Briefly
A Paris court ordered the head of France's Church of Scientology to pay
$19,400 in damages Friday after the group published articles comparing the
practices of an anti-sect group to those "practiced under the [Nazi] Third
Reich." Daniele Gounord, president of the church, was found guilty of
defamation and ordered to pay damages and court costs to the National
Union of Associations for the Defense of the Family and the Individual.
Belfast's prestigious Queen's University has decided to stop teaching the
classics after 160 years, a measure that will mean the departure of 60
instructors. A university executive said the decision "is based on the
dwindling number of students, and the strength of the department in terms
of teaching and research." He said the university, instead, will invest
nearly $39 million in areas such as medicine, Irish studies, management,
economics and computer science.
Washington Times
June 23, 2002
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20020623-87514685.htm
[Note: The
Scientology®
organization has at best estimate approximately
45,000 to 50,000 followers world wide -- contrary to the 8 million figure
that the organization has been claiming for the past few years or so.
While that number continues to drop (thanks in part to the Internet) few
of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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