Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch

busted · **Joined:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:27 pm **Posts:** 16122

Wasn't scientology created on a bet L.Ron Hubbard had with some other writers.. that he could create the craziest religion imaginable and still get people to follow it?

E-testing Haitians for Zenu!

thenewbob · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:49 pm

busted wrote:

Wasn't scientology created on a bet L.Ron Hubbard had with some other writers.. that he could create the craziest religion imaginable and still get people to follow it?

E-testing Haitians for Zenu!

Dont call it a Cult.

Mick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:09 am

How much of the precious few resources available in Haiti---food, water, shelter, power, phones, internet...space, itself---is being taken up by all of the journalists and people like these scientologits, that could be going directly to the people who need it most?
Do we really need media production units embedded with the rescue/recovery/relief operations? Do we really need people over there sending back photos and stories just so they can 'get the shot' and report to us what's happening, virtually as it happens? I mean, we know it sucks over there. We know the amount of human suffering is nearly incomprehendable. We know their meager infrastructure is now non-existent. All of that has been established. Couldn't the majority of these people 'get out of the way', and let the rescuers do their work?
Keeping awareness high, and keeping the donations coming in is certainly a noble cause. But the media could do all that without being on the scene and becoming one more hindrance to getting help and supplies to where they really need to go.
Just a thought.

Mick

varmint man · **Joined:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:53 pm **Posts:** 3497

Mick wrote:

How much of the precious few resources available in Haiti---food, water, shelter, power, phones, internet...space, itself---is being taken up by all of the journalists and people like these scientologits, that could be going directly to the people who need it most?
Do we really need media production units embedded with the rescue/recovery/relief operations? Do we really need people over there sending back photos and stories just so they can 'get the shot' and report to us what's happening, virtually as it happens? I mean, we know it sucks over there. We know the amount of human suffering is nearly incomprehendable. We know their meager infrastructure is now non-existent. All of that has been established. Couldn't the majority of these people 'get out of the way', and let the rescuers do their work?
Keeping awareness high, and keeping the donations coming in is certainly a noble cause. But the media could do all that without being on the scene and becoming one more hindrance to getting help and supplies to where they really need to go.
Just a thought.

Mick

My kind of thinking as well Mick. I wonder how many planes were sent filled with people instead of food. I am sure the survivors would much rather have video of their grief and some moron touching them instead of some food in their belly.

busted · **Joined:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:27 pm **Posts:** 16122

Mick wrote:

How much of the precious few resources available in Haiti---food, water, shelter, power, phones, internet...space, itself---is being taken up by all of the journalists and people like these scientologits, that could be going directly to the people who need it most?
Do we really need media production units embedded with the rescue/recovery/relief operations? Do we really need people over there sending back photos and stories just so they can 'get the shot' and report to us what's happening, virtually as it happens? I mean, we know it sucks over there. We know the amount of human suffering is nearly incomprehendable. We know their meager infrastructure is now non-existent. All of that has been established. Couldn't the majority of these people 'get out of the way', and let the rescuers do their work?
Keeping awareness high, and keeping the donations coming in is certainly a noble cause. But the media could do all that without being on the scene and becoming one more hindrance to getting help and supplies to where they really need to go.
Just a thought.

Mick

Often these news crews don’t want to report, they just want to make themselves part of the story.

Quote:

Are US TV Crews Killing Haitians?

I went to a food and water distribution today for 50,000 in Cite Soleil, Haiti's poorest and most infamous neighborhood. For all that the United Nations and the U.S. are always claiming how safe the neighborhood has become in recent years, they brought an eye-popping number of heavily armed soldiers along. Better to be safe than sorry, one Brazilian blue helmeted soldier told me, since more than 4,000 prisoners escaped during the earthquake and many, they suspect, came back to Cite Soleil, though there has been no overt resurgence of gang activity in the area.

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But the longer the tv crew remains the more violent the crowd gets: people are desperate especially when they think they're vying for a few pieces of food or water that they may not get if they're not out in front. The UN, for example, hired Haitians with megaphones to walk up and down the line assuring people this morning that everyone on line would receive food and water – this calms down the ones behind and stops them from pushing to the front. TV crews obviously don't do this and, I was told by some U.S. military sources, are potentially leaving behind hurt, injured or dead from the mini-riots they incite.

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