Thursday, November 17, 2005

South Park vs. crazy cult

Last night's new South Park was a hilarious blasting of scientology that's sure to get them sued. This so-called church is well known for releasing hordes of attack lawyers on anyone who publishes anything critical of them. Take a look at the great 1991 Time magazine article exposing scientology called "Cult of Greed".
Before the worldwide web, it was hard to find published material critical of this cult because of the risk of lawsuit. For a high circulation publication like Time magazine to run this article was a huge step in exposing the cult. Yep, they got sued for it. Time Warner got the suit thrown out, but the entire process with appeals took almost ten years.

Now we have websites like Xenu.net, so it's easier. Of course scientology would still like nothing more than to shut them down.

It should be noted that the Cult Awareness Network, an anti-cult organization quoted in the Time article, was driven into bankruptcy by a somehow successful lawsuit brought by the church of scientology. Once the CAN was bankrupt, the church bought out their assets and now runs the organization. Fox... hen house...

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