary manipulation, information control, phobia
indoctrination and other mind control techniques to entice and control its
members. There is no shame in having been seduced into a group like
Scientology. Likewise, there need not be any reluctance to leave after
discovering that the organization is not capable of delivering on its
promise of a road to total freedom.

Real freedom begins and ends with the never-ending quest of the human spirit
to be free. This perpetual quest is the single most important factor that
keeps mind control from being  irreversible. Organized Scientology claims
eight million members, including anyone who has ever taken a course or
bought a book. However, informed estimates indicate that there are at most
no more than 200,000 active Scientologists in the world today. This apparent
rejection of Scientology by 7.8 million people who have tried it is the
single greatest testimonial to the fact that this organization does not
deliver on its promises.

The Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and staff of the Lisa McPherson
Trust will do our part in Clearwater, Florida, to see that the human spirit
of all Scientologists will always have a pathway to real freedom.

Sincerely,


Bob Minton,
for and on behalf of
The Lisa McPherson Trust

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