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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: THE IMPLICATIONS OF CAPRI
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tskirvin@arh0280.urh.uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin)

>        After some random computer crashes (thankfully non-Scieno
>related, I promise), I got back to a.r.s last week, and have been just
>lurking here for a while -- and maybe it's time to rejoin the fray,
>rested and ready.

    Nice to see ya.

>        But that's not why I'm posting.
>
>        The Capricorn documents are...well, interesting.  Very
>interesting.  The concept behind them is completely correct: we *have*
>been underestimating the clams, have been since the beginning.  The mere
>fact that we take Woody to be their official representative shows that
>we're doing something wrong.

    The naivete of ars is it's main strength.  When the newsgroup
    collectively says, "Yea, well, we'd like to believe what your
    saying about your religion, but ..."

>        The Scientologists *are* reasonably strong, it's true.  They've
>survived a few decades now, gotten themselves a lot of stuff that they
>shouldn't have, and it's not just because they know how to exploit
>people.  The reason they've survived is that they're organized, and they
>consider themselves to be in a constant state of war to survive.

    This is dead-on accurate.  When I was in, I *knew* we would
    one day take the planet earth.  Not because we had a better
    way to run things (I then believed we did) but because we (at
    least in the C-org) *were* so totally organized and so
    completely dedicated.

    You wogs have no idea what "hardcore" means until you meet
    the billion year contracted, C-org staff at the center of the
    scienoscam.

>It's
>much the same reason that the extreme elements of the Christian
>Coalition are able to censor books that they don't like; they've got
>goals, they're organized enough to get them, and they don't hesitate to
>try.

    Fanaticism only comes in one flavor. It just has different
    toppings.

>        Can we afford to think of this organization -- an organization
>that's managed to survive for four decades while based on the nuclear
>destruction of Hawaii seventy-five million years ago by a nasty named
>Xenu -- as stupid?

    Stupid and dangerous, with more than a dash of animal 
    cunning.

>        I don't agree with everything that Capricorn said, no.  It
>*does* read like an espionage novel, much as Scientology itself is a
>huge sci-fi epic; it's silly, tinged with paranoia, and in parts
>completely unbelievable.  But the concept is good.
            
    These people are totally into that genre's mindset.

>        Now, the question is this: what *is* the Church, if we wish to
>call it that, trying to accomplish by taking on the 'net?
                                                       
    Dissemination.  Opinion Leaders [sic].  Markets.  Bodies in 
    the shop.  GI.

>        I sure as hell don't know.  I do see escalation; I see the
>return of Chris Miller, Andy Milne, Woody, and even ol' Vera herself;
>what that means, I don't know either.  But...
                  
    Don't touch that dial!

>        Well, something's happening, that's what it looks like.  It may
>not be Capricorn, but something big is going down, and we can't afford
>to look on it as nothing.
                          
    No one will be able to look on it and think "it's nothing" 
    when it happens.  Remember Waco and Jonestown?

>        They're organized, folks.
                                                  
    With a serious defensive perimeter.

>        Don't underestimate them.
                                    
    Or minimize their danger to society.

>                                - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu)
                                   
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