Scientology’s Black Christmas
Propaganda
Just before Christmas 2002, Scientology distributed a black
PR flyer in Berlin and other locations in Germany attacking Pastor Thomas
Gandow and me. The cultists delivered the flyer, at least in a number of known
instances, as an insert in their latest "" Freiheit,"" the
German edition of Scientology’s hate magazine ""Freedom."
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The following is a list of false statements of fact in the black PR flyer.
It is not a complete list of lies or perversions of the truth in the flyer,
but
a list of readily disprovable falsehoods and libels for litigation purposes.
1. “American Gerry Armstrong.”
Fact: I am a Canadian.
2. “The fact is that Armstrong left his homeland years ago because he
continued to deliberately flout court orders and was facing arrest.”
Fact: A. My homeland is Canada.
B. I left my home in Marin County, California, where I was a legal non-
citizen
resident, in January 1997. I left because, while being threatened by the
Scientology
cult, I discovered several pages of black propaganda on me, containing lies,
which
the cult filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the U.S. to obtain
its
tax exemption.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/irs/index.html
I knew that Scientology’s leaders considered my public destruction
necessary
to their tax exemption, which they claimed was worth a billion dollars. I went
to my homeland in Canada, where Scientology is a criminally convicted
organization
and where I believed I would be free to speak the truth about the organization
and its black PRing of me.
C. I was not facing arrest. Scientology obtained its first warrant for my
arrest,
without proper notice, in August 1997, over six months after I left
California.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/warrant-1997-08-06.html
3. “Armstrong is in fact extremely duplicitous, and an outright
hustler
and lawbreaker.”
Fact: A. I have put up many hundreds of pages of my sworn testimony, and
other
writings on my website
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/index.html
I have testified in Scientology-related litigations, either in trial or
depositions,
for more than 70 days.
The Scientology organization, on the other hand, has been judicially declared
paranoid and schizophrenic, with a criminal policy of lying, cheating,
stealing
and destroying people.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html
http://www.xenu.net/fairgame-e.html
In the same decision in which Scientology is condemned as paranoid and
schizophrenic,
the judge found my “testimony … to be credible, extremely
persuasive”
and that “In all critical and important matters, [my] testimony was
precise,
accurate, and rang true.”
B. I am not a hustler, as Scientology obviously uses the word here. I have
never
obtained money by fraudulent means. I am not a racketeer. I am not a
professional
gambler.
C. I am not a lawbreaker. I have never been convicted of a crime, or even
charged
with a crime. Scientology has tried numerous times to have me charged on false
criminal charges, but no authorities have filed the false charges Scientology
has sought.
4. “And in fact he has more than once engaged himself as a prophet
whose
visions of the future, however, do not apply in his own country.”
Fact: A. Whatever “visions of the future” I have had apply in
Canada
as much as they apply in any other country.
B. When referring to myself as a “prophet” I have always used
the
theological definition: one who speaks for God. I am technically a Prophet to
Scientologists (PtS) because I speak for Him in certain communications to
Scientologists.
Scientology’s leaders twist what I state to falsely assert that I am
claiming
to have “visions of the future.”
Hubbard was a satanist, and Scientology is anti-God and anti-Christian,
teaching
that God and Christ are false ideas implanted by space aliens in human
beings’
minds by electronic means millions of years ago to enslave them.
http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/Otiii5.gif ,
http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/antichri.htm
It is altogether reasonable that someone would speak for God when such a cruel
and satanic attack is being perpetrated on Him and His children enslaved
inside
the Scientology cult.
5. “For instance he had his picture taken in November 1992 for an
American
newspaper, the "Marin Independent Journal", sitting in the lotus
position
and " dressed" with an earth globe.”
Fact: I was “ dressed” in shorts. Scientology has made the
false
statement that I was photographed “nude” for the Marin Independent
Journal article many times over the past 10 years.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gerry-goes-global.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/jentzsch-ltr-1993-08-05.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/rinder-ltr-1994-05-09.html
6. “Actually, Gerald Armstrong had simply transferred a large part of
his fortune to a “ Gerald Armstrong Corporation.””
Fact: I formed The Gerald Armstrong Corporation (TGAC) in 1987. I
transferred
certain intellectual properties to TGAC at that time. I didn’t envision
or create the Organization of United Renunciants until 1992.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/index.html
I gave away my worldly wealth in 1990. I also gave away at that time my stock
and controlling ownership in TGAC. When the Scientology cult threatened me and
everyone connected to or associated with me in 1992-93, the people to whom I
had
given the stock returned it to me, so that they would not become targets of
Scientology’s
fair game.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-01-13.html
What I did regarding TGAC, therefore, is actually the opposite of what
Scientology
states I did.
7. “Possibly this was to become indigent for the purpose of escaping
future financial obligations for breach of contract, as emerged in a July 23,
1993 legal complaint.”
Fact: Since I did not do what Scientology claims I did; that is, at the
time
of my “ renunciation” “transferred a large part of [my]
fortune
to a "Gerald Armstrong Corporation," I could not have done it for
any
reason Scientology asserts or implies.
8. “He rose to the occasion as statesman to present Iraqi President
Saddam
Hussein with a 10- point plan.”
Fact: I wrote merely as a concerned citizen, and as a simple philosopher
and
writer in a serious and good-hearted effort to do what I could to point out
the
foolishness of war, and that there were other peaceful solutions.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/saddam-bill-wgert-and-
me.html#saddam
I did not pretend to be or consider myself a statesman, any more than any
citizen
who makes any suggestion to a national leader or anyone else considers himself
a statesman.
9. “Armstrong introduced himself to the Iraqi despot as a “
celebrity,””
Fact: I said exactly the opposite. I stated: “I suppose I would be a
more desirable hostage if I was more celebrious, but celebrity is something
over
which we have almost no control. In fact my only claim to fame may be that I
am
the least known philosopher in America.”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/saddam-bill-wgert-and-
me.html#saddam
10. “Then Armstrong complained [in my letter of January 10, 1991]
that
not even The Oakland Tribune, the Los Angeles Time or the San Francisco
Examiner
had cared to hear anything about his statesman abilities.”
Fact: I never complained that these newspapers did not care to hear about
my
statesman abilities, never complained that they did not want to hear about
anything
else from me, and never claimed to possess statesman abilities.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/saddam-bill-wgert-and-me.html
11. “This is the gauge by which the credibility of Armstrong's
presentation
is to be assessed when he left the Scientology Church in 1981 - that means 20
years ago.”
Fact: What I wrote or did in relation to the 1990-91 Gulf War is unrelated
to my credibility regarding Scientology. That the Scientology cult lies about
what I wrote or did in relation to the Gulf War, and lies about many other
facts
in my history that are also unrelated to my credibility regarding Scientology,
is, however, a good gauge of the cult’s credibility in its attack on me.
12. “Until 1981, Armstrong was employed as an archivist for the
Scientology
Church.”
Fact: I was in the Sea Organization, the pseudo-military elite core of
Scientology,
from 1971 through 1981. I held many positions, including “legal officer,
”
“ public relations officer,” “intelligence officer,”
“deputy
communications aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard,” “
Rehabilitation
Project Force (RPF) bosun,” “RPF master-at-arms,” “
sets
chief,” “assistant producer,” “deputy commanding
officer
of L. Ron Hubbard’s household unit,” and “L. Ron
Hubbard’s
biography researcher.”
See, e.g.,
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/affi-1986-03-19.html
13. “When he, in violation of church directives, misappropriated
about
10,000 private church documents, he was expelled from the Scientology Church
in
1982.”
Fact: I misappropriated no Scientology documents. I had legal possession of
L. Ron Hubbard’s archive of personal documents, with Hubbard’s
approval,
for the preparation of an approved biography. I had the contractual
responsibility,
as arranged by Hubbard’s personal lawyer, to make these documents
available
to a writer Omar Garrison who had been contracted to write the Hubbard
biography.
In the course of my study of these materials I documented and proved that
Hubbard
had lied about virtually every part of his life, including what he had stated
to draw me into Scientology and keep working for him in abusive, slave
conditions
for eleven years. When I attempted to get organization leaders to correct the
lies being told by and about Hubbard, one of these leaders threatened me and
ordered
that I be “ security checked.” (A “sec check” is an
abusive,
accusatory interrogation, using the cult’s E-mater as a lie detector.)
When
it became clear to me that neither Hubbard nor other cult leaders would stop
telling
these lies, I left the organization in December 1981.
After the Scientology cult declared me to be a suppressive person, and
subjected
me to their criminal fair game policy and practice, I obtained from Mr.
Garrison,
more than six months after leaving the cult, with his permission, documents I
believed necessary to defend my wife and me from Scientology’s attacks.
With Garrison’s approval I sent documents to my lawyers to safeguard
them
and to use them in my legal defense.
In a trial in 1984, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G, Breckenridge,
Jr. found that I had legal possession of the documents that Scientology
falsely
claims I misappropriated, and that I had been legally justified in my actions
in obtaining them from Mr. Garrison and sending them to my lawyers.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html
This decision became the judgment in the case and was affirmed on appeal.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/appeal/283cal.rptr.917.html
14. “After that it turned out that Armstrong had provably been
involved
in criminal conspiracy.”
Fact: I have never provably been involved in a criminal conspiracy, nor
involved
in a criminal conspiracy. Scientology has tried many times to have me
prosecuted
on its fabricated criminal charges, so far without success.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/d-atty-ltr-to-hoden-1986.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fbi/index.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-ltr-fsb-2001-04-20a.html
And Scientology has hundreds of times falsely accused me of criminal acts, as
the cult is doing here.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/index.html
15. “Armstrong ended up revealing his plan to produce counterfeit
church
directives and smuggle them in, where they would be "discovered" and
confiscated by the tax authorities.”
Fact: I revealed no such plan, and I had no such plan. Scientology
attempted
to entrap me in such a “crime,” but I refused to have anything to
do with it.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
16. “At a secret meeting, this information of
Armstrong's
was documented on a video made with police approval, and the transcript was
submitted
as evidence in court.”
Fact: A. This “ information” of mine never existed, so was
never
documented on video.
B. A video was made of “secret meetings” which were set up by
Scientology,
as part of their own secret intelligence operation. The video was covertly and
illegally made. It does not show what the Scientology cult claims it shows.
C. The video was not made with police approval. Scientology paid a corrupt
police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department an estimated $10,000 to
sign
a series of fake documents, which were not approvals at all, to illegally
wiretap
and videotape my lawyer and me. When the Chief of the Los Angeles Police
learned
of the fake “ authorizations,” he issued a public announcement
stating
that they were invalid and unauthorized.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/gates-announcement.html
The corrupt police officer who was paid by Scientology for the fake “
authorizations”
was suspended from the police force.
17. “A settlement was reached with Armstrong on December 6, 1986 to
end
all legal disputes to obtain the return of the stolen documents.”
Fact: A. The 1986 “settlement” was not to end all legal
disputes,
but specifically allowed legal disputes to continue.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/625.php
B. Scientology’s interpretation of the “settlement” was that
they could continue to attack me after the “settlement” and I
could
not respond. Thus, since this interpretation is intolerable and perpetrates a
crime, and since Scientology acted on that intolerable, criminal
interpretation,
the “settlement” created legal disputes, rather than ended them.
C. Since the subject documents were not stolen, and since I had a legal
right
to them, as stated in a judgment of the Los Angeles Superior, no stolen
documents
were returned.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html
This judgment was affirmed on appeal.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/appeal/283cal.rptr.917.html
18. “In that settlement, Armstrong agreed to not libel the
Scientology
Church.”
Fact: The “mutual release and settlement agreement” contains no
condition
mentioning “libel.”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/625.php
The “mutual release” states that I may not tell the truth about
the
Scientology, which condition is a legally unenforceable violation of my civil
rights.
19. “Armstrong did not keep his word for long, but constantly made up
new, even wilder stories about the Scientology Church.”
Fact: A. I have never libeled Scientology, or any Scientology entity.
B. I have never made up new, even wilder stories about the Scientology
cult.
I have never made up new stories about the Scientology cult. I have never made
up wild stories about the Scientology cult. I have related my experiences
factually,
in large part in sworn testimony.
C. I have webbed a great number of my sworn statements at
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/index.html
Although I invite Scientology and Scientologists to point out any factual
errors
on my website, none ever have.
I state on the site’s disclaimer page:
“We have made every effort to ensure that documents or data provided
here
are accurate and complete…. If you find any errors, please communicate
them
to caroline@gerryarmstrong.org .”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/disclaimer.html
D. I have expressed my opinions, as opinions, based on my experiences and
knowledge
of Scientology, as accurately as possible.
20. “Finally the Superior Court of the Marin district in California
issued
a warrant for Armstrong's arrest on May 15, 1998, with possible fine and
incarceration
for criminal disregard of the court.”
Fact: The bench warrant, which is also webbed on the Scientology
cult’s
own site, very clearly states “CIVIL,” not “criminal.”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/warrant-1998-05-15.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a4/warrant-1998-05-15.pdf
21. “This resulted in Armstrong's moving out of the country to evade
punishment and escape the law.”
Fact: I left my home in Marin County California in January 1997, and moved
to my homeland in Canada because I discovered at that time a section of
vicious
black propaganda on me Scientology had filed in its application for tax
exemption,
and because Scientology continued to attack me pursuant to its criminal and
judicially
condemned fair game doctrine. This is 15 months before Scientology obtained
its
May 1998 bench warrant.
22. “Whoever cooperates with this kind of con artist, who has been
exposed
in an American court as untrustworthy and a rights violator, disqualifies
himself.”
Fact: A. I am not a con artist.
B. I have never been exposed in an American court as untrustworthy.
C. I am not a rights violator, and have never been charged as a rights
violator.
D. Nobody who cooperates with me disqualifies himself.
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