The Law and the Profits

The anti-anti-terrorist pressure group Liberty is plotting further embarrassment for the City of London police over the teenager who was issued with a summons for displaying a placard calling the Church of Scientology a "dangerous cult". Liberty are interested to know whether the City of London police regard all quotations from high court judgements as an incitement to religious hatred, or only those which relate to the Congregation of Hubbard. Quite apart from its raising of the spiritual wealth of the City of London with earthly gifts to some of its police officers, the cult "continues to attract controversy over claims that it separates members from their families and indoctrinates followers". To be fair, the pronouncements at Matthew 23 ix and Luke 14 xxvi are probably not original to L Ron Hubbard; and of course Scientology has no faith schools and therefore can hardly hope to indoctrinate children.