I didn't remember this, but it is indeed in my archives.

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:31:41 -0400, ptsc <ptsc AT nym DOT alias DOT net> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:34:26 +0100, "m i k e" <theta@no-spam.btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>> Heavens Gate has no connection with Scientology whatsoever. Their website
>> has been mirrored around the internet so you can still read all about them
>> online. http://www.artbell.com/mirror/heavensgate/ is one such site.
> I wouldn't say no connection at all. After all, on this very newsgroup,
> Heaven's Gate cultists publicly thanked the Church of Scientology for
> destroying the Cult Awareness Network, which for some reason described them as
> a "UFO cult," a description which can be accurately applied to Scientology.
>
> We never got a chance for much clarification on that, since shortly thereafter
> they all ate poison pudding to catch a UFO behind the Hale-Bopp comet.
>
> Here is their public thank you to the Scientology crime cult.
>
> I am surhe parents and relatives of the dead cultists are also glad that CAN
> was stopped from such vicious actions as describing a group of people who cut
> their testicles off and committed mass suicide as a "cult." What was with that
> bunch of bigots? Here you can see "lah" complaining that the completely
> normal, harmless, non-cultic Heaven's Gate was [gasp] being falsely accused of
> "cult activities." How could CAN have been so wrong?
>
> Everyone knows cutting off your testicles and eating poison is completely
> normal and mainstream and only a bigot would consider this "cult activity."
>
> Subject: Thanks for Actions Against CAN
> From: "lah" <lah@heavensgatetoo.com>
> Date: 1996/12/21
> Message-Id: <199612220630.AAA19074@Spacestar.Net>
> Priority: normal
> X-Mail2news-User: lah@heavensgatetoo.com
> Comments: Authenticated sender is <lah@[204.220.147.2]>
> X-Mail2news-Path: spacestar.net!t75b
> Reply-To: rep@heavensgate.com
> Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
> X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a)
>
> Here's a round of applause to the Church of Scientology for their
> courageous action against the Cult Awareness Network.
>
> From our point of view, no group was as "off" in their judgment of
> others as was CAN. No group was as out of place in their
> condemnation of the innocent as was CAN.
>
> They accused our group of "cult activities" promoting all sort of
> lies about us. When we asked to speak with them to correct some of
> their false accusations, they refused to listen. Their only desire
> was to see our financial records and ironically, we really have no
> finances to speak of at all. They exerted no effort to determine
> the facts even when those who could most accurately provide those
> facts were literally at their doorstep.
>
> We hope you will continue to advertise on behalf of freedom of
> thinking for all.
>
> History proves that nearly every conceptual milestone now considered
> "good" was at one time considered a "cult." In the early/inception
> stages of any significantly updated thinking, it seems that some
> embodiment of narrow- minded opposition takes it upon themselves to
> threaten its right to exist.
>
> So thanks again from all of us determined to continue the search for
> Truth through alternate paths. And thanks from those who support
> the right of others to do so as well.
>
>
> In Service to the Next Level,
>
> The so-called "UFO Cult"
Groeten, Boudewijn.

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