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Write to Volunteer San Diego Scientology

This clearing house for volunteer opportunities includes the VMs in their list. http://www.volunteersandiego.org/AboutUs/index.php/index.html

Email them and explain why they shouldn't be listed. --
--barb
Chaplain,ARSCC
xenubarb@netscape.net

"Imagine a church so dangerous, you must sign a release form before you can receive its "spiritual assistance." This assistance might involve holding you against your will for an indefinite period, isolating you from friends and family, and denying you access to appropriate medical care. You will of course be billed for this treatment - assuming you survive it. If not, the release form absolves your caretakers of all responsibility for your suffering and death.

Welcome to the Church of Scientology."

--Dr. Dave Touretzky Peter Alexander

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:10:21 -0700
From: barb
Organization: ARSCC Intel Div
Subject: to Volunteer San Diego
Message-ID: <43380fd5$1@news2.lightlink.com>

Why are you listing Scientology as a volunteer opportunity? The Volunteer Minister program is a front group that focuses on recruitment of vulnerable people and collecting good PR for the Scientology organization.

They have been ejected from Beslan, Ground Zero, and other disaster sites. Despite the claims in their brochures, etc. they are not a charitable group. Their sole purpose is to gain access to vulnerable disaster survivors.

Please do some research on the web, outside of Scientology's own promotional pages. Scientology is considered a destructive cult in Europe, and you should not be directing people who want to help in their direction.

While the Red Cross was issuing statements to people to stay home and send donations, the Scientology organization was collecting money to print out millions of copies of their "The Way to Happiness" booklet. They were also shilling for funds to send a thousand Volunteer Ministers to New Orleans.

This should give you a clue. They aren't interested in helping out. They are interested in promoting the "Church" of Scientology. Handing out booklets when people need food is disgusting. The other thing they offer is "Touch Assists," magically useless massage, Scientology style.

This article exposes their activities in the post-9-11 environment at Ground Zero. The emails quoted are authentic posts from IHelp, the body which governs the Volunteer Minister PR machine.

http://xenu.net/archive/events/20010911-tragedy/

Do you really want to be associated with these people? -- --barb Chaplain,ARSCC xenubarb@netscape.net

Welcome to the Church of Scientology."

--Dr. Dave Touretzky Peter Alexander

From: (Fredric L. Rice DeRothschilde, Esq.)
Subject: VolunteerSanDiego.ORG
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:04:33 GMT
Organization: The Skeptic Tank
Message-ID: <11jk23pqkkbg353@corp.supernews.com>

I can't believe those people. They list the Scientology crooks as if they're volunteers for something. As if they's a charity organization or something. Unbelievable. Five minutes of searching on the Internet yields who and what these criminals are and the web master of VolnuteerSanDiego.ORG couldn't take just that much time and the minimal effort needed. Amazing.

I sent an angry email to them.

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:52:53 -0700
From: barb
Organization: ARSCC Intel Div
Subject: Re: SD volunteer clearinghouse, VMs
Message-ID: <433aae63$1@news2.lightlink.com>

Fredric L. Rice DeRothschilde, Esq. wrote:

> barb wrote:
>
>
>>I will be forwarding this information on to
>>the chair of one of those networks to help
>>me carefully review this listing.
>
>
> Translation: Barb, fuck off, would you please? We have no intention
> of removing these criminals from our web site. They paid theur money
> so they're entitled to be listed. Now run along and tilt at some
> other windmills.
>
> <heh> Bet you it's something like that. If they were serious about
> fixing the mistake, they would have done so and then reported the fact.
>
> ---
> http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.notserver.com/
> http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html
> http://www.rightard.org/ http://www.thedarkwind.org/
> Bush is a Christian. Get over it!
> "You don't have my permission to take my picture!" - Santa Claus

Yeah, well. Welcome to the next level...

> Dear Barbara, > > I am very appreciative of your input regarding this particular listing. At the time we made the decision to list them, it wasn't to promote their particular religious orientation, but to offer choices to people who are wanting the opportunity to affiliate with a group that has access to serve those impacted by Hurricane Katrina. We recognize that not every volunteer opportunity is for everyone, but that this particular one might match the interests of some.

The only people that the Volunteer Minister opportunity would interest would be Scientologists. By including them on your site, you give them the credibility they otherwise would not achieve through their actions. I am aware that the VMs nationwide are trying to participate in disaster networks and training. Regardless, that doesn't change their main purpose in establishing a presence at disaster sites.

> In addition, here locally, the Scientology group has membership status in a couple of disaster related networks. I will be forwarding this information on to the chair of one of those networks to help me carefully review this listing.

I get a feeling that you are not going to take this as seriously as you should. Should a non-Scientologist fall for their misleading promo material, they will be recruited. Moreover, they will be urged to participate in the Scientology detox program, the Purification Rundown. This program involves mega-doses of vitamins, which can cause permanent liver damage. The FDA can't touch it, despite concrete research as to the potential hazards of vitamin overdose, particularly niacin, because the Purif is presented as a "religious ritual." It thus has protection under law. However, the Purification Rundown, or "Purif," is sold under many labels. Scientology front groups, including the VMs, urge people to undergo this to detoxify themselves. It is sold to practicing Scientologists, and is also the main feature of their drug rehab program, Narconon. It is also promoted by the 'New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Program' in New York City. A recent review of the program by top California educators last year determined it to be dangerous junk science. As a result, Narconon's drug education program was expelled from public schools in California, Hawaii, and the city of Boston.

This website gives an excellent dissection of the purification rundown from an academic standpoint:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/safety.htm

Do me a favor. Call the Volunteer Minister hotline at 1-800-help4u You will almost certainly be directed to your local "church" of Scientology. Once they get you in the door, the sales pitch will begin. People have lost their life savings on Scientology.

I have met some of the local San Diego Volunteer Ministers. They talk a good talk, if you don't ask them hard questions about Scientology's motivations, and past encounters with authorities at disaster sites. These individuals truly think they're helping by giving touch assists and handing out booklets to people with no food, shelter or clean water. They aren't bad people, simply misguided.

You have to look at the history of the Volunteer Ministers (and the history of Scientology, for that matter) to get a true perspective. Articles below might illuminate this issue a bit better:

Beslan school massacre: http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/96/382/14461_beslan.html

Sri Lanka tsunami victims: http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=14696

Building fire in Chicago: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fside09.html

London bombing: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15766200&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=weird-science--name_page.html Packs of yellow-shirted believers arrived at the scenes of carnage, offering "spiritual healing" to distraught relatives - and Ł3 booklets titled How To Improve Conditions In Life. "

Do you get this? They were SELLING BOOKLETS!

From internal VM email: "...the Red Cross and other agencies do this sort of thing. What they can't do is salvage beings. What is needed now is to get the VM's there on the scene.. We have an incredible opportunity to salvage a huge number of beings right now. This is a disaster, yes, but also a chance to give hope to thousands of people. How often does such an event occur? These people are there, waiting for us to deliver assists, Study Tech, TWTH and a major HOPE factor. The situation is wide open and there are no stops on delivery. Getting VM's there is the only slow. WE NEED PLANE TICKETS..."

Does this sound like they want to help? Or does it sound like they want to recruit and are using disaster as an opportunity to prosyletize? We read the same thing after 9-11, where they were treating it like a huge business opportunity.

I cannot stress enough how wrong it is to list them in your directory. If you won't listen, perhaps the San Diego Reader might. Right now, you are giving them legitimacy that they do not deserve. I have reams of articles from all over the world exposing this movement.

> Thanks for taking the time to inform us. We are interested in promoting meaningful volunteer opportunities that meet "real" community needs.

While what you do is needed and important to our community, you need to be more vigilant in who you allow on your lists. I am presently accumulating notes for an expose on the Volunteer Ministers which will, I hope, reveal to the public the true face of Scientology and its cynical pretence at social betterment through phony, useless and dishonest outreach programs.

-- --barb Chaplain,ARSCC xenubarb@netscape.net

Welcome to the Church of Scientology."

--Dr. Dave Touretzky Peter Alexander

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