Is the current vogue for on-line petions effective?  Well, the best person
to answer this question is Ted Mayett, ARSCC OIC Petitions Division.

But as Ted has left the bright lights of Las Vegas and a.r.s. behind him to
continue his research in other parts of Nevada, one must make up one's own
mind.

Here's a petition I've just signed.  It was initiated by Denice Byrne, a
denizen from the frozen north on change.org and reads:

 'Citizens Commission on Human Rights: Make it known that they are part of
The Church of Scientology.'

My intended comment which sadly went unrecorded due to my eagerness to click
'Send' would have read:

"CCHR is a malevolent Scientology front group with no understanding of
mental illness, whose ignorant members are likely to cause more suffering
and death as with the case of Lisa McPherson unless the organization is
dismantled."

If anyone shares my views they could sign the petition here:

http://tinyurl.com/75kdbug

Andrew

On 5/5/2012 6:26 AM, Andrew Robertson wrote:

Considering that it's for the Great White North, how could I not?

I appropriated your comment while I was at it.

John

On Sat, 5 May 2012 22:26:11 +1200, "Andrew Robertson"

Online petitions do work!!! They get results.  I've authored two
highly successful petitions.  One of them stopped scientology from
becoming the Official Global Religion.  But the important one was the
petition that reduced current membership figures for scientology on
this newsgroup.

It was 2008 when I wrote that 'membership' petition.  Until then, for
ten years, actually for more than ten years, the membership figures
had gone unchanged.  40-50 thousand members worldwide.

It was posted over and over, all those years, that they had 40-50k
members worldwide.  And yet the pickets had wiped out scn, the web had
wiped out scn, this NG had wiped out scn.  More people than ever were
leaving and less people than ever were joining.  And oh yes, bad press
had also wiped out scn.

And for all of this the current membership figures never changed.
UNTIL I wrote this petition and people signed this petition.
<http://www.petitiononline.com/40to50k/petition.html>

Meantime, this petition you are mentioning... well it is useless.  And
it is what you expect from these online petitions.  Bad spelling:
"of practising medicine without a license."
"organisation and is quite "

And unreasonable demands:
"CCHR is a Scientology project and this should be made known to the
general public."
Is this office of the Minister Of Health a newspaper or something like
that?

The petition speaks of the intentions of Hubbard, and well, Hubbard is
dead.  And being dead he cannot face fines or be charged for anything.
What is this CCHR like today?

"is quite actively dispensing medical advice concerning mental illness
and medication. "
Some documentation is usually required when claiming unlawful
activity.

And  CCHR is not the only group openly against psychiatry.  If this
'Minister of Health' is supposed to advise the public about cchr, it
should also advise the public about every other  group also opposed to
psychiatry.

Free Speech:  You can speak out against this CCHR.  This cchr can
speak out against psychiatry.  And so what if the cchr is a scn
offshoot, big deal, that is no crime.

"Make it known that they are part of The Church of Scientology"
Now then, if you go to the CCHR web site:
<http://www.cchr.org/>
You find this:
"CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and"

So, if the Minister of Health does not inform the public that the cchr
is part of scientology, not to worry.  The cchr web site is informing
the public that they are part of scientology.  And there is probably a
link from scn.org to the cchr, but I'm not going to look that up.

--
Ted Mayett
Critical information regarding Scientology

http://www.solitarytrees.net