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Title: Church of Scientology asks followers to censor Web comments
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout ... censor-comments-160104800.html
Published: Jul 6, 2012
Author: t
Post Date: 2012-07-06 15:09:11 by PSUSA2
Keywords: None
Views: 261
Comments: 16

The Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise split apparently has had a negative effect on the Church of Scientology, which is calling for members to take action and silence naysayers.

The campaign also comes as an entire mission for the church has defected from under the leadership of David Miscavige, reports the Village Voice. Leader Dani Lemberger of Israel's Dror Center, in Haifa, told Voice blogger Tony Ortega that his mission is one of the few that are still growing and announced that it is rejecting Miscavige's leadership.

[Slideshow: A look back at 'TomKat']

It is the "first time in memory" that an entire mission has announced that it is leaving the church, Ortega said.

The church has sent an email to followers instructing them on how to "counter free speech on the internet," according to former Scientologist and current anti-Scientologist blogger Marty Rathbun, who posted the email message in its entirety on his blog.

He notes that it comes from the church's Office of Special Affairs, otherwise known as the "dirty tricks and propaganda arm of Scientology Inc." The message begins:

I am not a big fan of media, but you may have glanced the news of the split between TC and Holmes and all the speculations around. While this is a personal matter, when people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumors and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well.

The message instructs followers to visit media sites, including Microsoft, Google or any other that requires users to agree to a code of conduct that prohibits comments that threaten, defame or degrade any group or individuals.

[Slideshow: Celebrity break-ups]

Followers should hunt for any comments about the Cruise-Holmes divorce, click the "Report" tag, and report the comments as violations of the site's code of conduct, the email instructs.

You can write something like "Violate Your Code of Conduct". 'defames or degrades a group for any reason including on the basis of religion.'

The author of the email notes that if only one person does it, the news site moderators won't act. Thus, the email says, "if you start to have 10 or 20 people reporting it, they are going to take this down."

Blogger Rathbun notes that the attempt to censor website comments is like showing up to a nuclear war with a squirt gun.

When will David Miscavige (supreme leader of corporate Scientology and Tom Cruise's best man) ever learn that attempts to suppress communication and expression only make more news than the news he attempts to censor?

Meanwhile, the Church of Scientology is also facing several high-profile defections in the wake of the Cruise-Holmes divorce, as well as the high-profile sex scandal involving John Travolta, another Hollywood Scientologist.

[Related: Why Tom insisted on calling Katie Holmes 'Kate']

Lisa Marie Presley reportedly has parted with the church, said Fox News. After moving to the English countryside, she told the network, she began second-guessing "everything and everyone I knew. ... People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me and all kinds of weird stuff happened."

Jefferson Hawkins, a former executive with the church, told Fox that he expects more defections.

"A lot of celebrities are starting to wake up. ... You don't see the big celebrities promoting it anymore. Even Tom has been pretty quiet on the subject over the last few years."


Poster Comment:

Censorship makes baby Xenu cry!!!

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#1. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

Censorship makes baby Xenu cry!!!

LOL!

How any rational human being can accept and believe that story is beyond me. Must be something they slip in their drinks while they're being "audited".


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2012-07-06   15:20:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: FormerLurker (#1)

Humans have a tremendous need for affiliation, and in the Western world today our lives easliy slip into atomized patterns that divide us from families and other groups to which we would naturally come to adhere. We have need for creed and an interior life that is sustaining. Martinets like Hubbard manage to craft a product that fills the emptiness that many suffer from. That product is sold at a high price because its object is power accrued to the creator of these fantasies.

Hubbard's cult is really a form of spiritual, psychological and financial extortion. That is why some governments have banned this group from operating within its borders. It is no wonder that long-time adherents are walking from this horror show.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge  posted on  2012-07-06   15:42:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: PSUSA2 (#0) (Edited)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-06   15:43:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: randge (#2)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-06   15:44:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Eric Stratton (#4)

The fact that they stuck around that long doesn't say much for them.

They are damaged people such as our society produces in droves. Hubbard gave them a semblance of what was wanted for what ailed them. Many these followers are talented and intelligent people, but just blind enough, perhaps often willingly so, not to see the manipulative force behind this cult.

Such phenomena are one reason that heresy was so often pursued by the Church. It was well understood that unorthodox teachings often formed a substrate whereon cultic operations could take root to exploit the spiritually needy.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge  posted on  2012-07-06   15:57:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: PSUSA2, 4 (#0)

WaltonandJohnson.com were speculating that the split might be because of whatever happens to girls in an lds household whenever they become six years of age; and that Kate didn't want 'that' happening to her daughter.

I have ZERO knowledge of what 'that' might be.

Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson

Lod  posted on  2012-07-06   16:38:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: FormerLurker (#1)

How any rational human being can accept and believe that story is beyond me. Must be something they slip in their drinks while they're being "audited".

People are not rational. Sometimes I am not rational, but at least I admit it.

I've found that it's quite easy to get them to believe something. Look at xianity or any other religion and ask if that is any more believable? It's just as wacky as scientology. Someone comes up with a belief, and has some charisma to get others to look up to him, and converts come running in to be taught (ensnared). Then even more show up, since the previous converts can't possibly be mistaken, and on and on it goes.

The trick is to get rid of authoritarian beliefs and quit submitting to these assholes. It's doable. But not too many have the balls to do it.

I'd love to see scientology blow up. I'd rather see them free. And it rather looks like the head honchos are getting scared, from what I read in the article.

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Whenever there's resistance, examine your motivation. Whenever there's flow, consider taking action.

PSUSA2  posted on  2012-07-06   16:50:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Lod (#6)

I have ZERO knowledge of what 'that' might be.

yeah, they're trying to keep a lid on this.

Somehow I think the lid is going to blow.

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Whenever there's resistance, examine your motivation. Whenever there's flow, consider taking action.

PSUSA2  posted on  2012-07-06   16:52:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

Censorship makes baby Xenu cry!!!

You better watch it

The grand very real super evil pressence (formally known as xenu before chaning his name to Tom Cruise) is gonna get ya when you sleep with your AC on.


I support the occupation
Fuck it if it kills me. Liberty before death.

titorite  posted on  2012-07-06   18:05:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: randge (#5)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-06   20:04:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Eric Stratton (#10)

One man's brother is another man's heretic.

They're charming people actually. Christians. I get along with all of them.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge  posted on  2012-07-06   20:57:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: randge (#11)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-07   2:42:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Eric Stratton (#12)

who Christ really was at the core and what his gospel message actually is and what it embodied and what it did not include

Where do you find that knowledge?

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge  posted on  2012-07-07   10:52:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: randge (#13)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-07   13:57:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Eric Stratton (#14)

Kind of.

But not in an argumentative way.

I've been looking at all these sources and trying to see what is there - there.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge  posted on  2012-07-07   14:13:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: randge (#15)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-07-07   15:12:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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