links are to longer answers
Scientology is like a 19th century seedy carnival side show, whenever
someone in the audience would yell out how the trick was done, he would be
dragged outside by a couple of toughs stationed there for this
purpose, and
beaten up. Scientology’s demeanor is identical to this, only in the ‘civil’
20th century they use lawyers, then the entire sordid affair is
cloaked in
bogus religiosity. P T Barnum, the father of the circus, would be proud.
When direct litigation
is rendered no longer possible due to broad awareness
Scientology operatives generate false reports,
based upon Hubbard's doctrines, "make it go right" ,
"fair game" and "if possible, destroy utterly"
they then try to manipulate by ARTIFICE: state, local and
Federal law enforcement to do their
work for them - silencing critics.
That John Travolta and Tom Cruise are entranced by this
particular
sideshow, should be interpreted as evidence of the
mastery of the art of deception, sleight of hand, misdirection of attention,
and linguistic trickery used by Hubbard. That Scientology then
keeps the tent flaps tied shut, so that the deluded cannot see outside, is just
confirmation
that it indeed is merely a plot to deceive..
(c) Arnaldo P. Lerma 1999
see below, longer answer here
I believed Scientology and L Ron Hubbard's lies. They fooled me for ten years, please
don't let them fool you for ten minutes...
Longer answer here
An incident occurred that caused me to suspend my belief long enough to disassociate with Scientology, that story has been included in Art of Deception II hotlink to the section about Suzette Hubbard is here.
In a 1994 guidebook to the internet there was a list of newsgroups, in that list were two entries - one for alt.religion.scientology He's dead Jim...and an entry for alt.clearing.technology "renegades from the church of scientology". I logged in to the latter and posted and soon met a man whom 25 years previously I had last seen on the front steps of Scientology in Washington DC.. Joe Harrington.He introduced be to a few people on the net, and shortly thereafter I read the affidavit of Andre Tabayoyan, now I was galvanized... My efforts drew the attention of Scientology in November 1994 - See Washington post article about that. I began collecting and scanning court records and posting them upon the net. As I got to the bottom of a pile of affidavits, I scanned and ocr'd a copy of an unsealed court record containing scientology's secrets of XENU in the Fishman Affidavit to the newsgroup.That became RTC Vs Arnaldo Lerma, Digital gateway, The Washington Post, Rich Leiby and Marc Fisher. A digest and scholarly analysis of these one time secrets is on Dave Touretzky's website at Carnegie Mellon University and at Xenu.net A version of these materials whose copyright happens to be prior to Scientology's, and held by one of my own "auditors", Jeffrey Filburt, from when I was in Scientology, is here on my website. This was filed as an exhibit late in my own case, in this motion. Details of Scientology's outrageous conduct in in RTC vs Lerma is summarized in this motion { long ) from RTC vs Lerma
We won the Trade Secret claims on the 5th of December 1995, and got the RAID VACATED... From RTC's own filings summarizing what they thing they won in their motion for costs, It is accurate to say we won 11/17th of the entire case... being a majority of RTC vs Lerma, so I can say we won. Having survived 1,700,000 of scientology litigation without a gag agreement, I'm sure we won.. More about this here. I mean, Scientology tried to even get Federal Judge Brinkema's final memorandum opinion sealed, wheras I was driving around Clearwater with it on the side of a billboard style truck! That's the image at the top of this page.
The final offerr was 9-12 million, Monique Yingling was there with the BIG checkbook, but this was not just for me, this was a global settlement to try and end RTC vs Lerma, RTC and Bridge Publication vs FACTnet and Lawrence Wollersheim's 7,000,000 dollar judgement - it was a huge global settlement.
Until Scientology is no longer a threat to any other 16 year old kid, who had good grades and a bright future.
Despite Scientology's preposterous claim of 8 million.... We now have some hard numbers, 55,000 in the United States...this is from a City University of New York scientific survey 2001 and 216 in New Zealand out of 3.8 million population in New Zealand { New Zealand census data), Scientology is obviously no more that a fringe cult of extremest fanatics..I know, I used to be one.
Scientology holds much appeal to a narcissist, I mean Hubbard essentialy promises that you can become a God if you get across his "bridge to total freedom" [tm] Religious Technology Center,and it is a very good question, perhaps they have not read this website....
When you find this answer please let me know.
A song comes to mind about a man arrested in Havana... the chorus is "send
guns, money and lawyers."
But we dont need guns because in the case of Scientology, the pen is
mightier than the sword,
however we do need money and lawyers.
Sincerely
Arnaldo Lerma
I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak.
The only thing that always works in scientology are its lawyers
The internet is the liberty tree of the new millennium
Secrets are the mortar binding lies as bricks together into prisons for the mind
http://www.lermanet.com - mentioned 4 January 2000 in
The Washington Post's - 'Reliable Source' column re "Scientologist with no HEAD"
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