Instrumentalisation de la justice aux USA 
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Pour terminer 2008 avec humour et remercier le plus célèbre parangon de la scientologie pour ces frasques et dérapages verbaux nous vous proposons une excellente video satirique avec celui qui s'est mis à dos des millions d'internautes: le scientologue Tom Cruise (vidéo en anglais avec scénario et dialogues aisément compréhensibles - personnes sensibles s'abstenir)
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Résumé: La scientologie
a réussi
à faire jeter en prison Keith Henson, grâce à de faux témoignages de
scientologues. Keith henson avait manifesté contre la base secrtète de Hemet où loge le chef de la
scientologie, David Miscavige. Désormais, Keith Henson fait appel de la décision du juge de Riverside County, qui l'avait condamné pour une soi-disant entrave à la liberté de religion. Cette condamnation n'avait en réalité été rendu possible que parce que le juge avait interdit à Henson de présenter ses arguments et pièces probantes. La Fondation Frontière Electronique (EFF), organisme très sérieux qui tente d'aider à établir les limites des libertés et abus sur Internet, relaie l'appel de Keith Henson: l'appel:
Keith Henson Appeal: Time to Undo an Injustice Commentary by Cindy Cohn
The well-known Scientology protester Keith Henson has filed an appeal to the Appellate Division of the Riverside
County Superior Court of his criminal conviction in 2001 of misdemeanor
"interfering with a religion" for picketing in front of a Scientology "base" in
Hemet, CA. The ruling was roundly criticized as inconsistent with Henson's First
Amendment rights to criticize Scientology: much of the evidence used against him
consisted of general statements he made online that were very critical of
Scientology but fell far short of the sort of "true threat" Scientology watchers will recall that Henson sought, and temporarily
obtained, political asylum in Canada right after the verdict, then was arrested The Church of Scientology has been one of the earliest
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The cult of scientlogy lost another step in Germany. Indeed, a bavarian kids ward has been closed by decision of the state. Two "educators" were forbidden to continue to "educate" 18 kids, since that could be a danger.
BERLIN, 22 déc 2008 (AFP) Le tribunal administratif de Bavière (sud de l'Allemagne) a confirmé lundi la décision prise en février par la ville de Munich de fermer une garderie liée à l'Eglise de Scientologie. La municipalité avait retiré sa licence de garderie "avec effet immédiat" à une association dans laquelle deux éducatrices veillaient sur 18 enfants depuis l'été 2007. Ces deux éducatrices ainsi que les deux directeurs de la garderie ont des liens avec la Scientologie, qui n'est pas reconnue comme église en Allemagne et qui fait l'objet d'une surveillance des services du renseignement intérieur. La ville s'était dite convaincue que les liens du personnel de la garderie avec la Scientologie étaient une "menace pour le bien-être des enfants de cet établissement, car le travail de formation et d'éducation y est basé sur les préceptes de la Scientologie". Le tribunal administratif a estimé qu'il y avait effectivement un risque pour les enfants d'être soumis à une éducation imprégnée de valeurs "totalitaires" et a refusé de rouvrir provisoirement la garderie en attendant un jugement ultérieur sur le fond. L'organisation est surveillée depuis 1997 par l'Office national de protection de la Constitution (Bundesver- fassungsschutz, renseignement intérieur) à travers tout le pays, où elle compte environ 5.000 adeptes. Un débat a régulièrement lieu en Allemagne sur l'opportunité d'interdire dans ce pays ce que nombre d'experts dénoncent comme une secte dangereuse et totalitaire. Mais "nous sommes arrivés à la conclusion qu'une interdiction n'est pas appropriée", avait déclaré en novembre le ministre de l'Intérieur du Brandebourg et actuel président de la commission des ministres régionaux de l'Intérieur (IMK), Jörg Schönbohm.
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Paris: un raid de la justice contre la scientologie le 16 décembre
"La Scientologie perquisitionnée" Une double perquisition a eu lieu à l'Eglise de Scientologie parisienne, le mardi 16 décembre. A la suite d'une plainte pour "tromperie" et "publicité mensongère", les policiers de la Brigade de répression de la délinquance économique (BRDE) ont saisi des documents dans les locaux du Celebrity Centre, la branche réservée au célébrités de la scientologie, située dans le 17ème arrondissement, ainsi qu'au siège de l'Association spirituelle de l'Eglise de Scientologie, dans le 12ème arrondissement. Les enquêteurs souhaitaient notamment consulter un certain nombre de dossiers nominatifs de gros contributeurs de l'organisation. F.K.
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Scientologie et sélection des gestionnaires de fonds L'affaire pointe les lacunes de la sélection (Affaire Madoff) Remarque
d'anti-scientologie: Intéressant de noter qu'aux USA l'appartenance scientologue a servi
de critères pour refuserr un candidat-gérant de fortune (voir ci-dessous
en rouge)
Le débat sur la nécessité et l'efficacité de procédures de sélection
rigoureuse des fonds par les investisseurs est relancé, surtout dans la
gestion alternative. Identifier et éviter les futurs Madoff. C'est une
des tâches principales, avec la recherche de talents, des opérations de «due diligence», c'est-à-dire de sélection et de contrôle des fonds
alternatifs, menées par les multigérants, les gérants qui investissent dans
des fonds. Une procédure d'autant plus indispensable que, dans la gestion
alternative, les risques opérationnels (fraude, manipulation, erreur dans
les valeurs liquidatives ou les redditions ...) expliquent beaucoup d'échecs
et de fermetures de hedge funds», selon les études. C'est la raison pour laquelle la «due diligence» doit être réalisée par plusieurs professionnels (au moins deux), de préférence expérimentés. Ils confrontent leurs points de vue et sont attentifs à tous les signaux émis par le gestionnaire. Ce dernier est d'ailleurs parfois objet d'enquêtes à caractère privé. Un multigérant évoque ainsi les exemples passés de
professionnels américains «recalés» après qu'il s'est aperçu que l'un
était membre de l'Eglise de Scientologie et l'autre sous le coup d'une série
d'arres- tations pour excès de vitesse, ce qui l'aurait exposé à de la prison
ferme, une éventualité désastreuse pour sa participation dans le fonds. La « due diligence» Pour Mark Anson, l'ancien responsable des
investissements du plus grand fonds de pension américain, CalPERS, un
investisseur avisé devrait passer entre 75 et 100 heures avec chaque fonds
alternatif avant de lui confier son argent. L'université de Princeton passe,
elle, au minimum 400 heures avec chaque gérant avant d'y investir, puis elle
consacre 70 heures par an à son suivi. Une procédure de «due diligence» rigoureuse coûterait entre 50.000 et
100.000 dollars pour un fonds totalement inconnu. Les perspectives de
rendement doivent donc justifier cet investissement, significatif en temps
et en effectifs. Ce montant, loin d'être négligeable, tend à défavoriser les
petits fonds de fonds, incapables d'acquitter une telle somme. Ils peuvent
alors passer outre certains contrôles ou se montrer moins exigeants, moins
pointilleux. On constate (*) que les fonds de fonds de taille importante sont près de deux fois plus nombreux que ceux de taille modeste (42,3 %, contre 23,6 %) à disposer d'auditeurs chez les grands cabinets. Les multigérants peuvent aussi se reposer sur leurs contacts dans le monde financier, comme les banques d'affaires, longtemps grosses pourvoyeuses de gérants de «hedge funds». Cela permet d'accéder à des informations qualitatives appréciables,
de gagner du temps et d'être parmi les premiers à savoir qu'un nouveau fonds
alternatif se lance. Car ce sont les fonds les plus jeunes qui sont les plus
performants, mais aussi les plus risqués. NESSIM AÏT-KACIMI (*) «Hedge Fund Due Diligence: a Source of Alpha», Brown, Fraser, Liang, septembre 2007.
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Tom Cruise après avoir dérapé sur plusieurs plateaux de télévision et donné une image négative de la sciento- logie se devait de remonter ses statistiques scientologues. C'est un échec total à la lecture des critiques parues récemment concernant son dernier film Valkyrie. La plupart des critiques de cinéma descendent en flèche ce film et critiquent le mauvais jeu de l'acteur Tom Cruise.
Valkyrie était le nouveau cheval de bataille de la scientologie car cette organisation est de plus en plus condamnée pour ses abus dans le monde entier et son totalitarisme. (Cf: la justice aux USA qui vient de reconnaître en dernier appel que l'exemption fiscale accordée par l'IRS à la scientologie est anti-consti- tutionnelle). Valkyrie devait permettre à Tom Cruise (et sa scientologie) de reconquérir le public. Un public qui avait été choqué par ses propos absurdes sur la psychiatrie et la dépression post-natale. Bien que Tom Cruise soit à nos yeux une victime de la scientologie nous savons qu'il sait parfaitement que son organisation ne cesse d'incite ses membres à attaquer ceux qui la critiquent. Il a été parfaitement endoctriné et en tant que scientologue Tom Cruise pense qu'agir ainsi ne peut être un délit. Tom Cruise est coupable de complicité de "délits sacrés" Ce n'est pas en se mettant dans la peau d'un nazi qui veut prendre la direction des opérations lorsque la guerre est en train d'être perdue que Tom Cruise arrivera à nous convaincre que la scientologie n'est pas un groupe totalitaire qui veut "éliminer" tous ses opposants. (cf livre de Ron Hubbard - «Les conditions d'éthique de la scientologie») anti-scientologie - 23 décembre 2008 'Tom Cruise is distractingly bad': Star's latest movie is savaged by US critics By Daily Mail Reporter
Tom Cruise's latest movie has been slammed by US critics who have dubbed his performance as ‘distractingly bad.’The 46-year-old actor stars as real-life Nazi officer Colonel Stauffenberg, the mastermind behind the last known assassination plot to kill Adolf Hitler during World War II, in Valkyrie which is released this month. But reviewers have been less than impressed with the film and it's star.
Christy Lemire from the Associated Press gave the most stinging review, claiming that the actor’s delivery overshadows the production of everyone else's work in the film. ‘Cruise is both the central figure in Valkyrie and it's weakest link.'He’s distractingly bad in this … With his hard, flat American accent, he stands out in every single scene. 'And he’s not a good enough actor to immerse himself in this kind of period piece,’ she says. While Emanuel Levy at Cinema 24/7 also offered a damning verdict:Arguably miscast, Cruise is stiff and unconvincing as the courageously heroic German officer,’ he says.
Cruise, pictured with co-star Carice Van Houten, stars as real-life Nazi officer Colonel Stauffenberg in Valkyrie MSNBC film critic Alonso Duralde was also unimpressed: ‘…There’s a gaping hole at the centre of Valkyrie, and his name is Tom Cruise,' he says. ‘He’s the only actor in the film not doing either a British or a German accent — more on that in a moment — and he spends every moment on screen glowering and purring angrily. ‘The actor appears lost without being able to launch his usual charm offensive, and whatever dark sides that Oliver Stone was once able to plumb from this performer seems nonexistent.’
Tom Cruise at the world premiere of the film in New York last week In real life, the plot on July 20, 1944 failed and Stauffenberg, along with thousands of other co-conspirators, was executed. Cruise spent much of last year in Germany making the movie, which became known as a jinxed venture. Extras were wounded during filming, film was destroyed in a lab and had to be re-shot - and, most damningly, there was a rushed re-shoot of key scenes after test audiences fell asleep during secret screenings. Last week the movie was given a roasting by German critics. 'Cruise as Stauffenberg is about as deep as a bowl of cornflakes,' said the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. 'The only thing that can definitely be said about this cinema adventure is that Tom Cruise, who has been damaged by his bizarre talk show behavior, may well continue storming the heights of the Scientology hierarchy as a thetan - but his image as an actor has been finally ruined by Valkyrie,' wrote Taggespiegel. In 'Valkyrie,' Cruise Rises Again By Philip Kennicott / Washington Post Staff Writer
Expectations for "Valkyrie," Tom Cruise's history-based thriller about the July 20, 1944, attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, were low. The subject matter couldn't be more serious, and Cruise's career hasn't exactly been a steadily accumulation of gravitas. Gone but not forgotten are the days of Oprah couch-jumping and Matt Lauer tongue-lashing. And his professed faith in Scientology makes him a lightning rod, especially in Germany, where "Valkyrie" was filmed and is the subject of considerable controversy. Worst of all, though, was damning criticism from Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, son of the film's hero, Claus von Stauffenberg, who told Cruise to keep his grubby Hollywood mitts off dear old dad -- and go home. Cruise did neither. Against all expectations -- and much to the relief of
MGM, where Cruise is now a boss of United Artists -- he has fashioned a
successful if not exceptional film. Directed by Bryan Singer With fine performances from Kenneth Branagh So why isn't it possible to be more enthusiastic about this film? Why does it feel as if something sinister is lurking beneath its polished surface? Screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander seem to have
followed the account of the plot as laid out in William Shirer's "The Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich The history is mostly accurate, but not complete. And that is part of the problem. The most disturbing loss is any sense of von Stauffenberg's life before the movie opens. He was the hero of the assassination plot, but he was not a committed anti-Nazi until very late in the game. Many anti-Hitler conspirators weren't so much against Nazism, with its vile racial and militarist policies, as they were against Hitler's disastrous leadership of the war. Von Stauffenberg was not only untroubled by Hitler's nationalism and early aggression, he helped further it as a loyal soldier. It was only later, when he learned more about the master he served with military punctiliousness, that he saw the light. Most of that is left out of the film. As is any clear sense of how late in the war the plot came. Although there is a scene early in the film in which von Stauffenberg's family takes refuge in an air-raid shelter, there's little evidence of the pragmatic (and self-serving) motivation of many of the conspirators. Germany was in danger of imminent collapse, and they hoped to avoid the humiliation of invasion and occupation. Even more problematic than the loss of historical context is the weird lack of humanity in the film. Machines rule in this tremendously mechanistic film. Planes, cars, telephones, teletypes, ticker tapes and guns create a weird cacophony of mechanical sounds. Voices, sometimes even at critical moments of dialogue, are sometimes inaudible against the howling background of machine-generated noise. Like the machines it focuses on so intently, the film is rigorous and relentless, with very little human in it. Two tears trickle down two checks, which is about the sum total of emotional display, other than the usual staples of military life: frustration, anger, determination, courage. What's going on here? On one level, the film shows a dark truth of the plot: It was a military plot, generated within military circles, which is to say that it was fueled by many of the same forces that Hitler had harnessed to become Führer. Cruise's von Stauffenberg is not so much the aristocratic, Catholic, educated Stauffenberg of German legend; he is, rather, a German military man of the old school, a human machine, affectless beyond his passion for the mission. But perhaps there's something else. The name "Valkyrie" refers to a set of
preexisting plans to use the army to quell rebellion, which the plotters
tailored and attempted to use for their own ends. It was borrowed from German
literature and, more immediately, from Richard Wagner "Valkyrie" the movie makes much of von Stauffenberg's missing eye and eye patch. Is there a not-so-subtle reference to Wotan here? Wotan was the last of the old gods, and the one whose behind-the-scenes scheming precipitates the downfall of the old order. And so Cruise as von Stauffenberg is a Wotan figure, and the film, with its almost futurist celebration of man as a mechanical animal, celebrates the disciplined, determined, even-tempered man. A man who is struggling to take down the old order. It's hard to know whether
this film is channeling Nietzsche Or is all of that entirely too much to read into a Tom Cruise Valkyrie (120 minutes, at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for violence and strong language. Mission Imperative: Assassinate the Führer By Manohla Dargis
There are no discernibly nasty Nazis in “Valkyrie,” though Hitler and Goebbels skulk about in a few scenes, shooting dark, ominous looks at the heroic German Army officer played by Tom Cruise. Perhaps they’re wondering what this Hollywood megastar is doing in their midst, a sentiment that you may come to share while watching Mr. Cruise — who gives a fine, typically energetic performance in a film that requires nothing more of him than a profile and vigor — strut about as one of history’s more enigmatic players.
That enigma was Claus von Stauffenberg, a count and a colonel who, though he lost one eye, an entire hand and several fingers while fighting on behalf of the Reich, made several attempts to assassinate Hitler and seize control of the government. At the core of Stauffenberg’s spectacularly ambitious plot was Valkyrie, Hitler’s plan for the mobilization of the home army that Stauffenberg hoped to hijack in order to quash the SS and its leaders. It didn’t work, of course, for complicated reasons, though also because by 1944, as William L. Shirer bluntly puts it in “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” the conspirators were “terribly late.” You don’t learn how belated the coup d’état was in “Valkyrie,” which might matter if this big-ticket production with Mr. Cruise in an eye patch and shiny, shiny boots had something to do with reality. But the director, Bryan Singer (of the “X-Men” franchise), and the writers, Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, aren’t interested in delivering a history lesson: that’s why Ken Burns was born. Slick, facile entertainment is the name of the game here, as it is in all Mr. Singer’s films, including “Apt Pupil” (about a Nazi war criminal and the American boy next door who outs him) and “The Usual Suspects,” an intricately plotted story with men and guns, secrets and shadows that Mr. McQuarrie wrote. The secrets have already begun swirling by the time “Valkyrie” opens with Stauffenberg, stationed in North Africa, bitterly recording his opposition to Hitler in a diary right before losing various body parts to the war. After his convalescence he meets Maj. Gen. Henning von Tresckow (Kenneth Branagh), who, sometime earlier, tries to blow up Hitler with a bomb hidden in bottles of French liqueur. (Russian vodka might have been more effective.) Stauffenberg soon joins the conspiratorial party that includes other British class acts brandishing high military rank and speaking in lightly accented or unaccented English: Bill Nighy as Gen. Friedrich Olbricht, Tom Wilkinson as Gen. Friedrich Fromm, Terence Stamp as Gen. Ludwig Beck and Eddie Izzard as Gen. Erich Fellgiebel. Most of the crucial rebellious officers are played by British actors, while some of the Nazi diehards are played by Germans, which wouldn’t be worth mentioning if this cacophony of accents weren’t so distracting. But, as with the casting of Mr. Cruise, whose German voice-over quickly eases into English, this international acting community invokes an earlier studio age, when Peter Lorre and Claude Rains delivered their lines in exotically flavored English and everyone pretended that Rick’s Cafe really was located in Casablanca and not on a back lot. If Mr. Cruise doesn’t work in “Valkyrie,” it’s partly because he’s too modern, too American and way too Tom Cruise to make sense in the role, but also because what passes for movie realism keeps changing, sometimes faster than even a star can change his brand. Though Mr. Singer’s old-fashioned movie habits, his attention to the gloss, gleam and glamour of the image, can be agreeably pleasurable, he tends to gild every lily. Hitler (David Bamber) doesn’t need spooky music or low camera angles to be villainous: he just has to show up. Mr. Singer’s fondness for exaggeration can even undercut his strongest scenes, as when Stauffenberg visits Hitler to secure approval for the rewritten Valkyrie plan. If implemented, the plan will bring down the Führer who, for his part, seems intent on bringing down the house with leers and popping eyeballs. Mr. Singer appears to have taken cues here from “Black Book,” Paul Verhoeven’s World War II romp, but he’s too serious to make such vaudeville work. Stauffenberg, who hated Hitler but worshipped the Reich, sacrificed himself on the dual altar of nationalism and militarism, which makes him a more ambiguous figure than the one drawn in “Valkyrie.” He’s a complex character, too complex for this film, which like many stories of this type, transforms World War II into a boy’s adventure with dashing heroes, miles of black leather and crane shots of German troops in lockstep formation that would make Leni Riefenstahl flutter. It’s a war that offers moral absolutes (Nazis are evil) and narratives (Nazis are evil and should die) that seem easier to grasp than any current conflict. Truly, World War II has become the moviemaker’s gift that keeps on giving, whether you want it to or not. “Valkyrie” is rated PG-13. (Parents strongly cautioned.) Bombs, guns and executions, though little blood. VALKYRIE Directed by Bryan Singer; written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander; director of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel; edited by John Ottman; music by Mr. Ottman; production designers, Lilly Kilvert and Patrick Lumb; produced by Mr. Singer, Mr. McQuarrie and Gilbert Adler; released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and United Artists. Running time: 2 hours. WITH: Tom Cruise (Col. Claus von Stauffenberg), Kenneth Branagh (Maj. Gen. Henning von Tresckow), Bill Nighy (Gen. Friedrich Olbricht), Tom Wilkinson (Gen. Friedrich Fromm), Carice van Houten (Nina von Stauffenberg), Thomas Kretschmann (Maj. Otto Ernst Remer), Terence Stamp (Gen. Ludwig Beck), Eddie Izzard (Gen. Erich Fellgiebel), Kevin R. McNally (Dr. Carl Goerdeler), Jamie Parker (Lieut. Werner von Haeften), Christian Berkel (Col. Mertz von Quirnheim), David Bamber (Adolf Hitler), Tom Hollander (Col. Heinz Brandt), David Schofield (Erwin von Witzleben), Kenneth Cranham (Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel) and Halina Reijn (Margarethe von Oven).
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Tom Cruise, Scientology, and Holocaust Revisionism by Dennis Miller
With not one but three WWII movies out this fall, Jewish moviegoers will be lining up to see at least one of them. Will it be the sophisticated Ralph Fiennes movie The Reader? Or the story of Jewish partisans who founded a resistance in the woods in Defiance? Or the story of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler starring that nice young man who danced in his underwear for us in Risky Business and did impossible things in Mission Impossible? Valkyrie is getting by far the most press and promotion after being moved up to a December 25th opening to qualify for a 2008 Academy Award in a particularly weak Academy year. Not all of the press has been good for this historical drama with a lead star unable to replicate a German accent for his German role, but a more sinister element has plagued this movie since its inception, when Tom Cruise was cast as Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi who attempted to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb in 1944. German politicians and the Stauffenberg family immediately objected to Cruise’s casting in the film. Scientology, which Cruise adheres to and actively promotes (and he is also very close to its head, David Miscavige), is considered a dangerous, totalitarian cult in Germany, which has strict laws about the promotion of any such cults. Scientology texts are banned in schools; Scientologists must send their children to Danish schools across the border. The German government went so far as to ban the use of historical sites related to the actual events of 1944 for filming the movie because of Cruise’s involvement, though repeated attempts by United Artists eventually got the motions overturned. Berthold von Stauffenberg, the son of Cruise’s character, said in a public statement, “Cruise should keep his hands off my father.” Thomas Gandow, a spokesperson for the German Protestant Church, said Cruise's involvement in the film would "have the same propaganda advantages for Scientology as the 1936 Olympics had for the Nazis" and compared the actor to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels is a name Cruise has invoked several times in reference to one of his own enemies: psychiatrists. Scientologists believe, according to the writings of founder L. Ron Hubbard (who died with a psychiatric drug in his system), that Hitler used a secret cabal of psychiatrists to develop his eugenics program to eliminate European Jewry and other undiserables. The modern institution of psychiatry was created by Jews who learned their practices from their experiences in the Death Camps. In Los Angeles the Scientologists have a permanent exhibit and an additional one that travels around the world called “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death,” which uses footage from concentration camps to back its claim that psychiatry is not only an unsafe medical practice but a secret society of death cultists. Actual church texts, barred from public display but now available on Wikileaks from ex-Scientologists, reveal that high-level Scientologists (such as Cruise) believe that psychiatrists have been operating for millions of years and were the ones who convinced the evil Lord Xenu (ruler of the Galactic Confederation) to execute the “lesser” alien races and implant their souls, or “thetans,” into the Cro-Magnon humans 75 million years ago. To this day, every human body is occupied by a thetan, as well as clusters of pesky homeless souls known as “body thetans,” which are responsible for all of our anger, fears, and illness. And only Scientology’s non-medically-certified practices of vitamin supplements and counseling sessions can remove their souls from our bodies. Cruise is not full of alien thetans, of course. He is an Operating Thetan Level VII, meaning not only has he read and come to believe all stated above, but he is no longer a normal, lesser human. He is a “Homo novis” instead of a Homo sapiens. He is a superior race, made possible by the wonders of Scientology. Other members of this superior race include John Travolta and Jenna Elfman. Scientology has a concept called “clearing the planet,” an effort all Scientologists are meant to be working towards. This means the elimination of body thetans (and thereby suffering) via the elimination of false ideas and creeds. Since all religions are a result of Lord Xenu’s brainwashing of the dead alien souls (known as Event Level II in Scientology’s timeline), they can be logically disproved through hours of expensive counseling at your local Scientology center and – most important – by going off any psychiatric medication you may be taking. Three people are known to have died this year by committing suicide after seeking Scientology counseling. In Israel, the TV show “Friday’s Studio” this year on Scientology, describing it as “the largest cult in Israel” and investigating the death of a Scientologist who committed suicide. (A Scientology spokeswoman called the suicide “unrelated” to his recent counseling sessions with her.) A version
with English subtitles is available on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FZMxnltNA Before his death, L. Ron Hubbard wrote extensively about the importance of “clearing the planet” and how to go about doing so. First was to establish a world of “clears” – i.e., Scientologists who have taken enough courses to become Homo novises and spent enough money to be considered free of body thetans. “It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line...or simply quarantining them from the society.” (L. Ron Hubbard, The Science of Survival, p. 157) People who are “low on the tone scale” – which includes people who are not Scientologists – should be handled. “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….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, The Science of Survival, p. 157) Many regard Scientology as a silly alien cult, to be laughed at but generally ignored. Should it bother us that tens of thousands of active Scientologists are reading The Science of Survival and actively working towards Hubbard’s goal of a “clear” planet? Should it bother us that the Church of Scientology uses celebrities like Tom Cruise to promote its self-help techniques without revealing the sinister material available only to top members? What, then, does a modern totalitarian cult have to do with the movie Valkyrie? Why was Cruise so eager to cast himself in a Nazi role, though admittedly a Nazi who turned “good” in his last two years and became a postwar celebrated hero for Germany? Cruise is playing out his fantasy – he is the insurgent fighting the war against the Real Evil™. In the film – which your money will support (with a portion of the proceeds going to his bank account, from which he will then donate generous amounts to Scientology, as he did recently by buying them a castle in Italy to use as a Scientology retreat), he tries to destroy Hitler, whom you will recall is now established by Scientology historians to have been controlled by psychiatrists. Cruise is fighting the real enemy – a legitimate medical profession. Run by members of the Galactic Confederation. Tom Cruise is one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, even with his anti-Semitic portrayal of a Hollywood producer (complete with gold star necklace) in Tropic Thunder. Is having his money go toward funding studies linking the Holocaust to modern medicine worth the price of your movie ticket ? Download the video (.flv - 1,58 Kb) Boycott Valkyrie, Tom Cruise, and Scientology ! Tom Cruise is asking for your Valkyrie movie ticket dollars, but spends his money to fund a cult with a similar attitude towards lesser races and global domination. Should the actor be separated from his actions ? As a producer of the movie, he earns money from every ticket.
Should you care where that money is goin
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par Marc-André Séguin
Le gérant du Zellers des Galeries de la Capitale, Gaëtan Verrette, sent qu’il s’est fait « jouer » par des repré- sentants de l’Église de la scientologie qui n’ont pas dévoilé leur identité pour obtenir un stand dans son magasin, hier, provoquant le mécontentement de certains clients. M. Verrette a affirmé qu’un représentant de l’Église l’avait contacté, la semaine dernière, pour louer un stand dans son établissement, mais qu’il n’avait pas dévoilé son appartenance à la scientologie, approche que le gérant a qualifiée de « malhonnête ». «Un homme m’a joint et m’a dit qu’il faisait des tests de stress et ce genre de choses, a-t-il affirmé. Cette personne est venue il y a une semaine me demander si on louait des espaces et on en a loué pour différentes activités. Mais je n’aime pas ça me faire jouer de cette manière-là.» Le stand, qui se présentait sous le nom de Centre de dianétique Hubbard hier, faisait la promotion de la dianétique, méthode présentée comme étant une alternative à la psychiatrie et au règlement de problèmes de santé mentale par la prise de médicaments. Les participants étaient invités à faire un «test de stress» au cours duquel les deux préposés posaient des questions sur leur situation de travail, familiale et autres. Un appareil, selon les deux représentants, «lisait» ensuite leurs réactions aux questions. Ces derniers sont cependant restés vagues quant à son fonctionnement. Le stand faisait aussi la promotion de livres et de DVD du père de la scientologie, L. Ron Hubbard, mais les représentants ont toutefois refusé d’en préciser le contenu. «Tu achètes le livre. Tu le lis. Si ça fonctionne pour toi, tu le fais. Sinon, tu ne le fais pas», a affirmé Didier au Journal, l’un des deux représentants. Il a refusé de préciser comment il avait obtenu son stand. «Ce n’est pas de vos affaires. Je connais déjà votre article. Je n’ai pas à répondre à vos questions.» Dehors La présence de membres de l’Église de scientologie a dérangé des clients du Zellers. «J’ai deux ou trois clients qui ont manifesté leur mécontentement. Pour moi, c’est assez pour ne pas avoir ces gens, a confirmé M. Verrette. Ils m’ont dit qu’ils ne trouvaient pas ça correct qu’on ait ces choses-là.» En réponse, le gérant a décidé de ne pas laisser les scientologues tenir leur stand jusqu’à la fin de leur contrat. «C’est une petite erreur ou accroc, mais ils ne seront pas ici demain. Je ne veux pas faire d’histoire. J’ai juste dit aux messieurs que j’ai des clients qui ont manifesté leur mécontentement. On ne savait pas le fond de l’histoire. Maintenant, on le sait. C’est dommage, ils avaient pris pour deux jours et ils ne seront pas ici demain (aujourd’hui).» Le gérant a soutenu que sa décision a été prise «par respect» pour sa clientèle. «Je pense que deux ou trois plaintes, c’est assez. Les gens sont libres, mais je n’ai pas d’attache à ces choses. Si ça ne plaît pas à nos clients, on va les ôter de là et c’est tout.» Les deux hommes présents ont soutenu qu’ils ne faisaient pas la promotion de la scientologie. Le numéro de téléphone qu’ils ont donné pour parler à leur relationniste était cependant celui des bureaux de l’Église de la scientologie à Québec. Leur porte-parole n’a pas retourné les appels du Journal.
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O'Malley est gouverneur du Maryland et vient d'avoir l'idée de nommer John Coale, avocat, époux de Greta van Susteren, avocate scientologue et productrice/présentatrice d'une émission de TV, à un poste de commissaire du conseil de surveillance de l'université du Maryland ... On ignore si le gouverneur sait que les scientologues travaillent à l'oblitération globale de la psychiatrie (et de la médecine, et de la pharmacie, c'est évident quand on lit les documents scientos sur ces matières).
The Washington Times Coale is a member of Scientology’s glitterati, married to
Scientologist Greta Van Susteren
Miscavige has stated, flat-out, that Scientology’s goals for the millennium are the global obliteration of psychiatry and placing Scientology at the absolute center of society. It looks like Coale is a “twofer”. L. Ron Hubbard’s worldview demands that not only psychiatry, but also
psychology and all forms of medicine and religious counselling using psychology,
be utterly extirpated. To save the human race, they must all be replaced - by
“Hubbard Tech”. To that end, Hubbard constructed large-scale plans to infiltrate
psychiatric and medical organizations in “Scientology’s War on Psychiatry”. Coale is a man of some social and political influence. A longtime supporter
of the Democratic Party, Coale lent Governor O’Malley’s campaign $500,000 to
clear its debts. A supporter of Hillary Clinton, Coale also - perhaps strangely
- backed John McCain’s presidential bid, and enjoyed palling around
with Sarah Palin. Did Governor O’Malley’s vetting team do any research at all on this
appointment? Did they investigate what’s wrong with
Scientology
? What is O’Malley’s embarassment is
psychology’s knife in the back
Easy to dismiss as merely potty, Scientology’s medical and psycho-therapeutic
malpractice has resulted in numerous suicides and
deaths. Scientology is
blocking Amazon
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Le 6 décembre 2008 un stand de la scientologie a été autorisé par les autorités à la place du Molard au centre de Genève et cela le jour de la fête de l'Escalade ! Ce ne sont pas les troupes du duc de Savoie qui maintenant en veulent aux citoyens genevois mais des manipulateurs scientologues costumés se faisant passer pour une ONG d'aide humanitaire (sic) et qui cherchent à capter des personnes affaiblies ou immatures. Le principe de précaution devrait être apppliqué par les autorités et elle devraient interdire la propagande d'une organisation de façade qui est contrôlée par une secte connue pour vendre à prix usuraire une pseudo-thérapie psychiatrique dangereuse pour la santé et posséder une justice parallèle illégale. Les autorités du canton de Genève ne peuvent ignorer les abus de la scientologie comme par exemple cette fatwa-scientologue qui a été publiée à l'encontre de l'artiste musicien-compositeur et peintre Jean-Luc Barbier qui a dû fuir précipitamment Genève en 1989 pour échapper aux menaces de représailles que faisait peser la scientologie sur sa tête. Le Gravis, 28 décembre 2008 *L'Escalade, célébrée dans la nuit du 11 au 12 décembre à Genève, marque la victoire de la ville aujourd'hui
suisse sur les troupes du duc de Savoie Charles-Emmanuel Ier à l'occasion de l'attaque savoyarde lancé dans la
nuit du 11 au 12 décembre 1602 (selon le calendrier julien).
Le nom escalade évoque la tentative d'escalade par les Savoyards des
murailles de la ville au moyen d'échelles.
(Source:
Wikipedia
Le nouvel uniforme de propagande pour une aide universelle et une nouvelle Escalade ...
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A letter from COS to anti-scientologie Voici un exemple de lettre que la scientologie nous adresse depuis la République Tchèque ... Il faut rappeler ici que la scientologie par ses règlements internes n'autorise pas qu'un(e) scientologue s'adresse à un de ses "ennemi"... un suppressif. De tels ciourriers ne sont possibles que via son office des affaires spéciales (OSA)
Our answer to Eva the scientologist
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Anons Mark Anniversary of a Scientology Victim's Awful Death
The Church
of Scientology was aglow -- three lit-up tree-forms crowned
its marquee and three ornamental wreaths hung on its windows.
Across the street from their ironically festive
It came
from the candles solemnly held by members of Anonymous, the
anti-Scientology group, who gathered on the sidewalk to mark
the 13th anniversary of the Scientology-related death of Lisa
McPherson They also
held posters with McPherson's picture, showing the pretty 36-year
old before she died as a result of a pulmonary embolism on December
5, 1995. The pictures after her death would be too horrible
to publicly display. Autopsy photos
McPherson
suffered through 17 days of isolation while going through the
"introspection rundown
In November 1995, McPherson, a dedicated Scientologist living in Clearwater, Florida, ran her SUV into a disabled vehicle on the road. While she sustained no injuries, she removed her clothing and solicited the help of paramedics at the accident scene. They delivered her to the hospital, where doctors recommended she stay for a psychiatric evaluation. Scientologists detest psychiatry and war with mental health providers. So a group arrived at the hospital that evening, convinced McPherson to sign herself out, and brought her to the Scientology-owned Fort Harrison Hotel for treatment. Anon LittleSister shuddered when she thought about McPherson's days of isolation. "She was screaming and crying and banging on the walls and drawing with her blood," she said. "Before she died she pretty much lost her mind. She began to hallucinate in the end. It's the worst kind of torture I could ever imagine." Scientologists
charged with watching McPherson were barred from interacting
with her. They maintained logs
Eventually McPherson's condition became so alarming that an unlicensed physician handling her case decided to bring her to a hospital for help. She and another Scientologist drove the dying McPherson to a hospital 45 minutes away -- passing four other hospitals along the way. "[They did that] because there was a Scientologist doctor there and he could cover their tracks," explained PokeAnon. "Rather than caring about the life of this woman, they care about the image of their church." By the time they arrived McPherson was dead. The story
resulted in a lot of bad press for the church, once the media
In an
autopsy report, coroner Joan Wood, who examined the body, listed
the cause
of death as a blood clot
Anon Meto1 said that the Church skirted punishment by threatening people involved with lawsuits, a common form of intimidation reserved for its critics. "Our legal system is not their personal playground," he said, as he held a handwritten sign and candle. "People here remember what happened to this lady."
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Two of us turned out to stand outside the org with signs. THE TECH FAILED LISA MCPHERSON
As it happened, the org was having a Christmas party and we took the opportunity to inform arrivals that Lisa would not be having a Christmas celebration this year. Seven
years gone. I hope some of them realized what happened to her,
or take the time to look at lisamcpherson.org
We were out and about for five hours, collecting candles, making signs, and enturbulating. Just the two of us. When the cult turned off their crappy outdoor music (meant to drown us out, but the parking lot acoustics are grand) we figured they were all in, turtled up, and out of earshot, so we left. It was okay, I guess. -- barb Chaplain, ARSCC (wdne) There were two workers with paint cans (must have been hired, they looked well fed), walking by room 174 on the second floor in the rear of 219 South Fort Harrison. (Osceola Ave. side). An otherwise abandoned Clearwater, totally gutted Fort Harrison Hotel is barraged and entirely surrounded by fencing, a green tarp covering entrance from top to bottom. The Super Power Prison for OT's still has a huge gaping vertical space where there is missing brickwork. These monstrosities loom in what appears to be a ghost town. (empty tax shell-ter raising Pinellas County taxes) Signage all over - ' for rent' - 'for lease.' The old Flag Land Base (FLB) is now at a different location, making it more difficult at least, for picketers and scammed taxpayers, to be seen. Remembering Lisa McPherson, Maureen
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The Scientologists have been doing their damnedest to stop the international publication of John Duignan’s memoir The Complex. Following legal representations, it is no longer possible to buy the book, published in Ireland by Merlin, from Amazon.co.uk. That made me curious, so I had a copy sent direct from Dublin. Here’s my review. In places, Duignan – a former member of the Church’s elite “Sea Org” – makes the headquarters of Scientology in Hollywood sound truly creepy, like Auschwitz run by Center Parcs. At other times, the fancy dress and antiquated jargon inherited from L Ron Hubbard make one wonder how anyone employed by this “religion” keeps a straight face. I’m still not quite sure which sections of this book the Scientology army of lawyers consider libellous. Perhaps I’m about to find out. We can pass over the earlier chapters, which consist of a conventional Irish “misery memoir”. John Duignan’s parents died when he was young and he had a wretched childhood. In 1985 he was a young drifter, working for a cleaning company in Germany and smoking lots of pot, when he ran into some Scientologists who ran a personality test that revealed severe problems that could be solved by… well, I think you can guess the answer. Unable to pay for the expensive “auditing” recommended by the Church, Duignan went to work for it full-time so that he could afford the courses that would lead him to becoming ”Clear”. Eventually he joined the Sea Org, the quasi-naval corps at the heart of the organisation, signing the standard contract for one billion years (to cover future lives). He moved to the Complex, a former hospital in Hollywood that had become the Sea Org’s imposing but shabby HQ. Here he submitted incredibly detailed and personal information about himself for the “ethics files” that (he says) are held on every Scientologist by the Office of Special Affairs, the Church’s “secret police”. Duignan makes the Complex sound like a Gulag, where the tiniest details of work and play were regulated by the rambling dictates of L Ron Hubbard: even vacuuming a room had to be done as dictated by L Ron, with the machine kept outside the room while the nozzle was inside. Hovering over everyone was “the most feared of all penalties”, being sent to join the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF). RPFers lived in a rat-infested basement, dressed in black and were forced to do “the dirtiest work imaginable”, such as unblocking lavatories, for years at a stretch. Someone serving an RPF sentence could not see his wife or children, says Duignan, and had to address everyone (including children) as “sir”. Half-way through the book comes a comic set piece. The Scientologists are bussed out to the Hollywood Palladium to be told by Hubbard’s mini-me, David Miscavige, that L Ron had taken the decision that he needed to continue his work unimpeded by his physical body. Some people might call this “dying”, but Scientologists do not take such a negative view. Nor, of course, do Christians, one should add: a Scientologist would be perfectly entitled to point out that its evasive, half-embarrassed announcement of Hubbard’s death is not half as ridiculous as the proclamation that an executed carpenter has come back to life in his tomb. Still, Duignan has touched a raw nerve here: the Church will not be pleased by his claim that the autopsy on Hubbard showed the presence of the psychiatric drug Vistaril in his system. Psychiatry is pretty much the root of all evil, according to Scientology: at one stage, Duignan describes Miscavige raving about a US psychiatrists’ secret plan to turn a million acres of Alaska into a huge mental health colony. (We are not told whether the state’s Governor would be an administrator or an inmate of this icebound loony bin.) Anyway, for much of this book, Duignan divides his time between Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead and the HQ in Los Angeles. It’s hard to tell from the writing how bright he is: he was sensible enough to feel like a prat when he was forced to wear his Ruritarian Sea Org uniform in public, but he did stay in for 22 years and I suspect that much of the pace of the narrative comes from his co-author, Nicola Tallant. The Complex is a proper page-turner; even if it’s not clear which passages might form the basis of a lawsuit, you can understand why the Church of Scientology hates the book so much, because its dignity does not survive intact. What comes across most strongly is a sense of the increasingly accident-prone incompetence of this allegedly sinister organisation. Duignan talks about the mental torture inflicted on some members, but in his own case it sounds as if it was growing awareness of the ridicule surrounding Scientology that drove him out. The year 2005, for example, was one long public relations disaster for the Church, what with the famous South Park episode poking fun at Miscavige, Cruise, Hubbard and the Emperor Xenu, to say nothing of Cruise’s couch-jumping incident on Oprah. Until very recently, Tom Cruise was Scientology’s most prized asset; now he is fast becoming its mad uncle in the attic, gushing crazily on recruitment videos that the Church had to have removed from YouTube this year because they were so embarrassing. If he really is now number two in the organisation, that doesn’t bode well. Anyone interested in Scientology should read The Complex. I can’t recommend it uncritically, because I came across one fatuous claim that made me wonder about the author’s reliability: at the end of the book he says that the cult-watching group INFORM, based at the LSE, has been infiltrated by the Moonies and the Scientologists, and that the Office of Special Affairs is “involved on their board”. Well, I’m a member of that board, and can assure you that the accusation is total bollocks. I’m also unconvinced by the presentation of Scientology’s LA premises as a Soviet-style prison camp. It may be difficult for an RPFer to walk out of the building, but in no country in the world is the Church allowed to keep its people in custody – which may be why it has rarely (if ever) been convicted of doing so, and why so many of its members rapidly become crusading ex-members once they stumble across all the nonsense about an inter-galactic emperor millions of years ago. That said, Duignan certainly succeeds in persuading the reader that involvement with the Church of Scientology can be a ghastly and humiliating experience for anyone with an IQ over 75 or an annual income of under $500,000. If you are stupid and rich, however, then sign on the dotted line. You’ll be made to feel very welcome. Source:
http://counterknowledge.com/?p=1025
Comment by Number 6 In 1996, after bankrupting the
Cult Awareness Network (CAN), individual Scientologists bought the domain name
on behalf of the Church of Scientology (see this: http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/19/scientology/index.html)
Perhaps an interview with the author will clarify some things about the book. Comment by Lou You are sceptical of the RPF treatment. I suggest having a read of the RPF
orders and the analysis over on wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_unlawful_imprisonment_RPF_order_3434RE_1974 Given the apparent links between INFORM and CESNUR it could well be reasonable for the author to be suspicious given the glowing account that CESNUR give on the RPF, where their fact finding mission took place while he was at Saint Hill, which he saw as a sham. Comment by mathew Right A fair review and you’re right to be skeptical about the RPF treatment as well as the infiltration of INFORM. As far as the RPF treatment is concerned, what John told in the book mirrors may other testemonies. While this is a great insight in to the cult and how it works on its members it is not the most dramatic story I’ve read by people who have escaped; you should start reading the stories on Ex-Scientolgists message board or Ex-Scientology kids for that matter. Regarding the infiltration of INFORM, being on the board you obviously know what’s what, but don’t be complacent, aside from putting down Hubbard OSA operatives will do or say anything to get in favour with an enemy. It’s worse than you suggest. Not only Amazon.co.uk but so far as we can tell every bookseller in the UK is refusing to sell ‘The Complex’. Many villains are no doubt wishing they had the scary reputation of the Church of Scientology ! The ‘claim’ about Vistaril amounts to the Coroner’s report, still available direct, and an official acknowledgment that it is correct by the Church. What more do you want ? Yes he’s wrong about INFORM, though stories wondering about its less than robust attitude to cults have been circulating for a long while, largely due to its involvement with CESNUR, an organisation which is decidedly cult apologetic. Like most of academia, INFORM gives the appearance of seeking dialogue with cults but not with their critics. The ‘custody’ in RPF is not just physical. It is also mental custody, of the kind that led David Koresh’s followers to burn to death at Waco when they also could have walked out. Comment by Anonymous ex-scientology members have told stories of armed teams patroling RPF compounds - they track down and ‘bring back’ escaped RPF members. Oh, and people in the RPF have died there of lack of medical attention… it think the other commenters have the links to point in that direction The Co$ may not be on the INFORM board, but don’t let that fool you … They’d love to be. This is the same organisation that sued the US “Cult Awareness Network” out of existence and then took it over, turning it into yet another front group. And, as mentioned elsewhere, the RPF is no exaggeration. Gold Base, Hemet, CA is a fortified compoud, with big gates and barbed wire; where people like Uwe Stuckenbrock can be worked into an early grave, all the while thinking that they somehow ‘deserve’ what they’re going through. Comment by Spartacus Err, I was in the Sea Org, and I have to say that what keeps people imprisoned is 1. Lack of money Scientology has an elaborate system of effecting mental change, where people are progressively brought more and more in line with the “group think”. Scientology has it’s own dictionary for it’s own pseudo language that pulls people into it’s false reality. Look if hypnotists can get people to hand over their wallet on the street and take blank paper instead of money, why is it so hard to believe that a religion can manipulate people? Especially when the “church” ships people all around, usually far from their family and encourages them to “disconnect” with very harsh methods from their families. But don’t let the truth stop you, believe the PR from the church instead. Comment by DubberRegarding whether Scientology can hold members against their will: former RPFers (e.g. Jesse Prince, Stacy Brooks and Hanna Eltringham) have said that it can and does. When these people left Scientology, they did not simply walk out the front door. They had to plan their escape just as one would plan an escape from a police state. Lisa McPherson and Martine Boublil, likewise, were not in situations where they could simply walk away. How does the organization manage to do this? By keeping it behind closed doors. That’s all it takes, apparently. There is, of course, some legal hand-waving. Management obtains a signature that the person agrees to the RPF, and then that becomes a blank check for whatever it decides to do with them. The law might say that this _should_ not happen and that the governments _should_ act, but laws do not jump out of the law books and enforce themselves. Comment by Anon 23517 It is difficult to fully understand and accept when hearing about the RPF and slave labour camps for the first time. But in regards to Scientology, it is in fact true. Remember the old adage ‘truth is stranger than fiction’. I recommend
you read Counterfeit Dreams by former Scientologist Jeff Hawkins here: http://counterfeitdreams.blogspot.com Just remember - because it sounds exagerated or insane doesn’t necessarily make it untrue. Truth is stranger than fiction. Source:
http://counterknowledge.com/?p=1025
Merlin €13 318pps THOSE of you who read Ishiguro's 'Remains of the Day', in which a butler realises, too late, that he has squandered decades of his life serving a fascist-appeasing, British lord, will be reminded of that novel coming to the close of this Irishman's exposé. After 22 years of devoted service to the Church of Scientology, a numbing reality slowly seeped into Duignan; he had no pension, no security, and he had just discovered on the internet (internet access is denied to all members of the 'church'), that the man behind the 'church' was Lord Xenu who lived 75 million years ago on the galactic … blah, blah. Very skilfully, and dispassionately, Duignan provides a step-by-step account of how he became ensnared in the cult – recruiting officers seek out deeply unhappy or chronically depressed people and fix them through "auditing sessions" (brain washing) – and how he escaped with great difficulty. Look out for the session on Past Life Therapy in which Duignan was informed that he had been a military officer on patrol in the Tunisian desert 8,000 years earlier. He realised that if he had believed that, he would believe anything. And what's at the core of all this? Well, when founder L Ron Hubbard died, he left behind $640m. Of course he would need that much in his Future Life on the Planet Pluto, to where he was heading... Scientology Author V. Tom Cruise In Book Battle
John Duignan says Tom Cruise had his book yanked from Amazon.com Tom Cruise is denying that he pressured Amazon to stop selling a book critical of the Church of Scientology. On Oct. 31, Irish publisher Merlin released “The Complex,” in which John Duignan, identified as “a former high-ranking member” of the church in Britain, describes his “dramatic escape” from its “elite para-military group,” the Sea Organization. Five days later, Cruise dropped by Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to glad-hand staffers and host a sneak peek at his new movie, “Valkyrie.” A few days later, Amazon’s British Web site stopped selling “The Complex,” explaining to customers that someone mentioned in the book had alleged it defamed him with “false claims.” “U.K. law gives us no choice but to remove the title from our catalogue,” Amazon said in a statement. “I believe Tom Cruise influenced them,” Duignan tells us. Cruise’s rep denies that charge. So does Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith, who insists it was simply Britain’s tough libel laws that forced Amazon.co.uk to yank “The Complex.” The book, available on Amazon.com as of last Tuesday, is now “temporarily out of stock,” according to the American Web site. Lawyers for the complaining member, a noncelebrity, want to keep it that way: They’ve demanded the “destruction” of the books. Smith says: “We definitely want to offer it to our Amazon.com customers. We just don’t have the inventory.”
Duignan, a Scientologist for 22 years, alleges in his book that members were subjected to sleep deprivation and “brain-washing” and that punishments were “meted out to anyone who transgresses, including children.” When he left, Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs “had people posted outside my parents’ house in Ireland,” he tells us. Duignan, 45, says he began to question the church’s priorities at a 2004 gala in England where Cruise was honored. “I’d been trying to change the image of the church by volunteering in disadvantaged communities,” he tells us. But the “party was of such unbelievable opulence, I began to see the church was all about money. “I directly know 20 members who went insane or committed suicide,” Duignan says. “I personally went through a period of insanity. I’m hoping this book can be a lifeline to my former comrades.” Comment: This is not the first time that Scientologists have attempted to censor books that are unflattering to them. Several years ago, Time magazine ran an article that was not complementary to the Scientologists and they harassed the writers of that article no end. I think there was also some legal action, as well. A belief system that is as secretive as Scientology has absolutely no credibility at all ! Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw argues that Duignan’s book is filled with “false accusations,” that he was only a “mid-level administrator,” that there was no “cloak and dagger machination” to stop him from leaving and that “no one has ever committed suicide at the facility where Mr. Duignan worked in the U.K.”
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PARIS, 5 déc 2008 (AFP) Le parquet général a requis l'annulation d'une ordonnance de non-lieu en faveur de membres de l'église de Scientologie, accusés d'"escroquerie et d'exercice illégale de la médecine", et leur renvoi en correctionnelle, a-t-on appris vendredi auprès des avocats du dossier. Ces réquisitions écrites, signées en septembre, ont été remises aux parties du dossier qui en ont fait état vendredi à l'occasion d'une audience de la cour d'appel de Paris. Au terme de vingt-cinq années de procédure, un juge d'instruction parisien avait rendu le 12 octobre 2007 une ordonnance de non-lieu estimant qu'il ne résultait pas de l'information judiciaire "de charge contre quiconque d'avoir commis les infractions visées". La position du parquet général constitue un revirement par rapport à celle du parquet de Paris qui avait également requis un non-lieu dans ce dossier le 4 septembre 2006 estimant que l'information judiciaire n'avait pas permis de mettre en évidence que les interlocuteurs des plaignants aient frauduleusement opéré des manoeuvres ou extorqué des fonds. Ceci, selon le ministère public, dans la mesure où ces membres de l'église de Scientologie, mis en examen, apparaissent avoir eux-même "été convaincus de l'efficacité des prestations proposées et animés d'une foi authentique dans leurs démarches". L'Union Nationale des Associations de Défense des Familles et de l'Individu (Unadfi), partie civile dans ce dossier, avait fait appel de l'ordonnance du juge devant la chambre de l'instruction de la cour d'appel de Paris qui contrôle le travail des juges. L'examen du dossier, prévu ce vendredi, a été repoussé à la demande des avocats des ex-membres de l'église de Scientologie qui ont plaidé l'irrecevabilité de la partie civile au moment de l'appel. L'étude au fond de l'affaire est prévue le 20 février 2009. Commentaire d'anti-scientologie La scientologie sera-t-elle vraiment condamnée ? 1. La justice doit respecter le fait que la prescription a été atteinte pour la plupart des affaires. 2. Les scientologues qui ont proposé aux victimes des thérapies (à prix d'or) étaient toutes convaincues du bien de la chose. 3. La scientologie est si cloisonnée et si hermétique (vocabulaire spécifique - sociétés paravents) que les juges n'y comprennent absolument rien. 4. Ce n'est pas le procès de la secte mais de 16 de ses employés (indélicats dira la scientologie pour se défendre si jamais elle perd ...!) 5. Les employés ont suivi les directives de Ron Hubbard et ne pouvaient agir autrement. 6. La secte a presque toujours de meilleurs avocats que les victimes (généralement la secte a plusieurs avocats pour se défendre). 7. La secte a les moyens de prolonger infiniment les procédures et les pressions (appels - récusations - visites aux plus hautes instances de la nation - etc) 8. La scientologie collabore avec la police des frontières et des drogues. Cette source d'aide à la répression du trafic de drogue donne à la secte une sorte de blanc-seing. 8. La politique en Europe vis-à-vis de la scientologie est celle ne ne pas l'interdire (sans doute en partie pour ne pas choquer le congrès américain). 9. Nos autorités agissent uniquement pour sauver la face et cela depuis des années. Pour toutes les raisons ci-dessus il nous semble réaliste de dire que la scientologie en France ne sera que peu inquiétée. Nous espérons vivement nous tromper. Anti-scientologie. 5 décembre 2008
Dernière nouvelle: Non-lieu confirmé. La chambre d'instruction a déclaré irrecevable la constitution de partie civile de l'Union nationale des familles et des individus victimes de sectes (UNADFI) (fr.news.yahoo.com- 27 mars 2009)
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Scientologie: en France le parquet bouge par François Koch
J.-p. muller/afp Un nouveau réquisitoire prône le renvoi en correctionnelle de 17 responsables de la secte. Le parquet de la cour d'appel de Paris vient de signer un réquisitoire ferme et charpenté (52 pages) à l'encontre de 17 responsables de la secte de Scientologie, demandant leur renvoi en correctionnelle. Les plaidoiries auront lieu à l'audience du 5 décembre de la 6e chambre de l'instruction. "C'est un désaveu de l'analyse qui avait été faite par le procureur de la République en première instance [il avait requis un non-lieu]", se réjouit Me Olivier Morice, avocat de l'Unadfi, association de défense de victimes. Cette affaire d'escroquerie sectaire demeure la plus extravagante dans sa durée: les plaintes d'ex-adeptes datent de 1989 ! Sans tenir compte de celles de 1983, qui semblent s'être perdues dans les oubliettes du palais de justice. Les rebondissements judiciaires ont été aussi nombreux que les changements de juges d'instruction, avec, à la clef, la mystérieuse disparition, en 1999, de plusieurs tomes du très volumineux dossier. Dernière nouvelle: Non-lieu confirmé. La chambre d'instruction a déclaré irrecevable la constitution de partie civile de l'Union nationale des familles et des individus victimes de sectes (UNADFI) (fr.news.yahoo.com- 27 mars 2009)
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Cité des 3000. Quand une secte s'en mêle...
Ce ne sont pas moins de 128 bénévoles de l'église de Scientologie, enregistrée comme secte dans le rapport de la commission d'enquête parlementaire, qui depuis le début du mois de novembre arpente le quartier de la Rose des Vents (ou cité des 3 000) pour dixit "apporter leur soutien aux habitants victimes de violences urbaines". Selon le communiqué de presse daté du vendredi 25 novembre, l'action des scientologues aurait permis "un retour à la normale plus rapide que dans d'autres cités". Ils ont ainsi distribués 10'000 "livrets du Chemin du bonheur" comme ils les appellent. Ils ont proposé des cours de soutien scolaire, de l'aide d'un écrivain public, de conseils pour la recherche d'emploi. Il est inquiétant de voir qu'ils remplacent les missions que doivent accomplir les acteurs de terrain. L'interview audio présente sur le blog Vu(es) d'Aulnay-sous-Bois est assez révélatrice de l'objectif de ces si gentils bénévoles: recruter d'autres bénévoles ! Pour cela, les bénévoles de l'église de Scientologie, de plus en plus nombreux, ont décidé de rester sur place tant que "les habitants auront besoin d'eux". Aulnay, et en particulier le quartier de la Rose des Vents, semble avoir été choisi comme lieu de recrutement de nouveaux scientologues. Cela est assez inquiétant, il est donc urgent que les autorités se préoccupent de la situation. De plus, soyez extrêment vigilant. Je vous invite à consulter le site Anti-scientologie.ch et l'article de Wikipédia consacré à cette secte. Jérôme Charré |
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Source: Sciences et Avenir - septembre 2005 (3 pages) Résumé: Mais ce secret, révélé par Ron Hubbard, fondateur de la Scientologie et auteur de science-fiction (comme par hasard) n'est accessible qu'au troisième niveau d'enseignement des secrets de la secte. "L'histoire de Xenu compliquerait sérieusement le recrutement de nouveaux adeptes si elle était divulguée plus tôt dans le parcours scientologique. D'ailleurs, les premiers contacts se font toujours en douceur, souvent dans la rue, bien loin de Xenu." Le but de la Scientologie étant de faire progresser l'homme, de le débarrasser de tout ce qui bloque son mental et nuit à son épanouissement, l'adepte doit commencer par une purification, avec jogging, sauna et cure survitaminée. La seconde étape est d'éliminer "les engrammes, c'est-à-dire les mauvais souvenirs qui seraient responsables de nos maladies psychosomatiques, parasiteraient nos pensées, altéreraient nos jugements." Une forme de psychanalyse par la verbalisation a pour objectif de sonder le passé, voire les vies antérieures. L'audition de l'adepte se déroule, vernis scientifique oblige, à l'aide d'un électromètre, appareil inventé par Hubbard pour localiser les engrammes. L'appareil, dont l'aiguille ne bouge plus quand, à l'évocation d'un mauvais souvenir, il n'y a plus d'engrammes, "n'est rien d'autre qu'un leurre destiné à donner un aspect scientifique à une opération qui n'a rien de tel". Pour donner un peu plus de consistance scientifique à ses théories, Hubbard les a assorties, sur le mode des "lapalissades", de 194 axiomes. "Rappel de la définition d'un axiome selon le Petit Robert : une vérité indémontrable ! Pratique." Pour Arnaud Palisson, auteur de "La Grande Enquête sur la Scientologie, une secte hors la loi", les activités de la Scientologie contiennent de nombreuses infractions à la loi. En fait "l'électromètre est un simple ohmmètre" [...] "dans un joli boîtier", vendu à un prix prohibitif, pratique qui relève de la tromperie en droit de la consommation. Les séances d'audition et autres tests de personnalité peuvent être considérés comme de l'"escroquerie en bande organisée." La démarche de purification s'apparente à un exercice illégal de la médecine. "Pire : les scientologues se substituent parfois aux psychiatres en mettant à l'isolement durant des semaines (voire des mois) des adeptes qu'ils jugent psychotiques." On pourrait se demander pourquoi la Scientologie n'est pas inquiétée, mais les choses seraient en train de changer avec plusieurs instructions judiciaires en cours en France et en Europe. L'utilisation par les juges de la thèse d'Arnaud
Palisson "semble avoir conduit à une requalification de certains faits visant de
hauts responsables de la secte, susceptibles d'aboutir à une répression
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Ils profitaient du mal-être psychologique de leur "clientèle"
J'ai fait partie, aussi, des gens qui ont failli se "faire avoir" par la scientologie. J'avais rempli un questionnaire de personnalité distribué dans la rue, et je suis allée voir au centre les résultats. J'ai ensuite suivi quelques cours, et ai fini par prendre peur lorsque des membres de "l'église" m'ont proposé de m'accompagner à la banque pour y souscrire un emprunt pour payer la suite des cours. Je me suis ensuite désengagée de tout cela, et ai réalisé qu'ils profitaient du mal-être psychologique de leur "clientèle" pour essayer de se faire de l'argent sur leur dos. Quand je repense à tout cela, et que je me souviens d'une de mes amies, fille d'amis de mon père, qui était orthophoniste et a vendu son cabinet pour travailler au sein de la scientologie, cela me fait froid dans le dos ! Pascale Ils ont essayé de m'embobiner à mort
Pendant tout mon collège, on nous disait de ne pas passer par telle rue en rentrant chez nous, car il y a avait une soit disant secte. Que si on devait impérativement passer par là, il ne faudrait pas les regarder, ne pas leur parler. Les profs étaient vachement flippé. C'était les scientologues !!! Des années plus tard, y'a environ 3 ans, je suis passée par cette fameuse rue, évidemment je me suis fait accoster par les mecs en question, il voulait me proposer un test pour déterminer ma personnalité, je leur ai dit que je n'avais pas besoin d'un test pour connaître ma personnalité. Ils ont essayé de m'embobiner à mort, ne me laissant pas vraiment partir, on était toujours dans la rue quand même !!! J'étais avec un ancien pote, plutôt influençable, il voulait absolument faire le test, enfin bon, finalement j'ai lâché l'affaire, parce que ça me saoulait. Donc nous avons fait le test. Déjà 200 questions, vraiment étrange !!! Voici le lien: http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/test-OCA.htm Ensuite, une femme me demande de venir dans son bureau, elle me dit que je suis dépressive, suicidaire, mal dans ma peau, et j'en passe des vertes et des pas murs. Donc quelqu'un d'influençable passe qu'il va super mal et continue les rendez-vous eux. Puis on a vu une cassette vidéo, bourrage de crane à mort, je me suis presque endormie devant, le canapé était confortable !!! Bref j'ai passé deux heures chez eux !!! Je suis restée pour la curiosité. Mais le mec qui était avec moi était complètement retourné, il voulait absolument y retourner car il était mal. Enfin bon voila les dégâts que peuvent faire les sectes !
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I don’t know about INFORM, but I do know that it would not be beyond the Scientologists to co-opt cult watchdog groups.