Alt.religion.scientology
Week in Review Volume 5, Issue 29
10/29/2000
by Rod Keller [rkeller@...]
copyright 2000

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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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> Clearwater

Karin Case reported that Scientology has been hosting an art exhibit in
the Clearwater Bank building.

"Jeff Jacobsen noticed a sign in front of the Scientology 'The Bank'
building that said 'Art Exhibit, October 26 - 28 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. All
Welcome.' Jeff, Ingrid and I took a walk to The Bank building to check out
this open, free art show. Surprisingly, no one was entering the art show.
Jeff tried the front door but it was locked. Then a staff member opened
the door. I pleasantly said, 'Hi!'. He looked startled by my friendly
gesture and replied, 'It's not open now.' When we turned around to leave,
the 2 off-duty officers and Antonio approached us. The male officer asked
me, 'Did you just try to go into that building?' I said, 'Yes, the sign
says art show, all welcome.' He said, 'Oh, ok that makes sense, I was just
asking if you tried to go in.'

"Antonio was telling Jeff 'You are not welcome, what part of that do you
not understand?' Jeff pointed out to the officers and Antonio that the
sign is then incorrect and perhaps they should add, 'Except the LMT staff'
under 'All Welcome.'"

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> U.S. Congress

Die Presse published an article on October 18th on the resolution pending
in the U.S. Congress which would criticize France, Germany and other
European countries for alleged discrimination against Scientology and
other cults.

"A resolution (HR 588) has been taken up recently in the International
Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The resolution
was sponsored by Committee Chairman Ben Gilman and Republican Matt Salmon
and Donald Payne. They have also expressed support that experts on
religious freedom should be included in international meetings, such as
OSCE. The resolution criticizes mainly France (for a parliamentary report
on religions) and Germany (for discrimination against Scientology
adherents in business), but it was also said that religious minorities
were disadvantaged, monitored and boycotted in Austria and Belgium.
Austria was said to produce 'intentional propaganda against religious
groups,' such as through its established sect office."

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> Tory Bezazian

Former Scientologist Tory Bezazian reported that she has been declared a
suppressive person by Scientology.

"Today, on October 28th, 2000 almost 3 months exactly from when I left the
Church, I received on goldenrod my official Declare! It says I abandoned
my husband. This is false. It says I abandoned my friends. This also is
false, and in fact, when I have tried to call them, they have hung up on
me.

"In 1969 I read Dianetics and I hitchhiked from Chicago to LA to study
Scientology. I have been there for 30 years. During much of this time I
have fought my own battle with people mislabeling me as 'PTS' and people
treating me as if there was something wrong with me, because I have a
physical condition. Well, now they have changed their minds. I am no
longer PTS, I am an official SP."

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> Jenna Elfman

Source magazine recently printed a statement by celebrity Jenna Elfman on
her completion of OT Preparations.

"I am SUCH a product of OT Preparations. I don't have any attention on my
case now. I'm in present time on my case.

"I went and got myself a new Clear bracelet, it so rehabilitated my State
of Clear. No more thought, nothing. Very, very certain. And all I see now
is future!

"I'm ready for OT I. Wow, me. I can get that data. I couldn't have it
before. Didn't know I couldn't have it. But I was not in present time to
even think that I would be going on to OT I. Now, I'm here full time. I go
on course from 9:30 in the morning until 10:15 at night.

"When I'm drilling, Ron is with me. I really am hearing his communication,
his intention, his think on it. And I really feel how much he wants us to
go free."

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> France

Scientology held a rally in Paris this week to protest alleged
discrimination. From Tilman Hausherr:

"They did meet at the Bastille but it wasn't a demonstration - just a
bunch of tourists waiting for a bus. Estimate is between 1500 and 3000
cultists. No flag waving, no chanting, no speeches, no banners. There was
a press conference in a cafe with Kirstie Alley, Anne Archer and Isaac
Hayes. Pseudo-celebrities Andrik Shapers and Jeff Pomeranz were there
too. And a few OSA goons like John Carmichael and Daniele Gounord.

From Roger Gonnet and Eldon Braun"

"We met at the Place Bastille at 1:30 pm, where an estimated 1,200-1,500,
joined by a few Raelians and other fringe groups, converged in two
different clumps on opposite sides of the square. There was no permit for
a demonstration, since the approved venue (Place Denvert-Rocherau) had
been rejected. Kirstie Alley and Issac Hayes showed up to do a brief gig
at the first floor window of a cafe. Perhaps two hundred cops were in
attendance. They peacefully kept the crowds in check and lined up to herd
them toward a dozen double decker tour buses.

"Then they were driven to the big afternoon rally, which had been hastily
organized just outside Paris at the Bois de Vincennes. The Foundation for
Religious Tolerance rented a large restaurant called La Porte Jaune for
the afternoon at the last minute at a cost of 200,000 francs (US $27,000).
Earlier today, a small delegation went to the Interministerial Mission to
Combat Cults asking to be heard; they weren't received, so they left a
funeral wreath outside the front door. They have rented the Salon Vianney
at 98 Quai de la Rapee in Paris for tomorrow's 10 am mock 'religious hate
crimes' trial of the President of the Mission, the Mayor of Paris, and
perhaps other officials."

The Panafrican News Agency published an article on October 23rd on the
rally.

"Scientologists, including a number of South Africans, Monday reacted
angrily to the French Government's perceived religious intolerance. France
has blacklisted 173 religions and is seeking to pass a bill that will look
to dissolve sects that are considered undesirable. The list includes
Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists and Seventh-Day
Adventists. This bill is expected to come before the French Senate at the
end of October. Scientologists as well as an array of other religious
denominations in Paris Monday held a huge march and rally in protest of
this bill. A number of South African Scientologists who are outraged at
the bill flew to France to lend their voices to the protest."

From Agence France-Presse on October 23rd:

"Several thousand Scientologists from the United States, Canada and
European countries gathered in Paris Monday to protest against a proposed
new anti-sect law in France. The protest was the largest Scientology
gathering in France for several years, since the group fell foul of the
French authorities after its members were accused of brainwashing
vulnerable people and extorting money from them.

"The upper house of the French parliament is due shortly to debate a bill
passed unanimously by the lower house in June which makes 'mental
manipulation' a crime. The law would authorize a court to dissolve a sect
already convicted twice by the courts. It outlaws the groups from
advertising to youths and gives mayors the right to prohibit the groups
from moving to schools, hospitals or other establishments sheltering
impressionable people.

"The demonstration, which had not been authorised by local authorities,
also called for the dismantling of France's interministerial anti-sects
mission and the sacking of the body's president Alain Vivien for 'his
serious violations of the fundamental freedoms of French citizens.'"

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> Germany

Focus reported on October 21st that a new report has been prepared by Dr.
Stephen Kent on Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force.

"Apostate members of the Scientology organization's elite unit, 'Sea
Organization,' are subjected to 'brainwashing' in at least ten penal camps
in the USA, Denmark and England, according to Canadian professor Stephen
Kent. Kent will present his scientific study in the coming weeks with a
former camp inmate in Hamburg and Berlin. Those formerly involved report
that deviants, including the former Hamburg chief Wiebke Hansen, must
always run from one place to another in the heavily guarded camp, and have
to work for up to 30 hours at a stretch. The food was said to be
insufficient and 'terrible.' Totalitarian methods such as forced
confession of imaginary sins are alleged to be used to make the inmate toe
the line."

Ursula Caberta announced that the Hamburg Interior Agency has published a
brochure on the RPF. From the Associated Press on October 23rd:

"The Hamburg Interior Agency has published a brochure about Scientology
which warns about its re-education camps. 'It is time that we address this
issue,' said Ursula Caberta on Monday. She directs the Work Group on
Scientology for the agency. According to her statements, members ready to
leave the organization are put into these camps in which they are again
made loyal. The author of the brochure is Canadian sociologist Stephen
Kent, who says he has conducted numerous interviews with former
Scientologists.

"According to what he says, the camps are in the USA, Great Britain and
Denmark. The inmates are poorly fed, required to do heavy labor, and
subjected to hours of interrogation. Kent's findings are verified by U.S.
citizen Stacy Brooks who, in her own words, was herself dragged off to one
of these camps when she was a Scientologist. 'I saw how several inmates
were hit,' she said. According to Kent and Brooks, government authorities
are not doing anything about the camps."

From Aktuelle dpa-Meldungen on October 23rd:

"The 're-education' into obedient Scientologists in these camps is an
equivalent to 'brainwashing,' During the press conference, members of the
Hamburg Scientology organization protested against Caberta in front of the
agency and accused her of accepting bribes. It was alleged that she
'secretly accepted money for the payment of private debts' from an 'active
opponent' of Scientology. Caberta dismissed the allegation back in
September. 'I am not corrupt,' she stressed.

"Former member of Scientology Stacy Brooks reported in Hamburg that she
was taken by force in the middle of the night to a 're-education camp' in
Los Angeles. She said there she was subjected to episodes of anguish and
sleep deprivation, among other things. She said that other inmates had
been hit. The police in the USA allegedly knew about the camp, but did not
get involved.

"The so-called RPF program was not voluntary, as Scientology claimed, said
Prof. Kent. He said that, without question, the actions of the RPF
violated a series of human rights agreements like the rights of freedom of
thought, conscience and religion. Kent said that these and other human
rights problems 'centered around Scientology programs which enjoy tax
exemption in the United States.'"

From Hamburg Morgen Post on October 24th:

"Does Scientology maintain penitential camps in which apostates are
forcibly held and are subjected to brainwashing? A new booklet from the
Work Group on Scientology in the Interior Agency has come to that
conclusion. Its author is Professor Stephen Kent from Alberta, Canada.

"'Even residents of Hamburg who are members of Scientology run the risk of
ending up in one of the organization's penitential camps in Denmark or the
USA,' said Ursula Caberta, Hamburg's Scientology Commissioner. Stephen
Kent said the camps were set up to break down the will of members critical
of the organization. 'Witnesses have told me that they were held there an
entire year,' said Kent.

"'I was pulled out of my bed early in the morning and dragged off,' Stacy
Brooks reported. She said the rehabilitation camp was in the middle of Los
Angeles. 'I was constantly watched there and interrogated daily - with a
lie detector.' She said she received threats that she would never see her
family again. 'In the afternoons we had to do the running program for
hours to get rid of negative thoughts.' The only ones that leave are those
who toe the line for the sect, said Stacy Brooks. Now she has joined the
struggle against the sect."

Augsburger Allgemeine Stadtausgabe reported on October 20th that
Scientology has opened a new facility in Augsburg.

"The police and Constitutional Security have an opening of an 'encounter
center' by the controversial Scientology organization in the Dom district
on their agenda. We operate on the assumption now, as we did before, that
this organization has anti-constitutional currents,' said Franz Gruber,
spokesman of the Bavarian State Office for Constitutional Security.
Therefore the office collects information on the organization's
activities, which has 2,600 members in the Free State, according to
findings. Scientology had already established a 'Mission' once in Augsburg
in the early '90s. 'That closed again, though, because of inactivity,'
according to Gruber. The organization has apparently increased its efforts
in the past several months to again gain a hold in the Free State. 'The
opening may be an attempt to create a logistical center for recruitment of
customers in the southern German area.' As verified by a police spokesman,
the encounter center is also under surveillance by the Augsburg
Commissariat for State Security."

Stuttgarter Zeitung published an article on the German OPC on October
25th.

"The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) was
already running into problems before it got started. The Allies sought
people who were unencumbered by the Nazi era yet were politically
experienced enough to guard the new democracy. The Allies refused the
first seven candidates which the federal administration under Konrad
Adenauer proposed for president of the office, all of them because of
their brown past. Finally, in 1951 the Brits installed Otto John from the
resistance movement as chief of Constitutional Security on July 20th.

"As the central agency for the observation of extremist currents,
Constitutional Security has collected enough proof in the past 20 years
for the prohibition of a total of 22 counter-constitutional organizations.
Fields of operation include not only the surveillance of both leftwing and
rightwing extremists, but also of sect-like organizations like
Scientology. On top of that comes battling extremism by foreigners. The
mission of the more than 2,000 staff, who have at their disposal an annual
budget of about 224 million marks, includes counter-espionage. About 60
percent of their information comes from public sources. Only a little bit
flows through the secret channels, which includes undercover men and
eavesdropping devices."

A Press Release announced this week that nominations are open for the
second Alternative Charlemagne Award.

"The spokeswoman for the European-American Citizens Committee for Human
Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA, Solveig Prass of the Parents and
Concerned Initiative against Psychic Dependency of Sachsen, Inc.,
announced that competition was open for the Alternative Charlemagne Award
in 2001. The Committee's human rights prize will be bestowed in 2001 upon
a person who excels in the trans-Atlantic area in the discussion about
human rights and religious freedom and the totalitarian Scientology
organization."

Today in the Bundestag reported on October 26th that the CDU/CSU has asked
the German government official questions about plans regarding Scientology

"The CDU/CSU faction have made Psycho-groups with a high risk potential
into a Minor Inquiry. Mentioned in particular was the Scientology
Organization. The government should say, based on the evaluation of the
Scientology Organization by the French administration, whether it is ready
to agree to a joint French-German initiative with the goal of achieving a
coordinated joint method by the EU member states in dealing with the risks
arising from Scientology.

"It is also asked whether the U.S. government has tried to exert influence
to Scientology's favor in Germany. The faction further intends to know
what the administration has undertaken to present the USA with their
opinion of the risks resulting from Scientology to the liberal democratic
basic system of Germany and to gain agreement for the resulting plan of
action.

"In addition to that, it is of interest to the representatives how many
commercial enterprises Scientology and its sub-organizations control
directly through capital ownership and contracts and indirectly through
management personnel. Finally, the faction inquired as to the legal
alternatives to thwart infiltration of the German economy by Scientology
members."

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> Keith Henson

Keith Henson reported developments in his bankruptcy case, including an
abusive deposition of his daughter by Scientology.

"Monday Rosen deposed my wife Arel for three hours. It was relatively
fractious, especially the exchange with Warren McShane over the
transparent access he has with 'sealed' materials. Next morning my
daughter was subjected to an hour of deposition by Rosen. I was in the
room along with Valory Horn, her attorney. Arel picketed outside the
building. There were a few memorable exchanges between Rosen and Ms Horn,
and we walked out of the deposition after the one our stipulated by the
judge - not the one in San Jose, but a Central district judge. She
limited Amber's deposition to one hour and ordered RTC to pay $1000 in
sanctions for trying to get a longer deposition.

"Rosen did not do so hot trying to deal with Amber. In spite of
mocking/sneering, he could not shake her. Part of the deposition was about
some artwork she was given when she was a little kid and the rest was
about such matters as what she had been given as a graduation present.
Rosen tried to upset her in a number of places with one exchange about
'being paid' for her tutoring work.

"About three PM Arel and I put in a short picket on LRH way. When we
parked on Sunset, there were three estates project force children sweeping
the sidewalk. The EPF children came up to our car just as we were getting
the signs out. The kids read the signs with wide open eyes and then ran."

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> Lisa McPherson Trust Benefit

Mr. Scary Productions announced some changes to the band line-up for the
benefit concert to benefit the Lisa McPherson Trust.

"Two more bands are now added to the lineup for the 1st Annual Benefit
Concert for the Lisa McPherson Trust on Saturday, Nov. 11th. They are Gnaw
and Low 2 the Left. They are helping us get the fliers for the benefit
distributed in the Tampa and Brandon areas! The Master of Ceremonies,
Jamie Kennedy, advises that his mother was visited recently by a couple of
Scientologists that were looking for him, and it has got him fired up."

Jamie Kennedy described the incidents with Scientology.

"Listen to the track JUDAS' SON. The recording is from the first time I
performed it ever in San Jose. The recording details how the now deceased
leader of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard is my great grandfather on my mothers
side, my grandfather being the right hand man in the cult for many years
until he defected as well. It also details how the Church is quite simply
one of the most dangerous cults on the planet. They sue people, blackmail
people, frame people, fake suicides and straight out kill people. They've
infiltrated the FBI, the IRS, the CIA and the State Department. The FBI
has actually stated that their own surveillance equipment is not even
close to what the Church has. They have BILLIONS of dollars in secret
accounts and over 8 million followers including Tom Cruise and of course
John Travolta. And ALL of it was started by my great grandfather.

"JUDAS' SON is the very same recording that an anti-Scientology group out
of Florida called the Lisa McPherson Trust (named for a woman who was
killed by the Church when she tried to defect) heard on the Internet and
is now paying all my expenses to fly me out to Florida to perform and MC
at a first of it's kind benefit concert in November in the city of
Clearwater, a city that Scientology owns HALF of, literally millions of
dollars in real estate, half the police force, and where the international
headquarters of the Church is located. The benefit features ex members of
the church, DJ's, local bands.

"This very same recording and this very same concert is why the Church
came to my HOUSE in Vallejo last Thursday. They actually came to my ex
girlfriends house, two of them, a man and a woman claiming that they were
'poets' who were throwing a 'show' with me and they really wanted to
discuss my poetry with me. My ex didn't know any better and directed them
to my mothers house (where I've been crashing) a few blocks away. They
arrived and tried to sell my brother the same line of shit. They kept
trying to weasel information about me to him until my mother came across
them. She instantly got a bad feeling about them, telling me later that
she can always recognize Scientologists by their 'dead eyes' and nearly
robot like behavior. When she asked what poems they wanted to discuss
with me, they shuffled a bit. She asked if it was any poem in particular,
they said yes, my poem on Scientology. 'Are you Scientologists?' she
asked. They tried to change the subject saying it wasn't important until
she drilled them on it again and the man uncomfortably admitted that the
woman was a Scientologist and that he was 'with the church'.

"They asked if I knew that my piece was being used by opponents of the
Church. 'Of course he does,' she said. 'Well we claims in his piece that
we threaten people' he said. 'Then what the hell are you doing on my
porch?' my mom shot back. They actually started quoting lines from my
poem, claiming they had never seen any of evidence of any of it and my mom
started laughing, sadly shaking her head at their devoted ignorance, told
them she prayed they'd escape the cult and politely told them if they
wanted to speak to me, to leave a number and get the hell off her lawn.

"Some of my family thinks I'm sticking my head into the mouth of the lion
by flying out and doing the show. My family prefers its silence and to be
left out of it. I refuse to go down quietly. There's a strong possibility
that the Church will show up at my next few shows. In secret of course,
recording anything they can to use against me later. My mom sadly shook
her head and told me that this is only the beginning, that they won't ever
stop until I'm quiet, they have too much money, too many thugs and slaves
and lawyers, that I'm fighting an impossible fight, that this fight almost
killed my grandfather and HAS killed other people. So if I vanish, you
know who the suspects are."

Mark Bunker reported that a new flyer has been distributed against the
concert.

"This morning, a flyer was left at the door of the LMT. It is an attack on
the upcoming benefit concert for the Trust:

"ANTI-CHRISTIAN BANDS? FORNIKULTURE & Go TO Hells are two of the bands
scheduled to appear in Clearwater 'BENEFIT' for The Lisa McPherson Trust,
Inc. The Master of Ceremonies for the Lisa McPherson Trust benefit has
stated that 'Christianity is one of the most dangerous cults on the
planet.' Do we want this hate rally to destroy harmony and create conflict
in Clearwater?"

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> Tom Padgett

Tom Padgett posted an update to his case in Kentucky, where he is trying
to get visitation with his children and defeat efforts to jail him again
on child support matters.

"A motion was filed to require prevention of CHILD/PARENT ALIENATION
SYNDROME - an APA diagnosis when one parent keeps a child or children from
another, and PERMANENT ESTRANGEMENT - a negative phenomena strongly warned
to the court in March of 1996 in this case by expert witness Rev. Dennis
Erlich. DISCONNECTION - a mandatory severance between Scientologists and
their family members, friends, and loved ones which sadly includes young
innocent children against their will and wishes. CHILD ABUSE - a vast harm
acknowledged by most child psychologists and child psychiatrists when one
parent's unchecked anger motivates keeping children from the other parent.

"A motion filed to get an actual written order for a legal guardian ad
litem for the minor child involved of which the parties agreed to one in
July 1999, was overruled. The judge's comments were there was no need for
one in this case and in a round about way stated he didn't want any
'outsiders' from Hopkins County involved. The July 1999 agreement
appointed a candidate from Louisville, 2 1/2 hours to the east of
Madisonville. The father disagreed that the child needed his own legal
guardian since the mother only wanted to settle their parental differences
through more litigation in the courts.

"A motion for a partial ruling on a past motion for reduction of support
obligation was deferred back to the local Domestic Relations Commissioner
to be heard. Tom called the Kentucky Child Support Enforcement in
Frankfort re: emancipated children issues rendering a discovery that he
had been 'overpaying' child support by fifty percent for the past 29
months since the older child reached 18 and had graduated from high school
in May of 1998. He wanted immediate credit and adjustments made as it
would dramatically effect the outcome of the criminal case. The older
child, a daughter who has denounced scientology, is in college and has
indicated that she wants any support to be directly from her dad rather
than through her mom.

"Tom's motion to the court for an Order requiring Laura to attend the
mandatory Hopkins County Parent Education Class for divorcing parties was
overruled. Tom attended the class in October 1998. The Judge noted that
rule went into effect in early 1998 long after this action was filed in
1992. The Judge did, however, 'recommend' Laura to attend to appear
reasonable, but would not order it. Since the class is facilitated by
psychologists, Laura cannot attend as taboo per LRH policy."

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> Protest Summary

Rod Keller and Arnie Lerma reported a protest in Washington DC this week.

"I had a new sign 'Stop Hurting Families, Scientology' and 'Stop the Abuse
and Deception.' I began handing out my Why I Protest flyers
(http://parishioner.org/why.html) and over the course of the day I gave
out about 300. Eventually the handlers were Sylvia Stanard, Thierry
Duchanac and Justin Clark. They also had two body routers. I saw one
couple and another guy go in during the protest. The couple came out
later, took my flyer, and took a picture with me. I asked if he passed the
personality test, and he said 'no.' He said he was mostly on the side of
the protesters, but wanted to hear both sides.

"Arnie and Lisa showed up at about 1:30 with Arnie's large 'Cult Zone'
sign. Jim showed up later with 'Honk if Scientology Sucks' which brought a
lot of honks.

"This protest saw the introduction of 'leaf blower tech'. A young staffer
began to blow some leaves from the side of the wall in front of the org.
But after the leaves were gone, he kept blowing and blowing. He blew the
same two leaves for about 15 minutes. It's a loud blower, so the
introduction of 'accidentally stepping on the power cord tech' was
introduced and proved to be a superior technology. Sylvia came out and
told the guy to get off the corner where there were no more leaves, and do
the rest of the sidewalk. I think she was embarrassed by her org's
actions.

"I was told several times by Sylvia and Thierry that they have decided I
am not evil. I am deluded, but apparently sincere. Arnie isn't evil
either, but would be if he wasn't insane."

"I arrived at Connecticut and R streets to find Rod Keller already
picketing. My picket sign was a new one. 'CAUTION ENTERING GREEDY CULT
ZONE.' '$cientology LIE$' enclosed in a fluorescent highlighted pink
arrow. 'WWW.XENU.NET' And it was BIG 36' x 48'.

"150 of a new flyer I made and crafted for this picket. Thierry OSA
Duchanac came over for pictures and told the body router NOT to talk to me
at all. The body-router almost snared this one kid, so I walked up to them
and looked the kid in the eyes and said 'HANG ONTO YOUR WALLET AND RUN
LIKE HELL!' He did not take the personality test."

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> Chuck Russel

Die Welt published an interview with film producer Chuck Russel on October
26th.

"Chuck Russel began his career as producer with the horror shock film
Nightmare on Elm Street III. That was followed by the comedy The Mask with
Jim Carrey and Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"DIE WELT: You have voiced criticism about sects like Scientology.

"Russell: I didn't have a special institution in mind because there are so
many shady operators who assimilate the lives and spirits of people to
defraud them of their hopes and goods. Everyday we should ask to whom we
belong and who comes between individual people and God."

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