{"article":{"id":7069,"heading":"Shitstorm gathering over Scientology.","author":"proffr@fuckmicrosoft.com","created":"2001-05-29 23:06:22","modified":"2001-05-31 09:32:02","last_modified":"Thu, 31 May 2001 16:32:02","article":"<p>See comment for story on keith hensons crucifixion.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Testing times for crappy facist so called religon.","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/05\/7069.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":7070,"heading":"Was having publishing problems,sorry.","article":"To: politech@politechbot.com\r\nSubject: FC: Scientology critic seeks asylum in Canada, reportedly arrested \r\n\r\n\r\nSome quick searches turned up no news articles about Henson's reported arrest. Background:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/cgi-bin\/politech.cgi?name=henson\r\nhttp:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2001\/05\/23\/henson\/index.html\r\n\r\n\r\n-Declan\r\n\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n\r\nFrom: xenu@blazenet.net\r\nDate: 28 May 2001 21:56:06 -0000\r\nSubject: Henson arrested by heavily-armed swarm of police in Toronto\r\n\r\n\r\nThis might be good to forward to media only, especially Keith's lawyer's\r\ncontact info which should NOT be posted to ars at the moment lest it cause\r\na firestorm of calls.\r\n\r\n\r\n(I presume the jail at Oakland, or wherever they send immigration prisoners,\r\nis where Keith is now.  His lawyer could help on that, but only to media, not\r\nto alt.religion.scientology or wide fora.)\r\n\r\n\r\nHere's the flash, minimal as it is.  I won't email anyone updates\r\nunless they explicitly express further interest.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Snip]  One of Keiths lawyers has just spoken to Keith and Immigration.\r\nThis is the situation:\r\n An Immigration warrant waas issued for Keiths Arrest\r\nFor failure to declare to Immigration, when Keith entered Canada on May 12\r\n\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n\r\nApparently, Henson was arrested by heavily-armed police at a shopping\r\nmall.  His spiritual adviser Gregg Hagglund (or whatever you want to call him ;-)\r\nis taking him a red cross care package and may be visiting him for a while.\r\nI think he's incommunicado for a bit.\r\n\r\n\r\nThere is a bail hearing tomorrow on this and then we'll find out exactly\r\nwhat's up.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe SNAFU here (and the basic clusterfuck) is that his lawyer Guidy\r\nMamann was poised to file the necessary papers tomorrow.\r\n\r\n\r\nWho knows what will happen?  Deportation is almost the best case,\r\nwith additional charges entirely possible, depending on whether or\r\nnot the arrest was based on entirely bogus information.\r\n\r\n\r\n(Henson did not enter Canada as a \"fugitive,\" though a bench warrant\r\nwas issued on May 18, six days after he entered Canada.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere's Keith's counsel information from a press release by Gregg\r\nHagglund.\r\n\r\n\r\n Mr. Guidy Mamann\r\ngman@migrationlaw.com\r\n\r\n\r\nof Mamann & Associates.\r\nwww.migrationlaw.com\r\n\r\n\r\n74 Victoria Street, Suite 303\r\nToronto, Canada M5C 2A5\r\n[phone number deleted per request. --DBM]\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd Keith's own contact information\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nKeith Henson\r\nc\/o\r\nTemple of At'L'An\r\nRefugee Committee\r\n2237 Munns Ave.\r\nOakville Ontario\r\nCanada\r\nL6H 3M9\r\n\r\n\r\nemail atlan@home.com\r\nTelephone: 905-844-6216\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHenson's reluctant American counsel:\r\n\r\n\r\nJames J. Harr\r\nof James O. Cripps\r\nSuite 4\r\nPO Box 3540\r\n133 N Buena Vista\r\nHemet, California 92343\r\n\r\n\r\nPhone:  (909) 925-5024\r\nFax:  (909) 652-2250\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHenson's former counsel Graham Berry\r\nemail: GrahamEB@aol.com\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nRiverside Press-Enterprise Reporter Erin Randolph\r\nEmail: erandolph@pe.com\r\n(909) 487-5229\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWebsites featuring information on the case\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/freehenson.da.ru (a redirector which will always\r\npoint at the current home of the site)\r\nhttp:\/\/www.operatingthetan.com\r\nCurrent home of the Free Keith Henson site\r\nNOTE that all references to http:\/\/freehenson.tripod.com are\r\npermanently broken as I have no intention of ever using Tripod\r\nfor anything of any kind ever again\r\nPoint instead to http:\/\/freehenson.da.ru or http:\/\/www.operatingthetan.com\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/cryptome.org\r\nThis one might be responsible for the Slashdot one and I'm greatly\r\npleased with it.\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=01\/05\/17\/0238223&mode=thread\r\nSlashdot thread on Henson situation\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/cgi-bin\/politech.cgi?name=henson\r\nA nicely selected and bandwidth-friendly distillation of some of the\r\nmost critical material which has been posted to Declan McCullagh's\r\nwell-regarded politech list\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nPOLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list\r\nYou may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice.\r\nTo subscribe, visit http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/info\/subscribe.html\r\nThis message is archived at http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/\r\n\r\nSoft drill is offering substantial rewards to \"send a message\" to T.cruise and J.travolta.ph 0417 531 548","author":"PR.","parent_id":7069,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-05-29 23:10:28","modified":"2001-05-30 00:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":7076,"heading":"Scientologists proprietary kernal in M$ 2000","article":"A secret part of MS 2000 was coded by scientologist slimeballs and not even anyone at redmond knows exactly whats there.If they tried to find out the \"religon\"could sue for breach of copyright.This is the favoured weapon of creeping facist outfit,scientology.\r\nFraud bush regime wants to give more power to authoritarian arseholes like them so some international response seems called for,please join me in exposing this fake cult for the enemy of the 1st ammendment it so patently is.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nKeep pledges coming for direct action against cruise\/travolta.","author":"knee capper","parent_id":7069,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-05-30 08:57:42","modified":"2001-05-30 10:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":7099,"heading":"The Scientologists' program","article":"The software knee capper refers to is the Diskkeeper utility, which was programmed by a Scientologist-run company.  As far as I know, the source hasn't even been given to Microsoft.  Uninstall this program if at all possible, then ask yourself why MS, a company that knows it has a horrid reputation with regards to security holes and backdoors, would let a situation like this take place.\r\n\r\nThe Catholic Church doesn't hunt down and destroy its detractors.  Muslims who follow the Qu'ran don't declare war on anyone who is not Muslim (this pretty much excludes most, if not all, \"Islamic terrorists\").  As far as I know, Scientology is the only religion with a confirmed policy of destroying its opponents.  I have no reason to trust a group that could target me for ruin simply because I publicly disapprove of their tactics and treatment of members.","author":"Mark Bialkowski","parent_id":7069,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-05-31 09:07:20","modified":"2001-05-31 09:32:03","fileurl":""},{"id":7100,"heading":"Flown in via Vulture","article":"Online Scientology critic seeks political asylum\r\nBy: Thomas C Greene in Washington\r\nPosted: 19\/05\/2001 at 19:43 GMT\r\n\r\n\r\nA 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. \r\n\r\nThe 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 Robert Schwarz, who, it is claimed, is either a Scientology dupe himself, or on old Elron's posthumous payroll. \r\n\r\nSo the jury split 9\/3 on Schwarz's charge of terrorism and 10\/2 on his nearly equally moronic charge of attempted terrorism. \r\n\r\nThat's right; a prosecutor -- someone who managed to graduate from a university, then a law school, and then pass the California Bar Exam -- actually brought charges of terrorism against someone joking on Usenet about firing a nuclear warhead at a group of people scattered all over the globe. \r\n\r\nWe conclude that California must have the slackest educational standards in the world if it can, in good faith, award anything higher than a beautician's license to someone unable to noodle out the obvious absurdity in Henson's comment. \r\n\r\nLaw and Order \r\nHenson's trial has been roundly condemned as a true kangaroo court affair, with serious irregularities of procedure favoring the prosecution and excluding the bulk of Henson's evidence, thereby virtually shutting down the defense. So it's perhaps no surprise that he was convicted on at least one charge. \r\n\r\nOn 13 May Henson posted to the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup doubts that he'll get a fair sentence as well. \"Late last week I talked to Garry Davis, the parole officer who is writing the report for my case. He expressed the opinion that this was more of political case than a criminal one, and that the political pressure to put me in jail was very high,\" he wrote. \r\n\r\nThe parole officer reckoned Henson would get something like a year in stir for his conviction on interfering with a religion, which, we'll admit freely, is a serious offence where stiff penalties are entirely appropriate. \r\n\r\nBut numerous peculiarities in Henson's trial leave considerable doubt about his actual guilt; and calling Scientology a 'religion' really is an awful lot like calling Dunkin' Donuts a 'restaurant'. \r\n\r\nPolitical Embarrassment \r\nSo as the handwriting on the wall became legible, Henson skipped to Canada and set up in Toronto. He's since retained a local lawyer through whom he filed for political asylum with the Canadian government. \r\n\r\nWe're not terribly excited by his chances of seeing the application granted, as the Canadian government stands to gain little from humiliating Uncle Sam in this way. \r\n\r\nBut Hanson's move, taken as a publicity stunt, is sweet. Here's a guy who hails from a country that bleats about democracy and liberty 'til it's blue in the face, lectures the world on human rights like a scolding nanny at every opportunity, and then convicts a fellow for exercising his right to criticize, protest and picket against an immensely well-heeled, and some say, immensely dangerous, cult. \r\n\r\n'Democracy' and 'liberty' in the sunny State of California never looked more like the empty incantations they really are. \r\n\r\nAnd who knows; the Canadian courts may well put political convenience aside and consider Henson's application on the merits. And in that case we think he's got a decent chance of qualifying. He certainly looks to us like someone facing punishment by the state for expressing his beliefs in public. \u00ae \r\n\r\nRelated Link \r\nBackground on Henson's case ","author":"sodding git","parent_id":7069,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-05-31 09:32:02","modified":"2013-11-10 23:37:37","fileurl":""}]}