Awesome... I wish I could see the print, I'm sure I will find a scan on Dr. Touretzky's site soon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11878503/

=ABBy Jeannette Walls MSNBC Updated: 2:45 a.m. ET March 21, 2006

The battle between Tom Cruise and Scientology and its foes is heating up.

Cruise and Scientology have been in the news lately because of an allegedly censored "South Park" parody of the religion - and now Scientology and the "Top Gun" star are being blamed for a woman's death.

"Thanks, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology, for your expert advice on mental health," blasts an ad in LA Weekly. The ad goes on to say that a woman was killed "by the schizophrenic son she was told to treat with vitamins instead of psychiatric care."

The ad refers readers to a Web site, which provides details on the case of Jeremy Perkins, a 28-year-old schizophrenic who stabbed his mother to death. Perkins was a staunch Scientologist and his mother was a counselor in the church - which opposes psychiatry and psychiatric drugs and "believes modern psychiatric medicine derives from an ancient alien civilization's plot to drug and enslave humanity," notes the site.

A spokesman for the Celebrity Center of the Church didn't respond to requests for comment by deadline.=BB

Ray.

Subject: MSNBC links Tom Cruise to Perkins death [PerkinsTragedy.org]
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
From: dst@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky)
Message-ID: <44203064$1@news2.lightlink.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2006 11:57:08 -0500

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11878503/

Scientology foes blast Cruise in ad

Scientologist Tom Cruise's nagative opinions about psychiatric care are well-known.

By Jeannette Walls MSNBC Updated: 2:45 a.m. ET March 21, 2006

The battle between Tom Cruise and Scientology and its foes is heating up.

Cruise and Scientology have been in the news lately because of an allegedly censored South Park parody of the religion -- and now Scientology and the Top Gun star are being blamed for a woman's death.

"Thanks, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology, for your expert advice on mental health," blasts an ad in LA Weekly. The ad goes on to say that a woman was killed "by the schizophrenic son she was told to treat with vitamins instead of psychiatric care."

The ad refers readers to a Web site, which provides details on the case of Jeremy Perkins, a 28-year-old schizophrenic who stabbed his mother to death. Perkins was a staunch Scientologist and his mother was a counselor in the church -- which opposes psychiatry and psychiatric drugs and "believes modern psychiatric medicine derives from an ancient alien civilization's plot to drug and enslave humanity," notes the site.

A spokesman for the Celebrity Center of the Church didn't respond to requests for comment by deadline.

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The web site in question is, of course, PerkinsTragedy.org. And the ad that ran in LA Weekly can be viewed here:

http://PerkinsTragedy.org/Media/elli_ad_2.jpg

No wonder Tom Cruise hates the Internet.

-- Dave Touretzky: "Bertram Fields seething on line 1." http://PerkinsTragedy.org

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