So now the LMT site is gone. Considering the overwhelming resources the cult has put behind making this happen, I'm surprised it too as long as it did. But guess what? - the work continues. Just like when they took over CAN, just like when the Lisa criminal case got dropped, or when they got Keith Henson convicted, and when they finally got to Bob.

The LMT site was my first contact with the dark side of Scientology. Working near the Org in Toronto, I'd seen them but never thought much about them, aside from considering them to be some sort of self-help thing, like Eckankar or est. I was actually looking up some stuff on Amway ( my parents were in for a while) when some search engine link turned up Lisa's name. I can't remember what the connection was now.

But, after reading the Lisa story and the other articles on the LMT site, I realised that informing the public about the dark side of the cult was a good thing. See, that's the thing about this fight of ours - a lot of people know that addictions like drugs and alcohol are bad, that the Hells Angels are not the cream of society, and that the Cosa Nostra is not an association of plumbing salesmen. But a lot of the general public thinks like I did, assuming they pay any attention at all - that the Co$ is some sort of harmless self-awareness group. It's not until they read the documentation on the 'net that it all sinks in.

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine started asking me questions that he had obviously remembered from the Personality Test. It turned out that he'd taken the test at the Toronto Org, and had signed up for a couple of introductory courses, and wanted me to go too. ( Ya, righhhhhhhht....) Before then he'd known nothing of Scientology other than the Cruise-Travolta-etc. celebrity connection. I carry business cards with me that list both the main Scientology websites and the main critical websites - I'll have to print new ones now, dammit- I gave him one, and asked him to look at both sides and get back to me. After doing some reading, his reaction was the same as most people I do that to - " Holy Shit! I had no idea!"

So much for his involvement, and his girlfriend, and most likely anyone else he talks to about it.

We may lose the Lisa civil trial, if there is one. We may lose prominent critics. We may lose important websites. But the critical work, the necessary work of informing the public of the dark side if the cult will continue, one or two or a few people at a time.

As long as they continue to hurt people and abuse the law, there will be people to oppose them.

Just my bigoted, hate-mongering, anti-religious, terroristic opinion, of course, but there ya go....

GS1100