Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
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[Cozying up with a Tennessee pol]
Earlier this week, Scientology’s most unhinged of front groups, its anti-psychiatry lobbying arm Citizens Commission on Human Rights, put out a press release celebrating another victory.
CCHR is always happy when it can convince legislators to carry water for the Church of Scientology without them even realizing it.
In this case, lawmakers in Tennessee were convinced to make some changes to a law that allows testing for psychotropic drugs of a mass shooter after an incident injures four or more people. (Scientology would actually like to eliminate all psychotropic drugs altogether, but it settles for these small victories whenever it can get them.)
Anyway, the reason we bring it up is that in the press release, CCHR gave credit for drafting the bill to Tennessee CCHR’s Director of Public Policy, who is none other than — are you ready for this? — Brittany Ruiz.
Yes! That Brittany Ruiz. The former Sea Org worker who tried to run for city council in McMinnville, Oregon in 2020, and who was unsuccessful after we let the good people of McMinnville know who they were dealing with.
Let us remind you what a field day we had with those stories.
We had pointed out that it was pretty unusual for Scientologists to run for public office. But a former Sea Org insider? That made it extra interesting.
Brittany Ruiz had been the deputy commanding officer at the Advanced Org of Los Angeles, a place where high-level church members paid tens of thousands to experience the “Operating Thetan” auditing levels, really arcane stuff.
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[/td]Earlier this week, Scientology’s most unhinged of front groups, its anti-psychiatry lobbying arm Citizens Commission on Human Rights, put out a press release celebrating another victory.
CCHR is always happy when it can convince legislators to carry water for the Church of Scientology without them even realizing it.
In this case, lawmakers in Tennessee were convinced to make some changes to a law that allows testing for psychotropic drugs of a mass shooter after an incident injures four or more people. (Scientology would actually like to eliminate all psychotropic drugs altogether, but it settles for these small victories whenever it can get them.)
Anyway, the reason we bring it up is that in the press release, CCHR gave credit for drafting the bill to Tennessee CCHR’s Director of Public Policy, who is none other than — are you ready for this? — Brittany Ruiz.
Yes! That Brittany Ruiz. The former Sea Org worker who tried to run for city council in McMinnville, Oregon in 2020, and who was unsuccessful after we let the good people of McMinnville know who they were dealing with.
Let us remind you what a field day we had with those stories.
We had pointed out that it was pretty unusual for Scientologists to run for public office. But a former Sea Org insider? That made it extra interesting.
Brittany Ruiz had been the deputy commanding officer at the Advanced Org of Los Angeles, a place where high-level church members paid tens of thousands to experience the “Operating Thetan” auditing levels, really arcane stuff.
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Look who's back, and helping Scientology's sneaky anti-psych front pass new laws!
Earlier this week, Scientology’s most unhinged of front groups, its anti-psychiatry lobbying arm Citizens Commission on Human Rights, put out a press release celebrating another victory.
tonyortega.substack.com
