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Originally Posted by CJF
Exploitation is against the law.
If you basically charge Scientology for the crimes they committed, you take them down. Money laundering. Extortion. You can easily take the religion down by those charges.
If you ban it, you set a disturbing precedent where government is able to ban institutions as they please. If you take them down legally, people see them for who they are, and you don't have that disturbing precedent.
That's why the ACLU defends the KKK and neo-nazis. Not because of what they stand for. But because of the right to organize. In no way is the ACLU not against persecuting groups for legitimate crimes of extortion or violence though.
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I know what you are saying and I am uneasy too with banning an ideology.The things is there are unscrupulous bastards in this world who abuse our freedoms and liberties and are cunning enough to stay just within the law.
So is it possible to take Scientology down in a court of law with rationality and reason? After all, we did have the Scopes Monkey trial which essentially prevented creationist's attempt to suppress science.