The Most Ridiculous Reason for an SP Declare Ever?

Getting declared a Suppressive Person in Scientology is life altering.

I was still a teenager when this happened, late 80’s. I remember an older couple who had joined the Sea Org together. They were assigned to management positions within the Sea Org.

They had both been members of Christian Science, something I had no information about. When I had asked the woman, Lynette, about it, she told me that it was in alignment with Scientology beliefs and Scientology expanded upon it’s beliefs. They had quickly embraced Scientology and soon after wanted to join the Sea Org.

The husband Graham had been assigned to a job that required a lot of use of Scientology’s internal email system.

I must explain the email system. It was set up so that if an email was originated by someone, the person it was sent to would be required to respond within a certain amount of time or the system would send out an automated Knowledge Report on the person. The email chain could not be deleted until the originator sent an “ack” (“acknowledgement”, which indicated that the originater confirmed that the original issue of the email had been resolved).

The system was insane because certain people, just because of what their job was, would end up with hundreds of emails that they were required to send a response to within a certain time limit or a report would automatically be filed on them.

Believe me you don’t want stacks of reports written on you in the Sea Org. Especially not these. It was a serious, albeit completely unreasonable situation.

Well Graham was new to the Sea Org. I could tell by his general pace that there was no way for him to keep up with these emails.

Well, he found a work around. He was quite proud of himself for it too. He found a way to not get reported, while still not responding to the emails (because if the email response was not good, it would bounce back).

Anyway, he found a way to save the email, then delete it.

He was a black hole of emails not being handled.

Someone found out what he was doing and he ended up with a Suppressive Person declare on him. He was booted out of the Sea Org and forced to divorce his wife. She didn’t want to be SP declared too.

Back then the entire subject of computers and their use was super secretive and the programs only written by “the best”.

Is this not absolutely nuts?

A glitch…. RUINS his life and takes his wife of decades away from him.

And in the end, what the hell was the point of the job he was doing? It was some sort of data collection job.

You’d think Scientology would want to know about the glitch so they could fix it.

Short, sweet and dumb situation. The Scientology email system was insane.