Hey, guys, sorry I got you all worked up and never managed to post my opinion piece. Truth is that after talking the matter over with my editor, we decided that running the recounting of my encounter with Susan Web would be much more effective after the current moratorium runs out. But I have to share some details about the visits.

This is an excerpt from an e-mail I wrote on the subject to Mr. Rice:

Since it looks as though I won't be running an account of my encounter with Mrs. Web this week - Sue, my editor, feels that it would be much more effective to bring it out when the moratorium is drawing near, and I agree - I thought I'd fill you in on some of the more amusing minutae of her visits. ("Visits"

because we had another today.)

I wanted especially to share the lie which ended that first interview. Sue was grilling her - "grilling" is the word - as to what specifically in my front page stories on Narconon had I gotten wrong. Amazingly, Mrs. Web had to admit that she had no idea that those stories EXISTED. She had only read my opinion column, and was basing her opinions strictly upon that! Sue pretty much gave up on the interview at that point, because if all she was here for was my opinion, it pretty much didn't matter from an editorial standpoint.

But this made me curious. I asked her how she even knew about my column.

She said she had gotten it from the internet. I asked her how she found it.

Now, you have to understand that the ONLY publicity the Star News website has gotten is from a.r.s. Even our readers don't know about it yet. And since I'm designing the site myself, I know for a fact that there are no meta-tags yet, nor have I submitted to any search engines.

Mrs. Web said she found it on a search engine. That's when I knew I had her. I pointed out that what she was telling me was absolutely impossible, and she panicked but stuck to her story. That was when I pulled a Mike Wallace and said, "I'm not going to continue if you're going to keep lying. This interview is over..."

She was visibly stunned. Sue, playing along, shook her hand and said, "Thank you, bye..." and that was it. She was dismissed.

But then...

Later on that day, I got a phone call from Mrs. Web. She couldn't have been nicer, apoligizing for the "misunderstanding" and explaining that she hated for meetings to end that way. She hoped I would come to her if I had any further questions on the church. And THEN she said, "Oh, and I didn't get your column on the website after all. I drove to Carrollton and picked up a copy." I couldn't believe what I was hearing, because, a) We're only at select locations in Carrollton, and you really have to know where to look to find us, and b) SHE HAD CALLED TWICE THAT AFTERNOON TO GET DIRECTIONS FROM ME. She didn't even know what exit to take off the interstate!

Really, what's sad is how incredibly inept she is as a liar, and she never really HAD to lie about any of this stuff. If she'd have told me she found out about what I'd written from the newsgroup, or even someone who told her about the newsgroup, I would have said, "Okay" and moved on to the next question. And then to embellish the lie in order to cover up her tracks. It's unbelievable.

As an end note, I'll mention that she "stopped by" the office today to pick up copies of the current issue, in which we published the letter she'd written to us, and the back issues with my font page stories in them. ("Stopped by" means driving about 45 miles from Marietta in horrific Atlanta traffic).

You might be interested to note that after the letter, Sue inserted a message pointing out that, while Mrs. Web's letter accused me of not coming to her for "accurate" information on the church and Narconon, she did all of her work based on an opinion column and didn't even KNOW my front page articles existed.

If Mrs. Web is the best the church can do, I almost feel sorry for them.

As always, I'll keep you guys posted....

JP

From: Mike O'Connor <mike@leptonicsystems.com>
Subject: Why Lying is a Scientology Sacrament
Organization: Leptonic Systems Inc
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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:09:42 GMT

In article <20020528230017.00457.00001138@mb-cq.aol.com>, jpilkonis1@aol.com (JPilkonis1) wrote:

> As always, I'll keep you guys posted....

[p/m]

She had to lie. And there was no shame in it, no guilt. It's a sacred duty.

LYING IS A SCIENTOLOGY SACRAMENT because Scientology needs to control the world in order to save it. And make no mistake, saving the world is the goal, it's a noble goal, a just goal. Control is necessary to overcome the effects of the ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS we have all been subject to. We don't know how powerful we are, how great we are. "Man is basically good" but we have been kidnapped, brainwashed, made to forget that we are incorporeal, immortal beings with power over MEST - matter, energy, space and time. His name was Xenu. He used renegades. He kidnapped us from our home planets, froze us, boxed us up, shipped us to Earth the prision planet in space planes that looked very much like DC-8s, chained us to volcanos, zapped us with electricity, rocked us with H-bomb explosions, and gave us the ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS by force-showing us ultra-realistic 3D movies for weeks on end.

The ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS are booby trapped. If we try to unravel them, they unravel us, make us sick, even die. Only dead cult founder L. Ron Hubbard found the proper way to proceed in undoing the catastrophic damage, and Scientology has been tasked with selling it to us at reasonable rates cash money.

To save this planet, to clear it of ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS, we must receive Scientology processing, but the ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS make us resist the very idea. And if the true story is laid on us all at once as I have just done, we simply don't believe it. We think it's bunk. That's the evil of the ALIEN MIND IMPLANTS talking. So we must be helped out, nudged a bit, controlled into trying Scientology out, continuing with it, understanding it. So we must be controlled, revealed the story on a gradient basis, a dollar... - a bit at a time.

We must be controlled in order to be saved. The world must be controlled in order to save it. Controlled onto the path of Scientology, the way to the truth, the bridge back to the TOTAL FREEDOM FROM MEST that we once had. And like it or not, the only way to control someone is to lie to them. Lying is the very mechanism of control. Sure, lying may hurt people, but scripture instructs never to fear to hurt another in a just cause. Suppose you saw someone about to be hit and killed by a truck, but the only way to save them was to grab them by the arm to pull them out of the way, breaking the arm in the process of saving their life.

Would you do it? Of course! Should you fear doing it? No!

Lying for the sake of Scientology is good work. Lying will save the world and all the beings on it. It should be done with religious ferver.

LYING IS A SCIENTOLOGY SACRAMENT

++++++++++++ SACRED CULT SCRIPTURE +++++++++++++

ON CONTROL AND LYING

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM.

You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. One way or another this individual is trying to control you. That is the mechanism of control. This individual is lying to you because he is trying to control you - because if they give you enough misinformation they will pull you down the tone scale so that they can control you. Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. _Not "is going to", but "is" lying to you._

Check these facts, you will find they are always true. That person who is trying to control you is lying to you. He's got to tell you lies in order to continue control, because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher and tougher to control. So, you cant control somebody without telling them a bunch of lies.

-- L. Ron Hubbard Technique 88

-- LYING IS A SCIENTOLOGY SACRAMENT ASK THEM ABOUT XENU Mike O'Connor <http://www.leptonicsystems.com/>

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