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Scientology, Psychiatry and Politics

February 27, 2023 By Mike Rinder 23 Comments

I have written a few pieces here about the general inclination of scientologists to vote Republican. Hubbard's disdain for government and welfare are important reasons why scientologists tend not to be liberal/Democrats. But the biggest reason has to do with psychiatry. In this, scientologists are single-issue voters and virtually every one of them would never vote for a Democratic administration. Scientology's oldest and most dedicated "social reform" group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has recently made clear to all scientologists that the current President and his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, President Biden, psychiatry

Scientologists: Republicans or Democrats? Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?

November 13, 2022 By Mike Rinder 12 Comments

I am often asked this question, and my answer is usually that while there is no hard and fast rule, scientologists tend to lean Republican because of Hubbard's words: He opposed "big government" (pretty much ALL government -- it's "group bank") He opposed welfare -- that is "rewarding downstats." He opposed taxes. He believed homosexuality is an "aberration" He opposed government funded medical programs because "they support psychiatry." These positions pretty much ensure any good scientologist is a Republican voter. We saw in 2016 that the only precinct in LA that voted for Trump for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry, Scientology Tagged With: abortion, assumption, Brian Gardner, Democrat, pro-choice, pro-life, psychiatry, Republican

S. African Govt Paying for Auditor Training?

August 30, 2022 By Mike Rinder 9 Comments

I certainly hope this is typical scientology hype... Is there anyone in S. Africa that can independently check these two claims.... This is the sort of thing that scientologists LOVE to latch onto. One person reads a Intro booklet about the organizing board, they are employed by the government and soon this has become "the government of Malawi is now operating on LRH Admin Tech." Or there is a photo taken of someone standing next to a police officer with a WTH booklet and "crime has been reduced by 60% in the city of Caracas as a result of the police department embracing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry, Public Relations Tagged With: Black Scientologists, Joburg castle, south africa, Stacy Francis

The Miracle of Hubbard Tech

August 16, 2022 By Mike Rinder 18 Comments

The full story is here. Eddie is a long time scientologist who went Clear in the 90's and the last recorded service is OT Preps in 2015. You can see some of his history detailed in the most recent article on him by Tony Ortega at The Underground Bunker. This sad story begs some obvious questions: Why did the tech fail so miserably in helping Eddie -- someone who is more of a celebrity than a lot of the "celebrities" who are afforded special care and attention at the "Celebrity Centre." Is CCHR doing everything they can to get him out of the hands of the psychs, just like they did with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, Psychiatry Tagged With: Celebrity Centre, Eddie Deezen, psychiatry

CCHR Propaganda

June 22, 2022 By Mike Rinder 16 Comments

    The level of hypocrisy on display in scientology -- in this case, CCHR -- is astonishing. They grab onto "group insanities" and toss off a few examples, starting with "refusal to employ someone or allow them to belong" -- in the face of scientology's disconnection policy? Even beyond refusal to allow someone to belong, it takes it the next step and enforces that those who DO belong are not allowed to even speak with the person who is not allowed to belong. Then "failure to use people" -- check out the slave-labor busy work Sea Org members are engaged in. Or even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, citizens commission on human rights, psychiatry

CCHR Hypocrisy

October 11, 2020 By Mike Rinder 54 Comments

CCHR people are amazing. They churn out an apparently endless stream of accusations about psychiatry that complain about the psychs doing exactly what they do every day- and utterly devoid of irony. Forced labor? How about being on staff in a scientology org? Or even more, in the Sea Org?     Money motivation?   Labelling people? This is perhaps the most ironic of all. Wogs. PTS. SP. Type 3. etc etc etc Apart from the different labels, the only thing this cartoon has wrong is that the person would be directed to the registrar rather than a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, Ken Cramer, psychiatry

Scientology & Big Pharma

October 8, 2020 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

This is a post from Mike Westen at his blog. He sent it to me and I thought it was a great piece so I am reprinting it here. A recently leaked church document highlights Scientology’s hypocrisy with regards its anti-psychiatry activism. On Saturday, Tony Ortega published a 1993 investment summary listing the church’s assets in bonds, equities and cash. Amongst the numerous shares listed were two pharmaceutical companies: Ciba Geigy and Pfizer. As of 1993, Ciba Geigy was the Swiss manufacturer of the stimulant drug Ritalin (methylphenidate) and the antipsychotic Clozaril (clozapine). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry, Scientology Tagged With: AbbVie, Big Pharma, Bob Duggan, Ciba Geigy, Pfizer, psychiatry, Scientology

Irony? They’ve Never Heard The Word

September 26, 2020 By Mike Rinder 27 Comments

The anti-psych brigade, with Ken Cramer driving the clown car, are at it again. Change the sign in his cartoon below from psychiatrist to scientologist and it would be a far more accurate depiction. While psychiatrists may charge fees for their services, scientology is obsessed with getting people's money. There are sales courses and finding ruins and bringing up to need of change and Big League Sales and of course, MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. I don't think you could find a psychiatric text on how to go about getting money from people, but there are volumes of them in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, Ken Cramer

Ken Cramer — Joker and Degrader

September 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 33 Comments

Ken Cramer apparently thinks he is really cool. So proud of himself that he sent this out as an email to his "supporters" to prove how causative he is over psychs and their new "attack method" -- being polite! Someone with his cult mindset can turn ANYTHING into an "attack" by "the psychs." Honestly, Cramer is such a smarmy 1.1 Joker and Degrader he gives scientologists a bad name. And that's not an easy task. He's the driver of a broken down clown car of fools and he seems to think he is cruising down the autobahn at 200 mph behind the wheel of a Bugatti. But that being said, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, Ken Cramer, psychiatry

The Wacky “Anti-” Psych

September 9, 2020 By Mike Rinder 37 Comments

CCHR peddles some pretty outrageous claims about psychiatry But their "Psych Search" guy, Ken Kramer, is a source of wacky that even CCHR must cringe about. Here's some random stuff that showed up all on one day, starting with his clever play on "MAGA" and "Trump" : Then he has another brainstorm... Trying to manipulate Google? Hahahaha. This is the flea climbing the leg of the elephant shouting "get ready, here I come." I guess one could do exactly the same thing with respect to scientology... But I think Google searches on scientology pretty much come up with negative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychiatry Tagged With: CCHR, Ken Kramer, psychiatry

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