Tony Ortega's (excellent) scientology blog at the Village Voice updated today with speculation about why Katie is doing this now:
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But what may have convinced Katie to run was the frightening prospect that faces all Scientology kids beginning at 6 years old: a form of interrogation known as "sec checking." It involves using the e-meter as an interrogation device, and Hubbard wrote lengthy lists of questions that a member should be asked by an "ethics officer" to make sure they weren't hiding any covert hostilities to the organization. To this day, Scientologists submit to sec checking when they are suspected of being out of compliance with some policy or other.
Even if they're only six years old.
And all these control/blackmail gathering questions asked of children were penned up by L. Ron Hubbard. Questions like:
What has somebody told you not to tell? Have you ever decided you did not like some member of your family? Have you ever taken something belonging to somebody else and never given it back? Have you ever pretended to be sick (ill)? Do you have a secret? Have you ever noticed something wrong with your body that you were afraid to tell anybody about? Have you ever done anything you were very much ashamed of?Have you ever failed to finish your schoolwork on time? Have you ever broken, damaged, or taken, any school property? Have you ever lied to a teacher? Have you ever been late to school, or late to a class? Who have you made guilty? Is there anything you should tell your parents, and never have?
Have you ever hurt a child? Have you ever made a child cry? Have you ever made a child sulk? Have you ever kept another child from having something that really belonged to him? Have you ever found anything and failed to return it to its owner? Have you ever told stories about someone behind their back? Have you ever lied to escape blame? Have you ever not told the whole truth about something so as to protect someone? Have you ever felt ashamed of your parents? Have you ever felt ashamed of your friends? Have you ever disappointed your parents? Have you ever run away when you should have stayed? Have you ever felt sure your parents wouldn't understand something that had happened in school, so you didn't tell them? Have you ever not told teachers something about your family because they wouldn't understand it? Have you ever failed to keep another child's secret? Have you ever felt it was just no use talking to someone? Have you ever hurt someone you didn't mean to? Have you ever been sloppy about your clothes or possessions? Have you ever cried when you shouldn't have? Have you ever been a coward? Have you ever told on anyone? Have you ever done something to someone that you'd hate to have done to you?
