"It is a SUPPRESSIVE ACT to deal with a Declared SUPPRESSIVE PERSON unless you are the named terminal to deal with the SP (i.e. Sea Org MAA). Per the above referenced PL, "continued adherence to a person or group accurately pronounced a Suppressive Person or Group by HCO" is a Suppressive Act."

— SPD 28 13 August 1982

HIGH CRIMES
(SUPPRESSIVE ACTS)
[...]
Continued membership in a divergent group.
[...]
Continued adherence to a person or group pronounced a suppressive person or group by HCO.
Failure to handle or disavow and disconnect from a person demonstrably guilty of suppressive acts.

— Introduction to Scientology Ethics
© 1998 L. Ron Hubbard Library

"We help beyond any help ever available anywhere. We are a near ultimate in helping. At once this loads us up with SPs who would commit suicide to prevent anyone from being helped and it lays us wide open as "softees" to any degraded being that comes along. They are sure we won't bite so they do anything they please. Conditions correctly assigned alone can detect and eject SPs and DBs [degraded beings]. ¶ So if we help so greatly, we must also in the same proportion be able to discipline. Near ultimate help can only be given with near ultimate discipline."

— L. Ron Hubbard
HCO PL 20 Oct 1967
Conditions How To Assign

"PTS means POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE. It means someone who is connected to a person or group opposed to Scientology. ¶ It is a TECHNICAL thing. ¶ It results in illness and rollercoaster and IS the CAUSE of illness and rollercoaster."

— L. Ron Hubbard
HCOB 17 April 1972R
C/Sing a PTS Rundown