Declaration of Margery Wakefield

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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 MARGERY WAKEFIELD
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 MARGERY WAKEFIELD

I, Margery Wakefield, declare:

1. I am over the age of 18 years. I am a resident of the State of Florida. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein, and if called upon as a witness I could testify competently thereto.

2. I was a member of Scientology from 1968 to 1980.

3. In 1982, I filed a lawsuit, Margery Wakefield v. Church of Scientology of California, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Case No. 82-1313-Civ-T-10 for various wrongful acts committed against me.

4. In settlement of that case in 1986 I had to sign a document which prohibited me from thereafter discussing Scientology with anyone. I did not know that I was signing away such a right, nor that Scientology could later come after me with the aid of the courts to punish me for discussing my knowledge of the organization.

5. After leaving Scientology I became a Christian. I believe that I am saved by the Grace of God through my faith in His Son Jesus Christ. I also believe that I was called to speak out concerning the illegal practices of Scientology, its mind control techniques, and its anti-Christian nature and teachings. Appended hereto as Exhibit [A] is a true and correct copy of an essay I recently wrote entitled "What Christians Need To Know About Scientology." I have been motivated in speaking my thoughts based on my knowledge and experiences by

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the desire to reach the minds of people who are in Scientology and held by its anti-Christian mind control and pseudo-scientific dogma, and the minds of people who might be drawn into Scientology by its misrepresentations concerning its intentions, practices and religion. I believe that it is every Christian's motivation and desire to reach the unsaved with the message of the true gospel and a warning about false teachers like L. Ron Hubbard and false gospels like Scientology. I have felt that the right to speak and teach in this way is something that no court in this country should nor can take away.

6. I know that Scientology says it is a religion, that what it is engaged in is religious practice, and that all of its writings on Scientology are religious scripture. Even according to Scientology's use of the terms "religion" and "religious, " therefore, I believe that under the US Constitution I would be free to speak and could not contract away my right to speak about those religious scriptures, practices and experiences. But I also believe that what I experienced in Scientology were my own religious experiences, and what I experienced regarding Scientology after leaving are my own religious experiences, about which I cannot be silenced.

7. Indeed, Scientology's attacks on me and its efforts to silence me after the "settlement" motivated me further, even at great risk to myself and my freedoms, to do what I had

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been called to do. Appended hereto as Exhibit [B] is a true and correct copy of a document filed in my case in 1993 by Scientology entitled "Motion for order to show cause why plaintiff should not be held in criminal contempt." In this motion, which is still pending, Scientology seeks to have me jailed for up to twenty-two years for speaking about Scientology.

8. I want this court to know that I am at great risk in providing Gerald Armstrong with a declaration to support his opposition to Scientology's effort to silence him. I do not wish Scientology to further threaten or attack me. I believe, however, that everyone should be free to speak his thoughts, that the knowledge Armstrong has should not be silenced, and that the use of the courts by Scientology to silence its perceived critics, and thus be free to promote its anti-Christian religion should be opposed.

I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States and California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed at Tampa, FL this 7th day of April, 1995.

[signed]
Margery Wakefield

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Exhibit [A]
What Christians Need To Know About Scientology
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/christians.html

Exhibit [B]
Motion For OSC Why Plaintiff Should Not Be Held in Criminal Contempt 02-12-1993