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Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic
destinyland writes "An online critic of Scientology was confronted at a routine hearing Tuesday with surprise arrest warrants and thrown into jail. Six years as a fugitive ended in February. (After picketing a Scientology complex in 2000 over the unexplained death of a woman there, he'd been arrested for 'threatening a religion' over a Usenet joke about 'Tom Cruise Missiles.') But 64-year-old Keith Henson had been out on bail, and was even scheduled to address the European Space Agency conference on Space Elevators. He's a co-founder of the Space Colony movement, and one of the original researchers at Texas Instruments. In this interview he discusses both space-based solar energy and his war with the Scientologists — just a few days before he was arrested."
when you mess with dark lord Xenu!
Hail xenu!
beware the tom cruise missle
No one expects the Scientology Inquisition!
Life needs more saving throws.
It's just a fucking wanker meta bitching.
Next time you are about to post a "Why is this news?" comment why don't you do us all a favor and hit yourself in the face with a keyboard.
The more and more I read about how they push people around, the more and more I think I should join up with the winning team. These guys seem to be acquiring the kind of power the Catholic church had before the Reformation.
The only thing stopping me is I always thought L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible writer, and I can't imagine having to read all that crap as part of my 'religion'.
What was the joke about Tom Cruise Missiles?
- Aetheral Research -
Thankfully, they're a bit more tame in Pittsburgh. I don't even think the people working the store are in a high enough level to understand my "Xenu Built My Hotrod" tshirt. Or on Halloween when I went as Tom Cruise covered in thetans (condoms). I just got some weird looks that day.
Yeah, I'm not really sure how they can get tax-exempt status, given they're running the thing as a business.
:)
Watch out, looks like theres Scientology fans with mod-points today
Lazarus Long as usually has the answer: One Man's Religion as Another Man's Belly Laugh
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
"I'm gonna kill you for that"
I feel threatened by you and I'm calling the police. The governement needs to do more to keep me safe. Maybe if it knew everybody's photograph, fingerprints and RFID chip, I would feel safer. Except for me of course, since I wouldn't hurt anybody.
Oh fsck... they were DC-8s... now I have to sue myself, bastard!
Do you mean:
"I eventually found the papers on display in the cellar-"
"that's the display department"
"-I had to go down with a torch-" [flashlight]
"the lights had probably gone"
"-so had the stairs. I eventually found them on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying 'beware of the leopard'".
Is that the one?
The difference is that it's old. Like, stepping into a pile of dogshit makes you curse, but stepping into a pile of dinosaur shit makes you famous.
Despite both being crap.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
HEY,
:)
When you summarize it like that it sounds insane.
This misrepresentation of Scientology is unconscionable! And I will not tolerate such lies being spread about it! You should be ashamed of spreading such malicious misinformation! Everybody knows that it was DC-9's that did the interstellar flying, not 747's! The two look completely different!
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
RIAA, MPAA, NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, Lawyers, Rich Scientologist perverts, corrupt, sold out congressmen/senators, AT&T, Verizon and countless more.
just reading slashdot is enough to chill one from head to toe.
Read radical news here
Actually if my member serves me good some...
I would hope your member serves you well, you don't want bad service from your member, for most guys it's their best friend.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
we believe when you die your soul gets thrown up on the roof and can't get down.
it's the space aliens that do it.
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken
I am not a crackpot.
Washington
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make
How is Tom Cruise at all "normal"?
Don't stop there. I'd say that the leaders of most mainstream religions don't believe in God So then most of the problems with religion are due to Athiests. Burn!
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
I for one welcome our new...oh, never mind....
If you must!
Ummm... have you watched Battlefield Earth? Every religion has a creation myth, but I know of no other religion that uses badly written Science Fiction as their basis.
I know a guy named Vito who will get rid of any kind of body for $500.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
I dunno it sounds like a really good blurb for a science fiction book, that hubbard guy should have tried his hand at fantasy.
Darth Xenu (Warrior Princess) has got nothin' on good ol' Archangel Foster. Fosterites don't need no stinkin' California Law to protect them - the "Spirit In Action League" is ready to come to town and bust some heads...
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
They sell special shampoo for getting rid of body thetans.
And their various legal minions and lackeys.
Have gnu, will travel.
With an IBM Model-M?
I drank what? -- Socrates
Ohh nice. Then copyright would be extended to authors death + 2100 years.
The reason Jesus never drove a VW is because his father wouldn't lend him the car because he wouldn't cut his hair...
Go for the Discordians. They're more fun at parties, and you get to eat hot dogs.