Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years

destinyland writes "Friday police arrested 64-year-old Keith Henson. In 2000 after picketing a Scientology complex, he was arrested as a threat because of a joke Usenet post about "Tom Cruise Missiles." He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive. Besides being a digital encryption and free speech advocate, he's one of the original Burr-Brown/Texas Instruments researchers and a co-founder of the Space Colony movement."

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Clash of the nutjobs

[Anonymous Coward]

... Henson, his wife and their 2-year old daughter signed up with Alcor for cryonic suspension. Following the Dora Kent problems [4], Henson became increasingly active. After Alcor had to freeze their chief surgeon, he learned enough surgery to put several cryonics patients on cardiac bypass.

So basically what we're talking about here is crackpot versus crackpots.

Interfering with a religion, eh?

[Pojut]

What about all those racist bigot dicks that think anyone wearing a turban is a muslim? And what about those fuckers who think islam is a religion of hatred and violence and kill and/or wrongfully imprison hundreds?

And what about those christian psychos (no not all christians are psychos, but these folks are) that come up to my sister and tell her she will burn in hell because she is wearing a pentacle?

Re:Scientology isn't a Religion

[Moofie]

My faith has little to do with sects, and less to do with vilifying anything. But hey, what do I know? I'm just a practicing Christian.

Re:Tom Cruise Missile

[fyngyrz]

I wasn't aware that Scientology was a religion.

On what basis do you differentiate between the teachings of Scientology and the teachings of Christianity such that one would be considered a religion, and the other not? Both come from books written by people; both espouse certain sets of behaviors; both postulate the existence of beings without any particular evidence in the scientific sense; both require faith, as both lack scientific standing; now, I will concede that Christianity has done far more to screw with my life than Scientology has, but I rather think that is a consequence of Christianity having had more time to get into the system, as it were - given time, I expect the Scientologists to do the same, but that is just my opinion, of course.

Re:Scary

[corbettw]

It is stupid to be critical of someone for their race, but IMHO we should be critical of religion, especially if, as in the case you point out, they are calling for the deaths of non-believers.

Really? Then how come I get modded Troll of Flamebait whenever I bad-mouth Mohammedans?

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I'm just pointing out that a lot of the people on /. don't.

People just don't want to stand up to monsters like these. And this is regarding a religion founded by a murdering child molester, if people won't stand up against that good luck getting them riled up about a religion founded by an alcoholic, has-been sci-fi writer.

Re:Scary

[corbettw]

Re:Scary (Score:1, Troll)

See what I mean?