Part 2, Wed
After taping the picket dance and playing with Frank, I found I was low
on videotape. So I didn't picket gold base again on my way back to Ida's
after leaving Arel at the Ontario airport. When I got back, Kim S., one
of Graham's lawyers in Hurtado, called me about delaying the ex parte
hearing on a protective order that was set for Thursday morning. Seems
that Moxon and Kobrin had nobody in town to attend a court hearing the
next morning (not true as we will see later).
I told her that properly Moxon had to call me. I headed out again, found
they were using a green car this time (it was a white one in the
morning), chased a PI (Frank?) around a block and headed off on an errand
out to the east side of Hemet. Moxon called me on my cell phone with Kim
S. on a three way. Moxon insisted that they could not get someone to the
hearing in the morning and imposed a date of September 15 at 8:30 on the
protective order hearing, and then going straight from the hearing into
deposition. He threatened sanctions if I didn't agree to the delay.
I countered that I expected a rational court to deny letting them depose
me at all, after all, I don't know anything first hand about Hurtado and
precious little second hand. If the court ruled that way, I could save a
trip down here on the 15th. Moxon absolutely insisted that there be a
full hearing on the motion. There was a tedious discussion of what court
clerks could or could not do in terms of telling people how the process
worked (I would have been happy for the judge to rule on the papers
without a hearing, but the clerk told me to show up Thursday
morning-which meant by this time I had long missed my flight).
Eventually Moxon said he had to know within an hour and a half. I told
him I would check with people if what he was doing was legit and get back
to him or leave a message with Kim.
At that point, I told Moxon that I would be "out picketing again because
I got stuck here because of this hearing. So I will be out there
picketing them over the fact they killed your daughter in that
transformer vault." (A true statement even if it was only gross
negligence from not replacing the manhole bolts.)
Over the phone, with Kim on the line, Moxon called me a liar (and a
string of other epitaphs). To determine why he was calling me a liar I
asked:
"Hey, she's not dead? She didn't die in the transformer vault?"
Much later I got in edgewise, "Hey, how *did* she die?"
I only have my end of the conversation on tape. But it is clear Kendrick
totally lost it, while I am not stressed and made no threats.
I don't know what Moxon paid scientology to get his reactive mind
removed, but he should definitely get a refund. As Kim S. put it in her
motion the next day, "More importantly, there is a serious question
whether counsel and the deponent will come to blows." And in her
declaration supporting the motion, she stated:
"Mr. Moxon indicated he intended to question Mr. Henson, who I understand
is an engineer by training regarding Mr. Berry's competence as an
attorney. [Rosen has already tried this, trying to get me to DA
Graham--hkh] He also stated that he intended to question Mr. Henson
regarding his alleged pedophilia claiming that there are public records
"establishing" this is so. However, it appears that such allegations
arise out of Mr. Henson's divorce over 20 years ago. As a result of
these and other comments made by Mr. Moxon, as well as the lengthy;
history among Mr. Henson, Mr. Moxon and Mr. Hurtado [I think she meant
Berry-hkh] involving numerous lawsuits, I believe the deposition will go
on for days regarding matters which are irrelevant, inadmissible and
unduly embarrassing and harassing to my client. This will drive up the
cost of defense by thousands of dollars. More importantly, based on a
conference call among Mr. Moxon, myself and Mr. Henson, I am gravely
concerned about Mr. Moxon's and Mr. Henson's ability to maintain any
professional demeanor during the deposition process and indeed, given the
threatening statements during the telephone call, if the deposition
proceeds, I believe it is imperative that a referee be present to control
the deposition."
True to what I told Kendrick Moxon, I was out at gold base picketing with
the "What Happened to Stacy Moxon Meyer?" sign by about 12:25. Edwin
Richardson came out to walk with me, but this time it was *total* silence
from him.
This time I parked on the east end where (*) could see me from his new
house. Using (I think) almost all contractor help, they have been making
progress on the sea org housing on the south side of the road. If they
keep enough contractors on it, they might get it done by the target date
of December. I had never thought about it before, but Miscavige can
look down from his 40,000 square foot mansion over the sea org serf
housing where they will be packed a dozen to the room. If scientology
goes down, tours of the mansion and the surf housing might become a local
industry, much like those of the former Shaker communities.
There were very few people out and around. I noted that the trench
behind the curb on the west end has not been filled in, and the sign
which should say "no trespassing" was still blank. When I got there, the
west plaza was completely deserted, not even the cat. One change, there
is now a pallet of sacks of cement blocking the side of the road next to
where the wheelbarrow was abandoned. Something serious must be in the
works, because there were about 70 sacks on the pallet. The summer
flowers on the west end have mostly died. It will be interesting to see
if they get replaced.
I think I mentioned this already. They have done a fair job on the south
side, but the weeds on the north side right next to the road are 5 feet
tall. The weeds are amazing. There is even some native tobacco plants
coming up. These look a little like a rubber plant. However, don't ever
try to smoke it! (Ask me why if you wish.) No bird noises at all near
the ship. Two of the trees they planted over the east underpass have
died (more plant abuse).
Once Richardson put the camera on two guys who were stuffing cardboard
into a recycle truck. As I approached the plaza I could see light
traffic on it, which dried up as I came over it. They must have an
amazing traffic control set up to minimize seeing an SP.
One of funniest things was two guys who were hiding behind a van, but I
could see their *feet*! Sometimes they were pointed toward me and other
times away. It was astonishing that *adults* would act in a way more
appropriate to small children playing an incompetent game of hide and
seek. I stayed there for a long time because I got a phone call from
Arel who was back home. I think I could have stayed there all day and
these two guys would have stayed behind the van with their feet showing.
I had put in more than an hour by this time and was a day behind in doing
reports so I packed it in (after a scare from having left my keys in the
trunk of my car).
The rest of the day I wrote up the *previous* day's picket report, and
drove over to Graham's that evening. This is being written Friday--which
puts me only one day behind in my reports. (I skipped picketing entirely
today so I could catch up on the "paperwork."
Keith Henson,
Reporting from the downright weird Hemet front.