Harold's Journal
We have printed, today, the reasoning behind the Mental Health Board's
decision not to certify Narconon
®
as legitimate health care in the state of
Oklahoma. All of it. It's long. But it is important that somebody put it in
the public record.
The simple fact is that Narconon is unsafe and ineffective as health care.
Period. Never was, never will be. It's exactly what we said it was two and
a half years ago: a snake oil cure, which at any price is a rip-off.
Thanks to the Mental Health Board, taxpayers' money and insurance benefits
will not be wasted on Hubbard's Hucksters. Desperate people will no longer
be fed false hopes and dangerous hocum, at least at Chilocco.
However, the Narconuts continue to blow smoke up the media's tailpipe,
blaming their failure to pass muster on everyone and everything else except
the real problem: It doesn't work, and it isn't safe.
Over 20 years they've been taking people's money and yet there is not one
piece of scientifically credible evidence that their program works. Four of
their own doctors admitted that at the hearings.
Is it safe? Sure, most people survive it. That's not the point. The point
is that someone might not survive a 200 degree sauna. Keep in mind that
water boils at 212 degrees. One can bake brownies in less than 5 hours at
200 degrees, but that's how long debilitated addicts are expected to spend
in the Narconon sauna each day.
Considering that all of Narconon's staff (except their new medical
director, incidentally) have been through the program at least once, it is
not difficult to understand why they have such a hard time comprehending
the board's decision.
Their brains have obviously been baked. Which is further indication that
Narconon doesn't work and is unsafe.
We were especially unimpressed with Ms. Bimbo Barmaid for informing us of
how arrogant and irresponsible the Mental Health Board is. Fortunately, she
doesn't run anything but her mouth. And even then, she usually uses
somebody else's words. Someone might pay attention to her if she had the
credentials of even one member of the Mental Health Board. No matter how
often she reads the script they give her, she can't make Narconon safe, and
she can't make it work.
Narconon's latest tactic is to start a petition drive across the state.
They've been spotted lurking in the dorm halls at OSU, and were invited off
the property at Wall-Mart and Food Warehouse in Ponca over the weekend.
With assistance from the police.
The idea apparently is that if enough people sign a petition to do
something that is dangerous, the people who know better will let them do it
anyway. This is Narconon's concept of helping their fellow man? All the
names in the world on a petition don't make the Narconon system work, and
they don't make it safe.
In addition, they have again resorted to their old tactic of harassing
people. At least one Mental Health Board member is getting strange phone
calls and being followed where ever he goes. A lot of us in Newkirk have
been through that foolishness before, too. Harassing board members doesn't
make the Narconon program work, and it doesn't make it safe. Harassment
like this just makes them more obnoxious.
Then there is the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), Narconon's
sister org, which appears right on que to charge the Mental Health
Department with undocumented heinous crimes everytime it looks like
Narconon is going to get tossed out on it's ear. Trying to intimidate the
Mental Health Department doesn't make the Narconon system safe, or
effective.
All of these things they do, without addressing the real problem: Narconon
is dangerous and it doesn't work. Until they recognize that fact, they
might as well be trying to teach a pig to sing.
Which wastes a lot of time and it irritates the pig.
The name "Narconon"® is trademarked to the Scientology
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individuals mentioned herein assisting to educate the public about the
dangers of the Narconon scam are members of or representitives of the
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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 Narcotics
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Editorial Opinion By RWL - 19 December 1991
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