{"id":984,"date":"2010-01-21T23:53:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2010-01-21T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:53:53","slug":"dont-panic-haiti-the-scientologists-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/21\/dont-panic-haiti-the-scientologists-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t panic Haiti, the Scientologists are coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our good friends from the church of L Ron, it&#8217;s not so much a  tragedy as an opportunity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/marinahyde\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Contributor picture\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Football\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/9\/23\/1253719102244\/Marina-Hyde-002.jpg\" alt=\"Marina Hyde\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/> <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/marinahyde\">Marina Hyde<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">The Guardian<\/a>,\t\t\t \t\t\t       \t\t\tFriday 22 January 2010<br \/>\n<a id=\"historylink-byline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/lostinshowbiz\/2010\/jan\/22\/john-travolta-scientologists-haiti#history-byline\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2010\/1\/21\/1264095293317\/US-actor-John-Travolta-an-001.jpg\" alt=\"US actor John Travolta and actress wife\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/>John Travolta and Kelly Preston with  Scientology volunteers in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina Photograph:  PAUL J.RICHARDS\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Psychopath, conman, liar, fantasist, fraudster, bully, tax evader,  megalomaniac \u2013 it&#8217;s fair to say L Ron Hubbard&#8217;s death was a blow to  global humanitarianism. Happily, there is a silver lining to the cloud  that has hung over Earth since the founder of <a title=\"More from  guardian.co.uk on Scientology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/scientology\">Scientology<\/a> shed his corporeal form  in 1986. That silver- lining is the high profile, expansionist figures  who represent his organisation today \u2013 and the good news is that they&#8217;re  turning their thoughts to <a title=\"More from  guardian.co.uk on Haiti\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/haiti\">Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Were an idiot like you to itemise the myriad things that this most  wretched of disaster zones currently lacked, chances are you&#8217;d omit  &#8220;militant  Scientologists who claim post-traumatic stress is a  conspiracy created by the evil psychiatric profession, and who believe  the correct response to extreme shock is to touch sufferers with one  finger, before attempting to convert them to the ways of Hubbard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/lostinshowbiz\/2010\/jan\/22\/john-travolta-scientologists-haiti\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our good friends from the church of L Ron, it&#8217;s not so much a tragedy as an opportunity. Marina Hyde The Guardian, Friday 22 January 2010 John Travolta and Kelly Preston with Scientology volunteers in New Orleans after Hurrican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/21\/dont-panic-haiti-the-scientologists-are-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}