Hey, Freeman. Let me tell you a little story, about a man named Jairus C. Godeka. Jairus Godeka was a man with quite a lot of troubles. These troubles were what led him, one day in September of 1996, to go into a Church of Scientology, start a fire and start firing guns. No one was killed, but four people were shot and seriously injured.
Do you know who Scientology blamed for this? The haters. That's who they blamed. Their Media Relations Director named the incident in a public forum as an example of how, allegedly, "hate speech and extremist propaganda on the Internet [has] repeatedly driven unstable individuals to commit felonious acts against Church members and Church property." Kendrick Moxon, a top lawyer for Scientology, referred to the incident in court and made the same representation that "this person was inflamed by the same Internet allegations, allegedly."
Why am I mentioning this incident? Because Scientology over and over has tried to portray this as an incident caused by "haters", and they have never once mentioned the fact, which they knew, that Jairus Godelka was a Scientologist.
Yes, that's right -- every time there's a shooting, Scientology tries to claim "oh, it must have been because he was on psych drugs" even when they themselves admit they know nothing about the suspect or his history. Even if the shooter turns out to have been off so-called "psych drugs", as was the case with the Columbine shooters, Scientology blames it on the fact that they were at some point on them. And yet, when the shooter is known to have been "on" Scientology and he himself says "Scientology ruined my life", Scientology sweeps it under the rug and says "it must have been those haters and bullies who made him start shooting!" You say "The psychiatrist let Cho go and did nothing to alert the police about Cho."
Well, Freeman, the Scientologists let Godelka pay lots of money for courses and they pressured him to separate from his wife but they certainly didn't do anything to alert the police about Godelka before he went shooting, did they? If their "technology" is so much better than anything else, why did they let Jairus Godelka shoot four people in their own org? Why did they let Jeremy Perkins stab his mother to death? Why did they let Lisa McPherson die? Tell me when your "research" turns up the answers to that.
Hey, Freeman. Let me tell you a little story, about a man named Jairus C. Godeka. Jairus Godeka was a man with quite a lot of troubles. These troubles were what led him, one day in September of 1996, to go into a Church of Scientology, start a fire and start firing guns. No one was killed, but four people were shot and seriously injured.
Do you know who Scientology blamed for this? The haters. That's who they blamed. Their Media Relations Director named the incident in a public forum as an example of how, allegedly, "hate speech and extremist propaganda on the Internet [has] repeatedly driven unstable individuals to commit felonious acts against Church members and Church property." Kendrick Moxon, a top lawyer for Scientology, referred to the incident in court and made the same representation that "this person was inflamed by the same Internet allegations, allegedly."
Why am I mentioning this incident? Because Scientology over and over has tried to portray this as an incident caused by "haters", and they have never once mentioned the fact, which they knew, that Jairus Godelka was a Scientologist.
Yes, that's right -- every time there's a shooting, Scientology tries to claim "oh, it must have been because he was on psych drugs" even when they themselves admit they know nothing about the suspect or his history. Even if the shooter turns out to have been off so-called "psych drugs", as was the case with the Columbine shooters, Scientology blames it on the fact that they were at some point on them. And yet, when the shooter is known to have been "on" Scientology and he himself says "Scientology ruined my life", Scientology sweeps it under the rug and says "it must have been those haters and bullies who made him start shooting!" You say "The psychiatrist let Cho go and did nothing to alert the police about Cho."
Well, Freeman, the Scientologists let Godelka pay lots of money for courses and they pressured him to separate from his wife but they certainly didn't do anything to alert the police about Godelka before he went shooting, did they? If their "technology" is so much better than anything else, why did they let Jairus Godelka shoot four people in their own org? Why did they let Jeremy Perkins stab his mother to death? Why did they let Lisa McPherson die? Tell me when your "research" turns up the answers to that.