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Books on Scientology
October 1971: Jane Kember, then Guardian Worldwide, on how to abuse litigation
to deal with critical books. "Do not worry about whether you will win or
lose, but direct all effort and concentration on the legal technicalities
required to achieve a legal confrontation ... The button used in effecting
settlement is purely financial. In other words, it is more costly to continue
the legal action than to settle in some fashion ... Every skirmish should be
treated like a major battle." Placed here in the public interest.
Martin's put a bit of effort into making this one as inclusive as possible
- worth a look over.
A classic from 1971; the first critical book to be written by an ex-member.
Doesn't contain anything you won't have read already if you're a keen a.r.s reader, but it's well-written
and a Damn Good Read. Available in this deluxe Online
Edition after many years out of print.
To make it even more deluxe, I obtained a copy of both editions of the
book (Neville Spearman hardback, 1971 and Mayflower paperback, 1973) and
scanned the covers and plates. Dress up
your copy today!
There's also Martin Hunt's original text copy of the
book here - scanned from the paperback, which Cyril says is the more
typographically accurate of the two editions.
Cyril has authorised the spread of this book in electronic form
free of charge. (Of course, if you want to do a commercial reprinting,
he'd go for that too :-)
Cyril is currently a resident of Melbourne, Australia. He's not online,
but is a regular at our demonstrations against the
CoS.
Believe What You Like by C.H. Rolph
This isn't Australian at all, but I'm the one who bothered scanning and
HTMLising it so I'm listing it here. There are copies available at the
sites of Dave
Touretzsky and Cornelius
Krasel.
I have been unable to track down the author's heirs (he apparently died in
1994) for proper permission to spread this one, but it's been out of print
forever.
Other Australian books mentioning Scientology