THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES
Why is this Declaration part of this site?
It is my belief, and that of many others, that Scientology is engaged in gross violations of these world wide known rights. Further, it is my belief that Scientology, with its aggressive litigation history and 'scriptures' demanding the utter destruction of opponents, has caused many organizations whose job it is to monitor these human rights, to turn a black eye towards Scientology's abuses. This is certainly more the case since the Internal Revenue Service granted Scientology 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in 1993 and Scientology/scientologists in turn dropped hundreds of lawsuites (they had brought 2,200 suits over the years) against the agency. Since then it proudly claims to be a 'religious group'. Very few wish to be labeled 'anti-religious', and therefore Scientology organizations get away with much more than they should. Just one example which will demonstrate this reality is that while the unlawful isolation of a person is a prosecutable offense, Scientology claims isolating people is part of its 'religious doctrine' and hence a protected practice under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
With the same disregard for basic human rights, does Scientology has a shameful history of locking up children as well. Some of them toddlers really. That I am not alone in objecting to Scientology's abhorring disregard for human rights is very clear reading Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge, who in June 1984 issued a damning decision in a case involving Scientology. The Judge wrote: "In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the organization over the years with its 'Fair Game' doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies."
Case in point, sociology professor Stephen A. Kent in Canada has done extensive research on Scientology and has published papers, held speeches and testified in court against them. Scientology thus far repaid his diligent research with pickets at his place of work, distributed hate-fliers on campus and told untruths on radio shows. Consequently he felt the need to install security equipment with mainly Scientology in mind. Now professor Kent is wondering when Scientology will go after his family. He considers it inevitable that they will. They have to, their policies demand the utter ruination of him or anyone else they deem an enemy.
Scientology's scriptural total obliteration of opposing voices
- "We must ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him." -- Scientology directive 'OSA INT ED 508R'.
- "Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration." -- Scientology policy 'Targets, Defense'.
- "(a) People who attack Scientology are criminals. (b) That if one attacks Scientology he gets investigated for crimes. (c) If one does not attack Scientology, despite not being with it, one is safe." -- L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directive 'Branch 5 Project, Project Squirrel'
- "Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press." -- Scientology policy 'Attacks on Scientology'.
At this point you may start to wonder what an "enemy" is by Scientology standards. Simple: "ENEMIES, things, groups, other determinisms that challenged or sought to stop or refused to comply with the basic [Scientology - MG] purpose became enemies or opposition." -- Scientology's 'Modern Management Technology Defined' page 172.
Hubbard: Only Scientologists should have basic civil rights in the future
To this very day too, the scientologists are propagating the doctrine of their dead leader L. Ron Hubbard, that non-scientologists shouldn't be granted basic civil rights: "Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will be granted civil rights before law. Perhaps the goal will be reached at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals..." -- 'Dianetics; the Modern Science of Mental Health', by L. Ron Hubbard (1987 edition, p.534). And of course "unaberrated persons" are only scientologists who have reached the level of "clear" after paying a lot of money.
This was a hint of things to come, while Dianetics was first published in 1950, soon Ron Hubbard had harder punishments in mind and was talking of "dispose of them quietly and without sorrow" and "sudden and abrupt deletion" when he had people in mind critical of Scientology or who otherwise were undesirables in his twisted world view. Passionately he wrote that "sick" people, people like me, like professor Kent, and anyone they consider an enemy, should "not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind".
New Scientology contracts puts members in peril
TOM Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis and other Scientologists may have signed away many of the rights that most Americans take for granted. As they move up into the higher levels of the Church of Scientology, members sign documents giving up their right to psychiatric care and to see their families.
These contracts were recently unearthed and found their way to the Internet. One of the documents is titled "Agreement and General Release Regarding Spiritual Assistance" which states, "Others may think that I need psychiatric treatment. I instead desire to receive Scientology spiritual assistance."
The same agreement prohibits "any psychiatrist, medical person, designated member of the state or family member" from placing the Scientologist into a hospital or facility for psychiatric treatment. (these two paragraphs are from an abridge New York Post article)
For those reasons and many more, I've decided to add the full unabridged Declaration to this site in the hope that perhaps someone will awake.
Jeff Jacobsen is another concerned person and has collected 33 Sample Cases of Human Rights Abuses by Scientology. If you feel that I am exaggerating, then you surely must read Krisit Wachter's point by point comparison between the Declaration and Scientology policy.
Mike Gormez, September 2003, Version 1.4
(mgormez@gmail.com)
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, therefore,
The General Assembly,
Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.