Scientology critic leaves country before deportation
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Scientology critic leaves country before deportation
By Susan Gamble
Local News - Friday, September 16, 2005 @ 01:00
Keith Henson -- the anti-Scientologist engineer who ran to Canada from foes in the U.S. --
lost his fight to stay in this country last week.
He was to be deported on Wednesday.
But Henson refused to co-operate with plans that called for him to be transferred at the
border and, instead, quietly left Brantford on Tuesday, without an escort.
"I'm not going to be shoved across the border into the hands of Scientologists," Henson
said last week as he began packing.
"I'll go to the border somewhere else, hand in my papers and disappear, preferably to a
state where you can legitimately shoot bounty hunters."
Henson believes he has valid reason for his concerns.
For years, Henson sniped against and picketed Scientologist in California, ending up in
court cases but with a huge following on the Internet.
He came to Canada in 2001 after being bankrupted by his fight -- which cost the
Scientologists $1.4 million -- convicted of interfering with a religion and sentenced to
the maximum of a year in jail. Henson chose to skip to Canada.
The Scientologists, he says, labelled him a child molester and a self-proclaimed bomb
expert, comparing him to bomber Timothy McVeigh, and says they hinted that he wouldn't
survive jail.
Scientologists tipped off Toronto-area police about the "dangerous fugitive" in 2001 which
led to a bizarre SWAT-like take-down at a mall where Henson was arrested and held in
maximum security for 12 days.
If I could cut back on a monthly expense, it would be .
He's been quietly living in Brantford, waiting for results of his request to become a
refugee here. He was officially turned down at the end of 2004, but Henson continued to
hope that raising the issue politically might save him from a return to the U.S.
"I simply think that if I go across the border as planned, the Scientologists would meet
me," Henson said last week.
He fears what could happen to a vocally anti-Scientologist critic put in a California
jail.
But Henson had no fears of arrest by the U.S. authorities at the border.
"They're not interested in me at all. I've got a clear record with the FBI and I'm not
being extradited, just deported."
Henson's wife, Arel Lucas came to Canada legitimately and eventually got a job here.
But she wasn't remaining in Canada while Henson got the boot.
"We were settled here and this is where we've been living for almost three years," Lucas
said as she took pictures down from the wall of her and Henson's Henry Street apartment.
"This fight has ruined us financially. They (Scientologists) have made it as tough for us
as they possibly could."
At one point, when immigration officers came for a surprise interview with Lucas, they
told her it was in response to an anonymous tip.
Lucas seemed resigned as she packed last week.
"For much of my life I've lived on the edge of something," she said grimly. "But it's
getting stressful at my age living in a situation where we don't know what will happen."
The Scientologists are suing Lucas for her half of her and Henson's former home in the
U.S. as part of her husband's bankruptcy proceedings.
"I feel we should be standing up to (them) because, when you talk to former members who
have lost everything, we know they're the people we're fighting for," said Lucas.
Pat Felske, a Scientologist spokesperson from the Toronto branch of the group said
Thursday she was pleased to hear Henson has complied with the deportation order.
"We trust he'll report to the appropriate authorities in the U.S. and take responsibility
for his actions and not remain a criminal fugitive from justice," Felske said.
"I'd like to see him resolve matters."Henson was working locally with a temporary permit
while his case was evaluated.
He was preparing to do some work for local businessman Frank Hader when he had to leave
Brantford.
"I'm in the electronics business and it's difficult to find a good engineer," Hader
complained Wednesday.
"Here we've got someone who can contribute to things and we escort them to the border. He'
s a brilliant engineer."
But Henson didn't get escorted to the border.
Because he opted to cross on his own terms, he may have a problem, should he ever return
to this country.
Anna Pate, a spokesperson for the Canadian Border Services Agency, the group that enforces
deportations, says that without an escort taking Henson to the border, there's no proof he
left the country.
"Generally speaking, when you have a deportation order," said Pate, "if it's not
confirmed, it's not considered enforced. So a warrant could be issued and if he comes
back, he could be arrested."
Henson wouldn't say where he was headed, although he admitted that Arizona was a good
possibility due to the tough laws about bounty hunters.
"I would fear bounty hunters."
He's leaving behind a criminal case that he began after a private investigator bumped
Henson with his van. The P.I. had been following Henson and videotaping him.
The engineer worked hard to find who had hired the P.I. but was stalled after finding the
investigator had been contracted by yet another private investigation firm.
He's hoping the Crown attorney will continue to pursue the assault charges, even though
Henson has left the country.
The engineer chuckled at the irony of his situation.
"Consider the guy who's a terrorist who's been living here for years! They're getting rid
of me and I'm actually useful!"
The Expositor has not been able to contact Henson or Lucas since their departure on
Tuesday.
© 2005, OSPREY Media Group Inc.
Gerry Armstrong
Good move Keith, and shame on Canada!
Scientology is a murderous philosophy. Stay out of their sights as
long as possible.
As soon as it's safe for you, get the Fed to contact me, because I
have the key to your unraveling the evil that the Miscavige cultists
have perpetrated against you.
Vaja con Dios, Keith and Arel.
Gerry and Caroline
© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org
roger gonnet
"Gerry Armstrong" <ge...@gerryarmstrong.org> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:45:58 GMT, "Feisty" <su...@skytoday.com> wrote:
>
>>http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=125923&catname=Local+News
>>
>>Scientology critic leaves country before deportation
>>
>>© 2005, OSPREY Media Group Inc.
>
> Good move Keith, and shame on Canada!
>
> Scientology is a murderous philosophy. Stay out of their sights as
> long as possible.
>
> As soon as it's safe for you, get the Fed to contact me, because I
> have the key to your unraveling the evil that the Miscavige cultists
> have perpetrated against you.
>
> Vaja con Dios, Keith and Arel.
yes. I don't understand what sort of handlings behind the scenes the scam
cultists have done behind Keith's back. I hope there is some sort of access to
his files so as to know what sort of crimes the cultists did perform to get him
ousted.
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Mike O'Connor
"Feisty" <su...@skytoday.com> wrote:
> "I simply think that if I go across the border as planned, the
> Scientologists would meet me," Henson said last week.
You bet your life they would have. I hope you'll let us all know you're
safe.
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ASK THEM ABOUT XENU
Remember Lisa McPherson
Mike O'Connor
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Fredric L. Rice
>In article <qLoXe.258$Vz7...@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>,
> "Feisty" <su...@skytoday.com> wrote:
>> "I simply think that if I go across the border as planned, the
>> Scientologists would meet me," Henson said last week.
>You bet your life they would have. I hope you'll let us all know you're safe.
Keith would be dead right now, I honestly believe. Kobrin, Moxon, DeMoss,
one of their profoundly insane criminals would have murdered him the first
chance they got, in my opinion. Anyone who thinks they're infested with
invisible murdered space aliens are _profoundly_ insane, dangerous, and
potential killers, paranoids who wouldn't stop at murdering their enemies,
real or imagined -- we all remember Koos and we can all see Psycho Barb,
and we all remember the Scientology kooks that set fire to their own
businesses and shot up their own fellow followers. Scientoloyy makes its
insane customers even morer insane -- violently insane, killing insane.
If the Scientology crooks ever find him, he'll live a shorter time than
they gave Lisa McPherson, I'd expect.
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John Dorsay
> In article <qLoXe.258$Vz7...@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>,
> "Feisty" <su...@skytoday.com> wrote:
>
>> "I simply think that if I go across the border as planned, the
>> Scientologists would meet me," Henson said last week.
>
> You bet your life they would have. I hope you'll let us all know you're
> safe.
I do not know where Keith is (nor do I want to know) but I have been
in regular contact with him since he left the country. He and Arel
both report they are safe.
John
Michael Pattinson
*************
I wish them both safety and peace of mind.
I also do not doubt that Keith was slated for murder if he ever went
into prison. The cult would pay some criminal's family big bucks to
have an inmate do the dirty work.
He is wise to stay away from the risk to his life that Scientology's
criminal lawyers gang and the dwarf tyrant pose.