The next friends targeted in the Scientology DA pac delivered to Jeff Schmidt and the Nigerian government are Keith Henson and Grady Ward. They even say that Keith has the delusion of owning the internet and call Grady a "proliferator" of pornographic materials. Shameless bastards.

Here is the DA section on them.

Keith Henson

Child Molester Uses Internet to Foment Hatred

Like many bigots who attack other religious organizations or racial minorities, Henson has a shady history which includes sexual perversion and numerous violation of the law.

Henson has never been a Scientologist nor has he had any contact with Scientology other than hearing about it from a religious hate newsgroup on the Internet. Henson's behavior belies his true motivation, which is quite simply to deny Scientologists any rights of any kind which is what lies behind his criminal actions against members of the Church[sic] over the past two years. Henson has made it clear that he has delusions that he owns the Internet and doesn't want members of the Church[sic] to use it as a forum to stand up for their rights against criminal goons like himself and his sidekick Grady Ward, a proliferator of pornographic and obscene matter on the Internet. Both are creating hatred and bigotry and hatred through their illegal and immoral acts on the Internet.

A first glance, it may not be apparent that Henson's own guilty conscience motivates him to attack Scientologists who are renowned for their high moral character. Scientologists lead drug free, ethical lives and specialize in helping people where ever they live and work. It 'Is clear that because Henson has a guilty conscience, he has directed his insane behavior against the Church[sic] of Scientology. Only a raving lunatic would try and harm Scientology or a Scientologist and Henson, its can be seen by a cursory review is no exception.

For example, Keith Henson's first wife divorced him because he was I child molester who caused untold emotional damage to his underage daughters by sexually molesting them while married to his first wife. In an affidavit he filed with the Arizona Superior Court, Henson's former wife (while complaining about Henson being a deadbeat dad and the amount of funds she had to put out as a result) complained that Henson was so irresponsible that he had not even paid for the psychological counselling of his two daughters due to Henson's molestation of them. His wife alleged, " .$6,000 has been owed since May 1981 which includes Gale's operation and four-day hospital stay; Valerie and Virginia for pulmonary problems and psychological counseling for Gate and Wendy as a result of father's sexual molestation of them."

A friend of the Henson's also testified in the case that: "Carolyn stated that Keith had sexually molested his children and that if he did not come back to Tucson for therapy he might be arrested. In all probability she felt there would be a divorce. Several meetings with Carolyn occurred over the next several weeks where she enumerated occasions of child molestation and at this time she said she had money problems since Keith was not giving her enough to care for the kids properly,"

Henson's behavior is nothing short of criminal and he should have been prosecuted for it. Obviously he knows that an ethical group like the Church[sic] of Scientology would never condone such behavior so he has tried to belittle Scientology as much as possible to make the molestation of his daughters seem insignificant, Readers should not be footed by this ploy. Child molestation is a very serious criminal offense and is extremely damaging to the victims.

Way before his "fatal attraction" style fixation with the Church[sic] of Scientology, Henson displayed a history of going off on weird causes which border on the bizzare. Henson has been involved for years with a group of psuedo-scientific loons who bilk people out of money by convincing them to take out insurance policies so that their decapitated heads can be frozen for posterity in the hopes that someday science will be able to bring the person back to life as a futuristic Frankenstein. This has lead to serious run-ins with the law on different occasions. In one instance, an aging woman named Dora Kent was taken off life support systems until she was on the verge of death. She was then pumped full of drugs, had her chest cavity cut open and had an open heart massage in order to keep the blood flowing to her head so as to keep the cells alive for the decapitation and deep freeze of her head. The only problem was that according to the medical examiners and county coroner's office, Dora was not legally dead when the decapitation took place and thus began an investigation into her possible murder.

Although Henson was not present for the decapitation, he staunchly defended the members of the Alcor Foundation who were involved in the homicide after the Riverside County Coroner's Office conducted two raids into the offices of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, looking for the head of Dora Kent and other evidence. They did not find the head, which had been frozen and stashed away, but found a cache of arms and medical equipment which came from UCLA. The County's investigation lost steam when the main medical examiner who was on the case died. Then there was the extensive illegal tunnelling which Henson did at his house in Tuscon which according to documents filed in court put his young children at risk. Henson's wife alleged that, "Due to the extensive illegal tunneling done under the house itself, as well as a leading roof and illegal electrical wiring being placed in the house by Respondent (Henson), the house could be condemned at any time for various health and safety violations by the City of Tucson."

According to Henson's neighbors who lived in Tucson near Henson, he and his then wife were into drugs and were neglectful of their children who were often taken care of and looked after by the neighbor. Henson has always been more interested in seeing, his name in print than he is in trying to do something constructive and worthwhile in his life. When he started abusing the Church[sic] of Scientology, it was forced to take action. One example of this was when Henson illegally began publishing the Church[sic]'s copyrighted materials an the Internet and would not cease. This resulted in an infringement lawsuit getting filed by the Church[sic] and Henson being permanently enjoined from illegal copying and distribution of the Church[sic]'s material. Henson lost the case resoundingly.

Henson also favors putting out obscene material on the Internet where it can be accessed by children. This is evidenced in statements of support which he has made to Grady Ward, a well known Internet pornographer and in statements which Henson made in the media in favor of the defendants in a criminal case against a California couple charged with peddling obscene material in July 1994. According to a news article in the Commercial Appeal on 18 July 1994 entitled: "Porn laws against computer graphics go on trial here," Henson said he considers himself a strong ally, of the defendants.

Faced with the embarassing losses in court and being enjoined from further pirating of copyrighted works of the Church[sic] of Scientology during the last few months Henson has become increasingly violent, stating to a parishioner that he would "gladly grab a torch and a pitchfork and go burn down the nearest Scientology organization" as stated in a declaration. As Henson also claims to be an expert in explosives and small bombs and due to his unpredictable behavior and outright hatred displayed on the ARS and his fixation on harassing the Church[sic] of Scientology, he has to be considered a very troubled indivdual. Because of these facts, in October 1997, a minister of the Church[sic] of Scientology, obtained a Temporary Restraining Order in the Superior Court of California against Henson due to these past threats of violence.

In a display of his obssessive nature, Henson chose to violate this injunction, not once, but twice. Both times he was arrested and had to pay bail to be released. On the second occasion, he physically assaulted the person arresting him by biting him in the arm. There was a crime report filed 26 November 97 on this. Because of this, on December 2nd. 1997, a Temporary Injunction was also issued in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in Florida forbidding Henson from coming near any of our Church[sic] structures due to his violent behavior.

What friends I've got!

Bob Minton