Ouragan Katrina : La scientologie multiplie ses missions...

source : www.amnistia.net (8 septembre 2005)

L'acteur scientologue John Travolta dans un scénario de son gourou prochaînement sur grand écran

 

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Newsport, jeudi 6 avril 2000

Le 8 mai prochain à Hollywood, la scientologie sera à l'honneur, et sur grand écran. Une superproduction de la Time-Warner, avec John Travolta, entraînera les spectateurs dans un film de science-fiction tiré du roman "Battlefield Earth" (champ de bataille: la terre) écrit par le gourou historique de la secte L. Ron Hubbard (décédé en 1986). Le film, accompagné par toute une série de produits dérivés (des gadgets en tous genres), débarquera en Europe à partir du mois de juin. C'est l'acteur et scientologue notoire, John Travolta, qui a personnellement managé le projet de production, et cela depuis plus de dix ans. Selon notre confrère le "Berliner Zeitung", les droits du roman avaient été vendus d'abord à la Metro Goldwin Mayer, puis à la 20th Century, pour ensuite atterrir dans les studios de la Time-Warner. Le budget de "L'oeuvre" est estimé à 70 millions de dollars et John Travolta, en bon adepte, a participé personnellement avec plus de 5 millions.

Pour cette secte la sortie du film est un énorme coup de propagande et renforce sa politique de prosélytisme envers le public européen. En effet, la scientologie, qui "passe en contrebande" comme une simple église aux Usa, est bel et bien désignée comme étant une secte par différents pays d'Europe, notamment en Allemagne et en France, où, selon le rapport du 10 juin 1999 de "La commission d'enquête sur la situation financière, patrimoniale et fiscale des sectes, ainsi que sur leurs activités économiques et leurs relations avec les milieux économiques et financiers" de l'Assemblée Nationale française, la scientologie est considérée une secte. Noir sur blanc.

Quelle sera donc l'attitude des autorités européennes à l'arrivée du film ? Et, la société Author Services Inc. (ASI), dirigée par des scientologues et appartenant à une filiale de la scientologie, aura-t-elle le droit de commercialiser la multitude de gadgets d'accompagnement pour financer la prolifération de la secte ?

John Travolta delivers Katrina aid

Herald Sun, From correspondents in Metairie
06sep05

ACTOR John Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, has delivered five tonnes of food for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

 

Mr Travolta, an experienced pilot, flew the supplies in his own private jet to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, then toured the flooded city of New Orleans and visited rescue workers and shelters for evacuees. The two movie stars also brought along 400 doses of tetanus vaccines for rescuers.

 

The star of Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction said he was coordinating with Oprah Winfrey to get even more relief for the more than a million people affected by one of the worst storms in US history.

 

"That's our job today," he said. "We're hoping this time we're effective.

 

At the Jefferson Parish sheriff's command center, the two stars posed for pictures and thanked Scientology volunteers administering tetanus shots to rescue workers. Both are Scientologists.

 

At one point, Mr Travolta spoke quietly with Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, then embraced him. Preston followed suit, with tears in her eyes.

 

"They've had such great loss," she said.

What's expected from celebrities in Scientology

 

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Every possible effort, pressure, and sales tactic is brought to bear on existing celebrity membership to recruit other new celebrities into Scientology. Celebrities are heavily indoctrinated to their duty and responsibility of recruiting new celebrities.

 

They also are expected to constantly promote and talk about Scientology. Recruiting and other Scientology promoting activities proves their loyalty to the organization and approves their security clearance to go to the next secret level.

 

Celebrity activity is closely monitored. If they don't promote Scientology in their media coverage or if they don't promote it at their events or do special events for Scientology their loyalty is questioned. The following are three examples of Scientology celebrity endorsements and promotions :

 

"lt's nice to know you can be a cause of your life as well as an effect," convert John Travolta, 23, says of his Scientology training. "lt's a logical and very sane way of living. I don't get upset as easily as I used to. I don't think I could have handled my success as well without it."

 

From 'The Auditor": The Monthly Journal of Scientology -AOSH ANZO 136. "The Road To Freedom" album of LRH songs released on CD! Attendees of the 23rd of June event were able to snap up the brand new edition of "The Road To Freedom" album now available on CD and cassette. This album features such leading artists as John Travolta, Chick Corea, Julia Migenes, Karen Black, Nicky Hopkins, Amanda Ambrose, Gayle Moran and Leif Garrett. This album is a unique and highly enjoyable collection of songs composed by L. Ron Hubbard to impart to the listener some of the basic knowledge that Scientology offers. Whilst viewed as controversial by those who seek to oppose man's spiritual freedom, the lyrics on this album offer answers to questions man has asked for eons."

 

Kirstie Alley is active in disseminating a new 47 page booklet on ways to preserve the environment. The booklet, entitled "Cry Out," was named after a Hubbard song and was produced by Author Services Inc., his literary agency. Author Services is controlled by influential Scientologists. In April, Alley provided nationwide exposure for the illustrated booklet (which mentions Hubbard but not Scientology) when she unveiled it on the popular Arsenio Hall Show. Since then, it has been distributed to prominent environmental groups throughout the U.S.

 

Although the advertising isn't finished yet, the new campaign includes a half-hour "documercial" entitled "The Problem of Life." It dramatizes a couple who are looking for answers to the questions of life," a spokesman said, such as: What's it all about? Where are we going? Wouldn't it be good to have a job that is fulfilling? The couple unsuccessfully visits a doctor, a psychotherapist and a marriage counselor. "At the end, they find out Scientology could provide the answers," the spokeswoman said. The documercial ends with a 10-minute direct-sales pitch from Jeff Pomerantz, the soap-opera star (best known for his role in the "Dynasty" series) who is one of the church's several celebrity members.

 

Celebrities are not only pushing Scientology and Scientology's non religious alter ego Dianetics for multilevel marketing like commissions; they are also heavily pushing the Scientology front groups, like Narconon, the Way to Happiness, Applied Scholastics, and others.

 

A partial list of front groups set up and directly or indirectly controlled by Scientology, and which are involved in recruiting for Scientology or covertly or overtly attacking adversaries or defending Scientology, includes :

 

the Committee To Defend The First Amendment

the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation

the Citizens Commission On Human Rights

Narconon

the Committee On Public Health And Safety

the Task Force On Mental Retardation

the Gerus Society

the Dianetic Information Group

the Committee To Re-involve Ex-offenders

the National Commission for Law Enforcement And Social Justice

the Foundation For The Communication of Culture International

Doctors For Religious Liberty

Vanguard, April, (a pseudo anti cult organization)

Alliance To Protect Religious Liberty

Committee For A Safe Environment

American Citizens For Honesty in Government

the Way to Happiness Foundation

the Whistle Blowers

Health Med

Criminon

Applied Scholastics

Concerned Businessman's Association of America

Sterling Management

 

Scientology's Front Groups play an important role. Scientology set up reform groups shortly after Hubbard, in 1966, wrote :

 

"Churches are looked upon as reform groups. Therefore we must act like a reform group."

 

Scientology and Dianetics are held in such disrepute that in public Scientology must use front groups to defend it, speak for it, and attack its enemies. Internal confidential documents seized by the F.B.I. show that social reform activities were designed primarily to attack critics publicly from the safe and respectable position of a humane social reform group.

 

An example of Hubbard's thinking on this matter is policy directive HCO PL 12 January 1973 "The Safe Point":

 

"...Rule l...Get in a safe place and speak up. It is necessary of course to have a safe place to get into, from which one can in safely speak up. One cannot defend himself in a point that has no defenses...Thus the Safe Point takes consideration over Active Defense...a special unit must be set up and run at full steam to make a safe point and gain viable PR Area Control over all publics in the area...The PR Area Control action in a new area can go so far as to create in the area of whole past and future track for the activity being established. It can make it sound old-fashioned, stable, reliable, expert, productive..."

 

The Scientology social reform front groups fulfill Hubbard's directives to a "T." Very few people will attack a social reform group, so Scientology now has its "Safe Point" from which these groups can get its own propaganda messages across.

Front groups and charity events

 

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Celebrities are expected to do charity events for the front groups of Scientology. These front group charity events serve as very successful invisible recruiting forums to for other non Scientology celebrities.

 

Here's how it works. One Scientology celebrity "innocently" contacts another non- Scientology celebrity and says, "How would you like to do a charity event with me to help raise money for drug rehabilitation?" Then the other celebrity usually agrees.

 

He or she has no idea that it's a Scientology front group recruiting group like Narconon or the Way To Happiness Foundation, or one of their ecological or other Scientology front groups. Because the front group's name sounds established credible, stable, reliable, etc. and the goal of the charity event sounds benign and worthwhile, the non-Scientology celebrities get sucked in to inadvertently having their names used to promote or in association with the Scientology front groups. Then to make things even worse they individually become the target of the powerful and manipulative celebrity-recruiting machine if they attend the event.

Ex-Scientologist Apologizes for Scientology's "Dirty Tricks"

 

source : http://atheism.about.com/b/a/059024.htm (January 23, 2004)

 

 

People familiar with Scientology may also be aware of reports about how often they engage in "dirty tricks" in order to smear and discredit both critics and those who dare to leave the group. The existence of such underhanded tactics may be denied, but that will be hard to do because one of those formerly responsible for dirty tricks has left Scientology, admitted to his horrible actions, and apologized to those he affected.

 

Gary Weber writes for Lermanet about how he acted against Mayor Gabe Cazares of Clearwater Florida and Richard Leiby, an investigative reporter :

 

I remember going to staff meetings where private eyes were sent out to find "mud" about Richard Leiby to "discredit him". Our info bureau reported that they couldn't get any dirt on Richard, so the next directive was get dirt on his girlfriend or wife, or whatever it took to silence him. There were many episodes like this that took place while I was there. ... I remember the time John Travolta would come to Clearwater and he use to say he loved Scientology but didn't like the Scientology management. Well it was our Guardian's Intelligence office that collected his "confidential confessionals" from his supposedly private and confidential counseling records to compile a dead agent package for use in case he went against the church. Since I didn't see anymore negative talk from him, I guess he was "handled".

 

I have no reason to think that activities such as these have stopped - after all, there are still plenty of critics and ex-Scientologists around who may talk about the ridiculous things the group teaches (only after lots of time and lots of money have been invested, naturally) and the awful actions that are sometimes sanctioned.

 

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Scientology : Basics

 

Scientology : American Critiques

 

Scientology: Court Cases

 

Scientology : L. Ron Hubbard