Borat Was Right: Kazakhstan Is Smarter, II

"The Karaganda Special Inter-District Economic Court in Kazakhstan is hearing a suit by the prosecution authorities seeking the liquidation of the religious group called the Scientology Church of the City of Karaganda.

The prosecution authorities believe the church's activity "runs counter to principles of national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as it is aimed at undermining Kazakh nation's health through inflicting harm on people's psychic and physical health," the Kazakh Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement posted on its website.

"The scientologists have been using elements of medical technologies amending people's conscience. This activity has been pursued by people having no medical education outside medical institutions," it said.

In addition, the church's activity did not meet its charter provisions, it said."

-- InterFax

Meanwhile, as we watch our society fall apart, we lumber along - letting these cults continue to do whatever they want to our citizens, as they have for the last 40 years, all in the name of "open-minded" liberalism - and never drawing a connection between any of these phenomena,...

Borat Was Right: Kazakhstan Is Smarter, I

"A group of students held a protest in Almaty today to demand an end to the growing personality cult of President Nursultan Nazarbaev.

One protester, Muhammet Ziadin, told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service that the purpose of the demonstration was to challenge the practice of pouring praise on Kazakh leaders.

He said all the officials in the country are competing with each other in their attempts to compliment the president. The protesters had helium-filled balloons with the names of Kazakh officials on them and let them go into the sky, saying that the "masters of adulation should leave Kazakhstan like the balloons."

The protest was held in front of the offices of the presidential Nur-Otan party. Police did not interfere."

-- Kazakh Service, proving this problem (of unthinking cultists blindly following politicians) is big everywhere, and needs a healthy dose of Radio Free Liberty.

And isn't this a nice graphic for a cult-driven administration that - only two weeks in - hasn't gone one day without an ethics scandal?

Oh, hallowed be thy name,...