[The two articles below were written by the Dutch publicist Karin Spaink. In them, she explains the backgrounds of the present war between Dutch netizens and Co$. The list of URL's where the Fishman Affadavit can be found is appended.] ==================================================== Scientology gets caught in the Net Actually, the testimony of Scientology-member Gerry Scarff is much more horrifying. Scarf was questioned under oath in 1993, and elaborated on the behaviour of Scientology's lawyers (of the Bowles & Moxon-firm, who are of course members of the cult too). The complete declaration covers hundreds of pages that make your flesh creep. For the sake of good taste, I'll just quote the summary that the defendant's lawyer, Mr. Berry, gave to the court: "In his deposition, Mr. Scarff testified about various criminal and wrongful activities directed by or discussed in the presence of attorney's from the law offfices of Bowles & Moxon, including: death threats, Scientology's Fair Game doctrine, plans to kill Cult Awareness Network president Cynthia Kisser and attorney Ford Greene, threats against witnesses, instructions to commit suicide, misdirecting and misleading investigations and prosecutions of Scientology, the filing of frivolous lawsuits, financial scams, lies and fraud by Scientology and similar activities." This list is far from exceptional. Because of similar crimes as mentioned above, Scientolgy is involved in a big Spanish trial. In it, the cult was forced to pay 160,000,000 Peseta's (over 2,000,000 guilders) to guarantee the financial responsibilities that could be declared pertinent. The cult was established by sf-author L. Ron Hubbard. In 1950 he published 'Dianetics', a so-called psychotherapeutic manual. Hubbard managed to gather a group of people around him and changed the Dianetics-movement into 'Church of Scientology' when his organization got into legal trouble. Thanks to the religious status, the cult furthermore doesn't have to pay any taxes. It's a very hierarchically structured organization. CoS aimes at total world control and has its own intelligence agency, the 'Office of Special Affairs' - a secret service that, according to many people, could well be a source of envy for many a middle-sized country. The cult's renegades are systematically intimidated and CoS tries to eliminate them by 'dead agenting' (spreading gossip and doubt). Articles, books and television programs in which CoS is criticized, are frequently attacked by the cult. Library books are stolen, full editions of magazines bought and pages of the copies that reside in public libraries are cut out with a razorblade by members of CoS. Usually, critics are considered to be 'fair game' to the cult - i.e. the hunt is on. CoS has a habit of sueing magazines and network-stations. 'Time', 'The Washington Post', Reader's Digest' and CBS have already been 'honoured' by such attention. This month, both a British and an Australian television-program won the trial in which CoS tried to prohibit them to put the program on air. The Dutch televison company 'EO' still remembers how they had to leave the studio under police-protection a few years ago, just because they wanted to braodcast a BBC-documentary about the cult. Currently, the cult is fighting the accessibility of another testimony, which has been available to the general public for some time: 'The Fishman Affadavit'. This testimony was given by former cult-member Steven Fishman. He was arrested in 1988 and convicted for fraud; once imprisoned, he turned his back on the cult, with the help of psychiatrist Dr. Geertz. In 1991, when the two of them were interviewed by 'Time Magazine', they made highly negative statements about CoS - whereupon the cult immediately sued them. In his defense, Fishman stated that the cult was guilty of 'illegal and criminal practices' and had ordered him to commit these frauds. He delivered documents to prove that CoS had manipulated, intimidated and brainwashed him. Before his arrest, Fishman was a relatively prominent cultist. According to the discipline of the cult, each member has to follow courses to reach a higher level. These courses are very expensive, and there are quite a number of them. Before having 'cleared' yourself and having attained some position in the internal hierarchy, you can easily lose tens of thousands of dollars. Reaching OT IX will cost you an estimated $350,000. Fishman had paid his dues and studied hard, and had thus acquired a great many of these OT-levels. People who have succeeded in mastering all OT-levels, have (in Scientology-terms) 'crossed the bridge' and are thereby part of the most elevated people in the world. Fishman brought the OT-material into his trial and thereby made them officially public. His declaration could be asked for at the court's library. Upon request, the court provided people with photocopies of his statement, that has become known as the 'Fishman Affadavit'. The OT-levels Fishman provided look like a mixture of a bad sf-novel and exhausting cross-interrogations. The condensed version: millions of years ago, the planet Earth was used as a dump by Xenu, the head of the Galactic Federation. All cosmic criminals were banished to our planet. When the planet got overpopulated with this band of disorderly rogues, Xenu arranged some nuclear explosions. All criminals died, but their particles remained in the Earth's athmosphere. These 'body thetans' still exist and cause humans to be sick, miserable, psychically instable or otherwise not quite right. Scientology teaches its members how to 'clear' themselves of these 'thetans' - and that is what is described in these OT's, the 'Operating Thetans'. The prescribed procedures consist of classical techniques to render people numb. An example taken from OT II: under the supervision of a so-called 'auditor', the zealous student has to repeat contradictory concepts and drum them into his head - a certified way to drive somebody crazy: 'You should survive. You shouldn't survive. You Can Survive. You Can't Survive. He Must Survive. He Mustn't Survive. He Should Survive. He Shouldn't Survive.' Once you've made it to OT VII, you'll get assignments like these: "1. Find some plants, trees, etc., and communicate to them individually until you know they received your communication. 2. Go to a zoo or a place with many types of life and communicate with each of them until you know the communication is received and, if possible, returned." (OT7-48) Even though these OT's were already known outside Scientology, the mere fact that they were now officially available, tickled people's curiosity. Many wanted to know what these high-level courses amounted to. But at all costs, the cult wanted to prevent outsiders or its lower-level members from seeing the documents. It took their measures. Helena Kobrin, RTC's (a sort of umbrella organization for CoS) lawyer, explained me in an e-mail how this was done: "These materials are of such significance to my clients that they had people at the court checking out the files *every day* before they were sealed, so that others could not obtain access to them." The cult claimed copright to the quoted OT's, and also stated that publishing the material was an infringement upon their trade secrets and thereby damage CoS's revenues (after all, the OT's are sold at high prices). CoS demanded that court would seal the files. After years of legal battle, the Fishman Affadavit was temporarily sealed on August 15, 1995, pending a new investigation. The judge also ruled that no more new copies were to be distributed. But by then, the document was already widely available outside the court's library. After all: for only half a dollar administration fee per page, the record office had sent it to all those interested. The complete affadavit had been scanned and was available on Internet, could be read on BBS-es and had been posted almost daily in alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s), a newsgroup dedicated to discussion of the cult. Consequently, Scientology decided to wage a war against Internet; an exhausting battle ensued. Messages that reported the whereabouts of the document were cancelled by forged cancel- messages; CoS tried to remove the newsgroup a.r.s as a whole by sending a special cancel-command; providers were bombarded with letters of law-firms. An anonymous remailer (a system that removes the name and adress of the sender) that many critics used as a precaution when posting in a.r.s, was raided. A number of people who had made the document available and whose name could be discovered, were faced with law suits. For instance, the cult had the computer-system of FactNet ('Fight Against Coercive Tactics', an on-line archive about the cult) seized. Last week the judge pronounced the seizure illegitimate and he ordered CoS to return the material. But according to Hubbard, it's no big deal that CoS has lost this trial: "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway [..] will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If posible, of course, ruin him utterly." Now it's Internetting Holland's turn. On September 5 an usher, a locksmith and two American CoS-computer-experts that had been flown in, entered the XS4ALL-office and took possession of their computers. The reason: one of the provider's users had the Fishman Affadavit on his homepage. (By the way, the *real* reason probably was that a former XS4ALL-based remailer had been used to post anonymously in a.r.s) The cult demanded removal of the document by XS4ALL, but they refused. They see themseleves as a service-provider: what the users do, isn't XS4ALL's responsability. The user involved, Fonss, removed Fishman from his homepage when his provider informed him about the situation. These events caused a giant commotion in Holland. XS4ALL received a tidal wave of support messages and startled reactions. And what's more: another user, Johanw, in no time put the document on *his* homepage. After he received an e-mailed warning by CoS, he removed it and told so in several newsgroups. In protest, other users started putting the same document on their homepage at other providers and made an announcement: D'VanGeely at DDS, myself at Planet Internet, Newkid at Cistron. All did so because they were adamant that public documents should indeed be publicly accessible. Nobody contested that parts of the published texts could be copy- righted, but all were convinced that this copyright was not violated when the court document was published *as a whole*. When member of parliament Oussama Cherribi (VVD) also put the document on his homepage on September 22, the snowball started growing rapidly. His decision generated much publicity for the case. And a.r.s was baffled: a politician who dared to put Fishman on his homepage? More people followed, amongst them Marcel Moring, a laureated Dutch writer, and later that week 'TROS-online', a television network's homepage. Ever since, dozens of people have joined: the Fishman Affadavit appeared on one Dutch homepage after the other. At the start of October, there were almost sixty of them. We now await CoS's response. A number of people and providers have received e-mail from Kobrin in which she threatens with legal action. A few smaller providers - Cistron, Luna and Dataweb - have by now received letters from the law-firm Nauta Dutilh, that represents Scientology in the Netherlands. They demand that all participating homepages be removed; rumour has it that even Euronet has received such a letter. XS4ALL already received the letter some time ago. A number of people is determined to continue, and face a law suit. They are convinced that they have the right to publish his legal document, and what's more: that it is necessary to do so. Partly because Scientology's malconduct on Internet is unacceptable, with all these cancel-messages and their pursuit of critics on the Net. But there are other reasons too. How can a text that has been public for quite some time - the OT's having been public for years already - be removed from the Affadavit? What is this religion, that doesn't want to be spread and that prohibits its adepts to know what's in store for them? That regards her rites as 'trade secrets' and asks exorbitant prices for them? Participant Marcel Moring: "All major world-religions are transparant. Their source-materials can be studied by anyone and may be freely quoted. If a movement claims to be 'clerical' or 'religious', why shouldn't we have the right to demand that anyone should have the opportunity to gain insight in the texts that this movement and its convictions are based upon? That all scriptures regarding rituals, conduct etc. are accessible to anyone?" Meanwhile, the newsgroup a.r.s is watching breathlessly. If this case is taken to court, and if Scientology loses, Fishman will finally be free on the Net. For it doesn't matter in which country you can find the document. When you're on Internet, you can download it from anywhere on the globe. Karin Spaink published in 'De Groene Amsterdammer', a Dutch weekly magazine, oktober 5th, 1995 translated by Patricia Savenije Sources: - *Der Spiegel*, september 25, 1995; - L. Ron Hubbard: *The dissemination of material* (part of the Fishman Affidavit); - Court of Madrid / Previas 2663/84, December 1994; - Steven Fishman: *Statement*, april 29, 1994; - Fishman Affidavit: Central District Court of California, Case no. 91-6426 HLH (Tx), April 4, 1994; - Scarff's declaration: Central District Court of California, Case No. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx), May 3; - Helena Kobrin's e-mail to me, dated September 29, 1995; - alt.religion.scientology. A list of all participating homepages can be found at http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman/fishnet.html (The FishNet). Scarffs testimony: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mo/modemac/factnet/scarff.txt ================================================= Mail to Der Spiegel: Dear Sirs Your article on Scientology in last week's edition of Der Spiegel was received with much interest in Holland. As you may know, Scientology is currently harassing and sueing people who have placed copies of the Fishman Affidavit on their homepage. Fishman is an ex-Scientologist who, when he was sued by the so-called Church, produced the OT's as evidence that he had been brainwashed. The CoS considers these OT's both a trade secret and copyrighted material; but as they were included in a court document, publishing them *as part of* that document is quite legal. On sept. 5, CoS raided a provider in Holland, xs4all. For Dutch users of Internet, this was reason to organise a huge protest: one user after another put the afore mentioned document on his or her homepage. At present, there are almost *sixty* of such homepages. Participants include a Member of Parliament (Cherribi Oussama, Liberal Party), Marcel Moring, a laureated writer whose books have been translated into German; a Dutch Network (TROS) and myself, a writer and essayist. Probably CoS will start lawsuits against us, our providers, or both, this week or next. Some of us are quite determined to see things through, and meet them at court; we are convinced we will win. For your information, I forward you the first part of these homepages, in which the participants explain why they publish this Fishman Affidavit, plus two messages I posted to alt.religion.scientology, in which the various stages of the protest are reported. Daily updates of the URL's of the participants can be found at: - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman/fishnet.html Information by XS4ALL's general manager can be found at: - http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/cos 1. First part of Fishman homepages: Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz This is the Fishman Affidavit This is the famous Fishman Affidavit. To explain *why* is has become so famous, I'll give you some more information. The Church of Scientology (or: CoS; or: Cof$ as their opponents call it) sells its followers expensive courses which, if students study them carefully, are supposed to set them free ('clear' them). A former CoS-follower, Fishman, was brought before court because he commited several crimes in order to get the money to pay for these courses. Scientology urged him to get the money any which way he could. They also assigned him to kill somebody, and failing that, ordered him to commit suicide. When Fishman had to testify in court, he used parts of Scientology-documents to prove he had been brainwashed by the Church. These Scientology documents thereby became public material: anybody could go to the court library and read them. The Church, fearing that its sacred secrets would be revealed, had some of their people going to the library every day to lend these documents, thereby preventing other people (read: non-Scientologists) to read them. Nevertheless, the Fishman Affidavit got copied (it was also available through the clerk of the court, for a mere $36) and has been travelling on Internet ever since. The funny thing is, when you read the document, you'll just see a bunch of gibberish. Apart from the instructions of how to treat non-Scientologists - almost every means is allowed to silence them; lying is common sense; cheating is part and parcel - there's just this silly and badly written science-fiction tale about Xenu who controls all of us people; except (of course) the few Scientologist who managed to 'clear' themselves. Well, L. Ron Hubbard *was* an sf-author, but not a very good one (and jeez, I happen to *like* the genre). But the real story is that Scientology does not want their followers to know what's in store for them: they forbid everybody to read this material until they've done lots of courses, stating that it would kill those who are not yet ready for it; but more probably because people may stop believing Scientology once they've read this lousy sf stuff. Also, according to CoS, their followers may *never* what's in store for them. And of course Scientology asks their followers massive amounts of money for the privilege of reading this. To the best of my knowledge, the files here contains nothing but a court-document. Indeed it does include some material that is copyrighted by RTC; but as that was included in the court-document, they may be published as part of that document. In case somebody shows me that I included non-court materials (preferably by sending me a court-stamped copy of the original document), I will most certainly remove those parts of the material presented here. Of course I would *never* want to publish copyrighted material of RTC other than that made public by the court. I am am thoroughly aware of the importance of copyright and copyright laws, and I do respect them. Scientology does not argue with people who do not agree with them. They prefer to harass, start crazy lawsuits, have people followed by private detectives, and generally intimidate them. They do not sue in order to win; they sue in order to intimidate and harass. (See especially Exhibit B in the Fisman Affidavit: Exhibit B: On Control and Lying) Currently, they are waging a war against Internet: trying to remove newsgroups, cancelling messages, forging messages, raiding providers. Their motto is: 'Never defend, always attack' and they are bent on ruining people who criticize them. Scientology has ordered various raids on providers or computersystems from which documents exposing Scientology were available; most notably FactNet, a group of people who are putting together an on-line archive about Scientology. In Holland they raided XS4ALL (where one of the users, Fonss, had a copy of the Fishman Affidavit on his homepage) and ordered XS4ALL to remove it. XS4all refused to do so, stating that the content of people's homepage is of no concern to them and that they are not responsible for what their client put there. Fonss voluntarily (well, what would you do if you knew the Church was after you?) removed the Fishman Affidavit but provided a link on his page to another place where it could be obtained. Ever since, the Fishman Affidavit is popping up everywhere. It's a dragon: when you cut one head of, it grows seven new ones. I hereby present another copy of this dragon. For everybody who wants to know more about Scientology, please refer to: - http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/cos - Information on Scientology's raid on XS4al, which has many newspaper-articles about the case (both in Dutch and in English); - http://www.xs4all.nl/~fonss - Fonss homepage on Scientology, which includes among many other things the FactNet-kit, which is even more famous than the Fishman Affidavit. You can still download it from there; - http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html - Ron Newman, who maintains a magnificent archive on the Church of Scientology; - or http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Legal/Cases/CoS_v_the_Net/ - The Electronic Frontier Foundation, who have amassed a huge collection of legal cases of Scientology vs. the Net. 2. Message posted on alt.religion.scientology From: kspaink@xs4all.nl (Karin Spaink) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DUTCH PROTEST: a provisional report Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 01:42:57 GMT You may have heard of the protests against CoS going on in Holland. Many people have asked what is going on *exactly*. I will try to summarize. 1. Things started when CoS raided XS4ALL. Fonss - who was at the time the only Dutch user who had the document on his homepage - removed the Fishman Affidavit from his homepage (leaving the other material from the FactNet zipkit there). The indignation was quite immense. Newspapers covered the issue extensively, there were some items on television and many Dutch Usenet-newsgroups debated the issue. Most people were truly outraged. 2. Johanw, another XS4ALL-account, soon put up another copy of the document on *his* homepage and announced this. This triggered lots of response. D'VanGeely put the document on his homepage too, at DDS (a free Internet provider), and somebody put a copy on a University provider (TUE). When Johanw received e-mail by someone declaring himself to be a CoS-lawyer, he posted a message telling so. This again caused some commotion. 3. I took an account at Hollands biggest commercial provider (Planet Internet, which is half-owned by the Dutch Postal & Telephone Services) and announced a new Fishman-page. I did so because I wanted to clarify that this was not just a fight between CoS and XS4ALL, but between CoS and Internet. Planet Internet is familiar with common-carrier issues and has more lawyer-backup than XS4ALL. I am more or less a public person (I am a writer and have made several television-appearances), and I happily made use of this. 4. More reactions were triggered. Other people made use of their accounts at other providers. Astrolab put a copy on his DDS-homepage, Newkid put one on his at Cistron and turned it into a really smashing page on CoS. Nice logos, too! Do take a look. By now, Astrolab, Cistron and I have received e-mails from someone stating to be Helena Kobrin, lawyer on behalf of RTC. 5. A call for action started circulating. Many people received e-mails explaining what was going on and asking them to participate. The idea is to put up as many homepages containing the F.A. as possible, in order to make things more difficult for the CoS. 6. Oussama Cherribi, a Dutch Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party (VVD), decided to put a copy on his homepage too. We phoned (we have met before) and I asked him what made him decide to do so. He explained that he'd heard about the case, was somehow reminded of the Rushdie-affaire, got really mad and acted on instinct. When asked if he would bow under pressure, he said he was probably prepared to see this thing through if others would as well. BTW: the VVD is one of the parties represented in the Government. 7. Last week, a Member of Parliament for the Social-Democrats (PvdA), Marjet van Zuylen, questioned the Dutch Government on the matter. The PvdA is *also* represented in our Government. Such questions and answers are usually dealt with on paper; however, urgent questions are sometimes replied to verbally during a meeting of Parliament. As of yet, we do not know *what* questions were asked, nor how or when they'll be answered. As soon as we know more, we'll post the questions and answers here. 8. Meanwhile, new homepages have accumulated, due to both Cherribi's action and the e-mailed request. At present, there are 19 homepages that include the Fishman Affidavit. The list is included at the end of this posting. 9. Last thing I read is that a Dutch Network (TROS), who have a site at http://www.omroep.nl, wants to put the Fishman Affidavit on *their* homepage as well. 3. Update on Dutch Report From: kspaink@xs4all.nl (Karin Spaink) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: DUTCH PROTEST: a provisional report Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 01:07:27 GMT kspaink@xs4all.nl (Karin Spaink) wrote: > You may have heard of the protests against CoS going on in Holland. > Many people have asked what is going on *exactly*. I will try to > summarize. And will give an update. > 6. Oussama Cherribi, a Dutch Member of Parliament for the Liberal > Party (VVD), decided to put a copy on his homepage too. (..) When asked if > he would bow under pressure, he said he was probably prepared to see > this thing through if others would as well. Today's newspaper quoted him: 'Cherribi will not remove the documents from his homepage untill a Dutch court rules that he has to.' > 7. Last week, a Member of Parliament for the Social-Democrats (PvdA), > Marjet van Zuylen, questioned the Dutch Government on the matter. The > PvdA is *also* represented in our Government. The questions deal with whether providers are responsible (and liable), or their clients, and do not focus upon CoS: To the secretary (US-translation) / minister (GB) of the Justice Dept. 1. Does the minister know of the raid on XS4ALL (footnote referring to a tv-progam in which the case was covered) 2. Are Internet providers, in your opinion, responsible for what their clients put on the net? 3. Do you agree that Internet providers need extra legal protection? 4. Are you willing to remedy the currently unclear legal position of Internet providers? > 8. Meanwhile, new homepages have accumulated, due to both Cherribi's > action and the e-mailed request. At present, there are 19 homepages > that include the Fishman Affidavit. The list is included at the end of > this posting. At the end of this day (Monday 25) there were, to my knowledge, *thirty-one*. One of the new participants is the acclaimed writer Marcel Moring... His second book ('Het grote velangen') was published in German and English and was very much applauded in Germany and England. From txtbreed@xs4all.nl Fri Oct 6 07:09:25 1995 Received: from xs1.xs4all.nl (root@xs1.xs4all.nl [193.78.33.42]) by eff.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA10519 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 07:09:14 -0700 Received: from asd07-00.dial.xs4all.nl by xs1.xs4all.nl with SMTP id AA12984 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:09:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199510061409.AA12984@xs1.xs4all.nl> From: txtbreed@xs4all.nl (Patricia Savenije) To: mech@eff.org Subject: FISH ON THE LOOSE [the Netherlands] Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 13:13:22 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Status: RO This is the list of homepages where you can find the material Co$ (the Church of Scientology) doesn't want you to see. New updates will be duly posted. And wouldn't it be great if other countries appeared between the brackets in the header? ====================================================== List of participants, as of October 5th, 24:00 Please help to keep this list updated. Updated lists are available at - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/ClamBed.html but as Dave Touretzky is a busy man too, better updates are at: - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman/ (The FishPond) - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman/fishnet.html (The FishNet, an alphabetical list of participants) http://www.xs4all/~johanw *1* http://huizen.dds.nl/~dvgeely/Co$/fishman.html http://www.cistron.nl/~newkid/info.html http://www.pi.net/~kspaink http://www.euronet.nl/users/ralph *2* http://www.euronet.nl/users/cherribi/fish.html http://www.euronet.nl/users/astrolab/fish.html http://www.cistron.nl/~nctnico/acos.htm http://www.pi.net/~cvk http://kafka.nl.com 10 http://imagine.xs4all.nl/~Co$ *5* http://www.xs4all.nl/~mderaaij/co$/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~fons http://www.xs4all.nl/~mmoring http://www.xs4all.nl/~rudydok/fish.htm http://student.twi.tudelft.nl/~s075104/coituscos.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/fishman/home.htm *2*, *3* http://huizen.dds.nl/~erikt/ *3* http://www.getit.net/TheFreeSoul/Fishman/ http://www.telebyte.nl/~erikv/fish/index.html 20 http://www.xs4all.nl/~andrevs/fish.htm http://www.xs4all.nl/~hgj/cos/fishman.html http://carol.fwi.uva.nl/~jonk/fm/index.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~dazed/ *4* http://huizen.dds.nl/~greeny http://www.bart.nl/~mike http://www.metropolis.nl/~ivar http://morra.et.tudelft.nl/~niels/fishman/index.htm http://www.xs4all.nl/~respub/fishman/ http://huizen.dds.nl/~marik 30 http://www.omroep.nl/tros/radio/radio1/fish/fish.html Tros On-line http://www.xs4all.nl/~pigeon/fishman.html *1* http://www.bart.nl/~irmed/index.html http://mars.let.uva.nl/fish.html http://lagavulin.xs4all.nl/fish.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~txtbreed/Co$.htm *6* http://www.xs4all.nl/~bakker/fishman.html http://huizen.dds.nl/~apz/ http://www.psy.vu.nl/~edde/vispapier.html http://www.globalxs.nl/home/p/pnefkens/ 40 http://www.iaehv.nl/users/perry/religion/cos/fishman/ *2*, *3* http://www.pi.net/~henkl/fishman.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink http://www.xs4all.nl/~marten http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertje http://www.xs4all.nl/~deriet http://www.cistron.nl/~todd http://liathach.xs4all.nl/index.htm *7* http://www.xs4all.nl/~lkfv http://www.dataweb.nl/~kees 50 BBS APS (Amsterdam) BBS De Zwarte Ster (The Hague) http://www.bart.nl/~mrsempel *5* http://www.noord.bart.nl/~brenny http://www.pi.net/~henkl http://www.knoware.nl/users/cosucker *5* http://www.sci.kun.nl/math/knopen/scientology.tar.gz *3* http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~jozwa/fishman.html *9* http://www.xs4all.nl/~mdols http://www.xs4all.nl/~cba 60 http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjansen *5* http://www.pi.net/~oest http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrood http://www.dds.nl/~groene (De Groene) *New URL's: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peter http://huizen.dds.nl/~dktp/home.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~rigolett http://studs2.sci.kun.nl:6667/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~dude http://www.xs4all.nl/~claudio SCARFF a much more horrifying testimony about CoS - and no claims of copyright whatsoever - can be found at: - http://thok.let.rug.nl/danny/scarff/ - http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~onno/scarff.html - http://www.xs4all.nl/~txtbreed/Co$.htm - http:/www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~jozwa/scarff.txt - http://studs2.sci.kun.nl:6666/ - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman/scarff.html - http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~paul/scarff.html *Please* note: - http://www.cistron.nl/~newkid/info.html and all other Cistron url's are also available as: http://scientology.moet.van.het.net/~username - http://imagine.xs4all.nl/fishman.html has been changed, as of 30-09, into: http://imagine.xs4all.nl/~Co$ - http://www.bos.nl/homes/hgj/ has been changed as of 30-09 into: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hgj/cos/fishman.html - http://www.telebyte.nl/~erikv/fish/fishman.txt has been improved as of 03-10 and renamed into: http://www.telebyte.nl/~erikv/fish/index.html + http://www.dataweb.nl/~keesb/ Has Risen From The Morgue!!! - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/perry/cos/fishman/ has been renamed into http://www.iaehv.nl/users/perry/religion/cos/fishman/ The Morgue: - http://www.let.rug.nl/~erikt/.Nlnet/ http://thok.let.rug.nl/danny/fishman/ have been voluntarily removed as of 25-09 - http://www.phil.ruu.nl/home/freek/ has been closed as of 26-09 - http://www.hhs.nl/~v912065/home.html has been closed as of 27-09 - http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~jozwa/fishman.html closed as of 28-09 - http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~goofy/FishDoc.html closed as of 28-09 - http://www.luna.nl/~mare has been closed as of 30-09 - http://www.bart.nl/~dude has been closed as of 1-10 - http://www.icce.rug.nl/we/erikjan/Fishman/index.html as of 1-10 - http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~onno/fishman.htm closed as of 2-10 - http://www.bart.nl/~truus/vis.txt has been closed as of 2-10 - http://studs2.sci.kun.nl:6666/ has been temporarily closed - http://asterix.urc.tue.nl/~rcsamd/cos/ has been closed as of 4-10 - http://tudedv.et.tudelft.nl/~bmsjerps/ has been closed as of 5-10 - http://www.win.tue.nl/win/math/dw/&c has been closed * Other interesting URL's: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jaco/cos/ A very good scene-to-scene expose, with lots of pictures and text (English), about the raid by CoS on XS4ALL as covered on television (WEB, vpro) http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/fishman For a nice teaser. Go fish, man, but beware of Jaws. http://www.luna.nl/~mare/vis/t-shirt.html For the t-shirts we'll be wearing in court. http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~bash/CGIBIN/randomurl.cgi For the Fishman Randomizer: points you at random to one of the participating URL's, so that everybody gets their equal share of fame. http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/overheid.html For a 1984 review by the Dutch government on cults: 'Rapport van de subcommissie sekten van de vaste Tweede Kamer Commissie voor de volksgezondheid', p.120-160. http://www.euronet.nl/users/ralph/fish For some background. Contains information on CoS's origins, development, courses, inner training etc. Also various articles and references to books. Notes: 1. Available as text-file 2. Also availabe as html-zipfile here. Download or ftp the zipfile, unzip it and read the files... For new home-pages: get the zipfile, unzip the files and put them on your homepage. Please remember to rename any *.htm into *.html, and check whether home.html, index.html or fishman.html is the first document that is called. 3. Also available as tarfile here. Working under UNIX, all you have to do is place the tarfile to your own homepage-directory, and use the command: tar zxvf fishman.tar.gz or tar zxvf fishman_.gz or gzip -d < fishman.tar.gz | tar vxf - to un-tar the files and automatically create a 'fishman' directory. Permissions may need to be modified. 4. Just the 'On truth and lying'-excerpt from the Fishman Affidavit. 5. Also available from here: the complete FactNet zipkit. <======= 6. Includes Martin Hunts Dictionary of CoS-terminology 7. Mainly during - Dutch - daytime. 8. Also available here as zipped textfile. 9. A nice story quoting OT's.