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For all the pros and cons, the fact is the IAS is supposedly a membership organisation. meaning the members own it. Well, as a Founding Member, I would like to see a copy of the audited accounts, which is minimally a very basic right. I have asked yet have received nought. And for that alone, the IAS cannot possibly be an organisation to be supported.
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IAS Accounts - please!
For all the pros and cons, the fact is the IAS is supposedly a membership organisation. meaning the members own it. Well, as a Founding Member, I would like to see a copy of the audited accounts, which is minimally a very basic right. I have asked yet have received nought. And for that alone, the IAS cannot possibly be an organisation to be supported.
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If I am being completely impartial, I might argue the case for the IAS during the Christoferson case and subsequent "Battle of Portland 1985". The argument would run something like "without the IAS we wouldn't have won the case and Scientology would have been sued out of existence". And, no doubt about it, those who were there at Portland that year had a rip-roaring month full of great concerts, rousing speeches, and camrardarie - and made some great friends. The further argument would go that without the IAS war chest there wouldn't have been the finances to fight the good fight.
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However, couldn't this event have taken place anyway? Was the IAS REALLY necessary even for this? The Call To Arms was made by Heber Jentzsch as President of the Church - and his word was good enough for the thousands who flew from around the world to show up. The ongoing justification for the IAS is that the war chest is needed for this or that campaign or legal defence or.... Is it? I was told many times pre-1993 that once the IRS reognised the Church as a bona fide religion that the IAS would become redundant. Instead the demands for money for long suffering parishioners is ratcheted up more and more - to the pint where many have provably gone bankrupt, lost everything they owned, and in some cases become suicidal. Right now the credible sources say there is in excess of $1billion in the war chest. ONE BILLION. That would fund an awful lot of campaigns and stave off quite a few legal challenges. Yet Scientology campaigns, such as they have been, have clearly not resulted in a boom in services being taken, and the PR as I write - November 2012 - is worse than at any time in its history. So clearly it isn't working.
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