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From: faust@peter.net (Jason Faust)
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Subject: The End of the Fight
Date: 3 Nov 1996 20:11:17 GMT
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Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding several aspects
of the religion of Scientology have been observed on ars.
The purpose of this message is to give you a sample of the true data
from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
to get the full contents of this book.

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While psychiatry had US government agencies infiltrating, raiding
and investigating the Church in the early and mid-1960s, and inquiries
in Australia and Great Britain underway during the same decade, the
technologies of Scientology and Dianetics were widely available in
five countries. Despite unabated attacks, these technologies became
available in five more countries by the mid-1970s, in fifty-six countries
in the late 1980s, and in seventy-four countries by the turn of the
1990s. All of which demonstrates that psychiatry has been about as
effective in stopping Scientology as it has been in treating mental
illness.

It has, in fact, become increasingly evident that psychiatry offers
no valuable contribution to society whatsoever. Electric shock, brain
operations, and indiscriminate drugging of patients in nineteenth-
century-like horror chambers passed off as mental hospitals, have
killed and maimed people on a daily basis. And during the period
psychiatry has held its position of authority, the most dramatic
era of social unrest, civil disobedience, drug proliferation and
criminality in the history of the Western world has gained momentum.


Today, there are 500 Dianeticists and Scientologists to every psychiatrist,
and while Scientology expands, enrollment in psychiatric university
curriculums has slid to a drastic low since a peak in the 1960s.
Without government appropriations, even these few psychiatrists would
not be able to economically survive, for they have nothing to offer
worth a cent of the public's money. Hence, while Scientology is more
visible than ever, with churches dotting every continent on Earth
and millions of parishioners around the world, one is hard pressed
to find even a single psychiatrist with a shingle on his door. True,
one can still find them in scuffed-linoleum offices of state and
county hospitals, and lodged in the federal bureaucracy. But when
was the last time anyone saw a sign advertising lobotomies, electric
shock and seriously incapacitating drugs?

In short, then, while psychiatry, which lives off government handouts,
is shrinking, Scientology, which receives only public donations from
people who know it works, is growing faster than any religion in
the world. And if Scientology had anything to hide, it would not
have survived the relentless attacks detailed in this chapter.

Thus the story of the attacks against Scientology is basically very
simple. Dianetics and Scientology cut across vested interests which
then ruthlessly attempted to destroy it. The issue was never any
wrongdoing by the Church, merely encroachment on turf claimed by
a mental health industry who would stop at nothing to preserve their
stake.



For more information go to the following URLs:


          http://www.scientology.org
          http://www.lronhubbard.org
          http://www.dianetics.org

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