I applaud the person who spoke up and challenged Deering.

Freedom of religion was not meant to allow setting up fraudulent organizations just to make money and abuse people. Scientology was deliberately founded to make money.

OPEN MINDED and TOLERANT DOES NOT MEAN being blind to what con- artists do.

Their religious tax status was a con job on the IRS.

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"The New York Times reported that in 1993 David Miscavige, Scientology's leader, told a gathering of Scientologists that Scientology's U.S. tax bill could have been as much as one billion dollars. But according to the terms of the secret IRS deal, Scientology did not have to pay one billion dollars, and that was just the beginning of Scientology's tax windfall.

The Wall Street Journal just disclosed the confidential 76-page agreement through which Scientology was given previously unprecedented tax relief...

To understand the unprecedented scope of the this secret IRS deal and the growing allegations of foul play surrounding the means by which this secret deal was extracted from the IRS, one should understand some of the context and history of Scientology's previous dealings with the IRS.

Scientology's history of tax fraud:

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