Notice: Fredric Rice may have removed segments of the replies given to questions if they contained copyrighted materials. After a very short while, Scientology "experts" refused to answer questions and started cut-and-pasting copyrighted cult propaganda. Additionally I removed URLs in some of the replies, and left them in others. And it's also important to note that eventually the unfortunate "Greg Churilov" cultist was ejected from askme.com for his typical Scientological behavior.

Larrybergen asked this question on 5/3/2000:

TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

THE QUESTION BELOW IS PART OF A SERIES OF QUESTIONS AIMED AT DISCREDITING MY RELIGION. IT INTENDS TO PROMOTE THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT SCIENTOLOGY IS A SOME SORT OF COOKY UFO CULT.

[lies deleted]

TheTruth gave this response on 5/6/2000:

I do not see what message you are referring to, but I do know a bit about the scientology business, having dealth with it extensively ith the courts of the United States and Canada. In my opinion, which is echoed by scores of county Judges in the US, Scientology is easily one of the most destructive and evil cults harming people these days. LA Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. stated it was "The most evil, corrupt, and foul" of all the cults:

"It is of course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. 121669 should complain about invasion of privacy. The practice of culling supposedly confidential "P.C. folders or files" to obtain information for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant was no respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy. Plaintiff Mary Sue Hubbard's cause of action for conversion must fail for the same reason as plaintiff Church. The documents were all together in Omar Garrison's possession. There was no way the defendant could make any distinction."

Judge Latey [found] that Scientology practices were grossly harmful to children:

"What then is the Scientology factor and what weight should be attached to it? "Horrendous." "Sinister." "A lot of rotten apples in it." Those words are not mine. They are the father's own words describing practices of the Cult and what it does to people inside it and outside it. "A lot of villains in it." "Dreadful things have been done in the name of Scientology." Those words are not mine. They are the words of the father's counsel."

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"This has been a very lengthy judgement mainly because of many verbatim recitals of Scientology's own documents whose authenticity is not disputed. I have taken that course deliberately. The "Church" resorts to lies and deceit whenever it thinks it will profit it to do so. It will, I think find it less easy to gull and dupe others in the face of its own documents and, so far as its practices methods and objectives are concerned, there will be less scope to counter this decision about these children on any factual basis."

One should research Scientology before making any conclusions. These Judges did (and scores more!), and concluded it was "evil."

Further facts about this criminal empire may be found at Operation Clambake and FACTNet.

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