It is my understanding that Tom Cruise demands a Scientology tent be set up
while shooting on location to recruit new followers. If his "religion" was kept out of his film productions perhaps the German Government would drop their beef.

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There is no chance of Cruise keeping his tents off of the locations. They were there for "War of the Worlds" and they will be there for this movie. His "religion" dosen't take a back seat for anything or anyone.

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Ronald Medico, Tom hasn't demanded for a Scientology tent to be set up for this moive. He only had a tent at a moive set for War for the World and at the time Steven Spielberg said the tents were there to provide help to those who needed it.

Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise's co-producer has said "Aside from his obvious admiration of the man he is portraying, Mr. Cruise's personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie's plot, themes, or content. And even though we could shoot the movie anywhere in the world, we believe Germany is the only place we can truly do the story justice."
The script tells a fascinating story and it does so with intelligence, style, edge-of-your-seat-suspense and a close eye on the history books.

People are just using the headline “Tom Cruise Barred from Germany” to get attention as with any other Tom cruise news article.

But the story is totally off track. What happened was ONE Germany local official spoke against allowing Tom Cruise to shoot at a military base. Meanwhile, the directors of that military base say they never received any requests from Cruise or any of those involved with the film to shoot there.

And personally, it is completely ridiculous to ban ANY film based on one actor religious beliefs even if its not recognized as a religion. AND anti-constitutional, even in Germany.

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I think it's more understandable when you recall Germany's history with cults.

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With its long tradition of stamping on human rights and plurality (and its history of murdering more than 9 million people, including 6 millions Jews), and its state sanctioned Christian-sect religion, it is no wonder that certain German's attack the Church of Scientology, which worked very hard to get the German government to enact a Freedom of Information Act, finally achieved about two years ago. For the first time in Germany's history the average citizen could get previously hidden files.

That did not make some German's in positions of power (to hide behind) any more friendly towards the Church of Scientology.

It's like the French government. It was the Church of Scientology International that contributed greatly to having that repressive government rescind its despicable "Sect Watch List" that targetted nearly 200 religious groups and faiths I(including Fundamental Christians, Buddhists, etc) with abolishment.

Incidentally, the Church of Scientology was a major force in getting the United State's Freedom of Information Act enacted into law.

Visit www.YouthforHumanRights.org and look at the Public Service Announcements (PSAs) produced by Scientology in support of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The PSAs y received a standing ovation at the UN, and the DVD of these gorgeous PSA's is on sale in the UN.

That Declaration was, in major part, approved by the UN because of German's barbarism during World War 2.

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Germany wants to do everything they can to keep Scientology( A god-damned cult) out of their counry and they have every right to do so. It's their country. What do you people not understand here? It's their decision and we have to respect it. And for the most part a couple of these posts are pretty biggotted. Germanys not the only country who has their history written in the blood of the innocent. the US still does a pretty good job of doing it even today. Or haven't any of you been watching and reading the news.

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Does Scientology have hired hands who search the internet for mentions of itself and then have "people" post corrections and contrary opinions?
Damn effin' right they do.

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Scientology is a problem and Germany is one of the few countries to stand up to it.

James Lightfield, you obviously haven't understood the whole concept. Your response is based on Germans=Nazis. I recommend you visit Germany once in your life. You'll notice that the people are more open and friendly than anywhere else in the world.

Stauffenberg was an anti-Nazi and Germany does not want his image to be ruined by an actor such as Tom Cruise who is clearly unpopular all over the world due to his sick-minded stories.

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If scientology is so pro-information, why don't you go to your local scientology office and ask about Xenu and what happens in OT3? See how open they are about information then.

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A word from Germany...

Why would anyone give Tom Cruise and the Church of Brainwashing a platform anyway? Look at how they consider most of mankind inferior and all that. Scientology is dangerous and hearing about them setting up little tents on movie sets is frightening. Standing up against these creeps and their little underground secret service has nothing to do with the Third Reich. Scientology is everywhere, not just in Germany. That's one thing.

And why should the german gouvernment let some film crew close down a military location to shoot some stupid melodramatic hero-movie? They wanted to do "MI3" inside the Reichstag already... Duh! I mean, ask the White House whether their location is available for a german comedy about President Bush...

And making Stauffenberg a hero is, well, sort of an old-fashioned approach to deal with the terror of the Third Reich. Look at what Stauffenberg and his friends had planned for the time after Hitler. History is more complicated that that. It was the teenagers who were opposing the Nazis, not prussian officers. Have a look at the history of "The White Rose" (or "Sophie Scholl-The movie" at least...) or watch the "Edelweißpiraten" (Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edy4al00UPU ) if you wanna see a good movie about resistance in the Third Reich. The whole "Only one man can save Germany plus the world"-approach doesn't work. It only supports the idea that resistance wasn't possible during the Third Reich and only the good old prussian officers were able to make a change.

Tom Cruise and that superhero-director can do whatever they want, but they should not expect to get much support for their little exploitation-picture in Germany.

Come on, Tom Cruise playing Stauffenberg can only make you laugh. Who's playing Hitler by the way? Danny de Vito? Stallone?

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Tom didn't plant scientology tents on MI:III

it was widely reported. Get your fact straights before spitting crap.

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