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RE: FREEDOM MAGAZINE
In 1968, the Church established an investigative
journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
individual rights. It is today published in more than a
dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
as a voice for freedom of speech.
For nearly three decades, Freedom's pages have
presented a wide range of subjects by a broad spectrum of
writers and activists (including Judge Jim Garrison and
Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who presented stories on the
assassination of President John Kennedy and the Vietnam war)
whose common denominator has been their dedication to the
preservation of freedom of speech and information.
In a speech at the National Press Club shortly after
the release of the film "JFK," Colonel Fletcher Prouty said,
"In its own way, [the film] is carrying on the tradition of
Freedom Magazine and the Church of Scientology.... It is not
simply defining freedom or asking for freedom. It is
fighting for freedom."
To review Freedom magazine on-line go to -
http://www.freedommag.org
Paper Tiger
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publicr...@scientology.org (Public Relations) wrote:
>
> RE: FREEDOM MAGAZINE
>
> In 1968, the Church established an investigative
> journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
> individual rights. It is today published in more than a
> dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
> as a voice for freedom of speech.
Actually, FREEDOM was founded so Hubbard could rant about the British
ban on Scientologist immigration. Here's an excellent old Chris Owen
article on those events, entitled "L. Ron Hubbard publicly admits
lying":
| From: c...@nvg.unit.no (Chris Owen)
| Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
| Subject: L. Ron Hubbard publicly admits lying
| Date: 13 Dec 1995 22:31:09 GMT
| Message-ID: <4ank7d$g...@due.unit.no>
|
| "Scientology brings you truth."
| (Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, p. 1)
|
| Much has been made of the "truthful" nature of Scientology, and how much
| Scientologists despise lies and falsehoods. But what can one make of L. Ron
| Hubbard himself having to make a public admission that he had lied, despite
| the fact that he declared that "the more lies you use in public relations
| the more likely it is that the PR will recoil"?
| (The Scientology Handbook, p. 725)
|
| Following the 1968 ban on the immigration of Scientologists into the UK
| (and LRH himself being given persona non grata status), Hubbard began a
| ferocious and fairly hysterical campaign of villification against the
| ministers he held responsibly, notably Lord Balniel, Kenneth Robinson
| (the Minister of Health), Richard Crossman and Jim Callaghan (the Home
| Secretary and later Prime Minister). This campaign was largely conducted
| through the pages of "Freedom" - "Investigative reporting in the public
| interest" - the magazine for which Andrew Milne (mi...@crl.com) writes.
| In fact, "Freedom" was founded *specifically* in response to the British
| immigration ban.
|
| Over a period of about four years, Hubbard used the pages of "Freedom" to
| mount a series of lurid attacks on those he saw as his opponents in the
| British government. This article, from a 1969 edition of "Freedom", was
| typical:
|
|
| "CONCERNING ELY AND OTHER PSYCHIATRIC DEATH CAMPS
|
| The instigators of these Death Camps is a private psychiatric front
| group of which Lord Balniel is an officer. Kenneth Robinson was a
| Director of it. Scientologists have found they instigate these Death
| Camps throughout the US and Commonwealth. They control large sections
| of Governments and attack anyone who opposes their new fascist state.
| They seek the right to seize and kill any man, woman or child who
| opposes them. Cecil King was one of them. He was to be the new Hitler
| in England. Immigration and Health Ministries were totally controlled
| by them throughout Commonwealth and UK [sic]. Nelson Rockefeller
| through his US foundation was to be the new Fuehrer in the US. These
| people are merciless and seek to destroy any opposition with Death
| Camps.
|
| -----------------------
|
| The public can expect Cardiff Hospital Staff to get sacked and
| blamed while they were only following orders. Lord Balniel, Kenneth
| Robinson, Cecil King and all the very posh overlords of this conspiracy
| will crucify their henchmen to try to keep their own shirts clean.
| Death Camp orders come from the very top. A psychiatrist . . . [sic]
| once told me years ago he would be sacked if he refused to follow
| Health Ministry orders to torture and kill patients. He gave me the
| data on what was happening in these Death Camps. When he protested his
| orders from superiors he himself died, and I was never satisfied by
| official accounts of his death. This goes to the very top of society.
| The names connectted with these atrocities are astonishing. This whole
| cancer should be dug out and exposed to the public view before England
| finds herself wholly in Fascist hands. For years they tried to strike
| down or discredit anyone who knew about their Death Camps. Now it is
| exposed and they are reaping the hurricane. These best people [sic]
| kicked Greece out of Europe for torturing prisoners while they
| themselves were running Death Camps. Now watch them try to whitewash
| themselves by blaming their lowest henchmen. The same arguments were
| tried in the Nuremburg Trials that they didn't know what their staffs
| were doing. But they still hanged the war criminals in Germany for the
| same crimes.
|
| L. Ron Hubbard"
|
|
| This article was quoted in the Foster Report (Report of the Enquiry into
| the Practice and Effects on Scientology, 1971, p. 148). It is undeniably
| genuine; I have seen the original issue of "Freedom" in a public library,
| though I will not say where for obvious reasons. The "private psychiatric
| front" mentioned by Hubbard, incidentally, is the National Association of
| Mental Health, a highly-regarded and government-sponsored body.
|
| The Foster Report was published in December 1971 and in the subsequent
| months was distributed to many libraries across the UK. Hubbard's attacks
| on Balniel, Robinson et al continued unabated, however, and if anything were
| brought to the attention of the public via the quotations in the Foster
| Report. In early 1973, Robinson appears to have got fed up of the continuous
| campaign of character assassination (or, in Scientologese, "dead agenting").
|
| He launched a libel suit against the Church of Scientology of California
| (the publisher), L. Ron Hubbard (the author) and Peter Ginever (the editor).
| Hubbard offered no evidence to support his allegations and the CoS did not
| even contest the case. This was what happened on 5th June 1973, as reported
| in the Times Law Report the following day. The emphasis is mine.
|
|
| "Church of Scientology to pay libel damages to former Minister
|
| Robinson v. Church of Scientology of California and Others
| Before Mr. Justice Ackner
|
| Mr. Kenneth Robinson, former Minister of Health, is to receive a
| substantial sum from the Church of Scientology of California as
| damages for libel in respect of statements published in various of
| its broadsheets. He sued the church; Mr. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard,
| its founder; and Mr. Peter Ginever, editor of the broadsheets.
|
| Mr. F.P. Neill, QC, and Mr. Michael Curwen for Mr. Robinson; Mr.
| James Comyn, QC and Mr Alan Newman for the defendants.
|
| Mr. Neill, announcing the settlement, said that Mr. Robinson was
| a member of Parliament from 1949 to 1970 and Minister of Health in
| the Labour Government from 1964 to 1968. He had directed a great
| deal of his energies to mental health. When his party was in
| opposition he was spokesman on health matters and a leading
| supporter of the Mental Health Act, 1959. Before he became a
| minister he had been a vice-president of the National Association
| of Mental Health.
|
| The Church of Scientology of California published and circulated
| in this country what might be called broadsheets styled variously
| as "Freedom Scientology", "Freedom and Scientology" or "Freedom".
| Some of the broadsheets had international editions. Mr. Ginever
| was the editor of the broadsheets. Mr. Hubbard, the founder of the
| Church of Scientology, claimed the copyright in what was published
| in the broadsheets.
|
| Around the autumn of 1968 the defendants commenced a campaign
| against Mr. Robinson through these broadsheets. The reason for the
| campaign was that the defendants very strongly objected to political
| decisions in which Mr. Robinson as a Minister of the Crown had been
| involved and which led to a ban being placed on the admission to
| this country of people coming from abroad to study Scientology.
|
| In the campaign extravagant allegations were made against Mr.
| Robinson which were of a gravely defamatory nature. Put shortly, it
| was alleged that Mr. Robinson had instigated or approved of the
| creation of what were called "death camps", likened to Belsen and
| Auschwitz, to which persons (including mental patients) could be
| forcibly abducted and there killed or maimed with impunity. It was
| further alleged that Mr. Robinson had abused his position as a
| minister in relation to government grants made to the National
| Association of Mental Health.
|
| The broadsheets containing these grave allegations were each
| distributed to about 100,000 persons, including people in public
| life (such as MPs) and editors of newspapers and journals. Although
| the allegations were extravagant, Mr. Robinson felt that, in view
| of the virulence and extent of the campaign against him, he could
| not allow their publication to pass without taking action.
|
| Accordingly he launched the present libel proceedings. Counsel
| was glad to be able to say that the defendants had now redeemed
| themselves to the extent that they now acknowledged that *there
| was no truth* in what they said about Mr. Robinson and they
| greatly regretted that they ever made such allegations.
|
| They had agreed to pay Mr. Robinson a substantial sum to mark the
| gravity of theh libels and to indemnify him against his costs. They
| had further undertaken not to repeat the same or any similar libel.
|
| In an otherwise distasteful affair it was a matter of some pleasure
| that the defendannts appeared in court by their counsel to confirm
| what he had told his Lordship and to offer their apologies to Mr.
| Robinson.
|
| Mr. Comyn said that he confirmed everything which Mr. Neill had
| said, and on behalf of the defendants he offered their sincere
| apologies for the wrong which they had done him.
|
| The record was, by leave, withdrawn.
|
| Solicitors, Goodman, Derrick and Co.; Mr Stephen, M. Bird, East
| Grinstead."
| (The Times, 6 June 1973)
|
|
| A number of things are worth noting. Perhaps the most important is that LRH
| was forced to admit, albeit through an intermediary, that he was guilty of
| repeatedly making grossly false and defamatory statements. No attempt was
| made to suggest that Hubbard was *not* in fact the author of the defamatory
| material. Its style and content, particularly its raving paranoia, is very
| much typical of Hubbard's writing.
|
| Another point is that the defence counsel probably committed inadvertant
| perjury when he said that Hubbard and the CoS "sincerely apologised" for
| their allegations. Five years later, in 1978, a new edition of "What is
| Scientology?" was published. This devoted an entire 18-page chapter (number
| 11) to "The Victories of Scientology". In the "United Kingdom" section, it
| states:
|
|
| "The main centre of agitation against Scientology in the United Kingdom
| is the National Association of Mental Health, who had good contacts
| within the British Health Ministry."
| (What is Scientology?, 1978, p. 169)
|
|
| Does this sound familiar? (Bear in mind that Kenneth Robinson was the last
| Minister of Health, retiring when the Ministry was abolished in 1969).
|
| And when the ban on Scientologist immigration was finally lifted by Margaret
| Thatcher in 1980, the Guardian Office house magazine, "The Winner", made a
| nasty little sideswipe in stating that the man responsible for the ban was
| "the now forgotten Health Minister Kenneth Robinson". (The Winner, issue
| 6, p. 1). Forgotten? By the public, maybe, but L. Ron Hubbard is now dead
| and discredited while Kenneth Robinson is now living peacefully in retirement
| in West London with a knighthood, respectability and full membership of that
| uniquely British institution, the Establishment.
|
| There is little doubt that although the CoS and Hubbard *did* respect the
| order not to commit further libels, they were still convinced of the justice
| of their original allegations. After all, L. Ron Hubbard was always right,
| wasn't he? By definition, Kenneth Robinson was a Suppressive Person; he was
| guilty of the Suppressive Act of
|
|
| "Proposing, advising or voting for legislation or ordinances, rules
| or laws directed towards the Suppression of Scientology."
| (Introduction to Scientology Ethics, 1973, pp. 49-50)
|
|
| As such, he was obviously a criminal hiding a whole string of vicious
| "overts". Hubbard wrote that anyone attacking Scientology was involved in
| criminal activity; it is inconceivable that this view of Robinson could
| have changed just because of a court case. Scientology law is, of course,
| held to be superior to "wog law".
|
| I have an issue of "Freedom" sitting in front of me right now. It is the
| now-famous March / April 1995 issue on the Internet (it can now be found at
| http://www.theta.com). Inside, Andrew Milne is credited as a staff writer.
| Although it is now far glossier and thicker than it was in 1969, it is still
| as vitriolic as ever about the evils of Suppressives such as Dennis Erlich.
| On the outside back page is an advert for a subscription to "Freedom"
| magazine. It says the following:
|
|
| "Honesty.
|
| Integrity.
|
| The qualities you look for in people.
|
| The qualities you look for in a magazine."
|
|
| But let's return to the immortal words of Ron for a moment:
|
|
| "There is no liar lying like an angry man." (The Phoenix Lectures)
|
|
| How right he was.
|
| --
| | Chris Owen | New Mansion House, Lancaster Gate, London W2 |
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| | "Piltdown Man was always biting his wife": another gem from L.Ron Hubbard |
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Darryl
<paper...@redneck.efga.org> wrote:
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>In Message-ID: <3701acc7....@news.earthlink.net>,
>publicr...@scientology.org (Public Relations) wrote:
>>
>> RE: FREEDOM MAGAZINE
>>
>> In 1968, the Church established an investigative
>> journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
>> individual rights. It is today published in more than a
>> dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
>> as a voice for freedom of speech.
It speaks a lot for an organization that needs to have a magazine to
print their own version of the truth. If they really were an
advocate of free speech they wouldn't spend so much time trying to
silence their critics. In other words, they wouldn't be yelling
copyright enfringement anytime someone published their scriptures.
Most religions love to tell you what they believe. Scientologists are
apparently ashamed to see their beliefs published.
Daryl
Ethan
>
> For nearly three decades, Freedom's pages have
> presented a wide range of subjects by a broad spectrum of
> writers and activists (including Judge Jim Garrison and
> Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who presented stories on the
> assassination of President John Kennedy and the Vietnam war)
> whose common denominator has been their dedication to the
> preservation of freedom of speech and information.
Hey, wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald the first Clear?
--
"You have to scrape bottom to appreciate life and start living
again." --Frank Sinatra
Ethan
Unknown
(Public Relations) wrote:
>
> RE: FREEDOM MAGAZINE
>
> In 1968, the Church established an investigative
> journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
> individual rights. It is today published in more than a
> dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
> as a voice for freedom of speech.
Does this mean that if I submit a copy of my personal experiences with
the Co$ that they will print it?
>
> For nearly three decades, Freedom's pages have
> presented a wide range of subjects by a broad spectrum of
> writers and activists (including Judge Jim Garrison and
> Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who presented stories on the
> assassination of President John Kennedy and the Vietnam war)
> whose common denominator has been their dedication to the
> preservation of freedom of speech and information.
>
> In a speech at the National Press Club shortly after
> the release of the film "JFK," Colonel Fletcher Prouty said,
> "In its own way, [the film] is carrying on the tradition of
> Freedom Magazine and the Church of Scientology.... It is not
> simply defining freedom or asking for freedom. It is
> fighting for freedom."
>
> To review Freedom magazine on-line go to -
> http://www.freedommag.org
>
>
When the chips are down the buffalo move on.
OT's, BT's, what's the difference?
Unknown
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Mike de Wolf
(Public Relations) wrote:
> In 1968, the Church established an investigative
> journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
> individual rights. It is today published in more than a
> dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
> as a voice for freedom of speech.
Provided you speech supports the Church of Scientology agenda.
> For nearly three decades, Freedom's pages have
> presented a wide range of subjects by a broad spectrum of
> writers and activists (including Judge Jim Garrison and
> Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who presented stories on the
> assassination of President John Kennedy and the Vietnam war)
> whose common denominator has been their dedication to the
> preservation of freedom of speech and information.
The common denominator is actually conspiracy theory and speculation.
> In a speech at the National Press Club shortly after
> the release of the film "JFK," Colonel Fletcher Prouty said,
> "In its own way, [the film] is carrying on the tradition of
> Freedom Magazine and the Church of Scientology.... It is not
> simply defining freedom or asking for freedom. It is
> fighting for freedom."
The film JFK actually does carry on the tradition of the Church of
Scientology and Freedom Magazine - a conspiracy theory is promoted by
distorting evidence, ignoring facts that contradict the conspiracy,
and by misrepresenting the opposing view in order to discredit it.
> To review Freedom magazine on-line go to -
> http://www.freedommag.org
For a real good laugh, read about Dennis Ehrich, the "Cyber
Terrorist."
Mike de Wolf
"If any of the things these people say are true,
there would not be 8 million Scientologists in the
world today"
-- CoS Office of Special Affairs Mike Rinder
gerry armstrong
>On 1 Apr 1999 20:00:57 -0000, Paper Tiger
><paper...@redneck.efga.org> wrote:
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>>In Message-ID: <3701acc7....@news.earthlink.net>,
>>publicr...@scientology.org (Public Relations) wrote:
>>>
>>> RE: FREEDOM MAGAZINE
>>>
>>> In 1968, the Church established an investigative
>>> journal, Freedom, to support and advance the cause of
>>> individual rights. It is today published in more than a
>>> dozen editions and many languages. In every land, it stands
>>> as a voice for freedom of speech.
Heh, $cientology liars. If you stood for freedom of speech you would
have, $10,000,000 ago, ceased trying to silence me. Your cult of
$cientology and your cult's black PR rag ""Freedom"" stand as
suppressors of free speech.
All the lies in the world, $cientology, will not make you truthful.
Give it up. Stop lying, stop suppressing, and stop trying to destroy
freedom of speech.
(c) Gerry Armstrong
Unknown
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