Scientology cult fined for fraud in France

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It's been on and on and on for many many years.
It's not the first time that happens.

They always find a way, always, in each and every trial they've been on. in. well, I don't know how to say it.
But they always find a way to escape.

You wouldn't believe what happened sometimes!

It either is or is among the top financial cults. No matter what happens, they can get money when/however they choose. Short of governments issuing a war on cults, i doubt we'll be rid of this group, and many others, for a long long long long long . . . time.

When a group has a global reputation as a cult and a proven history of fraud and extortion, one wonders what kind of gullible dupe a person would have to be to get involved with them at all. Yet people still do.

I read Dianetics once just to see what all the brouhaha was about. L Ron Hubbard was a moron. His wild postulations made absolutely no coherent sense - the very definition of 'irrational' - and I normally love a good wild tangent theory.

It always disappoints me to see a celebrity whom I otherwise respect admit to being a Scientologist. It forces me to reassess my estimation of their IQ considerably.

I really dislike Scientology. I was at a new age/spirituality faire and they were there. They didn't say they were Scientologists on their sign but they said it to people. I would hazard a guess that some of their victums come from places like that.

I have an interest in new age stuff and I know that there was a stage where I was very gulible when I became interested in this kind of thing. I don't think I'm unique in being gulible at that time. I read articles about former members, nasty stuff happened to them (emotional and legal nastyness).

Though, they (current members) probably say all the stuff that their lawyers said in the article, and sound genuine because some of them really believe what they say, and get members that way.

Sorry if I was ranting there, I really don't like cults, and what they do to people, and the con jobs that they do.

I'll just clarify something here - "purification courses" means "Purification rundown". See, to them, Psychiatry is the successor to Nazism. That's why they will not allow any time of medication for mental ailments, but instead replace the whole thing with what is basically a case of vitamin overdosing. They use this at their phony drug rehabilitation centers, known as "Narconon", too. Here's the thing: Hubbard "discovered" that drugs attach to body fat, so the solution to drug addicts is to put them in a sauna 4 hours a day to "sweat" out the drugs, along with overdosing on vitamins on the side, and doing Scientology on the side. Going through withdrawals in a sauna must be nice...

I heard someone say that when you hand your information over to them when you join it goes into a big database. And that if you decide to leave they use the information they got on you when you joined against you.

How do they keep escaping?

One of the ways can be blackmail.
You only need names and addresses for this one.
And if you have more informations, it's even easier.

Combined with harrassement and threats on someone who's had already been weakened by all possible means for months and years and maybe decades, one can imagine how difficult it is to cut with them.

They're smart, don't underestimate them.

I was thinking of it since the beginning and yet, I've never been involved with them.

Did anyone see that episode of South Park called Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet?

I hope Anonymous and their bunch can find enough info to put them out of business forever.

And a fervent wish: that Travolta will man up and disavow them over the trouble with his kid who died. Personally Cruise would be a bigger headline but he's also a bigger fool so that ain't gonna happen.