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			<title>RE: RE: Wow Bill!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And something else, Bill, at least he was with his wife, who supported and took care of him with love and kindness as he died. They weren't in the S.O. I just remember so well the whole flow of how the medical profession couldn't do anything good for anybody and even might make you worse. That's such flippin false bullshit! You're living proof of that! :)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:30:48 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Wow Bill!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bill, that was around 1995. He went Clear through our mission and went to Flag to get onto OT levels or maybe to do Ls. He had 2 little sores that wouldn't go away that led to his diagnosis of AIDS (VERY low T cells too) and was sent off to die. Of course nobody wanted him to go the conventional medical route and he and his wife tried some alternative stuff that didn't work. He did get some auditing to deal with dying from friends thru our mission. He was a great guy and I'm positive he's returned. Now let's hope he stays away from DM! So far so good. :)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:24:57 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Holy Shit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am speechless once again. Thank you for telling your story (or part of it at least). These human rights abuses must end!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bert Schippers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:07:41 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Wow Bill!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear Tara, I'm sorry to hear about your friend who did not make it. When did this happen? After 1996 the treatments for HIV greatly improved and there is no reason for anyone to die fron AIDS. The government pays for the medication so there was no expense to the church for that. The part for me that was worse than death was being kept away from my wife. After she finally got off the ship I asked her"So what was going to happen? You were going to be ket there until my funeral? She said that she would not have been allowed off the ship for the funeral. Another staff member would have been sent to wrap up loose ends, in other words dispost of the body, etc. Love Bill]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Straass</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:59:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Just Blow</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dan, that is an important point - JUST BLOW! Trying to route out just leaves you vulnerable and the victim of evil shit that messes you up worse! Spare yourself the tons of bypassed charge. You don't have to pay a freeloader's debt and you can get auditing as LRH intended AWAY from that evil shit! Save your case from ruin - BLOW! Get the hell out as quick as you can. You won't regret it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:39:04 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Wow Bill!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow Bill! I'm sooo glad you made it! Welcome to the Indies too. An old friend of mine turned up with AIDS and they couldn't get him out of Flag fast enough. Long story. And he didn't make it. I hope to meet you one day too. :)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:29:56 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I would be very happu to meet you. I knew a lot of Flag public in the early 80s before the ship was purchased. I was a NOTs Board I/C for FSO before I went to the ship.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Straass</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:54:07 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well done, Bill. You are a hero. Thanks for your story, it hasn't been lost on me. It will be my great pleasure to meet you one day. Love, Rich]]></description>
			<dc:creator>poet13c</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:16:26 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you Bill, for telling your story. It is one of the more horrific ones that I have heard. Thank you for persisting and staying alive. That is a real credit to your first dynamic life force! This makes it very real how little the life of a Sea org member is valued. May you flourish and prosper in your new life. I hope your current wife doesn't "disconnect instantly" when she finds out you wrote these words. I have much experience with Disconnection, and it is painful, but what is more painful is the lack of integrity when you know that you should speak out, but you don't. You will save other lives with your story, and prevent this from happening to others. My hat is off to you! I am also a good friend of Scott and Karry Campbell, so I am very happy that you have them as friends to support you in the inevitable fireworks of declaring your Independence!! Much ARC, Catherine von Ach]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Catherine von Ach</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:53:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bill, This is a horrific story but with a happy ending. The mindfuck on all flows regarding this is astounding. I am glad you are here to tell this story. I am still dumbstruck by the heartlessness.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Doe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:13:59 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This just an awesome story of survival, Bill. Thank you. Screw DM and his out-of-valance minions and their perversions. You are a true OT because you survived, you have a great wife and you have your free life now. Very well done!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael Priv</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:49:24 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds Horror Stories</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Karen, Actually I only served in the Sea Org for 9 years. From '85 to '94. First on the Ship project. Then on the Freewinds itself. L, Scott]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Campbell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:02:32 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nuclear Bill, Thanks for telling this story. I've known and been best buddies with you for 25 years now. I know that this is but a fraction of the criminal wrongdoing perpetrated on Sea Org members by the C of S that you and I have experienced and/or have personal knowledge of. As these stories come out, more and more people will wake up to the truth about the Church of Scientology and its policy of callous disregard for life. Well done and continue Bill! Love, Your brother Scott]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Campbell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:57:34 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your acknowledgment. There is much more to the story. Every single day I wake up and I remember another piece. It's good to write it down and even better to get it acked. When I first came on staff in Sacramento at the mission Royel Jandreau, (a friend of Thoughtful's ) gave me a PL to read. "The Supreme Test". Well, I guess that I passed the test. Otherwise I would be dead. For those of you you know anything about HIV or AIDS, my T cell count was zero and my viral load was off the top of the scale before I received any real treatment.Most people are dead before the T cell count gets to zero. I had a cat scan because HIV affects the brain. The neurologist said on the report that I had "marked brain volume loss". However, I re-did my purif (Not at an org because an SPD written in 1996 says HIV positive people cannot use an org sauna even though the issue states correctly that it is not transmitted by sweat.) When I did the IQ test I scored 155 and the test administrator said that he had never seen anyone finish the test so soon after it was given. So as LRH says, the brain is not the intelligence of thew person. I was used to moving fast in the SO because the fatigue was so bad, If I stopped moving, I would just pass out. When you have so few blood cells left you are operating continually like a car out of gas. I can remember movie lines better than anyone I know. It annoys people sometimes, like my first wife Sharron (now, if she is still married, I was her 3rd husband and she was remarried weeks after our divorce (O shit, that's another clusterfuck story, don't get me going again, I'll be here all day) Anyway, Sharron was the Dir I and R FSSO when we married in 92, She was close to DM and was always saying that DM had something for her to do. She was proud of her ability to rip someone's face off". Now as I think of it this was now doubt why he liked her. She may have even invented the term. I know that the Captain said at staff meeting once that one had to be brave to even walk down C deck Port side where her office was. She often had a foul opinion of other staff and would tell me things like "Joe is a faggot". I made the mistake once of repeating something she said and she got in trouble for it. She never forgave me, just as I expect that my current wife will disconnect from me instantly as soon as she reads these words. Anyway, Sharron said that I was a walking tape recorder. I seem to recall in Dianetics that we all record everything we perceive. Thank you all for listening. Love, Bill]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Straass</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:33:13 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Attest</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can personally attest that what you just wrote is good advice, Dan. I routed out from Int. It was an enormous hassle and a total betrayal of trust with long-lasting repercussions. The way to think about the CoS is the same way you'd think about leaving from a cage with a wild bear in it. You wouldn't "route out properly" because the longer you stay in that cage, the worse you are going to be mauled. And you ARE going to be mauled. That bear is programmed to maul anything that is not a bear. So just getting out IS the ethical and right thing to do.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Thoughtful</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:04:40 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Unbelievable story</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bill, your story is chilling. What you experienced at the hands of Napier and others aboard is a reflection of the heartlessness of DM. Your story demonstrates clearly that for anyone wishing to leave an org or the SO, the only real alternative one has is simply to BLOW. "Routing out" is simply asking for months or years of trouble. I urge all SO members or org staff reading this who are thinking of leaving to do simply that and just blow. I can tell from my own experience that it is a much cleaner method and has had zero repercussions on me personally. There is really no liability in blowing compared to the alternative as you have so starkly communicated above. Best of luck to you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dan Koon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:22:57 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I read your write up to a friend who does not have access to a computer where he is. He is a poet. Has a beautiful mind. During our discussion I wrote down two quotes from him: "In Scientology (not the Church), love is a verb." "The neglect of reason descends into immorality. The neglect of morality descends into violence." He goes by: Largo Paris 69]]></description>
			<dc:creator>one of those who see</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:54:36 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/freewinds-off-purpose-off-course.html#comment-4341</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for sharing your story, Bill Straass. I'm glad you and your wife persisted. The Church of Scientology violated your civil, human and constitutional rights. Right at this very moment, in one or more orgs around the world, one or more Sea Org are being deprived of their rights in an equally degrading and insane manner. I suggest you contact a lawyer experienced in and knowledgeable about Scientology to find out what your options are, if any at this time. Your speaking up can change this treatment and terrible deprivation of care inflicted on SO members. You can have an impact. Your story about how you were treated is one of the worst I've heard or read about. I am so happy you survived this. I do hope all is well for you and your family and that you will continue to speak up more and more.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mary McConnell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:06:32 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Bill and Alison, I am very happy that you are doing well and alive! I was on the ship when Alison was trying to leave and she was treated like a criminal. She went from being considered a valuable Engineer to being considered a piece of dirt and all because she wanted to be with her husband who was dying. That is really inhumane and heartless. I am so glad that you stuck to what you knew was right and both got out!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>V.Guider</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:42:46 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Freewinds Horror Stories</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear Bill ~~ Thank you for coming forward with your story. I greatly admire your strength and level of endurance. As posted some images of yourself with Scott Campbell, I wanted to post some excerpts of what Scott posted on Marty's blog~~ Scott was one of the Original crew of Freewinds and served on it 15 years. 1) Scott Campbell | March 11, 2011 at 1:54 am | Reply Ask anyone who knows me and was there , I was literally driven to the absolute depths of insanity with Black Dianetics while in the Sea Org. Some of the acts perpetrated on me while in this state were to literally provoke me to commit suicide by the most profoundly heinous means, including a prolonged administration of a deep narcosynthesis drug and another drug that causes retrograde amnesia, both prescribed by scientologist doctors (one of whom did her residency in a psych ward) – all the while with auditors performing actual Black Dianetics processes on me. The Implant/Cave-in to commit suicide was then further facilitated by Sea Org members [censored]ysically taking me to a place in the dead of night where I could have easily jumped to my death and ended it all, TWICE – with no one the wiser – yet I did not. ####### 2)During the time of my “incarceration” (after routing out of the Sea Org mind you) the first two people assigned to watch me were both Martial Arts experts and Sea Org Members. For any perceived untoward behavior on my part, I was rewarded by one or both of them with painful blows, painful submission holds or even being rendered unconscious by suffocation or choking. They nearly killed me a couple of times, one time so harrowing and on the very edge of death that it raised my necessity level to move the entire machinery of the Sea Org from what was being done to getting those guys out of there and getting a standard PAB 6 handling. Immediately afterward, one of those guys became COB’s personal bodyguard. The other one left the S.O. not long after. ##### Scott told me that the mixture of chloral hydrate and another psychiatric drug could have caused him permanent brain damage if not amnesia which Scott found out through Internet Research. ##### Bill, if you would like to tell your story on camera in the forthcoming documentary "Knowledge Report" please be in touch with Mark Bunker at Markbunker@gmail.com]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Karen#1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:43:19 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow! Incredible story Bill. Seems unbelievable until you run into others with similar stories of how the Church of Scientology has turned into a fascistic totalitarian authoritarian organization. Not only are they off course but they are in uncharted waters falling off the edge of the Earth where ancient cartogra[censored]ers used to write: "There be monsters there" Anyway I'm glad you are doing alright now Bill and that you managed to live through your experience. Best Robin]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:36:11 -0600</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Church, has so much truth at their fingertips and at the same time is dramatizing some of the worst evil ever on this planet. In KSW series I, LRH wrote "Thus each one of us can rise above the domination of the bank and then, as a group of freed beings, achieve freedom and reason. It is only the aberrated group, the mob, that is destructive." Well, here we are the group of freed beings! Bill, I am so glad you are still with us and your wife bravely persisted until she was at your side. What a strong being you are! Thank you for all you have done to help forward the true goals of LRH and Scientology. And thank you for your write up that needs to be read by everyone. One more LRH quote from Leaving and Leaves HCOPL 7 Dec 1976 "There is no intention of holding on to people who do not want to be where they are." All the best to you and your wife!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>one of those who see</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:40:59 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Freewinds: off purpose, off course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Once again, the Church of Hypocrisy srikes. Truth is a luxury, if it suits their purpose and if it fits into their universal mantra "the greatest good". Unfortunately, even though DM is the biggest perpetrator of this cancer, there are many others who have joined his camp, and they are just as culpable for these types of crimes against people. Napier used to be a good guy. But don't worry, oppressive regimes ALWAYS fall, leaving it up to the rest of to put the show back on track.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OTB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:37:05 -0600</pubDate>
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