[Marxism] $cientology

[Ambrose Andrews]

2009/6/20 Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo at gmail.com>

>
> They also use the legal system very aggressively, including trademarks and
> copyrights, against their critics. These lawsuits may often be quite bogus,
> but under the medieval US legal system, it is very difficult to recover
> costs defending yourself in a lawsuit even though you win.
>

They have also distinguished themselves by releasing recorded
confessional-equivalents ('ethics files') to the press as a weapon against
some ex-members, as in the case of their reaction to today's / yesterday's
expose in the St Petersburg Times.  An apparently desperate act, since it is
not going to easy for them now to claim priviledge over such communications
in future.

http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012138.ece

"""
The church prepared binders of indexed material that included confessions
the defectors wrote during their time in Scientology. A key tenet of
Scientology is that an individual who admits and takes responsibility for
his bad thoughts and acts feels unburdened and joyful. Church members write
confessions, which go into "ethics files'' that are supposed to remain
secret. But to rebut the defectors' allegations about David Miscavige,
church officials took the extraordinary step of releasing excerpts from the
files. In them, the defectors admit transgressions and praise the leader.
The church says the files undercut the credibility of those attacking
Miscavige.
"""

  -AA.





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