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Subject: PRESS RELEASE 10-21-2005 Suppressive Person Defense League Statement re Scientology v. Armstrong
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SUPPRESSIVE PERSON DEFENSE LEAGUE STATEMENT

THE SCIENTOLOGY V. ARMSTRONG CASE

October 21 Press Release

Contact: Caroline Letkeman
spdl@suppressiveperson.org

The Suppressive Person Defense League (SPDL) is shocked by the
California Court of Appeal's grant on Wednesday of the Scientology
organization's petition to reinflict the punishment of jail sentences
and fines against Gerry Armstrong that Marin County Judge Lynn Duryee
had discharged in April 2004.
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/A107095.DOC

Armstrong is a Founding Suppressive Person and Co-Creator of
www.suppressiveperson.org which is dedicated to defending
Scientology's SP victims, and building public awareness of
Scientology's "Suppressive Person" doctrine by reasoned discussion.
Scientology, and its head David Miscavige personally, have considered
and attacked Armstrong a major SP enemy for almost 24 years.

Scientology's appeals court success in its religious war against
Armstrong begins with his punishment of twenty-eight days in jail and
$4600 in fines, but the potential exists for Scientology to keep him
jailed forever. What is Armstrong's "crime?" Nothing more than
discussing the Scientology religion. Not lying, not libeling
Scientology, but telling the truth about this religion and
organization as he believes the truth to be.

For every mention Armstrong makes of his sincere beliefs about the
Scientology religion, or even about his own religion and his own
church (the Church of Wogs (CoW)
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cow/index.html, Scientology
wants him jailed, fined and forced to pay the organization $50,000 in
"damages." Unimaginable but true, and extensively documented on his
Scientology v. Armstrong legal archive.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/index.html

Armstrong's position is that it is no more lawful for the U.S. Courts
to jail and financially crush him for discussing his beliefs about
Scientology than it would be lawful to jail and ruin a person for
discussing his beliefs about God and Jesus in the Christian religion.
The fact that U.S. Courts bend over to Scientology's desires to jail
people for discussing their Scientology beliefs, but those Courts
would never consider jailing people for discussing their Christian, or
Jewish, or Islamic beliefs, makes Scientology a favored and
constitutionally unlawful state religion.

In a number of countries, Scientology is not considered a religion at
all, but a commercial and totalitarian cult with a goal of world
domination. The SP doctrine makes Scientology a hate group. The SP
doctrine's execution against SP targets, known in Scientology as "fair
game," makes the organization a criminal conspiracy.

SPDL points to the irony of the U.S. using its International Religious
Freedom Act of 1998 to condemn those other countries for their
unfavorable appraisal of the Scientology religion, when the U.S. is
the only nation where, as this appellate ruling shows, a person can be
jailed and ruined for his religious expressions of their religious
beliefs about the Scientology religion.

Although the Court of Appeal recognized that Armstrong had a "First
Amendment right to the free exercise of his religion" and that what
Armstrong was communicating could be "expressions of his religious
beliefs," the Court made no mention of the whole religious class of
Suppressive Persons that Armstrong represents. The Court also made no
reference to the SP doctrine, which causes and justifies Scientology's
religious persecution of Armstrong, including the persecution using
the secular courts, and governs every action Scientology takes against
any SP.

SPDL is very disappointed by the unthinking, uncaring and uncourageous
way out that the California Court of Appeal has taken in the
Scientology v. Armstrong war, when the Court had the opportunity to do
something thoughtful, considerate and brave. One more injustice in
this war, of course, is simply one more thing for Armstrong to
continue to discuss, and one more motivator for SPDL to act in concert
with him and with SPs everywhere to facilitate their discussions.

SPDL's analysis shows that judges, and other officials and even media,
do not confront the SP doctrine and are silent about it because it is
so evil. Armstrong says he cannot ever be silent about the doctrine
because he has confronted it and it is so evil.

Caroline Letkeman
SPDL
#1-45950 Alexander Avenue
Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1L5
604-703-1373
spdl@suppressiveperson.org

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