6607C19 SHSpec-69 About Rhodesia LRH has just come back from Rhodesia. Around February, 1966, LRH was holding the mock-up [his body] together with sticking plaster. The organization was going fine. Tech was wrapped up. LRH put things on "wait" -- his case, for one thing. He decided to take a vacation. He spent thirty days in Las Palmas. The organization was running fine. Clear No. 1 (John McMasters) was made during February of 1966, while LRH was in Las Palmas. LRH decided to go to South Africa. He wanted to locate an alternate base for OT's, in case of war or political takeover. He couldn't figure out why he couldn't do this. [The reason was that he hadn't defined the purpose of such a base. The purpose was: 1. An alternate base for scientology, in case of war or political takeover. 2. To serve as a base from which to put in ethics on the planet, so tech could go in. 3. To put in economics, so that people can support orgs and the orgs can flourish. See later part of this lecture (p. 749, below).] LRH went to Rhodesia. He conceived of a type of constitution they could use to solve their difficulties. The government liked it. LRH recalled that he had some assets in South Africa. He decided to invest them. He bought a house and learned that he could buy a hotel in the wilderness for 5500 pounds, and did. He bought a farm. He was watching the economics and behavior of the Wog world and getting a kick out of being out there, making friends with tough characters (his usual friends). Rhodesian culture is still Victorian. It is a small civilization in the middle of a howling wilderness. It is more sophisticated than London. Rhodesia has lots of land, minerals, precious metals, and a beautiful climate. It is untouched and could easily be developed. LRH met the governmental high-ups. He was very acceptable to them. He didn't discuss scientology at all. He was examining the Wog world, and he didn't want to un-wog it. He went on TV and radio. He had no authority, but he was solving lots of problems. Each individual Rhodesian would agree with LRH's solutions, but warned him that no other Rhodesian would agree with him, because the solutions were too advanced. LRH went down to his hotel at Lake Kariba. He supplied the hotel with two-ton trucks. Local industry started to use his trucks to transport goods, and the area boomed. LRH started a furniture factory. A colony started to sprout. Just the fact of LRH's being interested in the country and seeing hope for it caused production to rise. Then LRH wondered how he was going to leave, to go back to Saint Hill. He was woven too tightly into the picture, with a staff of nine personal staff and twenty-nine general staff, the pick of the ex-consular domestic staffs. White Rhodesians kept telling LRH how to handle the African. He realized that they didn't know anything about Africans, because they didn't recognize that they were people. They would say, "They are sullen. You've got to watch them." But the reason they are sullen is no acknowledgment, bad 8C, over-expectation, and out-gradient. They were taking people with no experiential background in politics or economics and expecting more of them than they were trained to do. LRH made his staff happy by telling them that they weren't Rhodesians anymore, that they were Americans. They were very spit-and-polish, enthusiastic, and hard-working. So in four months, LRH was very acceptable to both races and even to extreme moderates, as well as to extreme rightest whites. A reporter from the London Daily Mail told the Minister of Information what a bad fellow LRH was. The minister instantly told prime minister Smith what a bad fellow he was. Smith told the cabinet the same story, and the next morning the Rhodesian Front Committee was charging down [to see LRH], when they found out that his visa wasn't going to be extended, because they knew that it was all lies. Smith had been built up as too fair and too honest. His popularity had begun to decline, because he hadn't worked miracles, and because his communication was going out. Then he told the Committee various things, such as, that LRH's business associates were complaining about him. LRH had, in fact, only three business associates, and one of them was there and denied the story. Smith said that LRH had been deported from Australia. But LRH's passport had no record of having entered Australia. He said that LRH was wanted all over and had a criminal record. These people, however, knew that LRH's credit was in the stars all over the world. They saw Smith's feet of clay and walked out. So LRH could leave, covered with laurels. As a result of this expedition, LRH found out that you can't locate a base that you don't know the purpose of. That was why he had trouble locating "OT Base". Now he knows what "OT Base" has to do. It has to put in ethics on a planetary basis, so that tech can be gotten in. As you associate with the public and try to tell them about scientology, you have trouble with the public, because their ethics are out, and for no other reason. One SP in Rhodesia has wrecked the country, and is keeping the whole scene enturbulated. The only real threat to scientology is that an atom war or a political takeover could prevent the organization from going ahead to clear people. In addition to ethics, but less vital than ethics, economics has to be gotten straightened out. Economics is a very simple subject, with very plain laws. It has nothing to do with politics and ideology. Actually, economics exists as a subject, the purpose of which is to get people enough to eat, etc. Man violates the laws of economics all the time for ideological and political purposes. The already existing economic systems of the planet are usable in a modified form, and we need them to improve, in order to allow for an expansion of our organization. There has to be a workable enough economics on the planet so that people can support orgs and the orgs can flourish and expand. A total subsidy of processing doesn't work, because there is no contribution from the PC. People have to contribute to benefit from auditing. So the economic purpose is a secondary purpose of OT Base. Also, ethics is hard to get in on starving people! Ethics is out on earth, and the out ethics prevents easy dissemination. Nearly every human being on this planet that is in trouble, is in trouble because ethics are out. In England, someone stole and sold LRH's research papers, which were then represented as the current practice of scientology -- a very different thing. People are killed in wars because of one SP in the government. The only reason for war is a few SP's. We could go and sort out key SP's in international situations. What we would do about it is something else. Political systems exist only to solve the problem of succession of rulers. Otherwise, everyone could agree on a benevolent monarchy. The answer is, of course, not to have successors. Clear the monarch! But political systems are not concerned with the happiness or productivity of people. The only source of our individual, personal difficulties is not having ethics in, in the society around us. The only reason why you are having difficulty as an individual is not having ethics in, in your immediate environment. We've got to shift gears in our emphasis. We have been getting ethics in on our fellow scientologists with great enthusiasm. Now we are familiar with the system and how it works. We have erred by getting ethics in too heavily on scientologists and too lightly on the environment. It is time to reverse the emphasis. "There isn't any point in getting ethics in on a willing person," just because he is stupid. Doing that just makes the person sullen. Ethics should be directed at willful acts of sabotage. A real SP is not just anyone. He intends to damage you. He is a real nut. He intends to knock you down. He is not just a difficult person. He is a real monster. Upgrade your idea of what an SP is like. SP's amount only to 2.5% of Mankind. Find out if the guy is driving people into sanitariums, strewing social wreckage about, and smashing statistics. We have only had one real SP on staff. Just because a person shows up on an S and D doesn't mean that he is a real SP. Maybe he is just making someone unhappy. Don't fling the title around lightly, within scientology. Outside scientology, don't worry about making a mistake and accusing someone wrongly. Just get ethics in real hard first and correct the mistakes later. We've got to put in ethics fast to prevent disaster. It was great to find that the organization could continue without LRH. It was great to find that you could make more clears. You made No. 22 to celebrate his return. LRH's immediate program is to finish his own clearing. He has found that people don't make it with their grades out. Then he will start OT research. Every time he tries to put together the scope of OT, he has to run off the invalidation. Any statement you can make about OT falls short of the truth.