Reasons to Picket -
Felonious Conspiracies
From: "Steve Carmichael-Timson"
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: A Start
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:53:44 +0100
Message-ID: <923500187.23189.0.nnrp-04.9e9820ea@news.demon.co.uk>
$cientology has repeatedly fostered felonious conspiracies
* Operation Snow White
In 1978-81, eleven high-ranking $cientologists were convicted, fined, and
sentenced to terms in Federal penitentiaries for their roles in "Operation
Snow White", a conspiracy to infiltrate and burglarize U.S. Federal
government offices, to steal and destroy goverment files documenting facts
unfavorable to Scientology.
The long list of offenses committed may be found in the court document
"Stipulation of Evidence", at URLs:
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul01.txt
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul02.txt
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul03.txt
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of $cientology, was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in this case.
The convicted include Mary Jane Kember, the "Guardian" (head of the
Guardian's Office, then the second-highest office in $cientology, reporting
directly to Hubbard himself), and Hubbard's second wife Mary Sue.
Despite $cientology's claim that these criminals have been ousted, several
of the convicted felons, including Duke Snider, Henning Heldt, Mo Budlong,
and Dick Weigand, are still active in $cientology.
Kendrick Moxon, senior attorney for $cientology, was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in this case. Today, the bankrupt California $cientology
organization maintains its offices within Moxon's law firm; Moxon was the
lead attorney in the Scott case that drove the Cult Awareness Network
("CAN") into bankruptcy.
In July 1992, the Church of Scientology was found guilty of infiltrating the
Toronto Police, along with the offices of Revenue Canada, the Ontario
Attorney General and the provincial government. Thousands of files had been
stolen. http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/toronto
http://superlink.net/~mgarde/courts.htm#queen
$cientology's Guardian's Office criminally harassed Paulette Cooper, author
of the early critical book _The_Scandal_of_Scientology_, by stealing her
stationary with her finger prints, forging bomb threats to themselves, and
then calling in the Feds; by stealing and making public the confidential
patient records of Cooper's psychotherapy; by spreading false and
discreditable information about Cooper among her neighbors; and much more.
In just two of a long list of "operations" against Gabe Cazares, (a former
Mayor of Clearwater, Florida, who opposed the virtual occupation of his town
by $cientology's "Flag Land Base"), the Guardian's office attempted to frame
Cazares by staging a fake hit-and-run accident. Th GO also attempted to set
him up for blackmail by arranging a liason with a $cientology agent posing
as a drunken prostitute.
During the enormous FBI raid of Scientology facilities that led to the Snow
White convictions, documents were seized that planned for future criminal
activities by the Guardian's Office:
http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/Co$/docs/index.html
Operation PC Freakout: further harrassment of Cooper: sending forged bomb
threats to Arab consulates in Washington DC and to Henry Kissinger.
Operation Quaker: a plan to spirit material witnesses out of the country.
Operation Street-man: a plan to investigate Cazares background, in an effort
to find material for blackmail.
Heber Jentzsch and Warren McShane were officials in the Guardian's Office,
under whose auspices these felonies were planned and carried out.
Today Jentzsch is the president of the "Church" of $cientology
International, and McShane is the head of the Religious Technology
Corporation ("RTC"), which presses "copyright" lawsuits against journalists
and critics on behalf of $cientology.
$cientology explicitly teaches its representatives to lie
$cientology has an official training routine, "TR-L", that is used to teach
its public spokespersons to lie convincingly, and without remorse.
Lying defamation of enemies is standard policy in $cientology, and is termed
"dead agenting".
In 1995, the "Church" of $cientology Canada paid the largest libel judgement
in Canadian history, $1.8 million, to the Hon. Casey Hill, because their
official spokesmen continued to maliciously "dead-agent" Hill when they knew
their claims to be lies. http://superlink.net/~mgarde/hillmann.txt
$cientology maintains files ("PC folders") of potentially damaging
admissions confessed by adherents, and uses them as a threat to control
members, and to smear ex-members.
During "auditing", the person being audited ("the PC") is asked a long
series of detailed and intensely personal questions about their sex life,
illegalities they may have performed, anything they may regret or be ashamed
of. All responses are carefully recorded in the PC folder.
Persons attempting to leave $cientology have been threatened with public
disclosure of the contents of their PC folder; ex-members who have made
trouble for $cientology have had these threats carried out.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/mpoulter/scum/culling.html
$cientology has several times announced a "religious" crusade to wipe the
psychiatric profession and psychotherapists of all kinds from the face of
"this planet", while refusing itself to offer help of any kind whatsoever to
persons suffering from schizophrenia, autism, cerebral palsy, bipolar
disorder, depression, or any other mental or emotional disorder.
$cientology has systematically stolen and destroyed library copies of
critical books, magazines, and newspapers, including:
_A_Piece_of_Blue_Sky_, J. Atack
_The_Road_To_Xenu_, M. Wakefield
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/xenu.html
_Bare-Faced_Messiah_, R. Miller
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/bfmconte.htm
_Religion,_Inc_, S. Lamont
_L_Ron_Hubbard,_Messiah_or_Madman_, B. Corydon
_The_Scandal_of_Scientology_, P. Cooper
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/cooper/index.html
_The_Road_To_Total_Freedom_, R. Wallis
"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" Time Magazine, May 6, 1991 page 50
(cover story) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html
"The Prophet and Profits of Scientology" Forbes, October 27, 1986
"Scientology: The Sickness Spreads" Reader's Digest, September 1981
"Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" Reader's Digest, May 1980
"The Prophet and Profits of Scientology" Forbes, October 27, 1986
"Scientology: The Sickness Spreads" Reader's Digest, September 1981
"Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" Reader's Digest, May 1980
"Scientology Brings Four Years of Discord" and thirteen other related
investigative articles Winner, 1980 Pulitzer for national reporting The St.
Petersburg Times, December 1979
"Scientology: A Long Trail of Controversy" and six other related
investigative articles Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1978
http://www.rpi.net.au/~marina/latimes/index.htm
$cientology has a long history of filing meritless lawsuits against
legitimate news media, such as _Time_ Magazine, The Readers' Digest, and the
Washington Post, with the intent of stifling accurate disclosure of its
history, actions, policies, and beliefs.
$cientology is legally structured as an incredible tangle of dummy
corporations and shells, serving as a shield against legal accountability.
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A few WWW sites for the beginning researcher:
Intro to $cientology: http://www.tiac.net/users/modemac/cos.html
First person narrative of one person's career in $cientology:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu
The first critical Web page, and still good:
http://www.sky.net/~sloth/sci/index.html
More detail, well organized:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/mpoulter/scum.html
http://www.demon.co.uk/castle/audit/index.html
The Sekret Skripchurs http://www.xenu.net/
Canonical list of all $cientology Web resources:
http://www.best.com/~mchong/arsweb.shtml
