> Posted by the late JimDBB
> Date: 1998/04/17
> The following letter was recently sent to American CCHR-supporters:
> CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL
> Established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and
> expose psychiatric violations of human rights
> YOUR 'MOMENT OF TRUTH'
> Dear friend of CCHR,
> I know you would like to do everything possible to back up
> management's ongoing efforts to clear this planet. A key vector in this
> strategy is, of course, removing planetary suppression. In a word, that
> means getting rid of destructive psychiatric programs,
> treatments and philosophies.
> At CCHR International we have a number of plans and projects
> coordinated to do just that. One of these is to see that the psychs are
> "...deprived of their unearned millions in appropriations..." (see "The
> Fight for Freedom" in the recent Ron Mag, Freedom Fighter). A
> terrific opportunity has just arisen that will help us do just that.
> There is an organization called the National Organization of Women
> Legislators (NOWL), and as the name implies, this group is made up of
> top woman legislators from local, state and the Federal Government.
> Senators, governors, congresswomen and others are members of this group.
> They meet periodically and hear from speakers that they consider have
> issues of importance for their group. Their last conference drew 800
> attendees. Their President recently called CCHR and asked if I would
> address their next meeting. Needless to say, I accepted.
> This is a magnificent opportunity for CCHR to get its message delivered
> directly to some of the top policy makers in this country.
> As with all such projects, energy is needed to make this fly. I want
> CCHR to become a member of this group so we can get our message out to
> this very important public on an ongoing basis about what psychiatry is
> doing to our schools, our courts and our civilization as a whole.
> The meeting that I have been asked to address is in Washington, D.C.
> on February 4th. We need $l0.000 to become members of this group and to
> cover travel and lodging expenses associated with the conference.
> Ideally, I could bring others to help enlighten the numerous opinion
> leaders that will be at this conference. I will only be able to do this
> with your help.
> Two years ago we started a similar project with the American Legislative
> Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a national organization made up of
> legislators from every state as well as some federal legislators who
> meet and draft "model Legislation" for every state. The bean return for
> that has been enormous! CCHR has worked its way up the conditions at
> ALEC and recently got an article published by ALEC in opposition to
> mandated mental health parity which went to key state legislators who
> deal with health issues in their respective states. In addition, the
> ALEC membership has opened the door to meeting numerous legislators and
> other opinion leaders from around the country and enlightening them on
> psychiatric fraud and patient abuse.
> These kinds of comm lines are invaluable and having the opportunity
> to expand them to the members of the National Organization of Women
> Legislators is one we really do not want to pass up. Our target for the
> year 2000 is coming fast. We need these comm lines badly, and I'm
> asking you to help us with your financial support. We urgently need
> your tax-deductible donation in the amount of $500 or above! For every
> person who contributes $1000 or more, a personal commendation will be
> written from myself to your ethics files.
> This is your 'moment of truth'. Come the year 2000, I would like to
> be able to say that vou helped CCHR carry out LRH's intentions as above.
> We need this now! Joining this organization and attending this upcoming
> conference will open numerous doors for CCHR to cut psychiatric funding
> in the coming years.
> Please call Carrie Alkins at CCHR Int at (800) 869-2247 or fax your
> check or credit card number to her at (213) 467-3720. DO THIS TODAY!
> Best
> Bruce Wiseman
> President, National Office
> (c) 1998 CCHR. All Rights Reserved.
> CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CCHR and its logo are trademarks
> and service marks owned by the Citizens Commssion on Human Rights.
> Grateful acknowledgment is made to the L. Ron Hubbard Library
> for permission to use a selection from the copyrighted works of L.
> Ron Hubbard.
> xxxx
> Please note the date of this post. l998. Since that time Mr. Wiseman has
> made
> great gains in our government. He is now the Treasurer of the National
> Foundation Women Legislators. Further find is the Lawyer for the NFWL is
> none
> other than
> Scientologist Tim Bowles.
> Please Note tho this is old news ALEC remains an influential group in
> Government. If any thing this group has become much stronger in the past
> years. One should ask is Wiseman now a part of the Council on National
> Policy as well as the NFWL?)
> The Weyrich-Scientology Connection
> But wait--it gets even stranger! There are reports that the Church of
> Scientology is involved with Paul Weyrich and the Council on National
> Policy.
> (CCHR) is a Scientology front which, in 1995, proposed that parents sign a
> pledge to eliminate psychology in the public schools. [So that they might
> substitute L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics!] The CCHR Pledge was heavily
> promoted by
> CNP organizations such as the Family Research Council, Eagle Forum,
> Concerned
> Women, etc. and Carolyn Steinke, who serves on the board of Scientology
> front
> Citizens Commission for Human Rights (CCHR). Clay Bock, a Scientologist of
> 20
> years and education reform leader sponsored a conference which featured
> Carol
> Steinke as keynote speaker. The Orange County Register states that Steinke
> received a 1995 Award from the Scientology-supported CCHR.
> Citizens Commission for Human Rights also funds Paul Weyrich's American
> Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a letter by Carol
> Steinke, a
> copy of which we have on file. An offshoot of Paul Weyrich's American
> Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recently honored the wife of Sun Myung
> Moon, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon. The award was presented by Robin Brunelli,
> president
> of the National Foundation for Women Legislators and the wife of Sam
> Brunelli,
> the Director of ALEC and long-time member of the CNP. For more
> information, the
> extensive connections between the Council for National Policy and Sun
> Myung
> Moon were discussed at length during an AFN radio interview of Chey
> Simonton by
> Kelleigh Nelson.
> The CCHR web-site features "Articles by L. Ron Hubbard", as well as a
> section
> titled "Why is Scientology Opposed to Psychiatry?". Below are excerpts
> from a
> 1998 letter sent to CCHR supporters by CCHR President Bruce Wiseman.
> CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL Established in 1969 by
> the
> Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of
> human
> rights.
> Wiseman's letter mentions a CCHR joint effort with Weyrich's ALEC.
> Two years ago we started a similar [anti-psychiatry] project with the
> American
> Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
> Also at the CCHR web-site is the below list of endorsements of the 1995
> pledge.
> CNP-linked groups are in italics.
> Organizer of the press conference, Carolyn Steinke, director of Parents
> Involved in Education, said that the pledge was vital, and should be
> signed by
> parents, teachers and children across the nation, because "school children
> are
> no longer treated as students but as patients."
> Congressman Sonny Bono [note: Bono was a Scientologist, and his
> Congressional
> seat was won by his widow, Mary], a leading advocate of true educational
> reform, opened the press conference and was the first to sign the Pledge.
> He
> was joined by such individuals and groups as California State Senator and
> Chairman of the Education Committee, Raymond Haynes; Gary Young, President
> of
> the Hemet, California Unified School District Governing Board; Ron
> Sunseri,
> former Oregon legislator; the Eagle Forum; Citizens Commission on Human
> Rights;
> Family Research Council; The Rutherford Institute; Concerned Women of
> America;
> National Parents Commission; Kentucky Alliance; Taxpayers Involved In
> Education; and American Policy Foundation.
> Is this the extent of the Religious Right's involvement with the Church of
> Scientology -- or does it go further?
> Ida J. Camburn
> "The people will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that
> religion
> and Govt (sic) will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed
> together." -- James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, 1822
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