Did The Church of Scientology lie on CNN?

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology wrote:' The only way you can control people is to lie to them'. Tommy Davis's interview with CNN, which is currently making the rounds on YouTube, shows that this strategy only works when people have no relevant information. The entire world can now see that Scientology cannot tell the truth on any topic.

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1 TD lied about the alleged bomb threats and the other incidents listed on the CoS application to a Clearwater court for an injunction against the April Anonymous protest. The injunction was refused. Most incidents were either invented or involved disaffected former members. Anonymous have shown that the video brought by the COS as evidence of the bomb threat was of manifestly higher quality (more pixels) than the video shown on YouTube. It is therefore closer to the original which suggests that the original was made by the CoS. Other incidents are either invented, unsubstantiated, or caused by disaffected former members. He also lied in saying that the cult report such incidents and then 'leave it to law enforcement'. If only they would. In fact their Office of Special Affairs works outside the law to fair-game or terrorize its critics.

2 TD lied when he denied that the cult operated a policy of disconnection. Tory Christman, in a response to this interview repeats that when she left the cult she lost all her friends of 30 years, and her husband of 27 years who stayed in. Tanya Neujahr and Vivien Krogman-Lutz were disconnected as teenagers by their Scientologist parents. David Miscavige's own family is split by disconnection. Ida XXX has not seen her son for more than thirty years. Grace and Ken Aaron have also lost their son. The rule is tightly enforced.

3 TD lied when he claimed that all members know the truth about Scientology. The cult restricts their exposure to TV, newspapers and the Internet. They are not allowed to read critical books. Lapses are disclosed by security checks and punished. Only those who pay considerable sums of money have access to the core belief in the evil galactic warlord Xenu and his creation of Thetans, spirits of dead space aliens (now freely available). As science fiction it is bad; as religious revelation it is ridiculous.

4 TD had nothing to say when asked 'What are your basic beliefs?' since Scientology has none, unless you count Xenu and his Thetans, or their belief in the miraculous power of L.Ron Hubbard to resolve all problems including blue asbestos and mental illness. Tommy fell back on the standard Scientology rant: 'Come into the org, always open; read a book; take the free stress test; find out what we are about.' It is factually untrue that you can walk into a Scientology center and find out what it is about. For that you have to pay, and pay. It can also be difficult to get out again.

5 Surprisingly, TD said he did not recognize the concept of dead space aliens infesting human bodies. This is surprising. Just about everyone knows that advanced Scientologists spend enormous amounts of time and money recognizing and banishing evil body thetans. The process leads to a kind of mad couch-jumping euphoria.

This is not where the lying stops. They also lie on their tax returns, in their filed accounts, in court hearings, in their claims of membership numbers, in their claims about what you will achieve (always your fault when you fail). They are not a gentle, kindly, tolerant humanitarian organization but a totalitarian, intolerant, cruel sect, interested only in how much money or forced labour they can squeeze out of their 'parishioners' and utterly detached from whatever disasters may befall them.

Be careful! Don't believe anything a Scientologist says. Think for yourself!

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