Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube
 

Someone needs to sue this cult into oblivion for violating free speech rights.

-S

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09...videos-youtube

Some of the laws they are evoking may be right and just, but the same can not be
said of the motives behind the evocation.

I am not quite sure even why they use the word "church". I understand in greek it just means "assembly", but traditional connotations infer a christian affiliation.

I dont understand how they are regocnized as a religion in some countries while they work to destroy civill liberties. They are in the same cast as organized crime and terrorism.

When tolerance does no longer ask whether the object is worth to be tolerated or not, it becomes an end in itself. In practical consequence it is not any different than appeasement, then. Such kind of "tolerance" deserve our utmost disgust. It is self-deception, weakness and cowardice.

In France the scientology sect again faces a court trial over organised fraud. It has been sentenced for that before, but sometimes also evaded such a sentence. In Germany, all in all it is being seen as anti-constitutional and a threat to the basic order of the german state. Several federal states have it under observation by federal intelligence services. scientology itself speaks of Germany as its most important battlefield for the fight to infiltrate Europe's institutions and societies.

They are as wanted as bone cancer.

Yikes! And I thought I had problems with the JW's

Who?

Jehovah's Witnesses. They drag their children around knocking on doors wanting to "give" you their little "tracts".

It's not really "tolerance" if you pick and chose what you tolerate.
Excuse the Reductio ad Hitlerum, but in the 1930s the Germans where very
tolerant by your standard, they just decided the Jews where not "worth to be
tolerated".

A better way to go about it is to tolerate everything you can that does not unjustly
infringe upon others.

For this reason scientology's disgraceful activities should not be tolerated.

Ofcourse, they are comparable in many ways.:yep:

The JW.s do, on the face of it, seam to be a little more genuine.
They certainly have less money changing hands AFAIK.

I know many, and they are in many ways normal but they arent free to think much on their own. They do give a fair share of money and i understand they send it to US. Now if they only print more gospel with it thats their business but somehow i have my doubts. The threats and extortion of members wanting to leave is also common feature.

Someone has to put this bogus church into place. How can they actually file this? Isn't there a way for the other side to defend themselves? I guess the powerful with cash can buy the law off?:hmm:

They are recognized as a religion in the US.

As much as I personally agree you with in many respects here, I could never politically support such a missive.
Letum basically sumed it up pretty well.

Why not encourage a groundswell of popular support that forces legislators to pursue criminal court cases for fraud and scientology's other violations of the law?
For that matter, also to encourage them not to support censorship efforts like this.

I, for one, will be including this in my letters to Kay Granger and Kay Hutchinson this month.