What Souter did to Valerie is undue influence at its worst. What is undue influence?
In contract law, undue influence is a defense that can be used by a party to argue against the formation of a binding contract between two parties. The use of undue influence by one party over another puts the free will of one of the parties entering the contract into question, and therefore leads to the contract being unenforceable and voidable by the victim party. To prove undue influence, a party must show that one party to the contract is a person with weaknesses which make him likely to be affected by such persuasion, and that the party exercising the persuasion is someone in a special relationship with the victim that makes the victim especially susceptible to such persuasion. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/undue_influence
What Souter did to Valerie that day is undue influence at its worst. He used the same process Hubbard used on his followers, repetition, over and over again, increasing her suggestibility to where Valerie believed she was doing the right thing. Each time she wavered, even a little, he smoothed the issue over, and repeated his tactic. Valerie did not have a chance. She thought she was making an independent choice. She wasn’t. Souter was influencing her even more deeply into Hubbard’s toxic mindset. She was a puppet. (Sorry, Valerie, this isn’t personal) Souter presented leaving the Sea Org as a simple quid pro quo; you do this, we do that. No wonder Miscavige and OSA keep these activities deeply secreted. I wish Valerie well in her court hearing today.
Valerie's statements sounds like someone caught up badly in Stockholm syndrome. I hope the new judge gets to see that, Valerie's demeanor should be a very good clue to her mindset. Imagine being in the clutches of Souter and everyone who wants to program you into subservience and perhaps put you back in the clam bed for months. The phrases 'undue influence' and 'brain washing' jump out to me.
Overturning a contract is difficult to do, but that videotape may just do the trick.
I had a very hard time reading this transcript. If you’ve been there you understand. If you haven’t, it may not make sense. That girl was fighting for her very life. She had to pretend to appear upbeat and gung ho or they would not have let her go. She had, unfortunately, learned how to fake that in her many years on staff.
Despite scientology denials, I 💯 believe there was an armed guard in the room. I also believe anything negative she would have said would have been expertly edited out by the film crew. She probably also knew that.
That the court accepts that it may not even have an opinion about this process is a ... choice. I hope for the sake of the present and former victims of the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology that the choice can be revisited.
"routing out" is better defined as "last ditch brainwashing, using highly paid lawyers"
Lawyers are complicit with Scientology's blending Scientology indoctrination "musts" with legal "musts" backed up by a country's lawyers and laws.
Legalized brainwashing, last ditch brainwashing, of Scientologists leaving their vow's as Sea Org lifetime staff members.
Do not sign ever lawyer docs for Scientology, do not ever join Sea Org, and never sign any legal documents on your way leaving Scientology.
A book needs be compiled of the best simplest legal ways, as there are MANY moments to quit, and how to best quit, from all those different moments, in Sea Org and stafff life, and membership life, from Scientology, ought be compiled and simply laid out.
And get good outside lawyers to endorse the best way to quit and avoid Scientology's lawyers last ditch complicit efforts to tie up ex Sea Org members legally.
What Souter did to Valerie is undue influence at its worst. What is undue influence?
In contract law, undue influence is a defense that can be used by a party to argue against the formation of a binding contract between two parties. The use of undue influence by one party over another puts the free will of one of the parties entering the contract into question, and therefore leads to the contract being unenforceable and voidable by the victim party. To prove undue influence, a party must show that one party to the contract is a person with weaknesses which make him likely to be affected by such persuasion, and that the party exercising the persuasion is someone in a special relationship with the victim that makes the victim especially susceptible to such persuasion. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/undue_influence
What Souter did to Valerie that day is undue influence at its worst. He used the same process Hubbard used on his followers, repetition, over and over again, increasing her suggestibility to where Valerie believed she was doing the right thing. Each time she wavered, even a little, he smoothed the issue over, and repeated his tactic. Valerie did not have a chance. She thought she was making an independent choice. She wasn’t. Souter was influencing her even more deeply into Hubbard’s toxic mindset. She was a puppet. (Sorry, Valerie, this isn’t personal) Souter presented leaving the Sea Org as a simple quid pro quo; you do this, we do that. No wonder Miscavige and OSA keep these activities deeply secreted. I wish Valerie well in her court hearing today.
Valerie's statements sounds like someone caught up badly in Stockholm syndrome. I hope the new judge gets to see that, Valerie's demeanor should be a very good clue to her mindset. Imagine being in the clutches of Souter and everyone who wants to program you into subservience and perhaps put you back in the clam bed for months. The phrases 'undue influence' and 'brain washing' jump out to me.
Overturning a contract is difficult to do, but that videotape may just do the trick.
I had a very hard time reading this transcript. If you’ve been there you understand. If you haven’t, it may not make sense. That girl was fighting for her very life. She had to pretend to appear upbeat and gung ho or they would not have let her go. She had, unfortunately, learned how to fake that in her many years on staff.
Despite scientology denials, I 💯 believe there was an armed guard in the room. I also believe anything negative she would have said would have been expertly edited out by the film crew. She probably also knew that.
The intention is to bind your heirs.
How very religious. I’m moved to tears...
That the court accepts that it may not even have an opinion about this process is a ... choice. I hope for the sake of the present and former victims of the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology that the choice can be revisited.
"routing out" is better defined as "last ditch brainwashing, using highly paid lawyers"
Lawyers are complicit with Scientology's blending Scientology indoctrination "musts" with legal "musts" backed up by a country's lawyers and laws.
Legalized brainwashing, last ditch brainwashing, of Scientologists leaving their vow's as Sea Org lifetime staff members.
Do not sign ever lawyer docs for Scientology, do not ever join Sea Org, and never sign any legal documents on your way leaving Scientology.
A book needs be compiled of the best simplest legal ways, as there are MANY moments to quit, and how to best quit, from all those different moments, in Sea Org and stafff life, and membership life, from Scientology, ought be compiled and simply laid out.
And get good outside lawyers to endorse the best way to quit and avoid Scientology's lawyers last ditch complicit efforts to tie up ex Sea Org members legally.
Chuck Beatty
ex Sea Org 1975 to 2003