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[START FORWARDED E-MAIL] From: [Name removed]
To: ahl@xenu.net
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000
Subject: $cientology in my town!
I live in San Jacinto, CA, about a two minute drive from the Golden Era Studios ($cientologys' sound stage and movie studio). I have dealt with many $cientologists, and found them to be a fairly friendly bunch, as individuals. However, as an organization, they are incredibly frightening.

I have seen things in this area which concern me greatly.

I used to drive past the studio very late at night, before they built their tunnel under the road. (the compound straddles what is currently State Highway 79). They used to march people across the road like cattle, people who were dazed, glassy-eyed, and seemed not to know where they were. I had a breakdown near their compound, and when I asked to use their phone, they took me to the guardhouse at the main gate.

I found it interesting that this small (about the size of an old Fotomat) building contained no less than 4 Remington Model 870 pump action shotguns, and 4 M-16A1 rifles. (NOT civilian- type AR-15 semi-auto, but M16A1s with full-auto selectors, I am a firearms dealer and part-time gun nut, I know what they look like!). Each guard also carried his own high-capacity 9mm pistol. I used to work at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, and these guys were better armed than the guards there!

I also witnessed an incident which I related to the police, but about which nothing was done. I was driving past the place late one night, when I saw a young man in one of their blue jump suits (means you've done something wrong, and are on punishment detail). He was running down the street, and I was going to pull over to see if he needed help, when I saw security approaching on their dirt-bikes (they ride Honda off-road motorcycles around the compound). Not wishing to confront guys I knew were armed, I continued on. It was then that I saw the other security officers on foot, with dogs, looking for this poor guy. The cops I told said they would check it out, but I never heard anything again about it.

I have also had the opportunity to speak with some of our local laborers about the recent construction of the new "sound stage" and the studio grounds. They told me that the walls of the building are approx. 2.5' reinforced concrete, backed by a wall of what they described as "telephone poles".

I had seen these poles during construction, and wondered why they were there. The building is made to look like a castle, with ramparts, crenellations, and a three or four story turret.

The area out to about 100 yards is completely cleared of all vegetation, and the "sound-stage" is surrounded by a ditch, approachable by car only across a bridge that the $cientologists built. I wish you could see this place, it's amazing. They could withstand anything short of the Army there, and probably a small unit of that, as well.

Now they are campaigning to have the route for State Highway 79 moved so that it bypasses the current road, which they own. They swear that they will not close down what would then be a totally private road, but after the highway is moved, they are no longer contractually bound to keep it open, so why would they. If it were closed, no one would be able to see anything going on in there, as the backside is a large hill, and the front is blocked by a large stand of trees. So far, the locals have managed to stave off the proposed change, but how long they can hold out is anybodys' guess.

Anyway, I thought you might like to know about $cientology in my town, and what they are up to, Signed: Concerned in San Jacinto (I wont give my name, as we know what they do to people they feel are "enemies"!

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