>Subject: Re: Breggin revealed
>From: jake nospamhere@all
>Date: 9/27/2003 6:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <gs7bnvgsk5l2djqhbdusmbpdcjvkfnid2l@4ax.com>
>
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:23:38 GMT, "Marko Proberto"
><markprobert7@lumbercartel.com> wrote:
>
>>> What's the point? Breggin is not a Scientologist, and he has his own
>>> reasons for disliking the Scientologists.
>>
>>Hogwash. He is in lock step and financial step with them. Can you document
>>his reason why he would dislike $cientologists?
>
>sure...
>
>My Real Opinion of Scientology
>
>http://www.breggin.com/Joemccarthylives.html
>
> I am not merely neutral about Scientology. I am critical of
>Scientology. I became familiar with the group in 1972 when--for a
>short time--I accepted its offer to work together on some reform
>projects. As I got to know more about the group, I found myself
>opposed to Scientology's values, agenda, and tactics. I stopped all
>cooperative efforts in 1974 and publicly declared my criticism of the
>group in a letter published in Reason as long ago as January 1975. For
>two decades I have refused to have anything to do with Scientology and
>have criticized it hundreds of time to the media, on the air, and in
>public speeches and workshops.
>
> I have a yet more personal reason for refusing to have anything to do
>with Scientology. In 1973 I met and fell in love with an idealistic
>twenty-year-old Ginger Ross; but Scientology officials pressured her
>to stop seeing me because I was not a member of their group. Ginger
>and I did not meet again for twelve years. By then she had broken all
>ties with Scientology and had become a staunch critic of it. We have
>now been married for ten years and are the co-authors of Talking Back
>to Prozac and The War Against Children.
>
> That Lilly would try to link my views with those of Scientology, when
>Ginger and I are known, long-standing critics of that group, indicates
>the giant corporation's desperation to prevent the American public
>from learning the truth about Prozac and the company's corporate
>practices in researching and promoting it. Eli Lilly's McCarthy-like
>tactic of trying to link me with Scientology--when I am in fact
>opposed to that organization--reflects the extreme lengths to which
>the company will go to protect its profits at the expense of patients