Gerry Armstrong--Declaration Malcolm Nothling 04-02-1995

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Gerald Armstrong
715 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 456-8450
In Pro pria Persona

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL,
a California not-for-profit
religious corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GERALD ARMSTRONG; MICHAEL WALTON;
THE GERALD ARMSTRONG CORPORATION
a California for-profit
corporation; DOES 1 through 100,
inclusive,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 157 680

DECLARATION OF
MALCOLM NOTHLING
IN OPPOSITION TO
MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY
ADJUDICATION OF 20TH
CAUSE OF ACTION; AND
13TH, 16TH, 17TH &
19TH CAUSES OF ACTION
OF SECOND AMENDED
COMPLAINT

Date: 4/21/95
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: One
Trial: 5/18/95

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DECLARATION OF MALCOLM NOTHLING

I, Malcolm Nothling, declare:

1. I am over the age of 18 years. I am a resident in

Johannesburg in the Republic of South Africa. I have personal

knowledge of the matters set forth herein, and if called upon as

a witness herein I could testify competently thereto.

2. I am making this declaration in support of Gerald

Armstrong's opposition to motions by the Church of Scientology

International for summary adjudication.

3. I was an active member of the Church of Scientology

from 1979 through 1986.

4. Appended hereto is a true and correct copy of an

affidavit I executed November 11, 1992.

5. I am the plaintiff in the case of Malcolm Nothling vs.

Church of Scientology, et al., Case no. 88/19221, in the Supreme

Court of South Africa, (Witwatersrand Local Division), for

defamation by Scientology and unsatisfactory services from the

Scientology organization. I am the defendant in a case, the

number for which I do not have to hand, brought by Scientology in

the same Court. Scientology alleges in that case that I called

its organization leaders trained liars.

6. My case against Scientology was at one time set to go

to trial in August, 1991. Prior to that date I carried out a

search around the world for anyone willing to testify about the

policies and practices of Scientology, a central issue in my

case. The only person I located throughout my worldwide search

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who was willing to come forward and testify was Gerald Armstrong.

7. Mr. Armstrong did fly to Johannesburg, but did not

testify because the Scientology organization was able to obtain a

postponement of the trial.

8. Mr. Armstrong was willing to testify without payment of

any kind and he was not paid. I knew of the legal threat to Mr.

Armstrong should he testify on my behalf, and I am aware of the

threat Scientology is to him outside the legal arena. I am aware

of Scientology's vindictive, threatening and dangerous policy and

practice of " fair game," and in my personal experience I know Mr.

Armstrong is "fair game."

9. My family and I spent many hours with Mr. Armstrong

while he was in South Africa in 1991. I know he is a person of

sincere religious beliefs, and that he was willing to risk attack

from Scientology to testify on my behalf because of those

beliefs.

10. I have personal knowledge that Scientology claims that

all of its policies and practices, including that of "fair game,"

and other antisocial policies such as "Black Propaganda," " Attack

the Attacker, " and "Use the Law to Harass" are "religious

scriptures."

11. I know from personal experience and my post-Scientology

study that Scientology practices a totalitarian kind of mind

control that is dangerous to society and individuals,

particularly our young people. I lost my first child to

Scientology's mind control, and I have two other young children,

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so I am in a good position to know the danger.

12. I know that considerable information about

Scientology's mind control, policies and practices, and the

misrepresentations of L. Ron Hubbard, which Scientology uses to

pull people into its clutches, was made public for the first time

by Mr. Armstrong. This information is vital in freeing

individuals from Scientology's mind control.

13. Appended hereto is a a true and correct copy of

Scientology's "creed," on which it bases its claim that it is a

religion. I know that the "creed" is a sham. I know that

Scientology's management has never believed that all men have the

inalienable rights stated, but attacks ruthlessly anyone who

utters an opinion they do not like or speaks freely about their

" religious" policies and practices.

14. An immediate proof of that fact are Scientology's

attempts to silence Gerald Armstrong.

15. When I first became involved with Scientology I

believed its representations that it was in agreement with the

teachings of the Christian religion and that someone could be

both a Christian and a Scientologist. Through time it became

clear that these representations were lies, that the upper level

policies of Scientology taught that Christ and God are

electronically "implanted" ideas which aberrate and enslave

mankind, and that only Scientology's auditing has the way to

remove these "implants" from the mind of man.

16. In my experience Scientology's auditing does indeed

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remove these ideas. But it leaves the individual who remains in

Scientology unfeeling, uncaring, aggressive and anti-Christian.

17. It is important for the future of the uninformed,

particularly the youth around the world that Mr. Armstrong remain

free to impart and discuss his knowledge of the urgent public

issues of the "religion" of Scientology.

I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the

United States of America and South Africa that the foregoing is

true and correct.

Executed in Joburg, South Africa, this 2

nd day of April, 1995.

[signed]
Malcolm Nothling

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This document in .pdf format.

Nothling Affidavit 11-11-1992

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