Fair Game: Karen Spaink Raid by Scientology cult, 14 Sep 2002

kspaink@xenu.org (Karin Spaink)
Spaink Raid by Scientology cult
14 Sep 2002

"Fluffygirl" <amafluffygirl@yahoo.com> kindly wrote:

> I am so very sorry that you had to go through something
> as stupid, nasty and petty as that. I think it was one
> of those "shuddering into silence" type things.

"Shudder into silence" is a CoS tactic. The interesting thing was that this was the prosecutor....

> So many people have the OT stuff - that it's just
> meaningless to get worked up over someone possessing
> the materials or allegedly possessing them.

Indeed, one is allowed to possess private copies. I showed the raid team my miriad [rivate copies of the OTs and NOTs as they have been posted to ars (for years, I have filed them - if only to prove that they have been posted on many occasions). That was fine with them. What they were looking for was evidence (or sings) of Zenon or me *distributing* them - and those they couldn't find, of course, if only for the simple fact that we do not distribute them.

> It's amazing to me- well, actually it's not
> as I have ceased being surprised- how often
> the church shoots itself in the foot.

On this occasion perhaps not only the CoS, but also the prosecutor. I'm quite sure they did not expect this raid to end up on the front page of the newspaper. I do believe that they only purported this raid in order to rid themselves of the nagging complaints filed by CoS. "Yeah yeah, we investigated once and didn't find anything. Will you stop whining now?"

> What they don't see, for one thing, is no matter
> how much they hammer people on opposing them,
> that it won't stop.

Agreed.

> In fact, it would just get worse because the more
> stunts they pull like this one the more angry and
> determined people will get.

Agreed, too :)

groet,
Karin Spaink

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