Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.stealth.net!solace!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: brian@translator.se (BOG) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Dagens Nyheter 25th Oct 1996 Date: 29 Oct 1996 15:56:01 GMT Organization: - Lines: 93 Message-ID: <5559eh$3ku@mn5.swip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup88-2-12.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 NNTP-Posting-User: s-3198 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 DAGENS NYHETER Oct 25th 1996 Front Page Forbidden scripture free at the Parliament. The Scientologists succeeded in stopping the spread of their secret scriptures on the Internet after reporting copyright violation to the police. Instead, the man who was forbidden to spread the scriptures under penalty of 50,000 crowns (about 8,000 dollars), left them into the Office of the Swedish Parliament where they became official and public material. There then began a rush to the Parliament - of scientologists. They now buy for 460 crowns per copy, those scriptures they otherwise sell as expensive course material. One copy of the scripture is in the foyer where between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. it is guarded by scientologists who take it in shifts to read the material. Continued Inside Page 6 SILENT WAR FOR THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH - Lilian Öhrström Confusion in the Parliament. Scientologists queueing to prevent spread of scripture. There’s a war of words going on at the Parliament. Hardly anything new, one might think. But this is of the unusual variety. It is happening in the room outside the Offices of the Swedish Parliament and right by one of the Parliament’s entrances. It is happening in silence and concerns the freedom of speech. One of our fundamental sacred principles, according to one side. A principle that conflicts with the similarly sacred copyright laws according to the other side. The quarrel concerns scientology’s secret “bible”, the so-called Fishman papers that were written by a later defecting scientologist. The scripture contains course material that the church of scientology sells for a lot of money. Now, instead, it is scientologists who are buying up their own material for 460 crowns a copy from the Office of the Swedish Parliament. They are now there to be found, open to the general public. A month ago, a man took it upon himself to place these papers on the Internet. Scientologists reported this to the police, saying that this was a copyright violation and so both his hard-drive and disks were confiscated in a raid of the man’s home. Under penalty of 50,000 crowns, the man was forbidden to spread the scientologist scripture. But he found a way. Three weeks ago he went to the Office of the Swedish Parliament and requested that they distribute the scriptures to all members of Parliament. This was refused by the head of the Office. But he could not refuse to accept the documents and by so doing making it publicly accessible. This gives anyone the right to read it. The man also came back with a letter to all the members of Parliament where he explained that he had been forbidden to copy and spread the documents to them and that that they were accessible from the Office of the Parliament. Thereby making the scripture an official public document. Just over a week later the scriptures had disappeared. The police were notified. But the man appeared shortly afterwards at the Office with a new copy. To make doubly sure he went back onto the Internet and said that the scientology bible was now publicly available and there to be read. Then came the rush. But not of general inquiries but from the scientoleegits themselves. The Office of the Parliament was asked how many copies had been made. There were ten. Soon thereafter came ten scientologists who requested their own copies. The remaining copy, the original, was continuously being used by a scientologist. When the Office one day withdrew it to make new copies, there then followed eager photographing of the procedure. Soon came new requests. Not just from Sweden but also from the USA and Germany. The Office has been devoting more and more of its time to the scientologist scripture. The Fax has been bombarded by messages from Finland and from Norway with the same message: You are guilty of a crime against the international convention of copyright. Finally this official business was moved to the entrance by Riksgatan 2. There scientologists take shifts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in order to control their valued article. According to the guards, the rest of the general public don’t seem to be too interested. But the day that someone is prevented from reading an official document then a crime has been committed against a fundamental Swedish law, the guard explained. TRANSLATED BY Brian O'Grady..... Officially approved ARSCC translator.