Police To Prosecute Teenager Who Called Scientology A "Cult"
Posted 6 months ago 15 responses
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a … This was our thought upon reading the news that a teenage member of Scientology-protesting group Anonymous, who goes by the name EpicNoseGuy on the Enturbulation forums, had his sign confiscated at the May 10th anti-”Church” of Scientology protest in Queen Victoria Street by the City of London police, and has been issued with a court summons – all for using the word “cult” to describe the controversial “religion”. If Scientology is listed on the Cult Information Centre, that’s a pretty good indication it’s a cult; if a High Court judge calls it a “cult” (Mr Justice Latey, 1984: Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious… [It] is out to capture people, […] and indoctrinate and brainwash them so that they become the unquestioning captives and tools of the cult”) then maybe he has a point; if UK newspapers are unafraid to call it a “cult” (The Sun: “dangerous cult”, Guardian), then, perhaps, a case could be made for putting the word on a placard to be waved at a peaceful protest. Read More
