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Above this is my office in an unused bedroom of my home in Arlington Virginia
It is 1995, A saturday morning at 9:30...there was a knock at the door..

Who is there.

US Marshals we have a warrant to search the premises...

Whole story of this RAID and lawsuit was in many papers...

Newsday LINK The Net: Copyright or Free Press? < start here has links at bottom to coverage below
alt.scientology.war- Dec 1995 Wired Magazine
Scientology's war against its critics and the Truth - Washington Post Dec 1994
Scientology's Funny Photos Jan 4, 2000 Reliable Source Column, The Washington Post ( Known as The Man with no Head ]
CNN on the Lerma Raid 1995
American Jurist Magazine - 1995 Scientology's War upon its Critics
Skeptics Society 1995
Hush-Hush Money - westworld - About the 9-12 million for silence
Hunting Rabbits, Serving Spam The Net Under Seige - Westword - 1995
Church in Cyberspace Its Sacred Writ Is on the Net. Its Lawyers Are on the Case. August 19, 1995 - The Lerma Raid - Washington Post
Scientology's Expensive Wisdom now comes free - NY Times 1995 - No Epidemic has been reported
Arnie Lerma and others on Radio Shows and Fox News Oreilly and others LINK
Pasadena Weekly - Debunking Scientology 2005 -

This is from today This is from the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, about Judge Leonie Brinkema receiving the Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award.from Colby College; the article mentions her presiding over the Co$ vs. Arnie Lerma/Washington Post case. The complete article is at:

WATERVILLE Terrorist trial didn't faze judge Colby honors federal judge who presided over case of Sept. 11 attacks conspirator

This seems to be the place to post my stories, but what i have are more vignettes, looks at little snippets of my life in the cult.

To start, late one Dec Sunday afternoon, 6 months after i had started in scientology, I was getting ready to leave the org, I had just finished class. GI-the person who regged me and became my scilon guide, me asked to talk to me.

Now understand, the reason I got in was I was emotionally vulnerable, and the church love bombed me. So I was ready to accept that they really did like me.

GI and i talked, and after a while I realized she wanted me to join staff. I was flattered, as it was more evidence of how much they liked me. But I was saying no. And i kept saying no for a couple hours.

I brought up money a lot, and they kept assuring me I'd make as much as I was then. I was doing OK, but I had my doubts about that, but they kept saying "No problem."

A point to mention, it is hard for me to be rude, but GI didn't care from rude. But it trapped me, because i couldn't just walk away. At one point I went to the car to get my cigarettes, and I was having a debate with myself--
Wise Guy: Get the fuck out of here. This cannot end well.
Friendless son of a bitch: Yeah, but dude, they like me.

So, I agreed in principle. It had been 3 hours of this by then.

Then it turned out they wanted me to go tomorrow, quit my job, pick up and leave, RIGHT NOW< for your best interests...so after another 3 hours--6 straight hours of tag team hard sell..

I did it. I flew to LA.
And there were plenty of nasty surprises waiting there

OH FUCK.
WHAT HAVE I DONE