Imagine you are Jewish, confined to the Polish ghetto by German soldiers, reviled by citizens, abused, harassed, your business vandalized or destroyed. Food is dear, as no one can leave to visit the shops, and no supplies are coming in.
Then you read that some organization is giving Hitler a humanitarian award for no apparent reason.
How would that make you feel?
The news that the Simon Wiesenthal Center is about to present Tom Cruise with a humanitarian award today is causing outrage in some circles for a number of reasons.
First of all, Mr. Cruise hasn't done a lick of humanitarian work. He only promotes Scientology's front groups; an assortment of slapped together organizations meant to target social 'hot button' topics such as drug abuse and illiteracy. Close scrutiny of organizations like Narconon, Scientology's "drug detox" program reveal them to be based on junk science, false success statistics, and inevitably, designed to expose clients to the philosophies of the Scientology organization.
There have been numerous accounts of child labor, human trafficking, and human rights abuses within Scientology, as more people leave and speak out. The FBI is reportedly investigating these allegations.
One of the recent escapees is a young man named Daniel Montalvo. He was only five years old when his parents joined Scientology. He was signed over to the care of the Sea Org and put to work.
Denied an education, he labored through his entire childhood for this so-called "church." Working around dangerous machinery in a book manufacturing facility, he lost a finger. He was taken to a doctor and warned not to mention Scientology at all.
Now he is a young adult seeking compensation for his stolen life. No childhood. Scant education. Slopped with cheap, low quality food, monitored constantly, fed and housed within Scientology walls. Today, there are dozens of Montalvos being herded here and there in Hollywood; children whose parents basically handed them over to the organization's care, promised family time, education, recreation. It appears that these are empty promises. Kids are put to work. They are "saving the planet." It's a big responsibility. These kids have no choice.
But Tom Cruise isn't doing this, right?
Correct. But he has benefited from this slave labor. Slave labor built him a place to stay at Golden Era Productions, an armed compound in Riverside County. Slave labor planted a field of wildflowers there, so he could "romp" in the field with Nichole Kidman. Slave labor built him a custom van, painted his custom motorcycle. Some of the people providing the slave labor for Tommy's toys are now speaking out.
I am considered a Suppressive Person in Scientology doctrine. According to L. Ron Hubbard, such people are
"ENEMY – SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
Basically, an SP is anyone who resists Scientology indoctrination. Hubbard reasoned that such people don't want society to flourish and prosper; because Scientology is such a great thing, anyone opposing it must be insane.
Perhaps Tom Cruise doesn't adhere to this doctrine. Should he be blamed for the repugnant nature of Scientology paranoia and intolerance?
Yes. In the now-famous internal interview that came out three years ago, Tom Cruise muses, "Some day, we'll only read about SPs in history books."
Where would that 2% Hubbard called Suppressive go?
Hubbard wrote in "Science of Survival,"
"The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of such ['1.1, or covertly hostile, low-toned'] persons from society to avoid the contagion of their insanities and the general turbulence which they bring into any order, thus forcing it lower on the scale, or processing such person until they have attained a level on the tone scale which gives them value.
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the tone scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
At the other end of the scale, we find the Scientologist ubermensch in the person of the Operating Thetan. No longer human, they're a step above; what Hubbard referred to as "Homo Novis."
Their superiority comes from the fact that they invested large sums of money in exchange for mental processing that seems to have a deleterious effect on their rationality and sanity. Google 'crazy Scientologist' on YouTube. This is your brain on Scientology.
Behold the awesome performance of George Baille, OTVIII, as high as you can go up the Scientology ladder. He has been processed into Hubbardian mush with a little bit of brown gravy on top. He probably could have purchased a yacht instead. And should have.
So here you have an organization whose doctrine directs the removal of 2% of 7 billion people.
They have enemies dehumanized into "Suppressive Persons."
They use the pejorative term, "wog," to refer to non-Scientologists.
They think they are producing Scientologist supermen.
Let's not forget the Rehabilitation Project Force, used to beat down uncooperative Scientologists until they have no will left to speak out or protest the horrible treatment in the RPF.
Or the Sea Organization, Hubbard's paramilitary force that dresses up in fake Navy costumes dripping with trinkets and gold braid.
Does any of this resonate with you? Does it remind you at all of a past organization that demonized a whole class of people, abused them and actually DID "dispose of them quietly, and without sorrow?"
If so, you can understand why we are outraged by this honor bestowed on a crazed actor with a hard-on for L. Ron Hubbard.
Tom Cruise thinks he's part of the Master Race. He fully supports the racist, homophobic agenda promoted by Scientology. Recently, an alliance has formed between Scientology and the Nation of Islam, another hate group spewing garbage about whites, Jews, and a Negro-hating society that doesn't exist outside of Farrakhan's fevered imagination.
At its heart, Scientology is full of racism aimed against blacks. They've rewritten their books to make them more palatable to today's culture, but the covert hate is still there. If only Farrakhan knew what Hubbard had to say about blacks! In a letter to his wife Polly, he states, "You shouldn't be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that's what they're born for."
–L. Ron Hubbard, in a letter to first wife, Polly Grubb
This alliance of two racist hate groups is mystifying. But not as mystifying as the decision by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to honor a representative of one of these hate groups.
Mr. Wiesenthal must be spinning like a dreidel today as this awards ceremony draws near.