Citizens for Social Reform

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Citizens for Social Reform (CSRPAC) is a political action committee founded in 2001 by Scientologists, directed "to work with elected officials toward the goal of bringing about more humane and effective solutions to social ills like illiteracy, criminality, substance abuse and the general decay of moral character", mainly by promoting Scientology associated programs such as Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and CCHR, and their goals and issues, with legislators at the US federal and state levels.

Their website, csrpac.org, while often avoiding direct references to the Church of Scientology, uses much L. Ron Hubbard-based language. An entire section on their site is devoted to a "Citizen Hat" treatise [1] which lists Scientology books such as The Antisocial Personality and The Thinking Book side by side with basic civics texts such as The Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. The "Citizen Hat" has been illustrated with cartoons [2] by Scientologist Virginia Romero. [3] CRS's website also deals with anti-psychiatry issues, which is a key issue for Scientologists.

The current president of CSRPAC is Don Pearson, executive VP of the e.Republic Inc. group of magazines.[4]

“ Corporation records show that Don Pearson opened a local chapter of the Citizen’s Commission in 1998, and Pearson also set up a political action committee called the Association of Citizens for Social Reform, designed to "play offense" in eliminating "public support for social, educational and mental health programs that are intrusive, force-based or damaging to individual awareness and competence." ”

—Sacramento News & Review, [4]

  1. ^ Citizen Hat - Further Reading, csrpac.org
  2. ^ What the heck is a Citizen Hat?, csrpac.org
  3. ^ Virginia Romero a Scientologist
  4. ^ a b Evans, Jim. "Scientology Inc.", Sacramento News and Review, 2001-08-23. Retrieved on October 8, 2006.

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