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SCIENTOLOGY REHAB: Guinn's office not interested in their 'Narconon'
[NOTE: I like the comment by the GOP assemblywoman toward the
end of this newspaper article: "But when something works,
you have to take a look at it." The notion that Scientology's
quack medical scams some how works is cause for concern when people
with problems believe it, but it's much worse when government
officials fall for financial frauds and unknowingly assist in the
perpetuation of crimes against their citizens]
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Feb-15-Sat-2003/news/20697252.html
SCIENTOLOGY REHAB: Guinn's office not interested
GOP assemblywoman says legislators still going to see Mexican
prison's drug program: "But when something works, you have
to take a look at it." And in fact Scientology's
"Narconon" fraud doesn't work. It's been proven
to not only be ineffective as drug addiction treatment but has
also been found to be dangerous and often deadly.
The fact is that the assemblywoman simply didn't do her homework
and got suckered by a bunch of crooks who were after government
tax dollars as part of their endless frauds and scams, preying
upon honest people's honest desires to help drug addicts -- and
preying upon politician's desires to keep getting re-elected.]
By ED VOGEL
CARSON CITY -- The governor's office wants nothing to do with a
Republican assemblywoman's plan to have female inmates submit to a
drug rehabilitation program developed by Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard, a spokesman said Friday.
Greg Bortolin, press secretary to Gov. Kenny Guinn, said the
administration is "moving in another direction" in its
inmate drug rehabilitation efforts.
He added that neither Corrections Director Jackie Crawford nor any
members of her staff will take additional trips to an Ensenada,
Mexico, prison to review the controversial drug rehabilitation
program that uses sauna and massage treatment.
The Arizona state government rejected the program last year because
of its $15,000-per-inmate cost and because program sponsors did not
track participants once they left prison.
Crawford said there is merit to the Second Chance Program used in
the Mexican prison, but not necessarily more than other drug
rehabilitation programs. She said she took a free trip to the
Mexican prison because Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, R-Reno,
requested she see the program.
Angle insisted "raw partisanship" is the real reason why
Democrats have rejected an examination of the Hubbard program. She
said Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, has
been inducing legislators to reject the program without looking
at its merits.
Guinn, however, is a Republican. Until she hears otherwise from
Crawford, Angle said she believes the administration may be convinced
to offer the program to Nevada inmates.
Angle added "more than a few" legislators will fly to
Mexico March 1 on a day trip to see the rehabilitation program.
The trip is being paid for by philanthropist Russell Suggs.
She also declined to identify legislators who will take the trip,
saying she doesn't have an accurate count. But Angle acknowledged
that none of the 23 Democrats in the 42-member Assembly will make
the trip.
"I had Democrats attending until she (Buckley) began this
partisan move," Angle said.
Angle said federal and private grants are available to cover the
expected $1.5 million cost to treat 500 Nevada inmates.
Despite comments made during Arizona legislative hearings that
participants were not tracked after leaving prison, Angle contended
only 10 percent of inmates who participate in the program end up
returning to prison.
Assembly Minority Leader Lynn Hettrick, R-Gardnerville, said the
controversy over whether legislators should take the trip is
"a bunch of hullabaloo over nothing."
"What's the big deal?" he asked. "Sure some will go
on a Saturday on a trip that is not being paid by taxpayers."
While parts of the program were developed by Hubbard, Angle said his
religion now has nothing to do with the program.
"I don't have any inclination toward Scientology," she
added. "But when something works, you have to take a look at
it."
The Church of Scientology touts the benefits of the Second Chance
Program, which it calls Narconon, on its Web site. Hubbard died in
1986 at the age of 75. [NOTE: While hiding out on the lam from
Federal authorities on a ranch in Northern California while his
wife and 10 others were in prison for crimes he ordered to be
comitted under what Scientology still calls their "Operation
Snow White." See
http://www.cosvm.org/stipofev.htm
]
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