This is a retrospective of when I first heard of Scientology up to now.

I have posted that I had written the personality test with zeratul at one time and we were both turned off by the hard sell. I felt uneasy and that there was something wrong with them when we both did the personality test.. nothing I could put a finger on, but a very strong overwhelming feeling that there was something wrong with the place.

The Time Magazine article convinced me that the CoS was nothing that I wanted to do with. Fraud, paranoia, libelling of anti-Scientologists confirmed the previous eerie feeling I had about them, and more.

When I ran into the EFF's page while researching an unrelated topic in February 2000, it showed how bad they were. They are trying to subvert the Internet. That enraged me enough to picket against them. I have been using the Net for years, mainly on IRC, helping people learn how to use mIRC, learning myself about computers and the IRC culture. I'd never stand for anyone censoring the Net. This goes against anything that I stand for, and I will not sit idly by as they do this.

The raids on Arnie Lerma, Dennis Erlich, the RM group--all of that is against the reasons why the Net was founded. People agree and disagree... but they are entitled to their right to do so!

They were spreading their tentacles to people online, trying to intimidate and scare them into silence and ignorance. Knowing the web would have more information, especially with the larger search engines, I did a look-up on Scientology in the yahoo search engine.. and ran into many, many anti-Scientologist pages. It took me six weeks to read them all.

What I read in those pages describing the RPF, reading Arnie Lerma's, Monica Pignotti's, Stacy Brooks, Margery Wakefield's ordeals and so many others that it would take a long time to name them, it was worse than even the Time Magazine article described. In fact, the Time Magazine article was mild in comparison. How many people, if this information was broadly disseminated, would stand for a so-called religion running concentration camps in a democratic society? was what I asked myself. None would stand for that, if they knew that the RPF was common knowledge for Sea Org members who are being "punished."

Both picketing and reading Steve Fishman's story horrified me. How could they twist people's mind this way? Now I know what other ex-Scientologists were telling me about the slow insidious way of their mind-warping. Steve Fishman, despite his current faults, in his book "Loneseome Squirrel", gave me a picture of how someone that is deeply in the cult can think this way. And the way they lure people in, with just a simple personality test! It truly leads to a nightmare. Truly worse than I ever thought when I first read the Time Magazine article. Much, much worse.

Picketing: bullbaiting, physically intimidating me to exacerbate my anxiety condition, revenge picketing the homes of the picketers and criminally libelling them, and even going so far as to send criminally libelous letters to employers and neighbours made me wonder what in the CoS twisted them into doing these activities. Deliberately outing people on ARS to intimidate them into silence. Steve Fishman's story confirmed what twisted these people into doing this.

When I first ran into them, I had a feeling there was a dark aura about them, but it was vague.. it was just a feeling of, "stay away from them they are dangerous."

The CoS is as it is purely the powers of darkness (which is why I have quoted from Madeleine L'Engle's "A Swiftly Tilting Planet". To me, the powers of darkness is the CoS.) Stalking critics, no regard for human life whatsoever, hiding behind a shield of charity and so-called religion. They are evil. The worst evil I have ever seen.

One day, they will fall. Evil will strike back to those who commit it in three fold. The evil deeds that they have committed in the whole time of its existence will one day fall upon them. I have that feeling, and it will happen. The powers of darkness will not stand up against the light.

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Kaeli A.
(KoX)
kaeli@klis.com "In this fateful hour, all heaven with its power, the sun with its brightness, the snow with its whiteness, the fire with all the strength it hath, the lightning with its rapid wrath, the winds with their swiftness, the sea with its deepness, the rocks with its starkness, All these I place, Between myself and the powers of darkness."

Madeline L'Engle, "A Swiftly Twilting Planet"

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