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I’m fascinated by the controversy and animosity that’s been stirred up by the BBC and the Church of Scientology. A recent Panorama programme showed the BBC journalist John Sweeney investigating the COS, and being confronted with what in anyone’s book amounts to pretty intimidating behaviour. The programme itself wasn’t exactly unbiased – and you could say that the Church of Scientology isn’t exactly a difficult target to hit – but it’s not the first time that it’s been accused of similar behaviour, and you kind of sympathised with Sweeney as he completely lost it during his visit to a Scientologists’ museum in LA, dedicated to the message that psychiatry was responsible for the Holocaust, 9/11 etc. Another reporter that visited the museum received similarly odd treatment.

Despite this, I actually laughed out loud COS representative, John Harris, during one of his many tirades. He simultaneously reminded me of Tom Cruise, South Park and Agent Smith from the Matrix all at once!

The saga continues…