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Originally Posted by August
Woah, people are jumping on the intolerance bandwagon pretty quickly here.
Is this cult making the movie, or is (was) Cruise just going to be acting in it? That is the key question here imo. If it's the latter then what Germany is saying is that no one associated with an unpopular "religion" has a right to make a living on their soil. It's their business i guess, being their country, but i'll be expecting them to apply that standard to every Scientology member within their borders from big shot actors on down to a lowly convenience store clerk. Equal treatment under the law is the foundation of a representative government.
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In the fedearl country of Bavaria, persons wanting to become teachers must sign a declaration that they have no lnks to scientology.
Beamte (civil servants? officials?) entering state service can be fired in germany on the basis of acting against the free-democratic constitutional order of the state. The constitution also limits basic rights and freedoms in that way that these rights become invalid and are not longer granted to a person if he/she isthreatening or trying to act against the basic constitional order of the the state. since the Verfassungsschutz (internal intelligence service, compares to the FBI), rates Scientology as a severe threat to the constituion and labels them as "extrem verfassungsfeindlich", it is only consequent to have scientologists in public offices and education under tight control and trying to get rid of them, or to even prevent them from entering service. So, it is not only in conformity with principal laws, but even with our constitution which was designed under massive american influence and supervision, btw.).
Scientology, like Waste Gate as well, of course hacks away against his by always referring to the Nazis, in excalty the way WG did. Banning scioentologists, they say, is like demanding "Deutsche, kauft nicht bei Scientologen!" (a reference to infamous historical quotings like "Deutsche, kauft nicht bei Juden"). But it does not compare, the roles are totally different.
France and Italy are two other european countries also known for going tough against scientology. In the late 80s and early 90s, they had 60-70 police raids and started charges of money laundering, tax fraud, a multitude of violations of economic laws, abuse of mentally deranged people, blackmailing, coercion, medical practicing without legal permission (Aprobation), violation of "Fürsorgepflicht", promoting child labour, torture, violation of laws regulating the working conditions of employees (employees were working until total physical exhaustion and complete breakdown)
As a former psychologist I must add to this that most cases of people and apostates finding their way into therapy due to psychological abuse and being exploited in a state of psychological dependance, never find their way to the courts, nevertheless show major degrees of psychiatric disorders, and generally-spoken: extreme psychological vulnerabilities.
In a way, scientology takes capitalism to extremes. no wonder that it is more popular in the anglosaxon world that is traditionally in favour of ultra-liberal self-regulation of the market, and uncontrolld capitalism. On EU level, it also finds allies amongst those politcal circles that share the general sympathy for this description of economy. What sceintology promotes is the law of the strongest, and the weak is left in the dust, and pays by being exploited. - End of the religious message.