From http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1860&dept_id=126324&newsid=14026935&PAG=461&rfi=9

Dear Editor:

With some amusement I read a previous Letter to the Editor complaining about the paper's coverage of the notorious Scientology corporation, and within that letter, the Scientologist claims that the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was kidnapping and deprogramming people and as such, that's why it was taken over by Scientology.

Not so. Kidnapping is a criminal offense, something this Scientologist probably even knows, and had any kidnapping actually taken place, the actual kidnappers would have gone to jail. Nobody from CAN has ever even been arrested since CAN never did anything even remotely illegal.

Also CAN wasn't "deprogramming." The Scientology corporation was the single largest cult about which parents and loved ones were contacting CAN for assistance with, many parents calling and writing because of their sons or daughters disappearing into the cult completely, never to be heard from again. Scientology saw that CAN was assisting people and disseminating factual information about Scientology's abuses and practices so Scientology set out to destroy CAN.

Scientology found a minor from another cult and they used him as bait and - with his parents permission - an employee of CAN attempted to assist the parents in regaining their child's life from the cult.

When the child was picked up by the cult he was in again, the child was forced to sue CAN - and Scientology funded the effort. After the destruction of CAN, the child - who was now an adult-filed affidavits recanting and describing exactly what Scientology had done to him.

It's all on the Internet - something this Scientologist who wrote to you isn't allowed to read, of course.

And yes, because of the destruction of CAN, the name Cult Awareness Network was handed over to Scientology as an asset along with all of CAN's written records. So now when you telephone CAN to ask about trying to find your daughter who has disappeared without a trace into Scientology, you unknowingly are talking to a Scientologist working for the Scientology corporation.

Worse: All of the families that ever wrote to the real CAN and tried to get help, all of their letters to CAN are now in the possession of Scientology.

Fredric Rice,
Glendale, Calif.

<p><hr><p> From: Tilman Hausherr <tilman-usenet@snafu.de>
Subject: Re: Nothing Illegal - CAN - Fredric Rice
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:35:47 +0100
Organization: Old Europe
Message-ID: <utkt11pisp12hb60ueenm02aopmnug684r@4ax.com>

On 24 Feb 2005 10:50:22 -0800, "Praxis" <janeebeslis@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Scientology found a minor from another cult and they used him as bait
>and - with his parents permission - an employee of CAN attempted to
>assist the parents in regaining their child's life from the cult.
>
>When the child was picked up by the cult he was in again, the child was
>forced to sue CAN - and Scientology funded the effort. After the
>destruction of CAN, the child - who was now an adult-filed affidavits
>recanting and describing exactly what Scientology had done to him.

You're wrong and you tranformed this in a conspiracy story.

What happened: Shirley Landa, a part time CAN volunteer, who wasn't working for CAN at the time of the phone call but for a Community Service, referred a mother (Katherine Tonkin) to Rick Ross for the - legal - deprogramming of a minor. Then, later, the mother, on her own, hired Rick Ross for the deprogramming of an adult (Jason Scott). That adult, later, sued CAN with the help of Rick Ross. The guy later found he had been used all the time and settled with Rick Ross for some money and his counselling services.

So this is all a very long arm theory. Neither CAN, nor a CAN volunteer, ever referred Rick Ross for the deprogramming of that adult.

Tilman

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To whom it may concern:

The involuntary deprogramming being discussed was the Jason Scott case.

This case was covered quite a bit by the media.

See the following links for reports:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/deprogramming/deprogramming6.html

http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien416.html

http://www.rickross.com/reference/deprogramming/deprogramming26.html

http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien27.html

Rick Ross

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