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
(310) 745-3771
grahambe...@comcast.net