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Subject: M800 - Publicity: Better None than Some
Date: 9 Mar 1996 16:23:51 +0100
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[M800 - Publicity: Better None than Some]

Says Bonehead:

>The April 1996 edition of "Internet World" has an excellent
>article about alt.religion.scientology and the $cientology
>lawsuits against its critics.

And it's only early March, yet!

Isn't this becoming a monthly occurrence for the Cof$ to have their
balls shredded?  The OSA file system and number of operatives must
be rising by the month to combat the evil hordes of Xenu (us).

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>The author takes an evenhanded approach, but even he
>admits that the $cientology cult's "trade secret"
>arguments are ridiculous, their copyright lawsuits
>are iffy, and they've been clobbered by Brinkema in
>the "Washington Post" case.

Unlike Andy Milne, SHBC graduate and mind-blastingly
powerful OT person, who issues press releases to
proclaim WINS, following the Hubbardian PR path
to the letter. They bit off a large and expensive
piece of litigation to try and trample something
that has a membership of 5 times what they have and
an opinion that will be heard, year in and year out.

>He also notes that the Internet is not a good place
>to keep secrets and that the cult's strong-arm
>attempts to quash the dissemination of their
>"secret scriptures" is a failure and has backfired
>on them by informing millions of Internet readers
>about the goofball beliefs of the $cientology cult.

Informed by the HOUR.  'Goofball beliefs' is a mild
way of saying they've had their heads filled with a
whole rash of everything from amateur psyhotherapy
to personal infestation with other beings to space
battles millions billions and trillions of years
ago.

>This is my review of this article, I've been careful
>not to quote anything, given the current debate about
>copyrights on the Net, but here's the article's
>concluding paragraph for "fair use" comment...
>
>"The sheer power of the Net as a mass medium, together
>with its decentralized character, makes the backlash
>against the Church nearly impossible to stop."

I'll only settle for impossible.  In the unlikely event
they get alt.religion.scientology axed, alt.religion.xenu
is just around the corner.  Same stupid cult, same critics
(and no doubt churchie fruitcakes), different address.

>These should be encouraging words for the critics of
>the Cult.  Keep up the good work, guys!

Damn right.  It supports what we've held to be the case
for a long time: that the publicity that lies in the
popular media is the fault of Scientology itself.  If they
had only let it be, us 'weak' and ineffective critics
would be kissing each-others asses in a little known
news-group and the world at large would be blissfully
ignorant of alt.religion.scientology.

That it all happened this way was to watch the cult at
work at all it knows best: threats, lies, litigation
and subversion.  And with media coverage to boot.

Ahhh yes.  The Scientology we've all come to know and hate.


The NEW Squirrel, [One-Point-One], ARSCC Associate & ESTO for March 1996

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