Dave Touretzky wrote:

> I think it's pretty clear who won the ARS Birthday Game this year:
> South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have not only
> brilliantly skewered Scientology, they got the cult to turn their
> cartoon into national news, generating astronimical amounts of free
> publicity for Xenu in the process.
>
> My own meager efforts, revolving around the PerkinsTragedy.org ad
> saying "Thanks, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology, for your
> expert advice on mental health", pale in comparison to what Parker and
> Stone have accomplished.
>
> They are demigods in the pantheon of entheta.
>
> We can only hope that future South Park episodes will contain
> additional derogatory references to L. Ron Hubbard's "fruity little club".
>
> And that poor Isaac Hayes eventually gets his brains unscrambled.
>
> -- Dave Touretzky: "Or maybe they'll take on Kirstie Alley."
> http://www.PerkinsTragedy.org

The efforts of the unorganized individuals critical of $cientology has come to this point of massive exposure of the kult brick by brick over many years through many diverse individual efforts. Many of these individuals have become martyrs to $cientology's "fair game" religious (sic) doctrine as a result of seemingly innocuous activities. That today the kult might be in its last vestiges of existence is a result of hundreds if not thousands of individual actions that have exposed many to the evil retributions of the kult.

South Park would not have had the desire or ability to engage in their own exposure of $cientology had not the many individual critics added their contributions, picking away for years at the wall of secrecy that the kult erected to prevent even the smallest disclosure of its abuses.

Some of the smallest critical contributions have garnered the largest results, even though those contributions might not have seemed important at the time. As Keith Henson has demonstrated, even innocuous humor will be used by the scandalously evil $cientology management to lash its critics. Those who have been subjected to the kult's evil are the real heroes.

While there is public acknowledgment that $cientology is bizarre and based on religious (sic) canons that might have come from a 1950s comic book, there is much to be done to bring government into the critical cause. The 1993 US IRS decision to grant the kult 501(3)(c) non-profit status is the foundation on which the kult will be able to survive as a worldwide entity. This should be the next target of the critical movement, and the only way such targeting will be effective is to generate a groundswell of publicity that reveals what the US government's support of the kult means in perpetuating the evil that is $cientology that the government has yet to acknowledge.

Q

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