Karen#1
Well-known member
Alexander Barnes-Ross
Scientology workers have been spreading propaganda in south London once again, this time under the banner of their ‘United For Human Rights’ front group.
In an article in Saint Hiller, the magazine Scientology produces in-house in which it reports on Church news local to its headquarters near East Grinstead, Scientology claims volunteers distributed 1,000 ‘What are Human Rights’ booklets in Croydon on Saturday 4th January and that “the public were receptive of the information and curious about it and the shop owners were very happy to take the booklets for their customers to read.” However, it does not confirm whether the volunteers identified themselves as Scientology representatives or disclosed that the material was produced by the Church.
United for Human Rights is one of Scientology’s many ‘social betterment programs’ which sit in the PR division of the organisation as a tool to claim legitimacy and public benefit. They claim these programs are run independently of the Church and are secular in nature, however the materials are based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard – which Scientology themselves argued in a 2013 UK Supreme Court case are religious in nature. The programs include Narconon and Criminon, Scientology’s drug rehabilitation and criminal reform groups which have been independently recognised by the Charity Commission, despite Scientology itself being rejected in 1999.
Another one of their programs, the ‘Foundation for a Drug Free World’ (also known as ‘Truth About Drugs’) landed itself in hot water last September after it was found to be promoting a non-existent partnership with the Metropolitan Police force, who subsequently demanded the Scientologists to remove their logo from the website.
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