One of The Thriving Cults of Greed and Power
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Rob Belatucadros in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Hidden Crimes, Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Religion, Rob Belatucadros, Science and Technology, Top Stories
The Church of Scientology, in its efforts to investigate and attack its “enemies,” kept files on five Washington federal judges, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, other congressmen, Jacqueline Onassis, the Better Business Bureau and the American Medical Association, according to Scientology documents in the possession of federal investigators.
The Scientologists’ files, summarized in a 525-page inventory filed in court by the federal government, were in many cases marked “Eyes Only,” “Top Secret,” “Enemy Names” and “Battle Plans.” Their contents were coded with phrases like “Operation Cut Throat,” “Espionage” and “Operation Big Mouth.”
The documents, which were seized under subpoena by federal agents in raids of Scientology offices here and in Los Angeles last summer, include orders from top Scientology officials to investigate and attack certain government agencies, private businesses and individuals.
Among other Scientology property seized in the raids were memos on how to obtain false identities and tap telephones, a lockpicking kit, electronic eavesdropping equipment, two 22-caliber pistols and a leather blackjack, according to the government inventory filed in federal court in Los Angeles. Source>>>
The Church of Scientology, started by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard to “clear” people of unhappiness, portrays itself as a religion. In reality the church is a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner. At times during the past decade, prosecutions against Scientology seemed to be curbing its menace. Eleven top Scientologists, including Hubbard’s wife, were sent to prison in the early 1980s for infiltrating, burglarizing and wiretapping more than 100 private and government agencies in attempts to block their investigations. In recent years hundreds of longtime Scientology adherents — many charging that they were mentally of physically abused — have quit the church and criticized it at their own risk. Some have sued the church and won; others have settled for amounts in excess of $500,000. In various cases judges have labeled the church “schizophrenic and paranoid” and “corrupt, sinister and dangerous.”
Yet the outrage and litigation have failed to squelch Scientology. The group, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, threatens to become more insidious and pervasive than ever. Scientology is trying to go mainstream, a strategy that has sparked a renewed law- enforcement campaign against the church. Many of the group’s followers have been accused of committing financial scams, while the church is busy attracting the unwary through a wide array of front groups in such businesses as publishing, consulting, health care and even remedial education. Source>>>
L.Ron Hubbard you mean the child diddler that wrote Sci-Fi?
I have mixed feelings about this. I am dubious about government and its woebegone history of making war on alternative groups.
This is not an expiation for scientology!
But, look at the record! They made war on the texas polygamists, grocery co-operatives, hare krishnas, branch davidians and more! They don’t like any movement that takes an adherent out-of-the-loop.
I’m out of the loop as an individual. Too small and elusive to bother with.
I should have added:
It’s not illegal to keep files on anybody you want.
I “keep files” of my doings with the IRS and my state taxers.
a244, I feel the way you do however Scientology, the Branch Davidians and others are cults and their leaders want to take the place of the government and try and control their members financially, sexually and otherwise. To march in lockstep with any group that does not permit dissent or discussion is just another way of drinking the Kool-Aid.
JAM, it’s not a question of the “nice”, it’s a question of LAW.
If some damn fool wants to be controlled ( and some do ) that’s his getgo.
Nobody or nothing may protect anybody against themselves.
It’s not the business of government to be a nanny state.
I forgot to mention the Amish. Government is always screwing with the Amish.
Government screwed with the early christians too, until the roman emperor Constantine bought them and put them in his pocked and they stayed there until recent times.
The roman catholics have religious orders wherein one must take an oath of poverty and obedience. Yet nobody pisses and moans about them.
I wonder why.
a244 I do in fact agree with you. The US government wants to get in everybody’s personal business in one way or another (read control them). I just think that many people defend these sorts of groups without thinking about what they actually are up to.
And then there is the abuse element; many of these types of groups (not all) abuse the children of their members either sexually or physically. Now if an adult wants to subject themselves to that sort of BS then so be it, but children should never be put in that position.
The government, religious groups and cults all have elements of trying to control their members thoughts and actions.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone in their right mind would want to be controlled in such a way.
Funny thing about influencing children:
The fading generation always tries to impose its values on the coming generation.
It almost always fails.
I remember breaking out. It was a gradual process.
Oh, how dad wanted me to be a jock!
I learned that, if a person doesn’t want to be free, all the constitutions and laws won’t make him free.
Dad predicted I would love baseball. I’m 68 now and I have no knowledge of sports whatsoever.
Hate the stuff.