Exposing the
CON home page: The truth about the Fraud called Scientology
| «Scientology is like a 19th century seedy carnival side show, whenever someone in
the audience would yell out how the
trick was done, he would be dragged outside by a couple of
toughs stationed there for this
purpose, and beaten up. Scientology’s demeanor is identical to
this, only in the ‘civil’ 20th century they use
lawyers, then the entire sordid affair is cloaked
in bogus
religiosity. When direct
litigation is rendered no longer possible due to
broad awareness, and
Judicial
wisdom, Scientology operatives generate false reports, based
upon Hubbard's doctrines, "make it go right" , "fair
game" and "if possible, destroy utterly" they then try to
manipulate by ARTIFICE:
state, local
and Federal law
enforcement to do their work for them -
silencing critics. That
John
Travolta and
Tom Cruise
are entranced by this particular
sideshow,
should be interpreted as evidence of the mastery of the art of
deception, sleight of hand, misdirection of attention, and
linguistic trickery used by
Hubbard.
That Scientology then keeps the tent flaps tied shut, so that
the deluded cannot see outside, is just confirmation that it
indeed is merely a plot to deceive.»
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Washington Post: "Church in Cyberspace" by Marc Fisher
| «It was 9:30 and Arnie Lerma was lounging in
his living room in Arlington, drinking his
Saturday morning coffee, hanging. Suddenly, a
knock at the door -- who could it be at this
hour? -- and boom, before he could force
anything out of his mouth, they
were pouring into his house: federal
marshals, lawyers, computer technicians,
cameramen.
They stayed for three hours last Saturday.
They inventoried and confiscated everything
Lerma cherished: his computer, every disk in the
place, his client list, his phone numbers. And
then they left. "I'm one of those guys who keeps
everything -- my whole life -- on the computer,"
Lerma says. "And now they have it all." "They"
are lawyers for the Church of Scientology, the
controversial group that Lerma once considered
his home, his rock, his future. Now they call
him a criminal, accusing him of divulging trade
secrets and violating copyrights.» |
Washington Post:
"The Church's War Against Its Critics—and Truth" by Richard
Leiby
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«The pair wedged a three-page, legal-looking
document inside the screen door. It was "Declaration of Arnaldo
Pagliarini Lerma," but Lerma hadn't written it and in fact had
never seen it before. He left Scientology in 1978, after serving
several years as a low-level staffer
[see side note]. The document amounted to a confession, with a line left blank for Lerma's
signature.
"I engaged in taking illegal drugs," it read in part, "and eventually left
the Church entirely because I could not maintain a high enough
ethical standard.....
"I wish to make it known that I have been involved in trying to denigrate
the name of Scientology and some of its leading members......I
wish to recant these statements in full...."
Lerma, 44, the son of a Mexican agriculture official who grew up
in Washington, felt intimidated. A few hours later, an anonymous
fax arrived. "CEASE AND DESIST YOUR ACTIVITY AGAINST THE CHURCH
AND WE WILL TAKE NO FURTHER ACTION." the fax stated.
Now Lerma felt outraged. Was this some kind of threat?
He contacted his lawyer and the FBI, which took a report. Then
he mailed a letter to the Washington Post, enclosing a computer
disk labeled "Inside Scientology."
"Something has to be done," Lerma wrote. "This is America—isn't
it?"» |
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Important note
by Lerma:
«The line that
reads 'as a low level staffer' describing
my involvement with the cult was placed there
based on false statements made by OSA Staffer
Sylvia Stanard in Washington DC.
I, in fact, was the financial controller, a
member of the 'elite' FBO Network, for what is
now Bridge Publications» |
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The Art of Deception
«The only intrinsic value of Scientology is the vast amount of money that an
artfully engineered con game can extract from its targets. Much of this, to the tune of $26 million a year (Note
8) is fed to lawyers to ensure that the public at large will not
find these things out until after they have exhausted
all their money, ruined their lives, and now, penniless, try to
fight a well financed legal machine!»
CNN: "Church of Scientology protects secrets on the Internet"
| «He left the church 17 years ago after what he
calls a dispute involving his romance with the daughter of
church founder L. Ron Hubbard. He's been using his computer to
spread copyrighted writings of Hubbard, which he obtained from
court records in California. "I run a business. Everything I
have is in the computer," Lerma says. "All my financials...
it's like an extension of my mind. So I'm essentially out of
business."» — CNN, August 26, 1995. |
Wikipedia: Arnaldo Lerma
"He and Suzette Hubbard, (daughter of
L. Ron Hubbard and his third wife,
Mary Sue Whipp) planned to marry in Clearwater, Florida in
1978, but the couple's plans were discovered. Arnie Lerma was
interrogated by the church and was offered "safe passage out of
Florida with all of his body parts" if he called off the
marriage to Suzette Hubbard. Arnie Lerma subsequently left
Scientology.»
Scientology's Funny Photos
«The 49-year old Lerma, an-ex-Scientologist who
has
tangled repeatedly with church officials since he quit 23
years ago, and today owns an audio-video and computer business,
immediately thought he spotted something fishy. He says the
crowd scenes were doctored extensively. In one shot he found
repeated images of some attendees---apparently added to fill
empty seats. The touch-up work left one doppelganger parishioner with no head. In another shot a bald man who had been replicated
magically grew hair.»
— The Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2000.
Newsday: "The Net: Copyright Or 'Free Press'"
| «ARNALDO LERMA believes the Internet
newsgroups are like the
Liberty Trees of the American Revolution - a
place where citizens can post anything of
interest. Suffice to say, the Church of
Scientology doesn't quite agree. Earlier this
year, Lerma sent sacred religious scriptures
from the church out over the Net. Lerma quickly
heard back from those who, like himself, are
worried about what they say are Scientology's
cult-like methods.
"I got 160 pieces of e-mail saying they
admired my courage and two pieces of mail from
angry Scientologists," recalls Lerma, a
44-year-old audio-video technician in Arlington,
Va. But the strongest response came from the
Church of Scientology itself. Claiming that all
of the material is copyrighted, and thus
protected from being reproduced in other
formats, the church filed a lawsuit in August
against Lerma, convincing a federal judge to
authorize a search of his home.» |
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