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Really, "no position" on one of public health's greatest achievements? That's like saying you have no position on the benefits of toilets. Moreover, Baum noted that various celebrity Scientologists such as Danny Masterson, Juliette Lewis, Jenna Elfman, and Kirstie Alley have expressed "immunization dissenting" views. Considering all this, how much lower than 100% was the vaccination rates of the passengers and crew members of the "Freewinds" cruise ship?
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Follow me on Twitter (@bruce_y_lee) but don’t ask me if I know martial arts. Freewinds claims to be the “ultimate distraction-free environment” and is “devoted to seeing that every Scientologist attains their goal of spiritual freedom,” according to its website. Onboard, the church hosts religious services, conventions and special events.
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The Freewinds is a religious retreat that marks for Scientologists the pinnacle of their journey to total spiritual freedom. Its position at sea is designed to provide an aesthetic, distraction-free environment off the crossroads of everyday life. As a center of spiritual enlightenment, it is a place where lives are transformed.
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The three were part of Scientology’s “Sea Org” and “Cadet Org” entities. They were required to sign billion-year contracts to provide free or cheap labour to the church that, in Australia, is considered a legitimate religion. The new lawsuit, backed by three plaintiff law firms, alleges that their pay was sometimes withheld or set at a maximum of $US50 per week. Although measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, there have been a number of outbreaks in recent years in part because growing numbers of children have not been vaccinated. As of April 26, 704 people have contracted measles in 22 states – the greatest number of measles cases reported in the U.S. since 1994.
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"This outbreak could be a blessing in disguise because maybe some people can get off this ship of horrors," Remini told Newsweek. "Circumstances like this give an opportunity for some agencies or authorities to gain access to this ship beyond what would normally be offered." Those aboard the ship who had been vaccinated or had the measles before were free to leave the 440-foot vessel, health officials said May 4. A doctor aboard the ship had ordered about 100 doses of the measles vaccine before leaving St. Lucia.
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Then we’d make appointments with people and would sell to them, heavily,” she says. Once she had worked to get herself in good standing, at the end of 1998 she was assigned to work on promotional tours for the Freewinds, to sell packages for the ship to church members in places like Europe and the United States. She remembers that officers had to go ashore to get her passport released, she isn’t sure why. She just remembers that she had to hide her request from the CO for hours. I asked him to Western Union some money to me,” she says. For the next step, she knew she’d have to get a form filled out and signed by the ship’s captain, Mike Napier, for her passport to be released to her.
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NBC News also reported that a St. Lucia coast guard official confirmed that the quarantined vessel belonged to the church. She wrote to the ship, saying that she wanted to leave the Sea Org itself, but it resulted in her being called to the vessel, where she would begin a program for routing out. “What happens when you do that is that you end up wanting to stay,” she says.
About this time, 2003, she had met a public Scientologist in Sweden. (She had been separated from Elstennet for about a year.) She told the Swedish man about her feelings, about how she wanted to leave the Sea Org, and he understood. “We basically fell in love, and that was forbidden,” she says.
More than 700 people in the United States have been sickened by the disease this year — the highest number of reported cases in a year since 1994. Officials say the sudden spike is due to misinformation about vaccines. Right now the Freewinds is also a very quarantined place. Being quarantined means that you are kept from interacting with others because you may have been exposed to an infectious disease.
Freewinds is the fifth ship to be owned by the Church of Scientology. The other four were Royal Scotsman (later Apollo), Enchanter (later Diana), Avon River (later Athena), and Nekambi, all of which have apparently been scrapped.[15] However, the nameplate of Diana has been preserved and is on display aboard Freewinds. The church also operated two World War II surplus ships from the late 1960s until the early 1970s. These were Bolivar, a subchaser, and T.S.M.Y. Excalibur. Both of these vessels were docked at San Pedro, California, and were used for training new Sea Org members. She called the man in Sweden, and told him what she’d done.
MCL Services is a corporation in the Netherlands Antilles that provides shore support and liaison services for Majestic Cruise Lines and FSSO from the home port of the Freewinds, Curaçao. During such interrogations, questioners assume that a church member is hiding dark, sinister problems from Scientology, and so the interview subject is put on the spot about his or her most personal experiences. As many ex-Scientologists have told me, ethics officers seemed most interested in their sexual practices, and, while they were being monitored on the e-meter, they were asked to confess to sexual aberrations. Ramana says that her husband was the ship’s “LRH Host,” a member of the CMO who made sure the highest level of services were being delivered to guests of the ship. His “statistics” declined at some point, and she says it could have been from a number of different causes — perhaps fewer church members had decided to fork out for the expensive ship packages and attendance was lower.
On Tuesday, St. Lucia' Chief Medical Officer Dr. Merlene Frederick-James released a statement noting that the confirmed measles case was stable and under surveillance by the ship's medical crew. She noted that the incubation period of measles is 10 to 12 days before symptoms appear. NBC News reported that the infected person was a female crew member. Coursework on the Freewinds is a combination of independent book study, cooperative activities, and personal counseling sessions. In lecture halls, students complete lists of assignments that include reading book chapters and using modeling clay to demonstrate their understanding.
