"Things are going very bad for Scientology around the world particularly
in the US. The  faint smell of real panic of a ship going down is
showing up more and more both in critical US litigation and in their new
media relations.

Income is down. New people are leaving faster as they find out what's
going on and as they hear more about Scientology's real nature and
history. Recruiting and promotion is getting tougher every day. Every
effort they make is almost immediately countered.

The future looks like it is only going to get a lot worse and stay that
way, but this is exactly the time you can expect Scientology to initiate
a massive counter attack and counter PR attack. Policy absolutely
demands it!

Much like the failed strategy of the Nazis in the battle of the bulge,
over history they have traditionally used the Christmas holidays to
finalize and or launch their silly counter attacks because some "Big
Being in the Blue Barn thinks the rest of us are relaxing with our
holiday parties.

What I suspect is coming as the "new" counter attack is some type of
massive  reworking of the Conspiracy - RICO or religious persecution
type lawsuits against Scientology adversaries with the appropriate PR
fantasy machine revved up to full speed to match the wild rhetoric of
the new suits. They have already been betraying their panic by dropping
the wildest rhetoric in court I have seen in 17 years.

Don't be fooled for a minute. They really don't expect to win these new
conspiracy type suits. In fact, I believe they are most certainly
fabricating them with the clear intention of dropping them latter on
after they have served their real purpose, which is to have a really
big, dramatic, exciting story to yell to the world that will help
redirect and misdirect membership attention away from the sea of bad
reports that they are continually being exposed to.

They are VERY VERY worried about internal defections --- much more than
any outside threat, and they should be. They already know that 1998 will
be leading off with some of the worst mass publicity they have EVER had
and then its rapidly going downhill from there.

I want this on the record so those of you understand mind control in
closed authoritarian environments will not yourselves be misdirected or
redirected and can properly prepare for this very predictable and
somewhat boring large scale coming counter offensive. If you are aware
of
it you will be more likely to keep focused on the real objective of
accelerating the efforts at bringing the truth about Scientology
directly to the members, their families and Scientology's new recruits."

IMHO

Lawrence Wollersheim
Personally

Joe