GRAHAM BERRY SAYS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

June 21, 2009 – 4:48 pm

I wish to thank all those who have been contributing to my subsistence support these past months. It is truly touching that there are so many generous and caring people of good will who wish to see my own contributions to our cause against Scientology crime and abuse continue by assisting with my financial needs (long gone are the days of financial wants).

 

In our current “great recession,” when most people are struggling and squirreling, your continued support is even more amazing and encouraging. Without your financial contributions, other support, and even home baked cookies, I would have folded and faded long ago, just as O.S.A. had intended in 1999 with their contrived and legally merit less vexatious litigant petition to a judge whose fiancée was a scientologist working for O.S.A! You will be able to explore a lot more of that in the coming months as we kick our campaign up another few notches.

 

The Fall offensive is even more significant because these past nine months have been much less productive than I would have wished. In fact, these past three months my work has almost been at a standstill as I contributed my labor to the cleaning and painting of a large part of my landlady’s house. Now the disruptions and distractions of the last nine months are behind me. Last week I finished painting four rooms in a row and I have returned to the Scientology battle front (with my “E.P.F. and Renos assignments” completed <gr>). Indeed, this weekend I was out picketing with the visiting Hombre and other Anons. I shall also be on another brief foreign assignment again during the next month.  More on that after I get there.

 

Although the tide of battle has now turned in favor of the critics we still face even greater struggles ahead. Scientology is replenishing its war chest in preparation for a major push back. Recently, one Hollywood celebrity promised the International Association of Scientologists a $10 million donation towards “smashing the SPs and Anonymous.” Former members and fence sitters are being pressured to return and resume their Bridge and payments. In fact, one ex-member received a serious of “please come back” phone calls before finally saying, “I’m finally out of your cult. Why would I return?” Half an hour Scientology called back, “You’ve been declared an SP [Suppressive Person].” The former member responded, “Thank you. Now I have joined an elite group.”

 

If we can keep our fight going through the summer and the launch of the Fall offensive, this fight could be over before the next U.S. Presidential election. The Scientology scam is now surviving through fraud, those on courses in Clearwater (Flag) and at the Celebrity Centers, and those funding its front groups, particularly W.I.S.E., Narconon and ABLE. Scientology continues to desperately and deceptively recruit through other front groups such as “Artists for a Better World” and seemingly unrelated businesses such as the Beverly Hills Playhouse. However, Scientology is already a skeleton of its former self. The numbers of angry former Narconon patients wanting to sue Narconon are exploding. Former Scientologists are lining up with refund claims against Scientology entities. The International Association of Scientologists is being accused of fraudulent fund raising.

 

Although the scourge of Scientology is tottering, like a lassoed Star Wars Imperial Walker, it has not yet fallen. The front groups, crimes and abuses are Scientology’s Achilles heel. The cult has shrunk to a dedicated, deluded and desperate core supported by a bewildered and plundered public. The Scientology ship is beached and we will win this war if we stand together against the common foe, each contributing what we are able, whether expertise, time, blood, sweat, tears or money. Each of us does each of us can, masked or unmasked, as our own abilities and circumstances permit or require. We are all ages, all talents and all people. We are all equal and mutually interdependent. Our most potent weapons are our knowledge and information, and we believe that both knowledge and information should be both free and freely available. The number of active Scientology critics now exceeds the number of active Scientologists. We can win this contest of good against evil provided we stand together and renew our efforts and commitments.

 

The four days that I spent in Russia last month included invaluable conversations with people I already knew from law enforcement in France, Germany, Belgium and elsewhere. Now the Russian Ministry of Justice has also been educated on the Scientology psycho-terror threat. We are all agreed that a new inter-government initiative must be opened up against the cult and its Washington D.C. shills and stooges.

 

It would not be smart to share any more information or plans in this open forum. Suffice it to say we need more money and active assistance: on the streets, in the public arena, behind the scenes, on the Internet, etc. Without sacrificing the essential strengths of the Anonymous concept and structure we need a little more co-ordination, co-operation and contribution. We need to breathe fresh life and numbers into some of our global protests but we also need small teams working with other tools on other less overt projects. There is an orchid of projects and ideas for the hive to pollinate.

 

In this manner David Miscavige will face ‘wog’ justice and he will go to a ‘wog’ prison. His senior deputies (past and present) can choose to either join him there or they can do the right thing by joining us and testifying as part of a plea bargain and immunity deal. However, their time to move and repent is rapidly running out. In that regard, it truly shocks the conscience that several former senior Miscavige deputies should refuse to willingly reverse the damage they helped do to so many people, including Keith Henson, the Lisa McPherson Estate, Bob Minton and myself. All it would take is one comprehensive affidavit from each of them but they have refused to lift a finger to do so. Accordingly, hard measures and harsh results are now required. Their current explanation of “we were all victims of Miscavige and I was just following his orders” is not available in either a court of law or the court of public opinion. Their idea that they can just escape O.S.A. and drive away from the consequences of their past unlawful conduct is neither realistic nor responsible. Rathbun and Rinder’s statements to the St. Petersburg Times are an important first step in support of Marc Headley and other former scientologists. However, they also have a liability and responsibility for using blackmail, bribery, perjury and corruption to deliberately destroy the lives and livelihoods of a number of non-Scientology litigants and their lawyers.

 

According to today’s St.Petersburg Times report (The Truth Rundown, Part One, June 21, 2009) “two Washington lawyers [Gerry Feffer and his wife Monique Yingling ?] visited Rinder and reminded him that the “attorney-client privilege did not end when he left the church.” However, California Evidence Code section 956 expressly provides “There is no privilege … if the services of the lawyer were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit a crime or fraud.” Scientology’s Zolin case is instructive in this regard.

 

For the moment I am continuing to refer new civil cases to other counsel. O.S.A. wants me in the civil court room where they can try to overwhelm me with paper and expense and so confine me within that limited battle zone. Accordingly, I am returning to the broader governmental, inter-governmental and international vehicles that can provide Anonymous more immediate and effective great justice for the victims of Scientology and its senior officials (past and present). Of course I am continuing with the various short misdemeanor defenses that the cult’s antics regularly require, and with my own writing projects.

 

During 36 years of legal practice I have never been good at requesting money for professional services and assistance. I prefer to work pro bono or to charge as little as possible. I joined a profession even though it has become a business where it is not unusual for lawyers and former judges to charge between $400 and $800 per hour for their time! However, the reality is that I suddenly have a much larger monthly expense and so I depend even more upon your regular generosity and favor. Money orders, Western Union grams (with ‘money transfer control number’ and name/place of sender), gift cards (Staples, Costco, Ralphs, Visa, etc.) are all very gratefully accepted.

 

Once again, thank you to all those who have been generously assisting with our work. This weekend I was able to drive to the Friday night picket, and to eat through the next week, through the generosity of a $50.00 Costco card from MM. I eat a lot of canned tuna and spaghetti with tomato sauce!  

 

Keep up the good fight and let’s get this battle finished. We can do it.

 

Sincerely and with humble thanks,

 

Graham E. Berry

3384 McLaughlin Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90066

 

(310) 745-3771 (Landline)

(310) 902-6381 (Cell)

grahamberry@ca.rr.com

       

HOW THE SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATION USES AND EXPLOITS THE UNITED STATES’ LEGAL SYSTEM FOR ITS OWN ENDS

May 25, 2009 – 6:55 pm

You can read my May 15, 2009 speech in St. Petersburg, Russia at:

http://www.pitchengine.com/cultwatchpublicaccess/lawyer-calls-for-usa-investigation-into-scientology-cult/12667/

I will be posting a copy here in the next few days.

WHITE KNIGHTS AND DANGEROUS CULTS

May 24, 2009 – 5:11 pm

I am not a member of the smart jet set who thinks nothing of crossing the Atlantic for a long weekend. However, in mid May 2009 I endured an arduous five day return trip to St. Petersburg, Russia. I had also been invited to spend a further two weeks working in Hamburg, Germany with Fr. Ursula Caberta who leads the state anti-cult office there. Unfortunately, Fr. Caberta took very ill after I departed Los Angeles and my Hamburg segment was necessarily postponed until later in the year. We have a new project to develop.

 I had flown to St. Petersburg, Russia to present a paper and a half hour speech at the annual F.E.C.R.I.S. conference on May 15 and 16, 2009. F.E.C.R.I.S. (European Federation of Centers of Research and Information on Sectarianism) is an NGO and the umbrella group for 42 anti-cult associations and government offices located in 26 different European countries (plus Australia and Argentina). The objectives of F.E.C.R.I.S. include rallying “representative European associations concerned with contemporary organizations with sectarian and totalitarian characteristics, whether legally constituted or not, whose practices violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, European and national laws.” F.E.C.R.I.S. is “politically, philosophically and religiously neutral.” Its funding comes in part from European governments. It has a website and publications at http://www.fecris.org/  

The 2009 F.E.C.R.I.S. conference was held at the University of St. Petersburg Law School. The current President, Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of Russia graduated from the law school. Indeed, the law school contributed to funding for the conference along with the City of St. Petersburg, the Russian government and the French government. That funding also paid for my own travel and accommodation costs.

 

I arrived in St. Petersburg late Thursday evening of May 14 after a twenty hour trip from Los Angeles via Paris on Air France. Conference officials met and whisked me from the airport to the Park Inn Pribaltiskaya where many of the conference speakers and delegates were also staying. Although it was near midnight it was still only dusk. It is an artic regional phenomenon they call “white nights” and it is quite disorientating to the uninitiated such as me.

 

The next morning, after too few hours sleep and a quick breakfast, I was on a shuttle bus to the F.E.C.R.I.S. conference in a large auditorium at the University of St. Petersburg Law School. The Church of Scientology, widely recognized as the world’s most dangerous cult, had its usual cameras present outside. Their digital work would be immediately transferred to the war rooms of Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs (“O.S.A.”) in Los Angeles and Gilman Hot Springs, California. OSA was surely delighted to see me step off the bus with the Belgium criminal prosecutor and the senior French government official responsible for the investigation of religious extremism, dangerous and destructive cults. If you view my photographs http://picasaweb.google.com/grahamberry  you will see the first day Scientologist camera lady http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jz0aLiPF1ufhoonDCmib0Q?feat=directlink and then the second day’s O.S.A. gorgeous girl with whom I established a kind of cold war style rapport of mutual camera-tech and then a friendly wave http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/p6fAHm4P823ekGPX-VgG0A?feat=directlink. I was tempted to smuggle her back for the companionship of some of our younger members of Anonymous!

 

The 2009 FECRIS annual conference was focused on “DESTRUCTIVE CULTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.” The Russian Minister of Justice was scheduled to open the conference but he was delayed and did not appear until later. His speech was read by the Deputy Minister of Justice who attended the entire conference and listened to each speaker. The Deputy Minister of Justice is also responsible for monitoring the activities of dangerous cults. Other opening speakers included the Rector of the University of St. Petersburg and Friedrich Griess, the outgoing President of F.E.C.R.I.S. He commented that the destructive cults, of which Scientology is widely considered the worst, “promise heaven but deliver hell. They target the young who have no personal memories of Europe’s totalitarian experiences with fascism of both the right and the left.” Mr. Griess was followed by the Honorary President of the INGO Conference of the Council of Europe, Henri-Pierre Debord of the French Prime Ministers office and MILVILUDES, Tassos Mitsopoulos of the Cyprus Parliament and Christophe Caliman, the Belgium Federal Magistrate in charge of the pending Belgium government criminal prosecution of the Church of Scientology. I had met most of these speakers last September in Hamburg, Germany.

 

The opening address on “Destructive cults and human rights” was delivered by the eminent Professor Alexander Dvorkin from Moscow where he teaches religious history. The current Russian Minister of Justice is one of Professor Dvorkin’s former students. Professor Dvorkin had played a key role in the organization of the 2009 FECRIS conference which seemed as flawless as it was impressive. During his speech he spoke of the need for more inter governmental response to the cult problem. In doing so he referred to the French governments inter ministerial approach which was more effective than what we American’s might call stove piping within individual agencies.

 

After a morning coffee break we heard from the first three of seventeen conference speakers. The Russian Deputy Minister of Justice spoke of the “Possibilities of Coordinating European and Russian Experience in Combating Totalitarian Cults.” I had an interesting private conversation with the minister regarding access to certain seized documents in Moscow. The Deputy Justice Minister was followed by Hans-Werner Carlhoff, the Director of The Interministerial Working Group for Cults and Pyschogroups in Baden-Wuerttenburg. He is located in Stuttgart and is Ursula Caberta’s counterpart in southern Germany. He spoke of the “Cult Situation in Baden-Wuertternberg” and was followed by the Mayor of Ryazan who described the “Cultic violations of Human Rights in the Ryazan Province” of Russia which is about 200 miles from Moscow. I was stunned that there should be so much cult activity in a relatively remote region of both Russia and the world. Scientology is also well represented there through various front groups.

 

By the end of the morning I had learned of Scientology penetrating security at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. One speaker had referred to the Religious Technology Center website soliciting “knowledge reports,” or spy reports, from people such as spouses or parents possessing a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding such information. Similarly, the information Scientology obtains from its “security checks” using the E-meter can be, and has been, used for blackmail and extortion. Scientology’s “Introspection Rundown” was classified as “torture” and “an abuse against human rights and the dignity of the individual.” In 1995 Scientologist Lisa McPherson died whilst being subjected to the Introspection (or Isolation) Rundown.

 

The first day’s afternoon session commenced with a speech from the Rev. Thomas Gandow who is the Cult counselor of the Berlin-Brandenburg Lutheran Church. Rev. Gandow is also the head of the Dialogue Center in Berlin. I was a guest of Rev. and Mrs. Gandow in 2002. They live in a picturesque small farming village outside Berlin. Later Gerry Armstrong stayed with them and O.S.A. engaged in its usual harassment. On one occasion they were nearly forced off the autobahn by a pursuing scientologist who was apprehended by the police. Although O.S.A. claimed the scientologist was acting independently the Gandow did receive a compensation payment. Rev. Gandow’s speech to the conference was on “Moon movement, Scientology, LaRouche-Cults or Foreign Lobbying groups?” During the speech he also spoke of the need for a new global strategy for dealing with groups such as the Church of Scientology. Such a new global strategy would include a return to co-ordination and liaison between the European and United States governments. Indeed, during a number of conversations I learned of the need for the F.B.I. to be communicating with European governments involved with the investigation and prosecution of crimes and abuses being committed by certain cults.

 

It was then my turn to present my paper on “Why the United States must investigate the crimes, abuses and frauds of the Scientology Enterprise.” The paper has already been published on various websites and it can also be read at www.grahamberry.com  It is already on a court file and it is being sent to the United States government. My speech was an edited thirty minute version of the paper. Apparently it was very well received. A discussion period followed immediately and I recall being asked as to the most effective weapon against the coercive indoctrination of cults. I responded “Knowledge, information and education, all of which is free.” In that regard, someone at the conference told me of a Scientology dissemination project being limited to either the schools or the Internet. Tellingly Scientology chose to disseminate in the schools over the Internet. Understandably Scientology has been labeled “tax exempt child abuse.”

 

The afternoon coffee break was followed by Jean-Pierre Jougla from the UNADFI in France. He spoke on “The cult, the confusion of powers and human rights.” He was supposed to be followed the inimitable Gerry Armstrong from Canada speaking on “Scientology, the Dangerous Environment Racket.”  However, Gerry was unable to attend the F.E.C.R.I.S. conference. He had submitted his passport for visa purposes and the passport had disappeared. Accordingly, Christophe Caliman of Belgium spoke in his place. Mr. Caliman is the Belgium federal prosecutor handing the criminal prosecution of Scientology there. I have had a number of useful exchanges with him. He was accompanied to St. Petersburg by a small group of Belgium police and prosecutors. The Belgium magistrate was followed by Michael Drebing from Germany. He is a former Jehovah’s Witness and he spoke on “Jehovah’s Witnesses and mental violations.” The afternoon concluded with a screening of the Mathias Film documentary “Mission Scientology-Inside Report from the empire of thetans.” Part of this documentary was filmed in Los Angeles and Gilman Hot Springs earlier this year.

 

About a dozen of us departed before the screening of the documentary. We were taken to the Russian Constitutional Court which is the Russian counterpart of the United States Supreme Court. The court has nineteen justices and it is located in a large restored early nineteenth century palace. Arrangements had been made for us to meet with one of the justices in his chambers and to tour the public and non-public areas of the court building. While talking with the justice I learned that the Russian justices have no relationship with the U.S. Supreme Court justices although they do have exchanges with justices from other European courts and from Canada’s Supreme Court. The Constitutional Court of Russia has been relocated in St. Petersburg as part of a decentralization policy and to strengthen its independence from the Federal government in Moscow.

 

During our tour of the Constitutional Court building we learned some interesting and amusing information through Professor Alexander Dvorkin. He told us that earlier in the afternoon, about the time of my speech, a letter had been hand delivered to the Prime Minister of Russia in Moscow. The letter to the Prime Minister demanded that the Russian Government immediately shut down the F.E.C.R.I.S. conference and withdraw all government support for such an “anti-religious organization.” The letter was signed by the Church of Scientology and four other groups. The four other groups had been previously considered to be Scientology front groups and the letter to the Prime Minister confirmed it. The Prime Minister took no action. His own Ministry of Justice was actively participating!

 

Day two of the conference, Saturday May 16, 2009, was very much a day for Eastern Europe. The first session was led by Lucia Greskova, the Deputy Director of UVSC in Slovakia. She spoke on “The cult situation in Slovakia.” She was followed by Vladimar Martinovich, Director of CNRMS in Belarus, who spoke about “Cults and Politics in Byelorussia.” These two were followed by Per Kornhall of Sweden. Per is an ex-member of Word of Life. He gave an excellent power point presentation on “Neopentecostal mind control-the Swedish cult Way of Life, and its ways of controlling members and influencing society.” Incidentally, I learned that the largest cult groups in Russia are the Neo Pentecostals and the New World Order. They have about 300,000 adherents followed by the Jehovah’s Witnesses with about 100,000 members. All the other cults, including the Scientologists, comprise less than 10,000 members. However, the Church of Scientology is considered the most dangerous and insidious. Infiltration and corruption are its calling cards.

 

Following the morning coffee break we heard from Alexander Kuzmin, the President of RCS in Saratov. He spoke on “The threat of Neopentecostal cults to the state security of Russia.” Anna Marinova from CRNRM in Bulgaria then talked of “The followers of Teacher Petar Danov (Great White Brotherhood) and the media.” In the afternoon we were first addressed by Evgeny Mukhtarov from Yaroslavl in Russia. He spoke on “How the cults use NGOs and Public Events for PR and Recruitment.”

 

The highlight of the afternoon presentations, for me, was a superb power point presentation (kindly transferred to me) on “Cultic and subversive elements in activities and practices of non-governmental organizations.” It was prepared and presented by Zoran Lukovic and Andrej Protic of the CAS in Serbia.

 

After the mid afternoon coffee break Vladimir Petukhov, President of FPDC in the Ukraine, spoke on “The impact of cults on social and political processes in the Ukraine or new methods of managing democracy.” He was followed by Tom Sackville from the Family Survival Trust in the United Kingdom. He spoke on “The need for harmonization of European Policy in respect of cult groups.” Tom Sackville is a former British parliamentarian and cabinet minister who has been elected to be the next president of F.E.C.R.I.S. He will be one of hosts of next years FECRIS conference in London.

 

The conference ended with a general discussion and concluding remarks from Friedrich Griess. I then participated in a press conference with five other speakers including Thomas Gandow, Tom Sackville and Professor Dvorkin. The press conference was more interesting and amusing than I expected. Someone who had not attended the conference gained entry and proceeded to ask a question that would reveal his Scientology connections. This person said that he was not a scientologist but he had attended a Scientology “congress” where he learned all about the wonderful social work done by the Church of Scientology and what comments did we have on that. The question was kicked to me. After congratulating him on a being one of the few non-scientologists to attend a Scientology “congress” I spoke of the frauds and failures of various Scientology front groups such as Narconon, Applied Scholastics and A.B.L.E. However, the questioner stood and walked out of the auditorium before I had even completed my response. Perhaps he had to immediately report back to O.S.A.?

 

After the press conference we were taken to join the other conference participants for a closing banquet in the historic Academy Restaurant and Bar beside the harbor. It was a very happy event. The FECRIS conference had been attended by a significant number of priests from the Russian Orthodox Church which is one of the primary providers of assistance to former cult members and victims in Eastern Europe. The priests really knew how to get a party going. It wasn’t long before toasts were being made faster than the diners could raise their glasses and drink. The Archbishop and Prelate of the Ukraine sang duets with Pastor Gandow of the German Lutheran Church. Pastor Gandow and Professor Dvorkin gave a lesson on the differences between homo sapiens and the Scientology homo novis. A number of attendees performed a solo song while the group joined to sing others such as “We shall overcome.” One of our Irish friends delivered a side-splitting speech on subjects such as the recent movie Valkerie where “a dedicated scientologist returned to one of his past lives and tried to take out Adolf Hitler.”

 

The various papers presented to F.E.C.R.I.S. will be published on its website and the conference was also video taped. I understand the tapes will be edited and then made available.

 

I had Sunday free for sightseeing and personal time before returning to a very much warmer Southern California. Instead of an organized city coach tour I took to the streets and subway with a lawyer from Ursula Caberta’s office. We visited the magnificent Hermitage art museum which occupies the Winter Palace of the later Czars of Russia. The museum claims that if one spends a minute in front of each painting it will take at least eight years to see the entire collection. I had dinner that evening with some of the FECRIS board members and then retired for another “white night” before leaving for St. Petersburg at 5 AM the next morning for my long return flight to Los Angeles via Paris.

 

I wish to thank every one and every institution that made my quick but long trip possible. It was very useful on a number of different levels and now we can introduce some of what I learned about the need for a new global private and public strategy against the Scientology enterprise and myriad of front groups.

 

Sincerely,

 

Graham Berry.

 

May 24, 2009.

    

THE STATE OF THE STOP SCIENTOLOGY ABUSE CAMPAIGN

February 15, 2009 – 5:45 pm


THE STATE OF THE STOP SCIENTOLOGY ABUSE CAMPAIGN

 

PART ONE: HOW FAR WE HAVE TRAVELED

 

One year ago Anonymous chanted its refrain that “information is free” and it charged into battle against the abuses of corporate scientology, widely considered the world’s worst copyright abuser. The contest of ideas, and the communication of information, has now extended to all of the abuses, crimes, dangers and frauds of the Scientology business conglomerate, religious mafia and totalitarian political machine. This is the State of the Campaign, as I see it. It is my hope that you will take the time to share your own assessment of how far and well we have come, and where we might go from here. If we share our observations and ideas, and act upon the collective wisdom, we may be able to conquer the cult’s crumbling con by year’s end.

 

I have been fighting the Scientology octopus for nearly twenty years. The financial circumstances of both corporate scientology and me have dramatically declined since Moxon and I met in late 1990 at the beginning of Religious Technology Center v. Joseph Yanny II. My first tutors were Gerry Armstrong and Vicki Aznaran. They were fighting Church of Scientology v. Armstrong II and Aznaran v. Church of Scientology.

 

In November 1990, the Church of Scientology was at the peak of its wealth and intimidation. Recently it had been laid bare by a six part series in the Los Angeles Times. (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology-sg,0,4617583.storygallery) Six months later, on May 6, 1991, it would be the cover story of Time magazine’s greatest issue: Scientology: The Thriving cult of Greed and Power. (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865,00.html)

 

In November 1990, Scientology had an annual litigation and investigation budget that exceeded forty million dollars. It had a world wide litigation and intimidation juggernaut. Armies of lawyers from the world’s largest and leading law firms, assisted by over 150 O.S.A. Legal Unit staffers earning $46-20 for 100 hour plus weeks, and gangs of Private Investigators and other intimidating goons. Ten month later David Miscavige and Marty Rathbun would burst into the I.R.S. Commissioner’s office without an appointment. They would spend over thirty minutes advising him of the results of their “investigation” and what they might do with them if the I.R.S. did not co-operate by surrendering in the twenty year Scientology War against the I.R.S., and to grant it tax free status despite the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Hernandez v. Commissioner. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernandez_v._Commissioner)

 

Four years later, in November 1994, Scientology’s litigation charades were becoming transparent. During the course of Church of Scientology International v. Fishman & Geertz the Scientology Upper Levels, the OT Levels, had ended up on the open court files and then on the Internet. The Andre Tabayoyon, Mary Tabayoyon, Robert Vaughn Young, Stacy Brooks, Hana Whitfield, Jerry Whitfield and Lawrence Wollersheim declarations had also been on open court files and were all over the Internet. People were able to read about “instructions to commit financial fraud, murder and suicide.” Weapons and forced abortions at Gold Base were now public knowledge. The Scientology’s genie was out of the bottle I told the Washington Post in1996. “The Internet would prove to be the church’s Waterloo and lead to their demise,” I told the LA Weekly in January 2000. (http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/pasadena-weekly-debunking-scientology.htm) By then Scientology had declared and lost its War against the Internet although it continued to engage in Internet abuse as if it is beyond all laws and any sense of fair play and human decency. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_the_Internet).

 

On January 15, 2008 the Church of Scientology over-played its hand when dealing with the Internet release of the Scientology promotional video recorded by Tom Cruise in 2004. The Internet retaliated with a declaration of war by Anonymous against Scientology civil rights abuses and copyright frauds. Throughout the rest of 2008 the battles have raged between Scientology, Anonymous, the Old Guard and assorted other critics. What is the scoreboard one year later? It is definitely advantage Anonymous and organized Scientology is definitely imploding.

 

Scientology responded to Anonymous with its usual strategy and technology for the handling of suppressive persons, collectively called Fair Game. The Office of Special Affairs put together teams of lawyers led by the mega law firm of Latham & Watkins and it hired gangs of goons calling themselves private investigators. After three months Latham & Watkins were shamed out of further harassment of Scientology’s critics. However, other smaller law firms and hundreds of private investigators spent many millions of dollars trampling on the civil rights of citizens in the United States and around the world. Scientology’s civil rights extortion and blackmail reached the highest levels of Washington, DC lobbyists and the son of one was forced to withdraw from Anonymous otherwise Scientology would embarrass his father in front of his clients and the Washington establishment. In this criminal manner Scientology attorney Moxon silenced Ath and Kone who were two of the most active Anonymous participants. Despite this, Moxon has not been able to silence or slow the Anonymous movement. The Anonymous hive has lost some street fighters through intimidation, extortion, attention deficit disorder and natural attrition. However, the hive has so damaged and destroyed Scientology that Anonymous now needs fewer street fighters to wage the final battles, as we extend and build our campaign to a whole new level with thousands who do their work with the anonymity of the Internet and emails to public officials. (http://anonstillalive.com/index.html)

 

Scientology’s asthmatic dwarf and dictator David Miscavige now appears to be in hiding. He failed to attend the I.A.S. ball which was not held at the Shrine in Los Angeles. Neither he nor any of the senior executive strata attended the recent New Years event. He has not been seen in public with mutual best friend Tom Cruise. This is unprecedented. While Scientology is in a total melt down David Miscavige and the entire senior management team is constantly concealed and allegedly confined. Most or all of them should be at Gold Base in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California. Recently, when I have been at the 550 acre Gold Base, the shades are all drawn and there is virtually no external movement anywhere by the claimed 500 staffers.

The entire Gold Base appears to be in a condition of constant lock-down and lock-in. Most of the 500 Scientology staffers at Gold Base have serious Stockholm syndrome. The only significant visible movement is by the security guards who prevent outsiders from getting in or insiders from getting out. One former Gold Base staffer contacted me recently. She wanted the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to insist that the cult install a freely accessible gate and 911 telephone so that staffers could call for help and leave without being restrained by Gold Base security.

 

We have also learned that David Miscavige has sole control of Scientology’s cash reserves and that they are in secret numbered off-shore bank accounts. Scientology has one such series of numbered accounts off-shore with Merrill Lynch in Antigua. The M. V. Freewinds has been a useful vehicle in this massive tax free off-shore money laundering and racketeering enterprise. Recently the M.V. Freewinds was having deadly blue asbestos scraped off her hull and fittings in Cartegena, Venezuela. Some even suggest that Miscavige and his senior staff have already flown the coop and are moving Scientology’s International Headquarters to a faux castle in South Africa. Whether that is true remains to be seen.

 

What can now be seen as true is that there is a very high level of anxiety and “strangeness” within the crumbling cult. For a time it was becoming even more dangerous. Scientologists were stepping out of their Church premises to physically attack our Anonymous and Old Guard picketers, their picket signs and cameras. Three months ago one disgruntled sword waving former Scientologist even stormed Scientology’s Celebrity Center in Los Angeles and was shot dead by Church of Scientology armed guards. Their hair triggers and excessive force was whitewashed by Scientology’s plants and puppets at the Los Angeles Police Department. More recently however, law enforcement appears to have backed off from acting upon whatever the cult tells them to believe and do about Anonymous.

 

In short, Scientology’s planetary response to Anonymous has been an expensive public relations and legal disaster. Scientologists are quietly shrinking away from the Church in droves and the staff ranks are decimated by defections. One Saturday evening in early January 2009 I stood alone at one end of L. Ron Hubbard Way shouting protest slogans while Scientology attorney Moxon stood silently and pathetically at the other. The rest of the Office of Special Affairs has been conspicuous by their absence and silence. Scientology had expected to squash Anonymous before last year’s Memorial Day. Instead, Scientology critics and Anonymous have defied Scientology’s violations and abuses of our constitutional and civil rights.

 

Yesterday, February 14, 2009 was even more pathetic for the cult. While four Anons picketed in Los Angeles at L. Ron Hubbard Way and Sunset Boulevard, I solo picketed outside A.O.L.A. and Big Blue on the other end of L. Ron Hubbard Way at Fountain Avenue. L. Ron Hubbard Way was utterly deserted except for Roy the Pacific Area Command  Base security guard, me and the occasional car entering and leaving the A.O.L.A. (upper levels processing) car park.  I was carrying two picket signs: One with a photograph of former Gold Base staffer and reading” Scientology Leader David Miscavige Beats Up Staff Members” and the other reading “Blow Baby Blow.” After half an hour a solitary figure emerged from the American Saint Hill Building and slowly walked down the other side of L. Ron Hubbard Way toward me and my solo picketing of “The Complex.” It was Scientology uber attorney Kendrick L. Moxon. He was dressed casually with a messenger bag slung over his shoulder. As Moxon drew level with me he yelled across the street to me, “Berry, are you still having gay sex?” He said something as he passed Roy the security guard, they both chuckled at me, and then Moxon walked across Fountain Avenue to the secure parking building. A few minutes Moxon drove out of the parking building in a blue Toyota Prius, glaring at me as he did so. The imagery of this encounter and exchange spoke volumes on a number of different levels.

 

Despite the initial strength of our totalitarian foe, Anonymous has prevailed against Scientology corruption and deception of politicians and police. Both Miscavige and Moxon appear to realize that the Scientology scam is now crumbling, like every other multi-level Ponzi scheme and every other cult and totalitarian movement.

 

Anonymous, the Old Guard and other critics should each feel proud and encouraged whether we picket as a few outside a declining Mission or whether we picket as a few hundred outside a major Org; from Moscow to Melbourne, from Athens to Auckland, from Lisbon to Los Angeles. A protest against Scientology abuse, crime and fraud only takes one to picket and one to videotape an audio-visual record. It only takes one picket sign to close down L. Ron Hubbard Way, Gold Base or any other Scientology location. It only takes one person protesting Scientology abuse to trigger a state of fear and terror among Scientology staffers and Scientologists. Together Anonymous have survived and prevailed.

 

What Scientology forgot was that Anonymous does not need to constantly maintain a picketing force of over 10,000 in 110 cities and over 84 countries around the world. Anons who step back from Street Tech don’t just fade away. Many of them are still working away at their keyboards and with public officials. This is the age of the Internet and Anonymous has harnessed the Internets power across towns, state lines and national borders. What other one year old civil rights group has produced hundreds, perhaps thousands, of public service and educational videos and public papers as have “the moral fags” of Anonymous and the members of the Old Guard? OSA’s usual spies and thugs, even Talon Executive Services, have not stopped the silent spreading strength of Anonymous, its memes, and its revelations of Scientology crime, fraud and abuse. Anonymous and the Old Guard now have more active participants (on the streets and on the boards) than the Church of Scientology has active members. Anonymous now has more active cells than the Church of Scientology has active Orgs.

 

Meanwhile, Scientology’s most important statistic, gross revenue or “g.i.,” has declined to the level of a total “Stat Crash.” Many Anonymous around the planet have observed this. Scientology sells courses, training and auditing that is generally done at Missions and Orgs. The parking lots, course rooms and auditing rooms in all of this fancy real estate have largely been empty. We understand that over sixty scientologists have left and decimated the ranks of the already shrinking Sydney Org. Other Orgs and Missions have closed. A few have moved to cheaper premises. All of them appear to be struggling financially. Vender payments are being delayed and ignored even more than usual. Over the past decade the O.S.A. Legal and Investigations Units have shrunk from about 140 to less than 35. For example, there are many more media “flaps” for a lot less staffers to handle with even a lot less money. Scientology still manages to use its past litigation terror threats to intimidate Amazon and the big book chains. However, the books, magazine articles and documentaries are coming out and Scientology can no longer credibly sue in defamation. Even the super litigious Tom Cruise has failed to sue unauthorized biographer Andrew Morton. In short, although O.S.A. still needs to be defanged and declawed it is now but a shadow of its former self.

 

Most of the few new recruits Scientology has been able to draw in have left after a short time and after buying few courses. The existing members are largely “regged out.” Even in their state of coerced indoctrination they reason that decades of contributing to the completion of Super Power means that the contributions are going elsewhere. Scientology is rapidly shrinking in all of its sectors. Scientology dissemination and publications are not jamming the mail as they once did. What materials are now being published are of a more frugal nature. The objective of Scientology is to “make money, make money, make more money.”  Until recently, money was no problem for Scientology. Now Scientology appears to be having money problems. The Ponzi scheme is imploding. The Auckland Org is even raising operating revenue through bake sales and bingo nights. This is totally “out tech” and was banned by Hubbard.

 

Scientology’s recent purchase of the historic building now housing the Auckland Org was a ten million dollar real estate deal. Once most major Scientology real estate was purchased by Building Management Services, Inc. More recently it appears to be purchased through ad hoc real estate investment vehicles funded by a few remaining wealthy Scientologists and celebrities such as Tom Cruise.

 

There is a major “stat crash” in all sectors of Scientology. This follows a decade long “State of Emergency.” Now OSA’s lead in house attorney, Kendrick Moxon, has been labeled “the loneliest douche bag” on the planet. http://forums.whyweprotest.net/284-usa-west-coast/los-angeles-post-game-jan-17th-36840/2/#post702979 The scandal of David Miscavige’s brutal staff beatings is now public and growing. Miscavige beat up Marc Headley who later escaped from Gold Base and is now suing Scientology for about $1.8 million in back-pay and other Labor Code violations. If this law suit succeeds Scientology could face a bankrupting avalanche of similar claims. Similarly, paying minimum wages on an on-going basis would also bankrupt the cult. And if the 1993 tax agreement is voided for fraud and breach then the roughly six billion dollars in back taxes, penalties and interest will finish off organized Scientology (and help fund a U.S. national health program). Anon Orange will also be suing Gold Base. Civil discovery in these law suits will probably produce new human tragedies.

 

Narconon is reeling from closures, opposition, cancellations and refund claims. Dozens of people are wanting to file suit for refunds and damages. Hundreds of former Scientologists are preparing to file demands for repayments and refunds. The income from the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises is drying up as W.I.S.E. members face their own economic challenges made worse by the crippling W.I.S.E. license fees. Meanwhile, the W.I.S.E. employees can no longer afford the courses and auditing they previously could. A.B.L.E., Applied Scholastics the Volunteer Ministers and their thinly disguised recruiting programs have been exposed to be Scientology false front frauds. Scientology’s unlawful practice of medicine has been exposed through the tragic death of Jett Travolta. Scientology auditing and Tech does not cure autism, cancer or any other serious medical condition.

 

The United States public is now seeing that Scientology’s cupboard is both bare and toxic. Meanwhile, in Europe the Church of Scientology is really on the ropes. Europe considers Scientology to be a faux religion masking totalitarian political movement that is also engaged in a conglomerate of commercial activities, financial frauds, money laundering, coercive indoctrination, psychological terrorism, unlawful gathering and use of personal information, unlawful practice of medicine, unlawful imprisonment, family abuse, civil rights abuses, etc. Consequently, Scientology continues to be under secret service surveillance in Germany. It is under prosecution in both France and Belgium.

 

On July 19, 2008, our Washington Anons organized an epic event at the Lincoln Memorial. This “March on D.C.” was a first for a six month old civil rights group. On September 4 and 5, 2008, Ursula Caberta and the German State of Hamburg hosted a highly successful land mark European inter-government conference on THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY! Reports from the USA. Anonymous was also invited and many attended. On May 16 and 17, 2009, F.E.C.R.I.S. (www.fecris.org) will host a similar event in St. Petersburg, Russia. I am also looking forward to seeing Anonymous and the Old Guard there. I will be using the opportunity to deliver a major speech calling upon the United States government and congress to investigate Scientology’s crimes and abuses.

 

The “moral fags” of Anonymous, and their allies in “the Old Guard,” have traveled far and wide during the past year. Their achievements have been truly amazing and their wins “epic.” Anonymous “do not forget” and they “do not forgive,” so they just “keep coming back.” Neither Scientology O.T. and homo novis powers nor O.S.A. crime and corruption have worked against us. Every O.S.A. Project becomes just another O.S.A. “foot bullet.”

 

Anonymous is rapidly growing and winning. Corporate Scientology is rapidly losing and shrinking. It is at or approaching a pivotal point beyond which it will not rebound but rather rapidly implode into the “free zone.” There is irony here with the Anonymous slogan, “Religion is free, and Scientology should be too.”

 

Soon I will post Part Two of this discussion paper: How we might complete the campaign? In the meantime, I hope that many of you will take the time to share your own assessment of how far and well we have come, and where we might go from here.

 

Congratulations Anonymous upon an epic first year.

Graham E. Berry                                                                            February 15, 2009

Letter opposing Scientology anti-picketing ordinance in Riverside county.

January 4, 2009 – 8:48 pm


GRAHAM E. BERRY

ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW

3384 McLAUGHLIN AVENUE

LOS ANGELES, CA 90066

Telephone and Facsimile: (310) 745-3771

Email: grahamberry@ca.rr.com

 

January 5, 2009

 

 

By Fax, Email and Hand Delivery.   

 

The Chairman and Board of Supervisors

Riverside County Board of Supervisors

County Administrative Center

4080 Lemon Street-Fifth Floor

Riverside, CA 92501

 

Re:  Proposed Ordinances 884 and 888: Targeted Residential Picketing

Board meeting January 6, 2009, Agenda Items 3.28 and 3.29 (Supervisor Stone)

 

Honorable Chairman and Gentlemen:

 

            The real purpose of the two proposed ordinances is to prevent staff employed by the Church of Scientology Sea Organization from seeing or hearing the messages of persons engaged in peaceful First Amendment protected activity outside the Church of Scientology International Headquarters and Golden Era Productions facilities at 19625 Highway 79, Gilman Hot Springs, CA 92583. Scientology senior management call the property “Gold Base” and I shall too. In that regard, I urge you do an Internet Google search of “Gold Base.” The Church’s only need for urgency is an anticipated public picket of Gold Base on January 24, 2009, and the orders of Scientology’s totalitarian, self- appointed leader, David Miscavige, that the picket be stopped irrespective of what that costs.

 

For over a decade, a steady stream of public pickets along the side of Highway 79 outside Gold Base have contributed to many Church of Scientology staff members finding a way out of what many ex-members describe as a forced labor and detention camp where some staff members have been confined for many years on what Scientology calls the “Rehabilitation Project Force” or the RPF, and the even more draconian RPF’s RPF. For example, it has been reported that over the past decade the number of Gold Base staff has declined from about 1,200 to about 400.  Consequently, for nearly a decade Scientology’s leader has tried to deter these public protests with contrived arrests, contrived criminal charges and perjured civil claims. The flavor of some of this sordid history can be read through a Google search of the terms: Hemet Henson corruption. Indeed, an appeal of the travesty of justice in one of the Henson cases is now pending before the Fourth California District Court of Appeals. A more recent case involving Scientology entrapment, police complicity, hog tying by Scientology security goons, assault, battery, false arrest and false imprisonment is now commencing its journey through the Riverside criminal and civil courts.

 

Gold Base is not an ecclesiastical or fraternal dormitory as Scientology has argued elsewhere. It is a management, manufacturing and penal facility. There is also some related accommodation called “berthing.” Gold Base includes the offices and residences of Scientology’s senior international management staff, the RPF and RPF’s RPF which many former Gold Base staffers have compared to Soviet Gulags and Nazi concentration camps (where, ironically, work would also set the inmates free). It is credibly claimed by former Gold Base staffers that the compound includes “the hall” or “the hole” where about forty senior scientology executives, receiving punishment and/or security treatment are confined almost 24/7 and required to work punishing hours followed by a few hours sleep on the floor under their desks. Others have described being imprisoned in pig pens (labeled “pig berthing”) and some former leaders have had to run around a pole in the hot desert sun for 12 hours a day month after month. There have been suspicious deaths and there has been sworn testimony and other reports of female scientology staffers being ordered or forced to have abortions which the Planned Parenthood organization ultimately pays for. Names, contact information, witnesses and supporting documents (including affidavits and transcripts) can be provided.

 

Gold Base also includes the very profitable manufacturing E-Meters (a form of lie detector), film production and the publishing facility for Scientology media as well as the Golden Era film studios which are also understood to be rented to non-Scientology entities from time to time. The Scientology E-Meters, which cost less than fifty dollars to manufacture, are sold to Scientologists at prices that range from a few thousand dollars to nearly thirty thousand dollars.

 

Gold Base is, in reality, a slave labor camp as illustrated by the separately submitted copy of a new complaint initiating a California Labor Code claim against Gold Base. Scientology staffers at Gold Base sign billion year employment contracts and work 100 hour plus weeks for about 39 cents per hour. In addition, as you can read in the enclosed news article called “Selling Scientology,” many of these so-called life-long volunteers at Gold Base have been physically assaulted by Captain David Miscavige, the leader of the para-military church and “best friend” of Scientologist Tom Cruise who himself lobbies political and governmental officials on behalf of the Scientology enterprise. As you will also read among the enclosures with this letter, Gold Base includes fortified facilities complete with an armed sniper overlooking the City of Hemet.

 

The existence of residential “berthing,” as the para-military Scientology calls its accommodation, should not render Gold Base a “residential neighborhood” for first amendment purposes but not for manufacturing, production and zoning purposes. Does employee accommodation on off shore oil rigs or at certain work sites render those locations “residential neighborhoods?” It was recently reported that about 10% (or 42) United States congressmen sleep on cots in their congressional offices. Does that mean the U.S. Capitol can now be deemed a “residential neighborhood” for the purpose of First Amendment restrictions? Why should Riverside County Board of Supervisors permit the Church of Scientology to make a similarly spurious argument with regard to Gold Base? Are the Riverside County Supervisors to be intimidated by a small but wealthy cult with less than 50,000 active members world wide and written scriptures on how to lie, engage in the unlawful practice of medicine, and terrorize opponents into “utter destruction?”

 

What happens to all the money from the sale of these E-meters, books, videos, courses, auditing (counseling) hours, etc. that are produced or processed through the Church of Scientology’s Gold Base? This is how it has been recently explained including approximate amounts, percentages, etc., herein for illustrative purposes only. The Church of Scientology uses a complex communication and financial system it calls the “Incomm” system. In 1999, there was a reporting change in the Incomm system and then again in 2007 there was another change in connection with reporting book sale revenue. However, it has been explained that the 166 plus tax exempt religious non-profit corporations and for profit corporations known collectively as the Church of Scientology now use secret Merrill Lynch numbered off-shore bank accounts for these monies. Approximately 50-75% of the money “earned” is deposited into numbered Merrill Lynch accounts in Los Angeles and then transferred offshore to Antigua. Apparently, there are about forty numbered “Pool Accounts” in secret numbered Scientology accounts with Merrill Lynch in Antigua. After its deposit into these accounts, the money is then apparently transferred elsewhere offshore. Almost all of the Scientology money goes through the numbered Merrill Lynch accounts so that there is no ordinary way to trace it. Scientology’s totalitarian leader, Captain David Miscavige, has absolute power over the money. There is also little or no accounting to anyone else within the Church of Scientology International, The Religious Technology Center or Scientology’s apex corporation the shadowy Church of Spiritual Technology. Please Google these various entities. Because the 1993 settlement agreement between the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Scientology conglomerate makes the Scientology enterprise responsible for its own tax compliance, David Miscavige and his top deputies do not have to worry about the IRS ever seeing any second set of financial records. Allegedly, the Church of Scientology has largely ignored most of the requirements of the 1993 secret tax agreement that also gives individual Scientologists, the Churches and Corporations of Scientology special tax advantages and exemptions that are not permitted to any other United States taxpayer or church. Google: Sklar v. IRS. It has also been alleged that Merrill Lynch itself is infiltrated by Scientology operatives. Recently former Scientology staffer John Duignan published “The Complex” (available on Amazon.com) in which he explains how the Church of Scientology infiltrates and corrupts local government.  

 

The amount of Church of Scientology money that regularly is moving offshore through the secret numbered Merrill Lynch bank accounts is apparently in the many tens of millions of dollars. It is said there are Pool Accounts in Los Angeles, CA. and Clearwater, FL. Additionally, Bridge Publications Inc., apparently has a numbered account in Merrill Lynch New York and the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) has a numbered account at Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles. There are also secret numbered Merrill Lynch accounts in Europe; for example: Merrill Lynch in London.

 

            In mid April/May 2003, there was another problem in the Church of Scientology “Incomm” finance system. Many longs hours were required to provide a proper paper trail to deal with all the money that was just sitting in the Incomm. “Pool” accounts. There was an “invoice drive” to create six years of invoices for things that were never received. This would be fraudulent invoicing and apparently Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon was extensively involved. It took a good deal of effort involving a big push to get all of the false invoicing completed by a certain date. Apparently, Mr. Moxon was in his office pushing the Incomm staff to get it done 24/7; to fix “the Flap,” as such problems are called in the Church. The “shore story” [what Scientology calls a false story for PR purposes] was that there was lost data and un-transferred data between the old and new Incomm. systems. It is claimed that about $25 million had to be cleaned up in this allegedly attorney supervised fraud.

 

             Let’s use the example of a $1,000 course payment paid to a Scientology Class IV Church or “Org.” Once a week, the Org pays its revenues into the Church’s electronic “Incomm” finance system where it is transferred to the Treasury Secretary at the Flag Banking Office. Some money is retained at Flag for the provision of services. The rest of the money goes to a “Pool Account” which is a numbered account inside the Scientology Finance System. The payment itself is also assigned a number. Donations, invoiced payments and debits are then paid into different secondary accounts within the numbered Merrill Lynch accounts.  Returning to our $1,000 course payment example, $500 would be deposited “on account” into a Services account and the other $500 for an OT package (usually costing many thousands of dollars) into the “Pool Account.” Of this, 30% would be transferred via Merrill Lynch to the Religious Technology Center (“RTC”) secret numbered account in Los Angeles for the various RTC licensing fees [then up to Church of Spiritual Technology or CST]. The other 70% would also be paid into a Merrill Lynch numbered account, but transferred offshore to another numbered Merrill Lynch account in Antigua.         

 

            The frequent and numerous Scientology “special events” also provide a vehicle for pushing money around offshore in numbered accounts. For example, there may be a M.V. Freewind’s event. Some of the money would be paid to the Org and transferred into the “Pool Account.” Thirty per cent of that might be paid to RTC for its license fees. The rest of the money would be paid to the ship’s account offshore from which another 30% would be paid to RTC for its license fees. Here we see that RTC is, in effect, “double dipping.” Thus from a $10,000 payment, $5,000 would be paid to the Org from which $1, 500 (30%) would be paid to RTC and $5,000 would be paid offshore to the ship from which about $1,500 would also be paid to RTC.

 

            There is also a great deal of money flowing into the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (“WISE”) every week. WISE comprises most Scientologist owned businesses (such as Executive Software systems) and many non- Scientology businesses using the L. Ron Hubbard management technology. These businesses pay license fees to WISE. Although some of the money stays in the local WISE chapter for operating costs, most of the money goes to WISE Int. (International). From WISE Int., (1) a variable amount (more than 30%; likely 40-50%) goes to RTC; (2) the rest is paid into the WISE Chapter “Pool Account.” It is used for buying church buildings and for forming real estate companies to buy buildings (e.g. Waterfront, Inc., in Hamburg, Germany). Consequently, tax exempt IRS section 501 (c) (3) religious monies are allegedly being paid into offshore numbered Merrill Lynch bank accounts and then invested into various for profit projects and into for profit corporate accounts. It has been alleged to me that many of these companies (false fronts) then declare bankruptcy, the documents disappear and on the WISE account books you merely see “company ceased operations.” In this manner RTC receives (through WISE) a percentage of the gross profit earned Scientologist owned businesses and it also receives fees for Scientology courses and auditing from the mostly scientologist employees (through the Church of Scientology International).    

 

            All Scientologists must also belong to the International Association of Scientologists (“IAS”) which has multiple levels of very expensive memberships. Officially the IAS monies are paid to the U.K. but this is another “Scientology shore [or false] story” for the United States tax authorities. In fact, IAS monies get bundled and are paid into a Merrill Lynch Pool numbered bank account, one of about forty different numbered Merrill Lynch pool accounts maintained by the Church. For example, there is might be an IAS membership drive requiring every Org to raise $20,000-$30,000 [for example, to provide funds for a major court case]. A total of five million dollars is bundled. A certain amount of that bundle is transferred to the Church accounts in the U.K. The Church then waits until the currency exchange rate is as high as possible. However, as between IAS [CoS] and Merrill Lynch there is an agreement that currency exchanges and transfers will be made at a fixed exchange rate. Allegedly, only the lower rate is reported to the U.S. IRS. The IAS has a trading account with Merrill Lynch and Merrill Lynch has one with Travel Ex (on behalf of the Church of Scientology). Subsequently the difference between the higher exchange rate and the lower exchange rate is transferred to the numbered Merrill Lynch accounts in Antigua. The rest of the money [of say $5 million] from the IAS drive [say $2.5 million] goes to the IAS goal drive. So the Scientology public is [fraudulently] told that all the money goes to the U.K. but in reality it is only a small percentage of what is actually raised. Most of the money has been transferred to a secret numbered Merrill Lynch offshore bank account in Antigua (and other favorable havens).

 

            The next step of one of these alleged frauds may well go like this: IAS might launch a new campaign by the Scientology front-group Citizen’s Commission for Human Rights (“CCHR”) a Scientology front group opposed to the mental health profession. It requires publications and videos which will be produced by Gold Base at Gilman Hot Springs, CA. For example, Gold Base might charge the IAS $2 million for the video but the actual cost to the IAS will be only $1 million. So there is the invoiced amount and the amount actually paid. Then, say $1 million is paid by Gold Base to RTC for the use of the LRH copyrights.  The same type of scheme is used for the Hubbard book sales by Bridge Publications (BPI).

 

            Other sources of Scientology income are also amendable to this alleged fraud by the Church. For example, the Scientology “chapel” might be rented out for cash, say $1,500 per month. This cash all goes into the “Pool Account” and then to one of the secret Scientology offshore numbered Merrill Lynch bank accounts in Antigua. Meanwhile, for operating purposes, the Church of Scientology maintains many local bank accounts. For example, with Bank of America and Washington Mutual.

 

Finally, let me give one recent example to those celebrity opinion leaders who say the Church of Scientology is a harmless mainstream church that should be ignored and allowed to go about its business of making money. In my opinion, this one recent example of Scientology conduct illustrates how insidious and despicably deceitful, dangerous and deadly this faux church is, even to its own celebrity members such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

 

In 1987, the Church of Scientology bought the 5,000 ton cruise ship the M.V. Freewinds. At the time, the Church of Scientology knew that the ship was riddled with blue asbestos. It said this all over the plans and they were told that by the engineer in charge of converting the ship to Scientology use. David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology intentionally and negligently ignored the warnings. Why? Because the ship would be used by upper level Scientologists who are immune to all disease or injury, and because Scientology E-meter auditing will cure all injuries or illnesses anyway, including, by way of example, autism and cancer, and since Hubbard never wrote that asbestos can cause cancer, it cannot be true that blue asbestos might cause cancer. In 1991, there was another reminder that the M.V. Freewinds was a killer ship exposing its passengers and crew to deadly cancer causing blue asbestos. The affidavit of Lawrence Woodcraft, the man who advised Miscavige of the cancer causing blue asbestos was posted on the Internet. Six months ago, the Scientology killer ship, M.V. Freewinds, was arrested in Curacao, because of asbestos contamination. Experts say the ship cannot be fully stripped of the deadly substance. Scientology is stripping away what asbestos it can, with its slave labor who believe that Scientology will protect them from asbestosis.

 

Today, Scientology staff is callously still being exposed to deadly cancer causing agents. Asbestos is being dangerously dumped in off-shore landfills. This is a public health and safety outrage involving thousands of people knowingly and intentionally being exposed to asbestos and the potential of Asbestiosis. Tom Cruise, John Travolta and all of the other Scientology celebrities have been intentionally, knowingly and negligently exposed to cancer causing blue asbestos, which is the very worst sort of asbestos. Scientology has ignored the problem. Scientology denies it. Scientology is now selling cruises and Scientology courses on the Freewinds in spite of the asbestos contamination. This is a public health and safety threat, and a huge looming public health cost. The Riverside County Supervisors should not be supporting the Church of Scientology in its attempts to prevent its staff members at Gold Base from receiving information and regular monitoring for asbestosis. Suppressing freedom of speech to prevent Scientology staffers from learning, among other things, of their potential exposure to deadly blue asbestos is despicable.

 

I urge each of you vote against the proposed ordinances in any form that might arguably be applied to limit the proximity of public protests along the edge of Highway 79 outside the Church of Scientology’s Gold Base at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet.

 

In addition, I urge each of you to introduce and/or support a full, transparent and public investigation, with public submissions and public hearings, into any actual unlawful activities, unlawful conduct or human rights/civil rights/labor rights violations that have occurred in, and in connection with, the Scientology facilities known as Gold Base. Remember Jonestown, Waco and Heavensgate. Your oaths of office require nothing less.

 

                                                            Respectfully,

                                                                   

                                                            Graham E. Berry

 

Map of Scientology’s International Headquarters:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/extras/pdf/feature/base-map.pdf from: Selling Scientology, A Former Scientologist Marketing Guru Turns against the Church by Matt Davis http://www.portlandmercury.com/news/selling_scientology/Content?oid=862344

 

www.grahamberry.com

 

Enclosures: Per separate list.

 

Ccs: And as per separate list.

                                                           

Supervisor Roy Wilson, Chairman

Riverside County Board of Supervisors
4080 Lemon St., 5th Floor
Riverside, CA 92502


district4@rcbos.org

Fax: (951) 955-2194

Tel: (951) 955-1040

 

Supervisor Bob Buster

Riverside County Board of Supervisors
4080 Lemon St., 5th Floor
Riverside, CA 92502
 
district1@rcbos.org
Fax: 951-955-1019

Phone: 951-955-1010

Supervisor Marion Ashley

Riverside County Board of Supervisors
4080 Lemon St., 5th Floor
Riverside, CA 92502

district5@rcbos.org
(951) 955-1050

 

Supervisor John Tavaglione

Riverside County Board of Supervisors
4080 Lemon Street, 5th Floor
Riverside, California 92501

 

district2@rcbos.org


(951) 955-1020

 

Supervisor Jeff Stone

Riverside County Board of Supervisors
4080 Lemon St., 5th Floor
Riverside, CA 92501

 

district3@rcbos.org
Faxes: (951) 955-2194, (951) 301-8571, (951) 791-3465

 

(951) 955-1030

 

Press Enterprise: Riverside News Fax (951) 368-9023; Hemet News Fax (9510) 763-3450

Los Angeles Times:  michael.owen@latimes.com     tenny.tatusian@latimes.com

PROMENADING WITH THE FREEWINDS FOLKS

May 21, 2008 – 6:37 pm

Mourning 21 years of Scientologist’s exposure to blue asbestos

Flash raids are the best available vehicle for conveying our message to Church of Scientology staffers and customers. The more the better. I have spoken with a number of ex-Scientologists who have left in recent years. Several have told me that it was the picketing that began to wake them up and stirs thoughts of leaving. Indeed, one told me that he began to wake after seeing a solitary picketer on L. Ron Hubbard Way with a sign that read: “LRH Died on Psych Drugs.” The solitary picketer was me.

And so I joined my fellow Anonymous on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 for an evening “flash” picket on L. Ron Hubbard Way where Scientology’s Pacific Area Command Base (the “PAC Base”) is located in the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital buildings. PCA Base is more widely known as “Big Blue.” Robert Vaughan Young told me that this Scientology blue is from the very early days of Dianetics when Hubbard needed some buildings painted. The cheapest paint available was a large quantity of U.S. Government surplus blue paint and 55 years later we still see what is called Scientology blue.

We were fortunate to have the services of our trusty Old Guard photographer again and the associated pictures speak for themselves.

May 20, 2008 L. Ron Hubbard Anonymous Flash Raid Gallery

I arrived at L. Ron Hubbard Way from the south at 5-30 p.m. The picket was already under way when we arrived and took up station outside the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles building. AOLA is where Scientologists who are “going up The Bridge” attend training and processing sessions. Next to AOLA are the offices of FLAG Services and the M.V. Freewinds.

http://www.freedommag.org/english/LA/issue02/page01b.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewinds

http://www.scientomogy.com/stopscientology/freewinds.html

http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/LawrenceWoodcraftAsbestos.htm

http://www.xenutv.com/interviews/lawrence-freewinds.htm

http://www.xenutv.com/interviews/freewinds-1.htm

http://www.xenutv.com/interviews/freewinds-2.htm

http://www.xenutv.com/interviews/lawrence-scientology.htm

http://www.forum.exscn.net/archive/index.php?t-5747.html

As you will read on the foregoing hyperlinks, the Church of Scientology International acquired the M.V. Freewinds in late 1986. In early 1987 Scientology senior management learned that the Freewinds was riddled with Blue Asbestos. It had been sprayed on the inside of the hull, underneath the decks, between walls, etc. It was everywhere. The ships construction plans indicated that asbestos was widely used throughout the ship. An inspection confirmed this. Miscavige was involved in high level management meetings about the issue. Even if it were technically possible, from an engineering and architectural perspective, to safely remove the asbestos both effectively, the cost would have been prohibitive. A new ship would have been cheaper.

Miscavige and Scientology Enterprise management made a decision just to cover up the dead blue asbestos and to ignore it. The ship would not visit U.S. ports and besides Hubbard did not consider asbestos dangerous. Hubbard taught Scientologists that cancer is caused by sexual misconduct and that it can be curing by Scientology auditing with the E meter. In any event, the Freewinds would be serving as the only venue for the delivery of the highest level of Scientology training, Operating Thetan or OT Level 8 (”Truth Revealed” or “Now I know who I am not I am ready to find out who I am” - after $500,000.00 already, and I am just beginning?) These advanced Scientologists or OTs were immune to any harm from asbestos. But what about non-OT Sea Organization members and others who may either be on board or servicing the ship from shore? Apparently, these non-OTs and “wogs” were expendable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cea4mf8AqgY

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/5/6/212657/8479

http://www.zimbio.com/pilot?ZURL=%2FKSW%2BScientology%2Farticles%2F36%2FScientologists%2BTom%2BCruise%2BBirthday%2BParty%2BVIDEO&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fgawker.com%2F5003867%2Fsecret-video-the-scientologists-celebrate-the-birthday-of-the-prophet-tom-cruise

As you will see from the Lawrence Woodcraft videos, Scientology management was reminded of the Freewinds Blue Asbestos issue in 2001 when Lawrence swore a Declaration and gave an Internet video interview. In these he described the Church’s discovery and concealment of cancer causing Blue Asbestos on the M.V. Freewinds in 1987. Blue Asbestos is the deadliest form of asbestos.

In 1994 I filed court declarations from former senior Scientologists about the unusually high rates of cancer among Scientologists. At the time we thought it might be due to prolonged exposure to the electrical current that is circulated through the human body during E Meter processing. Then there was the indication that most Scientology cancer victims only gave upon on Scientology auditing as their cure-all after it was too late for regular medical intervention and treatment to be effective. Now the Church of Scientology is continuing the fraudulent concealment, dangerous deceit and criminal cover-up with further lies that there is nothing wrong aboard the Freewinds and that there is no asbestos problem.

http://www.lermanet.com/e-metershort.htm

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scientology+and+cancer&btnG=Search

Consequently, I was carrying a picket sign which read on one side: “M.V. FREEWINDS CANCER SHIP death danger BLUE ASBESTOS www.ENTURBULATION.ORG“and on the other side: “BLOW NOW RUN LIKE RINDER www.EXSCIENTOLOGYKIDS.com.

For the next two hours I maintained an often solitary vigil outside AOLA while my other Anonymous patriots addressed the rest of L. Ron Hubbard Way, Sunset Boulevard and Fountain Avenue.

First Amendment law requires that the targets of our free speech must not be intentionally shielded or precluded from either seeing or hearing our message. Indeed, this was a major issue in the 2000 Democratic Convention lawsuits which successfully enjoined the L.A.P.D. from restricting protesters to an area away from the Convention site and entrance, and where they would not be seen or heard by the convention delegates. At the time the local Federal courts were dealing with politically motivated speech. With the Freewind’s cancer causing blue asbestos issue, our free speech is dealing with very urgent and serious issues of public health, safety and welfare. Consequently, the most appropriate venue, and the specific audience, was to be found at the AOLA (and at the other Advanced Organizations) where past and future Freewinds passengers are arriving and leaving, and Sea Organization staffers are present, to receive the message. Particularly, when the responsible entity, the Church of Scientology, is breaching both its position of trust, and its tax free status, by concealing potential life threatening medical information from the very persons most affected by it and to whom it owes, in these particular circumstances, the very highest fiduciary duty both as Church and cruise ship operator. The potential victims had trust and faith that their church would abide by the law and not knowingly or negligently expose them to dangerous and fatal substances.

The Church may believe that it’s so called “Lisa McPherson Clause” will provide immunity from suit and shield it from wrongful death and other tort claims by former scientologists. In my opinion, such a contract of adhesion would not be enforced because it is clearly contrary to public policy for many different reasons. In addition, the “Lisa clause,” or any similar employment contract provision, would also be voidable upon various legal grounds.

Thus, in the early evening, I took my message to the arriving Scientology O.T. customers, PAC Base Security and the few scurrying staffers allowed outside on L. Ron Hubbard Way during our little Anonymous Flash Raid. The message on my picket sign was supplemented by my verbal information which including various versions and compilations of patter from the following: “Cancer causing blue asbestos on the Freewinds. … Don’t go near the killer ship Freedwinds. … The Freewinds is riddled with cancer causing blue asbestos … it can’t be removed … it can’t be cured … read about it on Lloyd’s list …. contact the Dutch government … contact the Port of Curacao … the Freewinds was arrested in Curacao … it can’t even be sunk safely … processing and auditing does not cure blue asbestos caused cancer … do your own research … think for your self …. don’t believe the Org on this one … don’t become another Church of Scientology cancer statistic … don’t get exposed to cancer causing blue asbestos on the Freewinds … if you’ve been on the Freewinds get tested for cancer … and Miscavige knew from the start … Asbestos was written all over the plans. … Miscavige chose to save money and it cost lives … Think of all of the Scientology dead … Miscavige saved money and it cost lives. … Miscavige should be replaced by management. … but management can’t replace Miscavige because it’s also involved … it’s disgraceful … it’s even criminal … Miscavige knew about the Blue Asbestos on the Freewinds 20 years ago … think of all the dead Scientologists … Go to ExScientologykids.com … why is Jenna Miscavige at ExScientologyKids.com? …. Why is Kendra Wiseman at ExScientologyKids.com? … Why is Astra Woodcraft at ExScientologyKids.com? … Do your own research …Think for yourself … Cancer causing blue asbestos on the Freewinds.” This sort of public service announcement can make hoarse!

I was very troubled by the reaction of some of the arriving Scientology customers. Some smiled, others snarled and most just ignored me. However, some chose to reply to me with comments such as: “That’s not true;” “No it’s not;” “That’s False Data;” and “Get a life loser.” Clearly, the Church of Scientology has knowingly and negligently exposed thousands of scientologists and non-scientologists to cancer causing blue asbestos for over twenty-one years. The Church of Scientology also had the evidence of seemingly high rates of cancer deaths among scientologists. The Church did nothing and continues to cover up the facts and to deceive the potential victims. Of course, that sort of intentional misconduct (and material nondisclosure) will not only generate massive punitive damages but will most likely cause the insurance carriers for the Church and for the Freewinds to rescind their coverage policies. On the other hand the Church may be self-insured. Either way, the end result is the same. The Church Scientology will have to pay for its crime, abuse, fraud and negligence.

This situation is so outrageous, so serious and so rife with so many disastrous consequences for so many people that nothing less than immediate congressional intervention is appropriate. Won’t someone do something about it? Isn’t there anyone in government who is willing to act? If it were Carnival Cruise Lines the government, media and victims support groups would have been all over the issue. However, it is the Church of Scientology and their “religious freedom” apparently prevails over the public law, health, safety and welfare. It is a scandal.

And at 7-30 p.m., as we departed L. Ron Hubbard Way I announced, “We’ll be back. Expect us.”

The First Three Bee Jay Trust Freedom Medal Awards

May 9, 2008 – 5:58 pm

On Friday May 9, 2008 the Bee Jay Trust awarded its highest honor, The Freedom Medal, to the brave young men of Anonymous who, on May 5, 2008, at the Federal Court in Los Angeles, unmasked themselves in the presence of O.S.A. ‘out-lawyers’ and won an epic encounter with the Church of Fair Game, Blackmail, Bribery, Crime and Corruption. The First Bee Jay Trust Freedom Medal Awards

GRAHAM BERRY’S LOS ANGELES “FLASH RAID” PICKET AND “FAIR GAME” REPORT

May 9, 2008 – 5:36 pm

Anonymous have declared May the month of “Operation: Fair Game: STOP” to protest the Scientology enterprises tax-exempt domestic and international terror policies and practices known collectively as “Fair Game.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_persuasion

California Appellate courts have ruled that the constitutional freedom of religious belief does not preclude state investigation and prosecution of religiously motivated conduct that is criminal, tortuous or a violation of civil and human rights.

http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/fair-game-not-constitutional.htm
http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw?dest=ca/cal3d/46/1092.html
Molko v. Holy Spirit Assn., (1988) 46 Cal.3d 1092, 1114.

On March 15, 2008, during the Anonymous global Operation Reconnect picket at L. Ron Hubbard Way in Los Angeles, Scientology attorney Moxon had his long-time nemesis Graham Berry served with a May 5, 2008 Federal Court Judgment Debtor examination relating to one of the many frauds upon three courts that Moxon and his co-counsels (such as Helena Kobrin, Ava Paquette, Gerald Chaleff, Gerald Feffer, Monique Yingling, Eric Lieberman, Samuel D. Rosen, Barbara Reeves, Michael Turrill, Bradley S. Pauley, William T. Drescher, Elliot Abelson, Gary Soter, David Chodos, Richard Fond, James Martin, among others), committed in order to derail Berry’s winning streaks against the Scientology R.I.C.O. enterprise. Indeed, it was Samuel Rosen, from the giant Paul, Hastings law firm, who implored Judge Snyder that, “Berry has to be stopped.” One of his co-counsel Eric Lieberman, also from New York, had just bitterly complained that “Berry, like Lazarus, has risen from the dead.” Subsequently, the sanctions of $28,000 (plus 10% interest) were imposed nine years ago in the Pattinson v. Church of Scientology International case and in connection with an allegation that:

54. Defendant Kendrick L. Moxon (”Moxon”) is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California and was a Deputy Guardian engaged (as an unindicted co-conspirator) in the vast Scientology criminal activities leading to the arrest and imprisonment of certain senior Scientologists in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, for the largest ever known criminal infiltration of the United States Government, in which capacity he has been responsible for, or participated in, various of the criminal, fraudulent and unethical activities alleged herein and either directed at, or damaging to the Defendant. Moxon is employed within the Office of Special Affairs as an attorney although he has variously held himself out as an attorney with the law firms of Bowles & Moxon, Moxon & Bartilson and Moxon & Kobrin. The Office of Special Affairs, in addition to handling legal matters in accordance with Scientology policies of abusing the legal system, has, since the closing of the Guardians Office, controlled and directed many of Scientology’s covert intelligence gathering and harassment operations. Defendant Moxon conceived the Bowles & Moxon Plan 100 to destroy IRS section 501(c)(3) organization the “Cult Awareness Network,” filed over 50 merit-less lawsuits intended to, and which did, bankrupt it completely, and directed and participated in various of the human rights violations, civil rights violations abuses and abuses of the legal and judicial system alleged herein.”http://www.lermanet.com/cos/pattinson1.htm

http://www.lermanet.com/reference/Graham_Berry/criminalcomplaint.htm

You can see photographs of attorney Moxon and the “after service” photographs of Graham Berry at the March 15, 2008 picket:

http://picasaweb.google.com/grahamberryesq/2AnonymousComplaintPhotoAppendix2April12th

Later, I wrote a letter of objection to Scientology attorney Moxon. You can read it here:

http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?highlight=graham+berry&t=26968
http://forums.enturbulation.org/17-archive/graham-berry-statement-ava-paquette-10037/

Consequently, Cinco de Mayo (the 5 th of May) was a good day for Anonymous and this fraudulently designated “vexatious litigant” to respond to Scientologys continued Fair Gaming of me and to protest other abuses of America’s own Taliban, taking over the United States one citizen at a time.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fair+game+and+graham+berry%22&hl=en&pwst=1&start=10&sa=N
http://forums.enturbulation.org/15-breaking-news/los-angeles-flash-raid-12285/

An outline and summary of some of Scientology’s Fair Game policies and practices (the policies and practices for handling Suppressive Persons) can be read at paragraphs 144-207 of the First Amended Pattinson complaint. http://www.lermanet.com/cos/pattinson1.htm

At 11:30 a.m. Kone, Mr. X and I arrived at the Beaux Arts Hollywood Guaranty Building (H.G.B.) at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. It was built in 1923 and it is rich in Hollywood history and gossip, having once housed the famous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. However, since 1989, the H.G.B. has housed much of Scientologys upper middle management executive strata, the Scientologys Office of Special Affairs (O.S.A.), its legal “front” law firm of Moxon & Kobrin and other “in-house” or “in-cult” lawyers such as Elliot Abelson and William Drescher. It also houses the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (W.I.S.E.). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Institute_of_Scientology_Enterprises

Deceptively Scientology claims that W.I.S.E. is not part of the Church-owned group of corporations that are the sole occupant of the most important Scientology management building outside of GoldBase at Gilman Hot Springs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Base

In essence, W.I.S.E. is corporate $cientology’s tax-exempt vehicle for collecting a 10% tax upon the gross profits of most Scientologist-owned businesses (including those owned by its “celebrity” members). W.I.S.E. is also $cientology’s “front group” for “routing” and “regging” W.I.S.E. business employees into the never-ending expense Church of Scientology services such as courses and processing. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=routing+and+w.i.s.e.+and+Scientology&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=list+of+members+and+w.i.s.e.+and+Scientology&btnG=Search

A condition of the 1993 Secret Tax Settlement Agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) and the-166 plus corporations and Churches of Scientology required the Scientology enterprise to disband W.I.S.E. Instead, the Scientology enterprise has done another of its corporate shuffles and asset transfers. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/irs.html and http://www.xenu.net/archive/IRS/ and http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/documents/1993-10-01closingagrmt.html

The H.G.B. reacted quickly to the arrival of Kone, Mr. X and me. All Scientologists were confined inside. Kone, dressed in his Anonymous outfit, was carrying a picket sign that read “Scientology: The “Church” Of Fair Game” on one side and “LRH was on Psych Drugs when he died” on the other side. This is a legendary picket sign and has been carried in many epic protests by Old Guard martyr Keith Henson. For three months during the summer of 2001, Keith Henson picketed Scientology’s Gold Base all day and every day, all by himself except for occasional daily company by people such as Arel Henson, Jeff Jacobson, Shy David, Barbara Graham and me, with wonderful hospitality provided by the incomparable Ida Camburn of Hemet. At different times O.S.A. and Moxon have had eight private investigators stationed on Ida’s block and a huge R.V. electronically listening to her communications. I ask each of you to read and circulate this 84-year-old battlers story. http://www.lermanet.com/idacamburn/

You can read more about Keith Henson at: http://www.operatingthetan.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson and http://www.xenu-directory.net/critics/henson1.html
Keith Henson and his wife are still being brutally “Fair Gamed” by O.S.A. and Moxon & Kobrin in one of the longest running and most expensive personal bankruptcy proceedings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court history. There, the cult has been spending millions of tax-free dollars on “Fair Gaming” two citizens in their mid-sixties out of the approximately $250,000 equity in their home and any reasonable retirement or continuing work prospects. http://www.operatingthetan.com/bankind.htm Keith Henson was one of the major players in Church of Scientology versus the Internet. http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rnewman/home.html and http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rnewman/whatsnew.html and http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rnewman/media/amlawyer-3.96.html

Keith Henson, muzzled for another two years, would have been proud of the young Anonymous now carrying his old picket sign. I could not find my favorite picket sign that reads “$cientology: Cult of Blackmail, Bribery and Fraud www.xenu.net” Instead, I was carrying a picket sign that read “Freedom? Find out the truth: Xenu.Net” on the one side and “Hubbard Died on Psych Drugs” on the other side. Mister X also did superior sterling service as the official photographer du jour along with a LAist photographer. LAist deserves Anonymous acclamation for receiving over 225,000 visits to its photographs of the March 15 Anonymous picket in Los Angeles. http://www.laist.com/2008/03/15/anonymous_march15_protest_anti_war.php and links there to other Anonymous picket pictures.

Mr. X has his own long and storied history with the Old Guard. He frequently served luminaries such as Jesse Prince, Stacy Brooks and the just-out Tory Christman as the “get away” driver from O.S.A. tails. Once Jesse Prince was driven to one side of a Burbank restaurant which Jesse dashed through to the other side where Mister X was waiting with his engine revving and ready to roll. But he was stopped: by a teetering Bob Hope trying to get through the door to his own car. Fortunately, Mister X and Jesse Prince were still able to drive off in a cloud of dust and small stones while the Moxon-O.S.A. “tails” impatiently waited on the other side of the restaurant.

We were soon joined by two other Anonymice; or should they be Anonymouses? http://www.painintheenglish.com/post.php?id=560 Anyway, one of them whipped out his own picket sign that read, “Scientology’s Sea Org uses slave labor, drives families apart, coerces members to have abortions. WhyWeProtest.Net Xenu.Net.”

This small group of three people with picket signs and three people with cameras immediately paralyzed the entire twelfth floor Church of Scientology management building and the adjacent two-floor Religious Technology Center (R.T.C.) building. All of Scientology’s top middle managers and its brutal Office of Special Affairs had been brought to a state of helpless inactivity by the attempted communication of a few picket signs with Internet website locations. The curtains and blinds of all of the buildings were drawn shut. No staff members could enter or leave through the front of the building. When I was not carrying my picket sign around the Ivar Avenue side of the H.G.B. a few uniformed Sea Organization staff members would be allowed to literally run across the street to the R.T.C. building and rush inside in case I rounded the corner with my picket sign and cause them to go into the Scientology “condition of doubt.” The only thing that one can conclude about the Scientology management buildings is that there is not a single Operating Thetan there. Otherwise Anonymous would not be on their doorstep and sidewalk. Perhaps they should have called in Tom Cruise to “smash the Suppressives” into “a footnote of history.”

Our little protest and picket had not been going very long before the Los Angeles Police Department glided by on their three-wheeled electric Segways. All smiles and laughs they said, “You guys are three weeks late for the picket,” referring to the global Anonymous Operation Re-Connect pickets of April 12, 2008. “No, were a week early for the next one,” I shot back. “You’re coming back?” the other L.A.P.D. officer laughed. “Yes,” I said, “This Saturday. Expect us.”

At 12:45 p.m. we changed picket locations by taking the Hollywood Freeway downtown to the new Federal Courts building at 255 Temple Street, Los Angeles. We parked in the lot directly opposite the courthouse and by 1:15 p.m. we were resuming our Cinco de Moxon protest; two photographers and three picketers. Within seconds, we were approached by Homeland Security Officers. After they satisfied their official curiosity they left us alone to have our half-hour picket of the location that had become Scientology’s pre-emptive strike at Anonymous and “Operation: Fair Game: STOP.” Poor Mr. Moxon and Ms. Paquette of O.S.A. The Anonymous picket caused them to walk the long way into the Courthouse they had misused so often and with such reprehensible corruption and law enforcement inaction. You can see the days picket pictures at these two locations: http://laist.com/2008/05/05/anonymous_prote_1.php and http://picasaweb.google.com/grahamberryesq/May508OSA6331HollywoodFederalCourthouse255EastTemple

At 1:45 p.m. we stopped picketing and returned to the vehicle where we deposited our picket signs and I donned a black shirt, red tie and black suit jacket. The three Anonymous, Mister X and I crossed the street and entered the Federal District Courthouse. As we did so Homeland Security Officers pointed a man out and informed us that he had been furtively photographing us during our protest. We then took the elevator to Court Room 550 on the fifth floor where we entered U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen J. Hillman’s courtroom. We were expected!

As the five of us walked in I saw Scientology attorneys Kendrick Moxon and Ava Paquette seated to the right. “There are B.T. s and Clusters in the courtroom,” I loudly announced as I walked towards the desk of the Courts clerk to “check in.” As I walked past Moxon he blurted, “Chicken hawk.” Is he referring to me, Barrister Berry? I thought. “Whats a chicken hawk, Moxon?” I responded. These guys are such slime bags, I thought. They defame others while themselves harboring and protecting child molesters and rapists and Fair Gaming anyone who reports or exposes such conduct. Last month one of their goons even tried to run former Scientologist Tommy Gorman’s parents off the road. http://www.lermanet.com/tomgorman/tommygorman.htm and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=h0o&q=tommy+gorman%22+and+Scientology&btnG=Search and http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?highlight=tommy+gorman&t=27042 and www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22tommy+gorman%22&search_type=(lots of videos on OSA harassment).

Ex-O.S.A. operative Tommy Gorman is now one of the most active Anonymous participants in San Francisco and a real thorn in the side of his old Org. Almost every week Tommy’s car tires are slashed or some other form of auto vandalism carried out. Lately, the level of O.S.A. harassment of Tommy has been dangerously escalated. The Scientology legal front of Moxon & Kobrin (and Ava Paquette) are very busy carrying out simultaneous Fair Game terrorism attacks on dozens of citizens, while being protected (when necessary to “Keep Scientology Working”) by Scientology attorneys Gerald Chaleff (the L.A.P.D. attorney and command team member) and Paul Paquette (L.A.P.D. - R.I.C.O. consent decree compliance at the L.A. City Attorney’s Office). For example, the brave young ladies of www.exScientologykids.org are being “Fair Gamed” by Moxon and Paquette.

There are also reports that Moxon’s private investigators and thugs have been “Fair Gaming” Jenna Miscavige’s young husband. Scientology’s O.S.A. has also fully protected itself within the California State Bar. Every complaint against Moxon and his cohorts is rejected as disclosing no wrongful conduct. Meanwhile, Moxon & Kobrin/O.S.A. routinely churn out California State Bar complaints against uncooperative opposing counsel. There were over ten against me in the 1990’s and over 23 against Michael Flynn of Boston in the 1980s. This is one of the reasons that less than a handful of lawyers nationwide are willing to regularly litigate against the Scientology enterprise. http://www.wfial.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=artScientology.article_10 and http://home.snafu.de/tilman/bu/wol_vs_cos.html and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_v._Wollersheim

I had just taken my seat in the public gallery of Court Room 550, along with the Anonymous observers, when Rick Moxon snarled, “Berry, I saw you lifting your leg outside. The fire hydrant looks damaged.” Surprised, I responded, “That’s because you were sitting on it again, Rick” The court room laughed and Moxon shrunk. Within moments he was saved by the Judge who entered the courtroom.

“All rise, United States District Court in session, Judge Stephen Hillman presiding,” shouted the Court Clerk. The Judge took his seat at the bench while his clerk called the one case on the calendar, Michael Pattinson v. Church of Scientology International CV 98-3985 CAS (SHx), “Would counsel please state their appearances.”Moxon, Paquette and I walked to the podium besides counsels tables. “Kendrick Moxon and Ava Paquette for the Judgment Creditor,” said Moxon. “Graham Berry, appearing for himself your honor,” I added. “Please swear the witness,” said the Judge as I raised my right hand, listened to the Courts Clerk read the Oath to tell the truth and responded, “I do.” The Judge then proceeded to read a list of admonitions or instructions. “Your Honor,” I said. “I have been through this proceeding a number of times with Mr. Moxon.” “Maybe you have,” said the U.S. Magistrate Judge, “but I am still required to give these admonitions.” When he had finished he instructed us to proceed to the Debtors Examination in his conference room.

“Oh, there is one matter, Judge” called Moxon. “Yes?” asked Judge Hillman. “Your Honor,” said Moxon. “There are these Anonymous people in the courtroom. They came with Mr. Berry and they were all picketing outside the courthouse and they were laughing and talking in the courtroom. I think Mr. Berry is going to bring them into the Debtors Examination and Im afraid they are just here to disrupt the proceedings, to make a mockery of them, and I want the Court to order that they be excluded.” I had been pacing back and forth behind counsels table while Moxon whined. I stepped up to the podium microphone and responded, “Your Honor, the case law is clear that a Debtors Examination is a public proceeding to which the public may attend. I object to any exclusion of the people in the gallery.” Judge Hillman acted appropriately. “Mr. Moxon. This is not a deposition in a lawyers office. You have chosen to conduct a public proceeding at the Courthouse and I am not excluding any member of the public without cause. I am sure the young men in the gallery are going to behave themselves and remain silent otherwise I will issue an order excluding them.” I replied, “Thank you Your Honor,” I responded as the Judge left the bench and we left the courtroom and set up in the small conference room beside Courtroom 550.

Round One to Anonymous, I thought.

There was a table in the middle of the Courts conference room, a modern room with white walls and government furniture. The three Anonymous and Mr. X sat on chairs against one wall. I sat in front of them facing Kendrick Moxon and Ava Paquette on the other side of a small table. At the end of the table sat the court reporter. She is employed by the largest nation-wide court reporting service in the United States, Atkinson-Baker. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kolts was sued by the Church of Scientology for refusing to use the Atkinson-Baker court reporting services because it was affiliated with the Church of Scientology that was a party in the relevant lawsuit. http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf37.html

Atkinson-Baker nationwide court reporters is a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (W.I.S.E.) and it is owned by two Scientologists whose allegiance must always be to “Keeping Scientology Working #1″ before it is to their oath as a court reporter. Through Atkinson-Baker, the Church of Scientology is able to have immediate notice of any mention of Scientology in a deposition or other legal proceeding and O.S.A., often through the legal unit of Moxon & Kobrin, is able to promptly take the most effective preemptive Fair Game action. “Equal Justice under Law” in America has been reduced to a mere inscription on the exterior of the United States Supreme Court building. Ava Paquette’s husband Paul is a Church of Scientology plant in the Los Angeles City Attorneys Office where he is in charge of the City of Los Angeles Police Department compliance with the Department of Justice and L.A.P.D. Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (R.I.C.O.) consent decree. “How convenient,” as Saturday Night Live’s Church Lady would say.

Curiously, this Atkinson-Baker court reporter was unable to give me her business card. “I just gave my last two Mr. Moxon and Ms. Paquette,” she said. Every time Moxon and Paquette left the Judgment Debtor examination the Atkinson-Baker court reporter left with them. “What was that about?” the public observers asked me later. “It was about the sort of corruption that is not supposed to happen in American justice but which is rampant in the Los Angles court system these days whenever Scientology is involved. It hasn’t always been that way,” I replied. This is what happens when well-meaning but timid people turn their back on corruption and injustice thinking that if they just see and hear no evil it will always pass them by. One day they find the evil comes for those they care about and there is no longer anything that can be done about it:

“First they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me!”
Pastor Niemoller (probably spoken to a group of students in 1946 as his answer to the question: Why didn’t the churches get involved [in opposing the Nazis?]

Anyway, I digress from our arrival in the Federal Court conference room for yet another of the many Moxon & Kobrin debtor examinations/depositions of me. They have deposed me a total of over twenty-one days! I was the last person into Judge Hillman’s conference room. Moxon and Paquette were unpacking and the Atkinson-Baker court reporter was taking down the names of the Anonymous in attendance. “Whoa,” I forcefully said to the court reporter. “Ive got to take their names as being in attendance,” she responded. “No you don’t,” I said. “It is no different than if these guys were sitting in the gallery of the court room and we were doing this before the Judge. He would not be taking their names. “Ive already got their names,” she gloated while gesturing towards two of the Anon, and then she turned to Mister X (not the one on Entrubulation.Org). “And who are you?” said our aggressive Scientology court reporter. “Mister X,” replied the gray-haired middle-aged man. Moxon had just sat down but he shot to his feet again. “That’s it,” he snarled. “I’m going to the Judge to get an order that they all give me their names.” Moxon stormed out of the conference room and back into the cavernous court room. “Is there a problem already?” asked the surprised court clerk. “I need to see the Judge. Berry won’t let me get the names of those in attendance.” The court clerk looked at me and I responded, “That’s right. It’s no different than if they were sitting in the gallery of this court room.” The court clerk stood up and proceeded towards the door to the Judges chambers. “I’ll be right back,” she said. In the meantime she left Moxon and me alone. “Oh, Moxon,” I said. “Why don’t you read the writing on the wall? Leave Scientology. Leave it now. I’ll help you. Il’l look after you. Just like I have done with all of the others.” Moxon was responding with a grunt and a snarl just as the Judge’s clerk returned to the courtroom and walked over to where I was smiling at a glaring Moxon. “The Judge said that he is not coming out and if you have a problem for the court then you will have to take it over to Judge Snyder in the old court house building one block over.” Moxon spun on his heels and shrunk back to the conference room. There was none of the disgusting arrogance of the Nazi storm trooper he has rudely pretended to be on a number of occasions: http://www.google.com/search?q=moxon+and+caberta+and+salute&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Round Two to Anonymous, I thought.

I sat down and suggested Moxon start the examination, or in this case, the inquisition. It lasted about an hour and it was not pretty. In fact, it was an ugly example of Moxon’s continued license to use tax-exempt monies to misuse the judicial process to harass to harass Scientology’s enemies and not to resolve legitimate disputes. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/Declaration/exhibg.html I was the successful lead counsel in this landmark “win” against Scientology.

As for this judgment debtor examination, Ill just bullet-point the condensed highlights, most memorable topics, and dialogue as I remember them approximately. When I receive the transcript I will post it for your own evaluation and comment.

The court reporter started to take my oath to testify truthfully when Moxon informed her that I had been sworn before the Judge. Moxon stared across the table at me, smirking like the cat that had just swallowed the canary. “Moxon, this is the session. This is the session,” I said softly across the table to Moxon. He blinked.

  • “Are you suspended from the practice of law?” Moxon asked me. “No, I am not, as you well know from having sought it during so many state bar complaints against me. I took a voluntary nine month suspension in 2002 so that I could assist with the care of my 78-year-old mother who was dying of ovarian cancer in New Zealand.”

[That was more important to me than staying in California to fight a Scientology corrupted state bar lynching. Because I returned to New Zealand to assist, my mother was able to die at home surrounded by her loving family.];

 

  • “Are you current with your State Bar Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements? Did you comply with the last M.C.L.E. reporting requirement?” “Yes, I am current with my M.C.L.E. requirements and I did comply with the last reporting requirement for my M.C.L.E. alphabet group,”
  • “How did you afford to renew your State Bar license?” “With money from fees received from a client.” [Curiously, Scientology attorney Samuel D. Rosen has failed to pay his current New York State Bar dues although he continues to represent Scientology against Keith Henson!]
  • “Who was the client?” “I’m not telling you for the reasons set forth in the Hooser case on which I wrote you a three-page letter about last Friday.” [In Hooser v. Superior Court (2000) 84 Cal. App. 4th 997, 1005-1008, the fourth District Court of Appeals held that “the identity of an attorney’s clients is sensitive personal information that implicates the client’s rights of privacy … unless the consultation is disclosed to third parties, through the filing of a law suit, the open representation of the client in dealing with third parties or in some other manner.”

We were about five minutes into the examination when Moxon stopped the questioning and said, “Berry. You’ve brought all of these young boys here today. Do their mothers know they are with you?” I was incredulous. “That man over there, Mister X, is approaching sixty years of age,” I replied. Moxon was unrelenting. “Well, the other three. They look as though they are between 12 and 16,” drooled Moxon. I was even more incredulous. “Each of these young men is in his twenties,” I responded. “Yes, I’m twenty and my parents do know where I am,” interjected Kone as I shushed him not to speak during the proceeding.

Round Three to Anonymous, I thought.

  • “Did you file a Schedule C with your last tax return?” “Yes, I did.”
  • “Produce your tax returns for the years 2005 through 2007?” I did so. Moxon pored over them. Looking at the 2007 return he says, “You say you only earned $5,197.00 last year?” “No, Mr. Moxon, if you looked at the Schedule C you asked about a little while ago you see that I reported income of $7,456.00.” Moxon grunted and turned the pages to Schedule C. “You only made that much, Berry? That’s less than the poverty level, Berry. Do you realize you’re a Pauper, Berry? You’re a Pauper. Why don’t you work, Berry?” Somewhat surprised I responded, “Through blackmail, bribery and corruption you destroyed my career. And you continue to do so through your posts about me to websites such as www.ReligiousFreedomWatch.Org and www.Parishioners.Org [and then there would be the O.S.A. private investigators regularly visiting the senior management of any law firm I were with, as has occurred so often in the past.]
  • “You’re lying, Berry.” As if merely mouthing the word makes it so, I thought.

[I am a litigator, and a damn good one, who was improperly declared a vexatious litigant through O.S.A., Chaleff, Moxon, Kobrin, Paquette and Abelson crime, fraud and public corruption. How does a vexatious litigant get a job with a litigation law firm? Most opposing counsel are going to try and slime me with at least footnote regarding the fraudulently procured rulings and punishments. It happened when I successfully defended Bent Corydon in major civil litigation from 2004-2006. Indeed, the L.A.P.D. and D.A. recommended criminal prosecution of the various Scientology and attorney participants but this was blocked by further O.S.A. and Moxon/Elliot Abelson/Gerald Chaleff instigated public corruption. A fact they now brazenly chuckle over with all of the arrogance of assumed immunity from law enforcement action against their chicanery. I continue to pray that one day justice will be done, and an action will be filed to set aside the vexatious litigant and other orders on the ground of fraud(s) upon the court(s). Perhaps through pro bono representation by a legal heavy-weight such as former Justice Elwood Lui of Jones Day’s San Francisco office, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher of O’Melveny & Myers or former Solicitor General Ted Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. The evidence, arguments and evidence in my favor is overwhelming and beyond any reasonable doubt. However, O.S.A., Monique Yingling, Gerald Feffer, Gerald Chaleff, Elliott Abelson, Samuel Rosen, Kendrick Moxon, Helena Kobrin and Ava Paquette have so muddied the Los Angeles legal waters that my effective exoneration requires the intervention and imprimatur of a leader of the California bar; something that is also in the best interests of the sullied California State Bar Association itself.]

  • “Have you represented any clients in litigation over the past year besides Bent Corydon? Who were they?”“Mr. Moxon, the answer is yes and no. Yes, I have represented someone in litigation besides Bent Corydon and no, I am not going to identify the client. I represented the client in an out-of-state deposition. He has paid his fees in full and they are reflected on my 2007 income tax return. He has a reasonable expectation of privacy and does not want to be harassed by your law firm and its private investigators,” I responded. “You’re a liar, Berry,” snarled Moxon;
  • “How much money have you earned in 2008? Who from?”“I have received $262.00 and it did not involve a litigation matter so I am asserting the client’s right of privacy. There is no money owing.”
  • “ You’ve only received $262.00 this year?” “That’s not what I testified Mr. Moxon,” I said. “ I’ve also received a $150.00 gift.” Moxon shot back, “Who gave you the gift?” I replied, “Objection, privacy of third persons.”
  • “Do you pay rent where you live?” “No, I do not,” [thanks to the generosity of my former Scientologist housemate Ms. Jane Scott. Her former husband gave over one million dollars to the Scientology enterprise before she divorced him!] “ Do you work for Jane Scott?” “No.” “Do you have a bank account, trust account, credit card, etc?” “No.”
  • “How do your clients pay you?” “Sometimes in cash and sometimes by check, but I only have pro bono clients now.”
  • “If you don’t have a bank account, how do you cash a client’s check?” “I’ll endorse it over to someone like Jane Scott or use a check-cashing facility,” I replied.”
  • “Do you have a retirement account?” “No. You took away those prospects too.”
  • “Do you have any stocks, bonds, safety deposit boxes, etc.” “No,” I repeatedly responded.
  • “Do you own any real estate?” “No, Mr. Moxon, you caused me to lose that too,” I replied.
  • “Do you own a car?” “No, Mr. Moxon. As I told you last time, you took that and did so unlawfully, through Ava Paquette lying to the court about its value.” Moxon snarled, back, “You mean that old Jeep Cherokee.” I responded, “Yes.” I loved that 1988 Jeep Cherokee Laredo. It had faithfully hauled thousands of boxes of Scientology litigation documents, many dozens of Suppressive Persons and when it was seized through Ava Paquette’s perjury it was proudly displaying large rear and side window posters reading: “WWW.XENU.NET What Scientology Doesn’t Want You To Read.
  • “How did you get to this courthouse today?” “ I borrowed one of Jane Scott’s cars.”
  • “How much money do you have in your pocket?” I rummaged through my wallet and counted bank notes. “$27.00. All the money that I have in the world.”
  • “How much did you earn in 2006? “You’ve got the tax returns. It’s there,” I said. “$18, 258.00?” asked Moxon. “Whatever it says there,” I replied.
  • “Are you on Medicaid or Medicare?” “No.”
  • “Do you receive welfare payments and food stamps? “No.”
  • “You were on welfare and food stamps. Why did you stop? “When I went to New Zealand to care for my mother the payments were terminated.”
  • “Why didn’t you go back on welfare when you returned?” “Because I took over Bent Corydon’s defense [successfully] and started receiving income, $200 per week and then $400 per week.”
  • “Why don’t you go on welfare now? “I’ve heard of so many Church of Scientology staff members and Sea Organization members receiving welfare payments, food stamps and other government assistance that I have hesitated to further burden the public coffers.” [In my humble opinion, the tax-exempt Scientology enterprise has more scams going in a day than most con men could imagine in a lifetime!]
  • “Does Jane Scott pay for your food? “Sometimes,” I replied. “And when I am with other people they often pay. Unlike the Church of Scientology, most people engage in charity and do not have a religious “doctrine of exchange” requiring that money be exchanged for every service or need. For example, when I was in New Zealand recently my Dad paid for my food.”
  • “Are you owed any money? “Yes, Bent Corydon. I represented him in litigation for nearly three years,” I replied. “How much does he owe you?” “It’s on the last bill,” I answered. Produce it?” I handed over the last fee statement because the Corydon fee statements had been filed in court in connection with his lawsuit. “You allege that he owes you $428,000? Moxon mocked. “He has never questioned it,” I responded. Why isn’t he paying you?” “He stopped the $400 per week payments last year when he said his business could no longer afford to comply with our payment arrangement of $400 per week and that he needed the money for his adult son’s problems,” I replied. “He’s good for the debt,” I said. “He has a largely unencumbered three-million dollar building.” What have you done to collect the money?” “I gave him notice of his arbitration rights which he ignored. Later in the year I will be filing a law suit against him.”
  • “Do you owe any debts? “Actually, I do. It’s basically the same list as before. I’ve updated it for you and I have it right here among my papers,” I answered. I then leaned over the table and went through a stack of papers I had brought with me. I couldn’t find the list I had typed. I kept going back and forth through the papers. Moxon started breathing heavily. He was impatient and agitated. “Just tell me,” he commanded. “Oh no, I wouldn’t want to be inaccurate. I would much prefer just to give you the list. Maybe I should just mail it to you later,” I said as I kept rummaging through the papers (an old trial lawyers jury tactic). Soon Moxon could take the silence no longer. “You, Anonymous! I want the court record to reflect that the young man behind Berry [Kone] is making faces and expressions at me. He’s disrupting the proceedings. I going to go before the Judge and have him held in contempt.” I looked up and yawned, “Mr. Moxon, he’s doing nothing of the sort. Why don’t you just get on with your questioning?” Kone interjected again, “I was not making faces at all.” “Shush,” I said again. Of course, I couldn’t avoid dropping three small 8 ½ x 11 ½ picket signs: (1) “WHO KILLED L. RON HUBBARD? ASK DM. http://www.clambake.org/archive/hubbardcoroner/ http://www.lermanet.com/exit/berrying.html;” (2) “HUBBARD DIED ON PYSCH DRUGS! ASK Dr. DENK & DM. http://www.clambake.org/archive/hubbardcoroner/ http://www.lermanet.com/exit/berrying.html; (3) “HUBBARD DIED BUT HIS FRAUDS AND CRIMES LIVE ON! ASK SP DM. HUBBARD: KING OF CONS. http://www.lermanet.com/LRonHubbard.htm

“Just mail the list,” Moxon snarled as Ava Paquette continued to frantically scrawl on small papers notes and to thrust them under Moxon’s scowling gaze.

  • “Are you a beneficiary under your father’s will?” “Objection, third party privacy and I do not know,” I answered.
  • “How much is your father’s estate worth?” “Objection, Privacy and speculation.” You can guess. What’s it worth $100,000?” “I am not going to speculate?” “ You can guess. What’s it worth $200,000?” “I am not going to speculate?” You can guess. What’s it worth $300,000?” “I am not going to speculate.” And Moxon continued like this up through the numbers until he had said: You can guess. What’s your father’s estate worth? One million dollars?” “I am not going to speculate, Mr. Moxon.”
  • “Are you a beneficiary under your sister’s will?” “Objection, third party privacy,” I responded.
  • “Will you receive any money from your father when he dies?” “Objection, it requires me to speculate.”
  • “Do you have a will? Produce it.” “I do have a will and I object to producing it on the ground of privacy,” I responded.
  • “Are you the beneficiary under any trusts?” “I don’t know,” I said. “I think I am but I have received legal advice that I am not.”
  • “Who was the lawyer who gave you the advice?” “He’s dead now,” I answered.
  • “Why do you think you are the beneficiary of a trust?” “Because I have read that I am in a discretionary family and inheritor’s trust.”
  • “What’s the trust say?” “I can’t recall exactly, read it for yourself,” I responded.
  • “Did you bring a copy with you?” “Your subpoena commanded me to,” I replied as I found two documents among my papers and handed two copies of the two documents to Moxon and Paquette respectively.

The two of them looked through the first document. Moxon asked who the people (the trustees) were and I responded, “My cousins.” “Do you know who prepared this?” asked Moxon. “Someone in my fathers lawyers office,” I said. “When?” snapped Moxon. Earlier this year when I was in New Zealand,” I answered. “Who paid for your air ticket to New Zealand?” asked Moxon. “My Dad,” I replied. “And Miss Law? Is she really one of your father’s lawyers?” asked Moxon in a mocking tone as he looked at the name of the witness to my signature. Moxon was clearly becoming furious. “And this so-called Trust,” he said, “It is really called The Bee Jay Trust?” “Moxon, stop polluting this proceeding with your foul mind,” I said as the entire row of Anonymous behind me tried to contain their laughter and lusty imaginations. Meanwhile, Moxon and Paquette seemed gob- smacked, no pun intended. Was the Bee Jay Trust a “rick-roll” or was it really a genuine family maintenance and support trust? They did not know which way to proceed and so they left the Bee Jay Trust and all that it represents.

Round Four to Anonymous, I concluded again.

 

  • “And what’s this next document. Is that part of the demand?” Moxon asked. “No, but I thought that you might appreciate it,” I replied. Moxon put the fat second document in his brief case and later Ava Paquette did the same.

The “second document” was a transcript of the Marc Headley Gosslip Radio interview broadcast several weeks ago. Marc Headley is a former Scientologist Sea Organization member who has suffered permanent disabilities from being forced to spend days wading in the Gold Base sewage treatment ponds without any protective equipment at all. Elsewhere in the interview Marc Headley talks about the active concealment of crimes, frauds and even deaths at the Scientology Gold Base near Hemet in California:

“There is a girl by the name of Stacy Moxon, or Stacy Meyers, it’s a girl that worked at the INT base. They said she committed suicide. She was electrocuted to death in a high voltage transformer vault. Well, somebody told me she left a note, so it wasn’t really an accident. The church makes it, saying basically it was an accident. … No, she went in there and grabbed the vault. [She did it] because she wasn’t allow to leave the property to go see her husband and her family. She wasn’t being allowed to go. She was basically held captive there like every other person at the INT base and she’d only been there a few months. And she was basically like “I can’t take this anymore” and she even threatened and told other people that she was depressed and she never … she was separated from her husband who worked in Los Angeles. OK, well, her father is one of the lead litigation attorneys for the church, Ken Moxon. And he still fights for the church even though that happened to his daughter. And he doesn’t know there was a note. But, he still fights for the church. His daughter is dead because she wasn’t allowed to go down to Los Angeles and see them. they do their due diligence to mop up and make sure there is no snail-trail left behind.”

It should also be noted that false reports about the death of Stacy Meyer Moxon would have been made to Riverside law enforcement and O.S.H.A. You can read about that and much more at:

http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1256449_adwgy/cHeadleyInterview_25Apr2008__064923.pdf See page 17.

http://forums.enturbulation.org/7-general-discussion/marc-headley-interview-close-10000-listeners-12474/

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=5603

I had blue flagged and high-lighted the pages in the transcript that dealt with the death of Stacy Moxon. I also copied the three internal pages that dealt with the subject and stapled them to the top of “the second document.” There was no way Mr. Moxon could avoid reading about the extent he had been deceived by his Church and its ecclesiastical leadership. Moxon must have at least glanced at it as he slid it into his separate papers in his attaché case because he seemed to totally lose his focus and bearings.

Thus it was now Round Five to Anonymous!

  • “These pro bono clients of yours, Berry. Do you send them bills? “No, Mr. Moxon, because they are pro bono clients. Pro bono means I provide them with free legal services,” I said.
  • “So you haven’t sent Sean Carasov a bill?” “No I haven’t. He’s a pro bono client,” I said.
  • “And you haven’t sent Gareth Cales a bill?” “No, I haven’t,” I said, not knowing why I would have any basis for doing so!
  • “Have you performed any services for which someone has promised to pay in the future?” “What sort of services would be asking about, Mr. Moxon?” I replied.
  • “Have you performed any legal services for which someone has promised to pay in the future?” “No,” I responded.
  • “Have you received any payments from the German government during the past year?” “No, but I do not know whether I will be able to give the same answer for this year in connection with the German, French, English and Belgium governments,” I replied.
  • “What do you do with your time, Berry?” “I provide pro bono legal services to people,” I responded. “I guess your clients get what they pay for,” mocked Moxon.
  • “Why don’t you have any income, Berry?” “I’m too busy providing pro bono legal services to the victims of your harassment and intimidation,” I replied. “Anyway, in a 1976 Granada Television investigative report L. Ron Hubbard said that these days one could not afford to have any income and that he was loafing. Well, Mr. Moxon if it was good enough for L. Ron Hubbard it is good enough for me. I’m doing some loafing Mr. Moxon,” I replied as he tried to talk over the top of me and mess with the court reporter’s transcription. “Berry, if you don’t stop making statements I am going to go before Judge Snyder and get more sanctions imposed against you,” threatened Moxon. “Ask your next question,” I commanded. “Oh, and I have just found this print-out of what your organization is still saying about me on www.ReligiousFreedomWatch.Org. Would like this copy?” Moxon snapped back, “Keep it.”
  • “Do you have a telephone?” “No,” I responded. “Do you use one of Jane Scott’s telephone lines? “Yes,” I replied.
  • “Do you have a cell phone Berry?” “Of course,” Mr. Moxon, “It’s the safest way to communicate when dealing with your organization.” “Berry, you’re a liar,” sneered Moxon.
  • “How do you pay for your cell phone?” I pay for it as I can. $20 here and $20 there. It’s a pay-as-you-go cell phone,” I replied.
  • “You mean it is one of those cheap disposable cell phones?” “Yes Mr. Moxon, it is,” I replied while thinking that Moxon was trying to associate with the communication tools of a terrorist.
  • “Are you a party to any contracts?” “Yes. With Lexis/Nexis,” I answered. “You pay for Lexis service?” enquired Moxon while Ms. Paquette continued with her slavish note passing and brown-nosing. “No, I do not. I purchased a software program several years ago and Lexis/Nexis provides the yearly maintenance,” I explained.
  • “Are you a party to any other contract with any other person?” “Mr. Moxon,” I exclaimed. “As I sit here right now I cannot think of any other contract I have with any other person, any entity, any body thetan, any alien being, Xenu himself or any other life form.” There was amused twittery from the row of Anonymous behind me.

By now we were about one-hour into the deposition and Moxon seemed spent. He scowled, said he thought he was nearly finished and that he would be back in a few minutes. He and Ava Paquette then left Judge Hill’s conference room followed by the Atkinson-Baker court reporter. “He’ll be telephoning back to his superiors at O.S.A. or even talking with D.M.,” I said to those remaining in the room. Their reactions gushed forth. “What a slimy douche bag.” “He’s such a piece of garbage.” “Moxon’s lower than the lowest scum.” “The man’s evil.” “And who dresses Paquette? She needs a major make-over. That outfit and hair-do!” “Why does Paquette keeping passing notes to Moxon?” “That snake tried to make Graham look like a child molester.” Moxon, Paquette and the Atkinson-Baker court reporter then returned to Judge Hill’s conference room. “What did D.M. have to say to me?” I asked Moxon who replied, “You’re a loser, Berry and we’re done here.” I ordered a copy of the transcript and we were “off the record.”

Moxon and Paquette remained seated as the Anonymouses and me stood and prepared to exit the conference room. Moxon then smirked at the Anonymouses and Mister X and snarled, “Do you boys know what sort of person Berry really is? There’s this guy Cipriano who said that …” Kone Anonymous cut Moxon off mid-sentence. “I would trust Graham Berry with my life,” he forcefully snapped at Moxon while staring straight into Moxons face.” Taken aback but still able to splutter, Moxon hissed back, “What would you know about Scientology? You’re just protesting against Scientology because it is now the cool thing to do.” Kone Anonymous laughed back at the reeling Moxon. “Actually I know a lot about Scientology. They have harassed my family in the past. You moved two Scientologists into my college housing unit in order to spy on me and you had a Sea Org staffer in his uniform sit beside me in an empty railway carriage for three hours yesterday,” responded this courageous and feisty young man. Moxon beamed with successful accomplishment. He could hardly contain himself, “If we’ve been following you that means we’ve identified you,” Moxon gushed. “Yes,” Said Kone. “You’ve identified me. Latham & Watkins sent me a cease and desist letter and a DVD. I laughed because I have not been involved in any of the crazy terrorist things that Scientology alleges against Anonymous.” I chimed back in, saying, “Yes, Moxon, he was on David Schindler’s letter list.” Ava Paquette wanted to be heard too. Looking at me she said, “I’ve heard tape recordings of the death threats.” Smiling at her I said, “But you haven’t connected those tape-recordings with any of the Anonymous participants, have you?” Kone Anonymous chimed back in, “Exactly, even the F.B.I. said that Anonymous was not involved in what Scientology alleged.” I shushed him again and said, “Don’t tell him anything about the F.B.I.” Ava Paquette decided she had more mud to sling at me herself. “Well, it’s not just Cipriano who accused Berry of being a child molester. It was also Hurtado.” I was astonished. “Ava,” I said, “I cannot believe you would still rely on recanted perjury that was the product of blackmail and bribery and other crimes. And Hurtado was 23-years-old.” Even more astonishingly she continued, “Well, Hurtado may have been 23 but he had a mental problem, a learning disability.” I laughed in response, “A learning disability while attending Santa Monica College?” Embarrassed at being cornered, Ava Paquette then turned her venom upon the three Anonymous men. “Have you read Dianetics?” she snapped. Kone Anonymous replied over and above the other two. “Actually I have and it sucked,” said Kone Anonymous. Turning to Moxon, Kone continued, “I had little respect for you when I arrived here today but I was prepared to let you earn it. I’m sorry but you lost it. I have absolutely no respect for you now. You’re the lowest of the low. Let’s get out of here.”

Moxon however was not to be rebuffed so easily. “Berry doesn’t want us telling you all this stuff about him,” Moxon blurted out. “He was a partner in three different law firms over three years.” Yes, I thought. Scientology Fair Game against senior partners can cause that to happen. Moxon raced on, “And we had him suspended from legal practice. Here, read the California Bar Journal summary.” That hurts I thought as I remembered that the California Bar Journal summary had severely misrepresented what I had stipulated to when I was confronted with the choice of either spending two years fighting and appealing a clearly Scientology contrived and compromised State Bar prosecution, or stipulating to a short suspension and going to New Zealand to assist with the at-home care of my dying mother. Moxon handed one of the Anonymous a copy of the California State Bar Journal summary of my suspension for being, in essence, a vexatious and sanctioned litigant as fraudulently procured by Moxon, Paquette, Gerald Chaleff and their other attorney cohorts before conflicted Superior Court Judge Alexander Williams, III and Federal Judge Snyder (although it may have been one of her law clerks that was compromised and corrupted). The Anonymous took the photo-copy document from Moxon, laughed and handed it across to me. These young men are spunky. They were confronted by the Dark Side of Scientology and they just stared it down courageously and bravely.

Moxon was almost frothing by now. He was not getting anywhere “third partying” these three young men standing behind his nemesis, me. “Stand back three feet, Berry,” instructs Moxon. “Oh, Moxon,” I said. “You’re not going to give us your standing three-feet behind the back of your head demonstration, are you?” I asked. By now Moxon was feverish and frantic. “I took Berry’s doctor’s deposition in the Hurtado case. It’s a sealed confidential transcript but if Berry gives me permission I will tell you about his medical secrets. Tell them, Berry. Tell them that it is okay for me to talk about your medical secrets.” I was shocked by such a blatant disregard of all ethical rules and standards by Moxon and Paquette. A retired Superior Court Judge had held that Moxon and Paquette were engaged in crime and fraud against me in the Hurtado case, and that the attorney-client privilege did not protect the communications among the conspiring attorneys who included the President of the Los Angeles County Criminal Defense Attorney’s Association. Moxon and his Scientology co-counsel Elliot Abelson had quickly dismissed the case before their fingers were burned any further. One morning after a hearing in his manufactured Hurtado case against me, Moxon stood next to my insurance funded defense attorney and me and started asking me about personal medical matters he had learned of while deposing my doctor in the Hurtado case which he had contrived and solicited purely for Fair Game purposes. Of course, the Scientology compromised California State Bar sees nothing wrong with any of this, if it is being done by the attorneys for a Church! Moxon, an officer of the court, was unrelenting in this unique public performance in Judge Hillman’s conference room. “Berry, you’re scared. You don’t want me to tell these boys your medical secrets. Come on, Berry, say I can tell them about the deposition of your doctor in the Hurtado case?” I coolly answered, “No, Moxon, I’m not consenting to anything of the sort.” Like most people I prefer the contents of my medical records to remain confidential.

 

Moxon was undeterred in his effort to defame and slime me in front of these members of the public at the same court where we are both officers of the court. “So I can’t tell them about your medical files Berry. Well I’ll tell them about your drug and alcohol problems. You did file a declaration saying you were having problems practicing law because of you had drug and alcohol problems, didn’t you.” How does this lawyer get away with all he does I thought. “Moxon,” I replied. “That’s the same stuff as you keep posting on your hate web-site at www.religiousfreedomwatch.org. I gave up drinking nine years ago and I did it without Narconon. Incidentally, you’d be amazed at how many people want to sue Narconon, and to sue for asbestos exposure on the Freewinds, and to sue for personal injuries caused by David Miscavige, and who want to file refund claims.” Moxon’s nostrils flared. “You’re not having any impact on us.” I lunged back, “I arrived on your doorstep in 1990 and ever since 1991 the church has been declining. This year alone Gross Income is down 50%, Gold Base has shrunk from 1,200 staffers to 400 staffers and your own O.S.A. has shrunk from 150 to around 30 staffers.” Moxon fell silent, probably wondering about my figures. Perhaps they are not statistically perfect but the “trend” is obvious. Also, it is obvious to everyone that the course rooms are empty and that completions are few. If the “celebrities” jumped ship, the whole façade would soon crumble.

Moxons wail returned me to present time. “He admitted it. Theyre trying to destroy us,” screeched Moxon. This distortion was too much for one of the Anonymice. “No, were not,” he chimed in. “We just want to eliminate Scientologys abuses such as Fair Game. Its obvious that the Church is still practicing it. You’ve been using it all afternoon. This is Fair Game in action.” Congratulations, I thought. He had read the memo and was not afraid to sling a few words of his own around.

Later, I would explain to the Anonymous that what they had just seen was part of a continuing pattern of R.I.C.O. conduct directed by the Church of Scientology against me, Anonymous and a whole lot of other people including Gerry Armstrong, Lawrence Wollersheim, Paulette Cooper, Bob Minton, Ken Dandar, Keith Henson, Ursula Caberta, Tommy Gorman, Jesse Prince, Mark Bunker, Jon Atack and many dozens of others over a twenty-five year period at the very least. Domestic psycho-terrorism being waged with impunity by a Hollywood-headquartered coercive organization, funding crime and fraud with millions of dollars of tax-exempt “donations” provided by Hollywood Celebrities such as Tom Cruise and businessmen such as Australian media magnate James Packer. Meanwhile, a number of European nations are considering banning the Church of Scientology because it is a foreign (Hollywood) headquartered terrorist organization. In addition, only last month the Belgium Police raided and closed the Church of Scientology in Brussels for being engaged in fraud and the unlicensed practice of medicine. Similar action was taken in Russia. Scientologys religious status is openly questioned in Europe. For example, see http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/beit.html

It is pertinent to note that the O.S.A. legal unit of Moxon & Kobrin, and their employed attorney Ava Paquette: (1) Maintain the copyright registrations of the various Church of Scientology written policies and practices for the handling of Suppressive Persons; (2) Send the cease and desist alleged copyright violation letters; (3) File and maintain the copyright law suits and Internet T.O.S. complaints; (4) Hire the private investigators to unveil the identity of Anonymice and to harass them, their families, colleagues and employers; and (5) File and maintain frivolous lawsuits, such as the “Bowles & Moxon Plan 100″ against the old Cult Awareness Network (C.A.N.).

Anyway, I digress from the amazingly and blatantly improper public performance by attorneys Kendrick Moxon and Ava Paquette. In my opinion, for whatever that is worth, such arrogance is produced by a sense of invincible impunity because of the Scientology corruption of the State Bar, law enforcement and the courts. The young men of Anonymous were now angered by Moxons and Paquettes attacks on me. They bravely faced Moxon, who they would later call “the snake.” To paraphrase from Scientology, these three Anonymous young men had bravely moved the cause of Anonymous to a new level in reshaping the destiny of Scientology. In recognition of their bravery and achievement, they will be the first recipients of The Bee Jay Trust Freedom Medal.

I decided that wisdom would be the better part of valor this day. I didnt want to be a party to Moxon and Kobrin losing their cool and doing something really stupid within the Federal Court building. Their “TRs were way out.” They were severely “down tone” and “down stat.” Anonymous does not forgive. Anonymous does not forget. “Come on, guys,” I said firmly. “Lets get out of here before this gets out of hand.” One of the Anonymous added, “Why give these weasels any more time? They didn’t get anything today.”

And so we merrily exited Judge Hillman’s conference and the Federal Courthouse. The Anonymous May global “Operation: Fair Game: STOP” had been launched, unwittingly by Scientology’s main Fair Game weapons, Moxon, Kobrin and Paquette, against one of Scientology’s most regular Fair Game targets, me.

After all was said and done, what had Moxon obtained during the course of Cinco de Moxon and at what continuing cost to Scientology? Nothing new, except the empty Bee Jay Trust. “You are such a free spirit,” I was recently told. Yes, I thought, and it is so satisfying. Being both an SP and free BT is fun. Cinco de Moxon was such an epic win for Anonymous. They are Legion. Expect them.

Humbly yours,

Graham Berry, SP Level 7.

(For an explanation of the SP Levels click on http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.Scientology/browse_thread/thread/5971)

To file a State Bar of California complaint against a lawyer click on, http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_generic.jsp?cid=10136&id=1144