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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: A BIG WIN IN COLORADO
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clara@holsoft.demon.co.uk (Sister Clara)

gazit@lear.cs.duke.edu (Hillel)
> >Yes, I know that you lost a lot from the process, but I think that last
> >year the Co$ lost a lot too; and it is only the beginning.

Me:
>     When do we get the the part where my rights are restored and
>     my life is rebuilt?
>
>     I've been through the tortures of the damned ... tortures of
>     the damned.  And now I have to go on sufferin'?
>
>     Righty-right.
   
Little Sis:
>Dennis, it may not seem much consolation at this point in time, and I, for
>one, do not doubt that what you have been through in the last year has been
>hell, but I would like to reinforce the point that I am sure that Hillel was
>making.
           
    I was just having a bit of fun making the literary
    comparison between my own situation and poor Alex in 
    A Clockwork Orange.  
    
    Finding a way to laugh at pain is part of our religious
    practice.

>When the book called "The Decline and Fall of Scientology" is written, the
>start of those momentous events will be identified as the unconstitutional
>raid on your home and property. You didn't seek the post of ars martyr
>(though the ends I have identified are ones you share) and you have suffered
>greatly as a consequence, but the part you have played has shaken
>Scientology to its roots.