From: David Gerard Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Xenu The Magazine: lawyers and Dead Agents Date: 20 Oct 1995 01:49:37 GMT Organization: VUT SRC NoName Lines: 44 Message-ID: <466v7h$787@cougar.vut.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.159.4.140 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Well, I was up half the night researching every jot and tittle. Have nailed a surprising amount of the stuff. (Well, I was pleased.) I Am Not A Lawyer, but I now have enough information (even in unconfirmed electronic form) to speak to a lawyer, which I will be doing today. (This, incidentally, shows how useful the Internet can be for this sort of thing ... thanks to Maureen Garde for her page of legal opinions. Electronic copies aren't court-certified paper, but they are indeed pointers and of tremendous value.) Haven't had a chance at all my email yet -- note that this is posted from Netscape. Two of the other papers have been contacted with the same legal fax, and they will just be printing the Church's response page -- it's not their battle and it's secondary to their missions in life. Fair enough, it's not their problem. They will be following the developments and reporting on whatever does transpire, however. Non-legal advice here says we may have to swallow the big juicy turd too. This sucks, but I guess it's better than having my door knocked down ... and a future article is NOT out of the question. This here agent ain't dead yet. Oh, and: not content to leave it to lawyers, the Crutch's local reps have been calling the office here again and hassling the staff. They were apparently ranting on about how I consort with "a known kidnapper". This is part of their DA pack on Cyril Vosper, which I guess means I must be under his control. 'Cos there's no such thing as an independent agent, is there. Jesus, you guys, can't you come up with something *original* and about *me*? Where's yr creativity? I dunno, what do all these people pay you for ... -- David.