Scientologists descend on VT grieving students

[Ducky]

According to Hollywood Interrupted a Co$ internal memo has called for Scientologists to descend on VT and distribute "The Way To Happiness," their anti-psychiatry book.

E M E R G E N C Y B U L L E T I N :

THE WAY TO HAPPINESS CAMPAIGN, VIRGINIA TECH

Please help us get The Way to Happiness books to the students, faculty, and members of the community of Blacksburg, VA following the tragic school shooting yesterday at Virginia Tech.

The message of The Way to Happiness book is not only pertinent, but needed at this time of crisis and healing...

Internal memo linked here.

I saw this article originally linked on Boingboing.net. First they make a mockery of 9/11 Ground Zero, and now they plan to prey on victims of another horrible tragedy for self serving gains. From that internal memo (quoting "The Way to Happiness):

Precept 8: DO NOT MURDER

... "Murder" is another thing entirely. By definition it means, "The unlawful killing of one (or more) human being(s) by another, especially with malice aforethought." One can easily see that in this age of violent weaponry, murder would be all too easy. One could not exist in a society where oneself or one's family or friends were at the mercy of some who went about casually taking lives.

Murder justly bears the highest priority in social prevention and retaliation.

The stupid, the evil and the insane seek to solve their real or imagined problems with murder. And they have been known to do it for no reason at all.

Get behind any demonstrably effective program that handles this threat to mankind and push. Your own survival could depend on it.

The way to happiness does not include murdering or your friends, your family, or yourself being murdered.

This just makes me want to beat the crap out of someone.

ETA: Also on Hollywood Interrupted's developing coverage page about this story:

Here is an excerpt from a press release currently being disseminated to media outlets by Scientology front group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights [CCHR]:

Another School Shooter, Another Psychiatric Drug?
28 Dead and 62 Wounded in Recent Drug-Induced School Shootings

Today's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech is being called the deadliest school shooting incident in U.S. history, with initial reports citing 32 dead and 29 wounded in the bloodiest school massacre since Columbine. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog that initially discovered the psychiatric drug connection in the Columbine shootings, says media and law enforcement must move quickly to investigate the Virginia shooter's psychiatric drug history -- a common factor amongst school shooters...

For more information, contact [FLAME] the Citizens Commission on Human Rights at 800-869-2247 or email humanrights@cchr.org.

(For the record, the Columbine shooters stopped taking their medication to "feel rage again.")

This type of crap is absolutely horrible.

 

[LawnOven]

It is horrible, especially since this horrible tragedy happened because of a lack of treatment of mental illness.

Where normal people see a tragedy scientologists see and opportunity.

 

[Ducky]

It is horrible, especially since this horrible tragedy happened because of a lack of treatment of mental illness.

Where normal people see a tragedy scientologists see and opportunity.

That sums it up perfectly.

 

[Athyrio]

Inevitable, and from their playbook, a good call. Any cult worth its prayercloths or holy water should be descending upon Blacksburg in droves about now to entrap any young and confused potential disciple.

 

[Glen.Nogami]

How utterly vile. Interesting that not two days after the event we've got political grandstanding, on both sides of gun control, and then this.

 

[Kochanski]

Peachy keen. Now all we need is John TBDITU Edward with his talking to the dead schtick and the circus of sicko opportunity can begin.

I'm with you Fowlsound, too bad I won't be in Manhattan this weekend, because I am now in the mood to rip into a whole bunch of them. GRRRRRRRRR

 

[fuelair]

It is horrible, especially since this horrible tragedy happened because of a lack of treatment of mental illness.

Where normal people see a tragedy scientologists see and opportunity.

That we can agree on!!!

 

[grayman]

Scientology Commercial:

 

[grayman]

One more (sorry):

 

[MG1962]

What frustates me, I have seen the genuine good faith based, grief councilling can do for those who feel they need it. To see these vultures go there, not to heal or help, but to prey on the emotionally weak is just about as low as you can get. Seriously these grubs would need a ladder to scratch a snakes' belly

 

[fredcarr]

What frustates me, I have seen the genuine good faith based, grief councilling can do for those who feel they need it. To see these vultures go there, not to heal or help, but to prey on the emotionally weak is just about as low as you can get. Seriously these grubs would need a ladder to scratch a snakes' belly

Wow! Thats a fairly nasty insult. I've never been called a grub before. At least its original.

Fred

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

Wow! Thats a fairly nasty insult. I've never been called a grub before. At least its original.

Fred

Have you ever been asked about your self-professed "friend" Lisa McPherson, who died of dehydration after being locked into a CoS-run hotel, her body covered with bruises and cockroach bites?

Oh wait... I have.

 

[Jimbo07]

Peachy keen. Now all we need is John TBDITU Edward with his talking to the dead schtick and the circus of sicko opportunity can begin.

Why didn't Sylvia Browne see this one coming and warn everybody?

 

[Taffer]

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