Mr.
Hubbard, a writer
with great social conscience, wrote the
Freedom articles being reproduced on this site, along with
many more, in 1969 and 1970. Read, enjoy and learn.
They are being reproduced on the Internet as a public favour by the
Church of Scientology of Canberra.
Crime
& Psychiatry
1970
When
you put criminals in charge of crime, the crime rate rises.
The soaring crime statistics, which the police are battling began to
rise when the psychiatrist and psychologist moved into the field of
education and law.
It used to be that a crime was a crime. When the police officer did his
duty, his duty was done.
Now all that was changed. Criminals are 'maladjusted" and it is "all
society's fault that they are" and the police officer is a beast for
daring to interface with the poor fellows.
The psychiatrist and psychologist have carefully developed a lawless
and irresponsible public attitude toward crime.
First and foremost is that man is just a soulless animal who is not
answerable for his own acts. They advertise man as a push-button
stimulus-response robot and claim that only they know
where the buttons are.
"Underprivileged" people always become criminals according to these
"experts" so the thing to do is make the criminal a privileged being
with far more rights than ordinary people.
Crimes and extortion, mayhem and murder are done daily by these men in
the name of "practice" and 'treatment." There is not one institutional
psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be
arraigned and convinced of extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are
full of evidence on them.
By a mental trick they have hypnotized some politicians into actually
believing they are working in "science" and are above the law in that
it is necessary that they commit these crimes.
The brutal truth is that these people have not a clue as to what makes
the mind work. If they did, they could cure somebody, couldn't they?
But they can't and don't. It is obvious, for crime stats have soared
since these arch criminals wormed their way into the field of crime.
If you put a complete fake in an engine room to run it your engine room
would soon be a shambles.
This is what has happened in society. Instead of letting the police go
about their business, a whole new hierarchy of fake experts has been
superimposed on the field.
Thus there is chaos.
If these psychiatrists and psychologists and their "National" Mental
Health groups knew their business, then crime statistics would be
falling. Naturally. But they are not. Crime statistics, ever since
these men have taken over in courts, prisons, education and social
welfare, have soared to a point where the honest policeman is near
despair.
Any experienced law enforcement officer knows more about the criminal
mind than any '12 year educated psychiatrist" or '6 year educated
psychologist.
Not the smallest of their crimes is that they absorb all appropriations
to rehabilitate people and actively campaign against every church and
civic group that used to help with the problem.
But then real top level criminals wouldn't want the problem of crime to
be handled. Would they?
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder