While I prefer to stay out of the 'Minton/Stacy morals' discussion (frankly, I think it's none of my business. I never felt the need to worship either one of them (or any other critic) as an icon, so I just can't see that it's the end of the world - or ARS.) I find the COS practice of picketing homes and stalking critics especially abominable. Look at them claiming concern about the welfare of children, and then going out of their way to do things which will inevitably upset not only the critics beeing harassed, but even more so their family and friends.

If you really think this is going to work, OSA, then wake up! Have people actually *stopped* picketing because of the personal home counter pickets? There are people around who have been the subjects of this kind of harassment for many years, but who still speak out against the COS. When I told my family about the possible consequences of opposing the COS, they even started to support me much stronger than before - 'If scientology would make trouble for you just for speaking out, that only proves you were right to protest them in the first place!' was the reaction.

In the real world there are people who don't let themselves be 'shuddered into silence'. They don't go away when you close your eyes, either. You are going to have to live with it, COS.

Catarina

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http://www.medstud.gu.se/~pamnell - my story
http://www.medstud.gu.se/~pamnell/lisa.html - varför dog Lisa?