Zurich,
Switzerland November 29, 2000 "Bund"
You can
be sure that Microsoft's reaction to the hysteria of a few anti-cultists
in Germany will be immortalized in the next UN Human Rights
and the next US State Department report. The software in question
was developed by a US company whose owner is a private member
of the Scientology Church. The company has nothing to do with
Scientology. Picture the scandal if that action had been taken
on a company which belonged to a Jew !
There
was little feedback from the Swiss media about the unfounded
security objections. Some time ago, several fanatics in Germany
tried to call for a boycott of "Mission Impossible"
because Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. The only pit of it is
that a world-class company is forced to undergo this type of
discrimination.
- Jürg
Stettler, Scientology-Kirche Zurich
- [note: Here is a report from the alt.religion.scientology news group which
may be of interest in regards the above article. Among other things, it says
Craig Jensen, chief of Executive Software, who manufactures Diskeeper, is former
Scientology Guardian Office staff. The Guardian Office was renamed Office of
Special Affairs (OSA) after 11 top Scientologists were convicted and imprisoned
for burglarizing and stealing information from U.S. federal offices in
Washington, D.C.]
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- From Stacy Brooks, November 25, 2000, as posted to a.r.s.
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- Karin and I attended a hearing of the House International Relations Committee
on June 14 of this year (personally escor- ted in, actually, by one of the
chairman's aides). As far as we could tell, we were the only non-Scientologists
in the hearing room. Most of the members of the audience wore buttons
proclaiming "Religious Freedom for Europe," a Sciento- logy public relations
campaign. Bill Walsh, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has been on Scientology's
payroll since the Guardian's Office days, was there, along with a number of
other Scientology professionals. Former PR Secretary OSA Int Leisa Goodman was
also there, looking nervous but lovely in a peach blazer. Washington, D.C., OSA
operatives Sylvia Stanard, Sue Taylor, and Thierry Duchenac (my apologies if
I've misspelled that) sat behind and next to Karin and me. They also followed us
afterwards, although neither Karin nor I caused any disturbance at all during
the hearing. We just sat and listened.
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- I believe there are about fifty members of the committee, but only a handful
attended this particular hearing. The rest, I assumed, did not want to be
associated with what seemed to be clearly a Scientology-orchestrated show.
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- The witnesses had obviously been handpicked by Scientology. Long-time
Guardian's Office legal staff member Craig Jensen was one of them. Craig was
kicked off staff in 1982 when Miscavige took over the Guardian's Office. As
Miscavige did with many of the Guardian's Office executives, such as Henning
Heldt, Duke Snider, and others, he ordered Craig Jensen to start a business that
could serve Scientology's interests. Jensen started Executive Software that same
year. Not surpri- singly, Jensen didn't mention his Guardian's Office background
during his testimony. Another witness was the young woman who stars on the
television program JAG. Forgive me for forgetting her name. She read a statement
by Anne Archer. Why Anne Archer could not be present to read her own statement
was never explained. Chick Corea was suppo- sed to make an appearance but never
did. Again, there was no explanation, but it seemed to me that this was why
Leisa Goodman was looking so nervous.
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- Half the front row was filled with German Scientologists. They were
introduced, each with a dramatic story, as having had to flee Germany because of
religious discrimination. One of the Germans was Antje Victore, presented to the
committee as the first German to be granted asylum in the United States for
religious discrimination. She is the one, you may remember, who was exposed in
Stern magazine shortly afterward as having obtained asylum by presenting
fraudulent documents, created as a favor to her by fellow Scientologists, to a
judge in Tampa.
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- The hearing was all about Scientology trying to get economic sanctions
imposed by the U.S. Congress against Germany, France, Austria and Belgium for
so-called "religious discrimination" against Scientologists. This cry of
religious discrimina- tion is Scientology's latest strategy to use the U.S.
government to bring these recalcitrant European countries under control. As you
probably know, there is a policy called, I believe, "Dept of Govt Affairs" in
which, if memory serves me well, Hubbard instructed his followers to gain
control of governments by "high level ability to control or, in its absence, by
low level ability to overwhelm." So far Scientology doesn't seem to be doing
very well at applying this policy to Europe. Despite what appeared to be a
well-rehearsed, impassioned defense of Scientology by a committee member named
Salmon (including a vehement attack on the LMT as a hate group, by the way,
which Karin and I assumed had been written into the script especially for our
benefit when we made our surprise appearance), the hearing did not result in any
sanctions, or any other actions against Europe that I know of, for that matter.
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- Much to OSA's chagrin, no press showed up for the hearing, nor was there any
published media about the event, despite the Scientology starlet from JAG. For
the sake of the media stats, it was really too bad that Chick didn't show up.
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- I don't believe Salmon was re-elected, either.
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