On Oct 18th, 2001, the C of S reported that over 825 Scientology
Volunteer Ministers were at Ground Zero.
See: Thu, Oct 18 5:07 AM EDT
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/011018/volunteer-scientology
“In the first week after the strike on the World Trade Center, over 825
Scientology Volunteer Ministers donned their trademark bright yellow
shirts and made it down to Ground Zero administering thousands of the
Hubbard assists to the rescue workers. These included people of all
ages from as far away as Florida, California, and even London, England.
The diverse group included actresses, certified public accountants,
computer consultants, housewives, professional artists, and students
amongst others.“
As of today there are a total of 11 VM’s in New York. Eight of these
eleven will be gone within the next few weeks. This and other data is
constantly being forward on various Scientology email lines.
Also reported on Scientology email lines:
10 Children from the Mojave Academy www.mojaveacademy.com
will be traveling to New York City as Volunteer ministers. They will be
there for one week or more.
Pier 94 needs additional Volunteers. Pier 94 is where family members of
the victims of the WTC disaster go to be assisted in getting death
certificates, financial help etc. It appears that the Salvation Army
oversees this operation but that the VM’s are working this area as well.
Per the VM email these areas needing to be covered are vital in keeping
the victims away from the evil psychs.
The 825 VM’s in September down to 11 VM’s in December. Looks like the
VM program is downstat and explains why you never see those yellow
shirts.
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From the application by the CoS to the US Internal Revenue Service
seeking Federal Tax Exemption, October 1, 1993:
"Although there is no policy or Scriptural mandate expressly
requiring Scientologists to renounce other religious beliefs or
membership in other churches, as a practical matter Scientologists
are expected to and do become fully devoted to Scientology to the
exclusion of other faiths. As Scientologists, they are required to
look only to Scientology Scriptures for the answers to the
fundamental questions of their existence and to seek enlightenment
only from Scientology."
-They're either lying to their parishioners or to the IRS. Mutually
exclusive statements cannot both be true.
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LIARS. CRIMINAL AND LIARS. (I'm speaking here not of the few tens who came
there in NY to help sincerely -such exist even in scientology, my gawd! - ,
but of the ones who steal their lives, souls, and money).
>The heat is on to get more Scientologists to NY.
>On Oct 18th, 2001, the C of S reported that over 825 Scientology
>Volunteer Ministers were at Ground Zero.
>See: Thu, Oct 18 5:07 AM EDT
>http://news.excite.com/news/pr/011018/volunteer-scientology
>“In the first week after the strike on the World Trade Center, over 825
>Scientology Volunteer Ministers donned their trademark bright yellow
>shirts and made it down to Ground Zero administering thousands of the
>Hubbard assists to the rescue workers. These included people of all
>ages from as far away as Florida, California, and even London, England.
>The diverse group included actresses, certified public accountants,
>computer consultants, housewives, professional artists, and students
>amongst others.“
This 825 number is a complete lie.
ptsc
> Pier 94 needs additional Volunteers. Pier 94 is where
> family members of the victims of the WTC disaster go to
> be assisted in getting death certificates,
WOW!! This sets of all kinds of red flags to me,
and grieves my heart mightily.
What a great place for Co$ leeches to be in, where
people get death certificates . . .
who are already in deep grief and despair . . .
the reminder, the death certificate, and in a place
where they talk about it and refresh the pain again
of their loss and tragedy.
I can tell you for a certainty, having been in that
situation after my husbands suicide . . .
that in this kind of grief and despair . . .
when the person is mentally broken and emotionally
crippled . . .
they are easy prey for those who wish to pretend
~comfort~ for using the person as a means to their
own ends.
I know that between the grief and trauma and
devastation of my husbands horrible suicide . . .
I was literally emotionally like a child for a
very long time . . .
and it is surprising just who will take advantage
of that kind of situation.
It grieves me that Co$ is in a prime place such
as this, where so many people are grieved and
emotionally lost in many cases . . .
waiting like a spider for a fly.
:-(
ARC = As-Ising the Real Co$,
Beverly
Two words: life insurance.
<snip propaganda>
> As of today there are a total of 11 VM’s in New York. Eight of these
> eleven will be gone within the next few weeks. This and other data is
> constantly being forward on various Scientology email lines.
>
> Also reported on Scientology email lines:
>
> 10 Children from the Mojave Academy www.mojaveacademy.com
> will be traveling to New York City as Volunteer ministers. They will be
> there for one week or more.
>
> Pier 94 needs additional Volunteers. Pier 94 is where family members of
> the victims of the WTC disaster go to be assisted in getting death
> certificates, financial help etc. It appears that the Salvation Army
> oversees this operation but that the VM’s are working this area as well.
> Per the VM email these areas needing to be covered are vital in keeping
> the victims away from the evil psychs.
Ah yes, that would also be right in line with the HCOPL that mandates
trolling the obituaries looking for fresh meat. Now, if I had my old
machine, I'd be able to post that HCOPL. Anybody?
> The 825 VM’s in September down to 11 VM’s in December. Looks like the
> VM program is downstat and explains why you never see those yellow
> shirts.
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tam
Raises red flags for me too. I would expect that a good number of
disaster victims would also be prime candidates for eventual insurance
or other legal settlements. That kind of money would come in handy
later for their Bridges.
I'm looking at the "Voice of the Volunteer Minister The Volunteer
Minister's Newspaper Issue 1 © 2001 CSI. The way to become a VM is
pay a $25 (USF) annual membership fee to I HELP (International Hubbard
Ecclesiastical League of Pastors) and do the Volunteer Ministers
course. If you do the course before 12/31, you get a free VM field
jacket (yellow with hood).
The VM Course uses the Scientology handbook ($100, $90--Internet
price) http://www.bridgepub.com/Book/NFiction/ref/vmscnhb.html. I
don't know what the course costs--may be a freebie. Here's the VM
site http://www.volunteerminister.org
The dissem program seems to be more or less patterned after Ability!
ca mid-September 1955, START THAT PRACTICE! by L. Ron Hubbard © 1991
L. Ron Hubbard Library. I believe this is so because the
paraphernalia for VMs includes ads and business cards that are similar
or the same as those given in the ABILITY issue.
Here is the text on template VM business cards displayed in Voice of
the Volunteer Minister The Volunteer Minister's Newspaper Issue 1 ©
2001 CSI.
<start fair use quote>
Personal Relations I will talk to anyone to you about anything (name
and address)
(The above ad is as given in the Ability article on how to start an
auditing practice.)
YOU HAVE BEEN HELPED BY A SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTER
(Name and address)
<end quote>
The VM also gets ad copy as follows:
<start fair use quotes>
"PERSONAL RELATIONS I will talk to anyone for you about anything.
Call (name and address, Volunteer Minister.)"
"NO MATTER HOW BAD IT SEEMS...Something can be done about it. You
talk, I'll listen. We'll take it from there. (name, address,
Volunteer Minister)"
"SO UPSET YOU CAN'T MOVE ON? Call me (number, name, Volunteer
Minister)"
<end quotes>
Also from Voice of the Volunteer Minister The Volunteer Minister's
Newspaper Issue 1 © 2001 CSI:
<start fair use quote>
[...] individual Volunteer Ministers already have many promotional
items they can use to let their communities know they are there to
help. There are personalized cards, classified ads, fliers, posters
and radio public service announcements available which one can use.
There is literature one can distribute with one's name and number so
people know who to contact. A Volunteer Minister home page is
available, and one can build his own web site so people can reach him
online.
<end quote>
The Personal Relations ad is the same as Hubbard gave in the Ability!
article.
The overall program in Ability is designed to contact people and
eventually sell them private auditing.
With the VM program, the I HELP membership is a $25 annual membership.
I don't think that VMs are allowed to charge for their service--more
likely that the VM would need an upgrade I HELP membership and pay a
percent of the money to I HELP. But in lieu of using these methods
to procure preclears, the VM can always send the person to their
nearest org or mission and collect a commission on the services the
new person is sold by the organization.
Caroline
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When I tried to go to their web site, I got the message:
"403 Forbidden
Browsing for http://www.volunteerminister.org/ is locked
out by server configuration."
Does anyone else experience the same?
Warrior - Sunshine disinfects
http://warrior.offlines.org
Or like when the scientologist OT3 pilot pushed his plane into the Potomac,
probably a suicide, and that his wife stole up to the money of her own
children to "give" it to the global ruthless scam.
roger
Certainly, Bev. Suicide is one of the worse things to have around. Most of
time, people feel so guilty of whatever they can imagine having done or not
done to help the one who left. That's so easy then to get trapped indeed.
I hope like you do, that people shall realize the degree of extreme
perversion of any "help" by elrong. Best here is to remind that he himself
spoke in one of his lectures (in level 1 auditing course, I believe) of help
= treason. He was exactly doing it.
roger
You know, the money thing re Co$ is true, but to me, at least,
that is just the tip of the iceberg . . .
and if it were ~just~ the money, then I wouldn't be as repulsed
by the Co$ and as vocal as I am against it.
No, what I find ~FAR~ worse than just being ripped off by
Co$ financially . . .
is that it is your heart and your soul that they take as
well.
I can think of nothing lower than taking advantage of
weakened people by going after their heart and soul.
Yep!
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>Warrior wrote:
>>
>> In article <o3ct1u0i36cif412g...@4ax.com>,
>> Caroline Letkeman wrote:
>> >
>> >The VM Course uses the Scientology handbook ($100, $90--Internet
>> >price) http://www.bridgepub.com/Book/NFiction/ref/vmscnhb.html.
>> >I don't know what the course costs--may be a freebie. Here's the
>> >VM site http://www.volunteerminister.org
>>
>> When I tried to go to their web site, I got the message:
>>
>> "403 Forbidden
>>
>> Browsing for http://www.volunteerminister.org/ is locked
>> out by server configuration."
>>
>> Does anyone else experience the same?
>>
>> Warrior - Sunshine disinfects
>> http://warrior.offlines.org
>
>Yep!
Now I get a 403 too.
>Caroline Letkeman wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:06:11 -0500, Beverly Rice <dbj...@mpinet.net>
>> wrote:
>>
Amen to that.
Pier 94 is home of the Family Assistance Center, set up to aid the
families of the 9/11 victims. This is the place where the city of
New York presented an urn of soil from the World Trade Center site
to the families as a memorial for their lost ones. I was fully
expecting to see an indelicate Scientology memo describe how "The
Way To Happiness" booklets were handed out with each urn and flag.
Thankfully, I, and most especially the victims' families, have been
spared this affront. (So far.)
I have been reading a series of essays by Jonathan Wallace, author
of _Sex, Laws and Cyberspace_, about his experience on the day of
the terrorist attacks and afterwards as a Red Cross volunteer. I was
struck by the details of his essays. They provide "texture" and, in
my opinion, authenticity: only someone who was there could report
such things. They are sorely lacking in any of the Scientology
writings I've seen on the subject. The accounts of Scientology's
Big Wins could have been written just as easily by me, sitting at
my desk thousands of miles away; i.e., they show no special
knowledge of the area or events that would indicate the author was
present.
Let me pause here to say that I do not expect Scientologists,
impaired as they are by Study Tech, to write as beautifully or
emotionally as Mr. Wallace. What I *do* expect is a mention here or
there about the disaster site. I don't see how it is humanly
possible to avoid talking about it. But they do. Instead they gush
"We delivered hundreds of Touch Assists today." "We prevented
emotionally damaged people from accessing professional counseling."
"We gave Dianetics seminars at every firestation in Manhattan."
We...We...We...
Back to Pier 94...
I had not seen Pier 94 mentioned in any of the internal Scientology
materials that have been leaked or otherwise posted. Mr. Wallace
says of the facility:
"Inside, every agency, governmental or private, which has
anything to provide, or to say, to the families of the
victims has its own area. The Red Cross, Salvation Army,
United Way, and a Buddhist compassionate organization are
all there, along with the Department of Labor, Crime Victim's
Bureau, Workers' Comp, Immigration and the FBI. There are
large waiting areas everywhere for family members to sit,
and a cafeteria dedicated to them alone. Mental health
workers and chaplains are everywhere, looking for signs of
despondence or distress, or simply for people who are sitting
alone and look like they might need company."
Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of situation Scientologists are
compulsively drawn to? I thought it exceptionally odd that they had
not mentioned Pier 94. If they knew about it, why weren't they
crowing about their Big Wins there (whether or not they were
actually inside)?
We know from Mark Ebner's eye-witness account that Volunteer
Ministers were indeed in NYC but I'm certain they were never as
numerous or active as they claim. If they were, certainly ONE of
them would have said something about Pier 94. Well, now someone
has. Disappointing but not really surprising: just as the sun rises
in the east, so Scientology preys on the vulnerable.
Please read "The Urns" for a *real* volunteer's story of Pier 94.
<http://www.spectacle.org/yearzero/urn.html>
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>"We delivered hundreds of Touch Assists today." "We prevented
>emotionally damaged people from accessing professional counseling."
>"We gave Dianetics seminars at every firestation in Manhattan."
>We...We...We...
>
Info still coming in. Info will keep coming in.
I know what I what would like to prove about all of this... not that
the cult wasn't there or wasn't involved, or how much they were
involved. What I would like is something I strongly feel.
I believe many of them are happy as larks about this tragedy.
Oh they are not happy it happened, not that. But they are happy about
the Stat push that came of it. Here was a 'Reg' event beyond
proportion, something they could never have hoped for. And they did a
pretty good job of capitalizing on it.
They got one of their phone numbers on countless television stations,
they received all kinds of press all around the world. They were
united towards a common goal that didn't really have the word 'psych'
in it.
And when the next tragedy comes they will be better prepared to
exploit it as they have exploited this one.
>"We gave Dianetics seminars at every firestation in Manhattan."
>We...We...We...
I think this kind of sums it up. And also this post by Ethercat:
BAH. Can't find it, that post about them registering a domain on the
day of the tragedy in preparation for the - for advertisement.
Ethercat, if you're reading, please send a copy of that post.
>
>Please read "The Urns" for a *real* volunteer's story of Pier 94.
>
><http://www.spectacle.org/yearzero/urn.html>
>
If you read this essay, be prepared to have wet eyes.