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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:39:05 GMT
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Have you not heard that freedom of speech does not include the right to harm
by lies?
Nelson
"ShyDavid (Gay Terrorist Psycho)" <ShyDavid@this-is-a-fake-address.org>
wrote in message news:3ee6a2aa@news2.lightlink.com...
> Honorable Vernon Smith
> Superior Court of California
> County of Marin
> Department F
> Marin Civic Center / Hall of Justice
> San Rafael, CA 94903
>
> Re: Scientology v. Armstrong
> Marin County Superior Court case No. 152229 / 157680
>
> Dear Judge Smith:
>
> For the past few months I have been reading, via the Internet / World
> Wide Web, various documents that have been rendered to the Court
> concerning Gerry Armstrong and the Scientology organization.
> Specifically, the various Declarations written and submitted by agents
> and attorneys for the sinister organization, which seek to have Mr.
> Armstrong jailed for his choosing to exercise his Constitutionally
> recognized right to speak his thoughts and opinions.
>
> Mister Armstrong's courageous activities in the human rights arena
> regarding Scientology is well known to me and hundreds of other civil
> rights and human rights activists via the Internet; it is therefore
> with very great dismay and astonishment that I (and I suspect many
> others) observe this gross abuse of judicial process. The great
> American jurist, Robert Green Ingersoll, many times spoke and wrote
> concerning the fact that there is no authority in the universe that
> can revoke any human being's right to speak his or her thoughts and
> opinions freely. Other great American statesmen and orators, such as
> Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Joseph McCabe, have echoed that
> fact innumerable times: one cannot surrender, nor have revoked, one's
> fundamental right to free speech--- it is congenital: the right exists
> in every human being by the very act of being born a human being. As
> such, the right to speak one's opinions is not "granted" by any
> authority; it therefore cannot be revoked by any authority. Silencing
> any human being via threat of financial punishment or prison is
> therefore an abomination, and a violation of a person's innate rights.
>
> I am distressed that there is a slight chance that the human rights
> activist Gerry Armstrong could be fined or even jailed for "contempt"
> by his allegedly violating an injunction that mandates he cease
> speaking his thoughts and opinions about the Scientology organization.
> This attempt by the Scientology business to silence Mr. Armstrong is
> all the more perfidious when one considered the fact that Mr.
> Armstrong is one of the foremost experts in the subject of civil and
> human rights violations committed by and for the Scientology
> organization: silencing Mr. Armstrong by fining or jailing him will
> have a vast negative impact on those victims of Scientology that, in
> the present and the future, Mr. Armstrong can and would render help
> and advice to. The United States needs many more people like Mr.
> Armstrong "out there" talking about their experiences with the
> Scientology business: punishing Mr. Armstrong for his human rights
> activism is a gross disservice to the community. Mr. Armstrong
> deserves praise and accolades, not fines and imprisonment, for his
> courageous actions.
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>
>
> David Rice
> [old address]
>
> ---
> Pleased