I greatly appreciate the Times' coverage of the Lisa McPherson story. People are following Lisa's tragic story all over the world.

In a related story, after Lisa's death (but before it became widely known) Scientology sued two people in Northern California. The first, Grady Ward (www.gradyward.com), they sued contending (without evidence) that he was the illusive "Scamizdat" who had been posting their internal documents on the net. The second was me. I looked at one of the freely available documents, NOTs 34, "The Sequence for Handling a Physical Condition" and concluded it was a instruction manual for the criminal practice of quack medicine.

I wrote the Judge in Grady's case asking it if was his intent to allow the "Church" of Scientology to use copyright and trade secret laws to prevent public disclosure of criminal activities. When no answer was forthcoming, I posted my letter to the Internet news group alt.religion.scientology, quoting NOTs 34. I was almost instantly sued by Scientology for copyright and trade secret violations.

However, I did get an answer to my question. It was the Judge's intent to use copyright and trade secret laws to prevent the public disclosure of criminal activity of the kind which killed Lisa McPherson . I am now under a Federal injunction he issued which specifically prohibits me from giving a copy of NOTs 34 to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is charged with investigating quack medical devices (Scientology's "E-meter") and claims that E-meter "treatment" cures cancer and other physical illnesses. In simple terms, a Federal Judge is blocking a citizen from supplying evidence of criminal activity to a law enforcement agency.

Thanks to the Times (which fought sealing exhibits in the McPherson case) the FDA or anyone else can read NOTs 34 and similar scientology criminal instruction manuals (such as the Introspection Rundown which was used to kill Lisa) in the files of the Lisa McPherson lawsuit.

Keith Henson
hkhenson@netcom.com

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(A starting point for web surfing is http://www.lisamcpherson.org/cos/lisa.htm)