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Shewaga Gebre-Michael and
Carina Gilford, freshmen at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, each received the Youth for Human Rights Hero Award at the
2nd Annual Colorado Human Rights Hero Awards, co-hosted by the Church
of Scientology of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Youth for Human
Rights Club.

The award ceremony was recently held at the Tivoli Center on
the Auraria Campus in Denver following a human rights conference on
gang violence. Hero Awards are given to recognize young people and
caring adults who have made an impact in their area through human
rights activities and the implementation of one or more of the 30 human
rights described in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.

Ms. Gebre-Michael and Ms. Gilford co-chair the Freshman
Action Team of the Black Student Alliance at CU Boulder where they
direct a team of volunteers who reach out into their community and help
others. Their team tutors minority youth in elementary schools in the
Denver and Boulder areas; they cook in soup kitchens to feed the
hungry; they do environmental clean-up projects and they educate youth
about AIDS and give cultural presentations on black heritage. Both
young women have become role models for the youth that they work with.

Also awarded as Colorado Human Rights Heroes were
James Tucker, founder and publisher of the African-American Voice and Reverend
Heidi McGinness, Outreach Director of Christian Solidarity International, U.S.A..

Mr. Tucker’s publication, the African-American Voice, is a
regional monthly newspaper that emphasizes civil and human rights
issues. Mr. Tucker also publishes “Colorado’s Guide to Diversity” which
keeps the public informed on diversity subjects, events and issues. Mr.
Tucker has been a crusader for civil and human rights in Colorado
Springs for many years, working with his community, his neighborhood
and with the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

Pastor McGinness’ work has taken her to war-torn Sudan,
Africa for the past four years where she has succeeded in liberating
over 700 men, women and children from slavery. She has also delivered
thousands of tons of grain and basic living supplies and hundreds of
pounds of medicine as well as spiritual support and hope.

The Rocky Mountain Youth for Human Rights Club was formed in
2005 and is a local club affiliated with Youth for Human Rights
International, an organization dedicated to educating youth about the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights so they can become valuable
advocates for tolerance and peace. The Church of Scientology has teamed
up with Youth for Human Rights International to launch a public
education program to make human rights known, understood and
implemented.

I thought you might want to know. Here is some basic text:

The Practice of Scientology

Within the vast amount of data which is the religious Philosophy of Scientology here are many principles which, when learned, give one a new and broader view of life. cientology as a philosophical system contains many data one can use to think with. Knowing the Tone Scale, for instance, a person can see how best to deal with a grumpy child, mollify an upset friend or get an idea across to a staid employer. Theseprinciples amount to a huge area of observation in the humanities. The data exists for a person to think with, to work with, to wonder with, to accept or reject as he wishes. It is a body of knowledge there for the learning. There is nothing authoritarian in it. It is valuable purely as a body of knowledge. From this body of wisdom the second division of Scientology - the applied philosophy - is derived. And the extraordinary achievement of Dianetics and Scientology has been the development of exact, precise methods to increase man’s awareness and capabilities. Other efforts along this line achieved only sporadic or temporary results - if any. Using Scientology, invariable improvements can be obtained when exactly applied. The importance of application in Scientology comes from the fact that L. Ron Hubbard developed as part of his philosophy an actual technology with which his discoveries could be used to effect improvement in people. Technology means the methods of application of the principles of something, as opposed to mere knowledge of the thing itself. And, using L. Ron Hubbard’s technology, applying the methods, one can heighten his perceptions and awareness, increase his abilities and lead a better, more fulfilling life. In short, one can be unhindered by others’ ideas that man cannot change and that one can be no better than he was born to be.

Throughout the remainder of this site the term technology is used with regard to the application of Scientology principles. Many technologies are extant today, technologies to build bridges and technologies to fire rockets into space. But with the work of L. Ron Hubbard, for the first time there exists a provenly workable technology to improve the functions of the mind and rehabilitate the potentials of the spirit. This is auditing.

Although the purely philosophical aspects of L. Ron Hubbard’s work are sufficient in themselves to elevate this civilization, only auditing provides a precise path by which any individual may walk an exact route to higher states of awareness. The goal of auditing is to restore beingness and ability. This is accomplished by (1) helping the individual rid himself of any disabilities and (2) increasing individual abilities. Obviously, both are necessary for an individual to achieve full potential. Auditing, then, deletes those things which have been added to the person’s reactive mind through life’s painful experiences and, as well, addresses and improves the person’s ability to confront and handle the factors in his life.

Scientology auditing could be described as a very unique form of personal counseling which helps an individual look at his own existence and improves his ability to confront what he is and where he is. There are vast differences between the technology of auditing and other forms of counseling. There is no use of hypnosis, trance techniques or drugs during auditing. The person being audited is completely aware of everything that happens. Auditing is a precise, thoroughly codified activity with exact procedures. A person trained and qualified in applying auditing to individuals for their betterment is called an auditor. Auditor is defined as one who listens, from the Latin audire meaning to hear or listen. An auditor is a minister or minister-in-training of the Church of Scientology. A person receiving auditing is called a preclear - from pre-Clear, a person not yet Clear. A preclear is a person who, through auditing, is finding out more about himself and life. The period of time during which an auditor audits a preclear is called an auditing session. A session is conducted at an agreed-upon time established by the auditor and preclear. Auditing uses processes - exact sets of questions asked or directions given by an auditor to help a person find out things about himself and improve his condition. There are many, many different auditing processes, and each one improves the individual’s ability to confront and handle part of his existence. When the specific objective of any one process is attained, the process is ended and another can then be run to address a different part of the person’s life. An unlimited number of questions could of course, be asked - which might or might not help a person. The accomplishment in Dianetics and Scientology is that L. Ron Hubbard isolated the exact questions and directions to invariably bring about improvement. The questions or directions of the process guide the person to inspect a certain part of his existence and what is found will naturally vary from person to person, since everyone’s experiences are different. Regardless of experience or background, however, the individual is assisted in locating not only areas of upset or difficulty in his life, but in locating the source of the upset. By doing this, any person is able to free himself of unwanted barriers that inhibit, stop or blunt his natural abilities and increase these abilities so that he becomes brighter and more able. There are no variables in the technology of auditing. No random results or haphazard applications. Auditing is not a period of vague free association. Each process is exact in its design and in its application, and attains a definite result when correctly administered.

Scientology auditing can bring any person from a condition of spiritual blindness to the brilliant joy of spiritual existence.

And - it works!

Kewl! Good on CCHR to protect our kids against these creeps! Here is a press release I found:

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International and the Torino, Italy chapter of the group commended the Regional Council of Piedmont this week for its unanimous passage of a new law that protects the rights of children throughout the Northern Italy region.

The bill is modeled after the Child Medication Safety Act, enacted in the US in 2003 in the wake of escalating, alarming reports of parents being threatened, pressured or forced to give their children dangerous psychiatric drugs as a condition of attending school.

CCHR worked with members of the Regional Council of Torino, educating them on this US law and the urgent need to empower parents and protect children from potentially lethal drugs that the Untied States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel in 2006 recommended be labeled with a ‘black box’.  The FDA requires such a black box warning be included on the packaging of prescription drugs that cause significant risk of serious or even life-threatening adverse effects.

A compendium, publish this month by CCHR International, lists and summarizes more than 60 warnings issued by government agencies just since the passage of this law in the US.  These warnings put doctors on notice that psychiatric drugs can induce violence, homicidal behavior, suicide and death, among many other serious adverse effects.

The need to protect families from these drugs is all the more urgent in light of the lack of science to prove that such so-called conditions as ADHD even exist.  According to Dr. Thomas Szasz, co-founder of CCHR and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Syracuse, “There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases.  Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning and punishment, not treatment.”   Numerous other psychiatrists, interviewed in a documentary produces last year by CCHR, admit on film that Dr. Szasz’s finding are true.  Copies of this documentary are available online through the group’s web site.

The headquarters of CCHR International in Los Angeles California is the home of the Psychiatry: an Industry of Death museum, which features this and 13 other documentaries with statements from scores of health professionals, academics, legal and human rights experts, and victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from electroshock and involuntary commitment to political torture, psychosurgery and the devastating effects of psychotropic drugs
Last year, to ensure legislators, health professionals, parents, teachers and the general public around the world can gain access the truth about psychiatry, The Industry of Death was produced as a traveling exhibit and is now touring on five continents. Through this, CCHR members have been able to reach lawmakers in countries around the world, to educate them on the need to protect their constituents from harmful psychiatric practices.
According to CCHR:

“Prescribing psychiatric drugs to children is a multi-billion dollar-a-year industry that permanently damages children. While the U.S. federal government spends nearly $1 billion a month fighting the war on drugs, we ignore the worsening problem of legally prescribed psychotropic drugs.

“The drugs prescribed for so-called learning disorders are completely different from routine medications that medical doctors prescribe for colds or fevers. Psychiatric drugs are addictive and mind-altering substances.
“The stimulants prescribed for ADHD are listed as controlled substances under Schedule II of the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Why? They constitute a substantial risk to public health, have little to moderate therapeutic usefulness and can be potentially addictive.

“The main stimulant used for ADHD is an amphetamine-like drug, which purportedly acts as a tranquilizer in children. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration it is more potent than cocaine.”
 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, public benefit organization co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and  Dr. Thomas Szasz. 

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Fires wreaked havoc around the San Diego County last week, with more than 300,000 people displaced and more than 1,000 homes lost in the National Emergency of the San Diego Fires of 2007. With all the destruction and loss, it is nice to know that empathy and care were at the forefront of the City of Oceanside and Vista who outpoured support for more than 250 people from neighboring Fallbrook and local areas displaced by the fires.

The MiraCosta College, under the leadership of John Hendrickson, offered their gymnasium and the Scientology Disaster Response Team opened the evacuation center on Monday night at the request of the San Diego Sheriff’s office. By Tuesday night there were more than 135 people staying at the shelter with an outpouring of assistance from MiraCosta faculty, administration, students and the citizens of Oceanside.

The heroic efforts of the city of Oceanside, the city of Vista, the Red Cross and the Scientology Disaster Response Team along with hundreds of private citizens and local business create a virtual shopping mall in the MiraCosta gym fulfilling every need of the evacuees. The North County Humane Society provided crates, food, and veterinary care for more than 50 pets and volunteers aided guests with clothes, personal items, wheel chairs, entertainment while people waited to return home or find a new home.

Security was managed by the MiraCosta Police Department under the guidance of Chief Norcross and included mutual aide from the San Diego Sheriff’s office, the DEA, the Border Patrol and the Oceanside Police Department. The guests were really impressed with the security and all the comfort provided by the college. One youngster was heard to say on leaving with her mom, “Do I really need to leave, I really like it here!”

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Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies

Thursday, April 12, 2007 by: Mike Adams of News Target.com

Key concepts: the FDA, FDA raids, and nutrition.

Here’s a brief overview of some of the campaigns of terror the FDA has initiated against natural healers, nutritional supplement companies and other organizations. Many were conducted using armed agents wielding assault rifles and automatic weapons, dressed in body armor. All of them were intended to destroy natural medicine, thereby protecting the profits of drug companies and conventional medicine practitioners.

This is the true history of the FDA that the FDA doesn’t wan’t you to know!

(This timeline is excerpted from my book Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them)

… In the early 1960s, the FDA got word of something it didn’t like: The Church of Scientology was helping its members overcome mental problems with the use of a simple biofeedback device called the E-meter. With the market for psychotropic drugs so consistently profitable, and with Scientology gaining momentum in …

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The National Court in Madrid issued a landmark decision affirming the right to religious freedom in Spain by recognizing that the National Church of Scientology of Spain should be entered in the Registry of Religious Entities. “This recognition marks the end of an era in which Spanish Scientologists were forced to fight for their rights to religious freedom. It vindicates the Church of Scientology and is a new beginning for all Spanish Scientologists,” said Ivan Arjona, spokesperson for the National Church of Scientology in Spain.

The National Court thoroughly examined the Church’s formative documents and aims and purposes to unequivocally determine that the National Church of Scientology of Spain has the right to be registered as a religion under Spanish law.

In reaching this decision, the National Court also relied on decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, most notably the Human Rights Court’s unanimous decision of April 2007 affirming that the Church of Scientology is entitled to the rights and protections of religious freedom that flow to religious organizations pursuant to Article 9 of the European Human Rights Convention. The principles enunciated in that decision upheld the religious freedom of Scientologists and their religious associations and apply throughout the forty-seven member states that have signed and ratified the European Human Rights Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

“This is the culmination of a series of landmark victories for the Church of Scientology in Europe. Thanks to this recognition, we are now able to devote all our effort and attention to making our community and our country the best it can be, for all its people. The National Court’s decision is extremely significant because it constitutes the latest official recognition of the Church of Scientology as a religious organization in Europe. It mandates that Scientologists and their religious associations be afforded the same rights and privileges as members of other registered religious organizations throughout the European Community and in the European Union.” Arjona said.

In September 2004, the National Church of Scientology of Spain opened grand new premises in the heart of Madrid. That new Scientology church represents not only a house of worship for the thousands of Scientologists in the country, but a resource to the community and nation at large. The Church’s social betterment programs reach millions of people every year.

The Scientology religion was founded by L. Ron Hubbard. The first church was established in the United States in 1954. Since then, it has grown to more than 7,500 churches, missions and groups and ten million members in 163 nations.

Scientology first came to Spain in the late 1960s.

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Dignus Lavooy was inspired by an earlier article I posted to write how he became a Scientologist. Here is his story.

I got into Scientology in 1975, but the story starts long before I knew of its existence. I was born and raised in a rural village in the Netherlands, where helping the community, being active in clubs, attending church, etc., were still very much part of the way of life. It was the time when early rock & roll music had just been replaced on the top 40’s by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Newspapers were believed and TV was this new and fascinating medium with the silliest program dominating the schoolyard conversations the whole next day.

Growing up is a constant expansion of one’s sphere of awareness and as mine grew I started to ask more and more questions. The fact that inspirational politicians (Kennedy’s) and people whose message meant something to me (Martin Luther King and later John Lennon) were senselessly murdered did not fit with my view of how the world should run. Add Vietnam, which seemed so unnecessary, an arms race that was out of control and the messages about the planet’s energy resources running out and I seriously doubted that I (or for that matter, anyone else) could be happy or live long. Things just did not make sense and I began to think there was something seriously wrong with me. It was only later that I understood that you can’t make sense out of an insane act. If I got anything from experiencing that era, it was to be on the lookout for something that would shed some light into the darker corners of existence. My school buddies, though they very much agreed that society was crazy… .

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Undaunted by Harlem
’s strong historical ties to mainline Protestantism and Islam, the Church of Scientology has thrown its hat into the ring with hopes of becoming a stronger presence in the neighborhood’s future. …

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The Drug-Free Marshals of Seattle, a youth-based drug education and prevention group sponsored by the Church of Scientology of Seattle, dressed up for Halloween to “treat” kids to the truth about drugs.

The Queen Anne community of Seattle Washington holds an annual celebration called “Trick-or-Treat on the Waterfront,” to provide a safe place for children and teens on Halloween, and the Drug-Free Marshals were out in force to help kids live safely all year round, by passing out booklets published by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, containing factual information about the most popular street drugs.

They also passed out Drug-Free Marshals badges and had kids sign their drug-free pledge, “deputizing” them to make their own schools and neighborhoods safe from drugs as well.

The event is part of Red Ribbon Week, an annual national drug prevention program, traditionally held throughout the last week of October.

The “Drug-Free Marshals” program was created in 1993 to educate children on the dangers of drugs. When they take the oath to be Drug-Free Marshals, youngsters pledge to remain drug-free and encourage their family and friends to do so too.

Over the past 14 years, more than 3 million have taken the pledge to live drug-free lives in cities and towns all over the world.

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Decades ago L. Ron Hubbard developed a detoxification program for members of the Church of Scientology whose purpose was to clean out drugs/toxins from the body and further clear thinking. Since the 1960s the program found its secular usage in drug rehabilitation and - just recently - was used by more than 800 Ground Zero workers in New York.

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