CCHR



A Canton Journal column on October 17th by

Bill Thibeault revealed that recent protests in Canton, Massachusetts

have been held by a front group of Scientology.



"Did you see where a small group of out-of-town zealots came to Canton

a couple weeks ago to picket the Judge Rotenberg Center out

there on Turnpike Street?

The well-publicized picketing only lasted a couple hours, and they

even trotted out a lady who claimed to be a Canton resident, except

when I attempted to contact her for this column, I couldn't find her

anywhere in town, which leads me to believe that she either in

hiding or may have been fibbing about her place of residence to get

some local media attention.



"This strident group of picketers were apparently from a group

that calls itself the 'Citizens Commission on Human Rights' a

militant group which was created by, and serves as a front

organization for the highly controversial 'Church of Scientology.'

In case you're unfamiliar with the Church of Scientology, it was

founded back in 1954 in California by the late Lafayette Ronald

Hubbard, a prolific but mediocre science fiction and

fantasy writer and

while the 'church' presently claims to have several million members

world-wide, published reports say that critics and other knowledgeable

sources insist their actual membership is much less.



"The Church of Scientology has numerous critics

and has a reputation of being a 'dangerous mind-control cult' that

conducts coercive religious practices, but one report says an

attorney who represents the church insists the church doesn't practice

'mind-control' but admitted it does engage in 'behavior modification.'



"In 1963 the government of the state of Victoria, Australia became so

concerned with the claims and actions of the Church of Scientology

they created a special Board of inquiry to 'inquire into, report upon,

and make recommendations concerning scientology as known, carried on,

practiced and applied.'

The inquiry board headed by an Australian official named Anderson,

held 160 days of hearings, received pertinent documents, heard oral

evidence under oath from 151 witnesses.

The final Anderson Report issued in 1886 pulled no punches and was

highly critical of Hubbard and his church.



"Next week I'll tell you what they concluded from all the evidence they

considered, and I'll also go into some of the things their CCHR

satellite has been up to."



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Germany



Am article in FOCUS on October 14th reported that a new report on

Scientology

has been prepared for the German government.



"The government of the Free State of

Bavaria paid 250,000 Euros for the 'most

comprehensive scientific research to date' on the

controversial Scientology psychocult. The 680 page

study was four years in the making and is the result of

efforts by psychologist Heinrich Kuefner, forensic

psychiatrist Norbert Nedopil and legal scholar Heinz

Schoech.



"Several of the psychocult's areas of operations and its

internal structure are said to be 'in conflict to central

principles of our legal system.' The authors were

particularly critical of cult members being subject to

constant demands of improvements in performance,

including cutting off contact to close relatives and having

relatively minor infractions regarded as crimes. Many of

the cult courses were regarded as illicit practice of

medicine, with some texts fulfilling preliminary conditions

for fraud. For these reasons the authors saw that

conditions of a criminal association were potentially met,

and that there was sufficient evidence present to warrant

consideration of an association ban.



"The Interior Ministry of the Free State of Bavaria

expressed its satisfaction with the findings of the

researchers. In particular, they were interested as to the

potentially criminal aspects of the organization. It was

said that legal alternatives would be carefully weighed,

and that these deliberations would set the tone for future

dealings with Scientology."



From STERN magazine on

October 16th:



"Reputable experts say that hundreds of psycho-cults as dangerous as

Scientology have sprouted up in Germany. These new groups, most of which

are rather small, are said to be a new form of extremism with respect to

degree of danger, aggression and totalism.

Former members of such groups have reported cases of

brainwashing, psycho-terrorism, dependency and shameless fraud. Some of

the victims say they were made to completely disconnect themselves from

their families and to give all their Euros to self-proclaimed gods.



"Although a parliamentary committee of inquiry back in 1998 urged that the

increasingly perfidious operations on the psycho-market be put in check,

the German parliament has yet to react. The committee had recommended

consumer protection regulation, and had promoted the idea of a 'life

management assistance' law. The law was supposed to enable consumers to

obtain information, prior to the signing of a contract with any commercial

provider of life management assistance, about the provider's

qualifications, the methods to be used, and the extents of time and of

finances to be obligated.



"'Consumer protection applies everywhere, not just on the psycho-market,'

said Professor Ralf Bernd Abel. The lawyer served as an expert on the

committee of inquiry and is currently providing counsel to the German

government in a legal dispute with the Moon cult. 'If a principle

applies to groceries, meaning products that affect bodily health, then it

should be no different with products that affect mental health,' Abel told

Stern."



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Keith Henson



A previously sealed order was posted to a.r.s this week,

finding Keith Henson to be in contempt of court

for asking Internet users to send him copies of NOTS 56. The document is

a parody of secret Scientology processing levels, written by Keith Henson.



"On June 16, 1997, this court issued a Permanent Injunction

against defendant Henson.

RTC asserts that through Henson's postings to the Internet on October

24, 2001 and May 9, 2002, he violated the provisions of the

injunction. With respect to Henson's October 24, 2001 posting, the

court disagrees. With respect to part of Henson's May 9, 2002 posting,

however, the court finds that Henson was in contempt of the

Injunction.



"RTC first claims that on October 24, 2001, Henson made a posting to

the

alt.religion.scientology newsgroup on the Internet soliciting

people to send him NOTs 56.

'Of course I don't have any of the NOTs, though surely I could get them

if I cared to. But what is needed for the project is a list of

the words and a list of the words in groups of two and threes. Such a

list plus frequencies of the words and combinations I think could be

posted without fear. A long time ago someone fed the NOTs to a chunk

of dense Perl code called Travesty. Travesty makes such a list as part

of the making 'travesties' of the material fed to it. I can't locate

it, but the real NOTs series only went to 55. If you can find NOTs 56

on the net please email it to me or repost it.'



"Asserting that NOTs 56 is one of its copyrighted Advanced Technology

works, RTC alleges that Henson has violated the

Injunction. Henson does not deny that he made the October 24 posting.

Instead, Henson argues that he is to fact the author of NOTs 56 and

that it was created by editing the output of a mechanical process that

used a list of words and word frequencies in L. Ron Hubbard's

writings. RTC

offered testimony from its president, Reverend Warren McShane, stating

that NOTs 56 is an unregistered, copyrighted, unpublished work to

which RTC holds the exclusive rights. McShane explained that to his

knowledge, no one had published NOTs 56 and that unlike the first 55

NOTs, NOTs 56 had not been stolen by an outsider.



"The court concludes that RTC has not

met its burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Henson

violated the Injunction by asking for a copy or a

posting of NOTs 56. RTC fails to prove by

clear and convincing evidence that anyone would have understood Henson

to be seeking the real NOTs 56. NOTS 56 is not included in the list

of protected Works attached to the injunction a Exhibit B, and it has

not been registered with the Copyright Office. Henson's posting itself

implies that there is not a real NOTs 56 and that what he was seeking

is a fake document.



"RTC also claims that on May 9, 2002, Henson posted to ARS a

portion of RTC' copyrighted NOTs 34; and a hyperlink to a website

where persons could view a copy of NOTs its entirety.

'Here is my original Letter to Judge Whyte less most of NOTs 34.

Your can find the

rest of NOTs 34 dozens of places on the net.'



"RTC argues that in posting the link, Henson

is 'causing or including' others to share a copy of NOTs 34 on their

computers and to download it. Henson maintains that he did not violate

the Injunction because his activities constituted fair use and are

therefore permitted by the Injunction.

The court concludes that Henson's May 9 posting of the hyperlink

violated the Injunction.

Because an individual could effectively acquire a copy of

NOTs 34 on his or her computer by accessing the link provided by

Henson in his May 9 posting, Henson has violated the

Injunction.



"RTC requested that the court

grant it the attorney's fees it incurred during the contempt

proceedings; set a significant, prospective fine that Henson will

be required to pay for any future violations of this court's

Injunction; and refer this matter to the United States Attorney

for prosecution for criminal contempt. While the court declines to

refer this matter for criminal contempt proceedings at this time, it

does conclude that RTC is entitled to recover reasonable attorney's

fees for bringing Henson's violation of the Injunction to the court's

attention, and that in the future, sanctions will be imposed for any

and each future violation of the Injunction on Henson's part.



"The court concludes that although the

amount of time expended on this matter is reasonable, it would be

unreasonable to compel Mr. Henson to pay RTC's attorneys' fees,

including time charged for travel, at the billing rate charged by Mr.

Rosen. While RTC may chose

to hire counsel at the exceptionally high rate of $615 per hour, it

cannot reasonably expect that Henson should be held accountable for

the full amount of its hiring decision.

The court orders defendant Henson to pay RTC's reasonable

attorney's fees it amount of $14,175.



"Finally, to ensure Henson's future compliance with the Injunction, the

court hereby orders for any and each future violation of the

Injunction, Henson will be subject to a sanction in the amount of

$500. Henson could, of course, avoid the imposition of this sanction

by refraining from the behavior proscribed by the Injunction."



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Narconon



La Republica reported on October 11th that the death of a Narconon patient

in Italy is under investigation.



"Maybe Federica, 33, could have been saved; the former drug

addict felt ill at the Narconon Community in Torre dell'Orso, at

Meledugno, and later died at the Vito Fazzi Hospital in Lecce. What

killed her, reads the autopsy, was a peritonitis.

The woman was assisted at the therapeutical

community at Torre dell'Orso by an employee of the facility,

Rodolfo Savino, 45 of Mesagne, and driven to the hospital, where she

died.

The investigating magistrate ordered an autopsy to

clarify the causes of her death.



"The day after, the community employee who assisted the woman,

Rodolfo Savino, was stabbed in the abdomen by Giovanni Costa, 32, who,

before the assault, wrote a letter to his fellows urging them to hold

out and go on with the program to its end. Costa was held by Carabinieri

soon after the assault, and was jailed with the charge of attempted

murder. Savino will recover in 10 days."



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World Trade Centers



The New York Post reviewed a book written by a Scientology volunteer minister

who spent time at the World Trade Centers disaster site.



"Apparently, the demand for reading material about

Sept. 11 is so drastically high that you can have spent three weeks

feeding volunteers at Ground Zero and score a book deal.

'21 Days at Ground Zero: A Young Volunteer's Story' is a new memoir by

Juliet McIntyre, a 20-year-old Scientologist/aspiring actress who did,

in fact, spend three weeks at Ground Zero feeding volunteers.



"'A lot of people - neighbors and friends - had questions,' says

McIntyre, who lives on the Lower East Side. 'I thought if I could

write the book, it would help people understand.'

Yet McIntyre is the central character and Ground Zero the mere

backdrop, with cameos by visitors Vince Vaughn, Edward Norton, Susan

Sarandon and fellow Scientologist John Travolta.



"Tales of hardship include less-than-ideal sleeping arrangements: After

trying to sleep on a plank of wood, then moving on to a row of rubber

bins, she and her fellow volunteer Erica finally got some fireman

cots. But McIntyre says that the cots were hardly much better

than the plank.



"Also in the book: pictures of McIntyre as a 'child model,' posing with

Ben Stiller at Ground Zero, and one in which she stands in front of

the wreckage with her Erica. The caption: 'I took off my asbestos mask

briefly to pose for this photo.'

Heroism indeed."



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Protest Summary



Keith Henson and Christopher Wood reported a protest at the Toronto

Scientology org on October 18th.



"We picketed longer than usual (1-3 pm).

Handed out a good number of flyers, perhaps 100 and ran clear

out of Parsonage ones again. Chris and Gregg handed out at least 50

each.

Chris reports that the

body routers they had out (first time in ages) quit 10 seconds after

he showed up and that Mario was visibly steaming. They saw him and

immediately went inside and put down their pamphlets. Then Gregg

showed up and they closed the Dianetics Foundation door. Chris said

it's like they'd been instructed that they were not to share a

sidewalk with him."



"Picketers: Me, Gregg, Keith.

Leaflets: Xenu/Crimes, Property Tax, Hubbard's Science/Judges. (30 of the

latter passed out by me, didn't get a count from the others.)



"When I arrived, the body routers looked at me, and I looked back at them.

I even offered a leaflet in their general direction. After a short

three-count, both body routers went inside the Dianetics bookstore and put

down their leaflets. Mario then came outside and looked up and down the

street. I said something along the lines of 'if you're looking for the

others, they'll be along shortly.' We picketed for two hours, with no actual problems.



"The org had a wooden table plus canopy out. Once the wind gusted pretty

high, and blew the canopy (canvas on light metal struts) right across the

sidewalk. So, I moved it back. Didn't get any Scientologists complaining

at me or about me, which was novel - in the past the org has complained

about me leaning my sign against the building and picketers walking under

the canopy (which overlies the public sidewalk).



"It was traffic jam day on Yonge Street, due to some construction to the

south. This got me plenty of honk acks, and the odd

passenger in a car wanting a leaflet. I know it's probably some form of

traffic violation if I give them leaflets, but my experience in the past

is that if I don't give these people leaflets then they end up blocking

traffic. So I pass over the leaflet and move on."



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Russia



The Washington Times reported on

October 20th that a Scientology exhibit will be held in the Kremlin in Moscow.



"An exposition dedicated to the life of the Church of

Scientology's founder, Ron Hubbard, will be held within the Kremlin's

walls Tuesday, church officials said in an invitation issued Friday.

The one-day exposition, titled 'Ron Hubbard's Life in Photos,' will be

open for public display in the Kremlin's former Congress Palace.



"The Church of Scientology claims some 10,000 members in Moscow. Russia's

Justice Ministry sought to have it banned earlier this year, arguing that

it had failed to re-register as required under a new law on religious

organizations and that it was no longer active in Moscow. Two courts

dismissed the complaint."



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Reed Slatkin



Reuters reported on October 15th that a second Scientologist will plead

guilty in the Reed Slatkin investment scam.



"A man who allegedly tried to obstruct a

Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into EarthLink Inc.

financier Reed Slatkin has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges,

authorities said on Tuesday.



"Daniel W. Jacobs is charged with conspiring to obstruct an SEC investigation

into Slatkin, who pleaded guilty in April to 15 charges of fraud and

conspiracy for bilking nearly 800 clients out of $600 million in an

elaborate Ponzi scheme.

Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, said in a

statement that Jacobs conspired with Slatkin to obstruct the investigation

by providing the SEC with false testimony and documentation.



"Mrozek said Jacobs and Slatkin, with the help of others, fabricated

correspondence and account statements and set up false European phone

numbers to make it seem that a fictional brokerage company in Switzerland

held hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds.

Jacobs, 60, also pretended in letters and phone calls to be a representative

of a European financial institution, Mrozek said, and was paid $1 million in

gold coins by Slatkin.



"The charge against Jacobs carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal

prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Under a plea agreement with

prosecutors, Mrozek said, he could also be ordered to pay $1 million in

restitution."



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