http://www.washtimes.com/world/20010915-2441220.htm
The Washington Times, World Scene - 15 Sept 2001 - Combined dispatches
Spain seeks dissolution of Scientology sect:
MADRID -- Spanish prosecutors called yesterday for the dissolution of
the Church of Scientology and heavy prison sentences for 13 followers of
the movement on trial on charges ranging from illegal detention to tax
fraud.
A Madrid district court heard accusations that the Church of Scientology
as a sect was driven by the lure of money and an obsession with getting
rich, and the movement had psychologically damaged some of its
followers.
The case started in 1988 when police raided a Madrid hotel where the
movement was holding a congress, arresting 37 members, but the trial has
been postponed five times since that date.
[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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