[Today’s guest post is by Bruce Hines] “Break time!” These words came to me across the valley with urgency. Then I heard other voices repeating the signal. It was a code. It meant that I should stop what I was doing, drop any tools, and immediately walk, not run, to a place where I would not be visible from the air.
Bruce was waiting to be rescued. Wow. I think a lot of us felt that way. It’s hard to explain. Even if you don’t have any physical ties holding you back, you can still feel very trapped there. AND even tell authorities you are ok and don’t need any help.
It’s insane what we tell ourselves to endure what we endured.
Minor correction (of course Bruce would not have known this). Happy Valley was an RPF, operating out of the Campbell House when I arrived there in 1983. We didn't have to build new housing but we did a lot of renovations. While also building the Music Studio and so on at the Int Base.
There is a Hubbard "advice" about the Int Base, one line of which simply says: "There is no RPF there". So the use of slave labor to renovate and construct buildings like the old Bonny View house, the "12 mic" lecture recording studio, the Music Studio and so on was kind of problematic. At times they have gotten around it by simply assigning people to slave labor willy-nilly as punishment. "Arbeit macht Frei" if you will. Other times they called it the Decks Project Force or simply "being on the decks". For about a year after I got there, it was simply the RPF at the Happy Valley. Then they changed the name of the RPF to Gold Construction Team (GCT). We were basically still slave labor and still lived at HV with the real RPF but took the bus to Gold every day.
On the GCT, on the electrical team under Martin Reid (with Amy Scobee for part of that time), I did high and low voltage electrical work, HVAC design and installation, lighting systems, control systems, all kinds of skilled labor by unskilled slaves.
Probably the piece de resistance of that period was the generator backup system. The 2 MW diesel generator and fuel tank are still visible on Google Maps though the rest of the Old Gilman House area is razed. Within three minutes after a power outage that generator is running and switched in to power the whole base. Sadly it is really too small for that, but the control system works!
At times they shut down the RPF program in the 90s, then as Bruce says they started it up again. But there were always smiling type-3 folks sequestered there in the Valley of the Many Happy Smiles. Not to mention the kids. When I got RPFed for being late to muster in 1990 they sent me to LA instead of HV (it's in Marc's book "Blown for Good").
Not commenting on the Bunker as Techie anymore, too much political garbage.
The unquestioned by the Scientology public of slave labor shows just how brainwashed those still in, are. I was one of those members even though I had been in the RPF. Because of my unwavering belief that Hubbard was always right regarding running his organization, any inhuman treatment was whitewashed. I still have traces of the programming to remove. It’s a slow process.
How anyone can endure the RPF or the conditions that Bruce has testified to is beyond me. I guess learned helplessness and having your spouse held hostage is enough to keep the prisoners working. Accomplishing any goal, like building up 'Happy Valley' is also a goad that gives the prisoners something to be proud of. The fact that Clams are put on the RPF to get more free labor is a time honored tradition in the Clampire. Lroon used it and so does Miscavige. Holy shades of Stalin Batman.
Cummins and Bridgeforth aren't needed to open any new mOrg and would only be a distraction. Only Niblet is King and everyone else had better remember that. But will Niblet actually show up in the flesh? My breath is not baited and I am not holding it either. Open up all the new mOrgs your want Niblet, they are now financial black holes and will bankrupt the Clampire in short to medium order.
Bruce was waiting to be rescued. Wow. I think a lot of us felt that way. It’s hard to explain. Even if you don’t have any physical ties holding you back, you can still feel very trapped there. AND even tell authorities you are ok and don’t need any help.
It’s insane what we tell ourselves to endure what we endured.
Minor correction (of course Bruce would not have known this). Happy Valley was an RPF, operating out of the Campbell House when I arrived there in 1983. We didn't have to build new housing but we did a lot of renovations. While also building the Music Studio and so on at the Int Base.
There is a Hubbard "advice" about the Int Base, one line of which simply says: "There is no RPF there". So the use of slave labor to renovate and construct buildings like the old Bonny View house, the "12 mic" lecture recording studio, the Music Studio and so on was kind of problematic. At times they have gotten around it by simply assigning people to slave labor willy-nilly as punishment. "Arbeit macht Frei" if you will. Other times they called it the Decks Project Force or simply "being on the decks". For about a year after I got there, it was simply the RPF at the Happy Valley. Then they changed the name of the RPF to Gold Construction Team (GCT). We were basically still slave labor and still lived at HV with the real RPF but took the bus to Gold every day.
On the GCT, on the electrical team under Martin Reid (with Amy Scobee for part of that time), I did high and low voltage electrical work, HVAC design and installation, lighting systems, control systems, all kinds of skilled labor by unskilled slaves.
Probably the piece de resistance of that period was the generator backup system. The 2 MW diesel generator and fuel tank are still visible on Google Maps though the rest of the Old Gilman House area is razed. Within three minutes after a power outage that generator is running and switched in to power the whole base. Sadly it is really too small for that, but the control system works!
At times they shut down the RPF program in the 90s, then as Bruce says they started it up again. But there were always smiling type-3 folks sequestered there in the Valley of the Many Happy Smiles. Not to mention the kids. When I got RPFed for being late to muster in 1990 they sent me to LA instead of HV (it's in Marc's book "Blown for Good").
Not commenting on the Bunker as Techie anymore, too much political garbage.
The unquestioned by the Scientology public of slave labor shows just how brainwashed those still in, are. I was one of those members even though I had been in the RPF. Because of my unwavering belief that Hubbard was always right regarding running his organization, any inhuman treatment was whitewashed. I still have traces of the programming to remove. It’s a slow process.
How anyone can endure the RPF or the conditions that Bruce has testified to is beyond me. I guess learned helplessness and having your spouse held hostage is enough to keep the prisoners working. Accomplishing any goal, like building up 'Happy Valley' is also a goad that gives the prisoners something to be proud of. The fact that Clams are put on the RPF to get more free labor is a time honored tradition in the Clampire. Lroon used it and so does Miscavige. Holy shades of Stalin Batman.
Cummins and Bridgeforth aren't needed to open any new mOrg and would only be a distraction. Only Niblet is King and everyone else had better remember that. But will Niblet actually show up in the flesh? My breath is not baited and I am not holding it either. Open up all the new mOrgs your want Niblet, they are now financial black holes and will bankrupt the Clampire in short to medium order.
Prisoners building their own prison.
So, this was not where Uwe Stuckenbock lived out his miserable last days? I guess that came later.
Uwe was on the RPF at the Int base but all of them got moved to the PAC RPF around mid 1999.
He was there being pushed around in a wheelchair on the RPF. It was insane.