From: jdrake
Subject: FAQ: Scientology's CCHR tries to abolish psychotherapy
Date: 1999/01/28

Scientology wants to abolish Psychology, Psychiatry, and especially psychiatric drugs.

I know it's hard to believe. Yet Scientology masquerades as the "Citizen's Commission on Human Rights" (CCHR) for just that purpose. CCHR tells the public that it is a group "founded by Scientologists" that "researches psychiatric abuse."

That's putting it mildly! All of its officers are high-ranking Scientologists. All of its funding comes from Scientologists. And Scientology documents about CCHR say it is "working to eradicate Psychiatry from the planet"!

Really?

Are these "religious" wingnuts REALLY trying to take psychiatric therapy away from the millions and millions of people that it helps every year?

According to their web pages, Psychiatry is "HARMING LIVES" (their caps), "Betraying & drugging children", "Destroying minds", "Manipulating creativity", and so on.

Check out the webpages. They're amazing. <http://www.cchr.org>

If you want, CCHR will send you, at their expense, copies of their glossy, heavyweight, profusely color-illustrated brochures, going into great detail about these allegations. Send for them, if you want to be convinced.

Scientology wants to take treatment away from people who are helped by it, and even people who actively request it and pay for it themselves. They spend millions of dollars every year trying to do so.

Why?

But why would Scientology be so bent out of shape about a helpful medical therapy that benefits so many people?

Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard in his book, "What Is Scientology" says, "As the stepchild of Bismarck, Hitler, and the Nazis, psychiatry and psychology formed the philosophical basis for the wholesale slaughter of human beings in World War I and II." Hubbard decided that these doctors were part of a vast global conspiracy.

Scientologists think Hubbard was infallible, so they do as he says. Indeed, much of Scientology training is learning to believe, without question, every word that Hubbard said. Hubbard told them that this was the only way to save the human race.

(Strangely enough, Hubbard also said that humans are really space-alien souls in "meat bodies," and that other, damaged, space-alien souls clinging to our bodies are the cause of all our physical and psychological ailments. Very advanced Scientologists spend hundreds of thousands of dollars removing these damaged space alien souls, in hopes of superhuman "OT Powers," such as the ability to have total control over Matter, Energy, Space, and Time.)

So why do Scientologists attack psychiatric therapy? Perhaps it's because therapy "competes with" Scientology. Perhaps it's because the founder of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard, was denied psychiatric therapy at the close of his military career.

But in any case, it's clear that Scientology is attacking.

How?

How are Scientologists attacking psychology?

Scientology formed a "front group," called CCHR, for this purpose. It's a tax- exempt organization that furnishes so-called "public service announcements" to media outlets, urging people who have been "victims of psychological mistreatment and abuse" to contact them. (Of course, in newspaper ads and radio spots, they forget to mention the part about the Nazis and the space aliens, and about taking treatment away from those that need it.)

Critics of Scientology are perfectly happy to allow Scientologists the same freedom of religion that Chrisitian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses enjoy -- that is, the freedom to reject medical treatment based on their religious beliefs.

HOWEVER, it's crucial that Scientologists not be allowed to take valuable therapeutic treatments away from the people who need them. (Scientology would even like to take these treatments away from people who pay for them, themselves.)

Science has proven that many people with psychological problems can be treated with simple medicines. For instance, much in the same way that some people take drugs to control high blood pressure, other people can take drugs to control schizophrenia, paranoia, hallucinations, and severe mood swings.

Scientology, as an official policy, doesn't attempt to treat people with these kinds of psychological problems. It is shameful and terrible that it would prevent medical science from treating the very people that it claims it will not. (Privately, Hubbard said Scientology would rather "quietly dispose" of "damaged" people like this.)

You can help.

It's not even hard. You don't have to march in a picket, sue anyone, or take any risks. All you have to do is find out the truth, and tell people.

If you hear a CCHR "public service announcement" on the radio, call the deejay and tell them what you've found out. If you see an ad in a newspaper, write the paper and tell them (you can write, "Not for Publication" on the letter, of course). Tell your friends, family, and colleagues. If you're really ambitious, tell your government. You can even repost this article.

Tell them that CCHR is Scientology in disguise, and that they have a stated, written goal of "eliminating Psychology and Psychotherapy from the planet."

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$cientology reinforces it's views as recruits and members are asked to sign a contract that disallows them from seeking mental health help, (excepting $cientology of course!)

see: www.LisaClause.Org

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