Stern.de interviews Arnie Lerma: Criticism of Tom Cruise "A propaganda minister of the present" for Scientology

A unofficial translation of the very recent Stern.de interview with Arnie Lerma:

Tom Cruise- A propaganda minister of the present
Kritik an Tom Cruise: 'Ein Propagandaminister der Gegenwart' -
Lifestyle - stern.de 1/30/2008

Criticism of Tom Cruise
"A propaganda minister of the present"

The Cruise-Goebbels comparison of TV historian Guido Knopp has triggered controversial discussions. In stern.de interview explained Arnie Lerma, America Scientology's number one enemy, which he compared to perfectly justified.

Arnie Lerma is considered the best known Scientology critics in the United States. From his 18th Let on he was part of the group. In his ten years of Scientology, he climbed up into the elite Sea Organization ". When Lerma and the daughter of founder L. Ron Hubbard, Suzette Hubbard, fell in love and the wanted to get married, he was under considerable pressure by Scientology to end the relationship. Finally, it came to a Florida hours of interrogation. Lerma:

"The deal was: 'We will give you a guarantee of safe passage out of the state of Florida with all body parts attached if you tell Suzette Hubbard the marriage is off.' "

Lerma turned his back on Scientology, and since 1992 he deals intensively with researching and exposing the methods of the group. It was in the mid-nineties that the now 57-year-old made the original documents of the science-fiction-like Scientology doctrine public worldwide for the first time made. Lerma, who operates the Web site www.lermanet.com was therefore Scientology by sued.



Interview:
Mr. Lerma, that German historian said of Cruise in that video of the phrase "Are we gonna clean up this place?" Says, compared with Joseph Goebbels. The Germans once asked: "Do you want total war?". Did quite the historian - or he exaggerates?
(c) AP/Andrew Medichini

Is the historian right - or is he exaggerating?

"The parallels to a minister of propaganda aren't far fetched. The concept of a total war is deeply rooted in the mindset of every convinced scientologist. "Clean this place up" means "clear the planet" - which means to cleanse Earth of all enemies of Scientology. Cruise mediates an ideology of hate. He also does it whenever he speaks about "suppressive persons", who are enemies of Scientology, so called "suppresives". There is a Scientology textbook named
"Shattering Suppression". On the cover you can see a face being shattered."

"Unlike the latest Cruise biography, which calls him the 2nd most important Scientologist, I would take it one step further: Cruise is the most important Scientologist of them all, because he is the best promoter of the organization. So, indeed he is some kind of minister of propaganda."

Are comparisons with the "Third Reich" not generally covered?

"If you take a closer look at the whole thing, you can see it: the way Scientology does things undercover and makes propaganda for its own ideas is identical to the totalitarian dogma of the Third Reich. The obscure Scientology slang, which Tom Cruise uses as well, is nothing but a cover-up tactic. The strange diction hides the horrible goals and the obvious historic precursors. This language makes scrutinization very difficult, because most people have never heard of made-up terms like "suppressive person". The master-plan is to hide the true dimension of the whole thing."

" Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wanted to program members of Scientology in a way, that makes euthanasia seem like a feasible alternative, instead of fulfilling the needs of a human society. Hubbard was hoping that one day, when enough people realized what Scientology really is, it would already be too late. He said: "Because of that, we have to make sure that (on that day) we are the ones who so say what is the law and what is not."

Nevertheless, the Scientologist Cruise has just played Count Stauffenberg, also an opponent of Hitler.

"Shooting the movie "Valkyrie" had a lot in common with a diversionary tactic. It's stage magic. It's supposed to get the attention of the Germans and focus it into another direction, so they won't be aware of how dangerous the organization really is. I'm pretty sure, that the minds behind Scientology knew exactly why Cruise chose to shoot "Valkyrie", and why he chose to shoot it in Germany. They have an agenda. Because of their history, Germans tend to see the ideology of Scientology for what it really is. Plus: their country (Germany) shares its history with people from around the world. "Valkyrie" was a pre-emptive measure to take the wind out of the critics' sails. It's just another cover-up tactic"

And Cruise is part of this tactic?

"Yes. He truly believes, what other people tell him to believe. The videos of him prove it. At the same time, they show the psychological warfare, that the organization uses against its own members, in order to keep them trapped in some sort of dream-world. How are we supposed to take those people seriously? A scientologist believes, that the spirits of dead aliens are inside his body."


Interview: Jof Isert
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My God,! Arnie Lerma did it! He managed to get that message out to the very people who will be able to understand it the most and be able to do something with it!! Excellent!! Together with the video is priceless

Read this via Google translation page

The video of Cruise accepting his award is against this backdrop of information. There are links to many other articles on scientology, seemingly all current and including another interview by a german fellow.

Mary McConnell

Fun with "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" - A Scientology Propaganda Project

Fun at the Church of Scientology’s "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum!
by brian ( at catsandbeer.com )

Last month, author Brian's cousin Pete "came out to Los Angeles on a trip for work, and since then all he ever talks about is his visit to the Church of Scientology’s "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" museum. Seriously, he won’t shut up about the thing." Priceless :)


Hubbard in the House -- the State House!

JEFFERSON CITY | The halls of the Capitol are pretty quiet on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

The rotunda, though, is jumping. A group called the Citizen Commission on Human Rights has packed the central space with no fewer than eight flat-panel TVs and 185 feet of six-foot-tall, full-color displays, all of them blasting the practice of psychiatry.

The exhibit’s title captures its subtlety: “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.” [..]
(Yes, another priceless article. )

"The World's Largest Global Scam" is The Church of Scientology

Of the Tom Cruise Video, Lerma says "Scientology is the World's Largest Global Scam"

Arnie Lerma of Lermanet.com discusses "the video the Church of Scientology did not want you to see".

Here he's interviewed on January 16, 2008, by SKY tv UK, a UK Satellite TV broadcaster run by Rupert Murdoch, from the DC Fox News affiliate station about the bizzare claims Tom Cruise made in the video.

He says " Scientology is the World's Largest Global Scam. " " It's based on hypnosis and the propaganda techniques that built the Third Reich."

I was unable to catch the anchor's name but he's with Sky's 24 hour MOR news channel. This and other interviews about the Tom Cruise video played every 20 minutes round the clock, I suppose much to the dismay of the Church of Scientology:




Arnie Lerma has the distinct unofficial title of being Scientology's most persistent and effective ex-member critic on the internet and in the history of the church. No matter what the church has done to him to try and stop his efforts to inform the world about the 'con game' he calls Scientology, he's never given up.
He has helped thousands and thousands of people by helping make the internet a viable and accessable place to get the critical facts and information people need in order to know and understand the Church of Scientology.

Back in 1995 Scientology sued Lerma, his ISP: Digital Gateway, The Washington Post, and investigative journalists Richard Leiby and Marc Fisher. The lawsuit was filed against Lerma and his Internet service provider by the church's Religious Technology Center, (RTC), claiming copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. " In that case the "The Washington Post, et al were released from the suit when USDJ Leonie Brinkema ruled in a memorandum on Nov 28, 1995:
"When the RTC first approached the Court with its ex parte request for the seizure warrant and temporary restraining order, the dispute was presented as a straight-forward one under copyright and trade secret law. However, the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics. As the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric of its briefs and oral argument now demonstrates, the RTC appears far more concerned about criticism of Scientology than vindication of its secrets."

(Memorandum Opinion of November 28, 1995, by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema; Religious Technology Center v. Arnaldo Lerma, Washington Post, Mark Fisher, and Richard Leiby)

The Memorandum Opinion acknowledges what critics believe Scientology practices to this day: the "Fair Game" policy, a written directive by L. Ron Hubbard that encourages harassment of anyone who speaks out against the church.

In conclusion, the court awarded RTC the statutory minimum of $2,500 for five instances of non-willful copyright violation."

Lerma has researched Scientology for many years to determine how it was that he gave the organization 10 uears of his life, as so many others have in the promised hopes of becoming happy and godlike. You can find much of his research at Lermanet.com

Grateful thanks to youtube's quentinkrisp for getting the interviews up on the internet:
Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 1of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 2of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 3of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 4of4


* quentinkrisp Note to YouTube Legal:
These fair use reportage clips are owned by my friend Rupert. They are not the property of the so called "Church" of Scientology or the hetrosexual actor Tom Cruise. If you actually bother to watch the clip then you'll see that any tiny percentage of non-rupert footage clearly passes the legal test of News Reportage with respect to copyright claims on the whole clip.

Hypnosis in Action: Scientology Training Routines

Another gem from XENU TV at Google Video!

Scientology: TR Demo

"This video demonstrates Scientology's basic training routines (TRs) and gives an insight into how Scientologists are indoctrinated into the group."

Watch the trance-like effect of these drills. Scientologists do various courses on the different 'levels' of these drills as well as many, many hours repeating them when told they are not applying them correctly in scientology. I consider the TR's a low level application of hypnoic submission. Enough of it and you'll agree to anything.

You can get a good idea of the hows and whys from reading
'On Scientology's Training Routines (TRs)' By Joe "Zinjifar" Lynn

In it he says:

"To really boil down 'hypnosis' to its simplest form; it's 'becoming comfortable with taking orders'.

Trust and 'authority' are essential elements for someone to be successfully 'hypnotized', and, most of us have ingrained resistance to 'taking direction'. Without the trust of the 'subject' in the 'authority' of the 'hypnotist' there will be no hypnosis.

This extends to such variants as 'autohypnosis', where the subject must trust himself and have respect for his own authority to give himself commands, and be comfortable to follow them, as in the use of 'affirmations', yet another hypnotic exercise.

If there is no trust, and no recognition of authority, there is no hypnosis.

If there is no trust, and no recognition of authority, there is no Scientology.

The 'TRs' are the training in that trust and the practice in accepting the directions to perform even ridiculous tasks and exercises.

Oh, I know, the 'TRs are good!' contingent are now over in the corner mumbling 'Scientology is not hypnotism' to the wall... but, at least they're not clucking or making lawn-mower noises... "

Both of the people in the video were harassed and intimidated by the cult for things including the making of this tape. This is Scientology's application of FAIR GAME. Scientologists believe they gain freedom but unless they do as the cult wants, there is no freedom. Particularly there is a suppression that is not in agreement with scientology policy. I admire these 2 for taking a stand and helping Mark Bunker at XenuTV make this visual demonstration possible. See for yourself what the TR's are:




Visit www.xenutv.com for more informative videos about the cult of scientology

SCIENTOLOGY PROPAGANDA AT WORK.

SCIENTOLOGY PROPAGANDA AT WORK. READ IT FOR YOURSELF AND THEN READ WHY:

Communication vital for family
Chico Enterprise-Record
Article Launched: 06/21/2007 12:07:08 AM PDT


I read the article by Mary Rose Kennedy and was saddened to hear that her son Thomas had been out of touch with his parents for so long. As president of the Church of Scientology in Sacramento and a long standing member of the church, it is certainly not in keeping with Scientology ideals for family not to be in touch with each other.
As L Ron Hubbard wrote: "A family is a group with the common goal of group survival and advancement" he also wrote "communication is the root of marital success."

Due to our popularity and rapid growth we have millions of members and thousands of church staff. Church staffs are involved in a myriad of activities, including missionary work throughout the world in helping establish churches, missions, human rights groups and community betterment programs to address problems with Illiteracy, drugs, criminal reform and immorality.

So I checked into this and am happy to say Thomas is now back in touch with his family and they were happy to hear from him. We appreciate this being brought to our attention so we could get this corrected and the family back into communication.

— Mike Klagenberg, Sacramento


The above propaganda was written by a staff member of the church of scientology to obscure the the following very real and moving article showing how scientology stole a family member not seen in over 16 years.

The original article was in the same newspaper 5 weeks before the cult's Letter to the Editor reply appeared but it was mysteriously missing from the papers archives today when I looked.

Fortunately, I just happened to find it posted over at Operation Clambake via google search. Here it is:

All About Us: Thomas: Past, present and is there a future?
By MARY ROSE KENNEDY
Chico Enterprise-Record
Article Launched:05/06/2007 12:41:00 PM PDT

Thomas was, er, is, our only son. I think of him in past tense. At Christmas one daughter laughingly said, "We need to have a memorial service for Thomas. I'm beginning to forget what he was like."

It has been two and a half years since we have seen him. There has been no communication. When we call his place of employment we get answers such as, "Thomas Kennedy? No, I don't know him. But I'm new here. I'll check." Elevator music fills the void ad infinitum until we hang up in frustration.

When we call his wife we get little better: "Thomas is on an important assignment and can't be reached. I don't know where he is right now."

When I asked her what he is doing she said, "Umm, I guess you could say he is an event planner."

I retorted, "An event planner? What does that mean? Is he standing on street corners passing out fliers?"

"Actually," she replied, "it means he could be doing anything. He might pick up a hammer and build a stage."

This is our Thomas: A beautiful baby with eyes so blue I felt like I was looking at the sky; a quiet child who responded to his two older sisters' teasing by ignoring them; an A student, twice student body president in high school. When his teacher wanted him tested for the gifted program in third grade I said, "Oh no, not Thomas, he doesn't even talk."

When he told me he wanted to go to MIT his junior year of high school I was startled. How could we afford that? Unsure, I told him to go ahead and try. If he got in, we'd find a way to keep him there.

At age 21 he graduated from MIT with bachelor and master's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. By age 27, after a dizzying ascent in the computer industry and a failed marriage, he dropped out of society.

How does such a thing happen?

He was 21 when he married, too young emotionally, too inexperienced with life. The divorce was difficult but also an opportunity for a new start. He took a personality test. Then he took a communications course; next, a course in personal relations. It seemed a healthy start. But, it seems, he was looking for answers in the wrong place.

When I told my friend what he was doing she sounded the first alarm. "You better warn him," she advised. "That is a very dangerous cult."

When I shared her concern with my son he scoffed, "You're just buying the media hype."

Our concern grew as his involvement grew. He called one evening to chat and casually remarked, "I'm thinking of leaving my job and going into Scientology full time.

Knowing my son's passive nature, my spirits sank. "Oh, Thomas," I exhaled, "that means you've already done it."

"Yeah," he replied.

His life spiraled out of control. We went to San Jose to see him. We were shown through the organization where Thomas now worked. We were asked to watch a video explaining the background and guiding philosophy. We saw his cubical with the flow charts. He explained his duties as the ethics officer. Our trepidation became palpable. I was getting a migraine; my husband was laboring to control his temper.

Later we visited his apartment. He introduced his roommate. We learned this is a person who stayed with him all the time, a handler. Nothing of his former life remained in the apartment. Only scientology literature lined his bookcases.

A month later he went to a two-week "bull baiting"seminar. It is a psychological hammering and rebuilding process. He was never the same.

One of the few occasions he came home we were sitting at the kitchen table. I was crying hysterically and babbling, "Thomas, how can we get you out of this? I'll walk in front of a firing squad. I'll throw myself in front of a big truck. I'll do anything." He looked over my head with flat eyes and said nothing. He was gone.

It has now been 16 years. We miss him.

Mary Rose Kennedy, a retired teacher, lives in Orland with her husband. They have five children and 10 grandchildren.

Operation Clambake

http://tinyurl.com/29ttar
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Here is the dead link to that original article: http://www.chicoer.com/lifestyle/ci_5833357

Why is it missing from the ChicoEr news archives?

Well, maybe someone needs to ask.

UPDATE: 6/23/07:

Subject: 6/21/07 Letter to the editor 'Communication vital for family'
To: dlittle@chicoer.com

Chico Enterprise Record

Dear David Little, Editor,

I don't understand why you accept a letter to the editor concerning a particular article when the article being discussed cannot be found in your archives.


Perhaps this was an error that can be quickly remedied but seeing that it involves Scientology, I cannot help but suspect there is more to why the article is missing.


Here is the letter to the editor, followed by the original article link , which is dead. The 6/21 letter is absolute propaganda but how can one tell without the original to compare?

Communication vital for family
Chico Enterprise-RecordArticle Launched: 06/21/2007 12:07:08 AM PDT
http://www.chicoer.com/letters/ci_6191657


All About Us: Thomas: Past, present and is there a future?
By MARY ROSE KENNEDY
Chico Enterprise-Record
Article Launched:05/06/2007 12:41:00 PM PDT
http://www.chicoer.com/lifestyle/ci_5833357


Only Church of Scientology would not want that article in your archives, Mr. Little. Unless Mrs Mary Rose Kennedy asked you to remove it, which is possible. Sometimes the cult pays people and media off to keep quiet. It's called a gag agreement. You can read about them here.


Scientology Gag Agreements - A Conspiracy for Silence Scientology Gag Agreements - A Conspiracy for Silence. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. ...
www.lermanet.com/scientologyscandals/silence.htm

Can you please explain what happened on this and if the article will be uploaded and put in the archives where it really belong? That article was one of many written by real parants who have lost their children to scientology. You can read more about this 'disconnection' policy of scientology's and the effect it has on families here:

The unperson
Scientologists who cross their religion can be declared suppressive
persons, shunned by peers and ostracized by family.
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer
Published June 24, 2006
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml

Inside Scientology
Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion
JANET REITMAN Rolling Stone Magazine
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9363363/inside_scientology

Disconnection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Disconnection is a
practice in Scientology, in which a Scientologist severs all
ties .... Scientology disconnect policy destroying families ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconnection

I appreciate your help in addressing this situation as soon as
possible. Thank you.

Cruise Control in MO? Scientology's CCHR Exhibit At The State Capitol Rotunda Is Aimed At Hurting The Mentally Ill

Scientology discriminates against the mentally ill. Their anti-psychiatry cover group, Citizens Commission On Human rights - CCHR - has IRS tax-exemption status so all those donations go to attack the industry which actually defends and helps the mentally ill.

Here is a excellent article explaining the game behind $cientology's propaganda show,
Thanks to writer J. Scott Christianson and the Columbia Tribune.

Scientology exhibit won’t help the mentally ill
By J. SCOTT CHRISTIANSON
Columbia Tribune ( Columbia, Missouri )
Published Tuesday, January 9, 2007 ( Fair Use Exerpt)

On Thursday and Friday, the state Capitol Rotunda will host an exhibit titled "The Industry of Death." If you’re thinking it’s about time an exposé about corporate chicken farming came to the Capitol, you’ll be sadly disappointed. However, if you believe that psychiatrists and the entire psychiatric profession are part of a secret plan for world domination developed in part by Adolf Hitler, then it’s time to load the kids in the car for a day of fun at the Capitol.

The "Industry of Death" exhibit is sponsored by the Church of Scientology and makes a host of outrageous claims about the field of psychiatry. Twenty-five percent of psychiatrists sexually abuse their patients. Psychiatrists deliberately kill about 10,000 people a year - sounds about right. And for the big surprise, psychiatrists were responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - guilty by association, at least, since psychiatrists are responsible for the existence of terrorists and suicide bombers. Last year, Tom Cruise famously launched his own attack on psychiatry after learning some of these "facts" about the profession. This exhibit explains a lot about why he seemed so far out when discussing psychiatry with Matt Lauer on "Today."

The Church of Scientology has always seemed to have it in for psychiatrists. Perhaps it is because psychiatry and psychology are based on science, while Scientology is based on the ramblings of a science-fiction writer from the 1950s. To paraphrase the official view of the Vatican - an institution with a long history of dealing with matters of science and religion - it is science that keeps religion from becoming superstition. This exhibit from the Church of Scientology is just one way Scientologists have clearly shown that they stand on the side of superstition.

In most countries, the Church of Scientology is not even recognized as a religion; rather, it is treated and taxed like the lucrative business that it is. Only after a 25-year battle with the IRS, in which the Church of Scientology allegedly used private investigators to put pressure on the IRS officials in charge of granting not-for-profit status, was it recognized in the United States as tax-exempt.

Regardless of its tax-exempt status, the Church of Scientology is more like a pyramid scheme than a church. A follower of Scientology pays to take classes to receive the wisdom of Scientology, which is not publicly available. The more classes you take, the more enlightened you get. When you have completed the required curriculum, you can start teaching Scientology courses and charge tuition to your students. There are several levels for teachers and students, so there are more courses to take and more levels to achieve. Think Mary Kay Cosmetics with aliens and celebrities. ( continued) http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Jan/20070109Comm001.asp

J. Scott Christianson lives and works in Columbia and can be reached at jscottchristianson@mac.com.

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Formerly Fooled and Finally Free of The Deceptive Cult Called $cientology