From: "William Kimbler" <w.kimbler@comcast.net>
References: <httum0h2uerabetuol27r3v5lmh59usktq@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: add jehovah witnesses and mormons to the list
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:03:50 -0500
Scientologists are NOT the only money scammers
Very true. However, Scientology customers *ARE* the winners at the
amount of money they defraud from their victims.
[Jehovah's Witness] Church elder ordered to
repay $4.7 million to fleeced flock
Reed Slatkin, a Scientology "minister," [pause for laughter to quiet]
has that beat by 50 to 1! Slatkin targeted Scientology staff and
Scientology customers because Scientology Inc. trains their customers
and staff to be uncritical, credulous, authoritarian-obeying puppets
with no thoughts of their own allowed nor tolerated.
A church elder was ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to pay more than
$4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a Ponzi-like con game
many of them elderly members of his own congregation.
Scientology Inc. has that beat by over ten-to-one! Over 500 victims
were scammed by just the one Scientology customer Reed Slatkin.
(Trimmed)
Scams and the Latter-day Saints
(Trimmed)
"Many (LDS) church members are likely to accept without question an
investment recommendation made by another Mormon. Hucksters try to exploit
this tendency by trying to bring church officials into investor groups or by
portraying themselves as good church-going Mormons," (Utah Holiday, October
1990, p. 27).
In a United Press International article, this rationale was again
reiterated.
The UPI said, "Major reasons for the success of scams in Utah are the highly
organized, tightly knit structure and trust-oriented doctrines of the Mormon
Church," (Ibid).
Human rights activists who point out the same and similar crimes
committed by Scientology staff and leaders are called by thbose
criminals "religious bigots." They would have ignorant people believe
that the human rights activists are motivated by religious bias
instead of morality, ethics, and sense of justice and fairness. No
doubt the Mormons will say the same lies about the people who wrote
and published the above article.
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