http://www.lermanet.com/17years.html Reflections on 17 years of litigation (fwd) Title: Reflections on 17 years of litigation (fwd) Author: Joe Harrington <joeharr@worldnet.att.net> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:53:54 -0400 Lawrence Wollersheim writes, Subject: Resistance is its OWN reward. I have never told anyone publicly about Scientology's first settlement offer to me in 1983 or 1984. I think it is appropriate to reveal it now as it has brought about a http://www.lermanet.com/1stletter.htm Scientology's 1st letter to Mrs. Minton 7/25/98 Title: Scientology's 1st letter to Mrs. Minton 7/25/98 Author: bob@minton.org (Bob Minton) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:03:07 GMT July 25, 1998 Mrs. Therese Minton 39 West Cedar St. Boston, MA 02114 HAND DELIVIER Via Courier in U.K. Dear Mrs. Minton: I write to you directly because I have asked Bob to allow us to meet together to discuss the current situation, but he has declined. I am certain you a http://www.lermanet.com/1stprince.htm 1stprince.htm AFFIDAVIT OF JESSE PRINCE I, Jesse Prince declare as follows: I am over 18 years of age and currently reside in the state of Minnesota, County of Hennepin. This declaration is of my own personal knowledge and if called upon to testify to the facts herein I could and would be competently able to testify thereto. I am intimately familiar with the Scientology organization, movement and beliefs becau http://www.lermanet.com/2005-scientology-california-staff-list.htm Staff List of adults in Scientology compounds in California 2005 "Marks on paper are free - free speech, press, pictures - all go together." Georgia O'Keefe artist, 1916 Topic Links: Pattern of Lying to Smear ex-members and critics Bugging of Auditing Rooms Terminology FAQ Definitions for Scientology Lingo by ex-member Martin Hunt A Day at Gold Base with David Miscavige , by Jesse Prince Quentin Hubbard Coroner Report, and background by Ex-Flag Cramming Office http://www.lermanet.com/20millionharrassment.htm Scientology PIs send a Dead Agent pack to Nigerian Finance Minister at IMF 10/98 Scientology PIs send a Dead Agent pack to Nigerian Finance Minister at IMF 10/98 Author: bob@minton.org (Bob Minton) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:11:24 GMT From: bob@minton.org ( Bob Minton ) Subject: Scieno Assault: Trash the Critics and their Friends-1/4 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:11:58 GMT Message-ID: <36225640.11226224@news.tiac.net> A 14-page DA pack was delivered to my former partner, Jef http://www.lermanet.com/210.html 210.html Also see 12/17/95 article in Clearwater Times 12/15/96 -- 12:10 AM Mystery surrounds Scientologist's death By CHERYL WALDRIP of The Tampa Tribune ------------------------- CLEARWATER - After spending half her life as a member of the Church of Scientology, Lisa McPherson told friends she was ready to get out. At 36, she yearned to reunite with her mom and http://www.lermanet.com/2ndcircuit.htm 1991 Time Magazine StoryThe Atlanta Journal Constitution reported on January 13th that TimeMagazine has won an appeal by Scientology 1991 Time Magazine Story { original Time Magazine story here } Time Magazine Wins in court, link to Judge Leisure Opinion The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported on January 13th that Time Magazine has won an appeal by Scientology to reverse the dismissal of a libel lawsuit over the 1991 cover article. "Time Inc. and another unit of AOL Time Warner Inc. have persuaded a federal appeals pane http://www.lermanet.com/30-27.pdf 30-27.pdf http://www.lermanet.com/404.htm Recognizing Propaganda--Guide to Critical Thinking--Academic Support Skip Navigation Link Academic Support Cuesta Home Academic Support Center Academic Support Disabled Student Programs & Services Tutorial Services Enhanced TOC Uses of Critical Thinking Evaluating Information Recognizing Propaganda Analyzing Information Recognizing Viewpoints Problem Solving Responsible Thinker Recognizing Propaganda Techniques and Errors http://www.lermanet.com/4april.htm SCIENTOLOGISTS ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN FRANCE SCIENTOLOGISTS ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN FRANCE (Paris-AP) -- A French judge has decided to take the Paris branch of the Church of Scientology to court for attempted fraud and false advertising. Judicial sources in France say the case was brought by three former Scientologists. A spokesman for the Church of Scientology calls the prosecution a violation of the human rights of members of minority religio http://www.lermanet.com/4oct96.html 4oct96.html JUMP to XENU! IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER : Plaintiff, vs. Civil Action No. 95-1107-A ARNALDO PAGLIARINI LERMA Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION ON RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER'S AND ARNALDO P. LERMA MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGEMENT This matter comes before the court on plaintiff Religious Technology Center's http://www.lermanet.com/56years.htm arnie, arnie, Here is a start to it. Unfortunately my phone is down, the cable was down most of the night and I am started to wonder if either I am jinxed or else someone is sabotaging my lines. Its uncanny but everything is breaking or broken. The court postpones initiation of the trial against scn until 25 september 2000. Madrid, June 2, 2000 (EFE). MADRID.-The court that was going to celebrate http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-001-020.htm STATE OF FLORIDA CITY OF CLEARWATER PINELLAS COUNTY COMMISSION HEARING RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Pages 2-1 through 2-20 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982 http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-021-040.htm STATE OF FLORIDA, CITY OF CLEARWATER PINELLAS COUNTY COMMISSION HEARING RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Pages 21 through 40 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982, includes Scientology's definition of the word sin http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-041-060.htm STATE OF FLORIDA, CITY OF CLEARWATER, PINELLAS COUNTY COMMISSION HEARING RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Pages 41 through 60 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982, includes plan to steal an H-bomb http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-061-080.htm 1982 Clearwater Commission Hearings on Scientology - pages 61 through 80 of the official transcript, testimony of Ron Dewolf - L Ron Hubbard's son Pages 61 through 80 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982, includes lack of confidentiality of auditing folders and fair game http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-081-100.htm STATE OF FLORIDA, CITY OF CLEARWATER, PINELLAS COUNTY COMMISSION HEARING RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Pages 81 through 100 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982, includes evidence that while navigator for the ALGOL, he placed a gasoline bomb in cargo and then 'discovered it' to escape active military duty http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-101-120.htm 1982 Clearwater Commission hearings on Scientology pages 101-120, Testimony of Ron DeWolfe and Lori Taverna Pages 101 through 120 of the official transcript, of the clearwater commission on Scientology in 1982, includes the truth about L Ron Hubbard's academic and military records http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-121-140.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-121-140.htm 2-121 to heaven; everyone wants to come here. I was brought to the room when I first arrived it was in the evening - and I was shown to a room at Fort Harrison. And I went to open the door and I couldn't open the door. And I looked in. And the girl who brought me there who had recruited me for this said the light was broke and we couldn't put the light on. And I kind of squeezed in the door. Ther http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-141-160.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-141-160.htm 2-141 I said, "I feel very sick." By the time I got there, my legs started to go into a spasm and my hands crumbled up and I couldn't feel the left side of my face. I became very frightened. And I said, "I feel that I am maybe getting a heart attack." I couldn't breathe; I had severe pains in my chest. The Medical Officer said -- he looked like he was concerned. He hadn't been http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-161-180.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-161-180.htm 2-161 MR. LeCHER: We don't even know where to start, you've said so many startling things. One thing that struck me, though, was herpes. Isn't that a venereal disease? MS. TAVERNA: There's two types. My sister took the child and paid for it herself; she took the child to the doctor. He was given antibiotics. She said it was a virus-type of herpes rather than a venereal they're two different thing http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-181-200.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-181-200.htm 2-181 August. MR. CALDERBANK: Did you see any certificates on the wall from the state or the county, either for nursing or as an education for a doctor when this person gave you the shot? MS. TAVERNA: No. MR. CALDERBANK: Did he MS. TAVERNA: I asked him if he was a doctor and he said, "No." MR. CALDERBANK: And he gave you the shot? MS. TAVERNA: Yes. MR. CALDERBANK. Is this a common pract http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-201-220.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-200-201.htm 2-201 MRS. GARVEY: What about anything physically in the builidng? MS. TAVERNA: That's what I'm trying to think of. MRS. GARVEY: Was anything moved? Did anything have to be put away? MS. TAVERNA: I saw things being moved. I didn't do it because I wasn't a staff -- I was training or being an auditor. But I saw things being moved and shuffled. And I don't know the details on that. MRS. GARVEY: All http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-221-240.htm 2-221-240.htm ( http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/2-241-276.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\2-241-276.htm 2-241 supposed to write: "Dear Mom," you know, "things are fine, weather is beautiful," you know, "getting a tan," you know, "went to Disney World last week." You know, you're not supposed to mention that the City of Clearwater is about ready to burn the building. You weren't supposed to tell them about the bad things, the bad news. You were supposed to jus http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-001-025.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-001-025.htm STATE OF FLORIDA CITY OF CLEARWATER PINELLAS COUNTY CITY OF CLEARWATER COMMISSION HEARINGS RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Clearwater City Hall Clearwater, Florida Friday, May 7,, 1982 RIZMAN COURT REPORTING 18 TREMONT STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 (617) 227-1688 3-2 City of Clearwater City Commission: Charles LeCher, Mayor Thomas Bustin, City Attorney Anthony L. Shoemaker, City Manager Rita G http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-026-050.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-026-050.htm '3-26 of money. MR. SHOEMAKER: Yes, sir. But who actually did the regging and what did they do? MR. KELLEY: They what they would do is they would -- say, you were on the eastern United States tour, they'd have an advance man --.say, your next stop was Boston. The advance man would go to Boston, book the hall, you know MR. SHOEMAKER: This is for information MR. KELLEY: Right. He'd make a reservati http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-051-075.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-051-075.htm 3-51 1 great emotional stress with my wife. And Frank had told me that I had to make a choice. I had to tell my wife either stay or go, but he wanted me to go tell her one thing or the other right then and report back to him, because it was weighing too heavily on me; it was taking my attention away from my job. MR. LeCHER: You mean, the CMO -- MR. KELLEY: Mr. Freedman was his name. MRS. GARVEY: http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-076-100.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-0761-100.htm MR. FLYNN: Exhibit No. 30 will be a Hubbard Communications Office policy letter in June 1959. And I will refer the Commission to the bottom of the page dealing with "duplicate contracts, releases and promissory notes." And the relevant portion is as follows: "Any staff member signing up a preclear student or PE attendee will get one original and one carbon copy of each contract, release, and prom http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-100-150.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-100-150.htm 3-101 Office? MS. PACE: I was told that the Guardian's Office was there to protect Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard against the FBI, CIA, AMA, that they were attacking Scientology. That's -- that's what I honestly believed all these years. MRS. GARVEY: Did you have any contact at all with anyone from the Guardian's Office or were you ever called in for any reason? MS. PACE: No. MRS.. GARVEY: Does t http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-151-200.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-151-200.htm 3-151 that's just a giant cockroach. MR. LeCHER: They are to us, too, but we call them palmetto bugs; it sounds better. MR. RAY: So, to get the basics over: When I was first there, I got extremely skeptical about the whole thing, all right? I didn't know what to believe and what not to believe because I had been lied to on five different occasions so far. I didn't know what else was a lie. So, wh http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-251-300.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-251-300.htm 2-251 there. So, we finally decided the best thing to do was to go back -- for me to go back and leave her there and, perhaps, they would take care of her then. -And then, the other thing, too, is the daughter was so brainwashed by that time, I couldn't reason with her anymore. I mean, I saw what a hopeless mess it was, and I tried to reason with her a number of times, but she just wouldn't accep http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/3-300-346.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\3-300-346.htm 3-301 The next witness is named George Meister.. MR. LeCHER: Mr. Meister, would be sworn in, please, by Miss Goudeau? GEORGE MEISTER, a witness herein, havinq first been duly sworn by a Clerk for the City of Clearwater, was examined and testified as follows: MR. LeCHER: Mr. Meister, I must ask you the same set of five questions I ask every witness. Are you appearing today to testify under oath vo http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/4-001-077.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\4-001-077.htm STATE OF FLORIDA CITY OF CLEARWATER P INELLAS COUNTY CITY OF CLEARWATER COMMISSION HEARINGS RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Clearwater City Hall Clearwater, Florida Saturday, May 8, 1982 RIZMAN COURT REPORTING 18 TREMONT STREET BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 (617) 227-1686 4-2 City of Clearwater City Commission: Charles LeCher, Mayor Thomas Bustin, City Attorney Anthony L. Shoemaker, City Manager Rita http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/4-078-157.htm C:\CULT\82CWCO~1\4-078-157.htm 4-78 MS. PETERSON: No. MR. LeCHER: Do you have a lawsuit against the Church-of Scientology? MS. PETERSON: Yes. MR. LeCHER: Does the Church of Scientology have a lawsuit against you? MS. PETERSON: Yes. MR. LeCHER: Has anyone suggested to you that you should state anything but the truth or has anyone suggested that you change your testimony for any reason? MS. PETERSON: No. MR. LeCHER: Would you li http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/4-158-225.txt 4-158-225.txt http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/4-226-300.txt 4-226-300.txt http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/4-301-end.txt 4-301-end.txt http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/5-001-144.txt 5-001-144.txt http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/criminalaffinmcpherson.rtf criminalaffinmcpherson.rtf And here's the long portion of the indictment, the Witness Affidavit. This will also be webbed at Occupied Clearwater, http://www.kcii.com/~dallara/ soon. --BEGIN QUOTE-- COUNTY COURT OR CIRCUIT COURT - CRIMINAL DIVISION PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA STATE OF FLORIDA V. WITNESS AFFIDAVIT CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC. BEFORE ME, A NOTARY PUBLIC, personally appeared Special Agen http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/index.html 1982 Clearwater commission Hearings 1982 Clearwater Commission public hearings about Scientology, Sworn testimony http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/readmefirst.txt readmefirst.txt http://www.lermanet.com/8steps.html 8 steps out of Scientology 8 Steps out of Scientology preface: Try the following exercise - for current members of Scientology: this mental reboot' program is (c) Arnie Lerma 1) Consider that the 'mind' is programmable 2) Whose program are you running? 3) goto 1) If Scientology is a bridge to OT levels of super dooper powers why is this website here? Title: 9 steps out of Scientology Author: Arnie Lerma Date: 31 Aug http://www.lermanet.com/9million.html Subject: Subject: Court rules again a Scientology judgement creditor owed 6 million dollars can immediately begin seizing any assets of the mother churches of Scientology, (the Church of Scientology International and Religious Technology Center.) 14 Nov 1997, Los Angeles, CA - The controversial global religion notorious for attacking Internet free speech, human rights abuses, and the religious persecution http://www.lermanet.com/A&E.htm