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How serious is Hillary and Bill Clinton's relationship with Scientology?



The fact that Hillary Clinton has ties with Wall Street fat cats and shady international business interests has already been documented. The Daily Caller, in a Sunday piece, revealed that Hillary and, to a certain extent, Bill Clinton has some ties with the Church of Scientology. The story relates how Greg Mitchell, the head of a lobbying firm called The Mitchell Firm and a Scientologist, lobbied the Hillary Clinton State Department to enlist its support for what it calls religious freedom in foreign countries where the church is not recognized as a legitimate religion.



Bill Clinton, as president, ordered the IRS to give Scientology tax-exempt status as a recognized church in the United States. The Clintons also have ties with Scientology through their relationships with Hollywood supporters who are members of the church, such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, both of whom lobbied Bill Clinton when he was president on issues of interest to Scientology. The church is popular in the entertainment community.



Scientology was created several decades ago by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and is based on bizarre beliefs concerning psychotherapy and space aliens, as detailed by the Skeptical Inquirer. Some evidence suggests that Hubbard created the church as a money making scam. He is alleged to have said, The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." Hubbard never wrote this statement down, but the quote in various forms comes from multiple sources.



More ominously, as the HBO documentary Going Clear documented, the Church of Scientology engaged in psychological and sometimes physical abuse of its members, an allegation the church has denied. The church has also engaged in vigorous lawfare against many of its critics, attempting to silence any adverse publicity in the media and on the Internet.



The Daily Caller story has note revealed what if any service the State Department has rendered in response to the Church of Scientologys lobbying efforts. The lobbying has continued after Clinton left the State Department when John Kerry took over as Secretary of State.

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Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise Plotted to Use Tony Blair to Gain Tax Breaks for Scientology



Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were targeted by Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and former President Bill Clinton to give tax breaks to the controversial Church of Scientology, it is revealed today.



Clinton and Cruise plotted for months to overturn a legal ruling which refused to grant Scientology charity status in Britain. At one point the former President suggested he directly approached Cherie Blair for help as she was a practising lawyer and would understand the details'.



These astonishing claims were made by former Scientology second in command Marty Rathbun on German TV who described sitting in the room at the Scientology base in Clearwater, Florida in 2003 with Tom Cruise when he called the former President. It wasnt just one call it was many, Rathbun confirmed later.



He said that the Hollywood star and the former President, then involved in raising funds for his own Clinton Foundation charity, spoke many times on how best to lobby the Prime Minister and his wife so that they could use their influence to change Scientologys charity - and hence tax status - in Britain.



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Before he was given the award Cruise lobbied Clinton at every opportunity, meeting him for dinner at the Hollywood homes of director Steven Spielberg and producer David Geffen. He called him numerous times at his Foundation office in Harlem, New York, to work out the most effective strategy to overturn a 1999 Charity Commission ruling that Scientology, founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1954, was not a charity and was not eligible for tax breaks.



Rathbun, who was the Inspector General of the Religious Technology Centre until 2004, said that he would audit Cruise - the Scienotology equivalent to the confessional - and then he would call Clinton or his staff in Harlem. There was a lot of back and forth, he recalled. At one point Clinton said to Tom that it would be better to go through Cherie Blair as she was a lawyer and had a tax background.



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Scientology in Britain has a long and chequered past. In the 1970s Harold Wilsons government described the sect as mafia like and put senior officials under surveillance. In 1975, internal correspondence from the Home Office said: The Church of Scientology does not merely persuade people to part with their money. It is a harmful movement with an evil reputation.



It classified the group as an organisation designed to make money, and perhaps also to gain power which targeted the anxious, the lonely, the inadequate, the credulous and deluded.



In a High Court ruling in 1984, Judge Latey labelled the Church of Scientology a "cult", "corrupt, sinister and dangerous...out to capture people...and brainwash them."



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Hillary Clinton wrote to CMU for Scientology asking them to fire Prof. David S. Touretzky



"Greenway talked about how the Church [of Scientology] has gotten numerous letters sent to CMU about Touretzky including one from Hillary Clinton asking that he be fired, but CMU still stands behind him because they dont care what he does on his free time."

Mark "Marty" Rathbun: Scientology Infiltrates Carnegie Mellon University



http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/scientology-infiltrates-carnegie-mellon-university/



The following is a report from Invest Aide OSA INT (Office of Special Affairs International, the propaganda and dirty tricks arm of David Miscaviges church of Scientology International) on dealing with Scientology critic David S. Touretzky  professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Note that it is titled DR. That stands for Daily Report. There are dozens of these daily reports in OSA INT files on Touretzky. There are hundreds of such reports on more effective critics. There are thousands of these types of reports on those critics whom David Miscavige considers a threat to himself personally and who have withstood Scientologys wrath over time. Ask yourself: should United States taxpayers be subsidizing an organization that spends its considerable dollars on such hijinks? And, what is with Scientologys apparent predilection for inserting sex toys into their operations?



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Scientology is not a church, it is a dangerous cult based on brainwash-techniques and oppression, a criminal mob that has it's own secret service to threaten and put out opponents. Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote that church enemies 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."Low-ranking members of the cult are refused medical treatment. They are instead accused of not being "clear" enough, and therefore put into concentration-camps to dwell in pain and agony until they die. Members are deprived from their friends and families who refuse to become members of the cult or who leave it. Low ranking members are forced to give all their possessions to the cult, and work like machines without an own will for their masters and their profit. Scientology provides anti-drug-treatment and educational facilities that are not recognizable as Scientology-operated. People go there to get cured or educated and end up as brainwashed slaves of mobsters.The Clintons and Scientology have a long history of collaboration. Scientology has funded the election-campaigns of both Bill and Hillary. Several actors, all of them Scientology-members, funded Hillary Clinton's campaign for Senate with over $70.000,-, Tom Cruise presented Albert Gore with $5.000,-, and John Travolta along with some other Scientology-members gave a Gala-Diner in favor of the democrats (entry-fee: $25.000,-).In return right after Bill got elected in 1993 Scientology got Tax-Exempt status like a religion, after the IRC had refused that for decades, despite the mafia-methods used against its employees . The New York Times reports: "The full story of the turnabout by the IRS has remained hidden behind taxpayer privacy laws for nearly four years. But an examination by The New York Times found that the exemption followed a series of unusual internal IRS actions that came after an extraordinary campaign orchestrated by Scientology against the agency and people who work there."On the basis of the IRS ruling, the State Department formally criticized Germany for discriminating against Scientologists. The German government regards the organization as a business, not a tax-exempt religion, the very position maintained for 25 years by the U.S. government.Written and directed by Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney and based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF is a provocative tale of ego, exploitation and lust for power. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, whose most prominent adherents include A-list Hollywood celebrities, shining a light on how the church cultivates true believers, detailing their experiences and what they are willing to do in the name of religionScientologists believe that every human being is just a baring for at "thetan", an immortal alien spirit. Do Americans really want to give a person under influence of such people the possibility to push that red button, because she might believe that all thetans will rise from the fire as finally freed intergalactic warriors?Hillary also demanded the Moon-Unification-Cult should also be given Tax-Exempt status like a religion, despite it being charged by the United States government with willfully filing false federal income tax returns, and found guilty. In return she was given a regular page in Moon's own Washington Times. Obviously Mrs. Clinton is ready to act in favor of any organization that funds or supports her campaign, no matter of what nature that organization is.A person who has as close relations with dangerous mobsters like Scientology as Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president of the United States of America. She has proven that she is ready to sell her soul and her presidency to just about everyone who is willing to fund her campaigns, and she has shown that she will do whatever her sponsors want in return. She claims she had such great friends amongst European politicians, but the respect for her is limited, because Europeans do not like to be lectured about what is a religion and what is a criminal organization.ahoyhellboy