Here is my press release for my Answer and Counterclaim which
served today to be filed tomorrow in the U.S. District Court:


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Grady Ward (707) 826 7715 grady@northcoast.com 
http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html


April 10, 1996


GRADY WARD ASKS FOR $50 MILLION IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN CLAIM
AGAINST THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY


ARCATA, CALIFORNIA - Grady Ward answered an $11 million dollar lawsuit
filed by the Church of Scientology last month with a denial of all wrongdoing
and a countersuit alleging the church has conspired to deprive him of his right
to free speech. He asks for $50 million dollars in punitive damages and an order
restraining the Church of Scientology from unlawfully harassing critics on the
Internet computer network.

Showing photographs stolen last year by Eugene Martin Ingram, a long time church
private investigator, he asks: "what kind of church tries to intimidate critics
by stealing his children's pictures from his mother?"

In a similar suit against a church critic last fall, U. S. District Court Judge
Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia wrote:
"However the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of the RTC
[Scientology] in suing Lerma, DGS, and the [Washington] Post is to stifle
criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics."

The founder of Scientology, the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard taught
that critics of scientology should be attacked and "…if possible, utterly
destroyed. The purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not to win." Hubbard's sacred
teachings continue that critics "May be deprived of property by any means by
any Scientologist without the discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked,
sued, or lied to or destroyed."


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