Scn Dentist



The Valley Morning Star reported on September 12th that a Texas dentist is

being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for

requiring employees to attend Scientology training.



"The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit on

behalf of former employees of Harlingen Family Dentistry who refused to

attend training courses reportedly containing Scientology doctrine. The

lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Brownsville, alleges religious

discrimination and retaliation against the workers.



"The EEOC's lawsuit claims that since October 1999, Rosemary DeLeon,

Griselda Garcia, Maria Carrizales and other dental clinic employees were

mistreated in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The dental clinic

is accused in the lawsuit of forcing workers to attend training lectures

that include Hubbard's teachings.



"'Employees who objected to or refused to attend these courses because of

their religious content were subjected to various adverse employment

actions and were ultimately fired,' the EEOC said in a news release. 'The

EEOC also alleges that HFD retaliated against an employee simply for

making a religious discrimination complaint with the EEOC,' the EEOC said.



"The lawsuit asks for compensation for past and future lost wages,

punitive damages, costs of retraining and job searches, as well as

reimbursement of the EEOC's legal costs."



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Housing Authority



The Stamford Advocate reported on September 14th that a former Housing

Authority employee in Connecticut is filing suit, claiming that she was

fired for not being a Scientologist.



"After she was fired from her position as administrator of Parsonage

Cottage in 2000, Ursula Milde, 62, filed suit against the housing

authority, its board of commissioners and its director, Ben Little,

claiming age and gender discrimination. Several claims were dismissed or

withdrawn before Milde and her lawyer amended the complaint five times and

attempted to amend it again. Now, Milde's lawyer has filed the latest memo

asking the court to reconsider allowing Milde to file her sixth complaint

to include religious discrimination amid allegations that Little is

attempting to infiltrate the housing authority with principles from

Scientology.



"In 1998 and last year, Little required all employees to attend

Scientology training sessions entitled, 'Improving Business Through

Communication, Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard.' The training

sessions were conducted by two renowned Scientologists and were paid for

with federal money, the lawsuit alleges. It also says that Little fired

Milde and another employee, former Director of Finance Russell Kemp, for

not following his 'Executive Directives,' a term apparently coined by

Hubbard, which, according to the suit, 'provides for the infiltration of

an organization such as the Greenwich Housing Authority and terminate

(sic) all those employees whom oppose the controlling Scientologists'

directives.'



"She said in the memo that in the spring of 2000, Little informed her she

would have to be 'audited.' 'At the time I assumed this referred to a

fiscal audit,' Milde wrote. 'Now understanding that the term 'audit' holds

a very different meaning in the Scientology system, I realize that he was

applying Scientology principles in influencing and managing me.'



"The agency's former director, Thomas Crawford, who retired in 1999 and

worked closely with Little, said, 'I know from Ben, since we were personal

friends, that he and his wife are very active in Scientology. Just before

I left there was a reorganization plan for the divisions and departments,

and it was a very complex, laid-out thing that didn't fully make sense for

an in-house staff of 15 people,' said Crawford, who worked as the director

for more than nine years and now lives in Florida. 'That's the kind of

management style taught by Scientology. I know he recently had another

trainer in there and that gentleman had been a very senior person in

Scientology.'



"Kemp, who now works as finance director of the housing authority in

Stamford, said he felt at the time of the training sessions that

Scientology did not belong in the workplace. 'I didn't understand where

the guy was going. He was making really bizarre statements,' Kemp said. 'I

thought it was definitely over the line for a public workplace, let alone

one that is semi-sponsored by government. It really shows questionable

judgment.'"



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Lisa McPherson



Bob Minton has asked the court to appoint an Administrator at Law to

review the finances of the estate of Lisa McPherson. He was joined in his

petition by Scientology.



"Minton made a series of loans to the Estate for the express purpose of

funding litigation expenses relating to the decedent's wrongful death;

and as such, is a creditor and an 'interested person.' The loans, which

remain unpaid, were to be satisfied through potential recoveries from the

wrongful death action prosecuted by the duly appointed personal

representative, Dell Liebreich. It is now evident, however, after five

years of service, that the personal representative is severely mishandling

the Estate litigation, thereby jeopardizing Minton's interest in being

repaid his loans if an administrator ad litem is not immediately appointed

to take over the course of said litigation.



"The personal representative, instead of maximizing recoveries as is her

charge, has caused through her actions multiple judgments to be entered

against the Estate for breaching a covenant not to sue certain entities

and individuals. One such judgment in the United States District Court for

the Eastern District of Texas totals over $500,000. In addition, counsel

retained by the personal representative was personally sanctioned nearly

$100,000 for conducting frivolous and vexatious litigation. Judge Baird

recently entered another judgment for liability against the Estate in a

related breach of contract action filed in the Circuit Court of the Sixth

Judicial District for Pinellas County, Florida. The damages and attorneys'

fees claimed are expected to exceed $600,000. The Estate and its attorneys

were further sanctioned by the court in the amount of $11,824.26.



"Florida Probate Rules provides for the appointment of an administrator ad

litem where the 'necessity arises.' It is absolutely imperative that an

independent and objective administrator ad litem be appointed to take over

all pending litigation, as it is readily apparent from the record that the

personal representative is not acting in the best interests of the Estate

in prosecuting the wrongful death litigation to maximize a recovery, and

if she is permitted to continue in this capacity, her direction will

likely create more liabilities.



"The personal representative has also recently filed a First Accounting

that causes Minton great concern. Among other things, the personal

representative failed to account for the loans, nor did she disclose any

Estate assets on hand. The First Accounting contains many other serious

and significant material defects, deficiencies, errors and omissions and

potentially discloses improper conduct with respect to the personal

representative and/or her counsel. It appears that the personal

representative and her counsel are acting to conceal assets of the Estate.

They have most recently concocted a story that the MINTON loans were not

made to the Estate, but were 'personal' loans to the Estate lawyer to use

for whatever purpose he chooses including personal matters. This new found

position of the personal representative is directly in contradiction of

her duty to preserve Estate assets for the benefit of interested persons,

including creditors."



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World Trade Centers



The News & Observer, a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, reported on

September 12th that Scientologists were part of a memorial ceremony in New

York to commemorate the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade

Centers.



"Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, we have become a nation that

shouts with its T-shirts. Wednesday, in the 16 acres once inhabited by the

World Trade Center, hundreds of thousands of people came to hear a reading

of the names of the more than 2,800 people killed when the twin towers

fell. As simple and eloquent as the litany was, something much more

powerful was said with the T-shirt obituaries for the wives, husbands,

mothers, fathers, sons and daughters lost.



"T-shirts honoring one man, worn by an extended family, bore his name,

date of birth and death and the words 'Where's the faith?' Obviously, it

was something he said regularly to uplift people he loved. Now, they wear

it, if not on their sleeve, then on the front of their T-shirts.



"Visitors came from all over the world. Scientology 'volunteer ministers'

from Los Angeles. Fire and rescue crews from Snohomish County, Wash. Eight

bobbies from London. A young dance troupe from Alabama. Most everyone who

was in any kind of a group wore matching T-shirts. Many T-shirts bore

photographs of the dead, smiling for some joyous occasion.  Several people

wore a T-shirt that featured the wedding photograph of a couple who both

had died in the towers."



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Tom Padgett



A letter from Tom Padgett was posted to a.r.s this week. He is being held

in a Rhode Island jail following his arrest in a family court dispute with

his ex-wife, a Scientologist.



"I was swarmed by approximately 6 police at the Providence RI Airport.

First command was 'put your hands in the air over your head.' Each

policeman had a picture of me - faxed fuzzy copy. They claimed that I was

a fugitive from criminal charges in Kentucky.



"The arresting officer said I owed over $6,000 in child support. I was

cuffed and led to a squad car which said Warwick police on the side. the

arresting officer also stated that he and his lieutenant had never seen

such an intense effort from another state for an extradition warrant.



"They were notified by facsimile from a Mr. Danny Dees of Kentucky that

Friday afternoon and evening that i would be at the airport to pick up my

son coming from Nashville airport. The arresting officer told me that he

was informed by Danny Dees that my son was not on the plane nor had

planned to be. He suggested that this was a 'setup.'



"Approximately 2 AM Saturday I was transported from the Warwick police

station to R.I. State A.C.I. adult correction facility in Cranston.  They

have been slow to provide basic needs, provisions such as soap,

toothpaste, toothbrush, towels, pillow cases etc. On the 3rd day I was

here, I submitted a medical request form for increasing knee and hip pain

caused by chronic back complications. No reply or action to date.  Per

Hubbard Directives, I am 'isolated,' disconnected' from family and

friends, and continue to be 'fair gamed' (tricked, sued, lied to, and

destroyed)."



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Protest Summary



"PSn" reported a protest at the Washington, DC Scientology org on

September 14th.



"Attendees: Myself, Arnie, Elizabeth, and Duncan. We went about 10 minutes

undisturbed until me and Arnie got our pictures taken. About 5 minutes

later, out of nowhere came 'Grumpy' and 'No Name,' our handlers. The guys

go in my face asking me what it was all about, and I didn't get that they

were my handlers until 'Grumpy' called me a bigot. They started using

their blocking tech to keep me from picketing. That failed shortly with

Arnie coming by and drawing 'No Name' away from me. 'Grumpy' wasn't able

to block me, but he kept up the questioning and name-calling. I quickly

dispatched him with a calm, 'On the other side of town, there is a man

waving a picket sign, protesting the abuses of the Catholic Church. Is he

a bigot?' He disappeared after that and reappeared after a while, but he

didn't bother me for the rest of the picket.



"'No name' handled Arnie, but no one can truly handle Arnie. There was a

sign outside, offering counseling for those upset by the 9/11 disaster.

And they were also going to hold an open service for it, too. It really

disgusted me that they'd take the incident to their corporate gain. They

often pointed to the sign when they were handling us all asking us why

we'd picket a 'church' that was offering help for September 11th.



"We had a short break and after a while, returned to picketing with the

'Evil Cult Zone' sign which REALLY moved fliers quickly. We cycled between

sitting and picketing a few times. Just before we left, the guys sent out

a nice young girl named Donya to take more pictures and after she was

done, she started chatting and playing 'Flirty Fishing' with me. She

attempted to inform me about how bad Arnie was and about how little I know

about Scn.  I forced her to reconcile the two conflicting messages Scn

feeds her: 'Arnie Lerma is a copyright pirate' and 'Xenu is not really

what OT3 is.' She admitted to the fact that Arnie couldn't be lying about

OT3, if the church sued him over the materials."



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Reed Slatkin



The Santa Barbara News-Press reported on September 6th that the victims of

Scientologist Reed Slatkin's pyramid scheme are trying to recover their

money from the banks Slatkin used.



"Four California banks are being sued for $250 million for their alleged

role in helping former Hope Ranch resident Reed Slatkin steal hundreds of

millions of dollars from victims in what became one of the largest Ponzi

schemes in American history. 'In short, the defendants willingly turned a

blind eye to Mr. Slatkin's fraud in order to make more money for

themselves,' the lawsuit states.



"Union Bank of California, N. A. of San Francisco; Comerica

Bank-California of San Jose; Imperial Management Inc.; and Bank of Orange

County in Anaheim are accused of aiding and abetting the scam, fraud and

negligence.  'Mr. Slatkin could not have executed his scheme without

substantial assistance from the banks,' the lawsuit states, 'for the banks

provided three necessary but missing ingredients from Mr. Slatkin's

recipe: a steady flow of new money, a mechanism for Mr. Slatkin to manage

custodial accounts he couldn't otherwise handle, and an aura of legitimacy

Mr. Slatkin couldn't obtain without the banks' involvement.'



"Mr. Slatkin is in jail after pleading guilty in March to 15 counts of

fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. During his 15-year investment

scam, his victims included Hollywood celebrities, Internet moguls and

hundreds of individuals and families - including about 75 Santa Barbara

County residents, some of whom lost millions of dollars.



"The class action lawsuit seeks $250 million in damages plus unspecified

punitive damages. It was filed on behalf of all individuals and entities

who entrusted money to Mr. Slatkin to invest on their behalf, and who

received in return less money than they entrusted to him."



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Zenon Panoussis



Zenon Panoussis reported that Dutch officials raided the home he shares

with Scientology critic Karin Spaink, looking for copies of Scientology's

NOTS levels.



"Half an hour ago a team of copyright infringement investigators and

computer experts, four in total, left Karin's place after finishing

Scientology's latest raid against me and the very first one against Karin.

They had arrived two and a half hours earlier in the company of two

policemen, with a search warrant signed by the public prosecutor.



"The cause: Scientology's repeated and persistent complaints that we are

spreading OTs, NOTs and god knows what nots.  We decided to co-operate and

gave them full access, with the agreement that they wouldn't nose closely

on what obviously, at their own judgment, was not what they were looking

for.



"They found nothing. There was nothing to find. Our own private copies of

the OTs and NOTs, of course, but those are part of the evidence in our

respective lawsuits and several courts have already ruled that even if we

may not spread them, we may possess them. The net result is that I now

have an official statement from the authorities that there is nothing

illegal on the server, which I can use when the CoS complains to domain

registries and search engines and upstream providers about that same

server."



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