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Former high-ranking scientologist, left after 15 years. "Basically, I was the quality-control officer of the brainwashing
factory." – Dennis Erlich, in
"Scientology snags a dissident", L.A.
Weekly, February 17, 1995.
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BBC 2 (May 1995): "The Net"
Another of my children, who once had a wonderful sense
of humor, claims she lost her
ability to laugh when she did the communication course
as a six year old. The
bullbaiting
in the training drills tampered with her spontaneity
and caused her to arrest her natural urge to react to
things. As a result she now tends to be placid, self-conscious,
detached and objective. Once that spontaneity was disturbed
by the unnatural, hypnotic discipline of
TRs, she
tended to be un-reacting. I have known many adults in
my cult career who displayed this fixed, robotic, un-reacting
countenance, but in the case of my child, it produced
a severe, dramatic, destructive change in her personality
which has not been reversed. Like her sister, she had
a difficult time trying to adapt in "wog"
schools, to the children and the need to catch up academically.
After several years of constant effort, she managed
to come up to speed with those she had previously considered
her inferiors -- the "wogs."
Affidavit of Dennis Erlich (16 November 1995)
8. Using a 250 megabyte backup tape, the RTC officials
began to copy many of the files from the hard drive
of my second computer. They then proceeded to erase
the files that they copied from my hard drive. All of
this occurred without my permission or consent. From
what I can tell, the RTC officials erased files dealing
with numerous topics -- including Internet messages,
my financial records, my own independent research into
Scientology, and other miscellaneous files having nothing
to do with Scientology or L. Ron Hubbard. Unfortunately,
I cannot know for sure exactly what, or how much, was
downloaded or erased because the RTC officials would
not permit me to make an inventory of the files.
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The Church of Scientology vs. Dennis Erlich, Tom
Klemesrud and Netcom
On February 8, 1995, two Church of Scientology
corporations filed a
lawsuit and a
request for a restraining order against Dennis
Erlich of Glendale, California, alleging that he was
posting the Church's "copyrighted trade secrets".
They also sued the bulletin board he was using, Tom
Klemesrud's support.com, and the bulletin
board's Internet service provider, Netcom. Two days
later, they received a
temporary restraining order against the three
defendants, as well as a
writ of seizure allowing them to search Erlich's
home and seize computer files.
Erlich did not know about any of this until 7:30 in the morning of Monday, February 13, 1995, when Church attorney Thomas Small and seven other people demanded entry to his home. According to Erlich, they spent over six hours copying and deleting files from his computer system. A Glendale police officer was present at the beginning and end of the raid, but not at any other time. Greetings from a Survivor / End of the Q.
Meantime, "The Friendliest Place on Earth" was also
proving to be something less than that. For me
it was more like basic training in concentration camp
management. New staff and students were packed
like sardines, twelve to a tiny hotel room, in bunk
beds four high with barely enough room to squeeze between
them. Any time the income
fell below half a million dollars a week everyone was
assigned to "Rice and Beans." On these
numerous occasions, all we were fed was spanish rice
and boiled beans. This was all part of showing
the new recruit what he was worth. The spiritual
pecking order was energetically applied and strictly
enforced. Anyone new to Flag began as low man
on the scrotum pole.
St. Petersburg Times (Nov. 1991): "I still have nightmares" by Curtis Kruger
"I don't know if anyone can comprehend the remorse I
feel for subjecting my children to this alienating,
warped, repressive environment.
I pray our story serves as a warning:
SCIENTOLOGY IS DANGEROUS TO THE HEALTH AND SANITY OF
YOUR CHILDREN!!"
"He's very remorseful," Beth said. "He's always saying how sorry he is." Now 24, Beth is married and lives in California. She said she recently graduated from college with honors in graphic design. When she left Clearwater in 1983, she realized quickly she was never going back to Scientology. But some of the doctrines are hard to shake. Scientologists abhor psychiatry, for example, and it took Beth until this summer to seek therapy, to deal with the pain of her unusual childhood. Wired (1995): "alt.scientology.war"
On February 13, Erlich's residence was raided. Erlich
claims his constitutional rights were violated by the
raid, in which, he says, floppies, books, and papers
were seized, files deleted from his hard drive, and
his house comprehensively searched and photographed.
Afterward, two of his computers would not boot properly,
and he was left with no backups from which to restore
his system; he was not given an inventory of the materials
taken.
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