SOCIAL
REFORM
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
he Church of Scientology and its parishioners are notably active advocates in the field of human rights. Scientologists who subscribe to the religion’s Aims and Creed (and all do) find themselves instinctively opposed to those who abuse their power or who harm the innocent and the weak. Furthermore, the Creed of the Church states that the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in nonreligious fields.
As early as 1950, L. Ron Hubbard brought to light the savage abuses taking place in the field of mental healing, a field in which psychiatrists relied on electric shock, lobotomy and powerful mind-bending drugs to control human behavior in the name of help. Nor did it take Scientologists long to realize that it was harmful to force an ice pick or thousands of volts of electricity through the brain, or to flood the body with psychotropic drugs, and that this travesty of help was nothing less than betrayal of the worst kind.
What also soon became obvious was that psychiatry had no proven methods to justify the billions of dollars of funds governments poured into its coffers. But perhaps because of these very dollars, it was also a field which refused to institute reforms or take responsibility for its actions.
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