Londoners See a Disaster, But Scientology Sees an Opportunity!

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Some (mostly annoying) Scientology updates today while we wait for tomorrow's big reveal in our countdown:

In the suburbs of London (and in nearby Birmingham), where rioting has reached end-times proportions, Scientology's "Volunteer Ministers" have been spotted in their yellow jackets, handing out church propaganda. From the website Political Scrapbook:

A "Scientology Volunteer Force" appeared at the cleanup operation in Birmingham City Centre this morning, purporting to be there to help sweep up. In reality, they stayed for around ten minutes - just long enough to convince members of the public to come back to their centre and "learn more" about the organisation. According to cleanup helper @BrumProtestor, the five volunteers, who wore the sect's trademark yellow jackets, each left with a member of the public in the direction of their nearby recruitment office.

Hey, 9/11, the Haiti quake -- Scientology has never seen a disaster it can't exploit. L. Ron Hubbard to the rescue!

UPDATE: Speaking of Haiti, after that earthquake, Anonymous put together a little primer on the Volunteer Ministers. It includes some classic footage of Scientology executives very plainly describing the VMs as a recruitment tool for the church:

And from Los Angeles, a different sort of exploitation, this time of kids.

Some time ago, Scientology hit on another of its "good works" campaigns that help to distract the public from all the controversies the church is mired in. This time, instead of baking addicts in saunas while soaked with niacin, they pestered poor old Eleanor Roosevelt.

Back in 1948, Ms. Roosevelt did a wonderful thing. She wrangled the United Nations into adopting a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." It's a lovely document that enshrines all of the basic rights and dignities human beings around the world should be entitled to, like the right to live, the right not to be tortured, and the right to think and speak freely. It's good stuff.

But in it, Scientology sees an opportunity. Using slick videos and print campaigns, Scientology has formed new front groups that are disseminating this stuff like nobody's business. That's not entirely bad in itself -- except, of course, that they never mention that it's really a big PR campaign for the Church of Scientology, which usually goes unidentified -- but what's really troubling is that the new campaign is all about the children.

As in, kids roped into promoting Scientology's interests.

Recruiting kids to wear "Youth for Human Rights" T-shirts so they can hand out literature just feels like dirty pool. And on August 27, the campaign is trying something new: making a big show at a Major League Soccer game in Los Angeles, between Chivas USA and Real Salt Lake. According to a flier put out by the International Association of Scientologists [IAS]:

Thanks to an IAS grant, all public at the stadium and an estimated TV audience of 500,000 viewers will receive the message of Human Rights front and center. The grant will fund the production and distribution of 7,500 custom edition What Are Human Rights? booklets, as well as Youth for Human Rights T-shirts commemorating the event.

And if that's not enough, according to the IAS, the soccer team is going to provide a great bottleneck for fans trying to get into the game!

Chivas USA will be providing Youth for Human Rights volunteers with spaces at the entrance of the stadium where the booklets can be distributed and soccer fans will be asked to sign the Youth for Human Rights petition.

I've put in a call with Chivas USA's media relations officer to see if the team was aware that the innocent-sounding "Youth for Human Rights" was actually a front group for a religion that's been having a lot of human rights problems of its own. I'll let you know what he says.



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Tony Ortega is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. Since 1995, he's been writing about Scientology at several publications. Among his other stories about L. Ron Hubbard's organization:

The Larry Wollersheim Saga -- Scientology Finally Pays For Its Fraud
The Tory Bezazian (Christman) Story -- How the Internet Saved A Scientologist From Herself
The Jason Beghe Defection -- A Scientology Celebrity Goes Rogue
The Robert Cipriano Case -- A Hellacious Example of Fair Game
The Paul Haggis Ultimatum -- The 'Crash' Director Tells Scientology to Shove It
The Marc Headley Escape -- 'Tom Cruise Told Me to Talk to a Bottle'
The Aaron Saxton Accusation -- Australia turns up the heat on Scientology
The Jefferson Hawkins Stipulation -- Scientology's former PR genius comes clean
The Daniel Montalvo Double-Cross -- Scientology lures a young defector into a trap
A Church Myth Debunked -- Scientology and Proposition 8
Daniel Montalvo Strikes Back -- Scientology Hit with Stunning Child-Labor Lawsuits
When Scientologists Attack -- The Marty Rathbun Intimidation
A Scientologist Excommunicated -- The Michael Fairman SP Declaration
The Richard Leiby Operation -- Investigating a reporter's divorce to shut him up
The Hugh Urban Investigation -- An academic takes a harsh look at Scientology's past
Giovanni Ribisi as David Koresh -- A precedent for a Scientology-Branch Davidian link
Janet Reitman's Inside Scientology -- A masterful telling of Scientology's history
The Western Spy Network Revealed? -- Marty Rathbun ups the ante on David Miscavige
Scientology's Enemies List -- Are You On It?
Inside Inside Scientology -- An interview with author Janet Reitman
Scientology and the Nation of Islam -- Holy Doctrinal Mashup, Batman!
Scientologists -- How Many of Them Are There, Anyway?
Roger Weller's Wild Ride -- Scientology When it was Hip
The Marc Headley Infiltration -- A Scientology Spying Operation Revealed
Placido Domingo Jr: Scientology's Retaliation is "Scary and Pathetic"
An Interview with Nancy Many, Former Scientology Spy
The Paulien Lombard Confession -- A Scientology Spy Comes Clean
The Deputy Benjamin Ring Hard Sell -- Scientology wants your 401K
The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology -- the whole series!
The Squirrel Busters Busted -- Unmasking the Scientology PI in Charge


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Luis
Luis

My wish for you is that you gain control of the impulse to create generalities and falsehoods in order to ease the pain of you and your religion being considerered so awful. Having been in Scientology for 15 yrs. I am well aware of the NEED to have Scientology be considered awesome and of the inability, that need creates, to see anything other than what one is needing to see.

It is extremely painful to confront one has been assuming the wrong viewpoints regarding Scientology and been manipulated and lied to.

Please trust me, you can and will achieve your spiritual dreams without Scientology.   

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

I don't know when you were in Scientology for 15 yrs, but I am fully aware of all the info out there. Mostly same stuff started by Prince.  I am sure that it is painful to confront considering you have not confronted your own misdeeds.  I wish for you to start getting back into your life and start living it and get aware of what is happening around the world.  Three major wars, Banks failing, Stocks crashing,. Is this the dreams you were looking for.  In the backdrop of this people helping others to recover from looting and violence are attacked. Really look at that and don't let your own hate and upset of some perceived wrong cloud the history of this planet.  

Diana Etics
Diana Etics

You're full of it.

Diana Etics
Diana Etics

What choice do we have?  If we don't try, then the next destroyed family, the next 9 year old child to sign a billion-year contract, will weigh on our conscience.  I suspect we all harbor the hope to criticize the institutional practices, not the adherents.  But some struggle more than others to avoid lowering themselves to the cultist level (i.e., grade school) during the "dialogue." I suspect the critics are a group trying very hard to be tolerant and patient, when all the red flashing lights say a zero-tolerance policy is the most appropriate.

Itsgrillman
Itsgrillman

Why does anyone try to sway a Scilon's belief? As all of us who have educated ourselves on the cult's mantra know, they cannot think in any other manner except those put forth by their idiot founder and current dwarf leader.

They will never think for themselves. They believe that the VM's touch assists and recruiting people into the cult are really helping people. They really believe that they are forwarding the cause for Human Rights as Scilons.

If they do not toe the Scilon line their eternity is lost, no matter how deluded it is. All we can do is hope that some comment may spark the jolt that brings them back to the real world.

Luis
Luis

Bewreslippyslope:

I am appreciating your attempt to make me feel that I and my viewpoints are corrupted by misdeeds and hate and upset. They always are a welcome challenge for me to evaluate the truth of the statement no matther who it comes from.

You see, I have no need to be right.  Also, no fear of being wrong or flawed or of admitting I am being partially or completely wrong or flawed. 

Growth which includes becoming freer and stronger and more full of life, I have learned, can only be achieved by the recognition of one's flaws and weaknesses, and the owning up of them so that they are corrected.

But you will not allow yourself to believe that I have allowed your comments into my world to check their accuracy and they are not true.  You are, I see, in need to make me wrong which is exactly what I wrote about in the previous writing.

Believe or not, I am not glad you are demonstrating this inability.  I will always be wishing for you and me and all of us to be objective and strong beings so that criticism is not feared or resisted or attacked so that it is allowed to lead to a constructive and harmonious outcome instead of distancing and hateful one.

By the way, Scientology has never, in my history in it and out of it, has never been able to achieve that condition.  I have never heard or seen of anyone in Scientology own up to the horrible reputation they now have and that is worsening. 

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

I am glad tohave any discussion with objectivity and try for a constructive and harmoniousoutcome.   I have no fear.   Yet I do take some strong objection withyour statement that 

"Pleasetrust me, you can and will achieve your spiritual dreams withoutScientology" .  You don't know myspiritual dreams to even make such a statement.   And Trust me has longled to be being led down roads to destruction for man and individuals.   The recent leaders in the USare a small example of that.  Some how many of the posting have this Airof Supremacy with one statement and if enough disagreeable people agree itmakes it so.  One of the first things youlearn in Scientology is Mr. Hubbard statement of "What is true for you iswhat you have observed yourself"   "Nothing in Dianetics andScientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is trueaccording to your observation.  That is all."

I have never had anyone in Scientologyfrom the first book seller to Int Management ever violate that with me.  What I have seen is great success personaland in others.

 

You make a statement that I have heardbefore from people which I find much fault with and have not seen this to betrue.    Your statement "I havelearned, can only be achieved by the recognition of one's flaws andweaknesses, and the owning up of them so that they are corrected"  Somehow this also means that others take that to drum in to others theirfailures to the point of upset.   Most of the parents of the kids I grewup with wanted nothing more. 

Growth comes from many things.  If a pitcher isn't hitting the target with his pitches he does not needto think and think some more about what he is doing wrong he needs to visualizeit right and then practice till he grows and it becomes right. 

 There are a lot of things wrong with a Businessfor example or a Government as it is forming, and that you only learn fromrecognition of one’s flaws and weaknesses when many weakness and problems disappear as itgrows which the answer to the weakness is to grow.  One can also grow from learning from othersand seeing something not wanted, which is also non-survival and decide to notact that way if that is a survival choice one grows.  No Recognition of flaws or weakness of selfif need.  No Think about it and then think about it some more, and then thinkabout it some more.  I am not exactlysure what you have found that leads your dissertation on this supposed truism.  

I am not sure who you feel are not owning up tosomething, or if it was just philosophical statement you are trying to make. I am trying to track with you but somehow you believed lies I am not sure what lies you are referring to.  I trying to understand what you arereferring to but I think your big point was this statement.  "It is extremely painful to confront one has been assuming the wrong viewpoints regarding Scientology and been manipulated and lied to."  This statement besides being a generality,  it does not state what you were manipulated and by whom.   Again we are talking about members volunteering to help others deal with a the destruction from psychos in the UK.  There are Scientologist who want to help and do. That was what I posted  on. 

Sci Free UK
Sci Free UK

Except for a small number of truly deluded cultists, the vast majority of people in this world are free to see the world with their own eyes.  They see your lies for what they are and certainly aren't interested in your advice.  Scientology has been nothing more than a tiny blip in the history of this planet and it has no future to speak of.

But it's Thursday.  Your stats are due.  So keep on postulating.  There must be a win to be had here somehow.

Good luck.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

Well I did hit some truth with mentioning your fascist plan.   Got a lot of hate there.  There is absolutely no way Scientology will disappear.  Scientologists are tough people, willing to help and have compassion and communicate with others on any Subject.  We are also quite tough with ignorant hatred. Especially when shown towards our fellow man.   You have no secret agenda because your hate is so blatant it can't be hidden. 

Scientology will continue to help those whose wish help.  It will continue to demand human rights for all men and woman, which what Tony O and his Village prostitution weekly crier was being critical in the first place.

SciFreeUK
SciFreeUK

My fascist plan is showing through eh?  Whatever.  If you're looking for some freezone love, don't look at me.  If you're looking for a discussion on the value of your so-called "tech", don't look at me.

I have no secret agendas, no smoke screens.  In the simplest of terms, I despise your cult and everything that it represents with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I really don't care about your "ideas" one way or the other.  You're free to hold on to your own delusions for as long as you wish.  Just don't be too surprised to see your damnable cult pulled right out from under you and far sooner than you expect, cultist..

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

So Free UK "Except for a small number of truly deluded cultists, the vast majority of people in this world are free to see the world with their own eyes." So your true colors are coming out.  So if you deem someone a Cultist their no longer Free.  You Fascist plan is showing through, your smoke screen.  Going to name people Cultists "eh" and out bags over their head and then have them locked up. This Suppression have been seen before in history before, Dark ages, Germany.  Don't let anyone have any ideas that don't agree with your Socialist fascist loot and riot mindset. 

I would rather help Scientologists who let others be free and think on their own.  

Scilonschools
Scilonschools

Scientology have been 'looting' families and lives for years!!They know alot about looting!!!!!!!(I think their technology has contributed to UK Riots and looting anyway, think of Chilsdren Have Rights in Society, with no resonsibity, Scientology teaching for years!)

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

This coming from a guy who thinks he is a vampire, and one with no conscious or knowledge or recognition of evil at that.   Scientology is considered a religion in this land, and by its millions of adherents.  I think its highly unlikely you have any data of any crimes, except on the ones in your soul that leaves you waking up in sweats.  Every day more people are introduced to Scientology.  Don't insult well-intentioned people with your insincere goo about 80%.   Scientologists are doing what is needed to create a less violent world.  That includes having a world agreement on Human Rights.  

TDSCOHB
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Mr. Sippycup, which land are you referring to?  The UK?  Scientology is NOT considered a religion in the UK.  In fact it's not considered a religion in most places that it operates.  Those few countries where it is allowed to hide behind a religious cloak are places that don't directly "classify" religions.  Places where pizza could just as easily be considered a religion.  Places where pizza is just about as likely to be accepted as a religion.

You speak of "millions of adherents.  Where might I find these people?  I've been searching for years.  If there were more than 20,000 in the world I'd be amazed.  The only thing that is certain is that there are far more ex-scientologists than there are scientologists and that value is the only one that is expanding.

Left to it's own devices, scientology is a dangerous cult with totalitarian fantasies.  Nothing more, nothing less.  But scientology is not being left to it's own devices.  Nor are the myriad of front groups that scientology attempts to hide behind.

There is one thing the world is in agreement upon,that there is no place for scientology in the 21st century.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

I am at least glad you have the Mr. Correct that you give proper respect.  You are delirious if you think there is only 20,000.  There is double that in one city in LA.  I am surprised you don't see them around every corner. Sounds like you underrate truth and exaggerate falsehoods. There is a small amount of ex Scientologists, compared to those who are Scientologists.  People come and go in Scientology, maybe gone for a little bit, and then come back.  When needed they will be there they have always gathered when needed.  That small number you refer to of ex what adds about to about 300 maybe.  Different countries recognize religions in different procedures. Some don't recognize any, and others are deep into a fix dogma like Egypt and Iran, nothing else lives.  That is why there is a push for human rights, which when viewed as a collective of all Nations is badly needed.  In the leading nation of the world it is a religion.  What you don't seem to duplicate is the structure that is currently being put across the world.  The 21st Century will dwarf anything in the last 20 years combined.  

SFF
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Okay, here's a question. Scientologists clearly use the internet and Facebook and so forth.

Yet L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology both have under 4000 likes on Facebook. The Rastafarian religion has close to 50,000. Hubbard science fiction contemporary Heinlein has more than 30,000. Actual humanitarians Gandhi and Dr. King have hundreds of thousands.

According to the Church of Scientology there are thousands of orgs, missions and "groups" (what is a group, anyway?) yet less than 4000 can be bothered to give Hubbard some Facebook love?

Given the Church's love of PR this seems odd.

Unless there really are a small number of Scientologists worldwide.

TheGuest
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From all recent (2010 - 2011) reports and videos it appears the few remaining scientologists are either The Crims, The Crazies, or The Captured.  The latter would be those non-English speaking, and/or third world, all who have their I.D. and passports illegaly confiscated as well as any means of support or outside communications).

Los Angeles (PAC) and Clearwater (Flag) are 2 key measures and the extremes of flying and bussing in to fill seats at major events says it all.  Also,  sci's own publications that come out from this area show very few audtiors or OTs being "produced" and more telling is that lower level outer org staff are being used to fill up those few course or audit chair seats.

Based on the Apr 2008 census survey and all reports since combined, I've estimated no more than 9,000 to 15,000 scientologists left and yes, that's worldwide totals, and except for a few billionaires, most of them are broke, delirious, and godawful exhausted.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

You figures are way off.  Really Bus from Flag?  You have no real personal onsight info on Scientology.  You info reads off other sites all recently created by two guys sitting on a canal with no fish.  Just from your little tirade.  This is easily seen.  I know events and I know that more and more people are attending.  LA Org, San Francisco, Las Vega, Most of Mexico, San Jose Area all servicing more people than ever before.  Scientology is in for the long haul.  With-in 1 to two years the majority of orgs will have reached record levels after their newly constructed building are staff training are completed.  More Clears are made in Flag per week then were made in a month just 10 years ago.  Your 1,500 list is mostly people who have died and was compiled from 50 years of names.  The real net is maybe 300.  Most of them are still practicing some form of their own Scientology.

But the original story was that Volunteers were helping out the mess of the destruction and chaos in London from the injustice by its Gov.  Again a small handful of youth run crazy burning and looting and Scientology volunteers show up to help out.  That is the story, but Old 70's Tony in order to save his dwindling bird cage producing paper instead of pointing to the help attack them.  Gets his source from the looters.  The real truth is the  voice is loosing its writers it held up as par excellence  and Tony is trying to hold on by attacking Something large and expanding like Scientology.  Maybe they should stop running ads for pimps putting out 14 year old girls on the street, or ads about Multi Marketing. There are many people in NY but less than 1% even look at the paper, by their own stats. So he and you are just like the nut rioters finding like minded twisted souls to try to burn down anything decent.  That's not new either. 

TDSCOHB
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So much talk.  So litle evidence.  40,000 scientologists in LA?  Where?  When Davey has an event, he has to bus in sea org from Flag just to make it look like there are 3000 scientologists "and their so-called guests" in attendance.  When the Pasadena Idle Morge opened, there were fewer than 1000 (again, mostly bussed in Sea Org) in attendance.  Attendance at the recent Maiden Voyage event was so pitiful, Davey ordered a complete do-over and still failed to get any crowds to show up.

Flag is practically deserted compared to what it was even a few years back, which was rather weak even then.  2/3's empty busses occasionally hauling mostly russian and Korean sea org back and forth from their berthings to whatever foolishness lies in store for them on a given day, just to keep them looking busy for the few public scientologists that do show up for some class or another.  Those that do are crush regged so hard they vow never to come back again.

The Freewinds spens most of it's time sitting idly in a Columbian port, just to save on fuel costs.

The only visible action, comical as it may be is the kick back scheme that's been set up between scientology and Louis Farrakahn's Nation of Islam. The problem is that the NoI has far fewer members than even scientology does, they're only being brough online as dianetics counselors as neither Farrakahn nor Davey wants to see them on the bridge and even then, only a small percentage of existing NoI members have signed on to that sillyness.

As for those "wayward 300 souls" that you think will be coming back, I can easily name more than 1500 recent ex members that not only will not be coming back but are actively speaking out against the cult in spite of any potential repercussions for doing so.  There are at least 15 to 20 recent ex's for each one of these that just leave quietly.

Just show me one org, anywhere in the world that isn't completely downstat.

Flunk.

Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin

bewreslippyslope said:"Scientologists are doing what is needed to create a less violent world"

Yeah, and you better hope Elodie Harper from BBC FIVE LIVE doesn't weigh in on the VULTURE ministers issue.

People can Google "Elodie Harper BBC Five Live scientology London bombings"So you clams want to attack and never defend...defend THIS tiny pasta of an extensive expose of just how nefarious are the intentions of VM's in times of disaster.

JULIAN WORRICKER: Well, investigating this for the Five Live Report were Elodie Harper and Naomi MacMullan, and Elodie joins me this morning. Morning, Elodie. We've all heard of Scientology. Just remind us what it is.ELODIE HARPER: Well, firstly, although it's often called a church, officially it actually isn't - or certainly not in this country - as the Charities Commission denied it that right in 1999, as it failed to promote, in their words, moral or spiritual welfare.It is recognized as a religion in some other countries, though, including the U.S.A., where, as we know, it has a very high-profile following. Its belief system is based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, and particularly his book from 1950, which is called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.JULIAN WORRICKER: You went undercover - um - to a meeting of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Now what exactly is that?ELODIE HARPER: Well, we went to three meetings of the CCHR, or Citizens Commission of [sic] Human Rights, which is a wing of Scientology dedicated to fighting psychiatry, which it says is the reason why our society is failing.The meetings were led by Paul Fletcher, who's the director of CCHR's London branch and Stefania Cisco, a Director of Special Affairs for Scientology. And watching over us while we met was an imposing six-foot-high portrait of L. Ron Hubbard, which dominated the meeting room, along with rows and rows of his books. And much of the meetings were spent watching videos which set out Scientology's views on psychiatry and why they believe it's harmful to us.JULIAN WORRICKER: Right, so how is this linked to their work on the 7th of July last year?ELODIE HARPER: Well, CCHR believes that mental illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder, don't actually exist, but are just a fraud invented by psychiatrists as part of a plan to gain social control. And they also believe psychiatrists, or psychs, as they call them, are so dangerous that Scientology actually has a duty to protect the public from them in times of crisis. And we discovered that was exactly what they tried to do on the streets of London on the day of the bombings almost twelve months ago.ELODIE HARPER: I was reading on the CCHR web site how, like, CCHR went out after 9/11. PAUL FLETCHER: Right. Yeah. WOMAN: Mm. ELODIE HARPER: You know, goes to the site and say you - look, you don't have to go to a psychiatrist. PAUL FLETCHER: That was our Volunteer Ministers. ELODIE HARPER: That was Volunteer Ministers? PAUL FLETCHER: Yeah. ELODIE HARPER: Did they do anything like that after the London bombings, or - WOMAN: Yes. Oh, yes. WOMAN: All of it. WOMAN: Big time. WOMAN: We all went then. MAN: We had a yellow van which was going around to help. PAUL FLETCHER: We all went. We were all there.ELODIE HARPER: You were all there? STEFANIA CISCO: Oh, yeah. ELODIE HARPER: And you went -- Whereabouts did you go? Were you - STEFANIA CISCO: The taxi stand where all the -- WOMAN: Russell Square. MAN: [Inaudible] STEFANIA CISCO: Russell Square. We were part of the emergency and we helped quite a lot - PAUL FLETCHER: And the - Do you remember the Redding train disaster? ELODIE HARPER: Mm-hmm. PAUL FLETCHER: We went there, too. STEFANIA CISCO: We were there. PAUL FLETCHER: [Inaudible] ELODIE HARPER: Um -- and what kind of help and support did you offer? PAUL FLETCHER: Well, we - we just offered whatever they need, you know, if they need, sort of, like, assists or [inaudible] locationals or they just want people to help with the cleaning up [inaudible]. ELODIE HARPER: Mm-hmm. STEFANIA CISCO: Just -- people are distressed, so you know, you want -- you - the opportunity for psychs when they are distressed, okay, you need counseling [mimics sound of an explosion]. You go in [snaps fingers] - that's it. Um - we tried to keep them away. Spiritual - PAUL FLETCHER: Yeah. [Laughter] PAUL FLETCHER: Spiritual security. [Laughter] ELODIE HARPER: Spiritual security. [Laughter] PAUL FLETCHER: Yeah. WOMAN: Spiritual security PAUL FLETCHER: Fighting the psychiatrists; keeping the psychs away. ELODIE HARPER: And do you think you got through to people on 7/7? STEFANIA CISCO: Oh, yeah.ELODIE HARPER: What you just heard there was Paul Fletcher telling us that he and other Scientologists were keeping the psychs away when they went to help trauma victims amongst all the chaos of the day. And Stefania jokingly refers to it as a type of spiritual security needed to save people from the threat of receiving psychological counseling.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

Why am I supposed to defend it, I did not write that horribly worded post nor you're badly worded verbiage to introduce it.  Good that you got so excited about finding it. 

Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin

You can't "defend" as it is tenet of scientology to ALWAYS attack.Too bad BBC Five Live's undercover report will forever live on the Intertubez for all and sundry to see for themselves.No wonder scientology HATES the internet

Anon A
Anon A

LOL -- you're claiming that 'Le Stat' "thinks he's a vampire" and has "no recognition of evil" based on what, exactly?  His screen name?  I love when Scientologists try to "mock up a reality" based on nothing but BS they've been told by their superiors or assumptions pulled out of their own rear ends, but then they aggressively ignore sourced info and hard evidence that discredits the quackery of Scientology.

Sanddancer
Sanddancer

Ahhh yes, falling back to the broken scientology mantra of, "What are your crimes?" Scientology theology has said flat out that anyone below a 2 on the tone scale needs to be treated or murdered. How many of those millions are active adherents? How many of them have taken a course in the past month? Past year? Past five years? As Hubbard himself has said, nothing matters but the stats, so put up or shut up, please.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

I am glad you had some idea where you are on chart, mostly likely well below 2, but its good to see you have some small hope for yourself, but being such you do lie about what we should do with you.  You will only be asked to confront your evil deeds, consistent lying, harmful demonizing of others, theft and such, and then be giving auditing to remove those harmful demons that have you so fearful of Scientology that you think you should be murdered.  

I'drathernot
I'drathernot

Now now Bew.. thats what we call an "evaluation"DEF: evaluation: the imposing of data or knowledge upon another. An example would be to tell another why he is the way he is instead of permitting or guiding him to discover it for himself.

Now you know thats a huge NO -NO. Bad monkey.  You, as such a well versed Scientologist know better than to evaluate someone. I love how you are here defending how right Scientology is and then STEADY proving why its so wrong!

Sanddancer
Sanddancer like.author.displayName 1 Like

There you go, just proving my point. What are my crimes? I must take offense to your accusations that I lie, steal, and commit other evil deeds. I live honorably, I respect others, help them when they're depressed, at no charge, through currency or otherwise. Friends have thanked me for being there, for showing compassion and a desire to right wrongs. My "crimes", according to scientology, are being transgendered, chronic depression and anxiety, which are being corrected through the aid of those so-called evil psychologists and psychiatrists. I doubt scientology could even perform half of the "wins" I've had over even the past year. I'm now enrolled in school, and feeling confident enough to fight for my goals.

I'm going by scientology's own words when I describe what scientology considers what my ilk are worthy of. R2-45 and the like have no place in a religion based on compassion and assistance. Being of a "deviant" sexuality means I can be no more than a 1.1 on the tone scale, according to Hubbard himself. I've looked into how your auditing works, and it's elementary Jungian psychotherapy, with a bit of hypnotherapy mixed in. As I said before, I can get the same results elsewhere for a lot less money than your bridge, if not far, far better than what you could ever imagine.

Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin like.author.displayName 1 Like

bewreslippyslope vomited "I am glad you had some idea where you are on chart, mostly likely well below 2"

And what does scientology tenet command for all those 2.0 and below?

"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology’s measure of mental and spiritual health.]

"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 159"

There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170

"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered." - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170

"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 171

Le Stat
Le Stat

Scientology: a criminal organization with 80% of its members being a well-intentioned people.It's a good time for OSA to word clear "cult" and "brain washing". It's not what you think it is.

Tracy Chap
Tracy Chap

Wow this article really hit some OSA nerves! Makes one wonder why they don't want to take more responsibilty for their front groups like volunteer ministers. Hey $cientology why don't you admit and be proud of your religion.You know why? Admitting you are a scientologists is a definite career killer.

mirele
mirele

F*cking vulture ministers! They have the knack of showing up at the wrong place at the wrong time and wanting to shove LRH in your face. *shudder*

JamesD
JamesD

If you Youtube search, "angry gay pope twin peaks" you will see the dangerous cult HIDING a GIANT TANK OF PROPANE. Why would a church need to frantically hide a giant tank of propane? One reason is very clear to anyone who has read The Anarchist Cookbook. They have already made public threats to harm people on the internet who protest them. Call Homeland Security and report the propane hoarding by a dangerous cult. Why hide it?......

Sanddancer
Sanddancer

It's more apocalyptic paranoia than planning to destroy things. It's right next to a rather large generator, so the simplest explanation is that it's there to supply power. My old workplace had a setup similar to that to handle up to three days with no power. Of course, both times the power actually went out, it failed miserably and caused massive problems.

Though criticizing the church is useful, keep on target. There's plenty of material there to actually criticize without going into suppositions.

bewreslippyslope
bewreslippyslope

Tony O and his palooka's are some pieces of work. You has some scum with@ protester as his source.  The truth is volunteers went out to help people recover from the destruction of a bunch of little SPs run amuck and he writes an article attacking the volunteers.  Your hate run so deep, in the bellow of the devils.   When you drop a dish do you also kick your dog. 

TDSCOHB
TDSCOHB

It is interesting that a small handful of remaining UK scientologists attempting to take advantage of this situation in a desperate attempt at recruitment has drawn almost as much attention from the public as the rioting itself.  Speaks volumes really.

The world has had it's fill of scientology. The world has had it's fill of your despicable front groups as well.

P.S.  Nice work in Northumbria guys.  Way to make it go right. 

AnonRanGER
AnonRanGER like.author.displayName 1 Like

"This is a pretty routine drill really. You get permission to visit. You go in and give patients a cheery smile. You want to know if you can do anything for them, you give them a card and tell them to come around to your group and really get well, and you give them a touch assist if they seem to need it but only if they're willing. And you for sure make sure that there is someone on the other end when they ring up. Giving them a schedule of your HAS Co-Audit will avail much. I've got a book scheduled named the "sick person" as a working title that will make good fodder for this. But your statement, "the modern scientific church can cure things like that. Come around and see." will work. Its [sic] straight recruiting!" [LRH, HCOB 15/9/59]

Ryan Suter
Ryan Suter

I really wish you would lay off Scientology.  I need Scientology - to be more sane - without horrible medications that do terrible things to me and without a terrible psychiatric treatment system that led to my attempting suicide more than 5 times.  Scientology is the only thing that I have found that is as effective or more effective than psych at treating my very severe diagnosis.  I know it's not very popular with all of you, but it is the only thing that makes me stay as "normal" as possible without abusing me.  Because it is a religion and backed up and powered by God.

Jacob
Jacob

LOL, good one:)

robert
robert

Ryan,I'm glad that you are doing okay and you have found some helpful things.  But many others have been harmed and that's why we are speaking out.Ultimately, if you do some research, you will find that the organization is all about the money.  Try telling them that you have no more money or have decided that you aren't going to be doing any more courses, and see what kind of a reaction that you get.

I'm sorry that you had the bad experiences with psychiatry that you had.  But there are a lot of different options.  There are good psychiatrists, good psychologists and good voulunteer organizations dedicated to helping you, people who will help without draining your wallet in the process.  

Help yourself and start googling. If you like the tech, it is less expensive and less threatening outside the CoS.

Good luck!  

sizzle8
sizzle8

Ryan, It's not about preventing you from believing in whatever you want. 

It''s about stopping - the human rights abuses, - the broken families, - the lies about its history and its founder, - the illegal and immoral activities it practices and - preventing the financial ruin of those that cross paths with it.

(BTW, I suspect you may be a troll since Scientology does not involve God or worship.)

VultureMinister
VultureMinister

Ryan, there is no god in scientology.  It's a scam.  I do hope you find the help you need in order to stay "normal".  The cult you are supporting is not going to provide that help.  You're online now, Google scientology and suicide.  Google scientology "Lisa McPherson".  Google scientology "Rex Fowler".  Google scientology "Greg Bashaw".

Then get the hell out of there.

Good luck.

Oh btw, nobody is going to "lay off scientology".  Not ever.

Marla
Marla

WOW Tony, you must be getting to them! The COS has directed it's private investigations unit to hit the comment section here hard! LOL!Too bad none of these scientologists realize that we are trying to help THEM!  When you get all your information from ONE source, like  these brain-washed culties do---you have no idea that the "church" you are defending has been lying, cheating and stealing from you, USING you for cheap labor, controlling the info you receive so you have NO IDEA that STATS are actually DOWN, membership is DOWN, there are currently over 22 lawsuits in process against that same "church". Scientology controls family units, splitting up families, hires private investigators (avg. 17 million per year) to harass,slander & stalk ANY critic that has the potential to damage the money making machine that is SCIENTOLOGY. An interesting twist on a pyramid scheme actually. What happens to old scientologists? sick? injured? OFF-LOADED because you can no longer be USED. You have no retirement plan, no medical insurance, not even days off with your own children! It's disgusting & dispicable that all of you scientologists don't have the GOD GIVEN free will to LOOK IT UP YOURSELF!! Anonymous wants you to be free, without the threat of losing your family, your friends or your salvation. Believe whatever you want, but don't you DARE defend this organizations exploitation of people. EVER see a 7 year old do hard physical labor until his feet bled? Crying for his mommy that he was taken from at 6 years old to join the SEA ORG???  Wake the fuck up, take your power back-the bridge is bullshit....you should be ashamed of yourselves for subjecting your children to this nonsense. THEY have NO choice!  YOU DO!  GTFO!

I'drathernot
I'drathernot

 Marla.. did you notice that after multiple politicians were outed for having "fake followers"on facebook, we started getting all these new forum postings? lol I find it kinda comical.. I can see OSA now, "Look.. we can make up MULTIPLE names so it looks like more people support us" Its like when they edit movies and pictures to make it look like 100,000 were in attendance but in reality it was really 6.

Keith Wood
Keith Wood

I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

MarkStark
MarkStark

This kind of activity by the cult is particularly barf-inducing. It is in the same vein as Scientology owning and running the Cult Awareness Network, or when they got their number on a running banner of a major TV network, as the place to call for help the morning of 9/11.

The soccer event organizer probably didn't realize it is Scientology, but will pretend they did to save face and go through with it. All it takes is a pay-off or someone feeling trapped or obligated and the cult are experts at doing that to people. However, these days, it is also possible the organizer could get mad when finding out.

It's like when a Canadian college ran one of the cult's PSYCHIATRY:  AN INDUSTRY OF DEATH exhibits, and at least canceled any future appearances.

Mario Andretti got really pissed off in 1988 when he came in and found he was supposed to drive a car covered with "Dianetics" logos. He made them take them off.

It all comes under the category of deceptive tactics, just like inviting people to take a "stress" or "personality" test. It is the way they operate about everything. They can't be honest and upfront about anything.

Live from UK
Live from UK

 Blah. Blah. Hate, hate, hate. Blah. Blah. Some bag of rice fell over, there in China, just now! Did you see it? Quick! Write a hate message about it.

Sci Free UK
Sci Free UK

How about that, 2 hours have passed and yet not a single post anywhere on the web hateing over a fallen bag of rice in China.  Yet there are thousands of people around the world that are watching scientology's every move and countering each one 24 hours a day, seven days a week and nobody's crying hate except for the same few scientologist sock puppets that we've all gotten to know so well.  This much "hate" directed at christianity, islam, buddhism, hinduism, whatever, would bring out scores of criticisms from all walks of life.  When it comes to criticism agains scientology, it seems that pretty much everyone is on board, except of course for those same few sock puppets.

Sucks to be you.

Dingo Dongo
Dingo Dongo

"Blah. Blah. Hate, hate, hate. Blah. Blah."

Nice rebuttal.

MarkStark
MarkStark

No matter. Selling Sciloontology as human rights today will fall apart under any kind of scrutiny.

You OSA people might as well be out on the streets shouting:

 "Get your Xenu here, only $300,000!"

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