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a.r.s. Week in Review 7/29/06

> Scientology Property Arrested in St. Petersburg Russia
> Russian Spam King was a Scientologist
> Scientology Youth Tutoring Raises Concern in Germany
> Cult Propaganda and Harassment
> Public Hearing on Narconon in Leona Valley
> Henson Case Memorandum
> L Ron Hubbard on the Tarot Deck
> Ways to Get Involved
> What is Dead Agenting
> Scientology-Related Media

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> Scientology Property Arrested in St. Petersburg Russia

On July 24, 2006 Interfax reported:

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=1760

Court marshals arrest scientologists' property paralyzing work
of this organization in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, July 25,
Interfax - The property of the scientologists' office in St.
Petersburg has been arrested by a decision of the arbitration
court for failure to pay the rent in good time.

St. Petersburg's Smena daily has reported on Tuesday that the
scientologists' activity in the city 'has long roused public
bodies' censure', but they had to arrest their property for
refusal to pay to the owner of a facility they rent in Ligovsky
Prospect.

As a result, court marshals arrested the entire property of the
scientologists in St. Petersburg on Monday. Scientologists are
reported to express hope for a speedy help from their 'colleges
from abroad' with paying the debt.

'It is no secret for anybody that under the pretext of spiritual
development this sect fleeces credulous people, getting enormous
amounts of money from them for teaching them dianetics said to
help them grasp all the mysteries of existence. Besides,
scientologists have collected files on every person involved in
the sect who have been as credulous as to share with them their
innermost secrets', the newspapers notes.

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> Russian Spam King was a Scientologist

On July 26, 2006 Wired Magazine reported:

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html?pg=1&topic=spamking&topic_set=

The Sleazy Life and Nasty Death of Russia's Spam King

He withheld pay from employees, boasted of his sexual
adventures, enraged government officials, and flooded Russia
with 25 million emails a day. Then one morning, Vardan Kushnir's
mother found his bloodied body on the bathroom floor, skull
bashed in.

[...]

Employees were put off by Kushnir's behavior, but they were far
-angrier about the fact that he withheld their salaries. Many of
his workers were expat thrill-seekers, Moscow short-timers who
eventually figured out the situation and quit the ALC with a
lesson in the ways of Russian labor. When an employee did
confront him, Kushnir grew oddly pacific. "Why are you putting
all this pressure on me?" he asked, adopting the even tone of a
superior conscience. "Why are you getting so angry? You should
read some L. Ron Hubbard." He then offered a volume on
Scientology from his bookshelf.

The nobility of such gestures was lost on most. "His only
authority was L. Ron Hubbard," Vishnevsky says. "He didn't
consider other people as friends. He considered himself above
them."

[...]

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> Scientology Youth Tutoring Raises Concern in Germany

On July 28, 2006 "Alert" posted a a report from the German
Deutsch Welle and a commentary:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2111961,00.html

The German Association of College Prep School Teachers says that
the number of Scientology groups that operate tutoring centers
has tripled in the past 10 years. They worry that children are
at risk.

Heinz-Peter Meidinger, Director of the German Association of
College Prep School Teachers, said that his organization was
aware of at least 30 schools offering private lessons run by
Scientologists who are influencing their students. He added that
the number may be even higher.

Meidinger said that Scientologists in tutoring centers could be
taking advantage of the vulnerability of children with learning
difficulties. He warned that children with education problems
may feel inferior, making them more susceptible to Scientology.

Ute Erdsiek-Rave, minister for education for the state of
Schleswig-Holstein, said that she was alarmed at a rise in
reports of Scientologists' influence on children receiving
private lessons.

Meidinger said the influence begins when a tutor or institute
first offers lessons in math or English, for instance, and then
changes the focus. He said the quality of the academic tutoring
itself is often very good, as well as reasonably priced.

Alarm bells among children or parents, however, should go off
when tutors then encourage students to attend other --
frequently much more expensive -- lessons promising to turn the
attendee into a "new person," he said.

[...]

Being informed about Scientology

German Scientology spokeswoman Sabine Weber told Der Spiegel
that "for years, one lie after the other has been spread about
Scientology." She told the magazine that she thinks it is a good
thing that members of the organization are helping to repair
Germany's inadequate education system.

"That's all fine and good if Scientologists want to help, but
they should be playing with an open deck," Meininger said. He
added that if they are going to offer lessons to kids, then they
should clearly state who and what they are and not hide it.

Sometimes the brochures offering private lessons may casually
mention the name L. Ron Hubbard, but they make no mention that
he is the founder of Scientology," he said.

Critical view

In Germany, Scientology is often viewed as a sect or commercial
enterprise with mainly economic interests.

Members of the movement have often been under surveillance by
the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, whose
job is to monitor anti-democratic activities. Scientologists in
Germany have said they suffer religious persecution and scoff at
the notion that their movement is non-democratic.

"Nowhere in the world is the Church of Scientology seen in a
political light in the way it is in Germany," Weber said in an
interview.

Ultimately, said Meidinger, the issue is not about religious
freedom.

"If the courts allow it, then Scientologists should be permitted
to practice their philosophy," he said. "But even a Catholic or
Protestant educational institution will announce its religious
affiliation," he said.

He admitted, though, that the quality and content of tutoring
sessions is hard to assess since it is a one-on-one activity.
Also, the tutoring centers do not come under the authority of
school boards. Anyone can establish one.

Louisa Schaefer

Scientology's Study Technology
The Hidden Message in L. Ron Hubbard's "Study Tech"

http://www.studytech.org/study_tech.php

CONCLUSION
http://www.studytech.org/study_tech5.php

Study Tech has been around for several decades, but today, only
Scientologists recommend it for use in public classrooms. Its
proponents claim miraculous results, yet no independent
evaluation of its effectiveness has ever been done. Its creator
claimed that it represents a revolutionary advance in learning,
yet it is in practice little more than a method of compelling
mindless rote learning devoid of any critical thought or
interpretation.

Those who support Study Tech undoubtedly believe in its
effectiveness. Then again, as Study Tech's supporters are
overwhelmingly Scientologists, they also believe many things
that the general populace would find hard to accept as everyday
reality: recall of past lives, possession of super powers, and
at the advanced levels, telepathic contact with space alien
spirits. No proof is ever offered for the existence of these
things. That poses no problems for Scientologists, as proof is
never requested. For Hubbard's followers, it is an article of
faith that whatever Ron says must be correct, even if its
correctness is not evident to anyone else. The effectiveness of
what Scientologists call "the tech", of which Study Tech is a
part, is a matter of religious doctrine. It HAS to work.

But Study Tech is no more a secular learning methodology than
wine and communion wafers are a Sunday morning snack. Its
ambitions may be entirely conventional, but its vocabulary and
practices are part of a religious doctrine closely tied to
Scientology beliefs. The end product of Study Tech is an
individual who has been taught to "duplicate" uncritically any
proposition, no matter how dubious. It deprecates critical
analysis and genuine understanding in favour of a mindless
acceptance of the author as an unassailable authority figure. It
reflects L. Ron Hubbard's profoundly authoritarian desire to be
seen as the "Source" of all Scientology wisdom and it serves his
aim of encouraging unquestioning acceptance of his authority.

[...]

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> Cult Propaganda and Harassment

On July 25, 2006 "Andreas Heldal-Lund" posted:

[New attacks from the cult]

The cult continues to Black PR me to my employer. They have now
reached a new low by making actual accusations of illegal
activities. Below are two quotes from an anonymous letter sent
to the highest executives in the global company I work for
(spelling errors as in original):

[START QUOTE]
Some of us believe that Andreas is giving out sensitive
information about the company to a man who works for the
competition. What I am about to tell would need to be treated
carefully because if Andreas find this out he will do something
crazy with us. Even if he wants to look like a nice man he is
vendictive and some of us have families. Andreas has strange
contacts in Norway.

Some months ago Andreas was seen speaking to a competitor for a
long time. Andreas was acting strange and looking around to see
if somebody was looking at him. Andreas was very nervus. Andreas
was speaking to the man and giving information and an envelope.
Andreas was heard saying that [the current] management is worse
than [the previous].
[END QUOTE]

Letter goes on talking about our partners, competitors and
customers. Including naming colleagues. It ends with:

[START QUOTE]
At the end of the conversation said that the person he reports
to is incompetent and there is nothing to worry about and
everything will be fine.
[END QUOTE]

Letter is (of course) anonymous. Quotes posted here to document
some of what is going on. And to let OSA know how "effective"
they are.

OSA MASSAGE: Are you absolutely sure you want another ten years
with even more diligence?

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> Public Hearing on Narconon in Leona Valley

A number of reports were published about this weeks public
meeting for the proposed Boquet Canyon Narconon:

On July 23, 2006 the Daily News Los Angeles reported:

http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4083734

Proposed Narcanon rehab clinic raises concern among residents
BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS, Staff Writer

LEONA VALLEY - An organization with ties to the Church of
Scientology that wants to open a drug treatment center in
Bouquet Canyon was cited for dozens of violations by state
inspectors within the last five years, according to documents.

The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will vote on whether
to allow Narconon International to open a 66-bed facility near
Leona Valley.

Narconon runs four treatment facilities in the state.

At the Newport Beach facility, state inspectors found in January
2003 that staff members administered medication to residents
without authorization and had alcohol on the premises. In
February 2003, state inspectors found two staff members at
Narconon's Watsonville facility went drinking with a graduating
resident from the program.

Clark Carr, the head of Narconon, said the two were fired and
his organization has corrected the other problems and violations
that have been found at Narconon facilities.

"We completely agree with strict standards and unannounced
surprise inspections," Carr said. "We're glad to have them."

Another violation state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
inspectors found at Narconon facilities was beds without
mattress pads, including an inspection at the Newport Beach
facility in November 2004, that found 24 beds without pads.

Carr said he was unsure why the pads might have been missing,
but he said that problem had been corrected as well.

Narconon was created 40 years ago and uses the writings of L.
Ron Hubbard, late founder of the Church of Scientology, to treat
addicts. Instead of administering drugs, the program puts
addicts on a regimen of vitamins, including niacin, and has them
"sweat out" toxins with time in the sauna.

"We've been doing it for decades in California and throughout
the United States and the world, and we have a very good
record," Carr said.

Sheriff Lee Baca has expressed support for Narconon going into
the Bouquet Canyon site. Although the sheriff said he has not
visited a Narconon facility, he has been briefed on the program
and he liked what he heard.

"This is America's No. 1 health problem, illegal drug use, and
to a certain extent legal drug use, including alcohol," Baca
said. "So I'm an advocate for any program that can help people
get away from drugs and their addiction to drugs. That's why I
support it."

But the Narconon approach to fighting drugs has been questioned
by outside experts. Narconon has a program to educate
schoolchildren about drugs, which the California Department of
Education evaluated last year and found wasn't based on science
or medicine.

Jack O'Connell, state superintendent of public instruction,
asked that schools not use the Narconon program, but Carr said
the program is still taught at schools at the request of on-site
administrators.

The inaccurate information given to students included that drugs
burn up vitamins and nutrients, and that small amounts of drugs
are stored in fat and are released at a later time, making the
person want to use the drug again, according to the education
department report.

"The materials I've seen in their brochures would suggest to me
that the treatment that they provide certainly is not in line
with current scientific thinking about addiction," said
professor Richard Rawson, associate director of Integrated
Substance Abuse Programs at the University of California, Los
Angeles.

"Some of the use of vitamins and saunas and all of those things
certainly may be good general health practices, but they have
nothing to do with the effective treatment of addiction as far
as any literature has ever demonstrated."

If the county Board of Supervisors approves the Narconon
facility for Bouquet Canyon, it would be the largest Narconon
facility in California.

The county Regional Planning Commission in March approved the
project, but Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich called for the
Board of Supervisors to hear the matter after hearing concerns
about the project.

Several residents in the rural area oppose the project, citing
safety concerns from addicts going in and out. Residents also
feel that Narconon has tried to bully them to drop their
opposition.

Ron and Sherry Howell, who live near the former boarding school
site that would be used for the project, received a letter from
an attorney for Narconon in January telling them to stop
attacking the project or face legal consequences. They received
the letter after submitting their written opposition to the
project to the county Department of Regional Planning, and after
Sherry Howell had written a letter to a local newspaper.

"It tells us that we're dealing with somebody that doesn't care
what they do to people to intimidate them, to shut them up," Ron
Howell said.

Alice Benoit, who would be living near the facility, also feels
that Narconon has targeted opponents of the project, including
herself.

"They kind of like invade our Town Council meetings and shout us
down," she said.

The Antelope Valley Press reported:

[link no longer available]
http://www.avpress.com/n/22/0722_s5.hts

Controversial Narconon facility to face public hearing Tuesday

This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Saturday,
July 22, 2006.
By LISA WAHLA HOWARD
Valley Press Staff Writer

The head of Narconon International says Bouquet Canyon is a
great place to open a drug rehab center. But some neighbors
strongly disagree, citing state records to back up their
opposition. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will
have a public hearing Tuesday morning in downtown Los Angeles on
plans for the Scientology-based drug rehabilitation program in
Leona Valley.

Narconon Southern California plans to turn an abandoned boarding
school on Bouquet Canyon Road into a rehab center for 66 people,
people Narconon refers to as "clients." Stays at the facilities
typically last several months and cost some $20,000.

[...]

But nearby resident Andria Witmer and others say the location is
wrong, and find past state violations at other Narconon centers
troubling.

After the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission OK'd
Narconon's conditional-use permit application in March, county
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, whose 5th District includes
the Antelope Valley, requested the Board of Supervisors review
the project.

Antonovich aide Norm Hickling said the supervisor's action was
propelled by the amount of discussion in the community and
questions about the adequacy of the conditions put on the
project by the commission.

[...]

Through public records obtained from the state Department of
Alcohol and Drug Programs, Witmer uncovered numerous violations
substantiated by state investigators, including findings of
alcohol on the premises and a lack of tuberculosis testing of
staff and clients.

"Complaints found substantiated by ADP included operating
without a license, staff members and addicts leaving the
facility to go drinking, staff members and addicts having sex,
storing alcohol on the premises, male and female addicts being
housed together, addicts not being tested for TB and having
nonqualified staff," said Witmer, who has organized the state
documents into a coded binder.

The alcohol storage violation was noted in January 2003 at the
organization's Newport Beach facility, which also was the
subject of violations regarding improper handling of drugs and
opening an adjacent location without a license.

The violation regarding staff members and clients leaving the
facility to obtain alcohol came from a February 2003
investigation of Narconon's Watsonville facility.

The Northern California location also was found to house male
and female clients without adequate privacy, in June 2004 and
August 2004; and staff members were found to have had sex with
clients in an April 2004 investigation.

In addition, the Watsonville facility was found to be providing
care to adolescent males at an unlicensed facility.

Violations relating to a lack of tuberculosis testing were found
at the Newport Beach and Watsonville locations.

"With all these past violations, we're supposed to expect them
to be good neighbors and follow the CUP rules?" she asked.
"They're not credible."

[...]

Witmer also believes Narconon failed to reach out to residents
of Bouquet Canyon, as the group was instructed by the Planning
Commission. Narconon staff members attended local town council
meetings, but Witmer said some residents of upper Bouquet Canyon
have Saugus mailing addresses and work in Santa Clarita or Los
Angeles and do not follow the activities of the town councils.

[...]

Based on the ADP documents, Witmer doubts the truth of the idea
that Narconon clients pay their own way and come by their own
choice.

Documents show numerous examples of disgruntled parents
complaining about the treatment received by their children,
whose stays they paid for. Other documents show evidence of
clients who came in to the treatment centers high on drugs or
who were "oppositional" to coming.

Carr said that if a client's family paid for the stay, the
client would still feel an obligation to attend to the
treatment.

"Supervisor Antonovich expects a very long and lively debate at
the Board of Supervisors' hearing come Tuesday," Hickling said.

"Susan" posted:

...at this link: http://www.knabe.com/bos/broadcast.html at 9:30
a m pst daylight savings mode.

If you miss the live meeting you can find the archives here:

http://bosvideoap.co.la.ca.us/mgasp/lacounty/BroadbandSettings.asp

On July 26, 2006 the Daily News Los Angeles reported:

http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4094184

Treatment center hearing delayed
SUE DOYLE, Staff writer

LOS ANGELES - A public hearing on a planned drug and alcohol
treatment center with ties to the Church of Scientology was
postponed Tuesday over concerns about the center's rural
location in upper Bouquet Canyon.

A proposal to establish a Narconon center came before the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors and drew a crowd of about
500.

Concerns about traffic, fire and safety, and flood control
remanded plans back to the Regional Planning Commission, which
had approved the project in March. Tuesday's hearing was called
by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, who received complaints
after the commission's approval.

There is no date set yet for its return to the board.

Narconon International aims to open a 66-bed facility nearly
Leona Valley on 30.4 acres formerly used for a boarding school.

Narconon President Clark Carr said that if the center had been
approved Tuesday, work would have begun immediately. Renovations
are expected to take at least six months.

Yet Carr supported the county's efforts toward improvements.

"We're here for the long haul," Carr said.

The facility is designed to treat up to 66 adults, whose average
stay would be three to four months. Narconon plans no new
buildings on the land, which borders the Angeles National
Forest, but will add parking.

Treatment used in the program, such as sweating out toxins, has
been questioned by critics, who charge that the facility is a
front to lure people into the Church of Scientology. The
treatment program began about 40 years ago and is based on the
principles of a book by L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of the
Church of Scientology.

When asked of those criticisms, Carr called them incorrect and
irrelevant. He said there was no religious indoctrination in the
program.

"It's hard enough work to get someone off heroin or alcohol
without getting into the religious issues," he said.

Word of the alcohol and drug rehabilitation center planned on
Bouquet Canyon Road had worried some Leona Valley residents, who
sent a letter to the county Planning Commission last winter with
concerns the facility would disrupt the rural community.

Some of those residents arrived at Tuesday's hearing to testify.
Among them was Jan Powell, a Leona Valley Town Council member.
She helped organize a community meeting at which residents could
meet with Narconon representatives and learn about the proposed
center.

Powell said she was open-minded at first and wanted to know more
about Narconon. Initially representatives told her the
organization was not connected with the Church of Scientology,
but later they told her there was a relationship. That's when
she changed her mind.

"It's not that they're associated with Scientology," she said.
"It's the fact that they were deceitful to me."

Vance Kirkpatrick, a former sheriff's deputy, also came to the
hearing. The Leona Valley resident said the location for the
treatment center is too remote for quick responses from police
or firefighters in case of emergencies.

"Barbara Graham" wrote:

Editor,

Here are the words of Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, "THE
ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write
that down in your book in great big letters."

-- L. Ron Hubbard
Technique 88

Hubbard also wrote, "Handling truth is a touchy business also.
You don't have to tell everything you know -- that would jam the
comm line too. Tell an *acceptable truth*...So PR becomes the
technique of communicating an acceptable truth -- and which will
attain the desirable result.

If there's no chance of obtaining a desirable result and the
truth would injure then talk about something else."
-- L. Ron Hubbard
HCOPL 13 August 1970 Issue II PR Series 2, in the Volunteer
Minister's Handbook

Clark Carr is definately applying Hubbard's teachings of
"acceptable truth" in his words to your reporter.

First of all, Mr. Carr dismisses all criticism of the Narconon
program with two untruths in one sentence. In your article, he
is quoted as saying about the criticism, "Carr called them
incorrect and irrelevant. He said there was no religious
indoctrination in the program."

The concerns about Narconon were given veracity following
complaints to the California Board of Education that Narconon
was teaching its theories to children in public schools.In 2004,
California State schools chief Jack O'Connell ordered a review
of Narconon's teaching program. In a series of articles
published in the San Francisco Chronicle at the time, Clark Carr
was quoted as saying, "We welcome the opportunity to provide the
California Department of Education with first-hand information
about our drug education program, its science-based curriculum
and our results over the last 30 years..."

And yet, when the board of qualified experts in the drug rehab
field turned in their findings, Carr accused the medical society
of preferring programs that rely on a useless "drug-based
medical solution."

However, the panel of evaluators reported,"We concurred that ...
the Narconon materials focus on some topics of lesser importance
to the exclusion of best knowledge and practices," Heilig wrote,
and that the curriculum contained "factual errors in basic
concepts such as physical and mental effects, addiction and even
spelling."

Mr. Carr may rest assured that the review was carefully
performed, and based on information provided by Narconon's
administrators. As to the irrelevancy, it should be pointed out
that accuracy in drug education is certainly relevant. As a
result of this review, Narconon's teaching program was expelled
from public schools in California, Hawaii, Boston and Tampa.
http://stop-narconon.org

Public schools have rejected the theory behind Narconon's
treatment of drug and alcohol abusers. Yet, it still applies
these rejected theories when dealing with its clients. One
matter of concern, is the well documented liver damage caused by
massive overdoses of vitamins such as niacin. Hubbard felt that,
if some is good, more must be better. It should be pointed out
here that L. Ron Hubbard was a pulp fiction writer, who dropped
out of George Washington University without completing the
curriculum.

As for Narconon's ties to Scientology, Carr has been quoted more
than once, denying any but the most tenuous connection between
these entities. In fact, Scientology's own corporate structure
places Narconon directly under the Association for Better Living
and Education (ABLE) umbrella, a position it shares with several
other Scientology front groups, and directly under the control
of the RTC, the governing body of Scientology.

Clark Carr, in your article, denies that Narconon's program
includes Scientology indoctrination. This is a patent lie; the
"purification" program is the same thing Scientologists pay to
undergo, and the courses are straight out of the Scientology
"green vols," a series of books written by Hubbard and used in
many Scientology courses.

I don't think it is inaccurate to say that Narconon is a covert
recruitment tool used by Scientology. Indeed, Patricia Pieniadz,
former Executive Director of Narconon, wrote to Supervisor
Antonovich, "I can attest to the complete lack of success of
Narconon program and in fact, the only people the do succeed
from the Narconon are those that become Scientologists. The
full account of this can be found here:"

http://www.lermanet.com/patti-pieniadz/#narconon

Basically, what Narconon does is replace a substance addiction
to an addiction to Scientology. I hope that the delay of a
decision from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors means that
they are going to take more time to scrutinize the "acceptable
truths" Clark Carr and other Narconon proponents have offered in
support of installing a facility in Leona Valley.

Of 150 letters of support sent to the County Board of
Supervisors, 75% came from Scientologists. This was an "all
hands" letter writing campaign, meant to convince the Board that
Narconon is a good neighbor, a worthy program, and should be
allowed to operate a new facility in Los Angeles County.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

On July 26, 2006 "Graham Berry" posted:

THE LOS ANGELES BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND SCIENTOLOGY

Over the past weeks I have had occasion to be very very
impressed by the boxed multi-volume multi-media submissions, of
the Leona Valley and Bouquet Residents, to the Los Angeles Board
of Supervisors; and arguing that the proposed Leona Valley
Narconon facility "will negatively impact the safety and welfare
and property values of neighboring communities."

Some of the information contained in those submissions is eerily
familiar to many who have had to confront the dark side of
Scientology for any length of time. For example: (1) [Exhibit D,
pp.27-28] the alleged drug bust frame-up of 'a California Health
Department official... who had produced a highly critical
report,' resembles a similar incident experienced by former top
scientology official Jesse Prince; (2) [Exhibit L, pp. 83-84,
and Exhibit T, pp. 121-128] the photographs of private
investigators Edwin Richardson and Talon Executive Services is
not news to many who have spoken out against Scientology and
later had these people "investigating" them in the neighborhoods
and workplaces. Both Talon and Richardson have "noisily"
investigated me at Scientology's behest ("... when we want
some-one haunted we investigate." L. Ron Hubbard); (3) [Exhibit
L, pp.85-87] the expression of support and solidarity by L.A.
Sheriff Lee Baca is curious. One of his own lieutenants has
warned me that my life may be in danger
from Church of Scientology paid hit men [and I have received
Secret Service protection in Germany]; (4) 'the increased fire
risk from so many smoking scientologists' is truly a very
serious and real concern. Hubbard was a chain smoker and many
scientology staffers try to 'assume his valence' by doing the
same thing.

Besides, Hubbard teaches that "the way out is the way through,"
as demonstrated by the Hubbard comment that smoking more
cigarettes is the way to cure lung cancer! (5) The public
health, safety and welfare concerns addressed in Exhibits O, P
and R are also serious issues. The Purification Run down can be
dangerous enough. But what about the dangers of the "isolation
rundown" if some-one has a psychotic break, or 'Potential
Trouble Source Type III (PTS-Type III)' condition as it is known
in the cult? We only have to remember Lisa McPherson, all those
scores of cockroach bites, and an ambulance ride past the three
closest hospitals to the one furtherest away where there was a
doctor who belonged to the Church of Scientology.

And what about the down-played relationship between Narconon and
the Scientology cult? Well there's a whole three minute
submission right there!

In fact, I was so impressed by the presentation of the Leona
Valley residents, and so disturbed by what some of them had to
tell me, that I attended the meeting of the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors on July 25, 2006. There are only five
supervisors for the entire Los Angeles County; it's been only
five since the very early days of the County. Consequently, they
are probably the five most powerful local politicians in the
entire nation.

Each of the five Supervisors should be old enough to remember
when eleven top Scientologists (including Hubbard's wife) were
convicted and imprisoned in connection with the largest ever
known criminal infiltration of the United States government.
That concerned Scientology's 'Operation Snow White,' to rid all
public files of anything negative about the Church of
Scientology. 'Operation Snow White' continues today. There have
been reports that the communications from those opposed to the
Leona Valley Narconon facility have 'disappeared' from the files
of the Board of Supervisors. Many expert observers would opine
that this has all of the "hall marks" of a Church of
Scientology-OSA "file culling project."

The Board of Supervisors meeting room probably seats 400 people
and it was nearly full. Later we would learn from the President
of Narconon International that Narconon [a/k/a the Church of
Scientology] had over 200 people there to speak in favor of the
Narconon facility. To my mind that was an exaggeration by about
100.

Certainly there were a number of senior staffers from the
Scientology enterprise. One of the CSI Office of Special
Affairs ('OSA') in-house attorneys, Elliot Abelson, Esq.,
greeted me but otherwise would not engage me in conversation. He
limped slightly and looked quite over weight, wan and ill.
Another observer commented to me that 'one cannot get involved
in all of the bad karma that surrounds Elliot without it
festering up inside.' Of course, Abelson's sick look might also
be put down to too much scientology 'processing.'

It may also be due to the same disciplinary affliction that ails
his OSA work buddy Mike Rinder!

The very Reverend Lynn Farny, OSA Legal Unit and Secretary of
Church of Scientology was more forthcoming. Lynn seemed
genuinely pleased that there isn't much scientology related
litigation happening at present. That made him available for
other assignments. "I'll be back to put things right," I told
him. I think he knew I was talking of the Vexatious litigant
ruling and all of the associated perjury, bribery, blackmail,
fraud and corruption. Farny once claimed to be the one who
devised the Cipriano corruption directed against me. More
recently, Farny's wife (another Scientology staffer) was
implicated in some potential jury tampering.

I commented to Farny that Scientology seemed to be on a big
building buying spree in Europe (Paris, Brussels and Berlin).
Right next door to the European Community building I noted.
"It's the new wave," Farny beamed. "I'm wondering where the wave
of money is coming from," I replied. "From the wave of new
members," Farney shot back, as he walked off. "Yeah, right, the
wave of new members," I replied as he walked off, too quickly
for me to add, "in all of those empty course-rooms on both sides
of the Atlantic." Then I thought, 'why should Rev. Farny worry
about empty course rooms at the bottom of the pyramid now that
the Church is again so feverishly involved with corruption at
all levels of government and law enforcement?' In Scientology's
copyrighted Policy Letter "Target Defense," Church of
Scientology staffers are informed of: "Target 1, depopularize
the enemy (Scientology's opponents) to a point of total
obliteration;

Target 2, take over the control or allegiance of the heads or
proprietors of all news media; Target 3, take over the control
or allegiance of key political figures..."

If Lynn Farny had stuck around I might have asked about: the
four British Labor Party members of the European Parliament who
are now said to be Scientologists; or the several German judges
who may have been compromised by the cult; or the appointment of
a guardian ad litem for a Hamburg infant to ensure that the
infant is protected from the cult in a custody battle involving
a very senior German Scientologist, her son and her
daughter-in-law; and whether the European prime real estate
buying spree is due to money-laundering as police in Hamburg,
Brussels and Amsterdam might suggest, or due to the movement of
U.S. dollars off-shore as other Europeans have suggested. And
then I wondered what he would have thought of Ursula Caberta
still being where she is, and what he thought of David Miscavige
still being where he is? Isn't he embarrassed by a cult leader
who is accused of physically striking his senior staffers on a
regular basis, and extolling them to emulate actor Tom Cruise?
And the Church of Scientology
compares David Miscavige to the Pope?

I also spoke with Narconon's attorney who I recall introducing
himself as David Carlton, Esq. I was told his office is in
Irvine, Orange County. He recognized my face from somewhere but
could not tell me from where. I did not enlighten him other than
to tell him I was "part of the other side; the light side."

I was carrying my papers in a large manila envelope with a
bumper sticker attached clipped to it. The bumper sticker had
been given to me by the wonderful and inimitable Ida Camburn and
it read: www.xenu.net

What Scientology doesn't want you to read

I had walked in and out of the auditorium several times,
carrying my envelope past the block of about one hundred
scientologists, before the Sheriff's Deputies at the entrance
door told me they had received a complaint and to cover my
envelope when inside the actual hall. They were polite and I
complied.

Shortly afterwards a group of two thuggish looking brutes and a
woman sat down opposite me and started staring non-stop at me.
They were surrounded by scientologists. The two men glaring at
me looked too thuggish to be even bad P. I. s. After awhile I
went over and said to the closest brute: "You are staring at me.
Do I know you?" He growled, "I don't speak English. I'm
Italian." Well at least he speaks some English, I thought. And
then he turned to the thug behind. "Are you private
investigators?" I asked. "No, we're not private investigators,"
the lady interrupted. Sure, I thought as I returned to my seat
across the aisle. Talon's own imported Sicilian thugs more
likely, and here to dish out the usual Scientology
'psycho-terror.' I'd bet that they even drive leased white Ford
Explorer SUVs!

It wasn't long before the Board of Supervisors reached the
agenda item so many of us were waiting for. Sam Dea was
representing the Regional Planning Commission. He reported that
the Narconon facility would have no substantial adverse impact
upon the area. I thought he either had not read or considered
the Leona Valley and Bouquet Canyon resident's submissions, or
the cult had corrupted yet another public official, high up in
the Regional Planning Commission. If so, that's more corruption
the very Scientology-friendly Sheriff Baca will not be
investigating. Hundreds of brain-washed Scientology staffers can
provide a generous political donor base. They were for the late
John Ferraro when he presided over the re-naming of Berendo
Street as L. Ron Hubbard Way.

It was then Narconon's turn. Clark Carr, the President of
Narconon International and his land use consultant Tim Riley
took the microphone. It was announced that there was an
agreement between the Board and Narconon that the matter would
be "remanded back to the Planning Commission to consider select
issues." Clark Carr of Narconon confirmed the agreement and then
very tellingly commented that he was sorry that the more than
200 people in attendance to speak in support of Narconon would
not get to speak. However, he wanted to be sure that the
opponents would not be heard either. The Board of Supervisors
gave the head of Narconon that reassurance. "The opponents will
not be heard." That is the real reason I thought (or 'the end
product' in scientology-speak).

However, the Supervisors themselves may have had second thoughts
about Scientology "grand fathering" so many concessions into the
Conditional Use Permit, and then decided to send the entire
application back to the Planning Commission where there will be
a new examination of purely land use issues such as fire, road,
water and septic.

During the course of the morning I had observed both Clark Carr
and Elliot Abelson in long and extended cell phone
conversations; possibly back to the HGB building at 6331
Hollywood Boulevard. It was probably discussed then, that the
200 plus scientologists waiting to speak could not be exposed to
the realities and truths that they would hear spoken by the
opponents and critics who were also waiting to speak.

Of course, the good news is that the matter has to go back to
the Board of Supervisors and we can have even more opponents in
attendance to argue why the Scientology enterprise should not be
expanding into the Leona Valley (no matter how deep the lake or
dense the woods). Certainly, a non-governmental, non-lock-down,
voluntary drug rehab facility should not have armed guards 24/7!
But then the Scientology base at Gilman Hot Springs should not
be "armed and dangerous" either. It is quite scary to think of
the numbers of people who have simply disappeared from that
facility, or to hear stories of people like Annie Broeker
screaming from solitary confinement. If only the dead could
talk! See Brainwashing in Scientology's gulags, the RPF:
http://www.solitarytrees.net/pubs/skent/brain.htm

As I walked out of the meeting room a young woman attacked me.
She grabbed at my manila envelope, briefly exposed the 'WWW.
XENU. NET bumper sticker and then informed me that she was going
to have me arrested for displaying it. "We know you're working
covertly," she said. Ah, OSA I thought. I told her to get her
hands off me but she wouldn't back off. She screamed for a
nearby Sheriff's deputy to come over, and he did. She was still
grabbing at my arm and envelope when I said to the Deputy that I
wanted her arrested, for assault and battery. The Deputy
motioned for me to be silent while he called for back-up which
arrived in seconds. The back-up then escorted the Scientology
staffer away while the first deputy asked to see my bumper
sticker. "Ah," he said. "There were several comments about
that." I spoke to him about the two thugs who had been trying to
intimidate me. The Deputy said that several of the other Deputy
Sheriffs had noticed and worried about them as well. Then the
deputy escorted me out to the
street and past the gathered scientology executives and the
woman who had wanted me arrested. I wondered as to the real
"crime?" A "Suppressive Person" being "covertly hostile" by just
telling the actual truth instead of a scientology "acceptable
truth." As defined by Hubbard, an "Acceptable truth" is an
explanation tailored for the needs of a particular audience.
Hubbard also wrote a document called 'TR-L' or 'Training
Routine-Lying: the only way to control some-one is to lie to
them.' And those are religious scriptures?

Once outside the throng of Scientologists or Rondroids, I
encountered David Sweetland. David is a former scientologist who
had progressed 'up the Scientology Bridge' to OT VII before
leaving the organization. When David left Scientology he was
declared "a suppressive person" and his wife of nearly 25 years,
and his two young adult children, were ordered to "disconnect
from him." He has not been able to communicate with them since.
David can personally attest to the painful horror of scientology
family abuse and the side-effects of the Narconon "culling
process."

David Sweetland explained his opposition to the Leona Valley
Narconon facility as being very simple: 'If the Church of
Scientology wants to promote Narconon it is entitled to do so,
but only within the confines of the Church of Scientology [and
not through a commercial false-front such as Narconon], and
only after a full disclosure [of the potential consequences of
what you are being exposed to] and your fully informed consent
has been signed, expressly waiving much of the medical, legal
and family assistance you might otherwise expect to receive.

As I wandered off into another Los Angeles hear-wave, I wondered
as to the sort of church that would have hired thugs at a public
hearing to determine whether or not the church's false -front
should be allowed to do business within a community. The
question can be answered by the final sentence of a St.
Petersburg Times editorial: "The Church of Scientology is like
no other church that we know."

And so the Leona Valley Narconon facility, if it is approved,
will be a part of the totalitarian para-military Church of
Scientology's command structure; with Narconon money [$10
million p.a.] going up-lines to the Church and orders coming
down-lines from the Church to the Leona Valley facility.

Would you want a religious mafia such as the Church of
Scientology, America's own Taliban, in your neighborhood,
destroying America one citizen at a time?

"By their deeds ye shall know them." Just watch Scientology's
shills attack me for this expression of free speech and opinion!
Graham Berry
Attorney
[phone number]
[e-mail address]

"Patty Pieniadz" posted:

[My Letter to the LA County Board of Supervisors]

I sent this out to each member of the Board.

Dear

I am writing because I am quite concerned with the proposed
establishment of Narconon in Leona Valley.

I am the former Executive Director of Narconon Connecticut and I
am also the former Director of Rehabilitation for the Church of
Scientology. My responsibilities as Director of Rehabilitation
for the Church was to manage and control the Narconon's in the
New England area for the Church and to ensure the Narconon's
paid a 10 % "consultancy fee" to the Church. I spent over 27
years in the Church and for many of those years I worked for
Scientology's intelligence branch so I am quite familiar with
much of their internal workings, including their methods of
deception and cover up.

Due the fact the Church of Scientology's reputation is so
horrible and due to the fact that many funding and government
sources do not want to work with this "religious" cult, the
Church eventually established a separately incorporated group
called ABLE (Association for Better Living and Education)

ABLE has always been a front group for the Church of Scientology
and was created in a sly but legal way to funnel government and
private funding into the coffers of the Church of Scientology.

The corporate maze set up by Scientology is both confusing and
overwhelming to someone not trained in their legal shell games.

All of the Scientology front groups are separately incorporated
so that when an official such as Bob Adams testifies before you
that there is no "connection", he is not telling you "all" of
the truth. Bob Adams, Clark Carr and other Narconon officials
will tell you that Narconon and the Church of Scientology are
not connected "corporately" but all of the Narconon's are in
fact controlled by the Church of Scientology on a daily basis.

In fact the members of the Board of Directors of Narconon all
have to sign undated letters of resignation. These undated
letters of resignation are then held by the Church of
Scientology and if the local Narconon does not comply with their
demands, the letters will be dated and the members of the board
of Directors of Narconon will be replaced with other
Scientologists that will follow orders.

The Narconon Success Rate.

A more scholarly report on the lack of success in the Narconon
program can be found here:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/doesitwork.htm

As a former Executive Director of Narconon I can attest to the
complete lack of success of Narconon program and in fact, the
only people that do succeed from the Narconon Program are those
that become Scientologists. The full account of this can be
found here.

http://www.lermanet.com/patti-pieniadz/#narconon

I write to you not because I oppose treatment for those addicted
to drugs, but because I am opposed to this unsuccessful front
group of the Church of Scientology setting up shop and luring
the unsuspecting into their cult.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Patricia Pieniadz
New London, CT.

"Zinj" posted:

I strongly recommend that anyone interested in Narconon look up
Bob Lobsinger of the Newkirk Herald Journal, who took them on in
the early 90s, and did it hard.

And received the kind of 'response' we've all come to see as
'policy' from the 'Church' of Scientology.

http://www.xenutv.com/print/newkirk/
http://xenutv.com/print/newkirk/narconon-46.htm

[...]

On July 26, The Antelope Valley Press reported:

http://www.avpress.com/n/26/0726_s6.hts

Decision on Narconon rehab clinic delayed
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Wednesday,
July 26,
2006.
By LISA WAHLA HOWARD
Valley Press Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - County supervisors Tuesday put off making a
decision on a drug rehab facility proposed for Leona Valley, and
instead sent the issue back to the Regional Planning Commission
for further review. Hundreds of people turned up for the
scheduled public hearing, and more than 70 had signed up to
speak on Narconon's plans to expand its Scientology-based drug
and alcohol rehab program into Bouquet Canyon.

But in the end, no one spoke on the project but a staff member
from Regional Planning, Narconon International President Clark
Carr and another Narconon representative before the board
approved a motion by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich to remand
the project back to the commission.

"There were issues raised by the Fire Department relative to
safety and the ability to have a secure facility for the
neighbors," said Antonovich, whose 5th District includes the
north county.

"There were also issues raised by Public Works as to flooding,
and (questions were asked about) the density relative to what
would be allowed if they were single-family homes."

The Planning Commission in March approved the plan to convert a
former boarding school for 66 people who would receive treatment
at the facility, plus staff members.

In addition, Antonovich mentioned traffic safety on Bouquet
Canyon Road as another reason to have the Planning Commission
review the project further for possible additional mitigation
measures.

Carr said he understands the reasons for further review, and he
said the organization is committed to working through the
concerns.

"It's a delay, but a reasonable delay that absolutely makes
sense to do," Carr said. "Our intention is to be absolutely
within the codes and regulations because we plan to be there a
long time."

Narconon supporters outnumbered the opponents, and a number of
people who signed up to speak on the item said they or their
relatives had been aided by Narconon's services. Some supporters
said they lived in nearby Green Valley.

More than 30 opponents signed up to voice their complaints about
the plans, the majority of whom were Leona Valley residents.
Some came from elsewhere in the county, and one person who
signed up gave an address near another Narconon facility in
Warner Springs.

Bouquet Canyon resident Aurelia Huff said she worries about the
impact the facility and its residents will have on her three
young children. She said the project has already affected the
sale of her home, with a potential buyer saying he won't
complete the transaction if Narconon moves in.

"They're a low-security facility, with just a few security
guards that could be ex-addicts themselves," she said.

Nearby resident Andria Witmer said she hopes the Planning
Commission will now have time to review documents she submitted
from state investigators, who found numerous violations at
Narconon's several other facilities in California.

"Regional Planning needs to have all the information, including
the inaccurate testimony given by Narconon the first time," she
said, referring to a lack of information regarding the past
violations.

On July 26, 2006 the Santa Clarita Signal reported:

Source:
http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=31764&format=html

Narcanon [sic] Site Referred Back to County

By Kristopher Daams
Signal Staff Writer

Wednesday July 26, 2006

A drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility with links to the
Church of Scientology was referred back to county planning
officials Tuesday to look into access and property issues for
its proposed Bouquet Canyon site.

International drug rehabilitation organization Narconon won
final approval of their proposed facility in mid-March, but
"relatively new information" had the proposal referred back to
the county's Regional Planning Commission, said Paul Novak,
planning deputy to Fifth District Supervisor Michael D.
Antonovich.

The proposed Narconon facility was referred back after questions
came up regarding access to the site - which sits on Bouquet
Canyon Road about 15 miles outside Santa Clarita city limits -
and portions of the 30-acre site that sit on a flood plain.

"Circumstances of the property have changed because of the
storms of last winter," Novak said, pointing toward increased
debris and earth that built up on and around the property.

Novak said the site's driveway runs over a creekbed, and added
that the site "physically changed" after it was investigated by
planning officials in August.

"The motion is just sending it back and saying 'Look at these
issues,'" Novak said. "We will ask the planning commission to
try and hear the case as soon as possible."

Antonovich had the approval by the county's Regional Planning
Commission come under review by the supervisors after members of
the public expressed concerns.

The 66-bed facility would have a staff of 11 people and a
10-year permit to operate.

Narconon uses research and developments derived from author L.
Ron Hubbard in its rehabilitation treatments, according to the
organization's Web site.

William Benitez, a former inmate in the Arizona State Prison
system and heroin addict, founded Narconon.

No public testimony regarding the proposed rehabilitation
facility was heard Tuesday, but the issue is expected to be
heard again by planning officials, Novak said.

On July 26, 2006 the Daily News Los Angeles reported:

Source: http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4094184

Treatment center hearing delayed
SUE DOYLE, Staff writer

[...]

There is no date set yet for its return to the board.

[...]

"It's not that they're associated with Scientology," she said.
"It's the fact that they were deceitful to me."

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> Henson Case Memorandum

On July 23, 2006 "Keith Henson" posted:

[...]

In re:

KEITH HENSON, Debtor.

HILARY DEZOTELL, an individual; KEN HODEN. an individual; and
BRUCE
WAGONER, an individual,

Plaintiffs, vs.

H. KEITH HENSON, an individual. Debtor,

Defendant.
CASE NO. 98-51326 ASW-7
ADV. NO. 035136

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR
SUMMARY
JUDGMENT PURSUANT TO F.R.C.P. § 56 AND BKRTCY.C. § 7056
Date: TO BE SET Time: TO BE SET Courtroom: 3099
Judge: Arthur S. Weissbrodt

Mondo snip

CONCLUSION
Plaintiff is entitled to an order declaring that the above state
court judgment. both the monetary and non-monetary portion.
including all injunctive relief, is nondischargeable under
Rkrtcy.C. § 523(a)(6).

It is extremely difficult to take legal papers seriously when
they ask a bankruptcy judge to make an injunction
non-dischargeable when the judge has told them he has no power
over injunctions, only money.

Especially when the injunction was granted by a court that had
no power to issue it.

Then there is this line:

"Mr. Hoden was also fearful that Defendant might participate in
launching a missile attack at Golden Era."

And they want a court to take them seriously?

Keith Henson

PS. If anyone wants the PDF versions, especially if you want to
convert them to text and post these gems, let me know.

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> L Ron Hubbard on the Tarot Deck

On July 25, 2006 "Creed Pearson" posted:

Lucifer Ron Hubbard's "Lie of the Week" Exposed -7-26-2006, by
Creed Judson Pearson, III

The following excerpt from Lucifer Ron Hubbard's PDC tape number
1, given on the fifth year anniversary of Aleister Crowley's
death, demonstrates why L Ron Hubbard is not a reliable source
of information:

"Several thousand years ago somebody made a philosophical
machine called the tarot. Lord knows what that philosophical
machine is up to or all about. And then he says, "The only way I
can possibly make this last is to hand it over as playing cards
to the Gypsies." And so today down through these thousands of
years, we can again and still look at the tarot. It is still in
existence but it is just a philosophical machine. Every one of
the cards in the tarot is a concept of human experience one way
or the other. And what he did with these and what he knew with
these, I don't know; but it is a very interesting gimmick."
-Lucifer Ron Hubbard PDC Tape Number 1, December 1, 1952.

That sounds very interesting. The only problem is that Lucifer
Ron Hubbard's comments are untrue. The Tarot cards were not
passed to the gypsies thousands of years ago. In fact, Tarot
cards originated in northern Italy in the fifteenth century, a
mere six hundred years past. The gypsies did not start using
them until past two decades. Prior to that they read palms and
later used playing cards. Here is the Internet site that
documents these FACTS:
http://www.villarevak.org/misc/tarotl_1.html#Introduction. Per
this website the idea that the Gypsies brought the Tarot into
Europe and had passed them down for thousands of years is
totally false. Here is a quote from that source:

"The idea was popularized in the 19th century by several
writers, notably Vaillant and Papus, without any basis in
historical fact. There is no evidence that the Rom (gypsies)
used tarot cards until the 20th century. Most of their
fortune-telling was through palmistry and later through the use
of ordinary playing cards."
http://www.villarevak.org/misc/tarotl_1.html#Introduction.

"THE SOURCE OF TROUBLE"- Lucifer Ron Hubbard got it wrong again.
But what do you expect from a guy that was unprofessional at
everything, including poor research and a complete disregard to
referencing or flow charting his sources of information?

Speaking of Gypsies, the Gypsies hanging around Silentologists
had better take the time to read Richard J. Evan's book called
"The Third Reich in Power" copy write 2005 by the Penguin Press.
In Scientology they have a magic triangle at
http://www.scripturaltraining.org/. The Nazi's had magic
triangles too. In fact, they had pink ones for gays, black ones
for asocial, green for professional criminal (same color as the
Dianetics triangle, could they be professional criminals too,
hum?), violet for Jehovah's Witness, and so on. Jewish prisoners
had to wear a yellow triangle underneath their category badge,
sewn in the right way up so that the corners were showing,
making the whole ensemble into a star of David when the inverted
triangle on the left breast of the uniform came to rest against
it.

Gypsies found themselves with a black magic inverted triangle
sewn onto their lapels, pointed down toward the earth in typical
satanic style.

Hitler tried to bury his sources of occult knowledge and become
the only one. Hasn't L Ron Hubbard been trying to bury his
sources too? Isn't everyone else being silenced, per steps 7, 8,
9, and 10 of KSW - one at a time or in clusters?

[...]

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> Ways to Get Involved

On July 23, 2006 "Simkatu" posted:

My letter to Stephanie Antonian Rutherford ( srutherford @
battlecr.gannett.com ), of the Battle Creek Enquirer, regarding
a recent article she wrote:

RE: Your article, "Students balance trust, teamwork during drug
prevention workshop"

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060722/NEWS01/607220313/1002

Thanks for writing your story, it is good that people in Battle
Creek are worried about drug and alcohol abuse among children,
but unfortunately the school has been duped by Narconon.
Narconon is a lot more than "a nonprofit drug rehabilitation and
education program". Narconon is a front-group for the Church of
Scientology. Narconon has been banned by many school districts
across the nation for promoting its religious-based and unproven
methods to schoolchildren. Recently the entire state of
California banned Narconon from its schools and the cities of
Boston and Tampa Bay have also banned Narconon training. The
founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard was a science-fiction
author, and a poor one at that, remember Battlefield Earth?
Hubbard flunked out of college and he had no training or
experience in the field of drug treatment, however he was able
to create a drug-treatment program that brings millions of
dollars into his "religious" group.

Narconon charges $20,000 to $30,000 for Hubbard's program, which
involves:

1) Dangerous mega-doses of Niacin, at levels so high that the
U.S. Surgeon General has said can cause permanent damage to the
liver.
2) Drinking vegatable oil
3) Sitting in sauna baths for hours on end

And the real kicker is that many studies have shown that people
that go through Narconon are no more likely to remain drug-free
after one year than people that receive no treatment at all.

Right now people in Leona Valley, California are fighting to
keep Narconon out of their neighborhood. Read the story about
that here:

http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4083734

You can also read more about the dangers of Narconon including
links and references at:

http://www.NarcononExposed.org

and

http://Stop-Narconon.org/

Please don't allow the citizens of Battle Creek to be fleeced by
this group.

AJ Simkatu

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> What is Dead Agenting?

On July 26, 2006 "Simkatu" posted:

Some anonymous Scientology cult member spoofed the name of
Patrick Humphrey and wrote:

"I am feeling depressed again, because no one loves me, and my
enemies are getting to me. I am starting to ideate about whether
to take arsenic or something else. Perhaps if someone would call
me regularly,especially at nights, or even visit me, I would
feel better."

Patrick L. Humphrey

(snip address and phone number)

This is the kind of behaviour that Church of Scientology members
engage in when people point out the abuses of their "church". It
is hard to believe that some people honestly believe that
engaging in such practices is helping to "Free the Planet". Who
would think that people would pay thousands of dollars to some
cult, just to be ordered to attack people on the Internet?

You can read more about this controversial and required
practice, called "Dead Agenting", here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversy#.22Dead_agenting.22

And check out some of the other interesting tactics that this
cult uses to abuse people.

Simkatu
http://PerkinsTragedy.org

"Patrick Humphrey" wrote:

Indeed - if this latest failure of an attempt is being
orchestrated by the Cult of Scientology, they obviously can't
figure out that I've *never* been shuddered into silence. (I'll
have to filter the access log for my Scientology Sucks! page and
see how many times the Crew of Clams has been visiting...)

"Fr...@spam.spam" wrote in reply to Graham Berry's post [Re: THE
LOS ANGELES BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND SCIENTOLOGY]:

Did you really have sex with underage boys in NY?
Were you labeled a Vexatious litigant by the courts in
California?
Were you disbarred from practicing law in California by the
California bar
association?
Are you still abusing drugs?

"Graham Berry" replied:

And here the Church of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs,
cooperating out of the HGB Building at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, acting robotically as brain-washed "ron-droids,"
begins it's ad hominem attack using their own manufactured,
perjured and disproven allegations [for example: google search
"Cipriano and Moxon."] Of course, they also violate their IRS
section 501 (c) (3) status and 1993 tax settlement agreement.

[...]

It also appears that the Church of Scientology has some
blackmail material on the Sheriff; the same type of material
they may have used to used to eliminate one-time
anti-scientology attorney Barry Van Sickle.

[...]

I understand that members of the Los Angeles Board of
Supervisors and the staffs have been reading and circulating
this thread. How helpful of the Church of Scientology
International Office of Special Affairs to confirm and
demonstrate their "policies and practices of "fair game" and
"the handling of suppressive persons." These 'policies and
practices' have, among others, been called 'psycho-terrorism" by
some European governments. As I wrote above, "by their deeds ye
shall know them." Clearly, the Zebra has not changed his
stripes.

Incidentally, the day after the Board of Supervisor's meeting,
during the middle of the day, a procession of about 20 cars
arrived at the Scientology property, loaded up and then
departed. 'Enquiring minds' want to know what the Church was
removing? Was it the electronic switching gear that was being
used to bug the telephone calls of certain residents and to
re-route certain calls to the Church of Scientology itself? Some
of the illegal phone switching equipment was discovered and the
FBI was informed. However, the FBI, with its usual deference to
religious terrorism, referred the matter to the telephone
company which restored the equipment and service to normal.

Isn't it incredible that our government should fight religious
terrorism in the Middle East but ignore it here at home?

"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:

Old el rum hutoad was a CON man

He gained my trust with lies... he said he was a nuclear
physcist and a navy war hero

http://www.lermanet.com/LRonHubbard.htm

These were LIES

but there was no net back then.. And PAulette Cooper was being
sued... to keep her book from being published...

A good CON man (or woman) will always GAIN YOUR TRUST first.

They might even speak critically of scientology, they might even
support popular efforts to expose scientology in a
non-substantial way... that doesnt do much damage to
scientology. Like doing a radio show on a college radio station
during final exam week.

AFTER gaining your trust, they then will covertly attack,
spreading lies, using coercive persuasive technques, tending to
prefer one on one telephone and chat window lectures.. in order
to spread enough lies about the target... that you withdraw
support or are unwilling to contoinue to help them financially
or emotionally, and both are important, the latter in fact more
than the former.

DEspite claims to the contrary, everything and every major
effort they will have been involved in will have ended up in a
condition of silence

Because Silence is what Scientology wants from its real enemies.
Those whose spoken truths cannot be silenced will be kookified,
to dissuade anyone from listeneing to them.. especially when
they try to find the source of the rumors about them...theya re
just a kook.

Those whose spoken truths cannot be answered by Scientology will
be demonzised by them, and mnost always behind their backs,
leaving little of an evidenciary trail.

While pretending to be helpful, efforts they are engaged in will
never result in real harm to scientology, onl;y harm to the
principals who put their necks on the lines to expose
scientology.

THE CONFIDENCE gamer will always do things to gain your trust,
and will always seek to convince a handful of rubes, mostly
rubes who have never been entranced by scientology, they find
them easier to entrance..once having convinced a handful of
rubes, they will work through those they convince, to carry
thier message of distrust and depopularization.

Arnaldo Lerma
Lermanet.com Exposing the CON

"Michael Pattinson" posted:

It seems, according to a lawyer friend of mine, that
thehate/harassment and disinformation pages put up on Religious
Freedomwatch dot com about me may constitute a CONTINUATION by
Scientology-based entities of the fair game and intentional
infliction of emaotional distress I suffered at their hands in
the 1990s.it would also continue the fraud, as the pages contain
lies about me.

As such it may very well provide a concrete argument for tolling
(cancelleing/extending) the statute of limitations on the
Pattinson lawsuit. This lawsuit was dismissed "without
prejudice", so could be re-filed against DM and Co.

Can someone get an evidence copy of the Pattinson RFW pages
before they decide to take them down please?

Thanks!

Michael Pattinson
[e-mail address]

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> Scientology-Related Media

On July 26, 2006 the Toledo Free Press reported:

http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=3698

An airport by any other name

[...]

Thomas is certainly worthy of respect, but we should carefully
consider all the options before we re-name Toledo Express.

[...]

"- Katie Holmes Cruise Express Airport: Would it be a hassle to
have the airport re-zoned to accommodate spaceships? Would Katie
insist the airport be named the L. Ron Hubbard Space-Time
Continuum Portal to Trementina Base? Would Xenu consider a
Toledo airport named for Scientology to be a strategic target in
the battle against the Loyal Officers of the Marcab
Confederation? Maybe this is one us wogs should steer clear
of."

The Spoof reported:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i10994

Tom Cruise in Trouble With Council of Thetans

Written by Seven Sharp Pencils

Former Thetan Trainee, Tom Cruise
In a rare move, officials of the Church of Scientology have
stripped Tom Cruise of his "under-assistant junior Thetan
trainee" status. Tom Cruise is said to have irked Scientology
church officials for not selling his quota of Scientology brand
Thetan Chewable Vitamins.

"It's just not fair," complained a highly enturbulated Tom
Cruise. "I've gone on Oprah and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
and have been talking to everyone I can about the wonders these
vitamins can produce if you take them regularly. I have probably
done more to promote the sales of Thetan Chewable Vitamins than
the rest of the Hollywood Scientology congregation combined.
Besides, I'm Tom Cruise goddammit!"

Scientology church leaders are said to be considering the
ultimate punishment for the actor. Although rarely taken,
Scientology rules allow the Council of Thetans (senior
Scientology Church officials) to permanently cut off Mr.
Cruise's supply of Thetan Chewables, cancel his "clear status",
revoke his Scientology Engram Bank credit cards and repossess
his E-Meter. The practice is more or less equivalent to the
Amish practice of shunning or the Mormon and Catholic practices
of excommunication.

A Scientology expert noted however that ". unlike the Mormon and
Catholic excommunications or the Amish shunning, you don't get
your money back when the Church of Scientology kicks your ass
out of their organization. And let me tell you, the highly
gullible Mr. Cruise has invested a ton of money in his pursuit
of Pure Thetanicity."

Scientology church officials refused to discuss the matter with
reporters but did issue a terse press release regarding Tom
Cruise's current status.

"Having taken due account of the DMSMH guidelines and Mr.
Cruise's repeated violations of the KRC Triangle, the Council of
Operating Thetans concluded that there was no alternative other
than to bust his celebrity ass unless he starts selling more
vitamins. Who does he think he is, the Son of Hubbard or maybe
LRH himself?"

Clearly enturbulated by the ruling of the Council of Thetans,
former Thetan Trainee Tom Cruise was thrown into a full blown
grief charge and fled the room after making some excuse about
how he had "forgotten to take his vitamins this morning" and
wanted to go back to his hotel room to take a fistful.

The Philadelphia City Paper reported:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

http://citypaper.net/articles/2006-07-27/cover4.shtml

July 27-August 2, 2006

Cover Story

The Ugly Underneath
by Tami Fertig

[...]

Market East Station appears suddenly to the right. TV monitors
dot its walls, and people perched on oversized cubes stare at
them. Two men sit at a table topped with many copies of L. Ron
Hubbard's Dianetics . I accept their free stress test, and
Charles, a 70-year-old construction worker with dirty
fingernails and stale breath, instructs me to put down my drink.
After vigorously rubbing my hands between his (he explains that
they need to be warm for the test to work, and I make a mental
note to wash my hands), he gives me two metal cylinders, which
are hooked up to the stress machine. Gripping the cylinders, I
think about life, and the little needle inside the machine moves
to the right or left, depending on whether the subject stresses
me out (right), or I'm in denial that the subject stresses me
out (left). Charles tries getting me to name people that I hate,
but I can't come up with any. The needle moves to the left. We
half-heartedly discuss jobs and friends before Charles pulls out
the literature. "Did
you know Tom Cruise couldn't read or write before he discovered
Scientology?" he asks.

Message ID: OYLxg.2249$9d6....@newsfe08.phx
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--end

Best wishes,
Andreas Heldal-Lund # home.online.no/~heldal # www.xenu.net
Ph: +47 8800 6666 # Addr: Postboks 131, N-4098 Tananger, Norway
---------------------------------------------------------------
Each of us does what we can do. Our obligation is to do it as
well as we can, with as much grace, dignity, integrity and
honor our egos can tolerate.
-------------------------------------[Robert Vaughn Young]-----

banchukita

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Jul 30, 2006, 4:06:30 PM7/30/06

Andreas, is WiR back? Has it been around all along and I just lost
track?

-maggie, human being

Andreas Heldal-Lund - www.xenu.net

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Jul 30, 2006, 4:17:13 PM7/30/06

Maggie,

On 30 Jul 2006 13:06:30 -0700, "banchukita"

<banch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Andreas, is WiR back? Has it been around all along and I just lost
>track?

Yes, it's been back for some time now:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/

banchukita

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Jul 30, 2006, 5:17:12 PM7/30/06

Andreas Heldal-Lund - www.xenu.net wrote:

> Maggie,
>
> On 30 Jul 2006 13:06:30 -0700, "banchukita"
> <banch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >Andreas, is WiR back? Has it been around all along and I just lost
> >track?
>
> Yes, it's been back for some time now:
>
> http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/

Awesome! Thanks. I guess I lost track when Rod stopped it. My thanks to
the anonymous person who took over, they're doing a great job.

Since I read through Google, there's a lot I can miss. WiR makes it
easy to catch up.

-maggie, human being

information

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Aug 1, 2006, 8:28:31 AM8/1/06

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http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=1760

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http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html?pg=1&topic=spamking&topic_set=

[...]

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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2111961,00.html

[...]

Being informed about Scientology

Critical view

Louisa Schaefer

http://www.studytech.org/study_tech.php

CONCLUSION
http://www.studytech.org/study_tech5.php

[...]

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> Cult Propaganda and Harassment

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#####

http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4083734

[...]

"Susan" posted:

http://bosvideoap.co.la.ca.us/mgasp/lacounty/BroadbandSettings.asp

http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4094184

"Barbara Graham" wrote:

Editor,

http://www.lermanet.com/patti-pieniadz/#narconon

"Patty Pieniadz" posted:

Dear

The Narconon Success Rate.

http://www.lermanet.com/patti-pieniadz/#narconon

"Zinj" posted:

http://www.xenutv.com/print/newkirk/
http://xenutv.com/print/newkirk/narconon-46.htm

[...]

http://www.avpress.com/n/26/0726_s6.hts

Source:
http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=31764&format=html

Wednesday July 26, 2006

Source: http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4094184

[...]

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> Henson Case Memorandum

[...]

In re:

KEITH HENSON, Debtor.

Plaintiffs, vs.

Mondo snip

Keith Henson

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[...]

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> Ways to Get Involved

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060722/NEWS01/607220313/1002

http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4083734

http://www.NarcononExposed.org

and

http://Stop-Narconon.org/

AJ Simkatu

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> What is Dead Agenting?

Patrick L. Humphrey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversy#.22Dead_agenting.22

Simkatu
http://PerkinsTragedy.org

"Patrick Humphrey" wrote:

"Graham Berry" replied:

[...]

"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:

http://www.lermanet.com/LRonHubbard.htm

These were LIES

"Michael Pattinson" posted:

Thanks!

Michael Pattinson
[e-mail address]

#####

> Scientology-Related Media

http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=3698

[...]

The Spoof reported:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i10994

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

http://citypaper.net/articles/2006-07-27/cover4.shtml

July 27-August 2, 2006

Cover Story

[...]

--end

--
PETITION: http://new.PetitionOnline.com/gogology/petition.html
(to get scientology forbidden - faire interdire la scientologie)

John

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Aug 2, 2006, 2:48:59 AM8/2/06

"information" <nocommu...@nocommunication.org> wrote in message
news:44cf...@news2.lightlink.com...
>
>
snip

>
> Being informed about Scientology
>
> German Scientology spokeswoman Sabine Weber told Der Spiegel that "for
> years, one
> lie after the other has been spread about Scientology."

It's good to see that the CoS representitives keep abreast of the
scientology mailouts.

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