A Chicken Club is not just a sandwich any more. It’s a term I use to describe well-meaning groups who are invaded by organizations whose only goal is to feed off their proximity to legitimate, admirable alliances who try to make their communities a better place.
For example, a group calling itself ‘Hate Free San Diego‘ has recently come to my attention. It’s mission statement, in part, says:
“We honor and respect the diversity that makes San Diego County one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. This diversity boasts a rich and varied cultural heritage that must be protected. Therefore, when an act of hate is committed against any person, it is considered an act against the entire community.”
Hate Free San Diego is endorsed by local politicians, city offices, the Gay and Lesbian Center and a diversity of churches. Since San Diego has such a wide diversity of cultures, religious beliefs, and customs, it is an admirable effort to inform and educate the people in our society to learn about the differences and similarities of various peoples who have come here. We have a large Vietnamese community, as well as folk from Africa, Pacific Islands, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Iran and Mexico. Many of them are refugees fleeing violence in their homelands. When they come, they bring their traditions, religions and cuisine with them.
By establishing communication between these varied cultures, we can all have a better understanding of each other. Ignorance fosters fear. Understanding fosters fellowship.
People would have a strange reaction if the KKK were to join the NAACP or the Southern Poverty Law Center to enhance its public image.
Yet nobody is asking why the San Diego Scientology organization is listed amongst legitimate human rights activists in this group. They are the foxes in the Chicken Club.
Their 50 year history is full of racism, domestic espionage, and human rights violations. They still actively try to crush the rights of people to speak out against them, with lies, with lawyers, with private investigators. They use intimidation to terrorize their critics into silence. Sometimes they resort to violence.
In 2008, the Scientology organization tried to censor an internet video clip of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology.
Gawker.com refused to pull it, stating that it had become news. As word of the attempted censorship spread across the internets, it got the attention of Anonymous, a random assortment of netizens. They decided this censorship was unacceptable, and Project Chanology was born.
Operation Chanology issued a warning to Scientology.
The video clip went up in January. In February, over 9000 people around the globe turned out for the first of many protests. Over time, Chanology has become the main driving force for exposing Scientology’s lies, hypocrisy, abuses and criminal behavior.
Ex-members too, began to come forward and speak out about the abuses they’ve suffered. Some of these are tales of incredible privation in Scientology’s paramilitary force, the Sea Organization; where children as young as 12 years old were forced to work long hours, denied family visits and education, and given the most marginal of care and nurturing. You see, L. Ron Hubbard said that children are only thetans (spirits) in little bodies. And when these children grow up and leave, they are completely unprepared for life in the real world. Should their family members remain in the cult, they are disconnected from them, have no education or life skills, no safety net.
Unfortunately for the Scientology organization, many of these ex-Scientology kids are speaking out.
Scientology also utilizes “foreign religious workers,” brought in under false colors to perform labor for the organization. Passports are confiscated. Workers are moved around the country, and family members have no contact with them.
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Some ex-Scientologists have launched lawsuits against the organization, claiming deprivation, slave wages, and totalitarian conditions, including coerced abortions.
Marc and Claire Headley are two such brave souls whose stories are unbelievably revolting. Marc was assaulted by “Ecclesiastical Head” of Scientology and Chairman of the Board David Miscavige. This husband and wife team dedicated years of their lives to Scientology, working at the “secret” base at Gilman Hot Springs, California. Pictures of the base shows dagger-like security spikes…on the inside of the fences!
“Plaintiff Headley worked for Defendants CSI and RTC for many years before her escape in 2005. During this time, Plaintiff became pregnant on two occasions. Plaintiff was ordered to terminate these pregnancies by forced abortions.”
Like many inmates at Gold Base, the Headleys were prevented from leaving by sociopathic security guards Danny Dunagin and Kenny Seybold. These two Keystone Kop wannabes also assaulted protesters at that compound in October, 2008, including a 57 year old woman.
KESQ Palm Springs did a series of programs on Scientology, the assaults, the alleged abuses behind the razor wire, and Scientology’s apparent influence on County Supervisor Jeff Stone, who introduced an ordinance, 884, based on unsubstantiated allegations contained in a booklet provided to him by Scientology. Ordinance 884 was requested by the cult to quash the protests. That would be a free speech issue. Scientology claims to be a champion of free speech and human rights. Strangely, their behavior suggests that they only favor free speech that favors them.
Scientology claims to support human rights. So, why is the “Church” of Scientology in San Diego listed as supporting Prop 8, which would deny an entire class of citizens the right to marry?
Scientology also claims to fight against hatred, yet their anti-psychiatry materials are full of imagery depicting violence against psychiatrists, including hand grenades destroying the “psych network,” and machine gunning down mental health professionals. Of course, they offer nothing as a replacement except Scientology, while calling for the “global obliteration” of psychiatry.
So, here’s the deal. What the HELL is Scientology doing on the list of Hate Free San Diego supporters? Simple. Their reputation is so bad, they have to parasitize legitimate groups in hopes some of that acceptance will wear off on them!
The other members probably have no idea how bad Scientology really is! The people sent out to schmooze are the sort of friendly, personable folk you might find at a used car lot, or a self-help seminar. Nobody ever seems to bother questioning them about the dark side of their “religion.” And maybe they should, because the only goal of Scientology is to gain acceptance in communities, gain influence amongst local government and police departments, gain egress into public schools with their arsenal of front groups, and foster better PR so that nobody bothers to find out that the rooster in the henhouse is actually a fox in a chicken suit!
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Some very good points. The organisation calling itself the church of scientology and a number of front organisations practice hatred and human rights abuse while claiming they do the opposite. They are insidious and corrupting and will wangle their way in to any organisation they believe they can gain a benefit from.
It is ludicrous that Scientology and its many front groups would try to characterize themselves as benevolent, forthright members of cilil society. Here are some quotes from their founder, L. Ron Hubbard, whose words they consider to be perfect and unchangeable:
The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, 1995.
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997.
Somebody some day will say “this is illegal.” By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, “LRH Relationship to Orgs”
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs
The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. - Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955
ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1) “Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists”
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 5 November 1967, “Critics of Scientology”
This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don’t ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way. - Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 25 February 1966
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There are thousands more such revolting and disturbing quotes from Hubbard.
An interesting experiment: Try to get a Scientologist to disavow any of those statements. Simply say, “Was Hubbard wrong, Yes or No?” YOU WILL NOT GET A YES or NO ANSWER! The Scientologist will try excuse Hubbard, and/or will attack you for asking. Scientologists take Hubbard’s words as “gospel,” and even today, follow his instructions to the letter.