Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley Among Celebs Exposed To Cancer-Causing Asbestos From Negligent Church Of Scientology - Page 2
Radar Online did a follow-up on their story on this subject, focusing on the Church's official spokesperson, Karin Pouw, denying any suggested contamination, during which she also stated all scheduled Freewind's events would be going on as planned (one is set for today). Also of note, is a new story out of the Caribbean stating there are special teams from the U.S., being overseen by local authorities on the matter, who are doing round the clock clean up. From Radar:
A special team from the United States, supervised by an independent bureau from the Netherlands, has arrived on the Caribbean island of Curacao to remove asbestos from Scientology Cruise ship Freewinds, according to Amigoe, the longest running daily paper in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The Freewinds is still reportedly sitting high and dry at a Curacao facility owned by docking company CDM.The company managing the cleanup is Ft. Lauderdale-based "woman owned" AirQuest Inc. A staffer answering phones at the company said the entire staff was on the job and "incommunicado." Neither CDM's director, a spokesperson for the company, nor Tico Ras of Curacao's Environmental Service bureau were available. In the Amigoe article, Ras says the seriousness of the asbestos threat is "a matter of interpretation." So, for instance, if you breathed in blue asbestos on the ship, you might die. Or you could get lucky, dodge any potentially cancer-causing particles, and live out a life of religious fulfillment.
Freewinds was supposed to give a declaration about its condition last week but didn't, Amigoe reports. And CDM director Frank Esser tells the paper that the ship has failed to follow rules regarding asbestos handling, assuming past sworn statements by the ship's architect are true and there is still blue asbestos, the deadliest kind, on board.
At 4 p.m. EST, Radar called and e-mailed a Scientology spokesperson who had previously claimed the boat was completely up to snuff and on schedule for renovations—the Church was advertising a cruise departing May 7 (tomorrow). about the looming asbestos issue at about 4 p.m. EST. We did not immediately hear back.
Class-action suits a term I've heard thrown around when talking about the Church of Scientology. The applications are numerous. We've already highlighted a long history of physical, mental and psychological abuse against members within the Church, as well as a collusive nature to obstruct the truth, forcibly keep members hostage and imprisoned, and now, we have direct evidence of thousands of adherents to the faith being knowingly exposed to an extremely toxic and banned substance for at least 21 years.
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