Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33263 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Path: utcsri!utnut!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!av282 From: av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt) Subject: Re: What is Scientology? Message-ID: Sender: av282@freenet.carleton.ca (Martin G. V. Hunt) Reply-To: av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet References: <199502221905.LAA26633@infinity.c2.org> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:34:39 GMT Lines: 198 In a previous posting, Anonymous User (nobody@c2.org) writes: > In the light of recent events, a group of us are discussing Scientology. > Could someone from the Church post a short summary of what it is? > > Perhaps there is a FAQ for this group? > > TIA > > --------------------------- What is Scientology --------------------------- Scientology is a dangerous, mindbending cult that was established in the 1950's by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and presents a grave threat to the concepts and tenets of freedom and democracy. Scientology has, as its basic purpose, the destruction of freedom and the erosion of human rights on the way to making money; it uses any means possible to achieve this end, including legal harassment, verbal and physical threats, hiding under the cover of "religion", and thought reform so complete that to talk to anyone brainwashed by the cult is to talk to little more than the mouthed platitudes of mechanical zombies. Scientology has evolved its own language that is little more than meaningless, incomprehensible ravings to rational, educated minds. This newspeak is a form of semantic control, used by the church to extract profit, either in money or personnel resources from its hapless, brainwashed victims and to serve PR functions to fool the public. Scientology is a totalitarian and fascist system that sees freedom of speech as an arch enemy, and freedom of thought as a personal attack, deserving of every means to stop it dead, sometimes literally. An example of this newspeak is the unfounded claim by the cult to be a "church"; Scientology is a cult, not a church. Based on science fiction and fantasy, the cult's teachings are little more than a thinly concealed attempt at making huge sums of money for the people at the top of the cult. Near the end of his life, Ronald Hubbard was reported to be making as much as one million dollars per week. Hubbard is documented as having said that the best way to make a lot of money is to invent a religion, and that is exactly what he did with the cult of Scientology. A mainstay of the cult's writings are based upon a kind of pseudo-science that gives one the clear impression that it is the 1930's. Many of these writings talk down to their audience as if they were wholly ignorant of basic facts about geology, biology, medicine, and other branches of general knowledge and science. The lamentable truth is that the cult's brainwashed victims are actually willing to defend these bits of fantasy as established scientific fact, against all reason and logic; one such delusion is "auditing". In "auditing", Scientology charges huge amounts of money to hook the indoctrinees up to a crude resistor-based bridge ohmmeter and ask bizarre questions about what supposedly happened to them millions, billions or even trillions of years ago on this and other planets. This "treatment" (also called "metering" by the cult) is supposed to cure all manner of ailments, both physical and psychological, for astronomical prices. The total cost of going from "raw meat", as the cult disparagingly calls the public, to "OT-8" is estimated to cost over 250,000.00$ US. The cult also uses another form of this "auditing" process, called "security-checking" to obtain very personal information about the follower's sex lives and criminal history (if any), which is then used for security purposes as potential blackmail to keep people quiet about the illegal activities of the cult should they ever escape its semantic entrapment long enough to resume their former lives. The litigious nature of the controversial cult of Scientology is well known and reported in the literature on this dangerous cultic phenomenon. Scientologists have, as one of their basic policies, the destruction of anyone who is perceived by this paranoid schizophrenic organization as being an "enemy", and baseless lawsuits, sometimes involving frames, are used for this purpose. An enemy is anyone who, in the eyes of the cult, denigrates the cult in any way; thus critics are subject to multitudes of frivolous lawsuits, threats, strong-arm tactics, and outright physical attacks. For this reason, suggestions have been put forward to ban Scientology from the courts for barratrous abuses. Scientology, while trying desperately to maintain a PR facade of sweetness and light, in reality call their public by such derogatory names as "raw meat", "bodies", and "WOGs"; these same people are thought to be so inconsequential to the cult that they are "body routed" into the organization, as they are thought to have no self determination or free will whatsoever, and thus no rights. The "raw meat" are fit for little more than indoctrination using simple hand motions like the children's game of pat-a-cake, according to the cult, as they are too far down the cult's "tone scale", a list of all the emotional states a person is capable of, to be treated as human beings. Interestingly, this "tone scale" of all human states and emotions fails to contain either happiness or freedom --- the stated goals of Hubbard's so-called "religion". The charade of hiding behind a religious cover even goes as far as installing pews and an altar in most of its buildings; however, these are seldom actually used until an investigation by a taxation branch brings down the order from above to "make this place look churchy" by using the pews and dressing up a cult indoctrinator as a "minister". Pretending to be a religion serves two purposes within the cult; escaping the charge of medical malpractice and avoiding legitimate taxation within the host country the cult has infiltrated. The hope for the future is that more countries will stand up to this tactic with protective legislation. Scientology hides behind the facade of a "religion", yet to the cult indoctrinees and those "in the know", this is merely seen as a way to avoid taxation and hassles over using the "auditing" techniques for stated medical purposes. The medical community has long been trying to curtail this cult's dangerous pseudo-medical practices, such as the "purification rundown" and the use of the "e-meter" for healing everything from backaches to bad eyesight. For this reason, the cult perceives a need to hide under the cover of religion, while at the same time calling itself a "science of mind" to gain credence on the the coattails of legitimate medicine. In addition, the cult has a policy of discrediting, attacking, and suing the medical and psychiatric communities, as they were perceived as enemies by the paranoid Hubbard; he was at one time diagnosed as being mentally unstable by a psychiatrist, and thus he conceived a hatred for the healing professions. Although the cult of Scientology often makes irrational and unscientific claims for medical treatment and healing, the reality is that these "effects" can all be easily explained by the placebo effect and by the crushing effects of complete thought reform, sleep deprivation, dietary control, semantic disturbances, and milieu control exacted by the cult on its victims. These brainwashing techniques lead the victim to "attest" to all forms of miraculous "cures"; if written "attests" are not made, then the poor "preclear" is sent off to "ethics" --- an action that every Scientologist fears. In fact, Scientology has a specific policy on people who do not "improve". They are seen as being evil, suppressive, or a source of trouble; thus if the cult's efforts fail, the "preclear" is held entirely responsible in a kind of catch-22 situation, and made even more of a victim. There are two faces to Scientology; one for public consumption, and an entirely different one, hidden from public view, for those "in the know". The public is told that Hubbard is "just a human", and that the cult does not treat of religion; but the fact is that Hubbard is known to be God once one has been brainwashed into the "upper levels". The public is given a PR story that the cult is a "religion", all the teaching are "belief", and all gains are "spiritual" in nature. Nevertheless, the indoctrinated know, or rather are brainwashed into believing, that Scientology is a workable method for treating human ailments, both medical and psychiatric, and every word of Hubbard's science-fictionlike scribblings, no matter how ludicrous, are "scientifically proven facts" referred to as "source" or, more significantly, "Source", and thoroughly researched. This "research" in fact involved Hubbard sitting down at a typewriter and writing whatever came to mind, a skill he developed while writing pulp science fiction. Scientology is well known for publishing various "codes" and "creeds" of a lofty and humanitarian nature, but the cult does not adhere to these altruistic statements in the smallest degree; they are just more PR material to make the cult look good in the eyes of a sceptical and increasingly hostile public. As time goes on, and more people lose their children, relatives, and friends to this dangerous, lawless, immoral, and litigious cult, legislation will surely be enacted in the free democratic countries of the world to limit its pernicious effect upon our society. Every time a brainwashed cultist wakes up to wonder what happened to the last few years of his or her life, and steps out of the shadows into the bracing sunlight of freedom of speech and thought, another nail is hammered into the coffin of this ugly phenomenon. The Scientology cult itself admits this; it says it has a problem with its "field" (the public) being "muddy" (hard to expand into). One can only hope that as time goes by, the cult will grow more distant from the paranoid and schizophrenic man who created it; already the cult has gone through its reformation, of sorts, as slightly more liberal minded groups have split off from the cult and set up their own operations. Former members of this cult are requested to speak out against it; tell the world the dark secrets of the "SO" and the "RPF". The SO is the Sea Org; a heavily controlled slave-like segment of the cult that signs billion year service contracts for wages lower than the average income of third-world countries. The RPF is the deceptively named Rehabilitation Project Force, a dark, secret, and hidden section of the cult used for punishing "downstat" members. Every recruit is irrationally expected to increase their production every week or they become "downstat", having falling statistics for production. The RPF is similar to a concentration camp; some of the unfortunate wights who end up here do not see the light of day for years. The RPFers for the Los Angeles Cedars of Lebanon Centre are imprisoned in cavern-like tunnels extending under the streets of Los Angeles, fed on a starvation diet of beans and rice, forced to work up to 125 hours a week, are not allowed to speak, and are dressed in filthy grey rags. There is an even darker and more secret organization for punishing "downstat" members called the "RRPF", or Ron's RPF; if anyone out there has experiences to relate of this cruel section of the cult, they are encouraged to speak out against this flagrant abuse of basic human rights. If you, the gentle reader have information of torture, inhumane treatment, murder, or other nefarious behavior or human rights abuses by this cult, then let the world know --- don't let what happened to you or people who were in the cult with you happen to another person out of ignorance of just how evil this cult really is. Fear not reprisals; people who have escaped the cult number in the hundreds of thousands! It has been estimated that there are several times more "disaffected" Scientologists than there are people trapped in the cult at present. The author of this FAQ shall, in all likelihood, be attacked by the cult for writing this, but this tactic will not serve. For the author believes so strongly in the truth that nothing shall swerve him from this path. In this world, we must fight for what we believe in; for if we turn a blind eye to the dictator or to those who would limit our freedoms, then we shall be forever on the retreat, and we shall end up having a life not worth living. Let this be a call to arms, "for we have nothing to fear but fear itself". -- Cogito, ergo sum. Martin Hunt, av282@freenet.carleton.ca & uo880@freenet.victoria.bc.ca & uu314@fim.uni-erlangen.de Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33091 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!fim.uni-erlangen.DE!ba170 From: ba170@fim.uni-erlangen.DE (Koos Nolst Trenite) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: RI-ACT-58 Erlich and Hacker ('Speaker'), Suppressives to Mankind Date: 22 Feb 1995 22:01:43 -0000 Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems. Lines: 461 Sender: daemon@cass.ma02.bull.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <9502222200.AA07141@freenet-a.fim.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: ba170@fim.uni-erlangen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: cass.ma02.bull.com 22 February 1995 RI-ACT-58 'Erlich and Hacker ('Speaker'), Suppressives to Mankind' Message #58 for Alt.Clearing.Technology on Internet from Ron's Inspector The former Las Vegas Scientology Staff Allen Hacker, calling himself the "Speaker" for his one-man Acceptance Services Mission "Group", - it consists only of one person, himself, and zero assets - has already been declared Suppressive due to his public support of the known anti-social-personality Dennis Erlich. (see RI-ACT-57, enclosed) As Allen Hacker continues to publicly support Dennis Erlich's known intentions to destroy Mankind, Allen is further restricted in the rights that are granted persons who have been officially declared Suppressive: 1. Allen may never be admitted to the Upper Levels of Scientology because of Allen's intentions to destroy Mankind. 2. Allen may never hold any position in any Church or Branch or Mission of Scientology due to his present public intention to destroy the Church, combined with his present campaign to strongly support the intentions of Dennis Erlich towards destroying Mankind. 3. Any person who actively supports Allen's current activities towards the destruction of Mankind, are to be officially declared Suppressive as well for that reason. The evidence for this Suppressive Person-declare, and consequent Suppressive Person-declares of Allen's "friends", is sufficiently abundant in the Archives of the Internet-Usenet newsgroups. These ex-Scientologists, like Allen Hacker, know very well what they are destroying, and they know very well why they are now trying to destroy Scientology and Mankind. The reason for Allen Hacker in particular, now trying to destroy Scientology and Mankind, is very well known to him, and it becomes now apparent through his actions of supporting the anti-social Dennis Erlich, that the evil of Allen is much bigger than he pretended it to be to me and others. Through Scientology truthfinding rites and practises, and through his contact with decent people in Scientology, Allen became more and more aware of himself, of his past as a spiritual being before this life, meaning earlier lives. When he then became aware of a most atrocious act he once committed with very dire consequences for a very large portion of Mankind [Mankind: ALL of the being that exist - not only the few billion on this small planet.], which HE brought about through his own stupidity, he decided, like the true psychologist he his: "If I believe that there are no evil people really, then I still can live and not die of shame." And he suddenly went out to preach that gospel, solely to not have to face his past evil to Mankind. Allen can now not stand the company of decent people anymore, and that's why he now supports the very ugly, the very evil, the very degraded. And that is why Allen Hacker ran away from Scientology, and why he is now so loudly defending the very anti-social-personality called Dennis Erlich, and why Allen is now calling that 'fighting for Freedom'. Allen is fighting for the 'freedom' to call his own destructive acts against Mankind, and to call Dennis Erlich's destructive acts against Mankind, to call these very evil acts a 'constitutional right', a 'freedom'. But sane people know that evil is NOT freedom at all. Sane people know that evil is nothing but slavery, no matter what fancy names and descriptions it is given by some very intelligent, but very insane computer-freaks on the Internet. The situation shown by Hacker and Erlich is the risk one runs in helping such psychotic people. They are intelligent, and they are very evil. (See RI-61i 'The Right to be Evil' of 16 Dec 1994) In the process of helping them, only then they become aware of their evil, of their insanity. And they start to fight, as institutional cases would do, against anyone who helped them. In such a way, in the process of helping one psychotic up to some level of awareness, you will find yourself suddenly faced with the problem of having now to fight this psychotic because he will mobilize whole armies such as 'FACTnet' and 'CAN' to stop you, not only to stop you from helping him, but ALSO to stop you from helping others who are not psychotic at all. The Church of Scientology is correctly using the law to prevent any possibility of evil use of its rites and practises by Hacker and by Erlich, and by others who fight for that evil 'freedom'. This is the responsibility of anyone who possesses knowledge, and that responsibility is, to prevent destructive use of one's knowledge. It has always been a purpose and function of laws and regulations to prevent the suppressive use of knowledge. This function was currently exerted on Dennis Erlich, who, per RI-59Ri 'How the SP Dennis Erlich believes to destroy You' of 1 Jan 1995 (enclosed), wanted to use knowledge obtained by him in order to destroy his fellow Man. Koos Nolst Trenite - Ron's Inspector Copyright 1994 by Koos Nolst Trenite reference: RI-50R-Ei 'Archives of RI-xxi and RI-ACT-xx series' of 28 Dec 1994, Revised and Replaced 13 Feb 1995 Enclosures: RI-ACT-57 'To all supporters and ... of Erlich' of 17 Feb 1995 RI-59Ri 'How the SP Erlich believes to destroy You' of 1 Jan 95 17 February 1995 RI-ACT-57 'To all supporters and friends of Dennis Erlich' Message #57 for Alt.Clearing.Technology on Internet from Ron's Inspector As Dennis Erlich is an anti-social personality, who wishes himself and all his friends only harm and nothing but harm, therefore all those who support him, are supporting an anti-social personality despite having been informed and warned extensively about Dennis Erlich's intentions. Therefore all these supporters are declared officially to be Suppressive Persons. The evidence of their support of Dennis Erlich is available from the Internet Usenet archives. This has nothing whatsoever to do with Scientology or no Scientology or a Church or no Church. It is the very simple ethics of labelling and treating the supporters and helpers of a mafia-boss as criminals. Koos Nolst Trenite - Ron's Inspector Copyright 1994 by Koos Nolst Trenite Enclosure: RI-59Ri 'How the SP Erlich believes to destroy You' of 1 Jan 95 1 January 1995 revised 8 Jan 1995 RI-59Ri 'How the SP Dennis Erlich believes to destroy You' from Ron's Inspector Message # RI-59Ri for Internet (Revised to add 'the SP' into the title, and to shorten the data about E-meter-reactions.) This is describing the actual intention of "Reverend" of no church 'Dennis Erlich' (on the Internet Newsgroup); the intention behind his postings to you, of scraps of the OT-materials he stole, as described BY HIMSELF to an OT, today in an auditing session, given to you here verbatim from the worksheets. (The data revealed in HCO Security Checks are not confidential. They are used to detect hidden crimes, and the data is used by the group to stop the crimes and to apply group-justice to the criminal, based on what he actually did, rather than on what others believe or are led to believe he did. The purpose is to have real justice both for the criminal and for the groupmembers that have been affected by his crimes.) (The abbreviations LFBD and F/N designate reactions on the E-meter, indicating mental charge (LFBD) and release of charge completed (F/N). A fixed non-survival solution is called a SERVICE FACsimile.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- OT HCO SEC CHECK ON DENNIS ERLICH 1 January 1995 (Reported per HCOPL 'CONFESSIONALS - ETHICS REPORTS REQUIRED') 1 Jan 1995 Total hours: 1:13 min 1 January 1995...................................hours: 1:13 min [Dennis Erlich] with an evil degrader-snide 'smile' LFBD: "You are only waiting for me to divulge [to you the] secrets of the OT-levels! "Everybody does [wait for me]! "Admit it! "I am going to thwart your sense of ethics! "This is the dope I am 'getting you' with! "You are curious, you want to know what's in it! Confess! "You want to know what you will find on the OT-levels! "I want to make you reach for the dope I have. "That's how I dominate you as well as everybody else. "I make you reach and what you reached for and get, shall be so repulsive to you that you wished you had never reached! But now as you have reached and did read the contents [of a tiny bit of the confidential material which I posted on the Internet]. I got you! "You will ramble on with it [keep thinking of it], [you will] try to run it. It will keep you occupied and reeling for quite some time, I can restimulate you with it, I can control you with it [I can] keep you reeling by [you reading] it, restimulate [you] without running out what is restimulated. "I can create confusion for you by it, as well as for others. "It's not only for YOU [to restimulate YOU]! LFBD "I CAN PIN PEOPLE DOWN BY IT, WITHOUT OFFERING THEM RELIEF. And I can make them REJECT Scientology, when they found it repulsive and confusing enough what I restimulated through posting OT confidential material. "So I can destroy beings and I can destroy Scientology, [I can] make Scientology a repulsive subject. "AND THAT's HOW I CONTROL PEOPLE OR BEINGS OR SOULS. THAT's MY GAME! "A few stolen pages of otherwise strictly confidential material, and it gives me power! "I can create quite some effects by [you reading] it! "I want to make you reeling. I want to put pressure on you. And the trick is, I do not even have to do very much of innovation myself: what can be restimulated [in people] is all there already [in their reactive mind when they are not yet Clear or OT themselves]! "Good to know! "[WHEN] YOU ARE REELING, THINK-THINK-THINK, NO SOLUTION AHEAD, AND WITH OTHERS THE SAME, THAT's WHAT I WANT! "Everybody getting crazy, running around wild, not knowing what to do with a Dennis Erlich, that's really being in control! LFBD F/Nind "They can't get me!" F/Nind [Auditor:] F/N on the item (on the item dramatized here). (End of this HCO Sec Check Session) Total TA-Motion 4.2 in 1 hr and 13 min. Now I, Koos, can tell you this about it: As you can see from the above account from Dennis Erlich, he has, as David Miscavige and Napoleon and Hitler and any other SP, exactly the opposite intentions towards you and towards Mankind from those which he STATES in his postings. He says he brings 'freedom' to the Free Zone, whereas in actual fact he knowingly intends slavery and restimulation and confusion to anyone not in the Church of Scientology. If you want to make a study of a very standard anti-social Suppressive Person, then study Dennis Erlich. He is a brilliant example, as we all know, of the rule that the more abusive of LRH someone is, the more suppressive and anti-social that person is. Very simple rule, proven over and over to be correct. Dennis Erlich has very correctly been thrown out of the Church of Scientology, (thrown out by Ray Mithoff, I believe). You are lucky enough that there IS spiritual repair from the damage done or intended to you by Dennis Erlich available to you from Advanced Organisations of Scientology, though I would personally not like to give such repair to those who keep any ties of friendship to the SP Dennis Erlich (other than by the FRIENDLY act of treating him as an enemy, as Fair Game, per RI-58i 'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 1995, which is attached). I also would not like to give such repair to FACTNET-people or others, like Deirdre, unless they stop their pretense of bringing Freedom, a pretense which is the same as Dennis Erlich's pretense - which is solely to cover up the actual true intentions he himself stated now about himself, in the same way as the late Miscavige stated his actual intentions to me which I published in these RI-series, earlier. SP's are SP's - they aren't very much different from SP to SP. Koos Nolst Trenite - Ron's Inspector Copyright 1995 by Koos Nolst Trenite Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33182 Path: utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!peernews.demon.co.uk!replay.com!nobody Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: nobody@replay.com (Name withheld by request) Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited. X-Warning: This message was forwarded by an Anonymous Remailer. X-Comment: Replay does not necessarily approve of the contents of this posting. X-Comment: Please report inappropriate use to Subject: A Scientific Scrutiny of OT3 X-Posting-Host: xs1.xs4all.nl Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 01:57:16 +0000 Message-ID: <199502230147.AA28372@xs1.xs4all.nl> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 326 2.3 Other Information given 2.3.1 The search for explosion traces It happens that earth scientists are interested in and searching for locations and sizes of asteroid impacts in the geological record. Interest is fuelled partly by a conjecture that asteroid impacts can cause continent-splitting and affect the pattern of mantle convection, partly by the effort to establish causes of mass extinctions at various times. Impact traces and craters are located in several ways: visible signs of cratering: satellite and other remote sensing [15]: shocked quartz grains and impact ejecta [16]: gravimetric surveys [17]: electric resistivity [18]. There has been little cratering evidence found for around 75 M.y. ago, the closest being the Iowa crater (35 Km across), recently redated at 73.8 M.y. [20], 2 others listed for 74-78 M.y. are Eagle Butte (10 km) and Dumas (2 km). It is estimated that there should have been approximately 350 impacts over the past 100 m.y. with sufficient kinetic energy to produce craters greater than 10 km in diameter, however only a few dozen are currently known [21]. This gives some indication of the difficulty in locating explosion traces. The picture may soon change if extensive gravimetric mapping gets under way, since craters buried by up to a kilometre of sediments can be detected by that means. Considering Hubbard's claim of widespread H-bombing at many more volcanoes than the ones he lists, the search for but lack of explosion evidence for the time of interest indicates either that they didn't happen at all, or were concealed - perhaps through being exploded by near-to-erupting volcanoes. Since most of the sites he names for H bombing didn't exist at the time, any claim that volcanism masked the effects is in any case, untenable. 2.3.2 Human and other life 75M.y. ago In his OT3 statement Hubbard listed earth as one of the 76 or so planets ruled by Xenu that were suffering human overpopulation 11th November 1994 - 10 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. Earth's population in the 1990s is about 5<< billions, so that if there were an average population of 178 billions 75 M.y. ago, then population density would have been about 30 times greater than now. Let us now make a thought experiment: Here was a massive human population on earth, and scientists of today very eager to trace the earliest possible signs for past human existence. Why then do we hear no reports of finding rubbish dumps, roads, houses, or other human remains or traces of any sort whatsoever? Why on the contrary do we find evidence of dinosaurs, whose remains and prints are regularly found in rock strata dated to the end of the Cretaceous, and whose existence was incompatible with such a massive human population? Why do we not see mass extinctions of species happening at 75 M.y. ago due to human foraging, pollution and warfare, when evidence is that species persisted or gradually declined through that time and only suffered mass extinctions at 65 M.y. ago? (and also in the 20th Century, alas). The oldest trace of human existence or remains found so far are Homo Habilis, Malawi, dated at 2.5 M.y. [22]. It is thought that humans, chimpanzees and gorillas may have evolved from a single ancestor about 9 M.y. ago [23]. Although mass extinctions did happen at 65 M.y. ago, the iridium layer together with soot present in the rock 'K-T' layer corresponding to the time are not pointers to H-bombings. Iridium is a common element found in asteroids, also present in the Earth's mantle. It is not a byproduct of atomic fission or fusion. 11th November 1994 - 11 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. 3 Summary and interpretation of findings 3.1 Summary of findings Referring to the veracity of the volcano list for 75 M.y. :- Asia and Pacific North Japan false did not exist as separate island(s) South Japan false did not exist as separate island(s) Krakajawia false did not exist Mount Washington false volcanism too old Mount Ranier false did not exist Mount Hood false did not exist Mt. Shasta false did not exist San Gorgonio false underwater Indonesia true? but only for a little of the area Philippines true? not fully checked Himalayas false did not exist (Hawaii) false did not exist, nor any substitute Andes true? different geography, over-broad desc. Atlantic Tangier false no volcanism for any locations St. Helena false did not exist Kolomonjero false did not exist (Las Palmas) false did not exist Canada true over-broad description. I have tried to be unbiased, informative and accurate, but don't care if the above table should prove incorrect in places since the evidence overwhelmingly supports a conclusion that the OT3 statement describes a non-existent geographic scenario for 75 M.y. ago. There is no evidence to support Hubbard's assertion of widespread H-bombing, notwithstanding an ongoing scientific search for explosion traces. Palaeontological evidence contradicts Hubbard's claims of human population 75 M.y. ago. My conclusion is that the Incident II of OT3 was impossible, viewed against objective scientific evidence. Incident 1, preposterous as an event anyway, is dated ten thousand times older than science dates the universe, (going by "Big Bang" theory). I suggest that the "boobytrap" in disbelieving this incident is of Hubbard's making, where both timing and content of the "incident" deny reason. The scientific "criterion of falsifiability" by which scientists insist that statements be testable such as to conceivably be shown false, cannot be applied to the story, thus it cannot class as a scientific statement. The combination of "Incident I" and "boobytrapped" concepts can be described as a 'double bind'.. i.e. "Heads I win, tails you lose!" 11th November 1994 - 12 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. Hubbard has stated in higher courses than OT3 that there are parallel universes, and runs Scientologists on spiritual "fleas" in these parallel universes. There is no objective scientific evidence for parallel universes, and such notions class only within the realm of conjecture, imagination or Science Fiction. 3.2 Interpretation of findings Since the use of psychogalvanometers and other techniques of Dianetics are being applied to the provenly non-existent events of OT3, and good results claimed, Dianetics must be doing something other than is claimed for it. It is noteworthy that Dianetics is derived from Freud's Clark Lectures, where Freud later on said that the technique failed to uncover "key repressions" and so was therapeutically insignificant. I would assert that getting Dianetics results from running impossible incidents is evidence that Scientologists are being pushed towards controlling psychogalvanometer behaviour, get results to order, and to regularly deceive others as well as themselves about the truth. If they dont get results, they are deemed to have lied on earlier courses and punished by being either sent back to beginning Scientologist status, or thrown out of Scientology. Scientologists take the OT3 materials home with them, and over the many months they are doing this course, would quite possibly attempt to locate the volcanoes in books and find out more about them. I have witnessed the pathetic spectacle of Scientologists saying Hubbard was wrong about the volcano list, and then go running Edinburgh and other volcanics that they have found to be valid for the time, or for 65 M.y. ago, in an attempt to be less unreal. By Dianetics theory, to make a trauma vanish the exact time, place, form and event must be located, and Hubbard is here unequivocal about 75 m.y., with a specific but impossible volcano list for locations [26]. To run anything else is still faking it. I conclude in general that OT3 Dianetics, being impossible to run as factual trauma therapy since there was no such trauma, functions instead as a cognitive behavioural training action coercing Scientologists to manufacture falsehoods to order, or be punished for "lying". The effect of OT3 is to train the Scientologist to project intention to control others through many-times-repeated practice in communicating to imaginary souls within their bodies. More sinister is how the OT3 story has a ready explanation in terms of implant conditioning at Hawaii or Las Palmas for any one of feeling dizzy, not wanting to continue, blankness, sensations of pressure, rough or careless communicating to others, impacts, finding nothing, effort to stop, effort to withdraw, rush, protest, suppress, or the setting up of automatic mental machinery to run the process. Such reactions are ascribed to spiritual "flea" reactions that the Scientologist has "mistaken" as his own thoughts. The Scientologist's own reaction is not allowed as part of the OT3 activity! In this manner the Scientologist's 11th November 1994 - 13 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. independent thinking and reactions to the story get regularly confused and re-directed into the nonsense of the OT3 "incidents". The result is a person who in a sense is "free from overwhelm" since he is beaming narrowly focussed intentions to control others, is blinkered and interpreting reason and objections in terms of others trauma, and is not in control of his own reasoning but is controlled by Hubbard. I suggest that this represents debilitation of the mental independence and cognitive function of the participant. This is opposite to what is claimed for OT3. 3.3 Credits [1] S Uyeda, A Miashiro, (1974), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v85,p1159 - 1170, "Plate tectonics and the Japanese Islands: A Synthesis." [2] S Maruyama, T Seno, (1986), Tectonophysics 127, p305-329, "Orogeny and relative plate motions: example of the Japanese islands." [3] WB Hamilton (1988), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v100, p1503-1527, "Plate tectonics and island arcs." [4] BD Johnson, C McA Powell, JJ Veevers, (1976), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v87, p1560-1566 "Spreading history of the eastern Indian Ocean and Greater India's northward flight from Antarctica and Australia." D Schelling, (1992), Tectonics, v11, n5, p925-943, "The tectonostratigraphy and structure of the eastern Nepal Himalaya." [5] DA Clague, RD Jarrard, (1973a), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v84, p1135-1154, "Tertiary Pacific plate motion deduced from the Hawaiian Emperor Chain". [6] DSDP 192 Deep Sea Drilling Project report for hole 192 and 192a. [7] Physiography of the United States (1967) [8] WF Barbat, (1971), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v82, p1541-1562, "Megatectonics of the Coast Ranges, California." [9] I Baker, (1967), Nature, v215, p1451-1456, "Geocronology of the St. Helena volcanoes." (1969), Geol Soc Amer Bull, p1454 "Petrology of the volcanic rocks of St. Helena Island." [10] BH Baker, LAJ Williams, JA Miller, FJ Fitch, (1971), Tectonophysics, v11, p191-215, "Sequence and chronology of the Kenya Rift Volcanics." [11] SJ Gaciri, (1991), Tectonophysics v209, p139-142, "Lineament map of Kenya: correlations of lineaments to known geological data." [13] X Le Pichon, PJ Fox, (1971),J Geophy. Res. v76, p6294-6308, "Marginal offsets, fracture zones and the early opening of the North Atlantic." [14] Rothe, Schminke (1968), Nature, v218, n5147, p1152-1154, "Contrasting origins of the eastern and western islands of the Canarian Archipelago." [15] JB Garvin, CS Schnetzler, RAF Grieve, (1992), Tectonophysics, v216, p45-52, "Characteristics of large terrestrial impact structures as revealed by remote sensing studies." 11th November 1994 - 14 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. [16] Geol Mag v131 (3), (1994), p361-367. [17] J Kakkuri, (1991), Tectonophysics v216, p41-44. "Traces of impact craters in the geoid" [18] H Henkel (1992), Tectonophysics v216, p63-89. "Geophysica aspects of meteorite impact craters in eroded shield environment, with special emphasis on electric resistivity." [20] New Scientist 13 Nov 1993, p17 "Ancient asteroid not guilty of murdering dinosaurs." [21] RAF Grieve, (1987), Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci, 15, p245- 270. RAF Grieve, (1984), J Geophy. Res. v89, B403-408, "The impact cratering rate in recent time." [22] Nature 1993, p833: New Scientist 30 Oct 1993, p15., "Human jaw hints at Africa Trek" [23] Journal of Human Evolution, v25, p201 : New Scientist 30 Oct 1993, "Three way split for our ape ancestors." [24] New Scientist, 30 Oct 1993, p14, "Thumbs up for an older universe." [25] Hans Burgl, (1967), Tectonophysics, v4, p429-443, "The Orogenesis in the Andean system of Colombia." [26] HCOB 15 November 1978 "Dating and Locating". Recommended reading: Jon Atack, (1990), "A Piece of Blue Sky, Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed", a Lyle Stuart book published by Carol Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8184-0499-X Hardback. A masterfully researched expose of the abuses, contradictions, falsehoods, paranoia and greed of Hubbard and some of his pseudo military Scientologist henchmen. Available from Jon Atack at Theta Communications Ltd. "Avalon", Cranston Road, East Grinstead Sussex, RH19 3HQ. Price 15 British pounds including postage. Jon Atack (1992) The Total Freedom Trap, available from J Atack (Theta Communications Ltd.) or Peter Forde, 2 British pounds including postage. Steven Hassan "Combatting Cult Mind Control", Aquarian ISBN 0-89281-243-5 "Cults: What Parents Should Know" Longone & Ross, Lyle Stuart, ISBN 0-8184-0511-2. Thomas and Jaqueline Keiser "The Anatomy of Illusion" ISBN 0-398-05295-6 "Captive Hearts, Captive Minds" Lalich & Tobias, Hunter House, ISBN 0-89793-144-0. Margery Wakefield "The Road to Zenu" is an excellent first-hand account of membership, and includes Bob Penney's thought provoking "Social Control In Scientology". "The Road To Zenu" is available via P.O. Box 290402, Tampa, Florida US 33687. 11th November 1994 - 15 - Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33189 Path: utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!peernews.demon.co.uk!replay.com!nobody Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: nobody@replay.com (Name withheld by request) Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited. X-Warning: This message was forwarded by an Anonymous Remailer. X-Comment: Replay does not necessarily approve of the contents of this posting. X-Comment: Please report inappropriate use to Subject: A Scientific Scrutiny of OT3 X-Posting-Host: xs1.xs4all.nl Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 02:17:29 +0000 Message-ID: <199502230207.AA00727@xs1.xs4all.nl> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 524 A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Why check Hubbard's OT-III statement? . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 "Section III OT" summarised . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 General notes on modern geology . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 The "Section III OT" information as checked.. . . . . . . . 4 2.1 Volcano list - Asia and Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 North Japan, South Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.2 Krakajawia (Krakatau) . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.3 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.4 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.5 Himalayas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.6 Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.7 Andes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.8 Mount Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.9 Mount Ranier, Mount Hood, Mount Shasta . . . . . 7 2.1.10 San Gorgonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Volcano list - Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.1 Tangier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.2 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.3 Kolomonjero (Kilimanjaro) . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.4 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.5 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3 Other Information given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.1 The search for explosion traces . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.2 Human and other life 75M.y. ago . . . . . . . . . 10 3 Summary and interpretation of findings . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.1 Summary of findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2 Interpretation of findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3 Credits (including some recommended reading titles) . 14 Written by Peter Forde B.Sc. 54 Underwood Court, Hyde, CHESHIRE UK SK14 3HX Copyright (C) 1994, Peter Forde. This document may be freely reproduced on a not-for-profits basis. For other uses you are requested to obtain prior permission from the author. Note that "Section III OT", "OT3", "Scientology", "L.Ron Hubbard", "Dianetics", "E-meter" and other scientology words are trademark and belong to COSRECI. 11th November 1994 A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. 1 Introduction 1.1 Abstract The "Section III OT" materials as written by L. Ron Hubbard in late 1966 remain in use to-date by Scientology as a heavily promoted and very expensive course (over 3k British pounds). The materials mostly revolve around a statement of events "recalled" by Hubbard that supposedly occurred on earth 75 million years ago. Section III OT then applies "Dianetics", which is claimed to be a science of mental health, using the events as essential information. My paper checks Hubbard's statement against the known geological record for the time, finding that nearly all of the listed locations didn't exist then and that other available evidence contradicts the general story. With the events demonstrated to be fictional incidents the implications for the action and efficacy of Section III OT and of Dianetics in general are then considered. The conclusion is drawn that "Section III OT" is not an improvement activity but a disguised training action with debilitating effects on the mental independence and cognitive function of the participant. Dianetics is also functioning as a hidden training action, structured to accustom participants to fake results to order, or else be heavily punished for "lying". 1.2 Why check Hubbard's OT-III statement? Scientology claims to be both a science and a religion at once, and the description used depends whether trying to impress people or hide behind some divine right of religions to do and say whatever they please with nobody having the right to criticize them. Since Scientology and its substudy Dianetics both claim to be sciences, I can legitimately scrutinise them as a scientist.. I see good reasons why this scrutiny should be made: - An objective check of Hubbard's memories of past lives. One of Hubbard's publications, "Mission Into Time", describes an experiment to prove his ability to recall information from past lives. The experiment was carried out under his close direction and control, concerned his own recollections and not another person, was published only by his Scientology organisation, and as is normal for Scientology, debarred independent scrutiny for veracity by any agency. By checking Hubbard's claimed "past-life" memories for "Section III OT" (OT3 for short) against the geological record,this represents a much fairer test of any "past-life" memories he might have had. - A challenge to superstition.. "Section III OT" is secret, and those who would look ahead to see what it contains are frightened off with menaces of catching pneumonia and dying, and of having to pay far more for their already very expensive training and counselling: 200 - 400 British pounds per HOUR. The net effect is that Scientologists are afraid to look for themselves. Those few who 11th November 1994 - 1 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. do look ahead of being prepared, don't believe it, and other Scientologists then say sagely how this proves that the traumas were boobytrapped to make them look unbelievable! This paper by checking the details directly against scientific evidence drawn from a wide range of sources, objectively judges whether true-butboobytrapped or whether the story is fiction. - An adventure into paleogeography.. Most people will find my evenhandedness in dealing with this fairy tale bizarre, but apart from trying to reassure Scientologists that there is intelligent life outside the sect, I have a strong personal interest in Geology. Compiling this paper represents an exploration into the amount of detail currently available for reconstructing ancient landforms. 1.3 "Section III OT" summarised "Section III OT" or OT3 is a high up level within Scientology that can only be done after many other courses, by which time the client is well prepared, well behaved and ready to believe just about anything Hubbard says. People are not suckers to have been conditioned in this way, but have been ushered through many successive plausible small steps and changes, each one acceptable by itself, but progressing towards a shut-down of critical thoughts, alienation from outside opinion and a turning-towards and eventual unquestioning acceptance of Hubbard's imposed belief system. OT stands for "Operating Thetan" where "thetan" is Scientology jargon for "soul", and "Operating" is supposed to mean "At cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time". The 3 means that this is the third in the series of courses. OT3 mainly concerns a supposed "Incident II" happening 75 Million years ago, when Xenu an officer in charge of the 76 local planets of the "Galactic Confederation", solved overpopulation by mass exterminations, mostly by shootings. The souls of those killed were collected together using super cold, transported to volcanoes on earth (he gives a list of these and they are checked out in this paper), H- bombed at the volcanoes, collected up again using electronic ribbons and transported to Hawaii or Las Palmas. They were thereupon subjected to 36 days of hypnotic "implants" using films and simple apparatus, which in their already shocked state was supposedly very effective and kept them clustered together and trapped on earth. We are each supposed to contain large numbers of these traumatised and grouped souls stuck around our bodies like some sort of spiritual "fleas" (Hubbard's term). The OT3 processing consists of beaming a narrowly focussed attention onto clusters of souls to communicate with and separate them, then get individual souls to recall the volcano they were blown up at etc. which by Dianetics theory releases them from the trauma. If the souls resist recalling the "Incident II" killings, bombings and hypnosis, then "Incident 1" is supposed to be offered for recall instead.. 11th November 1994 - 2 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. "Incident 1" is time-stamped at 4 quadrillion years ago, and here I quote in full: " LOUD SNAP WAVES OF LIGHT CHARIOT COMES OUT, TURNS RIGHT AND LEFT CHERUB COMES OUT BLOWS HORN, COMES CLOSE SHATTERING SERIES OF SNAPS CHERUB FADES BACK (RETREATS) BLACKNESS DUMPED ON THETAN" (Thetan = soul = spiritual "flea") If even "Incident 1" wont work, then the Scientologist is doing something wrong and his Dianetics procedures are checked-over. If even then the Scientologist fails to get results, then he is adjudged to have made false attest of completion of previous courses and is required to do the entire series of over 20 courses and counselling from beginning Scientologist onwards all over again. The end result of OT3 is declared to be "freedom from overwhelm", also "exterior with full perception", also the ability to dismiss illness or mental ill-health in others at will. 1.4 General notes on modern geology Geologists express time in Mega-years (M.y.) and don't usually refer to time numerically, but classify into a framework of global events, using stages of increasing detail. Thus the "Incident II" given unequivocally by Hubbard at 75 M.y. ago, sits within the Mesozoic Era (251 to 65 M.y. ago), Late Cretaceous Period (97 M.y. to 65 M.y. ago), Maestrichtian Epoch (circa 70 M.y. ago). Incident 1 sits long before the beginning of time at the Big Bang and thus has no geological classification. In late 1966 when Hubbard wrote "Section III OT" (OT3 for short), the scientific community was working to Static Crust theory. This held that the earth was slowly cooling, and as it did so it contracted and wrinkled up like a dried prune, thus evolving mountains and seas. Mountains and locations by this theory were essentially old, static and unmoving, and thus it would seem valid to project existing mountains and volcanoes back as existing even 75 M.y. ago. Hubbard was not to know that Plate Tectonics theory, being proved valid just 2 years later and explaining and predicting hitherto unexplainable phenomena, would prompt an explosion of renewed confidence, interest and research in geology, and its this knowledge which is drawn upon here. Plate Tectonics holds that the earth's crust comprises a set of plates floating on a mobile Mantle. Its at the margins of these plates that we get earthquake activity and frequently volcanism or mountains. Oceanic crust emanates at (usually undersea) spreading ridges and disappears into the Mantle again at deep ocean trenches, and the continents move about in the process. The cause of plate movements and volcanism is a complex thermal - chemical gravitational engine, but some conceptual grasp can be obtained by picturing convection cells within the earth's mantle. There are several strands of evidence that work together to date rocks with good confidence.. Radiometric dating uses carbon isotopes for a few tens of thousands of years, then Potassium/Argon (K-Ar) up to a few hundred million years, other elements for yet longer time spans. Radiocarbon dating has been accurately 11th November 1994 - 3 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. calibrated via known artefacts and such as tree rings. K-Ar measures relative proportions of several isotopes and is self -checking since relative proportions must be consistent. There is also palaeomagnetism which records the shifting patterns of the earth's magnetic field and is very useful of itself for dating rocks and tracking the movements of continents, especially when linked to known rates of sea-floor spreading. Then there are fossil and rock strata matching. The 'lifespan' of many species is typically about 3 million years, after which the descendents become noticeably different, a phenomenon which assists use of fossils for dating rocks. 2 The "Section III OT" information as checked.. 2.1 Volcano list - Asia and Pacific This is the volcano list contained within the OT3 statement. I have done a little rearranging and grouping of list items for clarity of presentation, original sequence restored in the summary. 2.1.1 North Japan, South Japan North Japan, meaning Hokkaido. South Japan, meaning the Japanese mainland of Honshu, and the smaller islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. Around the time of interest, the Kula ridge subducted under the mainland, resulting in an unusually widespread zone of volcanism. The zone eventually extended to 3,000 km in width, and ranged from the Ryoke metamorphic belt in Japan to Lake Baikal, and along the east coast of Asia from the Bering Strait to South China. [1] S. Maruyama, T. Seno [2] show how at 85 M.y. the Japanese islands were no more than a narrow continental east-facing fore-arc ridge which extended from Korea north into China. It wasn't until about 30-12 M.y. ago that intra-arc rifting separated and rotated the Japanese islands from mainland Asia to form the Sea of Japan, possibly by action of the submerged Kula Ridge. Most of the Japanese land mass has formed in postMesozoic times, and is the result of island collisions, fore-arc accretion and volcanism. In summary Hubbard has distinguished North Japan and South Japan as volcano ranges when at the time they were indistinguishable from each other or the South-East Asian mainland, with volcanism ranging much further afield than proto-Japan. Thus these are very inept descriptions for volcanoes in the area 75 M.y. ago. 2.1.2 Krakajawia (Krakatau) Krakatau, misspelled Krakajawia by Hubbard, is situated between Sumatra and Java in Indonesia, and forms part of the volcanic arc of a subduction zone as the Indian Plate, carrying Australia and India, moves towards the northeast. It is part of the Indonesian island arc system, where zones of volcanism can be shown to have formed and moved gradually southward much more recently than 75 M.y. ago following the standard pattern 11th November 1994 - 4 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. of migrating and growing island arc systems [3]. Krakatau exploded towards the end of last century, with such violence and amount of debris that it caused bad weather globally for several years afterwards. This volcano is new, and Hubbard was mistaken to name it as existing 75M.y. ago. Its mention hints at imagination at work. (My proof-reader wanted to replace the last sentence with "Its mention supports the evidence that OT3 was the consequence of drugged hallucination.", but I'll leave my text unaltered!) 2.1.3 Indonesia The Indonesian Island Arc is a subduction-related island arc system [3]. Part of Sumatra is thought to have rifted from New Guinea in Jurassic times. There was a collision between an island arc system and mainland Sumatra 30-50 M.y. ago. The Sunda subduction zone with its concomitant volcanism, running from Sumatra through to Sumbawa, has been active only since this time. The subduction system in Java arose no earlier than 30 M.y. ago, and if I read correctly the sediments that form it were underwater until a northward migrating island arc collided with and subducted under it about that time, causing uplift. Eastern Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores expose only island arc rocks of less than 23.5 M.y. age. The island of Timor comprises an accretionary wedge accumulating on continental crust and experienced uplift in Quaternary times, less than 2 M.y. ago. Sunda also experienced uplift from the sea in Quaternary or later times, possibly due to a crustal fragment in front of Australia subducted beneath the fore-arc basin. I conclude that Celebes and part of Sumatra existed 75 Ma ago, along with other islands that have since accreted to continental mainlands. (Borneo dealt with as part of Philippines) Java, Sumbawa, Sumba, Bali, Lombok, Flores and Timor arose much more recently, and these form most of the present-day volcanic arc. Thus Hubbard was passably correct to name "Indonesia" as a source of volcanoes although only a minority of the islands still exist from the time. 2.1.4 Philippines The Philippines Trench is new and the subducting Philippines oceanic plate hasn't travelled far, and shows no volcanism south of Leyte [3]. Halmahera is a far-travelled Pacific island, now colliding with the Sangihe island arc as the Molucca plate sinks from between. The suture between these arcs is visible in Mindanao. Oldest dates for Southern Phillipines formations give Cretaceous. The South China Sea is an area of high heat flow, as is the Japan Sea, and it is fair to speculate that this is a rift basin where 11th November 1994 - 5 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. Luzon and Borneo rifted away from the mainland in relatively recent times. Alas most of the published papers for the area that will give me more detail are in Chinese.. In the absence of more definite information on palaeogeographical features of the Philippines, I'll allow that they were distinct from the mainland and contained volcanism, and thus that Hubbard's naming them was possibly valid. 2.1.5 Himalayas The Himalayas are a young mountain range resulting from crustal shortening and thickening due to continuing northward movement of the Indian Plate, after its collision 40-55 M.y. ago with the Eurasian Plate [4]. Logically there was strong volcanism at island arcs and continental subduction zones during the Late Cretaceous as the Tethys Ocean closed rapidly, but these volcanoes were not situate at anything resembling the present site of the Himalayas, which is the result of shortening of hundreds of kilometres of continental crust, and includes substantial island material [4]. Mention of the Himalayas is far too inept a description for the area for 75 M.y. ago, and Hubbard was mistaken to use this name to locate either volcanoes or a mountain chain. Before Plate Tectonic theory emerged, and not knowing the detailed geology of the Himalayas, it would have seemed fair to mention them. 2.1.6 Hawaii Hawaii located in the Central North Pacific, is a key location for Hubbard's OTIII statement as this was where the souls H-bombed at the Pacific Ring of Fire volcanoes were supposedly taken to be hypnotically "implanted". Hawaii is the latest in a long line of seamounts thrown up as the Pacific Plate passed over a mantle plume or hot spot [5]. The Hawaiian Islands were thrown up in succession, with Hawaii (and Loihi seamount) the latest and still erupting. The nearest inactive volcanic island is Maui, 230 km from Loihi, which is dated at 1.63 +- 0.03 M.y., and it is fair to conclude that the Hawaiian volcanic pile has arisen since this time. If there had been an island at the present site of Hawaii 75 M.y. ago, it might have been Meiji Guyot, now situate at the northern end of the Emperor chain 164.42E 53N, and aged by K-Ar dating at 74+-3 M.y.. [6]. Study of the deep sea drilling core samples from Meiji's summit indicates that this seamount never reached anywhere near the surface to become an island. I conclude that there was nothing but ocean at the present site of Hawaii 75 M.y. ago, and Hubbard was mistaken to name this place as a supposed centre for distribution and "implanting" of souls. 11th November 1994 - 6 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. 2.1.7 Andes The Andes on the Western edge of South America are at a subduction zone for the Nazca oceanic plate as it moves Eastwards, and the South American plate moves westwards carried with opening of the South Atlantic. It was and remains a major part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and was probably volcanic at the time of interest 75 M.y. ago. The geology of the Andes demands involved study to get any sort of detailed picture, but broadly speaking was not so much in the form of high mountains then but more as cordillera or archipelagos of islands, much as we see in the southern part of South America now [25]. The volcanoes would also have been located slightly further to the East than they are now, and often erupting underwater. Whether there were any mountains is not certain. In the Western zones we tend to find Cretaceous sediments laid in deep water, with lavas showing a pillow structure, indicating that they erupted underwater. Since the Cretaceous these have been folded and uplifted to form the present mountains, perhaps after Terranes accreted to the continental land mass, perhaps through underplating by the downgoing slab with concomitant isostatic uplift. The Eastern zone represents a gravity-thrust zone as continuing underplating and uplift is compensated by slumping. Continuing erosion has exhumed Paleozoic and older rock formations. By naming the 7000 km long Andes, and not being more specific, Hubbard was not entirely wrong. Whether traumatised souls would have recognised any modern-day Andean volcano or geography is quite another matter. 2.1.8 Mount Washington There are two Mount Washingtons in the United States, one is in New Hampshire at 44.17N 71.19W in the Appalachian mountain range. This range formed during the late Palaeozoic era, the Alleghenian orogeny of middle Permian, circa 270 M.y. ago. Activity, including volcanism in that area had long ceased by the time of interest [7]. The other Mount Washington is in Massachusets USA at 42.07N, 73.28W, in the Berkshire Hills. This also is a stable cratonic area free from volcanism since the Palaeozoic ended 251 M.y. ago. >From the information available to me, there was no volcanism at a Mount Washington 75 M.y. ago, and Hubbard was therefore mistaken. A possible explanation for this strange name could be imagination, as Washington was the first president of the United States.. 2.1.9 Mount Ranier, Mount Hood, Mount Shasta Mount Ranier is situate in Washington State, USA,46.8N 122.25W , 14,400 ft high, and forms part of the Middle Cascade Mountains [7]. Mount Hood is situate in Oregon, USA 45.24N 121.41W, is 11,250 ft 11th November 1994 - 7 - A Scientific scrutiny of OT3 Peter Forde B.Sc. high and also forms part of the Middle Cascade Mountains. Both of these volcanoes are currently active. None of the lava in the anticline that these volcanoes sit on is more than 65 M.y. in age, and the volcano cones themselves are Quaternary, less than 1.6 M.y. in age at oldest. Underneath the lava anticline is about a 3 miles deep thickness of Cretaceous marine-deposited sediments intruded by Cretaceous granitic plutons. In short at the time of interest this site had none of the present volcanoes nor mountains, but was sea, with a few islands in places. Mount Shasta, California USA, 41.25N 122.12W, peaks above 14,000 feet and is situated in the Southern Cascades. I don't have so much information about its the structure, but it is also classed as a Quaternary volcano, less than 2 M.y. old. Hubbard was completely mistaken to name these 3 particular volcanoes as existing 75 M.y. ago. 2.1.10 San Gorgonio This mountain is also located in California at 34.05N 116.50W, and stands 11,485 feets high, forming part of the Transverse Ranges [7]. W.F. Barbat [8] informs us that the area in question mostly comprises precambrian rocks of all types, with some granitic rocks chiefly of mesozoic age. It sits on the San Andreas Fault. These look to me like basement rocks that have surfaced after a very great deal of uplift and erosion. The general area is of Mesozoic sediments that suffered crustal shortening. The present San Andreas Fault, on which the mountain lies, is thought to be a consequence of the considerable gravitational load the uplifted sedimentary formations placed on the continental plate. Plate movement has been slow, thus no volcanism. I conclude that at 75 M.y. the area was underwater and probably experiencing no volcanism. Thus Hubbard was mistaken for this mountain. 2.2 Volcano list - Atlantic 2.2.1 Tangier There are several "Tangier" to be found around the Atlantic Ocean: Tangier, Morocco, at the southern edge of the Straits of Gibraltar. I see no evidence of volcanism or mountains at this site for the time of interest, it doesn't form part of the Atlas mountains which are further South. Tangier, Nova Scotia. This was a stable cratonic area for the time of interest. Tangier Island at 73.84N, 76W in Chesapeake Bay, USA is also a stable cratonic area with no sign of volcanism later than about 100 M.y. ago, when the North Atlantic started to open. Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33529 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!lavc!dennis.l.erlich From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: Copyright everything! Message-ID: <9502240824.0BT5I00@support.com> References: <3idbmc$6a3@zacks.zacks.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.25/PRIMP 1.56p Distribution: world Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 08:24:23 -0800 Lines: 21 Jeff Jacobsen wrote: >"When in doubt about copyrighting it, copyright it. Copyright and >Trademark anything and everything." [HCOPL 20 January 1959] > > The above is the entire HCOPL. If I was to apply the fair use >doctrine here, maybe I'd have to only quote "When in" :-) The Pope: >Hot damn! Dennis, grab this and read to Judge Whyte! >Hyuk! Pop that deal into my keep file. +---------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * that person (tm) Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33390 Path: utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!fim.uni-erlangen.DE!ba170 From: ba170@fim.uni-erlangen.DE (Koos Nolst Trenite) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: RI-3i SEC CHECK on Marc Yager Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:15:43 -0000 Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems. Lines: 179 Sender: daemon@cass.ma02.bull.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <9502231008.AA05966@freenet-a.fim.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: ba170@fim.uni-erlangen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: cass.ma02.bull.com 14 September 1994 RI-3i 'HCO SECURITY CHECK ON MARC YAGER (pretending to be RTC-Inspector for Administration) from Ron's Inspector Message # RI-3i for Internet I am sending the following data on Marc Yager up from a Security Check I ordered on him, (in August 1994) as it is now also confirmed by Ron, on 13 Sept 1994, 21:45pm GMT, to me that Marc Yager is a Suppressive and wants to continue to dominate people. (The data revealed in HCO Security Checks are not confidential. They are used to detect hidden crimes, and the data is used by the group to stop the crimes and to apply group-justice to the criminal, based on what he actually did, rather than on what others believe or are led to believe he did. The purpose is to have real justice both for the criminal and for the groupmembers that have been affected by his crimes.) (The abbreviations F, LF, LFBD and F/N designate reactions on the E-meter, indicating mental charge (F, LF, LFBD) and release of charge completed (F/N)). ---------------------------------------------------------------- HCO SEC CHECK DATA ON MARC YAGER 31 Aug 1994 Reported per HCOPL 'CONFESSIONALS - ETHICS REPORTS REQUIRED' 29 Aug-31 Aug 1994 Total hours: 3:26 min 29 Aug 1994......................................hours: 1:28 min Marc Yager: "I have accepted David Miscavige. F I have contributed to the powergame of David Miscavige." RTC wants to take over International Management, make it entirely dependent on RTC and dictate operating schemes F and policy and prices, and licenses given and licenses withdrawn when certain conditions are not fullfilled. F Marc Yager has advised David Miscavige on some of the actions or actions planned still. RTC wants to get International Management under RTC Direction, make Guillaume Lesevre or any later ED INT into a pawn. Marc Yager: "I had a different viewpoint on David Miscavige LF but I am playing his game, LF a power game, LFBD and not a game of caring for the beings involved in it. "I have assisted David Miscavige in his plotting. Continuous overt since 1982." LF (Overt = non-survival act) Koos should consider that Marc Yager doesn't know anything about David Miscavige's evil intentions. LFBD Some time ago he was a friend and then betrayed Koos in Plato time, Greek time. LF He was one of those that brought Socrates into jail and to death. F Marc Yager: "There was a time before that, when I still was a friend. LF Then I got evil and wanted to break the 'supremacy' of Plato." 'Supremacy' = Ethics-presense, force, ARC. He intended to destroy Plato (Koos). LF to F/N 30 Aug 1994......................................hours: 0:56 min Marc Yager communicating to Auditor: "I wanted to blindfold you [Auditor] (see how much I can pretend to you) about my actual intentions within RTC at the first Sec Check where I said: 'I am a friend of Koos.' "Which is a pretense. I wanted that he doesn't look at me further, and I wanted that he accepts the image of me I put out to everyone else: that of a well-meaning friend who has everything well under control and who cares and is willing to help. "I did it, so that you [Auditor] would stop looking further at me, so that Koos would stop looking further at me. Koos looked through it." to F/N 31 Aug 1994......................................hours: 0:29 min result: Marc Yager: "I have made people that loved Ron, to be treated as criminals, that means I have attacked them for using Ron's material and dragged them to court, subjected them to police violence and invalidation, made them pay heavy fines, expelled them from the Church and cut their comm lines and discredited them towards their friends and neighbours and at their workplace." "I have used police and courts to stop Scientologists from using and applying Scientology, under the pretense that those Scientologists committed crimes and that they were squirrels." "I have ARC-broken people with Ron that loved him." LFBD "I have barred the road for them to communicate to Ron's material, and with Ron." "And I have tolerated and agreed with other crimes and injustices done to people who wanted auditing and training but were refused auditing and training as they were not as controllable as others." "I have created a lot of enemies for Ron in this way." "I had PLEASURE in legally invalidating people, in operating without ARC, in refusing to understand what was there." LFBD F/N Auditor: The natter (natter = negative chatter, indicating you almost found out something about a person, something he would prefer you don't know about him) stopped, he is calm. to F/N 31 Aug 1994......................................hours: 0:33 min Marc Yager: "I made Ron's companion and friend Pat Broeker blow (to blow = to leave in an irresponsible way) and his wife deciding to be a victim (to be victim = to be intentionally effect of another's crimes)." "Ron became less real to me than David Miscavige. I forgot about possible communication to Ron, I gave my admiration to David Miscavige instead." "I have withheld my communication from Ron, on David Miscavige's internal order. 'I didn't even try [try to communicate to Ron]'. David Miscavige gave an order to not attempt any communications to Ron. LFBD's And I heeded that! Because it was coming from David Miscavige!" LFBD "That was a suppressive order!" LFBD's F/Nind VGI's Auditor: Space wider, cleaner. (END) (Note: Marc Yager still refuses to communicate to Ron, though) from Koos Nolst Trenite - Ron's Inspector. Copyright 1994 by Koos Nolst Trenite reference: RI-0i 'Current Ethics' of 30 June 1994 RI-1i 'Ron is Back!' of 7 Sept 1994 RI-2i 'CORRECT PTS-item is David Miscavige' of 10 Sept 1994 RI-3i 'SEC CHECK Marc Yager RTC' of 14 Sept 1994 RI-4i 'LRH validates Free Zone' of 16 Sept 1994 RI-5i 'Who can be trusted in CoS' of 18 Sept 1994 RI-6i 'The PT Overts on David Miscavige' of 20 Sept 1994 RI-7i 'RTC Missions' of 21 Sept 1994 RI-8i 'SEC CHECK Intl Justice Chief' of 28 Sept 1994 Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33405 Path: utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!nova.novanet.org!harringtonj-smtc Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Message-ID: <199502231511.AA22515@novacon.cerl.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:08:00 EST Reply-To: harringtonj-smtc@nova.novanet.org Sender: owner-LRH-L@cornell.edu From: harringtonj-smtc@nova.novanet.org Subject: Affidavit of former CofS Exec X-PH: V4.1@cornell.edu (Cornell Modified) X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN Lines: 304 AFFIDAVIT OF FORMER TOP SCIENTOLOGY EXECUTIVE ********** This affidavit was originally submitted in the USA v Fishman case on 18 Jul 1990 and again on 24 Jun 93 in the Church of Scientology of Calfornia v Larry Wollersheim. Just a few days ago, information was received that the Church of Scientology may have been involved in an illegal wiretap of the residence of Vicki Aznaran, thru the use of private investigators in Los Angeles, CA and Dallas, TX shortly after she filed this affidavit in 1990. See "CofS wiretap" that was posted several days ago. The President of the Church of Scientology International, a 20+ year veteran of the Guardian Office/Office of Special Affairs, Heber Jentzch, is currently under criminal indictment in Spain and the trial may commence this year. Whether he will voluntarily return to face trial is unknown and the Church has gone to EXTREME lengths to conceal the criminal case in Spain. The current attack on Rev. Dennis Erlich and the oppressive litigation against Erlich, the sysops at Support.Com, and Netcom is just part of the long-established pattern of the paranoid Hubbardian Empire reigned over by David Miscavige and his thugs at the RTC. The CofS reportedly spends $300,00-$700,000 MONTHLY to maintain its teams of lawyers and contract private investigators. Several government agencies may have been compromised and perhaps a petition to our elected officials for a congressional inquiries into the blatant attacks on the Bills of Rights may be in order. If anyone has any additional information on this, please contact me via e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------- United States District Court Northern District of California Case No. Cr-88-0616-DLJ8 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff STEVEN FISHMAN Defendant I, VICKI AZNARAN declare as follows under penalty of perjury: I joined the Church of Scientology in 1972. In 1978 after approximately four years as staff members, my husband and I joined the Sea Organization. From 1978 to early 1987, my husband and I worked most of our waking hours, with very few days off, at our various assignments within Scientology. I eventually became President of Religious Technology Center and, supposedly, the top "ecclesiastical" authority within Scientology. Richard was a high-level security officer. During this period my husband and I became intimately familiar with the structure and activities of various Scientology organizations. Among other things, I was briefed on and was sometimes a participant in meetings involving litigation tactics and various means used to attack and fight "enemies" of Scientology. In numerous instances I was in the chain of command for approval for such activities. From 1984 to 1987, I held the office of Inspector General; the highest worldwide office in the organization and so was privy to the most arcane practices of the group. The legal strategy of Scientology and the existence of numerous legal problems, some of which are set forth below, were known to me when I was a staff member in Scientology. Enemies of Scientology are deemed to be "suppressive persons" ("SPs"). One becomes a "suppressive person" by doing a suppressive act, such as suing Scientology as a litigant. In the jargon of Scientology, when one is "declared" this means that one has been declared a "suppressive person" and, therefore may be harassed, hurt, damaged or destroyed without regard to truth, honesty or legal rights. It is considered acceptable within Scientology to lie, cheat, steal and commit illegal acts in the name of dealing with a "suppressive person". This practice or policy is sometimes referred to as the policy of "fair game." In the jargon of Scientology a person who is "declared" is understood to be a suppressive person. This means that the person is "fair game." The fair game policy was issued in the 1960's. It was never cancelled. A document was issued for public relations reasons that purportedly cancelled "fair game"; however, that document stated that it did not change the manner of handling persons declared "SP". In reality, the purported cancellation of fair game is at most a matter of semantics. Enemies of Scientology are treated as "fair game". David Miscavige was the Chairman of the Board of Author Services Inc., ("ASI") in 1984 and 1985. ASI was incorporated to be the funnel through which profits from Scientology were channeled to L. Ron Hubbard and, therefore, it was very important within Scientology. Miscavige represented Hubbard in all aspects of controlling Scientology. He attended regular meetings with myself and other top officials of Scientology organizations to review the status of all Scientology's activities, including its litigation and dirty tricks campaigns against Scientology's enemies. Because of my position and the regular reports that came across my desk I know that throughout my presidency of RTC that fair game actions were commonplace. In addition to the litigation tactics described below, fair game activities included burglaries, assualts, harassive investigations, abuse of confidential communications in parishioner files and so on. I specifically recall seeing one report regarding attacks against Bent Corydon after Scientology became aware that the was writing a book against Hubbard. Other Hubbard writings encourage Scientologists to pursue litigation purely for harassment without regard to the merits of a claim to cause enemies to fold. Hubbard's writings state: "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win...The law can be used very easily to harass, and...will generally be sufficient to cause [the enemy's] professional decease, If possible, of course ruin him utterly." Hubbard, "Magazine on Level 0 Checksheet" American Saint Hill Organization 1968. As President of RTC and a Sea Organization member, I attended meetings concerning the numerous legal actions involving Scientology organizations. During this time period, I had personal access to all legal documents having to do with RTC. I received a report every day on my computer that included a synopsis of each ongoing legal cases involving Scientology. I received, or so I was told, copies of every major motion filed in cases involving Scientology. I was on the "approval lines" for legal documents dealing with RTC. During this time period, I had the option of attending legal meetings, although some were mandatory. I attended many litigation meetings and became generally aware of Scientology's dirty tricks and legal maneuvers. On specifics, I frequently deferred to in-house and outside counsel; however, at least in theory, I was the head of RTC and had access to any business of litigation "secrets" of Scientology. It is the stated policy of Scientology to use the legal system to abuse and harass its enemies. This crude, fundamental directive of Scientology is no secret. The policy is to do anything and everything possible to harass the opposing litigant without regard to whether any particular motion or maneuver is appropiate or warranted by the facts of applicable law. That policy was followed in every legal case I was involved with or learned about while a member of the Sea Organization. The management of Scientology consistently expressed and demonstrated a complete disdain for the court system, viewing it as nothing more than a method to harass enemies. Some examples of this are set forth below. During litigation between Gerald Armstrong and Scientology, which was before Judge Breckenridge of Superior Court for Los Angeles County, the court ordered the production of Armstrong's pre-clear ("PC") folders. These are files maintained by Scientology or those who submit to interrogation sessions in a processing called auditing. during the course of that litigation I was ordered to go through Armstrong's folder and destroy or conceal anything that might support Armstrong's claims against Scientology. This practice is known within Scientology as "culling PC folders" and is a common litigation tactic employed by Scientology. during other litigation in Los Angeles known to me as the Wollersheim case, I was told that the judge had ordered the production of Wollersheim's folder. As ordered, I "culled" these files. In other words, I removed contents that might have been damaging to Scientology or might have supported Wollersheim's claim against Scientology. For example, I removed evidence of events involving his family, the anguish this caused him, evidence of disconnection from family and evidence of fair game. I was involved in numerous meetings concerning what is known to me as the Christofferson case in Portland, Oregon. This case was tried twice. In the first case, a Scientology witness by the name of Martin Samuels was coached and drilled for hours on how to lie convincingly or avoid telling the truth. Before or during the second trial he admitted to this course of conduct. In this litigation, a Scientologist by the name of Joan Shriver produced responsive documents that may have been incriminating. This was a serious breach of policy for which she was punished. These documents were ordered produced on such short notice that apparently files were not thoroughly "culled". In another case, an attorney was severley criticized and almost fired for failing to properly coach and feed the desired answers to Heber Jentzsch. Mr. Jentzsch was, for public relations reasons, the purported head of the Church of Scientology International. During his deposition, Mr. Jentzsch was unable to answer fundamental questions concerning the management of Church of Scientology International. In later 1979 and early 1980, there was a massive document destruction program undertaken to destroy any evidence showing that L. Ron Hubbard ("LRH") controlled Scientology. I participated in this activity in Clearwater, Florida and am informed that there was also intensive document destruction at facilities in Gilman Hot Springs, California. From at least that point onward there was a continuous effort to hide or destroy any evidence of Hubbard's control. For example, during an IRS investigation in 1984 and 1985, while in bed with pneumonia, I was ordered out of bed by Norman Starkey, who told me that they had received a tip from a Los Angeles police officer advising them of a pending IRS raid in Los Angeles. Mr. Starkey ordered me to go to a computer facility and insure that all information on the computers in Los Angeles that might show Hubbard's involvement and control of Scientology's money was destroyed except for one copy of each document. These copies were to be saved on computer disks which were to be hidden in secure storage places. At the time I was also instructed to destory anything that would show the control of Mr. Starky or Mr. Miscavige over Scientology. While involved in Scientology I became aware of various operations directed against an author who had written a negative book about Scientology. The author, Paulette Cooper, was subjected to various forms of harassment. One operation included an attempt to frame her. A false bomb threat was written. Scientology agents lifted a fingerprint from Cooper's apartment. These fingerprints were then transferred to the bomb threat letter. Ms. Cooper was subjected to an investigation and was not cleared until a FBI raid resulted in the seizure of Scientology documents that exposed the operation as a frame-up. There was at least one other operation against Ms. Cooper. The substance of it was to plant a boyfriend to reinforce and play upon her suicidal tendencies in the hopes that she would commit suicide. In 1976 and 1977, the then-Mayor of Clearwater, Florida, Gabe Cazares, was involved with litigation against Scientology. Arrangements were made to have an attorney by the name of Merril Vanniere, a Scientologist, represent Mr. Cazares and sabotage his case. This plot was also exposed by documents obtained in an FBI raid of a Scientology facility. Also, in response to Mr. Cazares' litigation against Scientology, an attempt was made to implicate Mr. Cazares in a staged hit-and-run accident. During an IRS criminal investigation in the 1984 to 1985 time period, the IRS ordered production of various communications between Hubbard and Author Services, Inc. (ASI). The ASI staff worked literally day and night for several days reviewing documents so that unfavorable documents could be destroyed or otherwise concealed from the IRS. Lyman Spurlock and Marion M. Dendue, Scientologists involved in this operation, informed me of this operation. Also during this IRS investigation, my husband, Rick Aznaran, was ordered to remove and conceal any incriminating documents from certain locations. He was also directed to make the computer network "raid proof." This involved creating a system where incriminating documents could be deleted from computer storage rapidly and before the IRS could obtain control over the computers. I have examined certain documents regarding Steven Fishman's experience with Scientology, have had conversations with Mr. Fishman's counsel, and have reviewed the 1151-page autobiographical account of Mr. Fishman's experience entitled "The Lonesome Squirrel." Based upon my 15 years of experience in Scientology and my review of the Fishman materials, I offer the following conclusions: 1. I believe Mr. Fishman's assertions that he was a member since 1979 and that he was as actively involved as he states. This belief is based on my experience that only a committed member of long standing would know the details of the inner working of the group; Mr. Fishman had such awareness. Involvement in a group that thrives on secrecy and excludes most members from participation in high-level projects means that any member who exceeds a certain level of involvement enjoys the trust of the leadership; such trust would be earned only by extended membership. Mr. Fishman enjoyed that trust. His accounts of meetings with high-level officials and his knowledge of the operations and functions of the hierarchy are so detailed and accurate that they couldn't have been gained except through direct personal experience. 2. Refutation by Scientology officials of Mr. Fishman's membership prior to Feb 8, 1986, and their disclaimer of his involvement and their lack of records pertaining to such membership is perfectly consistent with their standard procedure in protecting themselves. As noted above, I was personally involved in the destruction of records when it suited their purpose. Scientology propounds the belief that any action whatsoever taken to protect the organization is justified, as the group takes precedence over the individual. Any member performing criminal acts for the benefit of the group was kept at arm's length; if apprehended, the member was disavowed by Scientology. this procedure was used even on the wife of the founder of Scientology. Gven the serious potential threat that Mr. Fishman's defense posed to the group, I find Mr. Fishman's account of certain members of Scientology's involvement in the plan to fabricate the threats against Mr. Fishman and his counsel and to thereby undermine Mr. Fishman's credibility and render him useless as a witness against Scientology to be consistent with their Modus operandi. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Texas that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 18th day of July 1990, in Dallas, VICKI AZNARAN. ____________________________________________________________ Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33534 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!lavc!dennis.l.erlich From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: German news: sect to 1/2 Message-ID: <9502240824.0BT6200@support.com> References: <3ije6f$n0a@gv-gate.gvg.tek.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.25/PRIMP 1.56p Distribution: world Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 08:24:24 -0800 Lines: 98 I knew Julia Lewis. She was the matriarch of LA Org when I first got in. Married to Ken Salman - Exec. Dir of the org. The OCA belonged to her. So did LA Org when she founded it. Phatman stole both from her. +---------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * that person (tm) >DER SPIEGEL 28/1994 >GERMANY >Sects >FOUNDATION GONE > >An Ex-Scientologist is contesting the rights of the Sect to use a >Psycho Test. Millions are at stake. > >In "scientologese" the story would sound like this: he is a >"suppressive person" and has enjoyed the blessings of Dianetics for >years through the enlightenments of the genius and founder of the sect, L. >Ron Hubbard, and then he commits "treason". > >The traitor's name is Tom Voltz, 39, he lives in Zurich and according >to his own statements he was a member of the sect for 23 years. As a business >consultant, he "missioned" numerous companies with the simple insights of the >self-proclaimed church, with the help of a Personality Test, which is an >important tool of the Scientology ideology. > >Scientology has been using the so-called Oxford Capacity Analysis test (OCA) >in its modified form also known as U Test for many years: at street stalls, >in so-called Missions and Orgs, but also during Recruitment Tests in companies >which are close to Scientology, the persons to be tested have to answer 200 >intimate questions concerning the state of affairs of their own soul. For >example: "Do you often ponder about your own inferiority?" This >examination allegedly gives revealing information about important character >traits of the person tested. > >There could soon be an end to all this. Voltz the renegade is contesting the >rights of the sect to use the dubious test. Together with the Zurich lawyer >Wolfgang Larese, who has specialized in Copyright, Voltz wants to force >Scientology to cease their "commercial violation of Copyright". > >The business sect would be hard hit, if Voltz and Larese were ruled to be >right. >Because the OCA Test, which is really free of charge, helps the Scientologists >to get new victims and therefore to expand their multi-million dollar >empire. > >"The OCA helps", it says in one sect publication, "to find hidden aberrations." > >To improve their test results, members submit to so called auditing therapies >for hours and days, with the assurance that the alleged character defects >are going "to be addressed and erased". Total costs of the courses: up to >several >tens of thousands of Deutsch Mark. > >Voltz and Larese are claiming to have the rights to the OCA Test >producing a certificate, among other things, dating from the year 1956, which >Voltz discovered in the US Bureau/office/department for Copyrights in >Washington. The paper identifies the psychologist Julia Lewis as the author of >a >test with the name "American Personality Analysis". > >Lawyer Larese explains that Julia Lewis, as a Scientologist, had been >working together with L. Ron Hubbard on several occasions. Later Hubbard >started to employ the test with insignificant modifications and under a >different >name for his sect purposes. > >Scientology followers up to now had imagined that their Psycho Guru >Hubbard invented the test himself. But a glossary of the sect dating from the >year 1957 names the Lewis Test as the original version of the subsequent OCA >questionnaire of the Scientologists, says Larese. > >The psychologist had enforced her rights by writting to the sect pointing out >her >copyright. In a letter of 25th April 1978, which carries the signature of Julia > >Lewis, she demanded compensation for the utilization of her questionnaire, >without success. > >In March 1990 Voltz, still a member of the sect at that time, bought >the Copyrights from the widower of Julia Lewis, who had died in 1979. But the >Scientologists refused to pay him Licence fees for his copyright, says Voltz. >Because of his monetary claims he was slandered as an extortionist, and in >November 1993 he left the sect. Before doing so, he transferred the utilization > >rights to a company managed by lawyer Larese, which has now brought a criminal >charge against Scientology. > >Should Voltz and his lawyer be successful in Switzerland with the sentence >demanded >by the public prosecutor, the sect will have to fear for its lucrative busines úÿ [ Continued In Next Message... ] Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33587 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!news.tek.com!gv-gate.gvg.tek.com!faceplant!shaunc From: shaunc@faceplant.gvg.tek.com (Math Hoodlum) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: REPOST: Why Scientology Qualifies as a Cult Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:55:55 GMT Organization: International Internet Administration Lines: 337 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ilrmb$2ll@gv-gate.gvg.tek.com> Reply-To: shaunc@faceplant.gvg.tek.com (Math Hoodlum) NNTP-Posting-Host: faceplant.gvg.tek.com Recently I posted that Scientology is definitely deserving of being called a cult rather than a true religion. I finally located the backing information I mentioned; here it is again for those who have just tuned in recently. -- @Man ~Subject: Scientology is NOT a cult!? ~From: harringtonj-smtc@nova.novanet.org ~Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:11:00 -0500 SCIENTOLOGY, A COERCIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SYSTEM Criteria for determining if a group is a dangerous and destructive cult I have been associated with the subject matter of Scientology and its many organizations for twenty nine years. In this time, I have had extensive administrative and technical training and worked at various organizations in addition to doing some of its more advanced "Upper" levels. In this essay I have made liberal, and sometimes verbatim, use of the materials that FACTNET has developed in its research of coercive psychological systems. This essay is limited to an analysis of Scientology as an coercive psychological system, its policies and procedures, and does NOT include independent groups or individuals using scientological materials, in whatever form, outside of the ORGANIZATION. Anybody can unfairly accuse or attack an organization or group they disagree with or dislike by calling it a "cult" or saying that they are using coercive mind control or coercive psychological systems as you call it. FACTNET uses specific criteria to determine if a coercive psychological system has been used. It does not imply organizations or individuals are using coercive pyschological systems or are destructive or dangerous cults without careful research and determination that the evidence fits definite criteria. The FIRST set of criteria comes from the description of "A technical overview of Psychological Coercion" derived from a report by Singer and Ofshe, Apr 1990. A summary of this report was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court as an educational Appendix on coercive psychological systems in the case of Wollersheim vs Church of Scientology 89-1367 and 89-1361. The Wollersheim case was being considered related to issues involving abuse in this area. The SECOND set of criteria have to do with defining common elements of destructive and dangerous cults. COMMON PROPERITIES OF POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE AND DANGEROUS CULTS * The cult is authoritarian in its power structure. The leader is regarded as the supreme authority. He or she may delegate certain power to a few subordinates for the purpose of seeing that members adhere to the leader's wishes and roles. There is no appeal outside of his or her system to greater systems of justice. For example, if a school teacher feels unjustly treated by a principal, appeals can be made. In a cult, the leader claims to have the only and final ruling on all matters. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, was considered the "Source" of all materials published by the organization. He personally approved the appointment of all key leaders and they served at his pleasure. He hand-picked and indoctrinated his present successor, Captain David Miscavige, when Miscavige was 22 years old. Church members seeking a redress of grievances outside of the Scientology "Justice" system are automatically expelled from the organization and declared "Suppressive persons". Hubbard was the final authority on all petitions on grievances. * The cult's leaders tend to be charismatic, determined and domineering. They persuade followers to drop their families, jobs, and careers, and friends to follow them. They (not the individual) take over control of their follower's possessions, money, and lives. * The cult's leaders are self-appointed, messianic persons who claim to have a special mission in life. Hubbard was a prolific writer of science fiction. In his many lectures he spoke of his adventures in para-military space organizations prior to his coming to Earth. He claimed to be Guatama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, in a previous life. He stated his mission was to create a New Civilization by the Scientologization of the Earth. * The cult's leaders center the veneration of members upon themselves. Priests, rabbis, ministers, democratic leaders, and leader of genuinely altruistic movements keep the veneration of adherents focused on God, abstract principles, and group purposes. Cult leaders, in contrast, keep the focus of love, devotion and allegiance on themselves. In compliance with Hubbard's directive, pictures or busts of Hubbard are in almost every room in the organizations. At the end of every staff meeting, members face an oversized picture of Hubbard and give a three-cheers chant and a rousing round of applauses to the icon. The organization built a multi-million dollar museum/shrine in memory of Hubbard after his death in 1986. All organizations maintain a unused office space for Hubbard, in anticipation of his future return. * The cult tends to be totalitarian in its control of the behaviour of its members. Cults are likely to dictate in great detail what members wear, eat, when and where they work, sleep, and bathe - as well as what to believe, think, and say. * The cult tends to have a double set of ethics. Members are urged to be open and honest within the group, and confess all to the leaders. On the other hand, they are encouraged to deceive and manipulate outsiders or nonmembers. Established religions teach members to be honest and truthful to all, and to abide by one set of ethics. Organization staff members are compelled to submit to interrogations called "security checks" and to write statements detailing their transgressions against the organization and its leaders, called "Overts/Witholds Writeups". Critics of the organization and dissident former members are considered "Suppressives" and a policy called "Fair Game" exempts Church members from dealing fairly and ethically with them. "Suppressive" can be lied to, cheated, tricked, sued, or destroyed, without any consequences from the organization. * the cult has basically only two purposes, recruiting new members and fund-raising. Established religions and altruistic movements may also recruit and raise funds. However, their sole purpose is not to grow larger; such groups have the goals to better the lives of their members and mankind in general. The cults may claim to make social contributions, but in actuality these remain claims, or gestures. Their focus is always dominated by recruiting new members and fund-raising. The Scientology organization has developed sophisticated techniques for gaining new members. "Personality" testing and "dissemination" drills and high-pressure sales techniques are used extensively. Field Staff Members (FSMs) earn 15% commissions for new members they sign up for Church services. The weekly gross income of the organization is considered its highest priority and the organization reported a yearly worldwide annual income of about 300 million dollars in the early 1990's. The cost for members to achieve its full services and highest "Upper Levels" is over $250,000. The organization has incorporated numerous shell organization that maintain a facade of social reform groups, but they are merely a vehicle for Public Relations ploys and rabble rousing against groups the organization considers antipathetic to its activities. * The cult appears to be innovative and exclusive. The leader claims to be breaking with tradition, offering something novel, and instituting the only viable system for change that will solve life's problems or the world's ills. While claiming this, the cult then surreptitiously uses systems of psychological coercion on its members to inhibit their ability to examine the actual validity of the claims of the leader and the cult. Scientology calls itself a "Religion" and a "Science of Life" and states as its goals the creation of a "World without War, Crime, or Insanity". THE THIRD SET OF CRITERIA The third set of criteria has to do with defining other common elements of coercive psychological systems. If most of Robert Jay Lifton's eight point model of thought reform ("Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism" by R. Lifton, W.W. Norton & Co., 1963) is being used in a cultic organization, it is most likely a dangerous and destructive cult. These eight points are: 1. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL* * Limitations of many/all forms of communication with those outside the group. Books, magazines, letters and visits with friends and family are taboo. "Come out and be separate". At the Scientology "Flag Land Base" married staff members are only allowed one hour a day with their children. Visits or personal calls from "non-Scientologist" family members are strongly frowned on. Dependents do not attend public schools. Staff members are forbidden to have TVs in their living quarters. Private mail for staff members was frequently opened by senior staff members to check for disturbing news about the organization from friends or relatives. . Reading of newspapers or non-Scientology materials is strongly frowned on. Staff members are forbidden from reading or discussing any material critical of the organization or its leaders. Members are forbidden communication with disaffected members. 2. MYSTICAL MANIPULATION* * The potential convert to the group becomes convinced of the higher purpose and special calling of the group through a profound encounter/experience, for example, through an alleged miracle or prophetic word of those in the group. In 1968, Hubbard announced to all the organizations that he had traversed the "Wall of Fire" and discovered the long buried secret reasons for the degradation of the Earth and 76 nearby planets. This discovery is commonly called the "OT3" materials. Hubbard claimed the mystery had been buried for 76 million years and he was the first to discover the secret without dying. Hubbard developed a methodology which he claimed would liberate the planet and create a New Civilization. He formed a elite organization of devoted members called the "Sea Organization" to carry out this personal mission. He bought a fleet of ships and called himself the "Commodore" of the flotilla and Sea Organization members dressed in naval uniforms and formed a para-military, quasi-religious organization and started a massive world-wide recruitment effort to build the group that would "Clear" the planet. 3. DEMAND FOR PURITY* * An explicit goal of the group is to bring about some kind of change, whether it be on a global, social, or personal level. "Perfection is possible if one stays with the group and is committed." Hubbard claimed that "Total Freedom" was only possible within Scientology and Sea Organization members sign ONE BILLION year contracts as a symbol of their committment to Hubbard's mission. 4. CULT OF CONFESSION* * The unhealthy practice of self disclosure to members in the group, often in the context of a public gathering in the group, admitting past sins and imperfections, even doubts about the group and critical thoughts about the integrity of the leaders. Electronic interrogations, called "Security Checking" are used extensively within the organization to assure group conformity and to detect and stifle dissenting members. Members are required to write detailed descriptions of their shortcomings and dissident thoughts about the organization's leaders or policies. These writeups and security check session reports are maintained and are used by the organization to compel silence if the member becomes disaffected and leaves. "Ethics" conditions are assigned to deal with non-productive members, or members manifesting indications of disloyalty or disaffection. It is a Hubbardian maxim that members expressing criticism of the organization, leaving the organization, or failing to make "spiritual" progress are manifesting undisclosed transgressions against the organization. This insidious manipulative device remains intact in the minds of many former members and serves as a constant reminder of their "undisclosed" trangressions against the organization and their "real reason" for leaving it. 5. SACRED SCIENCE* * The group's perspective is absolutely true and completly adequate to explain EVERYTHING. The doctrine is not subject to amendments or question. ABSOLUTE conformity to the doctrine is required. Hubbard called his ideology "The Science of Knowing How To Know". He called his essays "STANDARD TECH". NO amendments were allowed and the materials had to be LITERALLY interpreted, without ANY verbal explainations. Hubbard developed a "Study Tech" and anyone questioning or disagreeing with his essays was considered to be suffering from "Misunderstood Words". Any person who amended his procedures was labeled a "Squirrel" and expelled from the organization and branded a "Suppressive Person". The organization calls Hubbard's essays its "Sacred Scriptures" and copyrighted it and obtained "Trade Secret" status on Hubbard's mystical experiences, its "Most Sacred Scriptures", the "Upper Levels". The organization has severe sanctions for members who publically disclose the contents of its "Upper Levels". 6. LOADED LANGUAGE* * A new vocabulary emerges within the context of the group. Group members "think" within the very abstract and narrow parameters of the group's doctrine. The terminology sufficiently stops members from thinking critically by reinforcing a "black and white" mentality. Loaded terms and cliches prejudices thinking. Hubbard wrote several thick volumes containing Scientology jargon and members are forbidden to use terminology from "earlier practices" before they came into the organization. The organization uses derisive terms for non-Scientologists (Wogs), and critics and dissident former members (Suppressive Persons). Hubbard was especially harsh in his vilification of mental health professionals and medical doctors, and considered them in league with a world-wide conspiracy against him and his organization. 7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON* * Pre-group experience and group experience are narrowly and decisively interpreted through the absolute doctrine, even when experience contradicts the doctrine. 8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE* * Salvation is possible only in the group. Those who leave the group are doomed. The Hubbardian view that Scientology is the ONLY "Road to Total Freedom" is constantly stressed. The threat of expulsion and denial of the "Upper Levels" is an effective method in maintaining group conformity and discouraging internal dissidence. Even amongst many expelled members, the emotional distress and consideration that one has been "Condemned to Hell" by denial of access to the "Upper Levels" lingers for a long time. Joe "The Ultimate Freedom is the freedom of the mind." L. Ron Hubbard -- The Church Of Scientology is a dangerous cult and a threat to the Internet. See alt.religion.scientology for details. Privacy through probable primes ## PGP public key available on request Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:33589 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!xs4all.nl!anonymous-remailer Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: anonymous-remailer@xs4all.nl (Name withheld by request) X-Warning: This message was forwarded by an Anonymous Remailer at XS4all. X-Comment: XS4ALL does not necessarily approve of the contents of this posting. X-Comment: Please report inappropriate use to Subject: The Price List X-Posting-Host: xs1.xs4all.nl Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 00:53:10 +0000 Message-ID: <199502250047.AA06743@xs1.xs4all.nl> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 327 CoS PRICES FOR PROCESSING UP TO OT8 AND BEYOND Winter 94/95 The current (conservative) total cost for the whole bridge to OT9 readiness is estimated at $365,000 - $380,000. Auditing hours are calculated on the basis of an average case. It _could_ cost a lot more. Read on for the full price breakdown. These prices are taken directly from the latest Flag price list and, in the case of OT8, the Freewinds donation rate list. Main Changes since the last posting: OT V is now estimated at four intensives, not two. List now includes two OT VI "set-up" intensives. List now includes one "Pledge" intensive between OT VI and OT VII. OT I, II, III and VI have all gone up in price. Solo I and II prices have now been revealed. OT VIII C/S-ing has gone up. Wherever there was missing data on the list, I have estimated the cost based on current prices at Saint Hill organization, England, and indicated this with an asterisk symbol (*). Saint Hill prices come from an insert that accompanies "The Auditor" monthly journal. Processing is sold by the Church of Scientology in blocks of 12.5 hours at a time. A block of 12.5 hours is known as an "intensive." The second column in the following price table gives a broad but realistic estimate of the number of intensives required to complete each Processing step, for Joe Average. No estimate can be perfect, but it should add up to a good idea of the overall amount of time and money required. It gets more difficult to estimate the time required for the upper OT levels, as this appears to be quite variable. I know several OTVIIs who have been on that level for many years. Note that these prices are for the "Processing Route" up the "Bridge." Most people get interested in Scientology because they want to attain the results promised - problems handled, greater abilities, OT powers etc etc. And they don't really want to wait for ages to attain these. This requires them to receive Processing. However, as you will see, the price of CoS Processing is astronomically prohibitive. So what is the alternative? The alternative is to opt for the "Training Route." The idea is that you study how to become an "Auditor" (practitioner), and, working with another student you process each other up the Bridge. This is called "co-auditing" and takes a VERY much longer time to reach eg Clear - you could be talking 7-10 years studying flat out every weekend. The irony of it is that it is still incredibly expensive to do it this way ! It's not until you actually set foot on this route that you begin to see the costs mounting up - you are obliged to buy book after book, tape set after tape set, an "E-meter" costing up to $3,780, (some registrars will try to sell you two - seriously! There is an LRH policy which specifies that a student must have a back up meter in case the first one develops a fault), a full set of "Technical Volumes" ($2,025), Review Auditing - by the intensive - when you and your fellow student run into difficulties, etc etc. For the new recruit, the Training Route cost to Clear is likely to be around a minimum of $50,000. And that's for essential purchases only! So you couldn't afford the Processing Route, and you soon discover that you can't afford the Training Route either. Anyway, you can't wait that long to go "Clear", and your weekends have all but disappeared. So what can you do now ? Well, it finally comes down to this. You'll be offered a job working for the organization as a staff member. Wages are virtually non-existent, you work almost ceaselessly morning 'til night with half a day off a week if you meet your 'targets', but you get the offer of free processing (assuming you are somehow able to make the time to get it.) If you bail out before the end of your (2.5 to 5 year) contract, you'll have to pay for any such free auditing received. I know people who were stuck on staff for 10 years who NEVER MOVED on the Bridge, they were too busy working working working. Having said that, some orgs are now pushing to get new people signed up onto the "Tech Training Corps" in an effort to create more auditors. Same conditions as above I'm afraid, but you should *eventually* get trained on the Training Route up to the lower OT levels. It SHOULD work a bit like the co-audit mentioned above, but expect to have your new found auditing abilities FULLY exploited by your new bosses in auditing the public. Your PCs will be paying a fortune, but you won't be seeing any of the money! So really, in the end, there is only one conclusion to be drawn. There is something seriously flawed in the way Scientology is administered by the Church, when it creates these structures that prohibit the majority from attaining what they sought and were promised. On average, the Church creates "hopeless hopefuls", always trying to find more credit for that elusive next step on the Bridge. At worst, it creates worn out working machines with great chunks of their lives missing. People eventually give up. If you're not a celebrity or a very rich businessman, you'll be in for a few surprises. However, all is not lost! The benefits of Scientology processing are still there to be had, at sensible prices and from experienced clearing practitioners, many of whom worked directly with LRH for years. You'll find them all around the globe, and they will help you achieve your goals, using both traditional techniques and new advances in technology. Welcome to the Free Zone. To find out more, your best bet is to subscribe to the Free Zone's own USENET NewsGroup - alt.clearing.technology - and introduce yourself when you feel ready. Okay. Here is the long awaited CoS (Flag) processing price list, from "Raw Meat" to OT8, with a glimpse beyond even that. ========== ========== ========= ===== Processing Intensives Cost per Total Step Required Intensive Cost or Course (IAS) ========== ========== ========= ===== Life Repair 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Purification RD ----------- $2,560 $2,560 TRs & Objectives 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Scn Drug Rundown 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 ARC Straightwire 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Grade 0 3 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $16,800 Grade 1 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Grade 2 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Grade 3 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 Grade 4 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200 New Era Dianetics 3 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $16,800 Clear Certainty RD 1 x 5 hr $2,800 $2,800 SUB-TOTAL TO CLEAR $128,560 *Solo Course Part 1 ----------- $3,200 $3,200 *OT Preparations 2 x 12.5 hr $3,300 $6,600 *Solo Course Part 2 ----------- $1,900 $1,900 *OT Eligibility 2 x 12.5 hr $3,300 $6,600 *OT I ----------- $2,000 $2,000 *OT II ----------- $3,800 $3,800 *OT III ----------- $6,500 $6,500 OT IV ?2 x 12.5 hr $6,500 $13,000 OT V 4 x 12.5 hr $7,400 $29,600 OT VI set-ups 2 x 12.5 hr $9,250 $18,500 OT VI ----------- $12,800 $12,800 Pledge Intensive 1 x 12.5 hr $9,250 $9,250 OT VII ----------- $3,500 $3,500 OT VII C/Sing (per year) over 2 years $3,200 $6,400 OT VIII ----------- $10,000 $10,000 OT VIII auditing ?2 x 12.5 hr $7,400 $14,800 TOTAL BILL FROM RAW MEAT TO OT VIII $277,010 ======== Now that assumes you don't run into any significant trouble along the way. Better round it up to at least $290,000 to allow for review auditing when things go wrong. These prices have already had the IAS (International Association of Scientologists) discount deducted. Of course, there are other discounts to consider, usually given for buying up as much as you can in advance. Let's be very generous and knock it down to $250,000 (16% discount over the whole bridge) While you have been progressing up the OT levels, you have increasingly been expected to "disemminate" - ie get other people interested and signed up for CoS services. This reached a peak when you hit OT VIII - here's the catch: OT IX and X will not be released until all organizations wordwide have reached the size of "Old Saint Hill" (Saint Hill organization, England, which did very well during the time LRH was there in the 1960s.) You are expected to get very active in the field of dissemination to try to make the release of these next OT levels a reality. I have to say that I don't see it happening, given the poor state that many organizations are currently in, coupled with the prohibitive CoS management policies! Further, all of a sudden the Processing and Training Routes have merged at the (current CoS) "top" of the Bridge. Before you can qualify for OT IX, you will have to take the mammoth "Saint Hill Special Briefing Course" - training to become an Auditor - and buy its associated course materials. Alternatively, you must take all the lower-level training courses from Level 0 to Level V Graduate plus five other "specialist" courses. Chances are high that, on your way from Clear to OT8, you will have succumbed to the temptation to do the three most expensive and "prestigious" rundowns in the CoS arsenal - the "L Rundowns" (there are plenty of extra rundowns for you to take that are not specifically "on the Bridge".) You will very probably have done the "Key to Life" and "Life Orientation Course" too. So to bring you right up to date, let's add these on to the $250,000 which you have spent so far: ========== ========== ========= ===== Step/Course/ Intensives Cost per Total Materials Required Intensive Cost required or Course (IAS) ========== ========== ========= ===== To OT VIII (with mass discounts) $250,000 Saint Hill Special Briefing Course ------------ $25,600 *Briefing Course materials (including 30% discount when all bought at once - if you can afford to)------------ $18,390 SHSBC Total $43,990 ======= [ALTERNATIVE: Lower "Levels" and Specialist Training Courses. (see below for price breakdown) $56,000] ======= Key to Life and Life Orientation Courses ------------ $11,500 $11,500 L10 min. 2 x 12.5 hrs $10,000 $20,000 L11 min. 2 x 12.5 hrs $10,000 $20,000 L12 min. 2 x 12.5 hrs $10,000 $20,000 REVISED TOTAL - NOW READY FOR OT IX (if/when) $364,490 - $376,500 ============ Let's just say $365K - 380K ============ ================================================================== Lower Bridge "Levels" and "Specialist" training if taken instead of Saint Hill Special Briefing Course ================================================================== Yearly IAS membership, say seven years at $300 per annum (or Lifetime membership) $2,100 Mark Super VII E-meter $3,780 Student Hat Course $960 * The Study Tapes $425 New Hubbard Professional TR Course $2,400 * Clay Table Processing Picture Book $100 * Dianetics 55! Book $40 * Technical Dictionary $90 * PRO TR Course Lectures (on cassette) $240 Hubbard Professional Upper Indoc TR Course $1,000 * Freedom Congress Lectures (on cassette) $590 Academy Level 0 Course $2,400 * Level 0 Lectures (on cassette) $240 * Self Analysis Book $18 [Full Set of Tech Volumes] $2,025 Academy Level I Course $2,400 * Level I Lectures (on cassette) $375 * Problems of Work Book $18 Academy Level II Course $2,400 * Level II Lectures (on cassette) $590 * Fundamentals of Thought Book $18 Academy Level III Course $2,400 * Level III Lectures (on cassette) $240 * Scientology 0-8 Book $18 Academy Level IV Course $2,400 * Level IV Lectures (on cassette) $240 * Handbook for Pre-Clears Book $40 * Advance Procedures & Axioms Book $40 Academy Level IV Internship $1,600 Class V Hubbard New Era Dianetics Course $3,600 * NED Lectures (on cassette) $180 * Dianetics Book $21 Class V NED Auditor Internship $1,600 Hubbard Class V Graduate Auditor Course $3,600 * Class V Graduate Auditor Lectures $300 * Science of Survival Book $52 * Case Remedies Book $40 * The Troubleshooter $700 Class V Graduate Auditor Internship $1,600 Sub Total $40,880 ======= (Special note: Those taking the co-audit Training Route to Clear to avoid the prohibitive processing costs, note that in addition to the above you will have to purchase 1) Purification Rundown, 2) Method One Co-audit, 3) E-meter Course, 4) TRs and Objectives, 5) Scientology Drug Rundown Co-audit Course, and all associated materials. You will also need to fork out for expensive Review Auditing to correct any mistakes made in your co-audit. Approximate total additional cost = $10,000) Required Specialist courses --------------------------- Hubbard Happiness Rundown Auditor Course $1,200 PTS/SP Course $1,200 PTS/SP Auditor Course $2,000 Hubbard Senior Security Checker Course $2,400 Hubbard Senior Security Checker Auditor Internship $1,600 Hubbard False Purpose Rundown Auditor Course $2,400 Hubbard False Purpose Rundown Auditor Internship $1,600 PDH Detection and Handling Course $1,200 Tapes, books etc for above (estimated) $1,500 Total for Lower Levels and Specialist Training $55,980 That's $56,000 ======= Xref: utcsri alt.answers:7704 alt.religion.scientology:34998 news.answers:38776 Path: utcsri!rutgers!goclenius.rutgers.edu!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!boulder!csnews!esl.cs.colorado.edu!lindsay From: lindsay@esl.cs.colorado.edu (Don Lindsay) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: non-scientologist access faq Followup-To: alt.religion.scientology Date: 28 Feb 1995 07:44:40 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 1046 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Message-ID: <3iuk98$5i5@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: lindsay@cs.colorado.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: esl.cs.colorado.edu Summary: where to find unsanctioned information about Scientology, Dianetics, the Church, or Hubbard. Includes book reviews, library references, FTP sites. Unsanctioned only means that Church publications are not the primary focus. Keywords: faq scientology dianetics hubbard books ftp Archive-name: scientology/skeptic/access-faq Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: Thu 2 February 1995 Version: 2.8 Access to material about Scientology, Dianetics, the Church, or L. Ron Hubbard. The bulk of the material reviewed was written by non-Church-members or ex-Church-members, but some Church material is covered. All opinions belong to the various reviewers. This material was collected off the net and edited by Don Lindsay (lindsay@cs.colorado.edu). Short contributions, pro or con, are welcome. Changes since version 2.7: Update to Jim Lippard's WWW page Changes since version 2.5: Fixed email address of tilman@netmbx2.netmbx.de Note that the Factnet WWW page doesn't seem to work Changed FTP site for modemac Added FTP site of Jeff Jacobsen Added the tnx-l mailing list Added WWW pages of Skeptical Enquirer and some Skeptics Added the Magazines section Added another review of "Mind Game" Added a review of "Countercultures: a sociological analysis" Added a review of "Brainwashing", a Church publication -------------------------------------- Usenet newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology alt.clearing.technology -------------------------------------- BBS: WISENET, for WISE members only. FACTNet "It has probably the largest publicly available library on Scientology anywhere, and word search capabilities. 1-303-530-1942 (up to 28.8k)." (as of 6 Jul 1994 post to a.r.s. by cultxprt@indirect.com (Jeff Jacobsen)) F.A.C.T.Net, 601 16th. St. #C-217, Golden, CO 80401, 1-303-473-0111 (voice) Email to factnet@rmii.com. -------------------------------------- World Wide Web: http://www.acmeweb.com/factnet - doesn't seem to work, but there is an FTP site for factnet. http://www.skeptic.com/ -- the erudite Jim Lippard's doorway to all things skeptical ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ffunch/fhome.html - Free Zone http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~sloth/sci/sci_index.html -- "Da Sloth" http://iquest.com/~fitz/csicop/ (Skeptical Enquirer page) http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kjetikj/skepsis/skeptic.html (Norway) http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/skeptic.html (UK Skeptic page) http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html (Skeptics' Dictionary: mentions Dianetics) http://www.thur.de/religio.html - about cults and sects. Note: this is in German, not English. Notice that WWW browsers can be used to access Anonymous FTP sites. -------------------------------------- Anonymous FTP sites: ftp.earthlink.net /pub/archives/brianw -- unofficial but sanctioned "currently off line" says Wenger's users/welcome faq 1.5 ftp.pcnet.com /users/brianw replaces earthlink, says Wenger. theta.csh.rit.edu - wasn't up when I tried it. Questions to ftp-manager@theta.csh.rit.edu or george@theta.csh.rit.edu ftp.rmii.com pub2/factnet -- FACTnet. ftp.netcom.com /pub/mo/modemac/factnet -- a factnet sampler. ftp.rahul.net /pub/homer -- Homer Smith ftp.primenet.com /users/c/cultxpt -- Jeff Jacobsen If you have "archie", then "archie scientology" will produce a list of sites, which typically are just "mirror" copies of the Usenet FAQ archive: rtfm.mit.edu, pub/usenet/news.answers/scientology src.doc.ic.ac.uk /usenet/usenet-by-group/alt.answers/scientology/users unix.hensa.ac.uk /pub/uunet/usenet/news.answers/scientology/users which is also on some archive CD's, some of which are mounted online: freebsd.cdrom.com /.9/internet/rtfm/alt.religion/scientology -------------------------------------- Electronic Mailing Lists: Email to STUS@PSSI.COM to join a Church-sanctioned list, according to Wenger's FAQ. Alt.clearing.technology used to have a list called Theta-L, and perhaps still does. tnx-l the "Theta News eXchange" for Scientologists in good standing. Contact the list moderator (Steve Porter) at stp@Earthlink.net -------------------------------------- Magazines: 15 Jan 1995 ant@ivy.ping.dk: The name is International Viewpoints, and it is _not_ concerned with quarrels or battles between the church and others. The editor is 65 year old 'free' scientologist Antony Phillips, who first contacted scientology (before it was a church) in 1954 in England, worked for a total of ten years in various scientology organisations, and was thrown out in 1983. Details can be obtained by writing to him at: Internet: ant@ivy.ping.dk Postal: IVy, PO Box 78, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark --- 13 Jan 1995 ladyv (Enid Vien): Free Spirit Dept 1934 PO Box 6905 Terra Linda Ca. 94903-0905 It costs $50.00 for non subscribers. If you wish to subscribe it is $15.00 and then the book costs $40.00. I am a subscriber and I highly recommend it. -------------------------------------- Books and library material are the remainder of this FAQ. "L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?" -- by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr. a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf.(Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987) ISBN 0-8184-0444-2. In 1992, from Barricade Books, Fort Lee, New Jersey, dist. by Publishers Group West, $12.95 "Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard", by Russell Miller (N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co., 1987) ISBN 0-8050-0654-0. $19.95 London: Michael Joeseph Penguin Book Ltd, 1987. Russell Miller is a British journalist who's done several biographies. A Piece of Blue Sky -- by Jon Atack, 1990 A Lyle Stuart Book, Published by Carol Publishing Group 120 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ, USA, 07094 ISBN 0-8184-0499-X 13 Nov 1994 Tommy the Tourist (Anon User) said: Or you can order direct from Jon's wife Noella Atack, "Avalon" Cranston Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3HQ Price 15 pounds sterling. This includes p&p if to a UK address. Overseas orders will need to add extra.... If you want the facts, this is the book to get. Review by revpk@cellar.UUCP (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano), 1992: "Messiah or Madman?" is a poorly organized, sloppy piece of work, with little sense to its organization or even writing style. Passages that skip between various events do so with little reason, and frequently without even citing dates or times. There's no index, little sourcing, and much of it seems gleaned from court records. Howeveer, it's the only one widely available. "Bare-faced messiah" is better written, better documented, and is perhaps the one indispensable biography of L. Ron Hubbard. The problem is, it doesn't deal with much of the Church's history; but it does provide lots of innarestin' details about life aboard the Sea Org, and it's the best written of the three books available. "A Piece of Blue Sky" is a history of both the Church and Hubbard-- very well researched, lots of documentation, and well structured. It's too bad Atack's not much of a stylist, because the book amounts to a series of facts listed after each other for easy access. Still, Atack's book is the single best overall guide to Scientology that I've ever read, and I recommend it to everyone. Review by tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook), 1992: The book is called A PIECE OF BLUE SKY by Jon Atack, and it is great! I spent the last week totally absorbed in this book, and I highly recommend it. Atack is an ex-Scientologist, and he has done a fine job of explaining their beliefs, and also he presents a very interesting history of Hubbard and Dianetics. Review by djb@dberleant.uark.edu (/usr/spool/mail/djb) (Dan), 1992: "Messiah or Madman" is largely a primary source. Meaning that the material is recounted from actual events witnessed by the authors, with little interpretation given (what interpretation there is is negative, of course). Both the authors were heavily involved in Scientology, particularly Corydon who was an important figure in the movement. In addition to their own experiences in the movement and with Hubbard himself, they provide page after page of quotes from other former Scientologists, describing their own experiences and events they witnessed. Russell Miller's excellent book "Bare-Faced Messiah" is a secondary source, thoroughly researched and well written, but definitely complementary to "Messiah or Madman" rather than replacing it or being "better" (whatever that means). Review in anonymous posting, 20feb93: The newly-updated version of Bent Corydon's book, _L. Ron Hubbard Messiah or Madman_ is now available in trade paperback. Hastings is carrying it in their biography section for $15. At least one other major chain has it on their shelves also. Review by ffunch@netcom.com (Flemming Funch), a Free Zone ex-scientologist, 11 Apr 1994: the only book of those that I like and recommend is Miller's book. The other two people are very biased and more acting out of revenge and self-interest. Miller was never a scientologist and is mainly trying to tell the true story as he sees it. Miller was incidentally mostly using Atack's data to write his book. Even though Miller is also leaning towards present Hubbard in a negative light I think his fairly neutral listing of facts leaves it more up to the reader to decide. For example, Miller sets out to prove how Hubbard's claims of having traveled extensively in China was a lie. And he goes ahead to document exactly that Hubbard DID travel in China as a teenager. Hub exaggerated a bit, but what I got from it was that he did do a lot of interesting things at an early age that could inspire him with some unusual wisdom. Review of "A piece of Blue Sky" by hutton@pluto.dev.promis.com (Don Hutton) 12apr93: - If you are going to read just one critical book on Scientology, read this. It's pretty comprehensive and pretty even-handed (which is unfortunately rare in this field). When the evidence supports L. Ron's claims (eg. his hydrographics studies) it says so. When Scientology's critics do something dumb (like the time it was banned in Australia) it says so. The fusillades against other aspects of L. Ron and his creations are heavily annotated as to source (eg. Sentencing memorandum in U.S.A. vs. Jane Kember, District Court, DC, criminal case no., 78-401, p.25.) I've found this, and all other books and articles critical of Scientology very hard to find. I had to order "Blue Sky" through the Cult Awareness Network (1-312-267-7777, 2421 W. Pratt Blvd., Suite 1173, Chicago, Ill, U.S.A. 60645) as I couldn't even order it directly from the Canadian publisher. They're sort of your one-stop shopping place for stuff like this. They've got some good stuff and some really bad stuff (for the latter, check out the "Cults - Just Say NO!" video - narrated by Charlton Heston! BWAAA-HA-HA!). P.S. There was also an interesting article by Behnar (the editor of the Time magazine article last year) in QUILL, the journal of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, about the aftermath of the article. He was eventually given some kind of medal by President George Bush for the article. The QUILL article was from one of the fall 1992 issues. [Editor's note: that's Behar, see below.] --- "Scientology from the inside out" "How to fool the press", Robert Vaughn Young Quill, v81n9, 38-41, nov93 A response was published: "Another view of Scientology" By: Linda Simmons-Hight, Media Relations Director, Church of Sci. International The Quill Jan, 1994 --- the Catholic Sentinal, March 17, 1978 "Scientology Leaders Convicted of Fraud" PARIS- The Paris tribunal has found four leaders of the Church of Scientology, including its Amercian founder, guilty of making fradulant claims that physical cures and professional success can be acheived through Scientology. Ron Lafayette Hubbard, the American found of the sect, was condemned to four years imprisonment and a fine of 35,000 francs (a little over $7,000). Henry Laarhuis, Dutch former executive director of the French branch of the organization, was condemned to three years and a find of 15,000 francs. The article goes on to say Hubbard was convicted in absentia. --- "The Prisoners of Saint Hill" by Tim Kelsey and Mike Ricks, the Independent [United Kingdom], Jan.31, 1994. Reviewed in CAN newsletter April '94 --- A magazine database search turned up People Weekly v19 p84(5) 1983 Jan 24 by John Saar "Ministry of fear; scandal rocks Scientology as the founder's wife goes to prison and his son turns prosecution witness" also Penthouse feedback, Penthouse v15 p28(6) 1984 Jan The other side of L. Ron Hubbard, Jr : Ron deWolf also "Follow-ups: shamed in Spain. (Heber Jentzsch, head of Church of Scientology arrested in Spain)" Fortune v119 n2 p16(1) 1989 Jan 16 also "See You In Court", by Russell Miller, Punch, 19feb88 p.46 (short bit about the Church suing to stop the publication of "Bare Faced Messiah") --- Mind Game -- by Norman Spinrad, Jove Books, copyright 1980. Review by lindsay@cs.colorado.edu, 1992: This is a novel, a "roman a clef", about an author whose wife joins the "Transformationalism" cult. Yes, the cult is led by a pulp-era science-fiction writer. He even says things like, "We're developing the Atomic Age of the mind." Gee, any guesses? Review by dennis.l.erlich@support.com Mon Jan 23 1995: Descriptions of Celebrity Center and infiltration of entertainment industry are accurate. How the cult tore the marriage apart in the early part of the story was *too* real for me. The pressures to disconnect from family who might say "go slow" were real. Spinrad's descriptions of the inside of the cult and the cult leader were phony. I'd say his discriptions of the outside of the cult were dead on. He's never been in one, though. The guy had obviously been had by the Celebrity Center scam. --- Heads - by Greg Bear, Tor, 1990 ISBN 0-812-51996-5 Review by lindsay@cs.colorado.edu, 1992: This is good science fiction, set about a century from now. The relevance is that the villain is obviously the Church of Scientology, with just enough details changed so that the author can't be sued. --- EVANS, Dr. Christopher, _Cults of Unreason_, Harrap, London, 1973. Evans, Christopher. Cults of Unreason. New York: Dell Publishing, 1975. ~From: paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson), 1992 Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK I have just read "Cults of Unreason" by Christopher Evans. Most of the book is devoted to a history and discussion of Dianetics and Scientology. This is readable and at times very funny. As Evans says, "A rich vein of unconsious humor runs through the official publications of the cult" (or words to that effect). The book is old and somewhat out of date, but it is detailed and impartial --- VOSPER, Cyril, _The Mindbenders_, Neville Spearman, London, 1971. ~From: andrewd@chook.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Dunstan), 1992: See also "The Mind Benders" by Cyril Vosper. (I think this is right!) The Scientologists went to a GREAT deal of trouble in the UK to try to suppress this book. --- "Bigger Secrets", by William Poundstone, 1986, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-45397-6. PP 58-62 are titled "The Secret Teachings of L. Ron Hubbard". Summarizes Zemu. Dirt on Hubbard's war hero status. Claims they pull in $100M/yr and have dummy corporations in "no tell countries like Leichtenstein, Luxembourg, and Liberia". --- ~From: lippard@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard), 1992 [quoting] The Arizona Skeptic, vol. 5 no. 2 (September/October 1991), pp. 1-5. "Parts of Dianetics, for example, have striking resemblance to two articles found in Volume 28 (1941) of the Psychoanalytic Review." Dr. J. Sadger, "Preliminary Study of the Psychic Life of the Fetus and the Primary Germ." Psychoanalytic Review July 1941 28:3. p.333 Grace W. Pailthorpe, M.D., "Deflection of Energy, as a Result of Birth Trauma, and It's Bearing Upon Character Formation." Psychoanalytic Review July 1941 28:3 pp. 305-326, p.326. Nathaniel Thornton, D.Sc., "What is the Therapeutic Value of Abreaction?" Psychoanalytic Review 1949 36:411-415. p.411. Albert I. Berger, "Towards a Science of the Nuclear Mind: Science-fiction Origins of Dianetics", Science Fiction Studies, 1989, vol. 16:123-141 p.135 Jack Fox, Alvin E. Davis, and B. Lebovits, "An Experimental Investigation of Hubbard's Engram Hypothesis (Dianetics)," Psychological Newsletter 1959, 10, 131-134. S.I. Hayakawa, "From Science-fiction to Fiction-science", Etc.: A Review of General Semantics, 1951 Vol. 8 (4) 280- 293. p. 293. --- Roy Wallis, _The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology_, 1977, Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-0420000 Review by lucey@hpwin088.uksr.hp.com (Peter Lucey) 12 Jul 1994: ...excellent book. Wallis did his homework.There's very little sociologese; and lots of facts. Its fair, too. (Though critical; how could it not be?) He seemed to have some support from the CoS when examining Scn; though not of his conclusions:). Highly recommended --- Wallis also had an article in the first issue of The Skeptical Inquirer (then known as The Zetetic) titled "'Poor Man's Psychoanalysis?' Observations on Dianetics." The Jacobsen article may be obtained from Jacobsen (who also has other stuff on Scientology) at P.O. Box 3541, Scottsdale, AZ 85271, or from the Phoenix Skeptics, P.O. Box 62792, Phoenix, AZ 85282-2792. --- WALLIS, Dr. Roy, _The Road to Total Freedom_, Heinmann, London, Columbia University Press, New York, 1977, according to Atack. That's slightly different from the above. --- There was a cover article on Scientology in Time Magazine, 6may 1991: "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", by Richard Behar. v137 p50-7 By the same author: "The prophet and profits of Scientology" Forbes v138 p314(6) 1986 Oct 27 "Scientology: a dangerous cult goes mainstream" Reader's Digest v139 p87-92 October '91 Also in Time: "Mystery of the vanished ruler." Time v121 p64(4) 1983 Jan 31 lafayette ronald hubbard scientologist. 2/10/86. covers his death --- Los Angeles Times ran a 6-part series, June 1990, by Welkos, Robert W. and Sappell, Joel. "The Scientology Story: A Special Report" #1 24june: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard The man in control. (David Miscavige) Burglaries and lies paved a path to prison Defining the theology #2 25june: Church markets its gospel with high-pressure sales Shoring up its religious profile #3 26june: Defectors recount lives of hard work, punishment #4 27june: Reaching Into Society #5 28june: Costly strategy continues to turn out bestsellers #6 29june: On the offensive against an array of suspected foes Suits, protests fuel a campaign against psychiatry (Scientology opposes anti-hyperactive drug Ritalin) A lawyer learns what it's like to fight the church (Joseph Yanny harassed by the Church of Scientology) --- ~From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer), 1992: One excellent book written at a popular level is "Psychobabble" by R.D. Rosen (Avon Books, 1979). It takes a skeptical look at EST, Scientology, etc., as well as a number of odd practices in psychology such as Rebirthing, Primal Scream, etc. --- "Dianetics: A Doctor's Report", J. A. Winter, M.D., ISBN 0-517-56421-1 Copyright 1951, The Julian Press (1987 Edition), Crown Publishing Group, NYNY Review by lindsay@cs.colorado.edu 1993: Dr. Winter met Hubbard through the science fiction community in 1949, and became the Medical Director of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation when it was formed. A lot of this book discusses therapy, and how dianetics, as a body of therapeutic techniques, has a lot to offer. Dr. Winter speaks quite highly of it. The rest of the book discusses his experiences, his disillusionment with the Foundation, and his resignation in protest. Partly he felt that the state of "clear" did not give the anticipated benefits: but also, he was unhappy that the Foundation was becoming authoritarian, and disparaging of anyone who actually did research. --- GARRISON, Omar V., _The Hidden Story of Scientology_, Arlington, London,1974. (av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt) listed this as 1957). Review by a Scientologist, isds11990012@memstvx1.memst.edu (John Holifield) 5Dec92 ... for a non-scientology book to read, I suggest "The Hidden Story of Scientology". This is a true book by a non-scientologist that has investigated many of the lies told about Scientology. Its out of print, so it may be hard to find. --- MALKO, George, Scientology: The Now Religion, Delacourte Press, New York, 1970. or New York: Uell Publishing Company. 205 pages. Review by rudnick@cfatrw.harvard.edu (Bret Rudnick) 27 Dec 1993: I would also recommend _Scientology: The NOW Religion_ by George Malko, which is rather less than complimentary. Review by av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt) 28 Aug 1994: An easy read by virtue of Malko's fluent, lucid, albeit dated style, "The Now Religion" presents no problems to the reader, and flows by as a river of insight and information. Malko's book is an even presentation, well balanced and thoughtfully written; but be prepared for an attack on such loose-flung terms as "cult" and "brainwashing", as Malko will not permit any direct derogation of what he obviously considers a religion engaged in by its victims willingly. Chapters include a general overview of the cult, some biographical material on L. Ron Hubbard, the beginnings of Dianetics, an exploration into Scientology, an analysis into what lies behind these two, an explication of techniques, drills, and processes, a look at the subject "Ethics", and how it is often misapplied, and finally a summary of conclusions. What the book unfortunately lacks is both an index and a bibliography, for Malko has quite obviously researched his sources quite well, and references many, both textual and personal, in the body of the book. --- Cooper, Paulette. _The Scandal of Scientology_, New York: Tower Publications, 1971. (This is the lady who was harassed.) Review by rjk7m@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Richard John Kwiatkowski), 1993: I would highly reccommend that anyone who is involved or thinking about becoming involved with Dianetics or Scientology read Cooper's book. --- Renunciation and Reformulation: a Study of Conversion in an American Sect -- by Harriet Whitehead, 1987, Cornell University Press. Review by acarvin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Andy Carvin), 1992: Whitehead, who is a sociologist, actually joined a Church in order to get firsthand knowledge of the members and practices. Anyway, it's interesting, informative, and non-biased. I would think that it can be obtained in a good research library. --- Hubbard is mentioned in "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science", by Martin Gardner. Dover, New York, 1957. --- Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science. Gardener, Martin. Dover, New York. 1952. Have you read "The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher" by Martin Gardner(BTW it has a lovely photo of L Ron Hubbard measuring the emotions of a tomato). "Fads and Fallacies" is also a great book. --ph36@unixg.ubc.ca (Richard Nistuk) --- Flo Conway and Jim Seigelman's "Snapping" is a good, though pop-psych-influenced, account of the conversion experience that members of so-called 'cults' report; it compares similar experiences among Moonies, Scientologists, Krishnas, and many others, and also addresses the methods used by such organizations to _manufacture_ religious experiences. -- revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano) Atack's bibliography lists this book as: Dell, New York, 1979. Wollersheim's lists it as: Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1978. --- In posting by rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent), 1993: I'm reading 'Flim Flam!' by James Randi, and came upon a reference to Scientology. Apparently back in the 70's Scientology set out to discredit CSICOP by painting it as a front organization for the CIA. Response to the above from lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard): Check out Kendrick Frazier, "A Scientology 'dirty tricks' campaign against CSICOP," _Skeptical Inquirer_ vol. 4, no. 3, Spring 1980, pp. 8-10. This news report indicates that Scientology documents outlining proposals to portray CSICOP as a CIA front were discovered by John Marshall, a reporter for the _Toronto Globe and Mail_, among thousands of documents entered as evidence into U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. --- Francis King's RITUAL MAGIC IN ENGLAND (I think that's the right title) gives extracts from several letters written by Aleister Crowley dealing with L. Ron Hubbard. -- [private email, 1992] For background, Book of the Law. Crowley, Aleister. Thelema Publications, King-Beach, California. 1976. --- "The Encyclopedia of American Religions" (J. Gordon Melton, Gale Research) has a short section on Scientology, and also short sections on several offshoots. --- In posting from mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson), 1992: ...Lashley coined the term "engram". In his book _Studies_in_the_Dynamics_of_Behavior_ (University of Chicago Press, 1932), Lashley and his students Stone, Darrow, Landis, and Heath report on their early work. What caught my attention is how intensively they used one particular analytical tool, namely galvanic skin response (GSR). ---- Reviews from mkkuhner@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Mary K. Kuhner) 30jan93 I went to the public library and read the two Scientology books they happened to have. Here are my capsule reviews. They represent only my own opinions. _Introduction to Scientology Ethics_. This book consists of several lists: ethical principles as they apply to people in general, to Scientologists, to auditors, and to supervisors, and a long section on various types of "crimes" against Scientology. The various lists struck me as somewhat contradictory-- for example, freedom of speech was praised in general, but several of the lists gave specific things which must not be said by Scientologists. The list of crimes was very interesting reading. It corroborated many of the statements made by critics of the CoS. Any kind of public questioning or criticism of the CoS, justified or not, is a High Crime (the most severe category). Superiors are protected from criticism by their underlings. There is also a disturbing failure to distinguish between "crimes" by Scientologists and non-Scientologists. I have been told on the Net that the High Crimes apply only to Scientologists, but several of them (i.e. penalties for leaving the CoS) by their nature must apply to non-Scientologists. Recommended reading--as this book was apparently used as a practical guideline within the CoS (though it may now be obsolete) I think it provides a useful look at the way the organization operates. _Scientology 8008: the Book of Basics_ This is also mainly a collection of lists, presented with very little explanatory text. A major part of the book is taken up with a kind of cosmology or creation story about the origin and nature of human beings. I found this turgid and unreadable. There are also lists which organize emotional states into a linear order, list the components of communication, etc. Without discussion, I found these lists completely useless. What does it mean that enthusiasm is higher than contentment-- higher on what? Why? This books reminds me vividly of notes from some kind of pop-psych seminar, without the seminar to give them any meaning. Despite its title, it is quite useless to an outsider. Someone within the field might possibly find it useful as a reference. Not recommended. --- homer@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Homer Smith) responded to the above: There are 3 books by Hubbard with 8's in them. Scientology 0-8 The book of Basics Scientology 8-80 Scientology 8-8008 The first one is a compendium of scales. The second one is about dichotomies and how to produce energy from them and use them in auditing. This is the one that mentions Beautiful Cruelties. The third one is a detailed discussion on the nature of facsimilies and how to audit them. --- Homer Smith later commented about 8-80: >in 8-80, he gave the 'frequencies' of various emotions and things, > He also made the outrageous statement that the speed of light >is NOT constant, but depends in fact on the frequency of the light, >for which there is exactly zero physical evidence for and TONS against. --- >From lenngray@netcom.com (Lenny Gray) 27 Nov 1993: 1) An entry-level book published in paperback by the church itself is: "Scientology -- The Fundamentals of Thought" the bulk of which, I believe, was written in 1956. Though its goal is to present just the ideal, it does give a nice overview. 2) The book "Scientology -- 8-8008" is indeed the notes from a lecture, the lecture actually being their tape-series "The Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures", which was recorded in 1952-1953. It represents a stage when LRH thought he had something that could even be used solo, and he even said so, in tape 54: "Auditors will ask you this question and so I'll answer it for you -- _Can you audit yourself up to theta-clear?_ Well I don't know how long it would take you, and I don't know how fouled up you'd get, or how flat you'd spin, or anything -- but _it could be done_, with just using SOP issue 5. --- zazen@austin.ibm.com (E. H. Welbon) 18may93: I suggest that any one still convinced that there is a soul in the human body (or any other species for that matter) pick up D. Dennett's recent book "Consciousness Explained". Dennett argues that the evidence in favor of the existence of a soul is essentially non-existent, while the argument for the non-existence of a soul is very good. Dennett also gives a method for evaluating "subjective" experiences that he proposes tests for in an appendix (i.e. he gives methods by which his tests can be falsified). --- Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology, Stewart Lamont. Pub. Harrap U.K. ISBN 0 245-54334-1 1986 Apparently it describes Level III OT and the "Wall of Fire" (pp 50-52). Review by Peter Lucey Wed, 6 Oct 93: An open-minded (to start) look at Scn. He has visited the US Orgs in LA and Clearwater. He ends up puzzled and critical. Not much new. You'd be better off with A Piece of Blue Sky, by Jon Atack. Oh, he states that many Scientologists smoke, as LRH was a chain- smoker so it must be OK. Stewart's best insight is on Scn as a religion: if Scn postulates that all human errors are engram-related, and can be erased "scientifically" using auditing and an E-Meter, so Scn differs fundamentally from all the major religions as they require Grace, karma, or whatever to help the human through. But Religion, Inc. has a priceless picture of LRH posing, in leathers and stetson, astride a cine camera. I have'nt seen this before. It's almost as good as the famous tomato/E-meter photo. And its in colour. --- ~From: jerry.ladd@support.com Here are excepts from last Sunday's LA Times: FILM CLIP / A look inside Hollywood and the movies MEDIA WATCH The Church and The Magazines Los Angeles Times (LT) - SUNDAY October 17, 1993 By: JANE GALBRAITH Edition: Home Edition Section: Calendar Page: 27 Word Count: 1,088 ...Premiere, which in its September issue ran an 8,700-word piece by writer John Richardson that examined the growing influence of Scientology in the entertainment industry. The piece zeroed in on the activities at the church's Celebrity Centre, outlining some of the members who've come and gone, others who've stayed--and why. ...Under threat of a libel suit, Premiere decided it would be prudent to allow Scientology to respond to Richardson's article, resulting in a 2,000-word essay about Scientology by David Miscavige, chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center. --- mcgrath@capella.math.uiuc.edu (Robert E. McGrath) posted on 5 Nov 1993: _Some Books and Articles by Susan Blackmore_ 1. _Beyond the Body_. Heinemann, London, 1982. American paperback edition, Academy Chicago Publications, Chicago, 1992. 2. "A Psychological Theory of the Out-Of-Body Experience", _Journal of Parapsychology_, Volume 48, 1984, pp. 201-218. 3. "The Adventures of a Psi-Inhibitory Experimenter", in _A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology_, Paul Kurtz, ed., Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1985. 4. _The Adventures of a Parapsychologist_. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1986. 5. "The Lure of the Paranormal", _New Scientist_, Volume 127, September 22 1990, pp. 62-65. 6. "Lucid Dreams", _Skeptical Inquirer_, Volume 15, Number 4, 1991, pp. 362-370. 7. "Near Death Experiences: In or Out of the Body?", _Skeptical Inquirer_, Volume 16, Number 1, 1991, pp. 34-45. 8. "Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions", _Skeptical Inquirer_, Volume 16, Number 4, 1992, pp. 367-380. 9. _Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences, Prometheus Books, 1993. McGrath also posted a long review, praising these highly. --- "One Nation Under God", Barry A. Kosmin and Seymour P. Lachman of the City University of NY, 312 pg, Harmony Books, $25 Based on a random sample of 113,000 Americans. It estimates there are 45,000 Scientologists, according to the 29nov93 Newsweek, P.81. --- Author Hershey, Robert D Jr Title SCIENTOLOGISTS report assets of $400 million Source New York Times, Oct 22, 1993, A, 12:1 Abstract According to documents filed with the IRS, the Church of SCIENTOLOGY has assets of about $400 million and appears to take in nearly $300 million a year from counseling fees, book sales, investments and other sources. The financial disclosures came after the church applied for tax exempt status. --- Hartwig, Renate: Scientology - ich klage an!/Renate Hartwig. - Augsburg: Pattloch, 1994 ("Scientology - I accuse") ISBN 3-629-00637-X 288 pages, all in german Review by Volkmar Grote , 15 Jul 94: Renate Hartwig is a member of "Robin Direkt", a consumer protection organisation, which has kind of specialised in Scientology, and she is an admirable fighter. It is about her personal experiences with the CofS in Germany and some well documented cases of the "churches" nasty sides. This includes some people who felt ruined by the church and some very interesting business practices. The way the CofS tried to silence Renate Hartwig is revealing... ...nearly all evidence is backed up by sworn or original statements. --- Liane v. Billerbeck, Frank Nordhausen "Der Sekten-Konzern: Scientology auf dem Vormarsch" Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin, Germany ISBN 3-86153-051-1 Review 25 Dec 1994 by tilman@netmbx2.netmbx.de(Tilman Hausherr): The title means in englisch: "The cult conglomerate: Scientology goes forward". Der Book is written by two journalists in cooperation with the "Berliner Zeitung", a leading Berlin daily newspaper. Because both Authors are journalists and not ex-Scientologists, the book is easy to read and without emotions. It mainly examines the business practices of members of the "Church", especially the rise in the former east, where much money can be made because of the rebuilding there. Different business scams are examined, including the scam of the "Chernobyl children". The book has a person-, company-, and a location-index; contact adresses and a quick Scientology acronym guide. --- Atack's bibliography also gives: FOSTER, Sir John, _Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology_, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1971. ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, _Scientology -- An in depth profile of a new force in Clearwater_, Florida, 1980. "Pulitzer Prizer Winning Expose (34 pages.)" --- cultxprt@indirect.com (Jeff Jacobsen) 15 Apr 1994 posted material from the FACT BBS by Larry Wollersheim: Bromley, David G. and Shupe, Anson D. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981. Burrell, Maurice C. The Challenge of the Cults. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 495~6: Baker House, 1982. Larson, Bob. Larson's Book of Cults. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 19~2. Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults. New Canaan, Connect]cut: Keats, Publishing Company, 197~. Rudin, James and Marcia. Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980. Conway, Flo and Jim SieSelmon. The Information Disease. Science Digest. January 1982. Singer, Margaret. Coming out of the Cults. Psychology Today. January 1979. Singer, Margaret. Cults What are They Why Now. Forecast for Home Economics. May/June 1979. Ofsche and Singer. Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Efficacy of Thought Reform. (Available through American Family Foundation.) Lifton, Robert Jay. The Future of Immorality. Chapters Called: "Religious Totalism and Civil Liberties" and "Doubling the Faustian Bargain". Bosie Books Inc. Lifton Robert J.: Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A study of "Brainwashing" in China. New York, WW Norton and Co, 1961 cultxpt@primenet.com (Jeff Jacobsen) 1 Jan 1995 mentioned this book: "See chapter 22. He discusses "loading the language" pretty well. To my mind it does a few things; 1) is a good marker for who is and who is not a follower 2) gives one the feeling of being an Insider 3) clearly seperates Us from Them 4) reinforces the idea that Scientology "tech" is unique and better." Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry III. The Sections on Dissociation and Hypnotism. Miller. The Utilization of Hypnotic Techniques in Religious Conversion. (Available through Richard Ofshe PhD.) Bainbridge and Stark. Scientology: On Being Perfectly Clear. (Available through Richard Ofshe PhD.) Schein, Edgar H. with Inge Schneier and Curtis H. Barker: Coercive Persuasion. New York, W.W. Norton, 1961 Delgado. Gentle and Ungentle Persuassion Under the first Amendment. (Available through American Family Foundation.) 51 So Cal Law Rev 1, 1977. California Appeal Court Decision Wollersheim vs. Church of Scientology of California C.A. 2nd No. B023193 July 18, 1989 By Johnson J. (57 pages.) Also see reviews below by Charlie Rubin. --- reviews by Charlie Rubin on alt.recovery.religion: Best books on cults and mind control ... Even if you're not interested in cults, you should still read #3. (1) _Combatting Cult Mind Control_ by Steven Hassan (Park Stree Press, 1988) (lSBN 0-89281-243-5) -- This is the best one. Clear, concise, and powerful. Author is a former top level Moonie who now does professional exit-couselling for cult members. He really understands what's going on. (2) _Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise_ by Willa Appel (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983) -- Also a good overview of the phenomena, but by an outsider (an anthropologist). Very interesting discussion of the psychological needs fulfilled by fairy tales, and how cult doctrines are very similar to fairy tales (good vs. evil, very simplistic). Lots of other good stuff as well. (3) _Influence: How and Why People Agree to Things_ by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. (Wm. Morrow & Co., 1984) -- An incredible book. I can't recommend it enough. The author is a social psychology professor who spent 15 years studying the tactics used by "compliance professionals," including salesmen, fundraisers, marketing pros, cult leaders, Chinese brainwashing camps, etc. He carefully details the underlying psychological mechanisms that make all these tactics work, and how everyone is vulnerable to them because they take advantage of instinctual responses. Very enlightening! (4) _The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society_ by Arthur J. Deikman, M.D. (Beacon Press, 1990) -- Also fascinating. The author is a clinical professor of psychiatry who started studying cults, and then realized that the methods of manipulation used in them are found throughout society, in many types of groups -- corporations, political parties, schools, and traditional religions. Cults simply take them to the n-th degree. This is a real eye-opener. --- av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt) reviewed: about a 1934 book: "Scientologie 34!" by A. Nordenholz, translated into the English by W. R. McPheeters. it provides insight into hubby's plagiarized coining of such terms as "beingness", "havingness", etc., as well as the use and development of his "axioms". Inside Scientology: Or How I Found Scientology and Became Super Human. Kaufman, Robert. Olympia Press, New York. 1972. Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing. Sargant, William. Doubleday, Garden City, New York. 1957. Dianetics in Limbo. O'Brien, Barbara. Whitmore Publishing Co., Philadelphia. 1966. [editor: Atack's bibliography lists the first name as Helen] [for background] Science and Sanity. Korzybski, Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek. Institute of General Semantics, Lakeville, Connecticut. 1933. Thought Reform of the Chinese Intellectuals. Chen, Theodore H. E. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 1960. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. Marks, John. Times Books, New York. 1979. Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults. Enroth, Ronald. Zondervan Press, Kentwood, Michigan. 1977. Rape of the Mind. Meerloo, Joost A. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. 1961. Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up. Levine, Saul V, M.D. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Florida. 1984. Destructive Cult Conversion: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Clark, John G., et al. American Family Foundation, Weston, Massachusetts. 1981. Cults and Consequences: The Definitive Handbook. Andres, Rachel, and Lane, James R., eds. Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles. 1988. Let Our Children Go! Patrick, Ted, with Tom Dulack. Thomas Congdon Books/E. P. Dutton, New York. 1976. All God's Children: The Cult Experience; Salvation or Slavery? Stoner, C., and J. Parke. Chilton Books, Radnor, Pennsylvania. 1977. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell, George. Penguin, Middlesex, England. 1954. [magazine articles] "Scientology Plot Against State Official." Henderson, Bruce. Los Angelel Herald-Examiner, 29 May 1980. "Scientologists Plotted to Frame a Critic as a Criminal, Files Show." Gordon, Gregory. Boston Globe, 24 November 1979. "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult." Methvin, Eugene H. Reader's Digest, May 1980. "How Cults Bilk Us All." Williams, Carson. Reader's Digest, November 1979. --- tonym@jolt.mpx.com.au (Tony McClelland) suggested, 17 Nov 1994: For a better understanding of Scientology beliefs and techniques, see Hubbard's Volunteer Minister's Handbook (lSBN 0-88404- 039-9). For a better understanding of the manipulative nature of Scientology, see [...] Thomas and Jacqueline Keisers' The Anatomy of lllusion (lSBN 0-39805295-6). Margery Wakefield 's The Road to Xenu is an excellent first-hand account of membership, and includes Bob Penny's thought provoking Social Control in Scientology. The Road to Xenu is available via P.0. Box 290402, Tampa, Florida 33687. --- "Countercultures: a sociological analysis", Zellner, W. W. St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 1995 ISBN 0312080840 Review by rnewman@media.mit.edu (Ron Newman) Thu, 2 Feb 1995: One of the six chapters, 32 pages long, is on Scientology. (The other chapters are about skinheads, survivalists, Satanism, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Unification Church of Rev. Moon.) Anyone collecting books about Scientology should get this one too. --- "BRAIN-WASHING; A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics." Review by cultxpt@primenet.com (Jeff Jacobsen) 29 Jan 1995: Kenneth Goff wrote the editorial note in front. Goff says he was formerly a communist in the US. He also says the text in this manual "contains the address of Beria [head of the KGB] to the American students in the Lenin University prior to 1936." So, to expose the Communist/psychiatrist connection, in the public service Scientology printed this manual. My opinion, however, is that Hubbard wrote this, and there are many tipoffs within the work to prove that. [List of reasons removed by editor] -------------------------------< END >----------------------------------- -- Don D.C.Lindsay University of Colorado-Boulder Computer Science Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:40862 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!news.sasknet.sk.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.bc.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: ARS and Scientology in Phoenix AZ Paper Date: 18 Mar 1995 15:50:51 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 162 Message-ID: <3kfkjr$c02@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3kfdl7$glb@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <3kfdl7$glb@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, Timothy Barr wrote: >"Scientologists, Internet users square off over computer missives." It >can be found in the Mesa/Tempe/Chandler/Scottsdale Tribune, on the first >page of the Religion section of the March 18 edition. There is also a >picture of some protestors who were picketing in front of the local COSI >location. Dennis Erlich's suit was also mentioned in passing. And a new >line by a Lisa Goodman, media relations director for the main office of >COSI. to follow> > >Goodman called the messages posted by flamers a form of hate crime. >"It's not a matter of global freedom of expression. It's cyber >terrorism" she said. > From a nasty cult that showed what terrorism really was about to Paulette Cooper amongst others. Read teh introduction to Bent Corydon's book, "L. Ron Hubbard - Madman or Messiah" about the assault that occured in his office by a Church operative on a mission of terror. We may have to set up a FAQ to show what Scientology REALLY is about. Harrasment, terrorism, defamation, frame-ups, blackmail, deception, the whole sorry thing. PAULETTE COOPER, OPERATION FREAKOUT CD - 3 1 April 1976 Church Documents (Court Transcripts) Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes. ((PAGE ONE)) 1 April 1976 OPERATION FREAKOUT MAJOR TARGET: To get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks. PRIMARY TARGETS: US B1 NE SEC working in liaison with OPS NAT (if needed). To remove PC from her position of Power so that she cannot attack the C of S. US B1 (WF) SEC Taking responsibility for the area working in liaison with OPS NAT. Ops NAT responsible for the overall planning of this project, working in liaison with NE SEC ( *** needed for completion successfully of this Op). OPS NAT responsible for any debugging of this project, necessary. NE SEC and AG/I NY organization operating (with Info power pushing TGTS through to completion). VITAL TARGETS: 1) To recruit an FSM that looks like PC and to train her on this action. (AG/I NY) 2) To recruit an observation FSM to make a telephone call. No special requirements necessary except security. (And not PTS, AG/I NY) 3) To get "Pin Ball" FSMs or T.M. FSM to get familiar with PC to find out some of her clothes she wears particularly what sort of coat she usually wears and her general looks, hair etc. Also above FSM or FSMs will have to meet with PC when the OP goes down. (If possible, tell FSM to get a piece of PC's clothing, AG/I NY) 4) To get a cheap coat that is very similar to PC's. (AG/I NY) 5) To ascertain what PC looks like now, hair streaked? still skinny? etc. (AG/I NY) 6) To locate a laundry near PC's place and to make sure she isn't known there. (Cleaners, note must have clerk, AG/I NY) 7) To find out what PC is wearing the day of this action. And what her hair is like. (AG/I NY) 8) To have someone available to stake out PC when she leaves her place the day of the caper, to ascertain when she leaves, what she's wearing etc. (AG/I NY) *********************************************************************** ((PAGE TWO)) Operation Freakout, a plan to incarcerate (in jail or a mental institution) "PC" or "Mrs. Lovely" their frequent code name for Paulette Cooper. These pages consist of sample bomb threats by phone and mail which are supposed to trace back to her, plus a bizarre scheme to have a Scientologist pose as Cooper and crack up at a store near where she lived so that she would be committed. In 1973, another frame-up scheme with bomb threats lead to the arrest and indictment of Cooper. The lower part of this page consists of a letter attached to Operation Freakout in which they state that they think this frame-up will work because it worked before and the FBI believes she sent those original bomb threats. 1 April 1976 OPERATION FREAKOUT MAJOR TARGET: To get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks. PRIMARY TARGETS: US B1 NE SEC working in liaison with OPS NAT (if needed). To remove PC from her position of Power so that she cannot attack the C of S. RE: PC OP FREAKOUT Dear Dick, SITUATION: Cooper is still not terminately handled. DATA: Cooper is getting her power back, attacking again. Attached is approved Op Freakout. This additional channel (i.e. plan). Should really have her put away. Worked with all the other Channels. The FBI already think she really did do the bomb threats on the C of S (Church of Scientology). SOLUTION: OK this additional Channel. This is OK______ Approved_____ Disapproved_______ Love, Randy (R) Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:40425 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!news.sasknet.sk.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!scipio.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!cornellc.cit.cornell.edu!CTM Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: CTM@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (CTM) Subject: ACT-23 Basic Basic on the Chain of Chains X-Posting-Host: cornellc.cit.cornell.edu Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 07:12:48 +0000 Message-ID: <9503220714.aa11905@dispatch.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 340 Repost. BASIC BASIC ON THE CHAIN OF CHAINS ACT - 23 10 October 1993 Copyright (C) 1993 Homer Wilson Smith Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes. It has been the common experience of auditors to find some really great process to run on themselves or their pcs only to find that after a few hours the process grinds to a halt and the pc is left feeling just as bad as before. Take for example the process, 'Tell me about coming in.' 'Do you have a missed withhold on coming in?' Now it sounds logical, doesn't it, the pc had to come into any situation prior to being stuck in it, and so in trying to get him earlier on the chain of that subject you of course would try to get him to contact his responsibility for getting into it in the first place. So I was running this the other day, with great gain, I was nailing the withhold over and over again releasing lots and lots of pain out of my spine, and behind my heart, and the back of my throat, and behind my eyes, and I finally left off on a rather large release that I hoped would continue for a while. An hour later I was totally caved in again, in serious pain with somatics all over my body and in my throat. Finally I decided I had better go back into session and deal with it, saying to myself 'I don't want to be here, I REALLY don't want to be here, Jesus H. Christ why do I have to go through all this damn auditing nonsense, why can't I just die in peace and be done with it.' So I went into session grumbling to myself, 'I don't want to be here, I don't want to be here' kind of dragging myself into my case once again in a long line of once agains, hoping that maybe this time I would nail it for good. Well I started running 'I don't want to be here'. And boy was that true. It finally became, 'Tell me about not wanting to be here.' 'Do you have a withhold on not wanting to be here?' 'Do you have a MISSED withhold on not wanting to be here?' I ran this for a while to good effect, then it started to bog down again. So I started to play with it running every variation I could think of including 'Do you have a withhold on WANTING to be here?' 'Do you have a withhold on being here?' 'Do you have a withhold on coming in?' 'Do you have a withhold on being?' etc. Finally I nailed it but good on the first one, WANTING TO BE HERE. 'Is there a missed withhold on WANTING TO BE HERE?' So I took a break and started to think about all this, and this is what came out of it. Ron taught us that engrams need to be run in chains back to the basic incident. He didn't really tell us WHY this was so, but to the degree it seemed to work, we all did what we were told. One of the problems with early Dianetics was determining what a chain was. Was it all the incidents where you felt the same way, or all the incidents where the same thing happened to you, or all the incidents where the same person was the antagonist, or all the incidents where you were thinking of something? Eventually Ron limited it down to attitudes, emotions, sensations and pains and one found the earlier incident merely by ASKING for an earlier similar incident of whatever attitude, emotion, sensation or pain you were running, and taking what ever the pc gave you. Then later Ron published New Era Dianetics wherein the major advance was the fact that you had to run each engram until you uncovered the POSTULATE made during the moment of greatest duress. Later I realized that these postulates are in fact the central core of the chain you are trying to run, and the reason that you don't just go for earlier similar incidents based on NARRATIVE CONTENT is because they may be very similar in what occurred to the pc, but very different in what postulates were made. Narrative content refers to what actually happened in the incident, like the chain of all times the guy fell in a lake over many lives, or the chain of all times he was shot for being in the wrong woman's bed. Narrative chains might NOT have a common thread of attitudes, emotions, sensations and pains, and more importantly they might not have a common thread of postulates made during the incident. So there you are running some chain and the guy gives you a time he had his head cut off, and an earlier time he was hung, and an earlier time he was in Church with his mother, and an earlier... Whoa, church? What the hell does that have in common with the first two? Maybe he died of boredom? So you ask him, what's the common postulate to these incidents, and he thinks about it for a moment and says, 'I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE!' There you have it, that's the central postulate to the chain you are running, and away you go down to the beginning of time trying to find the basic INCIDENT on the chain, or the first time he postulated 'I don't want to be here!' You run this to a tremendous win, and your pc walks out glowing and swearing to tell everyone how great an auditor you are. But then the next day your pc comes in looking all glum again, and you just can't figure out how things could get so bad after having been so good. In old time dianetics we were taught that if an incident refuses to run or begins to go more solid, that means either there is an earlier beginning to this same incident, or it is not basic on the chain and you have to look for an earlier incident. So you say to your pc 'Well say now, I see that you aren't looking so good', and your pc says 'Yeah, good point'. And you say 'Well that chain we were running yesterday on 'I don't want to be here', did that go more solid?' And the pc looks around himself and says 'Bleh, yuk...' So you take the hint and say 'Ok, the chain has gone more solid, so we are going to continue to run this chain to completion. Now then is there an earlier similar incident of 'I don't want to be here?' But the pc looks and looks and just can't seem to find anything, and he gets more solid, and more pain, and more green, and more dark, and his eyes have no light in them anymore, and you know you had better do something quick or else you are going to lose him. So you say to your pc, 'Ok, apparently we ARE at the basic on the chain of 'I don't want to be here'. Is there an earlier similar POSTULATE?' The pc immediately brightens up and thinks 'My what a wonderfully astute auditor I have, how lucky I am to have him' but starts to think about it and says 'Well a postulate is a postulate. What do you mean by an earlier SIMILAR postulate. Either it's the same postulate or it isn't.' And you think about this and you say 'Ok then, is there an earlier POSTULATE whether similar or not?' THEN the pc says 'Well yes of course, that COMING IN chain we ran the other day is earlier to not wanting to be here. But we ran that to completion too, so I don't think it could be that.' So you say, 'fine then, is there yet an earlier postulate?' And the pc says 'You mean earlier to COMING IN? Hmmm yes, let's see...' And the pc frowns and thinks and scrunches up his eye brows and dramatizes mightily, and finally he looks up and says sheepishly, 'Well yes, maybe there is... I WANT TO BE HERE.' So you take up the postulate 'I want to be here' and off you go. Clearly before the guy chose to come into a game, a 'here' of magnitude, he first had to WANT to come in, to be 'here'. Just as clearly only AFTER he came in did he finally develop the postulate I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE. So I WANT TO BE HERE is an earlier postulate to COMING IN which is an earlier postulate to I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE. So it's pretty clear that what we are running here is a chain of POSTULATES where each postulate has an entire chain of INCIDENTS unto itself. This chain of postulates we call the chain of chains. Each postulate on the chain of postulates is a DIFFERENT postulate, but each one proceeds logically from the one before it. The basic incident on each chain of INCIDENTS must be reached before that chain will erase, but unless that chain's postulate is the most basic postulate on the chain of postulates, the whole bank will not erase. So this is how various postulates might be laid out in the time stream. 1.) NOT BEING (Native State, free unmanifested potential) 2.) BEING 3.) WANTING TO BE (approval and willingness to view more) 4.) WANTING TO BE HERE (here = a new there he wants to enter) 5.) WANTING TO GO IN 6.) COMING IN 7.) BEING HERE 8.) WANTING TO BE HERE (once in) 9.) GLAD I CAME IN 10.) WANTING TO NOT WANT TO BE HERE (pivotal game point) 11.) NOT WANTING TO BE HERE 12.) SORRY I CAME IN 13.) WANTING TO GO OUT 14.) TRYING TO GO OUT 15.) CAN'T GO OUT 16.) I DIDN'T COME IN 17.) NOT WANTING TO BE (at all) 18.) NOT BEING (Not-isness and Spiritual Death) 19.) STONE COLD DEAD The being starts off in NOT BEING or Native State. Then he wakes up into BEING and considers that this is good, which is WANTING TO BE. Then he decides he would like to partake in a game, a space-time system of heres and nows, and this is WANTING TO BE HERE, where 'here' is a new 'there' to go into. This leads him to WANTING TO GO IN, which leads to COMING IN, which leads to BEING HERE and WANTING TO BE HERE. But then things go wrong, HE MAKES IT DO SO and this comes from WANTING TO NOT WANT TO BE HERE. This leads to NOT WANTING TO BE HERE, which leads to WANTING TO GO OUT, which leads to TRYING TO GET OUT, which of course fails because he has blinded himself to, and so lost sight of, his decision to come in. This leads him to NOT WANT TO BE at all since he can't get out, and eventually to NOT BEING, as a solid piece of mest that is slumbering his Eternity away as a rock on the shore. Each one of these prime postulates has a first time it was made in the present cycle of creation. Past cycles are as-ised and no longer count. A Cycle of Creation consists of moving out of Native State, moving into creating things, then causing them to survive, then undoing them all and going back to Native State, in preparation for another cycle of creation should you so choose. Each one of these prime postulates also has endless numbers of further times when the same postulate was made and affirmed during the course of travel in the time stream. Those are incidents on the chain of that particular postulate. Thus each postulate forms a chain of incidents when that postulate was made or affirmed. When you run standard Dianetics you are running these chains back to the basic incident of making and affirming that particular ONE postulate. But each postulate has an EARLIER DIFFERENT postulate which also has its own chain. The basic incident on the chain of the earlier postulate is earlier than the basic incident on the chain of the later postulate; but all the future incidents on the chain of the earlier postulate are intermixed in the time stream with the future incidents of the chain of the later postulate. This is because even after the second postulate is formed, the first postulate is still operating and continues to form its own incidents along with the second postulate. It's like shuffling two card decks of different colors together. Each card in the shuffled deck is an incident belonging to the chain of incidents of the same color. The EARLIEST chain of incidents is the chain whose BASIC incident is the first in the deck. It isn't true that the whole chain and ALL OF ITS INCIDENTS is earlier than the other chain, only its first or earliest incidents are, thus we call that chain the EARLIER chain. Only its BASIC incidents and maybe a few of its earliest incidents actually earlier than all of the second chain. Each incident on a given chain has the same core or reigning postulate as every other incident on the SAME color chain. But different colored chains have different reigning postulates. We call such postulates, CORE, REIGNING, OPERATING, PRIMARY CENTRAL or GOVERNING postulates of the chain. The terms are interchangeable. Thus by looking at later incidents it is sometimes hard to tell which chain of incidents is more basic until you find the basic incident on each chain and determine which basic incident happened first. Further each of these chains is related to each other, because the reigning postulate of each chain is derived from and is a natural consequence of the reigning postulate of the chain just before it. Thus when you are running a chain, and you have these big wins, and then suddenly your pc is doing real bad again, almost as if no auditing had taken place, you can be sure that the postulate on the chain you ran was NOT the basic postulate on the chain of chains that makes up the central core of your pc's case. You DON'T ask for an earlier similar incident on the same chain, you ask for an EARLIER POSTULATE ON THE CHAIN OF CHAINS! COMING IN is rather late on the chain of chains actually. Long before you came into anything you had to BE and WANT TO BE. So you are really getting back to the source of Sovereign Desire with this stuff, and if you miss the basic basic postulate, or even just the next earlier postulate, you can expect your case to go down in flames. It gets WORSE the closer you come to the basic postulate, if you them proceed to miss it, so the closer you are to getting it right the better you had better be as an auditor and be able to spot these things and carry your pc on through. Remember that as you audit your pc on COMING IN and GETTING OUT, he will dramatize these items on session itself! So if he wants out, you can be sure you are late on the chain, and when you start to get it right, he will be more than happy to come in and get auditing. And THAT is the sum totality of an ARC broken field. The guy doesn't want more auditing because no one would LET him go earlier than WANTING TO GET OUT! He wants to get out of his problems, his upsets, his unhappiness, his oppositions, his body, his bank, his universe, his whatever. What ever it is he hands you, he doesn't want to have anything to do with it! You see he CAME IN to Scientology WANTING TO GET OUT, so its natural to audit him on GETTING OUT for a while, but if you do it too long, without getting him earlier similar to COMING IN, he will dramatize his item on session and GET OUT. Bang, no more Church. Homer Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:40924 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!support.com!tom.klemesrud Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: tom.klemesrud@support.com (tom.klemesrud) Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.29 Subject: C of S Points & Authorities X-Posting-Host: [163.179.3.2] Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:42:47 +0000 Message-ID: <9503230042.0102N03@support.com> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 1163 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Tom Klemesrud, Sysop _/ _/ L.A. Valley College BBS _/ _/ tom.klemesrud@support.com _/ _/ FidoNet 1:102/837 KoX _/ _/ root@support.com _/ _/ North Hollywood, CA USA _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Andrew H. Wilson WILSON, RYAN & CAMPILONGO 115 Sansome Street Fourth Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 391-3900 Thomas M. Small Janet A. Kobrin SMALL, LARKIN, & KIDDE 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800 Los Angeles, California 90024-3945 (310) 209-4400 Helena K. Kobrin 7629 Fulton Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 (213) 960-1933 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a ) CASE NO. California non-profit corporation; and ) BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., a California ) MEMORANDUM OF POINTS non-profit corporation, ) AND AUTHORITIES IN ) SUPPORT OF RENEWED Plaintiffs, ) MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY ) INJUNCTION AGAINST vs. ) DEFENDANTS NETCOM ON- ) LINE COMMUNICATIONS NETCOM ON-LINE COMMUNICATION SERVICES, ) SERVICES, INC. AND TOM INC., a Delaware corporation; DENNIS ) KLEMESRUD ERLICH, an individual; and TOM ) KLEMESRUD, an individual, dba CLEARWOOD ) DATE: April 7, 1995 DATA SERVICES, ) TIME: Defendants. ) CTRM: Hon. Ronald M. ) Whyte TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. FACTUAL STATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A. Plaintiffs Have Demonstrated Their Exclusive Rights To Reproduce And Publish The Materials That Are The Subject Of This Application. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 B. Defendants Are Engaging In Unlawful Copying And Publishing Of Plaintiffs' Literary Works . . . 6 C. Defendants Could and Should Easily Take Action To Prevent Erlich's Violations Without Overburdening Their Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D. Absent An Injunction, There Is A Strong Likelihood That Defendants Will Continue To Make And Publish Unauthorized Copies Of The Copyrighted Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 III. DEFENDANTS NETCOM AND KLEMESRUD CAN BE FOUND LIABLE FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 A. Defendants Are Guilty Of Direct Infringement . . . . .12 B. Defendants Are Guilty Of Contributory Infringement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 IV. PLAINTIFFS ARE ENTITLED TO A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ON ALL CAUSES OF ACTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 A. Plaintiffs Have Established A Likelihood Of Success On The Merits Of Each Cause Of Action. . .19 B. Plaintiffs Will Be Irreparably Injured If Defendant Is Not Preliminarily Enjoined. . . . . .19 C. The Equities Weigh Heavily In Favor Of Granting The Preliminary Injunction. . . . . . . .21 V. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES CASE PAGE Aleknagik Natives, Ltd. v. Andrus, 648 F.2d 496 (9th Cir. 1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula Int'l. Inc., 562 F.Supp. 775 (C.D. Cal. 1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula lnt'l. Inc., 725 F.2d 521 (9th Cir. 1984) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,19 Baxter v. MCA, Inc., 812 F.2d 421 (9th Cir. 1987) cert. denied, 108 S.Ct. 346 (1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Beltran v. Myers, 677 F.2d 1317 (9th Cir. 1982). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Bridge Publications Inc. v. Vien, 827 F.Supp. 629 (S.D.Cal. 1993). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Casella v. Morris, 820 F.2d 362 (11th Cir. 1987). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc., 862 F.2d 204 (9th Cir. 1988) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble, Inc. v. Terris, 37 U.S.P.Q. 39 (W.D. Pa. 1938) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Epstein Family Partnership v. KMART Corp., 13 F.3d 762 (3rd Cir. 1994). . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 21 Famous Music Corp. v. Bay State Harness Horse Racing & Breeding Assoc., Inc., 554 F.2d 1213 (1st Cir. 1977). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Gershwin Publishing Corp. v. Columbia Artists Management, Inc., 443 F.2d 1159 (2d Cir. 1971) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum v. NFL, 634 F.2d 1197 (9th Cir. 1980). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Morgan v. Veach, 59 Cal.App.2d 682 (1943) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 People ex rel. Younger v. F.E. Crites, Inc., 51 Cal.App.3d 961 (1975) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Frena, 839 F.Supp. 1552 (M.D.Fla. 1993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Religious Technology Center v. Scott, 869 F.2d 1306 (9th Cir. 1989). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Religious Technology Center v. Wollersheim, 796 F.2d 1076 (9th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1103 (1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. MAPHIA, 857 F.Supp. 679 (N.D. Cal. 1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. H.L. Green Co., 316 F.2d 304 (2d Cir. 1963). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Treasure Valley Potato Bargaining Ass'n v. Ore-Ida Foods, Inc., 497 F.2d 203 (9th Cir. 1974), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 999, 95 S.Ct. 314 (1974). . . . . . .20 U-Haul International, Inc. v. Jartran, Inc., 522 F.Supp. 1238 (D.Ariz. 1981), aff'd, 681 F.2d 1159 (9th Cir. 1982). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Wainwright Sec. v. Wall Street Transcript Corp., 558 F.2d 91 (2d Cir. 1977) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 OTHER 3 Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright,  12.04[A][1], p. 12-67 (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 17 U.S.C.  504(c)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 17 U.S.C.  101. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 17 U.S.C.  201(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12, 19 Cal.Civil Code  3426.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 64 . . . . . . . . . . 5 M. Nimmer, 3 Nimmer on Copyright  13.01 . . . . . . . . . .12 Sarah B. Deutsch, "Superliability on the Superhighway?," The Multimedia Law Report, at 5 (November 1994). . . . . . .16 I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Plaintiffs once again seek issuance of a preliminary injunction against defendants Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc. ('Netcom'), and Tom Klemesrud, dba Clearwood Data Services ("Klemesrud') (collectively, 'defendants"). Additional facts and evidence now available demonstrate that arguments raised earlier by those defendants should not insulate them from the injunctive remedy to which plaintiffs are entitled as to all defendants. Indeed, their principal defense -- purported inability to deal with the subject infringements -- is simply not true. In their original application, plaintiffs briefed extensively their rights in the works in question, the intentional violations of those rights by defendant Dennis Erlich, and the law which demonstrates that they are entitled to preliminary injunctive relief to restrain the commission of such acts pendente lite. Plaintiffs incorporate by reference the facts and law contained in their initial application, and will avoid repeating those matters where possible. They will demonstrate here that defendants' arguments to avoid being enjoined are spurious -- particularly in light of the post-restraining order infringement of defendant Dennis Erlich; their non-passive infringements resulting from their own voluntary and volitional use of their own equipment in spite of being on notice; and the simple methods of dealing with the specific situation raised here without triggering the parade of horribles for their systems and the computer industry which defendants predict obedience to a lawful court order portends. On February 21, 1995, the Court extended its TRO as to Erlich, but vacated it as to Netcom and Klemesrud and denied plaintiffs' application for a preliminary injunction as to those two defendants without prejudice. The Court relied on defendants' arguments that there was no action they could take to prevent the infringing postings by defendant Dennis Erlich and that it would be enormously burdensome and contrary to public policy to require them to do so. Defendants' attempts to make themselves appear mere 'passive' conduits of others' messages were less than forthright./1/ In fact, ---------- /1/ Defendants' papers in opposition to the preliminary injunction had only been. served on plaintiffs that same morning just prior to the hearing, and plaintiffs were therefore unable to research defendants' statements further and provide adequate reply at that time. confidential materials, and in many instances the entire work. ---------- defendants' own systems are not mere conduits of Erlich's postings. Rather, Erlich's postings are: (1) generated on or loaded onto Klemesrud's computer for copying to Usenet via Netcom's computer; (2) copied by Klemesrud's computer to Netcom's server, which makes a copy of it pending transmission; (3) transmitted to Usenet by Netcom's computer; (4) recopied back to Netcom's disk where it remains stored for ready access by Netcom's paying subscribers for several weeks; and (5) recopied back to Klemesrud's disk where he keeps it available for his paying subscribers to access for up to 72 hours. Netcom even emphasizes in its promotional materials that the availability of newsgroup (also called "netnews") access is one of its most popular services. Netcom's promotion is confirmed by the fact that the newsgroup (or public discussion group), known as 'alt.religion.scientology' ("a.r.s."), in which Erlich makes his postings, is readily available for access on Netcom's system. When one logs into Netcom's computer, it is possible to look at Erlich's or others' postings on a.r.s, and also to download them or print them off. An example of such a print-off is attached as Exhibit B to the Declaration of Lynn R. Farny. Furthermore, the same is true of Klemesrud's system. Logging into that system, even as a guest, one can obtain access to a.r.s. and can download or print any postings from the BBS, which would include infringements when they are there. (Farny Dec., 1 4.) The print-off of Erlich's February 26, 1995 infringing posting, filed with the contempt motion is an example of infringing materials maintained on disk by Netcom and accessed by a subscriber. Thus, defendants' equipment is itself generating and storing the unauthorized, infringing copies to service their paying customers, and they, too, are primary infringers of hundreds of pages of plaintiffs' copyrighted published and unpublished, Defendants' ability and obligation to deal with the problem were also downplayed to the Court, when actually they could have dealt with it quite simply by warnings to the specific user--Erlich--who has been committing the violations, followed by cancellation of his service if he refused to comply. Klemesrud's direct ability to deal with his subscriber, Erlich, is obvious, and can be seen through the admissions in the declaration which he filed./2/ Netcom's ability to ---------- /2/ Klemesrud made a number of significant admissions in his declaration: (1) P 18: "I can of course delete a subscriber from my subscription list, which has the effect of preventing access by the person . . ."; (2) P 19: "I restrict access to the Alt. news groups, and files submitted by BBS users, to those over 18 years of age . . ."; (3) P 21: "I have made it a point to not maintain news groups on certain subjects such as explicit sex groups, hate groups, and other groups whose presence I believe to be detrimental to the operation of a first class bulletin board."; (4) P 28: he knows Dennis Erlich "to be a subscriber to my system and a frequent user of the bulletin board"; (5) P 33: "I expect my subscribers to act as responsible men and women . . ."; (6) P 33: "I have, on occasion, suggested that certain subscribers whose remarks I found offensive, distasteful, and inappropriate, to take their accounts elsewhere." ---------- deal with the problem with its subscriber--Klemesrud--or even to work out methods of dealing directly with Erlich also exists. Furthermore, Netcom's and Klemesrud's own usage conditions, to which their subscribers are required to adhere, prohibit subscribers from engaging in copyright infringement, and prescribe discipline such as suspension and disconnection of accounts for violations of their rules. These rules are a written embodiment of the formerly unwritten usage rules of the Internet, known as 'Netiquette.' Klemesrud had these rights with respect to the infringements initiated by Erlich, and Netcom had these rights with respect to Klemesrud's forwarding of Erlich's infringements to Netcom's system. They refused to take any action, being unwilling even to issue warnings not to engage in the infringing postings./3/ By their refusal ---------- /3/ While Klemesrud's initial response to plaintiffs' attorney (in Exhibit D to Declaration of Helena K. Kobrin 2/7/95) appeared on the surface to offer to deal with the problem, analysis of what was offered shows that the offer of action was cosmetic only and had no possibility of eliminating the problem. Klemesrud said he would consider deleting materials (from his BBS only, but not from the newsgroup generally) if he was sent a copy of the materials to compare to the posting. At the same time, he said the material was only on his BBS for three days, and insisted that copies be mailed to him. Ms. Kobrin pointed out in her response that the materials in question were trade secrets and could not be furnished to him; that he was not addressing the larger issue of the infringing postings being passed into the newsgroups; and that by insisting that materials be mailed to him, even his offer to delete them from his BBS was insincere, since by the time they were gotten to him by mail, the three days he kept them on his disk would have passed anyway. (See e-mail messages between Helena Kobrin and Tom Klemesrud, dated December 31, 1994 and January 1, 1995 in Exhibit E to Kobrin Dec.) ---------- coupled with their actual copying of Erlich's infringements onto their own disks to make them available for paying subscriber access over extended periods, they have embroiled themselves in this matter, and should be preliminarily enjoined from continuing their activities. In addition, as Erlich has, on February 26, 1995, violated he TRO issued against him, and demonstrated that he did not give up in the seizure all copies of the infringing works, the question of exerting control over Erlich's postings is very much alive and was not mooted by the seizure and TRO, as Netcom contended in its opposition to the original injunction application. An injunction would not require Klemesrud and Netcom to make decisions of what is infringement or what is fair use. They have been informed that Erlich is a repeat violator of plaintiffs' copyrights. He is under a TRO which he has already violated. They have the means to isolate his usage and terminate his access. It is their obligation to figure out what means they wish to use and to do so pending the outcome of this litigation. Defendants' copying of plaintiffs' copyrighted literary works violates federal copyright law, and the unauthorized disclosure of the contents of the unpublished works violates RTC's rights under California trade secrets laws as well. Absent the issuance of the injunction and impoundment orders requested, Erlich will continue his unlawful actions and Klemesrud's and Netcom's unlawful copying will also continue. Plaintiffs accordingly request issuance of the ex parte order to show cause re: preliminary injunction mandated under these circumstances by Rules 64 and 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure./4/ ---------- /4/ In support of their application, plaintiffs rely on the declarations of Thomas M. Small, Warren McShane, Marilyn Pisani and Helena K. Kobrin previously submitted with the Ex Parte Application for TRO, and on the declarations of Dr. Kenneth R. Castleman, Dr. Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Elrod, Andrew H. Wilson, Helena K. Kobrin, and Lynn R. Farny submitted herewith. ---------- II. FACTUAL STATEMENT A. Plaintiffs Have Demonstrated Their Exclusive Rights To Reproduce And Publish The Materials That Are The Subject Of This Application In the TRO applications and the accompanying declarations of Warren McShane and Marilyn Pisani, plaintiffs have provided the information showing their exclusive rights to reproduce and publish the materials which are the subject of the complaint. That discussion is incorporated herein, and will not be repeated. One matter related to the trade secrets status of the Advanced Technology requires clarification, however, in response to Netcom's citation, in footnote 4 of its preliminary injunction opposition, to Religious Technology Center v. Wollersheim, 796 F.2d 1076 (9th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1103 (1987). Relying on that case, Netcom claimed that the materials in Exhibit B to the complaint had been ruled not to constitute trade secrets. However, the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Wollersheim did not so hold, as clarified later in Religious Technology Center v. Scott, 869 F.2d 1306, 1309-10 (9th Cir. 1989) ("RTC v. Scott"). There, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Advanced Technology could be protectable as trade secrets, as long as RTC proved that there was economic advantage in keeping the materials secret. Id. Applying that decision and analyzing all of the required trade secrets factors, including economic advantage to RTC, the Southern District of California held in 1 993 that the Advanced Technology materials are trade secrets under Cal.Civ.Code SS 3426. 1, et seq. and granted summary judgment accordingly, including damages and a permanent injunction. See Bridge Publications Inc. v. Vien, 827 F.Supp. 629, 633 (S.D.Cal. 1993), and cases cited therein. Thus, the right of plaintiff RTC to protect these materials against unauthorized disclosure under California law is clear. B. Defendants Are Engaging In Unlawful Copying And Publishing Of Plaintiffs' Literary Work As detailed in the declarations of plaintiffs' witnesses and the application for TRO, defendant Erlich has engaged in the repeated unlawful copying of the protected works onto the Internet through postings on a newsgroup, or public discussion group, known as 'alt.religion.scientology" ("a.r.s.")/5/ Even though Erlich has ---------- /5/ The list of Erlich's known infringements prior to filing of the complaint and plaintiffs' steps to obtain his voluntary cessation of infringing postings are detailed in the TRO application and accompanying declarations and are incorporated here. ---------- been subject to a TRO, and now an Amended TRO, with regard to his postings, he has continued to violate plaintiffs' rights and the Court's order. On Sunday, February 26, 1995, Erlich posted to a.r.s. the first item in Exhibit B to the complaint--the Class VIII 'Assists' tape--as to which he is specifically restrained by the terms of both the original and amended TROs. Erlich's postings are made through a bulletin board service ('BBS") maintained by Klemesrud, who accesses the Internet via Netcom's system, to which Klemesrud is a subscriber. They include both published literary works and unpublished confidential works of L. Ron Hubbard, as listed in Exhibits A and B of the complaint. Klemesrud and Netcom provide the gateway through which Erlich's Internet access is achieved, but their participation in Erlich's infringements is not limited to the passive carrier functions they would have the Court believe. When Erlich accesses Klemesrud's BBS, the functions Erlich is performing ar either saved directly to Klemesrud's computer, or saved on Erlich's computer and the information then sent by him to Klemesrud's computer, which in turn makes a copy of it. In the former situation, each time that Erlich presses a key on his keyboard or downloads a file, that character or file is written onto Klemesrud's computer, not Erlich's. (Castleman Dec., 11 8-10.) Thus, Erlich's infringing postings may be generated directly on Klemesrud's computer. When Erlich posts a message to a Usenet newsgroup such as alt.religion.scientology, he prepares it on his personal computer or the BBS computer, and labels it for transfer to the Netcom computer. At the next preestablished time for transfer, Klemesrud sends it on to the Netcom computer. His action is analogous to that of the bulletin board operator enjoined in Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. MAPHIA, 857 F.Supp. 679, 683-684 (N.D.Cal. 1994), who stored unauthorized copies of Sega games on his BBS, which were uploaded and downloaded by his users. The Erlich messages which travel to Netcom via Klemesrud's BBS are stored on disk by Netcom's computer after they are received. The message headers are examined by Netcom's computer and routed on individually to their destinations. (Castleman Dec., 11 22-27.) Once they are so routed, Netcom's host computer also directs a copy of that message to itself, or to a "news server" machine which is maintained at that site, where it receives and stores a copy on disk. That message remains on Netcom's disk for several weeks before it is deleted to make more room for new messages. Netcom actually advertises that "several weeks' worth of messages from "nearly 8000' newsgroups are stored for customer access on the disk in the Netcom host. This feature of their services, namely access to these newsgroups, is promoted in Netcom's advertising as 'among our more popular services.' (Castleman Dec., 11 25, 28, and Ex. A, at 4.) After it goes through Netcom to Usenet, the message also comes back to Klemesrud's BBS, when the BBS picks up the new postings from Usenet, and stays on the BBS for up to 72 hours. (Castleman Dec., 1 15; Klemesrud Dec., 1 23.)/6/ ---------- /6/ References to Klemesrud Dec. are to his declaration filed at the January 21,' 1995 hearing. References to the Francis Dec. are to the Declaration of Rick Francis filed with Netcom's opposition to the preliminary injunction. ---------- By maintaining these functions of their computers, Netcom and Klemesrud are actively copying data, and in the case of Klemesrud's BBS, may be creating the data on its disk. Thus, when Erlich posts his infringing messages, Klemesrud and Netcom are active participants as copiers. Until the filing of the complaint, those postings known to plaintiffs consisted of 1 54 pages of copyrighted materials. The seizure revealed a total of over 200 instances of infringements by Erlich, of which 90 went through Klemesrud's and Netcom's systems, and were also stored in those systems for up to three days and several weeks respectively. And the February 26, 1995 eight-page posting by Erlich of the Class VIII 'Assists" tape is another infringement of an unpublished, confidential work of the same ilk in violation of the TRO, and also was stored in Netcom's and Klemesrud's computers, as shown by the print-off of that document filed with the contempt motion. In fact, when Erlich's TRO violation was brought to the attention of Klemesrud's attorney, he responded by informing plaintiff's counsel that Klemesrud had removed the violation from his BBS, thereby again admitting that he has been holding Erlich's copyright infringements on his computer for his subscribers to access. (Wilson Dec., 1 3.) Plaintiffs' notifications to defendants and their fruitless efforts to obtain voluntary cooperation in eliminating Erlich's infringements are detailed in the TRO application and supporting declarations and exhibits, as are the details of how all copies of the Advanced Technology possessed by Erlich are unauthorized and the fruit of theft or misappropriation. Those discussions are incorporated herein. Defendants Klemesrud and Netcom were unwilling to take any responsibility for dealing with the Erlich problem when their help could have been provided to solve the one situation. Now that they have been included in this lawsuit as a result of their unwillingness to apply Netiquette to this situation,/7/ they insist that plaintiffs request ---------- /7/ Netcom has taken action to remove individuals from accessing the Internet on other occasions, such as the much-publicized Canter and Siegel case where two attorneys advertised on the Internet and generated a flood of return mail, overloading the systems through which it came. In another case, the media reported that Netcom disconnected the Christy Knife Co. of Fremont, Ohio for engaging in prohibited commercial use of the Internet by advertising its merchandise. This action cut off access of the company and its employees. (Elrod Declaration, 1 13.) ---------- relief which would cripple their ability to function. The amended language of the proposed OSC shows that the relief requested by way of injunction is narrowly tailored and deals with the situation at hand and any other known situations of which defendants are warned. Thus, it is narrowly focused and easy to implement, as discussed below. It does not require Klemesrud and Netcom to make determinations of what is fair use or what is an infringement. Systems operators often act on complaint& of various sorts of violations to enforce the usage rules and not make their systems a party to unethical use. (See Castleman Dec. I 1 32-33; Cardenas Dec., I 6-10, 16, 18-20; Elrod Dec., 11 9-12.) C. Defendants Could and Should Easily Take Action To Prevent Erlich's Violations Without Overburdening Their Systems In opposing issuance of a preliminary injunction, Klemesrud interposed arguments about being unable to prevent Erlich from logging on under an assumed name, and claimed that he did not verify the identity of his users, but he never claimed that he was unable to stop Erlich's postings. In fact, his declaration admits that he: (1) knows that Erlich is a subscriber to his BBS; (2) is able to delete individuals from using his system; (3) has excluded hate groups and other objectionable groups from his system; (4) has asked posters of 'offensive, distasteful, and inappropriate' remarks 'to take their accounts elsewhere'; and (5) would delete materials posted by Erlich if they are "wholesale copying of religious texts in order to deprive the Church of Scientology of income. " Klemesrud's system easily permits him to take such actions as more fully detailed in the declaration of Kenneth R. Castleman, at paragraphs 29-32. The available options include removing the person from the system, limiting his access so he cannot access Usenet newsgroups, denying posting privileges, eliminating a newsgroup which has too many unlawful postings, and acting upon complaints of property owners whose rights are being infringed by his subscriber. Yet Klemesrud has done none of the things which he claims he is able and willing to do. As a matter of Internet "Netiquette," it is entirely appropriate for Klemesrud, as the systems operator ('sysop') of a BBS, to take action against a copyright infringer on his system. In practice, sysops of BBSes do so when necessary to prevent copyright infringement, defamation, pornography, or other actions on their systems which are illegal or tortious. (Castleman Dec., 11 32-33, Elrod Dec., 11 9-1 1; Cardenas Dec. I 10.) The 'Rules and Regulations of Los Angeles Valley College BBS'--the BBS run by Klemesrud--require no less. His rules prohibit 'Personal attacks, harassment, threats, racial slurs/comments, lewd messages etc.," as well as uploading of "bombs, viruses, etc." or 'copyrighted/pirated software," which are described as federal offenses. One remedy listed for violations is "dismissal of the perpetrator from the board.' (Ex. B to Castleman Dec., Rules and Regulations of Los Angeles Valley College BBS No. 1 and 2.) Another rule is that "Message writing privileges to public forums will only be allowed after a donation is received, and the Sysop is satisfied that the User will not break these rules, and/or all applicable laws.' (Id., P 12 (emphasis supplied.)) By his own rules, Mr. Klemesrud should be removing Mr. Erlich from his BBS, as Mr. Erlich is both violating the BBS's rules and causing it to violate the rules of its access providers, thereby jeopardizing Los Angeles Valley College BBS, Netcom and the entire BBS community. If he did not want to remove him entirely, he could remove his message writing privileges, leaving him with the ability to use other BBS services. (Castleman Dec., P 32-33.) Where a user engages in unlawful postings, his immediate service provider is obligated by Netiquette to deal with his violations, first by warnings and ultimately denial of access, if nothing else works. Furthermore, where the immediate provider will not deal with the problem, then the next provider up the line takes on the obligation of doing so. (Castleman Dec., 91 34-36.) Thus, if Klemesrud refuses, Netcom should take action itself. As discussed in footnote 6, Netcom has removed users in the past for abuse of the Internet through its system. There is no less reason to do so here. And doing so would be consistent with Netcom's own Terms and Conditions for usage of its system. In paragraph 2.2 of the Terms and Conditions, Netcom prohibits posting of copyrighted materials or distribution of such materials to others. Paragraph 7.3 of the Terms & Conditions provides that it is unethical and possibly criminal to violate 'any of the NETCOM conditions of use." It further states that users are expected to report violations, which will be investigated and the "account in question" may be suspended in the interim "to prevent further possible unauthorized activity," with either cancellation of the account or criminal prosecution of violators where applicable. The means of taking action is simple. Netcom's equipment runs the UNIX operating systems software. The programs available on that software for handling USENET messages can easily be programmed to identify individual users. (Castleman Dec., 11 35-36.) Any site running the UNIX operating system software on its computer, whether Netcom or another of the millions of UNIX systems in existence, can obtain and modify for its own needs, and use it to handle the mail passing through its system in any way desired. For example, one simple modification would be to have the software compare the To: and/or From: addresses of each message against a stored list of blocked sources and destinations and delete any message that produced a match. This would likely take only a few microseconds per message. Other possibilities exist by virtue of the protocols which Netcom's equipment is set up to use, per its own literature. (Castleman Dec., 11 39-43.) The critical point is that various different uncomplicated means exist for monitoring an infringer of whom defendants have been informed. Such a system could easily be used to identify Erlich and block his postings altogether, as properly warranted by his threats to ignore any court orders, and his subsequent February 26 posting in clear violation of the original and amended TROS. D. Absent An Injunction, There Is A Strong Likelihood That Defendants Will Continue To Make And Publish Unauthorized Copies Of The Copyrighted Materials Erlich has shown his total disregard for plaintiffs' rights, and also has shown contempt for the power of the court in his statement that: "No local government or court in the U.S. has the power to tell me otherwise' and his violation of the TRO. This shows that defendant Erlich is likely to continue his infringing conduct unless effectively restrained by this Court. The failure of Klemesrud and Netcom to prevent Erlich's access to the Internet and their resultant infringing copying are components of the continuing infringement, and they also should be restrained by this Court. III. DEFENDANTS NETCOM AND KLEMESRUD CAN BE FOUND LIABLE FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Only two elements must be proven in a copyright infringement action: ownership of a valid copyright and copying of the copyrighted work. Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx. Inc., 862 F.2d 204, 206 (9th Cir. 1988); Baxter v. MCA, Inc., 812 F.2d 421, 423 (9th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 954, 108 S.Ct. 346 (1987); M. Nimmer, 3 Nimmer on Copyright S 13.01. The TRO application explains the rights of the copyright owner to full protection under 17 U.S.C. S 201 (d) and plaintiffs' rights as exclusive licensees to assert those rights. It also details the proper registration of the works on which suit was brought. No one, including defendant Erlich himself, has disputed that Erlich made infringing copies. Defendants' position is that they did nothing but passively provide the line on which the infringements passed. As discussed above, this is not accurate. As discussed below, Klemesrud's and Netcom's direct and contributory infringement is remediable. A. Defendants Are Guilty Of Direct Infringement Defendants Klemesrud and Erlich engaged in actual copying of the copyrighted works. They duplicated all or substantial portions of numerous works onto disks in their computers where the data was stored for periods of time ranging from a few minutes to several weeks, thereby making them accessible to millions of Internet subscribers who could become additional copiers. The briefer time periods are those in which the infringing postings were on Klemesrud's or Netcom's disks to facilitate transmission to the Internet (or in Klemesrud's case, to Netcom for retransmission to the Internet). (See, Castleman Dec., 1 22, 27.) The longer time period is the time in which the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup containing the unauthorized copies remains resident on disks in Netcom's or Klemesrud's systems for several weeks (Netcom), or up to three days (Klemesrud). (See, Castleman Dec., 24, 28; Klemesrud Dec., 1 26.) The conduct of defendants is wholesale and willful copying of copyrighted materials subject to the special remedies of 17 U.S.C. S 504(c)(2). Netcom admitted in its opposition to the preliminary injunction at page 1 1, that: two federal courts have found that a BBS may be liable for direct copyright infringement, if it stores copyrighted material on its database and allows subscribers to download and copy the material without the permission of the copyright owner. Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. MAPHIA, 857 F.Supp. 679 (N.D.Cal. 1994); Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Frena, 839 F.Supp. 1552 (M.D.Fla. 1993).This is precisely what Klemesrud is doing and what Netcom is doing as well. By continuing to make infringing copies of literary works for which United States copyright protection exists, defendants have engaged in undeniable infringement of plaintiffs' rights as exclusive licensees of the copyrights, in violation of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. S 101, et seq. B. Defendants Are Guilty Of Contributory Infringement Under the Copyright Act, a party may be vicariously liable for the infringing act of another '[w]hen the right and ability to supervise coalesce with an obvious and direct financial interest in the exploitation of copyrighted materials.' 3 Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, S 12.04[A][1], p. 12-67 (1994) (quoting Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. H.L. Green Co., 316 F.2d 304, 307 (2d Cir. 1963)). The cases which have been decided under this doctrine have one major tenet in common: where the actor has the right and ability to supervise the infringers' activities, then vicarious liability can be found. See, e.g, Shapiro, supra, 316 F.2d at 307 (landlord liable for sales of infringing works on his premises); Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble, Inc. v. Terris, 37 U.S.P.Q. 39 (W.D. Pa. 1938) (owner of orchestra hall vicariously liable for infringement by orchestra despite not paying orchestra and notwithstanding contract granting orchestra exclusive right to choose music); Famous Music Corp. v. Bay State Harness Horse Racing & Breeding Assoc, Inc., 554 F.2d 1213 (1st Cir. 1977). In Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. MAPHIA, 857 F.Supp. 679 (N.D. Cal. 1994), the defendants ran a computer bulletin board on which were posted unauthorized copies of copyrighted video game software owned by Sega. The court's decision arose from a motion for preliminary injunction filed by Sega. The defendants encouraged users of their bulletin board to upload Sega video games so that other users could download them for their own personal use. Those that uploaded games were provided with free downloading privileges or other software; those that wished to download games or other programs could 'pay' for this privilege by purchasing other goods (such as software used to translate the downloaded games) or services (such as the provision of credit card numbers). The court found first that Sega owned valid copyrights in the games which had been copied (Sega, p. 686), and the court stated that "[o]ne who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another,' may be held liable as a contributory infringer.' (Sega, at 686 (quoting Casella v. Morris, 820 F.2d 362, 365 (11th Cir. 1987); Gershwin Publishing Corp. v. Columbia Artists Management, Inc., 443 F.2d 1 1 59, 1162 (2d Cir. 1971). Further, '[e]ven if Defendants do not know exactly when games will be uploaded to or downloaded from the MAPHIA bulletin board, their role in the copying, including provision of facilities, direction, knowledge and encouragement, amounts to contributory copyright infringement.' ($M, p. 686-687; citing Playboy Enterprises, supra.) Based on the foregoing, the court found that Sega was likely to succeed on the merits of its case. In this case, it is apparent that both Netcom and Klemesrud have a significant financial interest in their respective services being used by their subscribers. They also provide facilities through which the uploading and downloading of the infringing materials occurs, and direction for Erlich's use of those facilities and they have the right and ability to supervise those who subscribe to their services. These result from their subscription contracts and from Netiquette. Furthermore, it is clear that both Netcom and Klemesrud have been informed of the infringing activities which have taken place on the respective facilities which they provide. (First Amended Complaint, 1 36.) Their unwillingness to take action against Erlich's infringing postings after they have been so informed acts as an encouragement to him to continue his illicit activities. They therefore have knowledge of the activities and have made the conscious decision not to exercise their rights to prevent further infringements in the future. Based on the foregoing, both defendants have met the standards necessary to be found liable for contributory infringement. Netcom has premised its defense to this action on the ground that it is a "massive transmitter of electronic information" and that "public policy" does not countenance finding such providers liable for copyright infringement. By its own definition, however, Netcom is not such a "passive transmitter." Specifically, Netcom has stated: "Passive transmitters have no knowledge or control of the content of communications that pass over their access lines.' (Netcom's Memorandum in Opposition to Request for Injunctive Relief, p. 7:19-21.) This statement is belied by the facts of this case. Netcom has been aware since December 1994 that Erlich has been using its facilities to transmit protected materials onto the Internet. Moreover, as stated by Dr. Castleman, it is possible to screen information flowing to Netcom from Klemesrud's BS for materials which may be infringing. (Castleman Dec., 11 40-43.) Furthermore, it is relatively simple for Netcom simply to scan incoming messages for anything originating from Erlich and to block all such messages. Finally, Netcom has he unfettered right to simply cut off Klemesrud's access to Netcom in order to prevent further dissemination of copyrighted materials in violation of Netcom's own Terms and Conditions. Unlike the telephone lines to which it wishes to analogize itself, Netcom is not regulated by the government nor is it required to provide services to anyone who requests such services. See Sarah B. Deutsch, "Superliability on the Superhighway?," The Multimedia Law Report, at 5 (November 1994) ("[telephone service] is subject to FCC regulation and telephone companies must provide the service as regulated common carriers on an equal access, non-discriminatory basis to all consumers"). Instead, Netcom is just one of many unregulated, private enterprises which provides its paying customers access to the Internet. Contrary to Netcom's assertion, it is not simply a 'passive" participant in the Internet. Its computers are programmed with considerable software which allow it to sort out the information it receives, store it in particular places, identify that which it does not wish to store, track the usage of its subscribers, etc., in addition to copying the infringing materials in the Usenet newsgroups to its own disks for all of its customers to access. Since Netcom is able to cut off a single user if that user fails to pay the prescribed subscriber fees, it similarly is capable of cutting off a user who violates the law."/8/ ---------- /8/ The argument that Erlich could move to another access provider or change his sign-on name misses the point. Plaintiffs are not asking this Court to find Netcom and Klemesrud liable for Erlich's unidentified or future acts on other services, they simply are seeking to force the defendants to cease providing the means for Erlich's infringing activities. ---------- Netcom's reliance on Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) is misplaced. In So@n , the Supreme Court refused to find the manufacturer of video cassette recorders liable for the infringing activities of the purchasers of those tapes. Because the purchasers' use of the tapes was beyond the control of the manufacturer, however, the Supreme Court held that it would be inappropriate to find the manufacturer vicariously liable for copyright infringement. Here, however, Netcom and Klemesrud maintain complete control over the use of their facilities. They make the decisions as to who uses their computers, what resources are available on those computers, and what information is passed from their computers to others. Unlike video cassette tapes, where the tapes are used in the privacy of the user's home, here the copies are made available to millions of computers around the world. As there is no rational reason for distinguishing between the BBS operator in $M and the BBS operator and access provider here, liability should be imposed on both Klemesrud and Netcom for contributory infringement due to their knowing and continuing contribution to the infringing activities of Erlich. IV. PLAINTIFFS ARE ENTITLED TO A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ON ALL CAUSES OF ACTION Defendants do not dispute the availability of injunctive relief under the section 502(a) of the Copyright Act, only its availability as applied to them under the circumstances herein. In the Ninth Circuit, a party seeking preliminary injunctive relief must show: '(1) a likelihood of success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury or (2) the existence of serious questions going to the merits and the balance of hardships tipping in its [the copyright owner's] favor." Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula Int'l, Inc., 725 F.2d 521, 523 (9th Cir. 1984); Beltran v. Myers , 677 F.2d 1317, 1320 (9th Cir. 1982); Aleknagik Natives, Ltd. v. Andra, 648 F.2d 496, 502 (9th Cir. 1980). The two standards actually are not separate tests but are the 'outer reaches' of a single continuum such that the greater the balance of hardships tips in favor of the moving party, the less likelihood of success on the merits need be shown. Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula lnt'l. Inc., 562 F.Supp. 775, 783 (C.D. Cal. 1983) aff'd 725 F.2d 521 (9th Cir. 1984); Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum v. NFL, 634 F.2d 1197, 1201 (9th Cir. 1980). In fact, because the defendants here were put on notice that the infringements were occurring, and they were warned of possible litigation if they took no action, there should be no balancing of harm in this situation. Where a defendant acts with full knowledge of the plaintiff's rights and with an understanding of the consequences which might ensue, no balancing of equities is to be made. Epstein Family Partnership v. KMART Corp., 13 F.3d 762, 765 (3rd Cir. 1994); Warsaw v. Chicago Metallic Ceilings, Inc., 35 Cal.3d 564, 573; Morgan v. Veach, 59 Cal.App.2d 682, 690, 139 P.2d 976, 980 (1943); People ex rel. Younger v. F.E. Crites, Inc., 51 Cal.App.3d 961, 968, 124 Cal.Rptr. 664, 668 (1975)/9/ Not only did defendants refuse to take action after being put on notice, they also refused to enforce their own regulations. ---------- /9/ In Warsaw, the court particularly noted that the defendants had taken action in violation of the plaintiffs' rights even after the litigation was filed, putting them on notice. The court found that: '[d]efendant gambled on the outcome of the action and lost.' It therefore would be required to remove buildings at its own expense, even though it argued that it had relied on the denial of a preliminary injunction in erecting the structures. Id. at 573, 576, 199 Cal.Rptr. at 777, 780. Defendants here would therefore do well to strike a more cooperative attitude at the onset of this litigation. ---------- Here, the Court found, in denying the earlier application for preliminary injunction as to defendants Klemesrud and Netcom, that plaintiffs had 'not established a sufficient continuing threat of irreparable harm or a probability of success on the merits,' and that 'the threat of harm to those defendants and the public outweighs any further threat of harm to plaintiffs, particularly in light of the seizure order and the continuing TRO against defendant Erlich.' (Amended TRO, at 1-2.) In making these findings, however, the Court was relying on incomplete and inaccurate facts, and did not know that defendant Erlich was about to violate the TRO. As plaintiffs will demonstrate below, the threat of irreparable harm is indeed continuing, as graphically illustrated by defendant Erlich's violation of the TRO by copying an unpublished, confidential work which was one of the documents as to which seizure was ordered, and defendants' own copying of that document (and Erlich's other infringing postings) to remain captive in their systems for their customers' access. Furthermore, because: (1) the solutions which can be implemented by Klemesrud and Netcom to deal with the problem are simple, inexpensive, and not time-consuming; (2) plaintiffs have demonstrated prime facie ownership of the copyrights in question; and (3) these defendants have engaged in direct and contributory infringement, there is a probability of success on the merits, and the threat of harm to defendants and the public is minimal. In contrast, the threat of harm to plaintiffs from continual postings by the renegade Erlich is great and real. A. Plaintiffs Have Established A Likelihood Of Success On The Merits Of Each Cause Of Action Ownership of the copyrighted works has been clearly established in the TRO application and supporting declarations and exhibits and will not be separately addressed here. Because plaintiffs, as exclusive licensees, are entitled 'to all of the protection and remedies accorded the copyright owner by this title,' [17 U.S.C. S 201 (d)], they are likely to prevail at trial on the direct and contributory infringements. B. Plaintiffs Will Be Irreparably Inured If Defendant Is Not Preliminarily Enjoined As a general rule, if the holder of the copyright establishes a probability of success on the merits, a court will presume irreparable harm. Apple Computer, supra, 725 F.2d at 525. ("A showing of a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits in a copyright infringement claim raises a presumption of irreparable harm."); Wainwright Sec. v. Wall Street Transcript Co., 558 F.2d 91, 94 (2nd Cir. 1977), cert den., 434 U.S. 1014, 98 S.Ct. 730 (1978) ("[I]f probable success -- a prima facie case of copyright infringement -- can be shown, the allegations of irreparable injury need not be very detailed, because such injury can normally be presumed when a copyright is infringed."). In U-Haul International, Inc. v. Jartran, Inc., 522 F.Supp. 1238, 1255 (D.Ariz. 1981), affd, 681 F.2d 1 1 59 (9th Cir. 1982), a case under the Lanham Act involving false and deceptive advertising, the court found irreparable injury without any proof of actual injury. The Court noted: [i]njury sometimes occurs whose measure is uncertain and a threat of injury may be quite real even though the measure of threatened injury defies calculation. . . . Indeed, one reason for issuing an injunction may be that damages, being immeasurable, will not provide a remedy at law. id. at 1255-56 (quoting Treasure Valley Potato Bargaining Ass'n v. Ore-Ida Foods, Inc., 497 F.2d 203, 218 (9th Cir. 1974), Mr . denied, 419 U.S. 999, 95 S.Ct. 314 (1974)) (emphasis added). Defendant Netcom argued in its opposition to a preliminary injunction that there was no irreparable harm because Erlich's materials had been seized and his infringements were thus disabled. Any possible merit of that argument was eviscerated with Erlich's posting on February 26, 1995--post-seizure--of the Class VIII 'Assists' tape transcript, which is an unpublished work listed in Exhibit B to the complaint, of which a copy on disk was seized pursuant to the Writ of Seizure. Here, the danger of irreparable injury is even greater than in the usual case, because Erlich continued his infringements in disregard of the Court's orders. He copied not only published works available for purchase, but also unpublished works, and did so over an international computer network which potentially exposes the infringements to 25-35 million users, with the attendant risk that the works could be copied and recopied virtually without limit. Defendants Klemesrud and Netcom are themselves engaging in such copying by their storage of the postings on their computers for days. Plaintiffs have no control over copying by defendants and others, and that lack of control constitutes irreparable injury sufficient to support the issuance of a preliminary injunction. C. The Equities Weigh Heavily In Favor Of Granting The Prior Injunction In this case, all equitable considerations lie on the side of plaintiffs and weigh heavily in favor of granting a preliminary injunction. If relief is denied, plaintiffs will continue to suffer inevitable and irreparable harm, both under the law and in fact, as a result of the violation of plaintiffs' exclusive rights to publication of the copyrighted works in question, including the unpublished confidential works which are never published or sold to anyone. The events occurring in the short time since the case was filed demonstrate this to be true. If either Netcom or Klemesrud had taken the responsibility of warning Erlich and then taking him off if he refused to refrain from posting copyrighted materials, his continued infringement in violation of the TRO could never have occurred, and in fact, this suit would never have been filed against them. Even if defendants could show any harm as a result of the requested injunctive relief, such harm should not enter into the Court's consideration. Defendants were put on notice that the infringements were occurring and chose to take no action to prevent them. Therefore, no balancing of equities need be made. Epstein Family Partnership, supra, 13 F.3d 765, Morgan v. Veach, supra, 59 Cal.App.2d at 690, 139 P.2d at 980. Furthermore, it is difficult to conceive how defendants could possibly demonstrate harm where they are merely being asked to enforce their own rules and maintain appropriate Netiquette. Despite their protestations to the contrary, defendants were on notice of Erlich's specific postings, and did nothing to get him to stop. They obviously acted with notice of the copyrighted nature of the literary works, both from the copyright notices on those works in many instances and plaintiffs' letters, e-mail, and verbal communications with them. Their copying is clearly intentional and without justification. Plaintiffs are not attempting to enjoin defendants Klemesrud and Netcom generally, but only with respect to Erlich and other known infringers of whose infringements they have been notified. The scope of the proposed injunction language has been revised accordingly. The problem of other known infringers is by no means hypothetical. The First Amended Complaint describes postings of some of the copyrighted, unpublished, confidential materials listed in Exhibit B to the complaint on February 25, 1995 by an individual named Grady Ward, who is Netcom's direct subscriber. Netcom's attorney was put on notice of these postings by their subscriber. In spite of the fact that it has previously stated it would take action to deal with direct subscribers engaged in such infringements, which is consistent with its own Terms and Conditions and its prior disconnection of other abusers, it has taken a week to respond to counsel's letter, and agreed then to do something, only if provided with the copyright registrations. (Kobrin Dec. 11 2-3.) Netcom has had these registrations since it was served with the Complaint, since these postings were some of the same materials included in Exhibit B to the Complaint and, in addition, copyright protection is afforded material without being registered with the Copyright Office. A court order is needed to force these defendants to comply with the law. V. CONCLUSION Klemesrud and Netcom have far more involvement and culpability in this copyright infringement case than they led the Court to believe in their initial briefing related to the preliminary injunction. Their infringements are both contributory and direct, in light of their copying of the infringing postings into their own computers for customer access over periods of multiple days and the initial creation of Erlich's infringements on Klemesrud's computer. The Court cannot take a complacent approach to these defendants on the theory that Erlich has been restrained and his infringing materials seized, since he has actually continued his infringing postings in spite of the TRO, and his attempted apology is useless to undo the damage, even if it is sincere, which is doubtful. Erlich's means of continuing to infringe and defendants' own infringements must be stopped pending the conclusion of this litigation, so that plaintiffs' rights can be maintained as they were at the outset and not further trampled by defendants. Dated: March 6, 1995 Respectfully submitted, Andrew H. Wilson WILSON, RYAN & CAMPILONGO Thomas M. Small Janet A. Kobrin SMALL, LARKIN & KIDDE -and- Helena K. Kobrin /s/ [Helena K. Kobrin] Attorneys for Plaintiff RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. STATEMENT OF ISSUES The principal issue presented by this application is whether the action of defendants Klemesrud and Netcom in infringing plaintiffs' copyrights in published and unpublished, confidential religious scriptures warrant the issuance of an order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be issued requiring the defendants to cease and desist from infringing plaintiffs' rights under the federal copyright laws by making unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted works on the Internet network or other databases, and from violating RTC's rights under California trade secrets laws by copying unauthorized copies of confidential works of L. Ron Hubbard onto that network's database. A related issue is whether those actions entitle plaintiffs to an order impounding the infringing materials and the articles by which unauthorized copies have been reproduced.  Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:40848 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!news.sasknet.sk.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.bc.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!scipio.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!support.com!tom.klemesrud Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: tom.klemesrud@support.com (tom.klemesrud) Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.29 Subject: Plaintiffs' Reply re Contempt X-Posting-Host: uucp4.netcom.com Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:16:47 +0000 Message-ID: <9503230016.00E5R03@support.com> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 586 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Tom Klemesrud, Sysop _/ _/ L.A. Valley College BBS _/ _/ tom.klemesrud@support.com _/ _/ FidoNet 1:102/837 KoX _/ _/ root@support.com _/ _/ North Hollywood, CA USA _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Andrew H. Wilson WILSON, RYAN & CAMPILONGO 115 Sansome Street Fourth Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 391-3900 Thomas M. Small Janet Kobrin SMALL, LARKIN, & KIDDE 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800 Los Angeles, California 90024-3945 (310) 209-4400 Helena K. Kobrin 7629 Fulton Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 (213) 960-1933 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a ) CASE NO. C95-20091 RMW California non-profit corporation; ) and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., a ) PLAINTIFFS' REPLY IN California non-profit corporation, ) SUPPORT OF ORDER TO SHOW ) CAUSE RE CONTEMPT Plaintiffs, ) ) vs ) ) NETCOM ON-LINE COMMUNICATION ) DATE: March 17, 1995 SERVICES, INC., a Delaware ) TIME: 9:00 am corporation; DENNIS ERLICH, an ) CTRM: Hon. Ronald M. individual; and TOM KLEMESRUD, an ) Whyte individual, dba CLEARWOOD DATA ) SERVICES, ) ) Defendants. ) ) ___________________________________) TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE I. INTRODUCTION...................................... 1 II. DENNIS ERLICH IS NOT AN INNOCENT VIOLATOR OF THE TRO 2 A. Erlich's Long-Existing Confidentiality Obligations............ 3 B. The Court's Warnings to Erlich at the Hearing.............. 4 C. Erlich's Contemptuous Statements About the Court, the Case, and His Intended Violations........... 5 D. Mr. Erlich Has a History of Violating Court Orders........... 7 III. ERLICH HAS VIOLATED THE CLEAR ORDER OF THIS COURT....... 8 IV. THE SANCTIONS REQUESTED ARE REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE....................................... 11 V. CONCLUSION........................................ 12 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES CASES PAGE Armstrong v. Executive Office of President, 1 F.3d 1274 (D.C. Cir. 1993........... 11 Fonar Corp. v. Deccaid Services, Inc., 983 F.2d 427 (2d Cir. 1993), cert. denied 62 U.S.L.W. 3273............ 10 In re Dual-Deck Video Cassette Antitrust Litigation, 10 F.3d 693 (9th Cir. 1993)................................ 8, 9 Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Dept., 839 F. 2d 621 (9th Cir. 1988).................... 10 Project B.A.S.I.C. v. Kemp. 947 F.2d 1 1 (1st Cir. 1991)...................... 11 Rinehart v. Brewer, 483 F.Supp. 165 (S.D. Iowa 1980).................. 9 Spallone v. United States, 493 U.S. 265, 110 S.Ct. 625 (1990)............... 11,12 Vertex Distributing v. Falcon Foam Plastics, Inc., 689 F.2d 885 (9th Cir. 1982)...................... 9 I. INTRODUCTION The Opposition filed by defendant Erlich's now counsel attempts to whitewash' Erlich's clearly contemptuous behavior as the simple errors of an innocent "soapbox" satirist or critic who has been victimized by the plaintiffs in his litigation in order to silence his criticism. Implicit in the Opposition is the suggestion that this Court has contributed to plaintiffs' "nefarious campaign" against Mr. Erlich, first by ordering the seizure of unauthorized copies of plaintiffs' materials in Mr. Erlich's possession by law enforcement officers other than a U.S. Marshall, and then by issuing a Temporary Restraining Order ("TRO") that was defectively unspecific or indefinite. Erlich's conclusion is that the Court should excuse his disobedience of the Court's orders as a reasonable interpretation of hose orders made in good faith, and in any event cured by Mr. Erlich's apology to he Court./1/ ---------- /1/ It should be noted that Mr. Erlich's February 27 apology was only issued after hand service on Mr. Erlich of a letter stating plaintiffs' intention to file a motion for contempt. ---------- Mr. Erlich's counsel would exonerate Erlich by casting plaintiffs as the culprits and Mr. Erlich as the victim. The Court should not be misled by this twisting of the truth. In fact, plaintiffs' action against Mr. Erlich is directed solely to his violations of plaintiffs' intellectual property rights, under both the copyright and trade secrets laws, and measures taken in this case are strictly in accordance with those laws and established procedures followed by other courts in similar circumstances. Mr. Erlich's behavior has been anything but innocent. He repeatedly, (1) violated plaintiffs' intellectual property rights; (2) refused to take any action to cease his violations once warned; (3) stated that no court could stop his actions; and (4) dared plaintiffs to sue him for his violations. Once suit was filed, he flouted the Court's Orders by his further posting of an unpublished, confidential work on February 26, 1995. The Court's orders were clear and unambiguous, as initially issued, as clarified at the February 21 hearing, and as later modified, and Mr. Erlich knew full well that the work he posted on February 26 was one within he scope of the orders. His accompanying statement made it clear that he knew, and also that he had no legitimate purpose for his publication -- he was motivated only by malice against plaintiffs and his declared defiance of the Court's authority./2/ ---------- /2/ As a former Church of Scientology staff member, Mr. Erlich also knew over a dozen years ago that the material he posted in violation of the TRO was an unpublished work, always treated with utmost confidentiality by plaintiff Religious Technology Center ("RTC") and its licensees. Even without the TRO, he was well familiar with the perpetual confidentiality obligations imposed upon his access to those materials while a staff member because he had read confidentiality policies and agreed to be bound by them. It was only after doing so that he was allowed access to those materials. (McShane Dec., Feb. 24, 1995,  7-10.) ---------- Finally, Erlich's legal arguments do not excuse such a direct and flagrant violation of the Court's orders. The material facts here are beyond dispute, and establish a clear and intentional act by Mr. Erlich in violation of the TROs. The Court should hold Mr. Erlich In contempt and impose the reasonable and appropriate sanctions sought by plaintiffs to enforce the Court's authority and impress upon Mr. Erlich that he must not flout the Court's orders in the future. A the hearing on the application for writ of seizure, the Court declined to order seizure of Mr. Erlich's computer, and stated that It would hold Mr. Erlich in contempt if he violated the seizure order. He should now be found in contempt and the impoundment of his computer should be ordered, in addition to the other entirely reasonable sanctions requested. II. DENNIS ERLICH IS NOT AN INNOCENT VIOLATOR OF THE TRO Numerous facts establish that defendant Erlich is no innocent violator of the TRO: A. Erlich's Long-Existing Confidentiality Obligations Erlich's admissions that he is a former Church of Scientology staff member who studied the confidential Scientology scriptures in that capacity underscore that he knew he was violating plaintiffs' rights in the materials. Any Scientologist who qualifies to receive and is given access to its confidential Advanced Technology scriptures must study specific documents describing the confidentiality the materials and the required security measures and agree to maintain such measures himself, before being permitted access to any Advanced Technology. (McShane Dec., Feb. 24, 1995,  8.) A copy of the pertinent non-confidential portions of Erlich's NED for OTs ("NOTs") Advanced Courses Specialist Checksheet, bearing his signature throughout, is Exhibit D to the February 24 declaration of Warren McShane. The portions of that checksheet which are attached to the declaration show that Erlich had to study a policy which required specific security measures to obtain access to Advanced Technology./3/ ---------- /3/ Other such policies are required to be studied as part of other confidential courses which Mr. Erlich studied. (E.g., McShane Dec., March 16, 1995,  3, and Ex. A and B.) Erlich would never have had access to these documents without agreeing to confidentiality. (McShane Dec., Feb. 24, 1995,  8.) Mr. Erlich also signed a staff contract, Exhibit F to the February 24 declaration of Warren McShane, by which he bound himself to abide by the Church's "administrative, ecclesiastical, moral and ethical policies, rules, norms, and practices . . ." Those policies include these confidentiality policies. These all establish his knowledge of what he was doing. ---------- Contrary to Erlich's implication that It is his right to use these materials as part of his alleged "ministry," any right that Erlich might have had to use the confidential scriptures in connection with functions as a Scientology minister were terminated when he was expelled from the Church, and never included the right to publicly disseminate the materials. (McShane Dec., February 20, 1995,  13.) B. The Court's Warnings to Erlich at the Hearing In contrast to the attempts of Mr. Erlich's counsel to cast his violation as the suit of ambiguity in the Court's remarks at the February 21 hearing, those marks were crystal clear as to Mr. Erlich's obligations. First, there could be no doubt that Mr. Erlich was subject to the original TRO until it was amended: MR. ERLICH: . . . is there currently a restraining order on me or a temporary restraining order? THE COURT: There was one that was issued initially and that will be modified forthwith. MR. ERLICH: Has it -- does it lapse? Does it lapse until the modification? THE COURT: No. It stays in effect until the modification. (Transcript, at 33:15-23.)/4/ Common sense dictates that, having ---------- /4/ References to "Transcript" are to the transcript of the February 21, 1995 hearing which is attached as an exhibit to defendant Erlich's opposition to the Order to Show Cause. --------- been so formed, Erlich's proper course was to continue to comply with the original TRO until he saw the amended one. Furthermore, the provisions in the original and amended TROs on the point of disclosure of the unpublished confidential works identically prohibit all disclosure of the materials listed in Exhibit B to the complaint. Any claim that he did not know what acts were prohibited is entirely specious. Second, the Court's remarks, including those quoted in Mr. Erlich's Opposition at 3:19-21, show that the Court intended "to prohibit any publication of confidential material," while prohibiting publication of other copyrighted material "that was not that which is fair criticism or comment or fair use." (Transcript, et 30:23-31:2, as quoted in Erlich's opposition at 3:19-21 (emphasis supplied)). Third, on the fair use point, the Court also stated that: The concern I have is that what the application indicated . . . was that what you were doing was publishing verbatim large portions of copyrighted materials . . . That's what I don't want to have happen. (Transcript, at 34:14-21.) Mr. Erlich's unequivocal response was: "Absolutely not" (Transcript, at 34:22). He was obviously intending to convince the Court he would comply with the TRO, when he in fact had no intention to comply, and violated it a mere five days later, as plaintiffs had predicted he would do at the hearing on their Application for Writ of Seizure. The Court could not have been clearer that Mr. Erlich was to err on the side of caution: MR. ERLICH: Am I likely to get raided again, in other words, if I post a paragraph of some of the works that they seem to think are in question? THE COURT: Well, I'm not sure that I would recommend that you go out and you publish verbatim large portions of protected works, if that's what your question is. MR. ERLICH: Comment on? THE COURT: You know, if you want to comment on what's happened in court or comment on something where you're not revealing either information that's trade secret or copying large portions of copyrighted material, you know, that's something that you're entitled to do, but I would be careful. MR. ERLICH: Yes, Your Honor, I will be. (Transcript, at 35:5-17 (emphasis supplied)). Thus, any contention that even as a pro se party, Mr. Erlich was not on notice of his obligations, is absurd. Ignorance is no excuse, and there was no ignorance here. Erlich posted eight pages of unpublished, confidential material. Prohibition of its disclosure was clearly conveyed by paragraph 2 of each of the TROs. Mr. Erlich cannot claim his posting was fair use; indeed it was not even "use." It was nothing more than malicious copying and disclosure of the materials. Erlich should therefore be held accountable for his violation of the Court's order. C. Erlich's Contemptuous Statements About the Court, the Case, and His Intended Violations Mr. Erlich's lack of innocence is also highlighted by his remarks outside of the Court's presence. Prior to the commencement of this litigation, Mr. Erlich stated that: "No local government or court in the U.S. has the power to tell" him to stop his infringing postings of plaintiffs' materials. (Ex. F to Kobrin Dec. filed in support of Application for TRO). His recent actions show that his statement is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, and his posted comments on alt.religion.Scientology show his contumacious attitude towards the Court, his intention to continue his activities, and his view that the current proceedings are just a temporary inconvenience. His comments are in marked contrast to the feigned respect and compliant attitude Mr. Erlich puts on for the Court's view. Mr. Erlich's most direct, post-complaint statement reflecting his same pre-complaint attitude was made on March 10, 1995: I have my own religion, thank you. Don't want followers, devotees or paritioners [sic]. I do want to be free to preach as I see fit. The US government and the courts thereof have not been granted the right to tell me I can't. Ain't their bizness [sic]. (Ex. C to McShane Dec.) Most recently, Mr. Erlich has announced his intention to resume his postings shortly. When copies of the materials in question in this case were requested by another poster on alt.religion.Scientology, Erlich responded: "Give me a couple of weeks, til this is over. Then I'll be happy to post it again." (McShane Dec., March 16, 1995,  5, and Ex. D.) Also with respect to those works, on March 13, Mr. Erlich posted the following on the Internet: I certainly do not believe that RTC has ownership of those materials. If they can convince a judge that they do, I'll still have fair use rights to criticize and quote them in the context of discussion. You scienos take the position that there is no such thing as fair use of the Oat Tea material and embarrassing internal documents./5/ Tough position. Learn to fall back early. It'll hurt less. (Ex. E to McShane Dec.) This statement was made after Mr. Erlich ---------- /5/ The term "scienos" is Mr. Erlich's derogatory expression for Scientologists. "Oat tea" is a derogatory reference to the confidential unpublished Advanced Technology materials, which are sometimes called "O.T." materials. O.T. stands for operating thetan, which means the spiritual being able to function apart from a body. The Class VIII materials which Erlich posted are O.T. materials. ---------- zprofessed to realize in his apology letter that his posting had violated the Court's TRO because the confidential materials were not subject to the fair use exception. His remarks demonstrate the utter deceit in his letters to the Court. A representative sampling of other statements made by Mr. Erlich in earlier postings also demonstrate his true lack of respect for the Court and its pronouncements, and his intent to ridicule whatever happens in this case: 1. In a February 16 posting, Mr. Erlich referred to the Court's Writ of Seizure as a "bogus court order," and his conduct since the imposition of the TRO reflects that opinion. (McShane Dec., March 16, 1995,  8 and Ex. F.) 2. Regarding his response to plaintiffs' February 24 filing regarding the seized infringing materials, on February 24, Mr. Erlich stated: I will have to respond to whatever bs they submit by next Friday when the judge will rule on continuing or dropping the Temporary Restraining Order, which is preventing me from doing exactly nothing that I already was not doing in the first place. (McShane Dec., March 16 1995,  9 and Ex. G.) This posting belies Mr. Erlich's apology to the court and proves that on February 24, he knew he was subject to the TRO. 3. On February 28, 1995, a day after his apology was written to the Court, Mr. Erlich posted the following statement: And from the judges [sic] Amended TRO he seems to think it's just "business as usual" to allow my enemies into my house, into my private files, to copy, delete and cart off anything they want. (McShane Dec., March 16, 1995,  9 and Ex. H.) 4. And finally, one of the more telling remarks by Mr. Erlich as to false facade he is presenting to the Court was made on March 9, 1995: Alas. I will probably not get to expound on my theories of existence before a Federal Judge. Probably the better for me, though. I'd undoubtedly crack wise and get in some kinda trouble. (Ex. I to McShane Dec., March 16, 1995.) D. Mr. Erlich Has a History of Violating Court Orders Erlich's violation of the TRO was not the first time he has violated Court orders. While plaintiffs would prefer not to bring up other matters, the Court should be informed that Mr. Erlich is not the self-righteous minister he professes to be, and that he has shown a lack of respect for Court orders previously. On January 23, 1985, the Superior Court for the County of San Diego issued a judgment of divorce between Mr. Erlich and his wife. Mr. Erlich was ordered to pay $200.00 per month for support of their minor child, who was then five years old. (Declaration of Rosa Erlich Munsey,  2 and 26.) In a recent declaration, Mr. Erlich's ex-wife stated that, with the exception of a total of $500.00 paid in 1985-1986, Mr. Erlich has never paid any child support pursuant to that order. (Declaration of Rosa Erlich Munsey,  26.) The nine-year violation of the 1985 court order, continuing to this date, is strong evidence that Mr. Erlich will continue his activities unabated, if the Court does not utilize its contempt powers against him. III. ERLICH HAS VIOLATED THE CLEAR ORDER OF THIS COURT Erlich attempts to excuse his violation of this Court's TRO by arguing that the Order was ambiguous and that, since he was not represented by counSEl, he did not understand it. As set forth above, the facts belie Erlich's claimed lock of knowledge. Moreover, his position finds no support in the law of this Circuit. Fundamentally, civil contempt "consists of a party's disobedience to a specific and definite court order by failure to take all reasonable steps within the party's power to comply." In re Dual-Deck Video Cassette Antitrust Litigation, 10 F.3d 693, 695 (9th Cir. 1993) (cited by Erlich sub nom. Go-Video, Inc. v. Motion Picture Assoc. of America). The only issues presented by Erlich are whether this Court's Order was clear and whether he understood it. Plaintiffs submit that both issues must be answered in the affirmative. In its February 10, 1995, Order, this Court restrained Erlich, inter alia, From disclosing or displaying, or causing to be disclosed or displayed, any portion of the unpublished confidential works identified in Exhibit B to the Complaint, or of any other work that is part of the Advanced Technology. (February 10, 1995, Temporary Restraining Order, at 3:23-26.) The Amended TRO contains the same language as to Exhibit B. Nothing could be clearer. It is correct that, "where the language of [an order] is too vague, it cannot be enforced." Vertex Distributing v. Falcon Foam Plastics, Inc., 689 F.2d 885, 889 (9th Cir. 1982). Thus, "if a defendant's action 'appears to be based on a good faith and reasonable interpretation of [the court's order],' he should not be held in contempt.' Id. (quoting Rinehart v. Brewer, 483 F.Supp. 165, 171 (S.D. Iowa 1980)). The emphasis In the analysis of this defense, however, is on the "good faith" of the party's interpretation of the Court's Order./6/ Try as he might, Erlich's ---------- /6/ The "good faith" defense relates only to the party's interpretation of the Order, not his intent. "[T]here is no good faith exception to the requirement of obedience to a court order." Dual-Deck Video Cassette, 10 F.3d at 695. It therefore is irrelevant "why" Erlich violated this Court's Order, the only issue is whether he understood the Order when he did so. ---------- intentional misinterpretation of the TRO here cannot be reconciled with the facts underlying the cases he has cited to support his position. For example, in the Dual-Deck Video Cassette litigation, Go-Video previously had filed suit against Matsushita and others. During that earlier litigation the parties had entered into a standard protective order prohibiting the use or disclosure of material obtained through discovery. Dual-Deck Video Cassette, supra, 10 F.3d at 694. When Go-video discovered materials which it believed supported a claim of further antitrust violations by the defendants, and the court denied leave to amend, Go-Video filed a second lawsuit. The defendants claimed that Go-Video had violated the earlier order by referencing some of the earlier discovery in the second lawsuit. Finding that Go-Video "went to great lengths to avoid revealing in the public filing's anything it had learned in discovery," and that no claim had been made that "the stated purposes of the order were violated," the appellate court vacated the lower court's contempt judgment on the ground that: "'Substantial compliance' with the court order is a defense to civil contempt, and is not vitiated by a 'few technical violations' where every reasonable effort has been made to comply." Id. at 695-96 (emphasis supplied). Erlich did not take "every reasonable effort" to comply with this Court's Order. The TROs and the Court's verbal explanation of his obligations were unambiguous./7/ Intentionally copying ---------- /7/ Erlich's reliance on Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Dept., 839 F.2d 621 (9th Cir. 1988) is misplaced. Faced with the district court's dismissal of Karim-Panahi's civil rights complaint, the Ninth Circuit in that case stated that "[I]n civil rights cases where the plaintiff appears pro se, the court must construe the pleadings liberally and must afford plaintiff the benefit of any doubt." Id. at 623. The policies underlying the Karim-Panahi decision (to promote the redress of civil rights violations and to address a non-lawyer's inability to draft proper complaint) cannot be said to support Erlich's purposeful misconstruction of the clear order of this Court. --------- confidential material onto the Internet cannot be construed as a "reasonable effort to comply." And as Erlich's February 24 posting, supra, demonstrates, he knew he was subject to the unambiguous TRO when he made the posting. Erlich's other cases are equally in applicable. In Vertex, supra, and Fonar Corp. v. Deccaid Services, Inc., 983 F.2d 427 (2d Cir. 1993), cert. denied 62 U.S.L.W. 3273, the orders allegedly violated were facially ambiguous. See, Vertex, supra, 689 F.2d at 890 (no contempt where the parties "engage[d]) in a semantic battle over the meaning" of a consent judgment, thus negating attempt to show that defendant's interpretation was "unreasonable"); Fonar, supra, 983 F.2d at 429 (order prohibiting copying of "Maintenance Software" ambiguous where "Maintenance Software" is never defined). Since the Order here specifically prohibits Erlich from copying both the materials set forth in Exhibit B to the Complaint (a copy of which Erlich had in his possession when he copied the materials on February 26) and the Advanced Technology (a term Erlich knows well through his prior membership in the Church of Scientology), there was nothing ambiguous about this Court's Order./8/ ---------- /8/ In both Project B.A.S.I.C. v. Kemp, 947 F.2d 11, 18-19 (1st Cir. 1991), and Spallone v. United States, 493 U.S. 265, 280 (1990), the parties against which contempt judgments were sought were not even parties to the original orders. Finally, in Armstrong v. Executive Office of President, 1 F.3d 1274, 1289 (D.C. Cir. 1993), an earlier Declaratory Judgment merely had stated that certain guidelines prepared by the defendants were inadequate, it did not order the defendants to promulgate new guidelines. As a result, no contempt order was proper when new guidelines were not promulgated. Id. at 1289. ---------- Here, in contrast, both the law and the order in question are clear. Since the Court's Temporary Restraining Order was definite and specific, and Erlich plainly failed to take reasonable stops to comply with that Order and in fact intentionally violated it, a judgment of contempt should be entered. IV. THE SANCTIONS REQUESTED ARE REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE In contrast to Erlich's posturing that the requested sanctions are "burdensome" or "crippling," they are quite mild in contrast to the remedies which are available for contempt. Plaintiffs could have sought sanctions, including fines and imprisonment, for criminal contempt. They could have sought imprisonment or financial damages beyond their attorney fees for civil contempt. They did neither. Instead, plaintiffs have made a reasonable request for sanctions to which they are absolutely entitled under the Court's contempt power and the Copyright Act: 1. A finding that Mr. Erlich is in contempt of the Court's TRO. 2. An order impounding his computer, which was originally requested in the ex parte TRO application as permitted under 17 U.S.C.  503. 3. Plaintiffs' fees and costs in connection with this motion. Erlich's citations and argument support the granting of these sanctions. His citation to Spallone v. United States, 493 U.S. 265, 280, 110 S.Ct. 625, 635 (1990) takes entirely out of context the point of the Court's statement that a court should exercise "the least possible power adequate to the and proposed." Plaintiffs seek sanctions far less stringent than they might have requested against the exact party who was bound by and violated the Court's order./9/ ---------- /9/ In contract, in Spallone, individual members of a city council were held in contempt for failure to vote in favor of an anti-discrimination ordinance. This was an abuse of discretion where the sanctions should have been against the city only, which was the party to the discrimination action. Id. at 276-277, 110 S.Ct. at 632-633. ---------- With respect to the contention that plaintiffs have not demonstrated actual injury, the contention is ludicrous. The only monetary award which plaintiffs seek the fees and costs of filing this motion, which is clearly an "actual Loss" resulting from Mr. Erlich's non-compliance. In re Dual Deck, supra, at 696. In Dual Deck, no fees were deemed appropriate because the contempt order was found to be an use of discretion and the contempt motion unnecessary. Id. at 696. Here, there is a blatant and admitted violation of the Court's order. No attempt to characterize the problem as "ultra-aggressive litigation strategy" can metamorphose Mr. Erlich into the victim, when it is plaintiffs' rights which have been violated. Mr. Erlich should have considered the possible penalties before he violated plaintiffs' rights. That he apologized a day later is irrelevant after he learned plaintiffs were moving for contempt -- his transgression cannot be deemed minor regardless of any apologies or any professed (but unsupported) steps to do it when his posting of the confidential unpublished materials was made onto public computer network which con potentially be accessed by millions of people. The computer of which plaintiffs have requested impoundment is In Mr. Erlich's home, and is the computer he uses to access alt.religion.Scientology. While he claims that he relies on it for business purposes, during the seizure he stated that he had three computers at his business. (McShane Dec., Feb. 20, 1994,  10.) Thus, his claim that it is needed for his business is not credible. Furthermore, there is no reason for the alleged burden on him to be considered by the Court when Mr. Erlich has never considered the burdens he was placing on the plaintiffs by violating their rights. V. CONCLUSION Neither this suit, nor this contempt motion is about attempts to stop public debate on Scientology. If that were so, Mr. Erlich and others would have been sued two years ago, when alt.religion.Scientology first came on-line. Or Mr. Erlich would have been sued when he first started printing his anti-Scientology publication entitled "The Informer," or at any other time in the many years during which Mr. Erlich claims to have been a Scientology critic. No suits have been brought by plaintiffs against Mr. Erlich prior to this one, and no other suits have been brought against other Internet users or posters on alt.religion.Scientology. This case is about Mr. Erlich's refusal to respect plaintiffs' intellectual property rights. It is a continuing situation, which will not go away, unless this Court gives Mr. Erlich the clear message that his actions will not be tolerated and he will be held responsible for them. Mr. Erlich should be hold in contempt, and he reasonable and appropriate sanctions requested by plaintiffs should be imposed. Dated: March 15, 1995 Respectfully submitted, Andrew H. Wilson WILSON, RYAN & CAMPILONGO Thomas M. Small Janet A. Kobrin SMALL, LARKIN & KIDD Elliot J. Abelson -and- Helena K. Kobrin Attorneys for Plaintiffs RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. Xref: utcsri alt.religion.scientology:40847 Path: utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!news.sasknet.sk.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.bc.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!scipio.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!support.com!tom.klemesrud Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: tom.klemesrud@support.com (tom.klemesrud) Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.29 Subject: Declarations of McShane & Rosa Erlich X-Posting-Host: uucp4.netcom.com Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:16:50 +0000 Message-ID: <9503230016.00E6X03@support.com> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 303 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Tom Klemesrud, Sysop _/ _/ L.A. Valley College BBS _/ _/ tom.klemesrud@support.com _/ _/ FidoNet 1:102/837 KoX _/ _/ root@support.com _/ _/ North Hollywood, CA USA _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Andrew H. Wilson WILSON, RYAN & CAMPILONGO 115 Sansome Street Fourth Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 391-3900 Thomas M. Small Janet Kobrin SMALL, LARKIN, & KIDDE 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800 Los Angeles, California 90024-3945 (310) 209-4400 Helena K. Kobrin 7629 Fulton Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 (213) 960-1933 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a ) CASE NO. C95-20091 RMW California non-profit corporation; ) and BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., a ) DECLARATIONS OF WARREN California non-profit corporation, ) MCSHANE AND ROSA ERLICH ) MUNSEY IN SUPPORT OF Plaintiffs, ) PLAINIFFS' REPLY IN ) OF ORDER TO SHOW vs ) CAUSE RE CIVIL CONTEMPT ) NETCOM ON-LINE COMMUNICATION ) DATE: March 17, 1995 SERVICES, INC., a Delaware ) TIME: 9:00 am corporation; DENNIS ERLICH, an ) CTRM: Hon. Ronald M. individual; and TOM KLEMESRUD, an ) Whyte individual, dba CLEARWOOD DATA ) SERVICES, ) ) Defendants. ) ) ___________________________________) DECLARATION OF WARREN MCSHANE I, Warren McShane, hereby declare: 1. I am over 18 years of age and a resident of the State of California. I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth herein and, if called as a witness, could and would competently testify thereto. 2. Since August of 1983, I have been employed by Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), a church of the Scientology religion. Since October 1983, I have been a Director and Officer of RTC, and I am currently its President. 3. I have previously informed the Court of requirements that Dennis Erlich had to meet In order to be permitted to study the Church's Advanced Technology materials. True and correct copies of two of the policies on confidentiality and secrecy which are studied by students of the Advanced Technology are attached hereto as Exhibits A and B. They require strict confidentiality of the materials be observed and prohibit copying of any sort, even the taking of notes related to these materials. 4. On March 10, 1995, Mr. Erlich made a posting on alt.religion.Scientology ("a.r.s.") which stated, in different words, the same contempt for the Court's authority which he expressed in his previous statement that no court or government could stop his postings. A true and correct copy of that posting is attached hereto as Exhibit C, containing the following quote: I have my own religion, thank you. Don't want followers, devotees or paritioners [sic]. I do want to be free to preach as I see fit. The US government and the courts thereof have not been granted the right to tell me I can't. Ain't their bizness [sic]. 5. Mr. Erlich has also announced his intention to resume his postings shortly in Exhibit D, where, in response to a request from another person for an e-mail of "the illegal file that the s__ts at the Scientology bank are trying to restrict," Erlich responded: "Give me a couple of weeks, til this is over. Then I'll be happy to post it again." The document to which he is referring is the confidential unpublished works. unpublished works. 6. On March 13, Mr. Erlich made a posting (Exhibit E), containing the following statement: I certainly do not believe that RTC has ownership of those materials. If they can convince a judge that they do, I'll still have fair use rights to criticize and quote them in the context of discussion. You scienos take the position that there is no such thing as fair use of the Oat Tea material and embarrassing Internal documents. Tough position. Learn to fall back early. It'll hurt less. The term "scienos" is Mr. Erlich's derogatory expression for Scientologists. "Oat tea" is a derogatory reference to the confidential unpublished Advanced Technology materials, which are sometimes called "O.T." materials. O.T. stands for operating thetan, which means the spiritual being able to function apart from a body. 7. In a February 16 posting, Mr. Erlich referred to the Court's Writ of Seizure as a "bogus court order," and his conduct since the imposition of the TRO reflects that opinion. (Exhibit F.) 8. Regarding his response to plaintiffs' February 24 filing regarding the seized infringing materials, on February 24, in Exhibit G, Mr. Erlich stated: I will have to respond to whatever bs they submit by next Friday when the judge will rule on continuing or dropping the Temporary Restraining Order, which is preventing me from doing exactly nothing that I already was not doing in the first place. 9. On February 28, 1995, in Exhibit H, Mr. Erlich posted the following statement: And from the judges [sic] Amended TRO he seems to think it's just "business as usual" to allow my enemies into my house, into my private files, to copy, delete and cart off anything they want. 10. One of the more telling remarks by Mr. Erlich as to false facade he is Alas. I will probably not get to expound on my theories of existence before a Federal Judge. Probably the better for me, though. I'd undoubtedly crack wise and get in some kinda trouble. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at Los Angeles, California, the 16th day of March 1995. /s/ Warren McShane DECLARATION OF ROSA ERLICH MUNSEY I, Rosa Munsey, do hereby declare as follows: 1. I am over the age of eighteen years and a resident of Diego County, California. I have personal knowledge of the matters contained herein and could competently testify to their truth if called as a witness, except where I base my statements information and belief, and as to those statements, I firmly believe them to be true. 2. I was married to Dennis Lance Erlich from December 31, 1975 until our separation in August 1983. We have a daughter, Holly, from this marriage, who was born in 1980. 3. Dennis and I lived together in Clearwater, Florida from 1975 until June 1982, where we were staff of the Church of Scientology. We left Church staff in 1982 and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where we lived for a year and then lived for two months in Clifton, New Jersey. 4. In August 1983, Dennis and I separated. I took Holly with me to San Diego and Dennis moved to Omaha, Nebraska. Dennis kept in touch with me by phone following the separation. Holly as three years old at the time. 5. In March/April 1984 I was working at my job with Paine Webber and continually requested child support payments from Dennis. He said he would not pay child support, but instead would take care of Holly for me. We agreed that he would not have custody of Holly but that she would merely visit. In late April I agreed that Dennis could see Holly and that he would return her in June. 6. On April 22, 1984, I put Holly on a plane to Omaha, based upon our full agreement that she would be staying with him through June only. 7. The entire time that Holly was with Dennis, I called her every week. During some of these telephone conversations around the end of May or early June, I started mentioning that Holly will be coming home very shortly and reminding him to send her back in June. 8. There were several times between May and June 1984 where Dennis initially implied he wasn't going to give Holly back and then he changed his mind. 9. Sometime after Dennis started implying that I was not going to get Holly back, I spoke with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Detective Unit about what I should do. 10. On June 25, 1984, when Holly was due back, Dennis called and said he would not send her back to me and I would never see her again. He called me two days later in the morning while I was at work and made some outrageous and completely false accusations against me and again said he would not send Holly back to me. He made it very clear that I would never see her again. 11. Later that same day, on June 27, 1984, I hired an attorney to get an emergency court order to get custody of Holly. Later that evening, I called Dennis and he made the same outrageous accusations he had made on previous phone calls saying at he was "going to have me killed," that he was "going to have arrested," telling me, "you will never see her again." 12. Also on June 27, 1984, I had a mutual friend of ours in Colorado, Mike Beatty, call Dennis on my behalf so I could find out how Holly was because Dennis wouldn't tell me. Mike reported back that Dennis was acting in an erratic manner saying things like "the aliens were invading," "the world was coming to end" and that I was insane. 13. I was dreadfully concerned about my daughter. My concern was that since leaving the Church, Dennis had found a new to "counsel" people which included smoking pot, taking a walk and then talking. He tried to get me to do it several times when visited in October, November and December 1983. I did not anticipate and he continued to consider using this "process" to clear his mind. 14. Before I sent Holly to Nebraska, Dennis swore to me that he was not doing drugs, otherwise I never would have sent Holly to visit him. He also said that he would put Holly in day care because she was in day care in California but he never once did, 15. On June 28, 1984 I filed for divorce and obtained an order from the California court granting me immediate custody of Holly and ordering Dennis to turn her over to me. 16. On June 29, 1984 Dennis and Holly called me from Nebraska and my answering machine was on and the machine recorded the conversation. I heard Dennis prompt Holly and she said to me that I was sick and she said "Why did you make me do it?" I asked her what, and she said "Why did you make me do those sexy things?" I told her I didn't know what she was talking about and that I love her more than anything in the world and would do anything to help her. Then I said, "Tell me Holly, is your Daddy making you say these things?" Holly said "yes." I asked her, "Has your Daddy given you anything to smoke?" Holly said "Yes." During this conversation, I could hear Dennis in the background saying, "Say it, say it." 17. On July 5, 1984, I filed an application for enforcement of a foreign court order in the District Court in Nebraska to get custody of Holly. My father and I flew out to Nebraska and the judge granted me custody of Holly on July 12, 1984 and I took her home immediately thereafter. 18. Before I flew to Nebraska I called the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Detective unit and told them about the false testation charges that Dennis was making against me. The detective I spoke to, Detective Wayne Simmons, told me to call immediately upon my return with Holly. 19. When Holly and I got back to California, I called Detective Simmons, and asked him what to do and he said she needs to be seen at Children's hospital and in liaison with Child Protective Services, he made an appointment for her to be seen at the hospital. 20. Holly was then examined by a doctor and it was verified that she had been sexually molested, but it was unknown who had molested her. 21. A social worker was sent out to visit me who apparently believed Dennis' false claims and she had my daughter taken from me and put into a foster home. After several months, I was able to get a new unbiased social worker assigned to my case and Holly was then returned to me shortly thereafter in November 1984. 22. In 1986, I asked Dennis why he accused me of molesting Holly and he said, "because I wanted to get back at you, you made me mad when you wouldn't get back together with me". 23. In 1987 Holly told me about an incident where Dennis had her go to bed in her underwear and then Dennis touched her in a sexual way. After Holly told me about this incident, I told the counselor that Holly had been seeing about this incident and she reported the matter to Child Protective Services and Dennis got no more visitation after that. 24. Holly required seven and a half years of counseling as a result of the abuse by her father. Through the course of this counseling she remembered the incidents more clearly. After Holly remembered that her father molested her, she wrote a letter to him which I saw before she sent it. I did not change anything on her letter. Holly told him that she knew he had molested her and that she didn't want to see him or talk to him any more. Holly has not talked to him or written since then. 25. It cost me approximately $2,100.00 attorney fees to get my daughter back and at least $1,200.00 in counselling costs in the subsequent years. 26. Although on January 22, 1985, I was awarded Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) a month child support as part of the divorce settlement, Dennis paid one Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in 1985 and another Four Hundred Forty ($440.00) in 1986 and there have been no other child support payments since 1986. He has not paid a since. I never pushed the matter as I was afraid of Dennis and didn't want him involved in any way with my daughter or me. 27. There were several instances when Dennis abused me, one time in 1977, we were in our bedroom and something made him mad and while I was laying on our bed he sat on me and hit me in the face. Another time in 1982, I asked him a question and he got very upset at me, grabbed me by the hair, he threw me across the room, I flew across the room and while I was cowering, he grabbed by the hair again, threw me in the bathroom, I was cornered in the shower, he hit me across the face and I felt like he broke my jaw. I was in my first trimester of pregnancy with his child at the time and he knew I was pregnant. Shortly thereafter we moved to Colorado and he convinced me to get an abortion. 28. Dennis Erlich's cruelty has caused my family much suffering. 29. I make this statement of my own free will because I believe the true facts about Dennis Erlich should be known. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 17th day of February, 1995 in San Diego County, California. /s/ Rosa Erlich Munsey From elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!einstein.emg.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!noring Thu Aug 24 09:13:52 1995 Xref: elastic news.admin.misc:3172 news.admin.net-abuse.misc:2598 talk.politics.libertarian:6461 Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.clearing.technology,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.politics.datahighway,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.religion.christian,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.int-property,misc.legal,misc.legal.computing,news.admin.misc,news.admin.net-abuse.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.libertarian Path: elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!einstein.emg.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!noring From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) Subject: [FORWARD] URGENT PRESS RELEASE - FACTNET Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:08:46 GMT Lines: 506 Sender: noring@netcom15.netcom.com [FACTNet's computers/archives were seized yesterday at CoS instigation. Fortunately, the archives are available on the Internet as Factnet expected this to happen for quite a while. FactNet now has an ACLU lawyer representing them, showing the seriousness of the matter. And the charges given in the following document are serious. I urge you to forward this document to everybody interested in net.freedom, as the CoS raids are a serious threat to free.speech everywhere. Followup discussion set to alt.religion.scientology, comp.org.eff.talk, and misc.legal.computing .] *************************************** In article to alt.religion.scientology, Kim Baker writes: AS a recently appointed member of the board of Directors of FACTNET, I am releasing this document for all to see - this was to be a press release by FACTNet before the raid on Bob and Larry. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- =========================================================================== August 20, 1995 CoS raid on FACTNet & Arnie Lerma re the Fishman/Geertz docs First, Dennis Erlich was raided by Scientology officials. Then, last February, Scientology tricked the Finnish police into taking down Julf Helsingus's anon.penet.fi server in order to obtain the identity of a critic. On August 12th, Arnie Lerma was raided. Arnie is a director of FACTNet, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit electronic library and historic preservational archive. The raid occurred after Lerma posted a public court record from the FACTNet archives to the Internet. Scientology has threatened other Internet providers with destructive nuisance suits. Some have yielded and dropped newsgroups or clients that Scientology finds "controversial." The Internet and the First Amendment are under a devastating attack. FACTNet is fighting back. In this second public statement since the raid, we identify critical new information and concerns for debate. FACTNet's Second Statement: 1) FACTNet alleges that Scientology's attorneys and executives deliberately swore out false and misleading affidavits and court motions against FACTNet's director Arnie Lerma to deceive a judge who was unfamiliar with Scientology's criminal history. Scientology's purpose was to trick the judge into granting an illegal search warrant and seizure order for Arnie Lerma's computer and records. In those court documents, Scientology's attorneys and executives make several false and misleading claims: a) That L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder, was the sole author of the materials b) That the materials were legally copyrighted and trademarked. c) That those copyrights and trademarks were legally transferred from Hubbard through several intermediary corporations to Religious Technology Corporation (RTC), the umbrella organization filing the complaint for Scientology. 2) FACTNet did not start this legal action, but in defending itself FACTNet has been provided with a powerful opportunity to fulfill its purpose as an educational and dialog promoting public library and archive. FACTNet has begun assembling evidence for this case that will show: a) Hubbard was not the sole author of these materials as claimed in his copyright applications. b) Substantial portions of the Fishman-Geertz documents were plagiarized by Hubbard from the secret initiation rites of other Satanic, black magic and occult secret societies. c) Hubbard created the falsely copyrighted works from the assets of a nonprofit corporation, creating an inurement to himself personally. (Hubbard used the staff and resources of Scientology to help "create" these inured personal assets.) d) The transfers of the fraudulently filed copyright and trademarks from Hubbard to other intermediary corporations and finally to RTC are also fraught with transfer fraud and misrepresentation. e) Scientology has used copyright and trademark laws and confidentiality agreements for purposes never intended by the law, namely, to coerce silence or hide illegal actions or actions that threaten the safety of individuals or the general public. (There are many reports of former and current Scientology members committing suicide, attempting suicide or becoming psychotic or neurotic while being initiated with these rituals contained in the Fishman-Geertz documents.) 3) In those false and misleading court documents used to obtain the search warrent and seizure order, Scientology's attorneys and executives conceal vital information from the court: a) The Fishman Geertz documents which Arnie Lerma posted to the net were public court records legally obtainable from the LA Superior court clerk in the Scientology v. Uwe Geertz and Steve Fishman case. b) The Fishman Geertz documents which Arnie posted to the net were previously obtainable legally as part of the public court record from the LA Superior court case, Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology. c) The substance of what Arnie posted to the Internet was first publically published in 1971 by Robert Kaufman, and has been since been publically republished numerous times, all over the world by many other individuals. d) Hubbard himself planned to widely publish a screenplay based on the substance of the Fishman-Geertz documents. e) In the 50's or 60's, a low budget science fiction film was made containing much of the substance of the theme of OT3 (the largest part of the Fishman-Geertz documents). 4) FACTNet alleges that Scientology's attorneys and executives deliberately swore out false and misleading affidavits and court motions against FACTNet's director Arnie Lerma in bad faith and with the dirtiest of hands. a) The real and covert purpose of Scientology's lawsuit is to put another "head on a pike," to intimidate other critics into silence under threat of expensive, malicious and drawn out frivolous court actions, as well as to gain access to documents pertaining to FACTNet that Arnie had in his possession as a legitimate Board member of FACTNet. b) Scientology's notorious 40 year history of "dirty tricks" tactics in and out of the courts is replete with evidence on Scientology's real policies and purposes in attacking critics. 5) Scientology is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is not a church in the sense that most people think of a church. Scientology has its origins in the secret societies of Satanism, black magic, occultism, and Nazi philosophy and tactics. The IRS held off for almost 20 years before giving Scientology the same religious status that it routinely gives to other Satanic and neo-Nazi "churches." Scientology continues to abuse the religious sanctuary, privileges and immunities our Constitution affords legitimate charitable and humanitarian religions. If a government official has not been carefully watching the computer and records seized from Lerma's home 24 hours a day, they will have to be considered contaminated evidence. This is because FBI documents seized from Scientology's headquarters show Scientology has secret policies to plant false records on critics or alter a critic's records. (Some of these documents are contained a FACTNet archive file called APP#.txt?) MORE ABOUT THE CONTENTS AND PURPOSES OF THE Fishman-Geertz DOCUMENTS No one knows how many copies of these documents have been downloaded from sites all over the net. It is possible that more that 100,000 netizens may have read them already. I, Lawrence Wollersheim, was personally processed through most of the materials described in the Fishmen-Geertz documents. I will attempt to explain how Scientology uses these documents, the context in which they are delivered, and their purpose. 1) The Fishman-Geertz documents contain some of the highest secret initiations of Scientology. To see these materials, individuals must sign themselves into years of indentured servitude to the organization or pay $60-100,000 or more. Whether staff or public, they must be security checked and sign a series of confidentiality agreements. (FACTNet believes these confidentiality agreements are illegal because they are usually signed with the individual in a trance state and because the individual is not told about the occult and hypnotic mind control nature of these materials. No one is allowed to learn about the large number of people who have been seriously harmed while or shortly after being processed on these materials.) 2) To increase the individual's suggestibility, before the individual gets to the level to be able to view these materials, Scientology runs them through hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours of repetitive hypnotic and thought reform processes. 3) The secret hypnotic exercises up to OT3 described in the Fishman-Geertz document deepen the hypnotic trance to induce the final suggestibility boost in preparation for the OT3 shock. On OT3 the individual is told, while in the suggestibility of hypnotic trance, that they really are not one individual, but they are a composite of hundreds, possibly thousands, or tens of thousands of individual beings trapped in one body as the result of a galactic war 76 million years ago. (In Scientology these other individual beings are called body thetans or BT's.) The individuals receiving these techniques are told, while in hypnotic trance, that these beings are fighting for control of their bodies and identities. They are told that these beings can make them act irrationally or make them terminally ill, and that ONLY Scientology has the technology to safely remove these being out of their bodies. If anything goes wrong they only have Scientology to turn to. On these secret levels the member spends sometimes hundreds of hours talking to the beings they have been hypnotized into believing exist. They locate these beings on their various body parts and try to get them out of their body through various initiation processes. In the Fishman-Geertz documents and ancilliary documents the member is told that this is a prison planet and he or she is really an alien. Because he is in Scientology now, he is one of the good alien leaders or geniuses or artists. It is up to those who have "woke up to who they really are" to help Scientology retake the planet earth (Clear the planet) and re-conquer the Galaxy. They are also told they are in a very dangerous area that broke Hubbard's back when he was trying to find an escape from it, and that Hubbard found the only "route out". On OT2 the individual "processes out" religion as a control aberration of the "bad guy" alien race. Later, on OT 3, they process out many traditional religious symbols and concepts. 4) To make up your own mind about Scientology's secret hypnotic initiations, you should have a little context on Hubbard and brainwashing. Hubbard wrote a manual called the "Brainwashing manual" where he describes how to break people and enslave every aspect of their lives. In this manual he demonstrates a superior knowledge of Russian, Korean and Chinese brainwashing techniques. Although there are seven main techniques to effective brainwashing, this is not the place to explain all seven. The most powerful of the seven bears repeating in light of the OT3 materials: "Frequent and intense attempts cause a person to reevaluate the most central aspects of their experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabalize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms as well as get them to reinterpret their life's history and adopt a new version of causality." In order to more effectively dominate and control the individual by attacking the individual's core concepts of self, Hubbard tricks the individual in trance into believing he is not who he always thought he was. To fragment the individual's personal integrity and self control Hubbard induces a hypnotic state of multiple personality or schizophrenia. It's no wonder people would go psychotic if tricked into believing this story when their suggestibility is at its highest and their defenses at the lowest. Hubbard was most ingenious in applying the most important technique of brainwashing. He not only attacked the individuals core sense of self by inducing a personality schizophrenia, but followed it up by turning the individuals whole world view and understanding of causality upside down with the alien story while the individual was in deep trance. If there is a hell this could be it. 6) By distributing the Fishman-Geertz document for public dialog, Arnie Lerma acted in accordance with the highest purposes of FACTNet. FACTNet has received and researched almost 300 reports of individuals who committed suicide, attempted suicide, or became psychotic or neurotic while receiving Scientology processes. The materials of the Fishman-Geertz document that Arnie Lerma distributed deal particularly with the areas that are MOST OFTEN associated with these alarming reports and the worst of thought reform. Arnie Lerma also acted to inform unknowing third parties of possible grave personal danger to their safety and well being regarding these materials, a danger even Scientology secretly acknowledges. The seriousness of this cannot be overstated. In the courts, thought reform programs are commonly called coercive persuasion. In United States v. Lee 455 U.S. 252, 257-258 (1982), the California Supreme Court found that "when a person is subjected to coercive persuasion without his knowledge or consent... [he may] develop serious and sometimes irreversible physical and psychiatric disorders, up to and including schizophrenia, self-mutilation, and suicide." 7) For 11 years, from approximately 1969-1980, I (Lawrence Wollersheim, Executive Director of FACTNet) was a member of Scientology and held numerous Sea Organization staff administrative positions. I am personally familiar with most of Scientology's processes by having received them. I was processed to Scientology's highest secret initiatory levels. I have also been through the Sea Organization's "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF) program, a debilitating concentration/work camp for members who are not following orders. During my years in Scientology I personally witnessed many individuals go psychotic on the secret initiations described in the Fishman-Geertz documents. From my experiences, I estimate as many as 70% of the people going through these levels experience periods of psychosis. From my having personally experienced these processes and my understanding of the techniques of thought reform, I believe the real purpose of these processes is to establish the deepest level of total unchallenged control over the mind, life and assets of the individual receiving the secret initiation. I fear that Scientology has made a significant advance in thought reform techniques which easily explains why so many people could go psychotic, or attempt or commit suicide on Scientology's secret levels. I believe that these processes when used on individuals in Scientology are in essence thought reform experimentation with human guinea pigs who have no idea what is really being done to them. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP FACTNET'S DIRECTOR ARNIE LERMA This issue concerns EVERY individual who has a love of human freedom and human rights. In its latest raid and lawsuit against Arnie Lerma, Scientology has initiated a radical new tactic to intimidate and silence their critics. This is the most serious new step in suppressing public debate and freedom of speech ever entered into by Scientology on the Internet. Scientology has gone from attacking individuals who privately possess information critical of it to attacking the very vehicles set up by society to collect and preserve information: our public libraries and public archives. This is a major acceleration of Scientology's coercive and abusive tactics -- not just against FACTNet -- but against the vital social mechanisms to preserve and distribute information for public debate, public education, and public safety. This acceleration of Scientology's abusive tactics must be met with the strongest of public condemnation and immediate action to defend public libraries and archives and the Internet from this new form of "book burning." Freedom of information concerns EACH and EVERY one of us. I say it is time we haul out a 2"x4" and smack the CoS with the message, "HANDS OFF THE INTERNET AND HANDS OFF FACTNET! THE INTERNET IS FOR THE PEOPLE! " We must demonstrate the true power of the Internet. We must ACT NOW. For if we don't, our fundamental rights to freedom of expression and thought may be permanently undermined. To help FACTNet and Arnie Lerma we ask you to begin the biggest public dialog in the history of the Internet on Scientology's free speech crushing tactics and the contents and dangers of the Fishman-Geertz documents. Let us also get Scientology's celebrity big donors like Tom Cruise, Kirstey Alley, John Trovolta, MiMi Rogers, and Sonny Bono and the other Hollywood promoters of Scientology involved in the debate. Let us ask them and their fan clubs on the net how they can finance Scientology to attack free speech? How can they recruit the young into a net-and-library bashing organization? Let us ask these celebrity Scientology promoters whether they feel they should be held personally responsible, legally and financially, for using their reputation to bring people into Scientology who are later harmed by these secret initiations. We ask you to help us redistribute this posting so that the talk of millions of Internet users will be "What do you think about the Scientology Internet raids and what do you think about the contents of the Fishman-Geertz documents?" This ethical use of the dialog power of the Net will begin to slow the Scientology intimidation machine, but it will still take more. FACTNet needs other former and current Scientology members that have been scared into silence to tell your stories and get them to FACTNet for our defense in this case. FACTNet needs the estimated 16,000 anti Scientology readers of alt.religion.scientology to bring the public debate over the issues to Scientology's current members and the families of current members, but still more is needed. FACTNet needs your tax deductible donations. We are fighting an organisation that has billions of dollars at its disposal, and that has silenced many who have spoken out previously. Donate $5, $10 -- whatever you can afford -- to FACTNet by mail. Or point your Web browser to [unique http address] or email [unique email address] for instructions on how to contribute. If you have a credit card handy, FACTNet is set up to receive your tax-deductible donation quickly and SECURELY. You've watched O.J. You know we need HEAPS of money to get "justice" in our system today. Your contribution will go to our defense funds and to giving FACTNet's unique and essential 100,000-page archive of cult and thought reform information a permanent home on the Internet. If you can spare $25, FACTNet will e-mail you a FBI mini collection of key documents seized from CoS headquarters -- that outline brutal CoS techniques for attacking critics, even the U.S. Government: lying, stealing, breaking and entering, and more. You've never read anything like these secret internal documents. If you can afford to contribute $100, we will place you on FACTNet's Early Warning System and notify you personally by e-mail of emerging threats to your First Amendment freedoms. Even if you have never had anything to do with Scientology, or never heard about them before, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT! Do not think "it won't happen to me", or, "it's only hurting those who are gullible". It could happen to your children, your brother or sister, your cousin, your friend. FACTNet has taken on the fight against co-ercive tactics for the people. We need the people to stand united. The issue isn't just CoS. And it's bigger than cults. The issue is FREEDOM. Maybe you liked the movie, _The Net,_ maybe not. But when Sandra Bullock yells, "They did it to me, they'll do it to you" .... I CHEERED! FACTNet has proof that many cults are watching Co$'s "wins," sharing tactics and lawyers with Co$, and preparing for their own assaults on our liberty. How long until other posters to Usenet groups are hauled into court? How long until even major services like America Online, Prodigy, and Microsoft Network are censored by the Scientology litigation and intimidation machine? Remember, alone, we're easy pickings. Together, we're an amazing force. We are the people, and history shows that it is the will of the people, united, that triumphs. The more you feed the public dialog and contribute, the more we can fight back effectively against Co$. But even one action or just $5 can accomplish a tremendous amount -- multiplied by the efforts and contributions of tens of thousands of your fellow Netizens. NO ONE can stand alone in this fight. We WILL win with your help. We won in the underlying Scientology v. Ewe Geertz case. (In this case, Scientology first demanded millions in damages, then as more information came out, they said: "give us a dollar and we will drop the case". Then, as even more came out about them, they dropped the case with prejudice against them and their tail between their legs. Now, Geertz and Fishman have filed a malicious prosecution case AGAINST Scientology for its bad faith malicious litigation.) FACTNet will be true to its acronym (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network). We will not just defend. We will use your donations to also seek new charges against Scientology for damages for its bad faith and dirty handed attack on our nonprofit library and archive. So please, please, mail us a donation to help us fight back or point your browser to [unique web address] or email [unique email address] and find out more about how you can help win this battle safely. IMHO, Lawrence Wollersheim Executive Director For the Board of Directors of FACTNet, Inc. P.S. FACTNet's Director Arnie Lerma goes before the court NEXT WEEK -- so please act quickly. Don't let Helena Korbin and Scientology's high-powered lawyers roll all over our First Amendment rights -- and destroy the Internet in the process. Point your browser to [unique web address] or email [unique email address] RIGHT NOW before you turn back to your busy day. FACTNet 601 16th St. C-217, Golden CO. 80401, USA Voice 1-303-473-0111 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FACTNet electronic lending library and archive can be found on our BBS, 1-303-530-1942. Log on and follow the instructions on the screen. Selected information can also be found at the following sites. Internet FTP Sites: ftp.rmii.com (The directory pub2/factnet contains a BIG zipped file that mirrors the BBS's state last June.) ftp: marvel.loc.gov ftp.primenet.com/users/c/cultxpt ftp.rahul.net/pub/homer FTP.PCNET.COM/users/brianw RTFM.MIT.EDU/pub/usenet/alt.answers/scientology/users America Online: Keyword Religion; select 'other religions'; goto other religions file area, scroll back to Oct 25, 94 and you will find many affidavits. Also, select ''Philosphy" then "philosophy file area" and scroll back to March 25, for affidavits from Fishman and Scarff. OTHER WWW WEB SITES: (Information may still be on most of these sites. Some may have been removed ) http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/home.html http://www.demon.co.uk/castlsys/clambust.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~fonss/ http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html http://amazing.cinenet.net/scientology.html http://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us:80/~btcarrol/home/Bobshome.html (the Scientology stuff is in his dictionary thing) http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Legal/Cases/CoS_v_the_Net/ http://www.theta.com/goodman/ http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/sci_index.html http://www.snafu.de/~tilman http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/ k.b. *************** end of forwarded Press Release from FactNet *************** -- OmniMedia | The Electronic Bookstore. Come in and browse! Two 9671 S. 1600 West St. | locations: ftp.netcom.com /pub/Om/OmniMedia/books South Jordan, UT 84095 | and ftp.awa.com /pub/softlock/pc/products/OmniMedia 801-253-4037 | E-book publishing service follows NWU recommendations. From elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!noring Thu Aug 24 09:14:23 1995 Xref: elastic news.admin.misc:3170 Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.politics.datahighway,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.religion.christian,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.int-property,misc.legal,misc.legal.computing,news.admin.misc Path: elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!noring From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) Subject: [FORWARDED] WASHINGTON POST SUED FOR VIOLATING SCIENTOLOGY COPYRIGHTS Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal Summary: Propaganda Piece From the Church of Scientology Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <41di1h$e6q@crl3.crl.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:00:12 GMT Lines: 131 Sender: noring@netcom12.netcom.com Forwarded from alt.religion.scientology. It is a propaganda piece written by the Church of Scientology (CoS), so read it with this fact in mind. Followup discussion has been set to alt.religion.scientology, comp.org.eff.talk, and misc.legal. Jon Noring ***************************************************************************** In article to a.r.s., milne@crl.com (Andrew Milne) writes: August 22, 1995 NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: LEISA GOODMAN OR EARLE COOLEY (202) 667-6404 WASHINGTON POST SUED FOR VIOLATING SCIENTOLOGY COPYRIGHTS The Washington Post and two of its reporters were sued today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by the Religious Technology Center (RTC), holders of the intellectual property rights of the Scientology religion. According to the lawsuit, the Washington Post and its writers have engaged in "extensive, intentional copyright infringement and trade secrets misappropriattion, targeting confidential Scientology scriptures belonging to RTC." Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, due to the urgent nature of the matter, scheduled an August 25 hearing on the temporary restraining order and impoundment application to get the Washington Post to turn over the misappropriated documents. The lawsuit is an amendment of a complaint that was filed on August 11 against an Arlington man, Arnaldo Lerma, and his Internet access provider Digital Gateway Systems, for copyright and trade secrets infringement. According to Boston lawyer Earle C. Cooley, who represents Religious Technology Center, the newspaper and their two reporters, Richard Leiby and Marc Fisher, were added to the lawsuit because they engaged in their own direct infringements of plaintiff's copyright interests and misappropriation of plaintiff's trade secrets, while at the same time aiding, supporting, encouraging, and facilitating blatant acts of infringement and misappropriation by Lerma. The day after the lawsuit was filed, on August 12, a search and seizure order by Judge Brinkema was carried out at Lerma's home by Federal Marshals and computer software, hardware and documents were confiscated. Church lawyers report that they were able to establish that Lerma lied because, contrary to his assertions that computer discs had been purged of any stolen materials, their electronic experts have already found 63 copyright items among the seized material. The new lawsuit reveals that Lerma sent the protected materials to Leiby when he was put on notice by the Church to stop violating its copyright and trade secret rights. The Church now charges that this was done in an attempt to obstruct justice by concealing the stolen copies from lawful seizure. The suit claims the existence of evidence which shows that Richard Leiby choreographed and instigated Lerma's illegal conduct for his own campaign of harassment against the Scientology religion. According to the lawsuit, Leiby's campaign dates back more than 15 years. Church spokeswoman Leisa Goodman said "The Washington Post and Mr. Leiby violated fundamental journalistic integrity by conspiring with lawless elements on the Internet to harm the religion of Scientology." Once the Church became aware that its materials were in the possession of Richard Leiby, it demanded their immediate return. Leiby and the Washington Post handed the stolen copies over to RTC's lawyers last week on August 15. However, "the return of the materials, a seeming display of good faith, was an utter ruse", the complaint states. "At the same time that the materials were being returned to the Church in Washington, Leiby, Fisher and the Post were getting copies of the same stolen records from the clerk's file in LA where litigation was pending regarding the sealing of such materials. A Post reporter persuaded the clerk's office to take the documents away from a Church employee who had checked out the file, to make copies for the Post," the complaint continues. The Church reacted with an emergency motion to the judge on the case in Los Angeles, who immediately ordered the entire case file sealed on August 15, when he was told that the Washington Post had obtained a copy of the copyrighted and trade secret materials. According to the lawsuit, the Church immediately demanded the materials back and also put the post on notice "that its actions could not remotely be deemed news gathering, but rather constituted wholesale copying of a large amount of copyrighted trade secret information in an attempt to sanitize the illicit acquisition of infringing documents which Leiby and the Post concealed on Lerma's behalf." Church spokeswoman Goodman discounted the notion that any free speech or fair-use issues were involved. "Violators of copyright and trade secret laws traditionally try to hide behind free speech or fair-use claims. The Church is a strong proponent of free speech and fair-use. It publishes its own investigative magazine and cherishes the First Amendment. However, free speech or fair-use does not mean free theft and no one, the Washington Post included, has the right to cloak themselves in the First Amendment to break the law." Despite repeated warnings from Church lawyers, last Saturday the Washington Post published a lengthy article by Marc Fisher, which included quotes from the copyrighted, trade secret materials. "Prior to publication of the article, the defendants were placed on notice that their actions would constitute a violation of plaintiff's rights," said Goodman. "The Post made a serious mistake," RTC's lawyer Earle C. Cooley contends, "in allowing themselves to be manipulated by a few maliciously motivated dissidents who want to use the Post to forward their religious hate campaign. The courts take these matters very seriously. The law is clear: If you are going to violate copyrights, you will have to answer for it in court. This applies to the Washington Post just as much as to anyone else." With this lawsuit, Religious Technology Center is asking the court to order the return of its documents by the Washington Post and grant a permanent injunction against the Post and the individual violators of its rights. It also seeks statutory damages and punitive damages. -30- ************* end of forwarded post **************** -- OmniMedia | The Electronic Bookstore. Come in and browse! 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Eigler" Subject: Scientology suits Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 19:04:45 -0400 To: fche@elastic.org Cc: fche@db.toronto.edu -------- >Xref: utcsri comp.org.eff.talk:60821 comp.security.misc:20358 ott.general:14550 >Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.org.eff.talk,ott.general,ncf.general >Path: utcsri!utnut!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ai474 >From: ai474@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Farrell McGovern) >Subject: Potential Security Threat to everyone on the NET. >Message-ID: >Sender: ai474@freenet2.carleton.ca (Farrell McGovern) >Reply-To: ai474@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Farrell McGovern) >Organization: The National Capital FreeNet >Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:42:39 GMT >Lines: 256 Greetings: In case you were unaware, there is a major battle happening between a number of Net Citizens, and the Scientologists. The appended document (Known as the Capricorn Document) outlines a possible threat to everyone who runs a system that carries Usenet, a WWW server or email and has even one user who has posted or made available information that is critical in any way of the so-called Church of Scientology. The greater threat that stems from the Scientologists's threat is the precident it would set if allowed to go through. It could mean that if any user of your system, or yourself are critical of an organization, they could come and sieze your equipment...computers, modems, etc., as has been done already to a couple of people already, as well as the anon-posting site in Finland...so this affects not just people who reside in the USA, but the rest of the world as well. For more information, you may want to start following the comp.org.eff.talk and alt.religion.scientology newsgroups. ttyl Farrell [begin (The Capricorn Document)] Path: news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.eng.convex.com!news.netins.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.ed u!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4 nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: The Capricorn Document -- Scientology's Plan? Date: 18 Aug 1995 20:25:25 +0200 Organization: RePLaY aND CoMPaNY UnLimited Lines: 203 Sender: replay@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <412lul$on5@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Content-Type: text Content-Length: 11145 XComm: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting XComm: Report misuse of this automated service to [forwarded] What is about to be laid out for you is going to be a bit bizarre but a few months ago had someone told you that Internet users would be raided, you would have said that was an insane concept. What you are going to read is based on some insider information and some educated speculation. Take it as you will. There is something called a RICO suit. RICO stands for Racketeering-Influenced Corrupt Organization. It was written to fight organized crime conspiracies that reach across state lines and involve a number of people and organizations. Scientology is building a RICO suit to file against dozens of people and organizations across the U.S. that they will say are a conspiracy to destroy the Scientology religion. The words "religious genocide" will be used. At the center of the conspiracy will be the Cult Awareness Network and it will extend out to include some psychiatrists, some attorneys, some media and a number of critics and former members. The Net will be cited as the nervous system/nexus for the conspiracy. The suit will be used to sue people that Scientology executives feel they cannot reach or sue in any other way. Key attorneys who have successfully fought Scientology in the courts will be named, in the theory that they cannot be of any help to the defendants because they are defendant. Key experts on Scientology and cults will also be named for the same reason. Some "deprogrammers" (exit counselors) will be named. A number of people who post on the Net will be named. (You were wondering why they were tracking down a number of people who post to alt.religion.scientology? That's why. So they can be served.) A couple of ISPs will probably be named as well as some media people. (Believe it or not, much of the design of this suit is to make it as believable as possible. They will look at the elements and someone might say, "Hey, we don't have any...", as if it were a movie or a story, the presence of which will make the conspiracy work if it has to be put onto a huge board, showing how all the pieces fit. And before you ridicule this idea, read on.) There will also be elements that will allow the suit to be exported overseas. That is, there will be links to Germany and Spain. The RICO suit cannot name someone in a non-US country as a defendant but it will lay the groundword so a similar suit can be filed in another country, which will then link back to the US suit. Germany and some people and institutions there will be a primary target in Europe. When that happens, then the entire matter will also be packed and taken to the various European councils and commissions on the allegations of "religious genocide." The Net will be cited as the "conveyor belt" of "false reports" and "hate." The idea is to silence as many areas as possible by bringing them into litigation. Then even if they speak out, Scientology can say how they are being sued and place everything in that context. As much as possible, people who work for companies or corporations will be named as individuals. The strategy is to not let the company's insurance cover them, so they have to pay for their own attorney. What will be used to link the conspiracy will be material that has been posted on the Net as well as writings from other places, such as news articles, news letters etc. Thus the great wealth of "anti-Scientology" posting that have been going on for months will be used to show thousands of "hate-filled" posts attacking the "religion of Scientology." (Note: Many of the posts from Scientologists to ARS were designed by to draw those responses or to make it appear that it happened. In some cases, posts were written to make it appear as if they were coming from anti-Scientologists.) This includes alleged "death threats" against Scientologists. This idea of a large, multi-defendant suit was proposed by Hubbard years ago, long before RICO. He wanted to use it against the government. He wanted then to have it move to the Eureopean Commission (now a Council) on the charge of religious genocide, trying to destroy a religion. Initial work has already been done, presenting material to these commissions. It will also be taken to the US Congress, where there is already concern for the anarchy of the Net, as well as other legislative bodies. The first suit of this kind by Scientology was pre-RICO. It was put together in the mid-1970s as a massive conspiracy between the FBI, the IRS, the US Department of Justice, etc. It asked for $750 million dollars in damages. The suit was pursued for year but was finally lost. That orginal Hubbard plan is what is being used to design the RICO suit. The raid on Dennis Ehrlich and then Arnie Lerma are about copyright/trademark violations but they are being used to find the documentation needed for RICO. It may have been the reason for the raid on penet.fi. Whether or not Scientology feels it has enough now to file the suit (since they have documents from California and DC and the Net and thus inter-state) is what is being reviewed. Another raid may be needed. If you look at ARS posts from the perspective of a massive suit being planned, then you see Woody's "the Net persecutors" in a different light. Yes, he is a bot but while everyone laughs at him and ridicules him and taunts him, he is pumping out the message that is part of the plan. So is Milne. Most of what they have been doing is baiting people who will say outrageous things so this can all be compiled for the court record to show that ARS is a hotbed of hate for their "genocide" charge. Now some will say this is insane, that this is crazy, and ask, does Scientology really hope to win this type of suit? Won't they just irritate more people and the Net? Don't they care? First, it must be remembered that according to Hubbard, the purpose of a law suit is not to win. The purpose is to harass. (They are expensive and time-consuming for defendants.) For Scientology they are a way to get information through subpoenas and the discovery process. It will give them the resources they feel they need to get more information to find the source of the "conspiracy." So they don't care if they irritate more people. They believe that people are critical of them because of this conspiracy. Thus they must face that criticism to find the conspiracy, for when it is exposed, then the criticism will stop. (There are more technical reasons in Hubbard's material but that is basically the idea.) And if the criticism increases, it means that they are getting closer to the truth. (In other words, the more you berate them, the more they feel they are right. It is like beating a masochist to get him to stop being a masochist. It doesn't work. What does? Read on.) It needs to be said quickly that the greatest mistake one can make about this group is to misestimate it through ridicule and disdain. First, it doesn't do anything to them and second it makes one feel that they are weak, stupid, incapable etc. and that you are better. Those who take that attitude don't last. There is no better way to lose anything than to be arrogant. It has been said that the Net will prove to be Scientology's Viet Nam. This is true as long as those on the Net don't make the mistake that the American generals made: they held the Viet Cong in disdain. They saw the VC as crude, primitive, dumb commies while Americans were clearly smarter, more technologically advanced and thus superior. Look who runs Viet Nam today. Many people on ARS make this mistake and all it really does is encourage others to do the same. This doesn't mean that one can't ridicule or chastize or laugh at something stupid but you better do it with the knowledge what and who you are laughing at and not let it replace or mask some smarts. This admonition is made here not because some will laugh at this whole theory of a RICO suit and will boast and strut and laugh and urge Scientology to come get 'em etc. That sort of macho bullshit is the last thing that is needed. It proves nothing except that one does not know Scientology. And that attitude hasn't stopped Scientology. Witness Dennis and Arnie and whoever is next. Now the question becomes, if this is true, if Scientology is planning a RICO suit, what can be done. Well, as far as the suit, nothing. They will file what they will file. What has been done and said on ARS has been done and said. It can't be retracted. A lot of people (from both sides) have made a lot of stupid remarks and Scientology has saved ever word of it. (However, if you want to give them more to convince the authorities why ARS is a hate-filled group, hey, go for it. It will only be attached to the next submission to the next judge for the next raid or suit.) Those who feel they may be possible target should take due precautions. They should consult an attorney, for example, for proper advice. They might also want to take proper precautions regarding their documents, e.g., to make sure that what they have is okay to have etc. Ask your attorney, not ARS. As far as ARS itself, the actions taken on ARS have now given the Scientologists the opportunity to get the Fishman documents sealed. This is a win for Scientology and was handed to them by ARS actions. Scream all you want but what was done on ARS was able to do what Scientology could not do. Scientology tried to get those files sealed and the courts refused. Well, they are now sealed and Scientology is now going to use that fact for more letters etc. Is anyone catching on? In short, some people need to wise up. If they want to endanger themselves by taunting the organization, do it in e-mail. Otherwise they are endangering more than themselves. There is much to the Scientology belief system and its history that deserves open dialogue and discussion and debate. There is more than enough without endangering the debate itself. Taunting is not debate or dialogue. (Anyone remember the geological analysis of OT 3? That was not a taunt. That was analysis and good analysis at that.) There is some concern about the attack on MoFo. Don't worry about it that much. It doesn't mean that it isn't serious. Only that it is MoFo's concern. Scientology wants to start undercutting MoFo, hoping MoFo might lose some clients. Leave it to MoFO. ARS shouldn't try to fight their fights. There is more than enough on ARS to talk about. To close on the RICO suit itself, don't waste time trying to be an armchair attorney on ARS and try to guess what one should do when the suit is filed. That is like those dumbass reporters at the Gulf War who wanted the Army to say what would they do if Hussein used gas, etc. You don't discuss defenses in public! All it shows is your own ignorance. If Scientology is dumb enough to go RICO, there are things that can be done. What has to be done right now is work by individuals who feel they may be named, companies (ISPs) who feel that way, those who are concerned about the direction ARS has taken and the integrity of ARS, not to mention the Net itself. Good luck. Capricorn -- "Freedom is meaningless unless | ic58@jove.acs.unt.edu - James Childers you can give to those with whom| No man's freedom is safe you disagree." - Jefferson | while Congress is in session EA 73 53 12 4E 08 27 6C 21 64 28 51 92 0E 7C F7 -- The Information Cowpath is strewn with Meadow Muffins...even the best of us get the Meadow Muffin Blues every now and then... POEE, ERIS, FNORD, DISCORDIA, KALLISTI, POLYAMORY, R.A.W., LEARY, GOLDEN APPLE, FIAWOL, APA, TORI AMOS, KATE BUSH, SARAH MCLACHLAN, LOREENA MCKENNITT -- Frank Ch. Eigler // fche@elastic.org // eigler@vnet.ibm.com // fche@db.toronto.edu From elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!metrics.com!nic.wat.hookup.net!wire!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.sas.ab.ca!fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca!identity Wed Sep 20 22:12:43 1995 Xref: elastic can.legal:1523 Path: elastic!jaywon.pci.on.ca!noc.tor.hookup.net!metrics.com!nic.wat.hookup.net!wire!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.sas.ab.ca!fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca!identity From: identity@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () Newsgroups: can.legal Subject: Bad Scientology-Good Scientology Date: 19 Sep 1995 22:37:21 GMT Organization: Edmonton Freenet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Lines: 85 Message-ID: <43ngn1$f1q@news.sas.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Summary: 85 lines of text that are not popular. Keywords: Scientology, Psychology, Professional Misconduct X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2.3] Broad Public Announcement After contemplating the optimum solution that will serve the greatest good for the greatest number, I have decided to sue the Church of Scientology of Toronto, the Church of Scientology of Alberta, and a secular Scientology group in the field of education called Progressive Academy Education Society of Alberta in Edmonton, for the failures and omissions and bad actions of those organization's scientology staff members, which include failure to adhere to the ethical codes of scientology. I seek redress for the consequences and impact upon the lives of the members of my family said gross professional misconduct has had. Please feel free to contact me at the E-Mail address below. My true motives for hostility of this type and magnitude is that my wife and I and our children have all been denied the benefits of properly performed marriage counseling, and these people want me to just accept the unworkable technology they dreamed up and continue along in Scientology as if nothing was wrong with the ethical standards of these people, and I am just expected to accept injustice upon myself as a requirement of good standing with these scientology organizations? Those organizations staff members went insane in their efforts to force me to accept the unworkable technology being delivered Edmonton. It is the being denied workable technology that exists but is being made unworkable and quite harmful in the hands of these people that I am hostile about. The efforts of these individuals is to deny me all scientology services unless I accept altered versions of it, and this goes against my constitutional right to freedom of religion. I reserve my right to the practice my religion and the right to sue those who in their efforts to destroy the sanity of other people, apply powerful religious confession technology as incorrectly as possible, and then try to take advantage of the ensuing disasters by offering themselves as the solution to the problem the bad marriage advises caused. My wife was told to keep Scientology out of the divorce due to how backward and self serving the counseling we did receive had been. These people risk de- certification and have done all possible to escape any corrective discipline with cruel disregard to the welfare of the members of my family which their efforts to foment conflict and sever communications caused. There is a war going on behind the scenes in scientology that this divorce is only a small symptom of. If you can envision that I was in active training to be a psychologist (shudder at the thought) and other psychologists sold and delivered counseling contrary to that which is recommended in the standard manuals. You will understand how easy this is going to be to prove negligence. And you are going to have to be wiling to wade threw the efforts to cover up. I am not letting these people get away with willful and knowing damage caused my family and other people by their refusal to get trained correctly. It is honesty that is lacking here. And that lack of honesty for fear of the consequences should they tell the truth is what makes these people a menace to the public. Give me some help to effectively sue this case, and you will be one very respected person. Not many people survive standing up against persons who have come into positions of power in scientology for they can command others upon penalty of expulsion to do their dirty work for them. It is not the little fish I want here. We will have those for breakfast. The bigger fish we will make a sit d own dinner over, and we will invite the towns people to the feast. It promises to be one big media feeding frenzy, with lots of costs and punishments galore, even for the innocent. But that is only occasioned by the refusal to "own up" on the part of the actual offenders. I would rather settle this out of court, but the lack of real ability of scientology to effectively police the members of it's own profession makes it necessary to find and use an alternative measure since practitioners who lie and false report actions to look more competent than they really are, just can not be trusted. For more data let me know you are interested in seeing Justice done on this mater. The ones who have been responding to these posts have too much prejudices against scientology and do not seem to be able to brush aside all bias and rumor to be effective in serving my needs. -- Signed: Nelson E-Mail at: identity@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca From henri@netcom.com Sun Apr 7 01:54:28 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:5974 misc.news.internet.discuss:379 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.news.internet.discuss,alt.culture.usenet,alt.censorship Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!reptiles.org!hookup!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!henri From: henri@netcom.com (henry) Subject: GRADY WARD PRESS RELEASE Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Siged: SigEd V1.3.1, Add .sig and PGP flexibility to posts. X-Siged-Url: http://www.nyx.net/~pgregg/siged/ Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 05:39:20 GMT Lines: 62 Sender: henri@netcom6.netcom.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: March 29, 1996 Grady Ward (707) 826 7715 grady@northcoast.com http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html FEDERAL JUDGE LIMITS SCOPE OF TEMPORARY INJUNCTION SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - Grady Ward, a computer lexicographer from Arcata, California won a limiting of the temporary injunction sought against him by the criminal cult of scientology based in Los Angeles, California. While U.S. District Court Judge Ronald M. Whyte, temporarily enjoined Grady Ward of Arcata, California, and anyone acting in concert with him, from copying or soliciting certain disputed secret cult literature, the Judge agreed to include language specifically ensuring that readers of alt.religion.scientology and others on the Internet have free, lawful access to all cult literature, including those claimed as a "trade secret" by the criminal cult of scientology. Given the background of physical raids on critics of the cult and the cult's proven criminality -- several top members of the cult including the founder's wife were sentenced to federal prison in the seventies -- Judge Whyte also specifically admonished the three law firms arrayed against Grady Ward not to abuse their privilege of discovery. In May of last year Grady Ward's 74 year old mother identified a criminal cult private investigator, Eugene Martin Ingram as the man who stole a photograph of Ward and his wife and children from her. According to the cult "scriptures" penned by science-fiction L. Ron Hubbard, critics are to be "if possible, utterly destroyed. The purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not to win." - -30- - -- fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck f f u "When you can't say 'fuck,' you can't say u c 'FUCK THE CDA!' -- Lenny Bruce rephrased c k k fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck ObURL: http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/erlich/defense-fund [ For Public Key: finger henri@netcom.com ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.i Comment: PGP signed with SigEd v1.3.1 - http://www.nyx.net/~pgregg/siged/ iQCVAgUBMV4af2130hVrA/MJAQG+xAP/adU77p9bfEHqlVb8EZo7rigBYEtmRcVP Z79ULkUDAW7/fcsWLSZF/zMhUbUBwGfrIQ8R2eTvEA/vl7iuxlGVLCF5d5VTumK4 GEJSZIuqr+vrNE3diq+3M9l+HHYRz2Ff9HVqajg+rvtlHLDBqOMfbDF8ZtzWsv7a uvKhxk1lbrY= =zbv2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From co@ Sun Apr 7 09:29:17 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:6084 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!reptiles.org!ican.net!infoshare!istar.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!!co From: co@ (Chris Owen) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: ANDERSON REPORT: Chapter 6 - Hubbard, The Founder of Scientology Date: 29 Mar 1996 20:26:24 GMT Organization: Nettverksgruppa Lines: 631 Message-ID: <4jhh1g$45m@due.unit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: romeo-klive.nvg.unit.no The Anderson Report CHAPTER 6 HUBBARD-THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY Biography. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the founder of scientology, was born at Tilden, Nebraska, U.S.A., on the 13th March, 1911, the son of H. R. and Ledora May (nee Waterbury). He claims to be descended from Count de Loup "who entered England with the Norman invasion and became the founder of the English de Wolfe family which emigrated to America in the 17th century." His father's family came to America in the 19th century. His father's mother was a Scot; his maternal grandfather was a cattleman in Montana, on whose ranch Hubbard was raised till he was ten. In his later childhood and adolescence Hubbard travelled extensively in Northern China and India with his father whose duties as a United States naval officer took him to the Orient. His sojourn in the East aroused in him an interest in Eastern philosophies and he learned something of the Buddhist and other teachings from fakirs and yogis whom he met. His early formal education seems to have been sporadic. One of his friends and early tutors is claimed to have been a Commander Thompson, a doctor in the United States Navy, who is said to have been a student of Sigmund Freud in Vienna. >From 1930 to 1932 Hubbard was a student at the George Washington University where he claims to have studied engineering and to have been one of the first men to have studied nuclear physics. He has claimed, or allowed the claim to be made and repeated frequently without denial by him, that he is a graduate of that University in civil engineering, and he uses, and allows to be used in relation to himself, the letters "B.S." and "C.E.", intending to convey the impression that he has so graduated. In fact, he has no such qualification. He claims other academic distinctions also - "many degrees" it is said - but the only "university" degree which is identified is that of Doctor of Philosophy at the Sequoia University, Southern California. The Board caused inquiries to be made as to the identity of this university and was informed by the Australian Consul-General in San Francisco that the Sequoia University was a privately endowed institution which was not accredited, that is, not registered with the Western Association of Schools and colleges, which is the accrediting body for the west coast of America. This somewhat suspect degree and a self-bestowed doctorate of scientology enable Hubbard to describe himself and be described as "Doctor" Hubbard. Though he writes extensively on medical matters, there is no basis for regarding him as a doctor in the medical sense. Between 1932 and 1941 he travelled extensively in Central America and developed as a prolific writer of books of fiction, travel, science fiction and fantasy, finding time "to write seven million words of published fact and fiction". In dianetics and scientology it is evident that his output of science fiction has continued unabated. He finds his early reputation as a science fiction writer irksome, and in biographical information disseminated to scientologists his science fiction proclivities are sometimes discreetly omitted. During World War II he served as an officer in the United States Navy and appears to have been seconded to the Royal Navy for a period. As early as 1935 he appears to have been formulating some of the "axioms" which later bloomed into 57 scientology and nearly 200 dianetic "self evident truths". It is said that he wrote in 1938 a never-published work called by the code name Excalibur, on the subject of the basic principles of human existence. Both before and after World War II he studied hypnosis, and, as his writings indicate, he practised it for some time. Out of the hotchpotch of his experiences, his imagination and hypnosis he developed the theories which led to the publication in 1948 of his first book on dianetics, entitled Dianetics, The Original Thesis. His theories found little or no acceptance in orthodox medical or psychological circles, but his extravagant ideas found some targets on the fringe of learning and his writings appealed to some who accepted uncritically and without proof the astonishing claims which he made. In 1950, he wrote his first major book on dianetics, entitled Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This book he claims to be of 300,000 words, but it is less than two-thirds that size, and his boast is that it was written in three weeks. He claims that it was an instant success, a best seller, which over the years has reached the million copy mark. The nature of dianetics is dealt with later in this Report. A definition of the word has crept into Funk and Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary in these terms, "A system for the analysis, control and development of human thought evolved from a set of co-ordinated axioms which also provide techniques for the treatment of a wide range of mental disorders and organic diseases: the term and doctrines introduced by L. Ron Hubbard, C.E., D.Scn., American engineer". Other books on dianetics followed, the next substantial volume being Science of Survival, first published in 1951, which deals extensively with the "dynamics of behaviour" and "dianetics processing". In about 1951 Hubbard established the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in California, but he appears to have had disputes with its board of management, largely if not entirely because of his desire to explore advanced theories which he had developed concerning the thetan and its past existence. Accordingly, he severed his association with the Research Foundation in about 1952 and proceeded to found scientology which is the burden of this Report. The development of dianetics into scientology and the continued close association of both of these "sciences" with one another is dealt with later in this report. The first scientology book appears to have been Scientology: A History of Man, published in manuscript in 1952 under the title of What to Audit and subsequently reprinted several times under the first mentioned title, Scientology: 8-80 also appeared in 1952, Scientology 8-8008 in 1953, Scientology; The Fundamentals of Thought in 1956. Several other small books appeared between 1952 and 1956, one of them being Self Analysis in Scientology in 1954. Since 1956 no substantial definitive book on scientology has come from Hubbard's pen though he has written many hundred of bulletins, letters and directives and dozens of books and booklets on specific aspects of scientology practice. He has further disseminated his ideas by a great number of tape recordings, containing an estimated 30 million words. In addition to his books, he has produced or inspired the production of several scientology magazines in several countries, e.g., Great Britain, U.S.A., Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, with such titles as Ability, Certainty, Reality, Affinity, Communication. For several years these magazines have provided a very effective means of disseminating Hubbard's teachings amongst his followers and advertising his books, courses and congresses. His bulletins and other communications are frequently reproduced in these magazines. Communication magazine is "The Official Periodical of Dianetics and Scientology in Australia". After Hubbard withdrew from the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, it experienced certain difficulties, the nature of which did not clearly emerge, but seems to have been at least partly financial. In about 1954, Hubbard "acquired" the Foundation and in 1955 the "Unification" Congress was held to celebrate the occasion. Now that dianetics was once more his own, he wrote a book, Dianetics 1955, described as "The Text Book of Human Communication," which dealt with dianetic techniques. Hubbard, however, had long been impatient with the slowness of dianetic techniques. Further, dianetics claimed to alleviate or cure man's mental and physical ailments. As a "science" claiming to cure illnesses, Hubbard feared that dianetics was likely to be vulnerable to scrutiny by civil authorities. Scientology, which officially did not claim to cure, ran no such risk, so Hubbard felt, and, furthermore, it covered a wider canvas and afforded better and more rapid methods of exploiting the gullible. Hubbard accordingly proceeded actively to promote scientology, ostensibly allowing dianetics to fade into the background. There is, however, a close and continuous link between the two "sciences," and, notwithstanding attempts at the Inquiry to assert the contrary, dianetics, if not in name, at least in reality is still very actively engaged in by scientologists. Many of their processes are virtually indistinguishable in essence. Dianetic and scientology techniques are frequently hypnotic and of a kind which are potentially harmful to mental health. Hubbard had his headquarters in the U.S.A. for some years but about 1958 he transferred them to England and he now operates from Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. He has conducted congresses in various countries, visiting Victoria for that purpose in 1959. These congresses are an important source of revenue for Hubbard. A congress held in America in 1958 returned 800 dollars per head from at least 140 people. "The Games Congress," held in America in 1956, was attended by about 450 people. By frequent and repeated reference to his qualities Hubbard has built up for himself in the eyes of his followers a mighty image. The adulation and obeisance which they offer him is almost unbelievable. Scientology students are specifically taught that he is not God, lest they think he is. He himself insists in The Creation of Human Ability, that preclears must be taught that he is only a man. He poses as a benign father to his scientology family. He stresses that he is always available to his flock. He is very approachable, and he encourages preclears to write directly to him, facilities for such communications being provided at the HASI. Frequently such communications are of a confessional nature, as Hubbard suggests they should be, and on this account his control over his followers becomes stronger. In appearance he seems to be a solidly built man, perhaps a little over average height with sandy or red hair, thick but receding slightly, and a broad face and ruddy complexion. A larger than life bronze bust of Hubbard stands in the reception office of the Melbourne HASI, little the worse for the damage done by an assault on it by a disturbed scientologist. An important requirement by Hubbard is that a weekly report on the processing of each preclear should be forwarded to him at Saint Hill. His condescension in considering each preclear's processing report is stressed as an indication of his magnanimity and the preclear is suitably impressed, not realizing until it is too late that he is very effectively acquiring domination over the awe-struck preclear. He makes for himself, and allows others to make for him, the most exalted claims, He repeatedly asserts that he has perfected the techniques necessary to audit preclears to clear and beyond, and he complains that it is the fault of auditors who are unable to audit and use the E-meter that preclears have not yet become clear and OT. Jack Horner, the author of Summary of Scientology, writes of Hubbard, "I wish to state that L. Ron Hubbard is, in my opinion, one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, and that his discoveries will make possible a new era of living for Man." Such eulogies are not infrequent and are not discouraged by Hubbard. In the eyes of his followers he is infallible. Their attitude fervently expressed, is, "Ron is right," " What Ron says goes," whatever he says or does. His mighty stature is heightened by permitting, and indeed encouraging, his followers to address him as "Ron". Everyone is on first-name terms with him. His manor house at Saint Will is the Mecca of his followers. The optimum state in scientology, that of being operating thetan (or OT), is said to be attainable only through the portals of Saint Hill or, at the very least, through processing by a graduate of Saint Hill. He resides and presides at the manor house, a Georgian building of perhaps eighteen or so rooms, attended by a domestic staff consisting of a butler, housekeeper, two cleaners, a butler's assistant, tutor for the children, a nanny, and an estate staff which includes a chauffeur and maintenance staff. He claims to be a man of substantial private means, making no charge, so he says, for the use of Saint Hill by the organization for conducting advanced courses and for experimental and administrative purposes. He claims that he does not benefit financially from the 10 per cent. of all gross takings which the HASI's throughout the world are required to pay as a levy to scientology headquarters. Nor does he benefit financially, so he claims, from the fees which advanced students pay for the courses they attend at Saint Hill. He says that his own means are provided by the proceeds of the sale of property in America and of a yacht. He married his present wife, Mary Sue, in 1950. She is as enthusiastic about scientology as he is. It is said that when Hubbard works out a new auditing process, she first of all tries it out on him. It is certain that at least on several occasions she has been his auditor. Psychiatric evidence which the Board heard was to the effect that preclears tended to become dependent upon and under the domination of their auditor, because of certain undesirable features of scientology processing techniques. The extent to which Hubbard has become dependent on and under the domination of Mary Sue has not clearly appeared. That she is a person of considerable misdirected ability seems evident. Her contribution to scientology is substantial. Hubbard is a man of restless energy, with tremendous enthusiasm in everything he undertakes. He is constantly experimenting and speculating, and equally constantly he confuses the two. He has acquired in a frenetic but superficial way a smattering Or knowledge of many subjects. In very many instances, however, his knowledge is fragmentary and inaccurate and sometimes positively incorrect, yet it serves as the foundation for pretentious and completely misleading pronouncements on scientific matters of which he is ignorant. In other instances where he has not even "enough of learning to misquote," he gives full rein to his imagination to produce incomprehensible and absurd results. All that he writes and says is either accepted by his followers or, at the very least, it is not rejected. They are taught that they are entitled to question his pronouncements, but they are conditioned to the belief that whatever he says is right. He has revised the calendar by renumbering the years, starting with the year 1950, the year in which he founded dianetics. Thus, "AD 10" means in the tenth year of dianetics and scientology, or 1960 to those who have not "cognited" on his "sciences". To keep the illusion of greatness and condescension, he purports to establish what in effect is a Hubbardian dynasty by instituting the International Council of Dianetics and Scientology which is "legalized by the legal structure of HCO Ltd and by my will of December 26, 1960" to which (amongst others, including Williams and his wife), are appointed two quite young children, both surnamed Hubbard, as inheriting members for whom various properties may be held in trust. On his birthday in 1963, in HCO Bull. of the 13th March, he aspired to almost regal dignity in his "Amnesty," which read - "On my birthday and on achieving my own fourth goal in clearing, and in celebration of the first Eight first goal Clears by 3M, I hereby extend and direct all the organizations, officials and staff of Scientology Organizations to grant all Dianeticists and Scientologists penalized before this date a complete amnesty . . . Any and all offences of any kind before this date, discovered or undiscovered, are fully and completely forgiven. Directed at Saint Hill, on March the thirteenth, 1963, in the 13th year of Dianetics and Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard". His condescension is further evidenced by newsy circulars which he periodically distributes, telling of the busy life he leads, with barely sufficient time for his Pepsi-cola in the afternoon, and how he is improving on the organ which Mary Sue gave him as a present. Despite his apparent graciousness, he is intolerant of opposition and is autocratic and harsh in his treatment of the dissident. By the imposition of many extra hours of auditing he disciplines the unfortunate who is out of step. He excommunicates the rebellious or threatens that they will be denied further auditing. These threats to an indoctrinated preclear are terrifying. He is governing director of Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, the operative company of the HASI, over which he exercises complete and autocratic control. In what passes for research in scientology circles, he is constantly claiming major "breakthroughs," each "discovery" being hailed by him as the ultimate and accompanied by the most extravagant promises (none of which is realized), only to be superseded by his next remarkable "discovery". Some of his claims are that he has a cure for radiation burns, that he has been up in the Van Allen Belt, that he has been on the planet Venus where he inspected an implant station, and that he has been to Heaven. He even recommends a protein formula for feeding non-breast fed babies, stating that he "picked it up in Roman days". He has an insensate hostility to psychiatrists and "medical doctors," psycho-analysts, psychologists, and those in other similar professions whose field of study and practice is the human mind. His writings about such professions are quite rabid at times. They are, in his estimation, frauds, charlatans, butchers, and neurotics, and their techniques are, he says, antiquated 19th century practices based on discredited continental procedures and not since developed. By contrast, he offers the pure lily that is scientology. Hubbard is not concerned with logic as the following passage from Dianetics: MSMH, shows, "Aristotle's syllogism in which two things equal to the same thing are equal to one another simply does not begin to work in logic . . . It is an abstract truth that two and two equal four. Two what and two what equal four? There is no scale made, no yardstick or caliper or microscope manufactured which would justify the actuality, for instance, that two apples plus two apples equal four apples. Two apples and two apples are four apples now if they are the same apples. They would not equal four other apples by any growth or manufacturing process ever imagined". On his own admission he is not a philosopher. In Scientology, issue 15H, copyright 1953, he wrote, "I am not, and never will pretend to be, a philosopher. The task of a philosopher is to go off and philosophise. Philosophers normally philosophise all the years of their lives, and in the books of philosophers all the absurdities and wisdom can be found. My entrance into this field of better minds was a forced one; I had a feeling that man ought to progress. It was with astonishment that I discovered that man, for all his prate of science, psychotherapy, all his yap of mysticism and philosophy in general, did not even vaguely know how to improve himself". However Hubbard may appear to his devoted followers, the Board can form no other view than that Hubbard is a fraud and scientology fraudulent. In forming these conclusions, the Board has considered both the oral evidence and the great volume of Hubbard's own writings; the following pages of this Report will reveal that the conclusions at which the Board has arrived in relation to Hubbard are based almost entirely upon his own writings. One further appraisal of Hubbard, based on his writings, has been made. Expert psychiatric opinion is that the many books, pamphlets. articles. bulletins, and the like which bear Hubbard's name indicate in their author symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia of long standing with delusions of grandeur. This aspect is more fully dealt with later in this Chapter. At an early stage of the Inquiry, Hubbard indicated that he did not intend to come from England to give evidence before the Inquiry, being, as he said, quite satisfied with the way Williams was handling the matter. Later, an application was made to the Victorian Government and to the Board that Hubbard's expenses be paid to enable him to give evidence. Such application was made, knowing it would be refused - as it was. It was made for the purpose of providing a basis of criticism of the report of this Board, which Hubbard knew by that time must be hostile to him and to his "science". Hubbard had no intention of attending the Inquiry. His dilemma was that if he were to repudiate his writings his deceit would be confessed; and unless he repudiated them he stood condemned by their content. The Board has been conscious of the fact that Hubbard did not attend and give evidence but the decision not to attend lay with him, as also did the decision in the closing days of the Inquiry to withdraw the legal representation of the HASI before the Board. The falsity of Hubbard's claims concerning himself and his "science" will be examined later in this Report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubbard's Morbid Preoccupation with Perversion. Much of Hubbard's writings show a morbid preoccupation with matters relating to abnormal behaviour of women, sex, rape, abortions, and similar topics. Especially in his books on dianetics, which are still recommended reading without which it is said one cannot succeed in scientology, he shows a prurient and distinctly unhealthy attachment to abortions, rape, perversion, and similar matters. This attachment, however, is by no means limited to his dianetic writings; there are several such references in his scientology writings also. In Dianetics: MSMH and elsewhere, Hubbard declares that the engram and only the engram causes aberration and psychosomatic illness. An engram is a moment of "unconsciousness" containing physical pain or painful emotion. Most engrams were prenatal, so Hubbard taught, and he goes to fanciful and quite ridiculous lengths to illustrate how a prenatal engram is caused. There is no medical or other rational justification for his wild theories, and most of them are quite contrary to medical knowledge and to reason. Their ridiculous nature is perhaps best illustrated by using his own words, for to paraphrase his writings on this subject may give to them a suggestion of rationality which they certainly do not possess. In Dianetics: MSMH he writes, "Mama sneezes, baby gets knocked 'unconscious'. Mama runs lightly and blithely into a table and baby gets its head stoved in. Mama has constipation and baby, in the anxious effort, gets squashed. Papa becomes passionate and baby has the sensation of being put in a running washing machine. Mama gets hysterical, baby gets an engram. Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram, Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby gets an engram. And so it goes. People have scores of prenatal engrams when they are normal. They can have more than two hundred. And each one is aberrative. Each contains pain and 'unconsciousness'. Engrams received as a zygote are potentially the most aberrative, being wholly reactive. Those received as an embryo are intensely aberrative. Those received as the foetus are enough to send people to institutions all by themselves." In the same book he writes: "The prenatal child can, of course, experience terror. When the parents or the professional abortionist start after it and thrust it full of holes, it knows fear and pain . . . however . . . Being surrounded by amniotic fluid and dependent for nutrition on its mother, being in a state of growth and easily reformed physically, it can repair an enormous amount of damage and does." The Board heard expert medical evidence to the effect that the foetus could not know fear and that, if thrust full of holes, it most certainly would not survive. The following ridiculous statement appears in the same book: "A large proportion of allegedly feeble-minded children are actually attempted abortion cases, whose engrams place them in rear paralysis or regressive palsy and which command them not to grow but to be where they are forever. However many billions America spends yearly on institutions for the insane and jails for the criminals are spent primarily because of attempted abortions done by some sex-blocked mother to whom children are a curse, not a blessing of God . . . The case of the child who, as this is read, is not yet born but upon whom abortion has been attempted, is not hopeless. If he is treated with decency after he is born and if he is not restimulated by witnessing quarrels he will wax. and grow fat until he is eight and can be cleared, at which time he will probably be much startled to learn the truth. But that statement and any antagonism included in it will vanish with the finishing of the clear and his love of his parents will be greater than before". The chapter from which the above extracts are taken concludes: "All these things are scientific facts, tested and rechecked and tested again. And with them can be produced a clear on whom our racial future depends." All this, of course, is untrue and is nonsense. The Board heard evidence from an impressive body of expert medical witnesses which completely negatived Hubbard's pretentious nonsense, including the passages quoted and many others in Dianetics: MSMH. No good purpose would he served in painstakingly dealing separately with every incorrect statement of Hubbard and illustrating precisely how it was wrong. Such procedure would be too flattering to Hubbard's writings, which are largely self-condemnatory, and if they are to be commented upon, deserve no more comment than is sufficient to condemn them for the dangerous nonsense that they are. In Dianetics: MSMH Hubbard writes: "And in the case of the ulcers, here was baby poked full of holes (Mama is having a terrible time trying to abort him so she can pretend a miscarriage, and she uses assorted household instruments thrust into the cervix to do it) and some of the holes are through and through his baby's abdomen and stomach : he will live because he is surrounded by protein and has a food supply and because the sac is like one of these puncture-proof inner tubes that seals up every hole. (Nature has been smart about attempted abortion for a long, long time.) . . . Grandma lives next door and she comes over unexpectedly, shortly after the latest effort to make baby meet oblivion. Grandma may have been an attempted abortionist in her day but now she is old and highly moral." In this book Hubbard tells of other cases: "A standard class of prenatal engram has as its content the worry of the parents that the child will be feeble-minded if not now aborted in earnest. This adds an emotional overload to such engrams and it adds, as importantly, an aberrative condition in the now grown patient that he is 'not right,' 'all wrong,' 'feeble-minded,' and so forth. The difficulty of aborting a child is nearly always underestimated: the means used are often novel or bizarre: the worry because the child has not come out of the womb after the abortion attempt is acute, and the concern that he is now damaged beyond repair all combine to make severely aberrative engrams." Again: "Fathers, for instance, suspicious of paternity, sometimes claim while trouncing and upsetting mothers that they will kill the child if it isn't like Father. This is a very unhappy type of token to say nothing of being, usually, a bad engram; it can go to the extent of remodelling structure, of making noses long or hair assent; it may compel an aberree into a profession he does not admire and all out of the engramic command that he must be like the parent." And again: "It is very noisy in the womb. A person may think he has sonic and yet hear no 'womb' sounds, which means that he does not have sonic but only 'dub-in'. Intestinal squeaks and groans, flowing water, belches, flatulation and other body activities of the mother produce a continual sound. It is also very tight in later prenatal life. In a high blood pressure case, it is extremely horrible in the womb. When mother takes quinine a high ringing noise may come into being in the foetal ears as well as her own - a ringing which will carry through a person's whole life. Mother gets morning sickness, has hiccoughs, and gets colds, coughs and sneezes. This is prenatal life. The only reason anybody 'wanted' to 'return to the womb' was because somebody hit mother and yelled 'Come back here!' so the person does." And again Hubbard writes: "The standard attempted abortion case nearly always has an infanthood and childhood full of Mama assuring him that he cannot remember anything when he was a baby. She doesn't want him to recall how handy she was, if unsuccessful, in her efforts with various instruments .... In the normal course of work the auditor will have his hands full of Mama screaming objections about her grown son's or daughter's entering into therapy because of what they might find out: Mama has been known, by auditors, to go into a complete nervous collapse at the thought of her child's recalling prenatal incidents. Not all of this, by the way, is based on attempted abortion. Mama often has had a couple of more men than Papa that Papa never knew about; and Mama would very often rather condemn her child to illness or insanity or merely unhappiness than let a child pursue the course of the preclear." The interpretation which Hubbard seeks to put upon the mother's objection to her child's undergoing auditing is that she fears that her guilty secrets will be revealed; this is in line with his frequent assertion made in his pamphlet, Why some fight scientology (see Chapter 26) and elsewhere that families and friends of preclears oppose their interest in scientology because they have some shameful secret which they fear will be revealed to the preclear. Again, in Dianetics: MSMH, Hubbard writes, "Engrams, particularly in the prenatal area, are in chains" and he lists a number of such chains which include coitus chain, father; coitus chain, lover; constipation chain; contraceptive chain; attempted abortion chain; masturbation chain. He explains that these chains are series of incidents of similar types, and the burden of his writing is that the unborn child records and remembers them, being able to distinguish each particular kind of event. It would seem, from Hubbard's notes, that the child can distinguish between the father and the lover because the father is either drunk or sober and the lover is always more enthusiastic. In the same book, he writes; "It may be that a patient is urgent in her insistence that her father raped her when she was nine and that this is the cause of all her misery. Large numbers of insane patients claim this. And it is perfectly true. Father did rape her, but it happened she was only nine days beyond conception at the time. The pressure and upset of coitus is very uncomfortable to the child and normally can be expected to give the child an engram which will have as its content the sexual act and everything that was said." The Board heard expert medical evidence that an embryo nine days old, hardly visible to the eye, does not possess an ear, is not capable of being aware of anything and has no nervous system or brain capable of recording anything or of having an understanding, intelligent or otherwise, of anything said or done. Further, Hubbard's assertion that the embryo records and understands what has been said involves the embryo being capable of intelligent understanding of language which the child, after birth, would not attain to for several months or even years. In Scientology, issue 28-G, 1954, Hubbard gives three case histories selected at random. In the first; "The basic consisted of a severe quarrel between his mother and father with several abdominal blows being received by the mother. The mother was protesting that it would make her sick all of her life. At the same time the mother was coughing from a throat blow. The father was insisting that he was master in his own home and that people had to do what he told them. This quarrel occurred at about four and a half months after conception and resulted in the temporary paralysis of the preclear's right side." The second case was of an eighteen-year-old girl in a condition of apathy "bordering upon a break and worsening." "The basic proved to be a mutual abortion attempt by the mother and father. The mother said she would die if anyone found out.... The father said the baby was probably like her and he didn't want it. Eighteen penetrations of the head, throat and shoulders with a long orange-wood stick - probably in third month. Several similar incidents completed this chain. Coitus followed each attempt at abortions. Another incident proved to be basic without a chain and with innumerable locks: an attempted abortion by a professional abortionist who used some form of needle and scraper." The third case related to a male negro who had convulsions when audited on prenatal life. "The convulsion proved to be twenty engrams nearer birth than the basic which lay on another chain and which was discovered by dream technique. The convulsion was caused by the dramatization of an engram involving the injection of turpentine into the uterus by the mother in an attempted abortion. The main engramic chain consisted of the mother's efforts to abort herself. From engramic content it was gathered that the mother was a prostitute, for as many as twenty experiences of coitus succeeded two of these abortion attempts. . . The basic chain contained many quarrels about money between the mother and her customers. . . The basic incident. . . was found to lie about twenty days after conception, when the mother first discovered her pregnancy." This man's IQ was stated to be "about eighty-five"; the auditor's was not stated. Hubbard is particularly concerned to show that the act of sexual intercourse while the woman is pregnant is likely to cause an engram to the unborn child, and he considers that intercourse only a few days after conception could have a highly aberrative effect on the barely existing embryo. Hubbard's theories involve the embryo at that early stage being aware of and registering in an aberrative way conversation between the parties to an act of intercourse. On several occasions he actually sets out the conversation between the parties; not infrequently the conversation is between the mother and her paramour and the topic of conversation is in one case at least the conveniently absent husband. In Dianetics: MSMH, Hubbard writes, "Attempted abortion is very common. And remarkably lacking in success. The mother, every time she injures the child in such a fiendish fashion, is actually penalizing herself. Morning sickness is entirely engramic, so far as can be discovered, since clears have not so far experienced it during their own pregnancies. And the act of vomiting because of pregnancy is via contagion of aberration. Actual illness generally results only when mother has been interfering with the child either by douches or knitting needles or some such thing.... Morning sickness evidently gets into a society because of these interferences such as attempted abortion, and, of course injury." Comment would be superfluous. -- | Chris Owen | New Mansion House, Lancaster Gate, London W2 | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | WORLD'S BIGGEST SPECTRUM ARCHIVE -- http://www.nvg.unit.no/sinclair | | "Piltdown Man was always biting his wife": another gem from L.Ron Hubbard | From co@ Sun Apr 7 09:41:44 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:6582 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news.compulink.com!news1.toronto.fonorola.net!news1.toronto.istar.net!news.toronto.istar.net!theglobeandmail.com!news.north.net!worldlinx.com!milliways.hartco.ca!worldlinx.com!clio.trends.ca!innuendo.tlug.org!gvc.gvc.com!news1.io.org!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!news.aimnet.com!news.ossi.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!!co From: co@ (Chris Owen) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: ANDERSON REPORT: Chapter 9 - Dianetics Date: 29 Mar 1996 20:32:04 GMT Organization: Nettverksgruppa Lines: 258 Message-ID: <4jhhc4$49s@due.unit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: romeo-klive.nvg.unit.no The Anderson Report CHAPTER 9 DIANETlCS Dianetics is described by Hubbard as "the modern science of mental health". He explains that its derivation is from two Greek words, "dia" meaning "through" and "noos" meaning "mind". An examination of the content of dianetic teaching suggests that its derivation would more aptly be from Diana, the moon goddess, and that a word with a Latin root but much the same meaning would have been more appropriate. Hubbard wrote a number of books about dianetics and it has been the subject of a substantial number of articles in scientological publications. Before discussing dianetics in the light of the evidence placed before the Board some excerpts from the books all articles written by Hubbard can conveniently be referred to for an idea of the fanciful claims which Hubbard made for it. The word "dianetics" is said to be "a term employed to embrace the science of thought and including a family of subsciences by which the individual collective activities of mankind may be understood and bettered". Hubbard writes that dianetics is "a sub-subject of scientology and covers the anatomy of the mind rather than the brain"; it is "that branch of scientology that covers mental anatomy"; it is "a form of science of thought applicable to psychosomatic ills and individual aberrations". Its purpose is "to pass man across the abyss of irrational, solely reactive thought and to enter a new stage of constructive progression to the ultimate goal." The goal of dianetics is "a world without insanity, without criminals and without war". It looks for a simpler course to the achievement of its aims than through the conventional therapies. In Science of Survival, which was first published in l95l, Hubbard wrote "It took four to twelve years to get an inkling of these [conventional] therapies and all evidence to hand, carefully compiled, shows that they do not work, that the problems of criminality, insanity and war still remained, with these systems of 'therapy' far out of control." He then claimed that dianetics was a simpler solution, which did not require twelve years of schooling and practice to learn, but which provided "an understanding of life, man, and mind operation which could resolve the 19,000,000 insane, our millions of criminals, and international madness". Dianetics is, wrote Hubbard in Dianetics: MSMH, "actually a family of sciences .... With the techniques presented in this handbook the psychiatrist, psycho-analyst and intelligent layman can successfully and invariably treat all psychosomatic ills and inorganic aberrations. More importantly, the skills offered in this handbook will produce the dianetic clear, an optimum individual with intelligence considerably greater than the current normal, or a dianetic release, an individual who has been freed from his major anxieties or illnesses. The release can be done in less than twenty hours of work and is a state superior to any produced by several years of psycho-analysis, since the release will not relapse." The principal books on dianetics are Dianetics: MSMH, Science of Survival, and Dianetics 1955. These books contain an exposition of the principles of dianetics and instructions for the practice of dianetic therapy as well as a large number of instances of the alleged beneficial application of dianetics. Fundamental to dianetics is "survival", towards which all activity should be directed. "The dynamic principle of existence is "survive!". The first axiom is: survive. "We do not know", writes Hubbard, "to what end we are surviving and in our field of the knowable and in our choice of only the workable axioms we do not know and have no immediate reason to ask why". Survival, considered as a single and sole purpose, is said by Hubbard to subdivide into four dynamics. "Dynamic One is the urge of the individual towards survival for the individual and his symbiotes. ['Symbiotes' means all energies and entities which aid survival.] Dynamic Two is the urge of the individual towards survival through procreation; it includes both the sex act and the raising of progeny, the care of children and their symbiotes. Dynamic Three is the urge of the individual towards survival for the group or the group for the group and includes the symbiotes of that group. Dynamic Four is the urge of the individual towards survival for Mankind or the urge toward survival of Mankind for Mankind as well as the group for Mankind, &c., and includes the symbiotes of mankind." The mind of an individual, so dianetics teaches, has really three parts. They are the analytical, the reactive and the somatic. The analytical mind, sometimes referred to as the conscious mind, is that portion of the mind which perceives and retains experienced data to compose and resolve problems and directs the organism along the four dynamics. It thinks in differences and similarities. The reactive mind is that portion of the mind which sites and retains pain and painful emotion and seems to direct the organism solely on a stimulus-response basis. It thinks only in identities. The somatic mind is that mind which, directed by the analytical or reactive mind, places solutions into effect on the physical level. Williams understood the "somatic mind" as a term used to describe "that package of information or data appertaining to the automatic function of the body, and automatic responses of the body. The somatic mind, functionally, would include such things as the automatic heart beat and breathing and this sort of thing." In Dianetics: MSMH, Hubbard wrote that "the hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberrations has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." The goal of dianetics being to cure psychosomatic illness and remove aberrations, dianetics was therefore dedicated to "running out" and so removing what Hubbard said was the cause of all the trouble, the engram. According to dianetics, psychosomatic ills are caused by engrams, the engram being the single source of psychosomatic ills and aberrations. "The engram and only the engram causes aberrations and psychosomatic illnesses." Aberrations include all deranged or irrational behaviour. Moments of "unconsciousness", when the analytical mind is attenuated in a greater or lesser degree, are the only moments when engrams can be received. The engram is a moment of "unconsciousness" containing physical pain or painful emotion and all perceptions and is not available to the analytical mind as experience. Hubbard declared that all psychosomatic illnesses, "which constitute 70 per cent. of man's illnesses, can be positively cured by dianetic processing". This, he said, was effected by auditing the preclear or sufferer and thereby discovering and running out the engram. The source of the aberration was said to be the reactive mind which acted more or less irrationally and fed information to the conscious mind and body, without the knowledge or consent of the individual, save that sometimes the individual might perceive that he was acting irrationally in relation to some matter, but could not understand why. An individual, according to Hubbard, thus possessed two minds; the analytical mind, which is the conscious mind which becomes aware of things learned by actual experience and functions logically; and the reactive mind, which is the unconscious mind and which operates irrationally or irresponsibly and is the cause of all aberrations. The problems of life are complicated by the functioning of the reactive mind, and it is the cause of ill-health and mental troubles. The reactive mind, so Hubbard claims, received engrams in the past. Initially, the "past" was earlier in the life of the individual concerned but quickly Hubbard propounded the theory that many engrams, perhaps most, were incurred in the prenatal period, i.e., during the pregnancy of the mother; and at this period the reactive mind of the unborn child became aware of events happening and words spoken at a time when it, the unborn child, received some injury, e.g. by the father hitting the mother in the stomach, or much more frequently by an injury received by the embryo or foetus during intercourse between the parents, the embryo being aware of and suffering injury and remembering such incidents and accompanying words from as early as eight days after conception. As these theories further developed, Hubbard claimed that engrams could be experienced by the individual even before conception! All of this, of course, is nonsense, and a large body of expert evidence was called to prove that it and much more fantastic theorising was nonsense, However, Hubbard, disdaining to admit such theories as fantasy, boldly asserts them to be scientifically proven facts. An attempt was made by scientology witnesses at the Inquiry to show that dianetics is now, in effect, in abeyance, but that is clearly not so; it was the forerunner of scientology, and out of it scientology developed; and it is claimed by Hubbard that dianetics is part of scientology. Hubbard has consistently maintained that an understanding of his book, Dianetics: MSMH, is essential to an understanding of scientology, and he has repeatedly, right up to very recent times, directed that every effort be made to sell this book, a million copies, so he claims, having already been sold. Its present price is £2 3s. 6d. In dianetics Hubbard considered that "The entire physical pain and painful emotion of a lifetime, whether the individual 'knows' about it or not, is contained, recorded, in the engram bank. Nothing is forgotten. And all physical pain and painful emotion, no matter how the individual may think he has handled it, is capable of reinflicting itself upon him from this hidden level, unless that pain is removed by dianetic therapy." Hubbard writes in Dianetics: MSMH, " 'Dianetic therapy', may briefly be stated. Dianetics deletes all the pain from a lifetime. When the pain is erased in the engram bank and refiled as memory and experience in the memory banks, all aberrations and psychosomatic illnesses vanish, the dynamics are entirely rehabilitated and the physical and mental being regenerate". Hubbard claimed that in dianetics had been discovered the method of refiling pain and that "wide awake and without drugs an individual can return to any period of his entire life providing his passage is not blocked by engrams". The technique or therapy is done by what is called "dianetic reverie", and is applied by an auditor, who "directs the attention of the patient to the patient's self and then begins to place the patient in various periods of the patient's life merely by telling him to go there rather than remember. All therapy is done, not by remembering or associating, but by travel on the time track. Every human being has a time truck. It begins with life and it ends with death, It is a sequence of events from portal to portal as recorded". That many of the processes used in dianetics were hypnotic is evident both from their nature and their operation but Hubbard either ignores or denies this fact. In these processes the processing was towards clear, which was at the time said to be the optimum state attainable by man. In such a state, all illness and aberrations fell away. An intermediate stage was the release. "In a release, the case is not progressed to the point of complete recall. In a clear, full memory exists throughout the lifetime, with the additional bonus that he has photographic recall in colour, motion, sound, &c., as well as optimum computational ability". Dianetics taught that past experiences were recorded, "that the engram recording was probably done on the cellular level, that the engram bank was contained in the cells", that "the engram is a recording like the ripples in the groove of a phonograph record". Hubbard was emphatic in pointing out that what were impinged on the cell were not memories but actually prenatal engrams or recordings, and that these recording at a cellular level were capable of being made from the earliest stage of prenatal development onward; even at the zygote stage. The most prolific source of engrams was, so Hubbard considered, in the prenatal period, and his dianetic writings are cluttered to a degree which is obsessive with examples of how the prenatal engrams were experienced by the embryo, sometimes only a few days after conception, and by the foetus, as a result of violent assaults on or other physical injury to the mother, attempted abortions and intercourse which is often described as promiscuous. In Chapter 6, aspects of prenatal engrams and Hubbard's morbid preoccupation with abortion and sexual perversion are dealt with. About 70 per cent. of the physician's "current roster of diseases", so Hubbard claims, falls into the category of psychosomatic illness. "Psychosomatic illnesses", Hubbard explained, "are those which have a mental origin but which are nevertheless organic". Hubbard writes, "Arthritis, dermatitis, allergies, asthma, some coronary difficulties, eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, sinusitis, &c., form a very small section of the psychosomatic catalogue. Bizarre aches and pains in various portions of the body are generally psychosomatic. Migraine headaches are psychosomatic and, with the others, are uniformly cured by dianetic therapy. (And the word cured is used in its fullest sense.)" -- | Chris Owen | New Mansion House, Lancaster Gate, London W2 | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | WORLD'S BIGGEST SPECTRUM ARCHIVE -- http://www.nvg.unit.no/sinclair | | "Piltdown Man was always biting his wife": another gem from L.Ron Hubbard | From sthomson@netcom.com Fri Apr 12 00:03:14 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:7053 misc.legal.computing:1536 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.clearing.technology,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news.compulink.com!news2.toronto.istar.net!news1.io.org!ki.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!marge.eaglequest.com!oxy.rust.net!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!decwrl!amd!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!sthomson From: sthomson@netcom.com (shelley thomson) Subject: **Biased Journalism**V2no7 Ward Dep./Henson Sued/more Message-ID: Keywords: **Biased Journalism** : a net magazine designed to compensate for the shortcomings of the professional news media. Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 04:45:10 GMT Lines: 1503 Sender: sthomson@netcom8.netcom.com Copyright 1996 Shelley Thomson; all rights reserved. Mail, articles and comment may be directed to . Netiquette will be observed with all communication, except for the following: harassing or threatening mail will be posted to the net immediately. **Biased Journalism** Volume 2, issue 7 April 8, 1996. Contents: Bulletin! Grady Deposed; Keith Henson Sued; Re: the Lawsuit against Henson; Not A Good Day For The Church (Henson's Response); The Complaint; Bite Me RTC; **BJ** publisher makes the hit list. Read at your own risk. This is **Biased Journalism**! 1. GRADY DEPOSED: BULLETIN FROM THE FRONT LINES At this moment the citizens of cyberspace wait to hear what happened during the depositon of net citizen Grady Ward by lawyers representing the church of scientology. As reported in our previous issue, Ward made a practice of taunting the church for its failure to stop the publication of the sacred scriptures by SCAMIZDAT. The Religious Technology Center [an arm of the church] obtained a Temporary Restraining Order against Ward and were granted discovery. Ward received a detailed discovery request; his tart reply is below (item 5). It is not difficult to guess that the deposition may have proved an 'unprofitable chat' from the Plaintiff's point of view. At this point we were graced with a BULLETIN from Netizen Ward: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:49:41 -0700 From: Grady Ward Subject: Re: deposition Brutal, but interesting. Boy I was beginning to believe *their* case after eight hours of solid question and answer... but I came through all right. Now they want to do a full day tomorrow, but I only agreed to nine hours, so it may have to be brought before Magistrate Infante tomorrow after an hour and a half. The entire audio can be downloaded from my web site. http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html Grady (end Bulletin) Some interesting events led up to it. The Plaintiff had asked to examine some of Grady's office equipment, including his shredder and his scanner. On Friday the church offered to save Ward some trouble by inspecting these items at his house. He declined the offer, but agreed to meet a small delegation at the airport in Arcata to show them the requested items. The meeting did not happen as planned. Grady Ward told our correspondent: GW: I spoke on speakerphone with Hogan, McShane, and Kobrin Friday morning. BJ: I thought you were delivering some things to Hogan in person? the shredder, scanner, etc. -- what happened with this? GW: They decided at the last minute not to fly up when they realized most of the responses were "none" and the only material I have is indices from free_agent newsreader and other rather random stuff. I think they were wetting their pants hoping to get even a single admission of copyright or trade secret violation in order to drop all the other allegations and ask the judge for summary judgement. Without this, we are having to go to trial, whenever that will be. And I will be getting in *my* discovery and interrogatories, in that event. Hogan threatened several times to go before Magistrate Judge Edward Infante with my refusal pursuant to E.C.P.A., but I told him I welcome all opportunities to have a judge present in dealing with them. A telephone conversation took place on Friday instead of the planned inspection. This is Ward's account: GW: What happened today was rather interesting. It was like a minideposition. Hogan and Kobrin and McShane talked to me on a speakerphone for about 45 minutes. Hogan wouldn't take the answers as I had written them. He would say questions that assumed facts not in evidence such as "Are you saying that you got rid of the OT documents so that you don't have them now?" or "What exactly was your response after you posted the OTIII documents?" My answers were insistent that the answers were correct as they stood. He would repeat the "admission built into the question" over and over, again and again. I would repeat over and over again and again. "Do you understand, "none"? Kobrin would pipe in with a legal opinion that since I wasn't under oath I could say whatever I wanted. Uh huh. Thanks for the taste of what I going to get from the criminal cult Monday. But then I will be recording it for immortality on the net. Use your argumentation, your fallacies, your browbeating. Make it good. Judge Whyte will love to hear you disobey him. Grady [end] Ward's answer to the discovery request is published later in this issue. Readers will note that it contains a list of names of persons whose correspondence Ward is asked to furnish to RTC. Ward declined, citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ------------------------------ 2. KEITH HENSON IS SUED On Friday night, April 5, Good Friday and the third night of Passover, Keith Henson answered the door and received the following documents: Ex Parte Application For Leave To File Expanded Request for Temporary Restraining Order, Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order, Order To Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction, and Order for Expedited Discovery; Verified Complaint For Injunctive Relief and Damages; and a bundle of supporting material. He was being sued. The documents consist in large part of boilerplate recycled from the Erlich, Ward and Lerma cases. There are signs that it was prepared in haste. The new paperwork, specific to Henson, apparently takes up some 50 pages. The package is too long to quote here. What we will do instead is to quote and comment upon interesting passages. At the end we will publish the entire text of the Verified Complaint. Henson's crimes were so extensive, and the situation so dire that the church [in the person of Religious Technology Center, holder of the Hubbard copyrights, henceforth known as "RTC"] requested permission to file an expanded request for a Temporary Restraining Order, Injunction and Expedited DIscovery. The rules limit such filings to five pages; RTC asked leave to file twenty-two pages. Such requests are routinely granted. In the last episode, net citizen Henson wrote a letter to Judge Ronald Whyte, who had just granted the church a TRO and discovery against Grady Ward. In the letter Henson quoted the full text of one of the NOTS documents. On March 29 Henson attended the hearing for the Grady Ward case and asked whether the Judge considered Ward's TRO to apply to Henson. Was Henson in contempt of court? He was told that he was not a defendant. On March 30 he posted the letter, including NOTs 34, to alt.religion. scientology. Church attorney Helena Kobrin quickly sent him an indignant email message. Henson "flagrantly rebuffed the cease and desist letter..." the RTC attorneys complained. '"Mr. Henson told Mrs. Kobrin that he was "going to put it a little nicer than Grady [Ward] would, but you can take your demand, fold it till it is all corners, and stick it where 'the Sun don't shine."' "He then said he was *again* asking for NOTs or any other Scientology 'AT' [Advanced Technology] materials, acquired by legal, or *illegal* means, further announcing his intention to "post this material in the public interest." (McShane Dec. 6 7, and Ex. H to Complaint and Ex. 3.) Henson promptly posted this email to the net. The arguments the church used to obtain a Temporary Restraining Order, Order for Expedited Discovery and so forth rely upon claims of copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Judge Whyte earlier ruled that the trade secret issue was inapplicable. THe church does not raise this issue against Henson with respect to the six published NOTs (although it reserves the right to do so later), but with respect to the 46 unpublished NOTs. It asks for a restraining order to prevent their publication by Henson, his servants, agents, attorneys, etc.. In the Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order, RTC stated: "This application is necessitated by the imminent and credible threat of defendant Keith Henson to post or to cause to be posted to the Internet, hundreds of pages of heretofore unpublished, copyrighted, confidential materials of plaintiff Religious Technology Center (RTC), known as New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, or "NOTs" materials, which are maintained as trade secrets. (1) The NOTs materials are a series of 55 separate works (e.g., NOTs Series 1, 2, etc.). The trade secret status of these works was recognized in Bridge Publications. Inc.. et al. v. Vien, 827 F.Supp. 629, 633 (S.D.Cal. 1993). "While the majority of the works within the NOTs Series have never appeared on the Internet, six of these works were posted without authorization on the Internet by Dennis Erlich, the defendant in the related case of Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Comm. Servs.. Inc., 1995 U.S. Dist. Lexis 16184 (ND. Cal. Sept.22, 1995) ("Netcomt"). In that case, Judge Whyte preliminarily enjoined Erlich from further copyright infringements of those six NOTs Works at issue there, but declined to enjoin Erlich under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act as to those Works in part because of their limited posting to the Internet. "While Netcom and other cases have preliminarily ruled that when trade secret materials have been posted onto the Internet, the owner cannot move for relief under the trade secret laws, plaintiff continues to contest those rulings on the ground that they do not correctly reflect the factual and legal consequences of such rulings. The situation which has arisen recently, and which exists in this case is entirely different." --We read on with interest, but the RTC attorneys never actually explained why the trade secret issue should be looked at differently in Henson's case. With reference to trade secrets, the plaintiff argues on the one hand that without immediate judicial relief, RTC will suffer "extreme and irreversible harm," to wit, the loss of its intellectual property rights. Judge Whyte has already ruled, in effect, that when the NOTS were posted to the net they lost their trade secret status. But later on, in the Request for Temporary Restraining Order and Expedited Discovery, the church wrote: "Of the 55 separate works comprising the NOTs Series, at least 49 have never even arguably been made public. [McShane Declaration] Whether, in fact, the fleeting presence of the six that have been posted on the Internet divested them of trade secret status is a matter that has been ruled adversely to the plaintiff...[RTC v. Netcom, September 22, 1995] The ruling invited the plaintiff to reapply, and they did. "A hearing on the alternate test for the preliminary injunction is set for May 24, 1996 at which time plaintiff intends to demonstrate that there is a serious question going to the merits on the issue of whether, in fact, the postings terminated the trade secrecy of the six NOTs works posted by Dennis Erlich." RTC intends to try to persuade the Judge to change his ruling and attach trade secret status to the published NOTs. Roger Milgrim, author of a famous text on intellectual property rights, was presumably added to the RTC side of the case for this purpose. We concluded that in charging Henson with trade secret violations the church was trying to have its cake and eat it too. If Henson, by merely posting the NOTs, could have destroyed their trade secret status, then his letter could not have destroyed RTC's rights to NOTs 34 because it had already been posted to the net. In fact, it had been posted multiple times and was on alt. religion.scientology at the time this article was being written. If postings to the net are ephemeral and do not affect the status of trade secrets, Henson's posting of the NOTs document could not have injured the plaintiff's property rights. The church takes its intellectual property rights seriously. Plaintiffs said: [Ex Parte Application for TRO & Expedited Discovery] - "RTC derives substantial revenue from the delivery by its limited group of licensees to select parishioners of services utilizing Mr. Hubbard's unpublished literary works containing the Advanced Technology. (McShane Dec., 6 20.) The informational content of the works also derives independent economic value, actual and potential, from not being generally known to other persons who can obtain economic value from their disclosure or use. Plaintiff and its predecessors have taken in the past, and continue to take, extraordinary efforts to protect and maintain the confidentiality and secrecy of the Advanced Technology, carefully limiting physical access to the materials. "The works in question in this case, known as New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, or "NOTs" materials, have never left the custody of RTC, its predecessors or authorized licensees except through a theft in Denmark in 1983, for which one of the co-conspirators was arrested, tried and convicted. (McShane Dec., 6 36.) In the past, competing churches have been set up to use those stolen works to deliver competitive services, and other groups exist today which are interested in similarly exploiting these works. Wd., 6 37.) Because the defendant's activities at issue here now jeopardize if not threaten to destroy plaintiffs valuable intellectual property rights, there could be no demonstrably greater need for immediate injunctive relief." --We read this passage several times. The expressions "competing churches" and "competitive services" bothered us. Should an organization be allowed to establish a monopoly under cover of a tax exemption? We tried out "First Church of Chevron, Inc." How far could this hypothetical entity go in suppressing rival filling stations? Could it claim the Sacred Pump Ceremony as a religious rite, even though money is required before a parishioner can receive service? We resolved to read Roger Milgrim's book on trade secrets, hoping to understand more about this fascinating subject. The church does not quite accuse Henson of acting in concert with Grady Ward, but comes _very_ close in the following passage: "Henson also suggested that he was not acting in concert or participation with Ward. His protestation rings hollow, however, in light of his involvement with Ward in other activities, such as a trip to the Church of Scientology in San Francisco to harass the Church and its members. (McShane Dec., 6 9.)" [Ex Parte Application for TRO and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction] With respect to copyright infringement, in the Ex Parte Request for Temporary Restraining Order, etc., RTC attorneys stated "The RTC copyright that Henson has infringed has been registered as part of a collection under 37 C.F.R. [few bits lost in scanner] 202.03(b)(3)(B). Each of the separate works included in such a collection is protected individually and has been infringed by defendant's wholesale reproductions and/or transmissions.[citation] Likewise, Henson's copying, and threat to post, the entirety of the NOTs series is infringement, not fair use." The first part of this passage is confusing. Do the Plaintiffs mean to imply that Henson's publication of one NOTs document is a simultaneous infringement of the remaining 54? The question is important, because when it comes to asking for damages RTC is requesting $100,000 per incident. Further, Henson has apparently published only one of the NOTs: RTC attorneys imply that he has engaged in wholesale copying and/or transmissions of the entire group of NOTs. We wondered whether the RTC had evidence to support the suggestion, or whether Henson is merely a generic suspect in the search for the anonymous posters of church documents to the net. We noted that RTC attorneys once again avoided discussing the issue Henson raised in his letter to Judge Whye. Henson stated that NOTs 34 consituted a series of instructions in unlawful activity. The document, which he quoted in full, describes how to use an e-meter to cure physical illnesses and prevent their return. Henson believes that the use of an e-meter for this purpose constitutes practicing medicine without a license; he argues that because the document is an instruction in a criminal act, the public interest allows its disclosure. When he solicited NOTs, he limited his request to documents which showed criminal or fraudulent activity. The issue of the *content* of NOTs 34 is not addressed by RTC attorneys. Instead, Henson is charged with deliberately and wilfully attempting to destroy the property rights of the Plaintiff. Relief is asked for with reference to the entire NOTs collection. We surmised that the church may have other controversial documents among the NOTs. --------------- 3. RE: THE COMPLAINT AGAINST HENSON In the following document, which contains what is colloquially known as a lawsuit, the Plaintiff claims that the Works, which include the NOTs, were "wholly original with Mr. Hubbard." We noted that the RTC does not acknowledge any contributions by David Mayo. We surmise that this may become an issue if the case goes to trial. RTC requests an injunction against Keith Henson, and all his agents, servants, employees (etc.), of essentially the same form as the requested injunction against Grady Ward. Tucked away near the end is the provision that Henson must turn over to the Plaintiffs not only any copies of the Works that he may have, but "all articles in any media, electronic or otherwise, by means of which such copies may be reproduced." Taken literally, as we assume it is intended, this includes Henson's computer, printer, scanner, system backup tapes, floppy disks, and assorted software. Damages are requested in the sum of $100,000 per infraction, plus legal fees (in the course of a trial this figure may become very large) and other relief as the Court may decide. -------------------------------------------- 4. Not A Good Day For The Church Keith Henson reflected on the subject and wrote the following letter to Judge Whyte: H. Keith Henson 799 Coffey Ct. San Jose, CA 95123 408-521-0614 (beeper) Case No. C 96-20271 RPA Hon. Ronald M. Whyte, Federal Judge Northern District of California San Jose, CA 95113 Hand delivered, April 8, 1996 Dear Judge Whyte: Please excuse the use of a letter instead of the proper form, but I want to give everyone the maximum time to adjust schedules. I request that you recuse yourself from this case. It is *not* for improper behavior or prejudice, but because (as stated in several places in the RTC's filing) you and your clerk have been involved, at least as witnesses, in the events which led up to this lawsuit. I am not well versed in the law, but I am nearly certain that it is improper for a Judge or his clerk to be called as a witness at a trial over which he is presiding. I am willing for the TRO hearing to be held at the time set if that is convenient for another Judge, or the TRO hearing may pushed back up to one week, and I will consider myself to be bound by the TRO until the hearing. Thank you very much for your consideration of this matter, Very Truly Yours, H. Keith Henson cc by email to Helena Kobrin (hkk@netcom.com) Posted [So much for accelerated discovery, our observer said dryly. It is likely that the Judge will recuse himself, and a new hearing date may be set.] ----------------------------------- 5. And Your Computer, Too: The Complaint In Full Thomas R. Hogan, SBN 042048 LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS R. HOGAN 60 South Market Street, Suite 1125 San Jose, CA 95113-2332 (408) 292-7600 Roger M. Milgrim William M. Hart PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER 399 Park Avenue Thirty-first floor New York, New York 10022-4697 (212) 318-6000 Helena K. Kobrin, SBN 152546 7629 Fulton Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 (213) 960-1933 Attorneys for Plaintiff RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ~ ~ ~ I flflA RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER,~ ) ~ j', ' I nr~ California non-profit corporation, Plaintiff, ) VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ) INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND DAMAGES ) FOR: (1) COPYRIGHT V. ) INFRINGEMENT; AND (2) TRADE ) SECRET MISAPPROPRIATION (CAL H. KEITH HENSON, an individual, ) CIV. CODE ' 3426.1) ) Defendant. ) ) ) ORIGINAL FILED APR ()4 1996 RiCHA~D W. WIEK~NG CLERK US. DISTRICT COURT NOR i~~flN ~DiSTRiCT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE Plaintiff Religious Technology Center ("RTC") alleges as follows: INTRODUCTORY AVERMENTS 1. Defendant H. Keith Henson ("Henson") has engaged in a scheme of infringing certain copyrights and misappropriating certain trade secrets belonging to plaintiff. Henson has posted portions of plaintiff's proprietary materials onto the international computer network known as the Internet without authorization from plaintiff and continues to do so despite warnings from plaintiff to cease and desist from his activities in violation of plaintiff's rights. Recent Internet postings by Henson indicate that he is now threatening and poised to engage in massive violations of plaintiff's proprietary rights, is publicly soliciting assistance to do so, and threatens impending copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation of a host of works which have been judicially recognized as trade secrets and have not previously been posted to the Internet by Henson or anyone else. The need for injunctive relief as to such threatened unlawful undertaking is therefore critical. JURISDICTION AND VENUE 2. Subject matter jurisdiction of this action exists pursuant to 28 U.S.C. '' 1331 and 1338(a) and (b) and 28 U.S.C. ' 2201(a) in that this is an action for declaratory relief as to copyright infringement and for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501. This court has pendent jurisdiction over the trade secret misappropriation claims alleged herein, as unfair competition claims that arise out of the same transactions and occurrences. 3. Venue is proper in this District pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ' 1391(b) in that events or omissions giving rise to the claims occurred in this district and the defendant resides in this judicial district. THE PARTIES 4. Plaintiff RTC is, and was at all times relevant herein, a California non-profit religious corporation having its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. 5. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that defendant Henson is a citizen and resident of the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California. GENERAL AVERMENTS A. The Copyrighted Unpublished Works of L. Ron Hubbard 6. L. Ron Hubbard, a United States citizen who died in 1986, was a world-renowned philosopher and the prolific author of numerous original works on applied religious philosophy and spiritual healing technology, including training materials and course manuals of the Scientology religion (hereinafter the "Religion") of which Mr. Hubbard was the founder. Certain of Mr. Hubbard's original written and recorded works have been published and made generally available, while others have not. Among the unpublished works is a body of special works, sometimes referred to as "Advanced Technology materials," which contains confidential and proprietary information ("the Advanced Technology") constituting trade secrets (the "Works"). 7. Lists of the Works that were created by Mr. Hubbard and are relevant to this action are attached as Exhibits A and B, showing the titles of the works along with the numbers and dates of the applicable United States copyright registrations. Due to the imminence of the harm now threatened by defendant's acts with respect to the Exhibit B Works (which, except for six out of the 55 works, have never been the subject of any postings on the Internet), and in order to seek immediate judicial relief, RTC has not pleaded every Work which defendant may be threatening to infringe. RTC therefore reserves the right to amend this Complaint to add additional Works, and/or to add additional claims and/or parties at a later date and as a result of further factual developments and discovery. 8. In 1982, L. Ron Hubbard assigned to plaintiff RTC his entire right, title and interest (apart from copyrights) in and to the Advanced Technology, including all rights to use and to license the use of the Advanced Technology in the United States. This assignment includes the obligation to protect the confidentiality of the Advanced Technology. A true and correct copy of this assignment is annexed as Exhibit C to this Complaint. 9. Following Mr. Hubbard's death in 1986, ownership of the copyrights in the Works passed to his Estate, which granted to plaintiff RTC, on September 17, 1987, an exclusive license in the copyrights pertaining to the Works, with the right and obligation to enforce all the copyrights in those works. A true and correct copy of this License Agreement is annexed to this complaint as Exhibit D. 10. All of the assets of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard, including the copyrights pertaining to the Works, were distributed in 1993. The successor in interest to the copyrights affirmed RTC's September 17, 1987 copyright license. A true and correct copy of this Assignment and Assumption is annexed to this complaint as Exhibit E. 11. The Works were wholly original with Mr. Hubbard and are copyrightable subject matter under the laws of the United States. Mr. Hubbard and his successors and licensees have complied in all respects with the copyright laws of the United States, have secured the exclusive rights in and to the copyrights in the Works, and have received from the Register of Copyrights Certificates of Registration of these copyrights. Attached hereto as Exhibit F are true and correct copies of the Certificate of Registration for the Works listed in Exhibits A and B. 12. The Advanced Technology contained in the Works is of immense value to plaintiff, which has taken in the past, and continues to take, extraordinary measures to protect the confidentiality of the Advanced Technology. Physical access to the materials has always been limited and carefully monitored and the materials made available only to a limited group of people for limited purposes. The efforts used to maintain such secrecy have always been more than reasonable under the circumstances including, but not limited to, storage in locked cabinets in locked rooms with access permitted only to select Scientology parishioners who have met stringent requirements, transport of any portion of the materials only in locked briefcases, the presence of security personnel and the execution of written confidentiality agreements. 13. RTC derives independent economic value, actual and potential, from the Advanced Technology, which is secret and of considerable value. RTC receives from the advanced Churches of Scientology which are licensed by RTC to use the Advanced Technology licensing fees equal to six (6) percent of the income received for delivery of Advanced Technology services. These licensing fees provide substantial financial support for RTC's operations. B. Defendant's Violations of Plaintiffs Rights 14. On March 29, 1996, this Court, the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, United States District Judge, presiding, stated that he would issue a preliminary injunction against the defendant in the case encaptioned Religious Technology Center v. Grady Ward, and assigned case number 96-20207 RMW (the "Ward case"). That injunction was issued by the Court on April 1, 1996, in response, inter alia, to plaintiffs showing that the defendant in the Ward case had made postings of RTC's copyrighted and trade secret material, was threatening additional postings of a similar, unlawful nature, and had solicited public assistance in that enterprise by soliciting copies of plaintiff's proprietary materials from anyone in possession thereof. The Court announced in open court that a preliminary injunction would issue in a proceeding at which defendant Henson was present. Henson--with no prior relationship whatsoever to either RTC or Scientology--thereupon set out to duplicate the very conduct that justified the injunction against the defendant in the Ward case, justifying his conduct and intended conduct on the grounds that the Court's order did not apply to his own actions, and that in his view, the plaintiff is not entitled to exercise the very intellectual property rights underlying the preliminary injunction issued in the Ward case. 15. On or about March 30, 1996, Henson infringed RTC's copyrights in the Work listed in Exhibit A by reproducing this Work in its entirety and by electronically displaying or distributing it on the Internet. Henson titled his electronic display or posting, "An Open Letter to Judge Whyte," and stated in the posting that he had read, in its entirety, the Temporary Restraining Order issued by this Court on March 21, 1996 in the Ward case against Grady Ward, "his officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and to those persons in active concert or participation with him." A true and correct copy of the Temporary Restraining Order is attached hereto as Exhibit G. The Temporary Restraining Order plainly prohibited the displaying or distribution on the Internet of a series of plaintiff's Works, including the Work displayed by Henson. In that posting, he also solicited copies of the Exhibit B Works to be sent to him. 16. On March 30, 1996, counsel for RTC notified Henson, via electronic mail, that he had violated RTC's copyright and trade secret rights and the Court's Temporary Restraining Order by posting the Exhibit A Work and soliciting the Exhibit B Works, and demanded that Henson "cease and desist from any and all further posting, reproduction, display, distribution, solicitation or acquisition" of the Work or any of the Advanced Technology works of the Scientology religion. 17. Henson responded to RTC's notice and cease and desist demand by: a. Telling RTC's counsel that she could "take your demand, fold it till it is all corners, and stick it where 'the Sun don't shine.' b. Reposting the Work identified in Exhibit A on the Internet; c. Soliciting additional copies of the Exhibit B Works "acquired by legal, or *illegal* means" from any and all readers on the Internet; d. Threatening to post some or all of these Works to the Internet. A true and correct copy of Mr. Henson's communication to counsel is attached hereto as Exhibit H. 18. No one has access to the Works without permission from plaintiff or unless they were obtained through illicit means. As the only way the Exhibit A and B Works have ever left authorized possession was through theft, Henson could only have obtained copies of these materials by having received stolen property or the fruits thereof from another. 19. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Henson has copied and/or induced others to copy and has wrongfully acquired and now threatens to and intends imminently to post to the Internet the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, in whole or in part, thereby causing serious, irreparable harm to RTC's copyright and trade secret rights, if not immediately restrained from doing so. The prayer for interlocutory relief below relates to the Works in Exhibit B only. 20. As a result of the foregoing, Henson has reproduced, displayed, and distributed RTC's Work listed on Exhibit A, all without the authorization of plaintiff. Henson has thereby infringed RTC's copyrights to the Exhibit A Work and, on information and belief, is threatening to misappropriate RTC's trade secrets and to infringe its copyrights in the Exhibit B Works. 21. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed on Exhibits A and B had been acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain their secrecy. 22. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges that, at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed in Exhibit B had been acquired from or through a person who owed a duty to plaintiff to maintain their secrecy. 23. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges that, at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed in Exhibit B had been obtained through improper means. 24. All copying and actual or attempted acquisition of the Works listed in Exhibits A and B has been unauthorized and constitutes or threatens copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation, and the electronic display or distribution of the Work listed in Exhibit A has been unauthorized and constitutes wilful copyright infringement. 25. Upon information and belief, defendant has caused and/or induced others to participate in the aforesaid and threatened infringements and violations of plaintiffs rights, has provided the means and instrumentalities for doing so, has actively participated in the aforesaid and threatened infringements and violations, has the right, opportunity and means to supervise and control such activities and has exercised the same to plaintiffs severe detriment, and will continue to do so and has derived and will derive direct and indirect benefits from all of the foregoing activities, which defendant has engaged in knowingly, wilfully and with the intent to injure plaintiff and irreparably impair its rights. 26. Unless restrained by this Court, defendant will continue to engage in the acts complained of herein and will carry out the threatened acts complained of herein, and RTC will incur irreparable injury, for which there is no adequate remedy at law. 27. As a direct and proximate result of the foregoing acts of defendant, plaintiff has suffered and will suffer damages in an amount which cannot now be ascertained or computed. FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Declaratory Judgment of Copyright Infringement 17 U.S.C. ' 101 et seq. and 28 U.S.C. ' 2201(a)) 28. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 27 above as though set forth fully herein. 29. The Works are protected under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. '' 101 et seq. 30. An actual case or controversy has arisen in which plaintiff contends that defendant has recently solicited and engaged in making unauthorized copies of RTC's copyrighted, unpublished Works and has also been threatening the posting of the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, which threat is real, imminent, and likely to be carried out. 31. In light of defendant's pattern of behavior and his current activities, plaintiff contends defendant intends imminently to engage in massive infringements of RTC's copyrighted, unpublished Works listed in Exhibit B hereto and that, based upon the facts relevant hereto, plaintiff entertains a real and reasonable apprehension of infringement. 32. The acts, including the threatened acts set forth in paragraphs 1, 15, 17, 19, and 25 above are imminent and do and will infringe RTC's exclusive rights, inter alia to publish, reproduce, display, and distribute the unpublished Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, all in violation of RTC's exclusive copyrights under 17 U.S.C. ' 106. Such acts constitute copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501; and wilful copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 504. 33. RTC seeks, pursuant to Rule 57 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a declaratory judgment that defendant has no right to engage in any such reproduction, distribution, display or other exploitation, by any means, of RTC's copyrighted unpublished Works set forth in Exhibit B, that plaintiff never authorized defendant to do so, but instead, repeatedly notified defendant that such acts would constitute, inter alia copyright infringement and that such acts, separately and together, constitute wilful copyright infringement of the Works set forth in Exhibit B pursuant to 17 U.S.C. '501, et seq. SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Copyright Infringement of Unpublished Works 17 U.S.C. '' 101 et seq.) 34. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 27 and 29 through 33 above as though set forth fully herein. 35. The foregoing acts of defendant, as undertaken and threatened, infringe plaintiffs exclusive rights, inter alia, to publish, reproduce, distribute and display the Works listed in Exhibits A and B hereto, all in violation of plaintiffs ] exclusive copyrights under 17 U.S.C. ' 106. Such acts constitute copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501 and have contributed to infringement by others. 36. Defendant's unlawful acts set forth above constitute wilful copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 504. THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Misappropriation of Trade Secrets) 37. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations in paragraphs 1 through 27 above as though set forth fully herein. 38. By his aforesaid acts, defendant has wrongfully acquired, or is about to, and threatens imminently to disclose, all without authorization, confidential, trade secret information constituting portions of the Advanced Technology that are contained in the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto. 39. Defendant's acts, as undertaken and threatened, as aforesaid, were and are done with full knowledge that the Works contain confidential trade secrets information, and with intent to destroy that property interest in confidential information. 40. By his aforesaid acts as undertaken and threatened, defendant has misappropriated and threatens to further misappropriate RTC's trade secrets in violation of RTC's rights under California law, California Civil Code ' 3426.1 et seq. WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays for the entry of judgment against defendant as follows: 1. ON THE FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF: For a declaratory judgment in favor of RTC and against defendant that any publication, reproduction, derivation, distribution, display or performance of the Exhibit B Works by defendant constitutes copyright infringement, entitling RTC, inter alia to temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, to actual damages, a disgorgement of profits, and in lieu of such monetary remedies, should plaintiff so elect, for statutory damages for wilful infringement. 2. ON THE FIRST AND SECOND CLAIMS FOR RELIEF: (a) For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined from directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, publishing, reproducing, distributing, performing, or creating derivative works based upon, during the pendency of this action, the Exhibit B Works, or any of them, and permanently thereafter, any of the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard including, but not limited to, the Works identified in Exhibits A and/or B, in any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, and in particular, from engaging in any such acts in, on, or in connection with any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility, including, without limitation, the transmitting or loading of any such materials onto, or downloading any copies thereof from any such device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied onto any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; 3. ON THE SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF: (a) For an order impounding all copies made or used in violation of RTC's exclusive rights, and of all plates, molds, matrices, masters, tapes, film negatives, or other articles in any media, electronic or otherwise, by means of which such copies may be reproduced including but not limited to all such copies and articles located in any so-called "off-site" storage areas, electronic or otherwise; (b) For an award of plaintiff's attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 17 U.S.C. '505. (c) For an award of damages to plaintiff against defendant, according to proof at trial, and for all gains, profits and advantages directly or indirectly derived by defendant from his infringement of the copyrights of plaintiff in the Works; or in lieu thereof, should plaintiff so elect, for an award of statutory damages to plaintiff under 17 U.S~C. ' 504(c) (l) of $100,000.00 for each of the Works infringed by defendant, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. ' 504(c)(2); and 4. ON THE THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF; (a) For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined: (1) directly or indirectly, from engaging in the further unauthorized disclosure, or display of the Exhibit B Works (excluding only NOTs series 1, 24, 34, 35 and 42, which are also the subject of other pending litigation), during the pendency of this action, and permanently of the Exhibit B Works, or portions thereof, and specifically from disclosing, displaying, transmitting or otherwise loading any of those Works, or portions thereof, in any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, or onto any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied onto any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; (2) directly or indirectly, from engaging in the further unauthorized solicitation and/or acquirement, during the pendency of this action and permanently of the Exhibit B, and specifically from soliciting, acquiring, seeking to acquire, or otherwise downloading any of the Exhibit B Works, or portions thereof, from any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, or from any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied from any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; (b) For an order directing defendant, and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, to return immediately to counsel of record herein for plaintiff Religious Technology Center all documents in their possession, custody or control (including but not limited to those documents located in any so-called "off-site" storage facility, electronic or otherwise) that contain any of the Advanced Technology; and (c) For an award of attorney fees under California Civil Code ' 3426.4. 5. ON THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CLAIMS FOR RELIEF: For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined from: (a) directly or indirectly destroying, altering or concealing, or in any way disposing of, any reproduction, copy, facsimile, excerpt, or derivative of any work of L. Ron Hubbard that is in defendant's possession, custody or control, in whole or in part, including, but not limited to, those materials located in any so-called "off-site" storage areas, electronic or otherwise, or otherwise despoiling or causing the despoliation, or alteration of any evidence, in whole or in part, in any form, place or media relating to defendant's conduct complained of in this action; and (b) causing or inducing any other person to engage in any of the foregoing prohibited acts; and, (c) filing with the Court, except under seal, any documents that contain any of the Advanced Technology. 6. For such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. DATED: April 4, 1996 Thomas R. Hogan LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS R. HOGAN Roger M. Milgrim William M. Hart PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER -and- Helena Kobrin Attorneys for Plaintiff RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ----------------------------------------- 6. Bite Me RTC: Grady Ward's Response to the Request for Production of Documents And Things > Grady Ward > In Pro Se > 3449 Martha Ct. > Arcata, CA 95521-4884 > grady@northcoast.com > http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html > > UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT > FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA > > RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a ) No. C 96-20207 > California non-profit corporation, ) > ) OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES > Plaintiff, ) TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION > ) OF DOCUMENTS AND THINGS; > v. ) ACKNOWLEDGE NOTICE OF > ) DEPOSITION > GRADY WARD ) > ) > Defendant. ) > ____________________________________) > > TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: > > PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to written stipulation, Rule 30 of > the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Court's order, plaintiff > RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER does hereby notice the deposition of GRADY > WARD to be taken at Crnich Deposition located at 626 "H" Street, > Eureka, California 95501, commencing at 9:00 a.m. on April 8, 1996, > and continuing from day to day thereafter, as approved by the Court, > excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays, until completed before a > notary public authorized to administer the oath. The deposition will > be recorded stenographically and may be recorded by sound and > visually. > > ACKNOWLEDGE AS PER COMPROMISE WITH JUDGE WHYTE THAT DEPOSITION WILL BE > LIMITED TO ONE EIGHT HOUR SESSION, WITH AND ADDITIONAL HOUR GRANTED > BECAUSE OF EUREKA LOCATION. THIS TIME MAY BE DIVIDED OVER TWO DAYS IN > ANY PROPORTION DESIRED BY PLAINTIFF. > > PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT Mr. Ward is hereby requested, pursuant > to Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, written > stipulation, and the Court's order, to > > produce at the Law Offices of Thomas R. Hogan, Esq., 60 South Market > Street, Suite 1125, San Jose, California 95113, on April 6, 1996, or > as otherwise specified herein, the documents > > and things requested in Exhibit A attached hereto which are in the > possession, custody, or control of Mr. Ward. Should the deposition be > postponed for any reason, you will remain obligated to produce > documents on this date. > > UNCONTESTED DOCUMENTS AND THINGS WILL BE PRESENTED FRIDAY, APRIL 5, > 1996 IN ARCATA, CALIFORNIA AS ARRANGED BY PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT. > > Dated: April 4, 1996 > > Grady Ward > > In Pro Se > > ___________________________________ > > DOCUMENTS AND THINGS TO BE PRODUCED > > 1. All copies of the OT III documents which were posted to the > Internet in or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto > as Exhibit 1. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 2. All copies of NED for OTs Series 1 which was posted to the Internet > in or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto as Exhibit > 2. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 3. Any and all documents relating to posting, reproduction, > distribution, or display of works of L. Ron Hubbard, including but not > limited to, the Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 4. Any and all documents relating to your solicitation from others of > copies of works of L. Ron Hubbard, including but not limited to, the > Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 5. All documents which you have received as a result of your > solicitation of NOTs materials, OT materials, or other Scientology > materials. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 6. All documents relating to posting of Scientology materials on the > Internet, including without limitation, ftp sites, web sites, or > newsgroups. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 7. Any and all documents relating to acquisition of any Advanced > Technology documents. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 8. Any and all document relating to the identify of any individual who > has posted any of the Advanced Technology to the Internet, either > under that person's own name or via an anonymous remailer. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 9. Any and all documents relating to postings made by you, whether > under you own name, a pseudonym, or anonymously to the USENET > newsgroups entitled alt.religion.scientology, alt.2600, alt.activism, > comp.org.eff.talk, or any other newsgroup relating to the Advanced > Technology. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 10. Any and all documents relating to the posting of Advanced > Technology documents to the USENET newsgroup entitled > alt.religion.scientology, including, without limitation, copies of > such postings or discussions of such postings, whether actual or > planned. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 11. Any and all documents relating to postings of Advanced Technology > materials, including, but not limited to, actual postings or > discussions of such postings, whether actual or planned, made through > the following servers: > > a. freezone.remailer > > b. nately.ucsd.edu > > c. penet.fi > > d. replay.comm > > e. utopia.backtic.nl > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 12. All documents relating to communications between you and anyone > regarding your posting of works by or alleged to be by L. Ron Hubbard, > whether under your own name, a pseudonym, or anonymously, including, > but not limited to, discussions prior to or following such postings. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 13. Any and all documents relating to communications with the > following individuals relating to the Advanced Technology: > > a. Alex DeJoode > > b. Dennis Erlich > > c. Steven Fishman > > d. Johan Helsingius > > e. Jeff Jacobsen > > f. Keith Henson > > g. Tom Klemesrud > > h. Arnaldo Lerma > > i. Peter Mante > > j. Ron Neuman > > k. Robert Penny > > l. Felipe Rodriquez > > m. Karin Spaink > > n. Shelly Thomson > > o. David Touretzky > > p. Lawrence Wollersheim > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF 18 U.S.C. 2700, et sqq. (E.C.P.A.) > > 14. All documents showing the name, address, and/or telephone number > of anyone to whom you have sent Advanced Technology materials, whether > in hard copy or electronic form. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 15. All documents showing the name, address, and/or telephone number > of anyone who has sent Advanced Technology materials to you, whether > in hard copy or electronic form. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 16. All documents sent to you by Arnaldo Lerma related to the Advanced > Technology, including, but not limited to, transmissions or > discussions of such documents. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 17. Any and all documents relating to the licensing or customer > agreement between you and any Internet access provider. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE; any event it would be identical to > the customer agreement currently in force as on file with the > provider. > > 18. Any and all documents regarding Netcom On-Line Communication > Services, Inc. or any other Internet access provider warning you > regarding the posting of copyrighted materials on the Internet or any > other activity by you through that access provider's facilities. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 19. Any and all documents relating to Netcom On-Line Communication > Services, Inc. or any other Internet access provider taking > disciplinary action against you regarding the posting of copyrighted > materials on the Internet or any other activity by you through that > access provider's facilities. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 20. Any and all documents relating to Scamizdat, including, without > limitation, persons in active concert or participation with Scamizdat, > acting on its behalf, or controlling its activities. > > WILL PROVIDE GROUP INDICES TO USENET VIEWING APPLICATION, possible > e-mails OBJECT BECAUSE OF 18 U.S.C. 2700, et sqq. (E.C.P.A.), for all > other categories, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED. > > 21. Any and all documents relating to postings by Scamizdat on the > Internet, including, without limitation, the posting themselves, > predictions of such postings, and references to Scamizdat. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 22. All documents relating to the First Electronic Church of > SCAMIZDAT. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 23. All documents on which you based your posting of August 1, 1995 > which stated that "SCAMIZDAT #10 is going to post the complete Fishman > appendices, including all the OT levels I-VIII." > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 24. All documents upon which you based your "suspicions," as > referenced in The Recorder of March 25, 1996, about the identity of > SCAMIZDAT. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 25. Any and all documents relating to confidentiality agreements > pertaining to the Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 26. All documents relating to communications you have received from or > sent to any representative of Religious Technology Center or any > Church of Scientology, including any attorney acting on their behalf. > > WILL PROVIDE "Lanham Act" LETTER; "Service" LETTER > > 27. All documents relating to your attempts to discredit Helena Kobrin > as an attorney acting on behalf of Religious Technology Center in > protecting its intellectual property rights. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF QUESTION and, without > prejudice to the first objection, OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 28. All documents relating to telephone records from July 1, 1994 to > the present. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 29. All documents concerning the use by you, or anyone acting directly > or indirectly under your control or in concert or participation with > you, of storage facilities away from your primary residence. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 30. All documents discussing your scanning of any writings by L. Ron > Hubbard, including, but not limited to, Advanced Technology materials, > books, policy letters, bulletins, and transcripts of any audio or > video taped materials, or any other materials related to the Church of > Scientology, on your computer. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 31. All documents relating to software programs which you have created > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmissions or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > WILL PROVIDE LEXICON SOFTWARE; otherwise, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 32. All documents relating to software programs which you use > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmission or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > COMPUTER MANUALS, BOTH ELECTRONIC AND PAPER WILL BE PROVIDED ON > FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN > CONVERSATION > > 33. All documents relating to any works which you have written > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmission or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > LEXICON MATERIAL PROVIDED AS PART OF 31.; otherwise NO DOCUMENTS > POSSESSED > > 34. All shredders. > > TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, > 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION > > 35. All scanning equipment. > > TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, > 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION > > 36. All locks which you place on any cabinet or other container in > which you have placed Scientology materials. > > NONE SATISFY REQUEST > > 37. All documents relating to procedures for shredding documents, > either hard copy or in electronic form. > > EXCEPT FOR USER'S MANUAL, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED ----------------------------------------- 7. **Biased Journalism** MAKES HIT LIST The publisher of **Biased Journalism** wrote the following letter to Judge Whyte: Shelley Thomson 236 Stanford S/C, Suite 142 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Hon. Ronald M. Whyte, Federal Judge Northern District of California San Jose, CA April 4, 1996 No. C 96-20207 RMW Hand Delivered Letter to Judge Whyte Dear Judge Whyte: I am the publisher of **Biased Journalism**, a news/humor magazine covering issues of interest to citizens of cyberspace. Among other events the Journal has covered a series of hearings now taking place in your courtroom. I was shocked to see my name on the list of documents demanded by Plaintiffs from Mr. Ward. The relevant selection from the Notice of Deposition of Defendant Grady Ward and Request for Production of Documents And Things is the following: >13. Any and all documents relating to communications with the following >individuals relating to the Advanced Technology: >a. Alex DeJoode >b. Dennis Erlich >c. Steven Fishman >d. Johan Helsingius >e. Jeff Jacobsen >f. Keith Henson >g. Tom Klemesrud >h. Arnaldo Lerma >i. Peter Mante >j. Ron Neuman >k. Robert Penny >l. Felipe Rodriquez >m. Karin Spaink >n. Shelly Thomson *** >o. David Touretzky >p. Lawrence Wollersheim **Biased Journalism** has carried many stories about scientology. As a journalist, I strongly protest the inclusion of my name on this list. The exposure of my private communication would have an extreme chilling effect upon my ability to gather and publish news. It is an infringement of my rights under the First Amendment. Moreover, it might expose third parties to harm. With reference to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (section 2700-2707 of Title 18 USC), it is my understanding that lawful access to stored electronic communications requires a warrant or a court order. Even if the ECPA were disregarded, I suggest to Your Honor that the right to privacy of Mr. Ward's correspondents should be protected. I believe that at minimum, Plaintiffs should be required to show cause for their request for each person's correspondence individually. I request such a hearing on my own behalf, so that I may explain to the court why my correspondence with Grady Ward should not be delivered to the Plaintiffs. Sincerely yours, Shelley Thomson publisher, **Biased Journalism** The Judge has not replied. The End From noring@netcom.com Sat May 11 21:15:22 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:11526 misc.int-property:389 misc.legal.computing:1663 Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.journalism,alt.news-media,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.religion.scientology,alt.society.civil-liberty,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.int-property,misc.legal.computing Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!dragon.solect.com!tor-nn1.netcom.ca!ix.netcom.com!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!noring From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) Subject: NEWSFLASH: Remaining Scientology Secret Scriptures Posted to Usenet Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 15:29:33 GMT Lines: 114 Sender: noring@netcom22.netcom.com [Carefully note that followup discussion has been set to the newsgroups alt.religion.scientology and comp.org.eff.talk, so subscribe accordingly if you are at all interested in following this thread.] Last last week, a series of anonymous postings were made to the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. Contained in these postings were the complete NOTS materials (NEDs for OTs), the last remaining, and highest level, secret materials ("scriptures") of the Church of Scientology (CoS). Late last year, the OT materials, a related set of high-level secret "scriptures" were similarly posted to Usenet. This action destroyed what was left of CoS' claims the OT materials were "trade secret" and may have cast doubt on the validity of the copyrights to some of them. Copies of the Fishman affidavit, a Federal court document which includes the OT materials as exhibits, can be read via several Web sites in the Netherlands, where the Dutch courts ruled earlier this year the Fishman affidavit could be maintained on Web pages there. The court ruling is being appealed by CoS and even if CoS gets the ruling overturned (unlikely), the trade secret status of the OT materials is all but lost, with ramifications for ongoing litigation here in the U.S. between CoS and several critics. The NOTS are considered even higher level than the OT materials, and CoS has gone through extraordinary lengths to try to suppress their dissemination on the Internet. In the last few months, Ms. Helena Kobrin, a Scientology attorney representing the Religious Technology Center, who defends the intellectual property rights to all the AT ("Advanced Technology") materials for the owner, the Church of Spiritual Technology, legally threatened any person who simply posted a *request* to purchase a *legal* copy of the NOTS materials! Her threats enraged the Internet community, and probably led someone who happened to possess the NOTS to scan and anonymously post them in order to end the egregious and unwarranted harassment of ordinary users. What is interesting about both the OT and the NOTS materials is that they are, as a whole, quite boring, even though there are a few glimmers of "excitement" here and there, such as in OT3 which depicts a "space opera" (Xenu, the Marcabs, hydrogen bombs, etc.) and in the OT8 (which CoS disputes is a forgery) which says that Jesus was a pederast. However, the value of these materials to CoS is obviously monetary; for a person to advance to these levels requires them paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or serving as a slave to the organization for many years. This is in contradiction to nearly all legitimate religions which essentially teach their spiritual "truths" for free or for a very nominal fee to cover expenses. The ramifications to CoS are obvious if their "secret" AT materials are disseminated and commented upon in public. Thus, it is clear by CoS' actions, as well as comments from former high- level Scientologists, that (from CoS' perspective) the posting of the NOTS is a disaster of the first magnitude, comparable to the impact on the tobacco industry by the recent leak of the "tobacco papers", and the impact on the Federal Government by the leak of the "Pentagon papers" during the Vietnam War. Following the posting of the NOTS, the infamous "CancelBunny" appeared, a throwaway account at Netcom used to cancel the NOTS posts (such cancellation is probably a violation of Federal Law). Thus, the NOTS postings have been cancelled and are no longer available at many sites except at those sites which do not honor cancels. However, if past experience with the OT levels is any indication, the NOTS might be reposted over and over again to minimize the actions of the "CancelBunny." No doubt tens of thousands of copies of the NOTS have already been downloaded and are sitting on computers all around the world. Pandora's box has been opened and public access and commentary of the NOTS in the public interest can no longer be stifled. The next few days and weeks should be watched very closely. It has been predicted that the anonymous remailers in the Netherlands (through which the NOTS were posted) may be put under extraordinary legal pressure to try to shut them down since they are the easiest means for a person to anonymously repost the NOTS (which CoS is deathly afraid of). Also look for CoS to get a court order to access the logs/records for all anonymous remailers in the U.S. in the hope (a long shot at best) of finding the person who posted the NOTS (they may have used a chain of remailers to post the NOTS), and possibly to help with discovery in other related litigation they are now involved in. Another benefit of such a court order is that it simply puts more pressure on anonymous remailers, and may cause many of them to simply "throw in the towel." It's also been suggested that CoS may accelerate their long-anticipated filing of a RICO suit against scores of net.critics, attornies, journalists (such as Leiby at the Washington Post) and other non-net.critics. The hope behind this RICO suit, which will ultimately fail since it has absolutely no merit, is that it will shut down, even if temporarily, critical discussion of CoS on the Internet. CoS has shown themselves by their actions to be a paranoid and schizophrenic organization who cannot tolerate or ignore even one word of criticism. I urge everybody reading this post to become familiar with what is occuring and to keep a close eye on events. Ron Newman maintains a wonderful Web page describing what's happened in the Scientology vs. Internet war in the last 18 months, and has links to many other sites, including Scientology's (while Scientology refuses to link to Ron's page in a show of good faith). It will give a good background as to what is currently happening. The URL to Ron's page is: http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html The integrity of the anonymous remailers, an important component of cyber liberties, is being gravely threatened. And many people on the Internet who are exercising their Freedom of Speech to comment and criticize the Church of Scientology may come under severe attack -- if CoS can get away with this, then other groups who also cannot tolerate any criticism or public exposure will be encouraged to follow in CoS' footsteps, with grave ramifications to the integrity of our net.freedoms. I urge the Internet community to closely monitor the unfolding events and to become active should CoS overstep the bounds of accepted decency and attempt to bully their way around the Internet. Read Ron's Web page, read the Usenet newsgroup 'alt.religion.scientology'. Become involved! Jon Noring -- OmniMedia Electronic Books | URL: http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia 9671 S. 1600 West St. | Anonymous FTP: South Jordan, UT 84095 | ftp.awa.com /pub/softlock/pc/products/OmniMedia 801-253-4037 | E-mail: omnimedia@netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the Electronic Books Mailing List (EBOOK-List) Today! Just send e-mail to majordomo@aros.net, and put the following line in the body of the message: subscribe ebook-list From zthomas@pacific.telebyte.net Sat May 11 21:19:12 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:9928 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news3.idirect.com!news2.toronto.istar.net!news3.ottawa.istar.net!istar.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.telebyte.net!usenet From: zthomas@pacific.telebyte.net (Zane Thomas) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: NOTS SOLICITATION Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 06:04:57 GMT Organization: Telebyte North West Silverdale, Wa Lines: 26 Message-ID: <318af2a5.17966079@news.telebyte.net> References: <4mbp3e$4na@news.aimnet.com> <31897B1C.25E5@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.53.162.222 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Ed, Further reading for you: http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/sci_index.html http://mail.bris.ac.uk/~plmlp/scum.html http://www.snafu.de/~tilman http://www.primenet.com/~lippard http://amazing.cinenet.net/scientology.html http://users.aimnet.com/~jdiver/scieno.htm http://www.tezcat.com/~tina/pages.me/sci/ http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~sgoehrin/scientology/home.html http://www.algonet.se/~teodor/cult/welcome.htm http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/ http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/CoS_v_the_Net/ http://www.webcom.com/~dtobias/sosueme.html http://www.well.com/user/jerod23/clam.html http://www.demon.co.uk/castle/scientology.html http://home.pacific.net.sg/~marina/welcome.htm To name a few. Should I go on? Zane --- Taking out the trash. From Koos.Trenite@trenite.de Sat May 11 21:22:25 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:9853 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news3.idirect.com!news2.toronto.istar.net!news3.ottawa.istar.net!istar.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!trenite.easynet.de From: Koos Nolst Trenite Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: RI-280i How Tyrant L. Ron Hubbard Thinks He Aids Survival Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 15:25:34 GMT Organization: trenite.de Lines: 443 Message-ID: <199605021619.RAA06429@hera.easynet.de> Reply-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-NNTP-Posting-Host: trenite.easynet.de X-Broken-Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 17:18:19 +1:00 Comments: Authenticated sender is X-Confirm-Reading-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-pmrqc: 1 Return-receipt-to: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) X-Mail2News-Path: hera.easynet.de!trenite.easynet.de 5 October 1995 issued on 26 April 1996 RI-280i 'How Tyrant L. Ron Hubbard Thinks He Aids Survival' from Ambassador for Mankind (Ron's Inspector) Message # RI-280i for Internet Confessional on L. Ron Hubbard, on 5 October 1995, 10:31 GMT, ordered by Ambassador for Mankind. (Reported per HCOPL 'Confessionals - Ethics Reports Required') [Auditor:] How would 'BEING A TYRANT' aid your own survival? F [LRH:] "It's a very irrational aberrated computation that 'being a tyrant' aids own survival. "In an aberrated way it is supposed to aid survival: >I will not be slowed down by others who do not grasp what I want and why [I want it] and what the use of it is. I ORDER them to do it!< >I do not have to listen to their considerations or problems with or about doing what I want to have done, I do not have to figure out: How is HE thinking? WHAT is a problem? How do I understand another? How do I make another understand me?< "As a tyrant, >I issue orders, and that's it!< >And I will be very evil and punish everyone around, if my order is not executed.< ">I will never have a team that I can rely on. I will never have a team that shares my goal. I have to push them again and again that they do what I want.< [Note by Koos: In order to "solve" this, LRH created the Sea Org.] "I will have made people into MEST [material things]. MEST only moves when pushed or otherwise acted upon and stops [its] motion as soon as not pushed anymore. LFBD "But it does not aid survival (not mine nor others) to live amongst people who have no ARC [Affinity, Reality, Communication] for life, who have given up considering that it's THEIR life too, and who have become apathetic about OWNING anything in life. [Note by Koos: This IS the Sea Org.] "They wouldn't do anything with [out of, because of own] responsibility. "And they would do it badly, because they wouldn't want to really do it, what the tyrant orders them to do. LFBD "So the tyrant, who does not want to listen to the interests, wishes, problems, goals, ARCX's [upsets], of those he dominates and orders around, is very badly served by them. "They do not aid his survival, although it might seem that he is very successful in getting compliance and his intentions executed. [Note by Koos: The Sea Org, and Miscavige and his RTC, were supposed to be very successful in getting compliance for LRH and in getting his intentions executed. In fact they destroyed LRH, and destroyed most of the CofS.] "A tyrant wants to destroy life - and, that destroys him too. "He is really forcing others to destroy him." LFBD (see RI-288i 'The Main Evil Purpose' of 15 Oct 95, on how LRH forced others to destroy him. [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' hinder the survival of others? [LRH:] "A tyrant does not include in his computations the survival of others. "He destroys, and he forces others to destroy, survival. "They want to stop him from doing that, if they are not yet completely apathetic. He punishes them for THAT, and this hinders their survival." LFBD [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' hinder the survival of others? [LRH:] "If I would shut someone up who wants to give me survival advice, this would hinder the survival of others. "Or if I would otherwise punish him for that, or destroy his life, or take his possessions away, or destroy his comm lines, or throw him out of the group or country, or any other destructive punishment, this will hinder the survival of him and others. [Note by Koos: This is the Guardian Office, and later the OSA and RTC at their daily work, covered up by an "International Justice Chief" and "Ethics".] "It wouldn't aid my own survival either. LFBD "I have done this to Koos. LFBD "Suppressive Persons from the former Guardian Office have done this to Koos. "AOSHEU [Copenhagen] Suppressive Persons have done it to Koos, and have pulled in others to be evil. LFBD "Koos's Ethics Reports have been stamped to be 'natter [destructive criticism] and enturbulation'. "And when he insisted in keeping his reports up, the Ethics Reports were stamped to have been made out of suppressive intention and he was declared suppressive. "That's the action of a tyrant." LFBD [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' hinder the survival of others? [LRH:] "One characteristic of a tyrant is to react heavily when someone wants to 'put his ethics in' [bring him back towards a survival course of action], when someone points out a non-survival intention or action. LFBD "He [the tyrant] SHOULD duplicate and understand what was said and the intention with it. "He [the tyrant] SHOULD thank the person who communicated to him about how he could improve his ethics. "But what does a tyrant do? "He wants to destroy the communication, he wants to destroy the one who communicates. LFBD [Note by Koos: This is what LRH has done and is doing continuously right up to this minute.] "In Scientology Organizations, Knowledge Reports SHOULD be taken up immediately locally and handled satisfactorily - that is, so that ARC [understanding] is established and life can go on: a student continuing his course, a PC continuing his auditing, a staff producing on post again. "THIS is survival - and not the felony of rejecting communication and punishing someone for communicating." LFBD [Note by Koos: But the 'STANDARD' 'NORMAL' way of operating in Scientology Organizations since 1966, is, to reject and punish.] [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' aid your own survival? [LRH:] "As a tyrant I can enforce to be right. LFBD "Then he IS right and it's AGREED that he is right. "It's agreed under heavy duress, but the tyrant doesn't mind. As long as he is CONSIDERED to be right and as long as no one dares to say the opposite. "The tyrant CAN'T evaluate himself as having been wrong or being wrong. "He HAS to be right compulsively. And, he thinks, if he admits being wrong, he will lose ALL respect. [Note by Koos: This is the current state of mind of the being L. Ron Hubbard. When I issued the official expulsion of LRH from Scientology, on 17 April 1996, he considered himself near extinction as a being.] "How much [respect] did he have to begin with? "He thinks that he will be punished for being wrong, that he will be thrown out, deserted, because he assumes others handle life [in the SAME way] as HE does." LFBD's [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' aid your own survival? [LRH:] "At times it might be assisting survival to PLAY being a tyrant, so that someone, whom I want to [get to] do something, is 'getting it that I really mean it'. "That's a bit a via and in a sense dangerous because it can restimulate too much case [evil intentions], like: having been a tyrant, having been subjected to tyranny, having been made into a slave, having committed overts [crimes] on those Flows [of being cause or effect of something]. "And I might get, instead of a sudden readiness to act, from the person, a complete unwillingness to act for fear of committing overts again. "Much better is just plain TONE[Level-]40: 'Intention without reservation'. Also for your own sake. Why play tyrant, when you can as well be also yourself? LFBD "AND PLAYING A TYRANT TO GET EASIER COMPLIANCE WITH YOUR ORDERS, CAN PRETTY MUCH HANG YOU UP LFBD IN ANOTHER VALENCE [identity] OR IN AN OLD VALENCE [identity] OF YOURS." LFBD [Emphasis added] [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' aid your own survival? [LRH:] ">I wouldn't have to change anything.< F ">I could go on using the same old solutions.< ">I could be stubborn to be right.< [Note by Koos: This is called "Keeping Scientology Working", by LRH, since 1965.] "I could insist that this aids my survival, which it doesn't. "'Being a tyrant' keeps somebody fixed on himself, a self-centered idiot who demands all attention and gives none. LFBD "Unless he has some ARC [Affinity, Reality, Communication], and then increased ARC for an increased number of Dynamics [areas of life], he will stay dominated, and [by] trying to escape domination he will dominate others. "A tyrant is the most dominated, unfree, being there is! But that doesn't hinder him from dominating others." [Note by Koos: LRH is currently dominated by having to insist that all he wrote and did was right, by needing a tremendous amount of admiration to confirm that all he did and wrote was right, and by having to squash or destroy anyone who exposes the things in which he was not right.] [Auditor:] How would 'being a Tyrant' aid your own survival? "As a tyrant I would answer: >it helps me to not be slave<. LFBD As if there were only two possibilities: either slave or tyrant. (see RI-543i 'Dictators' of 22 July 1994, issued as RI-543i on 2 May 1996) ">As a tyrant I can't be made into a slave. No one would dare!< "But the poor guy can't even sit and listen to his fellowmen, and make plans which involve THEIR survival, THEIR interests, THEIR likings, THEIR best. "It doesn't aid my survival, it doesn't aid anyone else's survival to be a tyrant, or let someone else be a tyrant! LFBD "Also, it's the opposite of what I want to achieve with Dianetics and Scientology. [Note by Koos: He means, but does not dare, to say: "It's the opposite of what I wanted originally to achieve with Dianetics and Scientology, before 1966."] LFBD-F/Nind L. Ron Hubbard" This tyranny is precisely what L. Ron Hubbard has been doing since he went Clear himself, since August 1965. He refuses to admit it, though, which resulted in his Expulsion from Scientology on 21 March 1996, made official per RI-538i 'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn' of 17 Apr 1996 Total session time: 02:58 min Highly specialized LRH OT HCO Sec Check Auditing at 1,400 US $ per hour, makes 4,153 US $ total cost. (The abbreviations F(Fall), LF(Long Fall), LFBD(Long Fall Blow Down) and F/N(Floating Needle) designate reactions on the E-meter, indicating mental charge (F, LF, LFBD) and release of charge completed (F/N). "LFBD-F/N" = truth found out. "ind" = indicated to the person) Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind Copyright 1995, 1996 by Koos Nolst Trenite references: RI-278i 'How Tyrant L. Ron Hubbard is "Right"' of 3 Oct 95 RI-278i-A'How Tyrant L. Ron Hubbard is more "Right"' 4 Oct 95 RI-279i 'How Tyrant L. Ron Hubbard Dominates Others' 4 Oct 95 RI-281i 'How LRH could make up for his tyranny' of 7 Oct 1995 RI-538i 'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn' 17 Apr 96 RI-538i-A'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn - Add' 29 Apr 96 RI-538i-B'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn - Add B' 29 Apr 96 RI-302i 'More Suppressive Acts of L. Ron Hubbard' 20 Oct 1996 RI-303i 'Suppressive Acts of LRH on "Quicky Grades"' 21 Oct 95, RI-304i 'Suppressive Acts of LRH on Ray Mithoff' of 21 Oct 95 RI-295i 'LRH on How He Committed Suicide in Jan 1986' 17 Oct 95 RI-290i 'How LRH Contributed to Quentin's Death' of 16 Oct 95 RI-291i 'Fake Ron's Journal 38 tape still sold by Church' 16 Oct 95 RI-317i 'LRH is "RIGHT FOREVER"' of 25 Oct 1995 RI-336i 'LRH since 1966: 'POLICY IS SENIOR TO PEOPLE' 4 Nov 95 RI-39i 'SEC CHECK on LRH - Extremely Important Data' 18 Dec 95 RI-29i 'Koos, LRH, Miscavige - the Truth' of 7 Dec 1994 RI-10i 'Confronting a Suppressive' of 12 Oct 1994 RI-53i 'Past Life Criminals and Scn Ethics' of 29 July 1994 RI-58i 'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 95 RI-269i 'How to Handle Irresponsible People' of 26 Sept 1995 RI-514i 'Confessionals and Blackmail -...IMPORTANT' 16 Mar 96 RI-535i '"An Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" = INSANE' 10 Apr 96 RI-541i 'Correct and Joyful Confessional Procedure - Part I' 20 Apr 96 RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Contents and Use' 28 Dec 94 Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996 These and other RI-Bulletins can be obtained (with WWW-browser) at ftp://thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI (with ftp) at thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI From xenu@ix.netcom.com Sat May 11 21:24:15 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:9906 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.nevada.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.gil.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!news From: xenu@ix.netcom.com(STEVEN FISHMAN ) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Come See Cult Pimp Eugene Ingram's Florida Arrest Warrant! Date: 30 Apr 1996 23:44:05 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4m68k5$5tr@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftl-fl5-18.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Apr 30 6:44:05 PM CDT 1996 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear alt.religion.scientology, Come see Eugene Ingram's Florida arrest warrant at Jim Lippard's web site! The URL is http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/fl_warrant.jpg and the web site which is the official Eugene Ingram page is at: http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/pis.html Please make links to this in all of your web pages, so that the whole world can finally see what the cult's head pimp looks like and what his Florida warrant contains. He also has a warrant for his arrest in Oklahoma for carrying a concealed weapon. I shall be endeavoring to obtain a copy of it, and I will forward it to Jim Lippard to put on the Ingram web site. I am trying to convince Florida to extradite him now based upon the additional warrant in Oklahoma, and I will be contacting the Oklahoma State Attorney as well. With Best Wishes, Steve Fishman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYbO4R1zM7OSTBBxAQGEggQArNp3mtv6ggG0FSxWhxgNNAFMv2J4LSDn Nm9kh1Uo5i/VbF1cMWzxxzitJ2LN7TeZLvh9ulySEKbNEU5J8peqf03FMFW72ugD 7ExU4csb2EpUM0Qv3vemMLh3RhNJyHFWIMjF+ETNKpUDXRTunxfzzt3WKNfUJoWd 61mP+BfV0Bs= =J1++ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Noel.Trenite@trenite.de Sat May 11 21:25:00 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:9924 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news3.idirect.com!news2.toronto.istar.net!news3.ottawa.istar.net!istar.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!trenite.easynet.de From: Koos Nolst Trenite Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: RI-542i Correct and Joyful Confessional Procedure - Part II Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 19:30:45 GMT Organization: trenite.de Lines: 268 Message-ID: <199605032020.VAA03155@hera.easynet.de> Reply-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-NNTP-Posting-Host: trenite.easynet.de X-Broken-Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 21:18:43 +1:00 Comments: Authenticated sender is X-Confirm-Reading-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-pmrqc: 1 Return-receipt-to: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) X-Mail2News-Path: hera.easynet.de!trenite.easynet.de 2 May 1996 RI-542i 'Correct and Joyful Confessional Procedure - Part II' from Ambassador for Mankind (Ron's Inspector) Message # RI-542i for Internet In Part I we have looked at Step 1. "WHICH NON-SURVIVAL ACT OF YOURS WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONFESS, NOW?" (For simplicity we consider a non-survival omission to act also a 'non-survival act', like the act of not interfering, of not speaking up, of not informing, etc.) Step 2. "TELL ME ABOUT THAT ACT OF YOURS TILL YOU YOURSELF ARE SATISFIED WITH DESCRIBING IT TO ME AS A NON-SURVIVAL ACT." Repeat step 2. If NO satisfaction can be achieved by repeating step 2., then say that it would be better to work together on finding another non-survival act to confess to. Go back to step 1.] We looked at how we achieve mutual understanding and help with a correct and joyful confessional procedure, in Part I. We looked at what we need to understand about confession and what are the things to avoid. With step 1. and 2. we arrived at a statement by the confessant of what non-survival act he wants to confess to, and we achieved a mutual understanding and desire to be helped and a desire to help, from the confessant, and from the confessor (who hears the confession), respectively. So now we can really go to work on the non-survival act the confessant wants to confess to. We asked him what he likes to confess to, in step 1. Then we asked him to describe that AS A NON-SURVIVAL ACT, in step 2. And we established understanding about it, and the desire to help and be helped. On step 3. and step 4. we fulfill that desire, we carry these intentions to help and to be helped out, through the confession, and then the confession of THAT non-survival survival act is complete. What could one expect at completion of confession about one non-survival act? It could be that the confessant has achieved a release (becoming free), of compulsions, of "unavoidability", of "can't fully trust myself about the non-survival act", of "must not be reminded of it", of propitiation when accused, of making self small, of "must avoid doing actions which are reminding of it", of "can't stand up to others who demand that he does it again", of feeling uneasy when the subject of his act is talked about, of compulsively having to admit or describe his act to everyone, of explaining his present condition "because he once committed this non-survival act", of having to "crusade against everyone who committed such an act, of "having his attention on it all the time", of "having to deny to others that he did it", of "having to say or think it was different than it really was", of "blaming it all on himself" and refusing to see what others did in it, of assigning cause to circumstances or events rather than to the individuals who caused these circumstances or events, of apathy about "being forced to do it", etc. etc. Such a release can be temporary, longer lasting, or maybe permanent, and it can be on any or several of the things mentioned above, to a lesser or greater extent, or completely. Again, people are VERY DIFFERENT. People have very different goals, also for what they want to achieve by confessing, they have very different interests, and they set their importances accordingly, knowingly or unknowingly. To give you an example, I once, as a boy, attended a violin concert. At the end of the concert, I refused to applaud the soloist who gave a good performance but who interrupted his solo-part when he made a mistake. He looked at me when I did not applaud and he felt upset. I considered that I had committed a non-survival act on him by refusing to acknowledge his excellent performance of the rest of the concert. People have VERY DIFFERENT goals they want to achieve with their confession. What one person considers very bothersome for himself, another could not even begin to see as something he would like to confess to, or as something he would like to be released from being bothered by. So we just do the steps 3. and 4. First we do step 3. of the confessional on the non-survival act, till the confessant is released of something. Only he can really tell you what he is released from. But you can see it when it happens, because he brightens up. That is the release: he brightens up, he has a realization about it, he has achieved a new viewpoint about the non-survival act, and he is happy about his new viewpoint on it. That is the end of the step. And then we do step 4. on the non-survival act, and there we again see the same thing happening. We also do step 4. till he brightens up, till a release occurs. There is nothing complicated about this. You do step 3. till he brightens up, till there is a release for him. And then you do step 4. till he brightens up, till there is a release for him. And that's ALL. No discussions, no complications, no sermons, no psychology, just a confessant who has brightened up. One time on step 3. And again, another time, on step 4. And that is the end of the confession for that non-survival act. At another day you might like to do another confession, and you can start with step 1. and step 2. again, to find another non-survival act, and you do step 3. and step 4. on that non-survival act. And another day you might again like to find the next non-survival act, and do the confessional procedure on that one. And so on, till, one day, you have a very very bright person in front of you, who is ready to take on his life and the world with a smile and great confidence, and you have won a big friend, and the confession is fully completed. And if he wants to come back for another confession after some months or some years, well, that's fine, because life is going on, and there are probably other things he wants to look at with a correct and joyful confessional procedure. I promised to tell you step 3. and step 4. in Part II, which is this Bulletin. But, as you see, then this Bulletin would become too long. So we have to do this in Part III. Continued in RI-545i 'Correct and Joyful Confessional Procedure - Part III'. Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind Copyright 1996 by Koos Nolst Trenite references: RI-541i 'Correct and Joyful Confessional Procedure - Part I' 20 Apr 96 RI-537i 'The Right to Demand Awareness' of 15 Apr 1996 RI-514i 'Confessionals and Blackmail -...IMPORTANT' 16 Mar 96 RI-84i 'Ron's Inspector Order to OSA' of 5 Feb 1995 RI-83i 'The Right to Study and Apply Scientology' 16 June 94 RI-269i 'How to Handle Irresponsible People. (GOLD!)' 26 Sept 95 RI-0i 'Current Ethics' of 30 June 1994 RI-288i 'The Main Evil Purpose' of 15 Oct 1995 RI-543i 'Dictators' of 22 July 1994 RI-242Ri 'Being There - Freedom to Act' of 22 July 1995 RI-235i 'Handling people with Understanding' of 14 July 1995 RI-471i 'Two Ways of Analyzing Life-situations' of 30 Jan 96 RI-217i 'Choosing Sides - As Ethics' of 24 June 1995 RI-263i 'Two Responses to Being Helped' of 20 Aug 1995 RI-391i 'Cleaning up the Internet further' of 24 Sept 1995 RI-58i 'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 95 RI-487i 'Dialogue: On Enemies and Hostility' of 20 Feb 1996 RI-444i 'The Practice of "SP-declares"' of 5 Jan 1996 RI-535i '"An Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" = INSANE' of 10 Apr 96 RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Content and Use' 28 Dec 94 Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996 These and other RI-Bulletins can be obtained (with WWW-browser) at ftp://thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI (with ftp) at thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI From Noel.Trenite@trenite.de Sat May 11 21:26:08 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:9925 Path: elastic!lethe!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news3.idirect.com!news2.toronto.istar.net!news3.ottawa.istar.net!istar.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!trenite.easynet.de From: Koos Nolst Trenite Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: RI-544i Church of Scientology Owes Koos Three Million US Dollars Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 19:25:18 GMT Organization: trenite.de Lines: 128 Message-ID: <199605032020.VAA03166@hera.easynet.de> Reply-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-NNTP-Posting-Host: trenite.easynet.de X-Broken-Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 21:18:43 +1:00 Comments: Authenticated sender is X-Confirm-Reading-To: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de X-pmrqc: 1 Return-receipt-to: Koos.Trenite@trenite.de Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) X-Mail2News-Path: hera.easynet.de!trenite.easynet.de 3 May 1996 RI-544i 'Church of Scientology Owes Koos Three Million US Dollars' from Ambassador for Mankind (Ron's Inspector) Message # RI-544i for Internet This is showing the start and the end of the list of all session dates and times and total hours of auditing delivered for the Church of Scientology, to its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, by Ambassador for Mankind (Ron's Inspector). The FULL list is published, for those who are interested, in RI-544i-A 'CofS Owes Koos Three Million US Dollars - Full List', which is available from the RI-Bulletin FTP-site; its address is listed below. The full list is published separately due to the size, which is approximately 80 kilobytes. Date: Start Of Session-time: Total Hrs: Min: All times CET (Central European Time) 18 June 1994 00:15 0 :27 18 June 1994 00:34 0 :35 18 June 1994 11:52 0 :40 18 June 1994 14:51 0 :42 18 June 1994 17:33 0 :22 18 June 1994 18:43 0 :48 18 June 1994 20:11 0 :11 18 June 1994 21:23 0 :05 (...) (See RI-544i-A 'LRH Owes Koos Three Million US Dollars - Full List' for full list of session date and time and total hours (80 kilobytes of data). Available from the RI-Bulletin FTP-site, address listed below.) (...) Date: Start Of Session-time: Total Hrs: Min: All times CET 10 March 1996 15:50 2 :04 10 March 1996 20:00 4 :21 11 March 1996 19:09 4 :08 12 March 1996 20:10 4 :15 13 March 1996 22:44 0 :36 13 March 1996 01:38 2 :39 14 March 1996 23:38 2 :06 14 March 1996 01:16 4 :30 15 March 1996 22:13 1 :20 16 March 1996 19:08 2 :13 16 March 1996 21:51 5 :05 17 March 1996 21:33 5 :45 18 March 1996 20:04 5 :32 19 March 1996 12:58 5 :57 21 March 1996 13:39 2 :17 TOTAL HOURS : 2,272 hrs 16 minutes TOTAL COST at 1,400 US $ per hour: 3,181,173 US Dollars ********* Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind Copyright 1995, 1996 by Koos Nolst Trenite references: RI-538i 'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn' 17 Apr 96 RI-538i-A'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn - Add' 29 Apr 96 RI-538i-B'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn - Add B' 29 Apr 96 RI-538i-C'Official Expulsion of the being LRH from Scn - Add C' 2 May 96 RI-536i 'A talk with Koos on L. Ron Hubbard's secrets' 12 Apr 96 RI-529i-A'What the being LRH is doing NOW - Addition' 22 Apr 96 RI-529i 'URGENT - What the being LRH is doing NOW' 6 Apr 1996 RI-532i 'Confessional on LRH's Destructive Control' 6 Apr 96 RI-534i 'Justifying "Source" LRH's evil intentions' 8 Apr 96 RI-421i 'The Charges against LRH' of 21 Dec 1995 RI-486i 'How Scientologists destroy(ed) LRH' of 17 Feb 1996 RI-488i 'Very able people at serious risk in Scn' 23 Feb 1996 RI-493i 'How LRH makes Scientology fail utterly' of 25 Feb 96 RI-511i 'How "Source" LRH Treats His Friends' of 14 Mar 1996 RI-513i 'LRH: KSW is a False Purpose' of 15 Mar 1996 RI-517i 'LRH: "All I want is validation, no looking"' 17 Mar 96 RI-518i 'Mary Sue and L. Ron Hubbard's justifications' 17 Mar 96 RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Content and Use' 28 Dec 94 Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996 These and other RI-Bulletins can be obtained (with WWW-browser) at ftp://thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI (with ftp) at thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI From lippard@primenet.com Sat May 11 21:32:37 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:10067 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!con-nntp-gw!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!lippard From: lippard@primenet.com (James J. Lippard) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: WANTED: Eugene Martin Ingram Date: 29 Apr 1996 16:48:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Lines: 52 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4m3kfk$h1q@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: lippard@usr5.primenet.com WANTED: EUGENE MARTIN INGRAM DOB 02/24/46 AGE 50 RACE WHITE SEX M HAIR BRO EYES GRN HGT 5' 9" WT 195 DL# M0251286 CA NEWKIRK, OKLAHOMA: Kay County District Court Case CRM-89-298 Warrant issued: 14 September 1989 Carrying a concealed weapon (21 O.S. 1289.8) Violation of the Private Investigator's Act of the State of Oklahoma (42A O.S. 1750.1 et al seq.) TAMPA, FLORIDA: Hillsborough County Circuit Court, case 94-12262 Warrant issued: 3 October 1994 Falsely impersonating officer TACOMA, WASHINGTON: Case number 95-1530374 Criminal impersonation ----- For more information see http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/pis.html A scan of the Florida warrant may be found at http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/fl_warrant.jpg A photo of Ingram may be found at http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/ingram.gif -- Jim Lippard lippard@(primenet.com ediacara.org skeptic.com) Phoenix, Arizona http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/ PGP Fingerprint: 35 65 66 9F 71 FE 50 57 35 09 0F F6 14 D0 C6 04 From dst+@cs.cmu.edu Sat May 11 21:42:33 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:10736 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!KEY.globalx.net!jolt.pagesat.net!netserv.com!news.ossi.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu!dst From: dst+@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Playboy exposes Travolta lunacy Date: 6 May 1996 04:40:38 GMT Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4mjvs6$89k@casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dst.boltz.cs.cmu.edu You have to give those folks at Playboy credit. It takes balls to go up against John Travolta, who is after all a New OT V and could probably kill them with a thought. Nonetheless, Playboy had the temerity to publish the following letter on p. 13 of the June 1996 issue, in response to the Travolta interview they ran in the March issue: ---------------- Travolta credits Scientology for his mental stability. As a graduate of some of the most advanced levels of Scientology training, Travolta is required to believe that he is possessed by the spirits of murdered space aliens. Does this sound like mental stability to you? David Touretzky Pittsburgh, Penn. ---------------- A big win for the jokers and degraders here on ARS! I expect to be awarded a clam cluster for this successful dissemination action. -- Dave Touretzky, KoX (SP4++): let the lawsuits begin. From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Sat May 11 21:47:00 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:10982 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!laslo.netnet.net!en.com!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!news.belnet.be!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,nl.scientology Subject: NOTs: ned4.html Date: 7 May 1996 03:18:34 +0200 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 1323 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4mm8da$ems@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl X-XS4ALL-Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 03:18:38 MET DST Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: [hilarious copyrighted(?) clam "technology" redacted 2004-02; see http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/NOTs/] From Xenu Sat May 11 21:49:42 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:11478 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.crocker.com!calweb!news.campus.mci.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!zippo!drn From: Xenu Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: NOTs file 5/7 Date: 9 May 1996 18:03:25 -0700 Organization: Fuck the CofS in the ass Lines: 1278 Message-ID: <4mu4kt$t3j@doc.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: info.umd.edu [hilarious copyrighted(?) clam "technology" redacted 2004-02; see http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/NOTs/] From rkeller@voicenet.com Sun May 19 17:08:22 1996 Xref: elastic alt.religion.scientology:12188 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!goodnews.voicenet.com!omni2!rkeller From: rkeller@voicenet.com (Rod Keller) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: A.r.s Week in Review - 5/12/96 Date: 12 May 1996 18:25:54 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 831 Message-ID: <4n5afi$4or@goodnews.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: omni2.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Alt.religion.scientology Week in Review Volume 1, Issue 4 5/12/96 by Rod Keller [rkeller@voicenet.com] copyright 1996 Alt.religion.scientology Week in Review summarizes the most significant postings from the Usenet group Alt.religion.scientology for the preceding week for the benefit of those who can't follow the group as closely as they'd like. Out of thousands of postings, I attempt to include news of significant events, new affidavits, court rulings, new contributors, whatever. I hope you find it useful. Like many readers of a.r.s, I have a kill file. So please take into consideration that I may not have seen some of the most significant postings. The articles in A.r.s Week in Review are brief summaries of the articles. Many include an excerpt, and all include message IDs for the articles I cover. This may or may not be useful to you, depending on how long your site stores articles in the newsgroup before expiring them. Free A.r.s Week in Review subscriptions are available, just email me at rkeller@voicenet.com It is archived at: http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/ars-summary.html http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~mallen/scn/arswr/ars-summary.html http://www.amazing.com/scientology/ars-summary.html http://users.aimnet.com/~jdiver/scieno.htm http://www.thur.de/religio/publik/arsfaq.html ##### > NOTS Posted A nearly complete set of the NOTS (New Era Dianetics for OTs) processing levels were anonymously posted to a.r.s on May 6th through the hacktic remailer in the Netherlands. They were subsequently reposted in HTML form through hacktic, and following their cancellation by the cult, reposted again through the Zippo system. The reaction across the net has been tremendously fast. Helena Kobrin, or a cultist using her name, mailed a series of requests/legal threats to attempt to remove the documents from several storage locations. The letter to Homer Smith, sysadmin of Lightlink was the most polite. "Last weekend, someone posted anonymously a number of the works contained in the NOTs Series. From some of the traffic on alt.religion.scientology, it appears possible that you may have those postings on the lightlink system. "I know in the past you did not permit such postings on your system, so I am contacting you to ask that you verify whether this is true. (The message IDs are at the end of this message.) If it is true, I assume you will want to remove them. Please do so and let me know ASAP." The messages were subsequently removed from Dejanews and Alta Vista, sites that archive Usenet messages in searchable form. Before their removal, a URL for easily retrieving the articles was made available by Sherilyn (Tony Sidaway) at http://www.icon.fi/~marina/sherilyn/ "The URLs on this page no longer work, presumably because AltaVista and DejaNews have accepted the forged cancels. If anyone finds a public gopher or nntp link to a server that contains the NOTS posts, please email me and I will add it to my page." The operator of Zippo copied his correspondence to a.r.s. after receiving a standard threat from Kobrin. "We received several, which I assume were suppose to be threatening, phone calls today from Darlene Bright at 408-441-6661 and someone named Helena Kobrin at 213-960-1933. The substance of the phone call is covered in Helena Kobrin's e-mail message included in this post. "I am not familiar with the Church of Scientology. If I were to define them by their representatives, I would believe them to be coercive, obnoxious, oppressive, rude and hysterical. Both parties seem to suffer from an overblown sense of self importance. My answer to them is as follows - "The person posting went through a public news server as in 'open to the public' 'free' as in 'free speech without censorship' and 'Free of Charge' as in 'no cost'. We do not provide Internet access services and, I would think from all of your other attacks on sources of information, you would know what an nntp posting host is. We carry no information on our web site relative to the Church of Scientology as it is of no interest to us. I would not waste the time writing anything that would promote or provide visibility to your organization, as I do not believe in it's oppressive and threatening presence. "The posts have been removed, as well as all other articles in the news group. The news group is no longer open to posts We have no more information as to who posted the articles than you do." On May 8th, Alex de Joode released a statement that the hacktic remailer intends to cease operations, presumably because of the NOTS postings. "Due to recent events the Hacktic Foundation has decided to discontinue its remailing operations, the remailer that is operated by the Hacktic Foundation will cease to exist May 20th." The message IDs for the initial posts: Message-ID: <4mjagf$7q4@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjaji$7su@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjajo$7st@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjaab$7p1@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjaaf$7os@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjafj$7r2@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjago$7qp@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mjaga$7qc@utopia.hacktic.nl> The message IDs for the repost in HTML format: Message-ID: <4mm82g$ei9@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mm8d6$en0@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mm8da$ems@utopia.hacktic.nl> Message-ID: <4mm7qo$ea4@utopia.hacktic.nl> The message IDs for the Zippo reposting: Message-ID: <4mu431$shl@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu47n$sl9@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu4bo$snv@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu4gf$t02@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu4kt$t3j@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu4qe$t86@doc.zippo.com> Message-ID: <4mu4v0$5p@doc.zippo.com> The message IDs for articles quoted in the article above: Message-ID: Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960510180854.00328cf8@zippo.com> Message-ID: Message-ID: Message-ID: <4mr34j$qoq@news.xs4all.nl> ##### > Keith Henson Following Keith Henson's deposition by the cult, Dave VanHorn announced Real Audio files available for anybody to listen to the proceedings. "The grand total as about 22 meg in eight files. I haven't got any descriptions yet as to content in any specific file, but it's there nonetheless. "http://www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/grady/grady.html" An amusing transcript of a portion of the deposition was posted, involving an anonymous FTP site. An edited transcript: "CULT: Do you know who Patrick Volk is? Patrick J Volk, V O L K. "HENSON: Not at first. At least I can't think.. Did he go by any other name on the Net? To the best of my knowledge I never heard of this person. If you give me a little more background maybe I can... "CULT: I'll try and do that.