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Are you running out of money Gerry or still just a greedy ass-hole that will
say anything for a buck?
Nelson

"Gerry Armstrong" <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org> wrote in message
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> Webbed at:
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a8/complaint-rpt-doj-2004-02-16.
html
>
> Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.
> Assistant Attorney General
> Civil Rights Division
> 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (#3623)
> Washington, DC 20530
> (202) 514-2151
> Fax: (202) 514-0293
> TDD: (202) 514-0716
>
> U.S. Department of Justice
> Civil Rights Division
> 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
> Criminal Section, PHB
> Washington, DC 20530
> (202) 514-3204
> Fax: (202) 514-8336
>
> COMPLAINT REPORT
>
> I, Gerry Armstrong, declare:
>
> 1. My address is:
> #1-49450 Alexander Avenue
> Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1L5
> Canada
> 604-XXX-XXXX
> gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
>
> 2. I am a citizen of Canada with Canadian passport No. JS274969.
> I became a legal resident of the U.S. in 1977, with Alien Registration
> No. A036304599.
>
> 3. Federal crimes have been committed by the violation of the
> following:
>
> 1. 18 U.S.C. §241
> 2. 18 U.S.C. §242
> 3. 18 U.S.C. §371
> 4. 18 U.S.C. §1512
>
> 4. The participants in these crimes include those individuals or
> entities who comprise the "beneficiaries" identified or described in
> paragraphs 1 and 4 of a document entitled "Mutual Release and
> Settlement Agreement," which purports to be a contract between those
> individuals and entities and me executed in December, 1986,
> specifically:
>
> Church of Scientology International, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns
> and legal counsel;
> Church of Scientology of California, its officers, agents,
>
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>
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> Religious Technology Center, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> all Scientology and Scientology affiliated organizations and
> entities and their officers, agents, representatives,
> employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and
> legal counsel; Author Services, Inc., its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> L. Ron Hubbard, his heirs, beneficiaries, Estate and its
> executor;
> Author's Family Trust, its beneficiaries and its trustee; and
> Mary Sue Hubbard.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
>
> 5. I am providing URLs, as such exist on the date of this
> complaint, for documents cited to herein, because the photocopying of
> these documents and appending the photocopies hereto as exhibits, and
> mailing these exhibits, is financially prohibitive. All webbed
> documents cited to herein are, to my knowledge and to the best of my
> ability, true and correct copies of the original documents from which
> the webbed copies have been made. If required, in the course of the
> official investigation and prosecution resulting from this complaint,
> I can and will provide true and correct hard photocopies of
> any documents cited to herein.
>
> 6. All of the individuals and entities that comprise the
> "beneficiaries" are under the ultimate control and direction of one
> David Miscavige, who possesses the official titles within the global
> Scientology enterprise of Captain of the Sea Organization ("SO") and
> Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center ("RTC"). The SO
> is an unincorporated pseudo-military entity, members of which occupy
> positions in other Scientology organizations, corporations and
> entities. The global Scientology enterprise is a dictatorship,
> Miscavige is the dictator, and corporate identities and borders are
> ignored, or are employed by Miscavige and his ruling clique at their
> whim for purposes of control and evading legal liability for the
> enterprise's crimes and torts.
>
> 7. The events relating to these crimes committed by these
> individuals and entities span a thirty-five year period, occurred in
> many locations, and involve numerous civil and criminal legal cases
> and proceedings. I am limiting what facts and events I am including in
> this report to only those I believe are necessary to demonstrate the
> commission of these crimes and to make the circumstances and actions
> and the special Scientology terms, policies and practices
> understandable. I am also providing some of my arguments or reasoning
> for why certain acts or communications by these individuals
> and entities constitute these crimes in order to assist investigators
> and prosecutors, to explain my own actions, and to ensure that these
> arguments or reasoning are considered and addressed.
>
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>
> 8. I got into Scientology in 1969 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and
> left the organization in Los Angeles, California in December 1981. I
> was recruited into the organization with a number of promises or
> representations, which included:
>
> - that Scientology was a mathematically precise and exact
> science;
> - that no other subjects on earth except physics and chemistry
> have had such grueling testing;
> - that it was based on the scientific research of L. Ron Hubbard;
> - that he was a Civil Engineer and a Nuclear Physicist;
> - that he had many degrees and was very skilled by reason of
> study;
> - that he was crippled and blinded in the Second World War and
> cured himself with his mental science;
> - that Scientology "auditing" psychotherapy raises IQ an average
> of a point per hour;
> - that auditing is conducted using an "electropsychometer," or
> "E-meter," which is a precision scientific instrument that sees below
> a person's consciousness and gives an "auditor" a keen look into the
> heads and hearts of people being "audited;"
> - that Scientology improves the health, intelligence, ability,
> behavior, skill and appearance of people;
> - that Scientology produces the ability to handle any and all
> problems;
> - that Scientology auditing produces a mental state called
> "Clear," whereat the person has complete recall of everything that
> ever happened to him or anything he ever studied, he does mental
> computations and studies anything in less than one-hundredth the time
> such computations or studies took before "clearing," he never gets
> colds, his vigor, persistence and tenacity to life are very much
> higher than anyone has thought possible, and his physical vitality and
> health are markedly improved and all psychosomatic illnesses have
> vanished and will never return;
> - that Scientology is offered with a money-back guarantee;
> - that Scientology is the most ethical organization on the
> planet;
> - that Scientology works, works uniformly, and is the only system
> on earth that works for improving the health, intelligence, ability,
> behavior, skill and appearance of people;
> - that Scientology is the only hope for mankind's survival;
> - that Scientology can and does do exactly what it says it can
> do.
>
> 9. From February 1971 until I left in December 1981, I was a
> member of the SO, which is structured similarly to the United States
> Navy. Within the SO "ranks and ratings" system, I rose to the rank of
> Ensign. Until September 1975, I was on board the "Apollo," the SO's
> "flagship," from which during those years Scientology was operated.
> L. Ron Hubbard, his wife Mary Sue, and their four children were on
> board, along with an average of over 400 other people comprising
> "crew," plus auditing or training customers. During those years, the
> ship moved between ports in Morocco, Portugal, Spain and the
> Caribbean.
>
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>
> 10. Hubbard, as the "Commodore" of the SO, controlled and
> directed all activities on board the "Apollo," and all Scientology
> organizations and activities internationally through a number of
> networks including the Commodore's Staff Aides ("CS Aides"), the
> Flag Bureaus ("FB"), the Commodore's Messengers Organization ("CMO"),
> the Flag Banking Officers ("FBOs), the L. Ron Hubbard Communicators
> ("LRH Comms"), the Flag Operation and Liaison Offices ("FOLOs") and
> the Guardian Office ("GO"). Under Hubbard, Mary Sue Hubbard, as the
> "Controller" ran the GO, which dealt with Scientology's
> non-Scientologist contacts and public, and included the organization's
> finance, public relations, legal and intelligence activities.
>
> 11. During my years on board, I held the positions of
> "Storesman," "Boats and Transport In-Charge," "Legal Officer," "Public
> Relations Officer" and "Intelligence Officer." I gained knowledge of
> organization communication and command channels, operations, personnel
> and security. During those years, the ship operation and all personnel
> maintained an intelligence cover of, and pretended to be, "Operation
> and Transport Corporation" ("OTC"), a Panamanian business management
> company. All personnel were required to hide the fact and deny that we
> were Scientologists or had anything to do with Scientology. Any
> failure to maintain our OTC "shore story" or cover, or any disclosure
> of any connection to Scientology was a "security breach,"
> considered "treason," and severely punished.
>
> 12. I also gained knowledge of Hubbard's and Scientology's
> worldview, aims, and "Ethics," which is the organization's system of
> rewards and punishment, including its "Suppressive Person" ("SP")
> doctrine and "Fair Game" policy. In their worldview, Hubbard and
> Scientology divide mankind into two groups, Scientologists and non-
> Scientologists, called "wogs." The term "wogs," in its original
> meaning, and in its present meaning outside of Scientology, is a
> racial epithet equivalent to "niggers." Inside Scientology, "wogs" is
> also a racial epithet, referring to "Homo sapiens." Hubbard and
> Scientology teach that wogs or Homo sapiens are an inferior race, also
> described derogatorily in Scientology teachings as "homo sap," "raw
> meat," or "common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoids."
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that Scientologists comprise a new and
> superior race of hominid called "Homo Novis" or "Homo Scientologicus."
>
> 13. Hubbard and Scientology teach that wogs are less aware, less
> intelligent and less ethical than Scientologists, and that wogs think
> in two dimensions, whereas Scientologists think in three dimensions.
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that wogs have never evolved a workable
> mental technology but only vicious technology, whereas Scientologists
> have in Scientology the only workable mental technology. Hubbard and
> Scientology teach that outside of Scientology is the "wog world,"
> which is a "hell," and a "jungle of noncompliance and false reports."
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that "wog justice" is "injustice" and
> that only Scientology's "ethics and justice" system works.
>
> 14. Hubbard and Scientology teach that Suppressive Persons, or
> SPs:
>
> - are the two and one-half percent most evil wogs in the world;
> - are insane;
>
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>
> - are psychotic;
> - are criminal;
> - are destructively antisocial;
> - are committing hidden crimes continuously;
> - are dramatizing the overt or covert but always complex and
> continuous determination to destroy;
> - goof up or vilify any effort to help anybody and particularly
> knife with violence anything calculated to make human beings more
> powerful or intelligent;
> - automatically will curve any betterment activity into something
> evil or bad;
> - are the only thing wrong in this universe;
> - are at the root of every bad condition;
> - can have no friends;
> - include Hitler, Stalin, Dillinger and Genghis Khan;
> - fill the institutions with victims, the hospitals with the sick
> and the graveyards with the dead;
> - are the only people who do not get gains from Scientology
> auditing therapy;
> - are without any rights of any kind and actions taken against
> them are not punishable.
>
> 15. Hubbard and Scientology teach that it is acceptable, ethical,
> and in fact laudable, for Scientologists to take aggressive,
> antisocial and even criminal actions against SPs.
> Hubbard called this philosophy, policy and practice "Fair Game." In
> one of his "ethics" policy letters, which is commonly known as the
> "Fair Game Policy," Hubbard laid out how people declared to be SPs
> were to be dealt with.
>
> ENEMY -- SP Order. 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.
>
> HCO Policy Letter 18 October 1967, "Penalties for Lower Conditions"
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-penalties-for-lower-conds.h
tml
>
> 16. Hubbard and Scientology taught that anyone connected to a
> Suppressive Person is a "Potential Trouble Source" ("PTS"), so called
> because he is going to make trouble for the organization. They taught
> that connection to an SP is the cause of all illness, and that
> a PTS will get better then get worse because of that connection. A
> person determined to be PTS was denied auditing and training and
> removed from certain organization positions until he had "handled" the
> SP he was connected to or "disconnected" from the SP. Scientology has
> claimed throughout the past thirty-five years that "disconnection" is
> not a practice of the organization, but it definitely was and
> continues to be.
>
> 17. The "Suppressive Person Doctrine," "Fair Game," "conditions"
> -- such as "liability," "enemy" and "treason" -- and penalties or
> punishment are part of the body of Scientology writings and practice
> called "Ethics." The other two sectors are "technology," or "tech,"
> and "administration," or "admin." "Tech" generally refers to
>
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>
> "auditing," which is Scientology's psychotherapy, and "training,"
> which is the provision of courses to teach students in Scientology
> materials and procedures. "Admin" generally refers to the management
> of organizations and the "technology" of management, including
> recruitment, advertising, marketing, selling, personnel, communication
> systems, finance and productivity control.
>
> 18. "Ethics" was considered the most vital of the three sectors
> of Scientology, and was administered very rigidly. The Sea Org's
> stated purpose was "To get in Ethics on the planet," and the SO
> operated on a military-like system with military-like discipline.
> Command lines ran down from Hubbard as the Commodore and compliance
> lines ran up to him. Non-compliance with any order from any senior
> staff member was immediately punished with a minimum of a "liability
> condition" assignment, and could be considered "mutiny." "Liability"
> meant that the person assigned that condition had "taken on the
> color of the enemy," so he was ostracized, had to do an "amends
> project" consisting of many hours of extra work, had to "deliver an
> effective blow to the enemies" and then had to petition the group to
> be readmitted.
>
> 19. Organization Ethics personnel used the E-meter to perform
> "meter checks" on staff to determine if they were "out-ethics;" e.g.,
> committing "overts" (the Scientology word for "crimes") against the
> organization, "counter-intention" to the organization, or a "security
> risk" to the organization. Auditors used the E-meter as a lie detector
> to perform "security checks," or "sec checks," on staff or public
> Scientologists to discover their overts or crimes, their sexual
> histories, incidents from their past that might be embarrassing, or
> incidents for which they could be prosecuted or blackmailed. What a
> person being audited or sec checked said was written down in detail,
> and this record was maintained by the organization in "auditing
> files," "ethics files" and "intelligence files."
>
> 20. In 1974, Hubbard created the "Rehabilitation Project Force"
> ("RPF"), a guarded labor detail or camp, where Sea Org personnel were
> summarily ordered for indefinite periods for any infraction or on any
> whim. Hubbard's published criteria, any one of which could result in
> assignment to the RPF were: 1. an "R/Ser;" 2. a "low OCA non-
> producer;" 3. a "repeated stat crasher;" or, 4. an "overt product
> maker." An "R/Ser" is a person on whom an auditor observes a "Rock
> Slam," a particular needle movement on the E-meter, during auditing or
> sec checking. An R/S meant that the person had an "evil intention"
> toward Hubbard or Scientology.
>
> 21. The "OCA," or "Oxford Capacity Analysis," is a "personality
> test" that Scientology uses as a recruitment device to draw people
> into the organization, and as a measurement of people's personality
> "improvement" as they progress on their "auditing programs." A "low
> OCA" is a test score with one or more points below an arbitrary line.
> A "stat crasher" is a person deemed to be responsible for a statistic
> dropping in an area, or project or on an organization post. All of
> Scientology is operated and controlled by a system of "statistics" or
> "stat management." Every person and post is "statistized" and
> must report stats daily and weekly. "Downstats" are punished, whereas
> "upstats" can to a degree protect a person from punishment. An "overt
> product maker" is a person whose
>
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>
> work contains errors, whose production is deemed unacceptable for some
> reason, or requires correction or repair.
>
> 22. People ordered to the RPF were subjected to a number of
> punitive and degrading conditions that included segregation from the
> "crew," restriction from crew areas, wearing black boiler suits,
> reduction in "pay" to one-quarter the base amount, not speaking to a
> crew member unless spoken to, having to run everywhere, doing hard
> manual labor and all the dirtiest work, getting a maximum of seven
> hours sleep, and eating after the crew whatever was left over. RPFers
> had to audit each other through a long auditing program that contained
> many hours of sec checking, and which could last for months or even
> years. RPFers had no free time, got no days off, and could not read
> newspapers or magazines, listen to radio, or watch TV. RPFers could
> not make telephone calls unless such were specifically ordered and
> monitored, and Ethics personnel read all mail RPFers received, and
> read and censored all mail RPFers sent out from the RPF.
>
> 23. Scientology claims that assignment to the RPF is voluntary,
> or even a privilege, but that is not true. Anyone who asked to leave
> instead of doing the RPF program was assigned to the "RPF's RPF," an
> even more degrading and punitive experience, where the person was
> guarded at all times, allowed only six hours sleep, docked all pay,
> had to eat after the RPF had eaten whatever they left, and did the
> filthiest of the dirty work. The RPF's RPF member could not leave, and
> in fact no Sea Org member could leave, until he had been intensely sec
> checked and had signed a list of his "crimes" that had been "culled"
> from his auditing files. Also before the person could leave, all his
> personal belongings were searched and he was stripped of any
> Scientology materials, even if he had personally purchased them.
>
> 24. The RPF and the RPF's RPF operated as a forced labor and
> reindoctrination camp and as a system and procedure to break the will
> of anyone thought to be "out ethics" or "counter intention" to Hubbard
> or his organization and activities. It was a shocking, degrading
> experience to be ordered to the RPF, and the threat of RPF
> assignment was used to keep non-RPF crew in line and producing. I was
> threatened several times with RPF assignment during my SO years, and
> assigned twice for a total of twenty-five months.
>
> 25. Hubbard and Scientology taught that the need for the severe
> "Ethics" penalties and conditions such as the RPF was because for the
> "technology" to work it was first necessary to "get in ethics."
> Hubbard and Scientology taught that since the "tech" was
> mankind's only hope for survival, it was necessary that the people
> using and delivering that "tech" be highly disciplined and ethical.
> Hubbard and Scientology taught that:
> "The purpose of ethics is to remove counter intentions from the
> environment. And having accomplished that the purpose becomes to
> remove other intentionedness from the environment."
> In other words, anyone or anything that was "counter intention" to
> Scientology's intentions or activities, and anyone with an intention
> that differed from the organization's intentions was unethical and was
> to be removed from the environment.
>
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>
> Hubbard laid down Scientology's intentions by order and as policy, and
> his intentions were forwarded and opposition removed down through the
> organizational hierarchy.
>
> 26. In the fall of 1975, almost all of the "Flagship Apollo's"
> crew left the ship and flew from the Caribbean to the U.S. to
> establish the "Flag Land Base" ("FLB") in Clearwater, Florida. A
> skeleton crew was left on board to maintain and sell the ship. The
> organization's equipment, files and other materiel were shipped by
> containers to Florida and brought to Clearwater. The majority of the
> non-U.S. citizens went to Daytona Beach to set up a temporary base in
> a leased motel, and the majority of the U.S. citizens went to
> Clearwater to clean up and renovate buildings the organization had
> purchased to set up the FLB. Hubbard and his immediate personal staff
> lived during this period in a Daytona Beach apartment building not far
> from the temporary base. In early December 1975, the Daytona Beach
> operation moved into the Clearwater buildings, and Hubbard and an
> expanded personal staff moved into a vacant apartment complex in
> Dunedin, Florida, just a few miles from Clearwater.
>
> 27. Upon my arrival at the Daytona Beach base, I was posted in
> the Guardian's Office Intelligence Bureau, coding and decoding GO
> telexes, gathering information locally in areas of concern to base
> operation and our beachhead in Florida, and compiling information on
> potential security risks among the crew, and among customers arriving
> for auditing or training. My then wife Terri was posted as Commanding
> Officer of the Commodore's Messenger Organization ("CO CMO"), and
> worked directly with Hubbard. After a few weeks, Mary Sue Hubbard
> decided that I was a security risk because my mother was "antagonistic
> to Scientology" and Mrs. Hubbard had me transferred out of the
> Intelligence Bureau. I spent a number of days typing and printing
> mission orders that Hubbard was writing that ordered and operated
> various missions, projects or phases concerning the base being
> established in Clearwater. I was then assigned to L. Ron Hubbard's
> External Communications Bureau ("LEC"), posted as Deputy LEC Aide, and
> sent to the Dunedin apartment complex to set up an office for the
> LEC Bureau.
>
> 28. Until into 1976, Scientology hid its purchase of the
> Clearwater properties, and the fact that it was Scientology and
> Scientologists operating in Clearwater, behind a cover organization
> called "United Churches of Florida" ("UCF"). The FLB crew, as well as
> people arriving for auditing and training, were required to hide from
> public view any jewelry, insignia, mimeographed issues, books or other
> literature that might identify them as Scientologists, or the
> operation as Scientology, and it was an act of "treason" to
> commit any security breach that might reveal what was going on. The
> cover was eventually blown because of official scrutiny from the city
> government, media investigations and security lapses.
>
> 29. I was on post as D/LEC Aide at the Dunedin apartment complex,
> which had the cover of "United Churches Extension" ("UCE"), until late
> May 1976. I coded and decoded L. Ron Hubbard's telex traffic, and
> handled his dispatch traffic and mail to and from Scientology
> organizations around the world. Hubbard continued to run all aspects
>
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>
> of the global Scientology enterprise, and directly ordered and
> supervised activities at the Clearwater base, including GO legal,
> media, PR and intelligence actions.
>
> 30. In about February 1976, the UCE cover was blown and Hubbard
> and his location were identified in the local press. As a result, he
> fled by car from Dunedin with two crew, including my senior, the LEC
> Aide, and eventually hid out for four months in a secret location in
> Washington, D.C. During these months, I relayed Hubbard's telex and
> dispatch traffic from Scientology organizations around the world via
> UCE to the Washington, D.C. hideout, and relayed his telex and
> dispatch traffic via UCE to the FLB and to organizations
> internationally. I also was required to participate in creating the
> illusion for organization personnel that Hubbard was still in Dunedin,
> and creating the illusion for non-organization persons that Hubbard
> was outside the U.S.
>
> 31. In May 1976 I was sent on a mission to establish a staging
> area in an apartment complex in Culver City, California for Hubbard
> and his personal staff in anticipation of their moving to a new secret
> base then being purchased in La Quinta, California. I drove by car
> along with three CMO personnel from Dunedin to Culver City and set up
> an office and telex relay unit in the apartment complex. Mrs. Hubbard
> and her personal staff arrived within a few days, and L. Ron Hubbard
> and the SO personnel traveling with him arrived a day or so later.
>
> 32. Within a few days of Hubbard's arrival, I got into an
> argument with Mrs. Hubbard's "Communicator," or secretary. Hubbard
> deemed me a security risk, and ordered the head of the U.S. GO
> Intelligence Bureau to come to the apartment and drive me to the Los
> Angeles Intelligence Bureau offices then located in a building called
> the Fifield Manor. For the next approximately three weeks I was locked
> up in a small room with Intelligence Bureau staff members posted to
> guard me at all times, and I was kept under guard whenever I was
> allowed out of the room to go to the bathroom or for other needs.
> While locked up, I was required to write up "confessions" of my
> overts, or crimes, and critical thoughts about Hubbard and the
> organization. Toward the end of that period, my wife Terri arrived
> from Florida and was also locked up and guarded with me.
>
> 33. In the beginning of July, Hubbard ordered Terri and me to
> return to Florida by plane accompanied by two GO Intelligence
> personnel as guards. Upon our arrival at the Flag Land Base we were
> shown a telex from Hubbard ordering us to the RPF, and a "Flag
> Conditions Order" announcing our assignment was issued.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fco-4517-rpf-assignments.html
> Initially, we were the only RPF members in Clearwater. Within a few
> days, more FLB crew began to be assigned, and over the next seventeen
> months until I graduated the RPF complement grew to about eighty.
>
> 34. During the majority of those months, I was the RPF Bosun, the
> most senior RPF member. At one point, I was demoted from the Bosun
> post, and Terri was demoted from the "Master at Arms" ("MAA") post,
> the second in command of the RPF, for "out ethics."
>
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>
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ed-81-rpf-bosun.html We
> were both also assigned an extra month in the RPF as punishment for
> "criminal neglect" and "slackness."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/eo-24-addl-rpf-duty.html
> After about four months, I was reposted as Bosun, and kept that post
> until I "graduated" at the beginning of December 1977.
>
> 35. As the Bosun, I acquired knowledge of RPF policies,
> punishments and other practices. I was required to detain people
> against their will, prevent them from leaving, keep them under guard,
> force them to perform hard labor as punishment without pay, subject
> them to invasive and coercive interrogations, and force them to sign
> lists of their "crimes" extracted from their auditing files. I was
> required to forcibly separate RPF members from spouses and children,
> cut them off from information in the outside world, and enforce the
> idea that they were "criminals." The RPF was a degrading experience
> that violated people's civil rights and human dignity.
>
> 36. I was also required to participate in deceiving local
> officials, people's families and the whole world about conditions in
> the RPF and about violations of local housing and safety regulations.
> On a number of occasions while I was in the Clearwater RPF, we
> received advanced warnings of official inspections and the whole of
> the RPF complement were required to hide the fact that approximately
> forty people were sleeping in an unventilated storage room, and more
> were sleeping in a parking garage. We were required to hide the fact
> that the RPF "course room" was in the same unventilated storage space,
> and we were required to cover all our mattresses, clothing and course
> materials with sheets or blankets to make the space appear to be used
> for storage. We were required to delay any punishments of RPF members
> until the inspectors had left, and we were required to move any RPF's
> RPF details out of any area that might be inspected.
>
> 37. In July 1977, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
> raided Scientology's GO Intelligence Bureaus in Los Angeles and
> Washington D.C. as a result of an organization intelligence operative
> informing the FBI about illegal activities. Eleven intelligence
> personnel were subsequently charged with Federal crimes, nine of whom,
> including Mary Sue Hubbard, were found guilty of one plea-bargained
> felony count after a non-jury trial based on an October 1979
> Stipulation of Evidence.
> http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/legal/legal.htm The remaining two GO
> personnel were tried and found guilty of nine counts of aiding and
> abetting second degree burglaries. All eleven were ultimately fined
> and incarcerated in Federal prisons. At least thirty-four other
> Scientologists, including L. Ron Hubbard, were named as unindicted co-
> conspirators. The Scientologist informant was granted protective
> custody by the U.S. Marshals Service.
>
> 38. The illegal activities detailed in the Stipulation of
> Evidence included infiltrating and burglarizing U.S. Federal offices,
> theft from those offices, buggings, forging of official identification
> cards, making false statements before a grand jury, cover-up of
> crimes, harboring and concealing a fugitive, and kidnapping. Offices
> infiltrated or burglarized by the Scientology operatives included the
> Intelligence Division of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S.Department of
> Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug
>
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>
> Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Courthouse for the District of
> Columbia, the U.S. Post Office, the Labor Department's National
> Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of the Treasury,
> the U.S. Customs Building, U.S. Attorney's office, and private law
> firms. The Scientology operatives' plans also included the penetration
> of on e hundred thirty-six additional government agencies including
> the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the CIA, the Executive
> Office of the U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, and a number of U.S. Embassies
> and Consulates abroad.
>
>
> 39. The Sentencing Memorandum dated December 16, 1980 filed in
> case of the two separately tried Scientology officials provides the
> Government's view of the organization's criminal conspiracy, its "fair
> game doctrine," and its campaign to destroy its "enemies'" civil
> rights.
>
> [The Scientology conspirators] challenged and attempted to undermine
> the judicial and governmental structure of the United States.
> [...].
> Thus, they perpetrated a fraud upon the American judicial system.
> [...].
> These crimes included: the infiltration and theft of documents from a
> number of prominent private, national, and world organizations, law
> firms, newspapers, and private citizens; the execution of smear
> campaigns and baseless law suits for the sole purpose of destroying
> private individuals who had attempted to exercise their First
> Amendment rights to freedom of expression; the framing of private
> citizens who had been critical of Scientology, including the forging
> of documents which led to the indictment of at least one innocent
> person; and violation of the civil rights of prominent private
> citizens and public officials.
> [...]
> [T]hese documents establish beyond question that the defendants, their
> convicted co-defendants, and their unindicted co-conspirators, as well
> as
> their organization, considered themselves above the law. They believed
> that they had carte blanche to violate the rights of others, frame
> critics in order to destroy them, burglarize private and public
> 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 exercising the First Amendment rights secured them by the
> Constitution. The defendants and their cohorts launched vicious smear
> campaigns, spreading falsehoods against those they perceived to be
> enemies of Scientology in order to discredit them and, in some
> instances, to cause them to lose their employment.
> [...]
> To these defendants and their associates, however, anyone who did not
> agree with them was considered to be an enemy against whom the so-
> called "fair game doctrine" could be invoked. Allard v. Church of
> Scientology of California, [58 Cal. App. 3d 439, 129 Cal. Rptr. 797
> (Ct.
>
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>
> App, 1976), cert denied, 97 S. Ct. 1101 (1977)]. That doctrine
> provides that anyone perceived to be an enemy of Scientology or a
> "suppressive person," "[m]ay be deprived of property or injured by any
> means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the
> Scientologist. [He m]ay be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." Id.
> This policy, together with the actions of these defendants who
> represent the very top leadership of the Church of Scientology, bring
> into question their claim that their Church prohibited the commission
> of illegal acts.
> [...]
> The defendants directed and encouraged a number of covert operations
> against private individuals and public officials to destroy and
> discredit these persons because they had either attempted to exercise
> their First Amendment rights by criticizing Scientology or by
> attempting to carry out their duties as public officials.
> [...]
> That these defendants were willing to frame their critics to the point
> of giving false testimony under oath against them, and having them
> arrested and indicted speaks legion for their disdain for the rule of
> law. Indeed, they arrogantly placed themselves above the law meting
> out their personal brand of punishment to those "guilty" of opposing
> their selfish aims. ¶The crimes committed by these defendants is of a
> breadth and scope previously unheard. No building, office, desk, or
> files was safe from their snooping and prying. No individual or
> organization was free from their despicable scheming and warped minds.
> [...]
> These defendants rewarded criminal activities that ended in success
> and sternly rebuked those that failed. The standards of human conduct
> embodied in such practices represent no less than the absolute
> perversion of any known ethical value system. In view of this, it
> defies the imagination that these defendants have the unmitigated
> audacity to seek to defend their actions in the name of "religion."
> That these defendants now attempt to hide behind the sacred principles
> of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to privacy --
> which principles they repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to violate
> with impunity -- adds insult to the injuries which they have inflicted
> on every element of society. ¶These defendants, their co-conspirators,
> their organization, and any other individual or group that might
> consider committing similar crimes, must be given a clear and
> convincing message: criminal activities of the types engaged in here
> shall not be tolerated by our society.
>
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/writings/usa-v-kember-budlong-sentencing-me
mo-1980-01-72.pdf
>
> 40. At the end of December 1977, Terri and I were ordered to the
> secret Scientology base that had been established on some properties
> in La Quinta, California. Within a day of our arrival, Hubbard also
> arrived at the properties from Sparks, Nevada. He had fled from La
> Quinta in July 1977 at the time of the FBI raids on the GO's
>
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> Intelligence Bureaus, and had hidden out in Sparks with a very few
> personal staff Scientologists. When the GO determined that Hubbard
> would not be indicted in the Grand Jury investigation resulting from
> the FBI raid, it was considered that it was safe for him to return to
> the La Quinta base.
>
> 41. For the next approximately nine months, I worked in various
> positions on a Cinematography crew Hubbard had ordered be assembled at
> La Quinta to shoot Scientology training movies for which he had
> written the scripts. My posts included Set Builder, Assistant Camera,
> Lighting Grip, Location Scout, Sets In-Charge and Assistant
> Producer, and I acted in several of the films. The base personnel's
> initial "cover" for the people and activity on the properties was that
> we were all "friends of Norton Karno." Karno was an attorney who had
> worked for the GO, handled aspects of Hubbard's tax matters, and had
> been involved in the purchase of the La Quinta properties. When the
> movie making increased and started including night shoots, the Cine
> crew grew to about a hundred Sea Org members, and a studio was built
> on another property that had been purchased nearby in Indio, our cover
> was changed to "Perfect Pictures," a company producing "educational
> films."
>
> 42. Security was top priority at La Quinta, as it had been at the
> Dunedin, Florida and Culver City, California apartments where I had
> been with Hubbard. The location of the base was kept secret from our
> families, and even from almost all other Scientologists. In addition
> to my movie-making duties, for my first few months at La Quinta I also
> stood a shift every second day as a night guard outside Hubbard's
> residence. I had to stay perched in a tree, watch for anyone
> approaching the property, and alert a security unit and Hubbard's
> Messengers by radio if anyone did approach. I was drilled to deny I
> knew Hubbard, to refuse service of process, kick into the dirt any
> documents served, and delay anyone coming onto the property long
> enough so that Hubbard could make an escape in a car that was kept
> close by for that purpose.
>
> 43. In late September 1978, Hubbard got the idea that I, and five
> other Cine crew including Terri, were "joking" about his movie making,
> and he ordered all of us to the RPF unit that had been formed at the
> La Quinta base. I had not been "joking," and I requested a "Committee
> of Evidence," a Scientology "justice" procedure, to review my
> assignment. The "Committee" found me "guilty," however, and it took me
> another eight months to get "reprieved" and admitted back into regular
> crew.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/findings-recs-1978-10-04.html
> During most of my time in the RPF at La Quinta I worked on renovating
> Hubbard's residence, carpeting and tiling floors, painting rooms,
> cleaning and re-insulating the ducting, and laying brickwork for his
> walkways.
>
> 44. Around the time of my RPF assignment, the La Quinta cover was
> blown by some former crew members who went to the media about abuses
> at the base. As a result, Hubbard ordered another property purchased,
> a resort and golf course at Gilman Hotsprings, near Hemet, California,
> and he himself left the La Quinta base and hid out for some weeks in
> motels with a few personal staff. In early December 1978, the RPF
> members at La Quinta were ordered to Gilman Hotsprings, also known as
> the "Special
>
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> Unit," or "SU," to renovate and decorate a house that Hubbard had
> chosen for his residence, and to renovate and decorate offices for him
> on the property. Over the next several months, the RPF removed all old
> insulation from Hubbard's house, and re-insulated, rewired, replumbed,
> cleaned, painted, tiled, refurnished and redecorated it, and did the
> same for his offices.
>
> 45. In the spring of 1979, on the same day that I was reprieved
> from the RPF, my wife Terri announced to me that she had been ordered
> that either she divorce me or she could not continue to be a Messenger
> for Hubbard. She said that she had chosen Hubbard and that was the end
> of our relationship. I continued to work on renovating Hubbard's home,
> posted as the LRH Renovations In-Charge. In the summer of 1979, I
> was posted as the D/CO HU SU, the head of Hubbard's "Household Unit"
> at Gilman. My "juniors" included the LRH Steward, the LRH Carpenter,
> the LRH Groundsman, the LRH Electrician and the LRH Gear In-Charge,
> who was responsible for his personal belongings stored on the Gilman
> property.
>
> 46. During this period of time, Hubbard stayed with a number of
> Sea Org members on his personal staff in an apartment complex in
> Hemet. He came to the newly renovated and decorated house at Gilman on
> a number of occasion for clandestine meetings with Mrs. Hubbard or to
> supervise photographic shoots on the property. I was responsible for
> ensuring his home was clean and set up for his stay, and for his
> security arriving and leaving the Gilman base. Security for the entire
> base was top priority as it has been at La Quinta. Our initial "shore
> story" at Gilman was a fake organization called the "Scottish
> Highland Quietude Club." I had a cover name of "Gerald Amery," that
> had been arranged when I was in La Quinta, and I was given a "home
> address" in Los Angeles at a location I had never been to, but which
> was controlled by the GO.
>
> 47. At the beginning of 1980, the threat of an imminent raid by
> some law enforcement agency was announced by the CMO at Gilman.
> Everyone was required to go through all their documents and find and
> remove anything that showed Hubbard's control of Scientology, his
> control of organization monies, his ordering of staff at Gilman or
> staff anywhere to do anything, his having been at Gilman, or his
> intention to live there. A commercial paper shredder was rented and
> operated day and night for weeks to destroy hundreds of thousands, or
> millions, of pages of incriminating documents, and the shredded paper
> was removed from the property by truck.
>
> 48. During this shredding operation, the LRH Gear I/C came to me
> with a box of Hubbard's papers from his personal storage and asked me
> if they should be shredded. I determined that the papers were old
> letters, diaries and other records predating the Scientology
> organizations and without any value as evidence to whatever law
> enforcement agencies could conduct a raid. I determined that these old
> papers had historical value, however, so I moved them to Hubbard's
> Personal Public Relations Bureau ("LRH PPRO Bu"). I also went into
> Hubbard's storage, found several more boxes of his early papers, and
> moved these as well to the PPRO Bu.
>
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>
> 49. I then wrote a petition to Hubbard, informing him of the
> discovery of his old papers, and requesting to be posted in the PPRO
> Bu to handle research for his biography and related projects, which
> included a film of his life, a museum, and a "Nobel Prize Project"
> that Hubbard had ordered to have the Scientology organization get him
> a Nobel Prize. In my petition, I suggested that my duties would
> include collecting up Hubbard's documents, manuscripts and writings of
> any kind from around the world, interviewing people who had personal
> contact with Hubbard, and liaising with a biographer.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/historical/armstrong-pet-lrh-
1980-01-08.html
>
> 50. Hubbard approved my petition, I transferred to the PPRO Bu,
> and was posted as the LRH Biography Researcher, and LRH Archivist.
> Because of his fear of being served with subpoenas in then pending
> civil lawsuits and an approaching Tax Court trial, within about a
> month of my posting, Hubbard fled from the Hemet location along with
> two personal staff members, and went into deeper hiding. At the same
> time, because of a continuing fear that the Gilman Hotsprings property
> might be raided by law enforcement, most of Hubbard's personal staff,
> including the PPRO Bu, moved our files, equipment and operations to
> the Scientology Complex on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. It was
> felt that in the LA Complex we could blend in with other "lower level
> organization" Scientology staff members, and not be targeted in a
> raid.
>
> 51. During my first several months in LA in 1980, I was also
> assigned as "Mission Second," the Sea Org Missionaire under the
> "Mission In-Charge," on a mission for Hubbard called "Mission
> Corporate Category Sort-out" ("MCCS"), the purpose of which
> was to work out an organization strategy and corporate restructuring
> so that Hubbard could continue to control and direct the global
> Scientology enterprise but avoid legal accountability. As MCCS Second,
> I dealt with Hubbard's and the organization's attorneys and acquired a
> knowledge of then-existing legal problems, threats and illegalities.
> Because of attempts to serve Hubbard in various lawsuits, I was
> required to not admit to Scientologists or wogs that communications
> from the organization could be gotten to him. I knew this was untrue,
> however, and that he was in continual communication through his
> personal Scientology staff, and I sent him materials myself
> during this period.
>
> 52. In October 1980, one of Hubbard's attorneys arranged for a
> wog writer Omar Garrison to contract with a Scientology publishing
> company in Denmark to write Hubbard's biography. As called for in the
> contract, I became Garrison's research assistant, and worked with him
> in this capacity until I left the organization in December 1981. I set
> up an office for Garrison in the LA Scientology Complex, and provided
> him with office equipment and supplies. I provided him with
> approximately one hundred thousand pages of material from Hubbard's
> personal archive, scheduled interviews with Hubbard's family members
> and other people who had known him personally, and helped
> Garrison in answering his questions and in any way possible.
>
> 53. Throughout 1980 and 1981, I assembled an archive of
> approximately five hundred thousand pages of documentation covering
> Hubbard's family, education, writings,
>
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>
> military service, travels, accomplishments and other relevant parts of
> his history. I traveled to England, Florida, Washington, Oregon,
> Nevada, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Iowa, Kansas, British Columbia and
> Manitoba collecting biographical material, doing genealogy research or
> contacting Hubbard's relatives or former associates. On behalf of
> Scientology, I also purchased a number of people's collections of
> Hubbard-related documents and memorabilia. I purchased file cabinets
> and a photocopier, made bound volumes of document copies, and
> organized and filed originals and copies. I read and studied thousands
> of pages of Hubbard's personal records, many of them in his own
> handwriting.
>
> 54. Through this study of Hubbard's personal records I slowly
> came to the conclusion that he had lied about virtually every part of
> his life, and even in the statements he had made about himself, or had
> Scientology's representatives make about him, which had drawn me into
> the organization, and kept me laboring and subjected to frightful
> abuse all those years. I discovered and documented during the period
> when I possessed Hubbard's personal records that contrary to his
> representations, he:
>
> - was not a scientist;
> - was not an engineer;
> - was not a nuclear physicist;
> - did not have many degrees and was not very skilled by reason of
> study;
> - had not been crippled or blinded in the Second World War;
> - had not cured himself with his mental science;
> - had not been awarded twenty-one medals, including two purple hearts.
>
> Hubbard lied about his travels, his "expeditions," his family, his
> friends, his military service, his involvement in "black magic," his
> "research," his honesty, his "ethics," his intentions, wogs,
> Scientologists, and the promised results of Scientology.
>
> 55. Through my study of Hubbard's documents and his life, by the
> time I left Scientology in December 1981, I had also shed much of the
> brainwashing or programming about the "technology" and the
> organization with which I had been inculcated throughout my more than
> twelve years of involvement. I concluded that, contrary to Hubbard's
> and the organization's representations, Scientology:
>
> - was not mathematically precise and not an exact science, indeed was
> no science at all;
> - had not had a more grueling testing than all other subjects on earth
> except physics and chemistry;
> - was not based on Hubbard's scientific research;
> - does not work uniformly, and is not the only system on earth that
> works for improving the health, intelligence, ability, behavior, skill
> and appearance of people, indeed does not work for improving the
> health, intelligence, ability, behavior, skill and appearance of
> people;
> - does not produce the ability to handle any and all problems, indeed
> it causes terrible problems;
> - is not the most ethical organization on the planet, indeed it is an
> extremely unethical organization;
>
>
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>
> - is not the only hope for mankind's survival, indeed is no hope for
> mankind's survival but is a threat to survival;
> - did not do and could not do what it says.
>
>
> 56. By the time I left the organization, it was becoming obvious
> to me that I had been defrauded out of all the years I had served
> Hubbard and Scientology and the money I had paid and the effort I had
> made to obtain their promised results. I concluded that, contrary
> to Hubbard's and Scientology's representations, as a result of
> applying or being subjected to the application of their "technology:"
>
> - I had not improved in health, intelligence, ability, behavior or
> skill;
> - I did not have the ability to handle any problem;
> - having attained the state of "Clear," I did not have complete recall
> of everything that ever happened to me or anything I ever studied, I
> could not do mental computations and study anything in less than
> one-hundredth the time, or indeed any faster than, such computations
> or study took before "clearing," I still got colds, my vigor,
> persistence and tenacity to life were not higher than anyone had
> thought possible, my physical vitality was not markedly improved, and
> all psychosomatic illnesses had not vanished to never return;
> - Scientology "auditing" psychotherapy did not raise my IQ an average
> of a point per hour, indeed, after over a thousand hours of auditing,
> my IQ had not been raised even a single point.
>
> 57. Initially, during 1980, when I started to discover that
> Hubbard's own documents contradicted his published statements about
> his history, I "explained away" the discrepancies to myself, or held
> any judgment in abeyance, thinking that further research would resolve
> the discrepancies. I also remained completely devoted to Hubbard and
> to Scientology right up until I had no choice but to leave the
> organization. Gradually, however, I came to see that Hubbard was in
> fact lying, and I began to espouse the idea that for Scientology to
> succeed, for Hubbard to be able to come out of hiding, and for his
> work to be accepted legitimately, we Scientologists had to ourselves
> stop lying and stop disseminating Hubbard's lies.
>
> 58. In pursuit of this idea, I critiqued, edited or rewrote a
> number of public relations pieces about Hubbard, "about-the-author"
> sections of his books, or biographical sketches that Scientology was
> disseminating. I attempted to prevent the publication of new writings
> containing falsehoods, and to get the organization to remove earlier
> writings containing falsehoods from its literature. Some of the people
> responsible for these publications were grateful for my research and
> for my identification and correction of falsehoods they contained. A
> very senior executive close to Hubbard, however, Norman Starkey,
> became enraged because I was questioning and disproving Hubbard's
> claims. Starkey threatened me, and ordered that I be "sec checked" to
> find out what I had been saying that was critical of Hubbard, and what
> documents I had been giving to the biographer Garrison. I was able to
> talk my way out of the sec check, and wrote my concerns in a dispatch
> to the staff member who had been ordered to get me sec checked.
>
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>
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/historical/armstrong-ltr-cirr
us-1981-11-25.html
>
> 59. I had remarried in December 1980 to another SO staff member
> Joyce, and in October 1981 she transferred to the PPRO Bu to work with
> me on the Hubbard biography. Through her study of Hubbard's documents,
> Joyce also came to realize that he was lying about himself and about
> Scientology, and that the organization was publishing and
> disseminating his lies, and enforcing belief in those lies among
> Scientologists. It is strictly forbidden for Scientology staff
> members, even spouses, to discuss their criticisms of Hubbard or the
> organization; nevertheless, Joyce and I began to talk between
> ourselves about the lies we had discovered, about organization
> criminality, and about our fears of being found out and locked up or
> worse. During our final few weeks in the SO, we suspected that we were
> being electronically bugged, and we only discussed our criticisms,
> fears and plans while away from the Scientology property, or in
> our room in whispers with a radio turned up loud.
>
> 60. Omar Garrison also recognized that there was a huge
> discrepancy between what Hubbard and the organization had written and
> published about Hubbard's history and what was revealed in the source
> materials I was providing from his personal archive. Garrison had
> written three books about Scientology before undertaking the Hubbard
> biography, and came to realize that the organization personnel with
> whom he had dealt in writing the earlier books had provided him with
> false information. Garrison was determined that in the biography
> project he would not write a panegyric or anything untrue or
> unconscientious. He also understood that this determination to write
> the truth could bring him into conflict with the people running
> Scientology and responsible for the project, including with Hubbard
> himself.
>
> 61. After I was threatened by the senior executive and ordered to
> be sec checked about what I was saying about Hubbard, and because of
> our dawning awareness of organizational fraud and criminality, which
> we could no longer justify, Joyce and I decided to leave the SO and
> Scientology. Because of our fear that we would be forcibly
> detained, separated, locked up, sec checked, stripped of all our
> personal Scientology-related possessions, and forced to sign
> "confessions" of our "crimes," we knew that we could not announce our
> plan to leave, but had to escape. By this time I knew that sec
> checks were invasive, abusive interrogations to break people and
> obtain information with which to blackmail and control them, and I
> knew that I would never again submit to being sec checked by the
> Scientology organization.
>
> 62. I also knew that because of the knowledge I had of Hubbard's
> and his organization's lies, fraud and other criminal activities,
> because of the enormous security threat my leaving would be considered
> by organization leaders, and because of my determination to not submit
> to further abuse by Scientology and Scientologists, there was a very
> high likelihood that I would be murdered if anyone discovered my
> intention to leave. Over a two-week period, Joyce and I moved our
> small amount of personal effects out of our room and off the
> Scientology Complex property a bit at a time. On December
> 12, 1981 we borrowed one of Garrison's vehicles, carried our last
> personal belongings
>
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> out of the organization, delivered to Garrison a final batch of
> biography materials, and drove to Canada.
>
> 63. This was a very troubling time for Joyce and me because we
> had been lied to, abused and cheated out of so many years of our lives
> in Scientology, had no money, and now felt threatened for fair game.
> Nevertheless, we tried to make the best of our circumstances, to not
> become embittered, and to get on with our lives. At Garrison's
> request, because he still needed my help on the Hubbard biography
> project and offered me a job in his small publishing company, Joyce
> and I returned to California in early 1982 and got an apartment in
> Costa Mesa. Soon after our arrival, we both got jobs in a law firm in
> Newport Beach, where we worked until 1984. I continued to help
> Garrison, who also had an apartment with his wife in Costa Mesa, with
> various aspects of the biography project.
>
> 64. Very soon after our arrival back in California, because of
> communications with family and friends, Joyce and I knew that GO
> Intelligence Bu personnel were investigating us, and we picked up
> surveillance near our apartment. A few of the GO intel reports from
> that period are listed on this web page:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scientology-ops-docs.html
> E.g., http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/b1-dr-1982-02-22.html
> On February 18, 1982, Scientology published a "Suppressive Person
> Declare" on me for the "high crimes" of leaving the SO and leaving
> Scientology, and for "spreading destructive rumours" about Hubbard.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare.html
>
> 65. By the time that Scientology issued its SP Declare on me, I
> knew that such publications were instruments of the organization's
> policy and practice of "black propaganda," or "black PR," which is
> itself a key component of fair game. Hubbard defined black PR as:
>
> - the destroying of the reputation or public belief in persons,
> companies or nations;
> - a common tool of agencies who are seeking to destroy real or fancied
> enemies or seek dominance in some field;
> - using slander or lies to weaken or destroy;
> - using imagination in order to degrade or vilify or discredit an
> existing or fancied image.
>
> Suppressive Person Declares are used by Scientology to degrade or
> vilify a person whom organization leaders consider an "enemy" and want
> to destroy. SP Declares are an instrument in a campaign to destroy a
> target's reputation among all Scientologists and to create an
> atmosphere in which further fair gaming of the target becomes
> laudable.
>
> 66. Hubbard stated in one of his policy directives that labeling
> someone an "SP" "is a kind action." By the time I left the Sea Org,
> however, I knew that Hubbard's statement is utterly false, a
> justification for antisocial and criminal actions toward SPs pursuant
> to black PR and fair game, and actually a further act of cruelty
> toward people labeled "SP."
>
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>
> By that time, I knew that the people Scientology was declaring,
> labeling and targeting as "Suppressive Persons" were:
>
> - not the two and one-half percent most evil wogs in the world;
> - not insane;
> - not psychotic;
> - not criminal;
> - not destructively antisocial;
> - not committing hidden crimes continuously;
> - not dramatizing the overt or covert but always complex and
> continuous determination to destroy;
> - not goofing up or vilifying any effort to help anybody and
> particularly knifing with violence anything calculated to make human
> beings more powerful or intelligent;
> - not automatically curving any betterment activity into something
> evil or bad;
> - not the only thing wrong in this universe;
> - not at the root of every bad condition;
> - not incapable of having friends;
> - not in a class with Hitler, Stalin, Dillinger and Genghis Khan;
> - not filling the institutions with victims, the hospitals with the
> sick and the graveyards with the dead;
> - not the only people who do not get gains from Scientology auditing
> therapy; and, - not without any rights of any kind.
>
>
> 67. By the time I left the SO, I knew that the threat of being
> labeled an "SP" was used inside the organization to terrify and
> control Scientologists, and was a greater threat even than being
> RPFed. There was no real recourse to being declared an SP, because it
> meant that the declared person was in a class of people whose
> condition, according to Scientology teaching, cannot be changed, just
> as many other conditions or handicaps or a person's race cannot be
> changed. Scientologists used the label of SP very frequently, and
> people in my own life, including in my own family, were identified to
> me as SPs. Because Scientology taught that SPs cause all illness,
> every time an organization member became ill, it was necessary to
> "find the SP" to whom he was connected and "disconnect" from that SP.
> It was a "high crime" for any Scientologist to remain connected to an
> SP, and punishable with being "declared" oneself. Hubbard's SP
> doctrine, policies and practices and their enforcement by Scientology
> brought Scientologists to hate, fear and fair game SPs, who were in
> truth generally ordinary, decent, loving human beings.
>
> 68. In April 1982, Scientology leaders set up a "sting" purchase
> of three sets of photographs of Hubbard and other people in the Sea
> Org that were owned by two other former SO members and me. When I
> delivered the photos to the "purchaser" to examine before the "sale,"
> Scientology personnel seized two of the sets. I went into the Los
> Angeles Complex along with Joyce and Mr. and Mrs. Garrison and
> demanded return of the photos stolen from me and the other ex-SO
> members. The Scientology personnel to
>
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>
> whom I spoke refused to return the photos, and my ex-wife Terri told
> me as a threat to get a lawyer.
>
> 69. Within a few days of Scientology's theft of the photos, I
> contacted Boston, Massachusetts lawyer Michael J. Flynn, whom I knew
> to be representing a number of people in lawsuits against the
> organization. A few days after that, Flynn flew me to Tampa, Florida
> and had me driven to Clearwater where he and a number of his clients
> were participating in a hearing into Scientology being conducted by
> local government officials. I told Flynn about my history,
> circumstances and the threat I was experiencing, and he agreed to
> represent me against the organization.
>
> 70. On April 22, 1982 Scientology published another SP Declare on
> me, this time charging me falsely with eighteen additional "crimes" or
> "high crimes," including theft, reselling organizational material for
> private gain, submitting false purchase orders and willful loss or
> destruction of organization property.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare-rev.html
> In its SP Declare, Scientology also falsely claimed that I was
> promulgating false information about Scientology, Hubbard and
> Scientologists, creating and transmitting erroneous information under
> the guise of "documentation," falsifying reports, and altering
> documents.
>
> 71. Upon receiving this second SP Declare, I was shocked and
> terrified because of the blatant lies about me it contained and
> because it signaled that Scientology was going to go all out to
> destroy my reputation, credibility and life. I therefore asked Omar
> Garrison for copies of documents that I believed I would need to
> defend myself legally and to demonstrate that what I had been
> promulgating was true information about Hubbard and Scientology, that
> my reports were not false, and the Hubbard documents were not altered.
> Garrison was himself fearful that Scientology would steal the
> documents I had provided to him for the Hubbard biography, so had
> already copied much of the documentation and stored the duplicate
> documents away from his home. He agreed that I could have whatever
> documents I believed were necessary to defend my wife and me and
> disprove the black PR on me that Scientology was promulgating.
>
> 72. After obtaining the documents from Garrison, I sent them to
> Flynn in Boston and to the law firm of Contos & Bunch in Woodland
> Hills, California, who had also agreed to represent me as Flynn's
> co-counsel. During this period, I also began to write declarations
> concerning my experiences inside Scientology and my knowledge of
> Hubbard's lies and organization fraud and criminality. These
> declarations would be used by civil litigants against Scientology and
> by law enforcement agencies in their investigations of the
> organization. E.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1982-07-22.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/affi-1982-07-26.html
>
> 73. In August 1982, using the corporation Church of Scientology
> of California ("CSC") as plaintiff, the organization filed a lawsuit
> against me in Los Angeles Superior Court, Case No. C 420153, alleging
> conversion of the biography documents and breach of fiduciary duty.
> Mary Sue Hubbard intervened, alleging conversion and invasion of
>
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>
> privacy. I filed a cross-complaint for fraud, intentional infliction
> of emotional distress, libel, breach of contract, and tortious
> interference with contract. In September, the Court ordered that the
> documents I had obtained from Garrison and sent to my attorneys be
> delivered to the Clerk of the LA Superior Court for keeping during the
> litigation.
>
> 74. From at least July to September 1982, Scientology hired a
> number of private investigators or other agents to spy on, harass,
> threaten and terrorize my wife and me. Acts by organization agents
> during this period include:
>
> - physical assault, by being struck and pushed around;
> - getting in my wife's and my space and face in an intimidating
> manner;
> - coming onto our property;
> - frightening our neighbors;
> - spying on and frightening our law firm co-workers;
> - running into me bodily with a car;
> - terrorizing us on a highway by getting in front of us and slamming
> on the brakes, and then coming alongside and into our lane to push us
> off the road;
> - following us in an intimidating manner wherever we went for days on
> end.
>
> 75. While the civil litigation proceeded, Scientology attempted
> to get the Los Angeles Police Department to bring criminal charges
> against me, falsely claiming that I had stolen the documents, which I
> had provided Garrison pursuant to the contract drafted by Hubbard's
> attorney. Also during this period, beginning soon after I left the SO,
> the organization's intelligence bureau ran an operation to get a
> Scientology operative, a writer named Dan Sherman, to pretend to
> befriend me and get close to me. See, e.g., step15 in the GO
> Intelligence Bureau's "Armstrong Project" dated February 17, 1982:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gerry-armstrong-project.html
>
> 76. Not long after the "Armstrong Project" started, Scientology's
> Guardian's Office intelligence functions were taken over by renamed
> organization components Office of Special Affairs ("OSA") and
> Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), and Sherman continued to be
> operated against me by OSA and RTC. He wrote me a number of letters
> and met me on a number of occasions, pretending to be antipathetic to
> organization management and supportive of me and the stand I had taken
> against organization fraud and abuses. He fooled me completely into
> believing he was an actual friend who actually liked me.
>
> 77. In the spring of 1984, a thirty-day bench trial of
> Scientology's and Mrs. Hubbard's complaints took place, presided over
> by LA Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. My
> cross-complaint had been severed from the complaints and was not
> tried. On June 20, 1984 Judge Breckenridge issued a Memorandum of
> Intended Decision, which became the Judgment in the case on August 18,
> 1984.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html
> Judge Breckenridge ruled against Scientology and Mrs. Hubbard, finding
> that I had organization authorization to provide Garrison with the
> documents from Hubbard's
>
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>
> archive, and that I was justified in obtaining documents from Garrison
> and sending them to my attorneys to defend my wife, myself and my
> reputation from fair game.
>
> 78. Judge Breckenridge was highly critical of Scientology for its
> fair game doctrine and of Hubbard for his lying and tyranny.
>
> In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the
> organization over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed
> and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as
> enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and
> this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH.
> The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar
> when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The
> writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism,
> greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness
> against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.
>
> 79. Judge Breckenridge condemned the organization's practice of
> "culling" Scientologists' supposedly confidential "auditing files."
>
> [Mrs. Hubbard] was the head of the Guardian Office for years and among
> other things, authored the infamous order "GO 121669" which directed
> culling of supposedly confidential P.C. files/folders for purposes of
> internal security.
> [...]
> The Douglasses and Dincalcises were disaffected Scientologists who had
> a concern for their own safety and mental security, and were much in
> the same situation as defendant. They had not been declared as
> suppressive, but Scientology had their P.C. folders, as well as other
> confessions, and they were extremely apprehensive.
> [...]
> The court is satisfied that [Defendant Armstrong] did not unreasonably
> intrude upon Mrs. Hubbard's privacy under the circumstances by in
> effect simply making his knowledge that of his attorneys. It is, of
> course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. order 121669
> should complain about an invasion of privacy. The practice of culling
> supposedly confidential "P.C. folders or files" to obtain information
> for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant and
> outrageous. The Guardian's Office, which plaintiff headed, was no
> respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy.
>
> 80. Judge Breckenridge also commented on the activities of the
> individuals Scientology had hired to harass my wife and me, and on the
> organization's effort to prevent one of my witnesses from testifying.
>
> After the within suit was filed on August 2, 1982, Defendant Armstrong
> was the subject of harassment, including being followed and surveilled
> by individuals who admitted employment by Plaintiff; being assaulted
> by one of these individuals; being struck bodily by a car driven by
> one of these
>
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>
> individuals; having two attempts made by said individuals apparently
> to involve Defendant Armstrong in a freeway automobile accident;
> having said individuals come onto Defendant Armstrong's property, spy
> in his windows, create disturbances, and upset his neighbors. During
> trial when it appeared that Howard Schomer (a former Scientologist)
> might be called as a defense witness, the Church engaged in a somewhat
> sophisticated effort to suppress his testimony. It is not clear how
> the Church became aware of defense intentions to call Mr. Schomer as a
> witness, but it is abundantly clear they sought to entice him back
> into the fold and prevent his testimony.
>
> 81. Judge Breckenridge ruled that my attorneys and I were "free
> to speak or communicate upon any of [my] recollections of [my] life as
> a Scientologist or the contents of any exhibit received in evidence or
> marked for identification." And concerning the documents held by the
> Court Clerk, the Judge ruled:
>
> As to the equitable actions, the court finds that neither plaintiff
> has clean hands, and that at least as of this time, are not entitled
> to the immediate return of any document or objects previously retained
> by the court clerk. All exhibits received in evidence or marked for
> identification, unless specifically ordered sealed, are matters of
> public record and shall be available for public inspection or use to
> the same extent that any exhibit would be available in any other
> lawsuit.
> ...
> All other documents or objects presently in the possession of the
> clerk [ ] shall be retained by the clerk, subject to the same orders
> as are presently in effect as to sealing and inspection, until such
> time as trial court proceedings are concluded as to the severed cross
> complaint.
>
> 82. Within a day of Judge Breckenridge's decision, Joyce and I
> flew to the United Kingdom where I testified in a child custody case
> trial involving Scientology, Re: B & G (Wards) in the High Court in
> London. In a lengthy judgment issued July 23, 1984, Mr. Justice Latey
> censured Hubbard's lying, and a number of Scientology policies and
> practices including teaching people to lie, intelligence operations,
> punishment and persecution, the Suppressive Person doctrine,
> disconnection, fair game, and use of the law to harass. Justice Latey
> quoted Hubbard's directive that provides the organization's
> litigation strategy:
>
> "Level "O" Checksheet by L. Ron Hubbard":
>
> "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather
> than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and
> enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin
> edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorised, will
> generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If
> possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
>
> Some of the Scientology jargon in its own documents, which I have been
> citing may not be clear to someone who has not had to undergo the task
> of having them explained over the weeks. But their meaning is clear
> and they
>
> 24
>
> show out of the cult's own mouth the frightening, disgraceful and
> illegal lengths to which it is prepared to go and does go.
> http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/latey.html#7a
>
> 83. While Joyce and I were in the UK, Scientology agents
> surveilled us, made a hang-up call to our hotel, followed us, and
> generally terrified us. Three Scientology agents harassed us at the
> airport when we were flying back to the U.S., falsely accusing me of
> passing "sealed documents" to a bearded Arab in a London tavern. I
> wrote a declaration detailing this harassment upon arrival back in the
> U.S.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/decl-1984-07-01.html
> Some time later, Scientology produced declarations from two hired
> private investigators falsely swearing that they had observed me pass
> documents to a bearded Arab as the organization's agents falsely
> stated to Joyce and me at the London airport.
>
> 84. Throughout my LA Superior Court trial, Scientology operative
> Dan Sherman continued on his intelligence program, continued to
> profess his friendship, and was able to insinuate himself into the
> group of people opposed to organization abuses who attended the trial.
> Sherman met with Flynn and me, claiming to be disaffected with the
> organization, and told us that he was in communication with a group of
> Scientologists within the organization who were also opposed to the
> abuses and criminality of "management," wanted to reform the
> organization, and respected what we were doing in exposing the abuses.
> Sherman said that the core group, which numbered about thirty-five
> individuals, called themselves the "Loyalists," because they were
> "loyal" to what was good and honest in Scientology.
>
> 85. After the trial ended, but before Joyce and I flew to the UK,
> one of the "Loyalists," who identified himself as "Joey," and who I
> later learned was a David Kluge, phoned and asked if I wanted to get
> my auditing files. Scientology's leaders knew I wanted these files
> because I was attempting to get them in discovery, and my ex-wife
> Terri had reported that I wanted them in a debrief she wrote after a
> meeting we had in March that year.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gamboa-debrief-1984-03-12.html
> I declined Kluge's offer because, even though the files were my
> property, my obtaining them could be construed as accepting stolen
> property, and because I was due to fly to the UK the same day the
> "Loyalists" said my files would be available. From what I now know, I
> have no doubt that this op was designed to entrap me in the commission
> of a crime.
>
> 86. After I returned to the U.S., Sherman and Kluge reestablished
> contact with me, and we met a number of times over the next five
> months. In late July 1984, Scientology commenced a media and legal
> attack on Michael Flynn falsely accusing him of masterminding a plot
> to cash a forged check for $2,000,000.00 on one of Hubbard's bank
> accounts. Sherman and Kluge communicated that the "Loyalists" knew
> that it was a frame-up and that organization leaders were behind it,
> and the "Loyalists" were working to prove it was a frame-up. I was
> certain Flynn was innocent, and of course he was my
>
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>
> attorney and friend, so I was grateful for the "Loyalists'" help in
> clearing his name, and I was willing to help them as I could.
>
> 87. Over the next few months, the "Loyalists" sent me a number of
> messages via Sherman relating to the Flynn frame-up, including what
> they claimed was documentary evidence to be passed on to Flynn and the
> Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston who was investigating the case.
> Because of their claimed fear of being discovered by organization
> leaders and murdered, I met with "Loyalists" Kluge and Mike Rinder in
> "secret" prearranged locations in Griffith Park and a Los Angeles
> area cemetery. Kluge also took me to a meeting with a woman he
> identified as "Rene," a "rich Scientologist who had been abused by the
> organization and who might back the "Loyalists" financially," and a
> meeting with an "attorney" "named" "Thomas Janeway." Kluge also
> attempted to get me to fly to Las Vegas to meet another "financial
> backer," but on my attorney's advice because of the risk I didn't make
> the trip. Knowing what I now know, there is no doubt that each of
> these meetings was recorded, and was set up to entrap me.
>
> 88. During this period, agents of the FBI who were involved in an
> investigation of the organization contacted me, and I met with them
> and discussed my Scientology experiences and knowledge. Justice
> Department attorneys who were litigating Scientology-related cases
> contacted me, and I communicated with them and provided them with
> declarations concerning my experiences and knowledge. Officers in the
> Ontario Provincial Police and the Clearwater, Florida Police
> Department who were investigating Scientology also contacted me, and I
> provided them with testimony about Hubbard, the organization and my
> experiences.
>
> 89. A short time after my LA trial, agents in the Criminal
> Investigation Division of the IRS in Los Angeles contacted me, and I
> met with them and provided them with whatever information I had
> concerning Hubbard and Scientology. The IRS obtained access to certain
> documents and audio recordings of MCCS legal strategy meetings that
> the Court Clerk had retained in my case, and which became the subject
> of the series of cases entitled U.S. v. Zolin. E.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/us-v-zolin-us-sup-1989-06-21.htm
l
> See also,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/other-scientology-litigation.htm
l
>
> 90. I naturally informed the IRS CID agents with whom I
> communicated about the "Loyalists" and about their activities, plans
> and fears as Sherman, Kluge and Rinder expressed them to me. The CID
> agents indicated that they wanted the "Loyalists" to contact them, and
> that the CID would protect them, even by getting them into a witness
> protection program. I conveyed the CID's communications to the
> "Loyalists" via Sherman and Kluge, and also gave them the contact
> information for a Justice Department attorney involved in federal
> Scientology-related litigation.
>
> 91. On November 8, 1984, immediately following a Griffith Park
> meeting with Sherman, and during a meeting with the CID in the LA
> Federal Building, my car, which I had parked in an underground parking
> garage nearby, was broken into and a briefcase
>
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>
> containing original, irreplaceable writings and artwork and other
> documents was stolen from my locked trunk. My attorney Julia
> Dragojevic wrote to Scientology lawyer John Peterson demanding return
> of my property.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/dragojevik-ltr-1984-11-09.htm
l
> A few days later I made a report of the theft to the LAPD.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/pol-rpt-1984-11-8-prelim.
html
>
> 92. On November 30, Peterson wrote to Ms. Dragojevic asserting
> that Scientology had no knowledge of the theft and suggesting that the
> FBI or the IRS were responsible.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/peterson-ltr-1984-11-30.html
> In 1991 and 1992, Vicki Aznaran, who had been a high organization
> executive working closely with David Miscavige, and who had left in
> 1987, told me that Miscavige had admitted to her that he possessed the
> materials stolen from my car, and described them to her as "weird
> poetry." In a number of conversations between 1998 and 2001, Jesse
> Prince, another former high Scientology executive who had worked
> closely with organization leader Miscavige, also told me that
> Miscavige bragged to him about possessing the materials stolen from my
> car, and described them similarly as "weird writing" and "letters to
> Hubbard."
>
> 93. In 1985, I filed a California Public Records Act request
> seeking records that the LAPD possessed concerning me, including
> concerning the November 8, 1984 theft of my briefcase, documents and
> art. From subsequent correspondence with the LA City Attorney's
> office, and from a study of what was and was not found in the LAPD's
> files concerning the theft, I have formed a belief that the LAPD's
> records were altered and/or destroyed in order to prevent an
> investigation of this crime. See, e.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/ga-ltr-boeckman-1985-12-1
9.html
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/boeckman-ltr-1986-03-10.h
tml
>
> 94. During the "Loyalist Op," Sherman told me that Scientology's
> leaders had hired as their top private investigator Eugene Ingram, who
> had been a sergeant in the LAPD's vice squad, and who reportedly had
> been fired for, among other crimes, pimping and aiding drug dealers.
> Sherman told me that the Loyalists said that the organization had
> hired Ingram because he still had a lot of friends on the LAPD who
> owed him favors. I knew that Ingram was involved in the Scientology
> operation to frame Flynn with the forgery of the $2,000,000 check, and
> I telephoned his office once to advise him he was framing the wrong
> man. I didn't get Ingram when I called, but he called me back and
> threatened that he was going to put a bullet between my eyes. I
> believe that Ingram is an unscrupulous and criminal individual and
> that, as he threatened, he would murder if he thought he would get
> away with the crime.
>
> 95. At one point, the "Loyalists," via Kluge and Sherman, asked
> for my help with a lawsuit by which they said they wanted to legally
> and safely take control of the organization from the leaders whom they
> identified as "criminals." At my request, Flynn drafted a "bare bones"
> complaint for the "Loyalists," which I gave to them and discussed
> with Sherman and Kluge. Because both of them claimed that they knew
> little about legal matters, a pair of meetings to discuss the
> complaint were set up on November 17 and 30,
>
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>
> 1984 in Griffith Park in LA with the person they said was the
> "Loyalists'" legal expert. This turned out to be Michael Rinder, whom
> I had known on the "Apollo" in the SO. At our meetings, Rinder also
> appeared to have little understanding of the complaint or the
> legal concepts involved, and our conversations were frustrating. Now I
> know that his lack of understanding was faked as part of the
> Scientology intelligence op he was being run on to entrap me.
>
> 96. While Scientology's leaders ran their "Loyalist" intelligence
> op, they continued a global public black PR campaign against me. See,
> e.g., OSA International Executive Directive No. 19, dated September
> 20, 1984, entitled "Squirrels," the "routing" on which shows it was to
> be posted on every Scientology organization notice board and
> distributed to every Scientologist. "Squirrels," according to
> Scientology teachings, are "Suppressive Persons" whom the organization
> claims are engaging in "weird practices," or "altering Scientology,"
> and who are hated and vilified by organization Scientologists. The
> black PR language Scientology uses in this document to attack me and
> the other five named individuals, is disgusting and shocking.
>
> Their actions are destructive and aimed at the enslavement rather than
> the freedom of man[...]
> [They] have attempted to taint government with their false
> reports[...]
> [They] have offered false testimony to the IRS in order to protect
> their [crimes] against mankind[...]
> [They] have misrepresented Scientology practices to the FBI or Justice
> Department in a futile attempt to taint the minds of the government
> and the courts against the Church of Scientology[...]
> [T]heir continued desire to drag others to the level of beasts and
> animals devoid of spiritual qualities places them in the psychiatric
> camp of those who manufacture madness for profit.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-int-ed-19-squirrels.html
>
> 97. Also during this period, Joyce concluded that she could no
> longer bear the constant threat from Scientology that we had
> experienced virtually every day since leaving the organization. I saw,
> however, that I could not escape the conflict, that the threat would
> be present whatever I did or wherever I went, and that I had a
> responsibility to continue to oppose the organization and hopefully
> bring it to end its abusing and fair gaming of people. As a result,
> Joyce and I decided to separate, so that I could carry on the battle
> and she would be to some extent free of the threat she felt while
> living with me. In December 1984, I moved out of our Costa Mesa
> apartment, and traveled to my family's home in British Columbia for
> the holidays. Before I left, Kluge called me and told me that the
> "Loyalists" wanted action not words, that I had said something wrong,
> and they no longer trusted me.
>
> 98. After returning from B.C. in early 1985, I stayed with
> friends in southern California for some weeks, then traveled to
> Portland, Oregon to testify on behalf of the plaintiff in the trial of
> Julie Christofferson-Titchbourne v. Scientology, Multnomah County
> Circuit Court No. 7704-05184. During my cross-examination, Scientology
> attorney Earle C. Cooley revealed that Ingram had videotaped and audio
> taped my
>
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>
> meetings with Kluge and Rinder for the organization. Scientology
> lawyer Peterson claimed that the taping operation had been authorized
> by the Los Angeles Police Department, and the organization produced
> three letters dated November 7, 13 and 28 1984 signed by an LAPD
> officer Phillip Rodriguez, directing Ingram to electronically
> eavesdrop on me, Flynn and others.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/rodriguez-auth-1984-11-07
.html
>
> 99. On April 23, 1985, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates
> issued a public statement completely repudiating Scientology's claim
> that the LAPD had authorized Ingram's eavesdropping and declaring the
> Rodriguez "authorizations" invalid.
>
> It has come to my attention that a member of the L. A. P. D. very
> foolishly, without proper authorization and contrary to the policy of
> this Department, signed a letter to Eugene M. Ingram, believed to have
> been drafted by Ingram himself. The letter purports to authorize
> Ingram to engage in electronic eavesdropping. The letter, along with
> all the purported authorization, is invalid and is NOT a
> correspondence from the Los Angeles Police Department.
> The Los Angeles Police Department has not cooperated with Eugene
> Ingram. It will be a cold day in hell when we do.
> I have directed an official letter to Ingram informing him that the
> letter signed by Officer Phillip Rodriguez dated November 7, 1984, and
> all other letters of purported authorizations directed to him, signed
> by any member of the Los Angeles Police Department, are invalid and
> unauthorized. Internal Affairs Division is now investigating the
> entire incident.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/images/gates-announcement.gif
>
> 100. Scientology sought to have the videotapes of the meetings
> with Kluge and Rinder admitted into evidence in the Christofferson
> trial, and the presiding Judge Donald F. Londer initially refused,
> ruling that the organization had made them illegally. After viewing
> the tapes in chambers, however, he stated that "the tapes are
> devastating, very devastating to the church," and for that reason
> admitted them into evidence. Despite Chief Gates' denouncement of
> Ingram, Rodriguez and their eavesdropping "authorizations," and
> despite Judge Londer's ruling that the tapes were illegal, and his
> comment that they were devastating to Scientology, the organization
> immediately commenced a black PR campaign against me concerning the
> videotapes that continues to this day.
>
> 101. Even while the Christofferson trial proceeded, Scientology
> published and disseminated internationally an edition of its black
> propaganda magazine ""Freedom"" containing a mendacious and perverse
> account of their "Loyalist" operation.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/freedom-1985-04-1.html
> The tapes were terribly embarrassing to me because I curse and make
> some bawdy jokes while being covertly videotaped. The tapes were also
> psychologically devastating to me because of the betrayal, entrapment
> and hatred by Sherman, Kluge, Rinder, Miscavige and Scientology that
> they represent to me. The tapes do not, however, contain or show
>
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> what the organization and its agents have for more than eighteen years
> claimed they contain and show.
>
> 102. Because of Scientology's unceasing lying about its
> "Loyalist" operation, including lies by organization leader Miscavige
> in a sworn declaration, I have detailed what actually happened in
> several declarations since 1985. See, e.g., two declarations I
> wrote in response to Miscavige and Scientology lies that were filed in
> the case of Scientology v. Fishman & Geertz, USDC for the Central
> District of California, Case No. CV 91-6425 HLH(Tx).
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
>
> The tapes show that in the fall of 1984, during the reign of the
> organization's present supreme leader [Miscavige], the fair game
> doctrine was alive and as unfair as ever. The tapes show a
> mean-spirited, mendacious and malevolent organization using
> well-drilled operatives and electronic gadgetry to attempt,
> unsuccessfully, to set up an unwitting, funny, sometimes silly,
> clearly helpful, at times foul-mouthed, but otherwise ordinary human
> male.
>
> 103. Immediately following Scientology's disclosure of the
> videotapes in the Christofferson trial, the organization used staff
> members Kenneth Hoden, Kathleen Gorgon, Heber Jentzsch and David
> Butterworth and its attorney John Peterson to attempt to get the LA
> District Attorney to prosecute Flynn, LAPD Chief Gates, two IRS CID
> agents and me on various false criminal charges trumped up out of the
> "Loyalist" op. This effort to have us prosecuted for Scientology's own
> illegal actions, with organization personnel delivering voluminous
> materials ("data on the background of Jerry Armstrong") to the office
> of the DA, and meeting and telephoning several times with DA
> staff, continued until at least April 1986. At that time, the DA wrote
> a lengthy letter rejecting each Scientology charge, criticizing the
> organization's refusal to divulge requested necessary information, and
> concluding that "there is no evidence in support of the allegations of
> criminal conduct."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/d-atty-ltr-to-hoden-1986.html
>
> 104. Hubbard provided Scientology's philosophy and policy
> underlying the organization's continuing conspiracy to have me
> prosecuted on false criminal charges in a very central directive
> entitled "The Scientologist - A Manual on the Dissemination of
> Material," originally published in 1955, and republished several times
> since.
>
> The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything
> is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every
> battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal
> conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN
> CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN. And the
> public, seeing that you won, will then have a communication line to
> the effect that Scientologists WIN. Don't ever let them have any other
> thought than that Scientology takes all of its objectives.
>
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>
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/dissem-of-material-1976.html
>
> 105. In the same directive, Hubbard laid out the other key part
> of Scientology's legal/litigation strategy.
>
> The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on
> somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he
> is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his
> professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
>
> Employing the courts and law enforcement agencies to do Scientology's
> "much more charging" on its manufactured evidence, and using the law
> to harass and ruin people utterly, are, of course, unlawful uses of
> the law and justice system.
>
> 106. In addition to making countless false statements about what
> the illegally made videotapes show or contain, Scientology also
> altered the tapes, at a minimum deleting audio sections where the
> organization's agents acknowledge and discuss its criminal
> activities. Scientology also created at least one radically edited
> videotape version of my meetings with Kluge and Rinder that uses
> certain of my statements out of order and out of context, and adds a
> Scientologist narrator to create a false and perverse picture of what
> was occurring. A number of people have told me that the organization
> ordered Scientologists to attend showings of edited versions of the
> videotapes at various Scientology locations internationally, and then
> "regged" (used high pressure sales techniques on) each of the
> attendees for $2000 for the organization's International
> Membership Unit's "war chest." I was told that Scientology's "target"
> for this "reg cycle" was 25,000 Scientologists, or $50,000,000. See,
> e.g., this announcement of the videotape playing that was posted
> inside and around the Scientology complex in LA and distributed to
> Scientologists in or about May 1985.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ias-flyer-1985-04.html
>
> 107. In September 1985, I moved to Boston to work as a paralegal
> in Michael Flynn's law office. In October, Scientology had one of its
> personnel file a criminal complaint with the FBI falsely accusing me
> of impersonating a Bureau agent. Scientology lawyer Roger Geller also
> participated in the impersonation frame-up, calling and repeatedly
> writing the FBI to pressure them to prosecute me.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fbi/index.html
> Scientology lawyer Peterson used the Boston Scientologist's false
> complaint, and made the same false impersonation charge, and a false
> and execrable charge that I was conspiring "to destroy a religion," to
> bolster the organization's continuing pressure on the LA DA to charge
> me in the videotape frame-up.
>
> I am sending you with this letter an affidavit from a Boston Church of
> Scientology staff member who was interrupted and harassed by Gerald
> Armstrong on Sunday, October 13, 1985. Armstrong impersonated an FBI
> officer during this encounter. A complaint has been lodged with the
> Boston FBI office and is being followed up by that office right now.
> You will recall from our complaint that Armstrong has sought the
> shelter of more than one government agency in the midst of his
> conspiracy to
>
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>
> destroy a religion. He is a) continuing to do that; b) continuing his
> pattern of harassment against the Church of Scientology.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fbi/peterson-ltr-1985-10-24.html
>
>
> 108. The period I was in Boston and working at the Flynn law
> firm, until December 1986, I felt constantly under attack and
> threatened by Scientology. Organization agents surveilled, followed
> and photographed me, staked out and photographed my residence,
> and frightened my housemates. Scientology continued its global black
> PR campaign against me, including the "papering" of Boston with issues
> of the organization's ""Freedom"" magazine.
> See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/freedom-1986-02-special-4.html
>
> 109. The litigation of my cross-complaint continued in LA, and
> was made very unpleasant and troubling by the organization's dishonest
> and abusive litigation tactics. Scientology is in fact globally
> infamous for such practices, including obstruction, refusal
> to comply with court ordered discovery, and destruction of evidence.
> See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-ideman1993-06-21.html
> At one point, for no reason but vindictiveness, the organization
> culled statements from my "confidential" "priest-penitent privileged"
> auditing files, gave them to lawyers and filed them in court. The
> culled statements concerned embarrassing incidents from my
> past, my sexual history, and indiscretions from my youth, plus
> "incidents" that never happened but which Scientology manufactured for
> black PR purposes.
>
> 110. I had by this time come to see this Scientology practice of
> obtaining a person's "confessions" in auditing by creating a
> relationship of "trust" and promising confidentiality, and then using
> those "confessions" against him, as the most despicable of
> the organization's many abhorrent activities. The organization's
> culling of my auditing file, and dissemination of my "confessions" and
> invented "crimes," was an emotional nightmare for me. Two years later,
> Vicki Aznaran revealed that when my auditing files were ordered
> produced in discovery in my case she had been ordered to remove and
> destroy anything that would have helped me or been damaging to
> Scientology.
>
> During litigation between Gerald Armstrong and Scientology, which was
> before Judge Breckenridge of Superior Court for Los Angeles County,
> the court ordered the production of Armstrong's pre-clear ("PC")
> folders. These are files maintained by Scientology on those who
> submit to interrogation sessions in a process called auditing. During
> the course of that litigation I was ordered to go through Armstrong's
> folders and destroy or conceal anything that might be damaging to
> Scientology or helpful to Armstrong's case. As ordered, I went through
> the files and destroyed contents that might support Armstrong's claims
> against Scientology. This practice is known within Scientology as
> "culling PC folders" and is a common litigation tactic employed by
> Scientology.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/aznaran/decl-aznaran-1988-08-09.
html
>
> 111. In addition to framing Flynn with the $2,000,000 check
> forgery, procuring the phony "authorization" to wiretap him from
> corrupt LAPD officer Rodriguez, and
>
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>
> attempting to have Flynn prosecuted by the LA DA on false charges,
> which fair game actions are mentioned above, Scientology subjected
> Flynn to years of other legal and extralegal attacks and threats and a
> relentless global black PR campaign.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scientology-fair-games-flynn.html
> The organization knowingly procured false sworn statements accusing
> Flynn of a multitude of crimes from infamous criminals, including a
> man imprisoned for murder. The organization filed these false sworn
> statements in numerous legal proceedings including my own.
> Organization agents toured U.S. cities holding press conferences to
> black PR Flynn with the procured false sworn statements and their own
> false charges.
>
> 112. Scientology sued Flynn and his co-counsel some thirteen
> times, and filed numerous false bar complaints against him.
> Organization agents surveilled, followed and photographed him in
> Boston and when he traveled, and infiltrated his office by pretending
> to be abused and disaffected ex-Scientologists seeking legal help. The
> organization harassed and terrified his family and severely disrupted
> their lives, and harassed his associates and former clients. Flynn
> sued Scientology, Hubbard and Ingram and described organization fair
> game actions against him in numerous public statements
> and sworn declarations. See, e.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/flynn/affi-flynn-1984-08-10.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/flynn/decl-flynn-1985-04.html
>
> 113. Flynn was for several years a principal guiding spirit and
> driving force in the legal battle against Scientology in the U.S., and
> even internationally, and was involved as attorney of record or of
> counsel on behalf of more than twenty claimants against the
> organization. During the time he represented me or I worked in his
> office, he had settled a number of individual Scientology cases, and
> on various occasions had had discussions with organization lawyers
> concerning the possible settlement of all the Scientology-related
> cases in which he was involved. In the fall of 1986, Flynn informed
> his clients in those cases, including me, that he had reached an
> agreement with Scientology for a global settlement, and he and I
> agreed on a monetary figure to settle my case.
>
> 114. My cross-complaint was then set for trial in early 1987, and
> all the organization fraud, internal abuse and external fair game that
> would come out in a public trial in Los Angeles was certainly a
> motivating factor in Scientology's desire to settle with Flynn and
> all his clients, many of whom would be witnesses for me. He
> communicated that Scientology's leaders said they wanted peace, and
> that they had promised that if a global settlement happened they would
> end fair game forever. I was happy to settle my case and end the war
> with Scientology, because it meant, I believed, that there would be no
> lengthy appellate process, and that I would be able to live in peace.
> By this time too, much of my potential testimony was already publicly
> available in trial or deposition transcripts, or in the many
> declarations I had written since leaving the organization, so I
> felt that with Scientology's promise to end fair game I had fulfilled
> my responsibility to the organization's victims and had earned the
> peace promised.
>
> 115. I had testified about fifty days in trial or deposition in
> perhaps ten cases, Scientology's lawyers usually conducted abusive,
> threatening examinations, and the end
>
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>
> of fair game, I believed, would also end my involvement as a
> knowledgeable witness to organization fraud, abuse and fair game. In
> my observation, Scientology used depositions for intelligence
> gathering and for harassment, and one of the results was to
> cause friends and associates of an organization litigation target to
> disassociate from and stop supporting him. In fact, partly in response
> to Scientology's use of the law to invade, threaten and destroy
> relationships, earlier in 1986 I had founded a church, one of the
> purposes and functions of which was to protect the relationships of
> the organization's victims.
>
> 116. I have written about the circumstances at the time of the
> "settlement" in many declarations, and have waived the attorney-client
> privilege between Flynn and me as to our conversations concerning the
> "settlement." See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1997-01-26.html
> 12:18-18:14.
> I was aware of Scientology's "settlement contracts" by which the
> organization sought to prevent its litigation opponents and even its
> own members from disclosing their knowledge of its activities, and I
> had signed such documents while inside the organization. See, e.g.,
> this "non-disclosure and release bond" that I was required to sign
> while on the RPF in Clearwater in 1977, and which at my 1984 trial was
> ruled to be unenforceable.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/non-dsclsre-rls-bond.html
>
> 117. During the period when Flynn was involved in settlement
> negotiations with Scientology's lawyers, I had spoken and written
> memos to him stating that I would not be bound by such a
> non-disclosure clause. I was willing to not contact the wog media
> about Scientology because an ending of media involvement would help
> facilitate the organization's cessation of fair game; in fact I was
> glad to not have to respond with media interviews, as I often found
> them stressful or silly. Since leaving the organization, I had given
> interviews to several newspapers; major news magazines such as Time,
> Newsweek, People and Forbes; and television news programs such as
> 20/20, 60 Minutes and the CBC's 5th Estate; and I had given in-depth
> interviews over a number of days to three different authors writing
> books about Hubbard and Scientology. Having for years made all my
> Scientology experiences and knowledge available to the media, I was
> willing to voluntarily stop being available; but I was unwilling to be
> compelled by "contract" to not discuss my organization knowledge and
> experiences with anyone because such silence would be nonsensical and
> impossible.
>
> 118. I was not shown the "contract" Scientology wanted me to sign
> until after I had flown from Boston to LA where Flynn had been
> arranging the global "settlement" with organization lawyers, and upon
> reading the document I was shocked and sickened.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
> The "contract's" language prohibiting any discussion of my experiences
> or knowledge of Scientology, prohibiting any assistance to the
> organization's adversaries including governmental agencies, punishing
> me with a $50,000 "liquidated damages" penalty per utterance, and
> requiring that I avoid service of subpoenas, was far worse, and more
> ludicrous, cruel and impossible than I had ever imagined. See, e.g.:
>
> [Para. 7D] Plaintiff [Armstrong] further agrees that he will maintain
> strict confidentiality and silence with respect to his experiences
> with the Church
>
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>
> of Scientology and any knowledge or information he may have concerning
> the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, or any of the
> organizations, individuals and entities listed in Paragraph 1 above.
> Plaintiff expressly understands that the non-disclosure provisions of
> this subparagraph shall apply, inter alia, but not be limited, to the
> contents or substance of his complaint on file in the action referred
> to in Paragraph 1 hereinabove or any documents as defined in Appendix
> "A" to this Agreement, including but not limited to any tapes, films,
> photographs, recastings, variations or copies of any such materials
> which concern or relate to the religion of Scientology, L. Ron
> Hubbard, or any of the organizations, individuals, or entities listed
> in Paragraph 1 above. [ ] Plaintiff agrees that if the terms of this
> paragraph are breached by him, that CSI and the other Releasees
> would be entitled to liquidated damages in the amount of $50,000 for
> each such breach. All monies received to induce or in payment for a
> breach of this Agreement, or any part thereof, shall be held in a
> constructive trust pending the outcome of any litigation over said
> breach. The amount of liquidated damages herein is an estimate of the
> damages that each party would suffer in the event this Agreement is
> breached. The reasonableness of the amount of such damages, are hereto
> acknowledged by Plaintiff.
>
> [Para. 7G] Plaintiff agrees that he will not voluntarily assist or
> cooperate with any person adverse to Scientology in any proceeding
> against any of the Scientology organizations, individuals, or entities
> listed in Paragraph 1 above. Plaintiff also agrees that he will not
> cooperate in any manner with any organizations aligned against
> Scientology.
>
> [Para. 7H] Plaintiff agrees not to testify or otherwise participate in
> any other judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse
> to Scientology or any of the Scientology Churches, individuals or
> entities listed in Paragraph 1 above unless compelled to do so by
> lawful subpoena or other lawful process. Plaintiff shall not make
> himself amenable to service of any such subpoena in a manner which
> invalidates the intent of this provision.
>
> [Para. 10.] Plaintiff agrees that he will not assist or advise anyone,
> including individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or
> governmental agencies contemplating any claim or engaged in litigation
> or involved in or contemplating any activity adverse to the interests
> of any entity or class of persons listed above in Paragraph 1 of this
> Agreement.
>
> 119. The entities and individuals listed in Paragraph 1 of the
> "settlement contract," who also comprise the "beneficiaries" of the
> "contract" are:
>
> Church of Scientology International, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns
> and legal counsel;
> Church of Scientology of California, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns
> and legal counsel;
>
>
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>
> Religious Technology Center, its officers, agents, representatives,
> employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and legal
> counsel;
> all Scientology and Scientology affiliated organizations and entities
> and their officers, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers,
> directors, successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> Author Services, Inc., its officers, agents, representatives,
> employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and legal
> counsel;
> L. Ron Hubbard, his heirs, beneficiaries, Estate and its executor;
> Author's Family Trust, its beneficiaries and its trustee;
> and Mary Sue Hubbard.
>
> 120. I protested to Flynn that it was impossible to be silent
> about my experiences and knowledge, as the "contract" required,
> because these involved over seventeen years of my life and were a
> component of my psyche about which I knew had to communicate for
> my own health; that the $50,000 per statement liquidated damages
> clause was outrageous; and that the "contract" called for obstruction
> of justice. Flynn stated that the conditions I objected to were "not
> worth the paper they're printed on," that they were judicially
> "unenforceable," and that I "can't sign away [my] Constitutional
> rights." Because of these assurances from Flynn, I participated in no
> negotiations whatsoever of the basis or reasonableness of the
> liquidated damages provision, which is baseless and wholly
> unreasonable.
>
> 121. At the same time, Flynn also reiterated that Scientology's
> fair game attacks had ruined his marriage and ruined his life, and
> that I had to sign to have fair game end against him, and against me
> and everyone else. Flynn said that he had to get out of all
> Scientology-related litigation, and had agreed to no longer represent
> people against the organization, but also reassured me that if
> Scientology attacked me after the settlement, he would "be there for
> [me]." When I still protested, and suggested to Flynn that since the
> conditions I objected to were "unenforceable" why not get Scientology
> to take those conditions out of the "contract," another of his
> clients, who was with us, yelled at me threateningly, obviously with
> Flynn's agreement, for ruining the deal for everyone and destroying
> their lives.
>
> 122. Flynn said that what Scientology was paying me for was my
> dismissal of my cross-complaint then set for trial and my release of
> the organization from any claims for anything done to me until that
> time. He made a point of identifying to me and reading the language in
> the "contract" that spelled out my release of claims.
>
> "[Armstrong] does hereby release, acquit and forever discharge, for
> himself, his heirs, successors, executors, administrators and assigns,
> the Releasees [ ] and each of them, of and from any and all claims,
> including, but not limited to, any claims or causes of action entitled
> Gerald Armstrong v. Church of Scientology of California, Los Angeles
> Superior Court, Case No. 420 153 and all demands, damages, actions and
> causes of actions of every kind and nature, known or unknown, for or
> because of any act or omission allegedly done by the Releasees, from
> the beginning of time to and including the date hereof. Therefore,
> [Armstrong] does
>
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>
>
> hereby authorize and direct his counsel to dismiss with prejudice his
> claims now pending in the above referenced action.
> [...]
> 8. [Armstrong] further agrees that he waives and relinquishes any
> right or claim arising out of the conduct of any [Scientology]
> defendant in this case to date, including any of the organizations,
> individuals or entities as set forth in Paragraph 1 above, and the
> defendants waive and relinquish any right or claim arising out of the
> conduct of [Armstrong] to date.
>
>
> 123. The burden of having to sign Scientology's onerous, indeed
> impossible, "contract" in order to have the organization stop its fair
> game attacks on my attorney and his family, on his clients, on my
> friends, on the rest of humanity, and on myself, was unbearable. In a
> strange flash of prescience while under this awful pressure, I saw the
> "contract" as an act of fair game and saw myself as Scientology's fair
> game target for years into the future, isolated and fair gamed by the
> very contract I was being told would end fair game forever -- exactly
> as has happened. Relying on Flynn's representations that the
> "contract's" conditions that I found intolerable were "not worth the
> paper they're printed on," and having no choice but to sign, I
> submitted to the whole farce, which included playing my fool's role in
> Scientology's videotaping of the "contract" signing spectacle.
>
> 124. Flynn also insisted that to have Scientology stop fair
> gaming him and everyone else, I additionally had to sign an affidavit
> that falsely blamed the "Guardian's Office" for the organization's
> fair game and abuses. He stated that Scientology had promised that
> the affidavit, which is virtually identical to affidavits that Flynn
> and some of his other clients were also required to sign, would be
> kept secret, and would only be used if I publicly attacked the
> organization after the settlement.
>
> Virtually all of the abuses that I perceived to be prevalent in the
> Church and which gave rise to any disagreements and conflicts that I
> had with the Church were perpetrated by members of the now defunct
> Guardian's Office. For example, I have alleged that the Church took
> part in the practices of disseminating confessional information,
> harassing critics and hostile ex-members, filing frivolous litigation,
> and perpetrating certain fraudulent representations with respect to
> the Church publicly. ¶Recently I have learned that the abuses
> outlined in paragraph two above were abolished as part of the process
> of the dismantling of the Guardian's Office. I have also observed that
> the Church's present management has taken a very responsible and
> forthright position with respect to complaints made about alleged
> Church abuses. The new Church management seems to have returned to the
> basic and lawful policies and procedures as laid out by the founder of
> the religion, L. Ron Hubbard.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/affi2-1986-12-06.html
>
> 125. In truth, this is a ridiculous and obviously false
> statement. David Miscavige himself has stated in a sworn declaration
> that he took over the GO in July of 1981, and I didn't leave the
> organization and become its fair game target until December 1981.
>
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>
> I gathered a couple of dozen of the most proven Church executives from
> around the world and briefed them on the criminal and other unethical
> conduct of the GO. Together, we planned a series of missions to take
> over the GO, investigate it and reform it thoroughly. On July 13,
> 1981, a matter of weeks after we had uncovered what was going on, and
> with no advance warning to the GO, a coordinated series of CMO
> missions were sent out concurrently to take over the GO.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-miscavige-1994-02-08.html
> 18:17-24
>
> 126. The truth was that the organization agents' assaults on me,
> the freeway terrorism, the use of the law to harass me, the litigation
> fair game, the black PR, the "disseminating [of my] confessional
> information," the harassment, the threats, the illegal videotaping,
> the false charges with the LA PD, the LA DA and the FBI, and all other
> fair game actions against me prior to the "settlement" were
> perpetrated by the Miscavige regime, not the Guardian's Office. The
> truth was that the "fraudulent representations" about Hubbard and
> about Scientology originated with Hubbard himself, Hubbard was also
> behind the organization's unlawful policies and criminal activities,
> and the new management -- the Miscavige regime -- was continuing those
> policies, activities and abuses.
>
> 127. To stop the fair game of Flynn, his family, me and everyone
> else, I was also required by the Scientology's "settlement contract"
> to allow the organization to maintain an appeal from the 1984 judgment
> in my LA Superior Court case, and required to waive my rights:
>
> to take any further appeals from any decision eventually reached by
> the Court of Appeal or any rights [I] may have to oppose (by
> responding brief or any other means) any further appeals taken by [ ]
> Scientology.
>
> Being compelled to let the organization maintain its appeal and not
> oppose future appeals was a factor in the emotional devastation I was
> experiencing because I viewed this "waiver" as a betrayal of the legal
> system and of the many Scientology victims who had been helped by the
> judgment in my case. I was somewhat consoled by the fact that the
> appeal had been fully briefed and oral argument had been concluded, so
> the appeal's outcome depended more on the Court of Appeal than on me.
> Ironically, a few days after the "settlement," the Court of Appeal
> dismissed Scientology's appeal on the basis of there being no
> appealable final judgment until after the cross-complaint was tried.
> Scientology then filed a new notice of appeal, but, again ironically,
> did not prosecute the appeal, which the Court of Appeal, also
> ironically, let sit inactive for the next almost three years.
>
> 128. Although the "settlement contract's" silence,
> non-cooperation and liquidated damages conditions are not explicitly
> mutual, the document's language implies such a mutuality or
> reciprocality. See, e.g., para. 4, which states:
>
> For and in consideration of the above described consideration, the
> mutual covenants, conditions and release contained herein, [Armstrong]
> does hereby release, acquit and forever discharge, [ ] the
> [Scientology] Releasees, [ ] of and from any and all claims, [ ] for
> or because of any act
>
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>
> or omission allegedly done by the Releasees, from the beginning of
> time to and including the date hereof.
>
> The contract's "covenants" and "conditions" would have to be "mutual,"
> otherwise they would not constitute "consideration" for my dismissal
> of my cross-complaint and my release of all claims against the
> Scientology entities. If the "contract's" "covenants" and "conditions"
> were not "mutual," there was no legitimate purpose in calling them
> "mutual."
>
> 129. See, also para. 7I, which states that:
>
> any past action or activity, either alleged in this lawsuit or
> activity similar in fact to the evidence that was developed during the
> course of this lawsuit, will not be used by either party against the
> other in any future litigation. In other words, the "slate" is wiped
> clean concerning past actions by any party.
>
> The clear implication is that the Scientology entities, by wiping the
> "slate" clean concerning my "past actions," would not continue
> thereafter to black PR, or even discuss me, since all there could
> possibly be to black PR me about, or discuss about me, would be
> my past actions. If the Scientology entities were not going to wipe
> the "slate" clean concerning my "past actions," there was no
> legitimate purpose in stating in the contract that they were going to
> do so. If the Scientology entities were going to black PR me after
> the "settlement," which they have done, and which, it is now clear,
> they intended to do at the time of the "settlement," whatever they
> stated about me would necessarily become part of future litigation, as
> it has. In other words, Scientology's purpose for including in its
> "contract" this promise of wiping the "slate" clean was to deceive me
> as to their actual intention, and the "mutuality" of the "contract's"
> "covenants" and "conditions."
>
> 130. Para. 18(D) states:
>
> The parties hereto and their respective attorneys each agree not to
> disclose the contents of this executed Agreement. Nothing herein shall
> be construed to prevent any party hereto or his respective attorney
> from stating that this civil action has been settled in its entirety.
>
> This clause clearly implies that the Scientology entities considered
> themselves bound by the same silence condition by which they
> considered they were binding me. If they considered themselves to not
> be bound by the silence condition, but free to say whatever
> they wanted, there was no legitimate purpose for inclusion in the
> "contract" of this provision that specifically permits them to make
> this one statement that I am also specifically permitted to make.
>
> 131. Since the Scientology entities have shown that they do
> consider that they are free to say whatever they want -- about me,
> about my experiences and knowledge, and about the "contract" -- this
> provision specifically permitting them to make this one statement is
> obviously included for the illegitimate purpose of deceiving me into
> thinking that these entities considered that the silence condition
> applied to them as well as me. Even the title Scientology put on its
> "settlement contract" -- "Mutual Release of All Claims and
> Settlement Agreement" -- is meant to deceive about the mutuality of
> the document's "covenants" and "conditions."
>
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>
> 132. Although the mutuality or reciprocality of the "contract's"
> silence, non-cooperation and liquidated damages conditions is not
> specifically stated, but clearly implied, these conditions'
> non-mutuality or non-reciprocality is also not specifically stated,
> but is not clearly implied. Nowhere does the "contract" state that I
> am permitting the Scientology entities, after the "settlement," to say
> whatever they want about me and my experiences. The absence of any
> provision in the "contract" that specifically permits the Scientology
> entities to say whatever they wanted me and my experiences after the
> settlement, while including a provision that specifically permits the
> entities to make the single specific statement that I am permitted to
> make, also supports the implication that the "covenants and
> conditions" are mutual, and supports the conclusion that the
> Scientology entities wrote the "contract" to deceive me as to the
> mutuality and reciprocality of its "covenants" and "conditions."
>
> 133. Aside from the "contract's" implied mutuality or
> reciprocality, and its not specifically provided non-mutuality or
> non-reciprocality, it was obvious to me that the Scientology entities
> had to remain silent about me and my experiences, except for stating
> that our litigation had "been settled in its entirety," because, by
> speaking out about me after the settlement, these entities would
> necessarily waive whatever right they may otherwise have had to
> silence me, since I could not be prevented from responding to
> defend myself. The "contract" specifically provides that I was
> releasing the Scientology entities for their acts "from the beginning
> of time to and including the date" of the "settlement." I was not
> releasing the Scientology entities for future unknown, unlimited
> acts, and I did not specifically, or even nonspecifically, waive my
> right to defend myself against these entities' future torts or crimes
> or any other forms of future fair game.
>
> 134. Para. 18(E) of the "settlement contract" states:
>
> The parties further agree to forbear and refrain from doing any act or
> exercising any right, whether existing now or in the future, which act
> or exercise is inconsistent with this Agreement.
>
> The "parties" being referred to in this paragraph must be the whole
> set of Scientology entities comprising the "releasees" or
> "beneficiaries" listed in para. 1 of the "contract." See also, e.g.,
> para. 2: "any party to this Agreement, specifically, the
> Releasees[...];" and para. 7A: "the parties herein released[...]" That
> the Scientology entities were agreeing to "refrain from doing any act
> or exercising any right [ ] which [ ] is inconsistent with" the
> "contract" would lead any reasonable person, I believe, to think that
> the Scientology entities were promising to stop fair gaming me, stop
> black PRing me, leave me in peace, and not discuss me or my
> experiences. From this logical and obvious meaning for para.
> 18(E), the logical and obvious deduction is that, for such behavior,
> acts and exercise to be consistent with the "contract," the "contract"
> contracted the Scientology entities to stop fair gaming me, stop black
> PRing me, leave me in peace, and not discuss me or my experiences.
>
> 135. Since the December 1986 "settlement," however, the
> Scientology entities who are parties to the "contract" have committed
> at least these acts against me, aside from the
>
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>
> multiplicity of post-"settlement" lawsuits, that are inconsistent with
> the "contract's" logical, obvious and peace-making language, meaning
> and spirit:
>
> - spied on me;
> - secretly videotaped me;
> - published and disseminated a mountain of defamatory printed black
> propaganda about me internationally, including in at least the U.S.,
> Canada, the U.K., France, Denmark, Germany and Russia;
> - posted hundreds of Internet messages black PRing me;
> - forged hundreds of Internet postings with my signature, including
> forged postings to make me appear to be anti-black, anti-Semitic and
> pedophilic;
> - created and maintained Internet hate websites black PRing me;
> - filed sworn statements in numerous litigations falsely accusing me
> of various crimes and other improper activities;
> - made false black PR statements about me to various U.S. agencies,
> including the IRS, State Department, and Embassies;
> - attempted on multiple occasions to have me prosecuted in the U.S.;
> - made false Black PR statements about me to various Russian agencies,
> including the Intelligence Service (FSB);
> - filed false criminal charges against me in Russia;
> - made false black PR statements about me to various German agencies,
> including the Intelligence Service (OPC);
> - assaulted me on three occasions during peaceful pickets;
> - threatened several of my friends or associates with prosecution for
> associating with me;
> - terrorized the people I lived with in Germany with a phony bomb
> scare;
> - terrorized me and others on a German autobahn;
> - threatened me with prosecution if I testified even though compelled
> by subpoena;
> - by false statements, fraud and threat obtained orders jailing me;
> - by false statements, fraud and threat obtained warrants for my
> arrest.
>
> See, e.g., http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/index.html
> I believe that this list, and the incidents I am aware of that
> comprise the list, represent but a small fraction of the actual
> post-"settlement" overt and covert fair game attacks by the
> "parties" to Scientology's "contract."
>
> 136. It is now clear that para. 18(E) was included by Scientology
> in its "settlement contract" for the purpose of deceiving me into
> thinking that the Scientology entities really did seek peace, would
> act decently toward me after the "settlement," and would stop fair
> gaming me, stop black PRing me, and leave me in peace. Scientology
> claims, and must claim, that all its post-"settlement" black PR,
> Internet hatred, forgeries, false sworn statements, false criminal
> charges, assaults, threats, efforts to cause me trouble with
> various national agencies and intelligence services, and all the other
> forms of fair game, are "consistent" with the organization's
> "settlement contract."
>
> 137. Thus it is now clear that in its "settlement" with me
> Scientology did not want peace but wanted to continue its war on me,
> and with its "contract" wanted, and believed
>
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>
> it had created and obtained, a license to fair game me with impunity,
> since the organization also insists that I am prohibited by its
> "contract" from responding in any way to its attacks. If I do respond
> to defend myself against Scientology's black propaganda and other fair
> game attacks, the organization insists that I must pay $50,000
> in liquidated damages for each response. Scientology has filed five
> lawsuits against me since the "settlement," for breach of its
> "contract" or related claims as a result of my responses to the
> organization's post-"settlement" fair game attacks. Scientology
> obtained, abetted, I believe, by judicial malfeasance, a summary
> judgment that forced me into bankruptcy. As a result of my continuing
> to defend myself from Scientology's fair game, the organization also
> obtained, abetted again by judicial malfeasance, a series of
> contempt orders and arrest warrants against me.
>
> 138. The idea that by signing Scientology's "contract" I was to
> become its defenseless fair game punching bag was never communicated
> to me at any time before the "settlement." I did not accept this
> condition then, or any time since, and I completely reject it now. The
> way in which Scientology is interpreting its "contract," the way in
> which the organization is acting in continuing to terrorize and fair
> game me, and the judicial approval and abetment it has obtained for
> its interpretation, for its fair game attacks and for punishing me for
> my responding to those attacks, have created a condition of slavery,
> that was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.
> Constitution. In large part, what makes a slave is his lack of a legal
> right that non-slaves possess to respond to whatever abuse is heaped
> on him by his "master," and a corresponding "right" of the "master" to
> heap more abuse or punishment on the slave if he does respond. What
> Scientology sought, and believed it obtained in its "settlement" with
> me was a slavery contract, which stripped me of my basic civil rights.
>
> 139. Scientology got me to sign its "settlement contract" by
> fraud and duress. The fraud was the organization's assertion that it
> wanted peace and promised peace and the end of fair game for my
> attorney, his family, me and everyone else if I signed. The duress was
> the threat that if I didn't sign the organization would continue, or
> even escalate, its fair game campaign against Flynn, his family, me
> and everyone. Scientology and its lawyers continue to this day to
> perpetrate the fraud that with their "settlement" and "settlement
> contract" they sought peace. See, e.g., complaint in Scientology v.
> Armstrong, Marin County, California Superior Court No. 152229:
>
> With this complaint, plaintiff seeks the Court's aid in obtaining the
> peace for which it bargained more than five years ago.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a2/ver-complaint-152229.html
> 3:9-10 See also, e.g., this statement of Scientology attorney Andrew
> H. Wilson in his letter dated May 8, 1997:
>
> Mr. Armstrong professes interest in "a sane and lasting peace." That
> is just what CSI bargained and paid for in the 1986 Settlement and is
> just what its efforts to enforce that agreement have been aimed at.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/wilson-ltr-abbott-05-08-1997-
txt.html
>
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>
> 140. It is insulting and a furtherance of fair game for
> Scientology to have ever claimed, and continue to claim, in the face
> of all of the evidence of its post-"settlement" black PR and other
> fair game attacks that "a sane and lasting peace" was what the
> organization "bargained and paid for in the 1986 Settlement." It is
> not a condition of peace, certainly not a sane and lasting one, for a
> "settling" party, in this case a malevolent cult, to continue to
> attack a person in whatever way the cult chooses after the
> "settlement" and for the victim of the attacks to not be able to
> respond to defend himself. Scientology and Scientologists may consider
> such a condition "peace," but it is an insane and cruel "peace," and
> therefore not peace at all. If Scientology acknowledged, of course,
> that the condition it calls "peace" that it seeks to impose on me, in
> which by "contract" all of the Scientology "parties," "releases" or
> "beneficiaries" can heap all the abuse on me they want, assault me,
> cheat me, black PR me, prosecute, persecute and destroy me, and I
> cannot respond to defend myself, is not peace, the organization would
> also have to acknowledge its fraud in obtaining my signature on its
> fair game "settlement contract."
>
> 141. The duress of fair game on Flynn, and on his clients, as
> well as the implied promise that fair game would end with the global
> "settlement" and the threat that fair game would continue if the
> "settlement," in which I had been positioned as the "deal breaker,"
> didn't occur, are reflected to some degree in a "Settlement Agreement"
> between Flynn and his clients, including me, signed at about the same
> time as the "settlement contracts" with Scientology.
>
> [We, the settling claimants] acknowledge that many of the
> cases/clients involved in this settlement have been in litigation
> against the Church of Scientology for more than six to seven years,
> that many have been subjected to intense, and prolonged harassment by
> the Church of Scientology throughout the litigation, and that the
> value of the respective claims stated therein is measured in part by
> the (a) length and degree of harassment; (b) length and degree of
> involvement in the litigation; (c) the individual nature of each
> respective claim in connection with either their involvement with the
> Church of Scientology as a member and/or as a litigant; (d) the unique
> value of each case/client based on a variety of things including, but
> not limited to, the current procedural posture of a case, specific
> facts unique to each case, and financial, emotional or consequential
> damage in each case; that we agree and acknowledge that Michael J.
> Flynn has primarily been responsible for bearing the cost of the
> litigation over a period of approximately seven years, that he or his
> firm's members have been required to defend approximately 17 lawsuits
> and/or civil/criminal contempt actions instituted by the Church of
> Scientology against him, his associates and clients, that he and his
> family have been subjected to intense and prolonged harassment, and
> that his claims against the Church of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard,
> and his participation as an attorney have a unique value which is
> accurately and properly reflected in the allocations set forth herein.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/flynn-clients-settlement-agre
ement.html
>
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>
> 142. It is beyond argument that a central purpose of
> Scientology's December 1986 "settlement contract" with me is to
> deprive me of certain rights and privileges guaranteed by the U.S.
> Constitution and laws. Since Scientology obtained my signature on its
> "contract" by fraud and duress, specifically by pre-"settlement" fair
> game, including criminal acts or threatened criminal acts against
> Michael Flynn, his family, his associates and clients, me and my
> friends and associates, and Scientology's threat to continue fair
> game against all of us if I did not sign, the "contract" and all the
> acts of fair game against any of us constitute a willful and massive
> violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, "Conspiracy Against Rights," which states
> in pertinent part:
>
> If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
> intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
> Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right
> or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United
> States, or because of his having so exercised the same;...
> They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten
> years, or both.
> http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/241.html
>
> 143. The rights or privileges secured to me by the Constitution
> or laws of the United States that the Scientology entities and their
> agents and legal counsel conspired to injure, oppress, threaten, or
> intimidate me in the free exercise or enjoyment of, as evidenced in
> their "contract" include:
>
> 1. Right to freedom of speech, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, 7H, 7I, 7L,
> 10 and 18(D);
> 2. Right to self-defense, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7G, 7H, 7I and 10;
> 3. Right to freedom of association, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, 7H and
> 10;
> 4. Right to due process, by paras. 4A, 4B, 7D, 7E, 7G, 7H, 7I and 10;
> 5. Right to the free exercise of religion, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G
> and 10;
> 6. Right to freedom from slavery, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7G, 7H, 7L and 10,
> and the totality of the "contract;"
> 7. Right to communicate with or petition government agencies, by
> paras. 7D, 7G, 7H, 10 and 18(D);
> 8. Right to report crimes, by paras. 7D, 7G, 7H, 7I, 10 and 18D;
> 9. Right to participate in the appellate process in my own appeal, by
> paras. 4A and 4B;
> 10. Litigant's privilege, by paras. 7G, 7H and 10;
> 11. Doctor-patient privilege, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, 7H, 7I, 7L, 10
> and 18(D); and,
> 12. Clergyman-penitent privilege, by paras. 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, 7H, 7I,
> 7L, 10 and 18(D).
>
> 144. Since Scientology's "contract" and its pre-"settlement" fair
> game acts against me, as well as against Flynn and everyone else, are
> elements in the organization's ongoing violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, I
> have a right to communicate about that crime and its elements, I have
> a right to defend myself against that ongoing crime being perpetrated
> against me, and I cannot lawfully be silenced about that crime and its
> elements. I also
>
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>
> have come to understand that I have a right, and indeed a duty,
> pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §4, "Misprision of Felony," to report that
> ongoing federal crime being committed by the Scientology-related
> entities, "parties," "releasees" or "beneficiaries" to the appropriate
> U.S. Government authorities, which I am hereby doing in and with this
> "Complaint Report." 18 U.S.C. §4 states:
>
> Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony
> cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as
> soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in
> civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined
> under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
> http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/4.html
>
> 145. Since the conditions of the "settlement contract" that have
> the purpose of depriving me of my rights and privileges secured to me
> by the U.S. Constitution and laws, through injury, threat, oppression
> and intimidation, constitute a felony under 18 U.S.C. §241, I have a
> right, and a duty, to not participate in that felony. Therefore I have
> a right and a duty to not act in conformance with the "contract's"
> conditions that unlawfully deprive me of my rights, to not be silenced
> about my Scientology-related experiences and knowledge, to not be
> threatened, oppressed or intimidated into not cooperating with persons
> or organizations who are adverse to this criminal organization,
> and to not be threatened, oppressed or intimidated into not assisting
> or advising individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or
> governmental agencies involved in or contemplating any activity
> adverse to the interests of Scientology-related participants and
> beneficiaries in this felony.
>
> 146. Since pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §4 it is my duty to make this
> "Complaint Report," which describes and reports the ongoing violation
> of 18 U.S.C. §241 by the Scientology-related entities or
> "beneficiaries" of the organization's "settlement contract," the
> "contract's" conditions that prohibit and punish the communication or
> transmission of this "Complaint Report" not only violate 18 U.S.C.
> §241 but necessarily also violate 18 U.S.C. §1512, "Tampering with a
> Witness, Victim, or an Informant," which states in pertinent part:
>
> (b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation or physical force, threatens,
> or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or
> engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to -
> (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an
> official proceeding;
> (2) cause or induce any person to -
> (A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other
> object, from an official proceeding;
> (B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to
> impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official
> proceeding;
> (C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness,
> or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official
> proceeding; or
>
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>
> (D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has
> been summoned by legal process; or
> (3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement
> officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the
> commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation
> of conditions of probation, parole, or release pending judicial
> proceedings; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
> than ten years, or both.
> [...]
> (e) For the purposes of this section -
> (1) an official proceeding need not be pending or about to be
> instituted at the time of the offense; and
> (2) the testimony, or the record, document, or other object need not
> be admissible in evidence or free of a claim of privilege.
> http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1512.html
>
> 147. Para. 7D of Scientology's 1986 "contract" implicitly
> requires the violation of 18 U.S.C. §1512 (b) (1), (2) (A) and (3).
>
> [Armstrong] further agrees that he will maintain strict
> confidentiality and silence with respect to his experiences with the
> Church of Scientology and any knowledge or information he may have
> concerning the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, or any of the
> organizations, individuals and entities listed in Paragraph 1 [of the
> "contract."] [] [Armstrong] agrees that if the terms of this paragraph
> are breached by him, that CSI and the other Releasees would be
> entitled to liquidated damages in the amount of $50,000 for each such
> breach.
>
> Para. 7H of Scientology's "contract" explicitly compels the violation
> of 18 U.S.C. §1512 (b) (1), (2) (A) and (C), and (3).
>
> Plaintiff agrees not to testify or otherwise participate in any other
> judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to
> Scientology or any of the Scientology Churches, individuals or
> entities listed in Paragraph 1 above unless compelled to do so by
> lawful subpoena or other lawful process. Plaintiff shall not make
> himself amenable to service of any such subpoena in a manner which
> invalidates the intent of this provision. Unless required to do so by
> such subpoena, Plaintiff agrees not to discuss this litigation or his
> experiences with and knowledge of the Church with anyone other than
> members of his immediate family. As provided hereinafter in Paragraph
> 18(d), the contents of this Agreement may not be disclosed.
>
> 148. Para. 10 of Scientology's "contract" explicitly compels a
> violation of 18 U.S.C. §1512 (b) (1), (2) (A) and (3).
>
> Plaintiff agrees that he will not assist or advise anyone, including
> individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or governmental
> agencies contemplating any claim or engaged in litigation or involved
> in
>
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>
> or contemplating any activity adverse to the interests of any entity
> or class of persons listed above in Paragraph 1 of this Agreement.
>
>
> 149. At the time of the "settlement" I did not consider
> Scientology to be a religion, and consequently was not aware of the
> extraordinary degree to which the organization was seeking with its
> "contract" to prohibit my free exercise of my religion. Nevertheless,
> because Scientology has declared itself a "religion," identifies its
> written and audio materials as "scriptures," and seeks and obtains all
> the privileges, protections and status conferred on any religion;
> because of my own religious beliefs, experiences and expressions, both
> after and before the "settlement;" because of my right to the free
> exercise of religion, and my growing understanding of that right; and
> because of the U.S. Constitution and laws that guarantee that right,
> the "contract's" impact on, indeed wholesale deprivation of, my
> freedom of religion, is a key part of the Scientology entities'
> conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, which cannot be ignored.
>
> 150. Para. 7G requires that I never be "audited," or even seek
> "auditing" from any "auditor," or obtain any "service" from any
> "Scientologist," which is an obvious and constitutionally
> impermissible prohibition of religious exercise.
>
> [Armstrong] agrees that he will never again seek or obtain spiritual
> counselling or training or any other service from any Church of
> Scientology, Scientologist, Dianetics or Scientology auditor,
> Scientology minister, Mission of Scientology, Scientology organization
> or Scientology affiliated organization.
>
> If the "contracting" Scientology entities had absolute control over
> every person in the world who might be engaged in "auditing" or, as it
> is termed here, "spiritual counseling," and had absolute control over
> every person who calls himself a "Scientologist," such a prohibition,
> although still arguably a constitutionally impermissible denial of
> religious freedom, is conceivably enforceable by the entities
> themselves. But the "contracting" Scientology entities do not and
> cannot control who can "audit" or who can call himself a
> "Scientologist," and such control would itself be a constitutionally
> impermissible proscription of religious liberty and expression.
>
> 151. The "contracting" Scientology entities certainly can
> prohibit me, even without any "contract," from being "audited" or
> obtaining "services" from Scientology organizations, groups or
> Scientologists over which they have absolute control. But these
> entities cannot lawfully prohibit me by contract from being "audited"
> or obtaining "services" from Scientology organizations, groups or
> Scientologists that these entities do not control. Since Scientology
> has declared itself to be a "religion," the "contract's" "auditing"
> prohibition is equivalent to, e.g., a Christian church prohibiting a
> person by "contract" from, e.g., praying to God. The Christian church
> has the lawful authority to prevent that person from praying to God in
> or on the premises it owns or controls, because that church entity has
> the lawful authority to prevent the person from being on its premises;
> but it cannot lawfully, by "contract" or otherwise, prevent that
> person from praying to God everywhere else in the world.
>
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>
> 152. The Christian church, of course, by, e.g., fraud and years
> of fair game attacks, might get the person to sign a "contract" in
> which he "agrees that he will never again pray to God or attend any
> service at any Christian church (or all churches of any religion
> for that matter) or seek or obtain any service from any Christian or
> Christian-affiliated organization." But no secular court in the U.S.,
> except one deranged, or corrupted by the "Church" entity, would
> consider enforcing such a ridiculous and patently constitutionally
> impermissible proscription of the "contractee's" religious liberty.
> The Scientology entities' "contractual" prohibition of my being
> "audited" by every "auditor" in the world in every place in the world
> is just as ridiculous, just as constitutionally impermissible, and
> just as lawfully unenforceable in the U.S.'s secular courts.
>
> 153. Since it is obvious that I cannot lawfully be prohibited
> from being "audited" by anyone who agrees to "audit" me, it is,
> moreover, obvious, for the same reason, that I cannot lawfully be
> prohibited from discussing Scientology, and my experiences in and in
> relation to the organization and the persons and entities who comprise
> the "parties" or "beneficiaries" to the "contract." "Auditing" is a
> part of Scientology and, for "auditing" to occur at all, necessitates
> the discussion of Scientology and of experiences in and in relation to
> Scientology and the "contract's" "parties" or "beneficiaries." The
> "contract's" prohibition of my being "audited," and the threat that I
> would be punished by a secular court, required to pay a $50,000
> liquidated damages penalty, fined and jailed if I sought
> or obtained "auditing" is a clear violation of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 154. The "contractual" prohibition against seeking or obtaining
> any service from any Scientologist or Scientology affiliated
> organization, is equivalent to, and just as nonsensical, just as
> constitutionally impermissible, just as lawfully unenforceable, and
> just as impossible as, e.g., a "contractual" prohibition against
> seeking or obtaining any service from any Christian or Christian
> affiliated organization. Such a prohibition would mean that the
> "contractee" of the Christian church entity could not get his car
> repaired by a Christian, could not purchase insurance from a
> Christian, and could not use the services of a Christian painter,
> engineer, computer technician, taxi driver, ISP, doctor or lawyer.
> The list of services provided by Christians or Christian affiliated
> organizations, is, of course, enormous, but Scientologists and
> Scientology affiliated organizations provide, or potentially can
> provide an equally enormous list of services.
>
> 155. For the Christian church entity's "contractee" to determine
> whether he was allowed to seek or obtain service from a particular
> service provider, the "contractee" would, at a minimum, have to ask
> the service provider if he was a Christian, since Christians can
> look the same as people of all other religions. Since if the service
> provider was in fact a Christian he would have an extremely high
> incentive to lie, both to sell the "contractee" the service and to
> fool the "contractee" in order to collect a commission on the
> potential liquidated damages award, the "contractee" would have a high
> need to ensure that the service provider is telling the truth. The
> "contractee" therefore would have an obligation to question the
> service provider about Christianity, and about his religious beliefs
> and affiliations, and even to investigate the service provider to make
> sure he does nothing the least bit Christian in life.
>
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> 156. Being faced with the equivalent problem and necessity of
> determining whether I am permitted by "contract" to seek or obtain
> services from a potential provider, I would, at a minimum, have to ask
> him if he is a Scientologist. If the provider was a Scientologist, he
> would have even more and greater incentives to lie to me than the
> Christian service provider would have to lie to the Christian entity's
> "contractee," because not only would the Scientologist want to sell me
> the service and fool me in order to collect a commission on the
> liquidated damages award, but also because lying is a "sacrament" to
> Scientologists whereas it is very unsacred to Christians, and adopting
> wog covers for running ops on intelligence targets like me is in
> Scientology a "religious activity." I would also, therefore, have an
> obligation to discuss with the potential service provider his
> experiences with Scientology, his knowledge of all of the organization
> entities, and his religious beliefs and affiliations, and to
> investigate the provider to ensure he is not a covert or closet
> Scientologist.
>
> 157. Para. 7D of the "settlement contract," however, requires
> that I will maintain strict confidentiality and silence with respect
> to [my] experiences with [ ]Scientology and any knowledge or
> information [I] may have concerning [ ] Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard,
> or any of the organizations, individuals and entities listed [in the
> contract as "parties," "releasees" or "beneficiaries"].
>
> Para. 7D also requires that I not discuss with others, concerning
> their experiences with [ ] Scientology, or concerning their personal
> or indirectly acquired knowledge or information concerning [ ]
> Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard or any of the organizations,
> individuals and entities listed [in the contract as "parties,"
> "releasees" or "beneficiaries"].
>
> Para. 7D, moreover, subjects me to a $50,000 liquidated damages
> penalty for each instance in which I discuss with anyone my
> experiences with Scientology or any knowledge or information I have
> concerning Scientology or any of the organizations, individuals and
> entities comprising the "contract's" "parties," "releasees" or
> "beneficiaries," and subjects me to a $50,000 liquidated damages
> penalty for each instance in which anyone discusses with me his
> experiences or his personal or indirectly acquired knowledge or
> information concerning Scientology or any of the "parties,"
> "releasees" or "beneficiaries." This equals, of course, $100,000 per
> two-person discussion in liquidated damages penalties if both my
> fellow discusser and I discuss anything about our respective
> experiences or knowledge or information.
>
> 158. The "contracting" Scientology entities have refused to
> identify who are all the Scientologists in the world so that I can,
> should I ever decide to respect the "contract's" ridiculous
> prohibitions, avoid seeking out any of those Scientologists for
> services of any kind. Scientology claims publicly that there are eight
> to fifteen million Scientologists in the world, and although, as I
> mentioned, lying is a Scientology sacrament, and there is no
> where near that number, there are still at least tens of thousands. As
> with Christians, it is impossible to tell Scientologists from members
> of other religions by their appearance, so without my being able to
> discuss with potential service providers their experiences with
> Scientology or their knowledge or information about the organization
> and all the
>
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> "contract's" "parties," "releasees" or "beneficiaries," I could easily
> be entrapped, framed or set up.
>
> 159. The "contracting" Scientology entities have also refused to
> identify all or any of the "all Scientology and Scientology affiliated
> organizations and entities and their officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns
> and legal counsel" who comprise the "contract's" "parties,"
> "releasees" or "beneficiaries," about whom I must "maintain strict
> confidentiality and silence." There must be tens of thousands of these
> organizations, entities and individuals whose identities the
> "contracting" Scientology entities refuse to divulge to me, but about
> whom I am expected to be silent. If I but say the name of one these
> organizations, entities or individuals, pursuant to the "contract," I
> must pay $50,000 in liquidated damages.
>
> 160. These scenarios that involve seeking or obtaining "auditing"
> or "services" from Scientologists demonstrate the absurdity and
> judicial unenforceability of the prohibition against these activities
> that Scientology has included in its "settlement contract." Comparing
> what the "contracting" Scientology entities are saying and doing to a
> Christian church entity compelling someone by "contract," on threat of
> a $50,000 liquidated damages penalty, to never pray and to never seek
> or obtain services from any Christian, shows what Scientology is doing
> to be a preposterous, albeit sick and threatening joke.
>
> 161. As has been shown herein, Scientology under David
> Miscavige's leadership, has a twenty-two year history of intelligence
> operations against me to entrap and frame me, multiple efforts to have
> me prosecuted on false charges, and many other fair game attacks
> to destroy me socially, financially, emotionally, legally and humanly.
> Scientology's "settlement contract" is itself a tool of entrapment,
> because the organization's continuing black PR and fair game attacks
> after the "settlement" brought me to respond to defend myself, and my
> responses gave the organization the ammunition it needed and wanted in
> order to further fair game me, abetted by a malfeasant judge, into
> bankruptcy and into more black PR and more fair game. Thus the
> potential for entrapment in such seemingly ludicrous language as the
> "contract's" prohibition against seeking or obtaining "auditing"
> or "services" cannot simply be laughed away.
>
> 162. Comparing the "contract's" prohibition against my discussing
> Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, the "beneficiaries" and my experiences
> and knowledge concerning all of them, with a "contractual" prohibition
> against discussing another religion, its Diety, its organizations and
> their personnel and a person's experiences and knowledge in that
> religion, also shows such a prohibition to be a constitutionally
> impermissible deprivation of religious liberty, and consequently
> lawfully judicially unenforceable. Again using the Christian church
> entity by way of example, the speech prohibition that Scientology
> seeks to impose is equivalent to silencing someone by "contract" about
> God, Christ, the Bible, Christianity, Christian history, and the
> person's religious experiences as a Christian. It is impossible that
> any court in the U.S., except, again, one deranged or corrupted, would
> ever enforce such a condition against anyone, Christian or
> non-Christian.
>
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>
>
> 163. The single exception to the condition compelling "strict
> confidentiality and silence" with respect to my experiences with
> Scientology and any knowledge or information I may have concerning
> Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, or any of the "releasees," which permits
> me, as provided in para. 7H, to discuss these things with my
> "immediate family," is senseless and insulting. Providing such an
> exception to the condition compelling a person to maintain "strict
> confidentiality and silence" about God, Christ, the Bible, and the
> person's religious experiences as a Christian, which permits
> him to discuss these things only with his "immediate family," is
> obviously senseless and insulting, and does nothing to make the
> "strict confidentiality and silence" condition less lawfully
> unenforceable in a secular court in the U.S.
>
> 164. A person's immediate family may very well not be the people
> with whom he needs to, or is called to, discuss these religious
> matters of God, Christ, Christianity or his Christian religious
> experiences; or, in my case, these "religious" matters of Hubbard,
> Scientology and my Scientological religious experiences. In my case as
> well, this "immediate family" exception, if I respected it at all,
> would bind my family members into a "contractual" relationship with
> Scientology and put them squarely in Scientology's fair game sights.
> The demonstrably superlitigious Scientology organization would use my
> family as their agents to police me, and at a minimum would be
> constantly hauling them into depositions to find out what I am saying
> to them, what they are passing on outside the family, and what
> opportunities could be created for liquidated damages penalties
> against my family. Thus there is safety in discussing the Scientology
> "religious" matters with as many people as possible outside my
> immediate family in order to defocus and diffuse the organization's
> legal and extralegal fair game threat, and so reduce it for my
> family and everyone else.
>
> 165. To get a victim, by fraud, fair game and the threat of more
> fair game, to sign a "contract" containing a condition that prohibited
> him from communicating about God, Christ, the Bible, Christianity,
> Christian history, and the person's religious experiences as a
> Christian, and then to use the U.S.'s secular courts to enforce that
> prohibition would constitute a clear violation of 18 U.S.C. §241. Even
> without the fraud and duress, such a condition would be an unlawful
> deprivation of religious liberty. No one but a practitioner of fraud
> and fair game, of course, a vindictive, dangerous cult in this case,
> would consider creating and enforcing such a "contractual" condition.
> It is inconceivable that a legitimate religion would create and
> attempt to enforce a "contract" that prohibited a person from
> discussing that religion and his religious experiences in that
> religion, and penalized the person $50,000 per utterance about that
> religion and his religious experiences; and Scientology's doing just
> that demonstrates this organization's religious illegitimacy.
>
> 166. There are circumstances and locations, of course, when a
> person can be lawfully and logically prevented from discussing his
> religious experiences and his knowledge of God, Christ, the Bible,
> Christianity, etc., as, e.g., in certain jobs, in certain school
> settings, or in the senior interests of public safety, public order or
> the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. A person cannot,
> however, be lawfully and logically prevented from discussing his
> religious experiences and his knowledge of God, Christ,
>
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> the Bible, Christianity, etc., in all circumstances and all locations
> (with or without the "immediate family" exception), and any organized
> effort to enforce such a prohibition would be a prima facie 18 U.S.C.
> §241 violation. In the case of the Scientology entities' "contractual"
> condition prohibiting me from, at all times, in all places, in all
> circumstances and with all people (except my immediate family),
> discussing my religious experiences and my knowledge of Scientology,
> Hubbard and the organization's "scriptures," the public safety and
> public order interests and the protection of the rights and freedoms
> of others weigh against such a condition's enforcement.
>
> 167. Scientology chose to be a religion, and has claimed, in
> order to obtain the legal advantages and protections and tax exemption
> that are granted to religions, that it is organized for solely
> religious purposes. The organization calls its writings on
> Scientology "religious scriptures," and, having called itself a
> "religion," attacks and vilifies the critics of its abuses and
> criminality with hate terms like "religious bigots" or "anti-religious
> extremists." See, e.g., Scientology's recent letter calling me an
> "anti-religious extremist," sent to the Directorate of Taxes in Oslo,
> Norway, and webbed on one of the organization's U.S.-based Internet
> hate sites.
>
> It is noteworthy that anti-religious extremist and fugitive from US
> justice, Gerald Armstrong, a close associate of Robert Minton, has
> been traveling in Europe, possibly on business for Minton. Armstrong's
> travel itinerary included Norway. Is it possible that Armstrong's
> reason for visiting Norway was to deliver funds to Heldal-Lund which
> could then be laundered through Minton's LMT, Inc., into Minton's
> personal account?
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/hate-pages/parishioners-org/2002-
10-30/norwtax.html
> What is actually noteworthy is that I had not been in Norway, have
> never been to Norway, have had nothing to do with delivering any funds
> to Mr. Heldal-Lund, and I am anything but an anti-religious extremist.
>
> 168. As has been shown, the Scientology entities comprising the
> "beneficiaries" of its 1986 "settlement contract" conspired and acted,
> by years of fair gaming my attorney, his family, me and others
> connected to me, by the false promise that these entities would end
> fair game forever against us all if I signed their "contract," and by
> the threat of continuing to fair game us all if I did not sign, to
> deprive me of, and threaten me in the free exercise and enjoyment of a
> set of vital rights and privileges secured to me by the U.S.
> Constitution and laws, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241. By
> post-"settlement" fair game, the continuing violation of 18 U.S.C.
> §241, and the compromise or corrupting of a Judge of the California
> State Superior Court for the County of Marin, as will be shown
> hereinafter, the Scientology entities, in enforcement of their
> "contract," obtained an "injunction" and "judgment" against me, which
> are themselves violations of 18 U.S.C. §241, since the "injunction"
> and "judgment" also deprive me of, and threaten me in the free
> exercise and enjoyment of that same set of vital rights and
> privileges, and injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate me for having
> exercised those rights and privileges.
>
> 169. Based on their unlawful "injunction" and "judgment," which
> constitute a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, the Scientology entities
> then obtained from the same Marin County
>
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> Superior Court a series of "contempt orders" that unlawfully fine and
> jail me for exercising the same set of rights that these entities had
> unlawfully conspired to deprive me of. Each of these "contempt orders"
> is a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, since they injure, oppress, threaten
> and intimidate me for having exercised the same set of vital rights
> secured to me by the U.S. Constitution and laws. Based on these
> unlawful "contempt orders," the same Marin County Superior Court
> issued warrants for my arrest, each of which is a violation of 18
> U.S.C. §241, since they injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate me
> for having exercised the same set of vital rights secured to me by the
> U.S. Constitution and laws.
>
> 170. The actions taken by the Marin County Superior Court,
> specifically Judge Gary W. Thomas, in granting Scientology an
> "injunction" and a "judgment" against me that willfully and unlawfully
> deprive me of certain vital rights secured to me by the U.S.
> Constitution and laws, in granting Scientology "contempt orders" that
> unlawfully injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate me for exercising
> those rights, and, pursuant to the unlawful "contempt orders," in
> issuing warrants for my arrest that also injure, oppress, threaten and
> intimidate me for exercising those rights, moreover constitute a
> series of violations of 18 U.S.C. §242, "Deprivation of Rights Under
> Color of Law," which states in pertinent part:
>
> Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or
> custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory,
> Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any
> rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the
> Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under
> this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
> http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/242fin.htm
>
> 171. The assertion in the bit of organization black PR quoted
> above from Scientology's letter to the Norwegian Tax Directorate that
> I am a "fugitive from US justice," as well as being a lie, is another
> violation of 18 U.S.C. §241. Having gotten me to sign their
> "contract" by fraud and duress in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241; having
> continued to black PR and fair game me after the "settlement" in
> violation of 18 U.S.C. §241; having compromised or corrupted a judge
> to enforce their unlawful "contract," with the grant of an
> "injunction," "judgment" and "contempt orders," and the issuance of
> arrest warrants, all in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241 and §242; and
> having, with their on-going civil rights crimes and threats, created
> an environment in which I was compelled to leave the U.S. in
> order to try to obtain the rights that the Scientology entities and
> the Marin Court were depriving me of and threatening and punishing me
> for exercising, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241 and §242; these
> entities then labeled me in their continuing black propaganda a
> "fugitive from U.S. Justice."
>
> 172. Scientology and people serving its purposes have labeled and
> libeled me with their "fugitive from justice" epithet in dozens if not
> hundreds of black PR publications. This black PR campaign is in
> execution of the Scientology entities' conspiracy to bring
> governments, government agencies, intelligence services, law
> enforcement, courts, media and individuals to view and treat me as
> criminal, and thus to abet these entities' civil
>
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> rights conspiracy by further depriving me of my rights and privileges,
> in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241. See, e.g., the 1998 edition of
> ""Freedom"" that Scientology distributed across Canada, attacking
> University of Alberta sociology professor Stephen Kent and me.
> Dr. Kent is a world-renowned scholar of cults and "new religious
> movements" and an expert in Scientology.
>
> Anti-religionist Stephen Kent [ ] has drawn on numerous discredited
> and disreputable sources including Gerry Armstrong [ ] a fugitive
> from justice who has boasted of his propensity for lying and
> fabrication.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/freedom-1998-vol2-iss1-1.html
>
> 173. See also, e.g., Scientology's letter dated April 20, 2001 to
> the Governor and Department of Internal Affairs of Nizhny Novgorod
> Province in Russia, the provincial office of the Russian Federal
> Security Service (FSB), the Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, the Metropolitan
> (the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Nizhny Novgorod
> Province), the provincial and city mass media, and the U.S. Embassy in
> Moscow. The letter states that similar letters, along with copies of
> the Marin Superior Court's warrants and "judgment" against me, were
> also sent to the Russian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
> Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Federal Ministry of Internal
> Affairs A man who is a fugitive from justice will be a speaker at the
> International Conference "Totalitarian Cults - the Menace of the
> Twenty-First Century" which will be held in Nizhny Novgorod April
> 23-25.
> [...]
> I am talking about Gerald Armstrong, a man who will take part in this
> conference and will present a paper on April 24, 2001.
> In May 1998 the Supreme Court of the State of California issued an
> order to "arrest him and to bring him to the court" and that this
> arrest "can be conducted any time day or night" (cited from the court
> decision). I should add that this Armstrong was to be brought before
> the court and held accountable for anti-religious propaganda.
> The order has not been executed until now for the simple reason that
> Armstrong is not at the moment residing in the US and thus is outside
> the reach of American justice.
> [...]
> I include here a copy of the document sent to me from the USA and I
> ask you to find out whose initiative it was to invite this man to
> Nizhny Novgorod, deliberately not informing the government that he is
> a criminal element. It is necessary to carefully screen all the list
> of the participants as well.
> I also would like to inform you that this document, with an
> explanatory letter similar to this one, has already been submitted to
> the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal
> Security Service of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of
> Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the information
> about the arrival of Armstrong in Russia has been handed to the U.S.
> Embassy in Russia so that the necessary measures may be taken for his
> detention.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-ltr-fsb-2001-04-20a.html
>
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> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/images/warrant-fax-1.gif
> See also the Russian translation of the "judgment:"
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/judgmnt-1996-03-02-russ.pdf
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/judgment-csi-v-armstrong.html
>
> 174. The truth is that I am no more a fugitive from justice than
> black slaves were that escaped from the United States before the
> abolition of slavery. The black slaves even broke the law in fleeing
> from their slave master oppressors; but by fleeing they did not
> become fugitives from justice, but fugitives from injustice. I have
> broken no laws, but have fled from a U.S. "religious" organization,
> abetted by a U.S. secular court, that seeks to destroy my rights, even
> my religious rights, and destroy me, in flagrant violation of U.S.
> Federal criminal civil rights statutes. The Scientology enterprise
> under the leadership of David Miscavige is a criminal conspiracy that
> persecutes people in accordance with its "religious scriptures," such
> as the "Suppressive Person Doctrine," "Fair Game" and "Use the Law to
> Harass," which mandate and justify crimes against designated human
> targets as "religious expression."
>
> 175. Miscavige's Scientology is a slaver cult, which has paid
> clever unscrupulous lawyers and operatives millions of dollars and has
> misused the U.S. justice system to make me be his organization's
> slave, to have me bend over for all the hate and abuse that
> Miscavige and his fellow slavery "beneficiaries" can pile on me. But I
> have not bent over and I will not, and like the blacks in the era of
> slavery by race, I have left the U.S. as a fugitive from injustice.
> When the people of goodwill and good minds in the U.S. nation
> come to their senses, grasp what Scientology is doing, and abolish
> this post-modern brand of slavery and injustice, I will return. But
> until this slavery is opposed by people of goodwill, and abolished, I
> would be as foolish to return to the U.S. as black ex-slaves
> would have been foolish to return before the end of nineteenth century
> slavery.
>
> 176. The Miscavige regime's libel of me as an "anti-religious
> extremist," stated in the letter to the Norwegian Tax Directorate and
> in a multitude of other organization black PR publications, is also a
> 18 U.S.C. §241 violation, because its obvious intended result is to
> bring governments, government agencies, intelligence services, law
> enforcement, courts, media and individuals to view and treat me as an
> "anti-religious extremist," and to view and treat my communications as
> "anti-religious extremism," and thus to abet this regime's civil
> rights conspiracy by further depriving me of my rights and privileges.
> Scientology also maintains an Internet site called "Religious Freedom
> Watch -- Defending Religious Rights," which black PRs me and positions
> me with some fifty-five other individuals whom the organization also
> accuses of being "Anti-Religious Extremists."
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/hate-pages/parishioners-org/2002-
10-30/extremists-index.html
> Scientology's obvious intent in the creation of this Internet hate
> site is to bring people to revile me, and to threaten and shudder me
> into silence, also in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 177. This anathematization as an "anti-religious extremist"
> serves Scientology's dual purposes of defaming and threatening the
> organization's critics and victims and at the
>
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> same time positioning Scientology as the persecuted party, the victim
> of anti-religious extremism. What all the Scientology entities who
> comprise the "beneficiaries" to its 1986 "settlement contract," are
> doing to me, however, shows beyond any question that these entities
> are the anti-religious extremists in this scenario, the religious
> persecutors, and anything but the "defenders of religious rights." I
> do not believe it is possible to find a more brazen or reprobate case
> of anti-religious extremism in America than this colossal 18 U.S.C.
> §241 conspiracy by Scientology involving two decades of fair game,
> millions of dollars paid to lawyers and covert operatives, assaults,
> threats, ceaseless black PR attacks, and using the secular courts to
> bankrupt, enjoin, fine, jail and hunt down a person to stop his
> perspicuous, peaceful, reasoned religious expression.
>
> 178. Since what Miscavige's Scientology is doing to me are acts
> comprising a colossal criminal conspiracy, accusing me of being an
> "anti-religious extremist," besides being demented, is a clear
> projection as Hubbard laid down for Scientologists who would be
> criminals in his Bulletin of September 15, 1981 "The Criminal Mind,"
> which is itself a projection of Hubbard's own criminality and criminal
> mind.
>
> A criminal is one who is motivated by evil intentions and who has
> committed so many harmful overt acts that he considers such activities
> ordinary.
> [...]
> The criminal accuses others of things which he himself is doing.
> [...]
> The FBI agent or executive accuses others of graft and even sets up
> "abscams" to manufacture the crime. But an FBI agent regularly pockets
> money supposed to be paid to informers and then screams to protect
> informer sources that do not exist.
> The FBI agent is terrified of being infiltrated and accuses others of
> it when, as standard practice, he infiltrates groups, manufactures
> evidence and then gets others charged for crimes his own plants have
> committed. The FBI acts like a terrorist group posing as law
> enforcement officers. Their targets seem to be legislators and
> Congress and public individuals who might someday have power over
> public opinion, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
> From all this we get another datum:
> The criminal mind relentlessly seeks to destroy anyone it imagines
> might expose it.
> [...]
> Individuals with criminal minds tend to band together since the
> presence of other criminals about them tends to prove their own
> distorted ideas of man in general.
> [...]
> The criminal only sees others as he himself is.
> One of the reasons he does this, of course, is to justify injuring
> others. Because everyone else is useless, worthless, criminal, an
> animal and insane, why then, he reasons, it is perfectly all right to
> injure them.
>
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>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/hcob-1981-09-15-the-criminal-m
ind-ex.html
>
> 179. There is no doubt that the Scientology entities are
> motivated by their evil intentions of destroying my civil rights, life
> and person, and they have indeed committed so many harmful overt acts
> against me over these twenty-two years that they consider such
> activities ordinary. They are accusing me of the things that they
> themselves are doing: carrying out their noxious brand of
> anti-religious extremism to destroy my religious rights. I am not
> trying to silence anyone, Scientologist or wog, about his religious
> beliefs, experience or knowledge, and I am not trying to deprive
> anyone of any rights secured to him by the U.S. Constitution or laws.
> There is also no doubt that the Scientology entities have entered into
> this 18 U.S.C. §241 conspiracy to destroy my rights and destroy me
> because they imagine I will expose their criminality.
>
> 180. Ironically, because they have banded together to form and
> execute this conspiracy to destroy me and destroy my right to expose
> them, which necessarily involves destroying my right to express my
> religious beliefs, experience and knowledge, the Scientology entities
> have, with each harmful overt act they have committed against me,
> made me ever freer legally to express those religious beliefs,
> experience and knowledge. Moreover, in the banding together and
> execution of this conspiracy, and with each harmful overt act, the
> Scientology entities have generated more criminality for exposure
> and more religious beliefs, experience and knowledge for expression. A
> "contract" that prohibits the exposure of criminal acts cannot be
> lawful; otherwise blackmail is lawful, because the goal or product of
> blackmail is simply a "contract" to not expose criminal acts. I am not
> a blackmailer, and I did not "settle" with the Scientology entities to
> not expose their future, or past, criminal acts, including their
> egregious violations of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 181. Because of their projection of their criminal mind
> "technology," of course, the Scientology entities' increasing
> determination and efforts to destroy me in order to prevent me from
> exposing their increasing criminality, and their increasing
> determination and efforts to black PR me as a "criminal element," a
> "fugitive from justice" and an "anti-religious extremist," as well as
> useless, worthless, insane and worse, in order to make it perfectly
> all right to injure me even more, it is also clear that I am in
> increasingly greater physical danger. Being in increasingly greater
> danger, naturally, increases both my need and lawful right to be able
> to communicate my beliefs, experiences and knowledge to be able to
> protect myself, and my family, friends and associates.
>
> 182. The truth is that, contrary to the Scientology entities'
> libel that I am an "anti-religious extremist," over the twenty-two
> years in which Scientology has considered me a "Suppressive Person"
> and fair gamed me to destroy my person and my rights, including
> my right to freedom of religion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, I
> have grown increasingly pro-religious. In 1991, I became a Christian,
> rejoining the religion in which I had been born and lived my
> childhood, and since that time I have believed that my opposition to
> Scientology's abuses, criminality and anti-religious extremism,
> particularly the organization's anti-Christian teachings and
> practices, was part of my responsibility,
>
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> ministry and burden as a Christian. I came to see, as made obvious by
> this extraordinary history of persecution by the Scientology
> "religion," that God had given me this history and allowed me to be
> persecuted by the organization for His purposes.
>
> 183. Indeed, I came to see that even my being suckered into
> joining Scientology, and all the years of abuse inside the
> organization, all the knowledge I gained of its structure and
> operations, and all my experiences inside were for God's purposes. He
> wanted me to become free of this diabolical and dangerous
> anti-religious extremism, and He wanted me to bring my knowledge and
> experiences to His other children, who were trapped in this cult or at
> risk of being trapped, to help them get free. Since I bring God's
> words and message of truth, love and freedom to His children caught in
> this cult of lies, hate and slavery, I am, theologically, a Prophet to
> Scientologists. Scientology and the people serving its malevolent,
> anti-religious purposes, naturally, denigrate and mock my being a
> prophet as part of their black PR campaign.
>
> 184. See, e.g., the black propaganda flyer that Scientology
> distributed across Germany, including to government officials, the
> intelligence service, law enforcement, the media, church officials,
> and individuals, in December 2002.
>
> At a gathering on December 7, 2002, Berlin cult priest Thomas Gandow
> presented Armstrong as a special guest and as a sort of refugee. The
> fact is that Armstrong left his homeland years ago because he
> continued to deliberately flout court orders and was facing arrest.
> Armstrong is in fact extremely duplicitous, and an outright hustler
> and lawbreaker. "I am a writer, artist and philosopher. Theologically
> speaking I am a prophet...", is what Armstrong stated in a written
> statement on January 26, 1997. And in fact he has more than once
> engaged himself as a prophet whose visions of the future, however, do
> not apply in his own country.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/black-pr-flier-2002-12.html
>
> 185. See also the Usenet black PR postings webbed at:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/usenet/index.html
>
> You're the liar, Gerry. It's a lie that you are a prophet. It's a lie
> that God speaks to you. It's a lie that you are doing God's work.
> You are delusional. Or worse, you may be *pretending* you're
> delusional.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/usenet/ars-diane-2002-11-15-1.htm
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>
> You criticize Gerry Jihad, Mark, like a fellow Republican would
> criticize George Bush, Jr. Honesty? No way! Mark Plummer's philosophy:
> criticize with loads of admiration and sucking up to the ARS prophet.
> So, Mark, since you're so inclined toward sucking up to and kissing
> Gerry Jihad's ass, no matter how much he trips over himself, how does
> Gerry Jihad taste??
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/usenet/ars-scarff-2002-12-06-2.ht
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>
> 186. And see, e.g., this malicious forgery written over my
> "signature:"
>
> I would be a truly pretended stupid interpretation that you goons are
> using to support or prove their pretended stupid conclusion that I am
> saying that
>
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>
> Bruce Ullman posts forgeries from remailers but uses his own email
> address to do it, then claims to be a pedophile. I am merely stating
> that it is certainly within the realm of technical possibility. This
> is my basic human right as a Prophet of God, which Scientology, in the
> very very pretended stupid pretended stupidity of it's War on Wogs
> (Wow!)® would deny me. Now you will have to excuse me. I have to go
> shove my cock down a 10 year old's throat.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/usenet/ars-forgery-2003-10-19-1.h
tml
>
> 187. My reconversion to Christianity in 1991, an event that is by
> hominids, both Scientologists and wogs, impossible to predict, is also
> an event that by its unpredictability demonstrates why the conditions
> in Scientology's "settlement contract" that prohibit any discussion of
> my experiences in and knowledge of Scientology are lawfully
> unenforceable. It is axiomatic that where there is no freedom to
> change one's mind about a religion and about one's religious beliefs,
> there is no freedom of religion. A person must be able to express his
> new beliefs and his old beliefs, his new and old religious experiences
> and knowledge that underlie and form those beliefs, and any other
> religious beliefs, experiences or knowledge about any other religion.
>
> 188. If it really is lawful to judicially enforce a
> Scientology-type "contract," then the secular courts will become the
> tools of "religious" entities to enforce prescribed or proscribed
> religious exercise. A Christian church minister could contract with
> the church's parishioners to never say the name "Allah," or
> "Mohammed," or ever discuss Islam or the Koran. Perhaps the minister
> could get the parishioners to sign his "contract" by threatening them
> with damnation if they didn't sign and promising them the end of
> damnation if they did sign. Perhaps the minister could include a
> $50,000 or so liquidated damages penalty for every violation, and they
> would sign when he says it's not worth the paper it's printed on. It
> is, of course, inconceivable that a secular court would enforce
> this contract if one of the parishioners decided one day to check out
> Islam, to study the Koran, or talk with a Muslim about Mohammed. For
> the same reason, judicial enforcement of Scientology's "contract" that
> prohibits me from saying the names "Scientology," "Hubbard" or
> "Miscavige" or discussing Scientology with anyone must
> be seen as inconceivable; or, since it has been shown to be
> conceivable, at least unlawful.
>
> 189. If the Christian church's "contract" with its parishioners
> is conceivable and lawful, and if a parishioner is caught discussing
> Islam with an Imam, or the Imam's daughter, the church would naturally
> file a breach of contract suit with a liquidated damages claim for
> $50,000, and for an injunction. The parishioner would think the
> lawsuit was nuts and a violation of the basic rights and privileges
> secured to him by the U.S. Constitution and laws, his freedom of
> speech, religion, association, etc. and he would defend himself with a
> profusion of affirmative defenses, including, obviously, fraud, duress
> and the fact that liquidated damages impermissibly act as penalty and
> were included in the "contract" without any negotiations as to their
> reasonableness. Nevertheless, if such a "contract" were lawful, the
> Christian church would obtain a summary judgment against the
> parishioner, drive him into bankruptcy, and get their injunction.
>
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>
> 190. If he thereafter ever discussed the Koran with anyone, and
> if a spy from the Christian church overheard the discussion, the
> church would file an application for a contempt order against the
> parishioner, he would be found in contempt of court, jailed and fined.
> If he couldn't be found, the judge would issue a warrant for a sheriff
> to pick him up. If the parishioner fled to Canada or Germany to be
> able to discuss Islam, or be able to say "Mohammed," the Christian
> church could still get more contempt orders, more fines and more jail
> sentences against him back in the U.S. Perhaps he got an
> Internet connection and found a Usenet discussion group like
> alt.religion.islam, and began to discuss the Koran and other Islamic
> texts and teachings with all sorts of people interested in the
> religion. The Christian church could assign some Christians to monitor
> the Islamic newsgroup, download a couple of hundred of his postings,
> sue him again, get a judgment for $10,000,000 or so, take the judgment
> to Canada or Germany and get some lawyer to collect on the judgment.
> Maybe the Christians' lawyer would be able to seize the parishioner's
> bicycle, his computer, or perhaps his Koran, or maybe his old
> Christian Bible.
>
> 191. Clearly this is a ridiculous scenario, but it is exactly
> what Scientology, since it calls itself a "religion," is doing, except
> that the Scientology organization is far more vindictive and criminal
> than the hypothetical Christian church, and is carrying out a
> global extrajudicial fair game campaign in conjunction with its
> judicial effort to prohibit and punish my religious expression of my
> religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge. There is, of course,
> the apparent difference between what the two "churches" are doing
> judicially, with the hypothetical Christian church prohibiting its
> parishioner from discussing religious figures, scripture and beliefs
> in a different religion from the one in which he is currently a
> member, whereas the real Scientology organization is prohibiting
> a person from discussing "religious" figures, scripture and beliefs in
> its own "religion." There is, however, no real difference between
> these scenarios; both are lawfully judicially unenforceable, and their
> creation and enforcement would both constitute violations of 18
> U.S.C. §241.
>
> 192. Perhaps, after the Christian church fair games its
> parishioner or former parishioner by terrorizing him on a freeway,
> assaulting him, spying on him, threatening him and black PRing him, he
> would sue the church, which then black PRs him even more
> around the world, runs some intelligence ops on him, pays a dirty cop
> to sign an illegal "authorization" to wiretap him, frames him with
> crimes, threatens him with assassination, divulges his confessional
> statements, etc., and fair games his lawyer with a similar campaign of
> threats, black PR, frame-ups, etc. Perhaps the church would offer to
> "settle" with the parishioner, promising to end fair game against him
> and everyone else forever if he signs the church's "settlement
> contract," and threatening to continue to fair game everyone if he
> doesn't sign. The "contract" that the Christian church presents for
> the parishioner's signature, obviously, would require that he never
> discuss God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, any other Christian
> text, and his Christian beliefs, experiences and knowledge. Such a
> "contractual" condition is, of course preposterous, as is the idea
> that any court in the U.S., except one deranged or corrupted, would
> enforce such a condition.
>
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>
> It would be an obscene violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, as is
> Scientology's equivalent "contractual" condition.
>
> 193. Again, as with the hypothetical Christian church's
> "contract" that prohibited praying to God, a person could be
> prohibited, by "contract" or not, from discussing God, Christ,
> Christianity, the Bible, other Christian texts, and his Christian
> beliefs, experiences and knowledge, while on the church's premises,
> simply because the church has a general right to control who is on its
> premises. But the Christian church could not lawfully prohibit a
> person from discussing God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other
> Christian texts, and the person's Christian beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge anywhere else or at any other time, because such a
> prohibition would be an impermissible deprivation of the person's
> Constitutionally guaranteed right to religious exercise, and therefore
> necessarily a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 194. The same must be true of the conditions in Scientology's
> "contract" that prohibit the discussion of the Scientological
> equivalents: Hubbard, "ecclesiastical head" Miscavige, Scientology,
> Scientology "scriptures," other Scientology writings, and a person's
> Scientology beliefs, experiences and knowledge. I can lawfully be
> prohibited from discussing Hubbard, Miscavige, Scientology,
> Scientology "scriptures," other Scientology writings, my Scientology
> beliefs, experiences and knowledge, and anything else, while on the
> organization's premises, simply because it can lawfully keep me off
> its premises. But I cannot lawfully be prohibited from discussing
> Hubbard, Miscavige, Scientology, Scientology "scriptures," other
> Scientology writings, and my Scientology beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge anywhere else or at any other time, because such a
> prohibition would be an impermissible deprivation of my
> Constitutionally guaranteed right to religious exercise, and therefore
> necessarily a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 195. If Congress has made a law that now makes it possible for
> people to be prohibited in the free exercise of religion, Congress did
> so in violation of the "free exercise clause" of the First Amendment
> to the U.S. Constitution, and without repealing or amending the
> First Amendment. It is, obviously, inconceivable that the framers and
> ratifiers of the First Amendment had in mind in 1791 a qualifier to
> the Amendment that would allow churches or religions to use the U.S.'s
> secular courts to prohibit people, with $50,000 liquidated damages
> penalties, from discussing God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other
> Christian texts, and the person's Christian beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge, and send people to jail if they refused to stop discussing
> these religious subjects. The First Amendment, of course, states:
>
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
> prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
> speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
> assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
>
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amend
ment
>
> 196. It is also inconceivable that the framers and ratifiers of
> the First Amendment had in mind an exception that would allow a new
> "religion," or a noxious cult, two hundred years later to use the
> U.S.'s secular courts to prohibit someone, on penalty of $50,000 in
>
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> liquidated damages, from discussing that new "religion's" "source,"
> "ecclesiastical head," "scriptures," and the person's religious
> beliefs, experiences and knowledge in that "religion." If it has
> become lawful for Scientology to use the U.S.'s secular courts to
> prohibit the free exercise of religion, by prohibiting a person's
> discussion of the religion and his religious beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge, whereas it would be absurd, outrageous, impossible and
> unlawful for a Christian church to use the secular courts to
> prohibit the free exercise of religion, by prohibiting a person from
> discussing God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other Christian
> texts, and the person's Christian beliefs, experiences and knowledge,
> then by this favoritism and special privilege conferred on
> Scientology to so prohibit the free exercise of religion, Congress
> must have made a law, in violation of the First Amendment, which
> effectively establishes Scientology as the U.S. State Religion.
>
> 197. Since the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was
> important enough to be framed and ratified, to have survived for over
> two hundred years, and to have guided the U.S. Government's conduct
> and the conduct of its citizens all those years, every citizen would
> have a right, pursuant to the same First Amendment, to discuss either
> the new "Scientology law" that creates exceptions to the establishment
> and free exercise clauses, or, if no such law exists, to discuss
> Scientology's assault on the First Amendment and the organization's
> efforts to create such exceptions. This right to speak about the new
> "Scientology law" or Scientology's assault on the First Amendment
> would necessarily involve a right to discuss the identify, nature,
> teachings, doctrines, policies, practices and personnel of the entity
> for which the new "law" was created or which is executing the
> First Amendment assault. This right to speak about the entity for
> which the new "law" was made or which is assaulting the First
> Amendment would naturally extend, and even particularly extend, to the
> person or persons who would be most affected and whose
> rights would be most endangered by such new "law" or assault.
>
> 198. If Scientology is being granted this special right to
> prohibit a person from discussing the organization's source, leader
> and teachings and the person's beliefs, experiences and knowledge in
> Scientology, which right would never be granted to, e.g., a Christian
> church, because Scientology is not really "church" and not really a
> religion, it is not really organized for "religious purposes," and its
> writings really are not "scriptures," then Scientology's
> representations that it is a "religion" organized for "religious
> purposes," and that its writings are "scriptures," are fraudulent.
> Even if, however, Scientology is a global religious fraud, it would
> still be lawfully impermissible to prohibit a person from discussing
> the fraud, its creator, its operation, its literature and the person's
> beliefs about the fraud, his experiences in and with the fraud, and
> his knowledge of the fraud. Prohibiting a person from communicating
> about a fraud, and punishing him for communicating about a fraud,
> would still constitute a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241.
>
> 199. That all of the "settlement contract's" "beneficiaries," in
> addition to being co-conspirators in their organization's conspiracy
> to deprive me of my rights in violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, are also
> knowing participants in a gargantuan religious fraud is shown by
> the fact that this conspiracy is a willful, flagrant violation of
> their own "Creed of the Church of Scientology," which states in
> pertinent part:
>
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> We of the Church believe:
> That all men of whatever race, color, or creed were created with equal
> rights;
> That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices
> and their performance;
> That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
> That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
> That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;
> That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or
> support their own organizations, churches and governments;
> That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely,
> to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write
> upon the opinions of others;
> [...]
> And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside
> these rights, overtly or covertly.
> http://www.scientology.org/world/worldeng/corp/creed.htm
>
>
> 200. In truth, as Scientology's "settlement contract" proves
> beyond any doubt, every director, officer, employee, representative,
> volunteer, agent and attorney of every Scientology corporation,
> organization, group or affiliated entity is bound by "contract" to
> violate each of these creedal precepts, even if such a creed violation
> also constitutes a violation of 18 U.S.C. §241 for which each
> co-conspirator could be sentenced to up to ten years in U.S. Federal
> prison. On the other hand, I refuse to participate in their criminal
> conspiracy, indeed by law I am obligated to refuse to so participate,
> and I refuse to violate any of these creedal precepts. Since a "creed"
> is a doctrinal formula intended to define what is held by a church or
> religion as true and essential and to exclude what is held to be a
> false belief, it is clear that I am by creed more of a Scientologist
> than any of those directors, officers, employees, representatives,
> volunteers and agents of every Scientology corporation, organization,
> group or affiliated entity who comprise the "contract's"
> "beneficiaries."
>
> 201. Even if a person had completely left Christianity and
> forsworn its creed, he could not lawfully be prohibited by a Christian
> church from discussing God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other
> Christian texts, or his Christian beliefs, experiences and knowledge,
> because, among other reasons, he could decide to reconvert to his
> former religion at any time. Thus, even if I had completely left
> Scientology, and even forsworn its "creed," which clearly I have not,
> because the organization calls itself a "religion," I could not
> lawfully be prohibited from discussing Scientology, its "scriptures,"
> other writings about the "religion," the "religion's" founder Hubbard,
> its "ecclesiastical head" Miscavige, and my Scientology-related
> religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge, since, among other
> reasons, I could decide to reconvert to Scientology at any time. For
> the free exercise of religion to exist at all, citizens would have to
> retain the absolute right to freely leave and reconvert to any
> religion as many times and as often as they chose.
>
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>
> 202. Because Scientology has chosen to call itself a "religion,"
> the "churches," organizations, corporations, groups, entities, and
> individuals comprising the Scientology "religion" have necessarily
> given up any right to prohibit or control the practice or exercise of
> the "religion," except on their own premises and among the members of
> their own, wholly controlled "churches," organizations, corporations,
> groups or entities. It would be ridiculous of a Christian church to
> attempt to prohibit a person from practicing or exercising the
> religion of Christianity, because he could simply go to any number of
> other Christian churches that are not under the control of the
> prohibiting church.
>
> 203. It is equally ridiculous of this one Scientology "church,"
> the "contracting" "Church of Scientology International," and all of
> the other "beneficiaries" of the "settlement contract," no matter how
> many of them there are, to prohibit me from practicing or exercising
> Scientology, because I do not need any of them to do so. I can
> practice or exercise Scientology by myself, with any group,
> organization or "church" I form to be able to do so, or with any
> Scientologist or Scientology group, organization or "church" already
> not under the control of these "beneficiaries."
>
> 204. Since a person cannot lawfully be prohibited from
> converting, reconverting or re-reconverting to Christianity, or
> lawfully prohibited by one Christian church from attending any or all
> of the other churches in the world, or lawfully prohibited from
> practicing or exercising Christianity, he could not lawfully be
> prohibited from discussing God, Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other
> Christian texts, or his Christian beliefs, experiences and knowledge,
> since he would have to be able to discuss these things just to
> participate at all in the Christian religion. Likewise, a person
> cannot lawfully be prohibited from converting, reconverting or
> re-reconverting to Scientology, since it calls itself a "religion," or
> lawfully prohibited by this set of Scientology "beneficiaries" to a
> "contract," from practicing or exercising Scientology, and
> consequently he could not lawfully be prohibited from discussing
> Hubbard, Scientology, its "scriptures," other writings about the
> "religion," Miscavige, and the person's Scientology-related religious
> beliefs, experiences and knowledge, because he would have to be able
> to discuss these things just to participate at all in the Scientology
> religion.
>
> 205. Because of human beings' innate desire for religious
> liberty, which was a major factor in the early settlement of the U.S.,
> and which the framers and ratifiers of the First Amendment to the U.S.
> Constitution certainly recognized, it is natural, and almost
> inevitable, that the hypothetical Christian parishioner who was conned
> and threatened by his hypothetical Christian church into signing a
> "contract" that prohibited him from discussing Allah, Mohammed, the
> Koran or Islam, would, even just because of that proscription, search
> out people with whom to discuss these prohibited subjects, and
> discuss them.
>
> 206. Because of the same innate desire for religious liberty, it
> is natural and inevitable that the hypothetical person prohibited by
> the hypothetical Christian church's "contract" from discussing God,
> Christ, Christianity, the Bible, other Christian texts, or his
> Christian beliefs, experiences and knowledge, would risk being
> assessed $50,000 per utterance in liquidated damages penalties, and
> risk being jailed and fined, to exercise his religious
>
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>
> freedom and discuss these "contractually" prohibited subjects. There
> have in fact been Christians in recent years who have chosen to
> discuss these subjects in repressive third world countries where the
> Christians knew such discussions could be punishable with
> execution.
>
> 207. It was therefore natural, and, God being What He is,
> inevitable that, out of my own God-given desire for religious liberty,
> and a growing understanding of what religious liberty is, brought
> about in no small part by my "religious" persecution at the hands of
> the Scientologists and their agents, I would come to discuss and speak
> out about the very subjects the organization sought, by "contract" and
> extrajudicial fair game, to prohibit me from discussing. It was also
> natural, God-given and inevitable, since, after leaving Scientology, I
> had been brought to reconvert to Christianity, that I would be
> brought to speak out about Hubbard's and Scientology's anti-Christian
> teachings. Because such a reconversion is entirely in God's Hands and
> cannot be predicted by terrestrial hominids, and because what God will
> call a person to do as a Christian is also entirely in His Hands, it
> is not rational to try by "contract" to proscribe that conversion or
> what the convert will be called to do, and such a "contract" cannot be
> lawfully enforceable because it necessarily proscribes the free
> exercise of religion.
>
> 208. According to the way that the First Amendment guarantee of
> the free exercise of religion and the guarantee of the
> non-establishment of religion have come to be interpreted in judicial
> proceedings, no secular court in the U.S. has the authority or right
> to adjudge the truth or falsity of any religious belief. This would
> necessarily also mean that no U.S. secular court could, as qualified
> by the senior interests of public safety, public order or the
> protection of the rights and freedoms of others, adjudge what is
> or is not a religious belief. Scientology maintains, for example, as
> "religious beliefs" that the law is to be used to harass people, and
> that people whom the organization decides are "Suppressive Persons"
> are evil, deserve no civil rights, and should be disposed of quietly
> and without sorrow. My religious beliefs include the belief that such
> Scientological "religious beliefs" are themselves evil, and that I
> have a religious right to speak out against such evil teachings. No
> secular U.S. court, obviously, has the right or authority to
> adjudge the truth or falsity of these religious beliefs of mine, or to
> pronounce that they cannot be my religious beliefs.
>
> 209. For public relations and marketing purposes, Scientology
> proclaims that it is "compatible with Christianity," but this is
> utterly false and cruelly deceptive. Scientology contains a great
> number of policies and practices that are in direct opposition
> to Christian teachings, and contains a great number of writings that
> are anti-Christian. Hubbard was an anti-religionist, but most
> specifically an anti-Christian, writing much more material that was
> specifically anti-Christian than what he wrote attacking other
> religions. See, e.g., his Bulletin dated 11 May 1963, "Routine 3
> Heaven."
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/hcob-1963-05-11-routine-3-heaven-
ex.html
> Although my reconversion to Christianity was not predictable, my being
> called to speak out about Hubbard's and Scientology's anti-Christian
> writings, policies, practices and activities and the organization's
> false claim of compatibility with Christianity, was completely natural
> and could be expected.
>
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> 210. It was natural, and could be expected of God that He would
> reach out through His children to expose and oppose what is demonic,
> dangerous and anti-Christian in Scientology, since He has done so with
> every demonic, dangerous anti-Christian teaching or organization since
> time immemorial. It was natural that God would choose people for
> this work who understood both Scientology and Christianity and had
> been given the experiences and knowledge that would facilitate what
> had to be said and done. It was even natural that God would call
> someone who would be persecuted by Scientology just for speaking out,
> just for communicating his religious beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge, and just for helping God's children with his experiences
> and knowledge , because Scientology's persecution for these God-given
> communications and tasks demonstrates as clearly as anything else the
> organization's and Scientologists' anti-human rights and
> anti-Christian nature.
>
> 211. The idea that I can lawfully be prohibited by "contract" or
> a secular court's "injunction" from speaking out to defend my own
> religion, Christianity, from lies being told about it by a judicially
> declared pathological liar, Hubbard, and a dangerous, totalitarian
> cult, Scientology, is, of course, preposterous. Scientology's seeking
> such a prohibition, and using the U.S.'s secular courts and its fair
> game machinery to achieve and enforce such a prohibition, in fact
> demonstrates the real need for speaking out and the probity of doing
> so. Scientology lures God's children into a diabolical cult that
> implants in them the belief that God does not exist but is a lie
> installed in them electronically trillions of years ago to enslave
> them. Scientology then brainwashes the people under its
> control to hate, vilify and seek to obliterate God's children in
> execution of the organization's Suppressive Person Doctrine. It is
> completely natural, and consistent with God's nature and promises,
> that He would raise people up to expose and oppose Scientology's evil
> teachings and practices and to bring His Words to His children trapped
> inside this organization or at risk of being trapped.
>
> 212. The Constitutional guarantee of the right to the free
> exercise of religion, and consequently the right to leave a religion
> and speak out about that religion, which must not be allowed to be
> destroyed by "contract," is particularly necessary and vital in the
> case of Scientology, because of the organization's already existing
> policy and practice of "contracting" with its members, or, as in my
> case, its adversaries, to destroy this right. The protection of the
> Constitutional right of a person to leave a religion and speak out
> about his experiences in that religion is particularly crucial for
> Scientologists or ex-Scientologists because of the organization's
> egregious false advertising by which it lures people into its clutches
> and into a situation in which they are rendered extremely
> vulnerable to being tricked or pressured into signing such a
> "contract."
>
> 213. Scientology is able to get away with suckering people into
> the organization by calling its false promises, such as raising IQ a
> point per hour of auditing, or perfect recall, or curing the common
> cold, "protected religious expression." In order to obtain the
> results promised by this false "religious" advertising, people are
> very vulnerable to being manipulated into signing away their rights,
> as shown by the "non-disclosure and release bond" that I was required
> to sign while on the Rehabilitation Project Force.
>
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> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/non-dsclsre-rls-bond.html
> It should be remembered that Scientology started this whole
> thirty-five year saga with me, leading up to all its abuses, fair
> game, its "settlement contract," and all its enforcement actions and
> threats, with the organization's false representations about Hubbard,
> and its false promises, of increased IQ, and of the wonderful "states"
> of "Clear" and "OT."
>
> 214. No secular court in the U.S. has been willing, and indeed
> all insist that they have no authority or right, to adjudge
> Scientology's "religious beliefs" to be false, or to be anything other
> than "religious beliefs." The same is true about my religious beliefs;
> no secular court has the authority or right to adjudge my religious
> beliefs to be false, or to be anything other than religious beliefs. I
> am not justifying the unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets, or
> otherwise privileged information, with a religious liberty defense,
> nor am I protecting defamatory statements with the assertion that they
> are religious expression. My communications that Scientology seeks to
> prohibit are about an entity that has chosen to define itself as a
> "religion" organized for "solely religious purposes," and my
> communications are clearly, by Scientology's own definitions and
> criteria, my religious beliefs about my religious experiences in and
> religious knowledge of this organization's religion. My communications
> that Scientology seeks to prohibit are also my exercise of my own
> religion, Christianity, and my own God-given calling and ministry
> within Christianity. What Scientology seeks to prohibit is my
> communicating the truth.
>
> 215. There are no countervailing interests that conceivably could
> trump my right to express my religious beliefs, experiences and
> knowledge exactly as I have expressed them, except for Scientology's
> "right" to my performance of the conditions of its "contract" that
> prohibit such expression of my religious beliefs and experiences and
> knowledge. That "right" is not a real or legitimate right, however, as
> has been shown, because it is a "right" that was obtained by fraud and
> threat, which, together with the nature of that "right" and the
> organization's efforts to enforce it, constitute a violation of
> U.S. Federal criminal civil rights laws.
>
> 216. Further demonstrating the lawful judicial unenforceability
> of the "settlement contract's" conditions that prohibit my discussing
> Scientology, Hubbard, Miscavige or Scientology operations and
> personnel, and my beliefs, experiences and knowledge relating to these
> subjects, I am the Founder and Director of the Church of Wogs (CoW)®,
> whose religious mission necessitates my discussing those very
> subjects. CoW, which is the successor to the church I founded in 1986,
> is a global church with an international membership, dedicated to
> opposing the persecution of the over six billion wogs in the
> wog world. See, e.g., CoW's "Mission Statement" on its Internet web
> page:
>
> The Church of Wogs ® shall defend, support and promote Wogs ® and
> what is worthy in the Wog World ®
> Any Wog may join.
> The Church of Wogs (CoW) ® shall be truly pan-denominational. Any
> Wog of any belief, creed or faith may join.
> Any Wog of any race, gender, nationality, age or status may join.
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> For decades, good Wogs have been persecuted for their beliefs and
> activities. CoW shall shelter these beliefs and activities, and work
> assiduously to oppose those who would persecute any of us.
> Any Wog may work to defend, support and promote Wogs and what is
> worthy in the Wog World, and oppose Wogs' persecutors.
> CoW also opposes the persecution of those who have abandoned the Wog
> World. Nevertheless, both the persecutors and the persecuted who have
> abandoned the Wog World wage an unjust War on Wogs (WoW!)®, and
> on Wog arts, sciences, institutions and enterprises. CoW is determined
> to bring peace in this war being waged on Wogs.
> Our Creed: We of the Church hold:
> 1. That Wogs are equal.
> The Church of Wogs (CoW) will persist as long as the War on Wogs
> persists. CoW seeks every being on earth.
> CoW's mission is to wake sleeping Wogs, and to defend, support and
> promote all Wogs until the war is won.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cow/index.html
>
> 217. The Church of Wogs is in significant respects opposite to,
> as well as being in opposition to, the Scientology organization.
> Scientology teaches that wogs are inferior, less able, less aware
> hominids, and Scientologists seek to control the wog world and
> control wogs, and wage a war on wogs to obtain that control. CoW
> teaches that wogs are in every way Scientologists' equals, and brings
> wogs to wage peace in Scientology's war on us, and to oppose
> Scientologists' intention and actions to control wogs and control our
> world. CoW opposes the persecution of wogs, and opposes the
> persecutors doing the persecuting, who are the very same
> Scientology-related entities and persons who seek to
> prohibit me from discussing them.
>
> 218. The Scientology organization and Scientologists consider and
> teach that everything that Hubbard wrote or spoke about Scientology,
> the wog world, Scientologists and wogs is "religious scripture."
> Identically, everything I write or speak about Scientology, the wog
> world, Scientologists and wogs constitutes religious scripture.
> Indeed, everything I have ever written or said at any time on the
> subjects of Scientology, Hubbard, any of the organizations groups or
> entities comprising the global Scientology enterprise and all of their
> personnel, any of the "beneficiaries" to Scientology's "settlement
> contract," and all my beliefs, experiences and knowledge relating to
> these subjects, forms an essential part of CoW's religious scripture.
>
> 219. It is clear that as the Founder and Director of the Church
> of Wogs, as a Prophet to Scientologists, as an ex-Scientologist and a
> Scientologist, as a Christian, and as a citizen of any religion or
> faith, or no religion or faith, I have a right, guaranteed by the
> First Amendment's religious exercise clause and by the laws of the
> U.S., and as articulated in international human rights declarations,
> to discuss all the subjects, religious or otherwise, that the
> "beneficiaries" seek by their "settlement contract" and by threat and
> other forms of fair game to prohibit me from discussing. The
> "contract" and its attempted judicial enforcement are the product of a
> set of clever lawyers and a Godless cult doing the
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> devil's work; for what could this massive conspiracy to deprive a
> person of his basic and vital rights, including his freedom of
> religion, and punish him if he exercised those rights, be but the work
> of the devil? There has, however, never been a lawyer clever enough to
> beat God in the business of freedom, and no matter how many millions
> Scientology pays its clever lawyers, they won't now. Scientology pays
> for slavery. God sets this slaver cult's captives free at no charge
> whatsoever.
>
> 220. As has already been shown, the parts of the "settlement
> contract's" "non-cooperation" and "non-assistance" conditions that
> prohibit my cooperating with, assisting or advising governmental
> agencies or personnel who might be aligned against Scientology,
> adverse to Scientology, or involved in or contemplating any activity
> adverse to the interests of any of the "contract's" "beneficiaries,"
> prohibit my testifying or participating in any judicial,
> administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to Scientology or the
> "beneficiaries," and prohibit my being "amenable to service" of
> subpoenas, constitute violations of 18 U.S.C. §1512, "Tampering with a
> Witness, Victim, or an Informant."
>
> [7G] [Armstrong] agrees that he will not voluntarily assist or
> cooperate with any person adverse to Scientology in any proceeding
> against any of the Scientology organizations, individuals, or entities
> listed in Paragraph 1 above. [Armstrong] also agrees that he will not
> cooperate in any manner with any organizations aligned against
> Scientology.
> [7H] [Armstrong] agrees not to testify or otherwise participate in any
> other judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to
> Scientology or any of the Scientology Churches, individuals or
> entities listed in Paragraph 1 above unless compelled to do so by
> lawful subpoena or other lawful process. [Armstrong] shall not make
> himself amenable to service of any such subpoena in a manner which
> invalidates the intent of this provision
> 10. [Armstrong] agrees that he will not assist or advise anyone,
> including individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or
> governmental agencies contemplating any claim or engaged in litigation
> or involved in or contemplating any activity adverse to the interests
> of any entity or class of persons listed above in Paragraph 1 of this
> Agreement.
>
> 221. These "non-cooperation" and "non-assistance" conditions that
> prohibit my cooperating with, assisting or advising governmental
> agencies or personnel, or prohibit my testifying or participating in
> any judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to
> Scientology or the "beneficiaries," also constitute a clear violation
> of 18 U.S.C. §241, because I have lawfully inalienable rights to
> cooperate with, assist or advise governmental agencies or personnel
> who might be aligned against Scientology, adverse to Scientology or
> involved in or contemplating any activity adverse to any of the
> "contract's" "beneficiaries," and to testify or participate in any
> judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding adverse to
> Scientology or the "beneficiaries," and these conditions
> explicitly and unlawfully deprive me of those rights. Besides being
> patently unlawful, it is, of course, ludicrous in the extreme that
> these Scientology entities and their lawyers would hatch this
> "contractual" concept of prohibiting a person from assisting every
> part, agency or person in the Federal Government, and in every state
> government in the U.S.,
>
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> as well as every part, agency or person in every other government on
> the planet, with a $50,000 liquidated damages penalty for each such
> act of assistance.
>
> 222. These "contractual" conditions that prohibit my assisting or
> cooperating with any non-governmental person adverse to Scientology,
> cooperating in any manner with any non-governmental organizations
> aligned against Scientology, or assisting or advising any individuals,
> partnerships, associations or corporations contemplating any claim or
> engaged in litigation or involved in or contemplating any activity
> adverse to the interests of the Scientology "beneficiaries" are also
> ludicrous and are also violations of 18 U.S.C. §241. These
> prohibitions necessarily and unlawfully deprive me of my right of
> association, and my rights to defend myself, to defend my own class,
> and to be defended by my own class.
>
> 223. The people who are adverse to Scientology, or who might be
> contemplating any claim or engaged in litigation or involved in or
> contemplating any activity adverse to the interests of the Scientology
> "beneficiaries," comprise the class of citizens whom Scientology,
> Scientologists and the "beneficiaries" identify as "Suppressive
> Persons," or "SPs." The organizations aligned against Scientology, or
> the partnerships, associations or corporations contemplating any claim
> or engaged in litigation or involved in or contemplating any activity
> adverse to the interests of the Scientology "beneficiaries,"
> comprise a class of entities that Scientology, Scientologists and the
> "beneficiaries" identify as "Suppressive Groups."
>
> 224. The closest historical and current parallel to the
> relationship between Scientology and the SPs is the relationship
> between the Nazis and the Jews. Just as it would be obscene in the
> extreme for an American Nazi organization to force an American Jew to
> sign a "contract" that prohibited the Jew from cooperating with,
> assisting or advising Jews, or cooperating with Jewish groups, with a
> $50,000 liquidated damages penalty for each instance of cooperation,
> assistance or advice, it is obscene in the extreme for the Scientology
> "church" to force a Suppressive Person to sign a "contract" that
> prohibited the SP from cooperating with, assisting or advising SPs, or
> cooperating with Suppressive Groups, with a $50,000 liquidated damages
> penalty for each instance of cooperation, assistance or advice.
>
> 225. Just as it would be unheard of for any secular court in the
> U.S., except one deranged or corrupted, to even consider enforcing a
> Nazi organization's "contractual" condition that prohibited a Jew
> from cooperating with, assisting or advising Jews, or cooperating with
> Jewish groups, it should be unheard of for a court in the U.S. to
> consider enforcing the Scientology organization's "contractual"
> condition that prohibited an SP from cooperating with, assisting or
> advising SPs, or cooperating with Suppressive Groups. The Marin County
> Superior Court Judge's enforcement of precisely that prohibition in
> the Scientology entities' "contract," along with the enforcement of
> the $50,000 liquidated damages penalty for each instance of
> cooperation, assistance or advice, is significant evidence of his
> derangement or corruption.
>
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> 226. The Scientology entities "declared" me to be a Suppressive
> Person in early 1982, and have not stopped identifying, treating and
> targeting me as an SP ever since. See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare-rev.html
> Scientology's policies, practices, procedures and criteria for
> identifying and declaring SPs are contained in the organization's
> "religious scriptures." Scientology teaches in its "scriptures" that
> identification of SPs is done by the "characteristics" that SPs share,
> by their actions in relation to Scientology, and by their reactions on
> the "E-Meter," which the organization claims, to avoid liability for
> the meter's use in the illegal practice of medicine, is a "religious
> artifact." SPs, then, are a class of citizens determined by
> "religious" criteria, and form essentially a religious class.
>
> 227. Scientology also teaches in its "scriptures" that SPs are
> part of a race of inferior hominids distinct from Scientologists, who
> comprise "Homo novis" or "Homo scientologicus," a race that is vastly
> superior to Homo sapiens, whom Scientology also calls in its
> "scriptures "wogs." Scientology teaches in its "scriptures" that SPs
> cannot be Scientologists, and summarily expels from Scientology any
> people the organization "discovers" to be SPs. It goes without saying
> that, by Scientology's "scriptures," there are no Scientologists who
> are wogs, and no Scientologists who are members of what
> Scientology calls, also in its "scriptures," the "wog world." SPs,
> then, comprise a class of citizens determined by race, forming
> essentially a racial sub-class.
>
> 228. The determination of SPs by "religious" and "racial"
> criteria parallels the Nazis' determination of the Jews as the chosen
> targets of Nazi vilification and persecution, since the Jews also
> formed both a religious and racial group and class. As the Nazis did
> with the Jews, Scientology claims that its determination of the racial
> inferiority and "antisocial" characteristics of its target class, the
> SPs, is completely scientific, based, in Scientology's case, on the
> exacting scientific research of the great scientist L. Ron Hubbard.
> Scientology, of course, refuses to submit its "science" for
> classifying people as SPs, or its "science" for the treatment SPs, to
> any scientific body or to any scientists to review the organization's
> "research" and "conclusions." And, while continuing to call its
> pronouncements about SPs "science," Scientology shields this "science"
> from review or criticism by calling it "religious scriptures," and,
> consequently, attacking the critics of the "science" as
> "anti-religious extremists" and, naturally, "Suppressive Persons."
>
> 229. Although both the Nazis and Scientology identify their
> targeted classes, the Jews or the SPs, for vilification, persecution
> and obliteration according to "religious" criteria, these are actually
> only pseudo-religious and are largely irrelevant to the genocidal
> plans and actions against these classes. The Nazis didn't really care
> if the Jews believed in the Trinity, and the Scientologists don't
> really care if SPs believe, as Hubbard claims, that humans are
> infested with space alien beings that had been brought to earth
> seventy-six million years ago by the galactic tyrant Xenu. Even the
> Nazis' and Scientology's "racial" criteria or differences for
> determining their targeted classes are largely pseudo-criteria
> that are used to justify the atrocities, which are being committed for
> entirely different reasons. In reality, neither the Nazis nor the
> Scientologists constitute a new übermensch,
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> as those systems teach, and neither the Jews nor the SPs are subhuman
> animals, as the Nazi and Scientology systems also teach.
>
> 230. Ultimately, the Nazis and Scientology share the same "real"
> criterion and "reason" for their persecution of their targeted
> classes, the Jews and the SPs, which is provided very clearly by
> Scientology in its "settlement contract." An SP is essentially
> anyone who is "adverse to Scientology" or who is "involved in or
> contemplating any activity adverse to the interests of any entity or
> class of persons" that comprise the "contract's" "beneficiaries." Once
> a person becomes involved in or contemplates an activity adverse to
> the interests of the Scientology entities, he is identified and
> labeled as an "SP," and all of the "characteristics" of the
> Suppressive Person are heaped on him. Similarly, the Nazis in their
> "teachings" identified the Jews as being involved in activities
> that were adverse to the Nazis' interests, i.e., their totalitarian
> goals. The Nazis' black PRing of the Jews, as racial inferiors,
> Christ-killers, perverts, vermin, etc. then facilitated their removal
> and the elimination of their activities that the Nazis viewed as
> adverse to their interests.
>
> 231. Hubbard and Scientology teach that SPs comprise the most
> evil "two and a half percent" of planetary beings, they are the
> "actual psychotics," "criminal," "destructive" and "the only thing
> wrong in the universe." They include mass murderers like Hitler and
> Stalin, they "fill the institutions with victims, the hospitals with
> the sick and the graveyards with the dead," and they are the only
> people who do not get "case gain" from auditing. Hubbard and
> Scientology teach that SPs are without any rights whatsoever, and
> that crimes committed against them are not punishable; SPs are "fair
> game." Scientology "scriptures" contain a long list of "Suppressive
> Acts," also called "High Crimes," for which an individual can be
> declared a Suppressive Person, black PRed with the SPs'
> terrible label and "characteristics," and fair gamed. These "High
> Crimes" include:
>
> - publicly departing Scientology;
> - demanding the return of fees;
> - making public statements against Scientology;
> - testifying hostilely before state or public inquiries into
> Scientology;
> - bringing civil suit against any Scientology organization or
> Scientologist;
> - giving anti-Scientology or anti-Scientologist data to the press;
> - continuing adherence to a person or group pronounced Suppressive;
> - dealing with a declared Suppressive Person;
> - maintaining a line with a Suppressive Person;
> - offering support to a Suppressive Person;
> - granting credence to a Suppressive Person.
>
> 232. It is obvious that this list of "High Crimes" that make a
> person an SP, an "enemy" to Scientology, and fair game is a list that
> any criminal syndicate, e.g., the Mafia, would employ to determine who
> are its enemies and who are to be fair gamed. The Mafia, would have a
> "High Crimes" list in its system of "Omerta," the mob equivalent to
> Scientology's "Ethics," which might include:
>
> - publicly departing the Mafia;
> - demanding money from the Mafia:
>
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> - making public statements against the Mafia;
> - testifying hostilely before state or public inquiries into the
> Mafia;
> - bringing civil suit against any Mafia organization or Mafiosi;
> - giving anti-Mafia or anti-Mafiosi data to the press;
> - continuing adherence to a person or group pronounced a Mafia enemy;
> - dealing with a declared Mafia enemy;
> - maintaining a line with a Mafia enemy;
> - offering support to a Mafia enemy;
> - granting credence to a Mafia enemy.
>
> 233. Declaring people "SPs" and beastifying them with the SPs'
> hateful "characteristics," which Scientology teaches are completely
> irremediable, creates the necessary dehumanized "enemies" that
> Scientology as a totalitarian movement "needs" for its troops to hate
> and attack, just as the totalitarian Nazi movement "needed" the Jews
> for the Nazi troops to hate and attack. As the above partial list of
> "High Crimes" in Scientology makes obvious, the Suppressive Person
> Doctrine also serves to keep the Scientologist troops absolutely
> aligned with and in compliance with the interests of the Scientology
> hierarchy, which structurally and in operation is a dictatorship, and
> absolutely adverse to the SPs' interests. The tiniest of criticisms of
> the Scientology dictatorship, the slightest "counter intention," or
> merely "granting credence" to an SP is enough for a Scientologist to
> be himself threatened with being "declared" an SP, or even, at the
> whim of the Scientology dictator or his henchmen, declared on the
> spot, targeted as "insane," "criminal" and "evil," fair gamed and
> destroyed.
>
> 234. Scientology does not state in its "contract" what its
> "interests" are; but the organization broadly proclaims for public
> relations purposes that its aims, or interests, are "a civilization
> without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able
> can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free
> to rise to greater heights." If that were true, Scientology would not
> be trying to enforce its "contract" upon me, would not be fair gaming
> me, and would not promulgate or even countenance its "Suppressive
> Person Doctrine." I say, both as my religious belief and as a
> demonstrable fact, that Scientology's interests are insanity, hatred,
> destruction, war and slavery. Again, no secular court in the U.S. has
> the authority or right to adjudge the truth or falsity of that
> religious belief, any more than a court can adjudge the truth or
> falsity of Scientology's assertion, since the organization claims to
> be a "religion," that its interests or aims are sanity, honesty, peace
> and freedom.
>
> 235. The "civilization without insanity, without criminals and
> without war" that Scientology seeks is to be achieved, as laid down by
> Hubbard in the organization's "scriptures," by warring on SPs and by
> finally disposing of them "quietly and without sorrow." See, e.g.,
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/mpoulter/scum/exterm.html
> What Scientology is doing to me with its "settlement contract" is a
> microcosm of this mad global plan, with the organization calling the
> relational state between us, wherein all the Scientology beneficiaries
> can black PR, trick, cheat, assault, enslave and destroy me
> and I cannot respond, or be further attacked if I do, "peace."
> Achieving a "civilization
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> without insanity, without criminals and without war" by declaring
> people SPs, and then black PRing, tricking, cheating, assaulting,
> enslaving and destroying those people, in fact very good loving
> people, is truly insane, criminal and hateful, and truly is war.
>
> 236. That Scientologists are to war on SPs is not a
> hallucination, but is spelled out by Hubbard in a number of his
> directives that are included in Scientology "scriptures," e.g.,
> in his Policy Letter of February 16, 1969, "Confidential -- Battle
> Tactics."
>
> But there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged in one where
> total destruction of us has been the enemy's aim for, at this writing,
> 19 years. This is barbarian warfare, thus the enemy must have had very
> positive fears and terrors about us. Since he fought for total
> attrition. In this case it is not safe to hope for any half way win.
> We must ourselves fight on a basis of total attrition of the enemy. So
> never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate
> him.
> [...]
> A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and the
> minimum of his own. He makes the war costly to the enemy, not to
> himself.
> One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He
> deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He
> takes over enemy territory. He raids and harrasses. All on a thought
> plane - press, public opinion, governments, etc.
> Seeing it as a battle one can apply battle tactics to thought
> actions.
> Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy plans and
> purposes, enemy connections, dispositions, etc. It is fatal to attack
> a wrong enemy. But it is good tactics to make the enemy attack wrong
> targets or persons himself.
> [...]
> The prize is "public opinion" where press is concerned. The only
> safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of
> hate against the enemy, this means standard wartime propaganda is
> what one is doing, complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot.
> Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That's the
> enemy. What they love. That's you.
> You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and
> degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.
> [...]
> We will make it all the way providing we look on this in terms of
> active battle and not as a "if we are saintly good we will win". The
> people who win wars have a saintly image but they win the war by
> clever and forceful use of the rules of tactics, strategy and battle.
> Wars are composed of many battles.
> Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like
> wars.
> The cold war is a war. The West is losing it because it is
> fighting by other rules than the rules of war. We mustn't lose it.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics.h
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> 237. Hubbard was, as mentioned above, and as declared by the Los
> Angeles Superior Court, a pathological liar. There was no "enemy"
> whose aim was the "total destruction" or "total attrition" of
> Scientology, and who was waging "barbarian warfare" on the
> organization. There wasn't even an "enemy" composed of bad people;
> there was simply an "enemy" composed of "SPs," good people, God's
> children, that Hubbard declared were adverse to his interests.
> Although Hubbard lied in "Battle Tactics" about the "enemy," there is
> no lie in what his Scientology organization members were to do to that
> "enemy," the SPs, because what the Scientologists are to do is
> Hubbard's "command intention," his interests. Hubbard's interests, of
> course, must be complied with, or the non-complying Scientologists
> will themselves be adverse to his interests, or the current
> Scientology dictator's interests, and such non-complying
> Scientologists will themselves be subjected to what Hubbard ordered be
> done to the "enemy."
>
> 238. The people whose total attrition and obliteration Hubbard
> orders in his Policy Letter are the SPs, good loving people who,
> because of their good, loving nature, are adverse to Scientology's
> interest in waging total attrition wars on, and obliterating good,
> loving people. The "enemy," whose communications, funds and
> connections Hubbard orders to be cut off, and who are to be deprived
> of political advantages, connections and power, are good loving people
> who are adverse to good loving people having their communications,
> funds and connections cut off and being deprived of political
> advantages and power. The "enemy" that Hubbard orders Scientologists
> to raid and harass are good loving people who are adverse to good
> loving people being raided and harassed just for being adverse to good
> loving people being raided and harassed.
>
> 239. Scientology does not attack and wage war on evil people, or
> on people who might actually possess the hateful "characteristics"
> with which Hubbard and Scientologists endow the good people they label
> "SPs." The "enemy" that Scientology black PRs with a viciousness
> sufficient to cause public opinion to be a frenzy of hate against them
> are not hateful people, but good loving people with the goodness and
> courage to be adverse to Scientology's vicious black PR campaign
> against good people, even if it means becoming targets of this
> malevolent organization's black PR campaign and the public's
> Scientology-incited frenzy of hate. The "enemy" whose image
> Scientology's troops degrade to beast level are good loving people
> with enough decency and integrity to be adverse to the beastification
> of good loving people.
>
> 240. The beast level image to which Scientology's troops are to
> degrade the people who are adverse to the organization's destruction
> of good people's communications, funds, connections and power, and who
> are adverse to good people's beastification and obliteration, is, of
> course, the image that Hubbard has created of the "Suppressive
> Person," with all the SPs' bestial "characteristics." A significant
> number of the people whom Scientology's leadership beastify as SPs,
> whip the Scientologist and wog publics into a frenzy of hatred
> against, fair game and war upon, are people who, such as myself,
> were Scientologists and woke up to the dishonesty and malevolence of
> the organization's interests and became adverse to those interests.
> Merely leaving the organization, asking for refund of fleeced fees,
> making a public statement against Scientology, or just
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> maintaining a line with or granting credence to a Suppressive Person,
> are activities that are adverse to the leadership's interests and
> enough to make a former Scientologist, who might even have slaved for
> the organization for years or decades, an SP and a fair game target.
>
> 241. The Miscavige regime reissued "Battle Tactics," with a
> distribution list that included the Office of Special Affairs, the new
> Guardian's Office, on September 24, 1987, less than a year after the
> "settlement."
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics-r
eiss-87.html
> The reissuance of this Policy Letter is a clear indication that at the
> time of the "settlement" Miscavige and his regime had no intention of
> ceasing fair game as had been promised in order to induce me to sign
> their "contract," since all the attacks that Hubbard mandates in
> "Battle Tactics" -- cutting off good people's communications, funds
> and connections, destroying their political advantages and power,
> degrading their images to the level of beasts, causing public opinion
> to be a frenzy of hate against them, waging a war of total attrition
> on them, and obliterating them -- are exactly what constitute fair
> game.
>
> 242. The centrality of "Battle Tactics," and the fair game
> against SPs that "Battle Tactics" directs, to Scientology's structure,
> aims and operations under the Miscavige regime is shown by the policy
> letter's prominent inclusion on the checksheet for the manual that the
> organization published in the 1990's for training Scientology's OSA
> intelligence personnel.
>
> SECTION K: ATTACKS ON SCIENTOLOGY
> [...]
> 13. HCO PL 16 Feb 69 II BATTLE TACTICS
>
> 14. DEMO: 5 examples of the following stable datum: "We must
> ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never
> get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-int-ed-508r.html
> Hubbard defined the Scientology term "stable datum" in his book
> Problems of Work:
>
> Any body of knowledge is built from one datum. That is its stable
> datum. Invalidate it and the entire body of knowledge falls apart. A
> stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one
> that keeps things from being a confusion and on which others are
> aligned.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/letkeman-ltr-miscavige-2003-0
6-06.html
> The organization teaches that the total attrition and obliteration of
> the "enemy," the SPs, is essential to keeping Scientology from falling
> apart, to keeping things inside from being a confusion.
>
> 243. This intelligence officer checksheet also contains a section
> specific to Suppressive Persons, and contains no such section for any
> other such class.
>
> SECTION J: PTS/SP DATA
>
> 76
>
> 1. HCO PL 27. Oct 64R Rev. 15.11.87 POLICIES ON PHYSICAL
> HEALING, INSANITY AND SOURCES OF TROUBLE
>
> 2. 2. DRILL: Have another student take the role of someone who is in
> one of the PTS A-J categories. Drill recognizing what kind of PTS
> category is presented and what the handling is. Do this until you can
> recognize and handle each of the PTS A-J categories. Flunks are given
> for any failure to correctly recognize a particular PTS situation or
> failure to correctly handle it, referring the student to the exact LRH
> material being violated.
>
> *3. HCO PL 5 Apr 65 I HANDLING THE SUPPRESSIVE PERSON --
> THE BASIS OF INSANITY
>
> 4. HCO PL 7 Aug 65 I SUPPRESSIVE PERSONS, MAIN
> CHARACTERISTICS OF
>
> 5. DEMO: One example of each of the 16 characteristics by which you
> can recognize an SP:
> 1. ___ ___ ___ 7. ___ ___ ___ 13. ___ ___ ___
> 2. ___ ___ ___ 8. ___ ___ ___ 14. ___ ___ ___
> 3. ___ ___ ___ 9. ___ ___ ___ 15. ___ ___ ___
> 4. ___ ___ ___ 10. ___ ___ ___ 16. ___ ___ ___
> 5. ___ ___ ___ 11. ___ ___ ___
> 6. ___ ___ ___ 12. ___ ___ ___
>
> 6. HCO PL 23 Dec 65RB Rev. 8.1.91 SUPPRESSIVE ACTS
> SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS
>
> 7. HCOB 28 Jan 66 SEARCH AND DISCOVERY DATA HOW A
> SUPPRESSIVE BECOMES ONE
>
> *8. HCOB 27 Sept 66 THE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY THE ANTI-
> SCIENTOLOGIST
>
> 9. PRACTICAL: Write up examples of each of the anti-social personality
> traits that you have personally observed (examples can be people you
> have known, people in the media, people in history, etc.) explaining
> exactly how you recognize the trait. You can also check newspapers,
> magazines, etc., for examples. You must find at least one example of
> each of the different traits. Turn your write-up in to the Supervisor.
>
> 10. HCO PL 26 Dec 66 Admin Know-How Series 12 PTS SECTIONS,
> PERSONNEL AND EXECS
>
> 11. ESSAY: Write up how you would detect PTSness in an external facing
> staff member. What would you do to handle once you have detected a PTS
> external facing staff? Turn your write-up in to the Supervisor.
>
> 12. HCO PL 16 Oct 67 Admin Know-How Series 16 SUPPRESSIVES
> AND THE ADMINISTRATOR HOW TO DETECT SPs AS AN
> ADMINISTRATOR
>
> 13. HCO PL 12 Mar 68 MISTAKES, ANATOMY OF
>
> 14. HCOB 28 Nov 70 C/S Series 22 PSYCHOSIS
>
> 15. DEMO: How you would know if you were dealing with a psychotic
> or not.
>
> 77
>
> 244. The "Confidential" designation for the 1987 reissue of the
> "Battle Tactics" Policy Letter, just as with Hubbard's original 1969
> issue, evidences the Miscavige regime's guilty knowledge that what is
> being ordered in this document to be done to SPs is criminal activity.
> Although Hubbard writes in "Battle Tactics" that he is not advocating
> physical violence or inviting the physical destruction of persons,
> there is no doubt that he is advocating, inviting, and indeed ordering
> reputational, emotional, financial, judicial and social violence
> against persons, and their reputational, emotional, financial,
> judicial and social destruction. In this era, and in "first world"
> countries, reputational, emotional, financial, judicial and social
> violence, destruction and terrorism is in fact more frightful
> and more disruptive to its victims' lives than the threat of being
> bombed by terrorists.
>
> 245. These non-physical forms of violence, moreover, are also for
> the purpose of achieving a position of political and societal power
> and dominance in which physical violence and the physical destruction
> of persons become acceptable and "legal." The Nazis in Germany started
> out with reputational, emotional, financial, judicial and social
> violence against the Jews, and did not carry out or advocate physical
> violence against the Jews or the physical destruction of their persons
> until the Nazi Party and its psychopathic leaders had come to
> political power. That Scientology seeks the level of political control
> or position in which the organization can "legally" carry out physical
> violence and the physical destruction of its Suppressive Person
> victims is revealed in the same OSA intelligence checksheet:
>
> SECTION D: DEPARTMENT 20
> [...]
> *22. HCO PL 15 Aug 60 DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
> AFFAIRS
>
> 23. CLAY DEMO: "The goal of the department is to bring the
> government and hostile philosophies or societies into a state of
> complete compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is done by
> high level ability to control and in its absence by low level ability
> to overwhelm. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies.
> Scientology is the only game on Earth where everybody wins. There is
> no overt in bringing good order."
>
> 246. Hostile governments, philosophies and societies, of course,
> are those that are adverse to Scientology's interests; i.e., adverse
> to the good people who comprise their good citizens and good members
> having their communications, funds, connections, political advantages
> and power destroyed, having their images degraded to the level of
> beasts, having public opinion turned into a frenzy of hate against
> them, having a war of total attrition waged on them, and being
> obliterated. Hostile governments, philosophies and societies would
> also be any that are adverse to themselves being brought into a state
> of complete compliance with Scientology's goals, or adverse to being
> controlled, overwhelmed or introverted by the organization.
>
> 247. Governments, philosophies or societies that are adverse to
> Scientology's interests in warring on and obliterating their good
> citizens or good members, or adverse to Scientology's interests in
> bringing those governments, philosophies or societies into a
>
> 78
>
> state of complete compliance with Scientology's goals, and in
> controlling, overwhelming or introverting those governments,
> philosophies or societies, classifies them, pursuant to Scientology's
> "scriptures," as Suppressive Groups and classifies their members as
> Suppressive Persons. This classification as Suppressive Groups and
> Suppressive Persons makes those governments, philosophies or societies
> and individuals targets for the destruction of their communications,
> funds, connections, political advantages and power,
> for the degrading of their images to the level of beasts, for the
> turning of public opinion into a frenzy of hate against them, for
> having a war of total attrition waged on them, and for being
> obliterated.
>
> 248. It is obvious that Scientology has trained a corps of troops
> and developed sophisticated means by which the organization is able to
> overwhelm, introvert and gain control over governments, philosophies
> and societies. Scientology and has been most alarmingly successful
> with one of the organization's key former adversaries, the U.S.
> Federal Government, which, in my observation, in order to get
> Scientology to end its targeting, threatening, beastifying, warring
> on, and otherwise fair gaming U.S. Government agencies and personnel,
> made a strategic decision in the 1990's to abandon its adverseness to
> Scientology's interests, and instead to ally itself to the
> organization. See, e.g., the New York Times article of March 9, 1997,
> "The Shadowy Story Behind Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status."
>
> The church's war had a covert side, too, and its soldiers were
> private investigators. While there have been previous articles about
> the church's use of private investigators, the full extent of its
> effort against the IRS is only now coming to light through interviews
> and records provided to The New York Times.
> [...]
> In August 1993, the two sides reached an agreement. The church
> would receive its coveted exemptions for every Scientology entity in
> the country and end its legal assault on the IRS and its personnel.
> [...]
> THE AFTERMATH: A FORMER ENEMY BECOMES AN
> ALLY
> [...]
> The church immediately began citing the IRS decision in its
> efforts to win acceptance from other governments and to silence
> critics. But the biggest public relations benefit may have come from
> the U.S. government itself.
> Four months after the exemptions were granted, the State
> Department released its influential human rights report for 1993, a
> litany of the countries that abuse their citizens. For the first time,
> the report contained a paragraph noting that Scientologists had
> complained of harassment and discrimination in Germany. The matter was
> mentioned briefly in the 1994 and 1995 reports, too.
> [...]
> An Ultra-Aggressive Use of Investigators and the Courts
> [...]
>
> 79
>
> Richard Behar, an investigative reporter, incurred Scientology's
> wrath when he wrote a cover article about the church in Time magazine
> in 1991. The article called the church "a hugely profitable global
> racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a
> Mafia-like manner."
> The church and a member sued Time and Behar for libel, and the
> company spent more than $7 million defending the cases. The church's
> suit was dismissed last year by a Federal District Court judge, an
> action being appealed by Scientology. The individual's suit was
> settled with a corrective paragraph but no money.
> Behar contends in a countersuit that even before the article ran,
> church investigators questioned his acquaintances about his health and
> whether he had had tax or drug problems. Behar said that after the
> article ran, he had been followed by Scientology agents and had been
> so concerned he had hired bodyguards.
> In 1992, Judge Ronald Swearinger of Los Angeles County
> Superior Court told The American Lawyer magazine that he believed
> Scientologists had slashed his car tires and drowned his collie while
> he was presiding over a suit against the church. The church denied the
> accusations.
> In 1993, Judge James M. Ideman was presiding over a suit
> involving Scientology in Federal District Court in Los Angeles when he
> took the unusual step of withdrawing from the case. In a court
> statement, he said he could no longer preside fairly because the
> church "has recently begun to harass my former law clerk who assisted
> me on this case."
> [...]
> Scientology's tactics in court have also drawn judicial rebukes.
> Last year, the California Court of Appeal accused Scientology of using
> "the litigation process to bludgeon the opponent into submission." The
> Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco said last year that
> Scientology had played "fast and loose with the judicial system" and
> levied $2.9 million in sanctions against the church.
> By aggressively pursuing its opponents in court, the church seems
> to heed the preaching of L. Ron Hubbard, its founder, who once wrote:
> "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win.
> The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on
> somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway ... will generally be
> sufficient to cause his professional decrease. If possible, of course,
> ruin him utterly."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/nyt-1997-03-09.html
>
> 249. I believe that the U.S. Government's decision to ally itself
> with Scientology, rather than endure the threat, pain, embarrassment
> and drain on its resources that would be required to remain adverse to
> the organization's fair game and anti-human rights interests, is
> terrible, because it necessarily involves the Government's abandonment
> of its own citizens to the hate, threat, persecution and war that are
> inherent in the Suppressive Person Doctrine. By allying itself with
> Scientology, the U.S. Government has broadened
>
> 80
>
> the spectrum of the color of law under which Scientology can deprive
> citizens of their civil and human rights, and, by this abetment of
> Scientology, the Government has itself acted in violation of its own
> Federal Civil Rights laws, specifically 18 U.S.C. §242. The failure of
> the U.S. Government and the U.S. justice system to protect the SP
> class from Scientology is reminiscent of the failure of the German
> Government and the German legal system to protect the Jews as a class
> from Nazi persecution and predations.
>
> 250. Scientology's secular fraud, its political goals, its
> Suppressive Person doctrine, and its relationship with the U.S.
> Government all make the organization a matter of U.S. domestic public
> controversy. Scientology's global and totalitarian goals, global
> fraud, globally applied SP doctrine, and the U.S. Government's support
> for the organization against foreign governments that oppose
> Scientology's totalitarianism, fraud and evil doctrines, all make the
> organization a matter of global public controversy, indeed a matter of
> global security. The idea of silencing a person about a global
> controversy and security matter is, quite clearly, laughable, and,
> except by murder, impossible.
>
> 251. The global security matter that is Scientology is on a par
> with AIDS, Islamic Terrorism, overpopulation, pollution, nuclear
> proliferation today, and with Nazism seventy years ago. The idea of
> silencing someone in U.S. courts about Scientology is equivalent to,
> and just as harebrained as, judicially silencing a person about AIDS,
> Islamic Terrorism, overpopulation, pollution, nuclear proliferation
> and Nazism. Silencing someone who is personally and immediately
> threatened by any of these global malignancies is manifestly insane.
> Silencing me about the threat to global security and life that is
> Scientology is unlawful, not only because it is such a global threat
> just as Nazism was such a threat, and is a threat directed at me
> personally, but because my beliefs about this threat are my religious
> beliefs, my expression of which is secured by the First Amendment.
>
> 252. Just as the Nazis condemned and attacked anyone in German
> controlled territories who offered support to the Jews, or granted
> them credence, the Scientologists condemn and attack anyone who offers
> support to or grants credence to the SPs in nations such as the U.S.
> where Scientology enjoys a significant degree of Governmental and
> "legal" control. See, e.g., Scientology Policy Directive 28 dated 13
> August 1982 "Suppressive Act - Dealing with a Suppressive Person."
>
> It is a SUPPRESSIVE ACT to deal with a Declared SUPPRESSIVE
> PERSON unless you are the named terminal to deal with the SP (i.e. Sea
> Org MAA).
> [...]
> To maintain a line with, offer support to, or in any way grant
> credance to such a person indicates nothing more than agreement with
> that person's destructive intentions and acts. Such dealings in fact
> act as a covert or overt attempt to undermine and negate the ethics
> and justice strengths of our ecclesiastical structure.
> [...]
> However, unless you are the named authorized terminal to deal
> with the Suppressive Person, to deal with one constitutes no less than
> a
>
> 81
>
> Suppressive Act. Such an act is cause to have levied against you the
> same per policy Church justice procedures afforded any Suppressive
> Person. Full ethics penalties will be applied.
> [...]
> One does not however use a false excuse of "handling my PTS
> condition" to covertly maintain a line of supportful dealings and
> agreements with an SP. If you wish to maintain such a line, do so
> outside of current and future membership in the Church.
> To deal with a Suppressive is a Suppressive Act.
> The above is unequivocal Church Policy.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/spd-28-1982-08-13-txt.html
>
> 253. Pursuant to this "unequivocal" Scientology "scripture,"
> since I am an SP, anyone who deals with me, maintains a line with me,
> offers support to me, or even in any way grants credence to me is
> clearly adverse to the interests of the Scientology entities
> comprising the "parties," "releasees" or "beneficiaries" of the
> "settlement contract." Anyone who becomes my friend or associates
> with me is necessarily adverse to these Scientology entities'
> interests, since their interests, as shown by their "contract," their
> "scriptures, and their actions over the past twenty-two years, include
> no one becoming my friend or associating with me. Therefore, by the
> "contract," I may not cooperate with, assist or advise anyone who
> becomes my friend, associates with me, deals with me, maintains a line
> with me, offers support to me, or even in any way grants credence to
> me.
>
> 254. The "contract's" non-cooperation, non-assistance and
> non-advice conditions do not even contain the "immediate family"
> exception that the silence conditions contain, and all my family
> members, unless they disconnect from me totally, are necessarily
> adverse to the Scientology entities' interests, and necessarily
> Suppressive Persons, just by their continued adherence to me, by
> dealing with me, by maintaining a line with me, by offering support to
> me, or by in any way granting credence to me. Therefore, by
> "contract," I cannot cooperate with, assist or advise even members of
> my immediate family.
>
> 255. The only people in the universe that by "contract" I may
> cooperate with, assist or advise are the people who are not adverse to
> the interests of the Scientology dictatorship, the "contract's"
> Scientology "parties," "releasees" or "beneficiaries," whose interests
> are insanity, hatred, destruction, war and slavery, declaring good
> loving people to be SPs, and waging barbarian warfare on them and
> obliterating them. The only people in the universe that by "contract"
> I may cooperate with, assist or advise are the people who seek
> to deprive me of my rights secured to me by the U.S. Constitution and
> laws, who seek to degrade my image to the level of beasts, who seek to
> enslave me, and who seek to destroy me. Thus the non-cooperation,
> non-assistance and non-advice conditions create a condition of slavery
> in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment, which states:
>
> Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
> punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
> shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
> jurisdiction.
>
> 82
>
> Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
> appropriate legislation.
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiii.html
>
> 256. The endless "settlement contract" requires that I
> involuntarily remain in servitude to the Scientology entities and
> serve their antisocial and criminal interests for the rest of my life
> in deprivation of my right of freedom from slavery secured to me by
> this Amendment and by the laws of the U.S. Thus the contract's
> non-cooperation, non-assistance and non-advise conditions constitute
> vile violations of 18 U.S.C. §241 and §242. What would any sane person
> say to the Scientology entities that seek by "contract" to prevent me
> from cooperating with, assisting and advising my own class of
> citizens, a class which was created by the organization's criminal,
> antisocial and antihuman "scriptures," and which these entities seek,
> in execution of the same "scriptures," to destroy? And what would any
> sane person say to any court in the U.S., or any country, that would
> assist these entities in their mad crusade to crush the religious
> class they created? I believe that a sane person would say what
> Anthony McAuliffe, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, said to
> the Germans when they demanded his surrender at Bastogne, "Nuts!" --
> to the Scientologists and the courts and the horse they all rode in
> on.
>
> 257. Scientology's "settlement contract," with its unlawful
> purpose of depriving me of my rights and privileges secured to me by
> the U.S. Constitution and laws, is in essence and effect a type of
> suicide contract in which the contractee, as a condition for having
> fair game end against his friends, associates and family, would be
> required to kill himself. Suicide is, of course, a crime and it is not
> made lawful and lawfully judicially enforceable by writing it into a
> "contract" that required its performance. If crimes are now made
> lawful and lawfully judicially enforceable by requiring their
> performance by "contract," a murder contract would be lawful. If a
> contract killer failed to perform, he would be sued in a civil lawsuit
> for breach of contract, penalized, perhaps with a fifty thousand
> dollar liquidated damages mulct, and enjoined. If the contractee still
> failed to murder his target he would be in violation of the
> injunction, in contempt of court, and would be hunted down by law
> enforcement and jailed. If a suicide contractee failed to perform, he
> would also be sued for breach of contract, enjoined, penalized, and
> forced by threat of jail and fines to take his life.
>
> 258. What the Scientology entities are seeking to enforce upon me
> is reputationally, emotionally, financially, judicially and socially
> both a suicide and murder contract, since it requires that in effect I
> commit suicide by sacrificing my rights to maintain my reputation,
> emotions, finances, judicial standing and social position, and permits
> the Scientology entities to assassinate my reputation, devastate my
> emotions, ruin my finances, and annihilate my judicial and social
> standing without my being able to respond to defend myself. The
> Scientology entities have, moreover, necessarily interpreted the
> "contract's" "forbear and refrain" clause, Para. 18E, to mean that
> they are not only permitted to act to destroy my reputation, emotions,
> finances, and judicial and social standing but are required to act to
> destroy these life essentials.
>
> 83
>
> 259. Para. 18(E) of the "settlement contract" states:
>
> The parties further agree to forbear and refrain from doing any act or
> exercising any right, whether existing now or in the future, which act
> or exercise is inconsistent with this Agreement.
>
> If the Scientology entities' post-"settlement" acts toward me to
> destroy my reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial and social
> standing were inconsistent with the "settlement contract," the
> organization would have not performed its contractual
> obligations, and arguably would have forfeited its right to enforce
> what it claims are my contractual obligations. The Scientology
> entities have consistently asserted, however, that they have performed
> all of their contractual obligations; thus their acts toward me to
> destroy my reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial and social
> standing are, according to these entities' interpretation, not
> inconsistent with the "contract." See, e.g., Second Amended Complaint
> in Scientology v. Armstrong, LA Superior Court No. BC 052395.
>
> plaintiff fully performed all of its obligations under the Agreement
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a2/ver-2nd-amd-complaint-052395.
html
> at 2:26-27
>
> 260. Marin Superior Court Judge Gary Thomas, in granting
> Scientology a summary judgment and a permanent injunction against me,
> agreed with Scientology's assertion that the organization entities had
> performed all of their contractual obligations, and therefore
> necessarily agreed that these entities' acts toward me to destroy my
> reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial and social standings were
> not inconsistent with the "contract." See, e.g., Order of Permanent
> Injunction in Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court
> No. 157680.
>
> Plaintiff performed all of its obligations pursuant to the Agreement.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/injunction-csi-v-armstrong.ht
ml
> at 2:11
>
> 261. Since these entities did not act toward me to not destroy my
> reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial and social standing, but
> have treated me as an SP and fair game every minute of every day since
> the signing of their "settlement contract," it is clear that acting
> toward me to destroy my reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial
> and social standing is required by this "contract." Consequently, it
> is also clear that the Scientology entities' acting toward me to not
> destroy my reputation, emotions, finances, and judicial and social
> standing; i.e., acting honestly, decently and non-aggressively, must
> have been what these entities were by their "contract" required to
> forbear and refrain from doing.Their "contract" requires my
> reputational, emotional, financial, judicial and social murder
> and suicide.
>
> 262. Since thousands of Scientologists comprising every director,
> officer, employee and volunteer of every Scientology organization or
> group or Scientology affiliated entity, plus all of their lawyers,
> agents and assigns, are willing, and have conspired, to injure,
> oppress, threaten and intimidate me in my free exercise and enjoyment
> of my rights and privileges secured to me by the U.S. Constitution and
> laws, in egregious violation of Federal civil rights statutes, for
> which these individuals can be sentenced up to ten years
> in prison, it is reasonable to expect that some of those willing
> criminal conspirators will go even farther. I believe that
> Scientology's leaders know that I seek justice, and I
>
> 84
>
> believe that there is no act of aggression that is beyond them to
> prevent my obtaining justice. I believe that Scientology's leaders
> desire my death, and not any reluctance based in decency, morality or
> humanity, but only the fear of being brought to justice, has
> kept someone among them from ordering my assassination.
>
> 263. I believe as well that my continuing to speak out about
> Scientology, and about these persons who seek my obliteration is a
> significant defense against assassination, and I believe that I cannot
> lawfully be stripped of this defense, which violates no law, by
> "contract" or judicial order. No court has the lawful authority to
> adjudge that my beliefs that Scientology's leaders want me dead, or
> that my speaking out about Scientology is a defense against
> assassination, are false, because these beliefs, in addition to being
> true, are my religious beliefs. The Scientology entities have failed
> through thousands of fair game acts over the past twenty-two years to
> complete their assigned "cycle of action" toward me, or to execute
> "command intention" regarding me, of silencing and obliterating me.
> But Scientology's leaders have also never cancelled that ordered
> "cycle of action" or withdrawn their "command intention" that I be
> silenced and obliterated, and, since nothing short of murder has
> worked or will work for the organization's dictator and troops to
> "make it go right," murder remains their only viable option.
>
> 264. I have no reasonable option but to completely ignore, and in
> fact to consciously and openly violate the "settlement contract's"
> non-cooperation, non-assistance, non-advice and non-communication
> conditions, and, naturally, to consciously and openly violate the
> "Injunction" signed by the Marin Superior Court. The millions of words
> that "violate" these "contractual" conditions that I have spoken,
> written or published since the "settlement" have been necessary to
> demonstrate the utter involuntariness of my act of signing the
> Scientology entities' "contract," by which act these entities insist I
> "contracted" away my basic civil and human rights and became their
> slave and defenseless victim. The Scientology entities made a video
> recording of my act, which I referred to in Para. 123, above, and
> which the organization has filed as an exhibit in a number of
> litigations. See
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/settlement-signing.html
>
> 265. My involuntariness demonstrates that what the Scientology
> entities sought with their "contract" and what they have done to
> enforce it constitute a crime, specifically a stupendous 18 U.S.C.
> §241 conspiracy. The Scientology entities have no lawful option
> but to cease all their efforts, judicial and extrajudicial, to enforce
> their "contract's" non-cooperation, non-assistance, non-advice and
> non-communication conditions, and to live with my written, spoken and
> legal opposition to Scientology, including by discussing my beliefs,
> experiences and knowledge relating to these entities, just as the only
> lawful option of present day Nazis is to live with all the Jews'
> written, spoken and legal opposition to Nazism and its practitioners.
> Nazis will always hate, beastify and wage war on Jews, because that is
> what makes Nazis Nazis, and Scientologists will always hate, beastify
> and wage war on Suppressive Persons, because, in the same way, that is
> what makes Scientologists Scientologists.
>
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> 266. The Scientology entities' conspiracy and efforts to injure,
> oppress, threaten and intimidate SPs like me in our free exercise and
> enjoyment of our rights and privileges secured to us by the U.S.
> Constitution and laws, however, must not be given by any court
> in the U.S., or anywhere, any more validity or legality than what
> would be lawfully judicially granted to the Nazis and their entities
> in a Nazi conspiracy and legal and extralegal campaign to injure,
> oppress, threaten and intimidate Jews in their free exercise
> and enjoyment of their rights and privileges secured to them by the
> U.S. Constitution and laws. The fact that the Scientology entities are
> using, and have even been wildly "successful" using the justice system
> of the United States to achieve the illicit, criminal goal of
> injuring, oppressing, threatening and intimidating SPs in our free
> exercise and enjoyment of our rights and privileges secured to us by
> the U.S. Constitution and laws does not make what these entities are
> doing lawful, and in fact makes what they are doing more cynical, more
> revolting, and even more unlawful since by using the power and
> authority of the justice system these entities have added a monstrous
> violation of 18 U.S.C. §242. Courts in the U.S. have no more lawful
> power or authority to enforce a "contract" that makes an SP the
> Scientology entities' slave and defenseless punching bag victim than
> courts have to enforce a "contract" that makes a Jew the slave and
> defenseless punching bag victim of a Nazi cult.
>
> 267. Suppressive Persons comprise a persecuted minority of two
> and a half percent of the planetary population, whereas Jews, it is
> commonly reported, comprise only about a tenth of that percentage.
> Suppressive Persons, of course, have not had the thousands of
> years that the Jews have had to organize themselves to stand up to,
> expose and throw off their persecutors, a deficiency that I am
> dedicated to correcting for SPs with the formation of the Suppressive
> Person Defense League (SPDL) ®. From the SPDL's mission statement:
>
> For over half a century, Suppressive Persons have been beastified,
> attacked and menaced in perhaps the most vicious hate campaign ever
> manufactured by madness. SPs' lives have been in constant danger
> throughout this period and the whole class or genus of SPs is
> threatened with quiet, sorrowless obliteration.
> The Suppressive Person Defense League (SPDL) ® unites SPs, defends
> SPs against beastification, attack and menace, and brings SPs to stand
> up against those who seek their genocide.
> [...]
> The SPDL will work to expose, elucidate and eliminate the SP Doctrine.
> We know that SPs will never be safe and never have peace until this
> evil doctrine exists only as the historically recorded cause of its
> own abject failure.
> The SPDL will oppose any effort to deny SPs any rights or privileges
> secured to any citizens by national constitutions or laws or by
> international human rights declarations.
> The SPDL condemns the practice of yellow-starring, golden-rodding or
> declaring people as SPs, and will work to criminalize, prosecute and
> ban this antisocial and anti-human rights practice.
>
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> The SPDL will appeal to reason, to conscience and to law to stop the
> defamation and obliteration of Suppressive Persons.
> The SPDL calls on Scientology to forsake the Suppressive Person
> Doctrine, and we call on Scientologists, if their cult will not
> forsake this pernicious doctrine, to immediately forsake Scientology.
> © 2004 SPDL, Gerry Armstrong, Caroline Letkeman [footnotes removed]
> http://www.suppressiveperson.org/index.html
>
> 268. I am an SP, I am a voice for SPs, and for me it is a holy
> calling to raise up SPs as high as everyone else. It is only SPs that
> the Scientology entities seek to silence, both by use of the law and
> by all these entities' other forms of fair game. It is only SPs
> against whom the Miscavige regime conspires to injure, oppress,
> threaten and intimidate us in our free exercise and enjoyment of our
> rights and privileges secured to us by the U.S. Constitution and laws.
> Scientology will never admit that people such as myself, the
> targets and victims of its aggressive, criminal policies, practices
> and acts, are anything but SPs. The Scientology entities will never
> admit that the hominids on whom they wage their war of total
> attrition, whose image these entities degrade to the level of beasts,
> and whom these entities are just going all the way in to obliterate,
> are anything but SPs. All crimes the Scientology entities have
> committed are against SPs, and the organization's whole history of
> criminality is against people identified as Suppressive Persons and
> against organizations or agencies identified as Suppressive Groups.
>
> 269. It will be necessary in the Justice Department's
> investigation of the facts and claims in this complaint report, and to
> be able to adequately address the explicit or implicit requests
> herein, that the court record in a number of cases be studied. I will
> therefore not recite the events that have occurred after the December
> 1986 "settlement" in the first case in which Scientology sued me,
> since these are detailed, in what I believe are adequate quantity and
> quality to support prosecution, indocuments, including a great
> number of sworn statements, filed in these official public
> proceedings. The court record is also, clearly, the best source of
> evidence concerning my claims and charges against the
> Marin Superior Court, particularly former Judge Gary W. Thomas. These
> cases include:
> Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court No. C 420153
> (Armstrong I)
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/index.html
> Appeal: Scientology v. Armstrong, California Court of Appeal Nos.
> B025920 and B038975, Second Dist., Div. Three
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/appeal/283cal.rptr.917.html
> Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court No. 152229/Los Angeles
> Superior Court No. BC 052395 (Armstrong II)
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a2/index.html
> Appeal: Scientology v. Armstrong, California Court of Appeal No. B
> 069450 Second Dist., Div. Four
> Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court No. BC 084462
> (Armstrong III)
> Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court No. 157680 (Armstrong
> IV)
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/index.html
> Appeal: Scientology v. Armstrong, California Court of Appeal No.
> A075027, First Dist., Div. Four
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/index.html#appeal
>
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> Scientology v. Armstrong, US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern
> District of California No. 95-10911 and Adversary Proceeding No.
> 95-1164 (Armstrong V)
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a5/index.html
> Armstrong v. Miscavige, US District Court Nevada No. CV-N-97-00670 ECR
> (RAM) (Armstrong VI)
> Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court No. CIV 021632
> (Armstrong VII)
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a7/index.html
>
> 270. The following URLs are for declarations or affidavits that I
> have written and executed after the December 1986 "settlement" and
> that provide facts concerning the "settlement" and events involving
> Scientology and me that occurred after the settlement:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1990-03-15.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1990-12-25.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/aznaran/decl-1991-09-03.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-01-13.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-04-21.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/decl-1994-11-16.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/decl-ga-1995-01-16.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/decl-1995-09-15.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1997-01-26.html
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/appeal/decl-ga-1997-12-27.htm
l
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/affi-1998-02-27.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/decl-ga-2001-01-09.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-2003-03-04.html
> The gerryarmstrong.org website makes available many more sworn
> statements and other documents and writings that relate to the charges
> being sought, and I urge any investigators or other interested
> officials to study all of what is available on the site.
>
> 271. I request that the Justice Department and other involved
> U.S. agencies and officials act to the extent allowed by law to
> protect me and my fiancée Caroline Letkeman, who is also a target of
> Scientology's Suppressive Person doctrine and fair game attacks, from
> organization violence or other forms of retribution during the
> investigation of the facts and crimes I have alleged herein, and
> during any prosecution arising out of said investigation. I am also
> sending this complaint report and making this same request for
> protection to the Canadian officials that I believe are responsible
> for and capable of providing such protection.
>
> I declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to the laws of the United
> States of America and of Canada that the foregoing is true and
> correct.
>
> Executed this 16th day of February 2004 at Chilliwack, B.C. Canada.
>
> Gerry Armstrong
>
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>
> © Gerry Armstrong
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

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