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pnwmom

(108,995 posts)
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:06 PM Jul 2012

Scientologists instructed on how to respond to negative online comments.

This is in response to all the publicity about the Cruise/Holmes divorce.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/scientology-fights-back-katie-holmes-tom-cruise-divorce-article-1.1109032

Leaders of the controversial church group have sent a hastily-penned email to members giving them tips on how to handle the barrage of negative media the high-profile divorce has already generated.

“When people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumors and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well,” Scientologist Daniele Lattanzi wrote in the missive sent Thursday morning.

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Members are urged to scour the Internet for offensive statements and report them to website monitors with a note explaining the comments are in violation of the code of conduct.

“If [there] is only one person (me) reporting these issues, the moderator at Microsoft will not take the comment off,” Lattanzi writes in the email. “If you start to have 10 or 20 people reporting it, they are going to take this down.”


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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. It is to laugh,
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:14 PM
Jul 2012

in the words of that esteemed philosopher Bugs Bunny.

Doesn't Xenu report this stuff directly to the cultists?

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
4. I love their invented language.
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:16 PM
Jul 2012

What a bunch of gullible loons.

Hubbard was a drunk and drug abuser who was in serioius need of psychiatric care.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
13. And he lived the end of his life on a boat full of young asian boys.
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 07:54 PM
Jul 2012

Not that I'm adverse to that, but I don't have his resources.

obamanut2012

(26,142 posts)
10. David Miscavigne's wife, Shelley, disappeared several years ago
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:38 PM
Jul 2012

Miscavigne is CoS's head guy, and Cruise's BFF, and his wife picked out Katie Holmes for TC, who then held a fake audition to lure her in.

Shelley hasn't been seen in years, and her mother committed suicide by shooting herself in the chest and then the head several times with a rifle. David Miscavigne's assistant is his girlfriend.

You know, at least the Mafia has a certain code of conduct they adhere to. I have no idea how CoS is allowed to exist, let alone have tax exempt status, after Operation Freakout, Operation Paperclip, all of the financial fraud, the murders, imprisonments, kidnappings, disappearances, slave labor, forced abortions, child labor, Sea Org, etc.

It really is a criminal organization.

Tom Cruise is considered the second in command.

I never thought Katie Holmes had it in her to plan her escape like she did with her Dad and other attorneys. Good for her.

Johonny

(20,889 posts)
6. people wouldn't be so uninformed if they didn't have to pay them
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:23 PM
Jul 2012

to gain access to their secret BS information. It's a scam. At least other religions have their books available for the cheap. It doesn't seem fair to complain people are ill informed about your religion when they themselves lie about it on purpose to rope you into their money making cult. I see their fake * every year measuring resistance and claiming it's a stress test. They're con-artist without even a good scam.

obamanut2012

(26,142 posts)
11. It;s been available on line for decades now
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:39 PM
Jul 2012

And, the Cos South Park episode didn't even need to make anything up.

Holmes was lovebombed and fooled by a controlling abusing man and his cult.

obamanut2012

(26,142 posts)
8. It is obvious who they are on the gossip blogs
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:31 PM
Jul 2012

Some, like celebitchy.com, strictly moderates its board and zaps trolls, and is doing terrific zapping the Scilons on there attacking Katie Holmes and her father, and often Nicole Kidman, and praising Tom Cruise.

They have an actually Org that does this in the Guardian Office. OSA, I think it's called.

Anyone who wants some great Scientology info: go to the village voice and read Tony Ortega's long-running "Running Scared" coverage on CoS. He really should get a Pulitzer.

pnwmom

(108,995 posts)
16. Thanks for the suggestion. I know someone who got kicked out of Scientology,
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 08:40 PM
Jul 2012

with no pension or Social Security, because she was too elderly to work for them anymore. So I've been especially interested in them since then.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,196 posts)
9. "Excuse me, sir, but you are affecting my dynamics."
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:35 PM
Jul 2012

I truly don't know how I'd handle such a comment. I guess it's akin to "Yeah, but you're a big poopie-head."

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
12. Paranoia strikes deep. Into you're heart it will creep. But that's OK..........
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:52 PM
Jul 2012

As long as it doesn't creep into the profit.

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