A former Labor Party state planning minister for Victoria, Justin Madden, attended the opening of a new Scientology centre in Melbourne.
He was quoted as saying "Unselfishly, you work to provide ways and means to uplift our society. You have set the standard for the community with your restoration of this building and with your social programs — an example I will point to for others to follow. Your new Church is as Melbourne as Melbourne gets”.
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"Your new church" is a monument to a greasy money-grubbing fruitcake criminal cult. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the life of our city.
Former conservative state leader and current Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle also showed up - in a mayoral limo - even though he said he was there for a friend, a local entertainment figure who is a Scientologist. He has voiced regret about doing it however.
The man who actually got the job Doyle wanted, Victoria Premier Ted Baillieu, said "I, like many Australians, have concerns about the role Scientology has played in the past and I’m not a fan".
Xemu's chief scumbag David Miscavige is quoted as saying "Having triumphed today in the name of our religion, you just flipped this planet all the way around so that Melbourne now sits on top of the globe. And that’s what it means to build an Ideal Org beneath the Southern Cross"
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon challenged Doyle to meet with the victims of the cult that Xenophon has been representing in his bid to reverse the cult's formal recognition as a religious body.
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Although I really wouldn't wish these frauds on anyone else, I'm glad to see that the U.S. isn't the only place who harbors them.
ReplyDeleteMadden is in real trouble over other issues of impropriety from when he was planning minister.
ReplyDeleteDoyle is not a stupid man. I don't particularly like him, but still don't get how he could think there wouldn't be a furore over this.