Anyone catch that show last night on CBS? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml Schizophrenic second generation Scientologist, quack Scientology "doctor," dead Scientology mother, big Scientology cover-up attempt. They tried to bury this incident like a cat buries its own waste. Didn't work. CBS tore Scientology a new corn chute! -- -- Spidergraham Chaplain, ARSCC "Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as Scientology." -ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"
I started watching it, then turned it off (tell me something about Scientology I don't already know). I had to applaud CBS for doing it. Wonder what the legal fallout will be for them?
Of course, over on alt.religion.scientology, there's a blizzard of 21 defenders of the faith, squalling about lies! Slander! Untruths meant to make Scientology look bad! However, all the court documents are readily available on perkinstragedy.org, plus some newspaper articles which used the docs as source. It's funny. Here the culties are crying that "CBS is trying to make Scientology look bad," while their own spokespeople interviewed on the program completely ignored the Perkins case, choosing instead to use the air time as a platform to rail against psychiatry. Don't think people didn't notice that. If anyone was making the cult look bad, it was the Scientologists who were interviewed. The backlash of culties desperately trying to confuse and muddle communication on that newsgroup is telling. A lot of new people came to find out more about it, and they're getting it in spades. They say psychiatry is eevil. So their solution to Perkins' increasingly disturbing behavior was to send him to Los Angeles to join Hubbard's toy Navy, the Sea Org. He lasted a year, then got too weird for even them. A Scientology "doctor" recommended that Jeremy be occupied with menial tasks, to keep his mind (what was left of it) off those voices in his head, and wear him out so he'd sleep at night. Psychiatry is evil. Yeah, right. But Jeremy's mother is dead, Jeremy will probably be incarcerated for the rest of his life, and Don Perkins is a widower, rattling around in an empty house, still a True Believer. Hail Xenu! -- -- Spidergraham Chaplain, ARSCC "Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as Scientology." -ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"
I'd take a loony-bin full of Scientologists ANY DAY over an advocate who thinks everybody within a thousand yards has to hear a motorcyclist coming and going. Motorcycle noise is offensive and arrogant noise pollution, and has nothing to do with insuring the "safety" of its driver, and even if it did (which it DOES NOT), it is not a defense to legitimize noise pollution. Motorcycle noise has nothing to do with "safety" and everything to do with "arrogance". Motorcycle noise IS pollution, IS needless, IS selfish, and is a lobby-inspired privilege that WILL BE vetoed one way or another. -BdN-
On the other hand, I'd ride my loud-as-a-loud-sewing-machine BMW over a loony bin full of Scientologists any day.
It all depends. I had one in-law whom I really wish I could have persuaded to start taking meds. OTOH, I also aided and abetted a friend's escape from a Cukoo's Nest type situation. (He escaped the hospital, got out of town, started a business, settled down, eventually got the charges thrown out, and seems to have lived reasonably happily ever after.) There's been a lot of strange stuff done in the name of treating the mentally ill, some of which I would definitely discourage people from consenting to. This guy probably should have been on meds, but there's nothing that guarantees a happy or even a different ending if you took Scientology out of the picture.
