SCIENTOLOGY'S CORRUPTION OF THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM.Part I.
GrahamEB
To Scientology's Corruption of the
United States Government and Its Legal System
First, allow me state a legal disclaimer. The things that I am about to
tell you are only my own, personal opinions based upon my own personal
experience and knowledge. The Church of Scientology will have its own, separate
opinions and explanations, both as to me personally and as to my opinions
expressed below.
Scientology is America's own Taliban. It may not be destroying America by
crashing planes into buildings. Nevertheless, it is destroying America,
family-by-family and individual-by-individual.
President Carter was the last American President who did anything to try
and stop Scientology from carrying out its corruption and crime. Under
President Carter, the Church of Scientology's leadership was convicted of
conducting the largest ever known criminal infiltration of the United States
government. Subsequent American administrations have each refused to
investigate the massive evidence of Scientology's crimes, frauds and its
unrelenting "psycho-terrorism." The official position is that Scientology
cannot be investigated because it is a "church". Officials also say that an
investigation would be messy, time consuming and controversial. As we all know,
politicians prefer power and campaign money to conscience and controversy.
Scientology is a small but powerful cult, which masquerades as a peaceful
church. In reality, Scientology is the most dangerous of all of the mind
control groups as well as being the most dangerous of the over 600 cults
operating in both Europe and the United States. It is a common terrorist threat
to both continents. Scientology uses its founder, L. Ron Hubbard's,
pseudo-scientific technology, mental manipulation and mind-control techniques
to extract vast sums of money from its victims. It sells them "self help" type
courses on what it calls the "Bridge to Total Freedom." It uses trade secret
processes, and secret "unpublished" copyrighted materials in both dangerous
medical practices and switch and bait type financial frauds.
Scientology aggressively enforces these "trade secrets" and copyrights
with armies of lawyers, litigation wars of attrition, and tax-exempt litigation
budgets that exceed $ 40 million USD per year. Government officials and judges
are intimidated, corrupted and compromised. "Noisy investigations," defamation,
harassment and blackmail are frequently the Church of Scientology's weapons of
destruction. Often Scientology, through its Office of Special affairs or "OSA,"
does not even have to harass or intimidate a government official or judge. Past
examples of its massive abuse of the legal system and government officials are
well known and quietly spoken of. Most judges and public officials appear to
conclude that complying with the demands of lawyers and lobbyists for the
Church of Scientology is easier and safer than risking their own personal
destruction by Scientology as a form of revenge. In effect, a judge will allow
Scientology to victimize the litigant who is before the court rather than they
themselves risking becoming another victim of Scientology. A cartoon in the
Washington Post newspaper once demonstrated the evil choice. The cartoonist
drew a Church of Scientology representative meeting with a United States
Senator. The cartoon caption read, "Mr. Senator, will you co-operate with us or
will we destroy you?" This dark side of the Church of Scientology may sound as
if it were from the science fiction. However, I know from my own experience
that the dark side of Scientology is true.
Ten years ago I knew nothing of the Church of Scientology. When I was told
of it I immediately thought of the Christian Scientists. I was wrong. I have
learned that the Church of Scientology intends to destroy the Christian
Scientists, the Roman Catholics, the Lutherans and all of the world's religions
and governments. One year ago, Scientology's lawyers renewed the copyright on
its confidential document entitled "Targets Defense." They did this in
Washington, DC. In this United States government protected document, all
Scientologists are ordered to take over the heads of all of the governments,
businesses and the news media. Europe has the historical experience, national
maturity and perceptive vision to stop this new totalitarism and to stop it
now. Typically, the United States is ignoring the lessons of the past until
they repeat themselves anew with devastating tragedy. Meanwhile, Scientology
corrupts and infiltrates America's governments, courts and businesses. Power,
money and public opinion polls come before protecting individual citizens and
victims from "psycho-terror" and injustice.
I am now a victim of the Church of Scientology and of American injustice.
My home, career and car have been taken from me by Scientology. I now live on
State of California general relief payments of $221 USD per month. My work and
travel, such as this, is paid for anonymously by concerned citizens living in
fear of the Scientology organization. However, ten years ago I was an affluent
lawyer in a big Los Angeles law firm. I was part of a legal team that defended
other lawyers being sued for professional negligence. I believed that lawyers
and judges should always do the right and proper thing no matter what the
personal costs. I had learned that putting one's personal interests before
those of a client or litigant was a conflict of interest. Ten years later, the
Church of Scientology has destroyed my career and my life, as I knew it, yet I
still believe that that lawyers and judges should always do the right and
proper thing no matter what the personal costs.
In 1991, the Church of Scientology was litigating two lawsuits against Los
Angeles lawyer Joe Yanny. Yanny had been Scientology's lead copyright and trade
secrets lawyer. Yanny had stopped representing the Church when it asked him to
illegally obtain the confidential medical records of former scientologist Larry
Wollersheim's lawyer who had sued the Church of Scientology and won a judgment
of $ 30 million USD for fraud and harassment. Around the same time, in the
year 1986, Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard died under very mysterious
circumstances. Scientology's current leader, "Captain" David Miscavige, took
over the church in a putsch. Miscavige dealt ruthlessly with Hubbard's heirs,
designated successors and potential rivals. Pat and Annie Broeker were
Hubbard's designated successors. Pat Broeker now lives in secret seclusion
under the watchful eye of Scientology operatives, as does Hubbard's widow.
Annie Broeker is confined at the Scientology headquarters base in the high
desert near Hemet, California. Potential leadership rivals Vicki Aznaran and
Jesse Prince were sent to the Scientology Gulag, which this "church" calls the
"Rehabilitation Project Force" or "RPF" at Happy Valley, which is also near
Hemet, California. Vicki Aznaran was kept under armed guard and spent 12 hours
a day running around a pole. She was required to run one hour one-way and one
hour the reverse. She did this for three months until she escaped. Aznaran fled
to Texas and then California, looking in vain for a lawyer to sue Scientology
for what had been done to her. Eventually, she contacted Yanny, a friend from
her days in Scientology. He had been a lawyer for Scientology so he could not
sue the church himself, instead he found another lawyer for her. Scientology
sued Yanny twice for assisting Aznaran in facing injustice. The first lawyer to
defend Yanny had a secret meeting with Scientology's lawyers and engaged in
conduct that was improper.
Yanny fired that lawyer and hired new lawyers, which included me. We
conducted a very effective defense and we won the second Yanny case. We also
successfully defended the two Yanny cases on appeal. Scientology was
particularly annoyed by the devastating manner in which I had conducted
discovery against the church, which had set the stage for Scientology's loss of
the second Yanny case.
On May 6, 1991, Time Magazine published a cover story it called
"Scientology, Thriving Cult of Greed and Power." In essence, it called the
Church of Scientology a "ruthless global scam." The Church of Scientology sued
Time Magazine and lost and continued to lose all of the way to United States
Supreme Court. It has been reported that the case cost Time Magazine $20 M USD.
The Time Magazine article included a statement that Scientology had been
involved in financial fraud, instructions to commit murder and orders to commit
suicide. Scientology sued the Time Magazine sources Stephen Fishman & Uwe
Geertz for defamation. Fishman was a former Scientologist as well as having
been a Scientology secret operative. Dr. Geertz was his German born
psychologist. I led a team of lawyers, and former Scientologist experts, and we
produced evidence that scientology had indeed been involved in fraud,
instructions to commit murder and suicide. There was evidence that
Scientology's lawyer, Kendrick Moxon, and Scientology's chief investigator,
Eugene Ingram, had been involved in instructions to murder two opponents. There
was also evidence that during the Wollersheim case, Scientology lawyer Moxon
had been involved in the drowning of the trial judge's dog. Later, the
Scientology organization claimed that therefore the trial judge must have been
biased and prejudiced against it. We served subpoenas for the depositions, or
questioning under oath, of a number of Scientology celebrities including John
Travolta and Kelly Preston. We also served deposition notices upon the entire
upper management of the church and its leader Captain Miscavige. The court
ordered all of the depositions to go forward despite the vigorous opposition of
Scientology's lawyers. Rather than comply with the court orders, Scientology
dismissed the Fishman-Geertz case several weeks before the trial. The court
ruled that Fishman and Geertz had won the case.
During the Fishman case, we had filed over forty affidavits containing evidence
of Scientology's concentration camps in America, its heavily armed
headquarters, dangerous mental manipulation, mind control, murders, induced
suicides, compulsory abortions, financial fraud and tax fraud. There was
evidence that this tax fraud involved the actor Tom Cruise and his then wife
Nicole Kidman. The evidence included the Church of Scientology's expensive
"trade secrets" explaining its "religious" dogma that our human bodies are
infested with the spirits of dead space aliens.
The Church of Scientology then attempted to have me agree to have this
evidence recanted. I refused. Two church executives then offered former
Scientologists Robert Vaughn Young and his then wife Stacy Brooks $200,000 USD
each to recant their testimony and to testify that I had suborned perjury by
them. They refused and testified as to the criminal conduct the church was
engaging in. Former Scientologist Andre Tabayoyan was threatened and offered
$25,000 USD to recant his testimony in the Fishman case and to accuse me of
suborning perjury. He also refused and testified as to this version of what had
happened. Scientology lawyers flew a former Scientology secret agent from
Florida to California and had him recant his Fishman-Geertz case testimony on
videotape and to accuse me of having suborned his perjury. Several weeks later,
Scarff thought better of this criminal conduct and obstruction of justice and
testified as to what had just happened. The United States Department of Justice
refused to investigate. It stated that it lacked the resources to investigate
crime on this magnitude. As L. Ron Hubbard once wrote, the more outrageous the
church's conduct the less likely it will be believed, investigated and
prosecuted.
Scientology repeatedly asked the Fishman court to seal all of this damaging
evidence and the supporting documents, and to keep them from the public. The
courts repeatedly refused. So the Church of Scientology decided to remove the
lawyers who were defending the Fishman case. Scientology and its lawyers found
a former acquaintance of mine a Robert Cipriano. They discovered that there was
an arrest warrant for him in another state. Scientology blackmailed Cipriano
into signing a false affidavit stating that I was a child molester with 40-60
victims in one 6-month period. They published this perjury on the Internet and
to my professional colleagues and friends all over America and around the
world. Then they investigated several senior partners of my law firm. They
discovered things that they threatened to publish unless I was stopped from
being the defense lawyer in the Fishman-Geertz case. Without my knowledge, my
senior partner entered into a secret agreement with the Church of Scientology.
My senior law partner and the Church of Scientology stole the client's files.
Because there was no longer any defense lawyer, the Scientology lawyers were
able to have the court order the Fishman-Geertz court records sealed from
public and media access. Dr. Geertz complained to the California State Bar. It
did no investigation at all, denied Dr. Geertz's complaint and remarkably said
that none of the lawyers had done anything wrong.
Despite the Scientology blackmail and extortion that resulted in the
United States Federal court sealing the Fishman-Geertz court records, many of
the damaging affidavits still ended up on the Internet. One of the affidavits
was the Fishman Declaration, which included Scientology's secret upper levels
dealing with the evil ruler Xenu, and the spirits of dead space aliens that
infest our bodies, which the Church of Scientology calls "Body Thetans" or
"BTs".
Scientology then misled three federal judges into issuing special orders
permitting the Church of Scientology, accompanied by armed United States
federal marshals, to raid the homes of a number of its critics. Computers and
books were seized. There were a number of lawsuits in three different states.
These were the first major American Internet cases. One of these cases was the
FactNet case in which I was one of the defense counsel. This case was
eventually settled.
Another of these cases involved Keith Henson. Henson is a computer
engineer who has now fled America to seek political asylum in Canada. Henson
was never a Scientologist but he was outraged that the Church of Scientology
was misusing copyright and trade secret laws to suppress free speech on the
Internet and to prevent public and government knowledge of the unlawful
practice of medicine by the Church of Scientology.
Henson posted a copyrighted Scientology document on the Internet. It is
called NOTS 34 and it describes how the Scientology E-meter, its religious
artifact, is to be used to "handle" a physical condition or illness. The United
States government specifically forbids this. The Church of Scientology sued
Henson for breach of copyright. Henson defended himself and lost the case.
Henson then hired me to be his lawyer to defend him as to the amount of damages
to be awarded Scientology for Henson's copyright breach. The jury awarded the
Church of Scientology $75,000 USD. The Wall Street Journal newspaper then
published an editorial stating that the judge had turned copyright law on its
head. The church then asked the court to award costs of $900,000 USD against me
claiming that it had needed to use 28 lawyers at a cost of over $ 1.5 million
USD to successfully oppose me in court for one week. I had charged Henson
merely $5,000 USD. The court denied the church's request. Henson filed for
bankruptcy as he has few available assets, which the Church of Scientology will
never get. Despite that, in nearly four years Scientology has spent over $ 1M
USD on teams of expensive lawyers from all over the United States to block his
bankruptcy. They have also used church operatives to harass and terminate the
employment he and his wife have tried to obtain.
Once unemployed, Henson then spent his time picketing the church at
several of its locations. Scientology responded with six lawsuits to try and
prevent Henson from exercising his constitutional rights of free speech and
protest. I appeared for Henson in three of these lawsuits, which we won. Last
year, the sixth such lawsuit was tried in Hemet, California. Henson had been
picketing the church's heavily armed and guarded base near Hemet. The church
had Henson arrested and jailed. It claimed that his solitary picketing was
terrorizing the church and interfering with the practice of a religion. The
local California police refused to prosecute but Scientology sent lawyers from
New York and Washington to "persuade" the District Attorney to ignore the
police and to prosecute Henson.The District Attorney was running for
re-election and agreed to prosecute Henson with the assistance of Scientology
lawyers from New York and Los Angeles. The trial judge was manipulated and
misled, Henson was denied an effective defense; he was convicted and sentenced
to year in prison. Henson then learned that Scientology agents were spreading
rumors in prison that Henson was coming to prison and that he was a child
molester. Child molesters are despicable people and they are often assaulted
and even killed in prison in the United States.
To avoid being imprisoned under these circumstances, Henson fled to Canada.
Henson is a smallish 60-year-old grandfather who has no other convictions and
no record of violence. Scientology told the Toronto police that Henson was an
armed and dangerous terrorist. The Toronto SWAT team, all prepared for a
machine gun shoot out, took Henson and his Canadian host down with an awesome
display of firepower. Henson spent a week in a Toronto jail. He was denied his
blood pressure medication. Eventually, Henson was released on bail and he
applied for political asylum in Canada. Predictably, Scientology is now
providing the language for the Canadian immigration minister's decisions and
Henson now looks to Europe for human rights and protection from Scientology's
corruption of the North American courts and governments.
Magoo
Thank you for taking the time to write all of this up. Good God...
I knew you had quite a history with C oF S...but I had ~NO~ idea.
You may have already posted who we should write to re this, but if so, can
you re-post it? I know it may seem "impossible"....but one never knows when
'someone' may hear.
Most people may know this already, but politicians consider EACH letter
written to them equal to 100 letters. So if many of us got to writing.....it
may bring the correct amount of light to this totally
dark and evil subject.
Thanks again...
Tory/Magoo~!
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Karl
Scientology. Any count ot list of names of current hollywood types that
are still in?
Karl Chase
Human Rights Defense (ShyDavid)
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