There are paparazzi thoughout Clearwater, Florida, the chosen MECCA for The Church of Scientology, ...or, ... should I say "The Scientology Church." I'm not sure which one is Kosher. What's all the excitement about? Any pictures of Mark Foley, who has supposedly checked into a Narconon Center located in the city of a 100,000, near Tampa, Florida, would fetch money. A good picture of Foley in Clearwater or in the compound could collect a half million. Pictured, Bush With Editor of Scientology's "Freedom Mag."
Florida used to be, the winter time playground of the rich and famous and us older warm cadavers. But Scientology has now made Clearwater, their town. The church owns many buildings and lots of real estate in and around the city. Why Clearwater, Florida, one might ask? Ah, ... Scientologists who have gone through the sauna programs, including lots of vitamins, and, after taken their "E-Meter Behavioral Inventory," are then called "CLEARS." The rest of us WOGS, who haven't been through the clearing process, are called "unclears." Clearwater, Florida? 'Ya get it? What a great idea for growth! Name your town Clear, Wyoming, and "They Will Come." But forget about increased tax revenues.
What is all of this about? It is all over the WEB! Few Scientologist watchers are surprised that Republican Mark Foley landed in Clearwater, f0r a while and thought to have enrolled in NARCONON, a Scientology Drug Treatment Center. Today, we find out that Foley is in Arizona at a drug treatment center, there. Homosexuality, it seems, does not mix well with Scientology. What a year for Scientology smashing the news! Hollywood heart-throb, Scientologist Tom Cruise, jumping up and down on Oprah's couch and then doing a Heckle and Jyde personality-switch, destructs when he finds out a fellow actress has enrolled in a non-Narconon environment that uses standard Psychiatrist and drug therapy to fight depression. Scientologists do not, believe in either. So, if they have a burst appendix, kiss them goodby, because to the church believes sickness is a sign of "unclears." And we've all seen and heard about Cruise's claim, on NBC's Today's program.
Rolling Stone has a great article about Scientology, this year, since Beck, the singing artist, seems to have rejoined the flock as he languished in the world of the unclears. This year's article by JANET REITMAN, has been at least the second, front cover exploration at unfolding the Scientology road map in Rolling Stone's history, even though many secrets of the church are kept under wrap and sealed. (Hint, ... go to xenu.net or "scienTOMogy" and read what the webmasters have posted on the inner secrets that church members have to pay big bucks to learn.)
I shall not spend much time on defining the church and what it believes. A simple google search of scientology+Rolling Stone will uncover the grrreat, artical that Janett Reitman had researched and published this year. Big thanks! A couple of decades back, Rolling Stone did an article on Scientology, Synonon, and a snake in a mailbox - rattlesnake. Scientologists take their religion seriously and go on attack-mode with any negative articles from excommunicated "clears," who leave and publish.
More information on Scientology can be found, for the Time magazine subscriber, using Time's wonderful archives, where one can find a "Front Cover" article of Scientology and their Narconon facility above Newkirk, Oklahoma at the site of the old Chilocco Indian school, back in 1991 or so. The published article, in The Newkirk Harold, earned plenty of threats on Robert Lobsinger's life, when he uncovered the real stranger that was moving in - The Church of Scientology, as it introduced Narconon to Oklahoma and the world, through Time's article. (Do an Internet search of Newkirk Herald Journal + Scientology or Narconon.) Lobsinger is a friend of mine, as the publisher of The Newkirk Herald Journal. Lobsinger won a news journalist award that year for his reporting, and ... so did Time writer.
Actually, the Narconon unit in Oklahoma has re-situated itself at the old Arrowhead Lodge on Lake Eufaula, where I have spent many hours at sales meetings, and then later at state education forums. It's a beautiful site, and Narconon has promised to refurbish the ailing building. The Oklahoma State Department of Health has certified Narconon as a "Non Medical, Out Sourcing Drug Treatment Center," and here is where Mark Foley, Neil Bush, Lisa Presley, Clearwater, and Scientology meets.
Foley has been a long supporter of Scientology's Narconon and has supported it as a program in the public schools, in teaching "Safe and Drug Free School Federal Grant" goals in the classroom. To my knowledge, Florida has not allowed the program in its classrooms even though Foley has pressured schools to accept the program. Narconon was in the California Schools doing the same since 1991, but was dropped by all schools, in 2004, because medical doctors and drug specialists dismiss the efficacy of the program as a way to get new members and plenty of money, only. Use the San Francisco Chronicle to read up on how it happened. Great and a must read, if any school in any district is using Narconon to fulfill Drug Grant requirements. Using Narconon members to present the Drug Free Schools program is federally illegal. Check and double check this program before enrolling in any one of their units, anywhere in the world. And by the way, the church has many other fronts that have "copied" legitimate, secular names, to make their front "seem legit." (Freedom.com and straigt.com, Narcanon, ...)
A family in the western United States was caught up with the hype of the success, promised by Scientology, and remortgaged their home, maxed credit cards, and used savings to enroll their family member into Narconon, with monumental, negative outcomes. The parents had to sign an agreement that if the patient couldn't make it through the program and left early, the parents would lose all of their investment. Their child? After three days, the patient, to the horrors of the parents, was packed up and dropped off at a motel, while Narconon pocketed the money. Great scam, huh? The family was financially devastated.
Some thoughts here, on using sauna's to sweat out drugs from ones system. Narconon's brilliance maintains that drugs are left in ones fat, and once swetted out can actually be seen coming out of ones pores in various colors. One drug for sure does that. In college, I took up puffing on a pipe, with a special tobacco made in Nashville, to make me look, ... well, smart and cool. Not a good idea if you have clean t-shirts, your under arms turn yellowish brown, ... but other drugs, get real. You see, Scientologists like Tom Cruise believe that "a clear" would never have to use drugs. Pardon me while I laugh my head off.
Well, ... one good thing about "CLEARS," is they will never grow old, never have to take medication for high blood pressure, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, gout, Crones Disease, cancer, ... or even need to use the "Wonder Drug," aspirin. I suppose as Scientologists get old; they are either dropped off at a motel or just disappear. I don't smoke, but as an elderly American, I sweat like a pig. I take dozens of needed medications every day. My under shirt remains white and so do our sheets. Maybe Narconon can fake the drug demonstration for neophyte members or parents, by using water colors or food coloring; but the fact is, Narconon's silly conclusion, is just that, ... silly.
The purpose of Scientologist members is to bring in unclears so they can pay the big bucks to become "clear," but it doesn't fly. With a masters degree in counseling, who has been to fifty or more Drug Education workshops, the church's teaching is bogus. That's it. Narconon's program is a medical lie. Evidences of success only comes in anecdotal promotion, and as such, will not hold up in court, medical school, real live audits, or on Federal Drug Grant, yearly assessments. So, with "on-line" unnamed quotes, I will give you a real story.
As an Oklahoma State Certified In-Home Short Term-Child Delinquency provider for 20 years and over a thousand young people, most drug abusers, sleeping on our sheets, none of our sheets turned red, green, black, or had oozy, green sticky stuff color-up our bedding. Not once. So with the above, I am going to add in my two cents, here, and for the readers who are Scientologist neophytes, watch carefully how the organization of Scientology handles criticism or disbelief. And remember, the state I live in has a "make my day law." With our involvement from the above, we were considered part of our county's law enforcement team and are on first name basis with virtually all law enforcement professionals.
According to the Rolling Stone article, Scientology's children are taught two subjects, reading, talking, and maybe math. Science? Forget about it! They don't need anything else. The organization should be banned by the Florida State Department of Education because teachers are not following adequate federal and state educational guidelines to teach their children "in church." And teaching students up until they are early teenagers until 8th grade, is illegal, no matter how badly the MECCA needs them to clean the inside, outside, or on top of the buildings. We have child labor laws in the United States, which are or should strictly be enforced, which forces students to be in school until they are 18. Actually, school districts may be responsible for some students up to the age 21.
The right wingers love to spread the lie that public schools "drug their students down." That is a standard Scientologist and right wing lie, as well. Scientology members are taught that it is okay to lie to the "unclears." As a retired professional in a school system of 2000 students, where I worked as an elementary counselor, for 350 to 450 enrolled students, the MOST children who took medication of any type from year to year, never exceeded 01% of our student population, and that percent remained stagnant, as those classes moved on through school. I have personally experienced a non-biased blind experience with medication that became a miracle for a student with facial, verbal, and physical tics. Denying students who need medication for needed drug support is neither clear or unclear; it is medically illegal. Early elementary is where Juvenile Diabetes develops - a syndrome that is medically dependent on insulin for life. And, with Mark Foley supporting Scientology's medical philosophy, the teaching indicates that the man really didn't need to be in our Congress working for our elderly, young sick, and handicapped.
"Clear and unclear" is "Scientology Speak" that means nothing, except in The Church of Scientology. Step back and let us ask ourselves, why Germany has refused to allow the church in their borders. Germany is a country that knows a lot about abusive elements in their society and what can happen when a country allows a cult to flourish.
In order to get a tour of the Los Angeles facility, Rolling Stones' reporter had to be on a 5 month wait? Why is that? Is there something the church is hiding? I am dismayed because our state even certifying Narconon for anything. But, my biggest quesion is, "Why was Lisa Marie Presley and Neil Bush, the president's brother, lobbying Congress, about the biggest educational lie in the United States - "... that our public schools are drugging our students in huge numbers."
Neil Bush, Jeb and George Bush's brother, lobbying for Scientology? Does this mean that Neil is a Scientologist or that our president's efforts at funding "Faith Based Programs," includes, fabulously rich groups like Scientology? Is President Bush soft on Narconon and Scientology?
Right here would be a great time to use your computer to search (tampabay.com+scientology.) Every US citizen should know about Scientology and teachings of the religion's beliefs, as to our children. From tampabay.com:
"The director of the new Clearwater Narconon, Cheryl Alderman, a Clearwater resident and a longtime Scientologist, sank $100,000 of her own money into the venture and opened it quietly 10 months ago.
She obtained a license from the state's Department of Children and Families to operate as an outpatient detox center. The program got a boost from Clearwater Mayor Brian Aungst, who issued a proclamation for "Narconon Day."
Now Alderman plans to do what no other Narconon program in the country does: Get taxpayer assistance in the form of state and federal grants. She also plans to seek referrals from local court systems and permission to teach a Narconon-based prevention program in Pinellas public schools."
Does this mean that Scientology is willing to open its "non-profit" status and allow Congress and the Federal Department of Education, to demand of Narconon, in triplicate, all financial endeavors of their financial books, audited every year?
Is Narconon willing to allow Congress and the Department of Health to demand minimal, federal educational standards for all drug counselors, which would be a Masters Degree from a National Certified University in the United States? Filing for federal funds means that all "comin's and goin's" (Cape Fear) will be monitored by The United States Government. Is that what Lisa Marie and Neal were seeking on Sept. 30, 2002, as they lobbied congress? Or, will the Scientology treat Congress as it does all "unclears," as perfectly acceptable to mislead, lie, and deceive, a Hubbard approved method to diminish any negative articles about the church?
Sadly, we have a president and Congress that doesn't have a clue to what rogue churches and orginizations are capable of doing with Federal Funds. Our country has lost BILLIONS in Iraq, by supporting crooked companies and individuals. Using members of Narconon to teach students about drug education in public schools is illegal. First, ... the Scientologists aren't certified educators and lack qualifications to be in the classrooms. As the Federal Drug Grant Coordinator for our school district for 15 years, I know what is acceptable and what is not acceptable for which Federal Drug Grant dollars are spent by school districts.
Public Schools are advised not to use X-DRUG ADDICTS in their Federal Drug Grant programs. All money expenditures of each school must be audited, yearly, and justified. All programs used should show verifiable testing results.
Finally, will Scientologies' Headquarters in Los Angeles be willing to open their financial books for federal inspections and audits? Will the organization be willing to stop spreading lies that "public schools are rife with overly drugged students." Parents and their doctors decide whether their children should be on medication. Teachers CANNOT suggest any child in their school be put on any drug.
As Ms C, a principal in Lawton, Oklahoma said, "Our teachers know, all of them, that they cannot suggest that any child needs to be medicated." The rule is a Federal Special Education mandate.
Now, for the rest of us, who are reading this post, Scientologists are taught to attack anything that is negative on the Internet or in print, about their wonderful religion. Threaten law suit. Threaten physical actions. Do anything ethical or unethical, ... to attack an expose writer on Scientology. Will I get some threatening emails? Probably, if they can find it. Absolutely if they do find it!!
