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