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Into Courthouse to Protect M

aterials on Fundamental B

eliefss B

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In one of the largest court" demonstrations in

Los A

ngeles in years, about 1,500 Church of

Scientology mem

bers cramm

ed three floors ofthe C

ounty Courthouse on M

onday, effectivelyblocking public access to docum

ents that thechurch considers secret and sacred.

For hours, Scientologists swam

ped workers in

the clerk's office with hundreds of requests to

photocopy the documents, w

hich reveal some of

the organization's most fundam

ental beliefs.Scientology attorneys have argued that disclo-sure of the m

aterials is a violation of the group'sreligious freedom

.C

ourt officials, who said it w

as the largestcourthouse turnout they had ever w

itnessed,w

ere forced to set up three temporary w

indows

to handle the throng.T

he documents at issue w

ere

part of a civil case brought by former Scientolo-

gist Larry W

ollersheim. H

e claims that the

organization defrauded him by prom

ising himhigher intelligence and greater business successthrough Scientology courses that cost thousandsof dollars.

Superior Court Judge A

lfred L. M

argolis, over,strong Scientology objections, issued an orderFriday m

aking the documents public at 9 a.m

.M

ondayon a first-come, first-served basis.

But by snaking the line through three court-

house hallways, Scientologists m

ade sure theyw

ere the only ones to purchase copies of them

aterials.Jeff Pom

erantz, a Scientology spokesman,

said this strategy was intended to "keep the

materials secure. .

.. R

eligion is not supposedsubm

itted as_to be dissem

inated from the courtroom

."C

ontinued front Page 1published the best seller "D

iane-tics: the M

odern Science of Mental

Health."W

hat is rarely discussed, how-

ever, is Hubbard's secret teachings,

which reveal his thoughts on w

hym

ankind has been plagued byproblem

s through history, the topicof the disputed docum

ents.B

efore Scientology attorneyshad requested an order to seal thedocum

ents, The T

imes obtained

them from

the court file. Generally,

they suggest that a major cause of

mankind's problem

s began 75 mil-

lion years ago, when the planet

Earth, then called T

eegeeach, was

part of a confederation of 90 planetsunder the leadership of a tyrannicalruler nam

ed Xem

u. Then, as now

,the m

aterials state, the chief prob-lem

was overpopulation.

Xem

u, the documents state, de-

cided to take radical measures to

overcome the overpopulation

problem. B

eings were captured on

Earth and on other planets and

flown to at least 10 volcanoes on

Earth.T

he documents state that H

-

Scientologist Alan B

rown of L

os Angeles

waited five hours starting at 6:30 a.m

.beforethe courthouse at 1st and H

ill streets openedtopay $10 to have the m

aterials photocopied."H

opefully, nobody else will get their hands on

it except us," he said.Shortly before noon, Judge M

argolis, at therequest of Scientology law

yers, resealed them

aterials, pending a hearing today.Scientology is w

idely known for its use of

"auditing," a form of one-on-one counseling in

which a lie detector-like instrum

ent called an EM

eter is used to help a person erase negativeexperiences, assertedly freeing him

to achievehis full potential. T

he group bases its beliefs onthe w

ritings of L. R

on Hubbard, the reclusive

science-fiction writer w

ho in the early 1950sPlease see SC

IEN

TO

LO

GY

, Page 3

bombs farpore pow

erful than anyin existence today w

ere dropped onthese volcanoes, destroying thepeople but freeing their spiritscalled thetansw

hich attachedthem

selves to one another in clus-ters.

After the nuclear explosions, ac-

cording to the documents, the the-

tans were trapped in a com

pound offrozen alcohol and glycol and,during a 36-day period, X

emu

"implanted" in them

the seeds ofaberrant behavior for generationsto com

e. When people die, these

clusters attach to other humans

and keep perpetuating themselves.

Before a Scientologist can learn

about these thetans and how to

eradicate them, he m

ust go througha progression of costly program

s.In arguing to keep the court

documents sealed, the church has

told its mem

bers that it could bephysically and spiritually harm

fulfor them

to learn about the upperlevels of Scientology before theyhave m

astered the preparatorycourses.

Scientology's chief attorney,E

arle Cooley, said outside the

F

courtroom M

onday that unsealingthe m

aterials amounted to "the

biggest threat to this religion sofar."H

e said the materials w

ere stolenfrom

the church and altered to holdthe church's beliefs up to "ridicule,hatred and contem

pt"allegationsthat attorneys for W

ollersheim de-

ny.At the court's 5 p.m

. closing, 440requests had been filed w

ith theclerk for copies of the docuM

ents. 4H

undreds of Scientologists stillpacked the corridor at day's end.



TU

ESD

AY

, Novem

ber 5,1985

A H

earst newspaper

Sect forum blasts IR

S tacticsB

y SUSA

N SN

YD

ER

Sun staff writer

CL

EA

RW

AT

ER

In its ongoing battleagainst the Internal R

evenue Service, theC

hurch of Scientology Monday hosted a

public forum featuring a presentation from

the National C

oalition of IRS W

histleblow-

ers and former U

.S. Congressm

an George

Hansen.In January, H

ansen, an Idaho Republi-

can and a longtime critic of the IR

S, joinedthe sect in charging that the IR

S routinelysingles out people for investigation becauseof their religious and political affiliations.

At that tim

e, Hansen said, "It is shock-

in* to any thinking Am

erican to imagine

this kind of thing can happen in the United

States."T

he sect presented Hansen, w

ho servedseven C

ongrssional terms, w

ith a framed

copy of the sect's "Code of H

onor," writ-

ten by Scientology founder L. R

on Hub-

bard, for his efforts against the IRS.

"It's interesting, and that's why w

e hadit here," L

udwig A

lpers, sect spokesman,

said of the forum.

Dunng* M

onday's presentation, Hansen

said he has been traveling around the coun-

* Sect

try for the past 10 months prom

oting sixtelevision advertisem

ents depicting violentand unjust acts com

mitted by the IR

Sagainst people w

ho have evaded theirtaxes.

All six of the tw

o-minute dram

atizationsw

ere shown to a group of about 60 people

in the Crystal B

allroom of the sect's head-

quarters, the former Fort H

arrison Hotel.

One of the com

mercials show

ed a wom

anbeing forced from

her Volksw

agen after

(Please seeSE

CT

, next page)

(from page 1A

)IR

S officials bashed in all thew

indows w

hile repossessing it.H

ansen said the comm

ercialshave been show

n on various in-dependent

televisionstations

and by CB

S. He said he has

been pushing for the cable tele-vision m

arket because it is am

ore available market.

"We have an 800-num

ber andnot m

any of the big media can

take care of it," he said. "Itdoesn't do you m

uch good totake on m

ore than you can han-dle. B

ut CB

S had such a goalresponse,

they'veasked

form

ore."Paul D

efosses, presidentpf

th* National C

oalition of IFS

Whistleblow

ers anda

former

IRS em

ployee for 20years, said

public awareness

isthe only

way to fight the injustice of the

governement agency.

"The IR

S is terrified of publicexposure, and the only w

ay tow

in is with public exposure,"

Defosses said.



A Los Angeles federal judgebarred further public disclosures ofsacred scriptures that the Churchof Scientology claims were stolen

"f two years ago from a Denmark.church. Ruling in a suit filed by the

: church against former -rmemberLarry Wollersheim and a rivalchurch in Santa Barbara, U.S. Dis-

i- trict Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer.ordered the material sealed until ahearing Friday. The material isevidence in the Superior Court Suitfiled by Wollersheim, Who claims.he wasted thousands of dollars on

tiiiselini sessions that the churchpromised would improve his intel-lige& and give him supernatural



WE

DN

ESD

AY

, Novem

ber 6,1985

Court docum

entsrevealed

despite Scientology protestB

y RIC

HA

RD

BE

NK

EA

ssociated PressL

OS A

NG

EL

ES

The C

hurch of Scientologysecretly teaches that 75 m

illion years ago Earth

was called T

eegeeach and was am

ong 90 planetsruled by X

emu, w

ho spread his evil by thermonu-

clear bombs, according to court docum

ents thatsect m

embers tried to prevent the public from

seeing.X

emu, attem

ptingto

solveoverpopulation

problems, destroyed selected inhabitants of the

planets and implanted the seeds of aberrant be-

havior in their spirits to affect future generationsof m

ankind, according to the documents briefly

placed in open court records in connection with a

lawsuit.

Church President H

eber T. Jentzsch said T

ues-day that new

s accounts of the documents w

eredistorted. H

e contended that such piecemeal, out-

* Sect

of-context reporting tends to hold his religion upto ridicule in violation of the U

.S. Constitution.

Contending the m

aterials were stolen, he said

in a telephone interview, "any access to these

materials is

illegal." He said the church had

obtained an injunction in Great B

ritain againstdissem

inating the materials, and that now

"thecase m

oves into the U.S. arena." H

e said he hadfiled suit against those he view

ed as responsiblefor the theft.

"We know

the psychiatrists are behindit;

they've been after us for a long time," he added.

"This is just another attem

pt to put religionon trial," said L

udwig A

lpers, spokesman for the

sect's Clearw

ater headquarters. "What has oc-

curred is that our confidential scripture has beenstolen and altered for the use of evaluation by

(Please see *

SEC

T,

next page)

(from page 1A

)goclless psychiatrists.

"This act w

ould be similar to

taking the bread and wine of the

Catholic

church,w

hichrep-

resents the body and blood ofC

hrist,and holding

it up toscorn."

Scientology is based on sci-ence fiction w

riter L. R

on Hub-

bard's1948 book

"Dianetics:

the Modern Science of M

entalH

ealth." Through the use of

aso-called E

-meter, rather like

alie detector, m

embers undergo

exercises and counseling to elim-

inate negative mental im

agesand achieve a "clear state."

The docum

ents at issuew

eresubm

itted as part of a civilcase

brought by former Scientologist

Larry W

ollersheim, w

ho claims

the organization defrauded himby prom

ising him higher inielli-

gence and greater business suc-cess

throughScientology

courses that cost thousands ofdollars.

Superior Court Judge A

lfredL

. Margolis, despite strong Sci-

entology Objeclione, iiined an

order Friday making the docu-

ments public M

onday. He re-

sealed them M

onday and tookunder subm

ission a Scientologym

otion Tuesday to keep them

sealed.A

n estimated 1,500 follow

ersof the sect, founded by H

ub-bard, lined up at the L

os An-

geles County courthouse M

on-day to copy the docum

ents inan effort to crow

d out anyoneelse w

ho wanted to see them

before the order to reseal them.

The L

os Angeles T

imes, how

-ever,

obtained copies and re-ported their contents T

uesday.T

hey contain rare glimpses of

so-called upper-level or "0T3"

teachings of Scientology, avail-able only to m

embers w

ho grad-uate through prelim

inary churchprogram

s.D

etails of 0T3 have previous-

ly been published in the person-als colum

ns of The R

eader, aw

eekly Los A

ngeles newspaper,

and the daily Clearw

ater Sun.Jentzsch said

all such pub-lished accounts have been dis-torted.

Generally,

thedocum

entssuggest that m

uch of mankind's

problems began 75 m

illion yearsago, w

hen Teegeeach w

as one of

90 planets ruled by Xem

u.T

hey say Xem

u decided totake radical m

easures to controloverpopulation. B

eings from the

planets were taken to at least

10 volcanoes on Earth N

iihere H-

bombs far m

ore powerful Ilan

any in existence today were det-

onated, destroying the beingsbut freeing their spirits, calledthetans.

They said the thetans w

eretrapped in a com

pound of frozenalcohols and, during a 36-dayperiod, X

emu "im

planted"in

them the seeds of aberrant be-

havior for generations to come.

"The m

aterials as I've readthem

in The T

imes are altered,

corrupted and denigrated andtw

isted in order to undermine

religion," Jentzschsaid.



a Angeles Shute

.2 Part I/Wednesday, November 6, 1985 *

was a "godfather" figure in tnelocal black c munity, is in deralprison in 0 Sville, N.Y. U . Atty.Robert Bonner, who,Aast yearurged VS. District Jqøe RichardA. Ga ois Jr. to imp6se a 45-yearsepifnce on Reese said he expect-ed o go before t e same judge in afew weeks an44gain ask fo a stiffprison term. 'Forty-five ears isthe sentenc the gove ent be-lieves is appropriate based on theconviction in this matter," Bonnersaid.

A Los Angeles federal judgebarred further public disclosures ofsacred scriptures that the Churchof Scientology claims were stolentwo years ago from a Denmark.church. Ruling in a suit filed by thechurch against former memberLarry Wollersheim and a rivalchurch in Santa Barbara, U.S. Dis-trict Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzerordered the material sealed until ahearing Friday. The material isevidence in the Superior Court suitfiled by Wollersheim, who claimshe wasted thousands of dollars oncounseling sessions that the churchpromised would improve his intel-ligence and give him supernatural

powers. In 'a separate action, thestate Supreme Court refused toblock a Los Angeles Superior Courtjury from imposing punitive dam-ages on the church. The jury will behearing a separate $25 -millionfraud suit filed by Wollersheim.

Los ngeles Pol e Cmdr.ThomasjWindhain w named npolice, hief of For Worth,City pd police off ials said md-hariX 47, will s ceed Chi H. F.H kins, who r tired afte years

th the dep ment. ndham, a-year LA vetera , was one of

84 applican for the jo .

A San DImas,pian was arr tedand charged 45th molesti twogirls at a HO oween party at theCovina YM¢A, where he orked asa counsel r. Covina po ce detec-

Noel Edwad Smith, 24,molested 9-year-old

and n 8-year-o d who wereamofig 30 childre t the facility foran /overnight a. y. Smith was

Z1 t4two coof felony chilurd

aigned in Ci us Municipal Cot

olestation d one misdemeanorcount of an oying a child. Bail wasset at $5,

tives s '

alleg

This was reversed on a decision by the judgeon 8 November, 1985 who ruled in essence thatsomeone who had left the Church might be break-in the church covenants but that this was nota matter for the courts to enforce, and thosewho had left the church had a right to carryon and use the scriptures and religous materialsthat they had studied and learned.



\

Thursday, November 7, 1985

8A Clearwater Sun

Clearwater Sun

Clearwater SunFounded in 1914

Bruce E. CouryPublisher

George W. GrahamEditor

Dennis D. LimbachEditorial Page, Editor

Michael E. RichardsBusiness Manager

Arthur G. SchulerAdvertising Director

Terrence L. Wagner.Circulation Director

Leonard BouillezProduction Manager

Editorials of the Sun

Scientologists deservecredit for anti-IRS forumThe

recent anti-Internal RevenueService forum sponsored bythe Church of Scientology may

turn out to be a boon to the taxpay-ing public.

While we hold no brief for theScientologists or their doctrines, wefeel it is only fair to spotlight theircontributions to the public good.

And, although their motives arequestionable (the Scientologists havesuffered at the hands of the IRS andhave a policy of getting even withattackers), they have certainly donethe American public a service byproviding an opportunity for theNational Council of IRS Whistleblow-ers to publicize some of the abusesperpetrated by the agency.

The Whistleblowers were theguests of the Scientologists on Mon-day. The principal speaker was aformer U.S. congressman, GeorgeHansen, who is doing his best toalert the country to IRS outrages.

There are many such outrages. Asthe years pass, an impressive arrayof IRS horror stories has developed.

They include taxpayer investigationsbased upon religious and politicalaffiliations; the canceling of taxpay-ers' rights because of large gifts tochurches and other charities; andthe persecution by the IRS of itsemployees who threaten to tell thetruth about the agencYs tactics.

As the federal government triesto stamp out the non-taxpaying un-derground economy, the extremistmethods of the IRS are likely togrow worse. Uncle Sam needs everypenny he can lay his hands on, andthe IRS is his principal collectionagency.

Wrongdoing by any governmentagency should be publicized. TheScientologists, who don't think theyshould pay taxes, have an obviouslyself-serving reason for wanting toput the spotlight on the less-savorydoings of the IRS. But even with thatclearcut ax to grind, the local Sci-entologists should be commendedfor giving the Coalition a chance tobroadcast its message.



dirtC

learwater S

un/T

hursday, Novem

ber 7, 1985

Xem

um

aysounfd w

ild,but b do

The C

hurch of Scientology in Los A

ngeles isangry because a judge allow

ed outsiders toread about som

e of the remarkable lore that

the Scientologists supposedly believe in.

An A

ssociated Press report says the church

teaches that 75 million years ago E

arth was

called Teegeeach.

It was one of 90 planets

ruled by Xem

u, who w

as not a nice guy. He set

off thermonuclear bom

bs to reduce the popula-tion, and im

planted the seeds of aberrant be-.

1

The D

river'sS

eatB

y Bob D

river

worshipers. S

uch as, "Did you hit him

? Wherov,

did you get the ink pot? Are you off you'r

k?"

roc erO

ne of the world's m

ajor religions tells of anhavior in the spirits of certain persons

so thatfuture generations of m

ankind would be af-

fected.H

eber T. Jentzsch, the S

cientologists' presi-dent, said that new

s accounts of these sup-posed teachings have been distorted.

Itw

ouldn't be hard to do. When you're

dealing with 75-m

illion-year time fram

es, andrulers nam

ed Xem

u who go around setting off

H-bom

bs,it's easy for a careless reporter to

stretch the truth or mangle a fact or tw

o.B

ut Jentzsch shouldn't get upset. Most reli-

gions (if Scientology is indeed a religion,_ w

hichm

any people doubt) are subject to having'

tales told about them.

Infact,

many religions

contribute tothis

cosmic science-fiction by originating

softie .fairlyoutlandish official versions of just how

they (thi'religions) got started.

These far-out tales

are compounded by the'

events that followed, and by the distinctive

(shall we say?) people w

ho spread thereligion.

Martin Luther, for exam

ple, threwan ink pot

at the devil. Or so the story

goes.Im

agine what w

ould happento the average

Clearw

ater clergyperson who stood

before hisor her congregation next w

eekend andan-

nounced, "I saw the devil in

my study last night,

and chucked an ink pot at him." T

herew

ouldbe im

mediate questions in the

minds of the

'entire sea opening up to let som

e deservingpeople m

ake a getaway from

their enemies.

There is also an account of food falling from

heaven, and bushes catching on fire and speak-ing out loud. T

hen we have sinners being

turned into pillars of salt, and a mortal m

anbringing dow

n a temple just by pushing against

a couple of supporting columns. S

tuff like that.M

any religions have two far-fetched ideas in

comm

on. (A) T

he religion's founder was born of

a virgin, and (B) the founder died and then

became alive again.

For people to pay m

uch attention to a newreligion, it m

ust have a mind-boggling origin and

history. Otherw

ise, it will be ignored.

Ican't think of a single faith, church, cult or

denomination that w

as founded by an average,run-of-the-m

ill person.T

hink what w

ould happen, for instance, if thefollow

ing ad appeared in every- newspaper in

the nation:"C

.Z.

Fram

merstone, a

retiredaccountant,

invitesyou

tojoin

hisnew

religion.M

r.F

ramm

erstone is a low-key, reasonable fellow

who belongs to several service clubs and col-

lects Hum

mels. H

is religion, called Instant Mar-

velousism, allow

s you to appreciate the ordi-nary things of life. A

Marvelousist is able to look

at an old inner tube, see its innate glory andsay, 'M

arvelous.' That's atiout all there is to say

about Mr. F

ramm

erstone and Marvelousism

.",

Do you think this new

religion would sell?

I

- doubt it.T

o conclude: Heber Jentzsch shuuld not be

disturbedif

the judgelet som

e Scientology

secrets out of the bag, or if reporters don't getevery last detail exactly right.

other beliefsA

nd mem

bers of other faiths should notsnicker at the story of X

emu and his 90 planets.

No m

atter what religion w

e join, we m

ay beasked to believe som

e ideas and stories that inany other context w

ould defy all good sense.E

xcept for the dull, therefore-doomed chur

of Marvelousism

.



B8 Seattle Post-lntelligencer. Saturday, November 9. 1985

BOOKS

Hubbard seriesoff to bad startUnited Press International

If L. Ron Hubbard sticks to the precedent set bythis first volume, the 10-book "Mission Earth" serieswill run some 6,000 pages when completed. May Godforgive die man for what he is about to do to all thosetrees.

The Invaders Plan andits planned successorsfrom Book Two, Black BOOK REVIEWGenesis through Book 10,The Doomed Planet The Invaders Planspring from a compelling By L. Ron Hubbardpremise. Bridge PublicatIons

The idea is to follow 603 pages. $18.95the course of an alieninvasion of Earth, but not from the point of view ofits intended victims us.

The heroes, as it were, of Hubbard's work arethe invaders the soldiers, politicians, nobles andfunctionaries of the corrupt, bloated, yet stillmighty Voltar Confederacy.

The Confederacy is making its creaky way acrossthe galaxies toward Earth, which it plans to conquerfor use as a major supply base sometime within thenext century.

Meanwhile, some of the smarmier elements ofthe Voltarian bureaucracy have already landed onour planet they call it Blito P-3 and areinfiltrating our society in the hope of using Earthnarcotics as a weapon in their own planned takeoverof the Confederacy. It's a tdrrific starting point for asci-fi novel, but Hubbard starts there and goesnowhere.

His writing is artless. His plotting is less thandeft. And The Inuaclers Plan has no characters ithas only a collection of stick figures with noparticular substance and no particular depth.Dennis O'Shea



WANTED: 'tADY thkañIred 1101boa/stole, flashing ayes, boyfriend, at the PalaCe en ,

Halloween, by.the long-haired, half-naked savage.

ALI LONZO: AUNTIE EM, Uncle Henry, Totolles a twister. Twinkle the Kid' .

Y01,4,,w0ULD THINK that L ROn Hubbardwould be content with the millions he has stolenfrom his church. but noorzto),Arov he has to inflict:2-on the World those lob fl noielsthW:make -the label -,.,orc Al; cailiks.bOittoliterature. `Give tri-a break, Xemir; find anotherplanet to sweat ' ",YES, YOU'RE i-lAt:FWAY discernafilif, crazy'.$'0K. Wish you'd teL everything thOuth. Con-

- tinue waiting 'faithfully If you'll ask.

P LAY FAIR SEEEC dein't sabotagiter. She's toowonderful and I love her mud*,

I HEAR YOU ONLYtoo wet I fiist-Cbriiiot talk. Iam so sorry but r000t teady tariteyet: I will bewith you very .Soon,pease believe pie..Signed,your hands on my face.;,;. ,

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' IF THERE'S anythirittilit JOU. want, [f there'sanything that you nEed.thell-flo neea to 'beevasive, money talils and it's persuesive.Savage

ISN'T PURPLE HAZE another ilime*fer- ultra,violet? Fallen Star . 4

MY DEAR VENEER.. To encourage The Ptor in his bad habits would be a disservice,further insult dear Cordwainer would betfool-ishfor I'll tear off your titties with my. teeth! .

Lady Griddlebone ,-'

DIARY OF A MAD PERSON. Part Two-,-"CornCob in, the Sky." Overpopulation.' teu thinktet _

bad now? Imagine trying to live on a planet With 259biliion fUcked-tes people. Thae s a real -scary-thotight. Dot Oval on it too long or' you'll go

_crazy. But just think' of alt the money you could. make selling oxygen to humans.

75 million years ago I ,figured out the perfectsolution to overpopulation on the 99 planets of thisGalactic Confederation. I rounded up hundreds ofbillions of humans, froze them in an alcohol/glycolsolutilon,' and shipped them to Earth/Teegeeach.where I blew them up with H-bOmbs on all the rna

' jor vokanos. A real wall of fire! The sky wasing! 'Men I captured all their souls with electronlji. ,

and stuck thousands of them together. In Clustersand brainwashed them with Christianity, God; theDevil, sexual perversion, Western*CivilizatiOn':.etc: - .

So if you ever suspect that 'your ettions Andmotivations are pre-determined, that yeur life Is-. ,

following someone else's program arid the- con- .trols are beyond your reach, justbecause I designed your Operating SysteinAnd ifyou ever get weird ideas in your mind whth'tfon'tseem like you own, It's because they're nOthave thousands of other-beings stuck r. .

So in one fell swoop I -solved both peerpopula- . ,

don andloneliness in this sector otthe prav..yet. ,all I getis slander and, smeir-campaignfrnOtaof thankStromantsne. ndsiliful swineere ti)Crig tObastardS want to have one tiyotirseivesinsteadof being civwith otiier disembodied spirits4fexorcising all those blllnb. , I goend

--' create more meat c Ibe 250this Iflib.

ingAfter I Was

. within it

thewIthdifirisiursketeiSsinci

. This-was part of Amer "generations of humans o theyynjbe abljtó "re.meinbilr w.hatone 'who accidenWoUtd `be called a paranoid '-science-fiction cult leader, or ape justmon thief with a go* angle tO kickerSo I hope this tlarifiei things fotyokr;not just anottier"Itiore StoryLOVe

-

.4M1.

" Friday, November 15, 1985



4AC

learwater Sun

Friday, N

ovember 15, 1985

Appeals court skirts decision

oncity's

By LE

SLE

Y C

OLU

NS

Sun staff writer

CL

EA

RW

AT

ER

A federal ap-

peals court ruling doesn't say a word

about the constitutionality of a cityordinance regulating charitable solici-tations, basically sending it back to alow

er court.T

he opinion issued Wednesday by

the 11th U.S. C

ircuit Court of A

ppealsstates there hasn't been enough legalrecord developed by the U

.S. District

Court in T

ampa to w

arrant a decisionon the law

's constitutional merits.

"It's an interesting opinion becauseit doesn't decide anything," Scientolo-gy

attorneyE

ricL

ieberman

saidT

hursday. "Basically they decided on

a bunch of hyper-technical lawyers'

issues."

The appeals court in A

tlanta ruledon three different sets of appeals tiedto the city's charitable solicitation or-dinance.

In one appeal, the Church of Sci-

entology failed to get a preliminary

injunction against the entire city law.

The appeals court affirm

ed the deci-sion of U

.S. District C

ourt Judge Eliz-

abeth Kovachevich denying a prelim

i-nary injunction that w

ould prevent theenforcem

ent of the entire cityordi-

nance.In July 1984, M

iss Kovachevich en-

tered a preliminary injunction placing

enforcement handcuffs on parts of the

ordinance dealing with registration re-

quirements and the m

aintaining of fi-nancial records.

Her order did not legally bind other

sections of the ordinance requiring the

Clearw

atercity attorney tci investigate charges offraud or m

isnipresentation in fund-raising

bynon-profit

orreligious

groups if accusations are made by 10

or more people. T

hat portion of thelaw

, therefore, can be enforced by thecity.In a second appeal initiated by thecity, the court ruled that M

iss Ko-

vachevich's decision on the originalversion of the ordinance should nothave been rendered.

An "em

ergency" ordinance with nu-

merous revisions w

as passed by citycom

missioners in M

arch 1984. Tw

ow

eeks later, Miss K

ovachevich ruledthe original ordinance w

as unconstitu-

In a third appeal, the court declinedto rule on the constitutim

ality of therevised ordinance because the districtcourt opinion w

asrende0

without

gathering any factual evidelnce.In July 1984,

Miss K

ovachevichruled that the city's revisal ordinancew

as "facially" constitutioned, based onthe language of the ordinance. T

heC

hurch of Scientology appealed thatruling.

"Their appeal of that order is essen-

tially worthless," A

ssistant City A

t-torney A

lan Zim

met explained T

hurs-day. "M

iss Kovachevich is going to

have to proceed with this case. W

e'regoing back to her right w

here we left

off.'Because the essential issue of consti- sect law

tutionality isn't addressed in this lat-est ruling, attorneys on both sides ofthe case are having to rethink theirlegal gam

e plans."I'm

not sure what recom

mendation

I'm going to give to m

y client," Lie-

berman said.

At this point,

the case could bererouted through district court to hearnecessary factual evidence, such asw

hether the Church

gf. Scientologyw

ould be affected by the law and

whether it falls under the protection of

First Am

endment rights to religious

freedom. Z

imm

et said.O

ther possibilities voiced by Lieber-

man include seeking an "en banc"

re-view

by judges at the U.S. appeals

court level or appealing to the U.S.

Supreme C

ourt.



Part II/Wednesday, November 20, 1985

floe Angeles gimee 1100 Angeles Mutes

Letters to The Times

ScientologyCongratulations to The Times

(Nov. 5) for revealing the absurdi-ty of the core beliefs of Scientology.I hope that everyone will nowlaugh this so-called "religion" offthe face of the Earth.

"A tyrannical ruler 75 millionyears ago, overpopulation on Earthand other planets, H-bombs ex-ploded way back then, the tanspirits captured in chemical com-pounds and containinated withevil"Leapin' Lizards, it must be ajob for Superman!

It is obvious why Scientologydoesn't want this nonsense madepublic: the suckers (i.e., their cli-ents) would never pay to get fullybrainwashed through the earlystages if they knew how silly theend would be.

MICHAEL KLEINSanta Barbara

L. Ron Hubbard is no crazierthan the average prophet, andScientology is better than a lot ofreligionsat least it preachesself-improvement in this lifethrough self-analysis rather thanrewards in an afterlife throughprayer.

But Scientology makes one hugemistake: it promises improved in-telligence rather than the attain-ment of eternal bliss. And intelli-gence can be measured whereas noone has ever come back from thegrave to prove that a religion was afraud. Putting it another way, whatScientology must learn is that it'smuch safer to insult the intelli-gence than to improve it.

JAMES IRONSLos Angelcp



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ded referendumed.

Again, we th: you.FOSTER R. RIZZUTO

Crystal Beach

In responseEditor

You are to be applauded foryour editorial on the recenthosting of the National Councilof IRS Whistleblowers by theChurch of Scientology. This edi-torial showed a moderation inthe Sun's attitude toward theChurch and the local Scientolog-ists who are part of our commu-nity, and this is commendable.One would hope that it rep-resents a policy trend on thepart of the Sun's management.

As both a Scientologist and aClearwater resident I must cor-rect you on one issue. The edito-rial included the comment: "TheScientologists, who don't thinkthey should pay taxes, ..." Thisis not a factual or truestatement, expressed like it isas a generality. I assume thatthe statement refers to incometaxes, given its context in acommentary on the IRS forumof last Monday night. Sciento-logists are individuals, with agreat variety of opinions on va-rious subjects, just like onewould expect to find in any

Letters to the Editor. ,

group. The various ways thatindividual Scientologists chooseto approach their personal in-come taxes would vary in aspectrum similar to that of thegeneral public.

All that could be said in thisrespect is that most Scientolog-ists think in terms of equitableexchange within the society. Itis also true that Scientologistsfor the most- part are verystrongly against doing anythingwhich breaks the law. Most Sci-entologists are adherents of theidea that one should "support agovernment designed and runfor all the people, which is oneof the precepts of the Way toHappiness.

So one couldn't really saywhat Scientologists as a gener-ality think about income taxesor what should be done aboutthem, as the attitudes on thissubject would be likely to bequite diverse.

One could say that most Sci-entologists do uphold and try tofollow as best they can the mor-al code expressed in the Way toHappiness. One of the preceptsof this booklet addresses suchthings as being compassionate,appreciative, kind, considerate,tolerant, beneciolent, honest,fair, just, etc.

Perhaps your comment thatthe Scientologists don't thinkthey should pay their taxes ref-ers to the Church rather than toScientologists as individuals.The Church's viewpoint in thisregard, as far as I am aware, isthat the Church of Scientologyshould be treated the same asany other Church should betreated with respect to taxation,not that any special treatmentis in order.

It is excellent that you havenoted one of the contributionsthat the Church is making tothe society.

JULIE GOLDMANClearwater

ataNvater Sun 9A

Wednesday, November 20, 1985



Scientologists Win M

ajor Court V

ictory Over D

efectors, Docum

entsB

y RO

BE

RT

WE

LK

OS and JO

EL

SAPPE

LL

, Tim

es Staff Writers

In a major victory for the C

hurchof Scientology, a federal judge saidFriday she w

ill bar breakaway

Scientology groups from using

confidential church teachings thatappear to have been stolen.,

U.S. D

istrict Judge Mariana R

.Pfaelzer said she w

ill issue a pre-lim

inary injunction until a trial canbe held on a law

suit brought by theC

hurch of Scientology against de-fectors w

ho have established rivalchurches and counseling centers.

Continued from

Page 1fered by the C

hurch of Scientolo-gyand stolen by Scott in D

ecem-

ber, 1983. Scott was subsequently

convicted in Denm

ark of a chargecom

parable to industrial espionage."T

he church material that w

asstolen is substantially identical incontent to that being used by the(A

dvanced Ability C

enter]," Pfael-zer said, adding that she w

as notaccusing anyone of "outright theft"of the docum

ents.D

uring the hearing. Mayo adm

it-ted that one of his em

ployeesnolonger connected to his centerof-fered to train tw

o ex -Scientologistsat half price in exchange forC

hurch of Scientology documents.

Mayo said, how

ever, that he.

quashed the deal when he learned

that the materials had been stolen.

The docum

ents Scott took are arefinem

ent of Hubbard's account of

Xem

u, assertedly an evil tyrant.

who planted the seeds of aberrant

behavior in people 75 million years

ago .A

ccording to documents ob-

tained previously by The T

imes in

Los A

ngeles Superior Court, H

ub-bard C

ontends that Xem

u trappedpeople in a com

pound of frozenalcohol and glycol and depositedthem

in 10 volcanoes. Xem

u thendropped nuclear bom

bs on thevolcanoes, according to H

ubbard,destroying the people but fre.ting

The C

hurch of Scientology con-tends the teachings are protectedby federal trade secrets law

.Pfaelzer, at the end of a tw

o-dayhearing in L

os Angeles, said the

church's teachings can be con-strued as trade secrets, based onher reading of federal appellatecourt decisions.

"You've just seen history m

ade,"Joseph A

. Yinny, a Scientology

attorney, said after the judge'sruling. "It's the first tim

e .you've

their spirits, which clustered to-

gether and were brainw

ashed byX

emu.

These clusters, or body thetans,

according to Hubbard, attach

themselves to people, blocking

their path to total freedom. W

henScientologists reach a high-level intheir training, a level know

n as"O

T 3," they are taught how

toidentify thetans and how

to purgethem

from their bodies.

The m

aterials taken by Scott,according to those fam

iliar with the

teachings, explain that some body

thetans do not respond to "OT

3"processes. A

t this level, new tech-

niques of identifying and purgingbody thetans are introduced.

In a telephone interview w

ithT

he Tim

es from Scotland, Scott

said he stole the documents to

break the church's monopoly by

offering the materials to indepen-

dent practitioners who charged

less.The C

hurch of Scientology, at itsFlorida headquarters, charges$12,100 for the X

emu course. A

tM

ayo's Advanced A

bility Center,

$1,500 is charged for his version ofthe course.

Mayo is one of several form

erScientology practitioners nam

ed inthe suit. Pfaelzer said she w

ouldsign the prelim

inary injunctionagainst them

today. No date w

asset for trial of the case.

ever seen a decision that religiousScriptures constitute trade se-crets."

The judge's rem

arks were a blow

to David M

ayo, who once w

orkedclosely w

ith Scientology founder L.

Ron H

ubbard and now runs the

largest so-called independent cen-ter."It IPfaelzer's decision] m

eansw

e could be wiped out yiretty dam

nfast," said a dejected M

ayo, presi-dent of the C

hurch of the New

Civilization, also know

n as theA

dvanced Ability C

enter, in SantaB

arbara.T

he suit alleges that Mayo and

the others conspired with an ex-

Scientologist named R

obin Scott tosteal top-secret instructional m

a-terials from

a church branch inC

openhagen, Denm

ark.U

nder questioning by churchattorney E

arle C. C

ooley, Mayo

denied receiving any of the stolenm

aterials. He said his ow

n materi-

s Angeles gim

es`10

Sturday, Novem

ber 23, 1985

als, while sim

ilar to those offeredby the C

hurch of Scientology, were

"reconstructed" from m

emory af-

ter he left the church. Mayo said he

wrote betw

een 80% to 90%

of them

aterials when he w

orked as oneof the church's highest theoreti-cians.

Pfaelzer, however, said a "nex-

us" had been "very clearly estab-lished" at the hearing betw

een aprogram

Mayo offers an: one of -

Please see CH

UR

CH

, Page 3

Letters/ R

eligioriM

t/PartiI



November 24, 1985

Judge rules inScientology case

LOS ANGELES (AP) A judge says she willforbid groups that have broken with the Churchof Scientology from using or selling confidentialchurch teachings that were stolen.

The doctrine at issue is Scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard's account of Xemu, a tyrant whosupposedly planted the seeds of aberrant behav-ior in mankind 75 million years ago.

After a two-day hearing, U.S. District JudgeMariana R. Pfaelzer said Friday that the sect'steachings can be considered trade *pet&

"You've just seen history made,' Scientologyattorney Joseph A. Yanny said. "Ws he firsttime you've ever seen a decision thatscriptures constitute trade secrets." ,The judge said she will issue a preliminaryinjunction until a trial can be held on a lawsuitbrought by the sect against defectors who haveset up competing sects and counseling.. centers.

David Mayo, who once worked closely withHubbard and now runs the Church of the NewCivilization in Santa Barbara, said "we could bewiped out" by the decision.

The suit allers Mayo and others conspiredwith former Scientologist Robin Scott to stealsecret instructional materials from a sect branch.Under questioning by Scientology attorneyEarle C. Cooley, Mayo denied receiving stolenmaterials, saying he was working from memory.

, Mayo said he wrote 80 percent to 90 percent of: the materials when he worked as a Scientologis-tone of the sect's theoreticians.The judge said there was a link "very clearly

established" at the hearing between a programMayo offers and a Scientology program that wasstolen by Scott in December 1983. Scott wassubsequently convicted,.

Clearwtater Sun



READERDecember 6, 1985 VoL 8, No. 8

HONK IF YOU hate Ron.

TO WHOM IT MAY concern. He who knowsandknows not that he knows. (Uke most of us). He isasleep, awake him. Obnosis

- ATTENTION! ATTENTION! We, the first.Original. Genuine Committee of 100 denouncethe forged notices Peoples Enemy "Gurgle-head"spreads like germs! Only authentic notices fromUs, the First, Original, Genuine Committee of100, shall uphold the honor of the heroic NewAmerica Glorious Peoples Revolution, lead by ourGlorious Chairman Ron! Only We shall unmask theinsidiouslies of the Crwto-capitalist Soviet "EvilEmpire" and overthrow the Imperialist War-monger Gorbachev and his Lickspittle ApparatchikRunning Dogs, who live in luxury on the sweat ofexploited Soviet wage-slaves! Soon, very soon, willOur "Celestial Dragon" hyperdimensional LaserOrbital Battlestation rain the Fire from Heavenupon the Politbureau Oppressors in accordancewith the Infallable Teachings of Glorious ChairmanRons Red-White-and-Blue Book! We hail Chair-man Rons Heroic Swim of Twenty Miles up thePotomac River! Victory to the New AmericaGlorious Peoples Revolution! Death to. the Im-perialist Warmonger Gorbachev and his LickspitdeRunning Dogs Truth Squad and Peoples Enemy"Gurgle-Head!" The First, Original. GenuineCommittee of 100.

IREADER_December 13, 1985 VOL 8, No. 9J.

December 13, 1-985 'READER -k

HELLO MISS. Look up into my blue eyes. I expectrespect and °be:hence, do you understand? Ifyoufail to obey or fail to avow proper respectdid Isay you could look down, Miss? Looks like you

, need a lesson. Perhaps you'd lice to stand in thecorner and hang your head for IS minutes. Getover there. Drop your pants. Now your panties.You stay like that until I say you can stop. Drop aline when you need to worship. Ron V.

READERDecember 20,1985 VOL 8, No. 10

December 20, 1985 nEADER 31

WANTEDLI RON Hubbard for lying aboet hisbackground, theft of Church funds, perversion ofspiritual practices, and writing boring science fic-tion novels. Rewardyour sanity and self-respect.

,L. RON HUBBARDOnlyweak men commit

crimes; great and happymen have no need of them.Voltaire

DECEMBER 1985

Personals



Wednesday, December 4, 1985 2A

Sect mails taped messageofficials for Scientology, everydifficult situation they everwere called to handle, whetherwith parents or the press, wascaused by "some new or uni.trained Scientologist completelymisinforming others as to whatwas Scientology data," thespeaker says.

"Feeling challenged and inval-idated, the relatively untrainedScientologist sometimes tries tomake an impact on a non-Sci-entologist by telling him bizarreand sometimes incomplete or in-correct data on the subject in-stead of some useful materialthe other could use to better hislife," he continues. "Uninformedpersons experience a drop inreality and feel antagonisticwhen this occurs.

"... The materials of Sciento-logy are not very mysteriousand when viewed as a whole,not as fragments, are very sen-sible."

Rather, Scientologsts believein kindness, understanding andbetter human relations, the min-ister says.

By LESLEY COLLINSSun staff writer Clearwater

CLEARWATER The "fa-vorable" reaction from a Churchof Scientology goodwill messagevia a cassette tape may sparkadditional tape mailings.

The Clearwater-based groupmailed about 300 cassette tapestitled "Can We Ever BeFriends?" this week to local cityofficials, newspapers and ran-domly selected residents.

"We've gotten calls as to whypeople haven't received them,"Scientology spokesman LudwigAlpers said Tuesday.

Because of the positive re-sponse, "there might be moregoing out," he said.

A small group of Scientolog-ists recently approached Alpersabout donating money to pro-vide the cassette tapes to com-munity officials and residents.

"I think this will break thelast bit of ice," he said, notinghis belief that after 10 years ofantagonism between the cityand the Scientologists, both

sides appear to be heading inthe same direction. "We want tocreate better relations, and thistape helps explain who andwhat are Scientologists."

The Scientology mailout in-cludes the tape, a cover letterby Alpers and a postage-paidpostcard enabling residents toget more information about Di-anetics and Scientology.

The taped speaker, who iden-tifies himself as a minister ofthe Church of Scientology, talksabout the possibility of repairing the "torn heartstrings"of estranged family membersand friends.

"It often appears that thethings they have done weremonstrous and cruel, and thatthey never can be forgiven," thetape continues. "But forgive-ness is the very stuff of whichharmony is made. Big peoplecan forgive."

According to. public .relations

Clearwater Sun



Clearw

atei -Sin

biiidayi -Decem

ber 50985

entOlogists use ifarious m

eansofhatihg ,their 'm

ember&

1 have long suspected that boredom and

confusion are two of their tools,

;T

hat belief got a boost Tuesday night as I

drove ,ta Tam

pa,A

s 1 traveled ' east on UlM

ertOn. R

oad andacroa the F

rankenstein Bridge,

I listened to atape cassette recently m

ailed to me (and seve-

ral hundred other people in Upper P

inellasC

ounty) by the Scientologists.

In a Wednesday story, S

un staff writer Lesley

-Collins ably described the tape's contents. S

healso quoted a local S

cientology spokesman,

who feels that the tape m

ay help to end theantagonism

between the cult and C

learwater.

The tape is called "C

an We E

ver Be F

riends?"It is supposed to be about estrangem

ent. It isone of the m

ost boring, disjointed speeches I'veheard.

-.in -that respect,it

resembles ;m

ot -of, the:w

ritingsO

f Scientologys

foundel'i and ,;1.1ligh.,

Plfei

Ron.,H

ubbard.

The D

river'sS

eatB

y Bob D

river

The speaker on the tape is not identified by

name. H

e has a pleasant enough voice. But as

he gets going, a trace of pomposity

creeps inand then grow

s to gargantuan proportions. Af-

ter half an hoilir of this,I

felt asif

I were

listeningto w

hat Charlem

agne must have

sounded like.

Except, I'm

sure, Charlem

agne would have

been precise in his message. A

nd the Scientolo-

gy speaker is vague.

He ram

bles about, touching on human rela-

tions, psychology, dieting, college life and atti-tudes tow

ard money. E

ach sentenceseem

s to

make sense as, it stands alone, but ,w

hent youstring_ the sentences together in the hope thatthey

to a definite, understandableconclusion, you are disappointed. O

r I was.,

One point w

as clear: the leaders of Scientollo-

gy would like to blam

e all their past bad public-ity on rookie m

embers of the organization w

hoallegedly w

ere misinform

ed, or who spoke art

of turn. This is scapegoating of a low

order.T

he motives of the C

hurch of Scientology in

sending this tape to Clearw

ater people are, likethe tape itself, clouded in confusion. T

he statedpurpose is to help change public opinion, andm

ake local folks feel kindly toward S

cientology.B

ut by now m

ost observers have made up

their minds about S

cientology. The tape is not

likely to alter the convictions of anyone who

regards Scientology as a profit-m

aking scheme

for taking money from

societal misfits in ex-

change for lessons in how to think m

ore clearly,plus pseudo-friendship and a tem

porary senseof belonging.

Scientology has been in C

learwater 10 years.

During the first half of that tim

ethecult played

rough. It made 'm

any enemies in:and

aroundC

learwater.

Inthe earlY

'1980s thetactics...

changed, 'and the Scientologists took

a lower-

profile; less combative stance,

The new

tape marks som

esort of a re-em

er-;

gence, it Seem

s to me. T

he tape is intendedas

-

a bridge across troubled -waters,: B

ut form

anypeople it w

ill simply stir up old, ugly

mem

ories.If nothing else, thinking

persons who listen

closely to the tape will 1?e struck by

certainquestions."

Such as, 'W

hat does all this gobbledygook;

mean? W

hy wasn't the speaker identified? W

hyw

as an attempt m

ade to make the listener think

the speaker was addressing

a live group?"B

ut I could be wrong. M

any recipients ofthe

tape may think-it is gang-busters. M

aybe localradio stations w

ill play it.C

all them and find

.outAgain, the tape is called "C

an We

Ever B

eF

riends?"In

Clearw

ater,the answ

eris

"Itsdoubtful."



4111L 4111_

Wednesda , December 11, 1985

Sect getstree forChristmas

CLEARWATER -- TheClearwater-based Church of Sci-entology received a 120-foot pre-sent Tuesday from the town ofIronwood, Mich.

A giant blue spruce tree,packed in snow and delivered bya semi-tractor trailer, will towerabove the former SandcastleMotel, 200 N. Osceola Ave., adowntown Scientology property.

Two cranes will be used topull the huge Christmas tree

' upright before parishioners dec-orate it with gold tinsel and redornaments, Scientology spokes-man Ludwig Alpers said.

"It's going to be quite anundertaking," Alpers said of thedecorating effort, which shouldbe completed by Friday.



Law

suitcreatesquandaryB

y LE

SLE

Y C

OW

NS

Sun staff writer

4

Clearw

ater Sun

CL

EA

RW

AT

ER

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VA

CH

EV

ICH

City attorneys and spe-

cial counsel from W

ash-...

hear case againington, D

.C., are debating w

hether to go up ordow

n.B

ecause the latest court ruling on the city'scharitable solicitation ordinance essentially didnothing, city attorneys are trying 'to decide w

hatw

ould be best from their perspective

a U.S.

Supreme C

ourt ruling on the case or its return toU

.S. District C

ourt in Tam

pa.O

n Nov. 13, the 11th U

.S. Circuit C

ourt ofA

ppeals in Atlanta ruled that there hadn't been

enough legal record developed by the U.S. D

is-trict C

ourt to warrant a decision by them

on thelaw

's constitutional merits.

Since that time, the C

hurch of Scientology,one of tw

o parties challenging the ordinance, hasfiled a m

otion asking the appeals court to recon-sider the case on its m

erits. Washington attorney

Law

rence Velvel told city com

missioners M

on-day.In V

elvel's eyes, the chances of the courtagreeing

tosuch

reconsiderationare

"verysm

all." The court could rule on that m

otion intw

o weeks to six m

onths, he said.If Scientology attorneys seek a Suprem

e Court

ruling on the ordinance's general legality, which

(Plcm

se see *C

OU

RT

,next page)

Court---4

(from page '1 A

)

Velvel believes they are leaning

Tuesday, D

ecember 17, 1985

toward, it m

ight be in the city's-

best interest to go along with

the request, he said."T

hey want to w

in this caseas fast as they can," the attor-ney said.

Even if the city supported a

Supreme C

ourt decision on thecase, V

elvel said the chances ofthe

nation'shighest

courtagreeing to hear the case arenot that prom

ising.If the rem

aining option is tak-en and the case returns to thedistrict court, Judge E

lizabethK

ovachevich will have to rule

whether the C

hurch of Sciento-logy is a religion and w

hetherthe ordinance requirem

ents posean undue burden on the affectedparties, V

elvel said.In July 1984, Judge K

ovache-vich ruled that the-city's revisedsolicitation ordinance w

as "fa-cially" constitutional, based onthe language of the ordinance.In an appeal by the C

hurch ofScientology,

theU

.S.C

ircuitC

ourt of Appeals declined to

rule on the constitutionality be-cause the district court opinionw

as rendered without gathering

any factual evidence.T

hesolicitation

ordinance,adopted in 1983, requires char-ities and religious organizationsto register w

ith the city andm

aintain finrurial records. That

portion of the ordinance cannotbe enforced, how

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Clearwater Sun^

Tuesday, December 24, 1985

;Scientologists mail$9,500 in 'presents'

By ,LESLEY COWNSSun staff writer

CLEARWATER Local!church of Scientology parishio-Iners put up a large chunk oficash to send 1,200 books and!tapes on Dianetics to Clearwa-:ter residents over the weekend.

The holiday packages includ-' ed a copy of "Dianetics: The'Modern Science of MentalHealth," authored by Scientolo-gy founder L. Ron Hubbard in1950, a cassette tape of Hub-bard expounding on Dianetics,his theory on mental well-being,and a cover letter from Sciento-logy spokesman Ludwig Alpers.

Based on cost figures of $4.95for each book and $10.95 pertape, the Scientology membersdoled out about $9,500 to payfor the 600 "Christmas pre-sents."

The packages were sent toClearwater residents in four orfive different professions, suchas chiropractors, who were con-

Clearwatersidered "most likely to be inter-ested in the technology of Di-anetics," Alpers said Monday.

According to ScientoloOsts,Dianetics is a "religious philoso-phy," whereby a practitionercan discover painful sub-conscious memories that thwarthis mental happiness. ThroughDianetics counseling, or "audit-ing," one can rid himself ofthese bad memories, called "en-grams," and become a happier,more productive person.

The package deliveries fall onthe heels of a similar Scientolo-gy mailing in early December.

In that mailing, about 300local city officials, newspapersand randomly selected residentsreceived a Scientology-producedcassette tape titled, "Can WeEver Be Friends?"

Favorable reaction from thatgoodwill message prompted theweekend mailing.



Clearwater Sun

Driver disappointsEditor:,

We are disappointed that BobDriver chooses to misconstrueScientology so thoroughly, andchooses to use his column toattempt to perpetuate misunder-standing between the people ofClearwater and the parishionersof the Church of Scientology.

If Driver has a personalgrudge, he should take it upwith a minister or official of theChurch personally. We will goto all possible lengths to settleany misunderstanding or differ-ences.

Also, it is a basic tenet of ourfaith that a person is responsi-ble for truly and correctly rep-resenting facts and for personal-ly observing and checUig outhis facts whenever possible. Wewould 'be happy to acquaintDriver with some of our betterknown parishioners, amongwhom are:

k-f A world-class concert pia-nist and recent winner of theinternational Chopin and Lisztprizes, and a Columbia, Deccaand MCA recording artist.

A leading soprano of theMetropolitan Opera in New

Freday, December 27, 1985

York and the 1985 GrammyAward winner for her starringrole, with Placido Domingo, inthe movie "Carmer."

0.-An international jazz/classi-cal recording artist and severaltimes "Jazz Musician of theYear," along with numerousother jazz greats.

v.An Emmy award winnerwho created the currently run-ning animated movie, 'Star-chasers."

German painter who isalso a Time cover artist.

fr-The star of the TV series"Baretta," and "Double Trou-ble," and founder of "RightTrack," a drug education pro-gram for kids; along with nu-merous other TV celebrities.

Not to mention a host of busi-ness, school teachers, doctors,artists and professionals of allkinds, some of whom have theirown corporations and business-es in Clearwater and reside here.

I venture to say that theseparishioners would be aston-ished to hear themselves dubbedas "societal misfits" who need'"psuedo-friendship and a tempo-rary sense of belonging," andknow any of them would be onlytoo happy to personally giveDriver some idea of what Sci-entology means to them andwhat it has contributed to theirlives, as well as why they proud-ly choose to be members of theChurch of Scientology...if onlyDriver would ask them!

Whether or not Driver wishesto be our friend, we still wish tobe his, and will continue ourefforts to create a climate oftolerance and understanding, aswell as work to make Clearwa-ter a better community for citi-zens of all faiths.

LUDWIG ALPERSDirector of Public Affairs

Church of ScientologyClearwater



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