NY Daily News: Scientology VM's barred in Haiti

[PokeAnon]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A small group of Scientologists in bright yellow T-shirts tried to get into the city's main General Hospital but were turned away by U.S. troops guarding the door.

The soldiers let in only family members bringing food to patients already inside.

The Church of Scientology, better known for claiming to cure distress by ridding people of parasitic ghosts called thetans, says it sent doctors and nurses to Haiti to help medical teams and "provide spiritual first aid."

source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/01/20/2010-01-20_haiti_in_brief.html

Dear Scientology, how about you stop trying to make disasters worse, and maybe take a hint that no one wants what you think is "help"?

[globie]

LAWL!!!!!!  this made me smile...  Thanks poke!

[Chaos]

Oh good, people are learning.

[falsfield]

Sweet

[Shoshannah]

Sending VMs to Haiti (or anywhere for that matter) is basically puking on a situation which is already a pile of shit. Good they caught on and got those fuckers the hell away.

[Teppup]

copypasta from gawker:

 Originally Posted by crapulous off Gawker
I have a feeling they'll just get shunted to less critical work by those coordinating the serious relief efforts, if they arrive in Haiti at all. After Hurricane Katrina, a group of Scientologists arrived in Baton Rouge and took care of evacuees' pets at a temporary boarding facility in LSU's ag coliseum (under the supervision of real vets and veterinary students, natch). It gave them something useful to do, kept them from interfering with riskier work, and limited their chances to proselytize. One of my cats even went on to become an OT.

[anonkatie]

Lol, I think I know crapulous.

[anon1917]

If the VMs just upped and left, after being turned away at the hospital, they would have been downstat, big time.

They were sent there to provide pics to show off to their little incestuous scifag community, and I'm sure they fell back to one of the many camp cities, and gave touch-assists all day to starving folks who wondered "who are these idiots?  We need food, and they give us a pissy MASSAGE?"

I doubt a one of them spoke Creole, either...

[anonkatie]

Ok this is sort of inaccurate.

There have been three flights that have been sent there by the CoS.  Some reaching patients that need help.

This is the latest story.

http://www.ny1.com/8-queens-news-content/top_stories/112541/boarding-mixup-grounds-medical-mission-to-haiti

 If you listen carefully, what is being said is they left the volunteer doctors and nurses(not scilons) behind, and took their medicines.

[Teppup]

Nice to see Carmichael out and about.

[dotdumbass]

http://www.ny1.com/8-queens-news-content/top_stories/112541/boarding-mixup-grounds-medical-mission-to-haiti

 If you listen carefully, what is being said is they left the volunteer doctors and nurses(not scilons) behind, and took their medicines.

So, what I'm getting from this article is that on this particular CoS plane, there were doctors, nurses, and Scientologists scheduled to fly, but only the Scientologists made it down to Haiti?

I.. I am so enraged.

[Teppup]

where does it say that the 119 were scilons?

[dotdumbass]

where does it say that the 119 were scilons?

It doesn't say that the 119 were Scientologists, but it does say that medical equipment "made it onto the plane without the doctors who supplied them."

[DrAdlaiAtkins]

It's sweetly naive, they don't even realize that there was no mixup.  The Scientologists didn't send any doctors in the first place.

[lizziestix]

....I am FURIOUS. As someone in the medical field, that's just...ugh. I'm making note of that for the next FEW raids.

[Sethdood]

It's sweetly naive, they don't even realize that there was no mixup.  The Scientologists didn't send any doctors in the first place.

Lol the final piece of the puzzle. This sounds like a job for Captain Punch In The Face.