
Who is Steven Fishman?
Was he really the biological father of Jesus Christ?
The Church of Scientology said he was. His auditors, Nancy
Witkowski, Catherine Fox, Leah Abady, Ann Glushakow, Margaret
Supak, Richard Reese, John Eastment, Hans Stahli, and Ray Mithoff
all checked Steven Fishman on the e-meter over a period of years
and told him over and over again that he was the biological father
of Jesus Christ, and that it was Steve Fishman's resposibility
to de-Christianize the planet by exposing the lie and the myth
of the immaculate conception, and thereafter bring all of Christianity
into Scientology as the largest FSM (Field Staff member) or conversion
movement of planet earth.
You see, the Church of Scientology is an anti-Christian religion.
On Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Tape # 112, L. Ron Hubbard,
the founder of Dianetics and Scientology who died a fugitive
from justice in 1986, said, "Christ died for his own sins."
In a confidential student briefing in 1980, Hubbard described
Christ as a "pedophile" and as "lover of young
boys."
I was told by Fred Hare, the Organizational Executive Secretary
(OES) of the Mission of Fort Lauderdale, in 1987, that Christ
was a later life cycle of the evil Emperor "Xenu",
who, according to Hubbard, freeze-dried clusters of thetans or
souls and transported them from an alien planet, Helatrobus,
to Earth, which Hubbard called "Teegeeack." The word
"Teegeeack", according to Russell Means, the leader
of the American Indian Movement, is the name of a tribe of American
Indians who settled and lived in Oregon in the early nineteenth
century. The word "Teegeeack" means "tribe."
Yet, Hubbard tried to pass off false definitions and concepts
in his poorly written, illogically contrived "Advanced Technology",
known also as the "Upper Level Materials" to unsuspecting
Scientologists. In the "Advanced Technology", Hubbard
talked about Xenu exploding clusters or freeze-dried packages
of thetans inside volcanoes located in Las Palmas and Hawaii.
Scientific evidence refutes completely that there was any explosion
seventy-five million years ago in Las Palmas, because there was
no volcanic activity present there at that point in time.
Scientology is a Satanic cult which has its origins in the
work of Aleister Crowley, a well known Satanist. Hubbard was
a disciple and student of Crowley between 1947 and 1949.
The "Advanced Technology" refers to "Body Thetans"
or "BT's." After the purported volcanic explosions,
and all of the thetans were released into the atmosphere, some
attached themselves to and occupied the bodies of "genetic
entities", and these were the bodies of animals, plants
and fish. Hubbard's cosmology does not quarrel with evolution,
but rather supports it. According to the "Advanced Technology",
each living thing or "genetic entity" is occupied and
controlled by a thetan, and since there are far more thetans
in the atmosphere than live organisms on earth, there are many
unattached thetans, and some of these, in their attempt to occupy
a body, attach themselves instead to a body part, such as a nose
hair or a toe nail, and these are called "Body Thetans"
by the Church.
The scam of the "Advanced Technology" involves the
removal of the Body Thetans one by one, at great expense, because
the exorcism of each body thetan requires certain precise actions
on the e-meter, which in turn has to be checked by a course supervisor.
The process of "intending away body thetans" is
identical to the Satanic ritual of demonic exorcism. There is
no difference, other than the Church's use of an e-meter, a rudimentary
galvanic skin response device which is a crude imitation of a
lie detector.
Dr. Geertz, my psychologist and co-defendant in the Fishman
/ Geertz case, points out that Hubbard used the term "body
thetans" in the same meaning as one would refer to "germs"
or "bacteria" in the air. After all, just like Hubbard's
"body thetans", germs can't be seen or felt but can
harm the person. Hubbard no doubt re-packaged the scientific
findings of Louis Pasteur on germs and disease within the mystery
of his own cosmology, so that he could charge a hefty amount
of money for it. To that end he succeeded ---- up to now ----
because to accomplish such a task requires perfect secrecy and
the lack of scientific and logical information.
For example, even if a Scientologist doing the OT levels is
told by his Case Supervisor that he has to get rid of a trillion
body thetans, and he has managed to beg, borrow or steal the
"donations" needed to audit out the body thetans and
to have his auditing supervised (at that point the Scientologist
is "self-auditing" on the e-meter or auditing himself
by holding the two soup cans together in one hand and writing
down the readings of the e-meter needle with the other), he has
the logistical question to deal with: "What if the body
thetans I have sent away ever come back?"
After all, what guarantee is there that after you "intend
away" a body thetan (still assuming for the ease of understanding
that the body thetans are like "germs"), it will not
come back to re-attach itself to you?
What this causes is the most destructive kind of paranoia
imaginable. A fear so devastating to the human mind that it has
resulted in countless people going insane; or in Scientology's
own words, "spinning in." Scientology even has named
a condition for it: PTS Type III, where a person goes totally
out of control in an induced paranoid psychosis.
It is for that reason why it is so vital and important for
the upper levels be free and available on the Internet. Everyone,
Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike, should have the
right to "informed consent in spiritual matters", which
is a religious freedom and basic religious right which is just
as important as free speech on the Internet.
When I attached the upper level materials as an exhibit to
my declaration in the Fishman / Geertz case, I had no idea that
it would ever develop into a controversy within the Internet,
nor did I think the upper level exhibit was all that important
anyway. The average man in the street, called a "wog"
by Scientology, would think that the OT levels are nothing more
than bad science fiction writing. All I was trying to do at that
time was (1) to clear my name by proving I had been a Scientologist,
despite the Church's ongoing claims that I was never a Scientologist
at all but rather a mental patient who was never eligible for
Scientology. Why then, if I were never a Scientologist, would
I have acquired the third largest library of Scientology books,
reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, hat packs, technical bulletins,
policy letters, executive directives, course packs and ethics
orders in the world?
I also wanted to show that (2) Scientology has techniques
which can negatively impact on one's ability to think clearly,
logically and reason things out for oneself. The OT levels prove
how the Scientologist is manipulated, because these specific
auditing routines and drills are included in the exhibit.
Why should a group calling themselves a "Church"
have secrets from their own members? Are they so ashamed of the
OT levels that they want to hide them from Scientologists, as
well as from potential critics and theologians who write religious
commentary? You decide.
The Church of Scientology has an L. Ron Hubbard home page,
and also a Dead Agented
Steven Fishman home page. (Officially, there is a disclaimer
at the end of the homepage which reads "Theta Com was set
up and is read by David Elrod.
This is NOT an official Church site." My, how cowardly.
Furthermore, what disturbs me the most is having a Steven
Fishman home page run side by side with an L. Ron Hubbard home
page. I don't like to share the spotlight with a wanted fugitive.
You didn't know? L. Ron Hubbard was a fugitive from justice wanted
by the F.B.I. at the time of his death. He let his third wife,
Mary Sue Hubbard, take the "rap" for him while he was
living under the assumed name of Jack Mitchell in a bluebird
trailer; always hiding from the authorities until he died of
a stroke (or from his own overts and withholds) in 1986. He even
grew a beard in 1981 to change his identity.
Despite the fact that we never had the pleasure of seeing
a story on L. Ron Hubbard on "America's Most Wanted",
the Church repeats over and over again that I am the criminal.
Yes, I was in federal prison ---- serving a sentence for crimes
for which I was trained in Scientology. I suppose that is old
news. However, it would be nice for David Elrod (if indeed there
is such a real person) to give equal time on the L. Ron Hubbard
home page for a detailed description of Ron's crimes as well.
Scientology also provided a fascinating document, "Declaration
of Steven Jay Goldberg", as more Dead Agenting.
Who is Steve Goldberg?
He signed some of the securities class action lawsuit claim
forms and was also convicted and fined $ 40,000 for it. It is
amazing how Scientology uses one convicted felon to discredit
another.
Steve Goldberg was also arrested in 1985 by the Hollywood,
Florida Police Department for driving on Highway U.S. 1 without
his clothes on while he was masturbating in front of a telephone
booth.
Steve Goldberg refers to a Patrick Salt, a plumber who I had
met once through Goldberg. Patrick Salt was in a sexual treatment
program in 1987 for molesting an eight year old girl who lived
in a trailer park where Salt rented a room. He was in trouble
with law enforcement officials on two occasions, once when the
Miami Police Department confiscated a collection of child pornography,
some of which contained scenes of children as young as four years
old in sexual situations. I have never seen Patrick Salt after
the one rather disgusting meeting I had with him in 1987. Goldberg's
claim that I had met Patrick Salt "in Miami Beach a few
months ago" simply never happened. I would not recognize
him if I saw him. The only thing I remember about Patrick Salt
was that his trailer reeked from the smell of unwashed clothes.
Goldberg accused me of picking up both female and male prostitutes.
Male prostitutes? I don't think so. I am surprised he also did
not accuse me of having an affair with a sheep or a tree! Scientology
should really be more selective about who they use as their main
"character witness."
I can only wonder how much money Scientology paid Steve Goldberg
for his "declaration", since after all it was never
filed in any court case that I have seen. Was it prepared just
for the purpose of Dead Agenting me? If you know, I would love
to find out.
Scientology likes to talk about the "benefits" of
auditing. My own auditing history was quite bizarre. In one particular
"life cycle" referred to by the "Church",
I was told that I had been the biological father of Christ. But
it was far worse than that. Not only did they have me not sleep
with the Virgin Mary, they portrayed me as a pervert who stood
behind some bushes while the Virgin Mary was taking a bath; and
like Steve Goldberg, I stood there masturbating. And of course
the rest of the "auditing history" was predictable.
My sperm traveled along the water through the reeds and impregnated
her, and that is how Christ was conceived. The Virgin Mary's
family blamed the whole thing on God. The auditors were not content
to leave it at that. They told me that Christ was this evil,
degraded being; that he was the reincarnation of the Emperor
Xenu from Helatrobus, who shipped all of the undesirables to
earth after freeze-drying them like coffee in clusters, using
a chemical called ethyl-glycol (whatever that is!) and transported
them to earth, where they were exploded in volcanoes and thereafter
free to populate the genetic line of life on this planet. So,
here I was, told in one auditing session that I was responsible
for the evil Christ, who had come back (due to my sexual impropriety)
to wreak havoc once again upon the earth; and who had once before
been this horrible suppressive being responsible for the population
of earth with criminals, perverts, and non-conformists. I never
quite understood why Hubbard hated "non-conformists"
enough to include them in this group. (I guess they did not conform
to Scientology's tech, policy and ethics even way back then!).
I was in the strange position of having been given some OT
data without having done the OT levels. So in 1987, when I had
the opportunity to buy copies of the OT levels from Scientologist
Ellie Bolger for around $ 4,000.00, I jumped at the chance. I
wanted to know more about this data which directly impacted upon
what I believed to be my own case, or auditing history. Ellie
Bolger needed the money for more auditing. She has since perjured
herself by signing a sworn declaration that she never met me
--- which is belied by the fact that I paid her the money for
the OT levels by check --- a document which was also produced
as part of the financial records in the Fishman / Geertz case.
There is even more "Dead Agenting" against me on
the unauthorized "Steven Fishman" home page. Dead Agenting,
for those new to the Internet, is the repetition of negative
and defamatory information about an enemy of the Church in order
to discredit him or her. I have been Dead Agented for some time
now. (Yet I am not quite dead yet!)
I never "co-produced a film entitled "Alchemuenster:
Turning Cheese Into Gold." Although that would have been
a more interesting project than L. Ron Hubbard talking to plants,
I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold, because
if I did, I would have had enough money to hire a lawyer to fight
Scientology in the Fishman / Geertz case.
I did not author six books, never co-authored eleven and never
edited two. My most famous unpublished book, entitled "Lonesome
Squirrel", was about my eleven years of experiences in Scientology
from 1979 to 1990. It was a court document submitted in the Fishman
/ Geertz case, but never quite became so sought out as the Fishman
Declaration.
Was I a member of the Trilateralist Commission? I don't believe
I ever was. I vaguely recall that Hubbard attacked them in a
tape known as RJ 67 where he said the world was run by twelve
evil men. I think some of them may have been members of the Trilateralist
Commission, at least in Hubbard's mind.
Was I ever a "participant in a 1984 Joint Project for
the Intraoceanic Biodegradable Foodstuffs Symposium in Dnepropetrovsk
as the Lead Expert Witness? Wrong again, Scientology. I looked
up Dnepropetrovsk. It is in Siberia. That is a bit too cold for
me. I like the weather in Florida a lot better. Besides, in 1984,
I was far too busy filling out securities class action claim
forms for Scientology to be involved in a "biodegradable
foodstuffs symposium."
And what about being a "Delegate Laureate at the Symposium
for Paramonetary Awareness in the Grand Cayman Islands?"
Maybe that is where David Miscavige is stashing away millions
of dollars, but, sorry, never been there. (They sure have me
attending a lot of symposiums, don't they?) What do you do at
a symposium anyway?
Robert Dondero was the federal prosecutor in my criminal case.
Why would a federal prosecutor say nice things about the person
he was prosecuting? His job was to obtain a conviction.
After I was arrested, the Church of Scientology was immediately
investigated by FBI Agent William E. Kemp. The Office of Special
Affairs was very worried about this. All I cared about out at
the time was getting out of the Ethics Condition of Treason.
I believed that I "pulled all of the entheta of the criminal
case into my own universe" because I used some of the money
I pledged to go up the bridge to buy a car.
My Ethics Officer, Frank Thompson, at the Miami Org (Scientology
Organization of Miami), came up with a foolproof way to deflect
or to end the FBI investigation into the Church. Frank asked
me to write up a list of all names of all friends, associates
and contacts which the FBI had been given by Steve Goldberg,
who as I said had also signed some of the claim forms. One of
the individuals on the list was Shane Johnson, an unemployed
drifter who Ethics Officer Thompon thought was a suitable candidate
for his plan. F rank Thompson ordered me to pay Shane Johnson
forty dollars to call me from a pay phone and pretend to be a
Sea Org staff member named "Scott." Frank wrote a prepared
script for Shane Johnson to read over the phone, deliberately
mispronouncing certain words which would prove to the FBI that
"Scott" was not really a Scientologist. In the script,
Ethics Officer Thompson ordered me to pretend to be hypnotized
by "Scott", and then for "Scott" to order
me on tape to kill Dr. Geertz.
On December 13, 1988, following Ethics Officer Thompson's
instructions, I drove Shane Johnson to Coral Gables, Florida,
and dropped him off at Denny's Restaurant, one block from the
Miami Org. The drive was about one hour from Fort Lauderdale,
where I lived. While I was in Coral Gables, on the same night,
I mailed a death threat to Marc Nurik, my own attorney, as Frank
Thompson had also ordered. Afterwards I drove all the way back
to Fort Lauderdale, in order to receive the call from Shane Johnson
at home. Ethics Officer Thompson wanted the call to be from Miami
because it could be documented as a long distance call and would
be available on long distance telephone records if the FBI wanted
them. I went home and received the call. Shane Johnson and I
both read our scripts. I recorded the conversation, and then
went back to Coral Gables, driving another hour to pick up Shane
Johnson; then I drove him home.
On the next day, I gave the tape to the FBI. Shortly thereafter
I was elevated from the Ethics Condition of Treason, and was
moved up through Enemy, Doubt and remained in Liability. (I guess
I am still a big liability to the Church, otherwise they would
never have created a home page about me.... I guess I should
consider that an "upstat.")
Several weeks later, I was charged by the FBI with Obstruction
of Justice. I was arrested for the second time.
I agree with Judge D. Lowell Jensen's statement at my sentencing
hearing, in which he said, "These are very serious offenses.
I've said that before and I think it's obvious to anyone these
are offenses carried out over a period of time. There's multiple
victims. There is choice after choice after choice to commit
crimes, and they do threaten the justice system itself."
This statement is applicable to myself as well as to Scientology
for their role in creating, training and directing the securities
fraud crimes.
Scientology talks about a videotape in which it shows "Fishman
utterly unable to recognize actual people in the Church he claimed
to have known well." When I went to Pasadena, California
to attend the Court of Appeals Hearing for the unsealing of the
upper level materials, I left the court house building together
with Ford Greene, who is Dr. Geertz's attorney. Ford Greene was
viciously insulted by Eugene Ingram, Scientology's lead investigator
and former pimp. Ingram, who I obviously recognized, was on my
right, "bullbaiting" Ford Greene, falsely accusing
him of (rephrased here in very polite words) having a sexual
encounter with his paralegal, Gerry Armstrong. Kurt Weiland,
who I also recognized, was on my left, "bullbaiting"
me, shouting, "Can I visit you when you go back to prison?",
and trying to get me to react. Helena Kobrin, Earle Cooley, and
Rick Moxon were all there, trying to engage me in a "glare
fight", a weapon of Hubbard's old Galactic Confederacy.
So was Bill Drescher, who is David Miscavige's personal attorney.
Lyman Spurlock was there, and he looked a lot different than
he did twelve years ago. He gained twenty-five pounds, his hair
turned white, and he was not in his Sea Org uniform (he was dressed
in a grey suit), and had a thick moustache. I did not recognize
him right away; so Scientology is now stating that I was "utterly
unable to recognize actual people in the Church he claimed to
have known well."
What was very interesting about that videotape was that these
OSA executives and attorneys were behaving like gang members,
which in the words of my friend Margery Wakefield, was "very
unbecoming a Church." The situation became very intense
for about ten minutes, when I began to feel threatened as all
of these angry OSA super-thetans began taunting me. I finally
had enough of it, and decided to recite portions from OT III,
which prompted OSA attorney Moxon to quickly order Eugene Ingram
to stop filming me and demanded that everyone quickly get into
their cars and leave. Helena Kobrin tripped in her high heel
shoes running towards her Nissan Altima. This proved once again
that even OSA agents and attorneys have a very "low level
of confront" when it comes to the OT Levels.
I can assure Rick Moxon and all of the others who scurried
away like real squirrels that you can't get pneumonia and die
from hearing or reading OT III. All the subscribers I met at
xs4all (the Internet provider in Holland) who published the OT
Levels on their web home pages are very much alive and healthy
indeed.
The unauthorized Steve Fishman page also claims I was never
audited because I was never eligible for auditing due to my psychiatric
history. This is untrue.
There was a time in my auditing where I was declared PTS Type
A because of my history of psychological treatment with Dr. Geertz.
But I underwent various ethics action including an RPE (Repair
of Past Ethics) and I was certified as a legal PC (preclear eligible
for auditing). The RPE was done by Fred Hare, a former official
and courier in the Guardian's Office, who at the time was the
Mission Holder and Organizational Executive Secretary of the
Mission of Fort Lauderdale, and his proof of my being a "Legal
PC" was filed in the Fishman / Geertz case.
The Church of Scientology provides a deposition excerpt of
Dr. Albert Rossi, a prison psychiatrist at the Eglin Air Force
Base Camp, in Eglin, Florida. I was held at the Eglin Air Force
Base Camp for only ten days before I requested to be transferred
to Tallahassee where I obtained a job in the prison as the main
computer operator. While at Eglin for that short time, I saw
Dr. Rossi for a period of only twenty minutes, and my appointment
with him dealt with only one issue: I needed a pair of slip-on
tennis shoes because my feet were hurting me in the lace-up hard
shoes. Dr. Rossi never examined me or treated me for any psychological
problem or illness. When I met him, he seemed very nice and issued
me a permission slip for the tennis shoes without any difficulty.
Isn't it amazing that Scientology includes the affidavit of
a prison camp medical doctor (Rossi) who spoke to me for a full
twenty minutes, while at the same time it discredits, sues and
runs Fair Game operations on Dr. Geertz, who was my psychologist
for 27 years. In the Scientology Admin Data Evaluator's Course,
this is not exactly "data of comparable magnitude."
Even a hard core OSA agent can see the logical flaw there.
"On Control and Lying ..."
When Hubbard sailed the Mediterranean on the Flag Ship Apollo
between 1968 and 1972, he did not want local ports to know what
the Apollo was up to. So he ordered his Personal Public Relations
Officer to issue a "Shore Story", or false report,
as to the purposes of the Apollo in the port and the country
in which they were docked.
There is a drill in Scientology, known as "TR-L",
or the Training Routine for Lying, in which a Scientologist is
trained to "outflow false data effectively." That was
mandatory drilling for all Guardian Office agents and currently
for all OSA Agents doing their basic training. TR-L is part of
the full hat pack for every DSA or Director of Special Affairs.
In the Policy Letter written by Hubbard entitled "On
Control and Lying", Hubbard wrote, "The only way you
can control people is to lie to them."
While in Scientology, I lied to my psychologist and friend
Dr. Geertz and to my own attorney, Marc Nurik, to protect the
Church. I lied to the FBI and I lied to my own father and mother.
I lied and lied and lied because I did not want to be in Treason
and I would have done anything to remain in good standing with
Scientology. I jeopardized my own defense, and I obstructed justice.
Am I proud of all of those lies? No, not at all.
Funny, but at the time I was lying, Scientology was not calling
me a liar. Now that I am trying to "make things (really)
go right" by telling the truth about them, I am being victimized
by Dead Agent attacks on the Internet. While in Holland, OSA
Spokesperson Leisa Goodman was busy handing out Dead Agent Packs
to the press entitled "Who is Steven Fishman", with
a rather unflattering picture of me on the cover with even less
hair than I have, distorted by a fish-eye lens.
Readers or alt.religion.scientology are urged to judge for
themselves who has been the biggest liar.
What about Scientology's big lie about copyrights?
Everyone has always assumed that Scientology, and particularly
David Miscavige's Religious Technology Corporation, held the
copyrights to Scientology.
Dennis Erlich was sued, Lawrence Wollersheim was sued and
Arnie Lerma was sued. Their computers were raided and disks taken
by the United States Marshals who were unwittingly manipulated
by Church lawyers into doing their dirty work for them.
However recently, in the Lerma case, as a Third Party Witness,
I challenged the legality and authenticity of the copyright agreement
whereby Hubbard supposedly assigned the copyrights to Religious
Technology Center.
I raised a can of worms which apparently bit them in the ass
in Holland.
Religious Technology Center sued four Dutch Internet providers,
including the very famous and well known xs4all, plus Karin Spaink
as a private person.
Religious Technology Center had the nerve to sue the providers
without even submitting proof of the original OT levels or the
proof of copyright. (Here's a part of the defendants' defense.)
Actually, Religious Technology Center holds no valid copyright
to the upper level materials. The signature of L. Ron Hubbard
on the assignment of copyrights to Religious Technology Center
in 1982 was a forgery. Furthermore, it was notarized by David
Miscavige, who as you may know is also the Chairman of the Board
of Religious Technology Center. A notary is supposed to be unbiased,
impartial and fair. At best, Miscavige's dual role of notary
and beneficiary of the assignment is a conflict of interest.
At worst, it is grounds for Miscavige to lose his notary license
and have criminal charges brought against him. In all cases,
the assignment, when properly challenged in a court, should be
set aside as illegal.
So who owns the copyrights to Scientology?
Probably Lawrence Wollersheim, who holds a valid judgment
($5,000,000.00 with accruing interest daily) against the Church
of Scientology of California, which was the last legal holder
of a valid copyright prior to Hubbard's forged transfer to an
improperly notarized RTC.
The Dutch people united in support of the Internet providers
who were frivolously sued, along with writer Karin Spaink, who
had put up a Fishman Home Page containing excerpts of the OT
materials. They organized a protest for Monday, December 11th
at the Melkweg (Milky Way) Auditorium, a very popular location
in Amsterdam's theatre district.
Julia Rijnvis (pronounced Rhine-viss) is the Director of Special
Affairs for Scientology Amsterdam, Holland. Totally bewildered
and ineffective at her post in handling the problem of a massive
Dutch Protest at the Melkweg, Julia Rijnvis called for help and
asked her senior officer at Scientology, OSA Spokesperson Leisa
Goodman to come to the Netherlands.
So Julia and Leisa attended a rally against Scientology. Isn't
that a suppressive act, Leisa?
Despite the ominous presence of OSA, the event was a resounding
success. Felipe Rodriguez, one of the owners of xs4all, spoke
about the responsibility of the lawsuit. Karin Spaink described
her harassment as "Fair Game" at the hands of the Scientology
Dead Agent Club, in which she was called KKKSpaink, in a defamatory
statement by a hateful Scientologist named "Glind"
in a move to falsely characterize her as a supporter of the Ku
Klux Klan. The attorney handling the defense for Karin Spaink
and xs4all spoke about the legal issues, and I answered questions
about the destructive effect of the OT Levels and my securities
class action fraud crime. I also talked about the issue of informed
consent, where anyone interested in any religion should have
the right to know what awaits them at the end of their journey,
or in the case of Scientology, at the end of the bridge.
I talked about what secrets a Church has the right to have.
If, for example, the Church did not want its members to know
how much money David Miscavige makes, that arguably would be
a "secret" which the Church could defend, since that
fact would not directly impact into a Scientologist's relationship
with the Scientology religion. However, the OT Levels must not
remain secret, not only because the removal of "body thetans"
one by one can lead to paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia, or
in plain words, make a person go stark raving mad; but also because
it is vital that anyone interested in Scientology should have
the freedom of choice to decide whether Scientology is right
for them after they look at the upper level materials before
they have had any "benefits" of the Scientology Grades,
New Era Dianetics, Power, the Clear Certainty Rundown, the Sunshine
Rundown, or any other neat packages of mind control and brainwashing
available in Scientology.
When people go to a surgeon for a major operation, they have
a right to ask the doctor what the risks are --- how the patient
will be cut open, what procedures will be done, and what effects
it will have on their ability to heal and live a normal life.
This is the doctrine of "informed consent." The same
holds true in spiritual or religious matters. A person joining
any group, whether it is the Church of Scientology or the Church
of Satan, has an absolute right to have informed consent on what
the religion stands for and what the doctrine, dogma, and each
of the routines and practices involve.
It is for that reason that I accepted the invitation of xs4all
and Karin Spaink to come to Holland and speak out for freedom
of speech and freedom of religion on the Internet. I was not
paid any money for coming to Holland. If these people who had
no involvement with Scientology would risk being declared "Fair
Game" (for more information: see The FactNet files and set
themselves up as moving targets for Scientology's vengeful system
of twisted ethics, then I should be there to help them out.
So I briefed Karin Spaink and xs4all on the copyright fraud,
on the need to force Scientology to produce the original OT documents,
and within three days, after a successful media blitz by three
newspapers, a radio appearance and two television interviews,
Religious Technology Center withdrew its lawsuit, entirely dropping
its case in Holland at the eleventh hour, just as the Church
of Scientology International had done in the Fishman / Geertz
case a year and a half ago.
In the Fishman / Geertz case, the Church of Scientology International
dropped its lawsuit against Dr. Geertz and I NOT because of the
OT Levels, but in my opinion, because David Miscavige did not
want to have his deposition taken and answer questions about
his role in illegally moving money in and out of the United States.
Miscavige also did not want to talk about the policies of the
Church to smuggle aliens into the country illegally as slave
labor in its RPF concentration camps, and he also did not want
to talk about the suicide of his mother-in-law, Mary Flo Barnett,
who was on OT V at the time she killed herself.
I have learned that once you are an enemy of Scientology,
you can never have a normal life. You can never keep a job without
Scientology interfering with it, or maintain a relationship,
or have any free time to just relax. But I have also realized
that I can't keep my head in the sand like an ostrich, because
Scientology will take every opportunity to destroy you. You have
to fight back hard, and (in the immortal words of the psychopath
Hubbard), "Always Attack, Never Defend", which incidently
was the motto for the Dutch Protest.
Of course, Miscavige will never understand the failure of
Leisa Goodman and Julia Rijnvis to "handle Holland."
Julia and Leisa must be shitting in their pants, wondering which
RPF they will be going to for screwing up their scene in the
Netherlands.
Julia, Leisa --- you don't have to run around a flagpole for
16 hours a day at "Happy Valley", "Wonderland",
or any other of the cult's RPF's. You can get out now, and help
us free others on alt.religion.scientology.
The greatest thing that ever happened to me was going to jail,
because if it had not happened, I would probably still be in
Scientology, continuing to believe that Lawrence Wollersheim
was the current life cycle of Xenu. I suppose it is now in vogue
among Ethics Officers to tell their misguided preclears that
Steve Fishman is the Xenu-in-the-flesh, in their hope that some
fanatic zealot will assassinate me in order to help "clear
the planet."
Free speech can remain on the Internet if each one of us protects
it whenever it is threatened. The Internet does not belong to
Scientology. It belongs to all of us. That's as good a reason
to defend it as I know.
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