The Helena Kobrin Love Page


Helena's Greatest Mistake

Helena is a lawyer for RTC, the body which is responsible for keeping control of Scientology's "Secret" documents. When she overzealously took legal action against Swedish netizen Zenon Panoussis, the tactic backfired in the worst possible way.

From anima@io.com Thu Dec  5 13:33:38 GMT 1996

grady@tidepool.com (Grady Ward) writes:
>I just got another interesting letter from Mr. Lars Ek in Bromma, Sweden.

>"But perhaps Ms Kobrin was well aware of the consequences of the quoted
>article 26b. [of the Swedish Constitution]  In that case she knew, that the
>NOTs became public common papers the moment Ms Kobrin's client sued in
>Sweden. That happened September 2, 1996, and from that day the NOTs are
>public for perpetuity. Thus, Ms Kobrin, Chief Lawyer for the Plaintiff and
>no one else, is ultimately responsible for making the NOTs public."

This was such a remarkable statement that I felt, forgive me if I'm wrong
again, it deserved its own subject line. A United States court has now
been officially (?) informed that the Kobra's own actions are specifically
responsible for mandating that the great secret lies and confusions of the
despicable cult that pays her should be open to the ages so that children
in the street can mock at them and roving gangs of teenage thugs can point
their fingers and go nya-nya in contempt and derision at finding
themselves in the presence of anyone who is so deluded and ignorant as to
give even a stolen penny for these absurdities except as collector's items
or as historical documents.

Obviously Helena Ho is an SP, and as a sometime poster here, not just SP0
either (Potential Suppressive) but something very special indeed. When
will she get to RPF? Won't that interfere with her barratry? Will this
incompetence (or deliberate misrepresentation?) interfere with her status
in the Bar Association? If the cult takes action against her for
incompetence and for giving away the bridge to anyone dumb enough to take
it, will she blow? How much will they pay her to shut the fuck up and take
their secrets (any she hasn't released already) to the grave? Would that
count as inurement and lose the already shaky and suspicious IRS ruling
that grants tax exemption to a crutch that spends a third of its
fraudulently obtained loot on abusing the courts? Or would it be
considered a retirement policy that others will then look forward to as an
alternative to being off-loaded when their SP stats soar in comparable
fashion?

Brian Behlendorf asked, "When will we be able to dance on the Internet?"
I suggest this is as good an occasion as we have had so far.

Congratulations to the $cnners and their legal team. So this is what they
call "carrying out the Hubbard tech." Hilarity, Kobrin is thy name.

And the counter suit hasn't even had its first deposition yet. I think
some clamheads are going to jail. Oh, sometimes it really is good to have
an entire day set aside for Thanksgiving and rejoicing.

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