XPost: misc.education, soc.bi, misc.kids.health   
   XPost: soc.rights.human   
   From: scarecrow@wicked.witch   
      
   On 22 Oct 2003 08:35:12 -0700, BarbaralovesMarty@excite.com (Barbara   
   Schwarz) wrote:   
      
   >Don't try to play stupid and don't try to split hair. Scientologists   
   >have to suffer because of the unqualified attacks of Touretzky, a very   
   >perverted and also dangerous man.   
      
   The fact is that Scientologists cause all kinds of suffering to the   
   families of those they attempt to steal away.   
      
   Scientology and its alter ego Dianetics did not always claim to   
   be a religion.   
      
   Scientology had its earliest origins in the article entitled   
   Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science which L. Ron Hubbard   
   published in the May 1950 issue of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE   
   FICTION magazine. Dianetics was described in this article as   
   "an organized science of thought" which offered a therapeutic   
   technique for the treatment of "any and all inorganic mental   
   and organic psychosomatic ills, with assurance of complete   
   cure in unselected cases. "The science of Dianetics became   
   further developed in subsequent writings by Hubbard and   
   others. This development was solely scientific in nature, and   
   religious aspects were not present.   
      
   Church of Scientology lawyers have sent threatening email   
   (and occasionally faxes and snail-mail) to numerous Netizens,   
   claiming that they were violating Church copyrights by posting   
   short excerpts (often as short as 6 lines) from the Church's   
   "secret scriptures". They've also sent private investigators to   
   harass Internet users and their families, obtained telephone   
   billing records under false pretenses, tried to get universities   
   to remove the Internet accounts of students and staff members,   
   published the True Name of a pseudonymous user, and   
   engaged in other forms of extra-legal harassment. These   
   activities have caused at least one Netizen to lose his job,   
   and another to "shudder into silence" after losing his   
   university account.   
      
   It appears to me that the *Church* is harrassing individuals who   
   happen to disagree with it's beliefs and who publish this information.   
   I hope that they never succeed in silencing those who know the   
   truth about this cult.   
      
      
   --   
   Dorothy   
      
   There is no sound, no cry in all the world   
   that can be heard unless someone listens ..   
      
   The Outer Limits   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)