--- Well, Tom's heart is in the right place.
An organization co-founded by actor Tom Cruise has raised $1.2
million to expand a treatment program for rescue
workers exposed to potentially hazardous materials after the collapse
of the World Trade Center.
The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project said it has treated
more than 200 workers who say they were suffering effects from
breathing the air filled with smoke, dust and debris after the Sept.
11, 2001, destruction of the trade center.
The money raised by Cruise and others would expand the project to treat
twice as many people, said Keith Miller, the project's director. The
treatment is provided at no cost.
Sounds like a pretty good deal, eh? That's nice that Tom's getting
behind the 9/11 workers. Wonderful. But there's something in the title
"New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project," that's causing the
hairs on the back of my neck to rise.
And here it is: The project's program consists of a medically monitored regimen of
exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals to help rescue workers
cleanse their bodies of toxic residues. It was developed by L. Ron
Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a
member.
It's faith based healing, in other words. A faith based initiative.
Because his group will probably, you know, try to convert a few people
to Scientology whilst all this detox is going on. Can't wait to hear
Hillary lambast Tom about this one. /sarcasm