The Citizens’ Purity League was a con job for taking over the allegiance of local prominent citizens and the police department L. Ron Hubbard outlined in his State of Man Lecture Series. He floats it as a “gag”, but constantly reminds the audience how to cope with possible outcomes “if” — wink wink — they decide to execute it. This is a transcript I made of excerpts for review purposes from a legally purchased copy. You can obtain the lecture series from Bridge Publications here, or on eBay. I recommend searching eBay.

Now I’m not outlining this as something we’re going to do instantly and immediately, I’m simply outlining this as something which is a good idea. That is to say, a funny idea, an idea that would be a little sport.

Works like this: an auditor in his spare time would find out in his immediate city, something like that, who are the more important political figures. Or he would get hold of a salesman…

Now supposing this auditor got a hold of one of these salesmen, he gave him a list of these men, and he gave him some stationary y’know and an address and across the top of it it said “the Citizens’ Purity League”. I just love the title, it’s just too corny for words!

And he gets the salesmen to go around and call on these prominent civic leaders, you see? And lend their name to an advisory board of the Citizens’ Purity League. Then you add all those to the stationary, y’see? Didn’t cost him anything so far, you see.

What an overt act!

And the literature of this Citizens’ Purity League—I love that title, nothing is that corny!—And it says that “honest people are entitled to an honest government.” And that’s all it stands for, you see? And it says that “a people are entitled to a government, or to be governed by honest men.” Everybody will go for this! Good roads, good weather, naturally! Naturally, a people are entitled to an honest government you see, but that’s its whole message! And the Citizens’ Purity League, now with all these advisory committee names, you see, which list every civic leader in the whole community, writes a letter—and this is the department you have to tackle first – to the chief of police on this stationary saying you want to make a security check—“give me your literature”—on his personnel. Not on him. On his personnel. You want to check over the heads of his departments and things like that so you can guarantee this sort of thing.

Well now one of two things happen: Fascism takes place overnight, or he co-operates! It gets to be an open and shut proposition. It’s either this one or this one, and there’s not much in between. But course he looks at all these prominent names, you go in and you talk to him. And he says, “well,” he says, “it’s very unusual, ahem, very unusual request you’re making here, very unusual request. Uh, what do you intend to do?” “Oh just talk to these men and check them over, for the standpoint of record, you know? So as to give them a clean bill of health for this.”…

Well if he refuses, he knows what you’re going to do: you’re going to write every single member of your advisory committee, you’re going to say “the chief of police refuses completely to cooperate with any security check on his departmental personnel.” Course you know what that means – there’ll be a new chief of police in there at once. ‘Cause that’s one thing civic leaders are able to do, change chiefs of police. So the chances are he’ll say, “Well go ahead. Go ahead.”

So you take—the first one you want is the Vice Squad. And you takes your little e-meter and you just check over the Vice Squad for overts and withholds, and what you’re looking for is unreported crimes by the person. Of course, soon as the word gets around, practically everbody in the police department that couldn’t stand a security check blows. Pshew! That mechanism will work, right now, y’see?

So you simply call a meeting of your advisory committee, or write them all a letter—never hold meetings of them, just write them all a letter or a bulletin—say “well, we got rid of so many people because they had unsavory reputations, and they’re being replaced by more reliable men” and this committee says “fine, the Citizen’s Purity League is working beautifully and we are getting a purer government, and three cheers.”

So that’s fine. And it gets up to a point now, where you turn around to the chief of police – it must be the police department, because that’s the department that would be used to stop you. That must be the first entrance point. Always the police, they’re the point of corruption. They’re the point that a revolution takes place in. Remember that, always. You see? So if you clean them up first, you can keep from precipitating something bad….

But here’s the point: you’re not trying to fire these people. What you’re trying to do is get preclears. Interesting gag, isn’t it?

You check over the head of the homicide division, and you find the head of the homicide division has been taking a little bit of a cut on the side here-there, something of the sort, and you find this you don’t instantly say “well this is going to be reported and you’re going to be shot from guns,” you’re going to say “get your nose clean, son, it’s gonna cost ya money.”

Then the word gets around you actually charge people for straightening them up, and that this is a method of revenue, and a gag and a racket, your answer to that is instantaneously, instantaneously, you say: “WHAT!? The people must be paying to straighten up the dishonesty of men who should have been honest in the first place? MAKE THOSE MEN PAY!” Everybody will say “That advisory committee? That’s absolutely right! Absolutely right! Why should the people pay!?”

This is just a gag. This is an interesting gag. But some such operation could open the door for responsible governments over the whole face of earth, and move away the specter of overthrow by violence and criminality the peoples of earth and further degradation of their liberties as has been going on for the last few centuries. Would work. Think it over.

Of course you get the accounts department, and you get the other departments, and you finally work up to this person or that person, so forth, you could check—an auditor just could be kept busy day and night just doing something like this and having a ball. Now if you started in on a program of this character and it was successful you’d have to depend on the PE franchises, you’d have to depend on these foundations to furnish enough people to be trained as auditors to meet the demand for auditors. So we even got that side of it covered if something like this really happened rapidly.

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