Scientologists make internet attack on the BBC

AN OUTFIT, founded by the follower of a man who claimed he was the Anti-Christ, is using the Internet to attack the BBC for making a documentary about them.

Scientology was founded by sci-fi writer Ron Hubbard, who was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'Great Beast' Aleister Crowley. But now it is upset that the BBC's Panorama programme has dedicated a bit of attention to them.

Followers of the sect have been tailing the hack who has been doing the research and sent 100,000 copies of DVDs showing their findings to ll MPs and peers, religious leaders and other “influential” figures in a bid to get the programme stopped.

It has also flooded Youtube with images of the hack John Sweeney "losing it" by screaming at a Scientology spinner. It appears Sweeney did not like the fact that Scientology cultists had been annoying his family and friends in a bid to get the programme stopped. One representative even showed up at his wedding.

Over the weekend I got a letter from Freedom Television listing the BBC's previous reporting errors and claiming that this current story breaks 154 OFCOM and BBC rules in being shown.

Meanwhile, Sweeney has penned an article on the BBC site in which he describes the six month nightmare he had trying to write a story which was not 100 per cent glowing in favour of Scientology.

What the poor Scientology lot fails to understand is that while insulting the BBC is something that most Britons do for a hobby, most of us feel we are allowed to. All the Scientologists have done is make sure that a huge number of people tune in tonight at 8.30pm to see what it is that they don't want us to see.

Apparently they don't want it to get out that their inner circle pays a fortune to hear that they are descended from a race of aliens called Thetans and have been paying huge wodges of cash to keep the Metropolitan police happy. Movie stars who have appeared promoting Scientology include Chief Superintendent Ken Stewart, a divisional commander with the City of London police, oh and that Mission Impossible bloke and the guy from Grease. µ

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