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[Golgath]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

The first time I've heard anything like this.  For those of you who can't be bothered to read this...  You're missing out on something that sounds like something out of a spy novel, rather then something actually done in real life.  I never really did get the whole scientology thing, but having a past like this probably hasn't done them any favors.

[HAMMERMILL]

Sounds more like LCS then DF.

[sonerohi]

Did you both only find out about it now? Scientology has always been crazy. They had a 'fair game' policy on people who badmouthed them. They've actually kidnapped a reporter before because she tricked them, got privy to some secrets, and was going to report them.

[G-Flex]

Don't forget the part where L. Ron Hubbard declared enemies of Scientology "fair game", and in exactly the sense it sounds like.

[Rilder]

Bloody cult. lets hope they don't get any power. 

(Poster was kidnapped and murdered for this post)

[G-Flex]

Upon reading more of the article: Holy shit. Now the entire organization seems even LESS sympathetic to me, and L. Ron's wife sounds like she was a complete harpy warlord, the female counterpart of L. Ron himself. Scary.

[Okenido]

Doesn't really help that the government themselves has done this, and is still doing it.

[Jude]

Scientology is mad creepy. Case closed.

[Vester]

I remember reading something about how the foundations of scientology were laid in a bar, while L. Ron Hubbard was drinking with some writer friends. And probably high on heroin.

[Zai]

o,0

I usually laugh at Scientology, but this is just...mortifying.

[sonerohi]

I remember reading something about how the foundations of scientology were laid in a bar, while L. Ron Hubbard was drinking with some writer friends. And probably high on heroin.

The way I heard it, Hubbard convinced some drunkards that his Sci-Fi books were real.

[Vester]

I remember reading something about how the foundations of scientology were laid in a bar, while L. Ron Hubbard was drinking with some writer friends. And probably high on heroin.

The way I heard it, Hubbard convinced some drunkards that his Sci-Fi books were real.

No, Xenu the god-king is real! [/sarcasm]

France had the right idea when they declared Scientology a cult.

[Jude]

I remember reading something about how the foundations of scientology were laid in a bar, while L. Ron Hubbard was drinking with some writer friends. And probably high on heroin.

The way I heard it, Hubbard convinced some drunkards that his Sci-Fi books were real.

Basically.

France had the right idea when they declared Scientology a cult.

Do cults get different legal treatment than any other religion? I can only imagine they do. As creepy and bad as scientology is, the government having the authority to declare one religion legitimate and another illegitimate is far, far worse and scarier.

[Vester]

France had the right idea when they declared Scientology a cult.

Do cults get different legal treatment than any other religion? I can only imagine they do. As creepy and bad as scientology is, the government having the authority to declare one religion legitimate and another illegitimate is far, far worse and scarier.

Here
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901373,00.html

Wasn't because they were a cult, but because they were a dangerous cult whose intent is to exploit its followers.

[G-Flex]

To be fair, exploiting the followers is pretty much part of the definition of a "cult".