Graham E. Berry

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The Huffington Post January 28, 2010

Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit

Despite sharp criticism and the threat of litigation on Tuesday, the LA City Council formally approved an ordinance that will close an estimated 800 medical marijuana collectives in the city.

Between 70 and 186 dispensaries would be allowed to remain open under new restrictions, though more than 75% of those would have to relocate. Opponents of the ordinance say these restrictions infringe on the right to the safe access afforded medical marijuana patients under the Compassionate Use Act of 1996

“Clearly you all don’t understand,” attorney Jennifer Sores told the City Council, “This is medicine. So treat it like medicine.”

The new restrictions require dispensaries to locate far from churches, public schools, rehab centers and other “sensitive use” areas. Other stipulations in the ordinance include that dispensaries keep security footage on file for long periods, confine patients to membership at a single collective, require specific ID cards and offer patients’ contact information to law enforcement without a subpoena.

Graham Berry, an attorney representing several of the dispensaries that may be forced to close, suggested that these restrictions imply that marijuana is being regulated as a dangerous or criminal substance rather than something with genuine medical uses.

“The needs of this particular medical group and patients should not be treated like gambling, sex, and liquor stores,” said Berry. “Please stop playing politics with patients’ rights and health.”

While the ordinance ostensibly clarifies the use of marijuana as a medical substance under California state law, its provisions take more from the federal stance on marijuana as a criminal substance. There appears to be real confusion as to whether the city is regulating marijuana as medicine or a controlled substance and some ambiguity in the ordinance as to whether its users (as recommended by MDs) ought to be considered real patients or potential criminals.

One of the major problems with the ordinance, according to City Councilman Bill Rosenthal and others, is that it may not even help to reduce marijuana’s role in criminal activity.

“Somewhere in the ’80s,” Rosendahl said, “the federal government turned [marijuana] into this thing worse than any other drug out there and then they began filling the jails. We saw gangs go from community neighborhood interactions into a serious territory marijuana distribution operation, and so funds would come in and they would enhance one’s gang membership. What do they do? They fight with each other over territory in the selling of drugs.”

Other LA residents agreed with Rosenthal’s sentiment.

“If you want to keep crime off the streets,” said Los Angeles resident Karen Elizabeth during public comment. “Keep the dispensaries open.”

Mark Herd, a member of the Westwood neighborhood council, also urged the council to consider medical marijuana in the same way as other medicines, and protested that the ordinance’s location restrictions would leave no dispensaries in Brentwood, the Pacific Palisades, Westwood and many other areas of the City.

“Bill Rosendahl,” Herd said, “understands that we need more than one Walgreen’s in Venice.”

It was 9-45 AM when I pulled into the Murrieta Superior Court car park after a two hour drive from Los Angeles. January 5, 2010 was just another hot sunny winter’s day in Southern California. Murrieta Superior Court is part of Riverside County’s new South West Justice Center. “Mid winter here and it’s already hotter than many places get in mid summer,” I said to Don Myers a/k/a/ The Angry Gay Pope or just plain AGP. The night before the prosecutor had told me not to hurry down because all of that days trials had been “trailed” to the next morning. “Will it be Moxon or Abelson?” AGP enquired. “It’ll be Abelson,” I said. “Moxon will be trying to explain how he allowed the Los Vegas District Attorney to totally dismiss all the charges against Camera Anonymous after his affidavit had caused the Los Vegas Police Department to take the kid down at three in the morning with two SWAT Teams. Abelson and Fraser will be livid at us strolling into court at 10 AM after they had been sitting there since 8-30 AM.”

 

We checked into Department 104 and learned that the Prosecutor was up in Department 201. We found him facing six burly guys chained together and wearing orange jump suits. AGP saw what might he might soon be dressed in for a few days or weeks. He was not amused. The prosecutor joined us outside the courtroom and I handed him a one inch thick pre trial motion requesting the case be dismissed “in furtherance of justice” or the jury given a special credibility instruction in connection with Scientology’s Suppressive Person policies and the policies on lying, “acceptable truths” and “false data outflows.” The carrot and stick system of weekly statistics, “conditions,” “discipline,” “suppressive person declares,” and the loss of one’s eternity created such a probability of perjury that AGP could not receive a fair trial I argued in the memorandum of law supported by exhibits. “I see the first forty pages are what you faxed me yesterday. I promise you I’ll read the rest. It’s really interesting although I don’t agree with your defenses of provocation, justification and necessity,” said the young prosecutor. I expected that. However, one purpose of the motion was to educate him and the court about the case from the defense perspective and to soften the DA and Scientology in connection with any further plea bargaining. Several Deputy District Attorneys had already attempted to convince AGP to accept a plea bargain. “No way,” he had always responded while reminding me of my quip that “you cannot vandalize a private pansy on public property.” However, that was when he still had a job. The banks had stopped lending money for independent movies and many Hollywood film and television people were now on unemployment, if they were lucky.

 

Everyone saw this case as an absolute loser unless the jury ignored the law. There was the video evidence of him doing it, the police report and video evidence of him admitting it, and all of the associated evidence. The prosecutor could not understand why we were taking it to trial. I had repeatedly raised the prospect of “jury nullification” with the prosecutor and I knew that he was worried that this case was an ideal candidate for a jury verdict of not guilty in protest at the District Attorney taking up two days of their time with a vandalism case involving pansy stomping. On the other hand, if the jury found AGP guilty the judge may be irritated at AGP for not having pleaded guilty. At this point the judge would certainly fine him, order full restitution and could require community service or jail time. Restitution and fines could exceed $3,000.00 and AGP was unemployed. Juries often surprise the most experienced judges and lawyers with unexpected verdicts. “Every trial is a crap shoot,” say most gray haired counselors. However, I wanted to “pull a rabbit out of the hat” and “win a hat trick,” three wins in a row. We had some ammunition with what we considered suspect and perhaps altered restitution invoices. If I could get the Suppressive Person, Lying and Ethics policies into evidence then we had a real shot if nullification. The prosecutor and I would have fun with the trial but would AGP have fun with the result? If we couldn’t quickly resolve the case by negotiation we would have to answer “ready for trial” and spend the next ten days waiting for a courtroom and jury.

 

The prosecutor found Elliot Abelson and Catherine Fraser outside and they soon joined us. Abelson had driven down the day before and had spent the night in a local hotel. “You’re not going to travel back and forth every day of the trial?” enquired Elliot. “Of course,” I replied. “You know my client cannot afford to pay for me to stay in hotels and I certainly can’t.” “You’re still going to try the case?” asked Elliot. “Sure,” I said. “We’re filing a motion and we’ll get the Suppressive Person policies in and show provocation, justification and necessity-there was no where to stand without being on the busy highway and he had stood there without objection only three days before while two sheriffs arrested Mark Bunker and ‘Mark Lowell.’ “Suppressive Persons?” enquired the prosecutor. “Yes, the church considers Myers a Suppressive Person,” I said. “And Berry’s the biggest SP of them all,” quipped Abelson. “We just cannot get rid of him. You’ve survived longer than any other lawyer,” he said looking at me. “That’s right. As I told a German television crew recently, you keep knocking me down and I just keep standing back up.”

 

The prosecutor explained that his office policy meant he was unable to negotiate the restitution issue now that it was trial day one. Abelson and I wandered off to chat about it. After five minutes we returned with the first part of a potential deal. Scientology would waive all restitution but was adamant that there be a court order that AGP stay away from Golden Era for three years. I argued over the duration but Abelson would not budge. Round two was with the prosecutor. He agreed there would be no fines, only court costs and it would be three years summary probation and stay away from Golden Era. Round three was between AGP and me. He agreed that a plea bargain was a more sensible outcome to the alternative if we could not convince the jury to look beyond the video evidence and admissions. The next round would be with the judge.

 

Back in courtroom 104 the case of The People v. Myers was called by the clerk. The Prosecutor and I announced our appearances and suggested that we have a side bar regarding a possible disposition of the case. A visibly pleased judge invited back into his Chambers. Scientology’s agreement to waive restitution was necessary so Elliot Abelson accompanied. “This is the national trial counsel for the Church of Scientology,” said the prosecutor. The judge seemed very impressed. The prosecutor and I explained aspects of the case to judge and that we had reached a disposition. “I think we might just go to trial so I can spend the day listening to Mr. Berry and his accent,” joked the judge. We went over the disposition. I took another crack at the duration of the stay away order. “Eighteen months,” I said. “I’ve got no authority to agree to that,” said Abelson. “We’ll make a telephone call,” I replied. “How about two years? I added. “Two years it is,” said the judge. “I think that’s fair.”

 

Back in the court room the deal was formally put on the record: a plea of guilty to one charge of misdemeanor vandalism, court costs of $205, two years summary probation (obey all laws) and stay 100 yards away from Golden Era near Hemet for two years. “Pansy Gate” was over without deciding the issue of whether a private pansy on public property, without permission and blocking the public’s right of way, can be vandalized.”Apparently the pansies have been replaced by thorny roses so the issue may never be resolved.

 

The motion and declaration concerning the Scientology policies on Suppressive Persons, Lying, Acceptable Truths and their impact upon the right to a fair trial can be viewed at www.angrygaypope.com

 

Graham Berry

January 5, 2010

I wish to thank the State of Hamburg and Ursula Caberta for inviting me to deliver my opinions on how the Church of Scientology handles its external critics. [1] The brief answer is that Scientology handles critical messages by attacking and trying to destroy the messenger with denials, deception, distraction and defamation. However, the messenger must first be personally identified before the messenger is personally destroyed. The great success of Anonymous has been anonymity. The Anonymous mask has become the external critic’s free-speech foil against the cult.

 

The Anonymous movement against the criminal and abusive behavior of the Scientology enterprise began in mid-January 2008, with the publication of the Andrew Morton book on Tom Cruise and the Anonymous Internet release of a 2004 Scientology recruiting video featuring Tom Cruise. Anonymous criticized the Scientology racketeering enterprise for many of the same reasons that were recently stated in the Australian Parliament by Federal Senator Xenophon.[2] He called the Church of Scientology “a criminal organization.” In my opinion and experience, Senator Xenophon and the Anonymous Movement are correct. The Church of Scientology is an international criminal, psycho-terror and hate group.

 

When Anonymous made public statements that criticized the Scientology enterprise and its totalitarian tyrant, David Miscavige, it committed what Scientology calls “a suppressive act” [3] and Anonymous became Suppressive Persons or SPs. Scientology teaches that real SPs are “monsters” and “utterly nuts.” Hubbard also wrote that SPs are about 2.5% of the population and they are to be “…eliminated, exterminated quietly and without sorrow.” [4]

 

The Scientology enterprise may be unique among criminal organizations in that it has written copyrighted Suppressive Person policies and practices on how to destroy and eliminate anyone who dares to publicly criticize its real activities and agenda. The Suppressive Person Policy Letters are part criminal manifesto and conspiracy, part psycho-terror manifesto, and part treason and sedition. There are dozens of such copyrighted documents. Today, I only focus upon a few that are identified in the endnotes to this paper.

 

In the 1996 Scientology policy letter “Attacks on Scientology” Scientologists are instructed upon the correct procedure for handling criticism.[5] There are six major commands. First, identify the attacker. Second, investigate the attacker. Third, suggest others investigate the attacker. Fourth, and I quote, “Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime evidence on the attackers to the press.” Fifth, and again I partially quote, “…make it rough on the attackers. Sixth, forget about being sued for defamation. “We investigate and expose-the attack ceases,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard. However, Hubbard did not envision the emergence of anonymous protests against the Scientology’s religious and political mafia. The brilliance of the Anonymous matrix is that it short circuits the Scientology Suppressive Person policies and practices. Scientology cannot investigate, attack, and destroy what it cannot first identify.

 

Within the closed Scientology society, the task of handling outside criticism is the responsibility of the Church of Scientology International Office of Special Affairs or “OSA.” OSA is divided into three main divisions: public relations, investigations and legal. The copyrighted policies and practices of the investigation section are horrifying, particularly for a tax-exempt group claiming to be a church. You can read the 1991 Investigations Officer training course (or “Hat Pack”) [6] of Frank Oliver on the Internet. The training course (“Hat Pack”) for the President of the Church of Scientology International is even more horrific. It includes many of the same policies and practices of the old Guardian’s Office; [known as] the B1-B2 Hat Pack.

 

When the Anonymous Movement burst upon the world Scientology scene, in early 2008, with over 9,000 masked protestors on the streets of over forty nations, OSA was ambushed and flailing. Where did the thousands of new protestors come from? They had to be identified, investigated, sued in the courts and “utterly destroyed,” [7] as a warning to others not to stand in the way of Scientology’s agenda for total world wide domination and the extermination of all critics, “quietly and without sorrow.” In 1945, Europe pledged never to let such a thing happen again. In 1993, the United States Treasury Department was extorted into granting Scientology tax-free status to finance such activities and the United States Department of State was directed to pressure all foreign governments to do the same. [8] The United States government also assumed contractual responsibility for blocking any international police (or Interpol) activity against the Scientology enterprise.

 

The United States Departments of Treasury and State continue to advance the Scientology agenda around the world while the FBI and the INS have been neutered and sit impotently upon the sidelines, ignoring all manner of blatant illegality, civil rights breaches and human rights violations. The United States’ official blind-eye to Scientology crime, abuse and psycho-terror has filtered down to the States where police departments and local governments have been compromised by Scientology lies, deception and corruption. Strangely, the record demonstrates that United States government officials are willing to fight Islamic extremism and terror abroad but they are terrified and unwilling to fight Scientology extremism and psycho-terror at home.

 

Anonymous now has to do it for them and they do it daily in over 110 cities and 42 countries. One can read the daily breaking news on the battle against Scientology extremism on www.whyweprotest.net, http://www.Xenu.net or the Ex-Scientologist message board (http://www.forum.exscn.net) to name but three of perhaps hundreds of relevant Internet sites. Scientology had never confronted such a phenomenon before and it has been overwhelmed.

 

The Scientology enterprise responded to the Anonymous exposure of damaging information, condemnation and protest demonstrations as it always does, by hiring lawyers, private investigators and covert agents. [9]

 

A former senior United States Department of Justice prosecutor at one of the world’s largest law firms, Latham & Watkins, was hired to work with the Scientology in-house lawyers. A large number of other law firms were also hired for the same work. Many dozens, some estimated hundreds, of private detectives were hired. One private investigation firm in particular stood out. According to its website, it specializes in electronic and computer surveillance and is staffed by former CIA and FBI agents, one who still claims top secret security clearances. David Miscavige and his Scientology enterprise spent many millions of tax-exempt dollars in this attempt to destroy the civil rights and lives of thousands of young citizens, many of them high school or college students. This outrageous abuse of religious tax-exempt status continues in the United States and around the world to this very day.

 

Scientology staff and private investigators stalked these young people as best they could. The young protestors were followed to their cars and local law enforcement, such as the Los Angeles Police Department, were induced to engage in spurious traffic stops of some of these young people to obtain their identities and then pass the information onto Church of Scientology staff and private investigators. Other L.A.P.D officers requested protestors’ identification while standing beneath fixed Scientology surveillance cameras so that OSA could simultaneously read the same information. Then Latham & Watkins, and other law firms, used private investigators to deliver threatening “cease and desist” letters, full of false accusations, to these young patriots, their parents and employers. In this despicable manner, the mighty Latham & Watkins law firm was responsible for intimidating many of these young Americans out of the exercise of their civil rights. Reportedly, one Anonymous participant was visited by Scientology uber- attorney, Kendrick Moxon, who reportedly threatened to destroy the career of the father of the Anonymous participant unless he stopped protesting against Scientology crime and abuses. Hubbard declared that “…those who attack Scientology are provenly suppressive … These persons can always lose their jobs.” [10]

 

This massive and tax-exempt harassment of the Anonymous movement continues as OSA tries to identify, investigate, and silence these young critics. “When we want someone haunted we investigate,” said Hubbard. “The defense of anything is untenable. The only way to defend anything is to attack,” Scientology teaches. [11]

 

A Scientology OSA investigation also involves invading the targets’ privacy.[12] It involves telling lies. “The only way you can control someone is to lie to them,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard. [13] Intelligence gathering is part and parcel of Scientology investigations and litigation. According to Hubbard, intelligence gathering can include: “…infiltration, bribery, buying information, robbery and black mail. The last two are of course illegal.”[14] Scientology requires its documents evidencing illegal activity to be stored in easily transferred “Red Boxes.” [15]

 

Then there is “Black Propaganda,” which Scientology/OSA Network Order 15 defines as, “A covert communication of false data intended to injure, impede or destroy the life of another person.” This overlaps with the Scientology document PR Series 18 in which Church of Scientology staffers are ordered to invent whatever they wish to allege. Elsewhere, Hubbard ordered his church to, “…manufacture enough threat against critics to cause them to sue for peace.”[16] This is part of the policy of “Dead Agenting” [17] or neutralizing external critics such as Anonymous. “Dead Agenting” often includes a “Noisy Investigation.” [18] In Scientology’s “Manual of Justice” it is stated, “Tell the detective we don’t care if they know you’re investigating them for us. In fact, the louder the better. … Scientology punishment is gruesome to see.” In fact, Scientology rewards and punishes it staff according to weekly statistics consisting of, “…the number of cases successfully investigated and the number of derogatory new stories … related to enemies of Scientology.”[19]

 

To many people, Scientology is synonymous with the phrase “Fair Game.” [20] Scientology teaches that “…all people who oppose Scientology are criminals and Suppressive Persons.” Under the Fair Game Law critics of Scientology are to be destroyed by any means possible without punishment of the Scientologist. Scientology falsely claims it cancelled the Fair Game Law. [21] However, it was expressly preserved for the handling of Suppressive Persons. [22] In 1980, leading Scientology executives admitted in court that the “Fair Game Law” had never really been done away with. In 1990, in the Wollersheim case, Scientology argued unsuccessfully that the Fair Game Law should be deemed a protected religious practice. [23] For example, in the Policy Letter on “Penalties for Lower Conditions it actually states, “SP Order. (comment: ‘Suppressive Person Declaration’) Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”[24] Furthermore, a substantial number of United States court decisions, some relatively recent, hold that Fair Game continues as the underlying, often unspoken theme, which motivates the demonstrably despicable and often criminal behavior of the Scientology enterprise. [25]

 

The Church of Scientology was the first church ever convicted of criminal conduct in Canada. Recently, it was convicted of fraud in France and a major criminal prosecution is pending in Belgium. New Zealand and New South Wales in Australia have just announced criminal investigations and an Australian Federal Government criminal investigation is under consideration.

 

If the external critic of Scientology is not “…shuddered into silence”[26] by Scientology identification, investigation and harassment then OSA will try litigation as a weapon of intimidation. Scientology copyrighted policy and practice also involves the use of litigation to harass and destroy people rather than to win. “The purpose of the [law] suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard. [27] He also wrote that there is no other animal in the world like a Scientology law suit.

 

In the Allard [28] case, the court opined that Scientology believed it, “…had carte blanche to violate the rights of others, frame critics in order to destroy them, burglarize public and private offices and steal documents outlining the strategy of individuals and organizations that the church had sued. These suits were filed by the church for the sole purpose of financially bankrupting its critics and in order to create an atmosphere of fear so that critics would shy away from First Amendment rights secured them by the Constitution. … Anyone who did not agree with [Scientology] was considered an enemy against whom the so-called ‘Fair Game’ doctrine could be invoked.” The Allard court further held that Hubbard had defined “truth is what is true for you, and illegal is what is contrary to Scientology and not pursuant to Scientology’s approved program. … they could commit crimes so long as it was in the interests of Scientology.” [29]

 

The Scientology enterprise also pollutes and corrupts the legal process with additional copyrighted and written policies and practices. These include “TR-L” (Training Routine-Lying), “Hatting the Witness,” and “Addendum to Hatting the Witness,” “How To Tell An Acceptable Truth,” and the Religion policy letter which provides that “…what is true for you is what you have observed for yourself.” [30] Because Scientology is a totalitarian, closed, compartmentalized organization, where Scientology staff only operate in discreet sectors, they believe they can claim that anything they have not personally observed is untrue.

 

Scientology further corrupts the court process by punishing Scientologists who testify against another Scientologist or the interests of Scientology. [31] The impact of punishing a Scientologist as a Suppressive Person for adverse testimony in court is to coerce the use of perjury in litigation and to commit repeated frauds upon the courts. Then, there is the use of Black Dianetics [32] in litigation. Black Dianetics is also known in Scientology as “reverse processing.” Hubbard wrote that Black Dianetics can be used to drive person into any kind of insanity that is wanted. Scientology lawyers do not hesitate to use this in court proceedings and only an appropriately trained Scientologist can see it happening. I saw it being used in the FactNet case against Robert Vaughn Young. Scientology lawyers used “reverse processing” to re-stimulate Mr. Young’s experience of a Scientology “gang bang security check” he had endured in 1987. Mr. Young was reduced to tears and begged me to interrupt the subtle abuse. When I did, to protect the witness from further abuse, I was sanctioned by the court.

 

Scientology has used all these Suppressive Person handling policies to deal with the Anonymous movement and its criticism of the Scientology enterprise. In the United States, there have been too many examples to even mention in this paper. I have already discussed the mammoth expenditure of tax-exempt moneys to try and “utterly destroy” the messages and lives of many thousands of American citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out against Scientology crime, abuse, civil rights violations and human rights violations. Scientology alleged in public statements, police complaints and the so-called Anti-Anonymous DVD that the participants in the Anonymous movement had engaged in the world’s biggest terrorist attack upon a religion, threatened to detonate nuclear bombs in Scientology facilities, mailed suspected Anthrax packages to 24 Scientology facilities and fired bullets into Scientology properties. The F.B.I. and L.A.P.D. investigated the serious allegations and no action was taken. Scientology used the Anti-Anonymous DVD in Clearwater, Florida in an unsuccessful request for a court injunction to stop the Anonymous movement protesting Scientology crime and abuse. The judge commented that there was not a shred of evidence to support the Scientology allegations of potential violence against Scientologists. Ironically, over the past 18 months Anonymous is not known to have engaged in any physical attack upon a Scientologist while there have been numerous physical attacks by Scientologists upon Anonymous protestors.

 

The civil rights violations have involved repeated street closures to prevent Anonymous protestors from picketing outside Scientology offices and facilities, stopping critics from using a charter bus, a Subway Restaurant and the restaurants of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon had protestor, Sean Carasov, falsely arrested at an anti-Scientology picket in Los Angeles. I represented him and the case was dismissed. Donald Myers (also known as the Angry Gay Pope) was then sued at attorney Moxon’s behest. I represented Myers, we won half the case, but Scientology still obtained a restraining order preventing him from picketing outside a Scientology office building. Another protestor known as Anonymous Orange was arrested multiple times for protesting Scientology abuse. I represented him too and the case was dismissed. In Las Vegas, Moxon submitted a deceptive affidavit alleging terrorist activity by a young man known as Camera Anonymous. Two Las Vegas Police Department SWAT teams took this young man down at 3 A.M. one night. Scientology and the Las Vegas Police Department then requested a six month delay in court proceedings to develop a case against the young man. The judge gave them three months. The use of such massive police force should have required firm evidence before the two SWAT teams swooped. Local police in other communities have also been deceived by Scientology’s OSA into violating the civil rights of the Anonymous Protestors. As the St. Petersburg Times has written, “Scientology does not want to be criticized or harassed, but it does not hesitate to harass and intimidate others. … it will spend virtually unlimited time and money on pursuing, setting up and bringing down its critics. That’s not like any church we know.”

 

I am in awe of the tens of thousands of young Anonymous participants who have withstood the unlawful and unethical attacks of Scientology’s litigation juggernaut with its wars of attrition and vexatious lawsuits. [33] Ironically, L. Ron Hubbard himself sets forth the Scientology policy that, “The criminal accuses others of what he himself is doing … the criminal mind relentlessly seeks to destroy anyone it imagines might expose it.” [34]

 

Anonymous and the others who fight Scientology totalitarian extremism act out of frustration with the governments and their law enforcement agencies that have failed us by not fighting Scientology’s psycho-terror, criminal conduct and human rights abuses. In the view of so many around the world, the Scientology problem is one for the United States Federal and State governments to take the lead in handling. It is the United States government that was deceived, extorted and over-whelmed into granting Scientology a unique tax status to be expressly denied all other religions. It is the United States Departments of State and Treasury which actively promote the Scientology agenda around the world. The individual citizens of the United States are subsidizing this Scientology reign of domestic “psycho-terror,” crime and abuse through the 1993 grant[ing] of tax-exempt status to over 166 Scientology corporate entities. [35] [36]

 

Consequently, it has fallen to the State of Hamburg Working Group on Scientology, led by Ursula Caberta, other German state governments, other European governments, Anonymous and many other brave citizens, to oppose the Scientology juggernaut’s world wide totalitarian take-over plans. Europe has seen how totalitarian groups deceptively insinuate themselves into power and tyranny. Scientology must be stopped from destroying more lives and dreams, and from creating an Orwellian-like future for our planet. Apathy and inaction are not the solution. Anonymous action, government investigations, police prosecutions and the revocation of Scientology’s tax-free status are among the answers.

 

Thank you.

 

Delivered at the Altona Town Hall, Hamburg, Germany on December 4, 2009.

 

Graham E. Berry, Esq.

3384 McLaughlin Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90066

U.S.A.

grahamberry@ca.rr.com

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Permission is hereby granted to re-publish this paper, in whole or in part, provided proper accreditation of authorship is included.

 

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[1] Unless otherwise indicated, the statements herein are my own personal opinions made within the exercise of my First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.

 

[2] PL 30 January 1991, “Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists.”

 

[3] PL 30 January 1991, “Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists.” See also, HCOPL 7 March, 1965, “Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology: the Fair Game Law,” HCOPL 27 March, 1972, “Counter Attack Tactics,” PL 10 January 1991, “Offenses and Penalties,”

 

[4] 1969 tape, L. Ron Hubbard, “About Rhodesia,” L. Ron Hubbard, “The Science of Survival,” pp.__.

 

[5] HCOPL 25 February 1996, “Attacks on Scientology (Additional Pol. Ltr.).”

 

[6] Confidential, Department of Special Affairs, Investigations Office Full Hat Check Sheet.

 

[7] HCO Bulletin, “SEC checking,” 23 October, 1983, HCOPL, “Confidential: Enemy Hands,” 16 February, 1969, HCOPL, “Critics of Scientology,” 5 November, 1967, Guardian Order (CEO 011272 LRH), “Confidential, Black Propaganda,”____.

 

[8] “Did the cult Scientology bludgeon the IRS into a billion dollar tax revenue give-away? http://www.factnet.org/headlines/give-away.htm , Scientology vs. The IRS http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?page_id=16, and http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com

 

[9] HCOPL, “Confidential: Targets, Defense,” 16 February, 1969.

 

[10] L. Ron Hubbard, “Counter Attack Tactics,” 27 March 1972. See also, HCOPL, “Policies on Handling Physical Healing, Insanity and Potential Trouble Sources, 27 October, 1964.

 

[11] L. Ron Hubbard, March 1955. See also, L. Ron Hubbard, The Department of Government Affairs, 15 August, 1960.

 

[12] L. Ron Hubbard, “Invading Privacy,” 13 May, 1959.

 

[13] L. Ron Hubbard, “On Control and Lying,” Technique 88.

 

[14] L. Ron Hubbard, “Order re INTELLIGENCE,” December 1968. See also, L. Ron Hubbard, “Critics of Scientology.”

 

[15] Document seized by the United States F.B.I. during 1977 raids upon Scientology offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles.

 

[16] L. Ron Hubbard, “The Department of Government Affairs,” 15 August, 1960.

 

[17] PL, PR Series 24, “Handling hostile contacts/dead agenting,” 30 May 1974.

 

[18] HCO Executive Letter, “How to do a noisy investigation, “5 September, 1966.

 

[19] HCOPL, Public Investigations Section, 17 February, 1966. See also, HCOPL, “Discipline: SP’s and Admin: How Statistics Crash,” 15 August, 1967.

 

[20] HCOPL, “Ethics: Suppressive Acts: Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists: The Fair Game Law,” 7 March, 1965. See also, L. Ron Hubbard, “Executive Directive, “Confidential: Ranch 5 Project: Project Squirrel,” 2 December, 1966.

 

[21] HCOPL, 21 October, 1968. But see, L. Ron Hubbard, Organization Executive Course Volume I, p.552 (1980), HCOPL, “Ethics Penalties,” 6 October 1970, HCO, “Confidential: Battle Tactics,” 16 February 1969, HCOPL, “Confidential: Targets, Defense,” 16 February, 1969. and “Scientology Basic staff Hat Book No. 1” (page 40), 1968.

 

[22] Flag Conditions Order, Suppressive Person Declaration, 8 June 1979 (specifically invoking “the Fair Game Law 23 Dec 1965), HCOPL, “Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists,” 16 May, 1980. See also, HCOPL, Ethics, 18 June, 1968, HCOPL, “Suppressive Act Dealing with a Suppressive Person,” 13 August, 1982, HCO, “Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists,” 8 January, 1991.

 

[23] See generally, Molko v. Holy Spirit Association, 46 Cal. 3d 1092, 1112 (1988).

 

[24] HCOPL, “Penalties for Lower Conditions,” 18 October, 1967.

 

[25] For example, United States v. Kattar, 840 F. 2d 118, 125 (1^st. Cir. 1988); U.S. v. Hubbard, 474 F. 2d 64 (D.C. 1979), Church of Scientology v. Commissioner of Inland Revenue, 83 U.S. Tax Ct. Rpt. 381, 429-442 (1984): Van Schaick v. Church of Scientology, 535 F. Supp. 1125, 1131, n.4 (U.S.D.C. Mass. 1982); Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim, 42 Cal.App. 4^th 628, 648-649 (1996), Hart v. Cult Awareness Network, 13 Cal. App. 4^th 777 (199__), Church of Scientology v. Armstrong, 232 Cal.App. 3d 1060, 1067 (1991), Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology, 212 Cal.App. 872, 888-891 (1989), Allard v. Church of Scientology, 58 Cal.App. 3d 439, 443 n.1 (1976), Christofferson v. Church of Scientology, 57 Ore.App. 203 (1983).

 

[26] L. Ron Hubbard, Manual of Justice, 1955.

 

[27] L. Ron Hubbard, “The Scientologist, a Manual of Dissemination of Material,” 1955.

 

[28] Allard v. Church of Scientology of California, 68 Cal.App. 3d 439 (1976), cert. den. 97 S.Ct. 1101(1977). See also, HCO Bulletin, “SEC Checking,” 23 October, 1983. Guardian Order 070571, “Secret: Notes on SMERSH,” 7 May 1971 (see “Character Attacks” section).

 

[29] See also, Stipulation of Evidence (280 pages), USA v. Hubbard, ___.

 

[30] Board Policy Letter, “Religion,” 8 May, 1975.

 

[31] HCO, “Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists,” 30 January, 1991.

 

[32] L. Ron Hubbard, “Research and Discovery Series,” 17 December, 1951.

 

[33] HCO, “Confidential: Battle Tactics,” 16 February,1969

 

[34] HCO Bulletin, 15 September 1981, “The Criminal Mind.”

 

[35] “The Truth Rundown,” St. Petersburg Times, http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project . See also, Richard Behar, “Scientology: The Cult of Greed and Power,” May 6, 1991 (cover story, page 50), http://www.xenu.net/archive/media/time 910605.html

 

[36] “Did the cult Scientology bludgeon the IRS into a billion dollar tax revenue give-away? http://www.factnet.org/headlines/give-away.htm , Scientology vs. The IRS http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?page_id=16, and http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com

To see the speech on video, and other related videos, click on the links below:

Graham Berry on “How the Church of Scientology Handles External Criticism.”

Part 1/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lmx3K0Xsyc

Part 2/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jake0ikNA9U&feature=related

Part 3/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVKC-5QH_w&feature=related

Part 4/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZHJZkjf2E&feature=related

Gerry Armstrong on “How the Church of Scientology Handles Internal Criticism.”

Part 1/3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ixY8KXvOY&feature=related

Part 2/3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shAlNzKoyp4&feature=related

Part 3/3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkfsd76H9sc&feature=related

Gerry Armstrong and Graham Berry Chat:
http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?p=4037
Direct Youtube links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJhAz7XXFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJhAz7XXFE&feature=related

Graham Berry’s Photographs:

http://picasaweb.google.com/grahamberryesq/HamburgDecember452009#

Mega Raid Blog:

http://raid.tk/

WhyWeProtest.net:

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/281-europe/post-game-international-megaraid-event-hamburg-december-3rd-6th-57826/

Anonymous Hamburg:

http://anon-hh.ning.com/

Anonymous Berlin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yKMGmkR16g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijSsleQ5nSs&feature=related

Collected Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=428B6AAD8D90E066&search_query=ursula+caberta+december+2009

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

       

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.

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

 

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

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

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.”

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