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Dec 23, 1996
New Twist In Anti-Cult Saga: Foe Is Now Ally -- Bellevue Man Who Put Group Into Bankruptcy Fires Scientology Lawyer — Seattle Times
Dec 22, 1996
Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 1, 1996
Time magazine to settle Church of Scientology suit — Orlando Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel NEW YORK — Time magazine has agreed to settle a lawsuit by a member of the Church of Scientology who accused the magazine of libeling him in a 1991 article about the controversial church's activities. Under the settlement reached this week, the magazine agreed to publish a statement in next week's issue indicating it did not intend to suggest that Michael Baybak, the church member who brought the suit, had violated any law or regulation.
Oct 11, 1996
Flag Project Order 1423 [Clear Expansion Committee chairman: Driving in volume public project orders] — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Oct 4, 1996
Man enters not-guilty plea in Scientology-center shooting — Seattle Times
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Seattle Times PORTLAND — The man accused of shooting four people in a Church of Scientology branch pleaded not guilty today to 13 criminal counts arising from the Sept. 25 incident. Along with the shootings, Jarius Godeka is accused of taking a hostage and setting a fire at the church's Celebrity Centre. No trial date was set. Godeka, who was jailed briefly early this year for threatening to kill church members and demanding money, had blamed the church for business problems.
Oct 2, 1996
Scientology is fighting for its future in France — International Herald TribuneMore: link
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Barry James Source:
International Herald Tribune PARIS: The Church of Scientology is battling charges in a Lyon courtroom that it is a manipulative and fraudulent cult that practices false medicine and hounded one of its followers to his death.
The case could derail the sect's campaign to be accepted as a mainstream faith in several European countries. Last week, it began beaming satellite television advertisements to Britain, its biggest recruiting ground in Europe, despite not being recognized there as a bona fide religion. The advertisements stress a ...
Oct 1, 1996
Scientology web page review — internet.au
Sep 26, 1996
The shooting: Violence visits Scientology — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Bryan Smith ,
David R. Anderson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Seven months ago, Jairus Chegero Godeka threatened to kill everyone in the Portland Church of Scientology unless they gave him $50,000 for ruining his life.
On Wednesday, police say, Godeka walked into the church's downtown Portland office and shot and wounded four people, including a pregnant receptionist.
Godeka set a fire and briefly took another woman hostage at the church's Portland Celebrity Centre before a police officer persuaded him to surrender.
The attack brought activity on Southwest Salmon Street and Broadway ...
Sep 25, 1996
Four shot at Oregon Scientology center — CNNMore: groups.google.com
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CNN Four shot at Oregon Scientology center
PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) – A man carried a gun and a can of gasoline into a
downtown Church of Scientology on Wednesday, shot four people and started a
fire, police said.
The suspect, identified as Kenya native Jairus Godeka, 38, surrendered after
walking out of the church's Portland Celebrity Center with a female hostage
whom he released unharmed. Godeka was promptly arrested, and firefighters
quickly doused the flames.
A pregnant woman was hospitalized in critical ...
Sep 12, 1996
Flag Project Order 1420 [Clear Expansion Committee: Recovering Scientotologists back onto the Bridge] — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Sep 6, 1996
Behind an Internet message service's close // Pressure from the Church of Scientology is blamed for the shutdown — New York TimesMore: link
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Author(s):
Peter H. Lewis Source:
New York Times Pressure from the Church of Scientology International was at least partly responsible for the recent shutdown of a well-known Internet messaging service based in Helsinki, according to the Finnish operator of the service. The service, known by its Internet address, anon.penet.fi, was used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to send and receive electronic messages without divulging their true identities. It was the best known of a small, global network of special computers known as remailers, whose legitimate users include ...
Sep 1, 1996
Germany finds Scientology to have menacing mission — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)More: link
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Barbara Demick Source:
Indianapolis Star (Indiana) Lawmakers are looking at barring its members from teaching, police work, other government jobs. HAMBURG, Germany — As the politicians see it, Germany, is being threatened by an evil plot to infiltrate business and government. "A giant octopus . . . that will stop at nothing in its desire to spread its blind ideology" is how Labor Secretary Norbert Blum has described the plot against Germany. Claudia Nolte, another member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet, warns, "They aim at world domination ...
Sep 1, 1996
Scientology — Pig Meat (Australia)
Sep 1, 1996
Spam in a Can — internet.au
Aug 19, 1996
John's Secret Powers: 'Travolta Cured Me' — New Weekly (Australia)
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New Weekly (Australia) The star of Phenomenon claims the movie is close to real life and says he can cure people with his bare hands — but is it just cult fiction? In John Travolta's latest movie, Phenomenon , the once disco-dancing star plays an ordinary man who is miraculously given supernatural abilities. It sounds like fantasy — but in real life John believes he, too, has weird powers. Behind that famous smile, the 42-year-old gentle family man is an obsessive cult follower who claims ...
Aug 11, 1996
Tom Cruise's religion may affect his pocketbook in Germany // Scientology isn't well received there — CNN
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CNN (CNN) — Actor Tom Cruise may have a movie blockbuster in the United States, but in Germany, the star of "Mission: Impossible" faces a controversy that could hit where it hurts: the pocketbook. Germany's problem is not with the movie plot or dialogue. It's with the star and his religious beliefs. Cruise is a member of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology, a credo that critics say is steeped in science fiction more bizarre than any cinema plot. Opponents of Cruise's ...
Aug 9, 1996
Movies // Mission: Stop Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) [...] Mission: Stop Scientology: Germans youths picketed cinemas throughout their country on Thursday to protest Tom Cruise's movie "Mission: Impossible" because the American actor is a member of the Scientology religion. The protests–organized by the normally placid youth wing of Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union–are a token of the growing political pressure against Scientology in Germany, where recruiting has been active. The pickets came after Paul Stefan Mauz, a Christian Democrat member of parliament, claimed that Cruise was a "high-ranking" Scientologist ...
Aug 5, 1996
Church Of Scientology settles dispute with internet provider — Seattle Times
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Seattle Times SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Church of Scientology has settled a copyright dispute with an Internet provider that many in the computer industry worried would restrict freedom of expression in cyberspace. The church and Netcom On-Line Communication Services, one of the nation's largest Internet-access providers, agreed not to discuss details of the out-of-court settlement. They did say, however, that the online service has posted a warning to its subscribers telling them not to use Netcom to "unlawfully distribute the intellectual property ...
Aug 5, 1996
No answers in Scientology case — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rose Aguilar Source:
CNET Many Internet legal analysts are disappointed by an out-of-court settlement between Netcom and the Church of Scientology because now they'll have to wait for another case to come to light before a court sets a firm precedent on Internet access providers' liability for online copyright infringement. Netcom and the church announced an out-of-court settlement Sunday in a copyright infringement dispute dating from December that many expected to set a precedent for Internet service providers' liability. The case involved church allegations that ...
Aug 4, 1996
Netcom and Scientology settle — CNET
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CNET As part of a settlement with Religious Technology Center, Netcom has posted a protocol in which the company states it will block access to material pending an investigation into claims of copyright infringement. Netcom's protocol states that upon receiving a complaint Netcom "will temporarily remove or deny access to the challenged material, to protect the rights of all involved." "If Netcom concludes that complainant has raised a legitimate claim, it will continue to deny access to the challenged material," the protocol ...
Jul 17, 1996
Judge rules Time can't be sued for calling Scientology 'cult of greed' — CNN
Jul 4, 1996
Freedom Flames Out on the 'Net — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com , groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Colman Jones Source:
NOW Magazine Ron Newman, a corporate Web page designer in Cambridge, Massachussetts, turns on his computer one day last month and signs on to the Net to check in on his favourite newsgroup, alt.religion.scientology, a.r.s. for short. But as his computer modem erupts into the now all-too-familiar squeal that marks the arrival online, Newman begins to sense that something's not quite right. Ordinarily, it takes only a few seconds to retrieve the day's new postings on this electronic bulletin board. Today there are ...
Jun 30, 1996
Scientology founder bypassed science — Sun Herald (Australia)
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Sun Herald (Australia) As the mother of an ex-Scientologist, I believe if Henry Bartnik (S-H 19/5) researched official records he would find the autobiographical accounts of Scientology founder Ron Hubbard to be grossly inaccurate. The problem with Hubbard's achievements in education and science is his lack of scientific process. His work is not subject to ongoing public discourse, criticism and reproduction with controlled studies. His most damning legacy is a policy which effectively suppresses critical analyses internally, and attacks external critics with vengeance. Hubbard, ...
Jun 22, 1996
Scientologists focus talks on spiritual freedom // Profiles in faith — Santa Barbara News-PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Barber Source:
Santa Barbara News-Press Since its founding in 1954, the Church of Scientology has sparked some fear, mistrust and controversy. This doesn't surprise the Rev. Lee Holzinger, 38, minister of the Santa Barbara Church of Scientology. "We are different from other churches in many ways," he said. "How could anything come along that is so fundamentally important to life and society and not rouse controversy?" The church was involved in a 40-year battle with the Internal Revenue Service that ended Oct 1, 1993 when the ...
Jun 7, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection - More Responses — Boston Phoenix
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Boston Phoenix I am a musician, mainly a bassist, in the local area. My lovely mug has graced the pages of your paper on occasion, featured, you may recall, with my band of a few years back called Brouhaha or, more recently, with Earthwurm. I am also an ordained priest of the Order of Vedantan Monists. If you consult rudimentary reference materials, you will find that Vedanta has been the voice of religious freedom for about the last seven to ten thousand years. ...
May 29, 1996
Ominous new threat to free speech — Herald Sun (Australia)
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Author(s):
Paul Gray Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) Free speech has come under renewed threat because of a little-noticed decision by the Australian Broadcasting Authority. In an ominous echo of moves to restrict free speech via racial hate laws, the ABA has ruled that radio station 3RRR breached acceptable standards on religious vilification. The unprecedented case centred on criticisms of the Church of Scientology by ex-Scientologist Cyril Vosper on 3RRR's
The Liars' Club program last year. Among other criticisms, Vosper likened Scientology to an extremist political regime and ...
May 15, 1996
Getting Clear at BU? — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Salon Earle Cooley, the chairman of Boston University's board of trustees, wants you to know that he believes in freedom of expression.
Never mind that the gruff, avuncular 64-year-old, one of Boston's top trial attorneys, has played a leading role in the Church of Scientology's efforts to use copyright law to keep secret church documents off the Internet.
Although the church has won some significant courtroom victories, critics, legal observers, and even judges criticize the zeal with which it has pursued its ...
May 3, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection // Dan Kennedy's Response — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix It is simply untrue to state that I did not bother to contact a Church of Scientology representative. I conducted a one-and-a-half-hour interview with Earle Cooley, a leading lawyer for the church — and, based on his past statements, a member. He described for me in great detail his work for the church and his view of a number of church policies and doctrines. What is he if not a church representative? Cooley and his relationship to Boston University was the ...
May 3, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection // Scientology's Response — Boston Phoenix
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Author(s):
Beth Akiyama Source:
Boston Phoenix In "BU's Scientology Connection" (News, April 19), Dan Kennedy tried to make an issue out of Scientology by questioning whether Mr. Earle Cooley, an attorney who has represented the Church of Scientology and is also a Boston University trustee, is a Scientologist. Next, Kennedy will be inquiring whether the president of IBM is a Catholic or demanding how many New York judges are Muslims. Kennedy tries to hang his anti-Scientology diatribe on Mr. Cooley's representation of the church, but he cannot ...
Apr 19, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection -- Scientology's Tangled Web — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix The Church of Scientology has waged a war in cyberspace to keep its secret documents from being seen, and it is on the Internet that some of its best insights can be found. * alt.religion.scientology is the most active cyberstation. Church critics and supporters post several hundred messages a day, and anonymous critics such as the notorious "Scamizdat" upload copyrighted Scientology documents they have obtained. Church critics charge that Scientologists have illegally forged "cancel" messages to erase these postings. Church lawyer ...
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