Alt.religion.scientology
Week in Review Volume 5, Issue 14
7/16/2000
by Rod Keller [rkeller@...]
copyright 2000

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.

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posted to the newsgroup. They include message IDs for the original
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> Antje Victore

One of the letters manufactured to support the asylum petition of
Scientologist Antje Victore in 1996 was posted to a.r.s this week.

"Recently the government of Munich has ordered that no Scientologist can
get a job in all companies and institutions under public law. There is now
a standing order. The rule is, that all people looking for a job have to
fill out a form with questions like are you a member of any Scientology
organisation or group or church. The answer has to be NO, this is a
requirement for appointment. Under this order I cannot employ you, I would
risk a loss of business and a lot of discrimination. Sorry for this
negative message.

"In Germany, we have a lot of Scientologist without work, and for
practicing Scientologist it would be very hard to live here in Germany in
your normal way of live. The defense of the constitution will keep under
surveillance all Scientologist in Germany.

"Yours sincerely,
Wilhelmina Katzschmann"

An affidavit by Jens Billerbeck describing his part in the deception was
also posted this week.

"In Fall 1996, Antje E. Victore, who I, as a Scientologist, knew very well
at the time, asked me to compose a letter from my own company. In it the
impression was supposed to be given that she had put in an application
with my company and that I was refusing her based on her membership in
Scientology. In fact Antje E. Victore had never applied with my company.

"Antje E. Victore stated to me that she needed such a letter so that her
asylum application at an immigration court in Florida, USA, which had
initially been refused would then be granted. She was very proud that this
operation was being worked out personally with her by an OSA (Scientology
intelligence service) attorney and Kurt Weiland, OSA chief at the time.
So as a favor to a fellow Scientologist, I authored a letter and sent it
to her in Florida, USA. When her asylum application was granted in
February 1997, Antje E. Victore sent me a commendation letter typical for
Scientologists in which she thanked me for my support."

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> Clearwater

The St. Petersburg Times reported on July 12th that the downtown
development plan, which was supported by Scientology, was defeated in a
voter referendum.

"Asked to approve leasing city-owned waterfront land to developers for 99
years for as little as $1 per year, voters said no by a 58 percent to 42
percent tally. The decision, which shocked city officials and civic
boosters who had openly predicted victory in the afternoon, capped a
divisive campaign in which both sides traded accusations of distortion and
outright lying. City land would have been leased to the developers for 99
years. The move was requested by developers who said they needed the
incentive to make money on their plans to build a downtown multiplex movie
theater, 1,200 new apartments and condominiums, public parking garages and
up to 300,000 square feet of new retail space.

"A group of former city commissioners dubbed Save the Bayfront led the
fight against the concept. They played on fear that the Church of
Scientology, whose spiritual headquarters is downtown, might benefit from
the plan. They also argued that the city couldn't be trusted to complete a
deal with developers George de Guardiola and David Frisbie of West Palm
Beach. "It was people like Roger Schaffer who carried the day. He had
heard the developer's plan to bring in restaurants and retailers, but,
unimpressed, the 57-year-old voted against redevelopment. 'I don't think
there's anything they can do to change what downtown Clearwater is,'
Schaffer said. 'I don't see fine restaurants going in. I don't see high
quality. We're a conservative community made up in large part by a lot of
retirees."

The Times also published an editorial by Diane Steinle on July 16th on the
downtown plan and Scientology.

"This was a $300-million plan to redevelop Cleveland Street, the
downtown's struggling retail strip, as well as a waterfront now mostly
covered with old buildings and parking lots. Ask people why they voted
no, and many say they feared that the downtown improvements would be too
good for the Church of Scientology, perhaps encouraging more
Scientologists to come to Clearwater and providing more places downtown
for them to live, work and play. But ask other people why they voted yes,
and some say: the Church of Scientology. Unless something new and
different happens downtown to draw a better mix of people there, they say,
Scientologists will continue to dominate the area and buy up property at
bargain prices. Clearly, whether people voted yes or no, fear of the
spread of Scientology was a factor.

"A surprising number said they voted no because of the
fender-bender-plagued roundabout the city built on Clearwater Beach. How
in the world did a traffic device, no matter how poorly constructed,
become the watershed issue for people voting on downtown redevelopment?
No matter what other reasons they gave for voting no, most mentioned
distrust of city officials as a contributing factor.

"Unless current city commissioners accept their obligation to act
decisively to regain public trust and repair the community's divisions,
the downward slide may continue and residents' impatience will grow. The
March city election looms like a dark storm cloud on the horizon. In such
a divided, cynical community, angry one-issue candidates can gain a
foothold and the city's best potential candidates for public office duck
and decline. Who can blame them for that?"

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> Copyright Law

The Village Voice published an article on July 12th, describing the impact
precedents set in Scientology's lawsuits have had on a new case.

"An internal document recently leaked by an unnamed Victoria's Secret
insider, and posted online by the smoking gun, has the lingerie company's
thong in a twist. In June, the web site (thesmokinggun.com) reproduced a
six-page Dress for Success guide in which the negligee hawker told
employees not to wear sleeveless dresses or open-toed shoes, more than two
earrings per ear, or more than two rings per hand. Victoria's Secret
attorneys fired off a letter June 28 demanding that the dress code be
taken down and the deep throat identified. In rattling the Smoking Gun's
cage, the company relied not only on confidentiality clauses, but on the
federal law of copyright.

"In a series of chilling decisions for Web journalists, courts have often
frowned on the copying of entire unpublished works. In 1996, Netcom had to
settle a copyright case with the Scientology crowd after allowing a
dissenter to post portions of guru L. Ron Hubbard's writings online. And
in another case involving Hubbard's writing, a court ruled that fair use
can be restricted to minimal use. Foreign judges agree. Basing its
decision on the U.S. precedent, the Hague ruled last year, also in a
Hubbard case, that even 'banal text' is copyrighted, though it excused a
journalist for posting only small parts of a document on her Web site."

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> Susan MacDonald

A statement by former Scientologist Susan MacDonald was posted to a.r.s
this week by Stacy Brooks, President of the Lisa McPherson Trust.

She details many abuses that are ongoing within that organization, abuses
with which I am personally familiar because they have not changed since I
was in Scientology. I applaud her courage in breaking with RTC, knowing as
she does that her public announcement could subject her to harassment and
intimidation. She still feels that the tech is valuable; I do not.
Several months ago, when she and I corresponded about her investigation of
RTC's management practices, I made sure she knew that our views are very
different. Susan did understand that, but she also understood that
regardless of what our differences might be, we do agree completely on one
thing: the abuse and deception that is rampant in the Church of
Scientology must end."

From Susan MacDonald:

"This is an announcement of the result of my Doubt condition as regards
the organization of the Church of Scientology as it exists and has existed
since the early 1980s when RTC, headed by David Miscavige, took control. I
am not now, nor have I ever been, in doubt as regards the technology of
Scientology as written by L. Ron Hubbard. I have found this tech to be
extremely workable in achieving my goal of spiritual freedom. Where it has
failed, I see evidence of tampering with it or misapplication of it. Where
it has succeeded, it is due to the good intentions of those applying it
and their ability and my ability to apply it to the result described by
LRH.

"Following are some of the major outpoints that I have observed with some
examples and my conclusion as to what each means to me. Class IV and V
Orgs have contracted, or at best remained the same size for 20 years. I
have observed the course and growth (or lack thereof) of my own local
organization for over 15 years. Despite the peaks and valleys of more
staff at times and less staff at times, the overall result is that the org
is not one bit larger, nor is it producing any more products than it was
15 years ago. I thought this might have been an isolated org, so I began
questioning friends who live in other cities about their local orgs. The
information is the same. Most of them have a staff of not over 20 and most
of these are part-time staff members. Lower orgs than the AOs and FLAG
are being used like missions to an org they send their public to the
higher orgs as rapidly as possible. Those public that remain on the local
level are moving so slowly up the Bridge and are so few in number that the
orgs are slowly dying from lack of support.

"LRH policy is not being followed from the highest level of management to
the lowest level organization. I also don't know of one person who hasn't
compared that working environment to other companies or organizations they
worked for and wondered why, if this was/is such a great management
system, the orgs weren't booming like wog businesses. Staff are
blackmailed into stat pushing in order to get their very precious lib
time. Lib time is revocable at the whim of ones senior, even if that time
is unscheduled org time (time when the org is supposedly closed).
Nowhere in LRHs policies is this management style advised. I find many,
many instances where basic policy is not being applied.

"The church continues to mock up more and more enemies and is not handling
their attackers effectively. How was a Bob Minton allowed to be created to
the degree that he has opened an office in Clearwater and is opening at
least two more in other states? How is it that more and more of the type
of Jesse Prince, Peter Alexander, Stacy Young, Vaughn Young, and others
are rising up and speaking out about the conditions and treatment they
received in the Church and how it needs to be reformed? A review of the
law suits world wide against the Church or any of its entities reveals
that we have many enemies. And many of began their descent to the level of
enemy by questioning the outpoints and being unable to cause a change to
right them. A review of the Policies and Tech regarding PTSness and
Suppression will also reveal that the Church is lacking in its
application. One either handles or disconnects. They have not handled
them, and they certainly have not totally disconnected. They are involved
with their enemies daily.

"RTC has undertaken to rewrite LRH's policies and tech in mass volume.
Since LRH died in 1986, seemingly every book, every tape and every loose
policy and bulletin have been reworked, reprinted and reissued with
multitudes of changes. The PR line given by the Church for this is that
LRH left notes and other instructions leading them to do this. Another
explanation given by RTC is that when comparing the current to the
original LRH writings, there were many errors. LRH was quite alive and
very much involved in the Church at least through 1978. The original OEC
and Tech Vols and all the books were being used pervasively throughout the
organization during the 70s. Even the OT Levels were being used
consistently to rave results. If these were so inadequate, why did LRH
allow them to be used? Why were whole chapters deleted from the newer
versions? Where are LRHs orders as regards these massive changes?

"As a member of the church, I am not allowed to freely read and discuss
issues relating to the church. The Church has demanded that parishioners
NOT research anti-Church information with the penalty of spending time in
ethics handing why one would want to read anything anti-Church. The Church
has distributed a Net Nanny program which filters out any site with what
they believe has anti-Church sentiment. I have personally been told that
certain books are banned, in particular The Gods of Eden and certainly the
books written by Paulette Cooper, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., Bent Corydon, and
others. I have been told by friends to be sure and not read certain
articles in the newspaper as they might contain OT material, and I've been
told that surely I don't wish to explore sites on the internet. While on
services at the Church, I was in fear to even discuss anti-Church ideas
believing with total certainty that I would end up spending hours in
session handling these thoughts and discussions.

"I hereby announce that I am no longer a part of that group which is run
by RTC and is altering and squirreling LRHs Technology of spiritual
freedom. I have joined the group of Scientologists who KNOW the Tech of
Scientology as researched, compiled and written by L. Ron Hubbard; who
APPLY the Tech standardly with good intentions to attain the highest
possible level of spiritual freedom for all; and who renounce all who
would sabotage it or use it to harm or impede others from going free."

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> Executive Software

German computer magazine c't reported in a July 7th article on the status
of Scientologist-owned Executive Software, and the reaction it has faced
in Germany.

"The corporation of professed Scientologist Jensen is the producer of the
defragmentation program integrated into Windows 2000. The corporation
which is managed according to Scientology policies in Windows 2000 has
become a reason for concerned users, government agencies among them, to
ask for an investigation by the Cologne Federal Office for Security in
Information Technology (BSI). The BSI is now supposed to check whether
Windows 2000 generally proves to have holes in security by which it would
possible that transfers or counterfeits of files could occur which were
not intended by users.

"The second point of attack is the so-called 'sect filter' - a security
clause written by the Federal Ministry of Commerce (BMWi) in September
1998 as an attachment to the federal policy on award of contracts.
According to it, companies which perform schooling or consultation in
public service must sign a statement that they do not employ the training,
management or organization techniques of Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard, in which people are psychologically manipulated or put under
pressure.

"The U.S. House of Representatives foreign affairs committee took that
regulation in the middle of June as a reason to offer a forum for
Executive Software chairman Craig Jensen to complain about persecution of
his brothers in faith by German agencies and about an alleged embargo
against the product of his firm.

"The CDU/CSU faction is preparing a Minor Inquiry for the German
Parliament. In the request for information it would like to know what
legal possibilities the federal administration sees to stop 'infiltration
of the German economy' by Scientology members, whether it would consider
tightening up the security clause and how it would like to prevent the
award of public contracts to corporations directly controlled by
Scientology through the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises."

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> What is Scientology?

"Shellac" reported a visit to the What is Scientology? exhibit in London.

"The exhibition was hauntingly familiar, by which I mean that they had
simply dusted off the boards from the previous year. It was located in a
basement hall which allowed enough space for two beds. Scientologists
lined the (narrow) pavements outside, tempting innocent shoppers with
their wares. The Jive Aces, Scientology's popular music combo played a
stirring set of the big band style. The exhibition was a rather partial
view of Scientology, concentrating on there 'religious beliefs' and 'good
deeds'. There were very few non-scientologists in evidence.

"I mumbled something about seeing OT III on the internet before noticing a
couple of suits lurking behind me. I turned to find an unpleasant little
man looking up my nose. He told me to leave. 'It isn't public - you need
an invitation.' 'We have' said Richard, neatly producing two invites (they
were being distributed on the street outside). He told a goon to get hotel
security. So we left Richard distributed his number freely, on little
cards with www.xenu.net as we left."

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> Freezone

The Globe and Mail published an article on July 14th on Scientology's
attempt to take the domain scientologie.org from a group of freezone
Scientologists.

"The controversial Church of Scientology has lost a fight over an Internet
domain name to a renegade sect that swears allegiance to Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard but split from the church nearly two decades ago.
An arbitrator operating under a new international system set up to resolve
fights over Internet monikers has refused to award
http://www.scientologie.org to the Religious Technology Center. The
arbitrator ruled that the disputed Web address should stay in the hands of
its current owner, Freie Zone E.V. -- Free Zone Association -- because it
has a legitimate right to the name and has not behaved in bad faith.

"In a complaint filed in May, RTC accused Freie Zone of being an
'underground' organization whose purposes include interfering with the
centre's activities and those of its affiliates. It alleged that the
association had no legitimate right to use the disputed domain name and
had instead set up the site in bad faith to attract Internet users away
from legitimate Scientology sites. Freie Zone contended it set up the site
to sell reprints of a German book called Scientologie -- Wissenschaft von
der Beschaffeneit und Tauglichkeit des Wissens (Scientology -- Science of
the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge), which was published in
1934. The association said it had obtained exclusive rights to the book
from the heirs of its author, Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz.

"While ruling that http://www.scientologie.org is 'confusingly similar' to
some of RTC's trademarks, Mr. Meyer-Hauser found that the rights to the
Nordenholz book had indeed been licensed to Freie Zone and 'these rights
appear to be even older than the complainant's trademarks.' He also found
that using the Web site to disseminate information about the book and its
underlying philosophy 'appears to be a legitimate interest in itself.'"

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> Germany

Berliner Morgenpost reported on July 6th that Thomas Gandow spoke at a CDU
event in Steglitz, calling Scientology a 'new form of political
extremism.'

"To the approximately fifty people present, including Cerstin
Richter-Kotowski for the Steglitz CDU in the Berlin House of
Representatives, director of planning and training Norbert Kopp and the
city's planning representative starting in 2001, Ralf Koerner (both CDU),
Gandow said in the old Steglitz assembly building on Tuesday that not all
German states understood what danger emanates from Scientology.

"The clergyman explained the increased efforts by the Scientologists to
gain attention by mass mailings in areas including Zehlendorf and Steglitz
- in May of this year, the organization recruited at an exhibition on
Founder L. Ron Hubbard in the city's center at 30 Dueppel Street - as
'sheerly return on investment.' Making money was the supreme goal of the
'Scientology corporation,' Gandow said, and recalled Ron Hubbard's Creed
of 'Make money, make more money, get other people to make more money.'

"The church representative also expressed self criticism, 'The Church has
be accused, not unjustly, of often speaking up too late,' said Gandow. He
said that society would have to be alerted to Scientology in a timely
manner. 'Therefore I advise everyone here not to say that things can't be
that bad,' the sect commissioner appealed."

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> CAN

Cynthia Kisser, former director of the Cult Awareness Network, reacted to
the planned conference session on CAN led by a Scientology lawyer.

"Paper for upcoming conference of Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion: 'CAN, We Hardly Knew Ye: Sex, Drugs, Deprogrammers' Kickbacks,
and Corporate Crime in the (Old) Cult Awareness Network.' Anson Shupe,
Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Kendrick Moxon, and Susan E.
Darnell.

"Desiring to divert researchers from the legal record that points to
Scientology's illegal use of the court system to destroy CAN and attack
its leaders, Scientologist Kendrick Moxon, working with cult apologist
Ansun Shupe is now driven to further justify Scientology's conduct in
regard to that destruction. Since exclusive control of CAN's files and
corporate records passed to Scientologist Gary Beeny a few years back, CAN
will likely not be able to dispute any misrepresentations and out of
context statements that Moxon and Shupe present as part of their paper.
Despite gleeful howls from Scientologists a few years back with the
passage of CAN's files to Beeny that criminal charges would likely be
forthcoming based on evidence that would be found in those files, no such
event has, of course, come to pass. Instead, Moxon et al are reduced to
Scientology's infamous dead agenting techniques such as the creation of
the anti-CAN paper scheduled to be presented under the auspices of the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion."

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> Nigeria

Two articles on July 12th in City People, published in Lagos, Nigeria,
described the attempt by Scientology and John Fashanu to discredit
Scientology critic Bob Minton,

"Fashanu said he launched his investigation into the buy-back scheme as a
result of information revealed to him by a background check into potential
business partners. And that in the process, he uncovered a fraud amounting
to billions of dollars through a network of about 200 bank accounts. He
said the scam he uncovered, centers around the buying back of Nigerian
debt by the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1988 and 1993. His
investigators alleged that the then military Head of State, Gen Ibrahim
Babangida was involved in the buy-back scheme and further alleged that it
had the support of some of the most respected banks in the world.

"The investigation primarily fingers two men; Jeffrey Schmidt and Robert
Minton, who are said to have manipulated the debt. He said that companies
were set up in America to help disguise the origin of the funds. He said
the investigators found that Growth Management was used to buy back the
debts at about 10 cents in a dollar and later resold to the Nigerian
government at about 45 cents at 1 Dollar, with millions in profits
diverted into private bank accounts.

"But City People checks have revealed that these claims are all hoax, as
there was no stealing, or fraudulent dealings as Fashanu alleges. In fact,
there was no debt buy back scam as claimed by Fashanu. It has also been
discovered that the whole allegation was meant to discredit Robert Minton,
the Babangida administration's principal partner who Fashanu and Co.
alleged manipulated the debt. Minton recently explained what the billion
dollar debt buy-back scheme was all about. What he and his two other
partners did, for which they made $45 million in five years, was buy back
debts. They then resold to Nigeria in that way reducing the debt load of
Nigeria. Defending his involvement in the deal, Minton said he did not do
anything criminal, as Nigerian lawyers in New York had already given
clearance for the buy-back.

"Minton alleged that Fashanu was being used by the Church of Scientology,
with which he had a three-year running battle over the church's alleged
human rights violations and murder of certain persons, which he is trying
to expose. City People's check also revealed that contrary to Fashanu's
claims, the debt buy back was not fraudulently done because Minton's
explanations tallies with the findings contained in the reports of the
public hearings conducted by the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign
Debts in February."

"'John Fashanu has been used by the Church of Scientology, an organization
that considers me to be their greatest enemy in the world. There is no
chance that Fashanu investigated it on his own. His investigator is a full
time worker for Scientology. He has been given this report so that I can
be discredited as an effective critic of Scientology in USA, Europe -
France and Germany. This is a vendetta on Scientology's part against me
and they are using Fashanu and Nigeria as a tool to beat me on the head
with the clock and that is the bottom line. The fraudulent transaction,
money-laundering claim for IBB is not true. The investigator, Robert Clark
for Fashanu goes by two different names i.e. David Lee and David Laubach.

"'I am exposing Scientology for the type of Totalitarian organization they
are. They like to hide behind religion; they are not a religion but a
political movement that disguises itself as a religion. They are not
willing to accept or receive any criticism. They say that anybody that
speaks against them is a criminal. They have used different mechanisms to
get me arrested and to stop being a critic of Scientology. That is really
what it is all about.'"

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> Protest/Revenge Summary

Keith Henson continued protests at Gold Base near Hemet, California this
week.

"This morning, when Edwin Richardson and thug 2 were sent out, I called
and sure enough a while later no fewer than three Sheriff deputies showed
up. I was on the west going leg almost in front of the main gate at the
time. Ken Hoden came out. The guy looks worse than the last time I saw
him. A huge bunch of the staff walked by south of the main gate in sight
of three sheriff cars with flashing lights and one guy with a sign which
asked on one side 'What happened to Stacey Moxon Myer' and on the other,
'Knowing How to Know is Knowing When to Blow!' Later in the picket, while
being followed by two very silent thugs at a good distance, I saw one of
the buses turn in at the eastern most gate. They are totally disrupting
traffic in a hopeless attempt to avoid staff seeing me."

"Richardson and thug 2 didn't pick up on me till I had walked most the way
from the west end to the main gate. They were both in bullbait mode, but I
don't think their hearts were really in it. The CHP/Deputies wanted me to
get a secret tape of them bullbaiting, so I did. I will get the tape over
to the deputies in the morning, but it was more pathetic than anything
else.

"After one pass to the east end of the complex, I stayed near the west end
where the buses are parked. 5 pm and no movement, 5:30, still there, 6,
6:30, thug 2 gave up at 6:45 and Richardson followed 5 minutes later. 7 pm
and the buses had not moved. Finally pity for those who had been there
since 7 am got to me."

Keith also protested in the San Jose area this week.

"I picketed the Los Gatos org on Bascum Ave. for about 15 minutes, then
hit the Palo Alto mission on the way back. Neither of them even shut the
blinds. The Palo Alto mission had between half a dozen and a dozen people
just inside the door and none of them ran. The Los Gatos mission sent out
someone to take a picture of a very old sign I was using, but otherwise,
the only reaction was a kid about 8 years old who said my sign
(Scientology is stupid and expensive) was untrue. When I asked what was
untrue about the sign, the kid got grabbed inside by a parent."

David Rice described revenge pickets at his boat, in retaliation for
protests at Gold Base last week.

"I saw that there was a Sheriff knocking on the hull of my boat. He told
me about the revenge 'picket' the crime syndicate held at my boat. Seems
that a few goons from the Crime Syndicate of Scientology had been out to
the marina 'picketing' and passing out 'dead agent' flyers falsely
purported to be about me and my sibling. These goons had trespassed on the
docks (against County law) and put their bogus flyers on people's boats
(also against the law). Some of my boat's neighbors got royally pissed at
this behavior and they called the Sheriff, the police, and the Harbor
Patrol. The criminals fled less than a minute before the Sheriff, police,
and Harbor Patrol showed up.

"One neighbor said he was going to shove the bastards into the water but
was talked out of it by his wife. The people on the dock were told to call
on marine VHF Channel 16 immediately if the criminals come back, and they
would be arrested for trespassing on County-owned property and for boat
vandalism. The Sheriff collected the DA flyers for 'safe keeping' and then
left."

Catarina Pamnell reported a protest in Copenhagen this week.

"Carina and Lennart from our invisible Stockholm office. Catarina and Ake
Wiman. Handlers: OSA PR Anette Refstrup, Erik who seems to be HCO. Also
present green-shirted OT and ill security guard. Handouts: 250 'Beware,'
warning of the personality test trick, high prices, etc. A5 size in a
choice of colors, one side in Danish, the other in English.

"We made a quick turn around Radhusplads, the central square, and then a
tour passing the AO, DK org and the Nordland, leafleting as we went. The
scientologists were not bothering us this time. Kept us under observation,
but no in-your-face tactics. After 30 minutes we all got together again,
and realized we had already distributed 200+ handouts."

"Kaeli" reported a protest in Toronto this week.

"Attending: Gregg, Mike, Kaeli, Zeratul.Cat. There were nine of them out
there, and the scaffolding and green mesh were still hung. The police
officer that the Org hired for the day was very visible, and made it very
clear that he would not put up with any shouting, pushing, and shoving by
anyone. He spoke with each of the picketers. I explained during the June
picket, I was shoved up against the scaffolding. He told me that this
would not happen anymore. He also spoke to the Toronto Scientologists as
well.

"At one point, while I was talking to a woman from Japan, who mentioned
cults in Japan where some members have been known to kill their parents,
one of the Scientologists came out, waving her DA flyer, 'these people put
pictures of children on the Internet!' I explained that the Scientologist
is hinting that we are child pornographers. The woman read it briefly, and
said she knew that the CoS has trained its members to lie. Failing to get
the woman to stop talking to me, the same female Scientologist raced back
into the Org and retrieved a camera. At that point, the woman backed off,
yelling at her, 'Don't take my picture!' She waved goodbye to me as she
hurried off. Before Gregg went home, he was told by his wife that
apparently two people were picketing his home."

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> Worship LRH

Associated Newspapers published an article on July 10th on Anthony
Christian, an artist living in India, and famous for painting portraits.

"Back in the Seventies he was a celebrated portrait painter and something
of a Brit Art star, with glowing writeups in Vogue. Then he dropped off
the map, going first to Bali and then India, where he became a virtual
recluse with his art materials and a succession of wives for company.
Mad Valley is known for its lush profusion of strange flora and fauna,
such as the kurinji, a flower which blossoms only every 12 years, rare
bats, scorpions and the odd panther.

"He told me one incident among many that had put him off portraits was
when the Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard asked him to 'paint me in a way
that people can worship me'. He's now decided to end his self-imposed
exile, and said I was the first journalist who had ever been to his south
Indian retreat."

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> Refund Agreement

Greg Barnes posted a release form sent to him as a condition of getting
back unused money on account with Scientology. Some highlights:

"For and in consideration of the mutual covenants, conditions and release
contained herein, including, but not limited to, the agreement between the
Church and Mr. and Mrs. Barnes to withdraw any claim for all their
donations made to the Church, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes do hereby release,
acquit and forever discharge for themselves, their heirs, successors,
executors, administrators and assigns: the Church of Scientology and all
other Scientology organizations or affiliated entities from any and all
claims, causes of action, demands, suits, debts, sums of money, contracts,
controversies, damages and actions of every kind and nature, known or
unknown, in law or in equity, for or because of any act or omission
allegedly done by any or all of the Releasees from the beginning of time
to and including the date of this agreement. It is intended that all such
Releasees are released from liability for all acts, regardless of the
capacity in which they were performed.

"Mr. and Mrs. Barnes agree never to create or publish or post or attempt
to post, attempt to publish and/ or assist another to create for
publication or posting by means of magazine, article, book, electronic
communication, notice or message or other similar form, any writing, or to
broadcast, or to assist another to create, write, post, film or video tape
or audio tape, any show, program or movie, concerning their experiences
with or knowledge or information acquired personally or indirectly
concerning the Releasees. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes further agree that they will
maintain strict confidentiality and silence with respect to their
experiences with the Releasees

"Mr. and Mrs. Barnes agree to turn over to the Church at the time of the
consummation of this Agreement, all materials in their possession, custody
or control of any nature, including E-meters, documents, papers,
memorandums, tapes, films, photographs, or any variations thereof which
concern or relate to the religion of Scientology.

"Mr. and Mrs. Barnes agree that they will not voluntarily assist, advise
or cooperate with anyone, including individual partnerships, associations
or corporations, adverse to the religion of Scientology in any proceeding
against any of the Releasees, or voluntarily cooperate with any person
adverse to any of the organizations, individuals or entities listed above
in any proceeding against any of the organizations, individuals, or
entities listed above. This includes, but is not limited to, anyone
contemplating any claim or engaged in litigation or involved in or
contemplating any activity adverse to the interest of any entity or class
or persons listed above. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes also agree that they will not
cooperate in any manner with any organizations aligned against Scientology
or any of the organizations, individuals, or entities listed above.
Organizations aligned against Scientology include, but are not limited to,
Citizens Freedom Foundation (CFF), American Family Foundation (AFF),
FACTNET, Inc. and Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc.

"Mr. and Mrs. Barnes further agree that they will not use any part of any
money received pursuant to this Agreement to fund, directly or indirectly,
attacks on Scientology or any of the organizations or entities listed
above. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes agree not to testify or otherwise participate
in any judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to
Scientology or any of the organizations, individuals or entities listed
above unless compelled to do so by lawful process. Unless required to do
so by such lawful process, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes agree not to discuss their
experiences or personal or indirectly acquired knowledge or information
concerning the organizations, individuals, or entities listed with anyone
other than members of their immediate family. Further, if compelled to
testify by lawful process, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes will give the Church notice
of said process within 3 days of its receipt. As provided hereinafter in
paragraph 18, the contents of this Agreement may not be disclosed."

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