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National Coalition of Human Rights Activists Urges Investigation
of Councilwoman Lopez
Added: (Tue Aug 02 2005)
Responding to a New York "Post" exposé of New York City
Councilwoman Margarita Lopez's receipt of nearly US$100,000 from
the sinister Scientology business, the NCHRA urges state and
federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the councilwoman
for possible criminal and ethical wrong-doing. The issue under
contention is the funding of the Scientology Corporation under the
guise of "detoxifying" New York City's fire fighters and other
emergency response team members.
"Scientology's 'detox' program has long been considered by many to
be both dangerous and ineffective [0]," said David Rice, President
of the NCHRA. "From Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop who
called the treatment 'dangerous' and 'detrimental to [one's]
health,' to James J. Kenney, Ph.D., RD, of the National Council
Against Health Fraud who said of the program 'Health professionals
who subject troubled people (many with psychiatric illnesses and /
or severe emotional problems) to this unproven detoxification
program are at best unethical and at worst guilty of health fraud.'
There was no legitimate excuse for the city of New York to
subject its fire fighters, as if they were lab rates and guinea
pigs, to this insidious form of medical experimentation: any
through investigation would have produced more than enough data
for any rational human being to reject the program."
The Scientology business created their "detoxification" program in
1972, under the hands of Scientology's Guardians Office [1]. That
same Scientology department that was later convicted of the
infiltration and theft of documents from a number of prominent
private national and world organizations, law firms and
newspapers; the execution of smear campaigns and baseless law
suits to destroy private individuals who had attempted to exercise
their First Amendment rights to freedom of expression; the framing
(of crimes) of private citizens who had been critical of
Scientology, including the forging of documents which led to the
indictment of at least one innocent person; violation of the civil
rights of prominent private figures and public officials; the
burglary of Government offices; the theft of Government property;
the interception of private Governmental communications; the
obstruction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Grand Jury
investigation into those burglaries; thefts, and electronic
"buggings" of government offices and private citizen's residences
and business offices; the harboring and concealment of a fugitive
from justice; and the making of false declarations to the federal
Grand Jury. [2]
"Many of the world's human rights activists consider the
Scientology business to be organized crime. Councilwoman Lopez
might have been negligent in her duty to the citizens of New York,
and the fire fighters who were subjected to Scientology Inc.'s
program, if she failed to research that for which she urged
funding and which she politically supported."
The Scientology business appears to have ignored all the studies
that have shown their "detoxification" program to be both
dangerous [3] and ineffective [4]. The business has consistently
refused to provide to the NCHRA any data showing their program is
both safe and effective.
"All I get from Scientology are assertions that such-and-such
study shows their program is safe and that it works: every request
to be given copies of those studies has been refused; every
request to see raw data about the effectiveness of their program
has been met with refusal. In a few cases, studies reported the
exact opposite of what the Scientology business claims they
reported. [5]"
No peer-reviewed medical journals have published any studies about
Scientology's program. When medical authorities have commented of
the program, the opinions are nearly unanimously negative.
"When Councilwoman Lopez accepted money from the malignant
Scientology business, she should have smelled the offal pit she
was stepping into. The NCHRA asks law enforcement to investigate
to see if she broke any laws; we also ask the New York City
Council to investigate any ethics violations she may have
committed during her transactions with Scientology Inc."
[0] Oklahoma State Board of Health; Former Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop; Michigan Corrections Department psychologist John
Hand; Wolfgang Heckmann MD.; James J. Kenney, Ph.D., RD.; Vigilli
Venzin, MD.
[1] Flag Bureaux Data Letter 220, August 29, 1972, called in the
memo "NarConon"
[2] USA Vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Criminal Case No. 78-401
[3] The Safety Issue:
[4] The Effective Issue:
[5] Such as the West Berlin government study; the Swedish National
Board of Health and Welfare study; and the evaluation by Peter
Gerdman at Vårby Gård, near Stockholm. See also
Submitted by: National Coalition of Human Rights Activists
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