End The Cult » Germany http://www.endthecult.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:04:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Verfassungsschutzberichte 2008 http://www.endthecult.com/government-reports/verfassungsschutzberichte_2008 http://www.endthecult.com/government-reports/verfassungsschutzberichte_2008#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:36:51 +0000 admin http://www.endthecult.com/?p=53 “Verfassungsschutzberichte (Constitutional Report) 2008″ is the latest in a long series of reports to feature Scientology from the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or “Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz”.

The BfV was founded to prevent totalitarian organizations from taking root in Germany, and they observe Scientology alongside other groups as Neo Nazis and Islamic Extremists.

The original German and English versions are available.  The German version (starting on page 210) appears to be more complete than the English version (starting on page 284).

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]]> http://www.endthecult.com/government-reports/verfassungsschutzberichte_2008/feed 6 Brainwashing in Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Force http://www.endthecult.com/government-reports/brainwashing-in-scientologys-rehabilitation-project-force http://www.endthecult.com/government-reports/brainwashing-in-scientologys-rehabilitation-project-force#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:10:42 +0000 admin http://www.endthecult.com/?p=50 A revised and expanded version of a presentation for the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion by Professor Stephen A Kent, PhD.  Published by the German Interior Ministry with an introduction by Minister Ursula Caberta.

This study examines the confinement programs and camps that Scientology operates as supposedly rehabilitative facilities for ”deviant” members of its ”elite” Sea Organization. These programs, known collectively as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), put coerced participants through regimes of harsh physical punishment, forced self-confessions, social isolation, hard labour, and intense doctrinal study, all as part of leadership- designed efforts to regain members’ ideological commitment. The confinement that participants experience, combined with forms of physical maltreatment, intensive ideological study, and forced confessions, allows social scientists to speak of the RPF as a ”brainwashing” program.

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