[Infowarrior] - Scientology threatens Wikileaks

[Richard Forno]

Those Scientologists......so predictable, so delerious, so....so......so
pathetically amusing!   -rf

Scientology threatens Wikileaks over secret cult bibles
>From Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_threatens_Wikileaks_over_secret_cult_b
ibles

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
Monday April 7, 2008

The Scientology cult, of which Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta
are the most familiar public followers, has threatened transparency group
Wikileaks, demanding that it remove "unpublished, copyrighted" Scientology
documents. The Scientology documents, which were released by Wikileaks last
month, are restricted from the public and low ranking cult members.

The March 27 letter, from the cult's Los Angeles lawyers, Moxon & Kobrin
also asked, in an apparent attempt to trace the source of the materials,
that Wikileaks preserve any related records, "..not limited to, logs, data
entry sheets, applications -- electronic or otherwise, registrations forms,
billings statements or invoices, computer print-outs, disks, hard drives,
etc.". However, the Wikileaks site, by design, keeps no logs of its
submissions, or even of its readers.

The cult's lawyers presented Wikileaks with a list of copyright
registrations for its secret "religious technology" made with the United
States Copyright Office and some examples of international court cases
related to previous Scientology legal attacks on publishers. These examples
reveal part of a long history of reported Scientology abuse of the legal
system and are clearly aimed at putting pressure on Wikileaks to remove the
content.

The documents, according to the legal letter, are owned by a Scientology
holding company, the Religious Technology Center (RTC), which claims
ownership of the "confidential Advanced Technology of the Scientology
religion" ‹ the secret "bibles" of the cult.

The content, consisting of typed as well as hand-written pages by the cult
founder, the late science fiction writer and con-man L. Ron Hubbard,
describes OT "levels" I-VIII as well as related "NOTs" and other aspects of
cult dogma and operations. The public is usually introduced to the cult
through its "free stess test" stalls, L. Ron Hubbard's book 1950's
pseudo-science book "Dianetics", or fronts such as Narconon, Criminon and
the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Cult members are normally
thoroughly indoctrinated before they are introduced to higher level
Scientology "bibles", such as "OT-III", which describe all human problems as
having being originated by the evil galactic overlord, Xenu, some 75 million
years ago. While parts of the material have appeared previously, if briefly
due to legal action, others parts appear to be original to the Wikileaks
release.

Wikileaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any
more than Wikileaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks,
London Banks, Russian off-shore stem cell centers, former African
Kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. Wikileaks will remain a place where people of
the world may safely expose injustice and corruption. Indeed, in response to
the attempted suppression, Wikileaks will release several thousand pages of
additional Scientology materials next week.

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this link.