Scientology's Human Rights Fraud

caroline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:02 am

Senator XENOPHON wrote:

Having read the statements and subsequently met with the people who provided them, as well as having read a significant amount of research conducted by my office, I am deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have on its followers. In my view, this is two-faced organisation. There is the public face of the organisation founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, which claims to offer guidance and support to its followers, and there is the private face of the organisation, which abuses its followers, viciously targets its critics and seems largely driven by paranoia.

Senator Xenophon has it right about the faces of Scientology. As we have seen, Scientologists inflict the kinds of abuses they claim to oppose, and diametrically.

Scientology's impact is devastating for their followers. But they also prey upon the most vulnerable among us everywhere, with their VM programs and front group operations.

They also threaten human rights organizations around the world. Here's some 2009 Impact propaganda about Scientology's "Human Rights Renaissance" campaign.

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The IAS-sponsored human rights campaign grows ever more urgent as Scientology itself grows ever larger.

UNITED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Once you present LRH materials in 50 languages, including those spoken by populations in human rights watch-listed zones, you are committed to ensuring people have the freedom to avail themselves of the materials.

The IAS-sponsored human rights campaign grows every more urgent as Scientology itslef grows ever larger. Because the moment you present LRH materials in 50 languages, including those spoken by populations in human rights watch-listed zones, you're committed. You owe those people every opportunity to freely avail themselves of LRH materials.

Therefore our IAS-sponsored human rights initiative is designed to engender worldwide support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

To that end, human rights educational materials are provided to human rights bodies, including United Nations affiliates and the greater human rights network.

Concurrently, Youth for Human Rights extends itself into similarly aimed organizations in human rights crisis zones, while at the same time our human rights online advocacy and education programs activate and mobilize millions more. As a result we generate international support for universal human rights enforcement.

That is why the program is entitled: United for Human Rights.

THE MIDYEAR REVIEW

The Youth for Human Rights mobilization initiative originally brought the program to the worldwide human rights arena. Our review begins with the Youth for Human Rights advance team, headed by IAS Freedom Medal Winner Mary Shuttleworth. The location is East Timor at the tip of the Malay Archipelago, what East Asian watchers once described as a "perfect human rights storm." Now independent, with a popularly elected president, its history includes oppressive Indonesian rule, rebellions against it and human rights abuses.

To help the country establish stability, our human rights materials are being translated for widespread distribution.

Another arm of the Youth for Human Rights Malay Archipelago project traveled to the Indonesian province of Aceh, where shock-troop action and human rights violations abound. There they received requests for the Youth for Human Rights materials for police cadets, for the high schools and the universities.

Moving on to Africa, the tour joined up with Youth for Human Rights International's representative at Uganda's Kampala University. They presented the program to government officials in central Uganda where they also are in the process of translating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In South Africa, they presented program materials to the National Commission on Human Rights Chairman and government leaders.

Managers of a new children's museum in Jordan requested Youth for Human Rights PSAs. In Barbados, an Organization of American States representative is interested in Youth for Human Rights for member states from El Salvador and Guatemala to Nicaragua, Honduras and Haiti.

The human rights program ripples out across humanity with Youth for Human Rights on screens in Geneva, Human Rights Day celebrations in Brussels and Milano, at the World Peace Day in Rome and at Tokyo's commuter hub in Shinjuku.

The program spans 93 nations where Youth for Human Rights partners with 561 government and humanitarian organizations.

Human rights PSAs play on the big global networks from CNN International and Cable to BBC America and Voice of America, and on no less than 3,500 stations worldwide. And that is how more than 400 million received the human rights message this year.

THE STORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
However courageously one or another human rights organization may pursue a specific cause, whether human trafficking or political imprisonment, no one adequately defines the subject. Hence, there's no real agreement and no real linkage.

That is why we provide a definitive presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the one document on which all human rights advocates depend, and therefore the common purpose. It is presented in a short film, The Story of Human Rights, and part of a complete educational package, replete with a student manual including both a brief synopsis of human rights development and the Universal Declaration itself.

It amounts to a lesson plan for human rights activation and linkage to the United for Human Rights program. But at the core of the package is the definition of human rights and the history of those rights, all provided in only 10 minutes.

Sidebar wrote:

THE STORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

This striking new short film defines—simply and concisely—one of the world's most misunderstood subjects: human rights.

If you're human, this film is about you.

Bonus Feature:

30 award-winning public service announcements that illustrate each of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

UNITED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FACTS
• The program is designed to engender worldwide support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

• Human rights educational materials are provided to human rights bodies, including United Nations affiliates and the greater human rights network.

• Youth for Human Rights links with similarly aimed organizations in human rights crisis zones.

• Human rights online advocacy education programs activate and mobilize.

Images captions wrote:

[Images caption p. 41]The Youth for Human Rights World Tour, headed by IAS Freedom Medal Winner Mary Shuttleworth, circled the globe. (Clockwise from above left) The regional governor of Aceh, Indonesia; presenting the campaign in Timor-Leste; new Youth for Human Rights group in Barbados; a Youth for Human Rights round table at Moscow's famed Helsinki Group organized by IAS Freedom Medal Winner Vladimir Kuropiatnik (center, next to Mary Shuttleworth); at the Jordanian Children's Museum in Amman and an event at the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in South Africa.

[Images caption p. 42] (left) Human Rights PSAs are on screens all over the world. Human Rights conferences in Uganda (above) and in Soweto (below).

Don Carlo · **Joined:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:20 am **Posts:** 8092

Paramilitary UNIFORMS?!?! Looks militaristic not humanistic.

newclear · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:20 am

This reminds me of the South Park episode where a school group goes to Costa Rica to defend the rain forest. The presentation was entitled "Getting Gay with Kids". Keep in mind that the purpose of this "Human Rights" group is almost entirely devoted to getting Scientologists to cough up even more money for the IAS and feel good about it. The bare minimum possible amount of money will actually be spent on it.

lostinspace · **Joined:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:37 am **Posts:** 465

I think and I could be wrong that non prfit entities have to reveal how much was spent on admin costs versus on the charity itself. Scientology has never done this though they have bilked people of billions. Witness the Super Power Building. I mean there it is in physical form as a testament.

caroline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:57 am

Scientology's UHR (United for Human Rights) say they assist and unite individuals, educators, organizations and governmental bodies to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at local, regional, national and international levels.

Are there any articles that Scientology doesn't violate?

http://www.humanrights.com wrote:

Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948

[...]

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

RedPill · **Joined:** Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:33 am **Posts:** 1362

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The photograph says it all. George Orwell would be proud.

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Sunshine · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:33 am

This flag is from Mexico.
$cientology is advertising what they do not preach, which is Human Rights!!!
As organization, that we all know is not religious but hiding under religious pretenses to be tax exempt, they are now trying to impress us with Human Rights. That's really funny.
Give me a break. We all know that $cientology is not concern with any Human Rights, specially the COB.
Just check stories of ex-members, so many blatant infrigements of Human Rights. This is pure do as I say, but not as I practice.
Sunshine

caroline · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:07 pm

Sunshine wrote:

This flag is from Mexico.
$cientology is advertising what they do not preach, which is Human Rights!!!
As organization, that we all know is not religious but hiding under religious pretenses to be tax exempt, they are now trying to impress us with Human Rights. That's really funny.
Give me a break. We all know that $cientology is not concern with any Human Rights, specially the COB.
Just check stories of ex-members, so many blatant infrigements of Human Rights. This is pure do as I say, but not as I practice.
Sunshine

Thanks for the tip about the flag, Sunshine. I'd guess the tour was then in Barbados. Could that be a high school band and/or auditorium?

In Barbados, an Organization of American States representative is interested in Youth for Human Rights for member states from El Salvador and Guatemala to Nicaragua, Honduras and Haiti.

Scientology has targeted the Organization of American States, undoubtedly for infiltration and control.

HCOB 10 June 1960 What We Expect of a Scientologist by L. Ron Hubbard who wrote:

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 10 JUNE 1960 Issue I

MA [Magazine article]

Keeping Scientology Working Series 33
WHAT WE EXPECT OF A SCIENTOLOGIST

[...]

A housewife who does not have professional level skill in Scientology could not expect to run a wholly successful family or keep order in her neighbourhood and keep her family well. A factory foreman could not possibly handle his crews with full effectiveness without professional Scientology skill. The personal assistant to a corporation executive could not do a fully effective job without being a professional Scientologist. A corporation president without a certificate will someday fail. And the head of a country would go to pieces if he didn't know Scientology from a professional angle.

How can these people handle life if they have no expert knowledge of how to handle life?

[...]

We have many, many personal success stories in Scientology. They begin with a book acquaintance and bloom when professional skill enters the background. These people, small people, big people, drove a wedge for themselves into companies, societies, with Scientology and then took over control of the area. They succeeded where they never would have dreamed they could. And every time one of us drives in such a wedge, we all win because the world is brought nearer to a sane and decent world.

[...]

Any trained Scientologist can win to success in society. Heightened IQ, a knowledge of life, a forthright attitude -- with these things it is easy for him or her to improve a social or business position, to get higher pay, to exert wider personal influence. This we know we can do, we have done it so often, so let's improve the ability.

[...]

Hit for the key spots by whatever means -- the head of the women's club, the personnel director of a company, the leader of a good orchestra, the president's secretary, the advisor of the trade union --any key spot. Make a good sound living at it, drive a good car, but get your job done, handle and better the people you meet and bring about a better Earth.

[...]

Scientology is the only game on Earth where everybody wins.

So let's help the world win.

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