What does the Church of Scientology tell parishioners about the "Snow White" project?
Scientologists(TM), like most parishioners, don’t like hearing bad news about their religion. The Church of Scientology is happy to oblige and goes out of its way to provide parishioners with only happy vibes.The “Snow White Program” (Guardian Order #732) was launched by L. Ron Hubbard in an effort to eradicate what Hubbard considered false information governments and other institutions had on file about the church. The program was implemented by a church organization Hubbard had created known as the Guardian’s Office (GO). Although the GO was headed by Hubbard’s third wife, Mary Sue, Hubbard failed to make his program “go right”. Instead, a movie could be made about how the program went wrong.Bad VibesTo the outside world, the Snow White program is notorious for having triggered multiple events:The infiltration, wiretapping, and burgling of government offices at one of the largest scales ever attempted by a private organization, let alone a church. Refer to Operation Snow White for more details.The largest raid the FBI had ever committed on any organization.L. Ron Hubbard named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy and Hubbard going into seclusion for the rest of his life.Mary Sue Hubbard and ten other Scientologists convicted and jailed for criminal conspiracy.The exposure of Operation Freakout and other covert church operations against the church’s perceived enemies.Good VibesThe Church of Scientology tells parishioners the happy side of the “Snow White” story in an online while paper: The “Snow White” Program and the Church of Scientology: The True Story. The main points of the paper include:Snow White was a legal project to legally eradicate in a legal manner false information about a legal church.Snow White was justified because governments had false information which was hampering the legal operations of a legal church.The church is a champion of the freedom of information.The church has helped the IRS operate more efficiently.Snow White has been a boon to democracy.In an “endnote” the paper states:The illegal activities of certain members of the Guardian’s Office, a former autonomous unit within the Church in the 1970s that was disbanded in 1983, represented a distortion of the Snow White Program, mislabeled as “Operation Snow White” by certain critics.The disbanded Guardian’s Office was reorganized as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA).
Is running from the police in and of itself a crime?
TL;DR: in most localities, running away from the police is not, in and of itself, a crime. If you're allowed to walk away from the police (which you are, assuming you were not stoppped by the police, you're not being investigated by the police, etc), who cares how fast you go?There are some very narrow exceptions to this rule. Some high crime areas have had ordinances passed which allow running from the police to be considered reasonable suspicion that a crime has, or is going to be, committed. This allows the police to catch the runner and perform a Terry search on that person. If the search reveals evidence of the crime, or evidence that a person is going to commit a crime, that person can then be arrested. However, in that instance, the police have to be performing general investigation in that area, searching for evidence of that crime, and the evidence found on the suspect must match the evidence which the police were searching for.Will someone who runs from the police raise suspicion? Absolutely. If the police are already in the area searching for a suspect in a recent crime, and if you vaguely fit that description, and you see the police and run, the police have their reasonable suspicion right there. In practice, it's a fair chance that the police can find reasonable suspicion to stop you anyway; running simply compounds the suspicion and makes their initial suspicion more plausible. Put simply: running is a bad idea.