The beleaguered Church of Scientology seems to have shots being fired at it from all directions. In The US they are dealing with a murky group known merely as Anonymous that have created havoc for the Church, there have been cyber attacks on their web site, a big push on online message boards to get the ‘Scientology is bunk’ message out, and last weekend peaceful demonstrations outside of many Scientology ‘churches’ across the US. Maybe the most well reported being the one in Phoenix.
Well our little Dianetics fans, have problems abroad as well. For some time now Germany has been making noises about Scientology, clearly the German government does not like the organization. There has been a bit of a war waging of late, surprisingly enough, a war out in the open. This is not a way that the Scientologists really like to do business, well unless it is on their own terms.
Deutsche Welle has a good description of the war being waged. Essentially Germany feels that Scientology may not be operating in a way that is compatible with the democracy of the country. To quote another web site “Germany’s top security officials reiterated in December they consider Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the German constitution. They requested that state officials begin gathering information to consider whether they have sufficient grounds to seek a ban on the organization.”
Essentially the Germans have created an ‘open season’ on Scientology. The courts have ruled that the security services can, and more importantly, will keep an eye on the organization.
Naturally this created a great deal of hot air, bluster, and bull shit from Thetan HQ. Karin Pouw, public affairs director for the Los Angeles, Calif.,-based Church of Scientology International, said the church is confident it will prevail in the dispute. “Despite over 10 years of intrusive investigation and harassment of Scientologists, not one shred of evidence has been uncovered to justify this politically motivated investigation,” Pouw said in a statement e-mailed to The AP.
The heat is definitely being turned up on this cult. One wonders how much longer they will keep their Tax Free status?
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPlonk, there you fell off my bookmark list for heavy BS reporting. Clobbering a minority is fun?! Your world is upside down somehow. Get a life.
BIG WIN!!! And another great report Simon!
Let us hope that their tax-exemption status will be removed, and that enough information to have them prosecuted for their many heinous crimes will be gathered before the scientologists have the time to dispose of it! Hooray!
Also, the scientology protests aren’t only happening in the United States. There were several (big) protests in Australia, the UK, Canada, etc. 14-15 countries, globally.
Ludo: I suggest you read up on scientology’s evil-doings as a Church before you sympathize with them. The belief system of its followers are okay, but the Church’s actions are not. http://www.xenu.net, http://www.whyaretheydead.com, http://www.scientology-victims-testimonies.com
googlesearch: “Operation Snow White”, “Fair Game Policy”
Oh Ludo, we don’t want them “clobbered.” All we really want is for the Church of Scientology to be thouroghly investigated to the satisfaction of the many people who are concerned about them. We want to know if they are really as harmless as they claim to be. We want to know if they truely do deserve the tax breaks that not even Catholic or Jewish get.
That shouldn’t hurt anybody. An organization with nothing to hide would more than welcome the chance to be investigated to clear up the “misunderstandings” we may have about them. Then everybody can coexist happily knowing that there isn’t something sinister amongst us. Wouldn’t that be nice?
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Did you miss that fact amongst your blather. Not one shred of evidence of wrongdoing despite 10 years of “surveillance”. The heart of nazidom, with a state religion. The Scientologists will prevail in the end, probably on appeal.
THANK YOU, GERMANY! Ban the HELL out of them murdering, tax-evading, family-ripping, theiving cult bastards! I love the open-season status Germany is taking on Co$! ! ! !
Not one shred of evidence of wrong doing? How about those three Scientologists just arrested a few days ago in Italy for kidnapping a woman?
Excellent, I love Germany more everday. I feel appalled as an American that our
State Department tries to force Germany to accept L Ron Hubbard’s delusions as a religion. Hubbard tried to publicy demonstrate the supposedely increased “powers” that Scientology would give you back in the 50’s and he failed miserably. That was the last time he ever allowed Scientology to be public scrutinized and now Scientology want to make inroads into education and healthcare, all without a shred of scientific evidence. There’s a great old tradition in this country called “snake-oil salesmen”, and we know them when we
see them.
A blogger who is not manipulated by contrived and manipulated notions of political correctness?
Nice work
Overall, Post-unification Germany’s human rights laws are better than UK’s and US’s. They are just distrustful of any organization that develops a centralized mob mentality like that of early Nazism. Also, Scientology’s ideas are optimized to Anglo-American culture, which makes it stick out like a sore thumb in Germany, which is basically the heart of the Continental culture.
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