Subject: Re: Lavenda - in her own words From: David Mayo Date: 1996/06/12 Message-Id: <4pmgrk$f4b@light.lightlink.com> Sender: electra@light.lightlink.com Organization: Art Matrix - Lightlink Electra Gateway v2.4 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 11 Jun 1996 11:59:11 GMT, rkeller@netaxs.com (Rod Keller) wrote: >David Mayo (mayo@lightlink.com) wrote: >: [I snipped the entire crock] >: >: One of adverse consequences of the irresponsible publication of false >: information and "crimes" (that never were committed) is that it makes >: it that much harder to get any action taken when real crimes are >: actually committed. > >"Irresponsible publication"? Even if you know the story to be untrue, how >is my publication "irresponsible"? She is telling her story, which But *who* is telling *what* story? You were are presenting a series of allegations of serious criminal acts with real people named as if these are coming from the "real LaVenda". >deserves to be heard, regardless of how the facts eventually turn out. The >phrase "Irresponsible publication" sounds like something out of Freedom >Magazine, not a.r.s. Well, excuse me. Was that an argument? Or did you think "sounding like a.r.s" is something I, or anyone else, should aim for? How about, at least, being up front about biases? >Wouldn't they say the same thing about your recent >account of fair game activities? Yes. That is precisely my point. May I humbly suggest that you read *your* paragraph above, again and again. (I like your words so much --can I use it as my .sig?) > >You have not supported your immediate dismissal of the charges Lavenda >brings. The phrase "that never were committed" is not enough. You must >present additional evidence, not a throw-away parenthetical phrase. If you >have any information that would help substantiate or disprove Lavenda's >story, I urge you to post it. Others have done so. I have done so, too. > >[machine gun crap deleted] I don't mind you deleting the "machine gun crap" but deleting it did not change the fact that it --and a lot more-- actually happened. It happened to me. It didn't happen to you. Similar life threatening situations are not even likely to happen to you nor to anyone close to you. So don't worry about it. Don't even give it a second thought. Hey, why not pass it all off as "Phalse Memory Phyndrome"? And me as "Just another brain-dead ex-cultie." David Mayo '>Wouldn't they say the same thing about your recent '>account of fair game activities? ' R. Keller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMb7AQOmCyCdNXuVZAQH3UgQAiF3rqZcCSkT2+/XWhqothg+1xDzCFtqr DcMeY/d1DnH0/F+/1wTzNpr16law1BAdLf8Fjks4maxoAIhI6zOiOcSutjMTtWWv EWv7fnMIIE93CdlEC79KihiPTseZ/AAd1BS+1YeI48FKxIFE23txM8GZvHUYm923 iucs1BzDLwE= =0Wr2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----