From Justice For Kyle Brennan:
The God Discussion Show has announced that Victoria Britton – whose son Kyle Brennan died
in Clearwater, Florida, the Scientology Mecca, under very suspicious circumstances
while visiting his Scientologist father -- will be the featured guest for the program’s
two-hour Friday, February 15 live podcast.
Speaking publicly for
the first time, Victoria will share with radio host Deborah Beeksma her 20-year-old son's story: what he was like
growing up; how Kyle, a non-Scientologist, felt about the Church of Scientology;
and how he became a victim of the church's dictatorial "handling"
mandate and its well-known war against psychiatry and psychotropic medications.
Victoria will also talk
about Narconon, the Scientology-run facility that bills itself as a legitimate
drug rehabilitation center. Victoria's segment will last one hour.
During the show's second
hour, ex-Scientologist Lance Marcor
will discuss "handling" and "disconnection", two of
Scientology's most injurious policies; Dr.
Stephen Wiseman will talk about the church from a psychiatrist's point of
view; and David Love will talk about
Narconon - how the facility treats illegal drugs and medically approved medications
as being one in the same, and post traumatic stress reported by participants in
the Narconon program.
The Friday, February 15
show will air at 6pm Pacific/7pm Mountain/8 pm Central/9 pm Eastern/times, and 2am
GMT. The show can be accessed through the God Discussion Show page. A podcast will be posted at the site after the broadcast.
Dr. Stephen Wiseman is a psychiatrist and the medical director of the Complex Pain
Centre at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. He has researched and
presented on Scientology's relationship with psychiatry for many years,
conducting workshops at both the American and Canadian Psychiatric Association
annual conferences.
Dr. Wiseman is a
proponent of evidence-based medicine, and believes that the fear and
mis-information presented by Scientology about psychiatry over the years has
perpetuated the stigma against patients and their families and has been very
destructive to the cause of rational mental health treatment for all who
require it.
David Love,
who was born on the West Coast of British Columbia, now resides in the Montreal
area. David formed a charitable organization in 1990 and was the director of a
rehabilitation center for substance abuse.
David was both a patient and a
staffer at the Narconon facility in the province of Quebec and is completing a
book on his experience there. He has appeared on several God Discussion shows.
Lance Marcor joined
Scientology’s “Sea Org”, the unit comprising the church’s most dedicated
members, in 1978. Two years later, after arriving at “Flag Land Base”, the Fort
Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology’s spiritual headquarters,
Lance was fully trained in the
church’s “ethics policy”, a bedrock principle of founder
L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings, and put in charge of 300 staff members’ “ethics.” Lance
left the church in 2007, and he is uniquely qualified as a former Scientology
insider to speak about the organization’s inner workings and little-understood doctrine,
policies, and procedures.
Kyle Brennan
was born April 2, 1986, and died on February 16, 2007. He was a talented artist
and prolific writer of short stories.
Though he was only twenty at the
time of his death and a sophomore in college, he was a man of international
connections.
His maternal grandmother is from
Montreal. His step-grandmother is from Argentina and lives in Buenos Aires. The
Brittons' plans to take to him to visit her were cut short by his death.
Kyle's father's family were
Irish-American Catholics. Kyle dreamed of visiting Ireland with his oldest
brother Scott and then returning to open a restaurant in their home town.
Kyle spent a good deal of time
visiting Berlin and other cities in Germany since his older brother Sean was
stationed with the US military there. A visit Kyle made to the great church of St. Michael in Bamberg
left a profound impression on him and strengthened his resolve to fight against
evil.
Victoria Britton has been seeking the truth about Kyle’s death—and
fighting for justice for her son, despite tremendous adversity—since his death
in 2006. She believes that Kyle’s story is an important one that must be told.
It can serve as a warning to others. It can save lives.
Deborah Beeksma is the founder of GodDiscussion.com, a news and review
service for the growing number of people not affiliated with an organized
religion. It is a Google news site, ands she is one of the hosts on the God Discussion shows.
God
Discussion is a site “for believers who don’t
go to church.” The views expressed on the site are not expressly denominational.
It honors points of view from many traditions in discussion about God and how
beliefs impact families, government, and culture.
For background we refer readers to
the article at Justice For Kyle Brennan
- The death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan as an Enemy of the
Church of Scientology.
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