What to look for when dealing with Scientology - alt.religion.scientology

Message from discussion What to look for when dealing with Scientology

Thomas Gandow

More options May 29 2000, 3:00 am

Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology

From: Thomas Gandow <gan...@is.in-berlin.de>

Date: 2000/05/29

Subject: Re: What to look for when dealing with Scientology

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Chris Owen schrieb:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000528175040.138B-100...@darkstar.zippy>,
> Joe's Garage <swat...@xenu.net> writes
> >On Sun, 28 May 2000, Dave Bird wrote:

> >> In article<i3lqg8.1ma...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>, Cornelius Krasel
> >> <kra...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
> >> >The comparison might not be fair, but I think it is not entirely
> >> >invalid either.

> >> That's roughly my feeling too.

> >If you're going to say that Minton is comparable to Hubbard because
> >he is receiving an award from his own side, they you also have to say that
> >Churchill is comparable to Hitler. The comparison may be valid, but it is
> >so broad as to be meaningless.

> >Not to mention the first two members listed of what Cornelius called an
> >anti-cult "front group" are Gerry Armstrong and Ursula Caberta.

> I wouldn't call it a "front group". It does, however, rather smack of
> anti-cultists handing out awards to each other; fair enough, but in that
> case associating it with the Charlemagne Prize is really pretentious.

Pretentious?
The human rights award of our committee (Alternative Charlemagne Award
2000) is not associated to the "Aachen Charlemagne Prize" in general,
but has to do with the prizewinner 2000: Bill Clinton, a well known
Scientology Helper. Should or could he therefore really be praised as a
role model for European Unity?
He is certainly not, and Bob Minton as a courageous citizen, who fights
i.a. for freedom of information, certainly is.
TG

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