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Subject: why we love Teresa Reger, the Buffalo DSA
From: Dave Touretzky


When you go to Disneyland, you expect to meet Mickey Mouse. You'd be disappointed if you didn't get to see him.

When you go to Colonial Williamsburg, you expect to see people in period costume doing 18th century crafts, like churning butter or forging horseshoes. You'd be disappointed if you didn't see that.

And when you go to a Church of Scientology and start asking questions, you expect to be creeped out and even threatened.

This is why we love Teresa Reger: she doesn't disappoint.

Teresa is the President of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo. "President" is a PR position; the real power is in the hands of the ED, or Executive Director, Jeff Carlson.

But Teresa also holds another hat: she's the DSA, or Director of Special Affairs. That means she's the local liaison to OSA, the Office of Special Affairs: Scientology's intelligence and dirty tricks squad located in Los Angeles. Teresa is responsible for thuggery.

When reporter Mark Sommer started asking hard questions of the Buffalo Org, Teresa Reger responded like a true Scientologist:

What about the church's practice of hiring investigators to look at critics?

"Why not?" Reger said. "You're going to attack us, we're going to attack you."

And then, even better:

"People that are critical (of Scientology) have something to hide," Reger said. "There is going to be some kind of crime, rape, child pornography. There has to be something.

"What do you have?" she asked a reporter [Mark Sommer].

Teresa Reger has all the PR skills of a skunk with its tail up. And that was before Sommer called her a liar in his article:

Reger at first denied to The Buffalo News that Perkins had ever been a Scientologist or taken Scientology classes. Later, she admitted he had been a member.

Yes, this is why we love Teresa Reger. Go visit her at the Buffalo Org and experience firsthand the ugliness that is Scientology. You will not be disappointed. But you might be fair gamed.

-- Dave Touretzky:  "I'm going to ask for her autograph."
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