Dear President Putin
[...]
At the time of my last visit, two matters involving the US and Russia
were in the world’s headlines: Edward Snowden and bombing Syria. I spoke
at a youth conference on cults in Podolsk, and at other venues, and
commented on these matters. I read your “Plea for Caution from Russia”
published in the New York Times while I was with friends in Moscow. It
was highly intelligent, reasonable and presidential.[1] Your letter and
your other actions, which without a doubt helped lead to Syria’s
relinquishment of its chemical weapons and the US’s abandonment of its
bombing plan, averted a catastrophe in the region, and brought relief
and hope to many other people like me around the world. Thank you.
Thank you too for granting Mr. Snowden temporary asylum in 2013 and a
three year residency this past August. For a while, I was looking
forward to looking him up in the Sheremetyevo transit section, and
sharing some airport pirozhki with him, but, happily for him, he had
safely moved into Russia proper. He and I are kind of kindred
whistleblowers, and I think we would have good things to talk about for a
few minutes. If he gets this message and would like to meet while I’m
in Russia it would be great and I am sure it could be easily and
securely arranged.
Mr. Snowden blew the whistle on the US’s global surveillance and data
collection monstrosity, and the concealment of these programs. I merely
blew one of a number of whistles a generation earlier on the lies and
antisocial intentions and activities of L. Ron Hubbard, the source of
Scientology. For Mr. Snowden’s revelations, the US charged him with
espionage, sought in various ways to apprehend him, and pressured Russia
to hand him over. US officials and media smeared him, and death threats
were made, apparently even by US officials.
For my telling the truth about my knowledge and experiences of Mr.
Hubbard and Scientology, the Scientologists declared me an “enemy,”
making me what they call in their “scripture” “fair game.” This meant
that I “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any
Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be
tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”[2] In execution of this
scriptural policy, Scientologists and their agents have indeed stolen my
property; physically assaulted me on multiple occasions; threatened to
assassinate me; run covert operations on me; sued me six times;
bankrupted me; framed me criminally right to the top of the US Federal
Government; framed and compromised my attorney; obtained court orders
silencing, fining and jailing me that are unlawful even in the US; and
subjected me to a global defamation campaign, which the Scientologists
call “black propaganda.”[3]
These actions against me, and much more, are documented on my web
sites.[4]The Scientologists call their relationship with persons like me
who tell the truth about this religion, its founder and practitioners,
war, a “war of attrition.”[5] They have waged their war on me for almost
thirty-three years. Russians should be aware of what has been done to
me because it could happen to any of your citizens who are lured into
Scientology, have experiences or acquire knowledge similar to mine about
this religion, and then speak out and tell the truth about it.
Scientologists in your country, whose directions come from the US, have
already recruited Russian citizens into their war on me. They have, that
I know of, disseminated lies about me to government officials, media
and religious leaders; hosted and posted Russian language black
propaganda online; and even attempted repeatedly to have me prosecuted
criminally.[6]
In a letter that the Scientologists apparently mass mailed in Russia in
2001, just before my first visit, a Russian Scientologist leader wrote
about trying to get persons from the US Embassy in Moscow to detain me.
This provides a clue about Russian Scientologists’ relationship with the
US Federal Government, and is obviously and spookily what the Americans
would want to do with Mr. Snowden.
I also would like to inform you that this document, with an
explanatory letter similar to this one, has already been submitted to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal
Security Service of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the information about the
arrival of Armstrong in Russia has been handed to the U.S. Embassy in
Russia so that the necessary measures may be taken for his detention.[7]
The document the Scientologist referred to is a warrant for my
arrest in California. It is not, however, as she claims, for
“anti-religious propaganda.” I was to be arrested for violating a court
injunction[8] that prohibits me from saying even one word about my
Scientology-related experiences or knowledge. Since the US declares that
Scientology is a religion, the injunction is as unlawful and as
violative of human rights charters and the US’s own Constitution as a
court order would be the prohibited a citizen from discussing his
Christian experiences or his knowledge of Christianity. Such an
injunction is unthinkable. People who oppose Scientology are no more
anti-religious than people who oppose the religious cult ISIS are
anti-religious.
The Scientologists also obtained a court judgment[9] against me that
created a condition in which I am penalized $50,000 per utterance for
anything I say about my Scientology-related experiences or knowledge.
These now have accumulated over forty-six years since I first heard of
Scientology, and have necessarily proliferated because of the
Scientologists’ continuing war on me, and others like me. The US Court’s
ruling is that the Scientologists can say whatever they want to vilify
or destroy me in any context and any country, and I cannot respond. The
idea that I am to be financially ruined and jailed if I mention this
religion, or participate in my own defense, or, in essence, even mention
my life, is ridiculous, but also very cruel. The Scientologists and US
Officials have known these orders are cruel, ridiculous and unlawful for
many years, but maintain the pretense that they are rational and just,
in order to fit into their black propaganda campaign, and keep my
persecution working. I am mentioning these things in my letter to you,
and that will be $50,000.
How the Scientologists obtained their court orders against me, and why
they would even seek such unconscionable conditions, is a very long,
complex story of legal and extralegal malfeasance. It is too much to
relate in this letter, but can be understood through the court documents
on my sites.[10] The injunction does not prohibit slanderous, libelous,
untrue, anti-religious or blasphemous statements as the Scientologists
claim. It prohibits only the truth about my experiences and knowledge of
the religion. The injunction applies anywhere in the world, and the
Scientologists have sued me in the US for discussing Scientology in
other countries, including Russia. The injunction also applies to anyone
“acting in concert” with me; that is anyone who might in some way
facilitate my discussion of my religious experiences and knowledge.
It is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and among so much I am thankful for, I
thank the Russian Orthodox Church for the courage of many of its clergy
and members in acting in concert with me in reasoned defiance of this
US court order. Thank you for whatever officials in your government have
done to facilitate my being in Russia and being able to communicate to
your citizens. I am aware that without some governmental facilitation
the Scientologists and their collaborators’ smear of me as persona non
grata could be accepted, and I would not even be granted a visa. Thank
you for the visa.
I am aware that your Government has records on me, and it should. I
discussed my experiences and knowledge with Justice Department Officials
in Moscow in 2011, and I have had meetings with a number of officials
during my other visits to Russia. I am also aware that the
Scientologists and their collaborators would make sure that these
Russian records contained their lies and black propaganda about me, in
as much volume and from as many sources as possible.
The blackness of the Scientologists or their collaborators’ black
propaganda machine can be experienced by all Russian readers online in
the current attacks on Alexander Dvorkin. It is unconscionable. What
makes Dr. Dvorkin an enemy, and a “legitimate” target for attack and
pursuit, is the same as with me. He has acquired a great deal of
knowledge about Scientology and more than twenty years of experiences
with its members and their activities. He has told the truth about these
things, where the truth should be told. He has done this despite the
campaign, operated from the US, to denigrate, vilify and marginalize him
and shudder him into silence. The Scientologists do not deal with their
critics’ facts or reason, but attack our persons and characters. I can
only guess at the hurt or threat it all causes Dr. Dvorkin, but I know
the hurt the Scientologists intend: the utter destruction of a human
being who, on behalf of his Church and his fellow citizens, stands up to
their lies and aggression. Thanks to the Church and to your government
for standing by him.
You obviously know propaganda and black propaganda when you hear or see
it, and you are the target of a massive western campaign. It is in
part what I recognize as black or untrue in our North American
propaganda about you that made me think of writing you directly. Oddly,
you and I share a top tier propagandist to the elite David Remnick, the
editor of The New Yorker. He is obviously a Russia and Putin expert and
has written major quasi-psychological profiles on you. With me, his
magazine published an article by Lawrence Wright that parroted a few of
the Scientologists’ false and defamatory statements about me.[11] Making
it worse, I had provided Mr. Wright and The New Yorker fact checkers
the facts prior to publication. When I asked Mr. Remnick, as Editor, to
correct the false statements, he passed me off to the legal department
for the royal New Yorker runaround and a distressing refusal.
During this past year, I pieced together evidence that at least since
the 1990’s the US Federal Government has conspired with the
Scientologists for various covert purposes. Much of such a conspiracy is
carried on through attorneys, of course, and only pieces of it are
visible. To grant the Scientologists tax exemption, the US Government
people overseeing that decision required that the Scientologists fair
game the people the Scientologists had already victimized. Prior to
negotiating this requirement with the Scientologists, the US had denied
tax exemption in key part because of the Scientologists’ fair gaming of
US citizens. This is almost too perverse to be understandable, let alone
believed. The Scientologists’ war on me is central to this conspiracy,
and I have assembled considerable documentation.[12] The US entered into
a conspiracy with the Scientologists against my rights in violation of
its own laws.[13]
From the time the Scientologists met the US’s requirement and received
their tax exemption, the US has protected the Scientologists against
their victims in courts, and promoted Scientology as a religion
internationally. US State Department’s Annual Report on International
Religious Freedom criticizes countries that sought to curtail or even
investigate Scientology, which truly is victimizing people, as again my
situation shows. Their religious status, with US Government backing and
US Courts’ helpful interpretations, has immunized the Scientologists to
victimize people, and given the Scientologists all the tax-exempt money
imaginable to do so.
[...]
[1]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/op...anted=all&_r=0. ↩
[2]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50gran...wer-conds.html ↩
[3]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/index.html ↩
[4]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/; http://gerryarmstrong.ca/; http://www.suppressiveperson.org/; http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/ ↩
[5]
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/sp/archives/3392 ↩
[6]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50gran....html#russiada ↩
[7]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50gran...001-04-20a.pdf ↩
[8]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a4/2623.php ↩
[9]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a4/2692.php ↩
[10]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/category/legal ↩
[11]
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...the-apostate-3 ↩
[12]
http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/ ↩
[13]
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241; http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242 ↩
[14]
http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.c...-v.-RUSSIA.pdf ↩
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From
http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1212
Day 2 Of the Conference...
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News archdiocese
23/10/2014
Conference on Sakhalin: sects threaten the individual, family, society, state
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The vicar of the Vladivostok diocese Bishop Ussuriysky Innocent took part in the international scientific-practical conference "Totalitarian Sects and civil society: the current challenges of spiritual security." Her work took place over two days, from 21 to 22 October 2014, during which time participants discussed urgent issues of the sphere of religious life. Organizers: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Diocese; Russian Association of centers for the study of religions and sects (RATSIRS); Center for Religious Studies in the name of the Holy Martyr Irenaeus of Lyons.
The forum, held in the provincial congress hall of "Capital", headed by the Archbishop of South Sakhalin and Kuril Tikhon. Welcoming remarks were made by the first deputy governor of the Sakhalin Region KM Stroganov; Acting Head of the Department of Internal Policy Department of the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District EA Anoshin; Acting Chairman of the Sakhalin Oblast Duma SA Goritskii.
Among the speakers were: Bishop Christopher Karpasiysky (Orthodox Church of Cyprus); AL Dvorkin, president of the Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religions and Sects (RATSIRS, Moscow); Ivan Dimitrov, a professor of the University of Sofia (Bulgaria); Chao Huang, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, University of Wuhan (China); A. Korelov, head of the legal committee to protect the rights and dignity of the person at RATSIRS (Novgorod); Gerald Armstrong, a writer, a former personal archivist founder of the sect of Scientology Khabarda (Canada); other guests from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nikolaev, Tver, Khabarovsk.
During the conference there was a record number of radio and television programs, meetings were held in groups on the problems of sectarianism.
Bishop Innocent Ussuri addressed the closing session of the conference, noting:
"For the church community such activities are primarily the value that contribute to understanding the features of pastoral experience working to prevent people falling into sects and healing injured souls. The problem of sects - is to a certain extent, the problem of poor pastoral work. "Bishop also expressed the belief that the Church should find working with all those interested in issues of religious security in the society and the state, bringing to people the danger of emerging threats.
Following the conference a resolution was adopted. Originally Posted by Translation of a Russian article posted on Monday, October 20, 2014 on the sakhalinmedia.ru website
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