Palin, Van Susteren and Scientology

Scientology is based on the principal that people who believe dead folks live in the sky, and they too can do that if they eat the right cracker or make a certain one of the dead folks their imaginary friend will believe anything, and are sheep to be fleeced.

Scientology is a money-driven cult, and has used political influence many times against its detractors, protesters, and anyone who questions its operations. It paid into the campaign funds of Jeff Stone, a supervisor for the area in California where they have their work labor camp, and he suddenly proposed an ordinance limiting picketing there, so you can picket in front of the White House but not a Scientology compound. They've given millions of pounds to the London police fund, who arrested protesters at Tom Cruise's premiere of Valkyrie, even though the video shows the protesters being attacked by Scientologists while the police stood by and did nothing. A Bahamanian minister was removed from officer over a connection with the Scientology-related death of Jett Travolta. In 1993, when Scientology was trying to get its tax-exempt status returned (it was removed after the IRS discovered Scientology wiretapped their phones - google 'operation snow white'), celebrities lobbied to Congress and paid into the Clinton campaign.

SCIENTOLOGY IS NOT A RELIGION. IT IS A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION AND YOU DO NOT WANT POLITICIANS NEAR THEM. THEIR GOAL IS TO MOVE LAWS IN THEIR FINANCIAL FAVOR.

That is the real issue here.
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Criminal, cult, weird, tax evasion, scheme and on and on. Why is it that in 30 plus years of studying Scientology I don't agree with these opinions.
What I do see is others purposely misquoting the subject then some one else quoting them and on and on until you get this gobbly goop of wild fanatical opinions. The best part is the people who read one short article on a subject then feel they "know" all about it and could never consider that there may be other data or the article could be slanted or incorrect. Talk about mind control.
If 1/100 of the accusations were true Scientology would cease to exist, anyone with any sense of how our society works knows this, yet it expands. I think it is time you either drop it or read the actual books written by L Ron Hubbard yourself.
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin both foresaw this kind of thing when they insisted that freedom of religion be amended into our constitution. They had to hide their religious beliefs for fear of being ostracized in the very country they were key to creating.