Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.corpcomm.net!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!news.wineasy.se!not-for-mail From: Zenon Panoussis Subject: Aouch!!! That hurt a bit! Message-ID: <32307EC2.29AF@dodo.pp.se> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 19:42:58 +0000 Reply-To: oracle@dodo.pp.se X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Zenon Panoussis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 96 Alright, here is the filling in: I didn't get any sleep. I said last night that I had something on the doing. It was the printing of the whole bulk of the material, OTs and NOTs. In the morning I made a copy of the 224-page printout and went with both to court. I filed one in as evidence proving that my postings, as shown in the print, are not identical nor even show any similarity to the stripe-covered documents that the CoS claim copyrights to. The instant I filed the thing it became public. By pure coincidence I found that some papers had arrived from the CoS. I asked to see them and was initially refused, but that is a legal impossibility. I got them. They contained three motions: 1. that I should be called to testify as to the whereabouts of the files and printed materials I once had, as well as the names of the people that I may have taken the assistence of to intensify my distribution of "The Material"; 2. that I should be obliged, again through the bailiff, to hand in every document that was covered by Wednesday's decision; 3. that the above decisions, seen the extreme danger of serious damage to the RTC that lies in the slightest of delays, be taken without providing me the previous opportunity to answer; 4. that the "fine" set earlier should be set to a much higher amount and separetely 5. that the so called "Material", the OTs and NOTs be covered by secrecy in view of their confidential nature (the term "trade secret" was elaborately avoided). A quote: "The RTC receives, directly and indirectly, a great economical benefit from The Material." All these very serious motions would have been treated without hearing me, had it not been for the coincidence of my going to court at the right time AND noticing the protocol entries in their computer. As it now turned out, I sat in court frenetically writing statements by hand in the corridor. They were kind enough to find a law book for me. I handed them in at 2 pm and ruling was pronounced at 4.30 pm. Well? Sorry. Motion 1 denied. Motion 2 denied. Motion 3 denied. Motion 4 denied. MOTION 5 DENIED. The interesting details: Motion 5 was denied AFTER my posting advising the net on how to ask for public documents from a Swedish court. All my postings here show up in the file next day, courtesy of the CoS lawyers. They called my instructions a "further flagrant spreading of The Material". Ha. The motion was denied also AFTER I handed in the entire material. The ruling is thus passed with both the fact that the entire material is available at the court, and that people have been encouraged to ask for it. I have two objectives. One is giving the CoS a very good lesson for their general brutality towards scienos and non-scienos alike; today they got another portion of this lesson. My other objective is to defend the net from the censorship it would suffer if measures for breach of law or good taste were to be taken against ISPs, as the CoS always has wanted, instead of against users, which is the only reasonable way. Even on that front this was a good day. Since Monday the CoS have believed that my account was closed following their complaints. I kept a low profile so that my ISP would have the opportunity to tell them the opposite before I did. But since my ISP yesterday went public with their principle decision not to act legislator, police, judge and executioner all at once, I am free to announce it too. The second largest phone company in Sweden and by far largest ISP has made its formal policy to demand court decision or at least something in that direction before closing accounts. The reason? CoS and the resulting problems. Hats off for Tele2 / swip.net. And first prize of foot sharp shooting to the CoS. Z. --- I don't ignore you if I don't answer your e-mail; I'm drowning in things to do, but I will answer eventually.