NYC Council member jumps on Tom Cruise’s “detox” bandwagonTom Cruise was out fund-raising this month yet again for his favorite cause, which seems to be almost anything linked to Scientology or as Time Magazine once named the group the “Cult of Greed.”
The former “Top Gun” and “Last Samurai” was shilling this month for a group he co-founded called the “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project.”
The so-called “detoxification” promoted by the project is really just the latest incarnation of a Scientology-related religious ritual commonly known amongst the faithful as the “purification rundown.”
The "rundown" is a process that includes sweating out toxins in a sauna and consuming large doses of niacin.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard came up with this idea.
Cruise raked in $1.2 million for his pet project through Hollywood connections, cronies and “friends” said the Hollywood Reporter.
And one of Tom’s special “friends” is New York City Council member Margarita Lopez.
Lopez actually chaired a hearing about “the recoveries being achieved through detoxification.”
She says, “Detoxification has helped over 200 men and women regain their health.” The councilwoman is beginning to sound more like a Hubbard groupie than an elected official concerned about her constituents.
Lopez apparently has chosen to ignore feedback from the deputy chief medical officer for the NY Fire Department who called the same detoxification “risky” and concluded, "there's no proven evidence it works."
A toxicology expert quoted by the NY Times stating flatly that the program is an "unproven, scientifically bereft notion."
After all L. Ron Hubbard was a Sci-fi writer and purported “cult leader,” not a doctor or scientist.
But it appears that some elected officials find movie stars intoxicating and perhaps potentially useful for their own fund-raisers.
Maybe that’s why Lopez has jumped on the Cruise "detox" bandwagon, along with US Senator Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Maloney, as previously reported by CutlNews.
Cruise crowed, "Knowing that…heroes from New York's bravest…are back on the job -- that brings me immeasurable joy and pride.”
But the price tag to bring Tom more of that “joy and pride,” for anyone other than the NY firemen he often uses like promotional props, is around $5,000 a head.
[Posted by Rick Ross at 12:57 PM][Link]
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