Magnusson becomes helpful Stockholm, January 22, 2001 [Previous installment: McShane compliments Zenon.] WHEN ZENON AND I ENTER the hall after the weekend, Magnusson’s aide is the first person that we meet. While he usually ignores us, he now makes a show of flashing me a big grin. He must have read my previous report, I gather, and is doing his best to disprove my published assessment that he is a Scientologist. As I will soon discover, I am only partially [...] » Verder lezen »
McShane compliments Zenon Stockholm, January 19, 2001 [Previous installment: Mangled material.] THE SCIENTOLOGY DELEGATION has changed configuration: there are two new guys. One of them is an extra interpreter. Today, McShane will be deposed and he needs a legal interpreter. Neither of the translators are Scientologists; that is apparent from the fact that they speak with us. The only other person who does this is William Hart, McShane’s lawyer. We joke a bit on occasion, especially when we’re outside to [...] » Verder lezen »
Mangled material Stockholm, January 18, 2001 [Previous installment: Poor guy versus multinational cult.] SWEDISH COURT CASES ARE BORING and take too long. All proceedings must be verbal; the written preparations just serve as a background and what is not said, does not officially count. That is why this court case will last five days. Magnusson, Scientology’s attorney, opens with a tiresome enumeration of Zenon’s misdeeds and misbehaviours. Posted this, webbed that, material filed here, copy made there, said this, did [...] » Verder lezen »
Poor guy versus multinational cult Stockholm, January 17, 2001 [This is a second series about Scientology v. Zenon Panoussis. Zenon dealt with a similar case as I was doing, although while I kept winning in the Netherlands, he kept losing in Sweden. The first series - from May 1998 - can be found here.] BY THE TIME that this court case will be appealed, we will need a trailer. I am the beast of burden. I am sitting in my [...] » Verder lezen »
[Verschenen in De Morgen.] Training isn’t a game, staat er op de rug van zijn t-shirt. De man staat met zijn armen wijdbeens. Hij kan ook niet anders: onder zijn ene oksel zit een holster met pistool en onder de andere twee handboeien aan een leren houder, dat verwringt je postuur nogal. Hij is lid van de Antwerpse divisie van de gendarmerie. Allemaal echte mannen. Allemaal uiterst zelfvoldaan, ten volle overtuigd van hun importantie, hun nut, hun recht, hun gelijk; [...] » Verder lezen »
Final pleas, or: unprecedented legal costs Stockholm, Wednesday, June 3 1998 [Previous installment: Questioning McShane. Note: I had had to go back to Amsterdam during the weekend. Zenon did the rest of the trial by himself and wrote this.] True to my copyright terrorist instincts and traditions, I am happy to serve you the last UC of this bunch: a fake one, written by me in the absence of Karin, meant to ruin her reputation as a writer. Today was [...] » Verder lezen »
Questioning McShane Stockholm, Friday, May 29 1998 [Previous installment: You know that you're being sued by Scientology when] 9:35. Court resumes. Magnusson speaks. That is, he utters a word, waits five seconds, then utters another, waits, scratches his head, says a word, waits, leafs through his papers. The judge looks puzzled. Now what is this man doing, he wonders. “Are you done?” he asks. “… erm, … No…” Magnusson replies, and moves to the next word. Zenon and I exchange [...] » Verder lezen »
You know that you’re being sued by Scientology when… Stockholm, Thursday, May 28 1998 [Previous installment: Brochures with a bite.] Every morning, it’s the same routine. We get up too early, quickly prepare some coffee, smoke, wash, check our mail, smoke, dress, phone a taxi and hurry to Tingsrätt where Zenon then needs to buy cigarettes in a shop opposite the court. There’s so much stuff to take along. Two computers. Cables. Batteries. My wheelchair. And most important, a stack [...] » Verder lezen »
Brochures with a bite Stockholm, Wednesday, 27 May 1998 [Previous installment: To want a pie and eat it. This court case - the main case in the many Scientology vs Panoussis series - deals with copyright infringement. Did Zenon violate RTC's rights when he had OT2 and OT3 on his homepage, and did he post the NOTS? Day one of this case was mainly spent discussing settlements.] 9:15. Yesterday, Magnusson hadn’t finished his opening statements — in which you state [...] » Verder lezen »
Settlement talks: to want a pie and eat it Stockholm, Tuesday, 26 May 1998 [Previous installment: 'The material', or: 'NOTS? Which NOTS?' Note: This is a mixed issue: part of it is written by Zenon, and part by Karin. The main reason for that is that most of the day Zenon was in a closed courtroom doing settlement talks, while Karin was closed in in a smoking room.] This court case is the main one in RTC vs Panoussis. It [...] » Verder lezen »
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