Tutoring to lure them in
Scientology
®
is out looking for children in the
Fuerth, Germany
Sect Commissioner warns parents - businessman from
by Reinhard Schmolzi
Fuerth - Scientology is out looking for children in the area:
to lure them in, tutoring courses are used which are being
offered by the newly founded institution, "Help" (help with
education and learning problems) in Fuerth. Concealed
behind the institute is the "Association for Better Living and
Education (ABLE
®)", the
department, according to the
Federal Assembly's Enquete Commissioner, which is
responsible in the psycho-concern for education and
training. "Help" is directed by Fuerth businessman Andreas
Weigmann, who is listed in internal Scientology catalogs as a
highly decorated member.
"Test troubles?," "Good grades without extra help! Learn
how to learn" Along with that a telephone number, nothing
more. With this and similar small advertisements "Help" is
advertising its courses at school's close in the local
newspapers. When the number is called, a woman's
friendly, recorded voice states that simple solutions are
available which make learning fun and easy. To receive
informational material, the caller is to leave his address.
It is not until a second look at the small print in "Help's"
letterhead paper that one discovers the true string-pullers
hiding behind the offer. "ABLE" is quite high on the list of
Scientology cover companies which bustle about in the
areas of education and training. Along with them are
"Applied Scholastics International (ASI)" through which
English correspondence courses are offered, the "Parents'
Association for the Advancement of the Application of
Study Technology (FAST)," the "Center for Individual and
Effective Learning (ZIEL)" "Narconon,"
® which is involved
with youth at risk with drugs, and the action committee,
"Say No to Drugs - Say Yes to Life."
Sect experts state that the only goals of these organizations
are to spread the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard among the people, to recruit new members and to
make money. That is what the tutoring market segment is
being used for. According to a study by the Institute of
German Economy (IW), in Cologne parents pay 1.8 billion
marks per year for additional instruction.
Emergency situations exploited
Making money, according to Ludwig Lanzhammer, sect
commissioner of the Catholic city church in Nuernberg, is
not the problem: "Anybody who drops their child off at
'Help' for tutoring has delivered him to the Scientologists."
And that is said to be particularly dangerous because they
are tuned in to detecting emergency situations and then
shamelessly exploiting them. Childhood fantasies, stated the
Enquete Commission report, is defined in Hubbard's book
"Child Dianetics" as psychically ill. Former members report
that children, once in the clutches of Scientology, have their
ongoing relations to their parents encumbered if the parents
have not already been gotten to. Children are taught that the
work for the organization, which is striving for world
domination, gets first priority.
Scientology apparently also has absolute priority with
Andreas Weigmann, the Fuerth businessman. Documents
available to our newspaper show that the jeweler has been
taking expensive courses for years for the L. Ron Hubbard
prescribed "Way to Happiness" in preparation for becoming
an immortal superman, called a "Thetan." He is even listed
as a "Patron Meritorious" on the Scientology honor roll. This
title is granted to those who have donated at least
$250,000.
Weigmann also apparently intends to spread the teachings
of Scientology in his own business. Members of his staff, it
can be concluded from a letter available to our newspaper,
are advised to take Communications seminars (they amount
to joining the Scientology course pyramid) at the Nuernberg
MTS company, Management TOP System, which is
managed by the chairman of the Scientology Bavaria
association, Gerhard Boehm.
Weigmann wrote in a thank you letter to Boehm, "Several of
them have also applied the teachings at home successfully
on their spouses and and children. We are enjoying the
advancement of training."
Weigmann himself does not at all dispute the the academic
principle behind "Help" is based on the "technology" of L.
Ron Hubbard. He himself had been educated by Applied
Scholastics, he responded to our inquiry. Besides that, the
offer from "help" is not directed just at children, but also to
adults, he stated, and also that the "Scientology Church"
was not participating in either the organization nor the
instruction of "Help." Weigmann also disputed having talked
employees of his business into attending training.
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