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Scientology and Me was a television documentary broadcast 14 May 2007 as part of the BBC’s Panorama series. Reporter John Sweeney visited the United States to investigate whether the Church of Scientology was becoming more mainstream.

The programme gained particular controversy before and during filming due to unresolved differences on content and approach between Sweeney’s production team and Scientology members, who did not want detractors or perceived enemies of the church to be interviewed or included in the documentary.

John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology, endorsed by some major Hollywood celebrities, but which continues to face the criticism that it is less of a religion and more of a cult.

Some former members claim the Church uses a mind control technique to put opponents at a psychological disadvantage. During the course of his investigation, Sweeney is shouted at, spied on, visited in his hotel at midnight and chased around the streets of LA by strangers in hire cars.

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Scientologist Brings Message of Human Rights to the World

For eight weeks, members of Youth for Human Rights International carried out the Sixth Annual Human Rights World Tour, led by Scientologist and International Association of Scientologist Freedom Medal Winner, educator Mary Shuttleworth. The Scientology Press Office interviewed Mary on what inspired her to undertake this project and what results were accomplished.

Scientology Today: You are not only the President of Youth for Human Rights, you also founded it in 2001. Why did you decide to do this?

Mary: As a young girl growing up in apartheid South Africa I saw firsthand the devastating effects of discrimination and the lack of the most basic human rights. Traveling abroad I realized that discrimination and slave-like conditions could be found far beyond the borders of my country. Children who do not know that they have human rights are vulnerable. As an educator I knew that teaching learners about human rights would be the first step for them to defend and protect not only their rights but also those of their peers.

Scientology Today: In less than a decade you have turned this idea into an international organization — Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI). What are you most proud of having accomplished?

Mary: Taking the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), an excellent but scholarly document, and depicting those rights in simple literature and videos so that anyone can quickly learn and teach the 30 articles enshrined in that document. We have brought the UDHR, a document for the people, to the people.

Scientology Today: You have just completed the 6th annual Youth for Human Rights World tour. In less than two months, you visited twelve countries. Why did you decide to do human rights world tours?

Mary: Human rights cannot be taught at people-it has to be with people. Because those rights need to relate to the people where they live, study, work and dream.

Nothing replaces meeting people and interacting with them where they live.By traveling to different countries I can see the issues people face and the outstanding efforts individuals are making to improve conditions. One face-to-face meeting accomplishes more than months of e-mails, phone calls or faxes.

This year our World Tour started in the US and wound its way through twelve countries: From Mexico to Barbados, Colombia and Argentina in the Americas, on to the Pacific and Australia and Timor-Leste (East Timor). From there we went to Jordon in the Middle East and Russia and Switzerland, and finally to Africa with Uganda and South Africa. Within the space of a couple of months, with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world, we spoke with hundreds of leaders, met thousands of students and reached millions through the media resulting in exponential expansion of global knowledge about human rights.

Scientology Today: What stands out about this year’s tour?

Mary: It was an inspiration to see how much support there is for human rights, and how many public-spirited leaders and dedicated individuals are adopting our program. United Nations officials, heads of state, ministers of education and so many other political and community leaders took it on themselves to teach human rights to the next generation as soon as they realized how easy it is to do so.

We learned the most profound lessons from the many wonderful people working hard to improve conditions with incredibly limited resources and under the poorest and most devastating conditions.

Scientology Today: What kind of impact is your campaign having on the world today?

Mary: When we started nine years ago, few people had even heard of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even high-level officials whom I interviewed did not know what their human rights were.

Today millions of people are learning about human rights through community groups, religious groups, schools and the media. Thousands of groups have incorporated the YHRI materials into their own programs.

We are making “Human Rights” buzz words!

Scientology Today: You are a Scientologist — what does this have to do with why you chose human rights as the project you wanted to create and support?

Mary: What I believe is beautifully expressed in The Creed of the Church of Scientology, which states that “Man is basically good; That he is seeking to survive; That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.”

I have witnessed extreme poverty and I have met children who are raising their brothers and sisters after their parents, families and even societies turned their backs on them. I have seen children dying of preventable diseases.

I have seen the effects of widespread illiteracy in the information age and I have listened to scholars discussing human rights with cold disconnect from the harsh realities faced by so many millions.

So I was inspired by L. Ron Hubbard who wrote, “Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream.”Scientology Today: Is there something that stands out about this year’s tour?

Mary: I was so impressed with the grassroots level work of local YHRI teams. Watching them in action in their own communities was amazing. During one of our meetings with top officials I listened to one of the YHRI youth leaders discussing human rights. He talked about the issues and the vital role that informed youth can play to help officials handle their local problems. That country has a majority youth population -more youth than adults. I watched the profound impact he created with his insight into the situations at hand and his clear explanation of solutions that can be brought about by teaching human rights to the youth. I was so incredibly proud!

Scientology Today: Where do you plan to go from here?

Mary: We are planning our sixth annual YHRI International Summit to bring together youth from around the world to discuss human rights issues and the important role of human rights education in raising the quality of life for young and old alike. And we are already planning the YHRI World Tour 2010. The exact route is not yet set but the countries are lining up with outreach and meetings that promise, once again, to expand YHRI exponentially!

Scientology Today: Do you have a message for people reading this interview?

Mary: It’s easy to teach Human Rights. Tell your friends, your family and your neighbors. Inspire them to teach Human Rights. As a non-profit organization we need the help of likeminded people, groups and organizations to help reach people in all corners of the world so that everyone has the opportunity to learn about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and our human rights.

In 2005, John Sweeney and associates produced the documentary Scientology & Me for the BBC. During his researching of the cult, Sweeney met Shawn Lonsdale, one of the most brave, self-sacrificing and steadfast watchdogs of the cult to have ever lived. Lonsdale told Sweeney and the BBC of how Scientologists had spent years terrorizing him and going to great lengths to humiliate him in the most public ways possible – all in efforts to silence and discredit him. It was Fair Game policy in action to a tee.

Not only did Sweeney get to listen in on Lonsdale’s experiences and see video footage of some of it, he and his BBC colleagues were entreated to a custom-made package of espionage and harassment themselves, being followed every step they took during the filming of the documentary, being harassed, and shortly after being subject to a number of incriminating false accusations (e.g., the BBC staged a protest against Scientology so that they could film it; the BBC was behind terrorist death threats supposedly received by the cult).

Shawn Lonsdale was found dead earlier this year. Police have called it a suicide. Some are suspicious that Scientology may have played an active role in his death. To my knowledge, there is no evidence of this at this time. But what is probable is that assuming that this was a suicide, the years of intense harassment, death threats, social maligning, espionage, and so forth was surely a key instigating factor behind the suicide.

John Sweeney remembers Shawn Lonsdale:

Here is footage from Scientology & Me of Scientology’s persistent haranging of John Sweeney and colleagues:

And here is footage from BBC News reviewing John Sweeney’s explosion on Scientology representative Tommy Davis. In this segment, BBC rep Sandy Smith, who was behind the filming of the documentary, discusses how the cult had gone onto to create black PR on BBC, including the claims that it had staged a protest against Scientology for the sake of the documentary and had supposedly made terrorist death threats to Scientologists.

Head of Plymouth, England Cult of Scientology Org, Vicky Boyce, was caught on tape stealing and refusing to return the signs of cult protesters. This is yet another incidence of Scientology heads caught on tape behaving badly in the name of their criminal cult.

More Scientology leaders behaving badly:

Recently, New York City Cult of Scientology Head “Reverend” John Carmichael called a protester a “pussy” and later accused the protesters to “come out of the closet”.

In this third video, the Canadian Head of Scientology, “Reverend” Yvette Shank, tells a protester that Scientology could, “if they wanted to”, find out where she lives.

Here is Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis, along with associates, harassing and spying on BBC journalist John Sweeney during the filming of the Panorama special Scientology & Me back in 2005.

These are some of the highest figures within Scientology: regional heads and a major media spokesperson. Theft, insults, vulgarity, threats, harassment, spying, and lying are hardly the sorts of things that one would expect from an organization that claims to be about truth and helping humanity, but it is exactly what we would expect from a malicious cult.

Spread these videos around, talk about them with peers, and keep raising the collective consciousness on this malevolent terrorist organization.

For more on Scientology, see Xenu.Net, or the large collection of articles here at The Frame Problem.

Better than the dry text sites, the Scientology “Video Channel”.

Utpressing, sensur, feilinformasjon, løgn og annet fanteri. En kvasikommunistisk stat i dypeste Øst-Europa?

Neida, såklart snakker jeg om kulten til Tom Cruise, som etter min mening har tatt over Cheney’s ‘drinker of the blood of puppies’-tittelen, nemlig Scientologikulten. Først og fremst vil jeg presisere at jeg kaller dem en kult fordi det irriterer livskiten ut av dem, og fordi de ER en kult.

En farlig kult.

Et av deres yndlingsvåpen er drittkasting. Enorme kampanjer blir satt igang så snart en stakkar åpner kjeften om hvor idiotisk og tåpelig deres ‘religion’ er. Avhoppere blir fryst ut, og gjerne offer for en type skittenvask som får Hillary og Obama til å se ut som engler.

En av deres største fiender, Shawn Lonsdale (som du kan se i BBC’s Panorama dokumentar ‘Scientology and Me’), tok mystisk nok ’selvmord’ 16. februar i år.

De fleste av de største Suppressive Person-stemplede blir notorisk hengt ut som religionshatere på Religious Freedom Watch siden som er drevet av kulten. Så har man deres gjentatte forsøk på internettsensur, og press på ISP’er om å oppgi hvem som gjemmer seg bak forskjellige kallenavn. Fjerning av brukere som er fiendtlige mot dem på YouTube, gjentatte forsøk på å få fiendtlige nettsteder i kne ved hjelp av trusler om søksmål og annet moro.

Vil dere vite mer anbefaler jeg en titt på Operation Clambake, spesielt under What’s Going on Now-seksjonen for aktuelt stoff.

Så, hvis noen finner meg ’selvmyrdet’ i et smug med 27 øksehogg i ryggen, vet dere hvorfor.

For en kjapp oversikt over deres villeste påfunn, ta en titt på denne siden, vi advarer mot sterke bilder.

Denne talen av Tom Cruise når han mottar en medalje fra the Church of Scientology er skremmende. ‘Let’s clean this place up!’

Så, frysninger? Jeg fikk. Tom Cruise gikk fort fra jagerpiloten i Top Gun til Goebbels, og er nå en av verdens farligste menn. Rimelig imponerende av en stutt liten amerikaner, som minner litt om en stutt liten østerriker.

Skal vi stoppe sammenligningene der? Definitivt ikke. Scientologer mener at holocaust var forusaket av psykiatere og psykologer, for som vi alle vet, elsket nazi-Tyskland psykologer. Gjorde de? Nei. De anså psykologi og psykiatri som noe ‘jødisk vissvass’, og mange av dem ble selv kastet i leirer og senere fjernet ved, vel, aktiv dødshjelp. Så, både nazistene og scientologene hatet psykiatrien, og begge ble ledet av mentalt ustabile skikkelser. FBI hevdet at L. Ron Hubbard selv led av schizofreni og paranoia utifra de utallige brevene han sendte dem angående at alle var ute etter ham. Og når man hører en del av talene hans, er det ofte bare rabling og ufullendte setninger.

Så har vi TARGETS, DEFENSE dokumentet, skrevet av Hubbard selv, som forteller oss at:

TARGETS The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time are:

T1. Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.

T2. Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.

T3. Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.

T4. Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.

T5. Generally revitalizing the societies in which we are operating.

T6. Winning overwhelming public support.

T7. Use all other similar groups as allies.

1930′tallet anyone? Her er litt til:

The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are:

1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine).

2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups.

3. A few key political figures in the fields of “mental health” and education.

4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations would make us unable to function.

5. The cold war is being fought on home ground and has an apparent target of degrading western society to a point where we are finding it difficult to operate; a degraded society can be swallowed up easily by an enemy.

6. The public is somewhat sympathetic already but in a democracy trials are by public opinion. To win all the way, the bulk of public opinion must be at the level of love us … hate the enemy.

7. Many groups exist with similar aims. They need organizing and uniting.

Ifølge Hubbard er 20 prosent av befolkningen utenfor hjelp, og bør fjernes i det stille uten anger. Hvis et medlem straffes, settes han/hun i en av ‘fangeleirene’ deres kalt Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) hvor de går i fillete klær, får lite mat og søvn, samt blir merket i ansiktet eller må gå med spesielle armbind for å markere dem. Høres det kjent ut?

Du kan lese mer om TARGETS, DEFENSE på denne siden. Anbefaler også en titt på resten av siden, nemlig Operation Clambake.

For å se litt mer av metodene til Scientologikirken når det gjelder å takle negativ publisitet og nysgjerrige journalister, burde du se BBC Panorama dokumentaren av John Sweeny kalt Scientology and Me.

Et annet punkt som skremmer meg, litt off-topic, er at norske firmaer bruker scientologenes omstridte personlighetstest. For seks prosent i royalties går direkte til Scientologikirken. Støtter din bedrift denne halvgale kulten?

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The Corporation of Scientology was just denied a legal injunction to bar members of Anonymous from coming within 500 feet of Scientology buildings in Clearwater during the planned March 15 international day of protest. The Corporation claims that they have received thousands of harassing or threatening phone calls, 3.6 million “malicious” e-mails, 10 acts of vandalism, 22 bomb threats and 8 death threats. It is well-known that the Corporation has been bombarded with disruptive phone calls, faxes and emails. Scientology, however, doesn’t seem to have the greatest track record when it comes truthfulness with regard to supposed bomb and death threats. Recall  the Corporation’s attempt to frame Paulette Cooper for bomb threats (and also as being in need of mental institutionalization) by stealing her stationary and forging letters to themselves. They also claimed that the BBC network made death threats (as is alluded to in this video) to the Corporation around the time of the filming of the Scientology and Me special. Yeah, that’s what the BBC does: puts itself, one of the world’s largest and most trusted news and multimedia organizations at risk by making death threats to UFO cultists…

Circuit Judge Linda Allan ruled against the CoS on the grounds that the relevant Florida statute does not apply to corporations.

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The Church of Scientology and its members are committed to social betterment and provide assistance in a wide range of activities across society.

Indeed, Scientologists who bring their individual expertise to the service of the community are volunteers like no other.

For they bring more than their willingness and spirit to the task at hand. They utilise L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs and technology for helping – and so are able to provide a broad range of practical skills to remedy conflict or upsets, improve communication, resolve study problems, restore personal integrity, and even handle failure in virtually every aspect of life.

Social betterment groups

Many Scientologists work actively within social betterment organisations that use Mr. Hubbard’s technology in secular settings to resolve the broad societal problems of drug abuse, crime, failing educational systems and moral decay.

For decades now, Narconon International has provided a phenomenally successful drug-free drug rehabilitation and prevention programme – and through the support of the Church and its members, the benefits of Narconon’s methods have been felt across the continent. Today Narconon comprises a network of 143 rehab centres and drug education programmes in 37 countries, including Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Dedicated to restoring drug-free lives to drug-dependent people through the application of Mr. Hubbard’s drug rehabilitation methods, Narconon also provides comprehensive training to other professionals and organisations who seek workable drug rehabilitation and prevention solutions.

The Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Programme has been acknowledged internationally for its high success rate in getting addicts off drugs for good. Narconon now operates 143 rehabilitation centres and drug education programmes in 37 countries.

Applied Scholastics International assists parents, teachers, students, tutors and educators in eradicating illiteracy, through the use of L. Ron Hubbard’s revolutionary breakthroughs in learning which culminated in his development of the Study Technology. With more than 400 licensed schools and community-based programmes, literacy has been brought to millions in Europe and around the world – from Denmark to South Africa, from the United Kingdom to Greece.

The Way to Happiness Foundation is dedicated to restoring trust and honesty through the publication and widespread distribution of The Way to Happiness, a common-sense guide to better living. Wherever it appears, the publication acts like a calming oil on troubled waters – reducing crime, restoring understanding and fostering peace. Since 1981, a total of 61 million booklets have been distributed in 95 countries, in 35 languages, including 1.75 million copies distributed throughout Israel and Palestine.

Criminon International helps incarcerated criminals learn to be productive members of society with effective reform programmes that provide prisons the means to actually rehabilitate. Active in 2,000 prisons in 28 countries, the programme utilises The Way to Happiness booklet to restore self-respect and personal pride to prisoners – a priceless gift which allows an individual to return to society as a productive and contributing citizen.

Each of these international organisations are separate, secular organisations in their own right, and each has its own history of vital contributions to society. Through the application of Mr. Hubbard’s technology, they have successfully improved the lives of millions in this troubled world. Their activities, while secular in nature, are supported by churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists around the world who volunteer their
time and talents.

Helping in the community

Scientologists are actively engaged in helping those around them in many ways, from drug prevention programmes to blood drives, from emergency relief services with the Red Cross to Walkathons sponsored by the March of Dimes. They collect holiday toys for foster children and donate food and clothing for families in need. Many contribute to initiatives to preserve or clean up their local environment.

In Germany, church volunteers provide musical entertainment at homes for senior citizens, and during the winter give warm clothing, food and hot drinks to the homeless.

International drug prevention: As a group, Scientologists are 100% drug-free and work tirelessly to help others to discover the hope and promise of a drug-free life.

In France, volunteers regularly distribute food and clothing to disadvantaged families, while volunteers in Spain distribute The Way to Happiness booklets in the streets of Madrid as a calming influence, in areas where delinquency and prostitution are of great concern to the community. Similarly, Italian Scientologists visit homes for the elderly and provide entertainment and companionship.

At Saint Hill in Sussex, England, the Church of Scientology’s headquarters in the United Kingdom, Scientologists hold events and charity fetes, attendedby thousands of people, to support charitable organisations such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institute and the Youth Trust, a national group working to keep children off drugs.

Drug prevention actions

The Church of Scientology also spearheads an international grass-roots campaign against drugs, uniting concerned community groups and staging public awareness forums, drug prevention rallies and educational conferences.

Scientologists believe that the real answer to keeping youth off drugs is to provide them with a full understanding of the dangers of drugs so that each can make his own self-determined decision to be drug-free. This is the thrust of the Say No to Drugs programme, sponsored by the Church of Scientology and its members – its purpose to help bring an end to the international scourge of drug abuse through effective coaction and drug prevention initiatives.

Volunteer Ministers

Many Scientologists have also become Volunteer Ministers for their local churches of Scientology, providing help and compassion through simple, basic assistance to people in overcoming difficulties they may be having in life – small or large. Volunteer Ministers have also assisted in the aftermath of earthquakes, floods, fires and explosions. Elsewhere, they work quietly to improve conditions within their communities – employing fundamental tools for effective volunteerism. They use techniques easily learned by anyone and provide people of all faiths the know-how to actively contribute in a volunteer capacity.

Thus, wherever one finds a Church of Scientology, one also finds a steady, dedicated effort by its members to provide effective help wherever needed.

“Nothing could be done about it.

“I knew the brain, a mechanism created by cosmic chance, decayed and died. And that was it. Nothing followed or preceded life. I wanted to have faith, but every time I asked, ‘Is there something more out there?’ all I heard back was silence.

“Worse, I didn’t feel like I had any control over what was in front of me right now. Nothing in this purposeless existence could be bettered or significantly changed.

“Then a few months ago, I discovered my neglected copy of the book, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. Hubbard’s words re-ignited in me an awareness of myself, where before I had gone numb.

“Energized, I looked online for more which lead me to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website.

“From there, I started reading the Scientology Handbook online, still cynical and skeptical—until I applied an assist* to my wife and it miraculously worked!

“Purchasing and then studying the Handbook several times, cove-to-cover, I incorporated its teachings into my life. Nothing but success occurred with every application.

“Previously a cynic and a blossoming atheist, I found myself a hesitant believer in the idea that there is more to life than the physical, and that something can be done about both spiritual and material problems.

“My abilities as a father increased. My abilities as a husband increased. Problems at work became easier to iron out. I understood why certain people made my emotions spiral, and how to handle them. Pain from injuries became treatable without medication. Conflict and miscommunication were now diffusible.

“Life simply became better.

“I will keep learning more, keep doing more—keep getting to know my real self and the real selves of those I meet as only Scientology can teach me to do.

“Cynicism and skepticism still crop up. Some days my hope falters. Something in me says, ‘Nothing can be done about it.’ And every day Scientology proves something can.

“Thank God for the Scientology religion that has filled my world with both spiritual and practical light.

“Scientology is truly good. Because of the Church, I have faith. I believe: Something can be done about it!”

*Scientology assists are techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard that bring the spiritual element into healing, thereby greatly speeding the healing process.

 Source: Scientologytoday.org

Scientology expands, responsible sections of the BBC have still not decided to get straight and honest. No wonder they catch one scandal after the other.

Fresh information is on the way…

Scientology Volunteer Ministers – or “VMs” – are a big deal in Scientology. These are Scientologists who volunteer to travel around the world to help people in need, be it after natural disasters or man made catastrophes – or in Third World countries.  Some spend their annual vacation time on helping others in distant areas. What they have under their belt for this is the technology and methods contained in the Scientology Handbook. It is simple, it works and can be learned easily. Try it.

Since the BBC did its major promotion for Scientology – rather unintentional though – there is a continuous stream of media and discussions about Scientology. Today I found Juliette Lewis talking about her Scientology beliefs in “The Independent”:

“I believe: Scientology helped me face my worst fears. Ever since I became famous I used to get panic attacks, especially when I was in big crowds. I found a saying: “be there and confronting”. L Ron Hubbard wrote many things I have found helpful.”

“Confronting” – seeing what is there without flinching – is different to “confrontation” which his what happened to John “Scientology & Me” Sweeney. Which reminds me: the Scientology documentary seems to have moved now here.

This is another “assist” out of the Scientology Handbook – the nerve assist – which is the “massage” the media claims that our Volunteer Ministers do. Well, nerve assists are part of the VM training but not even 2% of it. Nevertheless assists are easy to learn and can help a lot if done per the book. Worth a try for somebody with back pain. I used it once with a friend who was so much in pain that he could stand straight. After about 10 minutes of giving a nerve assist we both heard a loud crrrrkkkk…. and his back was fully straight again, pain gone! So I know that it works just like everything else understood and done right. Here it is:

Nerve Assist

Among the many types of assists in Scientology is one which can straighten joints and the spine.

This is called a Nerve Assist.

Chiropractic spinal adjustment is often successful. But sometimes the spine goes out of place again and has to be adjusted time after time. The Nerve Assist was actually developed as a favor to chiropractors, many of whom now use it.

In our theory, it is nerves that hold the muscles tense, which then hold the spine out of place.

There are twelve big nerves which run down a person’s spine, spreading out from the spine across both sides of the shoulders and back. These twelve nerves branch out into smaller nerve channels and nerve endings. Nerves affect the muscles and can, if continually tensed, pull the spine and other parts of the body structure out of place.

The further procedure with pictures is in the Scientology Handbook online.

I found this in the Scientology handbook – the training manual for Scientology Volunteer Ministers – and went right to work with it: as usual, Scientology works! Check it out, a good deed for the end of a party weekend… BTW, “to confront” in Scientology means to look at something as it is, without bias etc.

This is called a “Locational”:

“There is an interesting use of Locational Processing as a way to make a person sober. It can make a drunk person sober in a very few minutes. As society currently has no technology for handling the drunk, who is an embarrassment to his family, his friends and often to himself, this process has social value and may serve as a line of cooperation and assistance to the police.

Procedure

Use the command:

“Look at that_________ (room object).”

A drunk is usually considered somewhat unconfrontable and he himself certainly cannot confront. One thing he cannot confront is an empty glass. He always refills it if it is empty.

Repeat the command, each time pointing out a room object, as often as required to bring the person to sobriety. Do not get distracted into answering the frequent comment, “What object?” Just get the command carried out, acknowledge and give the next command.

Run until the person is no longer drunk.

Do not ever get angry with or strike a drunk, whatever the provocation.

This process is not intended to handle the condition of alcoholism. There are more advanced Scientology procedures that can be done to handle the conditions that caused a person to be alcoholic. But one can do a lot of good for the person and those around him by using this assist to bring him back to sobriety.

We are not particularly in the business of handling the drunk. But we are in the field of helping our fellow men. In a society where the only alternative is a night in jail and a fine, which is not desired by either the police or the intoxicated person, we can assist both and handle the situation in a matter of minutes.”

Sorry for not posting since a couple of days but I ran across quite some stuff on the BBC/MI-6 connection. I mean, one of the most hillarious propagandist in the anti-cult field has been an MI-6 guy and is now feeding (or being fed by?) the BBC . So – price question – is MI-6 using the BBC or the other way around. Looks like they have a happy symbiosis ongoing there. I’ll keep you updated.  If you have more information yourself, drop me a note. I’ll answer securely.

YouTube is really a wealth of primary information on Scientology! Today I found another clip out of a lecture of L. Ron Hubbard, “The Free Being”. He is talking about how people can be free. If you are dealing with the subject a bit you’ll find that those trying to hold you down and only advocate the”freedom to be a stupid sheep” are also the one criticizing Scientology.  Maybe I am jumping the gun…. Anyway, this little clip got my attention and I like it!

I just ran across the claim that the BBC is an arm of the British foreign intelligence, MI6. That is something like the CIA but more James Bondish, I guess. John Sweeney, with “a license to yell”…! What a great “cover” for his “researches” in Africa. Clever, clever, but seriously, there had been rumors that BBC reported 9/11 even before it happened, seemingly out of a confusion on time differences between the US and UK. What a scary thought, that my YouTube clips have been attacked by MI6!

If you thought YouTube has only trash and occasionally some very interesting revelations on (former?) intelligence outfits in the UK (i.e. the BBC), you should look again:

I found this great piece today, a taped lecture by Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard on the goal of Scientology – greater freedom for the individual.

This is the opening sequence of the Church of Scientology documentary about the making of the BBC Panorama show. Neither the BBC documentary by John Sweeney nor the one done by the Church of Scientology to expose the tactics used by the BBC to create their Scientology and Me show tell you what Scientology is.

I have never really found any media that gives a good explanation. A good place to start is by reading a book. I recommend the book The Problems Of Work. Or if you want to see an explanation from L. Ron Hubbard about how he came to research and formulate Scientology, you can see the video, An Introduction To Scientology.

Or you can read this FAQ on Scientology.

Although BBC Panorama Editor Sandy Smith claims that he does not condone reporter John Sweeney’s insane rants against Scientologists, if you examine Mr. Smith’s explanation for why Sweeney had a meltdown, Smith demonstrates the same anti-Scientology [anti-religious] bias that the Church complains of with Sweeney.

Smith tries to cover for Sweeney by claiming that there was a “personality clash” between Sweeney and Tommy Davis, the Church representative who was the target of Sweeney’s rant. He also claims that the BBC crew were victims of the Church’s attempts to go after opponents and discredit them. He carefully omits to mention to the news media that it was only after the Church realized the preconceived agenda that John Sweeney was on, that he and his producer Sarah Mole were informed that the Church was going to make its own documentary to show exactly what they were really up to. The clip of Sweeney’s rant is one part of that documentary.

The documentary put together by the Church of Scientology, which can be found at www.bbcpanorama-exposed.org is worth watching as it is shows the sleazy tabloid tactics that are used by Panorama and Sweeney in order to portray the Church is the worst possible light. It also documents the repeated anti-Scientology slurs that were interwoven into nearly all of Sweeney’s questioning, which he thinly covers by repeatedly using the phrase, “Some people say .. [insult]” without ever delineated just who “some people” is.

Can you imagine the flap for the BBC had John Sweeney used the same type of insults and anti-religious slurs toward a Jew, Christian or Muslim? How about blacks? At least in the United States, when this recently happened, reacting to public opinion, CBS smelled the coffee and fired the perpetrator.

By offering excuses that the Church of Scientology is an “extraordinary organization” that has “no way of dealing with criticism at all” in my view Sandy Smith is in essence telling people that it is OK for the BBC to treat Scientologists differently than they treat others. This is pure discrimination. Smth’s characterization is plain wrong. Panorama is used to running roughshod over those it wishes to go after . Who has the resources to do a counter documentary on how badly they are being treated by a news organization like the BBC?

If Smith won’t do the right thing and fire Sweeney, then perhaps members of the BBC Trust, which is supposed to oversee and ensure the BBC remains fair, balanced and unbiased, should do their jobs and get rid of him. Otherwise, Mr. Smith’s words and Sweeney’s apologies mean nothing. Sweeney’s actions were disgraceful and he should not be working for the BBC.

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Here is a humorous clip of BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney losing it while attempting to conduct an interview with someone from the Church of Scientology.

BBC Panorama Reporter John Sweeney and Scientology