"Metin Aydin" metin.aydin$mail1.stofanet.dk
The footbullet of april 1998 deserves a rerun:
Excerpts:
*Someone from the church of scientology has done a damn mistake.
*Sect exploits king in video.
*This is a revenge for the publication of the socalled scientologist
bible in Sweden a few years ago.
*They hate critizism and pursuit critics and defectors. Now they
want to tarnish Sweden.
The translated articles
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9804/06/06narco2.html
"WE HAVE ASKED THE COURT FOR FORGIVENESS"
Narconon blames the exploitation of the royal family on the american
church of scientology.
- We have asked the court and the police for forgiveness.
The church of scientology has to edit away the scenes from inside
the royal palace, says Narconon spokesperson Thomas Lillhannus, 30.
An american tv-crew from the church of scientology flew to Sweden
the previous year. The goal was to produce a documentary about
the 25 year anniversary of the affiliated organization Narconon.
The video was to be shown on a church of scientology new years event
in Los Angeles. - We would never have approved of the video had we
seen the final product. Someone from the church of scientology has
done a damn mistake. There are many mistakes in the video.
"WE HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG"
How have you gained access to the imagery from inside the royal palace?
- I wonder myself. I have no idea how the Americans got the material.
Will there be any legal consequences?
- Thats nothing Narconon will be involved in. We have done no
mistakes. If there will be any, it will be the church of scientology
which has to face those.
Will the activities of Narconon be affected by the video which
seems to contain false segments and allegations.
- Narconon has been twisted and turned for 25 years. But we still
exist and are recognized by both the countygovernments [länsstyrelser]
and the Social administration [Socialstyrelsen]. Nobody has ever been
able to question our treatment-results. We keep on working, says
Thomas Lillhannus.
Ulf Wallin
06.04.98 Aftonbladet
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9804/06/06narco.html
SECT EXPLOITS KING IN VIDEO
[Picture of the king and queen]
"THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED"
The court responds strongly to the scientologists exploitation
of the royal couple:
- The king does not support this business. The royal couple do
not wish to take part in such contexts and have not been asked
either, says court spokesperson Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg.
SECRET PROPAGANDAMOVIE DISTRIBUTED TO THE ENTIRE WORLD
The royal couple are exploited in a secret propagandamovie for a
religious sect. In the movie Sweden is depicted as a country bogged
down by drugs, where the scientologists rehab facility Narconon is
the only salvation. Which even the king has realized, according to
the movie.
- We don't know how they got hold of the moving pictures of the
royal couple, says court spokesperson Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg.
The Swedish royal couple are used as advertisement-faces in the
global and criticized sect the church of scientologys movie.
The news on TV 4 yesterday showed the secret propagandamovie, which
was not ment for Swedish eyes. In the movie, which was shown on the
scientologists new years event in Los Angeles and later distributed
to the entire world except Sweden, Sweden is presented as a country
with a high level of crime and drug abuse.
Among other things, it is claimed [in the movie] that Sweden is the
country where thefts are increasing most in the entire world.
The solution for the problems is, according to the propagandamovie,
Narconon - the drugrehab facility which is a part of the severely
criticized and controversial church of scientology. The movie shows
fake broadsheets from some ten newspapers and the Swedish police
assert the excellence of Narconon, according to the speaker of the
propagandamovie.
- Nobody said anything about the scientologists, policeman Lars
Serenander who is in the movie tells TV 4.
THE KING DEPICTED A PROTECTOR
The king is depicted as a devoted protector of Narconon.
- The king does not support this business. The royal couple do not
wish to take part in such contexts and have not been asked either.
We have been in contact with Narconon and they have promised to take
away the feature, says Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg.
The king and queen have been filmed on a planning-meeting with
their staff. The court does not know how Narconon has aquired the
moving pictures.
- This type of meeting has only been filmed on a few occasions
and how Narconon has acquired them we don't know, says Tarras-Wahlberg.
The pictures are old, according to Tarrass-Wahlberg. Maybe as much
as ten years.
- I can tell as a number of the shown employees aren't employed
anymore. The movie also shows a congratulations-telegram from the
king to Narconon.
EVERYBODY RECEIVES A RETURN-TELEGRAM
- It often happens that organizations who celebrate an anniversary
or some festival send a telegram and a return-telegram will be sent
[by us].
- The background for this telegram was, that we received an
invititation to their 25-year anniversary which the royal couple
declined. Later they wished for a telegram instead, recounts
Tarrass-Wahlberg. According to the sect-expert Åke Wiman, who
has investigated the scientologists for many years, this is a
revenge for the publication of the socalled scientologist bible
in Sweden a few years ago. This happened when an eager netizen,
Zenon Pnoussi [Panoussis], saw it on the internet.
He handed it over to the parliament [Riksdagen] and it thereby
became a public act.
- They hate critizism and pursuit critics and defectors. Now they
want to tarnish Sweden and show their own excellence, says Åke Wiman.
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07.04.98 AFTONBLADET
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY: WE SHOULDN'T HAVE USED THE ROYAL COUPLE
The movie where king Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia are said to praise the
church of scientologys drugprevention effort.
- We did a mistake, says Tarja Vulto, church informationschief.
In yeasterdays edition of Aftonbladet we told how the royal couple
had been exploited by the church of scientology. Tarja Vulto takes
the responsibility on her, for the erroneous occurrence of the royal
couple in the movie.
- I'm truly sorry that things turned out this way. It is 100
percent my responsibility. I never viewed the movie the americans
were recording, she tells Aftonbladet.
The church of scientology has an organisation for rehabilitating
drugabusers. It's called Narconon, and when the Swedish division
were to celebrate their 25 year anniversary a team from the US came
over to do an anniversary-movie.
THERE EXISTS HUNDREDS OF COPIES
Some images from a meeting on Stockholms Castle where the king
and queen take part were edited into the movie. None of them
speak in the movie-clip, but the American voiceover says, the
king praises Narconon as the only solution to swedens drugproblem.
The movie has been shown over the entire world, except Sweden, and
presumably there exists hundreds of copies.
Tarja Vulto now says the movie with the royal couple has to
dissapear and be replaced by a new edited version about Narconon.
One copy will be sent to the court.
Per-Iwar Sohlström
Translation by:
The name "Narconon"® is trademarked to the Scientology
organization through one of their many front groups. The name
"Scientology"® is also trademarked to the "Church"
of Scientology. Neither this web page, nor this web site, nor any of the
individuals mentioned herein assisting to educate the public about the
dangers of the Narconon scam are members of or representitives of the
Scientology organization.
If you or a loved one needs help -- real help -- there are
a number of rehabilitation programs you can contact. The real
Narcotics Anonymous organization
can get you in touch with real people who can help you.
Click [HERE] to visit Narcotivs
Anonymous's web site. Narcotics Anonymous's telephone number is
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Return to The NarCONon exposure's main Index page.
Forward: For a systematic, detailed, professional exposure of
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Narconon Exposed web site.
Narconon (royal footbullet - 1998)
30 Sep 2002
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Metin Aydin
(Denmark)
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