Napa Valley Register: Letter to the Editor Covers Scientology Fake Front
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A different view on Napa State lawsuits
Dear editor,
I am writing this in response to the front page article by Chris
Tribbey titled "Napa State accused of abusing patients,"
published on Sunday, Dec. 14.
A responsible city editor would have done his homework before writing
such an unprofessional article. Laughably, he refers to the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights as a Los Angeles-based group that
independently investigates psychiatric abuse.
Mr. Tribbey should have made mention of the well-known fact that CCHR
is a front organization for the highly controversial Church of
Scientology dedicated to disseminating misinformation and filing
unreasonable lawsuits.
Unfortunately, most readers will not have taken the time to go to the
link cited at the end of the article to read what these militant
malcontents really do.
Just to give you an idea of their beliefs, the Scientologists see
mental health professionals as evil aliens from the fifth galactic
invader force. The truth is that CCHR and Scientologists have made
psychiatry and psychology targets for their wild accusations because
they are trying to make sure they don't lose the grip on the members
of their cult.
These people support their own special brand of brainwashing. As Carl
Sagan noted in his book "Demon Haunted World," L. Ron Hubbard
(founder of Scientology) "managed to create a written process that
was capable of driving people insane. And followers pay large amounts
of money for subjecting themselves to these mind-altering processes."
CCHR is hardly a credible source for information about mental health
advocacy.
Napa State is a vital part of our community. We should be supporting
the dedicated professionals who give expert care to the patients
there. A web site called apologeticsindex.org states that press
releases about CCHR are "puff pieces used as filler for mainly
small-town newspapers." I guess that accurately describes the Napa
Register's front page pseudo-news article.
M. Boudreau
http://members.cox.net/batchild1
Sunday, December 28, 2003
As one critic of the groups says, "It is absolutely remarkable that
an organization which stands accused of so many human rights violations
itself should spawn a pressure group with this name."
Napa
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