Scientology and Human Rights

Just ran across a new article today on Scientology Volunteer MInisteers.  It's an article excerpt from a speech by Mr. David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers given in 2004 at the Celebrity Centre International Gala .  

http://www.volunteerministers.org/davidmiscavige.htm

You can sort of miss it if you don't watch it - you have to click on the "September 11th" link on the home page.

I have a ton of respect for Scientology Volunteer Ministers everywhere, and Mr. Miscavige says it all in that speech.  

Perhaps you've done some complaining at some point in time about our lack of competent political leaders.  

I don't know much of anyone who hasn't, at some point in time, poked fun at how bad our current leadership is.  If you go through CNN.com or the Wall Street Journal or even TheOnion.com, you'll find every manner of jest at the incompetence of today's leaders.

However, what would you say if you knew that there was an actual, architected plan at work to ensure that the leaders of tomorrow were more incompetent, more controllable, and more susceptible to being pushed around by big corporations and vested interests? 

I read an intriguing article on humanrights4all.org (part of the Scientology Effective Solutions series, by the Church of Scientology International )  describing the architected plan of psychiatrists and drug companies to destroy our future leaders with mind-numbing drugs so as to make people easier to control.

To quote directly from the site:

"The drugging of schoolchildren has become a worldwide epidemic, with an estimated 17 million on powerful psychiatric drugs to handle so-called “learning disorders”.

No longer just an American phenomenon, today millions of youths in Europe are diagnosed with the same “disorders”. And they receive the same treatment: addictive, mind-altering and potentially dangerous drugs. Ritalin, for instance, is a powerful amphetamine-like substance that has become a popular street drug, favoured by heroin addicts. Liberally prescribed for so-called hyperactive children of all ages, studies show Ritalin, and its sister drugs, can turn normal, healthy children into depressed, listless and sometimes violent or suicidal addicts." 

It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect the dots when you know all of the facts.

There actually is no such thing as ADHD , and its very existence is tribute to the psychiatrists who got together and voted on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) which gives the list of illnesses they can tag you with and say you need a drug for.

The point is, if they drug you early in life, chances are you're going to get dependent upon drugs, and be taking them later in life -- making one a total slave to these drugs.  And, since people are naturally quite alert, these drugs do nothing but lessen ones' zone of control, and make it easier to turn a person into a pawn. 

It's something to seriously think about when you walk past people on a daily basis who are getting put on such drugs.  What are you actually contributing to?

--t 

refs:

• Human Rights: Scientology Effective Solutions
• Freedom Magazine : Education - The Fatal Flaw  

 

If you're in the United States, you're used to living in a country where if you're a religious minority or a racial minority or an ethnic minority, you almost get preferential treatment.  When I was working in the high-tech business in Portland, OR, I remember several flappy stories where someone was a homosexual know-nothing, but a company was forced to hire the person due to the fact that if they didn't, they'd be taken to court for discriminating.  

However, in other countries it is basically the opposite, even in some western countries such as France and Germany.  France, for example, has a history of people losing their  jobs , or not being able to do business in the country, just due to their religious beliefs .  

Unless someone's religion involved killing other peoples' children or blowing up other peoples' houses, what someone believes should of course have no bearing on anything at all, legally, and should never have a bearing on whether one is allowed to be employed or not, whether one is allowed to have posessions or not, etc.

So of course, with something of this magnitude not making a lot of sense, one has to look into WHO is pushing it , and who is making it okay to squash someone by their religion.

Well, the answer gets pretty easy to see when you start looking at money lines into that government, and what sort of people stand to LOSE BIG if people are happy and doing well.

Who would that be ? 

Mood: practical
Listening to: the sound of my overly loud keyboard

In other various posts, especially ones on Netscape and Digg, I'vereferred to various violations of basic human rights done by governments, psychiatrists, drug companies, etc.  However, it's a bit of an ambiguosity to just say, "Human rights violation!" without saying precisely what is violated.  

If you're caught speeding, you violated a specific sections of the law of the country or state you're living in.  Most human rights violations also could be centered around various local laws as well -- such as the Psychiatrists in Quebec who kidnapped children and used them as guinea pigs for their drugging and lobotomy experiments.

However, the universally agreed-upon code of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations after World War II is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .  This was brought to life this year by the Church of Scientology - sponsored Youth for Human Rights foundation, which made colorful and easy-to-understand public service announcements for each right.

But to tie them to reality, let's take some examples: 

• McCarthyism in France: "Today’s anti-sect hysteria in France has the hallmarks of a new McCarthyism, and like the original, it is diseasing a nation: destroying lives, ruining careers, and giving extremist politicians a platform to undermine the democratic structures upon which a just society depends."
  
  Violation:  Human Right  #2 - Don't Descriminate .
  
  
• Kidnapping & Injuring Children , while calling it "Child Protection Services
  
  Violation:  No Torture , Right to Life

Any one of these violations can be easily catalogged, referred to, and thereby prevented by the simple adoption of this Universal Declaration, which the Church of Scientology has been doggedly promoting (see tour events in UK , Ukraine, Phillipines, Korea ).  

Mood: intense

I've started this blog cover what Scientology is doing in the field of Human Rights, as this is a subject long in need of a general campaigner.

I'm starting with France as a target for a post, due to the preposterous amount of descrimination against minority groups that has been happening in France over the past several years.  One individual in particular, Alain Vivien, has been stirring up a rediculous amount of trouble for multiple  religious groups, not just for  Scientologists . 

As quoted from the Humanrights-france.org website:

"In France, a 1996 parliamentary commission report stigmatized 173 religious movements with the pejorative label of “sect,” including Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists. That report continues to be relied upon by the French government and has led to restrictive and oppressive measures against minority faiths. The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report for International Religious Freedom, published last September, criticized the 1996 commission report on the grounds that “[it] was prepared without the benefit of full and complete hearings regarding the groups identified on the list. Groups were not told why they were placed on the list and, because the document exists as a commission report to the National Assembly, there is no mechanism for changing or amending the list short of a new National Assembly Commission inquiry and report.” The State Department further noted that “the ensuing publicity contributed to an atmosphere of intolerance and bias against minority religions. Some religious groups reported that their members suffered increased intolerance after having been identified on the list.”

People need to be aware of the fact that all is not rosy in France - even though it would seem to be a fairly democratic and free nation.  As long as one has a belief, and especially one like Scientology which strives for a society without criminals, insanity and war, they should be backed up and not persecuted by a government.