Benjamin Ring, L.A. Sheriff's Deputy, Appears in Mailer Endorsing Costly Scientology Services: Inquiry Underway

It's been over 2 months, have they gotten "to the bottom of it"?"After spotting Deputy Benjamin Ring in a mailer last week, Ortega contacted sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who says:We're going to get to the bottom of it ... We are not in the business of endorsing any particular anything, if you know what I mean. People in their off-duty hours in their regular street clothes can do whatever they want, but when they don Sheriff's Department gear it's another matter.

What is really troubling about this.......is what happens when Deputy Ring decides to leave scientology? Or has a disagreement with them? Scientology's policy is to label anyone who leaves or disagrees with them as a Suppressive Person (i.e. Satan). Scientology's founder has even encouraged his followers to "harm and destroy" them.

Even more troubling is that Scientology secretly records and video tapes its members "confessions" and keeps them forever. This provides the cult with "blackmail" material, should any member step out of line or decide to leave in the future.

Deputy Ring has taken an oath of office to uphold our constitution and protect citizens under the laws of the United States. Yet Scientology's ethics code  (1998 edition of "Introduction to Scientology Ethics") is in direct conflict with that duty, as it requires its members to NOT REPORT any crimes to the police (e.g. rape, murder, pedophilia, assault, etc.....) and instead tell the church about it, so they can "handle it". For a recent example of this google "Janet Eastgate, CCHR president, arrested for not reporting sexual abuse of 11 year old girl to authorities" This occurred in May 2011 in Australia.  See this website for more information about Scientology's ethics code  http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/c...

So which is it Deputy Ring.......are you going to uphold your oath as a Sheriff Deputy? Or are you going to "look the other way" if any Scientologists commits a crime??? You can't have it both ways.........

Anyone bawing that this is breach of the Constitution's establishment clause, I'd just point out that you're not allowed to establish a religion. Scientology is a cult, so it's perfectly permissible to institute cult and state.

i wonder what else the policeman will do for the Church of Scientology, i remember something about you are a scientologists above all, above your wog job, a bit of a conflict of interest!!

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Just as long as he doesn't promote the Baptist they are the worst !

Dear scientology supporters - Don't you see that what you are doing is counter productive and self-destructive.  By keeping these comments active you are pumping the story up to the top of search engines resulting in additional links and references to the accusations that you seem to not want people to read about. In addition, other news organizations pick up the story and further the narrative.  Your documented stalking in Corpus Cristy and reports of  disconnections only compound your creepy reputation while your spokespeople try to deny these policies exist despite overwelming evidence in videos and letters.

Should you be surprised that Ortega and Marty Rathbun (markrathbun.wordpress. dot com) articles are kicking the pants off Scientology dot org in term of viewers and coverage.  (check it out at alexa dot org)

If you don't believe me, look what this religion spends it's donations on..youtube dot com/user/TheSquirrelZone#p/u/3/q2z7OwsNxvc

Dennis -I don't know if you have covered this story?chron dot com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/7648309.html

Sock puppets appear to be core value of this religion...Revelations from software produced by Virgil Griffith in 2007 called Wikiscanner made public the nature of edits on Wikipedia which were able to be traced directly back to Church of Scientology-controlled computers. CBS News and The Independent reported that edits by the Scientology organization were made in attempts to remove criticism from the main article on the topic. The Times and Forbes noted Scientology computers were used to remove links between the Church of Scientology and former anti-cult organization since taken over by Scientology, the Cult Awareness Network. Der Spiegel reported that Wikiscanner revealed Scientology computers were used to promote Scientology's critical view of psychiatry, including adding links to the Scientology-founded organization Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and to websites of other groups affiliated with Scientology.

I agree that no cops should be endorsing anything while in uniform.  However , Leroy Baca needs to look in the mirror now. For the past several years, Baca allowed deputies, while on or off duty, to march in the West Hollywood gay pride freakshow, oops,I mean parade. Also, there are numerous photos of a muslim reserve deputy, while in uniform, on duty, full beard and towel on head. Where's Baca's policy then?  And Whitmore, shut your pie hole. You're not a cop, you won't be investigating anything.  Until Baca makes the policy apply to all, I support this deputy.  I hope he fights LASD to the bitter end. 

Meanwhile they have a 74 year old member whose husband won their Freedom Medal begging in an email for some financial support.  Her husband passed away and she has NO friggin money to live on!  Where is the CULT?  They took all their money and now will let her rot somewhere and not give her any assistance.And they say give us your IRA and Retirement accounts?  Yeah right, so when you are a senior citizen the same CULT who wants your money will let you rot in hell if you can't donate more......think that says it all, Miscavige is a greedy, sociopathic ASSHOLE!

These were some good quotes posted today by other people about Hubbard:

HCO POLICY LETTER OF l SEPTEMBER AD15Issue VII

RemimeoAll Hats

Div 1ETHICS

ETHICS PROTECTION

Ethics actions must parallel the purposes ofScientology and its organizations.

[...]

We are not in the business of being good boys andgirls. We're in the business of going free and getting the org productionroaring. Nothing else is of any interest then to Ethics but (a) getting techin, getting run and getting run right and (b) getting production up and orgroaring along.

Therefore if a staff member is getting productionup by having his own statistic excellent, Ethics sure isn't interested. But ifa staff member isn't producing, shown by his bad statistic for his post, Ethicsis fascinated with his smallest misdemeanour.

In short a staff member can get away with murderas long as his statistic is up and can't sneeze without a chop if it's down.

To do otherwise is to permit some suppressiveperson to simply Ethics chit every producer in the org out of existence.

When people do start reporting a staff member witha high statistic, what you investigate is the person who turned in the report.

[...]--------------------------------------------------------

Also:

“You know, every once in a while I hear somefather say to his son, you know, ‘Well, I worked and slaved and so forth andfinally sent you through school. Bought you nice clothes and set you on yourway. And here I am, old and gray.’

You know, the only answer to that is, ‘Why thehell didn’t you make more money?’ I’m afraid that’s not very — not very — notvery son-like. But really, it’s the truth! Papa was making a game out of notcreating, in some fashion.

Now, if you think the money is the end of the effort,you’re making a bad mistake there too, because it actually is merely arepresentation of your creativeness, that’s all it is. It merely represents itin some fashion. And if your creativeness is good, you don’t have to worryabout saving any money. Your best investment is your own skill and your abilityto put things back together again, your ability to stand on two feet and live —that’s your best investment in the world.”

— LRH, Application of Games Theory to Processing,Lecture: Use of Games Theory in Processing, 10 February 1956

Also:

"Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are themost valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks,bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothingto compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcendtime itself." - L. Ron Hubbard speaking of his Operating Thetan Courses,Flag Mission Order 375

The Deputy's choice of religion and what he chooses to endorse is his business. Again, Village Voice takes a piece of information and presents it in a way that would seem that something fantastically illicit is going on when there is none. Well, what do you expect from a tabloid publication but fabricated, blown-up news aimed at easy targets.

Deputy Ring should NOT have endorsed ANYTHING while wearing an uniform. That was a stupid mistake.

Aside from this, I don't think it is relevant what Dep. Ring nor Baca do in their personal lives. That is, as long as it doesn't influence what they do in uniform. 

(On Village Voice-owned website Backpage) CNN found cases of underage girls sex trafficked all over the country, from the suburbs of Washington to Las Vegas, where a 13-year-old girl was sold on backpage last fall, according to law enforcement authorities.

She says she was advertised on backpage by a pimp, seeing four or five men a day.

"It made me feel so nasty," she says. "I always just want a shower and get it off; I was like oh it's so disgusting."

Backpage and its parent company, Village Voice Media, have consistently refused CNN's requests for an interview.

We know what it means. He's still not allowed to endorse it in uniform. Sorry.

Tony Ortega, personal friend of anti-scientology fanatics and Village Voice exec, is trying to pimp up his failing readership with another hate story. He has been mingling with obscure personalities for years now and is no stranger to law enforcement anymore. Also, Village Voice Media is now a major player in a national online child prostitution racket, according to a story just released on CNN. Village Voice Media earned $2,000,000 in December alone from its online ads, reports the AIM Group, a major industry online advertising consultant.

My point is: who makes his living with the help of child prostitution should shut up on how people spent their honestly earned money.