I urge all of you to watch this documentary when it airs. Too many people think the Scientology Organized Crime Family is just a kooky but harmless cult, but in fact it is sinister and evil. Watch the show and discover what they're really about. Here's an article about it.--Cap'n Bob
THE
Church of Scientology is launching a “Cruise” missile attack on a revealing new
documentary about the controversial religion, The New York Post reports.
The attack, which will include
newspaper ads slated to run in the US on Friday, will claim Academy
Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney didn’t give Scientology executives a fair
shot to respond to certain of his claims, sources said.
The documentary, Going Clear, based on the 2013 book of the same name, claims the church
uses its Hollywood members — like Tom Cruise and John Travolta — to advance its
goals.
The book uses
interviews with former church members, including Crashscreenwriter Paul Haggis, to slam the church headed by David
Miscavige.
The documentary will debut at Robert
Redford’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The festival kicks off
January 22 and Going Clear is slated to be screened on January 25.
But Gibney’s film is biased and
one-sided, the Scientology attack will claim.
The church will use a
recent story in Rolling Stone about a campus rape — which didn’t include
responses from the accused rapists, who, it turned out, weren’t near the scene
of the alleged attack — to tar Gibney’s HBO-backed film.
“Twelve times Alex Gibney and HBO
have refused the church’s requests for questions, assertions and statements
about Scientology that will be included in the film so that it can comment on
the ‘facts,’ ” the newspaper ad claims.
The church is also expected to
attack the Gibney film because it was based on Lawrence Wright’s book, a National
Book Award finalist, which it claims used sources that have been discredited. Wright’s
book is described by The New York Review of Books as a “horror story” and a “tribute to fact
checkers.”
Scientology executives disagree. In
one of the church’s most coordinated and focused attacks in recent years, the
attack campaign claims, “Mr. Gibney’s film has been in the works in secret for
two years. He and HBO never bothered to tell the Church it was even being made
until recently.”
Fighting back
Gibney fired back after hearing of
the church’s expected attack, telling The Post in a statement, “I
requested interviews with various people — including current church members and
officials — who could shed light on specific incidents discussed in the film.
All those asked either declined, did not respond, or set unreasonable
conditions.”
The pay TV network also returned
fire. “HBO has an extensive history of producing award-winning documentary
films,” it said in a statement. “It is customary in the documentary filmmaking
process to request on-camera interviews from individuals that participated in
events discussed in the film. This film identifies those that were approached.”
HBO, which will air the film March
16, has been prepping for a fight for months. In November, it had 160 lawyers
looking at the film, The Hollywood Reporter said at the time.
Xemu, strange visitor from another world
who made everyone insane, especially L. Ron Hubbard.
