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From: Mike_Reuss@HP-Loveland-om10.om.hp.com (Michael Reuss)
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Subject: Rocky Mountain News 9/5
Date: 6 Sep 1995 17:52:04 GMT
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I found no articles about the FACTNet case in the Rocky Mountain News
(Denver CO USA) over the weekend, but the following letter to the editor
appeared on Tuesday, 9/5.
BTW, I get the early edition of the RMN, has anyone found articles that I've
missed in other later editions? If so, please e-mail me a reply.
(Typos mine, used without permission)
--
Michael Reuss
Honorary Kid
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Editor's headline:
"It's incredible that any court would authorize the Scientology raid"
Other than having a healthy suspicion of organized religions, I have no
particular opinion on Scientology or its critics. The particulars of the dispute
between the Scientologists and Larry Wollersheim are irrelevant, but I find it
utterly incredible that in the United States of America any court could
authorize one group of private citizens to raid another citizen's home and seize
any property they want. This violates due process, First Amendment free speech
rights, and the spirit of freedom that seems to be slipping rapidly away from us
in this country.
I know victims of theft who were unable to recover their posessions being held
by the police until the trial of the suspected thief had been completed. Yet in
this case, the Scientologists were allowed to take not only materials they claim
are copywrited[sic] but anything else they wanted. This is outrageous!
The judge who authorized this, the raiders, their attorneys and any agency that
participated in the raid should face criminal charges. Any religion that
regards its "scriptures" as trade secrets is highly suspicious on its face, and
any organization that can engieer such a travesty of justice is a danger to
every freedom loving American. A major investigation of the Church of
Scientology should be undertaken immediately.
Ed Skibbe
Lakewood [Lakewood is a suburb of Denver CO]
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