From: stacy88@gte.net (Stacy Brooks Young)
Subject: Miscavige, your tactics aren't working
Date: 08 Nov 1998
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology

I was out of town for two weeks at the end of October, and while I was gone the staff at the cat sanctuary said the scientologists never came one time to picket. This past Tuesday evening when I arrived home from the airport there were six scientologists blocking the driveway of the sanctuary, screaming obscenities at me and lunging at the van in an extremely threatening way.

How did they know the precise moment when I would be arriving home?

This afternoon at 4:30 I made a trip to the hardware store and there were several pickets on the side of the road next to the sanctuary driveway. One of the picketers ran over to the van and thrust a flier at the window. The text of the flier follows.

Why are the Seattle OSA staff being ordered to picket the sanctuary again? Why are they being given fliers that are defamatory of Bob Minton, myself, Grady Ward, Arnie Lerma, Dennis Erlich, Keith Henson, the Cult Awareness Network and FACTNet?

Perhaps it is because of the devastating decision that was just handed down against scientology in the FACTNet case, a decision which spells D-E-A-T-H for scientology's copyrights.

Or perhaps it is because Bob has refused to "cut a deal" with the district attorney's office in Massachusetts, despite massive pressure from scientology and has instead demanded a fair trial so that the truth about his so-called "violent assault" can come out -- namely that there are independent witnesses who will testify that it was in fact the scientologists who assaulted him, not the other way around. Bob has informed the district attorney that he intends to put the entire scientology "fair game policy" on trial in the criminal court of Massachusetts.

Or could it be that certain investigations into other criminal activities on the part of the scientology leadership and key attorneys and private investigators are getting too close for Miscavige's comfort? Perhaps he is hoping to frighten me by letting me know his people are right outside my door, and that somehow I will persuade Bob and others to back off. Miscavige's pattern has always been to perceive me as a weak link, I suppose because I am a woman and Miscavige is well known for his utter contempt of women. His modus operandi has been to wait until I was alone and then do everything possible to make me feel that I am in danger.

Once while Vaughn was out of town they broke into our house while I was out for the afternoon and rearranged all the furniture, just to let me know they had been there. Another time they broke into our van and placed a bouquet of lilies on the driver's seat. Last February, while Vaughn was testifying about scientology in Germany, they kidnapped our beloved dog Mac and nearly beat him to death.

I am aware of many reasons why Miscavige is feeling cornered at the moment -- more cornered than he has ever been before. Some of these reasons are broadly known, and some of the reasons are known only to Miscavige and a very few others. I also know that he is extremely frustrated that nothing he has ordered done has had the slightest deterrent effect on me, Bob, Jesse, Lawrence, or several others who have been working closely with us on a number of different fronts. So I am fully expecting him to order his thugs to increase the pressure.

But here is a message for Miscavige: The more you try to intimidate me, the more determined I will become to expose you for what you really are: You are evil, Miscavige, and I won't stop until your evil has been exposed and you have been rendered powerless to hurt another soul.

So go ahead. Send your thugs to frighten me. All you're doing is strengthen in my commitment to fight you.

Here is the text of the flier they were handing out to the population of Vashon Island. What is it about Bob Minton that makes them feel they need to attack him even on Vashon Island?

CREATING HATRED AND BIGOTRY

WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR MONEY TO SOMEONE WHO IS:

-- an accused child molester?
-- a wife beater?
-- a former pornography editor?
-- a member of an anti-Semitic group run by the most influential neo-NAZI in the world?
-- a group which had been involved in kidnapping for hire and which went
bankrupt following a multimillion dollar verdict for civil rights violations
under the anti-KKK laws?

Didn't think so -- but millionaire, Robert S. Minton, who owns a house on Vashon Island, apparently has no problem in doing so as part of a $2 million plus anti-religious hate campaign against members of the Church of Scientology.

FACTS THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW:

-- Minton gave an estimated $60,000 to Arnoldo Lerma, a Virginia man who lost a copyright infringement suit brought by the Church of Scientology's publishing arm, Bridge Publications. Lerma is known for garnering the support and complete backing of an infamous anti-Semite and neo-Nazi, Willis Carto, in his fight with the Church of Scientology.

-- Minton purchased a $260,000 house on Vashon Island for Vaughn and Stacy Young following which Minton began an affair with Stacy, unbeknownst to his wife and two young children.

-- Minton paid $25,000 to Keith Henson who was given a $75,000 fine and permanent injunction when he lost a copyright infringement case filed by Bridge Publications. Henson is a disreputable character. According to the court records in Tucson, Arizona, he was accused by his former wife of molesting his two young daughters who demanded he pay for treatment for their emotional damage.

-- Minton gave $5,000 to Dennis Erlich, who was sued for copyright infringement by Bridge Publications. Years prior, Erlich was accused by his ex-wife and daughter of child molestation. Erlich has been accused by two ex-wives of hitting them.

-- Minton gave thousands of dollars to Grady Ward. Ward settled a copyright infringement suit for $3 million, agreeing to pay $200 for the rest of his life. Ward posted obscene rantings on the Internet depicting Scientologists in his perverse fantasies, prompting a federal judge to censure his statements as some of the most disgusting he had ever seen.

-- Minton tried to bankroll the revival of the Cult Awareness Network, a bankrupt anti-religious hate group which was closed down following a multimillion dollar judgment for their participation in the brutal kidnapping of a Pentecostal man. Minton gave an estimated half a million dollars to the head of FACTNet, another anti-religious hate group in which he is a director.

-- In July 1998, Minton fired a shotgun at several Scientologists who had been protesting on public property against his actions.

-- In September, Minton violently struck a Scientologist with a stick outside the Church of Scientology in Boston and was arrested. He is currently facing felony charges for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon over this incident.

We support religious freedom and tolerance and call for an end to the lies and hate.

Free Speech & Religious Freedom Committee
of the Church of Scientology of Washington State