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Scientology Inc. In Fiction

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While waiting for a freight train on the Afton bridge (it's a long story), I read an excellent Fiction Suspense novel written by a New York _Times_ best selling author. If one wants to know the book's title and author, e-mail me at BOOK@HOLYSMOKE.ORG and if you do not look like O.S.A. I'll send the information back to you.

The novel is about a psychotic killer "cult" called "The Temple of Light" that is bent upon eradicating surplus humans from the planet, to "restore balance" to nature. "Cult" is in quotes because the organization merely uses the cloak of "religion" to mask its activities and to use "religion" as a weapon against criticism--- it is not actually a religion. Sounds just like Scientology, eh? I twigged to the parallel immediately, little realizing that the parallel to Scientology would, later in the book, be conclusively drawn. Whenever the author used the words "church" and "religion" he put them in quotes.

The "cult" had a privately owned ship, upon which a few "members"

mysteriously died. The main character of the novel remarked that investigators "took their (the "cult's") word for how they died,"

and no actual investigation of those deaths occurred. When the parents of one of the dead started their own investigation, they were harassed, intimidated, and (as the only solution left) murdered by the "cult" to finally shut them up. This not only ended the investigation, but also kept the other parents of dead "members" from seeking their own investigations.

Mysterious death on Scientology's blue asbestos ship APOLLO:

Susan Meister. See:

http://www.whyaretheydead.net/susan_meister/susan.htm

By the middle of the book I had noticed dozens of Scientology parallels. I thought that criminal enterprises which use thought reform and mind control most probably have many similarities, so I did not make too much of the parallels. Until, that is, I read the name of the department in charge of The Temple's crimes such as murder, kidnapping, extortion, intimidation, witness tampering, assault, intelligence gathering----

The book calls this department of the "Temple of Light" the Office of Special Affairs! No, really.

As the book progressed, so did the author's use of real-life Scientology OSA's activities. In very many places, the author obviously researched Scientology Inc. on the Internet, as real-life OSA crimes and human rights abuses were fictionalized and added to the book. The inclusions go from the main character has his trash collected by The Temple Of Light, to having the Temple kill the dog of a human rights activist. (And then suing the human rights activist for "libel" when he complained.) The main character's computer equipment, diskettes, and printouts were also stolen by OSA.

Anyone who criticized The Temple of Light's crimes was called by The Office of Special Affairs in the newspapers a "religious bigot." When some of the members of the Temple committed murder and fled to Cuba, they insisted that they fled to Cuba because the USA government was "religiously persecuting" them.

I've posted to alt.binaries.scientology three pages from the book. My OCR software is on my other computer which I do not have access to at the moment (it's in Colorado!). These three pages outline in a fictionalized form the actual (Scientology) OSA's techniques used against human rights activists in real life:

harassment; "third-partying;" nuisance phone calls; going to the activist's place of employment and slandering him; framing him for child molestation; stalking; bugging his telephone; framing (and getting charged!) for a "hate crime;" signing him up for various pornography and pedophile publications.... typical Scientology crimes and human rights abuses. There's even a criminal Private Investigator working for The Temple, running around assaulting and kidnapping the "enemies" of the Temple.

The funny thing is, if I had not studied Scientology Inc. for the past seven years, all of this would have just been "pure fiction"

to me. It is rooted deeply in fact, with the title "Temple of Light" replacing "Scientology Inc." Even without the camouflaged Scientology in it, the book is a good read.

---- Women without bras have my support.

From: HR-Defense@aol.com (Shy David)
Subject: Scientology Inc. In Fiction
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 04:50:04 GMT
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Message-ID: <3dcde5ac$1@news2.lightlink.com>

Scientology Inc. In Fiction

The book also mentioned John Travolta! And called various Temple franchises "Orgs."

---- Women without bras have my support.

From: HR-Defense@aol.com (Shy David)
Subject: Re: Scientology Inc. In Fiction
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 03:54:19 GMT
Message-ID: <3dcf2a1c@news2.lightlink.com>

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:09:18 -0600 (CST), boobootigger@webtv.net (Tigger) wrote:

> Hi Shy David,
>
> Thanks for sending me the name of the book and the author.
>
> I love mysteries. However I wonder if I have the right book. Here is a
> review that I found. It doesn't sound very much like what you have
> posted. Is this it and did the reviewer just not comment on the things
> you saw?
>
> Tigger
>
> BTW Are you/we trying to keep the title and the author secret?

It was my hope that the Scientology business would not sue the authors once it became widly known that Scientology Inc. was used extensively with which to pattern the fictional "cult." This seems to be moot now that I've broadcast the first two chapters (with permission from the publisher).

The book includes a disclaimer that "the characters and incidents are either the product of the authors' imagination or fictionalized." I suspect this is enough to protect the authors from being successfully sued by the crime syndicate, but it will not protect them from being sued just to harass and inflict punative injury upon the authors ("Fair Gamed").

In the book, not only is "Office of Special Affairs" used, but the "cult expert" in the book explains to the main characters that staff in OSA are "hatted" (page 262) to perform certain criminal or abusive tasks. Beginning around page 250 the book is so full of Scientology Inc.'s actual crimes and human rights abuses that I suspect most a.r.s. contributors could find thirty or forty without too much difficulty.

Another example: the Private Investigator who is hired and controlled by The Temple of Light's OSA used the word "squirrels"

to derisively describe the parents of one of the murdered / missing members.

Another example: The Temple of Light scam money from their "members" by selling them lecture tapes, "courses," and vitamins, and targets chiropractors.

Another example: the Temple of Light started out as a secular business, but was changed to a "religion" so it could acquire tax-exemption status. It then used "religious persecution / bigotry" claims as a club with which to beat critics.

Another example: the Temple of Light's staff work in "orgs," work around 16 hours a day seven days a week and get "paid" a few dozen dollars a week.

Indeed, I suspect one of the authors has read a.r.s. in the past, and perhaps even came here to ask questions (she's an investigative reporter in real life) as the book mentions "the 'Church' of Scientology and the Internet" on page 256.

> CCP
>
> In New York's Hudson Valley, a man and his wife are murdered. In North
> Korea, an entire village's population is eradicated, and all evidence of
> its existence is wiped out.

Yes, that's it. :-) Even without the Scientology in it, the book is a good read. It even mentions John Travolta!

---- Women without bras have my support.

From: HR-Defense@aol.com (Shy David)
Subject: Re: Scientology Inc. In Fiction
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 04:07:43 GMT
Message-ID: <3dcf2d42@news2.lightlink.com>

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:09:18 -0600 (CST), boobootigger@webtv.net (Tigger) wrote:

(Cuts)

> There's also an occasional humorous episode. It's partly through these
> incidents, such as Daly's experience with Russian hotels and his
> love/hate relationship with his car, that the reader comes to know and
> like him.

By the way, the Qatar / Aroflot segment (mentioned in the review you posted, quoted above) might have been inspired by someone I know--- Marty Leipzig. It was so close to what Marty has written in the past that I thought Marty had actually written the book in question (since the book uses a pseudonym). This includes the time Marty was flying over Russia in heavy turbulance while his co-passengers, in stark terror for their lives, prayed, chanted, genuflected, and supplicated their (multi-cultural) gods while vomiting.... while Marty (aparently the only atheist on the plane) finished his bourbon and fired up a massive cigar to celebrate his impending death. This incident Marty wrote about in 1996, but a nearly identicle version is in the Temple of Light book, published in 1999. I suppose it is merely a coincidence, but I'll write and ask Marty. Incidently, Marty has more money than Minton ever had or will ever have.

---- Women without bras have my support.

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