| I absolutely cannot study or read anything more about sociology.I absolutely cannot stress anymore about work.I absolutely cannot eat another Jell-O pudding pop.However, I also cannot yet sleep due to the fact that on a daily basis I consume enough coffee to kill a racehorse.So.For those of you who haven't ever bothered to look it up, for those of you who don't give a shit, and those of you who need something else to be freaking paranoid about...here are some goddamn disturbing facts about everyone's favorite scary cult, the "Church" of Scientology.I don't really have the space here to list all the sketchy shit out there about L. Ron Hubbard, the enlightened higher being who became a millionaire off of his creation of the "Church" of Scientology.He seems for all intents and purposes to have been a sketchy bigamous whoremonger who may or may not have been involved in various criminal activities of the unwholesome creepy variety, and all the information is out there if you feel like tracking it down.?My favorite part of his personal history was the way he and the other benevolent souls of Scientology ahem "allegedly"?tortured his gay son till the kid offed himself because the boy was more interested in flying airplanes than in becoming the second in command of the creepfest Scientology empire.Basically, he was a hack sci-fi writer who decided that the fastest way to become a millionaire was to found your own religion, which he did, based on pseudo-science and dime store psychology and some dreck about thetans and aliens and past lives and repressed engrams or some such ridiculous nonsense that makes the philosophies of the Church of the Subgenius and the Flying Spaghetti Monster look like the hard line serious theology of Matthew Motherfucking Henry.You can read all about that all over the Internets too if you want.In 1974 the "Church" of Scientology launched "Operation Snow White", a campaign of burglary, wiretapping, theft, and infiltration of 136 government and private offices which were critical of the "Church" in order to find and destroy any negative and incriminating documents that said organizations might be in possession of.?(Some people in the, ahem, "Conspiracy Theory" circles claim that Operation Snow White was also launched to gather incriminating evidence against a variety of powerful people so as to blackmail them later, though that can't actually be, ahem, proven.)What was uncovered, once the shit hit the fan about Snow White, was some other highly evolved and enlightened enterprise called Operation Freakout, which was designed to either drive author Paulette Cooper, a journalist who'd written a book and some articles criticizing the "Church" insane to the point that she was committed to an asylum or to frame her for some crime for which she would be arrested.Yet again, you can get the full story on Wikipedia, and I do encourage you to look it up...the part where they try repeatedly (and almost successfully) to frame the woman for threatening to bomb an Arab embassy is simultaneously 70's spy show corny and really fucking scary.Operation Snow White was actually investigated by the real live FBI, and that investigation led to several "Church" folks including Hubbard's 3 Baby Mama doing federal time.It seems like, during this time, they started to perfect their 1 weapon: the LAWSUIT.It's almost a running joke, now, how those motherfuckers will sue anyone and anything, including the makers of a certain adult cartoon and YouTube to have that creepy ass video of a glassy eyed Tom Cruise gushing about how Scientologists are the only ones in the world who can help car crash victims and crackheads yanked because they felt it was "misinterpreted."They also sued the medical examiner in the Lisa McPherson case for defamation after she ruled the death (of an 18 year old Scientologist girl who'd had a psychotic break after a car accident) was due to the fact that her "Church" buddies kept her locked in a hotel room for weeks sick and dehydrated and freaking out in an attempt to "cure" her using methods designed by that great medical and psychiatric expert Ronnie H. Instead of, you know, taking her to an actual hospital to treat, among other injuries, her infected cockroach bites.Because at the hospital, they might attempt to give her psychiatric treatment.And psychiatric treatment is nonsense, while bullshit about auditing and the planet Xenu is rational.They actually got away with McPherson's death, after launching one of their trademark aggressive campaigns against the medical examiner, including anonymous threats, having her constantly followed by a private investigator, and threatening to go public with unspecified damaging information about her and her family.If you look anything up for yourself, look that up, that poor poor Lisa deserves to have as many people as possible read her story.So.Harassment, death threats, frivolous lawsuits...all part of Ronnie Hubbard's Fair Game...his policy on how to deal with anyone who says anything bad about the "Church."Let's have a quote from the enlightened master here just for dramatic effect shall we?"A Suppressive Person or Group becomes fair game. |
| Let's have a quote from the enlightened master here just for dramatic effect shall we?"A Suppressive Person or Group becomes fair game.By FAIR GAME is meant, may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines or the rights of a Scientologist.The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to: suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty ... this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends.Fair game.May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist.May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."Those who do not believe like we do are less than we are and not protected by the same code of ethics we are.Feel free to destroy them.Scary scary shit.Of course, apologists for the "Church" are quick to point out that Hubbard later issued a letter canceling Fair Game...because it caused bad PR.Not, you know, because it was morally reprehensible and Naziesque.In fact, some Scientologists continue to argue that aggressively attacking critics of the "Church" through lawsuits, legal and personal harassment, threats, surveillances and other sketchy Black Ops wannabe shit is a "core" and thus Constitutionally protected tenet of the "Church."Look, I'm all for freedom of religion.I'm all for freedom of speech.You know what creeps me right the fuck on out, though?Secretive cults that practice mind control and attempt to completely destroy the life, finances and reputation of anyone who so much as looks at them crosseyed while hiding behind Constitutional rights that they would be perfectly happy denying to others.I haven't even really scratched the surface of the absolute creepy trainwreck that Tom Cruise thinks his poor little Suri is the reincarnated founder of.And I've written this blog pretty much a) because I was bored and b)because a certain fairly awesome young person clued me in to the fact that all the cool kids on the the internet are excited about this Anonymous (Scientology) deal.I do not advocate criminal activity of any kind.?I do advocate learning about things yourself, making informed decisions, and not being afraid to stand up and say something seems fishy when it is. It makes me happy that kids are questioning, that they're willing to stand up for something.It makes me just a tiny bit hopeful.If you think I'm wrong, fine.If you're a Scientologist, don't sue me, I don't have any money and nobody pays attention to anything I say anyway.If you read this and learned something new, yay.Most of this information came right off Wikipedia, which means that (for now) it's free and open to the public.By all means look it up if you want, information is nifty and the truth will set you free.Also, if my profile is gone tomorrow, we'll all know where it went.... |
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