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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)
Type: Press
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
Type: Press
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 ...
Apr 19, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection -- the Secrets of Scientology — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix To Scientologists, Steven Fishman is an apostate who's spread vicious lies about the church to which he used to belong. To church critics, he's a hero who's exposed the truth about Scientology. Evaluating Fishman's credibility is difficult, to say the least. He's an ex-convict who served a prison term for financial crimes that he claims he was ordered to commit. Church officials deny there was any such order, and they deny just about everything else Fishman has said about his old ...
Apr 19, 1996
Earle Cooley is chairman of BU's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets. — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix It was last August 12, a Saturday morning, and Earle Cooley did not seem happy. Cooley was among several lawyers for the Church of Scientology who, accompanied by federal agents, had just raided the Arlington, Virginia, home of Arnaldo Lerma, a former church member who'd become a harsh critic. The lawyers took quite a haul: Lerma's computer, disks, a scanner, and other materials they thought he may have used to post secret, copyrighted Scientology documents on the Internet. The success of ...
Apr 18, 1996
Scientology told to pay fees in copyright suit — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rex Bossert Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that the Church of Scientology has been playing "fast and loose with the judicial system," a federal appeals court has ordered the religious organization to pay nearly $3 million in attorneys fees to a former member it sued after he formed his own splinter group. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the unusual sanction against the church for years of litigation spawned by two 1985 suits it filed against David Mayo and others involved with ...
Apr 1, 1996
New World War — Reason Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Post Source:
Reason Magazine Cancelbunny and Lazarus battle it out on the fontier of cyberspace–and suggest the limits of social contracts. "Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man....It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of warre as this; and I believe it was never generally ...
Mar 29, 1996
NN INT ED #507 / NARCONON CENTER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / WEEKLY REPORTS
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[PDF pages 25-26]
Mar 15, 1996
International Management Executive Committee [IMEC] Executive Directive [ED] 2039 [Field Staff Member Award Program] — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Mar 5, 1996
Church of secrets // In the dark: Scientologists enlist the heavy hand of the law to quash attempts to scrutinise their beliefs — The Bulletin (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Millikan Source:
The Bulletin (Australia) YOU ARE PERHAPS SICK OF HEARING that Kate Ceberano, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and various other luminaries owe their glittering fame and wealth to Scientology. You may also have noticed that Scientology is taking ads on buses. The days of the kids with clipboards eyeballing you on the street to ask if you would like to do a personality test are fading. Scientology is moving to big business and the Internet. The Church of Scientology tends to live by ...
Feb 21, 1996
International Management Executive Committee [IMEC] Executive Directive [ED] 2025 [Clear Expansion Committee] — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Feb 5, 1996
Anti-SLAPP provision applies to any cause of action arising from petition activity, not only tort actions — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Feb 5, 1996
Church of Scientology of California v. Lawrence Wollersheim — Daily Appellate Report
Feb 1, 1996
Decision: Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim (1996)
Feb 1, 1996
Scientology's Internet Wars — Watchman Expositor
Feb 1, 1996
The cult of personalities — Details (magazine)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William Shaw Source:
Details (magazine) Scientology is the religion everyone loves to hate. So how come so many movie stars are devout followers? Moves into the church's Celebrity Centre for an exclusive look at the starway to heaven. AT FRANKLIN AND BRONSON A LOGJAM OF LIMousines crawls toward the mock-French Normandy Chateau. At the grand doorway, celebrities, lawyers, producers, and the children of the well-heeled of the entertainment industry step onto the crimson-carpeted tarmac, chattering through the pink-and-gold lounge to the lawns and fairy-lit trees beyond, ...
Jan 22, 1996
Opinion / Germany retaliates against Scientology — New York Times
Jan 20, 1996
A posting on Internet is ruled to be illegal — New York TimesMore: link
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