Years ago, I bought a Honda NX 250 based in part by an article in City Bike. It's a good thing I'm not currently seeking a cult to join!

Your article, "A Tale of Two Scientologists" was straight out of the Scientology handbook on fostering good PR. This one-sided propaganda piece was irresponsible; did you even try to find a point of view contrary to Doc Wong and Keith Code's? They are both public Scientologists, and only gave you the happy face side of this sinister organization. Let me try to balance it out for you, mm'kay?

Keith Code gave you the Totally Approved Hubbard biography as an adventurer, a scholar, and a humanitarian. This is the Scientology version with little regard for the truth.

In the book Barefaced Messiah by Russell Miller, we get a more realistic view of his life, based on extensive research of records.

While Hubbard did visit China as a youth, he was accompanied by his mommy and daddy. He dropped out of college, later purchasing a doctorate degree from Sequoia University, a mail-order diploma mill.

Naval records reveal him to be no war hero, rather, he was an incompetant malingerer who was relieved of two posts. He is the only Naval officer to ever attack Mexican territory, when the ship he commanded got lost and shelled the Coronado Islands south of San Diego.

In another total screwup, he conducted a two day battle against a magnetic seabed off the coast of Oregon. Despite the fact that that magnetic anomoly is still on nautical charts, he thought he was fighting a Japanese submarine.

Later in life, he was a bigamist, dabbled in black magic, indulged in a wide variety of drugs, and eventually spent the last years of his life hiding from the authorities. As far as being a motorcycle enthusiast, it seems Doc Wong is following in his idol's footsteps. Hubbard crashed a Harley, refused medical treatment, and spent months making his staff miserable with his bitching and whining. A Scientologist of Doc Wong's level is supposed to be At Cause over Mass, Energy, Space, and Time...the good doctor doesn't seem to be At Cause over Gravity and Asphalt. These bogus "super powers" promised by Scientology require one to invest six figures to achieve them. Either Doc Wong is a bad Scientologist, or there are just no such thing as super Scientology powers.

How about telling us about some more Scientologists, the ones that aren't shilling for the cult? Let's see, there's the President of Scientology, Heber Jentzsche, you could ask him. Oh wait, you can't.

He's wanted in Spain on fraud charges, having skipped out on a million dollars bail!

Or you could ask Lisa McPherson. No you can't, she's dead! She tried to leave, but was held for 17 days at the Scientology-owned hotel in Clearwater Florida until she died. Her body had restraint marks on it, and had been eaten by cockroaches. The coroner initially judged her death to be due to dehydration, as she'd lost 45 pounds in those 17 days. Then suddenly, she changed her diagnosis to the one Scientology favored, quit her job, and vanished. Her house is just as she left it, but she has never been heard from again.

Talk to the hundreds of people who were bankrupted by the cult, which charges huge sums for their "services." Talk to the people who's families were torn apart by Scientology because a family member didn't approve of them. Look at the abnormal number of deaths, the numbers grow as good Scientologists die of treatable disease because they're told "one more course" will cure them.

Let me show you my own powers to see into the future! I guarantee if you print this letter, you will be inundated by identical cookie-cutter letters from Scientologists, whining about "religious intolerance."

It's not about religion. If you want to believe in the evil Galactic Overlord Xenu, and that all your problems in life are caused by the spirits of dead space aliens sticking to you, fine by me. Whatever floats yer boat. If you want to pay $360,000 to reach this most secret level of Scientology teachings, that's your gig. Again, it's not about religion, it's about the abuses of the Scientology organization against its members, its critics, and the court system.

Grandpappy, I think you've been listening to Wong and Code too long.

You'd better find out a little more about this "religion" before you get in any deeper. Ask yourself this, what kind of religion hires PIs and lawyers to stalk and destroy those who speak out about their abuses?

What kind of religion maintains prison camps for recalcitrant members?

What kind of religion has a body count?

Scientology does. You can find out more than you wanted to know about the dark side of Scientology on the web.

General information: www.xenu.net L. Ron Hubbard's military service: www.ronthewarhero.org Lisa McPherson's death: www.lisatrust.net I think I'm done here. I'm going riding!

-- Barb Chaplain, ARSCC http://members.home.net/bwarr1/index.htm SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATE $CIENTOLOGY? Sign the petition at http://www4.PetitionOnline.com/cofs1/
"Every week, every month, every year, every decade and now every century, Scientology does weird and stupid things to damage its own reputation."

-Steve Zadarnowski "Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as Scientology."

-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:

terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business opportunity.

$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide." -Chris Leithiser

>Years ago, I bought a Honda NX 250 based in part by an article in City
>Bike. It's a good thing I'm not currently seeking a cult to join!
>Your article, "A Tale of Two Scientologists" was straight out of the
>Scientology handbook on fostering good PR. This one-sided propaganda
>piece was irresponsible; did you even try to find a point of view
>contrary to Doc Wong and Keith Code's? They are both public
>Scientologists, and only gave you the happy face side of this sinister
>organization. Let me try to balance it out for you, mm'kay?
I suppose they neglected to mention that Doc Wong like to go around harassing people for the crime cult.

Subject: Counterpicket Report: Redwood City CA, 18 March 1999
From: Don NOTs
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 02:29:26 +0200
Message-ID: <190319990229269540%xenu@ananzi.co.za>
Since the Co$ is too incompetent to locate my home near Cape Town, they decided to send a member of their cult to picket the home of my girlfriend, whom I'm visiting with for the next eight days.

At about half past one this afternoon, a worthy oriental gentleman by the name of Harry Wong showed up in front of her Redwood City home with a "David Johansen: Religious Bigot" sign and matching leaflets. The sign was one-sided (bad sign tech) and had a blurred picture of me taken with a telephoto lens.

I called Redwood City's Finest to find out whether it was legal to picket private residences in town. Despite the fact that it is legal, the police (no doubt noting the cult's violent past and present) sent two cruisers over to make sure all was well.

Harry Wong was well-dressed, well fed and polite: clearly a public. He told me he has been a $cientologist for over ten years and that I was a religious bigot for picketing the cult in LA. I told him the Xenu story (didn't believe me) the Lisa story (a plot against the Co$) and Hubbard's attitudes toward Asians (didn't believe me). At my request, he promised to send me my SP declare, noting that OSA 'dealt with people like you'.

Best quote from Harry Wong: 'If Scientology were a dangerous cult, you'd be afraid of me.' After an hour or so, Keith Henson showed up with his own picket sign and informed Harry he was 'mocking up his reactive mind'. Harry lasted about five minutes in Keith's presense before scurrying off to his van -escorted by Keith and myself. Keith took some great pictures of Harry, his car and licence plate. Harry may have been smilin' but he was not a happy unenturbulated camper by the time he left.

Note to the cult: Picketing the home of a lawyer whose firm is engaged in litigation with your cult is a bad idea. Ask the 'Ho - even she knows better.

Don NOTs
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