Re: [Marxism] scientology

[Daniel Koechlin <d.koechlin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shane Marge was incredibly prescient !

"Last time I looked, fraud (extracting money on false pretences) is a  
crime.
A "religion" based on extracting money on false pretences is a  
criminal gang."

Yesterday, the Attorney General (="procureur de la république", thanks for the 
translation) upgraded charges against scientology to include :
- membership and incentive to join in organized crime as defined in French law 
as an organized criminal group devoted to committing widespread and systematic 
criminal offenses (namely: widespread and systematic fraud, misappropriation of 
funds, witness intimidation, attempted corruption of officials, extortion and 
obstruction of justice). 

Next week, Scientology might officially be defined as "organized crime" 
in France.



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