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What Judges Say About Scientology
Quotes from judges and others about Scientology
Justice Anderson, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia:
"Scientology is evil; its techniques are evil; its practice is a
serious threat to the community, medically, morally, and socially; and
its adherents are sadly deluded and often mentally ill... (Scientology
is) the world's largest organization of unqualified persons engaged in
the practice of dangerous techniques which masquerade as mental
therapy".
Kenneth Robinson, British Minister of Health:
"The government is satisfied that Scientology is socially harmful. It
alienates members of families from each other and attributes squalid
and disgraceful motives to all who oppose it; its authoritarian
principles and practice are a potential menace to the personality and
well being of those so deluded as to become followers; above all, its
methods can be a serious danger to the health of those who submit to
them... There is no power under existing law to prohibit the practice
of Scientology; but the government has concluded that it is so
objectionable that it would be right to take all steps within its
power to curb its growth".
Justice Latey, ruling in the High Court of London:
"Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious...It is corrupt
sinister and dangerous. It is corrupt because it is based on lies and
deceit and has its real objective money and power for Mr. Hubbard...
It is sinister because it indulges in infamous practices both to its
adherents who do not toe the line unquestionably and to those who
criticize it or oppose it.
It is dangerous because it is out to capture people and to
indoctrinate and brainwash them so they become the unquestioning
captives and tools of the cult, withdrawn from ordinary thought,
living, and relation****ps with others".
Judge Breckenridge, Los Angeles Superior Court:
"[The court record is] replete with evidence [that Scientology] is
nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount
of money from its adepts by pseudo scientific theories...
and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to
continue with their sect....
The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this
bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L. Ronald
Hubbard".
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge, June 1984, in the
Gerry Armstrong case:
"In addition to violating and abusing its own members' civil rights,
the organization over the years with its 'fair game' doctrine has
harassed and abused those persons not in the church whom it perceives
as enemies".
California Supreme Court, United States v. Lee [455 U.S. 252,257,258
(1982)*/:
"When a person is subjected to coercive persuasion [as in Scientology]
without his knowledge or consent ...[he may] develop serious and
sometimes irreversible physical and psychiatric disorders, up to and
including schizophrenia, self-mutilation, and suicide".
Lord Denning:
"...capable of such danger that the public interest demands that
people should know what is going on".
Judge Constandia Angelaki:
"It is an organization with medical, social and ethical practices that
are dangerous and harmful,"
"It claims to act freely so as to draw members who subsequently
undergo... brainwa****ng by dictated ways of thinking that limit
reaction capabilities".
Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, Justice Brookings, 1982:
"...the teaching of Scientology and the practice of Scientology will
result in the commission of many offenses and may well result in the
commission of many others".
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