Ed & Tera Hattaway
Post Office Box 1171
Douglasville, Georgia 30133
Phone 770-774-0364
Fax 770-920-0364
Feb. 9, 2001
Church of Scientology
Flag Service Organization
P.O. Box 31751
Tampa, Florida 33631-3751
ATTN: CO
TREAS.
SEC.
DIR.
SPECIAL AFFAIRS
REGISTRAR
Dear Sirs:
It has taken me six years to have the realization that lots of
things I heard
at the FSO were lies. I paid $68,696.93 to your
organization for a promise
that you could not fulfill. There are many others who have had
traumatic
experiences doing one or more of the L's. Whether you
knew it, didn't know it,
denied it or forgot about it, you SHOULD have known it.
Furthermore, you
should have done something to remedy it. This is known as
FRAUD.
I WANT MY FUCKING MONEY!
Your organization made claims and promises of all the good
things that happen
to us pc's after we do your high priced services, and just like
a drug to a
junkie, who feels great while he is on it - but afterward comes
the crash.
I remember vividly what the reg, Paul Hickock, said to me after
sucking
$51,362.93 for the "L's" and set-up auditing in 1994 out of my
bank account,
"You won't regret it for a second." He was right, in a
very odd way; I didn't
regret it for a second� I have regretted it for 6
years.
In my Pre-L life: I owned a nice home on 3 acres and ran a very
successful
chiropractic office. I was nearly debt free. I had
outstanding credit and I
had savings in the bank. My wife and three children were
happy and we were
able to afford a modest lifestyle with no financial
worries.
Here's how things played out after the "Fabulous L Rundowns"
for Ed Hattaway:
When I came home from Flag my business was falling to
pieces. A staff member
of seven years was quitting and my volume and income was 25% of
its previous
trend. I was 50,000+ in additional debt with no savings
or reserves and rock
bottom lowest ever income.
I went back to Flag 4 times in the next 6 months for repair
after repair and
review after review (all at my own expense, mind you). My
stats continued to
crash. Within weeks of returning from Flag I began to be
hounded by creditors.
I remember the knock at my door at 2am on a Sunday. It
was a man coming to
repo my van.
I shortly thereafter fell 6 months in the rears on my mortgage,
my office
equipment lease and my rent for the office. I was served
with eviction notices
on my home and office. I had my office equipment repo'd
and moved out of both
my office and home within 7 days of each other.
My wife and my three kids and I moved into a Suburban
Inn! Then we moved in
with my parents.
Here's the scenario: A formerly successful doctor and family
man with excellent
credit goes to his church for advanced services which he is
told will help him
to be more successful in life and business. (I think the
reges words were "a
production rocket-ride", or some such bullshit). The
doctor does these
services and his world falls apart immediately. Now he's
a 38-year-old bum who
has his wife and kids living in his parent's basement.
YOU CALL THAT A FUCKING PRODUCT?
I will never forget the tone of disbelief that my CPA resonated
when he saw
what I did with all that cash. Or the washed-out look my
mother gave me when I
told her I was flat busted.
Scientology may help a percentage of people, but it ruins
people's lives too.
I used to think it was me. I was really introverted on
this. (NOT exactly the
"Stabily Exterior OT Phenomena" that was promoted in the
brochure). You know,
all the success stories of ALL the winners who did the L's,
blah, blah, blah�
I started getting in comm via the internet (the true universal
solvent-it works
so good it even cuts the veneer of horse refuse off of the
"Church" of
$cientology) with other former scientologists. Guess
what? We all had similar
stories!
You assholes don't make OT's - There are NO OT's - just a bunch
of poor broke
saps with ruined lives. Oh yeah, they smile in the
brochures, but take a
picture of them a year later. Some, if not many, mortgage their
entire LIVES
and you could give a piss.
I am never going to be done with you until I get my money
back. I will spend
whatever time it takes to end this nightmare and get on with my
life.
Probably Scientology's most important statistic is the number
of people who are
dissatisfied and distrustful of Scientology. That stat
went up on an
exponential curve in the 60's and 80's, and it is on that same
trend again.
LRH policy states that criminals take things without fair
exchange. That is
what happened to me with Scientology - you took my money and
ruined my life.
I have to face my parents, my wife, my children, my former
employees, my banker
and my CPA knowing Scientology tricked me out of $68,696.93
between 1988 and
1996. I don't have to complain to anyone, all of these
people know my
situation was caused by Scientology's ineptitude and
deceit. Even if they
don't think about it every month, over a period of time, each
of these people
will tell 5 or 10 more people about Scientology. Thus,
Scientology's highest
statistic by far is the number of people who are dissatisfied
and distrusting
of Scientology.
Ed Hattaway
Tera Hattaway
Also read:
Refund request letter #2
Refund request letter #3
Click here to watch the Ed and Tera Hattaway video
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