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Nov 7, 1994
Scientology and its German foes: A bitter conflict — New York TimesMore: link
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Craig R. Whitney Source:
New York Times HAMBURG, Germany — It would take something like an invasion of space aliens — maybe something out of an L. Ron Hubbard science fiction novel — to match the climate of fear and mutual suspicion that prevails between the Church of Scientology that Mr. Hubbard created and its frightened opponents in Germany. "Fear is part of their system — it's a totalitarian organization that seeks to control everybody else, a dictatorship," said Ursula Caberta y Diaz, who heads the four-member working ...
May 30, 1994
Religious freedom? — Mountain Views (Australia)
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Mountain Views (Australia) It is now well understood and accepted that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to malign others, because hate propaganda and vicious smears in public have a destructive effect on excitable individuals (witness the effect Nazi propaganda had on the Germans in the 1930s and 40s). The recent publication of a book written by Louise Samways entitled 'Dangerous Persuaders: An expose of gurus, personal development courses and cults, and how they operate in Australia' and the ensuing publicity for ...
Oct 24, 1993
IRS examined Scientology dollars, not dogma — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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David Dahl Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) When the IRS granted tax exemptions to the church, it did so mainly on the basis of what Scientology did with its money. WASHINGTON — It might be easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for the IRS to judge the merits of a religion. So when it comes to considering tax exemptions, the agency sticks to what it knows: money. For the Church of Scientology, which won a series of tax exemptions earlier this ...
Oct 1, 1993
Remarks on Heber Jentzsch and Scientology — Update & Dialog (Denmark)More: link
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Reinhart Hummel Source:
Update & Dialog (Denmark) Dear Friends and Colleagues! As you know Heber Jentzsch , President of the Church of Scientology International, has used, or rather misused, the Conference in London to launch an attack against churches, newspapers and the public in Germany and elsewhere. He has charged them with participating in a smear campaign against the Church of Scientology and has drawn a parallel with the persecution of Jews in Nazi-Germany. You will certainly know about the Scientology brochure titled Hatred and Propaganda where this argument ...
Sep 1, 1993
backtalk // We are not a cult, not a cult, not a cult... — Mother JonesMore: books.google.ca
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Mother Jones After we ran a 250-word article about the introduction of the Church of Scientology into Russia ("L. Ron's Russia," March/April ), our office was inundated by letters, the majority coming from within a ninety-mile radius of our San Francisco offices. Following is a sample of the thoughts expressed in the letters: —–
Mother Jones reached its journalistic bottom with "L. Ron's Russia." It appears that you are using propaganda from either Interpol or Eli Lilly as your news. To spread this ...
Aug 13, 1993
Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Pinning our hopes on Old Doll Body I READ with interest Denise Harrison's statement of incredulity that a new religion could be the work of a science fiction writer. According to the saying, truth is stranger than fiction, so what about this one? In his early lectures, Ron Hubbard mentioned "Old Doll Body", a mythical figure from the past, who travelled freely in the universe in his flying saucer. In 1964, I was driving up the Turners Hill Road one night ...
May 14, 1993
Cult brands vicar a 'nazi' in new row — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A FELBRIDGE clergyman was this week branded "a Nazi" and accused of "religious persecution" after an incident at the Saint Hill Manor headquarters of the Scientologists as the row between cult members and established churches deepened. The Rev Stephen Bowen, vicar of St John's, says angry cult members ordered him from the grounds and then filmed him and companions accompanying a Zimbabwean Scientologist trying to get his passport back from cult officials. "I was accompanying the man in case he needed ...
Apr 27, 1993
From Salem to Waco, by way of the nazis — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Alexander Cockburn Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Davidians were a 'cult,' and thus exempted from justice and normal rules of evidence. Rodney King's beating captured the nation's attention for more than a year. The extermination of more than 80 Americans during an armed attack by federal agents outside Waco is already slipping off the front pages. But then, King is a black man whose maltreatment came to symbolize police violence against the poor. The Davidians were "a cult," and thus exempted from justice and compassion. Atty. Gen. ...
Apr 23, 1993
'Scientology is my tool to survival' — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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Tom B. Shuster Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) SCIENTOLOGY has long been surrounded by controversy. Despite criticism from many, a large number of local people embrace it . This week, the Courier gives a local businessman the chance to explain what it means to him personally. —– AFTER 19 years of living and working in East Grinstead, it never ceases to amaze me to see the mystery that manages to collect around Saint Hill, Scientology and Scientologists. I walk down London Road at various times of the day and ...
Apr 23, 1993
Courier comment — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE OPENING of the Hubbard Dianetics Bookshop in East Grinstead has caused concern in many quarters of the town because of the links with the Church of Scientology. Two local vicars have spoken out over the move, so has the headmaster of one of the town's secondary schools. They fear the shop will provide a front to encourage people, particularly the young, to take part in "personality testing" undertaken by the scientologists. Feelings ran high among campaigners outside the shop on ...
Apr 23, 1993
Protest marks opening of town's new Scientology bookshop — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) [Picture / Caption: Scientologists celebrate the opening of the new Hubbard Dianetics bookshop in East Grinstead] [Picture / Caption: Graham Threlfell had his own personal message for both sides in the dispute] [Picture / Caption: Protestors held a vigil outside the new bookshop and distributed leaflets in which they denounce Scientology] LOCAL CHURCH leaders have spoken out against the opening of a Dianetics bookshop in East Grinstead. The bookshop opened in London Road, on Saturday afternoon, where Videographic video rental used ...
Dec 29, 1991
Scientologists ran campaign to discredit Erhard, detective says — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In October of 1989, a private detective was called into the Church of Scientology's offices in Los Angeles and asked to conduct an investigation in Northern California. Ted Heisig, a non-Scientologist based in Orange County, said he was led into a room and shown five file cabinets filled with documents Scientology had been collecting for years. The subject: Werner Erhard, founder of the worldwide self-awareness movement known as est. "They had contacts (in the file cabinets) dating back to his childhood ...
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
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Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Jun 7, 1991
Members react to campaign discrediting Prozac, psychiatry — Psychiatric NewsMore: link
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Richard Karel Source:
Psychiatric News The following is the first of a two-part series to be concluded in the next issue. The impact of Scientology's ongoing war on psychiatry, now focused on the antidepressant drug Prozac, was a topic of discussion in the corridors and lecture halls of this year's annual meeting in New Orleans. Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) director Frederick Goodwin, M.D., discussed the anti-Prozac campaign of the Scientologist's antipsychiatry affiliate, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). "The disingenuously named ...
Jun 7, 1991
[Advertisement] What U.S. Drug Company Produced a Drug Named After Adolf Hitler? — USA Today
May 20, 1990
Scientology church feud with anti-cultists heats up — Chicago Sun TimesMore: link
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Daniel J. Lehmann Source:
Chicago Sun Times A festering dispute between a nontraditional religion and an anti-cult group has escalated to the point where each camp is accusing the other of using Nazilike tactics. Chances of a truce between the Church of Scientology and the Cult Awareness Network appear slim. Each denies the other's allegations of employing techniques that fleece victims of money and inflict psychological damage. The two have been at odds for at least a decade. The faceoff heated up in a recent solicitation letter from ...
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