Scientology ADMITS DEFEAT in Germany

BERLIN - Germany's branch of the Church of Scientology said Tuesday it had dropped a legal battle in Muenster to prevent the nation's domestic intelligence services from monitoring its activities.
The organization said in a statement it "felt it was time to reflect on the whole purpose of this battle of legal material and reach a sensible solution".
The North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Muenster refused last month to hear an appeal to a February ruling allowing the intelligence agencies to continue observing the Scientologists.
German authorities suspect Scientology of maintaining "ambitions against the free, democratic basic order" according to the February ruling.
The organization has now added a declaration on human rights and democracy to its bylaws, and has someone to lead its human rights program in Germany, said German Church of Scientology spokeswoman Sabine Weber.
The organization has long battled to end the surveillance, saying it is an abuse of freedom of religion, and the U.S. State Department regularly criticizes Germany in its annual Human Rights Report for the practice.
Germany's top security officials reiterated in December that they consider Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation's constitution. They asked state officials to begin gathering information to consider whether they have sufficient grounds to seek a ban on the organization.

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[hivahoa121]

Go Germany! Germany's got serious balls... unlike other countries, such as the USA, where this obnoxious cult has destroyed thousands of lives since the Fifties. It would be about time for all the governments in the world to wake up and ban the "Church", while leaving its most sincere members free to practice that crap on their own if they wish so.

[Verbeke1992]

To all of the idiots calling this a "Nazi Anthem", Adolf Hitler wasn't born when this song was written...

[MuscleManDaniel]

Germany is a place of cultures from all over the world now and over run my jewish. Of course scientology won;t be accepted nor any type of freedom of speech not approvaed by the jews...oops I cna;t say that right? I can;t talk against jews?

[angrywhenroused]

@Verbeke1992 they don't use the first 2 verses of Deutschlandlied any more so you would not here it as portrayed in this video anyway

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit

Für das deutsche Vaterland!

Danach lasst uns alle streben

Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit

Sind des Glückes Unterpfand; |: Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes, Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! :|

[Bonzenpunk]

@Verbeke1992 Es ist trotzdem nicht Teil unserer Hymne und somit zusammenhangslos

Deutschland geht auch nicht von der Maas bis an die Memel...

[lolcup]

1 ban in germany. well other countrys its time for your balls to ether grow or forever shrink inside of you

[carlosmontros534535]

@youli121 You're a retard.

[chrisseBerlin]

@thisissparta789789 Oh, really? Why?

[somethingirreversib]

Scientology is simply tax evasion and brainwashing with UFO stories