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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 APRIL 1965
Issue II
Remimeo
BPI
ETHICS
PETITION
The right to petition must not be denied.
It is the oldest form of seeking justice and a redress of wrongs and it
may well be
that when it vanishes a civilization deteriorates thereby.
Therefore these policies apply:
1. Any one individual has the right to petition in writing any senior or
official no
matter how high and no matter by what routing.
2. No person may be punished for submitting a petition.
3. No two persons or more may simultaneously petition on the same matter
and if
so the petition must at once be refused by the person petitioned.
Collective
petition is a crime under Ethics as it is an effort to hide the actual
petitioner and
as there may be no punishment for a petition collective petition has
therefore no
excuse of safety and is to be interpreted as an effort to overwhelm and
may not
be regarded as a petition.
4. No generality may be used in a petition such as a report of
collective opinion
unspecified as to identities. This is to be interpreted as an effort to
ARC Break a
superior and the petition must be refused.
5. Only one person may petition on one matter or the petition must be
refused.
6. Threat included in a request for justice, a favour or redress
deprives it of the
status of "petition" and it must be refused.
7. Discourtesy or malice in a request for justice, a favour or redress
deprives it of the
status of "petition" and it must be refused.
8. If a "petition" contains no request it is not a petition.
9. There may be no special form for a petition beyond these policies.
10. A petition which cannot be deciphered or understood should be
returned to the
sender with a request that it be made legible or comprehensible, but
this should
not be interpreted as a refusal or acceptance of the petition.
11. A copy of a petition seeking justice against another person or
group must be sent
that person or group to qualify the request as a petition. No action may
be taken
by the person or group but he or they should append the copy to their
own
statement of the matter and send it at once to the executive being
petitioned.
12. Petitions are normally directed to the heads of activities such
as the head of a
portion of an org (HCO or the Org in the persons of the HCO Executive
Secretary
and the Organization Executive Secretary) or the Continental Heads of
orgs or to
Mary Sue Hubbard or L. Ron Hubbard.
13. Petitions may not demand Committees of Evidence or punishment
for executives
but may only state what has happened and request the matter be righted.
14. A petition is itself and is not a form of recourse and making a
petition does not
use up one's right to recourse.
15. All petitions delivered in person verbally or in person with a
note particularly
when this restricts a senior's freedom of motion, must be refused.
16. HCO Secretaries or Communicators receiving petitions directed to
be forwarded
to higher executives which do not comply with these policies should
append a