Cult in Vancouver schools followup
Late last month, I posted about a student in Vancouver who posted on his blog about the Orwellian-named Youth For Human Rights, a Scientology front group, being allowed to give a presentation at his school. This attempt at infiltration has now turned into an epic PR flap. From The Vancouver Sun:
A Vancouver principal said his school was uninformed when it invited a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology to speak to a student assembly last month about human rights.
John Bevacqua, of St. Patrick regional secondary school, said he hadn’t been aware that Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is part of the Scientology movement until it was brought to his attention by a staff member shortly after the group finished its presentation.
“It was very unfortunate that they were not as forthcoming as they needed to be,” he said of YHRI. “It was a lesson learned.” The group was invited into the school on the recommendation of students who had heard representatives speak at a conference and were impressed with the message. The students gained the support of teacher sponsors, who vouched for the group and extended the invitation, Bevacqua said….
Susan Kerr, a Scientologist and Vancouver spokeswoman for YHRI, said the group was formed several years ago to educate young people about human rights, and its connection to the Church of Scientology is irrelevant.
“This has nothing to do with the church proselytizing,” Kerr said in an interview.”It’s just about human rights.”
Gerry Armstrong, former Scientologist who knew L. Ron Hubbard personally, commented on this story on alt.religion.scientology:
Susan Kerr is the cult’s “Human Rights Director” in Vancouver. As the Scientology v. Armstrong case shows, she is *contracted* in fact to suppress and destroy basic human rights. And not just mine, but the human rights of anyone who would act in concert with me, which is anyone who would associate with me….
During the first protest at the Vancouver org this year, February 10, the Scientologists brought out and held up a Youth for Human Rights International banner as a response to the protesters and to promote themselves as human rights supporters to the public.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23656780@N03/2255858623/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23656780@N03/2255854357/in/photostream/Using the YHRI banner for that purpose was probably a screwup because YHRI tries to separate itself from the “church,” as the Vancouver Sun article, and Ms. Kerr demonstrate. Scientology has not used the banner in the 3 subsequent protests.
EDIT: The reporter of this event has a blog. In after Terryeo!
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The absolute insanity of the Scientology crime syndicate pretending to value human rights is just, well, profoundly insane. It’s like one of Scientology’s ex customers Charles Manson pontificating on human rights or Adolf Eichmann. It’s like the Gambino Mafia creating a Youth For Morals and Ethic fake front to try to public relations the crime family’s criminal activities some how — it doesn’t work.
What’s really horrible about all this is that the school’s people should have known better. There is no excuse. The Scientology crime syndicate’s endless parade of fake fronts is well documented on the Internet, and only a few minutes of Google searching would have exposed these criminals for what they were. Instead some idiot at the school didn’t do their homework and they allowed a monster cult to access people’s children.
It’s an outrage. What’s next? Is the school going to invite the Scientology crime syndicate’s “NarCONon” fake “drug treatment” frauds in to their schools? That would be the next step up in stupidity.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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