Comments on: Scientologists ‘Targeting’ Schoolchildren

By: Joann

Joann — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Very sad. It’s taken years and years and only now is Australia speaking out? How many had to fight behind the scenes before Xenophon said something — this is a great move and I hope it has impetus.

By: podblack

podblack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:29 +0000

OH YES, heh! I have already ‘tweeted’ to KRudd on Twitter, ‘got any evidence for how it’s being used / long term efficacy / application across institutions beyond the ONE example you praise?’

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:52:41 +0000

Of course the big elephant in the room is the school chaplaincy program that’s just been extended.

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:31:08 +0000

That sounds like it should’ve come from the Onion. If it’s real, satirists are in trouble.

By: Moochie

Moochie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:23:19 +0000

Frankly, the more I learn about this organization, the more I come to perceive it as a threat to any country where it has gained a foothold. It’s time governments took some responsibility and put this pernicious cult under deep scrutiny with a view to putting it out of business.

By: James

James — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:42:50 +0000

That’s not just subversive, that’s a bad joke. Scientology *promoting* human rights?! (I don’t mean that ‘Scientologists are bad people’, but the organisation has a poor reputation.)

Bestowing the title of A Human Rights Leader on L. Ron Hubbard is like suggesting that a shepherd, penning a flock of sheep, is liberating his flock; corralling them into a group, away from others.

… and then fleecing them.

(Is it just me, or does this whole ‘shepherd’ metaphor ring a bell?)

Congratulations to the Sydney journalist who spotted this.

As for LRH’s thoughts on the ills of breastfeeding, well, nursing was good enough for nature, and it’s worked for millennia, for not just the species ‘homo sapien’.