Path: rambo.bobo.net!xs4all!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!xs4all!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news-lond.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: informer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Why I am a public critic of CoS Date: 01 Jul 1998 18:52:24 EDT Organization: inFormer Ministry Message-ID: <35a2bdc8.29964716@news.concentric.net> References: <3596DDBB.BF5ACF08@home.com> <359841C5.3386AFA7@home.com> <359976bd.3742872@news.atnet.at> <35987735.A09E24E9@home.com> <6nasqa$8is@access4.digex.net> <359a6040.1296779@news.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts021d09.lax-ca.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-No-Archive: yes Lines: 32 Xref: rambo.bobo.net alt.religion.scientology:80967 llywrch-delete.this@rdrop.com (Geoff Burling): >On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:30:53 GMT, cptnerd@access4.digex.net (Captain >Nerd) saith: >> >> Claire, John, I must say it's refreshing to see people like you >> representing your church. The quality of pro-scientologist posters >> has been poor, prior to this. More to the point, they have been >> anti-critic more than pro-scientology, and often less than rational >> or communicative. If this is a change in policy, I approve. If >> you guys are doing this on your own, be careful. You are definitely >> communicating with suppressive persons, with all the bad things that >> implies. >> >Actually, from time to time a practicing Scieno *does* show up here, >& attempt to have a true discussion with us critics. Some -- like >Heidrun Beer aka ClearBaby -- run afoul with the CoS management & end >up leaving the organization. Others -- like Funny90210@aol.com -- post >for a while until they are abruptly told to stop. (In Funny's case, >she was a minor, & her parents believed it was not best for her to >talk with folks like us.) >There were one or two others, [...] Michael Bacon was the first from the newsgroup, I believe. Is anyone still in touch with the Slab? (as he called himself) Give him my regards, if so. Rev Dennis Erlich * * the inFormer * *