From news-central.tiac.net!news-in.tiac.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com! nntp.primenet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnho f.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news Thu Nov 14 13:05:36 1996 Path: news-central.tiac.net!news-in.tiac.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com !nntp.primenet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnh of.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: brian@translator.se (BOG) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Swedish Press: Dagen Nyheter 13th Nov 1996 Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:49:25 GMT Organization: - Lines: 84 Message-ID: <56f4gl$e1m@mn5.swip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup114-4-2.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 From the front page and continued on page 6 DAGENS NYHETER 13th November 1996 Scientology Theft From Justice Department ============================================ Distorted "Bible". The organisation’s scripture became publicly available through a freedom-of-the-press lawsuit. -Lilian Öhrström ------------------------------------------------------------ The fight concerning the contents of the Scientology training bible has now turned into a criminal matter. On Tuesday the Dept. of Justice made a complaint to the police concerning a theft and distortion of public documents. Nearly every page of the "bible" which was kept in the custody of the Justice Dept. had been switched. The theft was discovered on Monday. Hans Regnér from the Justice Dept. looks very seriously on anyone who takes it upon themselves to distort a public document. And this has happened at the authority that is supposed to guard legal rights. How this happened, no one knows. The office supervisor says that he kept an eye on the scientologists that came every day to the Justice Dept., since it became known that a public document was there. The scientologists have, according to his statement, taken turns at reading the documents in order to block the general public from reading them. Now the fought-over scientology text at the Justice Dept. has been fitted with a new binding and seal. The entire document including the public material has also been enlarged. It now contains a new copy of the original anonymously submitted texts, now with the newly substituted parts. The original texts are called OTs and NOTs. It deals with, among other things, "Thetans" which according to the scientologists training are capable of leaving the body and becoming operating thetans (OT). For this, scientologist pupils pay dearly. The substituted pages instead deal with how misunderstood scientologists often are and where one can go in order to find the "right" information. This is not the first time that the scientologist’s sacred scripture has been stolen since it became public material in Sweden. One copy disappeared from the Parliament, how is not known. The previous week, a deputy judge of Stockholms district court discovered that the document had been altered when it was returned. The copy which was left back was much thinner than the one lent out. - We would never have dreamt that a public document would be stolen. This is, you know, a court that prosecutes crime, says assistant security chief Gun Hakk to DN. Even the Justice Dept. has had problems with their copies of the scientology scripture. First the pages were substituted. After a while some pages were ripped up. Finally the text was covered with Tippex. The whole fight over the texts began when a man placed them on the Internet. He was sued by the scientologists, and the police carried out a raid of his home and confiscated his disks. All of this became known on the Internet and others have since helped to spread the text to the authorities and parliamentary members, since it concerns the freedom of the press. For the scientologists it is a question of copyright. On the 6th Dec. a preliminary decision will be made at Stockholm’s district court. In the USA, a similar case is happening, where the scientologists are claiming that it concerns Trade Secrets. The defendant in the case has received the documents from Sweden and therefore it cannot be a Trade Secret, since it is a public document in Sweden. Scientologists have never denied that they wish to obstruct others from having a part of their training material by blocking the documents at the authorities. On the other hand, the scientology church rejects through their information secretary Tarja Vuolto anyone who does anything illegal. They plan to continue to "read" the scripture in shifts, "as long as it’s needed". -------------------------------------------- Translated by Brian O'Grady. Official ARSCC Translater. (If you have any Swedish articles you'd like me to translate then let me know.)