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Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops

Posted by kdawson on from the no-fair-game dept.

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."

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  1. Get 'em while they're hot by Carnildo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make sure you get your copy before the Scientologists take the site down.

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
    1. Re:Get 'em while they're hot by aarggh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The official course of action for COS in cases like these is set down by elron himself, basically sue, sue, harass, and then sue some more regardless of winning or losing. And unfortunately they have so much sway that sending multiple C&D's to sites/ISP's will cause most sites to drop any links or references anyway as they are too intimidated by the COS. Note that by "COS" I am of course referring to the "Cult of Scientology", as no-one could ever confuse this group with any modern day religion!

    2. Re:Get 'em while they're hot by aarggh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Without starting a flame war on who has the best imaginary friend, and while there are many valid points raised as to the validity of reilgion with regards to suicide bombings, hangings, etc, I should have generalized more along the lines of "modern day, somewhat civilized" religions. In other words religions that over the millennium have evolved from the original (somewhat fairly hideous and violent) sect beginnings to what most western based religions are now, which for all their faults generally try to be a positive source of strength and support in todays society. Unlike specifically the money making machine that is the COS built on a Sci-Fi story as part of a bet, that routinely victimises and harasses any form of opposition, sometimes to their deaths. Thanks to living in democracies, people can voice their opinion that the COS is being picked on, or question how is it different to any modern day religion, and so on, but I would not expect that the vast majority of people in the western world would even remotely consider suicide bombings, hangings, persecution, etc, to be the norm in religion. And for that same reason, I don't think it unreasonable to consider the "documented and recorded" behaviour and practices of the COS falls most certainly more into the organised cult area than a western based church. Especially given that people have no excuse to not know more about COS with the release of large amounts of information legally and illegaly. Sometimes people confuse playing Devil's Advocate with being pedantic.

    3. Re:Get 'em while they're hot by geekboy642 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Anybody that shoots up a school is a person who has severe mental issues.

      People with severe mental issues are frequently prescribed drugs to try to alleviate those issues.

      Correlation DOES NOT EQUAL causation. In fact the most recent school shooting I can remember occurred when the shooter stopped taking his drugs and regressed to a much worse state. Clearly the drugs were at least holding his psychosis in check while he was taking them. To put your statement in a clearer light, "the 9-11 hijackers took aspirin when they had head-aches! Ban aspirin, it causes hijackers!"

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      Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
  2. Re:After reading this PDF... by zakeria · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Start by boycotting Tom's films! support him in anyway supports the Church.

  3. This shows Germany was 100% right to ban them by golodh · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I have heard a lot of (fairly uninformed) criticism of Germany's decision to outlaw the Scientology sect.

    However, with the Fishman affidavit, the whole case concerning Karin Spaink (see http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/home.html), and now this I feel strengthened in my support for the decision of the German government to outlaw this sect.

    Regrettably it doesn't work like that in the US. We gave them the tax-exempt status of "church" instead.