Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops

An anonymous reader alerts us to new material up on Wikileaks: 208 scanned pages (in one PDF) relating to the Church of Scientology and its former "Office of Special Affairs" employee (and subsequent apostate) Frank Oliver. "The documents are dated between 1986 and 1992 inclusive, when, according to the file, Frank Oliver was declared a 'suppressive person' and excommunicated. Frank Oliver should be able to verify the material and has appeared in the media before on subjects relating to the church. Starting on page 107, the document shows that at the time of writing the Church of Scientology was still actively engaged in black propaganda (especially concerning psychiatry), 'fair game' and infiltration."

Comments

Re:Get 'em while they're hot

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

I agree, it should be confused with modern day religions, since all are groups of adults believing in fictional stories and allowing them to control their lives.

Re:Oh wow

[wanderingknight]

Page 99:

JUDGE AND PUNISHMENT

None of us like to judge or to punish. Yet we may be the only people on Earth with a right to punish, since we can undo the damage we do in most cases. Therefore never punish beyond our easy ability to remedy by auditing and restoration. That's outright insane. That's L. Ron Hubbard himself telling his followers that they have the absolute moral right to damage anyone basically because they can "undo the damage". It's completely insane, but I believe I see what people see in this. I suppose it gives them a degree of "superiority" feeling over their non-Scion peers... but it's still pretty hard to believe that people actually read this shit and think it's actually right.

Oh, people have believed in the Bible for centuries. Nevermind.

Christianity is different because ...

[Cathbard]

Scientology is a cult unlike christianity because it's based around a person that claimed special knowledge and was capable of unbelievable super human abilities ...... oh wait, so does christianity

It's a cult because it is harmful and uses threats to intimidate people .... oh wait, christianity threatens people with eternal damnation and has killed millions

It's a cult because it scams people out of millions of dollars and flaunt it with ..... oh wait, christians have enormous cathedrals and huge bank accounts

Sorry I can't find any substantial difference except the scale of it all.....basically you're both nuts!!!

Re:Get 'em while they're hot

[DaveV1.0]

that anyone who believes in such a higher power is an idiot.

I am not young, and you are an idiot.

You are an idiot for believing in stories that have no proof other than a heavily edited book of stories, some of which are inconsistent, put together by a committee who kept out stories that did not fit in with their personal beliefs.

And, if you believe in the bible and that it is the true word of god, then I take it you also do not eat pork or shellfish and do no work on the Sabbath. Oh, and you and your church better not have a crucifix or you are all going to hell for be idolaters.