Civil Suits Quotes
Scientologists have on many occasions attacked their critics—especially former scientologists who leave the organization and disclose information about it. The organization has large economic resources and Hubbard in this quotation recommended filing of lawsuit—just for the purpose of harassment to silence critics. The “demise” refers to financial stress to the critic in having to defend himself in court and the mental stress that it can place on people who are already under stress for other reasons. This quotation shows that lawsuits for harassment was a conscious strategy of the Scientologists. However, the law is such that in any given suit, the victim must prove that the particular case was part of the strategy, and of course the current Scientology leadership claim that the harassment strategy was a thing of the past although many still complain every year.
Traditionally, countries did not allow their citizens to sue foreign sovereign governments in U. S. Courts. The main reason was one of retaliation problems ensuing. Citizens in foreign countries might then sue the United States for the damage cause by our soldiers actions such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Traditionally governments do not sue each other in civil courts. In this case, the President, Secretary of State and Defense Secretary pleaded with Congress not to pass this bill. But they passed it anyway, and President Obama veto’d it. Then the House and Senate overrode the Presidents veto on September 28, 2015 causing Schemer who led the effort for the bill in the Senate which voted almost unanimously (only 1 Senator Against)) for the override. The Democrats went against their own President on this bill.
This law is the basis of many in the world to this day, including the United States. The law allowed Romans whose property had been unlawfully confiscated to recover from the person who took the property by bringing a case in the Roman Courts. This law exempted the highest public officials from being brought before the courts while they were serving their term of office, but as the quoted clause indicates, these high officials were not above the law and could be summoned to court AFTER their term of office.
