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Edited on Sat Dec-31-05 03:24 AM by onager
The liberal, open-minded, but non-stupid and logical Dutch people issued a great legal decision against $cientology some years ago. (The $cientos still have a "center" in Amsterdam. When I visited A-dam a few years ago it was located not far from the Red Light District, which seems fitting.)
You can find the entire hilarious story on one of the Operation Clambake or Xenu websites. Which are also tied into the story...
Old-timers will remember that, back about 1995, the $cientos started an aggressive campaign to Permanently Delete the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. They used a variety of tactics, including massive spamming, issuing bogus RM commands, and spouting phony and barratrous legal threats against ISP's carrying the group.
At one point $ciento trolls were even posting to alt.atheism and all the religion newsgroups, trying to drum up support for removing that "bigoted" newsgroup, a.r.s.
The war really started when former $ciento victims, and a few freelance hellraisers, started posting the Copyrighted Sacred Holy Works of $cientology into the group. These being the Copyrighted...Works you only learn after you've spent about $75,000 on a really bad sci-fi yarn. This attracted the attention of even more troublemakers, who were soon hosting the Sacred Works all over the web.
Well, the clams really hit the fan then. At one point a $ciento "lawyer" even threatened the People's Republic of China with a lawsuit because the Sacred Works popped up on a Chinese website. (All of her fulminating, idiotic e-mails were SOMEHOW copied and re-posted all over the world...to the general hilarity of everyone munching their popcorn and watching this little war.)
Eventuallly, the $ciento legal-beagles decided to make an example of the big Dutch ISP, xs4all. And especially a talented and utterly fearless writer with a website hosted by that ISP, Karen Spaink.
Big mistake. After the usual $ciento stalling and obfuscation, designed to bankrupt the opponent, the Dutch court handed down a decision giving the "church" a gigantic upraised middle finger.
The trial ended around dusk. As the $ciento lawyers exited the courtroom, they were treated to the sight of their Sacred Works beaming at them from the sides of buildings, put there by annoyed Dutch citizens armed with slide projectors.
:rofl:
As I said, you should check out the whole story for yourself. That's the gist of it, but there are many more side-splitting parts.
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