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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: THANKS FOR BRINGING ME HE
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A New Reader asks:

>I'm a relative newbie 'round here.  Before I got to ars (about a month
>ago), I HAD thought you were some kinda disgruntled nut case out to
>attack a "church".  
 
    That's what they'd like you to think.

>(Amazing how information gets thru to the public
>without the net, isn't it).  
 
    Strange, is more the word.

>My 1st intro to newsgroups was in
>alt.support.divorce (that's what got me here), then to misc.legal,
>and from there, to ars (just to look around).  If nothing else, ars
>has shown me that, with the net, I can sort out confusing issues
>by doing my own research.  I did my reaearch, and I seem to have come
>up with a whole different impression of things now. 
 
    Ah.  The thinking-person's route.

>Thanks for taking
>the first blow, your efforts are not in vain.  
 
    We shall see.

>You have opened up the
>issue for all us net-types to see, now I'm trying to help carry it on
>to the rest of the world.
                 
    Good plan.

>I do have one question for you though (knowing you won't be biased in
>your answer or anything).  The first time I got upset enough to actually
>write a check was when arnie was raided.  
 
    Yea, it pissed me off, too.

>I phoned FACTnet (turns out
>during their raid) to try to confirm their address (they didn't answer
>the phone for some reason).  
 
    Occupado?

>I'm really running kinda broke here, but
>I sent $200 there.  
 
    Cool deal.

>Now I'm ready to really break the piggy bank, but
>I don't know how to split it -- YOU gotta win 1st, and if you need it,
>my next donation is to MoFo.  
 
    Of course I need it.  I have no insurance coverage at all.  
    No income.  No savings.  MoFo is donating their fees.  But I 
    am responsible for paying them back their costs.  This covers
    depositions, copying, phone calls, postage, etc, etc.  
    
    The July invoice was for $6501.02 and the August one was for 
    $3907.59.

>After that, I think the last set of
>"church" idiocy will turn the tide, after arnie and FACTnet get their
>day in court.  My question is, who needs my donation most??  
 
    I am not being covered by any insurance.  Any debts I incur 
    defending myself will be added to the $40K the scienos helped
    my venomous ex-wife get a judgement for.

>My
>assement is that you're on better legal grounds than arnie, 
 
    Oh, I don't know about that.  Posting a public document on a 
    public medium for the purposes of education and criticism 
    should be pretty safe, I'd think.

>and I expect you to win easily