Tom_Booth
Patron with Honors
I mentioned early on when I first came to ESMB that I had taken an invitation to join Scientology Staff in Harlem but that I would probably not stick with it long if it didn't look to me like the Church had any real intention of helping the local residents of Harlem.
While on staff in Harlem the past few months, with droves of homeless, disabled, indigent, drug addicted, alcoholic on the streets in the immediate neighborhood of the Church, it came to my attention that there was really not only zero effort being made to help or assist any of these people but...
Well,... I'll try to not generalize but give some specific instances.
What I discovered, apparently, somewhat to my surprise in the end was that; because quite a few, (I imagine), homeless, are picked up and sent to the "Crazy House", that they are, generally as a class, actually FEARED as some kind of brainwashed or drugged agents of the "Psyches".
If by chance, an obviously homeless individual happens to wander into the church, out of curiosity or whatever, the reaction I observed was quite astonishing to me. Not only were they not given any help of any kind, but as quickly as possible they were "body routed" out the door, usually with it made quite plain that they were not welcome.
While on staff in Harlem the past few months, with droves of homeless, disabled, indigent, drug addicted, alcoholic on the streets in the immediate neighborhood of the Church, it came to my attention that there was really not only zero effort being made to help or assist any of these people but...
Well,... I'll try to not generalize but give some specific instances.
What I discovered, apparently, somewhat to my surprise in the end was that; because quite a few, (I imagine), homeless, are picked up and sent to the "Crazy House", that they are, generally as a class, actually FEARED as some kind of brainwashed or drugged agents of the "Psyches".
If by chance, an obviously homeless individual happens to wander into the church, out of curiosity or whatever, the reaction I observed was quite astonishing to me. Not only were they not given any help of any kind, but as quickly as possible they were "body routed" out the door, usually with it made quite plain that they were not welcome.