The Case Against Scientology

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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The Case Against Scientology[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The Dirty Deeds of the Cult of Greed[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]So, what's so bad about Scientology???[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Glad you asked. [/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]#1: [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Scientology is a Religion[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]I assume we're all atheists, so I won't belabor the point as to what's so bad about religion; the dogmatism, the irrationality, the prejudice, etc. Scientology exemplifies all the negative characteristics of it's historical forebears. 'Big deal,' you say, 'this is just a marginal cult.' Yes, a 'marginal' cult with a membership in the millions that makes an estimated 500 million dollars, annually. It's time we realize that the distinction between a cult and a fully-fledged religion is more semantic than substantive, and take a hard look at this embyonic religion that is determined to grow and expand into every niche it's tentacles can reach. We should also be aware of the cult's concerted efforts to recruit high-profile celebrities, to bring itself more into the mainstream, and to build a cocoon of legitimacy.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]#2: Scientology Destroys People's Lives[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Scientologists use sleep deprivation, propaganda, isolation, and other tried-and-true brainwashing techniques to manipulate and control their members from the minute they enter the organization. This organization deliberately targets the most emotionally vulnerable prospects as they are easier to dominate. Once inside, members are separated from their friends and families for long periods of time. Small children are separated from their parents and indoctrinated as well as used as, essentially, slave labor. The transcripts of auditing sessions, a mix between interrogation and psychotherapy, where individuals are pressured to reveal their most intimate secrets, are kept on file, permenently. If members disobey the organization, or try to leave the organization, these incredibly personal revelations are distributed to media outlets, friends, co-workers, and family.[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] This brings me to two of the most reprehensible practices of the church; 'Fair Game', and 'Disconnection.' [/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]'Fair Game' originates in a memo from the paranoiac cult founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in which he wrote; "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly". From Wikipedia; "[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]In his confidential Manual of Justice of 1959, Hubbard wrote "People attack Scientology. I never forget it, always even the score."[1] He advocated using private investigators to investigate critics, who had turned out to be "members of the Communist Party or criminals, usually both. The smell of police or private detectives caused them to fly, to close down, to confess. Hire them and damn the cost when you need to."[8] He said that in dealing with opponents, his followers should "always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Don't ever defend. Always attack."[9] He urged the use of "black propaganda" to "destroy reputation or public belief in persons, companies or nations."[9][/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The Church has retained an aggressive policy towards those it perceives as its enemies,[10][11] and argued as late as 1985 that retributive action against "enemies of Scientology" should be considered a Constitutionally-protected "core practice" of Scientology.[12]" [FONT=Arial Narrow]The cult is notoriously litigious, filing an endless number of lawsuits against even the most minor perceived slight. However, the cult has gone far beyond that, hiring private investigators, stalking, and engaging in criminal behavior to intimidate critics.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]'Disconnection' is another abhorrent policy, whereby anyone who is deemed a 'Supressive Person' (AKA 'SP') becomes a pariah, and cult members are not allowed to have any contact with them, under any circumstances. Children have been separated from parents, brothers from sisters, husbands from wives, etc. Cult members are kept in a highly controlled environment under near constant supervision, and there is extreme pressure to follow orders, or else.[/FONT]

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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]#3 Scientology Kills*[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The cult has been seriously implicated in a growing number of deaths. Here are some of their stories.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow][FONT=Arial Narrow]Lisa McPherson[/FONT][/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow][FONT=Arial Narrow]After spending half her life as a member of the Church of Scientology, Lisa McPherson told friends she was ready to get out. At the age of 36 she wished to reunite with her family and friends and start a new life in Dallas Texas. She hoped to visit them on Thanksgiving and to be home for good by Christmas.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]On November 18, 1995, McPherson was involved in a minor car accident. She apparently not injured, but got out of her car and took all her clothes off and began walking down the street. She was taken to a near by hospital, physically evaluated, and found to be unharmed. The hospital wanted her psychologically evaluated, but with the assistance of fellow Scientologist’s, McPherson checked herself out of the hospital.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]McPherson was taken to the Fort Harrison Hotel for "rest and relaxation" according to the CoS. Sworn statements demonstrate that McPherson was intended to be put on the "Introspective Rundown", that Scientologist’s use with members who have had a psychotic breakdown. [/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The church placed McPherson in a cabana and kept 24 hours watch over her. Detailed logs were kept on her day-to-day care. Most of these logs were kept, except the logs dealing with the last three days of her life. These logs were summarized from the originals and the originals shredded.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]McPherson’s "care logs," narrate the last 17 days of her life. McPherson was incoherent and sometimes violent. Her nails were cut so she wouldn’t scratch herself or staff. She bruised her fists and feet while hitting the wall. She had difficulty sleeping and was being given natural supplements and the drug chloral hydrate to help her sleep. She wouldn’t eat solids; her diet consisted of protein shakes, vitamins, and pieces of banana.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]On the fifth day of December, church staffers contacted David Minkoff, a Scientologist medical doctor who had twice prescribed drugs for McPherson without seeing her. They requested him to prescribe an antibiotic to McPherson because she seemed to have an infection. Minkoff refused and stated she needed to be brought to his hospital before he would prescribe anything. The staffers objected, expressing fear that McPherson would be put under psychiatric care. When they arrived at Minkoff’s hospital, 45 minutes north of Clearwater, having passed four other hospitals on the way, McPherson was dead on arrival.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Scientologist’s called McPherson’s family to say she died of a blood clot or meningitis. A suspicious death investigation began the next day and an autopsy was performed. In the original report the state’s medical examiner, Joan wood stated that the autopsy showed McPherson had deteriorated slowly, going without fluids for five to ten days, was underweight, had several bruises, and bed sores. They also showed she had been unconscious for up to 48 hours before her death and had dark brown lesions consistent with "insect/animal bites" in the lower right arm just above the wrist. Wood said that cockroaches had probably bitten McPherson. Wood concluded that Lisa McPherson died of pulmonary embolism caused by bed rest and dehydration. Scientology responded by claiming Wood was lying and sued for defamation.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]The St. Petersburg Times contacted five medical experts for their opinion on the report. All five confirmed the findings. Scientologist’s responded by stating all five doctors should have been given the whole autopsy report not just the vitreous fluid tests.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Scientology hired its own experts to oppose Wood’s findings. They concluded that Lisa McPherson died suddenly and unexpectedly of a blood clot in her left leg that originated from a knee bruise she suffered in a minor car accident 17 days earlier.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]This evidence was sent to Wood for review. The scientific evidence sent included:[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-Literature that shows dehydration does not cause blood clots.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-Research on a substance known as ketone, which people produce when they are dehydrated, starving, or fasting. McPherson’s bodily fluids showed no ketone.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-Findings from a body measurement expert hired by the church. The expert compared autopsy photos with pictures from before the car accident. The expert concluded, "there was no appreciable weight loss", which contradicted the prosecutions view that McPherson lost 20-40 pounds while in Scientology’s care.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-A report by Morton Plant, Hospital doctor who saw McPherson just before she entered Scientology’s Fort Harrison Hotel. He stated that McPherson already was thin with protruding check bones.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-A report from D. Davis, the pathologist who conducted the autopsy for Wood’s office. He concluded that McPherson’s body was of average nutritional status.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]-Medical literature and sworn testimony that it says proves the eye fluid samples were improperly handled by Wood’s office, incompetently tested at an independent lab, and were ultimately contaminated.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Due to the vitreous fluid tests, the prosecution maintained that McPherson was dehydrated. Chemical pathologists concurred with the initial coroners report. Dr. Alan Wu testified that ketones need not be present in special cases of dehydration where McPherson was fed proteins and therefore didn’t create measurable ketones.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]In 1998, the CoS had its malpractice insurance pay the estate of Lisa McPherson $100,000 though they claim to have done nothing wrong.[/FONT]


    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Quentin Hubbard[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]L. Ron Hubbard’s son died under suspicious circumstances in 1976. He disappeared from his home in Clearwater Florida, and was found unconscious in a car next to the Las Vegas airport. The engine of the vehicle was still running and a hose ran from the exhaust to the window. (It appeared the hose had fallen out of the window when authorities arrived) However, like his father death, there were nagging questions. For example, Quentin was found unkempt with beard stubble, a state that no one who knew Quentin could accept. (He was ultra-meticulous in his appearance) Or that the license plate of the car was found under a rock some distance away, and his wallet was gone making identification imposable. There was also a near empty bottle of liquor that was found, as if he had been drinking, when Quentin did not. There were also needle marks on his arms, when he did not do drugs.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Quentin had tried to measure up to his father’s expectations. He was one of the few top-grade Class Twelve Auditors, but did not share his father’s temperament. All he wanted to do was airplanes, and he often pleaded with his father to let him do just that. There was also an aspect of his nature, which could not be reconciled with his father’s philosophy; Quentin was a homosexual. Hubbard expected his children to live up to the family name and do nothing that would reflect badly on the church. "He thought Quentin was an embarrassment", said Laurel Sullivan, Hubbard’s former public relations officer. "And he told me that several times."[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Quentin Hubbard was still alive when he was found, something happened in the hospital and he died two weeks later without regaining conciseness. His death was listed as a possible suicide.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Jeremy Perkins[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Perkins was born into a Scientologist family and showed signs of mental illness from a young age. He developed clear schizophrenic symptoms, complaining of voices in his head.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]In 2002 at the age of 27 the church labels him "PTS Type III" (psychotic) and stops treating him with vitamins and audits. His 54-year-old Scientologist mother prevents him from getting psychiatric help, due to their "religious beliefs".[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]On March 13, 2003, L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, schizophrenia gets the best of Jeremy. After getting out of the shower he took a knife from a drawer in the kitchen and stabbed his mother 77 times, killing her. He was found "not responsible by reason of mental disease or deficit" by the court.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Noah Lottick[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]7 months after joining the church he was found dead. Lottick had jumped from the 10th floor window of a hotel and landed on the hood of a limousine. When police arrived, his fingers were still holding $171 in cash. Virtually the only money he hadn’t turned over to the Church of Scientology.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Joseph A. Havenith[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]On February 25, 1980, Havenith had been at the Fort Harrison Hotel for two months taking counseling and following a regimen of vitamins and minerals prescribed by the Scientology. A maid said he left a note on his door, room 771. The note read, "sleeping". He was not disturbed until later that day when guests noticed the carpet outside his room was soaked. They found Havenith dead in the bathtub with the water still running. An autopsy report lists his death as a "probable drowning" but notes his head was not under water. He died at the Fort Harrison Hotel in a bathtub filled with water so hot it had burned his skin off.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Ed Brewer[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Brewer was involved in a car accident. Several other Sea Organization or Scientology staff members were in the car. They left him in the car to bleed to death while they went back to the Scientology organization to talk to the people in the intelligence division, because they didn’t want to create a public relations flap for the church. When they did this they failed to call for medical help. Brewer bled to death pinned in his car.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Margarit Winkelmann[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Winkelmann walked fully clothed into Clearwater Bay and drowned herself after she quit taking Lithium and started taking vitamins and minerals recommended by the church.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Peter E. Frei[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Frei was found floating in Dunedin Waterway in June 1988 several days before the church reported him missing from his room at the Fort Harrison Hotel.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Herbert Pfaff[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]For ten years after a major car accident, Herbert Pfaff suffered severe seizures that often cam in the middle of the night. In 1988 he traveled from his home in Munich Germany to Clearwater Florida to take courses from the CoS. On August 28, 1988, Pfaff’s nude body was found upside down hanging out of his bed. An autopsy determined that a seizure most likely caused his death. No anti-convulsion drugs were found in his blood stream. George Pfaff, Herbert’s brother told the St. Petersburg Times that Scientologists in Germany promised a cure for his seizures and took him off medication that had controlled them.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Karen Simon[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Karen Simon died by hanging herself in London England in may of 1991, shortly after she refused to sign a Sea Organization contract. She was preparing a negative report on Scientology at the time of her death. [/FONT]


    [FONT=Arial Narrow]*[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Editor’s Note: The information in this section was compiled from a release from the activist group Anonymous.[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]http://www.myspace.com/anonymousx666333/blog/366659209[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Time Magazine [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]May 6, 1991[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]SCIENTOLOGY: CULT OF GREED[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]By Richard Behar[/FONT]
    http://www.xenu.net/archive/media/time910605.html
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]SCIENTOLOGY IS HOMOPHOBIC[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]From Wikipedia[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_to...nd_Scientology[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]"[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Dianetics[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view:[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]"The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Ellis[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] and [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Krafft-Ebing[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]) is actually quite ill physically... he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society..."[1][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Hubbard further defined perversion in his 1951 book Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior. Here he introduced the concept of the "[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]tone scale[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]", a means of classifying individuals and human behaviour on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to -40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, ... the subversive." Such people were "skulking coward[s] who yet contains enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning."[2][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Free Love[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow], easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families." Sexual perverts engaged in "irregular practices which do anything but tend toward the creation of children" and "efforts [which] tend not towards enjoyment but toward the pollution and derangement of sex itself so as to make it as repulsive as possible to others and so to inhibit procreation."[3][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity". He set out what he saw as the cause of homosexuality: a mental "aberration", with the result that "an individual aberrated enough about sex will do strange things to be a cause or an effect. He will substitute punishment for sex. He will pervert others. Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others." The "aberration" was caused by a child trying to "continue the life" of a dominant parent of the opposite sex.[4][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Hubbard's views on homosexuality were given a fuller explanation in a 1972 book by Scientologist Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, which was published through the Church of Scientology, copyrighted to Hubbard and given "issue authority" by the Scientology hierarchy. Scientology churches sold the book alongside the works of Hubbard until 1983.[5] Minshull described the "gentle-mannered homosexual" as a classic example of the "subversive" 1.1 personality, commenting that they "may be fearful, sympathetic, propitiative, griefy or apathetic. Occasionally they manage an ineffectual tantrum." They were claimed to be social misfits:[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]"Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't. Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity. It could hardly be otherwise since the tone is made up of suspicion and hate, producing a darling sweetness interspersed with petty peevishness. Their "love" turns to deep contempt eventually."[6][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Homosexuals had no redeeming "social value," in Minshull's view. She cautioned that "homosexuals should not be abused or ridiculed. But a society bent on survival must recognize any aberration as such and seek to raise people out of the low emotion that produces it."[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Jon Atack[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] notes that L. Ron Hubbard's son [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Quentin Hubbard[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] was homosexual.[7] According to Atack, L. Ron Hubbard had repeatedly announced that his son Quentin would succeed him after his death, but Quentin died of an apparent suicide in 1976.[7][/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Attempts to 'Cure' Homosexuality[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial Narrow]There is some evidence that Hubbard's Dianetics movement sought to use Dianetics to cure homosexuality. In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Elizabeth, NJ[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy. It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support claims that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]manic depression[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow], asthma, arthritis, colitis and "overt homosexuality," and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized IQ test.[8][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]In Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears, he set out instructions for Dianeticists to "cure" homosexuality. After claiming that the cause of homosexuality was a fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex, he advised: "Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated."[4][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of sexual perversion (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children." In Science of Survival, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals":[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial Narrow]"Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate."[2][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]In later years, Hubbard sought to distance himself from efforts to regulate the sexual affairs of lay Scientologists. In a 1967 policy letter, he declared: "It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition... Therefore all former rules, regulations and polices relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled."[9] Members of the [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Sea Org[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] remained under strict rules according to a 1978 order.[10]" [/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Editor's Note: The Church of Scientology supported controversial California anti-gay legislation known as 'Proposition 8.'
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]OPERATION: FREAKOUT[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]From the official blog of ANONYMOUS[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial Narrow]Paulette Cooper, a freelance journalist and author, began researching Scientology in 1968. She went on to write a critical article on the church for the British magazine Queen (now Harpers Bazaar) in 1969. Scientology promptly sued for libel, adding Queen to the dozens of British publications that it had already sued.

    Undeterred, Cooper expanded her article into a full-length book, "The Scandal of Scientology (sub titled A Chilling Examination of the Nature, Beliefs, and Practices of the Now Religion.) Tower Publications Inc. published it in 1971. The church responded by suing Cooper in December of 1971, demanding $300,000 for "untrue, libelous, and defamatory statements about the church."

    Cooper was clearly seen as a high priority target by the church’s Guardian Office. As early as February 29, 1972, the church’s third most senior official, Jane Kember, sent a directive to Terry Millner, the Deputy Guardian for Intelligence United States (DGIUS) directing that he find out information about Paulette Cooper so that she could be "handled".

    Cooper counter-sued on March 30 1972, demanding $15.4 million for the on going harassment. The church however stepped up the harassment, painting her name and phone number on street walls so that she could receive obscene phone calls, and subscribing her to pornographic mailing lists. She also received anonymous death threats and her neighbors received letters claiming she had a venereal disease.

    In December 1972 a woman claiming to be soliciting funds for the United Farm Workers stole a quantity of stationary from Cooper’s apartment. A few days later, the New York Church of Scientology "received" two anonymous bomb threats. The following May, Cooper was indicted and arraigned for a Federal Grand Jury. The threats had been written on her stationary, which was marked with her fingerprints.

    The charges were eventually dropped in 1975 with the filing of a Nolle Prosequi order by the local US Attorney’s office, but it was not until of 1977 that Federal agents discovered that the bomb threats had been staged by the Guardian’s Office.

    The church sued Cooper again in 1975 in the United Kingdom, and the United States, and in Australia in 1976. According to one source, the church itself had imported Cooper’s books into foreign countries with the express purpose of suing her in jurisdictions where the libel laws were stricter than the United States.

    In the spring of 1976, the Guardian Office leadership decided to initiate an operation with the goal to "get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks."

    In its initial form Operation Freak Out consisted of three different plans (or "channels" as the Guardian’s Office termed them.)
    1. First would be a woman to imitate Paulette Cooper’s voice and make telephone threats to Arab consulates in New York.

    2. Second, a threatening letter was to be mailed to an Arab consulate in such a fashion that it would appear to be done by Paulette Cooper. (Who is Jewish)

    3. Third, a Scientologist volunteer was to impersonate Paulette Cooper at a launderette and threaten the President and the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. A second Scientologist would there after inform the FBI of the threat.

    Two additional plans were to be added to Operation Freak Out on April 13 1976. The fourth plan called for Scientologist agents to gather information from Cooper to access the success of the first three plans. The fifth plan was for a Scientologist to warn the Arab consulate by phone that Cooper planned to bomb the embassy. A sixth and final plan had been added subsequently. It was basically a re-run of the 1972 plot, requiring Scientologist’s to acquire Paulette Cooper’s finger prints on a blank piece of paper, type a threatening letter to Henry Kissinger and mail it.

    Ultimately, Operation Freak Out was never put into effect. On June 11, 1976, two Scientologist’s, Michael Meisner and Gereld Bennett Wolfe, were caught at a courthouse in Washington DC as part of the Guardian’s Office ongoing project, Operation Snow White. For the next year the Guardian’s Office was preoccupied with trying to hush up the scandal, even going to the lengths of kidnapping Meisner and holding him incommunicado to prevent him from testifying. The church sought a quick finish with the Paulette Cooper dispute, and in December of 1976 proposed to settle with her, on condition that she was not to republish or comment on "The Scandal of Scientology" and agree to sign the books copyright over to the Church of Scientology in California.

    Although in the end, no one was brought to justice for the harassment of Paulette Cooper, the more wide spread criminal activity was successfully prosecuted by the United States Government. The Church of Scientology filed at least 19 lawsuits against Cooper through out the 1970’s and 1980’s, which Cooper considered part of "a typical Scientology dirty tricks campaign." Cooper’s attorney, Michael Flynn said the lawsuits were motivated by L. Ron Hubbard’s declaration that the purpose of a lawsuit was to "harass and discourage". Cooper discontinued her legal actions against the church in 1985 after receiving $400,000 in an out of court settlement.
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    [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Arial Narrow]OPERATION: SNOW WHITE[/FONT][/FONT]
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    [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Arial Narrow]From the Official Blog of ANONYMOUS[/FONT][/FONT]
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    [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Arial Narrow]On June 20 1977, Michael Meisner contacted the FBI. He claimed he was held against his will by fellow Scientologists and had evidence of criminal activity.

    July 8 1977, based on information supplied by Meisner, the FBI raided CoS proprieties in Los Angeles and Washington DC alleging that Scientology officials from 1974 to 1976 conspired to steal documents belonging to the federal government and to obstruct justice by covering up those crimes during a Grand Jury investigation for the burglary of the office of an Assistant US Attorney in the US Courthouse in Washington DC.

    Nearly 90,000 pages of documents, burglary tool’s, and eavesdropping equipment were seized in the raid. Scientologists dressed in clerical uniforms stood around during the raid to be included in pictures taken by the press in an attempt to show they were the victims of religious persecution.

    The documents seized in the raid exposed a dizzying array of cloak and dagger operations carried out by the church’s Guardian Office. These included: bugging the Justice Department, stealing documents from the IRS, setting up author Paulette Cooper on bomb threat charges, and attempting to destroy the reputation of Clearwater mayor Gabe Cazares.

    The program, called Operation Snow White, controlled clandestine operations, and thus the case became known as the Snow White case. Scientology’s goal with Operation Snow White was to purge government records detrimental to the church and to L. Ron Hubbard through covert and overt means.

    Eleven Scientologist’s, including Hubbard’s wife Mary Sue, were indicted, charged, convicted, and dent to federal prison for their part in these actions. Hubbard himself was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator and went into hiding until his death in 1986.

    The Snow White program began on April 18 1973, by founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard. He wrote in Guardian’s Order 732WW that some countries were preventing some of Scientology’s activities, based, according to Hubbard, on false information about Scientology.

    As the sentencing memorandum indicates, these actions were widespread and illegal:

    "The crimes committed by these defendants is of a breadth and scope previously un-heard of. No building, office, desk, or file was safe from their snooping and prying. No individual or organization was free from their despicable conspiratorial minds.

    "The tools of their trade were miniature transmitters, lock picks, secret codes, forged credentials, and any other device they found necessary to carry out their conspiratorial schemes.

    "It is interesting to note that the founder of the organization, in-indicted co-conspirator L. Ron Hubbard, wrote in his dictionary entitled "Modern Management Technology Defined…"that "Truth is what it is true to you." Thus, with the founder’s blessings they could wantonly commit perjury as long as it was in the interest of Scientology.

    "The defendants rewarded criminal activities that ended in success and sternly rebuked those that failed. The standards of human conduct embodied in such practices represents no less than absolute perversion of any known ethical value system.

    "In view of this, it defies the imagination that these defendants have unmitigated audacity to seek to defend their actions in the name of religion.

    "That these defendants now attempt to hide behind the sacred principles of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the right to privacy—which principles they repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to violate with impunity—adds insult to the injuries which they have inflicted on every element of society.

    [Sentencing Memorandum of United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al, criminal case 78-401 in October 1978- US District Court Washington DC]

    To this day, Operation Snow White remains the single biggest infiltration of the US government in history.
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