Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: They did it again...b
Message-ID: <9506261434.0KGWC01@support.com>
Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150
X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35/PRIMP 1.56p
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 14:34:14 -0700
Lines: 54


"Barbara J. Snow" <barbsnow@umich.edu>

>On 24 Jun 1995, Jim Diver wrote:
> Well, COS again bugged a local shop owner to carry Dianetics crap. Again i
advised that i
> would not be back till the books were SENT back to CO$. He took my advice and
put
> them back into the box and sent em back.
>
> ANOTHER BIG WIN!

Barbara:
>--While I certainly understand your irritation at the unceasing efforts
>to sell the "religion" of Scientology, I disagree with efforts to
>squelch the dissemination of *any* information.  It seems to me that
>everyone is best served if allowed free access to ALL information.
>
>I also realize that the Scientologists do not follow this, but
>instead try to ply books and advertisings for Scientology on the
>public while doing everything they can --and by any means, not all
>honorable--to prevent any critical information from being disseminated.
>So it is very tempting to engage in a guerilla warfare in which
>you try to stop their information--after all, if they do it, they
>should be subject to it!  HOWEVER, I think we need to ask ourselves
>if we are willing to hold ourselves to standards as low as
>Scientologists are willing to tolerate for themselves.
>For me, the answer is no!
>It is bad enough that Scientology diminishes the ethical behavior
>of those who get sucked into it; let's not add to that effect by
>allowing it to lower the standards of those who oppose it.  And
>for me what is ethical and right is the free distribution of
>ALL information.
 
    The scienos put little "Would you like to know more about 
    yourself?" flyers in a display and place them in businesses 
    all over Glendale and Burbank.  I politely inform the owners 
    of such businesses that the scam is for the cult and that I 
    will not be doing business with them any longer if they 
    continue to provide for this cult recruitment.  It indicates 
    to them that having some stupid little display in their 
    establishment is an important enough issue to some of their 
    customers to cost them money.
    
    They ususally thank me for the info and toss the garbage into
    the trash.  Or I notice it gone the next time I'm in and 
    thank them.
    
            +--------------------------------------+
           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"