John Sweeney lost it...

[flaviomatani]

..which might be regarded as a little less than professional.

... but it is a good thing I don't do his job; if the context that this took place in is as reported, I'd have lost it much earlier.

More on the Panorama Scientology program here (it's video in either WMP -ptwagh! or Real Player format).

Comments

[kynon.livejournal.com]

I'd probably have jumped the table and beaten the sanctimonious little brainwash-endorsing Scientologist fucknut to death with my bare hands.

Scientologists = scary fuckers.

[huggirl.livejournal.com]

That is scary, I've always been so wary about Scientology
this is a perfect example of why religion scares me. :/

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

I find any religion scary in a way, but this is a whole different game. Of course, it could be because my soul was devoured by an alien monster that has been lurking in this planet for the last 75 million years .... :P

[jupiter909.livejournal.com]

They...make....me....want...to....kill....them...... 'nuff said.

Long live the BBC.

[barbedwirekiss.livejournal.com]

I believe that this "media furore" is a classic case of selective editing. In the video clip I saw of the incident, he first bellows at the cultist and pauses to ask, fairly levelly, "Did you understand?".

He later explains/describes in another video clip his actions.

The Co$ are masters of trauma-based mind control. They are (alegedly) very experienced is haranguing people into retracting criticisms, backing down.

I applaud the guy for being to survive being in what seems to have been a totally immersive environment, the main aim of which was to impose a certain way of "thinking".

I think that they are most likely a dangerous group of people. They operate a tight hierarchy which crushes any opposition and operate (just) on the edge of what is legal.

If you had said that 50 years ago people would've thought of major league organisations like the mafia.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's pretty much how I feel about the whole thing. There are far bigger dangers in the world but they do seem to be a pretty tightly run mind control machine. And the way they deal with any criticism would have made Stalin proud...

[spikylau.livejournal.com]

The way the Scientology representative (can't remember his name) kept turning up at interviews and the crew being followed around and filmed continuously I'm not suprised he ended up shouting. At least in this case the Scientologists attempts to influence the reporting about them put them in a very bad light. Good programme, a pity it was limited to only 30 minutes.