Friday, July 20, 2007

MAN PROTESTS SCIENTOLOGY, SEES JAIL TIME

I came across this story back in February of 2007, but I think it's still more than relevant in the middle of our current, ever-more-oppressive America.
Set the WayBack Machine for 1994. You're a techie working in Palo Alto (Silicon Valley Adjacent) and you stumble across these guys on Usenet (an old skool version of an online forum) slamming Scientology. You read up, you decide you agree with them and join in on the Scientology-slamming fun. You and the discussion group joke about wishing you had a Tom Cruise missile and you post docs describing the way Scientology approaches medical treatment ([http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22044493-2702,00.html|weirdly], you think).

Then, Scientology sues you for copyright infringement and you go into bankruptcy because you don't happen to have 75 grand laying around.

Frustrated, you move to SoCal and start protesting everything Scientological. Said protests get you arrested for, get this, "interfering with the rights of others to practice their religion". By now it's 2001 and you flee to Canada, seeking political asylum. Four years later, it's rejected. You're sent back to America where you are promptly arrested. Finally, in 2007, you are sent to prison.

Your only hope, now, is to get a pardon from the governor of California.

Hopefully, now is when you laugh at the irony.

A Hollywood Republican known best as "The Terminator" is going to pardon you for "interfering with the rights of others to practice their religion"??

Good thing your sentence is only six months. Good thing you're only 64 years-old and are still capable of keeping your ass muscles clenched for long periods of time.

At least, I hope that's the case.

Man, all this for protesting Scientology.

Though, it is nice to see our freedoms protected... from the oppression of middle-aged computer programmers from Palo Alto.

Read more about this story:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6322465

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/07/scientology_madness_and_malice.php

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/04/scientology-fugitive-arrested/ .




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