Nick Xenophon attack on scientology celebrity backfires

Nick Xenophon attack on Scientology celebrity backfires

Is Senator Nick Xenophon being rational about his attack on The Church of Scientology’s celebrity?

Nick Xenophon’s legal footing destroyed; The Australian Broadcasting Commission reported:  “Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has made a ferocious assault on the Church of Scientology late at night and under parliamentary privilege.”  http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/11/19/2747455.htm

Nick Xenophon attack on Scientology celebrity backfires

Senator Nick Xenophon pushed the toothpaste out of the tube about Scientology with a speech crafted in an obvious tone of hatred mixed with falsehood and attempts to re-open allegations of illegal deeds long ago cleared by police services.

Xenophon’s attack was intertwined with snide references to “so called religion” and openly stating that his aim is to deprive the fastest growing religion in the world of funds by calling for an inquiry into its tax-exempt status.

Scientology is a worldwide religious movement with more than 8,000 Churches, Missions and groups in 165 countries. The Church and its members dedicate their time and resources to numerous humanitarian programs that Scientology has become known for around the world, including combating drug abuse, immorality, illiteracy and human rights violations.

Nick Xenophon attack on Scientology celebrity backfires

Is there a rational basis for Nick Xenophon’s ranting attack on Scientology? – is it a publicity stunt? – or must the secret “Da Xenophon Code” be uncovered?

Surely Nick Xenophon’s assertions of crimes read to a near empty Senate Chamber late at night would perhaps  have been more suitable to suitable the goings on at a military base rather than a church.  There are no perfect organizations in the world that’s for sure.  Xenophon’s  speech was more an embittered and irrational rave by a closing attorney before an empty jury, rather than a seasoned and professional political senator amongst his peers.

In his first speech in the senate Independent Senator Xenophon said “…I do not swear allegiance to a party and that is why I do not owe allegiance to any one ideology. That is what I believe Independents must do. An Independent must take every issue as it comes and ask, ‘If we change things, who might it hurt and who will it help?’ and then hopefully make the right choice.  http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/senators/homepages/first_speech/sfs-8IV.htm

What is Xenophon’s Game Plan?

From a legal frame of reference The Australian Newspaper published an Article from the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership on Saturday November 21 stating the implausibility of a legal remedy against The Church of Scientology as the High Court of Australia has ruled it is a legitimate religion [ 1983 judgment of the High Court in Church of the New Faith v Commissioner of Payroll Tax (Victoria) ].

The Australian Article also states that Section 116 of the Australian Constitution denies the Australian Parliament the right to legislate in respect of religion – Section 116 – “The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.” (1) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/political-pursuit-of-religion/story-e6frg6zo-1225800617136

If the parliament has no legal powers in respect to deny Scientology as a religion, then what is Nick Xenophon really up to in his witch hunt?

To deny The Church of Scientology its tax-exempt status all other religions would have to re-classified as not being religions as well, this would include Anglicans, Lutherans, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindu, Moslem etc. And this is impossibility at any rate as the parliament has no power to legislate to change the status of religions.

So what is Nick Xenophon up to if there is no legal method to deny the religious tax-exemption from the inquiry he seeks against The Church of Scientology?

If Xenophon’s attack seeks to ban The Church of Scientology then all religions likewise would have to be banned. This is obviously an impossibility.

In his speech Nick Xenophon called The Church of Scientology a “so called religion” which is not true according to the High Court of Australia.

Nick Xenophon then stated his aim to be to deprive The Church of Scientology of its tax-exempt status, something Section 116 of the Australian Constitution prohibits.

What other legitimate motives could Nick Xenophon have in attacking Scientology?

For a lawyer by profession one would imagine Nick Xenophon would be able to deal in facts, not untrue assertions and character assassination of the world’s fastest growing religion The Church of Scientology.

So is it a publicity stunt by a man who is seeking to prove himself the dominator of the Australian Senate as he often holds the balance of power as an unaligned Independent Senator?

Perhaps it is, but a brutal attack on a religion firing bullets with such obvious hatred and falsehoods and no legal footing must backfire on Nick Xenophon in the end.

Maybe it is Nick Xenophon who is in self destruct mode?

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Could it be that Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is being manipulated as a puppet of clandestine interests backed by failed Scientologists?

About the Author:
Peter Lionel Griffiths is the President of Artists For Human Rights Asia-Pacific humanitarian organization closely associated with and endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights organizations in New York. Peter is also the author of a feature film length movie screenplay on the current activities of subversives attempting to gain control over unwitting politicians backed by celebrity psychiatrists and drug companies. Peter has researched all aspects of the sources mentioned in this Article himself in researching and writing his movie screenplay Prophets And Kings and is considered an expert in this unusual field of investigative reporting. Peter can be contacted through his website http://climatecleanup.org

Nick Xenophon faces the prospect of a UN Human Rights Commissioner investigation?

This Article is written from the point of view that failed Scientologists have manipulated Nick Xenophon and are using him as their puppet. The background to the enemies of Scientology are exposed to give Nick Xenophon insight into how he has been led onto a path of religious intolerance, and he could better conclude on the facts he has before him.

A Scientology Hate Campaign?

Canberra Tuesday 17 November २००९: Australian Independent Senator Nick Xenophon launched an attack and unilaterally declared the Church of Scientology “an international criminal organization” whilst calling for a Senate Enquiry into issues tabled in letters from disgruntled failed Scientologists publicly betraying their former religion. Why Senator Nick Xenophon chose to personally declare the fastest-growing religion in the world “an international criminal organization” in the Senate House before revealing the letters to Australian Federal or State police, or to the Church of Scientology for due process of police procedures is unknown and certainly boggles the mind.

Two weeks earlier in Washington DC at the opening of the Church of Scientology’s new Washington headquarters close to Capitol Hill Congressman Brad Sherman of California praised the Church’s efforts in raising awareness of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and stated that the battle for human rights includes bringing human rights awareness to all people ( Source: Business Wire http://tinyurl.com/y8nptj3 ).

Senator Nick Xenophon’s attack comes only weeks after the French Government sponsored a flagrant abuse of the European Court of Human Rights rulings by avoiding the freedom of religion rights granted to all religions within the Union by the European Parliament which were championed by the Church of Scientology.

Together with neighboring Germany that conquered France in World War II, both countries remain the strongholds for psychiatric front groups formed by the survivors of Hitler’s Death Camps where they had worked in supervising the genocide of the Jews, and who personally advised Adolf Hitler. These groups established the psychiatry profession in the western world infiltrating American universities funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. France has the highest per capita saturation of psychiatrists than any other country in the world and its government and society is effectively under the influence of entrenched psychiatric interests. Read more below.

In declaring the Church of Scientology “an international criminal organization” Senator Nick Xenophon flagrantly transgressed and breached many Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular Articles 8, 10 and 11. These Articles enshrine the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the right to hearing by an independent tribunal. Read more below.

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Articles disregarded

In usurping the power of the Australian Legal System in declaring the Church of Scientology “an international criminal organization” prior to any charges being laid by Australian Police, Senator Nick Xenophon is clearly guilty of a number of human rights violations in terms of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Australia is a signatory. Senator Nick Xenophon faces the possibility of a UN Human Rights Commissioner investigation in Australia after persecuting the Church of Scientology. International observers on humans rights watch see the attack as a disgrace on the Australian Parliament and blatant religious persecution.

Nick Xenophon, an independent senator, presented letters to the Australian Parliament from several self declared enemies of Scientology who openly admit to committing the crimes detailed in their own letters, and they admit to doing so willingly in their own right. Knowing this, Nick Xenophon, without any regard for the sanctity of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights launched his attack on the Church of Scientology.

Many see the attack as the trademark of a Tyrant attempting to establish a police state in a virtually empty Senate Chamber without due process of law. Nick Xenophon’s victims, Australian Scientologists, have promised to co-operate with any police investigation into claims of murder and abuse inside the church.

The Church of Scientology Fights Back

In a media release on November 20 THE Church of Scientology says independent senator Nick Xenophon ignored an invitation to meet church officials before he used parliamentary privilege to attack the organization ( Sources: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26375307-421,00.html http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/church-of-scientology-were-being-vilified-20091120-इप८क ).

Church of Scientology Australia president Reverend Vicki Dunstan said Senator Nick Xenophon “made no effort to ascertain the truth or falsity of the allegations he made in the Senate on Tuesday night”.

Senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege to raise allegations of criminal misconduct on behalf of ex-members of the church, and called for an inquiry into the tax-exempt status of the church. Notably a common tactic used by psychiatric front groups in attempts to financially disable the Church of Scientology so it is unable to function.

The Government has said it will consider Senator Nick Xenophon’s request for an inquiry but the Opposition is not so keen.

Ms Dunstan accused Senator Xenophon of abusing parliamentary privilege to publicly utter false allegations concerning the church, which she said had been investigated by authorities in the past and had cleared the church of any wrongdoing.

“The church had recently invited the senator to meet with church representatives to answer his questions and to address any mutual concerns,” Ms Dunstan said today. “He ignored the invitation.” The alleged incidents voiced in the Senate on Tuesday came from disgruntled former members with their own agendas to put forward and were used by Senator Xenophon for “his own political aspirations”, she said.

The church says the invitation to Senator Xenophon to speak with church officials remains open.

The Articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights disregarded by Senator Nick Xenophon:

Article 8 – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

* Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 10 – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

* Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11 – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

* (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

* (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

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Psychiatric diagnoses disorders

Psychiatric diagnoses disorders

Psychiatric Diagnoses Disorders

Psychiatric Diagnoses Disorders

Psychiatric disorders diagnoses – The psychiatric / pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars a year on promoting psychiatric disorders / diagnoses in order to convince the public, legislators and the press that psychiatric disorders / diagnoses such as diagnoses for Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression diagnoses, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnoses, etc., are medical diseases on par with verifiable medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Psychiatric diagnoses disorders

Psychiatric Disorders Diagnoses

Yet unlike real medical disease, there are no scientific tests to verify the medical existence of any psychiatric disorder or diagnoses. To counter this obvious flaw in their push to medicalize behaviors, the psychiatric industry will claim that there are certain medical conditions that do not have a verifiable test so this is why there isn’t one for “mental illness.” This is frankly a lame argument; Whereas there may be rare medical conditions that do not have a verifiable medical test, there are virtually no psychiatric disorders that can be verified medically as a physical abnormality/disease. Not one.

In fact the “brain scans” that have been pawned off as evidence that schizophrenia or depression are brain diseases, are simply bogus. Most have not been done on drug naive patients, meaning someone who has not been on psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotic drugs, documented to cause brain atrophy (shrinkage). Other brain scans have shown the brains of smaller children to show smaller brains in comparison to larger/older children and then claimed children with ADHD have smaller brains. None have been conclusively proven to verify mental disorders as abnormalities of the brain.

If there were such verifiable brain scans, or in fact any medical/scientific test that could show a physical / medical abnormality for any psychiatric disorder, the public would be getting such tests prior to being administered psychiatric drugs.

This is fact: There are no genetic tests, no brain scans, blood tests, chemical imbalance tests or X-rays that can scientifically / medically prove that any psychiatric disorder is a medical condition. Period.

Psychiatric Disorders Diagnoses

This is not to say that people don’t get depressed, troubled, or even sometimes act psychotic. For example, can soldiers returning from war experience extreme and often debilitating stress? Yes. It is something wrong with their brain? No. It’s the horrors of war. Can mothers become distraught after a joyous occasion such as the birth of a child? Yes. Is it a brain abnormality or mental disease? No. And is the most humane solution to put these people on drugs documented by international regulatory agencies [ PDF "The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs" ] to cause mania, psychosis, worsening depression, heart attack, stroke, sudden death? Or for new or nursing mothers to risk birth defects or damage to their infants from being prescribed such powerful drugs?

Psychiatric diagnoses disorders

The primary reason people take psychiatric drugs is because they’ve been told they have a medical condition called a psychiatric disorder, which then justifies taking drugs to treat it. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science. Any drug changes behavior or mood, whether cocaine, alcohol, marijuana or heroin. This does not mean someone who acts or feels differently on cocaine does so because they had a cocaine imbalance which the cocaine then corrected. It means that drugs changes mood, emotion and behavior. But while the illicit use of drugs is universally frowned upon, and considered a bad way for people to deal with their problems, psychiatric drugs are made out to be “good” drugs, despite the fact many are more addictive than cocaine or heroin, and have side effects that rival such hardcore street drugs as LSD, heroin and crack cocaine.

The larger problem is that the biological drug model (based on the bogus mental disorders are a disease marketing campaign) prevents governments from funding real medical solutions for people experiencing difficulty. And there are workable, non-harmful medical treatments that do not receive government funding because the psychiatric / pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying efforts, and will counter any medical modality that does not support their biological drug model of mental disorders as a disease. Why? Billions of dollars in revenue for the psycho / pharma industry would be lost. This is an industry that time and again, has been proven to put profit above patients lives.

See various non-drug solutions / alternatives click here

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