It is because of those men who fought for those beliefs that I have to ultimately support the German and French governments' actions toward regulating groups which callously and cynically disguise themselves as religions in order to operate dishonest and oppressive businesses, as the artificial 'Church" of Scientology knowingly does and knowlingly has from the beginning.

When a sideshow carny is allowed to avoid carrying his fair share of the tax burden by claiming his booth a church, the situation creates a dynamic which requires the exemption may necessarily end for all churches, real or unreal; so it is with Scientology (tm) Brand Artificially Religion Flavored Discredited Self-Help Product, Inc.

The real danger is that valid religions' freedoms are very seriously threatened when the charlatan Hubbard's cynical exploration of 'the religion angle' (as he called it) is allowed to cheapen and demean the concept of religion and religious freedom. Ultimately, I have no problem with anyone wishing to be a customer of the Scientology business, but I do object to society at large being forced to subsidize that business just because it became convenient to the charlatan Hubbard to claim his business somehow constituted a church.

Microsoft, Time Warner and Exxon each possess as many, if not more, charactaristics of a religion than the Scientology business, and each has a smaller body count.

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