this is not the hamster you're looking for (flightstothesea) wrote in

otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-26 12:47:00

because i had to post avclub wank sooner or later...
The Onion AV Club now allows comments on most of its articles, interviews, and reviews. You can see where this is going already.

Today's tasty bit of wank is about Tom Cruise and Scientology. Apparently, the German Army won't let Cruise's new movie film on a base there because he's a Scientologist. The German government classifies Scientology as a cult and um... well, I'm not sure how that figures into the movie, but the point is, there is lots of wank in the comments. Unfortunately, you can't link to individual comments, so you'll have to warm up your scroll finger.

Is Scientology a cult?

Are the Germans being ~~just like the Nazis~~ intolerant?

Wait, Beck is a Scientologist?

Posted here because it didn't seem fandom-y enough for Fandom Wank.

Really late edit: Germany clarifies its position on Cruise filming.

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Re: Some random comments

eilan
2007-06-27 06:30 pm UTC (link)

To be honest, this is comparing apples and oranges. We are talking about not allowing them to shoot a movie on German military/governmental property with the justification that his religious group has the status of a cult in Germany and the military doesn't want to be affiliated with that. That's not censorship of any kind, they are free to do it in their own country.

Do you think the KKK should have the right to enter military property for the sake of doing a movie there?

The right to demonstrate is part of the German law. As is free speech with the exception of when the first law: 'human dignity is inviolable' is violated. Noone is trying to ban any religion here and we are having a hard time to even ban outright uncontitutional and right-wing neo-Nazi parties here that have Holocaust denial as one of their basic premises.

Really, this is getting too much serious business for me.

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	Re: Some random comments queencallipygos 2007-06-27 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't clear with my intent there -- my mind just went on a tangent and I wasn't implying it had anything to do with this issue at all. Sorry for the confusion. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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