David Miscavige = Bull Connor
A.R.S. Post
| Subject: | Re: David Miscavige = Bull Connor |
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| Author: | keshet <keshet@cyberpass.net> |
| Date: | 1998/09/03 |
| Forum: | alt.religion.scientology |
| Msg-ID: | <6slf66$lji @enews1.newsguy.com> |
Public Relations (publicrelations@scientology.org) said:
This comparison is completely specious.
I find the Miscavige = Connor comparison…wickedly delicious. Consider this: civil rights activists were able to play Bull Connor like a violin, i.e., they purposely arranged confrontations with him because he could be counted on to respond in absurdly hateful ways, thus graphically demonstrating white bigotry for [the] world to see. Sort of the civil rights version of Operation Foot Bullet.
Blacks fought for their civil rights because they were being discriminated against and persecuted in a white-dominated society in which they had to live. All black people were involved in this struggle, either directly or indirectly, because it impinged directly on their own lives.
The so-called "critics" of Scientology are outside the Church and some have never even been members.
Let's see…you are saying that if I were a so-called white, I would have no business taking part in the civil rights movement because I am outside the black community and have never even been a member. Have I got that right??
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Moreover, Scientologists have fought hard and long for the rights of others, including for black people.
How? There is no historical record of Scientology's participation in the civil rights movement, though many other religious groups were active: Baptists, Friends, Methodists, Episcopalians, Catho[l]ics, NOI, Jews. Where was the Church of Scientology??
<snipped the rest of the painfully obtuse p.r. attempt>
Keshet
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