Fear not Tom Cruise. Fear the countless masses who assign him instant credibility for pretending to be important on the silver screen. That's his function within the movement... that and his money (which is being used to buy America by the county).
You're seriously underestimating this cult. They just stood up to the Governor of Florida, the Congress and the President of the United States. And they didn't flinch. And they got away with outright barbarism in front of the eyes of the world... with overwhelming support from the American public.
I used to dismiss them as a whacko celebrity cult, too. Not anymore. They're a force that is going to have to be confronted.
Sickening feeling.... Russert's show tonite... something about fat guys... old has-been journalists commenting on the Terri Schiavo case and Congress, was sickening. They called her 'dead' and the Republicans trying to save her as ridiculous and that it will ruin them politically. I look at these fat a-holes and wonder how they could stuff their lying mouths and denounce Terri as already dead before the starvation took place! Sick...sick... sick...
Why do you give them sole credit for this. There role is meaningless. With or without them, the issues are still present, and will be debated. I did not see their influence in the grand role that you do. While we do live in an odd cult of celebrity, I do not fear that. America is smarter than that - on most days