Path: bogie.dyn.ml.org!xs4all!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news-b.ais.net!ais.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!207.155.183.80.MISMATCH!global-news-master From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Remember Dennis? Re: It *Just* Doesn't Matter Date: 04 Oct 1998 14:28:40 PDT Organization: inFormer Ministry [a 501(c)3 non-profit, religious organization] "... in service of cult victims and their families." Lines: 151 Message-ID: <3619e51c.17998667@news.concentric.net> References: <199810010439.GAA13420@replay.com> <3613FCE0.975@daisy.freeserve.co.uk> <36144b5c.624569@news.mindspring.com> Reply-To: informer@informer.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ts021d20.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 Xref: bogie.dyn.ml.org alt.religion.scientology:122040 Faithful Reader, It's been a while since I updated you on the tale of my pitiful, personal life. ("Its not that much of a life, but at least I own it outright.") fjc@thingy.apana.org.au (Frank Copeland) kindly: >When Dennis gets his right of Free Speech back, I'm outa here. I still have to filter my postings through a chilling apparatus. I know in my heart that we should abide by Elrong's own dictums, and only criticize him using his exact words. In this one thing, I actually believe he was right. -------- Whyte snapped at Harold McElhinny in the hearing last Wednesday in San Jose, when Harold told him that my free speech was being curtailed. "My order does not limit Mr. Erlich's free speech! And I'm tired of people saying it does." Harold acquiesced, politely, as one does in front of The Man. After all, Whyte's the one with the power to send armed agents to your home to confiscate your publishing apparatus. Harold is a mere attorney. At the end of the hearing, Harold addressed His Honor again, pointing out that how an injunction reads to a federal judge is perhaps somewhat different than it reads to a defendant trying to figure out how to expose the followers a dead con-man by employing only the con-man's own words. (And really, that is my task.) Anyhow, Harold told Whyte that I was "chafing" under the extended Injunction, and that I could not criticize the cult in the way I felt was appropriate. And it's true, I can't. ---------- Not to mention the mess the scienos have made of my life for the last 30+ years. Currently I have a $70,000 judgement against me from a sliemy, vindictive ex-wife who hid and alienated my youngest daughter from me for years and years, only to crawl out from under her rock to give the scienos the declaration they used to get the Writ of Seizure that allowed them to arrest me and burglarize my home, while I stood by helplessly, watching in disbelief. My daughter is over 18 now. I made every required payment to her mother from the time Rosa slithered forth to help the scienos, til Holly was 18. So, on the basis of the $70,000 arrearage ($20,000 principle, $50K interest), which accumulated while my ex (now married to a San Diego County Sheriff) was in violation of a court order by taking the child out of the state, and depriving me of visitation, she has requested that the San Diego District Attorney suspend my drivers license. So unless I come up with 10% of the balance owed, and a payment plan to cover the monthly interest on it, which I can't do, my drivers license will be suspended on Dec. 14th. This is simply punishment for being poor. But what's new, eh? It looks like without a drivers license I won't be able to do my job for the City of Los Angeles (see below), and I'll just have to take a vow of poverty, and stay home with my ministry writing ever more incisive criticisms of the cult and posting them endlessly in increasing volume to the newsgroup. Heh. ---------------- The recent hearing in San Jose was great, btw. Roger Milgrim, the obsequious scieno trade sekrit expert, was mind-numbingly boring for about an hour, using blowups of illegible, inadmissible charts to illustrate the "uncontested" facts of my guilt. Carla Oakley educated Whyte on rulings relating to fair use and the legal term "limited publication". Harold described to Whyte, in very simple terms, the history of the case, just in case the judge had forgotten: the fact that I had had my constitutional rights violated by the intrusive and illegal 7-hour raid on my home carried out by armed agents of the cult; that I had my life turned upside down for simply trying to expose a fraud; and that I had been placed under an injunction which limited my free speech. (this is where whyteman snapped at harold) After the hearing Whyte called us all into chambers and tried to convince the scienos that if the trial (there might be two jury trials) go(es) forward the scienos were in serious jeopardy, and that they best work out a way to settle with me. He talked about a long, unpleasant trial, which would no doubt lead to appeal. And an outcome which no one might like. What he was telling the scienos is that they had considerable downside if they chose to pursue their barratry. They could lose their copyrights on a number of money-making levels. Whyte already said that OT3 was probably in the public domain. The whole transfer document issue will be questioned. We demand to have our document expert review the notary log and the transfer. Their copyrights are shaky, just like I believed in the beginning. These scum may not even own the works they are bludgeoning me with. So anyhow, Whyte, in chambers tells us he is ordering settlement and that we best go along with it. It will be in front of judge Fogel, in San Jose on October 14th. I'm game. Of course, I have nothing to give them. I won't willingly give up any rights to them ~ever~ again. I won't be gagged or silenced. I will not go away or be moved from standing directly in their attempted path toward world domination. They call it a cleared planet. ------------------- Btw, I walked with Keith Henson and Brent Stone in front of the San Jose org for a few minutes, after my hearing last Wednesday. When I got home to Glendale, I found out that my neighbors had been leafletted with defamatory material about me, lying and saying that I had picketed their cherch. I'm sure if they suspected that I was even going to stand on the sidewalk in front of their scam, they would have gotten an ex parte Temporary Restraining Order against me to prevent it, like they have all the other times. ------------------ I am currently working on-call for the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Dept., Performing Arts Section. We produce city events and festivals. Then next project is Kids Day at Griffith Park on Oct. 17th. The scienos have tried to put a stink on me with the city by garnishing my wages and subpoena-ing any files the Mayor's Volunteer Bureau has on me, on behalf of my ex-wife. But hey. Sliemy acts, designed to punish those who dare to criticize them, are the basis of their so-called religious ethix. irwutiis-ubdsame Rev Dennis Erlich * * the inFormer * *