NOTE: Scientology likes to claim -- often in court while under
oath -- that human rights activists and free speech activists which
protest against Scientology's crimes and abuses are some how
responsible for violence against Scientologists. What the criminal
enterprise "forgets" to mention is the fact that all
acts of violence against Scientologists reported so far have been
at the hands of fellow Scientologists -- without exception.
Because Scientology wants people to think that opposition to their
homicides, financial frauds, quack medical scams, and other criminal
abuses some how constitutes violence or motivates people to engage
in violence against them, they have to lie -- often under oath --
by claiming that there's violent speech some where on the Internet
(there isn't any) and that it causes violence (there's never been
a care the criminial enterprise can reference.)
One of the more well known perjury claims that seemingly all the
Scientology lawyer crooks spout in court involves a shooting in
Oregon. Scientology has told judges that this shooting was some how
related to invisible hate speech and to human rights activists on
the Internet. The fact that the shooter was a Scientologist is
never mentioned. The fact that the opposition to Scientology's
homicides didn't even exist on the Internet at the time of the
shooting is also never mentioned.
Scientologys debilitative "processing" drives people insane
or -- if they're already marginal -- Scientology's "technology"
pushes them over the edge. Such acts of violence and mysterious
"suicides" are routine in Scientology because what these
criminals do is so debilitative. It's these acts that human rights
activists strive to put an end to and -- as history shows -- there
has yet to be a single act of violence against the criminal enterprise
or its victims by activists. That would be a contradiction in what
activistsare working to put a stop to.
It's also horrible to note that the criminal enterprise is using this
damaged woman to continue to sell the very mind-damaging processes
which resulted in the Scientologist shooting her.
ptsc <ptsc AT nym DOT alias DOT net>
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:47:00 GMT, hkhenson@cogeco.ca (Keith Henson) wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:08:43 GMT, "Sanders"
>> I live in Portland and was on lines when the
> That's really awful! How long did she live? The
Here's the original post. Godeka's rampage was in September 1996,
and this article is slightly over a year later. It said she was
four months pregnant at the time, so the child would have been
seven months old at the time of this article, or perhaps older if
born prematurely.
From: rkeller@voicenet.com (Rod Keller)
Gayle Ryan (info@sellwoodpeddler.com) wrote:
: Featured in this month's Bee is an interesting article
Helen Burke A Year Later
Shooting and Wheelchair Can't Stop Her Ministry and Motherhood
By Rita A. Leonard
Sellwood resident Helen Burke's work as a minister with the Church of
Scientology Celebrity Center is taking a personal bent these days.
Burke is paralyzed below the waist as a result of a shooting incident
Sept. 25, 1996. Gunman, Jairus C. Godeka, who had burst into the church's
downtown Portland office intent on mayhem, wounded her. Before Godeka was
finally subdued, he set fire to the building, held one person hostage and
shot three other people. Arrested at the scene, Godeka is now in prison
awaiting trial.
Four months pregnant at the time, Burke was the first and most seriously
injured by Godeka's rampage. Steve Crandell, the church's executive
director, took one of Godeka's gunshots in the stomach. "He saved
my life, though," recalls Burke. "He pulled me to safety
through a fire door."
Burke's baby, Bridget, was born safely on Feb. 14. "She's
beautiful," says Burke with a smile. "She's my Valentine
present." Bridget is her third child, joining siblings Siobhan,
12, and Tim, 10.
Originally from Australia, Burke has worked for the Church of
Scientology for 14 years. In her third year as a minister, she
now provides audiences a personal testimonial to the workings of
her church.
Burke credits her church, and family, for helping her through the
emotional healing process. She has physical therapy three times a
week in order to build her upper body strength, which is necessary
to manage her wheelchair.
"To have someone point a gun at you and know they're going to
use it is a very traumatic experience," she says. "On a
mental and emotional level, I'm no worse now than I was a year ago,
because of the Dianetics counseling procedure. It gives you the
ability to let go of all your negative emotions and focus on a
positive future."
Burke returned to her job earlier this year. She holds free workshops to
explain L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics methods used successfully to counsel
herself and her family. She plans to hold six workshops a year. Her next
one will be Oct. 19 at Portland State University. Call 221-4504 to make
reservations.
"I plan to focus on the workshops as a personal testimonial and to help
others achieve the same sense of peace that I have," Burke says.
"The incident has strengthened our resolve to continue helping others
through the Church of Scientology practices," says Burke. In September
she held a Sunday service in the Park Blocks as a part of National Religious
Freedom Week.
"Helping other people is the most important thing to me. I've seen
(Dianetics) help so many people, I want to be back there, doing it again."
Burke plans to hold the free workshops about six times a year, directing
others to the methods of self-enhancement that have made such a big
difference in her life.
Burke holds no grudge against her assailant. "I feel very sorry for him
and his mental state that he would have felt so dreadful. But I've never
hated him, even from the date of the incident."
She has no nightmares about the shooting. Rather, in all her dreams, she
is still able to walk.
"Only my body is changed. I have not," Burke says.
Scientology Critic Shoots Pregnant Women and Two Men at Church of Scientology
22 Dec 2001
> <3sanders@attbi.com> wrote:
>> shooting happened and after the baby was born
>> - although I was on my way out. I don't know
>> why reports of the baby imply that she was fine.
>> She definitely was not. The back of her head
>> where her brain was supposed to be was gone.
>> - Maggie
> newspaper follow up story was (I think) months
> after she was born.
> Did it have anything to do with her mother being shot?
Subject: Helen Burke A Year Later
Date: 1997/10/16
: about Helen Burke the Portland, Oregon woman paralyzed
: by a gunman who shot her after bursting into the Church
: in downtown Portland, Oregon about a year ago. Read
: this facinating article at
: http://www.thebee-portland.com/1197people.htm
For The Bee
[Note: The
Scientology®
organization has at best estimate approximately
45,000 to 50,000 followers world wide -- contrary to the 8 million figure
that the organization has been claiming for the past few years or so.
While that number continues to drop (thanks in part to the Internet) few
of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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