Scientology Ruthlessly Harassed Reporters (including Me) For Decades. Biden VP Contender Karen Bass’s Statements About The Cult Just Don’t Add Up.
By Richard Behar for Forbes. Behar wrote the 1991 Time magazine cover story, “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power."
Scientology Ruthlessly Harassed Reporters (including Me) For Decades. Biden VP Contender Karen Bass’s Statements About The Cult Just Don’t Add Up.
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I couldn't be more pleased to see Richard Behar, author of the 1991 TIME magazine cover story writing about Scientology again. To say Scientology harassed him is a grose understatement. I sincerely consider him a hero.
Please read and refer his new article in Forbes, it's excellent.
excerpt from this new article in Forbes:
For
Time’s international editions,
a sidebar was included with the cover story that was titled “Pushing Beyond the U.S.— Scientology Makes Its Presence Felt in Europe and Canada.” It showed how the church’s minions were wreaking havoc in one country after another (Canada; France;
Germany; Italy; Spain)—costing governments considerable effort and money to try and stop them.
This was back when
Time was
Time (in terms of global influence and readership), and Scientology
declared war in response
. The church sued and also ran a $3 million daily ad campaign for two weeks in
USA Today attacking the articles, as well as
Time generally and historically. An 80-page booklet charged that we were “serving an evil hidden agenda.” The ad campaign culminated in a 28-page booklet inserted into the newspaper [briefly excerpted
here] that even attacked Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac depression medicine. Why? The church is fervently opposed to psychiatry and psychiatric medicine, and works hard to keep mentally-ill members from getting treatment from licensed professionals.
(Bass might be interested in that topic, considering that during the 1990s—a time when she ran the L.A. social justice group—she worked hard addressing the city’s drug and gang-violence epidemic. She also spent nearly a decade as a physician assistant and served as a medical instructor at the University of Southern California. Currently, she serves on several U.S. House committees, including chairing the subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. I don’t know her views on psychiatry or meds.)
1991 cover
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