Volunteer Ministers
In Scientology, "hate" and "hostility" are more valued than "sympathy" and "grief" as seen on Scientology's "tone scale".
Daily News (Apr. 2007): "Critics: Scientologists' Va.
trip a time to prey" The
Church of Scientology has dispatched "ministers"
to provide "grief counseling" for shell-shocked
youth at Virginia Tech - but critics suspect the
sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students."It's shameless, how they milk human tragedy to promote their organization," charges Rick Ross, whose CultNews.net has long tracked the group, which counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley among its members. "These young people [at VT] are experiencing trauma. What they need are qualified mental health professionals." HollywoodInterrupted.com's Mark Ebner brands the Scientologists as "vultures" who are "hindering legitimate, heroic rescue efforts with their spurious 'therapies,'" such as a "touch assist" - a light massage, which, Ebner says, is "supposed to distract them from their tragedy. It's a form of mini-hypnosis." [...]Wikipedia (Jan. 24, 2007): "Volunteer Ministers"
The Volunteer Minister program of the
Church of Scientology dispatches groups of Scientologists
to assist people in distress, using techniques developed by
Scientology founder
L. Ron Hubbard. According to the Church, "It is a worldwide
movement that has for more than 25 years worked across national,
racial, political and religious boundaries in more than 150
countries to help people deal with upheavals and has helped
them put their lives back together." Its slogan is "Something
can be done about it." The Church claims that the program constitutes
"the only effective steps to arrest and reverse the deterioration
of [the] world.".[1]
BBC Radio (Jul. 2, 2006): Report on Volunteer Ministers
Mind Games - Scientology versus Psychiatry This week the Five
Live Report goes undercover to investigate Scientology. In the
hours after the London Bombings 12 months ago, dotted amongst
the injured were the yellow shirted Volunteer Ministers of Scientology
who managed to get behind the safety tape to help the injured
and traumatised. But Five Live has found that the Volunteers
were there to keep the trained trauma counsellors away from
the victims, part of a bitter fight against psychiatry which
has taken them to disaster zones at Ground Zero, the Asian Tsunami
and Hurricane Katrina. 'Mind Games - Scientology versus Psychiatry'
is an All Out Production
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Hartley
Patterson: "Scientology Volunteer Ministers"
As a critic of the Church of Scientology I'd heard about the
first publicised appearance of the Volunteer Ministers
during the days after 9/11 in New York. Stories about them
at disasters continued to appear, notably for the 2005
Tsunami, but when suicide bombers struck in my own nearest
city of London it didn't initially occur to me that they
would be involved. After decades of 'the troubles' when the
IRA were setting off the occasional bomb and frequently
phoning in bomb threats, London has a well rehearsed
disaster plan.
Gerry Armstrong: "Scientology's Vulture Minister Program"But there they were. I was even prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, until one undercover reporter joined them going off to sell Scientology pamphlets "near where all the bombs went off" and two others recorded them boasting about "fighting the psychiatrists, keeping the psychs away". [...]
The truth about the motivations behind Scientology's
"Volunteer Minister" campaign, however, is far from
benevolent. Detailed information about Scientology's
"Volunteer Minister" campaign has been intercepted by Human
Rights activists and a great deal of information about the
campaign has been offered by followers of the Scientology
organization who used to be part of the campaign. Further
information about the actual sinister motives of Scientology
has been acquired by Human Rights activists infiltrating the
Scientology organization's meetings and offices.
The Skeptic Tank: "Scientology's Volunteer Minister Program"
The truth about the motivations behind Scientology's
"Volunteer Minister" campaign, however, is far from
benevolent. Detailed information about Scientology's
"Volunteer Minister" campaign has been intercepted by Human
Rights activists and a great deal of information about the
campaign has been offered by followers of the Scientology
organization who used to be part of the campaign. Further
information about the actual sinister motives of Scientology
has been acquired by Human Rights activists infiltrating the
Scientology organization's meetings and offices.
David Rice: "Scientology®'s 'Volunteer Ministers'"
Well, the criminal commercial enterprise that calls itself
"The 'Church' of Scientology®" uses a different phrase: "A
Scientology® Volunteer 'Minister.'" This group of about
twenty-five individuals act like sharks at the smell of
blood; only in their case, the blood is MONEY and
PROPAGANDA. The rest of the world called the World Trade
Center disaster a crime and tragedy: to Scientology® Inc. is
was a BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
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