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Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads
An anonymous reader writes "The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Scientology front group, has received a 'grant from Google in the amount of $10,000 per month worth of Pay Per Click Advertising to be used in our Orange County anti-psych campaigns.' CCHR believes that ALL psychiatrists are evil. They believe that psychiatrists were behind the holocaust, and these shadow men were never brought to justice. CCHR also believes that psychiatrists were behind the 911 attacks. Scientologists believe that psychiatrists have always been evil, and their treachery goes back 75 million years when the psychiatrists assisted XENU in killing countless alien life forms. Thanks Google! We may be able to stop these evil Psychs once and for all!"
The more these beliefs are discussed and examined, the more they are revealed for what they are.
It's Psychlos.
There is no belief so stupid, so crazy, so totally deranged that it won't speak to someone.
You can't make this shit up.
Just based on their name, you would think that it is a good group of people. They might as well be called the 'Children's Safety Council', while they barbecue infants.
I know Slashdot editors like to sleep on the job, but where does this story even come from? Is it really all based on a blog some supposed letter with no explanation behind it? Is this even true? Searching for it turns up some other articles (blogs) from sources I've never heard of, and nothing seems to point to this being real. Can somebody help me out here? Is the future of Slashdot fictional stories and Bennett's Blog?
Yet again Google is used to promote utter bollocks alongside homeopathy...
is more good speech. However preposterous their ideas trying to silence any cult will just end in their views being discussed in secret and away from the bright light of open debate.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
I think you're a little slow to post ... April Fools was three weeks ago. Just say'n...
All my signatures are stolen from other people. Including this one.
What's the point here? Do you claim that we should stop any group to express themselves when you consider that what they think if wrong?
If so, then you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Let them talk. And then, say why they are wrong.
(I admit, I started to RTFA but then stopped when I saw that there actually was 6 articles!)
After reading Slashdot for many years, I am coming back after two months of not visiting and what do I see? Another anti-Google posting using all the power of the anecdotal... This is a non-event, and Google will change track in this case as soon as they are pointed out their mistake.
I am not sure if I will have the courage to go through today's list. I remember this place as one where I could read intelligent comments, but those who used to make this place what it was have now almost all left...
Thanks /. for the heads up. I'll be on the lookout for them and click away there monies.
If you can look past the weird conspiracy theories and Xenu stuff. Late last year I saw a documentary called "The Marketing of Madness." It makes a compelling case about how over-medicated we're becoming, and how simple quirks are now being labeled as illnesses to turn a profit. There might be some truth to this. CCHR might not be an entirely awful group.
They are a weird "religion", and the parts about Xenu are, ahem, interesting. But most of their criticism about psychiatry is rather accurate.
Psychiatry is the least scientific and most pretentious part of medicine. No real disorders have been detected yet, the DSM is a political document and not a medical one. The drugs do not perform much better than placebo, the level of fraud and misrepresentation in psychiatric drug trials is very high and the side effects are often pretty bad. Psychiatric drugs are often given freely for solving administrative problems (Ritalin or Adderall for "ADHD").
But let's be honest, the only reason the theology of Scientology is bizzare to us is that is it new. Catholic dogma is not much better.
I don't understand, how is this any different than any other religion that someone doesn't believe in? There are plenty of christian churches, etc that pay for advertisements against equal rights for homosexuals. This doesn't seem any more crazy.
If there were a race about which "religion" is getting more members with the most insane ideas, yep, they would take the 1st place!... In your face, resurrected Jesus.
Oh boy. I suppose the honest headline that "Google offers 10k in free ads to ALL NON PROFITS" didn't fit the meme-of-the-day that Google is evil? (http://www.google.com/grants/)
CCHR is a non-profit, Google offers aid to all non-profits, therefore Google offers aid to CCHR. Two uterrly inocuous facts from which Slashdot manages to draw the most dramatic and misleading headline possible.
it isn't about the jews. Thumbs up for scientology
$100K/mo for 'this', $0 contribution to OpenSSL, and Google Voice is "still in beta".
I think I'm getting the Google-Hang of this!
1. And you care because? All churches operate that way.
2. All religions are abusive and dangerous. That is why they are evil. Two people harmed by Scientology? Awesome! Judeo- Chrisitainity and Islam hace harmed millions.
3. Again, ALL religions can be accused of those things.
I don't get this particular hatred to some cult that affects only a few thousand people when Judeo-Christianity has caused the suffering of millions for thousands of years - greatly outweighing any good that has been done in its name.
Oh, Buddhists! - see SE Asia for their assholishness.
In 3,000 years, mankind hasn't progressed emotionally and we won't until we give up these primitive ideas of God and Gods and the supernatural.
When we can embrace our humanity and acheive humility (Being "made" in God's image is the most arrogant thing ever said.), we can progress beyond being blad super smart apes.
Trouble from religion seems to be associated more with dosage level than theology. Once a week seems to be a safe dose for most people, while several times a day is an overdose. The nuttier religions tend towards the overdose end of the scale. Islam and the haredi branch of Judaism go for All Religion All the Time. Scientology goes in that direction, but more through intermittent intense experiences rather than constant daily obsession.
Fortunately, Scientology is stuck, by policy, with Hubbard's 1930s technology and their skin-resistance meter. If they were keeping up with technology, they'd have mobile apps tied to wristband sensors reporting to HQ in Clearwater, FL, auditing using functional MRI machines, and big data systems analyzing all member communications.
I am a Scientologist. Hail Xenu. I come in Peace to save humanity from the earthlings that have gone astray. Praise Ron Hubbard (and the L. in his name). Listen children, the evil psychiatrists on your planet earth have been stealing your hard earned money from you for years and years on end. They make up stuff and then sell it to you for extremely high prices . This is against the intergalactic code of this sector of this galaxy (see the Oscar award winning movie: 'Battlefield Earth' for details). Which I know for the simple reason we have had a cosmic-patent on such transfers of wealth from peasants and fools to masters of con for nearly 700 million years. And what's fair is fair. I will share the secrets of the entire universe with you today. In fact, your timing is perfect as we are offering a special one time discount at this very moment. Below is our current price sheet. Read it well as you consider the fact that the entire destiny of earth and the foreseeable future of this entire universe depends on how much you can spend (i.e. give to us) right here and right now! The REAL meaning of being HUMAN: $ 5,000.00 The REAL meaning of TRUTH: $ 10.000.00 The REAL reason your life SUCKS: $ 25,000.00 The REAL purpose for your life: $ 100,000.00 The WAY you can have POWER: $ 1/2 million bucks. Another WAY you can have POWER: 5 million bucks. The list goes on and on, but hurry as this offer won't last. Much Love, Xenaluthanian All Praise to Scientology
Where are all the Freedom of speech proponents? .... Oh, I forgot, it's freedom of speech for things I agree with. Sorry.
I saw a documentary once where it was explained that the parting of the Red Sea could have been caused by a tsunami (the water retreats before the actual tsunami), which was caused by the Minoan eruption
I dated a psychology student once. Now i'm not saying I agree with scientology...
Seriously, only the mindless and desperate would believe anything these people preach. This stuff is akin the the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and other cults that lure needy people into their control. And they do try and control their adherents. All of them. Here's the rub, kids: stay *far* away from anyone who wants to control you, ask you for money for their stupid causes, you name it. Follow the money. That's where the truth lies. Follow the money.
Such an event may have inspired whoever originally came up with the story, but to say it happened as it has been told is just madness...
From THe Montreal Gazette:
Rights of drug addiction patients violated: ruling
Scientology-linked Narconon exploited and abused those it purported to be treating: Human Rights Commission
By Catherine Solyom, THE GAZETTEApril 15, 2014
“It’s more important for me to get Narconon exposed as one of the most dangerous, quasi rehab centres in the world,” says David Love, who won a Quebec Human Rights Commission case against the drug rehab centre linked to the Church of Scientology.
Four years after he left Narconon Trois-Rivières, and two years after the so-called drug rehabilitation centre was shut down by the public health agency, David Love has been vindicated by the Quebec Human Rights Commission, which concluded the centre exploited and abused him — financially, physically and mentally — along with two other complainants.
Love, who was first a patient then an employee at Narconon until he realized it was closely linked to the Church of Scientology, said the commission’s recent decision was a “global win” against Narconon, which continues to run drug rehabilitation centres in several countries — putting patients’ lives at risk.
“Some say I’m in it for the money, but it’s not true — I want to help the addicts,” said Love, a native of B.C. who has stayed in Montreal to fight Narconon, first before the Quebec Labour Tribunal, then before the Human Rights Commission.
Both agencies mediated in his favour and against Narconon, an organization vaunted by Scientologists like actors Kirstie Alley and John Travolta.
“This isn’t just about criticizing Narconon and Scientology,” Love said. “It’s about saving lives. Drug addiction is an epidemic and I want to help addicts avoid the pitfalls of these pseudo treatment centres.”
Love wouldn’t disclose the amount the commission has proposed Narconon pay Love and the two other plaintiffs, also former patients, in moral and punitive damages. But he confirmed the total amount is in the “six figures.”
Michel Ménard, a lawyer for Narconon Trois-Rivières, said he couldn’t comment on the decision other than to say it was merely a recommendation — and not binding.
Citing confidentiality, Patricia Poirier, a spokesperson for the commission, said she couldn’t comment, either. The commission is still studying the case and has not yet decided whether to take the matter further and present it before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, she said.
Based on a three-year investigation of the facility in Trois-Rivières, the written document obtained by the Gazette says Narconon submitted Love to “degrading and humiliating practices,” “controversial teaching methods not based on any scientific study,” “poor living and food conditions” and “coercion and forcible confinement.”
Following the lead of the Supreme Court of Canada, the commission categorized drug addiction as a disability, and concluded that Love and others were discriminated against and financially exploited because of their disability.
Narconon patients — considered “students” by the facility — were charged $23,000 for the treatment, which typically lasted three to five months and included high doses of vitamins such as niacin combined with four- to five-hour sessions in a sauna — known as the “Purification Rundown.”
Following the teachings of Scientology founder and science fiction writer Ron L. Hubbard, patients were also deprived of any prescribed medication for mental illness, and had to undergo personality and IQ tests as well as training routines, which Love said were designed to make them accept to be under someone else’s control — and teach them how to control others.
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They happen to be totally right on this one, psychiatry under the guise of a science, has done more harm than Scientology ever did. Currently the psychiatrists are poisoning your children with know psychoactive toxic drugs, kids reduced to shambling zombies. The main pushers for these drugs being the pharmacology companies.
'Scientologists believe that psychiatrists have always been evil, and their treachery goes back 75 million years when the psychiatrists assisted XENU in killing countless alien life forms. Thanks Google! We may be able to stop these evil Psychs once and for all!"'
How is this any less believable than, we killed our deity, and once a year he comes back to life and we consume of his flesh?
How is this any less believable than, we killed our deity, and once a year he comes back to life and we consume of his flesh?
Actually, most Christian sects do that on something more like a weekly basis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist
> One word: Dice and page views.
There are FOUR words!
Not like there's not a lot of other evil and stupidity in Scientology, but the anti-psychotherapy part is evil. They're doing it because they don't like competition (and after all, they're mostly in the bogus-psychiatry business.)
I've known a few people whose lives have been saved by modern psychiatric medicine, without which they would have spent a lot of time being delusional and in deep emotional pain, and some of them would have committed suicide, and when you've got a chemical imbalance in your brain, bogus auditing by people who think an ohm-meter can measure your spiritual condition so you can get rid of billion-year-old space alien engrams just isn't going to help.
Scientologists dont hail Xenu. He trapped all those alien souls, after all!
Is that the new name for Google Wave?
....because L Ron was a delusional narcissistic paranoid and pathological liar, and he was scared of the doctors.
Great read if you want to learn about the sociopath: http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/b...
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""The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Scientology front group"
LOL. Just like 'civil rights', is the right of non-whites to FORCE themselves into the living space of whites...
Why are non-whites so desperate to live around white people?
Why don't they want to live around their own kind, free from all those dreadfully 'racist' white people, who they keep telling us are ruining their lives?
... it has usually been referred to as "putting the inmates in charge of the asylum".
This is almost certainly because they applied to Google's Adwords grants program:
http://www.google.com/grants/e...
There seem to be no ideological criteria (imagine the shitshow if there were?)