Note by Fredric Rice: Shortly after this announcement, the NOTS in
question were pronounced to be public court records by the government of
Sweden and as such have been made available to anyone who desires a copy.
The Crime Syndicate can no longer pretend that their "secret
scriptures" which advocate criminal activities are private and
undistributed.
Note the Crime Syndicate's rhetoric about "copyright terrorists."
In fact I can well imagine why the Crime Syndicate is terrorfied that their
criminal frauds have been exposed to literally hundreds of millions of
people around the world. Now that the truth may be told, the Crime Syndicat's
days are numbered.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
I don't think this has appeared here. Here's the Silicon Valley Metro
(a free weekly) May 21 piece on Scientology's "crushing" of Keith
Henson:
From
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.21.98/public-eye-9820.html
Public Eye
[Photo] All For NOT: High-tech heretic Keith Henson lost his battle
with Scientology, but the court accidentally published "trade
secrets" now posted all over the Internet.
Tied Up in NOTs
The Church of Scientology scored a major legal victory last week in San
Jose's federal district court when a jury ordered Palo Alto computer
consultant Keith Henson to pay $75,000 to the Scientology-aligned Religious
Technology Center.
The fine was punishment for Henson's posting to the Internet of internal
Scientology document NOTs 34, which Henson claimed was essentially a
manual for illegally practicing medicine without a license, using
E-meters, auditing and other Scientology-oriented techniques. "The
jury held that copyright laws are sacrosanct, even when they're being used
to conceal criminal conduct," said Los Angeles attorney Graham Berry,
who represented Henson and has often crossed swords with Scientology.
"That's a disturbing decision, and one that lawyers for the mafia
might want to take note of." . . .
While unrepentant for his actions, Henson himself was predictably
disappointed, though his marginal financial situation makes any significant
recovery of damages unlikely. Still, that didn't stop Scientology
representatives from expressing their elation with the verdict. "This
award is a great victory for all copyright owners," said RTC president
Warren McShane. "The copyright law has once again been upheld in the
face of an assault by an outright copyright terrorist who thought he was
above the law." . . .
But RTC and Scientology's jubilation at their victory was likely short-lived.
For immediately after the verdict was announced, the court released the
complete transcript of the trial. In a major oversight by the court, the
transcript included a sealed portion of the trial in which the document,
its contents and alleged criminal components were discussed in great detail.
The court immediately recalled the transcript, but too late: the very
information that RTC had fought was immediately posted to multiple Web
sites. "And once something's on the Net, there's no way to recall it
or get it back," chuckles Henson, who views the publicity the trial
received as some solace for his defeat. "That's worth an imaginary
$75,000 to me."
Further facts
about this criminal empire may be found at
Operation Clambake and FACTNet.
Subject: Henson in Silicon Valley Metro, May 21
From: hud@netcom.com (Hud Nordin)
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:23:04 GMT
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