scientology & celebrities

you know whats fun about scientology? the rich people.

The City of London police came under fire two years ago when it emerged that more than 20 officers, ranging from constable to chief superintendent, had accepted gifts worth thousands of pounds from the Church of Scientology.

see!

I'm shocked you can get arrested just for saying something insulting in the UK. Sounds like 1984

Well it's a blatant misuse of the law - I'm fairly sure the law was introduced to prevent incitement to racial hatred and the like. But yeah you can be arrested/fined for swearing in public, which is total bullshit.

The poor Scientologists apparently believed that the use of the word cult was "threatening", and hence invoked the Public Order Act. But yes, a flagrant misuse of the law.

Steven Poole has a good take on it all here:
http://unspeak.net/cult/

If you live in France, you can call “Scientology” a cult or secte with impunity, because that is how it is defined in law. And as a point of fact, the “Church” of “Scientology” is not a religion under UK law either.

Yes, this is astonishing. Especially as there is another demo vs. the cult in Tottenham Court road where the same banners don't seem to get the same reaction. Different police force though, this was the City of London and that's the Met (iirc).

And one doesn't want to get all conspiracist or anything but there is this..
Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police

At the lavish ceremony, Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley, the fourth most senior officer in the force, praised the scientologists for the support they had provided after the July 7 attacks

Oh, sorry didn't see Poo's post upthread. So yeah, what he said...

By "support" I suppose the City of London Police meant "attempts to take advantage of bomb victims", yes?

praised the scientologists for the support they had provided after the July 7 attacks

Yes, I remember that, they were out on the streets in force helping to drum up membership for their ridiculous cu1t Londoners to cope with the stress induced by the terrorist attacks. I remember, there was a FAP and, on the way there, and I noticed them.

But yeah you can be arrested/fined for swearing in public,

Actually you've always been able to be arrested for swearing in public, or even just shouting - behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace - in fact the met have used this to arrest two men kissing in public. They have plenty of laws at their disposal!

I was thinking of that case when 2 kids were sitting on a bench talking to each other and a policewomen overheard one of them swearing, just in conversation with his friend, not even shouting, and gave him an on-the-spot fine. Fucking ridiculous.

There was some fellow on the tube a couple of years ago who suggested that the metal detectors were...erm...not up to scratch, and got an £80 fine on the spot. That's the British Transport Police though (I presume), they can be especially touchy.

Excuse me for criticizing the laws of another sovereign nation, but that's ridiculous. I'd either be broke or spending life in prison. I think " behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace" can often lead to positive things. MLK Jr anyone?

They shot him

I think you missed the point.

Seems the City of police were being over-zealous.

Anyways, yeah Bill the "behaviour likely to lead blahblahblah" is a pretty catch-all offence.

Oh it just sounds like SOP whenever someone rich wants to silence a critic. Hit them with a nuisance lawsuit that costs $30k to deal with before it gets dropped.

Raj Persaud brought down by Scientologists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/24/raj-persaud-psychiatry-maudsley

Well brought down by his copying of other peoples work obviously.

THE OBSCENE BRASS DOG

Scientology is just mostly common sense ppls.

Duh, if you don't b3l33v3 then you're just hung up on a failed R6 rundown.

banned from Wikipedia lolz

Derek P. May 29th, 2009 4:45 pm ET

Obama supporters have also manipulated Wikipedia. However, unlike Scientology, they are evenly distributed throughout the US. Anyone they don’t like, they ban. They are able to do this because there is a sadistic subculture in Wikipedia. Kids vote for each other to become “administrators” who can ban anyone and unbanning often only occurs if the original administrator agrees (Wikipedia policy). Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It is worse than twitter

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James Bond vs. Scientology (sorta):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6740831.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6740728.ece

No-talent film director bails:

http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/paul-haggis-breaks-with-scientology/

whoa.

That is a pretty good letter.

I bet it would suck if Haggis adapted it into a movie, tho.

HA!

good to finally have a plausible explanation for all his success, though

http://www.popeater.com/2009/10/26/tommy-davis-scientology-interview/

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Testimony_by_John_Travolta_that_son_was_autistic_raises_Scientology_questions

THey scare the shit out of me.

i watched that Tommy Davis, cylon spokesman interview when i was at work and when it concluded with asking the viewers if they thought that Scientology should keep their tax exemption status as i stood up to out i calmly and gratefully said to the tee vee screen "thank you, Martin Bashir". lol.

Just read this today: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/

Wow. Apparently their leader has a Napolean complex.

Or Napoleon complex - whatever works ;)

It's a pretty revealing three part article from the St. Petersburg Times written back in June.

I wonder if Haggis has googled Xenu yet.

From his letter: To see you lie so easily, I am afraid I had to ask myself: what else are you lying about?

I totally feel that, it's a reason I left the Mormon church...so weird seeing your religion's leader saying something on the TV to cover PR that completely contradicts what you're told at church.

I think Scientology is like a blown up version what I dislike about religion. Pedantic self-righteous lying bastards. -> Oops, I guess I'm still pretty much an atheist despite mentioning on the Prayer thread that I mellowed when it came to religion. heehee

The T-shirt would read 'I spent 13 years talking about it and all I got was this $150,000 debt.'

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Had to redo the link, try again. Alternate, Gawker summary:

http://gawker.com/5456002/how-to-spend-150000-on-scientology-the-larry-anderson-story

Oopsy:

http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/david-miscavige-violates-tom-cruises-confessional/

Ding ding... Round Two

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/28/church-of-scientology-john-sweeney

Watched that last night. Interesting that there's a "reformation" movement of scientologists who've left the official church but still believe in scientology as a religion, which I was completely unaware of before.

Did that image work?

http://images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/ceri_radford/sweeney15.jpg