JUSTICE

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Definitions

1. the action of the group against the individual when he has failed to get his own ethics in. (HCOB 15 Nov 72 II)

2. (1) moral rightness; equity. (2) honor, fairness. (3) good reason. (4) fair handling: due reward or treatment. (5) the administration and procedure of the law. (HCO PL 3 May 72)

3. fair and equitable treatment for both the group and individual. (HCO PL 24 Feb 72)

4. justice safeguards rights, prevents injustice, prevents punishment by whim, and brings order. Justice prevents wrongful disgrace, demotion, transfer or dismissal and protects the staff member's reputation and job from being falsely threatened. (HCO PL 17 Mar 65 II)

5. to us, justice is the action necessary to restrain the insane until they are cured. After that it would be only an action of seeing fair play is done. (HCO PL 14 Dec 70)

6. an effort to bring equity and peace. (HCO PL 14 Dec 70)

7. the purpose of justice is to make a safe environment for the many. (FO 2257)

8. justice would consist of a refusal to accept any report not substantiated by actual, independent data, seeing that all such reports are investigated and that all investigations include confronting the accused with the accusation and where feasible the accuser, before any disciplinary action is undertaken or any condition assigned. While this may slow the processes of justice, the personal security of the individual is totally dependent upon establishing the full truth of any accusation before any action is taken. (HCO PL 24 Feb 69)

9. an action to deter disorder and secure the public safety. It is a short-term method of bringing order and it is needed for all dynamics. (HCOMOJ)

10. the whole subject of justice subdivides for a Scientologist into four phases. These are (1) intelligence activities, (2) investigation of evidence, (3) judgment or punishment, (4) rehabilitation. (HCOMOJ)

11. justice is one of the guards that keeps the channel of progress a channel and not a stopped flow. (HCO PL 17 Mar 65 III)

12. there can be no personal security without easily accessible, swift and fair justice within a group. The jurisprudence employed must be competent, acceptable to the members of the group and effective in accomplishing good order for the group and personal rights and security for its individual members. Justice used for revenge, securing advantages for a clique increases disorder. Justice should serve as a means of establishing guilt or innocence and awarding damages to the injured. The fact of its use should not pre-establish guilt or award. Justice which by its employment alone establishes an atmosphere of guilt or greed is harmful and creates disorder. (HCO PL 7 Sept 63)

13. could be called the adjudication of the relative rightness or wrongness of a decision or an action. (AP&A, p. 10)

14. the impartial administration of the laws of the land in accordance with the extant level of the severity-mercy ratio of the people. (PAB 96)

15. don't ordinarily put a head on a pike unless it's the right head. But remember that there are times when it's vitally necessary to put some head, any head, on a pike to quell rising disorder. Just remember that justice is an action to deter disorder and secure the public safety. But if you do put the wrong head on a pike, be sure to put it back on the body again as soon as the need for its being on a pike is over. Justice is not always the matter of an individual. It is a short-term method of bringing orders and it is needed for all dynamics. (HCOMOJ)

16. could be called the adjudication of the relative rightness or wrongness of a decision or an action. (AP&A, p. 10)