On Fri, 29 May 1998 11:29:12 -0600, Wolf <wolft
...@micron.net> wrote:
:Going back to the value of ARS... if my additions to this ng can bring
:even one critic to focus their criticism on not only what should be
:changed about CofS, but what *can* be changed, then I think it's time
:well spent. If enough criticism is brought to bear on focal points that
:Scn cannot withstand, then Scn will be forced to alter it's internal
:policies.
I suspect that the CoS will break rather than bend. Or simply run out of
money.
I'd *love* your thoughts on the following. (It's webbed at
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/demo/howto/follow-the-money.txt ).
The previous post being responded to is one from 'Jane Doe', who seems not
to be posting at present. I don't recall the post being followed up here.
From: F...@vm.tamu.edu (H Alan Montgomery)
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Subject: How Upsetting. There is No Way to Cause Co$ to Change. NOTs.
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 98 10:57:17 CST
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Jan Doe's arguments are real interesting. Basically she is saying that
pickets are a waste of time, because the Co$ canNOT negotiate. The Co$
feels that to negotiate would be the first step to the end of their
belief system.
The second segment of her argument is the REALLY interesting. The Co$
cannot be destroyed because the reorganization of the 1980's split off
too many shell corporations that can be the source of a new Co$ should
the old one be destroyed (admittedly she did not say this explicitly).
I find myself with a sense of deja vu. I remember reading as a kid
thirty years ago where they said the same thing about Communism.
"Communism has taken over seventy countries and NEVER has one country
come back to freedom." Then what happened? The Communist system ran
out of money. They just went broke. There was no negotiated
settlement, Russia and all the other Communist HAD to change because
they were on the verge of collapse. Admittedly Cuba and China and
North Korea are holding on, but they are not sending out too many
"armies of liberation" anymore.
The only way to cause the Co$ to change is cut off its cash flow. No
other tactic will work. Picketing is cutting the line of PC's queuing
up to squander their lives and money. Picketing will have a limited
effect. WISE, ABLE, Narconon, Crimonon, etc. will have to have their
cash flows decreased as well, before the Co$ changes.
At the present moment I do not see anyway to resolve our differences
with Co$. The idea has come to me that we will have to start being
more active in hunting their source of funds. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Okay. I will lay out a set of steps you might want to do that soon.
The information is out there to choke off their cash flow from illicit
or semi-illicit sources. The information is in OUR backyard. The only
real task is to figure out where we put the digging implements to
unearth them. The states have started putting all manner of corporate
records online. The FDIC has bunches of information about directors of
banks. The SEC has that data base of filings for IPO's. From what I
hear the Canadian (Vancouver) Stock Exchange filing are *REALLY*
_SPECIAL_. The hunt will begin soon.
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Subject: Re: How Upsetting. There is No Way to Cause Co$ to Change. NOTs.
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>The idea has come to me that we will have to start being
>more active in hunting their source of funds. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Yes, this is correct. Money is what it's about, and that is what will bring
them down, just as it did the Soviet Union. It disintegrated for mostly
economic reasons. Ideology had little if anything to do with it.
A few suggestions:
1. Bitch, moan and whine repeatedly at your congesspeople and the IRS about
the secret settlement--in violation of a Supreme Court decision that
auditing is NOT tax exempt. This does not compute.
2. Boycott Scientology celebrity movies and TV shows, and make it loudly
known to the producers and sponsors. This is what Germans have been doing
voluntarily out of respect for their government. Joke about and degrade
John, Tom, Priscilla and the others mercilessly.
3. Make life expensive for them. What's going on with that $190 million
default in LA? How can you mercilessly chew up their lawyers' time at a few
hundred bucks an hour? Moxon's fruitless trip to Norway recently was a real
win. Probably $20,000 or more down the tubes right there--for nothing!
Promulgate wild goose chases and snipe hunts by Cof$ shysters and PIs--just
because they're so expensive.
To paraphrase the wisdom of LRH:
MAKE THEM SPEND MONEY! MAKE THEM SPEND MORE MONEY! MAKE OTHERS MAKE THEM
SPEND MONEY!
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