Ron Turmel wrote:

> I just had a very wretched experience. I accidently stumbled onto a
> website that left me pretty stunned. Right now I am vacilating betweens
> two emotions, extreme sadness and extreme anger.
>
> The website is at: http://video.rotten.com/elron/
>
> I'd heard of a young lady named Lisa McPherson, who had died in a
> scientology prison or something like that, but I never really gave it
> much thought. Then I ran across a picture of her at the above mentioned
> website. She was a pretty young lady of about twenty years of age,
> smilling and looking happy. I wanted to see more of her, so I clicked on
> the links to the right of the picture, and I could not believe what I
> saw. It was just horrible. Her autopsy pictures shook me up pretty bad.
> I feel a lot of extreme sadness about this. It's hard for me to confront
> what happened to her. It's extremely difficult to accept that some
> rotten bastards could do what they did to her.
> I don't know what else to say. I wanted to write about how I feel right
> now. Thanks for listening.
>
> -- Dude --
Sorry you stumbled into this sad example of Scientology tech. I wasn't going to look at those autopsy photos at first. When I did, it shook me, as I'd seen many pictures of her alive and bright-eyed. I'm angry at the way the cult manipulated the legal system, and still is doing so, in an attempt to squirm off the hook.

First, the Medical Examiner, Joan Woods, declared the cause of death to be dehydration. Later, she abruptly changed her diagnosis to "blood clot" and quit her job. She has since vanished.

This change pretty much destroyed any chance of a criminal conviction against the cult. Now, on the eve of the civil suit brought by McPherson's relatives, they are using a delay tactic which could postpone the case for years. See the Subpoena post here by Bob Minton.

On the Left Coast, another mysterious death of a young woman at Scientology's compound in Hemet. She was found electrocuted in a transformer vault. The cult put out several different stories about the incident until they settled on one they liked. A car accident. A fire. A girl entering the vault looking for a squirrel. A girl entering the vault to see why a squirrel had died in there a week previous. (note, "squirrel" in Scientologese is a perjorative indicating someone who alters the words of their leader, L. Ron Hubbard.)

Again, it's not likely that the cult will be forced to take any responsibility for the death. Following Stacy Moxon Meyer's death in the vault at Gold Base in Hemet, Keith Henson tried to make the public aware by picketing there. He was subsequently arrested for exercising his First Amendment rights and, after a terrible parody of justice performed in the Riverside County courts, has applied for refugee status in Canada where he is currently living.

Believe me, I do know how you're feeling right now. If you look deeper, you will find Scientology to be an overwhelming problem affecting society today.

You will either shut it out of your mind, or confront it and spread the word. In California and Florida, the cult is deeply entrenched all the way up to the very top of the legislature. Therefore, one cannot expect any help from that quarter. They hide behind the protection of religion, while working to destroy the rights that every American expects to hold.

They are allowed to prey on innocent people, while glad-handing it with politicians, community leaders, and social organizations. They infiltrate and influence on every level of a target community. They are on library boards, chambers of commerce, any avenue they can find to forward their agenda with deceit and subterfuge. This will be allowed to continue until a significant body of voters become outraged enough to influence our elected officials by speaking out en masse to the point that their voices can no longer be ignored.

-- Barb Chaplain, ARSCC http://members.home.net/bwarr1/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/bwarr_2000/ mirror site "Every week, every month, every year, every decade and now every century, Scientology does weird and stupid things to damage its own reputation." -Steve Zadarnowski "Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as Scientology." - ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

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