Tom Cruise Doesn’t Ask Permission After 9/11
Tags: ground zero, recruitment video, scientology, Tom Cruise
Another Scientology recruitment video made its way online yesterday in which Tom Cruise, still in his mock turtleneck, takes credit for saving the lives of hundreds of poisoned Ground Zero workers with the magic of LRH’s detox program. Page Six gives some highlights from the clip:
[Tom says] “A Scientologist is someone who can look at the world and really see what it is…. and not ask permission to do that. Why ask permission? We are the authorities!” Next, the video cuts to news footage of the devastation at Ground Zero as cheap action music plays and a cheesy narrator boasts: “And nothing says that better than the Mr. Cruise response to the wake-up call in the aftermath of 9/11 . . . If he takes a stand, it’s pedal to the metal till the finish line, as in helping New York firemen. He first saw the dust and heard the cough when descending to the ruins.”
Cruise’s voice kicks back in: “The EPA came out and said the air was clean. Of course, as a Scientologist, you go, ‘That’s a lie, [an] out[right] lie… You just go, ‘Liar. Fine.’ “The narrator then returns to brag how Cruise “personally saw to the establishment of a first New York-covered detox project. And, no, he did not ask permission.”
I’m not sure I get what he’s driving at here. As long as I’m not encroaching on someone else’s rights or causing them any bodily harm, I don’t really have to go around “asking permission,” either. Scientologist or not, if I want to — I don’t know — take a dump in a cheesecloth and then wear it like a hat, for instance, I don’t have to ask for your permission to do it. That happens to be a perk of being an American, not a Scientologist. And not asking permission doesn’t make you some kind of elitist hero. It makes you a damn crazy in a mock turtleneck wearing a beret made of your own shit. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Scientology!
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
RichPort
His favorite book?
I Fucked My Pet Goat
Jan 18th, 2008
Exyank
It’s not just an American perk. I believe that wearing shit and cheesecloths hats without permission is something that citizens can do in most of the civilised world.
Jan 18th, 2008
abby
True enough. That explains the smell in France.
Jan 18th, 2008
Simon Scowl
I’m not asking for permission to trash Tom Cruise for exploiting 9/11 rescue workers.
Jan 18th, 2008
p0nk
TCLTC
Jan 18th, 2008
abby
I’m also not asking for permission to call his turtleneck “faggy.”
Jan 18th, 2008
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