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seb
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Posted - 02/23/2002 :  05:26:08  Show Profile  Send seb an ICQ Message Send seb a Private Message
I do not know if this is the right place for this subject. It could have been placed in bad science to.

Yesterday in Paris the church of scientology was comdamned by the court for false pretences, they will have at least to pay the victims. And it is not impossible that the court decide to dissolve scientology church.

(I apologize for the imprecision in legal vocabulary translation but it is definetly not my field)

There is hope my friends!

For poeple able to read french:
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--263912-,00.html br /

Seb

filthy
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Posted - 02/23/2002 :  06:27:57   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Hi Seb,

Yeah, I just read about that. Apparently, it's not a done deal, yet, but there's indeed hope.

I doubt if this'll shut down the church(?) in France, though. About the only thing that'll accomplish that is if there is a huge loss of membership. Outlawing them won't work, either. They'll just scream persecution and go underground.

But, it's nice to see them get kicked in the teeth now and then.

f



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seb
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France
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Posted - 02/23/2002 :  09:24:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send seb an ICQ Message Send seb a Private Message
quote:

Yeah, I just read about that. Apparently, it's not a done deal, yet, but there's indeed hope.



What is interesting is that it is a result of a law from 2001 so we can expect this kind of things to happen more often with other sects.


quote:

They'll just scream persecution and go underground.



This is a risk but at least we can hope that it will prevent some people to join this group. I am probably too optimistic. We will see in May.

last news (sorry still in french):
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3226--264093-,00.html br / " target="_blank"> http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3226--264093-,00.html br /

Seb
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