Russian President Vladimir Putin has completely banned ‘creepy Hollywood cult’ Scientology from operating in Russia, sending shockwaves through the liberal elite in California.
An updated list of “undesirable” organizations was released by Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday, just over a week after the Russian Prosecutor General’s office advocated banning several Church of Scientology affiliates.
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Two California-based holdings, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International (WISE) and the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST), also known as the “L. Ron Hubbard Library,” were officially banned from Russia.
Rt.com reports: Both were deemed a threat to Russia’s national security, according to a previous statement from the prosecutor’s office. The inclusion of Scientology on Russia’s list of “undesirable” organizations, which currently number at 49, means the outfit is now prohibited from conducting any activities in Russia, with its local chapters to be forcibly closed and assets frozen.
The decision follows a decades-long campaign to ban Scientology from illegally profiting on Russian territory, with the first major effort to restrict the group dating back to 1996, back in the Boris Yeltsin-era and some twelve years after the organization gained a foothold in what was then the Soviet Union. However, it was not until the 2010s when authorities really cracked down on Scientology groups, investigating major branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as their leaders, on charges of illegal business activities and extremism.
Some of the group’s literature has been outlawed as extremist material, while its Moscow chapter was ordered closed by the Supreme Court in 2016.
The Church of Scientology, which was founded by American science fiction novelist L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s, describes itself as a new religious movement, while its critics believe the group to be either a dangerous cult, a business trying to dodge taxes using religious exemptions, or some combination of both.
While the group has rarely achieved full-blown recognition from state authorities around the world, it has managed to obtain a tax exemption status in a number of countries. At the same time, Russia is far from being the only nation actively obstructing the group’s activities and influence.
A drawn-out case in Belgian against the ‘church’ involved charges of bribery, extortion, fraud, and the unlicensed practice of medicine, but its leaders were acquitted of all charges. Meanwhile in France, Scientology has been classified as a dangerous cult and seven of its members were convicted on various charges, including contribution to suicide.
Ironically, it was the Strasbourg, France-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that came to the defense of Scientology in its case in Russia, accusing authorities of religious discrimination. In fact, the group appears so confident about the ECHR’s support that an American representative once said of the situation in France, “if it has to go to the court of human rights we’re confident we will win there.”
The US has consistently criticised any country attempting to take the group and its leaders to court as discriminating on religious grounds, despite a long history of lawsuits and other legal issues with the group within the United States. In the 1970s, the ‘church’ carried out what it dubbed ‘Operation Snow White,’ which reportedly saw up to 5,000 Scientologists infiltrate scores of US government agencies – namely the IRS – where they stole documents, wiretapped phones of government agents and carried out other surveillance.
Several high-ranking Scientologists, among them Hubbard’s then-wife Mary Sue, pleaded guilty to charges linked to the massive infiltration op, including obstruction of justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Never thought I’d see more sanity coming out of Russia than the USA.
The CIA and the IRS own it. They basically stole it legally from Ron’s widow who they gave a small payout to and threatened with jail if she complained. And Ron was heavily involved with the occult and satanists like Cowley and Jack, what’s his name that invented the rocket fuel that made all space travel possible. The one who blew himself to pieces in an laboratory experiment. Anyway they had been into some really heavy occult stuff that freaked Ron out totally so that he left and went off and created Dianetics. But the are too many cults now and their victims are too brainwashed by advanced scientific conditionings and something needs to be done Divine intervention needs to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Some say the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) actually stands for the “Jack Parsons Laboratory.” Back in the 1940s rocket scientist Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were followers of Satanist Aleister Crowley, and they did a “Babylon Working” ritual to manifest the “Whore of Babylon” spirit in the world. They felt they were successful. In 1948 Parsons had a dream in which this spirit appeared to him as a little girl who said she had been born to help bring in the Antichrist, and that her name was “Hillarion.” Suspiciously, Hillary Clinton was born in 1947. Thank God for the protection against this kind of stuff, the blood of Lord Jesus Christ, Who is our only Hope!
Yes. Thank you I’d forgotten quite a lot of the details So many facts all pertinent to everything from so many arenas It gets very crowded! .
Completely false, you are trafficking lies.
Russia doesn’t want a highly controlled secret organization, that takes 90 percent of their follower’s earnings, spreading across Russia while it quietly inserts itself into their government? How odd. One wonders if they are just smarter than us, or if they don’t want another Communist government spewing out conflicting propaganda and competing with their new Fascist government.
” that takes 90 percent of their follower’s earnings ”
The Brother of one of my acquintances was persuaded to sell His flat and give the money to these Criminals .
Howdy WindmillFighter. Thank you for your comment. An actress named Leah Remini was once a member and quit. She aired several shows that informed the public about Scientology. It is frightening how people can be persuaded to turn over their entire lives to cults like Scientology or cult leaders like Jim Jones. This characteristic in the human psyche probably worked to help form groups where individuals willingly sacrificed their lives for their tribes, and thereby helped the human species to thrive as a whole. But now unscrupulous conmen and politicians have tapped into that characteristic for individuals to willingly blind themselves to fact based logic and promote destructive religious cults, Racism, Global Warming, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and political fanaticism that includes BLM, Antifa, and even medical treatment. I’ve often said that, on an evolutionary scale, we are within arms reach of the tree that we climbed down from.
Apart from the usual anti etican propagandas so beloved from RT. the REALLY IMPORTANT political news from Russia is that they’ve just had the first ROYAL wedding in over a hundred years That’s where Tarevuch Putin is taking the Nation That’s all part of the Russian Reset with Patriarch having sworn allegiances to serve the Pope That’s what’s really going on. And it’s l from Spain really. Because by papal. Bull Spain owns all of the Americas, North and South and the reset will put the King back on the throne All of them under the Pope That’s the real Great Reset combined with the peasants being communised and owning nothing .And it’s not from China at all.Abd Putin banning stupid scientology which is just nothing but a privatised tax collector owned by the IRS and CIA is more propagandas to deceive the sheep with.
And DO NOT be deceived that the Chinese are the guilty party They are being set up by the guilty party to project and scapegoat and kill millions and make billions from deceiving the world Again and Again and again ad infinitum And its the ruling class running it all. They want rhe peasants cimmunused do they OWN Absolutely EVERYTHING.
They want to rule the world totally. All under the Pope as the Absolute Monarch That’s been the plan for the last 1500 years. That’s how experienced they are. And if you want to get religious about it you can deduce that it’s really Satanic.
Tsars Regent to the rescue? https://media0.giphy.com/media/QOxAaQAky9OXYZh2ud/giphy.gif.
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Putin is the Only Respectable Politician in Europe .