Reader responses to FACTNet's rejection of $12 million
"FACTNet, you people are my heros." Z
"Y'all are tougher than nails. My hat's off to you."
"Thanks for this powerful message and thanks to all hands with FACTNet for the courage and perserverence they have displayed. Let's all get behind them."
"12 million bucks? 12 *million* bucks? This is amazing. If,
as the FACTNet bashers & Scientology claim, FACTNet is nothing more
than a load of rubbish, why go to these lengths to shut it down? This
confirms what I already personally know - that Scientology want FACTNet
wiped out of existence....
"How many gag orders have been signed, I wonder? How many? What kind
of *religion* requires its former members to sign gag orders? Again, if
these former members are talking horse manure, people are quite capabable
of detecting it for themselves... Why the gag orders? Unless...just *maybe*,
just *maybe*, there might be an element of Truth in what they are saying?...
"Most people think of settlement as a compromise, a reasonable agreement
reached, with give and take on both sides. This is how bloodshed was averted
in South Africa, with all sides giving a bit. For Scientology, however,
it is *completely* one-sided. The parties opposing them are required to
sell their very souls, give in to their terms, and they think the money
is a sufficient compensation, but the money is often merely a *recouping*
of what an individual has suffered from Scientology, and so the playing
field is not level at all.
"Scientology need to turn a settlement into a "Victory",
need to parade it as a "Defeat of the enemy", need to show that
they have CRUSHED their opponents, and most importantly - that THEY WERE
RIGHT. "Settlement" *has* to show that they were "right",
per their policy, there is just no other way....
"Now *this* is what needs to be tested. Those copyrights. I have
spoken to former members who were there in the old days, but not willing
to come forward, and they damn well KNOW that many of the bulletins were
often written by others, etc. I have only their word on it, but they are
from different countries, and their accounts have enough of a common pattern
to convince me, personally, that there is definitely something not right,
here.
"It needs to be addressed, and I cannot refrain from displaying my
absolute relief that FACTNet will be going forward, in spite of what must
have been a VERY tempting offer. I shall do everything in my power (off
this forum) to support FACTNet in this." KB
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