THE PLACE, WHERE THE PLANET WAS DESTROYED

Novaya Gazeta ^ | October 14th, 2004 | Yuriy SAFRONOV

[bd476]

John Travolta, Travolta's wife, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jenna Elfman, Giovanni Ribissi, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, Chick Corea and many more are Scientologists. It's scary.

[bd476]

From Mosnews.com:

Health Ministry Asks Police to Shut Down Church of Scientology in Beslan

Created: 12.10.2004 21:05 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 21:07 MSK

MosNews

A regional health ministry in southern Russia has asked the government and law enforcement authorities to help close down the Church of Scientology in Beslan, where hundreds of children died in a school hostage taking last month.

The North Ossetian Health Ministry said the activities not only of this church, but also other “sects” like Jehovah’s Witnesses, which is offering humanitarian aid in the region, are dangerous, the Interfax news agency reported.

In a letter sent to federal authorities, the ministry said that various psychological tactics the groups use, including what it called hypnosis, may be harmful not only for adults, but for children that have already suffered severe mental shock.

Over 330 people — half of them children — died in the Beslan hostage drama that began when armed militants stormed a school on the first day of class.

Health Ministry Asks Police to Shut Down Church of Scientology in Beslan

[The_Media_never_lie]

Outstanding post!

[Velveeta]

This slaughter will not be forgotten.

[PistolPaknMama]

They found it pleasant to come to the scene of a tragedy, to help the suffering with their Ron Hubbard brochures

Sounds more like vultures circling overhead!

[eleni121]

The horrors of Beslan have been repeated thousands of times by muslims over the years.

And now on top of this latest atrocity we have the shameless spectacle of wealthy cultists and their minions exploiting the deaths of these innocent angels...disgraceful and appalling!

[Destro]

The Westerners are a culture of parasites.

[eleni121]

The Westerners are a culture of parasites.


"Westerners"? What exactly are you trying to convey here? Do you actually know? Truly bizzarre...come up with something more intellectually honest.

[struwwelpeter]

I thought you'd appreciate knowing that your colleague in teaching, Olga Soskiyeva, was finally identified. At last she will rest in a place where her loved ones and students can come to give their regards, instead of a mass grave.

[Destro]

From the Venetians to the Franks to the Germans that snuck in Lenin. The West breeds parasites.

[tet68]

Hey John Kerry, hear this and remember it well!!

"...If the government can't defend us, why do we need the government?!".

[eleni121]

"...Venetians to the Franks to the Germans..."

I kinda figured you were talking about the HRE and its vestiges...not Western Civilization which after all is a creation of Christendom and Byzantium - but I wasn't sure. No argument there...they stabbed Christendom in the back and let the fellowhip rot for hundreds of years under the Muslim yoke.

[eleni121]

Honestly, for a long time I have been rather embarrassed to be part of the teaching profession and now I have another reason to stay in it...in Olga's memory.

Thanks for the sad update...

[struwwelpeter]

From the Venetians to the Franks to the Germans that snuck in Lenin. The West breeds parasites.

Crazy from the squabbling,
Stumbling like cripples,
We'd bring back the Varyags,
But they've run off to the Greeks.

We are being boiled in a strange compote,
Where they look you straight in the eye and lie,
Where everyone is individually against,
But together - decisively for.

When the country is one -  it's a family,
Everyone lives for love and gets along;
Tell me, who is your friend, and I
Will say, why you will be imprisoned.

Russia will go into the centuries
Under the battle of government competitors
As a country of embezzlers, saints, assholes,
Drunkards and blessed talents.

-- Igor Guberman, Soviet poet and dissident

[verifythentrust]

Thanx for posting an interesting article.

If I may pik a nit. The planet will not be destroyed. Civilization maybe, humans possibly, but the planet will still be here. The question is whether or not it will be suitable for human life. As for destroying civilization, well, who can argue.

[struwwelpeter]

I think the author was being sarcastic about the scientologists, but to the children it sure must have seemed like the apocalypse.

[verifythentrust]

I agree, sometimes, I'm way too literal.

[Destro]

Calling it Western civilization is a misnomer. I prefer either Christendom because it is more accurate (includes those lost to this civilization in the Middle East and in North Africa as well as including East and West Europe) or maybe a new term like Neo-Hellenistic because this culture is a continuation of Roman/Hellenistic civilization (Was not Moscow dubbed the Third Rome?).

"Western" civilization is the adoption of Classical Hellenistic and Christian culture and can be found anywhere not only in the "West" which was in fact a backwater and a cultural disgrace until the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

[struwwelpeter]

From Severnaya Osetiya news (October 15th, 2004):

Echos of the tragedies

A life given to children

They just buried her yesterday, more than 40 days since she went to work on September 1st, the first day of school and every teacher's favorite holiday, a day from which she never returned. Olga Nikolaevna Soskiyeva was an elementary school teacher at School #1 in Beslan. Now she is on the list of twenty pedagogues who died heroically within the walls of that educational institution.

Olga Nikolaevna was listed as missing all this time. Her loved ones kept a glimmer of hope that she had somehow survived, but everyone who knew her, knew that, even if Olga Nikolaevna was able to escape from the burning gymnasium, if there was still one child left to save, she would not leave. Such was Olga Nikolaevna's character. She always saw everything through to the end, and this was how she taught her children for 34 years. During their captivity, the frightened children pressed close to their teacher, as if clinging to their own mothers. Olga Nikolaevna supported them as best she could. After the fateful explosions in the gym, she helped them escape, and almost her entire class managed to make it....
During the three days of her captivity, Olga Nikolaevna took upon herself the care of an elderly colleague, war veteran and retired teacher Zaurbek Gutiyev, who later would say that he never before experienced such horrors, even during the battle of Stalingrad. Olga Nikolaevna secretly carried water to old man and carried him back and forth to the toilet, suffering all the while the insults mockeries of the terrorists.
Olya was a simple Russian girl from the village of Buron. Later, she married an Ossetian from Beslan, and proved to be true, to the very end, to the teaching profession, and to humanity itself.
Over the fresh mound on Olga Nikolaevna's grave her loved ones weep inconsolably: husband Viktor, their children Irina and Boris, and grandson Khetag.
T. Tautiyeva

[Bonaparte]

Thanks for the ping, bd!

For those unfamiliar with "scientology," here's a nice summary.