In the past week following the WTC tragedy, we have heard amazing stories
of heroism and acts of selfless courage and generousity. Sadly, it has
become necessary to warn people of the small number of hucksters, jackals,
and scam artists attempting to profit from this terrible event. Recently,
one such scam came to light, perpetrated by the Church of
Scientology.®
By presenting themselves as "National Mental Health Assistance,"
they managed to deceive Fox News into running their
telephone number across the screen on their broadcasts for five hours.
People calling for help unknowingly wound up speaking to representatives
for Scientology, a group well-known for opposing the real mental health
industry.
Intercepted emails from Scientologists in New York
City are revealing, it shows that this group is intentionally using
deceit to gain access to the vulnerable people still suffering from shock
and grief. Moreover, it has deliberately interfered with legitimate mental
health practitioners sent there to assist. Below are a few excerpts from
these emails, sent out to Scientologists to promote this parasitic behavior
by "Lt." Simon Hare, CO, I HELP Canada (in NY). (Note: the
"Lieutenant" Sea Org, not to be confused with actual military
rank)
For the last two days I have been in New York Org running, with several
other Sea Org members, the deployment of Volunteer Ministers into the
disaster zone."
The "Sea Org" is the Scientology organization's pretend Navy,
and consists of their most dedicated members. These people sign a billion
year contract when joining up. Volunteer Ministers have undergone an
hour's training in Scientology style disaster training, mostly a technique
known as a "touch assist," which is supposed to make one feel
better. This was dreamed up by founder L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction
writer and college dropout, a man who's "Doctorate" degree was
purched from a diploma mill.
After describing the scene, the Scientologist reporting goes on to say,
Scientology's greatest perceived enemy on Earth is "the psychs."
This term refers to formally trained mental health professionals, from
counsellors to psychiatrists. Here they are blatantly admitting to
interfering with rescue assistance efforts from that field.
Here we see that distributing food and water is not their main goal in
being on-scene, rather, it is access to the victims they are after. By
keeping trained mental health professionals away from the scene, they
have full access.
The Scientologist goes on to say,
The fire-fighter company down the street from the org lost 14 members on
Tuesday. No one can do anything for them or the rest but Scientologists.
The other religions here with their ministers have shown their true colors
and are working hand in hand with the psychs to give these people as much
false data and restimulation as they can.
They HAVE NO TECH and they're not even trying to hide it anymore. They've
crossed over and abandoned anything spiritual and to hell with them."
Yes, only Scientologists with L. Ron Hubbard's program can do any good
right now. Other ministers don't have Ron's wonderful "tech"
and are working with real mental health professionals, threatening
Scientology's access to potential victims. They are competition. To
hell with them, indeed!
In a later report, this Scientologist
describes gaining access to the disaster area. The "Volunteer
Minister" found out that their previous secret E-Mail had been
leaked to Human Rights activists, incidentally.
Here we have untrained individuals putting themselves and rescuers in
danger by their presence. Once inside, they would not leave.
What this means is, they staked out a spot next to real medical personnel
and began "body routing" victims in to deliver Hubbard's
spurious "touch assists." By positioning themselves next to
legitimate services, they hope no one will notice that they are merely
untrained cultists seeking good PR and potential members.
The Scientologist then goes on to boast about how appreciated and useful
they are, how they are one of the few groups allowed through the
barricades (having sneaked in to begin with) and what wonderful things
the Scientologists are doing to further their own agenda.
After Fox News was made aware that they were referring people to
Scientology they removed the crawling banner from their broadcasts.
Scientology was able to fool them by promoting themselves as
"National Mental Health Assistance," very typical of them
to form a front group with a similar sounding name to a legitimate
organization. The National Mental Health Association was not amused.
This is also done with their
Narconon front group, which is
often confused with Narcanon.
Copies of the Scientology emails were circulated to the media, resulting
in several articles in newspapers and online news sources today. When
indications that this was happening was noticed by Scientology on the
alt.religion.scientology newsgroup, a site mostly critical of Scientology
and its abuses, a further email was sent by
the Scientologist pleading for silence.
As part of a briefing given to a group going to ground zero this evening
(some folks from LA), we were informed not to give out any information
about what is going on down there via the internet.
However, we are allowed to call people to share the good news, or news
in general.
This restriction was communicated as being necessary in that the internet
can be infiltrated, and possibly this information could be gotten into
the wrong hands, altered, etc.
Therefore I am afraid that I can not give you all the kinds of detailed
messages as I have been in the past, and I am sorry for that."
This information did indeed get into the "wrong hands," the
hands of people who know the true nature of Scientology and are not
afraid to expose them for the fraudulent criminal organization that
they are. People who speak out against Scientology have been harrassed,
intimidated, and stalked. They have sometimes lost their jobs thanks to
Scientology interference. Their pets have been killed. Before the
Internet was widespread, Scientology was very successful at suppressing
its critics. Today, news of every move the cult makes is quickly
spotted and distributed around the world.
The really awful thing about Scientology using this tragedy, is that they
are targeting people who have survived a horrible experience. Unlike
looting the dead, they are preying upon the vulnerable survivors, people
who are seeking help to try to recover from the shock and regain their
lives to some extent. The stories that come out of people who finally
manage to leave the cult are terrible in their similarity. Years of
coercive mental conditioning. Thousands of dollars wasted in pursuit
of a fabrication developed by a drug addicted megalomaniac. Years wasted,
families torn apart, souls and minds shattered by the relentless
totalitarian control of this evil, greedy cult pretending to be a church.
To compound the survivors' suffering by snatching them off the streets
for Scientology processing in New York City should be a crime. People
have been warned to beware of scam artists using this tragedy to their
benefit. Mayor Giuliani has warned that such hucksters will be
prosecuted. Scientology and individual Scientologists should be first
in line. That they have inserted themselves into this disaster with
such a large-scale operation, including deceiving a major network into
unwittingly promoting them, establishing a fraudulent "mental health
assistance" front, andd interfering with real rescue and assistance
operations should not be overlooked when it's time to prosecute those who
tried to take advantage of a terrible, tragic event.
The Scientology Organization has seized upon this tragedy in order to
profit by it. New information reveals that Scientology is urging every
single member to become a Volunteer Minister! Participants of this
program will be given websites and little cards saying, "You have
been helped by a Scientology Volunteer Minister." What kind of
church advertises it's charitable acts? Moreover, the Volunteer Minister
participants will be expected to post advertisements in newspapers saying
something along the line of, "Troubled? Need Help? I'm willing to
listen!" with a phone number for that individual.
This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to profit from the fear and
uncertainty caused by the Sept. 11 tragedy.
People need to be made aware that this is a particularly repellant act
by the "Church" of Scientology to harvest more victims for it's
fraudulent scams!
"Dear All,
"Additionally we are trying to move in and knock the psychs out of
counseling to the grieving families and that could take another 100
plus people right now. Due to some brilliant maneuvering by some
simply genius Sea Org Members we tied up the majority of the psychs
who were attempting to get to families yesterday in Q&A, bullbait and
wrangling. They have a hard time completing cycles of action and are
pretty easy to disperse. But today they are out in full force and
circling like vultures over these people and all of our resources are
tied up in the support efforts in the disaster zone at present."
"There is nowhere on Earth right now that hurts like this place.
These are brave people and they are the able and they don't know it but
they need the Scientologists with LRH's tech to be here right now.
"There was a very large barricade there manned by both Police
and Military and they absolutely refused to let us though. The SO
member in charge of the VM's "snuck" about 5 of us in another
way and on the way we gave out cold drinks to tired rescue workers."
"Anyway, we of course jumped right in and helped by giving out
food, drinks, unpacking etc... Soon thereafter we set-up an area for
assists right there next to the medical area - outside. We put out 3
cots and we started body routing people in for nerve assists."
"This is just going to be a quick communication to the group!
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