L. Ron Hubbard "Fundamentals of Thought" on "white, brown, yellow people"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1748275,00.html

Zoe Williams
Saturday April 8, 2006
The Guardian

The silent birth is a detail so freakish that it almost sounds as if the Scientologists concocted it with the sole aim of giving themselves a USP. ("Yes, I know we're weird, Scientology brother, but how do we distinguish ourselves from the weird Mennonites?") Their theory is that babies pick up, like, negative energy, and this is likely to come from the mother, especially if she's swearing at the moment of their arrival. I thought it must be one of those commandments to which religious people allude but take no notice of - such as the Jewish one where if you want to have a milky coffee and a steak, you have to drink the coffee first, despite the fact that civilised society clearly states the coffee has to come after, and to reverse this would be mortally wrong.

It turns out, though, that serious adherents to the Church of Scientology do, indeed, like their womenfolk to stay silent through birth. We know this because Tom Cruise has been having signs delivered to the house he shares with Katie Holmes. They say things like "Maintain a peaceful silence", and everyone feels a bit sick, for all the reasons you'd imagine would attach to this horrid little fanatic, observing his wifelet at the farthest reaches of physical endurance and then taking the opportunity to bully her and deny her drugs. In the normal run of things, I would take this chance to get into a feminist stew about it, apart from the fact that a) we can't assume that Holmes is entirely the creature of Cruise - to make that assumption would be misogynistic in itself; and b) before we even get on to the sexism, do you have any idea how racist this religion is?

Honestly, it isn't racist in an oblique way that only the over-sensitive would notice. Ron Hubbard's Scientology: The Fundamentals Of Thought clearly states: "Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part that rocks, trees, walls, etc, can give them attention. The white saves people, prevents famine, floods, disease and revolution ... the yellow and brown races are not very progressive." And when you ask a Scientologist about this - which I did, although I couldn't find any of the famous ones, so had to make do with an eerie, pasty lady on Tottenham Court Road - they don't even have the grace to refute this bilge. They kind of simper at you, and say, "Well, people are a lot more spiritual in the far east." Ha! There you are, you browns and yellows - you might not be very progressive, you very rarely prevent famine and flood, but you are a lot more spiritual. I bet that gives you a nice warm feeling.

With their silent births and vitamin injections, Scientologists - and there are tonnes of them, not just Squeaky and his missus - mask aspects of their belief that are openly vile. Before we give any consideration to the logistics of not screaming during childbirth, we should be boycotting their cinematic endeavours and pelting them with eggs.

[jeff30997]

1. Hubbard was a jerk!

And all he wrote would make excellent toilet paper.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. The Web holds some very disturbing Hubbard archives...

...anyone who's read "OT VIII" can attest to that. Google it and see for yourself.

:patriot:

[Kailassa]

3. The idea of a man having the gall to tell a woman how to give birth,

really makes my blood boil.

And yes, there is a lot of very interesting stuff on scientology on the web.

One of the best things Nicole Kidman ever did was dump little Tom control-freak Cruise.

[az chela]

4. L.Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer

for years before he invented scientology.I went to one of their meetings in 1973
and left in the middle but had made the mistake of filling out a sign in sheet.
The next day I started getting phone calls from them,they worked in shifts and would call all morning and then in the afternoon and evening.I kept telling them
not to call me anymore and take my name off their phone list but they didnt.Next they started writing letters.It was 5 years before they quit calling me and that was because I moved from Flint,MI to Arizona.
These people are totally out of balance and back in the 80's were barred from several countries so Hubbard got a huge cruise ship that he would take people out on and keep them for a few weeks,no food,no sleep.Eventually someone died and I havent heard anymore about them using the cruise ship anymore.

[Mojorabbit]

6. Same thing happened here

Hubby got a job offer and the employer prefered a Scientologist. I sent for the book as we had no idea what it was all about. He decided not to take the job but It took years before they left us alone.

[quiet.american]

5. Germany gets it about Scientology: Just say nein.

Understanding the German View of Scientology

The German government considers the Scientology organization a commercial enterprise with a history of taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and an extreme dislike of any criticism. The government is also concerned that the organization's totalitarian structure and methods may pose a risk to Germany's democratic society. Several kinds of evidence have influenced this view of Scientology, including the organization's activities in the United States.

There are three notable American court cases involving Scientology that illustrate why Germany's concerns about this organization are justified. In the early 1980s, American courts convicted 11 top Scientologists for plotting to plant spies in federal agencies, break into government offices and bug at least one IRS meeting. In 1994, in a case involving Lawrence Wollersheim, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a California court's finding of substantial evidence that Scientology practices took place in a coercive environment and rejected Scientology's claims that the practices were protected under religious freedom guaranties. In September 1997, the Illinois Supreme Court found there was evidence enough to allege that Scientology had driven the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy by filing 21 lawsuits in a 17-month period. The court stated that "such a sustained onslaught of litigation can hardly be deemed 'ordinary', if can prove that the actions were brought without probable cause and with malice."

In addition, a New York Times article on March 9, 1997, outlined "an extraordinary campaign orchestrated by Scientology against the and people who work there. Among the findings were these: Scientology's lawyers hired private investigators to dig into the private lives of IRS officials and to conduct surveillance operations to uncover potential vulnerabilities." A related New York Times article on December 1, 1997, added that earlier IRS refusals to grant tax exemption "had been upheld by every court." (On December 30, 1997, a Wall Street Journal article outlined details of the $12.5 million tax settlement between the IRS and Scientology, including the Scientology agreement to drop thousands of lawsuits against the IRS.)

On December 1, 1997, a New York Times article described Scientology records seized in an FBI raid on church offices that prove "that Scientology had come to Clearwater with a written plan to take control of the city. Government and community organizations were infiltrated by Scientology members. Plans were undertaken to discredit and silence critics. A fake hit-and-run accident was staged in 1976 to try to ruin the political career of the mayor. A Scientologist infiltrated the local newspaper and reported on the paper's plans to her handlers." A related Times article also on Dec. 1, 1997, reported on a criminal investigation into Scientology's role in a member's death in Clearwater, Florida. In November 1998, the responsible State Attorney charged Scientology's Flag Service Organization with abuse or neglect of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license.

Given this background, Germany, as well as Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Israel and Mexico, remain unconvinced that Scientology is a religion.

http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/archives/background/scientology.html

[AnnieBW]

7. No Wonder

Nicole Kidman dumped his sorry ass!