TalleyWhacker
Patron with Honors
Just so it doesn't get lost ITT:
Wendy's freedom medal of callousness is also bogus:
From Wendy's (now screencapped website): "Since 2001 Wendy has worked in the international field of human rights as a negotiator and investigator. This work began after she was part of the grief counselling team at the World Trade Center Ground Zero in New York. As part of a team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers, she was awarded the Medal of Valor by the New York Fire Department for the effective and compassionate work with the rescue workers and firefighters at the site during the rescue and digging for survivors immediately after September 11th, 2001"
This has been proven to be bogus: the NY Fire Department issued no such award. Plenty of sources confirm this, but looking for a couple of more reputable news sources (rather than blogs repeating newspaper reports), unfortunately the story appears to no longer be online with the one's I've checked, but will go through the material more thoroughly on Sunday.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=337429&postcount=61 Contains most of the lies I've managed to find so far. If you wanna do a quick bit of digging, please add to the thread, and help Kevin and Vicky nail the lies. All sources need to be newspapers "of record" (i.e. reputable). Thanks.
I remember reading some months ago that NYFD denied ever having issued such a commendation. As I remember it was a Scientologist on staff in the NYFD that "offered" this up and within a few months, it was negated by the NYFD in which they said only a member of the FD could recieve such an award.
It's amazing to me that with all their "PR expertise" they don't understand the very first rule about PR and that is "never tell a lie in PR".
It's the kiss of death in the subject matter.



