Germans Take the South Park Line While the British Government Takes the Money
Thursday, 18th January, 2007
In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (as depicted above in South Park) is an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of aliens to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.
South Park viewers probably have got the message that Scientology was founded on the belief that evil aliens had been planting irrational thoughts into our heads. The brilliant episode "In The Closet" is worth hunting down on one of those file sharing sites to giggle along as Kyle is brainwashed into becoming a Scientologist and made to believe he is the reincarnated spirit of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.The only criticism, perhaps, is that, while fun is poked at the sexual orientation of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, by having them "hide in a closet", the true stupidity of the religion Jamie Packer flirts with is under exposed.
The South Park script writers could not, for example, go into detail about Ron Hubbard’s view that "there are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
In Germany it is perhaps understandable that the politicians worry about a group that flirts with supporting genocide. As the controversial church opened a six-story center in Berlin this month, Spiegel Online reported that "politicians are calling for the organization to be placed under closer surveillance." The news magazine reported that the Church of Scientology is a controversial organization in Germany, and is regarded as dangerous by the federal government. It is one of the organizations currently being monitored by Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country's domestic intelligence agency, which also keeps an eye on neo-Nazis, left-wing extremists and Islamist terrorists. "There is substantial evidence that the Scientology Organization is involved in activities directed against the free democratic order," Spiegel quotes the Office for the Protection of the Constitution warning in its most recent annual report.
Australian politicians have been relatively silent on the subject since the High Court confirmed Scientology’s status as a church and the passage in 1982 by the Victorian Parliament of the Psychological Practices (Scientology) Bill which repealed legislation passed in 1965 which had prohibited the use of an galvanometer E meter or similar instrument except by a registered psychologist or with the consent of the Victorian Psychological Council and prohibited the teaching, practice or application of Scientology for fee or reward.
In Britain the politicians are even more relaxed. Both the Labour and the Conservative parties took payments of thousands of pounds to enable the charity Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), which is affiliated with the Scientology Church, to have stalls at their last party conferences. Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said: "Scientology is a dubious cult at best and it's worrying that it seems to have infiltrated both Labour and the Tories in this way. It only goes to show that some politicians are prepared to take money from anyone. Given Scientology's record of spin it is no surprise that they have links to this Labour Government."
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