Anonymous asked this question on 5/4/2000:

I've seen some pretty hateful claims and comments by Scientologists about you. Damn, man, what did you do to piss those poor people off?

alerma gave this follow-up answer on 5/4/2000:

I am an ex member now considered an 'enemy' of scientology because my activities and statements interfere with the continued extraction of money from the currently deluded.

The Scientology program is optimized to extract money. One of the scientology program's subroutines tells the adherents to demonize their enemies.

Hubbard, the author of the mind Control program called Scientology, says that "who would attack the most ethical group on the planet?""only criminals attack us"

I had been posting court records to the net including the Criminal Indictment in Spain {inducement to Suicide, Simulation of a Felony, etc etc) http://www.lermanet.com/cos/index.html [ look for spain ] Also see Richard Leiby's article in the washington post that ran on Christmas day 1994 http://www.lermanet.com/cos/lerma.html If that were not enough, in August 1995 I posted their previously secret story of XENU and the infestations of body thetans.

They did not like that.

The Fishman document that I posted circled the world many times and is still available on the net Im told.

See http://www.lermanet.com/cos/wpost.html for another Washington Post article describing the raid on my home one saturday morning which was conducted by Warren McShane, Helena Kobrin, and other SCIENTOLOGISTS.

In mid 70's a fellow named louie pagliaro threatened to take OTIII to the media, he was a card dealer in las vegas. Soon after he was found in his apartment in a garbage bag "Chopped up in little pieces".

All I got was SUED, they spent 1.7 million suing me... then having lost their TRADE SECRET CLAIMS { A 'church with TRADE Secrets? ) they won a few minor counts for stuff that i had downloaded from the newsgroup, alt.religion.scientology, this was after running us out of money to litigate.

However, we won most of the case, their own filings claim they spent 1.7 million, yet they only tried to recover 500,000 they spent on the copyright part.. that they got a summary judgement on. So right here it could be accurately stated that we won 12/17th's of the case. That is MOST of the case, based on their own filings. They even had to pay the Washington Post's legal fees. Judge Brinkema, in response to their lengthy motions for $500,000 in litigation over the copyright part awarded them ZERO. Zilch. I had to pay some court "costs' for transcripts etc. Insurance covered those.

In fact I was not required to pay a dime nor was I found guilty of copyright infridgement FOR THE ACTUAL POSTING OF OT Levels to the NET!

Then, on Millenium Eve... I busted them for lying to journalists... that article went around the world. See http://www.lermanet.com/nohead.htm They did not like that.

Scientology LIES The poor guys posting here and villifying me are just running Hubbard's program...

I used to run it, and studied it for years, and have taken it apart at:

http://www.lermanet.com/exit/FINAL.htm and http://www.lermanet.com/e-metershort.htm I also try to motivate others to join in the effort to expose their true nature.

They don't like that.

I have also exited a number of true believers in scientology, and not only made them ex-members, but turned them into warriors against Scientology also.

They don't like that.

For all the above it is Scientology's intent toward me to "Destroy him utterly" they call this "FAIR GAME"

Having failed at litigating me to death, they have sent a number of fabricated reports to government authorities.

They have printed in leaflets that i am "a religious bigot, neo-nazi, militia, hate-mongering, dead-beat-dad, anti-semite, etc etc. All of these things are AS TRUE as their Bridge to Total Freedom.

A fantasy of fabrication.

They also have continuously attempted to interfere with my business, they have covertly spent a lot of money doing this.

Send me a check for $1000 and say that you did so in a public forum, and you will be contacted by their dirty tricksters.

But if it wasn't for folks out there who understand what it is like taking these nutballs on, who helped financially in the past and present, Scientology would have silenced me.

They don't like that either And that is what it is all about.

SILENCE


Sincerely
Arnaldo Lerma
6045 N 26th Rd
Arlington VA 22207 "I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak"

{I wrote that] The only thing that always works in scientology are its lawyers
The internet is the liberty tree of the 90's
http://www.lermanet.com - mentioned 4 January 2000 in
The Washington Post's - 'Reliable Source' column re "Scientologist with no HEAD"

screw Xenu and the space cooties, that stuff is a worthwhile as the BE Turkey, should have been sold as science fiction.

It occurred to me after postng that, that the litigation itself, the 1.7 million on me, plus whatever they spent in RTC vs FACTNET PLUS the 500,000 to the post - that the litigation itself was never about trade secrets [ which they lost ] or copyrights which they weasled out on terrified of facing a jury...

It was about creating PERCIEVED VALUE, about keeping up the show!

It was about "The show must go on"

They were trying to make these Secret levels out to be worth something.

{spit} In hindsight I think they were just a) a diversion to waste yer time b) having LOST the ability to sue for libel they use copyright and USED to use tradesecret law [ Time magazine WIN for the 1991 mag article ] as a PRETENSE to litigate.

c) Trying to keep up the myth that "THERE IS SOMETHING THERE"

yet, turns out THERE IS NOTHING THERE.... Frank Rich at NY times closed at article about the Hubbard's claims that OTIII will kill you if you are not ready for it "However no epidemic has been reported".

d) basicially litigation bait HOWEVER - the BIG thing xenu and the space cooties was good for:

Getting peoples attention onto a whacky nutball cult.

And getting your attention, I was so pleased when i found out who you were cause I do remember you from back then.

And knowing you were there, when i was there and now we are here in this idealogical trench warfare for the minds of men.

It helps make it all real and not just some weird dream.

Knowing it was what got your attention and got you to come out, makes it all worthwhile.

And for that, If I had it all to do over again, I would do it again.

Arnie Lerma
Clear #3502 I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak.

The only thing that always works in scientology are its lawyers The internet is the liberty tree of the 90's http://www.lermanet.com - mentioned 4 January 2000 in The Washington Post's - 'Reliable Source' column re "Scientologist with no HEAD"

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