From cultxpt@primenet.com Sun Oct 29 12:27:25 GMT 1995

CoS's record of harassment against Jeff Jacobsen

   Scientologist's own scriptures tell them to harass their
critics.  Below is what I can remember has been done to me so far. 
Of course some of this may not be harassment but it indicates the
mindset of the church.

   In Clearwater about 1991 I was touring the Scientology
buildings.  I tried to enter one (that turned out to be OSA
headquarters) but the door was locked, so I went down to the
Sandcastle hotel. As I was coming back up the hill from there, a
guy in a Sea Org uniform and a woman were standing at the street
light.  The guy was pointing his telephoto camera lens down the
street I was coming up.  I first thought that this was a boring
photo he was trying to take, then after he snapped some shots and
ran away back toward the OSA building I figured out he was taking
photos of me.  I thought of following them and asking why he took
photos of me but then I figured he wouldn't answer me anyway.  I
believe I was followed after that as well.
   Eugene Ingram visited my place of employment about 1993
inquiring about a person I knew.  As soon as I recognized him I
told him to buzz off.  He knocked on my apartment door at midnight
the next night, but I did not answer the door.
   At a CAN conference some church member must have listened in to
a private conversation I was having at a bar, as this information
was brought to my attention by a Scientologist at a later date.  I
don't want to say much more about that.
   JJ Gaw, a Scientology private investigator, called me
pretending to be the brother of a Hare Krishna member.  He wanted
to get his brother deprogrammed right away.  I explained that he
should first study up on what a cult is and on what Hare Krishna
is, then make an informed decision about what to do.  The next day
I discovered this concerned brother was actually a church PI
because of the sloppy manner in which Gaw pulled this scam.  I
think the point was to prove that I was referring people to
deprogrammers.
   In February '95 some of my posts asking questions about
portions of the OT material were cancelled by the Cancelpoodle.
   About that time huheyniaman, an OTVIII, began posting strange
posts about me.  In March he emailed me;
   
       "I look constantly for your postings Jeffie, and I read         
every one of them, because you're breakfast for me, boy, you're my
late-night snack. I would love nothing so much as to reply to you
directly, sans anon remailer. I'd love nothing so much as to stand
in front of you and laugh, or spit in your face. I'd love to eat
you alive."

   After I posted that I knew who huheyniaman was, he disappeared.
   After the March 13, 1995 picket of the church here, Eugene
Ingram showed up at my place of business and snapped some pictures
of me.  I asked him if he had a warrant for his arrest in Tampa
and he lied "not anymore" then disappeared (I was working so I
couldn't follow him).  The next day he showed up at my sister's
asking how much money I make.  After that he hung out in my
neighborhood but never tried to talk to me that I know of.
   Some days after Ingram had been around, my neighbor called me
saying there had been 2 suspicious men in a car near my home for
the past 2 hours.  I went out to talk with them and asked if they
were private investigators.  They said no, although they later
showed their PI licenses to a policeman.  They had a cooler in the
back seat, indicating they planned to stay for a while, but they
left after the second policeman stopped and talked to them.  One
of these guys showed up at our next picket to videotape us.
   I was subpoenad about this time by a Scientology attorney to be
deposed in a case I didn't even know anything about.  The date for
my deposition had to be changed and the church after that never
made arrangements for me to be deposed.  I consider this subpoena
to have been harassment.
   Recently I heard of the church's attempt to limit my employer's
ability to advertise itself in the community.
   On October 15 I was served to give a deposition in RTC v. Lerma
and to bring all documents I have on Scientology, a.r.s., FACTNet,
etc, etc.  On October 20 I was deposed by Kendrick Moxon from 10am
to 3pm without counsel as I had trouble getting representation in
only 4 days notice.  I brought my copies of the OT material that I
had gotten off the net and anonymously through the mail.  As I was
leaving I asked for my floppy disc back.  Moxon's assistant
refused to return it to me because it contained OT material.  Then
he demanded that I turn over my hard copy as well.  I refused and
turned to leave.  Moxon's assistant yelled at me "we will raid you
and sue you; you are on notice!"

   Again some of the above may not be harassment, but I believe it
is a window into how the church thinks.


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Jeff Jacobsen         SP4, Scientology critic
PO Box 3541           ftp.primenet.com /users/c/cultxpt
Scottsdale AZ  85271  http://www.xnet.com/~can/can.html
USA                   Scientology has raided 4 critics' homes!!!