The spacing is all messed up below, but here's the letter to the ICSA--and the note that's going along w/the plaque is contained therein.

Valerie Emanuel

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609 Orchid Lane
Altamonte Springs Florida 32714

407.788.8784

postalval@yahoo.com

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Mr. Michael Langone

International Cultic Studies Association

P.O. Box 2265

Bonita Springs Florida 34133-9813

Dear Mr. Langone,

Tom Cruise recently sent plaques to journalists and made donations to Scientology groups in the name of those journalists-this has been reported in various places on the Net, including contactmusic.com on March 16, 2005. Story is at http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cruise%20encourages%20press%20to%20accept%20scientology

In the same spirit, we are donating the enclosed to The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) in Tom Cruise's name, and sending him a certificate listing Cult Characteristics, which came from your group's research. Tom Cruise is the top promoter for this cult, but remains woefully uninformed about its mind control aspects. We hope he receives the plaque, or at least hears about it, and that he has a chance to reflect on how the Church of Scientology perfectly fits the list of cultic characteristics. We also hope he realizes it was intrusive and presumptuous of him to make donations in someone else's name.

We have admired your organization for working to expose the excesses and abuses of the Church of Scientology, both now and when your name was the American Family Foundation.

Here is the note we are sending with the plaque;

'Dear Mr. Cruise, We read of your recent donations to charity on behalf of others and felt you would appreciate our effort. We are happy, therefore, to send you this certificate entitled 'The Fourteen Marks of a Destructive Cult' and inform you that a donation has been made in your name to the ICSA.

1) Mind control (undue influence)-Manipulation by use of coercive persuasion or behavior modification techniques without informed consent.

2) Charismatic leadership-claiming divinity or special knowledge and demanding unquestioning obediance with power and privilege.

3) Deception-recruiting and fund raising with hidden objectives and without full disclosure of the use of mind controlling techniques; use of front groups.

4) Exclusivity: Secretiveness or vagueness by followers regarding activities and beliefs.

5) Alienation: Separation from family, friends and society, a change in values and substitution of the cult as the new family; evidence of subtle or abrupt personality changes.

6) Exploitation: Can be financial, physical, or psychological.

7) Totalitarian Worldview (we/they syndrome): Effecting dependence, promoting goals of the group over the individual and approving unethical behavior while claiming goodness.

Anonymous 7 people

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Tom Best alt.religion.scientology newsgroup poster

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Valerie Emanuel www.scientology-kills.org

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Mike Gormez www.whyaretheydead.net

Tilman Hausherr www.xenu.de

Andreas Heldal-Lund www.xenu.net

Arnaldo Lerma www.lermanet.com

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Tom Padgett www.xenutv.com

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David Rice alt.religion.scientology newsgroup poster

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Pro. David S. Touretzky Free Speech Activist

Thank you,

Valerie Emanuel
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L. Ron Hubbard's reaction upon hearing of his son's death was, "That stupid f**king kid! That stupid f**king kid! Look what he's done to me!" (Source: "Bare Faced Messiah" by Russell Miller, Chapter 20, P. 344 http://www.scientology-kills.org

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