Tom Cruise is better than you

Jan 18, 2008, 11:30 GMT

01/09/2008 - Tom Cruise - "Mad Money" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals - Mann Village Theater - Westwood, CA, USA © GL / PR Photos

Tom Cruise has branded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) liars for saying the air was clean after 9/11.

Author David Sirota noted well before this Cruise admission that a man named James Connaughton, who President Bush appointed to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality - and cited the New York Daily News report that he "was an industry lawyer who represented major asbestos and toxic polluters."

"Bush appointed a shill for industrial polluters to head the White House office on environmental quality, who immediately used his power to doctor critical public health information about the effects of massive pollution immediately after 9/11. This is the revolving door at work - a culture of corruption that is now so pervasive it affects the most basic and critical information the government is supposed to provide in order to protect the public." According to Sirota on the June 26, 2006 Huffington Post.

Yet the 'Mission Impossible' star has revealed how, as a Scientologist, he recognised there was a problem and provided rescue workers in the aftermath of the New York terrorist attack with detoxification therapy based upon the works of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In a new clip from his leaked Scientology promotional video, Tom said: "The EPA came out and said the air was clean. Of course, as a Scientologist you go, that's a lie. Outright lie. Liar. Fine.

"Finally you say, dammit, just go there and do it. Put it there, let's go, here's the money, let's go. Let's just get one person treated. I can't sleep another night.

"We have tools that we can apply to ourselves and apply to others. You're going to get improvements. Period."

The 45-year-old star claims Scientologists "are the authorities" and need no permission to take action.

He said: "A Scientologist is somebody who can look at the world and really see it for what it is. And not just see it but be able to go 'pow' and actually do something about it. And be somebody who is not asking permission to do that. Why ask permission? We are the authorities."

Tom, wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri have been spending a lot of time in New York this week with actor Jerry Seinfeld and his wife Jessica.

In December, Jerry revealed: "I did some Scientology courses about 30 years ago. I didn't do very much. I don't know that much, I just did a little but I liked it."

But a representative for the 'Bee Movie' star said: "He is not studying Scientology in any way at this time. He did attend a course 30 years ago that he found interesting but he is Jewish and not changing his religion or faith in any direction.

"Jerry and Tom Cruise both have homes in Telluride, Colorado, which is their connection."

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