The resignation letter the article references was tendered to the church on the 3rd December 2009 and published online at Scientology-Cult.com on the 22nd December.

To: COB RTC (Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center)
IJC (International Justice Chief)
CJC ANZO (Continental Justice Chief, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania)
CO OSA ANZO (Commanding Officer, Office Special Affairs)
MAA AOSH ANZO (Master At Arms, Advanced Org and Saint Hill
STAFF, BRISBANE ORG

I, Lise O'Kane of Brisbane Australia do hereby announce my resignation from the Church of Scientology. My International Association of Scientologists (IAS) card and Class IV C/S certificate have been handed back to Brisbane Org.

The Church of Scientology management in its current form is a suppressive group who are forwarding illegal orders and downright destructive activities from International Management.

This group under “Command Intention” deal in propaganda and lies and promote this widely throughout the world as “unprecedented expansion”. Orgs are empty and hatred of Scientology is at an all time high yet the focus is to get upstat buildings and raise $ for the IAS to solve the problems and attacks.

This is a wrong. Why?

You cannot get Scientology within the churches anymore. The brilliant tech of LRH is just NOT available and in its place is a squirrel version.

In an article in the Freedom magazine David Miscavige said he answered to the millions of parishioners.

Over the last 10 years that I have been involved in Scientology, I have seen the slow erosion of the Org to what it has become now. The lies and “doublethink” (George Orwell 1984) are rampant through each and every level. The fear to speak your mind is rampant throughout staff members and public.

You can remain in good standing as long as you do exactly what you are told. You are told to LOOK but this really transcends into ONLY WHAT WE TELL YOU TO LOOK AT.

LRH says in Keeping Scientology Working Series #1 that we only get hit for “no” results or “bad” results. Well HELLO??? Where is your responsibility on this. All this trouble is self generated and yet is blamed on “SPs.”

I could write a very long-winded disconnection letter full of refs that are violated daily and broadly but to tell the truth. I really can’t be bothered. So below are some of many major points.

* Personal and widespread comms that refer to the Golden Age of Knowledge (GAK) as the source reference. Squirrel [means "corrupted"]. (attached)

* Embellished symbols by adding GAK microphone symbol with Dn and Scn ones and promoted broadly in magazines. Squirrel. (attached)

* No “real” statistics given in magazines and on Scientology websites with evidence to back them up as true.

* No profiles of any Int management staff on any legitimate website except for David Miscavige.

* The keeping of outer org trainees at FLAG in Clearwater, Florida for way beyond what is needed for them to fire back into their own orgs to produce. Instead keeping them at FLAG to be cash cows for years under the guise of “waiting for perfection”.

* The consistent reg’ing for the IAS as the only solution for the planet and using “rewards” and references out of context to get compliance and suppression on each individual to DO these squirrel programs. (attached)

* The complete and utter nullification of allowing any Scientologist to freely express any grievances or protests that they have.

* The public denial by Tommy Davis that disconnection does not exist. When we ALL know it does.

* The use of priest privileged information collected from PC and ethics folders used to disparage people and also embellishing the contents and then either publishing it through Freedom magazine or through the Scientology system of Ethics Orders labeling people as criminals and other nasty terms.

If this happened to only 2 1/2% then it might be valid but it's a LOT more than that and would be a lot more if half the public and staff members had the courage to speak freely without the fear of having an ethics order or declare order published on them which was intentionally written to disparage and discredit them.

* This week alone, Brisbane Org had Senior C/S Chief CMO, CJC ANZO and a top sea org recruiter directly running the Org on some recruit mission. Nothing personal on these guys they are great people but since when are they our recruiters??? They are management for crying out loud, how off-policy is THAT??

You guys are an absolute shambles. Its not a question of “having to
bypass” because we aren’t doing our jobs. You aren’t doing yours. End of story.

* There is no point trying to correct local orgs because the squirreling comes right from the top and the only way to correct this horrendous scene is by each and every public scientologist to just simply walk away and say NO.

I am now expressing my rights as set by LRH to freedom of speech and I am also taking back my right to freely use my ability gained on Grade 0 “To freely communicate to anyone about anything.” This ability of mine has been squashed for years within the church and yet brilliant in the outside "wog" world.

I am also using my right to assign a condition because I am damned if I am going to wear the condition myself for the lack of assigning it.

I assign the Church of Scientology management and all its entities the condition of TREASON.

I now say NO and hope that others will do the same.

Lise O’Kane
Brisbane, Australia


The two major points in relation to the McBride suicide are that O'Kane asserts that there is an ongoing investigation and that auditing was not to blame for the death of McBride.

I'm not entirely sure what investigation O'Kane is referencing although I suspect it could be a police enquiry. When the Rudd government rejected Xenophon's call for a senate enquiry they stated that "the Tax Office and police were the most appropriate authorities to investigate any complaints."

As for whether auditing had any bearing over McBride's death I'm still out on that one. On one hand O'Kane claims that auditing had nothing to do with McBride's death yet she also tables in her resignation letter a list of, at the very least, questionable undertakings carried out by the church.

As a member of the general public this doesn't exactly inspire confidence that Scientology auditing and the manner in which it is applied wasn't to blame for the death of McBride.

As far as I'm aware the articles O'Kane mentions that she plans to write have not yet been published. I get the feeling that once this current investigation is over, regardless of the findings, that there's a lot of information out there being suppressed that's ready to come out.

One or two renegades are dismissable as possible sour grapes but when you start to see similar stories coming from people based in different parts of the world as they systematically leave the organisation it becomes increasingly hard to pass on the benefit of the doubt.

Hopefully O'Kane's resignation, the unanswered questions surrounding the McBride death and tabled letters from former Australian Scientologists are enough to pass a senate vote in February.

As a society we hold other religious organisations to account when they misbehave so why does it feel like anything related to Scientology inevitably just disappears into a black hole of legal threats and misdirection?

1. Unanswered Questions: Scientology and Edward McBride
2. Scientology Soldier's Sizzling Suicide
3. The push to criminalize Scientology in Australia
4. Russia’s Scientology book ban doesn’t go far enough
5. Xenophon’s Scientology Senate inquiry fails, what now?