Dave Touretzky wrote:

> This morning I was a guest on "Religion on the Line", on WABC Radio in
> New York City.  The hosts are Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Vice President of
> the New York Board of Rabbis, and Father Paul Keenan, Director of
> Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York.  The topic was
> Scientology.
> 
> At one point, the hosts announced that they were going to have
> John Carmichael on in the next hour.  Carmichael is the President
> of the Church of Scientology of New York.  (He's also the DSA.)
> They asked me, what is the one question I would want John Carmichael
> to answer.
> 
> I said that I'd met John Carmichael, and they should not expect to get
> any straight answers out of him.  But as to a specific question to
> ask: I said that Scientology spokespersons seem to be of two minds
> about Xenu.  Sometimes they pretend they never heard of him.  The
> church's national spokesman, Ed Parkin, did that just a few weeks ago.
> But sometimes they say, "that's just a small part of our religion".
> But if the goal of every Scientologist is to "go OT", and the only way
> to do that is through Xenu, then how can it be just a small part of
> their religion?
> 
> Well, they got John Carmichael on, and I was wondering which tactic he
> would choose: deny, or minimize?  John surprised everyone by choosing
> both!  First he denied Xenu, saying he "didn't exist".  But when the
> hosts said "it's right there on this web site", he told them that they
> wouldn't understand it; that they would have to study it to
> understand.  Without study it wouldn't make sense.
> 
> So there you have it.  John first denies Xenu and then admits to Xenu.
> I predicted right on the air that he'd behave like a weasel, and then
> he goes and out-weasels even Ed Parkin.
> 
> John, you are the KING OF WEASELS!!!
> 
> Very well done, old boy.  I'm sure the listeners loved it.
> 
> -- Dave Touretzky:  "I've studied OT III, and it STILL doesn't make
> sense."
>    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets


I am sure his initial denials did not go un-noticed, 
and his later backpeddled made more than a few 
listeners guffaw.

It is so nice when they dead agent themselves reliably 
like this.

"And when I say there is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy,
I mean there is a bit."
 - Monty Python.

Somebody needs to make a nice list of the various comments 
over the years about Xenu from this silly cult.
From denials it exists to legal arguments its well known, to 
to Scientologists fleeing courts with hands clapped firmly over ears.

Scientologists monopolizing legal documents in libraries to 
prevent others from reading them.
Lawsuits against the Washington Post.

Admissions Xenu is doctrine "but it isn't as bad as it seems."
Xenu is only an incidental part of Scientology.

Bwahahahahahahah!

Twist and writhe you silly bastards!