Subject:      Re: Warning - Scientology attacking remailers again!
From:         mayo@lightlink.com (David Mayo)
Date:         1996/04/20
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noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:
>In article Cory Brennan <koreenb@jovanet.com> writes:
>>carroll@tjc.com (Terry Carroll) wrote:
>
>>>Which is not an interest that copyright is designed to protect.  It can be
>>>used that way, as a fence, but that's not what it's for.  And, sure, if
>>>the copyright is being infringed, Scientology is entitled to defend it.
>>>But let's keep the bullshit claim that they have to defend or lose it, and
>>>get to the point that Scientology is not concerned with preserving its
>>>copyright assets: it's using it's copyright asset to shut down criticism,
>>>because the critic may have been foolish enough to infringe in the process
>>>od criticising.
>
>>Stating that we are trying to silence criticism is where perhaps you have 
>>bought some propaganda without looking closely at the facts. Critics of 
>>Scientology have been active on BBS's and the Internet for years without 
>>even a smidgeon of interest by the Church. We knew they were there, and 
>>that they were criticizing us, we just didn't care.
>
>Are you saying that the recent 9th Circuit Court ruling in favor of David
>Mayo and friends, and Judge Brinkema's statement on the motives of RTC/CoS,
>is propaganda?  These judges say the same thing that Terry Carroll does,
>and did it in a court of law after careful deliberation of the facts.  It's
>in the court record (I don't have them handy -- if somebody could repost
>them, that'd be appreciated.)
>

The 11 April 1996 Ninth Circuit ruling re Scientology and Mayo is at:

http://superlink.net/~mgarde/new.html
or
http://superlink.net/~mgarde/scott5.txt

and there are related Ninth Circuit and District Circuit Memorandums
and Decisions at:

http://superlink.net/~mgarde/op1.html
(plus other opinions re Scientology  in other cases)

Gif files of the 11 Apr 96 ruling are at:
http://www.lightlink.com/mayo/gif/

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Rev. David Mayo <mayo@lightlink.com>             (finger for key)
PGP ID: 1024/4D5EE559 1996/01/04  David Mayo <mayo@lightlink.com>
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