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Look carefully at the photo of myriad yellow t-shirts. They are all high school students gathered together, most definitely a staged photo shoot. The students may have gone out for a day or two and cleaned up some trash in damaged homes. More propaganda. Scientology only helps if they get something out of it. In this case promotion that makes them look good and that’s bad.

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After your astute observation and using a magnifying glass, I only saw a few older people in the yellow T-shirts. I wonder how much those kids got paid, because I find it difficult to trust they are all practicing Scientology.

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Yes, makes sense. They were somehow tricked into wearing T-shirts.

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Or paid for the photo op, haha

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The clampire lives and dies by the testimonial. And nothing in the testimonial need be true. So 2 or maybe 3 people got help clearing out their destroyed possessions. What about the other 39,997 wrecked homes?

I really doubt that the picture of the VM 'army' was actually real. Did they really have all of those yellow tee-shirts handy and enough people to wear them at one time? If they did actually give real help to more than 3 people, where are those pictures? And where are the dirty tee-shirts from those who worked on clean up?

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VM army not real. All students.staged.

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Hey! There's plenty of homes of Scientologists I am sure they can count.

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I'd just like to point out that the 'giving aid to 24 million people in times of need' claim Scientology use to promote their 'Volunteer Ministers' was specifically identified as "misleading" by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority in 2016 when they banned one of their ads. The ASA's statement at the time said "Because we had not been provided with suitable evidence to show how the specific figure of 24 million had been calculated and that it was accurate, we concluded that the claim had not been substantiated and was likely to mislead viewers."

In my view, Scientology's exploitation of natural disasters and human suffering as a promotional tool is nothing but disgusting.

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Silly me, I thought Clearing the planet meant something different, hehe. All kidding aside, I feel it's great SCN ministers (is that laughable???) volunteered to help people. Only 4 people were interviewed though?? I would have liked to know how many days and how many people were helped.

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