Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: RE: COS - A Secret Society?
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dspearson@aladdin.co.uk (dspearson)

    Lies.

>Scientology cannot be called a secret society.
                                  
    Yes it can.  With great accuracy.

    If you are not on the inside, you will never know unless you
    listen to those who have been.

>Scientology churches are open - you can go in at any normal time.
                                     
    You can't go talk to the RPFers doing the workcamp 
    thought-reform program.  You can't go down in the sub-basement
    where the people are kept if they have a psychotic break or
    if they make a joke about the RPF.                    
    
    You cannot go into the compound at Hemet and see the people 
    forced to run around a tree for 12 hours a day, for months on
    end.  You cannot see the guarded dormatories from where Sea 
    Org staff would escape if they had any life outside the cult 
    left to return to.

>Scientology literature is freely available to anyone.
                      
    You putrid bucket of slime.  I posted some of your 
    "literature" and had my constitutional rights trampled by 
    you scum.
    
    It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to find out what 
    you fascists are trying to prevent being written on this 
    newgroup.

>There is no demand for the individual to withdraw from society;  
 
    If you want to pay your life savings to find out that you are
    possessed by Body Thetans and need exorcism sessions at 
    $350-$1000/hr.
               
    You need to go out and hustle for your next fix of delusion.

>on
>the contrary, Scientologists become more involved in life around them,
>as they want to take responsibility for improving conditions.
 
    Why can't Sea Org members have contact with their families?  
    Why can't they watch tv or read newspapers?  Why do they need
    guards to keep them from "blowing" in the middle of the 
    night?  Why can't they have children?  
    
    Go lie to people who haven't been there and don't know.
    
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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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