Ok, so after following the link on AH's post about the increasingly insane Tom Cruise and then was like, I don't even know what Scientology is. Then I read this. I can now say with certainty that after reading Laura Kay Fuller's Senior Thesis at the University of California, Santa Cruz (CA) 1999 I can't wait for Tom, Uterus-in-Waiting, and the Sea Org-- what?
he worst of Ethics was perhaps Hubbard's initiation of the chain-locker punishment in 1968, during the Commodore's reign on the Sea Org.158 A chain-locker is a dark hole where anchor chains are stored. A tiny manhole gives access to the cold, wet and unlit lockers below the bowels of the ship. When a crew member was in a low enough Ethics condition, he or she would be put in a chain-locker for up to two weeks, kept awake and fed by a suspended food bucket.159 The "overboarding" practice also occurred under the Ethics system, in which case an unlucky Scientologist was ordered to be thrown off the deck of the boat.The pirates in Rottweilerdam don't even do this.
And this, friends, is why we all love Hollywood.
