Political?

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

FredricRice asked this question on 7/28/2000:

I've asked a number of Scientology experts a number of questions and curiously I've received only two unusual answers, both of which mentioned _politics_ when discussing criminal activities which are going to trial here shortly.

For ex-Scientologists who have escaped from the cult, can you tell me whether Scientologists are told to equate criminal activities with politics? Are the criminal activities of the GO/OSA considered _political_ activities inside of the organization?

Though I erased the previous answer which considered the indictments against Heber Jentzsch in Madrid to be a political matter, I did manage to save the second one. I'll offer it here for background in the hopes that someone can point to a particular HCPL or something which equates criminal activities as political activities.

Current Scientologists might also be able to tell me whether management is now claiming that Scientology is a political party. The answers I've received seem to indicate that possibility.

Thanks!

cer56 declined to answer on 7/28/2000, saying:

This is obviously a political attack for a political agenda. I'm not interestested in playing politics. I'm interested in what works and helps people - based upon my personal nowledge and experience.

Do you do anything that has a postive nature that doesn't attack someone or some other group?

honorarykid gave this response on 8/1/2000:

It appears to me that Scientologists are indoctrinated to believe that somehow they are not behaving in the political sphere at all, that they are somehow transcending. Generally speaking, they seem to believe that behaving and acting on a political level is beneath them, or at least, that Scientology law is superior to wog law.

From my observations, it seems they think non-Scientologists routinely have hidden, secret, or even conspiratorial agendas. While at the same time, Scientologists seem totally oblivious to the obvious political agendas and world domination aspirations built into their scriptures. They seem to blot that truth out with a ludicrous belief in their own purity of heart, the Divine Right that comes from believing they are the only ones succeeding at bettering themselves spiritually.

IMO, such belief are a bunch of elitist claptrap, really serving as a marketing tool, to make Scientology more appealling to the insecurities and sense of powerlessness of t1he recruits and members...

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