From: zzjgroen@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au (Jan Groenveld) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Cult scare tactics Date: 23 Sep 1997 01:21:59 GMT Organization: University of Queensland Lines: 46 Message-ID: <6075jn$13u$1@nargun.cc.uq.edu.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dingo.cc.uq.edu.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 #1 (NOV) "John Dorsay" writes: >A friend of mine (who believes, probably correctly, that she >crossed the Co$), was recently subject to overt surveillance (car >parked across the street - goon said he was watching "her next-door >neighbour" - right, wanna buy a bridge? Unfortunately, she did not >take his picture/videotape him), and garbage inspection. So far, >nothing newsworthy and nothing to rule out the cult. Brings back memories .... >However, she awoke one morning and discovered her car had somehow >developed loosened wheelnuts. She thinks it was the cult. Is this >kind of thing consistent with Co$ behavior? The car was parked >outside on a street with many houses nearby. Even a >middle-of-the-night operation would have presented fair risk of >discovery. I realize that this would not be the first case of the >Co$ endangering life or limb, but as far as I know other cases >(such as Lisa McPherson) have been a result more of negligence and >stupidity rather than premeditated malice. I had the axle nuts on my car loosened (parked in driveway), my brake line 'developed a leak', my phone was bugged, my home was bugged and I was visited by PI's trying to get info by posing as family of cult members etc ... Even had a "TV crew" contact me to get an interview posing as students from the local university, false reports about me to the police and every other government agency they could contact, stories about me to the press, had a 4 page then 8 page CCH Freedom newsletter put out about me and my 'illegal' activities .... ....and the list goes on .... All this in a period of 6-8 months ...... I simply ignored them. Told them that they and I have the same rights to speak about our beliefs .... and my beliefs were that their group is a cult ..... I told them that I would not be intimidated into silence, that I would document everything that happened and that even if they killed me the truth would be broadcast by those who came after me etc etc ...... I found that then you take a public stand against them and expose what they are doing they back off..... -- ^^THE MOST DANGEROUS LIE IS THAT WHICH MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES THE TRUTH^^ _--_|\ Jan Groenveld E-Mail: py101663@student.uq.edu.au / OZ x <-- Brisbane, Oz WWW Page: http://student.uq.edu.au/~py101663 \_.--._/ Cult Awareness & Information Centre