On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:54:30 -0800 (PST), LaserClam
<LaserClam@aol.com> wrote:

>On Jan 16, 2:43 pm, rattusrattus <ratzin…@att.net> wrote:
>> Armstrong finally began to tell me fragments of stories about being
>> relentlessly harassed  by the church, pursued by its private
>> investigators, run off the road, targeted in  elaborate sting
>> operations, slandered at every turn by what he calls “Black PR” and
>> “dead  agent packages” and stalked through the US courts. In fact,
>> since last fall, a California  court order has been reinstated,
>> demanding that he be remanded to a state jail and pay  Scientology
>> $500,000 US for breaking a confidentiality agreement he signed with
>> the  church twenty- one years ago. Hence his exile in Chilliwack.
>>
>> Why has the Church of Scientology spent nearly three decades trying to
>> discredit and  silence this unemployed, penniless man living on a
>> disability pension in the middle of  nowhere in British Columbia?
>>
>
>
>        Why is Gerry Armstrong penniless
>        and on a disability pension?
>        Is he trying to satisfy a desire for sympathy?

This really is how Scientology cultists condemn the disabled. It makes the Scientologists right, and the disabled wrong.

Condemning my condition is even worse because it’s scientologenous.

In Scientology, sympathy is viewed and taught as evil, and is impermissible. It is a key meme where the cultists and the wog world intersect, and where rejection of each other’s meaning occurs.

A standard wog definition for sympathy:

1. a. A relationship or an affinity between people or things in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other.
b. Mutual understanding or affection arising from this relationship or affinity.
2. a. The act or power of sharing the feelings of another.
b. A feeling or an expression of pity or sorrow for the distress of another; compassion or commiseration.
3. Harmonious agreement; accord: He is in sympathy with their beliefs.
4. A feeling of loyalty; allegiance. Often used in the plural: His sympathies lie with his family.
5. Physiology. A relation between parts or organs by which a disease or disorder in one induces an effect in the other.
http://www.answers.com/sympathy

And now, Hubbard’s and Scientology’s definition:

SYMPATHY, 1. a terrible thing but is considered to be a very valuable thing. The survival value of sympathy is this: when an individual is hurt or immobilized, he cannot fend for himself. He must count on another or others to care for him. His bid for such care is the enlistment of the sympathy of others. This is  practical. If men weren’t sympathetic, none of us would be alive. The non-survival value of sympathy is this: an individual fails in some activity. He then considers himself incapable of Surviving by himself. Even though he isn’t sick actually he makes a bid for sympathy. A psychosomatic illness is at once an explanation of failure and a bid for sympathy. (HFP, p. 122) 2 . sympathy is commonly accepted to mean the posing of an emotional state similar to the emotional state of an individual in grief or apathy. It is on the tone scale between 0.9 and 0.4 .
Sympathy follows or is based upon overt action by the preclear. Sympathy can be mechanically considered as the posing of any emotion so as to be similar to the emotion of another. (AP&A, p. 23) 3 . sympathy is a co-flow, it’s sort of a co-beingness. One individual goes onto the wave-length of another individual. (PDC 23) 4 . “I am him” which is what sympathy is; it’s a low level interchange of energy. (5209CM04B) 5 . equal motion, equal plane, similar space. (Spr
Lect 1, 5303CM23)

SYMPATHY COMPUTATION, if a patient had a tough engramic background, then broke his leg and got sympathy he thereafter tends to go around with a simulated broken leg—arthritis, etc. etc. This is the sympathy computation. It makes a patient “want to be sick.” Sickness has a high survival value says the reactive mind. So it tailors up a body to be sick. (EOS, p. 93)

SYMPATHY ENGRAM, 1. an engram of a very specific nature, being the effort of the parent or guardian to be kind to a child who is severely hurt. (DTOT, p. 95) 2 . a sympathy engram would go something like this: A small boy, much victimized by his parents, is extremely ill. His grandmother attends him and while he is delirious soothes him and tells him she will take care of him, that she will stay right there until he is well. This puts a high “survival” value on being sick. He does not feel safe around his parents; he wants his grandmother present (she is a winning valence because she orders the parents around), and he now has an engram. (DMSMH, p. 107) 3 . the sympathy
engram is one which comes forward and stays chronic as a psychosomatic illness. (DMSMH, p. 107)

SYMPATHY EXCITER, a sympathy exciter is any entity on any dynamic for which the individual has felt sympathy of the variety between 0.9 and 0.4 . Sympathy exciters are most commonly parents, allies and pets. (AP&A, pp. 44-45)

— L. Ron Hubbard
Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary

So by becoming a Scientologist, mutual understanding or affection,
feelings or expressions of pity or sorrow for the distress of another,
compassion, commiseration, harmonious agreement, accord, feelings of
loyalty or allegiance all become a terrible thing. That is, unless the
understanding, affection,  loyalty and allegiance are given to the
cult and its leader, and the expressions of sorrow are for the cult
head’s distress, or in execution of his command intention.
Scientologists are in fact taught and drilled to pose any emotion so
as to be similar to the emotion of another, for the Scientology cult’s
purposes — conversion, recruitment, regging, reconversion, fair game,
etc.

Sympathizing with Scientology’s victims, who, if wogs, comprise the
“Suppressive Person” class, is in fact a “high crime” in the cult, and
is punished with fair game potentially up to and including
obliteration. See, e.g., Scientology Policy Directive 28 “Suppressive
Act – Dealing with a Declared Suppressive Person:”

“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.”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/spd-28-1982-08-13-txt.html

The “Suppressive Person” doctrine, which in Scientology scripture also
forwards the goal of obliteration, requires and enforces non-sympathy
throughout the cult. Scientological non-sympathy is actually a
condition of manufactured sociopathy. Sympathy is directly related to
the conscience, and to love itself in fact.

Scientologists often say, among themselves, when the subject of
sympathy arises, that what they in their superior system do is not
sympathy but “empathy.”

Sympathizing is viewed as so contra-survival in Scientology that it’s
specifically prohibited by the Auditor’s Code:

8. I promise not to sympathize with the preclear but to be effective. http://www.doctrinalauditing.org/page02.htm

Being effective, in Scientology’s “tech,” Hubbard is saying, is
mutually exclusive of relationships or affinities between people or
things in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the
other; mutually exclusive of mutual understanding or affection arising
from this relationship or affinity; mutually exclusive of the act or
power of sharing the feelings of another; mutually exclusive of
feelings or expressions of pity or sorrow for the distress of another;
mutually exclusive of compassion or commiseration; mutually exclusive
of harmonious agreement; mutually exclusive of accord; mutually
exclusive of feelings of loyalty; mutually exclusive of allegiance.

It should be clear that these several facets or expressions of sympathy
that Scientology’s technicians, in order to be effective in their
tech, must not countenance include some of wogs’ greatest virtues and
aspirations.

On “empathy,” Wiktionary’s got it:

1. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or
state of another person
2. capacity to understand another person’s point of view or the
result of such understanding
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathy

Wikipedia is also instructive:

Empathy is the capability to share your feelings and understand another’s emotion and feelings. It is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself into another’s shoes,” or in some way experience what the other person is feeling. Empathy does not necessarily imply compassion, sympathy, or empathic concern because this capacity can be present in context of compassionate or cruel behavior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

A great number of times in the literature on psychopaths or
sociopaths, an identifying characteristic is their “lack of empathy.”
I think, however, that’s an error, and that what is being observed is
a lack of sympathy.

Sociopaths almost certainly practice empathy more regularly, and even
more deeply than most non-sociopaths. Sociopaths actively pursue the
intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of
other persons; and sociopaths clearly understand and seek to
understand other persons’ points of view.

Everyone, to some degree, except maybe for the utterly unconscious or
psychotic, has the capacity to intellectually identify other persons’
thoughts, feelings or states. The amount and quality of the
identification depends on the intellect of the identifier, the time
spent empathizing with any particular subject, and perhaps other
factors. The capacity to understand another person’s point of view or
the result of such understanding is directly related to intellectual
capacity. The intellect can be used for many things and one is
empathizing.

Hubbard undeniably had a high intellect, and he spent an astonishing
amount of time intellectually identifying other people’s thoughts,
feelings and states. He trained and got other people to intellectually
identify other people’s thoughts, feelings and states.

What is done with what has been empathized, that is, intellectually
identified thoughts, feelings or states, will be either sympathy or
non-sympathy. Sociopaths will use their knowledge of others’ thoughts,
feelings or states to victimize them. The conscienceful will use their
knowledge of others’ thoughts, feelings or states to do something much
different from victimizing them.

Scientologists’ TRs, tone scale drills, auditing, sec checking, and
all other parts of its mental system and tech are to intellectually
identify people’s thoughts, feelings or states to control them,
fleece them, enslave them, fair game them or do any number of the evil
things sociopaths do to their victims.

If Scientologists sympathized with the persons they were victimizing
with the knowledge the Scientologists had empathized from those
persons, the Scientologists could no longer be Scientologists.

Scientologists, using the thoughts, feelings or states they obtained
with their empathy tech, can and do, of course, pose or fake sympathy.
Unlike actual sympathy, pretended sympathy is not only permitted but
required and drilled if it serves Scientology’s goals — control,
wealth, power and the obliteration of its victims.

Sympathy is closely related to wisdom. Wisdom is what can be done with
knowledge of any kind, knowledge’s application. The other action that
can be taken with knowledge is stupidity. Wisdom and stupidity appear
to be both mutually exclusive opposites and ends of a scale.

The human will is clearly involved in the choice for wisdom or
stupidity. Stupidity remains stupid, in the face of good evidence that
it’s stupid, by willfulness. Hubbard was as willful as he could affirm
himself to be, and so is his successor David Miscavige.

The knowledge of others’ thoughts, feelings or states can be used
wisely or stupidly. That knowledge can be used to create or destroy
relationships or affinities between people or things. It can be used
to create or destroy understanding or affection, harmonious agreement
or accord, compassion or commiseration, and feelings of loyalty or
allegiance. Scientology teaches Scientologists to use their knowledge
of people’s thoughts, feelings or states willfully for non-sympathy,
which is destructive and really stupid.

© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

[3rd repost]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:54:46 -0800 (PST), Monica Pignotti
<pignotti@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>On Jan 27, 3:12 pm, roadrunner.eni…@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 27 Jan, 16:55,Gerry Armstrong<ge…@gerryarmstrong.org> wrote:
><snip>
>> > Hubbard’s admissions have been read by many people. Many indeed have
>> > read the handwritten originals or their photocopies.
>>
>> Who?? There is NO record for that claim!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Is that true, Gerry, or is there any kind of record?

Yes there is. Here’s a good place to start:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/

And I’d say that within that case and index start with the trial
transcripts, which run from April 19, 1984 to June 6, 1984.

> Can you be more
>specific and name the people who read them?

I’ll name a few who I knew read them; i.e., Hubbard’s handwritten
admission; or who stated to me that they read them. L. Ron Hubbard,
Mary Sue Hubbard, Vaughn Young, Stacy Young, Michael Douglas, Kima
Douglas, Michael Flynn, Julia Dragojevic, Bruce Bunch, Barry Litt,
John Peterson, Robert Harris, Jocelyn Armstrong, Ken Long, Omar
Garrison, Alannah Garrison. Maybe the Dincalcis; I don’t recall right
now. And inside the cult, undoubtedly Miscavige, and, reasonably,
several other cultists and a few more cult attorneys.

>If there are no records,
>can they at least come forward and vouch for this?

There are records. And these people’s coming forward, those who are
still alive, is up to them.

>It is predictable that anyone challenging this would be shouted down
>by true believers — par for the course on ars — but I think some
>legitimate questions are being raised here.

Anyone challenging what?

And who are the true believers you’re referring to?

>If Gerry can answer them
>then maybe this whole matter can be put to rest. I really hope so.

No, it cannot. The matter is an op, and RR’s pursuit does not depend
on facts or documents or truth, or any answer from me.

Will you engage him on the legitimate questions I’ve raised; e.g., his
factual assertion that I faked Hubbard’s admissions?

>The
>reason I wonder about this is that I was doing exit counseling in the
>late 80s/early 90s even though I had other dox that came from court
>cases and raids that were part of public record, I didn’t have
>anything in Hubbard’s handwriting for these affirmations to show
>people.

Have you since studied them?

Analyzed them, or their relation to Hubbard’s personality and his
creation and control of Scientology?

>Some people here are trying to reverse the burden of proof,

What burden of what proof? And what people exactly, so I can see what
you’re referring to?

>but the fact is that if these were never documented as being Hubbard’s
>and if documents were never produced in Hubbard’s own handwriting as
>claimed, then the burden of proof was never met and rests with the
>claimant, Gerry Armstrong.

Okay, I think you’ll have to read the trial transcripts to satisfy
yourself. So that you have the whole context, you could start here:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/2466.php

The claimant here is actually Roadrumprumpus, who stated that I faked
Hubbard’s admissions. Will you now pursue the burden of proof that,
certainly here on a.r.s., rests with him?

> That is the bottom line.
>Were these documents in Hubbard’s writing ever produce in court or did
>they only have your testimony that they were in Hubbard’s writing?
>Those would be very different levels of evidence. So do we have the
>dox or Gerry’s word that they existed?

You have both, and more.

These posts to a.r.s. also may be helpful in your process:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2003-07-05.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2003-07-08-1.html

>
><snip>
>> Your OWN documented words from November 1984:
>> “We don’t have to prove a goddam thing. We don’t have to prove sh-t.
>> We just have to allege it.”
>
>How was it documented? Did you say this, Gerry? Do you believe that
>this is the case?

That what is the case? That in the drafting of complaints what is
stated are allegations and not proof?

> I don’t know if you did or if you believe that,

Believe what?

Do you believe that legal complaints have to contain proof?

>but
>it is certainly the attitude I have encountered here with some people
>who make other unsupported allegations.

Who are these people?

Do they only make unsupported allegations? I’d like to check them out.
And see if I can agree with your statement regarding their attitude.

Are these people making unsupported allegations in their legal
complaints? Or are their lawyers’ making these unsupported
allegations? Or do they even have legal complaints?

I’d love to see their complaints so I can observe their attitude.

Would you put proof in your complaints, or only permit your lawyers to
put proof in your complaints, even if the legal system required that
you make allegations?

>That, in and of itself, would
>not be proof that Gerry is lying about this particular thing but I
>still have to wonder if this is what he believes.

I still have to wonder what bullshit you believe. Can you please
identify it. Or the bullshit you pretend to believe, or wonder about
believing. It’s not really necessary actually to separate the bullshit
you believe from what you pretend to believe. They’re very closely
related.

>
>Monica

These two declarations could help you with the Scientology cultists’
allegation allegation:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html

© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

Attorney Wilson argued briefly, and Judge Duryee ruled that her
tentative ruling stands.

Ruling here:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a7/ord-mtn-sj-2004-03-22-txt.html

Wilson asked the judge to rule on the cult’s motion to strike my
declaration in support of my opposition. I asked for time to oppose
the motion in writing and she gave me a week.

Scientology’s motion to strike:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a7/pltf-mtn-strike-2004-03-17.html

My declaration in support of opposition to motion for summary
judgment:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a7/decl-2004-03-02.html

Trial date still set for April 9.

© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

On 15 Aug 2003 19:38:26 -0700, sharky818@yahoo.com (Sharky) wrote:

>Gerry Armstrong <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org> wrote in message news: <a3pnjv8g0c7b185d977ie1u3coa9g3pfnj@4ax.com>…
>> Webbed with photos on our just beginning Vulture Minister® Program
>> section: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/vm/index.html
>>
>> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/vm/stuttgart-report-2003-07-30.html
>>
>
>I suggest you move your sad behind back to CA and take care of your
>open arrest warrant.

Thank you. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to engage a
Scientology operative on this subject.

You see, the fact that you and your fellow OSA or Scientology
personnel assert that your warrants for my arrest — and the
injunction, judgment and contempt orders that lead to the warrants –
are lawful, and that therefore I should “take care” of them, shows
your participation in a U.S. Federal crime, specifically 18 USC § 242.
I have already discussed in a number of places your cult’s and your
fellow cultists’ participation in 18 USC § 241, but § 242 requires a
little elucidation.

As you know, your cult’s warrants, and the injunction, contempts,
etc., are the product of your use of the law to enforce the 1986
“settlement” “contract” that you all claim you have with me.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986-de.html
The “contract,” injunction, judgment, contempts and warrants are what
millions of dollars of Scientologists’ fees buy, right?

I signed this ridiculous “contract,” as I’ve testified many times,
because of three main factors: duress, fraud, and vision. Simply, the
duress was the threat that, if I didn’t sign, my lawyer and his
family, all the other participants in the “settlement” and their
families, countless other wogs®, and myself, would continue to be fair
gamed by your cult.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scientology-fair-games-flynn.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/flynn-clients-settlement- agreement.html

Simply too, the fraud was the promise that, if I did sign, your cult
would end fair game forever against my lawyer and his family, all the
other participants in the “settlement” and their families, all other
wogs®, and myself. Since fair game did not end, your cult’s promise,
as an inducement to get me to sign, was fraudulent.

The vision was that your cult’s promise to end fair game was false;
that the “contract” was itself an instrument of fair game; that by
fair gaming my lawyer, your cult had in essence made him an agent of
fair game against me; and that sooner or later I would again find
myself in a pitched battle with your cult.

I possessed, of course, a great amount of knowledge and experience
that — to me at least — made my vision at the time of the
“settlement,” not even minutely preposterous. I had been in your cult
for over twelve years, worked with Hubbard, been in legal and intel,
done the RPF twice, done the research for Hubbard’s biography, and
discovered the lies he told in such profusion and prodigiousness that
he was judicially and properly pronounced a pathological liar.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge- decision.html#fairgame

I had been fair gamed for five years after leaving your cult, which
included being assaulted, terrorized on the freeway, framed with
“crimes,” and threatened with assassination. And, very significantly,
when presented with this obscene and impossible “settlement”
“contract,” I was told by my lawyer that the very conditions your cult
has now spent millions trying to enforce were not worth the paper they
were printed on, and that I couldn’t sign away my Constitutional
rights. All of this, and more, provided grounding for my vision.

As you well know, it was a vision that was borne out almost as soon as
the ink was dry on your “contract.” Your fellow cultists immediately
began to fair game me in clear violation of the spirit, and, I would
argue, the letter of the “contract.” In fact they fair gamed me
before the ink was dry because, as my vision showed me, the
“contract” was itself a fair game mechanism, and getting me to sign it
was a fair game act.

That the “contract” is an instrument of fair game is also demonstrated
by the interpretation you and every other “beneficiary” give to it.
You all claim that it is a license to fair game me. You all claim
that by your “contract” each of you can fair game me, and that I am
prohibited, by your fair game license, from responding. If I do
respond, you all claim, your “contract” licenses you to further fair
game me, including by having me hunted down, fined and jailed.

There is no way you can argue — except in Scientological pretended
stupidity — that you are not a “beneficiary” of your cult’s
“contract.” The “beneficiaries” include every Scientology and
Scientology affiliated organization and entity and all their officers,
agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors,
assigns and lawyers. That means every WISE company is a “beneficiary, ”
and all of their officers, agents, representatives, employees,
volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and lawyers. It means
every Narconon, every Criminon, every CCHR, every Applied Scholastics,
every $cientology school, every office of every front group of every
kind. It even means every volunteer minister (or vulture minister®,
really).
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/vm/index.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/vm/stuttgart-report-2003-07-30.html
And it certainly means that you, the Scientology cult’s “Sharky” op,
are a “beneficiary.”

You are a “beneficiary” of a “contract” to fair game me.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/index.html
You are bound by this “contract” to fair game me. Every person who
volunteers for your cult becomes, by “contract,” a ” beneficiary” and a
participant in fair game. Every person hired by every WISE company
immediately becomes, by “contract,” a participant in the fair game
campaign against me.

This insane and cruel circumstance is paradoxically a fabulous ” bonus”
that went well beyond the vision I had at the time of the
“settlement.” By being willing to be fair gamed at that moment, I have
demonstrated that fair game is Scientology-wide and continues
unabated. My life demonstrates that fair game is a contract that every
Scientologist enters into just by volunteering at any org or
affiliated entity. Your “contract” proves beyond argument that fair
game is a common denominator among virtually all Scientologists, and
among all your cult’s agents and lawyers. They are all contracted to
fair game me, and they all seek the “benefits” that fair gaming me
gives them.

Further confirming and solidifying this conclusion is the astounding
fact that since 1990 when the California Court of Appeal made your
fair game “contract” publicly available, not one ” beneficiary” of that
fair game has refused to participate, or repudiated the “benefits,” or
even criticized the “contract.” I have done whatever I reasonably
could to expose the “contract” and bring it to every Scientologist’s
attention. Not one “beneficiary” has objected to the “contract.”
Therefore it can be stated as fact that without fair game a person
cannot even do volunteer work for your cult, and that Scientology is
inseparable from fair game.

Another Godsent “bonus” that I didn’t see at the time of the
“settlement” is that this “contract,” more clearly than any other
document, demonstrates that your “creed” is pure crud. Your ” contract”
demonstrates that virtually every Scientologist is a hypocrite, and
that hypocrisy is senior to your “creed.” Can you imagine the value of
such a proof to a country, or a group or even a person opposing your
cult, or weighing information about Scientology in order to make an
informed decision? It is extremely valuable to know that virtually
every Scientologist is a bald-faced liar, and that all of you put fair
game above your own “creed.” What a gift your “contract” is to people
who still value honesty.

You hypocrites even put your “creed” in your by-laws.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/bylaws-csi.html

[Quote]

The Church subscribes, and its object is and purposes are that all of
Mankind may subscribe to and practice the following Creed:

“WE OF THE CHURCH BELIEVE:
…..
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 and
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.

[End Quote]

But it’s far worse than even that. You all used your claimed
subscription to your “creed” to obtain tax exemption in the U.S. The
obvious message Scientology and Scientologists convey to every U.S.
citizen and every U.S. corporation or company is that “lies work.”
“Hypocrisy works!” If you want tax exemption in the U.S., well then
lie! Wait until the whole U.S. population, and the I.R.S., has that
cognition.

Your “contract” demonstrates that everything I have quoted here from
your “creed” for virtually every Scientologist is an active, willful
lie. Virtually every Scientologist, as a “beneficiary” of your
“contract,” is bound to violate your “creed.”

And again, in going on seventeen years, not one “beneficiary” has come
forward to repudiate the conditions of this “contract” that bind all
“beneficiaries” to knowingly and causatively violate your own ” creed.”
This is because violating the “creed” is more valuable to virtually
all Scientologists than subscribing to it. In fact, it can be shown
that living hypocritically, violating their “creed,” and fair gaming
good people — which “creed” violations necessarily entail — is what
Scientology means by “being OT.”

You have here a golden opportunity, Mr. Waterkamp. You can yourself
refuse to participate in fair game. You can yourself stop violating
your “creed.” Just state that you no longer wish to be a beneficiary
of your cult’s fair game, “creed”-violating “contract” with Gerry
Armstrong. The same golden opportunity is here for every other
Scientologist or Scientology agent or lawyer. Simply state that you
reject any “benefits” you might be “due” by this ” contract” and that
you no longer wish to be a “beneficiary.”

There is yet another huge benefit — to me and to everyone opposing
your cult — from your “contract” and your efforts to enforce it, that
I have seen clearly only very recently. You are all in continuing
violation of 18 USC § 241, which states:

[Quote]

CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS

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; and if death results from the acts committed in
violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an
attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or
both, or may be sentenced to death.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/241fin.htm

[End Quote]

I include here the part about “death result[ing] from the acts
committed in violation of this section” because of that very real
possibility and threat. After all, if every Scientology organization
and entity and every Scientology-affiliated organization and entity
and all their officers, agents, representatives, employees,
volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and lawyers, are willing,
anxious, slaving and paying to commit a crime which — without their
target’s death — is punishable with up to ten years imprisonment,
isn’t it reasonable to assume that a significant percentage of all
those organizations, entities and individuals are ready, willing, and
planning — and even ready to pay great sums — to assassinate the
target who threatens them with ten years in federal prison, because of
their thus far unsuccessful non-lethal attacks? Only an idiot as the
target in that circumstance would not cognite — or not consider the
vision — that his attackers want his death, and that some of them
would pay great sums — from their war chest of other people’s money
– for his assassination.

In that your cult, and you and all your fellow cultists, assert that
what you are all doing with your efforts to enforce your fair game
silence “contract,” and your black PR based on my refusal to be fair
gamed into silence; e.g.,
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong1.html
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong2.html
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong3.html
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong_docs.html
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/judmnt_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/judmnt_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/judmnt_3.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont1_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont1_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont1_3.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/bench1_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/bench1_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont2_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont2_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont2_3.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont2_4.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont2_5.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/bench2_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/bench2_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont3_1.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont3_2.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont3_3.jpg
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/armstrong/cont3_3.jpg
is all lawful, and done under the color of U.S. law, all of your
actions are in violation of 18 USC § 242.

Of course, you would also want to check out all the documents webbed
here: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/index.html

The documents webbed on your cult’s hate site, and the ” settlement”
“contract” that underlies them are no more lawful and judicially
enforceable than a murder contract is lawful and judicially
enforceable. 18 USC § 241 is just as much a U.S. Federal crime as is
18 USC § 1111.

18 USC § 242. states:

[Quote]

DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW

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; and if
bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this
section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened
use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if
death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or
if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated
sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an
attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for
any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[End Quote]

Lest there be any remaining doubt whatsoever, this message, by posting
to the Usenet newsgroups de.soc.weltanschauung. scientology,
alt.religion.scientology and alt.clearing.technology, and by e-mail to
every Scientology and Scientology affiliated organization and entity
for which I have addresses, will inform you, and every Scientologist
from David Miscavige on down, and every Scientology organization and
entity and Scientology affiliated organization and entity, and all
their officers, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers,
directors, successors, assigns and lawyers, that there is no law in
the United States that permits you or any of you to do what you have
been trying to do and are trying to do with me. All of you are in
violation of 18 USC § 241 and 18 USC § 242.

What all of you are doing with me makes it reasonable, accurate and
non-libelous to call Scientology — as many people already do — a
criminal enterprise, a criminal cult, or a crime cult, crime
syndicate, etc. What you all are doing with me legally protects every
wog® who calls or has ever called your crime cult a crime cult. Anyone
can simply point to your “contract” that you insist you have with me,
which compels virtually every Scientologist to violate U.S. federal
criminal laws, and point to the unlawful actions you have taken to
enforce that “contract,” to demonstrate conclusively that Scientology
is a criminal conspiracy actively involved in crime. It is a crime
cult.

Just think about it. If your cult has not irreversibly robbed you of
all your intellectual faculties, just think about it.

1. It is unlawful to prevent someone from communicating his knowledge
of the commission of a crime.

2. What you all are doing and attempting to do with me are crimes,
specifically, as provided above, 18 USC § 241 and 18 USC § 242.

3. If any of you asserted that you are committing no such crimes, such
an assertion would only add to the crimes and provide me with more
justification to communicate about the crimes you are committing.

4. Even if the U.S. Federal Government — should it really be in your
little dictator’s pocket — stated that all of you, by what you are
doing with me, are not committing any crime, I could not lawfully be
prevented from communicating the Government’s statement, and opposing
its statement or ruling with my knowledge and experiences.

5. If even the U.S. Supreme Court stated or adjudged that it is just
ducky for every Scientologist, and all your orgs, companies, agents
and lawyers, and the whole of the U.S. Government to conspire to
injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate me in any State, Territory,
Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or
enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to me by the Constitution
or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised
the same, I could not be lawfully silenced because such a statement,
judgment would itself be an unlawful act under 18 USC § 242.

6. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced.

7. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced.

8. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about being
unlawfully silenced.

9. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about being
unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced.

10. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced
about being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about being
unlawfully silenced.

11. I cannot be lawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced
about being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about
being unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced about being
unlawfully silenced about being unlawfully silenced.

You cannot help but notice that these federal crimes that you and
virtually all Scientologists are committing in what you are doing with
me are violations of U.S. Civil Rights Statutes. So another tremendous
windfall from your “contract,” my signing and your enforcement efforts
is that your cult’s claims of being a promoter and defender of human
rights are shown to be disgusting lies. Your “contract” shows in the
clearest of lights that what Scientology and virtually all
Scientologists, including your “celebrities,” seek is the suppression
and destruction of human rights. You seek as a “human right” the right
to destroy human rights, which is no “right” that any human should be
given. An organized group that seeks such an inhuman “right” should be
fought to the death to prevent them from ever obtaining it.

Since in your “game” with me, which your nanodictator David Miscavige
chose for you to “play,” you and virtually every Scientologist cannot
but lose if I but live, it is reasonable to expect that you will have
me assassinated. After all, you and every other Scientologist embrace
the idiocy that “Scientology is the only game in which everyone wins.”
Since neither you nor Scientology can win against me lawfully it is
reasonable to expect that you will attempt to win against me
unlawfully; e.g., with my murder. Tens of thousands of you have
already demonstrated for many years that you do not fear to hurt me in
your unjust cause. I don’t think assassinating me in the same unjust
cause is much different.

Your reasonable choice, obviously, is to state that you wish to no
longer be a beneficiary of your cult’s fair game, “creed”-violating,
crime-committing “contract” with Gerry Armstrong. Your cult, of course
compels you to be “unreasonable.” Being “unreasonable” compels you to
commit crimes.

I cannot be lawfully compelled — as you and your fellow
Scientologists quite clearly believe you are all compelled — to
participate in your cult’s crimes. You and all your fellow cultists
may obtain great satisfaction, or thrills, or even illusory gnarly OT
powers, by your criminality, by, e.g., your violations of 18 USC §
241 and § 242. I can’t help that. You are free to be stupid, free to
be wrong, free to be deluded, and free to be criminal. It is true that
Scientology makes both the able and the unable more criminal. But,
being a wog® I cannot lawfully be compelled to myself commit crimes.

If I submitted to your “settlement” “contract,” and considered this
grotesquely unlawful document lawful, I would violate my own creed. I
would violate my own creed that states that everyone has the right to
think freely, to talk freely, to write freely his own opinions and to
counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. You
Scientologists may chose to be hypocrites for all the “benefits” that
hypocrisy confers on its “beneficiaries,” but I cannot lawfully be
coerced into such hypocrisy.

The divine irony, which you and your fellow Scientologists have bought
with your millions in fees, is that you have created in me a legal
duty to not be silenced by your “contract’ and to not obey any of
the court orders you have obtained that “enforce” your ” contract.” I
had a legal duty to say everything I have ever said in “violation” of
your “contract.” To do otherwise would be a crime. I have a legal duty
to say every word I have said in this very message. I have a legal
duty to not do what you say — to “move [my] sad behind back to CA and
take care of [my] open arrest warrant.” I have a legal duty to not be
a criminal, as virtually all Scientiologists are criminals. After
all, if everyone participated in criminality, there would be no one to
report it.

Note well — because this is a big deal in your little leader’s black
PR hat — that in reporting a crime, you do not need to prove it. In
reporting a crime, you just have to allege it. My big dictionary
states that “allege” means “to state or declare as if under oath
positively and assuredly but without offering complete proof.” It is
the job of the prosecutor to prove the allegation.

It is obviously idiotic to report a crime that has been proven,
because that crime would already have been before a judge and jury.
One reports a crime that is alleged.” You just have to allege it. And
it is unlawful to prevent the reporting of an alleged crime. That is,
federally, a violation of 18 USC § 1512. I can, with no difficulty
whatsoever, prove that virtually every Scientologist is committing
the crimes prohibited by 18 USC §§ 241, 242 and 1512. But the proof is
not my job. Proof is the FBI’s and the U.S. Attorney’s job. My job is
to just allege it.

With your cult’s billions, and its fair game campaign and lobbying
efforts, you could conceivably be successful in getting legislation
passed in Congress that makes it legal to conspire to injure, oppress,
threaten, or intimidate persons in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right
or privilege secured to them by the Constitution or laws of the United
States, or because of their having so exercised the same. You could be
successful in getting Congress to eliminate all the rights or
privileges that people now have, so that you wouldn’t have to bother
injuring, oppressing, threatening or intimidating them out of
exercising those rights or privileges. You could even get Congress to
make it legal for you cultists to kidnap, sexually abuse and kill good
people under color of law.

But until you get a sick Congress to pass such legislation, you and
each of you, and every Scientology organization, affiliated company or
entity, and all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers,
agents and lawyers are in violation of U.S. Federal Criminal Statutes.
You are all criminals. And even if you are successful in getting
Congress to pass such legislation you will still all be criminals,
because your actions to suppress and destroy people’s basic rights,
though your actions may cease being crimes against U.S. law, will
always be crimes against humanity.

I do not want to leave you, Mr. Waterkamp and all you “beneficiaries, ”
with the silly notion that I am delighted with showing you all to be
creed breakers, fair gamers and criminals, or that I’m happy with all
the unlawful orders you have against me. It is threatening beyond
belief to know that every director, officer, employee, volunteer,
agent or lawyer of every Scientology org or affiliated company or
entity has signed on to commit U.S. federal crimes to destroy me. I
want it to stop immediately.

I have tried without ceasing to get even one Scientologist to come to
his or her senses. But none of you can think for yourself. You are all
brainwashed. If you threw off the brainwashing, thought for yourself,
did the right thing, stopped violating your cruddy “creed, stopped
fair gaming, stopped your criminality, you could not continue to be a
Scientologist under the Miscavige regime. Just try it. Any of you
reading this message, just state that you no longer wish to be a
beneficiary of your cult’s “contract” with me that violates your
“creed,” and makes you fair gamers and criminals.

Just try it. All you have to lose is losing itself.

Gerry Armstrong
c/o Dialog Zentrum Berlin
Heimat 27
D-14165 Berlin-Zehlendorf
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 30-84723958
Fax: +49 (0) 1212-5-205-27-015
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

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Wilson replied by e-mail saying that the SJ motion has not yet been
filed.

Benjamin Riley, attorney in the case for my co-defendants Bob Minton
and the Lisa McPherson Trust, e-mailed me back that his clients have
now been dismissed from the case.

I have no other details.

© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

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Exhibit L to Application for OSC Re Contempt

Armstrong Postings Which Breach Settlement

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From: Gerry Armstrong <armstr…@dowco.com>
Subject: Insane E-Mail from $cientology Crime Cult in C$I v. Armstrong, Marin SC No.152229, or Just an Insane Op?
Date: 2000/11/10
Message-ID: <j4lo0tobmo45td7vuk666va2bmg72euh4n@4ax.com>
X-Deja-AN: 692147612
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: 10 Nov 2000 12:16:01 -0800, tch1c080.chw.dowco.com
Organization: Internet Services
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology

I thought everyone should see this purporting to be from Andy Wilson,
criminal cult collaborator in $cientology’s insane War On Wogs
(WOW!)(R).

I don’t think even criminal collaborator Wilson is insane enough to
send me this, so it’s quite possibly an op.

(c) Gerry Armstrong

[Quote]

From: Andy Wilson <a…@WilsonCampilongo.com>
To: “‘armstr…@dowco.com’” <armstr…@dowco.com>,
“‘armstr…@ntonline.com’” <armstr…@ntonline.com>
Subject: Church of Scientology v. Armstrong; Ex Parte Application
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:45:51 -0800
X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI – 8.0.0.4211
Encoding: 17 TEXT, 905 UUENCODE, 1983 UUENCODE
X-MS-Attachment: Final Ex Parte.wpd 0 00-00-1980 00:00
X-MS-Attachment: Final Ex Parte.doc 0 00-00-1980 00:00

Dear Mr. Armstrong;

I write to inform you that I will appear ex parte at 9:30 a.m.
in
Department 6 of the Marin County Superior Court to seek an order to
show
cause why you should not be held in contempt for your violations of
the
permanent injunction entered against you in the above-entitled action,
as
described in the attached papers. Please contact this office if you
you
would like fax or other expited delivery of the same.

Very Truly Yours

Wilson Campilongo LLP

Andrew H. Wilson

ANDREW H. WILSON, SBN 63209
SHAUNA T. RAJKOWSKI, SBN 148239
WILSON CAMPILONGO LLP
475 Gate 5 Road
Sausalito, CA 94965

Telephone (415) 289-7100
Facsimile (415) 289-7110

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Judgment Creditor
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, a California
nonprofit religious corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GERALD ARMSTRONG,

Defendant.

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CASE NO. 152229

EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE
CONTEMPT; MEMORANDUM OF
POINTS AND AUTHORITIES;
DECLARATION OF ANDREW H.
WILSON

Date:
Time:
Department:

Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor Church of Scientology International
(ACSI@) hereby applies ex parte for an order directing
Defendant/Judgment Debtor Gerald Armstrong (AArmstrong@) to show cause
why he should not be held in contempt of this Court, pursuant to
section 1209(a)(5) of the California Code of Civil Procedure, for
Armstrong=s willful defiance of this Court=s October 17, 1995 Order of
Permanent Injunction (the AInjunction@).

This application is made on the grounds that, in violation of the
Order, Armstrong — who has twice previously been found in contempt of
the Injunction — has continued to openly flaunt the authority of this
Court, violating the Injunction issued by this Court in numerous
respects, including the following: (1) During the period February 20,
1998 to July 10, 2000, Armstrong made a total of 131 postings on the
Internet, each of which violated one or more provisions of the
Injunction; (2) Armstrong traveled to Clearwater, Florida and on
December 5, 1999 spoke before a public gathering sponsored by the Lisa
McPherson Trust, a for-profit corporation, the purpose of which is to
bring about the destruction of the Scientology religion; and (3)
Armstrong traveled to Tampa, Florida and on December 10, 1999 gave an
interview on radio station WMNF-AM, during which he again violated the
terms of the Injunction.
Armstrong has willfully treated this Court=s authority with such
callous disregard that he should be criminally sanctioned by fine and
imprisonment under Code of Civil Procedure ‘ 1218. Armstrong has been
notified of this Application pursuant to Law and Discovery Policy
Manual Paragraph 261, et seq. Declaration of Andrew H. Wilson at
& 18.
This Application is based on this Application itself,
the concurrently filed
Declaration of Andrew H. Wilson; the exhibits submitted therewith; the
records on file in this case; and such further evidence and argument
as may be properly presented at the hearing of this Application.
Dated: October __, 2000 Respectfully submitted,
WILSON CAMPILONGO LLP

By: __________________________
Andrew H. Wilson

Attorneys for
Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor, Church of Scientology International
(ACSI@) asks
this Court to issue an Order to Show Cause why Defendant/Judgment
Debtor, Gerald Armstrong (AArmstrong@) should not be held in contempt
of this Court=s Order of Permanent Injunction entered herein on
October 17, 1995 (the AInjunction@). Armstrong, by his serial
contempts and contumacious behavior, has amply demonstrated that he
will continue to defy this Court=s authority unless adequate criminal
sanctions are ordered.
Armstrong has twice previously violated the Injunction and been held
in contempt of this Court on each such occasion. Unfortunately,
though bench warrants have been issued, Armstrong has fled the
jurisdiction to avoid the consequences of his acts, all the while
piously complaining that the Injunction is illegal.
So there is no doubt in the Court=s mind that the contempt is plain,
willful, and calculated, the transcript of Armstrong=s December 1999
address at a public gathering is annexed as Exhibit H to this
application, and reflects that Armstrong began his remarks by stating:

But I wanted to say first, that I am under an injunction in the State
of California, in fact I=m a wanted man in the State of California and
I am barred by court order from even mentioning the word Scientology.
And all of you by being here and listening to me, are in a sense
acting in concert with me, which I greatly appreciate, so you=re all
breaking that injunction as well.

Declaration of Andrew Wilson (AWilson Decl.@) at & 15, Ex. H, p. 1.
Armstrong=s admitted contempt requires him to answer in contempt, and
an order to show cause should issue.
FACTS

December of 1986, Armstrong freely and voluntarily entered into a
Mutual Release of All Claims and Settlement Agreement (the
AAgreement@) pursuant to which CSI paid Armstrong $800,000.00.
(Wilson Decl. at &2.) In exchange, Armstrong promised, in essence, to
cease disseminating Ainformation@ concerning CSI and to cease
assisting others litigating or defending claims against CSI and
Scientology-related entities. (Id) Beginning in approximately 1990,
Armstrong fraudulently transferred substantially all of his assets to
his attorney and close friends, and then began repeatedly breaching
almost every covenant he made in the Agreement. (Id. at & 3.)
As a result of Armstrong=s conduct, CSI brought this action for breach
of the Agreement seeking, inter alia, a permanent injunction against
further breaches. (Id. at & 4.) On October 17, 1995, this Court
granted an Order of Permanent Injunction against Armstrong (the
AOrder@) following a motion for Summary Adjudication of issues brought
by CSI. (Id. at & 8.) Such Order was later incorporated into the
judgment entered against Armstrong on May 2, 1996 (the AJudgment@);
the Order and Judgment are collectively sometimes referred to as the
AInjunction@. The Injunction prohibits Armstrong from voluntarily
assisting any persons litigating claims adverse to defined
ABeneficiaries@ including CSI, from making public statements regarding
any of the Beneficiaries, and from creating and/or publishing Aworks@
discussing any of the Beneficiaries.
Armstrong=s response to the Injunction was virtually immediate and has
persisted. In response to his most egregious violations of the terms
of the Injunction, CSI obtained contempt judgments against Armstrong
both on June 5, 1997 and February 20, 1998. (Id. at && 11, 13).
Bench warrants issued in both instances, but Armstrong fled California
in response to the first contempt judgment and moved out of California
to avoid arrest and to persist in his defiance of the Court.

Armstrong continues to flaunt the Injunction and the authority of this
Court, boasting to all that will listen that he intends to persist in
violating the Injunction, calling it invalid and criminal. Indeed,
since the February 20, 1998 contempt order, Armstrong has made a total
of 131 postings on the Internet, each of which violated one or more
provisions of the Injunction. (Id. at & 17.) Armstrong has also
caused himself to be subpoenaed for deposition in a lawsuit against
the Church in Clearwater, boasting that he initiated the contact with
the plaintiff=s attorney (id. at & 14); gave a speech at a fund-raiser
for an anti-Scientology group in Clearwater (id. at & 15); traveled to
Tampa, Florida for an interview at Radio Station WMNF AM where he
again purposely violated the Injunction (Id. at &16), and in June
2000, journeyed to Denmark to provide information to anti-Scientology
media there.
II. ARGUMENT
There is ample cause for this Court to issue an Order to Show Cause
why Armstrong should not be held in criminal contempt for his willful
disobedience of the Injunction. Code of Civil Procedure ‘ 1209, et
seq., provides this Court with the power to punish acts, such as
Armstrong=s, which are in Adisobedience of any lawful . . . order of
the court.@ Code Civ. Proc. ‘ 1209(a)(5). See also, Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Superior Court (1968) 265 Cal.App.2d
370 (section 1209 contempt proceedings are special proceedings,
criminal in character and intended to implement the inherent power of
the court to enforce its lawful orders).

Code of Civil Procedure ‘ 1211 provides that when contempt is not
committed in the immediate view and presence of the court, an
affidavit shall be presented to the court of the facts constituting
the contempt. For this purpose, declarations can be used in place of
affidavits. Code Civ. Proc. ‘ 2015.5.
The above declaration Aneed only make a prima facia showing of the
elements of contempt.@ Crawford v. WCAB (1989) 213 Cal.App.3d 156,
169. The declaration must show: (1) the rendition of a valid order;
(2) the respondent=s knowledge of the order;
(3) the respondent=s ability to comply with the order; and (4) the
respondent=s willful disobedience of the order. See, Conn v. Superior
Court (Farmer=s Group) (1987) 167 Cal.App.3d 774, 784. All these
conditions are present here.
A. The Court=s Injunction At Issue Is Valid.

The Order was valid when rendered and remains fully enforceable. A
true and
correct copy of the Order is attached as Exhibit D to the Declaration
of Andrew H. Wilson, filed herewith.

1. There has been no successful direct attack against the
Injunction.

Since its entry, there has been no successful challenge to the
validity of the Order by Armstrong. (Wilson Decl. at & 9.) There was
no appeal from the Injunction, which is clearly final and no longer
subject to direct or collateral attack.

2. Any collateral attack against the Injunction by Armstrong would
be meritless.
The only permissible collateral attack against the Order would be
based on a wholly meritless claim by Armstrong that it is invalid on
its face. People v. Gonzalez (1996) Cal.4th 804, 823-4.
The Court=s file reflects that, prior to the entry of the Order,
Armstrong fully litigated his claims that such an order would be
vague, ambiguous, overbroad, against public policy, violative of his
First Amendment rights, and violative of his rights to equal
protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. Considerable time and
effort was expended by the parties and this Court in addressing and
rejecting Armstrong=s numerous arguments as to why the proposed Order
was improper.
B. Armstrong Had Actual Knowledge Of The Injunction.

One needs to look no further than Armstrong=s own words to find
conclusive proof of this element. In his speech to the Lisa McPherson
Trust, Armstrong told his audience about the Injunction and that his
speech was Abarred by Court order.@ (Wilson Dec., & 15, Exhibit H, pg
1.)
3. Armstrong Was Fully Capable Of Complying With This
Court=s Injunction.
The restrictions placed on Armstrong=s behavior by the Order are very
specific
and limited. The Order provides, in pertinent part, as follows:
Defendant Gerald Armstrong, his agents, employees, and persons acting
in concert or conspiracy with him are restrained and enjoined from
doing directly or indirectly any of the following:

* * *
3. Voluntarily assisting any person (not a governmental
organization or entity) arbitrating or litigating adversely to the
Beneficiaries.

4. Facilitating in any manner the creation, publication, broadcast,
writing, . . . electronic recording or reproduction of any kind of . .
. documentary work of any kind which discusses, refers to or mentions
Scientology, the Church, and/or any of the Beneficiaries [of the
Order].

Nothing in the Order requires affirmative action. Instead, Armstrong
is merely restrained from continuing to disclose his Ainformation@ and
opinions. The restrictions on Armstrong=s behavior in the Order stems
from an agreement which Armstrong made freely and voluntarily and for
which he was paid $800,000.00. (Id. at & 2.)

4. Armstrong Has Willfully Disobeyed The Injunction And
Must Be
Appropriately Sanctioned.

The requirement that there be a Awillful disobedience@ of a court
order to support the sanction of criminal contempt is undeniably met
here.
This Court should exercise all of its available powers to stop the
mockery of its authority and his violation of CSI=s rights. Both
should be subject to a fine of $1,000 for each violation, and
incarcerated for not more than five days pursuant to Code of Civil
Procedure ‘ 1218. CSI should also be awarded the costs and attorneys=
fees it has incurred in bringing this Application.
CSI also submits that upon a finding of contempt under Code of Civil
Procedure ‘ 1209, et seq., referral to the District Attorney for
misdemeanor prosecution under Penal Code ‘ 166(4) is also necessary to
curtail Armstrong=s continued defiance of this Court=s authority.
III. CONCLUSION
In light of the foregoing, plaintiff Church of Scientology
International respectfully requests that the Court order that
Armstrong show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court
and why CSI should not be awarded its costs, including attorneys=
fees, in bringing this motion. CSI also requests an order permitting
it to give notice of the Order to Show Cause to the fugitive Armstrong
by service of the order by

overnight mail to his last known address — his mother=s residence in
Chilliwack, British Columbia.
Dated: October __, 2000 Respectfully submitted,
WILSON CAMPILONGO LLP

By: __________________________
Andrew H. Wilson
Attorneys for Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor
CHURCH OF
SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

DECLARATION OF ANDREW H. WILSON
I, ANDREW H. WILSON, declare as follows:
1. I am a partner of the law firm of Wilson Campilongo LLP and am
an attorney admitted to practice in the State of California. I am one
of the attorneys responsible for the
representation of the Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor in this action. As
such, I have personal
knowledge of the facts set forth below and, if called upon to testify
on such matters, would and
could do so competently.
2. In December of 1986, Armstrong entered into a Mutual Release of
All Claims and
Settlement Agreement (the AAgreement@) pursuant to which CSI paid
Armstrong $800,000.00. In exchange for his receipt of such funds,
Armstrong promised, inter alia, to cease disseminating
information concerning CSI and to cease assisting others pressing
claims against CSI and related entities. A true and correct copy of
the Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
3. I am informed and believe that, beginning in approximately
1990, Armstrong fraudulently transferred substantially all of his
assets and began repeatedly breaching almost every covenant he made in
the Agreement.
4. As a result of Armstrong=s conduct, CSI brought an action for
breach of the
Agreement seeking, inter alia, a permanent injunction preventing
Armstrong from further breaching the Agreement. Armstrong filed
various claims against CSI for breach of the
Agreement.
5. The Honorable Ronald Sohigian entered the Preliminary
Injunction in late May, 1992. Less than a month later, I was
questioning Mr. Armstrong at a deposition when he testified on his
intention to ignore the settlement agreement and Judge Sohigian=s
Order:
A. When, I mean, I have, I have absolutely no intention of
honoring that settlement agreement. I cannot. I cannot logically, I
cannot ethically, I cannot morally. I cannot psychically. I cannot
philosophically. I cannot spiritually. I cannot in any way. And it is
firmly my intention to not honor it.

Q. No matter what a court says?
A. No court could order it. They=re going to have to kill me.
A true and correct copy of page 124 of the Deposition of Gerald
Armstrong taken Wednesday,

June 24, 1992, in which Mr. Armstrong made this statement, is attached
hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit B.
6. Shortly thereafter, in a declaration of February 2, 1993,
Armstrong stated, AI do not
believe such non-assistance, covenants or orders are legal or do
anything but obstruct the administration of justice and attempt to
destroy men=s souls.@ True and correct copies of pages 1, 9-11 and 29
of said declaration are attached hereto and incorporated herein by
reference as
Exhibit C.
7. On August 15, 1993, Mr. Armstrong wrote to me, declaring that
his breaches of the
settlement agreement and of Judge Sohigian=s Preliminary Injunction
continued unabated, even in Armstrong=s sleep. A true and correct
copy of the letter which I received from Mr. Armstrong, dated August
15, 1993, is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as
Exhibit D.
8. On October 17, 1995, this Court granted an Order of Permanent
Injunction against Armstrong (the AOrder@) following certain motions
for the Summary Adjudication of Issues by CSI. Such Order was later
incorporated into the judgment (AJudgment@) entered against Armstrong
on May 2, 1996. Attached hereto as Exhibit E is a true and correct
copy of the Order which was attached to the Judgment as an Exhibit.
(The Order and the Judgment are collectively referred to hereinafter
as the AInjunction.@)
9. Since its entry, there has been no successful challenge to the
validity of the Order by Armstrong. The Preliminary Injunction which
preceded the Order was affirmed following
Armstrong=s Petition to the Court of Appeals.
10. Armstrong=s counsel appeared at the hearing pertaining to the
Order. Armstrong further received notice of entry of the Order.
11. In January 1997, I learned of actions by Mr. Armstrong which
I believe are clear violations of the Injunction. These actions were
brought to the attention of this Court which
issued an OSC re Contempt on February 19, 1997 and an Order of
Contempt on June 5, 1997. A true and correct copy of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit F.

12. Armstrong successfully discharged the approximately
$300,000.00 awarded by this Court in damages to CSI in is bankruptcy
proceedings. Armstrong failed in his effort to have the Bankruptcy
Court discharge him from the contractual obligations upon which the
Order is based.
13. In September and October of 1997, Armstrong committed a series
of knowing and intentional violations of the Order, which resulted in
entry of a Second Order of Contempt on February 20, 1998 and issuance
of another Bench Warrant. A true and correct copy of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit G.
14. Sometime in late 1998, Armstrong initiated contact with
attorney Kennan Dander
who represents the plaintiff in Liebreich v. Church of Scientology
Flag Service Organization, et al., Hillsborough County, Florida
Circuit No. 97-01235, an action based on false and inflammatory
allegations that the defendants are somehow responsible for the death
of a Church member. A true and correct copy of certain pages of the
deposition (hereinafter AArmstrong Dep.@) transcript of Mr. Armstrong,
taken in that action, is attached hereto as Exhibit H Armstrong
admits, even boasts, that he initiated the contact (Armstrong Dep.,
pp. 107-08), that he told Dandar that he had information which could
be helpful to the plaintiff in Liebreich, (Armstrong Dep. 108) and
that he and Dandar discussed the injunction and the fact that it
prohibited Armstrong from voluntarily assisting Dandar (Armstrong Dep.
112-113). These email and phone communications resulted in Armstrong
voluntarily traveling to Florida to give his deposition. (Armstrong
Dep., pp. 122) Having told Dandar when and where he would arrive,
Armstrong was served at the Tampa Airport with a deposition subpoena
for his December 4 deposition, notice of which had been given by
Dandar some two weeks earlier on November 20. (Armstrong Dep. 4-6).

15. In early December, 1999, Armstrong again traveled to Florida
for the purpose of aiding Liebreich, giving a speech at a fund-raiser
for the Lisa McPherson Trust. The videotape of that speech was
produced by Liebreich in May 2000. A true and correct written
transcript made from the videotape is attached hereto as Exhibit I.
At the beginning of his speech, Armstrong brags, AI am under an
injunction in the State of California, in fact I am a wanted man in
the State of California and I am barred by court order from even
mentioning the word >scientology.=@ He then does exactly what he is
prohibited from doing, and apparently delights in spinning a web of
lies and half-truths about his experiences as a Church member (his
association ended in 1982) and his purported knowledge of the
AScientology organization.@
16. Shortly thereafter, on December 10, Armstrong traveled to
Tampa, Florida for an interview at Radio Station WMNF AM where he
again boasted of violating the Injunction, and embellished his usual
calumny with tales of a AScientology prison system.@ A true and
correct copy of a written transcript of this interview is attached
hereto as Exhibit J.
17. From February 20, 1998 through the present, Armstrong has made
a total of 131 postings to the Internet, each of which violates one or
more provisions of the Injunction. True and correct copies of a
sampling of these postings are attached hereto as Exhibit K. A
complete listing of these postings is attached as Exhibit L.
18. I notified Mr. Armstrong of this application by sending a copy
of this application without exhibits to Armstrong=s e-mail addresses
as follows: (1) armstr…@dowco.com, which was used as recently as
October 31, 2000; and (2) armstr…@ntonline.com, an email address
appearing on some of Armstrong=s postings. A copy of the covering
email message is attached hereto as Exhibit M.
I declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to the laws of the State
of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this
_____ day of November, 2000 at Sausalito, California.

_____________________________
Andrew H. Wilson

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From Order of Contempt of 02-20-1998:

(m) On that date November 26, 1997, Armstrong created another Internet posting which purported to be a verbatim transcription of a complaint which Armstrong had recently filed in the United States District court for the District of  Nevada. See Wilson declaration Exhibit S. This complaint is a “documentary work” concerning a ” beneficiary” as contemplated by the Order while the filing of this complaint is privileged, its publication on the Internet is not and is a violation of the terms of the Judgment.

From Wilson Declaration of 12-01-1997:

26. Armstrong’s most recent violation of the Injunction came on November 26, 1997. On that date, Armstrong created another Internet posting which purported to be a verbatim transcription of a complaint which Armstrong had recently filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. A true and correct copy of this posting is attached hereto as Exhibit [S]. A review of this virtually unintelligible ” complaint” reveals its true nature, a cynical attempt to cloak Armstrong’s anti-Scientology ravings with the litigation privilege.

From: armstr…@ntonline.com (gerry armstrong)
Subject: The Beginning of the End of Endless Black PR
Date: 1997/11/26
Message-ID: <347b7ad3.70867530@news.dowco.com>
X-Deja-AN: 292683380
Organization: dowco.com internet (ISP)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Yesterday, November 24 the following complaint was filed on my behalf
in US District Court in Reno, Nevada.

I am in the process of moving to my new digs in the Silver State, but
will be at this address for a few days.

I hope this adds to everyone’s (Scientologists’ and Non
scientologists’) reasons for a Happy Thanksgiving.

Gerry
[Quote]

George W. Abbott, Esq.
GEORGE W. ABBOTT, CHTD.
Nevada Bar No. 2178
2245-B Meridian Boulevard
P.O. Box 98
Minden, Nevada 89423
(702) 782-2302
(702) 782-8362 (fax)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF NEVADA

CV-N-97-00670-HDM (RAM)
GERALD ARMSTRONG,

Plaintiff,

vs.
,
DAVID MISCAVIGE and CATHY
NORMAN, individuals; CHURCH
OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL,
a California corporation;
RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ,
a California corporation; the
SEA ORGANIZATION,a California
based unincorporated entity ;
and the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
OF TEXAS, a Texas corporation;

Defendants.

COMPLAINT FOR LIBEL AND FOR DEFAMATION AND FOR OTHER RELIEF

JURY DEMAND
Plaintiff, Gerald Armstrong, alleges as follows:

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

1. Subject matter jurisdiction resides in this Court
pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. sec. 1332 as plaintiff is a resident of
Nevada, and defendants are residents of California or of Texas.

2. The amount in controversy exceeds Seventy-five
Thousand Dollars ($75,000), exclusive of interest and costs.

3. Venue is laid in this United States District Court
(Northern Division) for the District of Nevada pursuant to 28
USCA sec. 1391 (a) and pursuant to Local Rule 1002 (b) (1-2).

NATURE OF THE ACTION

4. Plaintiff, as claims for relief, alleges
entitlement to damages caused by defendants’ malicious
publication and dissemination of false and defamatory
statements, as well as claiming damages for defendants’
intentional infliction of emotional distress upon him.

PARTIES

5. Plaintiff Gerald Armstrong (”GA”, “Armstrong”) a
resident of Nevada at the time of filing this complaint, from
1969 through 1981 was a devoted and trusted Scientologist. From
1971 through 1981 he was a member of the Sea Organization, the
highly dedicated upper echelon and management arm of Scientology.
For significant portions of that period he dealt directly with
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and became intimately familiar
with organization policies and practices. Armstrong’s last
assignment was to maintain and make available to Hubbard’s
biographer the most personal and revealing Hubbard boyhood-
forward lifetime documents. It was in this period that Armstrong
discovered the dark side of Scientology’s founder, ultimately
leading Armstrong to leave the organization.

6. Defendant Church of Scientology International
(”CSI”) and defendant Religious Technology Center (”RTC”) both
California corporations, as recently as October 29, 1997 have
been found by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County
to be two of the alter ego firm control entities of the full
Scientology operations.

7. Defendant Sea Organization (”Sea Org”), an
unincorporated California-based entity or association housed in
the various business offices of that state’s corporate party
defendants herein, is the third of the alter ego entities which
control Scientology throughout the world.

8. Defendant David Miscavige (”DM”, “Miscavige”) is
the individual who is the present RTC chairman and the highest
ranking member of the Sea Org. The Sea Org, on information and
belief and upon proofs to be adduced in these proceedings, is
“the absolute power center” of the whole “Scientology”
establishment said to be located worldwide, including 150
satellite or affiliated entities claimed to exist in the United
States. Miscavige sits alone and highest at the very center of
“the absolute power center,” controlling absolutely by whatever
traditional Scientology/Hubbard/Miscavige means are required.

9. Defendant Church of Scientology of Texas (”CST”)
is a Texas corporation, under the domination and control of the
California defendants herein.

10. Defendant Cathy Norman (”Norman”) is an employee
of CST, and responsible to, receiving orders from, and under the
domination and control of, the California defendants herein.

GENERAL ALLEGATIONS

11. Plaintiff does repeat, reallege, adopt, and
incorporate by reference as though set out in haec verba herein,
each allegation contained in paragraphs 1 through 10 hereinabove.

12. In 1981 Armstrong became disillusioned because his
duties led him to archived papers disclosing critical personal
frauds and organization deceptions perpetrated by other Hubbard
intimates and by Hubbard himself during his years heading up
Scientology. During his archiving activities Armstrong observed
that over Hubbard’s adult life he used a philosophy of
“opportunistic hatred” and the “acts which flow therefrom (lying,
cheating, stealing, compromising, entrapping, obstructing,
bullying, blackmailing, destroying) as the solution to his
problems.”

13. In the 1960’s Hubbard established this philosophy
and practice as policy for the Scientology organization’s
treatment of people designated as “enemies,” and dubbed this
policy “fair game.” The fair game policy states that “enemies”
“may be deprived of property, injured by any means by any
Scientologist…may be tricked, sued, or lied to or destroyed.”

14. One of Scientology’s mechanisms for implementation
of fair game against a designated “enemy” is a policy and
practice of character assassination, which Hubbard termed “black
propaganda” or “black PR.” The stated purpose of black PR is to
destroy an “enemy’s” reputation and credibility or public belief
in him by the manufacture and spreading of falsehoods about him.

15. Fair game has been judicially condemned many
times. In a landmark California proceeding, Los Angeles Superior
Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. in his decision rendered in
1984 in the case of Scientology v. Gerald Armstrong, Case No.
C420153, stated in a now haunting declaration:
“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 has perceived as
enemies. The Organization clearly is schizophrenic and
paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a
reflection of it founder LRH.”

16. In response to such judicial and societal
condemnation of its practices, defendants have claimed over the
past many years that the fair game doctrine had been “canceled”,
is “no longer Scientology policy” and “no longer practiced.”
Defendants claim that the people who were harassing and abusing
others were doing so in violation of Hubbard’s/organization
policy, and as a result were purged from the organization.
Defendant Miscavige, the present supreme director of all
Scientology components, claims that he was personally responsible
“for the purge” and “for the elimination of fair game
activities.”

SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS

17. Plaintiff does repeat, reallege, adopt, and
incorporate by reference herein as though set out in haec verba
herein, each allegation contained in paragraphs 1 through 16
hereinabove.

18. The grim truth however — and notwithstanding the
repeated public Miscavige statements, as demonstrated infra — is
that defendants herein have designated Armstrong an “enemy” and
have from the time he left Scientology and up to the present
subjected him to fair game and a massive international black PR
campaign. The document which gives rise to this complaint was
created and disseminated by defendant components of the
Scientology enterprise pursuant to fair game, and is black
propaganda.

19. Rather than deal responsibly with and actually
eliminate their antisocial nature and practices as condemned by
Judge Breckenridge, defendants have chosen to continue to subject
designated “enemies,” including Armstrong, to fair game and black
PR. In their document which gives rise to this complaint,
defendants seek to undermine the validity of Judge Breckenridge’s
decision by destroying Armstrong’s reputation and credibility
through the manufacture and dissemination of falsehoods about
him. Clear, irrefutable proof is shown immediately hereinafter,
that “fair game” and “black propaganda”are very much alive and
spreading their frightening and historically contemptible poisons
however, whenever, wherever, the Scientology’s Miscavige-CSI-RTC-
Sea Org cabal dictates.

20. Triggering this complaint: on October 21, 1996
one Cathy Norman caused transmission and publication of a one
page letter on the letterhead of the Church of Scientology of
Texas, Austin, to Craig Branch, Watchman Fellowship, P.O. Box
530842, Birmingham, Alabama, 35253. This letter showed a “cc:
James Walker”, thus broadening its publication. Copy by
photocopy of the October 21, 1996 Norman-Branch letter marked
Armstrong Exhibit A is annexed and incorporated herein.

21. One of the enclosures was an eight page document
bearing a top line first date of 10-May-1993, followed by a court
of law case name in capital letters and the date (emphasis added)
June 20, 19_84_, _viz_:

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA (PLAINTIFF)
vs.
GERALD ARMSTRONG (DEFENDANT)
June 20, 19_84_

22. As will presently be shown by plaintiff’s
allegations, the first three paragraphs of this May 10, 19_93_
forty-five hundred + word critique by Miscavige-CSI-RTC-Sea Org
of a June 20, 19_84_ decision of a State of California Superior
Court Judge (Breckenridge) sent on October 21, 19_96_ by a Texas
Scientologist loyalist (Cathy Norman) to an Alabama Watchman
Fellowship adherent (Craig Branch) capsulize what this case is
all about. The subject documents reached plaintiff Armstrong in
Marin County, California before the month of November, 1996 was
over. The first paragraph, including its ” headline” (the
“defendant” referred to is Gerald Armstrong, plaintiff here),
reads:
“FALSEHOOD IN DECISION OF JUDGE BRECKENRIDGE:
“While defendant has asserted various theories of
defense, the basic thrust of his testimony is that he
did what he did because he believed that his life,
physical and mental well being, as well as that of his
wife were threatened because the organization was aware
of what he knew about the life of LRH, the secret
machinations and financial activities of the Church and
his dedication to the truth.”

23. The second paragraph of Armstrong Exhibit B,
including “headline” reads:
“TRUE INFORMATION:
“Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul
Breckenridge made the above statement as a part of a
decision where the Church had sued Armstrong for theft
of certain confidential documents from the Church. Far
from any “dedication to the truth,” Armstrong had
boasted of his ability to lie and to forge documents.”

24. The third paragraph then continues what can only
be described accurately — if fidelity to the 1970s precepts of
L. Ron Hubbard himself is to be maintained — as a 1993
Miscavige-CSI-RTC-Sea Org dissemination out of California of an
archetype, “fair game” implemented “Church of Scientology black
propaganda document,” _viz_:
“Gerald Armstrong is a former clerk (Note 1) employed
by Church of Scientology of California. During the
later years of his tenure as an employee of the Church,
Armstrong was placed in charge of a huge quantity of
documents that belonged to L. Ron Hubbard that
contained private and personal information regarding
Mr. Hubbard. Part of his duties included research to
support the work of an author who had been retained to
write an authorized biography of Mr. Hubbard.”

(Note 1: The labeling by Miscavige-CSI-RTC-Sea Org of Gerald
Armstrong as “a former clerk” reveals another black PR habit of
the Scientology people, that of persistently demeaning an “enemy”
or adversary. The truth is that the Armstrong positions in the
Sea Org actually included these: Ship’s Legal Officer, Ship’s
Public Relations Officer, Ship’s Intelligence Officer, L.Ron
Hubbard’s Deputy External Communications Aide, Deputy Commanding
Officer of Hubbard’s Household Unit, and L. Ron Hubbard Biography
Researcher.)

A copy of the full eight page document, marked Armstrong Exhibit
B — with the 27 paragraphs each bearing an Arabic numeral (thus,
1 through 27) — is annexed and by such reference is incorporated
herein.

25. The two documents, Armstrong Exhibit A and
Armstrong Exhibit B, taken together, contain printed paragraphs
constituting libel per se. The two documents, taken together,
and as they were disseminated and mailed, constitute the
malicious and defamatory statements concerning plaintiff
Armstrong identified hereinafter. [Note, each "Item_ _" is keyed
to an Armstrong Exhibit B number stamped (as in 1 through 27) on
the left hand margin of Exhibit B."] Random partial
highlighting of some of the twenty-seven paragraphs support the
initial Armstrong claims for relief.

Item 2: “Gerry Armstrong far from being afraid for his
life, was actively engaged in secret machinations
his own to seize control of the Church…Armstrong
has boasted at length of his ability to lie and to
forge documents (Note 2).”

(Note 2: As defendants know (or are charged with knowing)
Miscavige-CSI-RTC-Sea Org (or at least the latter surely know)
the late L. Ron Hubbard, if it suited his purposes,
unhesitatingly _commanded_ document forgery and/or document
alteration, just as he caused to be constructed — much of it
still part of the Hubbard folklore — many egregiously false
aspects of his own life history, accomplishments, and beliefs.

Item 3: “Gerald Armstrong is a former clerk…”

Item 4: “Armstrong. . .left. . .taking with him huge
numbers of confidential documents which belonged
to Mr. Hubbard or his wife…”

Item 5: “… the Church received evidence that Armstrong
had stolen thousands of documents from Archives
when he left the Church.”

Item 6: “Once the demand…was made, Armstrong turned the
stolen documents over …”

Item 7: “. . .Church sued Armstrong for conversion, breach
of fiduciary duty…and invasion of privacy based
on Armstrong’s theft of extensive amounts of
papers owned by the Church or the Hubbards.”

Item 8: “His defense was stricken on four different
occasions (Note 3) by three different judges.”

(Note 3: This defendants’ statement is, simply, not true. The
defense of justification, or privilege, was never stricken. The
pre-trial judges did not permit the then-defendant Armstrong to
depend on the defense of “unclean hands,” which would have barred
then-plaintiff Scientology from proceeding _in limine_.)

Item 9: “Armstrong and Flynn were ordered to turn all
copies of the documents that Armstrong had stolen
over to the court. . .”

Item 10: “The Church presented motions to prevent Armstrong
from introducing the stolen confidential
documents…The Church was completely ambushed in
the trial by these documents…the Church had no
chance to prepare and put on that evidence before
being hit with the documents in trial.”

Item 11: “…witnesses…testified…with regard to his
alleged justification for stealing the documents.”

Item 13: “The Church had proven that Armstrong was guilty
of stealing…Judgment, however, was entered in
favor of Armstrong, essentially finding that…The
only lawsuit that there was to fear was the one
that was ultimately filed for return of the stolen
documents.”

Item 14: “…when he committed these thefts Armstrong…was
engineering a plan to infiltrate and take over the
Church at the behest of the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Internal Revenue Service…”

Item 15: “…the Church obtained permission from the Los
Angeles Police Department to conduct undercover
surveillance of Armstrong (Note 4)…”

(Note 4: Here, in this Exhibit B, the reader finds Miscavige-
CSI-RTC-Sea Org, for whatever Scientology type purpose, not
telling the whole (truthful part of) the story. In Item 15,
above, the persons in charge untruthfully assert “the Church
obtained permission from the Los Angeles Police Department”. So
too, in the Miscavige Declaration of February 8, 1994 (at page
31, lines 27-28, DM Declaration “under penalty of perjury”) Mr.
Miscavige swears that: “Armstrong was proven a liar. In a police-
sanctioned investigation…” What this head man’s patent
untruth does not reveal about their “undercover agent”, one
Eugene M. Ingram, the opinion of no less a public figure than the
Chief of Police, Los Angeles, in the annexed Armstrong Exhibit E
reveals (emphasis supplied) that: the letter is believed “to have
been drafted by Ingram himself,” and that “The Los Angeles Police
Department _has not_ cooperated with Eugene Ingram. _It will be
a cold day in hell when we do_.”

Item 17: “…his justification defense…was completely
bogus…”

Item 25: “The Court of Appeal upheld Breckenridge’s
decision on the legal technicality that it
believed a justification defense is available to
defend against theft in California.”

Item 27: “The Church recently sued Armstrong for his
blatant disregard of his obligations under the
settlement agreement…another Superior Court
Judge was not impressed and slapped Armstrong
(Note 5) with a preliminary injunction.”

(Note 5: While defendants CSI-Miscavige et al choose to exult for
a moment over issuance of a _preliminary_ restraining order,
plaintiff suggests that unaccustomed Scientology candor would at
this point have less triumphantly revealed the other half of this
“good news, bad news” vignette, _viz_, Judge Sohigian, while
granting a narrow part of Scientology’s requested injunction
_also stated_ that:
“[Scientology] involves abusing people who are weak…
involves techniques of coercion. . .[there is] a very,
very substantial deviation between [Scientology's]
conduct and standards of ordinary, courteous conduct
and standards of ordinary, honest behavior. . .[when
dealing with Scientology] be sure you cut the deck…
make sure to count all the chips.”

26. Plaintiff, upon learning of the existence of the
subject libelous materials, called their existence to the
attention of his undersigned counsel in Nevada attorney George
Abbott. After lengthy Armstrong-Abbott discussion, the two agreed
to make demand of and afford written opportunity for publication
of full retraction by Ms. Norman, as well as by defendants CSI,
RTC and Miscavige.

27. Prior to making demand for retraction, plaintiff
and his legal counsel had concluded that the transparently
provable facts constitute clear evidence that “fair game” and
black PR” has pursued Gerry Armstrong up to today — whatever
misstated history and facts Scientology’s all-powerful David
Miscavige has chosen to rewrite. A photocopy of the letter sent
to defendant Cathy Norman, with copies to CSI, RTC and Miscavige
and dated February 12, 1997 is annexed hereto as Armstrong
Exhibit C, and incorporated herein.

28. The only response to the Norman-CSI-RTC-Miscavige
directed letters came from one attorney Andrew Wilson, whose
opening statement declared that “[t]his firm represents Church of
Scientology International (”CSI”) in the referenced matter and
has been asked to respond to your letter,” and who rejected
plaintiff’s demand for retraction out of hand. A photocopy of the
letter received from Mr. Wilson and dated February 25, 1997 is
annexed hereto as Armstrong Exhibit D, and incorporated herein.

29. Plaintiff does repeat, reallege, adopt, and
incorporate by reference herein as though set out in haec verba
herein, each allegation contained in paragraphs 1 through 28
hereinabove.

FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF

30. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 1 Armstrong had stolen Scientology’s and Hubbard’s
documents (Exhibit B, paras.5,6,7,8,9,10,11,
13,14,18)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF

31. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 2 Armstrong’s defense of justification in his 1984
trial because of his fear of attacks by
Scientology was a total farce, completely bogus, a
fraud, and a fraudulent sabotage (Exhibit B,
paras. 2,14,17,20)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF

32. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 3 Scientology was ambushed by Armstrong and his
attorney at trial and had no chance to prepare and
put on evidence (Exhibit B, paras. 10,12)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

FOURTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

33. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 4 Armstrong wanted to seize control of Scientology
(Exhibit B, paras. 2,14,16)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

FIFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

34. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 5 Armstrong sought to recruit dissident
Scientologists to overthrow the organization
(Exhibit B, paras. 15,16)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

SIXTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

35. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 6 The Los Angeles Police Department granted
Scientology permission to conduct undercover
surveillance of Armstrong (Exhibit B, para. 15)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

SEVENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

36. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 7 Armstrong created a plan to plant forged and
incriminating documents in Scientology files to be
found in a raid by the Internal Revenue Service
(Exhibit B, paras. 16,19)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

EIGHTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

37. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 8 Armstrong stated that neither truth nor good faith
play any significant role in litigation (Exhibit
B, para. 21)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

NINTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

38. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 9 Armstrong stated that facts mean nothing to a
civil litigant and that truth is merely an
avoidable obstacle (Exhibit B, para. 21)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

TENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

39. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 10 Armstrong boasted at length of his ability to lie
and to forge documents (Exhibit B, para. 2)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

ELEVENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

40. On all of the foregoing allegations and pursuant
to applicable law plaintiff does claim damages in an amount to be
established upon proofs to be adduced and does set out the
damaging words:
Falsehood 11 The evidence shows Armstrong’s state of mind to be
of a calculating, aggressive and dishonest
character (Exhibit B, para. 24)
This statement by defendants concerning plaintiff is false and
libel per se.

41. The above falsehoods were known by defendants to
be false and were manufactured and disseminated by defendants
maliciously with the intention of causing plaintiff to be
mistrusted, reviled, shunned, humiliated and further attacked,
and as a result of defendants’ manufacture and dissemination of
the above falsehoods plaintiff was mistrusted, reviled, shunned,
humiliated and further attacked.

42. Separately and together, these falsehoods, supra,
were calculated to cause great injury to plaintiff’s reputation,
credibility and character.

43. Plaintiff has always enjoyed a good reputation for
honesty, truthfulness and uprightness of character. Judge
Breckenridge in his 1984 decision stated regarding plaintiff that
“he did what he did, because … [of] his dedication to the
truth;” and that his “testimony [was] credible, extremely
persuasive.”

44. The calculated, willful, reckless, and harmful
mistreatment — with resulting physical, mental, and economic
damages — exemplified by the allegations of each of the foregoing
eleven claims for relief, directly caused the injuries to plaintiff’s
person alleged in the hereinafter alleged Twelfth
Claim for Relief.

TWELFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
(Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress)

45. Plaintiff does repeat, reallege, adopt, and
incorporate by reference as though set out in haec verba herein,
each allegation contained in paragraphs 1 through 44 hereinabove.

46. Plaintiff, for a twelfth claim for relief does
allege that for more than fifteen years defendant David Miscavige –
individually, and in concert with a handful of societal kin,
with others making up an all-powerful “Scientology” cabal — has
been engaged in a relentless, never-interrupted course of conduct
designed to destroy plaintiff Gerald Armstrong.

47. The methods of destruction at hand were those
approved, indeed in no small part invented by the now deceased
L. Ron Hubbard. Central to the chosen means were the “fair game”
and “black propaganda” techniques and practices described
hereinabove. Defendant Miscavige was not above indulging in
false, wholly untrue, harmful and spiteful, even inhumane,
statements, including even those “under penalty of perjury”, as
exemplified by the exposition of Miscavige sworn and unsworn
public statements to the light of truth, supra. As two examples
of this defendant’s willingness to be untruthful, the complaint
specifically identifies DM’s “sworn under penalty of perjury”
declarations embracing the much-vaunted Miscavige insistence that
“early on, _I_ ended fair game, once and for all”; so too, the
Miscavige flat out claim an “undercover agent” was “sanctioned”
by the Los Angeles Police Department, a claim proven to be a lie.
_See_ Armstrong Exhibit E.

48. A search by plaintiff through discovery will be
needed to confirm (or to deny) the many and diverse rumors afloat
regarding the degree of “fair game” and “black propaganda”
directed at Armstrong over the past fifteen year period and
currently.

49. Meantime plaintiff alleges unbridled misconduct
– by defendant Miscavige, and/or under his control and
direction, and/or within his knowledge and acquiescence at all
times, all within the purview of the defendants and each of them
– which conduct has been and is, designed to inflict nonstop
severe and grossly damaging emotional distress.

50. (a) By means of the premises herein established,
these defendants and each of them have unlawfully and maliciously
caused plaintiff to become greatly vexed, harassed, and injured,
have caused him to suffer great mental and nervous strain, and
caused his feelings to be hurt.

(b) Defendants’ misconduct has also caused plaintiff
to be exposed to, and to have suffered, intended or actual public
and institutional (e.g. Watchman Fellowship) hatred, contempt,
and obloquy, all constituting misconduct designed to deprive him
of public confidence and social intercourse in the communities in
which he has resided or where he has sojourned.

(c) The actions of defendants designed to destroy
plaintiff — embracing “destruction” in all its forms, literally,
physically, psychicly, mentally, in his livelihood, in ordinary
senses of well being, through every form of intentional
infliction of emotional distress — in compensatory damages in
amount upon proofs to be adduced but estimated to exceed $900,000
from and after May 10, 1993. On said premises, and by reason of
the aforesaid acts of defendants, plaintiff has sustained serious
actual damages, in an amount to proven at trial, but no less than
the minimum jurisdictional amount for this Court.

TRIAL OF THIS MATTER BEFORE A JURY IS DEMANDED.

WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays for damages against all
defendants, jointly and severally, as follows:

ON ALL TWELVE CLAIMS FOR RELIEF ABOVE SET OUT
1. For general damages according to proof at trial.
2. For special damages according to proof at trial.
3. For costs of suit.
4. For punitive damages; and
5. For such other relief as the Court may deem just.

Dated: Minden, Nevada
November 21, 1997,

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE W. ABBOTT, CHARTERED
George W. Abbott
STATE OF NEVADA )
: ss.
COUNTY OF DOUGLAS )

GERALD ARMSTRONG, under penalty of perjury, makes the
following assertions:
He is the plaintiff in the above-entitled action; that he
has read the foregoing Complaint for Libel and for Defamation,
and for Other Relief and knows the contents thereof; that the
same is true of his own knowledge, except for those matters
therein contained stated upon information and belief, and as to
those matters, he believes it to be true.
Gerald Armstrong

Subscribed and sworn to before

me this 21st day of November, 1997.
Notary Public

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From Order of Contempt of 02-20-1998:

(g) On or about October 23, 1997, Armstrong caused to be widely disseminated by means of the Internet a letter written to the Hon. Alfonse D’Amato concerning the efforts of CSI to combat religious discrimination in Germany. This action constituted the publication and/or broadcast of a documentary work which violated the terms of the above referenced Judgment. See Wilson declaration, Exhibit K.

From Wilson Declaration of 12-01-1997:

21. On or about October 23, 1997, Armstrong caused to be widely disseminated by means of the Internet a letter which he had apparently written previously to the Hon. Alfonse D’Amato concerning the efforts of CSI to combat religious discrimination in Germany. This action constituted the publication and/or broadcast of a documentary work which discusses CSI and other beneficiaries of the Order. A true and correct copy of said documentary work is attached hereto as Exhibit [K]. In this “letter” Armstrong states that “…this court order is illegal and that Scientology procured it by illegal means. It impermissibly denies me freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association and due process.” Exhibit K, p. 1.

The “letter” continues with Mr. Armstrong’s litany of false and derogatory charges against CSI and its affiliates with which this Court is all too familiar and with which this Court would not have been further burdened if Mr. Armstrong had simply obeyed the Order.

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From: armstr…@ntonline.com (gerry armstrong)
Subject: Letter to CSCE re Scientology’s Religious Persecution
Date: 1997/10/23
Message-ID: <344f9038.8661562@news.rapidnet.net>
X-Deja-AN: 282667392
Organization: Rapidnet Technologies Internet
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
I mailed this letter a while ago. Thought everyone should know:

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman,
Rep. Christopher H. Smith, Co-Chairman,
and all Commissioners
Ford House Office Building, Room 234
Washington, D.C. 20515
Re: Religious Intolerance in Europe: the Scientology connection

I have learned that the CSCE is holding hearings on this
subject, and I wish to add to your discussion some of my
experiences, knowledge and opinions.

I know that some Scientology celebrities and perhaps some
apologists for the organization have spoken to the Commission. I
also understand that Scientology’s claim of religious persecution
in Europe, particularly Germany, is the basis for these
celebrities’ appearance at the hearing and one of the bases for
the hearing itself.

In my opinion it is Scientology’s own persecution of its
members, ex-members and critics which is the source of most of
its problems in Europe. I believe that Scientology’s use of the
shield of religion to carry out its abuses and persecutions is a
real threat to freedom for legitimate, non-abusive religions. I
believe that the US has turned its back on the victims of
Scientology’s abuses and persecutions, the very individuals who
should be protected by the Constitutional guarantee of religious
freedom. Finally, I believe that until it is willing to examine
and act to curtail its own brand of religious persecution the US
will lack the probity to preach about other countries’ religious
persecutions.

It is my prayer for this Commission that it urge the US to
take the lead in eliminating religious persecution by examining
and dealing with the religious persecution within its own borders
and exported by its own organizations.

I am writing to you from Canada. Earlier this year it was
necessary for me to leave the US, where I had been a resident
since 1975, because I am the target of the Scientology
organization’s religious persecution in your country. This
persecution, using the power and authority of the US legal
system, resulted in a court order which prohibits me, on penalty
of being jailed and fined, from mentioning Scientology or
Scientologists or discussing my Scientology experiences.

I believe that this court order is illegal and that
Scientology procured it by illegal means. It impermissibly denies
me freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association
and due process. In effect it results in a form of legal and
psychological slavery. I am in Canada where I am free to discuss
Scientology and my experiences, and where I may freely express my
religious thoughts about this “religion.”

The Scientology organization is well known for its policy of
“using the law to harass.” It spends many millions of dollars
every year on lawyers and private investigators to harass
individuals it designates as “enemy” targets. It overwhelms these
targeted individuals with aggressive litigation, financial
ruination, and extralegal operations and threats. Very few people
have the money, strength or courage to stand up to this
organization and its antisocial tactics. Even the US government,
while it has stood up to military aggression of tyrannical
foreign national regimes, has succumbed to the “religious”
aggression of this US-based “church” of Scientology.

I was in Scientology from 1969 through 1981, spending most
of those years with its founder L. Ron Hubbard in the Sea
Organization, Scientology’s “elite” pseudo-military corps. I was
on the Sea Org ship “Apollo” with Hubbard, where I was posted as,
inter alia, the ship’s legal officer and intelligence officer.
Hubbard patterned his intelligence apparatus on the system of
Nazi spy master Reinhard Gehlen. Scientology operates as a global
intelligence organization collecting overt and covert information
on individuals, other organizations and governments and running
covert operations against its “enemies.”

During my Sea Org years I was twice assigned by Hubbard
personally to Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Force (”RPF”),
first in Florida, then in California, for a total of 25 months.
The RPF is a penal camp created by Hubbard to punish anyone he
felt crossed his will, or he even just disliked. People were
assigned arbitrarily, for something as slight as a needle
movement on the E-meter, the electro-psychometer Scientology
calls for “legal” reasons a “religious artifact,” but which in
reality is a lie detector. I was assigned by Hubbard the first
time for “insubordination,” and the second time because he
considered I was “joking.” During much of my RPF sentence I was
the “Bosun,” the highest RPF member and in charge of the group. I
became intimately familiar with RPF policies and practices.

The RPF is, and is intended to be, a degrading experience to
break the will of the person assigned. RPF members were
segregated, did physical or menial labor for little or no pay,
were required to run everywhere, and ate whatever was left after
the regular Scientology staff members finished eating. Telephone
calls from RPF members to their family were only by specific
permission and were monitored. All mail from RPF members was
first read by security personnel. Anyone who took the punishment
of RPF assignment lightly was assigned to the RPF’s RPF, an even
more degrading experience. People assigned were not free to
leave, and anyone who did wish to leave was guarded and held
until he had, among other things, signed a list of his “crimes”
extracted from his “auditing” files.

Auditing is Scientology’s psychotherapeutic processing,
which it claims produces increased abilities and awareness.
Statements made by a person being audited are recorded by an
“auditor.” These statements, which include the person’s innermost
thoughts, embarrassing incidents from his past, his sexual
history, acts which might be legally prosecutable, etc. are
available to and used by the intelligence personnel and leaders
of the organization for non-therapeutic purposes, such as
domination, intel operations or blackmail. Scientology promotes
to the public that statements made in auditing are confidential.
They are not.

My last position inside Scientology involved assembling an
archive of Hubbard’s personal documents and providing research
assistance to non-Scientologist author Omar Garrison who had been
contracted to write Hubbard’s biography. In the course of my
research I uncovered and documented pervasive fraud concerning
representations made by Hubbard and Scientology about his past,
credentials, accomplishments, intentions and the claims and
efficacy of his psychotherapeutic “mental technology.” I
attempted to get Scientology’s leaders to correct the fraud, and
as a result I was ordered to a “security check,” an interrogation
employing the E-meter.

I saw that the trust I had placed in Hubbard and Scientology
had been betrayed from the very beginning, that the
organization’s leaders were ill-intentioned, and that the fraud I
sought to correct would continue. My wife and I were fortunate in
being able to escape from the organization, because if we had
announced our intention to leave we would have been separated and
locked up. I had seen many people locked up and guarded inside,
and I had been locked up and kept under guard myself.

Shortly after I left, Scientology published “Suppressive
Person Declares” on me, falsely accusing me of crimes and high
crimes including promulgating false information about Hubbard and
Scientology. The organization’s declaring someone a “suppressive
person,” or “SP,” subjects him to its infamous and judicially
condemned “Fair Game Doctrine,” which permits SPs to be “deprived
of property, injured by any means by any Scientologist…
tricked, sued, or lied to or destroyed.” Being “declared” by
Scientology can be a terrifying experience.

During the first few months after I left the organization I
learned of an intelligence operation being conducted against me
and picked up surveillance. Scientology personnel also stole
photographs I possessed. Knowing that my wife’s and my life were
in danger, I obtained from Garrison, with his permission, certain
documents I believed I would need to defend us. I sent these to
attorneys who had agreed to represent me, one of whom was Michael
Flynn, then Scientology’s most prominent lawyer enemy.

From the time I left the organization until the present I
have been the target of fair game. Acts against me by Scientology
agents pursuant to this basic Scientology policy include:
- filing five lawsuits against me;
- following, surveilling and harassing me and my wife;
- spying in our windows and upsetting our neighbors;
- attempting to involve us in a freeway “accident;”
- assaulting me;
- striking me bodily with a car;
- threatening to put a bullet between my eyes;
- attempting on more than 12 occasions to have me prosecuted
on false criminal charges, including by the FBI;
- stealing a manuscript and artwork from my car;
- filing false sworn statements about me in various
litigations;
- extracting and disseminating information from my
supposedly confidential auditing files;
- illegally videotaping me;
- attempting to entrap me in the commission of a crime;
- threatening me on several occasions if I testified about
my knowledge of Scientology;
- threatening my friends;
- subjecting me to a massive international “black
propaganda” campaign.

Black propaganda or “black PR” is the term Hubbard gave to
Scientology’s policy and practice of destroying a target’s
reputation and credibility or public belief in him by the
manufacture and spreading of falsehoods about him. Over the years
Scientology has published and disseminated a small mountain of
black PR on me, falsely accusing me of perversities and crimes,
including crimes against humanity, in an ongoing effort to
assassinate my character.

The first case Scientology filed against me went to trial
before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr.
in 1984, resulting in a decision in my favor. Judge Breckenridge
stated:
“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[ubbard]. 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.”

Judge Breckenridge condemned as well Scientology’s abuse of
its participants’ auditing or psychotherapy records:
“culling supposedly confidential “P.C. folders or
files” to obtain information for purposes of
intimidation and/or harassment is repugnant and
outrageous.” (LASC No. C 420153)
This decision was affirmed on appeal, Scientology v. Armstrong
(1991), 232 Cal.App.3d 1060, 283 Cal. Rptr. 917.

Scientology also subjected my attorney Michael Flynn to fair
game attacks, which included infiltrating his office, threatening
his family, paying known criminals to testify falsely against
him, suing him and his office some fifteen times, framing him
with the forgery of a $2,000,000 check, and targeting him with an
international black PR campaign. (See, e.g., U.S. v. Kattar, 840
F.2d. 118). Flynn became desperate to have the attacks and
threats end, and ultimately, due to that desperation, compromised
his ethical responsibilities to his clients.

In December, 1986 Scientology and Flynn entered into an
agreement to settle all his some twenty clients’ claims against
the organization, plus Flynn’s own lawsuit seeking damages for
the years of fair game. I was to settle my cross complaint for
the years of abuse inside Scientology and the years of fair game
after I left. Scientology and Flynn positioned me as a deal
breaker, only showing me the “settlement agreement” they wanted
me to sign after my arrival in Los Angeles from Boston, where I
had been working in Flynn’s office.

I protested that I could not sign the document, which
required that I be absolutely silent about my then 17 years of
experiences with Scientology, and which contained a $50,000.00
liquidated damages penalty for any utterance I might make to
anyone. In response Flynn stated that the conditions were “not
worth the paper they’re printed on.” He told me, “You can’t
contract away your Constitutional rights; “the conditions are
unenforceable.” When I argued that the settlement document opened
me up to future problems with Scientology Flynn said, “I’ll be
there for you.”

Flynn said that he was sick of the litigation, the threats
to him and his family and wanted out, that Scientology had ruined
his marriage, his wife’s health and his life. He said that as a
part of the settlement he and all co-counsels had agreed to not
become involved in organization-related litigation in the future.
He expressed a deep concern that the courts in this country
cannot deal with Scientology and its lawyers and their
contemptuous abuse of the justice system. He told me that if I
didn’t sign I could look forward to more years of fair game
harassment and misery.

Flynn told me that the settlement’s global form was to give
Scientology the opportunity it sought to change its combative
attitude and behavior by removing the threat he and his clients
represented to it. He said Scientology had promised to cease fair
game and that he and all his clients depended on my signing to
have fair game against them cease. Because of Flynn’s
representations that the offensive conditions were not worth the
paper they were printed on, and to have fair game end for Flynn,
his family, his other clients and myself, I did sign
Scientology’s document.

Although I sought peace and did nothing to irritate
Scientology, the organization had no intention of ending fair
game attacks on me or anyone else. Immediately following the
settlement Scientology delivered black PR documents about me to
the Los Angeles Times. Over the next three years, and before I
responded in any way, Scientology’s attacks included:
- delivering black PR to various media representatives;
- publishing its own false and defamatory descriptions of my
Scientology experiences;
- disseminating to the media an edited and defamatory
version of the illegal videotape it had made of me;
- disseminating my own documents which had been sealed in my
case;
- filing affidavits about me in a civil lawsuit in England
which falsely charged that I had violated court orders and was an
admitted agent provocateur of the US Government;
- threatening to sue me if I even talked to attorneys in
the case in which the false charges were being made;
- threatening to expose a private writing if I did not
assist Scientology’s effort to prevent a third party litigant
from accessing my LA Superior Court file;
- threatening to sue me if I testified even after being
served with a deposition subpoena.

In the fall of 1989, after service of the deposition
subpoena in the case of Bent Corydon v. Scientology, I received a
series of telephone calls from Scientology attorney Lawrence
Heller which were threatening and troubling. Heller threatened
that I could be sued if I testified about my experiences, even
though I had been subpoenaed, and that I should refuse to answer
the deposition questions.

As a result of Heller’s threats and Scientology’s other
post-settlement fair game I concluded that the settlement
agreement and the organization’s efforts to enforce it were
acting to obstruct justice, and that if I allowed myself to be
intimidated by the threats I would be abetting that obstruction.
I concluded that I could not avoid a confrontation with
Scientology, and subsequently responded to defend myself and to
try to correct the injustices created by the settlement agreement
and its misuse.

From that time until the present many people who consider
themselves victims of Scientology’s abuse have contacted me to
request my assistance in their efforts to obtain redress or
defend themselves. I have come to believe that all people have a
God-given right to assist their fellows, which cannot be taken
away by human “contract.” I have also come to see that a person’s
right to participate in a public controversy, certainly a
controversy involving himself, should not and cannot be taken
away by “contract.”

In the case of Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin County
Superior Court Case No. 157680, the organization was awarded by
summary judgment $300,000 in liquidated damages, $320,000 in
costs and a permanent injunction prohibiting me from discussing
Scientology or Scientologists, or assisting in any way
Scientology’s victims or fair game targets. This judgment is
suspect because, among other things, the judge completely ignored
and refused to address the First Amendment religious issues and
defense.

The judge ruled that Scientology may say whatever it wants
about me, no matter how false, obnoxious or defamatory, and that
I may not respond in any way to defend myself. To arrive at this
conclusion he also ignored and refused to address a sworn
declaration by Scientology attorney Heller that the organization,
which had published false statements about me after the
“settlement,” was also bound by its non-disclosure conditions.
Heller had filed this declaration in the Corydon litigation in an
effort to prevent my deposition from going forward.

I had never agreed to be Scientology’s defenseless punching
bag. I believe that a judgment in a US court which orders that
someone submit to being a punching bag, especially to a known
abusive and dangerous organization like Scientology, is itself
abusive and dangerous, and illegal. That Scientology should use
the US courts to obtain such an order and unfair advantage is
indicative of its antisocial goals and disregard for civil rights
and basic equity.

Scientology’s policy and practice of attacking and
compromising judges presiding over its legal proceedings is well
known. (See, e.g., The American Lawyer article, December 1980,
“Scientology’s War Against Judges.”) This article, which focused
on the criminal trial of 11 Scientology intelligence personnel in
connection with their burglarizing of US Federal offices and
theft of government documents, stated that Scientology’s
“strategy amounts to an all-out war against the D.C.
district court judges, a war much more sophisticated,
better financed and more successful than the bizarre
tactics used by some other groups against their
courtroom adversaries, such as Synanon’s attempt to
murder an opposing counsel by putting a rattlesnake in
his mailbox.”
This all-out war continues to this day, and renders suspect every
legal decision obtained by Scientology, including the tax
exemption it obtained from the IRS in 1993.

After Scientology sued me following the “settlement” I
learned from Michael Flynn that he had signed a “contract” with
Scientology which prevents him from assisting me in my defense.
His promise to be there for me was merely an inducement to get me
to sign so that fair game toward him would end. Throughout the
post-settlement litigation, Flynn, while admitting that his
contract with Scientology is illegal and unenforceable, has
refused my requests to come forward, stating that he fears again
having his life ruined by more fair game. This too is indicative
of the organization’s continuing antisocial goals and rights
abuses.

Early this year I was served with a subpoena for production
of documents by Grady Ward in the case of Scientology v. Ward,
USDC Northern District of California. Ward is accused of posting
some of Scientology’s “secret scriptures” to the internet. After
receipt of the subpoena I received a letter from a Scientology
attorney threatening me if I produced the requested documents. I
therefore advised the presiding judge in the Ward case of the
threat. Scientology was able to then obtain an order of contempt
against me for communicating to the federal judge, sending me to
jail and fining me.

Also early this year I discovered that in its 1991 IRS Form
1023 submission, pursuant to which it obtained its tax exemption,
Scientology included a four page section about me containing the
same black PR the organization spreads to the media and public.
What Scientology wrote about me, in response to the IRS’s
questions concerning my Scientology-related litigation is
factually and in conclusion false. Scientology submitted these
false statements to the IRS during a time when it believed it had
me silenced by its gag contract, and thefeore unable to respond
to correct the lies. I have asked Scientology to correct the lies
submitted to the IRS and it has refused.

Scientology’s IRS tax exemption is based on lies, not just
about me, but about other individuals, and about the
organization’s practices and intentions. The IRS was derelict in
its duty to investigate the truth or falsity of Scientology’s
submissions. The US was derelict in its duty in granting
Scientology’s tax exempt status, protecting it, and supporting it
in its global goals. By aligning itself with Scientology the US
turned its back on its citizens who have been victimized by the
organization, and who are really the people the US should protect
and support. When I realized that Scientology’s leaders consider
that their tax exempt billions depend on silencing me, and that
the US courts and government had formed an unholy alliance with
the organization, I left for Canada.

Scientology claims to be a religion, and claims all the
extraordinary benefits conferred by the Constitution on
religions. It claims that it is organized solely for religious
purposes and that its policies and bulletins, even its
intelligence training instructions and its “fair game” policy,
are “scriptures.” It claims that people and countries opposing
its antisocial goals and practices and civil rights abuses are
engaging in “religious persecution.”

It is axiomatic that there is no freedom of religion where
there is no freedom to criticize, oppose or reform religion. The
US was founded in great part by people fleeing “religious
persecution” for opposing, criticizing or seeking to reform a
religion, which had the power, often provided by the State, to
persecute them. The US recognized the need for its citizens to be
free from religious persecution in the Religious Expression and
Religious Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment.

The prohibition against the State’s establishment of a
religion has traditionally been interpreted to mean that no
religion will be favored or given more support by government than
any other religion. Christianity and Christians, Buddhism and
Buddhists, and Scientology and Scientologists will be treated by
government and all its branches in every way equally. Also anti-
christians, anti-buddhists and anti-scientologists will be
treated in every way equally.

Scientology, with its fair game attacks, black PR, gag
contracts, and aggressive litigation, is attempting to suppress
and eliminate criticism, as well as opposition and reformation
efforts. The US courts’ enforcement of its gag contracts
necessarily involves the State in this one “religion’s”
suppression and elimination of criticism. Judicial enforcement
also results in the promotion and establishment of Scientology by
the removal of opposition to its promotion and establishment.
Unless the State is also willing to become involved in and
support every other religion’s suppression or elimination of
criticism, its judicial assistance to Scientology in its campaign
is favoritism, and impermissible. It is a tragedy for all that
the US favors the most abusive and irreligious of its
“religions.”

It is inconceivable that any US Court would prosecute
someone who under any circumstances signed a contract which
required that he not discuss God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible,
or his experiences in the Christian religion; or for that matter
Allah, Islam, Mohammed, the Koran, the Vedas or Krishna. It
therefore must not do so at the insistence of Scientology. It is
inconceivable that a Christian church in the US would do what
Scientology has done to silence its critics. But even
Christianity, although it would never silence anyone about
itself, must not be given the opportunity. Therefore
Scientology’s efforts to silence its critics and prevent
discussion of itself must not be given judicial support.

My case is not unique. There are hundreds, if not thousands,
of Scientologists and ex-Scientologists in the US who are bound
by this organization’s contracts of silence. For this reason
alone the statements of Scientology’s spokespeople cannot and
should not be believed. Those who would speak the truth have been
shuddered by “contract” and threat into silence. I just happen to
be one of the few who have chosen, despite the threats and
attacks using the power of the US courts, to speak up. Mine is a
test case for all the people Scientology binds in silence. What
the US does in my case will spell either freedom or continued
persecution for those many fearful silent people.

In the US, Constitutionally guaranteed Freedom of Religion
has come to mean freedom for the religious corporation and its
leaders to persecute the practitioners, as well as the critics,
of the religion. This is a perversion of Freedom, worked by
clever lawyers being paid by the persecutors. It must be changed,
and true Freedom of Religion reinstituted. The US is the only
western country in which people can be jailed for mentioning a
religion – Scientology. Certainly Germany does not jail people
for mentioning any religion, or even Scientology.

Regarding Scientology, and any religion, at least these
things must be ordered and implemented before it should be
granted the benefits of religious status, and before the US
champions its cause:

1. Any member of any religion must be free to leave at any
time without persecution for choosing to leave, and may not be
detained for any amount of time;

2. Any member of any religion must be free to speak or
write freely his or her experiences within that religion, and may
not be persecuted for doing do;

3. Scientology must take steps to demonstrably insure that
the practice of using information divulged by people during their
association with the organization against those people in any way
not for their welfare is forever stopped;

4. Scientology must reform pursuant to civil rights
statutes, or abolish, its RPFs.

Thank you for this opportunity. I pray that we do the right
thing.
Gerry Armstrong
C/O George W. Abbott, Esquire
2245-B Meridian Boulevard
P.O. Box 98
Minden, Nevada 89423-0098
(702)782-2302

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From Order of Contempt of 02-20-1998:

(f) Also on or about October 20, 1997, in violation of the Order, Armstrong created and caused to be widely disseminated by means of the Internet a documentary work which violated the terms of the above referenced Judgment. See Wilson declaration. Exhibit J.

From Wilson Declaration of 12-01-1997:

20. Also on or about October 20, 1997, in violation of the Order, Armstrong created and caused to be widely disseminated by means of the Internet a documentary work which discussed CSI and other beneficiaries of the Settlement Agreement. A true and correct copy of said documentary work is attached hereto as Exhibit [J].

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/86b38058f6a00b59?dmode=source&hl=en

From: armstr…@ntonline.com (gerry armstrong)
Subject: Re: Question to (Ex?)Members, concerning other religions
Date: 1997/10/20
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:19:01 +0100, Dave Bird—St Hippo of Augustine
<d…@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Scientology presents itself in W.I.S. as “an applied religious
> philiosophy” compatible with other religious beliefs. I know
> this is a somewhat disputed statement but….
>
> In your estimate, what percentage of staff or public Scientologists
> (in the area/nation where you were a member) were in fact active
> believers in other religions during their membership?
>
Zero!

> What religion and denomination were they??
>
I recently saw an ethics order on someone kicking them out of
Scientology for remaining a member of the Methodist Church.

It was absolutely forbidden in every part of the Scientology
enterprise where I was (Vancouver, Apollo, Dunedin, Clearwater, La
Quinta, Gilman Hotsprings, Los Angeles) for anyone to be an active
believer in any [other] religion and remain in the org. There was a
couple in the RPF in Clearwater who announced their belief in God.
They were guarded, sec checked, made to sign “crimes” culled from
their pc folders, made to accept a “freeloader debt,” and finally
“off-loaded.”

It was common “knowledge” in the organization that people who believed
in God were “psychotic” and were treated as such. Such people could of
course be used to forward Scientology’s public relations goals.

During the “Apollo” years, the 400+ people on board never admitted to
being Scientologists, and it was a security violation, punishable with
a “treason condition,” if anyone let slip to a “wog” that he or she
was a Scientologist, or that Scientology was operating on board. Our
cover was “Operation and Transport Corporation” of Panama, a business
management company. If anyone was asked by a wog in the ports we
visited what his or her religion was, the person was drilled to state
the religion he or she was raised in; e.g., Catholic, Presbyterian,
Lutheran.

This shows the facility of Scientologists in lying. The same facility
is shown in the organization’s claim of compatibility with [other]
religions. Scientology at its core is dedicated to the destruction of
[other] religions. Which to the facile Scientologists is just another
way of saying that they are all compatible.

Gerry

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