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Jun 22, 2001
Church scores round in death suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A judge dismisses the allegation that Lisa McPherson was falsely imprisoned. ST. PETERSBURG — The Church of Scientology won a partial victory Thursday when a judge dismissed one of four counts in a 4-year-old wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of Lisa McPherson. In one of his final acts overseeing the case, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Frank Quesada dismissed the count alleging that McPherson was falsely imprisoned. Ken Dandar, the lawyer representing the McPherson estate, argued that McPherson was psychotic and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 22, 2001
Obituary: L Fletcher Prouty — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Carlson
Source: The Guardian (UK)
US officer obsessed by the conspiracy theory of President Kennedy's assassination It is appropriate that Fletcher Prouty, who has died of organ failure following stomach surgery at the age of 84, will best be remembered as the model for the mysterious Colonel X, played by Donald Sutherland, in Oliver Stone's film JFK. Prouty, who believed the assassination of President John F Kennedy was a coup d'état perpetrated by elements of the United States military and intelligence communities, was a career military ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 22, 2001
Unfair Game — L.A. Weekly (California)
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Gale Holland
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
It was 2:15 p.m. when Keith Henson and his friend Gregg Hagglund finished picking up contact-lens solution and shaving lotion at a suburban Toronto mall and climbed into their car. Before they could fasten their seat belts, two unmarked vans squealed up, pinning their Mazda economy sedan in from the rear and the passenger side. A handful of emergency-services task-force officers – Canada‘s version of a police SWAT team – spilled out, wearing body armor and carrying submachine guns. As shoppers ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 19, 2001
Parking garage plans fall apart — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Christina Headrick
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
That means plans for a new bus terminal downtown also have crumbled. CLEARWATER — A first-of-its-kind partnership to build a downtown parking garage on top of a new bus terminal was pronounced dead Monday. Negotiations involving the city, the Church of Scientology, Pinellas County and the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority failed to produce a deal to make the project work. Several months of talks ended last week, after one last-ditch effort to save the project. "We really did try," said Assistant ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 12, 2001
Church, city may trade property — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Christina Headrick
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Clearwater says the deal with Scientologists consolidates downtown properties. Clearwater — The Church of Scientology and the city have forged a deal to swap land downtown so both organizations can consolidate blocks of property. Commissioners will vote June 21 whether to approve the proposal, which would give the church two vacant parcels now used for parking while the city would get a smaller lot with a building on it. If the deal is approved, the church would own an entire block, ...
Jun 7, 2001
Unorthodox arrest // Church of scientology calls cops and has one of its harshest and most vocal critics jailed — NOW Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Enzo Di Matteo
Source: NOW Magazine
it’s an unshaven and frazzled-looking Keith Henson who shuffles into the converted jail cell used as a hearing room Thursday morning at the Metro West Detention Centre. He’s in broad-rims, jail-issue orange jumpsuit and blue canvas runners that he’s wearing like flip-flops because they’re too small for his feet. A flap of grey hair is swooshed over a bald spot on the top of his head. The unrepentant Scientology foe was arrested in a parking lot in Oakville by Halton regional ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 1, 2001
France arms itself with legal weapon to fight sects // Law to shield the vulnerable worries main churches — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jon Henley
Source: The Guardian (UK)
France has become the first country in the world to introduce specific legislation aimed at controlling the activities of cults. The objective is to combat the 175-odd movements of a quasi-religious nature considered a danger to society. The Scientology movement and the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon immediately denounced the bill - endorsed almost unanimously on Wednesday by national assembly deputies - as anti-democratic and in breach of human rights laws. Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders have expressed ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 1, 2001
Losing his religion? — L.A. Weekly (California)
Type: Press
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
In other Scientology news, OffBeat was amazed to read in US weekly earlier this month that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had begun severing their ties to the Church of Scientology. US also reported that Cruise, while filming the Warner Bros. film Eyes Wide Shut, had “hinted” to the studio that releasing the John Travolta project Battlefield Earth would be a mistake. A week later, however, US Weekly ran a “For the Record” notice declaring that the magazine had subsequently “found” ...
Jun 1, 2001
Surf’s up for Scientologists — L.A. Weekly (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Christine Pelisek
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
Admirers of L. Ron Hubbard have launched a major environmental and morality offensive in Southern California’s beach cities, rankling critics who say the proselytizers have been less than forthcoming about their ties to the Church of Scientology. The controversy first flared when Scientology Surf Club president Rob Hoover asked the city of Malibu to proclaim March 13 L. Ron Hubbard Day, in honor of Scientology’s founder. The request made the City Council agenda, but was withdrawn by Hoover when March 13 ...
May 30, 2001
'Destroy him utterly' — Hour Magazine (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): M-J Milloy
Source: Hour Magazine (Canada)
Keith Henson, American activist on the run in Canada, thinks the controversial Church of Scientology has made him fair game for dirty tricks Looking back, maybe the joke about the "Tom Cruise Missile" wasn't such a good idea. That online jest, made last year by Keith Henson, a peaceful if persistent critic of the controversial Church of Scientology, has led to his being found guilty of "intimidating a religion," and now on the run from the U.S., hiding out in plain ...
May 26, 2001
Group readies Scientology toehold in Battle Creek — Kalamazoo Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s): Chris Meehan
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
Church members renovate historic Hart Hotel for meeting place. BATTLE CREEK — Jason Blowers scooped clods of dirt and grass from a small area behind the historic hotel once owned by cereal giant W.K. Kellogg. For the past few weeks, the Kalamazoo man had been helping others haul trash from inside the four-story Hart Hotel to make way for a meeting space for the Church of Scientology of the Great Lakes. On this sunny, spring afternoon, Blowers and fellow church members ...
May 26, 2001
Opinion: Church behavior? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientology claims that it has reformed and says it should be treated like any other church. But the Jesse Prince case and others continue to set this church apart. You have to be courageous to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology. The organization recently proved – again – how far it will go to investigate, smear and intimidate critics. Jesse Prince is one of those people the Church of Scientology perceives as an enemy because he is a vocal critic. A ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 26, 2001
Scientology critic won't face retrial — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Prosecutors decide to drop a marijuana charge after jurors, concerned about church influence, deadlock. CLEARWATER — When the two-day misdemeanor trial of Scientology critic Jesse Prince ended Thursday, jurors had little doubt he had possessed marijuana as the state charged. What bothered some of them, according to two jurors, was the possibility that Prince had been set up by the Church of Scientology. They heard testimony about how Prince, once a high-ranking church member, was watched, videotaped and trailed for months ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 25, 2001
Scientology link to drug case keeps jurors from reaching verdict — Florida Times-Union
Type: Press
Source: Florida Times-Union
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Jurors in a misdemeanor marijuana case against a prominent critic of the Church of Scientology were unable to reach a verdict after some on the panel suspected the church had set him up. A hung jury was declared Thursday in the cases against Jesse Prince, who was charged with growing a marijuana plant in his backyard. The jury deliberated for five hours and was split 4-2 in favor of acquittal, jurors said. Pinellas County Judge Michael Andrews declared ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 24, 2001
Scientology is a key player in marijuana case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The defense is bringing the church into the case, saying that the arrest was tied to the church's relentless surveillance of a critic, the defendant. LARGO — Five lawyers helped fill the courtroom Wednesday in a misdemeanor trial that included poster-board-size charts, a video recording, expert scientific testimony, five other witnesses and repeated references to the Church of Scientology. After five hours of courtroom proceedings, the marijuana possession case against strident Scientology critic Jesse Prince still was not over at the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 23, 2001
On the run from L. Ron Hubbard — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Damien Cave
Source: Salon
Keith Henson, Scientology gadfly turned fugitive from justice, explains his reasons for fleeing the United States. Keith Henson is waging a one-man crusade against Scientology. Arguing that the church threatens to undermine the First Amendment by suing opponents into submission, he has fought the house that L. Ron Hubbard built at every turn. Since 1995, when the church first angered Net users by trying to close down a newsgroup dedicated to discussing Scientology's practices, he has posted documents that the church ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 23, 2001
Testimony: Church of Scientology spurred critic's arrest — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): David Sommer
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
CLEARWATER — For months, a high-profile attorney for a prominent critic of the Church of Scientology has tried to show the church is behind a minor drug charge against his client. Now, on the eve of Jesse Prince's trial on a misdemeanor charge of growing marijuana, defense lawyer Denis de Vlaming has hit what he considers pay dirt. Pinellas County Judge Michael Andrews still must decide whether jurors get to hear how private detectives working for the church shadowed Prince for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 19, 2001
Church critic trailed, arrested — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The Church of Scientology investigated critic Jesse Prince, then passed information along to police. Last spring, a private investigator working for the Church of Scientology went to Largo police with a tip: A vocal critic of Scientology named Jesse Prince was involved with illegal drugs. Prince, 47, is a former church member and a key witness in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the church. Police investigated and arrested Prince, who is charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. The case is set ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 19, 2001
Online Scientology critic seeks political asylum // Usenet as a 'weapon of terror' — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Greene
Source: The Register (UK)
A couple of weeks ago computer engineer Keith Henson was found guilty in California of a criminal act related to posts he made in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, which contained obviously comical (all right, Sophomoric) references to targeting Scientologists with a nuclear missile. The jury convicted him of interfering with a religion — likely due to his habit of picketing near the cult's properties — but failed to reach a decision on two other patently idiotic charges brought by Deputy District Attorney ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 2001
Cisco exec backs Hubbardist courses // 100% Proficiency — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): John Leyden
Source: The Register (UK)
A senior Cisco official has lent her name to an article which praises training methods based on the teachings of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. In a publication called Government Technology Cisco's training manager for Worldwide Manufacturing, Peg Maddocks, enthusiastically backs Hubbardist training methods. Maddocks is fulsome in her praise of the "100 per cent Proficiency Training" program she received from Californian firm Effective Training Solutions. The article makes clear this Web-based self-learning package is "based on research conducted by best-selling ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 10, 2001
Arraignment // Ashlee Shaner died after hitting a tractor operated by Thomas Nove of Moreno Valley — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Erin D. Randolph
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Hemet — A man involved in a traffic collision that killed a 16 year old San Jacinto girl pleaded not guilty to a charge of vehicular manslaughter Wednesday. Thomas Nove, 35, of Moreno Valley was taken into custody on an unrelated matter following the arraignment in Hemet. He is charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the death of Ashlee Shaner last year. She was killed the night of May 17 when her car crashed into the bucket of a ...
May 6, 2001
Binman Benji sues jewellery empire heir — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Conal Walsh
Source: The Observer (London, UK)
He is best known for rummaging through the dustbins of the rich and famous. But Benjamin Pell has betrayed an appetite for Hollywood glory in a bizarre legal action launched against John Mappin, an heir to the Mappin and Webb jewellery empire. 'Benji the binman' has been a legend in Fleet Street since the Sunday Times and other papers began to base exclusives on his smelly but newsworthy discoveries. And when the idea arose to make a movie about his life, ...
May 3, 2001
Earthlink co-founder is sued over investments — New York Times
Type: Press
Source: New York Times
LOS ANGELES, May 2 — Lawsuits filed by investors accuse a co-founder of the Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. of bilking them of more than $35 million. The co-founder, Reed E. Slatkin, a venture capitalist from Santa Barbara, Calif., is also under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his financial dealings, according to a report today in The Los Angeles Times. Investors have filed at least three lawsuits against Mr. Slatkin, with lawyers saying that he collected more than ...
May 3, 2001
Tom Cruise sues gay porn actor — ABC News
Type: Press
Source: ABC News
Tom Cruise is involved in a blockbuster lawsuit that sounds more like a script for a saucy Hollywood drama. Cruise has issued a $100 million defamation suit against porn star Chad Slater, who goes by the stage name Kyle Bradford, after Slater reportedly told a French paper he had a gay love affair with Cruise that resulted in the breakup of his 11-year marriage to Nicole Kidman. "While Cruise thoroughly respects others' rights to follow their own sexual preference, he is ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 2, 2001
Co-Founder of EarthLink is accused of investor fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Liz Pulliam Weston, Myron Levin
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Courts: Lawsuits allege Reed E. Slatkin bilked friends out of $35 million. SEC is also conducting an investigation. Investors are accusing Reed E. Slatkin, a co-founder of the giant Internet service provider EarthLink Inc., of operating a Ponzi scheme that may have resulted in the loss of least $35 million of their funds. Slatkin—a Santa Barbara socialite and venture capitalist—also is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his financial activities, which allegedly included a day-trading operation that promised ...
Apr 27, 2001
Scientology Critic Convicted — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s): Declan McCullagh
Source: Wired
WASHINGTON – A California jury has convicted Keith Henson, a prominent critic of Scientology, of terrorizing the group through Usenet posts and by picketing one of its offices. Henson, a computer engineer who has been involved in prior legal skirmishes with Scientology, was found guilty on Thursday of interfering with Scientologists' civil rights and now faces a prison sentence of up to one year and a fine of up to $5,000. The charges revolved around posts Henson made in the alt.religion.scientology ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 26, 2001
Scientology critics to get bricks — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A group beautifying a Clearwater alley reverses course and will let donors memorialize a church member who died. CLEARWATER – Lisa McPherson will be memorialized in a downtown alley next door to a Church of Scientology building. A group that sold hundreds of engraved bricks to beautify the city-owned alley has reversed an earlier decision, deciding to allow a McPherson memorial brick and two other bricks submitted by Scientology critics. McPherson was a 36-year-old Scientologist who died in 1995 in the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 12, 2001
Declaration of Tera Hattaway
More: groups.google.com
Type: Declaration
Author(s): Tera Hattaway
DECLARATION OF TERA HATTAWAY I, Tera Hattaway, declare as follows: 1. I am over 18 years of age. —– 2. The statements herein are of my own personal knowledge and if called upon as a witness, I can testify competently thereto. —– 3. When I was involved with the Church of Scientology in Dallas Texas, I had a boyfriend of many months prior to joining staff. This was in 1978. Within several weeks of being on staff I was pressured ...
Mar 22, 2001
A Times Editorial / Police work for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Thomas Penick, who has the unenviable task of refereeing sidewalk skirmishes between the Church of Scientology and anti-Scientology protesters in Clearwater, recently pointed to an arrangement that allows off-duty Clearwater cops to work for Scientology and noted, "They are coming very dangerously close to becoming a private security force for the Church of Scientology." Penick was right to call attention to the uncomfortably cozy relationship developing between city police and the church, which has its spiritual headquarters in ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 22, 2001
DISMISSAL MICHELLE [blacked out] [Collection of documents evidencing disconnection] — Church of Scientology Melbourne Day
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