A phone call and email earlier today to Tom Cruise’s agent and Scientology’s Newsroom, received no response – as expected. In view of Friday’s raid on Narconon of Georgia by insurance agents and police, Scientology has a ‘no comment’ for now policy.
The past year has been rough for anyone supporting Scientology’s drug rehab network -- what many call ‘an industry of death’. Until recently, Travolta and Cruise have been jubilant supporters, with Travolta stating on-camera in 2007 in Hawaii: “compared to other rehabs, we’re the best.”
Tom Cruise insists that Narconon is "the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world", adding "It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world -- period." Cruise ascribes criticism of Narconon to religious bigotry, saying "A minority wants to hate - okay. For me, it's connected with intolerance".
Cruise says that he "has personally helped hundreds of people get off drugs".
However, with the August 2012, and April 2013, NBC Rock Center Narconon expose of patient deaths inside the cult drug rehab centers, Cruise and Travolta have been silent. And with Narconon of Georgia being raided by insurance fraud agents and police this past week, nobody expects the ‘A-Team’ Hollywood icons to be promoting their cherished Narconon anytime soon.
The National Enquirer front cover headline slammed Travolta in late 2012 as: “Linked to 4 Scientology deaths” – one in Georgia and three at Scientology’s flagship, Narconon Arrowhead.
Radar Online picked up the story here: http://tinyurl.com/bsmmbqv
Through tears, the distraught mom told the Enquirer: “If I could talk directly to John Travolta, I would tell him the program he is supporting is responsible for killing my daughter!”
As far back as 1955, Hubbard has been recruiting Hollywood stars, and acknowledged the value bring famous people into his group when he inaugurated "Project Celebrity." According to Hubbard, “Scientologists should target prominent individuals as their "quarry" and bring them back like trophies for Scientology.”
“The roles that celebrities play in Scientology are dictated by a series of Scientology policies called the Opinion Leader Policies that were written by Hubbard. These policies state that you need to get your people into the power points in society, (points where you are the opinion leader or you control the opinion leader.) The Celebrity Center Program is nothing more than an extension of Hubbard's plan of world domination by taking over or controlling opinion leaders.”http://fishman.home.xs4all.nl/fable.htm
But once Scientology has these famous icons in their deceptive den, their secret confessions today will be used tomorrow if needed. “The celebrities get hooked into telling their "crimes" under the guise of obtaining emotional guilt relief. Great efforts are made to get the celebrities to confess all of their sins, all of their crimes, all of their sexual habits. Scientology then records and in some cases, videotapes these confessions.”
In 1983, Travolta told a magazine 1983 that he was opposed to the church's management, but High-level defectors claim that “Travolta has long feared that if he defected, details of his homosexual and bisexual life would be made public.”
"He (Travolta) felt pretty intimidated about this getting out and told me so," recalls William Franks, the church's former chairman of the board. "There were no outright threats made, but it was implicit. If you leave, they immediately start digging up everything." Franks was driven out in 1981 after attempting to reform the church.
The back-fire potential, and David Miscavige’s worst nightmare, is that of Cruise and Travolta waking up and getting wise to Scientology’s con. And with all the recent negative media attention, Hollywood may be on the verge of distancing itself from cult activity. Continued endorsement could hit them where it hurts most – at the Box-Office.
And Tom’s ‘hissy-fits’ over negative media reports hasn’t helped his reputation for being in control, or as Scientology teaches, being ‘at cause’ over his life. On the contrary, Cruise has been full of ‘charge’ and angry with magazines and other media reporting. Earlier this month, Cruise banned numerous reporters from his ‘Oblivion Red Carpet” premiere.
Only time will tell whether Tom and John will take control of their lives and see that they were living in Jack Nicholson’s movie ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’.
David Edgar Love
If you ever start feeling sorry for those poor Scientologists because everyone picks on them, just remember the time they had a journalist indicted on fake terrorism charges because she wrote a book that painted them in a bad light. If you think we're being unfair, well, let's run through the details.
Starting in 1969, journalist Paulette Cooper published a number of damning exposes on the church and its founder, sci-fi writer turned messiah L. Ron Hubbard, including a book called The Scandal of Scientology, which detailed the psychological methods used to keep the church's followers (and, more importantly, their money) in line. The church tried to sue Cooper to shut her up several times, but none of the lawsuits took off, mainly because they couldn't prove that she had just pulled her book out of her ass like they claimed.
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty"What? Isn't that the usual method of writing?" -L. Ron Hubbard
So, they moved to the next step: "Operation Freakout," an organized campaign to have Cooper "incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks" (that's a direct quote from a real church document). Besides writing her phone number on bathroom walls and sending anonymous smear letters to her family members and neighbors, the Scientologists actually infiltrated Cooper's life by having agents pose as friends -- one supposed friend reported that Cooper was close to suicide after all the harassment, adding, "Wouldn't that be great for Scientology?"
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty ImagesPresumably this quote was taken while the person saying it was twirling his mustache
and tying a litter of puppies to railroad tracks.
But the lowest moment came when church members mailed themselves bomb threats and told the police that Cooper had sent them. Cooper agreed to have her fingerprints taken by the cops, not too worried by the laughably transparent attempt to have her arrested ... only to find out that her prints were actually on the threatening letters, and that the stationery had come from her house (courtesy of the infiltrators). This resulted in some very real federal charges for conspiracy to commit terrorism, which turned Cooper's life into a living hell until the charges were finally dismissed two years later.
Documents seized in an FBI raid of a Scientology office in 1977 revealed all of this and more: The Scientologists had also planned to frame Cooper for threatening President Ford and Henry Kissinger. Oh, and according to a former member, at one point they even planned to murder her. At which point presumably somebody stood up and said, "Whoa, we'd better not do that or else we'll look like assholes."
Getty Images/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesWhich was probably the last time anyone uttered that sentiment.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_20415_the-5-creepiest-smear-campaigns-launched-by-powerful-groups.html#ixzz2Ro7ppFI7
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