>Subject: Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 25, No. 2, March/April 2001
>From: hud@panix.com (Hud Nordin)
>Date: 3/8/01 8:35 PM Central
>Scientology, Inc. had more light thrown on its unseemly behavior in
>the March/April 2001 edition of Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 25, No. 2.
>In Robert Sheaffer's Psychic Vibrations column, page 19, we see
>about 16 column inches devoted to recent devlopments:
>
>"Just because not much has been written about the ongoing war on the
>part of Scientology against its critics does not mean that they have
>suddenly reverted to civilized norms.... If anything, it means that
>such harassment has become so commonplace that it is no longer
>newsworthy."
>
>He first covers Scientology's battle in Clearwater against protesters
>and picketers, mentioning the Lisa McPherson Trust (with URL
>http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/lisa_mcpherson/the_trust), why
>it is so named, the Scientology-paid police, the videotapes of
>Scientology hooliganism, and the infamous hammer attack (with URL
>http://www.lisatrust.net/Media/barnard.htm). The last half of the
>section visits Keith Henson's story: his free speech advocacy,
>his posting of the law-breaking secret scriptures, and his subsequent
>crushing by the Scientology legal behemoth (with "bizarre rulings...by
>the judge"). The last paragraph describes Scientology's trumped up
>charges of Keith's alleged terrorism via unpossessed nuclear-tipped cruise
>missles (providing URL http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir5-25.html).
>
>"Such persecution is clearly intended not to protect Scientology's
>legitimate interests but to serve as a warning to other would-be
>activists of the fate awaiting them if they should follow Henson's
>examples."
>
>Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal
>is at http://www.csicop.org.
>--
>Hud Nordin <hud@pobox.com> Silicon Valley
Thanks for the heads up on this. I will buy a copy. I love the skeptical Inquirer.

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