Subject: Fake CAN gets facelift. Deceit still visible.
Scientology's fake "Cult Awareness Network" has recently undergone a
facelift. However, the usual deceit is still very much in evidence.
Long relatively dormant, the site currently is a confusing jumble of old,
new, and rehashed content. The level of misinformation can be judged by
these kind of lies:
This old newsletter, also still online, further demonstrates CAN's
deceitful nature:
The newspaper Cleveland Plain Dealer recently ran an article which said
about the new CAN: "... the organization provides callers with
information about religious groups and refers callers to the group they
are inquiring about for further information or to people who are deemed
experts in that area...the new CAN's role is mediation, to get families
back together."
And a November United Press International wire story said the new CAN
is: "...a religious tolerance organization that gives people reliable
information and reconciles families through mediation. The vile and
hateful attitude is gone."
Throughout the site, CAN assures us it has a "different philosophy" than
the old CAN. However, it's banner cry of "tolerance" is belied by hateful
articles masquerading as press releases, as well as the same unbalanced
approach we have come to expect from the "new CAN."
Elsewhere (http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/edmonton.html) we are told:
However part of this duty is also to provide warnings about false
experts and groups that do not promote this ideal.
This CAN special report is about an anti-religious conference being
held in Edmonton, Alberta, the capital of the Canadian province of
Alberta. You will find actual documentation on this site of the bias
and motivation of the organizers who have advocated religious
kidnapping.
For details about the fake CAN, see:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c00.html#cannot
For information about the real CAN, see:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c00.html#realcan
For real information about Cults, Sects, and Alternative Religious
Movements, see:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c09.html
Anton
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From: ahein@xs2all.nl (Anton Hein)
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 06:42:37 GMT
The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) is the nation’s leading referral
service for reliable and qualified information on cults.
(Mission Statement - http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/statemnt/)
While CAN makes it look as if the Cleveland Plain Dealer and UPI laud the
"new CAN," in reality, they merely ran CAN press releases. The above
statements are direct quotes from those CAN press releases.
CAN since it was reconstituted has been extremely successful in this
regard, taking over 7,750 calls from people all over North America.
In other words, the "new CAN" is a waste space.
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