Comments on: Scientology and Human Rights — Oil and Water https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/ Something Can Be Done About It Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Scooter https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566866 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:08:55 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566866 In reply to mwesten.

No problem. Love your work.

For a really lovely take on the Declaration, have a listen to Max Richter’s “Voices.” Would recommend this to everyone to hear politics and art combined beautifully – my daughter gave it to me as a Xmas present.

]]> By: PeaceMaker https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566852 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:36:08 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566852 In reply to AnEx.

AnEx, that looks like another culty re-definition of words – “social” and “security” obviously don’t include “any form of social welfare and public insurance programs”. They are trying to pretend to be within society’s norms and promoting widely-held ideals, when in reality they want to impose the sort of authoritarian system under which it ends up that few if any have real security as we generally understand it.

]]> By: PeaceMaker https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566851 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:27:25 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566851 Hubbard wrote “Honest People Have Rights, Too” and to me thats says that cynical redefinition of terms is at work here – “honest people” means scientologists, and probably only the select group of them considered in the best standing, while everyone else has minimal rights and falls under his label of “fair game”, subject to things like being “deprived of property or injured by any means” in a typical authoritarian ends-justifies-the-means formulation. In the CofS itself we can see that members may have a right to an internal tribunal – but decisions are almost always made favoring those of higher status.

]]> By: mwesten https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566781 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:22:14 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566781 🙂]]> In reply to Tammy Synovec.

Wonderful! Have a lovely time 🦋🙂

]]> By: mwesten https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566770 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:01:13 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566770 🎤💥 Thank you!]]> In reply to AnEx.

Boom! 🤜🏻🎤💥
Thank you!

]]> By: mwesten https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566768 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:55:48 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566768 In reply to Scooter.

Will do! Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> By: GL https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566506 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 05:19:42 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566506 Grunt Curbonehead’s misses started a gofundme for The Donalds civil/fraud bill and has raised a phenomenal 0.02% ($US134,014) as at this posting. WOW!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! SUPER!!!! MARVELLOUS!!! (to use $camatology speak). Only $US354,865,986 to go, Grunt and Elena should clear that in a decade or ten at this rate. Hold on, isn’t Grunt always going on and on about how he’s “worth” millions and millions and…of dollars?

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/gofundme-mocked-for-raising-just-002-of-trumps-bill-for-civil-fraud/news-story/16e0d8557de4e993c83f6493d5fcc5b5

]]> By: otherles https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566487 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:25:56 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566487 I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if DM is enjoying the spectacle of opponents of the COS tearing into each other. Disagreements happen. LIVE WITH IT!

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566484 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:16:53 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566484 Where, after all, do universal human rights end? At the doors of the Church of Scientology.

]]> By: Scooter https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-human-rights-oil-and-water/#comment-566481 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:20:55 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2621522#comment-566481 Damn, this is well put-together.

Thanks, Mikes. This is the perfect summary of just how toxic $cientology actually and factually is. Bit of a different Sunday morning read after having de-mited my quail and chooks 🙂

The only way it could be bettered is a full appendix with links to the relevant dox of testimony that support this.

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