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The world's most dangerous cult.

Originally Posted by Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz

Bei der "Scientology-Organisation" (SO) bestehen tatsächliche Anhaltspunkte für Bestrebungen gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung. Damit sind die gesetzlichen Voraussetzungen für eine Beobachtung der Organisation durch die Verfassungschutzbehörden gegeben. Eine entsprechende Feststellung traf die Ständige Konferenz der Innenminister und -senatoren der Länder (IMK) erstmals im Juni 1997.

http://www.im.nrw.de/sch/doks/vs/agsc.pdf

A more recent evaluation (2005) by a non-public gremium of the BVS ranks the threat level of scientology and it's hostility to basic values of the constitution as "extremely high".

Originally Posted by Ron Hubbard

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion"

http://www.xenu.net/

Censoring criticism of scientology via american laws like the DMCA:

http://www.golem.de/0203/18971.html

Several court rulings have decided to not accept scientology fulfilling the definition of religious communities as understood by according german laws. For example: http://www.google.de/search?q=scient...&start=10&sa=N

Quite the opposite: it was stressed time and again that the status of a "religious community" is exclusively being demanded by scientology to gain tax advantages and legal rights that help it to press it's hidden agendas.

Feb 8, 2000BBC News Online: France recommends dissolving Scientologists: A government committee in France has recommended dissolving the Church of Scientology there, on the grounds that its activities threaten public order. A report submitted to the prime minister, Lionel Jospin, described the church as a totalitarian sect that kept files containing personal information on its members. It said it was an extremely dangerous organisation that violated human dignity.
Dec 10, 1999Church 'fails test' for charity status : Britain: The Church of Scientology was yesterday barred from charitable status after the Charity Commission ruled that it failed to promote the "moral and spiritual welfare" of the community.
Jan 22, 1997Scientology Banned in Greece: In Greece, an Athens Administrative Court passed a judgment which affects Scientology materially. It states that the psycho-sect is to be banned. The judge stated that the financial machinations of the commercial sect were not compatible with the public welfare.
Sep 18, 1994The Giant Scientology Octopus: German Federal Labor Minister Norbert Bluem (CDU) urged a "substantially rigorous, faster opposition" to the "Scientology" sect, which is active in Germany. He regards the sect as a "criminal money-laundering organization which is intent on expanding its delusional ideology worldwide under the pretext of religion and will stop at nothing." "It is high time that the big wheels of this human-despising cartel of suppression finally receive our message loud and clear: they are criminal!" "Potential members are put into psychologically and physically dependent relationships. They are subjected to brainwashing; their personalities are systematically destroyed. Then they are materially exploited without end. Even though we know all this, far too little has really been able to be done in effectively opposing this organization."

http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/dianetics.html

The Harm it Does to a Person

The results of applying their crackpot psychotherapy (called "auditing") is to weaken the mind. The mind goes from a rational state to an irrational one as the delusional contents of the subconscious mind are brought to the surface and are assumed to be valid. It also makes a person more susceptible to suggestion since it submerges the critical thinking faculties of the mind into a partial subconscious state. It results in a permanent light hypnotic trance and so from thenceforth that person can be more easily controlled. The person will, to a much greater extent, believe and do whatever they are told. And of course this is used to the full in persuading them to hand over further money and dedicating themselves further to the cult. The results of applying their oversimplified and inapplicable rules in life is to lose the ability to think rationally and logically. A person loses the ability to think for themselves and so they lose the ability to challenge incorrect ideas. This makes them easier to control. It also isolates and alienates the person from society so that they withdraw from normal society and into their "Scientology" society. This further increases their susceptibility to the influence of their group. They end up being afraid of society, believing all society to be controlled by a group of drug companies, psychiatrists and financiers all of whom report to more remote masters. In other words they are in a state of mass paranoia. They therefore avoid reading newspapers and the like since they fear it will disturb their safe Scientology world. It is a downward spiral into madness. (...)

On the surface the Church of Scientology seems reasonable. The insane content of it is only revealed to a person when the early stuff has done its work and made them more susceptible. After a short while a person "believes" that Scientology is doing them good. They are then persuaded to help their new-found group further by donating money and/or working for the organization for almost no money. Many people do exactly that. "Ethics" is used to good effect to trap a person. A person’s natural tendency to do good is worked upon. Yes - they want to be more ethical, but what is ethical? This is where a clever trick is pulled! "Ethics" is redefined by Scientology in such a way that to be ethical is to be a better Scientologist and obey the "church". Young people, not yet made cynical through the machinations of life and politics, are very keen to contribute to the world and to be ethical. So the "ethics" trick works easily into persuading them to join the "church". Many of them join an elite group called the "Sea Org" where they become brainwashed slaves. There they work a hundred hour week for almost no pay. There they are subject to every cruel whim of their masters. It is a living hell that they endure because of the conditioning they have received and this now perverted sense of ethics that they have accepted. The "Sea Org" is the ultimate in brainwashed slavery. They are expected to work harder and harder to achieve ever higher targets of production. If they fail to meet their targets there are various penalties. One of them is to be put onto a diet of beans and rice and to miss sleep. Another is to be sentenced to a period on the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force). This is the equivalent to "hard labour". Such is the extent of their brainwashing that they actually write "success stories" when they complete their sentences. (...)

The "War on the Internet" is the war between the Church of Scientology and Internet users who copy their documents and post them on the Internet. The people who are copying their material and webbing it are using the huge accessibility of the world-wide web to get information out to people to warn them of the insanity and danger of this cult. They are doing it for the public good. The hope is that if they can get this information out to the public and make it broadly known then people will be forewarned and will not join the cult. If they can starve the cult of new members in this way then the whole organization may collapse and then the existing members can be helped to return to society. (...)

http://www.exposingsatanism.org/scientology.htm

And so on and on and on. just took five minutes to find these links. Google is your friend!

The people who post and host the copyrighted and confidential works of Scientology are risking themselves to help warn the public about the dangers of Scientology. They have a strong sense of public duty and care for their fellow men. They are breaking copyright laws it is true but they are acting out of conscience and out of high human ideals. As they get broken down by legal or physical harassment more rise to take their place.

I know two such persons myself, for whom fighting Scientology has become a full time job in their lifes since the mid-90s, when scientology started an offensive to expand it's initial beachheads in Germany. The risk they accept are incredibly high, the legal battles and campaigns of intimidation and diffamation rage since many years. I and two friends even needed to bodyguard them for some weeks in 1998 when Scientology activities to get rid of them raised valid concerns for their health and life's safety.

So, Tak, you must not excuse but maybe can understand my unforgiving brandmarking language. For me we are talking about a highly criminal tyrannic organisation.

the new headquarter of scientology - has been erected almost inside the German government district in Berlin. Better don'T think that is by random chance.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...458616,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...473896,00.html