Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!solace!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: Aase Berg Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: The guardians of the tech... Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:56:13 +0200 Organization: - Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3236628D.3E8E@techno.org> Reply-To: virulina@techno.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup99-2-15.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-40153 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (Win16; I) CC: hkk@netcom.com, dm@dma.se, oracle@dodo.pp.se CC: Kobrin & Magnusson This morning's edition of Dagens Nyheter, the leading Swedish daily, carries an article on my case. Under the heading "Secret bible on the Internet" it reports that this is the first time a Swede has been sued by the church of scientology. It gives a correct summary of the case and mentions that the scienos were in my appartment. It further entions Kobrin, who "with varying success has been trying to stop the spreading of the church's documents", the fact that she failed to stop a.r.s. with the argument that word "scientology" is copyrighted her failure in the Dutch case and the Dutch protest action. The article goes on saying that it isn't hard to find the Fishman papers on the net (put counters in your FA-pages) and it explains that they are part of the course material that the church preovides for big money, and in which "one can learn about the space emperor Xenu and the thetans that plague us since some 80 million years back". Not bad! The judge who handles the "main case" (ie not the various appeals etc) is interviewed and confirms that the interest of publicity in this case outweighs the scienos' interest of secrecy. The article then mentions that I filed part of the scienos' secret material as evidence and that it is a public document in court. Finally a lawyer who has writen some work on legal aspects of the Internet comments on the case and the article ends by mentioning that the case is intensively discussed on the net. I understand that we should be expecting newcomers to a.r.s., a fact that in the name of hospitality increases the burden of the spam cancellers. With this I consider that I already have fullfilled my promise to Kobrin after she got my FA-pages closed, that I would give more publicity to the material every time she tried to stop it with extra-judicial measures. The Xenu story can now be regarded as a public joke. Those of you that have contacts to the American and international press, use this opportunity to turn this into world-wide news. I may have still more news for you later. --- oracle@everywhere: The ephemeral source of the eternal truth...