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» "Mental Health" Hotline a Blind Lead
   A toll-free number which appeared for several hours on Fox News in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon offered "mental health assistance." Viewers were not told that the phone number was a Church of Scientology cal
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/091501/Worldandnation/_Mental_health__hotli.shtml

» A Night of Engrams and Clears
   Journalist who was invited to a birthday bash for L. Ron Hubbard, then disinvited, decides to go anyway, and reports on the long Scientologist pep rally. [Salon.com]
   http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/03/hubbard/index.html

» Amazon to restore Scientology title
   Responding to customer criticism, Amazon.com said it will restore a book critical of Scientology to its list of available titles. [CNET News.com]
   http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-226171.html

» Articles on Scientology
   Collection of articles from The Watchman Expositor.
   http://www.watchman.org/sci/index.htm

» BU's Scientology Connection
   Earle Cooley is chairman of Boston University's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets, by raiding critics and suing journalists. [Boston Phoenix]
   http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_1.html

» Church Behavior?
   Editorial. In the Jesse Prince case, the Church of Scientology proved once again just how far it would go to investigate, smear, intimidate, and--if possible--destroy critics. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/Opinion/Church_behavior.shtml

» Church of Scientology wields the DMCA, Google removes xenu.net
   Anti-Scientology site suddenly disappeared from Google. The reason: the search engine buckled to the Church of Scientology's abuse of the DMCA to silence critics. [Kuro5hin]
   http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/21/8503/37759

» Church's Complaints Take Buses off Road
   Scientologists say side panels on the buses carried ads attacking their church, violating state law. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/120998/Church_s_complaints_t.html

» Clams Pay Wollersheim
   After a vicious 22-year legal battle, the Church of Scientology finally paid Lawrence Wollersheim $8.7 million they owed him from a lawsuit judgment. [Kuro5hin]
   http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/10/104726/587

» Cult Abuse Victim Wins [Euro]6M Payout
   The Church of Scientology has been ordered to pay 6 million euros in damages to a former member who claimed they pushed him to the brink of suicide. [The Daily Record]
   http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11860716&method=full

» Cult Awareness Network and Scientology
   On October 23, 1996 the law firm which has represented the Church of Scientology for years purchased the logo and license agreement of the Cult Awareness Network (CAN).
   http://www.csj.org/announce/annoucement_archives/can.html

» Cult church censured on drug ads
   The Advertising Standards Authority found that the Scientology poster's claim of "salvaging" drug users included prescription medication, occasional social drinking and environmental toxins as "drug use." [Guardian]
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/mar/27/religion.anglicanism

» FRG on W2K: No CoS
   Readers discuss Microsoft's decision to provide instructions to Germans on how to remove defrag from Win2K because the software developer's CEO is a Scientologist. The security risk is no joke. [Slashdot]
   http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/05/1335233.shtml

» France puts Scientology sect on trial
   The Church of Scientology has been charged with abuse of civil liberties and attempted fraud, in the first French court case against the organisation rather than its individual members. [The Guardian]
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/feb/21/jonhenley

» German Visitor Takes on Scientology
   German official Ursula Caberta reports that in her country, Scientology is viewed as "a new kind of political extremism." [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/072600/NorthPinellas/German_visitor_takes_.shtml

» German Win2K Bug: Scientology?
   Officials are investigating whether the country's restrictions on Scientology might affect Windows 2000. How? Part of the software technology is provided by a company with links to the church. [Wired]
   http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/12/33154

» Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public
   Search engine Google is posting "takedown" letters from lawyers wielding the DMCA. The move is thought to be a response to criticism of their censoring xenu.net at the behest of Scientology. [Linux Journal]
   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5997

» Google Relists Operation Clambake
   After a furor over Google's removal of xenu.net from its database, the search engine relisted it--but only the main page. The other pages named in Scientology's DMCA complaint are still banned from Google. [Slashdot]
   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250

» Google U-turn in Scientology row
   Google reinstated a link to an anti-Scientology site after coming under fire from free speech advocates. [Silicon.com]
   http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,11032212,00.htm

» High Profile Couple Never Pairs Church and State
   Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, rub shoulders with notables in the nation's capital, they involve themselves in controversial legal cases, they like Florida living. But you rarely hear them speak of their religion, Scientology. [St. Peters
   http://www.sptimes.com/Floridian/121398/High_profile_couple_n.html

» Hush-Hush Money
   An anti-Scientology activist claims that the church made him an offer he had to refuse: $12 million. [Westword]
   http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/westworld-08-1997.htm

» Leaving the Fold
   Third-generation Scientologist, disillusioned, broke away from the Church of Scientology. In turn, they declared her father a "suppressive person" and tried to paint her as an extortionist. [San Francisco Chronicle]
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/12/MN171898.DTL

» Lev L'Achim Launches Campaign to Fight Scientology
   The cult of Scientology is dangerous to the human mind, harmful to one's pocketbook, and uses deception to violate laws against forced religious conversion. [Dei'ah veDibur]
   http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives/SMIlevlchm.htm

» Lev L'Achim Wages Battle Against Scientology Cult
   Lev L'Achim's Anti-Cult Department attempts to close a school opened by the cult of Scientology in Tel Aviv. The Education Ministry officially announced that the school will never be licensed, and that parents who send their children there are violating t
   http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5760/bereshis/BRalevlachim.htm

» Nightmare on the Net
   A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. [Westword]
   http://www.westword.com/1997-03-06/news/nightmare-on-the-net/

» PSTA Aims to Avoid Ad Flap
   The transit agency is examining its policies after anti-Scientology ads were posted on county buses in December, sparking a legal debate. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/12899/NorthPinellas/PSTA_aims_to_avoid_ad.html

» Picket Fencing
   Profile of Jeff Jacobsen, a critic of Scientology. [Phoenix New Times]
   http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-01-21/news/picket-fencing/1

» Public Service Ads Banned from Buses
   The transit authority limits ads to "commercial transactions" after anti-Scientology messages draw church protest. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/22599/NorthPinellas/Public_service_ads_ba.html

» Scientologist Web site rips off urban75.com
   The self-styled addiction "experts" at Scientology front group Narconon stole graphics, navigation, stylesheets, layout, code, everything, from a popular rave web site. . . and added a rat-on-your-friends form. [The Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/22/scientologist_web_site_rips_off/

» Scientologist drug claim on poster is censured
   The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against the Church of Scientology. The ASA ruled that Scientology had not proven its claim to have rescued hundreds of thousands of drug addicts. [Daily Telegraph]
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1425742/Scientologist-drug-claim-on-poster-is-censured.html

» Scientologists Buy Red Cross Building
   The Church of Scientology has completed the latest in a series of land purchases that will help clear the way for its downtown expansion project. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/122998/NorthPinellas/Scientologists_buy_Re.html

» Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot
   The Church of Scientology alleged that an anonymous comment violated their copyright. Under the terms of the DMCA, Slashdot was forced to remove the offending post--but listed links to many anti-Scientology sites. Readers responded with more than 1500 com
   http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml

» Scientologists gag Google
   Search engine Google caved in to demands from the "Church" of Scientology that it delete URLs pointing to a site critical of the cult. [The Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/22/scientologists_gag_google/

» Scientologists in trademark disputes
   Church of Scientology International threatens to sue two sites critical of it, on grounds of alleged trademark and copyright violations. [CNET news.com]
   http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-207618.html

» Scientology Book an Open Issue
   A book removed from Amazon's site because of alleged legal troubles is now among the top 150 books sold by the online bookstore. [Wired]
   http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/05/19869

» Scientology Doctor Faces Suspension
   Judge rules that Dr. David Minkoff illegally prescribed Valium and chloral hydrate to Lisa McPherson at the behest of fellow Scientologists, and recommends a $10,000 fine and one-year license suspension. [Tampa Tribune]
   http://www.lisamcpherson.org/tt_7-25-01_minkoff.htm

» Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
   The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of anti-Scientology site xenu.net from search results and directory. [Slashdot]
   http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml

» Scientology in the Machine
   The German government is examining whether a utility developed by a Scientologist would prohibit public agencies from installing Windows 2000. [Wired]
   http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/35054

» Scientology link to drug case keeps jurors from reaching verdict
   Jurors in a misdemeanor case against Jesse Prince, a critic of the Church of Scientology, were unable to reach a verdict after some on the panel suspected the church had set him up. The vote was deadlocked at 4-2 in favor of acquittal. [Associated Press]
   http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/052501/D7C78G4G1.html

» Scientology's "Holocaust"
   Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor? [Salon.com]
   http://www.salon.com/feb97/news/news970225.html

» See You in Court
   Ron Hubbard was dead but the Scientologists were still out to make their mark on the world. Starting with unauthorized biographer Russell Miller. [Punch]
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/punch.htm

» Slashdot caves in to Scientology loonies
   Geek paradise Slashdot has taken the unprecedented step of removing a post which contained text allegedly copyrighted by the "Church" of Scientology, after receiving threats from Hubbard Space Command shysters citing the dreaded Digital Millennium Copyrig
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/16/slashdot_caves_in_to_scientology/

» Stalking the Net
   In the online brawl over Scientology, Internet users discover that virtual reality bites back. [Westword]
   http://www.westword.com/1995-10-04/news/stalking-the-net/

» Testimony: Church of Scientology spurred critic's arrest
   Private detectives employed by Scientology law firm Moxon and Kobrin trailed critic Jesse Prince for months before succeeding in getting him arrested. [Tampa Tribune]
   http://lisatrust.freewinds.be/print/tampa-jesse-052301.htm

» The Church of Scientology
   Tom Jarriel talks with both insiders and critics, but Scientology comes off looking very bad. Transcript. [ABC 20/20]
   http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/2020.htm

» The Man Behind Scientology
   David Miscavige, the seldom-seen leader of the church, comes forth in his first newspaper interview to talk of a more peaceful time for Scientology. [St. Petersburg Times]
   http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html

» Turning people into slaves according to the Russian constitution
   Editorial. In France, in Germany, in the United States, the Church of Scientology has been recognized as a dangerous sect. In dismissing the Justice Ministry's suit, the court has said, in effect, that slavery is perfectly legal in Russia. [Pravda]
   http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/07/20/32898.html

» Unfair Game: Scientologists Get Their Man
   Feature story concentrates on Keith Henson's misdemeanor conviction for picketing Scientology, and airs the belief that the Church of Scientology considers critics and ex-members to be "fair game" for harassment and injury. [L.A. Weekly]
   http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/unfair-game/4713/

» Virtual Book Burning
   Amazon's snap decision to ban two books in the face of legal threats seemingly contradicts the high-minded free-speech ideals the company often spouts. [Wired]
   http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/mustread.html?pg=4

» eBay E-Meter Auctions Yanked
   Although anyone can buy an e-meter, eBay has yanked auctions of e-meters after the Church of Scientology claimed that copyright protection applies to the devices under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Slashdot]
   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/1712248