I guess the Church of the whacked out, oops I mean Scientology has hit a bit of a rough patch, with most of the big money earners in the entertainment industry involved with some form of rehab or another the pickings are slim. Of course there is Brittany, but I am not sure she would make a great Scientologist. Our good friends are not worried. They have decided to target the youth. Now it is not clear that the average teen has the money to throw around to become a serious Thetan, or whatever the church calls them, but there clearly is a good opportunity for the cult.
A press release, that incidentally plays down the Scientology aspect explains:
The purpose of Youth for Human Rights International is to teach youth about human rights, specifically the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and inspire them to become valuable advocates for tolerance and peace. Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is an independent non-profit corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, with the purpose to educate people in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so they become valuable advocates for tolerance and peace.
It is only when you dig a little deeper that you discover that:
“We are dedicated to helping improve unity amongst the youth of the Santa Barbara community,” states Lee Holzinger, President of the Church of Scientology Santa Barbara. “The escalating rate of gang violence in our community needs to be addressed and we are glad to be joining with our community members to provide a workable solution.”
While I am sure we all applaud any attempt to stamp out the gangs, and the violence associated with them, I am not sure that I would want my child involved with a cult. As the saying goes, ‘there is no free lunch’, and you can bet that the free copy of Dianetics will come at a steep price. A price I am unwilling to pay.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis isn’t just a dangerous cult (That got banned from germany for being so) and if my son was on his death bed and they had the only cure i would never allow it. They are worse than the mafia the mafia just shoots you in the back of the head look at lisa mcpherson. I completely support the cause of all these groups standing against this cult.some ex members are receiving death threats via cellphone sms email and etc. from the church of scientology I do one is a friend of mine who bought a dianetics book and had to fill out a paper for the purchase at the book shop i told him to go to the police.
I have a picture of a the threat e-mail me at temple_of_babalonis@yahoo.com PS i am receiving a ton of spam so make the subject re:>>L
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It is INCREDIBLY hypocritical for the church of Scientology to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!
The church of Scientology is one of the worst violators of human rights in the United States. They violate many of the provisions of that declaration on their own members.
Anonymous and some other groups fancy themselves as rebels and defenders of freedom. The sales pitch is that they are saving everyone from the “evil” church who is suppressing freedom of speech on the internet. They try to identify Scientology and Scientologists with other groups in the past who may have actually been oppressive. What they don’t know is that they are actually becoming part of the problem and not the solution.
Property rights are basic rights which help ensure freedoms. With property rights you aren’t subject to illegal seizures or oppressive dictates of government. This ideology is a basic of common law which helped deliver Europe from Feudalsim. That right allows one to own, distribute and dispose of the fruits of his labor as how he sees fit. It gives importance to the individual and his needs or desires vs the group or authority. The Church of Scientology is actually defending this exact principle. By ensuring that these laws are held firm under their rights they are actually helping protect those who would also fall victim to the more degenerate individual in our culture.
What actions like this do result in, and this is verifiable in some of the more ridiculous laws we have, is that it forces a group or individual to protect his rights through protest or legal action. When you force someone to do this you create an environment where possibly more laws and regulations have to be put in place as some citizens seem to not know how to behave. You then are creating a situation where everyone gets penalized for the dark actions of a few. Actions which border on the unethical have always created more oppression, more government interference and more laws. The reason any society has more law is because of the actions of its citizens. If we had a society where individuals could live without harassment, without bigotry and with trust you would find a truly freer group. The actions of Anonymous and other groups like this send us directly down a path of a world more like fascism than freedom. The freedom of speech allows you to speak your mind. It does not allow to you to infringe on other rights of individuals and it certainly does not allow someone to harass, defame, or incite hatred or violence. This again appears to be a case of bigotry. Even though it is sold as some rebellious cause.
Oh yes, Simon Barrett, oh yes. We all understand, if a youth should become aware of his (or her) human rights, then that youth is lost to us and will fall into the marble pit those human rights arose from. In 1948 the United Nations passed that declaration. Let us first cause ourselves and then our children, awarness of their human rights. Publishing blogs is one method, but if you have additional methods, please post them up! Meantime, don’t be too critical of those who do, okay?
There needs to be a distinction: one can appreciate and protect the freedoms of individuals but protest the orginization as a whole. Anonymous has no issue with individual people practicing what they believe. The issue at hand is that the Church of Scientology (the organization) is a fascist and abuses both of its positions as a company and as a religious institution.
This particular Anonymous has one issue that needs to be addressed - either the Church of Scientology is a company, thus entitled to copyright laws, or it is a church, and is eligable for tax exempt status. It can’t have both as they are a conflict of interest.
We need to stop thinking of evil in terms of something we can spot a mile a way. True evil tricks you. True evil comes with a charisimatic smile (and in this case, an unrelenting glare).
There goes Terryeo, everybody’s favorite scientologist and his zany antics!
Predictable as ever - trying to discredit the critic.
A religion does have copyright protection as does any work that is individually creative. You can be both an individual with rights and a religion with rights. The fact that the Church is a religion does not preclude it from having a right over their own creations.
What we are seeing is a propoganda machine leveled at Scientology and Scientologists. The Church, as an organization is structured with much transparency. The individuals who make up the organization are individual Scientologists who come on and off staff. When you vilify the organization you vilify the members. The idea that you can attack the group made up of members and not attack the members themselves is fantasy. The same would be if you leveled attacks at Planned Parenthood, the Roman Catholic Church or the fans of the Green Bay Packers. Each group is made up of individuals who have as their personal goals those of the organization they align themselves with.
Sometimes individuals caught up in a fevered action may not have the foresight to look at the final outcome of their actions. If the Anonymous were to be destructive to the Church or Scientologists what have they gained? The Church does not have crimes they withold because I can assure you if they did, with as much scrutiny is placed, their would have been trouble a long time ago. The accusations regarding Lisa Mcpherson and other attacks leveled on some sites are so full of inuendo, hate speech and twisted facts and ideas, that they do not prove to be good information. Yes, these ideas sensationalized do freak people out about the Church but the cause of that is not in the actions of the church but in the actions of the detractors.
By the way the Church is a documented champion of the Freedom of Information Act. This is the act which creates transparency in government. The Church’s actions have created MORE freedom of speech and INCREASED personal freedoms and liberties. Yet, none of this is acknowledged. I am afraid no matter how much the Church is defamed or ridiculed you will be hard pressed to find a more ethical group.
Yes, you can take an edited video of Tom Cruise and use it to try and find some angle to attack Scientology. You can cite some Xenu thing to portray Scientologists as whacky or some such. However, it does not take away the core issue that Scientologists have a right to defend their own documents and they have a right to practice their religion. Do some scientologists make mistakes - sure. However an evil organization this does not make.
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.No, it’s about robbing innocent people BLIND and LYING. Evidence is ALL OVER THE PLACE. That is what makes it so evil.
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Read the Fishman affidavit detailing the practices of the cult of scientology and then tell me what type of organization they really are. They spent years and many dollars in multiple law suits to have it kept from public view and were ruled against. It makes Peoples Temple and Jim Jones look like saints.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/home.html
bgodley fancies himself/herself/itself a defender of religious freedom. What he/she/it doesn’t acknowledge is that $cientology has suppressed free expression through bullying, threats and worse.
Go to whyaretheydead.net, bgodley, and learn about some of the more horrific abuses perpetrated by the Co$.
And about copyrighted materials: Funny, but I don’t recall the Catholic parish charging my parents or me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for “secrets” of the faith. $cientology’s legal bullying to protect “copyrighted” materials is, it seems to me, always about either protecting a commercial enterprise (the enormous “donations” for services and “secrets”) or patching up an embarrassing situation (as in the claims of copyright in the wacko Cruise video case).
Oh, and let’s get this straight: The Co$ is a “champion” of free information, yet it routinely denies information about itself and tried during Operation Snow White to infiltrate and steal information from the U.S. government?
Oh, yes, bgodley, they’re an “ethical group.” On the same level as, say, the Gotti crime family.
“The accusations regarding Lisa Mcpherson and other attacks leveled on some sites are so full of inuendo, hate speech and twisted facts and ideas, that they do not prove to be good information.”
bgodley — let us suppose, for the sake of argument only, that the Scientologists who were holding Lisa McPherson in that hotel room didn’t do anything wrong inside that hotel room. (We’re already completely counter-factual; it was definitely wrong for them to call Scientologist Dr. David Minkoff and have him prescribe medications like Valium and chloral hydrate for McPherson over the phone, without even seeing her. But again, we are only supposing the sake of argument.) The fact remains that the nearest hospital was just two minutes away. The Scientologists chose to bypass that hospital, and three others, in order to take her to Dr. Minkoff’s hospital forty-five minutes away. It is those who try to claim that the Scientologists are innocent of wrongdoing in the death of McPherson who are promoting “twisted facts and ideas”.
The fact is that the Church gives lip service to a lot of things like “human rights”, “the Freedom of Information Act”, “ethical behavior” but what it practices is far different, and it’s not stuff that can be waved off with “some scientologists make mistakes” — the largest domestic infiltration of the United States government in history, the espionage operation that L. Ron Hubbard called “Operation Snow White” in the planning documents, did not happen because “some scientologists ma[d]e mistakes”. If the Church of Scientology is such a defender of human rights, why did it argue in not just one but two trials that its “fair game” policy of harassing those who it declares to be “enemies” should be considered a “core religious activity” of Scientology and should be treated as protected religious expression? Surely the right not to be “deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist … tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed” is a human right? If the Church of Scientology talks about protecting human rights, but goes to court to assert its own right to violate human rights, any reasonable observer must conclude that it is more serious about the latter than the former.
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