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From: Mike O'Connor <mike@leptonicsystems.com>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Henson Seeks Political Asylum in Canada
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In article <9g96gtgb4s8fkoqd31i0sg74ev03d6795e@4ax.com>,
lmt_watch@my-deja.com wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2001 00:26:48 GMT, Mike O'Connor
> <mike@leptonicsystems.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> >Wipe your drool. It's disgusting.
>
>
> The funny part is that Henson thinks that he is winning
> as he claims to be smashing the Church fist to a pulp
> with his chin.
I first called Mr. Henson a heroic person on April 4, 1998, and he has
remained a credit to the United States ever since.
Whistleblowers are very, very important. We need them.
Mr. Henson blew the whistle on NOTs 34 and it got you guys a little
upset, so you are trying to teach a lesson.
You could crush Mr. Henson into dust and it wouldn't change the abuses
of people and the law Scientology has perpetrated, nor the will of
people to speak out about them.
Let's see what started it all:
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From: Mike O'Connor
To: alt.religion.scientology
Date: Apr. 4, 1998
In article <hkhensonEqt3pF.GK0@netcom.com>, hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith
Henson) wrote:
> I heard back from my Congresswoman's office today.
>
> A staff member made an inquiry of Judge Whyte's staff and received a
> fax copy of the injunction which prohibits me from giving a copy of
> NOTs 34 to the FDA. A fair statement would be that there were some
> *very* raised eyebrows at such a creative use of copyright law.
>
> I mentioned the secret deal scientology and the IRS made, and they
> were already *fully* up on that situation--it seems that several
> people had written. There seems to be a rather high level of concern
> about undue influence on the IRS.
>
> Reading a certain document into the Congressional record was taken
> under advisement.
>
> A while back there was a detailed analysis of what the heavy
> scientology jargon in NOTs 34 means. If the person who did that
> could clip out non fair use material and send it on to this
> Congresswoman's staff, that might be appreciated.
> annagram@mail.house.gov will get it there.
>
> Thanks, Keith Henson
What is NOTs 34? Is it a criminal instruction manual? What is the
theory and theology behind it? I've never been in the Scientology cult.
My entire involvement consists solely of reading and posting to
alt.religion.scientology. Virtually all of my information comes from
things I've read on publicly-accessible portions of the Internet. I
will do my best to give my own understanding of the situation.
Anytime you see "[...]" it means I have edited out a portion of text.
Let's first look at what Henson claims.
Here is an excerpt from RTC v Henson, Apr 15 1997, ORDER DENYING
DEFENDANT'S EX PARTE MOTION FOR LEAVE TO CONSIDER CONTENT CONTRARY TO
THE RULES:
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[...]
Henson also argues that the purpose of his posting is to educate the
public and that this purpose overrides copyright law. See Opposition at
10:8-9, 11:10-22. He explains that "the posting was done in order to
aid the public interest by warning the public against an unobvious
danger of harm, established by a previous court order. [8] He claims
that NOTs Series 34 is a "criminal instruction manual for the illegal
practice of medicine, and it violates a Court order which expressly
forbids Scientology to claim to be healing by using the E-meter."
Henson suggests that where there is a matter of public safety involved,
the concept of fair use should be extended.
The limited commentary in Henson's posting does not reveal that
Henson's purpose was to educate the public about the alleged criminal
content of NOTs Series 34. Further, Henson does not sufficiently
explain why he needed to post the entire text of NOTs Series 34 to
educate the public.
The posting may be viewed, at best, as a criticism designed to
stimulate discussion, as his stated reason set forth in his March30,
1996 posting is to "discuss any parts of NOTS which amount to manuals
for criminal activities."
[...]
[Footnote 8:]
[8] Henson is apparently referring the an order issued by Judge Gesell
in United States v. An Article or Device "Hubbard Electrometer." et
al., 333 F. Supp. 357 (D.D.C. 1971), which he claims "forbids the
Church of Scientology and all related organizations from claiming to
heal using an 'E-meter."'
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Henson calls NOTs 34 a "criminal instruction manual." What makes it
criminal? Henson says it violates a court order. What was the order
issued by Judge Gesell? Here are some excerpts:
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The device should bear a prominent, clearly visible notice warning that
any person using it for auditing or counseling of any kind is forbidden
by law to represent that there is any medical or scientific basis for
believing or asserting that the device is useful in the diagnosis,
treatment or prevention of any disease. It should be noted in the
warning that the device has been condemned by a United States District
Court for misrepresentation and misbranding under the Food and Drug
laws, that use is permitted only as part of religious activity, and
that the E-meter is not medically or scientifically capable of
improving the health or bodily functions of anyone.
Each user, purchaser, and distributee of the E-meter shall sign a
written statement that he has read such warning and understands its
contents and such statements shall be preserved.
Any and all literature which refers to the E-meter or to auditing,
including advertisements, distributed directly or indirectly by the
seller or distributor of the E-meter or by anyone utilizing or
promoting the use of the E-meter, should bear a prominent notice
printed in or permanently affixed to each item or such literature,
stating that the device known as a Hubbard Electrometer, or E-meter,
used in auditing, has been condemned by a United States District Court
on the grounds that the literature of Dianetics and Scientology
contains false and misleading claims of a medical or scientific nature
and that the E-meter has no proven usefulness in the diagnosis,
treatment or prevention of any disease, nor is it medically or
scientifically capable of improving any bodily function.
[...]
APPENDIX A Representative Documents Found to be Non-Religious, and
Samples of False or Misleading Claims Found Therein
1. Eight-page pamphlet, entitled "What is Scientology?"
[...]
"The first science to determine the basic cause of disease.
"The first science to contain exact technology to routinely alleviate
physical illnesses with complete predictable success.
"The first science of mind to prove conclusively that physical illness
can stem from mental disturbance, a fact which Freud held only as a
theory, and only seldom demonstrated."
[...]
(3) Hard back book, 452 pages, entitled "Dianetics: The Modern Science
of Mental Health," by L. Ron Hubbard.
[...]
"It contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all
inorganic mental ills and all organic psycho-somatic ills, with
assurance of complete cure in unselected cases.
[...]
"Dianetics brings forth the nongerm theory of disease, complementing
bio-chemistry and Pasteur's work on the germ theory to embrace the
field.
[...]
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The Judge ordered that the Meter can not be claimed to be useful in the
diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of any disease. Now, let's look at
NOTs. In particular, does NOTs 34 make that claim?
NOTs is a set of once-secret documents. Since they were placed on the
Internet, they are now informally available to anyone.
NOTs documents are instruction manuals for "auditors" trained by the
cult - Judge Gesell ordered that E-Meters only be used by trained cult
members. Each manual guides the auditor in the use of the Meter.
The title of NOTs 34 is "THE SEQUENCE FOR HANDLING A PHYSICAL
CONDITION".
NOTs 34 says that a physical condition such as a stomach poisoning can
be handled by using the meter to detect and remove the "BTs" infesting
your body and causing the condition.
Other documents make it clear that BT is a "body thetan."
A thetan is the soul of a being who lived on one of scores of nearby
member planets of the galactic confederation. Seventy-six million years
ago, the ruler of the confederation, named Xenu, solved overpopulation
on his planets by killing hundreds of billions of inhabitants. He froze
their thetan souls, packed them up, and brought them to Earth. He
blasted the thetans with H-bombs placed in volcanos, and he brainwashed
them by forcing them to watch special movies for weeks on end. The
dazed thetans we so deluded, they forgot about the godlike beings they
are, and instead began to think that they are lesser things, such as
rocks, trees, the animals on this planet, and so on.
As an experiment, think of something. Get a picture in your mind of,
for example, a cat. Now, what is the thing that is thinking of that
cat? It is a thetan. YOU are a thetan. Your consiousness is that of the
soul of a being who lived on another planet, lived for quadrillions of
years, is godlike but has been brainwashed into fogetting that.
You are not an Earthling. Your body is of this planet, but your essense
is that of an alien. Your soul is a thetan from another planet. Your
meat body may die, but your thetan will pick up another body soon
after.
Some thetans, like yours and mine, were strong enough to pick up and
take control of a human body, but most thetans have been so deluded
that they think they are body parts, objects, sickness, or mere
thoughts. These low level thetans tend to stick to themselves and to
the things they think they are. Hundreds or thousands of them have
stuck to your body. They are your "body thetans." Some think they are
your stomach, your lung, your left foot, things that make you sick such
as poison... Thetans can even think they are abstract concepts, such as
the cure for an illness.
There are many thetans infesting you. They think they are various
things, but one thing they all do in common is THINK.
NOTs asserts that body thetans - "BTs" - think, and that thoughts can
have mass. The thought of a thetans can have actual mass, physical
weight. NOTs 22 explains the theory. The BTs think, the thoughts have
mass, and that mass can impinge upon nerves, cutting off nerve
impulses, causing such physical conditions as deafness, blindness, and
catatonia.
NOTs 22 asserts that physical illness can stem from mental disturbance.
It says the true, underlying cause of most physical conditions is
thought alone - the thoughts of the BTs infesting you. It shows that
most physical illness is psychosomatic. The cure? Remove the BTs and
you remove the thoughts and the mass impinging upon the nerves that
were cut off.
NOTs 34 gives the sequence for handling a physical condition. It
instructs the auditor in use of the Meter to diagnose the condition of
BT infestation, identify the BTs causing the condition, treating the
underlying cause of the condition by removing the BTs, and verifying
the underlying cause is gone by determining the BTs involved are gone.
By continuing to audit with the Meter and removing all BTs, this will
prevent such conditions from happening again.
NOTs 34 gives eight steps which will handle any physical condition.
Each of the steps involve auditing with the Meter to remove BTs from
the patient's body.
For stomach poisoning, the steps might go like this:
* Find BTs who think they are poison and audit them with the Meter
until they "blow" the body.
* Then find BTs who think they are the part of the body affected by the
poison (stomach) and make them blow.
* After this, you audit and cause to blow the BTs which are thinking
the body part is sick ("sick stomach" BTs.)
* Next, you find BTs which think they are "cures for illness" and get
them to blow.
* Then you get rid of BTs which protest the cures for illness.
* Then you get rid of more BTs who think they are the stomach, since
blowing all those other BTs will uncover new BTs.
* Then you get rid of more BTs who think they are poison who have
thoughts about the stomach.
* Finally, all this seems to foster a cluster-making ability that
causes BTs to stick together in clumps, so you do some more auditing
and blowing for that.
NOTs 34 seems to say, to me, if you are poisoned, this sequence for
handling a physical condition will take care of the problem. Poison is
an actual example given, with dust, paint fumes, and bad food as other
specific examples of physical conditions this auditing will handle.
The claim in NOTs 34 is to handle physical conditions by auditing
alone. The Meter is necessary in every part of every step in the
sequence. It is impossible to diagnose the problem, treat it, handle
it, and prevent further occurrences without the Meter.
Judge Gesell ordered "that any person using it for auditing or
counseling of any kind is forbidden by law to represent that there is
any medical or scientific basis for believing or asserting that the
device is useful in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any
disease."
NOTs 22 explains how BTs cause physical conditions, such as blindness,
deafness, and catatonia. NOTs 34 explains how to handle physical
conditions using the Meter. I believe NOTs 34 may indeed be a criminal
instruction manual.
My message has not quoted NOTs 34 significantly, yet it attempts to
explain it in some detail. However, I am merely a layman and an
interested person. I've compressed, summarized, and intertwined opinion
with fact. Some facts may be wrong, some opinions biased. Though it may
serve to get people interested, what happens after that? The people
must have access to the original material in order to do what I have
done - research it and form their own opinions. Short quotes, or
relying on second-hand interpretations is not nearly enough, especially
if you have authority to investigate.
The core beliefs of the cult are hidden from the public and its own
members. Only the highest level members learn the secret of the alien
body thetans infesting us and how they can cause physical illness.
Therefore there are many lower level members who simply don't believe
that the cult makes claims of using the Meter to physically heal. It
becomes very difficult to convince the public or the authorities of the
illegal claims if many of its own members can say they have never heard
or seen such a thing. It becomes necessary to produce documents in full
to refute this and the operations of the cult designed to keep the
information officially hidden.
It takes a heroic person to act as a whistleblower in the face of a
cult whose claims to fame include harassment of its critics by many
means as detailed in its sacred scripture. "The purpose of the lawsuit
is to harass and discourage rather than to win," says cult founder L.
Ron Hubbard in the sacred scripture. And the cult takes its sacred
scripture VERY seriously. That is no secret - ask any member.
I hope you'll consider helping to turn over the rock Scientology is
hiding under. Thank you.
Michael O'Connor
Long Island NY
Posted to Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology.
I declare this work to be in the Public Domain.
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