A story no more or less falsifiable or logical than other religions. The Parliament fears a Scientology assimilation of the German people modeled after events of the early thirties. Thus they forbid Scientologists from becoming members of Parliament. It takes tens of thousands of dollars to complete the higher levels of COS auditing. Many members who don't have the cash gladly work for COS and pay with labor and time.
Freedom of expression provides color to a culture.
No government can protect someone from ideas, good or bad. Wynar is a graduate student in physics. This action is being taken against German citizens who have done nothing other than practice their religion, without a shred of evidence linking the church or its officials to any criminal activity. The Church of Scientology has responded with official complaints to the United Nations High Commissioner, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance and the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, requesting that these human rights bodies intervene to restore fundamental civil rights for Scientologists in Germany. Texan columnist Roahn Wynar believes Germany should not violate the rights of individual Scientologists in that country because of their affiliation with the Church of Scientology, and yet his column is full of the kind of rhetoric and misinformation that encourages such persecution.